Astros Secure! Series Win, Arch Takes Center Stage & Laughs Ahoy With Jay Pharoah

Wex and AC get you poised for Labor Day weekend with laughs from SNL legend Jay Pharoah, plus discuss the Astros' series against the Los Angeles Angels and the return of College Football! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam, raised by Earls Nolan,
vaulted by the magnificent roller coaster ride that is Houston sports,

(00:22):
chill lags down for the only homegrown afternoon team is
Talking Your Teams.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A teams.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
A So what us up Houston?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
It is a holiday weekend Friday edition of the A
Team Sports Talk seven to ninety and holy cow, it's
jam pack today. We got a lot going on. Let's
not waste any time. Well, we'll tell you what we're doing.
We'll do that. That's not a waste of time. It
is wex it is Ac, it's Cole Thompson. We're taking
you until six o'clock tonight, when the Astros will then

(01:22):
resume their schedule. They'll actually do it an hour later.
But we got pregame covers starting then. Astros on Deck
Show for their not three but four game holiday weekend
series with the hated Anaheim Angel. That's a Matt Thomas
line right there, where you say that a team is
hated when nobody really cares or has any sort of
feelings for them whatsoever, even though they're in the division

(01:43):
They've just never really been a thing with the Astros,
and I'm hoping that that won't be the case this weekend,
because the Astros can use every win they can get
these days, with the Mariners breathing down their next just
two games back, as both teams will play tonight. As
the Mariners had the day off, they are starting weekend
series in Cleveland, which once upon a time, I guess
could have given some resistance.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
But I don't really expect.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Much help from the Guardians during this weekend, so we'll
just hope that the Astros do it. The Adam Wexler
prescription is to just keep doing, take care of your
own business.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Ahead, Yeah, you don't need help, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Well, actually you.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Might need hat because you're not. You don't win a
division by padding. You win a division by being ahead. Yeah,
but you can pad that lead that you're ahead. Oh yeah,
so at the end of the season they can coast
into the playoffs, set their rotation.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
He's right, I beat anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Hey, you know what, the Mariners play the Dodgers the
last three games of the series or of the season,
and it could matter whether or not the Dodgers are
in a dogfight for their division as it pertains to
who they're trotting out there, which it looks like they
will be because they're behind by this era, ahead by
the same amount that the Astros are in front of
the Mariners.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
No question about it. There's a lot of drama likely
on tap in Major League Baseball for probably honestly everybody
you know. Detroit has a massive lead in their division,
but they're day to day with the Blue Jays on
who's going to get the one seed and who's going
to get the two seed, with the Astros hoping to
get into that conversation. So those two teams are taking
care of the Astros and Seattle are taken care of.

(03:15):
Boston and New York are right next to each other,
presumably with Seattle or Houston getting that final spot in
the postseason. Although Kansas City, Texas and Cleveland are not
yet out of the wild card race and it's essentially
the same story on the other side. The one team
that may not be tremendously involved in drama down the
stretch is rather surprising, and it's probably the Milwaukee Brewers.

(03:36):
The Phillies came back to the pack in their division
because the Mets went up and swept them. The Brewers
are five and a half games better than anybody in
the National League, and if that's the type of lead
they had have going down the stretch, then they might
have the final week already knowing exactly where things stand,
already sowing up the one seed, already getting to do
whatever they want to do for the final two series

(03:57):
of the season. But everybody else that's headed to the
postseason is or hopes to be headed to the postseason,
is in some kind of race for seeding, for home field,
for not being a part of the wild card race
by virtue of winning their division versus potentially being the
sixth seed, which could very easily happen in both wests.
The Podres and Dodgers and the Mariners and Astros so

(04:19):
a lot to play for twenty eight games remaining. Seven
of those twenty eight twenty five percent are against the
Angels beginning tonight. As you mentioned, through Monday, final weekend
off for the NFL. There are no games this weekend. Obviously,
the preseason already concluded most teams won't be practicing this weekend,
other than the teams probably heading into Thursday's game and

(04:43):
Friday's game the Sunday games. Like the Texans and the Rams,
they'll have the weekend off and then run into game
week when Labor Day rolls around, and prepared to try to,
in their cases, repeat their performances from a year ago
at the very least during the regular season to qualify
for the postseason. One of a handful of matchups this
opening weekend, which pits two postseason teams from last year

(05:03):
against one another, that certainly will be something to watch.
There was some pretty entertaining stuff in Major League Baseball
last night after the Astros took care of their business
in the middle of the day. A four homer game
for the third time this season and the last four
homer game, the fourth home run came off of a

(05:24):
position player at Dykin Park Cooper Hummel. This game, the
potential fifth homer of the game was against a position player,
but Kyle Schwarber popped up instead of hitting his fifth
wall over.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
That's the improvement from fouling out.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
It is, but you know, the difference between a position
player and Ben Verlanders brothers pretty significant, so you might
see that in a postseason series. But there's a lot
to get to on that front. Obviously we were first
with the news on air because it broke during our
show about the Micah Parsons trade and the possibility now
today that he left to you know, decide what number
he wants to wear with the Packers rather than eleven.

(06:02):
I have to wonder how quickly in what form he
will count the cash he's getting this year about sixty
two million in this first season, reportedly to become a Packer.
We told you yesterday there was a press conference Jerry
Jones would address the media and answer some questions in
long form during his long long talk with the media
last night. Usually that's what it is with Jerry, so

(06:24):
definitely want to sprinkle some of his explanation. We've got
our thoughts, you've got yours. Mostly the other national heads
and locally in Arlington have theirs. Jerry shared his last
night on the reasoning behind moving on from Micah Parsons
and landing a player who's already there. He obviously wants
to be a part of the team as soon as
Thursday when the Cowboys kick off the NFL season. So

(06:45):
Clark is there and the other parts of the deal
we will not know until the draft in twenty twenty
six and the draft in twenty twenty seven. Do you
have a nice little guest list for you today? It
is Friday, so the usual suspect. At five o'clock, Chan
Lerome talked a little Astros baseball. We'll also have a
conversation with Brian mctagger just outside the show and the

(07:06):
Astros on Deck show is weekly Friday visit. Shae Han
Jay Rajah will join us from CBS Sports covers college
football in the national level. Joints is at four o'clock
and I'm expected to be joined in studio for a
return visit as he is performing at the Improv this weekend,
just tonight and tomorrow and Sunday for multiple shows. If

(07:27):
you want to get out there, our good buddy Jay Farrow.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Oh yeah, Jay is going to be awesome.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
I'm actually excited for o'clock hour, hopefully around three fifteen
or three thirty.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, And we'll also have another special guest as it
pertains to the University of Texas getting its season underway.
You're probably familiar with his work both in film on
any sort of screen and of course on the sideline
at a lot of Longhorn's games, So we'll let you
guess who that is. But I'll tell you we are

(07:57):
twenty four hours from right now. We will be small
dab in the middle of the Arch Manning era.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Uh. Yeah, he's been there two years, so this will
be the back two years. So you're right, we'll be
smack dab in the middle of the Arch Manning era.
Two years on the bench, two years as a starter
at this point tomorrow where there's a definite possibility that
he's going to be on the field attempting to win
the game. It's about three hours after kickoff at two
eight on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Or his backups in, because he's already polished off the Buckeyes.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
If his backups in, personally, I would take that as
bad news. I would not take that as they went
into Columbus, into the shoe and ran them off the field.
To the point that Arch is watching the game from
the sidelines after getting ready for his Heisman Trophy speech already.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, because he threw four touchdown passages.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Don't anticipate that happening. I do think he will have
games like that this season. I just don't think it'll
be in this first game obviously. Tomorrow, the evening game
is pretty important. A lot of talk on this station
about it, as we will have that on nine to
fifty for you tomorrow evening with l SU and Clemson,
the Convicts versus the Catholics. That's old news, but they

(09:05):
are playing again. It's not quite the same with who
these two programs are. Notre Dame now putting out hilarious
videos of their newest donor, Shane Gillis, who wants to
play on the team, and Miami hoping that their transfer
quarterback can be close to as good as last year
starting quarterback who will have his next game in Nashville
for the Tennessee Titans cam Ward, but Notre Dame in

(09:27):
Miami the Sunday game, and everybody else that did not
kick their seasons off last night, playing either tonight or tomorrow.
Auburn Baylor tonight. U of H has not allowed a
point this season. It's not a dad joke. They've played.
They played last night and SFA was unable to get
on the board. Didn't even have one hundred yards of
offense until the final two meaningless drives of the game.

(09:48):
So defensively, it has pretty pleasing to coach Fritz and
their new DC Offensively a little bit of what the
Connor Wegman era might look like. A lot of passes
to their super talented tight end who hopefully is fine
moving forward. And he got hurt during the game, came
back during the game, looked like he got hurt again
during the game, but had a monster day with seven catches,

(10:08):
one of the three touchdowns, and sixty three yards receiving.
And hopefully this is a good second season with an
almost brand new roster. About half of the players that
you'll see on the field on any given Thursday, Friday,
or Saturday for the Cougars will be players that came
from recruiting or the transfer portal this past off season.

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And like I said, a huge, huge games this weekend,
we're into the season. That also means we bring back
our signature segment on Fridays at four point thirty, our
Stone Cold Locks.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
It's going to be awesome this year.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
It's Cole's first venture out in this segment, and I have.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
A crown to defend. That's what's important here.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Mean, there's a lot of things that we keep track
of on the show that are kind of meaningless in
the grand scheme of things.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's more for our is.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
One of them.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
No, no, no, this is the exact opposite of that.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
That's why it's called stone cold locks. Exactly, there's a
we're poking at it?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Ha ha. How'd that sound again? Exactly?

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well you okay, how many times did you make that
sound when you were listening to Jerry Jones.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
I'm gonna be listening to most of what Jerry Jones
said later on in the show for the very first time.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Are you serious? You're a mister press conference.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
Ain't nobody got time for that when they're trying to
get into TDECU Stadium for the football game last year?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
As your bomb ass up.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Main No, I was listening to a little bit of
the Nightcap and a little bit of The Cougar's pregame
show rather than anybody's thoughts otherwise on Jerry's comments last
night about Michael Parsons.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Just fantastic. We will well you're not got to wait long.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
We will get into that next because other than that
very very I don't even call that a Freudian slip.
I don't know what you would call that Freudian.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Who are the Texans playing their opening game the Rams, Yes,
they're playing the sand the Saint Louis Rams. Right, they're
playing the Saint Louis Rams. They're playing the Saint Louis Rams.
They're playing the Saint Louis Rams. They're playing the Saint
Louis Rams. Is that a Freudian slip? I just said
it five straight times.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
He didn't say it five times.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
He said it ten or twelve times.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
That's what I was going to say. Next.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Good gracious, And this wasn't the first time he's eighty two?
Is he so close with Micah in their negotiations? Sands
the agent that he said, it's fine, just call me Michael.
Maybe he gave him the go ahead.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
I did.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
I doubt it since Stephen corrected him.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Mm, that was yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Every bit of it was delicious if you're a Cowboys hater,
so plenty of that fuel to h fan the flames.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Coming up next.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
The eighty on.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
This is We'll begin the simulcast on Space City Home
Network at the top of the hour. Yesterday, we were,
as Wex pointed out in the first segment, just sitting
here mining our own business doing the Astros tenth Inning Show.
After the Astros held on for the one run victory
over the Colorado Rockies, and then all of a sudden,
Ian Rappaport dropped a nuke on the timeline that Micah

(13:23):
Parsons had been traded from the Dallas Cowboys to the
green Bay Packers for a player and two first round
draft picks, with the extension coming right away for Micah
Parsons there in Green Bay. But because of the timing
of it all, we didn't really get to hear the
fallout on the Dallas side of things, at least from

(13:46):
the standpoint of what did Jerry Jones, the guy who
ultimately makes all the decisions for the Dallas Cowboys, have
to say to honestly, his fan base more than anything
now that he had traded away their best player on
the defensive side of the football.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
And look it was.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
There were no shortage of phrases answers. One that was
eleven minutes long all by itself. That I mean, just
He's the gift that keeps on giving. If you're not
a Cowboys fan, at least if you are a Cowboys fan,
then I don't feel sorry for you, and I'm not.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
I don't feel bad for you and you deserve this.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Sports talk seven ninety. You're southwest, your deep southwest home
for your Dallas sports.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
But I mean, come on, we have to find out
what the eighty two year old owner of the Dallas
Cowboys had to say. And maybe even the most ridiculous
part of all was when he was asked about why
he didn't pay that.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Player thank you?

Speaker 4 (14:59):
What would you like now? The first SoundBite that we
were just talking, I don't know that break. Oh geez,
all right.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Wait, Cole, will you play the sound please.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Michaeh twelve plus sacks in each the last four years,
very productive for other Cowboys players coming up the line.
They see how this negotiation with Michael went. How would
you answer the question, well, gee, what do I have
to do to get an extension if Mike God can't
get one?

Speaker 9 (15:28):
Asked DAGs paid man in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Like you've got? I mean, I get it. Like he's
not a good general manager. You could argue that he's
not a good owner for some of the personnel reasons.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
You could see you argue he's not a good owner
because of what he just said.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
That's what I'm saying, Like I get it, Like I
have no love for Cowboys fans, So I think this
is hilarious from that standpoint. But just put yourself in
their shoes and hear that answer. You haven't even really
gotten to the Michael Parsons stuff. He's just he's trying
to say, Hey, I mean I paid somebody. We have
the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. Right now, that's

(16:06):
not what the situation is.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
A load of it really from Jerry and he talks
to he wanted to sign Micah Parsons. That's extremely clear
in his mind. He did sign him. We came to
an agreement. I have a handshake deal with him. Here's
what I want to offer you. You like it, yes?

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Perfect?

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Good, Now go tell your agent we have a deal
and let's move on because I want you here because
I've agreed to a contract that I'm happy with you personally, Micah.
You seem happy with it. Make sure your agent's happy
with it, and you'll keep playing football here. Won't just
be four good years of you here, We'll have you
here for another five years because reportedly it was a
five year deal. But he'll go back in the other hand,

(16:46):
now that they don't have a deal that's signed and executed,
he's traded him, and now he'll go back and say
during the same press conference, I'm trying to make the
team better. This is the way I think we can
improve the football team. This is the path to be
a better football team. The same person is saying two
different things during the same press conference, and he's trying

(17:10):
to instill a culture where he's that involved in the team.
I can already guarantee you this, for the last five years,
the Cowboys weren't gonna run through a wall for Mike McCarthy.
There's no way they're gonna run through a wall for
Brian Schottenheimer. And they've got someone who signs their checks
that they more likely than not, even the player he
mentioned who has been paid doesn't really like playing for him.

(17:33):
And they go out there every day at practice and
bust their butts. They go out there every Sunday, Thursday, Monday,
Friday or Saturday and do the same thing, all knowing
it's for this freaking guy.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Like Dak has never come out and said that, and
I'm not even gonna go so far as to say
his body language would indicate that, but he's got enough
put it this way. If you're Dak Prescott, you already
had enough on your play with your own individual failures
coming up, short isms, whatever you want to call it.

(18:06):
You're the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, and you're now
the third one in a row that's probably not going
to get them back to glory. You've got enough on
your plate without your owner trading your best defensive player,
like five minutes before the season starts.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
They are unsure, completely unsure of where they're headed just
this offseason. Forget about the extensions for Dak and CD
that were in place before this offseason, just the moves
that they've made this offseason. I don't think any of
the other GMS would say, I like where we're headed
this year if we can get George Pickens and Kenny

(18:42):
Clark and get rid of Micah Parsons because the money
they're paying for Pickens and the money they're paying for Clark,
both of them at their respective points in their career,
and baggage in one player's case and age and the
other player's case, I don't think anybody thinks that's a
good thing. And DeMarcus Lawrence, we don't need him either.
Let's have him be somewhere else. I don't know, what

(19:04):
is it that you're doing, Like, what are you? What
is the plan?

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well, don't worry, because he's very, very impressed with the
picks that they were able to pick up in this trade.
Two first rounders from the Packers, and obviously that's going
to be you know, those those are going to hit
and they're gonna be awesome players.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Just listen to Jerry talk about the picks.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
It was important that we did get if we could
get it the kind of interest that we got in
making a trade for Mike. He was an asset that
we got four great years out of. But when you
are talking about making a contract the kind that he
got and for the future, that's quite a commitment. And

(19:49):
none of that counts about what he did those first
four years. It all goes against what he can do
for you in the future, the length of that contract
and and maybe more. Well, then you've got to really
wigh how many players And I'm just gonna give you this,
not only do we immediately get a player, but those

(20:10):
draft picks could get us I'm talking top Pro Bowl
type players could not necessarily you gonna be quick to
say you won't necessarily get those players. You got to
draft them more acquire, but they could get us as
few as three or as many as five outstanding players.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Is he trying to convince himself or everybody that's there
listening to him.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
I don't know what the next question was, but embarrassing
if it wasn't. How do you get five players out
of that?

