Eagles Are Super Bowl Champs, Next Step For Texans, Rockets Win and Still No Bregman Update

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

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And that'll do it.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's what we got for you today. We're going to
recap the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
But there you have it.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Now you talk rockets the rest of the of the show.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Both were winners yesterday. I imagine most of you guys
were locked in for multiple hours yesterday afternoon for the commercials,
the halftime show, and oh yeah, a team that can
shut down, dominate, demolish the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City

(00:55):
has not lost a lot of postseason games since Patrick
Mahomes has become their quarterback, but they have lost two
Super Bowls. Since Patrick Mahomes has become their quarterback, They've
won three, but last night was the second time they
have been man handled up front and it resulted in
a very, very difficult day for their offense. They scored
at nine points in never figuring out what to do

(01:18):
with the Bucks defense. A couple of years ago, I
ended up with twenty two points on a bunch of
late scores that mattered little unless you had the under
or you had Mahomes at under. His passing total or
you had Mahomes under soon a half touchdown whatever. Lots
of gambling related items, but otherwise a game that was
very one sided. I felt like it was still pretty

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entertaining and still kept people in front of the television.
And maybe the Chiefs are somewhat to thank for that
because everybody wanted them. It seems like to be on
the losing end, so I think they stuck around to
see what more could be there. Like one of the
highlights you heard, the fumble from Patrick Mahomes, came late
in the game and he absolutely got rushed. No call

(02:01):
should have been. We'll bring that into the story for
the rest of the afternoon for sure, But before that,
many of you joined myself and Matt Thomas over at
Toyota Center for Rockets Raptors. It was, as I may said,
not pretty. It was, as I may said, ugly, doesn't
have to be, but it was a win. The Rockets
finally don't have to go into another game saying, man,

(02:24):
I hope we shake this losing streague. Man, we have
not been playing well and it only really matters because
they actually did play well in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It was an awful game.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
They played very much like a team that looks like
one that had lost six games in a row. They
just couldn't put the ball in the basket. And it
was not because of the Raptors defense. The Raptors are
a bad basketball team. They don't have much to work with,
and they don't have much to I guess build on either.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
But the Rockets just.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Simply couldn't put the ball in the basket, trailed for
most of the game, and finally turned it on in
the fourth quarter. I said these things out loud during
the broadcast, just to make sure that hearing them would
make me believe them, even though they were true. The
Rockets hit a three point shot in the first quarter,
They also hit a three point shot in the second quarter,
and they also hit a three point shot in the

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third quarter. One in each of the twelve minute segments
prior to the fourth quarter, just one, only one against
the pathetic, not hardly even seemingly trying Toronto Raptors. Then
they hit seven in the fourth quarter and they were
able to get out of there with a win. Led
them into the two days off they will have today
and tomorrow off of game action in preparations for another

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back to back. They've got a back to back Wednesday
and Thursday, then they'll be off until the twenty first
the following Friday, and they will then started back to
back for the second part of the season. They managed
to go from second to third, to fourth, to fifth,
and now back to fourth in the Western Conference standings
over the last handful of days. But we'll talk a

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little bit more about what all really took place there.
And yet another injury as Alpa and Shngoon left after
little under four minutes of action. But most notably this is,
as most people noted at the final whistle of last
night's Super Bowl, it's the beginning of baseball season. Two
baseball teams will be making their way to spring training.
A lot of people are already there, players are already

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arriving this past weekend. Team personnel will be going out
there in the next couple of days. The pitchers and
catchers will be asked very politely to have a mandatory
workout coming up on Thursday, five days later, the full
squad works out for the Houston Astros. And as I
noted last night, and it probably warrants a little bit

(04:34):
of mention during Best of X in about twenty minutes
the comments and replies to it. All right, super Bowls over,
Eagles won. Now I can go back to Bregman watch.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I do think that watching that game last night, a
lot of I just kept having a lot of Texans
thoughts because for the first time ever, I feel like
that have a quarterback that can and will eventually be
playing in a game like that on a stage that big,
and so you can when you can realistically picture that

(05:09):
player not only taking the team to those heights, but
you know, possibly winning that game, and you've never really
been able to before. I mean, like, Deshaun was a
nice story for a little while, but I never really
let myself buy into it.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I don't know, like I was fully one hundred percent,
totally and completely bought in almost for a moment one.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I know, I know, well, you know, there's no reason
to criticize when they were.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Losing in his first partial year before he got hurt,
but he was just going crazy numbers wise.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I was locked in, this is it. He got their guy.
He's gonna be up anyway, crazy numbers wise. And they
still managed to lose all but four times.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I never lost any faith that he wouldn't be
the guy to win, because it had almost it didn't
have nothing to do with him. Some late game happenings
were definitely on him. But man, your quarterback's going out
there putting up thirty points a game, thirty five points
a game, thirty eight points a game. They're in the
Super Bowl or in the AFC postseason, and they're sitting
there with a twenty four to nothing lead. I mean, yes,
this was the guy.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well that was when I stopped buying in And you know,
the twenty four to nothing lead and the Chiefs and
how the symmetry you know, kind of plays into it.
The fact that Justin Reid was on the field for
that game for the Texans and bat deha well he
was too. Actually, yeah, now I think about it was
was that his last or second to last season? When
did they trade him for a ham sandwich? About this

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just real quickly.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
It did not expect the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback to
be a huge topic of segment one day after the
Super Bowl and day one of the off season for everybody.
But just kind of give yourself a little bit of
rewind thought on the two years of CJ.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
And the multiple seasons of Deshaun Watson and.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Your most memorable Oh my god, what a play, what
a moment for either one of them, And there's probably
a few that come to mind, but I'm curious what
they are. For CJ, I know what they are. I
think for Deshaun Watson, I certainly think one of them
stands out more than any other because it happened in
the postseason when he got smashed by the two Buffalo
Bills in the backfield. Broke Free had basically made the

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game winning play which resulted in.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
The technically one they matched each other, they didn't smash him.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's it's such a monumental moment to make a play
like that, and he did.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
The imagery.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
CJ and Deshaun were comparable in their postseason experience with
the Texans. Obviously that was a win followed by a loss.
Obviously he did that as well. Or also made the playoffs.
He was really bad in their playoff game against the Colts.
There are no memorable plays there, but CJ has gotten
four playoff games under his bel sh anything else you've

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seen over the last two years, like it's it's really
his his pocket throws you know the throw at the
beginning of the season this year to end the game
against the Indianapolis Colts. Almost but the great throat to
Nico Collins down the sidelines. Two great throws to Nico
Collins deep down the middle of the field won this
year to Buffalo. I won the prior year in the

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to get them to the postseason against the Colts, like
magic comes from CJ's ability to put the ball where
it needs to be. And I say all that in
taking us back to the Super Bowl. Granted, Jalen Hurts
didn't make a particularly good throw on the interception when
he got hit and it was third down and it
wasn't the end of the world, and their defense forced
to three and out. But his throat at Devonte Smith,

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his throat at Johan Dotson, I mean he made some
incredible Oh yeah, I guess I should feel stupid people
who thought he shouldn't be a quarterback. If you recall
as he got benched at Bama briefly, then nearly won
the Heisman at OU and then was preparing for his
NFL career getting questions about would you be willing to
change positions? What are your thoughts about playing somewhere other

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than quarterback. Good for him that he said, I'm all
for the team. I'll do whatever a team wants, but
I'm a quarterback. And now he's a super Bowl MVP
after a second year in the Super Bowl, a second
super Bowl performance that was legendary. He just didn't win
the first time. He's been awesome in their two Super bowls.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Now and I feel like that was a theme if
you listen to anybody, not just him after the game.
The the chip on the shoulder mentality, certainly I think
fueled them for you know, two years basically a year
in a in a a playoff run, I guess, but
that was that was a big part of last night's game.
But I just again going back to the and and

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we'll talk about this next segment.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I just there's so many parallels.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
There's so many things where I'm like, hey, that could
have been the Houston Texans very very very easily, actually,
if they didn't make their own mistakes.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
That was what I thought a lot about.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I just saw a defense getting after Patrick Mahomes and
being allowed to and on some plays and that well
some were very legal though.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
And they punched him in the face twice on the
same game. I just didn't see it, man, I wasn't
looking at his helmet. They got hit by Jalen Carter's hands.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, my bad.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
We'll get to that, and we'll get to what wex
likes the most when it comes to conversations like this,
numbers that back up that argument. When we return here
on a Monday post Super Bowl edition of the of
the show.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Back to Adam Clinton had Adam Wexler the eighteen on.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
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Speaker 2 (10:34):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
The uh I did?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I did love the fact that in the waning moments
of that game just a bunch of dumb numbers were
put up in garbage time that screwed me and other
people on bets and well, in the case of us
Stone Cold Locks, I went one and four last night.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, but you won, Yeah, because you also went one
and four.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
It was tough week.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Pretty much knew I was done for with Juju Smith
Schuster under one and a half catches when he caught
the first pass of the game, finished with two.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Thought I was good to go.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
With Noah Gray over one and a half receptions when
he caught a pass early in the game, finished with
one that was fun time. A lot of people play squares,
a lot of people will take some other side action,
or they'll honestly, some of the stuff that we went through,
we went through a lot of the presidential wager options.
I spent some of one of my meals before the

(11:30):
Super Bowl going through the eighty nine Taylor Swift related props.
Almost all of them were under no matter what because
of what happened in the game, which is how you
have to look at it. Certainly on the ways like
what are you cutting away to Taylor Swift for during
a game where Travis Kelsey didn't matter.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
A player too.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I mean, he caught the football a couple of times.
That's pretty much it made a play. He had one
play where I'd say, oh, that was a nice play,
and it's just the the that's really just in a small,
small snippet the story for Kansas City and what hat
tip to Vic Fangio and a major hat tip to
Howie Roseman and a hat tip to Nick Sirianni for
the same reason. I mean, look at the roster they

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had two years ago. They didn't have Vic Fangio two
years ago, they didn't have eight of their eleven defensive starters.
And it's Sirianni who's for mostly good reasons, probably not
concerning Brian Johnson, but the guy's been to the Super
Bowl twice, and now that he's out of his second
Super Bowl and he just won the Super Bowl, he's

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gonna have to do half of what he did after
the first Super Bowl. They were so good they got
to the super Bowl two years and what do you
have to do? We had to hire a new OC
and a new DC because they both got head coaching jobs. Well,
one of them is getting a head coaching job. I
don't know when the NFL is gonna allow the Saints
to announce it, but Kellen Moore is the head coach
of the New Orleans Saints. He just finished winning a
Super Bowl with them. That's three of the four coordinators

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that were with Nick Sirianni's eagle in their Super bowls
that immediately got head coaching jobs. And heck, Vic Fangiel
probably would have been made it four for four if
he wasn't heading into his thirty ninth year of coaching
in the NFL, and this was his greatest triumph, and
his reaction to that was, you know, I was a
good football coach before. I'm still a football good football

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coach today. I just have a championship. He's awesome. I
enjoyed him while he was here, and I think in
different places it's been felt differently because the more power
you have, like when he was a head coach, it
wasn't received all that well. But to that end, and
I know we've got to best of X to come.
But this is just a small snippet and I don't
need the comments or anything else. Is just a straight

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up thought that one person who covers a team he
used to be with the Dolphins, as a matter of fact,
felt necessary to crank out yesterday after the game. Hey
remember this is someone who covers the Dolphins at the
athletic Hey remember, Dolphins players ran Vic Fangio out of
town because as he coached them too hard.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well that doesn't surprise me at all. But the Texans
ran him out of town too because he coached so poorly.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Look at the talent they have in Miami, to be fair,
which was okay, the talent they had here in Houston,
which was not very good, and the talent he's working with,
he's utilizing it to the nth degree. Because the interception
that the rookie Cooper to Gen made, that's that's from recognition,
that's from practice. It's probably having good skills and really
having a good feel for the game and really good

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instincts and really, you know, talent.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I'm not trying to.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Take away anything from him, but man, that screamed of
here's what we saw and here's what you need to
be looking for.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
And I think they've been doing that all year.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
He comes, you know, kind of comes off of his
responsibility because he saw where Pat Mahomes was probably gonna
go with the football bombs. Interception was a really nice play,
a nice play up front to create it. And I
happened to hear Nolan Smith's post game on field interview
with Kevin Harland's daughter, Olivia Harland Decker covering the game
for Skytriandon Boys. He was talking about how much he

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loved Vic. You got to give a shout out this guy.
He's got so much he said, he's so old, he's
got so much knowledge. I can't wait to get even
more of it. And they were awesome up front, no
doubt that's what you and many others were looking at saying,
this looks a lot like what the Texans were doing
up front, and they just needed to manifest itself into
a victory. And I think while we get into what

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they were doing, well, you brought it up in the
opening segment as to why it mattered less to the
outcome what the Texans did up front to the Chiefs
o line versus what the Eagles did to the Chiefs
upfront to their offensive line. I mean, I already mentioned
Hurt's interception. What were the other ten to fifteen mistakes
that were self inflicted that the Eagles had, because that's

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what the Texans did. I mean, they did it on
the open play of the game.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
You're just a NonStop progression of Yeah, we are going
to make enough mistakes for the Chiefs just to kind
of hang out and let the game come into their hands.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
And that doesn't even say anything about what Kyami Fairbairn
did in that game, which was its own category.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Guess how many field goals did Elliott actually make in
last night's game?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
We didn't make any, Harrison Butker anyway, zero for zero.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yes, yeah, well he didn't have.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Any flaws in his game because he kicks all right,
exactly because he didn't get out there.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
So I know that it sounds like I wanted to,
you know, go in on.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Well. I mean the Texans defense, they they got after
Pat Mahomes, and they did not quite.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
To this story, but certainly enough to have impacted the
result more.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I'm gonna throw a curveball.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I was thinking about the amount of pressure that Pat
Mahomes was dealing with as it relates to c. J.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Stroud and then somebody.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
I've never seen this person in my life, and I
think the only reason it got onto my timeline is
because uh Texans commenter like responded to it.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
This is insane Nesta Graphics.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
He's got a pretty good following, it's got a pretty
good Uh, it's gotten some pretty good traction because it
compares and contry these two quarterbacks and the Super Bowl
last night. Mahomes was pressured on thirty eight point one
percent of dropbacks. They never blitzed by the way right
or once no nons okay nuns. So he was pressured

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on thirty eight point one percent of dropbacks, the fifth
highest pressure rate he's faced in his career, leading to
his second worst performance by EPA in his career, minus
nineteen point three. Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud had an average
pressure rate of thirty nine point four percent this entire

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past season. In the Divisional round, he battled a fifty
one point four percent pressure rate, posted a two hundred
and eighty seven yard zero turnover performance down two starting
receivers Digs and Dal obviously against the Chiefs. So for
anyone that watched what Hall of Fame two time MVP,
three time champion Patrick Mahomes dealt with last night and

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could not overcome, just know that that wasn't even an
average game for year two. Quote sophomore slump CJ. Stroud,
This is what I've been screaming from the rooftops all
year long about the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, I mean it takes it a little bit far.
Couldn't overcome. I mean, granted some of the points were
due to him, but still generated enough where you Texans
scored fourteen points against the Chiefs. Not really the comparison.
The bottom line is they are enough. I wish there
weren't so many, I guess, which is odd for me
to say, weren't so many different entities cranking out pressure rate.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I'm I'm liking this, by the way.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, this is next gen stats where cal notes where
the info came from. PFF calculates pressure rates and the
pressure rate just in yesterday's game from each of them.
Those two outlets do not match, and they're not super
close either, so kind of hard to say what it was,
but at least going by the same numbers, that's what
he's doing here. Thirty eight point one percent of his

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dropbacks yesterday were deemed too he felt pressure, he had pressure,
and that was in one game. Over the course of
the season, on average, CJ. Stroud faced just slightly more
pressure on average in every game and it really went
up in the middle portion of the season, went back
down slightly later in the season. And the actual hard

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numbers at least from an NFL standpoint, that you can
look at and kind of make it as a little
more of an even look any game you want. With
the official box score that the NFL puts out for everybody,
the Eagles sacked him six times, had six tackles for loss,
had eleven quarterback hits. You can obviously look at the

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number of dropbacks. Make sure you take back out. The
dropbacks turned into scrambles. He dropped back about forty times,
and he faced pressure. According to that thirty eight percent number,
you know, seventeen eight. It's a heavy, heavy dose, and
it certainly impacted him. He was clearly hit on the
second interception, made a throw where I think he threw

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it too quickly and didn't realize that Cooper was didn't
have much trouble getting to the foot football. The fourth
down throw that was knocked away our guy Tom Brady
in the booth, I think he was right in saying
he threw that believing he was going to see pressure,
believing he had less time. And yeah, happy feet didn't
quite put the ball in the right because he's normal,
because he's a quarterback. And sometimes these guys do overcome

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it and they do have happy feet, but they're still
so good they can still make the throws. This is
how you I mean, it's pretty simple. And what they
did last night the Eagles schematically clearly was different, but
in theory was exactly the same. How do you beat
Pat Mahomes in the playoffs? There there is a book
on that. It's a very small.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Book, but they did what the Bucks did with different personnel,
with a little bit different scheme, and with a little
you got two games.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's and and when you've now seen that, you can't
just coach that, and you can't just scheme that. It's
way before you hire your coaches and draft your players.
That's front office stuff. That is who is on this
football team? And how are we going to build this team?
And I don't want to turn the Chiefs into some
Golden State Warriors. We have to build our team just

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to beat them. Because you can beat a lot of
teams with everybody, Yes you can. Texas are about as
close as you can get to already being there. Just
PLoP somebody in between Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter. You
can destroy somebody's life the way they did Patrick Mahomes
last night. And would I wouldn't even say that's what
needs to be done, what has to be done, and

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what they did to make it a complete victory. It's
one percent in the trenches. We've only talked about fifty
percent of it one side. Their defense clearly won in
the trenches. Well so did the Texans defense, all right,
how about the other fifty percent? The Eagles won in
those trenches also because their defensive line is awesome and

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the Texans offensive line is not.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I don't think I want a member of the
Chiefs offensive line and free agency, just saying after I
saw last night, it just doesn't feel the same. Now,
things could change. That's just one game. Well, I look,
it is paramount this offseason that that unit gets significantly

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better because honestly, Wex and anybody else that's you can
actually not take steps back, but you can and not
even take shortcuts. But you don't have to be absolutely
amazing at every other offensive position on the field if
your quarterback has time. See Tom Brady who had exactly
one really elite wide receiver in his entire twenty plus

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basically year career, Randy Moss. Welcome back, right, But he
made guys look better than they were because he wasn't
getting touch most of the time.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
But you have to include Gronkowski in that's correct.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Just like Kelsey, I'm sure the Texans will find an
all world tight end this offseason.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Well, they do have an all world wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I know.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I would be very confident in saying that Nico Collins,
one of the Texans that utilized this past week non
Super Bowl playing week for him to make the rounds
late in the week, and some interesting thoughts from him
about Stefan Diggs, among other things. But the idea of
how to get to where they've never been before for
the Houston Texans. Watching last night's game, I do think

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there was a little bit of that, But the game
itself certainly worth a little bit more analysis. What did
the Chiefs do well that other teams can do and
couldn't do against the Eagles? And again, I think Jalen
Hurts for as much as we're going to talk about
what went well for the Philadelphia Eagles defense man, did
he play well?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
And he's the MVP for a reason.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
One of those reasons though obviously also a little bit
of part of what's next?

