Texans Game Day!!! Daaaa Yankees Lose and Overrated Halloween Candy

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Team Welcome into a game day edition of the A
Team Sports Talk seven to ninety and of course Space
City Home Network. He is Adam Wexler, My name is
Adam Clinton's we take you up until six o'clock tonight,
very very busy night on the Houston sports calendar. As
you've got the Texans in action on the road in

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the Meadowlands. They'll be taken on the Jets and the
Rockets will also be on the road. They'll be taken
on the Dallas Mavericks. Not as far from Houston as
the Texans are. They're actually not even leaving the state.
So yeah, Dallas Mavericks and Rockets get it on tonight
and the Texans and the Jets. That is going to
be a huge, huge topic of conversation. And by the way,

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this happens every single year when the Texans play on
a Thursday. The whole day I'm like, man, I know
it's a weekday, and i know it's you know, an
NFL game and all that, but it always feels like
a Friday to me, and maybe that's because it's Halloween
as well. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
We can't all be met. I mean technically it is
a Friday for him.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, because he's not working tomorrow right right, And if
we weren't working for some reason tomorrow, you know that
he would definitely carry a segment or two of his
show to talk about that.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well whatever show he would eventually be on one of
those seconds.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I like how he was programming his show for tomorrow
as Ross and him A great day for you tomorrow.
Maybe you'll get a Rockets call O. I don't know.
I won't be there, just the best. So yeah, that
is something to discuss the Rockets obviously, but yes, the
Texans as well. But again, I am who I am
for a reason. And look, I'm going to lead off

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here with something baseball related. But it's not what you
think wex. It's not the fact that the Dodgers won
the World Series in five games, just like I predicted.
It's not the fact that it happened in spectacular fashion
because the Yankees could not get out of their own
way in the fifth inning. It's not that it happened,
like I said with Garrett Cole starting the game last night.
That's all well and good, and you know, congrats to

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the two Dodgers fans that I like. No, we have
big news in Major League Baseball. Are you aware of
what is happening? Are you aware of how much better
games next year are going to be?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, the only thing I know is that stove
got turned on the moment that Walker Buehler had the
final strikeout of the game. There have been multiple trades
in the last fifteen hours, sixteen hours since the game ended.
I know the negotiating window is open, that negotiating window.
Why is baseball so awesome next year?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Because, according to the Athletic Bob Costas is done calling
major League baseball games. Now. I know some of you
and probably WEX think that this is not first segment
leadoff material, But I don't care what any of you think.
I don't have to hear that idiot call baseball games
ever again, for the rest of my life or his.
That's a huge, huge deal. That's a huge deal, especially

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with how bad it was this postseason in particular. I mean,
he's been on the call for Astro's championship run games.
I mean, I'll never forgive him for his third Al
tuo Ve home run call in that game against the
Red Sox, but it was particularly bad this year, and
to me, it almost strikes me as somebody said something

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to him and this is just the way they're handling
it publicly. But come on, even you have to admit
you're a little happier knowing you don't have to listen
to Bob Costas to baseball games next year.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yes, I am a little bit happier that I don't
have to listen to someone who's not very good at
his job be the only voice that's available to you
during that particular production.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
You gave me more than I thought you would on
this topic.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean, this is it's inevitable for everybody. He'll be
the same for me. But yeah, he wasn't very good
at it anymore. It doesn't enhance the broadcast anyway. He
actually makes people want to not listen to it. So
the people that have been paying him to do that
decided that would be wise to do something else.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Disclosure about last night, It is the first time I
turned on the postseason since the Astros. I'm too angry
when they lose. When they're in this window of championship contention.
But last night, after hearing what was going on unfolding,
by the time I turned it back on it was
six five Yankees. But I still can't believe what happened

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on that field last night, and I know the Yankees can't. Oh.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think most people in New York can't believe. They're
not wondering what Aaron Boone's going to do to put
together another winning lineup for Game six. They opened the
game with an Aaron Judge homer, followed by a Jazz chisholmhomer,
followed by three more hitless innings from Garrett Cole, and
they didn't win the game. It was amazing what unfolded there.

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They got a lot of the things they need to
do to win baseball games. They got a starting pitcher
capable of going deep. He gave him six and two thirds.
They got Aaron Judge. We talked about it yesterday. Even
though it was just a double or a ringing hit
that didn't go over the fence, even one at bat
can get somebody a little bit more comfortable. And it's
not like he had five hits yesterday, but he did

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hit one of his vintage opposite field very far out
of the stadium home runs yesterday, and again they're up
three to nothing, and then they're up four nothing, and
then they're up five to nothing. And as they built
that lead, their starting pitcher continued to not show anything
of any chance for the other team in every inning.
Garret Cole pitched last night but one. He'd no hit
the Yankees, and he pitched in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,

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and seventh innings, and they didn't win the game. A
lot of people were talking about a brutal way to
lose and how could they fall like this, And even
though it was coming from people who are clearly Yankees fans,
or cover the Yankees, or are fake media members that
pretend they cover the Yankees, have you been I know
you haven't been under a rock. I know you haven't

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been blind. I don't even know what to say rhetorically
about it. But they lost the game and ultimately the
series the same way they've lost tons and tons and
tons of games. With the group managed by Aaron Boone
and put together by Brian Cashman, the roster's probably good
enough clearly to win a World Series. I mean, they're
in the World Series it's probably good enough to win one,

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but they just don't play good baseball. They haven't played
good baseball since Aaron Boone took over. It's been year
after year after year of how do they overcome this?
And why does this guy do that? How come you
run into so many outs on the bases? Why do
you keep leading the league in that category? And then
kicking the ball around and making mental errors the way
they did in one five run inning, which wasn't the
only reason they lost. They had the bases load in

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the eighth inning and allowed a back to back sacrifice
flies to give up the two runs. They had the
lead again, they were up six to five, and they lost.
So the season ended. The negotiating window for Bregman and
any other free agents in his similar position opens. It
will close on November fourth at four p m.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Central.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't know that any of the free agents in
that situation, including Alex, will have come to an agreement
on on a deal to prevent them from getting a
free agency. I mean, he's been running a marathon towards
free agency, and all of a sudden, at the very
very very very very last half of a step, he's
gonna say Nah, you're good, We're good. Let's let's just

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come to agreement. I don't want the I don't want
so many teams offering me so much money because your
deal's fine. It's very rare that you get to this
point where it doesn't now reach free agency. But that
window is still open slightly in the LA Dodgers, as
I figured they would, and they have every right to
do so. They talked about all the things we brought

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up this last week. Walker Bueller was not shy about
talking in a way that he knows others have. Everybody's
been talking mess about twenty twenty. Well, what are they
gonna say now? It's the same thing the Astros said
in twenty twenty two regarding their own twenty seventeen for
different reasons. But now they've won two and five seasons.

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They've been to the playoffs all of those seasons. The
Astros won their two over a span of seven seasons.
This would be eight if you included in it. But
there's nothing really a add unless you want to keep
the window open. And they both seem like and feel
like I'm sure in a very similar position. I hope
there's a real race for the next one to kind

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of prove we're here. My hand is above my head
and you're there. My other hand is below my head.
They both probably view themselves as the best team of
their own respective Golden era Dodgers a little different. They
got like ten of them. The Astros have one current,
but against each other where baseball is today, these have

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been now clearly the two most successful franchises since twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and you know, while one fan base will make
fun of the other for one of those championships, not
counting only one of them, one against the other head up,
and it's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Twenty five World Series.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Let's do it, I'm telling you. Well, first things first,
you got signed Bragg because I ain't happening without him.
That's the baseline of it. But I was amazed at
myself last night for a couple of reasons. Are you
looking in the mirror? Well, that's every morning. I usually
that in the morning. Look at me, Hi, Fred, how
you doing today?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
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here on Halloween, my little nod October thirty, first am
my little wink win not a random sweater that's you know,
Olive and Red.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Don't wear it any other day of the year. No,
I just a couple of things struck me as I
was turning that game on. And like I said, when
I when I turned it on, it was six or
five Yankees. They had regained the lead after blowing the
five nothing advantage.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Uhh Yankees lead.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's so good to watch that unfold.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Now, I like, side note real quick. Yeah, we're losing
inside the NBA after this year in its current form,
maybe some variety in the future.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
And this particular Fox Baseball set is used so infrequently
from a big viewership standpoint. I mean, they use it
occasionally over the course of the year, but really it's
just here for the postseason, even with Alex Rodriguez, who's
borderline detestable. Yeah, it has the makings of being exactly
the same. David Ortiz is the Charles of their group yep,

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and Derek is the Kenny of their group. They actually
play off each other brilliantly agree like when or Pop
Big Poppy was handing out his T shirts at the
end for his three desk mates.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
The second he tossed.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
It to Jeter Jeter immediately tossed it off the desk
and threw it on the ground. It's it's perfect. It
really is a good team. It's just there's no real
long term place for it, and it's a shame.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Jeter is way more bitter about what happened last night
than a Rod, by the way, because Heeter's an actual
Yankee bingo. A Rod is just a murder. When I
was watching that documentary the other night, I forgot just
the press conference. Jeter's there. You're going to be playing
third base because Jeter's the shortstop in New York. As
why am I drawing a blank on their manager? Joe

(11:03):
Torre said, And like you can just see how uncomfortable
he looks at the press conference. No one of those
who hated each other.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Plus hot tip to Jackie Listener the first to point
out mistake I already made. And I was wondering if
somebody would uh, Dodgers have one and a half titles
in five years?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Not too right? Obviously, I just thought everybody knew that
and we were all just gonna move on. But yeah, Jackie,
good good on you pointing that out now. But it
was just, well, I'll bring this back in the next segment,
and we're gonna get into some Texans conversation obviously, but
what unfolded last night was surprising on the field, obviously

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for especially the Yankees, although I don't know. I mean,
if you watched that series, it was just so one sided.
But it was surprising for another reason. And I want
to know if Astros fans in particular were feeling the
same way I was, as you know, the final outs
were made. That's what I want to get to in
the next segment, along with Houston Texans conversation. When we
come back.

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Speaker 1 (13:05):
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
All Right, I'm gonna go ahead and assume I'm in
the minority last night because I know how Astro's fans feel.
As the negotiating window for Alex Bregman is officially underway,
the exclusive negotiating window is underway. But as you were
watching the final outs and h Walker Bueller was what

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do you do you have two days rest after pitching
seventy six pitches? Throwing seventy six pitches the other night.
That was a beautiful performance by him, by the way,
I mean just that's what should have happened in twenty nineteen.
But I digress, that should have been Garrett Paul for Rest.
It's true, and he was warming up. I love AJ,

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but man, I'll never live that U.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
They weren't going to the ninth inning with a one
run lead. I mean, there were some other different circumstances happened.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, things absolutely happened, But as I was watching those
final outs unfold and rather uneventful, I might add, just
really dominant by Bueler.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
I was.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
I never once, even after I turned the TV on
and I watched the series for the first time, like
because they're just such detestable franchises for different reasons, and
their fan bases are a big part of it.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
One is so detestable it made it super easy to
prefer that the other detestable franchise win, which happened.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's where I was at. It was a combination of
what had happened with the mookie Bets situation in the
game prior and what really Brian Cashman had said before
the series even began. We were this close to him
not having his team win another playoff game post those comments.
I mean, that just would have been spectacular, but somehow,
somehow it worked out even better if you're an Astros fan.

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Because I said it before the series, I just felt
like a Yankees win would be more painful. I don't
care about the Dodgers, honestly, They're a National League team
that just doesn't factor into the Astros doing anything anymore
unless they're in the World Series with them. They just
the only reason they even remotely still matter is because
their fans can't let it go. That's the only reason

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it's even a thing.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
If it's that, I mean, it's more than just their fans.
I mean, one of their shirtless pitchers last night is
still talking about it.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, how much did he contribute to this championship this year?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I didn't have a chance to look around much, but
I have to believe that's become a pretty good sized meme.
I mean, he's dad botted it up like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's another thing. Clayton Kershaw is the only one that
really mouthed off at this late juncture in our lives
as it pertains to the cheating scandal and Joe Kelly.
Neither one of these guys had anything to do with this.
They were on the sidelines. They're gonna get jewelry because
they did things during the regular season.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
I guess, yeah, I would assume, I don't know, I'm
sure what he'll get.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yward's getting a ring.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'd assume Jason Hayward is gonna.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
One of the best things I saw last night on
I think it was there for most of the year. Yeah,
he mentioned the fact that Hayward's gonna he eliminated the
Seattle Mariners with his home run. He uh, he did
one other thing, and then the last thing was He's
getting a ring. Not a bad season for Jason Hayward.
But I'm watching it unfold last night and I'm like,
I'm fine with this. Yeah. So the Dodgers got a championship.