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, that's the other thing. What's he talking about.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
You're gonna flip a late first round pick for two
Pro Bowl potential Pro Bowl caliber players rather than just
the one you might get with the earlier pick. You're
gonna flip it into into better picks. I'm not that
usually doesn't work that way. I'm not sure what general
managers are gonna put that deal together with you to
make it better. Yeah, you can always package deals on

(21:03):
down the road. But the further down the road you're going,
the more seasons you're playing without elite talent. It's not
a lock, but it's pretty close to it in my opinion,
and I'll share my opinion with you here on the radio.
There are three players involved in this deal. You swapped
players Micah Parsons for a first round pick, and then

(21:23):
on top of that Cowboys just straight up get Kenny
Clark and a second first round pick. Which of those
four players do you think will have the best NFL
career moving forward? Heavy, heavy, heavy odds. That's the player
that plays for the Packers, very heavy odds. And you
can look at any one of the drafts in the
last handful of years as we're into this era of
college football player development and NFL players scouting, If you're

(21:47):
picked between nineteen and thirty two, which is almost assuredly
where Jordan Love's football team is going to land each
of the next two years with their draft pick, which
now goes to the Cowboys, I don't know that outside.
I'll take the twenty twenty draft because that's Micah's draft.
He went twelfth, and the first round picks that are
big time players, that's where they go. Rashaun Slater pro

(22:09):
Bowl caliber player, he went thirteenth. DeVante Smith's super Bowl
caliber player, frontline wide receiver Penne Sewell all Pro caliber player,
plays for an awesome team. Jamar Chase arguably the best
wide receiver in the NFL. All these players went thirteenth
or higher, and then after that, players like Mac Jones
and Jamin Davis. And when you get into the nineteen

(22:31):
to thirty two range where first or playoff teams pick,
the best player in that particular draft by a pretty
wide margin is Christian daris On. He's an offensive line
and he plays tackle for the Vikings, and he's an
outstanding player, an extension worthy player, which he got from
Minnesota got hurt last year. The other players are some
of them are on their second team, some of them

(22:52):
have been traded, some of them don't see the field
all that much. That's what you're getting. It is a guess.
The first round picks, it's basically top ten, twelve, fifteen
maybe are awesome. Just this past week, Kyle Hamilton the
fourteenth pick, right before Kenyon Green. He got a massive
multi million dollar sension from the Ravens. So one through

(23:14):
fifteen you might feel like, yeah, we're getting something. And
then after that that's the that's round one B. That's
what they traded for to it's like a compensatory pick.
In Major League Baseball, seventeen through thirty two are typically
nineteen through thirty two because that's where the playoff teams are.
That this you're getting a probably a good player. And

(23:35):
again you're not likely, very not likely. The word is
unlikely to get Michael Parson's talent for the four plus
one years you get out of a first round pick
with either one of these selections.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
And again, who's making that pick with these picks? Like
if this would be a crapshoot, compensatory whatever you want
to call it, with a good general manager in place,
a good you know, personnel team whoever's doing whatever role.
This is the Jerry Jones Cowboys.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well they're the ones who drafted micah At. I mean
I don't necessarily look at them and say the players
they pull off the board first, because that's what we're
talking about here. Well, technically their pick will come first
because they're worse than the Packers. The player their second
first round pick, like the Tyler's that they've taken the
last two years. I don't know what Tyler Booker will
be yet, the Tyler's Tyler. They're both offensive lineman. Tyler

(24:27):
Geiden will find out how good he is. I don't
like Mazzie Smith, they seem to he is in that range.
He went twenty six. Tyler Smith a third Tyler offensive lineman.
It's like the Jalen secondary of the Texans. That's who
they've taken the last couple of years. I don't think
these are terrible picks. Seedee Lamb was seventeenth. That's a
phenomenal pick. But there's not that many players available between

(24:48):
nineteen thirty two that are going to change games. Mike
is a player like that. Kenny Clark's really good. Kenny
Clark's being an out of contract before this deal is over.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Good stuff stuff right there, and you might wonder how
some of the people around the country and Dallas fandom
react to that. That'll be a part of our signature segment,
or at least our two thirty daily segment.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
I should say the best of.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
X coming up next the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
Did you all see this?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Should be putting out between five and fifteen posts a day.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
History repeats itself. Type and you'll succeed.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
Never doubt that you're the want of for no one, blead,
you're the best BX. Nothing's gonna ever.

Speaker 11 (25:46):
Top you know you're the best of X posting ever
single day. You know you're the best of X. Breaking
the entire internet. All right, it is the best of cs.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Not Surprisingly, one of the stories dominating on social media
yesterday was the aforementioned Micah Parson's trade. I think the
fact that this happens so close to the start of
the season, whether you're a Dallas fan or not, is
just what has everybody talking, because I think a lot
of people were like you wex in that if they
even if it got contentious the way it did, You're

(26:27):
this late in the offseason. I mean, you're not even
in the off season anymore, you're in the preseason. There's
no way they're gonna swing a trade right before the
season starts. Is this the latest big time trade like
this we've ever seen an NFL history?

Speaker 6 (26:41):
Don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well, I'm trying to think of one that was this
late in the game that was this massive.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
I mean, it would involve a situation like this, discrimable
player or contractual issue, and most of the contractual issues
result in the player deciding to just go ahead and play,
or the team and the player coming to an agreement
on a deal. Both of those things basically happened.

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Mac.

Speaker 12 (27:01):
When did that happen right before the start of the
twenty eighteen season with Las Vegas, then in Oakland and Chicago,
and they sign him to a new deal.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
As serio as it happened, I'd forgotten that. That's how
that went down with him.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
That's that is a very good player, and obviously on
the defensive side of the football. But the reactions on
social media were varying. I'm actually surprised that they were.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, can you start with the people who reacted to
it favorably.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
No, that's not what I mean when I say varying.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
I'm talking about varying degrees of appalling posts about it
because it was so bad, they're consistently hating on it,
like Chuck Bass, who said, this is Jerry Jones the
next time he's out in Dallas. It's a picture of well,
it's a picture of Kennedy and a limo in a
parade that happened in Dallas.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
That's a little that's dark.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
That's yeah. I mean, I'm not asking for people to
think like that.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
No, that's why I said it's varying. I mean some
people were a little bit more. I guess about it.
If you want to, you put it that way. Let's see,
there's another one your favorite, one of your favorites, our
boy dove.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Jerry Jones don't even care. Well, I'm gonna read it anyways,
the listeners might. I know.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
That's why I'm gonna read it. Jerry Jones is eighty
two years old and choosing to win later. Pretty remarkable
when you think about it, riveting. Why do you have
him on the show so you can tell him how
much you hate him?

Speaker 6 (28:25):
It's not even his account anymore. Let's see, we got
a plenty out there.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Doug says Jerry Jones after trading Micah Parsons to the Packers.
It's a picture of Joe Biden with his eyes closed
at a press con.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Actually this might be the debate.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Well, think about Joe if he were to have been
at a Dais podium after something like this, probably much
more important because he deals with being commander in chief
at the time. He would not have given answers like
Jerry Joe Biden an eleven minute coherent answer. No, clearly isn't.
I mean, you might not agree with what Jerry is saying,

(29:04):
and he might be talking in circles, he might be
contradicting himself, but yeah, he's not not that two.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Guys in their eighties, and I still would would I
trust Jerry Moore with the nuclear codes anywhere?

Speaker 6 (29:15):
It is? I'm not like you say, varying opinions. This
is varying opinions of anger. There are not many people
who say, you, look, where were they going this year?
He won seven games last year. What's the point in
bringing back another super expensive player. They already have two
of them that helped him get to a seven win season.
Maybe there's a better way to do this. It's not.
This is not that there is not a better way

(29:37):
to do it. The best way to do it is
it's the rest of the team. Will you found these
three players? I don't know what you think. I'll ask
you the most important players on your team to winning,
as in, they matter the most on a game day,
they matter the most of the big picture, and on
top of that their hardest to find, And on top
of that, when you don't have them, you're sunk. I

(29:59):
already know the answer. It's rhetorical. Quarterback is number one.
But what falls in line after that and trenches, Well,
trenches is too broad.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
I know.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I would say offensive linemen first because they predict protect
number one.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
But you look at what guys and maybe this isn't
the best way to do it, but it's one way
to do it. Who gets paid the most? Would you
not think that the teams that are paying the money,
the owners that are signing the checks, the people that
are negotiating the deals. Wouldn't you think in by virtue
of them getting the most money, they're deemed the most
important and the hardest to find, and thus because they're

(30:37):
so important and you've found them, that you pay them well.
The defensive end edge rusher market has been blowing up
all off season, and it usually does depending on who's
out there, this should stand out. I mean, Will Anderson's elite,
don't get me wrong, but I don't know that there's
going to be another group of four players. The quality

(30:57):
of the players that sign deals this this off season.
You got the sack leader, you got TJ. Watt, you
got Max Crosby. Obviously, now you have Micah and Will's
gonna get that kind of money next year. But they
pay them money. The cornerback market, they're in the thirty
million dollar range. There were two thirty million dollar corners
this offseason. Because they're hard to find and when you

(31:18):
have them, you want to keep them. If you can't
figure out a way to keep them because of other
monetary decisions you've made with your cap in my opinion,
you're doing it wrong. I think Jerry is doing it wrong.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
If that's the ultimate reason why he didn't want to
sign off on this deal or why it was being
held up and all that kind.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Of you knew this was coming.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
How much have we talked about will Anderson Junior? Is
not you avoid it signing him earlier.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Sign him earlier?

Speaker 5 (31:47):
Yeah, Well that's why.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
I don't mean three or four months ago, I mean
fifteen or sixteen months ago. Yes, last off season.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
When you know that he's a Pro Bowl caliber play
the three times over already three years.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
And I know what people think about Pro Bowl, but
this is a legitimate program.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
But he's talking about weighing that not for the five
years he's already played before the next It's like, well, yeah,
so now you got someone else who's already played in
their ninth season. That's the funny thing about what he
said there, and you got rid of it. Anyways, he's
it's a disaster, by the way.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
That's my favorite.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
It's a disaster. I always think he made a move
that doesn't help his team, and as the owner, that's
what you're supposed to do. He did not put his
team in the best position to win, was now or
in the future.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
I think I think you're if you thought your team
wasn't going to win the Super Bowl with him. It
comes back to what you said yesterday when it comes
down to the money, which is what this is apparently
about with Jerry. If you didn't think you were gonna
win with him, well, then why are you paying all
this money to all these other players now that he's
not on your team, because you're definitely not winning without him.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
And he can't say that. I he can't say what
he said, even though he said it, because he absolutely
positively wanted to keep this player and came to an
agreement with this player. Per his words, he wanted him here,
and then he changed.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
The best one I saw. Some guy named Brody says
Madden knew better than Jerry Jones. He did the Madden
trade and included the screen cap Clark and a twenty
six and twenty seven first rounder to the Cowboys and
the Packers getting Micah Parsons.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
This trade has been declined. Well, this is awesome.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
And the interest there's an interest level meter. Yeah, it's
a little more than halfway. Madden knew better.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Madden is smart.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah, Harry is smarter than Jerry, not Madden. No, no,
he's not all right. We will wind down the two
o'clock hour. Next.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Hey, let's talk about a team that does have a future,
your Houston Texans.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
The a t on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (33:45):
Hey, touch this, okay, touch this, touch this.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
I keep thinking about the fact that, and again, it
took fortune.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
I guess that the Texans wound up with CJ. Stroud
in a year in which Bryce Young went number one overall.
But the fact they made the deal for Will Anderson
Junior and everything that came with it, everything leading up
to the Texans being on the right track, essentially needed

(34:20):
to be done by tearing it all down.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
I don't It wasn't quite like what.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
The Rockets did, although the Rocket's hand was forced in
some ways, with James Harden demanding a trade out of
town and Russell Westbrook doing the same thing and all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
The drama.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
But like, that's why I was saying yesterday about the
Cowboys they could be the Texans very very quickly, even
though they have some of these parts. I've got a
Cowboys fan right now that is just he is adamant
that they're not going to be that bad this year,
and they might not be.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
I think saying they could be the Texans is a
means they're gonna be lucky and they're gonna draft Bo
Nicks at twelve. They're gonna draft their co in the
mid teens, the early teams where their pick is. The
Texans were able to draft their quarterback of the future
because they earned the second pick in the draft after
giving away a top pick in the draft as part

(35:12):
of another deal when Miami had it. But they were
extremely They were playing to be the worst team in
the NFL three consecutive seasons. The Cowboys, maybe you could say,
for one could do that because one of those three seasons,
Deshauan Watson was their quarterback and they won four games.
The succeeding two seasons, they didn't have a quarterback for

(35:33):
two straight years, they lost a ton of games. The
Cowboys are the opposite of that, unless this is the
year they have Dak and they stink and then they
trade Dak and intentionally stink for two more years. That's
the only way they can do what the Texans did, unless,
like I said, they just get lucky that there's a
draft where a really awesome quarterback either is just sitting

(35:54):
there and where their pick comes up. The Cowboys don't.
I mean, I know the NFC looks like there's only
a few really bad teams. Sure, how many other teams
are angling towards six wins or fewer? I don't think
the Cowboys are a six win or fewer team. So
maybe the best worst they can do is the ninth
pick of their own tenth eleventh, Like, how are you

(36:14):
gonna get your quarterback at the future there? It's not
normal to do that.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Well, that's what I was saying, that they could be
the Texans, meaning if they, you know, willfully tear it down. However,
that looks because it's going to be different than how
the Texans did it because of what happened.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
But with every team in the NFL this is usually
the case. If you have good.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
People in place making the decisions, which is another thing
they don't have, you can bounce back relatively quickly. Now,
the Texans, it was accelerated by not only CJ, but
then trading up and getting Will Anderson. But like you
get your guy, it can go quickly.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
You could argue against me because I just said the
opposite that they're right in line with the Texans. Why
would they trade Dak Prescott, Well, they would trade him
when he says it sucks here, I want out. Exactly
what happened in Houston. Deshaun Watson demanded a trade, demanded
a trade so hard that he and the team decided,

(37:09):
or you're not gonna play. He's gonna be here, but
he's not gonna be on the team. He's not gonna
be out here at all. And then they ultimately moved him,
and clearly all the on field off field stuff eventually
became a larger part of the story. But Dak goes
out there, played a losing season. This past year, Deshaun
played a losing season and then ultimately didn't play. Now
their timeline's a little different. Dak's playing this year. Dak's

(37:29):
not gonna say I don't want to be here right now,
and they're gonna have to start somebody else Thursday night.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Well, here's a question for you, who makes that decision
first after this season does.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
Go poorly for the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
If it does, is it Dak demanding a trade or
is it the Cowboys saying, we better get something for
this guy while we can, because we're not going anywhere.
And this is two consecutive seasons where he was healthy.
This year and we still lost.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
It's hard to trade a quarterback that makes an incredible
amount of money when you're trading him because you're not
winning and you're playing. He's playing like he didn't play
last year, So we're forecasting. We're hypothesizing that he goes
out there and plays this season. The Cowboys win six
seven eight games, they're under five hundred, they're not in

(38:13):
contention of the playoffs. It's a disappointing season. He's gotten
a year older, he's on the wrong side of his
career now, he's got half of his career in the
rearview mirror. Were we in that neighborhood with Dak Prescott
considering his injury history, maybe we are. So how much
how many teams are interested? There's a few teams without quarterbacks,

(38:34):
But are you going all the way from we don't
have a quarterback and we don't have to spend any
money on our quarterback, and we can now find him
in the draft because we're going to be bad or
we're close enough to winning. We think Dak gets us there.
Like the Falcons paid one hundred and sixty million over
four years, which now will be half that for Kirk
Cousins before last year's draft, because they thought Kirk Cousins

(38:55):
can take this roster that we have and we can
compete and go to the playoffs, and turned out that
Michael Junior can do the very same thing, and then
they drafted him. And I think that's what we'll see
this year. And maybe you would have seen it last
year if they would have benched the injured Cousins sooner.
But that they're not a lot of teams like that,
not a lot of teams that see it like that.
I think trading Dak will even if he demands the trade,

(39:16):
I think it will be very difficult.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
It's this season could be very difficult too. Dick might
not be all that bad, but they're not going to
win the division. And that's like the ceiling, you know
what I mean, Like if you've got the Eagle, like say,
everything falls apart for the Eagles I'm still taking the
Commanders over the Cowboys to win that division.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
If that happens, Why why would you pick the Cowboys
to win this division?

Speaker 6 (39:37):
I mean, we shouldn't even entertain a I don't want
to entertain the idea, Like they're not the next best team.
They're not the best team. They're they're the third best team.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Probably they're not worse than the Giants.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Like the Giants more. I think, like, look at the Giants.
Just for this conversation we're having. What are the Giants
loading up on right now? Edge rushers? They had an
edge rusher, then they traded for Brian Burns, and then
they drafted Abdul Carter. They're killing it up front because
they want to build their team around what you said
earlier teams build around the trenches. Quarterbacks are not real

(40:13):
enthusiastic about I wouldn't be, and soon enough it'll probably
be Jackson darts team. But still, like, I don't think
they're they're just not talented enough as a team yet.
But they have a plan. They just don't have their quarterback.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
What's the Cowboys plan? That's brutal?

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Oh well, all right, we've got the three o'clock hour
coming up next simulcast on Space City Home Network. It's
going to include Jay Faroh, it's going to include a lot.
We're gonna get to all of it starting in a
few minutes. The A Team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named at him talking
your Team's.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
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Speaker 4 (41:07):
Welcome into our number two on the Friday edition of
The A Team. It's Sports Sox seven ninety hour number
one on Space City Home Network. As we will be
televised for the next three hours, So if you're watching us,
welcome in.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Heavy.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
I did not think I would see you do that today.
Heavy two hours. Oh, that's right, we are. I forget
it's Friday. I always do that on Fridays. Yeah, we'll
be done at five o'clock with the with the simulcast,
but we will take you. This show is going till
six o'clock regardless of whether or not you can see us.
And it was heavy in that first hour on this
Micah Parson's Trade the Astros Welcoming in the Angels for four.

(41:43):
It's gonna span the course of the holiday weekend, so
the finale will actually be a day game on Labor
Day this Monday, as the Astros and Mariners duke it
out for Al West supremacy. But you know what we
didn't talk about yesterday that was kind of buried is
that Joaspotta just can't I think we might have mentioned it,

(42:04):
but I don't think we talked at linked about the
fact that, oh, by the way, we're just gonna put
Lance mccollors in the bullpen for the time being. Temporarily
was the word that Joaspotta used.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Yeah, they don't want him to necessarily. They That's why
I told you they can't go with a six man
rotation for too long when three of them can't guarantee
to pitch deep into games. Six man rotation means you've
already limited your bullpen if every guy that you're starting
is unavailable to you the days he doesn't start well,
Now you have a seven man bullpen that is limiting

(42:33):
if one of those pitchers, or two of those pitchers,
or three of those pitchers in their case the last
time through aren't giving you length. And it's even worse
because you're already dealing with a numbers issue in the bullpen,
so you could carry him, but you got to do
it this way, and that's what they did. Doesn't mean
he's gonna pitch. Didn't pitch yesterday, didn't necessarily pitch today
with Javier starting, won't necessarily pitch tomorrow with Aarraghetti starting,

(42:55):
and he almost assuredly will not pitch one. Hunter Brown
is throwing on Sunday, and if all those things happen,
they may still decide to start him they on Monday,
because they did not rule that out. They also have
aj Blueball front of the show still on the twenty
six man roster, meaning they technically went into this last
game of the Rockies series and presumably the first three

(43:16):
games of the Angels series with two length relievers two
bulk relievers, which for most of the year they've had none.
Ryan Gusto was for a short period of time. But
I think it's a very very different look that they
have and probably one that's warranted. Lineup they'll throw out
there tonight against the lefty Ty Anderson will once again
include designated hitter Jordan Alvarez. As expected, They're not going

(43:39):
to see if he can play every single inning of
every single game the rest of the way, coming off
of his hand injury, so he's back at d H
and al Tuve is going to play second base behind
Christian Javier. Tonight, Peyna Alvarez, Altuve Correa two home run
Christian Walker lefty interesting lefty Jesus Sanchez against the left
handed starter. He is awful against left handed pitching. Maybe

(44:03):
Joe's just knew he needed to get out there, or
is playing a hunch. A Yaner Diaz back in the
lineup two days off of catching duties, so Sayzar Salazar
filled in brilliantly in my opinion, even with some of
the catcher's interference and air that were made. So Yaner
back in at catcher bat in seventh, right fielders Camp
Smith and Mauricio Dubon gets the start in right field

(44:25):
against a lefty, which oftentimes has been Chas McCormick spot. Obviously,
Christian Javier is throwing to Yaner Diaz Tonight fourth start
since his return. For Christian Javier, his work at Dyke
and Park from a control and execution standpoint has arguably
been a little bit better, and that he only walked
two batters in the eight innings there. He walked four

(44:48):
batters and his two innings in Baltimore threw back to
back thirty plus pitch innings, and that's why he only
lasted those sixty five pitches and six outs in that
last start. Should be fairly fresh. But they just they
throw strikes. If they hit you, they hit you. The
Angels are masters, but they also strike out a lot
and don't get a lot of other hits. So as

(45:08):
long as they don't want to hit the ball over
the fence, even as a fly ball pitcher, which is
not a good combo. I do think we'll probably see
a Javier tonight much more like the first one that
we saw when he gave him five innings and allowed
two runs. It's very similar to what Alexander ended up
giving up yesterday. Three runs and five and two thirds.
Those are outings you can accept. You have a chance

(45:30):
to win the game if your starter gives you that.
You want to have some guys on the front end
that win you. The games Fromber won you the game
seven innings, no runs. Hunter Brown similarly with six and
two thirds normally wins you a game. I could tell
you only give up two earned runs. Sounds good, doesn't it. Yeah, Well,
four others also crossed, so he didn't exactly win you
the game that day, but you can make do with

(45:50):
the other guys in the rotation if they can at
least give you a chance to win the days they pitch.
That's what they did at the beginning of the year
with Colton Gordon and all of the other pitchers that
they were cycling through. More recently with the injured pitchers
coming back, it's what they've started not to do well.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
And that's why I was going to ask you Net like,
do you start asking when we're going to see Luis Garcia?