Speaker 2 (23:37):
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Speaker 3 (25:53):
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hite us enough. Why don't I open my mouth and
trash Lucas some more? But that's for after you click
on the link and Best of X and read the
post that is attached. It was grabbed on an account

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called at Trump Daily Posts. It was from truth Social,
of course, because it's from the Commander in Chief himself,
but it is football related if you would not mind
reading for our listeners.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
The worst part of the Super Bowl by far was
watching the kickoff. Whereas the ball is sailing through the air,
the entire field is frozen. Stiff college football does not
do it and won't. Whose idea was it to ruin
the game?

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Do you think we will see a revisit of this
rule or will he continue on Others continue to complain
while it remains in place.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, the best part about this is that you know
he probably sent it from the building he was attending
the game inside of Now.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
The timestamp suggests it was long after he's he had exited.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Maybe that's why he left. I'm not watching this anymore.
It just does look stupid. I mean, now that it's over.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well, what I don't I still don't think people realize
and he might not have either. He was at the
game in a suite up above the field, like we
are when we're in the press box, like most.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Of the things are.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Well, also not on TV right from the television angle right,
it looks absolutely ridiculous from overhead, but.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
It looks but that's just what it is. I mean,
it looks ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
End of sentence, right, Yes, but they're absolutely not going
to revisit this.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
They absolutely love what it does.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Teams are starting their their possessions with better field position.
There are far fewer, virtually no injuries on kickoffs. They
didn't have to get rid of the play, and all
it's done is increase it's it's slightly increased scoring, but
it has limited some of the activity. Like in last
night's game, the Chiefs returned the ball a lot because

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Elliott didn't kick it in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
And I know the.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Chiefs only kicked off a small amount last night because
they didn't score a lot. There were no kick returns
on their kicks because their kicker blasts the ball out
of the end zone. Because no team wants to risk
a return, they just rather say, just take it at
the thirty.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
We don't care.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
We'd would rather not have to go tackle you at
the twenty nine and a half yard line and say, hey,
we won.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
It's not as ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, if they're both ridiculous, let me just be clear
on that, it's still to me not as ridiculous as
just putting a runner on second base for no good
reason at all other than we don't want to be
here longer. That's your analogy on that every time. Why
it is not a time related institution of a rule,
absolutely is no, it was not.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
You're telling me it has to limit the number of
pictures used during We don't have any pictures because twenty
five people just went into the COVID protocol.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right, So it does also short. Now that's different.
They might have kept the thing that matters because if
it was instituted during a bubonic plague type out out
like whatever they want to call it these days, if
it was instituted because of that.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
But it also still does the initial thing. It does
limit the amount of pictures you need because you're not
playing the game as long.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
It's a gimmick that I just like the kickoff thing.
H I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I definitely it's a gimmick, But this is the purpose.
It's the other parts of it all. It's working.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
The World Series Game seven, by far, was when both
teams have played to a standstill and then they just
started putting guys on second base. Well, both sports. Funniest
thing is due they wouldn't do that in the playoffs. Well,
both sports do use different rules in the postseason.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Which is even dumber.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Well, I it shows you how they agree with you.
We can't have this runner at second base in the postseason,
just like.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
These games mean too much. These other one hundred and
sixty two are fine.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
But the NFL has to change the rule because during
the regular season a tie is okay. During the postseason
it's kind of frowned upon. I still don't know who
they're playing next week because the Bills and Chiefs are
going to have a card game on Tuesday, flip coins
on Wednesday to see who gets to advance after they
battled to a ten ten tie in the divisional round.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
So the other part of it is, and I appreciate
my peeps on the Sports Food and Luca group chat
that I still have going here. They pointed out a
comedian I was unaware of, and he calls Dallas home
a cash sing and because he calls Dallas home, he's
in on Dallas sports. He recognizes the time is always

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right to dog the Cowboys, and because he was in,
he was very positive on the Mavericks for the last
several years. And that all changed when they made their deal.
And I just they sent out one post he had
made and it was the result of what their COO has.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Been talking about.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
And then I just kind of went through his feed
and there's just a lot of a lot of good
stuff there if you missed what the Patrick Dumont comments
where they kind of elicted all this in an article
with Brad Towns and there in Dallas. He said, if
you look at the greats in this league, the people
you and I grew up with, Jordan Bird, Kobe Shaq.
They worked really hard every day with a singular focus

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to win. And if you don't have that, it doesn't work.
You shouldn't be a part of the Dallas Mavericks. Now
you heard the four names I said, did that immediately
jump out at you?

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Well?

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, which one of those fights?

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Same again?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
You grew up with Jordan Bird, Kobe and Shack. They
worked really hard.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Shack. Okay, Shack, the guy who played his way into
shape every single preseason into basically the end of November.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
If you wanted to know somebody that has only been
watching basketball since they bought the team, here's your evidence.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Let's see yep, Shack and Bird, two men known for
their dedication to their bodies, and Kobe, who never created
any off the court distractions.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Never, especially not in Denver in two thousand and three.
Older seriously, uh so, think about who said it? And
this was his description of the owner.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Patrick Dumont farried and married into the family that ran
the Vegas Sance Corporation that made him CFO in twenty sixteen,
So own twenty twenty one. In that time, and I'll
take his word for it. In that time, the company's
market cap has decreased by seven billion dollars. So if
anyone understands hard work, it's a neppa in law who
sucks at his job.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, okay, let's take it a step further. Who's saying
this again? What's his name?

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Ohkash saying he's a commedian? You know the owner did
Patrick Dumont?

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Did you see the picture that most of these comments
were it? I mean you talk about using the term dowie.
I mean, if you want to call Luca Dowe, then
this guy's the pills very dough boy.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
And last thing, in light of what happened in the
Super Bowl last night, Dallas fan, cowboy fan, Eagles just
won the Super Bowl. Yeah, as soon as Luca got traded,
I knew this would be the worst sports here of
my life. This game simply confirms it.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Don't sleep on the other aspect of this.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
They did so largely without the services last night of
but got to that game because of a former Giant
who then flipped to the Eagles within the division and
propelled them this far.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yes, Dan Quinn, former DC of the Cowboys, the only
one in the division that has not completely distraught after
last night's victory because their team's good and they have
Jayden Daniels. The Giants and Cowboys are are some really
good Jones Shane stuff online as well to that same token.
Probably worthwhile for us to also revisit one other topic
that this completely entails, since it involved the Houston Rockets

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Saturday afternoon. For two plus quarters they were tortured by
Anthony Davis. Now Davis is back to tormenting, torturing the
team that pays him for the third time, first New Orleans,
then the Los Angeles Lakers, and now the Dallas Mavericks.
On that next.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
The a on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Back to Adam Clinton had Adam Wexler the eight on

Speaker 4 (34:13):
I gotta say, when.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
When you're referencing my Twitter account with regards to the
MAVs Lakers trade, I thought for sure you were going
to read aloud from what I wrote, this would have
been What was the seventh? Was that Friday night? I
don't remember what's today? The tenth. It's the tenth because
it's my sister hadn't birthday and my sister about seventh
is Friday? Was okay? I just look, I get that

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the Mavericks fan base is beside itself, and let's face it,
they probably should be.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Although he hasn't played a game yet for the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh he's playing tonight. They're running out Luka T shirts.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Oh really.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
And on the other side of it, I know it
was just the Rockets, but that looked awfully good the
very brief time that Anthony Davis state health. But that
looked awfully good.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Well, and I think Ross put it succinctly earlier today,
and it's the same thing.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
I and pretty much all of.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
America that knows about Anthony Davis and the NBA thought, well,
you got the entire Anthony Davis experience in one half
of basketball. He's awesome when he's out there. It was
actually impressive to me how badly the Rockets would beat
the Lakers with him on the floor. I don't know
why it was different other than you know, the uh,

(35:29):
the surrounding players in the front court is the main thing,
and the fact that you know, Dallas gives a crap
about defense at times.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Still set a franchise record with eighteen block shots that
night against the Rockets.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, and what good did it do?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Uh? They won?

Speaker 4 (35:44):
I'm talking about the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
He was with the Lakers, he would put up decent
numbers when he was out there, but they would the
Rockets boat race the Lakers the last three straight years. Basically,
even when they were like bad, they would kill the Lakers, right, but.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
They weren't as good as the Lakers. Yeah, but they
should beat them head up, which sounds like they're better
than the l.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Up by like thirty on them like last year. And
I know last year was really when they.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, but it didn't have anything to do with their
best two best players for the most part, Anthony Davis.
Davis plays both sides of the court. Lebron plays one
side of the court, and most of the other three
guys didn't. Whoever was out there didn't do anything, which
is why they didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, before we get to any of that, because that's
on the floor stuff. You know, these fans bringing coffins
to the game, to the stadium or the arena, I mean,
putting flowers down, looking like they're faux praying over it,
like I get it, I guess.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean it seemed like most of those fans were
not attending the game, and we're just out there to
show their disapproval of the move.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, let's let's also point out the fact that the
surrounding area outside what did they call it there? What's
the stupid little area with all the shops and all
that outside of the AAC. Uh huh, couldn't tell you.
There's some sort of like it's like a pavilion or
a plaza or something or other those words will suffice. Yeah,
that kind of linked itself to this even being a thing,

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because there was space enough, down traffic and all that
for these people to do this.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
They're like corner of where most people walk into Toyota
Center where a chem statue is.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, it's similar.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
To that, except much much wider and many more people
use that entrance at the AAC.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Well, and there's just more stuff around, Like there's not
you have to walk a block in any direction to
get to any sort of establishment outside of Toyota Center,
whereas this there's shops everywhere. And Tim McMahon is on
live television saying, you know, well, Nico Harrison, their general manager,
has been subjected to death threats. Security is going to

(37:41):
be beefed up, there will be protests outside, lines have
been crossed and I'm just like, I see this and
I'm like, wow, man, they are down bad, And I
get being upset, but really, you're threatening the general manager
with his life because he traded away a player that
you liked. And so of course I had the way
in and I quote tweet and I said, surely nothing
bad has happened to a public figure in downtown Dallas before.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, nothing did happen this time, thankfully.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well, but even the fact that I was reading like
he wasn't in his normal seat because we just couldn't
risk the secure why, I'm.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Why should you risk it? Just go play basketball game
and go home? So is was actually this little die down,
which it probably would have died down even sooner if
the oft injured player they traded for it didn't get
hurt again. And the report today is that he's probably
going to miss a good chunk of the remainder of
the regular season, maybe a month's time. A non contact injury.
Seems like it was more an aggravation of the injury

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he was just coming back from.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Now.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Granted, I understand why he moved so suddenly, because he
was whoa Alby's blown right by me for a left
handed flying jam and then he walked off the court
immediately after.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I probably should feel bad for that fan base, but
I don't.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
I still don't.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
And we talked about this a little bit on Friday,
I think on the air, definitely off the air, What
did he ever win for them? Seriously, I'm asking he
put up a bunch of stats and what.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Nothing Like I said Friday when you brought it up.
That's being super extreme.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
But okay, so is threatening the GM who traded him
with his life? Of course it is, But like, let's
balance this out of here fans in Dallas and Arlington
and Tyler.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
So someone said this is the karma of all karmas
regarding the trade and the injury, and Anthony Davis I responded, like,
this doesn't really seem like karma. When you trade for
an always injured player who at the time of the
trade was injured, and then when he plays he gets injured,
there's karma.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Oh that's why.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
On Basketball Reference, the only authority on players' nicknames, it
says street clothes.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Street close Davis, what's Nico Harrison's.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
He doesn't have a page. He's not a basketball player.
He's about to have a Wikipedia page. And basketball player
mighty tough. All right, we will transition to the television
side of things. Three o'clock hour coming up next plenty
more on the Super.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Bowl The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named at him Talking Your Teams series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Straight up three o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and Space City Home Network. It is the A Team.
Wex and ac with you until six o'clock tonight on
a post Super Bowl edition of the program. Hard to
believe because I really do feel like that season flew by.
I was listening to UH seven ninety yesterday right after

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Rockets post game concluded and right before the game, so
this is right around the five tintel five mark, and
the hosts were saying the same thing, like it really
did that NFL season flew by, And you realize that
until basically, I mean, they'll be like OTAs and things
like that. But until late July, we're not gonna see

(41:02):
CJ and company. And you know there's March with free
agency and all that kind of stuff that's gonna come
between now and the next time the Texans play a
meaningful football game. And all I was thinking watching that
game last night as the Eagles got after Patrick Mahomes
but yet were able to protect their quarterback so he
could do his thing, was how if a few things

(41:23):
break their way, the Texans should have been there. And
if that sounds ridiculous, it's really not when you consider
that I kept screaming from the rooftops all season long
and especially into the postseason, much to your chagrin, WEX,
the Chiefs just aren't this good. They're not as good
as their record says. It's the worst fill in the
blank and two team ever, Like I felt like that,

(41:44):
and then last night it looked like it finally, but
a lot of things had to go the Eagles way,
which again granted they made go their way with their talent,
and a lot of things had to go wrong for
the Chiefs like they did for the Texans at Arrowhead
well both times around, but especially in the postseason when
they went up there for that divisional game.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
So it's just I mean, they're not going to lose
many games, clearly, they pretty.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Much never lose. They found ways to win, right.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
But the only teams that beat them have to dominate
them up front and have to force them to make
mistakes and have to be awesome. Like I think you're
almost discounting the Eagles, Like, of course Kansas City's going
to finally lose a game. Well not, of course, they
only lost because they played this awesome of.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Eighteen in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
I mean, you realize they had a better record as
of late yesterday than the Chiefs for the season.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, now because they beat them.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Like the best team in the NFL, which just won
the Super Bowl in period, was on the hot seat
in October. No, fans were just calling for his head,
which is moronic. Yeah, well that's what Eagles fans are.
I mean, he did some things that have little to
do with coaching the game of football, just with his
personality that he probably should have avoided. But but you know,
it's what I pointed out in the opening set or

(43:03):
opening hour of the show.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
That's pretty hard to do.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
They're just shuffling coaches in and out every year, Like
he's had a new offensive coordinator. Next year will be
the fourth year executive year, because Shane Steichen was there
for two years. After year two he went to coach
the Inneapolis Colts. They replaced him with Brian Johnson. That
lasted one year. They replaced him with Kellen Moore. That's
going to last one year because Kellen Moore is going
to be the Saints head coach and they'll need a
new OC again. Now, granted, each of those OC's has

(43:29):
worked with the same offensive line coach, many of the
same linemen, and the same quarterback. Also many of the
same skill guys. Devantae Smith didn't just get there. Dallas
Goddard didn't just get there. AJ Brown got there a
little bit later thanks to the Titans. But they have
a really like Howie Roseman's the best GM. They have

