Texans-Jets 24 Hours+ Away, Yankee Fan Is An Idiot and Wednesday BS

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

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Plus up Houston, Texas three o'clock here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. It is the A Team. He's Adam Wexler.
My name is Adam Clinton, and we are a little
over twenty four hours away from Jets, the Texans and
the Big Apple, so slightly off because they're gonna be
playing in New Jersey. I still can't get over that,
but gonna be a good one tomorrow night. Will the

(00:41):
Texans make a huge franchise altering trade at wide receiver
before the game. The answer is no in all likelihood,
although I guess it could happen. But that's kind of
the discussions, and I know you had them today with
other members of the media, for example, just talking about
some of the names that we bantied about yesterday. So
that's something that we will probably definitely discuss as you

(01:04):
want them to be not just winning your winners tomorrow night,
but down the stretch is the arms race. I guess
it's an arms race and the AFC continues. You want
to be at least on par with some of those
teams that you'll probably be squaring off against in the postseason.
But I gotta, I have to. I didn't want to
do this, Wex, and I didn't tell you I was

(01:24):
going to do this. I cannot stand the New York Yankees.
That is like, that's not even a question. It's been,
you know, very much on record for a long long time.
And then before the series started, I thought, in the
early stages of last night's game that Brian Cashman's commentary

(01:46):
would really look like he stuck his foot in his
mouth and his team wouldn't even win a game in
the World Series. Like, in other words, after he made
those comments about the Astros that I went off about
on this show, he didn't he wouldn't have won another
playoff game. But then last night unfolded the way it
did on the scoreboard. And of course the Yankees are
still alive technically, although I think it ends sooner rather
than later. But what are you doing? And why? There's

(02:10):
a couple of things. What are you doing Yankees fans,
both the ones that had the confrontation with Mookie Bets
and the ones that were congratulating them on their way
out the door. And secondly, why does this keep happening
with mookie bets and playoff games. It happened here in Houston,
and if Joe West were in charge last night and
something bad would have happened to the Astros. I just
know that. But that is the most bizarre thing I've

(02:32):
ever seen, maybe in about ten years in sports, other
than like the Malice of the Palace, where fans were
actually and egregiously involved in a key moment of a
very important game.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, if everybody wants to know what happened, and they
weren't watching the game because they're Houston fans and they
hate the Yankees, they hate the Dodgers, and they hate
baseball and they hate their lives because October baseball and
the Astros did not get married this year like they
have the last seven years. Might as well let them
know what you are talking about. This is the part
of the game where you would have had to have
gotten your day of drinking started super duper early, because

(03:08):
this is the first couple outs of the game. I mean,
the Yankees do bat in the bottom halfs of innings
is very early, and I mean they'll serve you pretty
much once you walk in the door. And these I've
been there, and I've been to a lot of ballparks.
You can buy your SuDS in bulk, even if it's
just one can, it's the biggest can you've probably ever seen,
and you can get keep them coming. Hey, you know

(03:29):
where to find us, Say bring them down, vendor, come
on now. Probably, though the two gentlemen involved with Mookie
Bets were not saturated yet, they were not liquid couraged
up for this moment. But for the sake of showing everybody,
or having everybody here of what took place that night,
put that audio in the system there the Yankees radio

(03:52):
booth describing the action here because I wanted to have
more fun with it than could ever possibly be imagined.
As we open the show with more Yankees Talk, You're
Southwest Home for Yankees Baseball Sports Talk seven ninety. This
is what it sounded like with the two most in
tune people in any radio booth in America and any
sport at any level, John Stirling and Susan Walton.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Betch hit in the air the right, cutting toward the line,
his bets in the corner.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I can't see where what happened, and I honestly don't.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Bets in the fan's gotta be a fan triks the
ball out of his hand.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
He's out. Well, he's got the ball and a fan
took it right out of his glove.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
You can see it.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
He's got his glove in his hand. The fan in
the Yankee uniform is prying the ball out of Lukie's glove.
This guy should be kicked out of this game. I
couldn't agree with that. Goodness. He physically opened up Mukie's
glove because he was trying to get the club back.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
You don't want to lose your glove. And he took
the ball out of his glove.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
So there's one away, and here's one Soto one Soto. Hey,
I loved a most of everything in there. To his
You know, I don't want to people to be too
hard on John. He said something that's true for every broadcaster.
When the ball goes into that part of the ballpark,
it's very difficult for a broadcaster to see it. He
didn't mean he couldn't see it because he has bad

(05:15):
vision or anything. He means it's very difficult to see it.
And then when they were talking through the play, it
was because they were now watching the replay on the monitor,
and she described it pretty well. The fan was trying
to pry open mookie Bets glove. This is a foul
ball right up against the wall. Mooki made a nice
ploy ont The umpires that are in shape are calling
the World Series game, so they were able to get

(05:36):
out there in time. And again there's additional umpires because
they want these games to be umpired better than the
regular season games. Wouldn't want to hire too many people
to fix that. So everything that was actually done correctly
from a baseball standpoint, And yes, the fans got escorted out.
And I say fans because the fan that wasn't trying
to pry the ball out of mooki BET's glove, sitting

(05:57):
next to him, standing next to him, actually grabbed Mooki's
right hand, the ungloved hand, and I guess tried to
keep him from preventing the ball from being private. I
don't think Mookie realized that's what the person was trying
to do, because it absolutely looked like it felt to
him and looked like to me initially he was trying
to like steal his glove, rip his glove off of

(06:19):
his hand. But hey, we say, I've never seen anything
like this before. For a reason. It's not for hyperbole,
and it's not to create Man, let's make it bigger
than it was. No, it's literal. We literally haven't seen
it before. I don't think we will see it again.
I don't think we'll see these fans again. They were
escored it out of the game to some cheers, and

(06:41):
apparently Major League Baseball requested that Yankee Stadium did not
allow them back in for tonight's game. There aren't gonna
be any more games at Yankee Stadium this year. I
don't know if the band will continue after this year,
but they'll they'll hook him up with a reimbursement and
politely ask them to not come to any more games.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, okay, first of all, if you're gonna give John
Sterling some.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm just saying the way I edited it, I wanted
to give context to it. He couldn't see it because
it's in a a what of a blind spot for
a broadcast, But he.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Also couldn't see you when Aaron Judge was clearly just
going to fly out and not hit a home run
when he really wanted to will it over the fence
Earlier in the series.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yes, and He even said himself, well, I really thought
he hit that one a lot better. Now, right after
he made the call, he's like, eh, I thought he
got a and she said, yeah, it looked like it
went off the end of the bat, which basically it did.
I'm surprised, and we all know which play that you're
referring to, because there's only been one of them. He
did have a hit last night, and they scored their

(07:43):
eleventh run thankfully, so they could win by seven instead
of six.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Was it the least pressured batting situation he's faced this
World Series?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, it probably was. I mean, it's still bad news
for the Dodgers. Every time you go up there, usually
you get more comfortable. And after a hit like that
where he did make contact, well did drive the ball,
I just didn't drive it over the fence. You never
know that he doesn't come out, And I mean, I
know how badly he's performed in this and almost every
postseason before it, but every time he stands up there,

(08:13):
it just still just takes one. It still just takes
one bad pitch, one pitch that has no movement on it.
Because it has movement on it, you're pretty safe. But
if it doesn't and you put it in the zone,
you might hit it out.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, Freddy Freeman still exists, so as long as they
insist on pitching to him, I'm gonna take my chances
with the Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Pitching to him in the first inning is probably still
the right play.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Man, Well, they did it last night and one rather easily.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh yeah, no, they did. That's I mean, that's great.
I said, Dodgers and five for a reason. I thought
the Yankees would you get one game. It'll be even
better when Garrett Cole loses tonight, that'll be much more satisfying.
But yeah, I just it's just crazy that that was
probably the highlight of this World Series outside of Freddy
Freeman's consecutive home runs. But crazy stuff in the World

(09:00):
Series last night and doesn't surprise me at all. As again,
I cannot believe that the Yankees have found not one,
but two reasons now to make me root for the
Dodgers when I just wanted both teams to lose. I
thought I was very clear about it.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah you could pretty It's okay in this instance to say, man,
only in New York, only Yankee fans, because again, it's literal.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
I don't mean to paint them in this light. They
don't deserve to be in.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
I mean, nobody else has done it, just them, And
it's not the fifty or forty some odd thousand that
were theirs, two guys, which is two more than we've
ever seen any other fans do.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
So it is, as I know things are.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Every five to ten years, we see a little bit
of a shift in what we think is acceptable pretty
much in our entire lives. What's acceptable for the media
to do their jobs, what's acceptable to be a media member,
what's acceptable to have an opinion on both on the
air or on now social media. What's okay for fans
to do? I mean, the line just keeps going for

(09:56):
this is still off limits. This is still a bad thing,
This is unacceptable. This is still one of the things
that violates the super vague, all encompassing warning labels and
restrictions on the back of your non existent paper ticket stub. So, yes,
it would be nice if fans just kind of stayed
out of it. I mean, we had a fan interference

(10:18):
call in Dodger Stadium. It was correctly called. It didn't
involve a player because the player, The defensive player decided
to try to play it off the wall. If he
had gone all the way to the wall and try
to make a catch, well, the fan who reached over
the fence and caught it would have absolutely interfered with
an on field play. He probably, though wouldn't have also

(10:39):
tried to rip the glove off of that player's hand.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It was just so bizarre. I just still can't believe
that that, Like just you thought it was gonna stop,
and it just kept going.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
That was the thing that really surprised Mookie reacted the
way he did, which is to say, not in a
bad way. I'm really disappointed they didn't win because his
answers to the media afterwards would have been completely different.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
They lost the game, That's all he cared about.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
He wasn't really interested in answering questions about her going
into detail about it when he was pressed by the
media about what did you think of what happened? If
they would have won the game, Man, he would have
gone off on them, and I would have I would
have enjoyed that, because it needs to be said.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
He absolutely he should have gone off on them in
the moment.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, it was. It's alarming, and it's not I mean,
it's it's it's a black eye on the series obviously.
But provided the Yankees, i mean the Dodgers were able
to close it out tonight, it'll probably largely be forgotten
as far as they go. And you're right, this is
that'll be the highlight of the of the series for
the Yankees, I mean probably for the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
For the Yankees, probably all time New Yorker Anthony Volpi's
Grand Slam that's probably highlight.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't even know who that guy is. That guy's
a bum. All right. We've got plenty of Texans conversation
coming up on a Wednesday edition of the program.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Like I said, I don't think these two very awesome
New Yorkers had already popped the top on an ice
called bud Light or twenty, which is about nineteen too
many in that setting.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
You know what to do.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
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Speaker 7 (12:37):
The A team continues on Sports Talk seven nineties.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
It is the eighteen here on Sports Talk seven ninety
as you heard the Voice guys say and Space City
Home Network. Big news up in Florham Park, New Jersey, Wax.
Have you heard?

