Texans On A Hump Day? So, What's Happening In Ravens Land!

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

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By Earl.

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Nolan, vaulted by the magnificent roller coaster ride that is
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Is Talking your Teams.

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Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A teams.

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It is the A team Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
It's a Wednesday edition of the program, as we get
you into yet another day of wex talking sports and
me sidetracking him and Cole laughing at all, among other
things that we will do here for the next four hours.
Texans getting back to work, getting ready for No not
Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Why is this even a thing?

Speaker 5 (01:15):
By the way, I heard Matt and Ross talking about
the fact that Ian Rappaport was saying he's gonna try
and play this week.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
He's not playing this week. I don't care what anybody says.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
You don't talk about I guess the reason Ian Rapaport's
and this was audio they played of him said what
he said, he goes, I don't know where that two
to three weeks came from.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
That was how he phrased it. I don't know where
the two to three weeks he might basically saying, hey,
Baltimore Son, you suck. Yeah, yeah, well that's it. That's
all he was doing. But why because he's not working
for the Baltimore Sun. Because he believes he has information
from inside the team that says they haven't ruled him
out yet, which they obviously have not. They hadn't even
practiced at that time. They have now and reports out

(01:56):
of Baltimore will be a little bit more updated. The
actual injury report will indicate where things stand today. There's
no and and because of their schedule, like saying he's
out two to three weeks, they only have two games
in the next three weeks is part of it. But
until a team or Friday comes, he's not gonna be
They're not gonna say he's out very very very very
earliest Friday's injury report, if he's listed out, will be

(02:20):
the first time we know he's out. And even it
doesn't even have to be just list him as questionable
and then run through the whole weekend and then ten
thirty on Sunday rolls around. You make him an active Yeah,
that's that's I mean the right.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, you gotta bet your mortgage on him playing this weekend.
You're going with he's not playing.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, I would bet on that because that makes more
sense to the long term future, because hamstring injuries are
obviously some of the most difficult to get healthy from,
and they become more difficult to get healthy from when
you don't take time off to get healthy from them.
You mean, it's not like he can go there he
Petis's doctor and go get PRP treatment and get better

(02:58):
like he did is Lamar married. I don't believe.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
So.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
I was gonna say the only thing that was missing
from that delivery was you mixing in a family member's
name to say that that's Lamar's filling the blank his brother.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I don't know. I don't know his family as well
as I should, considering he has gone the James Harden
route with his agency being that it was his mom. Oh,
I didn't know that. Really. James has done both. He's
had agents that were certified by the league, and I
think Lamar has at times also, But his mom did
some of that work for him too, better than his
uncle Dennis Well. I mean, look at the two of them.

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Have they made a ton of money and have they
essentially kind? I mean the last couple of years. Maybe
you could question should he have done this or should
he have believed the general manager? Maybe maybe not, Maybe
there's a little bit more money for him to have earned.
But the path that he's taken and that's his choice.
And Lamar Jackson for all the bluster and you know,

(03:54):
should he be back and why isn't he playing and
why haven't they signed him? Well they signed him and
he became the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. For
the five minutes it lasted, he's done just fine. Yeah,
and he's really really good. All that matters is whether
I mean it's it's not always this way. It's definitely
this way though that Texans can lose to Cooper Rush
for sure, But there's very, very few quarterback situations in

(04:15):
the league that make like if Mitch Trubisky was starting
this week for the Bills, it would be very comparable.
Mitch Trubisky is a legitimate NFL backup quarterback. He's capable
of being a top fifty NFL quarterback. Well, he's replacing
the first or second best quarterback who's also awesome at
running the football and extending plays, and he's not. That's
the Cooper Rush replacing car Jackson situation. He could throw

(04:36):
the ball, he can complete passes, he can take the
team down the field, but he's also facing hopefully hopefully
a fully intact Texans defense, and no word yet from
the Texans on the why, but Dimico Ryans will meet
with the media here in the next few minutes. First
practice of the week, just wrapping up, or will wrap
up in the next few minutes. So I was over
there a little bit earlier and two of their defensive

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linemen were not practicing fully thought of was one of them,
and Will Anderson Junior was the other. And so that
is at least noteworthy to see how rest day he
wasn't out there when we were out there could be
an explanation number of different things. He took what I
believe was every desired rep in the game on Sunday.
I don't believe he stepped off the field due to

(05:18):
injury at any point in time, so I would say
he finished the game. I don't know if he finished
the game healthy, but I do believe he finished the game.
That would be a pretty significant situation if it were
anything more than that. So hopefully we'll find out a
little bit beyond that, and I want to explain a
little more. I've been saying it since I watched him
in the first game and haven't had to change it
watching him through four games. There definitely aren't three edge

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rushers playing better than Will Anderson Junior this year. There
might only be two, there might only be one, there
might be none. He has done as much and has
been as disruptive and has got the statistics beyond the
how many sacks does he have that will suggest there's
nobody doing it better than he is right now in
the league. That would be a significant change to the

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Texas defense if we weren't either out there or at
full strength. His third year has been, just from a
first four games perspective, about as much as you could
have ever hoped for Sting. Obviously, not obviously, but Sting
also was not practicing when we were out there today.
But that's very much expected as he tries to get
to game day each week. They'll have the off week
next week, and he too, took every snap before the

(06:25):
defensive reserves took the field for the final few of them,
so hopefully that will be the case again.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, I'm not worried about that about him because after
I saw him play well, after we saw him listed
as questionable on Friday's injury report, and then he played,
and then he a'll be an opportunistic but still had
to be there and still had to be out there
to make it interception.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm not sure yet because I haven't done the full
necessary research that requires to make this statement. But there's
a real good chance that the worst pass catching group
in the NFL as a talent, not that their hands
are bad, is the one that they just faced. That
the talent level of what the Tennessee Titans bring to
the field on Sundays from a route runners and pass

(07:08):
catchers and wideouts and tight ends, et cetera, it's about
as low as it can be. And so Sting just
played somebody and stayed on his side of the field
with him and just went through the afternoon without a
care in the world. He did his job. The guy
wasn't opened very often much of the day. It was
Ridley some of the day with somebody else. And that's that.
It won't quite be the same with Baltimore. And I

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don't think Baltimore's unreal, but if likely, it gets closer
to full strength and Andrews is out there, and Bateman
is out there, and de Hop is out there, and
their best receivers A Flowers is out there. Even with
Cooper Rush. It's a much much more potent, dangerous, playmaking
caliber group than the one he got to start to
get healthy against last week against Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yes, but going again, going back to what we were
talking about with with Lamar, and you made the comparison
if like Josh Allen was missing, what that inevitably ends
up coming down to is how good is the team
around you? And I know that sounds on the surface
like an obvious statement.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
But like it really it.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Like say Derrick Henry hadn't had the fumble Rooskies that
he had already, Well, whoever is back there to turn
around and hand the ball to him, you'd still have
the you know that guy to hand the ball to,
just like you.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Would with Cook for Buffalo, just like you would Like.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
I remember back in the day, they didn't I'm not
gonna say they didn't miss a beat because it wasn't
quite the same, But I mean, I remember Jason Garrett.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
This canna age me quite a bit.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I remember Jason Garrett filling in for several games for
Troy Aikman during the the glory years of the Cowboys,
and they didn't miss a beat. But that's because he
had him at Smith to hand the ball to. That's
because he had offensive linemen that averaged three hundred and
fifty pounds, because he had you know, Charles Haley and
Deon Sanders and guys like that on the defensive side
of things. So you know, the difference being this week,

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Baltie doesn't have that kind of defense.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Far from it. It's the exact opposite. It's lopsided on
both sides. Yes, the Baltimore defense is terrible, and the
Texans offense is also terrible. The Baltimore offense is much
much better and much more higher scoring and ranks fairly
highly in that regard in the NFL. Well, so does
the Texans defense, in fact, number one, the hardest team
to score against in the NFL, the fewest points allowed
in the season, and even more so, to drive that

(09:23):
point home, the fewest points allowed per drive this season,
also by a significant margin. So yeah, there are a
lot of things in their favor. And I'll put this
together and mention it at the top of the next segment.
A very interesting note on the backfield work for these
two teams over the last three weeks. I think our
listeners and my co hosts will find it very interesting

(09:43):
about that topic. You're bringing up who's in the backfield
and the talent around them. So I'll have that for
you next segment.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
All right, So we have some other things to get
today obviously, and you mentioned we're gonna hear from Demiko Ryans,
so whenever we get some reaction from the Texans head coach,
we'll obviously pass that along as well.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
Well.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Alex Bregman still owns the New York Yankees. I made
it a point yesterday to say I don't care once
the Astros are out, and I don't you should.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
This is fun. Fun Yankees melting down is fun. So
that's the first thing you're gonna do. Because the Mariners
aren't playing it, so watching the Yankees and all the
Yankee people we love to watch meltdown. Their announcers are
going to melt down, even though they're obviously not calling
the games. They have Twitter or ex platform personas, so
we'll see it there. Nick Taturo probably makes appearance on

(10:34):
today's show because I don't play again until tonight. So
his Game one observations will we'll provide you with those,
and there are some good ones. Aaron Boone doing Aaron
Boone things. These are all things we like. So that's
what we get this week, and then this weekend we
start to get it doesn't really matter what happens in
the rest of the playoffs, as long as one thing happens,
absolutely and positively like the vindictiveness, the pettiness. I'm like,

(10:58):
not really usually ever hear for it, but they did that.
They are making it impossible to not want that to happen. Oh,
it looks like this is gonna happen. Well, how's your
postseason going, Astros? You guys couldn't even make it this year.
You're talking mess Mariners fans on social media, You're talking
mess on your television programs. Why I mean, it might

(11:21):
work out for them. They might win three consecutive series
and win their first ever World Series in their first
ever World Series. They might not, or just maybe, just maybe.
I didn't get a chance to make my predictions yesterday.
They are unchanged and I'm not taking any liberties with
the results that came in yesterday and what we're watching
already today. I'll tell you this about them. The two

(11:44):
teams that probably many probably right there at the top
of the heap, the Phillies, or excuse me, the Brewers
with the best record, and the Mariners, who have the
best odds. I'll not be picking either one of them
to win the World Series because neither of them will. No,
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
And I know I made jokes about the Dodgers having
a handful of victories more than the Astros after spending
well more than a handful of dollars than the Astros
did this year. Shoho tanis like the great equalizer.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
I mean, how many runs would they have scored without him?

Speaker 8 (12:23):
Eight?

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, but that first home run especially, it sets the tone.
There's no question about it. The ace, the absolute ace,
and one of the best pitchers in the National League
is on the mound. It worked out well for Cincinnati
to make the playoffs and still have that going for
them with Hunter Green out there, and he just smashes it.
Not oh, you know, a wall scraper, A no doubter,
although I don't know how the person on the call didn't. Okay,

(12:47):
it's going dude. He absolutely rushed it. And then he
crushed the other one even more. He hit two. Ta
Oscar hit two, and even with their bullpen melting down
like they always do, they got away with it because
they had ten runs on the boarding them the world
win the World Series either though, no I am not either.
So that's two of the National League teams. You now
know I am not picking. We'll get to that a
little bit later.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Obviously, keep you updated on the hinch led squad, who's
looking to close out the Guardians this afternoon. Their situation.
The other NL game that now is starting today between
the Padres and the Cubs. Our signature segment it is Wednesday,
BS will come your way football at five, of course,
an hour, about twenty minutes out from best of X
here on a Wednesday edition of the eighteen.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven nineteen.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
Did you all see this and we should be.

Speaker 9 (13:37):
Putting out between five and fifteen posts agay.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media. History repeats itself type banguels succeed.

Speaker 9 (13:48):
Never doubt that you're the one two person.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
No one will the league, yo, the best. Nothing's gonna
have a top, you know, yo, the best post ever
seen day, and you're the best of it, breaking.

Speaker 10 (14:06):
The entire into.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
All right, Bester Becks is underway for the first day
of October, And isn't it appropriate that as the Rockets
are now less than a week away from their first
preseason game, which.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
I don't know how much Kevin Durant is gonna play,
if at all, during the preseason, Like, do you think
he gets out there for a significant amount of minutes
at all? Glad you added the word significance, so now
I can answer no. So they're playing four games, two
a week for the two weeks they have preseason play
of rest time in between, so no real concern there. Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday,
Thursday games have him no minutes at all into the

(14:49):
regular season. Probably not a big deal for Kevin Durant.
But same thing if I said the opposite, get him
a little bit of run in a game in the
first week, get him a little bit of run in
the game in the in the second week, that also
seems reasonable. I don't think there's a I mean, he's
practicing a lot more than he would be playing. If
I mean, if he practices zero minutes and he plays

(15:10):
zero minutes, you can guarantee that he's healthy for the opener,
but he kind of needs to play basketball in order
to be ready for the opener. So I don't think
there's too much risk in doing that because that's all
you really care about. And a little bit of time
with this new team, in the new system, all that
stuff in a game. I'll be at a preseason game with
much lower intensity. I could see it, but significant minutes

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probably not.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
It took seven teams, thirty seven years and seventeen completed
seasons before Kevin Durant finally put on Rockets gear for
the first time on Monday over at Media Day, and.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Everybody's looking forward to it. It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
A lot of people ranking it as the best move
of the offseason for any NBA team, And it's all
great here in Houston right even even though Fred van Vliet.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Is lost for the year.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
That's about the only black cloud on the whole situation
right now, And so he's getting some run being as
how he's Kevin Durant. And then now he's on a
brand new team and he's doing some interviews and one
of those was with Kay Adams. Now, Kay Adams is
how would you describe her as far as just the

(16:24):
whole package.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Extremely popular and nobody gets better guests, and she does
a phenomenal job with them because they're always entertaining and
there's one last thing you're forgetting. She's so sweetie. That's
one way to say it. Easy on the eyes. There
you go. Larby shows come from her kitchen, which is
one of the home bases for her. A lot of them,
like the Kevin Durant Show the other day, from a

(16:48):
hotel room because she's obviously on site. Visited the Texans
at the Greenbrier. KD did his interview with her from
inside the Toyotoa Center. You can see him in the
Rockets facilities there. But she had what I thought was
a pretty good path to a big time broadcasting career.
I was shocked that the NFL Network and that didn't

(17:11):
go for much much longer. And I think their show,
while it's still very good, I think it's much different
and not as good without her Water and down Well,
it's just it's not what it was because and it's honestly,
it's not because of their analysts, it's not because of
their former players. It is absolutely because of her and
she went out on her own and created her own
podcast platform, and for those that to take in a

(17:35):
lot of what super Bowl Radio row and the week
before super Bowl coverages, that's probably when you can see it.
At her height of she is treated like the NFL network,
like a CBS, NBC, every major broadcast outlet. Dan Patrick Show.
She's as big a deal as all around for the NFL,
absolutely royalty, and she has done enough and has enough

(17:58):
really good people working with her on her show to
become she's a huge, huge deal, and I'm sure she
is doing incredibly well, and she also still has her
foot inside the NFL. I think she'll be back this
year on the Netflix Games as she was a year ago.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
She is one of those personalities, whether it's sports or
media in general, film what she is what I like
to call and I use this term a lot, but
not I use it sparingly, even though I use the
term consistently. She's what I like to call attainable hot.
You don't actually have a chance to get her, but
she looks like you do, because she's not just like

(18:32):
you know, developed in a.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Lab way way way back when when the current Space
City Home network before it was Root Sports and way
back when they first started, when it was CSN Houston,
I worked there and Sports Talk Live. Sports Night Live
was a regular daily hour long talk show use a
panelist of locals. Ashwood host and there usually be some guests.

