September 11, 2025 • 45 mins
Wex and AC react on a short show to the loss against Toronto, the Texans' status for Week 2 on Monday Night Football and Home Alone conversations!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.
So Adam Clinton and Adam Whitfler are the A team.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, I don't say this very often. Six o'clock hour
underway for the eight team. It is sports Talk seven
to ninety on a Thursday. After the Astros again disappointing,
a flight out of town, this time from Canada. They'll
go to Atlanta after a six to nothing defeat at
the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays, they dropped two
out of three. If the Mariners win tonight, they will
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be tied. By the way you were mentioning earlier, the
Astros right now have seventy nine wins. I feel like
this is the longest it's ever taken to get to
eighty wins in like a decade.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Not been many seasons like this, obviously the last year.
A couple times during this Golden era they've taken into
the final week of the season to make sure they
won the division, figure out exactly where they would be
in the postseason. Last year they actually didn't even play
Game one sixty two. But yeah, finishing a season with
the win total they're likely to finish with. Let's say
they go crazy and go ten and five to finish
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the season. Well, that leaves them shy of ninety wins.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well, the year before they won the World Series is
the lowest win total that wasn't obviously a COVID shortened season.
They won eighty four games that year, and that was
a year they missed the playoffs after losing to the Royals.
The year prior in the in the Alds, seventy nine
wins with how many fifteen games after five series? Fifteen games?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, I don't really Again, the win total obviously is
going to be what it is. It's not really relevant
other than where is it landam in the standing?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I couldn't even guess, and they might. This might mean
they make the postseason by winning the division. And I
still couldn't tell you what they're going to finish with
this year. I have no clue how to predict this
team on any given night, only other as just to
say that, but they're not going to probably score a
lot of runs the rest of the way, because they've
given me no reason to think they will.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Angels at Mariners tonight and obviously for the next three games.
That's a four game series that begins tonight Rangers off
today they begin a three game series with the Mets.
Mets have fallen on such hard times recently that the
Rangers will open that series with them tomorrow night. With
a better record seventy seven and seventy. I'm taking a
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little bit of a leap should the Mets not win tonight,
they're about underway with the Affhillies.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That'd be a sweep, right if you lose that game. Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So that's where things stand, and again there's a few
other teams potentially the Astros could be concerned with if
they do fall out of the division lead, if they
are still trying to cling to that last spot, because
the last spots to be claimed again Boston, nobody's clinched,
but the odds of the Blue Jays, Red Sox, Yankees,
and Tigers making the postseason are very very high. Three
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teams from the Al East will make it, will win
the division, and Toronto's trying to make sure that that
is them. They've been able to because of taking two
out of three from the Astros kind of maintain their
standing there. And both the Red Sox and Yankees are
three and a half games better than anybody else in
the wildcard race, so that leaves the Astros or Mariners
or Rangers to win the division and one other spot
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in the playoffs remains. Could be two teams in this
division fighting for it along with two teams in the
Central fighting for it because the Royals, Guardians, Astros, Rangers, Mariners,
that's the group that's still not quite out and clearly
not quite in Texans and Bucks mentioned that is coming
up this weekend and it is the home opener for Houston.
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Probably would prefer not to start the season zero and two.
And you were talking about the Chiefs yesterday maybe starting
the season zero and twos. They lost to the Chargers
Friday night, and now they have the Eagles coming to
town this weekend and didn't say it yesterday we were
moving on to different things. I think I would feel
the same way for both teams. Oh and two's already
a little bit of a hurdle record wise, because there's
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our I mean, when the Texans play their Monday night
game and it comes to a conclusion, as we're saying
today about the Astros, we'll be saying the same thing
about the Texans. It's only fifteen games left. I mean,
think about what those games mean when you put it
into that kind of perspective, the Astros are trying to
get to the postseason. They only get But in the NFL,
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it does seem like if you've played good football despite
not winning, it's a hurdle you're up against for where
you're gonna finish. But you might be playing good football
and you might still believe that you can go win
the upcoming games like you could have or maybe should
have won the previous game. Your margin foreer kind of
goes away. Every time you're in a game late and
you feel like we're in position to win it, you
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better win it, you know. It's like the Astros earlier
in this series when they had a three to one
lead in the ninth inning, Well, you have played them
for two and a half hours, we'll just finish it off.
If you're in an NFL game, you've got played them
for two and a half hours and you're up thirty one,
Like the Ravens. The Ravens are playing really, really good football,
but they didn't finish and now they have to go
into next week's game at oh and one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I still can't believe with the video game numbers that
were put up by their quarterback and running back in
that game that they lost.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, it was, as he said himself, the running back
he fumbled. There there's no way that that should result
in a fumble. And similar to the Texans fumble, I
will give the other team credit. He didn't just drop
the football. Oh, it was fortunate Ed Oliver went and
made a play on the ball.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And it's all. You're supposed to have many game at
Oliver by the way, he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He hadn't notice He's not a pretty good NFL career
there on the interior for the Buffalo Bills. Wanted to
give you a little bit of what was heard earlier today.
I was over at the Texans facility for the brief
viewing portion of practice and then when Tamiko Ryans hit
the podium, CJ Stroud hit the podium, which he will
do normally on Wednesdays, but the first media availability of
the week is a Thursday this week because they have
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a Monday night game. Locker room was open after that,
but decided to make my way to Carbock pizza and
pints instead of hanging out and they're too long Ultimately
to end up back here to discuss things with you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
CJ.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Stride was pretty honest about things today, very good mood
and kind of laughing about a couple of things that
he said, not about the football, but he talked about
the huge boxing event coming up this weekend. I think
he unfortunately and unintentionally dropped the nickname for a Jared
Patterson on the media today. But he also talked about
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the reality of what outsiders think and what is being said,
which again you try not to pay attention to, but
it's inevitable that you are aware of it. So he
kind of walked everybody through, like what do you want
us to do? So we're all in one and he
starts to comment thus kind of like what.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
We're gonna sit here and cry about it? It is,
it's the NFL is part of the game. We play
really bad and we still had a chance to win.
That shows, I think, to our team how talented we
are and how good we can be. And it's one week.
And I'm not the person to just give a whole
bunch like give a whole bunch of grace and no
true and whole bunch of truth and no grace. I'm
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a little bit of both, So yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Know what to say.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I think for me, I'm just I've been in this
on this team myself. I've been positioning a bunch where
everybody thinks you suck and whatever they want to think. Cool,
y'all go ahead and do that. We're gonna continue to grind.
If we lay an egg again, we're gonna get back up.
We're gonna trust each other. It really doesn't matter whatever
else thinks, so you know, it takes time to build.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, he's saying all the right things he should be
saying what he's saying there. However, if they do lay
another egg, and I'm specifically talking about his side of
the football, because I have no doubt my mind, the
defense is gonna be up to the challenge of trying
to contain Baker Mayfield, It's gonna be a lot different
next week when he's got I mean, I'm sure he'll
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say the right things as he always does. He's pretty
good about and I'm not even gonna call it players speak.
CJ's been pretty good since becoming the starting quarterback of
the Texans as far as what he says to and
with the media.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I wouldn't land on their egg this week.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, saying all that non monetary wager. Texans went on
the road and gave up fourteen points. They're coming back
home to take on the Bucks, a playoff team from
a year ago one to OH football team scored twenty
three points last week beating the Atlanta Falcons. The Texans
will allow more or less to this week's opponent.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
They will allow more than they did to the Rams,
but less than the Falcons allowed them to score last week.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well just relative to their own work. Seventeen to twenty range.
So you know where it's coming from me. So the
defense is going to be worse.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean, if you want to say that, what if
follow me here, what if they have two interceptions and
a fumble.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That they don't recover.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You can give up all the points you want if
you're turning the other team over and you're scoring points
of it. And they get unable to do that. Last
week they nearly did. They turned the Rams over in
the red zone, and the Texans, had they been able
to not turn it over themselves, we're going to put
something on the board or have a fourth down play
from inside the twenty, and that would have been points
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off turnover.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
They didn't have any last week.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It's I'm not saying it's mandatory, but the more this
offense looks like it is, it's starting to feel a
little bit like it might be right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So, you know, say they do cause or they have
two interceptions, that's totally plausible, by the way, with their
defense and who their secondary.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Is, they're not going to go all season without one,
and how and how much Baker likes to throw the
football primarily.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But say they had two interceptions and they still give
up twenty points.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That the math is mathing there.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
If you think about it, that just means that they
didn't get to finish those drives, but they still completed
some other drives.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, go ahead, give up points if you're going to
turn them over, and that means you scored more points.
Help out your offense. And that was one of the
things that CJ. Also it wasn't specific to the defense,
wanted to get into a very specific answer to a
very good question about what is something or what are
you focused in on needing to see improvement from from
your offense this upcoming week. Thought it gave you a
very correct, accurate, and properly thought out answer to one thing.
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The Texans offense led by c J. Stroud and now
Nick Cayley needs to be better at this upcoming Monday
night against Tampa Bay Bucks.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We'll hit on that week. Come back here on the
A Team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety he.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Had a drums day swing low and the trump pitchday
you go, and the trump pitch that you go.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It is the eight Team Sports Talk seven nine special
six o'clock hour edition.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Should we call this A team? After Dark? I know
it's not dark outside yet, but it feels like we're
on just so late compared to when we normally are.
We were we had to do a little bit of
a shuffle today with our schedule and that's why we
are back here at the studio and taking you until
seven o'clock tonight. But nonetheless no shortage of topics to
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talk about, although the Texans and the Astros have dominated
all of the conversations so far, mainly because of the
Astros just absolute futility on offense. And I said this
yesterday and I still believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You can talk about guys needing to round back into
form after injuries and all that. I'm sorry, Like with
the exception of Estak Perettis, and I know that's a
very big exception. You get Carlos Korea in a trade, who,
by the way, is still driving in runs, sometimes of
the long ball variety.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
He did have back to back home run games in
this series.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
If you get yourd On Alvarez back and he starts
doing what he's doing from a number standpoint, you get
Jeremy Pania back, you get Jake Myers back. These are
all the things that we were saying one at a time.
