November 12, 2023 • 44 mins
Get ready for a sports rollercoaster! Nate's diving into the wild world of "load management," sharing his take, while Rhads breaks down how to keep it from going off the rails.
And let's not forget the Texas Rangers' epic victory parade! Rhads spills the behind-the-scenes excitement, and trust me, the vibes are still soaring!
It's all about the thrill of sports and a whole lot of wisdom—tune in and join the fun with these sports gurus!
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And let's not forget the Texas Rangers' epic victory parade! Rhads spills the behind-the-scenes excitement, and trust me, the vibes are still soaring!
It's all about the thrill of sports and a whole lot of wisdom—tune in and join the fun with these sports gurus!
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Be sure to check out our sponsor The Niagara Corporation, the country's leading manufacture of water preserving plumbing products.
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I'm John Radagan. We got lotsto talk about Niagara Plumbing brings us
this show that's called What Nate.Let me tell you something, man,
we got a lot to talk aboutmy brother. Yes, sirs, starting
with uh, what a week ago, four or five days ago. I
mean, I know you were atthe parades. We're gonna start with the
Rangers and then we'll follow up withthe Cowboys. Yeah, it was amazing.
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We had a chance to talk aboutthe World Series victory when we were
on last week. But now weget to talk about that celebration, which
was so different having been you know, walking next to the cars in the
Dallas one the first time you guyswon in downtown Dallas. Man for the
Cowboys, that was unbelievable. Thisone, man, everybody's kind of learned
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their lesson. You've got to you'vegot to have better crowd control. You
know, there were folks jumping overthe barriers and coming up and shaking your
hand and you know, hugging onEmmett and all that. Back then,
the crowd, as big as itwas was, you know, was well
cordoned off, and it was reallyunbelievable to see seven hundred thousand people there
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celebrating the Rangers. Man. Imean when they first set one hundred thousand,
I thought, Wow, that's alot. That's good. And then
they said, ooh, ooh,it looks like it's going to be two
fifty. And then we had allthese high cameras get all up in risers
and up on top of chalk Tawall the way around the one point nine
mile course. We're looking at itgoing four hundred, five hundred thousand.
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And then I looked at it again. I said, I think we're sneaking
up on a million and lo andbehold, you know they were seven hundred
thousand, Nate and it was cool, man. There really weren't that many
incidents, right. There were afew rests and stuff like that, but
there weren't that many incidents. Therewas no real ugliness, you know what
I love. There was no uglinessthat sort of made national news often on
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these I'm from Detroit, I'm fromDetroit, Nate, you know, celebrate
a championship by burning cars. Idon't know why we do that, but
you see what I'm saying. SoI appreciate that this was just a fairly
celebratory day. And and you know, at one point how many were in
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the courtyard there by the stage.But like in Unison, they broke into
a verse of that Creed song thatwas kind of their anthem, can you
Take Me Higher? Right, andthe whole audience is singing that song.
It was really really cool man.So where were you located at? Where
were you Where was your position atthe parade? Our set was right there
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kind of you know. So thefront door to the stadium by the Nolan
Ryan statue is where the stage was, and our sut was down at the
end right on the corner, rightacross from the home plate entrance at Choctaw.
So we were all, you know, right on that that main alley
way that people walk up into.We were at one end and the stage
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was at the other end. Yeah, so you had was that premium or
was that a premium position? Yellwas at what you know, It's funny.
We got lucky because we decided thisyear on opening Day that we would
try to bring a little bit moreof the atmosphere outside to the opening day
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coverage because we do about a twohour show on opening day. So we
put a drop and all this stuffout there on Opening Day and that was
just for that day, right andnext thing, you know, that was
the perfect spot to be for theparade. You know what's really interesting and
I'm going to give credit to mybosses at Ballei for this. Rightly,
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the Rangers were not talking about aparade until they won. We remember back
in two thousand and six, afterthe MAVs got up on the heat,
there was somebody maybe Laura Miller,the mayor then, or somebody in Dallas
City Council. They were like theypublished a parade route in the paper and
everybody got on her because you know, you jinxed them, You jinked them,
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you planned a parade route. Wehadn't even won yet, right right,
man, I'm telling you even tous, even to the ballot,
like we needed to know for logistics, Hey, so what's the plan for
the parade? Crickets? Man?They would not tell us anything because,
and I get it, you donot want to jinx that. You know,
you say, oh, here's theroute for the parade, and then
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you lose game six and seven tohow do you feel? So that was
a really unbelievable undertaking to turn thatthing around. From seven am on Thursday
morning last week, the day afterthey won, and we were on the
air at I think eleven on Fridaymorning, so little more than twenty four
hours to put that thing together.It was a lot. We had people
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at our job that went, youknow, Kurt Daniels went, Kyle you
omens. Yeah. We had afew guys that have been ranged as fans
since they was Key Is. Ieither work for the Rangers at one point,
and I was happy for him,you know, I was excited for
him, man. You know,even I'm not a parade person or nothing
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like that. I mean, Iam so excited for the fans and what
the Rangers have accomplished. Anything youwant to do, say to close out
this, uh, this range ofextravaganza that that's been floating around, because
you know, it's it's we gotto get in. We got to eventually
leak over into the MAVs and inyour case, we're gonna leak over a
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libit into the thunder. So youknow, it is always those cowboys winning,
losing, winning, Yeah, youknow, yeah, yeah, like
they do. So here's what Isay. Here's what I said, because
now the off season begins, thegeneral manager meeting taking place right now,
it's free agency. Yes, yes, so here's my thing. So get
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Right is gonna win the MVP.Right, the other two candidates for MVP
this year, Cory Seeger and MarcusSimeon. You sign O'twani next year,
you got a shot to have allthree candidates for MVP on your team.
That's how good that team would be. Otani's gonna have surgery, you know,
so he will not be able topitch next year, but he's proven
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that Tommy John surgery does not affecthis ability to hit right, So he
could be your DH right next year, and then in twenty five he could
come back at some point and hecould be, you know, a lockdown
pitcher again. So you know,again, Nate, I tell you this
old time. It's not my money, right, it's a lot of money.
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It's a lot of money. Itmight be fifty million a year.
It may not get that high becauseof the injury. I know this.
There were some owners meetings in themiddle of the season, and a bunch
of the owners got together and theywere just talking after one of the meetings
they're having like eight or ten ofthem, and they were going, so,
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what's it going to take to signOtani? And everybody pretty much agreed
ten years for fifty million a year, five hundred million dollar contract right to
signing. And then and one ofthe guys, the Dodgers guy, said,
I've already got some mom, I'vealready got some Japanese investors and advertisers
who will give me twenty million peryear in advertising for whatever, you know,
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to have Otani. So I'm thinkingI'll go sixty. So you know,
there's still a this is just privatetalk between owners, right, so
there's still a chance that the Dodgersjust blow everybody away. I thought it
was awfully cool though that among theteams Otani listed as those he would like
to go to, the Rangers wereone, as were the Dodgers, but
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the Rangers were one of them.Says everything, man, this is a
destination where people want to come now. And here's one other thing that reminds
me. A lot of people wereagainst the building of another new stadium after
the old one was only twenty fiveyears old. They don't win this championship,
they don't have these players without that. He's great, you know,
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for all the players obviously, butthey're going to get it somewhere, and
especially these pitchers, they would nothave wanted to come to Texas and pitching
that other ballpark in the heat.But because there's a roof on Globelife Field,
that's how they got these free agentsand that's why it's such an attractive
destination for free agents. Now,so sorry about you. And again,
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the vote won by a landslide whenthey voted for this stadium, but there
was a loud, vocal minority ofpeople who did not like it. And
then, sorry about you. Howdo you like that World Series parade,
being in town in that championship cominghome, that was pretty cool. You
know, I tell people you andI ue to hear a few guys.
