KD Extension Coming? Texans Fianlly Ready To Win!?!?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Raised.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Nolan multed by the magnificent roller coaster ride.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
That is Houston Sports.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Chill lage down for the only home grown afternoon team
is talking your Teams. Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are
the A Team A.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's wex and it's the president of the Reed Shepherd
Fan Club, Adam Clanton, here with you on a Friday
edition of the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety hour.
Producer Carl Thompson Burnetta both ends he's been pulling double
duty today and yesterday, So we are all going to
do our best to get you into the weekend in style.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
And before you know it, it'll be Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
It'll be time for the Texans to finally play a
football game for the first time in like eight months.
And the very next night we'll have Rockets basketball that
actually counts to talk about, albeit on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
That's where they were last night. Now, the sound of
this right here me pat myself on the back because
I said Reed shepperd was gonna do some awesome things
last night, and he did.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I gotta tell you, wex you called that game. And
as I was leaving the station last night and you
were walking miles across the hall to set up at
your other broadcast location for the Rockets preseason finale. I
felt bad for you, and I'm gonna tell you why.
Even though you look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
As it's just works, just another game.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I knew the skeleton crew that the Rockets were gonna
put out there last night. It wasn't gonna involve Kevin Durant,
but that was hardly the only name that wasn't going
to be out there. But you did not call a
single Kevin Durant game in the preseason, and I was
just like, you know, it's Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
They're starting all their.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Amazing players they obtained this offseason, just to ask anybody,
and they got run off the floor for the most
part by the C teamers. I mean, they were leading
at the half, so I didn't know they only played
twenty four minutes of basketball in game. Yeah, they got
run off the court in the fourth court. If Kristav's
Perzingis and Trey Young and all these amazing players, the

(02:27):
Atlanta Falcons Hawks, whoever they are, and that's how little
I care about that market from a sports perspective, couldn't.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Nothing about the game requires us to talk about the Hawks.
You can talk about the Rockets. Let's move on to
the Rocket.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
It was wildly entertaining for a preseason.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Game because the guys that are getting the opportunity played good.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
But here's the thing. I don't want to put too
much in it.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
And we'd always do this with players, whether they go
the G league, summer league, wherever the setting is. It's
not a professional NBA basketball game that counts. They go
off and you don't want to get too high on guys.
But it's like, why can't Read Sheppard do that in
regular season games that matter?

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, he's done it in regular season games when he
was in the same position he was in last night,
seven minutes starting. Yeah, his three whole starts last year.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
He was awesome.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Shot the ball well, scored well, ran the offense well,
did the things that you saw last night, and they
did them well again last night. Now, far be it
for me to bring Atlanta back into the discussion, but
it is worth noting you said we couldn't. They played
their players, They had two of their starters that they
held back, and everybody else played same minutes as Read
and the rest of the Rockets starters twenty five to
thirty minutes for a starting group, so that's who he

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was up against for some of the game. He obviously
got a bunch of fourth quarter minutes that they really
didn't have their starters out there for. But what he
did in the fourth quarter doesn't make any change to
what he did over the course of the game. I
think he's going to start opening night. I think the
Rockets will not settle in on a starting group unless
something spectacular happens and he keeps the same starting lineup
for a couple of games just to see if that's

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really what he's seeing, because I think there will be
different matchups that make sense to put different groups out there,
because there there's a lot of different ways to play
it for Houston, and it's both concerning because of the uncertainty,
but it should also be exciting because of what else
could become of this team and what else the other
teams will not be able to combat, whether it's a
big lineup, or it's just a different group of athletic wings,

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or it's they've found somebody to knock down shots. Because
quite honestly, no matter how you're analyzing the Rockets, what
groups fit well together and did they get better? And
where's Kevin Durant fit in where you slop them in
the West. They got to shoot the ball. You're not
gonna win in the NBA anymore if you can't shoot
the ball. And they need to have guys that can
knock shots down. And this preseason against not good Atlanta,

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good in the East, but not good overall, not good Utah,
and not good New Orleans, which is all they had
on their schedule. This shot the ball very well. They
were probably the best offense in the NBA. There's a
few more games tonight, but I don't really care what
the stats end up saying. They were the best offense
in the NBA during this four game preseasons late as

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you noted, Okay, well, two of those four games they
didn't even have Kevin Durant on the floor. They're doing
things that you'd like to see them do. How they
run an offense where they look for shots, who's taking
those shots, especially when the starting group was out there,
and that did not take place last night. They had
five starters, but outside of Reed Shepherd, which isn't even
a guarantee, none of them should be starting on opening night.

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Aaron Holliday got a ton of minutes, Josh Koge played
very well and also got a huge chunk of minutes,
and then a bunch of other guys that are trying
to impress this coaching staff for when they don't get
the opportunity to do so. Some of them will practice
with the rockets quite a bit, some of them won't
practice with the rockets hardly at all.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
But I do think one of them, JD.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Davison, did enough to show this team there are going
to be opportunities that I think he just earned flat
out with how he practiced. I'm sure I don't watch practice,
nobody does unless you're inside the organization. And how he
played in these four games last night included including his den,
which definitely was something his teammates were pretty excited about.
So not much more you could ask for from this

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team during the preseason.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
It is. That's all it is.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
I will give you some numbers about what they did
beyond that offense, and it's pretty alarmingly good Tuesday night.
We'll see if it's alarmingly good over the course of
an eighty two game regular season, but it's good to
get in and out of preseason essentially as healthy as
you were. Dorian Fitty Smith was not prepared to play
during the preseason. That remains the same and probably won't
be ready when the season begins. Jay Shawn Tate's close

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to being ready. Wasn't hurt during the preseason activity and
did not play, but should be close to being available
should he be needed. And so that's where they sit
as their eighty two game schedule begins before everybody else's
other than Oklahoma City, because they'll be on the court
with them on Tuesday night to start the NBA season.
So there is absolutely a ton to discuss there, and
it should start with Reed.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Shephard.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
You mentioned the layout of the NFL last night's extremely
expected outcome. Everybody here was telling you what was going
to happen, how bad Joe Flacco is, how dumb the
teams in that division are, and how you have to
finally I have to finally acknowledge, Yeah, Aaron Rodgers is good.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Now.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Aaron Rodgers was still pretty good last night, other than
one of his two interceptions. One of his interceptions was
embarrassing for him to have attempted that pass into double
cover jeezy pick the other one, well, it went into
his receiver's arms and then was stolen from him. His
Hail Mary was pure brilliance at the end of the game,
and I have thoughts about that, But his team did

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not win. There is one freaking AFC team left with
one loss, and it's the Indianapolis Colts. As everybody else
that's playing this weekend heads into Sundays and Monday Night's schedule,
last Monday Night double header of the season, and of
course the Texans have the last of two games, so
plenty to discuss about these seven touchdown passes from the
two dinosaurs last night, and baseball continues for everybody for

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at least one more. Today could be the end of
the line for the Milwaukee Brewers. They've scored three times
in three games, they have no wins, but luckily, the
Toronto Blue Jays are making it exciting for American League
baseball fans, especially the ones that would prefer to not
see the Seattle Mariners advance. Both of those series continue tonight,

(08:20):
one of the two American League teams will take a
very important three games to two lead with their ball
game tonight.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's been fun watching Julio Rodriguez give the Mariners the
lead each of the past two nights, and then watching
the Blue Jays nine hole hitter take it away and
start the floodgates opening, because that's exactly the formula. Oh,
by the way, I shouldn't sleep on the fact that
both pitchers who started for the Blue Jays the past

(08:47):
two nights have completely turned back the clock at least
for one night.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Very very very very very unexpected. Almost as obvious to
me as the game last night in the NFL about
having Max Schurzer on the mound. That was fun. You
had jokes there, everybody had jokes. I was in the majority.
Unfortunately we were wrong. Uh fortunately for the fans, like
I said to us and everybody else who'd like to see,
you know, America be down to just one hope. I

(09:11):
guess if Toronto wins, only be left to the Dodgers
or the Brewers to keep the title here in the States,
in the on the mainland. Although technically you could argue
with me, I'm for Canada. Toronto is they are on
the mainland. They are attached to North American Yeah, but yeah,
it's it's amazing to see. It's I feel like I'm

(09:32):
a broken record, but it's hundreds of years of proof.
It's so awesome the game, the sport of baseball, to
see what happens in the postseason, even during the regular season.
Did not expect it to go the way it did
last night, did not expect the Mariners to get to
did expect the Mariners, I should say, to get to
sures Er, and didn't necessarily expect the Mariners to have

(09:55):
to kind of scramble for what they were doing pitching wise,
in a span of five seconds. We know the day
before they've left George Kirby out there to get bombarded.
The day later, they wouldn't leave Luis Castillo when he
was kind of getting bombarded. And then you walk in
a run and all of a sudden you lose eight
to two. And the best postseason performer, without question, continues

(10:17):
to be the best postseason performer without question. Vladimir Guerrero
is doing things and it is fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know what he's got that This is why every
year I would pick them to do something. The last
like what five seasons We'd go through our preseason predictions
and the Al East would come around and I would
hate not pick the Yankees, and I would have no
reason to pick the Red Sox because they were doing
their little miniature rebuild that they were doing after they
stole that World Series. And then I would get to

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what the Blue Jays should have been this whole time,
which is what they are this season. And I know
Bobashet's not really a part of things because he was
part of that supposedly part of that cores, but Vladden's.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Part of the course.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Just not healthy, right, Vlad and Springer are doing what
we thought they would do, especially in Springer's case if
he stayed healthy all along. They're finally it's finally all
kind of come together this season.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah, prior to this year, hard to know what you'd
get from Guerrero in the postseason, and that he had
only been there three times, six games, twenty five at bats,
three hits, no homers. Well, now he's played a real
postseason where he and his team has advanced, have played
enough to warrant some analysis. Eight games of postseason this year,

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thirty three at bats, fifteen hits, eleven stakes, five home runs.
He's got a fourteen to seventy ops this postseason, and
he has the chance to put the Blue Jays in
front in this series, in a series that Astros fans
are all too familiar with. If you're playing at home, well,
then you're not going to win. And if that continues,
the Brewers will take a or Blue Jays will take

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a three games to lead back to Toronto. After tonight's
early start, they have the first of the two starts
tonight in Seattle five eight first pitch Dodgers. Brewers from
LA have the late starts. Should there be a fifth
game needed, and presumably that means the Brewers would score
more than once, they'll play that tomorrow also in LA.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
That'll go off about seven thirty.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
This evening got college football games tonight, one of which
is rather important to the major national picture, and obviously
a boatload of games coming up tomorrow, including here on
our family of networks layout the games that we have
and when they will begin and where. Obviously we'll have
our college football game of the week as part of
our Stone Cold Locks coming up at four thirty. There

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were a lot of games to choose from, and each
of them just meant more and you'll get to hear
which of those games we selected as our college football
game of the week, and the Texans are less of
an underdog today as they were yesterday to Seattle. Obviously,
we'll be making a pick on that as well. Here's
we're just getting started. It is Friday. We'll also make
a visit to Seattle to talk a little Seahawks football

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during the five o'clock hour, five forty five right here
on the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
It is the A team Sports SOX seven ninety Friday
edition of the program.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Nice Cole, we I'm saying, nice, nice touch.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Wex ac with you on a Friday edition of the program.
As we get you into the weekend, we get you
into week seven, which has already begun last night Thursday
Night football. As WEX mentioned two dinosaurs slinging it. Matter
of fact, next segment, I'm debating we might be able
to get them both in. But let's just say when

(13:51):
Best of X rolls around, there is at least one
person in Cleveland that was none too pleased with the
fact that Flacco put up the type numbers.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
He yelling about it all morning because he hates what
he's doing to the fans in Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
This is embarrassing for us. This is a fireable offense.
Fireable I say, or was it somebody else? I don't know.
I don't know who you're doing. An infrection of.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Oh, just this is what you're I mean, I can't
believe I've been doing this long wrong? What do you
mean not yelling? No, he's just not wrong that it's
clearly wrong. No, it's supposed to be done. One time
there was I'm gonna yell the whole rest of the day,
no matter what you say. Please don't even if I
agree with you.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
I did that.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
He's it was like yell. It was shtick. It was
bit radio. That guy sucked. I'm glad he's gone. It
was not good.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Part of the yelly rant also included the comment that
the Browns are a joke.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
As if.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Ye on Earth for this person on sports radio in
Cleveland for I don't know how long. I honestly, I
can't believe what's happened to our Browns.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Let's think about it. If you were, yeah, exactly picking
a year of the last I don't know forever. Now remove,
by the.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Way, the Browns didn't play last night, right, that's the
that's actually really funny to mention because it's it's true.
It shows you how bad things are when that's the
only way to think when you're involved in the game
and your team didn't even play.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Pretend for the sake of this conversation that Lebron was
never born and raised in a suburban city just outside
of Cleveland and never played for the Calves either time.
All Right, how desolate, how unremarkable, how awful of a
sports market. And this is in comparison to if you
want to get upset about, times have been lean in

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Houston here at certain points in the history of our
sports you know, landscape, it pales in comparison to Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
If you're talking about success, then there's nothing going on
the guard Indians. There's so little success there. Obviously there's
a little bit of postseason baseball, and here recently they've
actually had a really good run without any great success
and any World Series success. The Cavs, I think quite obviously,
prior to Lebron's non arrival, that's right, non arrival, because
he never got there, they were embarrassing franchise overall. There

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were easily best known in the history of their franchise
for losing to Michael Jordan's Bulls like their greatest accomplishment
was losing to the Bulls and not even super deep
into the playoffs most of the time.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
First round game winner Craig.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Eloy and then let's see that's and then the Browns clearly,
pretty clearly, they don't have any success. I think we
know which teams are lumped in with the briefly around
Texans and others that have never done anything in that
game with the Roman numerals after it, they would fit
in that group. But that's just the sports, you know,

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the the the winning and losing, I guess angle of it.
The fans support in the city despite all that, it's unbelievable,
it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's unbelievable to the fact that the dog Pound exists.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
It's almost like the team doesn't deserve them.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
The dog Pound is dawg and it's it's widely regarded
as something great, but it's really representing we are fans
of this dog team, we are fans of this dog organization.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
You can wear a dog mask over your head instead
of a paper bag.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
That's all the difference is.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, they were a little a little unhappy, and I'm
sure Mike Tomlin was also after what he had said
that the move that did get a lot of scrutiny,
and well, it paid off for the team that landed
the quarterback and obviously made the team that moved him,
especially their organization, because it's one thing's obvious. Oh, how
come Joe Claco didn't do this in Cleveland? Oh did

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you watch who he threw the ball to last night?
On almost every single play? Were you paying any attention?

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Everybody? I mean, it makes a difference.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
It's why some payers get paid the way that some
payers get players get paid. It's why some players have
to demand it from management at the risk of missing time,
because that's how much better they are than other players
at their very same position.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Cleveland doesn't have that.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
Cleveland doesn't have the next best receiver either, because t
Higgins is a Bengal and out are Brown. They also
are running an offense. And this is where you actually
can see why Cincinnati was at least interested in this.
And we didn't even go over a very very very
entertaining list that I think we knew some of the
names on, but Albert Brewer had posted the list of
quarterbacks the Browns made phone calls on to excuse me.

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The Bengals made phone calls on to see who they
could replace for Jake Browning because he was so awful.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Davis Mills was on the list.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
We already knew that, but it's still wild to think
that that was one of their possible solutions. They play
a system that Joe Flacco can fit into. Drop throw,
go to the next play, drop throw. There's not a
lot to it, especially when you're throwing to Jamaar Chase
twenty three times. It's a perfect fit for his style,
its perfect fit for the remarkable arm ability he still has.

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You take the d decision making out of his hands
and you might get good football. And yeah, you can
look at the numbers between one and the other. But
Cleveland at the other end of this deal, this was
their starting quarterback at the beginning of the year. They
obviously couldn't get anything done offensively. They benched him, moved
him too a team that was in worse shape than
they were, you could argue, and he goes out there
in two weeks has done nothing but to play excellent football.

