Another Ugly Texans Win, Short Week Leads To Jets and Stan Norfleet

Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on October 28th 2024.

Hour 1: 

• Texans make ugly happen again.
• Bad look for Anthony Richardson.
• What's up with Stefon Diggs? 

Hour 2: 

• Aaron Rodgers plays Bane from Batman.
• Good, Bad and The Ugly.

Hour 3:

• Stan Norfleet in-studio.
• Mike Elko might have been looking at a former boss when he said this? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam talking your teams.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team A.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It is the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety and
of course Space City Home Network on a Monday edition
of the program.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
What you can reintroduce us at about thirty six seconds.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh we are What is up with Matt breaking early
and not even on time? That's unheard of? All right, well,
we'll be on TV apparently sooner rather than later. But
let's just jump into it on a victory Monday edition
of the program. You know, I hear it every week,
and it feels like I've been deflecting, and I'm speaking

(00:52):
for me, not for wex Here. Wex can handle however
he wants to. But I feel like I've been deflecting
the an ugly win. I can't believe they're, you know,
only have one loss. I can't believe they only have
two losses. They're the worst blank and blank team I've
ever seen. I'm not going to say I agree with that,
but man if I didn't hear Demiko Ryans fully acknowledge

(01:12):
it today at his press conference, then I'm I'm sleeping
or I'm asleep at the wheel.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I was there. What did he say?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, he just you know, it was brought up the
subject of let's just say the offensive line.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm not going to name any names Kenyon Green.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, we did when we asked him about it. I know,
I'm trying to be as nice and diplomatic as he was.
You should be accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, let's focus on the other offensive linemen were bench
during the aime.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, why did they return?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Let's be clear, because the guy who replaced him got concussed.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, he got need pretty good in the head as
he was stumbling to try to make a block nearing
the end of the drive, the very end of the drive, right,
he got knat in the head. Jared Patterson is in
concussion protocol. And as he came up the field and
went into the tent and then ultimately into the locker room,
he was replaced by Kenyan Green.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, more importantly, that means he will not be replacing
Kenyon Green this week because it won't be playing because
you're not going to make it out of concussion protocol
by Thursday.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Night when your next game is.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
That is correct, So it means that there's even more
pressure on green to turn it around placement.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, yeah, that's that's really very good point.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
But going back to what I was talking about with Dimiko,
very diplomatic, very I've got my guys back while still
acknowledging that, yeah, this is a problem. And I you know,
I don't live tweet games anymore. I let Wix do that,
I let others do that. I can't because I just.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'd just like to give them information they might not
otherwise have since I'm there.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, the way I live tweet in the way you
live tweet are also very different.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm going to be they have television, so I try
to tweet according Again.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know, no, that's not what I'm getting at though.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I just too many things happen, and really too many
things happen. Like if I were to live tweet Rockets
games right now, it would be somewhat similar. If I
were live tweeting Saturday Night's game, for example, I'd probably
get in some trouble, just so frustrated and disgusted.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Failed on it before they had their monster comeback.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Well did they win? They did not win. Okay, so
it wasn't it wasn't a monster comebacks.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
A monster comeback they just didn't bite the Spurs heads
off at the very end. They just kind of chewed
on their legs and then got up to their torso
and we're about to take some blood from their necks,
and then they backed off.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's a terrible basketball team. You should not have even
been in the position to come back again.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
See what happens tonight, Rockets and Spurs they're playing again.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
But anyways, going back to going back to this this
Texan squad you are, which record says it is all
that kind of stuff we can go to clease into.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
There's two teams behind directly behind the equally unimpressive, undefeated
Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
You can't have it both ways. Yeah, I can watch.
I just did it that the Texans are unimpressive.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
They're all unimpressive. Everybody at the top of the AA
is relatively unimpressive.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Looks beatable.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
In the NFL, that's probably everybody has been beaten except
for one team.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, that's a much more diplomatic and probably fair way
of putting it. It's not to say the Texans aren't good.
They're not going to be as good as they were
to start the game yesterday. When Stefan Diggs doesn't play
this week. Ye's just a fact. No real official update.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Did not expect when we were actually discussing what we
might hear from the Texans officially, though, I do think
we'll have some reports before Thursday on exactly what the
situation is. An MRI or other tests to be done
on digs today, so it actually could be sometime in
the next couple of hours maybe we will hear something,
but nothing yet from the Texans. I was there, obviously,
and everybody has seen the replay of it or saw

(04:43):
it live from the game, like myself, and just those
injuries don't really look particularly good when you're putting your
foot in the ground and there's a little bit of
a buckle there and you immediately stop what you're doing.
And he slowly went down, got down on his knees,
and then was able to walk off the field, and
that's not a sign of your health. He not only
was he able to walk off the field, he didn't

(05:03):
need assistance in doing so, but he also did not
walk into the medical tent. He walked to their sideline
and then immediately back underneath to their locker room. Obviously,
he was not in the locker room after the game,
so nobody spoke with him from our side. He did
have a brief conversation with Demiko Ryans on his way
off of the field. But no, I wouldn't expect it
to be a short term injury. I mean, the simple

(05:25):
way to put it is he's not playing thirst They
have a good ten days off before they play their
next game. But I think this is probably a little
bit longer than that. But we might hear good news
on it, just probably not good enough news to see
him playing on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
You know what he did Tomiko in his press or
today talking about c J. Stroud and how that affects him.
This lack of consistent pass blocking that is suddenly it's
not suddenly a problem.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's just that somehow, even though they only made minor changes,
really it's just George Fan not a part of the
offensive line, and everybody else that was here is it's worse.
It got significant to act worse than they were for
pretty much any individual game or throughout the season. Last
week looked worse. I think to the viewers and to

(06:13):
us that were watching it, every o my, they're coming
from all different places. They're coming un block the numbers
like how many times was he pressured? How many times
was there it was worse this week? The numbers say
they were worse this week. Now, yeah, he performed a
little bit better. And that's that's the luck you have
that he is your quarterback. He is a magician and

(06:34):
has been asked to be that unfortunately far too often
this season, and it is reflected in his own personal numbers.
It's so far not reflected in their win loss total.
Because as much as I could sit here and say, well,
clearly they could have won the Green Bay game, they
were winning it when there was no time left in
the game. Unfortunately the field goal was still bounding through
the air. Well, I could easily take another win or
to off their ledger because they've had so many games

(06:57):
finished in that very similar manner, whether it was their
own score or their own preventing a score. They play
very close games. They've had two games to get that
aren't close to win and a loss. Everything else has
been close. They just played a team that literally only
plays close games. Eight consecutive one score games for the
Indianapolis Colts to open up the season, and that's probably
a good thing for the Texans that they have so

(07:18):
much invested in Anthony Richardson, because if they didn't have
that much invested in him, like the Titans say, don't
have invested in Will Levis because he's not their top
overall pick in the first round, they wouldn't be playing
I mean, that's the cold, hard truth. Anthony Richardson as
a passer is beyond pathetic. Even with the late drops
that he had, he made two unbelievable throws that absolutely

(07:39):
could have won the Colts the game. But if it
made any of the other fifteen throws that he missed,
things would be totally different too. They play him because
he's their future. Shane Steike and today saying we're evaluating everything.
They got four tough games coming up. If they don't
do much there, it's still not over for their postseason.
To me, it's already over for the division, and the
other two teams in the division we no longer discussed.

(07:59):
Because they have three combined wins, no matter, and the
Texans play them three more times. The Texans are in
an unbelievably strong position in every possible way. The only
losses they have are to NFC teams. Nobody else is
five and zero against the AFC.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Just them.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Nobody else in the AFC is three to ohero in
their division, just them. They're in an incredible position to
finish no worse than second in the AFC, even with
games remaining against Kansas City and Baltimore, who are clearly
in the mix for that.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Well, Baltimore's busy losing to Cleveland this week.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Baltimore is now falling a game behind you. They take
it all away, plus earn the tiebreaker if they beat
you later this year. But most of their division is
still waiting to play a ton of their division games,
like the Steelers, for instance, they lead their division at
five and two. They haven't seen any of those teams yet,
Nobody sweeps them. Nobody's probably even gonna win five division

(08:53):
games this year. That's at least two losses pretty much
for everybody in that division as they continue to play.
So a big picture, that's where the Texans sit. And
obviously I mentioned this on the old X platform earlier today.
They got nine games remaining. You know how many of
those nine games are against teams with two wins or
fewer five of them? Seriously, five of the Texans nine

(09:14):
remaining games are against teams who have either won once
or twice this year.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
So what you're telling me is all that talk all
summer long that I had in conjunction, by the way,
with the offensive line not being good, which I was
right about and continue to be even more right about it.
Nobody argued with you. But their schedules not nearly as
hard as I thought it was going to be.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, they just played it all on the front side.
And look at them now they're six and two.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, but you talk team thought it was going to be. Now,
let's they're not Detroit. Still.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's a matter of volume. Yeah, Like, is there scheduled
difficult the remaining nine No?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Not.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Over those nine games they probably play six teams that
aren't going to the playoffs. But the other three games
are against super Bowl contenders, right, not playoff teams, super
Bowl contenders.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Troy City, Baltimore and trust team in the NFL this year.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean, they're they're doing what you hope they're doing
what came the city isn't doing.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's what I was saying.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
You can just take the trash out. Can you pay
the piece of trash in front of us? When you
put eleven no, offense to the personal people in those uniforms.
But when there's eleven pieces of trash on the other
side of the field, they take it out.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
If Kansas City in Detroit played right now for the
super Bowl on a neutral field, I'm probably taking Detroit.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's what super Bowls are.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, not necessarily, but if it was scheduled to be
in Detroit this year or something like that, I know
it's kind of crazy that.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
That's the first not headed to Arrowhead anytime soon. Maybe
their new stadium, when and if they get their one.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Here's a tip.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
By then, will Pap be still cooking? Yeah, here's a tip, Titans.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Start asking for public funds for your stadium when you're
winning multiple super Bowls, not when you're the worst team
in the NFL like you're trying to do right now.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
And by the way, you'll get a super Bowl, you
just won't be anywhere near playing it.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
If you don't get your new stadium. It couldn't happen
to a better franchise. That'd be twice that your family's told, nah,
we don't want to give you a new stadium.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
So a lot of big picture stuff there obviously a
lot of focus on what did take place during the
three plus hours of the Texans Colts game yesterday, including
the play against Joe Flacco. They had one because Anthony
Richardson got tired of running around back to back plays,
scrambling away from the Texans defense, throwing huge three hundred
plus pound fully fought Acasi to the ground with just

(11:18):
his left arm, and after that run, scramble and tackle
is when he literally tapped out. I don't mean that
in any other sense than literal. When you tap your
helmet that's assigned to your bench, you need a breather.
It's usually not coming from your quarterback. It's usually not
coming from six players. Your quarterback and your offensive lineman
pretty much never tap out. Other players might after a

(11:39):
seventy yard run or whatever, need to get them off
the field.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
O they're off the field.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
They also don't play one hundred percent of the snaps
those other six players, other than injury or performance poor performance,
they do. The Texans didn't have all six of those
players play all snaps because one of them had poor performance.
But Anthony Richardson couldn't handle or couldn't stay out there,
and he just flat out acknowledged the truth which I'm
fine with. I'm not one of the I'm in the

(12:04):
locker room guys. I'm a clubhouse guy, and you can't
do that. You can't sell your guys out. That's public.
They already know he sold you out. It doesn't matter
what he says publicly. They're fully aware of it. They
play with him, They watched it happen. They don't need
to hear it out loud for it to be the truth.
They already know what the truth is. They ended up
running the ball and ultimately that, among other things, might
have prevented the cult from a miracle comeback. The fact

(12:25):
that the Texans turned it over when they were trying
to put the game away, and luckily Joe Mixon was
credited with a tackle and nobody was able to return
the ball for a touchdown, which actually happened because we
all watched it. So a lot of bits and pieces
of what happened yesterday. As the Texans moved to six and.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
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Speaker 1 (12:49):
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Speaker 2 (13:00):
All Right, The eight team rolls along on a Monday edition.
By the way I know, it sounded like we were
all dour in the first segment. The Texans did win yesterday,
I should probably you know mention it.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
It is three seventeen on Monday. I mean, we're not
your we're not giving you breaking news. Do you guys
know that the Texans won yesterday? It was twenty three
to twenty. Just in case you didn't get that from
us yet, Texans were three point winners in their football
game played over twenty four hours ago right here in Houston.
Twenty three to twenty was your final score?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
How about a pick them when the game opened up?
The opening line and now what the Jets are favored
by one and a half?

