Texans Off From Practice Field, Rockets Season Opener Eve and SayWhat?!

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
A team.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
What a judge Mills Lane used to say, Let's get
it on. It is the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety.
It's a Tuesday edition of the program. He's Wex, I'm Ac.
We're also simulcast on Space City Home Network. And by
the way, just since that was brought up to me
and wex and the station account on Twitter at the

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end of yesterday's show, shout out to Tony who says,
yeah again, watching you guys on TV has become an
enjoyable part of my daily routine. Thanks. Shout out to
Tony for watching us in addition to listening to us.
We realize that you guys have a lot of options
out there, a lot of things that you're doing very
very busy day, and you are taking a time to

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watch or listen or both. To us, that's a big deal.
So we just wanted to say things. I wanted to
get that out of the way at the very beginning
of the show because it's very cool what we're doing
and I haven't really had a chance to just say
that because we've been so busy talking about Texan's close
losses and Astros not being in the postseason and the
Rockets tipping off tomorrow night and other things, very busy
and Texas lost too. Just want to throw that out there.
By the way, it's on me. I'm going to take

(01:22):
the blame. But I am now aware of the Matthew
mcconnie's statement as what does he call himself the Minister
of Culture?

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well, he doesn't call himself that is that his? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I thought that was just a moniker that he just
kind of came up with because he's quirky. They gave
him that title. I know he's a professor, right there
you go? Is okay? So your daughter and my stepdaughter
are both at ut at the moment. Does she like
think daily about trying to get into his class like mine? Does?
Is it discussed with you? I would want to do that.

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And I'm not even a girl who's attracted to him.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I mean he's only taught. You're both not attracted to
him or a girl, right, yes, okay, why there's some.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Guys that are attracted to him? Probably isn't that his thing?
He is good looking, but Yeah, I just I.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Would just actually have a dramatic reading for you coming
up on the show today.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, at some point we'll do that. Okay, have you
have you cleansed the palate, have you got out of
your system? You're ready for the Colts? Or do we
need to talk about the Packers a little bit more?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
We definitely need to talk more about it because those
things that happen then aren't new, so they will need
to be corrected for game number eight.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
So what are okay, I was thinking about this yesterday.
I killed the offensive line all show long, rightfully, So
I think they were the number one culprit of why
they lost that game. I think if you were to
read between the lines of some of the things that
both CJ. Stroud said, Dimiko Ryan said after the game immediately,
and then of course again yesterday in the case of Demiko,

(02:56):
I think that was again reiterated.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
But there don't think you need to read betwe the lines.
They've made it clear well to be to be real.
When Demiko is not trying to protect them, he's just
acknowledging that there are there are more issues than just that,
and it's not only those five players or those seven
players or eight players who want to include the tight
ends and any other blocking packages people involved in it.

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But he's pretty clear that, you know, especially when it
goes on with the in house media and drinks black
or frappe or whatever with them. Uh, it's a big problem.
It could be corrected. He thinks it's on them. He
thinks everybody involved, coaches, coaching staff, coaches himself, and clearly

(03:42):
the players. It's it's not. Oh my gosh, congrats to
the Packers. That was brand new stuff. I've been in
the league twenty years. I've never seen anything like that.
Now we can maybe have a chance to block something
like that. That was wild and crazy and new, and
hey man, they got us. It wasn't. It's on them

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and they know it. And the unfortunate part is everybody
else knows it. The Indianapolis Colts defensive coaches know it,
and so do the other coaches for the eight remaining opponents.
Because they play the Titans twice in the final nine games,
they have to get themselves in order. It's simple as that.
Maybe you can't do it, maybe they're not physically capable

(04:26):
of doing it. I doubt that. I think it has
much more to do with. We're just not doing the
right things. We're not going the right place, we're not
seeing the blocks that are supposed to happen. You and
I and Stan talked about ghosts like, I don't think
CJ was seeing ghosts. He was seeing packers. Now they
happen to be in a Winter Warning game and they
were all white, So maybe it's the offensive Lineman and
Dalton Schultz they were seeing goes. I think the guy's

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coming from here. I don't think anyone's coming from here.
I think Shack's got him. So I'm gonna slide here.
That's what it was. The big problem. It's not the
first time.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, and the way you're saying that even sounds disord organized,
like that's the word you always hear, clean it up,
But that's, you know, same page clean up. Well, that's
he's not going to come in the locker room and say,
all right, good wing guys, but we got to get
more organized. We're very disorganized out there. If that just
doesn't ring as as true as maybe just saying, hey,
we got clean things up. That sounds like more of it.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
But where are the post game speeches with no game balls? Yeah?
He goes in there, cameras in there. I honestly think
it should be. I do too. I understand why it's
not out there. But when the Texans win the Super
Bowl and they want the audio, tirom, here's what happened

(05:38):
after they lost this game. Okay, then they'll have it.
So I'm sure they have it. We don't have it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
This is gonna blow my mind because I hadn't even
thought of that side of things. And I'm mister video.
I love that kind of stuff. It gets me. I'm
a I'm a degenerate for it, like.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Me and press conferences. Yes, that's the exact same thing.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I love making videos and watching those kinds of videos
as much as you love listening to the defensive coordinator
for the New York Giants when they're losing thirteen games
on the year and you just want to I don't
even know what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Texans probably aren't going to play the Packers again for
a while, uh huh.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
And yeah, I watched Matt Lafleur today. But you know what,
I hadn't realized. I knew that Robert Sala was on
the staff. I didn't know that he was on the
staff when Demiko was a player here.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, Lafleur, I didn't know that he was here for
about three years.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's like knowing that Nick Saban was on the Oilers
staff once upon a time. He was like a defensive
backs coach.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well that's he was a higher level coach with the
Oilers than Lafluor was with the text. He was cutting
his teeth. He was definitely at an at the NFL
level at a coaching perspective, yes, he was. He was
one of the coaches that performed the duties that Dylan
Thompson had the last couple of years, who's now moved
on to the Commanders. What Nick Cassario has done for

(06:53):
his years here, especially in camp when they have so
many players.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, he throws.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
He throws. He's a quarterback right at laur would throw
passes during camp. Looks like because they needed he was
Really he has a really good arm. He's pretty good
on that balls level. But yeah, that's where he cut
his teeth. And I'm I shouldn't. It doesn't really bother me,
but I just feel like they forget and aren't giving
credit where it's due. Every time lafleur Or McVeigh or

(07:21):
Shanahan anytime, or McDaniel anytime they do anything well, these
guys were all on the staff together here with the commanders,
or these guys were all on the staff together with
the falcons. Outside of McVeigh, all these guys and including
Salah on the defense, they were all on Kubiak staff,
which was before all this stuff happened. A lot of

(07:42):
these guys absolutely owe a little bit of what they're doing,
where they've gone and their success to mister Auschucks himself.
And I don't think he cares at all, and why
should he, but I would like to see him get
a little bit more credit. He lives in the state
and on his massive Like you know when JJ Watt
was talking about I got this little cabin in Wisconsin,

(08:03):
and it's like Gary has something like that. Gary's place
from what I've heard, especially since you know, Andre went
into the hall, and Gary's been honored a couple of
times locally and around the state. So people have asked
of him a couple of times. Everybody TV stations, especially
in the team, they go up to his place. And
you know, I've talked to Drew Doherty, for instance, works
for the Texans. I can't remember exactly where it is,

(08:25):
but it's like the greatest place ever. It's first of all,
one part of it is like the most ultimate Western
slash sports bar. It's a farm, it's everything. It's like, gee,
I wonder what Gary's gonna do when he finished his coaching.
Nobody ever wondered that, because this is exactly Dan knew
as a retired coach. Yeah, well that doesn't sound like

(08:47):
it's fart all. First of all, No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Okay, Well I don't know, like you know, yeah, Conro
that whole north side of town, and there's lots of way.
I keep telling Teresa, Yeah, I know, you want to
go to Wyoming less expensive. We just move a little
bit further out and just build there. But go to uh,
Montana maybe November tenth. What's November tenth and Montana when

(09:10):
Yellowstone starts up again? Well, okay, is Costner out not yet?
Is he gonna be written out? Like does he die?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Maybe? I mean the show is going to end, so
I don't know that he has to be written out.
It already has now that he's out right. It was
I think that was. There's like fifty other spin offs
coorse parts of the show coming anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Sam Elliott is on the what's it called eighteen?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
There's eighteen eighty three.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Does he walk around like he does in every other
Western type movie or series he's in, And you.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Mean, does he walk around like Sam Elliott walks around? Yeah,
that's how he walks. Of course he does.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Living stream of Water right there. You can have your
horse drink from it. That's what he does in every movie.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm aware.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, it's because of the mustache. Of course, it blocks
his mouth from speaking. Anyway, By the way they could
put they could put McConaughey in Costner's role and try
to salvage that series.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
I don't know, he have this wheeled guns and be mean, well,
his culture he could be in the government as Kevin is.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, well his minister of culture gig might suffer if
he was taken away for such lengths to go film.
I don't know. They have to do that in the
summer or something like that. Yeah, a couple of things
you mentioned when Stan was in yesterday talking about seeing ghosts.
Another thing he mentioned, and I didn't expect this, he
was point blank Nico Collins is in that game. Packers

(10:29):
still win. I don't know if I'm sure about that.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, I mean, I think Stan's a pretty smart guy.
H And I think he's at I mean, I'm saying
this tongue in cheek. I think he's either trying to
get us to debate or he just wants to be
on here longer. Because these discussions are so entertaining and fun,
it's pretty hard for you to say, well, this wide
receiver missed the game, so you lost. So I do

(10:52):
tend to agree with him on that, and I think
he would agree. Things would have been very different with
what the Texans were able to do because the they
didn't have to get numbers wise Exotic. Well, we need
to put pressure on CJ. So we got to bring six.
So I hope these guys can stay with them. Well,
if Nico Collins is out there, it's going to change
how they approach the Tarsians. And I know Steph is

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great and I know Tank is a good player too.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
They're not a beast like that.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, there's somebody missing. It's not even that they're not him,
it's that he's not there. And no, there is no
other person. There aren't three wide receivers on the field anymore.
And yes, I'm aware there are literally three wide receivers
on the field, but not to CJ. And that I
brought up yesterday. He has to look at the other receivers.
They can't be targeted one time on forty five snaps.

(11:39):
It's not going to work against good teams. But they
don't have one this weekend, so it probably will work
against the Colts.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Something about that Colts matchup that I do want to
get into in the very next segment as a way
that you do want to be a little.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Leery of if you're the Texans. We'll discuss that next.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
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We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's a Tuesday edition of the program Sports Talk seven
ninety Space City Home Network. Wex and Ac here talking
about the loss that was over the weekend, and yeah,
certainly using you know, looking back to avoid such situations
in the future. Look, you get Nico Collins back, that's
going to solve a lot of problems on defense. Is

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not going to improve the quality of pass protection for
the offensive line, but it is going to make sure,
as we just mentioned in the first segment, that defenses
like the one the Packers employed and others are going
to have to at least account for another very capable body.
But you know, one of the things that I do,
I guess she's got done saying yesterday, Yeah, they're going

(13:22):
to kick the Colts by whatever I said, and I'm
flying off the handle like I usually.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Shockingly, nobody's done that all season. I know, in that
one score game. And how many quarterbacks have they used,
by the way, one more than Houston, Well technically the
same amount Davis has played. I thought the Colts had
used three. You think awesome? Sam Ellinger has been out
there this year.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
I thought he had.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
I don't believe, so I could be wrong. I can't
imagine they've had any kneel down situations. Joe Flacco, as
you saw last night on Manning Cast, when he was
super dull, you know, really well. They actually did a
bit on him being dull because his dad famously had
called him dull in an interview for and like two sentences.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
What's his dad's name, Probably Bob, That's what I was getting, Like,
he's got to get it from somewhere. I at a
parent and teacher conference today, just as in a site
since you brought that up, and all of these things
that Carson's doing great. He's in kindergarten, he's doing great.
Great teacher, we love her. We're sitting there and she's like, yeah,
sometimes he just starts talking too much in class. Sometimes

(14:21):
he doesn't pay attention the way he should. And other
times he'll just raise his hand and start just you know,
telling me things he's gonna do later on in the
middle of a lesson because he just doesn't know any better.
I'm like, yeah, those are all things I would do.
So this they're all coming from my side of the table.
So I get that, Joe and Bob Flacco. I know,
I just got done saying yesterday that they will probably

(14:42):
handily beat the Colts. I think they will. The one
drawback to that is it is a deficient opponent. But
this is also the second time they'll be seeing them.
Both teams have played a lot of football since then.
Both teams have gotten significantly less healthier in certain areas
at times. The Texans are gonna come in. It's gonna
be the third game they'll be without Nico Collins of

(15:02):
what we expect to only before. I mean, all the
reports of these ahead of schedule healing. I think he's
gonna be back out there. That's what I'm saying. I'm
just gonna say it now after four games his ir stint,
he's back out there. I hope that's the case. But
that's not gonna be for this game. And uh, that's
the one drawback is that you because it's that division opponent,
because it's the second time around, and because it's not

