Today is the "Humpday Gameplan" edition, and the guys start with the Spitting Gate scandal, as Eagles defensive lineman Jalen Carter's punishment was announced for an incident involving Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. The Texas Longhorn players talked to the media. The Texas Longhorn baseball schedule was released. The Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys look forward to their week 3 schedules after starting the season off with losses. What is the NFL game of the week? The MLB season is coming to a close. Who are the MVP candidates, and where do they lie? You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"
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Well the story of the day, Well, it happened yesterday, Bud.
We didn't get a chance to talk about it because
it's the day for us. But the big thing that
happened yesterday was we have the finality oh spitgate.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh wait, we got breaking news. Hold on what happened?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Okay, Jalen Carter's playing, okay, good, So he got fined
fifty seven thousand dollars is from Adam Schefter like two
minutes ago, fifty seven thousand dollars spitting on Dak Prescott.
The league also says the game he was ejected for
will serve as a one game suspension.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh because he never played a snow. He never played
a snack. That's smart. If you're gonna spit on somebody's chest,
you do it it uniforces the TV time out before
the game starts.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yes, that's nice level, that's yeahl by my guy, that's smart.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
That was?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Kle Long? He gone, yeah, kle Long that that that
That's how he's been talking about it. Chris Chris Long.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Excuse me, Chris Long rid of him?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, let's back up, let's back up. Okay, let's back
up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, you heard the suspension fifty seven thousand dollars game check.
But the thing that bothers me about this is that
they say he got time served.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's not that's that's not how that should be viewed.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That he should he should have repercussions for his actions
of spitting on a human being. I don't care if
Dak was spitting on the ground. He didn't spit on him.
This dude spit in his chest. And the thing about it,
Mark is the NFL thinks they're slick. You know what
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game is this week, Kansas City in Philadelphia, Super Bowl
rematch and Jalen Carter not being there will take away
from the story of this rematch.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You don't get.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Time served for something that happened on the field when
you were about to play. And the only reason why
they said it was because, oh, there wasn't an actual
play that happened, yet it was during the time out.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Listen, man, they know what they're doing, exactly like you
just said.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But also.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
This is a way for the NFL to say we
police our own even though we know the referees made
a rush judgment to kick him out in the first place.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Was it a rush though? I do?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think that that's what they're trying to really cover up,
is the fact that maybe he should have played that
game and then he should have been suspended for this
next game.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I ain't going forward.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You can't just spit on the man and and there
be no consequence one game.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Not even a game though, dude dressed out.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
If there was, I told Marcus, he's not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
If he did not, if there was not an injury
that happened during that play, like there was an injury
on the kickoff, which is why they did happen. But
he wasn't on the field for that player. That's that's
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The game started, That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Mark just made a point. He's gonna get paid. He's not.
He's gonna get paid for both games. No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's he's got the money is fifty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There's a game that's a game check? Is that a
game that's his game check?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Okay, yeah, he's not so okay, that's basically it was
a game suspension in that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But but still he should not be playing. He should
have if you were gonna suspend him for one game.
This game cannot be time served. This game cannot be
time served. The game that needs to be suspended is
this week. There's no in between on that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If I was Kansas City boy, I'd be making instinct
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, that's what people are saying.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They say the folks in Kansas City and Dallas are
still mad. They get they mad about Jalen Carter being
ready to play, and your boy Chris Long is like,
oh good, that's good.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That time served. That's how we're doing, y'all. Just yell
at the wall. Yeah, it's like come on, man.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So you sit there and you start to understand what
this is and the NFL looking at him and Nick Sirianni.
Think about Nick Sirianni right now, what is he doing
in that locker room to make sure that Jalen Carter,
who by the way, already has a bad rap in
the NFL for unsportsman like conduct, got penalties. You know
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about his off the field incidents when he was at
Georgia driving and and killed that trainer when he was
drag racing her. And I met one of the that
trainer that passed away. I met her friend last week
who went to school with her, who grew up with her,
and she was mad about the Jalen Carter situation because
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she believes obviously he's a bad person. But you spit
in a man on his chest, man, like what what? What?
What part of that is? Excusable.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But see, the thing is hard when people have questionable character,
questionable character, it's gonna happen again. Something's gonna happen again.
Now you gotta say, listen, the weight of the world
is on you. The next one you don't get away
with and hopefully nobody gets killed.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well that's why I'm just it just doesn't hopefully.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just look at this whole situation and I'm trying
to figure out how and where we are where respect
is not given anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's America no respect man.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Like you walk up, wake up every morning and walk
the street and you can't even get in the car
and you put your signal, you put your signal to
get over and it speed up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, they're not letting you. Yeah, they're not letting you. Like,
what's wrong with this world? Like it's not a race.
That's why there's so many wrecks in Austin. Well, I
mean we go here in just a minute with our
traffic every day when the traffic report comes oreaker, there's
a slowdown, geez one hundred, and you know the traffic
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is so irrelevant. Yeah, Like, I mean, that's that's just
one point. No, it's because people leave their house late.
You give yourself enough time.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You don't have to be racing to get somewhere right quick,
walking out the door with the last five second and
trying to get there.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I don't want to go. Then all of a sudden
you mad because somebody won't let you over.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Like.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I came out of the airport. Man, how did we
get to this point?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We're breaking down the psyche of Jalen Carter.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh, oh, that's what Let's go back.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And we're blaming the world's problems on him.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Is his fault? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I'm coming out of the airport and this lady
is holding a baby carriage deal and the guy that
was in front of her.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Just walked through.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
He was he passed her so he can get in
front of her, and just walked through and didn't hold
the door.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So I'm I'm rushing to grab the.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Door and say, ma'am, I got you, go go ahead,
go ahead, And she turned and looked at me and
she said, I just want to beat him up. Started laughing.
That sums up what I'm saying. Jalen Carter is that
guy every day. Yeah, and it's gonna catch up to him.
But again, here's the here's the kicker. Drew rosen Rosenhaus
(10:14):
his agent told the Philadelphia Eagles, you cannot void his
contract of bonuses. And there was something a rookie contract,
all the steps that was in there, they're still in
place because they told him you can't do that. And
(10:34):
now you were like Philly was like, okay, okay, we
like Jalen Carter. He's gonna be good for us. We're
not gonna do exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So to your point, yes, there should be something that
catches up to him, but there's not because they keep
pushing him through. They keep letting him because he's exceptional
at what he does.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And that goes back to your other point.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Only in America, to keep getting pushed because you're exceptional.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
At and what you do, you get a past.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So our argument is booke because of the fact that, yeah,
it's where we live, it's the world that we love
this country.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Why that was Semie Celson. I love him, I love America.
I love America. I love it too. We gotta get
back to the sports. I don't know how we got there, folks,
but we're back now, we're back. We're back. When we
come back, we will be.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Talking about the Texas football players as they get ready
to take on UTEP, but we'll take one step back
as a couple of players have some success that they
wanted to talk about. We got Danny Davis from the
Austin American Statesman and we'll talk about the Texans as
they try to bounce back against Tampa Bay and Monday
night football.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
All right here.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
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Is all oh Man coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We've got our guy, Danny Davis of the Austin American
Statesman joining us, and we'll close out the hour talking
about the Houston Texans and Demico Ryan finally talking about
Nico Collins and what they need to do to get
him the ball. Right now, we're gonna talk Texas Longhorns.
You heard it in a Longhorn minute about some special
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players and the way that they were able to make plays.
One of those players is ty Anthony Smith. But I
want you to hear from Jalen Gilbo as Jalen Gilbo
talks about him having his first interception as the Texas
Longhorns created four turnovers in a big time matchup against
San Jose State DELN.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
He just said, he didn't know that was your first
I in t til you came in to the sideline
in total.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
So, like I just told him, I said, this is
my first interception. He asked me, was I go keep
the ball? What I was gonna do with it? I
just told him, I said, I'm keeping his ball. It's
my first pick, so I'm gonna sign it and hang
it up. Just take me through that play, oh, I
would say, bro. Like I just told him, I said,
just going out there and hunting the ball, like that
was my main thing, coming back and playing a corner,
just going out there getting my hands on the ball.
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And now I finally got my hands on the ball and.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now comes an interception.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Shout out to Corey Moles of KVU for being able
to get that information and that interview right there.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That was pretty cool because they were out of bed.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
He's been here for three years and that was his
first interception and he kept that ball.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You did you feel that joy that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He said?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Like, that's the beauty of sports man is to be
able to have accomplishment after all the work you put in.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, think about it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
This is a guy that has played multiple positions on
the football field for the University of Texas. They have
now moved him from the star position to the corner position,
and he's getting an opportunity to be on that island.
He was somebody like Muhammad.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That has a lot of a lot of ability, a
lot of opportunity. Now he's a bigger corner, long arms,
and now he gets an opportunity to go make a play.
And yeah, I did hear that joy in his heart
about what he was able to do and satisfaction breathes more.
You can't just it's like that old Lady's commercial. You know,
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you can't just eat one chip right Like now he
wants it. He knows what that feels like, and he's
going to really be on the huntboard.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Another player that continues to make plays is one ty
Anthony Smith. If you remember the play that he came
by and made the tackle and he stripped the ball
on the way down, showing the strength. He's a guy
that everybody's talked about being slight, but he brings the
hammer every time he gets ready to hit somebody. And
I want you to hear Anthony Hill talking about Ty
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Anthony Smith making all those plays.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It feels really good when you know all the linebackers
and making all the plays.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
That man, we have a really deep group with us
four as five guys, so we really love like when
we all make plays and we can kind of share.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
In love with each other.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Another guy that makes a lot of plays is leonnla Foule.
He's a guy that's always around the ball. He hits,
he plays, he drops in coverage.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He does everything that the linebacker group needs him to do.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The guy that never loses containment. He knows his job.
You always talk about just do your job. He is
the poster child for the just your job club. That
guy he's never in the wrong place, no false steps.
And I think that as he grows physically, he's gonna
be a better linebacker. But Ty Anthony Smith, you remember
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we met his aunt at the clinic that you and
Dereck Johnson do over at Cover three and Watkins and
Norm Watkins, and she was saying how I can't wait
for him to play. He's always been a diligent kid.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
He likes to work hard and so and we're seeing that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, and he's one that everybody's been talking about since
last year too. I mean, you think about what he
was able to do. He got an interception last year
playing in the he was I think he was almost
in the secondary at one point, but now he's playing
that linebacker position. We heard a lot about him during
camp and what he was doing during that time at camp.
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A lot of guys were very, very high on ty
Anthony Smith, and now he's starting to see the fruits
of his labor.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Are y'all going to do that clinic?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's actually tonight, it's tonight, it's actually tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, I didn't get an invite because.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's a women's clinic. That's that's probably why you invited me.
Last year you invited Joeself I did that. What'd you
say to me?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Hard? Where y'all go be tonight? Hey, this is what's
going on? Mark?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
All right, I'll see y'all up there. You shouldn't have
told me about it then, I know, now, yeah, I know.
Now I'm calling. I'm going over your head, DJ. I
will see you later on playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it's actually tonight, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But yeah, look, look I appreciate that, man, But as always,
you know you start looking at this defense. And this
is something that we have been talking about the entire time.
You look at last week two weeks ago against Ohio State.
Ohio State comes back the following week, put up big numbers,
go out and put up big numbers, but Texas held
in the fourteen points. Then you come back to this week,
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Texas holds the team to seven points. So Texas in
two games is only giving up twenty one points. And
that was against the now number one team in the
land with Ohio State. And then now you're getting another
opportunity against Utah. The points per game is going to
continue to go down throughout these next three two games.
That's will have and then you get ready for SEC
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play after the Bible.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
And that's playing undisciplined football. Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So now when they if they tighten up, which I
think they will ye, if they're able to tighten up
the penalties they can allow under two hundred yards a game,
they can they can they can shut people out, so
like you know them second chances to tell the mistakes guy.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
One of the other things that's always a good thing
is Mondays with Mookie Michael Taff. Everybody calls him Mookie
him and Jalen Gilbo were talking about what they know
about the team as of right now.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I feel like we still find each other out, So
I say, just just taking it week by weekend, day
by day. At the end of the day, we still
do our culture Wednesdays and still come in as a group,
like we're still baring as brothers.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
So I say, like, we just take it day by day. Yeah,
that's a good question. What I do know about this
team is we're hungry as ever. You know, what comes
to mind is a guy like Colin Simmons who obviously
wants sacks, he wants to make those big plays. Guy
like Ann Hill, he wants to punch outs, he wants
to turnovers, he wants CFLs, a guy like myself once
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picks once Pbu's once tackles, like we're all talking about
how can we make the next play. What I do
know is that we're a really competitive team. But to
Gilbo's point, like, what I found out is that we're
gonna grow every week. That's what I found out, And
I guess that's the answer to your question.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Is you know we are so not.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
A finished product. You know, every week we continue to
get better and better, and hopefully by the end of it.
The last week we played college football is the best
week that we have. We play the best game that
last week, and so I wanted to just keep going
like this instead of a roller coaster of games. But yeah,
we're a young team. Obviously, we're making young mistakes. We've
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made some undisciplined mistakes, everybody included, from a fifthier senior
to a true freshman. And we're learning how to become
a team. I think that's the that's the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Fully, count Yeah, they man, they all sound.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Like like they're on a recorded line or something like
their program and the things that they're seeing is so
pertinent to keeping balance absolutely and not getting too high
and not letting yourself get too low.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Like I'm I'm excited for their growth.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well that's That's the one thing about this team that
has always been consistent since Sark has gotten here and
he's made his moves as far as bringing in the
right people to fit. What he's trying to do is
everybody understands their role. Everybody understands what the messaging is
every single day. And if I tell you this, this
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is what your messaging should be to everybody that asks
you a question, because you know there's some that kind
of just go on their own and do some crazy stuff.