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Some national guests would pop up on the show. She
was one of them. She was a national guest as
a fantasy football expert. And we're talking fifteen years ago,
twelve years ago, somewhere in that neighborhood and looks exactly
the same she was just the time. I mean she was, Yes, absolutely,
she she won. One of the things that she does,

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and I'm sure it's it's it's just a natural thing
because you see it all the time. I don't even
have to explain it. But she does get people to
talk to her. She gets them, Hey, coming on the
show now to hang out with us. Is here's our guest.
I mean Nick Cassario freaking hangs out with her when
he's on her show.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
And doesn't give her robotic answers, gives everybody else.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
The answers gained from her questions are excellent.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
That's why for you today, attainable hot. So okay, all
of that has attainable clearly she did interview me once.
I mean, should I call her? She's not When I
say attainable, it's very much tongue in cheek, and I've
said that about an.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
I know it's at okay, that's okay. Should I just
just slide in and say, hey, should I just slide in?

Speaker 10 (20:04):
Me said, you're definitely gonna yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
That they were smart, Both of the two of them
were smart. Play this up every possible opportunity, and everyone
ate it up.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Well if you ask me, And of course that's just
if you ask me. Kevin Durant is very interested, at
least on this day. He was just listen to the
two of these high schoolers flirting with each other, because
that's what it sounds like.

Speaker 11 (20:29):
And then if you come down in Houston, which I'm
expecting you to come to a game, I.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Came to a game, and you do not even you.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
Wouldn't you literally would not even like, wait, you came
to a game.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
You didn't come out, you to come out and say like,
hey you a game it was?

Speaker 12 (20:48):
And I had to find out next week on your
show that you were at my game, which is.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Crazy, Kevin.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I think I literally told you I was at the game.

Speaker 11 (20:57):
But it's all good.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
That's that's old no. I literally he said, see you tonight.

Speaker 11 (21:01):
We're moving on to the next season, and I'll see
you at one of these games in Houston.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Which game? Which game?

Speaker 10 (21:07):
We're going for a barbecue down to Texas?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
When you get out here, right, what's the spot where?
What's what feels like home? So far? I heard her
say it feels like home? Why does it feel like home?

Speaker 11 (21:17):
Because it's Texas. It's just Southern hospitality. It's just Texas.
You know what I'm saying. You're gonna see once you
get out of there. I ain't gonna keep telling you.
You just gonna have to immerse yourself in the culture
when you get down here.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Fel like for me once.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
All right, black head and he gets up and walks
off camera. But that part right there at the end,
you guys didn't maybe catch it, very subtle, very effective.
He told her that he wants her to come down
here and immerse herself in the culture that is fire Game.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Kevin Durant. I didn't even know he had that in him.
Should we go back to a previous interview, maybe next
segment or later on the show, when she asked him
if he had a finishing of would you like that
about to find out what the easy money sniper means?
He's a killer, And of course if this needs to
go well for my mental well being, because it's gone

(22:13):
so well so far, I don't even care like I care,
but I'm not deterred by Fred van Vliet's season ending injury.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
This just feels good. And when I got into the
building Monday, you were there. Maybe you felt it, maybe
you didn't. It just felt good, man. It felt like
when Chris Paul got here, and all they did when
he got here was win sixty five games and take
the Warriors to the brink before he got hurt. If
that happens again, I might throw myself in front of
a metro bus, but I don't think it will.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yeah, a lot of people, clearly, once that was posted
off our account, I have taken hold of that and
posted it themselves, though I don't think all of them
have properly captioned some of their posts. They took the interview,
they posted, they rode a headline, they put a caption up,
they wrote a story. Police come look at our site.
And one of them reads Kevin Durant slyly invites Kay
Adams to it's game and a barbecue date. What was

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sly about it? Hey, you're coming down to Houston and
we're gonna go grab barbecue after the game. Slyly because
it was an interview, I think it was delivery flat.
I mean, here we go. But doesn't everything he do doesn't?
Couldn't you describe it as sly? You mean, like when
instead he goes through the middle of the lane and
drops it in with his left hand. Yeah, I mean
everything he does kind of is on the sly on

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and off the court. Apparently again we're burying the lead
here of all of this. Kay Adams might be in town. Awesome.

Speaker 13 (23:33):
Yeah, that is all right.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
That's all. That's all for today's edition of Best of X.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
I know it's Wednesday, but it might be the best
edition of it all week, just because it starred k Adams.
Speaking of stars, is wood he marks now the Texans
Bellcow will explain and if that means a trade, another
one is on the horizon.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
All of that coming up next.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
You know what, the Texans have already made one trade
from the offensive side of the football this year.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
It was a big one. Now, offensive lineman out the
door gone yep. Took a player who wasn't on the
field and instead of go play elsewhere because you're not
playing here? And what do they get a pick that
Nick will trade five more times? It wasn't You're a
seventh was roughly a three hundred pounder. It was huge,
all right. So if I were to tell you that

(24:47):
Yahoo Sports is suggesting that there could be another one
on the horizon and it's a running back, Yeah, thank
god Yahoo came up with this. Why don't you just
say Sports Talk seven ninety came up with this? Like
I've been saying this, What is Joab? Who sports have
to say? Tell the people? Do you want the headline? You?
I cannot wait any longer. I'm going to run around

(25:07):
the room if you don't immediately spill the beans the
tea I need it.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Can we wait till we're on camera for you to
do that? Nick Chubb trade ideas he's Houston Texans running
back replace injured veteran.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
The Texans are trading a running back, that's happening, or
they're releasing a running back because there's no reason to
carry Damian Pierce anymore. I said this from the jump.
I didn't know what Joe Mixon's situation was, and it's
been awful because he's not available. I didn't think Joe
Damian Pierce could even make the team because of the numbers.
Who's gonna beat out? Who are you keeping him over?

(25:39):
You're not getting rid of what he marks. You just
draft him, Darry at that point in time, he's your
third down back, play special teams, and he's your backup kicker.
You're not getting rid of him. You just signed Nick
Chubb and you still have Joe Mixon. Damian Pierce is
getting cut or traded, but then Joe Mixon wasn't available.
So now on a weekly basis, Damian Pierce practices and
remains healthy. Then is made inactive for the game, so

(26:02):
he remains healthy because they don't need him. I can't
believe that a team like Arizona is going through running
backs like they are, and he hasn't been traded there yet.
They have each of their top two running backs on
ir Connors out for the year, and now Benson is
out from maybe four to six or six to eight
weeks after going undergoing knee surgery a couple of days
after they just played this weekend, and there are other

(26:22):
teams that could use a player. Now, Nick Chubb might
actually get the other GM to say yes, Damian Peis
is more like, well, you guys aren't using him. You
probably aren't gonna be able to keep him all year.
We're not in dire straits yet, so why don't you
just release them when we'll pick him up or something
like that. And I don't even what kind of trade
are you gonna orchestrate for a guy in the last
year of his fourth round pick contract. What are you

(26:44):
getting for him? He doesn't even play for you? Are
you getting a seventh round pick? Are you getting conditional
seventh round pick that amounts to nothing? It's there's probably
not much there. Maybe there's a little bit more Chubb
trade to Acchoir, but the Texans can't trade Nick Chubb.
Who's going to play? Are you? Are we already suggesting

(27:07):
that the Texans do what almost no team in the
NFL does, just make their one running back stay on
the field for eighty five percent of the plays, because
if he's not paired with Nick Chubb, then who's playing
with him? Now? Pierce is active and he's your backup
and has to play twenty snaps a game. Now Darry

(27:28):
is again part of the offense. Remember he's not a
part of the offense anymore. He doesn't play on offense.
He is not their third down back.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
They do strike me as odd that they just have
like a million running backs and none of them play well.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
They have four running backs, totally normal. Then they also
have two full backs, which is not something everything every
other team does. Now they only have one full back
because Johnson is on ir They make one of their
running backs inactive every week, which isn't out of the
ordinary around the NFL, but it's just you don't need
him for the game if he's not a big part
of your special teams and they don't feel like Pierce,

(28:00):
he gives them a better return man kick returner than
who they already have, Jalen Noll. Jalen also passed him
during camp, So one other thing that Pierce could do
for this team is now off the table because he's
not their primary kick returner either. They can afford to
trade a running back, no question about it. Juar Jordan's
on their practice squad. British Brooks could be your short yard.

(28:20):
You've got all sorts of options, but turning it over
completely to Woody Marx as not something I anticipate this
team doing very soon, maybe a couple weeks from now,
maybe Bell cow Baby, but he should be the primary
running back. I just don't think we're gonna We're not
about to see him Garner. I don't know. He's not

(28:40):
gonna get eighty percent of the carries. He's probably gonna
get sixty sixty five percent of the carries. He's gonna
get the heavy, heavy bulk of the pass receptions and
targets because he's just much better at it. Chubb's not
a bad receiver out of the backfield, but I think
Woody Marx is going to show everybody that he is
on the front side of the top receiving backs out
of the backfield, even as a rookie. And I should Claire.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
This actually was Yahoo is pointing to an SI article,
and it was really more what is his name?

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Matt Verder, not gonna work here anymore? Whatever, his last
name is. Whatever.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
He posted a mock trade for every team in the
NFL that should be made before the deadline, and he
had Nick Chubb being traded to the Chargers for a
conditional seventh rounder, Nick's favorite because their backup Najie Harris
tore his achilles in Week three and they just need
a reliable backup for O'Mara Hampton.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
So that was the theory. Sure, it makes some sense,
but I don't know why you want to take your
own reliable right back. Why would the Texans do this.
It's if you could get something of value. And again,
now you're probably helping the other team more than you're
helping yourselves. So I don't know that that makes it,
you know, go ahead and take it.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
They're saying Chubb specifically because he's on a one year deal.
Is why that he would be the guy who's traded.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Piers is on a one year deal. They're both expiring.
I know, but I think that goes back. I think
you already answered that question. It goes back to nobody
wants Peers, Texans only one Pierce. I'm just saying that,
but you do. I love what he marks, make it
clear what he marks. And this was long before last
week happened. He needed to play more, and slowly the

(30:16):
Texans have gotten there. It seems fast when you think
about a big picture. Hey, it's the fourth week of
the season and a guy that was unheralded and some
people thought overdrafted is already getting the most snaps in
the backfield. He did that last week. That makes it
sound pretty quick. But when you weren't very successful running
the football and your starter was already already heard, it
seemed like maybe it could have transpired a little bit
more quickly. But you're also trying to win football games,

(30:40):
and having a backfield of Chubb and Marx probably makes
you gives you a better chance to do that and protect.
Both of them are very good pass protectors. Like I
just said, both of them are very good out of
the backfield. I think they have to change very little
with how they call plays regardless of who's out there.
They're clearly different skill set backs. But I don't I
don't think the Texans are in a position to technically

(31:02):
trade their starter. Like Woody, Marx hasn't started any games yet.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Well, the last line of this article says Marx was
the fourth round selection that twenty five draft Texans probably
want to make him.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
The starting running back moving forward. But no, quite, they don't.
Probably it's happening, It's happening on Sunday against Baltimore, and
it already tech. I don't again, this is basketball stuff, man,
do you think you should start? Who cares if I finish?
That's all that matters, right what he marks played more plays,
was more productive. He's the better player. He was, He
was the number one running back last week. This is

(31:34):
all Joe Mixon wasn't on the field for the first play.
I think he'll be on the field for the first
play this week. But I know he will be asked
to do more than Nick Chubb will because he gives
him a better chance. He's a better player. So maybe
they will, maybe they won't. But trading a running back absolutely,
I think Nick Cassa should be trying to do that.
And anybody other than those two I think are easily

(31:55):
moved if they are so inclined. And we don't have
an update on Joe Mixon, huge, huge surprise. Get to
the three o'clock hour. Flip it into some more different
Texans conversations. Something very very very very specific about Woody
Mark's next.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
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Speaker 1 (32:13):
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Speaker 3 (32:24):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
A straight up three o'clock. It is the eighteen Sports
Talk seven ninety and now Space City home network.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
It's a Wednesday edition of the program. It's also the
first show in October. As the year continues to fly by.
Astros are not a part of the postseason, but the
postseason is going on, and a one to one tie
has finally been snapped in Cleveland, where they have taken
a three to one lead in the eighth inning. So
it's looking like now I'm going to say it, guaranteeing

(33:02):
that series will be tied. It's going to a third
and final game.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Yeah, one one through the first seven two in the
bottom of the eighth for Cleveland here putting together a
couple of really good at bats. A big double from
Schneman puts that third run on the board, and the
Tigers could have had a second run earlier in the
game had the bases loaded in the fourth inning and
Hobby Bayas lined a single up the middle, the runner
from first trying to get to third, the runner from second,

(33:28):
obviously trying to score runner from third had already scored.
The runner from first got thrown out at third before
the runner from second touched home plate had to go
to review because they actually called the runner at third safe,
but they reviewed it, called him out and said that
out was recorded before the run crossed the plate. So
the aggressiveness of the Tigers well cost him a run,

(33:52):
cost him a run. They would have had a two
to one lead for the last several innings, or presumably
things could change. I don't know what Cleveland would have
done different being down two one as opposed to a
one to one game, but that would have been the situation.
And they are, like you said, one out in this
inning with still a couple of runners on could extend
that lead. Padres are trying to do the same thing
the Guardians are trying to do, which is get it

(34:13):
to a third game. After losing yesterday and early on
through three innings they have a one nothing lead. I
know it's extremely important to continue doing this, so we
will oblige one more ab so far for your friend
and mine, Kyle Tucker, it was unsuccessful, he lined out
in the first inning. You just want to be mean

(34:34):
because he's no longer an astro. That's what you want
to do. No, I will do the same thing for
Alex Bregman when we get to the Nick Taturo portion
of the show, and then this weekend when we come back,
I will get to the George Springer part of the show.
There's lots of ex Astro position players in the American
League and National League playoffs, like twenty five of them
or something, twenty five of them. I feel like I

(34:55):
saw an article today that was talking about that twenty five. Yeah,
twelve teams. You think they employed twenty five former Astros? Sure,
so Miles, Joe and Georgia all in Toronto. Yeah, I
mean we already. Are you counting Will you're a Brau
and Alex in the I mean he didn't play for
the Astros, but the Astros the Astros, well, they got

(35:18):
him from the Astros in a trade. Yeah, and are
you counting Alex Cora. I don't remember if it was
like players only or if it was members of the Astros,
which would then include of course Alex. All right, well,
we'll see there's regularly different and there's drunk Glex exactly. Yeah.
We'll get to the where the things stand in the

(35:39):
other two series as we get to that. The Yankees
obviously need a win to extend their series. The Reds
need to win to extend their series. Of those two
games will go off a little bit later. We'll have
been out about an hour's worth of Yankees coverage on
the show today. You know you're home for Yankees Baseball?
Are we going to play?