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I think was the last thing I saw.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
After the last two weeks is I think why watching
the Texans attempt to operate offensively, I think that's why
the line is where it is because quite obviously the
Jets are awful, that's problem losses, but they they're like
the Colts. Every game they play is okay, who's going
to make the play in the last five minutes and
they're going to win. Thus, the line's probably low. Texans

(13:58):
going on the road away from home, their offense was
already struggling the last two weeks without only Nico Collins.
Now they're probably in a position where they might struggle
again without Nego Collins and Stefan Diggs. So I don't
really think the line is crazy, especially since the Texans
again did not cover the spread. Not that it matters,

(14:19):
but from this perspective, they've been on the wrong end
of it.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh for three. We were zero for three against the Texans.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I think we were oh for three, but we only
made two different picks, so obviously two were clumped together.
But just they don't cover very often. They have covered
three times this year out of eight opportunities to do so.
And maybe by the time the game kicks off Thursday
night against short week, maybe it'll be a little bit
in their favor.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Not really sure.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's just a matter of where what the public feels
and where the money comes in. But on a short
week with pretty much I think there's actually good news
on two fronts because two other players were unable to
take all of their snaps. But you know, Calyn Bullock
leaving the game was kind of enormous until he Rea
turned which was great. You know, we missed three snaps
and even though he does have a shoulder issue. If

(15:06):
I were to guess based on what I saw in
the locker room after the game and what we saw
on the field, and the fact that he returned, I
would I would imagine he's probably still starting in a
good bet to go.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Would see the locker room. Was he doing yoga in there?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
No, just the way that they were handling it on
his way in and out of it. He just had
a little bit of ice on it. Yeah, it wasn't
anything like sometimes we don't see the player at all,
and that would I wouldn't want to comment on that
because it doesn't mean anything but seeing Yeah, this player
was in a walking booth, this player was on whatever
the case maybe, you know. Mainly I even bring it

(15:41):
up because he returned, he played, he played through it,
and I bet you he will if need be, and
it does need be, uh, he'll play through it again
on on Thursday. Tim Settle also missed a little bit
of time. We actually talked to him today and he
was perfectly clear without saying it. He appears ready to go.
And you know, their defensive line is setting the tone
for their entire defense. It's why they turned teams over.
They've done so now nine times in their last three games.

(16:04):
They continue to lead the league with their duo. Just
like I predicted that they would thirty sacks combined on
the season. They're getting pretty close to being right on
that number as they approach the halfway point of the season.
They're not quite there yet. Two quarters into Thursday Night game.
Thursday Night's game, they will be. And they're healthy now
they have Autrey back again. They are still missing Mario
Edwards Junior. We're able to have pretty much everybody else

(16:28):
in the mix for you, especially with Fully working his
way through what is obviously an injury to his shoulder,
but he keeps going out there. It's why they've done this.
What they did to Richardson now twice. The two worst
completion percentages by a quarter unbelievable with thirty attempts have
happened against the Texans in Houston in their four home

(16:50):
games this year. In the last ten years, no other
team has held even a single quarterback to as low
a completion percentage as when Anthony richards turned out turned
in yesterday. He was ten of thirty two, so just
a shade over thirty percent. And what Josh Allen did
a couple of weeks back when he was nine for thirty.
These are the two best performances period in the last

(17:13):
ten years in the NFL. And it doesn't even stop
with just those two games. It's happened in their other
two home games. It's happened for the majority of the season.
They lead the NFL overall in completion percentage allowed, and
they just happen to be playing a quarterback this week
that is already in the top five against every other defense.
And by top five, I mean bottom five. Aaron Rodgers

(17:33):
had has been insanely inaccurate. And I recognize every time
I say it, even though I don't mention it. If
a quarter or if a receiver drops a perfect pass,
it just goes into the incomplete column.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
I get that. All that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Well, those are different to me. Why well, because what
if you threw into triple coverage? Do I just what
if you view of it?

Speaker 5 (17:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (17:54):
But what if you throw on the money and it
goes right to the numbers and they just by I
just screwed this and then drop it gets now it
gets tipped because they didn't catch it like they should have,
even though it was placed perfectly, And then it winds
up in another defender's hands.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I hate that that's on that quarter drop.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
If you throw it to your receiver and it hits
him first, that's not a tipped ball. That's your own guy.
That's that's a missed play by your guy, if somebody
else tips it at the line or like this. I
maybe it was Colt's film room. I can't remember which.
Nondescript Colts, following on the X platform, posted a here's
a whole full minute of all the plays where the

(18:31):
wide receivers didn't help Anthony Richardson out and until the
last two passes, and there was probably ten of them
on there this person, which is why I try to
do my best to I don't know vet some of
these accounts out there. The first eight or so throws
were pass breakup hit throw was late. Thus the dB
was there like the receivers weren't doing anything wrong. They
had him no way to catch these balls. You can

(18:53):
drops late in the game. Yeah, Ty Goodson had one
and Alec Pierce had another. Even though the Pierce throw
was definitely not where it needed to be, it was
good enough to catch it. In the Goodson thro Texans
dodged a Bullet on that Ty Goodson's been good to
them these last two years.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
If first of all, if you're able to make a
montage just like the one you described, you don't have
a good quarterback.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Okay, I don't care what excuse you're just he's just wrong.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I mean, but if you're making a monta, if there's
that many of them, it's one thing like if.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Even used one, the ball hit the ground before it
got to the receiver, it's a dirt BALLAMEDI.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
On the receiver.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
The other thing is and I wanted to say this,
and I'm glad you talked about Kylen Bullet coming back.
I'm probably going to be more hard on him than
you will given what we heard. But this was Anthony Richardson,
when asked about coming out for a play yesterday, tired.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
That was a lot of runner rup there we I did,
and I don't think I was gonna be able to
go that next place, so I just, uh, you know,
I just told saying I just needed a brick right there.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, this guy's getting crucified for that SoundBite, and I
don't I mean, it's it is what it is, like.
I think if that were Lamar Jackson for example, very
fair comparison. Guy runs quite a bit. He's never said, Ah,
I had to take a breather for a play. I
was tired.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's why there is no comparison, because we don't ever
see it, and he shouldn't be getting crucified for the
SoundBite which he is. You accurately portrayed that he should
be getting crucified for doing it.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, that's I mean, that's what I'm kind of implying.
It's total to me, it's totally different.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't care what anybody says Emanuel Acho or any
talking hit on ESPN. Otherwise, I thought that makes no
difference to my locker room and to me personally, it
makes no difference either. Let's say we're covering the Colts
or talking about the Colts every day, which are we're
about to stop doing because they've already played their two
games against them.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Thank goodness, although they could play a role the rest
of the way spoiler wise, But it's all about the
guys that he's out there with, like he comes in
for the next series, because the series ended after the
next play, because it was third and long, and they
handed it off and then they just kicked a short
field goal.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
This is his team. He's supposed to be leading this team.
They keep going out there, Deshaun Watson and style saying seriously, man,
can you complete a few passes?

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Like?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I know why we're calling what we're calling. I know
why you're playing. He I only bring up to Sean
Watson because the similarity is this. He's playing because the
investment and I don't necessarily mean the only the money.
I mean they're invested in this person. This is the
face of our franchise. This is we want to succeed with.
This is what we need to succeed with. He's not
playing because of performance. Watson wasn't continuing to play because
of performance. His performance said he should be benched. The

(21:26):
performance by his third string quarterback yesterday, which is what
he was two weeks ago, showed why the performance can
change the whole outlook for the team, which the Colts
have actually already seen because Flacco has played for him
this year. They saw it last year when Flacco played
for Watson.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Here's the same.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
So now you're going to go back out. I'm your leader,
and I can't I mean I can tell the coach.
I can give an indication that you know, you might
want to call something else I guess or audible to something.
Maybe I can handle here, but I don't know what
you're expecting there on third and whatever, you know, twenty plus.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
It's it's just you just can't do that unless you're hurt.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, if Bryce Young can get benched, then you can
bench Anthony Richardson. And before you say, oh, that's not
a fair why he was the number one pick in
the draft.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, nobody to say. That's no comparison at all. I
totally agree. And they're playing him because they have to,
because Anthony her is Andy Dalton. Anthony Dalton, his backup's
Andy Dalton in Carolina. I'm sorry, there's no comparison to
him and Joe Flacco at this point in their careers.
I think they're exactly the same. They are career backups
for the last ten years. That's who they are, that's

(22:33):
what they've been.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, one of them led you to several victories a
year ago, and the other guy's Andy Dalton.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Because he plays for a crappy team. Joe doesn't. Joe's
back to back years played for a capable team. What
about money played for the Jets, and so was he.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
But flip their flip them, and I don't think you're
getting the same results with Andy Dalton on the Colts.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, but I'm not more in Cleveland last year. It's yeah,
it's why they have jobs. It's why the Colts said, well,
if minshe's not going to be here, we gotta do
what we're doing. Why was minshe there last year? Because
he's a capable backup quarterback? Why is flacko because he's
a capable.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
If I'm hearing their he if I'm hearing Shane Steike
and say we're we're I don't real Yeah, we're evaluating everything.
You've got Minnesota on the road this week. Look what
they did to C. J. Stroud And I know the
offensive lines aren't the same, but you've got an inaccurate.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Passer against that pass rush. Good luck. So if that's
what you're gonna do, go right ahead. I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I am loving watching the scoreboard for the rest of
the AFC South this season because they are absolutely coming
through in the clutch every single week. For the Texans
as they figure out ways to win. We will discuss
more on Stefan Diggs when we come back.

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WEX over there ac right here. Texans get the twenty
three to twenty win over the Colts. They are done
with them for the season. We think we're pretty sure,
and you mentioned it.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
I think can open the postseason against them.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I just don't see it.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I know that the rest of the division is terrible.
So they could also get fat on that, Well.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
It's basically, you have five good teams right in the AFC,
so six and seven could be just about anybody, even
the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah wow, they How can a team led by Joe
Burrow be this bad?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
They're just finding ways to be on the wrong end
of it.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
But it's not see when you say that, I know
this isn't true, but just for the sake of this,
when you say a phrase like that that implies they
lost a close game, that's not what happened yesterday, not yesterday.
But I just feel like if you're finding ways to lose,
then you're like the twenty ten Texans were were like
something that what happened in the Commi's game yesterday happened

(25:40):
to you and Jacksonville, for example. You were finding ways
to lose games. They weren't always blowouts. A lot of
like shenanigans would sometimes happen. The Bengals are like getting
out classed more often than not.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
It feels like yesterday to me, it was really I
mean their opener losing to the Patriots, which has now
happened twice. The Jets did that yesterday. That's pretty awful
losing that game for the Bengals coming out of the
gate was awful, And really don't think I'd had anything
to do with Chase or any of what happened during
the offseaing. They just didn't play well to start the
year and now they've gotten into a bunch of games

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where they go back and forth. We got to go
back to the Kansas City game where they were winning
and then they didn't win because they didn't get a
correct call made correctly, got made incorrectly, and then Kansas
City kicked a fifty plus yard field goal to beat
them on the final play. Just that one play, the
call that wasn't made, or just the kick itself. The
Bengals are four and four, the Chiefs are six and one.

(26:34):
I mean that changes a lot of people's perspective. Yesterday
they were beaten pretty soundly by a rare offensive explosion
not all dictated by turnovers, with Jalen Hurts contributing four
touchdowns and beating the Bengals, like I said, soundly. The
Bengals also can't win at home, and I'm being literal.
They have played there four times, they don't have any wins.

(26:54):
But at three and five they're still better than the
Raiders and Jaguars and Titans and Browns and Ji and
Patriots and Dolphins. Just in the AFC, they are right
outside the playoff picture. The Colts are now right outside
the playoff picture. The Chargers and Broncos are inside the
playoff picture. The Ravens are currently in a wild card

(27:15):
position because they're a half game back of the Steelers,
who play tonight. There's not great football deep through the AFC,
which is again why you keep looking at the position.
The Texans are in. And I know why they won't
win in the playoffs. So if you're going to tell
me they don't, I know the reasons why already. But
I can also tell you they open the seat the postseason.
Is the number two seed and the Broncos or Steelers

(27:37):
or Chargers or Colts or Bengals come to town. Okay,
so after you win that game, then you probably are
at home again because you're the two seeds.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
You're definitely at home again.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're playing somebody real, but you're playing them at home
this time and not in Baltimore like you were last year.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Maybe it's Baltimore, maybe it's Buffalo. Maybe the Steelers have
somehow won the division maybe it's them.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Okay, you're better than them.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
So you win a home game for the second week
in a row in the playoffs, then you go to
Kansas City.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
For the.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
When you do that, that's farther than you ever gone
in the history of your franchise.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Right, And it isn't because they're unbelievable. They're awesome. They're
a machine. They're blowing teams out, they're dominating these teams.
They're basically not doing that to anybody. I don't even
think they dominated the Patriots in the way the scoreboard says.
But they did keep piling on and they actually use
those turnovers to get points to increase their lead. They
use their turnovers against Green Bay to actually stay in

(28:26):
the game, or else they would have been beaten soundly.
But all that being said, at some point, maybe there
is better. I don't think there's worse football in their future,
only better football.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Better.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I think they well, if there're more people out, then
they're going to be in troubles a franchise moving forward.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Oh, I just mean this year.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I mean for the six and two Texans that people
still want to complain about. I sat here and said
they got five games against teams that have two wins
or less. Somebody should be saying, great, which one of
those teams will they play in the playoffs? And there's
a point to be made. Great, they're gonna get to
the playoffs. Great, they're gonna win the division. Great, they're
gonna beat the two seats. But how are they gonna
beat the teams the only teams pretty much they might

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face in the playoffs. And that's when you have to
also acknowledge. They played five and two Green Bay, they
lost on a kick at the end of the game.
They played five and two, now six and two. In
both cases, I should say Buffalo. They beat Buffalo here
in Houston, a game that probably shouldn't have been as close.
But that's what the NFL is, that's what the Texans do,
and they won that game by a field goal. They

(29:28):
have enough of that, and we're gonna get more of
it because there are still three games against elite teams.
There's only one team atop the AFC. They play them
Kansas City. There's only one team atop the NFC, they
play them to Detroit. They happen to have played the
best division in the NFC, that division, the North. All
those teams. Even after yesterday's embarrassment by the Bears at

(29:49):
the end of the game, they're still above five hundred.
Like the other three teams, they will have had tests
they've clearly passed at least one. We'll see if they
pass more of them. They also have the Ravens, a
team that at least had their number and there's some
history with in this era. They've played Demico Ryans Texans twice.
They've played CJ's Texans twice. Well, we've got a third

(30:11):
meeting coming up later this year. Holiday season. Yeah, while
they've got Yeah, it's very very very festive, it's very jolly.
So I might say they've got the book on them,
but the Texans have the book on them too. Although
they've added a wrinkle, a very very important wrinkle on
offense and maybe they'll have to reach out to the
to the Browns and figure out.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
So tell me how you did it.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah, that was not expected, but that's that's the kind
of season that's been and that's usually the case. You
know what I like about that, Like if that were
the scenario, like say that Texans, you know, lightning in
a bottle or just things break their way, is the
more likely scenario, because that's what I think they've done
this year. And sometimes they've made those things break their way,
but sometimes it's been just kind of a war of

(30:52):
an attrition type thing whatever. Six out of eight times
they've found a way to be on the right side
of the scoreboard. If they were to go on and
win the Super Bowl this year, you know what nobody's
gonna talk about, because this doesn't happen in the NFL.
They were a lightly regarded championship team. Nobody ever talks
about that. Did you win the Super Bowl? Yes, okay,
then you were the best team that year, no matter
what nobody. I mean, I'm talking about the Chiefs all

(31:14):
of last year and they just hummed along and ended
up winning a championship. And was it as dominated or
as impressive history too? I know, But what I'm saying
is nothing. The NFL, by and large, is not that
type of league. It's not You're not to hear anything
like you like Rockets fans have to hear about well
Jordan was retired, Like that doesn't happen you either. If
you win the championship, that's scoreboard. Nobody even talks about it.