Is just say what they feel, which is fine. But
I believe that Michael Taff feels what Coach Shark is saying,
and that's why it's being relayed. I believe that Jalen
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Gilbo believes in what Coach Shark is saying, and that's
why they can come out and talk about a culture Wednesday,
which will be today. You know they will have these
conversations and try to continue to grow together.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What do you always talk about?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
My boy Norm who will be part of the women's
clinic today, he always talked about fellowship.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Fellowship.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
That's what these guys are doing all the time, is
they're having fellowship amongst each other so they have a
better understanding.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Can I trust you with your assignment? Yes? I can,
because I am my brother's keeping. So that's how they know.
I'm just saying, I'm gonna have Marcus hit that music.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
In the year.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Coming up next is another pasta.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
They call him Danny Davis, about Austin American statesman, and
he too will let you know what he's thought so
far and did they meet expectations right here on the
morning Kickoff on Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Hey thirteen hundred The Zone.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Kyle La, Welcome back to the morning kickoff right here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It is Wednesday, and that can only mean one thing.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Danny Davis of the Austin American Statesman joins us to
talk all things Texas Longhorns. But Danny, before we get
into the football part of this, Yesterday, the Texas baseball
schedule came out and Texas gets to avoid a couple
of teams coming into this season.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
How you doing.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I'm good.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
I'd probably be better if I was Jim slosh Male
just kind of seeing that schedule.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
But I mean it's not an easy schedule.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I mean Texas has to go on the road to Vanderbilt,
on the road to Tennessee. Those are two schools they
missed out on last year, so kind of gets flipped.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
They have to go to A and M.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
And I know A and M wasn't good last year,
but that's not going to be a very welcoming environment
to Jim. I mean, it wouldn't be welcoming regardless of
Texas didn't have in them's old coach in their dugout.
But with that whole dynamic, that's gonna be pretty crazy.
I had to go to Auburn. Auburn was the top
eight seed last year, so I mean, it has some
tough pro games. The home schedule is kind of garbage.
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I don't think any of those teams coming into Austin
aside from maybe Oklahoma. We're that good last year, so
that's a little bit to be desired. And obviously you
don't have LSU or Arkansas in the schedule, which is
I think if you're a Texas fan. Not having Arkansas's
disappointment and the LSU game has been fun the last
few years. But I that's what's gonna happen. He was
sixteen team schedule. You're going to miss out on some
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good teams. You're gonna get some good teams, and last
year Texas had a good lot of great home series
and not a lot on the road.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
It's kind of flipped this year.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Texas Baseball had some really big ups this past week,
bringing in two getting two really good players, a catcher
and a pitcher. Any word on the positioning of those
guys and how they how they may look in the
lineup next year.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Markets football season.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We're talking about.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
I don't know if it's a bad a bad journalist,
but I'm not too tuned into much much favor. I
mean Texas had a good offseason. They brought in some
good transfers. They got some hot, you know, high you know,
some high rated guys. I mean they lost a lot
some of those guys they thought they were bringing in
still lost them to the draft. And they, you know,
had to replace a lot of guys who transferred out
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or were taking in the draft. But you know, Jim
and has staffed at a good job. They're doing a
good job on the recruiting trail. And I'll have a
better act for answer for you about Tuglary. We're talking
football right now.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
We're talking to Danny Davis of the Austin America.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
As the football question mark, we're talking about baseball.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
You want to ask me about Rory, I'll give you
actually why.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
We're talking to Danny Davis of the Austin Americas. You
can follow him at Underscore Danny Davis on social media.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But I want to get back to the football part
of it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Parker Livingston has been as advertised, if you go back
and listen to coach Sarkisian and what he was saying
during the off season. He seems to have some sort
of rapport because their roommates with Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
But what do we need to do? What do they
need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To get Ryan Wingo, DeAndre Moore and some of those
other guys going in that uh passing game for Texas.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
This is the first time I've heard that Parker Archer remains.
I did not did not know that at all. But
as far as the other guys, I mean, it's just
a rough two gigs. I mean, I'm not really too
concerned about Ryan Wingo or DeAndre Moore. I mean, Parker
had a really good game against San Jose State, had
a good fourth quarter against Well, I would say it,
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but he only has six catches this year. It's not
like he's completely lit the world on fire. He's had
a good start to the season. I think has more
defensive coordinators, you know, started adjusting for him and have
a little bit more film. He may have a little
bit tough sledding down the road. But if you know
Parker Livingstone's playing well, that's good for Ryan Wingo, That's
good for DeAndre Moore. That means, you know, poison defenses
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can't focus all their attention on him. They're going to
pick their poison with those three. And i'd expect you know, Ryan,
you know, and and DeAndre to play better. Obviously DeAndre
got a little hurt in the San Jose State game,
and you know, so you said on Monday that he
feels at Ryan's this provacate pressing a little bit too much.
What's the same thing said about Colin Simmons. So maybe
those guys kind of get out of their heads all
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these next to two weeks. They can step up and
be the receivers be expected to be. I'm not too
concerned about them. And if Parker is what we saw
from these first two games, I mean, that's a great
one two three punch for arch and you know, best
left to the DC's got to figure out how to
defend it.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Danny should Should Parker get more looks and more throws,
more balls thrown his way since guys have been dropping
the ball and putting it on the carpet.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
I mean, I think you know a lot of this
as we all know with football, and a lot of
it is just kind of what's dependent on you know,
matchups and stuff like that. Like, I'm not gonna throw
Ryan we go out with the bathwater because he had
a bad drop against San Jose State. I mean, I
think he has done enough for these passive season. Deander
Moore has certainly done enough since he got to campus
over the past past two years.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
He got two years ago.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Yeah that, you know, I'm just not gonna put too
much because they had a bad game or two against
a really good Ohio State defense in San Jose's State defense,
and they you know, maybe it's just a bad day.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I've had plenty of bad days of my life.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
You know.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
It discontinues down the road, and they continue to struggle
against UTIP and then continue to struggle against Sam Houston,
and sure, you know, maybe you completely change everything, but we're.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Mostly still doesn't play yet.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Like that's gonna be another dynamic to this, to this offense,
and they're going to figure out how to work work
him in as well. But once again, I'm not you know,
docking those two on the on the depth chart because
they've had a you know, a bad start.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
This is obviously great.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
The Parkers had a good start and I give you
another weapon to work with, but I'm just not throwing
out my entire opposive game plan because of one or
two bad weeks, with one of those games being against
the top team in the country.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
No doubt, Danny I wanted to go to the other
side of the ball. Coach Stark really came in last
week disappointed because the team did not be able to
could not create turnovers. Now that they've gotten four, it
seems like they've kind of gotten back to the things
that made them successful. It was good to see and
you've got a chance to see some guys make some place.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah once again in San Jose State.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Let's not, you know, put too much into that, but
at the same time, you know, this is something that
they were definitely parping on last week, and it's nice
to see some of those guys step up. You know,
Anthony Hills punching out everything that comes anywhere near him,
deal and Gilbo's you know, catching those deflections and stuff
like that, and that's you know, that's what you want,
regardless of who the opponent is, that's what you want
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to see. It was also good to see if you're
a Texas fan or a Texas coach to see them
convert those turnovers into points. I think all for those
turnovers into depth the offense ended up converting into into
points on the other ends.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I mean, that's something you want to see.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
Steve always preaches complimentary football, so that was good to see. Well,
it's better to see it in sec play. They'd be
better to seeing it in the Ohio State game, but
you have to start somewhere. They were about it, you know,
on the on rock bottom when it comes to something
they really take a pride in. After the Ohio State game,
so four turnovers against Santose State was definitely a up
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in the right direction. We'll see where that takes them
in a couple of weeks when they go to Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, last question before we let you go.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Mason Shipley got a chance to meet with the media,
talked about his marital status. Then of course he got
a chance to finally kick a field goal. Forty seven
yard er wasn't an easy one. Forty seven yards is
not that close. But it's good to see that the
special teams have now entered into the conversation.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Yeah, I'm just glad I can relate to these special teamers.
They're all old, they're all there, they all have families.
I feel like they have more. They relate more to
us in the press court than they do their teammates
in the locker room. But yeah, I mean, if you're
if you are associated with that Texas program, whether you're
a fan, the media, the coaches, whatever, it was just
nice to see a field will actually get made past
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forty yards because Bert Albyn really struggled with that last year.
So I think not us slam on him. He was
a nice get man. We enjoyed talking to him whenever
we got a chance. But I just wasn't there for
them last year. And once again, it was Saturday State
at home. There's not much pressure when you're trying, you know,
lining up for that kind of kick. Let's see if
that can happen against an SEC opponent. But you know,
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Mason was also you know, pretty when we asked Hm
about that because his brother kicked at Arkansas last year.
He's just like, you know, he tries start to take
too much out of it. He tries to treat every
kick the same. You know, it's easier said than done.
But if you're a Texas fan, that was something you
wanted to see, and that's something I wanted to see
after a high steak game because he didn't have any
pressure kicks there, Like I just wanted to see what
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he could do. And Steve, I think suddenly this postgame
press conference, it wasn't the worst thing in the world
that they that they didn't get that third down because
he wanted to get Mason to kick, you know, a
decent sized kick, and so they can at least have
confidence in their kicking game as they go down the season.
But we'll once again have to see it in a
game that actually matters a little bit more than Tennessee State.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Appreciate you, Danny. Next time, Mark won't ask you about baseball, season.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Base ball, past ball.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We were talking about baseball.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I am a one sport man right now, Mark, I can't.
I can't be as versatile as you are. I just
got to concentrate on one thing.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Appreciate you as always. Man.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
There is Danny Davis of the Austin American Statesman. You
can follow them at Underscore Danny Davis. When we come back,
we're gonna close out our number one, the Texans. They're
trying to get right and it's gonna be on Monday
Night against Baker Banker, the touchdown maker. Baker Mayfield comes
in to age town. But Demko needs to get figure
(32:31):
out what's gonna happen with his guy Nico. Right here
on the morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
is un great stuff by Danny Davis of the Austin
American Statesman. You can follow him at underscore Danny Davis
coming up at the top of the hour. We will
hear it from coach Schottenheimer as they get ready to
take on a familiar foe. As the New York Giants
(32:54):
make their way to at AT and T Stadium this
Sunday twelve noon kickoff, but Monday Night Football will feature
the Houston Texans. There will be two games this week
on Monday Night Football. The nightcap will be the Chargers
versus the Raiders, but it starts with Tampa and Houston.
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And the biggest story of the weekend was about the
lack of targets and the lack of deep shots down
the field for CJ. Stroud and Nico Collins, and CJ
answered why they weren't able to do that.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Just played shell a lot of Tampa two A lot
of this guy's covered two.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
And you know play played over the top.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Yeah, so they did a good job of that, but.
Speaker 12 (33:44):
Probably were executing in ways, but just some of those
negative plays that we got to just fix. But I
thought we moved the ball pretty well, but just got
to just put it in an end zone or try
to create an exposure somehow.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
But yeah, we'll be seeing that all here.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So you will definitely be seeing it all year because
this is a copycat league and if they see one
way of being able to stop you, that's exactly what
they're going to do. But it will be remissed if
you didn't talk about how well CJ.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Stroud played.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
CJ stats were eighty five zero point two percent of
his throws were catchable, eleven point one percent off target,
seven point four hero play rate, and the other part
most of it was under pressure and for him to
be able to move around and still get the ball
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to his players in a way that they were able
to either make a play but they were on target
and they didn't make a play was something that people
need to understand that CJ. Y'all need to quit judging
him on the curve and understand that CJ is making
the right plays as he moves around as a quarterback
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of this team.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, I think he's he's making some of the right
reads harsh, but he's focusing too much on Collins, which
is drawing the eyes of the safeties and and people
to him. So he's gonna have to look these people
off and the plays that he took off him scramble like,
(35:20):
do it as a design, don't do it just because
you physically can. He's feeling himself and it's going to
take a couple of weeks for him to realize. Okay,
I'm a quarterback. First, let me let me, let me
get the ball out of my hands quickly, quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But what if he's punched drunk? What if he's having flashback?
Not well, I'm just saying he's having flashbacks of the
fact that last year he was running for his life
every time.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, he may be seeing go and that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That's why he's moving around until they can show that
they can actually hold up their blocks, because if you
go back and look at some of the video of them,
there was some suspect blocking that.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
What's going on there?
Speaker 8 (36:01):
Yeah, but he's also missing his secondary favorite target. Yeah,
ll and that's that's I don't know if he has
any confidence.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
And then of course you know Kirk was out too.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, yeah, and Christian Kirk is going to be a
major security blanket because that's a professional wide receiver that
can help him and open up.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Some spots for Nico. Yeah, he will definitely open up
some spots. But Demico Ryans was talking about, guess what, folks,
I know, I know we gotta find ways to get
Nico the.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Ball Nico as many times as we can.
Speaker 13 (36:37):
Of course, that's everybody know, that's a that's a question
everybody you know wants. Of course, we want to get
the ball to Nico. He's one of our best players.
But offensively, I just think when you go back to
the game on Sunday and we have so many plays
where we're kind of playing behind the sticks and we're
not doing things that that we're trained to do. We're
not doing things conducive to staying on track and being
(36:59):
able to run our offense in that type of fashion,
It's gonna be hard, you know, to get the ball
to a certain player here or there right because you're
second in eighteen second and ten third and long like
that's not where you want to operate as an offense.
So we just got to come back this week. Just
do the things that we're coached to do. Make sure
we're staying on track offensively, making sure everybody's on the
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same page, and we're just putting ourselves in position to
make positive plays. When we have those positive plays, and
it opens up the offense for us to be able
to get the ball to whoever we want to get
a ball to.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Sound like a coach that I need some positive plays
in his life, and you want positive you gotta make
sure you get some positive place.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
He needed to hear your sound. The power of positivity.
I am here.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I am giving you positivity. That's what it's all about.
Well I'm about to give you some positivity right now.