(15:23):
that long since the last time they played, but there
has been enough space in between. Both of these teams
will have an advantage from that standpoint going into whatever
you want to call scouting each other getting ready for
the game this week. Yeah, the vision changes.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, they also played the game before that. This is
the ninth This is the ninth game over the last
game of last year and eight games this year. Third
time they've played. Yeah, Texans had a couple of extra
games because they're good, and they went to the playoffs
because they beat the Colts. But three times in nine games.
Shane Steichen has coached against the Texans four times in

(15:57):
his entire NFL head coaching career, which began at the
same time Demiko's. Did they know each other all already,
very very well, So it's not going to be we
aren't familiar with what they're doing. They're probably not going
to be that many wrinkles. They aren't. From their standpoint,
what they're doing is not hard to defend. You just

(16:18):
have to be disciplined enough to say go ahead. I mean, honestly,
the last time they played was a joke. They absolutely
they did dominate that game, but they gave up too
many of those plays. Like the Packers' bad plays were
turnovers and kept the Texans in a really good position
to win. The Texans bad plays against the Colts, in

(16:38):
my mind, time to compare them. We're giving up those
ridiculously long passes. I mean, I don't even really consider
the duel in one the same because that was a
shorter pass where he just ran past everybody for a
fifty plus yard touchdown. But the two deep balls where
you just let him run past you and let Anthony
Richardson do the only thing he's even remotely good at
all respect for the actual quality of the those two

(17:00):
particular throws in a year when it isn't It's not close,
it's not debatable. I've never seen a gap like this before.
Nobody's as bad at throwing the football where it's supposed
to be than Anthony Richardson in the last ten years. Nobody.
He's unbelievably inaccurate this year. There's no reason for that

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to change in this game. Why does he have such
good games against the Texans though I don't really think
his last game was good. Well, it was here. I
guess that'd be more appropriate to see because it is true.
I get if it's all on how you look. He
has not played well against the Texans, thrown the ball well,
and I include last game he threw the ball incredibly

(17:44):
badly against the Texans. In my opinion, he.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Just had some great explosive plays, which.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
They were enormous, But what about the other six drives
that all ended because you missed your receivers by so much?
What about the other decisions that were I mean, they
could have easily won the game if you played well.
He didn't. And again, the first time he played was
barely a game at all. He ran past him twice,
got hurt, and that was that. So I don't, I don't.
I don't look at that game very much. This last

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game was his first game against So in total.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
We are going into what week eight here? Yeah, I
almost said six. Then I was almost said.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Seven games for this team, no off week.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Like everything else in my life, it's flying by.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Is it Is.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It too soon to start saying I mean, you have,
you have somewhat of a book on him, But is
it too late to say, Okay, what we were talking
about at the beginning of the season is probably not
going to come to pass. He's not competing with CJ.
Stroud for the best quarterback in this division. Trevor Lawrence
had already played himself out of it, and he's done
nothing to change that narrative. Through these first handful of

(18:49):
weeks of this season. I don't think it's CJ and
everyone else is a distant second, third, fourth, whatever.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, And unfortunately, if CJ and his team don't went
on Sunday, then all that stuff is a big pile
of steaming, you know what, because they have the same record. Now, yeah,
that's ridiculous. Cares if Anthony Richison can't play a team wins.
If you're five and three evening the season series against
the Texas, winning in their building, however you do it,
whether it's on you or your your team just outplayed him.
That's all that matters. With nine games to go, you

(19:17):
let this not very good team beat you and get
back in the race. But just instead of ending the
race on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Right, But just like people want to say about the Texans,
you know, who have the who have the Colts beaten
to get that same record as you, even though in
that argument it would have been you. You know, you're
one of their wins. That's gonna that's gonna be terrible.
But to even be in that position. They've beaten the Bears,
the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
A five and two team, and a four and two team.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
The Titans and the Dolphins without Tua.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, so with the win against you, that's two wins
over five win teams at a four win hasn't played
seven games.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yes, and I know that the Texans schedule only gets
more difficult from here on out. So does the Colts.
They're gonna go to the Vikings and get slaughtered. If
they're anything like they were against the Texans, then they're
gonna be home for the Bills. I don't think they're
gonna harass Josh Allen into the type of afternoon that
the Texans did. They still have to play the Lions
and they still have to play, well, that's probably the
last good game on our schedule.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Also have to play the line.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I know, but I just it to me and I'm
not making excuses for a loss that hasn't happened, because
I don't think that's what's gonna happen. I just don't
I think that if that were to come to pass, Yeah,
it's gonna look awful that day and for the week
moving forward, But I don't think that that's how the
remaining or the remainder of the season is going to
go for either of these two teams.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
It's definitely a check yourself game, though, and win this game, Houston.
If you don't win this game, then you better be
more realistic about what your problems are. We don't even
know what it would be, what it exactly it was
this week, but they should be definitely, they should already
be looking in the mirror. I don't want to put
that out there that they obviously you're playing you can lose.

(20:55):
They should not lose. They are a better team. I
think the Colts are average pretty much everywhere except their
quarterback play. Jonathan Taylor being back is probably going to
be a fact and a factor. Even though they did
a nice job of slowing him down in one, they
haven't been able to run the ball without him. You know,
good since been significantly better than Trey Sermon, and yet

(21:15):
they keep giving the ball to Sermon. I think that's
gonna be ending now. And I don't know what, you know.
The Texans haven't really had too much trouble defending their receivers,
but they can't let them get behind them. I actually
think the Texans are much more well suited. How about
instead of talking about all the negative things, how about
a positive thing. What happened in that Colts game in
Week one that had you so upset me talking to myself.

(21:38):
It was letting them get behind the defense. It was
letting them play deep ball against you, and it killed you. Well.
I don't want to put it on Jimmy Ward, but
I think they are so much more capable in that regard,
among many others. If Klen Bullock is out there, he
played twenty five plays in that game. Jimmy Ward did

(22:01):
not leave the field in that game. Ward is not
going to be back for this game. Bullock will not
leave the field in this game.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
And he has three interceptions since that first game.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
And he hasn't been tested. He hasn't been on the
field for enough of the deep balls yet this year
where he's got either chase or he's in really good position,
or he's been there to pat to break up the pass.
Probably not as much as Ward is, and I think
teams recognize that they want to throw deep on Ward.
He's not nearly as fast, and if you're behind him,
you've won already. Bullock has makeup speed and he certainly

(22:30):
is a playmaker. He had an interesting little exchange on
the X platform on the last couple of days regarding
one play from the game, so we'll touch on that.
But I think that's one area where the Texans over
the time from Game one to Game eight have gotten better.
Bullock being on the field, they're better. He is a
better player for this defense. And when Ward comes back,

(22:53):
like we talked about yesterday with Stan, he probably takes
the snaps away from jim Eric Murray and maybe plays
close sort of the line. And maybe this is something
that actually also enhances the defense because Murray can't play deep,
and now you have somebody that can, so now doesn't
have to play deep. So maybe he's able to take
up the spot that you've been given to Murray because
you have injuries.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
In a lot of ways. This is a very fascinating
matchup coming up this week, just because it is the
first time you're gonna have an opponent you're playing the
second time around. We will continue to dissect when we
come back here on the A.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
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Speaker 3 (23:48):
Congrats to Lamar Jackson for single handedly essentially making sure
that I hit the over on that Ravens Bucks game
last night.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Holy cow, you're not giving any credit to the Bucks soon.
I thought they could come back for five minutes when
they were down by nine hundred points. That cost him,
Chris Godwin.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
All I cared about was when it hit the over
on a forty nine and a half. That way, as
per usual, I could match your four and one week
and do so by not picking the Texans game correctly,
which somehow we have all done exactly four times against
three times we've done it right. It's it's uncanny in

(24:25):
our stone cold locks how we are all terrible at
picking Texans games.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
One game under it sucks.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
If it's Texas three or four right now, you would
not be calling them good.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's only terrible in relation to how we've picked other games.
The two of us.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I would have had a five in a week if
one of that dumb Texans game.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
What other game would you have picked to get to five?

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't know, because I didn't like any of them.
I actually thought I was gonna maybe have a down week,
but I nailed all my picks and they were I mean,
Jordan Love over on a touchdown and a half, but
under Georgia, Texas screamed that the whole time Pats Jags
over forty two, those defenses suck. And then last night's

(25:08):
Ravens Bucks game, I mean they had just got done
scoring fifty to the Bucks the week prior, and Lamar
Jackson is a video game, so yeah, that's not a
hard pick. But Texans over forty seven and a half
can't have that. That'd be too easy to get a
five and oh week, that'd be too nice, and we
can't have nice things on this show. I'm done ranting
perfect all right? So anyways, how are the Texans gonna

(25:29):
beat the Colts.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
By hitting the field, choosing captains, watching the coin get flipped,
and playing football after that? They should be fine?

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Clean football, organized football whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
They're not gonna play clean football, nobody thinks at home,
Oh you want. I mean, as much as you like
talking about these numbers, I'll give you an over under
a four and a half over on penalty four and
a half penalties, you're gonna call it clean.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
If they have five, you're gonna call it clean. If
they have four, depends on what Laramie tunsel shows up.
And that is a thing.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Why there's how many guys on this team. Why is
it all him? Because no penalties last time week?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Say it was all him? That's what I just said.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
He's the only name because I cut you off that
you brought up.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
No, you put words in my mouth. Then after you
cut I didn't put him in your mouth, you said them.
I said, what Laramie Tunzel is going to show up?
Is it the one who has played pretty the one
in football last week?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
No?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I know, but like it's funny that he has had
more gaffs at home. No, he's had false start issues
where he was for the illegal formations. Obviously it's totally irrelevant.
It's trash, is what it is. It is, and it's
it's for the league, right, And you can actually see
the Texans have made adjustments with how they're lining up,

(26:37):
but they probably don't even need to because they haven't
had any other games officiated by that crew since that game.
None before, none sense, no problems before you find out
the crew they probably know this Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
When do we find out?

Speaker 4 (26:51):
It depends when you go to football Zebras or ref
stats or whichever site you go to.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Of course there's a site or ten. I just I
don't want to get to a where I'm doing that
with NFL games. I don't even do that for NBA
or Major league games. I just wait until I see
who's back there calling balls and strikes poorly, and then
I start, you know, ramming.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
A series starts and you're like, oh, he's in this crew?
How many games they have? Maybe it never gets behind
home play?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, like, would that crew get a playoff game? Are
they going to be one of the ones that's not
assigned because there's so few, relatively speaking games. It's not
like they're bad, it's not like they're good. I don't
know how the league views it.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
They have one crew that's been calling illegal formations, we
got those penalties to be called in the playoffs, that
they're going to assign them to a game?

Speaker 3 (27:32):
We've got the AFC Championship game just for the sake
of the two best teams in the AFC. I'm going
to say it's the Chiefs and the Ravens squaring off again.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
So the one in the three seed.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yet, whatever, we want that crew calling that game with
all that laundry on the field, or do we want
any other crew?