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Is it raining or something?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Why is it that? Right before the Texans get to town,
These teams that have had glaring issues with their kicking
game get it right somehow, some way tapping with the Packers.
So how do we know they got it right. Well,
they're not gonna let Greg's airline screw things up for
him this week. And well, so the Texans basically play

(13:22):
every game within three points or less.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
That's a big deal. Yeah, it is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
It currently employed NFL kickers being replaced by one of
the many many I don't want you kickers, And they
actually signed two of them, right because they're so bad.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
But that's what the Packers did because they had had
seven since the beginning of the year.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, but you're acting like it's a Texans thing. What
did what did Narvison's replacement do last week for the Packers?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
McMahon.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, he kicked the game winning field goal on the
last play of the game for the second week in
a row.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, but it was the Texans that made them go
and sign him finally.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Uh yeah, that's probably why the Greg's airline went on
IR this week. They were just saying, Hey, look, we
don't want to We know you're hurt, we know you stink,
we know you miss a lot of kicks, but we're
not gonna ir you until we have a short week
and the Texans are coming to town. Because they're the
only team that has close games. We haven't had any ourselves.
You haven't cost us any games yet. So in light
of the fact it could happen tomorrow night, we're gonna

(14:20):
sign some guys.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Today.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
They did sign two kickers, both of the practice squad.
They'll make a decision on which one of them will
be elevated, which obviously means today if it hasn't already happened,
and one of the two kickers has actually already played
against the Texans this year, because the opening week of
the season. The Colts had a kicker issue. Matt Gay
was not one hundred percent, so they decided to elevate

(14:42):
Schrader for that game. He was brilliant making his extra points.
Wasn't even asked to kick a field goal. And we'll
see if that's any different tomorrow night gets the Texans.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
As he's al Schaer's not playing. I'm sad.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, you heard it here first yesterday because it wasn't
that hard to figure out. I don't like to proclaim
I'm a genior. My hand does not hurt because I'm
not patting myself on the back any harder or at all.
This was pretty much a given. I think anybody who's
been around the team knew that this was unfortunately a
short week. I do think there was a real chance
they might have played had this Jets game been scheduled
for Sunday, But I think it's now almost a given

(15:17):
that the two players who have been consistently missing time
while on the active roster, Aziz al Shair and Jimmy Ward,
they will be back on the tenth to be available
against the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Both of them are listed out for this game.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Another fake practice report from the Texans, and I'm not
trying to take a shot at them, but just a
walk through today, so there's not a whole lot going on.
And then they immediately turned around and got on a
plane and headed off to this game up East. Both
of those players are out again. No surprise that Jared
Patterson and the concussion protocol is also out. He's obviously
up for question whether he would be ready for the

(15:54):
Detroit game or what things look like at left guard
tomorrow night. If it's green, or if it's green, or
if it's Green and green. We'll have to wait and
see which of the Ken period Green's plays. Probably the
original Ken Period Green, and I think Ken Period Green
as a reserve will stay the same. And then the
other injuries is something kind of figured it would also

(16:17):
play into this game. Once we saw Damian Pierce as
a estimated as an estimated non participant in the first
of their estimated practices this week with the groin injury,
it pretty much meant he was not going to play.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
He's also listed out.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Instead of elevating JJ Taylor from the practice squad, they
have signed him to the active roster as they begin
to run out of those standard elevation activations at this
point the season, since he had been there. But it
also begs the question which was asked the day they
made the deal. You got Joe Mixon and Damian Pierce
back at the same time, after Pierce had missed all

(16:51):
the games but the opener, and after Mixin had been
illegally tackled to the point where he had to miss games,
And as soon as they came back, he said, all right,
we are good. They'll be healthy the rest of the year.
So let's get a late round draft pick conditional from
the Minnesota Vikings for Cam Akers, who obviously is not
available to the Texans because he doesn't play here anymore.

(17:13):
So your three running backs for this game will be
Joe Mixon, Daria Gumbalwallee, and JJ Taylor.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
You sounded so thrilled.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
I mean, I wasn't overwhelmed with I can't believe they're
doing this, but it was. I mentioned it then.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
It was a risk I obviously they felt worth taking
for the part of Nick Cassario's asset catalog on draft
day so he can move up three spots and trade
a twenty seven to seventh for a twenty twenty six
to sixth, so he has more to work with, I
guess rather than recognize, well, these are the two players

(17:52):
who are already hurt in a position where nobody carries
that much depth at the running back position.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
I thought it was a curious move.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Then again, I wasn't losing sleepover and I wasn't ready
to crucify him, and I'm still not today.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
But cam Akers would be, you know, playing, He would
be active.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
He would be a part of the game plan for
this game coming up against the Jets if he were
still a Texan and instead it's JJ Taylor. Yeah, he's
not a part of the game plan, but merely will heck,
I don't know. They've gone from Steven Simms to Damian
Pierce to maybe back to JJ Taylor as a kick
return option. As much as Damian Pierce is never going
to be viewed, I don't think as a return specialist.

(18:33):
He had one of the four kick returns for touchdown
last year when the dynamic kickoff was not a part
of the NFL, and last week he set the Texans
up to score on their opening possession when they won
the toss and chose to take the ball first, which
is rare in the NFL, and he had a great
return and they put points on the board. Dimiko was
asked about that earlier this week. You know, I've said,

(18:56):
in some situations with this particular team, I would take
the ball first every now and then, and for reasons
that he described, the same ones I brought up. Just
go ahead and put your offense on the field every
now and then and take the lead, go score first. Yeah,
there's pressure on you to do it, and yes, it
sets you up for a potential bad end of half,

(19:16):
start of third quarter. But even taking that into account,
look what happened at the end of the first half
of the game. They chose to take the ball first.
Anthony Richardson threw an interception in the final minute, they
scored a touchdown off of it. They took that momentum
into the second half, rather than the Colts looking to
have the ball at the end of the first and
started the second. It couldn't have worked any greater in

(19:37):
their favor. It's okay to take the ball first, especially
when you have some belief in the matchup your offense
against the other team's defense.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, no, I like it. I like it. It kind
of it's funny to refer to it as aggressive since
it's a coin toss, but the decision is now right
less of a coin toss. I'm sure there's some metrics
behind it, and we've explained them all, which I just did.
So that's why most coaches don't do it. And when
you see somebody there's got to be a specific reason why.

(20:07):
I mean, even if they hadn't scored, I just it
doesn't bother me a great deal if you take the
ball first and don't score. I think playing from in
front if you can by getting the ball first, is
an advantage. You have to succeed, you have to put
the points on the board, but I think doing so
puts you in a good spot. And I'm fully aware
they almost immediately fell behind when the Colts were up

(20:30):
ten to three. Yeah, it was a lackluster like a
lot of things offensively have been in in the relative
sense this year. I you know, they're six and two.
So again it goes back to the original adage we
keep talking about it's hard to complain that much, but
if you want to nitpick about certain things, and the

(20:50):
offense is easy to do that with because it's just
it just hasn't been as explosive as you thought it
would be.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's just very average, right, And I'm not Stefan Diggs
is not playing for the Texans anymore. You know who
is pretty much the same guys that did last year
when they went ten and seven and won a playoff game,
plus Joe Mixon and I have to at least acknowledge
while most of the players are the same on the
offensive line, I clearly can't lie to you guys and
pretend that I'm just glossing over it.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Their offensive line is way worse this year.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
But they put up numbers offensively, did they not just
on average, even if they weren't like glaringly higher the.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Averages team last year?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I just feel like maybe it's because they're closer games,
and so that's kind of clouding just my judgment, my
eye tests. Looking at the two versions of CJ. Stroud
leading the offense, it just feels like, on average, they
scored more points whether they were winning or losing. Last year.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
They're pretty much the same. They got a couple of
those thirty point games. They obviously had the game with
the five touchdowns and the thirty nine points they scored
thirty against the Bengals, which are the types of games
you're kind of missing this year. You know, your highest
scoring game before the Patriots game was just the it
was the opener when you had twenty nine. Almost every
other game is in the same spot. It's twenty three twenty,

(22:04):
it's twenty four to twenty, it's twenty one to nineteen.
They're all almost the same spot. You know, the Texans
last year were in the second tier second ten, twelfth
in yards overall a season ago, and their point total
was thirteenth. They scored twenty two point two points per
game a year ago full season. Well, this year they're

(22:26):
almost identical that right now. They're at twenty three point
five higher scoring league this year, so they actually moved
back as it relates to the risk of the league slightly,
and they're averaging slightly fewer yards per game.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
So they averaged twenty two to two last year. Hmm,
that's insane. I thought it was way higher. Well maybe
not way higher, but closer to thirty than that, I guess, Well, well,
closer to thirty means you're the best. Well, two teams
were at this year, two teams are scoring thirty points
a game. No, not averaging thirty. I'm just saying closer
to thirty than twenty two. I would ash nobody averaged thirty.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
If you close to thirty, you were basically the best
offense in the league, which they definitely were not.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, I'm giving all of the NFL way too much credit.
Let's hear from head coach Tamiko Ryan's when we come back.
And also, I know there's gonna be names that are
attached to the Texans because of the injury, just to
Fon Diggs, there's one that's like just blowing me away
that it's even being mentioned. And we'll talk about that
before the end of the three o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2 (23:41):
Ed with eighteen rolling along on a Wednesday edition of
the program day before Halloween, day before the Texans and
the Jets get together in the Meadowlands tomorrow night stadium
with the worst it's the worst turf in the NFL, right,

(24:03):
I mean there's several partially.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Just the turf itself but it's actually the surface. It's
too hard. It's it's it's concrete. It's why players like
opposing teams quarterbacks get concussions there.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
You know what's interesting is Demiko Ryans once sued the
Texans because of their surface. Very different reason the Seams.
I guess in the old grass that Bob McNair insisted
on rolling out that they had to paint green because
it wouldn't grow. What a great time to be alive.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
They had issues with multiple players.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
He was one of them there, Punter Hartman was another,
and the Patriots made Wes Welker another. I don't know
if any of them had. I mean, it's probably worthwhile
for each of them, as they did other than Wes,
to bring a lawsuit because it's just gonna get settled.
So a lawsuit you don't get anything. If you do
bring a lawsuit, you're getting something.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I was actually surprised with you that Wes Welker didn't
in light of because that he was the last of
those three, was he not when his injury happened. Anyway,
they're gonna play not on that surface. They're gonna play
up in the meadowlands. They're gonna play at MetLife Stadium
and they're hoping to get a victory despite the fact
that they will be without Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins
in this one. And speaking of de Miko, you brought

(25:18):
this up during the break. It's interesting given the environment
that head coaches are in sometimes and how that changes
their answer or maybe how they answer certain questions.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
I mean, it really isn't applicable only to coaches. It's
supplicable to everybody in the sports world. Because we've talked
about it for several years now. With the extreme popularity
of other outlets for your media, people are more willing
to say things we would not normally hear from them.
You go stand at a podium listening to a bunch
of media members ask you questions, and you're ready to

(25:53):
leave the podium. You sit down on somebody's couch while
you're enjoying a beverage maybe it's just coffee, maybe it's
something else, maybe it's water, and you're probably going to
give more extensive answers because the media is going to
talk to you as a whole for with fifteen people
for probably eight minutes, whereas on the couch in a
nice chair or at a desk or wherever it.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Is you probably committed to.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm gonna give you twenty five thirty minutes of my
time here for this sit down podcast. Whatever the case
may be. We've watched it with the All the Smoke podcasts,
Gilbert Arenez's podcasts. The list is endless. People that go
on the No Heights podcast with Kelsey Brothers, Chris Long, everybody.
The amount of I believe Aaron Rodgers does a weekly

(26:39):
show too. The amount of answers you get that are
much more worthwhile is staggering. In in case you weren't aware,
tell me if these two questions sound pretty similar from
a Texan standpoint as they head it into this game
on the road at New York, where they played last
year quite poorly. The question presented to Miko ryans they

(27:01):
did a number on us last year. It's not really
revenge and all that. Is there anything that you take
out of that moving forward into your preparation. That's the
question asked to Demiko about playing the Jets little reference
to what happened last year. Another question presented to him
last year not the best game?

Speaker 5 (27:18):
What do you remember?

Speaker 3 (27:20):
I'm sorry last year not the best game. Do you
remember last year or is that just old news? It's
pretty similar, right, not a tremendous amount of difference, in
my opinion. You got a tremendously different answer in both situations.
One was asked at a podium for a person at
the podium, and one was asked during a sit down
with two members of the in house media. So it's

(27:42):
just a very very different setting. They both took place
actually on the very same day. One took place in
the morning and one took place later that day. We'll
go to the answer from later that day. It was
the answer to the second of those two questions. I
mentioned this from the podium. Last year not the best game.
Do you remember last year or is that just old news?

