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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Raised, my earl
Nolan MULTIPI the magnificent roller coaster ride that.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is Houston Sports Hell.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Chill lage down for the only homegrown afternoon team is
talking your teams? Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the
A team A.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
It is the A team Sports Talk seven ninety Friday
additiontive We're interesting. We're giving tours out in the middle
of the show, Halloween tours of the iHeart facilities here
where the mighty Sports Talk seven ninety is located. He's
wex I'm Ac. Cole Thompson is our producer.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
It is Halloween.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I have a feeling that before the end of the show,
the subject of candy might come up. Do you realize
that our producer did a very nice thing today for
everybody that's involved at the station.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
He went big, Well, okay, thank you. This is a
full sized milky way. Now it sounds like you've already
eaten it.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
I haven't. It's not even open yet, but I will.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
We were having a discussion earlier today, i'll call it
show prep and Cole and I were texting.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sorry it wasn't on the show. Thread.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
This was an individual one and he just randomly was
ranking candy bars. Yeah, because you start off a kitcat. Well,
here's the problem. He put a Milky Way far too
high on the list. And we're not going to get
to it now. Sounds like we are. No, we're not
getting into it in the first segment. I'm not going
to do that. But at some point today I'm gonna
have to knock some sense into this producer of ours

(02:00):
about Look, yeah, well and you too, if you needed
I don't know what your opinions are yet, We'll have
them for you completely organic. I do know this. I
am confident now as it is it's Halloween, but it's
clearly a Friday.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
This year, Halloween fell out on weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
And that means we are two days away from the
Texans squeaking.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
It out over the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
As last week progressed, I felt more and more confident
in the Texans. Felt like zero percent confidence earlier in
the week, and then the forty nine ers had some
injuries and they're playing at home, and the Texans defense
did its thing, and but I felt good about it
going into that game. It's it's kind of been a
similar evolution this week going into this game against the Broncos.
Even though, as we've discussed ad ad nauseum and we

(02:46):
will again and we'll hear from participants that will be
taking part in this game, it's not nearly the level
of competition. It's better. Broncos are better coming into this game.
And I wouldn't have thought that at the beginning of
the year, but that's where we are in this kooky
twenty five NFL season. Speaking of which, I missed Lamar
Jackson on my fantasy team. I missed him badly, and he.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Proved I had a lot of fantasy football on my days.
And normally your fantasy football lineup includes a roster of
nine quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a tight
end or the other two positions at a wildcard.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
This nine right flex.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
I don't remember ever playing against one team's players as
many as I did last night. I played against basically
all of your options for the Ravens other than Zay Flowers.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
You could have their kicker.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
I presumably you cannot have their defense even last night.
I hope nobody's been carrying their defense all season, but
maybe last night. Yeah, So I went against their kicker.
I went against their lead tight end. Even though all
three of their tight ends made big plays.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
You only played their kicker because my normal kicker is
on his by That's the only reason you had four.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Oh, I was playing you, and I played against their
tight end. I played against their obviously only running back
choice of any consequence. And their quarterback returned and the
tight end in question, he only caught two balls, both
of them were in the end zone. The quarterback had
twice as many touchdowns as that he had four, And
it was pretty nice night.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
And then I looked at the score.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
You know what you were projected to get and where
you are now, and it shocked me that it barely
changed it all.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
I know, well, that means they feel very good about
the people you're going to be starting the no.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
I mean, you're just your simple projection.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
You think if Lamar had four touchdowns, Oh yeah, but
he just projected to be awesome, and he was.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
He was, and.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
And this matters. I brought it up yesterday on the show.
Is it time for me to add the Ravens to
the graphic of the AFC standings? Yes, because the Ravens
are going to be a division winner. The Ravens are
winning the they might win that division by more than
one game.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
They picked the right season to start as poorly as
they did, because everyone else sucks too.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
What you've been talking about on the NBA, because there
are ten days in and you talked about it at
the beginning of this seaar in.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
The NFL as well. Look are they played?

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, like, I know, they should win these games when
you have a fifteen point lead in the fourth quarter
on the Bills, no matter what the point total is.
But their schedule was difficult early and they played poorly
in some of those games.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Thus they lost.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
And their schedules are freaking cake walk Yeah the rest
of the way. I mean, trying to tell you that
they can help the Texans by winning down the stretch.
I don't even know who they play that's worth even
caring about. They play their division. Almost all of their
division games are left, two more with the Steelers and
two more against both of the other teams that don't
have quarterbacks. I mean, it's incredible how easy it is.

(05:35):
And if they do what they did last night, granted
the LSU of the National Football League, that's who they
played last night, as LSU has spent the week going
through separations. They separated with Brian Kelly on Sunday. Yes,
and the person whose name was attached to that statement,
the athletic director. He was separated from the university last

(05:59):
night and had to put out his own statement about
how much he loves the school, his school, his alma mater,
that he was politely asked to stop working for and
pulling a check from, even though like everybody else will
get paid off. But Mike McDaniel is running that team
like the owner wants it to be. Look, man, I
want a draft pick. Can you help me out here? Absolutely,

(06:20):
Tua is playing quarterback to help out the team. Now
he's taking a big check to do it. But man,
are they bad? This is for who is on that roster,
how long that coach has been there, and how much
money they sunk into a quarterback they obviously extended. They're
bad at football. They're bad at playing NFL football. Did
hear somebody analyze last night's game this way? And it's

(06:40):
why I can't believe some people are analysts and it's
a former player. Yeah, you know, if you look at
if you just take away the three turnovers, and there
are three empty trips of the red zone. Man, that's
a much closer game. If you just take six plays away. Wow,
if you just take twenty plays away all those trips
of the red zone, that's several plays. You take the
turnovers away. That's so if you just don't play football,

(07:03):
then you won't play football. If you walk through that door,
then you'll be in the room. Come on, man, what
kind of analysis is that they made eight billion mistakes
because they suck at playing football? But if you take
away all those plays, that's a much closer game. You
don't say genius, they're bad. Baltimore now is good again,
and they will win that division. The Colts, the Ravens,

(07:28):
the Broncos, and the Patriots. If I told you those
are the four teams that are go win these four
divisions over the next nine weeks. You can debate me,
but I think those are the teams that are going
to ended up doing it. Bills would really need to
win over the Chiefs this week. The Chiefs would really
need to win over the Bills this week if they're
going to stay with the Broncos or if the conversely,

(07:49):
the Bills are going to stay with the Patriots. The
teams that we expected to be there. I think there's
a chance only one of them EN's up there, and
it's the only one among them that's under five hundred.
The Baltimore Ravens Texans have a humongous uphill battle, especially
with who's left and with how they've played, and not
to mention how well the team up top has played.

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If they're gonna be a three time AFC South champion,
beating Denver will tell us something and mathematically it'll do
something to help them. But that'll be four wins. The
Colts are gonna land their eighth win when they beat
Pittsburgh this weekend. Yeah, it's it sucks they are, by
the way. Then they'll lose to the Chiefs. It's a

(08:31):
losable game, but I don't really expect them to fall
to run.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
So the problem is a lot of those teams that
you would need the Ravens, for example, to help you
out with, like give one of those teams ahead of
you a loss as well, in addition to you playing
them directly. They've already lost to those teams.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, they play, and the Texans are one of them.
They helped out the Texans by losing to them, but
they lost to the Chiefs, they lost to the Bills.
Those games were all on the front side, the other
side of Lamar Jackson's injury and them finding ways to
get beaten. Now they do play the Patriots, that's pretty
much it.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
And what Yeah, as far as the AFC's that's defin
everything else inside their division or the Jets, unless you
think that the Steelers are going to keep atop the division.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah, the Sasion twice.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Right, Well, they play everybody in their Steelers twice, they
play the Bengals twice, and they play the Browns. They
played one division game. They're one win back of the
division leader, and at this point, I think it's clear
they're the best team. They're gonna win that division, I
think easily.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Easily.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah, and again helping out the Texans, maybe it helps
you not worry about the Steelers anymore.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
That's something that could help you.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
And just from a seeding standpoint, records do matter this
year as much as a qualifying for the playoffs as
a division title. Like you said, we'll dip inside some
of what the Texans are thinking this week, some more
on what, why and how the bo Knicks era has
been so successful under Sean Payton, what if anything changes
with Pat certain not playing. Marvin Mims concussion p POCO

(10:00):
situation is obviously also a thing for the Denver Broncos.
And as much as I told you how good the
Rams defense was right out of the gate, telling you
stuff like I think is the best defense they're gonna
play all year, I might change that thought because of
who they're playing.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
This weekend.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
We'll talk to you about the last day of baseball
for the twenty twenty five season. If the Blue Jays
do the right thing and take care of business tonight,
we'll wait and see if George Springer will be in
the lineup for the Jays. That would be a welcome
re addition, and he'd have to do as well as
David Schneider did in their last game and hit a
laid off homer. We also have another day of rest
for the Rockets as they await the arrival of the

(10:42):
other team. The Rockets technically are spent their time in Toronto,
but Boston is being forced to play NBA basketball this
evening in Philadelphia before they make their way to their home,
where the Rockets will be waiting for them and hopefully
slide above five hundred for the first time this season.
Is we'll talk about each of those things so so
much more on the scratch my head about this file

(11:04):
from what's going on elsewhere nationally in sports, and we
are gonna have so much fun with it on a
Halloween edition of the eighteen this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
The on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's no fun with Alasco.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
You see how long I can let this play. I
know you like that it eats up for four hours.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well, I just know I like the fact that it
makes you just ee go insane rage. All the others
other hours of the day we're not on. These are
the hours we are on.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
But it's Halloween, I know. Listen to the song it's
telling you. I thank goodness it told me. I had
no idea.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
What's your favorite holiday? What's your favorite holiday on the calendar?

Speaker 4 (12:02):
As an adult?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Don't say that, just pick one out for the majority
of your life that you've been around.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
What's your favorite? I don't know you hate them all evenly. No,
that's not funny at all. I'm not even laughing.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's my favorite holiday? Yeah, it's mine too.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I mean it should be mine, But it just gets
it's unfortunate about the involvement you have in it is
if you let it happen as you move away, Like
for more than half my life it was I would
have answered that question like that would have been Halloween
really no question, Christmas or no Johnika or not even
giving question about it. All the years of getting candy

(12:43):
as a little kid, all the years in between those years,
I'm gonna still trick or treat, They'll still give me candy.
Then you make your way to college and then your
young adult life. Presumably you don't have to be it's
still your favorite holiday. Presumably you're single, and because of
the reasons they gave us a mean girl like the
Halloween costumes, the Halloween parties you go to as a

(13:05):
maybe you're older than twenty one at this point in
your life. Maybe that goes along with the Halloween spirit
of these parties you're going to as a single person,
with everybody you'd want to be there there, Oh my gosh,
nothing even remotely comes close to enjoying Halloween from ages
four to however long you live like a kid as

(13:26):
an adult, which I obviously have stopped doing.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Remember what Caddie said in the movie It's Katie in
girl World, Halloween is the one night a year where
a girl can dress up like a total slut and
no other girls can say anything about it.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
No other girls can say anything about it, exactly as
long as you can get out of the house and
your parents say, oh, great, have a good time. My
favorite is the you know the AI overview on Google
when you remember these were high school, right, people that
she was talking about, and it was once you're Lohan,
once you're living after that, once you're out of the house,
there are no parents to say you can't wear that

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out of the house.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
The rule, This is the rules interpretation.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
You know what else is great about the costumes that
they're all totally normal costumes except you put one word
in front of them and they become something totally different. Right,
you could be a librarian, he could be a nurse,
you could be a doctor, you could be an accountant.
On you add the word naughty right in front of it,

(14:23):
or that totally changes your outfit. Yeah, and I don't
think they I don't think the bag you buy it
in or the Amazon site you've purchased off of, says
slutty depends where you buy it might say naughty. Yeah,
it probably doesn't say slutty, naughty safer. But yes, there
are stores obviously Aaron Houston as a matter of fact,
that will gladly sell you a costume that probably is

(14:44):
titled as such. Yeah, and but that's a little I'm
out there for the candy, the funds.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
The last time you had the punch A nurse actually
dress up like that and treats you for anything.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
I mean not pretty much at his sprained ankle. So
gonna have to put something on now. The answer is Halloween.
It's it's the best, by the way the rules interpretation.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
The rule is that on Halloween there's a certain freedom
for girls to wear revealing costumes, and Caddie is the
only one who gets publicly shamed for it.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
According to her own words.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, she didn't really trust all. She dressed more disgusting.
She dressed scary. Yeah, I mean, unlike what's her face?
Who was the one that knew when when it was
raining outside? The one who put the letter on her
chest backwards? Yeah, I'm a mouse, duh, I'm sick boo.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
All right, enough about me and girls, let's get to
uh this Texans game this weekend, said I felt better
about it, but as you're gonna hear from Demico Ryans here,
it's all about stopping bo Nicks, a sentence that I
didn't think we'd be saying, not even this season. I
realized that he's played one year already, and I realized that, Uh, well,

(15:58):
just to hear Sean Payton say it, and I'm paraphraid,
of course. I mean, once we got Russell Wilson out
of here, we could finally get to work and do
something and accomplish something. But that's basically what he's thinking
and has said in so many words bo Nicks. I think,
is it safe or is it fair to say that
he has been refreshing a surprise, more successful than you

(16:20):
thought he'd be when Denver took him.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Probably more successful than I thought he'd be, but I
hope not more successful than they thought he'd be considering
when and why they drafted him. That is why you
draft a quarterback where they drafted him. These are your expectations,
and you got to keep in mind the team has
changed around him much, probably more so on defense than
anywhere else, but in general, the team has changed around him.

