AC Puts Brian Cashman In A Body Bag, Rockets Open Season and Texans Sign Devin White

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the a team Am.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It is straight up three o'clock here on Sports Talk
seven ninety and Space City Home Network, which are both
ways you can consume Rockets basketball that counts tonight. It
is opening night in Houston, Texas. Already two games are
in the books from last night. You know the appetizer
if you will. The Celtics are still good and unfortunately

(00:41):
Lebron's team won, But you've got Rockets basketball tonight and
very very excited for the opening of a season unlike
I have been, and probably well probably since twenty nineteen,
the last time they opened up at home and they
had a roster that competed for a playoff spot, which
is what we both think they will do. Well, probably
be telling you more about that, not only today, but

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as the season progresses. But yeah, it's going to be
a fantastic start to the year tonight. You know I
know that wex because they're playing the freaking Charlotte Hornets,
the dregs of society in the NBA. It's gonna be
fantastic when they blow them out.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
By about thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's a pretty lofty goal, all right, twenty five twenty,
they're beating them by twenty tonight. I really do believe
that though.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, listen like they do on the program that talks
about college football from random cities each week, to prepare
everybody for the game, like they do on that show. Yeah,
I will not be making a pick on that game
since I'll be broadcasting it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh, so you're trying to keep everything on the up
and out. That's Ben's dad's move.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You're not gambling on it, you're just picking. Hey, Kirk's
on this game, so he's not gonna be making a pick.
That's so dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's so like Goodie two shoes, come on live a
little walk on the wild side here on the program.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
So, yeah, there's some basketball conversation to be had. There
is obviously gonna Texans conversation to be had. But I'm sorry,
and I didn't necessarily intend on leading the show with this,
but it got me so riled up, and I have
been I'd been a very good boy on social media lately. Basically,
when the astro season was over with, the baseball season

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was over with for me, I realized there have been
games that have been played since then, but I don't
really care about those, and nobody here in Houston really
does not, if they're honest with themselves.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I've just kept my mouth shut because.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
When you when your team is eliminated in the wildcard frankly,
if your team is having to play that wildcard series,
they probably didn't have the season they had intended to,
at least not for the standards of this organization.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, the team taking the field to open up Game
one against the Tigers, the season was over five seconds later.
It's what it felt like in the wildcard round. And
you don't go the full three games, your season starts,
your postseason starts and ends at the snap of finger.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
But I, and again, this is very much and I
told you so, pat myself on the back moment. I
don't usually I don't have a lot of those, because
I don't tend to believe so many things as strongly
as this. But I told you this was gonna happen
on this show. I told you specifically because you're my
co host.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, what happened was something that other people who know
the show and know you probably saw it heard it
and said, man, I can't wait for tomorrow's show. This
is gonna be awesome, right, It does itself though, like
these jokes right themselves, whatever cliche you want to use.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I cannot believe it was so easy to predict this
in that the World Series hasn't even started. In fact,
it's not gonna start tomorrow either. Gotta wait till Friday
to see the team that Rob Manford grew up rooting
for taking on, the team that he wishes was in
the World Series against that first team every single year
in the World Series, because as we all know, you've

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got to have a big market team in a championship series.
If you still think that way archaically in twenty twenty four,
never mind the fact that the smallest market in the
NFL is the back to back defending champion, never mind
the fact that in the NBA that has long since
been tossed aside. I mean, yeah, we'd like the Lakers
in the Knicks. When's the last time the Knicks mattered?

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Until this year and the league's been fine. Sure, it
was not to sidetrack. It was kind of cool that
the Celtics last night something that nobody else can do
and I was thinking about all the other teams, like,
when the Rockets win another title, how will they do
their game presentation, pregame for the ring ceremony. You know,
if they've tried to mirror what the Celtics did at all,
they would have the players walking out and a huge

(04:39):
number three next to them.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It's their third NBA title. Well, the Celtics get to
walk in between a one and an eight as they
won their eighteenth title. Did you see what ESPN did
about that? I did, But I don't want to sidetrack nine.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
So, I mean, I thought maybe this would happen after,
like say, the Yankees win, so.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
We probably would have won a couple more if not
for somebody. But this is awesome, right like that something
like that. Exactly, you already know where we're going with this.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's not just that it happened before they played a
single game, and it's not just that it came from
this particular team, which again, both of these teams are
fair game. Let's face it that both their fan bases
are stupid enough to think, well, if the Astros hadn't
banged down a trash can in the regular season, we
definitely would have had another title. That's what they say,
they keep themselves, that's how they put themselves to sleep

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at night.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thinking about twenty seventeen. Both these teams do.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
This like cheating in some senses, like at a board
game or attack taxes or other plates, like you're cheating,
and it guarantees the result presumably, I mean, I guess
you could cheat it all.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Those situations guarantee the results.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Add some money. You wouldn't necessarily win, whatever the case
may be. But normally that that's what we're talking about.
You know, you would I would assume if you cheated
on a test, it would be to achieve, to guarantee
that you would achieve a certain number. You're not gonna
cheat on a test. And yeah, I mean maybe if
I would have cheated, this would have happened. Maybe if
I wouldn't have cheated, you know what's gonna happen because

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you've cheated properly. Yeah, but it's not like that in
this particular sport or probably any I mean Tom Brady.
You let's let's pretend Tom Brady used deflated footballs. It
guarantees that he likes how it feels. It helps him
throw it where he thinks he wants it to go.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Probably, But do Colts fans run around talking about how
they would have won the Super Bowl that year?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
That's the kind of way I would. I would put
those together. That is apples and apples, that's baseballs and
football's being the same thing. Right, I have looked forward
to the day guarantee that you win, and the same
thing with Connor Stallions, and the same thing with Spygate.
It might help, it might help. And it's the more
analogies I make, the worse they get. Because the Yankees

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knew what was coming. Hey, Lances on the mound, guess
what He's gonna.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Throw out another curve ball and you're gonna swing at it,
Aaron Judge.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Let's get the train back on the tracks where we
had it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, first of all, I have to I have to
take time out of this to uh, to recognize that
I finally, finally, after six years nearly of doing the
show together, I got Adam Wexler to say, that's like
apples the apples.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
I never thought here those ways. Yes, I mean I
think that analogy works. You did something that's outside the rules,
that's frowned upon, that got you punished because you thought
it would help you win.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Didn't guarantee that you went. He didn't win all the
Super Bowls.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
No, he didn't win all the games he played with
deflated football because maybe it was just an assist. By
the way, maybe he was the only one that was punished.
He certainly wasn't the only one who did it. We
know other quarterbacks. I think Aaron Rodgers would probably be
the name closest to the top two things, well, that
particular thing, and knew the most about it, because hey,

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if there's any way to gain an advantage and all.
This is still comical in and of itself because the
aspect of baseball that we're talking about is sign stealing,
which is perfectly legal and always has been.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
As long as it's not electronic.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's just gotten to a point where there's some caveats
to what you can and can't do. I mean it's
almost like it's scouting. You're allowed to scout, but you
can't scout so well and in game to the point
that you're transferring what they're doing in real time. But
you can do it well, yeah, you can sign still
all you go, and in baseball you can sign still
to the point where one of your players that's on

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the field, it's second base, Like, we get the information
from upstairs and then it comes down to the dugout
and then we send it to the guy at second base.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Thanks Joe Girardi.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Joe Girardi again, was your manager. Another element of this.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
So I'll got you so riled up, let's go, let's go.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's the thing, Boston sports fan, since you brought that up,
they had not one, but two teams cheat their way
to championship seasons and nobody talks about it. And in
the Patriots case, they cheated two different ways in two
different seasons. The flake Gate was one season, Spygate was

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another season, and nobody talks about them or their legacy
being tarnished or any.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
So all of that is to say that the freaking
I'm trying to really keep this clean.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
For television general manager, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's what you would call him. I guess if you
wanted to be proper. Brian Cashman goes on national television
and radio and I don't even know.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
It was on.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
He was on the MLB Network show fronted by the
Screamer Matt dog.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right and said the following about the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Finally, he's questioned by Chris, It's been what do you
think about it?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
What does this mean to you? How nice is it?

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Isn't this awesome after fifteen years without an appearance? It's
been fifteen years that gap of time for you and
this team, and now you're there.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
How satisfying it is? How much does it mean to you?
And he said the following, It means a lot.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
And I hate the fifteen year thing because it doesn't.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
It completely forgets and discounts that some other organization see
to us when we were all the way in the end.
You know, if you knew what going on, I don't
think they would be advancing at that during that time thing.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
I think we would have been advancing.

Speaker 7 (10:04):
So I hate that fifteen year thing because I don't
think it accurately reflects history.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, that's funny. I hate you because you say things
like that. I counted how long was that sound?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
By Dan?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
The entire thing? Twenty seconds? Twenty second? Seven seconds in
is when he mentioned the Astros. He didn't say their name,
he'd just that was the best part about it. Oh,
another organization, Yeah, the other organization. That's your father's that organization.
You are finally in. You finally broke through after as
WEX put it eloquently, yesterday, you had Juan Soto and

(10:37):
gian Carlos Stanton drag your three hundred and sixty million
dollar Albatross strikeout Ogre to the final round of the dance.
Here you finally get in. It's your moment to shine
the spotlights on you. Astros didn't even make it out
of the wild card and they're still.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
In your head.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I cannot believe how much they live rent free in
the Yankees heads. It's amazing that this guy finally he's
not gonna get fired, which he probably should have been
twelve times prior to this, because his rosters sucked. There
were windmills, they struck out all the time, and judges
the biggest one. And this guy, he finally gets his
moment and he's on national television and all he can

(11:15):
do is talk about the Astros who have been home
for a month. What a loser, What an absolute limp
small mentality. This guy is Brian Cashman. And oh, by
the way, and I said this on social media last night.
I know for a fact this guy said that Jeff
Luno was the best general manager in Major League Baseball
because who he was talking to he didn't know.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Oh, that guy's actually pretty tight with Jeff Luno.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
So it's an impeccable source I have that told me
that this idiot who's saying this right now in twenty
twenty four about twenty seventeen when his team is in
the World Series, actually was giving credit where it was due.
But you're right, they would have totally advanced if the
Astros didn't cheat in the regular season.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
What an absolute loser. Brian Cashman is.

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Speaker 4 (12:02):
I know what I want to do after that rant,
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Probably need a couple after that, And I love it,
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Speaker 1 (12:33):
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Speaker 2 (12:43):
You know, if I went on for another four minutes
about Brian Cashman, maybe I could compete with that elite
rant that the Donald had on Rosie O'Donnell and how
she's a loser and she well, he's really.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
A snake oil salesman.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
He's a cheek cuss is like a truck driver.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He doesn't do that, though it's different.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
I just don't see it.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Some of his words were directed at how she did
her job her company, much like your words where Brian
Cashman for how he handles his job, but her magazine
was a failure. Other words were something you really never said.
You don't have much to say about Cashman's personality or
personal appearance. His pockets fat, they are, well, his pockets

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are fat. Does the Yankees keep filling them?

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Right?

Speaker 5 (13:28):
But not the way rosies are.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Donald seemed to attack a little bit more personal nature,
a little bit like the difference.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Listen, I don't really I mean, Brian Cashman is just
a bad general manager, that's all he is.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
So you should be happy that he continues to be
employed by the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, yeah, but like we were talking about this yesterday,
not to go full Yankees Radio, but I mean, I.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Mean, geez, there's only two teams playing, we might as well.
I mean, we had to wait a whole five days
to talk about how the Yankees live where you present them.
They don't have to pay any money to live where
they live because it's free. It's in their head. We
only had to wait five days for the other team
in the World Series to prove who lives in their heads,
because it was only It's only been five days, says

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Clayton Kershaw said what he said the other team. He's
not personally representing the Dodgers in the World Series. He'll
be in the dugout wearing a uniform, but he's not
gonna be on the roster because he's hurt.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Which is good for them because this is the time
of year where he usually well lets it run down
his leg on the mound.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, he's bad at pitching, That's yeah, that's what I said.
So both of these teams for the same reasons, and
for the same reasons. It makes most of Houston and
most I would hope most of major League Baseball, except
maybe Colorado and the other cities that cheated. It makes
them laugh because of who it is, Like Tampa doesn't

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do this when they've run into the Astros and not
one you know a team that's fallen to the Astros
in the World Series. The Dodgers are one of them. Well,
the other team hasn't. I don't think Philadelphia has talked
about that, and clearly I know what years these are.
Any other American League teams that have fallen to the
Astros during this Golden Era, they don't. Usually it's only
these two teams who just happened to be in a

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larger pool than you think, because everyone tries to forget
that they were either punished or definitely known to have cheated.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, and there's even different Yankees Astros matchups since then
where it would just okay, well, if you if you
want to do that, if you want to hang your
hat on. Oh, we would have advanced in twenty seventeen
if it weren't for the lying, cheating Astros and their
twenty seven straight curve balls from Lance mccullors. Okay, what
did the Astros pitchers do to cheat? I forget, I

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don't know. I guess we're good.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Did they tell the Yankees what's coming? But they lied
to them, So that's how they fooled. As our friend
Josh r pointed out, yes to protect right even though
he was on the X platform needing no protection.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
I forgot.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I was like, why am all of a sudden? Is
this getting way more?