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Because if we don't, absolutely okay, because if we don't
play the well we'll get this.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Like I said, the Nick Taturo portion of the show
will take place long before first pitch because we'll get
new Nick Taturo audio later on this evening when the
Yankee season ends. I love it when you say it
like that. That's good stuff right there. Don't worry though.
Next year, when the Yankees are back in the Wildcard Series,
the Worldwide Leader and everybody else that covers baseball can
once again talk about how offensively successful Aaron Judges in

(36:22):
the in the Wildcard Series. He's he got two hits
last night, so he was very successful.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
Well.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
He went into the Wildcard Series with a great history
as a Wildcard series hitter. It's his time of the
postseason to shine. As the games get bigger in magnitude
and the lights get metaphorically brighter. He is more of
a shrinking Violet. Yep, there's your baseball update for today.
No more Astros update. I don't even need to watch.

(36:49):
I know what's gonna happen, and I wasn't going to anyone.
We do have the better starting pitcher tonight, but it
doesn't mean they're going to win.

Speaker 13 (36:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
They had Garrett Cole one time too, and they didn't
win that game either. He gave up a tater to
freaking Chas McCormick. There's more recently spending on the mound
for a World Series loss. But he didn't cover first
in that game when Aaron Judge couldn't catch a football
with non Astros Garrett Cole games and I'll tell you
how they wear that Cole count. What do you mean

(37:16):
among the former Astros in the playoffs? Yes, he's on
the roster, isn't he Technically No, he is not on
their wild card. Part of the organization that's in the
playoffs is part of the organization. Yes, the semantics never
end on this show.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Speaking of which, so we talked about, you know, potentially
a trade being made with the running back room for
your Houston Texans.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
What if I were to tell you that four weeks
into the twenty twenty five campaign. On pace Guy is
loving the Texans defense and pointing to the fact that
it's it's on a collision course with history if things
keep going this way again on pace Guy, love it.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
What do we have?

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well, the all time greatest defense as far as points
allowed per game is murdering Ray Lewis's two thousand Ravens
correct acquitted allegedly.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
No, he was definitely acquitted. Now I'm saying the murder. Okay,
they never found his clothes or the knife though I
thought they weren't in a trash can or anything. Was there?
Blood was there? Bloody glove was They didn't find them?
Means which was there a hole underneath the mailbox that
they show was in a trash can? Apparently not. They
didn't find it there. I guess not what. It doesn't

(38:31):
mean that they weren't there, They just didn't find it.
There's lots of trash can. Oh, we never saw the
Louis Vuitton bag from OJ after we did Robert, we
got rid of it. We did see the Bruno shoes,
those ugly assid shoes as he called them his quote,
not mine in court, honest. Okay, So the Texans defense
akin to the Baltimore Ravens Ray Lewis led defense ten
point three points allowed per game the entire two thousand season. Like, okay,

(38:55):
and where are the Texans at right now? Much for
their download? Twelve point seven?

Speaker 13 (38:59):
Right?

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Twelve point eight? Okay, it's according to this chart. I'm
sure there's one where it says twelve point seven.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
Maybe it was for the purposes of being just behind
the two thousand and one Bears, who had twelve point
seven allowed per game. The five Bears twelve point six,
as were the six Ravens Bucks of two thousand and two.
That would be John Gruden coached Brad Johnson game managed
Super Bowl champion two thousand and two Buccaneers.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
They're twelve seven to five to be exact.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
Twelve point three are the worst, and the two thousand
Titans just behind the uh the top winner here the
two thousand Ravens. The two thousand Titans were eleven point
nine point per game defenders, so.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Over the final thirteen games they would have to probly
quick mathing it, they'd have to allow something like eight
and change, maybe nine and change to get it down
to the ten point whatever of the Ravens and you
realize how unattainable that is.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Very and again, let's face it, this sh out this
last week against a just dreadful Titan squad really did
help inflate this number, or in this case, deflate it.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Yeah, small sample size and you get to put a
zero in the math. Bingo.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
So I'm not, but it does lend itself to what
we were talking about offseason. I thought they were going
to be a top five defense, and I still do.
I think that, you know, even with so they've they've
clearly gotten one of the cupcakes out of the way
on their schedule.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
There aren't many, and they'll be back. They'll there's one more.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
But two of the cupcakes that we thought or two
of the games that we thought were going to be
against a cupcake don't appear to be on the schedule anymore.
Because I just don't think that the Colts are going
to go away. I don't think the Colts are going
to win the Super Bowl or anything, but I do
think they've got something going there until further notice.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
So the lines are not on the Texan schedule, right, Uh? Correct,
that was last But the team that's number two, three
and four are all on the Texan schedule in terms
of points per game, and the team at four is
the Colt so four games in total, and that you
have them twice. Well, if Daniel Jones gets hurt, then
you've got I know, they're flawless in their history against

(41:06):
Anthony Richardson. Well I know, but like I just sentence,
what I part of those two sentences is more ridiculous
that I said Daniel Jones with a straight face, or
that you then brought up Anthony Richardson, who was the
top five pick in the draft. How do you like
think of how things are going on? Everything's going great
here in Indianapolis. As long as Daniel Jones doesn't get hurt,

(41:28):
what's insane? But he's played well enough to warrant that.
Even their loss was obviously a game they could have
been much more in considering they essentially gave a touchdown
away with the ad Mitchell play. Granted, same thing happened
for them when the Denver Broncos committed the leverage penalty
on the sixty yard attempted field goal at the end
of the game. If they just basically put eleven players
on the field and ask them to lay down then

(41:50):
they win the game. But they asked them to play football, which,
unfortunately in their case, was a mistake. The Colts aren't
going to be quite that good. They're not going to
average better than thirty points a game this year. That's
that's not their personnel. It's just they've gotten on a
nice run. They've had some additional plays from their defense
helped the point total go up a little bit, and
all that will leaven out a little bit. The same
is probably going to happen for Houston. They had zero

(42:12):
shutouts for fourteen consecutive seasons. In order to get their
twelve point seventy five number to go down. They're probably
gonna need another one in the same season. All right,
who they shutting out?

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Let's look at the schedule now it tightens, Okay, I
mean that's by far the most logical pick of anybody left.

Speaker 13 (42:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
I'm not looking at this team though, and thinking they
should be legendary. I'm looking at this team like they
should stay where they are. Compare them to the NFL today, right,
Compare them to the rest of the defenses in the
comparable schedules. Everybody roughly is going to play the same
kind of schedule, first place or last place, there's only
a handful of games different, and then the quality of
your division. But the Texans aren't just the best this year.

(42:55):
Here's two through five. Two's allowing sixteen point eight, same
with the team they're tied with. The team at four
is averaging seventeen point eight, the team at five at
eighteen point zero. The Texans are at twelve point eight.
Twelve point seventy five rounded up, that's four points better
than anybody else. If you take every four point segment
in this list, you're gonna have eight or nine teams

(43:17):
in each group except for the one the Texans are in.
They're the only ones in it. They're significantly better. Small
sample size, you go from fifty one to what number
of the Baltimore Ravens who's scoring better than thirty a game?
Give them twenty five all all of a sudden, you're
giving up seventy six points in five games. That's a
pretty big jump for your average.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
One thing that's interesting is that all those teams I
mentioned on the list ahead of the Texans in this ranking,
not a single one of those teams finished with a
top ten scoring offense. So they're very similar to the Texans.
They're leaning on the defense because the offense just was
not getting it done, or at least couldn't carry the.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Team the way those other teams could have. You think
the Texans have a better quarterback than the Ravens did
that year? Yes, Okay, me too. Okay, No offense, coach,
keep doing what you do on the sidelines with your headset.
You're a good coach, lesser a football player. Thanks for
joining us.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
All right, Hopefully by the time we all go to
sleep tonight, Yankee season will be over.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
We'll explain next.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
What's the what's the Tom Brady line? Do your job?
I mean, if you want to give him credit for it.
Seems like it's a pretty popular line for lots of people,
but he's more popular though. I thought that was Bill's line,
not his. Maybe that's you know what, I think, You're right,
Just like he says for all t Tar Hill players,
do your job. Does he say the same thing to
Jordan I'm imagining he has. I don't know if he

(44:53):
does often. Why am I a twelve? Why am I
a child?

Speaker 10 (45:00):
At least I thought the same thing.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Come on, now, everybody's thinking it. Anyway, who do they
have this weekend? What's what's on the slave for the
have they wont to game? Just which team do you
think has a better record?

Speaker 8 (45:14):
Not?

Speaker 4 (45:14):
No, North Carolina the same? Are you serious? Dabbo? I
can't wait for his next rant, which probably won't ever
come now that he has to kind of eat all
of his words.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
Do you ever think about how what a different world
we live in than the world we lived in in
twenty seventeen when Dabo is at the top of the
coaching heap and Deshaun Watson was the Bee's knees yesday.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
One thing I want to say before if we go
further into this, should be said, it's absolutely absurd if
anyone thinks Dabos needs to go totally absurd. Even if
he's completely pushing against the obvious change in college football,
which essentially he has done, you know, the nil era
and the transfer portal and things like that. He if

(46:00):
if you're not gonna get on board, then you are
gonna get left behind, and ultimately it will be time
to turn the page from Dabo. But we're a couple
of games removed from his team participating in the postseason
yet again. And he's as decorated as a current college
football coach as anybody out there, and he's on a
list of like two guys, give me a break with this.

(46:22):
We need to move on because he can't cut it
any more stuff.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
If Mike Gundy can last twenty years or whatever, then
you can give Dabo some grace here.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Like the odds that like take you get your Clemson
you have. Let's just say you can have any coach
in the country and they will say, yes, they will
take your job Clemson. Yeah, Cumson, You're gonna have anybody
you want. I'm telling you anybody you want. Oh my,
literally the entire country or the NFL or Nick Saban,

(46:50):
you can have anybody. And you're convinced that that guy
is going to replicate, you're more convinced that there's a
better chance this person's gonna get you back to where
Dabbo had you, then Dabbo is gonna have a chance
to get you back where you had.

Speaker 12 (47:05):
Now.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
The ACC is actually not a laughing stock this year,
far from it. So it is gonna be a little
bit more difficult. And they were kind of set up
to fail a little bit, not by any design of his,
but just in the fact some other teams they aren't
being left behind and they are capable. And Miami took
a good season and is able to do that because
they went out and got cam Ward. They don't need
a quarterback at Clemson. I don't think he hasn't had

(47:27):
a great year, but kay club Nick's a legitimately front side,
top of the line college starting quarterback. That was not
the issue for them. But they just have not played
good football and everybody that's come up against them has
had a chance to beat them, even the team that
they have beaten. And so Clemson North Carolina and you
said they have the same record. I didn't want to
say they don't until I was positive. North Carolina's two

(47:47):
and two, Clemson's one in three. North Carolina has won
twice this year. Where was I want to know who
they've beaten? Well, no, I know, yeah, I know they're
not good teams. But they only got beat by TCU
by thirty four, and they only got beat by UCF
by twenty five. But they did beat both Charlotte and Richmond.
They might might not win a game the rest of

(48:08):
the year. I mean this with you. The rest of
their games are obviously conference games. I think there's a
chance they could lose every single one of them. The
Wake Forest game is probably their best bet for a dub.
It's not this weekend. The Clemson North Carolina game is
not our stone cold lock college football game of the week. Good.
If I didn't say it already, it should be obvious

(48:28):
what it is. It's the only matchup in the country
that pitts to undefeated teams against one another. I believe
the numbers twenty twenty undefeated teams left in college football.
The four and OH Texas Tech Red Raiders will be
in Houston, probably Friday, to play Saturday night's game over
at TDECU Stadium against the Houston Cougars, who also, by
the skin of their teeth last week, got to four

(48:49):
and OH needing fourteen to fourth quarter points, a stop
in overtime, a blocked field goal to get to overtime,
and then ultimately the go ahead, game winning end of
the game field goal to win and get to four
and ZHO. We got tickets to give away to that game.
I'll be out there. I'll be enjoying the tailgate. My
friend's over at bud Light so I encourage you to
stop on by if you are out there, if you

(49:10):
win the tickets, or if you're just out there, come
by and say hello. We'll do some more things out
there as the season continues. But that's our college football
game of the week. As you know, our Stone Cold
locks are pretty open. Other than that, we will make
our selection on the Texans Titans matchup. And yesterday before
we got started and we were talking about Lamar Jackson
and wondering what impact that would have, because it definitely will.

