Pretty Much Every Team Not Named The Texans Made NFL News Today

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A Team.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Plus Up Houston.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome into a Tuesday edition of the A Team Is
Sports Talk seven ninety wex over there, ac right here.
As Week six is now finally officially in the books
for the NFL, Texans already salted away their victory, but
they had one more game to play last night.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I watched absolutely zero of it.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I heard it was atrocious and at the end of
the well I did from a penalty standpoint, there was
a lot of laundry on the field. That's not fun
to watch. It's not it's an uneven viewing. It's you've
got the Jets and the Bills. That should be a
fantastic matchup, even if the quarterbacks are underwhelming.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I mean for the you know, duration of the season
so far.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
If I'm hearing that it's just a flag fest, which
we've already experienced this year watching at least a Texans game.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't. It's just not.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It makes me feel like my decision to do other
things during that game last night was well warranted. So
that's how I felt, how was it. I know you
watched every single minute of it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
WEX I hate sports just like you. Sorry I didn't
watch it. I say I hated sports. I said I
hated flag. Thing I want to do is pay attention
to them. But I'm here anyway. I'll say what I
can for the next three hours. Did you watch Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Are you one of those people that during the Astros
rebuild you watched all one sixty two?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I mean, come on, listen to a bunch of them.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
So you watched all Yeah, Well that's not the same.
You can listen to a baseball game. Sometimes you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm I'm not being paid to literally use up all
my time to watch all the games. Otherwise I would.
I mean, people have lives. I'm not telling them not
to live their lives. But and it is easier to
listen to a baseball game. Six headed to the house,
made some food, flipped on the TV, helped out with
some homework, went to bed. I have plenty of time
to watch the Yankees game. I had plenty of time

(02:05):
to watch the other New York football extravaganza between two
New York teams. It's quite a night for New York. Yeah,
I had time, so I watched.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Why do I feel like, out of all the things
you just listed off that you did there, that the
one thing that stuck out to me was that you
helped with some homework and.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
K I do not understand at all. Okay, not even numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I thought this, there's gonna be one of those times
where most parents say exactly what you just said, but
you're the guy that actually does understand.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Here's the reason why it's helpful for me to help
him with his homework, his tenth grade level homework. Because
I'm so bad at every part of it. It helps
him remember it when it comes time to take the test.
What's the subject? This is world history? Why are you
bad at world history? Bad at helping him? I'm not
bad at it, but it all there's a bunch of
things all tied together. And this is how we like

(02:52):
to open the show on Tuesdays. Don't worry. It's okay.
I can't read his writing very well. Okay, it's in
pencil all, which makes it a little more difficult the
way in which the notes are taken. Because I've helped
him with this subject before, they don't make a whole
lot of sense, Like this is the topic, and then
there's just a bunch of not really bullet points, that's
just a bunch of words all over the place. So

(03:14):
I'm supposed to look at the notes and come up
with obvious questions. Well, clearly you made a list here
and these are the answers to this. It should be
super easy, and it's so not easy at all. So
I spend my whole time saying, I don't understand. I
can't turn this into a question. I can't even read this.
What does it look like? I'm going to tell you
what I think it is, And then he has to

(03:35):
walk me through it and has and so some of
it is a little on purpose because then he's really
teaching me, which is helping him learn it. Could you imagine?
And he has a good time with it. Apparently he's laughing,
so I guess it's a good good thing.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Two wex is arguing with each other under the same roof. Well,
that's me and him. I don't the misses. I don't
argue in the corner and just cackle at the two
of you all day.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
She tries, she's back of the house too out. Well,
I would try not to tune out my co host
for the next we're gonna have there's only one place
to be here. You can't tune me in. You are
doing it's you're the first. You're the guinea pig for
this situation. We have all your takes. No, no, no, We've
just that's there's playing time for that. We've just started

(04:19):
the simulcast. I mean, it's still in its infancy right.
This is the first time that either one of us,
who both have the same gig, will be leaving the
premises early to go do their other their moonlighting gig.
That's not a moon lighting job where the team where
the home of the Rockets. We we work Rockets games,
we're on the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's not your main source of income. Therefore it's a
moonlighting gig. It's under the moonlight.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
You don't have to install the team how much them
All I said is it's not for me so much.
I'm accepting it's the same amount I make. I hope,
so we both make the same thing all the time. Yeah,
I got a lot of things to do tonight. I've
got to assist Matt in tonight's broadcast too, obviously on
the play by playoff handle the everything else pre haven't posts.
The color analyst working the Rockets will be that much

(05:05):
closer to playing games to count in the standings in
an effort to have zero forty one's in the standings
this year. Hopefully if forty two are better in the
win column, a trip to the postseason, maybe even better
than just the play in tournament seven through ten. Maybe
it's better they can get to one through six. Yes,
it'll be fun to I think, watch what unfolds and

(05:26):
obviously talk about them over the course of the year.
The NFL weekend did come to a close, and, as
I mentioned yesterday on social media, now here today. As
the Texans and everybody else in the NFL head into
Week seven, including two wide receivers with new teams, they
DeVante Adams and Amari Cooper, will be just like every

(05:46):
other pass catcher in the NFL looking up at Nico Collins,
still crazy as the leading receiver in the NFL, still
has more yards than anybody out there. Presumably on Jamar
Chase's first catch next week, he will pass him. Finally,
Texans will still need to go three more games without him,
four more games on the horizon without Mario Edwards Junior,

(06:08):
who popped up on a top ten list for his
performance this year. I'll fill you in on what that is.
A lot of chatter about the Packers now starting to
happen with the Texans as they get ready for a
Packers team. The Packers are pretty good in certain areas,
as in, there's nobody better than them in one very
important area, and the Texans better be concerned with that

(06:28):
for sure. I mentioned the two wide receivers that were
moved to DeVante Adams very expectedly moved to the New
York Jets. I think a lot of people were not
even scrambling for their memes of something that would depict
I'm no longer unhealthy that they could add to their
DeVante Adams is with the Jets. I wonder if he'll
be ready to play soon. And even though he was

(06:49):
quote unquote hurt during his final days with the Raiders,
didn't understand a couple of the national tweets. I think
it was Rapaport who said, and finally, and at last,
DeVante Adams as a Jet, at last, at last, You're
really it's been that long you've been following the story.
It's been such a strain on your news making operation.
That you had to drop an at last. We're not

(07:10):
even at the trade deadline yet. This is only week
seven of the season, and Amari Cooper also gets moved.
Instead of not catching passes from Deshaun Watson in a
Cleveland Brown's uniform, he will get to pass catch passes,
presumably from Josh Allen in a Bill's uniform. Bills obviously
had figured things out with a couple of injuries. Not
only did James Cook last night, but Khalil Shakir for

(07:31):
a couple of weeks working with Keon Johnson, one of
their rookie rookie wide receivers. They needed to give their
offense a jolt, and the Texans are related to both
of those two trades. They've already played Amari Cooper's new team,
the Buffalo Bills, in the regular season. They've not yet
played DeVante adams new team, the Jets. That comes later

(07:53):
this month on Halloween, and barring a lingering injury situation
or a new injury, he will be out there against them.
That makes the Jets better. Coming up in a little
over an hour during say What, We'll let the owner
of the Jets tell you about how he feels about
their prospects moving forward this season.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, I love hearing from Woody whenever we can. I
just my initial reaction to really both of these deals.
In the Jets case, I feel like this has been
a roller coaster as it pertains to that matchup in
and of itself, That's all I care about. The Jets
can do whatever they want on either side of that
Halloween night date with your Houston Texans at MetLife Stadium.

(08:33):
All I care about is how CJ. Stroud and company
are going to perform that night. And this does, by
definition make that a more difficult matchup, because I do
think he's one of the best receivers in the NFL
when he's in the right situation.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
He's regardless if he's on the field, Even with the terrible,
awful Raiders, with all the quarterbacks he played with there,
he's still super productive. It got a little hard this year,
but he was barely out there this year before being hurt.
It made too much sense for this actually to be
the timeline if you were watching the game, if you
were watching Aaron Rodgers decision at the end of the
game on third and long to throw the ball to

(09:09):
the Bills on his final throw of the game, and
then after the game he talked about that play design
and where each of the two receivers lined up to
his right were supposed to go, and pointed out that
one of those two receivers, Mike Williams, was not where
he was supposed to be. That's not what the play
is called for, and that's why he had to change.

(09:29):
The way he threw the ball, which ultimately ended up
getting picked off, shows his lack of leadership. It may
be true, and dani Rolofsky did an awesome job during
the day today of actually taking that play and drawing
it up and everything that Aaron Rodgers said I believe
was one hundred percent accurate. But that's just not the
way to go about your locker room. To flame them

(09:50):
out right after you've thrown an interception, to make sure
everybody knows it's not your fault. But that's what he does.
And then not long after we hear about the trade
for Devant's Adams. The timeline seems like he's not happy
his receiver on his team doesn't know what he's doing.
Go get a receiver who does perfect all set, We're
good to go. They didn't, according to him, he wasn't

(10:11):
even aware of the deal at the time. According to others,
this deal was somewhat in place so early in the
evening last night that DeVante Adams was already at the
facility this morning. For those of you that watch Nick
Saban's Friends TV show during the day, it's the best
one you've ever done. He showed up the family member
during the interview with Aaron Rodgers which occurs today. So yeah,

(10:33):
they are ready to go. It will absolutely impact their offense,
which if the numbers I saw were correct and were reported,
the Jets Zach Wilson led offense versus the Jets Aaron
Rodgers led offense. Through their six games, they've scored the
exact same number of points last year, Zach Wilson's offense

(10:53):
and Aaron rodgers Jets offense one hundred and thirteen points.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
And Zach Wilson's gonna be sitting around like, maybe you
should have got me Devonte Adams and I could have
put up.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Some big numbers.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
No, I'm much more actually believe it or not fascinated
with the other transaction, and I can I kind of
want to carry this over into the next segment because
I don't really have enough time to talk about what
I want to because it's it's twofold. But Amari Cooper.
We had just mentioned this yesterday, and not just Amari Cooper,
but just things in general in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
What an absolute disaster? Should they bench Deshaun Watson? We
never said should they bench Amari Cooper, which essentially they've done.
They benched him Buffalo worse. Yeah, just like, oh my gosh,
the most, this is the most.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Just when you can't think Cleveland can Cleveland any harder
than they have, they just surprise everybody with the depths
to which they can stoop. And that's exactly what they've done.
People are gonna lose their jobs there eventually. And I'm
not just talking about the quarterback. So yeah, I want
to talk about this situation twofold when we come back
here on a Tuesday edition of the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
We now returned to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexworth on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
So we were talking during the break about something that
kind of relates to what I want to get to
this segment.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Wex over there ac right here.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Space City Home Network is our simulcast here on Sports
Talk seven ninety good to be seen and heard. And
we were talking about the Cowboys and it's once upon
a time Amari Cooper did play for the Cowboys, Right,
that did happen?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I didn't just imagine that. Yes it did.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Okay, because he's now on his third team and we'll
get to that in a second.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
But I was like, we were just talking.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
About how things in the NFL and how they've gone
this year, and it's it's just been a like, I
think things are going according to plan for the Texans,
give or take. I mean, they have one bad loss
and then they have varying degrees of impressive wins.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, five impressive wins, one unimpressive loss. I hear it
being clear they weren't all impressive wins. I mean, you're
you're talking about the style points police yesterday. I know,
did they drive out of town today?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well, it is okay to say, hey, I would have
liked for you to have beaten up on this crappy
team over here more than you did.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
They're good, I think, do you know they're good?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I think they are as good as they allow themselves
to be. And let me explain what I mean by that,
a lot of the reasons why some of these wins
have not been as quote impressive as they could have
been were not because of the other team, but more
so because of the Texans shooting themselves in the foot
and when they stop getting penalties. Look what happens on
Sunday against a bad team.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
The worst team, I mean, Jackuarville, Jacksonville has a chance
to argue with.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
You, cland's the worst team, trust me. But yeah, yeah,
And that brings me back to the Cowboys. We were
talking about you know your record. I said, don't tell
me they're five hundred, and you go, they're five hundred.
They're not, though, that's the worst three and three team
in the NFL. And don't tell me they have a
bunch of talent, because who cares what's it's got, what's
it gotten them?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Fair or unfair. Fact is a lot of that talent
is unavailable because they're hurt. That's the one of their
best player on defense and their second best, highest most
important player that is available every week as he watches
the defense get embarrassed. I mean, granted, I told you
this yesterday, so I hope it's not news. Yes, Dak
Prescott's played poorly. The interception of the end zone in

(14:27):
this particular game was bad. He's had other bad games.
They generated zero touchdowns. If they would have generated four touchdowns,
five touchdowns, six touchdowns, would it have made any difference.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Not.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
A defense has given up forty seven points. They didn't
even generate a touchdown, correct, So they are definitely worthy
of scrutiny and blame and all that stuff. There. You're
not gonna win any games with. That's why it's sold
lopsided all parts except for Cavante Turpin. He's unbelievable as
a return man. Got to use them more on offense.
Sure they know that Micahar persons does matter that much