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh? Josh reddit quote tweeted me. You know, did like
was the Astros banging on trash cans in that series
against the White Sox in the regular season where there
was like ten thousand people in attendance? Is that what
made Todd Frazier swing like a girl at justin Verlanders filth?

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Was that all shof?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Like that? That sounds right? I mean like that, come on?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
And my favorite part is it didn't take but like
two seconds for a Yankee fan to come in and respond.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Game two is one on a walk off. The series
went seven games. You're saying when you're saying, what.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Like, how about Gary Sanchez catches the ball as Altwove's
running around third when he never should have been, and
then al Tuove would have been out by a mile,
and so you're blaming that loss on cheating. That's hilarious,
which Adam Clayton tweeted at me love it no relation.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Just so you are.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Aware, our good friend Jay red Dubduce yeah quote tweeted
you that's Josh Reddick's handle. I love that guy, Hey, Brian,
because he was referencing your Brian Cashman commentary with the
video we just played for you, Hey Brian from Josh, well,
what's happening?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Why did your team score less than five runs a minute?

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Made?

Speaker 3 (17:12):
But scored all those runs in New York? Question mark?

Speaker 4 (17:15):
But see, that's the thing, and I don't mind sharing
this information from Josh, even though two tweets prior he
said damn good day to be a dog.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
The Georgia man himself, well he hashtags sorry Texas.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
He made sure he didn't want to knows where his
bread's buttered these days.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
And that's the.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Thing, like he he's talking about something that no one
ever brings up. Because again this, this is why I
wanted to trip Rod Manfred in that hallway, because he's
gonna fall on top of Jeff passing. He didn't have
him first, he didn't have far to fall. Neither one
of those two have far to fall. It's just it's
so obvious even as time goes on, it gets more

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clear that the Astros were scapegoaded for a bigger problem
that was league wide.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
And I just that that.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Whole scenario you painted where they scored a billion runs
at home and scored not a billion down the road.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
To be factual.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
The games a Minute Made Park where the Astros this
is twenty seventeen alcs. Can I use that good the
even games, Thank goodness, the Astros used whatever system they
used when it was too loud to use it. As
they scored two runs in each of the first two
games against the Yankees at Minute Made Park, it was
good enough to win because the Yankees scored one in
each game. Then when they came back to Houston, the

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Astros bats really exploded. They scored seven in Game six,
they scored four in Game seven, even though if they
had scored two in the first of those two games
and one in the other, they would have won them anyway.
The Yankee scored three runs at Minute Made Park. The
Yankee scored nineteen runs in fewer games in their own ballpark.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
And again, this pitch, this epis exactly and this is
something you could do in the next round. When Cody
Bellinger set a record for World Series strikeouts. They lost
Game seven at home and Game two at home, Like,
come on, and oh, I'm sorry, they must have been
cheating in Game five when both teams were hitting all
of those home runs and you couldn't hear yourself. Think, now,
I wasn't there, but you were that night, and you

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know how loud it was in there. That's the funniest
thing of all that White Sox series where this was discovered.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
You know why it was discovered because there was.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Nobody in the building because they were playing the freaking
It's like when Jeremy pivens Alri in Entouragi says, I
didn't go to the game because they were playing the
freaking Bobcats.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
That was the equivalent of that game. There was nobody
in there.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well, yeah, now they're the Hornets tonight's opponent, different franchise.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
I mean, you would you look at our good friend
Masahiro Tadaka's performance in the postseason. He pitched against the
Astros signs stealing scheme in Game one in Houston, and
they torched him for four hits. Yeah, six innings, four hits,
two runs. Then when he got to Yankee stadium and
the Astros couldn't use it anymore. He pitched his second
quality start of the World Series. I mean, it's against

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the same day team in a different ballpark.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Baseball is so hard and other than like Marwin Gonzalez,
nobody even benefited from the stupid thing. And on top
of all that, I know I've said a lot, I'll
let you finish.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm gonna let you finish. But like you do realize
that who is it again?

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, Carlos Beltron played for the Yankees the year before
the story begins. I mean this chapter one. Yeah, people
just go past chapter one and go straight to chapter two.
Astros cheated Orange Team Bad. Chapter one. If you read it,
you know the genesis of the situation. In the beginning,
Brian Cashman's team had a guy named Carlos Beltron, who
was actually the guy who devised this whole stupid system.

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I can't even call it that with a straight face,
banging on trash cans.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Are you serious right now? And then that was the that.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was the thing that kept the Yankees from advancing for
the first time. And I don't know how much it
was then, since two thousand and nine, and you know
if they had advanced by the way, they definitely would
have beat the Dodgers too, because the Dodgers weren't that good.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
I didn't say they would have won, he said their
gap would have not been as long.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
There'd be no fifteen year gap because they would have advanced.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Never Mind that when they went the last time a
Rod had a syringe sticking out of his backside.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Whoa different cheating, It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Oh, that's right, don't talk about that.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Soon to be tables like that to qualify What a
weird statement, What a weird time we live in.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
If you have to qualify it that much, it's just
not something that kept you kept you. You being him,
his team that he had on the field, the ownership
and the fans, everybody associated with the Yankees. You weren't
good enough that year, just like the Astros weren't good
enough this year.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
It happens.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, so different elements probably bothered different people more. The
element of they were This is the other thing that
Major League Baseball that Rob Manford gave these other teams,
these other players, these other gms when he handed out
the punishment, when even publicly said, will let the fans
decide he gave them this ammunition and the manner in

(22:03):
which they punished the Astros in a different way than
they punished previous teams. And yes, there had been a
letter sent to teams in between, so it did somewhat
necessitate a different type of punishment. There's no question they
were made out to be a certain type of team,
a certain type of scapegoat, a certain element of we
let this go so far, And they never really wouldn't

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present it this way, but it was quite clearly this way.
We let this go so far out of hand. We
made it so easy for every team to do this.
We gave them monitors five feet away from the dugout,
we gave them camera, We did everything that would make
it very easy to do it. We let it get
out of hand. But we can't tell everybody that, And
we can't tell everybody that we made it so easy
that everybody was doing it. And give me a little

(22:45):
latitude on everybody. Maybe there were two teams that said,
a man, we can shoot all we want. We suck
it doesn't matter. Why should we They made it so easy,
but they couldn't tell everybody that. They had to pretend
it was not that they had to pretend it's this team.
We have to punish this team, and maybe this will
show that we're serious about this.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
This one rogue team. We can't have that.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
You guys better watch what we do to them, which
gave all these other teams Cashman, Kershaw and all the
other players at the time that said it, we can
say whatever we want now because they're telling you. Major
League Baseball is telling you fans that they're the team
that cheated, the only team that cheated, which is why
Bellinger types and Judge and Kershaw have gone in front
of cameras and acted like, yeah, they're the only ones

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that cheated.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
So now you know, it's just it's laughable, and as
we get to the World Series, it's going to continue
to be laughable.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
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Speaker 3 (23:58):
A lot of baseball. In the first two segments, wex, well,
why not there's no baseball being played right now? That's
what I would run on.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's probably the Texans at the practice field today. It's
not like CJ and Dimico spoke today. It's not like
the Texans made a couple of roster moves we have
not discussed. So yeah, back to baseball, Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
What uh?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
What are you excited to the most about with Bryce
Young returning to the starting lineup.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
You know, I really can't believe we actually did bring
it up a couple times Carolina and the quarterback situation
because because of Deshaun's situation, teams that have moved. I
didn't mention it at all during the first two shows
of the week, even though I thought it was a
certainty and they hadn't mentioned it till today. I said,
they're getting their teeth kicked in with Andy Dalton. It's
it's time for him to come back and start. Even

(24:41):
though I get their joy older, they probably already know
the answer. Yeah, but there's no reason to play Andy
Dalton anymore. Now you've given him his break. Bryce, You've seen, Yes,
this is why Andy's a backup quarterback. You're getting Adam
Thieling back probably, which should help. If you watched much
of last year, paid attention at all. It was a
massive security blanket for Bryce Young last year.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
You probably even though you.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Are there at practice every day and you really know,
you're the GM, you're the coaching staff, you're all new there,
you've seen him, you know, but you want to do
what's you know what you should do, and that's send
it back out there.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
And that's what they're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Barring an injury, he probably starts most, if not all,
of the rest of the season. They have made that announcement.
By the way, we're not just saying it. Bryce Young
is going to resume the starting job for the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
It is.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
The thing is it is time.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, you could have done it even earlier because
of the way the team was playing. From that position.
They actually have had a better than I think they
thought they would have running game. Still think their defense
is capable of allowing them to compete. They've looked really
bad in a lot of games because I think teams
are kind of taking advantage of what they can't do offensively.
But it's time and they're headed right back to the

(25:52):
top of the draft regardless, so they do have it's
pretty quick to pull the plug on any top pick
at quarter certainly the number one pick, but it's not
within reason that they could say, yeah, it's time. Either
they find one immediately in this draft or they just
realize this is the marketplace we need to pursue, whether

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we just want to get a little bit better next
year or we're looking at the twenty twenty six draft class.
I mean, I always go back to this that the Texans,
through no fault of their own, twice, we're in situations
where maybe that was the best case. You know, Michael
Vick could have been a Texan if he was in
that draft way back in the early two thousands.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Could you imagine?

Speaker 4 (26:33):
And it just would have been nice, just and timing
didn't work out. And this this most recent draft pick
at quarterback for the Texans, it worked out. But we
spent the entire offseason saying, why take a quarterback when
you're gonna play a quarterback and be bad and you're
gonna want to take Caleb Williams the next season if you.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Are, if you're Bryce young too, don't you don't you
want to accelerate being the next Sam Donald if that's
indeed possible, you know, like we laugh and we should
because well, Sam Donald is of normal stature for an
NFL quarterback and Bryce Young isn't. But I don't even
think that's the biggest It's not the biggest drawback. He's

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just wasn't good at being an NFL quarterback.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, he's thought of it is not good because of
the way he played. He actually was thought of much
if I recall correctly, and if we even evaluate them now,
he has more quarterback NFL quarterback attributes, not just size.
Sam Donald is regarded as a player versus say, Bryce Young,
better arm, talent, highly.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Towder coming out too.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
I mean, he's just he throws a better ball. He's capable.
I'm not gonna go that he makes all the throws
are out because that's what they all do, teams do.
It's a matter of yeah, great, he made all the
throws when he went fifty six for fifty seven and
a setting set up by his quarterback guru against no
defense at his college campus, with all the receivers he's
been throwing two all the years. Are you sure did

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he managed to do that? That's crazy? He can make
all the throws? Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I if I'm him, if I'm his agent if I'm
his camp, That's at least the narrative I would use,
since it's convenience, since it's happening this season. I mean,
we have never seen Sam Donald play this well, but
he was never in this situation.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, great situation.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
And the ironic thing is the only reason he's getting
this shot is because the guy who was presumably going
to be starting as a rookie got hurt.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's an interesting one to maybe get an answer from
them way down the road, because they're both still there,
so I don't know how you get an honest one.
It's very possible he would not have been the starter anyway,
because they were looking at their roster and watching him
in practice and watching what they thought they could do
with him. It's not that they thought their future was
brighter with Donald versus McCarthy, but their immediate future was

(28:49):
we just went out and signed all these free agents.
Right now, we know McCarthy's going to be our quarterback
of the future.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
But what if we can win right now?

Speaker 4 (28:57):
What if we can play great football, if we get
pretty good quarterback play. And I think they might have
chosen to go this way. I never thought it before
they got to camp and went through preseason. I thought
it was a slam dunk that McCarthy would be the starter.
I think they saw things that showed you otherwise, and
I don't think they were. They were broken up that
he couldn't get a lot of playing time this year,

(29:18):
which essentially he's not gonna play it all this year
no matter what his hell situation is. But they're winning,
They're good, they have super Bowl aspiration.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
They could. I don't think they will.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
But if I sat here and said the Sam Donald
led Vikings could win the Super Bowl this year, you
probably wouldn't ask me to leave.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
It's not outlandish. It's just not outlandish.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
And even if that's the best you could say, it's
still better than what the alternative has been for his career.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
He has an advantage that Bryce Young could also have
in that what happens most of the time when you
are that top pick or picked near the top of
the draft. James stinks yeah, which means they doesn't have
an amazing all world elite wide receiver to throw too
like Sam Donald does.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Now, hey, Jefferson, he's pretty good last time I checked.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
I mean his skill guys especially when Hawkinson comes back,
which could be soon, but not this week. Jefferson Addison
Naylor now, who I think has proven to be a
pretty good additional target, and they went out and brought
Aaron Jones in for their backfield, and they have a
really good offensive line. They have one of the probably
least talked about great tackles in the game, and Darisaw

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they're good.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
They're just they just flat out to have talent.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
You know.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
I think we had the argument earlier this year when
they played the Texans, which team has more talent? And
I think people are still sleeping on how many really
good players they gave Sam Darnold to win with. That
was never their intention, but that's exactly what they've done.
And you know, totally different career paths, but it's the
exact same thing that happened this offseason with Kirk Cousins.