(16:27):
Their other one in this span wasn't real, just like
they say the one about the Astros wasn't real. At
least the Astros a full season. At least they didn't
lose those two home games to lose the series. That's
y'all's problem, La, and I just they're just so inconsequential.
If the Yankees had won that series, could you imagine
next year multiple series with those ass hats in that stadium,

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especially hearing them on your timeline. Well, now we don't
have to. It's it's it's it's the I was happy
last night. It was weird. It was like the Dodgers
were another team that didn't matter, even though they were
the Dodgers, and they kind of do, and it was just,
I don't know, I didn't feel any sort of I
would have been utterly sickened and bitter if the opposite

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had occurred, If the Yankees had won that World Series
going into an offseason where you may or may not
have Alex Bregman coming back, it just would have been way,
way harder to stomach.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, I mean there's a little bit different scenario, but
a little bit of similarity. I mean, the championship was
in your own division. It was in your league, quite clearly,
that was pretty hard to stomach. If it had gone
from the Rangers to the Yankees, well you're in a
huge two year drought. That would have been unfortunate because
all season long, that's definitely part of the storyline the Yankees.

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I mean, think about the difference between their fifteen year
gap of even being there spun into can they win
it again? They definitely will win it again. They're the
favorites to win again. How could they not win it again?
All that would be all year long and instead maybe
it's a I can't believe they didn't sign Soto. I
can't believe how the Orioles have overtaken them. I mean,

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there are a lot of different things that now could
be in their future instead of they're looking.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
To repeat, and I'm seeing a lot of people that
are the opposite of you. You're pretty sure still that
he's going back to the Yankees. Oh well, I'm not
so sure. I don't. I don't think he is now.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, I still it's it's hard for me to for
both Bregman and Soda what I don't know because I'm
definitely not close enough to the situation, even though I
cover Alex. What is it that is front and center?
And then what's next? And what's next on the list
of must haves? It's hard to pass up money first
and foremost for any of these guys, even though both

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of them have made a ton of it already at
this early stage of their respective careers, there are several
teams in the hunt that will want to win. They
both have different family situations, they both have different extended
family and location differences. How close do you want to
be does that matter to you or you know, are
you a little bit closer to some of the family.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Those things all matter.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
He and Alex I think fit in no matter what
because they're gonna make their team better. We don't really
talk about it much with Juan Soto, even though we
probably should. He's he's a winner. I don't think he
won this year. I don't think there's much more he
could have done. He has a World Series ring. He's
now helped a team that couldn't get to the World

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Series do something that, like I said, they could not
do without him. And if you look at the course
of his postseason career, it opened with six consecutive postseason
series wins.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Sounds familiar.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, he finally lost a series in twenty twenty two
with the Padres when they went to the NLCS and
they came up short. And then this year the World
Series again was the only series that he's lost. He's
played in ten postseason series, his team is one eight
of them. He's been in the World Series twice, he's
won it once, and he's done that for three different teams.
That's even more appealing to the twenty nine other teams

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that haven't had him yet.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
He wins wherever he goes.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I mean, he's usually again, you're gonna go to a
good team, but you're so good you're going to make
a difference for that really good team.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
What if this is completely outlandish? What if Alex Bregman
leaves the Astros and signs with the Yankees? What if
the Astros signed one?

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, I mean we could talk about it, because it's
a if a player's available, why not? But yeah, the
amount of money he can command and has the number
we're talking about Alex Bregman getting deals that the Astros
can't match. Well, SODA's gonna get more. Unless the element
of a deferred deal is such a game changer and
more teams get involved in using it, I mean, the

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bottom line still remains the same. If that's not the case,
there's gonna be deals on the table for both of
these players that are so far I think out of
the Astros league. It just becomes the player's prerogative. Am
I getting a break on the taxes? Am I getting
a break on I know this team's gonna win? Or
is that even true anymore? Every other offseason prior to

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this one for eight years. If you're signing with the Astros,
you knew what was gonna happen. You're gonna win, you
knew you were gonna probably, i mean almost assuredly eighty
five ninety percent chance you were gonna win the division.
You know, literally it was a one hundred percent chance
you were going to the ALCS. But I know that's
not quite you know what people would view. But you
have a chance you're going to the playoffs, you know it.
How many other teams can say that, And it's fair

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to say the Astros probably aren't there anymore. They're probably
the favorites to win the division, but not by much,
kind of like last year. We've seen some of the
odds for next year's World Series. And remember these are
put together before these teams are actually put together, and
they're still in the top six or seven depending on
what you looked at last night or early this morning.
So I think they're in the mix, but they're not

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the main ingredient of a championship, given that they were before.
They're they're part of the puzzle.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
It's I mean, it is a fascinating because the only
is going to bring up that scenario is because that's
one of the few scenarios where if Bregman left, it
wouldn't sting as much.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, Wan Soto was asked many, many times. His teammate
were all asked about him. His teammates pretty much said
all the right things and didn't commit to anything.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
We'd love to have him back here, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Gen Carlos Stanton, you know he's in this position now,
what would your advice be to him? And he said, well,
I've never been in this position. He signed that massive
deal with the Marlins and they sent him over to
the Yankees. He's still playing under that long term deal.
He said, I've never been in it. I guess my
advice would be stay here. He kind of laughed about it.
Garrett Cole said, personally, he's really happy for him to
be in the situation. You know, you do what's best

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for you and your family, and you see what's there.
Aaron Judge said, I don't think people realize how much
he does for this team, how hard he works. You know,
he has an OZ for one day. The guy's hitting
three twenty and he's working on things in the Yeah,
he just he was just really super positive about the
person and how much he helps them beyond what we
all see every day. But you know, this is what

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you know something in baseball. You go out there and
you see what's there. I mean, Aaron Judge did this himself.
He reached free agency and re signed ultimately after getting
some pretty lucrative deals, although they changed its first name
from in San Francisco to Arson, and he came back
to the Yankees. I think some people are believing what

(23:10):
they want to believe in what Juan Soto said. So,
in an effort to limit the baseball talk to this segment,
this is what one Sotto said, among other things about
his free agency.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
I don't know it was the teams that want to
come after me, but definitely I'll be open to this
and every single team.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I don't have any those closed or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
So I'm we're gonna be available for all Teddy teams.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
So the exclusive door to negotiate with Juan so is open,
but it's going to remain open. He's not resigning with
the Yankees before any time period. He might ultimately do that,
but as he said, and his teammate said, he's a
free agent. He's reached that point, he's going to listen
to offers, and yeah, that has to make everybody, even me,
give a little pause to of course, Won sot is

(23:55):
going back to the Yankees. Let's talk more New York
sports next.

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Speaker 2 (25:21):
The Houston Texans looking to uh make it zero for
two on the week In New York, I guess in
big matchups it's the Jets, though I don't like New
York is such a weird sports vibe because the Knicks
should be a big deal, but they haven't been for
like twenty years.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Like they they haven't been winning, but they are a
huge deal.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's funny to me. It's like they're the Cowboys basically.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Who are also a huge deal, right, because you should
just go away win.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yes, those people should.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
That's what we complained about when fans do that.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
If you go decades and decades and decades and you're
not even like close, Like it's one thing.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
They're the same ownership that they won titles.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
With when the last time the Cowboys weren't a championship
game under their current owner. Not even the Rockets consider
that anymore, right, But at least they were a win
away from the NBA Finals a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Like it, they they were a win away from the
conference title game, just as recently as a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Ago from the conference title game not being in.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
The Rockets were four wins away, five wins away from
winning the title. The Cowboys were two or three.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Are we doing this? Are we really doing this right now?
The Knicks, I mean, great, they may get back to
the postseason. Like the Knicks, fans are happy when you're
talking about their team because of the team and not
the owner. That's what they've been relegated to. Sounds familiar, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
They just have so much that and they have so
many people. I mean, just the last couple of days,
nobody even knows here hockey seasons ongoing. There's they're multiple teams.
The Yankee season obviously did not end until the very
last game of the baseball season. Both of their will
the Knicks, they season just started, and then both of
their football teams have two wins almost halfway through the season.

(27:08):
And it's still the kind of the first thing people
the Yankees are first currently, but they're going to talk
about that before they get to the hockey teams or
the Knicks or the Nets, and.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
They scre technically a New York team now because they're
in one of the five boroughs.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, of course they're in New York. Well, they were
a New York team when they were called at New Juju.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Or which you still well, I guess you have to
go across the river either way.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
But yeah, they have different locations, but they were they
were always in New York.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Parkley Center is sweet if you've ever been there, it's
a legit venue. I've been in. Say, it's awesome. And
they had the chance to be a good team until
they didn't. That went quickly.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
But yeah, I just feel like they did they didn't
did something last night?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
What did they do? Uh?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
They they won? They won at Memphis.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
They have thirteen they have two wins now too, Yeah, shockingly,
so they're like a football teams in the city. Yeah,
but they've only had five opportunities to get one. Like
I realize I've had eight. Texas are playing the Jets tonight.
I realized that the Jets are a good are a
big deal there, but they're still they're they're the second
fiddle in that town to the Giants. Right. I mean

(28:16):
I don't. I don't live there, I didn't grow up there,
so it's hard to say with certainty. But I just
feel like from the outside looking in, it's, you know,
Yankees over the Mets. You're gonna have more Yankees fans
there than you are Mets. It's just how it goes.
You're gonna have more Giants fans than you are Jets.
You're gonna have more Knicks fans than you are Nets.
Am I am? I totally off here. I don't. I
know there's a big fan base.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
For the Jets in addition to that, and I know
the Knicks haven't won anything in.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Forever since the seventies. What of the Nets won nothing? Literally? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
And then what if the Jets won in the last
forty seven, forty eight, forty nine.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Your name is wasn't on the roster? Nothing? Right?

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Okay, I'm at sixty eight. The terrible We've been not
real good for a bit. Giants have won multiple Super
in the two thousands, and then these teams that you're battling,
I mean, the Mets haven't been totally disastrous for such
a long period. They were born when the Astros were born.
Basically their kids. The Yankees for quite some time now

(29:15):
have had twenty seven titles.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
You know. It's fun about that too, the fact that
you can go down the list and completely discredit all
but like two of their championships.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
The Yankees, Yeah, discredit them.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
So they won two legites.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
They won a bunch of titles when people who looked
the same were the only people they let play baseball.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
A bunch like half of the twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Okay, And then they won some titles where people were
in the war and it hurt their teams. So not
the Yankees. Is that a good one?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
No? No, it was another.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
They didn't win a COVID title. I don't only knock
want it.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Lots of steroids championships.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
They won some tainted titles because of steroids. So all
of are any of the Jeter titles legit? No, none
of them? Well were they on roids?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, I don't know. I mean he might not have
been him well right, but his teammates And as we've
been told by that fan base, if you don't report it,
then you're a cheater. Two Altuve. That's their logic.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
I mean, that's it's the dumbest thing, isn't dumb like
al Tuove, I'm sorry, is a cheater.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Because he played on the team that cheated. Yes, but
he didn't use it.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
He he strongly did it. He did everything he could
to not have it used while he was hitting.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
This is what always.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I don't know how much he did to make sure
it wasn't used when the other eight guys were up there.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
By the letter of the law, what you're saying is accurate.
You know what else is accurate the fact that these people,
these people over here, these Yankees fans, let's just say
for the sake of argument, Aaron Judge was the only
guy that didn't use a system, which, by the way,
there was a system. It came from your clubhouse, you morons.

(30:55):
But let's just say for the sake of argument in
that season, which again he was the runner up to
for the MVP, And a lot of them are butt
heart about that too, because that's what they are, their
Yankees fans. They're but heart about everything because they never
win anymore. So Aaron Judge doesn't use the system, but
everybody else did to whatever varying degree of success, whether
it helped them or not, whatever, and it comes out

(31:17):
that they cheated but Judge didn't do it, and he's
the MVP of that year and he's the guy. I mean,
come on, you're expecting what would they expect us to
not say that? Let me just about him the way
they do about al tuove Yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Way I say that and the way you present it,
and even thinking back before you finish what you're saying,
al Twovey's accomplishments from a team standpoint are cheater tainted.
It's probably a better way to say it than he
is a cheater. He's attached to it as closely as
you can be without using it. And it would be
the same thing for Aaron Judge. And that is a
very similar situation too.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So the Yankees weren't fine for cheating.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
The Airman's enhanced Well, yes they were. That's why I'd
say it's very similar to it. You should absolutely look
at it that way. You know, we're focused on I
think a Rod so much. I mean Robinson Cano's another
guy who's been punished for it. I mean, when was
he using, when was he not using? And how many
other players do we need to bring up? But you're
basically saying every major League Baseball crown is tainted because

(32:16):
you could probably attach somebody who used something in some
form or fashion exactly.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
On record, but I am on record multiple times on
this show is saying that Roger Clemens noted Yankee by
the way, he.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
He had tipped the Dodgers last night.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
And Barry Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame. Yes,
should I agree? Okay, so based on what logic? Though
if you agree, why do you agree with that? Based
on what logic? Because a lot of people were doing it?
Because if that's your logic, then now what we're talking
about totally applies. I multiple teams are cheating. It's a

(32:52):
public perception thing.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I don't think the public yet believes that cheating was
rampant from a science.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
They're stupid, agree, And there's a lot of people that
are stupid in this country as.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
We Probablist clearly does believe steroid use pump performance enhancing
is different. Was running more rampant around baseball? For whatever
information we have, like whatever Barry Bond's information, or Clemmens
or anybody else that we know used And it's not
necessarily those as the examples, but so many players that
were punished for it. I think it's just public perception.