(31:37):
I mean, there might be some small cases if like
a controversial play happens on your way there or in
the game.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
I know that there was.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
A lot of talk about, uh, the penalty that was
called against the Eagles and the waning moments of two
years ago when they beat them to win the championship.
Nobody looks back on that. I mean, the only thing
I hear nowadays is how, look, the Chiefs got another call.
They always get calls. But it's not even It's just
not as much of a thing in the NFL as
it is in other leagues.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Other than the COVID stuff and maybe the shortened season
after I don't know, or the fifty game season in
the NBA. Is there really that in the other two leagues? Like,
are any of the Major League Baseball champions lightly regarded
because of their path or what they weren't up against? Oh,
the Astros are, But that's because that you did and
they were the only thing doing that. But why they're
lightly regarded. They're lightly regarded because people are stupid.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Uh huh, Well that's what people here in Houston say.
But oh the people who.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Are elsewhere and when we point out they're stupid, they
usually obliged by showing.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Us, oh yeah, they love, they actually love, I think,
being highlighted for their stupidity. But you're gonna have to
You're gonna have to shore things up, at least for
another week. I would love to think that if Stefan
Diggs is out for the foreseeable future and maybe longer,
that's going to really end up looking like a relatively

(32:56):
lackluster career as a Texan. It's not even gonna be
a full season, and then he'll like be gone. But
Nico Collins coming back just in time for that Detroit game,
that would be a very very welcome addition. So no pressure, Tank, Dell.
You're probably wide receiver won this week when you go
to New Jersey to take on the Jets.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Eighteen rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Injuries
a hot topic pretty much from the get go with
the Texans this year. But Stefan Diggs climbing the yards,
he's right there at the top, first and foremost.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Wex If he's done for the year.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Let's just say it's worst case scenario, he's out, because
we really don't know anything yet other than he's not
playing this week. If he's done, is there a world
where the Texans actually have a better shot at bringing
him back because of the injury, or is it just well,
we got our you know, six handful of whatever games

(34:15):
out of him, and we both kind of knew this
was a one and done situation and best of luck
wherever you wind up signing in the offseason.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I mean, I think everything's on the table, first of all,
because you don't really know. You could say he's out
for the year, but I still don't know what that means.
It's more about when is he coming back?

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Is he available? He available during the season.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is this such a severe injury that you don't expect
him back until after the year begins, and that would
have to be something. It's again, nine to twelve months
puts you in time for the season. If it's on
the short end of that, I do think it's going
to be difficult to get the kind of contract he
was expecting when he agreed to make this a one
year deal here in Houston. If he heads into the

(34:55):
offseason unhealthy at this stage of his career.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Clearly he was.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Productive here in Houston, very similar to the manner that
he was productive in Buffalo at the end of his
career there. He's not the Texans big play guy in
the game. He got hurt in yesterday. He turned at
his longest reception of the season. He is a chain mover.
He is an extremely trustworthy route runner and pass catcher.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
He has been awesome in that regard this year.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
But I think the reasons why you saw the Texans offense,
one of the reasons they struggled without any go Collins,
because that's not Diggs. If the shoe was on the
other foot, as it probably will be in two weeks
when they played Detroit, I don't think it will be
quite like that in that regard. If the offensive line
problems don't get fixed, then it really doesn't matter. But
to Diggs's point, situation coming up this off year, if

(35:41):
it is worst case scenario and that's out there, he's
probably got to consider it. This is still probably close
to the end of the line contract wise for me,
He's not gonna retire, But I say that meaning there's
no three year forty thirty nine fifty million. There's no
deal like that for him, I don't think with any team.
But there might be a team willing to give him

(36:02):
more and incentives, give him a little bit better package
while still giving him the chance to win than the
Texans do. That's just a matter of I don't know
what they're gonna be thinking at that point. Plus, they
will have been able to watch what this offense looked
like for a second year without him. They got to
see it last year without him. Now they'll get to
see what are those other players capable of being enough

(36:25):
of a compliment to CJ and Nico in that offense
that they could still operate at a high level. We
can't sit here and pretend like man, I just love
watching the Texans offense this year. It's so fun watching
him score twenty five, twenty eight, thirty points every time
they go out there. They didn't do it last year,
and they don't do it this year, despite the playbook
that I love, despite the quarterback that's unbelievable, and he's
still unbelievable this year, even though it's not quite the

(36:46):
same way that he was last year. Their talent, they
should be much more successful. Do you still love the playbook?
The playbook's great. It's just when do they call certain
plays like yesterday for instance? And this will be a
week we don't talk to Bobby Slowick, probably a week
where if we did, I would say, do you regret
the play call when you had the game in your

(37:09):
hands to put away and you went with a pitch
to Joe Mixon? Would you would you like to call
that one over pitch? Plays shouldn't be outlawed when you're
trying to protect the football and try to go in
and score when you're in.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
The red zone. Just unnecessary risk.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
I just think that play is not you know, I've
watched plenty of pitches at practice, just like we've all
seen in games. There by no means an exact science.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
You throw the pit.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
I mean, just earlier in this game, a very rare
bad juice scrugs shotgun snap that luckily CJ. The basketball
player was able to jump up and get a hand
on then he could just grab it out of the
air and have it not be such a negative play.
It was just an incompletion. But are you like in
his belly or throwing it? I don't want you throwing

(37:52):
the ball backwards in a pitch a screen.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
When you saw them, you saw the formation on that
because remember it's easy to forget before all of the
shenanigans happened and they turn the ball over, Like, how
far back is Joe Mixon lined up? I get there's formations,
I get what they were. I guess what they were
attempting to do. But in addition to a toss versus

(38:19):
just putting it directly in his belly like you're talking about,
I mean he was lined up like thirty yards behind
CJ for some reason.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
As the play calls for. But yes, another reason to
maybe go with something else, something else. They call sixty
plays a game. I'm not I know everybody else loves
doing it. I'm not a huge fan of it. I
don't expect any play callers to be perfect, even in
one game, so I know they're gonna call plays that
I think they regret.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
I would regret.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
You know, the problem on that play is that you
had several missed blocks, Like the pitch wasn't so bad
that Mixon couldn't eventually corral it, except two colts were
on top of him already. Neither Robert Woods nor kid Stover,
and again, I don't want to blame them, They just
happened to be the two players that were there. I
don't know if they were not in a good position
from how the plays designed to make their blocks, but

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neither one of them were able to do so, and
so there's two defenders on him, and then I kind
of wonder what the rest of the offense was doing.
It was a little bit confusing because it was all
happening behind them, But even CJ was the only person
trying to prevent the touchdown and he got knocked to
the ground pretty violently, I thought, and then he just
easily ran it in for a score, which they luckily
corrected on review that he was down by contact. But yeah,

(39:30):
that's one play call and there's others. You know, you
throw a screen pass to Tank with Hutchinson lead blocking
for him. Hutchinson beginning thrown around all game. He made
a phenomenal catch. We think Texans were smart when they
ran to the huddle and snapped the ball, but he
just was not having a good day blocking the player
in front of him. I don't know why you would
call that play there. You're you're asking for him to

(39:52):
essentially block his guy and the guy defending tank. It
was a loser play from the start, and it turned
out that way after they ran it. But sixty plus
a plays forty of which if their passes, you have
to do something unnormal, abnormal, out of the ordinary, atypical,
because you know the blocking scheme isn't going to work
even though it's designed to work. And that's the ultimate

(40:14):
offensive issue they've had this year. You got a play
callers got to call plays because of that. To compensate
for that, you got a quarterback who, while his play
yesterday indicated he wasn't frustrated by it and he didn't
throw his helmet on the sidelines in yesterday's game like
he did in the Packer game, it was definitely frustrating
for him because there he just does he, like any quarterback,
deserves a little bit more time to throw. And they

(40:36):
just haven't seemed to be able to figure out is
there a replacement player that has to be out there,
which to me at this point is beyond obvious, or
are there better ways to send our route runners instead
of three guys, there's two guys instead of five guys,
there's three instead of four long routes.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
There's two.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
There's a lot of different ways to get around it,
and they haven't figured it out most of the season.
Super pronounced the last two weeks. You can't have your
quarterback who's this good and this important to your currencieson
let alone his future and your future get hit as
often as he is.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Don't look at the numbers.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
C J.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Stroud gets the Colts Sunday, October twenty seventh. Oh, they
did a good job. He was only sacked two times.
I love it. Good job. That's such a bad way
to look at how a quarterback was handled by a defense.
They handled them with pressure, and they turn around and
handle them right back because he was really really good
again as usual, the magician throws were there again.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
But here's the problem for this upcoming week, and it's
in three days, like this is not a bad defense.
I know things have not gone well for the Jets
this year overall. I know that Aaron Rodgers looks like
he's fifty instead of forty. But they can get after you.
Sauce Gardner's still out there, and you are now down

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two top tier receivers with the same pass protection issues
that you've been having it's just not It's not where
I wanted the team to be going into a quote
unquote rematch coming off of what happened last year, and
I realized Aaron Rodgers wasn't healthy last year. There was
a lot of things that didn't happen in that game
from the Jets perspective, but I just wanted them to

(42:12):
go in there and get a victory in it's looking
like it's going to be more difficult.

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here on Sports Talk seven ninety and see it over
on Space City. But lots of discussion about the game
that was yesterday between the Texans and the Colts, the
game that will be as there's a quick turnaround this
week Thursday Night Date with Aaron Rodgers and the Jets
in Jersey. The MetLife Stadium is the is the venue,
you know the New York Jets, but they play over

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in the Swamp. And again, Aaron Rodgers in what he
has been this season coming back from a significant injury.
By the way, I don't want to like discount that,
especially at his age, but he's never looked more forty
than he does right now, which is ancient for quarterbacks.
I mean, I'm forty three, but I'm not trying to
fling it in a NFL football game.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
It's pretty below average this year, and there's really no
way to spin it. It's just not very good football,
and it's not all on the quarterback, just like it
wouldn't be all on him if they were playing at
a different level, a good level for that matter. They
got issues all over the place. They're finding ways, much
like the Bengals, to compete every week and half fewer
points than the other team. They're not getting blown out
very often. They don't look like they're an embarrassment. They

(44:01):
just don't win. But that shouldn't happen when you're playing
a team the caliber of the Patriots, Like it happened yesterday,
especially when their quarterback does the right thing, although they
may have to consider it if it is anymore and
slides at the end of a run and takes a
hit and he's done for the game and maybe longer,
And maybe the Patriots rethink how much more of this
season is in Drake May's future. And maybe it also

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indicates to the Patriots that more of their players beyond
Josh Ucci and earlier with Matthew Judah, are.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Available to other teams.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
The Texans might be considering some changes, whether it's on
their own offensive line or anywhere else, or injuries might
dictate that. But to the Jets itself, I couldn't get
beyond this, knew it had to come on the show today.
They lost their game again. They late gave up a
score to the Patriots and had them on the losing
end of it. They play a bunch of close games.

(44:53):
They're not able to use breist Hall, Braylen, Allen DeVante, Adams,
Garrett Wilson, and Aaron Rodgers to produce offense enough offense
to win games consistently, to allow their team to not
be perfect in all the other ways or not be
great in any other ways, and win games. They have
scored not enough points and it's it's pretty obvious, but

(45:15):
I wanted to get to Aaron Rodgers first before I
make that very same point. And everybody gets caught on
certain things when it has to do with Aaron Rodgers,
things that he says that cloud the other stuff, the
actual stuff that I care about, the football stuff. And
that happened again yesterday. He was presented with a question
about what when the lights aren't on and you're you
know what it's like. I'll let the reporter ask that

(45:37):
darkness related question. I'll give you the very first part
of the answer before we get to the good part
of the answer, which probably nobody's heard because for the
first part of the answer, everybody else in the national
media and New York stopped listening because he only heard
this first part because that's what they love to talk about.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
So here's how it went.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Call this a moment of.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Darkness for this team?

Speaker 9 (45:58):
Is that how you see it?

Speaker 4 (45:59):
And how do you get out of it? I mean,
because you could just stay in darkness as well.