(30:47):
They gave him a great team. They were ticked off
that their awful quarterback play in Atlanta was preventing them
from doing anything. Now they have a real quarterback. We
finally saw Michael Pennix get a little bit of work
because it was a blowout Status Life last week. But
he's got all these weapons they can I think they
can be a much better defense than they've shown already.
But it's no different than what they did here. They

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just hadn't won anything beforehand, and they weren't sure that
it would work. Immediately they gave them a bunch of weapons.
They said, CJ, would you like an opportunity to succeed?
Now they just have to do the other part. The
sexy way is, well, when Caleb Williams drops back, we
wanted to throw to DJ Moore and Roma Dunze and
Keenan Allen in two offseasons, here's what we've given him.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
And when CJ.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Stroud drops back, we wanted to throw to Tank Dell
and Steph Diggs and Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz and
Joe Mixon all but Nico Collins have joined the team
in those same two years. Well, now you got to
hit the offensive line. Both of these teams, The Bears
offensive line and the Texans offensive line is not at
the same level as all the other parts of the offense.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, and it's it's I'm not gonna say it was avoidable.
I mean it was to an extent, but you can't
you can't say that you haven't a dress.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Even though you don't like what they addressed it.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
With the money they threw it, the players they threw
it at, and you know, the draft picks, all that
kind of stuff. They did address it. They did try,
I guess from that standpoint. But when all the rest
of the aspects of the team seem like their leaps
and bounds ahead of it in comparison, it does ring
a little hollow, and it just makes you wonder how
long until there's an actual elite offensive line in front

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of one.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
CJ.

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I'll tell you what is elite when it comes to
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Speaker 3 (32:51):
The line that protects now.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
If you've been in a collision, obviously you weren't protected there,
but that was maybe off, that was out of the game.
Now that you're back in the game, you want to
make sure that that line is protecting you with everything
you've got to get as far as compensation and anything
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Speaker 9 (33:32):
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Speaker 4 (33:43):
Oh my goodness, Texans, We're back on the practice field
today as we continue the conversation we've had for the
last forty five minutes, Texans, don stop wax and ac
here with you on a Wednesday afternoon of the eighteen
here on Sports Talk seven to ninety and of course
simulcast on Space City Home Network. Both ours and their

(34:06):
networks will be getting into Rockets coverage at six o'clock tonight.
A Ross will have Launchpad for you, I'll have Rockets
count Down for you, and then Matt and I will
have the game for you a little bit after seven
o'clock for the tip, and we'll be with you every
step of the way. Same thing on Space City Home
Network on the TV side. The injury report is what
we'll get to first, and then a little bit of
what Tomko had to say about one significant change to

(34:27):
the Texans defensive personnel. I think it's good news that
Kamari Lasser was on the field today, even on a
limited basis. Don't know that he's trending towards playing on Sunday,
but this is clearly a step in the right direction.
And I've already mentioned this week and last week. To me,

(34:47):
this is the biggest area of concern on the team.
Their depth at corner is nonexistent. And hat tip to
d Lo D'Angelo Ross for playing all the snaps in
Lassener's absence. I don't think it's his fun, it's just
the nature of same thing. When they went from Joe
Mixon to not Joe Mixon. It happens usually the guy
in the front of the line on the depth charts

(35:08):
is better, and that is the case. But last year
with his shoulder injury scapula issue, he was on the
field at least on a limited basis. Henry Toatoa continues
to make progress through the concussion protocol, which cost him
last week's game and part of the game before it,
he too on a limited basis, was out there. I
would imagine all the other limited practicers are available this weekend.

(35:30):
Will Anderson fully Photocasi and Laramie Tunsel because they all
played the previous weekend under similar practice conditions. At this
time on a Wednesday, remember at this point in the season,
when they're going Sunday to Sunday and they're now into
their eighth game. Wednesday's a very light day, which allows
for some players who would not normally be practicing if
they practiced more of a full go. Thursday is the

(35:53):
full go day. They will be out there, They're in
full pads. They will continue to practice but at a
little bit higher intensity level. On Fridays as usual the walkthrough,
so that does impact how some players participate in an
attempt to get them to play. The three players that
there are four players that did not practice at all today.
All missed last week's game, if not more games prior

(36:13):
to that. Robert Woods in his foot, Jimmy Ward with
his groin injury, Steven Simms who ultimately was deemed out
with his back injury, which allowed for Desmond King to
return punts and Damian Pierce to return kicks. One of
those two players did a good job. I'll tell you
which one if you don't already know, but I bet
you do. And unfortunately, as these al Shire did not

(36:34):
practice again, and I don't think we're going to see
him for at least another game, probably too, considering the
game after this one. It's not Sunday to Sunday. You're
playing Halloween Night on the road in New York on
Thanksgiving Thursday, Thanksgiving Thursday, Halloween Thursday. So I do think
that's probably a bit of a stretch, and to that end,
I would imagine that's one reason why they let go

(36:55):
Rushad Weaver yesterday, made no corresponding move to the active roster,
shuffled the deck a little bit on the practice squad,
getting Jawir Jordan back in the fold bar to their
draft picks, but they left an open roster spot, which
pretty much indicated they were signing somebody off of outside
the team. Not an indication that Christian Harris was about
to be activated, because he would not do that in

(37:18):
that manner, and he's not his practice window and his
designation for return has not been tripped, so they went
outside the organization player. We talked about the day that
the Eagles said get out of here to Devin White.
He's not very far removed from being a pretty good
player in Tampa, but his last year there wasn't nearly
as successful as his previous seasons, and he basically never

(37:39):
played in Philadelphia. He was beaten out in the off
season and really never found his way to the field
after just was a total non factor there, which they
did not anticipate, which is and nor did he which
is why he was there in the first place. But
they let him go and the Texans signed Devin White.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Today.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Demiko Ryans, he's a former Eagles linebacker and I was
adding a former Eagle linebacker, one that was pretty good
in his career. What does he think about the addition
of Devin White.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Excited to get Devin here.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
We'll work with him and see where he is trying
to get him caught up to speed to see, you know,
if he can help us. So it's his opportunity for
Devin to compete, come in and learn how we do
things and see how he can fit in and how
he can help us.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
So yeah, I mean that's at this time of year,
and a lot of coaches are saying similar things in
their press conferences as they add players to spell players
they don't have.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
We're gonna get Hassan Reddick some time today and maybe
tomorrow we'll see even going full kind of gauge where
he's at. But I tell you what, coming up on
Halloween Thursday, I cannot wait to see what Hassan Reddick
does to the Texans. Basically what coach Olbrick said today,
it's a little different, Yeah, a little different, a little different.

(38:50):
What did I see earlier this week?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Hassan Reddick is in the building and he's talking with coaches,
and his agent is also in the building, Drew Rosenhouse.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I mean, I think we've past the days of talking
about Drew Rosenhaus in any kind of negative light, Like,
I don't know what more you'd want. This guy's unbelievable.
He is a fantastic elite agent. He's great.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Okay. A couple of things about Drew Rosenhouse.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
First of all, he was consulted, shadowed, whatever you want
to call it for Jerry maguire. That's just awesome and
so Bob Sugar that right, it have to be smaller Jerry.
I also ran into him outside of Reliant Stadium, and
this had to have been the inaugural season for the Texans,

(39:37):
maybe the second year. You to what you just said,
he posed for a picture with me. You know what
the picture looked like, me cheesing him doing this. If
you're watching on TV, you can see what I'm doing
because you're still working, puts his arm around me, and
this is the expression on his face like he did

(39:59):
not want to take that picture.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I knew who he was.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
He was probably on his phone, driving his car and
eating dinner with his family, and you asked him to
take a picture.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
He was by himself.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
This was actually on the sidewalk along Kirby Okay, right,
what's the cross street there not Murphy Murworth Murworth. Yeah,
we're right there at the media entrance, just outside of there.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
He didn't want to take that picture.

Speaker 6 (40:22):
It was a.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
It was a smart I mean, I was a kid
his his player. In this case, Reddick left, the agency
left him. They were trying to do the same thing
Drew ended up doing. They just couldn't get anywhere. So
they said, this client is not working out for us,
so we're going to drop him. And Drew Rosenhouse jumps
in and it did not take long for him to
convince his client and convince the Jets that the best

(40:44):
case scenario, no matter what you want or you want
back to get on the field. Yeah, it's it's not
going to be good for anybody if this year is
completely and utterly wasted, and now it won't be Unfortunately,
a team that well be simple, A team that didn't
have DeVante Adams or Hassan Redick when you were scheduled
to play them now will And that's what the Sexans
could be up against coming there. But obviously Demiko Ryans

(41:06):
it's interesting that they would make this addition.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I can't help but think it's a bigger deal.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
I think this is far less Christian Harris related and
a little bit more as he's a'll Shire related, you know,
Neville Hewittt and Jake Hansen took all the snaps, and
like we talked about on Monday, I'm not expecting them
to play at the same level as the players they
were behind. That's obviously they shouldn't be, or else they'd
be ahead of them, I think.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
But they the plays.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Some plays were there to be made, and I thought
Neville Hewitt make quite a few. There weren't any glaring mistakes. Oh,
Hanson's out of position or Hanson got worked there, And
maybe I need to go back and watch more closely.
Maybe the team feels otherwise, but you still should This
is a move you should make if you think he
can help you. And I clearly never said, oh, they
should definitely go get him, So I'm not going to
change my tune today. But they're they're trying to get

(41:53):
to well, when are we getting him back? Or when
is the next person coming back? Or you know, again,
when is they only play two linebackers, So it's still
a little bit curious. They barely carry any to begin
with because they just don't need him, but clearly they
feel they do need him. They do need to see
if you can get up to speed, and I would
think he'd be active for this game.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
I'm just glad that the Jets welcomed in Rosenhaus instead
of having a lunch at Cronin's, came here to let
you go say something.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
It's real.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Speaking of the Texans and acquisitions, we've got a big
one coming up next.

Speaker 11 (42:26):
The A.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
On Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys
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Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 9 (42:45):
A.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Power number two underway here on Sports Talk seven ninety
It's a Wednesday edition of the program Rockets tipping off
their season tonight Charlotte Hornets in Town. You'll hear it
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. You'll also see
it right here on Space City Home Network. As our
simulcast continues and you get more and more people coming

(43:08):
up to me saying they watch the show every single day.
It's kind of become part of their routine. So we
love to hear that as we continue in our fish
bowl here. That's why I like to call it our
nice little fish bowl. Looking at us as opposed to
just hearing us. You don't I did as an adult.
You know what they don't know? Well, I can't remember
when see here's the deal. I wanted to get one

(43:30):
of those like elite tanks.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Like a Dwight Howard level tank. Well, but I like
this sound. TV show would be made about your tank.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Kind of like the kind that you see, like when
you go to a nice doctor's office or dentist office.
It's like, but you know the thing about that is
nice and soothing, right the sound. But they have people
coming in and maintaining that thing like once a week
or whatever.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
Like it's a pool.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
It's a lot cheaper to just go buy a noise
maker that runs water as the sound.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Yeah, we have a fish, you do. Is it a goldfish?
It's not gold Is it a clownfish? What does that
look like? Uh finding nemo? Yeah, basically not a clwonfish.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Oh, it's got scales and stuff and lives in the water.
The one just one has no friends. The swim with
one friend.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
It's me.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
So it's in a little bowl. It's not like the tank.
It is a tank, but it's a small tank. It's
this tabletop tank. Okay, how long is it been? Live
fish in that same situation? Because the first one chose
apparently to jump out the hole at the top and
land on the table and then survive.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
How long was it out of the water.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
We just weren't home and when we got home to
take care of the where is he?

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Nobody home? Looking in the tank for a fish? Not there?
And then you saw it next to the tank.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
I actually never saw it because I was here at work.
But they found it, Yes, the kids found it.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
What a uplifting story to start the second start show.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
If you want to start the show talking about the
fish bowl we're in, I'm going to talk about fish.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
Current.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Fish is fine.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Feed him every day and he gets regular feedings and
swims around the tank and seems as happy as a
fish who's confined to a tank could be.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Not happy as a clam because he's not one of
those Well.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
You can put one of those fake ones in there.
I don't think gonna make him any happier.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
If you look at it. Something to observe as he
swims around mindlessly.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
All right, life, that's lap nine billion, eight hundred.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
And seventy six.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Only a few billion more to go ted A All right,
So before we get to a little bit more on
the Texans personnel, there is a former Texan on the
move did you see this.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
News what former Texan is on the move of note
to the A team listeners give you.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
A hint, sure, sticky fingers. That doesn't really narrow it down.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
That reminds me of a very funny TV blooper about
sticky fingers, because it was supposed to be cookie fingers.
The person on site thought they said sticky fingers. Anyway, Yeah,
I saw that he was on the move, and I
was really it was really interesting to see people who
hadn't been paying attention to DeAndre Hopkins who's being traded
to the Kansas City Chiefs, and they're probably very hopeful

(46:03):
he'll be prepared to play immediately as a third wide
receiver they hoped would help them this year, will not
be able to due to health. Hollywood Brown first for
she Rice, second Jujus with Schuster followed, and now DeAndre
Hopkins getting out of a pretty bad situation, not personally
just their quarterback plays awful, as is their team, and
he goes from literally a team with the fewest wins
in the AFC to a team with the fewest losses

(46:24):
in the AFC and gets to play with Pat Mahomes.
What I was saying is I found it a little
bit amusing that I don't think people have paid attention
to him in twenty twenty four because there was no
reason to.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
He hardly has any catches, he hardly has any yards.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Their team is terrible, they can't throw the football, so
kind of gauging what kind of impact he could have
in Kansas City I think proved harder for analysts in
the short few hour period we've had since the deal
was reported to kind of see how we would fit in.
And I think one person, Chase Daniel, kind of had
to double take himself and he said as much he will.