(49:31):
It definitely did. As we sit here currently just one
particular outlet, and I bet you they're all different. The
Texans are currently the favorites at minus one and a half.
It changed dramatically with the Lamar Jackson news, which also
isn't official and might not be official on Friday when
we lock in on that and thus could change again
if he's cleared their curly favorites. Texans are favored and

(49:55):
in Baltimore, the Baltimore Ravens are averaging very salty total
of points per game. We mentioned that earlier. They're one
of the top scoring teams in the NFL thirty two
point eight points per game. Happened this week the over
unders under forty. It's because they don't expect Lamar Jackson
to play exactly.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
Now.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Their offense is good, you can knock a good ten
to fifteen points off that. I'm taking the other game
and it's that, and the Texans are playing against even
with their awful we can't score any points. We're averaging
sixteen points flat per game offense. They are going against
a defense that's all the way at the other end
of the spectrum. Nobody, not even Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys, give

(50:38):
up more points per game than Johnny Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
It's unbelievable because no matter what, and this is a
testament to them. I mean, you know you already know
I have absolute yeah, if you know, you know lust
for the Ravens organization. As far as how they've built
their's teams for the past twenty five years.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
They do it tremendously well. But they've even if even
when they've had crappy quarterbacks and won the Super Bowl,
the defense has always been fantastic.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
And it's not just because they had Ray Lewis there
or later on. Who's the linebacker.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I can't think of his name right, Jamie Sharper, No,
Jamie Sharper, definitely Jamie Sharper. Stop that after legend. Jamie Sharper.
Ruggs is the one I was trying to also hard
University Ed Reid, the homeless man under the freeway who
stole the bombing. There's money. He was okay with the Ravens,
a legend with the Texans. Hey speaking like stone cold

(51:35):
lockstro fast. Am I allowed to take the Thursday night game? Yeah,
we talked about that last week. We made it. There
was a Friday off day for AC a couple weeks back,
and we made the decision to allow a Thursday night selection.
It just has to be noted before the Thursday night
game is played.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Okay, cool, because go look at what who's out for
San Francisco in this game.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Yeah, today is another nonpractice day because tomorrow's the game.
And they basically did practice all week. All their practice
updates and injury updates were the estimation of practice. They're like,
I don't know who's catching brock Party's passes other than
the opponents this week, and if they do that, they're
gonna get smoked. It's gonna be another heavy Christian McCaffrey game,

(52:16):
but Juwan Jennings banged up, Ricky pearsall banged up.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
How about Okay, what's the timetable on some of these
players return because the Texans.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Play them in We know both of them played last
week and neither look headed to ir SO eight each week.
This is what they're going through.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
You have to factor in an extra week there because
the Texans have their bye week, but it's right around
the corner they'll be playing the forty nine er.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah, a lot will change between now and then. You know,
we'll know more about Derek Stingley's health and hopefully he'll
be able to play through it. He'll take the week
off next week and that should help things everybody else.
Demiko Rans, as we mentioned, spoke a little bit about
the situation with the two players of most prominence that
did not practice today. So we'll get to that here
in just a little bit. Probably on the other side,
but you know, specific to some of those items I

(52:59):
mentioned way way earlier on the show, something I thought
was rather interesting about the Texans Woody Marx and the
most talked about Baltimore Ravens player that's healthy, Derrick Henry
last three weeks. Derek Henry blew up in Week one,
awesome game, just tremendous work against the Baltimore or the
Buffalo Bills helped them win that game. And then what

(53:21):
And I've talked about it every week since Woody Marks
he had seven snaps in Week one and then what? Okay,
So I decided to go ahead and post that for you.
Last three games for Derrick Henry thirty one carries one
hundred and fifteen yards in a score, has three point
seven yards of pop, and that's barely over ten carries
a game. Last week they gave up on him after

(53:44):
twenty snaps the last three weeks thirty one for one
to fifteen three point seven yards a pop. Woody Marks
last three weeks twenty six carries one hundred and ten
yards a score and four point two yards per carry. Essentially,
they've been used this same amount what he's been slightly
more effective. He's obviously more effective in the past game

(54:06):
and he doesn't play any games with Lamar Jackson in
the backfield with him. So the Texans, when you're marking
things down quarterback Stroud V. Rush advantaged Texans running back
Marx V. Henry advantage Texans, so it's two very big
advantages they have. Does tell you two different things. The

(54:27):
Texans have figured it out that wood he Marks gives
them a really good option out of the backfield, and
the Ravens are struggling to get Derrick Henry going and
commit to it as their defense keeps giving up points
and they have to keep scoring to stay afloat which
this week may be a little bit different with Cooper
Rush in the mix for them at quarterback, if in

(54:48):
fact that is the case. Both teams obviously on the
field for the first time of the week, so an
opportunity for them to speak about what was seen on
the practice fields as it relates to a couple of
those injury situations for both squads. Get to that on
the other side, and obviously one major injury in the
NFL took place this past Sunday allowed for us to
hear from an absolute raging idiot. We'll hear from him next.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
It is the eight team Sports Tax seven ninety Space
City Home Network. October is here and I was in
a baseball reference. By the way, I don't care about
all that.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
We'll get to Nick Tatero and the torturous existence he
leads as a former now Astro continues to just absolutely
give him nightmares. But in the meantime, we all are
at this point aware of Tyreek Hill's grotesque sideline injury

(55:51):
that has put him on the shelf for the remainder
of this year, and he'll be thirty two by the
next time he laces him up for an NFL season,
which means that's kind of two strikes against you already
at this point in his career, and then you factor
in all the off the field baggage, the way he
likes to play relative to this injury, I think is

(56:12):
a factor all that kind of stuff, and people are
speculating about what his future is gonna be. As a
matter of fact, before he got hurt, I think more
than a few handful of people were speculating that he
wouldn't finish the season in Miami because he'd get traded somewhere.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
And I don't know if Kansas City was realistic.

Speaker 5 (56:30):
A lot of people were wanting that to happen because
of the familiarity, the return, all that kind of stuff.
But all that being said, people are throwing around opinions
about one Tyreek Hill, and, as Wex brilliantly teased before
the break, one of them is, how did you describe
him again?

Speaker 4 (56:48):
An absolute idiot? I think so yeah, that that absolutely
applies here.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
Agree on my side of things. A keep to leeb
was a jerk when he played, and apparently he's still
a jerk. What was the thing that happened with him?
And another like somebody ripped his chain off during a
game or something?

Speaker 4 (57:08):
You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I know what
you're talking about. I don't remember the exact details of
what that was. Did he rip someone else's chain off
or was it his? So he was a pretty good
football player, right, I think, yeah, exactly. You're making my
point this is it depends on what when he has
been involved in a chain getting ripped off incident on
the football field. You're not recounting his Pro Bowl career

(57:30):
which existed. You're not recounting great plays that were made
for this team or that team. You're you're talking about
his own incidents. And there were many, yeah, and off
the field, right. I feel like a lot of them
were on the field. To be honest with you, A
lot of them are also off the field game shots
and whatnot. Just he had a little bit of everything.

(57:50):
So yeah, he's weighing in on the Tyree Kill injury
and has a very interesting theory on why that injury happened.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
I always say it, these football guys don't play no games.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (58:04):
They do not play games. They don't make no mistakes.
You got allegations of beating your wife. Hey, that is real.
I don't play like that. I'll be off this show
somebody if I get a call right now by mighty
beeting on sister, wife, daughter, any one of them.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (58:20):
So, I don't really play like that. In football guys,
they brutal. They don't make no mistakes. Man.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
So hey, so you're suggesting.

Speaker 10 (58:27):
They team a little bit karma.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
It's karma, man, Hey, man, Hey, you've seen that tackle
happen a thousand times, thousands, thousands. He snapped his whole
leg and hat. Then to be thirty two by next year.
Next year, he'll be thirty two when the season start.
You make your money on speed. That might be the
last we see it, Tyrick.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
He honestly, you know it's a bad show. And skip
balans Man. I guess in an effort to tell everybody
I think he's moronic, we needed to play the audio
so they could see why. I guess. But it's it's
it's the same, it's good and bad. It's now we're
years and years into it, the advent of social media

(59:06):
and the advent of accessibility to have your voice heard,
which now is more literal than social media because podcasts exist,
et cetera. Anybody can that does enough or has enough
of a name, or is doing enough to create interest,
and he is. You have a platform and people will
listen to what you have to say, and a lot

(59:26):
of people will probably even agree with you. It's just
there's so many morons out there that have this for them.
And it's in all sports, and it's not just former
athletes that I could not I couldn't want to pay
less attention to. And these are the examples why.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Yeah, I mean the prolific nature of social media giving
guys like this that platform, if you will, and Cale
mention it, I mean, this is I like.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
That they can give. If media is saying this and
they're creating that, you can tell everybody exactly what you
want now and this is not new. This is since
social media's exist, you can literally stand sit in front
of a microphone and give answers to anything you want.
Tell your own story. That's a good thing. But you
also now have access to create your own you know, brand,
which a lot a lot of players, specifically because they

(01:00:15):
have name notoriety, they can do that. And and this
is he's talking about karma coming around for a guy
who has allegations off the field of Beatan's wife, girlfriend,
people he's involved with. And it's coming from someone with
their own issues, conduct related issues, aggravated assault issues, karma.

(01:00:39):
Just give me more a key to leave? Please tell
me how many more days in a row this year
we can play sound from a keeb to leave. Well,
I'm gonna I'm gonna guess I think I know the number, like, uh,
like three months left. I'm gonna go with zero.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
Like Cole brought up anything that Skip Bayless is involved
with at this point, you know, I'm not saying this
is Skip's fault, but you did have a key to
leave on and he says dumb stuff, so maybe it
is his fault.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Well, that's where everybody's at fault. I mean when more
prominent noteworthy networks invite these people onto their shows and
Skip Skip's not quite in that category. But some of
the people that were asked to give their NBA analysis
this past year on one of the main producers of
NBA analysis ESPN. They're asking former players to come on

(01:01:25):
that have no business being on television. They don't know
what they're talking about. They talk nonsense, they're wrong half
I mean factually wrong. Half the time. You're just you're
not dumbing it down, You're making it unnecessary to get
analysis from you. And that's your choice. It's it's a
bad way to do business. And they're not alone. It
happens all across the media landscape. Now there are we

(01:01:46):
do actually have the chance to cultivate some really excellent
people in the media from former players that we never
would have known otherwise because they just went out and
deside I'm gonna start a podcast and I'm gonna start
talking about it, and I'm gonna get players on where
there's a lot of good ones, really really good ones,
just civic to any different sport, and some of those
people involved, players involved have been able to turn that

(01:02:06):
into a money making avenue of their own. And they've
gotten hired by some of these outlets. But then there's
the other side of it, and now a key would
be on that side. Gilbert Arenas is on that side.
It's entertaining to a lot of people, and it's just
more often than not, it's just it's utter garbage, it's
garbage shatter, it's toilet water. It's awful. Keep going. I

(01:02:30):
think I've painted a ugly enough picture. Toilet water sounds delightful,
I don't. I mean, I was aware this comment was made,
and I knew obviously we were playing it today, but like,
there's nothing that would make me go to their product. Ever, Well,
it comes up because they're creating moments, and I had
the viral nature of some of the things that gets

(01:02:51):
said on a lot of different shows. Quality shows and
non quality shows create some viral moments. But I'm just
not even if there is somebody, a person on the
show that I had interest in listening to, what wouldn't
do it?

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
It's you brought this up yesterday before before a keep
to Leave's comments that you know about the age part
of things. That is because he went on to talk
about how his game is is predicated on speed and
this isn't that's not some novelty you know to point out.
I mean a lot of athletes are, especially in the NFL,

(01:03:24):
but just any athletes that you know, your your game
is predicated on speed, explosiveness, combination of both, and then
you have a catastrophic leg injury and it's never the same.
But the fact that he's gonna be thirty two when
the season starts next year and trying to play a

(01:03:44):
premium skill position in the NFL, he's gonna have an
uphill battle. And I mean, this is why, as much
as I hate to point it out again, tank Dell's
injury when it happened in his career, at his age,
there's a whole lot more promise that he'll be to
actually come back from it and be a productive player.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
I don't know if you can say the same about
Tyreek Hill. All Right, we're gonna talk about the guy
that the tortures the Yankees and the guy that is
tortured as a Yankees fan next.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
We will get to some more Texans conversation coming up the.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
Top of the hour. But I mean we've been reduced
to this. You can call it that whatever. I don't care.
Astros aren't the postseason, so we have to live vicariously
through former astros who torture teams that we don't like.
Now this one plays for another team we don't like.
But at the same time, when Alex Bregman can continue

(01:04:47):
to torture the New York Yankees and put their season
on the brink of elimination just one game into the wild.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
Card, I like that. I'm happy. Sports Talk seven ninety
you're Southwest four Yankees Baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
That's right, Alex Bregman, the eighth player in MLB history
to join the exclusive century club. He played his one
hundredth playoff game yesterday, and he contributed mightily, driving in
the winning margin.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
If you will to put the he did, Yeah, I
think so. I thought he drove in the third run.
I thought he drove in two runs. Nope, Okay, whatever
they lost, that's all I care about. I don't care
how it happened. Wex, Can you just not be you
for one segment and just let me be happy about
the Yankees season almost being over? No, because now I

(01:05:42):
can say, I mean, where would they be without Bregman's
one RBI to drive in the third run of the game.
I have to deal with every Do you see this
every day? Every day, every bleeping day? So anyways, I
hope he does it again tonight drives in the winning run. Jerk,
and the Yankees go home for the offseason and it's
and it's Alex Bregman that did it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
It doesn't matter as long as he advances and they don't.
I don't even root for the Red Sox. They suck too, yeah,
I think to some entity. Local sports outlet asked that
very question earlier today in the form of a poll question,
who are you rooting for Kyle Tucker and the Cubs,
AJ Hinch and the Tigers, Alex Bregman and the Red
Sox and some other options they don't play for the Astro.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
That was Sports Talk seven ninety nobody. Well, as we
get to the audio here from our friend of the
program that roots for the Yankees friend in my case, yeah,
definitely check out the Sports Sox seven to ninety pole
question and see where things are at, see who the
fans are rooting for. The Astros no longer in the postseason.
But Nikki t of course, he's a celebrity Yankee fan.

(01:06:45):
He attends Yankee games, attended last night's game and likes
to express his frustration, mostly because that's Yankees baseball the
last decade plus, and also every once in a while
when things go well, he'll also find his way to
social media and get out there epit, apparou about it,
usually very colorfully. He's also joined the program on a
couple of occasions, and he and the AC are tight

(01:07:07):
fast friends, texting buddies, pals, drinking buddies water for one,
so dr pepper maybe. But he did take to social
media last night, and if you're unfamiliar with some of
the particulars, the Yankees were going along nicely. You had
Ace versus Ace, and both were performing as such yesterday.

(01:07:29):
In fact, the Yankees Ace walked off the mound at
Aaron Boone's request without allowing any runs in the game,
and nobody was even on base when he was asked
to stop working for the day. So he got into
a little bit of that you brought up, Alex Bregman,
and he definitely made his way into this, But let's
start with what really had him letting it fly. From

(01:07:50):
a curseword standpoint, I've got it here. Cole the ninth
inning situation if you're unaware, lead off single followed by
a single followed by a third consecutive single right at
the top of the order, including Aaron Judge. Like I said,
two hits in the game, he was awesome, bases loaded,
nobody out down two runs in the ninth inning at

(01:08:12):
Home Place. Is going crazy? A description of how things
unfolded after that from acting legend Nick Treturro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
How do you not spare?

Speaker 4 (01:08:23):
How unbelievable?

Speaker 10 (01:08:31):
Same s?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Yeah, take got a guy.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
That kind of leads us to his other commentary, totally subdued.
The game's over, they've lost. He's recollecting all the reasons
why they're in the same boat. They're always in same Yankees,
same Boonie, same story, the same story. We love telling.
He doesn't say like he loves telling at all. But

(01:09:02):
just to recap, they did have three runners on all
via a single, all off of a roll As Chapman,
who was who was the best reliever or closer in
the American League this past season, and the Yankees could
not score. Gian Carlos Stanton, kay Jazz Chisholm flyout, non
sackfly Trent Grisholm, strikeout, and that's your ballgame. Three to one.