Speaker 8 (28:02):
I remember last year playing up there, But last year
has no bearings on the game that we're playing. You
know on Thursday, we have a different team. They have
a different team, So it has nothing to do with
where we are now. Focused on our team this year
and us. It's about us, you know, getting ready to
go play our best versus the Jets.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's very coach speaky, It's it's accurate.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
He acknowledged that he was not one of the people,
the only person who left that game with a concussion.
So he does remember, he acknowledged he remembers they played,
but it has no bearing on anything, you know, bearing
on their preparation. They're a different team, The Jets are
a different team, and we're just going to this game
as we would any other.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Just basically said, no, of course, it's not on my mind.
Nothing has nothing to do with it.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
So the other question elicited this answer a conversation at
earlier that day in the morning. Like I said, during
an in house media conversation which they do each week
on Mondays with the head coach, they did a number
on us. This was asked by one of those media members.
Thus that's why it says us they did a number
on us last year. It's not really revenge and all that,

(29:06):
But is there anything that you take out of that
moving forward into your preparation.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, that's the first thing that's on my mind.

Speaker 8 (29:12):
Like how we went up there last year is probably
one of our worst games that we play, especially defensively,
going up there last year, and we have to make
the plays that we're supposed to make, So we didn't
do that last year. That sits with me. It still
sits with me. I know I need to let it go,
but it's our so I'm man, I'm fired up for

(29:33):
this one.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
So okay. The first question I would have is why
why would you have essentially the same answer given or
same question answered so differently, so different of answers given.
And that second one sounds like he's talking inside the
locker room and somebody just happened to have a mic
in there versus what you saw at the podium. Does

(29:56):
he think that less people are going to see?

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Is that's why this is nothing to try to direct
it to the subject that we have here. To Miko,
this is merely about the settings are different, the comfort
level is different, the product you're producing is different. He's
answering our questions only so he can get to the
next question. He actually does a I don't say that
to say I think we have a bad relationship or
he does a bad job with the media. It's far

(30:19):
from it. But that's not what he's really sitting up
there to do. He's ready to move on to his
next task to prepare for the team. This is part
of what they do each week in the other setting,
where he grants the broadcasters twenty minutes each week. We're
want to sit down and we're in to talk. They
also happen to be coming off of a win. You know,
they've just been talking about that. You flip it into

(30:40):
the Jets game. That was the first question about the
upcoming matchup. And so he's he's in a good mood.
He is smiling, he's in a good mood when.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
He talks to us.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Also, I don't want to see except and that's why
I say it's really not a hymn thing. It's just
the nature of what these two different settings are. Even
a locker room setting is very much and to take
a player at his locker after the game, just even
this past week, doctor Will Anderson talk to many other
players after their win on Sunday, and they're in a

(31:10):
good mood. They're giving us good answers. And he's he's
so good that he's probably a bad example. He really
he's really thoughtful. So is Daniel Hunter with listening to
the question and kind of getting a sense of, you know,
how he feels about him just being honest with you.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
And he's really really good.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
And yet I imagine if any one of them then
finished up with us and if it's Will, that means
he took his boots and cowboy hat to his.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Let's just say this week he looked great.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, let's say ESPN, Let's say Scott Van Pelt, that's
say NFL networ whoever. Hey, they've they've got an interview
set up. All you have to do is sit down
and talk to you know how good he's going to be.
He's he is good with us, but you're going to
be a little bit different in those settings, especially if
it happened like let's say he went on Pat McAfee
immediately after the game or CJ Stroude.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's a very good different because it's a different style
of show and that look, you can say what you
want about Pat McAfee, and I know he's very polarizing
to certain people. I'd rather watch Pat McAfee than pretty
much any other show on that stupid network because they're
all the same.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, all of us, just to say, yes, he cares
and he wants revenge. His defense was bad.

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line has not moved, correct the Jets one and a
half one and a half. I am starting to find
it difficult to find people who think the Texans are

(33:05):
going to win this game, even though it just sounds
crazy to me. I know Stefan Diggs is out, I
know that it's on the road. I know that it's
the Texans kind of are getting well. They have this
Checkle and Hyde reputation with regards to how they play
on the road versus at home. I just still feel like,
top to bottom they're a better football team, mainly because

(33:27):
I think their quarterback is way better than whatever this
version of Aaron Rodgers is that.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
The Jets are gonna trot out. Yeah, there's other parts
to it, though. He gets a little more time to throw,
so CJ. Stroud is definitely better than him. But they're
not playing under the same conditions, and that's unfortunate because
the Texans should be doing a better job of allowing
him to play under better conditions. They just haven't, and
all this talk about a wide receiver trade, and we've
got more of it coming up over the next two hours.

(33:52):
I wish it was including which teams that are out
of it have good under contract offensive linemen, especially on
the interior, that the Texans could pry away from them,
because that's what they should be trying to do. That's
what they should be doing for the long term health,
literal health of their quarterback and the health of their
offense if he was playing under even okay conditions, because

(34:16):
the last several weeks haven't been okay. You know, to
think what we watched against Green Bay and thought, man,
this is awful. It was worse against the Colts for
different reasons, but certainly from a statistical standpoint, it was
worse from what he was up against. He was up
against more pressure, more of his drops were pressured. It's
just in a different way. And again it's just about

(34:36):
the level every time you drop back, you're pressured. Texans
have not moved the pocket hardly at all this year.
It's not really a huge part of the Bobby Slowick offense.
I wonder in a short week if they have time
to think about doing that, and the answer is probably no,
I wonder if in a long week before playing the Lions, who,

(34:57):
thankfully for football reasons, unfortunately for personal reasons, Aiden Hutchinson
will not be a part of that Lion's team, and
he will no longer be leading the NFL in sacks,
which he likely would have been had he been out
there for these couple of games and then that one.
It's something that I would hope you would consider. It's
what he ends up doing anyway, except only because he

(35:20):
has to because the pocket's collapsed, or because someone's come free,
or because he just has to create more time for
someone to give him an outlet to throw throwing. Moving
to his right has become a constant for CJ. Stroud,
you know, moving the pocket by your own choice, you know,
a rollout or something that again, we just don't see it,
so I can't imagine it's something they have much time
to put in, uh to really work through so it

(35:43):
can operate the right way. But comparing the two of them,
I just have to I would always want to start
with that, and every quarterback's facing different challenges. But yeah,
player for player, there's not I don't know there's five
teams in the league, maybe four maybe three, they wouldn't
trade for c. J.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Stroud.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Well, if the Jets are a team that would absolutely
want c. J. Stroud over the quarterback they have, And
if c J. Stroud were the Jets quarterback, I'd say
there is a zero point zero zero, zero zero chance
the Jets would be two and six. And similarly, if
Aaron Rodgers was the Texans quarterback, there's the same chance
they'd be six and two.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
There's none.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
He has better weapons now, which was not the case
of the beginning of the season. His top two wideouts
are Garrett Wilson and DeVante Adams. That's among the league's best,
if not the best, for a top two. I think
he has two capable running backs. I think Breese Hall
on any given day can do anything like Jonathan Taylor did,
anything like Joe Mixon does on a weekly basis. He

(36:42):
has not been nearly as consistent this year, and their
run game has been poor, which I still cannot figure
out with the talent that there is back there. Rogers' season,
I think, because they're two and six, is being viewed
as terrible. His completion percentage for someone who's thrown the
ball as well as he has for his whole career
makes people think his season is terrible. I don't think

(37:03):
it's terrible. It's just not winning football yet. They have
not figured out how to put enough drives together that
end in touchdowns. Their offense has probably moved the ball
well enough to score enough points to win, but they're
not finishing these drives. And then when these drives finished
with a field goal opportunity, that is a miss, which
has been way too often. These are all reasons why
they've got a bunch of other things pointing to it's

(37:26):
not just Aaron Rodgers. And again, I don't even think
he's been awful. I'm shocked by his completion percentage. But
they have been on prime time a lot, and they
are seen here a lot. I don't have to go
out of my way to see Jets football. So far
this year, you've been able to scout well. I think
everybody has. There's no reason for the Texans to be

(37:46):
favored in this game. Could it be a pick them?
Probably the Texans on the road this year, two point
we win at a benched quarterback's twenty seven point loss
at a backup caliber quarterback, A twenty point win over
a rookie starting his first game ever and a two
point loss at the Packers.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, Listen, if it weren't for all of these close scores,
I'd probably be able to argue the point a little
bit more, especially with them being on the road like
this is. If this game's in Houston, I wonder what
the number would be, actually six and a half with
everything the same, even with Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Okay, four now, that's probably between four and six somewhere
in that neighborhood. Yeah, And that's just crazy to me
with a guys pinion, I'm no expert, just again.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Because the same line is going to not block well
in front of him right, no matter where it plays.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Like what I think they're viewed.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
If I was watching them closely as an it's a
gambling observer. Basically, I might be watching them thinking they're
they're escaping disaster. On a weekly basis. They played against
this Packers defense that was all over them and put
them in terrible positions and a lot of their points
came because they had short fields and they didn't turn

(39:04):
the ball over. There's no you shouldn't have games like
that if you're the Packers defense, to say, how did
we not turn them over? How did we not take
the ball from them? We played, We did all the
things necessary to do that. The Texans have gotten pretty much.
I know last week's game looks a little odd to
say that after, but I was on a pitch play
that is pretty easy to fix.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Don't call it.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Or pitch better, that's the fix.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
They are in another year, which I hope are all
of Cjy's years. They're probably not going to turn the
ball over a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, how about they turned the Packers over three times,
but because it was on the road they lost. Well,
because it was on the road, is you know, I know,
it's a fun story to take. I'm kidding. Of course.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
They went through several weeks where they couldn't get a turnover, right,
no turnovers three straight weeks, last three weeks, nine turnovers.
They've taken the ball away nine times in three games
after taking it away zero times in three games. They're
gonna turn the Jets over. They're going to have an
advantage I think in that same area this week.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, feeling on what kind of turnover though? Both really
because me I would have never said okay in the past.
I mean Aaron Rodgers. He's not throwing a pick in
this game now, absolutely, he could throw picking. Well, he's
throwing seven this year. None of them came last week.
He's that they've had three games with no turnovers at all.
Of that ticks all right, He's a regular Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
It's just it's he has made mistakes. I think some
miscommunications have been a part of it. And then there's
always the passes that look like they're good and then
it gets tipped up that anything could happen.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
But yeah, I think the Texans will do that again.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
And more to the point, it's it's less about them
just in my opinion, it's less about them taking it away.
It's more about them protecting if they don't turn the
ball over, which they've gotten pretty good at. Again, they're
two turnovers in the last three games. One of them
was on the pitch play, the other one and came
in the Patriots game. A turnover on special teams early

(40:58):
this year on the muffed punt. I mean, they still
don't They turned it over on average once per game,
and that's more than they did a year ago.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I think I'm still the most impressed with that, and
specifically CJ. Because with as much as he's under pressure
and everything else, that goes into what is his existence
behind that line right now, The fact that he hasn't
and again I'm probably jinxing him by saying this, but
the fact that he hasn't turned it over more really

(41:28):
is what I'm trying to get at. Is just it's absurd,
Like he's it's one of his best assets of many.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Because he's accurate, because he's what Aaron Rodgers was for
all of his years, and I mean they're playing against
the quarterback this week for fifteen years was number one
in the NFL. He does not turn the ball over,
He did not throw interceptions. He was extremely accurate. Their
offense was extremely effective and efficient. You know that one
turnover I mentioned against the Patriots for the Texans, I
think we remember that that was the pass end of
the end zone well covered, and I think the Patriots

(41:58):
created the turnover a good coverage on Schultz and Mark
Jones did a nice job coming over as the safety
use right there to corral it when it got popped
up in the air.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
But that's it.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
And the botched pitch over three games, which is technically
his Yes, Joe Mixon never had the football. It's just
like Caleb Williams turnover in the Bears game. He put
it in the belly of one of their offensive linemen.
They decided to line up at full back and hand
him the football, and it never got there and he fumbled.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
It goes on the quarterback. Very bad play call.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Bears were so bad at the end of the game
with their coaching, people have kind of forgotten about. They
had first in goal earlier in the fourth quarter to
take the lead, but decided that was the play.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
They wanted to run.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Then they fumbled on it and it wasn't created by
the other team. They just fumbled the football. Coaches do
weird things in the NFL every level. Hi, man, Look,
why would we put this play in here all week?
We cannot wait to use it. This is gonna be
the perfect time. We're gonna fully other team. We're gonna
trick him. They've never seen it before. It's gonna be awesome.
Except sometimes it's not. Like even the Lions, they waited

(43:03):
for most of those plays against the Cowboys, so the
game is already over. I mean, maybe you're throwing them
away because you're using them in a game where you
don't need them, but if they don't work, it's not
going to potentially cost you a football game.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
No, And I think you know, when you're sitting there
playing Madden and you're like, this is so much easier.
I guess it's because there's not as much chaos going
on here on my couch or whatever. I still think
that it's way less impressive how bad NFL coaches are
with clock management than anything else play calling. I'll understand
that there's heat of the moment type stuff that happens.