All these guys are back, and it hasn't meant squat.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
That's the unfortunate part about it. And again, only so
much we can dive sect and get into and what
is your spot a left with jose al Tuve not
in the lineup yesterday, Jose al Tuve back in the
lineup today? About and clean up. There's only so much
the manager can do. You can say, hey, he's in
a slump. You got to play Ureus. Ureus has produced
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almost the exact same numbers, are not worse than Altuve,
and you're not likely to get you can't.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You're the manager. This is who Dana Brown has given you.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And I'm not saying that to take a shot at
Dana quite the opposite. He doesn't make the moves, he
doesn't put the roster together. He helps decide who maybe
stays with the club and goes when they've got to
make moves due to injuries and they need an extra arm.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
But this is what he has to work with. He
can't make guys hit better.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And for all the the negativity that's been sent at
Christian Walker and Yaner Diaz well Carlos Karea, yan Diaz
and Christian Walker have been the Astros' three most productive
hitters in their last forty nine games played without Esak Peretis.
They're the ones who actually have been getting things done.
And while Yaner was like everybody else today not doing anything,
he had five hits in the first two games of
this series. He nearly had two home runs and yesterday's win,
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one of them going off the very top of the
wall and the other one won the game for them
in the ninth inning. And even though Christian Walker is
the absolute king, unchallenged of non productive outs, if there's
guys on base and in scoring position, he's going to
pop up or strike out, you can pretty much bank
on it. It's very unfortunate that that's been the calling
card of his season. He's gonna have some career worst
numbers in some very key areas when this season comes
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to a conclusion. But during this stretch where the Astros
have struggled to score runs, it's absolutely not on those
three guys. But that's only thirty three percent of the
guys that are batting every single day. There's six other
spots in the order. No matter if it's decks show uffling,
Joe is done, the results have remained the same. Jake
Myers's return, he's not doing anything. Arremy Panna has returned
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for a long time now, has not been the same
player that he was prior to injury, for whatever reasons
those might be, and on down the line again, over
and over and over. We could discuss those things, but
back to the football side of it before we jump
back strictly into the Texans, kind of laid out a
couple of the other items in this division or maybe
even inside the AFC for this weekend. The Jaguars and
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the Colts are the two teams in this division that
have a chance to start the season two and zero.
Jaguars are on the road at the extremely uninspiring one
to zero Cincinnati Bengals. Bengals had the Joe Flaccos, and
despite doing very little offensively, the Bengals had enough to
beat that football team. The Indianapolis Colts played the almost
already in disarray Miami Dolphins, struggling to find possible trade
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homes for Tyreek Hill because of his off the field issues.
You don't say, but that's who the Colts man handled,
and they did manhandle them. That was the most lopsided,
one sided, embarrassing performance that a team put together in
the opening week, and the Colts took advantage of it.
But they play a Broncos team who visits Indianapolis. The
Broncos defense made Tennessee look pretty bad, and I don't
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think it was all them. I do think it was
his first game and a lot of other things that
did not go well for the Titans all played into it.
But the Titans defense made the Broncos look bad. Too
awful day of work for bo Nicks to turnovers. Their
offense was extremely disjointed and just couldn't put a whole
lot together. They also won because they only needed thirteen
points to win. They ended up scoring twenty, but the
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uninspiring Broncos are all that stands in the way of
the Colts starting the season two and oh and the
uninspiring Bengals the only thing that stands in the way
of the Jaguars going to and Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I that's an interesting matchup because of what happened in
Week one. The Jags looked good. I put a question
mark on the end of that.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
On it they make Bryce Young look bad? Or is
Bryce Young in that offense bad? Huba Hubbard's okay, and
he ended up having an okay day, But I don't
know that. Besides Teed McMillan, who played in his first
NFL game, doesn't really seem like there's anybody to throw
the ball to for Carolina and the Bryce Young just
the cold hard numbers from his game. If you didn't
have a chance to watch it, it's just one drive
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after the other where they couldn't put anything together, a
couple of plays, punt in completion, no yards in completion, punt.
They just didn't do anything, and his individual numbers reflect
that it was not a very good day for him.
It was an awful day for their offense, and some
of it I do think Jacksonville has a good front seven,
definitely good edge rushers, and I know that had something
to do with it, But I do think the Colts
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and the Jaguars took advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Of just two their hands.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Here'd they get weak with? It's all we know who
they have week one two teams that aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Everything you just said about Bryce Young, you could say,
you could describe it, and you would you tell somebody
you're not telling them who you're talking about, and it
would have applied to Joe Burrow last week. Not saying
they're the same thing, obviously, what I'm saying is Joe
Burrow's got a crappy offensive line too, and it makes.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This one feel that Bryce's offensive line is the reason
he's bad.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well that exactly. That's fair to say as well. But
meaning all of this is to say Jack's Bengals, I'm
gonna keep an eye on that. I'm gonna keep a
big eye on that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
We're only one day out from a stone cold locks
do that again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Still pretty picking that game though more than available to you.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
College football game of the Week will be the what
should be an entertaining game between Notre Dame and Texas
A and M a few other games of note. I'll
take in another college game this weekend. We'll head to
Austin for that. Obviously, we're now also an hour and
change plus a day away from the Cougars taking all
the Colorado Buffalo's tomorrow night Friday evening over at to
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td ECU Stadium. Is they try to get to three
and zero and obviously along with it open up. They're
a big twelve slate with a victory, send Colorado down
to one and two in the process to the Texans.
And what I was mentioning about, c J. Stroud has
asked a question very specifically Terrence Harris, asking him about
what does his unit, his offense, the offense, what do
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they need to what are they focused on? What do
they need to do better this upcoming week? And I
know I've brought it up for three years. It was
very interesting for me to hear STJ bring it up
today and note that it has been there for three years.
This is what he said they need to be better at.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We got to help kills out, man.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I think that's my biggest thing personally, and I think
for the guys is not getting it's what player you're
going to call it second and fifteen, second to twenty five,
and we had these problems for years, you know, so
third and fourteen, third and twelve. You can't live in that,
and we do, our coaches discourtesy of that. When when when,
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And that's controllable by us. So I think that's a start.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So that's a start, and one item that comment before
he really dig into what he said. If I'm asked
sometime in the future, and hopefully I will be, and
I'll do my best with my fading memory to recall
this by saying it out loud. Here on the eleventh
of September of twenty twenty five, mid afternoon, when he
actually uttered it, not necessarily when you heard it, it's
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six twenty four here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
When did CJ. Stroud become a veteran? When did he
become a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a
little bit more of the other side of his career
as an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It's been a problem for us for years. When he
said that line, and when I heard him say it
this afternoon, that sounds like somebody who started their career
six to seven to eight years ago, not thirty some
odd games ago, not out of the mouth of the babes,
but he's totally correct. The offense that he ran for
two years with Bobby Slowick, and he brought up Bobby
when we were talking with him about the Tampa Bay
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game two years ago, you know, cited saying Bobby called
some great plays. He basically put the ball in my hands,
and that's what I like. And we had some good
look books and we got guys making plays and that's
what we want. So it's not always throwing shade at
the departed offensive coordinator from inside the Texans building, but
specific to that comment, he's totally right. Bobby slowk first
time play caller in year one, Dude, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Bobby?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You really don't have third and twenty one ready to go,
ready to fire, ready to get a first down? What
about second and fifteen after a false start? Why are
you not ready to call these super award winning can't
miss plays The opening comment from CJ and that cut
I just played. We got to help KALs out. Nick
Kyley has one game under his belt calling plays. One game,
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is an offensive coordinator and he was tasked with all right,
it's first and fifteen. All right, it's second and twenty three. Okay,
it's third and fourteen all game long. So you're saying
he's wise beyond his ears. It's just it's amazing he's
I wish it weren't the case.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know what it sounds like to me, totally the
same thing you remember in the first Home Alone movie
when Kevin goes to the church and old man Marley's
there and they sit in the pew and they have
that conversation that they didn't think they'd ever have with
each other.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You know, I really don't even remember anything about the
sequence of events that Kevin did as soon as he realized,
oh my god, life is great. Nobody's here, Like, what
did he go do? What was the process? He went where?
And then he went where? And then what did the
grocery store? So he went to the grocery store because
he was responsible, well he had to, and he did
fabrics oftener of course, So what else did he do
in this process of well, I've got I can do
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whatever I want.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He enjoys his freedom at first, he eats the ice cream,
He watches Angels with Filthy Souls, and you know, snakes
gets blown away, right, and then obviously he goes to
the grocery store. That's when he almost gets hit by
the van driven by the wet bandits. You know, he's right,
He's right for the.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Wholesome duo of criminals.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So favorite part of Home Alone is hearing Joe Peshy
not cuss somehow in a PG movie. And then yeah,
he runs into old Man Marley because remember he says,
I'm not afraid anymore. And then he walks outside and
runs right into him, and he screams and runs back
in the house and gets.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Under the bed.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But the point of all this is he goes he
has the conversation with old Man Marley and they start sharing.
They start being very open and vulnerable with each other.
They are and and Kevin talks about the furnace downstairs. Yep,
he's what eight years old in this movie, and he says, quote,
it's bothered me for years, and I started.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Telling myself it's not so bad. That is perfect analogy.
That's exactly so it is that sounds the exact same
thing that CJ did. It is it really truly is
that's what he was talking about today. One game in
to his third season by the way, if you have
a seven eight year Oldish kid that likes legos, I
highly recommend purchasing the insanely expensive but worth it home
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alone Lego house, complete with a lighting kit with music.
Is there a motion part of any part of it?