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Speaker 1 (38:38):
Craig had a great show yesterday and one of the
topics was if you had one cereal I heard for
the rest of your.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Life, what would you eat? What would be yours?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Cross the flakes? I'm across the I know yours is
cinnamon toast crunch.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Right, oh yeah, yeah? What's the other one? Golden?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
And that's pretty much the same thing. Right on is
honey wonted cinnamon?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, but they both have they both have cinnamon in them.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
I'm more of a Captain Crunch.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Captain Crunch is the number one and frost Flakes is
my number two.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, Froster Flex is the bomb. Diggity man man, you
ain't got a kiss up to the teacher man.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Hour number two is just around the corner.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We'll be back right here on the Morning Kickoff on
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone. Welcome back to
our number two of the morning Kickoff right here on
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone. We got a
chance to hear from the Texas players that they spoke
about the team chemistry and where they are today. We
also got a chance to hear from Danny Davis of
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the Austin American Statesman, and we got to talk Texans
as they get ready to take on Tampa in Houston
in the first game of two Monday night matchups. But
right now we're going to talk about the Dallas Cowboys
and what is going on in Dallas. But the weekend
is getting close, folks, this is hump day. You know
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what you need to do. You need to get ready
for the weekend. And the great.
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gonna get it going in here today. Well, let's get
to the Dallas Cowboys and what is going on there.
And obviously they end up losing to the Philadelphia Eagles
(40:43):
last week in a matchup which saw Spitgate happen.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
And now we have moved on.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
They've only suspended him for time served, which is kind
of crazy to me when you sit back and you
think about it, because they're getting ready. Philadelphia's getting ready
to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. We'll talk about
that in the next segment, but the Cowboys take on
a familiar full fold. The New York Giants get to
come to at and T. Sturdy Stadium. Jerry Wirl and
(41:13):
Coach Schottenheimer talked about the process for you guys starting
a new week to do It's a.
Speaker 11 (41:18):
New week, guys are in today. We watched the review
of the Eagles game. You know, it's it's always a
little harder to do it three days after because you'd
rather do it today.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
After when it's fresh.
Speaker 11 (41:30):
But uh, just pointed out the good things we did well,
things we need to do better, and then how we're
gonna do that, and then take a little lunch break,
which we're on now, and then do the Giants intro. So, yeah,
we never changed. Our process always stays the same.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
So let me ask you this with the process being
the same, as he said, they played on Thursday, they
played on Thursday and today yesterday was Tuesday, and he said, yeah,
the guys are in today like they just got there.
What y'all been doing the whole weekend? How much rest
you get after game one?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You just played one game. You gotta get massage.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
That's Friday, that's Saturday, that Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
We are looking.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
We are getting closer and closer to game week and
it's a twelve o'clock game and you are just something.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
You guys are in this week. We're just doing what
we did in the process. Man, Man what.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Jayde and Blue was here at the game on Saturday
and he is still inactive by the way, they have
him inactive for this weekend. Your boy, Mazzie Smith still
inactive again this weekend. Who exactly your twin as douce
Von By the way, shout out to duce Von signed
(42:53):
with the Denver Broncos. He's gonna get a chance to
play with Sean Oh, good for him.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, I went from a loser to a man. Imagine that.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Still not a fan of Sean Payne, but I am
now because he's all you careduce.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Because he got your campos, so now you got Yeah,
you gotta look out for him. So here's the deal too.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
He talked about a twenty four hour rule before they
can move on to the next game, and I'm still
kind of confused because that seems like.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (43:22):
Well, the rule I abide by is the midnight rule.
That's I'm already shot and I'm a rule midnight and
we didn't get done until playing until I think after midnight.
So but his thing was always how you play the game.
You have till midnight to feel sorry for yourself or
be excited, and then once midnight hits at twelve oh one,
you move on to the next opponent because there's another
great team coming in, you know, sitting around watching football yesterday,
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you know, Calvin, I mean, the league is exactly where
they want to be, you know, very good football teams,
very close games, and the parody is real.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So I really do believe that's important. This one carries
over a little.
Speaker 11 (44:00):
Little bit just because of the fact that, again the
league mandate you give the guys a couple of days off,
so you had to touch on today we don't shy
away from having hard conversations or celebrating big wins. Yeah,
like I said, the process is always the same. Still
not buying into it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
The league says, we got to give the guys a
couple of days off. How many days mark, I'm trying
to get to the championship? MANI Bill Belichick told.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
You when they were good, no days off.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That Hey, look, there's only like really four days before
your next game, right, and you're going to take two
of those off.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Okay, now you starting to see what I'm talking about.
You barely practice during the summertime.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Can you imagine what the guys in the seventies in
the early eighties would think.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
They can't That's why they I got you so mean
they can't. There was they were practicing too hard to apologize. Yeah,
you're right, I probably that's terrible. I mean they can't.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I don't know, oh man, but start thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
It is true like they was working too hard. Is
there a happy median that we could get to? Like,
there's got to be a spot where these guys look.
They don't hit that practice the way that they used to.
They don't thud. He said that their Thursdays are their
hardest practices, and that's right before the game.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
So why are you Why are you being.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Physical on Thursday because now you've got to go out
there and play. So yeah, man, I'm starting to question
this whole situation with one shoddy and seeing what's got.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
It's not just him, it's league mandates, like all the
teams are not allowed to over exert these players because
the injury, and that comes from the Players Association.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Argue with somebody, argue with the people that's ahead of
the Players Association.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
They're the ones that are making these rules now. And
these rules are kind of crazy. They're soft. It is
what they are.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Well I do on apology to one Javonte Williams. He
looked the part. He looked physical, he looked strong, and
we might have found our guy too in those short
yardage types of way.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
You know, overall, Javante played the game the right way.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Man.
Speaker 11 (46:31):
If you watch him, he showed how physical he is
as a runner, but also without the ball. He ran
a little speed sweep but there was the second play
the game where he comes out and he's blocking Cooper
Dejan and then there's a chip on a two technique
earlier in the game and or at.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
Some point in the game.
Speaker 11 (46:46):
And I'm excited for Javante and what he brings to
our offense.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
And the guy that was part of the Micah Parsons trade,
I think you and I both realized that he is
really about that life. Yeah, and that's Kenny Clark and
coach shot. He talked about what he's seeing from Clark.
Speaker 6 (47:06):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (47:06):
Yeah, so there's a lot of you guys can go
find him. They're pretty easy to find.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
Just the strength he plays with, the play style that
he plays with.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Yeah, he uh.
Speaker 11 (47:17):
They were running a little duo play where he was
getting singled and just the strength to hold the point
of attack and the back was coming down the a
gap and he was holding the guard off with one
hand and the back came and just the strength and
the power and the pad level that he has to
I think it was like a one yard run. I
mean just you see the strength and the power so disruptive,
and I thought, really we settled in the second half.
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Our run fits were way better in the second half
and then uh you know, but uh yeah, thrill he's here. Man,
He's just an awesome teammate. I think I mentioned one
of the times we've talked about just the way he
plays the game. He's just like this man, it's nothing
new for him, you know, he's uh, he's been playing
high level football for a long time and love having
them rounds.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
That guys is what we thought Mardie Smith would be.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Who exactly he can split double teams. And when you
know vida Vel, we always say vida Vel is the
poster child for what a nose tackle should be.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
This dude is very close, very very close.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
And even your second tier outside Russiers have a chance
when you can't bounce it inside and you have to
occupy with a guard, which leaves tackles one on one
for more than a couple of seconds.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Like you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Gonna miss Michael Parsons because he's just a freak of nature.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
He's a force to be wrecking with.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
But these guys are gonna be I think you can
create a better defense with the totality of the defense
if you can stop the inside run. So I mean
that every team is trying to have air Donald. Every
team is trying to have a guy, like a beta
bel that can stop that inside pressure, so it'll make
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the rest of the team better be.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Devea is the one that is really the quintessential nose tackle.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
That's what he's not a two technique, he's the one.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah, he is definitely clogging up the middle. And to
be able to see what Clark was able to do
this past week held them to one point five yards
per carry when they tried to go in between the tackles.
All their yardage pretty much came from outside and Jalen
hurts getting outside the pocket and whenever it start to
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break down. So it is it is something to be
excited about, but I'm still kind of confused about why
we're not practicing a little bit more so. I mean, yes, man,
because what is it you transferred what you been saying.
You gotta got out there and find some continuity with
your teammates. This is a this is a new team,
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a new coaching staff, new everything. But the results are
the same seven and nine seven, And.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
What are we gonna be doing? I got a wager.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
I would like to argue with you, but I can't right,
and just for the sake of good radio.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
No, I don't like to argue.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I do it for good radio because if I agree
with everything you say, it's.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Gonna be you take. So you're taking us behind the curtain.
Is that what you're telling us?
Speaker 3 (50:38):
I broked you did? You did? Everybody hates me because
of you. It's your fault.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Don't blame me because the truth is out right here
on in the Morning Kickoff.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Coming up next, we're gonna look at the NFL schedule.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
There's some key games that I am looking at and
I'm wondering how are these going to play out as
far as bounce backs Right here on the Morning Kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back
to the Morning Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen one hundred The Zone. This segment, we're going to
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talk infl action, and the next segment we'll have the
World's Strongest Take, brought to you by the world's Strongest Man.
And then we'll close out the show and send you
to Dan Patrick. The NFL continues to be a hot commodity.
We got games that will start on Thursday. Excited about
the Thursday night game because you got the Washington Commanders
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going to Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Both teams get a victory.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
This past weekend, green Bag comes in with a three
and a half point favorite. Over under is forty eight
and a half. We'll be talking and picking our games
for the end of the week. That game will be
this Thursday. This Thursday, I will be at Little Woodrow's
downtown on West six for this matchup, So come out
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and hang out and enjoy some cold bud lights with me.
I'll be there from seven to nine pm. But you
start to look at these games, Mark and man, these
are some really intense games.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
We were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
You got Thursday night, you have Washington and green Bay,
two great teams. You look at Monday night, you got
Tampa and Houston, and then you got the Raiders and
the Chargers. The Chargers went from playing on a Friday
night to now they're being pushed to a Monday night.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
Is this the team of prime time?
Speaker 1 (52:37):
It's the new team of prime We said all off season.
Why do they keep pushing the Chargers like this? Like
the Chargers are the next great thing? They hope and
I think that they're putting all the eggs in the
Chargers basket.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
If they do, it's gonna be because of what I
said about Jim Harbaugh. I believe Jim Harball is going
to be the coach of the year. I think he's
got Herbert headed in the right direction. He looked good
last week. Let's see how he bounces back against this
Las Vegas Raiders team. But getting back to Thursday night,
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that Washington Commander Green Bay two great quarterbacks. I think
that Jordan Loves showed something that's Marcus's MVP of the
Year Daydon Daniels continues to push to be a superstar
in this league. There's a lot to be desired for
this team right here. There's a lot for you to
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want to watch in this game.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah, I think that the Chargers are the team that
I wanted to see more of, you know, I mean,
if the league is going to give him all his
love and put him in prominent positions for success with
the ratings and you want to win the ratings wars,
then I want to see what they're about.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
And the running game is the one that I.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
The emphasis was too much on the quarterback, not the
new running back that they just brought in Hampton.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
I want to see those he can see yet? Can
he see yet? Yeah, we're working on that. He's working
on that. You're effort.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I'm efforting the answer on that. Another game that will
be on Sunday, Chicago at Detroit. They're gonna be looking
at across the field at each other with google eyes.
Ben Johnson, former offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions, is
over there looking at Jared Goff saying I wish I
had you back instead of dealing with Cale because he's
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already frustrated with Caleb. Detroit is a five and a
half point favorite. Detroit looked terrible last week. They missed
two coordinators. Absolutely, they missed absolutely so Chicago. Uh, you
talk about letting it game get away from you, That's
exactly what they did on Monday Night football. They are
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a dog on the road infield in Detroit. Detroit's favored
by twelve and a half forty six and a half
over under. That should be another wild out game. I
just don't see. I don't see how Jared Goff is
going to survive with these new coordinators. I think these
new coordinators have put Jared Golf in a place that
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he's not been comfortable with. I think it's like being
with Jeff Fisher, wow, throwing the football around.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
It's just like if he don't have Sean McVay and
he didn't have Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (55:41):
Who is he is?
Speaker 1 (55:44):
He?
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Is he bright? Young?
Speaker 1 (55:46):
You know?
Speaker 2 (55:47):
I mean there's some differences in the way that he's
played without that.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
That's why I said Ben Johnson's.
Speaker 2 (55:53):
Looking at at at Jared Goff, and Jared Goff is
Google eyed at him too.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Talk about you come back, but please come back.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
I hope you get fired tomorrow so you could come
back over here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (56:06):
Because they know, I'm telling you what.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
That defense put them in a blender, right because Detroit
didn't know whether they were coming or going.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
And that is the difference in what I'm seeing. They
look very confused.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
San Francisco is taking on the New Orleans Saints. Look,
the only reason why I put this game on this
one to talk about San Francisco is a four and
a half point favorite on the road twelve noon kickoff.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Forty two and a half is the over under.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
But San Francisco is playing possibly playing without Rock Party.
They're definitely playing without George Kittle and now What does
that do for CMC who's already was dealing with stuff
right before the game where they didn't even know if
he was gonna play.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Well, he played really well. Yeah, for somebody that was
kind of dinged up. But you tear your hamstring with
George Kittle, I've torn mine before.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Uh, that's that's six weeks. That's six weeks.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
And then you got a condition and try to come
back because he's not gonna be running. Yep, he's not
gonna be jumping, he's not gonna be explosive.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
So Kittle maybe out for six to eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be interesting to see
how long he is gonna end up having to stay out.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
But Brock perty is the difference. Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Brock is going to be a bigger situation than not
having Kittle.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
Yeah, and he's got a toe injury, a big toe
and on the opposite side of his on on his
power side, and his left shoulder, his none throwing shoulder
is banged up. So like you got pain on both
sides of your body, you just can't win.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
Like you sit him down before he hurts himself worse.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Well, then you gotta go to Mac Jones as you're
starting quarterback.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
So now you signed him as your backup, so you
made your bed laying it. Yeah, so they're gonna have
to figure out what they're gonna do with their type
of offense because Juwan Jennings, they don't have a big.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
Play guy on there is supposed to be. He's supposed
to be, but he hasn't shown that yet.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
So last week he had one hundred yards receiving Pierce
All Yeah, hold on, many he hadn't. I'm pretty sure
you gotta research, are you sure? I'm kind of sh like,
hold on, he looked like he did.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Probably had a good game, but his name is not
the one that had the most yards in that game.