(43:36):
You can't manage a clock better than some of these
guys do. It's pretty incredible. All right, we will continue.
We've got our gut feelings our Wednesday bitsteal coming up
at the bottom of the hour. As we continue here
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Speaker 6 (44:42):
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Speaker 2 (44:42):
Quickly, going back to the Yankees incident last night, wex
is the least surprising thing ever. That there is six
degrees of separation. That Rob Gronkowski was college of buddies with.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
That guy seems more like like one degree.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
It's like when I saw that, I'm like, uh, of course,
Like it's the least surprising thing ever. And his description
was fantastic. He said, yeah, Austin was a college friend.
This guy, Austin Coppi compa Coppo Bianco something or other,
very passionate about the teams. He represents, We'll do anything
for them. A menace, wild boy as well. He's the

(45:18):
person that would undoubtedly say he would do that and
then actually do it. Maniac status since college has been confirmed. Yeah,
nothing else.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
I mean, we could have just heard him say it's
right there in the system.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Well, I don't know that. I never look. You have
like fifty monitors in front of you that tell you
everything going on. That's why it's supposed to be where
everybody can see it, so everybody would know. Is it
funnier if he says it like is it a typical
Gronk SoundBite where he sounds like he's playing beach volleyball
and he's chugging beers. Let's find out, just waiting for

(45:54):
it to be played fire away.

Speaker 9 (45:56):
This is actually the first time I'm seeing this live,
And here's a little fun fat. That guy right there
grabbing Mookie Bets's glove was my friend in college. He
was on the ice hockey team, the club Arizona Wildcats
team ice hockey team, and him doing that represents him
very well.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
I mean, he is all in for his teams. He
is all in for the Yankees.

Speaker 9 (46:21):
I remember him talking about the Yankees all the time,
how he loves him so much, and that describes him perfectly,
just doing whatever it takes to.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Help his team out. But beauty, he is a beauty.

Speaker 9 (46:33):
I just want to say congratulations for shining when your
moment came.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
He's not sitting there doing a podcast in his health,
was with his girlfriend. He's actually a weekly guest on
the Up and Adams Show with k Adams. That's the
female voice you heard there, and she.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Is rightfully beside herself. What does he mean do anything
to help his team out? He did the.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
Opposite, and he didn't do anything. He had no impact.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's actually more accurate.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
But he thought he might be able to have an impact,
like if one of the super slow overweight umpires didn't
get out there in time, maybe he would have seen
the ball drop on the ground because he'd been able
to pry it loose more quickly well, and he could
have helped his team in a very very bad way.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I'm gonna go ahead and stereotype here because that's what
I do when it comes to he looks like the
prototypical Yankees fan. Those are his seats, by the way,
They weren't like, you know, given to him or you know,
this time of year in the World Series, who knows
who's sitting where and how they got there. Those are
his season tickets, which is another wrinkle to this story.
It's interesting because if he's banned for the rest of

(47:37):
this series. He got refunded. Yeah, that's it, is he
gonna get banned though, like ban banned. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I don't know what the future holds beyond twenty twenty four,
but it's it's a band for the year all one day.

Speaker 10 (47:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
But him saying they're going to patrol that, I mean,
what is he? Jack Nicholson and a few good men?
You want me on that wall? Like, what does he
even mean by that? He's you know, he's deeming up.
I go, I don't know. I just this is why again,
say what you will about Dodger fans, and there's plenty

(48:16):
to say. And it's a nightmare series for basically anyone
that's not in those two markets because nobody wants to
see either one of these teams have any sort of success.
They're both spoiled, rotten fan bases with obnoxious fans on
top of that, by and large, but I just it's
so much easier to root for the Dodgers after just
just four games in this series, with what's unfolded, not

(48:38):
even before the series started. With what Brian Cashman had to.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
Say, it is very easy.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
It did make it very easy and nothing that's happened
over the first four games is changing that. It would
have been nice if it was already over so we
can move on to the more pressing matters of the offseason.
Then there are plenty for your Houston Astros and other teams.
You know, whatever day the season ends is also the
last day that y'all want. Soto is under contract with
the New York Yankees. His presence in this free agent

(49:04):
market if he gets there, which I assume he will,
I don't think they will have a contract done with
him before he can get away. It impacts Bregman tremendously.
I mean, I think any team looking at Soto, well,
if there's five teams looking at him, four of them
are going to lose. How About the fact they would
be pretty surprised if not all four of those teams

(49:26):
were also thinking, well, we have all this money to
spend and we need to spend it, and it's going
to put us over the top.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
Well, Bregman's next in line.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
How about the fact that if the scenario unfolds that
a lot of people have thrown out there and he
doesn't stay there, Okay, like he decides for whatever reason,
he's going to go elsewhere. He goes to the Dodgers.
Maybe that's not insane to think about happening. This ridiculous
the amount of money these two clubs are allowed to
spend because of the ridiculous financial setup that is in

(49:54):
Major League Baseball.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
There's no cap, So there's no cap, you're penalized for
spending money.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Penalize use the air quotes since ron team, you say it.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Like the Warriors aren't being penalized one hundred million major
League Baseball.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
It's the same system.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
And who are we talking about here.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
I'm just saying, like the Yankees overspending and the Dodgers
overspending is exactly what the Warriors have done for ten years.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
That's like Jeff Bezos people saying, oh, well, I'm not
going to subscribe to the Washington Post anymore because you
said it should be fair. Now, big freaking deal. He
owns Amazon. That's who we're talking about here, the owners
of Amazon in Major League Baseball. So it's not gonna
matter if they're penalized when there's just right. They're not
dropping the bucket.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
They're not trying to have it matter. They're trying to
line their pockets.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Whether those teams are trying to buy championships too, you
know the other teams, the other owners. Oh, you want
to spend that month money, Well, let's put a penalty
system in place where we can see some of your
spent money, because we're going to penalize you for it,
and you're gonna spend Oh, here's a twenty million dollar
contract that actually cost you eighty million, and we get
to see some of it. But here's what I was
going to getting at. As it pertains to the Astros.

(51:00):
Juan Soto goes to the Dodgerswan Soto goes to wherever
he ends up going. And it's not the Yankees. Who's
to key Brian Cashman from saying, well, this guy's a winner.
He's been a winner, He's clearly helped beat us multiple times.
We have money to throw at him, money that's going
to get him to say yes, because the Astros aren't

(51:20):
going to pony up this x amount of dollars. Let's
go sign Alex Bregman and have him play third base
for the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Well, I would actually hope that all those things happened,
except with this Boris client. Unlike the San Francisco situation,
with Carlos Correa, a Boris client, that press conference and
ultimately contract never happened because of something was the player
wasn't meeting the team's needs from a health standpoint, so

(51:49):
they said no, I would love to shoot to be
on the other foot press conferences schedule, they held it.
He's getting ready to sign the contract. He goes out
to the podium. He says, look, I haven't sign him
contract yet because I want to make a big spectacle
of this. I'm not playing for Brian freaking Cashman.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
God, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
I don't want him to eat his words. I don't
want him to go back on what he said. I
don't want him to finally acknowledge that we weren't the
only team. I just want him to look like an idiot.
So I'm not gonna become a Yankee. Scott and I
already have a deal with the Diamondbacks of the Astros
or the Cubs, or whoever.

Speaker 9 (52:21):
It is.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
That would be. And I'm not putting this lightly. The
best thing in the history of sports, and I'm talking
Michael Jordan's career, I'm talking Muhammad.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Ali even better than the every credibly accurate depiction of
Dwayne Wade in his new statue.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
The better awesome than that? Well, the only thing that's
more awesome than that is Charles Barkley's reaction to it. Yeah,
he's great and al and he needs to be honest.
But they got to get rid of that. I mean,
the people that made that he just was tearing him
all up. That would be because it would be exact
opposite of the last big name free agent to leave

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the Astros to go the Yankees. Garrett Cole might as
well have put on pinstripes instead of Scott Boris.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Now you're making it even better, right. This is where
Alex Bregman's wife, Reagan, goes up there with him and
helps him hold up his poster that he made between
twenty seventeen and twenty twenty four. Each year he added
something to it. He unfurls it and it says, I
am never playing for the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Have knocks. Unfurl it. Be nice. You're not gonna be
a kid.

Speaker 5 (53:36):
I mean, who's gonna boo him the media?

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Yes, you don't think Jeff Passon would cry tears of
sadness if he saw that unfold in front of him. Oh,
I finally get to cover Alex Breghaman and like him, No,
not really all this.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Being said Alex Bregman to the Yankees. I wish I
could tell you it definitely isn't happening, but I can't.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
It would be It would be more hurtful for the
Astros fan base than it would be helpful for the
Yankees on the field. And I firmly believe that.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Oh man, these announcers, if you've been watching, probably too
closely on the television side, they cannot stop talking about
how fundamentally unsound the Yankees are. Base running mistakes, fielding mistakes,
just boneheaded plays that are killing them in this series.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
It's not a base running mistake. He's the slowest player
in Major League Baseball. Don't send him, not that one.
Oh okay, that time different.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
That was probably worth sending him, even though he's slow.
It did take a really nice throw and they needed
him to score. Last night, for instance, Anthony Volpi made
up for all of it with a grand slam and
a couple of spectacular defensive plays and stealing his way
around the bases, but he didn't score from second on
a double off the top of the wall to center.
That's an incredibly bad and he's a good bass runner,

(54:57):
but he made a big mistake. You want to fundamentally
sound third baseman moving forward, There's nobody better.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Who strike zone discipline is unparalleled, by the way. That's
not going to change no matter how old he gets. Hey,
Aaron Man, come here. I want to show you something. Hey,
this picture is out of his own Stop swinging. Stop
swinging exactly. She fixes err In Judge. He's Legend's going
to be unstoppable.

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What are we doing today even though we already told
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Speaker 11 (56:17):
Listen up, girls and boys. This segment so appealing, So
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Speaker 3 (56:27):
Stealing gut feelings from the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
so free reign for us and you during this segment.
You got a gut feeling? Well, fire off seven one
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in here. As part of this segment, you tell us
what your gut is telling you about anything across the
sports landscape. How dramatic it's gonna be when the Yankees

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are crying on their own field tonight, if that's your
gut feeling, How awesome it's going to be on Halloween
when the Texans are going up and down the field
that gets the New York Jets to victory and essentially
ending the long storied, soon to be Hall of Fame
career of Aaron Rodgers, or anything else that might be
in your gut. My gut feeling is essentially what I

(57:13):
just said, I think the Texans. I'll give you my
official stone Cold lock on the Texans tomorrow and then
we'll add it to the picks we make on Friday's
edition of Stone Cold Locks. The Texans as dogs clearly
will cover since I think they're going to win. I
think they're going to play their best game on the
road against a more realistic opponent because I know what

(57:35):
they did to the Patriots, but a more complete game,
another game where they take care of the football, a
fourth consecutive game where they fourth force at least to turnovers,
and yes, a fourth consecutive one hundred yard rushing game
with a score for Joe Mixon, which is a rare feat.