Speaker 6 (46:14):
Well, I thought Chandler Rome, who will join us at
five o'clock, had a very good article and very timely
since we were talking about it as well. The Astros
got an additional ten game rehab extension three times, which
through the CBA you're allowed to ask for, which extended
what would normally be a thirty day rehab into a
forty fifty sixty day rehab, and over that time you

(46:35):
can make nine appearances, which is what he has done.
It appeared that, according to Chandler, the team was ready
to bring him on that last road trip, likely to
activate him, but then decided otherwise, and he made another
rehab start, and so they're still trying to decide what
to do. He's been one appearance away every time he's
taken the ball for the last three weeks at the

(46:56):
minor league level. Presumably could have been his last rehab start.
It just simply hasn't been. And with the injuries they've
suffered with Walter's injury continuing, he was already long gone
before that, but then Susa and then Rooney and Hater
obviously right before that. I don't think they looked at
him as a real replacement for them. They don't want

(47:17):
Lance mccullors pitching out of the bullpen, and I don't
think they want Louis Garcia pitching out of the bullpen.
But they've already made that brief, short term decision with Lance,
and they may end up doing the same with Luise.
Chandler also noted what I think, if you've been watching,
you've seen if you've seen some of his pitching, some
of the highlights, or whether you've watched the games, the
pitcher that immediately started his rehab, and what is throwing

(47:40):
motion looked like then at the arm angle and things
like that, It's changed even over these nine appearances, and
he looks a little bit more like the older, the
previously non injured version of Luis than the one that
was kind of sling shotting the ball, shot putting the
ball a little bit. It now looks much more like
it used to and he's getting good enough results that

(48:01):
that's the path he's gone on.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Yeah, I'm like cautiously optimistic about him, especially in light
of what we've gotten, which is inconsistent at best with
Lance McCullers Junior. And I hate to say it, I
love the guy, but it's it is adventures not really
doing it enough justice when he goes out there.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
And I just wonder if you remember.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
When it was like, I don't know if we want
Justin Verlander to start a playoff game for the Astros,
and he was just kind of shelved in a way,
and it took care of itself because you didn't win
any playoff games.

Speaker 6 (48:35):
Well, yes, And the unfortunate part is you can do
that in the playoffs. There's no roster move to be
made other than he's not on the roster. You don't
have to place him anywhere. And I'm not saying you
aren't really replacing him on the RS used to put
whoever you want on the roster on the roster among
your forty man. If they could do that, there would
be no question they would be doing They would have
done that three weeks ago. With Lance McCullers, he wouldn't
even come back from his blister if they had the

(48:55):
postseason roster of flexibility of just and just tell us
what twenty six guys you want for the time being,
and that's what the playoff roster is.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
And then as it pertains to tonight's starter, this is
a big start for Christian Xavier because I'm not saying like,
if he performs badly then it's the end of the world.
But it's not what you want to see, Like at
least with Spencer Arraghetty's last start, even though it started rocky,
he ended up getting through it and you felt you
felt like, Okay, well, the next time I see this

(49:24):
guy pitch, I'm not necessarily like, oh no, like I'm
feeling like you would be. For example, with Lance McCullers.
Right now, if Christian Xavier has a really rough night tonight,
though I'll officially be concerned.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
I'm concerned already, but actually have a good feeling about tonight.
We'll see if it plays out that way. And everything
you're saying about Lance is what the team is telling us.
They're feeling too. M h, Well, we don't want six starters, okay,
well who should we take out of the rotation?

Speaker 5 (49:52):
It was not it.

Speaker 6 (49:53):
I don't think it was a difficult decision. It stinks
because of who you're talking about. If you were only
deciding on performance, that's the player you should choose. Now
they did choose that player, but they do have to
consider he's still not a guy. There's a reason why,
even with some of his pitch arsenal, that putting him
in the bullpen was not something they really wanted to entertain.
I mean, Dana Brown, Joespata, and Lance himself. They all

(50:15):
said the same thing during the months leading up to
this season, where it appeared he'd be on a path
to pitching major League Baseball. He's not coming out of
the bullpen. And we've said the same thing to our listeners.
He's not coming out of the bullpen. They're not gonna
make him a reliever. They are reluctantly making him available
out of the bullpen out of necessity for what this

(50:35):
team is trying to do over the final twenty eight
games of the season and hang on to first place.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
It's like an excuse to not start him.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
Well, it isn't like an excuse your b It's literal,
we don't want you to start. They don't want him
to start because they don't know what they're gonna get. Now,
if you throw him out of the bullpen, it's the
same thing. But presumably on the day you're throwing him
out of the bullpen, there's a reason why you're going
to him that day.

Speaker 5 (50:57):
You have a five run lead. It's either a five
run lead or it's the opposite. You just need somebody
to eat innings because you're being slacked. That's what bulk
relievers are there for. They're there to pitch the games where,
for one reason or another, your starter is not out
there anymore, and you don't want to use your leverage guys.
You don't want to use your better arms in a

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game that their impact on is so limited.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
I just never thought that this is where we would
be with Lance mccullors.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
As they said yesterday, it's not permanent. It could turn
out that way, but if it does, that probably means
he's been in games and pitched well and helped this team.
And he's helped this team on occasion this year, but
he's also hurt this team on too many occasions. Is
far more than just him. You know, this start from
Javier or this next start from Aragedy, you'd really be
in the same place. If Aragetty goes out there and

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gives you three innings, they score six times. Or if
Javier goes out there tonight and you only get through
three innings and he's given up four or five runs,
or he's just his pitch count is out of control,
then you'd look at their appearances no different than Lance's.
They'd be in the very same boat.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
All right. We may or may not be joined by
Jay Pharaoh next.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
He's scheduled to be here, but if he isn't, then
we'll bump him back another segment.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
But either way, we're going to be here.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
As we continue here on a Friday edition of the program,
still have some college football to get to as well.
Our Stone Cold Locks are still to come, and wex
mentioned we will be speaking with Chandler Rome of the
Athletic our weekly visit with him. A whole lot to
get into as we get into a very busy weekend
here in Houston on the A Team.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 13 (52:35):
It is the A Team Sports SoC seven ninety, Space
City Home Network, scheduled to be joined by Jay Pharaoh
any minute now. But in the meantime, I saw something
earlier today that as it pertains to the Texans, it
caught my attention simply because of their situation where this
player is in his career, and of course who he

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played with. Why can't Jabrell Peppers be signed by the
Texans to play safety, especially if things go south for
Jimmy Ward.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
Jimmy Ward's a nothing for the Texans in my opinion.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
But he's still technically on the roster.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
And if you've got a defense that is as good
as it looks like theirs is going to be, it
wouldn't kill you to add a twenty nine year old
safety with veteran experience who also played for the Patriots,
who Nick Cassario loves.

Speaker 6 (53:22):
Oh that's true. He played for the Patriots after Nick
Casario was there. I noted today he was actually on
the practice field for an entire season with Nick Cayley.
Nick Kayley was the tight end coach for the first
season of the Jabriel Preppers three years with the Patriots,
a little bit of a surprise to let him go.
I'm sure the money would be probably an issue for
the Texans, in addition to the fact that where are

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you gonna put him after Week two or three, because
he's going to be on the bench because CD is
going to be playing.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
CJ.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
Gardner Johnson is on the active roster because he's going
to be playing. Whether it's week one or not, I
don't know. Week two seems very likely is a given
unless there's a recurrence of the injury. So you're right
back to the players you had when the offseason began
that you were super happy with. So I don't think
it's a perfectly good match because they got really good
news with CJ. Gardner Johnson. I don't know if you

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were like me. The Texans had their signature off season
event for season ticket holders. They're kind of a meet
the team for the season ticket holders, big event last night.
Everybody gets dressed up, red carpet fit check and got
their player on the microphone, and the media is there
that isn't doing a radio show at the time, And

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I watched Aaron Wilson's video of CJ. Gardner Johnson sliding
from left to right like thirty five times. Does it
look like he's moving smoothly? Does it look like his
knee is in good shape? How's he walking? How's he looking?
And I've also seen him at practice on the side fields.
I've seen him multiple occasions. He just happens to be
there or he was working on the side. And with

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what Nick Cassario said the other day, there's ten days
till the season starts. We don't know what it's gonna
look like then, and he was referring specifically to him.
If he's active for the first week, that means he's starting.
That means they expect him to play the bulk of
the snaps, and that means you have the exact same
secondary you had planned on. I don't think Peppers will
end up here. I think it was a really interesting

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decision for the Patriots to make. Thought he was still
playing well, I don't really see any good reason for
them not to want him there. So yeah, I was
a little surprised to see him available. I think he'll
have a home he and his agent will find somewhere
fairly quickly.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
And just since we're on the subject, completely different sport,
same situation. It's kind of the Red Sox have told
Walker Buehler to get lost?

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Do you know why?

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Because he sucks?

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Okay, now, what would you like to talk about?

Speaker 4 (55:45):
What if you just needed, like, you know, fifteen pitches
out of him, would you even sniff around at him?

Speaker 5 (55:51):
Just given the injuries you've dealt with.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
I definitely would not stiff around with him. But I
think what you're saying is something I'm a little surprised
they would not have done. And the fact that they
didn't do it, I think it's probably something like with Lance,
they're a little bit concerned about doing. This is an
older pitcher, He's had some very significant injury issues. His
postseason last year kind of clouded everybody because he dominated

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at the late stages of their postseason run, and obviously
it paid off to the point that the Dodgers won
the title. He didn't pitch at all in twenty twenty three.
Each of the two seasons surrounding twenty three had injuries
as a part of it, and now the healthy thirty
year old Walker Buehler can't get guys out and hurdy
definitely doesn't throw strikes fifty five walks in one hundred

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and twelve innings, so walk every other inning. You think
this team wants that out of their starter.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
No, but there have been more than one occasion where
the Astros have brought in a guy who didn't look
like he had it anymore.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
And then, especially this young they've.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Brought two guys that you would never have expected to
make any contributions to this year's team, and they both worked,
and they're both not like Walker Buehler Jason Alexander, who
threw yesterday as one of them, he'd been cast aside
by multiple team TAM's never really given a full opportunity,
but did not pitch well on the brief opportunities that
he was given, both this year and in previous years.
And Brandon Walter, who ironically enough, was let go by

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the Red Sox late last year and in season, Dana
Brown picked him up knowing he was still hurt, in
hopes that when he's fully healthy at the beginning of
this year, maybe there's a path for him to, you know,
strengthen our minor league depth and if needed, he can
come up. And he did exactly that and He's been great,
but a veteran pitcher who can't get guys out anymore
and doesn't throw enough strikes and is constantly in those
twenty five twenty eight thirty pitch innings as Walker Bueller

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season in a nutshell. They don't need that, they have that.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
I guess.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
I'm just thinking, especially given his age, like describe or
compare and contrast this situation with like Kukuchi last year
when they traded for him, Like he wasn't having a
great season in Toronto.

Speaker 6 (57:54):
But nothing like what you're talking what he wasn't on
the in the on the verge. Just being told, man,
we can't have you there anymore.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
I guess I'm just shocked that at the age of thirty,
a team is telling him this, not because of I mean,
the performance is a performance.

Speaker 6 (58:07):
They're telling him this because they're in the race right
they can't afford it and they need somebody else who
can pitch better. Doesn't mean they wouldn't necessarily want him
pitching for them next year or some other year, but
they can't have him on the mound right now. The
games are too important. That's what the Astros have done.
Step one with Lance and I don't think they're dfaing him.

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They're obviously into him for a lot more than the
deal Whan Walker Bueller got paid a ton of money
one year deal, though Lance mccullors still has multiple years left.
I don't think they're headed down the same path they
were with already two players you're just getting out from
under this year with Montero and a brave. Yes, at
Bueller's age, he shouldn't be finished, but he's posted back

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to back seasons regular seasons that are extremely displeasing. The
Astros acquired a Toronto starter last year with a four
to seventy five ERA who had one hundred and thirty
strikeouts in one hundred and fifteen innings. That means his
stuff is good. He's got hit, swing and miss stuff.
He's got with ability, and they just didn't feel like

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Toronto or Seattle before them was using his arsenal properly.
And they were right, and the Angels, you could probably argue,
are also right. Long term deal three sixty eight RA
for him. This season, he's definitely been their most trustworthy starter.
He's started every game, and that's the other thing. A
huge difference between adding Kokuchi or even in the offseason,
signing him like the Angels did this year, versus signing

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Bueller like the Red Sox did this year. Kokuchi is
a model of durability. He makes thirty starts a year,
no injury, leading the majors and starts this year.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
I think if for no other reason, then they've already
had quite their fair share of injuries to pitchers, that
might be the number one reason the Astros would say
nah or not.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
I mean it's not but.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
Like if they need more pitching, they're turning to their
in house options. The other they still have JP France
as an in house option. He's just not on the
forty man right now. He had one really good start
after they took him off and sent him down, and
then our appearance, he came in as a bulk reliever,
kind of a piggyback style. Both of his appearances, one
was very good and one was not quite as good.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Yeah, what's gonna happen with him?

Speaker 6 (01:00:18):
I don't know that. I mean, he might never pitch
for the Assam. He come to camp next year and
try to play his pitch his way onto the roster
and fail.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
It's almost like if he does come back, he would
be like a Brandon Walter or somebody.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
He'd be treated that way.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
He'd be treated like Sean Dubin and Forrest Whitley. He's
on the forty man. We need him, we've activated him,
and now we need a spot and we're dfa ing him.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Dubin was just.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
It was awesome for the majority of the year and
then had three bad days, really really bad days.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
When was he awesome?

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
When he had a one forty five era when he
got hurt, that's when he was awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
He was fantastic this year.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
Yeah, this year.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
I just feel like leading up to this year, he
was leading up to this year especial market.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
Yeah, you're sure he couldn't throw strikes and coming out
of the bullpen, that's awful. That's I don't trust you.
That's I have to go to you. But I don't
feel very good about it. And this year he kind
of harnessed that a little bit. His stuff is fine,
and I think Baltimore was smart to pick him up.
There was no way he was going to clear waivers,
and Baltimore is one of the teams on the front
side of waivers that put the claim in one of
the ten worst records in the league and they claimed him.

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That was smart, That's not unsurprising. But the Astros, it's
just the part of their season. They they've needed to
make so many moves and manipulating their roster in the
forty man there's only so many things, only so many
moves they had left to make, and they had to.
I'm sure they prefer if he were still in their
own system, but he was out of options and that's
all they were left with.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
It's just wild.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
I can't only I guess the Dodgers would be the
only team that could kind of say they could compete
with the amount of injuries. The Astro like real key injuries,
especially to pitchers that the act. And they're the ones
that told Walker beat it the first time.

Speaker 6 (01:02:01):
They also moved to Dustin May in the season, to
the to the Red Sox exactly look at look at
the Red Sox winning despite having the Dodgers cast offs
the Dodger Tress Championship cast off.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Maybe they'd like the Maybe maybe they hope the Dodgers
will cast off Mookie bets they can have him back.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Probably gonna keep MOOKI.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
They'll they'll hold on to him, all right, I'm pretty
sure that when we come back here, Jay Pharaoh is
going to join us. I'm pretty sure on that. It's uh,
it's in the wind right now, as they say. But yeah,
we will talk to Jay Farroh. He's at the improv
all weekend long. We will also get to some college
football conversation, uh, two different times in the four o'clock hour.

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Coming up next here on a Friday edition of the
A Team. It's Sports Talk seven ninety. It's Space City
Home Network. Keep it right here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 13 (01:03:09):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk at seven nineties Space
City Home Network, making our way on a Friday afternoon
into the college football season.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
The more I think about it, the more I wish
this was a night game tomorrow night. But for the
first time since the betting lines were placed, Texas is
a favorite.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Yeah, Texas was just watching. I think it was yesterday morning.
Texas was a point and a half underdog or something
like that. Maybe it wasn't this morning, maybe it was
a little further back than that. And one of those
entities that likes FPI and QBR and a bunch of
other nonsense. So they're one and a half point underdogs,
but in the very next line, you're saying there's a

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fifty three percent chance they're gonna win. Doesn't make sense.
I'm pretty that's not accurate. You can't have both. Does
it work like that?