You know when we was all atone oh five, ain't thinking the guy's
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name, but he was always aboutwhy do teams of any sport play outside
when you can make everything environmental friendly? You know, no no rain,
no blizzards, no hot And atfirst I was like, nah, sometimes,
but you know what kids want comfortAnd as these kids grow older,
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they're more swater, think like whywould I want to go to Buffalo when
I I can go to Dallas?Why would I want to go over here
when I can go to Sofi wheneverything is just so comfortable? So right,
if you're if you're a mid rangequarterback, you don't want to play
in Buffalo. You got to havea big Jim Kelly rocket arm, this
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guy, Josh Allen, you gotto have those type of on because when
the wind get the whipping and everythingget cold, you need the big six
foot five Herbert guy. You knowwhat I'm saying, who's sitting around in
Yeah, but you can't have aDoug Fluting running around out there in that
whole weather man he get, butyou get what I'm saying, Yeah,
I do. And you know,basically those stadiums were all built certainly when
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you couldn't put a roof on itor the idea of them. And the
other thing was back in those days, man you just handed it off to
a big, bruising full back andhe rode ran for four yards. You
did that again, They didn't,you know, they didn't passing those You're
right when you're talking about throwing forthree four five hundred yards a game,
Yeah, you don't like that.You need yeah. So but anyway,
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man, kickers too Yeah, kickerstoo many? Is is that? Is?
That? That's your dream guy?But who else is out there?
And who is they need to resign? Uh? What what does the
ring they got to run? Yeah, it's a good question. So they
got to re sign Jordan Montgomery,right, and he's going to command a
lot based on basically the last twomonths and and and postseason of this last
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year. He's to get a tonmore than he would have in his free
if he just stayed in Saint Louisand you know, finished the season,
you know, six and twelve orwhatever, he'd have done. Fine,
He's gonna cash in after what hedid for the final two months with the
Rangers and what he did in thepostseason, and I believe the Rangers will
will, you know, pull outall the stops to sign Jordan Montgomery.
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I think they love Martine Perez enoughthat they will sign Martin as well.
He's a guy who came up throughthis organization, and I think they'll sign
him to a one or two yeardeal that'll be much lesser, but they'll
they'll do that to have depth inthat starting pitcher role. And then uh
uh, I think that what theyneed to do is go get a closer.
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Now. There's lots of talk aboutthem being interested in Josh Hater,
and that's a controversial one because Hateris he's the best closer, uh certainly
on the free agent market and oneof the best in the game right now.
But when his team was out ofit this year, he kind of
quit on him. He's kind oflike, I mean and said it publicly,
you know, and uh so it'sthat's tough. I mean, that's
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tough. Now, this is sucha good clubhouse, Nate that I think
those guys, first of all,I think you're just inspired by those guys
right and then, but also doyou think there's somebody who you don't want
to do it? You don't wantto do it. This is what made
and maybe coach boch manager is butthat's what made Jimmy so unique. If
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you show those traits like that,even though you vocal about it, he
was gonna have something in the contract. You know, if you pull that
stunt, we gotta be able todo something to you you don't want,
you know, you if it's onething when the club pull you say,
hey man, we're gonna, we'regonna do this. We're gonna We're gonna
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save you. But you as aplayer. And this is what little management
is done in basketball. Oh,this is what not practicing has done the
football. This is what baseball isstarting to catch on to. Is I
need fifty million a year, butI don't want to play every game.
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I don't want to pitch every five, fifth or sixth day. Man,
I'm a little sore today. I'mnot injured. I'm just a little sore
today. So I'm gonna rest.I'm not gonna do the back to back.
I'm I'm not a fan of awhole lot of sports, but nothing
bothers me more than when I'm watchingmy teams and they say this dude is
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taking a rest day, especially thedude is under thirty one years old.
You're under thirty one years old.You've not had any injuries to keep you
out of this, and you're cheatingthe fans. So I'm not about that
hat. I love it. Haterif they wanted, and they you know,
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because as coach bar Sales says,if you get enough guys like that,
eventually your locker room we won't bethat anymore. We can have sorbed
one of those guys, but nottwo of those guys, not three of
those guys, because before, beforeyou know it, you got a bunch
of haters running around there, andyou'd be like, wow, why did
they even sign that guy? Yeah, yeah, So you talk about Jimmy
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and how he would handle that situation. Now, he also, you know,
admitted only after he was done coaching. You know, he had a
different set of rules for different players. And you know this too, right,
And someone said, hey, Johnwas a John Roper that fell asleep
in a meeting and he cut him. Uh and so but and they said,
well, what if Emmett would havefallen asleep in the meeting. I
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just would have gone over and wait, you know, gently nudged him to
wait. To him, he said, Hey, man, kay, is
the pillar don't get a quack again? Yeah? Yeah, get your rest,
get your get your rest double.So so I just wonder ken he
did he sort of meet out thatthat uh sort of pishment if you will,
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against a guy who had a badattitude equals See, I don't want
to I don't want to knock missthe hater because I don't know him personally.
Uh, I don't know what typeof clubhouse guy he is, with
his team he's with now how thoseguys feel. But all you got to
do is do investigation. You know, go to the trainers, Hey what
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type of guys this guy daily?And they're gonna be honest with you,
you know, go to the tothe players, Hey what type of guys
has got there? And we justprobably got a situation where this kid like,
I'm not gonna ruin my home,I'm not gonna mess up nothing.
Did we out of it? Andand and that's fine, but make sure
you got because when you have aclubhouse that loves one another, you every
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little chink hurts because out of onehundred and sixty two games, at that
one crucial time, you may needthis guy. And if you don't think
things is right now, I'm notsaying I don't know mister hater, so
I'm not using him. I'm saying, you play her up. You know.
May you know I'm aber Jimmy cutterguy. He was doing the training
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camp and he said, man,I don't care what happens. Do not
stop running. I don't care howmany people tackle you. Do not stop
running. It's third and one.We need to win this game. I
do not want you to stop.I looked at him and said, bro,
whatever happened, on't care how manypeople hit you, do not stop
running. After three guys hit him, guess what he did. He stopped
at two day later, Guess whathe was Because Jimmy was trying to say,
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bro, I don't care what happened, and we weren't tackling to They
weren't tackling to the ground. Theywere just hitting him, and I'm like,
don't stop. But he looked atme and he took off running,
and Jimmy looked at him like,just something simple is that you know?
And Jimmy was cold blooded. Man. Jimmy was cold blood and I know
Coach Bochie He's probably not like that. But I'm quite sure he can make
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a hard decision. I'm quite surehe ain't scared to say, hey,
man, not today. You ain'tmy guy to day. This is my
guy today. You know, Ilove you. Get over there and we'll
pacify you today. But tomorrow Ineed you to bull it dog up,
you know. So, Yeah,I don't want to not mister hater because
I do not notice cat personally.Yeah. I've always said that to Nate
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in our business, especially the endI've been in all these years. Like
I will get an opportunity to formmy own opinion and Josh Hader if he
comes here, right, so,I'm not going to take I'm not going
to take other people's work because tome, you know, that's like rumor
and in you win though, Right, I'll make a judgment for myself if
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and when I have an opportunity tointerview the man and talk to him and
get to know them a little bit. And I will say this with regard
to your due diligence suggestion. Somany people in the Padres organization who work
came from the Rangers organization. That'sgoing to be a real easy task for
them. They're gonna be the Rangers. And I'm sure they've already begun.
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Uh, they may already know whatthey think about them, right because you
know, as there's there's all thatthat talk between guys, especially front office
guys. They're talking all the timebecause you know what I tell people,
you know, and I'm glad youknow the fans. Uh, at the
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end of the day, the fansout of one ones that are getting walked
on heard. Uh. Kids,you know, kids can enjoy their stars
or the everyday work guys. Becauseyou know, guys, uh, you
know you you you played forty gamesas a AAU basketball guy. You played
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two and three games a day,you know, trying to get to the
NBA to only have to play eightytwo games. And you're telling me you
tired, You're telling me you know, you don't want to be overloaded.
But then the contract comes and yousign up for eighty two games. If
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I'm a and I'm I'm an explayer, and I want every guy to
get all this money. But LebronJames started, that started two years ago.
But how many years has he playedbefore he started? When the Spurs
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started this, these guys were olderthat the Timmy Duncans of the world to
Tony's. But they were older,man, not these young guys. I
mean, come on, man,come on, I don't get it,
and the owner ownership sooner or later, because the fans one day gonna revolt
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like that, ain't you know.I'll pay for a package, you know,
but if this guy don't play,I want my money back, and
the ownership gonna get it, andthe ownership gonna go to and see this
is what I don't understand about playerassociations. You're you are for the player,
but you are for the player,for the betterment of the game through
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the player, not not to besit up and say, hey, man,
sign this multi million dollar thirty milliondollars a year of contracting. All
we need from you is sixty games. You know, all we need from
you is fifty games because they arestarting to load management even in the playoffs.