(01:09:27):
Socks win into today with a chance to eliminate the Yankees.
A subdued, rather melancholy contemplating his Yankees fandom future, Nick
Treturo after the game, I think I've laid out all
the things he's going to touch on.

Speaker 13 (01:09:45):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Here we go again, the.

Speaker 9 (01:09:47):
Same song, the same bat channel, the same scenario, over
and over.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
They never learned, They never learned.

Speaker 9 (01:09:55):
The guy's pitching a shutout, right, he's matching the other guy,
proche pitch for pitch, Gotta.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Won nothing, slim leave.

Speaker 9 (01:10:02):
He gets the first out of the seventh inny Okay,
he's got one hundred and two. So what so what
this is like the seventh game? There is no tomorrow, tomorrow.
You're on life support and you pull him? Why?

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
Why do you pull him? For what reason?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Because your analytic nerds told you to pull him?

Speaker 12 (01:10:19):
I know that's fine.

Speaker 9 (01:10:21):
It makes no sense. And did they tell you not
to play your best players? You don't play Jazz Chisholm.
The other guy, Ben Rice, one of your best hitters,
didn't even get in a back tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
That's absurd, absurd.

Speaker 10 (01:10:34):
Then you got a Goldie.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
In the ninth. He can't run.

Speaker 9 (01:10:38):
You got a guy on the bench who can fly.

Speaker 10 (01:10:41):
What's his face to Martian he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
In the game.

Speaker 10 (01:10:44):
What's that's incredible?

Speaker 9 (01:10:46):
How you know they stay close and then you pitch
the Bregman when it's two to one, easily don't pitch
to that guy. He has the career up, the spraying,
the yank a career, and Cora runs circles around us.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
I'm getting tired of sounds like this is awesome. I
love like it's okay to enjoy this, right, we get it.
We in this city, we as talk show hosts. The
playoffs have begun. We don't have anything else this year
for the first time in forever. Well, it's okay to
enjoy this a little bit, maybe even more than usual.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
We're always going to disagree on this, but you know,
I kept saying I don't want to see this team
in the postseason, and you kept talking about I would.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Be playing yesterday and again today and advancing to Saturday,
but they wouldn't have That's why you want to see it.
The the Tigers and Guardians are barely scoring any runs
and they're headed to Game three tomorrow. The Yankees and
Red Sox barely scored any runs you'd had one series.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Basically, when those teams had good offenses that were healthy,
what would the Astros not.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
The Guardians are very Astros like from an offensive for
the Astros.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
Probably wouldn't have had Paanya, probably wouldn't have had rd
On Alvarez. Christian Walker would have been playing on the road,
so maybe he would have the fingo bingo.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
But other than that, I mean, it all comes down
to this Astro's down to to one runner on second,
two outs, top of the ninth, and here comes Bryce Matthews,
who would pop out meek and comes and here it
comes Cam Smith.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
Same deal. If Zach Cole's not up to bat, I
don't even want to watch. It's not even captivating.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
Zach Cole looking for his first hit today cash it's
four hundred and fifty feet Astros win. You never know.
If you can't dance, you don't get to find out
how good the dance of a dancer that you like.
Four wins and all the raw ra and you can't
even win a game. Yankees. There is a final in
there's an update to the Cubs and Pods, and obviously

(01:12:44):
we'll get into a few more items related to baseball.
Wanted to get to some of what Tmiko Ryan's had
to say today specific to injuries for both teams, Yes,
including your Texans. We'll do that next.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 4 (01:13:18):
It is the A Team. It's Sports Sox seven ninety
and it's Space City Home Network. We are halfway home
on a Wednesday edition, first day of October. The Texans
season well underway and Cooper Rush is about to get
smashed for as many times for the second time in
as many seasons. I should say got it from the

(01:13:38):
Cowboys standpoint last year when Dak was out and the
Texans went in there on a Monday night. I know
it was prime time, I just can't remember which day
it was. It was a night game, that's correct.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
And then you know, here they come again to Baltimore
where they've never won. But Cooper Rush is going to
provide them the best opportunity ever.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
Yeah, if that in fact is the case, and there's
still no definitive word on that awaiting at least today's
injury report on the Textans side mentioned this earlier on
social and never brought it to the show, but being
out there at practice was just as Demiko Ryans indicated.
Denico Autry and Jalen Reid, who both started the year
off the roster. In Reid's case ir designated to return.
Deniko had never come off of the pup list during

(01:14:20):
training camp so remain on the reserve pup into the season,
but both the practice windows were open, so they're now
both designated to return. You got three weeks to get
them up to speed or really to make your decision.
They could be active as early as Sunday, or they
could remain where they are roster wise for the next
three weeks. And again, the Texts only have two games

(01:14:41):
in the next three weeks before an ultimate decision and
then roster move would have to be made. But it's
good news on both fronts. Denico Autry and Jalen Reid
were on the practice field earlier today and hopefully that
means they will at least have the option of bringing
them back they have pending on any issue with Foley
or or will any extended issue. They really have some

(01:15:03):
depth on the defensive line. I'd hate to see them
in a negative position on that front anytime, like you've
traded somebody away and now all of a sudden, guys
have been hurt, and so your depth is a worry.
But they are actually deep. They're deep at edge and
they're deep at the interior, especially if autry is now
a part of that you had. Darryl Taylor last week
scratched as a healthy player. He was back on the
practice field today. He had been working through something. But

(01:15:25):
the reps have been limited for their three edge backups,
he along with Horton and Barnett, so they might be
in a position to consider moving something like that, and
all these guys can play Toji. I had been inactive
and given a contract extension over the first two weeks
of the season, and he was out there for his
usual relatively limited number of reps as a reserve, but

(01:15:47):
making plays, you know, tackle for loss pass defense. With
the tip pass that he had, he played extremely well
and that's pretty much all he ever does when he's
out there, and they have a really really nice rotation.
But specific to the two players of note that were
not on the practice field today, Derek Stingley Junior with
his oblique and Will Anderson, who was not seen by
the media, myself included while we were available to view

(01:16:10):
practice before real shuttled off inside the stadium or off
to the show. That's me, everybody else goes inside. Here's
what he had to say about Derek and Will.

Speaker 13 (01:16:21):
Every game is different.

Speaker 12 (01:16:24):
Y sting and Will do not practice today. They're both managing.
We were looking at those guys from day to day.
We'll see how they continue to improve throughout the week.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
We know what Derek Stingley Junior is managing. He has
an oblique injury, you know, the hip and the oblique
and the manner in which he was kind of folded
up a little bit by the tackle of Henry Toatoe
a couple of weeks ago, and then this past game
he fell on it when he made that shoe string tackle,
one of the very few he even had to make
because of how few times he was thrown at in

(01:16:56):
the game. And then he also, i think probably aggravated
in the way you know you're going to aggravate it
a little bit just because it hurts when he got
tackled on the interception, and it's something that he clearly
can play through and it does impact him, and hopefully
for this one more week that he has to play
through it before he gets an additional week of rest

(01:17:17):
they're off week comes, hopefully that'll be there helpful to him.
Not really sure what the will Anderson situation was. I
haven't seen anybody note it's managing. Yeah, yeah, it means
there's something wrong with him. Yeah, I don't know what
it is, and I'm trying to list it on the
injury report, but that does not exist yet.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
I'm trying to think of like anything that I saw
during the game, but you're looking at so much and
unless it's completely pointed out and the game stops sometimes
or someone's on the sideline when they shouldn't be and
they're zoomed in and on and all that kind of stuff.
I mean, this kind of stuff doesn't surprise me at all.
It's the game they're playing, and it's a position he's playing.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
It's one of the things I actually do try to
assist with as best as I can without being a
foolish social media doctor, going to games and watching what
happens away from all what you see on TV is
what they give you, right, I presumably have access to
everything that I can see, but oculars or otherwise on
the field, this player's gone into the tent. This player's
being looked at by the athletic training Cjstry was looked

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at by the athletic training staff on Sunday. For those
that weren't aware, he had a slight limp. Looked like
it was on his left side. I don't know if
it's a leg, knee, ankle, whatever. I would only be
speculating on that. But their head athletic trainer, Roland Ramirez,
went out to was during a time out, went out
and had a conversation within which you normally would not do.
They didn't do anything about it. He finished the series

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and then when he went back to the bench, all
he did was pick up his tablet and continue his
ongoing game long conversation with Garrod Johnson. So there didn't
appear to be anything greatly significant with it. And I
didn't notice him limping the rest of the game, nor
to the podium, nor when he left the podium. I
happened to be in there for this time instance this
last week, But things like that as you would not
normally see. And who's gotten out of the tent and

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headed straight back to the locker room. Before these sideline reporter,
if they're not be rating the coach or not be
rating the coach at all, Ben hasn't had a chance
to tell you. Doesn't sound like either one of them
at this point would be in jeopardy of missing the game. Again,
clearly totally speculating, but that would be my best guess
on that front. Woody Mark's popular topic of conversation after

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a two touchdown game, a breakout game, and a game
his first game where he out snapped the starter. That's
what happened this past week. They were basically fifty to
fifty in Week three, and then there was a little
bit more Woody, especially in the second half, than there
was Nick Chubb, but both played significantly and both had
some successful moments. A comment from Demiico on the reps

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for Woody Marks.

Speaker 13 (01:19:43):
Every game is different.

Speaker 12 (01:19:44):
Whatever touches, what he gets, He's continued to make the
most of them.

Speaker 13 (01:19:48):
Whoever touches the football, just make the most of what
carriage you get.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
Very good information. Congesis definitely spilling the beans to the Ravens,
who otherwise would have been preparing for Nick Chubb and
now they have to prepare for Jaquevius instead. Maybe I
don't know. He's got twenty nine carries on the season,
he's caught six of the eight balls sent his way
through the air. Last week he had twenty one of

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those thirty five touches. It's pretty clear if there's any
kind of success early in the game that will continue
if Lee Ravens somehow becomes stout defensively both against the
run and pass, and the Texans are having probably more
trouble than they've had in any game running the ball
in the next four days. I don't see that. Not

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to mention all the players that they're not ready to
have the bar Lamar Jackson and everybody on defense. The
rest of their offense is in very good shape and
has gotten healthier, and the person of Isaiah likely, but
their defense is and I mean shambles is a fair description.
They're playing poorly, and they're losing players, frontline players, and

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bout A Bouquet is now out for the year, and
as many as four key starters high rep players could
be out in this game. Lastly from Demico here, and
we'll hear more from Demiko and hopefully CJ. Stroud as well,
coming up in football at five, about an hour from now.
The speculation continues on the Ravens and what they might
look like without Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 13 (01:21:16):
Pretty sure it doesn't change.

Speaker 12 (01:21:18):
They're still exposed to players who Lamar is getting the
football too, so that doesn't change.

Speaker 6 (01:21:22):
Right.

Speaker 12 (01:21:22):
If Rush has to come in and play, he still
has very capable guys he can get the ball too,
So it really doesn't matter to us. We just have
to be on the details when it comes to the
defense and how we play.

Speaker 13 (01:21:32):
We have to play our style. We have to wrap
our style.

Speaker 12 (01:21:35):
Every single snap, and we have to be on the
details of our job.

Speaker 13 (01:21:38):
We do that and we play together. We play with awareness, right.

Speaker 12 (01:21:42):
We know they have a lot of wrinkles in their offense,
a lot of good plays schematically that's hurt us in
the past.

Speaker 13 (01:21:48):
So we have to play with awareness from our.

Speaker 12 (01:21:51):
Defensive line, linebackers and all our guys in the back end.
Everybody has to be aware, play with great eye discipline.
That's how you go out and play good defense versus
this team.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
I think he is accurate in two ways. He says
the same thing all the time because this is what
he truly believes it's about us. We're good. If we're good,
then it shouldn't matter what they can do. We're obviously
gonna prepare for it. We're gonna scheme it up. We're
going to study film. Maybe we'll even legally signal steal
like Robert Sala thinks good teams do. But it's about

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what we do. We're gonna do what we do well,
and it's gonna work because we're good at it. And
then the other thing was they really do actually have
some other explosive players beyond Lamar Jackson and Zay Flowers
is definitely one of them. A guy who can rip
off a seventy one yard touchdown Justice Hill who did
last week. He's obviously another, not that he's had a
great year or as a heavy touch player, but they

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do have players that can make things difficult on your defense,
and probably Flowers, for me at least, would be the
one I would be most concerned with. The Texas did
a really really nice job with him, I guess. I mean,
the game was so far out of reach so quickly.
I don't know that it was the Texans defense versus
they just didn't need Flowers quite as much. Yeah, last
year that he had two catches in the Christmas game,

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and it was a little consequence. One of them was
twenty seven yarder. Now the season before, when they were
there at the beginning of the season, they had no
answer for him at all. Ten targets, nine catches, seventy
eight yards, super elusive, super quick and against a very
good Texans secondary, a super mismatch. They don't have anyone

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that I think is in a good position they were
trying to stop him. It wasn't Kelsey in the playoffs. Yeah,
he's I think he is a difficult defend and he's
probably who Cooper Rush should lean on the most. If
he's in fact their quarterback, well then he should be
the one who's focused on the most this upcoming week,
which I know is easier said than done. But yeah,

(01:23:51):
I don't Cooper Rush being the quarterback and Lamar Jackson
not is when Demiko says they've got to players, Yeah,
but Lamars who makes them explosively? Do you think he
makes them explosive with the past game is what we're
talking about with those two players, Hill in the passing

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game and Flowers in the past game. Or is it
more he's explosive. So every play has the potential. Well,
here's another nineteen yards to account for him, because if
you don't, he could take off with his legs. Cooper
Rush is not doing that. And the other part of
it is you just said it and you're answering your
own question saying yes, when you have to account for him,
you're basically taking a defensive player out and saying that's

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your man. Scout him, spy him, stay with him. Oh well,
there's a one fewer defender to be in the mix
to help you out with other guys, so now they
can be more explosive. Absolutely, and positively, it's quite different
if you're defending Cooper Statue Rush.

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
It is sport Socks seven to ninety Space City Home
Network Wednesday edition of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:25:11):
Ac over Here, wex over there. Col Thompson is our producer.
We take you up until six o'clock tonight. Texans and
Ravens from Baltimore this weekend. First time that Texans can
get a victory there. We've talked a little bit about
the Major League Baseball postseason. Didn't give you the update
we promised.

Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
That Manny Machado hit a two run homer and now
it's three nothing Padres over the Cubs, much to Cole's delight,
being the White Sox fan that he is. And then
you know you mentioned it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
Once the Seattle series gets under way, be rooting hard
for that, like any of the Yankees to lose tonight,
get that out of the way, and that's the first
domino to fall in my dominoes of Sports eight for
the baseball season.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
That'll be the third game to go off today. Obviously
earlier today the Guardians where to take care of the Tigers,
so that goes to a Game three tomorrow they will
have the early start again. Yankees averadon going to the
mound tonight, Bellow on the mound for the Socks. Yankees
need to win or else their season ends. Reds need
to win or else their season ends tonight against the Dodgers,
and if they win, that also means show hey o

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Tani will pitch in this series and thus be unavailable
at the beginning of the next series. They had planned
on holding him back for a Game three or a
potential Game one. Obviously, he let off last night's game
with a homer with his bat He and Taoscar Hernandez,
another of the twenty five Astros in the postseason, both
had a two home run game to open up the

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Dodgers twenty twenty five postseason, on their way to scoring
ten runs and winning rather easily in spite of their
still shaky bullpen.

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
By the way, speaking of that Padres Cubs matchup, an
update on Kyle Tucker's postseason as a Cub. He has
now lined out to left, struck out swinging, and flied
out to center.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
So he's zero for three today. Yeah, he's had a
tough time of things as a postseason hitter overall in
his career. Now is second opportunity to do so with
a different ball club, one opportunity with the Astros. Very
very successful as a team, and so far the same
is happening there in Chicago, very very successful as a team,
in fact, undefeated. With Kyle Tucker in the lineup in

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the postseason in Cubs history, have never lost. The Cubs
have never lost a game with him in the lineup
in the postseason. They're one to zero, but they're down
to their last six outs or else they'll be five hundred.
They are going to the bottom of last nine outs,
they're going to the bottom of the seventh inning, and
as you said, they still trail three to nothing. Also,
it's probably pretty safe to say he's not one hundred percent.

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Came back for the final three games of the season
and is the DH today. Probably not at his finest.
Another fracture, right, I don't believe another fight, Oh cat,
I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
I get it all mixed up. He might as well
have been injured for the Astros this year the way
things went, no question at all blurred together.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
I mean, his playing through the injury made his season
numbers not very good for Kyle Tucker, very good for
most other major leaguers. But the Kyle Tucker that left Houston,
even though he was phenomenal at the beginning of his
only season so far with the Cubs, the end of
the season numbers, because of how long that slump, however

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injury impacted it was, and it was pretty significant, made
his season numbers look very very pedestrian. He got into
one hundred and thirty six games. He was he had
five hundred at bats, five hundred and ninety seven played appearances.
Late in as Astro's career, he started to walk a
ton that basically saves his overall numbers from not being awful.
He hit two sixty six. He was on base thirty

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seven percent of the time, which is one of the
second best of his career because he walked eighty seven times,
a career best even though he didn't play in a
career high games. But his slugging percentage was for sixty four.
That's the worst of his career. So if he s
was eight four won, that's the third worst of his career.
He was good, still very good for most major league players,

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but the season he would have loved to have been
paid off of was twenty twenty four or twenty twenty three,
probably twenty twenty three, not twenty twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
It does make me wonder like it can't not impact
what he signs for this year, But you know that's
not what his agent is gonna argue.

Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
Yeah, I mean, they'll still win. You just gotta look
at what the overall market is. And it changed dramatically
for him during the season. The as soon as Vladimir
Guerrero was no longer on the market because he got
a huge, huge, huge, huge deal from his own team.
It changes a little bit the other way with Peter
Alonzo being very clear, very quickly. Yeah, I'll be opting out.

(01:29:48):
Doesn't mean he's leaving the Mets, but it means he's
once again on the market looking for a huge, long term,
more guaranteed money deal right, doing the same thing Ragman's.
In my mind, it's different. I'm not sure that he
will actually hit the market. I am sure he will
decline his option. Yeah, he's opting out, but I'm I
would say, I don't know that. I can't paign a
scenario that he's not Boston next year. He's playing for

(01:30:10):
Boston next year. Why are you so sure? It's just
too perfect. But if somebody comes with more money, they're
gonna come with enough money that nobody's even gonna get
to the table.

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
I mean they had to. It was like a last
ditch effort. He'd be a Tiger right now.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
Who's the best player on the Red Sox in twenty
twenty six, If Bregman's on the team, non pitcher.

Speaker 10 (01:30:33):
Roman Anthony fully healthy.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
It's Alex Bregman. And who's the most important player on
their team including all the pitchers? Crochet, No, it's Alex
Bregman again. No, it's Crochet. No, he matters more to
their team than any other individual, just like last year
in Houston. And this is beyond the dime, and this
is beyond the white lines. He's going to They need
him so much for hu Cole suggested, and for the

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other three or four or five young players that are
about to become stars there. He's gonna help all these
guys become better players much more quickly. He's gonna help
them stay great players for a much longer period of time.
They care about what he's gonna do for their young
players the same way the Astros cared what he did
for their younger players. He's he's gonna play in Boston.
I honestly, I really truly believe this. This is his

(01:31:18):
last stop. He's gonna play in Boston for the rest
of his career, which will be how long. He's gonna
make a ton of money. And I don't know if
his body breaks down before he gets to his late thirties.
I mean, he'll play out whatever this contract is. Maybe
he'll get four years. You remember, he has eighty more
million guaranteed if he does nothing, and he could still
opt into both of the forty million dollar deals he

(01:31:40):
has on the table for next year in the year after,
so they don't just have to beat eighty guaranteed. It's
probably more like between one twenty and two hundred guaranteed.
I think they can get there. You give him a
six year deal two hundred million dollars plus the forty
you already gave him, so now seven years, two forty
That's the kind of deal I thought was reasonable for
him to accept from somebody last year, and now I

(01:32:01):
think he'll end up accepting something like that from the
Red Sox this year. He remember they got rid of
a bunch of money when they traded the malcontent that
Rafael Devers was. Yeah, he doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
He puts up typical Alex Bregman numbers for the rest
of his career, and I realized there will be a
natural decline. But doesn't win another ring, but he plays
I don't know, let's say six.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
Or seven more years. Is he a Hall of Famer?
Six years? I mean just out of curiosity. He's played
nine full seasons, one of them COVID in parts of
his rookie year, so really eight and a half close
to nine. No, it was earlier than that. He only
played forty nine games that year. Really I thought it
was more. So I won't ask anymore. I'll just tell

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you he's got twelve hundred and fifty hits. It sounds
like a tiny, tiny number for a thirty one, thirty
two year old ballpiece. He's been very, very good, but
he's also been an MVP candidate twice, top five in
the MVP voting twice, so he said obviously was healthy
enough and good enough to have a couple of monster seasons,
neither of which put him over one hundred and seventy hits.
One hundred and seventies is max, so he's gonna fall well, well,

(01:33:11):
well short of three thousand hits. He just hit his
two hundredth home run this year, so he's probably gonna
finish in the three hundreds somewhere in that neighborhood. He's
had one two excuse me, one hundred RBI seasons and
will fall well short this year just like he did
last Well, he already fell short seasons over, just like
he did last year in Houston. The counting numbers, they

(01:33:33):
aren't really in his favor. His postseason numbers are. You
better believe I'm voting for this player for Hall of fame.

Speaker 5 (01:33:40):
You're giving me good ammunition as to why I actually
asked that question the way I asked it, Because if
he does what you think he'll do, which is finish
his career in Boston rather than play his entire career
in Houston, for example, with the same exact numbers, I
think that actually helps his cause to get into the

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Hall because jackass voters in the Northeast will vote based
on just as much that the continuity the length of
his career relative to what he did before he got
to Boston, winning all that stuff in Houston which actually
mattered and at the expense of the Red Sox in
two of those seasons, and they'll they'll put him over

(01:34:22):
the hump where I don't know that he would have been,
or it would be like Bigo where it's okay, we're
getting to the last time that we can vote for
this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
Well, he's not going to be able to get in
unless he does what he's already done. Again. He needs
the Red Sox to go on an Astros like playoff run.
They need to be in the playoffs every year. Don't
think they're going to do that reach the CS multiple times.
He don't have to win another title. In my opinion,
he's got two. That's enough. His postseason numbers are also
a little bit more eye popping, because the next home
run he hits will be his twentieth in the postseason.

(01:34:52):
It's pretty awesome number. His overall numbers in the postseason, again,
they're very good. They're not oh my god, this guy's unbelievable,
but they're very good, and they're good enough to put
people over the top. Gold Glove caliber player. He's got
a gold Glove now, finally from last year. I think
he is trending towards being a Hall of Fame inshriny, Yes,
which captains you were? Come on, this is what I hope.

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I mean, I would hope. I still wonder which one
Justin Verlander would wear. I'm sure we can ask Ben
which one he'll wear.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Tell us The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety a
little help over the hump with some Wednesday Bs, two.

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
Adams, and a whole lot of bit stealing, bit.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
Stealing with the bit Steelers, better known as the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
Second segment. Time it is Wednesday, it is four thirty,
not four to seventeen, and we've got some goodies for you. Today,
we've been really really nice, well actually nice and not
so nice. It's nice for us not to, you know,
make it easy on ourselves and being lazy and just
taking other people's bits and doing our Wednesday thing with
bit stealing, but it's also not so nice because we

(01:36:10):
don't get to show off what the rest of the
people here do, whether it's the Sean Salisbury Show or
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, or the night Cap
or Space City Saturday, or the always entertaining and informative
and useful Doug Pike Show. So Doug aot work this
past weekend. It's on your way to everywhere the Doug
Pike Show. I was on my way back from the

(01:36:30):
airport after my early early am arrival from Oregon and
came to drop off some of the equipment in the morning.
Here he was right here, in this very seat, cranking
out the information everybody needs might need to get Doug
Pike hooked up with Steven Adams and Kevin Durant, the
resident Rockets fisher. No, get them hooked up with him
is more like it. I mean, he can he can

(01:36:51):
help can catch some fish. But according to Steven, there
wasn't just some fish. It was a fish that should
have been wow, this is awesome. And the stone cold
easy money sniper that kd is was like, it's cool,
I caught a big tuna. It happens. I'm the man,
watch me work. Stephen did not think that the reaction

(01:37:13):
was appropriate for the quality of work that had been
done with the Rod and Real.

Speaker 5 (01:37:18):
But if you heard that interview with Matt and Ross
is just the latest example of a guy who I
had to strain to hear him at first.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
You were spoken right. And one other thing about being
a superstar. This is absolute nonsense. So perfect bs in
the NBA specifically because very few opportunities for everybody else
to do it. You know, we go to the Astros
postgame media session all the time during the postseason, posing players,
coaches or managers, astros whomever. Pre postgame happens in every

(01:37:47):
Major League Baseball postseason scenario. But they put these microphones,
these little tiny bendable movement where you want, but you
cannot pick it up and hold it. Microphones the podiums
in the NFL the same, you're not taking the microphone
out and holding it. In the NBA, it's different, and
especially for the rockets who even in their everyday sessions,

(01:38:09):
not just for the postseason. You are an absolute megastar
if you do your postgame press conferences or your media availabilities.
When you're seated at the table with the microphone in
your hand. You don't lean over to wherever they've put it,
you don't readjust it so it fits your height, but
you take it out of its mic stand and you
sit comfortably. You recline and you answer the questions, and

(01:38:31):
you properly handle the mic so it picks up your audio.
Not someone who has no idea. They're holding the mic
and you have to actually, during your TV interview live
push their elbow up so their microphone gets closer to
their face. Nikola Jokic does this when he doesn't break it.
He's done that before, and a few other megastars. We'll
do the very push back a little bit. Jerk did
it and KD did it the other day. Yeah, but

(01:38:52):
I need to push back the push You don't have
to be a superstar. Who else does it? Jeff Green?
You can't drop the mic if you're not holding it
or a legend he is, he's a legend. Well, and
that's that is true. The last question he was active
asked we brought this up yesterday was if he had
any interest in coaching, and he gave a quick, one
word guffaw answer no and walked out. Hell, Kevin Durant

(01:39:16):
did a mic drop with Matt and Ross yep, because
the last comment requested of him was from Ross, So
what do you think about arch? He but he he recovered,
he rallied in the midst of the sentence. He's he
paused because now, if you're unaware, Texas is absolutely his
school for everything. Loves Austin, loves the forty Acres, loves

(01:39:39):
the athletics. He's been on the sidelines many times, knows
plenty about the program. Obviously he's a big basketball supporter. Still,
he has ties to the programs to this day because
of one of the assistant coaches who he played with,
has a son now who's a huge recruit, and that
all came to a head this week. A bunch of
pictures were posted on socials this week of Durant and TJ.

(01:40:04):
Ford and DJ Augustine and another member of the Rockets
coaching staff and this person they played with, Chris Ogden,
all while they were teammates together on the forty eight
with this kid the sweet sixteen. Oh that's right, Rick Barnes.
Oh that's right. He played one year. Well yeah, but
that one year. I mean, come on, you're Kevin Durant.
You're the number two pick in the draft because the

(01:40:24):
Blazers are stupid. Come on, you're Kevin Durant. You're not
the number one pick. Still sounds hilarious. Other piece of
news which can also fall on the Wednesday's BS category,
the Texans and Ravens finally were able to publish their
injury report for Wednesday. Mentioned three players were not practicing
for the Texans. Knew the reason for sting his oblique

(01:40:45):
still the reason they want to keep them off the
practice field. He may go through the walkthrough on Friday,
and then I'm sure he'll be another game time like decision,
and hopefully with no aggravation, he'll be back out there
on Sunday. Didn't know why fully pun Akasi was not
practicing today, but it's because of a shoulder issue. Don't
know the severity of it. Obviously that would limit some
of the work they try to do from a depth standpoint.
He's in the second group that comes in for Settle

(01:41:07):
and Rankins, who have been their starters throughout the first
four games, but a very good rotation of very talented
players TOJII player I mentioned earlier, and the reason for
Will Anderson Junior needing to not practice today and manage things,
according to Demico Ryans, is nothing not injury related to
nearly rest. Okay, so what they're managing is he's playing

(01:41:30):
at an extremely high level and having him off of
his feet for a Wednesday practice might help him stay
at that level. Hopefully there is no other minor injury
that they neglected to mention, which they would not ever
do because you're not supposed to do that. But I
love it. That's just rest, and I think this is
probably what we will see most of, if not the
entire rest of the season. Cooper Rush is managing to

(01:41:51):
take some tilent all then Cooper Rush not on the
injury report for the Baltimore Ravens. For other Texans were listed.
Both of the players that had their practice windows opened
to today, so they were limited participants. Harrison Bryan, who
spent a little bit of time in the Texans medical
tent during the game but did return. It looked like
maybe it was an elbow injury or some sort of
arm injury, like maybe his arm got caught in a tackle.