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Yez, you think the Texans and the Ravens, who actually
were the two teams hit hardest by that officiating crew.
It was Week one for the Ravens and Stanley, and
it was Week three for the Texans with Tunsel and others.
I mean, fine, it's not on the officials anymore. Figure
it out. All you have to do is inch forward
when you get in your stance.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Well for that call.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
But they called the only thing that we're talking about. Well, no,
this every officiating crew calls. Honestly, the crew they had
this past week could have called false starts on the
Texans line at least four times.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Oh for sure. I saw them. I thought they would. Well,
I was pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
It's long been my analogy which I hate to the
NBA officials when they bounce the ball to the player
standing fifteen to feet away from the basket and he
takes three dribbles over an eight to nine second period,
and then three to six other players put their foot
on top of the paint that's between him and the rim,
and they just stand there and then he shoots the

(28:45):
ball and nobody blows their whistle, not calling or deciding
to call false starts on tackles in the NFL is
the same thing as NBA officials not calling or deciding
to call lane violations during free throws. So it's purely arbitrary,
massive embarrassments for both entities. You can't miss the lane violations.
I can't believe the league doesn't care.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
What do you think what it would take in both cases?
By the way, you know, there's there's deterrence for crimes
you commit. And I hear this all the time because
the word deterrent. I used it in a question for
JJ Water earlier today. Thank you a question for JJ. Yeah,
all right, when you get to the bottom of that
in a second, Like if there's a real deterrent for

(29:31):
any any sort of crime, any level of crime, if
you have a real punishment, that crime is gonna go down.
People are gonna at least think twice before they commit it.
How do you do that in either case with something that,
as you say, and it can be called every single
time those situations occur.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
They're not false starting every play, and they're not committing
lane violations every play, but when they do, they just
call it.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
I think they're committing lane violations every play actually and
even gets a lot, But in this that's why only
gave the number four. I mean, I think Tunsel rocked
a little bit. I think actually Kenyon Green rocked a
little bit, and they actually saw it once on the
TV side and they rewound it or gave us a replay,
and they said, well, they probably should have called that
on Houston because he actually was moving before the Packers move,

(30:14):
before the Packers were in the neutral zone.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Kind of got away with it there. And sometimes this
is like the home playing umpire with his strike zone.
I kind of got a sense that Texans line was
getting a feel for the seven people they assigned to
the game, and that sucks.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's stupid. Just it's not there's only so many games.
There's sixteen games a week or fifteen or fourteen or
thirteen depending on off weeks. You have enough people employed
to cover all these games consistently that you shouldn't have
crews that don't call this.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
You shouldn't have cruse that do call that. And it
is a little different than the illegal formation, just because
this year there's an emphasis on it, and yet only
one crew is emphasizing it. But every time a game
gets played, oh this is Carl Scheffer's crew, They're known
for calling a lot of holding calls. Oh, this is
Sean Hockeyley's crew known for this. How can you be
known for anything? Go to the league meetings in the offseason,

(31:06):
go to your you know your groups, and quit separating. Okay,
you guys sitting over there in the back, what do
you guys want this year? You want p I? You
guys get p I. What do you guys want over there?
You guys in the back, still at the buffet line?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
You want you want holding? You guys got holding. You're
gonna call that all year long. You're gonna be known
for that. It's gonna be your calling card.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
And we're gonna get you back in here next year,
and you're gonna draft first. What do you guys want
to be your signature call this upcoming season? All right,
everybody get into here now. I mean, it's so dumb,
it's so silly, it's so easy to rectify. They should
the league and the umpires or refs or whatever union
whichever sport whets, they should care more. And they don't

(31:43):
need I'm not on board with they better. They need
to be full time. All these guys aren't even full time.
Oh they're not even full time. This is why they suck.
That has nothing to do with it. You think they're
gonna work that much harder because you paid them way
more and now they don't have another job, They're just
gonna do the same amount. They do care about it
to a certain extent. They just don't care about being consistent.

(32:04):
And that's what bothers me. If you only need, if
they only need to have one job because you've made
them full time, you think they're gonna put that much time,
more time and energy into being better. I mean, I
personally don't. You think there's some logic behind it, but
I'm not on board with it.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
What do you think the logic is.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I don't understand it. I don't understand how they just
all right, where are we flying to next week?

Speaker 3 (32:25):
It's a pretty good full time gig if you can
get it.

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Speaker 3 (33:53):
It is the Eight Teams four Stalk seven ninety. I
know we're all up about the football right now. I
get it. We will not dev too far from it.
But I did find it very interesting what one former
Astro tweeted about two hours ago, did you see that?

Speaker 4 (34:08):
I mean, I know it wasn't the original, but he
was this so to speak, era original number forty four
Royal's Walt. That's already tweeted. Only old legends wear that number. Yep,
justin Maxwell, Royal's Walt, Jordan Alvarez, I am with you.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Those are all the same. Yeah, all caps bring Bragman back.
As I said it, I don't doubt it. A pitch
count down, keep it in his own try to get
two hour, one hour, four or five minute game in shower.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Leave. So considering where Roy's older was in the clubhouse,
and back in those days, there was no we'll bring
him over to the wall for you to interview him.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, back in those days, it was I'm going to
ask him on my own away from PR if you
will call into the Adam Wexler Matt Jackson radio show.
And then Sarah apologized later, well, it's called the night shift.
It's the night shift, the night shift, good show, good show.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
He would he would have said, he would have said
if they did have a wall, and his he was
just I'm standing right here, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Going to remember a locker that wall, the one we're
talking about, is the one that you always see the
players in front of.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Now every once in a while, now that they keep
winning and having celebrations in their clubhouse, you have a
little bit better viewpoint because while we can shoot videos
in there, and if there's a reason for us to
take a photo of like a bobblehead or a special
jersey or something otherwise, you're really not supposed to do
those things because that's just not what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Seriously, giant ice sculpture in there, and they just won
the World Series. You can see clearly that it's in
front of the wall we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, so hopefully you guys and by now you've seen
a billion interviews with the Astros. This wall is where
we walk in. There's lockers on each side. It's right
there in the middle. It's got whatever the Astros have
logoed it up with, whether it's one of their yearly
Relentless or something like that, or just Astros or whatever
it is. But the starting pitchers, as you're looking at
an inner starting pitchers are to that player who's staring

(36:03):
into the camera. It's to their left. Essentially all of
the starting pitchers, all the way to the entrance to Joe,
A spot of Dusty Baker, a J. Hinch's office, all
the relief pitchers. I wouldn't say all of them. The
other pictures because fromberg Bat and Javier and some of
the archidia I think are also on that right side
of the player. And then all the position players they're
way in the back.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
And then one or two howers they get two lockers,
depending on their stature.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well, the player you brought up, he's he's got space
next to his locker. He's a two locker guy.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Alex Bregman has a little bit of space there, did
locker next to players earlier in his career, but doesn't now.
I don't think any differently about where's locker is going
to be Houston or elsewhere. I still think the scale
the odds are tipped against the Astros.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's terrible. You should leave right now. I don't like
your attitude, so you.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Think otherwise obviously, that's why you're trying to put me
in a corner. Well, even though you really don't.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
And we don't refer to you as baby either, no,
nor I think h Well, you just mentioned a corner.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
So the World Series starts Friday, earliest end is Tuesday.
The four games sweep would have it over Tuesday, out
of the twenty ninth that the seven game series would
have it over on Saturday. November two relates to our
conversation because when the World Series ends, that's when the
negotiating window essentially is open of five days exclusively for
free agents like Bregman with his current team, the Astros.

(37:26):
That's when that window would open, and thus five days
from then the window closes.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Let me ask you this, Why would he be tweeting
this if he didn't think there was a pretty.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Good wh would Roy? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (37:37):
First of all, he doesn't tweeted about anything like this. Well,
Roy has a product out there now, a little alcoholic beverage.
Roy has begun following way more people, created an Instagram account,
following people there, posting things in both locations on XN
and on Instagram. I'm hopeful he continues with the baseball postings,

(37:59):
but I don't think there's a It's not a coincidence.
He's become a little bit and he's also been around
a little bit. He was with the Bananas exhibition game
Minute Made Park. He was one of the celeb pitchers
at the home run derby over at Constellation Field just
after the season ended, so a little bit more visible.
But most importantly in this conversation about Alex Bregman, he's

(38:21):
not in Jim Crane's circle of trust. He does not
work for the team. His name's not Jeff Craig or Enis.
He's just Roy or Reggie. Well, there's that's that's actually good.
Good that you remember that last name, because I do
think he has probably interested in the World Series. I
guess last time these two Bozo franchises got together late eighties.

(38:44):
I can tell you this, he's far more interested in
it than I am.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
I don't doubt it. I just the only one last
thing I was hoping for, and I'm sure it's been
there because I stopped looking for it. I wish somebody
would have written an accurate headline and I would spend
the New York tabloids at least to do it, and
I didn't see anybody do it. They got to this
World Series, the first one they've been to with their
current captain. Whether you want to call him captain or

(39:10):
not because he is or you don't regard him as
like the other captains like Jeter whatever, that's their captain,
that's Aaron Judge. The headlines could not have been any
easier to write to be accurate, while they would also
be inflammatory to some people. Stanton Soto carry Judge to
first World Series.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Where's the lie exactly? He hasn't done bleep this postseason.
He hit a couple of home runs. Ooh, you finally
hit them three games into the series.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Home runs all the time in the postseason. But that
is literally only it bats that aren't awful. Yeah, it's
you know, the first couple of years of his postseason
career weren't awful. They were much more productive and they
were satisfactory. The last basically twenty nineteen to now, they
have been beyond disastrous. And this postseason so far, he's

(39:57):
got four to seven more games to change. They have
been just abominations. Yeah, thirteen k's two more double plays
he's grounded into all while the two best hitters this
entire postseason are batting in front of him and behind him.
I mean, it's almost impossible to be as unsuccessful as
he has been with who's been playing in front of him.

(40:20):
Soto ops well over one thousand and playing behind him.
Stanton ops of over one thousand. Now. To his credit
and to Boone's discredit, he hasn't bat at Stanton behind
him every game, which.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Is mind boggling.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Makes me want to pleasantly curse like I'm not super mad,
I'm not out of my mind, I'm not ranting.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
What does that sound like? Without saying it's just pathetic?
What does a pleasant curse sound like?

Speaker 4 (40:44):
I just want to say, in the course of conversation,
like every single current pop artist does in their songs.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Oh okay, all right? I mean and by the way,
don't think if you're singing a song and you're writing
a song, huh, why can't you just say full of it?

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Why do you have to say that the other word?
It definitely rhymes well.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Because then you don't get the cool label on the
front of your non physical album.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
It is because all of their songs aren't exclusively played
on a station like ours or down the Hall. There
are these other entities out there that don't have any
regulations Starlink where everybody gets their music from. We are
fully aware of that, so they can do whatever they want.
Apparently they're like key k Hernandez. You can ask if

(41:26):
it's a violation to say this, and then you can
say it anyway.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Well, that's not the only violation that he had this postseason.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
It's funny how much better he is in the postseason
than Aaron Judge.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
I don't need to see his pelvic thrusts ever.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Well now when he's making contact with a teammate, or if.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
He's not, none of them don't need him. They don't
belong on a baseball field, especially from him. So anyway,
don't think I haven't forgotten how the twenty twenty two
ALCS ended with Judge grounding out meekly to end the
series and Julie Guriel and Ryan Presley given the most
awkward high five exchange I've ever seen in my life

(42:01):
before the dogpile. Yeah, so I was thinking about that
World Series as Presley monster jam guy. Yeah, saw that
ye had pit passes smart, That's right. I was thinking
about this, like, man, one of these two teams is
gonna win the World Series. That sucks. And then I
thought to myself, one of these teams is gonna lose
the World Series, and that's awesome. We got the four

(42:21):
o'clock hour coming up next here on a Tuesday edition
of the A Team.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
The A t on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
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Speaker 3 (42:49):
It's a Tuesday edition of the show, hour number two
of three underway here on Sports Talk seven ninety and
Space City home Network. Wex over there ac right here
as we take up until six o'clock, we are a
little more than twenty four hours away from the Rockets
tipping off their season where the games start to count.
Charlotte will be in town tomorrow night. They did play

(43:11):
three preseason games, winning three or four preseason games, winning
three of the four, I should say, and they've got
Charlotte in town. It's a double header tonight. The late
game will feature Minnesota absolutely destroying the Lakers inside whatever
they're calling it now, what is it? It's not stables,
it's not crypto. What's it called? What do they call
it now? Is it still a crypto place?

Speaker 4 (43:32):
It's called now the Crypto Place. Yes, that is accurate, awesome.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
So the Crypto Place will be hosting that game tonight,
in which Anthony Edwards will probably dunk all over BROWNNY
and it'll be all over the news. The first game
is the one that I really wanted to highlight real
quickly before we get back to football like we're supposed
to in our regularly scheduled program. I've seen a lot
of mainly with regards to the NFL when the season starts.

(43:57):
You know, either husbands have to kind of assert where
they're going to be at this time of year. When
it comes to viewing sports, they take it to the
next level. And this goes for college on Saturdays as
well for a lot of people. But this guy is
a big time NBA fan and his wife send out

(44:18):
a tweet that said, ladies, choose yourself. I woke up
to this nonsense after almost eleven years of marriage.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
There's three pictures here.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
One is a picture of her holding an envelope that
says to my wife, so there's clearly a letter inside.
The second picture is a text message exchange where she says,
I gave you almost twelve years of my life just
for you to leave me a letter like that, to
which he responds, I had to be true to myself
even if it hurt. So you know where you think
this is going. Then you read the letter and you

(44:50):
understand what's up. Dear wife. Let me start this off
by saying that I love you dearly. You mean the
world to me. However, I owe it to myself as
well as you to be completely honest with you. I
have to come forward with my truth. I hate to
do it this way, but it's now or never, because
what I'm about to say has to be said. Tonight
October twenty second, twenty twenty four, mark's opening night for

(45:13):
the New York Knicks twenty four to twenty five season.
I will be watching the game tonight. That means from
seven PM that's when pregame starts, to whatever time the
game ends. I will not be a husband or a father.
Y'all are on your own for a couple of hours. No,
I will not watch our shows with you. No, I
will not get you something sweet. I will not take

(45:33):
the dog out. I will not get the kid in
bed either. I will sit on my couch, drink in hand,
and I will watch the game. That's it. This doesn't
mean I love you guys any less. It just means
tonight is not about y'all. It's about ruining the Boston
Celtics ring ceremony. The rest of the season is negotiable
up until the point in time we reach the playoffs.
Then I will have to abandon y'all again temporarily. If

(45:56):
you have any questions, please feel free to reach out
to me. You can call me at well, you have
my number. Just call me if you need me. I
look forward to seeing and talking to you later after
the game. That is love, fred ps. The child may
stay up past bedtime if he watches the game with me.
If he doesn't want to watch, then off to bed
with him. Thanks. That's a man's man right there. It's

(46:19):
putting his foot down his Knicks fan. The Knicks aren't
gonna ruin the Boston Celtics ring ceremony with that lineup.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Nobody could. They just won the title. If they don't
win their opener of their eighty two game season against
the Knicks at home, the ring ceremony is not ruined.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
You gotta you gotta win your opener for the defending ship.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Yeah, you got to. I agree, Warriors, I'm sorry, take
it all back. You definitely have to win tonight or else.
Fire Joe Missoula, see if you can rescind the contracts
that have already been signed by Jalen and Jason. Probably
need to fire your GM figure things out. I wasn't
say anywhere that letters over man. That's not like uniquely clever.