Smith and Jigba had the most yards in that game.
But let me see what he haves for him. Yeah,
let me see what you have for him. But we'll
get to that in a minute. But then you also
have to look at all the other things that are
going on with that team.
Speaker 3 (58:59):
As well, so you start to understand.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
He had one hundred and eight Yeah, four kids, Yeah,
good job, he did good.
Speaker 3 (59:06):
He did good.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
He was targeted seven times though, so that is good
for him. So that looks like they're trying to make
him their guy. But now that you don't have brock Purty, now.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
They're not going to get that ball like that because
he got a really good.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
Rapport with Perty.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
Yeah, there's going to be some interesting ups and downs
when you start to look at him. And also another
game that I'm looking at Mark, that I was talking
about is Seattle and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
Pittsburgh after a big win. They beat the Jets.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
Come from behind fashion, good win for them. They're going
to be at home versus Seattle. Sam Darnold making his way.
I just said something about Jackson Smith and Jigba big
play wide receiver Charbonneau as the running back, He's gonna
be really good, but.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
I need Kenneth Walker to play better. He's got yeah,
he's got to. He's one.
Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Everybody had him listed as one of the top five
running backs in the league and he did not look
like it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Did you draft him? Yes, I had it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, that's probably what happened. Everybody got more. He got
two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
He'll be gone to enough everybody because I got I
have him too, So I totally understand your plight.
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Oh Man seven point to six points.
Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, But the last game that we're going to talk
about right now is Philadelphia Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Minus one and a half. We talked about Spigate. They're
making sure that Jalen Carter is going to be there.
Kansas City coming off a tough loss overseas in Brazil
in Central America, and they're going home though they get
a chance to go home a little bit later in
the day. So I was gonna bed money, I wouldn't.
(01:00:54):
I wouldn't bet on Philip. I wouldn't bet on him.
I think Kansas City got way too much to lose this.
Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
This is one of those lynch pin games.
Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
If they lose this game and they're zero and two,
look at the next three games they play.
Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Well, what I was about to say, is this the
dawn of the end of an era for ooh hard
Come on, man, I'm just saying, this is a team
that has been playing a lot of football over there.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
You know you're gonna be with Derrick Johnson later on.
I'll be careful what you say, rights I.
Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Ask him, because he gonna tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Nothing but the truth and all the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
But coming up next, we got the world's strongest man
bringing you his truth in the World's Strongest tape right
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(01:01:52):
as the world's strongest man. He is d Mark Henry.
Take it away, big fella. All right, what's up man?
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
You know what time?
Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
And it's time for the World's Strongest taken by the
World's Strongest Man, mark Us.
Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Back then they didn't know me.
Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Now I'm hot, They're all on me.
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Guys. Hart is gonna love this. He's gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
He's gonna absolutely positivity magnet love it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
I was waiting on Marcus. You know, the MVP race
in baseball is being left up to the Major League Baseball.
It's not it's not being left up to the players
(01:02:55):
that are actually participating in the league. And you know,
we go to the National League and everybody says, okay,
showy Tani, show hell Tanie is going to win.
Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
They say he's got a ninety nine percent chance.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
How I mean, he's having a great year, He's having
a great year, but in his division, in the National
League Division, the competition for him is low. I mean Swarber,
Trey Turner, those names. You don't even hear those names
(01:03:41):
in the media. You don't hear those names in the
Major League Baseball marketing. But if you go to the
American League, everybody knows man Aaron.
Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Judge, He's on top.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
He's got a really high percentage of chance.
Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
But Bobby Witch junr Is on his heels. But the guy.
Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
That I really do feel like should be he should
be getting a lot more. Look is Kyle Riley at
the Mariners. He's leading in home runs, he is not
leading in the slugging percentage. Judge has that edge on
him in the RBIs. But I think the reason that
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Kyle Riley is not getting the love is because of
the investment that the Major League Baseball has in sports
media and with the television rights and who's putting butts
in seats. Raley's name is not putting butts in seats,
(01:04:49):
But show a Tani show hang. The whole country of
Japan is looking at League Baseball, and the same thing
with Judge. I thought Sodo would be in that running
but you know, he just for whatever reason, he didn't
(01:05:12):
step up this year.
Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
But Judge is a is the American equivalent of show Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
So you have those two guys, and it's just so
much investment in money and TV ratings and the way
that the metrics look that I think that Kyle Riley
will not regardless. So he can hit another five home runs.
They're in the stretch now, it's almost over. He can
hit another five home runs and still won't get it.
(01:05:43):
We'll say you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
I beg to differ on a couple of different things.
Kyle Schwarber, he is a household name. He's just hit
number fifty last night, and he's becoming the second Philly
to hit fifty home runs. And the other one was
Ryan Howard.
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Ryan Howard hit fifty eight that year, and by the way,
he did win the MVP that year.
Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
To your point, show Hay otany, what'd you say?
Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Ninety nine point nine present, he is minus ten thousand
to win the MVP, while Schoorber is plus two thousand. Yes,
I believe what Shoe Hay has been able to do
has been outstanding. But we've seen it before, We've seen
him do it before. It's now becoming an expectation. A
(01:06:31):
lot of times when you look at these guys and
what they've been able to achieve, you are like, wow,
they've done something amazing. If you look at show Hay's numbers,
he's hitting two eighties, got forty eight home runs, he
scored one hundred and twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Runs, but he has ninety one RBIs.
Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
You look at Schwarber, he's only hitting two forty and
he's actually hitting the same as Kyle Riley. But you
start to look at what they've been able to do.
He's hit fifty home runs, he scored ninety nine runs.
That's still comparable in the grand scheme of things, but
he also has one hundred and twenty three RBIs on
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a team that the Phillies are pretty dog gone good.
And you talked about Trey Turner. He's out for the year,
and so Schwarber is really not for the year. He's
dealing with an injury. But you're looking at what Schwarbler
has been able to do, and he's been out there
at the ball. Now the Aaron Judge situation is interesting
to me. He's minus three hundred and cal is plus
two hundred, so this is a closer race. Than what
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people are thinking about. He's got fifty four home runs
now ninety five runs scored, one hundred and thirteen RBIs.
Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
And the one thing that I keep going.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Back to, he's a catcher and he's catching all these
different guys and he's not letting teams run against them.
He's one of the best catchers behind the play that
throwing out runners.
Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
And statistically put that in there, right.
Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, you can how all around player. It's an all
around player. He's done some things. He's also he was
leading the major leagues and home runs at the All
Star break. He goes in wins the home run derby,
and then it comes back and continues to hit the
home runs where most people and he's a switch hitter
doing all this right, So there's there to your point,
(01:08:17):
to the to the naked eye, you're looking at it
and you're saying, oh, show.
Speaker 7 (01:08:24):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
You said that major League Baseball is doing this to
promote it because of all the other things. But baseball
people look at the game and they're like, what this,
What these two guys unconventionally have been able to do
is really exciting, which brings more people because you know why,
there's more people that look like them too, then look
(01:08:48):
like Aaron Judge and show hel Taniky. Yeah, it's also
these are they look at what the last thing they
saw see And you come into the wrap up of
the season and Seattle gets off to a run and
Kyle Riley is the reason why they win that has
been Yeah, but if there's the reason why they win
(01:09:08):
that division, let's go propel him big time.
Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
And like I said, there's more people that look like
Kyle Raley and Kyle Schwarber than there are that look
like Aaron Judge and show Hey, oh Tani. So when
those voters go in there, they're starting to look at
these guys and they're like, what they've been able to
do in their lineups has been amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
And it's telling me right now, I'm picked.
Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
If I had a vote, I'm picking Schwarber and I'm
picking Raleigh. My man, That's what I'm saying. I'm picking
alright with me, just saying, man.
Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
But the league is not I know, the league is like,
we want money, Yeah, we want we want television. You
want controversy. If they don't win it, maybe that's why
they do it.
Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
That's what I'm saying. You get more controversy. If show
Hey and Judge don't win.
Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
It, people are gonna be like, oh, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
A constant conversation. That's to Jerry Jones effect. There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Coming up next, we're gonna close out the show and
send you to Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
We'll hear from Arch Manning as he talks.
Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
A little bit about what he saw this past weekend
right here on the morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM
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will be back at.
Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Bevo Boulevard starting at twelve o'clock right there at hook
them hangout, come and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Listen to the pregame show.
Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
We'll have special guests and inside there's joining us as well,
Mark's hype train as he as only Mark can do it,
and of course we'll be joined by Cam Parker, so
we'll have a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
All rides too, Like I mean, it's very kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Like, man, I wanted my daughter to come out because
she loves rides, and man, I won't fit on them,
but hard you.
Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
You can fit on.
Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Not riding no rides, man Quinn, would you please please quit?
Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
And I'm not here for that.
Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
I'm not here for for your entertainment purposes.
Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
I don't do it. Let's do it like this.
Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
I don't do it when I'm not there, So why
am I gonna do it when I'm there?
Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Okay, So I just want to see you on that
ZIP ride.
Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
No, there's no zip nothing, not doing that. We can't
give volunteer markers to do it.
Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
I am being working on doing the postgame show third
and Longhn, there.
Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
You go, So there you go. So he's got things
he's doing for sure, for sure not doing that. But
I do want to make sure that everybody comes out
and enjoy it. If you can't make it out, at
least turn us on on your way to the game,
because there's a lot that you can grasp going into
(01:12:24):
that game. This weekend, we'll start focusing on youtub. Tomorrow,
we'll hear from their coach as he met with Craig
Way yesterday, but we also got some sound from him.
We'll hear from Malachi Nelson, the quarterback for them, who've
had some experience with Arch Manning as well. But right
(01:12:45):
now I want you to hear from Arch Manning. As
the question about Arch was what have you learned? What
are you planning the new things that you've learned in
two weeks.
Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
Yeah, I realize that we have a lot of talent
and a lot of potential, but we got to continue
to get better and more discipline.
Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
But you know, it's a long season. We're gonna keep improving.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
And how can number number one, now that's wannas call
him number five, but number one, Ryan Wingo, how can
he help you?
Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
Ryan's a really good player and he's gonna make a lot
of plays versus the season. I'm not worried about to drop.
He's good on a player. I told him, look, I
don't care, no one cares. Let's keep going and he's
gonna do just that. Just that's the type of player
he is.
Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
He was mad because he missed Ryan on the deep
ball early in that game, he threw it out the
back of the end zone. He just lofted it up
just enough. Ryan would a ran underneath that and made
a big play. So I'm looking forward to that. But
the biggest question was Arch and using his legs and
how he feels what he does.
Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like that's part of my
game I want to continue to grow out is just
making plays. That's what I've done my whole life is
when stuff's not there, run around and make plays where
it's throwing or running.
Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
So I'm not gonna stop doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
I'm glad to hear that because he's somebody that once
he breaks containment, you do have that option of running
and throwing. But his ability to use his legs, his
ability to move in space and try not to get
squared up, that's something that everybody is always like, Oh
he's good.
Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
Yeah. I would hope that to take some of the
pressure off him.
Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
He can get Ryan Wingo go the ball on jet sweep,
you can get into him on the screen, a tunnel screen,
like some kind of throwback, like just get him the
ball in space. So I think that'll fix it and
open up that offense a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Well, a lot of that has to do with coach Sark.
Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Coach Shark has to make sure he's calls those types
of plays and schemes those up for him. If that's
what you're looking for our chan one, call him to play.
Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
That's who I was, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Right, especially in the goal line, like you got baby Ryano,
Like I want to see him get more carries inside
the twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Well, the one same thing with Baxter, like give him
the ball.
Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
The one thing that I'm still trying to figure out,
and maybe it's just the fact that nobody can actually
run that play. Is that quick whip on the goal line,
That one that.
Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
That Worthy used to run. He only ran it one time.
We only ran that play one time.
Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
That is the craziest thing to me, And it was
so embarrassing for the defender because of the way Worthy
you read. Maybe it was just because nobody else can
run that, but that to me seems like a no
brainer type of play in a crunch time where you
are having trouble punching them in from time to time.
Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
I like that route too. Ja Witt used to run
it really well too.
Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Yes, those are so now you understand my point I
feel you.
Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
It's like you have.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
You have such an arsenal that some people just don't
know right Like you, You can say, well, I've ran
that before.
Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
It don't matter if your.
Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Guys are better, run it again, because your guys are better.
Speaker 7 (01:16:00):
I.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Am, because it's frustrating when you see something it was
so beautiful. And I've talked to a thousand players that
have played at the University of Texas that played that
receiver position, and I've asked them, where is that play at?
Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Why is that play not in the arsenal anymore?
Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Was Quinn and Xty only people that could run that?
That's the question that I have because I have yet to.
Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
See it again.
Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Or maybe they just didn't execute it properly. Maybe they
did try.
Speaker 8 (01:16:36):
To do that maybe, or maybe it's just got taken
out of the playbook.
Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Yeah, but it needs to be put back into the
playbook because it was an excited because it.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Looks like it was nasty, but you end up going
reaching and man, they gone and you can run through
the pieline every time.
Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
And I also believe that this team, the way that
it is constructed, they need to spread out on the
goal line and let Arch decide if he wants to
run that thing in there, or if he wants to
throw that in there. And I know Coach Shark will
tell you I don't major in running my quarterback, but
I do want to major in victories. Let's major in
(01:17:18):
that because I want to see that. Come on, Priest,
do it, man, I think. Man, it's a lot of
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Well the story of the day, Well, it happened yesterday, Bud.
We didn't get a chance to talk about it because
it's the day for us. But the big thing that
happened yesterday was we have the finality oh spitgate.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh wait, we got breaking news. Hold on what happened?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Okay, Jalen Carter's playing, okay, good, So he got fined
fifty seven thousand dollars is from Adam Schefter like two
minutes ago, fifty seven thousand dollars spitting on Dak Prescott.