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Right Okay, okay, we threewere up three games. They missed
game. We'll come back the nextgame or you got a little twet ankle.
You know, we're only down byone is two to one? Hey,
miss this game. I'll be liketo me, you know, I
tell people, Uh, I'm thefirst one to tell about that's a hater,
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y'all big Newton hate. Nah.I'm telling you as a fan.
I'm telling you, you know,as a person that have people that work
in these different organizations. That's notfair to the fans, you know.
And one day ownership gonna have ameeting without they're gonna go to the the
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players. You can say, look, hey, y'all, either y'all fix
it. And I think that's whatthe different commissioner is doing right now.
They're probably saying to hey, man, y'all fix this. Are we gonna
fix it? Because we're when wewhen we go back into negotiations, something
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got to be done. Either allstarted giving us some money back, all
you players start playing again. Youknow it's gonna happen, and it ain't
too far off. Well, no, In fact, the NBA has implemented
a few things, a few changesthis year which really discourage teams and penalized
teams. If there's a lot ofthat load management going on. The players.
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The players initially pushed back, Imean they say, oh, yeah,
we're for that. You know thisnone of us are sitting out when
we're not hurt. When we sitout, we need to sit out,
you know. And I'm not surethat's true. And I think the league
is going to monitor it a littlemore closely to see if guys, you
know, and again some of thesegot Kawhi Leonard is a classic example.
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You know, James Harden has doneit a bunch, Paul George has done
it a bunch. These are guyswho are superstars or potential superstars in the
league, have been superstars in theleague, and and they're sitting out games
and I'm there to watch them,right, So the league is the league
is stepping up to your point,the NBA is already stepping up and putting
some you know, regulations in therethat will prohibit to this from happening.
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Now will they be able to controlor completely know because of what we heard
from the players, Hey, thereare times when I gotta have that day
off. And how do we regulatethat? How do we sort of measure
their pain? You know, Idon't think we can. I think it's
a good jumping off point, though, Nate to the Cowboys, because I
will say this, there are alot of takeaways from the game against the
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Eagles. I'll say this as oneof them, that Jalen Hurts is a
cat that would not do any loadmanagement. I mean, that guy.
I didn't think there was any wayhe was coming back. First of all,
no way is coming back in thefirst half, and then I didn't
know if he'd played the second half. That cat was backed out there without
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missing a play. Nate, that'sa tough dude. That's the kind of
guy you want, isn't it.A guy who will, you know,
fight through that sort of pain andyet after you know. I think me
and you spoke on this a whileback. The dudes you saw at Alabama,
the dudes you saw at Oklahoma,the way he was in high school,
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it's the same dudes you see rightnow in the pros. Hard nose.
I remember one game, and Idon't want to say it was for
the Big Twelve, for the BigTwelve Championship or now, but it was
an important game against Baylor where hejust almost ran the ball every down.
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He just took the ball, tuckedit and ran because they was not covering
him. They had everything else shotdown Baylor. He just took the ball
and ran it like about twenty times, you ran it about fourteen and I'm
saying to myself, he's still gonnakill hisself. But lo and beholved eight
nine years later this guy, andI promise they probably had to tell him,
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do not run his ball, donot run this ball that you truly,
truly have to. This kid isa difference maker, man. And
I'm gonna say this. The thingthat they have done that I've always asked
the Cowboys to do, that I'vealways believed in, and it's never failed
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me. Because you just name anyteam that's winning on a consistent basis.
I argue with everybody over there atthe Cowboys Center, everybody a start arguing
this one point. If you giveme a good to great offensive line and
you give me a good to greatquarterback, I'm gonna be in the race
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every year. I'm gonna be inthe race. And people do not understand
that. They will never understand that, Hey, go out and get this
great wide receiver, go out andget this great Let me tell you something.
The Cincinnati Bengals is my proof.They have average offensive alignment. They
got that great quarterback. I mean, he's taking a beating and every year
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they start out slow, but hewins games. His offensive line get better
and better as the year goes on. Now you give me a defensive line
to go along with that. Now, I'm in the playoffs every year,
and I'm in the AFC, inthe NFC Championship every year because I have
that quarterback, I have that offensiveline, and I have that defensive line.
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I promise you you can go finda wide receiver. I promise you
you can go find a running back. Now, cornerbacks maybe a libit more
harder to find, but you canfind safeties. And I tell people,
you got an old line and it'sgonna give you edge. And that is
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what's hurting the Cowboys rad We're startingto crumble as an old line, and
it's showing up big time, myfriend. It's showing on a big time.
And you know, Tyron Smith hasbeen on the low management before it
was even he was back there withTim Duncan on the low banishment. So
I mean saying is ugly man,Yeah, I mean we saw big holes
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in that offensive line to your point, nt So. But the big,
maybe glaring one that everybody kind ofnoticed is that Laren still just seemed really
overmatched as he hurt. You knowwhat's going on there. He's coming back
from a maze. He blew theACL the front of his knee, the
side in the back. So hehad major, major surgery. And I
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talked to him during the off season. I say, Son, make sure
you okay before you go back out. He said, it's new nonumb all
right, he said, I'm goodto go. I said, okay,
And he's not okay. Before thisinjury, he was a good pass blocker
and a devastating run blocker. Noweight games in, he's just just an
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average fast blocker and our average runblocker. And that don't work in this
league. You have to have oneof those things that's dominating that you know
you can cover for yourself. Andit didn't help because Jordan Davis and Jalen
Carter sitting in the middle of aFletcher Cox and our center and guards were
getting driven back a few times,and just so happened those few times.
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At the same time, this boyhad an inside outside goal on a Hassan
Redick and he took advantage of thiskid. And I'm just so shocked.
The Cowboys can give him more help. We keep going down this road of
the same old thing. Whereas aguy struggling tremendously and we don't seem to
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give him help, and he neededhelp sixty to seventy percent of the time,
because every time we needed a bigplay in the open field, especially
towards the end of the game,it seemed like we were off side,
give it up a sack, givingup a pressure. Uh, you know,
Dak kept us in the game.Really, just to be honest with
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you, you know, Dak keptus in this game. And I told
you two or three weeks ago,Rad as long as Dak can play instinctively
and move around in that pocket andgo get us two or three first downs
a game. Like I said,I'm not asking him to run one hundred
and two hundred yards, but I'masking him, if it's three yards to
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get a first down, to keepthe drive alive, go get that and
slide down. Go give yourself achance on fourth and one, you know,
to make a play if it ain'tbut three or four yards where we
down, you know, in thesituation. So Dak played well, but
our offensive line man, you well, they probably about see. They played
like a sea. They gave himfive sacks ungodly amount of pressures. Tyron
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Smith, believe it or not,played pretty well. Or the left guard
played okay, the right guard playedokay, but our center and our right
tackle struggled tremendously, you know.So I'm thinking God that our center was
in the middle of this deal,so our guards can periodically give him a
hand and give him some help.But yeah, the thing that bothers me
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the most, and I'll continue totell people this is you can you know,
you know, this is what's gonnaget us if we're not careful,
If we don't go out in freeagency next year and sign the A one
offensive lineman, if we don't beable to draft or one of these young
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guys awesome riches or TJ basts don'tdevelop into a starter, I mean above
average to good offense Limen, theneverybody gonna all of a sudden be what
happened? What happened? Oh mygod? We need offense line, we
need offense Limen. Well, youshouldn't have never if you already have your
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quarterback. If you say you alreadyhave your quarterback, you should never be
in this position as as a asa as an office line. You should
never and I tell it cost Mahomesthem a super Bowl. It cost them
a super Bowl. Mahomes didn't haveto say nothing. After the game was
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over. Andy Reid was in thegym office the next day saying, hey,
man, get my boss, getmy boss. My offens a lima.