(47:04):
But the fact that four hundred and eighty five thousand
people liked it on Twitter, it's pretty impressive. I think
it's got a few views.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah, I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
So we're to take this at this is for real.
It's not a parent, it's not a social media Hey,
I'll just post this. We'll get a lot of run off.
This is funny, seems planned. I think it's definitely real.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I don't think you do. I don't think you think
that the.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Knicks coming off their one postseason series victory. I'm trying
to make it sound as bad as possible, because I
actually thought it was pretty good. They won a postseason series.
So he's all in on the Knicks did for twenty
years prior, give or take. That's actually an accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
And if Jalen Brunson didn't you have a thumb injury
or something last year?

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yes, he was out for some of those playoff games.
Wasn't he in a series that went seven games? That yes,
you could say that. Oh, it was more like everything
else had kind of fallen apart and he wasn't gonna
be able to carry him through that crage to a victory.
He had they won, then they would have been posed anyway.
Imagine if the Mavericks had kept him. But uh, yeah,

(48:11):
I'm not doing that. No, that was not I'm not
pretending I was smarter than the MAVs on that one.
I said they were saved by the Knicks. Those were
my exact words. The Knicks saved them from themselves. Not
paying Brunson helped the MAVs. That's what I said that day.
And for as much as he's clearly awesome, the MAVs

(48:33):
just made the Championship Series.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
But they didn't do it until he went out and
got another guy. They paid even more money.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Which is why you don't pay Brunson, so you can
do that. I'm not saying Irving's way better. I'm not
saying they're way better, but I thought it was right
at the time. What I'm really trying to say is
I was wrong about the player.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Yeah, no, I can't remember that. They believe how good
he is, and he is that good, and the Knicks
really do have a chance.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
The East is stacked again. If the team that's already
playing without two of their best three players, it's healthy.
The Sixers season begins with Paul George watching his new
teammates play alongside Joel Embiide. What else is watching his
teammates play?

Speaker 3 (49:13):
These two get hurt all the time. They've done it
at every stop along their way. In the case of
Paul George, I mean, Joel has been in the same
place the whole time getting hurt.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
But yeah, Paul George goes places.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
He was hurt in Indiana, he was hurt in Oklahoma City,
I think, I mean, he wasn't there that long. And
then he got hurt with the Clippers, and now he's
hurt with the Sixers.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
His path to being injured a lot, a little bit
different than a lot of other players because his time
and he had the injury one of those injuries that
everybody remembers when he wasn't playing for any of these
NBA teams, He's playing for the Olympic team and an exhibition.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Basket stanchion one. Paul George's legs zero and I was
too hard.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Following that, he played seventy five games or more four
consecutive seasons following that, and prior to that, he was
not injury prone either. Nine years into his career he
had that major, significant, disgusting injury. But then everything changed.
He went to Oklahoma City, had two healthy years. Then

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he played five years the equivalent of about two and
a half in LA. He could not stay healthy for
long periods of time, and when he was healthy, nobody
else was healthy, so they obviously never got anything done.
He played more than fifty six games there one time.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
By the way he says here, with these the fact
that he's left, Harden is older, and Kawhi's hurt again,
the Clippers could be one of those teams that you
were asking, well, who's out if the Rockets are in.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
They if I think it's gonna be hard for them
to fall quite that far, like they're not going to
fall outside of the top ten, but they could be
one of the playing team.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
That's what I was like, not advancing. How about they
play the Lakers for the play in game. Now one
of the LA teams has to be eliminated.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
It could work out well, it will be the Lakers
if they're both the play turnament, they could both advance.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
They're on one after tonight. Okay, they're not beating Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Magic numbering them one game, I have.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
To they're they're playing Minnesota. The top headline right now
in ESPN dot Com. Lebron don't have to rush pairing
with Bronny. You can rush it, you can take your time.
Your team suck.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
They absolutely have to rush it, and they're going to.
He's playing tonight while Lebron is on the court because
they have to do it now because they know it
doesn't belong in the rotation, and they really know he
doesn't belong on their current roster.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
And they have to hurry before Lebron gets hurt because
it's going to happen again too.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
There's no it's more about him currently because Lebron hasn't
been that banged up. But he's not like these other guys.
He's ancient though, so it's actually now comes with it.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
He's the father time is It's not. Yeah, he's not
injured from until now.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
This is something where we might not ever see again.
We certainly haven't seen it before. I'm told the highlight
of the Lakers season. It's has It's just something else,
it doesn't. It's not basketball related for you know what is?

Speaker 3 (51:56):
I forgive me if I don't think that JJ Reddick
the analyst is going to be an awesome coach as well.
And he might be, but I ain't gonna be with
this roster. I don't think he'll have anything to do
with it. You know what, if he's smart, he starts
running everything through Anthony Davis until he goes down with
like a hangnail or something. But until he does, Anthony
Davis is who you should be running the offense through

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because he's actually still in his prime.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
That's what they do. They did that last year. No,
they ran it through Lebron.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
They did. Yeah, they did because Lebron the GM and
Lebron the coach told Lebron the player to do that.
That's the Lakers in a nutshell. When he's gone, they
can start trying to get back to respectability. But for now,
he runs the franchise. And if you don't think that's
the case, well again, Lebron and bronni is a thing
that's because of one guy. It's not because they wanted
to take him and put him on the roster and

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force him out there with playing time one night. So
after this you're saying, he plays tonight and then they
can be like, all right, well he got his minutes.
Now he can go to the bench or the G League.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Yeah, I think so. I think they could do that.
The non existent and again drafting him, there's literally unless
it ruins your locker room, and which it's not going
to unless you got a bunch of guys that are saying,
why is this kid here? He sucks, I hate him
and I hate you because of it, which they're not.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
What.

Speaker 4 (53:11):
I still don't get the downside. This is the second
round pick. It's a throwaway, it's nothing, doesn't do anything
for your franchise one way or the other. Well, the
other way is people are interested. Why they are because
it's never happened before. There's no downside to this to me,
and room wastes this pick. You didn't miss out on somebody.
It's not a tradable commodity of any great value unless
you want to add it to the seven second round

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picks you're putting into this deal to make it work,
and real quick.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
While we're on the subject, and this segment is almost over,
since you're giving yourself credit for players you were wrong
about like Jalen Brunson. That's the opposite of credit Aaron
Gordon's four year, one hundred and thirty three million dollar extent.
She would like a word with you because you did
not like that trade either.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
I can't believe how much it helped them win. He's
not that you shouldn't be that expensive, but he helps
him win, so by all means.

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Speaker 1 (54:59):
Today back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler the.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Eighty It is the A team Sports Talk seven ninety
On a Tuesday edition of the program, Wex and ac
with you, wex a little bit under the weather. Okayse,

(55:25):
she didn't realize it. He is motoring through. I've never
seen anybody that's so bionic in my life. I don't
think you've ever taken a sick day in your life either.
By the way, what for, well, you barely take vacation days,
you weirdo. You started doing that more like recently in
the last.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Couple of years. I what a dummy.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
What they don't roll over? Imagine if they did, you'd
have like a whole year off. I wouldn't take him,
I know.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Like every time he goes on vacation, all I get
are text messages. We're doing this family thing, and I
wish I was watching the game.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Never say that.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Well, I'm parafrae.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
You think I'm thinking that, but I'm not. That's inner
monologue every single time. Your funny thing is, it's not
like some other gig where you leave and maybe somebody
else does your work for. You've got some reports that
have to be done TPS reports. Well let's make sure
cover sheet right. Somebody else might take care of it
because it has to be done. It's on deadline, you're out,
trickles down, it's all been taken care of. Sports is

(56:21):
like that, I mean definitely gonna be here when I
get back.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
That's the thing about our job. It's never a dull
moment because it never stops changing. There's never there's not
I say this all the time to like my regular
friends that have regular jobs, you know, with regular hours
and regular parameters. I don't know what I would do, like,
I just it would be awful because I if it's

(56:46):
any like monotonous in any way, my add self would
be in hell.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
You never did this? What do you mean, no regular job?
I had a regular job. What did you do? I
pushed papers? And what would you say? You did there?
So I also had this job. I'm mister two jobs.
So While I was on the radio, I also had
another job that required me to sit at a desk

(57:11):
pretty much all day. Yeah, but where was that desk located.
It was located in the offices of the Houston Arrows. Yeah,
and what was that building called. It was the same
building that the radio station was in. It was twenty
four Greenway Plaza.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Oh so I thought the I thought the administrative offices
were actually in the arena.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
No, no offices for that team in the arena.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
At the time, or ever, that changes everything.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
I had to go a whole three hundred feet two
hundred yards to get.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
To the area was twenty four?

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Is that the thing that connects on the corner twenty
four Greenway is the building on the corner of Wesleyann
and fifty nine. Okay, so the summit at the time
was a couple of empty plots of land next to it.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Now there's a luxury car dealership and a coffee place
that's overpriced there, among other things.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Yes, very starr eyed people. Yes, lots of bucks. So
all that stuff is there. But I was a I
was a numbers guy. I was many different jobs. You
weren't a people person, Well, I mean I can't. I
could be. I was the director of merchandise. Not fun,
How dude, those arrows jerseys were awesome. More to it

(58:19):
than just making sure you have enough jerseys and all
the right side. I mean it was kind of fun
when product hawkers would say, do you have a can
I get a few minutes of your time, or they
would stop by the office with all their new here
you can you want to buy ten thousand of these
for a giveaway?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Is this you want to buy five equivalent of pharmaceutical salesmen?

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Pretty much will they would. They would roll in with
a rack of items or a briefcase boxes full of
promotional items.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
How is this not my job?

Speaker 4 (58:47):
I mean, I am, it's not what I do. I'm
saying it's awful. But then you're responsible for making sure
all of the moveable concession stands are properly stocked each game.
You gotta have all the I had to do all
the reports as well, before and after, and then same
thing with the retail shop. We also had the retail

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store at the two ice rinks in their two locations,
one of them in Sugarland, the other one uh Willowbrook
location the Arodrome. So I got to roll out time
for inventory lining.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Will inventory the skates and the hot coming up to
the Willowbrook my side of town when I was still
in high school, and I didn't even know it.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
We only inventory like once a year or twice a year,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Oh, okay, well, I was about to say shift that
I was.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
My assistant controller and staff accountant, not in that order.
So when it was road trip time, mm hmm. Well
what do players get when they go on road trips?

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Gear?

Speaker 4 (59:39):
No, how do they eat? Oh? Uh, per diem? They
get per diem? Well, how do you give them per diem?
You have to send somebody to the bank to go
get it.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
You were the guy that took the money for the
players to get food on the road.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
I had to You gotta get it in proper denominations too,
because you've got to put them all in each of
their envelopes.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Did they all get the same amount or did the
good guys get more?

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
I'm a little too far removed to remember for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
How awesome would that be?

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
The only reason that would have happened is I do
believe with their contracts that could have been written into
their contract because financially speaking, that that league at the
time was done a lot differently than you would kind
of expect.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
I would have it written into my contract, I'll tell
you that much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
You'd need to be a pretty good player. Probably it
would have been incentive. But yeah, I would have to
go there and I would have it, and then i'd
section it all out. Then I would deliver it to
the manager or whoever was handling it. Just forgive me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
It sounds like you were wearing an awful lot of
hats for what I was in those ticket department. Oh gosh,
how much did they pay you? Seriously, it better have
been six figures for all this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
If one of the two of us or both of us,
we're going to take to social media maybe offer some
people some tickets to the Rockets game. That would be
pretty easy, right, this thing called digital tickets exists. How
about if you bought season tickets to the Arrows in
the nineties, do you think there would be Every single
person in the office would be asked at two o'clock
on Friday, a week before the seasons started to drop

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what they're doing so they could come into the conference
room so we could mail, fold and stuff seasoned ticket
holder tickets and envelopes timeout were printed on the dot
matrix printer in triplicate.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Okay, that's the question I had, because at first I
thought the answers. Yes, I thought maybe you had had
as one of your additional job duties to have to
drive over to a local follies location where the ticket
master was located and they printed out.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
But we had a machine in there that could print
the tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Well, that's nice. Yes, that's that's the slight convenience out
of all the other income managers.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
Amy was brilliant and that helped a great deal.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
So the moral of all of this is you're saying
you couldn't handle just, you know, putting on a maybe
a suit, maybe a nice shirt, slacks, and some uncomfortable
shoes every day and heading into the office. You're correct,
but you didn't do it. How do you know I'd
wear a polo? Maybe you'd say this is I like this? No? No, no, okay,
So what do you don't know? How you doing today?
Auto cooler talk. You don't even get that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
During my six years of college, that's right, six, I
was a professional college student by the time I was
done the last five after my first year I had
a nine to five job, particularly during the summers, at
a local computer company. It used to rhyme with mom
Mac and then it became Schmollett smackered. You know what

(01:02:20):
I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Yeah, leave the bits to the other show what not Wednesday?