(43:51):
the best front office in the NFC for sure, and
I think Kansas City has long been talked about in
a very similar way. But the Eagles not only what
they've put on the field, they're in a shockingly good
cap situation because their ability to draft and develop, and
they're a desire to put somebody in charge that isn't

(44:12):
just a talent finder but rather a business person, so
a capologist essentially, as well as what he's doing to
help put talent on the field. That's why I mean
their roster's better than the Chiefs. It's the best roster
in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
How much I know. I made a joke about this earlier.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
But which one of the which one of the Chiefs
guards is a free agent this upcoming season. Tray Smith.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
He was one of the players they drafted after they
lost to the Bucks to help reshape their line.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
He's been very good since a Bucks team that in
part got after them though because of injuries to that line.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
They also what was the best part about the Bucks defense?
Look at who they had up front. They were absolute monsters,
just like the Eagles are.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Right like I honestly, you know, at one point last night,
I was wondering if somebody from the defense, anybody from
the defense, was gonna win the MVP Award, even though
it's not how that works. It goes to the quarterback
that wins the game most of the time. Come on, Bert,
do you want me to call him out here? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Do it, all right, I'll do it, our good buddy,
Albert Breer.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Bert Breer.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Bert Breer was watching the Super Bowl last night. Imagine
that it covers to the NFL, and you see him
during Thursday night football quite often. Pretty good dude, But
he's easy to mock here because of his love for
Ohiose State. He definitely had a direct line to Bill
O'Brien while he was the head coach here, So it
was very interesting the stuff that would come from him

(45:36):
out of the Houston Texans facilities, which is amazing. On
the MVP, If a quarterback wins the MVP while his
defense shuts Patrick Mahomes out for nearly three quarters and
holds the chief offense under one hundred yards deep into
the second half, then I don't know what to say
about the voters. Two hundred plus people responded to him

(45:56):
virtually all with the same thing, And the simplest way
to say is, okay, who Cooper maybe sweat sweat maybe?
Or the guy who put the ball in the end
zone three times to places quarterback and has the ball
in his hands every single offensive play.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
We just watched Josh Allen win. It's Super Bowl as
much as it is everywhere else.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
No, I get it's nothing wrong with the voters, But
if you like, I think the last defensive player to
win MVP was wasn't that one of the Cowboys defensive
backs against the Steelers in that game? It's I'd spend
a little slightly more recent thing, but not that much recent, right,
those Cowboys Steelers, I know that's old. What I was
trying to think of the last time a defensive player

(46:40):
won the MVP of the Super Bowl at all. It's
very infrequent.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Yeah, it happened in uh twenty fourteen based on one
I'm looking at Malcolm Smith of the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Yeah, because they decided not to give the ball to
Marshawn Lynch.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
But he's not the one who picked off the packs.
Dexter Jackson won it in the Bucks Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Okay, and what two and two.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
The two thousand and two season stopped. That should have
been impossible, but you got it anyway. And before him
A ray Lewis somebody one that was that before or
after he allegedly killed a guy. But look at what
it takes sometimes for the quarterback to not win it.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Well, he needs to be Trent Dilfer, the game manager,
the last game manager to win.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Like I don't I don't mind people being oh man,
their defense is so good, it's a shame they couldn't
win the MVP. But that's why there's eleven guys out
there crushing it, Well, which one do you pick and
which one gets the votes necessary to win the award?
Or the guy who was unbelievable? He was incredible. He
made one mistake and then made some incredible throws. He

(47:44):
had some incredible runs. He bought himself extra time and
he's not played. I know what he did in the
last Super Bowl. It doesn't matter, but they're just pointing
it out. He's to coounted for seven touchdowns in the
last two Super bowl You know what the answer to
this question is? Who is Emmett Smith? Do you know
what the answer is? Now as it relates to Jalen Hurts.
He's the only player in the history of the NFL
with more rushing touchdowns in the Super Bowl in a

(48:07):
Super Bowl, in all of his Super Bowls, then Jalen Hurts,
Emmett has five. Nobody else on the planet has more
than Jalen Hurts is four.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Well, that's what happens when you go to multiple Super Bowls.
All two of them for Jalen, well four for Emmitt.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
He was he was fantastic last night channel of you
z own.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Yeah, it's it's really his people talked so much, not negatively,
just to kind of note it his demeanor and to me,
cool customer, you don't have to be the same. Everybody's different.
Pat Mahomes demeanor is different than CJ's demeanor, is different
than Lamar's demeanor, is different than Josh Allen's demeanor is
different than Jalen hurts demeanor. I did appreciate to point

(48:46):
that out. Good Morning Football Crew, Kyle Brant. For the
three panelists that were with him, Jamie eard Al, Peter
Schrager and Mantiteo a Friday morning, he said, see if
you can tell what this press conference is from, it's
Jalen Hurts. But I just want you to tell me
is this after a win or is this after a loss?

(49:06):
Because you can barely tell. And even during his on
field interviews when he joined the studio, when he joined
people on the sidelines for live interviews last night, he's
just what's not different about those five quarterbacks that I mentioned? Supreme,
elite level confidence and for good reason, he knows he
can do it. He certainly knew it before I think

(49:26):
the last Super Bowl and then went out there and
played a gem of the game one.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Then he did it again. This time they were on
the right side of it. By the way, because I
have to do this, it's the only day I can
actually say this. The earliest of early odds for the
twenty twenty six Super Bowl champs, so I guess before
the game. For several weeks, a lot of these sports

(49:51):
books had lines up that had the Chiefs that consensus
favorites at plus six hundred, that's per ESPN bet. However,
when the final whistle blew, the Chiefs were knocked down
to plus six fifty and got as long as plus
seven fifty at some books, while the Eagles flew up
the odds board, jumping from a fifth place plus eight

(50:13):
hundred to a third place plus seven hundred. Caesars had
plus six twenty five. Draft Kings plus five point fifty
now have them as the standalone favorite, And if you're curious,
the Ravens are tied with the Chiefs at plus six
hundred on the ESPN one. The Bills and the Lions
share the third slot with Phillia plus seven hundred.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Yeah, different group of odds, but same idea. The AFC
teams with better odds than your Houston Texans obviously, Baltimore,
Buffalo and Kansas City also Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
Bengals are getting a lot of love.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
As a matter of fact. Yep.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
At the other end of it, In case you were
wondering the worst odds or the six worst odds for
the AFC teams, half of them are in their division.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Well and the other one is Saquon's old team.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Well, just among you AFC teams Cleveland, New England, Vegas, Indie, Jacksonville, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
So hopefully the Texans are winning the division again. I
have little doubt they will be. They will be arguably
the largest favorites in the NFL to win their division
next years. The city has some competition. Buffalo might be
a larger one. That's probably the one they'd have to
watch for. Like the Chargers are three playoff teams in

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the FCUS. That's legit competition. And then what are the
What's what are the Raiders going to be? Like? That's
going to be the other Well, they're not gonna have
a quarterback bingo, so they're gonna suck. All right. We
will continue to discuss last night's game and your Rockets
snapped their losing streak.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
It's all still ahead here on the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. Back to Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler, the eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
It is the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety. By
the way, wex I need to give a shout out
before we go any further Melinda and Ronda, because I
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the show up in Dallas or the Dallas area every

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Speaker 4 (52:28):
I had no idea about this.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
People are out there listening.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
You share some information, personal information, or otherwise they'll get it.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I was tying laughing when I found that out. So yeah,
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Speaker 3 (52:37):
We are entertainers here, both here in the h far
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Speaker 2 (52:47):
Well, I had heard that parts of Arkansas actually get
the show as well, so it's I did not know
all of this.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I mean by that token, I would assume the Astros
and Rockets are Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Team, as they should be, even though prox somebody would
tell you that the Rangers are closer, but nobody wants
to root for them. That's just terrible. That's no way
to live.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Dare I say, are the Eagles America's team? Based on
your philosophy of everybody wants the Chiefs to lose? Did
the Eagles become America's team?

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I was taking pictures with the Mahomes family, so I
don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Like I it felt like the vibe of the social
media nation, Oh yeah, was perfectly happy with the Eagles.
Here's winning the Super Bowl. Here's what I struggled with.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
And I think it probably has a lot to do
with the fact that the Astros played the Phillies in
the World Series they just recently won. And let's face it,
the amount of pre celebration preparation and post during celebration
reports coming out of Philadelphia last night. They're not the

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most likable fan base on the planet. So I don't
like the fact that they got to celebrate. But I
will say this about the EA, They're not the Phillies.
The Sixers are a mess. This might be one of
the most likable rosters in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
I mean, and it's now Kelsey less because he was
the star of the parade the first time, right, they
will parade on Friday, Valentine's Day. I just Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I don't know anybody that has a serious issue with Jayle,
Like if you're a Cowboys fan or a Redskins fan,
see I did it.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
They'll be the Redskins again soon.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Well, if you're a Commander's fan, you couldn't have built
up any hate for anybody.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Command as a name is new.

Speaker 4 (54:30):
Right, and you know the Giants, I mean, what are
they gonna say right now?

Speaker 3 (54:33):
We'll think about it. Like this sakuon Barkley. I think
this was with Chris Rose and MJ D. After the game.
He was on set and Chris had asked him, you know,
you know, take us kind of back through where you were,
what you thought about this group, you know, before you
got here, and what you think about him now. And
the first thing he said was, you know, like six
months ago, I hated this team.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
And he should have. He was a Giant, their division rival,
but they should have hated every team because every team
was clocking them every single time they'd play. But it's
crazy because like it doesn't even surprise me that he
wasn't that effective, because what are most good coaches going,
especially defensive coaches going to do on a stage that big,
you're gonna try and take away the other team's best weapon.

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That was Saquon Barkley. That's why I didn't take his
yard over under yardage over under. I took his carries.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Wouldn't you say he was effective in being the player
they had to concern themselves with us. Well, it wasn't
a decoy because he got the ball twenty five times. Yeah,
but they had to continue to stress and employ their
personnel a certain way to stop him, which meant Jalen
Hurts might be able to do more things with his feet.
He ran for seventy yards again in the Super Bowl.

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He's done it in both Super Bowls, one hundred and
forty two total rush yards. And he found aj Brown
and he found Dallas Goddard. So did the Chiefs defense
illegally apparently they had two of those personal foul penalties,
one on Saquan, one on Goddard. And then he found
DeVante Smith deep down the middle of the field. Beautiful
throws throughout the game. But year you spent you know,

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maybe I'm stretching it a little bit, but you spent
two weeks deciding as coach Spagnolo, this is what we're
gonna do so we can keep Saquon Barkley from being
the guy who beats us. Seems silly to say, well,
if they're gonna be this, it's not gonna be him. Okay,
well why don't you let the guy who was awesome
in the Super Bowl two years ago do it?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
So being there, you're right, he didn't have a productive day,
but he certainly had an important day, and he saw
the ball a lot for someone who did not have
a productive day.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Yeah, well, absolutely, not as much as he had in
recent weeks. Though he carries finished more than he'd carries.
He had twenty five carries. I thought he had finished
with twenty two for some reason. Well, even twenty two,
he had fifteen in that last game, didn't you we
were going through the list when I was doing the
stone cold block.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
Didn't he have like thirty three in a recent game.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I mean, it's happened.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
That was his high carry mark.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Ye that that would be an outlier.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Yeah, well it's just a that's a day at the
office for Joe Mixon.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Right.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Mixon was on the sow was yesterday talking about how
we have to get back there by any means necessary,
very very military style conversation he was having there, and
it's it's hard not to realize this, and I'm amazed
that I don't even realize it. Okay, So Kansas City's
been to the Super Bowl every year out of the

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AFC for the last six.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Years but one, and that's when Joe Mixon went. And
that's like six years of this and beat the chief
to do it, and beat the Chiefs to do it. Yea,
he knows what it takes him and the Eagles they
know what it takes to beat the Chiefs that postseason.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
On the other thing about Jalen Hurts winning a Super Bowl,
Jalen Hurts joins Pat Mahomes and who else currently slated
to be a starting quarterback in the NFL with a
Super Bowl ring a Super Bowl win as a starting quarterback,
I would say there is only one other person in

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the league that is in that group. I'll push Russell
Wilson out on the assumption he will not be a
starting quarterback to the begin the season.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Where is Aaron Rodgers starting next year? It's not New York.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
I just told you he's not my answer, because I
don't think he's on the list. We'll get you the
Aaron Rodgers stories here and I'll just tell you it's
it's Matt Stafford. Oh. Aaron Rodgers, according to Jay Glazer
earlier today, went to visit and flew up to Jersey
so he could meet with Jets new management, new head coach,

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new GM. Woody and crew are still there, and according
to Jay, they informed Aaron he wasn't in their plans
for next year. He's got another year on his contract,
but it's not guaranteed, so he'll he designated as as
a cut player June first. Most likely they told him
we're not in the we can't win football games business
with you anymore. Aaron Rodgers will be the most decorated

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by a lot, much more so than Russell Wilson, still
quarterback available on the market. But paint me a scenario
where a GM and an owner in a locker room
are saying, let's go get Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
That's who we want. Maybe two places more likely one
can you guess, well.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
He did help the Jets get a very good draft
pick this year, If that's what you think is going
to happen. And you're going to do it a backhanded way.
We went out and got Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
I watch this, He's gonna lose. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I think it's a team who believes they can win
with him, But I don't know who that is.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Neither of these two teams I'm thinking of are going
to win with him because of him, But they're definitely
the rosters aren't there, and one of them already has
an expensive guy at quarterback in New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Oh, and there's no way he's he if he went
to New Orleans, he would be going to Now their
offensive line is kind of changed the equation.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
But he just left.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
The team that drafted Garrett Wilson a couple of years ago,
got DeVante Adams because you begged them to. Has Bruce
Hall in the backfield along with Braylen Allen. There's nothing
wrong with the talent there. Their offensive line was awful
last year and was better this year, but it's not
one of the better offensive lines. But that's not why
they're losing. That's not the reason they're losing football games.
Their defense got worse too, and that's also not the

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reason they're losing football games. New Orleans doesn't have much
to work with either. But I wouldn't waste my time
and money. I mean, I don't really want to see
more Spencer Rattler if I'm the Saints, But that would
be a more appetizing decision in the other place, spending
money on any money on Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
The other place would be the Raiders, only because their
quarterback situation already sucks, but their draft position might dictate
that they'll Well, here's school two schools of thought.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Do I want to take a chance on cam Ward
or Shuhdoeur Sanders or Jackson dart Or Did I watch
the Super Bowl? Why did they win? Why did they?
I mean, Jalen Hurts is awesome, but why did the
Eagles win? Because they dominated up front? Why don't I
just draft Mason Graham or Abdul Carter. Why don't I
draft a killer in the interer my defensive line or

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a killer on the exterior of my defensive line? Yea
with one of those two players any other players.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
If you don't believe in any of the quarterbacks coming out,
That's the other reason why I say that there's still possibilities.
But that's assuming that Aaron Rodgers is still good, and
I can't say that he is right now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Yes see, I'm not sure what a GM or a
talent evaluator would do with last year's tape and not
come up with the conclusion that you're just not gonna
win with him anymore. He might think otherwise, and he
might blame it on other things, and he might think
he can still make the throws he used to make.
But that's what's most glaring. Those are the throws he
used to make them. He can't make them anymore, and
so he's not going to be effective. In addition of

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not being able to move as much, he'd be learning
a brand new offense. He's liable to get hurt the
more he plays, and the older is the more he's
getting hit, and the less he can move.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
He's probably not cheap. That's the other things.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
It just doesn't make us much sense not to mention
the fact, Oh, let's go get a veteran quarterback that
can help our young quarterback room. It's not him. No,
I've never been one to do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
That, don't I Just he is in a bad spot,
and we think about how it's Okay, it's the end
of his career. It's okay, yeah, but think of he
doesn't think that the.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
End of his Hall of Fame career. It happens first ballot.
I don't want to get into that discussion because that's
another dumb one.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
How is it dumb?

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
There should be no such thing. What do you mean.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
A first ballot Hall of Famer as some sort of
extra honor?

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Well, just why would you not vote Aaron Rodgers in
the first time he's available to be voted in? That's
the question. So I'd like that. Oh the way you
said that, I cleaned it up for you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:35):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Speaking of cleaning things up, there is a very there's
a little small detail of where Alex Bregman is going
to play baseball. We we'll throw ourselves into that discussion
a little bit when we come back the age on
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Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety Monday edition
of the program, as we take you up until six
o'clock the Super Bowl in the books, which means the
twenty twenty four NFL season now officially in the books
for you know it, it'll be what is it?

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
March twelfth is the first day of free agents can sign.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Yeah, the tenth through the twelfth is the negotiating period.
You got to be at the cap, figure under it
by the twelfth when it all opens for you then
to make those deals signed and official. We're only a
few days out from franchise tag designation time.