(33:22):
You're right, there's no real difference. There's no way you
should look at it so much differently. And once again,
if you if you hear what we're saying and you're
locked in on the conversation, then you know how much
we love talking about the Jets Texans game tonight.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
I mean we're trying desperate. I am really trying hard,
and you keep interrupting me. I keep trying to get
the football and you keep wanting to talk about baseball.
That's what's going on here. See I'm talking to you
like a Yankees fan. It's throwing stones from Glasshow.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I'm going to talk to you like I'm former head
coach of the Houston Texans.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Oh, I can't wait for that that it's on me.
It's straight ahead next.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Now.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
I'll always remember my friend Adam and my other friend
Adam and maybe another Atom if they get another guy
in the show. That's why they call this splitting the Atom.
Adam Clinton, Adam wexlerd and I don't give us about either.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I hope the camera picked up your disdainers now here.
If it didn't, there you go that's what he was.
That's how our conversation ended during the last commercial break.
Had nothing to do with sports. That's a huge shock
to a lot of you. I'm sure if you've listened
to this show.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
We were just talking about a battle of two heavyweights,
the Texans and Jets.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
All right. Did you happen to see JJ Watt just
be appalled at the fact that Texans weren't favored in
this game.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
On Mister Max's show. Yeah, I was actually it earlier today.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I mean he was. He was genuinely butt hurt.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
That did his butt hurt even more when the line
went up for the Jets or did he.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Not know that?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
When did that happen? Though, Well, it's a two now
and yesterday when we spoke, is it one and a half?
And previously it won?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
What happened because you found out about Yeah, but you
found out about Stefan Diggs the day prior.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Probably, Well, it's not he's not there, it's that their
top two receivers aren't there.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
But do you think that if Stefan Digs were out there,
the Texans would be favored for this game or would
it be a push? No?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
But I think more people are looking at it like
this is a this is a big problem. Like but
at the beginning of the year, had this happened, we
wouldn't have had multiple games in a row of watching c. J.
Stroud get pressured at a new career high worst rate,
which will climb. But those two games happened to have
just occurred against the Packers and then the than the Colts.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Does that have an eight in front of it tonight? No,
you don't think he's gonna get pressured eighty percent home.
He just got pressured over seventy last week. No, how
can you be so sure this is a better defense.
That's just a hard number to reach, And yet I
don't think they will get there. You've have two things
going in your favor. You're a better defense than last
week's and another receiver that's very good as out.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
No, Stefan Diggs doesn't mean you're gonna be hit with
more pressure. No, Stefan Diggs means you might not have
certain go to plays, you might not have as many
opportunities to continue driving the ball. It doesn't necessarily mean
they're going to defend you so dramatically differently because Steph
Diggs isn't there I mean Stefan Diggs, and as a Viking,
Steffan Diggs is a Bill. Stefan Diggs is a Texan.

(36:34):
He's making it's a very different thing as a DC
to defend those three digs in my opinion, so I
don't think he's that player anymore. He was a nice
addition to this team, especially since the cost in both areas.
I don't think the draft pick cost was too costly,
and I don't think the money they paid him because
of the short term nature of it was costly. They

(36:55):
made the team more capable of making life easier for CJ.
There's two parts to it, and they have not made
the other part any easier. What are your weapons like,
elite when healthy Mixon, Collins, Dell, Diggs, Schultz, there's a
reason why we all had a cow in a good

(37:15):
way when they dropped the I got a five headed
monster out here for me, Well, two of those heads
aren't there, and if you consider Schultz another of the heads,
I'm not sure why. And Dell's season, that's not much
of a head considering he's now played three games without
one of the heads and none of the games have
been explosive. They've been productive but not explosive. You've basically

(37:37):
had two heads and one of them's played half the season.
Joe Mixon is a monster. He has been one of
the five headed monsters for sure. He's been incredible in
every way that Saquon Barkley has for the Eagles and
Derrick Henry has been for the Baltimore Ravens. He's been elite.
He is a game changer. He makes it easier to win,
he makes it easier to score, he makes it easier

(37:58):
to move the ball everything. And then Nico Collins has
played half the year. The other heads like, I don't
want to talk so negatively about Diggs because I think
as a unit, a five person group, yes, it probably
is that. Well, that's not really what the Jets are
up against. It's not what their defense is up against.
And I think, flip side, we're still not giving the
Texans defense enough credit. And I know saying that, going

(38:20):
into a game where you're playing at least as capable
of a group as you've seen, you want to go
through the whole year like Jordan Love returning against the Texans,
or being on the field against the Texans that was
as capable as.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
A group you've faced all year.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
It's the best offense you've faced, and this one is
not far behind. It's better than Buffalo's. Buffalo did not
have the receiving corps or the comfort with Josh Allen
that they probably will for pretty much every game moving forward.
Their backfield's fully healthy now, and they've added Amari Cooper.
Most of the other teams just straight out of the gate,
they just didn't have a quarterback they could do anything.

(38:54):
I don't think the Vikings unit is better than the
one they're facing tonight.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
I really don't.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Even with Justin Jefferson, Jefferson Addison uh and Aaron Jones
and Sam Darnold, that's worse than Devontae Adams, Garrett Wilson,
Breese Hall and Aaron Rodgers. So this is a challenge
the Texans defense.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I mean, you say our Aaron Rodgers like he's good
this year, he's terrible.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
He's not terrible. That's to me, that is extremely inaccurate
for how he has played this year. Terrible means you
gotta look at the next guy. Terrible means because of you,
we can't win. Okay, he's bad, I mean he's not.
He has been one of he's not top half.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
He's one of the reasons games. Yeah, he is one
of them, but so are every even the defense, which
clearly has done some good thing.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Every part of their team is why they're losing. That's
why they're losing. Like he's not gonna go out there,
and this guy's Anthony Richardson. They have no chance to
throw the ball today, or this guy's gonna turn into
Josh Allen performance you're playing. He's so capable even still,
he's not gonna throw for four hundred yards and five scores.
It's not gonna throw it for three hundred and fifty
yards and three scores. But all they have to do
is move the ball up and down the field, convert

(40:05):
point Like how many drives have ended with well, I
don't want to kick it because my kicker sucks, or
I feel compelled to kick it and then he misses it.
I know it's only three points, but those things matter
when you keep losing close.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Settling for three means you get three. Still most of
the time with them, it means you get zero.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
And settling for it means you're not quite as confident
in your offense and you've changed head coaches so it's
a new philosophy. You change those seas like, clearly they
have problems. I'm not trying to paint Aaron Rodgers says,
hey man, you guys got to pick it up. This
guy's been doing just fine. It's not on him. It
is on him. But I also he's not He's just
he's capable. Still, he is a hard quarterback to play

(40:44):
defense against, especially if you're into the week, second week,
third week, fourth week of Devonte Adams. This defense is
now into the second week with Hassan Reddick of I
don't know how you view the others of all these
teams that have gotten off to these awful were going
nowhere starts, They've got to be the best one. I
mean I look at them like I look at the Dolphins.

(41:05):
The Dolphins case is fairly clear. Yeah no Tua, no chance.
Well now he's back. Well they just lost their first
game with them, so they're clearly not unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
But I think that that's that's way different because Tua
just hasn't been on the field, right, I mean, Aaron
Rodgers been on the field and they're still two and six.
I mean, that's his point blank an argument as I
could make.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
There are definitely two sides that I don't view this
as a bad football team, and I'm unsurprised that they
are favored at home over the Texans on the road.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Well, do you know, I just I mean, I think
the Texans are going to lose.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
We will give our stone cold lock on the Texans
game today. Yeah, I'm not picking the Jets to win, right.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
And I think the reason that I agree with JJ
Watt and b C where I think he was coming
from with the demonstrative statement. He was appalled. He just
could not believe that they weren't favors. And I think
it's because the text have CJ. Stroud, which comes back
to the Aaron Rodgers thing. If Aaron Rodgers wasn't bad,

(42:07):
not terrible, whatever you want to call it, whatever level
of not great, he is playing quarterback right now. It's
as much about the fact that I do think CJ.
Stroud is so good that he can overcome even another
stud receiver being out. I mean, how many times do
we talk about and I'm not saying he's Tom Brady's
just calm down. How many times do we talk about
Tom Brady being so great because he made no name

(42:29):
receivers look better than they probably would have anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, we've talked about it a lot. There was a huge,
huge reason, a why beyond who he was because.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
He had protection. Yes, I know, that's that's the one
thing I'm not mentioning. Maybe I should. Maybe I'll do
that next. We've got another couple of hours to go
here on a Halloween and game day edition of The
A Team Sports Talk seven ninety and of course simulcast
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Speaker 1 (42:56):
The A t On Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
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Speaker 2 (43:15):
A our number two underway here on a Halloween edition
of the A Team Sports Talks seven ninety wex and
AC with you up until six o'clock tonight. Of course,
the Texans and the Jets getting underway up in the
New York metropolitan area, and the Rockets will be playing

(43:37):
the Dallas Mavericks tonight in Dallas. By the way, just
real quick on that I didn't realize until I saw
I guess it was a graphic floating around or just
you know. And it's four games in the Rockets have
split their first four games. Jalen Green's really playing well.
And it's not just oh, he's averaging a lot of points.

(43:58):
Like he's putting up really insane numbers. Still not the
twenty eight eight game.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Yeah, shooting his threes at forty one overall field goal
percentagers also like tick up from where it's been either
at the end of last year or over the.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Course of his career. I'm not getting too excited yet
because well, he's done this every single year. He's just
if he's gonna do this awesome month thing that he
does every year, it'd be cool if it was the
first month of the season, but I think it's actually
gonna be more than that. I think maybe I don't know,
like he's I don't want to say he's unlocking whatever

(44:32):
because he was so young when he came in, but
like right now on offense at least the other night,
especially where I would tend in the past to say, hey,
run the offense, run everything throughout for in Shingoon, I
don'n't mind Jalen Green taking these shots. They're not all
going in. Sometimes he's missing wide open threes too much
for my taste, But I've just been impressed with him

(44:54):
one of the first four games, and they're gonna need
that guy tonight if they're gonna have a chance against
the Mavericks.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah, he's Unfortunately, very few others have gotten off to
a very good start this year. They quite possibly before Oh.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Yeah, no, they probably should at least be three and one,
But I digress. So, yeah, that'll be going on at
the same time a Texans game will be going on.
And that's not the first time that's gonna happen this
year because both teams will be playing on Monday Night
when the Texans play in Arlington against the Cowboys next month.
But a lot of the focus obviously on the Texans

(45:24):
and the Jets tonight. It is the prime time matchup.
And going back to what we were talking about a
little bit last segment, I know that we were talking
about both quarterbacks, and I know that part of the
reason you might not be confident in CJ. Stroud basically
pulling a rabbit out of his hat. With another marquee
wide receiver now going down to injury. You will be

(45:44):
getting back Nico Collins next week against Detroit. Probably, I
think you will less there's some sort of setback that's
unforeseen because I think all indications are he's gonna be ready.
So it's kind of it's not a wash because I
think Nico brings more to the table, honestly than stuff
On Diggs was bringing. But we haven't talked about Joe

(46:05):
Mixon in this first hour. But we also haven't talked
about Breece Hall, and I don't think that, Like, if
you're asking me tonight, who's gonna have the better night,
like who you're gonna bet on, I'm gonna say Joe Mixon.
But Hall hasn't put up terrible numbers, even though he's
had to do it in way more games for the

(46:26):
production that he has versus what Joe Mixon has in
how many missed three.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
The concern, Yeah, the concern with Hall is letting him
get in space, especially in the passing game. He's number
one in the NFL and receiving yards for running backs
at a little over three hundred already halfway through a season.
There's not really any McCaffrey's out there. Doesn't look like
whether they're threatening eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand yard
receiving seasons out of the backfield, but he's one of

(46:51):
the best, and the Texans linebackers are not at one
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Obviously Al Shires.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Among the four Texans that are not available for this
game that are still on the active roster, they will
have Devin White. They are getting back Henry Toatoa, but
that also means there's some combinations that they haven't really
used at all this year. If Totoa starts, well, then
he's going to be playing alongside Nevill Hewitt, who he's
barely seen the field with. I think he saw a

(47:17):
little bit of it before he left that game same
game as Shier left Shire with the knee, and toto
is in the concussion protocol. Devin White just hasn't been
on the field obviously, hasn't been on the field with
Toatoa at all because he just played his first Texans
game last week. So just the how they get through
all this and how they make sure that they're doing
everything they need to the quarterback of the defense, so

(47:38):
to speak. The green dot obviously has been moved from
A'll Shire to Neville Hewitt, which is where I imagine
it will stay for as long as it did until
Shire's back. That's a factor, and that part of the
Jets offense is one of the biggest areas where it
is a factor. I like the Texans chances to do
the right thing and be able to handle the Braylen

(47:58):
Allen Breese Hall run game.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I think they'll do a very good job.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
I don't think the Jets offensive line, which is clearly
better than it's been, it's not overwhelming. It's not something
that should keep the Texans from continuing to show that
they're one of the best run defenses in the NFL.
That has to happen. I mean, I'd hate to believe
that they can't do that. I mean last week they
did not do a great job against the run because
every time they gave Jonathan Taylor the ball that felt

(48:22):
like there was another eight yards. He's hit for three
yard game and then he gets another four. Had too
many big runs, nothing super explosive, but too many big
runs and not quite as many hits behind the line
of scrimmage as you would like. You know, that has
to happen to put them behind the sticks. Make Aaron
Rodgers have to take more time. They're gonna take a
lot of time. The Texans are the number one team

(48:45):
in the NFL in time of possession because they get
a lot of first downs and because they have enough
positive plays to continue drives and they have Joe Mixon.
The Jets are among the teams they're about halfway through,
but they do have better than thirty minutes of time
of possession. Again, the only reason they're there is because
they don't snap the ball until the play clock's about
to run out. That's why they've wasted timeouts all season long.