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
We steal bits.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
And I had to say it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I had in my own office and everything, and all
I did was duplicate software in mass quantities. Do you
think I was running a bootleg CD operation during the
era of Napster, when I had nothing but thousands of
free discs at my disposal and the ability to burn
ten at a time on two different machines. Do you

(01:02:48):
think I was running a small business enterprise in there?
Popular music at the time was me eminem. I mean
some guy that hosts this freak off parties now or
did before it's picked them up. I mean, all of
those people were at the height of their j lo.
It was the early two thousands and it was Napster.
Sean Wets his face had nothing on it A yeah. Yeah.

(01:03:11):
The Social Notebook or Social what was it called Network Network? Yeah?
That was a movie about me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Oh wow, I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Well, it was like an underling of those two fighting
over the rights to it. But yeah, the moral of
the story is, after all of this, if Tillman gets
a team in the NHL, he asked the name in
the Arrows or the Oilers, those are his choices.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
Just get the team and we'll handle it from there.
I do like seeing the scoreboards now in the NHL
and the crawl and whatever. They will say Bruins or
Islanders or Flyers on one side with their five goals,
and then next to it it'll say Utah. Because Utah
decided their first year would be nameless. They are Utah.
They are the Utah Hockey Club. They will have a

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mascot and a team name in a year.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
So it'll kind of be like the Commanders.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Only they never went with I mean, yeah, they went
with the Washington football team.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Well, it's like, we can't think of anything. So for
a year's it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Is a way to guarantee a little bit of interest
and fan input.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Forget all that. It's a way to get a novelty
item in the form of whatever says Washington football team
for that one year, and then twenty years from now
it's going to be a collector's item. At least That's
how I would look at it, if anybody would want
such a thing. But yeah, I'm hoping that the hockey
experiment here in Houston comes around yet again, this time

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on the professional level.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
I've got his other team was busy spending money. Finally,
officially today, We mentioned it yesterday that both Jalen Green
and Alprin Shangoon had agreed to extensions prior to yesterday's
deadline for players in their position on their rookie deals.
We spoke with both of those players earlier today. One
of them said, I'm so happy. The other one also
said he was happy, but just in a different way,

(01:04:55):
not as happy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
There's a little less money in his account.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
You would be the guy that would be in charge
of positing it in by his own decision.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Yeah, no, for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Five years after next year's contracts for them both begin
and then the five years that follow, who do you
think will make more NBA money?

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Alprynchingun So you don't think he can make up the
seventiest million dollar difference. I think he can, but you
provided he earns it. But I think Alpryn Shingoon will
be the better player of the team. I know that
what you just brought up Aaron Gordon. We watched what
Jalen Suggs got, and we watched what Jalen Johnson got.
Here's what they both have on their side. Particularly in
the case of Jalen Green. He's still super young. I mean,

(01:05:36):
is he twenty one yet?

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Barely right, he's twenty two maybe. I mean, he's just
a kid, and I think that's what he's got going
for him.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
But he couches that he's gotten a lot better over
the years, especially defensively. Today.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
The numbers back that up, as you would know. All right,
we will come back with our signature segment on a
Tuesday edition of the program.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
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Speaker 7 (01:06:05):
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Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
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What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
On a Tuesday pay what again?

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
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Speaker 6 (01:06:38):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Tuesday Signature segment time he told.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
You all about us. We'll get right to it. The
NBA season opens tonight since we've been killing it with
our NBA talk recently, we will continue that briefly here
also likely here from Jerry, it is say what, after
all the couple of games tonight, you got a bunch
of games tomorrow night, including the Rockets. By the way,

(01:07:00):
the team that is favored by the largest margin in
their opener is Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Your Houston Rockets.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
At home tomorrow night, favored by seven and a half
points over Charlotte. Here's a fairly famous multi time champion
who played his high school basketball in Charlotte, and a
fairly famous pop who is still affiliated with the Charlotte
team and played his basketball there. His name's Steph Curry.
Steph Curry's team will open the season in Portland, where

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they are favored by a good chunk of numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
That's because Portland sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
On Wednesday night and earlier this week, he did a
little TV appearance, was interviewed by Scott Van Pelt SVP,
and he dide a nice little interview and he sent
him on his way, and he closed out his interview
like this. Again, this is Scott talking to the Steph
Curry who's from the Charlotte area. So an interesting way

(01:07:57):
from the close out of his interview and then SVP
with the singer.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Always great to visit with your stuff and stay well
until the next time. A right, absolutely, and go Panthers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Good luck with that, like most coaches do and some
players do. Willie Fritz will be on the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross Weekly usually close it out with go Koog's.
You know he decided Steph go go Panthers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Why did he say, go Warriors?

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Scott said, good luck with that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Yeah, and then he laughed at him, laughed.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
That was his laugh at the end.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Yeah, well it should because they're terrible and climbing the charts.
About to get the number one pick in the draft
so they can replace the guy they just took, which, by.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
The way, if they don't have to draft a quarterback,
I'm not saying they should keep him. I'm saying if
there isn't one, then don't pick one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
No, that's a good because then you're back where you
started with the guy that you have right now. I
just maybe he'll shock all of us and come out
there and and perform well because he's had this Like
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
How though, there's obviously something is is there's a bar.
Let's say, there's only he's only going to get so high.
You've had him this long that I don't know, it
might's not seem like a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Okay, But why then?

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
Why then?

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Why was everyone and their dog telling me this was
a can't miss. Oh he's the guy you got to take.
There's no doubt about this guy. I'm like, because he
hadn't been in the NFL yet, how could you be
so sure? Then you're never sure these people were, but
that everybody I was the first miss.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
I'm not sitting here every year.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
I have been very clear. I was wrong about that
draft for one reason, not that guy. And I think
I mean, I don't remember word for word. I didn't
want any of the quarterbacks in that draft, but I don't.
I really don't think people were painting him in that
kind of picture. I was no, no, no, I mean
the positive way, like, oh no, they were the best

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you could.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Say about him. I think if I recollec correctly, was
I think he should be the number one pick. I
don't think he was ever categorized as a can't miss.
Has to be number one, definitely the best quarterback in
the draft, the next Trevor Lawrence, the next Andrew Luck.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
He was not called a generation of talent. He was
not called the a surefire thing from that Stanley he went.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
A candidate to be drafted number one with Well, but
he was first.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
He was head and shoulders above the other guys in
that class at a minimum, according to the dept. Not literally,
like your favorite topic of all. I didn't do that
on purpose, but I'm pretty happy that it happened. Yeah,
I just I couldn't believe. I'm like, how do you know?
Because you don't know, and we don't know about any
of them. You can't even like saying that. Now A

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team literally did that and had their owners say no,
we're taking him and trading a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
Yeah, not just wrong about like forget CJ, which is impossible,
I can't. But he's not good. It's not that they
picked the wrong guy. They picked a bad player, they
picked a bad quarterback. They picked the guy you can't
win with. Not like what happened with Detroit and Jacksonville.
Jacksonville did not draft the better defensive end. They drafted

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Trevon Walker. Aiden Hutchinson is better, but Walker's good. Walker's
a plus level player. There's at Leastalker going to make
Pro Bowls, correct I believe, or Pro Bowl games rosters.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
And if Aiden Hutchinson hadn't gotten his leg put on backwards,
he'd still be leading the league in sacked right now.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
Well, there's our segue into football for the next piece
of say.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
What my team is not leading the league in any
category other than disappointment. Jerry has this thing he does
now where he goes on his weekly radio show and
just steps on it, steps in it every single week.
The firing threats this week, well he did double down
on that. Okay, yeah, just to be sure or just
to be clear, he did. Well, let me take that back.

(01:11:58):
He addressed it. What he doubled down on and that's
what I want to get to here was something that
really is a hindsight is twenty twenty thing even for
the NFL. This is I mean, come on, I would
have liked the Texans to have looked at Derrick Henry

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in light of what we've seen, but I have to
be honest. I was like, he's gonna go to Baltimore
for his career, and just like Steve mcair did, that's
what Titans players who are awesome with the Titans do
they go to Baltimore and they go to the playoffs,
but nothing ever really significant comes of it, and then
they retire soon after. That's what I thought what happened.
Not I'm gonna run all over every team every week,

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and oh, by the way, I'm doing this with Lamar
Jackson as my quarterback, and everybody is terrified, and they
might actually mess around and win the Super Bowl this year.
Because I'm gonna tell you right now, if the Ravens
and the Chiefs were playing Ton eight for the Super Bowl,
I'm putting a ton of money on the Ravens, not
even a question, and they would actually he probably backed
me up on that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
They would.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
They would pay it off because that's how good they've been,
even with Jerry sod blemishes on their record.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
Number one in the NFL and yards per carry, Derrick
Henry number two in the NFL and yards per carry.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Lamar Jackson, Yeah, that's his number three. Joe Mixon, I'm
just kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
Joe Mixon is he's got to have a pretty good
He's tied for tenth only because he.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Hasn't played for four years.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Carrey's okay, it would have to be even better in
those games.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
But anyways, going back to this, he was asked about
Derrick Henry, and again, I would have preferred for being honest.
We get our way, nothing happens the way it did.
Saquon Barkley's a Texan. I think Saquon probably would have
liked that. Wait, one hundred and seventy five yards. Last week,
they got Joe Mixon. He's been great when he's been
out there. Whatever. Derrick Henry has been fantastic for a

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team that looked like it just kind of needed a
missing piece to get them over the hump, at least
on the offensive side, even though Lamar was the MVP
last year. So Jerry was asked about the fact that, hey,
you remember that time where you guys needed running back
help and you didn't sign him, and he basically doubled
down on his excuse for not signing Derrick Henry.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Derrick Henry is having a career year. I don't know
if he'd be having that career year in our situation.
And that's really something you really do have to look at,
because if he had not had as many carriers as
our running backs have had, then he certainly probably wouldn't
have attained the level of impact he's having.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
I mean, it's easy to kind of pile on now
because of what's going on with the Cowboys, and it's
far more than just oh, you didn't sign Derrick Henry
but he couldn't fit this way. I don't think he
would hurt the Cowboys right now. I think he would
take some pressure off of Dak Prescott and just I

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think it would be a fantastic signing if you're the
Dallas Cowboys. Will continue when we come back.

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Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Apologies for that last segment ending a little abruptly, but basically,
Jerry Jones continues to make excuses in I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Well, what he said is actually true, but it's a
terrible thing to say.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Well, that's why I mean he's I guess that he.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Is in the ideal situation to make every team that
didn't sign him look bad on the surface, But Jerry's
actually right put put Derrick Henry here where their free
agent signing at running back has been awesome. Put Derrick
Henry in Philadelphia where they're free Joe Mixon was traded
for my apologies, it's the same thing Barkley was signed

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as a free agent. He would not be doing this
on those teams. He wont to do what he's doing
on any team. He wasn't doing it anymore on the
team he was currently on, because there's no way that
other teams would be respectful of the other ten players
like they.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Are invisibly the one that's under though.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Yes, but yes, the offense, the offense that they run there,
and they've they've found players pretty much every year. And
this is after this guy went down and that guy
went down, and they've moved on to this guy. Just
Dobbins and Edwards and Mitchell and now Derrick Henry, and
they've all succeeded because they're in this offense run by
Lamar Jackson. So Jerry's actually correct, but that's a terrible excuse. Okay,

(01:16:48):
So sign Derrick Henry and instead of him having eight
hundred and seventy three yards and ten touchdowns, how about
four hundred and fifty yards how about five hundred yards.
How about eighty yards a game, eighty five yards a
game ninety instead of won twenty. How about six touchdowns
in six games instead of ten in seven or whatever.
All that's fine, but he's just totally ignoring that what

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they actually did is add one of the least successful
free agents at the running back position. Three yards per carry,
that's what Zeke's averaging. That's third worst in the entire
NFL among players that have thirty or more carries.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
That's also Zeke's carcass. That's not an excuse.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
You chose to attack free agency with this addition attacks
an interesting word. Tony Pollard was at least available, also
obviously serviceable. Well, he's the starter in Tennessee because he's
light years better than this. And even we're talking about
Elliott only because he was added. Even the Cowboys realized,
and didn't take long for them to realized, he shouldn't

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even be the guy getting any hardly any carries anymore
because the majority of them are going to doubt, well,
and they should, he's so much better than him. He's
actually he's very much like Tony Pollard. So the running
game with the change isn't horrific, but they don't even
have five hundred yards yet as a team there a
three point five yards a carry. They're awful in this

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very specific area that he's very specifically being asked about,
and that's not even really probably the biggest reason they
are where they are. It's still a bigger picture. Okay,
you didn't go get a running back, Well, you didn't
go get anything else either, and you ultimately decided, well,
I'm gonna pay the guys that helped us win in
the regular season and lose in the postseason. And now

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they're a five hundred football team. And again they're press
multiple times.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Correct, they're coming off of bye week going into a
game against admittedly a very banged up and just recently
got even more banged up forty nine ers squad. No shock,
they're on national television again. That's what's so much fun
about this is that everybody gets to enjoy it. You know,
it's on a big stage. As I should say when
the Cowboys li was like this, but yeah, you mentioned it.