What moves? Well? You remember when he has to convince
the wet bandits that there's people home. Are there any
paint cans in it?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Oh awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You put together the guts of the house that make
the movement the very first thing. And remember the Michael
Jordan cut out that he puts on top of the train. Yep,
that's on there, although it's not Michael Jordan for copyright
purposes of course. And then the record player that he
puts the mannequin head and the wig on that also,
they're all moving on the same little rig there.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
For those of you that were listening at five point
fifty five earlier this afternoon, when I guaranteed this six
o'clock hour would be fun, there go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I told you hear from CJ.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Stroud about what he personally thinks needs to get better,
and to wrap up the comments that he made about
needing to help KALs out, these are the plays that
Nick Kyley got to call right out of the gate,
first game ever as a play caller at the NFL level,
first and twenty second and seventeen, third and seventeen, which
actually was not a play because they had a delay
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of game, and then third and twenty two. Of course,
his next play call had to come on the ensuing
drive because they punted after those disastrous situations for any
oc let alone someone doing it for the very first time.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
More of CJ.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Moore on the Texans, more of the NFL weekend and
the college football weekend, and we continue here on the eighteen.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Thought for sure that Cole would play the John Williams
scored a home alone coming back.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
He's trying to get through the day, dude. It's six
point thirty on a weekday, afternoon spent, so all things considered,
we'll get into a couple of the college football games
today and then more at length tomorrow. But you know,
the game of the week, most would agree, not all,
but most would agree is probably Georgia Tennessee. But like
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I said, our college football game of the week, for
the purposes of our stone cold locks will be a
little bit later in the day, Notre Dame hosting Texas
A and M. Notre Dame. They haven't won a game
all season long. They lost their opener and were off
last week their own one.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What do you if you're a Notre Dame, don't you
hate that?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I don't. I was gonna say the same, Why would
you hate you want to have a week off? You
got after?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He got a kid quarterback, He's just gone through his
first game. It was very very I thought he played
very well and they obviously had a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
One of the best parts of that game. He was great.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And maybe it also Cole, I'm sure you'd agree, since
we brought it up the other day, maybe it gives
the you know, coach, it's second off week. You know
when we talked to the NFL coaches regularly, Hey, do
you think is maybe give you a chance to self scout,
do a little reevaluation of your thoughts. I think they
need an opportunity to self scout. Maybe our best players
should touch the ball more.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Maybe the best.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Running back in college football should get more than nine
carries in a game against a very good defense.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
That seemed like and I should have known it because
that's how it works when dealing with more or less.
His number of carries for that particular game was at
a point I'm like, this isn't even a question. And
then two drives, three drives into the game, they're handing
it off to somebody else, over and over and over.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm like, what are you doing? When did he get hurt?
I've been watching it never happened. He sounded like Donald
rumsfelt just really odd.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
A couple other games of note, Miami trying to get
to three and Oh hosting. Some people think this is
a good football team. Some people don't. South Florida their eighteenth.
They are nothing but a world beater so far this year,
and they'll have to try to do so again. And
that game between Georgia and Tennessee two two and oho
teams earlier in the day, the two thirty kick mentioned
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in the long Horns the three fifteen kick they have
UTEP coming into town. Both of those teams have split
their first two games. Obviously, the expectations for the long
Horns are that they will hit the ground running after
these next two wins. They lost their opener and did
not look very good offensively in that game. Pretty good
defensively and Patsy, Patsy, Patsy, no offense to the three
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Patsy's they're playing. This is Patsy number two. They'll be
three and one when they get into the SEC portion
of their schedule, and that'll be a pretty side uptick
in it. But I did have somebody point this out
to me, and with our discussions during the offseason, and
the fact that these particular two seasons, their first two
seasons in the SEC, the way they outfitted the schedule,
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you play all these teams in year one, then you
flip the locations and play all those same teams again
in year two. You already knew this was going to
be on the table for two consecutive seasons for Texas
as opposed to a few other teams in the conference.
If you are not good at football this year in
the SEC, you're on the Longhorn schedule. Their schedule again
calling it easy. While I know how much it means
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maybe a little bit of a stretch, it means more
you just you can't line it up any more beautifully kick.
I mean, they're not cupcakes, they're challenges, but they're lesser
talents on the teams that happen to be on their
schedule Oklahoma, for instance. I think you could argue is
the opposite end of the spectrum. They'll go into their
game this weekend against Temple, presumably moved two, three and zero.
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They'll open up SEC play the following week with the
first of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight
ranked SEC teams remaining on their eight game SEC schedule.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
By the way, hot take, Yes, cupcakes are wildly overrated.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Baked made cupcakes are perfectly fine. Just purchased nineteen dollars
cupcakes seem a bit unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
This goes more towards the shape of the treat itself.
It's there's no good way to eat it without getting
it all over your face.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, how do you do it? You take the bottom
off and then you swish it in the middle.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wait, wait, hold on one second. Why did you say
take the bottom off? Because if you take the bottom off,
why aren't you saying take the top off the top?
Because that's what you're lifting off. You're taking the top off.
You unwrap it and then you take the bottom and
you rip that part, tear that from the iced portion. No,
that's the top.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, I'm saying you take the bottom part and rip
it from underneath the top.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Yes, and then you put an ice portion, iced portion right,
and you turn it into a sandwich.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
See.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But that that right there approves my point. Why are
you making something that has to have that done to it?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Will make a cake? I can put an end too,
my portion of the conversation here. Not an icing guy.
So you're just you're a communist, is what icing like?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You have a sugar that tastes test.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Every once in a while, you you you two, and
you two will go out for a meal, maybe some
text mech somewhere. We have a few of those places
here in town. And oftentimes as the check comes, the
bill comes, they will also offer you some some cookies.
They're sure sugar. I don't like sugar, nothing but sugar.
Those the cookies that will arrive on your table. I
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there's usually currently there are usually three of us that
are eating. The family of three, three cookies will be delivered.
I will eat none of them. Another, cupcakes are are
on the are available when a piece of cake is available.
When a slice comes off and is placed on the
plate for me to eat, the icing will still be
on the plate.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
When I am finished well.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Another hot take, seeing as how we are sitting smack
dab in the middle of Texas, in Houston, where there
are very just loads of text mex options. Worst desserts
ever of any sort of cuisine, worst ever, highlighted by
something that they call Tiara Massioux, which I like to
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call cake that you took a water hose too. Let's
Tris Tristes, Sorry, not Tara Massoux. I'm sorry, I got
my I got my crappy desserts mixed. I'll help you
explain it. Here's a really, really tasty piece of cake. Now,
can you like make it super soggy?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean perfect, I love it disgusting, it's and it's
it's not even how it looks, it's a texture thing. Hey,
would you get your food pre chewed before you put
it in your mouth? So will you just skip over
that and maybe grab some flawn instead?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Soap?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
But pias like save the day for texts dessert something.
Everybody can have something, but.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Why not just have every option be awesome? Like some
other cuisines out there.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Some people enjoyed trust lunches person I personally, whenever I
see wet bread, I vehemently gag.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah you should because it's wet bread. It's not supposed
to be wet. The only thing that's supposed to make
it wet is butter and garlic or jelly or honey.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And ed and Edna did not mind wet sandwiches. Those
that can recall, I just not cupcakes. Cupcakes are awful. No, no,
I did not say that. I just don't need the
Some of them are excessively frosted.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
A cachet desserts. They're like, what's piece of cake? It's
the most okay, So there's other versions of it that
are better, So.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Let's say that you wanted to take a little man
and you want to make him a cake, and he
wanted a very special cake, like let's say it's a
minecraft cake and there were thirty and what he's gonna
get on the twenty ninth exactly exactly. Let's say there's
like forty kids go to the party and you don't
want to have leftover cake. Why not build the cake
out of cupcakes? That way every kid can have one cupcake.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Well, you're talking about soon to be seven year old.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
They're going to find a way to put any dessert
they have all over their face and clothes. Why would
we make something that makes that act easier to How do.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You make a fully cupcake cake? How do you make
that work? How do you visualize that? How do you
put it into one item? You have to line it
up properly, and you have to use unbelievable amounts of
frosting to frost it all together.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And as my grand finale is, we round out this
amazing segment. This is the official old man part of
the whole conversation. Not only do do the desserts themselves
because of the shape the aforementioned having to do all
the things to eat it without putting it all over
your face. Cupcakes suck after they've been made and they've
been taken out of that stupid pan. Yes, it's like
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scrubbing twelve individual small little pants because you have to
get into that otherwise it's not gonna get clean.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Put a little cupcake, little paper in there, and you
put the cupcake in it, and then it's all just
a little oily when it's done there.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
But when you make them, they don't. You're not putting
wax in there.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Oh, you're putting a cup You're putting in the cupcake
paper in there.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, no, you fill up the twelve.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Holes with everybody I've ever known that I've lived in
a house with both present in the past, that's not
been the case.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Because they don't know how to make proper cupcakes.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And by the way, in his audio, and I'm giving
it to Teresa, I'm not a dessert guy. I like
one type of thing, and his peanut butter cups. They're
called baking cups.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
The only other cupcake. The only other thing I like
dessert wise is cupcakes.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
All right, And there you go. Cole likes cupcakes his
only dessert desire. And I'm sure day Longhorns, yep, the
love cupcakes on their schedule. We'll see which one they
struggle to beat. Hopefully they will in fact beat them all.
And of course they're part of the family of teams
will have on our networks over the weekend. We'll get
you all squared away on that. Get to the other
item that CJ. Strout had to say about looking internally
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on what he's got to be better at this upcoming
game against the Bucks and the rest of the NFL slate,
which begins tonight with Thursday Night football should be a
good one.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
We'll get you set for that when we continue here on.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The eighteen, the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Even though we begged for it with our conversation, I
beg it still feels weird in early September.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
In September, I'll tell you what. When you're putting together
the home alone lego set. I didn't play this in
the background, did you. We watched one and two while
we were playing. I mean that, well, you have to
do it. Get there's a TV in the room. We
had lots of space. It was great.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was a great little bonding moment in which I
did ninety nine percent of the work.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
My brother built the money and falcon and he watched
all three Star Wars while building up.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, that's how you do it. Is it still together? Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Another John Williams inspiring piece of music.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
What's the best one of all time? Though? Of John Williams.