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He's not the DeAndre Hopkins that played here. It's not
the DeAndre Hopkins that played in Arizona. He's not even
the DeAndre Hopkins that played initially in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Can he help the Chiefs?

Speaker 4 (47:06):
I think he can help them tremendously because when the
ball comes his way, he's going to catch it and
that's job one. And he still does that about as
well I think as anybody, especially now that I'll have
a quarterback putting where the ball where it's supposed to be.
It's not gonna create a ton of separation. They're not
gonna send him deep. He's probably gonna be very good
in the same way Travis Kelsey is very good if

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he can get on the same page quickly, but I
bet he can with the elite of elite NFL quarterbacks
at extending plays. Probably should talk about that as often
as any other trait that Pat Mahomes has. Extending plays
forever and having receivers that can figure out a way

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to create enough separation follow along with where he's going.
If you find a gap, if you find a spot,
find a hole in the defense, if you've lost your guy,
he'll find you. And that's why I think is actually
of all the vets they probably could have plucked from
a team, this probably does make some sense. He is
very different than Hollywood Brown, very different than Rashid Rice,

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and it'll be used as such.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
But he's going to be a guy that you know
will be able to that's all you need. It doesn't
have to be all that sexy stuff you mentioned. This
is Sean Diggs has been sexy here in Houston. Sexy's
not the word I'd use, right, But Deander Shopkins is
probably going to be used in a similar way. And
you know what, if he gets if he achieves the

(48:32):
type of numbers even with this last week that that
Stefan Diggs has, which I don't think he will.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
That was one of the five lowest yards per catch.
Stefan Diggs is having a game in his whole career
of ten years.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
And I still say it was way more about the
pass rush. Oh yeah, yeah, no question about it.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
And Jack Hopkins should continue to add to any team
he goes on, and when you're inside the red zone,
there are things you can do with him that you
would normally do with other wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Why is jay r Alexander think that that was the
reason that they didn't score.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
More, because that's what you do when you're someone like
that like Yo Tomiko actually addressed the digs gire jawing
on the sidelines before the game or drawing before the
game and some of that stuff in game, and he
basically said, save your energy. I mean, I'm not saying
don't do it, or just make sure your focus is
where it needs to be. You don't what's that getting anybody?
This is before the game, This doesn't matter. Save your energy,

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your intensity for the game itself, which I've already said this,
This week. I think the Texans did. I don't think
any of that had anything to do. It didn't take
them out of their game. I know they did engage
in it a little bit. CJ quite obviously did. When
he ran for the first down and was bumped out
of bounce. He got right up and he was the
one pointing and talk it's it's fine. And I just

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think they handled.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
It very well. They didn't handle the Packers very well.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
No, and I have it on good authority. What precipitated
that whole thing where Diggs was taking on the.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Entire roster Without saying what it is, I think we
can all soon if it really set him off, if
it really bothered him, if he you know, basically faked
tough guy stuff that almost one hundred times out of
one hundred means it was personal. It had nothing to
do with how you play or any previous matchups. Unless
that was the same conversation. It was probably something very personal.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Alexander had called him a quote little boy in prior matchups,
which is just stupid. I think Digs is taller than
him too, which makes it dumber. Neither of them are
particularly tall people, by the way, But whatever the stupidest
thing ever. Nixon is the one that said what was
said that I couldn't even clean it up if I

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wanted to. But that's what got Diggs fired up, hot
and bothered. Whatever had him taking on the whole team,
jawing with them before the game, which is what you saw.
You only see that part. And then, by the way,
I'm glad you brought that up. Something happened completely unrelated,
although it did involve the Chiefs on some day. Did

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you see who got ejected late? Did you see why
he got ejected late? And did you see who started
it and absolutely threw the first punch cook the safety for.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
The Chiefs this and I will do my best to
figure out which analyst or someone who covers the NFL
or performer player even somebody noted this, which is so
obvious to me, and I would have said the same thing.
He used replay assist for all sorts of you use
the booth for all sorts of stuff. Everybody on earth
that has a television saw what happened. So the only

(51:34):
people that didn't are the seven guys on the field
where it can black stripes, but the people that work
with them to get calls right, did see it. And
in this I'm not saying you need to review everything,
you got to bring them in on every single call.
I'm saying on this should be an addition where they
can help. I mean they would like in a basketball
game when the referee comes over and talks to us

(51:56):
from one floor down into the mic, and when he
tells the crowd like he.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Ta, he talks to the PA announcer Jonathan Sandford, and
then we get the byproduct of that conversation.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Yes, that's what he does.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Like they're they have the ability to do this in
these it's for fights, is what I was referencing. Well,
they go over there to look and see who was
really involved, it was there a punch really thrown. This
strikes me as identical. You're not looking to see if
he really held him. You're not looking to see if
you missed the pass interference call. You're looking to see
if well, I think punches were thrown or I know

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punch was thrown. Nico Collins and Stevenson from the Bear,
same thing. Why not How it doesn't take long at
all because they don't have to go walk over to
the stupid peep show.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
They just tell them what happened.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
They should have This should be something I think they
could add to their ability to help games be officiated
more accurately. He called down to the official and say
he threw punch number one, or he threw he shoved
him first. He needs to be assessed that penalty. He
threw a punch, decks, he needs to be ejected well.
And again it was Trent Williams.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
By the way, Trent Williams is getting up after a
play and Brian Cook slaps he struck him in the head.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Okay, I don't want while Williams was trying to push
himself up off of his feet and the other player
was already standing basically above him.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
The Kansas City Star.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
The headline is a fish wrap what chiefs Brian Cook
said after skirmish comma taking punch from forty nine ers
Trent Williams, Oh, you mean after you doled out the
first hint of abuse and then you took that punch
like Trent Williams didn't get up and clock you. And
then he says it says close Trent Williams, Uh, he

(53:39):
hit him. So Cook slaps Williams on the side of
his helmet before the offensive lineman retaliated by punching Cook
across the left side of his head. You mean the
left side of his helmet. Come on, you idiots, I mean,
this is totally mischaracterization.

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Speaker 2 (54:16):
So back to the Texans after we went around the NFL,
and we've done that a little bit.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
Always more news going around around the rest of the league.
There are thirty one other outfits.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
I mean, there's there's several things we haven't gotten to today.
I just thought that DeAndre Hopkins was of note since
he used to play here, and I do think he
has something left in the tank provided Pat Mahomes starts
deciding to throw the football to his receivers again instead
of always handing it off on the goal liner, taking
in himself.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Or throwing it to the other NFL eight leader eight interceptions.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
He's got how many touchdown passes? Oh yeah, six of those, right,
so that's two less.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
But they don't lose any games. It's actually impressive. They
just they don't lose. They suck well in that aspect,
and they still win all their games.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
They weren't even they severely outplayed the forty nine ers
this past Sunday.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Well was the left of them.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I know brock Perty was out there. He's their starter,
but like no Christian McCaffrey brand and I you got hurt.
They just they're they're dinged up. The forty nine ers
might miss the postseason.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Yeah, the record says so absolutely the case.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I mean, they're too talented too, I think, even with
their injuries.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
But man, they also I would say even with all
those injuries, and they might be without several of those
players this week. Obviously they're without Ayu. Definitely, you gotta
consider even though there's a group of teams in the
NFC North, it's awesome. San Francisco has been bad. They're

(55:54):
a whole game at a first place.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
It's kind of like this Colt's coming in this week
very much so. I mean, Cultur on a good football team.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
And they're have a better record than the San Francisco
forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
All it takes is one win here in Houston and
you have the same record as the division leading Texans.
Because they couldn't beat Green Bay last week and it
had nothing to do with jyr and Alexander.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
But by the way, Jordan Love is one of the
other two quarterbacks who also leads the league with eight interceptions,
two of which were thrown to your team. Like, there
are reasons why coaches don't care. They want to coach
it out of them, they'll want to ask them about it,
they want to work on it with them, but the
end of the day, they really it's like whatever, man,

(56:36):
I know you're gonna make enough plays to overcome it.
It's great when you have an Aaron Rodgers like the
Packers did. It was Matt Lafleur was actually actually asked
a question about that. You know, your last quarterback basically
was the greatest quarterback ever in not turning the ball
over and obviously the numbers there to back it up.
The quarterback before that was the exact opposite, talking about

(56:56):
Brett Farr. Well, before they even finished the question, Lafleur sorry, like, yeah,
I'm the only quarterbacks that have been here with me.
He was kind of saying, you're wanting me to talk
about do I need to coach this out of Jordan.
I wasn't here for Brett Farr. It was kind of
a weird way to put it out there that this
quarterback is still throwing the ball to the other team
a little bit too often. But he also had three

(57:17):
touchdown passes. He also had another game with multiple touchdown
pass He also went to the top of the leaderboard
in touchdown passes in a season this year, and he's
missed two games. If he makes mistakes, it's fine. Brett
Favre won multiple MVPs making mistakes. You just have to
be capable of making so many more plays, and so

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far this year, Mahomes is making those plays. There's just
not the touchdown passes. He's making the plays necessary to
overcome their turnovers. He had turnovers in the Niners game,
which they won comfortably.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
By the way, speaking of picks, turnovers, what have you?
Is it too over the top to say where would
the Texans be without Kaylen Bullock this season? Oh, there's
no question about it, very very much. A nice deep find,
the third round pick you would hope.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Becomes a starter of a top flight starter, which is
what he's definitely on track to becoming. No, you don't
normally expect that there, and certainly not right out of
the gate. Had they had injury issues at the beginning
of the year, maybe things would have been different. He
would have been out there sooner. Maybe it's better, maybe
it's worse. But they had veteran enough in front of him,
veterans enough in front of him and Murray and Ward

(58:22):
that they weren't forced to send him out there in
that capacity. But he's played a bunch in every game,
and then obviously when the injuries became a part of
their secondary and the back end. Safety wise, he basically
never leaves the field. So two things we need to
get to from Damiko. One of those is that. But
since we were talking about the signing of Devin White,
the linebackers, the fact that they could still be without

(58:43):
their two starters again this week, though both Hewitt and
Hanson are healthy and I thought played at least well
enough to send them back out there again without too
much concern. Dimico Ryans seemed like he felt the same way.

Speaker 10 (58:55):
Tak and Neville did a good job for us. They
fit right in. They handle business. You talk about to
start the game, Neville getting the interception for us, you know,
making an impact play that was huge for us, and
Jake Fidan made a huge play on the reverse, those
guys stepped in, they didn't.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Blink, and they made the plays they needed to make.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Maybe somebody else in front of them makes more plays,
makes a bigger play, is a huge, bigger factor in
the run game or in the past game, like we
suggested on Monday. But I think he's accurate and he
would know better than I would. Yeah, they stepped up
and they did their job. These are two big misses
in their defense, and they were there to plug those holes.
I think perfectly fine, all due respect to the level

(59:35):
of play. The other holes were where Lasker was out
and Ross was in and Totoa was one of those
that we mentioned. This is them returning to practice a
shoulder injury with Lassiter, the concussion protocol with Toatoa Demiko
on those two.