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Five touchdowns, no picks, a victory last night over the
top team in their division, and they passed the Texans
at three and four. The Texans are looking up at
the Cincinnati Bengals led by Joe Flacco in the AFC standings,
now sitting in ten.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
So let me ask you this, for the second time
in this division in three years, is he going to
have some miracle run to lead them somewhere that nobody
thought they were going to be after Joe Burrow went down.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
It's possible, because last night showed clearly the Steelers are
They're just okay at four and two. Their record says
they're very good. Should probably be giving up thirty three
points to a Joe Flacco led team, even with Jamar
Chase on the other side. A lot of angst from
those in Pittsburgh wondering where their defense went for one night.
They were carved up pretty much. There wasn't much pushback

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on what the Cincinnati was trying to do. They also
ran the ball better than they had in any game
this entire season. So it just all kind of came
to a head on one night, and the better team
was not Aaron Rodgers, was not Mike Tomlin's team, and
it does unfortunately, That's why I wasted all that time
yesterday talking about what do you really want. If you're
the Texans, Well, one thing it turns out you probably

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didn't want is Cincinnati believing that their season isn't over.
And they definitely believe that now, and they definitely believe
that they can have a say, they have three wins
the division leader in their division, four wins, they're in
the division race. They've beaten the team ahead of them
and have only won less win than them.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Again, it doesn't look like Week seven is gonna be
any different. This is one of the more bizarre seasons
in recent NFL memory, with everything going on with the
teams that are at the top of conferences.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
It's just it's the lack of a power. There's no
great team. There's no we're just better than everybody else
or no three, four or five of those teams, which
quite obviously Eagles, Lions, Chiefs, Bills, Ravens.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
We had five of them last year. Yeah, we have zero.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
As it looks like right now, even if the Colts
end up with a record like that, it won't seem
like that.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't well, the next chance that someone has to
put a you know, a dent in what they've accomplished
already this year is the Chargers, and I don't know,
you would think.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
They they were at their best, it would be a
whole lot better for everybody in the AFC South. They're
clearly not with some of their injuries, but they are
coming off a high. They nearly saw their season take
a totally different turn with a loss to the Dolphins,
but two great plays down the stretch and they won
that game late. And with last night's lost by the Steelers,

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justin Herbert's Chargers are second in the af and they
are they super impressive, clearly not has.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
He been super impressive? Is more like it? Since that's
all we ever hear about. He's been good and bad?
Is that fair?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
He's been pretty little bit above average. He's been like
CJ's been a little bit above average. CJ's last two
games have been so good that with only three games
of other statistics to match with them, he was so
good the last two weeks. His numbers looked really really
good for the season, better than Herbert. It's better than
a lot of other quarterbacks, but really only two strong

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games out of five. A couple of different ways you
can look at it. That's that's probably the most fair way.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
It really is crazy though, the amount of four and
two teams between the Colts and the Texans. That's how
I'm looking at it right now. To get through all that.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Basically, the whole AFC other than the five crappy teams
behind or six crappy teams behind them that really aren't
aren't a factor. Remember, the Texans only have one, have
only one twice.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
And if the Chiefs can just beat the Vegas Raiders,
they'll be four and three.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, Chiefs are I don't expect them to take a
turn for the worse the rest of the season, barring
some series of injuries, and if it's none of them
or to Mahomes, they're getting rice back. They're in a
good place already for how they're playing, but they're headed
in the right direction. The Texans need to follow suit.
Two straight wins, haven't lost a game in three weeks
since they didn't play last week, and this would be

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the biggest confidence booster of all beating a good football team.
The twenty twenty five Texans have not done that this year.
They have an opportunity to do that every week for
the next four games.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
And you know, I'm sitting here acting like the NFC
is much better.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's really not. It's the same.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Sam.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Do you think Tampa is awesome or have they just
miraculously won all of their late games, all of their
games late?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like I think it would be different if you had
the Bucks and the Packers at top the division.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
I mean, you still do.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
But that tie makes it look this makes their record
look less than it is. I still can't believe the
Packer and the Cowboys tied at what was it thirty
five forty? Yeah, I still can't Yeah, it was eighty
points combined. Good grief. Yeah, I still can't believe that happened.
But yeah, the Eagles looked like they were just going

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to find a way every single week.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
But right, finding away every single week is a sign,
even though the Chiefs did that last year, it's a
sign that you're not awesome. You're not awesome, you're good.
You find a way to win. We win every game.
We win all these close games. That's what good teams do.
You've heard me say this over and over. Better teams
don't have to do that every week. Maybe they do
it six or seven times in a year, and they're

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ten close games, Well, the other seven games should be lopsided.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
In your favor then.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
But that's why when we've been looking at the schedules
of the teams that have the good records right now,
that's why I give the Bucks a little bit more
credit because I do think they've actually got some semi
decent signature wins, if you will, in there where they've
maybe got They got it out here in Houston, that's
for sure. But that was week two. They did the
same thing against this Eahawks in the same building two

(25:01):
weeks ago, where the Texans are gonna try and do that,
but that was only a three point win. They're, like
you said, though, they're finding the finding ways to win
instead of finding ways to lose.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Halfway through our number one, we hit you with the
best of X again. It's another day where it could
be the entire rest of the show. We'll pluck a
couple of things into this segment and leave about fifty
others for the remainder of the program.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Here.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
On a Friday edition of the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Did you all see this should be putting out between
five and fifteen posts a day. Four hundred people were
arrested for things that day.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Said on social media.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
History repeats itself type bang.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
You'll succeed.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Never doubt that you're the one two puss for no
one building.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
You're the BESTX.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Nothing's gonna ever.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
Top you know you're the best of it, posting ever
single day. You're the best breaking the entire Internet.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
All Right, it's that time of the day where we
head down the mean streets of social media and we
take part in just some absolute classic lunacy.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
What do you think of when you think of Bartolo Colonne.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Someone who gets mocked a lot for being an athlete,
and a very good one, but not one that was
in particularly good shape or did not give the appearance
of being in very good shape.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
What uniform do you picture him in when you think
of him?

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Probably a Cleveland uniform, that's just to put that out there.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
But he also played for the Mets, the Braves, yep,
a lot of other teams for sure. This picture in
particular has him in a Braves uniform. In fact, it's
at Sleeper Braves last night, tweeting the following me when
the wife asks if I want to go to Golden

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Corral for supper tonight and to picture Bartolo Cologne with
a smirk on his face and to side profile view
so as to accentuate the finer features of his physique.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Golden Corral is a family, buff faced restaurant.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
For those that don't know, what's your favorite feature at
Golden Corral, H I would probably have to.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
I mean, I've seen their commercials, so I have a
little bit of an idea of what it is that
they do.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
But I would.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Probably be better served to have actually walked inside of
one to give an answer like.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
I've never been to Golden Corral. That is correct. Wow,
you learned something new every day about wax people.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
So anyway that was put out there me when the
wife asked if I want to go to Golden Corral
for supper tonight, fat guy in a baseball uniform supper.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
I know, don't.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
I don't like that, my dad, I think that's a
it's not a cultural thing. But using that instead of dinner,
I'm way more of a dinner gag. Well, this is
a comic post, so why not make it more comedic?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yeah, I think that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Bartolo Cologne at b Cologne forty has responded. He quotes
it and says, I feel attacked, laughing emoji and he
tags at sleeper MLB the account. I like when a
guy like that can be self deprecating in humorous situations.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well, I again think we will turn to our friends
over at insert sports reference and note that occasionally we're
aghast at some of the things posted on these player pages.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Usually it's their nicknames.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
In his case, there are three, if you'd like to guess,
but that's not really what I was getting at. But
I'll tell you what they are, Big Sexy, or Morales,
Big Morales or Big bart His first name spar Tolo,
big bart If he's five eleven, what would you say?
They listed his weight, as he's a Major League Baseball

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pitcher at five eleven.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
I'm gonna say him at Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Where they listed him, just so you know, a famous
pitcher for the Astros that was known for his size,
not his height, but his his build was on the
other end of the spectrum, listed at six feet so
one inch taller than Bartolo. Cologne roy Oswald was long
commented on him about, man, how does this guy generate

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this kind of heat? How does he pitch the way
he does? He is tiny, six foot one ninety.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
That actually sounds perfect well, Actually it sounds heavy.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Does sound heavy, and I think you are still trying
to be nice when you intentionally guessed a number that's
probably far too big for cologne and you're still too low. Well,
I know he was listed at to eighty five. That
was where I was actually five to eleven to eighty five.
And you're in a professional, the elite professional sports league.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
That doesn't seem hossible. He's absolutely hour of three hundred pounds.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
Maybe now he wasn't throwing baseballs at three hundred pounds
In my opinion, why not? Because do you realize how
round you are at five eleven to get to three hundred?

Speaker 4 (30:13):
I do. I watched him. He's hitting homers at age
forty two.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Again, you also were being kind when you said, yeah,
Cleveland and Boston and Atlanta, a couple other teams like Minnesota, Montreal, Texas,
New York, Chicago, Oakland, New York, and LA in addition
to those teams you already mentioned.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
In a weird way, though I picture him in a
Mets uniform when I think of him.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Well, the other part of his story that probably gets overlooked.
There's a current pitcher who still believes few more good
years he's gonna get to three hundred wins.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
That's Justin Verlander.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
He has nineteen more wins than b Barto Local.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Owned and that is hundred. This is just In. Yeah, mister,
I feel attacked.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Has two hundred and forty seven career major league victories.
He was awesome. He was a great major League baseball player.
Not bound for the Hall of Fame, but a great
major League baseball player.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Did that was put up last night of the strikeouts
that Justin Verlander laps the field with right now.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
As far as active pitchers, I did see the list.
I no, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
I only saw a list of all the pitchers, not
just active.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Actually you know what right? It wasn't it was.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
It was six pitchers with I think one seventy or
more and JV was at the top of the list.
My only note from it was that obviously Shuzer was
on it. That's why they put it up there last night.
Was that three of the six pitchers wore Astros jerseys
in the postseason. Yeah, he led it with Roger Clemens
and Justin Verland.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
To forty seven I think is what Justin has. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
The Cologne number as well is he has twenty four
more wins than soon to be Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.
Twenty four more wins than Clayton Kershaw.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Well, yeah, because when Clayton gets to the postseason.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Not postseason wins, regular season, it just shows he had
a lot of longevity. He had a lot of good seasons,
but he was not quite as elite as some of
these guys were in some of those individual seasons.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
But you're right.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
The gist of that is sometimes when players jump in
on these social media's, it's not to get in a
Twitter beef like Number seven for the Houston Rockets seems
to do from time to time. And he could literally
be best of X every single day because we even
if we just picked one day a week to do it,
he's had so many entries on that day or any
other day. He addressed it as well in the documentary.

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We're going to continue to reference the more that comes
out from he and James and everybody else that's involved
some really good stuff with Tyreese Halliburton. But you know,
bets of X and now KD being a Rocket, I mean,
we're not going to be starving for material.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Now. The content's definitely going to be there.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
We will revisit last night's baseball game, well one of
last night's baseball games, and we're also going to revisit
what happened last night in the Bengals Steelers game and
the fallout that continues in Cleveland of all places.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
All of that still to come.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety us.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Crazy all right, it is the A Team.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Sports Talk seven ninety will begin the simulcast on Space
City Home Network at the top of the hour.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Wex a c. Cole Thompson with you.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
On a Friday edition of the program, mentioned that last night,
as the two dinosaurs were turning back the clock in
the Thursday night football matchup, after what Mike Tomlin said
leading into that game, and then after you know the
performance you got out of Joe Flacco. Subsequently, you just

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know that Cleveland Browns fans are dying. And if you
didn't know that, then you probably got that idea. If
you were, for example, listening to Cleveland Sports Talk in
Cleveland earlier today, there was a what's this guy's name?

(34:16):
Riz riz is I guess his nickname. He's on the
four Letter Network affiliate there in Cleveland, and he's had
it with the Browns after watching Joe Flacco get traded
to and then lead the Bengals to a victory on
Thursday Night Football last night?

Speaker 9 (34:33):
Did you do that?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Andrew? How could you do it?

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Why on Earth did you feel the need to trade
this guy to a division opponent for a fifth round
draft bick? Fireable offense? That is a fireable offense. I
want to know how much longer the owner's gonna watch
this crap because the fans have had it.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
We deserve better.

Speaker 9 (34:56):
You just you worried more about your stadium than you
are your football team. It's the perception, Jimmy, and you
allow these people to do this. You have the worst
offense in the league. Your GM screwed this quarterback thing
up like I've never seen in my life. I've never
seen anything like kids to play Madden could have done
a better job.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Truly.

Speaker 9 (35:15):
That's not hyperbole. It's a joke. It's a joke. This
franchise has become a joke.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Oh well, I'm calling okay, this is the Tony Rizzo Show.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Hey is this Tony? Yes?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Is this really what it's taking for you? You've been here
for how long?

Speaker 4 (35:32):
That's my thing? How long and the trade of Joe
freaking Flacco in his forty is what is.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Making you finally lose your mind over this embarrassment of
a franchise, horrific ownership and total mismanagement, Joe Flacco's exit
for the second time from your franchise. You deserve better,
The fans deserve better. Welcome to the world, Riz, I'll
hang up and listen.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I mean, in all seriousness, think about what Cleveland sports fan,
or think about what Cleveland Browns fan was thinking after
they got rid of Baker Mayfield. But they got and
I'm trying to do the math in my head. Baker
was there before DeShawn correct, Yeah, barely right, like a
few years prior.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Yeah, DeShawn was cooking here in Houston when Baker got there.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yes, so they like Baker had to do his bouncing
around act before he kind of got a footing in
Tampa and became what we know today, which is the
leading candidate for MVP in my opinion. But he's gone
through the DeShawn trade, and I don't know that outside
of all the stuff that was going on in the

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court system, even if all that was happening, I don't
think that any Browns fan thought it would go this
poorly for Deshaun Watson. There was no reason for them
to think that, because he had just put up big numbers,
albeit in losses for the Texans the year prior, well
two years prior.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
Technically, Yeah, no matter what, No, there's no way to
spend it. What you're saying is true in their wildest
dreams as a football player. Forget the other stuff. It's
not relevant. He's on the field, he's playing, he's started,
He's taking every snap for your team in multiple games
over several years, and he cannot play. Deshaun Watson cannot
currently play in the NFL. He is a terrible NFL

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quarterback based on his most recent games over a four
year span. Nobody would want him on the field. Not
the Browns, not anybody else that potentially will have the
option of claiming him, picking him up, signing him to
a free agent deal. When the Browns take it back,
saying he won't get a chance, I'm just telling you
the football, the football Deshaun Watson has played as.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
A Brown is abhorrent, and that part right there is
not the Brown's fault. You can be mad at them
because of the trade being so lopsided, but if Deshaun
Watson played in Cleveland with the players around him, I
might add both on offense and dev the way he
played in Houston at his best, it's not that lopsided
of a trade in hindsight, but because he played so bad,

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because he seemingly forgot how to play football overnight once
he decided on not the Falcons, that's why you get this.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
Yeah, there's more to it than that, I think, just
because you can decide on the Browns fans any NFL
team I think wouldn't care how lopsided a trade is.
If you've draft, if you've been the team that got
the quarterback that's your franchise quarterback, they wouldn't care at all.
It wouldn't care at all what it did to the Texans,
wouldn't care at all that that's a team in the AFC.
If they landed the player that's going to play great

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at that position in any deal they make, that team's
going to be happy. One hundred percent of the time
that didn't happen. But you also had baggage, and pretty
extreme even for the NFL baggage.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Your team did this. I mean clearly they weren't.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
Alone, so we can't pretend that no team in the
NFL would have traded for him besides the multiple teams
that were actively trying to trade for him.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
So it's not a Cleveland only problem.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
There are owners that were definitely in favor of having
this player on their team. But the last part of
it is it appears there was only one owner willing
to guarantee the entirety of an absolutely outrageous contract. Again,
he's one of the best quarterbacks in the league. You
thought his contract extension was time for it, you felt

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because you were making a deal, which is usually attached
to a trade, so paying him like the highest paid
quarterback out there wasn't nuts guaranteeing all of his money,
which is still a unique idea. You know how, many
other long term NFL contract extensions that have been signed
since then for other great NFL quarterbacks include a one

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hundred percent guarantee.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
To this day now, still none that's that is that's
on Cleveland for sure. But you're right like Tony Rizzo, who,
by the way, in case you're wondering, the answer is yes,
he did take his official photo for the radio station
with his arms crossed looking at the camera, is very
upset about this transaction. This is what has finally sent

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him already.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
I mean, he's this was an interesting thought that Cleveland
had on what to do with their franchise. Trade a
quarterback that you thought was your best option, then you benched,
and then you got negligible return on in a trade.
I mean, you did get something for a player who
technically you didn't want playing for you anymore. So getting
something for nothing, which is what a backup player at
some point should be regarded as. Especially there, once he

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became the backup, he should never see the field again
because the backup to him was another rookie who should
be next in line, no matter how bad he is
in practice or how great he is in practice. I
go back to something I said probably two weeks ago,
three weeks ago, four weeks ago. It's pretty clear that
the Browns know their future lies in the draft. In

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their future, they are not trying to win football games
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
And that's all well and good, But like, why do
you have so many quarterbacks that you drafted? They made
more or mistake, That's the thing.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Like this, he should be explaining it like this, is
the last straw. I can't take the bad move after
they're bad moves were This isn't even the worst move
of twenty twenty five. I know for Andrew Berry getting
rid of Joe Flacco. We're complaining about this. He's awful.
He had a great game. He's bad. If he fits

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in there and plays well, great. He can't play in
this league long term. He shouldn't be on the field
for you unless you're trying to lose, which is why
he was on the field for the Browns.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
We will try to win next when our number two
gets underway. Also on Space City Home Network.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adham talking your Team's Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
It is the A team sports Sox seven to ninety
Space City Home Network. Our number two of the show,
but our number one that you can watch us on
the Telly check us out. We're on camera right now.
Wex is over there ac right here. Cole Thompson is
our producer. We've already talked a little bit, actually a
lot of bit about last night's Thursday night epic shootout
between the Steelers and the Bengals, which of course went

(42:25):
the way of Cincinnati because, of course, their quarterback Joe
Flacco in his forties, outperformed the other quarterback, Aaron Rodgers
in his forties.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
It's a pretty simple game. Don't turn the ball over.
You're probably gonna win if you play well. And Pittsburgh
played well offensively but turned it over twice. Cleveland played
well offensively, didn't turn the ball over, they win. I
mean it really, truly is that simple. Pittsburgh scores a
lot more points if two Aaron Rodgers passes aren't hauled
in by Bengals players. Clearly, you could pinpoint many other

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points in the game, like when you took the late lead.
Maybe don't let the Cincinnati Bengals beat you down the
field Jalen Ramsey, and I think there are some people
questioning it still.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
I heard Brian Balding or at least ask the question.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
I don't know if he was really in favorite of
it or not, but the last pass play of the
game was a brilliant throw. T Higgins made a nice
little late move on Jalen Ramsey to kind of fool
him into not realizing the ball. Maybe was on its way,
and he hauled it in and before he could finish
off the run from inside the ten into the end
zone for the go ahead score with under two minutes