(15:01):
to that defense. Well, again, they have a pass they
have a really decent pass rush. If their best two
pass rushers aren't there, they have no pass rush. And
that's why the Lions were absolutely trying to embarrass them.
I used to say there's there's kind of no such
thing running up the score in the NFL. I still
say it because there's no such thing, but it's pretty
clear when another team is clowning you. And in college football,

(15:23):
it's very very easy to see because there's only so
much they can do. Hey man, our fourth string quarterback
is handing off to our seventh string running back. Granted
they're both five stars, but what do you want us
to do? Of course, we're going to beat you seventy
seven to three. We paid you to play us. But
the Lions something out of it. I mean, the Lions
were just embarrassing with like that was page five oh six,

(15:46):
five twelve, and five nineteen in Ben Johnson's playbook. It
was hilarious. How many pages are there. There's six hundred. Okay,
It's incredible what they felt comfortable doing. There was a
little bit of personal nature to this, which Jared Goff
put on full display. If you guys watched, I think
you guys are really excited that the social media teams
and some of the networks now when the games are

(16:07):
on their network, they will show you everything that was set.
During a postgame, you got a minute plus from Demiico
Rans giving a game ball to everybody because they won
their first game on the road at Foxborough in the
Lions case in Arlington. In this game, Dan Campbell talked
about how everybody's together. Never felt better about the togetherness
of this group. Another great game for Jared Goff, game
ball for this guy, and ran through his stats. You know,

(16:29):
Brian Branch had a great game. He got a game ball,
and he said, because of conversation they'd had earlier in
the week, he's gonna break us down. He's gonna give
us the one, two, three, whatever it is they want
to say that day. But before he could, Jared Goff
interrupted coach and said, hey, hey, wait a second, this
is where you played, this is your former team. You
get the game ball. And he gave his game ball

(16:51):
to Dan Campbell, who definitely appreciated it beating his Cowboys
team and has having his players recognize that you got
a petty game ball. Yeah, yes, petty is that's a
good term.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
The lack of Christian McCaffrey notwithstanding, because it's it's just
completely separate until those two teams played each other, for example,
or play each other. This magical run that the Lions
frankly started, this isn't like new they started this last year.
A lot of people thought they should have gone to
the super Bowl last season, and probably could have if

(17:24):
they didn't shoot themselves in the foot in a lot
of ways in the postseason. But you know, I think
we all thought going in that San Francisco and Detroit
were the two teams to beat in the NFC, and
they probably still are once San Francisco as a whole,
But this would have been going on without anything going
on with the forty nine ers. This in Detroit going
on right now would be you know, it would be

(17:46):
happening regardless, and that's a good example of it. I
bring all that up though, because the Cowboys getting beaten
by the best team in the NFC right now, that's
probably predictable. But the Cowboys have plenty of other games
where it's been like what is going on here? To
lend itself to I'm not trying to pat myself on
the back yet through six weeks, but I said, one

(18:08):
way or the other, there's no gray area for the
Dallas Cowboys in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
They're either going to be really good or they're gonna
be a disaster. And they're a disaster right now. So
because I'm me mm hmm, I mean, you've just said, hey, man,
I bet you're hungry. I'm gonna cook you up a
nice steak and I'm gonna feed it up to you
on a silver platter. You said they're either going to
be really awful or they're gonna be really great. Right, Hm,
they're three and three exactly like they're literally it could

(18:34):
not be more away from both of those statements. They're
right in the middle. But literally, as the record says,
now non cowboy fans not embarrassing them in here and
asked them which end they're trending towards. You have been
all season three and three, they have to be looking
at the very gross, disgusting end currently right now, because
they're just off of this game. You think they're gonna

(18:56):
be four and three in a week. You think that's
an opportunity next week to all of a sudden say hey, man,
I know it feels bad. It seems bad things aren't
going way by this week, so I thought I could
get that one there.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Come on, we talked about these essays that magical is
bye week, and yes.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
We're fully aware that today is the day that Jerry
Jones visits the multimedia universe known as radio. So we'll
definitely get to that. They off this week, So I'll
give you what you really are trying to tell everybody
off this week at three and three by Halloween, they'll
be three and four. After they go to play the
forty nine ers on Sunday Night Football and lose, they

(19:32):
possibly will lose again on the road the following week
to a Kirk Cousins led Falcons team who has a
better record than they do. That's a toss up game,
it really is. They will be playing at home against
the team that follows their leader very well, Nick Siriani,
Could they lose that one and then they play Houston?
I'm telling you, are they going to be even five
and five at that point? That's two wins? Which two

(19:55):
games are they gonna win? And then they play the
best team in their division, the Commanders. It is, it's
not looking good for Jerry's squad. And it looks great, well,
it looks great here. He as the owner of the Cowboys,
continues to help the league's thirty one other teams. Thirty
one or thirty other owners plus the people of Green
Bay make them a lot of money, regardless of his

(20:16):
team is winning or losing. And the owners are meeting
today and these are the things they will pat him
on the back for. He's been awesome for the league.
He continues to be awesome for the league that will
never end, probably goes beyond his years, as the Jones
family will continue to own this team, but having his
team not matter will be very interesting considering what they

(20:37):
have been through much of his tenure. They've had some
poor coaching decisions hires, and they've had some very bad
teams because of it during his We can't get back
to the Super Bowl era, which is pushing three decades,
but they have a lot of the pieces in place,
and they're not playing good football this year. That's a
little more new to his Well, this isn't any fun anymore.

(21:00):
They're not even the best team in Texas. They're not
even the second best team in Tech. From at some
point last year when the Cowboys were again a twelve
win team where again going to the playoffs and the
Texans were getting there for the first time in years,
had CJ. Stroud the conversation kind of became a conversation.
It's already gone. There wasn't even a conversation in twenty
twenty four. In twenty twenty three, who's the better team

(21:22):
in Texas? Oh, it's probably the Cowboys. They got a
lot of guys who've been there and done that, and
they're both going to the playoffs, and yeah, it's probably
the Cowboys, and maybe after the first week the playoffs
you thought otherwise, probably did. But when this year began,
it really already didn't seem like we were gonna have
to discuss it, or need to discuss it, or anybody
would want us to discuss it. And it literally went
into thin air and has absolutely disappeared. It is a

(21:44):
non topic. It's not even worthy of a discussion.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
And with the emergent right and with the emergence of
the Commanders, I don't know if this is like lightning
in a bottle or if they're for real.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
I mean, oh, they stole the Cowboys DC. They're good
to go. You know, he is loving it.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
But I say all of this and I haven't even
gotten into what I wanted to say this segment, which we.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Will, and we've almost run the whole segment. I know,
I know, we got a few seconds left, and so
they're show got more segments. You get a long way
to go. I think that there.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
You're right, they're trying and listen, I don't know what's
gonna happen on that Monday night game. It's the NFL
I got a buddy of mine who was a faithful
listener to the show.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
He's convinced.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
This was his word yesterday via DM y'all are gonna
kick us by about sixty That's what he said about
the Cowboys Texans game.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
It's five weeks away, and there's a lot that can
happen between now and then, especially from a health perspective.
I'm not ready to say that, but if they were
going to play that game this week in Arlington, what
do you think the line would.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Be with all their injuries in Texas? Be a sizable favorite.
That's what I figured you would say.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
So let's talk about a former Dallas Cowboy who's now
on his third team will do that when we come
back next here on the eighteen, the A.

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Speaker 2 (23:12):
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Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hey, it's a man.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
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Speaker 2 (24:21):
All Right.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
The eight Team continues here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and Space City home Network. WEX and AC with you
until six o'clock tonight Rockets home preseason opener Tonight. WEX
will be on the coverage along with Matt Thomas as
they look to move above five hundred in the all
important preseason standings.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I did that for your benefit.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
So Amari Cooper gets rescued by the Buffalo Bills. What
were the terms of this transaction? I know it was
a conditional We're going.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
To eat a bunch of money, and there's going to
be a draft pick that you hope turns into a
player that can help us, who doesn't make any money.
Is it similar to the other deal? Though similar, I
mean the conditional pick that the Raiders will get twenty five, Yes,
and possibly as high as a number two. But they're
eating a lot of money, just not for his long
period of time. The rest they get hit with about

(25:10):
twenty eight, twenty nine million, about thirteen or fourteen or
excuse me, about forty nine million, I think. But they'll
be done eating that cap space. It's not cash, it's
cap space at the end of next year in both cases,
so not bad. Yeah, you're telling a really awesome player,
we'd rather pay you this amount of money to not
play here than a much much bigger amount of money

(25:32):
to play here on our cap poorly, I might add,
because there's nothing wrong with them. No, they're playing fine.
Oh I'm talking about the Cleveland Browns. Yes, But I'm
saying you're telling you. We wanted you here. We gave
you a contract to play here, and I was going
to hurt us financially to tell you to go play
somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
We gave you the contract you couldn't get in Dallas.
By the way, that's why he's in Cleveland. That's the
funny part of this whole discussion about the Cowboys, because
they've moved on to Ceedee Lamb and anyway, Cowboys have
their own problems, but so do the Cleveland Browns, and
it does. It is intriguing from the standpoint of Amari
Cooper when he's right and at his best and in

(26:12):
a good setting, all of which I would say he
now is. Can can certainly spell the loss that you've
suffered by watching Stefan Diggs go to the Texans, and
you had it on full display two weeks ago when
the Texans made your quarterback's life absolutely miserable and he
was missing his number one receiver, even though in my opinion,

(26:33):
his number one receiver was wearing Texans gear, not the
injured number one that they were supposedly saying was his
number one receiver. Now, now you have a bona fide
number one guy, which may or may not have some
some you know, bearings on what plays out in the
AFC the rest of the way. In fact, I think
it will one way or the other. The Buffalo Bills

(26:53):
got better with this deal. The Cleveland Browns not only
did they get worse in the immediate what's keeping you
from benching to Shawn now.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Well, what's keeping you from continuing to do this? Nothing?
And I'm curious if this is a sign of what
they're trying to sale. Well, they've got to figure out
if this is all about finances now, because the amount
of players they have that they could move is massive,
which is again shocking for a team that can't win
any games. I mean, they've won one game this year,
and it's mostly because their offense is so incapable of

(27:24):
moving down the field and putting points on the board.
How about scoring twenty points in a game? Everybody else
is doing it? What the problem is at some point
it's too much. Because it's great to give yourself future assets.
They could get picks for all sorts of talent that
they have, but they only have so much space on

(27:45):
their cap to be eaten by dead cap space. And
the way you factor into Shawn's portion of that is
almost insane. Like the idea that they're going to move
them and eat the space sounds ridiculous because it's so
out of control. Well, by doing this, it makes me think, yeah, exactly,
there's still not planning on doing that. It will cost
them less basically to just keep him and not play him,

(28:08):
and they don't have a really good alternative. I have
a better alternative. Jamis is a better alternative. But this
doesn't signal to your locker room that you're trying to win,
which is exactly what you've been continuing to signal them
By playing Deshaun Watson. You're now telling them, yes, you're right,
We're definitely not trying to win. We just made our
offense even less capable by moving on from Amari Cooper.
We did him a solid and there's no question to

(28:30):
me sitting here today listening to the Texans fans on
social and talking to Texans fans here, this matters in
the AFC. The Bills at least recognized it well after
the fact, like an entire offseason went by, and I
said Keon Johnson in the opening segment, meaning to say
Keon Coleman. Their rookie receiver that they need help. They
need offensive talent. They did a good job in the backfield,

(28:53):
which they've done for about eight straight years, drafting Singletary
and drafting Cook and drafting Moss and moving on from
them and keeping Cook. And now they've drafted Ray Davis
and Ty Johnson's there. They're set at running back, and
they've done an awesome job of keeping the costs at
running back at virtually nothing. They've drafted all these guys
and they've never extended any of them, so it's never

(29:15):
really cost them any money. And that means you should
have money to spend elsewhere. Clearly you're spending it on
your quarterback. And you've watched some of your defensive players
move on the last couple of off seasons, including this one,
and then they decided to do the same thing with Diggs.
But they did something teams and the Texans did it
a bunch of years ago, way long ago, when they
watched a Dante Robinson walk out the door. It's okay

(29:37):
to not pay certain players. It's okay to make a
decision that this good player, we're going to let him
move on because we just don't see the value in
giving him the contract he's probably earned, and we'll get
elsewhere and we can just figure out a different way. Well,
the Texans then are doing what the Bills did. Now,
they didn't address it in any way. They just said
you're walking, and then they didn't spend any money or

(29:59):
spend any draft picks or trying to get talent at
the position he's vacating. That's what the Bills did. And
I know they drafted Keon like I just said, this time,
I don't say his last time. I can't mess it up.
I think that was a little shortsighted in that he
wasn't the first, second third. I mean, how far down
the line did they event I mean, if Brian Thomas
was the pick and you did it twenty picks earlier,

(30:20):
maybe you think it's a little more likely that he
immediately steps into that role. And I'm not trying to
dog Coleman. I actually think he's phenomenal. I think he's
going to be very good. But they need somebody right now.
This team's too good. You have too good of a quarterback,
you have too much capability on offense. You can't go
any further. Well, now they've fixed it at least on paper,