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Buck Guy's opening is three point favorites months ago, But
sports books have been reporting a steady stream of money
on the Longhorns throughout the summer, which caused the line
to move towards Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
That's why they set the line where it was. And
this was always going to happen, whether they're right or wrong.
And I believe there was a big, maybe five hundred
and fifty thousand dollars bet that came in on Texas
in that very short time period over the last couple
of days that might have also inched it that way.
Nothing has really truly changed. There's some new news I think.
We also think I believe that the line was set

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based on hu Ohio State was going to name as
their quarterback, which is exactly who they did. There wasn't
any this player's back or that player is now not available.
Both teams have had a couple of different things they've
had to deal with, what exactly will see j Baxter
look like. And what's Goulesby's health situation. We've talked about
that with a couple of our guests already this week,
But none of those things. What changes the line is money,

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and that's exactly what we're saying. I would, regardless as
very regard this very much as a game that you know,
it's a coin flipper to a certain extent. I happen
to think Texas is a better football team and too
many different places, including quarterback, that I think they're going
to go in and win. I think at a different
point in the season, even when and if Arch maybe
even even better quarterback. But I think their quarterback has

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a lot more to go from where he is now
to where he will be when he's quarterbacking them in
the playoffs, which he will be, So maybe it would
be a little bit different then. And you're right from
a intimidation standpoint, fun lathered up type of idea. Sure,
it'd be great to have it at night. I'm okay
with it not being at night, just in light of
the fact we already have a night game, Like, I

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don't need two of them up against each other. I
want to see LSU and Clemson. I want to see
if Clemson and Club Nick can kind of even though
they're in the top five as the preseason begins, I
think they're highly regarded. I just don't think there's too
many people that think if he's the best quarterback in
the country and they have a reasonably good team around him,
and they do on both counts, why can't they win
the national title? Why can't they land a home game

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to open up the postseason, which or a top four
seed to open up the postseason, which they will, And
if this win is there, it will kind of be
approve it kind of win early in the season. LSU's
needing to play their way into it a little bit more,
even though they it's interesting that these are the two
first first two games the season that mattered the most.
They have a game with two extremely experienced quarterbacks Nosmeyer

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and club Nick, and the Longhorns Bucca game is the
exact opposite two very inexperienced quarterbacks, all four of them
very likely to be quarterbacking playoff games this year.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
The owner of Circa said that a bet was made
on Texas of five hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Talking about that was the number I gave you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
That's insane that now it's pick him now, I guess,
or at least it wasn't.

Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
Remazed by someone who doesn't need the money.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Clearly I need that money, though I could use five
hundred and fifty grand.

Speaker 6 (01:07:07):
Well, you then just keep it because now it's up
for grabs. He might make it into something different, but
he might also just have to give it to him.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
Buck guys have not been a home underdog since twenty
eighteen against Michigan and have been favored by less than
three points at Ohio Stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Ohio Stadium, Nobody calls it that only once since twenty twelve.
They're good, it's normal. That's most teams at that level.
You know, if Bama's going to in LLSU and they're
clearly the national champion, or Georgia's going into to Bama,
maybe you'd see one of those games where that particular
home team once over the last couple of years, wasn't

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a favorite. I mean, these teams are favorites at home
almost every single time because they've been in this spot
for such a long period of time. People are down
on LSU a little bit for them not playing for
the biggest prize.

Speaker 6 (01:07:53):
And clearly in this opening week people are down on
LSU a lot more than that because they keep scheduling
good team teams and they keep losing to those good
teams five straight years now, all of the years with
coach Kelly very reputable opponents. These are the kind of
things that maybe make you better later in the season
and give you a very clear early idea of what
it takes to be great. Now with the playoffs like

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they were last year and are this year, the loss
doesn't hurt you. I don't think it hurts you one bit,
even if you're LSU, even if their ranking coming out
of this opening week is fourteen, just go out and
win the games. They have more than enough season left
and certainly a schedule in their conference to just go
ahead and take care of business. All four of these
teams are in the same boat even in the ACC

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like it's not quite as strong, but Miami for some reason,
is still regarded as a top ten team. Clemson is
definitely a top ten team. There may be a third team. Obviously,
SMU was in the playoffs last year. I don't think
they will be this year, but somebody else could be
there and they're not awful. I just think they need
a little bit more from than what they got at
the end of the season at the quarterback position, same player,

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but could get more not an obvious champion or two.
Clemson's fan base should be just excided about their season,
as Texas's fan base, as Alabama's fans. They were talking
about Penn State's fan base. If Penn State's fan base
thinks they're the best team in the country, I wouldn't
say you're wrong. I don't think they are, but I'm

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not going to tell them they're wrong because they could
absolutely win the national title this year.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
But with them, do you at least kind of look
at them as more of a dark horse?

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
No, because there they come out of the gate with
one of the club Nick Nussmyer caliber quarterbacks. Drew Alers played,
played in the playoffs, played a lot of football, is
a perfectly capable college quarterback. What's going against them is
they have more of a Brian Kelly type of coach man.
They won a ton of games that are James Franklin
well except the big ones, and last year's postseason maybe

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put a little bit of that to bed, because their
postseason run was outstanding.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
What do you think LSU fans think of Brian Kelly
right now?

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
I think they think this is the year right.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
That sounds like Cowboys fans.

Speaker 6 (01:10:01):
He's our guy, isn't he?

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
They say, Al Davis just win.

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
But but the point is they're not winning at that
level and this game shouldn't be the difference maker. I
think they've as fans will. I think they've grown a
little tired of him that not the football coach, but him,
the slammiest fist on a table, him the stuff that
happened right when he got there, and him the hey man,
if you need me for your tiktoks and social media

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to get recruits here, I'm your guy. Just a lot
of that stuff, I don't. I kind of applaud him
for trying to adapt to the time and age we're in,
and it doesn't seem like the fans have. But it
doesn't matter, as Cole said, if they go out and
win football games, and they will. I really think they
will this year.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:10:43):
I think they're being regarded less than in some years,
even with their quarterback experience, and I think they really
have the type of team that can go out there
and win. If I just told you it was wide open.
I still think that in the SEC too. Is Georgia
an overwhelming team?

Speaker 9 (01:10:57):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
Is Alabama an overwhelming team?

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:10:59):
They might be better than LSU. But I knew that
the previous couple of seasons. I don't know that this year.

Speaker 5 (01:11:05):
All right, we are going to take a quick time out.
We come back.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
We are scheduled to be joined by Jay Farroh to
wind down the three o'clock hour, and again plenty more
college football conversation coming up in the four o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
Friday edition of The eighteen continues leading into Astros Baseball.
The on Deck Show begins at six first pitch just
after seven with the beginning of their four game series
into Monday with the Angels.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
Angels in last.

Speaker 6 (01:11:41):
Place in this division after the A's percentage points past them.
The A's this weekend are hosting the Rangers. Rangers have
gotten over five hundred and have still kept themselves close
enough in the division. Those six games back with twenty
eight to play as a pretty hefty task. Little bit
closer in the wildcard race four games back, but a

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couple of teams they would need to jump over Rangers
and A's. They go off tonight a little after nine o'clock.
The Mariners, who are two games back of the Astros,
will send George Kirby to the mound against the Guardians.
Guardians have fallen behind the Rangers by a half game
in that wild card race, both of them behind Kansas City,
and both of them would have to pass each team
ahead of them I just mentioned and somebody else in

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order to make it into the wildcard round. Because Boston,
New York and the second place team in the American
West currently the Mariners, they hold those three wild card spots.
George Kirby against Allen of the Guardians. They'll go off
as the Astros are getting ready to play. That's the
six to ten first pitch Yankees, who are in the
seconds wild card spot. Presumably we'll be able to keep

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hitting homers at an absolutely ridiculous pace. They easily out
homered the White Sox to victory last night and have
them again. We're done looking for a fifteenth win this season.
As he goes up against the Socks, the Yankees are
trying to catch the Red Sox in the race for
that first wild card spot. Red Sox are one half

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game better than the Yankees, and again the Red Sox
seventy five and sixty record is also one half game
better than Houston. As these teams in some form or fashion,
if the Astros are not a division winner, these are
the teams they'll be battling with, record wise for the four,
five and six spot should they still learn it and
probably noteworthy that the Red Sox tonight will be throwing

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out major league debut for one of their prize prospects.
The best pitcher in baseball will be on the other
team on the mound. That's Paul Skeens, and as well
as fromber Hunter, Crochet, Evaldi, obviously, Tark School, Zach Wheeler,
and countless others have pitched this year. It really isn't
even close. He's gonna win the National League Young Award unanimously,

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I hope. And if it was a league wide award,
I think the same thing would still be true. And
it's been a good year for a lot of pitchers.
Paul Skeen's year has just been as has been the
case during his entire career, brief as it is unbelievable, unhittable,
and best in baseball, and he's dating Livy Dunn, which
is probably, you know, a really good story, maybe for

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another day, but always a fun story. Nonetheless, that's what's
on tap tonight. And obviously the Astros over at Tiken Park,
Christian Xavier on the mount Ty Anderson opposing him, gave
you the lineup earlier and as expected, off days for
their regulars do not exist currently, Panya Alvarez, Altuve, Correa, Walker, Sanchez, Diaz,
cam Smith, maybe Will Homer for two consecutive series, and

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Muricio Dubon manning centerfield for your Astros. That's the landscape
for Major League Baseball tonight. As our guest has arrived.

Speaker 5 (01:14:47):
What's up, Jay Fayre, hey man, what's going on?

Speaker 14 (01:14:50):
Just sounded like you were speaking Cantonese and me talking
about talking about baseball, man, Donald, I've been to a
couple of baseball down, so footballs up, baby balls up,
you know, but nah shout out to base I went
to the I went to the Rockies.

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
Game when I was in when I was in got digging.

Speaker 14 (01:15:10):
Where they're from again in Colorado, color Denver, when I
was in Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
Thank you so much, you know, hey man.

Speaker 6 (01:15:15):
You know, life on the road.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Where are you you're in right now? What where the
it was San anton playing? I know I'm in Houston.

Speaker 6 (01:15:25):
You're on stage and say that stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
Ways, I always know I'm in the back wall.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
It says where you are.

Speaker 14 (01:15:33):
No, no, not not for Texas, not for Texas. I
know my Texas spots. It's just everything is, everything blends.
I'm doing two million things. That's why, man, you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
Know you are. That's the thing. Let's talk about TV.
Let's talk about it because you've been.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
Doing a lot of like not not outside the box,
but kind of stuff for you.

Speaker 14 (01:15:51):
Yeah, I mean the hosting gig is definitely something that's
different and fun. And you know, I didn't expect to
have a catchphrase that said release the balls.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
That never would have pinned that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
From my uh So, it's a kids fun park.

Speaker 14 (01:16:05):
It's definitely definitely for kids, kids of all kids of
all age. Matter of fact that the cutoff is fourteen.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
I got it's fourteen.

Speaker 14 (01:16:14):
If it's too if it's Leonardo to Leonardo DiCaprio likes
coming because you know, you know, it's his playground.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
You know I'm playing.

Speaker 14 (01:16:20):
It's it's a family show man quiz withoot balls. It's
like wipe out cross with family feud Man and you
know you can learn, you learn at the same time,
and then you're gonna have to be quick, you know.
But it released the balls, it's my catchphrase. Has somebody
to come up to me. I was sitting at a
restaurant New Orleans. I knew that place. I was sitting
in New Orleans and the lady came up and she
was just like, release the balls. I was like, Wow,

(01:16:42):
your husband is right there. You sure you should say
that right now? Release the balls. I mean, I don't mind,
but you know, if not not here, yeah, maybe outside
of the establishment.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
I'm trying to come back to have fine cuisine.

Speaker 6 (01:16:54):
I mean, you got to acknowledge that this program and
this catchphrase that they've gone all in. Dave get to
the ball break Around and who knows what's going too?

Speaker 14 (01:17:04):
And you watched the show. I like that you actually
watched the show. Wait did you do? You really watch
the show?

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
You really know what?

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
I watched the show. So I'm gonna go.

Speaker 14 (01:17:13):
With that because you said ball break Around like part
of the show. That's part of the show. So I'm like,
you gotta you have the least have seen a clip
or something.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
It's a good show, right, Okay, I should be watching right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:23):
Well, you tell me, is it a good show you watch?
Entertain Did you consult with because you mentioned family feud?
Did you consult with Steve Harvey before you took on
the role of the game show host?

Speaker 10 (01:17:34):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
No, no. But I talked to him years ago and
he told me.

Speaker 15 (01:17:38):
He said, look, boy, there's a lot of there's a
whole lot of money in this in this hosting space,
and you gotta get to it, boy, because you real
good at you natural at that. I want you to
go to Africa. I got this show in Africa. I'm
bringing back. I'm not gonna tell you what he's bringing back,
but I'm bringing back this show in Africa, and I
want you to host that. And you know there's billions

(01:17:59):
of people out there. Yeah, yeah, he does, he does.
He talks like he gives you advice.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
But sheah.

Speaker 14 (01:18:05):
I talked to him way before and he told me
I need to get into it. But after I got
the show, I hit him up two months ago and
he was like, Yo, I see everything you're doing. He
was like, man, and he was like, yo, keep going
I'm proud of you, but that was it. You know,
I don't bother people.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
He's definitely one of the people in the business, in
this particular business that like you. Now, yeah, you're in
everything like you really are in a lot of things.
Like for your head to be spinning sounds totally normal
for all that you're into right now.

Speaker 14 (01:18:31):
Yeah, man, seven different seven different U seven different animated shows.

Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
I think I'm on too. I get it. The only
person that's in the Morris Kevin Hart. Yeah, well you know, well,
you know he went to the ditty party. I didn't.
That's why he's in everything.

Speaker 6 (01:18:47):
Say listen, listen, we don't need to talk about that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
Tell you why there was a mistake.

Speaker 15 (01:18:51):
I didn't mean to go, but when I found out
what was going on, I had a lot of questions,
but I didn't. I didn't negate the fact that I
went in the first place. Shouldn't win. But I went
by And now I'm on top. That's what a guy
that is all day.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
That is Jay Faraoh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
He is at the improv all weekend long, uh, seven
thirty tonight and night, and then you got seven o'clock
into nine thirty tomorrow and he got a seven thirty
on Sunday, and.

Speaker 14 (01:19:18):
I think that I think the seven thirty tomorrow is
sold out, so there's still a few tickets left for
the late show.

Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
I believe. Let me look at those ticket numbers.

Speaker 6 (01:19:25):
I believe that is the case.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
You know, good improv Houston dot com if you want
tickets there, Yeah, it's it's fantastic.

Speaker 14 (01:19:33):
And they're almost y'all better get them quick. Thank you, Adam,
because you've actually you've come, you know. Yeah, yeah, I'm
coming tomorrow. Yeah, you actually need tickets for that early show.
But that ain't a problem. Though, that ain't a problem.
You know, I get I get a I get a
few cops out. Yeah, I can get you in.

Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
I'm bringing the missus. I always tease that that I'm
bringing her, and then she doesn't end up showing up
for a variety of reason. We got a seven year
old now, ah, we got to sit her, yeah, which
is actually I saw that on your Instagram. You know
you got to get a sitter for the show. Yeah,
so we'll talk about that next segment. We can keep
you for a few more minutes, right, I.

Speaker 14 (01:20:07):
Have kids as well now too, they're just still inside.
I haven't shot them out.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
And that is Jay Bayrow here on the A Team
Sports TX seven Space City.

Speaker 7 (01:20:19):
Network on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam talking your Team.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wetfler are the A Team.

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
All right, straight up four o'clock here in Houston, Texas.
It is a Friday edition of the A Team Space
City Home Network simulcast. So this is the first time
we've had Jay Farrow in here where it's also been
on camera. And I love that because.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
Now, yeah, you're you're everywhere you can like, well, you
are a TV star, my action star too. But like
when you do these voices, you can see the mannerisms
a lot of times, which is why the camera is good.
Like if you did you know, I swear I'm not
doing this on purpose, but everybody does this.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
The Eddie Murphy eyes get me every time. Yes, yes, yes,
the Eddie Murphy eyes. Yeah, back and forth.

Speaker 12 (01:21:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:21:23):
The you know, the quickness, it's about the It's all
about the quickness, Adam.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
You gotta be real quick with the eyes, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:21:29):
Me and me and Pete Davis when we got this
movie that just came out it's called to pick up.
And there's a part in that movie at the diner
and Pete's over there and Kiki and him are talking
to each other, and then and Piece like, yeah, oh
you dip your pancakes like that?

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
And I said, I show you some pancakes. I take
the type pancakes I like, take them.

Speaker 15 (01:21:49):
I like, look, but on tap, this is what I
call f you flapacks.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
Okay, So, by the way, we need to remind everybody
the Jay Pharaoh here in town. He's here tonight seven
thirty and nine forty five, Tomorrow seven o'clock at nine thirty,
and then Sunday at seven thirty. Ticket to Improv Houston
dot com. Is there is there a voice that you're like,
either you're mad that you can't nail it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
No, you're talking about like I never heard a bad one.

Speaker 14 (01:22:21):
If I try it, and I attempt it, first of all,
if I if I impersonate you, I'm a fan, you
know what I mean, Like, I literally watch this stuff,
and then there hasn't been one where I haven't been
able to get like seventy five percent or more on
you know me, and I feel like I get graded
a little differently it's like I get the Lebron great
grade scale.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Like, Okay, if if.

Speaker 14 (01:22:44):
You got like, I don't know, if Mario Chalmers would
have dropped like sixty, you would have been like, oh
he one of the greatest. But Lebron drops sixty, You're
just like, yeah, what she supposed to do? Yeah, it's like,
because I'm so good at it, so when other people
even and I'm not thising nobody, but if somebody would
try to do the same thing, you would probably give
them more props if it didn't if it wasn't as accurate,

(01:23:06):
just because you're used to mind being so dead on
an accurate So I get, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
Heavy as the head that wears the crown. I guess
like the Denzel is just it's it's untouchable.

Speaker 14 (01:23:15):
Yeah, you notice it, you know it's but it's you know,
it's a couple of people who you know do the Denzel,
but you know they don't do the Denzel like I do.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
But they don't, they don't.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
I've got a scenario for you. Guy, just now saw
a training day in the last year. You just saw
a training day. It's good.

Speaker 14 (01:23:33):
It's a unique movie, Okay, all right, yeah it is definitely.
That was That was when it gave me the Oscar.
You know, they gave me the Oscar for that when
I got snubbed for a lot. But you liked it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:42):
Yeah, I thought it was entertaining. It was a good match.

Speaker 5 (01:23:47):
Your favorite part was your favorite part of the.

Speaker 6 (01:23:48):
Movie, every scene, every city.

Speaker 14 (01:23:50):
Denzel was in. Okay, ah, yeah, you just kissing my eyes.
He was a dirty cop. You like dirty cops.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
It's a good movie.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
It was a good movie. My favorite scenes were everyone
and the even Mendez is in.

Speaker 14 (01:24:01):
Oh, Bodi kuah, that's right, that's right, Bodi qua bodeta. Okay, Hi,
Puerto Rican is your Puerto Rican? Culban puto? Rican's awesome.
She's fine, that's right, Belissi min That's what they say, right.
Her mosa, that's what they say in Spanish, is right, yeah,
at style her the mosa. She's her mosa, you see. Okay,
all right, that's what she is. She's beautiful, right.

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:24:23):
I can't believe she got with Ryan Reynolds. I mean, Ryan,
Ryan Gosling. That's what you got with. You got with
the Gosling. Go don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
He's got someone that's never in the news. Blake lively
right right.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
Right, situation is crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
Yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and you know fired
up for the big celebrity wedding at some point in
our near future with their wedding, Travis and Taylor.

Speaker 14 (01:24:46):
Oh Jesus lord with with hey, hey, all right, listen
with trap Waite. Who's who's getting They already got married?