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to go, he slid. He knew that the Steelers would
have to burn the remainder of their timeouts and would
not have much time left. They had two more timeouts,
but you obviously would have a first down, so an
opportunity to run almost the entire clockoff and then hope
your field goal kicker could make a gimme.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
I think it was the right play.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
It's a little bit probably offensive to his defense, but
I think everybody understands if you give the other team
no chance to score, then you don't give your defense
a chance to not step up. They're not even on
the field. They don't have to try. They don't have
to do something they haven't been doing all day, which
is stop the Steelers. You just don't give them the
ball back. And in the NFL, in this we've seen

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it countless times. We saw it in the Texans game.
The Texans were presumably allowed to score in a game
that put them up by more than a field goal
by the Tampa Bay Bucks, but it allowed the Bucks
to get their offense on the field to go down
all the way to the other end of the field
and score on essentially the last play of the game.
The Texans didn't run any more offensive plays after that.
They won the game because of that, and so Higgins

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smartly slid down with over a minute half remaining, and
it did win them the game. They lost a bunch
of yards on their kneel downs, I think smartly because
they took a few more seconds off the clock, and
doing so a twenty eight yard field goal versus a
thirty six or eight yard field goal shouldn't make much difference.
It made no difference last night as they put the
ball through the uprights. Had a bunch of those over

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the course of the game for McPherson, who made four
of them, and they put thirty three points on the board.
Joe Flacco's been with the Browns the rest of the
year when they couldn't get more than seventeen. A week
ago in his first start after being there for barely
three days, wasn't quite as sharp, didn't quite know where
things needed to go, who where everybody was gonna all
the things that go into having a little bit more

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time in the offense. It looked like he'd been there
for quite some time with the plays that they were
running with so much success, And it does I actually
thought this during the game. I would think a lot
of other people did also. If you have Jamar Chase
or Justin Jefferson or Jackson Smith and Jigba or maybe
Nico Collins, and I'm not sure how far down the

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list of the clear obvious best receivers in the league,
why not do what the Bengals did. Why throw them
the ball ten times when you can throw it to
him twenty three times? What's the downside? If you is
the guy defending Him'm gonna start picking you off? Are
they going to alter what they're doing defensively, which it
doesn't look like the Steelers ever was.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
That would be the only thing that would keep me
from doing that.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
And if they do great, right now, I'll do something
else that you can't defend.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah, it was wild. It's not that I thought this
was gonna be like a twelve seven slugfest. I guess,
I just I guess. I just didn't think either of
these quarterbacks would just put up the numbers that they did.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
One even with an off week. The Steelers have had
their off week already. Aaron Rodgers fourteen touchdown passes this
season is the number one. There's another fourteen touchdown quarterback,
but nobody's thrown more.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
He has played.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
He has thrown the ball well this season, and he
threw the ball well for the most part last night.
I already outlined his two interceptions, and what I wanted
to say earlier, I'll say now the hail Mary, which
was brilliantly executed by everybody all the way up until
the catch I thought was going to be made. Great throw,
great positioning by Rogers, even with the spin move to

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get himself the opportunity to put every everything he had
into that throw. They only rushed three, so it certainly helped.
You saw the Texans in that situation a year ago.
They rushed four, but all four of them lined up
on the same side left or right in this case,
left of the football, and it worked out brilliantly because
they ended up getting a sack on that final play.

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So there was no hell Mary attempt even made. But
the hail Mary attempt was made, and the guy you
want to catch the ball, if you're the Steelers, it's
DK Metcalf, biggest, tallest, best leaping athlete you have on
the field for either team, and he was in position
to do just that. And he jumps up for the ball,
and as it arrives, he turns his head and looks

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to see what's around him and doesn't even make an
attempt at the ball.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Your eye on the ball. I understand what he was doing.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
I've watched it enough that I couldn't help but say
it today, like, I don't know that he's going to
catch it, but I think he's gonna get his hands
on it.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Well, the only man attempt at the football. The only
time I would give in.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Again, far be it from me to act like I've
ever been in that situation. But the only time I
would think that's even remotely acceptable is if you think
you're about to get sought in half by a defender.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
And then you get an untimed play at the one
yard line. Yeah, but you know you're trying to have
quality of life after the playerff.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Nobody gets hit that hard on a play like that
because everybody's just standing there. Nobody has a running start exactly.
So yeah, there was no excuse in this sad for
him to do what he did. Guys get hit all
the time, and the officials are like, we can call
pass interference on a hail Mary.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
I'm definitely not going to do that, and I don't
think they missed the call last night, but they almost
never call it, and it happens on so many of them. Nonetheless,
h like I said yesterday, it brings a team down
to four and two while pushing a team up to
three and four. Both of those teams are ahead of
the Texans now in the AFC playoff, if you'll allow

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me to call it a playoff picture with this much
football left, but there's nine teams with better records than
you as you head into your game this weekend, and
you only have the opportunity to pass back the Bengals
with a victory and move along side the Chiefs if
or move ahead of the Chiefs if they lose and
you win.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
That's how many other teams are still two wins.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Ahead of you. Chiefs aren't losing that game.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
I don't think the Chiefs are losing to Gino Smith either.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
It's just.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Is that they're a home too, right. I believe the Chiefs, Yeah,
as eleven and a half point favorites. That's a home game.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Look, last night, for one night on the sports stage
was about turning back the clock.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Max Schurzer did the same thing.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
It was a really awesome effort from him. Not like
I said, I was on the air yesterday and that
was my only concern. Everything you could possibly want. Being
down two games to one going into Game four, the
Blue Jays had all the good things despite that being
the ledger in the series standings. They had played well
the day before, they had shook free from two games.
They probably just don't feel like they were at They

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just didn't perform very well. They are really good, are
a really good offensive team, and it didn't show for
two straight games. It showed in in the most recent game.
Your big gun came out blazing in that game, as
did many of his teammates. You put the Mariners in
their place in their building, which they have just done
to you. But then you're giving the ball to not
only who it is, Max Schurzer, who's clearly not the

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pitcher he once was, but he also when you don't
know what a pitcher's gonna be like pretty much ever anymore,
bullpen or otherwise. But how about a guy thrown in
three weeks and been on the mound in a major
league game in weeks. It happens sometimes in the playoffs,
whether you're off a roster, you've had a short series
and they just didn't have the need to call on you,
and they didn't. But that's what you're looking at, and

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this is your really your only hope.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
I do think the.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Series was over if it was three to one. Mathematically
it's not. And winning three games in baseball in a
row over the same team happens all the time. In
my opinion, they weren't going to do that. Well, now
they don't have to. I mean, now if they win
three games in a row, the series is over and
they're moving on.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
What I said.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Yesterday, I still I am going to maintain see I
was gonna start puckering.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
I actually had that thought because of those words you
used yesterday when I went back, because I was watching
a little bit more of the football game than the
baseball game. As I've noted to you listeners many times before,
when you are offered one option only for the game,
and that option is via a streaming service, I can't
really be flipping channels the way I like to. So

(51:23):
I had to watch it on two dif't two different outlets,
and I just chose to have the TV on in
the other room, which is I can watch both at
the same time. The way the two rooms are set
up at the same time, and sit on the far
left seat on the couch in the uh we'll call
it the sunroom. I can see the TV in the
sunroom and the TV in the den at the same time.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
You know, it's weird.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
So that's how I decided to watch those two games.
So I was really watching the football game, went back
and watched it. To your pucker comment, Uh, the way
they were offering at suzers pitches way out of the
zone because they were nasty. To his credit, was a
team that was tightening up.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Well.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
But he but you have to still and I'm not
not giving them credit. Albeit it sounds weird to say
credit because it's they're being affected. You also have to
give him the credit because and they were talking about
this on the postgame show, not Alex Rodriguez but the
other two who are enjoyable and seem knowledgeable about the sport,
especially Jeter, was talking about how the pitches up in

(52:25):
the zone, the fastball that were getting them to then
reach for those pitches that you're talking about, you have to.
It's weird because it sounds so easy when you say it. Well,
you have to establish that fastball up in the zone. Well,
the only way you established that is for that to
get by these insanely good hitters.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Yeah, he was not thrown ninety eight ninety nine, but
a little bit harder than he usually does.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
That's what Erlander used to do. I gotta get I
gotta establish that fastball. He's still somehow night ninety nine,
it seems like.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
And I and again I had to I had to
go back. I can think of that, that rivalry between
these two guys. And as much as I was happy
that Max Scherzer was doing that to the Seattle Mariners,
I still hate his guts because of twenty nineteen.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Well now his most recent postseason victory isn't from the
twenty nineteen World Series.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
Yes, it works.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Last night just crazy, and yet it was feel good
even for people who are Astros fans in Houston. We'll
get in on the Texans. We'll hear from head coach
Tamiko Ryans and oh By the way, Rockets might have
a point guard after all.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
All of that coming up next.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Can I just we didn't talk about it because it's
not sports.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
So what happened recently? That's who died in the music
business from Kiss?

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (53:56):
Which one? Which one of them? Ace? Okay, so star Child.
I'm not a big kiss I'm not a big kiss
fan that oh you are? Their music's really it's okay.
I don't dislike everybody has to be a fan of everything.
I don't hate on people who aren't. I don't like
they're usually saying I don't. I don't hate kiss. I'm

(54:17):
more I can take them or leave them. Does that
make sense?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yes, I don't think they're bad, but I'm like, they're
like the four hundredth choice after everything else that I
would say, I want to play.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Listen to them right now?

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Okay, you're just keep this small kiss detail in mind.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
There's a movie called Why Him. There's a movie called
Role Models. Yes, both of those movies are basically kiss
concerts because of how involved they are in the movie,
and Why Him is less of a concert.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
They were literally in the movie. Well, what's weird.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Is like I appreciate more their pop culture nests than
their music.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Does that make sense? They were unique? Well, they're so
visually in your face you can't ignore it.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Well they had there was a Wilt Chamberlain aspect to
their band.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Uh, and that they were with a lot of women
or just simply Jean's tongue.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
But yes, uh, well then Shannon Tweed got it all
to herself.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
I doubt that's true, but sure, no, he was faithful.
All rock stars are wex by the way, wex of
your You've seen role models?

Speaker 6 (55:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (55:24):
How many times? How many times?

Speaker 5 (55:26):
On?

Speaker 4 (55:26):
I know how many different words mean large? Yes? Type?
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Twenty, just go ahead, minta, ain't you got anything cold?
I can wait. I do this to you guys all
the time. It's only Fairs mclove AND's second best movie.

Speaker 6 (55:45):
No, it's actually a better movie. That's what I was
gonna say. But for him, he's better in that movie
than he is.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Yeah, I've seen it. It's it's so stupid. I'm you
know what I'm a fan of. If you're dumb, and
if you are a movie and you are dumb, I
love you.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Dom and Dunner must be your favorite movie ever.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
All right, So none of this had anything to do
with what you wanted to talk about.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
No, it does, so. Paul Stanley, another member of the
band Ead singer he face painter.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
They're all face painters, He tweeted the following. I remember
nineteen seventy four being in my room at the Hyatt
on Sunset in LA and I heard someone playing deep
and fiery guitar in the room next door. I thought, boy,
I wish that guy was in the band. I looked
over the balcony.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
He was. It was Ace.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
This is my favorite photo of us now on the surface,
and it's a picture of them, by the way, I
can't see.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
It on the surface. That sounds like a nice tribute.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
That is like the most backhanded compliment you can give
a guy who just died in your band. I wish
he was in our band. In other words, I wish
you played like that all the time. Why are you
just playing like that right now in this hotel room.
That's what I got from that. Am I a bad person?

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (56:56):
I mean I could be completely wrong, because I've tried
to follow a lot. Was he not talking about a
person who wasn't in the band. Yet that he didn't
even know and then realized, oh my god, this is this
guy's unbelievable who then joined the band and helped become
the greatness that they were.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
If that's the version of the story, But the way
he writes it makes it sound like he's already in
the band. He's playing next door and this guy's who's
in the band with him? Here's it and he's like, man,
I wish he was in our band instead of the
guy we have.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
Oh well, yeah, clearly they might not have been quite
as happy. Well, that's like nineteen seventy four. When did
he join? Was he already in the band or not?
It's kind of like no vacancy when they got rid
of Ned Sneebley.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
I don't know the reference. Oh my god, School of Rock,
I haven't seen it. Means you shut up, Boogie Knights.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
We voted you out of the band. Man, this is
my band. And he went on to bigger and better
things with a bunch of kids.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
You know what I'm gonna get.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
I'm gonna get a bunch of blowback from people saying, well,
you should see School of Rock before he should see
Boogy Knights.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Perfectly fine in both cases nineteen seventy four. He was
in the band in January nineteen seventy three.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
So see, there you go. He's insulting him, his own
bandmate who just recently passed. I can't believe he would
do that, Paul Stanley. Uh okay, well the other way around. No,
I'm saying I can't believe Paul Stanley would do that.
Well apparently, I guess if that's how it's supposed to
be read.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
He did did We didn't bring it up. See it.
It's been a couple of days since he passed. We
didn't bring it out three twenty each and every week
to the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Well I didn't say the comments yet. Let's see if
somebody agrees with me. There's only eight hundred and eighty responses.
Number one, Yeah, I I appreciate that they You know,
whether you listen to the music or not, you knew
who Kiss was because of how they looked on stage.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Whoop, that's age awesome shows, concerts pretty big deal.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Are you a Are you a Greta van Vliet fan?
Because I know you like led Zeppelin and a lot
of people compare them.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
Because the least singer Fred's at Greta, you know, don't
always have to do it. Who's credit Van Vliet, It's
a band, Who is she? What does she do? It's
three guys. What's the matter with you? Gosh?

Speaker 3 (59:12):
I went to their show at Toyota Center, the last
one they had here, and it was very kiss like.
It looked like we were on the floor humble bragg
and uh no. But I say that because we had
a great head on view of the stage, very up.

Speaker 5 (59:25):
Close, and it to have your faces melted well.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
I turned to Teresa and I said, it looks like
we're standing in the middle of nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
That's what it looked like. Brilliant.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
It looked like we were in the summit. That sounds
like an awesome time.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
It was an awesome time, But it reminded me of
kiss from that standpoint. It's very visually, you know, like that.
I don't know why I brought it. I just saw
it on Twitter and we hadn't mentioned it. And I think,
like celebrities, athletes, musicians, whatever, that I actually respect. If
they pass, you know, and we're on the air, I
feel like we should at least mention it.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
He died yes day. By the way, Oh, it was
only yesterday. Okay, I thought it was two days ago.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
I mean, it's easier for us to unfortunately miss details
like that than some of the other shows you hear
on Sports Talk seven ninety because those things aren't usually
missed by the show that precedes us because they have
a special section of their show dedicated to nonsense like that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
It's called Believe It or Not.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Yeah, they also have a host who's still living in
nineteen seventy five with his magic.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
That is true.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
He's joined me last night. Uh, technically I joined him
last night for the last of the preseason games. We
will be back with him, the two of us each
on Week one of Rockets Basketball. Next week, Tuesday night's opener,
AC and MT will have for you from OKC. MT
and myself will take you for the home opener against
the Pistons, the last of the NBA preseason games. League wide,

(01:00:45):
there's eight games tonight, and that's that. Everybody will be
on a break until Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday of next
week for their respective first games. Wednesday night is actually
a pretty large schedule, and the NBA is trying to
roll out all of their new net works and studio
shows and hosts and play by play guys everything, and
they're they're really, i think, doing as much as they

(01:01:06):
can to make sure everybody realizes how many different places
they're going to be. The old standby does still exist.
From a TV standpoint, You'll notice the logo is only
slightly different. For Inside the NBA. They won't have anything
Tuesday night. It's all NBC NBA on NBC and Peacock.
We obviously have everything here for you. FIDE ninety Space

(01:01:28):
City Home Network debuts with the home opener on Friday
night against the Pistons. But inside the NBA with Shaq,
with Kenny, with Charles, with Ernie Will, it appears that
they will be doing just as they have done before
long pregame Wednesday Basketball Action, Long late night post game
following the games.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
I was looking It's funny you bring that up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
I was looking over at the monitor about an hour
ago because the NBA coverage was still on the Four
Letter Network.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Now it's football. That's what they do during the day.
Is their their schedule if you will.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
Yeah, they're live with a show preceded by NBA, and
then they're live with the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Letters Kendrick noted NFL connoisseur, expert and expert.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Ramona, you know Genie's friend. Yeah, West Coast NBA reporter
Dave Mcmannmmon's wife. And then it was also on the show,
and then Dave, we're all on the set.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
For those that don't know, Malika Andrews and Dave mcmanhamon
our husband and wife and they both cover the NBA
for ESPN.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Y unbelievable. But anyways, I look over and I see
a bunch of red. I mean, I see a bunch of.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Yellow and purple Jlaker's basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
And the the headline was Lakers are using tonight's pre
season finale as a dress rehearsal for the regular season. Yeah,
no kidding, so is every other team that's doing this
right now. But because it's that network, we have to
have this sub eight seed unless sure, John Hollinger crammed

(01:03:02):
down our throats again, and I'm just thinking to myself,
I thought we were about to escape this, but they're
gonna keep doing it. Yeah, Lebron finally retires, and Luca.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Thin we watched the Sol show. It was on in
the studio. Those were his thoughts.

Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
My thoughts were they just did a story on the
Lakers and it was preceded by his story on the Warriors.
I guess they must play on Opening Night. No, that's
not my only thought. That's not how you're supposed to
lay up. They play each other after the Rockets and Thunder.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Really, how many Rockets Thunder stories did you see before that?
That was all they did yesterday? Really, they did Kevin
Durant's story because of you know, he was because there
was a Netflix thing exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Well, if there wasn't the Netflix thing, they wouldn't have
been forced to do that, and they could have filled
those segments with more Lakers.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
Tho also couldn't do a well. The Rockets are doing
a dress rehearsal against the Hawks. Because they didn't do
a dress rehearsal, they rested all their guys because they're
ready to go. The Hawks did address rehearsals, did do
a dress team that had waiting for them still off season.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
That was way better than the Rocket went zero and
two against the Rockets this year, and in one of
those games they didn't even play their second stringers. The
CE teamers just ran rush shott of them last night.

Speaker 5 (01:04:09):
Do my very best to have today be the last
day I mentioned the Rockets preseason record.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Why they were undefeated? It was undefeated. Man, it matters.
If the Lakers preseason matters, Why doesn't the Rockets. I
don't know, because I cover the Rockets. Oh okay, well
that's a good answer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
It is the A team Sports Talk seven ninety Space
City Home Network x n AC with you. I need
to share a little story that happened on the on
the way in, and it's going to take a little backstory,
but I just want to know if this has happened
to either.

Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
Of you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
Do you ever anybody else out there? Yeah? But I
can't talk to them unless they call in that number.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
One time I was on a vacation in another country
and I made the mistake of both purchasing and then
somehow giving my phone number to this person. I'm just
going to tell you that the country I was in,
and then I want you to see if you can
guess what I purchased.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
You ready, so explain the issue again. There's just a
bad barge to get to the issue in a sex.
So you're in a country, a country I bought something
that's the whole story so far. Yeah, all right, go ahead,
I'll even count to three like the Matt Thomas show does.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
It was in Turkey. So what did I buy in Turkey?

Speaker 8 (01:05:43):
One?

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
Two, three? Turkish delight? Well he at least said Turkish,
like what most people say.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
Well, when you're in Turkey, doesn't you have to say
Turkish something? When you get a cheeseburger somewhere down the
road in this country, can't you just say cheese? You
don't have to say American cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
In France? All right, so you bought that? I bought
a Turkish rug.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
Okay, I'll imagine it wasn't too large.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Let me tell you how long ago this was. I
was with my in laws from my last wife. So
that's how long ago this has been. This guy whoever
he I think his name's I actually think his name.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Is Mamet.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Because that's the only Turkish athlete we know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
No, we know when here his name's Alp besides Alpi,
Oh hey, it's Alpi, it's Mehmet. He uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
He calls me all the time saying if you want yes,
But here's the hit, here's the hook. He calls me
from a different number every time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Why don't you unsubscribe? Dude?

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
He calls me from Florida numbers. He calls me from
foreign numbers, so he calls me from different states.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
He has a phone scrambler. I don't know that's what
I charge. So that's okay today, as I was exiting
to get here to the station, Yeah, we we just
need your phone number to complete the purchase. No, can
we get your email? Uh huh a mailing address?

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Well yeah, but like you give all that stuff to
other people and they don't have a bunch like five
hundred burners.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
I'll take your social if you've got it. He calls,
and it's Tallahassee, Florida. And I know better.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I know who it's gonna be. I know better, and
I still answer the phone. Hey, this is Adam. Oh, yes,
this is Mamet. I am the man you bought the
rug from in Turkey. Yes, I was just I said, Mamet,
my man?

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
How many?

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
And I said it just like this, I go, how
many phones do you have? How do you constantly call
me from a different number every time? You know that
I hit block every single time you do this? How
do you possibly have that many phones to call me on,
and so do you not.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Actually like that he calls, so you just block another number?

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
I know what I said in a game for you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
I even said, I said, you realize that when I
bought that rug from you, it was with my ex wife.
And I've told him this before, just to kind of
drive home the point that you've been trying to get
me to buy another rug from you for going on
I don't know, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years. I can't remember
if these twenty twelve, so whatever that is. And I'm like,

(01:08:11):
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not coming to Turkey again,
not with ninety times soon, certainly not just for a
rug right second rug. But it's the thing to me
about this story that I don't get. And this is
why I'm asking if this has happened to any of you,
why all the numbers? Is it because he knows that
people are going to get angry that he's called ten

(01:08:32):
times or ten other numbers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
You've seen movies before.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
I mean, once you can make a few calls, but
then you go, you gotta throw the phone away, you
gotta break in have you gotta throw it in the trash,
and you gotta go on to the next phone. You
go into your safety deposit box and you see which
passport you want, and then you take the phone that
goes with it, get your new IDs, and you move along.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Okay, so what kind of phones are these? Are these
like Nokia cheapies? These are the one like let's throw
away an iPhone.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
Let's say you got together with somebody that wanted to
run for governor against your adopted father. And then this
woman you were with it was a big real estate
with a big real estate company. They said, sure, you
want your father out of the picture. Whoa act like
you don't know anything, and I'll take care of it.

(01:09:15):
And then she does take care of it, but she
needs to make sure that nobody can trace anything to her.
So she just goes to the store and buys a number.
Doesn't want any plan on it, doesn't want any minutes
on it. Just just give me the phone basically naked,
so I can make the one phone call and then
I can smash it with a hammer. It's a flip phone,
so I can also break it in half, of course,
and then I can angrily throw it in the garbage

(01:09:36):
can before I get my drink of alcohol. Ultimately, getting
a fight with my quote unquote boyfriend and then forced
faced with getting hit killed myself moments later hypothetically speaking.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
What movie is this? That's Yellowstone?

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
See this whole time, I had to find a phone
that was untraceable to make one correspondence.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
What's the movie?

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
What's the franchise that Matt Damon's in? That was the
previous thing I was talking about. When he's a mister Bourne, Yeah,
the Bourne identity, the born and then yeah, he goes
to the safety deposit box. He's looking there at all
of his information for all of his different passports. He
don't know who any of these people are. You're one
of those his picture. You're in one of those movies,

(01:10:21):
Jeremy Renner exactly. I was in the fake knockoff one though. Yeah,
but it was good, but you know it was it
was a fake. It sounds like it's more of a
fun game for your friend. He's not my friend, Yes,
he's your friend. No, I have enough people in my life.
I think there my friends. You look at the number
and you immediately know, Ugh, it's met your friend. But

(01:10:42):
I don't know that, do you, because it's a different
number every time? Do we have to rewind the tape
every time it comes. It's Tallahassee. I know it's gonna
be him, Well that was today.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Who else is calling? In other words, when it the
phone call comes through, you know who it's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Yeah, but it's I'm what I'm trying to explain to you.
Sometimes it's not from an American number.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
That's easier.

Speaker 5 (01:11:08):
The answer to your question, which is my fault? I
should have answered it right out of the gate. No,
it's never happened to me. It hasn't happened to call either.
And shockingly, none of our listeners are dying to call
in and say I know what he's talking about. My
wife and I have been talking about this for years,
this crazy story. Now I can tell it here on
the radio. Can I ask you a serious questions? You'd like,

(01:11:30):
what since here?

Speaker 6 (01:11:31):
Have you ever gotten a phone call from I don't
know Boise, Idaho in your life?

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
No? Then if it's Boise, Idaho, it's moment. It's not
that hard, dude. Yeah, but that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
I have gotten phone calls from other like radio markets,
and then I'll forget to save their you know, like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
What are we walking around at circles here.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
Uh well radio markets again, that's America, so I think
we're still.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
That's what I'm saying. Sometimes he calls from an American number.
Sometimes he calls from clearly not.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
American stress four three seven dash ninety six four.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Whatever the foreign format is. When those come in on
my phone, I don't answer it because I know it's mamet.
Does it ever say scam likely and you pay?

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
No, that's the problem. If it did that, I wouldn't
pick it up. Did you ever get any emails from princes? No?

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
No, well, I mean yes, yes, okay, you're but I
don't answering whether or not it's click through. I don't buy.
I don't bounce back with my banking info. That's called
phishing and myial security. The reason you don't fall for
is live fish.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
It's because you work at iHeartRadio and you've taken the
training courses and stop sing.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
Try to catch you. I hate that, and you don't
get caught because we've been learned.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
What an absolute waste of productivity time of your employee.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
A button it's company it's outsourced.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
To where the Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
It is the A team sports Sox seven ninety Space
City Home Network. Just go out to the phone lines
real quick seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Nick is in.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
Downtown Downtown America. Well, I don't know, we're about to
find out. I think, what kind of number does he have?

Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
Do we have?

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Have you seen it?

Speaker 5 (01:13:21):
I haven't seen it, but I do know Nick is
with us. Now, Nick, welcome into the A team. Whatever
you have for us, we'd love to hear about. I'm
sure it's about sports, completely totally holy, and I'm all
eager to hear what you have to say.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Go ahead, Nick, uh eighteam, guys, how are we?

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
Boys?

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
It's not exactly completely about sports.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
But I've been a private investigator for a couple of
years now and I was listening to this about Memet
and the phone numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:13:43):
And the rug.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Let me just ask you this. Have you have you
checked the rug? What is inside the rug?

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Is there something that he misses?

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Did he put a device in there?

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Is it made of gold? Is there something you need
to know about inside that rug? I would check the
rug and the next time he calls have an answer
for him. Thank you, boys, sounds like.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
He's on the right track. There could be a lot
of things hidden in the rug.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
He could be completely lying, but he did sound like
a private investigator.

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):
I don't I don't know what private investigator sound like.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Well, he came off very convincing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
I mean Memet or whomever might have sold you goods
in a foreign country, maybe knowing that you were headed
to another country that might have customers. Full disclosure. Maybe
there was some smuggling involved. Full disclosure.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
This was part of an Eastern Mediterranean cruise, so Turkey
was hardly the only country I was in that week.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Was a visit to Mamet's rug bazaar listed on the itinerary. No,
In fact, this was like at a like a little
kiosk set up at the port.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
It was totally you a deal. I don't know, two
for one, but you must know.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
I don't have the rug anymore, and I don't intend
on doing where it's at. What did you do with
it when you first brought it back to your residence?

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
I don't know. I don't even remember. Why did you
buy it? Because i've Why did I buy it? Why
did you buy it? Why do you think I bought it?
Because you were. You think I wanted to buy it?
Well you did buy it, so yes, I think you
wanted it, made the purchase. I'm not the one that
wanted it. So where is it? Wherever she put it?

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Where does she put it? I don't know wherever she
is now, hadn't seen her in a while, don't intend
to ever ever, ever, ever, ever ever. Do y'all want
to hear more about this cruise? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Yeah, you would love that. I'll tell you what best
Italian food I ever had in Italy? That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
It was cray shocking.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
So Teresa and I do these things we call them
palate clean cleansings where we go on like you're putting
a bar of soap in your mouth because you're cursing
too much. No, that's when you get your mouth washed
out with so Palate cleansing is different parts of a meal,
but it cleanses the path. We call it that because
we do things maybe that we like, you know, events
or trips or places that we've got that we have

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not so fond memories with other people that we've done
those things with, so we redo them so that we
have fun. It's worked out great. That's one of the
things I would redo, You mean, do more times just
the one time. I'm not going to go on multiple
Eastern Mediterranean cruises. That's expensive.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
You redo everything that was involved on going on that cruise.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Well, I would just go on it with her.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
That way, the memories I have of an Eastern Mediterranean
cruise are with her and not the other person.

Speaker 5 (01:16:37):
Can I request some appreciation from anybody listening that on
our rundown today? In this segment that we just completed
and now has spled over into this segment, it actually
says Turkish rug guy. Yeah, So for what I'm asking
for about appreciation is you know, the segment before it says,
read Shepherd last night gives me hope, fake hope. The

(01:17:01):
segment after this reads Bill Belichick. We're gonna talk about
Bill Belichick. Segment that says more from Katie interview. Yeah,
this time speaking ill of Charles Barkley, I got stone
cold locks. You're getting an idea of most of the
segments we're gonna do. We have a little bit of
a little bit of a plan, so we know where
to go, what audio needs to be prepped, and things

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like that. In this particular segment, it says Turkish rug guy.
And I'm wondering if I again I'm asking this for
to help me, help you help me think better of mine.
I didn't ask about it. I'd made no remarks. I
didn't question what this is all about. Why making up
the whole thing. I just all right, we're gonna be doing.
I don't know what at three point thirty three today

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is what it's like hosting a show with me. That's
the bottom line. You never know where it's gonna go.
I can't do all of the segments on sports, my
head will explode, much like.

Speaker 4 (01:17:55):
If we's only sixteen of them, way too much sports man.
It's just not that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
I mean, look, if we come in here on a
Monday after a Texans game on a Sunday and the
Astros have played a playoff game.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and I go to the phones.
Lacey wants to talk to us, says Mamett's sister.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
Let's go to Lacey. Lacy.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
You're on with the eight team WEX and AC. You're
home for Rockets and Astros, Baseball, Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
What's on your mind, Lacey?

Speaker 10 (01:18:21):
So, my mother and I went on a cruise and
purchased a rug fifteen years ago in Turkey, and that
man calls my mother every single solitary month. Lacy, it
may not be him. Oh your cousin. Your cousin gave
me your phone number off. Yes, in the neighborhood. Can
I show you some more rugs?

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
Yes, he says he's in the neighborhood. There's no way
he's in the neighborhood, Lacey.

Speaker 10 (01:18:47):
It's a different phone number every time.

Speaker 4 (01:18:49):
Thank you, you're my spirit animal. I told you I
wasn't crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
So, as our private investigator suggested, Lacey has I wonder
if she's check the rug, anything in the rug or
anything that maybe didn't think would be with the rug
besides the incessant phone calls. You know, it's funny, is it.
When you think of a rug them, you are the audience,
you are the people.

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
You are Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
You are Houston when you think of a rug. I
even told you this aspect. When you think of a rug,
what do you think of comfort?

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
No, no, what size do you think of? Florarge? Right?
This wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Nick thinks that I have a huge rug. That's why
he's saying check it, Like there's a body in it
or something.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Exactly how else do you dispose of a body and
all the blood that goes with.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
A rug down in Brooklyn. No, this is a small rug.
That's the worst part of this.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
Like I didn't even invest I mean it's like if
I if you were to lay it out on the
console here, since you guys can see this, it probably
wouldn't get passed here and then just all the way
across that's bath mat. I mean, yeah, basically a very
expensive bath mat, a very expensive Turkish bath mat. That
is a gift that keeps on giving because Mamett and

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all his cousin and keep calling from different numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
When they're not calling Laceys. Well, that's what he says.
It's probably the same guy. I'm I'm in the neighborhood. Yeah,
I was in the neighborhood. Hey, I'm going to be
in town.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
No you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
You're calling from Turkey, Oh from Tallahassee that time. It's
just it's insane. I've never it's never been Boise.

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
But I am trying to think this unknown number has
someone on the other end that wants to talk sports
or something.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
But it has been Jacksonville a couple of times. Okay,
what about Charlotte. It's like Florida was the closest coastal
area he could get to.

Speaker 5 (01:20:34):
Was there another country you stopped off at and purchased
something that you thought, uh oh, because you didn't know
this was gonna happen till you got back to America.

Speaker 4 (01:20:43):
And Turkey was late later in the trip. I believe
that's where the house of Mary, Virgin Mary is. Who's that?

Speaker 6 (01:20:51):
Is this?

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
It like a Jewish joke or what do you joke?

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
That just really didn't think there she is. I really
didn't think there she is. Virgin Mary was going to
make it appear. It's on the Today's episode.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
You think Turkey would either it's a Turkish rug guy, Greece, Italy.

Speaker 5 (01:21:06):
We docked in Rome, didn't buy anything there. That was
a pasta what a vacation? Two hours in two hours
to go, Lacey Nick, Welcome to the A Team. We
appreciate you listening.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
It is our number three here on the A Team
Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network. Shout out
to Lacey and who's the private detective that called in
Nick Nick for listening. Shout out to my boy David
KOBICKI is watching us. He's at a local establishment and
we are on every third monitor according to him, on

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the Space City Network side of things, Space City Home
Network side of things. So shout out to David former.
Ihearder here at the great conglomerate that we have going
on here, we have talked a lot about Turkish rugs
and rockets preseason games, and old quarterbacks and well old pitchers.

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If we're gonna be honest about the olds, a lot
of olds getting it done. Last night, turning back to clock,
we have not talked about the Texans all that much,
and we will. We also haven't talked about the latest
installment of Bill Belichick and his very very much younger
girlfriend Jordaan and all of the things that come into
play there.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
We'll get to that in a little bit, but.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
I want to get into the Texans Seahawks matchup, even
though we're gonna do this a little bit on Monday,
presumably between now and then, I presumably are we gonna
hear from anybody of consequence, so that on Monday, what
do you mean, well, when's.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Demico speaking again? He's not? Okay, when's CJ speaking again?

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
Why would they talk twice in the week. I mean,
Demico does meet with the media, he already has this
idea twice this week. Yeah, CJ meets them once.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
These weeks throw me off because it's not your traditional,
you know, schedule, if you will, like, we're not everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
We hear from in a week is available this week
just like every other week. And we're not gonna It's
been open the last two days and it will be
again tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
Yeah, and we're not going to get the final. And
you were out there today. I was not out there today. Yeah,
you were. You were posting about it. I was not.
I'm not gonna lie to the people. I was not
at Texans practice today. Well, somebody with your account, maybe
I was seeing yesterday's video.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
I posted nothing from today's practice.

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
I was not there. When did you post a video
yesterday when I was there? Yes, I didn't know you
were there. I don't follow you around. I mean, geez,
it was I was scrolling.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
I did post a video from yesterday's practice. First thing,
in the morning today, just in light if I had
not put it on Instagram yet.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
So all my algorithms are screwed up because they're just
now coming across my timeline. Okay, why don't you start
texting me these things so I know where you're at
at all times?

Speaker 4 (01:24:16):
Who do I sound like?