(30:40):
trading for Amari Cooper to me is huge. I think
it's much bigger than Devonte Adams going to the Jets.
As it relates to Houston. I wish I could say,
knowing that they actually still play the Jets. Yeah, so
it has a huge literal head to head impact, but
I think the Jets are significantly worse. They're clearly in
a much worse position. They're two games behind the and

(31:00):
they're three games behind Houston, make it four if the
Texans beat them, well and Devonte just don't matter as
much until they tell me otherwise.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Davante Adams being on the roster doesn't magically make Aaron
Rodgers start playing quarterback well again.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
See because I brought it up earlier. This was the
reason he basically said, I need a receiver that will
do his job, is what he said last night. He
doesn't think Mike Williams is doing his job at least
on that play, and he wants a guy that will.
That's why DeVante Adams is there. In his mind, that's
a completion that's forty yards down the field. They're in
position for Zerline to miss another field goal or go

(31:36):
for a touchdown, and that's why they needed to do something. Again,
he's not the GM. He's told us that he's not
the head coach. He's told us that too, but even
they realize in this case, yeah, he's probably right. Well,
they're too good to just sit on our hands. If
DeVante Adams is available, and everybody in our building knows
we're going to be better when we get him, let's
get him.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
So he's not the GM and he's not the coach,
even though he just got fired and his favorite receiver
of all time just got put on the roster.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, well he's the coach in the GM. His new
head coach is zero to one.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, I uh again, I don't dispute that DeVante Adams
makes them better on paper, but Aaron Rodgers has yet
to look like Aaron Rodgers since putting on a green uniform.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Well he's not. He shouldn't. You shouldn't expect that. I
would say it that way. You should forget it. That's
not who he is anymore. He's beyond that. He's old,
and he's playing like it. He's a year removed from
not playing at all for a year. It matters same way.
Does he throw the ball, he helps him because he
gives him another outlet. I don't know how after all
this time he's still not on what they call the

(32:43):
same page with Garrett Wilson. Sure seems like he could be.
I just think he's not in tune with what they're doing. Offensively,
He's trying to run the offense the way he wants it,
and I think under Hackett maybe even saw it last
night with doubting not running it the way they want to.
Because even on the play we've talked about, he had
a dump off right in front of him. All he
had to do was throw Brees haul the but he
chose otherwise. Poor Jets, good for Texans.

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Speaker 3 (34:03):
We spent so much time talking about basically every other
AFC during AFC team, I should say during the first
hour of the show is probably check in on how
things are looking a day later going into this matchup
with Green Bay, because again it's a situation where you
know the Texans are in a very good spot obviously,

(34:24):
but you want to keep it going knowing that you
know after this game you come home for the Colts.
Before that matchup that we were just talking about with
the Jets on Halloween night and now Davante Adams is
part of that and in a very very difficult game,
albeit at home against the Lions on Sunday Night Football,
all of that leading into the afromage and matchup with

(34:47):
the Cowboys. But if there's one thing that Demiico Ryans
has done a good job of as far as changing
the culture, not that every coach doesn't try to do
this mentality, They really don't think about the next week's
game or any other part of the schedule beyond who
they're focused on in any given week. And I know
every coach likes to think that that's how they do things,

(35:09):
but I think the Texans have actually shown that in
both this season and last.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, they should be in pretty good shape the next
several weeks. You mentioned all those games. Not a kid
quarterback this week, Maybe Anthony Richardson in a week. Not
a kid quarterback on Halloween. Not a kid quarterback it's
Detroit or Dallas. Apparently, as we discussed yesterday, that's been
an issue for the Demico O'Ryan's led team. Yeah, their
culture is pretty good on the focus. I think unless

(35:36):
it's personal. It's probably pretty easy for teams to do
that because like even when we talk when we talk
to them in postgame, nobody's thinking about their next opponent.
When we talk to them on Monday, and we don't
talk to a ton of players unless the locker room's
open and they've decided to be there for no reason.
Usually we don't even go into the locker room. They
bring them to us. Nobody's really in tune with what's

(35:57):
next beyond the packer played hypothetically Packers played Sunday night
football this week, or they played Monday night football, so
you've actually had a chance to see them before. You
kind of have actually gone to work and done work
on the Packers and have really looked at film and
have gotten direction from the coaches and have kind of
game planned for what they're doing and then gone through
practice for they really don't. And I think that's true

(36:19):
with every team. The better you are at it, it's
probably also probably closely related to how good you are period,
and when you're five and one, you're probably pretty good
at it. You're probably pretty good at locking in on
the important stuff, but you just can't in the NFL.
I mean, the trap game idea is kind of flawed.
It's probably accurate in that you didn't come to play,

(36:41):
or you worked up for it, or you were a
little flat, or you came out flat before you woke up.
I don't think it's because you're looking at the next game.
It's just because you're not looking at this game. It
has a little less to do with who's coming after that.
And I don't think that happened this week at all.
And there have been even Demko himself I think from
a human nature standpoint, he said, maybe there is some

(37:04):
of that in how they bolted out to a fourteen
nothing lead to possessions two touchdowns, or a fourteen to
nothing against the team that can't score and is playing
a quarterback who's starting for the first time. Yeah, we
got this. We can roll through the next couple of
quarters and get back on the plane and we'll be
five and one. I mean, maybe there's human nature to that,
but I didn't see any of it, and that's why
we were talking about it at length of the stand. Yesterday,

(37:25):
they tried to go up seventeen to nothing, then they
tried to go up twenty one nothing because they'd missed
the field. They threw the ball into the end zone
up two touchdowns way before halftime because they were trying
to score. The Patriots made a play. They forced on
the play that we've talked so much about with Dalton
Schultz in the end zone, the interception. They made a
play up front, at least enough to have CJ. Stroud

(37:47):
slowly start to roll out of the pocket and when
he's moving to his right because he felt like Gotcha
was about to beat and was beating a jew Scruggs.
He'd already blocked him for long enough, you'd think. Then
he starts moving right well, Dalton Schultz is running the
opposite and so the ball of the throw then becomes
a slightly across his body throw. He can only lead
him by so much because Marcus Jones is already making

(38:08):
a bee line as the safety there to the play.
The other safety is in coverage with Schultz. He should
have probably led him more. It wasn't a perfect pass.
He put it too close to his body, which meant
the defensive player who was all over him, especially with
his hands where the ball was about to arrive, he
was able to knock it free. And then when Jones arrives,
the ball is just sitting in the air for him.
It was not a very well executed play by the Texans.

(38:29):
It doesn't mean they took their foot off the gas,
doesn't mean they thought the game was over.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
It.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
To me, it's the exact opposite. And then you recognize
there's another team on the other side and they're just
not normally, especially that early in the game, gonna just
back off and lay down and let your waltz all
over him. It just doesn't work that way, why not
professionals most of the time, especially in the second quarter.
I mean, that just doesn't happen. Yeah, with the Panthers,

(38:56):
with Bryce Young, even with the Cowboys against the Lions,
it doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
The difference being this week after a lackluster second quarter,
because it's not the first time the Texans have had
one this year. They didn't have an entire lackluster second
half before the final few seconds, because that was the
recipe for a couple of their wins, Jacksonville and Buffalo
namely among those.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
I mean, you know, like it happens in the NBA
so much you probably don't even think about it. But
that's what the NBA is. What you saw against the Bills.
You were up by eighteen points in the first half.
Guess who's gonna make a comeback in the second half.
The other team. They're gonna get all the calls, they're
gonna go. It's all gonna go their way. It's easier
in the NBA, absolutely is. But the Bills are full
of talent, The Bills are good. The Bills are four

(39:41):
and two. Just because you have the lead doesn't mean
it's over. Like the other team's still trying to win
the game.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Well, and I think in the case of the Bills, they're,
you know, clearly much more talented than the Jags. I mean,
the Chaps are such a weird team. They just scream
that we should be better than we are, but they
definitely do. And I was pretty, I think, pretty harsh
on Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
You said he's a bad quarterback. I use the word
he plays loser football, and I think I probably should
have said it more. They play loser football because they
actually with him, were the ones not making plays this
particular week, and I saw some of it happening against
the Bears. I was watching the game, and after the
fact that it was easier to realize it because so

(40:26):
many people were pointing it out, I saw it, and
I just didn't kind of click at the time. He
was putting the ball right where it needed to be.
Here's a long completion, here's a touchdown completion. Christian Kirk,
Brian Thomas Junior. They were dropping past us left and right,
and it does get frustrating, but then he'll overthrow them
left and right. So I think they have an unfortunate

(40:46):
their culture. If you're talking about the Texans, culture or
focusing on the game and figuring out how to win
and just kind of stacking them together, you know, as
they do well. It's the exact op the culture. And
under Doug Peterson, no fault of his own, I don't think.
And with Trevor Lawrence, it's terrible culture. It is a
loser culture. They're waiting for the bad plays to happen,
they manifest it, and then it does happen. And here

(41:08):
they are at one in five with the number one
overall pick at quarterback. They've re signed all these talented receivers,
two backs in the backfield that seem capable re signed
to Josh heinz Allen, etc. Defensively, Travon Walker, who people
want to pretend is terrible and isn't good only because
he's not as good as the player drafted right behind him.
It was a mistake. Hutchinson's way better. But it's not

(41:29):
like Walker's bad. He's not making their team bad. They're
not playing him and getting worse. He's actually a pretty
good player on the defensive edge. But they just I know,
they go into games like this, they know they're gonna lose.
They know something's gonna go against them, and as soon
as something breaks wrong for them, let's head to next
Sunday with another l get in loser. We're going losing.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
That's what the Jags do each and every week, and
I'm here for it because they are in the Texans Division.
And the more that they do that, the more that
the other two teams in the division do that the best.
Or it is for the five and one Texans.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
All right.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
What do a couple of guys in the Metroplex have
in common with us as it pertains to Jerry Jones, Well,
they do what we do for a living, and he
threatened to have them replaced. We're gonna get to the
latest meltdown involving the Dallas Cowboys twenty twenty four season
because we can relate to it somewhat here on the

(42:25):
A Team that is straight ahead here on a Tuesday
edition of the program Don't Go Anywhere.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team series Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Our number two of a three hour show today here
on the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety By the way,
I don't anticipate us not having three hour shows for
the foreseeable future now that the Astro season has come
to an abrupt end. We just don't get preempt at
all that much during Rocket season. But there will be
a Rockets preseason game later on tonight here on your
Home for Rockets Basketball Sports Talks seven to ninety and

(43:16):
of course Space City Home Network talked a lot of football,
specifically around the NFL, not so much the Texans in
the first hour, although the Texans clearly did come up
because the two trades that were made earlier today will
affect the Texans, one directly and maybe one indirectly, and
maybe directly. Later on, you had the Buffalo Bills getting

(43:38):
better at wide receiver. You have the Jets, who are
still on the schedule, getting better at wide receiver with
trades today, and we'll see how that helps things shake
out in the AFC. Buffalo obviously getting better with Amari
Cooper having Josh Allen throw to him and not the
worst quarterback in the NFL right now, Deshaun Watson throw

(44:00):
him anymore. And then of course Aaron Rodgers and DeVante
Adams reunited in New York where the Jets and Texans
will tangle together a week from Thursday night on Halloween.
So a lot of things going on, and a lot
of things are going on north of here. The Dallas
Cowboys are on their bye week, but there's never a
bye week. There's never an off day really for the

(44:21):
Dallas Cowboys, because it always seems like there's drama, and
today it was no different. Twenty four hours after Jerry
Jones met with the media and told them all that
bye week isn't magical, We're still gonna suck after that.
And I'm paraphrasing. Of course, he did what no other
owner does in the league. Wex went on his weekly
radio show, because no one else has a weekly radio show.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Other gms do that.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
I see what you did there, not that other owners,
though he's the only owner that has a weekly show.
What if Cal had a weekly show.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
We'll forget about the topics that would be broached. I
want to know the name. You can chew on it
a little bit. We'll get to Jerry's commentary. He's come
on our show if it's weekly. Yeah, if it's gonna
be fun and entertaining, awesome, good good, And I'm looking
forward to it all right, I can't wait. It sounds
like he's already here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
But so Jerry went on his and it didn't It
didn't really go well for anybody involved. Let's just I mean,
a blanket statement that would be very accurate would be
to say nobody involved in this thing. It went well
for them because Jerry looked like he's a little emotional
and I don't know the hosts for asking a simple,

(45:32):
reasonable question, they got some grief as well.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
They went through kind of walking through where they are
what happened during the off season or didn't happen, and
they brought that up as I'm sure they have throughout
the weekly appearances, and kind of went through some of
these things trying to get to how does he feel
about the things that didner didn't happen during the off season.
They're coming off this loss, they're shitting at three and three,
and this is how some of the edited conversations sounded.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Now, if he's think I'm interested phone call with you
over a radio and sitting here and throwing all the
good out with the dishwater, you have got to be
smoking something over there this morning, I'm not, and I
really don't And I don't even want our listeners to
listen to me to talk about this is not your job.