Speaker 9 (46:05):
Now I've been in the darkness, you gotta go in
there make peace with it.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
I've been in the darkness. You gotta go in there
make peace with it. There was no smirk, there was
no bit of laughter from the media either. He was
dead on serious. And the question was presented and he
gave his darkness related answer, which, of course, like I said,
every national show, all these writers in New York and everyone,
that's all they heard, that's all that was said. We

(46:31):
gave us a ridiculous darkness question, which I doubt was
an accident, and he gave us a ridiculous darkness answer.
You gotta embrace it. I don't know what he is embracing.
As they lose to the Broncos, Vikings, Bill Steels and
Patriots in succession, they've lost five games in a row
as part of their two and six season. They play
in a division with the Patriots, so they have beaten

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them once. They have a win over the two win Patriots,
they have a win over the one win Titans, and
they've lost every other game they've played. Now they play
the six win Texans, and what he said after it
is what we should be talking about, what they should
be talking about, what their interim coach should be talking about,
what their owners should be talking about. And it has
a lot more to do with the football, which is

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of course the only real reason they're losing football games
again basically now, almost every single week after he got
the darkness out of his system, he addressed some of
the issues with his their offense.

Speaker 9 (47:25):
Defensively, our goal has just got to be score thirty.
Doesn't matter what the other two sides are doing. You know,
we have trusting our defensive teams, but we're not scoring thirty.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
We're under achieving.

Speaker 9 (47:37):
This offense can do that every single week now.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
He almost had me with our goal is to score thirty.
That's a good goal, and that's a if.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
CJ.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Strouds said that that would be a good thing to say.
Our goal is to score thirty. I don't care what
the offense or what the defense does or special teams.
We go out there and do our job. I think
we're capable of doing that well. I would also take
it with less of a grain of salt, and I'd
actually believe him, knowing that he'd quarterback to this team
two games where they've scored thirty points, in which Aaron

(48:06):
Rodgers has done exactly zero times in his entire NFL career.
He has never quarterbacked the Jets to a thirty point game,
and yet he says this is something we should do
every game. They've done it in no games. They shouldn't
do it every game. They've literally never done it. And
nobody's paying any attention to the fact that you and
your offense, whether it's the OC, the new OC, the personnel,

(48:27):
your arm, your lack of mobility, whatever it is, every week,
new defense except the two times you played the Patriots
and you can't do it. Why would you say we
can you can't if CJ.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Strouds said that, would you have a similar response, even
though they have once against the stupid Patriots.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Well, he's they've both been in their cities for two
years playing quarterback for this team, and wow, I take
some liberties here.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
You're taking a huge liberty in that one of those
seasons he didn't play more than like a few snaps.
But you know, you have Aarons even at his advanced
age and everything that we've talked about with accuracy, he
still should be better at throwing the football just by design.

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Then a lot of other quarterbacks out there, and then
you add DeVante Adams to that offense. I understand where
he's coming from. At least even if it doesn't sound
accurate because he's never done it in that uniform and.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
He doesn't know he doesn't need it in this sound
by put it on himself. But he's not trying to deflect.
I don't want to present that. He has said I
have to be better, I need to do this. So
I'm sure he's as a leader from that standpoint, when
he's not throwing Mike Williams under the bus, he gets it.
But they're also not scoring twenty eight or twenty six
or twenty five. Haven't even hit twenty five in a

(49:44):
game yet. The Texas scored thirty plus six times since
CJ has been the quarterback. They've done it plenty for
him to say it, it'd be totally fine for him
to say it would be truthful this offense, with who
they have and what they've been up against. Even yes,
they should definitely be doing that. He's not under extre
I don't. I don't think Aaron Rodgers is under extreme duress. Honestly,
you might be able to argue that he's about to

(50:07):
face the best defense he's seen all year. That's why
it's I would say he is about I'm gonna argue
it i'd state it. Yeah, the best defense the Jets
will have played after Thursday all season will be the
team they play Thursday.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Well, listen, if if Will Anderson Junior and Danielle Hunter
are able to do what they want to do, this
could actually be ugly for Aaron Rodgers because you're talking
about an already inaccurate passer for whatever reason. I don't
know if it's because he's being pressured versus he's just
old versus I don't know.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
I think they may be near the top of the
league and drops might be part of it.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Okay, Well, so that's gonna get better when you have
two maniacs.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Bear, do you throw to the same guys all year
long until you cut them in what you're saying, gonna
catch the ball and numbers would would go in a
better direction.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
And while they are Sauce Gardner is not a Texan,
much the chagrin of some, they've got a nice pair
of corners.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
They might not even be their best one, to be
honest with you, that's how well they've played on the
other side.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Right, So, although CJ and the offense of the Texans
are gonna have to find a way to put points
on the board, You're right this. I mean I'm looking
at their schedule now. The Vikings are really really good defensively,
or at least they were against the Texans.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
No, they're definitely one of the better teams. They haven't played.
I mean, they gave a bunch of points to Detroit.
I think that's fair as teams do.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
I think the Steelers defense is legit, Like I can
see them holding them to fifteen points and it being
in large part because they're just a good defensive unit.
But the Patriots, the Bills, the Broncos, now the forty
nine Ers. In the opening week, that was a different
team because they were much much healthier. But yeah, this

(51:49):
is alarming if you're a Jets fan, and it lends
itself to like what if Aaron Rodgers went anywhere else?
He was gonna leave Green Bay, but he went to
I don't know, even Vegas. Let's just take another perennial loser.
Don't you feel like it would go better for him
or would have just because of things that are there

(52:10):
and ownership. I just feel like the Jets, if they
can find a way to screw things up, they always will.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I would definitely disagree with that really, especially since you
brought up Vegas, you think he would not be getting
his way there, just like he did get his way
in New York.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
I said Vegas by design. But I'm just talking.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
About he would walk all over Mark Davis, just like
he's walking all over Woody Johnson and his personnel decisions
or potential coaching decisions. I'm talking about Aaron if he's
really had a hand in all this, and we know
he's had a hand in some of those things, that's
not why they're losing.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
I mean, they didn't get worse.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
By adding Adams, by adding They're not they shouldn't be worse,
but they just they have too many things that aren't
going like they're supposed to. And most of that is
actually just on the coaching side. Individually speaking, they're players
that need to play better that a terrible offensive line,
and over the course of time last year, basically last offseason,
they got a lot better. But the Texans defense is

(53:02):
second in the NFL and yards allowed per game. They're
fourth in the NFL in yards allowed per play, which
is a little bit better indicator, but again top five
in both. They get after the quarterback as well, if
not better than nearly every team in the NFL. They're
now third in sacks per pass attempt. Both Hunter and Anderson
again yesterday had eight pressures a piece. They're both in

(53:24):
the top five in pressures. They both have had at
least one sack in three consecutive games, and now Will
Anderson Junior is third in the NFL in sacks. Oh,
by the way, he's first in the NFL and tackles
for loss.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
I guess he's pretty good.

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Speaker 4 (54:14):
Are they just gonna just feed him.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
The football and hope for the best on Thursday night,
especially in light of the injury to Stefan Diggs, the
fact that Nico Collins will likely be sitting out his
final game with a four on IR and we hope
for the best.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
We don't know that for sure, but is that gonna be?
Is that gonna be?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Bobby Sloyg and Demico Ryans's plan of attack, especially on
a short week like this, just give it to the workhorse.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Well, you want to do something to take a little
pressure off of your quarterback, and it's gonna become more
and more difficult if your passing game gets less and
less successful. But they were very successful on Sunday. I
think that's somehow lost in all of this. Twenty five
to thirty seven, nearly three hundred yards, a lot of
chain moving throws, and as I mentioned earlier, a couple
of magician throws. The one to match you down the field.
When CJ was scrambling to his right and pointing down

(54:59):
the field, Mets, you did a nice job breaking off
his route when he noticed that CJ was scrambling and
he found a little opening in the defense.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
What should be a throw that you don't hit? It
hit him.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Not only did he hit him, he hit him right
in stride. He grabbed it and was able to slide out
of bounds. There are a couple other throws during the game
that were just vintage. I mean for a player to
already have the vintage tag attached, that means he's done
it a lot. It's only been two years, but he
has done it.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
A lot.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
There is also a new injury to Damian Pierce. I
noticed yesterday throughout the game it did not seem like
he was out there as much as I thought he
might be, just for the rest he might give to
Joe Mixon. And usually on third down they're gonna have
dary On Gumbawale or Joe Mixon just stay on the field.
It's not usually going to be a Pierce opportunity, but

(55:45):
a healthy Pierce, who also set the Texans up with
their first points with his fantastic explosive play on the
kick return. He had four snaps in yesterday's game, which
likely means the groin injury that he now has must
have taken place during the game, which I would again,
I'm assuming this because then ask it explicitly today because
I wasn't aware of it. Did that impact how often

(56:07):
he was out there on the field on Sunday, And
to me, it's just an estimation of a practice report.
When you have short weeks. Texans are basically going to
be on the field tomorrow briefly tomorrow late afternoon. Very
different schedule this week, and that's the only time they're
gonna be on the field at all. Getting ready for
the Jets. They fly out Wednesday. They didn't practice of
any consequence today. The players were there, We talked to

(56:29):
a few of them and they went on their way
because as each one of them that we asked, when
we asked them about what's the best way to have
your body? What do you have to do to get
your body ready to play again on Thursday? Because essentially
the day after yesterday's game is a normal Thursday. What
happens today for them is kind of a Thursday preparing
for a game three days away, So it's a very

(56:51):
different way to do it. They almost all said the
same thing. It's sleep. You gotta rest, You got to
go through all the recovery process. Whatever their performance training
athletic performance and training staff has for them, cold tub,
hot tub, BFR, everything that they do. They'll obviously do
that as much as they need to, but it's really
about getting their rest. But the estimation of the practice
report that comes out on a week where you're not

(57:14):
on the field, I thought it was pretty telling about
what we're gonna see and what is available to the
Texans when they get out there on Sunday, and that
there were five players listed as they would not have
practiced if today had been a practice, real practice day,
and with Damian Pierce on it, I don't know that
he's going to be available on Thursday night. Probably means
an elevation because they do not have cam akers anymore,

(57:35):
and you probably don't want to go into the game
with only two running backs. You might not want to
go into a game with only three. But that's what
they've been doing. They'll probably do it again. Al sha
Here and Jimmy Ward continue to miss practice time. In
that it is a short week. I don't think that
they were primed to be ready for this game. They
were both in the locker room today and they both
look like they're moving around pretty well, but grading that

(57:58):
on whether they can play or not with a growing
injury and knee injury, respectively, is silly. They don't play
again after Thursday till the tenth of November. I expect
both of them back for that game. Klen Bullock was practicing,
estimated on a limited basis. He returned Sunday. He's going
to play on Thursday. If I were to guess, I
think Henry Toatoa being listed as a full participant at

(58:19):
their fake practice today is probably a good sign for
his availability, and even though Christian Harris is still out,
that means they now have four capable linebackers ready to
take the two person job. Because if you missed it yesterday,
Devin White was on the field for basically half their snaps.
He and Jack Hanson ended up splitting that work. He
did a little bit of the spy work on Anthony Richardson.

(58:41):
He got a couple of pressures. He was in coverage
in one instance when I think the cults saw how
the Texans were lined up and it was just what
they wanted. But it was a typical play from Anthony Richardson,
where oh this is their coverage. Boom, I'm throwing it
there no matter what player wasn't open, he didn't make
a good throw and it was a typical incompletion. But
of what we saw today, for Toto to be listed

(59:01):
like that on a three days before game report, I
think there's a pretty good chance that he is going
to exit the concussion protocol and be available on Thursday.
Patterson is in concussion protocol. He's not playing Thursday. We
don't know anything specific on Diggs, but nothing about his
injury yesterday says he will be there. He also was
listed as a DNP Kamari last year remains on the report,

(59:23):
but he was out there for every play. We talked
to him after the game. He said he felt great.
He said, not being out there really for the first
time in his football career anytime recently, it was pretty
hard for him. It was hard on him making his
way through rehabit everything. Just wanted to be out there,
and he was stoked that he could make it back
and probably a little bit sooner than maybe some had forecasted,
and he should be good to go on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
I still hate Thursday games. I just I know that
they're a thing. They have to be a thing and
all that good stuff.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
It's just the.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Quote from Tim Settle. Today, Chancellor Johnson asked him and
many others, you know, what do you think about playing
on Thursday. Some players don't like him, some players do.
Politely waited for Chancellor to finish his question about Thursday
night so he could say prime time, baby, everybody's watching.
This is where the you know, the guys that the

(01:00:12):
stars come out. He's all for it. He said, he's
had some good games on Thursday, and the idea that
everybody's watching almost always gets players. Now they have Sunday Night,
Monday Night, and Thursday night where everybody is watching the
only game unless there's some Monday night games. But the
physical nature of it is what you're getting at, and
you can't there's no argument for it, but it does.