Just can't rank them, Yes, you can't.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
There is a one in one that uh being in
the water that eight people now, that one was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That's number two in my list. Indiana Jones out of
number one.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Far and Away, really far and away, well Indiana Jones
been like one, two.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Three, four five A that one? Yeah, that one? Did
you ever see when they played that down? Sell it?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
They played that and Harrison Ford it was an Awards show.
He comes out and he's got he's got like a
beard and his hair's all. He looks nothing like Indiana
Jones in other words, and he gets up there and
he deadpans that music.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Has followed me my entire life. He wasn't happy. What
a career.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
As we were mentioning some of John Williams products projects scores, Well,
there's Harry Ford and that Star Wars, a bunch of
movies Harry Ford and then Harris, Harry Ford again, and
all these Indiana Jones.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Movies Harrison which there's so many, Like AC said, there's
there's so many underrated Harrison Ford film Presumed Innocent. How
many times has he been the president? Just wonder who
his wife was in that movie? Holly McClain, three times,
Holly Gennaro, Gennaro, He's like christ I can count I
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know that he's so mad.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
He's like, you are a married woman and the secretary
walks in Hi, God bless Bruce Willis.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I'm so sad, about that anyway, what does J say.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
He needs to what does he need to improve on,
you know personally when he looks internally to how to
make the Textans better.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Personally, I gotta be better just pocket movements and you know,
checking the ball out and I need to check it
down and at the same time staying aggressive. So yeah,
I think we just need to build a rhythm early
on better, and I think it would be better from that.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I thought for sure the Indiana John's music was going
to creep up underneath him there.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
They need to build a better rhythm early. I'm not
going to reread or re air or repeat what I
said last segment. The first few plays for the Texans
were awful. Situations after awful after awful after awful. We're
scripted holding on the very first again kind of what
we call but holding on the very first play of
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the game. They actually had a six yard completion. Nick
Kaylee was about to call a second and four, but
instea there was a holding call, so it was first
and twenty and they never got it to anything less
than eighty fifteen. Yeah, but like I said, that was
on Cam Robinson on verse verse basically fell and Cam
Robinson leaned over on top of him, which is exactly
what you should do and should not have likely should
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not have been called for it. But Cija also recognized
what something that Demko brought up. The three of us
discussed it on Monday earlier this week. There appeared to
be instances, not necessarily on just the plays where he
got sacked on, but instances where the way that the
blocking scheme has worked to this point that you need
to step up in the pocket, that this is where
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the pressure is about to come from the edges and
there is work being done on the interior, or they've
pushed those guys out so there's actually not only throwing lanes,
but space for you to move up in the pocket.
He spun around reverse once and was able to play
a pass to Dalton Schultz, which was on a play
on one of several plays where a rusher came through clean.
And the more I've gone back and watched it's now Thursday,
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the more I've seen some of those clean rushers that
maybe we missed during the live action.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
There were a few more than you would hope.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
To see in any given game, and they all played
into them not getting a whole lot done. They certainly
were not in a rhythm. I wouldn't say at any
point in the game the best looking drive. They had
two of them, one at the end of the first
half which netted them a very well executed field goal
to get the lead back before halftime, and then their
last drive of the game. The execution on that drive
was very good. Now they benefited from that roughing the
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passer penalty on what would have otherwise been a third
and eleven incompletion, but it also ended with a fumble.
That's a drive killer, clearly because you don't have the football.
But they moved themselves all the way down the field
into position to have maybe as many as four opportunities
to try to put the go ahead touchdown on the board,
and ultimately we're unable to do so. Wanted to get
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a minute or two at least into tonight's game. Commanders
and Packers a handful of one to oh versus one
and oh, this is one of them. These are Super
Bowl hopefuls. Maybe it's taking a bit of a leap
with the Packers, who were a good playoff team a
year ago and now a good playoff team a year later.
With Micah Parsons is still not Probably. I would hope
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there's a point in the season, sometime in the near
future where he's even healthier and is closer to one
hundred percent. He was nowhere near it in this last game,
and he's not quite a specialist, but very close to
it early on in his Packers' career as a pass
rushing specialist. But they looked extremely good defensively against the
new look Lions. Although don't tell Dan Campbell there new
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look Lions, especially if you don't have anything else to
back up your question about it. Very well challenged by
Dan Campbell when he was asked a question this week,
do you guys think you could have just run the
same offense as last year even without the offensive coordinator
being here? Could you guys just do X? Clearly things
are very very different here. He's like, what's different? What
did you see that was different? And the reporter did
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not have an answer for that, and so he goes
he let me know what you got there on that front,
and we'll revisit this. But Packers' commanders two young quarterbacks,
Jordan Love Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
It's in Green Bay. Who wins?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I think because it's in Green Bay, I'll go with
the Packers. But if Jayden Daniels wants to make it
a sophomore non slump, if he wants to have the
encore of encores and back up all the praise he
got heaped upon him going into year two, that's a
signature win if I've ever seen one.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
It's a setup for success.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Also, Cleveland is their first road game in a week,
and then they play the Dallas Cowboys the final game
of September. I mean, there's a lot of emotions that
will go into that game, but there's also history. I mean,
Jordan Love versus Dak Prescott, that was who these teams
were when they met in the postseason a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
And in new year three.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
For Jordan Love, he didn't have to put the team
on his back by any means in their opening game
win because they handled things so well defensively. Josh Jacobs
didn't even get going until the late stages of that game.
Ultimately found his way to the end zone, which, if
you haven't noticed, that's all he does. It is remarkable
the streak he's put together of scoring touchdown and finding
his way to the end zone. I'm not sure what
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it was that the Raiders wanted to do when they
said goodbye to him, besides not pay him. But his
first two seasons as a full time start had been very,
very good. He wasn't quite as great last year like CJ,
although I thought he was better than CJ was in
year two. He was outstanding in year one. And they're
off to a one to zero start here. We got
all Friday show, obviously to get into the rest of
the NFL slate Tomorrow night's opener or Big twelve opener
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for the Cougars tomorrow night, and then onto the rest
of the college football slate, and obviously, as we began
the show a little bit after five o'clock today with
the Astros tenth inning show, three more games without another
day of rest for the Astros as they take on
the Atlanta Braves. They left Toronto without making a public
announcement of who their starting pitcher will be tomorrow, Hunter
Brown and fromber Valdez. We'll get the ball in the
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remaining two games Saturday and Sunday against the Braves, and
the last homestand of the regular season arrives next week
at Dyke And Park for the Astros, and clearly those
games like they would be huge months ago, and that's
exactly what they will be. With three games to be
played before each of those teams get there, Clearly the
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division will not have been decided by then. The possibility
that you wake up tomorrow tied at the top of
the division. That will be the case of Seattle wins.
But the remaining five series for the Astros, three with
Atlanta on the road, that six game homestand which also
comes before rest the games with the Braves and Texas
here at home six days in a row, so coupled
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with the games they've already played in a row, that's
the nine straight days of baseball. They have a home
off day before the Seattle series gets started a week
from tomorrow, and then another off day before their final
six road games of the season Tuesday through Sunday. Like
everybody else in baseball, the Athletics and the Angels will
play host to the Astros, and it's pretty much guaranteed
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when that series begins with the Athletics, the Astros, Mariners,
and Rangers will still not yet know their postseason fates.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Brutal didn't have to be this way, didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Have to be is that the didn't have to be
this way. That's been in every movie, that's not one
movie in particular.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
It's a very famous line. And he didn't have to
be this way, and then they push him off the edge.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
That didn't have to be this way, and then they
throw him off the plane. Is that like a Sylvester
saloon cliffhanger?
Speaker 6 (43:18):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Well, I don't think he said that to the woman
when he let go over on the rope at the
beginning of the movie.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Spoiler alert. She doesn't make it didn't have to be
this way and he gets played for it. Does he
say that to Apollo before he goes ding ding? He
didn't have to be this way? Now put your mouth
piece in. What would Dolph Lungern say? Would he be
able to say it that way? He would say if
he dies, he dies. That's his only line. I don't
even think he uttered anything. I fight for me. He
just says it in Russian.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
That's not English. I did not have wex doing Russian.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I will I will commit to doing some Russian for
each of our upcoming shows that air between six and
seven pm. It's a Russian folks unlikely to have very
many of those in the future. Flip it over tomorrow
and you get started with Sean Salisbury Show, the Matt
Thommys Show with Ross and we'll be back here with
you tomorrow at two o'clock. Happy to be with you
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this afternoon and all the way through until seven o'clock. Obviously,
we'll get you ready for Astros Baseball tomorrow another slightly
earlier start a Friday night in Atlanta with a six
fifteen first pitch, So we will have the Astros on
Deck Show for you tomorrow afternoon at the close of business.
On our show, we'll shuffle around our appearances with Chandler Roam.
Brian McTaggert will join us during that edition of the
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Astros on Deck Show, and we'll also get ready for
a weekend without Texans football because Monday is our unofficial
Texans pregame show.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Tomorrow's show belongs in the museum.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Okay, looking forward to it. We'll let you go out
on this you play us out.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
I don't know what that means, but to end the show,
to end the show on John, what does that mean?
All right?
Speaker 3 (44:58):
For Adam and Old my name is also Adam. And
we'll leave you with a cut off of Jon Williams'
new album Take It Away.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
The A Team one Sports Talk seven, nineteen
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.