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
Oh Jadeveon Clowney's favorite time of year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Got him out of Houston because they watched it here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
How many things did they not botch?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Be easier to has not proven to be the end
all be all, even though I'm a huge fan of
his football, especially in the run game, which is not
great if you're a pass rusher. But yay, Texans moved
on and look where they are now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
They're fine. They're fine, They're fine. But I would like
to see some big, some somewhat big moves this offseason
with regards to that offensive line. And look, speaking of
the topic we're about to get to, I don't really
know what's going to happen with Stefan Diggs brought this
up last week because of his injury, and like you
said then and you said before, all it takes is

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one team to offer the money.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
The Texans, I do, if I'm not mistaken, are in
a position where, because of what they did with his
contract last year, if he's not back next year, there
there's a hit for it. Even though he only played
one on a one year contract here, because of how
they reworked it, I believe they would still in advance
of making a decision to technically let him get to

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free agency, could put a deal together to keep him here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
I hope that's what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
I think it's the best scenario for both parties. Nico
Collins went on the record, it's saying, yeah, go ahead. Well,
he just basically says he agrees with me. That's what
I was going to get at. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
He was on a couple of different outlets on Friday
making his rounds in radio row or media row at
Super Bowl and went asked by a couple of them
about Steph. He wanted all the stuff we talked to
him about throughout the year, how much he helped him,
how much he had the opportunity to learn from him.
He's great in the room, he's obviously great on the field,
and yeah, I would love to have him back, he said,
I hope that's what happens, you know, And you said,

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it's good for everybody, And it's still tough if your
digs depending on what the Texans do. I was surprised
he did it last year in foregoing the rest of
his contract and letting them turn it into a one
year deal. But he did that so he could get
too a bigger deal this offseason. But you take a

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risk when you do that, and that risk, unfortunately did
not pay off because he got hurt. So does he
want to do that at an older age, coming off
of an injury and set himself up again to need
to prove.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
It a little bit?

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
I mean, you get to a certain age anyway, there's
only so much money people are going to give you,
almost no matter what you produce. And so I think
it's just an unenviable position to be in from a
contractual standpoint for a player that's been as good as
he's been, as productive as he's been, as much of
a winning program as he's been, pretty much everywhere he's been.
But he's just at the age and stage and off

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of this injury and the timing of it a little bit.
It's just not a good place to negotiate from.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Yeah, and I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
I mean, how many winning teams, you know, if you're
a winning team, then you're probably paying a lot more
money to be that. Not always, but for the most part.
How many winning teams have the ability to even offer
him the type of money he's wanting to begin with,
because otherwise you're just taking money somewhere else where, you're
not going to win as much to finish out your career.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Well, yeah, I don't. I don't envision that. I think
that's a point to be made for sure. I don't
think it's one of the teams that can't win. I
don't think that's what he's out there to do. I
don't think that's what they'll have to settle on saying, well,
I just don't have any many more opportunities to make money,
so I have to. Now, he's made a lot of money,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
How much is too much?

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Well, I want as much as I can get, but
I also want to win. And I think that's what's
still going to keep him from saying yes to a
team that isn't capable of winning. Immediately during the one
or two years maybe that he's under contract with them,
So that would put all these like the two teams
that aren't going to sign him are are Buffalo and Minnesota.

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Minnesota because they have two really awesome young receivers. I
only bring him up because there's fom teams. Buffalo because
they just moved on from him and ended up in
the AFC Championship game with a passing game led by
younger players, but everybody else that's a winning program. There
were fourteen other playoff teams. The Texans were one of them. Yeah,
or twelve other playoff teams, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Was gonna you know, I made this point last week's familiarity,
but it would be with the players only at this point,
since the playbook's going to be changed to a certain degree.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Nick Kayley's playbook, I do think will the execution of
what he calls will look very different, but there are
gonna be a lot of elements that are similar. And
I think it probably got spun super quickly into Texans
higher rams offensive mind. Rams say they're going to trade
Cooper Cup. Well, I know math that means Cooper Cup's
coming to the Texans, right It would as a player.

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He's in a similar situation, except he's under contract. He
makes a huge amount of money as it relates to
the cap, but he's been hurt a bunch. He's not
coming off his most productive year. He's clearly closer to
the end than even to his prime, let alone the
beginning of his career. So what are you willing to
do to rework the deal? Who's eating what money? How

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are you getting him here? You know, are you committing
to future money to lessen the amount of money that
you're hit with now that one? Football wise, that'd be awesome.
He'd make perfect sense here. He's just the type of
veteran you'd watch, just the type of playmaker you'd want,
just the type of familiar with the offense. But financially speaking,
and where the Texans are, which is not very well
situated as it relates to the cap. I think they

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have the lowest figure of cap space available among the
teams that are on the positive side, Like, they have
some cap space, but it's one of the smallest numbers.
And then there's seven or eight other teams that are
on the other side of it that are needing to
make moves in order to meet the cap figure by
March twelfth. They got some restructures they'll do, there's some
other things, and they'll they'll gain some cap space from that,

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but the Digs deal is particularly important to that. Again,
going back to how they redid his deal upon his
arrival here, I wouldn't say I'd be surprised if he
were here, but i'd probably put it at fifty to fifty.
I don't know when I've ever said the bregmanods were.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Fifty to fifty?

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
What what do you think there are? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
They're definitely not in favor of the Astros unless he
signs a shorter term deal.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
I don't know if I mentioned this to you yesterday,
but when we were doing Saturday game up here, the
Rockets last road game of that trip against the MAVs,
wrapped up coverage and said to our network producer Josh, See,
you know, I'm gonna go out on a limb and
say I think it would be funny, and I'll go
ahead and predict it. Alex Bregman news of his new
team will break during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
But it did not.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Yeah, and it doesn't look like it's going to break
today either. Interestingly, one of the to me anyway, one
of the teams that he could end up with, their
players have arrived if they pitch and catch. As of yesterday, Chicago,
they'll be having a first full squad workout before the

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Astros pitchers and catchers even report on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
And they've already talked about Alex Bregman a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
It's just the timing of his preparation for the season.
I know, spring training last forever and he's been working
and working and working, see his social media. It's it's
not that big of a deal, but it's not ideal
because he's also going to be the leader of the team.
If he goes to Detroit, he is the leader of

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the Tigers. If he goes to the Cubs, he's the
leader of the Tigers. If he re signs here, he's
the leader of the Astros. I think he'd be the
leader in Boston, but I'd hesitate to commit to that
just yet. With that, well, yes they've all hesitated to
commit to him as we sit here today, but a
little more extended discussion. We only scratch the surface on
kind of where things stand with ab and every other

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team in baseball. Because he's not on any of them.
As we've gotten to the tenth of February spring training,
Well it's here.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
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Adam Clinton and Adam Wesler on Sports Talk. So a
question surrounding last night's Eagles win, specifically, if you listen
to everything that was being said by Eagles personnel last night,

(01:13:16):
whether it be Nick Sirianni and you know, as the coach,
any of the players, any of the front office people,
it was all about, you know, getting back to that
game and finishing the job and basically using twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Twenty three as like a chip on their shoulder.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Is the NFL the hardest league to do that in
because how many times do we look back, especially like.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
A decade ago, and then going back from there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
It feels like, and it's probably just a fluky thing,
but it feels like the runner up every year almost
always went into the tank. There was like so many
years in a row where you would look and, oh,
well this team lost the Super Bowl if it wasn't
Tom Brady and the Patriots, because they actually did lose
a few, believe.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
It or not, went ten years in between wins.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Yeah, yeah, even though they went two super Bowls in
between there, right, they just didn't get the actual victory.
I actually I attended a Tom Brady loss in a
Super Bowl. That's like such a unicorn thing for him.

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
Win.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Which one did you go to?

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Oh, I'm sorry both.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
Were you with the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
One in hear No? Four? Yeah? And then obviously, well
I knew you were at that one because you saw Janet. Yeah,
and then you were at the one in seventeen eighteen
whenever it was, if you say so, the comeback against
the Atlanta I did you see the best meme of
the night.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Well, I saw a post from Nick Foles. Not that one,
although that's good, we'll get to that. No, it was
it was a picture of Brady on the bench with
his head down here in Houston and the score read
I believe it was twenty eight nothing at the time.
Their comeback was from twenty eight to three.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Okay, And it said Maholmes needs to do whatever Brady
did at this moment to turn this around essentially.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
No offense to Matt Ryan, but Jalen Hurts hated help
out the way Matt Ryan did, right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Someone quote tweeted that picture with that caption and said,
this is when Brady lost his family.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
That's just too dark. But he's locked in on the
old sports. I mean his family, I mean his former wife.
His ex wife was very upset by his kids. Might
also have been upset, but he probably didn't lose them,
and he lost his jersey. He mentioned that to Jalen
Hurts and their segment together last night.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Don't get this stolen from the locker room and try
to track it down in Mexico.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
I think there were some people that thought maybe the
Eagles would take that route that you just suggested. They
lost thirty eight to thirty five on a last second
field goal. The following year, while they did make the playoffs,
they finished second to the cow in the division and
got clobbered by the Bucks on the road, and that
was their only playoff game, and then they won four
playoff games this year.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
They're fine.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
That's the thing. I mean, it's it's I.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Don't think it looked like last year's playoff game maybe
would allow you to Okay, maybe I never really thought that.
I did not expect this, but when they walked off
the field against Tampa, neither of their two best corners
were there. They're both better than Gardner Johnson, by the way,
their defensive coordinator wasn't there. Saquon Barkley wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
The amount of year and last year to the yeah,
well that's what the team that walked off the field
in the postseason just last year, not the super Bowl
postseason just last year.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
These are all one year four people. And when you
consider they changed a lot just this off season and
the amount of hits that their front office has had,
this is why they are or where they are, and
for all that they've done. They lost thirty two that game.
I said, they got clobbered by Tampa. The three games

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they played in the postseason before that, when they lost
in the Super Bowl, they scored thirty five, thirty one,
and thirty eight. They've changed oseas twice since then. This
year's postseason, they scored fifty combined points in their first
two wins against the Packers and Rams. Then they've scored
ninety five points in their last two wins. They beat
the Commanders by putting up fifty five. They just scored

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forty in the Super Bowl. They're averaging thirty seven and
a half points with Jalen Hurts as their quarterback in
the Super bowls averaging unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
Well, their offensive coordinators gone.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
He is gone, but they have the personnel, and what
they're not gonna do, unfortunately for everybody else in the
league presumably, is not let their offensive line coach go.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Just Outlin's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
I think it's pretty safe to say that he's got
to be regarded as the best offensive line coach in
the NFL. He was brought in, and we mentioned this
probably two weeks soo. He was brought in by Chip
Kelly when Chip Kelly was the Eagles head coach. That's
how Stutland got there. And he's lasted through multiple head
coaching changes and multiple offensive coordinator changes for one obvious reason.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
He's good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
He's really really good at his.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Job, and there's no reason unless somebody forces him to
leave by offering him a better position, which at this
point doesn't look like anybody's going to do. Then just
keep coming back, keep getting raises, and keep winning, and
next OC will have that opportunity. I don't think this
is a real possibility about I can't help but mention it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
You're going to need a new OC.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
How many OC's are available that have experience in the
current NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
I can think of one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
I'm not saying he should be at the top of
their list, but he immediately comes to mind.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Bobby Slowick.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Oh would the Eagles have interest in Bobby Slowick?

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Considering who they've hired?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
They promoted from within the first time, after stike and left,
they promoted Brian Johnson. And when Johnson left they were
lucky and that the Cowboys said, Mike McCarthy's got this.
Kellen Moore, you can you can have that. He's not
he's not our coach in waiting, you can have him.
So a couple of years ago, the Cowboys coordinators were
Kellen Moore and the guy that runs the Commanders now

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Dan Quinn. And now they're both going to be head
coaches and they're both it's.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
A tough one.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Give me a quick answer, which team will be better
next year? The one coached by Brian Schottenheimer or the
one coached by Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore, Wow, that's mean.
I don't think it's gonna be true. But I get
your point.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
The track record says, I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
Mean, one of them is looking for their quarterback and
the other one will get back Dak Prescott. I consider
it better than I don't know. I know, as much
as we think Dak can't win, he's significantly better than
you don't have.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
A quarterback and win in the regular season, which has
been the Cowboys problem since the detroyman walked out the door.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Yeah, they have much bigger problems than that. Now. Most
of their problems have been kind of internal. Well, now
they've got two teams in the division that are clearly
better than them, and that's a big problem heading into
the year. It's the first time they've probably felt that way,
maybe since Dak took over, that they had clearly two
teams closer to being a Super Bowl winner. One of
them just won it and the other one was the
team they beat to get there.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Fan base that Schottenheimer was the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Yes, even if he was, I mean, who could they
have hired that. That's what could change. We could have
given them a good vibe. But what doesn't change is
the Commanders and the Eagles. That's not changing no matter
who they hired, and I don't know what coach this cycle,
even Vrabel or Belichick, had they fired McCarthy before this year,
I don't know how much that really changes.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Our resident diehard Cowboys fan that listens to the show
is weighing in. Stugie says, Callim Moore will be fired
first without a good running back. He sucks. That's interesting, thoughts.
I mean, this guy, this guy's as real as it
gets about all of his well, I do think it's
not going to be easy to win big in New

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Orleans with their roster, with their cap situation.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Their division is going to shuffle who's good and who's bad.
I'm sure quite a bit. But when Zel was in
their position, he was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Playoffs sucked, gets you Chargers awful, gets to Philly with
Barkley wins. What do the Saints have nobody? I mean true,
it's true, it is. It's that is, as per usual,
going to be the most scrutinized situation in that division
and for.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
The most part in the NFL. We will continue four
o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Coming up next, we will reset and was that Travis
Kelsey's swan song last night?

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
We will discuss the a team on Sports Talk seven
ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named at him Talking
Your Team series, Adam and Adam Wexler are d a

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team A team.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
It's the four o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
It is a Monday edition of the program, basking in
the afterglow of the nation's nightmare being put to rest
for at least one year.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Yeah, it didn't take long for I'm sure people. I
say people when I have a feeling, I mean you,
Adam to feel like if you were watching the game
and you could probably not those of you driving or
somewhere where you shouldn't close your eyes, but if you
closed your eyes and imagined the reaction of Adam Clinton

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when AJ Brown put his hand on McDuffie and then
caught the pass, and even in the shot, you could
see the referee tossing down his little yellow flag, and
you knew what was coming. The first of many calls,
controversial calls to clearly go the chief's way. It right
out of the gate, his personal nightmare. AC's looked like

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it was about to continue for another four hours and
ultimately probably another twelve months. And then the Eagles said
that didn't bother us at all, that's not going to
impact our ability to crush it here even one bit.
And the Eagles decided, let's go ahead, and I don't know,
make this easy on ourselves and just keep scoring points
all day and having a good day in offense, having

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a good day on special teams, having a good dawn defense,
and crushing the hopes and dreams of Chiefs fans.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
That's the thing and honks to me, it just felt
like you could not score enough points, you know, And
it was like ten to nothing, and then it was
I think it was sixteen nothing, whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
I was just like, it's not enough. It's not enough.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
There's always gonna be a way for Mahomes and company
to come back. And I mean, granted they twenty two points,
that's more than I thought they were gonna have at
the end of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
That play that I mentioned was one of those plays,
though it's not that oh my god, they're look at
how many penalties the other team got called for or
they didn't. This was a fourth down play right for
a thirty two yard completion, and instead it's offensive pass
interference opening drive of the game and they punt. Little

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did we know the Chiefs wouldn't do anything on offense
for another two and a half hours, and you're right,
and didn't seem like they were ever gonna get points
on the board. I saw someone post this encapsulates the
game very well that Xavier Worthy put up the quietest
monster super Bowl performance maybe in NFL history. Xavier worthy
rookie season comes to a close off of a Super

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Bowl performance where sadly he got no carries, eight targets,
eight catches, one hundred and fifty seven yards, two scores,
including the fifty yard touchdown. That's about as monster a
Super Bowl receiving performance as you're gonna see. Eh, it's
a small, tiny footnote in a lopsided or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Team crushed your team.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
Yeah, I uh, it's good for him personally, and I'm
sure gonna make people realize how dumb Buffalo is if
they didn't already.

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
At around eight forty five PM, I did tweet the
following Houston Texans fans watching the Eagles smash Mahomes in
the face like, and then I had the WTF gif.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
Like, think about Will Anderson's hit in the postseason and
Mario Edwards hit in the regular season both were. In
Anderson's case, it was a blow to the shoulder, not
the helmet to begin with, and edwards case it was
the side of his head and neck barely from behind.
Almost nothing flags. And in this case, Jalen cart like
even Kevin Burkhart and Tom Brady, had no idea until

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they saw the replay. They thought the penalty out. They
must have called the penalty for this, well, then it
would be chiefs ball. The penalty was for some post
play activities. They just flat out missed what would normally
be pretty easy to see. That's what you're there to do,
one of the officials, the one behind the play, the referee,
that's what you're looking for. And he got it hard

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and then he got hit hard in the face by
both of Jalen.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Carter's Texans fans want to know, is okay if they
aren't allowed to complete that drive which did lead to points,
it led to a touchdown against the Texans. You know,
does that game turn out differently even with all the
mistakes that Texans made?

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
And that's why some people will push back into the narrative,
point blank end of story, like, okay, so don't make
all the other mistakes so don't let it come down
to this and the mistakes they're making weren't. The other
team outplayed them here. The other team did not take
Chris Boyd's helmet off. I assure you correct. The other
team didn't, you know, it's the things that were extra
The other team did block the extra point, but didn't

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make you miss the other kicks. You just missed them.
So that's the thing. It was just it's there's two parts.
There's always a side of it that I can rationalize.
Is it's a shame that it feels that way. It
definitely didn't feel like they got calls in the game
and they got whacked and they're not related.