(01:00:33):
Layers are not going to be at their best three
days after playing a football game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
It doesn't feel like prime time. And I know you
and I have disagreed on this. Just because it's played
at night doesn't mean it's prime time. It's a throwaway.
It's a throwaway day of the week for this and
it's a throwaway game more often than not. This isn't
a sexy matchup. It's sexy because c J. Stroud's a
part of it. It's not sexy because Aaron Rodgers is
a part of it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
He sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
It is occurring during the time and which a television
or radio audience is expected to be greatest, typically the
hours between seven and ten pm Central time, the definition
of time time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
I can tell you this for this particular Thursday night game,
the first half is going to be much much lower
in viewership because a lot of guys will be out
trigger treating with their kids if they're good fathers.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Now that's probably true.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
A handful of people might be working or watching or
listening to Houston Rockets basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Then there's that there's other options to look at. But
I just it's it's been a concept.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Of extremely successful for the NFL, which is why they
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
How About on Amazon though, since they've made the switch,
is it as.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Success extremely successful for the NFL? Right, it's that's how
about for Amazon? I wonder how their meetings are. To
be honest with you, what what is a meeting like
to try to grade out the success of it, because
in addition to actually producing numbers of who's watching, what
are they doing, it's a total different entity. It's not
even just your typical streaming service. I mean, if it

(01:02:03):
game's on Paramount Plus or Peacock, whatever you want to
talk about for college or pro football, or even an
ESPN Plus. You're trying to get people to watch your service,
subscribe to your service. There may be some other parts
of what you do as a company that you want
from them. You know, people will also buy into some
of our other companies, or they look at ESPN, or
they watch some of our TV programs. If you're one

(01:02:24):
of the other networks, Amazon's not like that. What do
they want you to do? They want you to use
Amazon Prime, they want you to spend time online buying products.
All of what they're doing is essentially graded by that.
And in order to even watch it, it is literally
through that service you could buy stuff while you're watching
it right there on your TV. It takes you to

(01:02:45):
this when you're on their site, it tells you about
the game. It's such a different entity. Grading out its
success is clearly not solely based on well, look at
how many people streamed it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
It's just a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Although it's easier to track actual viewership.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
What it's easier to track who is well, you know
what about your subscription rate? How many people have subscribed
to Amazon Prime before year one? How many people buy
a subscription within the five days before the season opener
on Thursday Night Football and on throughout the season. Yeah,
there's different ways to track it, and they're probably pretty believable,
much more so than it says here at are Nielsen's
that these households had our game on, they must have

(01:03:24):
been locked in while it was on in the background
in a different room while they ate dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Nielsen, any measurement of television or radio these days, I
should probably watch when I'm about to stay here before
I get in too much trouble with the suits.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Well, since you mentioned Joe Mixon, just wanted to point
out he usually does this after games, very fired up
after the win. He had a huge part in it.
Another one hundred yard day and another rushing touchdown. He did
what we had mentioned last week. Nobody had ever done
it before in the NFL, in the history of the league,
having four of your first five games with a new
team going for one hundred yards rushing and a touchdown,
and four of them and nobody's ever done it. He

(01:03:59):
just accomplished that with the first five games of his
Texans career. But what I was saying that he normally does,
he gets very simple, but repeats it after they win.
Right after they won late afternoon yesterday, the simple one
to oh push came out from his x platform, and
then earlier today the victory Monday that you mentioned before

(01:04:20):
that he dropped an OMG. I mean, he's just fired
up about the win and wants you to know about it,
but not have to waste too much time reading a
long tweet from him very short brief.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
To the He's also hit a charity free throw at
a Rockets game. He's very these days.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
I told you Spencer Aragety would nail it, Maybe not
the way he nailed it, all right, We have got
the good, the bad, and the ugly from the Texans yesterday.

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Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
As always, since it's Monday, we hit you with our
signature segment that's the good, the Bad, the ugly, strategically
placed on a Monday to give you that many more
day's worth of activities to choose from. Since we left
you on Friday, when basically, you know, the World Series
had not even begun and for many how it's over,
it's never going to. This particular year, you hadn't had

(01:06:33):
any of the NFL games other than the Barnburger on
Thursday night. The college football weekend, well, the college Football
week obviously was already underway because they play every night,
but the Saturday games had not been played yet, and
even the late night Friday games.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
So all of those things at play.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
If you so choose, I'll get us started with the
good and I'll keep talking about what we were talking about.
Two different things, though the Texans are the subject. One
of the goods is their massive, massive improvement at doing
something very very well this year. I asked Jalen Petrie
earlier today, at what point during this offseason, training camp,

(01:07:14):
or during the season did he know that all the
moves the Texans made, because they basically said, hey, if
you play defensive line for us last year, get lost
unless your name's Will Anderson Jr. They changed the whole
front on Khalil Davis's back, Kurt Heinisch's back, but basically
everybody else is new. Dylan Horton didn't play, Jerry Hughes
is now on IR. Almost everybody else literally wasn't here.

(01:07:35):
Now they have Denico Autry back in the absence of
Mario Edwards. They've played every game with Will Anderson Junior
and Daniel Hunter, fully Foughtacasi, Tim Settle. They've all been
out there and they've all done really good things.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
He said.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Petrie said, I trusted the front office. I trusted the
coaches that they would know what they were doing. The
guys that they were getting and targeting and would be
a part of this defense were going to be the
right guys.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
And you've seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
We can all see what they're doing up from we
can all see how they are making quarterbacks uncomfortable, making
them throw the ball more quickly than they would like,
but exactly how we would like. They've gotten on this
turnover binge nine of them now in the last three games.
But what they've improved upon, which to me is directly
related to that. You add in the additions of Ale

(01:08:19):
Shaire and Lassiter and block. Clearly there's also parts of it.
But last year, when it came to throwing the ball
against the Houston Texans, it was a cakewalk. It was
so easy even a caveman could do it. Only Arizona
and Minnesota allowed a lower completion percentage than sixty eight

(01:08:40):
point twenty five. That's where the Texans were last year,
twenty eighth in the NFL. You're basically throwing the seventh
or eighth the most accurate quarterback against you every week.
No matter who it is, it's untenable to win that way,
and yet they managed to make the playoffs and even
win a game. And where are they this year with
those I just mentioned, Well, there's only three teams in

(01:09:02):
the NFL under sixty. The Jets are at fifty nine
to eighty two, the Browns are at fifty nine point
oh seven, and the Texans are way ahead of even
them at fifty three point zho six fifty three percent
of the time. But ball leaves the quarterback's hand, it
meets a receiver's hands and they catch it. That is insane.
They won't ever have a defense do this again, this

(01:09:24):
particular Franchi, I can't imagine any team's reaching this low
of a level. It is incredible how difficult they're making
it for quarterbacks. And obviously we've had two games at home,
the Richardson game yesterday and the Josh Allen game before it,
where we're looking at quarterbacks dropping back for sixty two
throws and completing nineteen passes.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
That is insane.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
The other good is Jared Patterson was finally asked to
play football for this team at the spot he should
be at every game that he's healthy for the rest
of the way. It was good that they finally recognize
it's not working again. You don't want to put it
all on one guy, but there's only so much you
can do. There is replaceable player on the offensive line.
They replaced him. They had exactly one ten play touchdown

(01:10:06):
drive yesterday. It was the one Patterson was in four
all ten plays of they had exactly one seventy yard
touchdown drive. It was the one he was in for
ten plays. A little selective with how I present it,
but that change had to be made. Unfortunately, it can't
continue because he's in concussion protocol. But a change at
that spot with either Kendrick Green, who was active but
did not take any snaps on o line yesterday, or

(01:10:28):
Nick Broker, who was not active but certainly will be
next week, could be taking the snaps for Kenyon Green
as soon as Thursday. Unfortunately, though basically without practicing, which
makes it difficult to make that change. How bad would
it be if they practiced today? I mean, that's to
be silly. Yeah, they're trying. They're not trying to get
better football wise for Thursday. They're trying to arrive at

(01:10:51):
Thursday's game with a healthy tea to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
Get there in one piece. Let's get to the bad.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Dan Oh I thought I had, I had the ugly
A well, I will at the list I looked at earlier.
I thought I was on listed on the Ugly. I'll
go ahead and say this is the bad too. It's
basically the same thing, and it's what we just got
done talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
It's the end.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
It's the injuries to the wide receivers, specifically at this point,
because they cannot keep all three of these on the
field at any given time. They'll know the status obviously
long term of Stefan Diggs, but you're still going to
be one more week away from getting Nico Collins. He's
gonna get a little I guess extra rest.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
It's the same amount of time, but.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Yeah, when they play doesn't affect how long he's out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
There exactly exactly, but the fact that this is a
short week. Look, I just want Tank Dell to stay
healthy because if he goes down, I don't know who's
Cjstra We're gonna have adults and Shoultz Joe Mixon offense.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
I would have liked if one of his five receptions
would have counted, would have put him over four and
a half receptions, but a penalty wipe that playoff the board.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
Yeah, pre snat variety.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
I believe they had one on Troy Harston on a kick,
and they had one false start on Lermie also had
a false start that could not have been any more
clear as day that was not called.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Oh yeah, so it's it's always.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
They were not penalized a lot yesterday, but a couple
of their penalties were key.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
I thought one of tanks would be catches and it
could have been somebody else, and it probably was now
that I'm remembering.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Was on a an illegal procedure?

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Yeah, I believe there was a formation call on them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
But was it a tank catch that was wiped out
or was it someone else? That's what I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
I don't know. You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
He had a great effect on this game and a touchdown,
so that was good to see in.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Stroud to Dell nineteen yards a legal formation, no play.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Nice, I mean, not nice, but you know what I mean. So, yeah,
like to get the wide receiver. It's just let me
get two out of three out there for the majority
of the games this year, so I can sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Be happy having your injured receivers be your best receivers.
That is bad.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
I would agree, what's ugly.

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
You did somewhat get free rain, but I'll go Texans first.
Laramie Tunsul's rocking chair false start that he got the
slight rock back. But it's easy, it's right there anytime
number seventy eight is flagged or always gonna jump on
him the other one.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Why because it's easy and it's fun. It's lame and
it's a waste of everyone's breath.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
Between star team. Yeah, that's how I feel. Don't do it.
I'll do it that easy, he would clearly.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
I mean again, it's the balance against Can you accept
it or should he just stop doing it anyway? Or
is he one of the best plass blocking left tackles
who continues to rise up that chart again this year?
He'll probably be top five this week as he was eighteenth, fifteenth, thirteenth,
And you're telling me right out of the gate when
the show opens, you gotta do a better job of

(01:13:42):
protecting CJ. Stroud And he's light years better than the
other four guys with him, but he falls starting once
on the last n point that out, Well, I'm just
thinking it's silly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Why pointing out false starts when they help you lose
is not two plays.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Later it was first down again because they completed two passes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Okay, well there's been other time, Swords, There's been other
times where he has a false start and it's led
to the drive stalling.

Speaker 8 (01:14:03):
So there was another ugly What was that? Me and
Gordy nearly getting thrown up on by a fan?

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
What perfect? We have no time for that story. That's gross.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Wait, you and golrdiare with the game together.

Speaker 8 (01:14:16):
Yeah, we went to the game and a guy who
wasn't even an LSU or A and M fan and
his friend who might have been the most annoying person
I've ever been around.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
Well, now we might have to make time for that
story when we come back.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
The most annoying person that Dan has ever been around.
You will meet them when we return.

Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
The AE.

Speaker 6 (01:14:35):
On Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Ninety, Adam Clinton and Adam Wex floor the A Team
now continues.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
I don't like being forced to do things I don't
want to in my marriage. I'm just gonna put that
out there on television and radio right now. You know
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
I mean it' very clear you're talking about your marriage
I can guess what you're talking about. There's only one.
There has nothing to do with.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
You have to do things sometimes that you don't want
to do. I don't want to do it. Well, it's
very adamant about this. I'm clearly not there yet. But
I've been told that that's pretty much what marriage is, right,
But I don't know because that's not my marriage. Like,
I get that sentiment, that's not my man. But this
is like the one time where I'm like, man, I
just I don't want to do this. I'm very hard.

(01:15:28):
It's going to cause a huge fight. I can already
see it. It's gonna be great.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
You're looking forward to it. That sounds awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
I host a talk show with you. I like conflict.
It's fine, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
I come here, I fight with you, I go home.
I fight with her. It's called marriage. You're my you're
my work wife. Wex, you're my work wife.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
A good one?

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
Who's the most annoying person you ever met?

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Dan? All right?

Speaker 8 (01:15:54):
So I'll go through this as quickly as I can.
So there's a two guys sitting behind us. They're both
from New York. They both wanted to come down onto
an SEC football game. All right, fine, they went a
little hard on North Gate before the game. And during
the game they are rocking and rolling, double fisting, coming
up the uh, coming up the steps with beers, and
eventually it started to overtime take over, and I wondered

(01:16:17):
why his buddy, the annoying one, was standing in ro row.
And then finally I felt some kind of missed and
I looked over, wait, hey, stop, stop stop missed Yeah,
like it was projectile. And I looked over to Gordy.
I go, is that what I think it is? And
Gordy goes, yep, say something right now. It's gonna offend
all sorts of people. Are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Wex? And you know, I like the prophecies.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
I can't think of a worse situation to be in
than to have somebody missing on you from a vomit standpoint,
and you're at Kyle Field, that is.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
What just for the what if the same exact scenario
was happening, but you're mid flight, Well that's the I mean,
you are stuck there and there probably isn't anywhere for
you to.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
Move to, and the smell is going to be way worse.
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
Is there any worse circulation than in a metal tube
in the air at thirty thousand feet.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
Probably not. No, it's pretty bad, but you're okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
I'm still going to say you're in a public setting,
lots of people around. I'm guessing it wasn't the most
comfortable of temperature. Since it's October twenty eighth and we're
still in the nineties here. I mean, come on, I
know where I live.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
But geez, kind of feel like it could have been
a roof open day. I love the forecast stadium yesterday,
but oh yeah, we're looking for lower temperatures. Don't worry
it's going to rain on Halloween. Come on, man, what's
wrong with that costume?

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
Up?

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
Appropriately?

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
We had one Halloween esque feeling like it's Halloween last year.
Thank goodness, since I've got a kid to take advantage
of it every like the last ten before, and since
it's all been.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Muggled, we already have everything set costume as of yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Who chose him? And he's gone in one day? He
changed costumes three times.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
He's a kid, totally fine.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Uh not when mom is trying to stop making it.
It's fine, she's having to get it here in time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
That's the difficult part, right, And he can't go into
spirit Halloween. You know why he's afraid of it. Yes,
I'm like, so you want this scary thing over here?