Speaker 10 (59:50):
It feels good to get Henry and Kamara back out.
You know, two guys been two guys who started for US,
played a lot of ball for us, made a lot
of impact plays for us. So it's encouraging time you
can get those guys back out on the field. So
could get them back and we'll see day by day,
see how they continue to progress and see if they
can help us this week.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
If they're healthy, they definitely can help. But he's, you know,
pretty typical if you've been following Tobiko since his arrival here,
this is about as far as he'll go. We were
there media, I wasn't there today, and it's on the
injury report, which sometimes comes out after he speaks more
often than not it does. But everybody already knows, so
he's at least acknowledging the person the player had returned

(01:00:32):
to practice, but he didn't really say anything about where
they are in terms of being ready to go on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I'm I'm just enamored by this story. It has nothing
to do with what you're saying, but it does.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Yeah, it's okay, well we can put we can hold
up placards in here, said, tuning him out.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
It does have to do with Kaylen Bullock. I didn't
realize that he was getting a little bit snippy about
the the rating I guess of the past to Tucker Craft.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
The social media team on the packer's side posted the
end zone shot where you could see the ball flying
through the air to Craft Kaln Bullock flies through the
air and attempt to knock it down and it ends
up in Craft's myths. He hauls it in and scores
touchdown pass, and then they tweeted it out with a
caption talking about how perfect this pass was. mL football

(01:01:21):
is the account that did this. Well, I'm not interested
in honestly. Had you not mentioned that, I would probably continue,
but I can't. That is one of the all time
worst football accounts on social media. Really is so freaking embarrassing.
What this is on sight us he is he's good
or she or the entity. They are good at creating

(01:01:44):
things because of their captions. You know, I think people appreciate,
Oh this person, grab this video and I can use
this fit what they actually do. You just spend two
minutes on the timeline and then you'll never look at
it again. You'll see what I mean about how inflammatory,
ill in formed and just bad football period comes from
an account like that, an aggregator that's from a social.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Medy account that he quoted. Kaylen bullocks, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Because that's it's what he's saying is wrong or she
is saying.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Is what the account is saying.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Tokaylin is wrong calling it perfect, and Kaylen responds with
it went right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Through my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Well, to be clear, it's in all caps, Jordan Love.
Precision is sick, and then period and then in or twice,
and then again in all caps. This throw is perfect,
and then period and then another in or twice. Most
accurate quarterback in the NFL. Now you're just lying. Why
do you say that because he's not more accurate than

(01:02:43):
CJ for starters?

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Well, he said, I mean, okay, so he's behind CJ. Whatever,
so he's second.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Well, then he's not the most accurate in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
Well, he's actually he is behind CJ. CJ, by the way,
is fourteenth the most accurate for real, for real, it's
Jayden Daniels, Jared Goff, and Big Mayfield. There's actually five
quarterbacks completing seventy percent of their passes. Luckily, there are
also three quarterbacks, one of whom is not starting anymore,
that are less accurate only by completion percentage, if you'll

(01:03:13):
allow that to measure some accuracy, and I know there's
actually some better measures out there, but just going by
completion percentage, he's worse than Aaron Rodgers, twenty seven other quarterbacks.
He's better than three of them, but he's the most
accurate passer, So are you proving my point?

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Well, and then he wraps it up by hitting in
or twice again and in all caps. Truly one of
the best throws you will see all season. That's where
Kaylen Bullock had to say something, uh, perfect, the ball
went through my hands, which is true, and he should
have caught it, just like Tank Dell should have caught
at least one of those attempts towards him in the
end zone, but he didn't, and those two plays went

(01:03:53):
a long way towards the Packers getting a two point
win at home over the Texans after CJ had an
awful day throwing the football they barely won.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
There's bits and pieces of that Tank Dell will leave
that for later. One hundred percent. He has to catch that.
Throws hit him right the hands.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
He actually time in his pro or college career he
finished a game with zero catches.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
By the way, he.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Flipped his defender around when CJ scrambled brilliantly and created
a lane for CJ to find him with. And CJ
is accurate, as I'll get out more. He threw him
a great ball. It was low as he should have
caught it in this case, I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Don't know that. I totally agree with Kaitlin.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
If the throw had less mustard on it or brought
worst juice in Green Bay, then maybe he does knock
it down, maybe it doesn't get through his fingertips. I
do think he actually did graze the ball, but it
was a pretty awesome throw. Perfect maybe is a little
too much. I'll go with Kaitlin on that it was
pretty good though.

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Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
All right, let's get it out of the way.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Let's just let's talk about what everybody else has talked
about today for a couple of minutes here, so we
can move on and be done with our lives, or
be done with this and get on with our lives.
I guess I should say, because I don't want to
be done with my life today. You know that it's
not going over well when a mouthpiece in the past

(01:05:49):
like Michelle Beatle is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Having utter disdain on camera on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Social media for the as she put it, and I agree, man,
you factured double James participants in last night's Lakers win
over the Timberwolves, which, by the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Way, I'm mad that they won that game, I think easily.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Well, the final score looked way more respectable than it
was at one point.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
You're right, and that's but you know why.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Timberwolves did have a two point lead at one point
in the game to nothing. I mean there were there
were four lead changes. Lakers led by nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
At one point in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Yeah, who did they run the offense through last night?

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
By the way, just for bleeps and giggles, Austin Reeves,
I'm still here. You are, man, that is on brand.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
No, if you were.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Listening yesterday, he said, you know, I don't know if
JJ Reddick's gonna be a great coach, but I know
it's not gonna be with this team. What they should
be doing is they got to run the offense through
Anthony Davis. He's their best player.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Wait what I finish what I said about Anthony Davis
When I said that though while he's healthy, that's not
what I said. Though I was extra snarky and jerk
about it. I said until his hangnail, you know, put
some on the sideline for a month or whatever. But yeah,
he has had monster numbers last night, and as you said,
it was never in doubt. And that's what they should

(01:07:07):
do with the roster they have because he's the only
All Star on it. Just because Lebron James wears number
twenty three and still has James on the back of
his jersey doesn't mean that he's still that Lebron James.
And he probably will be an All Star because the
fans will vote him in. He's not gonna be the
best player at that position this year in the West.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Does at least give you an idea of why this
is a big deal, because there's a fan element to everything.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
They still want to see him player. They're still going
to vote for him, Lakers fans do.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
He's also well, if only Lakers fans voted for him,
he probably won't win them all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Right, Fine, all of the other people who are too
young to realize that when they say, uh, Lebron is
so much more the good than MJ will sound stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
What do you think the thing to do is?

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Regarding Lebron James and Bronni James playing together as father
and son, the thing to do is, says, I ask
it rhetorically. Is what she did make this a super
inflammatory subject.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
After their first game, or even the lead up.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
To it, the drafting of him, the talk about him
before the draft started. Of course, well a spectacle. What's
the word she is to manufacturer?

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Manufactured? Yes, well, of course no.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
I mean every single person that covers the game, follows
the game, or is a fan of the game, one
percent of them agree Brownie James is not a player
that should be in anybody's current NBA rotation. He's also
not in the Lakers rotation. By the way, nobody disagrees
on that. We all, of course, we all know it's manufacturing.

(01:08:40):
You don't necessarily have to create a big rant about it.
We know why it's happening. I mean, are we trying
to say he isn't really playing with him? Like it's
not really happening, because no, he doesn't belong in the league.
There are players on one hundred percent of NBA benches
except for the Rockets, because they're so talented and deep.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
That don't belong to the NBA. They don't belong in
the NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Carry they're the sixteenth, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, guy players twelve, thirteen,
and fourteen are hurt. We're gonna bring this two way
guy up. We're gonna bring this player we just added.
He's gonna get three minutes today, he's gonna play four
minutes at the end of the season. He's gonna be
on a ten day contract. When those were what you
were doing. It happens all the time. He's exactly like
those players. He's not going to He probably probably will

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play more minutes for a team that's not the Lakers.
It is the Lakers, the South Bay Lakers. They're team
that plays in the G League. He will probably play
more minutes for them because that's what players at his level.

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
Would do and will do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
But why why shouldn't this happen? Should they have not
drafted him?

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
I don't have any issue with it because it's a
total throwaway pick. In my opinion, doesn't matter the player
they were gonna pick there, the draft pick they were
gonna use as compensation in some trade is completely and
utterly irrelevant.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
You have fifty of them every year you want.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
If you want to add eight second round picks, you
pick up a phone call two GMS that you're gonna
have them no problem at all. Any team that wants
to stockpile second round picks can do it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Some of them do.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
Other teams accept them as barter and trade, which is baffling,
but they do it. You're not wasting anything, You're not
doing anything. And were they gonna get booed in LA
are they really? Are they gonna get booed elsewhere when
it happens now? They did manufacture one part of it.
They checked in together in the only time that Bronnie
James did see court time they cherry He played two

(01:10:25):
minutes and forty one seconds in his Sam.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Wetmore would have scored ten points and grabbed five boards
while blocking two shots and dishing out three assists in
those two minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Because he, like everybody else in an NB or rotation,
is better than Bronnie Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Yes, thus better.

Speaker 4 (01:10:40):
Yeah, he got a two minute, forty one second stint
with lebron They checked in together in the second quarter
and Bronnie James checked out and he never played again.
And unless they want every city to enjoy this spectacle,
this manufactured fun, He's not really gonna play. And even
if he, even if he's with the team, I don't
think I think this is gonna go away so fast.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Being super ranty.

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
Negative about it is so unnecessary. And you know what
it is that's manufactured, in my opinion.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
The rage, that's the outrage. I should say.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Yes, the only one person I saw when a step
further than this, and I immediately thought of you, and
I just waited till the show because it was like,
I've seen enough stupid memes and text messages for the day.
Sometimes it gets to a point where Wex is like,
I'm just gonna stop responding, which I do to.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
I know he never thinks I'm busy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
He's right, Well, I knew you were watching the NBA
because of your initial NBA related text you sent to
me last night.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Yeah, I didn't even get that right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
She screwed it up royally. It would have been so
much funnier, Wex, what did you say? How many points
does cats teams?

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Just said?

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Hey, Cat's team has thirty points tonight, how many do
you think the team he's playing has? As Cat's team
was the Knicks last night for the first time they
were playing the Celtics, I will admit the Celtics mopped
the floor with them. The Celtics starters with eighty one
games remaining, have already played their best game of the season.
Why do you say that that was the best performance

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you will see from any team all year long from
their starters, because they were unstoppable.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
You don't think they can do that again. You'll never
do that again.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
They didn't even play a horrible team. I'm not saying
the Knicks are great, but they're good. What they did
last night will not be duplicated. First of all, their
bench is so horrific. Yeah, they are top heavy.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Thirteen attempts to break the all time record for three
pointers made in a game, and they missed them.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
All the bench players.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Yes, here's the starting five. Brown went five for nine
from deep from behind the line, eight of eleven for Tatum,
three of five from Horford, six of ten from White,
four of six from Drew Holiday. They went twenty six
of forty one on threes only. The Knicks were shooting

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fifty eight fifty nine, sixty percent in the third quarter
for the game and getting waxed, shacked, absolutely slaughtered. That's
their bench was three for twenty and they just tied
the all time record for three This is the very
first game, the opening night, early start, and they could
have easily hit thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven threes

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in a game in a league where nobody's hit thirty.
They could have blown that number out of the water.
With how well they played in that game. Well, then
that means they'll do it again. They'll do it again.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
By the way, the Celtics are gonna win the championship
this year until you convinced me otherwise.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
I'm gonna have a lot of months to try. I
think I'm going to fail, and I have a new
superstar to keep your eye on. If you're the Rockets
nice via Trade.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
I might get to that before the end of the
show today, but in the meantime, we got to take
a quick time out right here before we wrap up
the four o'clock hour. On a Wednesday edition of The
A Team.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety, Adam Clinton,
I'd Adam weck for it, The eight Team.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Eight Team rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
It's a Wednesday edition of the program wex AC with
you Rockets and Hornets, tipping things off for the NBA
season tonight, at least for the Rocket side of things,
and two games in the books. We just mentioned the
Celtics and the Lakers got the wins last night.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Celtics and Lakers. It's like the eighties all over again.
It's just what the NBA wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Lakers did look a lot better. I thought they wouldn't.
We already talked about how good the Celtics were. You
got twenty other teams tipping off their seasons tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
How many How many points per game is Jalen average
this year?

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Well, I believe we did hit the over unders the
other day. I think his was at nineteen and a half,
and it was at nineteen point six last season, second
on the team.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
He's getting paid a lot of money. Now he's got
to make twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
I don't think he's gonna average anywhere near twenty five
points per game. And really that particular number is of
so little consequence. If it's effective and efficient, it won't
even matter. Cannot shoot a low percentage from three point
distance this season, cannot shoot a low percentage as lower
percentage from two point distance this season. Those numbers have

(01:15:21):
to go up. I can't say it automatically. Is what
you see you're gonna get in a game. But I
don't think it's a coincidence that his shooting group at
practice is totally standard every team. You get these three guys,
they shoot together. These big shoot together, these wings shoot together.
It's Reed Shepherd, Jalen Green, Cam Whitmore. They do their
shooting drills together. They will do the same thing sometimes

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before games. Hopefully tonight we'll get a little bit of
a chance to see how individuals are preparing for games
this year. Considering almost the entire team is back, I
think we have a pretty good idea of what they do,
which coach.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Do they work with, etc.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
But even in the preseason, it wasn't even that the
shots were going in his threes. It's just how he
was shooting the basketball, the manner in which those shots
were being fired. You know, the technique, the trajectory, the release,
the height on his jump, everything about it. And I
think he kind of mastered that as the season went on.