(01:42:14):
Listed as a shoulder here, and Nico Collins listed is
limited with a knee again, something that I think it's
more managing. Why go full bore on Wednesday? Maybe ramping
up on a Thursday, which is typical for NFL teams,
and then again light on Friday, head out out there
on game Day. Eight Ravens did not participate in practice today.
And remember and Madabuque is not among them because he's

(01:42:37):
on the injury list now. He's not going to play
this game. He's not going to play any games the
remainder of the season. Three hamstring injuries. We know about
two of them. Rokwan Smith, Lamar Jackson, but a woozy
their corner also with a hamstring injury. No practice today.
Their secondary was missing him. Marlon Humphrey with a calf
injury very unlikely he plays. Nate Wiggins with the elbow

(01:42:58):
injury that he left last week's game with. Seems like
a stretch to get him back on the field. Ronnie
Stanley didn't play practice today because of his ankle injury.
In their full back Patrick Card also with a CAF injury.
A bunch of other players were limited but far less
likely to miss the game.

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
Like, I know that this doesn't solve anything with regards
to the Texans offense. All it does is make the
defensive unit that was already not good a little bit
weaker from a depth standpoint and from a depth chart standpoint.
But like, it feels like if you don't win this game,

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it's gonna be somehow embarrassing for the Texans. And I
never thought I'd say that going into this year.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
Well, what's embarrassing is he'll be one and four. There's
no way around that. You're right. The particulars of losing
a game to a team who can't stop anybody and
is playing with Cooper Rush is pretty embarrassing. And that
was with Lamar Jackson. Yeah, they're one of these teams.
Is gonna head into Week six with a one and
four record or one three and one, and it's gonna
be embarrassing for who they thought they would be this
year and what they hope to still accomplish this year.

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And the Texans that better make sure that is not them.
But again, the same thing is going in the other
locker room. They're going to make sure it is not them.
So a lot to get to CJ. Stroud specifically. That
is what we will do next here from your quarterback,
balancing out things offensively. We'll see what he has to
say about.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
It next the eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
So I'm trying to figure out if this was sent
during the break indeed, and it wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:44:40):
I'm laid on it again. This is what happens when
I don't refresh my screen. I was thinking that the
injury report just was released, but it wasn't. That was
four twenty four.

Speaker 4 (01:44:50):
Well, how did I go through it all? Last segment?

Speaker 13 (01:44:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
I was just guessing.

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
No, I thought you were talking about people that were
already in the you know, on the list from the
last twenty four hours. So it's the first one. It's Wednesday,
I know, trust me, I know we you know what
we did today. Just to give you an idea of
what's going on at my house. Nobody cares about this,
but it's my show.

Speaker 4 (01:45:11):
So to one pm, what do you do each day?
Or what'd you do? Let me tell you what happened today.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
So the mother in law is still in town from
last weekend where it was Carson's birthday party. And when
I say it was his birthday weekend, I really mean
from like Friday after I left here at six oh
one until, like you said, basically Nonstine And this is
selling up celebrated second weekend in a row where it

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wasn't a weekend and last weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
I mean, God, bless her. I love her.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
I'm glad she's doing well. But we are so sick
of Austin right now. We've gone like three weekends out
of the last four or five.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
Glen palle thinks it's a great place to be. It
is if you live there.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
I don't want to drive there every weekend from Houston
and when you get there, it's NonStop until you drive back.

Speaker 4 (01:45:58):
Neither do I. So I have someone else.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Yeah, I'm starting. I'm never gonna get to that point.
But I see, I see you working. At least you
get those hours.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
Okay, So weekend full of fun and birthday. So like
this morning, I think it finally caught up to all
of us. I mean, my mother in law, it's different.
You know, she's she's there, She's just I was actually
surprised the most at her. I dropped him off at school,
and I could already hear Teresa saying, I think I'm
gonna lay back down for a little bit once you

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guys leave the house because I'm just tired. Yeah, I'm
just resting my eyes. Yeah. Well she wasn't. She's full on.

Speaker 5 (01:46:34):
Like I get home and the house is like deathly quiet.
They both went back to sleep. So guess what I did.
You went back to sleep?

Speaker 4 (01:46:44):
Yeah, baby, and it shows when I wake up it's
like it was. But my brain still hasn't caught up
on the rest. That's the problem. So even my body
feels you're still not caught up, like I'm all right,
almost the end of your work day.

Speaker 7 (01:46:57):
Eh.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
People don't get it, and like you don't even work
a real job. That's true, that's not the part I'm
talking about. We work a real job. I'm at work,
currently working. I know that WEX takes this way seriously,
way more seriously than I ever will. Let's be fun,
but it's yeah, it's it's not work. I was fun

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watching Fernando Tattiss chase down that line drive to keep
the game three nothing. By the way, Athletics reliever Mason
Miller who was traded to the Padres at the deadline
one o two outside of the zone. He retired five
batters in the game tonight before being lifted after he
hit the sixth batter that he faced. Each of the
five batters he retired, he retired via the strikeout, which

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he has been doing non stop. What this post was
the not even the closer? What was the entrance velocity
of the pitch that hit the batter? It seemed all right,
he just headed down to first. One would have been
too bad. Oh, it was only eighty seven. These guys
were arming on a second. Let me tell you something.
If you get hit by Mason Miller and it's only

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eighty seven miles prior, do you know, Lucky? You want
you to do what you did yesterday? All right? Wex
how much would it take for you to get hit
by a Mason Miller pitch the day after you had
to get hit by a ziz Al Shaire. Now we're
doing this in back to back days? Are both times?
So I can't wait till tomorrow's show. Who what am
I going to be up against tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (01:48:21):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
What's got to be an NBA? Who are you taking
a charge from?

Speaker 10 (01:48:23):
Steven Adams or KDI.

Speaker 4 (01:48:24):
I'll take a charge this year from Zion. Take a
charge from KAD. I'll take a charge this year from Zion.
I probably wouldn't have last year, No, because you'd survived
this year. The big who's the biggest player in the NBA.
Valentchunas is kind of a yeah player I wouldn't want
to take a charge from. I'm not too worried about
Steven Adams, because how do you take a charge against him?
He stands by the basket and jumps straight up and

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drops the ball in, and he does occasional pick and rolls.
Maybe there's your opportunity, but not that often. It's more like,
do you want to have a screen set on you
by Steven? I don't. Yeah, I don't either, but uh again,
we'll save that tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:48:59):
There's probably amount that you could pay me where I would.

Speaker 4 (01:49:02):
There's a lot of former NBA players that would make
for a much better answer, because it does seem like
it's a less soft of a league, larger, angrier violent
collisions than versus what we have now. Yeah, two words,
Carl Malone. Yeah, I could do without that. An absolute criminal,
apparently on and off the floor, no doubt if you're

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into certain things.

Speaker 5 (01:49:23):
Okay, So yeah, all of that is to say, I
completely missed the injury report and it looks it's nice
to see now that it's visually here in front of me.

Speaker 4 (01:49:32):
I wish you could see that like.

Speaker 5 (01:49:33):
This, this published book here is all Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (01:49:38):
Yeah, they, like I said, eight players did not practice today.
I think a lot of the eight are in question
for the game, and then includes Roquan Smith, includes Nate Wiggins,
includes Marlon Humphrey, and includes Lamar Jackson. That is extremely noteworthy.
The Texans are probably not in that situation with a
single player. I'm not sure the extent of Foley's injury,
so maybe speaking a touchout of turn there, but the

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only other players didn't participate. It's more to try to
get Stingley to the field Sunday, just like they did
last week with the oblique. I don't think he aggravated
to the point that it is in jeopardy that he
wouldn't play, but you've also moved one week closer to well,
if he doesn't play this game now, he gets two
weeks off. Week six is the Texans off week, so
that might be under some consideration, and I hope the
quarterback for the other team is not a factor, and

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I don't think the Texans would play it that way either.
There'll be an internal decision, not a factors of the
other team decision. And well Anderson didn't practice to day
due to rest. Two of the four players who were
limited were guys that were just coming off of are
just having their practice window open. So it's more about
where they are and their recovery and they just haven't
been practicing. Where they're on their recovery is they're probably

(01:50:43):
healthy enough to play, but are they up to speed
with what they need to be to get out there.
That's Naniko Autry and Jalen Reed. Obviously, Autry is one
of the few players they have they feel pretty comfortable with,
I think playing at either spot. It's hard to say
how they envision him this year, but he took snaps
at both places last year quite a bit at defensive tackle.
And that he hasn't practiced at all during camp or

(01:51:06):
during the season practice at all. Yeah, he sounded like
a two day I want to make it into a
worse Wexler like commercial for the Astros, Like, I mean,
we didn't make the playoffs at all, because he sounded
so bad like Jordan Alvarez, He's not out there at all.
I mean, and in this case he would say, I mean,

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we need to win at the end of the season.
But Jeremy Panio wasn't healthy at all. I hope that
Carlos is back in the mix next season, you know,
before all the CJ stuff, we'll drop into football at
five some of the things he had to say about
the Ravens, but he brought up Carlos kore and we
didn't play it yesterday, and it was pretty significant. Although
I think we would have already known this was likely

(01:51:48):
the case, but Joe said it out loud. He spends
time with some key veteran players and includes them in
key baseball decisions. How do we want to approach things,
not necessarily with the roster, but more about what do
we want to do with our theories on how to
make this team better? What do we want our batters
to employ when they get into the batter's box. What

(01:52:08):
do we want them to do? This is how we
want our team to play and going to it bats
and whether it's patients or hitting behind runners or literally
what we want to do. He said, he's going to
be on the phone with Carlos Korea, probably in the next
couple of days, and these are the things he wants
to talk to him about, he said. Joe said, I
want to include players in some of these decisions, and
Carlos is obviously one of them. I think everybody's hopeful

(01:52:29):
that they get the offense Carlos that they got this year,
not the one that the Minnesota Twins got this year.
They're gonna get the glove they got, and my goodness,
it shouldn't look as easy as it does. But with
Jeremy Panna out, they just shifted him right back over
to shortstop. And I know he played shortstop most of
this year, but man, he is so remarkable on that

(01:52:49):
side of the diamond. And they can be so remarkably
good on that side of the diamond for a second
consecutive season. One of the very few things they don't
really have to worry about if everything stays the same
three of those four infield positions, but Carlos and maybe
a few others. I'm sure Jose Altuve will be involved
with Joe Aspada on major baseball decisions this upcoming off season.

(01:53:11):
We got to talk to the quarterback CJ. Stroud Ravens Texans,
who gets to two wins. We'll talk to CJ.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
Next the A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:53:24):
He's a violent runner. He's he earns what's there and
then you don't tackle him.

Speaker 5 (01:53:29):
He just decides, all right, I guess I'll go down
because someone's made contact. But I do not envy, you know,
linebackers or whoever that has to bring that guy down.
He is a beast. And I think it's like, you're like,
we're kind of alluding to here, late pickup, late draft pickup.
That's really gonna pay off handsomely for that. Like I said,

(01:53:50):
I can look the answer up.

Speaker 4 (01:53:51):
I'm sure, but I would guess that this is one
of maybe two or three times that's happened the entire season.
He hit twenty five carries last week. How many twenty
five carry games do you think there've been this entire
season through four weeks. It's just not the same NFL.
Hardly anybody does it now. He only caught two passes
the week before. He had sixteen touches the week before thirteen.
But it's all been a ramp up. Didn't find the

(01:54:12):
end zone this past week. But yeah, now if he
is one of the this goes to the original point
we made to open this segment talking about wood he marks,
and you know it even goes further, like Scattabooz middle
is his raft running back perfect Now, you're not upset
with what you have at running back, You're perfectly fine
with it. You're paying him next to nothing. The Texans
have not done this twice with Nick Cassario. The roster

(01:54:33):
spot that what he marks is taking is Damian Pierce's
Damian Pierce was what he marks three years ago. Now
his contract, he's headed into his final year. You're able
to replicate the production and the position at an extremely
low cost. That's why I was just about to say.

Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
Twenty five carries per game will absolutely contribute to him
not getting extended by the Giants, and he'll just be
the latest big time usage guy that does not get
big money from them.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
New York. They probably are writing backpage articles should they
extend Cam Scatavo.

Speaker 5 (01:55:06):
Well, but I'm just saying, you bore this out and
the usage and the numbers, and he's not Saquon Barkley.
It's not meaning situation like that. But a productive guy
that you are essentially running into the ground if you're
giving it to him twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:55:18):
I mean he's dominic Da twenty five carries in a
game and it is a season high. There have been
three games and players with twenty five priers to keep
doing that. With Jackson Dart as my quarterback, he only
average three point two yards of pop. Well, it's just
getting started. That's stinky if you are unaware. In case
you missed it, is next in the deats on the
tickets we have to give away for you. Also comes

(01:55:39):
your way next here on the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:55:50):
In case you missed it, flies at you each and
every weekday afternoon at halfway through the final hour of
the program here at five point thirty in case you
missed it. When the Yankees don't have to face a
left handed pitcher and thus make their lineup accordingly, they
are a better baseball team offensively. Yesterday Garrett Crochet was
able to hand the ball to a role as Chapman

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nothing but pitches from lefties, and it showed. Yankees got
an opposite field home run from Anthony Volpi and nothing else,
and they lost three to one today. Right handed pitchers
starting for the Boston Red Sox and a first inning
two run homer for me George ben Rice, who did
not see the field in Game one. He sucks that's
from the left side, and Boone thought it'd be best

(01:56:32):
to keep him on the sidelines. Can we to put
him out there? Today? Was there?

Speaker 10 (01:56:38):
So he took it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:38):
They lead to nothing and currently Carlos Shradan twenty one
pitches into the game working on perfection. Real likable guy,
working on perfection. Six up. How many Delta Bravos are
on their roster? Seriously, I'm just gonna take the starting
line up today. Mustachio, Trent Grisham put a tally Mark.
That's one. Arson Judge. I don't think he's a Delta Bravo.

(01:57:02):
I like him very nice in unpopular taking Houston. I
think he's a nice guy. I think you know who
bats third very much adulta giant Delta Bravo, the Jeff
Spacoli of Major League Baseball. Cody Bellinger bats third. That's two,
mister hand Ben the home run hitter. Yeah, he's a kid,

(01:57:25):
he's a movie. He's a New Yankee door keep Carlo
huge Delta Bravo is a big one. Uh, he's definitely
not the biggest on the thin I don't. I don't
agree at all. Actually, he's almost likable as a yank.
How do you mean because he doesn't do any of
this stuff? Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:57:43):
Do you?