Speaker 5 (01:24:55):
We talking about they got married already, were talking about
maybe maybe they did.

Speaker 14 (01:24:58):
They got married already. Talk about Travis Port, that's what
you're talking about. Sure now you're not talking about Travisport.
Are you talking about Travis Kelcey and Travis Kelsey and
Taylor Swift? Okay, yeah, okay, well shoot all right, yeah,
all right, I'll stay away.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
From that one.

Speaker 6 (01:25:11):
See see how easy it is, right, stay away from it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
It doesn't like the fact that I get so worked
up about the fact that they're constantly trying to shove
them down our throats while we're watching You like your football?

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
Do you think like it's it's overrun with your football?
You want to see your football? You don't want you
don't want to see this nonsense. You just want to
see the game.

Speaker 14 (01:25:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, honestly me talking, I feel like I
feel like her coming into it wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
I mean, she didn't watch before she had ice pice
at the Super Bowl.

Speaker 10 (01:25:37):
They don't watch.

Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
Football very clearly, that's a good point.

Speaker 14 (01:25:40):
She twerks. You know, Taylor, Taylor can't twerk. She didn't
have a twerker. She's a broom. Yeah, well I'm not
going to say that. I will.

Speaker 5 (01:25:48):
You can't like Taylor Swift. Look you can't. I'm not Taylor.

Speaker 14 (01:25:53):
I'll be the bad guy. Hey, Taylor, I didn't say anything.
I look, I put the Trump hands up, I put
the Trump mans up.

Speaker 6 (01:25:59):
I don't I'm fun to use in your arsenal of impressions?

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Is he not? Lord have mercy? Sounds like you just okay, okay,
what's the next?

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
It's cold a string, he's coming to it and we
are asking him to just be our little wind up doll.

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
Right. Oh man, that's crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
Isn't that awful?

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
That's so awful. It's disrespectful, it's awful. And here we
are really using you for your talents.

Speaker 14 (01:26:21):
Hey man, that's he sounds like day Surety does the
same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
It's all good.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Zinga was anything that happened Tower? And now between him
and Joe does it. Did it even surprise you at
one point, like were just like, this is just the
day of the week. No, it like that debate that
had to be insane for you.

Speaker 14 (01:26:41):
I mean the debate I mean with him and him
and Kamala him and Kamala Harris, Kamala Harrish.

Speaker 5 (01:26:51):
It was that.

Speaker 14 (01:26:52):
It was they just totally caught me off. God, I
don't know what was happening. This black woman who's not
even black, cheese Jamaican.

Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
That's it. That's the extreme invail.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
I'm talking about the first debate though, the one where
like Joe is like a vegetable on stage.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
Oh, because you can do Joe. Absolutely.

Speaker 14 (01:27:14):
It was Damn I'm getting confused now you see it
because I'm talk like wait wait, Joe Biden, Yeah, come
on man.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
It was just ridiculous.

Speaker 14 (01:27:22):
It was it was me versus It's tyrant, it's tire
of a man who everybody loves, and I just don't
get it. You ain't get a lot, doesn't make any sense.
You know, that's your problem, Joe, because you're absolutely so sleepy.

(01:27:42):
Now that you're not in the running anymore, you're not
in the White House, you can finally get.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
The rest you deserve. That's what he's doing.

Speaker 14 (01:27:49):
Now he can finally get the rest he deserves, the big,
big rest. Hopefully his rest is bigly, his biglely rest.

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
All that time that you were in New York, did
you ever run across him?

Speaker 14 (01:28:02):
Yeah, I mean I'm mad he Matt he was Trump
was Trump was nice to me. But he knows how
to work himself in social spaces, you know what I'm saying, Like,
he knows how to talk.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
So he wasn't a butthole. He just was.

Speaker 14 (01:28:16):
You could tell that he was oozing narcissism. I mean,
but you know, when you're a billionaire. I mean I
get it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
I get it. I get the narcissism.

Speaker 14 (01:28:25):
However, what I don't understand is in the middle of
table read, you're pulling your phone out. I mean, like,
this is a great moment for everyone in this room.
My book just hit number one. It's a fantastic moment
for everybody at SNL.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
I was like, what are we what are we doing here?

Speaker 14 (01:28:43):
In the middle of the table read, he stops reading
the sketch, his phone rings, he hears he has number one,
and then it just goes what is that?

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
When he did the chicken, the chicken commercial, the chicken
commercial on SNL. You know what I'm talking about, where
he's like singing the song. I can't remember exactly what
it was called.

Speaker 14 (01:28:59):
I know he did. I know we did hotline bling
with him. No, this was like he was on the
cell phone. Yeah, I don't know. I wrote that put
him out. It was Will Stephan. Will Stephan wrote that.

Speaker 9 (01:29:16):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
Brilliant writer though, because he just you know, he's a
Drake fan.

Speaker 12 (01:29:19):
Though.

Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
We just Trump wanted to be added to that sketch,
so he requested to be added. So we interesting, we
figured acquies Yes, we acquiesced.

Speaker 6 (01:29:29):
He strikes me and I'm sure everybody else. And he's
different than your typical Okay, he's present. We need an impression,
certainly on SNL that's a key. But any other comedian
maybe they have one, maybe they don't. And there you've
got plenty of them up to him. But the material
he's delivered in his two terms and all of the
years in between, it is legendary.

Speaker 14 (01:29:50):
Eating your cats, they're eating the dogs, the pets.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
They're turning the pets into hush puppies. That's exactly what's happening.

Speaker 14 (01:29:58):
The pets learning into appetizers like you.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Did, Obama. You're so good at Obama. Man, those two
were going at it this last summer.

Speaker 14 (01:30:09):
Yeah, they were, and you know it was it was
it looked like it was it was Cisco versus because
you know Obama's got the Cisco head. Now it was
it was Cisco versus. Uh a McDonald's every day or
that's what it is. He was serving fries, yeah, what
what Trump was? Yeah, and the drive through and all that,
I'm sure And how many did he eat?

Speaker 9 (01:30:30):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Probably way too many.

Speaker 14 (01:30:32):
Millions millions of fries, eight millions and billions of fries.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
And Obama's probably never had a fry in his life.
Oh well, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 16 (01:30:47):
I mean maybe on my off day, but I mean regularly,
it's not good for my diet. So, I mean, Michelle
advocates heavily against uh eusey.

Speaker 14 (01:30:57):
What that was a crazy one to do because it
was so many politics involved with even getting that impression,
you know what I'm saying, So you know, to actually
get it because Fred Armisen did it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:09):
At first. Fred is great, you know what.

Speaker 14 (01:31:11):
I'm saying, But you know, they hired me and not
two years and then that's when I came back.

Speaker 5 (01:31:16):
I know, thirty seconds, so we got ten. Now gotta
go to break. We're good.

Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
Hey, you're at the Improv all week long. Two shows tonight,
two shows Saturday, and then one on Sunday. Improv Houston
dot Com. First of all, thanks for coming in.

Speaker 6 (01:31:30):
Yeah, and the show's almost sewed out.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
Every single in the studio now, every.

Speaker 6 (01:31:34):
Single one of the shows is almost sewed out. The
ones tomorrow sewed out. I wonder what what kind of
role he'll play.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
Well, I'll be a porter.

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
I'll be a porter for be a porter for Bulling Alley.
But you'll have a five o'clock shadow too, five o'clock shadow.
Ladies are gonna like him.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Ladies will love it.

Speaker 15 (01:31:51):
So I'm sitting there with my plumber and plumbing up
and plumbing up the bum juice.

Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
And that's pretty much there's no else to go from there. Jay,
We appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
Thank you for having me man all weekend long over
at the end problem not far from where we're sitting
right now.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
We will come back with plenty more here on the
A Team.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
To the A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:32:23):
To our current guests, Tough Act to follow at Jay
Farrow and Studio last segment and change and we'll shift
from basically having fifteen guests at one time with all
the voices and impressions to talking college football. And we
certainly appreciate bumping into this spot. Sheehan Ji Raja of

(01:32:43):
CBS Sports College Football, a national writer and in Texas
in Waco for one of the many key games in
and around the state, this big opening, real opening weekend
of college football Baylor in Auburn tonight. We certainly appreciate
your time and schedule juggling the weekend definitely, I think
has an opportunity to be something special Sunday night, certainly

(01:33:05):
Saturday morning and night. And I actually was most interested
in the game. You're actually covering the Baylor Auburn game
because both of those teams, probably more Baylor than Auburn,
thinks that this season is important for in Baylor's case,
maybe we can win the Big twelve and in Auburn's case,
maybe it's time for us to make a change. How
do you see tonight's game that you happen to be covering.

Speaker 17 (01:33:27):
Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right. And by the way,
I'm sorry that you guys have to downgrade from Jay
Fair to me.

Speaker 5 (01:33:32):
I'm a huge stand but your voices if you want.

Speaker 17 (01:33:37):
You know, I just got the one. But you know
this is this is I think it'd be a huge
game for both these programs.

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
You mentioned.

Speaker 17 (01:33:42):
On the Baylor side of things, they finished last year
on a six game winning streak in Big Twelve play
and they feel like heading into twenty twenty five, they've
got one of the most talented rosters in the conference,
Sawyer Robertson at quarterback. It's somebody who I think will
very much contend for first team All Big Twelve. Bryceon
Washington is clear to me the best running back coming
back in the conference, and they have four offensive linemen

(01:34:04):
coming back, So this is this is potentially a launching
pad for their season. But on the other side, I mean,
you want to talk about pressure, Auburn I think has
a lot on the line as they go on the
road to play their first game in a Big twelve stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:34:18):
You know, when you look at Auburn.

Speaker 17 (01:34:19):
They have four straight losing seasons for the first time
since nineteen fifty and this is kind of the moment
when things are expected to change. Hu Freeze has put
together a bunch of good recruiting classes in a row.
This is kind of the culmination season for this program.
So they need to come out looking good in this
first game because it doesn't get any easier from here.

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
We're so locked in on those key games this weekend
Texas and Ohio State and LSU, Clemson, Notre Dame Miami.
I feel like there, since the season hasn't really truly
started yet, we're not focusing on the big picture, the
guesswork of this upcoming season. We spent a segment earlier
today calling this college football season extremely wide open and

(01:35:02):
maybe eight to ten fan bases could go into the
season thinking, if things go right, our quarterback, our coach,
our talent, we're gonna win the national title. We're definitely
going to the playoffs. We think this is our year.
Do you think it runs that deep, maybe to eight
to ten different teams?

Speaker 17 (01:35:16):
Well, I think that If you look at the Vegas
odds right now, there are I believe nine teams that
have fifteen to one or better odds.

Speaker 5 (01:35:23):
Miami's kind of.

Speaker 17 (01:35:23):
That swing team. We'll kind of see if they can
force their way into the conversation at number ten. But
one hundred percent, and I'll tell you what, this was
probably the hardest year that I can remember to pick
a preseason number one. Texas I think is a very
deserving pick, and I ultimately went that direction. But they
have plenty of holes at receiver, replacing two tackles, a
new quarterback, even though he's one that we're.

Speaker 5 (01:35:44):
Very excited about.

Speaker 17 (01:35:46):
You know, you even look at Penn State, right probably
the most complete roster in the country, but also have
come up short so many times against top five opponents.
You go down and down the list, Georgia Ohio State
with all they have to replace, Notre Dame. With the
quarterback questions, there is not a true complete team heading
into the year, and I think that makes that a

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really exciting opening to the season.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
With the Texas Ohio State matchup. It's the one that
so many people in this area of the country especially,
are talking about, what do you look for with a
quarterback matchup like this, because it's not quite like to
quote unquote rookies going at it like Arch had starts
in moments last year, but so much pressure on him
and then just trying to duplicate the success of not

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even a year ago at Ohio State. Do you see
some butterflies playing effect into this thing? Is that why
the numbers a little bit lower? Like, what do you
think we're gonna get tomorrow around noon?

Speaker 17 (01:36:42):
Well, I think that people give a lot of credit
to Ohio State and it's dessert, right. This is the
team that just won the national championship. They have the
best player in the country in Jeremiah Smith, and they
might have the second best player in the country in
Caleb Downs. But you know, I think you're right. I
think that Texas ironically is a little undervalued coming into
this game, even though they do replace a lot on
the offensive line and at receiver. The reality is the

(01:37:05):
best unit in this game is going to be Texas defense.
You look at their front seven, Colin Simmons at ed rusher,
Anthony Hill at linebacker. These are two of the best
players in the entire country, both all Americans, and I
think that they have a lot around them as well
to potentially help give their opponents trouble. So I think
that Texas defense is actually going to own this game.

(01:37:26):
And when I do look at these two offenses, I
trust Arch just a little bit more. He's been in
this program for two years learning and growing. He has,
like you mentioned, two starts under his belt where he
looked pretty good, and I think that you also just
look at his demeanor overall. I mean, he is somebody
who has really, I think handled the spotlight well, has
not tried to make it about him. Everybody else, frankly,

(01:37:47):
has tried to make it about him. And I think
that he's going to have a great opportunity to go
in and have a great game at Ohio.

Speaker 6 (01:37:54):
States Sean Jay Raja, joining us here for CBS Sports
covering college football. Another big picture question, all things considered,
the NIL era, the transfer portal, the era of general managers,
the CEO of the program, the everything the money involved.
Who do you think the two best college football head

(01:38:15):
coaches slash program runners are right now?

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:38:20):
I think I think Kirby Smart has to be number one.
It's not just what he's done winning national championships, it's
the way that he's built his program. You know, people
have kind of asked, hey, is Texas the spiritual successor
to Alabama? And No, I mean, I think it's clearly
right now, at least that program at Georgia. They have
some questions about whether they can kind of get back
to the level that they were at with their all

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time defense in twenty twenty one. But this is a
program that every single year is going to be top five,
going to be in that conversation, going to be in
the College Football Playoff, going to at least be in
the tiebreaker for the SEC title game, essentially every single year.
So I think that he is far and away right
now number one. I think number two gets really interesting.
There's a couple of different directions that you can go.

(01:39:03):
I mean, I think that after he's adjusted a little
bit Davos, when he very much to me re enters
that conversation, I think that, you know, you have a
coach who finally got over the top in Ryan Day.

Speaker 7 (01:39:14):
You have a coach that.

Speaker 17 (01:39:15):
Very soon we accept will get over the top in
Steve Sarkisian. But I think that for me, I do
lean Dabus Swenny. Now I think that to deliver it
this year, it is a very precipitous number two spot,
I would say. But I think that they've done a
really good job of adjusting now to the Rev Share era.
They didn't handle the NIL era very well, but I
think the Revshare era, they've jumped on, and I think

(01:39:37):
that they've realized, hey, we've got to continue to build
through the trenches. And you look at the way that
they've recruited over the past couple of years, I think
they've done a really good job.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
Interesting just looking at some of the other coaches that
clearly you said, naming a second one becomes rather difficult.
I heard Sark just kind of mentioned he acted like
he didn't know it for real, but he was talking
about Ryan Days. You know, he's won like seventy of
his eighty games. He's like seventy and ten. No, he's
exactly seventy ten, which is insane, and they've just won
the national title in yet he's always being kind of
cut down for what they didn't do in other seasons

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with the unbelievable roster. But my actual question is, in
that you're at an SEC game tonight, SEC Big twelve
Auburn and Baylor, are you in the camp that believes
it just means more?

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:40:20):
I think that yes, I think it does mean more.
And I think that when people talk about that, like
what they need to understand is that this is a
conversation about how rabid the fans are. And I think
that there's no question that SC fans are the most rapid.
Now there's in some cases, I think a greater number
of fans in the Big ten, And I don't think
people realize that. And you know, I think the interesting

(01:40:42):
dynamic heading forward is that Fervency was kind of the
thing that you define fan bases and value by in
a previous era, and how is that going to change
as we move into an era that's more defined by
just stacking as much money as possible. But I think
that when you talk doubt some of the things like
you know, poisoning trees and all this sort of thing,

(01:41:03):
like I think that you gotta be you gotta know
like it does in fact mean more out there?

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:41:09):
Real quick? Then, yeah, college football fans are nuts. But uh,
Bill Belichick, did you, like in your wildest imagination could
you have seen this scenario? And secondly, and more importantly,
especially for you know, un C fans, what do you
think he's gonna do there?

Speaker 10 (01:41:27):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:41:27):
It's interesting, right because I think that even the day
before he officially got the job, didn't really believe that
it was going to happen. You know, we started to
hear Rumley's like, no, this is real. Our our inside
Carolina side at two four seven is a tremendous job.
They broke the news and it was just like, come on, like,
there's no way, right, there's no way. I don't really

(01:41:50):
understand why he's doing it. You know, when you take
over an NFL job, Yeah, it takes a minute to
revamp the roster, but you're working with professionals. You know,
you know what you're getting yourself into. But I think
the bottom and the floor is lower than people realize
in college football when you're trying to compete and contend
and find a roster out of thousands and thousands of

(01:42:13):
kids who you have access to. So it's going to
be an interesting challenge for him coming in. I think
at this first year, I just don't see a lot
of playmaking on that roster.

Speaker 7 (01:42:22):
On either side.

Speaker 17 (01:42:22):
I'm sure they're going to find a couple guys on defense.
I've heard really good things about their secondary. They've got
a couple of corners who came in with Steve Belichick
from Washington.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
But ultimately, like.

Speaker 17 (01:42:32):
I think that this is a team that you know,
I think because of their schedule, they're gonna have a
chance to finish with a winning record, but it's going
to be a weird, a weird deal every single week.

Speaker 6 (01:42:43):
We'll definitely have some of our attention on Monday night
to close out which should be a spectacular Week one
of college football, beginning last night and running all the
way through Monday. Aushihan, we certainly appreciate you juggling the
schedule a little bit joining us here. Enjoy the game
tonight and the rest of the season. Hopefully we'll have
a chance to catch up again.

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
Thank you so much for having me. You got it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
College football has arrived, NFL almost here. We will hit
you with our Stone Cold Locks.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Next the A team on Sports Talk seven ninety Remember
that magic.

Speaker 18 (01:43:20):
Eight ball, A nice little shaken look at this I'm
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you could trust these two guys named Adam.

Speaker 7 (01:43:34):
It's a crap shoot either way.

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But these are your stone Cold.

Speaker 7 (01:43:42):
Locks, Stone Cold.

Speaker 6 (01:43:46):
Long time coming. Football season has come back to us,
and so we bring back our signature segment on Fridays
are Stone Cold Locks running tally all season long, five
picks per person on the program, AC and Cole all
season long. Should be a lot of fun as the
season gets concurrent with the NFL. We'll make one Texans pick,

(01:44:07):
one college football game of the week pick, and three
other games of your choosing either off the line, you
can use a prop you can go over under, whatever
the case may be. No Texans this week, so four
wild card selections along with the college football game of
the week. Our panel of one will choose our college
football game of the week.