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
No, no, I don't think now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
DeAndre Hopkins was talking about it after the game, Well, DeAndre.

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
Hopkins did something that we would have cited as man.
That's a mistake. I don't know if he was already
falling down when the ball was coming his way, that's
a catch. How does of all people, someone with such
good had DeAndre Hopkins just flat out missed the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
I couldn't believe it because it was thrown right to him.
It wasn't a bad throw or anything like that. But yeah,
I mean there were you know, that was something that
was talked about after the games.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Two throws to Travis Kelcey were awful, and some of
that was past rush related. But he turned in a
four catch thirty nine yard performance, which for him is
like invisible for his postseason career. He's the most productive
all time, greatest postseason tight end ever. But you can't
deny what this past season was. We talked about it
during the year. He's a thirty five year old player

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when the season began. He'll be a thirty six year
old player if he's a player during next season, and
it's pretty much I don't think it's debatable. He just
turned in the worst season of his career. Clear drop
off in performance. He definitely looks like there's a clear
athletic drop off in his abilities. Sadly, the Texans still

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allowed him to put up the longest reception of his
postseason career this year against them, when he basically did
nothing in the postseason. He had twelve catches for one
hundred and twenty six yards other than that one catch,
and he played in all three games and basically didn't
do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
Yeah, before we get back to that one other thing
on the officiating that I thought was interesting. Last night,
JJ Watt, of all people, weighed in said that ref
narrative died pretty quick, and I remember thinking, ah, I
mean it didn't die.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
It just didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
It wasn't a part of this game because there weren't
egregious calls. But this guy, random Joe Blow weighed in
ended up getting twenty five thousand likes off of his comments, saying, actually,
I think this reinforces it. All them close games where
the refs drug them across the finish line. They shouldn't

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have even been in the super Bowl obviously. I mean,
there's ways of looking at things that's not the way. Well,
I don't look at the Texans game that way, but
I know that there are people in Buffalo who absolutely
look at it that way, and I honestly can't argue
with them, because when you're talking about these fourth down
spots and there's an official on one side of the
field that's different from the official on the other side
of the field, and things like that are happening in

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a game of benches that's so close, and you're talking
about Josh Allen where he was spotted in the third
down play before that like it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
It matters.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
So I understand that you know people in Buffalo and
to a lesser extent, people in Houston talking about the
Will Anderson play. You just wonder what would have been
Would the game have unfolded differently had those calls gone
the way they probably should have, or if you're not
gonna call if you're gonna call that, and then you're
not gonna call this guy practically assaulting Mahomes in the

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biggest game of the season. You just want the consistency.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
They are consistent. They miss calls in every game, they're
consistently bad. No, they missed calls, but those click this
last night's game, Would you call it a poorly officiated game?
We've already excited two or three calls that we don't
agree with. Would you call it a poorly officiated game?
You could probably say yes to every game if you
wanted to.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Well, that's what I'm saying. Do I think the problem
I have with that question is that do I think
it would have changed the.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Outcome in this game?

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
El or you know, a better trained group whatever could
do better? Or should we expect better? I think the
perception is, of course we should expect better, But is
it reality? Pick a game were there missed calls? Yeah,
every one of them. It happens every week.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
I never get that game last night, and let's just
say you thought it was a poorly officiated game. It's
really not going to matter in the grand scheme of things,
because the Eagles were going to pace them no matter what.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
But you want it to be better and it wants
to leak to care.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Yeah, if the Texans and the Bills, more so the
Bills on the scoreboard. But I felt like it was.
It was also a relatively close game the Texans played.
You know, you're you're talking about going to Arrowhead, where
you're talking about before the game, you're not gonna get
anything to go your way. It's it's a talking point
before they ever kick off, But should it be after

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they kick off? Now we've seen it. They got clobbered.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
The Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Oh the team that gets all the calls? Do we
still need more official That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
That's the difference between last night's game and either of
the two that preceded it. If it's a close game
like that, then those calls, fair or not, they do
matter more because it's a closer game.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
They they could have had a horribly officiated game last night.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
But if the Eagles played the way they did and
the Chiefs played the way they did, separate and apart
from the officials, it wouldn't have mattered. That's what Again,
one of the three turnovers would have been overturned. Okay,
so then they will lose by a slight one maybe slightly.
I don't know about that. I mean, this is way
to nitpick. You know, this game the S and that game.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
No either either you believe they're getting calls and it's
unfair and the league needs to do about it, or
you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
And I don't think that I would not say. What
I'm saying is I'm not going to agree with JJ
Watt saying the ref narrative died pretty quick when it
was the only reason that could even be tweeted is
because it was such a blowout loss last night. But
if there's a game, that's if there's a game being
played between the Chiefs and filling the Blank team and
it's close at all, and there's multiple in this case,

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both games, you know, questionable officiating calls. I'm sorry, that's
you can't ask people to just ignore that in favor
of all this other stuff over here that tap like.
I just don't I understand why people are been out
of shape about it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
I hope they got bent back into shape by what I.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Think they would have rather their team advanced past the
Chiefs than well Buffalo's.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
It's not a one year thing with them, and it's
not a referee thing with them. They're just, man, we
can't beat this team, so I don't like them, and
so I'm gonna or everything.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
There's already good. We don't need them to have any
additional help, if you want to look at it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
Yeah, this loss on two spots, sure, Maybe what about
the loss of the last playoff of the last playoff
or the last playoff. That's that's what the difference is
for me for Buffalo's complaints and others. And that's why
a lot of the NFL players from the past are saying, yeah,
go make plays and beat them.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Narrative goes away. See the Eagles.

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Speaker 6 (01:33:35):
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Speaker 5 (01:33:36):
You got him. It's Adam Clinton and Adam Wegfler.

Speaker 8 (01:33:40):
Clanton stop impersonating me on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Ninety so after last night's debacle, I know we talked
about this last year and we've talked about it throughout
the sea. Do you think that was Travis Kelsey's last game?

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
I think it might be because he might be a
player that views himself as elite all time and if
I can't do that anymore, then it's time to go.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
And that's the kind of performance.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Those are the kind of performances I thought he turned
in most of the season, and in two of the
three games in the postseason, six catches fifty eight yards.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
That's what he did.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
In the last two postseason games, he tortured the Texans
because they thought guarding him was silly and so they
didn't defending him, and he went off on them. Nobody
else did, but it was enough for the Texans to
not win that day. And his regular season was very
similar to that. You know, his yardage is way down,
his yards were catch way down, his effectiveness is way down.
And watching him even on that forty nine yard pass

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catch and run against Houston, I know he shook Cayln
Bullock so to speak, but it looked like all eleven Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Could have caught him on that play.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
I just don't think he is at the same level
he once was, and so to me, that might tell
the player, Okay, I've done enough, I've won three Super
Bowls and all that. Now let's turn to the team
and then we'll turn it to the other side. Well,
what is the team going to do? Is this monetarily
helpful to them? It probably is, with where his cap
figure is and the amount of cap savings they might

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gain by cutting him loose. Can we overcome that loss?
Presuming Rashid Rice comes back, presuming Xavier Worthy continues to progress.
Maybe they have some belief in Gray or Watson their
current reserve tight ends that they can do something of significance.
And then they also have to consider, well, we're going
to tell the huge part of all these Super Bowl

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playing teams, of all these super Bowl winning teams, and
the greatest player to ever play the position in the postseason,
we can be better without you. They're ready to win
next year, they are among the favorites to win. So
they have to consider the alternative to paying him what
he's owed and dealing with that financially versus what is
the football alternative and the savings that go along with it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
He was, according to friend of the show, James Palmer,
move to tears during his speech to the team the
night before the game at the team hotel. He's an
emotional person and some in the organization don't want to
admit it, but they do believe this could be his
final game. He hasn't said anything one way or another,

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so well see. And then you mentioned the Caps. I
think they would save seventeen million as the figure if
they were to cut him, and.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
He's owed over.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
I think it's nineteen this upcoming season. Yeah, nineteen point
eight million dollars salary kip hit salary cap hit. Easy
for me to say next season, but they would chase
he would. The Chiefs would save seventeen million if they
cut him.

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
So you have to consider it from a team standpoint
to try to make sure you're maximizing Pat mahomes elite ears.
There might be ten more of them, but you're certainly
wanting to maximize them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
With the coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (01:37:04):
You have the roster that you have, the front office
that you have in place, and they do lose a
handful or a coach or two a season. It seems
like sometimes they come back Matt Naggy among others, but
this is I don't think he's playing. He did make
the Pro Bowl Games roster, and he did have over
eight hundred yards, and he was on the receiving end

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of ninety seven passes, and he clearly still commands some
defense's attention. But you probably can find a replacement for
him for far far less money and have some belief
that Worthy Pacheco, Rashi Rice, and probably some other addition,
you can continue playing good offensive football. They've been a

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pretty good offensive team. I don't want people to think
the Eagles just shut down the great Chiefs offense. Not accurate.
In twenty twenty four, that was not a great Chiefs offense.
It was not a great Patrick Mahomes season. He was
not on the Pro Bowl Games roster and did not
deserve until they got to all the alternates to be
on the Pro Bowl Games roster. He wasn't one of

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the best quarterbacks in the AFC, but they still have
an elite team and I think he can play at
that level. They chose I think they chose to play
a little bit differently this year because of the kind
of defense they had, and because of the kind of
injuries they had during the season. I'd probably have to
see a second or third season. Probably second, because I
know people who are fantasy footballers think Pat Mahomes is

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a no longer productive option, and the numbers back it
up this year, and they got there pretty close to
the wrong side of it the year before. I'd say
the chances are actually pretty good that that was Travis
Kelsey's last go round with the Kansas City Chiefs and
by that same token, the NFL. I don't think he's
gonna come back and play somewhere else, even if it's

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the Chief's decision to say, well, we're not waiting for
your decision on whether you're retiring or not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
We're just gonna make it for you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
There's good football left in him, sure, but not the
kind of football he has played previously, and I think
that might tell him that, after all this time, it's
okay to walk away.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
So they do that, You know where does that put
the Chiefs next year? Like I because I find it
hard to believe that they make this financially motivated for
the most part, but also maybe on the field motivated
move and then their odds get significantly better worse.

Speaker 4 (01:39:25):
They're not going to.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Change hardly at all, in my opinion, just my opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
And again, we're not talking about Travis Kelcey that's going
to the Hall of Fame. You're talking about the lesser
version of Travis Kelcey. Guess what, he's not playing forever.
You're going to let him go, You're going to have him,
watch him retire. He's not going to be a Chief
Is it in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty six or
twenty twenty five. You can make that decision right now
and say it's twenty twenty five, because it's here. The

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end of his career has arrived. It's just a matter
of which of the next year or two or three
is it going to be set in stone and carved.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
But it's like it's easy to say, all right, we've
got Pat mahomes wo have a chance. That's true. But
who's going to be And I'm sure they'll draft him.
I'm sure they'll draft some person that a bunch of
teams passed on and becomes like the next big thing
because it's the Chiefs and it's Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
Well, they also have other players to consider in free agency.
Justin Reid is among them. You know, his four year
deal with the Texans as a non first round pick elapsed.
The Texans were interested in bringing him back, but I
don't think they were interested in giving him thirty one
million dollars over three years.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
That's what the Chiefs gave him.

Speaker 3 (01:40:27):
Well, this was year three. That contract has expired. They
go to the Super Bowl all three years. Justin Reid
went to the Chiefs and played in three consecutive Super Bowls,
winning the first two. He will I'm sure they'll be
interested in bringing him back. But his market and the
safety market, he's probably probably one of the third or fourth,
maybe fifth best safeties out there on this market, considering

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his age and stage of his career and things like that.
But I think most teams that would pursue him, the
Texans included, if they were to do so. I think
he does help think he makes them better. So are
the Chiefs out on the you know, ten eleven million
dollars cap hit that he would have been with and
now they can Okay, here's our new cap situation. And
there's a couple other free agents, same thing. If we're

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moving on from them and moving on from them and
the minimal dead cap hits that they might take from others.
I don't think they have to say goodbye to Travis Kelcey,
but I think it might make the most sense to
do so and take these savings and the other savings
I was just pointing out, and do a little retooling
for you. Don't want to make these decisions today because

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they're easy today. Get rid of this, get rid of that.
Look at how we looked last night, or you could say, huh,
we were a first place team, we were the number
one seed. We have a great defense, we have a
great coaching staff, we have good young talent. We're okay.
We lost to the Bills this year and the Eagles.
I'm not counting the loss to the Broncos with Carson Wentz.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Those were arguably the next two best teams. Beyond them,
the lines would be in the comp That's it. That's
all they lost to this year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:01):
They're okay, yeah, but a lot of those games went
down to the final What you know, it's like a
lot of those games. Pick a year.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
It's been the story since Mahomes arrived. They play close games,
that they win, and it's not because they get the
benefit of the officials call all the time. It's because
they make the most plays, especially when it counts the most.

Speaker 7 (01:42:20):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
They play some close games over the years, and a
lot of other games they were blowing out the competition
the last two or three years.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
I feel pretty confident saying they have the best record
best last three years, best record in the NFL in
close games, and they have as many as any team
in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Yeah, that's that could be true. But you can have
you can have the need to come back all the
time because you're trailing and then all look at how
clutch they are, or you could dominate tea like you know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
The thing is that that and I'd have to really
get the Wexler research team who thinks they have a
break because football season is over. I'd really have to
get them on this. It makes sense to say, well,
they've come back and they've made Does it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
Ever seem like they're coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
It always seems like they're protecting a lead with their
defense on the field and the other team snaps the
ball into the quarterbacks chest and fumbles, or the special
teams lets the Chiefs block their field goal, or if
the Chiefs have the ball, they're still winning and they
get the first down so they can kneel down. It
just doesn't seem like they're losing seventeen thirteen with one
thirty left and they drive down the field and score

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the game winning touchdown. They used to do that. It
doesn't seem like I saw that hardly at all this year.
They're always playing from in front. The other team's always
struggling to make it their day. I mentioned Josh Justin
Reid Smith Schuster is a free agent. One of their
d linemen. Wharton is a free agent, very good player.
Nick Bolton's a very very good player. He's a free agent.
They do have a lot of not only decisions to make,

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but how do they want to outfit their team financially,
because they can't let all these players go, then they
won't be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
I'm just very very interested to see how you know
twenty twenty five goes in the AFC specifically, gotta make
it easy for you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Yeah, exactly the same as it did last year and
the year before, Sorry, Chargers. The top four teams in
the AFC are the Bills, the Chiefs, the Texans, and
the Ravens. See you're twenty twenty five. Can't wait to
see it all on fold?

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
Right? Am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
I want to challenge that. Am I just saying?

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
It's say it?

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Division winners is one thing. What happens after that?

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Four teams have reached the divisional around the last two years.
They'll do it again next year. Boom predictions bold as
it is made on the A Team.

Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
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Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
Now, the good good, the bad that's not good, and
the ugly that's getting real ugly.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
With the A Team signature segment. Here on the A Team,
it's Sports Talks seven ninety. It's Monday, which means it's
time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. I
don't I mean, since I have the good, I have
I know one thing that could easily be pointed to

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as either the bad or the ugly.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
Well, you can't say anything about it until after we
divulge what we're doing. I've got the ugly, Dan's got
the bad. Can you just get on with the good?
I know it pains you to say something nice. Jeez,
welcome back to the show. I hope you had a
nice weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
Well with that kind of introduction, see where I can
go with this?

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
Put a smiley face on man, what do you got?

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
The Eagles beat the Chiefs? Good for you or good
for everybody? Say for America, good for the world. Not
only they beat them.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
I mean maybe from our last conversation you would have
preferred a close game victory against the Chiefs to prove
that they can come up short in a close game.
But I think it was equally enjoyable. And I said
I said earlier, and I could be wrong. It felt like,
even with the score margin getting wider and wider and
all the way to thirty four nothing, it didn't have
the same feel as many Super Bowls once did when

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they were constantly blowouts forty three to eight and fifty
five to tend It really didn't feel like that to me,
as not only as it was unfolding scores a little
bit better at the end of the day. And I
say that knowing the Chiefs didn't snap the ball on
the other side of the fifty till late in the
third quarter. They did really dominate as much as the

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score indicated that they dominated.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
Yeah, and it was.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
I mean, if you were somebody like me that all
season long was talking about the Chiefs stunt that good,
the Chiefs stunt that good, you felt vindicated.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
I mean, that's fine. I can't argue with how you feel.
It's your feelings, my feelings. I just don't feel like,
even pick any team, any other team. I just don't
think any other team can do that to them. I
don't think the Lions could have done that to them,
even at full strength. I don't think anybody else in
the NFC, and obviously Buffalo did not do that to them.
I don't think Baltimore Houston can do that to them.

