This is a downbeat on ninety seven one the Freak. Is this all from
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So a few things in this segment to get to, including some Rangers
say Game four talk as well. Cowboys trade deadline is today? Is it
feels like sports has said, Hey October, it's mine. Cowboys trade deadlines
today three pm. You just can get this out there. They don't care,
they don't operate this this way, so it probably doesn't matter. But
to a man, if you cornered Jerry Jones on the street, he said,
Jerry, do you want to win a Super Bowl? And he so,
well, of course I do. Then you'd go, then why aren't
you doing all the things necessary to win one? Because if I'm the Dallas
Cowboys today, I'm calling the Las Vegas Raiders and I am saying, how
many first round picks of ours do you want for DeVante Adams? Because we
want him now? Okay. I wonder if they say two, then you
say nah, I'll say nine. Then you start bargaining from there. Okay,
But the point is Devanta Adams went to Las Vegas, left Green Bay
for two reasons. Ay, he bought some land in Vegas, moved his
family from California down there. It was tough as his grandma can't travel very
well, so she can't go to Green Bay, you know, but she
could see him play in Las Vegas. And he's going to play with this
college quarterback, Derek Carr. Match made in Heaven makes sense great, okay,
And then the Raiders to say Derek Carr is not good enough for us,
we want Jimmy Garoppolo. Last night, DeVante Adams, after weeks of
bitching about not getting enough touches and being open all the time because he is.
Last night there was one play where he was overthrown wide open. He
slams his helmet on the ground, sits on the bench and says, I
hate this BS. Now we know he has a couple of taco bells in
his house, but that's not why he moved to Vegas to play with Jimmy
Garoppolo and have a house of taco bell He moved there because he ate he
didn't want to be tied to Aaron Rodgers' contract and all the family stuff.
I told you about his last Vegas situation. He is phenomenal, still a
top five wide receiver in football. His numbers won't show it this year because
he plays for the f and Raiders. He had seven last night, seven
targets, one catch for eleven yards. Yeah, he's amazing or definitely one
of the most dangerous receivers. He's a year and a year and a half
into one hundred and forty million dollars deal that runs through twenty six. The
county would be able to have him locked up for this year in three more
years and paying him a ton a ton of money in his older years,
the price you pay for going all in. They won't do it. They
won't go all in. They won't. I mean Greg Olsen brought up in
the Rams Cowboys game something that we've kicked around here, and uh, I
don't know. Do you think that they what would serve them better going after
another wide receiver, fixing their running game problem with a Derrick Henry trade?
Okay, I don't know that Derrick Henry solves it. He helps it for
sure. You would think given DeVante Adams, the offense becomes unstoppable because you
have two guys who can get open no matter what the play call is.
Over and I will say, as dolphin man, it is a pleasure to
have two ones at receiver and one may be the best damn player in the
game with Tyreek, but Jalen Waddle is a one as well. And if
you couple Ceedee Lamb with the DeVante Adams like it changes things in the snap
of a finger. Over dude, win the NFC, just like that.
That's all it would take. It's look at it right now. The Cowboys
beat the Eagles. The Cowboys are the one seed and f and NFC after
all the crap we've been through, okay, and really no convincing win yet
you know that makes you go, oh yeah, this is the year.
Beat the Eagles and that's it. You're stacked at wide out for many years.
And you're gonna renegotiate Dax deal next year anyways, no matter what any
Cowboy fan out there thinks, that's what's going to happen. They're going to
redo Dax deal so his cap hit is less. They're already pushing money back
on Dax deal. They're gonna do that. Why wouldn't you just do it
here? You would still be good next year. The only thing that you
would have left to do is draft offensive line help, Okay, figure out
running back, which is easy to do in the NFL. God knows,
goss the Dolphins who have they can run Jeff Wilson out there. Yeah,
they can find a running back, sign Michael Parson. That is all your
work that is left to be done. You still got to do some work
on the offensive line always, and I don't know if that is done via
the draft. If it's kind of a win now attitude out there considering a
lot of windows they're closing, namely Jerry's, but I don't know if I
mean, dude to me, two first round which will be late round picks
both years to get another one receiver in here. It's almost not even a
question. You're guaranteeing that your team is very good and the contender in the
NFC until Jerry's eighty five. If you make a trade for Devonte Adams to
day now, again, they don't like doing business that way. Do you
think it would even take a first rounder? I think I think so.
But man, oft times with the receivers, you hear something like Jesus,
all right, that didn't cost as much as nearly as much as you thought.
But the Cowboys're gonna bind is. It's their first round pick will be
bad. You know, their second round pick would be in the sixties,
and the Raiders probably aren't interested in that, especially after the They didn't necessarily
when they got DeVante Adams. It's not the it's not what the Packers milked
them for all their draft picks. You know, it's pretty pretty fair deal
towards the Raiders on that. What the what did Green Bay get? I
think at two hate that's it. I mean the capital. If he didn't
want to be there, they offered him a contract and that there was more
money than he's making. Now, did the Raiders give him this contractor did
that Raiders gave it give him a new contract, But the Packers had offered
him more than what the Raiders give him. He just he didn't want to
be tied up there. Aaron Rodgers being in waffle zone, I guess I
might stay, I might leave me go into a honey hole, and they'll
come back out, and then I'll lie about it, and I'll go on
McAfee and then I'll take shots and then I'll go to wherever my emotions are
in that moment, He's like I don't know, and he probably knew.
Jordan loves not it and he's not just if you want nothing, I love
that, go go, I tell you three pm to day's deadline. I
don't want Derrick Henry, and I like Derrick Henry. He's a stud.
But then I look at like the Bills they signed Leonard Fournette off of nothing?
Do they sign to their practice squad? Yeah, he's younger than Derrick
Henry. As weird as that is, Leonard Fournette's calling twenty eight. He
feels like he's thirty five, and he's not garbage. You know, like,
if you really needed just a little bit of help, that's a kind
of a freebee move you could have made instead of giving up god knows what
for Derrick Henry. And that kind of goes counter against the trend of the
NFL now is to not not put too much a trend that value now Cowboys
illustrated clearly forever, hopefully the final deal, you know, not for running
backs. I want them, they take a beating, they should be paid,
but before your team for the future of the NFL, the way that
that that position has been devalued, the Cowboys in all likelihood have the final
big running back deal that you'll ever see until if it ever does, you
know, the pendulum swings back the other way on the On that basis,
I also wanted to take us back to twenty seventeen when the Cowboys said,
here's our first round pick, and they give us and we got Amari Cooper
now Mariy Cooper six years younger than what DeVante Adams is now. I would
argue Devanta Adams about five times more proven than Amari Cooper at the time.
Though okay, so Mary Cooper didn't have questions at the time. There were
questions about him, but he was good and he made them relevant and got
them to the playoffs, so that matters. But if you're giveaway a first
rounder for a guy to just keep you alive, why wouldn't you give up
a first rounder or whatever? You know, we could talk about what that
is. I don't know. To just have a feeling that you're getting put
over the top. My god, DeVante Adams and Ceedee Lamb on the same
offense breaks it open. You've already said it, I'll say it again because
it feels too good to be true. And that's why I think they need
to be making calls. Another thing I was thinking about the trade deadline.
No, Minnesota Vikings who lost Kirk Cousins to an Achilles, were like,
no, we're happy with what we got. They're not gonna go click for
a Colt McCoy or a you know, case Keenum or whatever fake name you
want. I threw out there like our fifth round rookie from BYU, Jaron
Hall or whatever his name is. Remember when he gave up a fourth round
draft pick for Trey Lance in a move that everyone seems to think Jerry did
on his own without talking to anyone. If you remember a couple of years
ago, on Sunday night football, Cooper Cup goes to Minnesota, I mean,
Cooper Rush goes to Minnesota, beats the Vikings in their house on Sunday
night football. Call up Minnesota, say just give us a fourth, your
worst fourth, Just give that and then you got Trey Lance. And you
got your fourth round pickback that you gave up for Trey Lance. And then
if that gets hurt, you're screwed. Either way. It doesn't matter unless
you think Cooper Rush can go five and oh again. And there are some
idiots up there who think the Cowboys are a better team with Cooper Rush.
Sorry if I offended anyone, that's true. How will the Cowboys or the
NFL ever see if Trey Lance is actually good? I guess by pretending that
they worked on stuff in the off season. No, I mean, he'll
never get in a game as long as Cooper's here. I know. Yeah,
it's a a I don't know, but you can get your pick back.
Hypothetically, they probably say, no, he's not good. He doesn't
matter tonight. It's Heeney against Mantiply in game foe. They said they're evaluating
at Dollars Carcio. Yeah, so that's still the TV behind you have anything
there, So there's that you need to get the dub bothen relatively, you
know, good to go. I mean your big your circle of trust had
to pitch tonight, but not a lot of heavy. No, you didn't
have to extend the clerk. Uh. Chapman got helped by a double play,
so his pitch count was low. No one likes walking up to the
edge of a building and looking down and thinking about hurtling himself down into traffic
before backing away slowly than it rolled. As Chapman it's so I'm almost I'm
almost now. It's it's a it's a test of my own ability to manage
my blood pressure, my heart rate. I watch Chapman outings now and based
on what he has done in the playoffs, and Mikey spoke very well about
this earlier, how this ranger bullpen is so consistent in the playoffs. Ben
Ben Ben Ben. But they've never broken. And it's just like, Okay,
when Chapman comes in and he starts doing Chapman things, you just deep
breathe listen to your heartbeat. You know. He's like they could drink a
sip of water and just write it out and just know that every just keep
telling yourself everything's gonna be. Okay. I think he's that idiot in high
school. Everything's gonna be. He says he's gonna climb the water tower and
he goes up about ten steps and he's like, I'm just kidding. He
comes on down. I'm like, oh, you keep going. I feel
like morons. He doesn't do it, doesn't jubb of like, hey,
I know I've probably got him on a three back here men, tonight,
three matters. That's it probably coming out Bochie always looks fed up with Chapman,
like before he throws his first pitch, it's amazing, you know,
it's amazing. He's like, oh god, I love Bochie. I love
Bochie. He's in every game of all this pitches. Chris Young goes into
Bruce's office, He's like, I'm gonna take care of this next year,
Like, just ride it out a few more games. Do you think it's
weird that Chris Young from the suite was telling everyone that sure'ser was done.
Yeah, get him out of there, take him out. There's your long
term thinker right there. Like he's on the roster next year, probably,
But I mean, Chris Young was the guy who said he's done like two
months ago or a month ago, and Churcher's like, oh, well,
I think I could get back for the playoffs after he had pain in his
forearm and then in his biceps meaning tension is on the elbow. No,
I agree, but back is there anyone really thinking long term? Is Chris
Young really thinking long term when he's in the suite at the World Series,
I don't know. Game three, I figure screw long term and maybe that's
stupid. I don't know. You know, one thing we didn't discuss was
the le clerk balls and strike situation in that last inning, which was sort
of the big news after this game. The uh yeah, the strike that
was called the ball and then the ball that was called a strike. The
kind of saved the damn inning or saved all of our blood pressure at least.
Well go ahead, well, I because this will be very unpopular,
but what I was reminded during that was, generally speaking, what a good
job an umpire does at home plate. Yeah, I mean it is so
hard. That is so hard, and now when they put the damn red
and the green up there, we take it as gospel, which I guess
it is via computer. I mean, you have strikes that are just ticking
the outside corner of the strike zone, and God forbid that poor old man
calls ball, and we're all jumping out of our chair like and he's blind,
like that is one of the hardest jobs. But it's a bad day
to do that because he had two egregiously poor calls that did even each other
out. But everyone's mad, you know, Arizona fans are losing their damn
mind if fart got squeezed more than once. Yes, last night let's I
don't want it to be lost on anybody. He made a couple of mistakes,
but Fart was really good last night. That kid is special. I
like Fart, and I thought, I'm gonna walk away from this, from
this world series, no matter what happens going. I'm cool with the Diamondbacks,
cool with a bunch of young kids. They seem like nice guys.
Now, baseball Twitter got a little worked up last night, and I usually
don't dabble in waters when I'm arguing with people online. But let's not act
Rangers fans us. Let's not act like we would not have been pissed if
on three and one we thought we'd drawn a walk and the umpire calls a
strike and it's three to two and you got to go in and you're getting
out, we would have been pissed to high heaven. Right, But if
you have remembered the previous screw up that you know how the dominoes were.
Yes, So I mean that was an absolute strike that he called the ball,
and what people said, it's true because the second pitch was a strike
called the ball. Absolutely agree, but it's a makeup call. Idiot watched
the game and I'm like, no, I understand some makeup call. There's
a difference though, in pitch two of the bat and the three to one
pitch that would have immediately led to the runner being on first base. And
unless you're gonna be effin tracking every other makeup call that this game has had,
then why are we even leaning on that? Okay, if I missed
a huge call there, do you think we're tracking makeup calls now the whole
game? Do you think that was actually a makeup call? I don't.
I think it's just it's hire calls ball and he's like, oh, it
was very good, it's called ball. I can't believe what I just did.
I owe him one. I owe him one. No, I don't.
I don't really know that man. Consciously no, Okay, subconscious maybe
maybe, And that may or may not happen within any given a bat Like,
I don't think that was a makeup call. I think it was he
was he was tired, he missed one, and then he missed an.
I don't know. I don't know what to because we all are just seemed
to agree makeup call. Sure, I don't know if that's real. I
don't know that it is either and again, if it is real, then
let's have the same energy in the seventh inning for the makeup call that no
one ever talks about, or the sixth inning or the fourth inning or whatever.
But because it happened in the ninth inning, it's like, what was
a makeup call? Okay? Well, where the other makeup calls in the
game that affected the outcome of the game? Can we talk about those?
Or when does this is decide? Oh, it's time for a make This
isn't a bat where I should implement a makeup call. Might really don't think
that's the case. My least favorite thing in sports is when fans of teams
start bitching about we get screwed by the refs unless it's clear right. I
don't like that. But and it's never been easier than in baseball with the
damn red and green yes, where we know for sure if it's a ball,
or do we know if the strike zone that is presented that we see
on television is that laser adjusted for that batter particular batter? I have no
idea because when they do show the replays, it looks pretty damned accurate as
far as when you see the location from the center field camera and they have
that little box up there, and then they'll show the overhead where it is
as far as inside outside in relation to the plate, Yeah for sure.
But I mean, do we know as far as the hype of the batter,
where the knees are, all of that stuff. Do we know if
that's accurate? Things like it is. It's a great question if that strike
zone is locked in for the whole game, you know, with their computers,
or do they actually adjust it per batter. I would imagine it's the
former. I would imagine the strike zone is the strike zone five six or
six five? By rule? Does it? Does the strike zone change depending
on your height and it needed letters? Yep, like it's supposed to.
It does in the rule book. I believe that's correct. I'd have to
look it up. Strike zone sit there all day, every day, twenty
four to seven. I don't think it's a constant. I wish I knew.
I really don't. I do have the overall accuracy last night of the
homeplate umpire ninety two percent. It was one hundred and nineteen out of one
thirty eleven missed call. That's league average man ninety two call six favored Texas,
five favorite Arizona. There are a lot of people saying that the Rangers
had ten. There were twelve, mister twelve and the Rangers. Ten went
against the Rangers, and they were and the umpire was a believe about one
to one and a half percentage points lower than season average. In Game one,
they walked us ten times, so we got our help there. I
was was sitting there watching that. I was like, man, our Ranger
fans us would not have handled it well. If it's three to one and
that pitch is thrown outside, makeup call would not have been in our vernacular.
Yeap, it would have been he missed a call, that f an
idiot, Right, we should be on first base right now. Our guy
was already halfway to first but because of him come back, because it went
our way. Elvis raders like it was a make up call, Like no,
no, a misscall and egregious was it the Nate Lowe at bat where
he thought that he struck out. I just kind of look back and was
like you, okay, yes, I'm going to first give us the robot
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