(16:44):
They have two competent backs. He has guys that he
can throw the ball to a little bit better than
we're there when Russell got there. Russell got there the
year before. Obviously he was terrible. Though there are people
in Denver patting Sean Payton on the back for a
very specific reason that I definitely want to bring up today.
But you went out and you got a quarterback you
thought you were gonna win with, and that's all that's happened.

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The roster on the other side of the ball is incredible,
and that's why that's the huge challenge for CJ. Stroud,
Nick Kayley and the Texans offense. But it doesn't really
matter if you play great defense if you can't play
good offense, don't we know that. But the Broncos are
more than capable offensively. Bo Nicks was a pretty surprising

(17:26):
twelfth overall pick. I would say maybe similarly surprising that
JJ McCarthy was already off the board at ten, maybe
more surprising that Michael Beennix Junior was off the board
at eight. And obviously Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, and Drake
May were all drafted one, two three. This is a draft.
We're going to be talking about the successfulness of the

(17:47):
quarterbacks for a long long time. The only two that
haven't already been successful, or three, i should say, are
the number one pick and the two guys who haven't
been on the field as much. JJ McCarthy was out
the entire year last year and most of this year.
In Pennix Junior, who wasn't the starter for most of
last year and for some of this year due to injury.
The other three guys that have been out there and

(18:07):
been on the field other than Caleb Williams Daniels is
a winner. He's already started an NFC Championship game. Drake
made Quarterbacks the number two seed in the AFC currently
and bo Nick's Quarterbacks, a team with the same record
as the Patriots sitting in the three spot.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
The Patriots, who we thought might have a pretty good
season if for no other reason than they had an
easier schedule. It doesn't look like it's just because of
their easier schedule.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Now, this is probably the best example anywhere in the league,
and there are a lot of coaches doing a good job.
I don't think you can change your team as much
as they have from one year to the next without
also getting what they've gotten from Mike Vrabel's attitude. It
does matter there. Their roster isn't dramatically different from last year.

(18:52):
I mean, I know Stefan Diggs has helped a great
deal that don't run the ball tremendously well, and we'll
see what Trayvon Henderson does this week when it's probably
his I don't think their wide receivers are like, man,
we got to stop him and him and him. You
do need to stop him and Drake May's making everybody
look awesome. And same thing on their defense. They've got
some nice players and Gonzalez was obviously a fantastic draft pick.

(19:12):
And I'm not digging at their roster like it's awful,
But the biggest change they made was the head coach
by far, and maybe anywhere in the league, not just
the teams that changed coaches, but just whoever is coaching
their respective outfits. I mean, you would have said what
I'm saying right now is exactly what should have been said,
and I know we both said it and many other

(19:32):
people here said it.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
In this city.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
It's the same thing that happened when you brought to
Miko Ryans, and clearly you happen to also bring the
quarterback in that very same season, and Will Anderson Junior
and Nick Cassario began being a proactive GM for the
first time in his time with the text and is
trying to actually put a good team on the field,
and he did. But I do think Tamiko Rans being
that guy at that time was as much of a

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factor as Mike Rabel being that guy at this time
in New England.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Change the culture, change the team.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
And sometimes he's a former player, well that does former linebacker.
Didn't catch any touchdowns like Rabes, but still pretty good.
So Dimico's thoughts on stopping one bon Nicks. That's not happening.
There's too much activity in there. We have a camera
on them. They're all talking to each other.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Oh boy, I.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Mean I thought, I thought, if you put the cut
number in and it's in the rundown.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Well, sometimes he thinks, I'll play it. I mean, I
can get to it. Why don't we do it on
the other side of Best of X since we're practically
there anyway.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
We'll do that.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
We will hear from Dimico on bon Nicks after Best
of X, which is next it's going to involve high
school football.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
You won't want to miss this.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Did you all see this?

Speaker 6 (20:51):
When we should be putting out between five and fifteen
posts a day.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media history repeat itself type banguels succeed.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Never doubt that you're the one two person, no one building.
You're the best.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
X.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Nothing's gonna ever top you know, you're the best posting
ever single day. You know, if you're the.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Best, the best breaking the entire internet YEP, never breaks though,
even though people constantly type that, oh my god, this
broke the Internet today and it didn't. Everything's fine. We're
still here. They're still there, and we get to enjoy
best of X seat and every single day here on

(21:38):
Sports Talk seven ninety, lots of options as per usual,
especially heading into the weekend. On a Friday, you mentioned
we would be starting with high school football. That sounds odd.
How about if I don't even have it? Being Texas
high school football not as accurate. We go to ten
twenty one last night on the X platform. Michael Chavez,
Who's that nobody knows here, but he does good work

(22:02):
in working for the Clarion Ledger in Oxford, Mississippi, and
he posted Oxford quarterback Knox Kiffen talks about his second
start of the season and a forty two. Nothing went
over Murra, including his development as a sophomore. Then he
ran through some of the statistics that Knox put together
with this nice little interview that Mike did with Knox

(22:23):
k That particular post from ten to twenty last evening
was quote posted at six fifteen in the morning by
Knox's daddy.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
His name's Lane.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
He coaches the Ole miss Rebels at the college football level,
you know. And when he quote posted it for this
info and interview with a we'll call me a rising
sophomore quarterback in the Oxford area, he tagged a couple
of people at coach Dan Lanning, at Kirby Smart UGA,

(22:57):
and at Frank Wilson twenty eight. Dan Lanning coaches Oregon,
Kirby coaches Georgia. Frank Wilson, the associate head football coach
at LSU, who obviously is now the current interim head
football coach at LSU, And he added a fire emoji
to it because that's the kind of stuff that Blane does.

(23:18):
Do you think there are any funny, clever comments or
replies to this? I can imagine there are, so we'll
bring them to you here. Mike says, ole miss slow
playing coach, How cold is it in Oxford? Tell him
to lose the sleeves if he wants to go P
five And I have to play a playoff game in Bloomington,
Indiana in December. Someone from Indiana dipping in on this

(23:41):
sec type of post there. I don't know if the
people in Austin or the people that listen to Sports
Talk seven ninety because we are the home of Texas
Longhorns football, will like this very much. Ten am tomorrow
here on Sports Talk seven ninety we'll begin coverage of
Longhorns and from Austin drop to Hammer, which obviously was

(24:04):
already taken. So he's dropped to Hammer seventy two. He says,
better than Arch in high school already. The high school
competition alone makes him better. And he has two more years.
Boy gonna print money. Next level. Awesome to see. Nothing
like watching your son excel.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's even for this season, and even for everything that's
gone on. That's a low blow.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
That's very funny Go Tigers, which naturally is spelled as
you'd suggest, which is also the handle of Joey Burrow,
spelled as you would suggest or would think. He says,
the Frank Wilson tag is pure trolling. Four count them
four laughing emojis for the remaining four games. I'm sure

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of LSU's football season before whatever lies ahead for them,
a bowl game, a spot in the SEC title game,
the playoffs, we'll find out. Go Tigers eighty six many taken.
Just take the job at LSU and let Wilson be
his lead recruiter. Could he be the head coach at LSU. Absolutely?

(25:09):
As I sit here today at two thirty six pm
Central Time on Halloween in Houston, I do not think
Lane Kiffin is the next head coach of the Louisiana
State football scene. When this all initially happened, was he
the leader in your clubhouse for any reason, not necessarily
just because he's the best option, but because you wanted

(25:30):
to see it somehow? Between kickoff of the Aggie game
this past Saturday night Aggie LSU game and yesterday evening,
the job got a billion and a half times worse.
Not saying nobody's gonna take the job somebody. They're going
to overpay somebody, and they're gonna take the job, and
they're gonna do well there and it's gonna be fine.

(25:52):
But they eight games into the season fired Brian Kelly
and wellie, I'm sorry. Eight games into the season they
filed for a separation from Brian Kelly, your words, and
then last night they separated from their athletic director after
the governor of the state granted about the situation, some

(26:12):
of which is accurate, but obviously there's a big pile
of beef going on between everybody involved. Great program, you're
gonna get great talent, they will spend a ton of
money on it, nil transfer portal, and the head coach.
You're gonna get it there. You're gonna win. You're gonna
have a chance to win. It's a matter of if
you win to the level that prevents you from getting fired.

(26:34):
But man, that's a it's a really unstable, ridiculous, unlikely
situation that you're falling into. They're gonna have a new ad,
and remember the old ad is is out because of
what's happening with the football program. The old ad who's
out because of what happened to the football program has
so much else in the athletic department going extremely well,

(26:57):
baseball included and other parts of it. We know football
is king and that's not what's well. So that's why
he is now out and he's and this is LSU.
Scott Woodward is LSU, went there, spent time there before,
came back there as the ad again, like you're firing
somebody from your family. Basically, not like Brian Kelly. Brian
Kelly's a total typical coach from the outside. He just

(27:19):
came in there to coach football and now he's not
gonna have anything to do with LSU the rest of
his life, except for when he says, sweet Director posit
just came in again. Do I have to work ever again?
Because I don't know if I'm gonna get hired again.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I was about to say how long until he does?
If he does, and is he just going to definitely
take a year off.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
I don't know what he's gonna do.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
I don't think he's like almost every other coach, think
of all these other coaches, even James Franklin, but definitely
Nick Saban and we're gonna see more of them as
the years go by, like so many of them are
so good at what they do, recruiting, leading, coaching, they're
all forms of communic They just you want to hire me, Yeah,

(28:03):
I'll work for you Fox. Yeah, I'll work for USBN.
I'll work for a call, I'll bell be it whatever.
He does not strike me as somebody who wants sitting
on your desk talking about football and having a good
time because you're talking about sports.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
So I don't know the TVs in his future.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
I'm sure there's a there's a spot out there for him,
and if he goes out and honestly looks for a job,
that obviously takes a little bit of the financial strain
off of LSU should he get hired. But I'm looking
around at the current openings, I'm not sure which ones
of them, if any, makes sense to go out and
hire Brian Kelly. I know the highest profile openings, all
of the SEC openings, Penn State included on this list.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
I wouldn't hire Brian Kelly.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
No, I mean not when you've done what you've done
in the SEC already.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
When you start going down the list a little bit
more Virginia Tech, Oregon State, and there will be a
few others for sure, beyond what we already have on
that list. Maybe that makes more sense. I don't know
what he's looking for, but I just, you know, like
not quite as strong as KD on the old X platform.
Among current college football head coaches, he has no peers

(29:08):
Lane Kiffen on the X platform.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
No, he's the greatest. That's a very good example or
analogy to use. He is the Katie of college football
head coaches on social media for sure.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
He was at it again by the way, Katie was, Yeah,
he was. He was active.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
He was also included in some others tweets about him
when he sat in with the Pivot with Channing Crowder
and Fred Taylor and Ryan Clark. There were some more
clips today on Yesterday of his sit down with Bobby A.
Any of you in the influencer social media world know
who she is. Their conversation was rather interesting as she

(29:47):
was poking and prodding at Durantula about his desires in life.
You're gonna get married? Are there gonna be little kds?
Is there gonna be a pre up? You don't think
see yourself settling down with any one woman? I mean?
And this also was a very similar conversation to what
he was having on the Pivot, because Channing was basically

(30:09):
giving the business, Come on, man, we need you're you're
alleged you're great. We need some KDS. We need another
generation of you. He laughed it off as best he could.
He's a I'm not gonna say he's a kinder, gentler
KD now that he's in Houston, but I will say this,
and I think I don't.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Think it's too early to say it.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
He is.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Happier than I've ever seen him.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
And I watch I mean, I am a KD fan
and have been from day one, So going back to
ok see even I don't know that I've ever seen
him where everything seems like it's in place.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
He's very happy.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
We're definitely in the all smiles era of Kevin Durant.
They're a week end of the season, two months into
being on the court with these guys with practices and whatnot.
But based off of that, and I know we promised
you Tamiko o Ryans on bow knicks that will be
at the top of the three o'clock hour and more
Texans Broncos matchup analysis. But if you leave this segment

(31:07):
with a thought about the happiest you've ever seen, Kevin Durant.
You're going to hate what somebody said about the departed
players from Phoenix's team last year that covers Phoenix.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
What do you have to say about them this week?