(46:18):
Your job is to let me go over all the
reasons that I did something and I'm sorry that I
did it. That's not your job. I'll get somebody else
to ask these questions.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
Man, Jerry, We're just we're trying to figure out why
the team out.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
I'm not kidding it. I'm not kidding it. You're not
going to figure out it's what the team is doing
right or wrong. If you are are any five or
ten like you, you need to come to this meeting
I'm going to today. There are thirty two teams here.
Your geniuses.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I don't think he thinks they're geniuses. They are having
a meeting with the thirty two owners. That's what he
was referencing there at the end. But if like as
you said, there really was nothing wrong with a typical
appearance from somebody with the team the owner in this
case of a three and three team, off of a
third bad loss at home, off of that last season's

(47:10):
bad playoff loss at home, and off of this off
season's lack of personnel change. For the positive, they did
spend money because they gave eighty eight and four massive,
massive extensions to keep the Cowboys winning regular season games,
which so far this year they have not been able

(47:31):
to do. The decision about Michael Parsons is rapidly approaching.
He put it off, which looks like a smart decision
on his part, and you'll obviously get more money later
from somebody. But probably that is the Cowboys and Jerry's
I think, truthfully, because you could hear it in his comments,
truthfully trying to threaten them with their jobs, as he

(47:52):
and his organization does have a hand in that on
the radio side with their broadcast rights, et cetera. I
mean literally telling like, how do you think what you
did in the off season? Do you think it's playing
out this way now? I Mean, it's like the most
basic anybody on the other side would be asking you this.
It's not them, it's the situation. Let's starting with the obvious.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I mean, if Jim Crane and or Tilman for Tita
had a problem with something I was saying on this show,
they have a better inward or inroad to get me fired,
then Jerry Jones does these guys because well, one of
the stations we're currently on right now they literally own

(48:36):
and he doesn't own that station. Now, flagship relationships can
be tricky. I'm here to tell you that firsthand. I've
gotten taken to the principal's office multiple times for things
I've said specifically about the astros.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Way different than this, way different than this. Well, like
you're not talking to somebody in the middle of doing
your job and doing something. Yeah, and we are fully
aware that social media is technically and absolutely it's a
part of our job. It's not during the three hour
portion of our radio program or simulcast or anything else,
but yeah, it's absolutely a part of it. But yeah,

(49:10):
this is this is an interview. This is as if
they're doing something that they should not be doing there,
I think very cognizant of who they're talking to. We
are as well when we talk to whomever it is,
a coach of a team, an owner of a team,
a GM of a team, whether they're want to come
on this show once a week, We're all for that,
were the Texans people. It's it's not it is of

(49:31):
relevance to this particular conversation because of Jerry's role here,
But we're going to i think conduct ourselves respectfully, which
is absolutely what these co hosts, even if cow we're
still doing it's they can ease easy to be respectful
while being critical or asking important and difficult questions. The
GM comes on our radio station all season long. He's

(49:53):
on the Sean Salisbury Show. His name is Dana Brown,
every Wednesday at nine thirty. And this year, I mean
Dana has only been here for two year years, but
this year of the last Golden Era years was absolutely
the one that required the most difficult questions to be asked.
Why's Kyle Tucker coming back? What do you do to
do with Jose Abreu? Why didn't you tell us he
had a shattered bone in his leg? And Sean's asking

(50:16):
them every week, yep, respectfully, and Dana was answering them respectfully.
And while maybe you know nothing on the air was
hey man, I don't really appreciate you asking you that.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Well, things were going way worse for the Astros than
they are for the Cowboys right now. As bad as
the Cowboys are, they're at least five hundred. The Astros
were awful for the first two months. Here's the difference.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
The Astros were awful, but their expectations were realistic. This
is outrageous. How can we be this bad? We know
what our roster is, and we know these guys know
how to win, because that's all they do. In the postseason,
the Cowboys were still in the We think we should
be winning regular season games. We're confident we've put together
a good roster, but I don't know if we have
a super Bowl caliber roster. I don't know if we

(50:59):
have a championshi caliber roster, no matter how many times
we've been telling you we do for the last I
don't know how many years you want to go back,
most of the Dak years at least, and yet there's
nothing there. There is no we know what we have.
They know they have a team that continues to come
up short. Everybody has who they want to blame. Jerry
is clearly the one who we should blame to me first. Yeah,

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And I'm sitting here saying that as I do not
disagree with giving CD, Lamb and Dak Prescott their money,
I certainly don't disagree with giving Dak his money after
you've already decided to give CD. It's like the opposite
of what's going on in Cleveland, which I think is
still on the way, Well, they're no longer going to
be giving Amari Cooper money because they're not going to

(51:40):
be winning, So now they have to make the decisions
that are appropriate to that. Well, the Cowboys are making that,
we're winning decisions. Except everybody knows what they did in
the off season. This player left, this player left, and
they watched everybody else sign good free agents or helpful
free agents, and they did next to nothing.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
And it took them long to even do that. I mean,
they kept their own at the eleventh hour, which I
don't know how much that may or may not have
affected what went on this season. The reason I kept
saying I didn't think the Cowboys. I thought the Cowboys
are gonna be spectacularly bad this year.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
And I know they're they're five hundred, but they've lost
with spectacular.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
It was spectacular because when they played somebody that mattered,
they got just just absolutely molly wopped in their own gym.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
And but it didn't.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I thought this was gonna happen regardless of whether or
not they paid either of those guys, and win they
paid either of those guys, because that's just the feeling
I got from how everybody surrounding that team conducted themselves
this offseason from Jerry on down.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Did you have any real issue with his behavior on
this interview? Jerry? Yeah, I mean, or is it just
that's just a Jerry's doing what Jerry does? Okay, threats
a bit much. I don't think the people took him
very seriously, even though you unfortunately have to well.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
When you when you are Jerry Jones, questions like that
aren't answered the same as they would be for anybody else.
He's just he's kind of like a Charles Barkley type
figure in sports. The rules are are applied differently to
him when he says things about landish or otherwise. It's
just Jerry being Jerry to an extent. It's not the

(53:16):
same as Charles from the standpoint of what he's saying.
But I just he he came off small threatening a
couple of radio hosts when he's just clearly coming off
as looking like an owner who's bitter because his team's
not performing like he'd like it to be.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Yeah, that was really really well said. He's definitely came
across that way, and we completely understand why he does
put everything he has into us. He's a big I
mean we say meddling, but he's trying to run his team.
He is the he's everything.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
There.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
We get the frustration. You said he came off very small.
I think that's a very simple way to.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
To you're a billionaire threatening radio hosts. It's just not
going to go forward.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
This like, well, yeah, he could have done something, just
wasn't worthy in this situation.

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Speaker 3 (54:49):
You know, we should just keep the theme of today's
show going and just keep talking about every NFL team
that's not the Texans doing dumb things or good things.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
That sounds like a lot of teams are living rent free.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
If you're gonna use that, it has to be like
more than one occasion.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
I'm trying to make sure I use it improperly for all,
working for as many years and moving into the future
as I can. The Cowboys, Now, I'll put this out there.
There's no way I don't think even though there's a
reason that the people in the other in the Metroplex
are talking about the Texans not yet in the way
that we at least our show today and yesterday have

(55:29):
been talking about the Cowboy.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
There's two reasons for that, you ready. One, cal doesn't
have a radio show every week. Two, they are still
five weeks away from playing them. Because let me tell you, yeah,
this has nothing to do with playing each other.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
But if C. J.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Stroud goes in there and embarrasses them like the Detroit
Lions did, or maybe he just beats them like thirty to.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Three, right, I'm just saying we seem to care about
their malaise more than they would ever care about the
Texans good or bad.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Well, that's what happens when you walk around telling everybody
you're still America. Team America gets to make fun of
you when you suck. I mean, I'm serious.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
So we're more like America, then we share the state, okay.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Because everybody in America is better than you right now
except for Cleveland. I mean seriously, like they're the worst
three and three team to have, especially to have the
kind of talent that they do. I'm not overlooking the
fact that they have talent on the roster. I don't
think Dak Prescott's a bad quarterback. I just think he
makes bad decisions and they lose a lot more than
they should with him under center. I mean, that's what

(56:27):
it comes down to, right.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Cowboys, Eagles, Niners all have three wins, different reasons for
each of those teams to be where they are, and
the Eagles are not at five hundred since they've only
played five times. My thought on this, like I would
say about the AFC, where there are only six teams
with a winning record, the good you came in, stay
out of the way, right. I do think the Niners,

(56:52):
of all these those three teams that I mentioned, they're
gonna matter. The Eagles will probably be a playoff team,
but I don't know that they're gonna matter. I think
they're a one and done this year if they get there, disappointing.
I think the Niners are still probably the team with
at least the third best chance to win the NFC.
If you'll say Minnesota and Detroit are one or two
or two or one, I still would probably think I

(57:12):
like their chances, especially as a team if they win
their division, they start at home and move on from there,
you know, to maybe beat a Jayden Daniel's team at
his first And I really do think that the Commanders, Commanders,
Bucks Packers are all in the playoff picture. I think
they'll be in the playoff picture when we get to
the end of the season two and that means another
rookie quarterback, we'll get there. I did not mention Caleb

(57:32):
Williams four and two team. But as much as it
seems like the Texans are about to shift into well,
they're playing Jordan Love. We talked about the Cowboys coming up.
Outside of the game against the Coles, You've got a
game coming up against Jared Goff there. They're going to
be playing much better teams, and they're going to be
playing much better quarterbacks. But they also did play the
Bears in Week two. The Bears are not going to

(57:53):
be as bad as they were in Week two and
week six, like we just watch, like they're going to
be in Week ten and on and on and on.
And I think the same thing is true for some
other AFC teams, especially East teams that see the Patriots
the rest of the way. If you played the Patriots
the first five weeks of the season and you didn't
beat them, well that's embarrassing. Only one team didn't do
that because they they were incapable of putting points on

(58:15):
the board. They're capable now. Drake May was a mistake machine.
He was responsible for three turnovers. He wasn't awesome by
any means, and he still found a way to put
three scores on the board, still found a way to
throw three touchdown passes, still sadly led them in rushing,
which other quarterbacks have also done against the Texans. Better
days are, in my opinion, clearly ahead this year for

(58:37):
the New England Patriots and your team. The Texans played
them early enough where you really weren't impacted by that
we're talking about two teams that definitely impact that. Now
you're gonna play a better Jets team than the Bills
just played last night, and a better Jets team than
the last five weeks the Jets were. I would assume
if DeVante Adams is healthy and playing, and they don't
have any other significant injury, so all these things matter.

(58:58):
I mean, did you catch are you going to catch Tua?
Later this year? He's probably coming back. It sounds like,
if not this coming week after he serves the fourth
game of the one you have to be on. They've
had their off week, so he technically missed five weeks,
will miss five weeks, but IR means four games. I
don't know that he's definitely playing in the first game
after that, but I think he's lining up to play

(59:20):
no worse than the second game. And they're weeks away
from playing the Texans. I wouldn't count on him being
there because that means another forty hits he's going to
take man and I feel bad saying it that way,
but I think they better be really, really careful because
he still is not very good at avoiding these hits.
It seemed like he got better last year and I'm
fully aware that as they were in it all year,

(59:41):
all the way down to the final game. He played
in every game last year. He did not have this
issue last year. But the timing of when you play
teams and who you we talk about it probably even
too much, especially when the schedule comes out. Just go
out there and beat the team this week. You were
mentioning the focus they have. All they have to do
is beat this Packers team that they're going to see
this week. They happen to be pretty healthy. Most of

(01:00:02):
their targets other than Luke Musgrave who's on IR are healthy.
Their backfield's pretty healthy, they are loaded with weapons, they're
they're in my opinion, they're tight. End got better because
I think Craft's a little bit more threatening. Uh, they're good,
and you're catching him at a time where they're pretty healthy.
I think it's going to be a shootout. I think
the Texans are going to score on them, and I
think the Packers are going to score on Houston. And

(01:00:23):
maybe it's a matter of who makes the biggest mistake
earlier that they can overcome, or who doesn't make the
big one late. Well, Okay, a couple of things you mentioned.
I well, I did go through a lot of stuff
on the Texans and package.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
It was a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It was a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I think that if you trot out to against this
Texans pass rush, I'm a little worried about what might happen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Well, you can't sit him, no, I know, I'm that's again.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
This is this is a strength of the argument that
he should probably just not do this anymore. I'm I mean,
think about what they've done to Caleb Williams. Think about
what they just did to Trake may.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Kill these guys. They hit them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Well, when he gets hit, he gets concussed. He's not
like a normal quarterback. So I mean, if he's there
that week, godspeed man. Like I just the Texans pass
rush is the exact type of thing that he and
frankly his family should be afraid of that he's susceptible
to this. They have two guys that try ton't know

(01:01:26):
how to say it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
It's it happens every team. Yeah, to me, the Textans
are no different. Any hit any it could be it,
but they happen to be better at it than a
lot of other teams. But they might hit him ten
times and nothing happened, and the next week, someone hits
him once and I'm not betting on it that hit. Yeah,
just the idea. If you're saying that, then you're saying
and you did, why is he out there?