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Scary? Well, the problem with this situation is that his parents.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Do they have knives for fingers?

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
Not yet? Is his face kind of charred?

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
No, no, doesn't look like pizza either.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
He uh, he has the wrong parents to be afraid
of this holiday or something having to do with it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
I mean, but the missus over there for that guy
kind of likes halloweenster.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Like I hate Christmas the way things, you know, the
way that I mean. I'm starting to get back into
like accepting it because it's nice to see him and
a lot of.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Houses, like at people's houses with they go all out.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Is cool. Shout out to Bob Meryl. Yeah, what do
you see for Christmas?

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
We put our lights up, come over check them out?

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
All right? That was fun?

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
Now? What yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Or or hey, let's go drive through the neighborhood and
look at all the lights.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Okay, through the neighborhood and get candy from everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
Exactly something in it for you.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
My favorite part is when they're both he in the
back seat, her and the passenger.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
You're going too fast.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
I'm like yeah, because as soon as I drive past
these lights as sooner it'll be over.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
I can be back home. I'm such a cringe.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
Do you don't even get out ever?

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
I go like to get out of the like park
the car and get out and actually look at them.
Because some people have houses where Why would you do
that to really participate in the Christmas? Yeah, a couple
of houses in a neighborhood here and there. Yeah, what
are you getting out to do? Just they'll have some
musical things going on, or you gotta take pictures sometimes.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
Well that's what rolling down the windows for.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
Yeah, I would agree Halloween as a holiday event is better.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Let me this is super first world. But I don't
care because it's anything.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
You open up candy on Halloween, right, you open up
presence on Christmas? It does kind of have you there,
but the event itself.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
You're aware of the commercial that The Rock and Kevin
Hart did together where Kevin Hart knocks on Dwayne Johnson's
door and he goes Trick Street and he's dressed up
like Dwayne Johnson when he took the picture in the
fanny pack with a turtleneck.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
He's like, why are you standing like that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
I mean, the whole thing's hilarious, right, he said, I
heard you had full size candy bars you were given out,
and he goes, not for you, I'm giving you the
bite size because they're like you, they're bite size. There
is a rumor in my neighborhood I'm not gonna even
remotely say where I live, that there is a certain
section of the neighborhood where the houses are a lot
larger than everyone else. That is, the normal people in

(01:20:49):
the neighborhood like us. And they supposedly it's like it's
not a mandate, but it's like an unspoken thing. You
give out full sized candy bars, and it sounds on
the surface like it would be great, right until you
realize that if you walk a street over there, you're
getting five candy bars, maybe because the houses are so

(01:21:10):
big and it takes so long to walk, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
So I still kind of like the super first one.
I had to throw your hand in the bowl and
just take three or four.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
You trust the children or will toss in three or
four for you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
How much a place where you stop when you stop
at the house and they gave you many candy bars
or small packets of skittles or whatever, but you got
three or four of them.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Here's the thing, the minis versus like the snack size.
If you're one of those people that gives out the
snack size, I'm down with that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
It's not a full candy bar. But you're getting something
for your.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Well when you're on your bought your large bag of
candy bars. That's the size of the candy bars.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about it. There's two different kinds.
The minis are the worst. The minis are the little square.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
There's still more than one bite for the kids, just
one bite for.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Us, right, well, this isn't about the kids. This is
about us.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
He's gonna get his, but I like, come on, man, Like,
if I'm gonna eat it around the house, I don't
want to go through the effort of unwrapping it just
to get one little like half bite.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
Were you at all concerned about not beating the jets
on Thursday for whatever theme you would now not have
for your good morning video on Friday? Thus you went
with what you went with with this good morning video?
It was a nightmarish video, but it wasn't Halloween, which
is still there for you, so you're unconcerned about that

(01:22:35):
theme getting unused.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
If they were to go up there and lose to
this god awful football team quarterbacked by sixty seven year
old Aaron Rodgers somehow, because it's there, it's not here.
But I will say this, if they do win, you're
gonna get double the pleasure on the Halloween theme.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
And I have the perfect snippet to use if you will.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
But yeah, him, Nope, Nightmare on Elm Street is the best,
by the way, of all these slashers that came out
in the eighties and late seventies, that's the best.

Speaker 4 (01:23:08):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
It's kind of funny, just giving it a quick thought.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
Not too deep. The first one.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
The rest of what of some of these most famous
villains and all the sequels.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
That have gone with how many there were?

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
Their names are Mike Fred Uh huh, Jason, Charles. I mean, seriously,
who's a doll? Charles was a doll?

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
So yeah, all right, we got five o'clock hour coming
up next football A five which means our weekly Visit
was stan Northfleet right around the corner.

Speaker 6 (01:23:35):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your
Teams series, Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A
team A.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
We are here with you five o'clock on a Monday,
and that means our football at five segment is well,
it's taken over, dominated by our good friend and co
host of Next Up, that is Stan Northfleet with us
for the next half hour. I was with him for
about three hours yesterday afternoon over at NRG Stadium as
the Texans did what they always do, win at home.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
They are undefeated on home ice.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Another strong day for some parts of the team and
another less than stellar day for others, which was most
of our topic of conversation up there in the press box,
some of the conversation with Demiko both yesterday and again today,
and obviously with some of the players that play immediately
in front of CJ. Stroud. We'll get their second Stan.

(01:24:45):
The first thing is they won another game. They're six
and two. They have pretty much buried their division a
three game lead over the Indianapolis Colts essentially, and the
other two teams have not competed for anything yet. This year,
all as they head into a short week against the
two win team. All that being said, but they won
yesterday because they did. I don't want to leave it

(01:25:07):
on unset like a blank question. I feel like they
actually did win the game with their running game with
CJ's magician act. Yeah, and I know their defense has
kind of got to stop giving up explosives to Indianapolis,
but be nice. Their defense was really, really good, and
unlike other teams who don't put any effort into stopping

(01:25:30):
teams at the end of games on Ail Mary's, they did,
and out of a timeout they came up with an
absolutely awesome play design, expecting their capable edges to do
something and Will Anderson did and they ended the game.
So I'm kind of saying onen't pretty again, but it
still was more or less a complete effort from all
three phases.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Yeah, I'm where you are. First of all, gain thank
you for allowing me to be here, gentlemen. Also thanks
to JB. Thibodeaux and Jbtibodau dot com Homes and Properties.
They do a great job. It is a Monday. I
think got some emotion remaining from our show this morning,
and I started by saying wex and God bless you
cause you get to hear this live, and then I

(01:26:12):
get to think about it, then I get to do
it on our show next up. Then there are things
that I leave. So I'm like, all right, what we
do here? For me, it's about number one. They wont
because they have Joe Mixon. I said this last week
on our show. Don't know if I made it that
statement and proclamation here. Joe mixons the most valuable player
they have over there right now. CJ's the best player.

(01:26:32):
This team can't play without Joe Mixon. It certainly can't
do it consistently. Joe Mixon becomes the first non rookie
in WHAT Football history that has one hundred yards rushing
and a touchdown in four of his first five games.
Joe Mixon's a bad dude.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
He looks like he enjoys being that too.

Speaker 5 (01:26:51):
By the way, So think about how thankful we were
for Devin Motor Singletary last year and the difference in
how Singleton looked versus how Joe Mixon looked.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
Joseph Specimen like, I'm watching him in warm ups and
I'm like, why would you even like? I get it?

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
These are very well compensated athletes. Yeah, uh, you need
to have You need to eat your weedies to try
and tackle.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
Think about how they tried to replicate what they did
in the first game. He didn't run for one hundred
and fifty nine yards yesterday, but they had the lead
and they got the ball with eight thirty two left
in the game. Yesterday, I had a pass called back
by penalty. You and I mentioned that earlier. A see
two more pass plays that got them their first first down,
and then it was a mix and carry followed by

(01:27:34):
another mix and carry, and another mix and carry, and
another mix and carry and another mix and carry. Then
they got a DPI followed by two more mix and
carries and then the fumble on the pitch to Joe
mix and they tried to do exactly essentially what they
did the last time they played the Colts. He was
having a good game up until that point. He had
an even better game when it mattered the most because
he You're able to put games away by running the

(01:27:56):
so called safe clock, eating plays getting first downs because
he's going to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
Joe Mixon is a what I would consider he is
a late run type of back like you can give
him the ball late in the game and he will
grind it down and prevent your quarterback from doing stuff. Now,
Bobby Slought, whether CJ checked out of it or not,
I'm not sure. I hear rumors that that could be.
Oh no, it wasn't on the pitch to mix it,

(01:28:23):
which yeah, Mixing has to catch it, but CJ has
to determine. Am I going to pitch it given what
the front is doing? Or am I gonna just eat
the football? Don't love to call by Slought. Just put
the ball in the belly you're running back. Instead of
throwing the screen to mechi there, or instead of doing
the pitch then on the screen to MATCHI again, run
the ball to Mixing. Mixing leads with four point one
yards of carry in a tud Right now, he's the

(01:28:44):
most valuable player on the team, perhaps definitely on the
offense the defensively. For me, remember a couple weeks ago,
I kept saying, where are these defensive ends? Where is
will Anderson Junr Who's I think now tied for third
here in the NFL with sacks? Where's the Neil hum
dudes making twenty five large a year? Can I get
him to show up for the hometown team, please, giving
that he's a Kadie native, I do believe all right,

(01:29:07):
here he goes. He shows up closing out games. So
the both of them the interior. There's Tim Settle again.
Fotokasi had some good plays, even though getting shrugged off
by a quarterback in the good look by Fartikassi, But
it was all of play. Wex and nine.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Can't call him a quarterback when there's not another quarterback
in the league built like him, and.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
When he's completing the ball at some thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
It was the play that knocked him out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
Talking about Photicassi or Anthony recent.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
He tapped his helmet after that play. He shrugged him off,
ran down, got tackled.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Yeah he did, which is a whole different deal. Uh.
The defense showed up. They did enough. There's Devin White,
new acquisition, playing fifty percent of the snaps. That was
my guestimation. New linebacker coming over from Philly.

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
Got an arrival video on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
They were so excited about his his arrival to the
Texans like.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
That, and they're some other good guys. I could go right.
Eric Murray three passes defense to match Kamari Lassiter, Jalen
Peatrie tackling Jonathan Taylor in the open field. I believe
that was in the first quarter, and then we know
he has the interception. Defense did what they were supposed
to do by and large. Now you still got the
ball ran down your throat twenty six times for one
to sixty three. That's a problem that'll get your beat

(01:30:19):
in the postseason. But I'm with you. Wex all those
things and I hadn't mentioned.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
See, yeah, twenty six of those yards came in on
the final drive. The first play was was a scramble
from a rich Essentially, he did what he did to
them the first time, had a few scrambles, one of
them big. What Taylor did this time was unlike what
happened in the first game, big chunks repeatedly throughout the game.
Good news, though the Colts decided after he caught an
early pass, let's not do that again. We don't want

(01:30:43):
Jonathan Taylor to involved. I think the Texans certainly took
advantage of a very poorly called game by Shane steik
And who I thought last year was out coaching them.

Speaker 4 (01:30:53):
With what he was doing in this year, it's been
the complete opposite.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
I'm gonna give Jonathan Taylor the ball eight times in
the first half, and he's averaging four and a half
yards of carry, and then they just stopped. They go
through these lulls where they kind of forget he's their
best player. And so anyway, it was to the Texans
good fortune. But Demiko, if he's gonna get into tape,
he's gonna say, guys, we can't be allowing teams to

(01:31:16):
do that to us, whether they have a running quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
Or an Yeah, Breest Hall's definitely capable of Brayln Allen.
They clearly don't have a running back or running quarterback
in New York. But we obviously should spend some time
on what they finally did this week, which was making
a change on the offensive line. Did they they intended
to permanent day? It's not their fault?

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Oh no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (01:31:36):
Kenyon Green was bad. Well, I got some numbers here,
Kenyon Green, what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
Made a change on the offensive line? If anybody's confused,
they benched Kenyon Green.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
Kenyon Green allowed seven pressures and a sack on Sunday.
They benched him for ten plays. Jared Patterson gets in
Joe Mixon has an awesome run to punctuate that series.
He unfortunately Kenyon Green excuse me, Jared Patterson gets concussed.
So then instead of going with ken Drick or moving
Scrugs to guard and finding somebody else to play center,

(01:32:06):
or moving Titus Howard to left guard, if you truly
wanted to bench Kenyan Green, this was okay, we're mad
at you. How parents are the kids? We're mad at you.
Go to your corner. Okay, I was just playing. I
really want you to be cute. Come back in and
let us play and do all those things again. They
didn't really bench him. If a benching is when you
don't get back in the game, well, they took him
out of series.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
He was no, I'm sorry, but there's no way he
was going back in the game if Patterson didn't get hurt.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
I agree with sin, it's not your only option. There's
ken Drick Green, an NFL veteran fully capable of being
as good as Patterson at the least, and they didn't
even try. So they didn't really bench Kenyan Green. They
put him in time out.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
For a second, you're saying that like he was expect
they were expecting to have him go back out there,
which they definitely were not here. Adrey asked them to
make a decision.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
It shouldn't yes, it did.

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
You know what I'm saying, It should not have agree
with that. There's not I'm gonna bench you. Okay, So
if Jared Patterson goes down after one snap the same
thing happened, he gets concussed after one snap, are you
still calling it a benching if he runs back out there.
They didn't bench Kenyan Green. They substituted for Kenyan Green,
and then they substituted him back.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
In because of injuries.