Speaker 5 (01:44:23):
That's me.

Speaker 6 (01:44:23):
It's Texas and Ohio State. We'll save that pick for
the end. I'll need your other four picks please, and
we'll get the ball rolling. You'll see some graphic enhancement
to this segment moving forward. Monday, we'll have the results
for you unless someone's playing TCU North Carolina or in
the future if someone's chosen Monday Night Football will have

(01:44:44):
partial results for you when we get there. Well, we
get the ball rolling here today with our stone cold locks.
Cole hang onto your Texas Ohio State college Game of
the Week pick, but give us your other four selections.

Speaker 12 (01:44:57):
Let's go out to Boulder, Colorado tonight. I think the
law firm of Haynes and Haynes makes Dion prime time
past his prime as the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets get the
three and a half point victory over the Colorado Buffalo's
taking GT minus three and a half Notre Dame Miami
down in South Beach. What are we gonna get from

(01:45:17):
two new quarterbacks? We're gonna get from two offensive lines.
What are we gonna get from two defenses? Not a
lot of points. I am hammering the under in this game.
I think this is gonna be a back and forth slugfest. Ultimately,
Notre Dame gets the win, but you're not hitting that over.
Toledo marches in to the likes of Lexington, Kentucky, and

(01:45:37):
for the first time this season, the SEC goes down
to a G five opponent. Not only am I taking
the upset, I'm taking Toledo plus ten to secure a
win over the Wildcats.

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
Gorny's wife hates you right now and you said this
as much wex.

Speaker 12 (01:45:51):
You're gonna have to wait until Tuesday to give my
pick because walking to the Bill Belichick era in Chapea
Hill doesn't matter. Bill, You're learned that college football not the.

Speaker 5 (01:46:01):
Game for you.

Speaker 12 (01:46:02):
Doesn't tak TCU minus three and a half Josh Hoover
Sunny Dike's they do not fall short to another coach
who is gonna make a statement afterwards? Up, do you
believe I believe that Bill Belichick is in over his
head in Chapel Hill.

Speaker 5 (01:46:16):
Give me TCU minus three and a half. He messed
up the line. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (01:46:20):
Brian, Well, that's why he said what he said. I'm
just Bill delivered it. You give us your four picks
and keep this in mind, because the current number is
fifty one and a half.

Speaker 5 (01:46:31):
That's what you will also get. Yeah, with the same game.
I saw that because when I did it earlier, the
number was different.

Speaker 13 (01:46:37):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:46:37):
By the way, even though my picks aren't next, all
three of us must have really liked the same thing.
We've all taken. We will all take the under on
the Sunday night game between Notre Dame and Miami.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
Cole doesn't know that, just like you with directions, I
can't read Gambalese.

Speaker 6 (01:46:53):
It's so complicated.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
Shut up, dude, So is inside or outside of iten?

Speaker 6 (01:46:59):
That's what makes it simple.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
Oh my gosh, So I only pick over unders. Cole,
I do this every single year. I've done it for
like four straight.

Speaker 6 (01:47:05):
You're more than welcome to add some props to the list.
That is one change to the so and cold locks
this year. It's not mandatory. It's true you play a prop,
but you're more than welcome to Well.

Speaker 4 (01:47:13):
I took all games this time, and I went with
the UTSA. I'm gonna just say this, I'll make this
really really simple. Other than the Texas Ohio State game,
which this will give it away, but it doesn't matter.
I feel like the first game of the season type
rust is going to be a factor in all these scores.
So I took nothing but unders on the other four games.

(01:47:36):
UTSA at A and M under fifty six and a half.
I don't even know if that's the right number anymore
now because of what happened LSU Clemson, Same Va Tech
at SC not that SC which one South Carolina? Yeah,
there you go, and U and Notre Dame at Miami,
just like Cole I'm taking the under on that as well.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
Well, you'll probably be pretty happy to learn that the
over under on AGGIS is fifty nine and a half.
You are already playing the under, so that should make
you feel even better. My four other games this week
I already mentioned. I'm playing the same in Notre Dame Miami.
Will take the under on that Sunday night. I'm also
playing the utsc UTSA Texas A and M game tomorrow night.

(01:48:21):
But I like the Aggis to cover that number so
much returning and I do think they have firepower. I
do think Marcel Reid in a game like this will shine.
I think the running game will shine, and I think
they will handle this game very much like the Cougars
handled their twenty three and a half number last night
in a cover over SFA. I like Oregon to do
the same cover against Montana State at home at Oregon

(01:48:42):
and the game that's going tonight we just talked about
with Seihan, I will take Baylor to cover that number
as well, leaving Texas in Ohio State. The numbers we're
working with on this one. Texas is a one and
a half point favorite. The over under is forty six
and a half A. He has already noted he will
be playing the over with Arch Manning's offense and Julian

(01:49:05):
Sayan's offense. Maybe some defensive points with these two fairly
inexperienced quarterbacks to push over the number. Cole, what's your
play on this game?

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
I think that Texas's defense is.

Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
The selling point Ultimately, I do believe that Ohio State's
a good team. I think they are going to be
back in the College Football Playoff. And for Texas, same thing.
It doesn't matter who wins this game. You just gotta
be able to show life and attention. And ultimately, I
do believe that arch Manning will show a little bit
more late in.

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
The fourth quarter. I'm actually agreeing with you.

Speaker 12 (01:49:33):
I think there is gonna be one pick six come
from Julian saying I'll go Jalen Gilbo gets the nod
Texas minus one and a half.

Speaker 6 (01:49:41):
They secure the win in the year before I'll give
you my pick. Then I'll ask you a question. It's
really simple. Hey, wex so, do you think is gonna
win the game? I think Texas is gonna win. All
the numbers one and a half easy, I'll take Texas.
I think they're gonna win the game. If they win
by one, I'll lose. If they win by anything other
than one, I'll win. It's very very simple.

Speaker 4 (01:50:00):
Are you shocked at how low the over under is,
which is why I took the over even in light
of what I think will happen.

Speaker 5 (01:50:06):
Defense is dominating it.

Speaker 6 (01:50:08):
Maybe do you have two things working at to where,
in my opinion, where this number sits. So even for
two really really good teams, the defenses we know, the
Texas defense is great. I think the tech the Ohio
State defense will also be great. Both of them get
to play against any experienced quarterbacks and it's the first
game of the year and it's eleven o'clock in the morning.
I think, if you care, I do think that's a

(01:50:28):
little bit of a factor. I think that that's right.
I think the number being that low for these two
high quality teams, and they did just play with experienced quarterbacks.
I think Ohio State's defense was very comparable. Obviously, the
player that's not there made the biggest play in the game,
and that's where the score was. The scorer from just
a couple of months ago is where this line has

(01:50:48):
been put low. So yeah, I think that's all those
things went into why it is where it is. But
we were talking to Sihan earlier just on the players
in this game, and he gave I thought as much
praise to Caleb Downs as I've heard, and Caleb's coming
to Ohio State with supreme all sorts of hype.

Speaker 5 (01:51:08):
I think he's a really good player. I think he
had a good season.

Speaker 6 (01:51:11):
I didn't think too many people expected I didn't expect
him to say that. I'll just put it that way.
I didn't realize that he was thought of up into
this season because I think the best player on the
fields probably Jeremiah Smith. The next two best players both
play on Texas's defense, and none of them will dictate
who wins the game as much as the quarterbacks quite obviously.
I think Sayan's running ability is a little bit of

(01:51:32):
an equalizer, and I think the Texas defensive speed will
allow them to curtail it. No, I can't think of
another year where the eleven AM game was as big
as this one. Is not to mention the last game
day that will feature the head gear pick from one
league Corso there you have it, Week one edition. Stone
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Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:52:05):
The other day, I saw this graphic that had been posted,
I want to say, back in July, and it was
talking about the different It was the top ten loudest
stadiums in college football. I don't have it in front
of me at the time. I know that the Aggies
will be happy to know that they.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Made the list. Of I think they were eight or seven.

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
But I bring that up because I saw something today
that the Texans posted and it was a little confusing.
You can tell me how you got those of you
who go to a lot of Texans games as a fan,
not like up in the media dining, whereas WEX will attest,
they take very good care of the media up there,
like to an insane degree.

Speaker 6 (01:52:42):
Definitely would rate in the top ten, if not top
five for unbelievable media, food offerings and jobs well done staff.

Speaker 5 (01:52:49):
Yeah, and it has gotten like they have improved upon what.

Speaker 4 (01:52:52):
It used to be in the early days, but it
was the Texans posted this on their instagram. NRG Stadium
voted number six best NFL stadium and number three for
the best NFL food by USA Today.

Speaker 6 (01:53:11):
I would post that to if USA Today wrote an
article that put us in the top ten in both categories.
I think that was a smart play.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
But then are you really trying to get a new stadium,
Because if you're trying to get a new stadium, why
would you post at your stadium so good right now?

Speaker 6 (01:53:26):
So the people that put all the things into this
stadium that made it great, and the people who've contracted
with the people who serve the food there have made
it great.

Speaker 5 (01:53:34):
Some people would say, why.

Speaker 6 (01:53:36):
Would it be worse than a new stadium. I know
now you could have worse site lines, you have fewer
great seats and location. In general, usually it's the opposite.
Usually you are able to anything that wasn't great before
you improve it.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
Like the first thing that they would do, they being
the Texans Stadium design whatever, if this so called new
stadium that they want were to be built, and I
think they do this in every new stadium. I'll let
you guess what I'm gonna say. It's not necessarily obvious,
but it should be armchair wagering.

Speaker 6 (01:54:08):
Although that's a good it's in a lot of arenas
and stadiums.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
I'm talking about something so simple, yet it's never it's
just life of roads.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
Well, that's another good one. The concourses, though.

Speaker 6 (01:54:19):
Their concourse is for the most part. If they had
the opportunity to build a new stadium, I think they
would make them a bit larger.

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Although it's not it's not the dome next door. It's
definitely advanced. You know, twentousyd and two is at nineteen
sixty five. But yeah, That's why when I went to
MetLife in New York, and I went there in whenever
they played the Giants there. I think it was fourteen,
the fall of fourteen, maybe fifteen. I think it was fourteen, yes, fourteen.

(01:54:47):
I was stunned that they didn't make the concourses bigger
in this brand new stadium. I think it was like
the first or second year had been opened. Maybe they
had to squeeze it into a city block.

Speaker 5 (01:54:59):
No, that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
It's in the swamps of New Jersey. There's literally space everywhere.
So I thought that was interesting. Given the conversation that was,
I think it's been like scaled.

Speaker 5 (01:55:11):
Back a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:55:13):
Like it doesn't strike me that the textans are like
we got to have a new stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:55:16):
Now it's more like we want to have a.

Speaker 6 (01:55:18):
New and that's it's a little bit of a tough
sell from who you're talking to if you're reliant on
a vote from the people that have been using it
all these years. Some people, because there's not from their standpoint,
they see this great stadium, I have great seats. I
don't want to see the prices go up, and that
definitely is what would happen in a new stadium, or

(01:55:39):
you might have more available seats that aren't going up.
With the seats that you currently have or want, they
definitely will go up. And then you've got a group
that the team saying, well, we need a new stadium,
when they're clearly there's so many things about it that
are good that people want to see. They're not trying
to say there's anything wrong with what they have. And
I think they've been Mike their new president, and obviously

(01:55:59):
Callen and anybody else who's spoken on behalf of what
their stadium situation is and what their current stadium is,
and they're making upgrades to their current stadium. The new
scoreboard and the new video board and the new sound
system is in place and obviously was enjoyed by those
who went to the first preseason game, the other preseason game,
and then a couple times when I was at their

(01:56:21):
more recent practices. As cal had indicated, there are people
on the roof of the stadium fixing or upgrading the
paneling without impacting how they'll play or how they'll use
the stadium. This year for the roof, they're making upgrades
to the stadium. But yes, they want to tell you
we need a new stadium. All while they've done all

(01:56:41):
the things necessary, not all the things, some of the
things that fans see most to make their stadium a
great place to watch football games and spend money. And
that's where the food comes in. I mean, I've been
to a lot of stadiums like you. I probably haven't
sampled what they have to offer quite as much as
I have in this stadium. But each year they've added
more and more vendors that I think are exactly what

(01:57:02):
fans want. And there a lot of them are local,
a lot of them are very specific to Houston, and
some of the most important food people in this city, businesses, restaurants,
family names, et cetera. And they're all in there. You
really do have it. I'm not saying it's cheap, but
you have the opportunity to eat just about anything there.

(01:57:23):
And I don't think a lot of other stadiums are
at their level, and this ranking certainly would say the same.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
It is weird because I mean, I was obviously around
and I knew what was going on to an extent.
But when the Oilers got, when Bud Adams got the
Astrodome renovated with whatever it was, at the time fifty
million or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:57:46):
You know, they installed new seats.

Speaker 4 (01:57:48):
I think they took out the old score board, and
I think that was what like nineteen eighty nine or
something like that. I'm asking the wrong person, but like
he got what he wanted, and then it was like
something like five years later or less than that, He's like, no,
I actually need a new stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:58:01):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:58:02):
It's about how much money you can generate, right Like literally,
we spent the entire segment talking about nothing that's important
to them. What's important to them is, here's my stadium,
here are my high revenue generating areas, club suites, et cetera.
Things like that, how much money can I generate in
the current stadium. How much more money can I we
believe we can generate in the new stadium. And they're
always right they can.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
Unlikes adults, you go in there right now, like right
now this year, you're not gonna look around and think, ah,
this stadium is just old and not modern enough. But
if you go to a new stadium and not even
like brand new, like so far or something like that,
it's even something that's like ten years old, you're gonna

(01:58:42):
see the differences. And that's where they're in a tough spot.
Because it's still one of the nicest stadiums in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:58:48):
The offerings for the higher revenue generating seating areas are
much more prevalent the newer the stadium is, and the
Texans can only do so much with the original layout
and areas they have to work with, which means they
want to go there. You bring up Sofi. I happened
to have taken a tour of Sofi a couple of
years ago. Of that, and because nobody's there, it's so

(01:59:11):
easy to see, well, why is this suite area? You know,
one of the beer sponsors, they have their own suite
there and you can rent it out. They've got a
pool table, and then it spills over into the stadium seats,
which are plushed, luxurious, and they're next to this suite,
next to this, and your location for the suite is
so much closer to field side than in most buildings.
This building included. You're able to You're you're saying to the

(01:59:34):
corporations or higher spenders, here's what we want from you,
and you're getting it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:39):
We went to the Minneapolis, you know, the Viking Stadium,
a few years back is twenty eighteen, and it was
brand new then. And what you're talking about, like the
field suites alone, that's something that just didn't exist with
the Texans when they built the stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:59:52):
And that's one thing I'm glad you brought that up
because we had and it is. I'm not a fan
of the seats.

Speaker 5 (01:59:56):
Rangers the same thing. Yeah, Globelife at.

Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
And t State for as old as that is, they
have them too. Field Side suites generate a tremendous amount
of money, and my personal belief is they're not very
good places to watch the game.

Speaker 4 (02:00:09):
No, you can't see anything. You're seeing their legs right,
you'ren't even seeing that.

Speaker 6 (02:00:12):
Where you're looking through them because you're behind their bench.

Speaker 4 (02:00:15):
It's it's dumb, but they're charging an arm and a
leg and they will continue to do so.

Speaker 7 (02:00:22):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team.

Speaker 5 (02:00:32):
Ay Ay already.

Speaker 6 (02:00:35):
Talks so much football today. We might talk more here,
but it's not football at five today on a Friday,
as per usual. Instead, it is a chat with Chandler
Roma of the Athletic covering the Houston Astros in Major
League Baseball. The Astros ten game homestands started poorly, though
they won the opening series now of a four game
series against the Angels, three games with the Yankees follow

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and Chandler, as we open things up here today, I
wanted to go back to some the Astros indicated would
take place over the next handful of days. Short term,
though we've talked about it at length, the handling of
their six man rotation, specific the current handling of Lance
mcculler's junior and the very good article you wrote about
Louis Garcia and his immediate future. If there aren't any

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further injuries to the starting pitching options and aj Blueball
for that matter, what do you think the future holds
for both of those two pitchers, Luis and Lance.

Speaker 19 (02:01:30):
Well, I think it's I think it'd be logical to
think that Louis Garcia is going to be activated on Monday,
because on Monday rosters expands. You can add one pitcher
and one position player to get it up to twenty eight.
It would make a lot of sense that he would
be the pitcher that they add Monday.

Speaker 10 (02:01:47):
Is TBA as.

Speaker 19 (02:01:48):
Far as who's starting the game pitching coach Josh Miller
told me in that story that you just referenced that
initially they do not want to put Louis Garcia in
the bullpen. So put two and two together, and it
sounds like Luis Garcia would probably start that Monday game.

Speaker 10 (02:02:03):
As far as mccullor's.

Speaker 19 (02:02:05):
In the bullpen, I can't come up with situations in
which he'd be used in a game.

Speaker 10 (02:02:12):
Where it's close.

Speaker 19 (02:02:15):
Perhaps if there is a situation like tonight with Christian
Hobvier's last start where he went two innings and they
had to piece it together after that, you know, maybe
that's a situation where he comes into a game that's
that's close, but that was a that was an unforeseen circumstance.
Your starter doesn't usually go two innings. I quite frankly,

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I'd probably say Lance is probably one of the last
people on the on the kind of the bullpen hierarchy
right now, just given that they can't use him as
a traditional reliever, they can't get him up in the
fifth inning, and then you know, put him in the
middle of an inning that that's just not what he's
conditioned to do. They've got to tell him when they're
gonna put him in. Everything's got to be pre planned,

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everything's got to be you know, set in stone beforehand,
because he's never done this before. So you know, I know,
there seems to be some optimism floating around that, oh,
the stuff's gonna play up and this is the because
they've people have had it in their heads for years
now that he should be a closer, I guess, but
I don't really see that happening. Could it get there, sure,

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I mean maybe, you know, things evolve over the next month,
but that I don't really see a real defined role
for him right now out of the bullpen.

Speaker 6 (02:03:26):
We have a relatively healthy team, and Jake Myers possibly
returns before the end of his home stand. I would
imagine he gets his second game of rehab work tonight
for the Space Cowboys played two days ago. I had
the off day or he took the off day yesterday,
and presumably that's the plan they have him on. Do
you think they've essentially settled in on the top five

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in the order on a pretty regular basis, Painya Alvarez, Altuve, Korea,
Christian Walker.