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
I just I think after I think if by the
end of this season, there's a good chance that that
decision maybe gets made for him. And I'm saying he
makes it, but he gets made for it, makes it's
easier to be made for him, just because it's just
keeps happening. And I don't know enough is enough at
some point, But I'm not I'm not part of his
inner circle, and I don't know what they're thinking other

(01:02:05):
than they're getting a bunch of opinions right now. And
I don't know how any of those doctors are saying
anything other than this isn't good for you long term.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Well yeah, they're all saying that. But he's also going
to pass the tests. He's not going to have any
symptoms again if all goes well, and it appears to be,
and they're going to clear him because there won't be
anything that prevents it. Currently, even though he his doctors,
his family, and the team and the league all know
that he's going to be susceptible to those hits delivering

(01:02:34):
that kind of pain and concussion, and his long term
future does not look awesome. They know it. But if
they they have to clear him. If he's clearable, and
he will.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Be what's preventing Mike Tomlin from not screwing up a
good thing?

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Well nothing. Unfortunately, it's a good topic today because this
also affects Houston. I mean, you can act. I want
Justin Fields to be the quarterback. He hasn't done it.
They've won four games, they've lost two games. They're watching
him more closely than anybody else. They're watching the game tape,
They're know what they spent time working on all week.
If he had played better, I don't even know that

(01:03:11):
their record would necessarily be different. It probably would be
probably be even better. But if he played better, I
don't think that they would do this. I don't know
what kind of this this. This seems like they're in college. Honestly,
this seems like Arch Manninger out there, except exactly the opposite.
But it's more like Major apple White and Chris Simms.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Yeah, that's a better analogy because the only reason that
Arch was playing is because.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
What are you forcing Chris Simms back or into the
lineup for when the guy that's out there is doing
his job. Oh, because you made a promise to Chris Simms,
Phil Simms, Russell Wilson and his family. Okay, you signed
here to be our quarterback. That I just if he
had done more, I would think Mike Tomlin is pretty
strong willed and pretty cognizant of how to win. We're

(01:03:59):
winning because he's playing well. I'm not giving you a
job you've never had before just because you thought you
would get it when we brought you in first.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
You know what makes me the mass about the whole
Sims apple White situation not the immediacy of what happened
on the field for Texas, but the fact that that
directly led to him being on my television screen every
Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I don't need to see that. You think, just because
he got a bunch of starts at Texas and has
the famous Roy Williams play the ou Roy Williams, he's
now on TV. What about his time in Tampa? What
else did he oh? NFL quarterback, NFL quarterback Chris Simms.
David Carr was an NFL quarterback too. You want to
do that one now, Yeah, he's on TV too, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Ain't because they were good at quarterbacking, because they have
great hair, I think, I don't know. I'm trying to
think of a better reason why either of them would
be on television and in David Carr's case, saying stupid
things too. He says a lot of dumb things. But Sims,
what is he? Honestly, that's the worst studio show they've
got right now of all of them. Uh yeah, amy

(01:05:03):
a worse one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
I don't have no issue with the host, and no
issue with Devin mccordy, but hitting fifty or hitting five
hundred is not good enough with the studio show. Not
a fan of Jason Garrett, and obviously we're talking about
Chris Sims. That's their four person studio show. They could
do so much better.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Jason Garrett somehow is more boring now than he was
when he was coaching the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
They've come up a lot on this show today. We'll
continue next.

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Go, Hey, what what, Craig.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
Waters hear, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
On a Tuesday play what O? Dain?

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
I dare you now say what?

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Save for segment time? As you heard, it is Tuesday.
This is the A team. I am Adam and so
is he Say What a lot of opportunities to find
your way into this segment, and we don't nearly have
enough time to get everybody in the sports world or
beyond that deserves a spot in there. But over our
twelve segments, who try to mix some of those spots in, Like,

(01:06:30):
for instance, Jerry Jones could have found his way in
to say What today, but being that this is all
Dallas Radio when it's not all Yankees Radio, we found
other parts of the show to talk about him. So
we have other things to discuss, beginning with college football,
then a little bit of NFL football. The other owner
I mentioned that would be on the show today will
come in the NFL portion of today's Say What. The

(01:06:53):
Texas Longhorns are the number one team in the country.
They have won all their games. They have a pretty
big game this weekend against Georgia, who's won all their
games but one, and they might see each other later
this year, especially if Georgia is on the good side
of this one. Steve Sarksian's team has done enough to
the two opponents that were highly ranked or thought to

(01:07:16):
be good teams this year, Michigan first and Oklahoma second,
did enough to them that they I don't think they
were thinking clearly after the game. I don't know how
many people remember what was said after the Michigan game
by at least one player and what was said after
this most recent Oklahoma game by one player. But I'll
remind you here as the reporter does here during sarks

(01:07:36):
visit with the media this week. It's really sarks answer
that I would call legendary, spectacular, tremendous, phenomenal. But the
question that comes his way helps to elicit it, and
it has to do with something that was said by
the opposing team's players after wins by Texas against them.
So this is what it sounded like.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
So during postgame after Oklahoma, Billy Bowman said that Texas
didn't earn the win and Oklahoma just kind of gave
it to you, guys. I'm almost sure the exact same
thing was said by Michigan's quarterback. Do you think Texas
has earned every win it's had so far this season?
And what kind of what does it take to earn
a win no matter what opponent you're going up against.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Not my problem.

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
We won next game.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
That That is how you handle a dumb ass question
like that. And it's not a dumb ass question in
the sense that she asked it, and it's a dumb question,
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
The topic matter is what's ridiculous. The only dumb ass
part of it is what the player said. You know
what I mean, You're not giving a game away if
they absolutely throttle you and demolish you and you can't
do anything on offense for sixty entirely.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
And since that reporter is the one that brought it
to it, awesome just happened. Yeah what what well Michigan, right,
but this one, it just happened, and these this is
a rivalry far more lopside is clearly I just look
sark again. He answered that exactly how he should have,
though in other words, I'm not gonna say the only
thing that would have been better if he said I'm

(01:09:01):
not even going to entertain that. But he said that
without saying it, by basically saying, you're gonna talk whatever
and we're going to point to the scoreboard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Yeah, you take that in house. You talk with your
coaches about the problems you get. You think you gave
the game way. I don't care what you think. We won,
not my problem scoreboard. Yeah, totally agree they are in
that position. I don't. I don't think if they win
this weekend there will be Georgia players saying that unless
it's much more applicable. Friend of the Show sark, well, like,
if it's forty one thirty nine and Alabama or excuse me,

(01:09:35):
George is driven all the way down to the seventeen
yard line to kick the game winning field goal and
they botch it without the Longhorns doing anything. Well, they
gave it to him. That kind of feels like they
at least.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
That would be a reasonable argument to man something that
clearly was only on you, like they did even rush him.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
It was a perfect snap, it was a perfect hold.
And then we get to college kicker all that stuff.
But yes, I think the for Oklahoma's a player as
she correctly pointed out said that after this game, he
was up on a podium and said it, and I
like this. There's some parts of this from a rivalry standpoint,
the stutsman wearing the Horns necklace, but obviously the Horns

(01:10:16):
logo was upside down. That's great. This is what rivalries
are for. They're even more fun when people do that.
And then they have to eat their words. By the way,
since it came up this week at the game, then
at the Tampa Bay Bucks postgame presser, it was addressed
during the week by the player who did it. And

(01:10:36):
what I'm talking about is the Longhorns won the game.
They had their flag on the field and then they
had a Baker Mayfield jersey that they laid out at
midfield and put the flags straight through it. After the
Bucks game the next day, which they won rather handily
fifty one to twenty seven, Baker Mayfield was at the
podium and he was asked by one of their beat writers,
Jenna Lane, you know, how do you feel about that?
What do you think about that? And he said, Hey, man,

(01:10:58):
I'm a kid from Austin. They didn't recruit me, won
two games against them, living rent free in their heads
for ten years. Feels pretty good. The player who was
involved spoke with the media this week because he does
it wasn't specifically about this, but he was asked about it.
This was my initial thought on what happened, and as
long as he's telling the truth, it is what happened.
There was a fan with an Oklahoma jersey. He gave

(01:11:20):
them the jersey they used it. It just happened to
be the jersey that the fan had was a Baker
Mayfield jersey, because of course it was what other jersey
with the fan the Longhorns, I don't believe asked the
equipment guy to pack Baker Mayfield's jersey along with their
turnover sword and make sure to get it to us
on the field after the game when we win, so

(01:11:40):
we can do this.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
I mean, you're assuming that people, these people, yes that
are sports fans, observers, what have you, would actually stop
longer than half a second to think about the logic
behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Again, it's reached that conclusion impossible, and I still could
be naive to it, but that is I believe. Here's
the case. What he said.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
At the bare minimum, you've got to ask yourself, why
would it be a Baker Mayfield, Jersey when he hasn't
been there since two thousand and ten.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Eleven, Hey Longhorns, who's one of your most recent biggest villains.
Oh I put sorry, twenty seventeen was the last time
he would be because of who he is and what
he's doing. I mean, they're not going to put somebody
else who's the face of this current era rivalry that's
playing in the NFL, that still matters, it's still relevant.
It's probably him, So I don't disagree with that part

(01:12:33):
of it. Got some NFL stuff to get to. There
was a little trade in the NFL involving one of
the teams that played and lost last night. And there
are NFL owners meetings, so the NFL owners provided they
don't arrive at the first meeting one minute before it starts,
so they have to politely decline interviews and our name,
Jerry Jones genis is only allowed. Yes, Woody Johnson was there.

(01:12:53):
Whatody Johnson and his crew pulled off that deal? And
Devanta Adams already in their building, already with Aaron Rodgers
and likely we'll be ready to play very very soon
coming off of his injury with the Raiders. So some
of the questions asked of Woody outside these meetings by
the media, we're about Adams and other things. One of
the questions kind of described is this a crisis situation?

(01:13:15):
Are you so far into it that this is too late?
It was kind of big picturing it, but asking him
specifically about this deal. And since there are multiple pieces
of sound that go with this version of say what
and we Baker mayfield this segment up until its conclusion,
we'll hit that on the other side. The Jets pulled

(01:13:36):
off this deal during the same timeframe they fired their
head coach. During the same timeframe, they lost their fourth
game out of six. Continue to not be strong offensively,
not good enough defensively. They're not bad, but I don't
think they're nearly as good as they were last season.
And this is during a game where they had no
trouble running the football and they still weren't able to

(01:13:59):
put enough points on the board. Granted, bad weather night,
even though it wasn't raining, did look like it was
difficult to make kicks, and their kicker missed a pair
of kicks that certainly they definitely would have changed the scoreboard.
I don't know that they would have changed the outcome,
but it was that close of a game, clearly they
probably would have impacted how things went down. Nonetheless, Woody
Johnson talking about that is where we are headed. The

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Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Back to Adam Clinton and Adam wexleris on Sports Talk
seven ninety so, right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Back into the extended edition, se what was that? Say what?
There are a bunch of ESS's in there, you know
how to say it properly. We needed to get to
Woody Johnson here, since you know, we like to hear
from the owners, especially the ones that are just killing
it with winning dominating. I did put out a post
in the last few minutes relating to Woody Johnson's outfit.

(01:16:20):
I'll bring that up for you and we can discuss
that in the five o'clock hour. But what he was
asked about, are they in crisis? Do they believe that
the you know, big picture, this is kind of a
championship team. What does he think about you know, this move,
et cetera. I think being a key word. And this
is how Woody Johnson answered that question.

Speaker 9 (01:16:38):
You know, thinking is overrated. You have to look forward.
We have to look forward to the games.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
We're going to play at each and every week and
try to win all of them. But that's basic stuff, right,
I was saying, tell it, tell it, Telladega Knights.

Speaker 9 (01:16:54):
You've heard that, remember that one Shady said, You're not
a thinker, you're a driver, right, and a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Of times it is. You just have to go with
your instinct. You have to go with your instinct. First
thing he said is thinking is overrated. I thought that
was going to be the money bite, but actually this
was the money bite. Well, you're not a thinker, You're
a driver. Yeah, you're not a thinker, You're a driver.
He made sure. Yeah, to remind them of where it

(01:17:22):
came from. First, of course came from Talladega Knights. I
want to do the same and remind everybody where it
came from.