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Only one other in Texans history has done so, Arion Foster,
who was there on Sunday. It's part of the Texans
legends celebrating Andre Johnson who got his Hall of Fame
ring and had that ceremony at the at. They had
him walk all the way out from the tunnel, all
the way along the Texans sideline, basically in between legends

(58:15):
on both sides how they fit him all there, and
then he made his way out to midfield. The Voice
was there to meet him and introduce him to everybody that, oh,
my goodness, it's Andre. They knew who he was. He
had his gold jacket on. That was my one of
the questions I asked him before the game. I said,
I know you don't do it very often, I'm sure,
but what's it like wearing your gold jacket?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
He wears it around the house.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
He said, this is the second time I've worn it.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
He wore it when he was there, obviously, and he
said he'd put it on when he received it, and
that's it.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Do you think he had it distance after he wore
it there? Since it was it just I was sweating
watching it on TV.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
Yeah, it sounds it seemed like it was a lot.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
I get it. They have to do that in August
because that's when the preseason starts on the NFL calendar.
But my goodness, I maybe have it indoors. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
Yeah, so gut feeling.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Texans win, not in a blowout, but more comfortable than usual,
and they take care of business. There's seven and two
more than halfway through the season.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
I think the Texans win two. But my gut feeling
has more to do with kind of what I was
saying a couple of weekends ago, also in a road situation,
this is gonna be a Joe Mixon Knight. And I
know that it's a little bit more difficult to say
that when you consider that everybody on the Jets also knows.
It's probably at least the Texans would like it to

(59:44):
be a Joe Mixon knight.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Isn't it a Joe Mixon knight? Provided he has arrived
on the team bus, since all of his games have
been Joe mixing games.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Not if he's not effective.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
He's been effective in all of them except for the
one he got hurt in.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah, but this, you could argue, this is the best
defense he will go up against, trying to make it
a Joe Mixon night, which is now a thing apparently
I just invented here in this segment.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
It's a primetime game, so it's a night game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
One hundred yards, you know, over one hundred yards rushing,
definitely a touchdown. He's going to have an impact on
a Texans win, which I do think they're going to win.
But it just like I said in the Packers game,
and I would have been very much on point in
that game had they won. If the Texan's gonna win
this game, it's going to be because Joe Mixon had

(01:00:30):
a big, big day. Certainly had a huge day in
that in that game against the Packers, albeit in a
very close, heartbreaking loss on the very final possession. But
I think it's it's going to be more impressive if
he does it this week, simply because Tank Dell is
the only legit threat at receiver you're going to have.
At least the teams are going to look at in

(01:00:50):
that way. There's guys that can catch the ball. But
if Joe Mixon is not effective, it's going to be
it's going to be virtually impossible, I think for the
Texans to win this game.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Quick additional gut feeling before we get to the phones here,
the Texans first receiving touchdown will be for Xavier Hutchinson.
He'll be on the receiving end of that, may even
have a two touchdown day. My gut's not telling me that,
but I do think that's a legitim from Uh probably
not really, he doesn't. I think there will be every

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one of the receivers they played all season long, including Niga,
including step.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
They line up all over the place. Yah, that's true,
that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
That's fair.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
But we'll get some more in from you guys. Line
them up. Ross at the top of the board wants
to share a gut feeling.

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
Hey, Ross, Hey, how's it going a team?

Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Ross, VIIa, what's up?

Speaker 10 (01:01:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Can you not hear me? Okay? Is everything else? You
didn't throw your voice enough like I do when I
call in your shows? Okay, Yeah, sure, I got a
couple of gut feelings for you folks.

Speaker 12 (01:01:51):
Tank Dell four and a half receptions is his prop.
I'm gonna go over on Tank Dell four and a
half catches, And I also will say at some point
on the Thursday night broadcast, Al Michaels will fall asleep
because I have the Texans losing in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
An under nineteen to sixteen. Oh my gosh, that's like
the worst Halloween ever. And by the way, did you
say four and a half's the number on Tank Dell receptions? Yes,
that seems shockingly.

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
Low in light of same number it was a week ago.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, when he was in the lineup with Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
I think it's probably right about where he's had one
game over five catches all year, no matter who was
out there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
But now he's the only guy out there. The other
the other guys don't even exist.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
The whole idea that he's wide receiver one is comical
to me. He's one of the receivers they will play.
The whole idea that he's wide receiver one is accurate
to me because he is. He's their best receiver out there,
and he's going to be the guy that goes to
they go to the most.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
That's sure. The definition of wide receiver.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
One not the way I see it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Of course, why would you. It's differentfferent from me. But seriously, well,
how would you define wide receiver one in a game
like this?

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Who's that's It's just an unnecessary need. I don't need
to define it. You do because I just asked you,
so you need to. It's very necessary. I'm asking you now, Well,
if he's not it, I'm clearly not giving it to
somebody else. I'm not nobody's wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
So your basic your answer to that is that it's
just a poo poop platter of receiver.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
It's just a nonsense term sometimes period, especially with this
team what they had at the beginning of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
I mean people during camp. Oh, he's throwing to Steff
so much.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
He's working on people that are covering him every effort
to make him their their main target.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
I'm sure we're going to see it during the season. No,
it was always Nico, but he was wide receiver one.
Hence the definition. Yeah, he's wide receiver one.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Well he's not out there. That doesn't mean he's being replaced.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Which we say.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
I'm saying for this, somebody else's wide receiver one. That
sounds like a replacement for this week, Yes, Dell is
never wide receiver one period. About this, I'm not you are.
It's just my opinion. I don't think they carry a
wide receiver one. Very upset about it. Tank Dell ever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Well for this week against the Jets, where Nico is
out and Stefan's basically half dead for the rest of.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Thee I agree this segment, we didn't get enough to
you guys in here, so more gut feelings next.

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You hear the music, you know what it means.

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It means we're continuing the segment that I yelled through
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Speaker 7 (01:05:47):
Billy Hey got three of them.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
The Texans leave New York with a win on a
pick six from Derek Stingley.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Whoa.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
And the Texans leave New York with a new wide receiver,
Darius Slayton, and Ken Young Green is traded to.

Speaker 7 (01:06:05):
The Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
There you go, that's like the perfect week everything he
just said. So Aaron Rodgers is gonna throw a game
winning pick six to Stingley probably praised a little bit.
The Texans are going to spell Stefan Diggs by just
having someone from the Jets get on their charter to
come back to Houston Giants and the oh that's what
you well, yeah, but the uh and the the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Are gonna get worse. Yeah, the Jeremy Fowler of the world.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
He floated that by reporting it and writing about it,
that the possibility that teams were interested in would be
trading for Kenyon Green is a real thing in his
you know, a couple of seasons with the Texans former
first round pick. Injuries have been as much a part
of his career as his inability to solidify that spot
as his for the Texans, and I expect him to

(01:07:00):
be the starter tonight as we sit here today.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
Again, I'd mentioned earlier in the week, I.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Thought had they had a week of practice, maybe they
would have felt differently. Also, if Jared Patterson were available
for this game, he would be starting and he would
not have been taken back out of the game either.
Last week and the pick six for sting, the Texans
have found their way to the football quite nicely this
year in their secondary we consider well last week, for

(01:07:28):
one thing, without really doing that part of it, they
were all over the football. I mean there's not many
games where that many players literally touched the football defensively,
but Lassener did so three times, Murray did so three times.
These weren't missed interceptions. These were all pass breakups. But
their secondary this year, Kaylen Bullock, Jalen Petrie, Kamari Lassiter,

(01:07:51):
Eric Murray, Derek Stingley Junior. Those will be your five
guys out there again for nearly every snap, if not
every snap on Thursday night. They all have picked off
a pass at least once this year. Sting Murray, Lassiter
and Petrie one each. Bullock he has three. Yeah, bringing

(01:08:11):
up the rear everybody that's not him. And by the way,
I'm actually I mean, I'm not happy that al Shaer
is not going to play, but I am pumped that
Bullock is going to be good to go. I mean,
this is like I said, for him to return to
the game. It was a pretty good indicator for him
to participate well because of the short week, though there
was at least a little doubt. He also participated it

(01:08:32):
seemingly without limitations at the rookie hospital visit earlier this week,
so it felt like he was in pretty good shape.
And he also participated a nice job by the Texans
digital team. I knew what was coming, wasn't sure exactly
how they were going to execute it. When I saw
a couple of members of their creative group in the
locker room yesterday with a photo. So I knew it

(01:08:54):
was a photo of one of the players at a
much much younger age. So they went around to different players,
said who do you think this is? Yeah, and they
most of them had no idea. A few of them said, oh,
I can tell who that is, and they figured out
it was Kamari Lassiter.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Well, it's only fun if it's not a kid that
doesn't look exactly like he does now, like a lot
of baby pictures do Yeah, more on that, but not
before we get Larry in here to tell us what
his guts are telling.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
What's you got feeling, Larry.

Speaker 10 (01:09:23):
Hey, buddy might get feeling and uh tang. Dell gonna
have a hundred yard and two touchdowns. Will Anderson's gonna
have three sacks and take to win.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
All right, that is a victory on steroids that if
those two things happen initially, you're correct. I can't imagine
a hundred yard day for Dell and a three sat
game the second of his season for Will Anderson junior,
and he's gonna be sacking. I don't know if he's
gonna get all three of them on Aaron Rodgers. Maybe
after the first one or two they have to go
to the reserve.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Well, maybe they're getting blown out because Tank Dell scored
those two touchdowns and so they just bench him because
they'd rather him not get hurt for next week's game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Three times last year before he Tank got hurt, he
had one hundred yard receiving days. If not for the
drop against the Packers in the first quarter in the
end zone from Dell, he'd have had three consecutive weeks
with a touchdown reception. Not coincidentally, those three games are
the three games they've played without Nico Collins. Seven and

(01:10:24):
a half sacks on the season for Will Anderson Junior
among the league leaders, and three consecutive games with at
least one sack, and like we mentioned, one of those
games was a three sack game. So apparently the guts
of the Houston sports fans, the Texans are going up
to New York to get it dumb, and they'll be

(01:10:45):
returning with.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
It and a receiver from the team across town.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Yeah, Darius Layton, I had not yet sent the poll
question because I was still debating on who to put
on it. If the Texans trade for a wide receiver,
it should be is the genesis of the tweet I'm
now looking at again. Two of the receivers are New Yorkers.
One of them was Darius Slayton had him on the list.
I think he's in a different category in my opinion,

(01:11:10):
because he's really talented, he's really has really good size,
and he's young and doesn't make a ton of money.
Probably someone you shouldn't be moving if you're the Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
But but they suck and they gave all their money
to Daniel Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
It's not about money, it's about are we trying to
win anytime soon? Because they give a bunch of Jones
right and Wandelle Robinson's an NFL player, He's being used
probably more than they would like. And they might have
another couple of pieces to say we could afford to
trade Slayton, but I wouldn't. I would. I would sign
him to an assertion if I were the Giants. But

(01:11:46):
Mike Williams is the other obviously the player that you know.
Aaron Rodgers was unhappy with a couple of weeks ago
when he said that to the media that he did
not run the route that they needed him to. And
everything's fine now, but he doesn't really fit in particularly
well there. He has had injury issues, But all you're
looking for is nine games. He'll be a free agent
at the end of the season. That is a possibility.