So Adam Clinton and Adam Whitfler are the A team.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, I don't say this very often. Six o'clock hour
underway for the eight team. It is sports Talk seven
to ninety on a Thursday. After the Astros again disappointing,
a flight out of town, this time from Canada. They'll
go to Atlanta after a six to nothing defeat at
the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays, they dropped two
out of three. If the Mariners win tonight, they will
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be tied. By the way you were mentioning earlier, the
Astros right now have seventy nine wins. I feel like
this is the longest it's ever taken to get to
eighty wins in like a decade.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Not been many seasons like this, obviously the last year.
A couple times during this Golden era they've taken into
the final week of the season to make sure they
won the division, figure out exactly where they would be
in the postseason. Last year they actually didn't even play
Game one sixty two. But yeah, finishing a season with
the win total they're likely to finish with. Let's say
they go crazy and go ten and five to finish
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the season. Well, that leaves them shy of ninety wins.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well, the year before they won the World Series is
the lowest win total that wasn't obviously a COVID shortened season.
They won eighty four games that year, and that was
a year they missed the playoffs after losing to the Royals.
The year prior in the in the Alds, seventy nine
wins with how many fifteen games after five series? Fifteen games?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, I don't really Again, the win total obviously is
going to be what it is. It's not really relevant
other than where is it landam in the standing?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I couldn't even guess, and they might. This might mean
they make the postseason by winning the division. And I
still couldn't tell you what they're going to finish with
this year. I have no clue how to predict this
team on any given night, only other as just to
say that, but they're not going to probably score a
lot of runs the rest of the way, because they've
given me no reason to think they will.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Angels at Mariners tonight and obviously for the next three games.
That's a four game series that begins tonight Rangers off
today they begin a three game series with the Mets.
Mets have fallen on such hard times recently that the
Rangers will open that series with them tomorrow night. With
a better record seventy seven and seventy. I'm taking a
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little bit of a leap should the Mets not win tonight,
they're about underway with the Affhillies.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That'd be a sweep, right if you lose that game. Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So that's where things stand, and again there's a few
other teams potentially the Astros could be concerned with if
they do fall out of the division lead, if they
are still trying to cling to that last spot, because
the last spots to be claimed again Boston, nobody's clinched,
but the odds of the Blue Jays, Red Sox, Yankees,
and Tigers making the postseason are very very high. Three
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teams from the Al East will make it, will win
the division, and Toronto's trying to make sure that that
is them. They've been able to because of taking two
out of three from the Astros kind of maintain their
standing there. And both the Red Sox and Yankees are
three and a half games better than anybody else in
the wildcard race, so that leaves the Astros or Mariners
or Rangers to win the division and one other spot
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in the playoffs remains. Could be two teams in this
division fighting for it along with two teams in the
Central fighting for it because the Royals, Guardians, Astros, Rangers, Mariners,
that's the group that's still not quite out and clearly
not quite in Texans and Bucks mentioned that is coming
up this weekend and it is the home opener for Houston.
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Probably would prefer not to start the season zero and two.
And you were talking about the Chiefs yesterday maybe starting
the season zero and twos. They lost to the Chargers
Friday night, and now they have the Eagles coming to
town this weekend and didn't say it yesterday we were
moving on to different things. I think I would feel
the same way for both teams. Oh and two's already
a little bit of a hurdle record wise, because there's
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our I mean, when the Texans play their Monday night
game and it comes to a conclusion, as we're saying
today about the Astros, we'll be saying the same thing
about the Texans. It's only fifteen games left. I mean,
think about what those games mean when you put it
into that kind of perspective, the Astros are trying to
get to the postseason. They only get But in the NFL,
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it does seem like if you've played good football despite
not winning, it's a hurdle you're up against for where
you're gonna finish. But you might be playing good football
and you might still believe that you can go win
the upcoming games like you could have or maybe should
have won the previous game. Your margin foreer kind of
goes away. Every time you're in a game late and
you feel like we're in position to win it, you
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better win it, you know. It's like the Astros earlier
in this series when they had a three to one
lead in the ninth inning, Well, you have played them
for two and a half hours, we'll just finish it off.
If you're in an NFL game, you've got played them
for two and a half hours and you're up thirty one,
Like the Ravens. The Ravens are playing really, really good football,
but they didn't finish and now they have to go
into next week's game at oh and one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I still can't believe with the video game numbers that
were put up by their quarterback and running back in
that game that they lost.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, it was, as he said himself, the running back
he fumbled. There there's no way that that should result
in a fumble. And similar to the Texans fumble, I
will give the other team credit. He didn't just drop
the football. Oh, it was fortunate Ed Oliver went and
made a play on the ball.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And it's all. You're supposed to have many game at
Oliver by the way, he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He hadn't notice He's not a pretty good NFL career
there on the interior for the Buffalo Bills. Wanted to
give you a little bit of what was heard earlier today.
I was over at the Texans facility for the brief
viewing portion of practice and then when Tamiko Ryans hit
the podium, CJ Stroud hit the podium, which he will
do normally on Wednesdays, but the first media availability of
the week is a Thursday this week because they have
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a Monday night game. Locker room was open after that,
but decided to make my way to Carbock pizza and
pints instead of hanging out and they're too long Ultimately
to end up back here to discuss things with you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
CJ.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Stride was pretty honest about things today, very good mood
and kind of laughing about a couple of things that
he said, not about the football, but he talked about
the huge boxing event coming up this weekend. I think
he unfortunately and unintentionally dropped the nickname for a Jared
Patterson on the media today. But he also talked about
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the reality of what outsiders think and what is being said,
which again you try not to pay attention to, but
it's inevitable that you are aware of it. So he
kind of walked everybody through, like what do you want
us to do? So we're all in one and he
starts to comment thus kind of like what.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
We're gonna sit here and cry about it? It is,
it's the NFL is part of the game. We play
really bad and we still had a chance to win.
That shows, I think, to our team how talented we
are and how good we can be. And it's one week.
And I'm not the person to just give a whole
bunch like give a whole bunch of grace and no
true and whole bunch of truth and no grace. I'm
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a little bit of both, So yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Know what to say.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I think for me, I'm just I've been in this
on this team myself. I've been positioning a bunch where
everybody thinks you suck and whatever they want to think. Cool,
y'all go ahead and do that. We're gonna continue to grind.
If we lay an egg again, we're gonna get back up.
We're gonna trust each other. It really doesn't matter whatever
else thinks, so you know, it takes time to build.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, he's saying all the right things he should be
saying what he's saying there. However, if they do lay
another egg, and I'm specifically talking about his side of
the football, because I have no doubt my mind, the
defense is gonna be up to the challenge of trying
to contain Baker Mayfield, It's gonna be a lot different
next week when he's got I mean, I'm sure he'll
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say the right things as he always does. He's pretty
good about and I'm not even gonna call it players speak.
CJ's been pretty good since becoming the starting quarterback of
the Texans as far as what he says to and
with the media.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I wouldn't land on their egg this week.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, saying all that non monetary wager. Texans went on
the road and gave up fourteen points. They're coming back
home to take on the Bucks, a playoff team from
a year ago one to OH football team scored twenty
three points last week beating the Atlanta Falcons. The Texans
will allow more or less to this week's opponent.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
They will allow more than they did to the Rams,
but less than the Falcons allowed them to score last week.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well just relative to their own work. Seventeen to twenty range.
So you know where it's coming from me. So the
defense is going to be worse.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean, if you want to say that, what if
follow me here, what if they have two interceptions and
a fumble.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That they don't recover.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You can give up all the points you want if
you're turning the other team over and you're scoring points
of it. And they get unable to do that. Last
week they nearly did. They turned the Rams over in
the red zone, and the Texans, had they been able
to not turn it over themselves, we're going to put
something on the board or have a fourth down play
from inside the twenty, and that would have been points
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off turnover.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
They didn't have any last week.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It's I'm not saying it's mandatory, but the more this
offense looks like it is, it's starting to feel a
little bit like it might be right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So, you know, say they do cause or they have
two interceptions, that's totally plausible, by the way, with their
defense and who their secondary.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Is, they're not going to go all season without one,
and how and how much Baker likes to throw the
football primarily.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But say they had two interceptions and they still give
up twenty points.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That the math is mathing there.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
If you think about it, that just means that they
didn't get to finish those drives, but they still completed
some other drives.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, go ahead, give up points if you're going to
turn them over, and that means you scored more points.
Help out your offense. And that was one of the
things that CJ. Also it wasn't specific to the defense,
wanted to get into a very specific answer to a
very good question about what is something or what are
you focused in on needing to see improvement from from
your offense this upcoming week. Thought it gave you a
very correct, accurate, and properly thought out answer to one thing.
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The Texans offense led by c J. Stroud and now
Nick Cayley needs to be better at this upcoming Monday
night against Tampa Bay Bucks.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We'll hit on that week. Come back here on the
A Team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety he.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Had a drums day swing low and the trump pitchday
you go, and the trump pitch that you go.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It is the eight Team Sports Talk seven nine special
six o'clock hour edition.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Should we call this A team? After Dark? I know
it's not dark outside yet, but it feels like we're
on just so late compared to when we normally are.
We were we had to do a little bit of
a shuffle today with our schedule and that's why we
are back here at the studio and taking you until
seven o'clock tonight. But nonetheless no shortage of topics to
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talk about, although the Texans and the Astros have dominated
all of the conversations so far, mainly because of the
Astros just absolute futility on offense. And I said this
yesterday and I still believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You can talk about guys needing to round back into
form after injuries and all that. I'm sorry, Like with
the exception of Estak Perettis, and I know that's a
very big exception. You get Carlos Korea in a trade, who,
by the way, is still driving in runs, sometimes of
the long ball variety.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
He did have back to back home run games in
this series.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
If you get yourd On Alvarez back and he starts
doing what he's doing from a number standpoint, you get
Jeremy Pania back, you get Jake Myers back. These are
all the things that we were saying one at a time.