(49:07):
Because Aaron Rodgers likes.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
To do it that way.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
He likes to wait and wait and wait and look
things over and makes It's worked for him, but it
has also cost them in some other areas as well.
That's one area of the text I feel confident about.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
They need to do it. I think they will do it.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
You force them, you know, you want Aaron Rodgers actually
to be the guy that has to beat you. It's
a challenge for Lasseter, It's a challenge for Stingley to
be with DeVante Adams and to be with Garrett Wilson
throughout the afternoon. Allen Lazard, we already knew was out.
He's actually going to ir today for the Jets. But
no impact on this game. It was already known beyond

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that can't have a Tyler Conklin type of four to
five six catch game, and tight ends have not really
hurt the Texans this year. So many of the things
that I would be normally concerned about, we probably just
don't spend enough time talking about how good this Texans
defense has been. Hassan Riddick back for his second game,
Hassan Reddick back for a second well, dinnyko Autry's back
for his third game. How about this is the game
where each of those three players is constantly in the backfield.

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Hunter and Anderson have been animals. Anderson won player of
the Month in the AFC Defensive Player of the Month
earlier today.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Sham on us for not mentioning that already he was.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
I don't think it was a given, but a five
sack seven TfL performance for the month, sacks in each
of the last three games obviously all this month, twelve
hits tackles at or behind the line of scrimmage, number
one in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Do you still think what and you mentioned this? I
think it was this season, but it might have been
last year during his rookie year. Do you still from
time to time think about how slight he is even
now for what he's doing. Definitely, because we were talking
about when we met him at the it was the
Lombardi Awards and we interviewed him, and I was hoping

(50:49):
the Texans would get him, even though I thought, well,
there's gonna go quarterback. I never knew they were going
to pull off the trade that they did, but I
was just like, Wow, this guy. I mean, he's tall,
but he's one of the best pass rushers coming out
of college. He just didn't look like he was and
he still just looks so slight compared to like JJ
was way bulkier even his rookie season than this kid.

(51:13):
But I don't care get the job done.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
I look at it more like and it's happening again
this year in Minnesota. John Grenard is not a big
defensive end, and he was awesome against the run last
year and he was awesome getting into the backfield. He's
doing the exact same thing again this year. And from
a size perspective, there's most everybody else other than Will
Anderson and John Garnard on the list of best edge
defenders against the rush, best edged defenders as pass rushers

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they're the smallest ones.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Does it just prove that technique is that big of
a deal for some of these guys, especially in their case, Well,
you don't have to way too eighty to be strong,
and I think that's lost on people. Yeah, that's true,
that is true.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
You can still and leverage matters, and yes, that's part
of your technique scenario. I mean, these offensive linemen, they
don't out. There's not a single offensive lineman they have
gone up against in their careers that weighs less than them,
not one, not what has not gonna happen this week either.
So it's nice when they catch a break and they say, well,

(52:12):
we'll just put a tight end over there, and if
he gets by him, then the running backs there. And
sometimes you see some numbers get inflated because well, these
guys are so stupid. The Texans did it to Gerard.
He had a three sack game. Yep, he didn't do
it every he played, but they did it a couple
of times and he was able to do He's.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Just reminding them what he was capable of.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
His skill set is immense, his motor is incredible. He's
definitely a student of the game. From the technique standpoint
that you're bringing up, and you know, yes, speed is
a big deal. His strength isn't why he helped the
Texans sack Anthony Richardson on the final play of the game.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
His speed is.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
And that's why lining three guys up on all on
the same side with an absolutely wide open other side,
they rushed three. All of them were to Richardson's right side.
He didn't have to worry about his blind side until
Will Anderson and outran the entire offensive line, looped around
and got in his face, and Daniel Hunter was also there,
and Dinniko Audry was also there. They're gonna get to

(53:08):
Aaron Rodgers. That's another big difference. Josh Allen avoid sacks.
Anthony Richardson avoids sacks. That's three of their eight games
this year. Now they're playing Aaron Rodgers. He might get
rid of the ball, he might avoid a statistical sack,
but they're gonna win the play and he's gonna have
to throw it away, or he's not gonna be comfortable
in the pocket, or he's gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Throw it before he wants to. Yeah, I think I
feel like and that is a big victory by the
way if you're not getting to Aaron Rodgers, but you're
making him throw the ball away. I mean, sure you'd
like the lost yards, but I just think that he
is still cagy, crafty, whatever you wanna call it. It's
gonna be tougher unless you just outright get to him.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Other teams have been getting to them enough that he's
thrown seven interceptions. You know, I just posted this as
the thirty third team posted a list of what passer
ratings are against the Blitz this year, and for both
Stroud and Rogers, their numbers overall are almost identical. Probably
in Stroud's case because he's been against the Blitz so often,

(54:09):
he doesn't have enough plays, not against the Blitz or
pressure where he can even it out.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
But it's gonna matter.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Mistakes get made by Aaron Rodgers at this stage of
his career more than at any other time, when he's
facing pressure, when he's been under duress.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
He's gonna be under duress tonight.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler. The A Team now continues.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Conversation continues on the Texans and Jets. You know a
couple of you want to weigh in on the conversation
or bring up something else regarding the game tonight, So
we can do that as well. Here this segment seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety signature seven
comes your way at four thirty. What's up with that?
On Thursdays, We've got our stone cold locks coming up
for you tomorrow. We will I have one of those

(55:00):
five selections three overall, one for each of us on
Houston and New York. Come up a little bit later
on the show, considering that game is being played tonight.
Just some updates on the Jets situation mentioned They would
be having a different kicking situation this game, with Greg
Zerline going on IR and them signing two kickers to
the practice squad. They have signed one of those two kickers,

(55:22):
Riley Patterson, formerly of the pick A team. He's probably
been on it. He's on the active roster, so he
will handle the duties for them tonight. They've elevated Kendall
Sheffield and deck Jerrius Monroe for it tonight's game. They've
activated tight end Kenny Boa and released Anthony Ferkster, So
that's a little bit more of their tight end situation

(55:44):
and the Texans will go as they have since yesterday.
There were no other additional roster related moves heading into
today's game. The only roster related move that was made.
Stevan Diggs was officially placed on the injury reserve and
JJ Taylor running back was activated signed I should say,
from the practice squad to the active roster with Damian

(56:06):
Pierce being out tonight due to a groin entry.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Okay, give me a couple of answers here. What percentage
do you put on the Texans making a deal? And
do you think the fact that fifty I want that.
I think Keny Green's former number, that would be the
leader in the clubhouse to get shipped out. I'm not

(56:30):
sure what again, you what are you getting? What's the point?

Speaker 3 (56:35):
It's okay, I mean, you don't have to play him,
but do you what are you moving him for?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Well, he's clearly a locker room cancer. He's definitely kidding.
I'm kidding. But the reason I the second part of
that is how much does this game and the smack
dab middle of the week have to do with the
fact they maybe haven't already Do you think they would
have because there's been a lot of deals already.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Yeah, I think that has a little bit of it,
But then they maybe catch they're timing stinks because other
players are positions of need make wide receiver have already
been moved. But some of those moves were made long
before Stefan Diggs's entry. I don't believe they were talking
to the Browns about Amari Cooper, well, they didn't need
to that. I don't believe they were talking to the
Raiders about Devontae Adams. Now Deontay Johnson is a little

(57:14):
bit different, and then he got moved this week. That's
definitely somebody I would believe that they had actually would
have had interest in and maybe had the opportunity to
be in the mix a little bit. And for what
he ended up being moved from the Panthers for to
the Ravens is definitely something I would hope would be
okay with their GM Nick Cassario, but all those other
names that we mentioned again, there's a little bit of

(57:35):
risk for any of those players that are active this
week that play what's their situation. That's why I bring
it up only because of Adam Thielen's health situation. He's
still not yet been activated by the Panthers. That could
come tomorrow if they want him to play and either
prove that he's healthy, but I think that's kind of
dangerous if you also want to move him. So there's
just a couple of things from the monitor. That also

(57:57):
means after Thursday, the team's off for three days. Nick
Casario's on for all of those days, and then they
get back into their regular work week for the Lions
game all during the week where the trade deadline hits
comes up on November fifth. So I think they're in
a bad position to have gotten something done on short notice,
timing of the Dig's injury and then timing of their

(58:18):
next game. But you're in a probably a pretty good
position with a few less things to like, nobody got
hurt on the let's see tomorrow is the first, the third,
Nobody got hurt on the third, two days before the
trade deadline, because you're not playing on the third. Maybe
somebody unfortunately could get hurt on tonight, the thirty first,
But it gives you even more time to come up

(58:39):
with something. But that's why you probably have a bunch
of things already kind of prepared to go. See when
you get David in here on the Jets Texans conversation.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
The radio down, ye please.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Let's put him on hold until you can tell him
to do that. Then we'll bring him back on the air.
You know there's a delay in radio for those of
you who are listening. Obviously, we'll get it corrected and
we'll get him back in here and won't move anybody
else back down further in the line, because like yesterday,
I'm a super nice guy and I don't like doing that,
So we'll give it a shot again here, David, Now
that you are in lockstep with us, let's hear.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
What you have to say about Texans Jets. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (59:16):
Well, hello there, everybody. I just want to say Happy
Halloween to everybody at first, because this is gonna be
a trick or treat game. The Texans are going to
blow out the Jets, and it's gonna be another one
of those New York nightmares like the one last night
the Dodgers went in there and beat the Yankees. The
Texans are going to go in there and beat the Jets,

(59:37):
and that's gonna be their New York nightmare coming out
of Houston, Texas. So another thing I believe that the
Texans dj Stroud. I believe he's gonna have to put
the team on his back because we got a little
bit of injuries that happened to us last year, and

(59:58):
you know, we only went so far are but you know,
if we had all our weapons, we would be right
there talking about best in the NFL kind of stuff.
They already put us in that conversation a little bit,
but they're not giving us our due. But this year
versus what we've seen in the past, the Texans haven't

(01:00:19):
always been one of the teams that have been, you know,
outright on prime time. So now we're getting some primetime action.
We're going to be on Monday Night Football with the
Dallas Cowboys, and that's where I want them to show
the rest of the NFL that Texas football should be
a battle for something. Just like the Astros and the

(01:00:40):
Rangers got the silver boot, the Texans and the Cowboys
need to come up with something the five gallon cap,
you know, bowl or something like that, something to run
it off and play for so that way that those
players have some sort of bragging rights to the state
of Texas, and in Texas football is king the grid iron.