Speaker 10 (01:17:30):
Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is
a driver. He is a doer, and that's what you
need to do. You don't need to think. You need
to drive, you need speed. You need to go out
there and you need to rev your engine. You need
to fire it up, and you need to grab a
hold of that line between speed and chaos, and you
need to wrestle it to the grounds like a demon cobra.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
A demon cobra never heard you talk this way. And
I love the fact that Journey is being played in
the background.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
You're climbing on the table, and one other line was
uttered there as I think we all know where that
scene was headed. But yes, in describing where their team
is headed and what they need to do, which is
not think the owner of the New York Giants when
with a Ricky Bobby.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Reference, Well, it would be one thing if they had
excellence involved when they woke up in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
But that's not happening. Well, they're not doing that quite obviously, right,
not at all. They're ten to four. They feel they
felt like this offseason was just, hey man, nothing we
could do last year. We couldn't get good quarterback play.
But when we get Aaron Rodgers back and hey, Hassan
Reddick's coming aboard too, this is gonna be great. Instead,

(01:18:40):
Hassan Reddick hasn't played a down of football for anybody,
and he's re engaging in trade talks with a new agent.
And Aaron Rodgers has done nothing significantly good offensively for
this offense.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Other than recruit DeVante Adams. That is now something in
their future.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Yes, it's part of their past because it happened hours ago,
but their offense looks very similar. They're unable to consistently
score points. Thinking is overrated was the Rushier line. That's
so good. Might have to keep that there. It is
if you're just get out there and play, if balls
out there and let the kids play.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
If you're like the Hunt family or I don't know
any of the teams that have even computed Sure for
Pat Mahomes play a super Bowl, then your owner can
say thinking is overrated when you're Woody or even cal
McNair in recent memory. If you if cal McNair came
on our show and said, well, thinking is overrated, how
do you think that go over with the fan base

(01:19:37):
when they were losing ungodly amounts of games right before
CJ saved them.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Until he goes save time for his decision making period.
He's also barely compared to most owners. Still he's an infant. Yeah, well, yeah,
the franchise is an infant. Well I even mean him
like he's oh yeah, he's already been running the team
for a short period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
But I don't look it in that way because he was.
He was standing there all those times.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Not all those times, so what he was standing there?
So we're other people in there to say, Bob weren't
making the decisions. Bob shadow that was later in his
ownership run. I would see about halfway through. So I
put this now, Hannah shadows him. Yes, that wasn't always there.
That is obviously true, at least in this setting. She
was always there. Yeah, for as long as they've been together,

(01:20:22):
that's what I mean. But they were not together when
the franchise was born. Oh I'm aware. So I put
this out there a few minutes ago in thinking about
where the Texans are, where the Titans are, where the
Colts are, where the Jaguars are. Two of those three
teams are at the absolute bottom of the league with
one win. The other team is going back to Anthony

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Richardson after they gave the ball to Joe Flacco, and
of course there's the Texans. Texans just played the Patriots.
The Patriots from two thousand and one to twenty nineteen,
a lot of Bill Belichick, a lot of Tom Brady,
and a lot of division titles, seventeen of them, they
want all of them, but two during that nineteen years.
That's crazy. Well, one reason why it's easy to do

(01:21:05):
that is you're good. The bigger reason why it's easy
to do that the other teams are absolute utter trash. Yeah,
the Bills were forty six games under five hundred during
those years, The Jets were twenty six games under five hundred.
The Dolphins were twenty eight games under five hundred, not

(01:21:26):
even close to being average, just awful. Cults were in
their division for one of those years too. And so
my question is are the Texans about to enjoy the
same dominance in their division? Are these teams who are
clearly two of them are awful today? Are they going
to stay that way? Because the Trevor Lawrence situation is awful. Now,

(01:21:49):
Happy for all the people in Jacksonville that at the
owners meetings they approved all the financials necessary. They're getting
all their changes to EverBank stadium and they're ready to
go in twenty twenty eight and here comes the super
Bowl twenty n twenty eight. They announced that super Bowl
is going to Atlanta, but they think they're in line
to get one. So are they in bad spot? Are
the Titans? They clearly don't have a quarterback playing the

(01:22:10):
joke right there? You know that right? Not gonna get
one to twenty twenty eight? Shot Cohn Jacksonville. What the
other stadiums in shambles? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Well, the rumor is the NFL would like to have
a super Bowl in another country. Oh so you're talking
about the Jags, home away from home, getting the game.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
See, I don't think they'd be deemed the host team
for that week they're away from home. I guess that's possible.
But you're right. And here's the deal. Is it is bad?
This is one year of good Texans and teams they
could beat nobody was even I mean, you had another
team over five hundred, You had two other teams over
five hundred last year. Is it gonna get that bad?

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
For In the case of the Colts, even if Anthony
Richardson is ah man, this guy can't stay healthy, can't
stay on the field. He's out there sometimes so we
do get starts from him. But when he's not out there,
Joe Flacco's not going to be around forever. You think
about that, you have to spell him. But you still
have Jonathan Taylor, you still have players on offense and
defense like they're a competent roster. From the standpoint of

(01:23:07):
even if they don't have the most important player solidified,
you're not going to be a two win three win
also ran terrible laughing stock organization. The thing that's baked
in to the Jags is that you did just commit
all that money to a guy who's not showing you
that it's going to change. So at best you're going
to be mediocre to slightly less than that. And then

(01:23:29):
with the Titans, the only problem with that recipe is that,
well if this keeps up, I mean, I know, they
did commit a high draft pick in Will Levis, so
it's not like he was a third or fourth rounder
and you can just discard him and start your new
era quickly. Well, but he's still paying You're still paying him,
or you'll still have the cap hit.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Yeah, but it's the second round pick here, completely uncommitted
to him financially and on the field. In my opinion, Why.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Did I keep thinking Will Levis was taken in the
first round because it was early in the second. I guess, okay,
that's true. Okay, I didn't think about that aspect. I mean,
he's right, they're all gonna suck. The way he's playing
is telling them to note. I mean it was I
didn't think it was a bad idea. Start him this year,
give him the reins. See what happens. See if there's
more there. There's actually been less there. What's funny is
that his Mayo commercials look even dumber now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
They really look bad, and especially the one where he's
doing this place well, Jacksonville's won in five could they
land the number one pick in the draft again for
the third time in five years? And then using on
your division, Houston Texans, your division that you're dominating right now,
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Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams
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Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Back at it here on a Tuesday edition of the
A Team Sports Talk seven to ninety Space City home network.
Adam Clanton with you Wex has stepped aside as he's
on his way over to Toyota Center again. Rockets home
preseason opener tonight. They've got the Spurs on Thursdays, the
Pelicans tonight, Spurs on Thursday, and then of course the

(01:26:27):
regular season getting underway. Look, Football at five can go
a lot of different directions. I feel like we need
to maybe settle in on the Texans a little bit more,
just if for no other reason than the first two
hour of the shows had their fair share of basically
every other team in the NFL getting some love. And
that's because a lot of other teams in the NFL

(01:26:49):
are in the news on a daylight today. Jerry Jones
and the Cowboys obviously, with the drama that seems like
it's always there even if things are going well. They're
not going well right now, probably one of the worst
three and three teams given the talent they have and
expectations and everything. And he's threatening radio host jobs. So
things are going great in the Metroplex. Obviously, two not one,

(01:27:13):
but two Marquee wide receiver trades earlier today. The Buffalo
Bills are going to have the services of Amari Cooper,
who was languishing like everyone else is right now behind
Deshaun Watson's lackluster play in Cleveland. And then, of course,
the long rumored reuniting of DeVante Adams and Aaron Rodgers

(01:27:36):
taking place just in time for the Texans a week
from Thursday night when those two teams get together. But
Davante Adams is going to be in New York to
play with the Jets. We'll see if that can maybe
turn their season around a bit. But here in Houston,
things are going about as well as could be expected,
especially given the injuries the Texans have dealt with. And look,

(01:27:58):
this post Patriots portion of the calendar is where I
really looked at before the season, because I don't think
anybody saw Minnesota coming. Was that a difficult place to
play historically, yes, but it was Sam Darnold, and I
don't think anybody first saw even going into that game.
Worst case scenario is going to be a lopside, a blowout,

(01:28:19):
but it was, and the Texans have won every other
game besides that best start since twenty twelve. Everything's you know,
going about as according to plan as it could.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
But now you've got the first test.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
So when I started looking at the calendar, all right,
if the Patriots are as bad as we think they are,
this will be where the rubber really meets the road.
This will be where the first test really comes into play.
And you're gonna see that this Sunday. Not only is
it the Green Bay Packers, not only is at Jordan Love,
and not only is it a serious step up in
competition the likes of which you haven't seen all seasons
since that Minnesota game, but it's on the road. And

(01:28:53):
even though the Texans have gone to Green Bay in
the past and have won a game there in sub
zero temperatures, as I rec it's always a tough place
to play, and the Packers are good.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
So the.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Normal thing would be to start thinking about, Okay, what
are the concerns going into this game other than the
fact that you're not going to have services of Nico Collins.
You saw the Stefon Diggs and Tank Dell can spell him.
Joe Mixon returning to the lineup obviously is fantastic, and
we'll hear from head coach Tamiko Ryans on him in
just a second. But it always comes down to in

(01:29:28):
the trenches, doesn't it. I mean, whether it's the defensive line,
whether it's the offensive line blocking up front for CJ.
Shroud or Joe Mixon. In this case, you gotta have
your lines playing well. Laramie Tunsel is a question mark
at best with his ankle injury. And let's face it,
nobody's been more critical of this offensive line before this season,

(01:29:50):
let alone during this season than the person sitting in
this chair speaking to you right now. Having said that,
Demiko Ryans after the game and yesterday when you speaking
to the media talking about both lines in the fact
that he liked some things he's seen from them.

Speaker 11 (01:30:04):
Yeah, overall throughout the entire game, both lines, as you mentioned,
our defensive line, our offensive line played really well. Starting
with the offensive line. They did exactly what we asked
them to do. They got on their guys hat on
a hat, they're finishing at the second level. Guys played physical.
I just really loved the energy and play staff from
our offensive line. And that's, you know, indicative of us

(01:30:27):
running for over one hundred and ninety yards based on
what our offensive line did, and not only in the
run game, but also protecting like they did a great
job protecting allowing CJ to step up in the pocket
and make some nice throws to take and digs.

Speaker 6 (01:30:41):
So proud of our offensive line.

Speaker 11 (01:30:43):
And then on the flip side of our defensive line,
like we asked them to really attack the middle of
the pocket starting with our interior d tackles.

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
They did a good job of that.

Speaker 11 (01:30:53):
That allowed Will to run the edge and Will, you know,
had a career day.

Speaker 6 (01:30:57):
As everyone knows. So proud of the world that it takes.
It's not about one person.

Speaker 11 (01:31:02):
When you have games like that, you know, with how
Joe and Damian rand the ball, the credit goes to
the offensive line. How Will was able to burn the
edge to get sacks, that's the credit to the coverage
and also to the interior push.

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
So just overall for that game, like.

Speaker 11 (01:31:19):
Our team played really well together, right, We played a
clean game, got the penalties down. So proud of our
guys for that, and just proud of the energy that
we brought, you know to that stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:31:30):
The energy that we need. Had a little low in.

Speaker 11 (01:31:33):
The second quarter there with guys, it picked it up
coming out in the second half when we needed to
play d Neil stepped up you know big time, being
able to get the strip sack and we're able to
get that ball recovered there to get our offense a
short field. So proud of just us playing true complimentary football.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
I don't know what the exact question was that was asked,
but it very well could have been, Hey, just go
ahead and summarize the entire game to me, go and
give us, you know, the Cliff Notes version of it
in like a minute or so. That's exactly what he did.
And again, you look at it. I'm not I'm gonna
take away the fact that it was the.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
New England Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
I'm not going to ever criticize any team in the
NFL for beating a quote bad team when it's it's
as hard to win as it is. And I'm certainly
not going to, you know, give the Patriots a pass
because they were starting a rookie quarterback, because I mean,
Drake May was light years ahead of anything that I

(01:32:29):
think Jacoby Brissett could have done, even if he's had
a modicum of success over the Texans in the past.
But it's easy to look at what Demiko just had
to say, specifically about the two lines, and say to yourself, well, yeah.
I mean, look at Joe Mixon. He had one hundred
and two yards and a touchdown. You forget that more
than half of that yardage came on one play, on

(01:32:51):
a drive in which the Texans actually didn't, for a change,
have a successful ending to it. But you know, fifty
nine yards on one run. But then and conversely he
only had thirteen carries. It was very obvious that they were,
you know, keeping an eye on his workload.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
It's his first game back.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
High ankle sprain is not exactly I would say when
it comes to a running back, when it comes to
a cornerback, I mean, the only other injury that I
would keep maybe even a more of an eye on,
is a hamstring when you're talking about those types of positions,
especially in the NFL. But a high ankle sprain is
such a tricky thing. I think the only other sport

(01:33:31):
that it might be worse in is the NBA. It
seems to keep guys out forever in the NBA. But
Joe Mixon high ankle sprain, first action back since the
first half of that week, well, I guess he played
a couple of snaps in the second half of that
Chicago Bears game in Week two. But to have thirteen
carries one hundred and two yards and to do what
they did rushing the football is obviously great for when

(01:33:53):
you're speaking about the offensive line. And again Laramie Tonsel
was out there and you didn't hear his name for
the wrong reasons. If you will protecting CJ. Stroud, don't
notice his status is for this week. That's something to
keep not just an eye, but maybe both eyes on
because going on the road to a much better football

(01:34:14):
team and having to worry about CJ. Stroud's blind spot
or blind side, I should say I just made him
a car. His blind side is not going to be something.
It's not going to be as easy to get a victory,
especially on the rope if Laramie Tunsel isn't out there
doing the one thing that no one can argue he
does the best, which is protect CJ.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Stroud in the passing game.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
And as it pertains to the defensive line, I mean,
come on, what are you going to say, you know,
negatively about a line that did what they did, getting
after Drake May and whatnot. But there was more that
Demico had to say specifically on that running game, specifically
on Joe Mixon stating the obvious. This guy really helps
us when he's actually healthy and out there.