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Even though his final month was bad, the March was
so good. I think people forget his partial month of
April because they only played half a month. Because they
didn't go to the playoffs, it wasn't very good, and
that was a little disappointing because a lot of people
keep pointing to this part of this season for Jalen
has been awesome, and he's had one every year. You
can't have parts of a season that are awesome that

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you can't replicate. That's what has to be this season.
And he's not into his extension yet. But obviously that's happened.
He's got He just has to be a much more
effective player. Not driving to the whole five times in
a quarter and going zero for five even though you
might have been fouled on three of them. Not shooting
nine threes in the first half of a game and
making two, that just it can't happen anymore. I think

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he's much better than that. I watch him, and oh
he is. I think the way he played last year
was lost in his percentages by critics. I thought he
played fine. I thought he clearly was a significantly better defender.
I thought he took better shots. I thought he took
opportunities to get to the rim on a slightly smarter basis,
a more effective but the results weren't there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Here's the problem. Missus still remained well.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
First of all, the reason he won't average twenty five
per game is in large part because of the other
guy that got his bag yesterday. I mean, Alprin Shingun's
gonna cut into those numbers because they're leading returning score He's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Going to be scoring twenty five per game this year,
and that's not taking shot any rocket scoring twenty five
points per game. He averaged twenty two last year? Did
he not twenty one point six I believe, or twenty
point whatever? Yeah, right around twenty two. He's natural trajectory.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
He's done this pretty much every season he's been in
the league, increased his scoring average, specifically by like three
points or so.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
His he here's why he's gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
If Noah, if nothing changes and he just improves his
free throw shooting, he's got it because he left.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Eight points a game on the board every night.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
He missed eight free throws. Again, No, I know what
you're saying. I mean, basically, he missed far too many
for a player. He said about Jalen is the same
thing I would say about Shangun at the free throw
line from the moment he became a Rocket multiple seasons ago.
A kid, he shoots the ball perfectly. Fine, there's really nothing.
I didn't think there was anything all that he actually
said there was where he had his shoulder, what he

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was doing with the ball besides talking to it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Come on, Carl alone.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
But his percentage should absolutely be way higher. Eighteen players
if you include John Morant and his nine games, eighteen
players averaged twenty five points or more last season.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
There's no reason to think that if he even improves
by fifty percent, not literally at the foul line, you know,
or he hits fifty percent moral I guess this is
the best way to say that he's easily twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Games, sixty nine is unacceptable. Sixty nine point three percent
is what he shot. That is unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
A big man, respectable free throw percentage, even in today's
NBA should be north of seventy five.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
Does he does he shoot the ball like a big though,
like I used say, a big man. So I'm thinking
these oafs who have huge hands that can't shoot the
ball like Shack, even Rudy Terrible Gobert, who Minnesota stupidly
give another contract.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
To saying similar contract to h Jalen's.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Right, except he's one hundred years into the league and
this was merely a way to he gave up forty.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
Oh no, I know that. I'm just saying it was six.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
Million for one year, so he can get much more
guaranteed money over future years.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Well, all just can't wait till Anthony Anthony Edwards wants
to get out of Minnesota and that's when the Rockets swooping.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
So all this time was that the player you were
not to know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
All this time we spent talking about the Lakers this,
and the Lakers that probably worth noting.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Minnesota did not like what I saw last night.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
They're not gonna be good. Both of those teams that
made that trade. I said it when they made the trade.
What the bleep are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
Yes, getting cat and dropping a player who didn't play
in the playoffs for you made you worse. Jal Michale
Bridges is so bad that the Knicks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
Got worse Jalen Brunson. Okay, so the Knicks have two
things that are broken. First, it's Michael Bridges jumpshot for
whatever reason he changed it to I don't even know
who I compare K's at the free throw line. That's
who his shot.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Is now, it's pretty high.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
And Jalen Brunson should absolutely be built around And while
I guess on paper, you've improved from Julius Randall to
Carl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Town's reputation as an NBA
player is filling the stat sheet and losing a bunch
of games.

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
The only thing I'll say in his case for his
defense is the first time he was no longer the
number one option of the best player on his team.
Was the best team season he ever had was last year.
And he's going into the exact same situation.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
He's not the number one option. He's out the best
player on the team.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Nothing's on his shoulders like it used to be, and
he's not gonna take a billion dumb shots. He's he's
so good behind the three point line for a player
his size, he shouldn't get in the way of what
Brunson does. I think he just adds another player who's
capable of helping you win games. It was not really
on display last night, But there's a lot of season left.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
I mean, when Anthony Davis is working you over, I mean,
I don't know Anthony Davis is.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
Yeah, Minnesota is a different story of Minnesota. I think
they just said, hey, our roster's pretty good, let's make
it worse.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Seriously, that's what it seems like what they did, like
what But you know that's that's the team that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
A Rod has bought.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
So he's not even calling the shots yet. Well just
a just a match made in heaven. Honestly, Minnesota deserves
a Rod, the whole state, by the way, Screw Minnesota,
all right. I don't even like the Vikings have already
made me mad this year and you know other things
they do up there. But yeah, it'll be very interesting
to see how this upcoming NBA season unfolds.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
I don't forget coming up the final hour of the show,
as we've been doing throughout the extended summer. It's October,
but the summer of fun here on Sports Talk seven
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Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
We've got tickets to.

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Tickets to their November second game against k State on
the football side, tickets to their exhibition game on the
twenty seventh on the hoop side against Texas A and M.
Those tickets to be given away in the final segment
of the final hour of the show, as we do
each day. Just keep on listening and you'll have a
good chance to know the answer to the question we ask.

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At that time, we'll have football at five on the
other side, and there's clearly more on the Texans side,
and on the Colt side, and the Titans side and
the Jaguars side, as the Texans try to at least
take care of that. The AFC South first before they
start realizing that the Bills got to five and two
this week, the Ravens got to five and two this week,
the Steelers got to five and two this week, and

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now you're five and two, which is still second best
record via ties in the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Not as lofty as it once was.

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Speaker 5 (01:24:18):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Football at five conversation is underway, as is the final
hour of a Wednesday edition of the A Team Sports
Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network. Wex has departed
for Toyota Center, where the Rockets will have their opener
tonight against the Charlotte Hornets.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
If you're all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
Headed in there, get in there, get into your seats,
and it's going to be I think a very successful
opening night. By the way, first time since twenty nineteen
once again that the Rockets are going to open things
up at home for their season opener. And in case you're wondering,
that was when they had James Harden and Russell Westbrook
on the team.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
Yeah, that happened. It's like Scottie Pitten playing for the
Rockets once upon a time.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
You look back on it and you're like, what, anyhow,
that's not football, that is basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
We'll get to more of that in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Wanted to get to some more of the things that
Demiko Ryans had to say as we continue here with
our Football at five conversation, namely the fact that we
talked about this a little bit yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
Once you get the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Bitter taste of that loss, that two point last second
loss to the Packers on the road at Lambeau out
of your mouth, you have to could you start looking forward?

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
And the Texans have to a rematch with the Colts.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
This is, of course, the first time they will have
played a division opponent for the second time this year,
and you know, obviously it's a situation where they haven't
played the Titans yet, but this division in twenty twenty
four leaves.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
A lot to be desired.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
However, again, We talked about this all week, basically since
the final buzzer sounded on that loss to the Packers.
Because of that, because you have two losses, and because
the Colts are right behind you in the division, if
you somehow mess around and lose to them this week,
you'll have the same record.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
And that is just a bitter pill.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
I'm not prepared and I don't think the Texans are
prepared to have to swallow. So how do you avoid
doing that? Well, you're going to have to make sure
that you are prepared for the adjustments that any team,
but specifically a division one obviously will make the second
time around when they play you. And that's what Demico
had to say, among other things, earlier today.

Speaker 10 (01:26:26):
First and foremost, they want to run the football right
getting Taylor back. He's an exceptional playmakery. He has the
stop start ability, he has to home run speed, contact
balance like they have to rely on the run game,
and they have really good guys who can run it
with JT and with Anthony Richardson. So that's where to start.
And then you know with the explosive passes. We know

(01:26:48):
we gave up some explosive passes there in our first game.
So we have to be just disciplined in our coverage
and play play the defense the proper way, and we
try to eliminate those explosives. But you know, we'll kind
of see how they try to attack us, and know
they get us some guys back, they get bumped their
back defensively, it's kind of helped them, you know, with
their run game and their pass rush.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
He's a great player as well.

Speaker 10 (01:27:12):
So things change weekly, you know, things changed, and we'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
We'll be ready for whatever they throw at us.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
You know, the first thing you mentioned was Jonathan Taylor,
and that is something that look you if you are
banking on a Jonathan Taylor being out rushed by Anthony Richardson,
which I guess you could say, I'll take that bet,
but I wouldn't. Just the fact that they held him
to forty eight yards on sixteen carries. I just don't

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see them doing that again. Maybe they will, you know,
Josh Jacobs, it's not like he had this all world
effort against them this past week, and he's still a
very good running back in this league. But I just
if you're banking on, you know, the under forty eight
and a half yards rushing you know, a repeat performance,
if you will from Jonathan Taylor. I just don't think

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that you can bank on that happening. And you heard
the other thing that Demiko mentioned right there. So Anthony
Richardson completed all of nine attempts passing the last game.
The problem was one of them went for sixty and
the other one went for fifty four, and you just
you cannot allow that to happen. I know there's gonna

(01:28:22):
be big plays. You know, the defense is going to
break down at times, and that's just something that you're
going to have to plan for any game. It's part
of the attack unless you're the I don't know, the
Steele Curtain or the eighty five Bears. I just don't
think you're going to have a game without at least
unexplosive play happening more often than not. Unfortunately, when those

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explosive plays happen for the most part, that's when the
Colts scored their touchdowns through the air the last time.
So you can't let the Alex Pearce's and then Ashton
Duelings of the world, you know, get that done against you.
But I'm looking at a game between these two teams
that was much like this last week a two point game,
Texans ended up coming out on top.

Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
We all know how it went down.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
CJ.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Stroud was very very good in that game, if not overwhelming,
twenty four to thirty two for two hundred and thirty
four yards, He had two touchdowns, did not throw a pick.
And then I look across the way Anthony Richardson nine
of nineteen two hundred and twelve yards. He had two
touchdowns and a pick in that game, but it was
like nothing. The production is completely different. And yet we're

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talking about a two point game, and it's not a
situation where Jonathan Taylor ran for one hundred yards or
in this case even fifty. So there's going to be adjustments,
and you have to adjust for the fact that those
two guys I say are probably going to put up
better numbers, Are they gonna put up like significantly better numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:29:47):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
I hope not for starters, because I don't think the
Texans necessarily win that game. If they're only scoring twenty
nine and they're allowing twenty seven or in that range,
it just it can't be. It can't be that for
a team you fancy yourself that much better. Then, and
I think that's something that the Texans already know, and
I think that's something everybody that's watched the first handful

(01:30:09):
of games this year would like to see. You lose
to the Minnesota Vikings, you lose to the Packers, I
guess those are stomachable losses, even though they're not. Especially
the Packers loss. You just you got outclassed, outplayed out
coached in the Minnesota game, and you don't play as

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well on the road. You had every opportunity to not
only win that game in Green Bay, you should have
won it handily. You know, Tank Dell and Kylen Bullock.
We talked about those two plays alone. If Bullet gets
that interception, if Tank Dell catches either of those touchdown attempts,
there's a lot of things that happened that, you know,
had to go the Packers way, and on a day

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where CJ just did not have it going through the air,
you lost by two points.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
I really don't know what that says about you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
It can say a lot of good and bad, but
I just you know, this is again going back to
the original point. The first time these two teams are
gonna get together, or the second time these two teams
are gonna get together where adjustments are gonna clearly be made,
And I just don't think that you can bank on
either Richardson or Jonathan Taylor, you know, putting up pedestrian

(01:31:26):
numbers from I guess, in the case of Richardson a
completion standpoint, in the case of Jonathan Taylor, from a
rushing yard standpoint, I just don't see that happening. And
so the question becomes, if that isn't the case, are
you going to be able to get the job done?
And I guess we'll find that out at home. But again,
you know, Dan, that's that's the really weird thing about

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the Texans. It looks like it's just a cliche. Are
they that much better at home? Or is it just
where things happen to just go right more because you're
in a because to me, I don't think like we
talked about the Astros not being able to win at
home two seasons ago, and it seemed like a fluky thing.

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I realize, you know, the creature comforts and all that
kind of stuff when you're on the home versus on
the road.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
But in that same vein, I've heard a.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Million teams regardless of the sport talk about the fact,
but especially in the NFL where it's US against the
world when we're on the road, and that they can
rally around that situation.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
But for whatever reason, during the very brief CJ. Stroud era,
they're just they're a different team at home. It's not
even close.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
I don't think it's that marked of a difference, at
least this year, because I mean, if you had Caleb
Williams playing the way that he is right now, you
probably lose that game. If you have Trevor Lawrence complete
one of those two deep passes that he overthrew and
god knows how he did that, you lose that game.
And you very easily could have lost the Buffalo game
as well. I just think as a whole, this is

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a team that has played pretty sloppy football. It is
really pretty fortunate to be five and two, especially you
can see it when it's against a softer part of
their schedule. But it's also two the critics out there,
and I mean, it's hard to argue with them when
they say, well, yeah, those two losses, look who they're against.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Yeah, And that's again, so am I am I reading
you wrong? That you're kind of with Gordy for example,
And you think the Texans are fortunate to be five
and two because they just haven't played great in the
teams that they've won against.