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When we saw Houston not that to them twice. It
took the type of team built the way the Eagles
are built, with the strengths that the Eagles have, which
are a lot because I already called them the most
talented team just personnel wise in the NFL. But two
beasts in the middle up front and two killers on
the edge, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
I remember saying last night.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
I remember saying, you know, to myself, basically, the Texans
defense with the way it got after the quarterback all
season long, not just that quarterback, and then their secondary
in particular. I mean two of those guys were rookies
this year. They're gonna get better.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
They are close, and that is the team closest defensively.
They definitely don't have the names on the interior that
the Eagles have and have had, even the players that
they replaced from previous their previous Super Bowl team. But
the Texans have good players there, much better than I
thought they would be fully thought of Costi Mario Edwards,
Junior Denico Autrey when he was inside Tim Settle, they

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were really really good. They don't carry any kind of
cachet like a first round pick like Jalen Carter and
some of the other players that they move in and out,
but they do have the edge rushers. There's no reason
to look at Mitchell and Connor de Jane any differently
than how you look at Kamari Laster and Kaylen Bullock
other than the way they're used. But I'm talking about

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two teams with a pair of rookie draft picks that
are ready to dominate. The Texans have the benefit of
also having Derek Stingley junior with them.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
But in terms of.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
Finding two star, top level defensive backs in this past draft,
they did what the Eagles did, and I think they
had equally as impactful seasons. Kind Of depending on whose
numbers in PFF and when thrown against numbers things like that,
you could probably debate whose seasons were better. Rookie voting

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from PFWA said the Eagles seasons for their rookies were better.
It's by Some were up in arms about Laster not
being first team just because those guys were all right
the bad Dan.

Speaker 8 (01:49:00):
I was gonna go with the Super Bowl commercials, but
I settled on people bitching about the lower third score bug,
Like it's a completely innocuous part of the entire production,
Like who cares? Like why do we have to like
say like everything is the worst and complain about every
little thing. Do you see the time? Do you see
the timeouts for either team? Do you see the score?
That's the entire job of the score bug. I think

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it threw people when they saw it. I'm one of them.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
First time I saw it, I was wondering what was missing,
basically the background as and I thought we turned the
clock back with the font and the size of the font,
very very old looking for something to be launched as new.
But in general, I mean it's pretty hard to argue
with that. I'm amazed how much I think a lot
of people in the industry have talked about it quite

(01:49:47):
a bit. We have not at all today, and I
imagine your mention of it will prove your point. We
don't have to be negative about everything's so complaining.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
About what what's the fun in that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
I don't know that Fox is going to move forward
with it during their twenty twenty five regular season NFL coverage,
or preseason or college football, but for the Super Bowl
it did seem like there was a limited I thought
they could have given more information and probably set it
up a little differently, But I did not feel the
need to complain about it on social media or here
on this program either, So I would say that the

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reaction to it was bad, But you did leave the
door open for me. In what normally is one of
the most viewed, enjoyable, looked forward to parts of the
Super Bowl or even your Super Bowl party, especially when
there are people interested only in what happens when the
game's not being played, it was exceptionally underwhelming. I don't

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know if uglies as far as we need to go,
but that was not a good crop of memorable commercials.
Eight million dollars a spot, so we've heard for the
commercial time. Most of them i'd actually seen. So maybe
I was damaged goods going in, but I don't I
kept watching them or something else. Oh here, this is funny.

(01:51:02):
I'll remember this, or we'll need to play that tomorrow.
Not even a consideration. And even the McConaughey had for
the food delivery company, well it wasn't even the full commercial,
like they didn't buy enough time to air the whole thing.
They put on social media. So it was good but
not great. Probably could have gone with several other uglies

(01:51:22):
that really were ugly. But one of the things we
mentioned earlier is why I didn't. I'm all for fans
acting the way they want. That's kind of what fans are.
The line should not be crossed, and it's a little
difficult to say whether or not it was. But some
of the MAVs fans' behavior. Nothing happened, so I couldn't
say it was ugly, but it did appear like things

(01:51:44):
would potentially reach that point, and they didn't so not ugly.
But I was a little surprised by the reports on
National TV from Joe Smith's wife. It's not very nice
to call her that, but you know me, and then
from timmick Man, and then from well there are police
saying there are no reports of this substantiated or worthwhile

(01:52:07):
enough for us to be super concerned. And then they
played a game, they won a game, and Anthony Davis.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
Got hurt and we got back here. How long it's fine,
How long until Nico Harrison's fired.

Speaker 3 (01:52:19):
If Street Clothes continues, then he's he's finished.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Like you could have offered Luca to any number of
teams and gotten a superstar back, but you offered him
for that one.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
I mean, I know what you're saying, and I'm wondering
if that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
Okay, you call give me a team.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
That's what I'm saying. I don't know how many of
them are Milwaukee. Who do you want, Jannis.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
It's the same trade, So it's basically the same trade,
same ages, right, Johannas isn't getting hurt, not like that,
and Luca's in Milwaukee.

Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
By the way, Jannis Sonatakoopa out of the All Star
game with a calf injury. He is sidelined currently for
the Milwaukee Bucks. Congrats to Trey Young who got a
spot injured Janna Sonic Kumpo never gets hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:53:11):
Hurt right now, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:53:12):
Not from exhibition.

Speaker 5 (01:53:16):
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Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
Ninety Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler.

Speaker 5 (01:53:24):
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Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
Is the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:53:39):
Couple of items of information from newsbreaker extraordinariy Sean Sharania.
Oh yeah, Anthony Davis will not appear in the All
Star Game because of his injury suffered against the Rockets,
but the MAVs will still be repped. Kyrie Irving gets
the nod, and this again comes from the commissioner's announcement,
the second announcement he's made today for an player mentioned

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the Trey Young addition earlier. So Kyrie Irving now joins
the squad for the All Stars.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
And MAVs fans are down bad. They need some good news.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
You can we.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Move from one story about a team you love to
hate to a second story from Scham's about a player
person you love to hate.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
Yeah, the list as long, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
We are extremely pleased with today's decision, we look forward
to working with the NBA to complete the approval process
and close this transaction so we can turn our attention
to winning championships in Minnesota. All right for incredible fans. Yeah,
and the Twin Cities Community joint statement from the hopefully
soon to be approved new owners of the Minnesota Timberwolves

(01:54:46):
are watching floor and Alex Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
You ready for me to blow your mind blow fantastic
news for the Houston Rockets and their fans.

Speaker 4 (01:54:53):
Do you know why, Adam Wesler.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Because Alex Rodriguez, as an NBA owner is going to
to run his team like Michael Jordan as an NBA owner.

Speaker 4 (01:55:03):
I mean, there are worse analogies you could have made.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
I mean, I'm trying to I figured that was the direction.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Everything he touches turns to dirt.

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
From what I mean, what else does he touched that's
turned to dirt? She seems fine, m something's wrong with her.
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
I'm not going down that path on this show.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Seriously, man, it has nothing to do with that. Man.
What she looks?

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
Okay, yeah, you're right, don't go down there, go back.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
That's what I'm trying to do. Go back to what
you just said.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
So, Alex Rodriguez being attached to JLO for a period
of his and her life has put her in this place.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
You just put her. That's why. Actually, no, nothing to
do with him. So I don't think he turned her
into this proverbial. Well, if she's that bad and she
left him, what does that make him? Well, then what's
Ben Affleck and what's the other husband? I know he's
a commercial actor. I just saw him on Saturday One meme.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
So I don't think so this should be what you've
been waiting for. It is Alex Rodriguez becoming the owner,
partial owner, joint owner of the Timberwolves will mark the
exit of Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
There you go, you do it on the radio, on
the fly. We got a time constraint here. You can't
go through all of the rigormars, of all the things
that's going to take for that to come.

Speaker 4 (01:56:32):
That's what we want to get to here.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
Right, Yes, Except I feel like what Alex Rodriguez actually
done is only hurt himself.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (01:56:42):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Who else did he hurt? Did he hurt the Yankees?

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Did he hurt the Rangers World series is very tainted.
Nobody thinks it's tainted.

Speaker 4 (01:56:53):
Oh, that's not true.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
I know what the narrative is. They do not have
a tainted world series title with him. Nobody thinks that,
even though they should. Even though they should, nobody does
except for you. That's not true. Who thinks they have
a tainted title? A lot of people who name them.

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
You talk about the last won a world series, inevitably
someone will say, well, yeah, but a Rod was cheating
because he was roiding up and got suspended all those
games over it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
Right, But nobody really cares because they believe everybody was
doing this. They unlike the belief that everyone was cheating
via sign stealing, which we know is true, but people
refuse to believe it and use that as their crutch.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
That's why to believe. Okay, so a Rod cheated, Andy
got punished.

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
So what that guy was cheating and this guy was cheating,
and that guy got punished for using. Too many people
did get punished for using, so they don't believe the
punishment lacked onto anyone individual.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
Is a lot of those those guys were talking about
who were better than him, you know, like Barry Bonds,
they're not. They're being kept out of the Hall of
Fame over that. And these are some of the Some
of these voters that are doing that are the same
ones that were so sanctimonious about, you know, the Astros cheating,
and they're being the only team that was doing it.
They're just the selective outrage is fantastic. Anyways, that doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
I want to take that point, okay, because it's something
we haven't discussed about Alex Bregman. Do you think he
wants to leave Houston because of the sign stealing scan?
Do you think he wants to play good baseball for
the Cubs for five years? Win a World Series there,
win a World Series in Detroit twenty nineteen, change not why?
I mean maybe in Detroit it would be tough. Sorry,
wish thinking twenty twenty two changed all that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
We think that think that what I do think though
people think that I will say something that I don't
think a lot of people talk about. But I guarantee
you there's a lot of Astros fans that agree with
me when I say this. You're ready for it? Give
me a drum roll. I do think George Springer left
here in part because of that it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
Was much closer to that obviously, so he didn't have
a chance to do what Alex and Jose here.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
That is why I think that the twenty twenty two championship,
it's it's why it's a good and a bad thing.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
And I've said this on the air before.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
I think it's a good thing only.

Speaker 4 (01:59:04):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
So much about oh, good vindication, see we told you so,
versus just oh, this is awesome. Our team won a
championship and that's all it's about. Like I remember being
on the field thinking that, and you can't change what's
going through your mind. You can't control it, right, And

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I remember looking back not that long after, thinking, man
I thought more about the fact that this was a
double you know, double rods to the rest of the
baseball world that doubted this team, versus just enjoying the moment.
Because that's what Rob Manfred did to the whole situation.
The whole situation was painted that way, and that's why

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I will continue to paint the two thousand and nine
Yankees championship that way.

Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
Yeah, I'm glad she brought us back there because I
was was my next question. It is extremely clear they
are holding that player's game perform it's against them. Alex
Rodriguez career tainted, Bond's career tainted, Clement tainted. You cannot
get into the Hall of Fame because I'm not going

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to vote for you. But other guys, I don't think
they viewed the championship. And I can only say for
a Rod, I guess as tainted. It's clear they think
these are tainted performances, tainted players. They won't put them
in the Hall. But I just don't get the feeling
they feel that way about the Yankee title.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
I just don't. I mean, I could be wrong, maybe, No,
that's I mean when you talk about it, it's I
think the biggest over ruling thing of it is that
it happened so long ago. That's what you talk about
whenever that championship comes up. It's like, Wow, Yankees haven't
done crap since then. And that's awesome too, by the way,
But going back to this, I don't know what he'll

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be like because he's never done it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
He sat courtside before here as a when this has
taken a long long time for them to get through
everything to even get to this point.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
Two years they've done Yes, the owners have to approve it,
which I do believe will happen. I refuse to call
them governors. That's the dumbest thing ever. Well, the board
of being stupid.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
The Board of Governors will make their ruling and approve them.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Yeah, there's a fact that the people that own NBA
teams owners. That's what they're called because they own the team.
That's all it is. It's nothing more or nothing less,
not some fancy thing. They're just owners. They own teams.
That's why they're called that. We don't have to call
them governors to appease this little minority people who get
upset about everything over here.

Speaker 4 (02:01:31):
You like that?

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
I mean I just read it off whatm just reading
their comments?

Speaker 2 (02:01:34):
Yeah, they goes along with it. But it's fine. You
can call them owners. Nobody's offended, I promise you. Matters
trying to avoid offending anybody. No, but some people they're
called owners. They own the team. But when this happens,
it's going to be a glorious day because that's who
the Rockets need to hold out for. I know Devin
Booker is going to be popular this summer, especially when

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the Suns continue to tank. Hopefully that starts on Wednesday
night when they play them. But yeah, this is have
a mess on their hands. They just don't know it yet.
They think.

Speaker 4 (02:02:02):
I think they've upset Kevin Durant. We'll see how he.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
Reacts in the game against the Rockets on Wednesday night.

Speaker 5 (02:02:11):
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Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team A.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
Is there an aspect of last night's game we have
not covered yet other than Andy Reid and maybe to
a lesser extent or maybe to more of an extent.
Steve Spagnola got out coached last night, which is not
something you can normally say.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
I mean, he got out coached. I guess you could
say it. Sometimes it takes it a little further than
I I mean, did he come up with something that
didn't work?

Speaker 7 (02:03:10):
Mean?

Speaker 2 (02:03:10):
What did he do?

Speaker 4 (02:03:11):
He said?

Speaker 3 (02:03:12):
I think we have the personnel to slow down Saquon
Barkley and force their quarterback, who hasn't been awesome throwing
the football this year, to beat us. And the first
part it's a chess match. The second part didn't so.
Reacting to that, they didn't do a very good job of.

Speaker 2 (02:03:27):
But the first half happened, and then you went into
the locker room and I just didn't feel like.

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
I mean, the game was kind of over, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
That's what I'm saying, Like.

Speaker 3 (02:03:40):
Like he wanted him to adjust to a twenty four
to nothing lead where his offense had five yards?

Speaker 2 (02:03:47):
Yes, I mean I do. Actually it would have been
I mean Chiefs fans did.

Speaker 3 (02:03:52):
I mean while the while the Eagles offense was on
the field, his defense gave up seventeen first half points seven.

Speaker 2 (02:04:01):
I'm not just talking about him, I'm talking about both
of them. I mentioned Andy Reid first, Oh Andy Reid again.
Did Andy Reid come up with a game plan that
wasn't going to work? Or did he come up with
a game plan and not adjust to the fact that
I didn't realize my offensive line was going to get
dominated the way that they have. What if I told

(02:04:23):
you they outscored the Chiefs in the second half after
they made it outscored the Eagles after they made adjustments,
would you ask me to leave or would you push
me out? I would actually kick you out because they didn't.
I mean, there's so much garbage time numbers in that game,
it looks respectable by comparison to what really happened.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
I mean, it's very easy to say, and I'm probably
just you know, debating it to debate it, even though
I really do truly feel that way, Like Andy Reid
didn't become a bad coach.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Did you have a bad day?

Speaker 3 (02:04:49):
Maybe it's more it's it's why we've got to get
to the point where it's still a players. I know,
Bobby Sloan just got fired and everyone's like, oh, finally,
oh now they can do that Bobby Sloan. What Andy
Reid was asked to do in yesterday's game is what
Bobby slok was asked to do from the first game
to the nineteenth game. We want you to come over
the game plan that once you realize you're not going

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to be able to run the game plan you thought
you could run because your offensive line can't stop anybody.
I know, you're playing only this team that doesn't have
a good defensive front, but since they're playing your team,
they will today and you got to adjust to that.
Andy Reid had to do that on the fly in
a Super Bowl with his offensive line that had managed
to get their team to a win every single time
they played this year but.

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
Once, And like, going back to what you said earlier,
take zero credit away from the Eagles in this conversation.
They need to be given their due for doing what
they did on both sides of the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:05:42):
So how about take what we just said about the
coach this and coach that, and we need to give
these players a little bit more credit. Because Kellen Moore
is leaving, we know he's the OC, because Andy Reid
calls the plays. We know he's the OC for the
Chiefs essentially, and talked about Steve Spagnol because all the
great work he's put in there. Okay, the best aspect

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of the offense or defensive teams being coordinated wasn't done
by any of them, but rather the defensive coordinator for
the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
Who's that? Say that again? Like Vic Fangio should be
the most talked about of all of them. Begin No,
he's getting plenty of run.

Speaker 3 (02:06:25):
But if I'm just if I'm sitting here saying Andy
Reid did maybe had a bad day, didn't become a
bad coach, Vic fan Fanio didn't learn how to coach
this year or this Sunday, But he had really really
good players. Look what a good coach with good players
can do. They can come up with some awesome creative
ways to get this done. They can send How many

(02:06:47):
blitzes did Vic Fangio have to draw up?

Speaker 9 (02:06:50):
None?

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
Did he out Coach Andy Reid. He didn't even have
to come up with anything crazy. He said, here are
my eleven. Good luck. I'm not trying to diminish what
he did. No, but it becomes easier when your players
not only are good, but they can execute. And it's
one by one.

Speaker 3 (02:07:08):
Nolan Smith winning one on ones, jalx Hunt winning one
on ones, hcu's finest, Jalen Carter winning one on ones.
Their defensive backs, well, they weren't losing many battles, clearly.
They lost a few later to Xavier Worthy. It was
over by then.