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
Those were not the What did Demico tellos last week?
Everything is on the table when it comes to fixing
this offensive line?

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Well, what was different to his point? And I'm again,
I don't know. This is just an objecture.

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
Well glad that you are.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
I just don't think that the option of going back
to your first stringer versus going to your third stringer
who doesn't take any snaps, there's necessarily a fair apples
to apples.

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
Right, But when I hear what Demko said about him
today at his day after press conference, it it does
lend itself to what I think Stan's trying to argue even.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
Though, do it for real? Follow through? Yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
Punish it. Do you want me to stop this car?

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
But he's like, he's talking about, Hey, let's talk about
all the good, you know, good things he did. And
what I thought when I heard that, because I'll never
I was listening to Matt Show. He's running it live,
and I'm I'm working out listening to this, and I'm like,
what were the times where he was good?

Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
He's just that's what a guy, just my opinion, that's
what a good coach does in front of us.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
And I'm not trying to say that he should dog him,
but let's not run away from the front. Listen, if
CJ gets killed this week in New York again like
he did last year, again, this is the side of
the crime.

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
If he gets hurt and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Because of lack of pass protection, like I'm not saying
somebody loses their job in the front office, but suddenly
certainly should on the front line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Like it's not even a question. He's getting tired of it.
It's a great topic. It's good to have some thoughts
about it. We obviously have them here and whichere we're
gonna pick back up again on the other side. Stand
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Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Conversation continues and really never stopped twex Ac and stand
Northfleet here with you on the A team on a Monday,
So doubts about moving forward. They only have a couple
of days until they play this Jets team, and the
Jets will have watched film from the Colts, They will
have watched film from the Packers and each of the
five games that there were six games that preceded it,
and how teams were getting to the Texans backfield and

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making life a little bit more uncomfortable than it needs
to be for CJ.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
Stroud.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Nick Broker is an option obviously this week, I would
imagine he's now active. He was not active this last week,
nor has been. He's worked in practice pretty much everywhere
across the line. He's been their reserve tackle at times,
just depending on who was available. But being that it's Thursday,
and being that they took Kenyan Green from his spot
in the corner and reinserted him back into the game yesterday,

(01:36:53):
I would imagine you anticipate they will just start him
again on Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
And left guard Demico like and it's not personal. It's
just my opinion. They told us we'll get the penalties
figured out. Okay, No, next week we're really going to
get the penalties figured out. Okay No, I promised this
time the penalties won't be a deal. They're telling us
the same thing about the offensive line. That's where I
left off. For those that missed the previous segment, they

(01:37:18):
had every reason and right to completely not play Kenyan Green.
It doesn't matter if injury or not. To Patterson on Sunday,
they put it right back in there. Now. It did
get better. So you asked, like, how can he say
it got better for those that are choosing to applaud
the positives, Well, CJ was pressured seventy one percent of

(01:37:40):
his drop packs at one point in the third quarter.
By the end of the game that had reduced down
to fifty seven and a half percent. Domiico's choosing to
tell us we're happy or we're we feel better about
it not being seventy one, Well, that still lipstick on
a pig, because that still ties a career high. Stroud

(01:38:00):
has been under the rest. The bottom line is, if
you keep doing what you're doing and the tape is out,
everybody is pressuring you, even teams that don't pressure. That's
not what Gus Bradley does. But everybody's doing it because
that's the formula. I don't know. So some people will
say standing was the offensive line really that bad? C J.
Stroud was only sacked two times. Yeah, but let's also

(01:38:23):
combine how many times he was hit with This is
back to back games. This offensive mind has allowed eleven
tackles for loss. The opposition is playing in the backfield. No,
I don't think they're gonna ask Titus to play left guard. No,
I don't think they're gonna start Nick Broker. They're gonna
go out there and cross their fingers and hope that

(01:38:43):
Kenyon Green absolutely gets it this.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
Week in the same stadium where CJ got can cuss
last year, And what.

Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
Position was it that got CJ could cuss When Juice
Grubs was playing left guard at Medlife Stadium and another
really good defender just like Buckner and Grove Stewart probably better,
Quinn Williams just bulldoze over Juice Scrugs and CJ's head
dribbled off the met Life turn. They aren't going to
do anything. There's nobody coming at the trade deadline a

(01:39:11):
week from tomorrow. This is what they have. Bobby Slought
told us last week. The offensive line playing like this
is impacting his play calling. He can't do the things
they want to do. So I go, you either coach
it or you allow it. And they're going to allow this.
I personally, and I asked an offensive lineman in this
league formerly about what he's seeing out there on Sunday

(01:39:33):
from an old line standpoint, I said, I'm just telling
what I see. I don't think they really know what
the assignment is. I think when they break the huddle,
they have an idea and the opposition is showing them
something else. And collectively they aren't on the same page
about how to address it. They're seeing different things. That's
the coach's job to prepare them for what.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
They want to And I know this might sound oversimplified,
but is the answer in a scenario like this where
you clearly don't have the talent at all five positions?

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
I'm not there, you don't think so.

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
I don't think this is a talent issue.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Well, whatever the issue is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Maybe they're not gelling together, maybe this is not a
cohesive unit, whatever, But is the answer, since there isn't
any other answer. Is it more Joe Mixon slash? More
play action to get him just on the run out?
Because the thing that's crazy about CJ is, even when
it's not intended, he does throw across his body. Well,

(01:40:28):
he does make those throws on the run either direction. Well,
is that what you do to kind of put a
band aid on it?

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Well, that's what Bobby Slowan started to do in that game.
He started to move the pocket. CJ's half the field
is being cut off from him. You don't you move
the pocket and start creating what we call a levels concept,
a short, termedy and deep option on one half of
the field. And like high school and like guys that
are learning the quarterback position, somebody as proficient with the

(01:40:58):
IQ and the acumen of Stroud should never have half
the field taken away from them. This is an absolute
lack of trust. I was also in the press box
on Sunday, had a conversation with a former quarterback in
this city. I said, I'm gonna just tell you what
I say. You tell me if I'm crazy. CJ is
no longer looking at the horizon of a play. He's

(01:41:19):
no longer staring downfield, ready to do surgery. His eyes
are dropping down to immediately what's in front of him,
and it's the rush. CJ. Last year was able to
stare down the barrel of the proverbial rhetorical shotgun and
deliver bbs. He doesn't trust that old line anymore. It
is impacting the play calling. Okay, well staying they should

(01:41:40):
run deeper routes and let CJ. Fling the ball. He
threw the ball thirty seven times. It takes time for
the receivers to get down the field time he doesn't have.
They better fix this or they're going to crush their
current cornerback.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
And that's the thing I love seeing po Ah. He's
regressed or he's not as explosive as he was. He's
not put up the numbers. He can't. He's running for
his life and they're cutting. Yeah, the plays aren't there.
They're cutting the field down like their full playbook is
no longer at their disposal. And so now they're asking CJ, hey,
I know the offensive line in great so rather than

(01:42:12):
address the old line, hey, CJ, go put some of
that magic, some of that juju that you had last year.

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
And you just can't expect a guy to go just
be amazing all the time. Thirty seven times he drops back.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
All that being said, it only gets worse when you
add on to the fact that we'll play the Jets
Thursday night with Dell Hutchinson, Mechi Robert Woods.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
Are you reporting that that Diggs is out?

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
Sure Digs doesn't play?

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
Heard it here first?

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
Yeah, So those are their four while outs. Somebody from
the practice squad will probably be elevated.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
We'll see if Stephen sims Back allows him to contribute.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
To mean, sims could be just a part of their
receiving group and maybe there doesn't need to be an elevation,
but that's a it's a lackluster group overall, clearly, and
you don't like to be faced with that. That clearly
impacts how fearful the Jets might be of your passing game,
which is to say, not at all. And all of
that flies into well, they're just gonna have that much
easier a time of pressuring CJ because there's no threat

(01:43:14):
I don't think is there.

Speaker 5 (01:43:16):
Baltimore Ravens playoff game all over again.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
It becomes very, very difficult. So all those things are
tied into one. When you say, the Texans defense, it's
got to go out there and win this game. And
we watched how they've run their offense. I mean, I
don't think there's much of a difference after they change
those seas, but they have weapons, and I do think
their line got a lot better in the offseason. It's
not a great line, but it's a perfectly capable line.
Talking about the Jets O line. What in what you've

(01:43:41):
seen from Rogers this year with the Jets, nobody should
care about what he was before he got there, because
that's not who's playing anymore. He's not an above average quarterback.
He's absolutely played as a below average quarterback. But what
does he do that some of the quarterbacks they haven't
seen yet? What does he still do that should worry
the Texans defense.

Speaker 5 (01:44:00):
He still has the arm to make all the throws,
and he's still he's still got the intimidation factor that
I'm Aaron bleeping' Rodgers, and I'll dop you up all
over this field, especially I got my guy DeVante Adams. Now,
Alan Lazard, another former Packer, is dealing with some things
on the injury report, so we'll see if he goes.
But Garrett Wilson has been in Aaron Rodgers doghouse a

(01:44:23):
little bit, but they've got all of the skill there
to do everything they need to do. He's still Aaron
Rodgers with his arm and his brain. There's nothing Demko.
And this is no disrespect to Demiko. It's just where
Aaron Rodgers is in his wizardry. There's nothing Domico can
throw Aaron Rodgers he hadn't seen now. Aaron Rodgers thankfully

(01:44:44):
is not as mobile as an Anthony Richardson. So it's like,
okay or Jordan Love, you know where he's going to be.
If the defensive line doesn't dominate, they can't just be good.
They have to dominate this game for everything that you
just said WEX. Those DB's are going to be out
there trying to guard those skilled position players, and if
you can rough Aaron Rodgers up and make him uncomfortable,

(01:45:06):
he's gonna be essentially a sitting duck back there. They
have to go be great to help that secondary, and
they got to take the ball away to give CJ
some more ops because defensively they're also really good. CJ.
Mos has banged up a little bit. Sauce has been
nicked up. A little bit. But Quinn Williams and his
brother Avery, those Williams boys over there are among the

(01:45:27):
best at their relative positions. This is gonna be a
tall task.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
And couldn't you argue right now the Texans pass rush specifically,
those two guys are playing their best football season right now.

Speaker 5 (01:45:37):
No question they're getting in the group. As a guy
that tried to pass rush, I was gonna say former
pass rusher, but that would like alude that I'm on
their level. You do get in the groove, you start
like all right. I've just the rhythm and timing of
the games and stunts and blitzes. I'm just seeing the
picture clearly and those guys, and I don't want to
negate the guys on the interior, Settle Fatoicasi, all those

(01:45:59):
guys start playing really really well up there, Maybe Denico
Autrey can finally contribute in a major way one of
these types of games. It's gonna have to be the
d line game. But yes, they're on a group.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
I'll tell you one thing that I'll say for right
after you were out of here our next segment. Something
has definitely changed on their defensive line with the addition
on the field of Denico Audrey, and I think it's
going to be really really helpful for them moving forward.
If you want a prediction on what's going to happen
in Thursday's game between the Texans and Jets from Stan,
you're gonna have to get it on next up ten

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to noon each and every weekday morning. I'm now making
you commit to giving a prediction either Tuesday, Wednesday or
on your Thursday show.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
That's what we do. Second take Tuesday, Stan, appreciate the
time all us, Yes, all.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
Right, we got plenty more coming up next here on
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Speaker 4 (01:47:49):
You into the evening the evening.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
This evening, after our show, we'll send you into Rockets
basketball case you missed it. The Rockets are looking for
their first win on the road. It's only your second
road game, lost one on nine, one six. So the
Spurs on Saturday saying two teams tonight happened earlier, Doc Man,
they will be one of the five non playoff teams.

Speaker 4 (01:48:06):
In the Insterconference. That was embarrassing though.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
But they did get the best of the Rockets unfortunately Saturday.
They'll do it all again tonight. I know there's a
bunch of things we haven't gotten into by now. I
imagine Aaron Judges probably struck out a few more times.
But there's a World Series game tonight. They will play
Game three. First game in New York. The Yankees don't
have any wins, and they have to win four out
of five or else they will not be World Series Champions.

Speaker 4 (01:48:29):
What else have we missed?

Speaker 5 (01:48:31):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:48:31):
So we start off with some audio because we talked
about it just a little bit earlier A and MBT
LSU thirty eight twenty three on Saturday night. It was
after the game that garnered most of the headlines. Head
coach Mike Yelko at the podium talking about his program
and also firing up Aggie fans who are not a
huge fan of the previous boss.

Speaker 5 (01:48:52):
This is a real program. It's not fake.

Speaker 10 (01:48:56):
It's not a politician running this program, talking fast and
bs and every This is a real program.

Speaker 5 (01:49:02):
And for all the recruits out there, this is a
real place. And if you want to be really good
at football, this is a really good place to be.
All right.

Speaker 8 (01:49:08):
So you heard that talking fast politician, all of that
kind of stuff he threw out there. So people thought
that he was talking about Jimbo Fisher and taking a
direct shot at Jimbo. But if you were in that category,
Mike Elko today clarifying saying, shame on you.

Speaker 10 (01:49:23):
You guys gave me multiple opportunities in nine months to
take shots at people, and I've never done it. I
have nothing but respect for Coach Fisher. I've said nothing
but positive things about Coach Fisher. I'm the head coach
at Texas A and M because of Coach Fisher. I
appreciate who he is, everything.

Speaker 5 (01:49:37):
That he's done.

Speaker 10 (01:49:38):
And for anybody in the media to think that that
was what I was doing post LSU is, I mean,
it's asinine. And for it to be about any other
head coach who gave me an opportunity and hired me,
and that's not who I am.