The league also says the game he was ejected for
will serve as a one game suspension.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh because he never played a snow. He never played
a snack. That's smart. If you're gonna spit on somebody's chest,
you do it it uniforces the TV time out before
the game starts.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yes, that's nice level, that's yeahl by my guy, that's smart.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Who is that?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
That was?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Kle Long? He gone, yeah, kle Long that that that
That's how he's been talking about it. Chris Chris Long.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Excuse me, Chris Long rid of him?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, let's back up, let's back up. Okay, let's back
up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, you heard the suspension fifty seven thousand dollars game check.
But the thing that bothers me about this is that
they say he got time served.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's not that's that's not how that should be viewed.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That he should he should have repercussions for his actions
of spitting on a human being. I don't care if
Dak was spitting on the ground. He didn't spit on him.
This dude spit in his chest. And the thing about it,
Mark is the NFL thinks they're slick. You know what
(03:58):
game is this week, Kansas City in Philadelphia, Super Bowl
rematch and Jalen Carter not being there will take away
from the story of this rematch.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You don't get.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Time served for something that happened on the field when
you were about to play. And the only reason why
they said it was because, oh, there wasn't an actual
play that happened, yet it was during the time out.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Listen, man, they know what they're doing, exactly like you
just said.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But also.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
This is a way for the NFL to say we
police our own even though we know the referees made
a rush judgment to kick him out in the first place.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Was it a rush though? I do?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think that that's what they're trying to really cover up,
is the fact that maybe he should have played that
game and then he should have been suspended for this
next game.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I ain't going forward.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You can't just spit on the man and and there
be no consequence one game.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Not even a game though, dude dressed out.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
If there was, I told Marcus, he's not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
If he did not, if there was not an injury
that happened during that play, like there was an injury
on the kickoff, which is why they did happen. But
he wasn't on the field for that player. That's that's
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The game started, That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Mark just made a point. He's gonna get paid. He's not.
He's gonna get paid for both games. No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's he's got the money is fifty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
There's a game that's a game check? Is that a
game that's his game check?
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Okay, yeah, he's not so okay, that's basically it was
a game suspension in that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
But but still he should not be playing. He should
have if you were gonna suspend him for one game.
This game cannot be time served. This game cannot be
time served. The game that needs to be suspended is
this week. There's no in between on that.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If I was Kansas City boy, I'd be making instinct
right now.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, that's what people are saying.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They say the folks in Kansas City and Dallas are
still mad. They get they mad about Jalen Carter being
ready to play, and your boy Chris Long is like,
oh good, that's good.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That time served. That's how we're doing, y'all. Just yell
at the wall. Yeah, it's like come on, man.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So you sit there and you start to understand what
this is and the NFL looking at him and Nick Sirianni.
Think about Nick Sirianni right now, what is he doing
in that locker room to make sure that Jalen Carter,
who by the way, already has a bad rap in
the NFL for unsportsman like conduct, got penalties. You know
(06:54):
about his off the field incidents when he was at
Georgia driving and and killed that trainer when he was
drag racing her. And I met one of the that
trainer that passed away. I met her friend last week
who went to school with her, who grew up with her,
and she was mad about the Jalen Carter situation because
(07:17):
she believes obviously he's a bad person. But you spit
in a man on his chest, man, like what what? What?
What part of that is? Excusable.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But see, the thing is hard when people have questionable character,
questionable character, it's gonna happen again. Something's gonna happen again.
Now you gotta say, listen, the weight of the world
is on you. The next one you don't get away
with and hopefully nobody gets killed.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well that's why I'm just it just doesn't hopefully.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just look at this whole situation and I'm trying
to figure out how and where we are where respect
is not given anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's America no respect man.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Like you walk up, wake up every morning and walk
the street and you can't even get in the car
and you put your signal, you put your signal to
get over and it speed up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, they're not letting you. Yeah, they're not letting you. Like,
what's wrong with this world? Like it's not a race.
That's why there's so many wrecks in Austin. Well, I
mean we go here in just a minute with our
traffic every day when the traffic report comes oreaker, there's
a slowdown, geez one hundred, and you know the traffic
(08:45):
is so irrelevant. Yeah, Like, I mean, that's that's just
one point. No, it's because people leave their house late.
You give yourself enough time.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You don't have to be racing to get somewhere right quick,
walking out the door with the last five second and
trying to get there.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I don't want to go. Then all of a sudden
you mad because somebody won't let you over.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Like.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I came out of the airport. Man, how did we
get to this point?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We're breaking down the psyche of Jalen Carter.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh, oh, that's what Let's go back.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And we're blaming the world's problems on him.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Is his fault? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I'm coming out of the airport and this lady
is holding a baby carriage deal and the guy that
was in front of her.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Just walked through.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
He was he passed her so he can get in
front of her, and just walked through and didn't hold
the door.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So I'm I'm rushing to grab the.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Door and say, ma'am, I got you, go go ahead,
go ahead, And she turned and looked at me and
she said, I just want to beat him up. Started laughing.
That sums up what I'm saying. Jalen Carter is that
guy every day. Yeah, and it's gonna catch up to him.
But again, here's the here's the kicker. Drew rosen Rosenhaus
(10:14):
his agent told the Philadelphia Eagles, you cannot void his
contract of bonuses. And there was something a rookie contract,
all the steps that was in there, they're still in
place because they told him you can't do that. And
(10:34):
now you were like Philly was like, okay, okay, we
like Jalen Carter. He's gonna be good for us. We're
not gonna do exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So to your point, yes, there should be something that
catches up to him, but there's not because they keep
pushing him through. They keep letting him because he's exceptional
at what he does.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And that goes back to your other point.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Only in America, to keep getting pushed because you're exceptional.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
At and what you do, you get a past.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So our argument is booke because of the fact that, yeah,
it's where we live, it's the world that we love
this country.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Why that was Semie Celson. I love him, I love America.
I love America. I love it too. We gotta get
back to the sports. I don't know how we got there, folks,
but we're back now, we're back. We're back. When we
come back, we will be.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Talking about the Texas football players as they get ready
to take on UTEP, but we'll take one step back
as a couple of players have some success that they
wanted to talk about. We got Danny Davis from the
Austin American Statesman and we'll talk about the Texans as
they try to bounce back against Tampa Bay and Monday
night football.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
All right here.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
They addition of the morning kick off on Sports Radio
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Speaker 3 (12:03):
Is all oh Man coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We've got our guy, Danny Davis of the Austin American
Statesman joining us, and we'll close out the hour talking
about the Houston Texans and Demico Ryan finally talking about
Nico Collins and what they need to do to get
him the ball. Right now, we're gonna talk Texas Longhorns.
You heard it in a Longhorn minute about some special
(12:28):
players and the way that they were able to make plays.
One of those players is ty Anthony Smith. But I
want you to hear from Jalen Gilbo as Jalen Gilbo
talks about him having his first interception as the Texas
Longhorns created four turnovers in a big time matchup against
San Jose State DELN.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
He just said, he didn't know that was your first
I in t til you came in to the sideline
in total.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
So, like I just told him, I said, this is
my first interception. He asked me, was I go keep
the ball? What I was gonna do with it? I
just told him, I said, I'm keeping his ball. It's
my first pick, so I'm gonna sign it and hang
it up. Just take me through that play, oh, I
would say, bro. Like I just told him, I said,
just going out there and hunting the ball, like that
was my main thing, coming back and playing a corner,
just going out there getting my hands on the ball.
(13:15):
And now I finally got my hands on the ball and.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now comes an interception.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Shout out to Corey Moles of KVU for being able
to get that information and that interview right there.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That was pretty cool because they were out of bed.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
He's been here for three years and that was his
first interception and he kept that ball.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
You did you feel that joy that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He said?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Like, that's the beauty of sports man is to be
able to have accomplishment after all the work you put in.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, think about it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
This is a guy that has played multiple positions on
the football field for the University of Texas. They have
now moved him from the star position to the corner position,
and he's getting an opportunity to be on that island.
He was somebody like Muhammad.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That has a lot of a lot of ability, a
lot of opportunity. Now he's a bigger corner, long arms,
and now he gets an opportunity to go make a play.
And yeah, I did hear that joy in his heart
about what he was able to do and satisfaction breathes more.
You can't just it's like that old Lady's commercial. You know,
(14:25):
you can't just eat one chip right Like now he
wants it. He knows what that feels like, and he's
going to really be on the huntboard.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Another player that continues to make plays is one ty
Anthony Smith. If you remember the play that he came
by and made the tackle and he stripped the ball
on the way down, showing the strength. He's a guy
that everybody's talked about being slight, but he brings the
hammer every time he gets ready to hit somebody. And
I want you to hear Anthony Hill talking about Ty
(14:54):
Anthony Smith making all those plays.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
It feels really good when you know all the linebackers
and making all the plays.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
That man, we have a really deep group with us
four as five guys, so we really love like when
we all make plays and we can kind of share.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
In love with each other.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Another guy that makes a lot of plays is leonnla Foule.
He's a guy that's always around the ball. He hits,
he plays, he drops in coverage.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He does everything that the linebacker group needs him to do.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The guy that never loses containment. He knows his job.
You always talk about just do your job. He is
the poster child for the just your job club. That
guy he's never in the wrong place, no false steps.
And I think that as he grows physically, he's gonna
be a better linebacker. But Ty Anthony Smith, you remember
(15:43):
we met his aunt at the clinic that you and
Dereck Johnson do over at Cover three and Watkins and
Norm Watkins, and she was saying how I can't wait
for him to play. He's always been a diligent kid.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
He likes to work hard and so and we're seeing that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, and he's one that everybody's been talking about since
last year too. I mean, you think about what he
was able to do. He got an interception last year
playing in the he was I think he was almost
in the secondary at one point, but now he's playing
that linebacker position. We heard a lot about him during
camp and what he was doing during that time at camp.
(16:24):
A lot of guys were very, very high on ty
Anthony Smith, and now he's starting to see the fruits
of his labor.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Are y'all going to do that clinic?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's actually tonight, it's tonight, it's actually tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, I didn't get an invite because.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's a women's clinic. That's that's probably why you invited me.
Last year you invited Joeself I did that. What'd you
say to me?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Hard? Where y'all go be tonight? Hey, this is what's
going on? Mark?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
All right, I'll see y'all up there. You shouldn't have
told me about it then, I know, now, yeah, I know.
Now I'm calling. I'm going over your head, DJ. I
will see you later on playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it's actually tonight, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But yeah, look, look I appreciate that, man, But as always,
you know you start looking at this defense. And this
is something that we have been talking about the entire time.
You look at last week two weeks ago against Ohio State.
Ohio State comes back the following week, put up big numbers,
go out and put up big numbers, but Texas held
in the fourteen points. Then you come back to this week,
(17:40):
Texas holds the team to seven points. So Texas in
two games is only giving up twenty one points. And
that was against the now number one team in the
land with Ohio State. And then now you're getting another
opportunity against Utah. The points per game is going to
continue to go down throughout these next three two games.
That's will have and then you get ready for SEC
(18:03):
play after the Bible.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
And that's playing undisciplined football. Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So now when they if they tighten up, which I
think they will ye, if they're able to tighten up
the penalties they can allow under two hundred yards a game,
they can they can they can shut people out, so
like you know them second chances to tell the mistakes guy.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
One of the other things that's always a good thing
is Mondays with Mookie Michael Taff. Everybody calls him Mookie
him and Jalen Gilbo were talking about what they know
about the team as of right now.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I feel like we still find each other out, So
I say, just just taking it week by weekend, day
by day. At the end of the day, we still
do our culture Wednesdays and still come in as a group,
like we're still baring as brothers.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
So I say, like, we just take it day by day. Yeah,
that's a good question. What I do know about this
team is we're hungry as ever. You know, what comes
to mind is a guy like Colin Simmons who obviously
wants sacks, he wants to make those big plays. Guy
like Ann Hill, he wants to punch outs, he wants
to turnovers, he wants CFLs, a guy like myself once
(19:16):
picks once Pbu's once tackles, like we're all talking about
how can we make the next play. What I do
know is that we're a really competitive team. But to
Gilbo's point, like, what I found out is that we're
gonna grow every week. That's what I found out, And
I guess that's the answer to your question.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Is you know we are so not.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
A finished product. You know, every week we continue to
get better and better, and hopefully by the end of it.
The last week we played college football is the best
week that we have. We play the best game that
last week, and so I wanted to just keep going
like this instead of a roller coaster of games. But yeah,
we're a young team. Obviously, we're making young mistakes. We've
(19:58):
made some undisciplined mistakes, everybody included, from a fifthier senior
to a true freshman. And we're learning how to become
a team. I think that's the that's the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Fully, count Yeah, they man, they all sound.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Like like they're on a recorded line or something like
their program and the things that they're seeing is so
pertinent to keeping balance absolutely and not getting too high
and not letting yourself get too low.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Like I'm I'm excited for their growth.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well that's That's the one thing about this team that
has always been consistent since Sark has gotten here and
he's made his moves as far as bringing in the
right people to fit. What he's trying to do is
everybody understands their role. Everybody understands what the messaging is
every single day. And if I tell you this, this
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is what your messaging should be to everybody that asks
you a question, because you know there's some that kind
of just go on their own and do some crazy stuff.
Is just say what they feel, which is fine. But
I believe that Michael Taff feels what Coach Shark is saying,
and that's why it's being relayed. I believe that Jalen
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Gilbo believes in what Coach Shark is saying, and that's
why they can come out and talk about a culture Wednesday,
which will be today. You know they will have these
conversations and try to continue to grow together.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What do you always talk about?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
My boy Norm who will be part of the women's
clinic today, he always talked about fellowship.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Fellowship.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
That's what these guys are doing all the time, is
they're having fellowship amongst each other so they have a
better understanding.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Can I trust you with your assignment? Yes? I can,
because I am my brother's keeping. So that's how they know.