Speaker 11 (01:34:57):
Joe's mentality definitely rubs off on our entire team, right
He he wants the ball, he as many times you
got to give it to him. He he likes doing
the hard work. He likes to grind me work like
he's a physical runner. He plays the game with a
passion that's just unmatched, and that does roll off on
the entire group. It rolls off on the offensive line,

(01:35:19):
It rubs off on the quarterback, it rolls off on
the defense when you see him running people over, playing physical,
so it uplifts our entire team.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
He just you have a different attitude as a team
and especially as an offense when you go out there
with you know, if you want to call him a
bell cow or whatever word you want to use to
describe a significant upgrade, tier one, real, bona fide elite
running back. And I wonder with what's happening in Philadelphia

(01:35:51):
right now. I do wonder sometimes because I'm still not
convinced that Saquon Barkley didn't want to come to Houston
as his number one choice. We all saw the pictures
with CJ. Stroud, and you say, well, they take pictures together,
who cares. I really think there was a genuine desire
for those two to play together in the same offense.
And you think to yourself, all right, well, Joe Mixon,

(01:36:12):
this is like a consolation prize.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
And he's been in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Forever, however long, and how much you tred is gonna
be left on those tires. To his credit when he's
been out there, it's been spectacular. And a high ankle
sprain is not a durability injury. It's not a soft
tissue type injury. It's something that can happen to any
running back. And it's the only reason I think why
he hasn't put up even larger numbers in this offense
this year. But if he's back, and he's right, and

(01:36:37):
you're gonna have him, especially in the second week of
however extended absence this is going to be without Nico
Collins in the offense, absolutely going to be a very
good thing. And then you guys start thinking about the defense,
especially as you start game planning for a kid like
Jordan Love, and that's where the defense is going to
come into play. That's where again, having de Niko Autry

(01:37:00):
come back. He's going to be playing his first snaps
as a Texans player. You're certainly gonna want to see
what he's going to be all about. And we'll hear
from Demico Ryans on that very subject when we come back.

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Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
The A team continues.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
One Clinton here in studio Wex on his way to
Toyota Center Rockets preseason action tonight. I'm jealous because he
got to go see the brand new scoreboard there inside

(01:38:41):
Toyota Center. Now he'll get to see it again tonight.
He will be on the call along with Matt Thomas.
In just a few I will be on the call
with Matt Thomas on Thursday, and then just like that, Uh,
the Rockets and Texans will be playing at the same
time as October. Uh, the end of October, giving way
to the start of another n b A season. In
the meantime, Texans already well underway with their year five

(01:39:04):
to one record going into Green Bay easily the most
marquee matchup of the season. I don't care about the Vikings.
Nobody thought Sam Darnold was going to do anything, and
I still have yet to be convinced, having seen it firsthand,
that they're that good. Look, the Vikings are good, and
they beat the Texans like a drum. The Texans had

(01:39:25):
a lot to do with that turning the ball over
and whatnot and not protecting CJ. Stroud, And that's that
credit where it's due on the defensive side of things
to the Vikings. But Green Bay Packers, in my opinion,
even with the records, are going to end up being
a class of this division as you play the NFC
North and this matchup at Green Bay against Jordan Love

(01:39:49):
who's back from injury, and these two quarterbacks that I
really think had parallel type seasons last year.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
Obviously CJ as a rookie.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
And Jordan low is the air apparent to Aaron Rodgers
and coming along having been drafted a few years prior.
It's it's got all the makings of a classic Marquee
matchup should both these teams play to their capabilities.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
Injuries are a part of the NFL. Injuries are clearly
a part of this season for the Texans. Despite the
fact that they've got a five to one record, It's
not like they're going to be whole. We already talked
about Nico Collins not being in the lineup, and again
Wex Wex bringing up the fact that you know, this
guy leads the NFL in.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Receiving and it didn't even play last week.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
Jamar Chase probably going to eclipse that with as wex mentioned,
the first or second catch of the next game, he plays,
but just shows you how productive he had been thus
far and shows you how important he was to the
Texans offense. Clearly they can play without him against the
likes of the Patriots. How much is that going to
come into play when you're trying to go toe for

(01:40:54):
tow with Jordan Love and the Packers offense? We shall
see a big part of that will be the defense
of the Now, we know that Will Anderson Junior is
a freak, We know that Danil Hunter does what he does,
and we know that Mario Edwards is not gonna be
a part of things because of his four game suspension. Luckily,
Denico Autrey, the one of the prized defensive free agents

(01:41:15):
signings this offseason, is going to be part of things
after his six game suspension has concluded and will be
in the lineup.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
How will he fit in? Well, we go to head
coach Tomigo Ryans.

Speaker 11 (01:41:26):
And Deniko's coming off the suspension. He'll fit right in
very smoothly. He understands how we play, our style of play.
Deniko has been productive pass rush in his league for
a long time. You know, he had over ten sacks
last year. So I'm expecting him to just pick up
where he left off, just come in being disruptive, playing away.
He plays, he plays hard, he plays relentless, and he

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fits right in with our group.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
I mean, and again, this defense as an identity, as
a whole, as a collective, it's got a reputation already,
and it started last year. It's funny because you have
parts that have clearly been replaced, turned over, whatever you
want to call it. You know, Daniel Hunter and company in,

(01:42:10):
and you know, players that were a key part of
last season's defense out. I think, and I know we're
only six games into the season. I think it's already
safe to say this year's defense is better than last year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
And I mean, I don't know, It's not like I'm
going on on a limb.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
I just feel like the collectively, and you know, with
the fact that they added a Lassiter and just some
of the picks that they've made on the defensive side
of the ball coming into this season, in addition to
what they did retain, and you know what didn't walk
away in free agency, it is a better defense. And
then I think a big part of that is the

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level of competition. Yeah, I know that when they played
the best team record wise on their calendar, it was lopsided,
but I felt like, you know, Sam Darnold, it's not
like he threw for three hundred yards and there were
a lot of again, like I said, shooting yourself in
the foot if you're the Texans that went into that
defeat at the hands of the Vikings. But this, this defense,

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it has a mentality, It has a like a reputation.
I don't know the exact word I'm looking for, but
I do feel like it's different.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
I do feel like it's another level.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
And again, you needed that in addition to CJ taking
the next step. And we talked about Will Anderson Junior
yesterday and it was funny because he was saying this
kind of stuff last year. I remember last year when
he was talking about being frustrated with the fact that
he didn't get a sack on every single play, or
if he didn't get in a sack in a game.
You know, he thought he was he didn't play up
to his standards. He was disappointed in himself. It was

(01:43:45):
like his own harshest critic, and that's good, by the way.
That's kind of that almost like a mama mentality that
Kobe Bryant, You're never satisfied, that kind of thing, and
c J. Stroud has talked about having that type of
mental It is awesome to see what Will Anderson is
doing in year two. It's awesome to see that these

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two guys taking number two and number three respectively in
that twenty three draft, are right on track. The trajectory
is absolutely where you want it to be, and that
that permeates throughout the rest of their respective units. It's
easy to say, oh, yeah, we got a leader on
offense and CJ. Shroud, let's follow this guy, but sometimes
you might not have that on the defensive side of things.

(01:44:27):
And I don't know if Will Anderson Junior, you know,
fancies himself that guy that leads the defense.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
But did you see his pregame speech.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
If you're not with Houston, well, you know, the rest
can't stay it on FCC regulated stations. But he is
a guy that they're gravitating towards. He is a guy
that we talked about numbers wise, who he's in the
same company with. You know, some of the defensive greats
as far as young talents go in the NFL right now,

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not the veterans so much, although they are veterans at
this point. You know, the Watts of the world, the
Hudge of the world. This is a guy who belongs
right in that conversation. You can't help but follow a
guy who's a natural leader like that when he's starting
to produce the way he is. And it's not always
about the sacks. We do stress that a lot, especially
on this show.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
It might not.

Speaker 3 (01:45:15):
Always show up in the box score, but man, the
attitude the Texans have on that side of the football. Absolutely,
Will Anderson Junior is a big part of that. And
this is the test. And it's weird because after Sunday
at about three point fifteen, three thirty, you know, what
are we thinking about this Texans team? Cause I feel

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like it's gonna go one of two ways. If they
get you know, embarrassed, or it's a let's just say
it's a convincing Packers win. Well, the easy thing, the
easy narrative to do, is gonna be well, all right,
this is what happens. They play the Vikings, they got embarrassed,
they play the Packers. You know, they couldn't get it done.
They're just pretenders, they're frauds and all that. But the

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interesting thing is if the Texans go up to Green
Bay and have a convincing win of their own, will
it be easy to get carried away with where you
think they are at that point, because then they're six
and one.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
I mean, law of average just says at least one
other team in.

Speaker 3 (01:46:18):
The division is going to lose another game this week
because they're just atrocious, if not two or three. I
don't know who the other three teams play off the
top of my head, But is it easy to start saying,
all right, well, you're seeing the separation of the division.
That was goal number one, win the division? But now,
all right, where do you rank the Texans? Like you,
who are the Chiefs playing this week? Who are the

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Baltimore Ravens playing this week? And are the Texans starting
to get into that conversation? And is it too much
to say that just because they beat a good Packers team,
because it almost says as much about the Packers and
where you rate them as it does about the Texans
should they win this game. It's just this is the
part of the NFL season every single year that I

(01:47:00):
find fascinating slash hilarious, because it's just hard not to
be over the top. It's hard not to live and
die with each win or loss because there is only one. See,
I'm the idiot that does this with every single baseball
game of one hundred and sixty two. You know, marathon
in baseball. The Astros lost that game last night. It
was in soul crushing fashion. I'm in a bad mood today.

(01:47:23):
Why does my family hate me like that kind of thing.
I'm not built for baseball. I've said it a million
times on this show, but it really is like that
in the NFL. And so that's why again when I say,
you know, style points police, I don't want to hear
it after this, this last Sunday's loss. There's seventeen games
on the schedule. If you're winning five of the first six,

(01:47:44):
you're doing something right. Schedule be damned, opponents be damned,
Like I don't want to hear it if you're finding
ways to win in the toughest league to win in.
So while I don't think that you know, we're gonna
go over the top if they beat the Packers and
say all right, start planning the parade routes, you know,
start move over Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
There's a new sheriff in town.

Speaker 3 (01:48:09):
It's it's also not the end of the world if
they if they lose this game. Now, if they get
shellacked like they did in Minnesota, maybe that's a conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
I'm we've all seen what's happening here in Houston with
the Texans ever since CJ. Stroud and Demico Ryans walk
through that door. And I'll go ahead and say will
Anderson junr. But you think about the head coach, you
think about the quarterback. They go to the Packers this
week and they get a convincing victory. I don't think

(01:48:38):
it's too early to start saying this could be something special.
What I'll really be impressed with though, if we're being honest,
that back to back where you've got the Chiefs and
the Ravens, you split those two games, you feel good,
But I don't know it. Don't get ahead of yourself.
But don't be afraid to give credit already going into

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the game. It's gonna be a fascinating week because of that,
because I really do think this is one of those
Marquee Lightning Rod type games.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
And we'll see how it goes.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
We will see what we haven't gotten to when we
come back next here on the eighteen.

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Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Here on a Tuesday edition of the eight Team Sports
Talk seven ninety, wex en route to Toyota Center AC
and Dan with you here in studio.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
What's up Dan?

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
Not much, man.

Speaker 12 (01:50:21):
I mean, you know, we've touched on him a little
bit today, but we hadn't gotten much into the Astros.
There could be some hardware coming the Astros way this year.
Three different players Alex Bregman at third base, Mauricio Dubond
could it be a second straight year as a utility man,
or even at Jake Myers out in center field. They're
all finalists for a Gold Glove Award for Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:50:43):
Give me the most likely of those three to actually
take home the hardware, though.

Speaker 12 (01:50:47):
I mean, so I know how Jose Ramirez is as
a hitter, I don't necessarily know how he is as
a fielder, and the other player that he is up
against is I just had it right in front of me.
This is great Radio Ernie Clement of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
I mean, this is not a it's a defensive award.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
I just those are the three really.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
I mean, listen, Bregman was spectacular, especially given the fact
that the Grimlins started what it wasn't mid season.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
I think it was like the let's just say the
last third of the year.

Speaker 12 (01:51:28):
I was gonna say the final month of the season,
I think is when it kind of propped up end
of August early September.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
And was still making like other worldly throws sometimes from
the other side of the foul line. I feel like defensively,
it's I mean, if this is an offensive award, obviously
Ramirez is your guy. Like you said, I don't and
maybe listen, I could be sleeping on him. Absolutely. I
don't you ever think of Ramirez his defense. I guess

(01:51:53):
I should be though he's up for this award, But
I figure, when you give me those three, I'm taking Bregmann,
but I'm probably biased.

Speaker 12 (01:52:00):
Yeah, So it's going to be Jared Duran and also
Dalton var show up against Jake Myers, and then Mauricio
Dubon is up against Willie Castro and Dylan Moore of course,
who played for the Seattle Mariners. So we'll keep an
eye on see if any of those three are winners.
All right, So the NFL owners meetings are happening today,
as we heard earlier from a couple of different NFL owners.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Well.

Speaker 12 (01:52:23):
Also a new NFL owner, Tom Brady, has been approved
as being a minority owner of the Raiders, but that's
not necessarily the story here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
What is Tom Brady's current job.