All these guys are back, and it hasn't meant squat.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
That's the unfortunate part about it. And again, only so
much we can dive sect and get into and what
is your spot a left with jose al Tuve not
in the lineup yesterday, Jose al Tuve back in the
lineup today? About and clean up. There's only so much
the manager can do. You can say, hey, he's in
a slump. You got to play Ureus. Ureus has produced
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almost the exact same numbers, are not worse than Altuve,
and you're not likely to get you can't.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You're the manager. This is who Dana Brown has given you.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
And I'm not saying that to take a shot at
Dana quite the opposite. He doesn't make the moves, he
doesn't put the roster together. He helps decide who maybe
stays with the club and goes when they've got to
make moves due to injuries and they need an extra arm.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
But this is what he has to work with. He
can't make guys hit better.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And for all the the negativity that's been sent at
Christian Walker and Yaner Diaz well Carlos Karea, yan Diaz
and Christian Walker have been the Astros' three most productive
hitters in their last forty nine games played without Esak Peretis.
They're the ones who actually have been getting things done.
And while Yaner was like everybody else today not doing anything,
he had five hits in the first two games of
this series. He nearly had two home runs and yesterday's win,
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one of them going off the very top of the
wall and the other one won the game for them
in the ninth inning. And even though Christian Walker is
the absolute king, unchallenged of non productive outs, if there's
guys on base and in scoring position, he's going to
pop up or strike out, you can pretty much bank
on it. It's very unfortunate that that's been the calling
card of his season. He's gonna have some career worst
numbers in some very key areas when this season comes
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to a conclusion. But during this stretch where the Astros
have struggled to score runs, it's absolutely not on those
three guys. But that's only thirty three percent of the
guys that are batting every single day. There's six other
spots in the order. No matter if it's decks show uffling,
Joe is done, the results have remained the same. Jake
Myers's return, he's not doing anything. Arremy Panna has returned
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for a long time now, has not been the same
player that he was prior to injury, for whatever reasons
those might be, and on down the line again, over
and over and over. We could discuss those things, but
back to the football side of it before we jump
back strictly into the Texans, kind of laid out a
couple of the other items in this division or maybe
even inside the AFC for this weekend. The Jaguars and
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the Colts are the two teams in this division that
have a chance to start the season two and zero.
Jaguars are on the road at the extremely uninspiring one
to zero Cincinnati Bengals. Bengals had the Joe Flaccos, and
despite doing very little offensively, the Bengals had enough to
beat that football team. The Indianapolis Colts played the almost
already in disarray Miami Dolphins, struggling to find possible trade
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homes for Tyreek Hill because of his off the field issues.
You don't say, but that's who the Colts man handled,
and they did manhandle them. That was the most lopsided,
one sided, embarrassing performance that a team put together in
the opening week, and the Colts took advantage of it.
But they play a Broncos team who visits Indianapolis. The
Broncos defense made Tennessee look pretty bad, and I don't
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think it was all them. I do think it was
his first game and a lot of other things that
did not go well for the Titans all played into it.
But the Titans defense made the Broncos look bad. Too
awful day of work for bo Nicks to turnovers. Their
offense was extremely disjointed and just couldn't put a whole
lot together. They also won because they only needed thirteen
points to win. They ended up scoring twenty, but the
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uninspiring Broncos are all that stands in the way of
the Colts starting the season two and oh and the
uninspiring Bengals the only thing that stands in the way
of the Jaguars going to and Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I that's an interesting matchup because of what happened in
Week one. The Jags looked good. I put a question
mark on the end of that.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
On it they make Bryce Young look bad? Or is
Bryce Young in that offense bad? Huba Hubbard's okay, and
he ended up having an okay day, But I don't
know that. Besides Teed McMillan, who played in his first
NFL game, doesn't really seem like there's anybody to throw
the ball to for Carolina and the Bryce Young just
the cold hard numbers from his game. If you didn't
have a chance to watch it, it's just one drive
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after the other where they couldn't put anything together, a
couple of plays, punt in completion, no yards in completion, punt.
They just didn't do anything, and his individual numbers reflect
that it was not a very good day for him.
It was an awful day for their offense, and some
of it I do think Jacksonville has a good front seven,
definitely good edge rushers, and I know that had something
to do with it, But I do think the Colts
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and the Jaguars took advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Of just two their hands.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Here'd they get weak with? It's all we know who
they have week one two teams that aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Everything you just said about Bryce Young, you could say,
you could describe it, and you would you tell somebody
you're not telling them who you're talking about, and it
would have applied to Joe Burrow last week. Not saying
they're the same thing, obviously, what I'm saying is Joe
Burrow's got a crappy offensive line too, and it makes.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This one feel that Bryce's offensive line is the reason
he's bad.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well that exactly. That's fair to say as well. But
meaning all of this is to say Jack's Bengals, I'm
gonna keep an eye on that. I'm gonna keep a
big eye on that.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
We're only one day out from a stone cold locks
do that again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Still pretty picking that game though more than available to you.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
College football game of the Week will be the what
should be an entertaining game between Notre Dame and Texas
A and M a few other games of note. I'll
take in another college game this weekend. We'll head to
Austin for that. Obviously, we're now also an hour and
change plus a day away from the Cougars taking all
the Colorado Buffalo's tomorrow night Friday evening over at to
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td ECU Stadium. Is they try to get to three
and zero and obviously along with it open up. They're
a big twelve slate with a victory, send Colorado down
to one and two in the process to the Texans.
And what I was mentioning about, c J. Stroud has
asked a question very specifically Terrence Harris, asking him about
what does his unit, his offense, the offense, what do
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they need to what are they focused on? What do
they need to do better this upcoming week? And I
know I've brought it up for three years. It was
very interesting for me to hear STJ bring it up
today and note that it has been there for three years.
This is what he said they need to be better at.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
We got to help kills out, man.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I think that's my biggest thing personally, and I think
for the guys is not getting it's what player you're
going to call it second and fifteen, second to twenty five,
and we had these problems for years, you know, so
third and fourteen, third and twelve. You can't live in that,
and we do, our coaches discourtesy of that. When when when,
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And that's controllable by us. So I think that's a start.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So that's a start, and one item that comment before
he really dig into what he said. If I'm asked
sometime in the future, and hopefully I will be, and
I'll do my best with my fading memory to recall
this by saying it out loud. Here on the eleventh
of September of twenty twenty five, mid afternoon, when he
actually uttered it, not necessarily when you heard it, it's
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six twenty four here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
When did CJ. Stroud become a veteran? When did he
become a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a
little bit more of the other side of his career
as an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It's been a problem for us for years. When he
said that line, and when I heard him say it
this afternoon, that sounds like somebody who started their career
six to seven to eight years ago, not thirty some
odd games ago, not out of the mouth of the babes,
but he's totally correct. The offense that he ran for
two years with Bobby Slowick, and he brought up Bobby
when we were talking with him about the Tampa Bay
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game two years ago, you know, cited saying Bobby called
some great plays. He basically put the ball in my hands,
and that's what I like. And we had some good
look books and we got guys making plays and that's
what we want. So it's not always throwing shade at
the departed offensive coordinator from inside the Texans building, but
specific to that comment, he's totally right. Bobby slowk first
time play caller in year one, Dude, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Bobby?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You really don't have third and twenty one ready to go,
ready to fire, ready to get a first down? What
about second and fifteen after a false start? Why are
you not ready to call these super award winning can't
miss plays The opening comment from CJ and that cut
I just played. We got to help KALs out. Nick
Kyley has one game under his belt calling plays. One game,
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is an offensive coordinator and he was tasked with all right,
it's first and fifteen. All right, it's second and twenty three. Okay,
it's third and fourteen all game long. So you're saying
he's wise beyond his ears. It's just it's amazing he's
I wish it weren't the case.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know what it sounds like to me, totally the
same thing you remember in the first Home Alone movie
when Kevin goes to the church and old man Marley's
there and they sit in the pew and they have
that conversation that they didn't think they'd ever have with
each other.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You know, I really don't even remember anything about the
sequence of events that Kevin did as soon as he realized,
oh my god, life is great. Nobody's here, Like, what
did he go do? What was the process? He went where?
And then he went where? And then what did the
grocery store? So he went to the grocery store because
he was responsible, well he had to, and he did
fabrics oftener of course, So what else did he do
in this process of well, I've got I can do
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whatever I want.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He enjoys his freedom at first, he eats the ice cream,
He watches Angels with Filthy Souls, and you know, snakes
gets blown away, right, and then obviously he goes to
the grocery store. That's when he almost gets hit by
the van driven by the wet bandits. You know, he's right,
He's right for the.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Wholesome duo of criminals.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So favorite part of Home Alone is hearing Joe Peshy
not cuss somehow in a PG movie. And then yeah,
he runs into old Man Marley because remember he says,
I'm not afraid anymore. And then he walks outside and
runs right into him, and he screams and runs back
in the house and gets.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Under the bed.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But the point of all this is he goes he
has the conversation with old Man Marley and they start sharing.
They start being very open and vulnerable with each other.
They are and and Kevin talks about the furnace downstairs. Yep,
he's what eight years old in this movie, and he says, quote,
it's bothered me for years, and I started.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Telling myself it's not so bad. That is perfect analogy.
That's exactly so it is that sounds the exact same
thing that CJ did. It is it really truly is
that's what he was talking about today. One game in
to his third season by the way, if you have
a seven eight year Oldish kid that likes legos, I
highly recommend purchasing the insanely expensive but worth it home
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alone Lego house, complete with a lighting kit with music.
Is there a motion part of any part of it?