I'm just saying, I'm gonna have Marcus hit that music.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
In the year.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Coming up next is another pasta.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
They call him Danny Davis, about Austin American statesman, and
he too will let you know what he's thought so
far and did they meet expectations right here on the
morning Kickoff on Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Hey thirteen hundred The Zone.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Kyle La, Welcome back to the morning kickoff right here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It is Wednesday, and that can only mean one thing.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Danny Davis of the Austin American Statesman joins us to
talk all things Texas Longhorns. But Danny, before we get
into the football part of this, Yesterday, the Texas baseball
schedule came out and Texas gets to avoid a couple
of teams coming into this season.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
How you doing.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I'm good.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
I'd probably be better if I was Jim slosh Male
just kind of seeing that schedule.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
But I mean it's not an easy schedule.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I mean Texas has to go on the road to Vanderbilt,
on the road to Tennessee. Those are two schools they
missed out on last year, so kind of gets flipped.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
They have to go to A and M.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
And I know A and M wasn't good last year,
but that's not going to be a very welcoming environment
to Jim. I mean, it wouldn't be welcoming regardless of
Texas didn't have in them's old coach in their dugout.
But with that whole dynamic, that's gonna be pretty crazy.
I had to go to Auburn. Auburn was the top
eight seed last year, so I mean, it has some
tough pro games. The home schedule is kind of garbage.
(23:36):
I don't think any of those teams coming into Austin
aside from maybe Oklahoma. We're that good last year, so
that's a little bit to be desired. And obviously you
don't have LSU or Arkansas in the schedule, which is
I think if you're a Texas fan. Not having Arkansas's
disappointment and the LSU game has been fun the last
few years. But I that's what's gonna happen. He was
sixteen team schedule. You're going to miss out on some
(23:57):
good teams. You're gonna get some good teams, and last
year Texas had a good lot of great home series
and not a lot on the road.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
It's kind of flipped this year.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Texas Baseball had some really big ups this past week,
bringing in two getting two really good players, a catcher
and a pitcher. Any word on the positioning of those
guys and how they how they may look in the
lineup next year.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Markets football season.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We're talking about.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
I don't know if it's a bad a bad journalist,
but I'm not too tuned into much much favor. I
mean Texas had a good offseason. They brought in some
good transfers. They got some hot, you know, high you know,
some high rated guys. I mean they lost a lot
some of those guys they thought they were bringing in
still lost them to the draft. And they, you know,
had to replace a lot of guys who transferred out
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or were taking in the draft. But you know, Jim
and has staffed at a good job. They're doing a
good job on the recruiting trail. And I'll have a
better act for answer for you about Tuglary. We're talking
football right now.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
We're talking to Danny Davis of the Austin America.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
As the football question mark, we're talking about baseball.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
You want to ask me about Rory, I'll give you
actually why.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
We're talking to Danny Davis of the Austin Americas. You
can follow him at Underscore Danny Davis on social media.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
But I want to get back to the football part
of it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Parker Livingston has been as advertised, if you go back
and listen to coach Sarkisian and what he was saying
during the off season. He seems to have some sort
of rapport because their roommates with Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
But what do we need to do? What do they
need to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To get Ryan Wingo, DeAndre Moore and some of those
other guys going in that uh passing game for Texas.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
This is the first time I've heard that Parker Archer remains.
I did not did not know that at all. But
as far as the other guys, I mean, it's just
a rough two gigs. I mean, I'm not really too
concerned about Ryan Wingo or DeAndre Moore. I mean, Parker
had a really good game against San Jose State, had
a good fourth quarter against Well, I would say it,
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but he only has six catches this year. It's not
like he's completely lit the world on fire. He's had
a good start to the season. I think has more
defensive coordinators, you know, started adjusting for him and have
a little bit more film. He may have a little
bit tough sledding down the road. But if you know
Parker Livingstone's playing well, that's good for Ryan Wingo, That's
good for DeAndre Moore. That means, you know, poison defenses
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can't focus all their attention on him. They're going to
pick their poison with those three. And i'd expect you know, Ryan,
you know, and and DeAndre to play better. Obviously DeAndre
got a little hurt in the San Jose State game,
and you know, so you said on Monday that he
feels at Ryan's this provacate pressing a little bit too much.
What's the same thing said about Colin Simmons. So maybe
those guys kind of get out of their heads all
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these next to two weeks. They can step up and
be the receivers be expected to be. I'm not too
concerned about them. And if Parker is what we saw
from these first two games, I mean, that's a great
one two three punch for arch and you know, best
left to the DC's got to figure out how to
defend it.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Danny should Should Parker get more looks and more throws,
more balls thrown his way since guys have been dropping
the ball and putting it on the carpet.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
I mean, I think you know a lot of this
as we all know with football, and a lot of
it is just kind of what's dependent on you know,
matchups and stuff like that. Like, I'm not gonna throw
Ryan we go out with the bathwater because he had
a bad drop against San Jose State. I mean, I
think he has done enough for these passive season. Deander
Moore has certainly done enough since he got to campus
over the past past two years.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
He got two years ago.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Yeah that, you know, I'm just not gonna put too
much because they had a bad game or two against
a really good Ohio State defense in San Jose's State defense,
and they you know, maybe it's just a bad day.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I've had plenty of bad days of my life.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
You know.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
It discontinues down the road, and they continue to struggle
against UTIP and then continue to struggle against Sam Houston,
and sure, you know, maybe you completely change everything, but we're.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Mostly still doesn't play yet.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
Like that's gonna be another dynamic to this, to this offense,
and they're going to figure out how to work work
him in as well. But once again, I'm not you know,
docking those two on the on the depth chart because
they've had a you know, a bad start.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
This is obviously great.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
The Parkers had a good start and I give you
another weapon to work with, but I'm just not throwing
out my entire opposive game plan because of one or
two bad weeks, with one of those games being against
the top team in the country.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
No doubt, Danny I wanted to go to the other
side of the ball. Coach Stark really came in last
week disappointed because the team did not be able to
could not create turnovers. Now that they've gotten four, it
seems like they've kind of gotten back to the things
that made them successful. It was good to see and
you've got a chance to see some guys make some place.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah once again in San Jose State.
Speaker 10 (29:04):
Let's not, you know, put too much into that, but
at the same time, you know, this is something that
they were definitely parping on last week, and it's nice
to see some of those guys step up. You know,
Anthony Hills punching out everything that comes anywhere near him,
deal and Gilbo's you know, catching those deflections and stuff
like that, and that's you know, that's what you want,
regardless of who the opponent is, that's what you want
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to see. It was also good to see if you're
a Texas fan or a Texas coach to see them
convert those turnovers into points. I think all for those
turnovers into depth the offense ended up converting into into
points on the other ends.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I mean, that's something you want to see.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
Steve always preaches complimentary football, so that was good to see. Well,
it's better to see it in sec play. They'd be
better to seeing it in the Ohio State game, but
you have to start somewhere. They were about it, you know,
on the on rock bottom when it comes to something
they really take a pride in. After the Ohio State game,
so four turnovers against Santose State was definitely a up
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in the right direction. We'll see where that takes them
in a couple of weeks when they go to Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, last question before we let you go.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Mason Shipley got a chance to meet with the media,
talked about his marital status. Then of course he got
a chance to finally kick a field goal. Forty seven
yard er wasn't an easy one. Forty seven yards is
not that close. But it's good to see that the
special teams have now entered into the conversation.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Yeah, I'm just glad I can relate to these special teamers.
They're all old, they're all there, they all have families.
I feel like they have more. They relate more to
us in the press court than they do their teammates
in the locker room. But yeah, I mean, if you're
if you are associated with that Texas program, whether you're
a fan, the media, the coaches, whatever, it was just
nice to see a field will actually get made past
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forty yards because Bert Albyn really struggled with that last year.
So I think not us slam on him. He was
a nice get man. We enjoyed talking to him whenever
we got a chance. But I just wasn't there for
them last year. And once again, it was Saturday State
at home. There's not much pressure when you're trying, you know,
lining up for that kind of kick. Let's see if
that can happen against an SEC opponent. But you know,
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Mason was also you know, pretty when we asked Hm
about that because his brother kicked at Arkansas last year.
He's just like, you know, he tries start to take
too much out of it. He tries to treat every
kick the same. You know, it's easier said than done.
But if you're a Texas fan, that was something you
wanted to see, and that's something I wanted to see
after a high steak game because he didn't have any
pressure kicks there, Like I just wanted to see what
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he could do. And Steve, I think suddenly this postgame
press conference, it wasn't the worst thing in the world
that they that they didn't get that third down because
he wanted to get Mason to kick, you know, a
decent sized kick, and so they can at least have
confidence in their kicking game as they go down the season.
But we'll once again have to see it in a
game that actually matters a little bit more than Tennessee State.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Appreciate you, Danny. Next time, Mark won't ask you about baseball, season.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Base ball, past ball.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
We were talking about baseball.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
I am a one sport man right now, Mark, I can't.
I can't be as versatile as you are. I just
got to concentrate on one thing.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Appreciate you as always. Man.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
There is Danny Davis of the Austin American Statesman. You
can follow them at Underscore Danny Davis. When we come back,
we're gonna close out our number one, the Texans. They're
trying to get right and it's gonna be on Monday
Night against Baker Banker, the touchdown maker. Baker Mayfield comes
in to age town. But Demko needs to get figure
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out what's gonna happen with his guy Nico. Right here
on the morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
is un great stuff by Danny Davis of the Austin
American Statesman. You can follow him at underscore Danny Davis
coming up at the top of the hour. We will
hear it from coach Schottenheimer as they get ready to
take on a familiar foe. As the New York Giants
(32:54):
make their way to at AT and T Stadium this
Sunday twelve noon kickoff, but Monday Night Football will feature
the Houston Texans. There will be two games this week
on Monday Night Football. The nightcap will be the Chargers
versus the Raiders, but it starts with Tampa and Houston.
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And the biggest story of the weekend was about the
lack of targets and the lack of deep shots down
the field for CJ. Stroud and Nico Collins, and CJ
answered why they weren't able to do that.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Just played shell a lot of Tampa two A lot
of this guy's covered two.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
And you know play played over the top.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Yeah, so they did a good job of that, but.
Speaker 12 (33:44):
Probably were executing in ways, but just some of those
negative plays that we got to just fix. But I
thought we moved the ball pretty well, but just got
to just put it in an end zone or try
to create an exposure somehow.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
But yeah, we'll be seeing that all here.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
So you will definitely be seeing it all year because
this is a copycat league and if they see one
way of being able to stop you, that's exactly what
they're going to do. But it will be remissed if
you didn't talk about how well CJ.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Stroud played.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
CJ stats were eighty five zero point two percent of
his throws were catchable, eleven point one percent off target,
seven point four hero play rate, and the other part
most of it was under pressure and for him to
be able to move around and still get the ball
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to his players in a way that they were able
to either make a play but they were on target
and they didn't make a play was something that people
need to understand that CJ. Y'all need to quit judging
him on the curve and understand that CJ is making
the right plays as he moves around as a quarterback
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of this team.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, I think he's he's making some of the right
reads harsh, but he's focusing too much on Collins, which
is drawing the eyes of the safeties and and people
to him. So he's gonna have to look these people
off and the plays that he took off him scramble like,
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do it as a design, don't do it just because
you physically can. He's feeling himself and it's going to
take a couple of weeks for him to realize. Okay,
I'm a quarterback. First, let me let me, let me
get the ball out of my hands quickly, quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But what if he's punched drunk? What if he's having flashback?
Not well, I'm just saying he's having flashbacks of the
fact that last year he was running for his life
every time.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, he may be seeing go and that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That's why he's moving around until they can show that
they can actually hold up their blocks, because if you
go back and look at some of the video of them,
there was some suspect blocking that.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
What's going on there?
Speaker 8 (36:01):
Yeah, but he's also missing his secondary favorite target. Yeah,
ll and that's that's I don't know if he has
any confidence.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
And then of course you know Kirk was out too.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, yeah, and Christian Kirk is going to be a
major security blanket because that's a professional wide receiver that
can help him and open up.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Some spots for Nico. Yeah, he will definitely open up
some spots. But Demico Ryans was talking about, guess what, folks,
I know, I know we gotta find ways to get
Nico the.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Ball Nico as many times as we can.
Speaker 13 (36:37):
Of course, that's everybody know, that's a that's a question
everybody you know wants. Of course, we want to get
the ball to Nico. He's one of our best players.
But offensively, I just think when you go back to
the game on Sunday and we have so many plays
where we're kind of playing behind the sticks and we're
not doing things that that we're trained to do. We're
not doing things conducive to staying on track and being
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able to run our offense in that type of fashion,
It's gonna be hard, you know, to get the ball
to a certain player here or there right because you're
second in eighteen second and ten third and long like
that's not where you want to operate as an offense.
So we just got to come back this week. Just
do the things that we're coached to do. Make sure
we're staying on track offensively, making sure everybody's on the
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same page, and we're just putting ourselves in position to
make positive plays. When we have those positive plays, and
it opens up the offense for us to be able
to get the ball to whoever we want to get
a ball to.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Sound like a coach that I need some positive plays
in his life, and you want positive you gotta make
sure you get some positive place.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
He needed to hear your sound. The power of positivity.
I am here.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I am giving you positivity. That's what it's all about.
Well I'm about to give you some positivity right now.
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Speaker 1 (38:38):
Craig had a great show yesterday and one of the
topics was if you had one cereal I heard for
the rest of your.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Life, what would you eat? What would be yours?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Cross the flakes? I'm across the I know yours is
cinnamon toast crunch.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Right, oh yeah, yeah? What's the other one? Golden?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
And that's pretty much the same thing. Right on is
honey wonted cinnamon?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, but they both have they both have cinnamon in them.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
I'm more of a Captain Crunch.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Captain Crunch is the number one and frost Flakes is
my number two.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, Froster Flex is the bomb. Diggity man man, you
ain't got a kiss up to the teacher man.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Hour number two is just around the corner.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We'll be back right here on the Morning Kickoff on
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred to Zone. Welcome back to
our number two of the morning Kickoff right here on
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone. We got a
chance to hear from the Texas players that they spoke
about the team chemistry and where they are today. We
also got a chance to hear from Danny Davis of
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the Austin American Statesman, and we got to talk Texans
as they get ready to take on Tampa in Houston
in the first game of two Monday night matchups. But
right now we're going to talk about the Dallas Cowboys
and what is going on in Dallas. But the weekend
is getting close, folks, this is hump day. You know
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what you need to do. You need to get ready
for the weekend. And the great.