(01:01:03):
We got good baseball, We got good basketball. But Texans.
Everybody's on the wagon. And that's another good thing the Texans.
I think if we go, if we do ten games,
we make ten games and get into the playoffs. This year,
it's a gamble. Everybody else in the NFL has a

(01:01:25):
same kind of you know, nicked up injuries as do
the Texans, and they're out there hunting for, you know,
a fill in guy to trade or something. But as
it is, the Texans have a really good squad. As
it is, all we have to do is get healthy
and stay healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Well, hopefully the one major health concern is going to
turn around next week with Nico Collins, and then again
there's no digs getting healthy. A season has come to
its conclusion. Health elsewhere is obviously already on track. You
mentioned Nico Collins, we expect him to be back. I
expect Al Sharon Jimmy Ward to be available also, And
once you've gotten to that point, you're probably really only

(01:02:05):
left with the situation with Damian Pierce, a little hard
to say the extent and how long that might linger,
and the concussion protocol situation with Jared Patterson, the other player,
there's one other very key player, but he happens to
play in a position where the Texas have been pretty
good this year, and that's Christian Harris. And it's not
really what I would have expected when the year began,

(01:02:26):
because I don't think the Totoe we've seen in year
two even remotely resembles Totoe in year one. He's been really,
really good. I meant that in a good way, and
I don't mean to say that he was bad in
twenty twenty three. He was a rookie, and then the
situation they had and the makeup of their linebacker room
was very, very different, and I think it's been He
took the opportunity with Harris out to become the starter,

(01:02:49):
and he just never gave it up. And he earned it,
and he earned the right to continue to be out there,
and he's earned the right to return here. So maybe
a kind of rough patch of first half of the
season with injuries, maybe it's not nearly as rough on
the other side. The only difference is now some injuries
in the second half of the season, you only have
so much time to get better. And I was thinking
about this, and we'll get to a couple of other
points you made. David appreciate your contributions. There haven't been

(01:03:12):
that many injuries this year that have been like Digs,
a very good team with a very important player done
for the year. A lot of teams are dealing with
injuries quite obviously. The Niners have not even yet seen
Christian McCaffrey, but he's not out for the year. And
the quarterback position, you know, Derek Carr, a few others
have either missed a game or missed several games. Jordan

(01:03:34):
Love's been hurt and he's hurt again, although probably still
going to start this week. Lamar Jackson's missed a couple
of practices.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
People in Baltimore are wondering what's but there's no unless
I'm missing quite a few.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
It's on the defensive side.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
It's a catastrophic game changing offensive player.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Injuries because Ada Hutchinson, I think, is that guy for Detroit.
But they've got so many other things going well for
them that they can almost offset it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
Yeah, if you split an offense and defense, that helps
me not to have forgotten somebody, because that's as big
as you can get. But yeah, it just doesn't seem
like we've done it. And I didn't want to bring
it up, and I probably wouldn't have if it hadn't
happened to Houston. But we're probably right in that window
of well, here you go, who's done for the year
in Week ten, who's done for the year in week twelve. Yeah,

(01:04:18):
you know, last year, by the end of the year,
I think we finished with thirteen quarterbacks. Maybe it was
twelve that started all seventeen games, or would have guys
who maybe stopped playing in Week eighteen because their playoff
situation was situated. I mean, it's early in the season.
Like even Tua Tua got hurt, he missed half a season,

(01:04:38):
half of the games they played. Now hopefully he's back
for the rest of It's gonna make a difference down
the stretch when and if they come. And I feel
like we've had so few we're just destined to be
really upset league wide with what we're maybe not gonna
get s If.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
I like, you bring that up on a night where CJ.
Stroud's going back to met Life stage, Well he's not
gonna get hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I mean, I'm not at all concerned about that, but
I'm never going to a games concern you. You've done
that a lot like Oh, this is their offensive lines
in chambel, or this defensive it or vice versa.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
The Texas are going to go kill that quarterback Aaron
Rodgers could he could get killed tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
I just never go into a game saying this is
what's gonna happen, and then I'm it concerns.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
I am worried about c J Stroutz tonight coming out
of this game healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
I'm worried about him succeeding.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
What's up with? What's up with that?

Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
What's up? I say it was up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
With that? It four thirty on a Thursday means what's
up with that? It is game day for the Houston Texans.
They'll be on the field and playing a little under
three hours from now against the New York Jets. A
little over an hour from now, we'll have the inactives
for the Texans. Although four of them are quite obvious.
They'refore currently rostered players that are unhealthy and already listed out,

(01:06:20):
and a couple of others we will have all sorts
of things to do tonight, whether it's enjoy that, enjoy
listening to Matt and I talk Rockets basketball through their
game with the Dallas Mavericks, and somewhere in between, or
including all of that. You might be trying to fill
your pumpkin with some sweet treats or your pillowcase or
whatever it is you use on your jaunt around the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
I never use case, and I think that was a
mistake on my part. It's it's big, it's awesome. Yeah,
it's cheap. It's also not gonna rip. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Some people put in like heavy items and it could
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Damage's heavy item you got for Halloween. I mean it's
not a good item. I mean an apple. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
People they give probably not enough to rip your bag.
But if more than a couple of people are giving
those some people give you items and they aren't candy
like toys.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah, those people are called rich. And also, by the way,
since you mentioned it, do you ever sit there and
think about how disgusting the concept of bobbing for apples
is in a community setting near Put your open mouth
in this water and try to catch fruit with your teeth,
and then you do it, and now you do it,

(01:07:36):
and now you do it all different people. Gross. No,
I wanted to make out with all of them. I
would just do that. That would be much better. And
all I'm getting out of this is a wet face
and bad food. Much rather do what you suggest. Apples
are not bad food. But well, if you can't really
bob for anything else.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
When's the last time? Now you might wash your apple
when you're at the house and you've gone produce shopping
and come home, or it's on the counter and you're
ready to eat it, but it's not sopping wet like
it is when you bob for it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
It does have a outer shell that probably protects it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Well, that's true, but it's not protecting you from all
the secondhand spit you're consuming. Very unconcerned. Conversely, the caramel
apple underrated is a treat.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
And conversely, the heavy, heavy majority of the candied items
you're going to receive tonight are hopefully unblemished, untarnished.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
And unraisored.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
A horrible thing wrapped there untouched all that stuff. Uh,
typical conversation. You're nothing earth shattering, but uh, you're gonna
get some candy tonight, especially you kiddos, and then the
parents who wait for them to leave the room and
take whatever they want, because they're just there for the
good stuff. They're not there for the massive quantities of it.
They're there for these are the ones I like, you
can have. The rest appreciate your running out the house

(01:08:53):
and getting everything, And these are the candies. I hope
nobody comes by to get you fill up the bowl.
You leave the good ones in the back until you're
kind of forced to hand them out. If that many
people come to the house. So yeah, we're like many
other sports programs today, including whatever show Dan Orlovsky was
on today. He's kind of the go to guy for

(01:09:14):
ESPN right now this week at least, Hey man, we
have shows on from this am until that am. Just
go from studio to studio. You're on every show. One
of those shows had him talking about his top five candies.
I believe it was The Screaming A Smith Show Most Overrated,
his most overrated candy. Yes, top five most overrated candies.

(01:09:35):
Big difference, very big difference, very big asterisk. You put
on that caveat what were his top five most overrated candies?

Speaker 10 (01:09:44):
At number five, Hershey Bars at number four, nerds Oh
at number three, Twizzlers at number two, Butterfinger a number one,
Reese's Peanut butter cup. Is everyone comfortable with the blasphemy
that is being spoken at this desk right now?

Speaker 8 (01:10:00):
First of all, there's way too much chocolate on this.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
There should be more peanut butter There's no such thing
the idea.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Yeah, their top five most overrated candies. I plucked out
two of the five without writing them down because they
stuck out as they might appear on my top five most.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Overrated candies, which ones Twizzlers okay, butterfinger okay, and I
do reckon.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
I was watching this today. I know what Dan said
about butterfingers, and anybody who's had one agrees and knows
the pitfalls of a butterfinger.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
So it's the messiness, no.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
In your mouth, the messiness in your mouth. That's the
candy bar that I can.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Think of, Like that is harder to detach from your
teeth than a butterfinger. Well, listen, if that's if that's
a huge problem for you, then probably just don't sign
up for Halloween activities or eating candy ever. Again.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
I can chew through Snickers, a mounds and all them
enjoy a Hershey's, a mister goodbar.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
You name it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
You take a bite, you chew it, you swallow it,
gone a butterfinger. It's not going anywhere. So if you
have teeth, that's where it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
We can deduce from this is that, as as Dan mentioned,
heath bar not in your wheelhouse, and laughy taffy not
in your wheelhouse. A candy bar. Yeah, but you just
just candy in general, well, candy in general, handy. It's
overrated on this list. Sure, but I said, I said,
candy bars. It's different. The Twizzlers to me is like,

(01:11:33):
it's not even that it's so bad. It's so this.
I mean, it's it's just you get at the movie
theater only. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Yeah, except on Halloween there are a lot of people.
It is a very popular handout. It's not a very
popular Oh great, I got this. I love this candy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
And I understand where he's coming from with the Hershey's,
because I'm assuming what he's talking about is just the
plain chocolate bar, which great, I got a piece of
this chocolate.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
The simplicity of it is the only appeal. But it's
super popular. Why I don't get it either. I'm okay
with that being on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
My son likes them, but I just think he hasn't
lived long enough yet to discern the fact that there
is way more better options out there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Did he say something about a Reese's product also on that?
So that's statement, Yes, does not belong on an overrated Reese's.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Peanut butter cups are honestly underrated. They don't get enough
credit for being perfect. It's not too big, it's it's
there's not too much chocolate versus too much peanut butter.
There is peanut butter involved, which is a plus. If
you don't like peanut butter, then you're a communist. That's
just all there is to it. I'm not gonna argue

(01:12:44):
with you about it. I'm not gonna carr allergic to
it though. Right, No, that's the other thing I'll like.
Please do not include any peanut products in your child's lunch.
Because people have allergies. Well, that's their problem, and if
I had them, it would be my problem. But I'm
not going to tell my kid that he can't have
it because your kid has some peanut allergy. All Right,
I'm mean, but still I'm not. His mom does though,

(01:13:05):
so therefore I lose.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
I'm totally with you, like, hey, man, this looks this
looks good. What's in it? Two things that are awesome?

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Yeah, that's that is how you sum it up. And honestly,
even though the wrapper probably takes a little more effort
than you would like, and this is what the flat
cup traditional. Okay, well, all of them are.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Still have an extra appeal because you unwrap the tinfoil,
the the foil, and then you unwrap it from its
the casing and then it's gone. It's a one biter.
You throw it in and you're done with it. You
move on to the next one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
The cup which is flatter, is large thill a one bier.
If you're a man, yes it can be like me,
It's not automatic. I like going to the king size ones.
But the four pack of them, the month, the sleeve
that makes you feel like you regredit after that's the best.
It's the law of diminishing returns. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Yeah, Dan not very surprisingly for who he is, and
some of the other nonsense that he's spewed, not like
football and Allison's not surprising. Those were on his overrated list,
not a weird list. A weird list is what it was.
We'll give you ours next, maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. Back to Adam Clinton,
had Adam Wexler.

Speaker 11 (01:14:26):
Two a's a the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
You're a home for your home teams and these two asps.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
So in the spirit of Halloween, we will I did
enjoy that Spirit Halloween joke that came out right after
Walker Buehler struck out Alex Vrdugo as a pick of
Yankee Stadium with a new banner on it that said
Spirit Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
By the way, I am mad about something that happened
last night that Joe Davis did.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
We'll get Yes, the game became.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Down and you didn't even put any oof behind it
because he knew it was wrong, but he had already
started and he couldn't stop. This game has been tied.
He knows he's really good. It's Jordon's line, that's our line.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
You try not to use them again when it was
so well received initially, and maybe there's other places for it,
but he knows last week.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
There was no moment where he could scream.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Curio is the biggest individual moment of the series, and
there were two huge ones. It already happened walk off
Grand Slam yep. And then yesterday or two days ago,
the Grand Slam from Volpi was a monster, that huge.
Those were the two biggest individual moments a Yankee.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
It was yank It was clearly the highlight of the
Yankees World Series until the fifth inning last night. Yes,
clearly was.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
But nobody's even gonna think about it. We'll wrap up
the uh what's up with that? With our own briefer list.
Both sides like so much negativity. It's a holiday. The
textas are playing today the old angry RANTI wex he's gone.
He was here yesterday, not today. So while I will
give you an overrated list, I want to my favorites

(01:16:09):
list because we're talking too negative here. Three most overrated,
Top three worst, three don't need them, don't want them.
One of them isn't really specific to Halloween, rawl being
very specific to a different holiday. Number three is TUTSI rolls,
They're stupid. Number two is they're stupid. What's the point.

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Do you like the flavor, the texture? How about neither?
That's all they are.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
It's like chocolate and I don't know how to describe it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
You've had thousands of them, you have no idea what flavored?
Is case proven? Number two kind of a stupid, kind
of a Valentine's e one, so not too many people
probably see them thrown in their sack tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Candy hearts, hey, the ones that have the messages on them.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Stupid, tasteless, are too much sugar, just awful, mean chalk
chalk another just awful, okay, and then one that's very
Halloween specific and it's among the worst of all I've
got it most overrated number one?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Is it overrated? Is it just the worst of all time?
Is what it sounds like? Why do people like it
so much? It's very overrated. It's candy corn. Yeah, my
dad likes it, and I'm pretty sure he's a serial killer.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Like it's served in or it's presented at the store
in this big, huge bag or even a smaller size bag.
One bite of it, I'm like, please stop, I don't
want anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
It's how do people fill dishes with them and put
them on the table when people come over for a
party a Halloween night or we're gonna be giving out candy.
Here's some of the stuff. You're walking in the room
at parties like that and say, well, what the hell
am I supposed to do with that bowl? Sit somewhere
else where. I thought you were going to say the
what are those marshmallow peanut looking things that taste like

(01:17:51):
absolute hell?