Speaker 5 (01:49:52):
I've never been that person, and it's ridiculous, but it
is what it is.

Speaker 10 (01:49:56):
So I wanted to make sure that everybody knows I
wasn't talking to anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Okay, but well because well, first of all, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
Well, here's the thing, whether I believe him or not
doesn't matter, because when you say what he said the
way he said it, saying it after who was there
right before you, that's what people are gonna think.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
So on the night where they had the biggest win
in many years of program history, after the night where
he made the best move a coach made all weekend
in college football, saying to Connor Wegman, who was clearly
not happy with the decision. We're gonna go to the
guy that I think can make a difference tonight, and
we're gonna send him out there. And you clearly haven't
been successful, our offense hasn't been successful, and it's gonna work.

(01:50:41):
And it did, and they absolutely annihilated a very good
football team and treated their one hundred plus thousand fans
to again one of the best nights on their home
field they've had in a long time. So he would
go out of his way in a question that really
didn't even directly send him down the path that he
took to take a shot at Jimbo Fisher. I just
that I do find that ridiculous. Knowing what I think

(01:51:03):
I know about coach Elco, I think he's actually been
dramatically underrated as a coach all season long. We get
it here on Fridays when Chris Gordy is here with us,
we get it all throughout this Ah, it's just Mike Elko. Oh,
it's just he's never been a head coach at this
level before. I mean, he's coming from Duke for crying
out loud, Well, he actually knows what he's doing. He's

(01:51:24):
actually been here before in a different role. And I mean,
I get it this day and age that we're in
and the fact that so much of this stuff is accessible.
There could have you know, twenty years ago, would everybody
know what Jimbo Fisher was like? Well, we're not twenty
years ago. Everybody knows what Jimbo's like. Everybody knows how
he talks. Everybody else there knows that. Yeah, that sounds
like him, but it also sounds like a lot of

(01:51:45):
other coaches, and it does sound like a lot of
other He could have been talking about, Uh, Brian Kelly
for half of that statement. Do people not view Brian
Kelly as more of a politician? And so he's recruiting
ring anything? He was trying to say, Look what we're
doing here is I'm not trying to save this program
for where Jimbo left us. I'm not trying to take

(01:52:07):
us from not a very good team to a pretty
good team.

Speaker 5 (01:52:09):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
I'm trying to build a program.

Speaker 3 (01:52:11):
I'm trying to build years of consistent winning in recruiting
on the field near the top of the SEC which
I don't think pretty much anybody thought this organization, this university.
It's a pro football organization. I think it's okay to
call them that. I don't think people viewed it as that.

Speaker 5 (01:52:27):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
The SEC shorts video today, by the way, was incredible,
as it usually is focused on the Aggies rise from
the basement of the SEC in a literal office building
setting all the way up to the top. It was great,
and to me it just one line sticks out saying, look, no,
we always knew you could get here. We just brought
in Texas and OU to motivate you and it worked,

(01:52:52):
which is clearly not the story, but it was funny. Nonetheless,
it all sets up for what I wish we would
only be talking about. There's not a roadblock between now
and Texas, Texas A and M. Neither team should lose,
no matter how bad Texas plays like they did on Saturday.
And this is for at least a birth, if not
both births.

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
Birth's birth in the title game. Yeah, that's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
If you thought Georgia Texas was a tough ticket to
get and now allowing for the other side, So what
if he is lying? So what if he did take
a shot at Fisher? What what's jim Bo gonna do?

Speaker 5 (01:53:28):
About it.

Speaker 4 (01:53:28):
Well, what's anybody? Why does that?

Speaker 3 (01:53:30):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:53:31):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:53:31):
Are there people that are mad at him for it?

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
He's he's in a very good position to beat Texas
at the end.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
Again, he just beat LSU, So why is he circling
back to something he just told you you hadn't done
And I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:53:42):
Not there necessarily that's what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
I'm just saying I'm not surprised that and he shouldn't
be surprised that people think this with what he said.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
Well, I probably should retract my prior statement or a
clarified at least.

Speaker 8 (01:53:56):
All Right, Selatani's in the lineup tonight, and you guys
mentioned Aaron jo Is it legacy on the line the night?

Speaker 4 (01:54:02):
What legacy? Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
His legacy is not on the line. If his legacy
is a strikeout king, he's the best ever to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
The comedy of this World Series coverage is how many
different writers, whether they're national, whether they're LA or New York,
are writing this Like man, it's it's a tough scene
for Aaron Judge. It's a tough World series and he's
never been in the World Series. So there's an element
of I get that angle. But where in the bleep

(01:54:28):
have you been? He goes to the playoffs other than
last year, pretty much every year, yep. And this is
what he does in nearly every series he's ever played in.
This is not new, It's not even new this year.
He was awful in their first series. He was awful
in their second series. He's been even more awful in
this series.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I think they thought that because he hit those two
late home runs in the ALCS that he was just
magically some switch here.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
After the run, Jeff Passen wrote, he he's getting hot.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
Well, that's because Jeff Passon is only run like.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
Jeff Passon is good from the standpoint of, he's got sources,
he knows what he's talking about inside Major League Baseball.
But he's not good from the standpoint of he clearly
is a Yankee homer and can't help himself.

Speaker 4 (01:55:17):
So he makes an ass of himself when he says stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:55:20):
Like that the Yankees will be back in the playoffs
next year after losing this year's World Series. I mean,
his legacy is being built, but it's never it's never
over until you're you're done. And by the way, I
have one hundred more postseason at bats fifty more this
year and on into the future. If he has two
awesome teammates carrying him like Soto is still trying to
do and Stanton is still trying to do, he might

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still have some wins in his future.

Speaker 4 (01:55:43):
And by the way, I had no doubt Show Hey
was gonna play in this game. Have you seen him?

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
Have you ever stood next to him or even in
the vicinity of He's a beast of a human being.
That thing's gonna have to be like hanging out of
his socket in order for him to miss time. He'll
probably hit a home run tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:55:58):
In fact, I'm calling it, he'll be the first batch
of the game. That would be amazing. Three to zero
would be amazing. Two the eighteen, on.

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Speaker 4 (01:56:30):
It's that time.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
For us to give away free tickets. We do this
all the time, usually right around this time of day.
Final segment of the A Team on a Monday edition
of the program a pair of tickets to see Jelly
Roll live on his Beautifully Broken tour. It's coming up
on November seventeenth at Toyota Center. Tickets on sale now
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pair of tickets right now at seven one three two
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to this question.

Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
Texans just got done beating the Colts, quick turnaround.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
They've got a Thursday nighter in the Meadowlands to take
on Aaron Rodgers and Company at MetLife Stadium. We played
a SoundBite at the top of the four o'clock hour
from Aaron Rodgers. What was the topic of that sound
bite when he had an exchange with a reporter following

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their latest loss? What is it five in a row
now for the Jets, I mean, it's a you could
describe that as this thing that we're looking for the
answer to this question. So what was the topic of
Aaron Rodgers' SoundBite between he and a reporter that we
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Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
For a pair of tickets to see jelly Roll? What's
your favorite jelly roll song?

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
Something about toast tapping.

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
I think okay, I wouldn't even been able to come
up with that. Very very very He's very popular.

Speaker 4 (01:57:55):
Who's face tattoos?

Speaker 5 (01:57:57):
Do you like?

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
Poslum?

Speaker 5 (01:57:59):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
Less? General? Well so the wife he went to post
malone last week in the Woodlands. My understanding. He puts
on a pretty good show. Yeah he was.

Speaker 2 (01:58:10):
She was sending me videos of him singing George Strait
and the guy's very very dynastic.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
In a little bit of a country face. Well, everybody
is right now.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
There are a lot of people did a little duet
with Travis Kelsey's girlfriend, Tom are doing it better than others.
Travis Kelsey had a productive football game over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
And post game with a Jersey exchange.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
DeAndre Hopkins made his debut with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Had two catches in that game. They obviously won again.
They are seven to zero. We don't have the amount
of time left in the program. Luckily we have four
more shows this week to give it due time. The
Texans game ended with the Texas defense actually caring to
end the game. There's a Hail Mary's situation and they

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chose to employ an eleven player defense that they thought
would work, that they thought would prevent Anthony Richardson from
maybe having the time to throw the football. They thought
there eight other players on the field that were back
in coverage would do their job well enough to prevent
what would have been in this situation and the winning play,
winning touchdown. They were up by three points, and then
they called time out and sent out a different defense

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to try to accomplish the same thing, and all three
of the linemen involved on that play were involved. At
ending the play, Daniel Hunter gets to Anthony Richardson and
forces a fumble because the stupid referees are treating Anthony
Richardson just like I told you they would. They don't
freaking blow the whistle. If you're big and strong in
you're a quarterback and it's going to get them killed.

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Just ask Cam Newton. It's awful and that's not even
what I meant to talk about. But the play's over,
he's wrapped up.

Speaker 4 (01:59:47):
It is over.

Speaker 2 (01:59:48):
They don't blow the whistle. Eventually, the balls got on
the goal line the series before.

Speaker 4 (01:59:52):
Did he go.

Speaker 3 (01:59:52):
Audrey picks it up and shovels it to Will Anderson
and they nearly covered.

Speaker 4 (01:59:57):
Had he gotten into the end zone and would have
sent the game over.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
But I was saying that to say, oh my god, Chicago,
can you at least try to care Do you really
think the game's over and there's not zeros on the clock.
That was embarrassing what they did, Yes, embarrassing what they
did on the play prior when they said, look, we're
not even gonna try here. We know this is not
your hail Mary play, but we gotta be careful. Maybe
it is, so we'll give you thirty yards of cushion

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with six seconds on the clock. Okay, we'll take it.
Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaurin, here's a thirteen yard game. And
now your next play, Hail Mary, can actually be a
throat to the goal line, to the end zone. Otherwise
you're gonna have to throw it from thirteen yards further back.
And then the defense they employed, they rushed three, they
used a spy on Jaden Daniels. Where's he going? What

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is he gonna do? It made no sense. So now
they only have seven defenders left, well six six. If
you recall Sunday Night Football NRG Stadium, Nico Collins has
an opponent poke him in the face through his helmet
with his finger. Nico drew a personal foul penalty because
he shoved him back slapped him across the head. Very

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next snap, lined up against each other, Collins ran through him,
ran by him, twenty five yard touchdown. His name is
Tyreek Stevenson.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
Oh really, how's that's interesting? Did he do anything of
note yesterday?

Speaker 3 (02:01:23):
Well, he didn't do anything until he did something.

Speaker 4 (02:01:26):
Well, he did. He had a conversation with some fans.

Speaker 3 (02:01:28):
He did two things of note yesterday. The conversation with
the fans while the play was happening. Wasn't one of
them going four plus seconds without recognizing the ball had
been snapped?

Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
Not one of them.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
His first notable action was, all right, I'm going left,
I'm going right. I'm defending the goal line. I don't
really have any man to cover, which was inaccurate. So
as I see the ball fly through the air, I'm
going to converge on the other players in the scrum
and I'm going to jump up and tip it up
and back very jfk of him into the left. He

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tipped it up into the other players were going up
and you could see them flail down, but they all
missed the ball. Because he got to the ball and
he tipped it up in the air and to the
back where his man, according to the coaching staff today,
his man he was supposed to be checking the man
who decided to line up and back, which offense is
basically call their standard operating procedure. A couple guys in

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the middle, a couple one guy in front if you
have him, one guy back if you have him. And
that was Noah Brown, and the ball landed right and
as he loved.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
Giving current and former Texans touchdown passes in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
Well, considering the Texans injury issues at wide receiver in
the fact that he was a Texan all the way
through camp before they released him, some people are now
attaching those together saying, man, what I wouldn't kill for
Noah Brown? Or the Texans made a mistake by choosing
the players behind their top three that they did and
not having one of them be Noah Brown. To the
other notable action for Tyreek Stevenson, which we don't have

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nearly enough time to devote to, he took to the
X platform, Yeah social media to Chicago and team mates.

Speaker 2 (02:03:01):
My apologies for lack of awareness and focus the game
ain't over tell Zero's hit the clock. Can't take anything
for granted, notes taken, improvement will happen. Hashtag bear down.
As you can imagine, wex. The responses were a plenty.

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
Don't apologize. You gave us one of the funniest images
in NFL history. As he's standing there posing, staring at
the fans and the play is going on behind him.
He's got his back to the play. Don't worry You're
not getting into the facility tomorrow. Did Washington give you
the game ball?

Speaker 5 (02:03:34):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Man, I listen.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
He's trying to do the right thing. But somebody putting
it's a gift or it's actually a video of I
think when were the Jets featured on what you.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
Mccauay, Yeah, it's a Hard Knocks player it it's been
featured in me and Open the door. He goes to
the facility, it is not accepting his arrival.

Speaker 4 (02:04:00):
His key cart is deactivated. So yeah, I look.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
I love the responses. I love what he was trying
to do. But more than anything, I love at barry
On Here's response, which there's no way I'll be able
to clean up even remotely for either radio or television.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
Hey man, learn from it. We'll appreciate the corrective actions.
Whoever picks you off off Waivers appreciate the corrective action.
A lot of comments about his next job, not in football, No,
some things like that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
I just look, as long as something doesn't happen to
the Texans like that, I'm fine, especially this upcoming week.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
So yeah, full week of NFL football now plus tonight's games,
which we didn't spend a whole lot of time on.
We'll get into a little bit tomorrow obviously, some more
intel on what the Jets have in store for the
Texans and vice versa. Again, the Texans are six and two,
the Jets are two and six. I expect a seven
in each respective column after the game Thursday Night, Rockets

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Basketball next.

Speaker 5 (02:05:00):
E g.

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