Speaker 5 (31:21):
You're gonna hate it, ac absolutely, and some of the
listeners might be right there in the same corner with you.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
We will dissect when we come.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Back the age on Sports Talk seven ninety and when.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
The sun goes down and then the move and comes
up turned into a teenage.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
All right. So we're only a handful of days into
the NBA season. We have a handful of days, maybe
one away from the Major League Baseball season ending. And
at halftime of anybody's games this week that played eight games,
or at the end of this week's games, however you'd
like to slice it up, we're halfway through the NFL season.
The Texans will have been made their way halfway through

(32:09):
the eighteen weeks, but they will have only played eight games.
They got to another nine on the other side with
their off week already taking place. But NBA season began
on Tuesday. For a few teams and everybody else. Over
the course of the week, and here we are at
Friday of the following week, four five six some people,
seven games into their season. As of today, the team

(32:31):
that Kevin Durant plays for is two and two. They've
played four games. The team he most recently played for
has seen the court a little bit more often than that.
We can take a look at how they've done since
he departed, and take note that the five games that
Phoenix has played, Jalen Green has yet to score. He
hasn't played in any of those games either. Dylan Brooks

(32:52):
has now also missed some time. They opened the season
late night Wednesday night with a home game against the
Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Performance.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Nice fourth quarter effort from the new look Sons with
their new head coach, and they earned a one twenty
to one sixteen victory. They began the season one and oh.
They were thirty six and forty six that last year,
and it was pretty disappointing all the way around, and
they clearly made some significant changes to their roster. Decided
that their guy was and had decided long ago their

(33:22):
guy was Devin Booker, and we tried to build around
him with Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal and others. It
did not work, so we will bail on that idea
and now try to build around him with Jalen Green
and others. And obviously they've yet to determine if.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
That will work.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
We're very very early, but I'm giving you one game
into the season. Then I'll tell you where they are
after that one game. But they're one to zero at
the time this post was sent out, and we talked
a lot of Phoenix Suns basketball and the months leading
up to Kevin Durant becoming a Houston Rocket, and John Gambadoro,
one of the hosts on our radio in Phoenix, has

(33:57):
definitely dialed in and we talked about some of the
things he was discussing on his program and posting about
and where I think things are going, and is Kevin
Durant definitely gone? And was it real that he could
have been going to Golden State? So I think it's
a reputable voice to listen to it here and in
this case read and he wrote after the one twenty
to one sixteen victory over the Sacramento Kings in Phoenix,

(34:22):
It's only one game, but I truly believe the Sons
would not have won that game had those who shall
remain nameless been on the roster. The Sons needed some dogs,
not a kit of cats. We need some dogs, not
players who would fold.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Coastal Carolina's ex head coach waited in or Connor Wegman
from last week.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Oh okay, The Sons needed some dogs, not players who
would fold at the first sight of trouble. These new
players may not be better talent wise, but talent alone
does not win. You need heart, passion, mental fortitude, need
to care. Exclamation point. This is the guy that came

(35:05):
on our show. It is one of the guys that
came on our show.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
So you hear that.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
I hear that, and I think many Phoenix Suns hear that.
And we're fully aware. They didn't only move one player.
They moved to other players or allowed them to move on,
Bradley Beal being probably the most prominent among them, but
there were several other significant roster changes. None of those
players are as good as Kevin Durant. None of We're
going to the Hall of Fame like Kevin Durant. None

(35:31):
of them were brought to Phoenix because we know we
can't win. Because you are here, Kevin Durant and I
think that's how most people took it. E Train says,
can we please move on? We're gonna act like we
didn't have a similar comeback against the same team last year,
and he responded a lot of these people there were
two comebacks last year. Now count the amount of times

(35:52):
ten point deficits turned into twenty point deficits with no
real comeback.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Well, my thing about his time? You know Kevin Durant's
tenure as a Phoenix Sun. Yes, he missed some games,
like a lot of people did.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
He missed.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Their record in games he missed was three and nineteen.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
And when he played, they were four games over five hundred, okay,
which is not already seventeen.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
I'm sorry when he missed the twenty games and the
sixty two that he played, they were thirty twenty nine.
It's not whe three and seventeen. Ye Like, almost impossible
to win when he's not on the court. Like the
worst winning percentage in the NBA, hello, number one pick, Like,
fourteen games under five hundred, thirty three and twenty nine
headed to the playoffs, four games over y five hundred.

(36:41):
It's a playoff basketball team.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
And I at least the.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Top ten I can't sit here and say, oh, yeah, well,
when I come down to it, my assessment of that
whole long, not that long tenure.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Was yeah, it was Kadi's fault. But which is what
he's saying without saying it. He's trying to loosen the
common up. So it's not a Kevin Durant only comment,
even though I think the assumption has to be that's
that has to be what I know. He thinks people
will think that, or else you won't write it that way. Now,
I told you I would mention it because as he

(37:15):
opened his post with it's only one game mm Hmrock
lost their opening yas Phoenix will play tonight. They'll begin
their quest for an n season tournament victory with a
game against the Utah Jazz in Phoenix tonight, and they
will be looking to double their win total from the
one that they got on opening night to the nun
that they've had since and get to two. As they've

(37:37):
lost each of the four games that have followed, two
of them in nasty blowout fashion and two close games.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Maybe if some of those dogs had played so.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
The same people that were there other than Dylan who
played in the open or has missed some of the
games since they haven't won sense with less talent, but
dogs like, you're worse, dude, Come on, and I think
that any maybe you're not gonna go anywhere. Maybe you're
not gonna win in the playoffs with Kevin, which is
maybe true, but that's not again you're playing at his feet.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, but I think anytime you have a player of
Kevin Durant's caliber and he comes to your team and
it doesn't work out for whatever reason, and then he
leaves because essentially he's not demanded a trade, But if
they've come to the decision that that's going to be
the course of action for the future, you want it
to feel better after they've gone. And it's not just

(38:30):
they're not having success in their new plays. You're having success.
And if you did that after opening night, you're fine.
The problem with that is that there are eighty one
other games.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
The problem with all of this is he did get
specific don't need players who would fold at the first
sight of trouble. That's just not even accurate exactly. And
you know, we can analyze that all we want. I
don't think it requires any If he's directing that at
Bradley beal, which I don't know if he is fine
if you're directing it, Kevin Durant, I think that's so

(39:03):
ill informed and a poor representation of the player. He
was in Phoenix, and obviously the player was everywhere else.
How many high profile games important? We must win this game.
Did he play well? Hardly any because Phoenix wasn't in
those games, because Kevin and the rest of the crew
couldn't get them into those games. They weren't good enough. Demiko,

(39:25):
Texans Conversation and more. Oh in the simulcast on Space
City Home Network.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
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Speaker 1 (39:34):
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Adam Clinton and Adam Wefler are the A Team.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
It is the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety It's
a Halloween edition of the program Space City Home Network.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Should I put the prop out?

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, almost the entire show that's sitting in here dressed
up for Halloween. Just one person shy that man?

Speaker 4 (40:11):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Would you be like, what, I'm not dressed up and
you are, But you said you were going to dress
up as a sports report. I said I would consider it.
And what happened The day got the best of me.
The sports reporter costume is silly. Of course, I'm dressed
like a sports reporter. That's actually what I was doing today.
Every day most days, Some days I do have to
consider what I'm wearing each day because I often attend

(40:34):
to other teams facilities, and I think I should be
dressed appropriately.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
And I rolled up in this freddy.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Sweater Halloween you could have gotten away with exactly. But
some other days I think I would probably not dress
as you do if I was going to a team facility.
I thought about putting the mask on for the show
today more than welcome to well bother me. The headphone situation,
I might have to like, I might have to go
to the old traditional ones. Why would the mask not
fit over the headphones you're currently wearing?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Well, I just feel like with the apparatus and they
would do the mask have a opening into the back
that you put your face through.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
It's the same place where the headphones go in.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I got it in a male piece of cake, easy,
and it smells like such fresh rubber.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
I wouldn't want that covering my face. No, maybe something else.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Night Like it's like, look at this so good?

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Hi fred Yeah, you're dead. Yeah, but he never he
never dies, So like, okay, of all, as long as
I'm awake, I'm fine, he's dead. Well, just don't fall asleep.
I would be fine. I would be a terrible person
to cast to this movie of all the whole Will
this guy go to sleep?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
He never sleeps, and he doesn't seem particularly intimidated by me.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Yeah, hopefully you'll enjoy the costuming. I'm sure we will
welcome you to enjoy the day with us on the
Twitter first that we're on the phone lines, feel free
to mention your favorite costume or the costume you'll be
wearing this evening when you go trick or treating yourselves,
when you've got a Halloween part to tend, or you're
just gonna be out on the streets or at your
front door handing out candy seven one three, two, one

(42:05):
two five seven ninety You know how to get on
with us via social media.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
At Adam J.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
Wexler, at Adam Clinton, at mister Cole Thompson. A Halloween
edition of the program a weekend that will bring the
eleventh month of the year in twenty twenty five, the
first of the final two months of the NFL season
and the next latest opportunity for Houston and their football
team to say, oh, it is so nice to not

(42:32):
have more losses than wins. When the season began, they
were at nothing and nothing zero's in both columns. They've
been under five hundred ever since, and opportunities to get
there have come and gone a couple times. This one
could be the very same, and you'll go even further
into the season knowing the uphill battle. You're still fighting
just to get into contention. At three and five, you're
not really in contention. You're in an almost not quite,

(42:55):
but you're almost in a must win situation. And by
the end of the year we may find out that
a seven loss AFC team is watching the playoffs. It
is possible a seven loss AFC team with ten wins
the same record that Texans have had each of the
last two years, is watching the postseason without participating. So

(43:15):
you're getting closer and closer to that Texans have four losses.
There is a cushion still, But unlike what we saw
last night with the Ravens, I fully believe a Lamar
Jackson led NFL team is very capable of rattling off
eight out of nine, seven out of eight, winning out.
Until the Texans show me that streaking is something that

(43:37):
they can do, I'm a little hesitant to believe they're
about two or they are capable of rattling off a
streak of wins like that. They've won three of four,
so they're basically halfway there. And if you beat Denver,
you've won four of five in front of playing Jacksonville
and Tennessee, you're good to go. You've done what you

(43:57):
needed to do. Now finish that just that stretch of games.
If they win the next three and they've won six
of seven and you're sitting at six and four, man,
does this season look different? Because what you're watching clearly
would be good football, which we've been waiting for since
last week. When I do believe they played good football.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
You know what I don't want to see happen is
because I just got done ranting a couple of weeks
ago about how they're not gonna make the postseason. Then
I still don't think they will because I just don't
think the math is gonna end up mathing. But it
would suck if they just missed the postseason by like,
I don't know a game, and then you start thinking
about the games they should have won earlier in the season,
like Jacksonville.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Yeah, that again, we semantically describe those games. Could have won, yes,
should have won.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
No, Well, they were all one score games.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
But what.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
Escaped you that says they should have won. They shouldn't
have beaten the Bucks. They let him go right down
the field and score the game, win he touchdown. They
shouldn't have beaten the Rams. They the ball over the
final two minutes when they could have taken the lead
and they were down a touchdown to Jacksonville. With what
did they do at the end of the game, or
the fourth quarter, or at any point they should have.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Won when you could have won.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
But when you say they shouldn't have won, that makes
it sound to me like the other team did something
to make that happen.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
Yeah, they outscored you and outplayed you, and Jacksonville quite
honestly did.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
As sad as it sounds, I'm not even talking about
that game. I'm talking about when you were driving down
the field and you should have won that game and
you made a mistake that made it to where you didn't.
You fumbled the football. I get it, but I I
know they forced that fumble.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
That's what my pushback would be.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
Dari's not fumbling unless the RAMS player makes that play happen.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
That was all him.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
That really wasn't even a mistake and that ball was protected.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, and that defense not getting a stop on was
it fourth and ten or fourth and twelfth and ten?
I mean again, you're gonna tell me that this is
the defense that I'm gonna put out there, and it's
fourth and ten. How many times out of ten are
they gonna make that stop?

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Well? The other nine?