You see the Cincinnati being selling theirlife to get them some sm ofthens
a lima. And I you know, you know, and like I tell
people, you can do all thetalk shows you want, you can tell
me, Uh, this is whyI receive the next Lebron James. But
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if your quarterback on his back,he ain't going nowhere, you know,
you know. And Tony Pollard,what's wrong with Tony Poller? What's wrong
with Javins line? Yeah, I'mwrong with Tony Poller. I'm wrong with
Javis line. And so when youdon't have that ability to protect your core
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the back, or you don't havethe ability to get that first down,
you know why we ain't running onthe gold line. Why sure, you
ought it ain't no good? Outof no, I ain't saying your offensive
line ain't no good, but theyain't playing with no continuity. Uh,
you each guy, you can't havean offensive line? I don't care how
great the talent is, but it'sthere's no continuity and they can't move as
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a wall or they can't block asan umbrella. You know, you open
up umbrella, you got the pointand then you got a thing that comes
around. It circles around to keepthe rain off you. That's how quarterback
like to see a pocket when theumbrella opens, it circles around him,
and you don't want nothing coming downon top of him. All that just
goes to the outside. And that'sjust how you're trying to do with offensive
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line. But when that when youpoke some holes in it, after a
while, that umbrella ain't no good. You're gonna get irritated. And you
don't get mad, you know whatI'm saying, Because you have messed up
as a female in your clothes lookugly as a male. So you eventually
gonna get rid of that, unbrother, you know what I'm saying. All
Right, you're gonna be a messwhen you go to the job. Right.
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There was a couple there was acouple of times last week they where
it looked like the wind blew outunbrother the wrong money man. It's like,
you know, and I tell people, and you know, people get
mad at me rather because I askedthis question. Well, the Eagles got
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let me, let me give itto you. The Eagles now they have
a bye week, okay, thena bye week this coming week. But
after that they're at Kansas City,they're at they're home against Buffalo, they're
home against San Francisco. Oh mygod. And then we got Dallas again.
Now you go over here and Dallasdon't have it so hard. They
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got the Giants, they got thePanthers, they got Washington, you know,
and they tough game. Don't comeinto the Seahawks are excuse me,
and to feel you know, toPhiladelphia after the Washington game. No,
no, after the Panthers game.They got Philadelphia. Let me tell you
something, man, let me saysomething. Let me tell you something right
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now, John Radigan. Please,the good teams in this league will have
one or two wins where they're beatenteams of equal a better talent and coaching.
Philadelphia has a win over Miami,who is a playoff team. Tell
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me who does the Dallas Cowboys havea win over this year that really sticks
out and means something. Just I'mwaiting, hurry up, rad tell me.
So my issue and I keep tryingto express just everybody. Oh we
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wasn't ready for the forty nine ers. Oh that was so heartbreaking. Oh
we're so close to the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh now we're ready. No matter
how you want to put it,how you want to do it, you
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lost. Yep, and until anduntil, until you kick that dough down.
That's what Jimmy kept pressing on usevery week when we when we started
to turn it over, he say, Fellas, we got to have that
win. We got to win somehow, some way. So I want you
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all to feel to feel that thatthat feeling of beating a good team.
Okay, we're supposed to beat Detroit. Were supposed to be the New Orleans
Saints, were supposed Can we beatthe New York Giants Super Bowl winners?
Can we beat the Washington Commander SuperBowl winners? Can we beat a Philadelphia
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team that's giving up only twelve pointsa game? When we beat these teams
and do it on a consistent basis, Now, when we get to the
playoffs, road are at home,we know we can win. See people
keep saying about they shouldn't they shouldfeel they can win. How do you
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feel you can win when you're alwayslosing, it's always can we win this
game? But guess what all youneed is this much doubt. This much
doubt get you off side. Thismuch doubt, I'll give you a legal
formations. This much doubt or makeyou not aware of where you at on
the field. This much doubt willget a punk call back. But when
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you know you can win, whenyou know you can win, ain't no
doubt in the world can step toyou. Because everything in your heart,
you know they gonna make a badplay. We gonna make the play to
win. They gonna make the playto lose. But until you knock that
door in, until you kick thatdoor in, until you win that game,
we just average team. We justwe are sitting at number six.
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And I told her, I said, it's amazing, And I tried to
sell people this a couple of weeksago. We're sitting at number six.
If the playoffs started to day,were sitting at number six, guess what
we got. Guess what we gottago play the San Francisco forty nine ers.
I'm saying to myself, until youkick that door in, and you
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know we can't. You know youlook at these games. We can't lose,
not another NFC game. We lostto the Cognals the day of the
NFC. We lost to Philadelphia,aren't day of the NFC. We can't
lose another NFC game because now youknow, because we got the Seahawks,
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we got Washington, we got thePanthers. We can't lose another NFC game.
Well, you know, because Idon't bank on another team losing.
Everybody banking on Philadelphia. Oh,but you gotta stand now. Philadelphia is
eight and one, we're five andthree thereby weeks this week, so we
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catch up in games. Okay,we have to beat New York, we
have to beat the Panthers, wehave to be Washington. And I don't
go with the must win deal.But you can't lose. You gotta play
like Philadelphia is not gonna lose agame. That's how you have to play
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like Philadelphia's not gonna lose. Notlike Philadelphia. Oh, this is tough.
Philadelphia. They got KC after thisweek all they got Buffalo. Come
on, man, you can't playtheir schedule for them. You can wish
and hope as a fan, butas a player, you got to play
your schedule. So I mean,I ain't got much to say. I
mean, we got New York,and it's not about New York. They
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don't have their quarterback. They don'teven know if Dannity I think they got
to do name Dannity Vito. No, I'm just joking. They gotta do.
They tell me the Vito. I'mjust mess around. All they got
is Barkley, bro. All theygot on offenses, Barkley. All they
got on defense is are K vonDivodo, Tip Thibodeau. That's all they
got. Don't don't, don't.Don't even play with these folks, man,
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don't. Don't even pull an Oklahomaand go out there with the last
betlum and let Oklahoma State beat you. Come on, man, come on
man, that blue way man,Oklahoma, Oklahoma State beat them in the
last bedlam, you know, forthis short period of time until they get
it back together, you know,after they get it sec Come on,
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man, Yeah, no, Iagree. I agree. So one last
thing about this this effort, rightthis game, after the San Francisco game,
you know you were you were nothappy with some other reaction Micah Parson
saying, oh man, we're thisclose to him. Man, we're this
close to him now he was kindof, you know, consistent with that
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message after the Philadelphia game. Imust admit when I when I saw those
comments from Micah this time, Ithought, you know what they are close,
you know to the Eagles. Imean there are two, you know,
overturned touchdown scores. One was atwo point conversion, one was a
touchdown. Two overturned scores, youknow from likely winning this game. Are
you buying that a little bit morethis time or is that something you don't
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want to hear until you're better thanthat. The thing is, in today's
society, you can say what youwant. The film will tell you the
truth. And I got to tellyou, but don't tam. You watched
All twenty two and you figure outsomething you didn't like or something you did
like. Okay, I understand yougot the ability to get to All twenty
two. But they played better.Our defense played nice, our quarterback played
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nice. And the only two thingsI gotta tell people, I was questioning
that mark In the first one.I thought coach should have challenged it,
but people thought it was sture earlier. But I thought he should have challenged
it. He didn't. That's fine, But one thing that bothered me is
you had a touchdown, and allHumor had to do was go tell the
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guy I'm checking in, that's all. Don't tell me he checked in.
Don't tell me he didn't if hewould have got that rough botto arm and
say, hey man, I'm seventyone, I'm checking in. Okay,
I've been down with that. Butyou didn't do that. So that cost
us a score. That Bill,he has to be aware that. That's
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what I'm saying, a little bitof doubt. You know you're aware,
see Mike Irvin. Never fumbling akey situation. Em it, never fumbling
a key situation because you are awareof what's around you and whether it's happening.
So those are the two things thatThose are the three things that bothered
me the most out of this wholegame. And they didn't get this kid
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no help at the right tackle.From my point of view, those are
the two three things that bothered methis game. Check in, if you're
supposed to do it, so wecan keep that touchdown, that Bill,
where were your feet at? Sowe can keep that two points? Now?
You win, but you didn't win. You didn't kick the door down.
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So I don't live on fantasy.I don't do fantasy football. I
got no points. Whether you scoreor don't score, I get no points.