Speaker 11 (01:57:44):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:57:44):
Are all these soundbites of him complaining about science? He
has a punishable face, that's okay. He has a giant head,
you know what. You know why he hasn't had all
And maybe he said something and I missed it. But
he's not really known for talking down to the cheating
teams and Astros' cheater. He's roy up. I work with
smart people. Yeah, Jazz Chi del To Bravo.

Speaker 10 (01:58:05):
I actually like Jazz.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
No, you don't. You just think you do chiens a
lineup today rather than gets into the lineup later in
the game like you did yesterday. Had a monster season
this year, but not good enough to wield a bat
against Garrett Crochet. Austin Wells Delta Bravo. Mustache.

Speaker 10 (01:58:23):
You have a mustache like that?

Speaker 4 (01:58:24):
You automatic? Vince McMahon's long lost cousin, Ryan plays third base,
acquired from the Rockies to shortstop because he's last Why
because he's first, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:58:34):
McMahon's not.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
He's fine, Yeah, Anthony Volpi.

Speaker 8 (01:58:36):
He's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
So, in case you missed it, a lot of e's
and bees in the starting lineup.

Speaker 5 (01:58:41):
Two knights of the starting lineup are not Delta bravos
for the Yankees, and their picture is a huge Delta bravo.

Speaker 4 (01:58:49):
In case you cheated, now slides in the hands of
Cole Thompson. What do you have?

Speaker 6 (01:58:55):
Cole? C J. Stroud continue to speak at the podium.

Speaker 10 (01:58:58):
Was asked about the.

Speaker 6 (01:59:00):
That have come to the offense, one of which is
the sounds of the communication kind of picking up a
little bit more speed now four games into the regular
season under Nick Keeley's offense.

Speaker 8 (01:59:09):
Yeah, just like I said, it's always improvement you can
have there, and it's part of it, you know, like
new relationship with coordinator and quarterback. So you don't always
just come in and have a easy time on the mic.
Sometimes sometimes it goes out, sometimes I have to call
a play or whatever happens. It's just always about getting

(01:59:30):
it fixed and just trying to move the ball forward.
So yeah, it's just something I think that you don't
want to happen. But I think it's good sometimes because
you learn from it and then you get better.

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
I think it was in the late stages, is the
second quarter. The Texans had just completed the past is
Xavier Hutchinson got him a first down about three minutes
left first and ten from the Tennessee forty one, and
they called time out. I think that's when he was
what he was just talking about, there was all the
good things that happened. I think they had an issue

(02:00:01):
where the play didn't come in on time. There was
some miscommunication on maybe the personnel. Trying to remember the
exact scenario, but what I recall quite clearly is after
the whistle had been blown and they were in a
time out, he was walking over to the sidelines with
his palms up, you know, hands up, like come on,
He's like, what are we doing here? You guys have
got to do this right or we've got it, And
he was obviously headed over to talk to Tamiko and

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Nick Kyley and the rest of the offense that comes
off of the sidelines. Most of the rest of the
offense on the field stays in the huddle. But that
was one instance where and it hadn't happened often this year.
I don't think it happened a bunch last year either
where there was just some clear miscommunication resulting in the
need for an offensive timeout. Usually their offensive timeouts come
properly at the end of the half on a two
minute drive, or because they have taken too long to

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make their decision on what to do on third or
fourth and shorter in between third and fourth down. I
should say hadn't really happened a whole lot this year.
They've been pretty convicted about what they'd like to do.
And Nick Cayley again, he's doing all this for the
first time. He's working on the sidelines making his play calls.
There's timing involved. You want to give the quarterback to
a chance to get to the line now that he
has this much control, as we know that he has

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well in order to make checks at the line and
see what you want to see and point out the
mic and get your offensive line all squared away. And
you can't be getting to the line of scrimmage with
less than ten seconds on the play clock. And I
think for the most part, they've done a pretty good
job there.

Speaker 6 (02:01:23):
What else, so we know that there is a love
hate relationship currently out in Philadelphia with AJ Brown. Everyone
talks about him being a beloved locker room culture guy.
People think he is a phenomenal receiver and they doesn't
get the ball. And then he goes and send some
crypto tweets out there that pisses off everybody, including the fans,
and so recently he had to apologize for yet another

(02:01:45):
cryptic tweet that came on over said that he loves
this place. He did to himself he sees the frustration.
We want to be a great team. I want to
be a factor to it. Well, apparently Philadelphia has kind
of heard enough of it because, according to ESPN Jeremy Fowler,
even though he has three years up on a ninety
six million dollars contract, some expects that he has spoken
to say that Philadelphia could trade Brown in season, but

(02:02:07):
they definitely think it's going to be.

Speaker 10 (02:02:09):
Something that will happen in the off season.

Speaker 6 (02:02:10):
It's sort of the worst kept secret in the NFL
that the Brown love hate relationship with Philadelphia's passing game
has finally reached its end and everyone is pretty much
upset and kind of done with them.

Speaker 4 (02:02:21):
Laugh so hard is traded back to the Titans like
they could do somebody that's talented, that's for sure. But
clearly after they traded for John Metchi, the need for
AJ Brown is no longer there, so he'll he'll take
that spot next year. No, this is such a good inning.
The collapses on and in case you missed it, it
was extremely intentional because of the powers that the microphone wields.

(02:02:45):
He's got a perfect game through two innings, six up,
six down. Well, three batters have headed to the plate
this inning, and they're all on the basis right now.
How are they reviewing this? Aaron Boone? Oh, I've got
Aaron Boone just he's looking at it from their own
video people to see if it's worth reviewing. Okay, which
it is. I was like, okay, they might fire him

(02:03:07):
right there if he does that. AJ Brown, in their
four wins in four games this year, has a one
catch game, a two catch game, a twenty seven yards
of receiving game, and his team just had a game
where they had zero completions in the final thirty minutes.
How many cryptic tweets he has, so let me ask
you this, I think three. How much of just him

(02:03:31):
being on the field, one of the eleven that's on
the field when they call their plays and execute their plays.
How much is it helping them in that they're not
getting helped by his production other than in Week three
against the Rams, which they needed in order to win,
they're getting Are they getting enough help by simply the
defense has to account for him. You're gonna have one
guy maybe staying with him, You're gonna have get it
matters because of who he is. But the production is

(02:03:53):
it's not just limited, it's outrageously limited. And to a
certain extent, I could say the same thing about the
guy up opposite him. DeVante Smith and aj Brown four
weeks into the season have seventeen and fourteen catches respectively.
They both had two catches last week. They're four to
oh and Saquon hasn't even gone off either. First world

(02:04:17):
football problems for sure. Oh, they're the defending champs too.
I hope you've been listening closely. This hour. Your opportunity
to win tickets to Monster Jam and to go see
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Speaker 1 (02:04:31):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (02:04:40):
A couple things to react to on social before we
give away some tickets here. First of all, this is
Colton number one at Colton number one, big fan.

Speaker 4 (02:04:55):
She had lots of interest in our program and our
posts on the X platform, so very much appreciated.

Speaker 5 (02:05:01):
This is why you two are the absolute best for sure,
pure comedy gold at the highest.

Speaker 4 (02:05:07):
Level of degree.

Speaker 5 (02:05:11):
He calls himself Lord Colton of Gallifray, and he accompanied
it with a video he took off his television of
me losing my mind.

Speaker 4 (02:05:21):
Look what I have to put up with every single day,
and it was me being me. I knew where the
red light was. And then this isn't as nice. Joe
tweets in and says, kids don't know Ludacris as a rapper.
They know him as Chris Bridges, the actor class of
ninety seven. So at least he's with me being old
again before we hit the giveaway for Monster Jam tickets

(02:05:44):
along with Pitt passes and tickets to go see the
Koogs and Red Raiders. Is there something obvious at the
top of his best works on his IMDb page as
an actor? Well campaign, okay, not the.

Speaker 6 (02:06:01):
I mean it's it's got to deal with his family, right,
I Just like he is listening actor and he's been
in plenty of things.

Speaker 4 (02:06:07):
Now is something that my problems is his best work.

Speaker 5 (02:06:10):
I'm not a Fast and Furious franchise fan, so I can't.
I'm not gonna say that's his best because it's my worst.
All right, It's just not Your dad loves those movies.
He's like, ooh, a sixteenth one is coming out.

Speaker 4 (02:06:24):
I can't wait. Let's go to the theater.

Speaker 10 (02:06:26):
You're not excited to see them in space?

Speaker 4 (02:06:27):
No, that's the only thing they haven't done, right. They're
gonna get a move over and drive around on the
on the cheese up there.

Speaker 10 (02:06:34):
You don't like him in Hustle and Flow.

Speaker 5 (02:06:36):
I never saw it, which should tell you how I
feel about the movie, all right, neither way.

Speaker 4 (02:06:41):
Tickets to give away to go see Monster Jam got
a four pack of tickets for that, along with pitt
passes that event as per usual over at NRG Stadium.
This is taking place on October eighteenth. Tickets on sale
now at ticketmaster dot com. Can win those if you
know the answer to this question, or can win these
A pair of tickets to see the Cougars Houston. Houston
blue uniform is gonna be on display. The field has

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been painted it's sweet Texas Tech's coming to town. It's
family Night this Saturday, October fourth, t d e CU Stadium.
You can get tickets at uhcougars dot com, slash tickets
or by calling seven to one three go Koog's, or
you could win them here. Come on early, be loud,
where your Houston blue. It's four and oh against four

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and Oh. I'll be out there as well. It comes.
Swing by the butt light tailgate area before the game
and we'll share an ice cold, refreshing one. If you
see me out there, I will be out there and
looking forward to another Cougar's game and victory. I've been
to two games, they've won them both. I've also missed
two games. They've won both of those. That's all they
do is win. Hopefully that's you two seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety. Because Ac has an
affinity for the Yankees, loves them so much, he wanted
to run through their starting lineup today and count off
how many of the nine were Delta Bravos. We determined
seven were two were not. Of the seven he and
Cole determined were Delta Bravos, which one of those seven

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did Ac light up the most about make his loudest, oh,
absolutely noise about. When asked which of these Yankees are
Delta Bravos, one, very very clear and obvious one. He's
currently at bat in the game they're playing. There's your hint.
And while it is five fifty now on the program
here locally Central time zone, he's a very his favorite

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time of the day is four twenty. Why do you
always give the most obvious hints? These people don't even
have to work for these tickets, Like come on and
why listen? Wex is just gonna tell you the answer.
I didn't tell them the answer, Yes you did. I
did not you did four twenty just calling into win tickets. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
what what's your guess? Is this cold? Yes? What's your guess?

Speaker 12 (02:08:52):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (02:08:52):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (02:08:53):
Giancarlo Stanton click click exactly. But that's like if it
was me, like if the answer was Air and Judge,
which it's not. I'm trying to give these tickets away.
I've got the night capture prepare for. We're winding the showdown.
What's your guests? Hey, man, Cole, it's great talk to you.
Click next. Ye, Well that's that's true too.

Speaker 5 (02:09:13):
I'd be like if you had said, and the answer
was Aaron Judge, Hey, who's the most gigantic member of
the lineup, both in stature and swings and misses in
the postseason.

Speaker 4 (02:09:25):
So somebody asked me on the X platform today was
his name? Rhyme's with Judge? Who was asking me about
something about Texans practice, because obviously some of the things
I'd posted indicated I was out there, and they made
the trade for Cam Robinson, They've signed Jared Kingston. It
was his first practice, and so the question was how's
Trent Brown looking out there? And I had specifically videoed

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him on his way to the practice field. They come
out of the bubble in the hip field too, so
it's a little short, little jog into their stretching lines.
And I said, his question was how's he looking? And
so my first word of my caption back to him
was huge. This guy is a giant, and when he's
walking next to his NFL player teammates, they look like
little cure clipsing them. Yes, he is absolutely huge. But

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I also had to add in my answer, I don't
know how to answer that question because we don't get
to see him practice. He was a puppulist player throughout
the entire training camp, so he wasn't getting reps with
the team. He came off the pup list for the season.
But we don't really get to see them practice. We
get to see them warm up, go through their install

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which we can't shoot, and shortly after that we're sent inside.
How what's his What are his dimensions? I couldn't tell
you what he weighs, but he has previously been listed
at three eighty. Well, I don't think he's three eighty.
I think he's less than that. But he's tall and
he's huge.

Speaker 5 (02:10:44):
I hope the public address announcer at Florida and M
University doesn't see him, because otherwise he'll make an unsavory joke.

Speaker 4 (02:10:50):
About him and be reprimanded for it. Suspended two games, yes,
and ten thousand dollars. Fine. Well, he made a very
unnecessary and insensitive honey remark about the honey bees. You
should not have said that there's no place for that,
as he was told with his punishment. I disagree there

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is a place for it, like on SNL or that's
not a comedy club. What he specifically said was not
necessarily offensive unless you choose to get offended by it
if you think and you don't. Sometimes you're overwhelmed by
Oh my god, we gotta do something. Look how everybody's
reacted to this. Oh I didn't realize how bad it
was at the time, but everybody's honest under this. There

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was a very clear and noticeable reaction in State. It
wasn't a smattering of boobee.

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
No.

Speaker 4 (02:11:39):
You could clearly see the videos if you've seen them,
of the comment being made, and how those closest to
the person whose cellular phone device was used to capture
the video, there were somebody sitting near them, but you
can hear the whole stadium.

Speaker 5 (02:11:50):
I bet if what he said, and if you guys
know the story, you know I'm not gonna say it
on the air because they don't pay me. If what
he said then led to them getting some sort of
endorsement from that company, they should thank him.

Speaker 4 (02:12:06):
That's how I look at him. If they, I mean they, yeah,
you're right, it could work. Sprended for two games for
a joke which he shouldn't have made in that setting.
He'll be back in two games. Why can't you look
at it that way? He's docked that pay he is docked.
There was a fine, and I mean it was probably
fifty dollars a game he was getting, doesn't I don't
know what PA announcers make. It depends where you're pa ing.

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Somebody get Jonathan Sanford on the on the form on
the horn. Busy man, the pipes are about to get
used doubly time now, been working over in the forty
acres how a center? Which one does he miss on
a conflicting game night there? Obviously there aren't very many.
I mean, how you know how many home games are
on a college football team schedule. Yeah, but there's gonna
be a night where those Longhorns and the Rockets play.

(02:12:49):
I'm sure he's worked that out with his employers. Which
one did he miss? I need to know these things.
We'll find out when it happens. The wait till tomorrow
to find that out. All right? Oh, got a night
cap coming your way yet again tonight out the week
with no Rockets basketball. Yet that changes next week on
Monday when they hit the court for the first time
in the preseason. But Cole's got you for the night
cap that comes your way. Immediately after I stopped talking, which, yeah,

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it's now

Speaker 2 (02:13:14):
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