(01:12:07):
The other two names I presumably would put on the
list are kJ Osborne and Kendrick Bourne.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Did you ever sit around and think how much saikuon
Barkley is glad he doesn't play for the Giants anymore,
because I.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
Do well if they had committed to him first, and
then maybe it was just a one year deal for
Jones or he wasn't committed to at all.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
They're not awful from a roster standpoint.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
The awful quarterback, yeah, and they would have drafted a
really good one probably. I mean, he helps them win games.
So I don't know if they would have gotten high
enough in the draft.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
But when you look like the caliber of player that
they got, the caliber player that the Cardinals got in
Malik Neighbors and Marvin Harrison Junior, respectively, you can win
with them when you look to finding your core, like
Milik Neighbors is almost too good to pass on. Yeah,
Like I almost feel like we did that. Like the
number four pick in the draft two years ago, isn't

(01:13:05):
playing because he's not good enough in Indianapolis. So if
you just draft a quarterback because that's what we need,
and look at who it might have been this year,
might have been JJ McCarthy, might have been Michael Pennox
junior if that was the scenario they were in. But yeah,
just point blank, without getting into the dumb directions that
I usually take it, I could just take it for
what it's worth. Yeah, Saquon Barkley's ecstatic. He's playing for

(01:13:27):
a team that loves him. He got to stick it
to the organization. I think he still likes the fans
in New York and he's probably going to the playoffs.
He's and he's played great. I mean, he's been the
best running back in the NFC this year.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Can Joe Flacco win Comeback Player of the Year consecutive seasons?
What's he coming back from the bench? No, he cannot.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
He's eligible.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Yeah. I wasn't really serious, but he is on a
different team and the starter has been benched and now
he's going to try and play better. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Some clarity on that from Shane steich In earlier today
will be a part of our football at five segment which,
of course, being that it's five o'clock is.

Speaker 7 (01:14:08):
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the season two and two. Thus far on the road,
they're four and oh at home. Clearly the play that
would suggest those records, it goes right along with it.
Texans have played really good football at home since C. J. Stroud,
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(01:15:50):
good when they've played in any other stadium other than
their own. Hopefully that won't prevent them from winning a game,
and obviously didn't prevent them from winning their last road game.
They just didn't win it. Nothing about where they were
prevented it. Right there in position to beat the Packers,
even had the lead late but not leaving just a
bit too much time left, and the Packers skipped a
field goal on the final play of the game. Texas

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got the victory last week to move to six and two.
They are in firm control of the division. The team
chasing them, though, and chasing a playoff berth. At four
and four, the Indianapolis Colts are one win behind each
of the three wild card teams. Currently, the teams in five,
six and seven, they all have five wins. They have four,
so they have an opportunity to make the playoffs, whether

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or not they can chase down the Texans over the
final nine games of the season, which I think is impossible.
I think the text's is too good for that. Injuries
could certainly change that. Changes have been made. Shane Steichen
in the Indianapolis Colts made that official this week in
advance of their upcoming game. And they have a stretch
of four games that are not easy, and it's not

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a coincidence. I don't think that they felt like they
have a better chance to at least win them these
particular games by having a better player. The numbers are
all there, the way their team has moved the football,
or the way their passing game becomes a legitimate NFL
passing game when Joe Flacco is out there as opposed
to what they've seen from Anthony Richardson. The questions about

(01:17:15):
why they're doing it or how could Shane do this?
Some that refer to clearly he's their future Anthony Richardson.
We all get that clearly this could impact his future
as the guy for their friend. I think everybody understands that.
But the constant wondering how they could make this decision.
I don't understand at all, And Shane couldn't have been

(01:17:36):
more clear about it during the fifteen times he was
asked about it today during his availability, And it might
not sit with people well, and they might be unhappy
with the way the league is going brings up these topics.
League doesn't develop quarterbacks well, and it's going to kill them.
We see it all the time, all these first round picks.

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We've spent this draft capital on them and have some
financial commitments to them, and we're not doing anything to
help them.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
And secondarily, nobody wants to lose anymore. Nobody wants to
go through what you have to do.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
You think to get better, you're usually gonna get the
talent because of it, because you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Have to sitting there have a chance to get better.
We have the chance.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
Well, you're gonna lose. So losing means well where you draft.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
You're drafting at the top of the draft again, you're
presumably adding your two of the top thirty five players
in the league on a consistent basis. Year one when
you drafted this guy, Year two, when you still stink,
Year three, when you're not quite good enough, or maybe
you're even at that level. I go on and on
about this, but you know, Justin Fields has led a
team to the top pick in the draft. Trevor Lawrence

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has led a team to the top pick in the draft.
I mean, Bryce Young, he's back as the starter. He's
about to do it. He's gonna lead his team to
the top pick in the draft. It can still happen
while you're letting those guys play. And Lawrence's case, he
got to play. And I think they're seeing some of
the rewards of that and that they believe he's a
legitimate start.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
He's just not a very good one.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
But this was just over and over asked of him,
like this is the guy who said the only way
he gets better is if he plays. And he said,
I understand the question, and that's a very good question.
I as you guys know, I listened to the entire
press conference. I know everything and how it was praise
and how he said and he said this over and
over again, that's a very good question. And they were
because he said things that suggested this benching wasn't going

(01:19:23):
to happen. But he also said, we're doing this because
we think Joe gives us the best chance to win.
And Joe's not the starter this week or next week.
He's the starter for the rest of the season, unless
either his play or an injury changes things. They have
the Sunday night football game against the Vikings this week,
followed by the Bills, Jets, and Lions, so three of

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those opponents really couldn't believe they might win the Super
Bowl this year, and the Culture probably not in a
very good position to beat any of them. If their
quarterback is missing more often with his throws, then he's
making strictly on a completion percentage basis. He tapped out
of the Texans game out and it turned it. It
was a third and twenty three. They handed off and
kicked a field goal, and he returned to the game

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immediately after, and he tapped out because he was tired,
which he acknowledged after the game and was quite obvious
for anybody watching the game that was all that was
wrong with him.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
He was tired.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
He had had two back to back scrambles, he had
thrown a fully Foughticasi off of him with his left arm,
which is incredible, and then kneaded off. His teammates said
that that I weren't real appreciative of that, and have
talked to him about it. Nobody really thought too much
more of it. That question clearly needed to be asked
of Shane Steiken today. Was this something that played into it?

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Was tapping out at all a part of your.

Speaker 13 (01:20:37):
Decision, didn't? I mean, he knows that he can't do
that in that situation. You know, that's part of the
growth and the development process that we go through. And again,
I just you know, I think Joe gives us the
best chance right now going forward.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Of course, Shane's correct, and there's evidence from his play
with the Colts that he gives them a better chance
to win. So it's it's a hard decision, and it's
difficult for the long term health of your team and
the person. They want Anthony Richardson to be their starting
quarterback every game the rest of his career, however long
that might be, and they believe they're gonna have success

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because of it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
But they're four and four with a chance to just
get there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
I don't think any team really in any sport, and
certainly not football and baseball, if you have a chance
to get to the playoffs, you have to try to
do that. You have to do what's necessary to get there,
and I think they could see their chances of getting
there or getting slimmer by the week the more they
played a quarterback and the offense they are running because
of it, And some of that is on Shane.

Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
They just weren't going to be good enough to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
You're familiar with Matt Miller of ESPN, obviously.

Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
Yeah, he does an awesome sit down I think each
week with Colt McCoy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
So he said, scouts and agents are telling college quarterbacks
to not leave school until they started two plus years.
The NFL doesn't truly develop arterbacks anymore outside of rare exceptions.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
Can I bit still in?

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Yeah, dumb right? Is this new? Well? But the reason
this is particularly accurate right now is that you're talking
about and this list that this guy Sam Block came
out with at ESPN unbelievable. The Block spot Anthony Richardson
is twenty two, and Benched, Bryce Young twenty three, Trey

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Lance twenty four, Justin Fields twenty five, Will Levis twenty five,
Zach Wilson twenty five, Mac Jones twenty six, can He
Pickett twenty six, All of them benched.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
Okay, what would you like me to do next?

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
You got many after you get done with however many
eye rolls you want to island?

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
I want to save them on a per name basis. Okay,
start at the bottom of that list.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Can you pick it? Are you almost almost? You almost
cussed on two different you trod entities? Like, seriously, put
a list together that matters. I mean, this is this
is akin to you saying somebody's floating out the idea
that Tyreek Hill is getting traded to the Texans.

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
They should do this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
It's Kenny Pickett. They're not developing Kenny Pickett?

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
So the Steelers, one of the all time winning his
franchises ever that made it to the playoffs with him
starting games, didn't develop him. They gave up on him
because he can't play Hello and Fly. Okay, but it's next.
Not all of those games, not all of those quarterbacks listed?
Does that apply to? Right?

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Who's Who's Who's the one listened right before?

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Mac Jones? You just for this one or just no
harsh euphemisms, Mac Jones? We should commit to him longer term?
Should we commit to him over Bailey ZAPPI? Yes, should
they have given him every opportunity in New England?

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
Yes, did they know?

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
I don't know how much of that was being on
the way out and that getting caught up in all
of them.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
I mean, this is a simple conversation. We can continue it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:24:05):
The owners are just impatient.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
And I said, dull it is relatively new because I
think every year, well, they're becoming more and more impatient. Well,
just that one like Dave Canalys is flipping his quarterback.
He's been there for a week. He hasn't even coached
nine games yet. Shane Steichen's coached twenty five games. This
is only year two.

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
Does he make this decision if there's no pressure to win?

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Of course not. That's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
If this is your guys, like this is your guy,
go ahead, go five and seven, go go five and.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
That aren't Bill Belichick know that they're on borrowed time
and they're gonna be the ones that are going to
get the chopping block to them because their quarterback Isn't
we say it all the time here?

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
Yeah? And I bring up Pittsburgh again.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
I mean, nobody has job security like Mike Tomlin, even
whether whether or not he has a long term deal
which came up last year.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
But it's this is like Jerry Jones has more job
security to me, it's it is easy and I'm probably
in the or easy to turn this into a blanket
statement because, as Sam points out, there are a lot
of quarterbacks who aren't there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Some people responded to him with all these twenty three,
four or five six seven year old quarterbacks that are
all starting, Yeah, like CJ and many others.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
You know, Will Lewis probably it is.

Speaker 5 (01:25:16):
I recognize that that big blanket statement makes some sense.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
But sometimes you're talking about Trey Lance and sometimes you're
talking about Kenny Pickett.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
They're all individuals siture different.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Yeah, like Trey Lance didn't give it wasn't given a
chance to succeed because they had a better player already
playing once he got hurt, that's better than you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Why would they give the job back to Trey Lance
when brock Perty's on the roster.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
That makes no sense going to the conference champion win.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
I mean, it's something wrong with I said it without
even realizing how dumb the rhetorical part of it is.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
They're trying to win it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Right, right, and well, but you know, Will Levis probably
the most accurate because I don't think you would say
that he sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
He needs to fix some things. He needs to read
the field a little bit better, he needs to have
a better clock. Maybe that never happens, so he needs
to be developed more. But well, they would be playing
they I maybe I'm wrong. They would be playing him
people who wasn't hurt. Mason Rulf sucks.

Speaker 5 (01:26:13):
They know that. Everybody knows that. Does anybody not know
the mad room Mason Ruylph sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
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Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
It's the ATV. You're on Sports seven ninety Space City
Home Network. I have to apologize to my co host
because sometimes I'm just so immature, well not sometimes a
lot of the times, I'm just really really immature, and
I can't help myself. Did you vote my poll that
I posted on on x jet.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
I have not voted.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Have you seen it? Yeah? But for those that haven't,
I'm actually impressed that it's getting as many votes on
the second choice as it is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
I had mentioned I was going to post something about
wide receivers. You posted something different. We had a conversation
about wide receiver one. I think this is the part
of the show where I got angry. I think someone
told me I was mad at upset, very RANTI very loud. Well,
this is Ross's fault. He did it on purpose. Who
is wide receiver one this week? For the Texans against
the Jets? Adam asks, I'm trying to see something triple

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ellipses c see the two other members of this program,
plus your hashtag the show the eighteen right, and you
left two possible answers for the ex public tank deel
is one? Anyone else's two?

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
That's such a child.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
I'm twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:28:50):
I obviously will be voting for anyone else. Click you
did it?

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Fifteen point one of the percent of the responders are
with you got it above fifty. But if you recall,
my actual answer was nobody. There is no wide receiver one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
And I get where you're coming from by saying that
it's a semantics argument, which is what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
The semantics part of it is, I do kind of
have a model, like a mannequin almost of what I
think wide receiver one is. Now, there are some teams
that go outside that model. RAMS are a really good
Cooper Cup or Puoka.