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
A nagging wife?

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
A did you say a nagging A nagging wife hypothetically
speaking right?

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
Okay, yeah, you don't have one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
I have texted with her during the show today. Well,
she knows where you're at. To me, yeah, I'm at work.
Anybody could turn the TV on and see where you're at.
She could be one of those people.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
So anyway, all of that is to say, how much
do you think play action offense is going to come
into play for the Texans in the light of all
these juggernaut defensive takes that we've heard about the Seattle
Big Bad Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
Not a tremendous amount, because I don't think they're going
to change what they do A tremendous amount. I thought
they'd be more of a play action team. They haven't been, not,
as you know, in comparison to the rest of the league.
So I don't think they'll do They will do it,
and they should do it. Like I said, I would
do it even more, I don't think we're just seeing
a tremendous overwhelming amount of it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
And before we hear from having a.

Speaker 5 (01:25:11):
Strong running game and threats in the backfield plays into
it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
Yeah, well, before we hear from Demico Ryans on that
very thing for a quarterback behind an offensive line like
this that's shaky at best, is not is play action
offense not one of the most terrifying prospects to think about.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
From the standpoint of if it works, you're in good shape. Well,
it pretty much works all the time. It's just a
matter of did you then complete the play? Like teams
fall for it. That's why teams do it. Yeah, but
I just it takes a lot of things to make
it work. You need to have a good running game,

(01:25:51):
you need to have a reason for them to quote
unquote fall for it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
That's why you do it. And some of it is offense.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
I guess that's where my question comes in. Like I
just like I just said, the offensive line shape.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Again, I'm not trying to tell you their offensive line
is great they're not. I'm not trying to tell you
they're in even in the top half of the league.
But I can't help but see an enormous difference in
last year and this year, just in how the offensive
line is allowing Nick Keyley to call plays and allowing CJ.

(01:26:25):
Stroud and the offense to execute plays. I said they
can't execute a play, they can't call certain plays, they
can't operate their offense. I said that last year tons
of times. I haven't felt the need to say that
very often, if at all.

Speaker 6 (01:26:42):
This year.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
They might not have played well. They might have been
outplayed in the trenches, and they have been at times,
and they might have had CJ needing to leave the
pocket far too often. But I don't watch five games
worth of Texans offense this year and describe it as
CJ's danger, CJ's taking way too many hits, CJ's running

(01:27:04):
for his life. I think he's done bits and pieces
of all those things. But last year was nothing but that,
I will admit and weak out right, I will admit
it has happened far less than I thought I was
going to. So I mean, haven't they as they play
more competent opponents and back to back weeks of disaster
ball from their opponents is probably not something they're going

(01:27:27):
to see the rest of the way. They saw it
for two straight weeks, and they took advantage of it
in a big way. I mean, they played an NFL
game as a as ann oh and three football team
and as a one in three football team where they
were pulling starters, they were resting their starters late in
the game because they had blown out the other team.
They'd embarrass them that badly. That's not normal, that's not
that's pretty rare, and I don't know it's going to

(01:27:48):
happen again. So for them to put themselves in that position,
they got to get way better. They have to have
much more improvement. They have to have, say Juice Scrugs,
he has to be on the field because he's good,
not because he's better than Lake and Tomlinson. That's why
he got on the field, That's why he's earned the snaps,
earned the reps, earned the starting job. Now he's got

(01:28:08):
to go out there and play like he deserves to
be out there because they can get things done. He's
playing well, he can get out in front leading a play,
whether it's a screen pass or some other pole play
that they want him to perform, which this line is
actually built to do a lot better than last year's line.
That goes into dictating to the other teams. Last year
was over. That was Bobby Slowech had no options. I

(01:28:29):
can't dictate what we want the other I can't dictate
this game. I can't call what I want. I can't
make them react to us. He never had the opportunity
to do that and never could make the adjustment to that.
Nick Kayley can actually call plays and say this is
what we want to do. We're good enough, we're athletic
enough as an offensive line group, we can go out
and call these plays and have the offensive lineman make
these plays. They have a better group in terms of

(01:28:52):
getting out in front of plays, and they don't always work.
But having two guys pull and throwing a screen to
a running back, not a Jalen Noel why receiver screen
where Hutch and Higgins are ahead of him making the
blocks or Nico or somebody, but where the offensive linemen
are actually being asked to pull or leave their block
intentionally because it's a screen and they're going out to
get there to block somebody they can do that with

(01:29:13):
this group. I really don't think they could with who
was out there and how they were playing last year.
So there's a few more options for Nick and they
should be in play against this team. This team's really
really good on the interior. They're really really good with
their games and stunts. They're really really good at dictating. Well,
you you better be ready for what we're gonna bring
with your communication, being on board for that, or else
you're host And I think the Texans might feel like, well,

(01:29:36):
if they're going to do this, here's how we're capable
of counteracting it. And play action is part of it,
but probably less so against this team. All right, well,
play action offense, how it may or may not come
into play. Demiko Ryans speaking about that earlier this week.

Speaker 11 (01:29:51):
This is a huge eye game for us, whether it's
the eye discipline started in the past, coverage all right,
making sure we're exactly where we're supposed to be, and
also in the game they do it again. They do
a really nice job making it look the same. So
our second level defender, safeties, nickels, linebackers, they have to
do a really nice job of, you know, really key
in and diagnosing the plays. That's understanding what they're getting,

(01:30:14):
understanding formations and setups so they can play fast. And
then the end of the day, whatever happens, you make
the right decision and you got to go make make
the play. And that's in my message to our guys
this week, like, even if you know where they're going,
you got to be able to make the play. And
that's what this game is going to be about. Two
good teams, you know, competing, really good environment that we're

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going going into, and it's going to be about which
team makes the most plays.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
He was talking about the other side of the ball completely. Yep,
So I gave you my thoughts. I didn't realize that's
where he was headed.

Speaker 4 (01:30:47):
Nor did I Nor did I. I guess we're gonna
see a lot of play action offense. That is what
they do. I just didn't know that's what we're talking about.
I didn't either. That says Seattle play action pass.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
That's what it says in the system. Yeah, Ryan's on
Sea bats well. On my document it says Ryan's on
play action offense.

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
Leaving out Seattle makes it very difficult. That's what they do.
They and they don't run the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Well, they don't run the ball well, surprisingly because I
think the athletic ability, the running game ability, I was.
I'm still surprised by how ineffective. Probably health has something
to do with it. The last three years. Kenneth Walker
kind of a game breaker, I guess because he has
so many big runs, but he just hasn't he hasn't
really put it all together to He's definitely not their belcal.
They use sharbonnet quite a bit, but uh said this

(01:31:34):
for now today's day five. They they succeed because they
pass the ball well. They succeed because they throw the
ball down the field very well as well, if not
better than anybody in the NFL. Now, play action, that's
a lot of play action play calls. Well, that's exactly
what you're trying to do. You're running the play action.
You're bringing up the defense, bringing in the box more defenders,

(01:31:57):
a linebacker. And that's where Demiko's comments about I discipline, Well,
you got to keep your eyes on what your job is,
rather than letting a quarterback say I'm looking.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
I'm not throwing it over there, but I looked you
into that area of the field or outside of the zone.
You're supposed to cover. Secans have soap played quite a
bit of zone this year. It is how Seattle does things,
and so far for their six games, it's worked extremely
well for them. Other it's fair to say this and
Dimico in a kind of in a roundabout way, did great.
Seattle's done this for six games against other teams. Defenses

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that aren't US aren't as good as US, arnest talented,
US don't have as many playmakers as US, and it's
our opportunity, our duty if we're gonna win this game.
Show it show Seattle, show the nation Monday night. Great,
but they haven't done it against us, and I don't
think they're going to you salvage that well.

Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
WEX thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Is that the first time you've better had a private
investigator call a show that you're hosting.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Probably not, but it's the first time I've better had
a private investiator called the show.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
That I'm hosting and tell us he's a private investigator.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
That's a good point, you know why, because a private
investigator probably wouldn't reveal himself otherwise unless he was calling
about a Turkish rug by the way, Chuck didn't like
those segments.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
He didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
He said they were the two worst segments of sports
talk radio he's ever heard. You know why you think that, Chuck,
because they weren't about sports. Oh was it my trying
to help him along? No, but it could have been.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
It was entertaining. It's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:33:45):
It just goes to show you that there are people
out there that they're just like us. I'm not going
to get down on what people are saying now.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
I'm just saying I'm not going to get down on
what people are saying in message rooms or chatboard about
anything seven to ninety related.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
It's individually based. I don't think there's a whole host
of people out there. I don't think they're getting together
on weekends and talking about how lame this.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
Was or will be my future. Oh, I don't care.
That's where I'm at about it. I care. I want
people to like things, want to tune in.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Who do you think cares more between Katie and Charles
Barkley about comments that have been exchanged about the two
of them?

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
Think about it, Kevin Durant, See, that's the answer. That's
the right answer.

Speaker 5 (01:34:31):
And I.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
This Netflix thing that Katie is just I knew we
would get content from him, and you mentioned it earlier
in today's show.

Speaker 5 (01:34:42):
He also explained why if you don't know why, Well,
he was talking about James Harden, but he's talking about
something specific about why they left, why he left James Brooklyn,
and he said, I'm glad he's sitting down for this
and not at a press conference at a podium, because
maybe he'll actually tell.

Speaker 4 (01:34:59):
You why, and he somehow said less.

Speaker 11 (01:35:04):
Like it is.

Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
I'm glad when I first saw the list of players.
Obviously it would have been even nicer if it were
a different point in their respective careers, Like I would
hate to have to wait for it, but I would
sure love to see Kevin Durant's entire season this year,
from start to finish, being that he is now a Rocket.
But a lot of the things that led to it,
why it's there, his thoughts about Phoenix when he knew
it was over in Phoenix, why he didn't want them

(01:35:26):
to trade him to Golden State, how involved Houston was then,
James Harden's personal life, and that he's a dad and
I don't know how many people knew that, and that
he is still with and has been with the same
person for quite some time now, his girlfriend and like
you said, his ability even under these circumstances where you've
agreed to go in depth, allow them to interview you

(01:35:49):
countless times over a ten month period, and still say,
like I say, give you a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
Those are the literal words he used rather than describing
the situation. But you know why he did that? A lot?
It was a lot?

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Uh, it was a lot, That's all he kept saying.
You know why he did that though, because he didn't
want to tell the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
And what was the truth? What tell him? I don't know, Well,
I don't doubt that.

Speaker 5 (01:36:12):
I think he has been but you know, think about
where he's put him, the position he's been in with
his teams. You know, he's been right there to win
it all with Luca, He's won it all with Lebron.
We're talking about him playing alongside two other Mega superstars
in Brooklyn, and clearly, if not for KDE's feet, they

(01:36:33):
might have gone even further. Like he's a winner as
much as he is probably a lot, and he has
said things that not everybody agrees with, and thus hot
water has followed. Injuries have been an unfortunate part of
a lot of his story, but just goodness, gracious, pure
basketball and ability to.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Win in the ABA.

Speaker 5 (01:36:52):
And I'm I think Kdi is among the five best
players in the NBA right now and probably among the
ten best in the history of the game in being
a closer and being the give him the ball, You're
in good hands, last two minutes, take every shot, last
play of the game. Whatever he developed, great, let's do it.
Kyrie's were right there with him. Yeah, right there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
Oh, listen, Kyrie is the one that hit the dagger
to complete the three to one comeback over the Warriors,
not Lebron.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
Yeah, take the word player out of it and say
the greatest offensive talent in the NBA today, if every
single player in the league is healthy, you're saying Kyrie's
name in the discussion very very early. Yeah, he won't be,
but he's it's not gonna be long un til you
get to his name. I mean, I really don't know

(01:37:41):
how many other names you'd even say. I'm dead serious,
what's the what's your offensive skill? Putting the ball in
the basket? Killer as an offensive talent, I mean, it's
it's I would rate him ahead of Luca for sure,
even though Luca is incredible and not far behind, but
not ahead of him my opinion, which is why I

(01:38:02):
believe they didn't think they could win with Kyrie and
Luca went so clearly they could.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
It's okay, they got Cooper flag and he's gonna be
so awesome. Like if one guy can beat all these teams.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
Luca beat all the teams he needed to beat to
get to the NBA Finals without Kyrie, and now you
have two of those guys on the same team, and
the Rockets saw it a billion times and beat it. Oh,
let's shut out Luca for an entire three quarters. Kyrie
can get his twenty, but we shut down Luca and
then the reverse happens in the fourth quarter and they
beat you anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
It's it's incredible.

Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
But yes, what we're getting from Kadi and some of
the stuff that's not necessarily about them because you brought
up Charles Barkley, they're different people.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
Deal with Katie.

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
I said it yesterdays and I'm gonna keep saying it.
He the way he sucks in all the outside noise,
like we're talking about two of this week, and he
created more outside noise. And we heard from Arch Manning
this week. People were asking him on Monday about the
athletic article. They're calling you a flop, and did you
see what your teammate Michael Taff posted on his ig

(01:39:05):
about my guy's blocking out the noise. He's got this,
he's and he's like, I didn't even know there wasn't
an athletic article until you brought it up. And then
someone asked him about the tap I G message. He goes,
I didn't see that either, Like he said, he gets
he the only reason he knows their noise there is
noise is because people keep texting him. Hey, man, keep
blocking out the noise. He said he got one hundred
of those texts, so he knew there were people saying

(01:39:26):
stuff this week, but he wasn't. If he's lying, he's
doing a good job. He wasn't paying attention to it.
And Katie Katy zacked opposite. If the letter K starts
your tech your tweet, and the letter D is in
there somewhere else and they're both capitalized, it could be
about your kitchen drawer.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Yeah, he would know about it kitchen drawer. That's when
I'm gonna start calling him that the kitchen drawer.

Speaker 5 (01:39:51):
Is really bringing it here is one thing writing Kevin
Durant would never or that's why he's not Kevin Durant,
or he will see it, but he will use it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
He loves it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
He had a whole section of the show on Twitter
trolls and what he likes to.

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Do with what you were talking about that other person
doesn't know doesn't like Kevin Durant, and you said you
could believe him or he's acting very well if you don't.
Kevin Durant says he feeds off of this, and I
too believe him.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Oh yeah, I mean, it doesn't seem like he really
needs to, no, because he's pretty driven and listening to
his teammates as often as we've already gotten to this year.
You know, Reed Shepherd's talked about him quite a bit.
He did an interview last night, not only with The
Vanessa at the end of the Rockets victory on Space
City Home Network, but with The Association, one of the
NBA's new programs, and they kept asking him, asked him

(01:40:42):
a couple questions about KD. What stands out or what
have you gotten from him already? He talked about what
a great teammate he already appears to be for his encouragement,
but he said, the thing that stands out is his work.
This guy's the best player in the league, one of
the best players in the league, and he's serious. When
we're practicing, it is all go all the time he's
working out. It is all he everything he's got, he's

(01:41:03):
giving it to these workouts. And even Kevin's own comments
in the documentary, whatever he's talking about at the end
of the day is like, and that's why I do
what I That's why I still go at it the
way I do. That's why I give it. That's why
I play so hard. That's why I practice so hard.
It's clear as day. I mean, we've seen the workouts
and now we're going to hopefully see them even.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
More well, now we're going to hear what he and
Charles Barkley said about each other. It's kind of a
back and forth in this audio file, which is, as
you mentioned, a snippet of a much larger set of answers.
Kevin Durant is giving about all things basketball and all
things KD. But at the end of the day, what
he says about Charles, Charles really can't argue back on

(01:41:44):
this one.

Speaker 12 (01:41:45):
I try to tell y'all, all these bus riders, they
don't mean nothing to me. If you ain't driving the bus,
don't walk around talk about Julie Champion.

Speaker 4 (01:41:53):
You don't forget this bus driver in Golden State.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
No, I do not.

Speaker 12 (01:41:58):
I rode the bus, filled the gas tank up.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
I was the gas.

Speaker 12 (01:42:02):
I was the wills that actually the breaks at all
different give parts. I was at the back of the bus.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
I done.

Speaker 12 (01:42:08):
Did I play every role for that team.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
Kevin Durant's not on the bus.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
It is just not on the bus.

Speaker 12 (01:42:14):
But what has happened when he was driving the bus.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
He's definitely just what was happening when he was driving
the bus.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
He lost to the finals?

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
Yeah, okay he did.

Speaker 7 (01:42:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:42:22):
We could talk in these metaphors all we wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
I got a lot of them.

Speaker 12 (01:42:26):
He never knew what it's like to remove your egos
so you can go out there and help a city.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
Of town win a championship. It was all about him.

Speaker 12 (01:42:33):
His whole life, his whole career, his whole life is
all about how he feel, how he wanted to talk,
how he can say anything to anybody because I'm Charles
Bark I can say whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
No whys detected.

Speaker 5 (01:42:46):
Yeah, that's a pretty famous comment that Barkley made when
he called Kevin Durant one of the ten best players
ever to lace him up, called him a bus rider
and he didn't like it then and obviously an opportunity.

Speaker 6 (01:42:59):
How was that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Accurate if you're calling him the one of the ten
best players ever and then saying he's just on the
bus and he's not driving it.

Speaker 5 (01:43:06):
Right, Well, the same that's Charles is not trying to
tell you he's one of the ten best in the
same commentary, he's just trying to tell you he wonted.
It's the same reason everybody else mocks him that I
think is inaccurate. He couldn't win a title, so he
went to the best team in history and then they won.

Speaker 4 (01:43:20):
He's a bus rider, but Lebron gets a pass.

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
Forget about Lebron just talk about Kevin in this situation.
Calling him a bus rider for that reason I think
is ill fate.