All I get is a broken heart. That's all I get. Brou
I hate, I hate, yourbig old heart's broken this week night,
like you say, this week,this week, everybody will be feeling better
again and again, you know,hopefully they come out and take your business
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I'm John Radagan. We got lotsto talk about Niagara Plumbing brings us
this show that's called What Nate.Let me tell you something, man,
we got a lot to talk aboutmy brother. Yes, sirs, starting
with uh, what a week ago, four or five days ago. I
mean, I know you were atthe parades. We're gonna start with the
Rangers and then we'll follow up withthe Cowboys. Yeah, it was amazing.
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We had a chance to talk aboutthe World Series victory when we were
on last week. But now weget to talk about that celebration, which
was so different having been you know, walking next to the cars in the
Dallas one the first time you guyswon in downtown Dallas. Man for the
Cowboys, that was unbelievable. Thisone, man, everybody's kind of learned
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their lesson. You've got to you'vegot to have better crowd control. You
know, there were folks jumping overthe barriers and coming up and shaking your
hand and you know, hugging onEmmett and all that. Back then,
the crowd, as big as itwas was, you know, was well
cordoned off, and it was reallyunbelievable to see seven hundred thousand people there
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celebrating the Rangers. Man. Imean when they first set one hundred thousand,
I thought, Wow, that's alot. That's good. And then
they said, ooh, ooh,it looks like it's going to be two
fifty. And then we had allthese high cameras get all up in risers
and up on top of chalk Tawall the way around the one point nine
mile course. We're looking at itgoing four hundred, five hundred thousand.
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And then I looked at it again. I said, I think we're sneaking
up on a million and lo andbehold, you know they were seven hundred
thousand, Nate and it was cool, man. There really weren't that many
incidents, right. There were afew rests and stuff like that, but
there weren't that many incidents. Therewas no real ugliness, you know what
I love. There was no uglinessthat sort of made national news often on
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these I'm from Detroit, I'm fromDetroit, Nate, you know, celebrate
a championship by burning cars. Idon't know why we do that, but
you see what I'm saying. SoI appreciate that this was just a fairly
celebratory day. And and you know, at one point how many were in
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the courtyard there by the stage.But like in Unison, they broke into
a verse of that Creed song thatwas kind of their anthem, can you
Take Me Higher? Right, andthe whole audience is singing that song.
It was really really cool man.So where were you located at? Where
were you Where was your position atthe parade? Our set was right there
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kind of you know. So thefront door to the stadium by the Nolan
Ryan statue is where the stage was, and our sut was down at the
end right on the corner, rightacross from the home plate entrance at Choctaw.
So we were all, you know, right on that that main alley
way that people walk up into.We were at one end and the stage
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was at the other end. Yeah, so you had was that premium or
was that a premium position? Yellwas at what you know, It's funny.
We got lucky because we decided thisyear on opening Day that we would
try to bring a little bit moreof the atmosphere outside to the opening day
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coverage because we do about a twohour show on opening day. So we
put a drop and all this stuffout there on Opening Day and that was
just for that day, right andnext thing, you know, that was
the perfect spot to be for theparade. You know what's really interesting and
I'm going to give credit to mybosses at Ballei for this. Rightly,
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the Rangers were not talking about aparade until they won. We remember back
in two thousand and six, afterthe MAVs got up on the heat,
there was somebody maybe Laura Miller,the mayor then, or somebody in Dallas
City Council. They were like theypublished a parade route in the paper and
everybody got on her because you know, you jinxed them, You jinked them,
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you planned a parade route. Wehadn't even won yet, right right,
man, I'm telling you even tous, even to the ballot,
like we needed to know for logistics, Hey, so what's the plan for
the parade? Crickets? Man?They would not tell us anything because,
and I get it, you donot want to jinx that. You know,
you say, oh, here's theroute for the parade, and then
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you lose game six and seven tohow do you feel? So that was
a really unbelievable undertaking to turn thatthing around. From seven am on Thursday
morning last week, the day afterthey won, and we were on the
air at I think eleven on Fridaymorning, so little more than twenty four
hours to put that thing together.It was a lot. We had people
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at our job that went, youknow, Kurt Daniels went, Kyle you
omens. Yeah. We had afew guys that have been ranged as fans
since they was Key Is. Ieither work for the Rangers at one point,
and I was happy for him,you know, I was excited for
him, man. You know,even I'm not a parade person or nothing
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like that. I mean, Iam so excited for the fans and what
the Rangers have accomplished. Anything youwant to do, say to close out
this, uh, this range ofextravaganza that that's been floating around, because
you know, it's it's we gotto get in. We got to eventually
leak over into the MAVs and inyour case, we're gonna leak over a
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libit into the thunder. So youknow, it is always those cowboys winning,
losing, winning, Yeah, youknow, yeah, yeah, like
they do. So here's what Isay. Here's what I said, because
now the off season begins, thegeneral manager meeting taking place right now,
it's free agency. Yes, yes, so here's my thing. So get
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Right is gonna win the MVP.Right, the other two candidates for MVP
this year, Cory Seeger and MarcusSimeon. You sign O'twani next year,
you got a shot to have allthree candidates for MVP on your team.
That's how good that team would be. Otani's gonna have surgery, you know,
so he will not be able topitch next year, but he's proven
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that Tommy John surgery does not affecthis ability to hit right, So he
could be your DH right next year, and then in twenty five he could
come back at some point and hecould be, you know, a lockdown
pitcher again. So you know,again, Nate, I tell you this
old time. It's not my money, right, it's a lot of money.
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It's a lot of money. Itmight be fifty million a year.
It may not get that high becauseof the injury. I know this.
There were some owners meetings in themiddle of the season, and a bunch
of the owners got together and theywere just talking after one of the meetings
they're having like eight or ten ofthem, and they were going, so,
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what's it going to take to signOtani? And everybody pretty much agreed
ten years for fifty million a year, five hundred million dollar contract right to
signing. And then and one ofthe guys, the Dodgers guy, said,
I've already got some mom, I'vealready got some Japanese investors and advertisers
who will give me twenty million peryear in advertising for whatever, you know,
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to have Otani. So I'm thinkingI'll go sixty. So you know,
there's still a this is just privatetalk between owners, right, so
there's still a chance that the Dodgersjust blow everybody away. I thought it
was awfully cool though that among theteams Otani listed as those he would like
to go to, the Rangers wereone, as were the Dodgers, but
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the Rangers were one of them.Says everything, man, this is a
destination where people want to come now. And here's one other thing that reminds
me. A lot of people wereagainst the building of another new stadium after
the old one was only twenty fiveyears old. They don't win this championship,
they don't have these players without that. He's great, you know,
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for all the players obviously, butthey're going to get it somewhere, and
especially these pitchers, they would nothave wanted to come to Texas and pitching
that other ballpark in the heat.But because there's a roof on Globelife Field,
that's how they got these free agentsand that's why it's such an attractive
destination for free agents. Now,so sorry about you. And again,
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the vote won by a landslide whenthey voted for this stadium, but there
was a loud, vocal minority ofpeople who did not like it. And
then, sorry about you. Howdo you like that World Series parade,
being in town in that championship cominghome, that was pretty cool. You
know, I tell people you andI ue to hear a few guys.
You know when we was all atone oh five, ain't thinking the guy's
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name, but he was always aboutwhy do teams of any sport play outside
when you can make everything environmental friendly? You know, no no rain,
no blizzards, no hot And atfirst I was like, nah, sometimes,
but you know what kids want comfortAnd as these kids grow older,
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they're more swater, think like whywould I want to go to Buffalo when
I I can go to Dallas?Why would I want to go over here
when I can go to Sofi wheneverything is just so comfortable? So right,
if you're if you're a mid rangequarterback, you don't want to play
in Buffalo. You got to havea big Jim Kelly rocket arm, this
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guy, Josh Allen, you gotto have those type of on because when
the wind get the whipping and everythingget cold, you need the big six
foot five Herbert guy. You knowwhat I'm saying, who's sitting around in
Yeah, but you can't have aDoug Fluting running around out there in that
whole weather man he get, butyou get what I'm saying, Yeah,
I do. And you know,basically those stadiums were all built certainly when
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you couldn't put a roof on itor the idea of them. And the
other thing was back in those days, man you just handed it off to
a big, bruising full back andhe rode ran for four yards. You
did that again, They didn't,you know, they didn't passing those You're
right when you're talking about throwing forthree four five hundred yards a game,
Yeah, you don't like that.You need yeah. So but anyway,
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man, kickers too Yeah, kickerstoo many? Is is that? Is?