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gonna get it going in here today. Well, let's get
to the Dallas Cowboys and what is going on there.
And obviously they end up losing to the Philadelphia Eagles
(40:43):
last week in a matchup which saw Spitgate happen.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
And now we have moved on.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
They've only suspended him for time served, which is kind
of crazy to me when you sit back and you
think about it, because they're getting ready. Philadelphia's getting ready
to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. We'll talk about
that in the next segment, but the Cowboys take on
a familiar full fold. The New York Giants get to
come to at and T. Sturdy Stadium. Jerry Wirl and
(41:13):
Coach Schottenheimer talked about the process for you guys starting
a new week to do It's a.
Speaker 11 (41:18):
New week, guys are in today. We watched the review
of the Eagles game. You know, it's it's always a
little harder to do it three days after because you'd
rather do it today.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
After when it's fresh.
Speaker 11 (41:30):
But uh, just pointed out the good things we did well,
things we need to do better, and then how we're
gonna do that, and then take a little lunch break,
which we're on now, and then do the Giants intro. So, yeah,
we never changed. Our process always stays the same.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
So let me ask you this with the process being
the same, as he said, they played on Thursday, they
played on Thursday and today yesterday was Tuesday, and he said, yeah,
the guys are in today like they just got there.
What y'all been doing the whole weekend? How much rest
you get after game one?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You just played one game. You gotta get massage.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
That's Friday, that's Saturday, that Sunday.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
We are looking.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
We are getting closer and closer to game week and
it's a twelve o'clock game and you are just something.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
You guys are in this week. We're just doing what
we did in the process. Man, Man what.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Jayde and Blue was here at the game on Saturday
and he is still inactive by the way, they have
him inactive for this weekend. Your boy, Mazzie Smith still
inactive again this weekend. Who exactly your twin as douce
Von By the way, shout out to duce Von signed
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with the Denver Broncos. He's gonna get a chance to
play with Sean Oh, good for him.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, I went from a loser to a man. Imagine that.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Still not a fan of Sean Payne, but I am
now because he's all you careduce.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Because he got your campos, so now you got Yeah,
you gotta look out for him. So here's the deal too.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
He talked about a twenty four hour rule before they
can move on to the next game, and I'm still
kind of confused because that seems like.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (43:22):
Well, the rule I abide by is the midnight rule.
That's I'm already shot and I'm a rule midnight and
we didn't get done until playing until I think after midnight.
So but his thing was always how you play the game.
You have till midnight to feel sorry for yourself or
be excited, and then once midnight hits at twelve oh one,
you move on to the next opponent because there's another
great team coming in, you know, sitting around watching football yesterday,
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you know, Calvin, I mean, the league is exactly where
they want to be, you know, very good football teams,
very close games, and the parody is real.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
So I really do believe that's important. This one carries
over a little.
Speaker 11 (44:00):
Little bit just because of the fact that, again the
league mandate you give the guys a couple of days off,
so you had to touch on today we don't shy
away from having hard conversations or celebrating big wins. Yeah,
like I said, the process is always the same. Still
not buying into it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
The league says, we got to give the guys a
couple of days off. How many days mark, I'm trying
to get to the championship? MANI Bill Belichick told.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
You when they were good, no days off.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That Hey, look, there's only like really four days before
your next game, right, and you're going to take two
of those off.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Okay, now you starting to see what I'm talking about.
You barely practice during the summertime.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Can you imagine what the guys in the seventies in
the early eighties would think.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
They can't That's why they I got you so mean
they can't. There was they were practicing too hard to apologize. Yeah,
you're right, I probably that's terrible. I mean they can't.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I don't know, oh man, but start thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
It is true like they was working too hard. Is
there a happy median that we could get to? Like,
there's got to be a spot where these guys look.
They don't hit that practice the way that they used to.
They don't thud. He said that their Thursdays are their
hardest practices, and that's right before the game.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
So why are you Why are you being.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Physical on Thursday because now you've got to go out
there and play. So yeah, man, I'm starting to question
this whole situation with one shoddy and seeing what's got.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
It's not just him, it's league mandates, like all the
teams are not allowed to over exert these players because
the injury, and that comes from the Players Association.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
You want to.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Argue with somebody, argue with the people that's ahead of
the Players Association.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
They're the ones that are making these rules now. And
these rules are kind of crazy. They're soft. It is
what they are.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Well I do on apology to one Javonte Williams. He
looked the part. He looked physical, he looked strong, and
we might have found our guy too in those short
yardage types of way.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
You know, overall, Javante played the game the right way.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Man.
Speaker 11 (46:31):
If you watch him, he showed how physical he is
as a runner, but also without the ball. He ran
a little speed sweep but there was the second play
the game where he comes out and he's blocking Cooper
Dejan and then there's a chip on a two technique
earlier in the game and or at.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
Some point in the game.
Speaker 11 (46:46):
And I'm excited for Javante and what he brings to
our offense.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
And the guy that was part of the Micah Parsons trade,
I think you and I both realized that he is
really about that life. Yeah, and that's Kenny Clark and
coach shot. He talked about what he's seeing from Clark.
Speaker 6 (47:06):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (47:06):
Yeah, so there's a lot of you guys can go
find him. They're pretty easy to find.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
Just the strength he plays with, the play style that
he plays with.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Yeah, he uh.
Speaker 11 (47:17):
They were running a little duo play where he was
getting singled and just the strength to hold the point
of attack and the back was coming down the a
gap and he was holding the guard off with one
hand and the back came and just the strength and
the power and the pad level that he has to
I think it was like a one yard run. I
mean just you see the strength and the power so disruptive,
and I thought, really we settled in the second half.
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Our run fits were way better in the second half
and then uh you know, but uh yeah, thrill he's here. Man,
He's just an awesome teammate. I think I mentioned one
of the times we've talked about just the way he
plays the game. He's just like this man, it's nothing
new for him, you know, he's uh, he's been playing
high level football for a long time and love having
them rounds.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
That guys is what we thought Mardie Smith would be.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Who exactly he can split double teams. And when you
know vida Vel, we always say vida Vel is the
poster child for what a nose tackle should be.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
This dude is very close, very very close.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
And even your second tier outside Russiers have a chance
when you can't bounce it inside and you have to
occupy with a guard, which leaves tackles one on one
for more than a couple of seconds.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Like you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Gonna miss Michael Parsons because he's just a freak of nature.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
He's a force to be wrecking with.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
But these guys are gonna be I think you can
create a better defense with the totality of the defense
if you can stop the inside run. So I mean
that every team is trying to have air Donald. Every
team is trying to have a guy, like a beta
bel that can stop that inside pressure, so it'll make
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the rest of the team better be.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Devea is the one that is really the quintessential nose tackle.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
That's what he's not a two technique, he's the one.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah, he is definitely clogging up the middle. And to
be able to see what Clark was able to do
this past week held them to one point five yards
per carry when they tried to go in between the tackles.
All their yardage pretty much came from outside and Jalen
hurts getting outside the pocket and whenever it start to
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break down. So it is it is something to be
excited about, but I'm still kind of confused about why
we're not practicing a little bit more so. I mean, yes, man,
because what is it you transferred what you been saying.
You gotta got out there and find some continuity with
your teammates. This is a this is a new team,
(50:05):
a new coaching staff, new everything. But the results are
the same seven and nine seven, And.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
What are we gonna be doing? I got a wager.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
I would like to argue with you, but I can't right,
and just for the sake of good radio.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
No, I don't like to argue.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I do it for good radio because if I agree
with everything you say, it's.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Gonna be you take. So you're taking us behind the curtain.
Is that what you're telling us?
Speaker 3 (50:38):
I broked you did? You did? Everybody hates me because
of you. It's your fault.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Don't blame me because the truth is out right here
on in the Morning Kickoff.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Coming up next, we're gonna look at the NFL schedule.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
There's some key games that I am looking at and
I'm wondering how are these going to play out as
far as bounce backs Right here on the Morning Kickoff
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone. Welcome back
to the Morning Kickoff right here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen one hundred The Zone. This segment, we're going to
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talk infl action, and the next segment we'll have the
World's Strongest Take, brought to you by the world's Strongest Man.
And then we'll close out the show and send you
to Dan Patrick. The NFL continues to be a hot commodity.
We got games that will start on Thursday. Excited about
the Thursday night game because you got the Washington Commanders
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going to Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Both teams get a victory.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
This past weekend, green Bag comes in with a three
and a half point favorite. Over under is forty eight
and a half. We'll be talking and picking our games
for the end of the week. That game will be
this Thursday. This Thursday, I will be at Little Woodrow's
downtown on West six for this matchup, So come out
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and hang out and enjoy some cold bud lights with me.
I'll be there from seven to nine pm. But you
start to look at these games, Mark and man, these
are some really intense games.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
We were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
You got Thursday night, you have Washington and green Bay,
two great teams. You look at Monday night, you got
Tampa and Houston, and then you got the Raiders and
the Chargers. The Chargers went from playing on a Friday
night to now they're being pushed to a Monday night.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
Is this the team of prime time?
Speaker 1 (52:37):
It's the new team of prime We said all off season.
Why do they keep pushing the Chargers like this? Like
the Chargers are the next great thing? They hope and
I think that they're putting all the eggs in the
Chargers basket.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
If they do, it's gonna be because of what I
said about Jim Harbaugh. I believe Jim Harball is going
to be the coach of the year. I think he's
got Herbert headed in the right direction. He looked good
last week. Let's see how he bounces back against this
Las Vegas Raiders team. But getting back to Thursday night,
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that Washington Commander Green Bay two great quarterbacks. I think
that Jordan Loves showed something that's Marcus's MVP of the
Year Daydon Daniels continues to push to be a superstar
in this league. There's a lot to be desired for
this team right here. There's a lot for you to
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want to watch in this game.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah, I think that the Chargers are the team that
I wanted to see more of, you know, I mean,
if the league is going to give him all his
love and put him in prominent positions for success with
the ratings and you want to win the ratings wars,
then I want to see what they're about.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
And the running game is the one that I.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
The emphasis was too much on the quarterback, not the
new running back that they just brought in Hampton.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
I want to see those he can see yet? Can
he see yet? Yeah, we're working on that. He's working
on that. You're effort.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I'm efforting the answer on that. Another game that will
be on Sunday, Chicago at Detroit. They're gonna be looking
at across the field at each other with google eyes.
Ben Johnson, former offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions, is
over there looking at Jared Goff saying I wish I
had you back instead of dealing with Cale because he's
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already frustrated with Caleb. Detroit is a five and a
half point favorite. Detroit looked terrible last week. They missed
two coordinators. Absolutely, they missed absolutely so Chicago. Uh, you
talk about letting it game get away from you, That's
exactly what they did on Monday Night football. They are
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a dog on the road infield in Detroit. Detroit's favored
by twelve and a half forty six and a half
over under. That should be another wild out game. I
just don't see. I don't see how Jared Goff is
going to survive with these new coordinators. I think these
new coordinators have put Jared Golf in a place that
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he's not been comfortable with. I think it's like being
with Jeff Fisher, wow, throwing the football around.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
It's just like if he don't have Sean McVay and
he didn't have Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (55:41):
Who is he is?
Speaker 1 (55:44):
He?
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Is he bright? Young?
Speaker 1 (55:46):
You know?
Speaker 2 (55:47):
I mean there's some differences in the way that he's
played without that.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
That's why I said Ben Johnson's.
Speaker 2 (55:53):
Looking at at at Jared Goff, and Jared Goff is
Google eyed at him too.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Talk about you come back, but please come back.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
I hope you get fired tomorrow so you could come
back over here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (56:06):
Because they know, I'm telling you what.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
That defense put them in a blender, right because Detroit
didn't know whether they were coming or going.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
And that is the difference in what I'm seeing. They
look very confused.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
San Francisco is taking on the New Orleans Saints. Look,
the only reason why I put this game on this
one to talk about San Francisco is a four and
a half point favorite on the road twelve noon kickoff.
Speaker 3 (56:33):
Forty two and a half is the over under.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
But San Francisco is playing possibly playing without Rock Party.
They're definitely playing without George Kittle and now What does
that do for CMC who's already was dealing with stuff
right before the game where they didn't even know if
he was gonna play.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Well, he played really well. Yeah, for somebody that was
kind of dinged up. But you tear your hamstring with
George Kittle, I've torn mine before.
Speaker 3 (57:05):
Uh, that's that's six weeks. That's six weeks.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
And then you got a condition and try to come
back because he's not gonna be running. Yep, he's not
gonna be jumping, he's not gonna be explosive.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
So Kittle maybe out for six to eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be interesting to see
how long he is gonna end up having to stay out.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
But Brock perty is the difference. Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Brock is going to be a bigger situation than not
having Kittle.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
Yeah, and he's got a toe injury, a big toe
and on the opposite side of his on on his
power side, and his left shoulder, his none throwing shoulder
is banged up. So like you got pain on both
sides of your body, you just can't win.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
Like you sit him down before he hurts himself worse.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Well, then you gotta go to Mac Jones as you're
starting quarterback.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
So now you signed him as your backup, so you
made your bed laying it. Yeah, so they're gonna have
to figure out what they're gonna do with their type
of offense because Juwan Jennings, they don't have a big.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
Play guy on there is supposed to be. He's supposed
to be, but he hasn't shown that yet.
Speaker 3 (58:19):
So last week he had one hundred yards receiving Pierce
All Yeah, hold on, many he hadn't. I'm pretty sure
you gotta research, are you sure? I'm kind of sh like,
hold on, he looked like he did.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Probably had a good game, but his name is not
the one that had the most yards in that game.
Smith and Jigba had the most yards in that game.