Speaker 10 (01:43:29):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
It's not even accurate though, if that's how you perceive
how he won the only titles that he's won with
a team that's already won three other titles without him, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43:39):
And won seventy three games the year prior and couldn't
win so that one he gets there.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
They won titles before him, yeah and after him, right, yeah,
So calling him a bus rider when he was all
the dynasty of the best NBA bus of the generation.
I don't agree with it, and Charles is wrong, but
I know what he's trying to say.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
I don't know what he's trying to say, because when
he was on that team with all those players, he
was undisputably the best player on those teams, Curry included.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
Curry will even tell you that by design.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Yeah, but it's like everybody wants to give credit to
Curry for taking a step back so that he could
be that player, when really he was the best player.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
Into the sentence end of story, the A.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Team on Sports Talk seven ninety remember that magic eight ball,
A nice little shaken look at this I'm getting late tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
You can trust whatever it said, or you could trust
these two guys named Adam.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
It's a crap shoot either way. But these are your
stone cold.

Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
Locks up.

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
Our favorite segments of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
If we're being honest, here stone cold locks of the
week heading into Week seven of the NFL calendar.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
Week eight of the Stone Cold Locks, though I'm sorry
I cut you off.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
This's my fetes. Now you go from here.

Speaker 5 (01:45:16):
Seven weeks of the stone Cold Locks proven nothing other
than we stink at this, but that's kind of part
of the fun. Quick visit to last week's results with
the Red River Shootout as our college football game of
the week, missed by all three of us, and that
we made the same selection did not go over. It
went way way under nexas defense showed up for the

(01:45:37):
second time this season, and this time it came in
a victory. And obviously the offense played a little bit
better than they had against very good competition, much better
than they did in the opener of the season. They
won it rather easily, but did not cover for us.
That theme held true for all four of the other
games selected by Cole for one of the other games
selected by you and IAC. That's why we got three wins,

(01:46:00):
that's why he didn't get any, and that's why we're
separated by one victory. After the first seven weeks, I've
managed to miss sixteen times. They've managed to not miss
fifteen times. As we head into our eighth week of
just devouring these picks with a voracious appetite for excellence.

(01:46:20):
College football Game of the Week, Ole Miss at Georgia.
We had seemingly all of the best games of the week,
all coming from the it just means more Conference, and
you'll probably see them dotted over the remainder of our picks.
Just decided to go with Ole Miss and Georgia, noting
that it's always fun to watch Lane go to work.

Speaker 4 (01:46:37):
He's been going to work this week.

Speaker 5 (01:46:39):
With his commentary about Kirby Smart resembling Bartolo Cologne, I
guess if we want to keep it the Kirby fat.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
Essentially, he called Kirby fat.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
Obviously, we're playing Texans Seahawks, and as of today that
line dipped to Seahawks minus three, favored over the Texans
by just three points over under a forty one end
a half. Carl has always leads things off your selections, please, sir,
Sans Texans.

Speaker 6 (01:47:07):
Uh, okay, let's go out to God bless Iron. Nick
Saustin Athens, Georgia. I won't spend a lot of time.
I think that this is an upset win. I'm gonna
take Ole Miss to win, but I'm not gonna take
them at the plus seven and a half, which feel smart.
I'm instead gonna take them at the under fifty six
and a half. Go over to Columbia South Carolina. Oklahoma's
offense just I don't trust and you don't get right

(01:47:27):
at Willy b.

Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
You never have, you never will.

Speaker 6 (01:47:30):
I don't know if they win, but I think at
the ender of forty two and a half is a
very easy play.

Speaker 4 (01:47:34):
I'm calling my shot on this next one.

Speaker 6 (01:47:37):
Not only does Miszoo walk into Judenhair Stadium and they
get a beat down on Auburn and they cover the
minus one and a half, This, my friends, will be
the final game that Hugh Freeze coaches down at the
planes of Auburn, and I'll stay in the great city
of Houston. I think the Cougars go ahead and not
only win and get the plus one half, they clinch

(01:47:57):
their spot in a bowl game and keep the College
Football Playoff hopes to lie for another week.

Speaker 5 (01:48:02):
It'll win over Arizona. Yeah, it's only game seven, but
they're five and one. As Cole mentioned, a victory over
Arizona Saturday morning at TDECU Stadium will make them Bowl eligible.

Speaker 4 (01:48:12):
Put them at six and one.

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Be a nice victory inside the conference obviously trying to
keep themselves alive, as you said, in a conference that
I think is very evenly matched at the top. They've
played probably the best team in the conference. I think
most people would agree at this point in the season.
That's what it looks like in Texas. Tech do not
fare particularly well against that very very good team on
both sides of the ball. But I don't think there's

(01:48:35):
many other teams, certainly not the ones on their schedule,
that they can't play with. Now they need to go
out and prove they can beat them, Arizona the latest.
With that opportunity, we will still have an opportunity for
you go see that game. Got another pair of tickets
to give away in the final in case you missed
it segment of our show today, So a little less
than an hour from now, I will give those tickets away.

(01:48:56):
I'll go next, and I will actually take ole miss
to cover the number that Cole agrees that they will,
especially if it thinks they're gonna win out right there
plus seven and a half. Sadly, I'll stay inside the
sec two more times. That has not proven a solid
course of action for those playing stone cold locks with us,
but I will take A and M and Arkansas to
light the scoreboard up in Fayetteville. It's been a sign

(01:49:18):
of both teams. Do you think the Aggies will win?
Do you think they will win easily enough? Didn't really
like the number, so I'll play the over. We'll play
the over with Jackson, Dart and bow Nicks going against
their opponent's defense. It's just at thirty nine and a half.
I think they'll hit that and I'll fall for it. Man,
Texas looked good against Oklahoma. Their defense against Oklahoma looked

(01:49:39):
that good. Well, how's Kentucky gonna put points on the board. Well,
hopefully they won't, and I'll take Texas to cover the
twelve and a half ac.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
All right, I'm taking the under on Ole Miss and
Georgia as well as did Cole. I am looking at
a Rams Jags game in which the Rams have an
elite pass rush and the Jags, I believe, still lead
the league in takeaways.

Speaker 5 (01:50:02):
Fourteen of them is tops in the league.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
I just even if that translates to more possessions on
offense for Trevor Lawrence, I just don't see these teams.

Speaker 4 (01:50:13):
Combining to score forty five points.

Speaker 5 (01:50:15):
I'm catching the Rams at what to this point in
time is the best possible time A Puka nikoulis football.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Which is another factor in taking the under on a
game like that, So I'm pretty confident in that. So
of course it means they'll probably score seventy combined winnington
is going in this game Colts at Chargers. I like
the ability for both of those teams to get together
and light up the scoreboard enough to the tune of
better than forty eight and a half, and the same

(01:50:43):
as the UH Bucks and Alliance. Two MVP caliber quarterbacks
at least, and I think Baker Mayfield is the MVP
front runner so far. That means even if he goes
up against Aiden Hutchinson, he's gonna be able to put
up points. He's been able to do it all season law,
So even though the number is fifty two and a half,
I'm taking the over on that one.

Speaker 5 (01:51:03):
Make it pretty simple on the Texans game. None of
us are playing the dog or the favorites. No confident
feeling strong enough that the Seahawks will win by more
than three of the Texans will either win or stay
within the number. And on top of that, we're all
thinking points will.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Be scored well.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
I mean, we keep talking about how all these defenses
are so great, but forty one and a half is
pretty low.

Speaker 6 (01:51:25):
My big thing is just I think at this point,
until I see Texans go back to playing mundane offense,
I'll get to the back of the doubt and say,
for one more week, I believe that things.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
Are trending in the right direction.

Speaker 5 (01:51:36):
Yeah, they're definitely trending that way, but doing it against
the team that tis worthy of analysis is the determining factor.
And if they can do that against a much more
than competent defense and team overall of the Seattle I'm
not putting them in the playoffs yet. I think there's
still way too many competitors on both sides. If I
were talking AFC or NFC to say that about just
about any of them, They're going to the team if

(01:52:01):
last year's team was ten and seven, which they were
tied for the division title, but via tiebreaker, not only
didn't win the division, did not qualify for one of
the three wild card spots, missed the playoffs, and upgraded.
They moved on from Geno Smith because they thought Sam
Donald was an upgrade. They are correct, that is an
upgrade he has outplayed him this year. I think he
outplayed him last year. And I think he is a

(01:52:23):
very good fit for what Mike McDonald's offense likes to do.
I think they're also very balanced as a team. They're
not the greatest offense in the NFL, but they're above average.
They're not the greatest defense in the NFL. Well above average.
They're a very good special teams unit. They're hard to
beat because you have to beat them. They're not going

(01:52:43):
to fumble, stumble and bumble their way around the football
field and make it easy on you. Texans don't usually
do that either. But we'll all play the over far
Stone cold luck.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
The a team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:53:05):
Our boy Ryan Fiterman and to do an event with
Mike Tyson come up here a week tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
Well, Vander will be there too, Mike Tyson one of
his greatest fights ever. And Evander was there too. Most
memorable fights ever. Yeah, Evander was there too.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Each situation very different.

Speaker 5 (01:53:24):
Well, if there was no Evander zer well I mean, well,
I means but they had the fight where Evander won one.
Oh so you did you didn't think he won. It's
one of the many times in boxing.

Speaker 4 (01:53:37):
I thought it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
I mean I co judges didn't get it right. It
was really it probably was what was needed at the
time for him to be the victor kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
What do you mean, like, well, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:53:51):
I just didn't really seem like he like, why did
he beat him?

Speaker 4 (01:53:55):
Because the three judges thought he did? Did you think
he did? I thought it could go either way exactly.
I was on the but I wasn't like they got
it wrong. And then he made them look like geniuses
in the rematch because he really beat him. Well did
he What happened in the rematch? That's when he bit him. Oh,

(01:54:19):
so he didn't really beat him.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
Nobody won because everybody lost in the Vanders case, he
lost his ear. And now they're friends doing an event
with Ryan Fitterman right here in the ah, not far
from here. No, it's gonna be right there in the
gallery at their new location a week from tomorrow. I'll
be over there, Uni, come on by, I'll come on by,
all right, Fine, Bill Belichick's the gift that keeps on giving.

Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
I suppose I can't deny people like talking about it.
This is a bad football team going nowhere with a
former NFL head coach who won a ton of NFL
games when he was with Tom Brady and.

Speaker 4 (01:54:56):
The former star of the show called Coach because it's defunct,
did you know that? Uh, you're gonna have to help me.

Speaker 6 (01:55:04):
So he was.

Speaker 5 (01:55:07):
He had a show called Coach. Oh, well there's a show.
There was a show called Coach about a football coach
that he has nothing to do with, which is where
my brain went. Craig ten Nelson, Jerry Van Dyck, No,
not that coach. That's why I was very confused. Okay,
I'm like, what are you talking? Oh now I see
the confusion. Yeah, that was a very different, very very Yeah,

(01:55:29):
that was about a football coach. Yeah, well this is
about a football coach too. It's about a college football coach.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
But that coach he used he dated within his demographic
more so, okay than Bill. Now, I let men bring
that up because well, Jordaan is a big part of
this story, because she's a big part of every story
involving him these days. All Right, She's not just a
pretty face with a bit roll, heavily involved.

Speaker 4 (01:55:53):
So they were.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
Basically disparaging people and were picked up on a hot
Mike doing so.

Speaker 5 (01:56:00):
Oh and specifically because they were being recorded for this
show you're talking about. Yes, we've nobody has seen. Well,
yeah it's defunct, now, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
They they were talking about the people that work behind
the scenes of the show, specifically in this case, the
graphics people, and they're not very very high on not
only the people themselves, but the amount of people used
for this now defunct show.

Speaker 4 (01:56:25):
Take a listen. Should no, couldn't You should send them
one of those texts, like even when I'm with somebody else,
I'm thinking I was thinking the whole time, was like

(01:56:46):
we should actually we.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Should get Tony in here.

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
You would make that place better than I'm like a
really serious on some of the things that wanted whatnot.
There's some things, but for the most part everything you
don't have to give Tony every single little detail. Figure

(01:57:10):
it out. I don't know they have four graphics.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
That's not.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
That's what I was just talking about. Somebody we can't
do it. Yeah, but he becomes a graphics guys. How
mean somebody who did that for us, and we have
to figure out who's available to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
You know, knows how to arrange the stats because I
haven't I have a graphics person.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
So they are.

Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
Bad enough listening to Bill Belichick on an actual microphone
when he's supposed to be talking to the media, much
worse when he's whispering on a mic on a.

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
Show we're never going to see.

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
I don't know how they have four full time graphics
people and that's joy On. And he responds, they can't
do bleep right. She says, they're just running the people
down that work on this show. But like they're whispering
as if they know well people could hear this. We

(01:58:16):
don't want to be and not aware of the microphones
they're wearing. Yeah, I don't even I mean, I know
we're here to talk to you. I don't know what
to say anymore. I really don't.

Speaker 5 (01:58:25):
I really don't know what to what to make of
this whole thing, because I'm from the get go, I've
been saying the same things every single time, a new
aspect of the relationship, the program, the other programs they
are trying to be a part of, the football, the recruiting,
the nil, the university, the statements they put out, whatever.
I've had the same opinion of it every single time,
and nothing ever changes. He's embarrassing himself. He should be embarrassed. Well,

(01:58:49):
that's what I always come back to. I get the
say this too. I understand we're guys. That's like old dude,
young girl. Wow, high five, way to go, You're awesome. Silly,
it's ridiculous, it's embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (01:59:01):
What I always come back to is somebody in his
inner circle has to like shake him. Or maybe it's
not so much of her that's making him like this.
Maybe this is who he is.

Speaker 5 (01:59:17):
Well, whatever he just said right there, it doesn't I
don't think that's that's him, right absolutely who he is.
I don't doubt that for a second. I didn't doubt
that before I heard this audio or the last time
he spoke, or a lot. I mean, he's really really
good when he needs to be, and he never feels
like he needs to be unless he's on set as
a paid employee of the football company that's paying him

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to give his thoughts an NFL Films project or the
stuff they do with the NFL, something with the Hall
of Fame, so something with pro whatever it is. He's
been awesome. He's really good when he sits down with
Nick Saban and they new stuff for an on camera production.
But pretty much every other time. If he's not into it,
you can't tell, and he thinks you're a waste of
his time. He's better than you. It's more more important

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his time than your time.

Speaker 4 (02:00:02):
He's shown that his whole career.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
This is another example of a reminder that he's out
of coaching. He's doing TV. He's really good at it,
and that's where it probably should have stayed. And it's
not because it's North Carolina, and it's not because of
anything that has to do with her. They're just those
things are just exacerbating what we already knew, which was

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that his probably best days coaching are gone there behind him,
along with Tom Brady's career, which, fair or not, it's
looking more and more like that was what did he
do before?

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
What has he done?

Speaker 6 (02:00:36):
Sea?

Speaker 5 (02:00:37):
I'm not going that route, even though I do believe
a great deal of success is due to the fact
that he happened to be there with that quarterback who
was smart enough to figure out how to make it
all work around him, and they did have talent.

Speaker 4 (02:00:48):
He is an awesome defensive coach.

Speaker 5 (02:00:49):
He's still a good coach of football, but when he
was asked to run everything in New England, it did
not go well. He's now been asked to run everything
at North Carolina, and while patients should normally be required
and making an absolute judgment on this, I don't see
a scenario where yeah, three four years down the road
at North Carolina because they showed patients things are looking good.

Speaker 4 (02:01:10):
This is a playoff caliber outfit. It just does.

Speaker 5 (02:01:14):
That does not appear to be the case with Bill Belichick.
Really really good coach of the game of football, and
hard to imagine him finding a way to make his
legacy look like it's about to but he's doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Yeah, it's against all odds. He has definitely done that.
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Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
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Speaker 3 (02:01:51):
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Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
And so we'll know what happened between the Texans and
the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (02:02:05):
By the way, now's a good time since Game five
of the ALCS is about to get underway, to pass
along to you that four or three out of the
four panelists are picking the Blue Jays to take a
series lead in Seattle tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:02:19):
So I pass that along. Yeah, pitchers that both pitched
well the first time around. Maybe Gossman has a little
bit longer leash. Not sure that Miller can replicate his excellence,
but he is a good pitcher, unlike what people in
New York think.

Speaker 4 (02:02:31):
So see what unfolds. I want to see. Seattle sad could.

Speaker 5 (02:02:35):
Very well be the last game in Seattle this season
or ever. Probably not ever, probably not, but it could be. Wow,
what if that's dark? I don't know a lot about
the earth? Are they about to?

Speaker 4 (02:02:48):
Who knows? To come to the ocean. Maybe there's a
great flood. It rains a lot there.

Speaker 5 (02:02:51):
I mean Major League Baseball probably can't move that quickly
and relocate them in an offseason with no planning.

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
I mean, I don't know, man, I'm not in charge. Well,
but we can hope.

Speaker 5 (02:03:02):
Right, He's currently the home of the baseball postseason, and
then right across the street Monday night it will be
the home of NFL football for the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (02:03:11):
Well, they've been.

Speaker 5 (02:03:12):
Pretty good this year. They've had an excellent quarterback play
from Sam Donald. That is the gist of their offense.
They go as he goes, and so far that's been
pretty good, ranked among the near the top of the
league just about everything you can look at passer rating,
completion percentage, although he and CJ are they have the
same completion percentage, so they're both near the top of

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the league. He's been a little bit more consistent over
the course of his sixth starts to CJ's five. And
his downfield throwing is kind of what CJ did his
rookie season when everyone marveled at, Wow, this the deep ball.
Everything he's doing downfield is just it's incredible. You're normally
aren't this successful with such low percentage plays, and certainly

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not as a rookie passer.