That? That's your dream guy?But who else is out there?
And who is they need to resign? Uh? What what does the
ring they got to run? Yeah, it's a good question. So they
got to re sign Jordan Montgomery,right, and he's going to command a
lot based on basically the last twomonths and and and postseason of this last
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year. He's to get a tonmore than he would have in his free
if he just stayed in Saint Louisand you know, finished the season,
you know, six and twelve orwhatever, he'd have done. Fine,
He's gonna cash in after what hedid for the final two months with the
Rangers and what he did in thepostseason, and I believe the Rangers will
will, you know, pull outall the stops to sign Jordan Montgomery.
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I think they love Martine Perez enoughthat they will sign Martin as well.
He's a guy who came up throughthis organization, and I think they'll sign
him to a one or two yeardeal that'll be much lesser, but they'll
they'll do that to have depth inthat starting pitcher role. And then uh
uh, I think that what theyneed to do is go get a closer.
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Now. There's lots of talk aboutthem being interested in Josh Hater,
and that's a controversial one because Hateris he's the best closer, uh certainly
on the free agent market and oneof the best in the game right now.
But when his team was out ofit this year, he kind of
quit on him. He's kind oflike, I mean and said it publicly,
you know, and uh so it'sthat's tough. I mean, that's
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tough. Now, this is sucha good clubhouse, Nate that I think
those guys, first of all,I think you're just inspired by those guys
right and then, but also doyou think there's somebody who you don't want
to do it? You don't wantto do it. This is what made
and maybe coach boch manager is butthat's what made Jimmy so unique. If
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you show those traits like that,even though you vocal about it, he
was gonna have something in the contract. You know, if you pull that
stunt, we gotta be able todo something to you you don't want,
you know, you if it's onething when the club pull you say,
hey man, we're gonna, we'regonna do this. We're gonna We're gonna
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save you. But you as aplayer. And this is what little management
is done in basketball. Oh,this is what not practicing has done the
football. This is what baseball isstarting to catch on to. Is I
need fifty million a year, butI don't want to play every game.
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I don't want to pitch every five, fifth or sixth day. Man,
I'm a little sore today. I'mnot injured. I'm just a little sore
today. So I'm gonna rest.I'm not gonna do the back to back.
I'm I'm not a fan of awhole lot of sports, but nothing
bothers me more than when I'm watchingmy teams and they say this dude is
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taking a rest day, especially thedude is under thirty one years old.
You're under thirty one years old.You've not had any injuries to keep you
out of this, and you're cheatingthe fans. So I'm not about that
hat. I love it. Haterif they wanted, and they you know,
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because as coach bar Sales says,if you get enough guys like that,
eventually your locker room we won't bethat anymore. We can have sorbed
one of those guys, but nottwo of those guys, not three of
those guys, because before, beforeyou know it, you got a bunch
of haters running around there, andyou'd be like, wow, why did
they even sign that guy? Yeah, yeah, So you talk about Jimmy
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and how he would handle that situation. Now, he also, you know,
admitted only after he was done coaching. You know, he had a
different set of rules for different players. And you know this too, right,
And someone said, hey, Johnwas a John Roper that fell asleep
in a meeting and he cut him. Uh and so but and they said,
well, what if Emmett would havefallen asleep in the meeting. I
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just would have gone over and wait, you know, gently nudged him to
wait. To him, he said, Hey, man, kay, is
the pillar don't get a quack again? Yeah? Yeah, get your rest,
get your get your rest double.So so I just wonder ken he
did he sort of meet out thatthat uh sort of pishment if you will,
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against a guy who had a badattitude equals See, I don't want
to I don't want to knock missthe hater because I don't know him personally.
Uh, I don't know what typeof clubhouse guy he is, with
his team he's with now how thoseguys feel. But all you got to
do is do investigation. You know, go to the trainers, Hey what
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type of guys this guy daily?And they're gonna be honest with you,
you know, go to the tothe players, Hey what type of guys
has got there? And we justprobably got a situation where this kid like,
I'm not gonna ruin my home,I'm not gonna mess up nothing.
Did we out of it? Andand and that's fine, but make sure
you got because when you have aclubhouse that loves one another, you every
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little chink hurts because out of onehundred and sixty two games, at that
one crucial time, you may needthis guy. And if you don't think
things is right now, I'm notsaying I don't know mister hater, so
I'm not using him. I'm saying, you play her up. You know.
May you know I'm aber Jimmy cutterguy. He was doing the training
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camp and he said, man,I don't care what happens. Do not
stop running. I don't care howmany people tackle you. Do not stop
running. It's third and one.We need to win this game. I
do not want you to stop.I looked at him and said, bro,
whatever happened, on't care how manypeople hit you, do not stop
running. After three guys hit him, guess what he did. He stopped
at two day later, Guess whathe was Because Jimmy was trying to say,
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bro, I don't care what happened, and we weren't tackling to They
weren't tackling to the ground. Theywere just hitting him, and I'm like,
don't stop. But he looked atme and he took off running,
and Jimmy looked at him like,just something simple is that you know?
And Jimmy was cold blooded. Man. Jimmy was cold blood and I know
Coach Bochie He's probably not like that. But I'm quite sure he can make
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a hard decision. I'm quite surehe ain't scared to say, hey,
man, not today. You ain'tmy guy to day. This is my
guy today. You know, Ilove you. Get over there and we'll
pacify you today. But tomorrow Ineed you to bull it dog up,
you know. So, Yeah,I don't want to not mister hater because
I do not notice cat personally.Yeah. I've always said that to Nate
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in our business, especially the endI've been in all these years. Like
I will get an opportunity to formmy own opinion and Josh Hader if he
comes here, right, so,I'm not going to take I'm not going
to take other people's work because tome, you know, that's like rumor
and in you win though, Right, I'll make a judgment for myself if
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and when I have an opportunity tointerview the man and talk to him and
get to know them a little bit. And I will say this with regard
to your due diligence suggestion. Somany people in the Padres organization who work
came from the Rangers organization. That'sgoing to be a real easy task for
them. They're gonna be the Rangers. And I'm sure they've already begun.
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Uh, they may already know whatthey think about them, right because you
know, as there's there's all thatthat talk between guys, especially front office
guys. They're talking all the timebecause you know what I tell people,
you know, and I'm glad youknow the fans. Uh, at the
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end of the day, the fansout of one ones that are getting walked
on heard. Uh. Kids,you know, kids can enjoy their stars
or the everyday work guys. Becauseyou know, guys, uh, you
know you you you played forty gamesas a AAU basketball guy. You played
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two and three games a day,you know, trying to get to the
NBA to only have to play eightytwo games. And you're telling me you
tired, You're telling me you know, you don't want to be overloaded.
But then the contract comes and yousign up for eighty two games. If
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I'm a and I'm I'm an explayer, and I want every guy to
get all this money. But LebronJames started, that started two years ago.
But how many years has he playedbefore he started? When the Spurs
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started this, these guys were olderthat the Timmy Duncans of the world to
Tony's. But they were older,man, not these young guys. I
mean, come on, man,come on, I don't get it,
and the owner ownership sooner or later, because the fans one day gonna revolt
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like that, ain't you know.I'll pay for a package, you know,
but if this guy don't play,I want my money back, and
the ownership gonna get it, andthe ownership gonna go to and see this
is what I don't understand about playerassociations. You're you are for the player,
but you are for the player,for the betterment of the game through
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the player, not not to besit up and say, hey, man,
sign this multi million dollar thirty milliondollars a year of contracting. All
we need from you is sixty games. You know, all we need from
you is fifty games because they arestarting to load management even in the playoffs.
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Right Okay, okay, we threewere up three games. They missed
game. We'll come back the nextgame or you got a little twet ankle.
You know, we're only down byone is two to one? Hey,
miss this game. I'll be liketo me, you know, I
tell people, Uh, I'm thefirst one to tell about that's a hater,
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y'all big Newton hate. Nah.I'm telling you as a fan.
I'm telling you, you know,as a person that have people that work
in these different organizations. That's notfair to the fans, you know.
And one day ownership gonna have ameeting without they're gonna go to the the
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players. You can say, look, hey, y'all, either y'all fix
it. And I think that's whatthe different commissioner is doing right now.