Speaker 19 (02:03:54):
Yeah, I mean, I think those are the guys you're
going to see every day. I think there's still could
be some moving around with the order. With the I
know lineup construction is fascinating to some people. I don't
think it matters that much, but I mean, I think
you could see maybe Jordan not hit second, maybe it's
third some days. It just kind of depends. But yeah,
I mean, those five guys are going to be in

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the top five of the orders somewhere. Maybe if there's
a righty that Hey Sue Sanchez profiles really really well against,
maybe they try to get him up in the order
to really break up that glut of righties. Maybe he
hits fifth instead of Walker, and Walker goes to sixth.
But yeah, those are gonna be the five guys that
are going to play regardless.

Speaker 10 (02:04:33):
Of handedness on the mound.

Speaker 19 (02:04:34):
You'll you'll, I know you're seeing Hey Sue Sanchez tonight
against the left handed starter, but that is not going
to be the norm.

Speaker 6 (02:04:40):
You pointed it out on the X platform. I'll give
people the numbers specific to it. Tyler Anderson has reverse
righty lefty splits this season. Right handed batters. He's a
left handed pitcher. Right handed batters have a seven to
twenty eight ops against him and hit two thirty two
left handed hitters have a nine to eighty ops and
hit three one. Just wanted to acknowledge that to clarify

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as you pointed that out earlier.

Speaker 10 (02:05:06):
Yes, yeah, I mean, and then look, I think you
saw him.

Speaker 19 (02:05:08):
He played against Max Freed in his first road trip
with the Ashers only because hay Sus Sanchez has great
career numbers against Max Freed. And look, there's certain lefties
where it makes some sense, but the Astros in my
from what I had understood, they want to avoid him
basically at all costs against ninety five percent of the
left handed pitchers in the sport.

Speaker 4 (02:05:30):
Hey, speaking of starters tonight, how much how much personal pressure?
Just how much is writing on Christian Javier having a
good outing, especially when you consider that, you know, Eric
Getty kind of found his way after a rough start
to his last outing.

Speaker 5 (02:05:46):
He kind of looked more like himself.

Speaker 4 (02:05:47):
In other words, Christian Javier has has yet to really
do that this season since coming back from his injury.

Speaker 19 (02:05:54):
Yeah, I think this is a big start for him.
I don't know if it's you know, make or break.

Speaker 5 (02:05:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (02:05:59):
He's not certainly not on borrowed time.

Speaker 19 (02:06:01):
They're going to give him time because he's fourteen months
out for Tommy John.

Speaker 10 (02:06:04):
But yeah, I mean.

Speaker 19 (02:06:05):
He's got to get them deeper into games. He's got
to command the ball better. The walks have been very
uncharacteristic for for full strength Hobvier. You saw him walk
guys on his minor league rehab assignment, and look, that's
part of the comeback from Tommy John.

Speaker 10 (02:06:19):
His command is sometimes difficult to harness. So yeah, they
need him to They need him to be good.

Speaker 19 (02:06:24):
They need him to get deep in Like, yes, they
need him to be good, sure, but more than anything
they needed to get they needed to get some length
they needed to get. They need him to get them
into at least the sixth inning tonight, to save the
bullpen so they don't have to keep over working this
bullpen that you know, the other thing we didn't really
talk about with the mccullors thing. This is now a
bullpen that's got seven guys in it. Usually a bullpen

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has eight guys, So it's a shorthanded bullpen already with
two long relievers and blue Ball and mccolors, so you're
they're essentially working with a five man bullpen in a
traditional sense, so it just puts more onus on the
starters to get deep into games.

Speaker 6 (02:07:00):
Jordan Alvarez three games back on the roster, five walks,
and he hit a monster home run. Health Wise, all
steam signs point to him having no issues with that.
I hope that's accurate, and watching him hit, he looks
much better than any version we saw this season. Would
you agree?

Speaker 19 (02:07:20):
I don't know you're asking me about health of a player.
I don't want journalism Professor Damiko Ryans to come after
me for if I say something wrong.

Speaker 6 (02:07:27):
You're not supposed to speculate even when they don't tell
you what the information is. That was the part of
I was sitting there when he said all that, and
that was the part of it, Like, you're telling us
to not speculate while providing us the ammunition that forces
us to speculate.

Speaker 19 (02:07:44):
Dude played middle linebacker in the SEC and the NFL,
and is that thin skimmed?

Speaker 10 (02:07:49):
What a what a?

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
What a?

Speaker 10 (02:07:50):
What a guy? But anyway, yeah, he looks fine to me.
They did.

Speaker 19 (02:07:53):
The rock isn't throwing any strikes, so he didn't really
swing at many of them, but uh, he swung at
the one that went to dead center. Field for a
massive home run. Yeah, I think it's gonna be one
of these things. We've asked him numerous times whether he's
still battling or feeling stuff with the hand, and no
answer has included the word no. He's just kind of said, well,

(02:08:16):
I'm here, Well I'm trying my best. So I think
if you're reading between the lines a little bit, there
probably is still a little bit of stuff he's dealing with,
but they're managing it the best they can. He's still
a I mean he's swinging at strikes, he's not swinging
at balls. You see what he's able to do when
he gets a change up down the plate and just

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puts it out to dead center field.

Speaker 10 (02:08:38):
But we talked about it before.

Speaker 19 (02:08:39):
While he's on the injury list, his presence in the
lineup is just him being there.

Speaker 10 (02:08:45):
I mean you saw it in the first game.

Speaker 19 (02:08:46):
Against the Rockies, like the two four pitch walks he took,
like those pitches were nowhere close, Like they didn't want
to have anything to do with him. They were just like,
just get Christian Walker up there, we'll deal with him.
So it's yes, the production is obviously going to help
and just him be Jordon's gonna help. But just the
mere left handed presence and just his kind of aura
is going to change the complexion of this lineup totally.

Speaker 4 (02:09:07):
Did you happen to catch the broadcast where they were
talking about Chaz not wanting to have the hit by
pitch and then he ends up scalding a single right
after that, looking like he was a genius all along.

Speaker 19 (02:09:23):
I mean, yeah, I mean, Chas should want to Chas
should want to get every a bat he can and
do that. Yeah, I didn't see that, but but yeah,
I mean, you should want to be able to hit
the ball, because you know, Chaz has a Chazz's hold
on a roster spot is not secure right now, especially
with you know, Jake Myers coming back. They got Taylor
Tremmell rehabbing, They have Zach Dezenzo rehabbing. You know they're

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gonna have They're gonna have some outfield shuffling here in
a little bit, and you know it, you know, but
Chaz is they he's kind of settled into his role
as a fourth outfielder, as a guy that's gonna kind
of come in and may face a right.

Speaker 10 (02:09:59):
Hand of eleven really leverage reliever.

Speaker 5 (02:10:01):
But yeah.

Speaker 10 (02:10:02):
I mean he's good for him. He need he needs
to he needs.

Speaker 19 (02:10:05):
More at bats like that to just give himself some
confidence and to keep building going forward.

Speaker 6 (02:10:08):
You mentioned that additional roster spot coming when the rosters expand.
Do you think Saysar Salazar figures into that. Obviously he'll
be on the roster regardless because of the timing of
it in the seven day IL concussion for Victor. Obviously
Yiners in the lineup tonight. Bryce Matthews could provide an
element of speed that they could use off the bench,
and he was just here. But what do you think

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they do with that additional position player spot.

Speaker 19 (02:10:35):
Well, no, I was about to say, I think they
could wait till Monday and activate Myers and that'd be
their position. That'd be the technically the one new edition
on Monday. But after that, you know, like I just said,
they've got Tremmell rehabbing, They've got Dezenzo rehabbing. You know,
Dezenzo has auctions left, so they can just option him
if they don't want him on the big league club.
But Tremell doesn't have options left, so there's still some
some some stuff they need to do. I think, just

(02:10:58):
given the certainly around Diez's wrist. Obviously he's in there tonight,
but I think it's still giving him some issues. And
you know, Keratini coming off a concussion, that's not a
it's not just a fleer like, hey, let's have him
full go. I think they'll have to ease him back
into when he comes back from the concussion. So yeah,
I think it would make sense for them to keep
Salazar on the roster.

Speaker 6 (02:11:18):
Justist some insurance the pitching side of the injuries. Last thing,
do you think any of those pitchers, Rooney Susa, I
guess more specifically because we already know about Hater situation,
do you think there's a possibility they're pitching again this season?

Speaker 19 (02:11:34):
I mean, Susa could fall into the Hater category of
he could start throwing in a week or two and
if it feels good, you know, maybe they get him
back for a potential playoff series. But I think they're
just they're.

Speaker 10 (02:11:45):
Run out of Dace.

Speaker 19 (02:11:46):
I think they're run out of I mean, and if
you believe Josh Hater and as just I mean Josh Hater,
what he said is kind of true for all pitchers.
Like if I'm out for three weeks, I need three
weeks to build up, well, Bennett SUSA, if he's going
to be out for two weeks, he was out a
week later than his injury happened a week later than
Josh Hater. If he's out for two weeks, needs two
weeks to build back up, then needs to go on

(02:12:07):
a rehab assignment face some some hitters like, you're running
toward the end of the season at that point. So
maybe he's in the same boat as Hater that he
could kind of get going and maybe be back for
a potential playoff series.

Speaker 10 (02:12:18):
But yeah, I don't.

Speaker 19 (02:12:19):
I don't think he's coming back anytime soon, and I
wouldn't I would I don't think the Ashers are counting
on it.

Speaker 10 (02:12:23):
I'll put it to you that way.

Speaker 4 (02:12:25):
Can we expect a full Texans RAMS preview from you
a week from today?

Speaker 19 (02:12:31):
Oh sure, man, I mean I'll be paying more attention
to the team, I guess than the coach who's just
worried about what reporters are reporting. That's real, real, good
priorities they got going on over there.

Speaker 6 (02:12:41):
Can we expect a prediction from you now on Clemson LSU?
Will Brian Kelly be zero to one again?

Speaker 19 (02:12:50):
They've lost five straight season openers, which doesn't which doesn't
make me feel doesn't make me feel great.

Speaker 10 (02:12:57):
I mean, I I hope they win.

Speaker 19 (02:13:01):
I think, you know, this is probably the best team
they've played in an opener in a while.

Speaker 10 (02:13:06):
It's gonna be hard. I don't think I can.

Speaker 19 (02:13:08):
Like my fandom and my like alumni status wants me
to pick them, but like, it's truly hard to go
into that place and win, especially in week one. But
they spend a ton of money in the transfer portal.
They've got a good team. Hell why not. I think
they're gonna win. Pick them, Pick them to win.

Speaker 5 (02:13:24):
I love Chandler Rome, and so should you.

Speaker 4 (02:13:26):
Chandler roam of the athletic here on Sports Talk seven
ninety each and every Friday.

Speaker 5 (02:13:30):
Chandler appreciate the time. We'll catch up again next week.
All right, thanks guys, Chandler Rome Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:13:36):
We will continue mark college football conversation coming up next.

Speaker 7 (02:13:43):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (02:13:46):
Well drover.

Speaker 6 (02:13:50):
News today. So the other day I was leaving the
facility here Sports Talk seven ninety. iHeartRadio Houston's complice and
while driving home in hordes of traffic, but very nicely
and comfortably and calmly. I noticed that on two different
stations at the same time, Arms Wide Open and Higher

(02:14:13):
were both on, and I couldn't decide which one to
go with. I went with Higher.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
Did it make you, at any point during either of
those clips of songs you were listening to on two
different stations think about the twenty twenty three postseason.

Speaker 6 (02:14:28):
No, That's why I find it funny that this was
a sports related item, and it never should have been.
And it's everything about that season, that team and the
people involved in it is pure comm es.

Speaker 5 (02:14:38):
Actually now with unfortunately happening.

Speaker 6 (02:14:40):
It was at the Astros expense. Ranger season isn't quite
over yet, yes, it is, just mathematically speaking, and they've
gotten themselves back up over five hundred. I don't think
they're catching the Mariners of the Astros and in that
vein well, that would keep them out of the wild
card race either, because one of those two teams probably
lands the last spot in the race. But nonetheless, it

(02:15:02):
was fun for them. I'm sure for the one season.
Hopefully there won't be any.

Speaker 4 (02:15:07):
More great parade around your stadium. It's nice a little place,
is it.

Speaker 6 (02:15:11):
They handled what they wanted to do for their Yeah,
their building is nice. We've been in it. They have
a perfectly nice stadium.

Speaker 5 (02:15:17):
It's fine. It's not nice, it's fine.

Speaker 6 (02:15:20):
I mean, I don't have any issue with their stadium.
It's it's a nice, great place to watch a game.

Speaker 5 (02:15:24):
They play in it.

Speaker 6 (02:15:25):
It's a great place to watch a game. It'd be
nice if that team wasn't the team you were watching.
They have other events there. What else do they have there?
That's probably high school baseball games of coming there every
once in a while. I'd go to a game there,
I wouldn't. I mean, if I wanted to rub the
head of the Pad Rodrigo statue, I might swing by.

Speaker 5 (02:15:42):
Yeah, the Shiner College Classic every year. There there you go.

Speaker 6 (02:15:45):
What is that a lesser version of the Astros College
Classic where the best teams in the country come play.

Speaker 5 (02:15:51):
See what we said. Coley already said it's a lesser version.
I can just go right here and does it.

Speaker 6 (02:15:56):
Is it not true?

Speaker 5 (02:15:57):
No, it's true.

Speaker 6 (02:15:58):
I know it's true. It looks like you could percha
is it outside the doors of either a home depot
or Low's primarily Lows.

Speaker 4 (02:16:05):
Though there's no orange there, orange is down here there
you and there you go and there you go. Yeah
I did. I was amused, as per usual, at some
of the things Chandler Rome said, I especially how much
he took issue with the head coach of the Texans.

Speaker 6 (02:16:20):
Well, I don't think we even got into it that
much because I don't know that listeners, because it's very
media specific, are all that interested.

Speaker 5 (02:16:27):
Was it inside baseball?

Speaker 6 (02:16:29):
I mean, I don't know, it wasn't. I just have
said this. I know I said it here and I've
said it to other people. It's it's probably the third
or fourth time in the three years that he's been here,
and the last two times have both been in the
last couple of weeks. The longer his statement or answering
to the question, because I obviously was asked a question
about it, more he has to say about it. That

(02:16:49):
the worse it sounds, it's getting less and less. It
makes less and less sense. They have a philosophy on
how they want to handle the information dissemination on injuries
and particular injury, and I do think it's a little
bit different in that it did not happen during a
game that we all saw, but rather it happened during
the offseason and something else happened during the off season
that nobody saw. In both cases with Joe Mixon, it's

(02:17:11):
I mean, they don't they're not compelled and they're not
league mandated to tell us, and they've decided in their
minds it is protecting the player by telling us almost
nothing about it, nothing about a timeline, nothing, which is guesswork.
We're not morons in the media. I know you think
that sometimes we don't expect what you say. I say

(02:17:32):
out four to six weeks when he's been out for
six weeks. In one day, why are the Texans lying
next on the A team. We're not gonna do that.
It's not how it works. That's funny though, but it's
but their assumption that that's how we handle it. And
even to the ridiculous world on x ON Sports even
they're not quite like that. Like we understand like a

(02:17:54):
high ankle sprain is, we don't know. They don't know.
The doctor doesn't know it's it's player related. How does
he respond to, how much pain tolerance is there, how
much of his job is reliant on him being able
to use the ankle in a certain manner? We get
it knowing so little about it. Like I said with Chandler,
you can't say I'm shocked, and I don't want you

(02:18:14):
guys to speculate on it when you're forcing us to.
We can't sit here. This is what I said on
our show eighteen with you from two to five today,
last hour will be silenced. We're not allowed to speculate
on anything in sports anymore. What do you want us
to do? I mean, we're not just talking. In the
Astros game went like this, here's your play by play

(02:18:35):
from last night. Here's some sound of the homer, and
then we'll go to football and we'll do the same thing.
We're supposed to have opinions. We're supposed to do some guessing,
educated guessing, which is what we're doing here. This particular injury,
also very specific to this particular injury, not Joe's particular injury.
Excuse me, the Texans this season, the CJ. Gardner Johnson

(02:18:56):
injury absolutely played a role in his comments the other
day because he flat out said it without saying it.
I mean, you guys can just we all write something
that's not accurate. There's no repercussions for it. Oh, I'll
just take it down, which is in this case is
literally what happened. It was posted on social media. It
turned out to be inaccurate, despite proper reporting being done,
just the information was not correct. It got taken down

(02:19:19):
and that's in his mind, and that's that. And we
do have many people that are I think some people
see a division between did I cultivate and write a
full story and did I post it on X I
don't really think there's a difference. I get things wrong,
They're usually factual, they're not news breaking, and I'll either deleted, edited,
or acknowledge it. But it's not This is totally different

(02:19:40):
than this. And then who's delivering the repercussions.

Speaker 5 (02:19:44):
I mean, look.

Speaker 6 (02:19:45):
Around any media room in any of the thirty one
other NFL cities, and there's just more people there that
are media to the team and to those that are
following them on social media that they're not answering to anybody.
There's no boss for them. They've created their own platform,
they have a content platform, they have followers, they have
a following.

Speaker 5 (02:20:04):
Therefore no real consequences when they do screw up.

Speaker 6 (02:20:07):
And I'm not saying they have I'm just saying that's
the world that we're in.

Speaker 4 (02:20:11):
No, it's a very it's it's fluid, as they like
to say, evolving, whatever you want to call it is.
Certainly it is nothing that is traditional in that sense.

Speaker 6 (02:20:24):
But I well, the other part of it is we've said,
here's what I think is going on with this player,
here's what might because we voice and we're acknowledging that,
and I think that's the proper way to do it.
I'm not telling you this report. I'm not telling you
that report. I certainly am not giving you any concrete
information on it. So I think there's only so much

(02:20:44):
you can expect from us to do in this particular situation.
The best we can do to handle it. If you're
listening to us, about an hour ago, we gave you
our stone cold locks. We talked a little bit of
college football, talked a little bit of pro football, spent
our last couple of weeks doing that very same thing.
My friends over at SPEX want to make sure I
tie that together and along with enjoying your tailgate, your

(02:21:05):
game watching, you're hosting duties because I want to deliver
my game pic of the week and my cocktail, your
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some of the supplies. I was able to get over
at Spex the other day yesterday as a matter of fact,

(02:21:27):
and they have it all. But yeah, I'll throw that recipe.
I'll put it together on my social TikTok Instagram, Twitter
and that will go well with the game tomorrow morning
between the Longhorns and the buck Eyes. You heard it
earlier with our Stone cold locks. That is my game
pick of the week, Your Longhorns minus one and a

(02:21:48):
half against the team that currently holds the title in
college football. But they're going to go on one to
start the season and they're gonna lose by more than
one and a half. More for my friends at Spex
coming up.