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
I mean, I guess, and what I was talking about
with with Vic Fangio, I just think that, you know,
Sirianni and the players themselves are getting way more of
the run. Are we talking about the director of player development? Oh,
Connor Barwin. We got his first ring last night. Yes, yeah,
that was pretty cool. Always one of the nicest guys.
When he was a member of the Texans.

Speaker 3 (02:07:49):
A couple of shots of him on the sidelines was
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Again, alarmingly thinner than his playing games. It's good news,
I know, It's just it always pretty for a you
knows on the edge, and like much like daneil Hunter
and Will Anderson, these guys aren't huge NFL types. They're
big people.

Speaker 4 (02:08:06):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
I feel like, I'll see Will Anderson after he's retired,
and I'd be like, he looks the same.

Speaker 3 (02:08:11):
I mean, when he was ringing up the girls flag
football team the other day from Phyllis Wheatley High School
over at a local academy, he looked like a run
of the mill joe. He needed a name tag. So Will,
how can I help you? Hardly recognized him.

Speaker 2 (02:08:25):
One of the things that speaking of the Eagles defense
last night, and I just saw this come across my timeline,
and admittedly I'm a little distracted by it. We didn't
talk about the fact that when Kelsey got in Jordan
Davis's face and Jordan Davis just stood there. Well, no,
it wasn't Jordan Davis, who was the defensive back for

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the initial the initial confrontation, and I'm trying to remember
who it was eight for the for the Eagles last night,
Gardner Johnson. Yeah, and then Davis is the defensive line
that eventually Kelsey's like going at it with because briefly, yeah,
well that's what initially though he just stood there after

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it was it was a collision in a play. It
was one of the many plays where for Kelsey, I mean,
frustration was setting in and you could see it visibly
because he's a guy that good or bad, wears his
emotions on his sleeves. But I just I see that
and it reminds me of two weeks prior where he
baits a member of the Bills into getting a penalty

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because he's jawing at them after a play. And it's
just that. If you want to talk about karma, that
was karma right there last night. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:09:38):
It wasn't a very long conversation, I guess, or in
your face kind of thing, but it did happen, and
he was on the losing end. I was definitely not
the way I expected it to go, because I did
expect both teams to have answers, and that's kind of
what I thought stood out to me. Okay, the Eagles
got the best of you on this drive and that drive.

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It just kept happening. That was surprising, and it was
really more of physical play. They just were better upfront,
and so much better upfront. It left the Chiefs with
little option on how to go and get things done offensively,
and they just kept ending up in bad down and distance.
I mean, sacked multiple times on a possession. We saw
that way too often here, and that's what it resulted in.

(02:10:21):
You're asking your OC and thus your quarterback and everybody
else just kind of have too much magic. There was
virtually no Mahomes magic in last night's game. He scrambled
into sacks. He kept climbing in the pocket into sacks
all game long, and we watched it for seventeen games
right here in Houston all the time, and even when
he was spinning around and running in circles and potentially

(02:10:44):
losing fifteen yards on a sack, which we also saw
here all year. That really was what, unfortunately CJ was
dealing with most after that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:51):
That was the problem.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
I felt like, and maybe this is my Texans colored
glasses on. I felt like the Texans defense did an
to win that game in the playoffs, but whenever they
would get the ball back and they weren't penalized for
doing so, for example, But when they would give the
ball back to the offense, CJ was getting sacked like
Pat Mahomes last night, you know, And you can only

(02:11:14):
do so much and then you're gonna get gassed because
you know, the offense hasn't given you enough of a
breather and they're not getting their job done and they
can't because of the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (02:11:24):
So I think the difference with their defense, most specifically
and simply put is they did a lot of those things.
You keep saying it, and you're totally right, they just
didn't do the final thing. They pressured Pat Mahomes into
an interception, They pressured Pat Mahomes into an interception, They
sacked Pat Mahomes into a fumble and a turnover. They

(02:11:45):
played the Chiefs over three times. The Texans turned the
Chiefs over zero times in the second meeting in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (02:11:51):
Yeah, that was That was frustrating for the Texans and
for their fans. Clearly it was frustrating watching it. For me,
I just felt like you left play on the field.
And that's separate from the plays you obviously left on
the field from you know, like kicking variety and just
little things that did just you shot yourself in the
foot more than anything else.

Speaker 3 (02:12:11):
Yeah, three sacks, eight quarterback hits, six TFLs. Not that
dissimilar from the six sacks and six TFLs and eleven
quarterback hits that the Eagles had. But the difference was
what they were doing to your quarterback as you were
doing that to Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (02:12:26):
They sacked CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
Let's just say more than three times.

Speaker 2 (02:12:30):
It was eight. Yeah, I know, let's just say they had.

Speaker 3 (02:12:32):
More than five quarterback hits if you want, it was fifteen.
Let's just say they had more than four TFLs.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
It was nine.

Speaker 4 (02:12:43):
But you were on the right track.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
They were.

Speaker 3 (02:12:45):
They were just they lived in the Texans backfield. They
won in the trenches, and what the Eagles did last
night quite simply, they won in the trenches their D
line and their O line. Texans won one of those
two battles, they lost the other one and buy a
much wider margin.

Speaker 2 (02:13:02):
Best case scenario this offseason and then going in the
next year, like what's it gonna take?

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
You know, what's sad about this? What's that Let's say
they get fast, this hurdle, and they can beat the Chiefs.
What about the other team they have to beat.

Speaker 2 (02:13:18):
The rail will be there because the Bills will have
beaten them. They can beat the Bills, they've done it twice.

Speaker 3 (02:13:23):
If they're back in the final four for a second
con you're gonna have to beat one of the other ones.

Speaker 2 (02:13:28):
That's fine. So that's fine. Take your best, put it
up against their best, and let the best team win.
But I don't want there to be any shenanigans.

Speaker 3 (02:13:35):
Well the best is not CJ. He's the fourth best
of the.

Speaker 2 (02:13:39):
Four, probably so, But if you get to that point
on any given day, he can't play. But I'm saying,
if you get to the point where you're in the
AFC Championship, there's a good chance to till one or
two of those four are are already sitting at home already,
so maybe all three, hopefully that'd be great. We'll see
a long way to go till we get to the
twenty twenty five NFL season.

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Speaker 1 (02:15:05):
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What an offer? There's only two of us in here.

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Speaker 3 (02:15:25):
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Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
I may purchase over the weekend for our backyard setup. Okay,
furniture variety, right, So I had to move the old
furniture out. Oh new set of furniture. Not just an
end table or a planter. It's like a compliment to
what's already back there, and hopefully the last. Because this

(02:15:51):
stuff is so overpriced, it's ridiculous. Sounds like time for
a party.

Speaker 4 (02:15:54):
So anyway, I'm on over. I had to.

Speaker 2 (02:15:59):
One of the main reasons I did this because the
what was back there at the moment looked absolutely awful.
Just why did you pick that? Well, it's still I
did not pick it. I would not have gotten it.
It was the last but of course I bought it.
It was the last remnants of the old version of
the backyard before we did the redo. So I was

(02:16:20):
in the process of moving the old stuff out today
and the only way to do that was not going
to come through the house was to take it out
the side through the gate. I left the gate open.
I guess, I mean, I thought I had closed it.
But I was the only one doing it. You know,
no one else was helping.

Speaker 4 (02:16:40):
And now, and.

Speaker 2 (02:16:42):
That's true, that's true. I did not do it right.
The furniture did not. Oh wait it did. It got moved.
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
So you left the gate open. Something else to have happened, unfortunately, Yeah,
something happened one of the dogs, the stupid one. There's
the stupid one, and then there's a really stupid one.
Uh So is Bear the less intelligent one?

Speaker 4 (02:16:58):
Yeah, because she's slower and and blinder.

Speaker 2 (02:17:01):
So you're meaner to her.

Speaker 4 (02:17:03):
I don't do it. I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:17:04):
I'm ambivalent towards her. She's just an object in the room.
You're painting a pretty ugly picture. I don't care. So
has the dog when I don't know? That's where the
text left off. But the dogs all caps littering the
show several texts.

Speaker 3 (02:17:20):
What good is it to tell you some other time?
Just tell you now so you're aware of what.

Speaker 2 (02:17:25):
Good is it to tell me when I can't even
get there?

Speaker 3 (02:17:27):
Did you leave the gate open? Or of course, did
somebody did somebody break the gate? Did somebody from the
outside open the gate?

Speaker 2 (02:17:35):
I am the one that left it open because I
am the only one that went through it today. Therefore,
I am the one responsible for the dumb dogs.

Speaker 3 (02:17:43):
Just spinning it into stop asking me to help herund
the house.

Speaker 2 (02:17:46):
Well, what I'm spinning it into is I'm going to
sit here for at least another forty minutes before I
can ever even get into my vehicle out. I don't
want to go to the dog. I would rather three
hours or four hours than deal with this this problem.

Speaker 3 (02:18:01):
How many people, there's just five of you less now,
that's not ideal if my plan, If my plan had
gone through, she would have taken both of these dumb
animals to college with her, and then we wouldn't have
this problem right now. Not usually an ideal place for
first year.

Speaker 2 (02:18:18):
Dan super highly umitted because he has two dumb dogs
at his house too. I think he likes sweet whatever
do you want two more? Well, one more for sure,
I can't offer too, and I don't necessarily have two
to offer at the moment. I don't know. I'm such
a terrible person. The worse man, I'm such.

Speaker 4 (02:18:35):
A terrible person. But I just listen.

Speaker 2 (02:18:40):
When we can't get into our when we have to
move furniture around the house, because the first dumb one
will get into our bed and go all over my
side of it and leave her dog psoriasis all over
my side of the bed, and so we can't.

Speaker 3 (02:18:56):
Just can't catch it. You'll be fine, dude.

Speaker 2 (02:18:59):
I don't want dog flakes where I sleep every night.
Call me crazy, that makes me a bad person. Sheet
I'm fine with it. Wash the sheets, yeah, Oh you
mean like the last time that happened and I had
just washed them that day.

Speaker 4 (02:19:10):
Yeah, wash them that's fun.

Speaker 3 (02:19:12):
Well, that's a responsibility you must take on when you
have animals.

Speaker 2 (02:19:15):
You know what I did, wash the sheets last night.
I did that too. Where's the baron mean? When I
have you know I need to?

Speaker 4 (02:19:21):
I did that. Nobody even told me to do it.

Speaker 2 (02:19:24):
Well, that's because you wanted to, not so. I may
may down a dog. I may be down a dog
when I get home. By the time I drive home
from the show, I might have a situation on my hands.

Speaker 3 (02:19:36):
I hope you will have a situation regardless, it just
might be with different circumstances.

Speaker 2 (02:19:40):
If the dog's there when I get back, I will
it will be whatever's less than being perturbed about it.
I can't even I know this makes me a bad person.
I'm admitting it, but they're just not. I don't know. Man, Oh, okay,
here we go.

Speaker 4 (02:19:58):
You want an update?

Speaker 3 (02:20:00):
Really, I don't. I don't think this. This isn't one
of those I called the show so I know you're
gonna put me on the air. Now you call her?
Can you please call her right now? I really know,
not over this. We had to save those for much
better topics. It's it involves work though. Okay, Oh, no worries,
I missed the break chasing her out in the street.

Speaker 4 (02:20:22):
She's back. And then two words that I can't read
on the air.

Speaker 2 (02:20:26):
I'm glad that your dog is back and safe. I'm
not sweet Bear. Now, Bear would never got out, Dan,
You're missing the point. Bear is the dumb one. She
would never be able to escape because she's too slow
and blind. It's the other one who thinks she's like
a Rottweiler, but she's a shitsu. So named dogs both

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of them.

Speaker 3 (02:20:49):
We talked a little NBA basketball today. One thing we
did not discuss so stupid. Yes, your other favorite team,
the one that's handing out to seventy seven yellow Luca
T shirts to all their fans tonight. As the Lakers
are hoping to get past the Utah Jazz in the
return of Lebron, James and Luca to the court, they
missed their game over.

Speaker 2 (02:21:09):
The weekend the rescinded trade.

Speaker 3 (02:21:13):
The Lakers traded away Dalton Connect, they left open and
their first round pick in twenty thirty one, and they
have to welcome them back. Obviously, it was the talk
of a lot of people here because we're very familiar
with that, with what happened many years ago in advance
of a championship with the Houston Rockets and Robert orr
after a championship with those guys, and what it all

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meant like Connect is, as we thought before the trade,
he's a really legitimate part of their future, most likely
which they were willing to part with for a all right,
young big.

Speaker 2 (02:21:49):
Which they now don't have.

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
It's just a it's a terrible place for everybody to
be when you have to rescind a deal. And I
wonder if I've always wondered this. So the deadline passed,
so we have in place for this deadline passes. This
is the deal you sent in. This is the deal
that got approved by the League office.

Speaker 2 (02:22:06):
And that's that.

Speaker 3 (02:22:08):
If they then don't pass their medicals, which obviously could
not have taken place when you had to send in
all the paperwork in Well, then your only options are
forego it and say that's all right, even though he's
gonna have a very short career because he has some
chronic condition. Whichever player that might be, we'll just accept
it or send him back. You can amend the deal

(02:22:29):
if the exact same scenario takes place, but it's in
advance of the deadline. Okay, we will give you back
a second, or make it to first, or make it
two seconds, or add this player to the deal, or
kick in this cash. Not an option for Charlotte nor
La from the timing standpoint.

Speaker 2 (02:22:46):
But if you're him and you were this close to
going to the Lakers and mattering and maybe getting some money,
and now you're going back to Charlotte, that's kinda suck man.

Speaker 3 (02:22:56):
Would have probably not been real good, And maybe you
could say, as you said, it probably sucked. I'd probably
say I don't think so at all. Not after Mark
Williams is the player we're talking about. It seems bad
in all, but the Hornets put out a statement, so
everything should be fine. Yes, we are excited to welcome

(02:23:17):
Mark as to our Hornets organization. You know you can't
do that and then lie that's like they're excited.

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
That'd be like me saying just now, oh good, she's back.
I was really upset. I'm not gonna lie about it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:30):
So spin number one is line number one. We are
excited to welcome him back. Spin number two line number two.
After the other team aggressively pursued Mark, See, we didn't
want to move you. They just came out a smart Yeah,
we made the difficult decision to move him. We've always
held great respect for Mark's talent, work, ethic.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
And character.

Speaker 3 (02:23:49):
We're thrilled to see him rejoin our roster as a
dynamic presence at the starting center position. He gets a
starting spot back. His return strengthens our team. We look
forward to the impact he will make on and off
the court, and I'm sure there'll be a sign in
his locker welcome.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
Back, Mark. Would you what would you do with it
if you got back and you saw that in your locker?

Speaker 3 (02:24:12):
I mean, I think his teammates would probably remandle that.

Speaker 2 (02:24:16):
When I got rehired here after I was wrongly fired,
there was a there was a card, like an oversized
card hanging on the studio. Everybody signed Clinton's card. He's
coming back today. But it was no They were excited.
You know why, you know it was gone exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:24:31):
They knew.

Speaker 2 (02:24:33):
They knew now that I was back, I could tell
inappropriate dog stories. It helps. I'm really wanted to take
help to hasten your return. I said, terrific, terrific so close.
That was my response, and then I followed it up.
I said, I know I'm a horrible person. I'm fine
with it. I'm a terrible person.

Speaker 3 (02:24:54):
We could title that segment, I'm a.

Speaker 2 (02:24:56):
Terrible I don't think I'm ever going to be asked
by anybody to do sit for them ever.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
Is it not even a little bit about the dogs? Like,
aren't there dogs? You'd be happier with just dogs, period.
I like them, They're fine, but I don't want to
deal with them. Is that bad? Are they that much maintenance?
Kind of feed them, bathe them, walk them, clean their
teeth they're walking, Go on a walk with them, get

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them some exercise, leash them up, hit the neighborhood, say
hello to the neighbors.

Speaker 2 (02:25:30):
It's up, Mike.

Speaker 4 (02:25:31):
I do all of that.

Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
You know, we can't walk one of them because she's
such a spaz.

Speaker 3 (02:25:37):
Throw her in the carrier. You've got an old stroller around.
How easy it is to place her. Put her in
the stroller for a dogs? Oh, I like you. You're
making me hate them more. I'm not trying to.

Speaker 2 (02:25:52):
Well, it's happening. I've seen them before and I don't
hate either one of them. If they're listening you, yeah, yeah,
well they're not all right. We uh come back with
some of the things we have not discussed today.

Speaker 5 (02:26:05):
We call it.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
Amount of time to talk about sports today.

Speaker 4 (02:26:09):
Dog stories.

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(02:27:21):
ear holes? Can I read just really quickly? Someone weigh in,
I'm not. I'm gonna keep them anonymous, protect the ennis.

Speaker 3 (02:27:31):
Let me introduce the segment in case you missed it.
The last segment was about dogs. Go ahead, this is
what it's like owning a dog.

Speaker 2 (02:27:39):
Apologies to Tom who's no longer listening to our show
because I'm not an animal person.

Speaker 3 (02:27:43):
Hopefully just for the next few minutes, they are like,
I'm a child.

Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
You can't claim on your tax return.

Speaker 3 (02:27:50):
In case you missed it, So we've not had a
chance to get into let's get into them. Now.