Speaker 3 (01:33:29):
Aren't that good?

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
Fortunate? Yes? But I mean I think also though, too,
credit needs to be given to the fact that they've
won most of those close games. Now, the Green Bay
game with standing, that was one that you're kind of like, well,
wait a minute, we don't win close games like not
this one and on the road. I mean to the
point that you brought up. But I mean you could
also say that this is a team that could be
four and three right now, or three and four if

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either of those games go a different direction, and you're
kind of like, well, wait a minute, how did you
guys not win those games? Look who you were playing against.
So I do think some credit needs to go for
even though you didn't play your best football you won
the football game.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Yeah, and one of the reasons you're winning football games,
or you had a chance to win that one last week.
For example, in the case of this player, Kaylen Bullock
has been a stud in the third round. Kaylen Bullock
is a guy and you'll hear it right here from
Demico ryans, he's not trying to become a pro. Instead,
this is what Demiko thinks of his young rookie.

Speaker 10 (01:34:24):
Kaylen's jumped right in and had a huge impact on
our team because he's the game isn't too big for him.
Like he's just doing what he's been doing since probably
high school, going up, catching the football, attacking football, going
back to his baseball background, tracking the ball in the outfield,
like he's just he's done it for a long time,
so it looks easy. Those are not easy plays by

(01:34:46):
any means. He makes it look easy because of the
work that he's put in to make.

Speaker 6 (01:34:50):
It look that way.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Tike, he's spacely saying he's already a pro, and that's
kind of you know. Tom Brady was was interviewing Pat
Mahomes this week after the game and was talking about,
you know, Mahomes said, well, the game's finally slowing down
for me, which is crazy to think about, Like he's
done all he's done and now the game's slowing down.
But that is really what Demiko just said about Kaylen

(01:35:12):
Bullock probably the ultimate compliment you can pay a rookie
because you always talk about the speed of the game,
and this happens in the NBA two until it slows
down for you a little bit, until you get your
feet wet, that kind of thing. But Kaylen Bullock looks
really good, looks really at home, especially where he's playing
in that defense, and that's a very good thing for
the Texans. Josh Reddick, something else you had to say,

(01:35:34):
We're gonna cover that next.

Speaker 8 (01:35:37):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
It's the eighteam Sports Talks seven to ninety, Space City
Home Network, both of which will have Tonight's Rockets season
opener against the Charlotte Hornets. Another reminder that when you
walk into Toyota Center tonight, if you're going to the
game and you get to your seat early, like all
the good fans would do, just take a gander at
that beautiful specimen that is the new scoreboard.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
You won't be able to avoid it. I don't think anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Once the starting lineups get underway, because again mention this day,
you know they've got something good planned. Look, I'm biased,
but I always talk about the fact that the the
Rockets in game entertainment crew is the best in the league,
from the video to just all of the things that
they do during timeouts and everybody behind the scenes. And

(01:37:16):
I know a lot of them obviously, so again I'm biased,
but the video stuff that they do, and I can't
even imagine what they're going to be capable of with
this new scoreboard. You'll be able to see the difference
if you've gone to enough games. When you walk in
there tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
It's absolutely spectacular.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
And the two home games this year, they haven't even
turned the lights off for the starting lineups, you know,
because every team goes over the top now with their
starting lineups these days in the NBA. But the fact
that they did. That lets me know that they were
saving the good stuff for the games that count. So
I would get into your seat early so you see

(01:37:53):
the in game presentation of the starting lineups and everything
else they have, especially on opening night, you get to
see the whole roster.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
Pretty cool, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
One of the things that we somehow forgot to get
to when we were talking about Brian Cashman just absolutely
showing his backside talking about the Astros seven seconds into
the first question, could not help but bring them up
in a reference, and the fact that he wouldn't even
actually name them just shows you how much they are

(01:38:23):
under his skin to this day, on October twenty third,
twenty twenty four, about a championship that was won back
in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
It's just it warms my cold, blackened.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Heart that these guys, these idiots in New York are
this obsessed. And I'll tell you this, what Brian Cashman
said kind of cements what I was already thinking. Somebody
asked me, well, you got you got a root for
one of these teams, and to which I said, nay,
And you'll see Friday. I've got a T shirt that
I will be wearing here on camera to perfectly encapsulate

(01:38:59):
my views on this World Series that isn't basically happening
in my opinion. But I if you had to pick,
and I'm like, I was thinking to myself about this, well,
probably the Dodgers, Like there's a gun to my head.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
I have to make a choice.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
Probably the Dodgers, simply because you play the Dodgers, what
one series that's not even a full three game set
every single year. If that, well, you play all the teams,
but in the National League where you don't reside anymore
and you've got the ultimate scoreboard, it's much better if
the Yankees don't win this World Series. As an Astros fan,

(01:39:38):
if you think about it, I mean, it sucks because
one of these teams has to win the latest World Series, right,
but one of them has to also lose, And for me,
I'd rather that be the Yankees because nobody likes the Yankees,
and in that regard, I can't believe when we were
talking about Josh Reddick's participate in what happened with Brian

(01:40:02):
Cashman earlier, you know, he came in and he had
quote tweeted my tweet about Brian Cashman.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
And I saw it late last night, and it was just.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
It was just absolutely the most predictable thing, and I
just I said what I thought. And so of course
when Josh Reddick weighed in on this, and I'm trying
to get it now as we speak in case you
can't tell what he had to say, you know, as
a as a player who was in that locker room
or in that clubhouse when it was all going down,

(01:40:36):
it just it was so fantastic to see him say, Hey,
Brian Cashman, why did your team score less than five
runs at minute made?

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
But scored all those runs in New York? Just perfect?

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
You know, It's just gets it gets him where it
really hurts, because he's the one that constructed that roster
and at the end of the day, had nothing to
do with the Astros cheating and had everything to do
with the fact that they were a lineup one through
nine of basically windmills. I don't think you guys remember,
maybe some of you don't remember it exactly how anemic
their offense is, and that's credit to the Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
Pitching has nothing to do with banging on a trash can.

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
But Fraser had a really elite swing on that curve. Ball.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
I mean, I okay, I'm glad you brought that up.
When day it was a strikeout to end the inning.
I think it was the sixth, might have been the seventh.
I think Justin went like the distance in that game.
I know he pitched a lot. When he struck out
to in the inning, Joe Buck audibly laughs at Todd

(01:41:34):
Frazier's swing, like it goes like this, here's the pitch
swa and he just goes That's how he laughed. That's
how he reacted to that swing. I mean, he just
made him look silly. The Astros outclassed the Yankees in
that series. Now you can talk about twenty nineteen, you
can talk about twenty two. Those Yankees teams were far

(01:41:55):
more talented. I think particularly the twenty two to one, because.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Well Garrett Cole was on it. Good that did.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
But there's something so fantastic about the fact that Aaron
Judge finally gets his huge deal and he's been abysmal
in this postseason after again a ridiculous and historic regular season.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
He's the ultimate regular season guy. He's the ultimate when.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
The lights are on brightest, he doesn't perform even as
his team is getting it done now that it has
Juan Soto, Juan Soto, Jean Carlos Stanton, or why the
Astros are in the World or why the Yankees are
in the World Series despite the performances of Aaron Judge,
which makes it all the more just delicious. If you're
an Astros fan, that's you know, irritated because you're sitting

(01:42:41):
on the sideline for the first time in eight years,
which we all are. But then going back to Josh Reddick,
somebody came at him after he quote tweeted me and said,
DM and tell me how every other team cheated you
also claim or you claim also the Dodgers cheated? Tell
me how in the DMS. His response, nah, I'm not
a snitch.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
That first of all, in and of itself is hilarious
because he's just like, who are you? I'm not breaking
the code. But then this guy comes back at him
and says, so what, you're out of the game. Your
former teammate referring to Mike Fires of course, didn't give
a bleep emoji when he leaked the trash can system.
What makes it different from you being a snitch versus

(01:43:25):
spreading the smooth the truth and then Josh Reddick lowers
the boom. That's because he was a bleep teammate even
before snitching. I mean, that is the ultimate mic drop.
And how I'm gonna tell you this right now, Guys,
He's hardly the first Astro on that roster to say that.

(01:43:48):
Now he might be the first one, and I think
he is, Dan if you know of an instance that
I'm not thinking of, I do think this is the
first time any of those Astros players have gone on
the record publicly to say that exact thing about Mike Fires.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
They've alluded to it, probably, but nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Has come out and said, yeah, before he snitched on
all of us and caused us this grief over basically
breaking the clubhouse code. He was a piece of crap
teammate before that, That's what he's saying.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
The only other time that I can possibly remember didn't
even come from a player. It came from aj Hinch
when Ken Giles got traded or released. It was just
the end of his time with the Astros just because
of poor performance. And remember his line was, I guess
my advice would be maybe buy in next time, Like,
you know, if you want to be here, be part
of this thing, and I mean I wasn't here for

(01:44:43):
most of it. You obviously were. But that's the only
other time I've ever heard anybody in the organization kind
of talk crossways about a guy that was then a
former member.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Well, funny you should say that it's not public. I'm
not going to share what was said, and I'm certainly
not going to sh share who said it. But we're
talking within a week of the scandal breaking, maybe two.
And again I've slept since then. And this was what

(01:45:14):
early twenty twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
Yeah, I was right before the world almost ended.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Yeah, this broke right before COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
So this was January of twenty twenty, when Ken Rosenthal
and Evan I'm bitter about the Astros getting me canned.
In my opinion, Drelich co wrote this story. I had
a member of the Astros on that team text me
personally about his feelings about Mike Fires and it was

(01:45:44):
not even remotely as nice as what Josh Reddick said publicly.
And it absolutely alluded to the fact that he was
and I'm paraphrasing, I'm not saying what he said. I
don't have the text in front of me. I could
look it up It's probably still on my phone, but
I'm not going to read it. This is scumbag of a
hue being, is what he said. Well, he's not a
guy that was particularly well liked in that clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (01:46:06):
And that's the thing too. I mean, if Mike Fires
had gotten the way that he wanted it to go
here in Houston, this would have never come to light
like ever, and I fully believe that till this day.

Speaker 6 (01:46:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
This, You want to know what sucks the most if
you're an Astros fan, because at the end of the day,
the Astros fan base is the one that's taken the
most grief. Yeah, the players got booed in stadiums, big deal.
That happens all the time. Oh it's louder Okay, well
a lot of good it did. Lego Jose aiel tuove
going over the fence of the Yankee Stadium. Again, it doesn't,
it doesn't. These guys are They're freaks. But I'm telling

(01:46:36):
you right now like that is and this is not
I'm not paraphrasing, like this is a direct source one
of the guys on the team telling me, Yeah, we
don't like Mike Fires. I particularly care for the guy
before all this happened, so this doesn't surprise any of us.
And yeah, you're right, the only reason he did that
is because he wasn't allowed to be on the playoff roster.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
That's what this come down to.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
And that, my friends, is pretty crazy when you think
about it.

Speaker 8 (01:47:05):
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Speaker 12 (01:47:10):
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Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Home of Your Astros Again.

Speaker 5 (01:47:26):
I can't get over the fact, Dan, that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
The biggest from a marketing standpoint, from an MLB based
you know, just the presentation of your sport standpoint, if
you have the biggest matchup you could have possibly wanted,
and all that one team is talking about is the
Astros and all the other team is talking about earlier
this week in the case of Clayton Kershaw, is the

(01:47:50):
twenties nineven this year's astros, or even twenty two, it's
the twenty seventeen Astros.

Speaker 6 (01:47:55):
Love.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
I mean, I don't know about you, but I was
always taught growing up that how do you show people
that they don't matter to you anymore? You ignore them,
like you don't even talk about them, you don't even
bring them up. Any of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
It actually does hurt them more than anything, well most
it depends on the person. I mean, I got somebody
like that in my life. It absolutely kills them that
I don't even acknowledge their existence.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
It's the whole fun, the.

Speaker 5 (01:48:19):
Whole point of it is you show them they're that
small that they don't even remotely matter to you. That's
the whole point of doing that. So I don't know
Yankee fans, I don't know Dodger fans. Maybe you could
take a page out of the book enjoy where you're
at and the Astro shouldn't even be anywhere close to
the forefelt know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
What it is is the the Yankees don't even have
a playoff victory over the Astros since the year twenty nineteen.
I guess swept in twenty two, right, and for all
their regular season dominance, if you want to call it that,
it didn't matter at the in the final analysis. And
they've never beaten the Astros in a series, So all

(01:48:57):
of that is on their brain more than and hey,
we should figure out how we're going to beat the
Dodgers in the World Series just perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:49:06):
I've been very much conflicted. Larry David Meme our gift
of you know, should I go this way? Should I
go that way? If you haven't seen it, go look
it up. But I was leaning towards the Yankees now
this and the fact that they could possibly lose and
lose once so winning I hope not now it's it's
just like, dude, like you're supposed to be the proud
Yankee organization. You lecture everybody about your twenty seven world titles,

(01:49:29):
and that is what you decide to talk about, like come.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
On, man, well and again unlike I mean people talk
about that all the time with like the Celtics and
all their titles.