Speaker 1 (02:22:02):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (02:22:09):
We've been very busy today. I hope you enjoyed the show.
I certainly have a bunch of different guests have joined us.
Jay Farrell was in studio. Chandlerome just wrapped up with
us a great college football conversation a little bit earlier,
and uh, I think we've hit on most things, but
we never do. So that's what in case you missed
it is for whether it's a revisit us some things
we've only briefly mentioned, or some items that certainly deserve

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a little bit more of our time. In case you
missed it, what do we have?

Speaker 12 (02:22:35):
So there is rumors about the entire thing that went
down in Dallas where Michael Parsons was shipped off to
Green Bay for two first round picks and may Good,
but older Kenny Clark was to say Jerry Jones decision,
was this an organizational decision? Did Brian Schnheimer know about this? Well,
he met with the media earlier today. And if you
didn't believe that he is basically David Cully two point zero,

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take a listen to this clip and then tell me,
did you know it's anything different?

Speaker 13 (02:23:01):
Well?

Speaker 20 (02:23:02):
I think you know, we just went through the whole
process and the end of the day it was unanisis
is not something we came about. It wasn't something where
it was like an overnight thing. We just we had
talked about it. And at the end of the day,
I think when you look at a football team, when
you can potentially add up to four or five players
and things like that, it gives you the ability to
do some things. We were certainly excited about the addition

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of Kenny Clark. I've played against Kenny very very disruptive inside. Again,
when we looked at it, it was, you know something
that at the end of the day, when when you
get a chance to get things back in return that
you're excited about, then you know you make the move.

Speaker 5 (02:23:38):
So two things I want to bring up.

Speaker 12 (02:23:39):
Number One, as a first year head coach in a
division that still feels like you could at least be successful,
and you openly agree to being content with trading away
a three time All Pro linebacker slash defensive end slash
literal murder merchant on the field.

Speaker 5 (02:24:00):
And two, where are we continuously.

Speaker 12 (02:24:03):
Coming up with these four or five player picks.

Speaker 5 (02:24:06):
Where is this non sense coming from?

Speaker 6 (02:24:08):
I mean, the reporting must be faulty.

Speaker 5 (02:24:10):
I think it's the herschel Walker trade.

Speaker 10 (02:24:12):
Again.

Speaker 6 (02:24:12):
Well, that was also he actually we talked about it
yesterday and I think we talked about how silly that
would be, and that was before Jerry Jones brought it
up in his press conference last night. And he really
believes that there's an opportunity to have a deal play
out for them in a similar way, and I really
don't see it unless there are more elements to this
deal that's already been reported and made official that we're

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unaware of, and we're not. So Yeah, comparing the two
makes little sense. Schottenheimer's in a little it could be
in a very similar position to coach Kully here in Houston,
and that he's probably not regarded as someone with a
whole heck of a lot of power, maybe just a
placeholder until they are really truly attempting to win. He
was all of five years old when coach Cully began

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his coaching career, and the major difference between the two is, well,
I've been pretty hard on Shoddy for not ever being
a head coach before because he'd been a coordinator for
so many years and so many different places. He's the
next guy in line. He is an OC. That means
the only way up, you're a head coach next. He's
been an OC over and over and over again, and

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nobody's hiring him to be a head coach. He was
a first time OC in the NFL twenty years before
he became a head coach this past year. In six
he was the Jets OC. He's been the Rams OC.
He went to college to be Georgia's OC, He's been
Seattle's OC. He obviously was the Cowboys OC last year
before finally getting the job. He always seemed to be

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all right, he'll be the guy, and he'd been on
interviews before. All of those things set him apart from
coach Cully. Never in oc, never the next guy in line,
never an interview, never considered all of a sudden he
is your new head coach. There was no hiding what
role he played in the Texans. You could hide Schottenheimer
and say no, we really believe in him, and they

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might even actually win with him.

Speaker 4 (02:26:02):
A random wide receivers coach from Baltimore is now your
head coach.

Speaker 5 (02:26:06):
We are absolutely tanking well, which is what it was
so long. It was such a long year.

Speaker 12 (02:26:13):
Congratulations are in order to the Houston Cougars. You got
to watch it live last night, But for those of
you that are just tuning in, I want to know
start behind new quarterback Connor Wigman, who threw for one
hundred and fifty nine yards three touchdowns twenty.

Speaker 5 (02:26:25):
Seven to nothing victory.

Speaker 12 (02:26:26):
Defensively, this may have been the storyline last year was
a hindrance for the Cougars.

Speaker 5 (02:26:31):
They only allowed seven first downs, a three three out
of sixteen.

Speaker 12 (02:26:36):
On third down conversions, and one hundred and forty five
total yards. A couple of newcomers for the team also
made a big time welcoming party for their offense, including
Tanner Koyziel who caught aleven.

Speaker 5 (02:26:47):
Yard touchdown pass.

Speaker 12 (02:26:48):
Jamerian Burnette as well, and then Amari Thomas scored on
a twenty yard score.

Speaker 5 (02:26:54):
The Cougar start off one to zero.

Speaker 12 (02:26:56):
They next week will face off against Rice at Rice
yep Rice for week two without leaving town, and then
Colorado on Friday for Week three.

Speaker 6 (02:27:08):
One thing about last night's game after the fact, First
of all, they ran the ball a billion times, and
I do think they would love to be able to
do that, not for a great average, but enough to
easily dominate the game offensively, kept their defense fresh Dean
Conners that I'm sure is expected to have better nights
than he did last night. But they also in going
into the season, coach Frist had said, we don't I'd

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like to have a bell cow, but we don't have
that right now. Something I'd like to find out these
first couple weeks, maybe we will get there. But he
did also say after the game that sophomore running back
Sean Sandford is out for the year, having just undergone
knee surgery the day before. Sandford essentially acknowledged that as
well when he quote tweeted one of the reporters that said, delayed,

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but not denied. God has planned for me. I'll see.
As soon I thought of the group they had coming back,
he was the most promising, and that will be a
bit of a well. Obviously that hurts the cause. But
their offense needs to play a little bit better. Their
defense hard to say, because I don't think the competition
was great, but I think there's some belief that defense

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can be very, very good this year, and I think
that's what we'll see next week against Rice. What else
do we have?

Speaker 12 (02:28:16):
Hab betrayals and thank you for everything, Lee Corso, as
we are on the eve of his final headgear selection
out in Columbus, Ohio.

Speaker 6 (02:28:25):
Viva.

Speaker 5 (02:28:25):
But what's interesting is.

Speaker 12 (02:28:27):
That this will be the first time that we will
see all platforms unite together to honor the legacy of
one of the greatest commentators.

Speaker 5 (02:28:35):
The game has ever been brought to us.

Speaker 12 (02:28:37):
According to On three's Brett McMurphy, Fox's Big noon Kickoff
will delay its picks to show Corso's final selection inside
Ohio Stadium before Texas takes on Ohio State. This has
been over forty years in the making for Lee Corso,
who has been with the program since the late eighties.
This will be his four hundred and thirty first and

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final headgear selection. When the selection began, it actually was
at Ohio State where he put on the Brutus the buckeyehead,
thus creating a legend and a lot of memories for
college football fans everywhere.

Speaker 5 (02:29:10):
That is a true sign of respect.

Speaker 6 (02:29:12):
The unfortunate part of all that only and if you're
a Longhorn fan is I almost feel like, well, he's
definitely gonna put on the head again, because that's how
it all began.

Speaker 14 (02:29:24):
You know.

Speaker 6 (02:29:24):
Funny team that has been picked by him, the head
that's gone on the most in his four hundred and
thirty one all time picks.

Speaker 4 (02:29:30):
Are you familiar? You both probably are with Trey Wallace
of out Kick.

Speaker 5 (02:29:33):
Yeah, I'm not sure. Trey and I just talked a
couple of days Outtail. Did you see an He tweeted
twenty minutes ago. Yes, it's so amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:29:39):
So he's got the John Cena video of him turning
heel with the rock in the ring and.

Speaker 5 (02:29:42):
Travis Scott when did that happen?

Speaker 4 (02:29:44):
And the caption is ESPN finished his final video package.
One hundred thousand Ohio State fans inside the stadium, millions
watching at home. As Lee Corso asked herb Street for
Brutus's head gear, Matthew McConaughey appears of Corso, looks back
in mouths, I'm sorry, buck, guys puts on Longhorn's head gear.

Speaker 5 (02:30:01):
Cinema.

Speaker 12 (02:30:02):
The other final thing about this that's really interesting is
that because of the relationship with tom Ronaaldi and Chris Facila,
who now worked for Fox, they will also be contributing
onto the broadcast for the final experience for Lee Corso.

Speaker 5 (02:30:14):
I think it's cool.

Speaker 12 (02:30:15):
Yeah, it's for me personally, just as somebody that has
grown up a college football it's been probably the biggest
thing in my life, and somebody who loves this game.
I'm openly going to say, right now, you're gonna cry.
I am going to ball my eyes out tomorrow morning.
It is going to be You're gonna get a video
on me in a.

Speaker 5 (02:30:31):
Puddle of misery. I'm not happy about this.

Speaker 6 (02:30:34):
Well, one thing I mentioned here since you brought it up,
Chris Valca was on with the Sean Salisbury Show earlier
this week, so definitely want to catch that via podcast
if you missed it. The Athletic had a awesome, awesome
piece with voices that have been with him, personalities that
have been with them, both on the desk, as the

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reporter on that show, as the storyteller on the show,
people behind the scenes on the show. So many people
that are worked on that show with Lee Corso, whether
in front or behind the camera. And it was one
of those pieces, like they wrote about Zach Grenke many
years ago, just teammate stories from him, wild weird stuff
that Zach would do. This story was all about times

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they spent with Lee and Lee would demand this, and
Lee wanted my research about that, and he wanted this,
and you know, he would always say this. He was
so great with it. It just I would definitely encourage
for those that want to cry, like Cole, to go
and read that. It's fantastic stuff. It's among the many
reasons why there's it's not just a game. It's why
sports matter to so many people, and the fact that

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they started it all getting especially when they're on the
West Coast, they're getting these kids. We're definitely studying the
night before, out of bed, at the crack of dawn,
before the sun's up, to be out there for all this.
It's a multi hour show. Their energy is all throughout,
and they've found different ways. McAfee has certainly helped here

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recently pick different ways to keep the show fresh, keep
bringing new energy to the show and new elements to
the show that make it the appointment viewing that it's been.

Speaker 4 (02:32:08):
Do you think it's second in line behind Inside the NBA.

Speaker 6 (02:32:12):
It's pretty close as far as those types of shows.
I don't know that I would put it second.

Speaker 5 (02:32:18):
So there's something in between. I might put it first. No,
I'm sorry, it's inside the NBA.

Speaker 6 (02:32:24):
Yeah, I mean it's if you're certainly college football fans
are going to put Inside the NBA first.

Speaker 12 (02:32:28):
Yeah, Like I like, okay, I'm not the clientele for this.
If you're asking me, you know what I'm putting first.
But maybe most people would maybe argue with you. I
think the difference is what.

Speaker 4 (02:32:37):
If you put the cast of Inside the NBA on
college game day, it would still be hilarious.

Speaker 6 (02:32:41):
It would be great. Now think about the difference in
what we're talking about. They're trying to get you in
tune with a full day of college football for three hours. Yeah,
and Inside the NBA is clearly their finest moments, even
though they're on throughout the night. Is their postgame work. Yeah,
at eleven o'clock to twelve thirty at night.

Speaker 5 (02:32:59):
You don't all you see it on Instagram or Twitter
the next day for the most part.

Speaker 6 (02:33:03):
But they've been both entities. Where would college football be
popularity wise without that show? Where would the NBA be
without that show? From a popularity standpoint, they have both
done in way like no other show in their respective sports.
Even Sniff's what they've been able to do.

Speaker 5 (02:33:19):
They're both in the fabric of American sports society. That
is just ridiculous. Thanks Trump very much.

Speaker 7 (02:33:27):
Looking on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 4 (02:33:31):
Ninety No, no, no, no, you know it's funny.

Speaker 5 (02:33:40):
No you don't. I went to go see them and
it was awesome.

Speaker 6 (02:33:48):
Believe it.

Speaker 5 (02:33:51):
No, it's hell yeah, it's Friday. Hell yeah, there you go.

Speaker 4 (02:33:54):
They were great. It was them and three Doors down. Oh,
that sounds like a great one of my favorite bands,
saying as a person who graduated from high school in
nineteen ninety nine would tell you crazy.

Speaker 5 (02:34:05):
I don't know what Cole's excuses. I just like the
nineties music. What were you five when that stuff came out?

Speaker 10 (02:34:10):
Man?

Speaker 12 (02:34:11):
So okay, my favorite band is Goo Goo Dolls, And
when Iris came out, I was.

Speaker 5 (02:34:16):
Four years old. Yeah, you're just it's yours.

Speaker 12 (02:34:21):
One of my favorite albums to this day, and it
came out in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (02:34:24):
It came out in nineteen ninety eight. Okay, so it
was not even five. Yeh geez. Oh, well, okay, grandpa,
Oh okay, wex he's great.

Speaker 6 (02:34:32):
Correct, he's great grandpa.

Speaker 5 (02:34:34):
It's all good. Oh man, you're catching all sorts of straights.

Speaker 12 (02:34:36):
Well we got Matt Thomas. Or here's our fun uncle,
so we got this. Now we got great grandpa.

Speaker 5 (02:34:40):
We're well, technically he's our dirty, dirty uncle. That's right.

Speaker 4 (02:34:43):
The things he's texted me during the last two breaks
and segments, frankly, just he's just I love Matt Thomas,
all right. I feel better about Texas than I did
at the beginning of the week. And it has nothing
to do with that five hundred and fifty found dollar
bet that was laid on them.

Speaker 5 (02:35:01):
By the way, Jay Pharaoh was very impressed when I
told him that.

Speaker 4 (02:35:04):
I said, you're not a big college fan, are you,
And he goes, Nope, he's a pro guy like me.
We're very similar in that way, although I like baseball
and he apparently doesn't really keep this in mind.

Speaker 6 (02:35:14):
We were talking about it during stone cold Locks, about
the line and the wagers you were mentioning and how
much it's shifted, and just last segment, I gave you
my game day pick of the week and stuck with
the Longhorns minus one and a half. Jesse responded on
the X platform and said, hey, WEX and he showed
me a screencap of this site he was looking at.
They're not favored by one and a half, totally different number.

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And that's kind of the point that pick them in making.
It's just whenever in the day today you've looked and
wanted to make a play versus five minutes from then,
it's all over the place.

Speaker 5 (02:35:49):
That doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 6 (02:35:50):
And he was looking at some site that had them
at last one. Do you play that even harder?

Speaker 4 (02:35:55):
Well, yeah, do you think that after this game tomorrow,
because again it's hard to even ask this because, like you, like,
we all know the games after this for a large
portion of the calendar, Texas should roll if they're a
good football team.

Speaker 6 (02:36:13):
I mean for a while a month, that's what I mean.
That's a large just a third of the counts the
third of the season. Basically four months, four games, a
third of the season, but four three to Florida. Well,
they play three more games, so the first four games
proceed their fifth game, which is Florida at Florida.

Speaker 4 (02:36:30):
And you so, I guess it doesn't sound like cole
things are going to be Florida.

Speaker 6 (02:36:34):
Well, Florida is a presumably they're a good football team.
All indications are they going to have good quarterback play.
That's a good football team. And that's what I'm getting
at every team inside the every game inside the SEC,
except for the Arkansas game if you have it on
your schedule after Pittman gets fired, the Mississippi State game
because they're still at the bottom of the barrel Kentucky.
Both Mississippi State and Kentucky are on Texas schedule. But

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I like Diego pove as much as the next guy,
but they're not coming to Austin and upsetting the Longhorns
as heavy underdogs. By the way, Arkansas is also on
the Longhorn schedule.

Speaker 4 (02:37:07):
But at this point, like unless you're playing other game
like this in the opening week, for you, you're playing a
bunch of cupcakes for a month, and so you don't misarily.

Speaker 6 (02:37:18):
Confidence lines all of their games up at the beginning
of the season.

Speaker 5 (02:37:22):
That's true, that's fair.

Speaker 6 (02:37:23):
It's very much a staple of the SEC to have
Samford in November or whenever, or Coastal Carolina one of
just it happens very often in Louisiana Monroe. Like the
Longhorns play Louisiana Monroe, they play them in the first month.
A team in the SEC might schedule them for later.
Another team in the SEC, obviously, the Longhorns are also

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and not only that, the three games they have after tomorrow,
they're all in Austin, San Jose, State, UTEP, Sam Houston combined.

Speaker 4 (02:37:52):
They'll be favored by more than one hundred points in
those three games. I'd like to go to the Sam
Houston game and wear orange.

Speaker 6 (02:37:57):
Well, you don't have to go far to see sam
you know.

Speaker 5 (02:38:00):
That right, isn't that?

Speaker 6 (02:38:01):
Uh, it's right downtown Houston tomorrow night their home open
their home openers tomorrow or tomorrow night at show Energy.

Speaker 5 (02:38:09):
Well they're remodeling.

Speaker 6 (02:38:11):
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:38:12):
Did you see the old Uh of course you didn't
the old football stadium. No what they tore down, because
the tear down it was. I don't think it's ours.

Speaker 5 (02:38:20):
They wear on the press box, just like Damiko said, Well,
I called a lot of games in that press box.
That's a little sad for me.

Speaker 6 (02:38:27):
I only did I think I.

Speaker 5 (02:38:28):
Called games in that press box.

Speaker 6 (02:38:31):
I may have been to a game there. I've been
there to do a story. I drove up there to
do a story one time, and I've been to. I've
actually covered more games in Johnson Coliseum because Yates would
play Silsby or whichever other for a team they were
going to mop the floor with Deep in the playoffs
every year, and they'd always play the games up there.

Speaker 12 (02:38:47):
I played three high school football games there at hours.

Speaker 4 (02:38:50):
One time I interviewed Willy Fritz and made him cry.
And before that I interviewed his daughter talking about him
because she was on the dance team there.

Speaker 6 (02:38:58):
How about Willy after number one? This year is on
the field after the game with both of his grandkids,
Grant and Enzo.

Speaker 4 (02:39:07):
Yeah, that was a all around good night and it
was very much posted all over social.

Speaker 6 (02:39:12):
Yeah, very cool. And they don't have to leave town
for this next game or their third game. They do
have Rice next week. We'll obviously have that on the
family of networks. We do have the Longhorn game tomorrow
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety beginning at ten
am five thirty. Coverage time starts tomorrow evening on nine
to fifty for LSU and Clemson and the other big
game of the weekend, Notre Dame in Miami. I'll go Texas, Clemson,

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Notre Dame. I'll do the same Texas, LSU, Notre Dame.
I have the astros on deck for he picks LSU
in all three games.

Speaker 5 (02:39:47):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 6 (02:39:48):
The e Awk's LSU signed Chris Gordy. I got the
astros on deck show for you coming up

Speaker 7 (02:39:53):
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