What moves? Well? You remember when he has to convince
the wet bandits that there's people home. Are there any
paint cans in it?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Oh awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You put together the guts of the house that make
the movement the very first thing. And remember the Michael
Jordan cut out that he puts on top of the train. Yep,
that's on there, although it's not Michael Jordan for copyright
purposes of course. And then the record player that he
puts the mannequin head and the wig on that also,
they're all moving on the same little rig there.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
For those of you that were listening at five point
fifty five earlier this afternoon, when I guaranteed this six
o'clock hour would be fun, there go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I told you hear from CJ.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Stroud about what he personally thinks needs to get better,
and to wrap up the comments that he made about
needing to help KALs out, these are the plays that
Nick Kyley got to call right out of the gate,
first game ever as a play caller at the NFL level,
first and twenty second and seventeen, third and seventeen, which
actually was not a play because they had a delay
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of game, and then third and twenty two. Of course,
his next play call had to come on the ensuing
drive because they punted after those disastrous situations for any
oc let alone someone doing it for the very first time.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
More of CJ.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Moore on the Texans, more of the NFL weekend and
the college football weekend, and we continue here on the eighteen.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Thought for sure that Cole would play the John Williams
scored a home alone coming back.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
He's trying to get through the day, dude. It's six
point thirty on a weekday, afternoon spent, so all things considered,
we'll get into a couple of the college football games
today and then more at length tomorrow. But you know,
the game of the week, most would agree, not all,
but most would agree is probably Georgia Tennessee. But like
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I said, our college football game of the week, for
the purposes of our stone cold locks will be a
little bit later in the day, Notre Dame hosting Texas
A and M. Notre Dame. They haven't won a game
all season long. They lost their opener and were off
last week their own one.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What do you if you're a Notre Dame, don't you
hate that?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I don't. I was gonna say the same, Why would
you hate you want to have a week off? You
got after?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He got a kid quarterback, He's just gone through his
first game. It was very very I thought he played
very well and they obviously had a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
One of the best parts of that game. He was great.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
And maybe it also Cole, I'm sure you'd agree, since
we brought it up the other day, maybe it gives
the you know, coach, it's second off week. You know
when we talked to the NFL coaches regularly, Hey, do
you think is maybe give you a chance to self scout,
do a little reevaluation of your thoughts. I think they
need an opportunity to self scout. Maybe our best players
should touch the ball more.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Maybe the best.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Running back in college football should get more than nine
carries in a game against a very good defense.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
That seemed like and I should have known it because
that's how it works when dealing with more or less.
His number of carries for that particular game was at
a point I'm like, this isn't even a question. And
then two drives, three drives into the game, they're handing
it off to somebody else, over and over and over.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm like, what are you doing? When did he get hurt?
I've been watching it never happened. He sounded like Donald
rumsfelt just really odd.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
A couple other games of note, Miami trying to get
to three and Oh hosting. Some people think this is
a good football team. Some people don't. South Florida their eighteenth.
They are nothing but a world beater so far this year,
and they'll have to try to do so again. And
that game between Georgia and Tennessee two two and oho
teams earlier in the day, the two thirty kick mentioned
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in the long Horns the three fifteen kick they have
UTEP coming into town. Both of those teams have split
their first two games. Obviously, the expectations for the long
Horns are that they will hit the ground running after
these next two wins. They lost their opener and did
not look very good offensively in that game. Pretty good
defensively and Patsy, Patsy, Patsy, no offense to the three
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Patsy's they're playing. This is Patsy number two. They'll be
three and one when they get into the SEC portion
of their schedule, and that'll be a pretty side uptick
in it. But I did have somebody point this out
to me, and with our discussions during the offseason, and
the fact that these particular two seasons, their first two
seasons in the SEC, the way they outfitted the schedule,
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you play all these teams in year one, then you
flip the locations and play all those same teams again
in year two. You already knew this was going to
be on the table for two consecutive seasons for Texas
as opposed to a few other teams in the conference.
If you are not good at football this year in
the SEC, you're on the Longhorn schedule. Their schedule again
calling it easy. While I know how much it means
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maybe a little bit of a stretch, it means more
you just you can't line it up any more beautifully kick.
I mean, they're not cupcakes, they're challenges, but they're lesser
talents on the teams that happen to be on their
schedule Oklahoma, for instance. I think you could argue is
the opposite end of the spectrum. They'll go into their
game this weekend against Temple, presumably moved two, three and zero.
(28:00):
They'll open up SEC play the following week with the
first of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight
ranked SEC teams remaining on their eight game SEC schedule.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
By the way, hot take, Yes, cupcakes are wildly overrated.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Baked made cupcakes are perfectly fine. Just purchased nineteen dollars
cupcakes seem a bit unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
This goes more towards the shape of the treat itself.
It's there's no good way to eat it without getting
it all over your face.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, how do you do it? You take the bottom
off and then you swish it in the middle.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wait, wait, hold on one second. Why did you say
take the bottom off? Because if you take the bottom off,
why aren't you saying take the top off the top?
Because that's what you're lifting off. You're taking the top off.
You unwrap it and then you take the bottom and
you rip that part, tear that from the iced portion. No,
that's the top.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, I'm saying you take the bottom part and rip
it from underneath the top.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Yes, and then you put an ice portion, iced portion right,
and you turn it into a sandwich.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
See.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But that that right there approves my point. Why are
you making something that has to have that done to it?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Will make a cake? I can put an end too,
my portion of the conversation here. Not an icing guy.
So you're just you're a communist, is what icing like?
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You have a sugar that tastes test.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Every once in a while, you you you two, and
you two will go out for a meal, maybe some
text mech somewhere. We have a few of those places
here in town. And oftentimes as the check comes, the
bill comes, they will also offer you some some cookies.
They're sure sugar. I don't like sugar, nothing but sugar.
Those the cookies that will arrive on your table. I
(29:42):
there's usually currently there are usually three of us that
are eating. The family of three, three cookies will be delivered.
I will eat none of them. Another, cupcakes are are
on the are available when a piece of cake is available.
When a slice comes off and is placed on the
plate for me to eat, the icing will still be
on the plate.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
When I am finished well.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Another hot take, seeing as how we are sitting smack
dab in the middle of Texas, in Houston, where there
are very just loads of text mex options. Worst desserts
ever of any sort of cuisine, worst ever, highlighted by
something that they call Tiara Massioux, which I like to
(30:21):
call cake that you took a water hose too. Let's
Tris Tristes, Sorry, not Tara Massoux. I'm sorry, I got
my I got my crappy desserts mixed. I'll help you
explain it. Here's a really, really tasty piece of cake. Now,
can you like make it super soggy?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean perfect, I love it disgusting, it's and it's
it's not even how it looks, it's a texture thing. Hey,
would you get your food pre chewed before you put
it in your mouth? So will you just skip over
that and maybe grab some flawn instead?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Soap?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
But pias like save the day for texts dessert something.
Everybody can have something, but.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Why not just have every option be awesome? Like some
other cuisines out there.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Some people enjoyed trust lunches person I personally, whenever I
see wet bread, I vehemently gag.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah you should because it's wet bread. It's not supposed
to be wet. The only thing that's supposed to make
it wet is butter and garlic or jelly or honey.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
And ed and Edna did not mind wet sandwiches. Those
that can recall, I just not cupcakes. Cupcakes are awful. No, no,
I did not say that. I just don't need the
Some of them are excessively frosted.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
A cachet desserts. They're like, what's piece of cake? It's
the most okay, So there's other versions of it that
are better, So.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Let's say that you wanted to take a little man
and you want to make him a cake, and he
wanted a very special cake, like let's say it's a
minecraft cake and there were thirty and what he's gonna
get on the twenty ninth exactly exactly. Let's say there's
like forty kids go to the party and you don't
want to have leftover cake. Why not build the cake
out of cupcakes? That way every kid can have one cupcake.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Well, you're talking about soon to be seven year old.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
They're going to find a way to put any dessert
they have all over their face and clothes. Why would
we make something that makes that act easier to How do.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You make a fully cupcake cake? How do you make
that work? How do you visualize that? How do you
put it into one item? You have to line it
up properly, and you have to use unbelievable amounts of
frosting to frost it all together.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And as my grand finale is, we round out this
amazing segment. This is the official old man part of
the whole conversation. Not only do do the desserts themselves
because of the shape the aforementioned having to do all
the things to eat it without putting it all over
your face. Cupcakes suck after they've been made and they've
been taken out of that stupid pan. Yes, it's like
(32:42):
scrubbing twelve individual small little pants because you have to
get into that otherwise it's not gonna get clean.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Put a little cupcake, little paper in there, and you
put the cupcake in it, and then it's all just
a little oily when it's done there.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
But when you make them, they don't. You're not putting
wax in there.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Oh, you're putting a cup You're putting in the cupcake
paper in there.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, no, you fill up the twelve.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Holes with everybody I've ever known that I've lived in
a house with both present in the past, that's not
been the case.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Because they don't know how to make proper cupcakes.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And by the way, in his audio, and I'm giving
it to Teresa, I'm not a dessert guy. I like
one type of thing, and his peanut butter cups. They're
called baking cups.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
The only other cupcake. The only other thing I like
dessert wise is cupcakes.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
All right, And there you go. Cole likes cupcakes his
only dessert desire. And I'm sure day Longhorns, yep, the
love cupcakes on their schedule. We'll see which one they
struggle to beat. Hopefully they will in fact beat them all.
And of course they're part of the family of teams
will have on our networks over the weekend. We'll get
you all squared away on that. Get to the other
item that CJ. Strout had to say about looking internally
(33:47):
on what he's got to be better at this upcoming
game against the Bucks and the rest of the NFL slate,
which begins tonight with Thursday Night football should be a
good one.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
We'll get you set for that when we continue here on.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The eighteen, the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Even though we begged for it with our conversation, I
beg it still feels weird in early September.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
In September, I'll tell you what. When you're putting together
the home alone lego set. I didn't play this in
the background, did you. We watched one and two while
we were playing. I mean that, well, you have to
do it. Get there's a TV in the room. We
had lots of space. It was great.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was a great little bonding moment in which I
did ninety nine percent of the work.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
My brother built the money and falcon and he watched
all three Star Wars while building up.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, that's how you do it. Is it still together? Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Another John Williams inspiring piece of music.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
What's the best one of all time? Though? Of John Williams.