But let me see what he haves for him. Yeah,
let me see what you have for him. But we'll
get to that in a minute. But then you also
have to look at all the other things that are
going on with that team.
Speaker 3 (58:59):
As well, so you start to understand.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
He had one hundred and eight Yeah, four kids, Yeah,
good job, he did good.
Speaker 3 (59:06):
He did good.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
He was targeted seven times though, so that is good
for him. So that looks like they're trying to make
him their guy. But now that you don't have brock Purty, now.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
They're not going to get that ball like that because
he got a really good.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
Rapport with Perty.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
Yeah, there's going to be some interesting ups and downs
when you start to look at him. And also another
game that I'm looking at Mark, that I was talking
about is Seattle and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
Pittsburgh after a big win. They beat the Jets.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
Come from behind fashion, good win for them. They're going
to be at home versus Seattle. Sam Darnold making his way.
I just said something about Jackson Smith and Jigba big
play wide receiver Charbonneau as the running back, He's gonna
be really good, but.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
I need Kenneth Walker to play better. He's got yeah,
he's got to. He's one.
Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Everybody had him listed as one of the top five
running backs in the league and he did not look
like it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Did you draft him? Yes, I had it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, that's probably what happened. Everybody got more. He got
two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
He'll be gone to enough everybody because I got I
have him too, So I totally understand your plight.
Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Oh Man seven point to six points.
Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, But the last game that we're going to talk
about right now is Philadelphia Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Minus one and a half. We talked about Spigate. They're
making sure that Jalen Carter is going to be there.
Kansas City coming off a tough loss overseas in Brazil
in Central America, and they're going home though they get
a chance to go home a little bit later in
the day. So I was gonna bed money, I wouldn't.
(01:00:54):
I wouldn't bet on Philip. I wouldn't bet on him.
I think Kansas City got way too much to lose this.
Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
This is one of those lynch pin games.
Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
If they lose this game and they're zero and two,
look at the next three games they play.
Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Well, what I was about to say, is this the
dawn of the end of an era for ooh hard
Come on, man, I'm just saying, this is a team
that has been playing a lot of football over there.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
You know you're gonna be with Derrick Johnson later on.
I'll be careful what you say, rights I.
Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Ask him, because he gonna tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Nothing but the truth and all the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
But coming up next, we got the world's strongest man
bringing you his truth in the World's Strongest tape right
here on the Morning Kickoff on Sports Radio paying thirteen
hundred the Zone. It's a hup day edition of the
Morning Kickoff. But guess what he's gonna get you over
the hump. He's a WWE Hall of Famer and recognize
(01:01:52):
as the world's strongest man. He is d Mark Henry.
Take it away, big fella. All right, what's up man?
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
You know what time?
Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
And it's time for the World's Strongest taken by the
World's Strongest Man, mark Us.
Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Back then they didn't know me.
Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Now I'm hot, They're all on me.
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Guys. Hart is gonna love this. He's gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
He's gonna absolutely positivity magnet love it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
I was waiting on Marcus. You know, the MVP race
in baseball is being left up to the Major League Baseball.
It's not it's not being left up to the players
(01:02:55):
that are actually participating in the league. And you know,
we go to the National League and everybody says, okay,
showy Tani, show hell Tanie is going to win.
Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
They say he's got a ninety nine percent chance.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
How I mean, he's having a great year, He's having
a great year, but in his division, in the National
League Division, the competition for him is low. I mean Swarber,
Trey Turner, those names. You don't even hear those names
(01:03:41):
in the media. You don't hear those names in the
Major League Baseball marketing. But if you go to the
American League, everybody knows man Aaron.
Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Judge, He's on top.
Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
He's got a really high percentage of chance.
Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
But Bobby Witch junr Is on his heels. But the guy.
Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
That I really do feel like should be he should
be getting a lot more. Look is Kyle Riley at
the Mariners. He's leading in home runs, he is not
leading in the slugging percentage. Judge has that edge on
him in the RBIs. But I think the reason that
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Kyle Riley is not getting the love is because of
the investment that the Major League Baseball has in sports
media and with the television rights and who's putting butts
in seats. Raley's name is not putting butts in seats,
(01:04:49):
But show a Tani show hang. The whole country of
Japan is looking at League Baseball, and the same thing
with Judge. I thought Sodo would be in that running
but you know, he just for whatever reason, he didn't
(01:05:12):
step up this year.
Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
But Judge is a is the American equivalent of show Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
So you have those two guys, and it's just so
much investment in money and TV ratings and the way
that the metrics look that I think that Kyle Riley
will not regardless. So he can hit another five home runs.
They're in the stretch now, it's almost over. He can
hit another five home runs and still won't get it.
(01:05:43):
We'll say you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
I beg to differ on a couple of different things.
Kyle Schwarber, he is a household name. He's just hit
number fifty last night, and he's becoming the second Philly
to hit fifty home runs. And the other one was
Ryan Howard.
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Ryan Howard hit fifty eight that year, and by the way,
he did win the MVP that year.
Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
To your point, show Hay otany, what'd you say?
Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Ninety nine point nine present, he is minus ten thousand
to win the MVP, while Schoorber is plus two thousand. Yes,
I believe what Shoe Hay has been able to do
has been outstanding. But we've seen it before, We've seen
him do it before. It's now becoming an expectation. A
(01:06:31):
lot of times when you look at these guys and
what they've been able to achieve, you are like, wow,
they've done something amazing. If you look at show Hay's numbers,
he's hitting two eighties, got forty eight home runs, he
scored one hundred and twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Runs, but he has ninety one RBIs.
Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
You look at Schwarber, he's only hitting two forty and
he's actually hitting the same as Kyle Riley. But you
start to look at what they've been able to do.
He's hit fifty home runs, he scored ninety nine runs.
That's still comparable in the grand scheme of things, but
he also has one hundred and twenty three RBIs on
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a team that the Phillies are pretty dog gone good.
And you talked about Trey Turner. He's out for the year,
and so Schwarber is really not for the year. He's
dealing with an injury. But you're looking at what Schwarbler
has been able to do, and he's been out there
at the ball. Now the Aaron Judge situation is interesting
to me. He's minus three hundred and cal is plus
two hundred, so this is a closer race. Than what
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people are thinking about. He's got fifty four home runs
now ninety five runs scored, one hundred and thirteen RBIs.
Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
And the one thing that I keep going.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Back to, he's a catcher and he's catching all these
different guys and he's not letting teams run against them.
He's one of the best catchers behind the play that
throwing out runners.
Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
And statistically put that in there, right.
Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, you can how all around player. It's an all
around player. He's done some things. He's also he was
leading the major leagues and home runs at the All
Star break. He goes in wins the home run derby,
and then it comes back and continues to hit the
home runs where most people and he's a switch hitter
doing all this right, So there's there to your point,
(01:08:17):
to the to the naked eye, you're looking at it
and you're saying, oh, show.
Speaker 7 (01:08:24):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
You said that major League Baseball is doing this to
promote it because of all the other things. But baseball
people look at the game and they're like, what this,
What these two guys unconventionally have been able to do
is really exciting, which brings more people because you know why,
there's more people that look like them too, then look
(01:08:48):
like Aaron Judge and show hel Taniky. Yeah, it's also
these are they look at what the last thing they
saw see And you come into the wrap up of
the season and Seattle gets off to a run and
Kyle Riley is the reason why they win that has
been Yeah, but if there's the reason why they win
(01:09:08):
that division, let's go propel him big time.
Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
And like I said, there's more people that look like
Kyle Raley and Kyle Schwarber than there are that look
like Aaron Judge and show Hey, oh Tani. So when
those voters go in there, they're starting to look at
these guys and they're like, what they've been able to
do in their lineups has been amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
And it's telling me right now, I'm picked.
Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
If I had a vote, I'm picking Schwarber and I'm
picking Raleigh. My man, That's what I'm saying. I'm picking
alright with me, just saying, man.
Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
But the league is not I know, the league is like,
we want money, Yeah, we want we want television. You
want controversy. If they don't win it, maybe that's why
they do it.
Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
That's what I'm saying. You get more controversy. If show
Hey and Judge don't win.
Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
It, people are gonna be like, oh, that'd be.
Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
A constant conversation. That's to Jerry Jones effect. There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Coming up next, we're gonna close out the show and
send you to Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
We'll hear from Arch Manning as he talks.
Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
A little bit about what he saw this past weekend
right here on the morning Kickoff on Sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred The Zone. We'll thank everybody for tuning in
to the Morning Kickoff day in and day out. We
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you tune in this weekend. You've heard the promos. We
will be back at.
Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Bevo Boulevard starting at twelve o'clock right there at hook
them hangout, come and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Listen to the pregame show.
Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
We'll have special guests and inside there's joining us as well,
Mark's hype train as he as only Mark can do it,
and of course we'll be joined by Cam Parker, so
we'll have a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
All rides too, Like I mean, it's very kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Like, man, I wanted my daughter to come out because
she loves rides, and man, I won't fit on them,
but hard you.
Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
You can fit on.
Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Not riding no rides, man Quinn, would you please please quit?
Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
And I'm not here for that.
Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
I'm not here for for your entertainment purposes.
Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
I don't do it. Let's do it like this.
Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
I don't do it when I'm not there, So why
am I gonna do it when I'm there?
Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Okay, So I just want to see you on that
ZIP ride.
Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
No, there's no zip nothing, not doing that. We can't
give volunteer markers to do it.
Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
I am being working on doing the postgame show third
and Longhn, there.
Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
You go, So there you go. So he's got things
he's doing for sure, for sure not doing that. But
I do want to make sure that everybody comes out
and enjoy it. If you can't make it out, at
least turn us on on your way to the game,
because there's a lot that you can grasp going into
(01:12:24):
that game. This weekend, we'll start focusing on youtub. Tomorrow,
we'll hear from their coach as he met with Craig
Way yesterday, but we also got some sound from him.
We'll hear from Malachi Nelson, the quarterback for them, who've
had some experience with Arch Manning as well. But right
(01:12:45):
now I want you to hear from Arch Manning. As
the question about Arch was what have you learned? What
are you planning the new things that you've learned in
two weeks.
Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
Yeah, I realize that we have a lot of talent
and a lot of potential, but we got to continue
to get better and more discipline.
Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
But you know, it's a long season. We're gonna keep improving.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
And how can number number one, now that's wannas call
him number five, but number one, Ryan Wingo, how can
he help you?
Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
Ryan's a really good player and he's gonna make a lot
of plays versus the season. I'm not worried about to drop.
He's good on a player. I told him, look, I
don't care, no one cares. Let's keep going and he's
gonna do just that. Just that's the type of player
he is.
Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
He was mad because he missed Ryan on the deep
ball early in that game, he threw it out the
back of the end zone. He just lofted it up
just enough. Ryan would a ran underneath that and made
a big play. So I'm looking forward to that. But
the biggest question was Arch and using his legs and
how he feels what he does.
Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like that's part of my
game I want to continue to grow out is just
making plays. That's what I've done my whole life is
when stuff's not there, run around and make plays where
it's throwing or running.
Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
So I'm not gonna stop doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
I'm glad to hear that because he's somebody that once
he breaks containment, you do have that option of running
and throwing. But his ability to use his legs, his
ability to move in space and try not to get
squared up, that's something that everybody is always like, Oh
he's good.
Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
Yeah. I would hope that to take some of the
pressure off him.
Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
He can get Ryan Wingo go the ball on jet sweep,
you can get into him on the screen, a tunnel screen,
like some kind of throwback, like just get him the
ball in space. So I think that'll fix it and
open up that offense a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Well, a lot of that has to do with coach Sark.
Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Coach Shark has to make sure he's calls those types
of plays and schemes those up for him. If that's
what you're looking for our chan one, call him to play.
Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
That's who I was, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Right, especially in the goal line, like you got baby Ryano,
Like I want to see him get more carries inside
the twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Well, the one same thing with Baxter, like give him
the ball.
Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
The one thing that I'm still trying to figure out,
and maybe it's just the fact that nobody can actually
run that play. Is that quick whip on the goal line,
That one that.
Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
That Worthy used to run. He only ran it one time.
We only ran that play one time.
Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
That is the craziest thing to me, And it was
so embarrassing for the defender because of the way Worthy
you read. Maybe it was just because nobody else can
run that, but that to me seems like a no
brainer type of play in a crunch time where you
are having trouble punching them in from time to time.
Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
I like that route too. Ja Witt used to run
it really well too.
Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Yes, those are so now you understand my point I
feel you.
Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
It's like you have.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
You have such an arsenal that some people just don't
know right Like you, You can say, well, I've ran
that before.
Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
It don't matter if your.
Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Guys are better, run it again, because your guys are better.
Speaker 7 (01:16:00):
I.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Am, because it's frustrating when you see something it was
so beautiful. And I've talked to a thousand players that
have played at the University of Texas that played that
receiver position, and I've asked them, where is that play at?
Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Why is that play not in the arsenal anymore?
Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Was Quinn and Xty only people that could run that?
That's the question that I have because I have yet to.
Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
See it again.
Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Or maybe they just didn't execute it properly. Maybe they
did try.
Speaker 8 (01:16:36):
To do that maybe, or maybe it's just got taken
out of the playbook.
Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Yeah, but it needs to be put back into the
playbook because it was an excited because it.
Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Looks like it was nasty, but you end up going
reaching and man, they gone and you can run through
the pieline every time.
Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
And I also believe that this team, the way that
it is constructed, they need to spread out on the
goal line and let Arch decide if he wants to
run that thing in there, or if he wants to
throw that in there. And I know Coach Shark will
tell you I don't major in running my quarterback, but
I do want to major in victories. Let's major in
(01:17:18):
that because I want to see that. Come on, Priest,
do it, man, I think. Man, it's a lot of
things out there, magnet. If you missed any part of
the show, get over to our podcast page over there
on the Allways Free iHeartRadio app. Make sure you tune
in to the Voice of the Texas Longhorns from Craig
Way this afternoon from two to five with my man
(01:17:38):
Cam Parker and Jake Herman. And of course I want
to thank Marcus and Mark Henry and shout out to
the Kalation Factory as always coming through right here on
the morning Kikoff. Just remember this, don't believe everything you see,
because even salt looks like sugar.
Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Have a great day, Peace,
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