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Humiliated twice. The Saints humiliated them forty four to nineteen.
A terrible football team. Well they were more healthy afiliated. Yeah,
and then they got humiliated by a very good football
team going into a bye week. It's not just that
they lost the way they did. You've got to think
about that loss for two weeks as the last time
you run the football field. And I honestly think that

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this is the point in the season where it's the
proverbial fork in the road for the Cowboys. Are they
going to like bounce back even a little or is
this just going to completely go down the toilet? And
I think that's where they're at round I don't think Again,
I've said this is not a very gray situation. All
off season. I thought the Cowboys were either going to

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run away with things in the NFC East or it
was going to be a really bad season. And honestly,
given their talent on paper and what they thought it was,
I guess even though we just got done talking about
who they didn't go after, that's three and three is awful.
It's bad considering where they thought they they were going
to be. You know, take the next step, bounce back

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from that playoff humiliation. Whatever. You committed that money to
your quarterback and it's it's not going well. It's not
even going a little well. The fact that they've got
a five hundred record is honestly a minor miracle at
this point.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
They've beaten the team quarterback by Deshaun Watson, They've beaten
the team quarterback by Daniel Jones, and they beat a
team quarterback by Justin Fields, who was taken out of
the lineup for Russell Wilson. Those are three wins. The
other side of it, we mentioned that Saints loss that's inexplicable,
but the other two losses are to the two best
quarterbacks in the NFL in twenty twenty four, Jared Goff

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and Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
Well, brock Party's not anything to sneeze at, but he's
not having a good year and he's no he's an
average quarterback in twenty twenty four, and he has no
Christian McCaffrey to throw to it. Two teams two and.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
They were one of them lost their receiving corps.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
This gone.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Brand n Ayuk's season is literally over. He's gonna go
on ir and he's got multiple knee injuries. And I
don't think Deebo Samuel is going to go from pneumonia
to the playing field, even though he has a few
extra hours because they play Sunday night, but he went
to the game sick. They had him still active, but
he was having such trouble breathing that after the game,

(01:21:22):
after he spent the entire sideline on the field, on
the sidelines and streets for the second half, then he
ended up going to the hospital and has pneumonia. So
both of those guys are out their healthiest possibly best
target is the rookie that got shot this offseason, Ricky Piersoll.
And then just because I was mentioning it last night,
Mike Evans nearly caught a second touchdown, passed the game instead.

(01:21:43):
He couldn't come down with it because he was probably
in pain as he heard his hamstring, at least enough
to have him being described as week to week. He
left the game.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Oh good, he's on my fantasy team too.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Well, he did get you a touchdown. Then after that,
at the late stages of the game they were trying
maybe foolish to come back in. They lost Chris Godwin
for the rest of the season a dislocated ankle, and
he got hurt because I think, based on the first
time I saw it, a hip drop tackle. And it's

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back in the news again. Because of it, and it
is apparently it's reportedly being looked into by the league.
I'm sure we're going to see a fine for Roquan Smith.
And it brings that same conversation back up. Earlier on
the show, I mentioned I had a question using the
word deterrent for JJ Watt and this is what it
stemmed from. One of the guys who works with Jonathan

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Jones had reported that the league is looking into it.
And you know we've talked about it before. Here's an
emphasis hip drop tackles. The officials are going to be
looking for this is a play that should be penalized.
We're gonna find players for it. They have yet to
penalize a single player the entire season for this penalty.
They have instead assessed fines after the fact in some cases.

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Joe Mixon's talked about how these finds are ridiculous. They're
so low, and you're watching other guys like Nico Collins
lead with his helmet allegedly and they're getting fined forty
thousand dollars in this play. It's not a very good
system and it certainly doesn't seem fair. And I know
it has to do with multiple offenders when you're hearing
some of those numbers. But to that tweet that Jonathan
sent out eight instances of hip drop tackles, we believe

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in zero flag so far the season, JJ responded with,
we can't even get roughing the passers calls right, which
are significantly easier to see. Identifying a hip drop tackle
in real time during the game would be extremely difficult
to do. I'll tell you what I asked him about
that when we come back. But lots of calls are
difficult to see. So how about trying to make them

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instead of saying we're not gonna try at all, because
that is what the NFL is doing this year. They
have not made a single how about if it's wrong
one time, how about it's right one time, Nap, We'll
just do nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
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Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
A team football at five here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
this is the A team always kicks off the final
hour of the program. We're obviously talking about that and
another hip drop tackle as we closed out last segment.
Another one that left a player sidelined. So I gave
you something that JJ Watt had said today about it.

(01:24:33):
He obviously gives a defensive players perspective and an analyst's perspective,
and that he now does that for CBS and their
NFL coverage. Want to get into that. A couple other
notes from the Texans Statistically speaking, a couple of interesting
things that could happen this Sunday when the Texans take
on the Colts. I'll start there. We'll get back to
the conversation about how the league is handling the illegal

(01:24:54):
band hip drop tackle that keeps happening and not handling
it isn't banned the The Texans will be going for
a sixth consecutive victory on Sunday inside the AFC South.
Last three AFC South games last year were victories two
Titans and one Colts. So far this year, they've had
two more AFC South victories, one Colts and one Jaguars.

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So in this six game streak, it would include three
games with the Colts, two with the Titans, one with
the Jags. They have only won six consecutive division games
in their team's history once before, spanning the twenty fifteen
and twenty sixteen seasons, and Joe Mixon has run for
one hundred yards. Well, he's run for one hundred yards
or more in every game he's been fully healthy for.

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He was the victim of a hip drop tackle and
the Bears game, unless didn't finish. Probably wasn't gonna get
to one hundred that day, but makes for a better
story if I spin it that way. He has run
for one hundred yards and a touchdown in three of
his four games with his new team. If he does
that again, one hundred yards and a rushing touchdown, which
would before the fourth time in his first five games

(01:26:03):
with a team, he'll do something nobody's ever done before.
No player has ever rushed for one hundred yards or
more and a touchdown in four of his first five
games with his new team. Ever, he can do that
on Sunday by repeating his feet from Week one against
the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
What uh? What kind of injuries affected any of those
other guys on that list, Because it's not it's not
the same situation. I mean, it's he had the Colts game,
and then he had again. When did he get hurt
in the in the Chicago game?

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
He had hardly carried the ball in the second half
because they weren't having success. Two carries in the third,
two carries early in the fourth, the last of which
he got hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
On why do I feel like he's got hurt earlier
in the game and then he went back produced any numbers?

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
He I take it back that that's why you think that,
because he did go back out there. He was hurt earlier,
That's why I thought, but had returned, okay, and that was.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
A big reason why he wasn't successful in addition to
the Bears defense. Okay, I'm just wondering, like, you know,
how many did you get the first five? Five contest?
Is what you said.

Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
I'm not doing it four out of five times. It's
never been done before. I don't know who the guys
who've done it in three out of four starts.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Yeah, it was just it's just odd because he has
that gap in between with the injury.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
So JJ Watt was talking about how difficult it is
to officiate that type of tackle, which I don't disagree
with in the course of a game, and I actually
had to take something out of the tweet because I'm
not verified and I can't type forever. I would not
be lis sended otherwise I had indicated in my question

(01:27:42):
back to him, is well, they actually have quote unquote
extra real time to make that call because there's usually
medical personnel on the field dealing with the player who's
been hurt by this illegal tackle. So if they want
to get together and discuss it, if they want to
have the league, let replay assist help them with that.
Not a challenge by the team, but the replay assist,

(01:28:05):
which we see all the time in NFL games, to
help them with this call to get it right. Well,
there's almost built in extra time to think how long
the delay was last night when they had to air
cast Godwin and then cart him off the field. Wasn't
quite as much time with Joe because there was right
by the Texans sideline. But I'm poking fun at because
you clearly do have the time to at least discuss it,

(01:28:28):
or have a guy throw the flag and then you
can discuss it, and then the Texans fans can throw
water bottles at you and then you can change your mind.
But for real that I didn't say to him. This
is what I did say to him. Curious is a
current is the current fine, which is what people are
getting for this tackle long after the fact. Is it
really a deterrent if the offending team is not negatively

(01:28:51):
impacted Rocan Smith hip drop tackles Chris Godwin. How were
the Ravens negatively impacted by that? They weren't. There's no
first down, there's no fifteen yards, there's nothing. There's no
mad coach. That's what I said. No flag equals no
yards lost, no automatic first down. Coach isn't mad. I'm
not saying fines don't hurt, because I know that they do.

(01:29:11):
But if it's not a negative during the game, why
would players or the coaches that they play for ask
them to stop. Why would the coach isn't going to
be mad about it. You didn't lose any yards, you
didn't give him an automatic first down. They're not coaching
you to do it. They're actually telling you please don't.
But they're not going to rip you off, your helmet off,

(01:29:32):
send you to the sideline, say we can't have this
player on the field anymore because he's costing us yards,
he's hurting our chances of winning. He's not doing any
of those things because you're not penalizing the player, thus
the team, thus making the coach mad, thus impacting the
ability to succeed by refusing to call what should be
a penalty a penalty, and in the game.

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
The other thing about that, and the other thing about
a lot of these rules, Yeah, I didn't think so
a lot of things about these rules that target no
pun intended the defensive players. How many times the answer
is zero, by the way, before I go, it's rhetorical.
How many times does a defensive player in that short

(01:30:15):
amount of split second timing even think about that kind
of stuff?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
What are they out there doing trying to make a play?
I agree, I actually I don't. I agree that they're
not trying to do that on purpose, but it has
not been a part of They're not trying to hurt
players either, by the way that I hope that it
doesn't come across that way. There's not the intention all
of them. Well, I don't think players are trying to
hurt other players with a tackle that so clearly gets

(01:30:41):
them hurt intentionally. Sometimes that I get. As hard as
it is to make the call, it's it's that much
harder probably to not do it as often some players.
Maybe you have a little bit more propensity to do it.
Certain players, you're probably not going to be able to
tackle without the extra gravity force you're creating by grabbing
a hold of them and using them to lift you

(01:31:03):
off the ground, so you swing your body underneath or
right above their legs, which they then land underneath your body.
It's the physics of it make it a more successful
way to prevent that person from staying on their feet.
But it should not be categorized as a way to
tackle people because it clearly is so tied to how

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many injuries happen because of it. That's why they want
to get rid of it. But you're not doing the
things necessary to get rid of it because you're not
penalizing the team in the game. You're not penalizing the
player in the game. Taking money away from an individual player,
I do not think is gonna deter that player. It's
gonna if it's an accident, well I'll just have another accident.
They'll find me again. It's certainly not gonna deter a

(01:31:46):
coach from doing anything about it, and it's not gonna
deter any other players. And maybe nothing will maybe a
bigger fine, maybe a much more significant fine. I know
it is. It's a they don't want to lose money.
And every time they get fined for wearing their socks
too high and you know, an offensive player for leading
with his helmet, all these things that nobody wants to
see that fifteen sixteen, forty fifty thousand dollars go away.