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
They have two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Cooper Cup is their wide receiver one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
I mean true, but they aren't the body type or
dominant physical performer from a stature standpoint. They are very
physical and they get beaten up a ton and just
keep coming back. Uh they are They are wide receiver
ones on one team, and I think the Texans have
two such players.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
Neither of them are playing this week.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
And Stefan Diggs's role here in Houston, I definitely think
is a little bit different than it's been. He's also
in his tenth year. He also did something last week.
I gosh know that he would have done so much
more of the rest of the season and just kind
of hadn't opened up that way for him.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Last week.

Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
John Metchi did it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Most of the weeks that Nico Collins has been out there,
he's done it when these scrambled drill type plays start.
Texans have such good chemistry they seem to turn these
plays into excellence. And Steph Diggs kind of did that
this last week when he was running uncovered down the
right sideline because the play was kind of having to
happen off schedule.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
They found him.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
He decided to cut it up. Feel he really didn't
get any extra yards because it's just a lot more running.
But I thought he could make He thought he could
make a move and turn it into something bigger. But
it was forty nine yard catch. It was a long
ast catch of the season. You know, Tech Deel has
not had very many explosive plays this year period. He
hadn't had an explosive day receiving the football he's had.
That's just that one day of five plus catches. And

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I don't know even in a game where Hutchinson, John Metchi,
Robert Woods and probably Steven Simms not one of the
players on the practice squad, that's all that they'll have
along with Dell. These are who will be catching passes
from C. J. Stroud that play wide receiver. You'll throw
passes just a Stover. You'll throw passes to Schultz, maybe

(01:31:11):
Tigging Quatreano will have his first reception of the season. Yeah,
and then you obviously have both of your backs because
Joe Mixon is a great receiver out of the backfield
and Darry plays third down a lot. Plus he will
play every snap. I think where they want to give
Joe mix an arrest or in certain situation, He's not
only going to play on third down. I think he
will be out there in some other instances as well,

(01:31:32):
because at some point I know Dereck Henry seems to
be able to handle it, but I wouldn't want my
running back to do this. More and more, you have
thirty carries in a game once this season talking about Joe,
and I still think that's going to be the only
one that happens, and it was the opening game. It's
just hard semantic wise for me to look at Tank
even this week and say, yup, that's wide receiver one.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Well, Ross in addition to calling into the show, which
I don't think he's ever done before today, and he
also weigh in on the poll and he said, I
assume WEX was talking about the traditional X receiver role,
which Tank Dell will not be in. Also, I am
extremely happy to have sparked a semantics argument between you two.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
It's so hard said, takes a lot of effort into it.
Like if you tune in seven ninety on your station,
you will have accomplished that. If you Space City Home
Network Boom commission accomplished. If you're alive, if you're breathing,
It's what we do. Yeah, it's a silly thing. Will
he be the most productive receiver on Sunday? It's probably

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a better way to have that conversation Thursday. Thursday, he
ain't doing anything Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
It's probably it would.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Be hard to even for me even to argue against that.
Could Xavier Hutchinson have six catches eighty nine yards on
a score? Absolutely? Same for Metchi, same for Robert Woods.
But if you're asking me to select somebody, what would
Why wouldn't you select Dell? It is it's a tough
matchup for everybody. That's what was so appealing about him
in the draft, that was so appealing to his quarterbacks

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at U of H, Clayton Tune, at the Senior Bowl,
everywhere he gets open. He's a tough cover. That should
still be true against whomever they line up against him.
And I don't think anybody will exclusively line up against him,
whether it's Reed or Gardner, any number of players they
have in their secondary.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
He's a tough cover.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
The way to win this game is it's in the
receiver's hands, more to the point, probably their feet. They
gotta win their one on ones. They're gonna be in
one on ones. And when you have Nico Steph and Tank.
You do that, you win your one on ones. You're
not often gonna see double teams for these players. And
quite honestly, outside of Nico, they Texans receivers something I

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was looking at earlier day.

Speaker 5 (01:33:42):
They have not seen a ton of those either. What
they have done is create separation.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
And where he sits on this graph, which is a
percentage of times doubled and how often you get separation
in single coverage. He's like elite, which is evident by
the numbers. He will get start producing when they played
Detroit on Sunday in two weeks. But yeah, of course
Tim Tank Dell is going to be their top producing

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receiver and I would believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
What about this though, as it pertains to that exact topic,
however you want to address it, DA underscore underscore gr
tweets in says.

Speaker 5 (01:34:18):
Week with Tweter appreciate him.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Yeah, we all have concerns about Tank running certain routes
where he can get destroyed with hits. He's never going
to be a number one with some of these limitations.
We need him healthy as a good number two the
rest of the season. I hope they don't go overboard
on targets with him. And that last part, I guess
is maybe what you could be talking about others, you know,

(01:34:40):
as it pertains.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
To I think people view this week as okay, let's
throw twenty four passes. So we'll throw and whoever Florida Schultz,
we'll have three to mix in. That's seven. We got
seventeen more mets. You will see three, Hutch, you'll see four,
and ten of them are going to Dell, don't. I
don't really think that's what the Texans have in mind
going into the It could play out that way. I
don't think that's kind of part of the game Jet's

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doing defensively, the part you can't predict. And here's the thing.
He's gonna throw it to the open guy, and right,
I think the other guys aren't is there? They have
had very few opportunities. They're clearly reserves for a reason.
But I don't think.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
They're incapable of helping this team.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Well how about this, And I know it's Dalton Schultz,
so he's not Travis Kelcey, he's not some of these
you know, awesome tight ends, the names that you know,
the George Kittles, just people like that, not Mark Andrews
it's not he didn't screw him. They just aren't using him.
They did.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
You don't stop being good at tight end at his age.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
He did.

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
No, they just aren't throwing him the football.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Well, then they did, once they realized he was on
my bench finally for the first time all season. Then
they started throwing him the football. I hate the Ravens
for like a million different reasons, and that's just one
of them. Dalton Schultz and and just by design in
today's NFL, which is such a happy league, just by
design in general, how many times, let's take the Texans,

(01:36:06):
for example, on defense, how many times do they get
beat across the middle because a tight end is wide open?
From name a team doesn't have to be Travis Kelcey and.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
This year probably far less than your think.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
Yes, but over the course of.

Speaker 5 (01:36:23):
Kri Al Schaier joining the.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
Fray, right, But that happens for a lot of teams
because of how defenses cover. And why don't the Texans
do that? I know that Dalton Schultz isn't this elite
tight end, but he's he's open a lot across the
middle in a lot of the formations they run. And
I don't know if it's CJ always looking for more

(01:36:46):
of a home run ball. I don't think he's that guy.
In fact, I know he's not. He's trying to make
the best play, whatever it may be. And maybe this
is more on Schultz than anything with the.

Speaker 5 (01:36:54):
Roster they have.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
When healthy, he's no better than the fourth option, and
I'm totally fine with that with the roster they're throwing
out there on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Second, I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
I think everybody is the same after Tank personally.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
That's why he's wide receiver one. I couldn't help myself.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
You put it on a t Yeah, the last several week,
they've been three games without Nico.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
This will be four.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
He's been targeted sixteen times in those three games, clearly
the most of any three game well not actually not
the most of any three game stretch, but targeted eight
times against New England, six more against Indy. We're probably
looking at that range for him. He's paid like he's
an elite tight end by the way, with a shorter
term deal. But twelve million pers pretty nice tidy sum.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
I'd take it. I'd take half that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
I take a quarter of it too, So yeah, you
know what that might be the most fascinating, like after
Joe Mixon, or as opposed to Joe Mixon, like say
they are stopping the run or it's just not happening.
I find out very hard to believe, since, as you
put it earlier, no has really been able to stop him,
maybe contain him when he's but he's been awesome this year.

(01:38:05):
But for whatever reason, if they can't, yeah, it's gonna
be a nice spread the truest sense of the term
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There it is Dylan Bruts Home of your Rockets.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Rockets five thirty means we get you caught up on
some items we might not have spent enough time on,
especially with me yelling all afternoon and things we might
not have gotten you at all.

Speaker 5 (01:39:18):
And then we call it in case you missed it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Something we haven't reminded you of is Texans and the
Jets final injury report for the day comes out and
the Texans will be without four players definitively all listed
as out and knowing none of them, unfortunately were surprises
since earlier this week it's as trending in that direction.
No Jared Patterson concussion protocol for him, No Jimmy Ward.

(01:39:44):
The groin injury will keep him out another game. Same
for Aziz Al Shaier with his knee, although I expect
both of those players back against Detroit, and Damian Pierce
will not play.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
He is out.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
The groin injury for him that kept him off their
estimated practice field this week week has him sidelined. They
have signed JJ Taylor to the active roster. He's the
running back who had filled in earlier this year when
both Pierce and Mixon were out. The Jets injury report
is significantly lengthier.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
Moseley is not returning this week. Alan Wizard is also out.
Couple of safeties are out, both Adams and Davis. Of
Eric Tucker along their offensive line continues with his injury
issues also out.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Might be the same story for Morgan Moses.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
He's listed as questionable, though I suspect he will probably
be out there. I have to double check on this.
They have a line on Offen. Yeah, I don't need
a double check. I didn't think this would be possible
with such a boring name. But they too have a
Jake Hansen on their roster, but he has no injury designation.

(01:40:49):
He's gonna play through his bump thumb. What else do
we have in case you missed it?

Speaker 12 (01:40:53):
All?

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
Right, So let's take you back really quick to Sunday
night after the Cowboys forty nine Ers game. You've probably
seen the video by now of Cowboys defensive back Trevon
Diggs coming out of the locker room to confront wfaatv's
Mike Leslie about his Twitter criticism of a play on
the field. It ended after Leslie had said we can

(01:41:14):
talk about it if you want, with Diggs saying talk
about these nuts, Well, we get to the story today
because a hatchet has been buried. Diggs spoke with the
media and came prepared with two cans of D's nuts
apostrophe s instead of a Z for these and the
two exchanged apologies and like I said, the hatchet now buried.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
He also gave an answer to Leslie which a lot
of other people already suggested on some of the comments
in the videos that were posted from Sunday's postgame, where
he did outside the locker room confront him and say
you don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
You can't do what I do.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
And that's why the response from the reporter was, well,
I'd love to talk about it, because he had basically
clipped off the play where George kittle On down the
sideline and he was not immediately attacking him, but rather
holding off in a position that did not appear like
he was giving full effort. I think is how Leslie
would have described it himself, because all he did in

(01:42:13):
his tweets say what is he doing here? About tray
Von Diggs. That's why Diggs was so upset about it.
Very soon after the game, before the locker room, I
believe it even opened. So he explained to Leslie what
had gone on. And like I said, I saw that
comment from others in the comment, and I would have
had the same myself. He was playing it that way,
to his word, because he was trying to avoid a

(01:42:36):
cutback if he gets by him, because now he's obviously
already by the other player.

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
Well, he's gonna score a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:42:43):
So there are angles to take, there are plays to make,
there are things you're you Still it gets away from
people quite a bit when the play actually happens. You
still have a job to do. It's like an edge
rusher holding the edge, containing the doing his job. Why
didn't he just go right there's a huge hole for
him to pop through there and he gets right to

(01:43:03):
the quarterback. Well, if he takes that route and he
doesn't get the quarterback or the running back, now it
just runs right by him and there's nobody over there
on the right side. A little bit different play, but
that's kind of the idea between there's still a job
that other players than the one immediately closest to him.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Have to do well. I have another theory on why
this all went down the way it did today.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
I me eagerly awaiting it as I try not to
knock my drink over it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
That's all right, If I do it, it's gonna sound
like a well can I say that on TV a
bomb went off in here?