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Those are bad? You know, peeps are bad, but they're
very non They're very that's an easter, very fear specific.
Eat the head off this bird like you're ill. Give
you the three candies I want my kids to come
back with and hope they don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Them because you can steal them.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Yeah, no particular order. KitKat Twix, Nestley Crutch.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Dude, two of those you nailed are probably I mean,
KitKat is probably my all time favorite candy bar, as
crazy as that sounds because there's not a lot to it,
but it's just fantastic. The texture. I like the way
that you can break it off, not like the song
but literally And uh, and what was the other one
you said?

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
KitKat TwixT Nestleie Crunch Twix is good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Twix is very very good. Reese's is my other. If
I'm doing the top three, that's my that's my third.
But like, it's not a candy bar. So I feel
like it, but I'll tell you what's underrated. And I
don't care what anybody says or what they think of
me for this. And it's like I got into this
habit recently. If I go into HB and I'm like
picking up something where I do the self checkout, so
it's like, you know, ten items or less, but I

(01:18:57):
always get eleven just to be defiant. Not really, but
I'm like, oh, look over there, there it is, and
I know you're gonna laugh at me. I can't wait
for your response to this. Anybody. Dan you too? By
the way, Dan, nobody eats heath Nobody eats a heath
bar and you know it. What are your.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Most say to eat it? I said, it gets stuck
in your teeth?

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
So it's nobody eats. The problem solved?

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
You got an overrated or a popular candy for the listeners?

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Here? Wait? Wait, hang on, Oh, I'm sorry, don't talk payday?
Do you like a payday?

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
They're fine. Pay day's are good enough to not be
on either list. Think they're under payday, baby, Ruth. They're fine.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
It's but it's almost like, oh, here's the Snickers bar
without the chocolate on it. That's what a payday is.
There are better, but I'll it's acceptable. That's fine, all right, Sorry, Dan,
I don't mean interrupt I was gonna say. I mean
Payday is on the overrated list. Smarties are just terrible.
I mean it's basically you're just eating chalk. And I
would probably say a third is a score bar.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
Wait, what's which one's the score I forgot that one.
It's basically a cousin of heath.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
It's it's it's basically when they decided, hey, look man,
we have run out of candies. We've run out of
candy bars. We've run out of seventy five percent chocolate,
and we got to figure out the rest candy bars.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
So here's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
We're gonna make it a little bit harder, and we're
gonna put it in a fancy wrapper, and we're gonna
intentionally spell it weirdly and people are going to eat it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Watch this. How do you feel? I know people have
strong feelings about three Musketeers one way or the other.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
It's it's so popular because it's always in your grab
all bag when you buy the bag of eighty different
candy bars. It it's pretty simple, but it's a kind
of a staple. It's a go to. It's fine and
is like milk create a strong I don't think reaction
one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
It's just there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
It's like chock when you run out of the good stuff.
When I run out of my top three and they're
still there, there's twenty of them.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Yeah. See, some people have argued, no, you won't, you
won't eat them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
What's the candy that the neighbor who you may or
may not know. It's not relevant. Open the door. They
have a bowl full of them, but nothing else is
just one candy? Oh yeah, what's the one candy that
they have that you have to tell Carson if this
were hypothetical, you guys and your kids get that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
You just have to take it to be nice.

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Oh when when they offer to throw three of them
in your bag, you could politely say one is fine.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
I don't whoppers. Whoppers they'll suck. What is it? What
are the even what is this even that we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
It's like, hey, do you like milk duds? Well you're
gonna hate these, even though you think they're very similar.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, it's just they're and I don't like milk duds either,
by the way. It just I don't know. I feel
like they the people that make these things, these candy people,
I feel like they just go with like whatever, three four,
whatever the ingredients are, and we're just gonna turn different
variations of these same ingredients.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
But you realize what we're talking I get it. It's
how many different things can there be? Peanuts, peanut butter,
some sort of creamy nugat a wafer.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
But nugat's not anything else. It's the only thing it's
in is candy bars, Like you don't use it on anything.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Like I don't know, because it's just how creative they
had to get to try to find some variations.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
What I don't like in this vein of conversation that
we're talking about is when they try to pigeonhole some
ingredient that doesn't involve or shouldn't be involved in this topic,
like strawberry. Stop making a regular kit kat strawberry, or
even white chocolate. You know what, Get the hell out
of here with white chocolate too, you gross people. That's disgusting.
It's like getting white chedd ar cheese. It's just ruined

(01:22:38):
a good concept. It's awful. I hate the white ingredients.
This is well on brand Mayo ranch dressing, cottage cheese,
white chocolate.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
I mean, I don't listen to every show that we do,
even the ones that I'm here for. But I thought
you like Triple King Kong stuffed oreos which are half
white or one third white?

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Are they all white? No? Plus that's the creamy filling.
That's just amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Big, big surprise giveaway coming for you. Next segment.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series, Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team a t.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
They're only eighteen. Reach it every day.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
We each with football at five, some heavy focus on
the game. That's just a little over two hours away
for sure. But if you're listening at the tail end
of last segment, hopefully you're listening to the whole segment
talking about Halloween, candy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
And all the others.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
We are talking football and two thirty on Saturday over
at TDECU Stadium, the Cougars are hosting the State Wildcats.
It's gonna be a blackout game. Kuge's in there. All blacks,
by the way, the Jets are wearing all blacks tonight
as well. But just able to score some tickets to

(01:24:13):
the Cougars Wildcat game. And I don't just mean any
old tickets, but you're gonna get to enjoy the game
in the bud Light Backyard section.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
We did that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
Earlier this year with a handful of winners. Had a
great time out there. It is an awesome place to
enjoy the game with some awesome additions to your game
day experience, including your ice cold bud Light. So you
can come out and enjoy the uh game day experience.
Enjoy in the bud Light backyard.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Again.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
This is the game coming up on the second, That
is this Saturday, that is two days from now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
It's a two thirty kickoff.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
We got a six pack of tickets to give away
to that game for you, and again you'll get to
enjoy it with the bud Light in the bud Light Backyard.
I'll swing by through there. I'm actually working the game,
but I will be there as well, so we'll get
a chance to say hello and get you out to
enjoy the game. Very specific to enjoying it in the
bud Light Backyard, it is awesome. In order to win

(01:25:10):
those tickets, it's pretty simple. Earlier today on my Instagram
right there on my stories, I've posted a few stories today,
but one very specific bud Light story today since they
made a post today with some of their special edition
bud Light cans, so I did a little story on
that and I add a little music to that. So

(01:25:32):
just tell me the name of the artist on the
music selection on my Instagram story from bud Light. There's
actually two possible answers because it's a musical choice on
the bud Light post with an artist that is additionally featured.
So I'll accept either answer. So if you already follow me,
you already know the answer, and hopefully you do. If

(01:25:53):
you don't, you don't even have to, but you just
got to go find it and tell me who that
artist is. Bud Light post of mine on my stories
on my Instagram at Adam J. Wexler and a six
pack of tickets at seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety to enjoy the bud Like Backyard at.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
The Cougar Game.

Speaker 3 (01:26:11):
The special section where you know we're gonna have a
good time Cougars Wildcats Saturday two thirty Give us a
call seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
She's most selfish giveaway ever put all my social pages.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
I'm kidding, well, I just try to differentiate from our
usual end of show giveaway, which we will still do
for all of our listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
I'm completely kidding, obviously, but I'm not kidding about what
I'm about to say. And this is also a carryover
from last segment. I was really really wrong about something
on that list. Oh okay, Tomball Rob reminded me of this,
and the reason I was wrong, and the reason he
reminded me is because it's so bad that I had
literally blacked it out of my memory. Those stupid old

(01:26:57):
school peanut butter bars, you know, the ones I'm talking
about that have the clear wrapper and they're white with
like black stripes on them. He don't worry. He tagged
you in the tweet. You can see the picture of
what I'm talking about. You don't need it. They've got
like a star. What's it?

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
Hang on, I get you mean that kind of peanut
brittley item.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Yeah, it's called Atkinson's. That's the brand, which sounds like
a disease as it should sounds like a diet. Well,
you're not dieting when you eat these things. These look
like these get stuck. What what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
For it to be called a peanut butter bar, that
is false.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Because it doesn't have peanut butter an it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Bad because there actually is a peanut butter bar item
that's not that and his light years better a butterfinger. No,
I mean it's literally called a peanut butter bar. I
had literally every I think, every single day at lunch
out of the vending machine or at the window.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
I remember these though, and that's the thing. They look
like they started being manufactured in the fifties and they
just never change the imaging. They look like fifties candy
store items. Yes, and they're.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
Awful when you go to the candy store, like when
you're at an old timey town or the beach, a
tourist here, maybe you're you're in uh Atlantic City. That's
the type of candy you might find there, which you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Want Atlantic City on the boardwalk like that, or like
in the Trump Plaza where they had the two WrestleManias.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Not the Trump Plaza more boardwalkie.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
The doesn't the boardwalk by the way and in just
that whole area. Isn't that just the most saddest excuse
for I just don't want to fly all the way
to Vegas.

Speaker 6 (01:28:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
Yeah, I can't think of a worse place to go
gambling than not even New York in New Jersey.

Speaker 6 (01:28:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
The my in my mind, when you say peanut butter bar,
you're talking about what other people refer to as and
I believe the packaging now says a nutty Buddy. It's
basically those little Debbie peanut butter nutty bars, wafer covered
in chocolate with peanut butter in between each layer of
the wafer.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
The peanut butter bar that was posted on X at
our address each is awful.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
And that's what I said that I think he thought
I meant his list.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
Where you think is the quality of play? Aaron Rodgers'
quality of play this year is the peanut butter bar
of candies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
That's probably not fair to He's not that bad, he's bad.
You know what you were correct earlier when you said
he's not terrible, he's bad, or you said he's not terrible.
And then I said, well he's no payday's are good,
So what's an Yeah, I guess I'll eat it. That's
Aaron Rodgers, probably the Three Musketeers. It's left over.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
It's it's like sixteen or seventeen other quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Yeah, say your starting quarterback got hurt in fantasy football,
Well he's definitely available for sure, and so you're like, well,
I've got no other options otherwise I'm starting Marcus Mariota
or somebody like that. That's what he is to.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
That end, this year's version, with all the problems that
are on his offensive line and with now who's not
out there with him his performance through eight games. What
candy bar is CJ Stroud just twenty twenty four? Because
he's clearly better than Aaron You want it in your
candy hall after the night. He's a snicker There's others

(01:30:12):
that are better. He's a Snickers bar. He's reliable, he's
gonna get the job done. It's not gonna be sexy,
but it's not. You're winning more often than you're losing.
He's a Snickers bar.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
It always satisfies, solid, right, right, you can't there's not
a game this year where you're like, well, that was
CJ's fault. They lost it. There's only two games that
they lost, and it's not CJ's fault that he was
getting killed in Minnesota. And it's really not CJ's fault
that they couldn't score more than twenty two points in
Green Bay because he didn't have time to throw all day.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
And he's basically been eating his Snickers bars during the
games and saying what they say, because he's doing it
the whole game.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Want to get away, yeah, or you look like you
need one because your offensive line is putting you in
a bad mood.

Speaker 5 (01:30:55):
So he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
And he's still not turning the ball over after all
of that that we just got done, saying yeah, we'll
get to our finals. He's got to four picks to
fumbles lost this season. It's nothing alarming and nothing dramatically
higher than it was a season ago. He hasn't had
one hundred and fifty straight passes on an interception. He
didn't start this year as he did last year's rookie
season with a huge stretch of games where he didn't

(01:31:17):
turn the ball over and didn't have any interceptions, and
even on his first interception. A year ago, the Texans
got the ball back on the very same play when
they forced a fumble on it. So we're running two
straight years with a little different particulars, but they've been
pretty good at keeping the ball when they have it.
Last week, notwithstanding, it was a game they did win
the turnover battle, but they tried not to by fumbling

(01:31:40):
in the fourth quarter on the pitch play. But then
they ended up winning it when they were able.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
To steal the ball from Anthony Richardson on the final
play of the game and turned that into their plus
one for the game. Nine takeaways in their last three weeks. Again,
it only equaled two wins. Normally, a takeaway stretch like that,
when you're not turning the ball over often equals all
three games as wins.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
I said already.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
I think it just takes a plus one, a plus
one in the turnover battle in this game tonight, and
they'll win. I'd love it to be one nothing. I'm
okay if it's two to one. It's gonna work. If
it's three to two. But it starts to worry me
a little more than what happened on this and where
did you give it to him? But Joe Mixon probably
gonna have a very similar game to what he did

(01:32:23):
last week. Not quite as explosive as he was in
the opener, Probably not a double touchdown day, four and
a half yards of pop, twenty ish carries, ninety to
one hundred and five, one hundred and fifteen yards moving
the change. Here's an explosive run. Make up for the
two times you got caught behind the line of scrimmage
by hauling off for a twelve yard game. I think

(01:32:44):
he's gonna do his part. The running game is gonna
do their part of the job to try to keep
them from They're already gonna get to CJ. We already
know that they're already gonna have their opportunities where they
just win the battle in the trenches. But you don't
want to hand it to him by saying, all right,
let's snap the ball on third and eleven, let's snap
the ball on third and nine. Let's have a third
and six turned into a third and eleven on a