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Yeah, the margins are slim because the offense had been
so poor in each of those three games. I mean,
you're talking about a defense they couldn't stop Baker Mayfield
on fourth and ten, and then they went the final
fifty yards and scored a touchdown. Well, they also held
the bucks off the scoreboard to exactly where their averages
all season. They got to twenty by scoring that six,
they were sitting at fourteen for fifty eight minutes or

(46:28):
throughout the first fifty you did, that's a win. You're
the number one scoring defense in the NFL. If you
give up thirteen points a game, you're going to the playoffs. Right,
it's a given. It's almost impossible. You were still stating
statistics put out each week where the Texans are under
five hundred. No team in NFL history has allowed this
few points per game and not had a winning record
through this many weeks, six weeks, and how seven weeks

(46:49):
and now eight weeks and the Texans still sit with
that losing record, and again a loss to the Denver
Broncos is it's a good team, but a loss there
means even if you beat Jacksonville in Tennessee in the
upcoming weeks, you're still not above five hundred. With only
seven games remaining in your season, you're just sitting at
five and five. You're an average football team. And you've
beaten Tennessee for two of those wins. You've beaten Cooper

(47:11):
Rush for one of those wins, You've beaten it. A
Jacksonville team that we may find out this weekend is
like you, a five hundred football team if they are
unable to get a victory. You mentioned Debiko Ryans waged
in throughout the week on the quarterback on the other
side pointed out that bo Knicks has played pretty good football.
Now for the what is essentially an entire NFL season.
You take what they did to close out last season

(47:32):
and you peel it into what they've done so far
this season. Over his last sixteen games, there is one
NFL quarterback who has thrown more touchdown passes than bon
Knicks one.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
It's Jared Goff.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Seriously, Bonnick has thrown thirty six touchdown passes since November
of last season the sixteen games that they've played. Handful
of quarterbacks have played seventeen games in that span, and
they're not above him either.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
SEJ.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Stroud during that time has thrown twenty Bonnicks has thrown
thirty six.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
And that's where they stay. Sacks.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
They have Bonix and CJ. Stroud's sack. How many times
they've been sacked is as you would expect. Fifteen games
for CJ thirty seven times sacked, sixteen games for bon Knicks.
It's the lowest number in the league at seventeen. Other
than Dak Prescott, he's played in far fewer games. What's

(48:29):
it like to have an ostfensive line? That's awesome, have
a great offensive line. Here's Demiko Ryans on the aforementioned
Bonix oh Nicks.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
What he does a really good job of and the
coaches to put him in a really good position to
get on the edge. He's using this athleticism a lot
to get on the edge on a lot of their
keeper plays. If it's not there, he doesn't like it.
He has the athletic ability to escape the pocket up
the middle through the A and B gaps, So we
have to be very sound and how we're rushing him,
especially our defensive tackles. We have to rush with awareness

(48:58):
because it's a very a kid who's made a few
explosive plays when he's able to not just escape the
pocket running, but he's also made some nice throws as
well escaping the pocket. So it's going to take everybody
to continue to be locked in and discipline in our coverage,
discipline in our rush lanes, because he can go anywhere.
A really good player, good young player who's done a

(49:19):
good job and I think as a staff coach, Payton
and his staff has done a really good job of
making the game easy for him.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
That's awesome, by the way, I guess it was awesome.
He's good. That's essentially what I heard. He's good. Now,
this will surprise you, since he was talking about his
play extension ability and his running ability and running up
the middle and for the ab all that stuff which
he does. He's got three hundred and six rushing yards
during that same time period. I was just talking about,

(49:48):
which is in the front half of the league. Baker Mayfield,
Kyler Murray, Caleb Williams, Mahomes, those guys are all up
there in Jaden Daniels, Lamar and Josh Allen are won
two three.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
He's right ahead of CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
Like this element of the Texans offense has changed dramatically
this year because CJ. Stroud, while he's not ever, hardly
hardly ever running it up the middle, even on a
scramble it happened in this last week's game, but most
of the time he's out on the edges and he's
running for the sideline in the first down sticks. But
it's been a bigger part of this. Bonnicks does do
it a lot. He extends plays very much like to

(50:21):
me Baker Mayfield does. Baker runs forward for yards when
he has to, but he runs around for time to
throw the football. The two of them, I think to
do that very very similar, and I think those quarterbacks
are equally difficult to stop, because it's not like they're
running for seven yards, eight yards, nine yards in a
first down. They're buying time until you no longer are

(50:43):
with their receivers and then they hit them for much
bigger games than that.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
All Right, there is a crossroads the Texans are at.
I mean, it's kind of easy to figure this out,
but I do think that this game is really the
proverbial fork in the road. And I'll explain that plus
Tody Rourke of The Mile High Club at the bottom
of the hour.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
On Ron Seriously, you're not dressed as Ron Burgundy, are you.
Cody Rorke read what's if you put it in there,
he will read it.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
That's what I read.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
Yeah, it's Smile High Sports. I put my I read
with Mile High Club and we can ask him.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Listen, if I had a show, I would call it
the Mile High Club if it was in Denver, wouldn't you?

Speaker 5 (51:23):
I mean, I'd definitely be the title of my podcast.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
You can say more things on a podcast. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Cody Rourke, who covers Bronco's foot for The Mile High Club,
will join us next.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
The a on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
A lot of good matchups this weekend in the NFL.
Maybe none as important to us, certainly none as important
to us, But elsewhere around the league there are some
good ones. Broncos Texans, this Sunday, Colts at Steelers, This
Sunday Chargers, Titans, Chiefs at Bill's. There are quite a
few games that will make the AFC standings look a
little bit different when we reconvene on Monday, especially since

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all of those games will be Sunday games. To that end,
Broncos Texans talk continues. Cody Rourke nice enough to spend
a few minutes here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
You got Adam Wesler and Adam Clinton here on the eighteen,
Cody with Mile High Sports covering the Broncos there in Denver, Cody.
I do spend a lot of unnecessary time watching press conferences,

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an inordinate amount of time. I should know this answer.
But when Sean Payton isn't throwing shade at Russell Wilson
or the Cowboys defense, did he talk at all about
why they have been so good late in games offensively
and maybe not so good early in games offensively?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (52:45):
I mean Sean, for some reason, he's very coy about
a lot of stuff. You know, he doesn't go into
great detail with us. I mean the philosophy that we
always have with Sean, especially covering him every day is
a training camp. It's different. It's like a mirage, like
he'll give us, he'll feed us, he'll give us everything,
and then they'll starve us in the regular season, so
to speak. You know, he doesn't really give us any anymore. Yeah,

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and you know for him, you know, he's always reflected
very much taking the coach speak approach about you know,
we gotta get up to a faster start, but never
going into the whyse of that.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
But yeah, I.

Speaker 8 (53:20):
Mean for some reason they I'd say, the biggest thing
he's revealed to us to answer your question, has been
trying to make Wednesday's practices feel more like Sunday. That's
one thing that he's told us. Not sure what that
looks like, because when we get limited amount of viewing time,
we get team stretch, individual period, but they have ramp
things up. Players have told me that they ramp things
up at practice to make Wednesdays feel more like a

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game like environment. So whatever that may look like is
potentially paying off. At least this past week when they
faced off against Dallas.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
It's funny because all of these coaches, it takes an
Act of Congress to get any information out of them
or to see anything like practice. It's just not gonna
happen in today's NFL. But specifically, you know, being someone
that is around Sean Payton as much as you are,
is it like, what do you think about the tenure
now that you look back on that first year where

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Russell Wilson was there and it was just an unmitigated
disaster and people were talking, they were using the L word.
This guy's legacy is going into the toilet right now,
And I think it's kind of crazy now to look
back and see just how quickly, like a lot of
things in the NFL, this has turned out to be.

Speaker 4 (54:28):
I think more positive.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
Yeah, I mean, I think everything kind of started with
you know what you're talking about there, that seventy to
twenty loss, that fifty point loss to the Miami Dolphins
in Week three of twenty twenty three. I think so
much of that year. I mean, luckily Denver after that
kind of went on a five game winning streak, but
I think really after that, Sean Payton, you know, those
conversations about legacy and you know he's cooked without Drew Brees.

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I think he took that personally in a sense and said, hey,
I'm not attaching my name to Russell Wilson. You know,
in terms of legacy, Sean Beli that Russ's legacy obviously
is falling off, you know, in terms of just not
being a fit for what he wanted to do offensively,
and that's why obviously he went out there and he
got bot Nicks, a guy he feels like can do
the things that he wants from an operational standpoint offensively.

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And so far the turnaround has been great. I mean,
you know, Denver sitting at six and two is very nice.
There are a couple of plays away, you know, if
they didn't commit a leverage penalty and that that kicks
against Annapolis Colts gets missed. You know, Denver hangs on
in that one. They're crazy justin Herbert fourth quarter, miraculous
touchdowns throw away with pressure bearing down on him for
potentially being you know, a one lost team to being undefeated.

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But this team also hasn't played their best. I mean,
as you guys have seen too, this offense has been
so up and down. Minus last week against Dallas. You know,
it took them a crazy fourth quarter thirty three points
in order just to generate something that they The consistency
factor has not been there, but hopefully they can build
on that and tough week to do it against his
Texans defense that is so good. I mean, I've been

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watching him on tape this week and they're one of
the fastest defenses I've seen in the NFL so far
this year at every level. They got good speed, they
close in really well. Demico's got those guys playing tough.

Speaker 5 (56:08):
Not sure if you're aware of this or not, Cody.
They have a swarm mentality here in Houston on their defense,
like to swarm to the football, and they talk about
that quite a bit. Kind of a three part question,
but the same question on bow Knicks. What did you
think about bow Knicks when he was the sixth quarterback
drafted and went number twelve overall to Denver? What'd you
think about bow Knicks as a last season and the
playoff appearance came to a close, And what do you

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think about bow Knicks now?

Speaker 8 (56:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's a great question. Look, I'm a University
of Oregon guy, so I had the privilege watching bow
for two years. And in twenty twenty two, I even
tweeted how I said, AH said, bow Knicks is going
to be very good player here for Sean Payton. This
is after Sean was hired, obviously, and you know, this
is the year, what was it twenty twenty three when
CU played Oregon? You know, I living in Colorado to

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see you, Dion Craze was so crazy at the time.
CU fans actually believed that they were going to beat
the Ducks, and I said, I rud away things coming,
but watching a lot of bow just you know, he's
so good at protecting the football. Was one of the
least sack quarterbacks coming out of college, you know, coming
in obviously, last year, he got off to a slow
start as a rookie through the first four games, then
throw his first touchdown until Week four in a month

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soon against the New York Jets, and then he just
started to catch fire. You know, for him, he's much
of a you know, learning I think he learns quickly.
You know, mistakes that he makes, he tends to cut
those off. You know, he doesn't make those same mistakes
twice that often. And then this year, you know, obviously
a little bit of a slow start as well, you know,
and then he's starting to get things going here once again.
So slow starter has found a way to get going.

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And I think that's the thing, is just trying to
find consistency. But my biggest thing, and this isn't on Bowl.
The Broncos have and it was crazy that they obviously
had an offense that was top ten in scoring last year.
I don't know how that was possible without a run game.
They didn't have a run game last year. The run
game this year, when they've gotten it going, they've been
very successful. They're obviously winning games, they're controlling the time

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of possession, the tempo, and the pace of the game.
But when they're not running the football on bo has
to throw at thirty five plus times, it's not good.
Like that's not good for any QB in today's NFL.
So I think the run game helps take a lot
of that pressure off in the Broncos offense is less
than one dimensional compared to where they were last year.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Talking to Cody Rourke of Mile High Sports here on
Sports Talk seven to ninety Broncos in Town this weekend,
you mentioned that you mentioned that the Texans defense essentially
terrifies you. Do you have if you had to pick
out one guy that, if you're the Broncos offense, scares
you more than others or is it just a collective
effort here?

Speaker 8 (58:33):
Well, I think here's a collective effort of guys. I mean,
obviously you always have to respect the pass russ there
of Daniel Hunter, and obviously Will Anders and those guys
are fantastic players. You know, I think for me, the
one guy I'm saying, hey, try to avoid all costs,
that's Derek Stingley Junior. I mean, the last time these
two teams played, Courtland Sutton did have a touchdown, but
Stingley made that incredible play on a post pattern, jumping

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the route, you know, the Russell Wilson throw late in
that third quarter of that game a couple of years ago.
He's such a good player in my opinion, you know,
I think it's pats Ertana is the best cor in NFL.
I think Stingly, you know, there's a really good argument
for him to be that number two guy. I know,
Quinnon Mitchell's in that combo as well. I know, you know,
for Stingley this year, there's been some questions, you know
about Jackson Smith and jig By the game that happened there.