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
I like, it is laughable.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
The difference in the just the league itself, let alone
the quality you want to talk about quality, Half those
championships are just like Mickey Mouse themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
I mean twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Just stop and especially if you were the only the
only team or franchise worse than you in that regard
as the Dallas Cowboys, because theirs hasn't been since nineteen
ninety five, in two thousand and nine, it was a
while ago.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
Yeah, it's been a minute, So I guess that's for
them to worry about.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
And by the way this is this segments called in
case you missed it, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:50:14):
Yeah, well, I mean there's we can't miss this enough today.
I mean, you bring us into the fire, we'll go
ahead and fight you with it. So that's what Astro
fans have been doing today. All right. So I'm sure you,
being a man who is constantly on Twitter x whatever
you want to call it, you've seen the viral Texas
fan at this point that I don't think he has
a nickname. Some people have called him Young Conway Twitty

(01:50:36):
because he's got the huge hair. I actually thought that
it was a super imposed photo at first, because I
was like, that's not a real person.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Likes humid in Austin that night.

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
It could have been. I mean, it's just you know.
So he became it and now it is a chance
of trying to find out who exactly is this guy? Well,
the Daily Mail on TikTok caught up with him and
he spoke about his recent rise to start.

Speaker 11 (01:51:00):
Literally as soon as the game ends, I turn around
to my friends and they're all on their phones just
in shock, and I'm like, what's up and they go,
you're a mean walter. I know, Matthew McConaughey was cutting
player's hair. Maybe he can cut mine on the field.
I don't know, raise some money for cancer awareness. I
have a my grandmother just recently got diagnosed with the.

Speaker 8 (01:51:22):
Breast cancer and then beat it.

Speaker 11 (01:51:23):
If I can get onto the talk to a podcast,
I think that would be a life goal, like check
off my bucket list.

Speaker 5 (01:51:30):
I missed that last part. Yeah, join Haley on her podcast.
So I mean, this kid's trying to, like, you know,
squeeze every bit of juice out of this as much
as he can. More power to them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
That last quip is like encapsulates America today more than
any other part of what he said. And a couple
things on this first of all, just to go to
that point, he this kid who has been made famous
by essentially being captured on camera being sad for his

(01:52:05):
team losing a big, you know, highly touted college football matchup,
is now wanting to go on the podcast of another
person who is famous for a line about a sexual act.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
I don't know. I don't know what to do. I
don't know what to do with my hands.

Speaker 5 (01:52:26):
It could be THEO Vaughn with JD. Van's talking about
certain drug use in the country. Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
Yeah, it's just I mean, you know, but that's that's
where we are. This is twenty twenty four, so and
I forget, oh, I mean, the other side of it
is just when I saw I knew as soon as
I saw him on screen.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
I think we all did. Just because of his unique look.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
I knew he was going to become a meme of
some sort and what I thought to myself. And I'm
being dead honest when I say this, I'm watching the game.
I happen to have the house to myself on Saturday
Day last weekend. I'm watching the game. They put him
on screen. I already you know, I already know Texas
is likely going to lose the game by the time
he makes his debut on our televisions, right, And I

(01:53:12):
see it, and I'm like, man, I hope he's stick skinned.
That's the first thing that came into my mind. And
it wasn't even about all his his his personal appearance.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
It's just that I know how people online do.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
And it's just I mean, remember that kid when OU
lost to Texas in the Red River and he's crying.

Speaker 5 (01:53:34):
That kid's probably out of college by now. Is he
actually like posted something last week or before the Texas
OU game, And I think it was something like making
fun of himself, Like I think he's at OU now
and he was like the internet forever this time.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
Yeah, Like the only thing I think about Bartman a lot,
you know, with the the Cubs and that happening in
nineteen ninety eight, and how happy for him I am
that it wasn't as bad as it was where he
was essentially chased out of the.

Speaker 5 (01:54:03):
City because.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Fans and Moises Alou to be honest, and people that
said things about it, you know, during and after the
game made it ten billion times worse for him and
his family. Poor guy, because he tried to catch a
foul ball, Like could you imagine if Bartman happened with
social media?

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
I mean, good lord.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
So that's the first thought I had in my head
was I hope this kid's got thick skin. That's probably
a sad commentary on our country now among others.

Speaker 5 (01:54:35):
Now, I mean, here's the thing for me. I mean,
the viral people I want to find. I want to
find the mustache guy with his wife that was leaning
on him right before Al Tuvey again, funny enough twenty
nineteen shattered the hearts of Yankees fans after he sent
a oldest Chapman to the moon. And I think some
Astros fans actually did find that guy. But now you
just need to see if Brooklyn can find this guy

(01:54:56):
walking on campus, and she's got to get a selfie
with him.

Speaker 2 (01:54:59):
She probably already knows who he is, what fraternity he's
a part of. That's what these guys, these these college
freshman girls are like super salutes. And believe me, she
gets it from her mom. You want to talk about that, Teresa.
Let me give you guys a little piece of advice.

(01:55:20):
Don't ever go at her if you don't want like
And I'm not saying she's gonna dock you. She will
find out where you live within thirty seconds. I don't
know how she does it. So you get nothing past her.
Anything we can squeeze into the final thirty segments.

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
The seconds on the second, MacCarthy is probably gonna get fired.
Oh really, So you know you had Jerry Jones just
days saying we're designing bad plays, bad concepts. McCarthy today says,
talk with Jerry all the time. Self scout didn't see
the comments specifically, I don't think we have bad plays
or concepts. Yeah, he's gone.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
So if they lose this first game out of the gate,
that's probably when it happens. That's my guess. Final segment, tickets,
all of that coming up.

Speaker 8 (01:56:00):
Next the A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:56:07):
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Speaker 8 (01:56:37):
The eighteen continues.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
All right, let's do this final segment of the program,
and as is usually the case, we've got tickets for you,
a pair of them as a matter of fact, for
the UFHK State game coming up on Saturday, November two,
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all throughout the show, Brian Cashman's whiny little I don't

(01:57:31):
even want to call it a rant, but he's just basically,
the Yankees and the Dodgers are about to play in
the World Series and all they've got on their minds
is particularly the Yankees are the Astros, and it's just
it's just lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
It's just perfect. So mentioned that, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
I got after him a little bit Brian Cashman on
Twitter's X whatever you want to call it last night,
and a former member of the team quoted me in
his response to what Brian Cashman had to say. Who
was that former astro? It's very easy. We've been talking
about it all day long. Seven one three two one

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I lost my you know what earlier and uh went

(01:58:32):
on a little miniature high blood pressure rant at Brian
Cashman on air, we'll have that for you. That audio
clip will be floating around on social before you know it.
Rockets tonight taken on the Charlotte Hornets. We'll have that
game here on Sports Talk seven ninety as well as
on Space City home network. You can hear it, you
can watch it. You can do both, and we encourage

(01:58:54):
you to do just that.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Uh email.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
Udoka was asked before the game, by the way, a
couple things.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
He mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
Steven Adams is day to day and will be a
game time decision as far as tonight's game goes. It's
dealing with some soreness that they don't want to uh.
They basically don't want to get out of hand. So
that was one thing. The other thing is he was
asked about and if you watch the preseason in your
Rockets fan you know this was the case. He was
asked about the Rockets playing their their regular rotation guys

(01:59:24):
the starters, and of course the ones that will come
off come off the bench the most in all likelihood
in the rotation for emy Udoka and the fact that
they played a lot more minutes than maybe the typical
team would, and the reason for that that e May
and others have given including tonight, was that he wants
to hit the ground running. And look, I don't know

(01:59:47):
what the Rockets are going to do this year. I
have some predictions. I don't think it's just going to
be a play in situation. I think they're going to
be competing for an out and out playoff spot.

Speaker 6 (01:59:57):
You know, now that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
The formula, the format has changed, it's that you making
the play in game. I guess is supposed to be
considered at least a cut above just being a regular
old lottery team. But to me, it just feels like, oh,
you're you're competing for the chance to get smashed in
the opening round by the top seed. So I would

(02:00:21):
aspire to greater things if I'm the Rockets. They have
a very unique roster in that there's not a superstar,
and if there's a star, it's not an all star.
Yet you got close with the Alprin Shingoon last year, right,
and that's we're all looking for him. In addition, of course,
as we feel like we're always saying Jalen Green taking

(02:00:42):
that next step. But I you know, the Rockets wanting
to hit the ground running. That's absolutely the mentality they
should have, particularly with a dog lick of opponent tonight.
That's what I'm gonna call the Charlotte Hornets because that's
what they are. Get that done, you know, get an
easy victory, hopefully tonight, and do just that, get off
and running, because I'll tell you, like they've got it's

(02:01:04):
a quirky schedule. The fact that they play the Spurs
like three out of the four times they're gonna play
them this year, like all before November seventh, I believe
they'll have played those three games. But yeah, get the
job done early on and win some of these games
that you should, because I tell you, like, there is
no reason why this team shouldn't be competing for you know,

(02:01:28):
six seventh seed something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
I like, I don't. I don't think that's out of
the question.

Speaker 2 (02:01:34):
Somebody asked me if if fifty wins is a is
a I guess obtainable objective and I I don't know,
because I feel like last year, especially, there weren't like
there wasn't one team that was like, oh my goodness,
other than the Celtics. But in the West is what
I'm talking about, It wasn't team that like separated itself.

(02:01:55):
Nobody predicted the Dallas Mavericks going to the NBA Finals,
and nobody that watched the NBA last year was particularly
surprised that that's what happened, because it never felt like
it was all this one team is superior to everybody else.
Oklahoma City had the best record, but they were going
head to head with the Nuggets, and I can't remember
who the third team was down the stretch, but Dallas
Mavericks wind up going to the NBA Finals, where they lose,

(02:02:18):
thankfully for all of us here in Houston. But you know,
it's I don't feel like any team really separated itself,
And in fact, some of the teams that were in
the dance last year got worse. In the case of
the Clippers, I think that's an absolute example of that.

Speaker 3 (02:02:33):
So while I.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Don't know if fifty wins is something that I would say, oh, definitely,
the Rockets get that, because you can't remember they're still
coming out of a really bad spot, and it's been incremental.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
The improvement has been incremental.

Speaker 2 (02:02:48):
I don't know if they're at a fifty win plateau yet,
but that has as much to do.

Speaker 3 (02:02:53):
With I don't know how many teams in the West in.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
General are going to have fifty fifty five wins this season.
And if it's anything like last year, it seemed to
me like it was a very competitive conference where they
were all beating up on each other all season long.
You know, the last time, I think it was the
second to last game of the year, it was a
Sunday afternoon, the last time the Rockets and the Mavericks
played each other. Rockets lost that game in a brutal fashion.

(02:03:20):
They were having their way with the Mavericks, as I recall,
and then there comes that backcourt that it felt like
the Mavericks got hot at the right time, kind of
like a lot like a baseball team heading into the postseason.
That's what I feel like. They rode all the way
to the NBA Finals, and hey, let's face it, Dan,
if they're anything like the baseball team from that area
of the state, it probably will be a fluke. Maybe

(02:03:43):
they'll miss the playoffs even this year.

Speaker 5 (02:03:45):
I doubt it though. They're too good for that, too
much talent. Yeah, it's not seeming like that's happening.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
But yeah, Charlotte Memphis a winnable game Friday, and then
you've got back to back games in San Antonio. I
don't see any reason why you don't win both of
those games if you do what you do better than
they do what they do. Yes, I know, Victor winbin
Yama is supposed to be this generational talent. He's going
to change the game on and on and on blah

(02:04:10):
blah blah. He didn't do that against one team last year.

Speaker 6 (02:04:13):
I did.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
The Rockets seem to have his number. Now maybe he will.
Maybe he'll put up insane, ungodly numbers this year. But
you know who else probably will against him? Albrynching Gooon,
who just got paid. He loves playing that guy because
he wears him out and abuses him on both ends
of the floor.

Speaker 5 (02:04:28):
Him and Joker.

Speaker 2 (02:04:29):
Yeah, no, it's in funny those that's who he is
most often compared to, maybe even models his game. After
a little bit, Albrynchching Gooon called baby Joker, But I
like we were talking about earlier with wex him averaging
twenty five points per game last ye or this year
this upcoming season is not only realistic, it should probably

(02:04:52):
be his goal if he wants to.

Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
Be an All Star.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
Twenty five points per game shouldn't be shouldn't be too
hard to a accomplish if that's what you have in mind,
and again, even remotely shoot better at the free throw line,
that should be an achievable goal for Ouprin Shingoon, provided
they run the offense through him, which I think they
should and probably will. That is going to do it
for a Wednesday edition of the program. Again, Rockets basketball

(02:05:18):
coverage right around the corner. Keep it right here on
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Speaker 3 (02:05:24):
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