Just can't rank them, Yes, you can't.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
There is a one in one that uh being in
the water that eight people now, that one was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That's number two in my list. Indiana Jones out of
number one.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Far and Away, really far and away, well Indiana Jones
been like one, two.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Three, four five A that one? Yeah, that one? Did
you ever see when they played that down? Sell it?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
They played that and Harrison Ford it was an Awards show.
He comes out and he's got he's got like a
beard and his hair's all. He looks nothing like Indiana
Jones in other words, and he gets up there and
he deadpans that music.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Has followed me my entire life. He wasn't happy. What
a career.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
As we were mentioning some of John Williams products projects scores, Well,
there's Harry Ford and that Star Wars, a bunch of
movies Harry Ford and then Harris, Harry Ford again, and
all these Indiana Jones.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Movies Harrison which there's so many, Like AC said, there's
there's so many underrated Harrison Ford film Presumed Innocent. How
many times has he been the president? Just wonder who
his wife was in that movie? Holly McClain, three times,
Holly Gennaro, Gennaro, He's like christ I can count I
(35:53):
know that he's so mad.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
He's like, you are a married woman and the secretary
walks in Hi, God bless Bruce Willis.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
I'm so sad, about that anyway, what does J say.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
He needs to what does he need to improve on,
you know personally when he looks internally to how to
make the Textans better.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Personally, I gotta be better just pocket movements and you know,
checking the ball out and I need to check it
down and at the same time staying aggressive. So yeah,
I think we just need to build a rhythm early
on better, and I think it would be better from that.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I thought for sure the Indiana John's music was going
to creep up underneath him there.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
They need to build a better rhythm early. I'm not
going to reread or re air or repeat what I
said last segment. The first few plays for the Texans
were awful. Situations after awful after awful after awful. We're
scripted holding on the very first again kind of what
we call but holding on the very first play of
(36:54):
the game. They actually had a six yard completion. Nick
Kaylee was about to call a second and four, but
instea there was a holding call, so it was first
and twenty and they never got it to anything less
than eighty fifteen. Yeah, but like I said, that was
on Cam Robinson on verse verse basically fell and Cam
Robinson leaned over on top of him, which is exactly
what you should do and should not have likely should
(37:16):
not have been called for it. But Cija also recognized
what something that Demko brought up. The three of us
discussed it on Monday earlier this week. There appeared to
be instances, not necessarily on just the plays where he
got sacked on, but instances where the way that the
blocking scheme has worked to this point that you need
to step up in the pocket, that this is where
(37:37):
the pressure is about to come from the edges and
there is work being done on the interior, or they've
pushed those guys out so there's actually not only throwing lanes,
but space for you to move up in the pocket.
He spun around reverse once and was able to play
a pass to Dalton Schultz, which was on a play
on one of several plays where a rusher came through clean.
And the more I've gone back and watched it's now Thursday,
(37:58):
the more I've seen some of those clean rushers that
maybe we missed during the live action.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
There were a few more than you would hope.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
To see in any given game, and they all played
into them not getting a whole lot done. They certainly
were not in a rhythm. I wouldn't say at any
point in the game the best looking drive. They had
two of them, one at the end of the first
half which netted them a very well executed field goal
to get the lead back before halftime, and then their
last drive of the game. The execution on that drive
was very good. Now they benefited from that roughing the
(38:26):
passer penalty on what would have otherwise been a third
and eleven incompletion, but it also ended with a fumble.
That's a drive killer, clearly because you don't have the football.
But they moved themselves all the way down the field
into position to have maybe as many as four opportunities
to try to put the go ahead touchdown on the board,
and ultimately we're unable to do so. Wanted to get
(38:47):
a minute or two at least into tonight's game. Commanders
and Packers a handful of one to oh versus one
and oh, this is one of them. These are Super
Bowl hopefuls. Maybe it's taking a bit of a leap
with the Packers, who were a good playoff team a
year ago and now a good playoff team a year later.
With Micah Parsons is still not Probably. I would hope
(39:08):
there's a point in the season, sometime in the near
future where he's even healthier and is closer to one
hundred percent. He was nowhere near it in this last game,
and he's not quite a specialist, but very close to
it early on in his Packers' career as a pass
rushing specialist. But they looked extremely good defensively against the
new look Lions. Although don't tell Dan Campbell there new
(39:29):
look Lions, especially if you don't have anything else to
back up your question about it. Very well challenged by
Dan Campbell when he was asked a question this week,
do you guys think you could have just run the
same offense as last year even without the offensive coordinator
being here? Could you guys just do X? Clearly things
are very very different here. He's like, what's different? What
did you see that was different? And the reporter did
(39:49):
not have an answer for that, and so he goes
he let me know what you got there on that front,
and we'll revisit this. But Packers' commanders two young quarterbacks,
Jordan Love Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
It's in Green Bay. Who wins?
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I think because it's in Green Bay, I'll go with
the Packers. But if Jayden Daniels wants to make it
a sophomore non slump, if he wants to have the
encore of encores and back up all the praise he
got heaped upon him going into year two, that's a
signature win if I've ever seen one.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
It's a setup for success.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Also, Cleveland is their first road game in a week,
and then they play the Dallas Cowboys the final game
of September. I mean, there's a lot of emotions that
will go into that game, but there's also history. I mean,
Jordan Love versus Dak Prescott, that was who these teams
were when they met in the postseason a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
And in new year three.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
For Jordan Love, he didn't have to put the team
on his back by any means in their opening game
win because they handled things so well defensively. Josh Jacobs
didn't even get going until the late stages of that game.
Ultimately found his way to the end zone, which, if
you haven't noticed, that's all he does. It is remarkable
the streak he's put together of scoring touchdown and finding
his way to the end zone. I'm not sure what
(41:03):
it was that the Raiders wanted to do when they
said goodbye to him, besides not pay him. But his
first two seasons as a full time start had been very,
very good. He wasn't quite as great last year like CJ,
although I thought he was better than CJ was in
year two. He was outstanding in year one. And they're
off to a one to zero start here. We got
all Friday show, obviously to get into the rest of
the NFL slate Tomorrow night's opener or Big twelve opener
(41:26):
for the Cougars tomorrow night, and then onto the rest
of the college football slate, and obviously, as we began
the show a little bit after five o'clock today with
the Astros tenth inning show, three more games without another
day of rest for the Astros as they take on
the Atlanta Braves. They left Toronto without making a public
announcement of who their starting pitcher will be tomorrow, Hunter
Brown and fromber Valdez. We'll get the ball in the
(41:47):
remaining two games Saturday and Sunday against the Braves, and
the last homestand of the regular season arrives next week
at Dyke And Park for the Astros, and clearly those
games like they would be huge months ago, and that's
exactly what they will be. With three games to be
played before each of those teams get there, Clearly the
(42:09):
division will not have been decided by then. The possibility
that you wake up tomorrow tied at the top of
the division. That will be the case of Seattle wins.
But the remaining five series for the Astros, three with
Atlanta on the road, that six game homestand which also
comes before rest the games with the Braves and Texas
here at home six days in a row, so coupled
(42:29):
with the games they've already played in a row, that's
the nine straight days of baseball. They have a home
off day before the Seattle series gets started a week
from tomorrow, and then another off day before their final
six road games of the season Tuesday through Sunday. Like
everybody else in baseball, the Athletics and the Angels will
play host to the Astros, and it's pretty much guaranteed
(42:50):
when that series begins with the Athletics, the Astros, Mariners,
and Rangers will still not yet know their postseason fates.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Brutal didn't have to be this way, didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Have to be is that the didn't have to be
this way. That's been in every movie, that's not one
movie in particular.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
It's a very famous line. And he didn't have to
be this way, and then they push him off the edge.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
That didn't have to be this way, and then they
throw him off the plane. Is that like a Sylvester
saloon cliffhanger?
Speaker 6 (43:18):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Well, I don't think he said that to the woman
when he let go over on the rope at the
beginning of the movie.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Spoiler alert. She doesn't make it didn't have to be
this way and he gets played for it. Does he
say that to Apollo before he goes ding ding? He
didn't have to be this way? Now put your mouth
piece in. What would Dolph Lungern say? Would he be
able to say it that way? He would say if
he dies, he dies. That's his only line. I don't
even think he uttered anything. I fight for me. He
just says it in Russian.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
That's not English. I did not have wex doing Russian.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I will I will commit to doing some Russian for
each of our upcoming shows that air between six and
seven pm. It's a Russian folks unlikely to have very
many of those in the future. Flip it over tomorrow
and you get started with Sean Salisbury Show, the Matt
Thommys Show with Ross and we'll be back here with
you tomorrow at two o'clock. Happy to be with you
(44:11):
this afternoon and all the way through until seven o'clock. Obviously,
we'll get you ready for Astros Baseball tomorrow another slightly
earlier start a Friday night in Atlanta with a six
fifteen first pitch, So we will have the Astros on
Deck Show for you tomorrow afternoon at the close of business.
On our show, we'll shuffle around our appearances with Chandler Roam.
Brian McTaggert will join us during that edition of the
(44:34):
Astros on Deck Show, and we'll also get ready for
a weekend without Texans football because Monday is our unofficial
Texans pregame show.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Tomorrow's show belongs in the museum.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Okay, looking forward to it. We'll let you go out
on this you play us out.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
I don't know what that means, but to end the show,
to end the show on John, what does that mean?
All right?
Speaker 3 (44:58):
For Adam and Old my name is also Adam. And
we'll leave you with a cut off of Jon Williams'
new album Take It Away.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
The A Team one Sports Talk seven, nineteen
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