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But he's a damn good corner. Uh, He's the type
of guy I think you want to try to avoid
throwing two but unless you get a certain look that
you like, he's the one guy probably for the most
and then Jaman Petriot Safety, I feel like is definitely
one of those guys that when you're trying to go
up the seam or you're trying to go over the top,
you got to watch out for where he's at.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
I think we all know that their front is good.
And since we were in the midst of a conversation
that brought up Pat certain how do you think that
changes or does it change anything that Vance Joseph wants
to do defensively, specifically this week against the Texans by
outfitting a game plan that does not include certain Yeah.

Speaker 8 (59:49):
I mean it's hard when you don't have the reigning
defending player of the year, you know, defensive player of
the year in the lineup. But certainly changes things from
you know, an operation standpoint. But Vance josephs told us yesterday,
but even the debt that they had with all the
guys at corner, they don't want to necessarily change things.
Last year when Riley Moss went down, they actually changed
their approach quite a bit. They're playing a lot of
man coverage forty one percent when Riley Moss was playing.

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When he went down with an injury, that dropped to
about thirty two percent of the defensive snaps in which
he was out. They changed his own coverage there, so
they got guys that they feel like can play. Manda
Man obviously, Chris Averans Drain is second your corner. I
think we expect to get to start here on Sunday
opposite of Riley Moss, and then maybe some sprinkling of
Jakwon macmillan and Jade barn from time to time in

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different personnel packages here. I know, obviously Houston's getting their
receivers back this week and Christian Kirk and Nko Collins,
so that's gonna be a tough test to not have
PS two in the mix here. But from my understanding
is the Broncos don't want to change up. You know,
their entire defensive game plan. You know, going into a
week to week basis, you already know going into a
matchup when Sirtan's on the field, you know they're not

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going to throw to that side, so you know what
side is going to get thrown to now that he's
not there. There's two different sides that could get thrown
to here in this game, and that's a perfect opportunity
maybe with the Broncos to try to get some more intersections.
They haven't had a lot this year, so maybe those
opportunities will present themselves a little bit more.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
One thing that would be cool if he continues where
he's playing at the level when he returns from injury,
is that more people will realize certain is called PS two,
one of the great nicknames in the NFL, and I
don't know that everybody knows that. So hopefully he gets
on the field again soon and keeps playing at that level.
If you want, we have a lotted ten seconds for
you to make a prediction on the game.

Speaker 8 (01:01:30):
Yeah, I think there's gonna be a no binder, obviously
a low scoring game. I think Denver goes on the
road this time. I think they flusterir CJ. Stroud and
find a way to create some habit there and they
come away with a three point win.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
We shall see if they hold on to first place
all by themselves in the NFC West been a great
start to the season. They're on a five game winning streak,
and Cody Rourke of Mile High Sports, we certainly appreciate
you joining us here and look forward to catching up
with you again soon.

Speaker 8 (01:01:56):
Yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
You got it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Broncos Texans noon Sunday. They only lead that division by
one game, though the Chargers and Chiefs are both favored
to win their games, so it's an important game for
both teams.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Cody's picking the upset.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Yeah, it is a slight upset. One and a half
is still a neighborhood of where it sits. That's the
number we'll be working with when we get to Stone
Cold Locks. Texans favored by one and a half over
under a thirty nine and a half. It's a pretty
low number, by the way. Our college football game of
the Week will take place tomorrow at eleven am in
Austin with Vanderbilt visiting the Texas Longhorns. We'll have our

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Stone Cold Locks for you at four point thirty. What
entity does he work forward with using the game tonight
because we use SEC games so often, toyed with the
idea of going Memphis Rice tonight, but we're going with
Fandy text. That would have been an awful choice. So
kudos to you from the committee. Toyed with the committee.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
The committee is what WEX tells us to pick every
single week. It's a wonder where even alive. Hey, what
was the entity that Cody works for?

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Again?

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
My high sports? What did I call it my high club?
And why didn't you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Tell him your fantasy football team name?

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
The Mills size Clay.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
Nobody even knows that until today.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
Well, I have a it's been a couple of years
running here, and I found a nice picture of uh
high school football prospect Davis Mills. That's the avatar for
my fantasy football team, the Mills High.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
Club, same long neck.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
He was, yes, the same, because anybody ever actually asked
him about it. Since it's such a topic of conversation,
just get it out of the way.

Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
I'm sure you're aware of the people on the planet Earth.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
These people.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Yeah, they're not all the same, No, I know, he's
everybody's got different features. It's how you ask the person
about this stuff, not the actual topic.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
You say, have you seen the memes? You just bring
it up in that kind of manner.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
Well, you realize the memes are in hibernation right now
because he's not playing exactly, which is why you haven't
asked him right and that he starts playing again, that
is the only reason it'll be the first topic of mind. No,
there's always there is an opportunity. There are good reasons, honestly,
I would think at this point in their season, especially
if things go well this week talking to Davis, what

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is different about this offense through half the season? What
is different about CJ through half the season? What do
you you know? You what did you think about it
before I got here? At some point we'll get to that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
I did enjoy when Cody basically, and I'm paraphrasing here
said that bon Nicks was going to die because of
the pass rush.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
Well, you said he was terrified of it. I don't
know if he's terrified of it. I don't know if
Bo's terrified of it. Because we pointed out the other
side of it. The Texans defense is going against bone Nicks,
but they're not going to do anything to Bonix unless
they beat the people in front of him. You could
very easily make and win the argument the Denver Broncos
have the best offensive line in the NFL. They've done

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enough to protect well enough for him to have time
to throw, for him to have even more time than
he needs to throw, I think is common about their
running game. I don't think they've been as committed to
it as they should be. Considering I think both Harvey
and Dobbins are talented enough to make with what they
have on the offensive line, but I actually think they're
better than that, and they just just flyt out play well.
They play well together, They have good schemes, they get

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help from the other personnel that's involved in pass blocking,
just whomever that is that Sean Payton and their offensive
system puts out there. When your quarterback is not fearful
of an excessive number of hits, when he has time
to throw, when he has time to throw early in games,
it usually feeds into what else you're going to do.
Nine different Texans have had a sack this year. Among

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these sixteen that they've been able to post, nine of
those coming from their top two, Will Anderson Junior and
Daniel Hunter. The top two for the Broncos, their edge
guys Cooper Jonathan Cooper and Nick Benito. The fourteen between them,
two less than the Texans have as a team, and
a remarkably high for halfway through the season. Number of

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fifteen different Broncos players have been involved in a sack
this year. You put eleven on the field at a time.
Fifteen different Broncos have sacked a quarterback this year. And
again you know the total by now, it's thirty six.
And again it stands out against the rest of the
league and their totals in that the next best team
is twenty six. It stands out way, way, way more

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when you look at their total sacks allowed. They've sacked
the opposing quarterback thirty six times in eight games. Their
quarterback has been sacked eight times in eight games. They're
playing two different games. One quarterback on the field, theirs.
He has time to look over the field and make
his reads and make his throws. The other quarterback on
the field, regardless of who is on the other side.

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Even though they have one game of nine, which is
twenty five percent of their sacks, they just don't. It's
almost like one of these two teams prioritize protecting their
quarterback and the other teams the Texans. I mean, you
could look at how it was built and definitely take
some of those assumptions along with it. You know, a
first round talent is playing left tackle. He's a first
round pick in twenty seventeen, someone who played in San

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Francisco while Demiko was in San Francisco. Mike McGlinchey is
on the other side, and they put time and effort
into the interior of their line. But if I told
you who they were, you might know mcglinchy's name. You
probably know Garrett Bowle's name because he's been there for
been doing it for almost a decade. Do you ever
heard it? I mean, Quinn Miniers is a really good player.

(01:07:39):
He's been in the league four years. I don't know
that people know who he is. If I told you
Luke Smith was their center, you'd believe me. But his
name's Luke Wattenberg. I mean these uh huh. He's a
fifth round pick in twenty twenty two. They are what
you do to build an offensive line. Most successfully and
most easily should be through the draft. Eighty percent of

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your offensive line should be built through the draft. I'll
let you go and sign a free agent when you
realize we have one hole, nothing else. We need, let's
go pay for this guy and we are good. Like
what the Chiefs do well, the Chiefs realize a year
after year, well, this guy's now played out and we got.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
This hole over here. They keep drafting draft.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
They're playing their draft picks because they deserve to be played.
And it all started when they lost the Super Bowl.
They turned around and drafted Create Humphrey and Trey Smith
one early stop of the second round and one light
you mean they didn't trade out of the first round
round pick. I think he was actually end of the
second round where they drafted. They found an all Pro
Pro Bowl caliber we're signing into an extension caliber lineman

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in the sixth round of.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
The NFL draft. I hate them.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
The Broncos and many other teams are doing that. The
Texans didn't attack the offensive line position incorrectly through the
draft since Nick Cassaro has been here. They actually attacked
it the way you would want to say successfully. But
they're so unbelievably poor at evaluating college talent as an

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offensive lineman that they have done the right thing in
theory four times. They have gotten it correct maybe one time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
And here's my favor now, and it keeps again, it's
all fluid. This year twenty twenty five the year of fluidity.
As I assessed the Houston Texans organization top to bottom,
I went from, all, right, well, there is a silver
lining in that Dick Sario is gonna get ousted at
the end of the season and Dimiko is gonna pick
his own guy to run the personnel side of things

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in twenty twenty six and beyond. Now I'm to the
point where, well, they're gonna play just good enough that
he's gonna keep his job.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
Well the same at some point he can keep his
job because many of the other things that they've done.
That's why they're in this positions, why they won the
division two times. It's why they are still in position
to make the playoffs. There are plenty of good things
to outweigh in numbers. Have you made more good moves
or mos He's definitely made more good moves. But when
the bulk of the bad moves are all in the

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same place over and over and over again, and it's
killing your offense, it obviously has to be weighed in.
You have to wait these decisions. You know, was signing
Daniel Hunter a good move? Duh? But you also could
have just re signed Jonathan Grenard for less money. It's
actually a debatable decision, and the performance has been great.

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Grenard's been awesome in Minnesota, Daniel's been awesome here in Houston.
You're paying more for him, and maybe that's a different
way to do it, but that's quibbling over stuff. Where
the position is quality. He has a quality player that
he brought here to play quality football, and that's exactly
what you're getting, and that's still essentially your bottom line.
But where the Texans are and where we are talking

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about them right now versus what we're going to be
talking about at this time on Monday, you set a crossroads.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
I do not disagree.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
This is a monster statement game, statistical game, math game. Yeah,
they are in the standings game as the second part
of the season. We'll shortly begin after that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
That's one element of last night's beat down by the
Ravens we didn't really get into because the Dolphins have
not fired their head coach. They've not made a change
at quarterback, although who could blame them. Zach Wilson and
Quinn Ewers are the other two behind Tua but they have.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Made a change.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
After twenty six years with the organization, they need a
new GM, Chris Greer, and after a meeting today, we've
mutually agreed to write out a statement that says we've
mutually agreed we're firing you, but we can't write that
was the only part is mutually agreed to. They fired
their general manager. They've hired an interim general manager, and

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some other people inside the organization will be the ones
in charge charge for the last few days leading up
to the trade deadline. They have tradable commodities. They have
a roster that is losing embarrassingly often this NFL season,
and last night was no different. Turning the ball over
unable to put points on the board in the red

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zone going forward on fourth down down eight is okay.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
It's not a bad decision.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
If you saw the reaction of head coach Mike McDaniel
after to a drop back and floated one into the
corner of the end zone, way out of the end zone,
nowhere near his receiver, with zero chance for success. Remember
this is fourth down, not really a big deal. If
you throw it into coverage, it's a better idea than
throwing it out of bounds. How about the hail Mary

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at the end of the first half. Here's how long
the ball was in the air.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Itsnot.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
He never threw it to a drop back, bought time,
had time stood there, waited, had a cup of coffee,
read through the phone book that does exist, texted somebody,
and then dove into the grass and took a sack.
There's some sort of unreal disconnect between the coach and

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his players, most specifically their quarterback. They look like a
team who's dead set on We don't care how much
money we spent on Tua. We want to lose every
possible game we can. We're gonna pretend this move at
the GM is something we want to do. And they
put out a statement from their managing partner, Stephen Ross.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
You fans deserve better.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
We need to make improvements here in twenty twenty five
and in twenty twenty six and beyond for a championship
football team. You all deserve well. You don't operate in
that way. McDaniel is not going to be the coach
in twenty twenty six, but apparently he is going to
be the coach for the remainder of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Well, that's because if you fire the GM now, things
can get better. But if you fire the coach now,
it's going to pretty much stay the same either way.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
It's actually true.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
It is true they and they're probably gonna make it
even harder for Mike Daniel to win. He does find
just by himself. But like I said, they should trade players.
They should absolutely find a third round picks, fifth round pick,
somebody else's player that they don't want that you could
flip four. They should be doing that. They have two wins.
There are only three teams with one win. They have