Speaker 2 (02:27:55):
What do we have? Dan?

Speaker 4 (02:27:56):
All right, so you've touched on it.

Speaker 8 (02:27:58):
Football season is over, Base is nigh as soon enough,
you're gonna have Chris Gordy heading out to West Palm Beach,
followed up by Matt and Ross out there as the
Astros climb even closer to full squad workouts. All right,
so the reality is right now there is no Alex Bregman,
and you don't know if there is going to be
an Alex Pregman. So Astro's manager Joe Spotta on with

(02:28:21):
our good buddy Chandler Rome on the Crush City Territory podcast,
talking about the leadership void if indeed number two doesn't
walk back through the door. He thinks that somebody in
the infield could help fill that void.

Speaker 7 (02:28:33):
I think he's the next guy that I also see
stepping up being kind of the vocal leader in our club.

Speaker 4 (02:28:39):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:28:39):
He's that guy that when we are doing our meetings
and were walking around the club house, he's he's he
wants to be the guy say, you know, but but
he sees the Bregman's and he sees the other guys
as being there longer. But I think, if you know, not,
if Brikman does not, we turn, I could see Jeremy

(02:29:01):
Bean a little bit more like, you know, hey, maybe
we try to do this because he's done it. But
I think you could probably see him kind of taking
that next step forward in that leadership or role in
the clubbus.

Speaker 3 (02:29:15):
He was talking about Jeremy Panney, as you heard there
at the end, a lot of he's off the top,
as you might have been guessing who he might have
been talking about. But infielders, so Bregman's not here. Al
Tuve is not an infielder anymore. He plays left field.
Christian Walker's over at first. That's another new guy. Peretti
is another new guy. Okay, well, the door probably is open. Tucker,
in whatever leadership role he played Pressley among the team

(02:29:37):
obviously had a bit of a leadership role, more with
the pitching side and more specifically to the bullpen side.

Speaker 2 (02:29:42):
Tucker strikes me as a speak softly if at all,
ever and carries a big stick. By the way, just
my two. I don't feel like he was a clubhouse leader.
I don't feel like he was a clubhouse dissenter. But
I just think he was a non factor from that standpoint.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
And because Joe's been in the clubhouse for longer than
even Jeremy's been in the clubhouse, I'll take.

Speaker 2 (02:30:03):
His shord for it.

Speaker 3 (02:30:04):
It seems a little early and with respect to his production.
Even though he has an MVP trophy or two in
his closet, he's I don't know. They had a conversation
during this podcast about his performance, and Chandler had presented

(02:30:24):
the question to him, saying, I don't think you would
call him a disappointment as a player, an offensive player
where he is now, and I wondered, why wouldn't you
in a conversation with the manager on your podcast, I
can completely get that, and I'm not saying it that way.
But so this Louder leader is going to be a
seven hundred ops guy who's coming off his poorest defensive season.

Speaker 2 (02:30:46):
Let me ask you this, how effective I guess I'll
use that word. Do you have to be in the
everyday lineup or maybe as a pitcher. I don't know
how much. Pictures. I feel like pictures just by default
don't get this role because they only go every five days.
That's correct, I mean, it's there could be your JV

(02:31:07):
or clemen.

Speaker 3 (02:31:08):
But even then, like well in Clement's case, you'd have
to be there all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:31:12):
So you can only yell at them during the World
Series when you come out of the dugout and you've
taken your shirt off and.

Speaker 4 (02:31:16):
Hey guys, let's get together.

Speaker 8 (02:31:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:31:17):
Where I think Joe's probably also correct.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
Is somebody has to do it. Like Christian Walker is
absolutely a clubhouse leader type. He can't do that when
he walks in the door. He's going to have to
earn that role. He's gonna have to work his way
into that role. But if you've been look at who
their best players are as we sit here right now, Yeah,
Jordan not a vocal guy you talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
You would think he talks less than Tucker and carries
a bigger stick to us.

Speaker 3 (02:31:48):
Yaner's a little young and similar. He's got a whole
pitching staff to concern himself with.

Speaker 2 (02:31:53):
This is there's an opening nonegangible stuff that Bregman brought
to the table that if there's not some late miracle
here is not going to be there immediately.

Speaker 3 (02:32:03):
Good news, though the Cubs reportedly are interested in Justin Turner.
If oh good, Alex Bregman chooses elsewhere that guy, all right,
what else we have?

Speaker 4 (02:32:13):
All Right?

Speaker 8 (02:32:14):
Billy Wagner the newest astros to go into the Hall
of Fame, and he's truly going to be as an
astro originally up with the Astros, did mix stops with
other clubs, but the Baseball Hall of Fame announcing the
four players that are going in this year each row
of course with the Mariners, c Ce Sabathia a little
interesting to go with the Yankees, and Wagner with the

(02:32:34):
Astros and Dave Parker with the Pirates.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Again, we pay pretty close attention to Billy Wagner, and
he would not have said what he said since his
induction or information, since you knew he was a selection
for the Hall. If he didn't know this was already
going to be the case, maybe it was less of
a sure thing with some of the others Sabathia, I
don't think it was less of a sure thing with
any of the others, Dick and Dave Parker in Ichiro.

(02:33:02):
But we already knew this here now everybody else who
was wondering if there was even something to wonder about.
But Billy said it so many times just in the
last since the announcement was made. He said it at
the Tristars Show, he talked about it when he was
in New York, he talked about it when he's on
MLB Network, And I almost feel like, this is the
seventh or eighth person on social media to say can

(02:33:22):
confirm the earlier report. But in this case it's the
Baseball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
How many years did he? How many years did you
pitch outside of Houston?

Speaker 3 (02:33:31):
Roughly half his career, But it wasn't all in one spot.

Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
Right, That's the key right there? Normally like well he also,
what did you accomplish?

Speaker 8 (02:33:40):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:33:41):
He had nine years here in seven ish eight years elsewhere?
Only four in New York, only two in Philly.

Speaker 2 (02:33:48):
What was Nolan Ryan's totals? No? I mean what was
his plaque or what was his What did he wear
into the hall?

Speaker 4 (02:33:56):
What did you think he went in as a ranger?
That's just gross? You know why though? Right?

Speaker 3 (02:34:01):
Because of the way he left Houston? How did he
leave Houston? I want more money?

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
No? Bye, that's normal, Yeah, but it was cantankerous. Well,
lots of players and owners have that conversation. What else
do we have? All?

Speaker 4 (02:34:16):
Right?

Speaker 8 (02:34:16):
So Deebo Samuel seemingly pining to be a Denver Bronco.
He was recently on the Bleacher Report Gridiron podcast talking
about what the Denver Broncos need, and he said, thinks
there are a couple of pieces away. He was granted
the opportunity over the weekend to seek a trade. So
Deebo Samuel, possibly a Denver Bronco, kicked the tires here.

Speaker 2 (02:34:39):
Noop, I again, I keep going back to what I've said.
I think a reunion with Stefan Diggs is the best
route to go as far as addressing that position. This
off seme.

Speaker 3 (02:34:50):
I struggle to figure this out all year. Why was
he so non productive for a team that desperately needed
somebody to be productive?

Speaker 4 (02:35:00):
Christian McCaffrey on the show, and you.

Speaker 3 (02:35:02):
Know, as soon as a receiver went down, oh my god,
Juwan Jennings thirteen catches two hundred yards two?

Speaker 2 (02:35:09):
What is going on here?

Speaker 3 (02:35:10):
And I know he got his share of carries and
he did. He was to me, he really struck me
as what, I know, you need me, So I'll do
what's asked and I'll play in the backfield and I'll
take those carries. And you know, I just think he's
a little he's taken a beating as an NFL player
in just his six years, and even though he's actually
been on the field a lot more than it feels
like he's played.

Speaker 2 (02:35:29):
You know, fifteen games each of the last two years.

Speaker 3 (02:35:32):
I'm not a I'm not bullish on Deebo's future.

Speaker 2 (02:35:36):
That's why I.

Speaker 3 (02:35:37):
Gave you an immediate no good player, just not bullish
on him as the player I think everyone thought he
would get was gonna be when he had his only
season over nine hundred yards fourteen hundred yards receiving in
twenty twenty one, nine hundred or less the other five seasons,
including last year's six seventy. That's not great, not ideal.

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Speaker 10 (02:37:12):
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Speaker 2 (02:37:21):
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America's national Nightmare is finally over because the Chiefs did
not threepeat. So I guess, does pat Riley not get
any money? How does that all work out?

Speaker 3 (02:37:37):
I mean, you might get a little money for what
they actually produced, and then in a couple of years
when let's see, I'm trying to figure out how Jordan
Hudson can troll the Chiefs by wearing their Super Bowl
gear That isn't necessary, like she trolled the Falcons in
a champions which is mean, but she clearly had a

(02:37:57):
reason because of Belichick's flirtation with the Falcons, and then
they did not hire him. So I'm not sure how
to work her into getting back at the Chief.

Speaker 2 (02:38:05):
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that night before it was put into the box to
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Speaker 3 (02:38:13):
He was so I think he just got it last
off season. He was so ticked off the things he
wasn't going to take the job. He went at Arthur
Blank's closet in his office.

Speaker 2 (02:38:22):
He was like, I'll show this to the right time.
He just took it, and then he did. He put
it on his ten girlfriend and just walked around town
in the UNC T shirt.

Speaker 3 (02:38:31):
The TMZ has determined that the couple is mum on
whether or not they've gotten engaged.

Speaker 2 (02:38:36):
Well, they're not mum on what ring she was wearing
was a cheerleading championship ring, need his hurrs or a
She didn't need a man. She's a champion of her
own championship gear or a ring. So we got tickets
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Speaker 4 (02:38:52):
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Speaker 2 (02:38:53):
In February, a pair of tickets to see Howard Jones
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pair of tickets to see Cody Jinks on March twentieth
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(02:39:14):
at Rodeohuston dot com. Oh, you guys are gonna have
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Speaker 4 (02:39:20):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (02:39:20):
I did not give my opinion. One way they can tell.

Speaker 4 (02:39:23):
I can tell when you don't like something.

Speaker 2 (02:39:26):
You have to name both my dogs.

Speaker 3 (02:39:30):
He's telling you, the listeners who'd like to see Cody
or like to see Howard, the tickets we have to
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Speaker 4 (02:39:39):
You gotta tell me.

Speaker 3 (02:39:40):
He wants to thank you for being a loyal listener
to the program, even if we're talking about our extremely
entertaining personal lives in a very negative way. One of
the dogs, he only has two dogs at the house.
One of them got out. It has since been retrieved
and returned to the home by one of the other homeowners,
your other home owners card. But he talked about both

(02:40:03):
of his dogs, both of whom are named with a
four letter name. Now he's asking fours and tell us
or Dan, who will be answering your call the names
of his dogs, both of them. I try to make
you winners. He's trying to not make you a winner.

Speaker 2 (02:40:19):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:40:20):
If you listen to the show, even you, Tom, you
would know this.

Speaker 3 (02:40:24):
The dogs has a name that is actually the name
of an animal, different animal, not a dog or a cat.
Those are three letters, or a football team if it's singular, Well,
but it isn't. It's just one dog. So it's a
singular version of a of Chicago area football team. Yes,
the other one likes to take the football away from Charlie.

Speaker 2 (02:40:46):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (02:40:46):
Is that correct? Is that the person who does it?
Or some people love her? In black and white?

Speaker 2 (02:40:51):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:40:52):
See there's your hands. If you guys can't get even.

Speaker 3 (02:40:54):
Tom, phone lines are lighting up.

Speaker 2 (02:40:58):
No longer listens to the show anymore. After he he
called in to tell Dan he's not listening anymore because
I'm not quote an animal lover.

Speaker 3 (02:41:06):
But because he was then listening, he would have a
chance to win seven one three two one two five.

Speaker 2 (02:41:10):
By the way, that's you know what that is? That's
generalization right there. You don't know that I don't love animals.
I love going to the zoo. He don't love your animals.
What I go to the zoo all the time. I
love those animals, and then I leave and they stay there.

Speaker 3 (02:41:27):
You imagine the story from the zoo keeper. If he
left the gate open, which animal got out? Regardless, it
would be story worthy. One of the best scenes in Goodfellas.
I think it was Good Fellas, right.

Speaker 2 (02:41:40):
What animal got out? No? What gate was left.

Speaker 4 (02:41:43):
To put someone in with an animal?

Speaker 2 (02:41:46):
He was got They were gonna put him in with
the animal because he owed the money.

Speaker 3 (02:41:50):
The guy from the halftime show yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:41:53):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (02:41:55):
They hung a guy and a meat locker, the guy
who showed off his coats and his He was in
his car when they found him. Well, why did they
take him to the zoo? Maybe I'm thinking of another movie,
a mob movie. Yeah, you're probably right now. I think
that's correct.

Speaker 2 (02:42:11):
Am I crazy? They weren't the scene where they took
him down to the lion.

Speaker 3 (02:42:13):
They walked through one by one all the guys, and
where they put them and left them, and where they
were found.

Speaker 2 (02:42:18):
I think that's still correct, but this was a different one.
I thought they had to go down to Florida.

Speaker 3 (02:42:24):
I think what's his name, Henry. He would go down
to Florida to get the guns, right, the Pittsburgh people
and the Florida people.

Speaker 2 (02:42:31):
This is quite This is quite the final hour of
the show. All right, hopefully we get a winner. All right,
we saw a winner. You're welcome him, all right, baron, Lucy,
there you go. We have other tickets if you want
to call in and tell the dog's names, which he
just told you. Lucy's the one that got out. She's
always the one starting trouble. Like if we know that

(02:42:51):
it's raining, like it's gonna rain I think tomorrow. Right,
it's like a weather and pattern coming through. We have
to give her like anti anxiety medications just so that
she won't walk on our faces all night.

Speaker 3 (02:43:00):
And we'll take care of the people in your family.
I get it. That's very nice. That's normal.

Speaker 2 (02:43:05):
They're not people, they're dogs. You take care of.

Speaker 3 (02:43:10):
The the entities that walk around the house, the members
of the family. Yes, members, that's a good enough word.

Speaker 2 (02:43:19):
Whatever. All right, where's bregmant Land? Seriously? And when does
it happen?

Speaker 3 (02:43:26):
I mentioned a couple of dates earlier. The Cubs have
players reporting as early as yesterday. First full squad workout
is the fourteenth, The Astros first fall squad workout is
the eighteenth, Tigers and Red Sox first full squad workout
is the seventeenth. All but the Cubs work in FLA.

(02:43:47):
I would think these are kind of deadlines for him,
aren't they? At the very least, what's going to compel
a team to make some offer that he hasn't seen yet? Today, tomorrow,
a week, ten days, two months. He's not in any
position to wait that long. I don't think seasons certainly
can't begin without him having a team, And there's.

Speaker 2 (02:44:06):
No reason for him to want if.

Speaker 3 (02:44:08):
Certainly, if he's not getting a six year deal anything
less than that, that means he probably got to deal
with opt outs. So you're going to go into the
season after not being with the team for the first
few days, the first.

Speaker 2 (02:44:18):
Two weeks, the first three weeks. I don't think he's
in for that. Let me ask you a serious question.
This is not for effect. Why if you're Alex Bregman,
you end up signing whatever you sign, whether it's a
four year deal, six year deal, seven year deal, whatever
amount that ends up being right, Why would you turn

(02:44:38):
around and give the percentage due to Scott Boris? What
has he done for you this offseason to make your
life easier even a little or better or more financially secure.
I guess if you want to say that from the
letter of this.

Speaker 3 (02:44:52):
Alex told us and every other player tells us during
the year. Have you been negotiating? What do you want
to hear from the team. But I'll let my agent
handle that. Alex is hanging out with his family, working
out in the cages, getting some fielding stuff done, and
letting his agent handle things. You need to talk to me,
tell me what offers I have, where I might want
to go.

Speaker 2 (02:45:11):
He's paying for the convenience of not having to give
those sound bites. That's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (02:45:15):
He's paying for the convenience of not having to talk
to What do you think for GMS?

Speaker 2 (02:45:19):
What do you think his commission is?

Speaker 3 (02:45:21):
The typical agent commission, which is what a certain percentage
of deal?

Speaker 2 (02:45:25):
I know that.

Speaker 4 (02:45:26):
Give me a number numbers, guy, three?

Speaker 3 (02:45:29):
Really, I can't remember what it is now.

Speaker 4 (02:45:32):
Do you think it's ten?

Speaker 2 (02:45:33):
No? I don't think it's ten. Dan saying numbers in
my ear because we.

Speaker 3 (02:45:37):
Have to get out of the show, which will definitely
do very well and tease the upcoming programming and tomorrow's
show all in the next eighteen seconds.

Speaker 2 (02:45:44):
Go ahead. Nightcap with Dan is coming up in about
ten seconds. We will come back tomorrow, probably talk a
little bit less Super Bowl, a little bit more spring training,
and maybe even some rockets and whatever else falls out.

Speaker 4 (02:45:57):
It's the A Team. We'll be back at it again
in tomorrow at.

Speaker 5 (02:46:00):
Two The A t on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:46:06):
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