Speaker 4 (02:03:54):
And Sam Donald's doing that this year.

Speaker 5 (02:03:56):
He did a little bit of it last year in Minnesota,
and I think it's probably what was seen on tape
from him way back when the Jets and others thought
he was a very viable star level NFL prospect. Clearly
didn't work out for the majority of his career, but
landing in Minnesota definitely helped with Kevin O'Connell, and he's
been able to replicate that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
Again this year.

Speaker 5 (02:04:15):
With Clint Kubiak, his offensive coordinator in Seattle. The Texans offense,
like I said, much more inconsistent over the course of
five games. I don't think there was anything really to say.
I really like where this is headed. After three weeks
after the Texans barely scored against Tampa, barely scored against
the Rams in the first two games in reverse order,

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and barely scored against the Jaguars. Weren't a whole lot
to like about the end results. Barely visited the red zone,
weren't very successful or barely had goal to go situations,
barely had red zone opportunities, weren't successful when they got there,
were awful on third down. Competition changed, maybe there was
a mindset change also, But I do as I've said,

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I give them some credit, some belief. They didn't play
better on offense and win twenty one to seventeen. They
played a lot better over the last five quarters on
offense and scored forty four points in the last four quarters.
They scored sixty four points in the last five quarters
against an NFL team. That's enough. That's not easy to

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do no matter who the competition is. So there's a
little bit of belief from me. What does CJ think
about his own offense as they move out of their
off week and into Seattle.

Speaker 7 (02:05:36):
I think, you know, we're starting to find identity, you know,
being versatile a lot of guys, says the ball against Baltimore,
I think a good thing. So some things we can
keep up and keep up our tempo and getting out
the huddle, just operational things is good.

Speaker 5 (02:05:48):
So keeping all that stuff up, hopefully seven weeks and
now six games into the season, the operations and the
tempo that is not an opponent situation is one percent.
Nick and CJ and the rest of the offensive staff
getting together a little bit better during the week so
they can get it together better on game day. Got

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to get the plays in more quickly. Got to play
with Temple when it's needed. The coaches, Demico and other
offensive coaches are always concerned about this. I think we've
watched enough football with Deshaun CJ other quarterbacks under coach Kubiak,
et cetera. It seems obvious, Yeah, man, why don't they
just play with Temple. Look how well things are going.

(02:06:30):
They're finding their rhythm, They're getting in a rhythm. They
stay in that rhythm. Why don't they just playing Temple more? Often,
Why are they thirty five seconds in between snaps?

Speaker 6 (02:06:37):
What for?

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Man, get going, let's go, let's go.

Speaker 5 (02:06:41):
Coaches are afraid of. Yeah, we're playing with temple first down, incomplete,
second down, incomplete third and ten. Uh oh, we got
a punt. I'm so glad we took twenty two seconds
off the clock and put our defense right back on
the field.

Speaker 4 (02:06:54):
Sometimes they get.

Speaker 5 (02:06:55):
Very, very concerned that it's not what you want to
do all the time, and picking the right time for
it and then finding it its place in the game. Again,
I think you should be trying to do that every
single game. I don't care the care for the scare it.
Clearly for this group with CJ, with Kayley, they have
to find it at some point in every game, I think,

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and this week's no different.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
They have to play with tech well, especially on the road,
I think, because the longer you take, especially in an
environment like this, the crowd it will be a factor.
It's not you don't I know, we like overseell home
field advantage sometimes, but when you're talking about an offense
that has issues with the very things we're talking about,
and then you're going to allow the crowd to be

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one of the loudest in the NFL to play a
role in what you're trying to accomplish. Where you already
are playing behind the eight ball for a variety of reasons,
and now you're going to have your cadence, your you know,
all that kind of stuff may be affected by crowd noise.
It's all the more reason to do what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (02:07:55):
It doesn't work unless their success, so it does go
hand in hand. But I do think that is what
they're going to try to do. I do think they do.
They will and can run the ball well against Seattle.
I do think both running backs are going to be used,
just like they have the last three weeks. As much
as we still think there are people out there very
much in favor of RB one dash what marks please,

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they're not there yet.

Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
I don't think they should be there yet.

Speaker 5 (02:08:19):
I don't think a seventy five to twenty five workload
share is where this team should be with those two players.
I think they're perfectly fine right where it is. It's
a little bit over half probably is what I would
expect for what he marks. If things go well, if
they both handle all the assignments they've been asked to execute,
out there, and that includes pass pro that includes both
for both of them being a part of the past game.

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And that's part of why I think the discussion about
Breess Hall has been so loud, at least on our
airwaves and on the social media stratosphere, because I do
think you should be using them more, and they know
how good Breis Hall can be in the past game.
I think we'll just find out. I know it, I
think fans know it, and until it happens, it's hard
to say it's true. But what he mark should be
if you huge part of their passing game, I don't

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mean and I say it like he's a part of it,
a huge part of them being successful in using him
in the passing game. Positive play, not some of that
nonsense you saw last night where either Flacco or Aaron
Rodgers would drop back and they say, oh, I don't
really see anything here. Oh thank goodness, gain Wells out
to my right eight yards behind the line of scrimmage.

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I'll throw them the ball and he'll get tackled for
a six yard loss. How about when they're in the flat,
when it's an actual route, not necessarily only as a
safety valve. It's a great safety valve with no defenders
out there with them, and they have room to run
the moment they catch the ball, but you also got
to get it to him in a hurry. I don't
think CJ necessarily does that as often as he should,
but I would love to see that aspect continue to grow. Fine,

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throw the ball to the players that have advantages, and
I think their backs specifically would he will have advantages
when you get them the football out in space, and
that's usually in the flat. It certainly can be a
circle route out of the backfield towards the middle of
the field. Not all that different from the late game
plays they were running with Darry at the end of
the game against the Rams at the beginning of the season. Granted,

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those plays were there specifically because of how Seattle or
Saint Louis or the Rams were defending late in the game.
Seattle's not likely to do that throughout a game, but
it's part of the idea of you're not just throwing
it to him because they're your fifth option on a
a play call with five routes.

Speaker 3 (02:10:25):
Gino Smith went to Vegas, Sam Donald comes to Seattle.
We debated when that happened whether or not. The Vikings
should have kept Sam Donald, even if it were on
a shorter term.

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
I don't even know if that was an interest.

Speaker 5 (02:10:38):
You know how silly that sounds. Now that Carson Wentz
is killing it with the Vikings, right.

Speaker 4 (02:10:43):
What I was going to ask you is we know
it's not worse.

Speaker 3 (02:10:47):
Is he doing better then you thought he would as
a Seahawker, right about where you thought he'd be.

Speaker 5 (02:10:53):
It's just being their quarterback better, even though I thought
it was a good signing and I thought he'd be
better than Geno Smith. I can't look past his He's
having a great season. He's not playing well. He's not good.
He's having a great season. Yeah, that's what worries me
about about this game. But he's still he hasn't He's
not the different player than he was at the end
of last year. Though he had a great season in Minnesota.

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And then they played their final two games and the
Lions got in the backfield all after whatever time of
day that game was, I believe it was a night game,
and they did not play very well offensively, and the
Rams got in their backfield in the playoffs even more,
and he was I mean, who I don't blame him
so much, but that's a part of who he is,
and it's part most quarterbacks would play this way. It's
why I can tell you he's having a great year.

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He's playing like one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL,
like one of them for six games. He's probably not
one of them, but he is playing like one of them.
And the reason he's not one of them is because
what happened at the playoffs last year. It's happened to
Pat Mahomes in the Super Bowl, but it happened to
Darnold and back to back games and their scene is
had ended so dramatically quickly. They were playing for the

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number one seed in the final week of the season,
smashed by the Lions. Fell to the seed that they got,
which meant they were on the road at the Rams
and they got clobberd and their offense was a disaster.
Part of it was him, but most of it was
he didn't have any time to throw and he kept
making mistakes. The Texans have a defense that looks like
they should be able to do that. They really haven't

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done that in any of their games this year, So
that's the weird part about it. They get a lot
of pressure. They play extremely successful defense, but it hasn't
really looked like these quarterbacks are skittish, are unsure of
what to do, don't know how to get things done
against the Texans. The results don't really match. Stafford wasn't awesome.

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He just didn't make mistakes. Mayfield wasn't awesome throwing the football,
but he also wasn't really making mistakes. And then on
down the line with the lesser quality quarterbacks you played
in Lawrence Ward and Cooper Rush, obviously the mistakes now
became a part of it because those quarterbacks aren't as good.

Speaker 3 (02:12:56):
All Right, we are going to continue here in the
five o'clock how to well a couple things. Take a
moment to admire the play of last night's Rockets preseason game,
and maybe even have time for an Aaron Glenn crash out.

Speaker 4 (02:13:12):
Wanted to get to this the other day. It's not
going well. I didn't think it would, but it's probably
going worse than I thought it would. And we still
have Brady Henderson coming up in the final segment to
talk about this game that we're talking about as well.
All of that still during the five o'clock hour on
a Friday edition of the show.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
The a t on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:13:36):
O Forget.

Speaker 5 (02:13:36):
We will have tickets to give away in the upcoming
segment in the Cougar's Arizona game coming up less than
twenty four hours away eleven am kick tomorrow at TDCU
and concert tickets never ending nineties, aza A Hart and Cruise, Sugarray,
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in the final segment of the show, we will talk

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Seahawks Texans. Lady Henderson, who covers the Seahawks, will join us.

Speaker 4 (02:14:03):
Then do you think he's gonna be like they have
no chance the Texans like everyone else?

Speaker 5 (02:14:07):
Uh No, because he probably doesn't think everyone else is
saying that. I do. I know you do, I've I've
listened to most of our show this week. He's not
saying it most people. No, you think most people are
saying they have a chance.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
They're favored by three freaking points? Dude? Come on, well
then why do people keep acting like they're not favored
by twenty? Please those individuals I read their names this week,
si USA today, Espen.

Speaker 5 (02:14:35):
I'll exp I didn't explain it at all when you
brought up the USA Today conglomerate of excellent geniuses morons,
it's it's not worth our time because of the job
that those people hold. And that sounds super obnoxious, conceited
and where I am.

Speaker 4 (02:14:52):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (02:14:53):
That's It's how entities like that are currently producing content.
It's not really content, which is why I rarely care
about what it's said there. This is why it's called
fake news. It's what the individuals think. But not only
I don't even think it's demeaning to the people because
I don't think they spend any time trying to figure

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out what they think.

Speaker 4 (02:15:15):
They don't. It doesn't matter to them.

Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
What matters to them is I have to get something
out and I have to get people to read it,
and I have to get clicks. Whatever works is what
I'm putting out there because for me. But why is
it all slanted one way? I don't know or care,
and it's not all you keep You said it the
whole week in that I picked the Texans that dimensioned
who's picked anybody? Show me this wall of predictions. It's Monday.

Speaker 4 (02:15:40):
We didn't have a segment on this. I read everything
they said.

Speaker 6 (02:15:43):
I get you.

Speaker 5 (02:15:45):
Wait till Sunday and Monday. Unfortunately, there won't be as
much on Sunday because they're not playing till Monday. But
when all the Monday shows make their predictions, not none
of them are going to say what you are acting
like everybody is saying, even though I bet you a
lot of them. Let's say there's five on ESPN and
five on I mean, the regular networks don't cover Sunday
or don't cover Monday. But you know, if eight people

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on ESPN were asked to make predictions about Monday Night football,
I doubt more than two will pick the Texans.

Speaker 4 (02:16:13):
It might be one, it might be none. That's all
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:16:16):
But that doesn't mean they have no chance. It means
each individual thinks the team that's playing at home with
the better record and is favored is going to win.

Speaker 3 (02:16:24):
Yeah, that might be the case, but that's not how
it's being presented. I mean, here's my conundrum.

Speaker 4 (02:16:31):
If I tell you who they are, when you ask
who these people are, then they're not good enough for you.
If I don't tell you who they are, then I'm
just making I think.

Speaker 3 (02:16:39):
So I need to know how I need to talk
to you about this and have a different opinion inan
you because it's gonna make you mad either way, and
that's what the show's about.

Speaker 6 (02:16:46):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:16:46):
The Texans are two and three, I think that's probably
the gist of it.

Speaker 4 (02:16:49):
And they're four and two, right, So that's why I'm asking,
why is it so heavily slanted even though you don't
believe it is because the Texans aren't good and the
Seahawks are awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:16:59):
No, the Texans aren't good, right, And you keep bringing
up the line and how close it is.

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
Yet everything that's being written said, all this is not
It's not being presented as if this is a game
where these two teams are as close as you're saying
they are.

Speaker 5 (02:17:14):
I'm actually trying to say that they're not that close.
I think the Texans can win, don't I think people
don't see them the way I see them. I think
they see them for legitimately who they are, as the
record says, they've won two games two of the worst
teams in the league. We're on the other side of
the field. They've lost three games against three very good teams,
very similar teams in quality to Seattle so why this

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game on the road. Is this the one that we
think people should be picking the Texans to win because
they're trending a little bit better. That'd be a reasonable explanation.

Speaker 3 (02:17:47):
I think the biggest thing, little bit, I think the
biggest beef I have with this particular matchup is that
when people are picking the Seahawks, they're not picking the
Seahawks because Sam Darnold is having such a great season,
which we've gone over at nauseum, and we will do it,
for the love of God again on Monday.

Speaker 4 (02:18:05):
I'm so tired of Alexander will join us from Seattle
on Monday.

Speaker 3 (02:18:08):
Good a different voice on this because I'm sick. I'm
sick of talking about a game that hasn't been played yet.

Speaker 4 (02:18:13):
I really am. I only one extra day. It sucks.
But the problem is they're not talking about that.

Speaker 3 (02:18:18):
They're talking about the Seattle defense and how awesome it's
going to be against CJ, which is fine, it probably
will be. In fact, odds are saying that'll be the case.
But they're just ignoring over here this defense, which is
actually statistically better.

Speaker 4 (02:18:32):
I'm waiting for your.

Speaker 5 (02:18:33):
Well which chime, but let's just take there the last
game Seattle played. I went through all those numbers and
it was overwhelming. Even though they only won by eight points.
What their statistical numbers produced. Seventeen hits and fifty percent
pressure rate and seven sacks and seven TFLs.

Speaker 4 (02:18:47):
That's what everybody just saw.

Speaker 5 (02:18:49):
The Texans don't have any games like that, even against
the terrible teams they played. They they shut out the Titans,
and yeah, you might not like the assessment of it,
and you might find it totally.

Speaker 4 (02:19:01):
Inaccurate, and that's fair.

Speaker 5 (02:19:02):
I don't think people are looking at their shutout of
the Titans like it was as good as the Seahawks
allowing twelve points and beating the Jaguars. People don't even
care that they shut out the Titans because they think
it was more about well, yeah, the Titans stink.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
But I'm looking at games in which the Rams, for example,
have you know, scored thirty three points, have scored twenty
six on a loss, have scored twenty seven and a win,
have scored you know, twenty three and another loss, like
they held them to nine fourteen, I'm sorry, fourteen. You're right,
they were held to nine, but same point, but they

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held I mean, they this defense is not. I don't
think this defense going into this matchup is getting its
due like Seattle's is.

Speaker 5 (02:19:45):
You're right, and you're explaining it without saying the point.
The point is, let's show Seattle highlights about why their
defense is so awesome. No problem, I got mountains of
video to show you. Okay, let's show the Texans highlights
where they're awesome. You did get them against the Ravens.
You picked three balls off. That's very easy to go to,
like do you even like the great plays they made
against Tennessee to shut them out?

Speaker 4 (02:20:08):
But this goes back.

Speaker 5 (02:20:09):
It's they're not providing the lazy people right with the
necessary And.

Speaker 4 (02:20:14):
This is what you're always talking about with sacks.

Speaker 3 (02:20:15):
It's not just about sacks exactly Like Will Anderson Junior,
how many does he have this year?

Speaker 4 (02:20:19):
He has four? Well, he's not having three. That's actually
more than I thought.

Speaker 5 (02:20:23):
You're gonna say, one in each of the first three weeks,
none of the last two, and Daniel two and two
of their five games he has four.

Speaker 3 (02:20:28):
Those are actually decent numbers through they're not overwhelming numbers,
like who leads the league in sacks?

Speaker 4 (02:20:34):
Right now? The Benito I believe has eight he leads
the league.

Speaker 3 (02:20:40):
If either one of these guys had eight sacks, I
guarantee you the lazy people you're talking about that I'm
talking about, we're actually talking about the same people here,
would be.

Speaker 4 (02:20:48):
All over them right now.

Speaker 5 (02:20:50):
Yeah, like if daneil Hunter was twice as good and
had eight sacks.

Speaker 3 (02:20:55):
But that's what I'm trying like the I think, in
my opinion, the fact that they're whole holding these teams
to lesser points without those highlights is actually more impressive.
At some point that will come to people. At some
point they will realize win December.

Speaker 5 (02:21:12):
It could come as early as late Monday night, maybe
Tuesday morning, because if any of the things the Texans
have done well this year, and most notably keep the
other team from scoring points, happens against Seattle and leads
to victory, it can't be ignored any longer. There aren't
any other games. It's the last game of the week,
so the freshest game in your mind, it is in

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prime time. It is with They're not a good team,
they're two and three, but they clearly are a good defense.
If there is another game produced like this, again, they're
almost four points better than any other defense in the NFL,
which is an enormous gap. Heck, there's only two teams
allowing fewer than eighteen points and the Texans are at twelve.
That for all these other eye popping stats, sack, this pressure,

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that interception, takeaways.

Speaker 4 (02:22:00):
If the other team doesn't score, you're gonna win.