Speaker 12 (01:52:36):
Well, he's an analyst on Fox Broadcast with Kevin Burkhart. Right,
So with him now becoming a minority owner, he is
restricted to not be in other teams facilities, not permitted
to witness practice, He's not allowed to attend broadcast production
meetings either in person or virtually prohibited from publicly criticizing

(01:52:58):
game officials or other clubs subject to the NFL's gambling
policy and also subject to the NFL's anti tampering policy.
So maybe Greg Olsen's gonna get a spot back after all.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Well, it just feels like he's getting the best of
both worlds here, right. He doesn't have to attend production meetings,
he doesn't have to do. He basically just shows up,
gets paid on godly amounts of money to hang out
with you know, Kevin Burkhalder every single day or every
single week, i should say, and then doesn't have to
do any of the dirty work. Now, criticizing of officials,

(01:53:35):
that's a slippery slope. That's the one thing here where
I would think, okay, you might have It's not so
much a conflict of interest thing, although I guess that's
what you would call it. But it's just in order
to do your job effectively. If the officials blow a call,
what is he supposed to not acknowledge it and let

(01:53:55):
Kevin say everything during that portion of the game, because
how do you not criticize, like if they blow a call?
Like what if it's a high profile you know, he's
gonna be in the highest of high profile games, especially
when the playoffs start, right well, I.

Speaker 12 (01:54:10):
Mean, just start making weird noises and think you're funny.
I mean somebody else in the industry already does it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
Oh my gosh. He seriously, if there was.

Speaker 12 (01:54:17):
A game this week, by the way, for the Texans,
is he Tony is yes? Oh well, I name names
that's gonna be that could that could be unfortunate. Here's
the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
What if.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
What if Tom Brady was on the call when the
what was that? It was even the playoffs? I think
it was the divisional round a couple of years back.
A few years back the Saints horrible penalty called oh
not called championship and the Rams ended up going to

(01:54:50):
the Super Bowl that year, I believe. And so if
that were if he were on the call for that game.
I don't even remember if it was CBS or Fox
or whatever at the time it was a Fox game,
what would he have been allowed to say? You know, like,
and I don't remember what the You know, in hindsight,
we all know what happened and how horrible of a
non call that was. I mean, just ask Chris Gordy,

(01:55:13):
He'll tell you about it any time. But like, I
don't remember what it was true Breeze's Last Chance. I
don't really remember what the analyst said as it was happening.

Speaker 12 (01:55:24):
I think it was Aikman, and I think he was
pretty vocal of that as awful.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
Okay, So if.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
Aikman were a minority owner in the Dallas Cowboys where
he used to play, or whatever team, they could probably
use him. What would he what would he have been
allowed to say?

Speaker 12 (01:55:38):
That's where it's just kind of yeah, you put you
put your play by play guy in a bad spot
right there, because then it becomes a one man booth.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
And by the way, I understand wanting to be a
minority owner in the NFL. And so maybe beggars can't
be choosers because it does come down to availability at times.
But if you're gonna do that and kind of limit
yourself in your day job. I don't even know if
this is considered his day job ors moonlighting gig. We
had that conversation earlier here on the show. Why would

(01:56:05):
you why would you allow being a minority owner of
the Raiders keep you from you know what I mean?

Speaker 12 (01:56:12):
Like, I don't know, because it's the NFL. Yeah, ownership
prints money. It's true.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
It's a select it's a very very elite and select fraternity,
and he's officially a part of it. Now, all right,
So final one here, We found out over the weekend
that there is a major Power five program in college football,
which I guess now we have Power four. But run
with me here right where you can pay to run
out with the team. Said power for program is USC.

(01:56:42):
And the reason why I bring this up is because
a Penn State fan actually called them on it. And
this came from Darien Summers on Twitter.

Speaker 12 (01:56:52):
This is incredible. USC has a thing where you can
run out with the team. It costs between fourteen hundred
and eighteen hundred dollars depending on the game.

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
There are no rules.

Speaker 12 (01:57:02):
So this Penn State fan, with video accompanying it, did
did so paid the money and ran out on the
field in full Penn State gear on Saturday. Now I
did go to USC's website. They still do have three
games available. So if you want to run out with
the Trojans when they host Rutgers later on this month,
well then you got to shell out fourteen hundred and

(01:57:22):
fifty dollars when they play against Nebraska. Same price when
they play the huge rivalry game later on the season
against Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
Yep, now that one goes up to eighteen hundred is
it one spot? Only that? How many slots are available? No?

Speaker 12 (01:57:37):
I mean, like I think like it's you pay the money,
you just get to run out. I mean the rules
are and how many people do they allow to do this?

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
Per game?

Speaker 12 (01:57:43):
You and one other guests, okay, are brought down to
the fields an hour before kickoff, and you must be
if the two guests are under eighteen years old, then
they must have someone of age.

Speaker 3 (01:57:57):
So the fourteen hundred dollars or whatever gets both guests
in correct. I mean, here's the thing about this, what's
the insurance situation, what's the liability?

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Because it's funny you bring this up.

Speaker 3 (01:58:10):
I was just thinking this last week as I was
watching Sarkesian, you know, prepare to lead the horns onto
the field and they start the smoke machine, and then
you see they come out and you have all those
photographers lined up on the field to take pictures of them.
On the other end, how do more people not get
run over? How to more players not get injured by

(01:58:31):
being tripped? And now you're going to add people who
just pay money to be a part of that. That's
just insane. But you know what football prints money at
all levels and this is just the latest example.

Speaker 4 (01:58:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
It is the a team Sports Talk seven ninety will
peak behind the curtain. I'm debating whether or not to
put this on social media. So this is a first
day since we started doing the simulcast here on Space
City Home Network that we've had a Rockets game, which,
as you guys probably know by now, you're about to
find out. Wex and I share duties as color analyst

(01:59:30):
and when it comes to home games. One of us,
whoever's game it is that night, is alongside Matt Thomas
over at Toyota Center. So during the break, I get
a text from Wex. He's made it to Toyota Center safely.
Tonight's the preseason home opener, and he's in the media
dining room and has a big and I mean big,

(01:59:52):
you know, the bleep eating grin that people put on
their faces. He takes a selfie with large a large
mid behind him of the show being simulcast on Space
City Home Network, and I look like I'm mad about
something and he's got the So it's a very reversal
of roles, you know, because Wex is always.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
The one rolling his eyes at me and whatnot. So
good stuff. I'll I'll have to get.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
Permission to send that pick out because you know, you know,
I just want to make sure we're all on the
up and up when it comes to sharing picks on
social media that are originally exchanged in text messages of
a private nature, if you will, all right, So we
have talked Dan, as you know, and the guys, have
you been listening today? Uninordinate amount of Dallas Cowboys conversation

(02:00:36):
has been on the show today, But it's it's okay
because we're talking about how bad things are going for them,
and so in that case, I will always give ourselves
a pass if we're talking about the Dallas Cowboys that
much in Houston, Texas. But it's about the fact that
they are down on their luck, facing hard times, whatever

(02:00:58):
you want to call it, not meeting expectations most importantly,
then it's okay. Now, if you've listened to this show
this offseason, you know that I have been very adamant
about a couple of things. First and foremost, I thought
this was a one way or the other type season.
And I know, given their five hundred record, much to

(02:01:21):
my chagrin as WEX cackled about it, it's right there
in the middle.

Speaker 2 (02:01:25):
It's three and three.

Speaker 3 (02:01:26):
But I said they would either be really good or
to be an atrocious season. And even though they're three
and three, I think if you sampled any number of
Dallas Cowboys fans, they would say it's trending towards, you know,
the bad side of things.

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
I also have very.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
Much put forth a theory that I thought was gonna
come true, and I'm not saying that it's gonna happen
for sure, But man, my theory about lame duck head
coach Mike McCarthy being ousted either at the end of
this year or maybe before the season and finishes, and
none other than Bill Belichick, Darth Belichick as some call him,

(02:02:08):
being brought in as the replacement to somehow try and
coexist with the wonder that is Jerry Jones's ego next year.
I'll tell you what, I got a good boost on
that theory as recently as today because none other than
Darth Belichick was weighing in on the struggles in the Metroplex.

Speaker 13 (02:02:30):
It certainly looks like a tough situation down there in Dallas,
and I'm sure that ownership is very frustrated about not
only the start of this season, but the end of
last season. And you know, it's just tough. They had
a great year last year and then had a very
poor performance against Green Bay in the playoffs, got off
to a good start this year in Cleveland, and then
it's been pretty rocky since then. And you know, meanwhile,

(02:02:53):
Steven and Jerry Jones has shelled out a lot of
money to some very high profile players, and I have
tried to give the team as many resources as they
can to win and haven't had good results. So, you know,
I've always talked about Mike mcarthy. I think he's one
of the best coaches in the league. Mike Zimmer is
one of the best defensive coaches in the league, and
Bones is a is a great special teams coach. But

(02:03:13):
for some reason, it's just not coming together. There's a
long way to go. You know, something's gonna have to
start happening fast. And I don't know nothing internally about
what that is, but let's say it's really on everybody.
It's got to you know, play coach and just generally
perform better. But I'm sure there's a lot of frustration
down there about the way things have gone so far.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
Yeah, I've always talked about Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
I think he's one of the best coaches in the league,
and Mike Zimmer and Bones.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:39):
Yeah, but it's not coming together, and something's gonna have
to start happening fast. Well, I mean say less like
Jerry Jones is probably salivating right now listening to that SoundBite.

Speaker 12 (02:03:51):
I actually hear that. And you know what, I think
Belichick's gonna become. He's gonna become the new Bill Kauer. Yeah,
Like remember how every hiring cycle it was, oh hey,
Bill Kawer, and then finally Bill Kower. I don't know
if he like directly said this, but was like, why
the hell would I want to go back into coaching
when every Sunday I can play coach.

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Then I'm off. I get to go play golf, I
get to go do whatever the hell I want.

Speaker 12 (02:04:12):
I don't have to deal with owners, I don't have
to deal with players, agents, GMS, anybody like. I get
to do it without actually doing it. Most of these guys,
when they get into the TV world, they kind of
have that switch flip on for them where they're like,
I don't need to do the other thing anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
Well, two guys actually that applies to one of them
used to coach for Jerry because while Cower was the
guy on CBS every week, Jimmy Johnson was the other
guy that people would insert into coaching searches while he
was going to Fox to work one day a week.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
And again it's true, both of these.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
Guys that we're talking about handsomely paid one day a
week work.

Speaker 2 (02:04:53):
I'm not saying they don't. They only work one day
a week.

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
There's there's preparation that goes into it somewhat, but it's
not the twenty four seven grind of a head coaching.

Speaker 2 (02:05:01):
But here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (02:05:03):
This is year one of Bill Belichick not being a
head coach post Patriots era, and he's as good as
he has been on television in his limited time. And
that also includes the roast of Tom Brady. Let's not
forget that. He does strike me as the guy that

(02:05:24):
if you're talking, and this is why my theory has
been what it has been. You're not only talking about
a massive ego and Jerry Jones, You're talking about a
massive ego in Bill Belichick. And you're talking about a
franchise and an owner for which you know, one of
Bill Belichick's closest friends and mentors has already been there
and done that in Bill Parcells.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
You forget how close that relationship is.

Speaker 3 (02:05:48):
You don't think if he was interested, he might call
up his good buddy Bill Parcells.

Speaker 2 (02:05:52):
And you know, ask him.

Speaker 5 (02:05:55):
Well.

Speaker 12 (02:05:55):
I think there's also too I mean, there's way too
many leaks of information to get out. And usually when
you hear about guys who want to get back into
coaching like wasn't lovely Smith, like watching film in someone's
basement and like kind of like loosely putting out feelers
for people of Hey, if I get an opportunity, are
you gonna come join me as my defensive line coach?
Like I think you would start hearing that right now.

Speaker 3 (02:06:16):
Well, and you know with the Jets coaching opening, you know,
with Robert Sala departing earlier this year.

Speaker 2 (02:06:23):
He put that one in the fire last night.

Speaker 3 (02:06:25):
Well that's the thing that would be the only other
where you would have pointed to it. But he did
just that this is the only gig that is I
don't want to say big enough because it makes the
Cowboys sound like something that they're not. They're a pretender
right now, Paper Tiger, all that stuff. Man, Bill Belichick
going to Dallas. You, I mean, I'm surprised that Roger

(02:06:47):
Goodell isn't trying to make this happen just for the
ratings alone, not that they need help. But Bill Belichick,
now he was asked, this was a satellite radio show.
It's not like he just woke up and decide to
start giving. But it's gonna be interesting to see if
that actually comes to fruition. All right, we have got

(02:07:07):
Rockets basketball coming up. It's right around the corner. Preseason variety,
just two preseason home games to go with the two
road games.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
They've already split earlier last week.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
You got the Pelicans tonight, the Spurs on Thursday night,
and then the regular season gets underway.

Speaker 2 (02:07:22):
But that means it's time for me to get out
the door.

Speaker 3 (02:07:25):
Wex and Matt Thomas, I have you covered on that
for Dan and myself back here at the station. We
will see you guys tomorrow afternoon, right here, same bat time,
same bat channel

Speaker 4 (02:07:36):
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