They're probably saying to hey, man, y'all fix this. Are we gonna
fix it? Because we're when wewhen we go back into negotiations, something
(22:59):
got to be done. Either allstarted giving us some money back, all
you players start playing again. Youknow it's gonna happen, and it ain't
too far off. Well, no, In fact, the NBA has implemented
a few things, a few changesthis year which really discourage teams and penalized
teams. If there's a lot ofthat load management going on. The players.
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The players initially pushed back, Imean they say, oh, yeah,
we're for that. You know thisnone of us are sitting out when
we're not hurt. When we sitout, we need to sit out,
you know. And I'm not surethat's true. And I think the league
is going to monitor it a littlemore closely to see if guys, you
know, and again some of thesegot Kawhi Leonard is a classic example.
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You know, James Harden has doneit a bunch, Paul George has done
it a bunch. These are guyswho are superstars or potential superstars in the
league, have been superstars in theleague, and and they're sitting out games
and I'm there to watch them,right, So the league is the league
is stepping up to your point,the NBA is already stepping up and putting
some you know, regulations in therethat will prohibit to this from happening.
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Now will they be able to controlor completely know because of what we heard
from the players, Hey, thereare times when I gotta have that day
off. And how do we regulatethat? How do we sort of measure
their pain? You know, Idon't think we can. I think it's
a good jumping off point, though, Nate to the Cowboys, because I
will say this, there are alot of takeaways from the game against the
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Eagles. I'll say this as oneof them, that Jalen Hurts is a
cat that would not do any loadmanagement. I mean, that guy.
I didn't think there was any wayhe was coming back. First of all,
no way is coming back in thefirst half, and then I didn't
know if he'd played the second half. That cat was backed out there without
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missing a play. Nate, that'sa tough dude. That's the kind of
guy you want, isn't it.A guy who will, you know,
fight through that sort of pain andyet after you know. I think me
and you spoke on this a whileback. The dudes you saw at Alabama,
the dudes you saw at Oklahoma,the way he was in high school,
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it's the same dudes you see rightnow in the pros. Hard nose.
I remember one game, and Idon't want to say it was for
the Big Twelve, for the BigTwelve Championship or now, but it was
an important game against Baylor where hejust almost ran the ball every down.
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He just took the ball, tuckedit and ran because they was not covering
him. They had everything else shotdown Baylor. He just took the ball
and ran it like about twenty times, you ran it about fourteen and I'm
saying to myself, he's still gonnakill hisself. But lo and beholved eight
nine years later this guy, andI promise they probably had to tell him,
(25:56):
do not run his ball, donot run this ball that you truly,
truly have to. This kid isa difference maker, man. And
I'm gonna say this. The thingthat they have done that I've always asked
the Cowboys to do, that I'vealways believed in, and it's never failed
(26:18):
me. Because you just name anyteam that's winning on a consistent basis.
I argue with everybody over there atthe Cowboys Center, everybody a start arguing
this one point. If you giveme a good to great offensive line and
you give me a good to greatquarterback, I'm gonna be in the race
(26:41):
every year. I'm gonna be inthe race. And people do not understand
that. They will never understand that, Hey, go out and get this
great wide receiver, go out andget this great Let me tell you something.
The Cincinnati Bengals is my proof.They have average offensive alignment. They
got that great quarterback. I mean, he's taking a beating and every year
(27:04):
they start out slow, but hewins games. His offensive line get better
and better as the year goes on. Now you give me a defensive line
to go along with that. Now, I'm in the playoffs every year,
and I'm in the AFC, inthe NFC Championship every year because I have
that quarterback, I have that offensiveline, and I have that defensive line.
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I promise you you can go finda wide receiver. I promise you
you can go find a running back. Now, cornerbacks maybe a libit more
harder to find, but you canfind safeties. And I tell people,
you got an old line and it'sgonna give you edge. And that is
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what's hurting the Cowboys rad We're startingto crumble as an old line, and
it's showing up big time, myfriend. It's showing on a big time.
And you know, Tyron Smith hasbeen on the low management before it
was even he was back there withTim Duncan on the low banishment. So
I mean saying is ugly man,Yeah, I mean we saw big holes
(28:12):
in that offensive line to your point, nt So. But the big,
maybe glaring one that everybody kind ofnoticed is that Laren still just seemed really
overmatched as he hurt. You knowwhat's going on there. He's coming back
from a maze. He blew theACL the front of his knee, the
side in the back. So hehad major, major surgery. And I
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talked to him during the off season. I say, Son, make sure
you okay before you go back out. He said, it's new nonumb all
right, he said, I'm goodto go. I said, okay,
And he's not okay. Before thisinjury, he was a good pass blocker
and a devastating run blocker. Noweight games in, he's just just an
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average fast blocker and our average runblocker. And that don't work in this
league. You have to have oneof those things that's dominating that you know
you can cover for yourself. Andit didn't help because Jordan Davis and Jalen
Carter sitting in the middle of aFletcher Cox and our center and guards were
getting driven back a few times,and just so happened those few times.
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At the same time, this boyhad an inside outside goal on a Hassan
Redick and he took advantage of thiskid. And I'm just so shocked.
The Cowboys can give him more help. We keep going down this road of
the same old thing. Whereas aguy struggling tremendously and we don't seem to
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give him help, and he neededhelp sixty to seventy percent of the time,
because every time we needed a bigplay in the open field, especially
towards the end of the game,it seemed like we were off side,
give it up a sack, givingup a pressure. Uh, you know,
Dak kept us in the game.Really, just to be honest with
(30:04):
you, you know, Dak keptus in this game. And I told
you two or three weeks ago,Rad as long as Dak can play instinctively
and move around in that pocket andgo get us two or three first downs
a game. Like I said,I'm not asking him to run one hundred
and two hundred yards, but I'masking him, if it's three yards to
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get a first down, to keepthe drive alive, go get that and
slide down. Go give yourself achance on fourth and one, you know,
to make a play if it ain'tbut three or four yards where we
down, you know, in thesituation. So Dak played well, but
our offensive line man, you well, they probably about see. They played
like a sea. They gave himfive sacks ungodly amount of pressures. Tyron
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Smith, believe it or not,played pretty well. Or the left guard
played okay, the right guard playedokay, but our center and our right
tackle struggled tremendously, you know.So I'm thinking God that our center was
in the middle of this deal,so our guards can periodically give him a
hand and give him some help.But yeah, the thing that bothers me
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the most, and I'll continue totell people this is you can you know,
you know, this is what's gonnaget us if we're not careful,
If we don't go out in freeagency next year and sign the A one
offensive lineman, if we don't beable to draft or one of these young
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guys awesome riches or TJ basts don'tdevelop into a starter, I mean above
average to good offense Limen, theneverybody gonna all of a sudden be what
happened? What happened? Oh mygod? We need offense line, we
need offense Limen. Well, youshouldn't have never if you already have your
(31:53):
quarterback. If you say you alreadyhave your quarterback, you should never be
in this position as as a asa as an office line. You should
never and I tell it cost Mahomesthem a super Bowl. It cost them
a super Bowl. Mahomes didn't haveto say nothing. After the game was
(32:16):
over. Andy Reid was in thegym office the next day saying, hey,
man, get my boss, getmy boss. My offens a lima.
You see the Cincinnati being selling theirlife to get them some sm ofthens
a lima. And I you know, you know, and like I tell
people, you can do all thetalk shows you want, you can tell
me, Uh, this is whyI receive the next Lebron James. But
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if your quarterback on his back,he ain't going nowhere, you know,
you know. And Tony Pollard,what's wrong with Tony Poller? What's wrong
with Javins line? Yeah, I'mwrong with Tony Poller. I'm wrong with
Javis line. And so when youdon't have that ability to protect your core
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the back, or you don't havethe ability to get that first down,
you know why we ain't running onthe gold line. Why sure, you
ought it ain't no good? Outof no, I ain't saying your offensive
line ain't no good, but theyain't playing with no continuity. Uh,
you each guy, you can't havean offensive line? I don't care how
great the talent is, but it'sthere's no continuity and they can't move as
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a wall or they can't block asan umbrella. You know, you open
up umbrella, you got the pointand then you got a thing that comes
around. It circles around to keepthe rain off you. That's how quarterback
like to see a pocket when theumbrella opens, it circles around him,
and you don't want nothing coming downon top of him. All that just
goes to the outside. And that'sjust how you're trying to do with offensive
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line. But when that when youpoke some holes in it, after a
while, that umbrella ain't no good. You're gonna get irritated. And you
don't get mad, you know whatI'm saying, Because you have messed up
as a female in your clothes lookugly as a male. So you eventually
gonna get rid of that, unbrother, you know what I'm saying. All
Right, you're gonna be a messwhen you go to the job. Right.