(01:33:06):
false start on the road. Got to eliminate that part
of it. They're gonna get to him anywhere. There's gonna
be passing downs regardless. You're not gonna be in third
and short all day. You're not gonna be in second
short all day. You're gonna place behind the sticks occasionally.
But don't gift it to the Jets and their defense.
Don't play like you have on the road in that
penalty regard. They've they've curtailed the penalties quite a bit

(01:33:29):
the last three weeks. Even the game in Green Bay
was not horrific, and their two home games around that
were clearly significantly better or the Patriots game significantly better
than how they started the season. There's only four teams
that have committed more penalties than them now, well one
of them is the Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
I didn't realize that, so is it? And are they
worse at home versus on the road like the Texans
winning and losing? No, the penalties, I'd have to get
the WRT on that. I mean, let's face it. The
Vikings game that it just consistently sticks out is man,
that was just an awful all around day. Half the
reason was because they kept shooting themselves in the foot.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
Did you played that game from basically behind right out
of the.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Game two seconds in? Basically? Yeah? So I just yeah,
the penalties cannot that's a that's a given for any
road game, though, and it's easier said than done because hello,
crowd noise. I'm sure there's gonna be some people there tonight.
I'm guessing there will.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Be I think you'll be right, Yes, there will be
people there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
So chances are when the there was no previously scheduled
Yankees game, this was an off day regardless. That's true.
That's true, and they're gonna be in a bad mood
if they're there's gonna be some Yankees fans in there.
There's some cross promotion, if you will, so cross pollination.
All right. We will continue here on a Halloween edition
of the program. Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety, we now returned
to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexelwerth on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Invided the wexcelland research team to the show. Last three
home games for the Jets they're playing at home tonight,
thirty two penalties for the home team, the New York Jets.
Two of those games were double figure penalty afternoons for.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Them ten or more.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
They're a heavily penalized team.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
If you were wondering, I'm sure it's a huge part
of why they've lost five in a row. You know,
that's the other reason I think people are back than them.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
If they are, that would have been a better reason
to say, why is the line where it is?

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
Is there?

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Just do I mean, it's the dumbest thing ever. But
Vegas doesn't do that. But you're thinking, Okay, that makes
no sense. How come they are two point favorites and
we say that specifically this segment will choose to give
you our stole cold lock on the Texans game at
plus two. The Texans are not favored, so it's plus
two and the over unders forty three, and we'll stick

(01:35:55):
with that for the purposes of this evening. We got
our four other picks to make Ohio Penn State are
to wild cards, and your prop bet come in your
way tomorrow on the show at four thirty, as we
always do. But just want to get that one in
here today because obviously the Texans and Jets are playing.
But yeah, a team that's lost five in a row
normally is playing such bad football it would take a

(01:36:17):
minor miracle and definitely a home game for them to
be favored. And if the other team's good, regardless of
how they got to their good record, it would nearly
be unheard of. They should not be thought They should
not be thought of like that. They haven't had players
off the field that has so directly impacted this, Like
the Dolphins and the other teams sitting at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
They stink.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
They're playing bad football week after week after week, and
this is who they are. And maybe I'm blind to
it because I did rip Aaron Rodgers earlier and I
didn't even realize at the time. They're the only team
in the NFL. You remember your fun stat about the
Browns before Jamis came aboard, They hadn't even scored twenty
points in a game. Everybody else had, well, everybody else
in the NFL scored twenty five points in a game.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Accept the Jets.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Yeah, and Aaron Rodgers have been out there the whole season,
and I'm trying to give them a break. I'm trying
to say they're not as bad as his sound.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
You're trying to tell me that Aaron Rodgers isn't terrible, But.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
You can win games with twenty points in twenty four
and ninety tenches the Texans exactly, So it shouldn't be
the end all be all the winning. It just shows
you when he goes out and says, our goal should
be scoring thirty a game. We can do that every game.
I love the confidence, but you literally haven't even done
it one game. So why should you say you should
be doing it every game. You haven't even figured out

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against eight or six seven different defenses. They've played the
Patriots twice. You haven't even figured out how to do
it one time. Today cannot be that night. I don't
expect it to be that night. The number is in
a proper location. From an over understandpoint in my opinion,
I already told you earlier that I'm taking the Texans,
So I'll make it as simple as that and just
take the Texans plus two and that'll goes down for me.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
Well, I'm going to be on brand here because I
do think it'll be a sloppy affair, if you will.
So when the numbers forty three, I've got to take
the under. I just and look, maybe the Texans. Maybe
the Texans will blow them out and they'll get to
that forty three number. But I don't see it. I
just see kind of a slug fest that the Texans

(01:38:14):
eke out, kind of like a lot of their games
have been this year, but this one will be. The
key to the Texans winning tonight is not to have
them allow the Jets to drag them down with them
too much. I think they're gonna be dragged down just
from the injury standpoint and the offensive line, but they've
got enough to get it done in an ugly affair,

(01:38:35):
which is what I think it's gonna be. And that's
why I say under on the forty three.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
It's hard to believe it when I tell you the
temperature for the most if not the entire game will
be in the load of mid seventies. The hard to
believe part is they could still be playing in some
bad weather. Could be very windy. They are expecting some
wind in the game, and they're in New York. We've
seen it before. It could definitely impact some of what
you might be trying to do. Certainly from a special
team standpoint, it could. And there is a chance. I

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don't think it's a given a hope. There isn't gonna
be any There's a chance of some rain.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Yeah, which is what was happening last time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
You're stole called Lockdan on the Texans plus two against
the Jets tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Henac or Simpatica, I'm going under forty three.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
I already knew that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
Now, what's your bet forty three?

Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
I mean it's for all the reasons we said, and
probably some more that will end up seeing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
I just I think you go into this game with
you guys thinking about the over under, saying it's going
under without something out of the ordinary, a pick six,
a special team's touchdown, something that shifts a little bit
of extra offense into the game tonight, and if without it,
you're probably right, probably hits the under.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Although if it rains, the odds of turnovers go up tremendously.
I would think whether it's a fumble or I mean,
if I were both teams, I'd be trying to do
the same thing. Initially, I want to establish Breese Hall
in the run game. I want to establish Joe Mixon
in the run game. And if you're able to churn
up a few first downs, then you turn this into
a little bit shorter game. You limit the number of possessions,

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and you'd quite possibly limit the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
For those turnovers. Texans probably have a little bit better
idea than most times. This defense isn't different. There's a
little bit of different personnel, but I think they should
have a pretty good idea of what's going on here,
that we're all the way to our last three segments
before this game. And I don't believe I've mentioned this
all week. I mentioned it two weeks ago, Like, isn't

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this the okay? I owe you one game? From Robert
Sala to Jamico Ryans. We already know he's living with
Matt Lafleur.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Can he not? He helped him, He came to visit practice,
has lived at his house. He didn't live there.

Speaker 3 (01:40:40):
If you're there, you where do you live there? Or
where do you stay at Matt Lafuller's house?

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
That's not how Yeah, but you're not living there permanently.
He moved in with him. Isn't he married with kids? Yeah,
they didn't come. So they're just living in a house
in Green Bay. He already left.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Why it was just a couple of days that he
lived there, that he lived there permanently, just for a
couple of You're dumb. He needs he needs He definitely
needs to just say hey, Demiko, if you don't want it,
I I'm not going to give it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
To you, but would you like some intel? But the
thing is, this is his team. What is Robert Sala
gonna tell Tomko that Demiko doesn't already know about that
awful football team? I mean, hey, uh did you know
that our quarterback looks a little over the hill? And uh,
offensive line isn't totally great, the defense probably a little

(01:41:26):
bit overrated. And even though we traded for an elite
wide receiver, he doesn't exist yet.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Like DeVante Adams is going to have a better game
than he had a week ago. Maybe Hasan Reddick's going
to have a better outing that he did a week ago.

Speaker 2 (01:41:39):
I think is Son Reddick has a better chance to
have an impact on this game than DeVante Adams. I
really mean that. Why because they're gonna get after Aaron
Rodgers and because they're at full strength at cornerback the Texans, Yeah,
the Texans defense.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Obviously there's the linebacker issue because no sh Al Schier
and there's Mario Edwards up front. Most any week in
the NFL, this is about as healthy as you could
hope for. And I know Jimmy Ward's not out there.
I don't know what the Texans plans are when he's healthy.
I know there's a place for him, but it's not
where he was before. Is Kaylin Bullock's not leaving the

(01:42:18):
field if he's healthy. Ever, how you mix him in
with Eric Murray? Even though I think Murray's spot in
this five man secondary is actually pretty good. He had
three pass breakups last week. He did a really he
did a great job. He didn't have the bad Eric
Murray plays at all. He did a one of the
pass breakups was one of the reasons why I think

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the Colts made their decision to ben Chanstonay Richardson. You know,
people are trying to blame the wide outs or it
was just sticky coverage. A lot of these players are open.
You're gonna be open when when the ball is snapped
if you're not, if you're a safety. First of all,
whoever you're covering is open unless you were lined up
at the line of scrimmage, which for him, that's what
Petrie does. But Eric Murray's never within five yards of

(01:43:04):
the player he ends up defending, whether they're in that
typical zone or there's just whatever it is you got,
you gotta go find him. You got to make that happen.
The balls are getting thrown late. The balls aren't being
put in the right place. And again that's not the
Texans issue anymore because they don't have any more games
against the Colts. But that's just one thing that I
thought you could see pretty easily, and those of you
who have gone back and watched the coaches tape, which

(01:43:25):
I feel like I'm watching live from the Texans press box.
If the throws out when it's supposed to be, if
the decisions made when it needs to be made, then
the Texans maybe have five PBUs instead of ten or twelve.
And they did a great job, and they took advantage
of whom they were playing against. That's different tonight. That
shouldn't happen as often. He's notoriously quick with getting rid
of the football, although it hasn't happened as the Jets quarterback.

(01:43:48):
For as much as his career is great and all
this stuff is great, and he's been a Jet for
two years, he's had a couple hundred snaps as the
Jets quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
He's played eight games as Jets' quarterback in what we
all think is a very bad offense. And what Dan
Leberfield pointed out the other days should seem obvious, but
until you hear it out loud, maybe you don't. They're
running the offense of someone who is no longer calling
the plays. The person calling the plays is calling the
plays out of somebody else's offense.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
So that's the part Robert sala is gonna help him
me go.

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
Out with just saying, and it's not like these two
work together for five years and they're kind of a
packaged deal and we think the same We're like sharing
the same brain. It's two random coaches who coach offense
who happen to be on the same staff this year.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
By the way, I can't wait for me saying Hassan
Reddick's gonna have more of an impact game than DeVante Adams,
and he has an eleven catch, one hundred and eighty
yard two touchdown night tonight. Not feeling that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
I don't feel like there's even a pot like for
the Texans secondary to allow that. Maybe if one of
the catches for ninety yards, then he goes ten catches
ninety yards, then he gets his eleven point eighty. Other
than that, he's not gonna have a series of big plays.
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
Well, the Colts got behind the Texans defense twice this year.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
Okay, they played six other games. How many other plays
have you? Can you even recall off the top of
your head where that's happened.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
I feel like there is one that I'm missing end
of the half against the Patriots. I would call that
very similar. Okay, it may drop back and ye have
your touchdown to boute, but I feel like it was
another one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
And I'm not saying there haven't been any, but they
have seen it against one team specifically, who they've obviously
played one hundred and or twice as many plays against.
I'm not again not that's not what I'm I'm just
concerned about Wilson going up and beating somebody in man
coverage in just a one on one situation and saying
with Adams, but not in that regard. So we'll hit

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you with a few other things. Obviously, have our final
segment where we give away the Jelly Roll tickets and
we continue with our thoughts on Texans Jets.

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Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
All?

Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
So we played the audio earlier from Juan Soto about
that his free agency is open to all thirty teams. Now,
I might be grasping at straws here, but does that
kind of have shades of the final Garrett Cole scrum
inside the Astros clubhouse in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
Well, he wasn't representing himself, was he? Well, so what
did Garrett say?

Speaker 5 (01:47:39):
Yeah? There you go? I mean, Sonny, are.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
You saying is there a connection between how they approached
the answers about their free agency?

Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
You would think that the answer that Yankee fans would
want to hear is yes, I definitely want to be well.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
So what I'm asking what did Garrett say in.

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
That regard.

Speaker 4 (01:47:57):
You guys were here?

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
I don't, Well, that's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
So what you're saying the similarity, Like, what's the similarity?

Speaker 5 (01:48:02):
Just being noncommittal? I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Okay, So after a World Series lost elimination, I didn't.
I don't see it that way. Here's what I think.
I mean. I try.