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
I mean, don't say anything more than one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
I think you're good it's actually true or an airplane. No.
I I think that Trayvon Diggs knows things are about
to get even worse and he needs to be as
as uh, he needs to have as good a relationship
as possible.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
I mean this, I don't. I don't see it that way.
I think he just knows that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
Yeah, the he was in the heat of the moment
after the game, and yeah, they actually were both pretty
professional about it and it was nice to see. But
going back to the original point, even if that's not
what he was thinking, I think it's gonna get worse
to the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
And I before we get to that, because that's a
constant topic and a good one. I still do think
players should be shouldn't feel like they shouldn't confront reporters
professionally especially.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
I mean, these are the people they do see every day.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
These are the people that are covering their game, these
this particular instance all the time, and that's a It
seems pretty I know it's a football comment, but he's
basically saying, you're an idiot, right, And so I don't
think that's what I mean. I try not to say
things like I might think it and then figure out
a way to get to maybe an answer, and I

(01:44:40):
probably would never tweet it like that.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
I might just ask him. So I think Trayvon could
challenging him.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Maybe I don't want to say confront Maybe there's a
better word, having a conversation, bringing it up, pointing something
out that should absolutely happen. And I feel like it's
on the player, it shouldn't be on them. But who's
gonna see this? Everybody that follows the Cowboy. This is
a fairly prominent person and he's basically saying you stink
you're an idiot. And he's and I think in Trayvon's

(01:45:06):
mind and I think he's right, the comment is just
it's wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Well, and this stuff is going to blow up way
more when you're having a type of season that they are.
I mean, the crazy thing is it could be worse,
and it probably will be later, but it could be
much worse, and it's still sky falling because stoves.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Yeah, and look who this player we're talking about, his
owners Just this is what he does almost every two
times a week, just.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Throws gasoline on whatever small or large flame is already there.

Speaker 5 (01:45:37):
Yeah, Diggs is probably okay.

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
I think you know how they've committed to him and
what he is production wise done in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
He's sooner he gets Micah Parsons back, the better his
life's going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
The other thing we didn't mention is is rather unfortunate
for him because we'd talked about it since the schedule
came out and they were on their respective teams. Yep,
the meeting of the Digs on the field at the
same time essentially even to ending each other, but even
for their family they're there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
Hey, well, listen, it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
Won't happen now because Stefan's season is over.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
That game got a lot harder to win now for
the Texans.

Speaker 5 (01:46:09):
What else do ye?

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
All right? Real quick, did you guys know that Colorado
and Deon Sanders now Bowl eligible? They're six and two
on the season. They've got games left this year against
Texas Tech, Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma State ten and two
murderers Row. If they maybe get into the Big Twelve Championship.
Can we dream of Dion in the playoff.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
If they win the Big Twelve Championship?

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
You mean yeah, I love it.

Speaker 12 (01:46:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
I think they'll probably get in if they win the
Big Twelve title of the automatic bid that goes with it.
Any other scenario will have them watching the playoffs from
whatever bowl game they get invited.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
To, and when they go to the playoffs they'll get smashed.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
They would be an awesome story and I think it
would be something the committee probably considers. Man, I mean,
the eyeballs will get from having them there. They're clearly
good enough to be in the conversation if you're having it,
so I don't mean to say they'd be getting into
some sort of gift, but yeah, it's a bubble conversation
with the at largest that are available. I would ask
you this, what are you most impressed by this year?

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
What win?

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
What afternoon or evening of football? As you saying, yeah,
this is one of the ten or eleven best teams
in the Country.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
Maybe we'll keep waiting.

Speaker 5 (01:47:14):
I mean, I think the answer is nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
Maybe Arizona. Okay, I mean Arizona is three and five
this year. That is pretty impressive. I was gonna say,
but UCF is firing coaches.

Speaker 13 (01:47:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
As funny is that people can now not only hear it,
but see wow what air is?

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
Wonder why people that only have heard the show and
now only see the show and don't know me wonder aloud?

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
Why is he such a let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
To break.

Speaker 7 (01:47:44):
The A team. On Sports Talk seven ninety, the eighteen continues.

Speaker 3 (01:47:55):
At a long extended in break conversation about some of
that college football. We wrapped up the in case you
missed it segment with Colorado is six and two. They're
four and one in conference play, same record as KSE
State owns, and obviously behind both BYU and Iowa State,
who have yet to lose any of their games. Iowa
State still has case State on their schedule, but other

(01:48:16):
than that game, I don't think they should both be
yu and Iowa State. Schedule other than that one game
seem rather winnable and they could very easily end up
in the conference title game as undefeated teams. In that case,
one of them's clearly gonna win and get the automatic
spot and off week and home game given to one
of the top four seeds. The other is probably gonna

(01:48:38):
be in the same boat as a couple of other teams,
considering could they possibly leave us out when all we
did was get penalized for playing in and then losing
a conference title game. We just ran through the schedule
in one of the four conferences you respect as an
undefeated team. I don't think they would get left out,
but I do think it's a possibility, and it will

(01:48:59):
be a may your talking point before we get there.
The sec C is still going to dominate a lot
of those spots. I think the ACC is in a
similar situation of the Big Twelve because Clemson and Miami
are probably head and shoulders above the other teams and
aren't much there's much left for either one of them.
SMU a little bit before they get to the title game.

(01:49:21):
Miami's undefeated and they play Clemson and lose, then what
do you put them both in? Have you done the
same thing with the Big Twelve, and all of a sudden,
now other teams that you fully expect and have played
their way into being in the playoff. Now they can't
get in. Yeah, actually I think that very well could happen,
and then we'll just see what actually shakes out in

(01:49:41):
the other conference. We almost never talk about, but we
will on Friday at four thirty during Stone cold Locks.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
Oh oh, what is it?

Speaker 10 (01:49:50):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
We have had Michigan on the table before when they
played Texas as our college football game of the week,
but now a matchup solely of these teams there, Penn
State and i State are getting together. Penn State's bad
PR from this week we did not even reference, but
we talk about it quite a bit, the way things
have been handled from a PR since when you are

(01:50:11):
in a tough spot, Penn State's been there before quite
obviously with what went on with Joe Paterno. We talked
about it many times, with how some things have been
handled here in Houston with the Astros many years ago,
just purely from a PR standpoint, But the way that
James Franklin and the sports information department at Penn State
handled the Q and a post practice previewing their upcoming

(01:50:33):
game against Wisconsin was you sit down and you have
these discussions and you decide this is what we want
to do. If a question was asked that clearly was
pertaining to the matters around the two students, and instead
of saying I don't have a comment on it, I'm
not going to comment on that. We've given a statement

(01:50:53):
on this, and I'm going to have to refer to that,
which also stinks but is understandable. He actually stepped away
from the microphone, moved off to the side, motioned to
his sid to reread the statement for the media, standing
there and saying, this is what we have to say
on it. If you need a copy of this, I'll
give it to you. This is what we're doing. And
after he finished, Franklin went back to the microphone and said, hey, guys,

(01:51:16):
what have you got for me? Like he wasn't there before.
And then when a second question begun about the same topic,
he again stepped away from the bike.

Speaker 5 (01:51:24):
They reread it was it was awful.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
He began, seriously, Ohio State, just go put a beat
down on Penn State so we can end this charade.
Well that's what will happen. I hope, And I'm not
even an ah State fan. I just think Penn State
is not real strong. They're properly ranked for what's happened
around them. But I think this will be there. They're

(01:51:46):
one big game that they as usual don't win.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
So what is it again this week?

Speaker 5 (01:51:51):
Penn State?

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
Ohiuseen State? Ohio State? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:51:53):
So and it's at eleven am, right out of the gate.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Good, I can finally I can get that one on
and get.

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
The rest of your day going well. No, Ohio State.
It's a three point favorite, three and a half point
favorite on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
I think it was either last week or the week
before I realized that one of my picks was a
like a Monday night game, so I had to wait
another day.

Speaker 3 (01:52:11):
You mean, like when you have a twelve and a
half point lead and you've got two guys going on
Monday night and they have one.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
We're playing each other this week, So I'm glad that
you get to.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Your team name again.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
I don't the bad ombres. I'm gonna rename my team
to garbage. When did you first title this year? It'll
be appropriate twice, I think was it prior.

Speaker 5 (01:52:31):
To the twenty twenty election? So why don't you have
a new one?

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Well, that's what I'm saying. I might change it as
of today.

Speaker 5 (01:52:38):
What would it be if you changed it today?

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
Garbage?

Speaker 5 (01:52:40):
Just garbage?

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
Well, because he is like literally cracked.

Speaker 5 (01:52:46):
I tell you this is fantasy football.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
You're you're eliciting a you don't want to play us,
We're bad ombres. You want to name your team garbage? Yeah,
for two reasons, says you're taking my team out. One
taking the trash.

Speaker 2 (01:52:58):
Out no one. The guy who has you know, inspired
these team names is currently fielding questions from inside a
garbage truck. And two, my team is garbage this year,
even when I can put the best foot forward, like
here is your best lineup? Oh, you should hit the

(01:53:19):
waiver wire, yeah, I have you should you should hit
up the waiver wires and see what I'm trying to
construct here, and then you know I love the predicted outcome.
Like right now, best foot forward, I'm not even cracking
one hundred. You've got one fourteen or something or other
and a.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
Most point two.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
There's people in our league that are absolutely, without a
shadow of a doubt, going to toss up one fifty
this week. Stupid, I can't even like clean up.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
You want to do other than McCaffrey's not back there
by anyway, among the best you could put together.

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
Well, Mike Evans is out. He's a legit one. He's
a wide receiver one. Wex a real one. Yeah, and
the guy next to him, somehow isn't Chris Gottwa. Amari
Cooper's got a wrist thing. So even if I could
have put it, I could have put him in the
lineup his first game with the Buffalo Bills and enjoyed
that touchdown. But no, he was on the bench that
week because you know, he hadn't done anything all season.

Speaker 3 (01:54:16):
All that being said, you do have three tight ends
on your roster. Come on, man, well they're awful. I
just haven't dumped them. I pick up somebody else had.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
Had a chance. You know what's funny is Christian Kirk.
I don't even have a spot to put him on
IR because Christian McCaffrey's already on it. We only have
one spot.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Yeah, well, nobody on I to drop him out right,
if you're out for the year, probably don't need to
stash him on IR's.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
The difference between him and Christian McCaffrey. I love it though. Well,
they're thinking in two weeks he'll be back. Oh good,
when my season's even more done than it is right now.
You I can't wait to still pay my entrance fee
and my low totals fees plural for this season. If
you ask me why I'm quitting the Station League, these
would be some of the reasons why.

Speaker 5 (01:54:58):
You're taking your computer and going home.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
I absolutely am, and you can call me a name
and a baby all I want. But you know what,
next year, I'll have a whole lot more money in
my pocket than this season.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
Good luck for our commissioner next year, trying to create
a balanced schedule with an eleven TEMs.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
Our commissioner is begging me not to quit because it's
so hard to fill.

Speaker 6 (01:55:14):
Take it.

Speaker 5 (01:55:15):
We'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:55:16):
You and Matter both babies. You'll both be out of
the league. We're all set ten team league.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Ten team league where if you have catastrophic injuries, you'll
actually have people to choose from to replace those players.
Unlike this year challenge in that there is no challenge.
You want that challenge. You want a challenge.

Speaker 5 (01:55:31):
Maybe you pick up Cedric Tillman two weeks ago and
he's light.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
Teams, take your best player and then take two more
of your top five players out and then enjoy that
challenge every single week. It's such a fun challenge to
play fantasy football. I hate it.

Speaker 5 (01:55:48):
We'll have a team name change mid season this year.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Who was it?

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
Well, Burrows Churros no longer appear in the standings and
what have they been replaced by a very dangerous bird
that flies around the pterodactyl, followed by well, the first
word I didn't say. The second word is tua. Yeah,

(01:56:14):
I know, I followed the Atlanta basketball playing birds. Oh
why can't you just say hawktua? I would never say that.
There's no way our program director would ever name his
team that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
It's who it is. Yeah, of course, Gordy, you dirty bird.
You see what I did there? I did see what
you did there. It'll do it for us today here
on the A team. I appreciate Dan and Ac of course,
and angry Wex probably doesn't show up tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
It's game day for the Texans.

Speaker 7 (01:56:45):
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