Speaker 5 (02:22:01):
You think you think you like The team leading the
NFL in points scored by this margin, even at this
point in the season, shouldn't be two and three.

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
Well, believe me, it's not helping my cause, it's not
helping anybody. Although my cause isn't that the Texans are
so great. But since we keep bringing up all these
teams that are at the top of the division and.

Speaker 4 (02:22:24):
Who they've played or haven't played the Texans schedule and
with each passing week, by the way, that loss to
the Bucks looks, however you want to describe it, more
impressive less. I don't know how you know the Bucks
look more impressive. I hate, but it's a good loss.

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Like That's.

Speaker 3 (02:22:49):
If you're going to look at other teams, which I've
done admittedly, like the Colts, and say, who the heck
have they beaten? I have to look at the Texans schedule.
Glad we don't have to do what you're talking about
in the NFL. We'd have to do it in college football.
And that's why it's not a good in that regard.
We're talking about quality losses.

Speaker 4 (02:23:06):
First, the Jags is not a quality loss, by the way,
and they're not that good quality wins. There aren't any.
They don't have it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:14):
We really want to talk about this. It is so
flipped depending on what you're talking about. Although again I
don't think I think the Jags are better than they
were last year as a defense. I think their offense sucks.
You're not gonna sit here and convince me that, Trevor
Lawrence is. I'm glad they paid them all that money.

Speaker 4 (02:23:32):
I laugh at that. I'm glad they did that. I
laugh at them.

Speaker 3 (02:23:35):
But like the Rams and the Bucks, or the Titans
and the Ravens, it's like, this is the gap between those.

Speaker 5 (02:23:43):
There's nothing but La and Tampa for four more weeks, Seattle,
San Francisco, Denver and Jacksonville, if you'll allow I won,
those are the next four weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:23:51):
But yeah, the first starts.

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Speaker 5 (02:25:48):
In just one segment out from hearing for Brady Henderson,
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those tickets to our listeners.

Speaker 6 (02:26:11):
Yeah, so, welcome back Mack Jones to the starting lineup
and potentially for the rest of the season because if he,
along with the return of George Kittle, will be seeing
the field against the Atlanta Falcons this week, Broke Brock
Pritty's perturn is supposed.

Speaker 4 (02:26:24):
To be at least out for another week. A couple
of other.

Speaker 6 (02:26:26):
Players who are supposed to miss Rickie pearsal Fred Warner
gets your Grus Mattos. The reason why this is important
is every week we get closer towards Mac Jones staying
in the starting role. It's closer towards the text's having
to prepare for him versus brock Party when they take
on d forty nine ers later on the spot.

Speaker 5 (02:26:43):
Yeah, this is a I'm it's I don't know if
those are the right word. How they've handled brock Party's injury.
He came back, then left again, been back at practice
and still not ready. Is this really the injury? Has
it been misdiagnosed? This toe injury? Is it a turf
toe like Burrow? I don't know what it is, but
it doesn't seem like they do either. Obviously, the Warner

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injury is still the one that stands out the most
to me, just because he means more than just the football,
and he's done for the year, and it was catastrophic
and it was one of those on field injuries that
really kind of gets to a team and who it
happened to. But you can't deny the football that's been
played by mac Jones, at least throwing the They are
a different offense honestly. With him, it's been very successful

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in terms of moving the ball up and down the field.
And keep in mind he's had to do it like
Baker Mayfield's now trying to do it with virtually nobody
out there. George Kittle's missed all the time that Max's
been out there for Neither Jennings nor Pearsall has been
healthy through this. Although Jennings did play last week and
will again this week. They still haven't seen Brandon Ayuk
on the field. Christian McCaffrey's been healthy through it all,

(02:27:48):
but he was also healthy when Brock was out there.
They'll be able to move the ball with mac Jones.
Mac Jones was asked a question this week and it
was formed like this, You know, Macca, late in each
of the last couple of games, you really haven't been
moving wonderfully and Mac interrupted him and said thanks man,
and everyone got a good laugh.

Speaker 4 (02:28:08):
He goes, what do you on a race? H?

Speaker 5 (02:28:10):
He's been beaten up pretty good in these games, but
they're in a great spot still, all things considered. If
the slow return to the field for all these guys
is beginning with Kittle, and it should this week, then
they're absolutely in it the rest of the way.

Speaker 2 (02:28:24):
What else?

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
So I hate saying this, I really do wex you
were right.

Speaker 7 (02:28:31):
I was wrong.

Speaker 6 (02:28:33):
The Penn State and any Lions were dumb to fire
James Franklin because the only coach that would have actually
made sense for them to replace him with was Indiana's
Kirk Signetti, and he ain't gone anywhere anytime soon. Congraduates
to the Hoosiers, I'm becoming a football school and saying
we hate Bobby Knight and we hate everything about basketball.

Speaker 4 (02:28:49):
Because if they just paid their head football coach.

Speaker 6 (02:28:51):
Took them to win eleven and two record in year
one and currently has him at number three a brand
new ten year contract worth eleven point six million dollars,
He is now the fourth highest paid coach in college football,
according to ESPN's Pete Damil. The money is fully guaranteed
He'll be under contract until twenty thirty one, which means
if he has ever fired, he gets all ninety three

(02:29:13):
point six million dollars, which means if I am Kurt Signetti,
I am doing everything possible to get fired within the
next twenty four hours to guarantee that money.

Speaker 4 (02:29:22):
Just go to work.

Speaker 5 (02:29:23):
He can earn it. We earned the contract. Now, just
earn the rest of the money. Eleven point six million
dollars per year. And he's done it for two years.
They were awesome last year. In the year the years
of nil and transfer, Portal managed to make that work
for them again this year. Could argue they're the best
team in the Big Ten, but they'd obviously have to
go prove that whenever they get to their Ohio State game,

(02:29:46):
which should be on the docket at the end of
the season.

Speaker 4 (02:29:49):
But yeah, they can do that now.

Speaker 5 (02:29:50):
That again it's like everybody else, you know, Ryan Day's
done this for years, which is why it's amazing how
much negativity was out there for him, mainly from inside
Buckeye Nation. Doing it year after year now is quite
obviously more difficult than it's ever been. If their plan
at Penn State was very specific, we believe we can
get Kurt Signetti.

Speaker 4 (02:30:10):
So we're moving on from James Franklin.

Speaker 5 (02:30:13):
It's gonna look awful when they have to move on
to who knows how many guys further down the list.
And I think earmarking your job for Kurt Signetti might
not necessarily be the greatest idea a respectable one at
this point in time. James Franklin will be on the
Game Day program tomorrow morning for those that are interested
in maybe.

Speaker 4 (02:30:31):
What he has to say.

Speaker 5 (02:30:32):
And I think with who runs the show between Desmond
and Kirk and Pat and Nick and Reese, I don't
think it'll be a man. He really didn't say anything
this morning. I was looking forward to hearing his perspective
on us. I believe they will get his perspectives.

Speaker 4 (02:30:49):
Where are they going? They're going to be in Athens,
Georgia Oka College football game of the week. Bro, That's right, Well,
sometimes we don't have that one, not very often.

Speaker 6 (02:30:58):
Actually, out of curiosity and Clinton, you can put yourself
in this conversation, you won't who is the next name
that you actually get excited about but potentially come into
Penn State Because it did feel like it wasntic O'Brien.

Speaker 4 (02:31:12):
So, yeah, I just did it. I put myself in
the conversation right now we're gonna meet you. I don't
know that I can't do it.

Speaker 5 (02:31:18):
I don't think I can answer your specific question because
I don't know that I'm excited about any Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
I think I have some answers. Who's the one that,
when you say, would at least pique your interest? Nick Saban, stop,
this is so much fun.

Speaker 5 (02:31:30):
I really do think even though he I think he
had the same opportunity right where he is, and he hasn't.
I wonder if Matt rule could work at Penn State,
and could you know, keep in mind where the bar
is the bar at Nebraska where he currently is, it's low.
It's very low because they weren't any good for such
a long period of time now and it hasn't really

(02:31:52):
gotten much higher.

Speaker 4 (02:31:53):
The bar's way higher than that at Penn State. You're firing.

Speaker 5 (02:31:57):
You might not like it, and he didn't win the
big games. You fired a successful head coach.

Speaker 6 (02:32:02):
The second most all time winning his coaching program history,
and you fired him in regular season.

Speaker 5 (02:32:06):
Now compare him to any other programs win total during
the last eight years. Franklin has won more games than
all but six seven eight episodes. Right now he has
one more, so the next guy has to do better.

Speaker 4 (02:32:22):
Kelly. That's my final answer.

Speaker 5 (02:32:23):
I will go on on a Linelexan's offensive coordinator, Chip
Kelly Ship.

Speaker 4 (02:32:27):
When that was.

Speaker 6 (02:32:27):
Happening, I do remember that the name that I would
actually be very excited to see at this point in
front of the show. Great guy in the sec Eli
drink Wiz. You got to poke the bear in the
big ten. He will poke the bear in the bree ten.

Speaker 5 (02:32:39):
I think his team needs to not win this year
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Speaker 4 (02:34:02):
We'll talk to him next.

Speaker 2 (02:34:04):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (02:34:15):
It is the eight team Sports SOCKX seven to ninety
finals segment of the week. Now we will have a
show before the Texans game on Monday, but figured it
would be a good time to catch up with Brady Henderson,
who covers the Seahawks of for ESPN, and we got
into it a little bit earlier. Brady my co host,
and I he thinks I'm being far too difficult and

(02:34:37):
hard on the media. That is, in my opinion, giving
the Texans little to no chance in a game in which,
well the line doesn't think that it's you know, all
that far apart for these two teams.

Speaker 4 (02:34:49):
What say you?

Speaker 3 (02:34:50):
Is this going to be a completely lopsided game or
do you think this will be a competitive ballgame in
what will admittedly be a hostile environment for Houston on
Monday night?

Speaker 4 (02:35:04):
You don't say, Okay, so he's not there. I guess not. Well,
I didn't hear that. Was that out in the room
when he said that you were sitting there? Okay, I
must not heard that part.

Speaker 3 (02:35:16):
All right, Well, Brady Henderson, hopefully we'll join us before
the end of the show and I can ask him.
You know, I was trying to I was trying to
play this video of Rich Eisen breaking down the text
and Seahawks Monday matchup. Had no idea what it was
said one way or the other. But if it was
going to be all hardcore Seattle, I was going to
get a.

Speaker 4 (02:35:34):
Good laugh out of that. After our discussion earlier.

Speaker 5 (02:35:37):
Yeah, if it's I do have a different opinion of
everybody out there in the media comments like that, if
it the source does matter, and if everybody from every
respectable outlet, all the people you would normally look at,
if every single one of them thinks the Texans have
no chance, then I wish I wouldn't have said anything
about it.

Speaker 4 (02:35:57):
But I know that's not the case. Like again, win
or have no chance, not even the same thing.

Speaker 5 (02:36:02):
I doubt very seriously people are giving the Texans no chance,
but they also might see them for what their record
says they are, and I think that's totally fair. I'm
glad that we have another day to discuss it. I
am glad we will visit Seattle with Jonathan Alexander of
The Chronicle joining us on Monday. And I'm also glad
that again you have another day where there's no reason

(02:36:23):
to think negatively about the Texans health situation, which is
I said it yesterday and I almost wanted to not
post it because it's so remarkable and rare.

Speaker 4 (02:36:32):
They don't have a saying there's nothing going wrong.

Speaker 5 (02:36:33):
Triymont Smith is the only player that I'm aware of
having not been there, but saw Sam Warren's note that
he was not at practice today.

Speaker 4 (02:36:40):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (02:36:41):
Every other member of the entire active roster is practicing
and unnoted on their injury report, so practicing in full.
The only three players that might not be available that
are practicing are Elijah Hussey, who has now practiced twice
all season with the Texans and he's not off the
NFI list, but open his practice window with his knee injury,

(02:37:02):
and there's no way he's been active for this game.
And then the two players that are nearing the end
of their twenty one day practice window, and that's Deniko
Autrey and Jalen Reed. They've both practiced in full. In
other words, they're fully healthy and fully ready to participate
in the Texans game at any level requested. But in
order to do that, they have to be put on
the roster, and if the Texans don't have any reason

(02:37:23):
to alter the current roster to get them onto it,
they're not going to. They're gonna have to make a
move after this game because of the mechanism of that
twenty one day window, but they don't have to do
it before this game, So I don't think either one
of them is going to be activated for this game
either and they will run out the same healthy group,
and I also think it's a healthier group it should be.
You're coming off the off week, nagging injuries hopefully are

(02:37:45):
a little less cumbersome, and hopefully the situation specifically with
Derek Stingley Junior, unless it's reaggravated playing a football game,
which is very likely to happen.

Speaker 4 (02:37:55):
He's going into this game in great shape.

Speaker 5 (02:37:57):
He's going into this game and what should be honestly,
league wide, We've got one game in the books and
we got another thirteen to go. He's the best matchup
in the NFL, the best or second best corner in
the NFL against the We spent all week calling Jackson
Smith and Jig with the best wide receiver in the NFL.
We don't have to do that today since Jamar Chase

(02:38:18):
played last night. But he's close. That's one of the
marquee matchups in the entire league and everyone's got to
wait until late Monday night to see it, and it
is must see TV. Can the Texans? Will the Texans
want him chasing him? And I don't know that it
really has to be put that way, but he's going
to be defending him a ton. It'll be a situation
where it is you against him. It will be Sam

(02:38:39):
Darnold looking for the opportunities where you're in single coverage,
and the Texans will be will gladly give that to
them because of the belief they have in how they
want to play their defense. And the specific individual that
we're talking about, Derek Stingley Junior tall task. I think
he's as skilled a receiver as there is out there.
We heard from CJ. Stroud talking about him, and other
than Donald and the rest of the in Jigba's Seattle

(02:39:01):
teammates and coaches, he probably knows him as well as
anybody else in the NFL. I don't think he's blowing
smoke and trying to build up a friend of his
and a former teammate of his. He doesn't need to.
It's all been out there every single week this season.
A key to beating these Seahawks would be limiting him,
managing his production. I'm not gonna say if they stop

(02:39:25):
JSN they will win. They're not going to. They can
win even if he goes off. They can win if
they manage him. They can win if they totally shut
him down. But the last of those three statements is
not reality. I don't expect him to be shut down
by any team. Usually happens once in a season, you know.
I don't think there's a Revis Island game in his future.
But there'll be a day where he has five catches

(02:39:47):
and forty five yards. I don't know it'll be Monday night.

Speaker 3 (02:39:51):
I'm looking at his numbers right now because he's freaking
amazing this season, although it does surprise me that he
doesn't have more touchdowns already.

Speaker 5 (02:40:00):
Yeah, they're sending those to Barmer. You gotta get him
involved in the action. He's got eleven touchdown passes, but
eight of them Darnold's. Eight of them have been to
other guys.

Speaker 4 (02:40:10):
He just gets them in the position to do it. Yeah,
you'd like to.

Speaker 5 (02:40:13):
Not give up sixty one yard touchdowns. That was his
most recent score. And that's the kind of play. And
I've talked about it multiple times. Liam Cohen described it,
and I'm glad when coaches going to detail about how
they I hope it's all true. And looking at the
play and looking at the coverage and how he described it,
everything he said seemed to match what happened. Out there
was not the right coverage for what Seattle went out
and did, and sometimes it's the players that do it.

(02:40:36):
That's actually what happened on the Baker mayfield the Tesz
Johnson play this past week, and we never got into
that hilarious comment from Tz about the MVP chance. But
that's not really what the play was designed for. But
when tes ran his route and he saw the coverage
lack of coverage, he put his hand up and altered
where he was supposed to go and he just ran

(02:40:57):
to the end zone. Baker saw the same thing, so
he threw it to the end zone, almost overthrew him
as a spectacular catch made purely with his hands, and
he hung onto the ball.

Speaker 4 (02:41:06):
It was a great play.

Speaker 5 (02:41:07):
But it's when you know things are going right when
you and your teammates, your whiteouts, your tight ends, your
backs out of whomever it is, when they see what
you see and you're on the same page and you're
able to recognize it both players that quickly you crush teams.

Speaker 4 (02:41:24):
Do you think Brady will join us on Monday. I
don't know if he will or not. Cole probably knows.
I think he just said he will. Oh good book.
Him up Monday show done.

Speaker 3 (02:41:35):
I'm going to be mad call if I listen to
the Nightcap on the way home and he joins you though.

Speaker 4 (02:41:39):
I'm not going to be bad.

Speaker 5 (02:41:40):
I actually suggested that's the ball when he was only
going to be able to sneak into the final segment
of our program. We do have another hour of programming
coming your way, as we do on nights where there's
no Astros baseball and there's no Rockets basketball.

Speaker 4 (02:41:52):
Fewer of those nights in our future.

Speaker 5 (02:41:54):
Two of those nights next week will be consumed by
Rockets basketball, the Tuesday night opener against Oklahoma City in
Oklahoma City and Friday night the home opener on the
twenty fourth against the Detroit Pistons. Plenty more talk on
that on Monday, quite obviously with them being a day
out from the NBA season, got to get our predictions
for the season ready, and obviously a couple of visits

(02:42:17):
to Seattle for thoughts on Texans Seahawks. We'll see what
help the Texans are given the rest of the weekend.
Remember last weekend, the AFC did not provide hardly any
help to the Texans. The tenth place Texans have work
to do in the standings in order to make their
way inside the playoff picture. For ac for myself and
Cole Thompson, who will join you next on the night Cap.

(02:42:39):
We will talk to you again otherwise on Monday. Enjoy
your football weekend

Speaker 2 (02:42:46):
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