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games against two of them remaining. One of them is Jets,
one of them is the Saints. You lose those two games,
you stand a very very very very good position of
landing no worse than the second pick in the draft,
in a draft that most considered to be good from
their standpoint. If they are finally deciding that they've made
a mistake with Tua, and they're ready to figure out

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how to eat all that money, then maybe they will
be a team that drafts a quarterback they clearly need.
One Florida team realizes they've made the mistake. First, Well,
one Florida team is fine. I assume that's Tampa I know,
and then the other Florida team is four and three, Yeah,
has a win over the Chiefs and a winner of
the Texans. Now what they're most concerned about is is

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our GM, who's made a lot of good decisions gonna
make another horrific one On draft night? I said it then,
believe it today. It didn't get any better with Travis
Hunter going on the injured reserve list, meaning he'll miss
at least four weeks. You obviously now won't play against
the Texans, but you trade it up and traded next
year's first round pick to do it. Among the particulars

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in that deal for a player at number three, like
you're drafting a player at the top of the draft,
what should he be the best player at his position?
Definitely on your team, but arguably on any team at
some point during his career. Second overall, traded up to
number two, Is Travis Hunter going to be one of
the best one of the best wide receivers in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (01:15:45):
I doubt it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
He'll be good. He already is good. Is he gonna
be one of the best corners in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
I doubt it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
He might be, but I shouldn't be saying, Mike, I
should say definitively, I love this guy. This guy's unbelievable.
I know he's a great corner. It's a nice, nice
bonus for your roster, I guess. But your roster isn't
thirty eight guys. Your roster is sixty nine players, fifty
three active. Is it that important to the NFL to

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have a two way player who's pretty good at both
He's not a number, he's not wide receiver one. He's
a starter. He's not CB one. He's a starter. It
might get better, and I bet you it will. He's
a special he has a special ability to play starting
caliber play on both sides of the football. But with

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a number two pick in the draft, don't you want
a player who's going to change your position group? An
offensive lineman who best tackle in the game, a defensive
end who's gonna wreck havoc more so than Trayvon Walker,
a cornerback who shuts teams down like PS two or
Derek Stingley Junior. A change quack. He needs to change
his number to six in time for the new edition.

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But PS two means something?

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
Does PS? Three? Do you mean anything?

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
This PS four, PS five, PS six. Well, PS five
is the current don't you think PS two is the
most popular nomenclature for one of the PlayStations? I gots three,
I'd say PS three. Yeah, it was far more. I
stand corrected. Well, you gamers, it's it's the But why
is that cole because they've all been you know, shortened

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to that little I guess acronym. So are you instead
of restricting him by number, do you think we should
change his nickname entirely and just call him PlayStation?

Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
No? Well, because that is a nickname. It is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
But what's funny about that is anytime you start saying, oh,
he's like a video game, you're always.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
Talking about offense, not defense. That's true, but yeah, that
nickname is great. Now I believe something about Trevor Lawrence,
and nothing this happened this year, none of the good
stuff I just said. Because it's true, they're four and three,
they haven't went over the Chiefs. He made some really
nice plays to end that game, two nice throws and
obviously running it in to beat them. But I haven't
change my opinion. My opinion is they do not have

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a top twelve quarterback, and that makes it difficult to
win in the AFC currently, and currently for him is
the next five to eight years. It's not gonna change.
Pat Mahomes is gonna be playing great football five years
from now. So is Justin Herbert. So is Joe Burrow,
So is Lamar Jackson. Hopefully so is CJ. Stroud, so
is Josh Allen. That these quarterback life spans of excellence,

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I don't think any of these guys are anywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Close to the end of the line.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
The FC is tough, and if you don't have one
of the top guys that can compete with them, he's
on the outside looking in to that group. You're in
a defeatist position because of it. Oh well, yeah, it's
fine for now. The Texans need to go out there
and make sure that that plays out by not getting
swept by his team in games that he will start.
He presumably will start next week. They split like every

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single year with the Jags, the stupid Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
No matter what else is going on in the division,
no matter who's up, who's down in that goes for
these two teams, it's always a dumb split. Just sweep
them already. They probably did it last year and I
don't even remember.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
Well, we will see where things are when they get there.
First things for we don't know what's on the rest
of the schedule. I'm not looking at our record. I'm
not looking at this three game homestand it's a week
to week league. The Texans are in total, undeniable laser
focus mode. They see the Broncos orange, they see the
Orange crush, they see nothing else as they prepare for

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the final two hours of the eight Team.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
The A teen on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking your Team. Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
Four o'clock hours underway on a Halloween edition.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Of The A Team.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
It's Sports Talk seven ninety City Hall Network. Wex ac
Cole Thompson with you on a Friday. Gosh, Halloween on
a Friday. I don't even remember the last time this happened.
I do remember, I think in college once. It was
on a Saturday. That was a great, great night. Shout
out to Spencer's house for the party we had.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
Telling you Halloween parties. They are awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Same house that I watched Jeff Can't walk off the Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
Well I was.

Speaker 5 (01:20:26):
I think I watched Jeff Can't Walk Off the Cardinals
at Minute May Park.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
Yeah, but it was Enron then, wasn't it? Or were
they already You're probably right it probably wasn't it? Made
by four when that happened. I think that was the
same year of the epic Halloween Party. That's when I
dressed up with my buddy John Tarrant as Bert and
Ernie super like, all sorts of layers to that situation.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
Yes, I did a Halloween night Astros World Series postgame
show Game three from a Haunted House? What downtown Houston?
Was this?

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
So five?

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
It was during the White Sox series, So I don't
know what game it was. You were a postgame show
at a haunted house? Was the the Haunted House remote sold?
And it just happened to be during the World Series? Well,
how'd that happen?

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Yeah? I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
I think it was during one of the road games. Well,
obviously I would hope. I mean, I my memory fades
a little bit. Which which haunted house was it? Where
were you looking at? It was downtown?

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Okay, I haven't been to a haunted house in a
really long time.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
No neighborhood over the top neighbor goes crazy and has
a haunted house. Besides Bob Merrill. Back in the day,
that was a good one. The guy used to just
spend I mean, tens of thousands of dollars every year.
I go, Bob, I really like you were friends. He
was one of our gsms once once upon time. Yea,

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and I said, got a lot of supposable income.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
Right, this is awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
His house was legit a haunted house, absolutely fantastic, so great.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
I wish I could do that.

Speaker 5 (01:22:02):
Hopefully you guys will take advantage of this. It's just
one night a year, Halloween has arrived.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
What let's just get into it now.

Speaker 5 (01:22:09):
All right, World series? No, I know an he wants
to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Let's go all right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
Cole brought candy for everyone as a nice gesture. Okay,
he didn't. He brought a full sized candy bar for everyone.
I did for everyone in that Did you give everyone
the same one?

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:22:29):
I mixed it all up? So what were the choices?

Speaker 6 (01:22:32):
Snickers had a Butterfinger had m and M's had a
three Musketeers has had a uh peoana butart cups.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
That's not a candy bar, I said, one for you
similar rapper, though in the lengthy version.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
Specific one made for you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
That's why I said, yeah, he gave me the milky Way,
because earlier today we were having this conversation and I said,
I'm not saying it's the best, but let's just say
some one on our staff was trying to make fetch happen.
And by fetch, I mean Almond Joy's just disgusting.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
Man Thomas is the worst.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
No, I mean, like, seriously, where is Almond Joy on
the list of like it's gotta be like candy bars
give the the the idea. When you say candy bar,
the first thing that comes to mind is chocolate. Candy
bars have chocolate and they're they're one of their primary
When you take a bite, you're tasting chalcoice.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
It's a pay day pay Day, which is the Snickers
without the chocolate.

Speaker 6 (01:23:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Again, kind of down the line, but tasty enough. Maybe
it has peanuts. Maybe it's more of the nugat candy bar.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
That's just filler, that's all that is.

Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
Maybe it's more of a Kitcat type candy bar, what
have you. Maybe it's more of a crackle, more of
a Nestle's crunch bar, chocolate, and the flavors that I
described in all those candy bars quite clearly together and
are muted to a certain degree. A candy bar with
almonds is not. A candy bar with coconut is not.

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It has But you could argue with me right now,
what what's an Almond Joy and a Snickers? What's the difference.
It's a chocolate bar with nuts, coconut, coconut, right, That's why.

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
I said, and the coconuts.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
Well, if you like almonds, then do you like almond Joy?
There's also coconut. Yeah, but they're they're different than peanuts,
which is it's harder to have massive general appeal when
you have.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
But that's the whole point.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
When you go to a baseball game, an ingredient like that,
when when Fromber next season, when he's not playing for
the Astros, the Mets, sure where and he's he is
inundating their sideline reporters broadcast with requests for a bag
of nuts. He's not asking for almonds, He's asking for peanuts.
Is a baseball game, right?

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
They don't sell bags of almonds at major league parks.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
That's my point, Lemon, chill almonds? Could you imagine, what
is this the Whole Foods version of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
Almonds? What do you need?

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
Uh? Do you got a fifty foot margarita? Absolutely? You
got sixteen ounce beers? Keep them coming. I've got a
bag of almonds. You're bringing those down the aisles for
me here. Honestly, if somebody asked you for that, and
you're one of those people that goes up and down
the aisle, you should hit them over the head with
a full can of beer. I mean, even a baseball
helmet with almonds at the ballpark is it's not happening.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
No, Because you have a baseball helmet, you put nachos
in it like a real man.

Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
Or an ice cream Sunday whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
Yeah. By the way, the other night of the game,
you were doing the Detroit game.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
Yeah, I was working, and you know they have the
half basketball. Yes, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
It's very good. Well, they don't have them yet.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
But this guy I had put my food down on
one of the bar areas in the club, bud he
took it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
No, no, no, no worse, this guy had.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
A fight and brought it back. I went to go
grab like napkins, it's legit. Ten feet away, ten steps away,
and this guy sees my food, my cell phone, a
lot of napkins, and a drink, and the chair is out.
There are three on either side and two on this side.
And he sits directly in the chair where I was,

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and I just stuck. I want to walk over. This
is what happened. Since we're on TV, I can re
enact this. I walk back over to him and I
go and I just start moving my stuff like this
while I'm staring him down oblivious.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
I don't think he was all there.

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
If judging, I don't know for sure. And if he
was bad, bad bad etiquette. So the candy bar, you said,
what is it? They wanted to Well, here's my thing.
He comes back with this list and he said, I'm
a recent guy and I said, yeah, because I sent
him a picture of KitKat. Yeah, you're a communist.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Exactly, and that is two hundred percent fact. But I'm like, okay,
but Reese's isn't really a candy bar.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
That's not You.

Speaker 5 (01:27:14):
Don't unwrapped caress and take a bite off of the
open end while you're holding the rest of the candy
bar in the wrapping.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
That's the best way to describe it. It's its own
category can.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
Hold on to it, but usually it's in its individual wrapper,
you know, the cup that it's in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
So I said KitKat is elite, and he said, he
goes Butterfinger first, milky Way second.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
Like, I didn't think this was going to happen because
these candy bars are so similar.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
But Butterfinger first.

Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
There's a lot of problems with you. No, not me, him,
I know, okay, just come on. I'm a big Three
Musketeers fan. So he's zero for three so far. Three Musketeers, Snickers,
Milky Way. It's okay. I'm okay with any of those.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
He says.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
He just throws it and then KitKat. Now, listen, if
you don't think Kitkat's number one, I'm not gonna fault you.
The reason I think KitKat is elite is because you
can eat a bunch of them and not feel like crap.
You can't say that with any other candy bar.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Say that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
I'm a huge fan of almost all of these candy bars.
We've talked about. It's good, Almond Joy. We have yet
to mention my favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
Really, are you a hunder grand guy?

Speaker 5 (01:28:23):
That's a really, really good one, and very nobody ever
talks about it because it's not as much Chef fan
Gundy's in the playoffs. It's not disgusted. Watch mccullt's are
also good. Nobody ever brings those up crunch bars. Nestle's
crunch outstanding little thin. I mean, I want a heart
of your bike, but it's a cousin of the kitcat
like crackle.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
I like you consider this a candy bar. It means
chocolate wrapped around the twigs. Oh, twigs is elite twigs?
Your favorite favorite? It's my favorite? Okay, see, and I
can't even falter for that one. I'll tell you this,
I'll tell you the next step of that. What you
get in your bag, I'll take all the twigs.

Speaker 4 (01:28:56):
Something you won't be getting in your bag tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
If you say I can only have three or four
pieces of your candy, they're all all four of them
are gonna be TwixT as you can have.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
You can keep all the rest twigs or Snickers. Ice
cream bars are like crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
Should we get to the point where people are actually
handing those out?