(34:06):
There was a couple there was acouple of times last week they where
it looked like the wind blew outunbrother the wrong money man. It's like,
you know, and I tell people, and you know, people get
mad at me rather because I askedthis question. Well, the Eagles got
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let me, let me give itto you. The Eagles now they have
a bye week, okay, thena bye week this coming week. But
after that they're at Kansas City,they're at they're home against Buffalo, they're
home against San Francisco. Oh mygod. And then we got Dallas again.
Now you go over here and Dallasdon't have it so hard. They
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got the Giants, they got thePanthers, they got Washington, you know,
and they tough game. Don't comeinto the Seahawks are excuse me,
and to feel you know, toPhiladelphia after the Washington game. No,
no, after the Panthers game.They got Philadelphia. Let me tell you
something, man, let me saysomething. Let me tell you something right
(35:14):
now, John Radigan. Please,the good teams in this league will have
one or two wins where they're beatenteams of equal a better talent and coaching.
Philadelphia has a win over Miami,who is a playoff team. Tell
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me who does the Dallas Cowboys havea win over this year that really sticks
out and means something. Just I'mwaiting, hurry up, rad tell me.
So my issue and I keep tryingto express just everybody. Oh we
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wasn't ready for the forty nine ers. Oh that was so heartbreaking. Oh
we're so close to the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh now we're ready. No matter
how you want to put it,how you want to do it, you
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lost. Yep, and until anduntil, until you kick that dough down.
That's what Jimmy kept pressing on usevery week when we when we started
to turn it over, he say, Fellas, we got to have that
win. We got to win somehow, some way. So I want you
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all to feel to feel that thatthat feeling of beating a good team.
Okay, we're supposed to beat Detroit. Were supposed to be the New Orleans
Saints, were supposed Can we beatthe New York Giants Super Bowl winners?
Can we beat the Washington Commander SuperBowl winners? Can we beat a Philadelphia
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team that's giving up only twelve pointsa game? When we beat these teams
and do it on a consistent basis, Now, when we get to the
playoffs, road are at home,we know we can win. See people
keep saying about they shouldn't they shouldfeel they can win. How do you
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feel you can win when you're alwayslosing, it's always can we win this
game? But guess what all youneed is this much doubt. This much
doubt get you off side. Thismuch doubt, I'll give you a legal
formations. This much doubt or makeyou not aware of where you at on
the field. This much doubt willget a punk call back. But when
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you know you can win, whenyou know you can win, ain't no
doubt in the world can step toyou. Because everything in your heart,
you know they gonna make a badplay. We gonna make the play to
win. They gonna make the playto lose. But until you knock that
door in, until you kick thatdoor in, until you win that game,
we just average team. We justwe are sitting at number six.
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And I told her, I said, it's amazing, And I tried to
sell people this a couple of weeksago. We're sitting at number six.
If the playoffs started to day,were sitting at number six, guess what
we got. Guess what we gottago play the San Francisco forty nine ers.
I'm saying to myself, until youkick that door in, and you
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know we can't. You know youlook at these games. We can't lose,
not another NFC game. We lostto the Cognals the day of the
NFC. We lost to Philadelphia,aren't day of the NFC. We can't
lose another NFC game because now youknow, because we got the Seahawks,
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we got Washington, we got thePanthers. We can't lose another NFC game.
Well, you know, because Idon't bank on another team losing.
Everybody banking on Philadelphia. Oh,but you gotta stand now. Philadelphia is
eight and one, we're five andthree thereby weeks this week, so we
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catch up in games. Okay,we have to beat New York, we
have to beat the Panthers, wehave to be Washington. And I don't
go with the must win deal.But you can't lose. You gotta play
like Philadelphia is not gonna lose agame. That's how you have to play
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like Philadelphia's not gonna lose. Notlike Philadelphia. Oh, this is tough.
Philadelphia. They got KC after thisweek all they got Buffalo. Come
on, man, you can't playtheir schedule for them. You can wish
and hope as a fan, butas a player, you got to play
your schedule. So I mean,I ain't got much to say. I
mean, we got New York,and it's not about New York. They
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don't have their quarterback. They don'teven know if Dannity I think they got
to do name Dannity Vito. No, I'm just joking. They gotta do.
They tell me the Vito. I'mjust mess around. All they got
is Barkley, bro. All theygot on offenses, Barkley. All they
got on defense is are K vonDivodo, Tip Thibodeau. That's all they
got. Don't don't, don't.Don't even play with these folks, man,
(40:37):
don't. Don't even pull an Oklahomaand go out there with the last
betlum and let Oklahoma State beat you. Come on, man, come on
man, that blue way man,Oklahoma, Oklahoma State beat them in the
last bedlam, you know, forthis short period of time until they get
it back together, you know,after they get it sec Come on,
(40:59):
man, Yeah, no, Iagree. I agree. So one last
thing about this this effort, rightthis game, after the San Francisco game,
you know you were you were nothappy with some other reaction Micah Parson
saying, oh man, we're thisclose to him. Man, we're this
close to him now he was kindof, you know, consistent with that
(41:19):
message after the Philadelphia game. Imust admit when I when I saw those
comments from Micah this time, Ithought, you know what they are close,
you know to the Eagles. Imean there are two, you know,
overturned touchdown scores. One was atwo point conversion, one was a
touchdown. Two overturned scores, youknow from likely winning this game. Are
you buying that a little bit morethis time or is that something you don't
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want to hear until you're better thanthat. The thing is, in today's
society, you can say what youwant. The film will tell you the
truth. And I got to tellyou, but don't tam. You watched
All twenty two and you figure outsomething you didn't like or something you did
like. Okay, I understand yougot the ability to get to All twenty
two. But they played better.Our defense played nice, our quarterback played
(42:08):
nice. And the only two thingsI gotta tell people, I was questioning
that mark In the first one.I thought coach should have challenged it,
but people thought it was sture earlier. But I thought he should have challenged
it. He didn't. That's fine, But one thing that bothered me is
you had a touchdown, and allHumor had to do was go tell the
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guy I'm checking in, that's all. Don't tell me he checked in.
Don't tell me he didn't if hewould have got that rough botto arm and
say, hey man, I'm seventyone, I'm checking in. Okay,
I've been down with that. Butyou didn't do that. So that cost
us a score. That Bill,he has to be aware that. That's
(42:52):
what I'm saying, a little bitof doubt. You know you're aware,
see Mike Irvin. Never fumbling akey situation. Em it, never fumbling
a key situation because you are awareof what's around you and whether it's happening.
So those are the two things thatThose are the three things that bothered
me the most out of this wholegame. And they didn't get this kid
(43:15):
no help at the right tackle.From my point of view, those are
the two three things that bothered methis game. Check in, if you're
supposed to do it, so wecan keep that touchdown, that Bill,
where were your feet at? Sowe can keep that two points? Now?
You win, but you didn't win. You didn't kick the door down.
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So I don't live on fantasy.I don't do fantasy football. I
got no points. Whether you scoreor don't score, I get no points.
All I get is a broken heart. That's all I get. Brou
I hate, I hate, yourbig old heart's broken this week night,
like you say, this week,this week, everybody will be feeling better
again and again, you know,hopefully they come out and take your business
(43:59):
against the Rans, and then youknow we'll do it again next week.
But man, we thank Niagara Plumbingfor getting this together for us, and
and uh, we really enjoyed theopportunity to tell you something that's right.
That's right. We'll be back againnext week, maybe with a little bit
of Mavericks, a little bit ofthunder and a whole lot of cowboys,
(44:21):
and we'll start talking more about justlife in itself. Man. So y'all,
hey, I love you rad Ilove y'all guys, I love the
fans. I love y'all for checkingin, And thank you Niagara Plumbing.
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