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
I know you will find this hard to believe, but
I pretty much watched all I watched almost zero LA
Dodgers postgame comments. I don't need. I didn't care to
hear them. I wanted to hear what Judge and Garrett
Cole and Won Soto had to say, and be cash.
He didn't say anything that's right that I saw. Aaron

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Boone was actually asked, from the position you're in as
a player, also, are you able to relate a little
bit better to what your guys are feeling? And so
he said, well, I was in two thousand and three.
I can still remember here. I can hear the Marlins
celebrating on our field even now, and he mentioned it
was tough in twenty nineteen against the Astros, and then

(01:48:55):
you know, this year's same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
I really love these guys all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
But I heard a lot of what his teammates said
about his season and his future, and we brought that
up earlier, and I heard a lot of Juan Soto
answering those questions. He was pretty matter of fact and
very much like I would if I were the agent.
That's what I'd probably want to hear. So maybe there
is a little bit of that that you suggest Dan
it was a very good answer for his free agency,

(01:49:21):
but I didn't think it was so negative to the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
It's what I said earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
He's not gonna get all the way to this point
of getting to free agency. I mean, he's been talking
about a long term deal three teams ago. They almost
locked him up for four hundred and forty million with
the Nationals four years ago. But he is now at
free agency. He could he could still be a Yankee.
I don't think anything he said should be that much

(01:49:46):
of a gut punch. It's more about the timing.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Because you have to rea.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
Of course, he's reaching free agency, he's going to listen
to the offers, and he might just say, hey, Yankees,
beat it. And when they do beat the offer, not
beat it. Yeah, he's when they beat the offer, he'll
sign with him.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Thinking about the fact that they could commit that much
money to another big free agent signing, and then all
the money that they've committed similarly over the past off
few offseasons, Garrett Colin and Aaron Judge being at the
top of that list and what that got them, and

(01:50:25):
everybody thought it was gonna be different, and I guess
it could be like, I guess if they give him
seven hundred million dollars, they could win a World Series
next year, but I doubt it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
And maybe the deferred money loophole will be a part
of some future deal. Thirteen year, three hundred and twenty
five million dollar deal is what Giancarlo Stanton is still
on through twenty twenty. Pus him nine years, three hundred
and twenty four million with that additional thirty six if
it's there for Garrett Cole, So he's getting thirty six

(01:50:54):
per through twenty twenty eight, and the judge deal Arson
got to the twenty three season has him getting forty
million dollars per season through the next five and on
into thirty and thirty one the next six. Carlos Radon
also makes twenty seven million for four more seasons.

Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
He sucks. Did he make it into the fifth inning
of any of the games this postseason? I think he
did once? Yeah? What else?

Speaker 5 (01:51:22):
All right, So we're gonna stick with the World Series
because we knew about Freddie Freeman's ankle injury, which seemingly
was not a bother to him. What I'm about to
tell you, it's kind of impressive that he put together
the performance that he did in mid October. He was
taking swings in the cage when he collapsed to the ground.
It turns out that he had broken costal cartilage in

(01:51:43):
his sixth rib, which typically is an injury according to reports,
that can keep you out for months. So he was
playing with a pretty significant rib injury and doing what
he did.

Speaker 3 (01:51:54):
Yeah, it's pretty impressive both that he was able to
get past the ankle injury and actually show some footspeed,
you know, beating out a play at first base to
prevent a double play, scoring very very easily last night
after his run scoring hit on the hit from ti
Oscar Hernandez. That particular, the place of that injury and
what you probably have to go through each game to

(01:52:15):
be prepared for it. That actually sounds like he was
hurt more than teammate Shohei Otani. I bring that up
because I'm sure this will happen in the years to follow.
People will have this and try to use it as
AMMO against Well, I'll show hey this, that and the other.
He was two for nineteen in the World Series in

(01:52:37):
five games. He batted one oh five. He didn't hit
any homers. His slugging was one fifty eight as ops
was three eighty five, absolutely awful. And when you pull
up those numbers in twenty twenty seven and twenty thirty
or whenever you look at them again, there won't be
any additional information that only one of his shoulders was
in place during most, not all, but most of that

(01:52:58):
World Series, all the bats after he's slid into second.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Yeah, and by the way, going back to Freddie Freeman, uh,
it was easy to root for him, especially in light
of what happened while he was here in Houston this
year with his child. Yep, I he has the uncanny
ability to play for not one, but two teams in
the National League that I despise, and I don't hate him.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
He is extremely likably samely fairly famous Halloween video which
I imagine you've seen.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
He's trick or treating with his kids.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
He got his kid in his arms, and he's headed
up to someone's front door and he walks by another kid.
He goes, hey, you're me right, and the kid looks
up at him and goes He kind of turns the
kids back to him. He goes, yeah, that's my jersey,
you're me right. Let's take a picture. Because the kid
was dressed up as freddie.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
Fie think I've seen that. Did the kid lose his mind?

Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
He was way too calm about it. Yeah, almost like
his parents had dressed him up as the picture.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
The video of Alpera and Shingoon signing that jersey for
that kid in the stands awesome. That's just the best
when kids are so. I saw a video recently the
Rock posted and this kid was trying to play it
cool and he's like, he just lose it, starts crying
because he's so overcome. Got time for one last item?

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
Yeah, Mike Mayok on the Zach Gelp Show telling Tom
Brady either pick ownership or broadcasting. What do you think
I would stick with ownership?

Speaker 9 (01:54:20):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
Do you think he needs to select one and can't
do both?

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
Well, I mean NFL rules prohibit him from doing much
of his other job, and the other one makes you
a lot of money by just sitting back and collecting it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Well, what I'm saying is, do you think he needs
to be told or forced to stop doing one of them?

Speaker 5 (01:54:39):
No? Not necessarily, because I don't think his role with
the Raiders is necessarily that consequential.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
I agree, I don't think I don't think anybody can
tell Tom Brady what to do, by the way, until
somebody finally does somebody can. Is there any surprise that
the jiu jitsu coach knocked up his ex? When did
that happen less than a year after they split? In
case Tom's feels? Supposedly, Tom's what he's in his feelings.

(01:55:07):
He played landslide on his instant story that last meaningless
season in Tampa Bay. Maybe it shouldn't have happened.

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Back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler, the A team
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
A couple of things for you this segment, as promised,
the inactive lists for the Texans and the Jets ninety
minutes before kickoff have arrived. No real surprises anywhere again.
The Jets had six players still on their active roster
now five after they made an IR move today that
were automatically going to be on there in active list,
so there really aren't any surprises there VERA Tucker CJ.

(01:56:58):
Moseley among those that are inactive tonight for the Jets.
We mentioned earlier that Riley Patterson was the player they
selected among the six kicker tryout they held. On Tuesday,
he was signed to their practice squad, and then today
he was signed to their active roster of because they're
gonna need him for a couple of weeks and he
will be doing the kicking tonight for the Jets. Should
they require any of that be awesome. If they did not,

(01:57:21):
other than the one kickoff, they're guaranteed to have Texans
in active is also very easy to determine. The only
player that wasn't already listed out and is merely a
healthy scratch on their five player inactive list is defensive
back Miles Bryant, so their active roster tonight. They're available
targets for CJ. Stroud tonight. The wide receivers are Tank Dell,

(01:57:44):
Robert Woods, Xavier Hutchinson, John Metchi, and Steven Simms. Will
find out if Sims is part of their return game,
and odds are pretty good that he will be considering it.
During some of the time that he missed, Desmond King
was returning punts. He's not on the roster tonight. Damian
Pierce was returning kicks. He is not on the roster tonight,

(01:58:05):
so I think there's a pretty good chance that he
is returning to those duties, and he also is probably
going to get snaps at wide receiver tonight. Considering there
are just five of them tight ends. All three tight
ends that they have on the roster are all active
again as they have been since they re added taking
Katoriano to the roster. He has been out there a
little bit less from a snap count standpoint than the

(01:58:26):
other two and obviously has not had a target this season. Katoriano,
Stover and Schultz and three running backs tonight again with
no Damian Pierce and Cam Akers was already traded elsewhere,
Joe Mixon, Daria Gumbowale, and recently signed from the practice
squad JJ Taylor. That is what they have at their
disposal tonight for a CJ or whoever else might be

(01:58:48):
throwing a pass for the Texans. Remember, one of the
other players that attempted and dropped back to throw a
pass this year, and even did was still on Diggs,
so any other trick plays assigned him would have to
have been worked on somebody else. And during a short week.
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Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
We mentioned the Texans have had penalty problems. I also
mentioned the team they're playing tonight has had penalty problems.

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
Do the Jets?

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
Have the Jets committed more or less penalties than the
Texans this year? It is that simple. Have the Jets
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We talked about it earlier, so gave you the answer
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one two five seven ninety. You also gave out our
final thoughts on the game from a pick perspective, and
we'll add the others to the stone cold locks tomorrow
at four point thirty. Texans going to tonight as slight
underdogs at one and a half or two, depending on
what you're seeing and where it comes from. The Texans
offensive line will likely look the same as it did

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when the game finished against the Colts. Jarrett Patterson is,
like we mentioned, unavailable for this game. He's in the
concussion protocol. The option of starting Kendrick Green clearly is
there for the Texans, though I do not believe that
they are taking it. Doesn't mean he won't see snaps,
and I think because of how they operated last week,
even though it's a different backup, I think if they

(02:01:01):
see things similar to last week, if they have the
issues they were having last week, because it was early
in the game when they made the switch, the benching
of Kenyon Green, only to be returned to the game
after Patterson got hurt after one ten play drive that
resulted in a Texans touchdown. If there are more problems again,
they have to turn to somebody else. Kendrick Green is

(02:01:22):
the player who has been active and thus would be
the backup Nick Broker, who is now also active for
this game. He's their eighth offensive lineman who is often
or ninth offensive lineman who's often not active on game day,
but he is active today for that very reason. So
I think there's a reasonable chance that he does get
into the mix and he is a part of a

(02:01:43):
solution if a problem arises. There were problems throughout the year,
they've been magnified and exploited. In each of their last
two games, the Packers were able to exploit the Texans
offensive line, and clearly they were able to do the
very same thing where the Indianapolis Colts front. I think
both of those fronts are talented. Texans have had no

(02:02:03):
problem running the ball against the Indianapolis Colts, but they
have had issues defending the pass against the Colts. Jets
are very good. Their front seven is very good, their
back end is very good. They do have players that
individually hasan redick being one of them. If he becomes
more of himself that they absolutely should be concerned with.
Week one for Reddick, like I mentioned earlier, was last

(02:02:26):
week he finally signed his deal, he finally got in uniform.
He was finally out there for their defense. Not what
I would believe would be a full snap count. He
played twenty six plays, a little less than forty percent
of the defensive snaps for the Jets a week ago
against the Patriots and what was a super competitive, very
close game all the way to the end. They gave
up a touchdown at the end of the game to lose.

(02:02:46):
So it didn't have anything to do with the way
the game was going. It was just the where he
was from a health standpoint, or how they feel about others.
We're all the way up to game time. I haven't
mentioned this one time. Number one and number two in
the AFC in sacks they're playing tonight. Will Anderson Junior
is number two in the AFC in sacks. Will McDonald
is number one in the AFC in sacks for the

(02:03:09):
New York Jets. That is the player again for all
that we've talked about this game, and you know Quinn Williams,
who gets so much discussion and deservedly so. And Sauce
Gardner and DJ Reid to maybe the best cornerback duo
in the NFL, certainly one of them. They absolutely deserve
to be discussed. And how are the Texans reserve wideouts

(02:03:30):
going to create separation, going to give somewhere for CJ
to throw the ball? How will they have to accommodate
for potential problems with their pass protection? But yeah, they
better corral McDonald. McDonald has been arguably their biggest disruptor,
the biggest difference maker on their defense. And I don't
mean to say that as any negative to saus who's
having another really good year. I pushed this out on

(02:03:52):
Twitter a little earlier this afternoon. There's one player in
the NFL since the two thousand and two season draft
that has had six games where he's been targeted at
least twenty times. You've been in coverage at least twenty times,
I should say, and give up zero receptions. Sauce Gardner
is it, although right behind him is Derek Stingley Junior.

(02:04:13):
Sauce has had six such games twenty coverage snaps, no
receptions allowed. Stingley's had five. Garrett Wilson and DeVante Adams
are probably barely leaving the field. They both played over
ninety percent of the snaps a week ago. There'd be
no reason for that not to be the same tonight.
Kamari Lassiter and Derek Stingley Junior have to be huge

(02:04:35):
in this game. It is a monster impact matchup, and
I don't think it's exclusive to either one of them,
because I do think they'll both spend equal time on
those receivers depending on how Todd downing their play calling
OC decides to line them up and decides to deploy
them tonight. Don't expect a ton of offense, but I
actually think it is gonna slightly hit the over, which

(02:04:56):
is forty three. And as I mentioned earlier, I'm taking
the Texas to win the game to seven and two. Obviously,
I think they're gonna cover as underdogs. We got Rockets
Basketball coming for you at seven thirty. I'll be on
the call with MT We got an hour of Rockets
coverage leading into that. Starting at six thirty. They'll try
to take down the other team in Texas. They hated
Dallas Mavericks. We all return tomorrow at three.

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