(01:32:12):
But it's I just don't think it's serving as a
deterrent with the low level figure it's at right now.
If they actually, if they go through all this time
of voting on it and putting it in the rules,
it well like they care.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
If they did put in a ridiculous fine whatever that
dollar figure amount is, whatever it is. There's no way
that the you know, players Association would sign off on
it or not say something, or not try to fight
it that kind of thing. So it feels like this
is another situation, and I don't know that we've ever

(01:32:43):
seen a league that has this many of this type
of situation I'm about to address. The NFL has more
situations right now here in twenty twenty four because of
what we know about CTE and head damage and all
that kind of stuff concussions that go with this game.
They have more situations. In my opinion that I don't

(01:33:04):
think they can properly address even if they try.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
I think that's a good point to make, like I
really supposed to do. It's it's not. None of this
stuff is easy because it's a game.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
So absolutely, if you're trying to get a guy to
the ground and you're trying to regulate or govern the
manner in which you do that, to me, that's actually
easier than say, hey, defensive back, I know you're going
two hundred miles per hour, but right before you use
the crown of your helmet as a weapon here, we're
gonna need you to draw back. But only do it

(01:33:35):
in that split second situation where you've been asked to
make the play. It's impossible. Uh, sometimes it is all
certain scenarios, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
I mean when you're going over the middle and wide
receiver's totally exposed and he's had his arms extended, he
don't even have time to turtle, and I mean that
in a positive way. Bring his head down. You have
the ability to not launch yourself. Not all these calls
are the same. Some guys are really doing their best,
and you can see it over and over. Get leading
with the shoulder, trying to catch them on their shoulder

(01:34:07):
and other players lead with their helmet. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
No, then there are guys that do that intentionally, But like,
what was the which texting defender? Was it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
Where?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
And I believe it was Josh Allen.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
That was sliding yet Jalen Petrie.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Yeah, Jalen Petrie at the last second, and they they
flagged him, right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
And I think the quarterback slide plays or the giving
yourself up plays because other players will do it, are
very different than DB's crashing into receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:34:30):
But they're trying to at the last second. Yes, there's
and Petrie's like what he can't stop on I know
he's a world class athlete, but even he can't stop
on that dime.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I mean where you could just do what the Niners do.
Oh my god, I'm not even gonna touch him. I'm
gonna that's Pat Mahomes. I'll back it up. You want
to tiptoe the sideline, We're not even gonna try to
push you out. We're fearful for our penalty lives.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
I never thought I would see the forty nine Ers
defense behave that way.

Speaker 4 (01:34:59):
And it's it's probably gonna end up costing somebody the
next time Mahomes does that, either he's going to get
crushed or a defender it's gonna say, I'm not gonna
let this happen again, and they're gonna do something they
shouldn't do.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
Yeah, when he's going down the sideline and you get
a shot on him, even if it's late, even if
it's illegal, well I bet he doesn't do it the
next time. It's like a guy going through a lane
against a big man, knock him down. That's what they
did to Jordan. He found other ways to adjust though.
All Right, we will continue here on a Tuesday edition
of The A Team. It's Sports Talk seven ninety Space
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The A team continues one Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
There are a couple things that we probably didn't give
as much attention to yesterday because of just circumstances, it
being a Monday after a Texans game that I think
in any other situation we probably would have. One of them,
being the the ut game. We really didn't even talk
about it until after a stand got in here for
the second segment. But Texas because of the new format,

(01:36:40):
and I'm not saying there it's it is one game,
but man, all of the if you were a Texas
fan and you had fears about a mediocre quarterback performance
going up against an elite defense, well those fears were founded,
those were realized. Whatever you want to call it, is

(01:37:01):
that enough to make you think it's just not going
to be. They just don't have it this year to
get it done, even with the amount of talent they have,
and even with the expanded playoff format. Because of one
loss isn't a death knell anymore?

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
Do you think they could have won the game under
the same circumstances that it was played. All the mistakes
that were made, all the things that happened, the amount
of points they fell behind by. I don't. My answer
is yes with a good quarterback. You mean no, I'm
not changing anything. I'm saying. Do you think that game
as it was played was winnable? And I absolutely think
that it was.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
Yeah, like missed opportunities that kind of thing. Yeah, absolutely, Georgia.
Would you like to never need to drive the field
to score on us? I mean, how short a field
do you want? We can try again, We can give
you another short field over and over and over.

Speaker 4 (01:37:46):
Again, brutal. Well, the only way we can stay in
a game like that is if we turn you over
again and again and again. We talked about Carson Beck's
propensity to throw interceptions five in his three games that
seeded it. Well, add three more to it or two
more to it with what he did this past game.
They had every chance to win, and then they came
out in the second half and clearly they got They

(01:38:08):
went four and on fourth down four times. Try making
it once, Try while getting the ball across the necessary
yardage once or twice, and again, maybe he does become
a one scorer game. Georgia scored seven points in the
second half. I know, the extreme splits and swings don't
mirror what happened in the Alabama loss for Georgia, but
the quality of their play did. They were awesome in

(01:38:30):
the first half, and they weren't very good in the
second half. They were good enough defensively to continue to
keep the Longhorns from doing anything truly productive. The Long
Horn scored twice in a sixty minute football game in
their own house. They were not the better team. They
were definitely outplayed. They were also out coached. But I
don't think anything from I mean, you're actually bringing up
the one very good point. I don't think anything from

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the game otherwise beyond the quarterback, which would have me
worried or scared or well, they can't win. The team's
absolutely good enough to win a national title. I thought
that before the game, and I certainly think it after
the game. Their issue at quarterback, the way he's been
playing this year, the way he started to play last year,
and unlike the way he played two years ago, because

(01:39:14):
it's been on a steady decline, is if things aren't perfect,
you're kinda hosed. Yeah, he didn't scramble into anything good
the entire game. He doesn't run with the football to
gain three four ten fifteen yards. Ever, so I wonder
if there is more to the oblique or if there's
more to his confidence. He kind of hates throwing the

(01:39:37):
ball with velocity, just probably a negative. It was even
written and I think somebody described it as his preference
is for the feathery, soft throws rather than trying to
burn it in there. And I don't even think he
has great arm talent to begin with, so I understand
why he likes those throws, but you gotta move away
from that every once in a while. They have more

(01:39:58):
than enough talent. I know they lost a lot of
white receivers and it for that, just that one position group.
They have perfect good wide receivers now and you're halfway
through the season, all the way through the off season,
there's no issue with being on the same page. Granted,
they lost a lot in the backfield once the season began,
with two major injuries there. But this team is where
they're currently ranked, looks about right. Well, twelve teams are

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going to the playoffs. They're going to be one of them.
They'll beat Vandy, Florida, Arkansas, and Kentucky and we'll see
what happens in the final game of the year with
the Aggies Aggie's LSU. That is our college football game
of the Week shot for our Stone Cold Locks this
week coming up on Friday. But they did so many
things wrong themselves, and I do not want to take
credit away from the game plan. Just like Sunday, the

(01:40:44):
Packers defensive game plan was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
That's what I wanted to get.

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
Georgia's defensive game plan was awesome. It wasn't quite as
exotic because they just flat out won their matchups. The
Texans got beat because they were totally conused. The long
runs got beat at least as often by simply getting worked,
pushed around, just physically beaten, more so than just oh

(01:41:10):
my god, they don't know where they're coming from. They
don't know. I have enough guys into block their offensive line,
which is probably better than they showed. They got outplayed
much more than they got I thought out schemed.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
I just you talk about the quarterback play and not
being able to move the ball, It looks there were
a lot of parallels to what we saw the very
next day in the Texans game. But unlike that, I
felt like, in other words, I felt like the Texans
weren't able to unleash what they had in their quarterback

(01:41:44):
because of what the Packers defense was doing, Whereas I
just felt like Quinn Yewers isn't that good this version
of him, however you want to say it. And arch
Manning got in there and he was chased down by
the same defense. So again credit is given to George's defense,
the best one they had faced by far.

Speaker 4 (01:42:00):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
And you can have good receivers, but if the quarterback
can't get the ball to them for whatever reason, whether
it's him or otherwise, it just doesn't It doesn't do
you any good. And that's why I would hesitate to
say they have what it takes to win a national
championship because I feel like, well, if you're even a
remotely competent defense, you can get to that quarterback and

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keep him from doing what he wants to do with
all of that talent he has to throw to.

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
I don't think it's that easy. I think George is
pretty special defense. So they are, they're not. They're They're
gonna have three playoff games probably they'll need to win.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
If they don't win the SEC two, you don't see
them in the first one, which you'd be probably won't.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
That means somebody probably either won the SEC title game,
which is possible because they're both not in first or
second place currently.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
A defense like that is so special because it makes
their I think he's an awful quarterback, to be honest
with you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
It's probably taking a bit far considering what he has been,
what he's on the ability to do at this level.
But strictly on the quarterback. Who are the other quarterbacks
that are so awesome that are in the title hunt?
And I'm not including cam Ward. I know Miami's gonna
earn the bye because they're probably finished undefeated. They're not
a good team. They can't stop anybody takes miracles every

(01:43:17):
week from Ward. I don't know he can do it
three consecutive weeks in a playoff game. I'm basically saying
he can't. So Ohio State's transfer quarterback Drew Aller, Carson
Mistake Machine Beck Dylan Gabriel, who's been extremely underwhelming with
a tremendous football team in Oregon, Well, you're going to
know how to win. So I give him credit for that,

(01:43:38):
but I'm not I don't look at him like, man,
this guy's awesome. The guys that are quarterbacks that can
win the Heisman as in their unbelievable players don't play
for a team in the National title. Hunt Ward is
one of them, Sanders is another.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
You are going down the list of reasons why this
will not be a very good draft for quarterbacks in
the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:43:58):
I mean a lot of them, anyway, How many do
you think there should be? I don't think Ward or
Sanders is necessarily going number one, but I think they're
both going in the top ten. I think have a
chance to be really good NFL quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
Sanders goes number one depending on who the team is
that gets the number one pick, and there are many.

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Candidates right now. We had a caller the other day,
I believe it was Jacob that talked about there no
way Dion's letting shoudu Or go to Cleveland. Nobody wants
to be there, And I think he makes a good point.
Do you think Dion I shouldn't even say it that
way affects the decision? Shouldure and his family just like
the Mannings did before. Elway had done it long before

(01:44:33):
that they don't want to go to a certain team,
and they make it very clear, don't waste your time.

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
Why would they want to go to Cleveland? If it
came to the teams.

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
The bottom of the standings right now are New England,
Carolina and Cleveland. Do you prefer one of them? They
all stink? Is there one that you're not gonna say?
I cannot go there? He goes to New England. He's
gotta fill those footsteps, which I do not think should
be a deterrent.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
I never do well. He's a Sanders. I don't think
he would think anything other than I'm going to shoots.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Anybody should care Drake May shouldn't care about They just
drafted Drake May. They're not drafting a quarterback. They just
happen to only have one win. Carolina's drafted their quarterback
two years ago, Bryce Young, and Cleveland clearly has an
opening for a you can play.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
Do you think sometimes though, teams get hung up on
that in that oh well, we took a guy. So
that's the that's just the ironclad, concrete reason we cannot.
If you have the number one pick and it's a
you think it's a generational talent. I know we just
got done talking about that. Why trade the one that
you have? They just did it in Arizona a couple
a few years back.

Speaker 4 (01:45:40):
So you're answering your own question. I mean, if you
feel like that, which I don't think he'll he'll be
regarded quite that high, but I should think he's good.
I mean, I definitely think he's the number one quarterback,
and I really like cam Ward, but I think Sanders
is clearly just football player. He's a football player. He's
a great quarterback. I would that would be my number
one quarterback on the board, and I'm not. I don't

(01:46:02):
know enough about the other positions. Doesn't seem like there's
anyone that has to be there's not some game several
game wreckers that are ahead of that. You're not going
to draft most positions at number one anyway, So I
think it's still a pretty good chance Sanders does end
up going number one. I don't think there's a quarterback
controversy at Texas, and Sarks made it pretty clear just
to kind of close the door on that. You know,

(01:46:22):
yours has got to play better. Yours did meet with
the media after the game. He did not meet with
the media yesterday. I what was his normal time to
visit with the media during the week. With several other players.
So I imagine tomorrow or the next day we'll hear about
maybe the reason why. But he's starting this week. They
are favored, I guess say, very good Vanderbilt team.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
Are you saying that with it? Why did you Why
did you meet that expression when you said that?

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
Because it's it should be an absolute given. They're going
to beat Vanderbilt. Who's day, it doesn't matter. Vanderbilt's awful.
That's not the case anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
Yeah, that's the problem this year.

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Rockets five thirty means in case you missed it. In
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(01:48:09):
November tewod over TDECU. So a chance to win those
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They had a spirited match up a year ago. I
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(01:48:29):
pair of tickets to that game throughout the rest of
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this final segment, what are the items we need some
time spent on?

Speaker 9 (01:48:39):
Oh Man, We start off with college football. Two straight
segments of college football. Congratulations to SEC legend Vince younga
he has been named the member of the twenty twenty
four SEC Legends Class for Texas. Barry Switzer, another SEC
legend named for Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
Right, this is again honoring noted Tennessee Titan legend Bruce Matthews.
It's the same thing. I don't understand why they do it.
I get the team is now there, so if he's
a legend for that team, I get that. I get
it from that standpoint. He's not an SEC legend. He

(01:49:17):
didn't play football in the SEC. Ever, Barry didn't coach
football in the SE. Just it's stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:49:25):
Which former Houston Texan is also being honored as a
member of the twenty twenty four SEC Legends Class. Is
he a fake SEC legend or a real one? He
played in the SEC? His football for the college then
and now was an SEC participants. Arian Foster not from Tennessee.
Tennessee's rep is Eric Barry Jonathan's back, not South Carolina's rep.

(01:49:49):
That's Corey Miller not j Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
What positions you play?

Speaker 4 (01:49:52):
He slings the rock.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
And he's a legend.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
He's being honored as a legend. Yes, say he was
a Texans legend. He was a college football legend at
this particular school enough of.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
One had so many quarterbacks over the years.

Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
Not that many from the SEC.

Speaker 9 (01:50:10):
Yeah, that's why you're gonna say it's going to anger me.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:50:14):
He has played in a super Bowl obviously, not for Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
Alabama.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
Not Alabama, that's Barry.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
I have no clue. Rex Grossman, Oh my gosh, he's
played in a super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
He actually has really played Darin quarterback in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
Yeah, he wasn't just a snap.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
Chase Daniel Missouri, Vince Young, Luke Jacob from Texas, A
and m some of the Who's OU's legend for the SEC.
Barry Switzer.

Speaker 9 (01:50:46):
A player jokel actually played in the SEC, though, so they.

Speaker 4 (01:50:51):
Finally mentioning the names of the players. I'm not trying
to diss anybody who was basically just an OU Texas.
You are trying to diss somebody I wanted to on
this show. Probably are aware of Ken Hamlin, Arkansas's representative.
You are the resident control of our program, clearly not me.
I don't What are you going to do have an
SEC legend class and not have a member from each

(01:51:11):
member of the SEC?

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Yes, why because they didn't play in the conference. No problem,
with it from this guy?

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
What else?

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
All?

Speaker 4 (01:51:19):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:51:19):
So Alex Rodriguez, the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves
and WNBA's links could be a reality. He along with
Mark Lore, have nine hundred and forty million dollars in
a bank account ready to go if indeed it is
approved for them to become a majority owners. But the
problem is Taylor, Glenn Taylor, the majority owner right now,

(01:51:41):
does not want to sell the team. So they're heading
the arbitration, which is going to be next week. Then
it would need to be approved by the NBA Board
of Governors for the full ownership take place. They would
be approved. This has been a long running issue. It
seemed like they essentially had control of the team headed
their way with their previous agreement, and Taylor basically just said, nah,

(01:52:03):
just kind of changed my mind.

Speaker 4 (01:52:04):
We're going to do the something different. He waffled, yep.
And now they're saying, well, I thought we were already
in the process of buying the team, and now we
have even more money to make sure we can take
it from you. It'll get settled. I think it will
get settled in the favorite new owners.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Quite honestly, the current Timberwolves brass Taylor included. Sits around
and they say to themselves, do we really want our
team to be owned by a rod.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
I think they actually sit around and say, so, I
owned the team when we had no chance to win anything.
Why would I sell the team when we have a
chance to win something, when I can just sit here
watch us win, and then very shortly thereafter probably sell
it for even more.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
I hesitate to say this because it does feel like
it's a wide open west. I just I just don't
envision a world, especially now after the trade. I don't
envision a world where the Timberwolves win anything. How this grew.
I love Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
And that's why. That's That's as simple as it is
for me. Anthony Edwards is on your team. Do you
have a chance?

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
But the team around him got worse this offseason. In
my opinion, If Julius Randall stays healthy, great, He's still
a poor man's Karl Anthony Towns from his standpoint of
the numbers he brings to the to the floor.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
And I mean, maybe they think is a better fit
next to Rudy or next to the terrible playoff Rudy.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
That's what I'm saying, I mean, that's his reputation and
it's rightfully gained. Anthony Edwards is awesome. You're right, he
is a wild card when it comes to this. But
I just as even though I just got done saying
how wide open the West is, I just don't look
at that team and think, well, that's the team. But
I didn't look at the Dallas Mavericks as being the
finalist last year.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
That's for sure. If you hadn't thought to say Dallas,
you probably think, yeah, Denver's good, Minnesota's good, and Okay,
see is good. Yeah, there's a lot of good teams there,
and I don't even know that you would have thought
to say, oh, yeah, and the defending Western Conference champion
Dallas Maverick.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
Because I look at them that way and I don't
think they're going to do anything this year past the
second round. If that, I also think that unfortunately Oklahoma
City is going to surprise a lot of people and
probably come out of the West this.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
Year finish first again as a surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
Well, they'll actually, you know, follow through on what they've
accomplished in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
It was Wolves MAVs in the Western Conference finals a
year ago, when the Wolves got there by eliminating the Nuggets.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
Nineteen nineties NBA fan would never believe that. You know,
the conference finals were in the West, the Timberwolves and
the Mavericks. Those teams sucked in the early nineties.

Speaker 4 (01:54:35):
Twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
You'd hope you'd be able to figure out, but i've
I mean, but for the most part until Cuban. I
don't even say that. Forget Cuban, until they drafted Dirt
Novitzky because they traded Robert Trailer for him to the
stupid Bucks. At the time, the Mavericks would have still
been languishing, just like the Minnesota Timberwolves did for most
of their existence, even when they had KG. So he

(01:54:58):
was putting up big numbers.

Speaker 4 (01:54:59):
Immediately after the nineties. They were fine right when they
got Dirk to open up the century basically, yeah, well
they were.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
That was twenty five years ago. He's been good for
twenty plus years. Well he played for twenty of those.
I know they were competitive. They weren't good all those years.
They were just competitive. They weren't a dog a doormat
like they were for most of the nineties.

Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
And a lot of playoff teams, but a lot of
first route exits. It's fair to say, what else do
we have? All right, real quick?

Speaker 9 (01:55:24):
Aaron Rodgers' weekly appearance on your favorite show, Pat McAfee show.
He thinks he has an idea of what the Jets
problem is. They're playing too angry, They're not enjoying the
game enough.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
Awesome, Like, I don't even know what is he talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:55:42):
Running his mouth?

Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
He's on a weekly show. This is the same thing
with Jerry. We can't here's the problem here on shows
and then say, oh, he's just running what do you
want him to do? They're on a radio show. This
is what happens people talk ic. I just think that's
a well, kind of a nonsense state. We're not having
fun because you're losing, right, that's they're not having fun
because you're going out there well and you're happy with football.

(01:56:04):
You're leaving games unhappy because you got out played five
times already.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
You're not that good anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
He hasn't been as bad as people want him to be.
Want to pretend like he's been, but he's nowhere near
what he used to be. He's good.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
Avante Adams is about to find that out the hard way.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
He is he's got a much better quarterback, now, much
better quarterback than what's left in uh Raiderville. He'll be fine.

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if you're listening. Earlier on the show, we were talking
about the hip drop tackle and the fact that I
reached out to a very prominent former athlete on the
X platform since he had made a comment about the

(01:58:03):
hip drop tackle and making officials make that call, call
that penalty during games and how difficult it was, and
I mentioned that I responded to his post. He has
not responded. Who is that very famous former athlete. This
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(01:58:23):
the show, probably the easiest one. You're right, probably in
the history of the show we've been doing. You're very
very familiar with him. He has a very large following
and we talk about him every now and then. We
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Speaker 3 (01:58:36):
I just wanted to give one more.

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
Who is that player? I mean, I bet if you
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those hundred, you'd probably get it right.

Speaker 3 (01:58:44):
Also, Mike Florio gets very very sensitive whenever his name comes.

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(01:59:08):
talk a little bit about what's going on in the
college football landscape. I assume based on that note, what's
going on? Thomas?

Speaker 8 (01:59:15):
Hey, how are you guys today?

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Man? Great?

Speaker 8 (01:59:18):
I appreciate getting me in there. Hey, do I get
to take a shaded answering the question?

Speaker 4 (01:59:25):
We'll put you on hold and yes, the answer is yes,
you can answer that on hold.

Speaker 8 (01:59:30):
Okay, I probably don't know the answer anyway. It's kind
of the long question, man, you know, Just so give
you a preface here Man, I'm sec you know, been
watching football sixty plus years old. I've seen how the
playoffs has changed over the years. You know, never been
a fan of preseason rankings in college because back during
the day, you know, you ranked high, it was better

(01:59:50):
to lose early than lose late, because you lose late,
you lose a game, you fall out of the picture.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:59:56):
So my question is this, you know, with the twelve
teams now, you know, looking at the playoffs, I'm looking
at how this week's ranking came out. You know, nothing
against Texas, they lost to Georgia. You know, they dropped
back to number five, you know, just ahead of University
of Miami undefeated. You know, there's talk about possibly Alabama

(02:00:17):
getting in there even.

Speaker 5 (02:00:18):
With the two losses.

Speaker 8 (02:00:20):
How do you guys feel about that?

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Man?

Speaker 8 (02:00:21):
I mean, are they just trying to position what they
feel are the best twelve teams in college football for
the playoffs without really you know, knocking any of those
twelve teams outside of that top twelve.

Speaker 4 (02:00:35):
It's going to be interesting because this really comes down
to the top eleven teams and the one other automatic team,
especially since Miami at least fits in there, they get
an automatic bid. And an off week, we'll call it
Iowa State, the current leader in the Big Twelve, they
would be in that same spot, although BYU was also
seven or h. Those are two of the spots winner
the SEC winner of the Big Ten. Those teams are one, two, three,

(02:00:57):
and four the eight at large spots. That one caveat
to the team outside the Power five that finishes that high,
which I hope from a football standpoint is Boise State,
because I would like to see at least one game
of them against somebody that made the playoffs. The Big
Ten and the SEC are gonna fill up pretty much

(02:01:20):
the rest of the spots. I don't even think two
Big twelve teams are getting in. I think BYU or Ohio,
Iowa State gets in. Notre Dame clearly has an opportunity
to be a part of this also, and they'll force
them in. But there's a reason why these teams are
ranked where they are. And if we can, just like you,
you watch the games, I think you have pretty good
understanding who's good and who's not and not so do

(02:01:40):
why so all three of us, like these are the
best teams and they're going to get in, Like I'm
not sure that two ACC team gets in, get in.
Although I think right now Clemson in Miami or two
of the best eleven teams in the country.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
Well, this is what we thought was gonna happen when
they expanded it. It's just you know, basically giving your
argument further down the rankings. In other words, I'm trying
to phrase this properly, but you're just to me. You're
arguing about lower ranked teams at the end of the
day getting in.

Speaker 4 (02:02:13):
Yeah, the argument last year over a Florida State undefeated
team and an Alabama or a Georgia team that was
undefeated going into the title game that a lot of
teams don't have to play, which they then lost, and
so they went all the way from being the best
team in the country that nobody could touch to yeah,
your fifth stay home. That was different than this year
when they're telling ten and two Alabama, nine and three Alabama.

(02:02:36):
You know ten and two Indiana, you're not one of
the top twelve or eleven plus one teams, and you
got to say fail.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
You're to swallow. I guess for those fan base as well,
they got a point.

Speaker 4 (02:02:45):
Instead of Georgia's season being ruined by an awesome team
one Saturday afternoon. They're saying, well, you had two chances.
You didn't win two games. A one lost team's getting
in and they're probably not gonna be that many of
them left, but the top of the Big ten and
the top of the SEC will be the majority of
what is in the posting. Like Texas A and M

(02:03:06):
is only fourteenth right now. They have a very very
likely path to getting into the championships or the playoffs
starts this week. They have to win their game against LSU.
I think I don't think they can lose then and
win out and still get in, but they will be
one of the maybe the last team out, if that's
what happens.

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
I was texting with my stepdaughter, like in the waning
moments of the game on Saturday, because she doesn't care
about football until now on any level. She just hasn't.
But now you know, she's all in because she's at
UT and she's you know, we're gonna lose this game,
and I was trying to explain to her. I said, well,
you're lucky that you go to school there under these

(02:03:46):
circumstances at this point, because how long has it even
been around, I mean, the playoff itself format. This format's
like two years old. This is your one or your one,
Yeah so, but the playoff in general hasn't even been
around that lines like if you lost this game ten
years ago, even your season's basically over for as far
as getting a chance at a championships. Just no, there's

(02:04:08):
no way. There's gonna be an undefeated team and another
undefeated team in all likelihood and you're out. You know so,
I was trying to explain to her without any sort
of like, she has no context, no history, She's you know.

Speaker 4 (02:04:21):
A lot of games still against one another in these
conferences we keep talking about. But there's still six teams
in the SEC with only one loss on the season,
and none of them are Alabama, who has two losses.
They're not out of it yet. Who matches up in
the title game is going to have a lot to
say about who gets in.

Speaker 3 (02:04:37):
I wonder how many two loss teams we're gonna have
in the tournament when all of a sudden done ten.

Speaker 4 (02:04:46):
I mean, I don't know. I don't know that there's
going to be an undefeated team when we get there.

Speaker 3 (02:04:51):
I guess that's fair to say.

Speaker 4 (02:04:52):
I just like Hot State has these conference title games
are what really I think eliminated like what happened to
Georgia last year. But we appreciate you getting us on
that road a little bit today, Thomas. As the season continues,
I'm sure we will revisit many many times. As the
week progresses, we'll talk about some of the other games
that matter this weekend. Penn State going to Wisconsin is
one of them, and obviously our college game of the

(02:05:13):
week for the Stone Cold locks with the Aggies and
at LSU. But that will do it for us here
on today's edition of The A Team. Back at it
tomorrow at three o'clock.

Speaker 5 (02:05:25):
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