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Oh my god, Because when.

Speaker 5 (01:29:14):
You're at their house, I have a bag of dry ice,
you have to eat it immediately. They can have it
ready for you. They can prepare them a little cooler.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Twist ice cream bar in my bag and I'm a
I don't know a nine year old kid.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
It's not lasting to the next house, right. And if
people are outside in front.

Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
Of their house because I ate it, not because it's
gonna make they've gotten in costume.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
They're kind of enjoying their own liquid and entertainment for
the evening, but they're handing out candy from there. They've
got a table of food that they're enjoying. There's a
reasonable chance something that needs to be chilled or on
ice is part of their own Halloween celebrations.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Do you ever think about the fact that those people
who everybody in like, ultimately those are fun houses, right,
the people that are sitting in front of their house
in the driveway with a table such as you guys
in the past. You ever think about how, like, if
this were any other setting, there would be like fifty
things wrong with this situation because you're clearly out there
to get bombed, You're gonna drink while you do that,

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all right, and you're handing out candy to innocent children.
There is no other night in America or setting where
that would be okay except for Halloween.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Yeah, you would maybe steer clear of that man. They're
doing too much drinking at that house. No you head
on over, No go over, give you more candy. Oh
you were mentioning that the ice cream bars needed to
be separated in quality.

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
Yes, TwixT is number one, Stinkers number two an ice
cream bar, Okay, I would agree. I would agree.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
But what I wouldn't agree with is Milky Way being
number two on any list three.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
Ways an elk candy bar just because if you don't
have tastes not mean that I am going to sit
back and watch you judge me.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
I didn't say I didn't like it. I just said
it's not number two.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
You're right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
No, it is number two behind number one. Butterfinger. No,
Butterfinger is in no planet number one.

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
It is far the way Butterfinger bebes fromember those things
back in the day.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Yea, and butterfinger in ice cream is good. None of
this tops a candy bar, not.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
All of them pale in comparison. When you walk up
to the house and you ring the doorbell and your
kid and you say trick or treat and out comes
the basket of apples.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
All good.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
Bobbing for apples is awful, by the way, Hey, let's
do the least sanitary thing ever. You know what didn't
happen during COVID bobbing for apples? You know what We're
gonna do this.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
Real quick, just because I just came out.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
You want to go over the Texas issury a report?

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
All right, fine, we'll do that first.

Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
Alrighty, it was over practice earlier today.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
You love this.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
Dalton Schultz and Woody Marx were both out there, and
as it turns out, they were both listed as full
participants after a calf injury popped up for Woody on
Thursday had him limited and Dalton had not practiced at
all this week with the knee and shoulder injury. Wood
he has no injury designation. He's good to go for Sunday.
Dalton Schultz carries a questionable designation, But if I were guessing,

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unless something happens during warmups, I think he will be
active for the game on Sunday. Yakub Johnson, who's in
his practice window, he was listed as questionable. I think
it's unlikely they'll make a roster move to get him
on the roster. Dylan Horton is questionable the defensive end.
Denico Autry is also questionable their defensive end. He's the
only player that was even limited. Every other player that

(01:32:27):
has been on the injury report this week full participant
and no injury designation with them provided they're on the roster.
Elijah Elijah Huzzy is a full participant, but he's out
this week because he has not been added to the
roster yet. Braxton Barrios, Nico Collins, Christian Kirk all with
injury concerns one form or another. The chest for Barrios,

(01:32:47):
you know the other two. None of them have an
injury designation. All are available should they need to be
active in Jalen Petrie the same thing, working through a
foot injury, so probably pretty good news on that front.
Find out to fit on Adulton Schultz over the weekend.
No later than ten thirty when the inactive list comes
out for the Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
All right, completely off the beaten path again. But it's Halloween,
so I have to do this. And you guys might
have your own h you'll have your own dependent on this,
and you might not be a fan of the genre,
but I gotta say hugege congratulations to Robert England.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Do you know who he is? I know who he is.
Some people might not.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
He is one of the most famous movie character villains.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
Wait, Cole, do you not know? Yeah, of course I do.
Oh okay, why'd you make that noise? Because that's what
you sad to say.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
They're a handful of people that played characters in horror
movies that are known by one name. Freddy, Mike, Jason, uh,
the guy with all the pins in his head, penhead, pinhead, Jeez, Chucky, Chucky.
There are quite a few. Uh he plays. He plays
Frederick Leather. That's not half. That's up part of his

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first name.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
His real name was Gunner. Who was his last name? Face? Wow, hey,
mister face first name Leather? Jigsaw.

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
Jigsaw is a good one, even though technically wasn't Jigsaw,
the the robot on the tricycle and the guy I.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
Means, then the bells. I want to play a game?
You want to play anyway?

Speaker 5 (01:34:21):
Robert Englan, Congratulations for what exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
He just now today. Now, granted the date is awesome.
They did it on Halloween's that's cool. He just now
got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fames.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
That's actually really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
It's so cool. But why did it take so long?
This guy's been Freddy Krueger since nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I was three.

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
Are you ready for me?

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
Here it is? Did you ring it out first? What
else did he do?

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
Jezus, If I'm not mistaken, he actually was in a
movie I think is very good if I have this correct.

Speaker 4 (01:34:53):
The Mangler. No, I believe he had.

Speaker 5 (01:34:56):
A role as a villain type character in Ford Fairlane.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Yeah, that's what he's known for. So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
He has another What else has he been in? Well,
the thing is about all these other everybody we named?
If I'm not mistaken pinhead, Yeah, all the Slashers, Jason and.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
Chucky, Michael did you name Michael Myers? Mike?

Speaker 6 (01:35:17):
Mike?

Speaker 5 (01:35:17):
Oh, Mike, Okay, nobody calls him that. That's why, Like
who played them?

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
Stuntman?

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Exactly who played Freddy Krueger and is an actor who
played him over and over and over and over again.
The guy that played Jason in most of the films,
not all of them.

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
They've had. How many he wasn't fifty?

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
I don't know how you get the most sixteen the
guy that played the majority. He was considered he's huge
compared to Robert Rober England's actually like he's like my height.
He's not small, yeah, he's like he's height is irrelevant
in your dreams well, and the way you shoot and
all that kind of stuff. But he as to high
school kids. Yeah, but he was a classically trained actor,

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like stage theater, not just movies, and and he he
wanted to incorporate that into the role. You know that
he tried to walk the way I think it was
James Cagney did in these movies like he actually there
was a there was an artistry to it, not just
some stunt guy walking around going you're dead.

Speaker 5 (01:36:17):
So if I had read this headline, would I have
scoffed and rolled my eyes at it? Robert England COMMA
best known for Freddy Krueger role, honored with Hollywood Star.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
You would have sat there for hours giggling to yourself,
my best you mean, only that's not absolutely my gosh,
Like everybody isn't Wes Craven and you every I know
who he is. You don't have to everybody isn't you.
You don't have to suck the joy out of everything.
That's yeah, you do no have a role you I

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mean that is why didn't for your car? How do
you think the do you know who introduced him? Who
was up there with him?

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
Normally you have somebody like when Daniel LaRusso gets his
star the guy from the other the dojo was there
with him, the blondhead dude, Billy Zabka, William Zapka with him. Yeah,
so who was there with him? I actually don't know
this And what would they have said? Well, you know
him from Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the greatest

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horror franchises in the history of cinema, and also from
Nightmare on Elis and here he is Robert England.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
I'm trying to figure out because I feel like it
was gonna be so it couldn't be Wes Craven. Obviously
that would have been the that would have been the
go to, but he passed.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
So I mean you could have brought his ghost or
his corpse.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
I mean the horror setting. I mean they're doing it.
I'm playing it up pretty high. This very talented it
is known. Yeah, that's comedy. Did you see it yet?
See what who did? Night We're on Elm Street one. Yeah,
I saw it. Did you see in the movie theater?

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
Of course? Have you guys ever seen the eighties?

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
I was a kid. I went to the movie theater
back then. What sorry, what have you seen? What have
you guys seen?

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Terrifier?

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Not?

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
Yeah? Yeah, I find it hysterical. Well that's the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
It's not it's people ask what role is Robert England
most famous for? I don't see anywhere worse if I
told you he won a Saturn Award, would you even
know what that is?

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
A Fangoria chainsaw Award, he won that too.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Yeah, well that's a famous entity within the horror clearly
genre and Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
He's seventy eight, though, what are you waiting on?

Speaker 6 (01:38:35):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
I mean, this is like Louis going into the Hall
of Fame?

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
Should I go this route too? So he got a
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame? You mean like everybody else? No,
not everybody gets one. I'm I'd missed the headline a
couple of weeks ago when they wrote Ralph maccio Comma,
best known for his role in Karate Kid, gets star

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on Hollywood Walk of Fame. He's been in a bunch
of other stuff, but come on, yeah, but he was
in how many Karate Kids two or three? I think
he was in three? Which one he also got. Thankful
he was not sentenced to any jail time thanks to
Joe PESHI.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
Oh yes, forgot about that. My cousin Vinnie.

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
He also was actually the person that who So it
was Paulie that actually did it. But Ralph and Drama
tried to bring each other down when it was really
Paulie that created all the mayhem at HEF's mansion.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Yeah boy mansion. He also told everybody to, you know,
stay gold.

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
He did that was in his some of his early finest,
early work, even in that movie. How many other people
do you name in the movie before you get to him?

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Five?

Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
All of them?

Speaker 5 (01:39:46):
Okay, Thomas Howel, Rob Pat Swayze, Pat Swayze, Thomas Scruz,
Diane Lane, I mean the list goes on and on.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Big.

Speaker 5 (01:39:59):
Absolutely congratulations to an all time slasher, Fred Krueger. I
really am being serious. The movie and the franchise outstanding,
especially the early ones.

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
Well the early one.

Speaker 5 (01:40:15):
I mean I was still in when I still have
a nightmares for two. West Curve was so much of
a dream Warrior. Yeah, well at least Wes Craven was
involved in that one.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
So Wes Craven did the original scream right in the
scene with Drew Barrymore at the beginning a lot and
there's anyone coming out by hello, yeah, and uh, the
caller before he kills her, of course says what yeah,
spoiler alert?

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
She dies, what's your favorite scary movie?

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
And she's like, I don't know, Nightmare on almstay talk
like she does.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Actually, that's exactly how she talks the entire scene.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
She's a great actress because she doesn't talk like that
she did in the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
I will give you that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
And of course he says, oh, is that the one
with Freddy who had knights for fingers?

Speaker 4 (01:40:59):
Like that one? It was scary, great movie.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
Anyway, she goes, well, yeah, the first one was the
rest of him sucked. After that, it's in her line
verbatim and how she delivered well written.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
Yeah, well just like this show. But that was Wes
Craven that put that line in there. Good good for him,
I believe, because he was making fun of his own
franchise that he was like, I'm not doing the rest
of these. And then right after wow, that one quite
like that. He was involved in the third one, and
then he did Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which I did
go see in the theater.

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
Wait, did he do all? Did he do the first
three screams?

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:41:31):
Yeah, I don't know about that, the first two. I
think he did the first two because because Matthew Lowd's
talking about it multiple times. Matthew loard, be right back.
That's a great line.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
Teresa and I say that to each other in the
house all the time because of that movie. Matthew Lillard saying, oh,
be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
You remember that he told him not to say that,
and then he says it anyways, because he's Matthew Lillard.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
I'm just reading over the actual Hollywood Walk of Fame
right up on the soon to be and Now is
inducted and it mentions night on ELM Street franchise.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Versatile actor.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
He's appeared in over eighty films, multiple TV series, and
countless guest star rules, none of which are mentioned anywhere
else in the article. But they happened, They did happen.
Stone Cold Locks are gonna happen next.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
You can trust whatever it said, or you could trust
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Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
It's a crap shoot either way. But these are your
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Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
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Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
I cannot wait, and you've given me ample time to prepare.
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Speaker 4 (01:43:05):
Oh, I think she's hurt. No, I think she really is.
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Speaker 4 (01:43:19):
There to be stomped all over the neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
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Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
It is better when Stewie does it on family guys.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
It's very good, very very good. Stone Cold Locks have
arrived here for our Friday signature segment, as we always
do when appropriate, like we actually got a few right.
We begin with a look back at last week. If
you recall last week during our look back, I padded
each other of on the each of us on the back.

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It was our finest week of the season, as the
three of us together got twice as many games right
as we did not get right. Ten out of fifteen
picks were correct, went ten and five. It was the
finest work we'd put together and had us hovering as
a team very very close to five hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
For the season.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
And then this week we did even better and four
each of you put three and two records together. I
did do a little bit better than that, and then
I did not miss on any of my five picks, and.

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
I'm still completely defeated in the college game. You are
an zero for nine, the opposite of undefeated with Week
ten arriving now. So it was a very nice week
for us.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
Also, for the second consecutive week, the only two times
all season where we've made identical picks on the Texans,
we also got them right.

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
The only times we have decided independently to all either
pick the over, the under, or whichever team to cover
the number, last two weeks, we've done it. We all
got it correct this week. My belief is that is
not going to happen as we unveil our picks for
this week. Our college football game of the week is
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety tomorrow with an

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eleven am kick and a ten o'clock start time for coverage.
That's Vanderbilt at Texas. Vanderbilt is the much higher ranked
team and Vanderbilt is not the team favored to win.
No definitive word on Arch Manning's availability for this game,
but with his practice availability late in the week, the
belief is he will be suited up and starting.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
But again that's not definitive. Of course.

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
We also play Broncos Texans. Texans, the three and four
team favored over the six and two team in their
home venue Sunday afternoon. As Jennis McNair's name, we'll go
into the Texans. She'll get a red jacket and go
off on the stadium over under a thirty nine and
a half and the Texans are still favored by a

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point and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:45:47):
Cole, smallest red jacket that will ever be handed out.

Speaker 5 (01:45:50):
Please begin the proceedings, holding your Texans selection till last.

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
Vanny versus Texas both great defenses.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
I don't know what to make of.

Speaker 6 (01:45:58):
Texas offense, but it can tell you that they're gonna
make this a low scoring affair.

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
I'm gonna take the under at forty seven and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:46:03):
I'm also gonna say with another local game on nine
to fifty at eleven am, where Rex you'll be West
Virginia versus Houston. West Virginia is scoring twenty nine points
per game, Houston scoring twenty nine points per game difference.
West Virginia also ranks one hundred and nineteenth in pass
defense and then scoring this year.

Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
So I'm gonna take the over at forty eight and
a half.

Speaker 6 (01:46:23):
Texas Tennessee versus Oklahoma out in Kneeland.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
It's a night game, it's a blackout game. It's the
number one scoring offense in the SEC versus the number
one scoring defense in the SEC. But I do think
that Tennessee is the more complete team. I'm gonna take
them at mist two and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:46:38):
And how about Indiana screwed me over last week with
the twenty five and a half point differential With UCLA.
There's the number three scoring offense in the country. Maryland
top to turvy, but they do have a good quarterback
of the league. Washington I'm gonna take the over at
fifty and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
Yeah, I figured that would be somebody's play, likely yours.
Maybe you just take Well, they've burned me last week,
so they won't burn me this week. Indiana's covering that
couple of touchdowns against the not particularly good Maryland team,
even in their venue. But take the over there, Ac,
you got the next four?

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
All right, here we go, I too, am taking the
under on Vandy at Texas. I will hammer the over
on Falcons at Patriots now.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
Annix Junior is now expected to start. Drake London is
also expected to play.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
And Patriots have I think they're averaging, aren't they averaging
forty one points by their loansome this season.

Speaker 5 (01:47:28):
They managed to hit the over, I believe last week
while playing the Browns at thirty two to thirteen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
I will continue to test my theory that anytime I
play a Cowboys game and I hit the over, they
helped me out, usually by themselves, but a lot of
times they don't need much help. So Cardinals at Cowboys
at fifty four and a half, it's big number. I'm
still taking the over as I am with the Chiefs
at the Bills every time these two teams play each other,
they light up the scoreboard. I don't see why this

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season is going to be any different, especially in light
of the fact that at Oliver's out, so even less
defense will be played.

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
Yeah, Chiefs played pretty good defense. The Bills have been
off and I'm curious what they will look like in
light of what you just mentioned. Huge James Cook game
and their last time out doesn't necessarily mean a ton
of points get scored, but they scored forty the last
time they were on the field against the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
I'll do the same as you guys did.

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
We're all taking the under in Austin for Vanderbilt in Texas.
I have one other college play and I'm still curious
why this number is there with one prominent player missing,
and that's it. I don't know how Utah is favored
by ten and a half points over Cincinnati, and I
know Cincinnati will be missing a key figure in the backfield,
but sores, we've been playing so well. I will take

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Cincinnati on the road as they hope to play their
way into the Big twelve title game, where they are
still undefeated.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
Take them to cover a big underdog number.

Speaker 5 (01:48:52):
I'm also playing Cardinals Cowboys, but little faith in Dallas,
Faith and Dak and the offense to outscore the Cardinals
field goal and cover the two and a half point
number they are favored by. And Colt Steelers, the shockingly
bad Steelers defense and the incredibly potent Colts offense. Maybe
they'll get the number all by themselves. Probably Aaron Rodgers

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will score a couple, so we'll take the very high,
but we'll take the over at fifteen and a half. Broncos, Texans.
All of us are playing the over under Clanton and myself,
we think they're gonna hit forty. Colt is not, Nope,
and that will determine who gets the red box versus
the blue box.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
Sorry, two of the best scoring defenses in the NFL.
I don't trust CJ. Stroud entirely just yet, even after
last week's performance, and I sure is out on trust
Bonix in the first half.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
I think the underheads.

Speaker 8 (01:49:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:49:44):
The way that that gets over is probably a flucish
touchdown or an unexpected score. Special teams score, defensive score
turnovers that put you in phenomenal field position where you
can punch it in like happened last night. When the
Dolphins fumbled early in the game, and that's what really
set Baltimore off run pe Tree, team leader in i

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INT so far this year, Bonicks early has been poor
early in games, a little bit better later in games.
But the idea that the defense is going to dominate
unders probably the play and unless they score the defenses
that does make it difficult I think for this game
to hit the over. Even looking at the Texans just
simply at home this year in their games and the

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point totals in those games. I think they shut out
the Titans. They obviously went under in that game, scoring
just twenty six points.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
You got a total of thirty nine against Tampa.

Speaker 5 (01:50:38):
There have been some low scoring affairs this year with
the Texans, especially at home, and this is the best
defense that's visited NRG Stadium all season. Even last week
when it was forty one and a half. Hit the
under at forty one.

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
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Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
Gave you our stone cold locks, have rated candy bars,
have encouraged you to enjoy your Halloween. I'm sitting here
alongside Freddy and as we get to the final segment
of this hour, he's still for an hour to go
or as we have done throughout the week. Cole already
told you where I will be tomorrow and you can
join me out there. I'm at the Cougar game tomorrow,
Cougar's in West Virginia. I'd love to see you out

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there in the bud Light Backyard section at TDCU Stadium,
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Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
Kickoff, ice call, bud Light.

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This is the blackout game, unbreakable as well to honor
Kurt Hester passed away last Saturday. But an opportunity for
you to enjoy the game right there. Fantastic place to
enjoy the game. I'll be in there as well at
parts of the game. Have some other work to do,
but looking forward to seeing you out there. Should you
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into the program? Seven one three, two one two five
seven to ninety. Before we hit the top of the hour,
brought it up briefly with our friend from the Mile
High Sports covering outfit. Nice save the other AFC games
of importance. The Baltimore win last night becomes important because
they're going to win their division. Now trailing these Steelers

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by just that one win. The other games you mentioned
one of them during Stone Cold Locks and kind of
gave your thought on what would happen offensively. But Bill's
Chiefs in Buffalo late afternoon arguably the game of the
entire weekend. What do you really think is gonna happen
when it comes to wins and losses? Who's walking out
of there.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
With the w I mean ed Oliver are missing for
the Bills? Is that's humongous. I think he's consistently one
of the more underrated defensive I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:54:09):
He's not and having a good season again, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
I mean like he It's not that he doesn't he
doesn't get ignored.

Speaker 5 (01:54:14):
He's on the interior for defensive line. Yeah, it's just
not as sexy as all these other guys that get
talked about.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
But he keeps getting the job done. So him being
out against Mahomes that really hurts. Chiefs are favored right
on the road in Buffalo. Both teams have five wins well,
and it's because I think, I mean, look at the
over under and all that, I don't think there's gonna
be particularly a lot of great defense played in this game.

Speaker 4 (01:54:41):
It's the opposite of the Texans Broncos.

Speaker 5 (01:54:43):
The Bills were incredibly impressive, despite giving up forty points
to Baltimore in the opener, in the way that they
came back, James Cook and the team beat a crappy
Panthers team with Andy Dalton a week ago, two not
very good losses. Just the way they played to the
Falcons and the Patriots preceded that. Wins over the one

(01:55:08):
win Saints, the two win Dolphins, and the one win
Jets preceded that they were four and oh and they
have been a month away from playing any kind of well,
that was really good football if you consider who they've beaten.
And I think that's why they are underdogs. I think
people are much more convinced about what I'm also convinced about.

(01:55:29):
I know how good the Chiefs are. I'm concerned that
the Bills aren't what they have been. I think the
Chiefs are gonna go in there and win that game.
I do too, in the main reason I mean, among many,
but you mentioned James Cook. He's sensation a huge game
against the Panthers.

Speaker 3 (01:55:48):
He does not play well against the Chiefs historically in
the postseason. In the regular season, I don't even think
he's cracked one hundred yards against them. But they, the Chiefs,
and specifically their defense and that coordinator do what all
the great ones we always talk about doing. What did
Bill Belichick always do? He neutralized the best player on

(01:56:08):
the other side, did that to JJ Watt a lot.
With the Texans, they just consistently seemed to do that,
and especially with running backs the.

Speaker 5 (01:56:18):
Last two seasons for James Cook in the regular season
against Kansas City, both of which were wins for Buffalo.
Oddly enough, he ran for twenty yards in last year's game,
but scored twice, caught the ball five times.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
Yeah, so everybody else did the heavy lifting, and then
they handed it off on the goal line.

Speaker 5 (01:56:39):
Game two years ago, ten times he carried the ball
and ran for fifty eight yards. Pretty good day, but
obviously not a workhorse. But he also caught five balls
for eighty three yards and had a Sera McCaffery type
after very very much so.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
So rushing the football though, is what I'm talking about,
because that's what he's been doing awesome this year, and
I just, uh, if he hasn't a good day, I
say Buffalo wins.

Speaker 4 (01:57:04):
If he doesn't, they don't. I hate to simplify.

Speaker 5 (01:57:07):
I never guess what Buffalo's record is this year. In
the four games he's rushed for over one hundred yards. Perfect,
you know they're four and oh yeah, with wins over
the Jets, Dolphins, Saints, and Panthers. He got have run
for zero yards.

Speaker 4 (01:57:22):
I mean, but see that right there.

Speaker 5 (01:57:23):
That's what I'm talking about with the Colts, Like what
point is it who you've played, and that point.

Speaker 4 (01:57:28):
Is it you shift over to their game. Colts, they're
gonna win. Steelers, Yeah, they're gonna win. But then they're not.

Speaker 5 (01:57:36):
Then they're not when they when they have somebody of consequence,
the Chiefs, they're gonna pole up so many wins at
these losses they may incur later in the season, they
just won't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Well, yeah, then they get to the playoffs and they'll
play real team and they'll lose.

Speaker 5 (01:57:47):
They're in a phenomenal position to have the number one seed.
They have the most wins currently, there's a six and
two team behind them that still has another game with
the Bills. Just talking about the Patriots, and the Bills
are a five win team. There's another six win team
right behind them in Denver. They still have multiple games
left with the Chiefs and Chargers, who are five win teams.

(01:58:10):
The only way that Colts aren't gonna be the number
one seed basically if they don't fall apart themselves, which
I do not anticipate considering their schedule. You just have
to tell me which one of those other five teams
is just gonna crush, because otherwise they're just gonna beat
each other and nobody's gonna catch the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
Yeah you are. I mean the Chargers didn't get the
job done. The Rams did. They're the only one. They're
the only team that did. Broncos didn't get it done.
Unless the Chiefs get it done. What you're saying very
well could be the case. I mean, I don't know
what the forty nine ers are gonna look like a
few days before Christmas. I also think that it's not

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a gimme that they go to Seattle and win a game.

Speaker 5 (01:58:50):
Yeah, I'm not anticipating a sixteen and one Colts they're
gonna lose.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
But after that Chiefs game, I mean, the Texans might
beat them because defensively they match up well. But even
here in Houston, I don't they not picking the Texans
that week.

Speaker 5 (01:59:04):
They've yet to really run into that game that will
happen where they makes.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
And another game against the Texans the end of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:59:12):
Can you give me a Jags loss to the Raiders
this weekend on the road in Vegas?

Speaker 4 (01:59:17):
I know you want to. Can both teams lose that game? Sucks?
That's an awful game.

Speaker 5 (01:59:22):
Going up against Chiefs, Bills and Seahawks Commander Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:59:26):
No one will be watching who's calling that game.

Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
I'm sure the A team because they only give it
to the best. We have football at five, come in
your way next

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety