Texans Rocked In For A Win? What Comes Next For Rockets?

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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Is Talking your Teams?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's a Halloween Eve edition of the A Team Sports
Talk seven ninety. We'll be on Space City Home Network
about an hour from now. He's wex I may see
Cole Thompson as our producer as per usual, and we
are taking you until six o'clock tonight, full four hours,
not like yesterday where the matinee began.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Early on for Rockets coverage.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
And then just like I told you, wex they went
there and they smashed the Toronto Raptors last night. You
were on the call, and I'm listening to it as
I'm going about what we had planned last night. I
went back and I watched probably most of the first
half last night before I finally had to just like
tap out and go to sleep because by that time

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it was like one o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
But man, I know it was the Raptors.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I know they're a terrible basketball team probably not as
terrible as a record indicates.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I still think they have some talent. I mean, Brandon, it's.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Not about talent, it's about trying to play winning basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Which they do not do.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
And you know I was thinking about I almost texted
you this. Oh look, Brandon Ingram scoring twenty nine points
again for a team that's never gonna win anything, just
like he did in New Orleans.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
Sure, but he does it so effectively it's hard to
get down on him. I mean, the guy made his
first seven.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Shot his fault. Yeah, no, he's really really good. It
was on that end. They don't play any defense. I don't.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
I don't really, And I know we have our own
arbiter of NBA basketball, who I love dearly, Kevin Durant
to push back on that. But you know, watching the
way that teams are attempting to defend the other teams,
especially the bad teams, they're not really putting the effort
into executing these defensive sets and executing their individual defense.
And that's why I don't know that the referees have

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to do this. But that's why fouling is up. They're
calling so much more. The Rockets took advantage of that.
They beat a team that probably can't expect to shoot
any better in a game, and they beat a team
that they were never a threat of losing to, certainly
not in the second half. Had a seven point lead
going into the half, had a double figure lead most
of the second half. Occasionally it dipped to nine, but

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never below that. They were just never in any jeopardy
for a team taking a ton of threes and making
a ton of threes, but they didn't stop you. The
Rockets were not stopped pretty much the entire night. Absolutely
smashed them on the glass, probably more severely than they
will even over the next seventy eight games. They shot
fifty seven point five percent. The game before they shot

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fifty seven point six percent. It's incredible what you're able
to do when the other team's not putting the kind
of effort necessary into on the other end of the court.
These guys are good, as they say, these offensive talents
in the NBA, and the Rockets have a bunch of them.
Now they're just too good not to put effort into
on the defensive end, or that's what's going to happen. Well,
the Rockets aren't going to average one hundred and thirty

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eight points a game like they're averaging this week.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'm telling you, wex what did we talk about all offseason?
We talked about it last year, and it bled into
Media Day and anything that was being talked about during
the preseason, especially about this team, and it started to
kind of show itself. We all thought the Rockets would
just resume being an amazing defensive juggernaut. I don't think

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anybody predicted they'd be an offensive juggernaut. It's not just
that they're averaging what did you say, one hundred and
thirty eight this week? Which is a joke, obviously tongue
in cheek all that, but it's not acted real. It's efficient.
It's not just the points they have. The number one
what net efficiency rating in the NBA right.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
Now, most people, if you're only allowed to look at
one number, if you want to determine who has the
best offense in the NBA, you'll use offensive rating. The
Rockets of the number one team in offensive raids the
bullet Again, you've played only four games. You had a
good offensive raiding, reasonably good offensive rating in your first
two games, and then you've had an insanely good offensive
rating in your last two games, you played crappy team,

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you played well. You played teams that don't care to
keep you from scoring. The Nets have some talented individuals, yes,
and the Raptors clearly, I mean RJ. Barrett and Scottie
Barnes and branding Ingram. Well, they're all going to score
twenty points a game. It looks like this year for
the year because they don't have anybody else and these
guys are effective, efficient scores. They're all shooting over fifty
percent this year. Do you notice that this is a

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league wide thing? But you can score all you want,
Dallas Cowboys. If you can't stop the other team from scoring,
you're turning your opponent into the best offensive team in
the NBA or NFL. Well, every time you play a game,
it doesn't even matter who they are, it's about who
you are defenseless. And every time it looks like the

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Rockets play a defenseless team, well, they're probably gonna have
a very good chance of winning. Would have been nice
if they played well enough to rest guys late, which
they unfortunately did not have a chance to do. It's
pretty tight rotation at this point in time. Eight plus
Capella a little bit. They do have a couple of
days off spend it in Toronto before making their way
to Boston to take on a fairly competitive but somewhat

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depleted Celtics team, and matchup wise, they're gonna need to
out hustle Houston because they are a little bit like Toronto.
They are small, they do not have a lot of size,
and the Rockets are burying teams that don't have a
lot of size.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, this is kind of what we were talking about
yesterday with like the Spurs schedule and how I don't
think they're going to lose for a long long time
because they're like the Rockets I'm getting I'm getting low
key excited about They're fattening their own schedule, let's put
it that way.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
But it's with them.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
It has less to do with the talent level of
the opponent and a whole lot more to do with
the fact that this offense with Kevin Durant, which by
the way, is learning on the fly if you will.
I mean, they're not learning how to be individually good
basketball players. I think Kevin Durant's got that on lock
for you know, close to two decades now. Not nothing

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like that, but just you know, I think they have
a chance to do some really amazing stuff on an
end of the floor that I thought would get better
with Durant's arrival. But I just didn't know that it
would be you know, to me again, it's double overtime.
So when you see that they scored one hundred and
twenty four against Oka, see it's a little bit it's
a little bit skewed. But Detroit's a good defensive basketball

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team and you still put up one eleven. I know,
in today's NBA standards, that's probably an off night. But
going to Boston, then they got Dallas Memphis. I mean,
I like the potential of what could be happening soon,
but not nearly as much as I liked two out
of the first three pitches throwing the World Series last night.
What a great set of texts I got from you.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, both of the things that you want to learn
about in a game. In the first inning, you were
able to figure out pretty quickly. Will Toronto's young, inexperienced
starting pitcher have it tonight? Yes, His top of the
first inning was exactly what happened over his final six
innings of work. He was sensational twelve k's totally dominant.

(07:30):
They had won at bat with a runner in scoring
position the entire time he was out there. He was
insanely in control of everything.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Now, do Blake Snell?

Speaker 6 (07:39):
He threw three pitches, well, Blake Snell, I know people
are going to look at his line and say he
pitched poorly.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
He did not.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
He pitched very well, but two of his first three
pitches were hit over the fence.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
He had a Fromber game in that regard, where he'll
give up some crap at the beginning of his tenure
and then by the end of the night he's got
a nice efficient line.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
But it doesn't matter because the damage has been done early.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Does that make sense, Yes, that makes sense, But that's
to me, that's not what happened. What happened was he
he made one mistake, and that was to Vladimir Guerrero.
The pitch he threw to David Schneider. I don't even
think he considers it a mistake. Listeners pitch of the game. Yeah,
and he what he said after the game, and I
agree with him, and it's well, why lovely additional numbers?
We have to look at you throw a pitch there

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and a guy hits it ninety eight miles an hour
off the bat, that shouldn't leave the yard, right, He's
like that, that shouldn't be a home run. It should
be an out. A loud outfielder should go out there
and catch it. And he just didn't because obviously it
just got over the fence. The pitch he through to
Vladimir Guerrero was smoked and it was a home run.
And then he pitched them into He's facing a guy
who's watching. He's sitting in the dugout every half inning

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with his batters going to the plate and knowing that, well,
we're probably going back down to one no matter what
happens the rest of the way, because they scored two times.
We're not gonna ever score against this guy. Maybe when
we get to the bullpen, we'll do something.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
And he gave him.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
He cruised through the middle innings, the second, third, fourth,
There was no issue whatsoever. He was pitching just as
effectively as you Savage was. And then what happened to him,
which has happened to Otania nearly all of the Dodger
pitchers when you get into truck, like the other run
he gave up the third run. He gave up an
exit Velo seventy five mile an hour fly ball to

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right field, which Taoscar Hernandez turned into a triple by
playing terribly. They were bad defensive team and they made
some mistakes. They wild pitched a guy all the way
around the bases after he singled, but he was a
part of that. But his first start, he left with
the bases loaded, having given up two runs, all three
of them scored. Now, in Blake Snell's most recent start yesterday,

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he left with two runners on base and there weren't
even no outs in the inning. There were two outs
in the inning, and both of them also scored. So
he gave up ten runs in two starts to the
Blue Jays. He was on the mound for half of them.
He was in the dugout for the other half of
the five runs on his ledger while he was watching
from the dugout. Because they can't keep anybody from scoring

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once you go to their bullpen.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Well, let me let me just go through. Because I
did not send you a text back that I wanted to.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
I was.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
I was keeping an eye on everything last night, but
I was not in front of a screen. That's just
the kind of night it was yesterday seven to eleven PM.
Wex says, has Game five started, Yes, it's one to
oh after the first pitch, and then very quickly thereafter,
as in one minute later, has Game five started? Yes,
it's two to zero after three pitches. Now, what I

(10:28):
wanted to send back was, man, I love this bullpen,
and I never I forgot to I was gonna basically
send that to you right at the tail end of
take Again.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
All that being said, it just made it that much
easier on John Schneider and how he wanted to play
his bullpen. Potentially he did still use the most of
the arms he's been using to get the final six outs,
but it just made it a little bit more comfortable.
You could go through the remaining hitters in the lineup
without any concern of attacking them because you had a
sizable lead. And we talked about it briefly yesterday, and
in my opinion it's I don't know if it would

(10:59):
have made any difference because of the way Savage was throwing.
But when you change your batting order like Dave Roberts did,
and you make your leadoff hitter O Tani and then
your four hole hitter Freeman, who are clearly and far
and away the two most successful hitters you've had in
the postseason and in this particular series. Who led off

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the first inning with nobody on obviously shohe who led
off the second inning with nobody on. It wasn't until
the last of these seven played appearances that they had
in the game till either one of them batted with
a runner on base. The only two guys and they
batted lead off four times in those seven appearances. It
just it wasn't very smart, and it was part of

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the reason, in my opinion, why they struggled a bit.
But mainly I don't want to take anything away from
Savage for the way he threw it doesn't I don't
think it really matters where these guys are on the lineup.
If nobody is getting on base, and that's the ultimate
thing that happened, you get pitching like that, which is
why that win was probably so important for them. The
series wasn't going to end in Game five when it's
tied to two, But the way Yamamoto pitched in this

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series and pitched in his previous start, I think the
Blue Jays are perfectly happy leading this series three games
to two and facing him tomorrow rather than the alternative.
And I do think the series has a really really
good chance of ending Friday Night.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeahron two chances to do just that, and hopefully, unlike
what the Astros did the last time they were in
that position in a consecutive series, where they found themselves
up three to two and heading into the final two games,
they take advantage of it because you don't know when
you'll be back, especially in the case of the Blue Jays,
it's been since nineteen ninety three, So get it done.

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And the fact that they're doing this without George Springer
is just the cherry on top. I think, all right,
so we'll get into that. We'll get into the Texans obviously, CJ.
Strouding Company continuing to share their thoughts as they prepare
for I think a real it's not even a litmus test.
This is probably the make or break game of the season,
considering where they go in either direction depending on what happens.

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Be a little too much over the top hyperbole, but
I'm fine with it all that more. On a Thursday
edition of The eighteen.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety Thursday edition
of the program, as we.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Get you on to six o'clock tonight.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
By the way, this album has now spent seven hundred
weeks on the Billboard two hundred charts.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
I know that you were dying to.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Know that WEX has now spent as of I guess
this week. Yes, because it's in the top two hundred.
I guess it is. It's the best selling album of
all time. Well, you're making it sound like it's number
of weeks in the top two hundred has increased. Yeah,
how from six ninety nine to seven hundred. Why is

(14:04):
it in the top two hundred because it just keeps
getting sold? Why because it's good to who new people
who didn't own it. There's only one hundred and ninety
nine other artists making music since nineteen eighty three. That's
worthwhile to purchase thing? Go?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yes, that what you just said, Hey.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Music industry, Hey down the hallway, Hey you guys down
there around the corner, down the left and inside that door.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Get it together.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
I mean, play some music that people like, make some
music that people want to hear.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
And it can't be real.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
It is you made that up? I fell for it.
I'm sorry, it's from totally made Billboard site. No way,
I mean that's like, so ten years before the Blue
Jays won the World Series, somebody made an album that
people are still buying. It a technically a lot two
hundred clip.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
It came out in eighty two, nine eighty three. Oh okay, sorry.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
But yes, it's the same with Metallica's Black album, which
true Metallica fans dog it's too commercial.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Stop it. It's an amazing album. It's an amazing album.
Well it's the most commercial I guess itidering it's number
one on their list. Well yeah, I mean, like, well
that's what commercial. That's all it means. I just I
hate that. Or you sold out? What do you mean
you sold out? You got sold that's what you mean.
You didn't sell out. You made an album, people liked it.
Now you're mad about it. Uh yeah, there.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
From the standpoint from the standpoint of it's produced differently exactly,
so people attached that.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
This.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Hey guys, watch you might not like everything we're deciding
to do with this sound and this music that you're
putting out.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
You watch watch the sales on this. You'll you'll be
with me.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
We can go back to the way you were doing
music before, because you'll sell those two just like you
were selling before.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
But watch what happens.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
So when the Rockets are about to tip off a
game inside Toyota Center, it's a big matchup.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
You want to get everybody fire averge playoff November three.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Sure that one that would qualify, just because they're stupid
and they're from Dallas and you want to fire everybody up.
You play Master of Puppets, right, No, you play Inner Sandman.
That's on the black album Master Puppets was in eighty six.
I mean sports related. Metallica releases rare no for getting
people fired up.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
All you need, all you need is.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
The riffs to the song. There's two songs, No, there's not.
If they so choose to go that route. Once they
found these two and the other fifteen, we'd hear in
every arena over and over and over again.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
There's two Metallica songs they play at sporting events. It's
Inner Sandman and for Whom the Bell Tolls.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
They don't play other Metallica songs in sporting event. I've
been to all these places. I don't doubt it, do
you count WWE for Master of Puppets? Uh No, why
wouldn't did they play that?

Speaker 6 (16:45):
I'm just saying I feel like that'd be where they
would play Master of Puppets maybe, but sporting a traditional
sporting event, coming out of a time out, like they
might do something like that. I just but yes, thriller,
great album, great video. Agreed, great small movie. Bring in
my cassette tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Do you still have it? That's probably somewhere on a cassette.
It was nineteen eighty two, that's true. Well, ceds were out.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
I think yes, but I didn't have seven hundred and
fifty dollars lying around on that crazy buy a compact
disc player.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
I still remember in college buying my first DVD player
was four hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Yeah, you can get him for about twelve now, maybe
nine to ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Don't you just sign up from a streaming service?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
So okay. We talked a little bit about the World Series.
I think you're right. I think it gets taken care
of in game six. That was my prediction, by the way,
I just want to put that out there Toronto and six.
But who's starting for the is it sureser?

Speaker 5 (17:45):
No gasman.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Okay ooh even better? Luckily, why, he's a lot better
than sure. Okay, So I thought, that's what you're saying.
I just want to make sure and who is uh?
I was talking to our our esteemed colleague and boss,
Brian Erickson before the show and he goes, that's the
first time I've really sat and watched show. Hey pitch
the other night, and he's like, it's not even fair

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that breaking ball, and I'm like, yeah, it's not even fair.
They scored off of him twice and two more runs
when he left the game. They put four runs on him.
That's not even fair. How are the Dodgers supposed to
overcome that? And they didn't and they didn't and they're
not going to. I mean, you've got to win two
straight or your season's over.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
Like I said earlier to they couldn't be in a
better position with what they have now a day off,
hopefully some of their guys, if needed, will be available.
But complete games from pitchers in the postseason almost never happened.
And they've got a guy who's done it and back
to back starts, and that's their saving grace. You never
know what your team will be on any given day

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in baseball, but you feel pretty good when that's what
you're throwing at them, literally throwing at them. I brought
it up when I spent the hour part of the
hour on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I don't
think he's had a quite he's been quite as dominant.
And he's not gonna win the cy Young either that
Mike Scott back in eighty six. But Game six, the
Astros new down three to two. If we win Game six,

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we're going to the World Series because Mike Scott's pitching
Game seven, and we're going to win.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
Even the Mets knew it. They said about it.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
They said that if the Blue Jays lost yesterday then
they would be facing Mike Scott and elimination today. And
that's why winning yesterday's game was so vital, I think,
and just that. I don't think the Blue Jays actually
think he's unbeatable. No, but they just faced him and
got four hits in one run, and he threw a
complete game against him. It was the second consecutive overwhelmingly

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dominant postseason performance. It is possible he could put another
one together like that, and so they're not facing elimination
when they're facing what has been this postseason's most dominant pitcher.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
That is ideal. Yeah, and again, just.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
At the tail end of last segment, I was talking
about the fact that this has been fantastic, that it's
come with basically not needing George, not not needing him.
But you know, George Springer has not been a part
of things for the better part of three games now
and they've won two of them.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yep, Davis Springer homer in a leadoff opportunity last night
for George. Basically he took over for him. I'm batting
lead off, that's where George hits. I'll just hit a
home run. David Schneider obviously did that, and you know,
last two games they played without him, I'm still a
little bit surprised. I'll take John Schneider, the manager, at
his word that there is some hope that he can

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appear in this series again. Otherwise they basically chose to
play four three to four games in succession without a
full roster. You have the ability to replace an injured player,
and there's no other series in the future you have
to be concerned with, because when you replace players off
your roster, in the postseason, they become ineligible for the

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next series. If you've got three series left, they could
come back for that series afterwards. But it's why Anthony
Santander can't be brought back in this series because he
was replaced in the last series and it would obviously.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
End George Springer season if you take him off the roster.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
But if you didn't think he was gonna play in
Game four, which he didn't, and didn't think he was
going to play in Game five, which he didn't, I mean,
you're you this confident that he's going to make the
progress necessary to be able to swing violently and play
in game six or seven.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
That's the card they're playing. It's not the end of
the world.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
They don't necessarily need eighteen innings worth of players every game,
but you do like to make postseason like moves. And
when Alejandro Kirk is slower than most people that work here,
and when Bashett needs to be replaced, if you have
him running the bases, he's now allowed to dh. They
have some moves they like to make over the course

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of the game, and it becomes limiting when one of
the players on your bench has to stay there because
he's not healthy to play.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, yeah, no, I get it. I think because of
the talent level that the Dodgers still do have. It
would also like the whole proverbial anything can happen in
a game seven.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, Mookie Betts might realize that he's supposed to be good,
but he hasn't so far.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
He finally like, how many examples do you need to
see of it?

Speaker 6 (22:04):
He hasn't even He wasn't even good that postseason the
year that he twenty eighteen. Yeah, he was unbelievable in
the regular season and played MVP caliber of baseball, and
then they got to the postseason, he was all right.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
Who was the MVP of their World Series win over
the Dodgers in five games that year?

Speaker 6 (22:22):
I don't remember. I'll tell you a second very important. Well,
I'm just it wasn't him, clearly, obviously. And the numbers
they still stick out like a sore thumb. That's why
it's so funny when Dodgers fans start chirping about the astros.
He's had three seasons of a nine hundred ops since then,
He's had zero seasons that are anything like the MVP season.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Across the board.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
He was deserving of the MVP if you looked only
at the numbers, which is what people base things on,
he absolutely deserved the MVP.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
But he's never had a season anywhere near that season.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
He's never hit His highest batting average any other year
was three eighteen, three forty six that Year's highest slugging
percentage in any other year's five seventy nine. It was
six forty that year. He's never had one thousand ops
in a season. It was ten seventy eight that year.
He's never had an OPS plus season over one sixty five.
It was one eighty six that year. And if those
numbers don't sound so separated, they are, it's hard to

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have one season stand out. It's what cal Rawlely did
this year. He has a future to show that it
wasn't quite as fluky. So maybe we'll find out and
maybe it will stand out like this one. And his
season is way way out there, and we'll find out
if he, like Moki, wins an MVP, and I think
there's a pretty good chance that he will, but I
think the vote will probably be pretty close. That's the
other thing that the World Series finally will bring us to.

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And I don't know that there's one thing of significance
that matters to the Astros from an award season standpoint,
and that's where Hunter Brown finishes in the MVP race
because they're going to get draft pick compensation for it
when he finishes top three. What did I say, cy
Young or race? If he does, and he should, they'll
get it. And this is extremely important. The voting is

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done by the media, and each city that has a
team in that league is given two votes. If you
don't have two people representing the city from a media standpoint,
sometimes that is given to a national vote. But if
people that don't want they know this going into the vote.
It's just like these max player deals in the NBA
that are based on well did you make all NBA?

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Well your new max salary because of that is this.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well, the media's voting on that, and the media works
in different cities and the media might not have the
integrity that we hope. I hate to even think it,
and I'm sure that's not the case, but when we
see such outrageously ill advised votes, I don't know what
to think at some point, But yeah, if too many
people have him fourth and fifth and he ends up
finishing fourth, and the Astros won't get a selection for it.

(24:49):
And I'm sure the voters know that it will be
very silly to not have him in the top three.
He was one of the three best pitchers in the
American League this year. But we'll find out the awards
will roll out the week after the series ends up,
and then we'll also be knee deep in free agency
and qualifying offers, and the week after that the GM
meetings are there, and we'll know exactly what the twenty

(25:10):
twenty six Houston Astros will look like at that point
in time.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Best of X is next.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Did you just see this?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
So we're putting out between five and fifteen posts a day.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
Four hundred people were arrested for some day seven on social.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
Media, History repeats itself type bang, you'll succeed. Never doubt
that you're the one who person no one you believe
you're the best of X. Nothing's gonna ever top you
know you're the best of X.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Posting every single day.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
You know you're the best of X, breaking the entire enginet.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
All right, we have two items that we need to
get to here. One of them is feel good and
one of them is just hilarious. I will allow Adam
Wexler to make the first selection.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
So we're gonna need to reboot the song for my selection.
So let's go with the other one first.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Okay, the other one is pretty obvious.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
If anybody has seen this, and I think a lot
of people have, Davis Schneider with the first pitch home
run in last night's game of the Game five of
the World Series. Barstool Sports is where I got this.
It's floating around a lot of places.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Where did they get it from Davis Schneider's dad.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Well, it says b ball dad four four seven four
five and then a bunch of a movie.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
I think, I don't know. I didn't look it's David
Sneider's dad.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Maybe I haven't looked at the account, so I can't verify. Listen,
your kids in the World Series. He has, as you
mentioned last segment, changed his name to Davis Springer.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
He his dad's thinking, Oh, that's so bad that George
got hurt. That's awful. Yeah, I don't that's not good
for my team son's team at all.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
And that's dark. I went to a dark place.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Barstool Sports's caption was Davis Schneider's Schneider Schneider, how do
you go?

Speaker 5 (27:19):
No, you can pronounce it either way to either either
potato potato totally wrong.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yes, there are people out there who haven't spelled similarly
or with an S on the end, and have gone
with the Schneider route, But it is very uncommon. It's
not impossible. It does exist, but I think there is
a common pronunciation.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
All right.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
So David Schneider's dad lived every father's dream watching his
son lead off a World Series game with a home run.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
And oh what do you?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
By the way, on this video, there's a little bit
of a delay at the start before the pitch is thrown.
I'm just making sure that we don't have to, you know,
sit around for all of that as Blake Snell prepares
to let this one barely get cranked out of the park.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh no, no, why no, why? Oh my god, Oh
my god.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
So I basically think that's how all of us would react,
give or take. I mean, you would totally be screaming
that over and over if Ryan hit a Oh my.

Speaker 6 (28:39):
God, I can't believe Ryan's playing in the World Series.
He hates baseball.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
You know what, in my wildest dreams, it actually exceeded.
This is the ever all of a sudden, there he is,
he's playing baseball.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Don't worry. Carson's well on his way to following suit.
I don't have an issue at all. That's totally fine.
I know great responses to this, like tom My Son
took the garbage out tonight without me asking, So same feeling.
I know, the feeling that it was pretty cool with
uh the Savage who's parents there at the game, and

(29:16):
they've been through a lot to a lot of the games.
I don't know if people realize just how young he
is that he was in Single A this year. Most
of your single A pitchers sometimes they're teenagers, and that's
the road he takes. Here.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
They're wearing shirts that say trade Day on it, which
is pretty sweet. Bee like Zach Cole doing this. Yeah,
very especially except he's twenty five.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
For he's older and not in single A. Yeah, but yeah,
this is you can't imagine this. Okay, So we're in
the world. So he's been a great ride with Davis.
He's a part of this team. He say, he fills
in in the outfield. He gets the occasional start. He's
been a big part of what the Blue Jays have
done this year, and he's helped.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Them get here.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Oh now George is out and they're gonna have to
figure out where they want to put guys and who's
gonna be in, who's gonna be out. He was the
third per into George, or the third person to take
over the leadoff spot in Game three when George got hurt.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
First France came in and then Davis replaced him. I
remember those days.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Davis got thrown out at home plate in that game
in extra innings on a double down the line he
tried to score from first. He'd been a you know
a player in this series. Well, he's gonna bat leadoff
tonight and we're gonna be ready for it. It's the
road game, so it's gonna be the first pitch of
the game. He hit the first pitch of the game
in a series tied to two, over the fence. Well,

(30:30):
pretty fun moment.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
I again, any spot in the lineup, there's pressure in
the World Series leading off on the road in the
World Series, in a game in which your team could
take a series lead because it's tied, there's a lot
of factors into that being awesome, especially the aforementioned ninety
eight miles per hour off the bat, so that it
should have been allowed out but actually escaped.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Sorry about that, Dodger fan is remaining at bats in
the game just because you know who I am. You
are a couple of strikeouts in a while. He was
such a terrible person. Why are you such a bad human?

Speaker 5 (31:03):
They have their moment, They got their exciting moment.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
So yeah, there was some There are some good responses
to that one, like Muhammad who said that man's gonna
start introducing himself as father of the leadoff legend at
every grocery store.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Now, well, why the grocery store saying it that way?

Speaker 6 (31:19):
Like we we know. I'm sure you met him and
spoke with him many times over the years here, and
he became somewhat of a.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Celebrity figure.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
During the Astros runs, father of George Springer, George Springer,
was there and he gave such unbelievably thoughtful interviews because
as often as happens, we talked to the parents of players,
especially when they win the World Series. The poppy talked
about talking to George Springer dad after he hit that
home run against the America exactly, so you can.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Everybody loves his family. They should and they're awesome. Yep.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
His sister Lena is one of them. Had a chance
to talk with her and her family and Austin at Fenway.
They had a huge connection out there because of where
they had grown up, and you know, it was awesome
just baseball fans and they're they're really cool people and
that's sometimes part of the cool part of what we
do is getting to meet of them and we know
their story, or sometimes we have to tell their story,

(32:16):
but really to understand their story, it's even better. And
you know, if David Schneider continues to be a prominent
Major league performer, well we'll probably know more about them.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
The same thing was a Savage's family.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Now real quick before we we hand it to break
and we will get to that other item because we
need too. Frankly, Nate is such a ignorant, you know what,
there's a bravo no no, no, no, no, it's just
a guy that weighed in with a comment there's no
such thing as a home field advantage in LA. Looks
like the stadium is half full and a must win

(32:47):
Game five. I watched the game, so I know it
filled in, but damn if I'm a fan going to
the game, my ass is in that seat twenty to
thirty minutes before the first pitch. No wonder Jay's jumped
on them. First of all, Nate, there is no such
thing as a home field advantage in LA because it's LA,
and no matter what Matt Thomas will tell you, that's
a crappy stadium. But number two, clearly you've never tried

(33:08):
to get to Dodger Stadium for any kind of game,
let alone Game five of the World Series, because you
have to pencil in a minimum of three hours in
and three hours out getting in and out of that
facility non postseason.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
If you travel to LA as another team to play
a weekday game, it's seven o'clock start. It's not starting
at seven o'clock. It's starting at seven o'clock here. No,
last night's game started at seven o'clock here, so it's five.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
O'clock in La.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Ve'claro five prominently involved. Good luck, Nate the eight on
Sports Talk seven ninety. But it is the eighteen Sports

(33:55):
Talk seven to ninety winding down the two o'clock out.
We will have a simulcast coming up at the beginning
of next hour on Space City Home Network, so you know,
if you want to turn on the Telly watch us
as you listen to us. But either way, we appreciate
you guys being along for the ride. Wex AC and
Cole Thompson with you. On a Thursday edition of the

(34:16):
program mentioned there was a little bit of a leftover,
and because of the subject matter of this leftover, when
it comes to the Best of X segment that we
do every day most days at two thirty, I'm going
to need call to fire off that intro one more time.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Not yet, please, Oh well, don't do it yet. I
wish I'd had a chance, but this didn't. My day
didn't provide for it, so I'll have to. It's gonna
sound awful because of the manner in which I do this.
But we had someone respond to the show yesterday on
the X platform and Chris says I was not included

(34:53):
in this post, but I have been made aware of it.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
That's why it's funny. It says at Adam Clanton.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
I'm sure many people have brought this to your attention, Comma,
but just in case they haven't, colon your rendition of
quotes You're the best for the Best of X Radio
segment is completely off key. The voice is a perfect
fourth higher than it should be to match the accompaniment.

(35:23):
He's not done, Chris continued in a subsequent post, that's
one half step short of being as far out of
a key as you can possibly be without coming closer
to being in the key an octave higher. Ah, and
then a subsequent tweet to continue the same messaging and
don't tell me it's not you singing it, period.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
It is your voice exactly to a t.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
So, like I said, I oftentimes if you tag somebody,
especially when you tag somebody with it being at the
front of your post, it becomes even less likely you'll
see it. But in light of the fact it was
at Adam Clinton that was tagged, I was made aware
of it in a subsequent quote post by at Adam
Clinton and you quote posted that last evening and you

(36:16):
added me as a tag. You hashtagged the A Team
and mister Cole Thompson also tagged there, and you quote
posted it with who wants to tell him? The entirety
of that post notes the absurdity of the voice being used.
The incredibly I pretty much want to turn this off

(36:37):
immediately every time I hear it. Quality of the singing
every day, game every day, Like you guys know what's coming,
And for those of you that have share Chris's feelings,
we do take that risk every day. I don't want
to hear this anymore. I can't believe I've listened to
it even more than once. I know there's listeners out
there like that, Like Chris, they just can't take it anymore.
They might want to listen to the segment, but they

(36:58):
don't want to listen to that song, or they might
not want to listen to us at all just because
of that song. You know, thirty seconds of Oh my God,
this is the worst thing I've ever heard could cost
us fifteen other segments of our four hour program, which.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
We're willing to do and tens of listeners.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
Because we do believe poking fun at ourselves is okay
and it's a lighter moment on the show. Even when
some of the people on this show give off the
vibe of being way, way, way too serious about things
at times, whoever that might be, they're still willing to
put themselves out there and show that they are not

(37:34):
really very good at something that's singing.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
It's not Adam's voice, it is my voice.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
Most currently, all of the parody songs you hear on
this program in some form or fashion, arts slung by
me and written also by me, and recorded by me,
sometimes with production help. And appreciate Mike taking care of this.
Since I was made aware of this, I did also
respond to this post. It's actually the last thing I've

(38:02):
posted on the X platform. I need to get busy again.
But now I will sing you my response along with
our usual version of this song. I hope it doesn't
sound even worse because I'll be singing over my bad
vocals with brand new bad vocals.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
But let's see how it goes.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Did you'll see this?

Speaker 7 (38:23):
You should be put it out.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Between five and fifteen posts, four.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
Hundred people were arrested for things that they said on
social media. History repeats itself type, Ben.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
You'll see seed.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Never doubt that you're the woman who posson no one
do believe I'm the worst around.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Nothing ever gonna stop me.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Now, I think so far off key and force the
entire world to listen in You're the best.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
There you go, just for you, christ In the entire morse.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
You to listen in, but you, like many others, have
been subjected to it, and anybody listening to two thirty
tomorrow on the Friday edition of The A Team will
also be subjected to it. And we're going to travel
back to X a lot this year for one very
very very specific purpose. My team and I have not

(39:16):
quite figured out what the song fits best with this
upcoming brand new segment, which is very tied to the
X platform, but because of the new number seven for
the Rockets, love his shot of dopamine, his love for
the X platform, which he was on maybe forty five

(39:37):
minutes after last night's game, probably on the bus, incredible,
probably on the bus back from the Toronto Arena to
the Toronto Hotel. And I feel like we need to
share more of this with you. I think a lot
of you already follow KD, but you might not see
everything because they're in the replies, they're in the comments,
they're in the back and forth.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Most of it is about basketball.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Anything that's not strictly about basketball, which is awesome that
it is, is usually about shut your piehole in a
nice way, sometimes with cursing, most of the time without
but I think it deserves its own segment, but for
our purposes, when we bring new segments to the forefront,
they often get a parody song with it.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
I don't know if it fits.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Like I said, my team and I are still considering
our options, but it could be on our very near
future because we're already four games into the season with
Kevin Durant the X platform legend as a Houston Rockets player,
so we feel like it's something that should be a
part of the show. Moving for it's starting Monday, it
will be Will there be a parody song with it?
You'll have to stay tuned to find out, and in

(40:38):
light as we close things out here in the two
o'clock hour. One thing I'll add to Chris's comments, at
no point during the writing of the song, recording of
the song, and then listening back to the song when
it was produced or played every day on the show
at two thirty, do I ever sit back and think
to myself, Man, you're pretty good.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
That was pretty good. That's why I get it for
what it is.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
Yeah, that's why of all I did my these of
his responses, the best one was and don't tell me
it's not you singing it.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
It is your voice exactly to a t. The a
team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong Houston sports
guys named Adam talking your team.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
It is the eighteen, it's Sports Sox seven ninety and
it's Space City Home Network. As the simulcast has begun,
I'm sorry if you were wanting to watch last segment
when Adam Wexler sang along with Adam Wexler.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
Sorry, that was a radio only segment.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
But if you're watching on Space City Home Network, now
here we are, and if wex decides to sing at
any point throughout the rest.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Of this show, you'll get to see it. I think
I don't know that he's gonna do that though.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
I think he's all tapped out as far as that
kind of performance goes. But he will have many thoughts
on the sports world up to and including the fact
that the World Series is absolutely going to end tomorrow
night in Canada, where the Jays will be. I don't
know if they'll be riding in the streets. Canadians are
pretty rowdy, but they're definitely gonna be happy when the

(42:25):
Blue Jays take care of the Dodgers, the Great Juggernaut,
the Evil Empire, the West Coast Evil Empire, with all
that talent and all that deferred credit for Shoheo Tani's contract,
can't even win three games in the World Series.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Because that's what will happened if Toronto closes it out.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
After their win last night, was it particularly close, got
even more lopsided as the waning innings passed. And you
couple that with the fact that, again, like I predicted,
that's what we do on the show. We tell you
when we're right, the Toronto Raptors sacrifice to regular season
win so that the Blue.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Jays could get a World Series victory.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
Very important Raptors saying yeah, we'll take a four game
losing streak right out of the gate. Got their win
on Opening night, a very surprising one because I thought
they weren't going to be very good, and then I
was right.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
They aren't very good. They don't defend.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
The Rockets took advantage of that, put up a second
consecutive extremely high scoring game even in this NBA one
hundred and thirty nine points, very little defense for them.
I know the Raptors shot very well, so you could
come right back and say, well, what about the Rockets defense.
I think this was more about they had a night
where they hit an ungodly number of shots, and then
the Rockets got a handful of stops, and all of

(43:35):
a sudden, they went on an eighteen to two run
and built a double figure lead. And then it didn't
really matter how many shots the Raptors were going to make.
The Raptors were hot. The Rockets just scored every possession.
They weren't necessarily hot, even though they ended up out
shooting the Raptors in the game, but they got so
many extra opportunities. They shot about fifty percent on a
lot of possessions because they would miss their first shot

(43:56):
and then would get an offensive rebound and make their
next shot.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Dominate them on the glass.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Didn't even play the double big lineup to start, although
there were sections of the game where both Steven Adams
and Alpi were both on the floor, but dominated on
the glass and have shot now three consecutive games, shot
the ball well from three point distance, have taken advantage
of two weaker opponents, and not hadded your drama in
their games. They had enough drama in their first two games.

(44:20):
They played to a tie in regulation, and then played
five more minutes to a tie, and then played five
more minutes to a one point game decided by two
free throws in the final three seconds.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
That's a lot of drama.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
Game against the Pistons was decided in the final ninety seconds,
probably a little bit more than that, with the Rockets
having a couple of possessions with a chance to take
the lead and did not. And then they had two
games against two Eastern Conference teams that if they held
their picks and if nobody else has their future in
their hands, then they're playing for lottery picks, and they're
playing for where they're going to land in the NBA's

(44:52):
upcoming draft, and they're hopeful that they lose a lot
of games while some players that are tradable continue to
play very well, and they can say, well, what's the
point of having these players here to lose? Why don't
we move them for more assets in the future and
see if there's any point in our future where we
can do what we already did. Toronto's won a title
for crying out loud. Fred was on the bench for
the Rockets last night, where he won a title They're

(45:16):
nowhere near it right now. They do have some talent,
but not very much of it is good young talent,
but rather talent that they just can't win with. And
the Rockets need to continue because there are a bunch
of teams in the East that actually fit that somewhat surprisingly,
one of those teams was a two point loser last night.
They've been a loser in all five of their games.

(45:37):
The Eastern Conference defending champion Indiana Pacers are not going
to win a lot of basketball games this year. Their
two most important players don't play this year, Miles Turners
and Milwaukee, and obviously Tyree's Halliburton is hurt, and they
just can't keep up with other teams. They're still play hard,
they still have some talent, they still shoot the ball well,

(45:57):
they still can compete, but they got out or the
other team and they've been unsuccessful in five consecutive games.
Last night, their opponent is of note because the Rockets
will have that very same opponent within the week. The
Cooper Flag led Dallas Mavericks. I'm not being sarcastic. Cooper
Flag and the Mavericks will be in town for the

(46:19):
rockets lone home game of this stretch, they got five
out of six on the road. The first of those
six was last night. He will be likely not flanked
by Anthony Davis. He will be deshocky, not.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
Flanked by Kyrie Irving. Yea.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
And if you want to tell me it's Derek Lively's team, well,
hey didn't play last night either. If you want to
tell me it's PJ. Washington's team, at least he was
on the court. But Cooper Flag has not gotten off
to a tremendous start. But I'm very unconcerned. I'm just
saying Anthony Davis winning a last night's game with an
achilles issue obviously was listed on the injury report, but

(46:54):
he was available to play tendonopathy with that achilles six
minutes and change into that game, he leaned over and
walked over to the scorer's table and checked himself out
of the game and walked back to the locker room
and did not return. They did still win, Like I said,
they were playing the Pacers. They survived an intentional free
throw miss with under three seconds left and a wide

(47:17):
open three point attempt from a Nie Smith of the
Pacers to survive.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
And win by two.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
Halliburton would have hit that if it were the postseason,
when he was doing the most ridiculous things we've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
With that regard, I totally flipped on him last year.
I couldn't stand the guy, and now I love him
and I'm so sad he got hurt.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
It's not where a lot of people thought they would
be accept all of the people that thought this trade
was terrible, which is all of the people, and this
is the number one concern that you had to have.
I don't know the extent of the injury. The Dallas
has obviously not gotten into that yet. I'm sure they will,
and I'm sure the injury report will acknowledge it. And
I don't know for a fact that Anthony Davis won't

(47:57):
be there on November thirty against the Rockets, but I
do know it he's hurt again, and that's part of
the reason so many people had had to question that deal.
I want to question why you would want to get
rid of Luca, period, Yes, but I have to question
why you would move him and get and desire that

(48:18):
in return.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Well, and then you couple in the fact that after
you start to see how this whole thing went down,
you know, you know there were better offers on the.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Table for Luca.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
Well know, we actually know there weren't because there were
no other offers because they didn't solicit other offers. I know,
but in there could have been.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
That's what I'm saying. There would have been. There would
have been, is what I'm really getting at. There were,
There were.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
There just absolutely were, because if you picked up the phone,
you would have gotten them.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Yeah, those gms on the other end would have said, yeah,
we're interested, let me get a couple of picks together.
Let me talk to my assistants, my lieutenants, and we'll
definitely get back to guys. This is unbelievable. And somebody
in the room, if not everybody in the room, would
have said, wait a minute. The Mavericks want to get
rid of Luca. They're offering, They're calling us and offering

(49:08):
one of the five best players in the league, one
of the ten best players, a perennial All NBA guy,
a guy who's played in the finals.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
They want to move on from him. They want to
give him to us.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
Fine, who's got the investigator's number, who knows players on
the me, who knows Jason Kidd? We got to figure
this out. Why why we're wrong with him? We're not
going to fall for this, right, No, something must be
wrong it is. I still believe it happens.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
Does he hate them?

Speaker 4 (49:33):
I still do, Braave the deal happened in light of
what you're saying, because any any executive worth their salt
had to ask that very question. Wait, they're just getting
It's like the Seinfeld bit about Halloween. Wait, everyone that
we know is just giving out candy. But I gotta
be a part of this. Yeah, that's that's what the
Lakers were saying. And you're right, Like, I make jokes

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all the time about Anthony Davis, but they're not really jokes.
He's heard all the time that the fact that the
Lakers were able to squeeze out an illegitimate championship in
the bubble with him being healthy because he had three
months to get as such, is a minor miracle and
a big reason why I'll never count that championship they
won that year, nor the Dodgers championship they won in

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Arlington in front of placards while one of their best
players had COVID.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Anyway, keep in mind the Lakers played last night. Also, Yeah,
oh by the way Lucas unavailable. Lucas hurt too right now,
which in the recency bias here if you want to
go that route, yeah, they're both hurt.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
Well yeah, but Luca's gonna come back.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
And oh, by the way, he lost like eighty pounds,
so yeah it to me, I was a irritated just
overall because, okay, great, one of my team's rivals has
a GM that is so stupid. He did this a
which is good except for that he gave that team
that I also hate this player on a silver platter.

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But then really, they turn around and get the number
one pick in the draft on a year that Cooper
flags available like mere months later. Come on, NBA, I mean,
come on, it's just even if it's all on the
up and up, which we also have to ask these
days in light of what's been happening involving NBA players

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and coaches in the last seven days, it's hard for
your fans to stomach something like this, And it's honestly
hard in a league where the last commissioner, who I
think had a lot bigger kohonas than the current one,
stepped in for bascutball reasons again to help the Lakers,
I might add in that deal involving Paal Gasol and

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the Rockets. It's hard for NBA fans in general, who
just have a pulse and know what's going on, to
stomach that A. The Lakers got Luca hand delivered to
them as Lebron is on his last legs literally, and
B the team that made such an egregiously lopsided deal
gets rewarded for it with the number one draft pick.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
With this, they're all transcendent these days. Oh, the number
one pick of the draft. Transcendent. Not it's gonna change league.
Not true. Well, we had an alien in Cooper Flag
in consecutive season.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
They're not.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
Nobody's putting them in the same sentence. I am.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
He was the number one pick in this year's draft.
He was the best player available in this year's draft,
and people think very highly of him. Nobody is using
those words with him. He's just another Hey, he was
the best player. It's great for us to be have
the number one pick. It's awesome that he's there. We're
excited to have him. He's not going to change the league.
No one he thinks he's going to change the league.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Nay. People in Dallas. They don't. I mean, I know
what you want from me, and I know what you're doing.
Come on, man, I can't.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
All right, Well, a transcendent player that actually did change
the league and continues to both on and off the floor.
He was after it in his other hobby last night.
We're talking about KD. We're talking about social media. We'll
get to him talking about your and his rockets next.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
The AE on Sports Talk seven ninety. We have talked
extensively about this topic. Basketball no athletes on social media,
some of which play basketball.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Like for example, did you catch Irvin Magic Johnson's tweet
heading into Game five of the World Series.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
I didn't, but it probably went something like this, this
is Magic here and it's coming from at Magic Johnson,
So we don't need that. Hey, you've reached the Magic
Johnson's phone. I know.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
I just called it.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
Hey, Irvin here, I'm at the stadium. Can't wait for
Game five tonight. I think our Dodgers have a chance
if they could score more runs than the Blue Jays.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
I like our chances. All of those are very good guesses.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Here's what he actually wrote heading into last night's Game five,
with the series being two to two. Game five is
very important. Whichever team went takes control of the series
and he uppercase the s and series. So you knew
he was talking about the World Series.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
It's just great.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Don't forget another day or another sports day for me
with my Dodgers playing the Blue Jays and my MLS
team LAFC taking on Austin to begin their playoff run.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
If you don't think Magic likes the sports and likes
the opportunity to be involved and spend his money and
make money in sports.

Speaker 5 (54:28):
He didn't even talk about the counties.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
I know, well, what's he gonna talk about? Well, they lost,
well last week, they're gonna lose this week too. Why
they're at home?

Speaker 5 (54:38):
And who's their quarterback?

Speaker 2 (54:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
Yeah, wells that Sunday night. Yet that's a good point
he did.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
By the way, before we get to the other subject
of this, he did have a two separate tweeter for
one Austin reeves.

Speaker 6 (54:55):
He Oh, many people last night were going the incredibly
ridiculu route of saying he is him, that's him?

Speaker 5 (55:06):
Is that I thought we were done with that, that
we're not quite done now.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
I will reference something somebody asked about some possible trade
targets of the Rockets in light of their injury to
Fred Van Vliet. You know, would the Lakers do this
or and his name was Ru's that's somebody that could
be had. And I said, I think people have a
very skewed and poor idea of what Austin Reeves is
as an NBA player. He was kind of forced into
a backseat role once Luca came aboard because they do

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a lot of the same things for the Lakers, and
clearly Luca is going to do more of it. He's
going to handle the ball so much more it takes
away some of what Reeves can do. Reeves is playing
without Luca right now. He's also playing without Lebron right
now and killing it. He's playing with nobody and they
can't stop him. I know this is a a week
he will never forget, and he's talking about it like that,

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which is awesome.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
He was on there. It was more of a table.
I don't want to say he was at the post.

Speaker 6 (56:00):
To him yesterday was basically having a comfortable postgame conversation,
sitting at a table, leaning back in his chair, holding
the mic, and telling a story about when he was
seven years old and he wanted to be a you know,
he was a playing baseball at the time. They're asking,
what do you want to do when you grow up? Oh,
I want to be in the NBA. They're like, you
mean major MLB. He goes, no, NBA. I didn't even
like the NBA at the time. I was barely even

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playing basketball. But here he is, and he recognizes what
he's doing, popping for fifty, you know, dishing it off
like outrageous. I don't know where he's getting all these assists,
even though I've watched they were on last time. DeAndre
Ayton has to score and some of the other players
that are out Ruy Hatcher Murray has to score for
him to get an assist.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
And it's funny, we say, I don't know who these
guys are.

Speaker 6 (56:41):
That's literally what Anthony Edwards is on the bench yelling
when somebody in the crowd said somebody got a card
number twelve or who's number twelve.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
He's like, that's what I want to know.

Speaker 6 (56:51):
It's Jake Laravia who had an unbelievable, unconscious never happened
before type of game. But Austin Reeves I said it
to somebody reason I brought it up before the season.
If that was somebody that was truly available and the
Lakers were in a position where, well, it's not happening
this year and we're moving on, and Lebron wants to go,
and they wanted to move Reeves, that would be a

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phenomenal fit. You could hide some of his defensive issues
that are trying to hide them right now with Reed,
who's also much? Are you treating much Reed Shepherd?

Speaker 5 (57:22):
For him? Would I absolutely? Who else is going out
the door with Reed? I'm not.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
I never got into what it would take. Yeah, but
I just got into do I think he would make
the Rockets better?

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Answer the way?

Speaker 6 (57:33):
Yes, you would be awesome. Absolutely, he would be amazing
and they would love him. Here, h Irvin Austin.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
Reeves was a Lakers hero tonight, hitting the game winning
shot and ending with ending It's finishing okay an ending
with twenty eight points and sixteen assists, and then an
hour later, Austin directly, thank you for making me feel
a little better after my Dodgers lost.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
You presented that like I thought you were gonna say,
He tweeted at him, Austin, thank you for making the
Lakers great.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Again, Well but he didn't or Austin, here's your request
in dedication. So yeah, going back to.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
The game winner last night, twenty eight points preceded by
a forty one point game, preceded by a fifty one
point game, and he had sixteen assists last night.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
If I had a recorder in my hand right now,
I would say he's good like Adam Sandler and Billion Nissen.
All right, So Kadi was, as you mentioned, very active
not long after the final horn, like he might have
been tweeting this stuff in the shower, you said, team bus.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
I think he might have been in the shower.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Um Rush Williams just tagged him in a tweet and said,
how does it feel early on playing with a big
and then parentheses shingoon who can force a switch, create
a mismatch in the post, and force teams to double
off of you for easy catch and shoot threes to

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ice games. He got a response, He got five. Actually
one of them was at KD Tray five. That's Kevin Durant,
like the Kevin Durant with his twenty one million followers
or whatever it is. Brother, can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Lol.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Sometimes I'm surprised I'm that open and start bricking. Twenty
eight just sees everything. That's Shingoon's number. For those of
you who don't watch Rockets games, that's just a typical
Wednesday night in Kevin Durant's life. Like Rush is a
die hard Rockets guy.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
He's got a nice following, but he'll do that with
some guy that's got five followers who's just randomly talking
about basketball. That was in a string of posts that
had begun from somebody else who posted, can you stop
missing free throws?

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Big bro?

Speaker 6 (59:50):
I really want you to average thirty on fifty forty
ninety again at KD Tray five, and KD responded said,
great analysis, biggest Bro. I apologize, I will be even
more locked in moving forward.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
I promise.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
He was rather nice last night, seeing as how Bert
was really rude to him and said, I'd rather have
Jimmy Butler in my basketball team in locker room than
having be a Kevin Durant making my life miserable. We
dodged a bleeping bullet, didn't we. Kevin responds, you are
on the team, my boy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
Lol. It's fun.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
We encourage you to follow the follow and follow him,
but you gotta go into the replies to find him,
and they're out there, and there are many more of them.
And like I said, I believe this will become a
permanent part of the show. As early as Monday's program.
Kevin will be very active. I'm ready for the imaging,
I really am. That's a lot to ask. Very busy
weekend up ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
There is one more thing. Lots going on.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Love the two man game, y'all run, creating that inside
out mismatch. Feel like that's such a huge advantage for
the team. I was stunned to see the Raptors double off.
You also feel like it takes weight off your shoulders
because you can just play your game with out forcing anything.
And Kevin said, exactly. We're still figuring out or figuring
things out too. That's the thing right there. And I all,

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this is all well and fun and good and all that.
It's Twitter, it's ex whatever. He's right though, and this
is what has me excited. Even when it's against the
Brooklyn's and Raptors of the world. They haven't figured it
out yet. They're not playing anywhere near close to their
best basketball now. It helps their playing crappy teams, so
to speak. But when they do figure it out and

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they get a Dorian Finney Smith back, and eventually Fred
van Vliet probably is added to this lineup. I only
say that because I don't know what's gonna happen. It's
it's something. It's gonna be a problem for a lot
of teams. Like I said, I only think there's one
team that clearly, even right now with Fred Hurt, could

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take out the Rockets in a seven game series.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
None're the defending champs. Yeah, I think there. I liked
I mentioned countless times.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
I liked a lot of the moves that were made
by the teams around Houston, you know, Denver, Clippers, etc.
And I do believe the road to the top of
the West where the Rockets were last year as the
two seed, is very, very difficult, and obviously a full
season for Golden State with Jimmy Butler, they're clearly a
better team than the one that was under five hundred
before he got there, clearly a significantly better team. And

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mainly not talking records and standings and all that, but
teams that you have to get rid of among the
other seven that make the playoffs with you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
But I like what I see from the Rockets, at
least as much as I see from any of those
teams that I liked what they did. I don't really
like what I see from the Clippers early on. I
think they're getting very little from their acquisitions, and they're
leaning already very very heavily on guys that are going
to wear down, and they will wear down in the
playoffs in the very same way. I haven't really liked
the same thing in Denver. The fit so far super early,

(01:02:52):
but Cam Johnson's time there so far with Denver has
been extremely dissatisfying. I guess you could say, way to
go building formal, definitive, concrete ideas on what these teams
will look like Rockets included ten days into the season.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Probably not necessary, so I won't do that.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
But there's a lot to like about what likely happens
in the future for Houston, as much as there is
for anybody in the West, and certainly all chasing the
same thing, chasing the total top of the heap, and
that is the Oklahoma City Thunder, who they will see
two more times or three if they meet again like
they did last year during the ND season, tournament. Play
begins for that tomorrow in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
I'm going to dive into baseball a little bit here,
but of the Astros variety, I mean, we're one went
away from the twenty twenty five season being over. It
was not pleasant for Astros or their fans think not really.
I mean, what was the highlight for you? Wex and
don't say was past season?

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Yeah? The highlight? It's a good question. I mean, there
weren't a lot Cole hitting.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Probably the Rangers sweep late in the season that made
it seem like good things were on the horizon. That's
that's probably a good I just the return of fjord On,
and he was awesome as soon as he did return.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
And then he put his foot on backwards. That was
the name of the seaton. He sprained his ankle. That's
on what I saw. I think it's what's going to
be just fine moving forward. Now it will be, but
not that night he put it on backwards. He did
not put it on backwards. Well, I just what it
looked like he did.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
When my god, you guys are gonna we're not even
gonna show the replay look away.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
He's in an air cast. He immediately went down.

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
This is one of those injuries where you're just it's
hard to believe, and you just feel so bad for
this kid. You know how hard he's worked to get back,
and I mean, this is all he's gonna be shell
for a long long time. Here. Just again, we're not
even gonna show the replay of him sliding a crossed
home plate and hopping over to the dugout and getting
hugged by his manager so they can take a look
at him, and then he will walk under his own

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power back to the clubhouse.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
Okay, that's one version of how it went down. The
other would be his endicular to his leg and then
he took up.

Speaker 6 (01:05:21):
Then he went into the clubhouse and actually did have
a walking boot on, and then he didn't play the
rest of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
So you can play it up that it was not
a big deal, but it actually was. He didn't say
it wasn't a big deal. He acted like it wasn't. Oh,
he just didn't do that. It wasn't.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Everything I just said, is what happened. I was there
that night about four feet from him when.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
He did it. Yeah, he was. He he turned his ankle.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
No, he put his foot on backwards. You're just disputing facts.
There's video of it if you'd like to watch. I've
seen it watching in articular to the rest of his leg. Yeah,
that's what happens when you sprain your ankle and twist
your ankle. It happens in the NBA on a nightly basis.
What happens when you put your foot on back and
they show the replays. They don't bring a cart out.
There's no air cap.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
We don't see if their family comes down to the
court or field, Well, talk.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
To me about bringing a card at Why I watched
Jake Odorizzi die on the field and we found out
it actually was just a minor spring ankle.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
Kind of overreacted on that one. I think Jake. Another
thing that happened in the Space City uniform one point zero.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Yeah, but then.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
Reneld Blanco threw a no hitter in the same unis. Yeah.
As they had to fight back from twenty games under
five hundred that year, that was an early shining moment
in a very bad early season that was not fun
at least they went to the postseason that year.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
Parently, so the off season will begin either late night
Friday night or late night Saturday night. Yeah, meetings with
the gms is early November. Which qualifying offers Which GM? Yeah,
the one that they employed, the regular GM or the
new assistant GM. I mean, I would imagine he'll be involved,

(01:06:51):
but he's already been involved, but he's not gonna call
the shots.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
They just got promoted. They do have a new.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
Assistant GM, as they said goodbye to one of their
assistant GMS. A promotion from within the organization. Yeah, they
told Andrew Ball to beat it and they promoted Connor Huff.
So there you go on that bit of news. But
as far as the actual news.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
I saw something last night, and of course I did
some digging, all while at an event that I did
not have the screens in front of me to watch
the games I would have been taking in. Otherwise, it
was not my choice. I had a good time, it
just isn't what I would have been doing. Fromber's gone,
that's kind of that's that's there. I Uh, I don't

(01:07:36):
like what I read in Brian McTaggart's article the Astros. Well,
this is how he wrote it. Specifically, expect the Astros
to make a run at workhorse free agent right hander
Dylan Cees, whom they tried to trade for in July.

(01:07:57):
The club will cast a wide net for starting pitching,
so expect the Astros to have some at least some
preliminary interest in most of the big names on the market.
Don't be surprised to see them at a relief pitcher
or two as well. General manager Dana Brown is on
the record saying he wants Victor Carrattini to return. On
top of that, you have gone above and beyond mapping

(01:08:20):
out just why. It's just how many reasons why this
would not be a good idea. He's an innings eater.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
He's a first five innings of the game that year.
That's it, exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:08:33):
His innings totals on an annual basis are embarrassing for
the number.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
Of starts that he makes and the number of dollars
he makes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:41):
I'm not saying they won't. I think Brian is one
hundred percent accurate. This is not the first time. They
clearly have desired him before. Why would it be different now.
He's the same picture he's been ever since they first
wanted to put him on the roster. He'll be costly.
This is free agent money that as we're watching them
spend it year after year, which they're doing very frequently,

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as the rest of their development roster is not there anymore.
When George Springer AND's playing somewhere else, and Kyle Tucker's
playing somewhere else, and Alex Bregman's playing somewhere else, and
initially Carlos Krea is signing somewhere else, they've had enough
to replace some of those guys, and they all didn't
happen at once, so some of them were still there
while others were leaving. But they don't have players to
replace them now. Quite obviously, Cam Smith would have to

(01:09:25):
do something very unforeseen in twenty twenty six for them
to have a replacement caliber player like those. So they
spent money in free agency, first initially on one of
their own, and Jose Abrew spending money on Rafael Montero,
and Jose Abrew following that up a couple years later
with the money sixty million twenty per for Christian Walker.

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This is the ballpark that Dylan Cees will be in.
It potentially is for even more years than the three
you gave to both a Brew and then more recently
to Walker, I think it's money very poorly spent because
now you're banking on him, and this is your fromber
Valdez Dylan Ceese comment, Well, Frober's been healthy, he's made
all his starts all these years. Well, the team that

(01:10:09):
signs a better be worried because now he's gonna get hurt. Well,
can't I think think the same thing about Dylan Cease.
Nobody's made more starts than Cease. Even Fromber thinks he's
this guy's durable and Fromber's crazy durable. So you're signing
him on the wrong side of thirty for four years,
for eighty five million, for ninety five million, for one
hundred million.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
You're right there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
You're making the same free agent mistake you've made multiple
years in a row. Now with the age you're talking about,
the miles on the odometer and the perceived and then
reality performance dip that has come with everybody that fits
the criteria you just mentioned.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
Baseball free agency, unless you are landing Juan Soto caliber
players more often than not, you're just they're just not
hitting free agency when you Nobody would want to. Nobody
would want to have guys hit free agency at that
point in their career, you re up them until you can't.
You try to get to them early or unlike what
the Astros have done with so many players, Jordon's the latest,

(01:11:09):
Christian Xavier's won, Alex Bregman is one. You prevent them
from getting to free agency when they could, and sometimes
you can and most of the times it's what happened.
You know how good they are, you know how much
you've been kind of getting over on them in the
early portions of their career because that's just what players
make at the beginning, like Jeremy Pane is currently making,
like Hunter Brown is currently making, like all of those

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Astros made during the early Well they're making way way
less than what their value is. So if you can
give them a little more without them actually hitting free
agency when they could make ten times that much, well, now,
these players free agency is a bunch of twenty nine,
thirty thirty two, thirty four to thirty five year olds.
How many years do you want that? How many years

(01:11:50):
can you believe they're going to be at that level.

Speaker 4 (01:11:52):
That's why Alex Bregman's kind of going to be fascinating
this offseason because he's again opting out and is going
to be again looking for probably bigger money than he
even got this year, which was forty million.

Speaker 6 (01:12:04):
I'm sure Dylan Cees's eight seventy four era will play
well in the future for whoever signs him.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
I'm looking forward to it wherever he is not here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
The aged on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:12:26):
Halfway through the practice week for the Houston Texans as
they prepare for the Denver Broncos, and as expected, based
on what was being reported and obviously what I saw
yesterday and was talking about yesterday, Nico Collins is good
to go, so much so that waiting for Friday's injury
report is unnecessary. He spoke with the media today and

(01:12:46):
confirmed as much. Not only that, but speaking with the media,
even if he doesn't actually verbalize it during that conversation,
that means he's pasted the concussion protocol. He's no longer
in concussion protocol. There's no longer a concern from a
logistical standpoint whether or not he can play. He will play, obviously,
there's always a concern for a player who has recently

(01:13:07):
suffered a concussion. It will be two weeks in between
snaps for Nico Collins, but hopefully there won't be any
issues for him moving forward. There won't be any hospital
balls thrown his way or any issues with how he
is tackled on this turf, as there were with multiple
players how they were tackled on the turf at Lominfield
in Seattle, where it seemed like they looked like it

(01:13:29):
happened to CJ. It did happen to Nico. There were
multiple injuries that Dalton Schultz is still dealing with that
took place in that game. Whether they were to the
turf related or not, I don't know that. It's easy
to determine that, very easy to determine it in Nico's case.
But as indicated by those who spoke yesterday and then
Nico himself today and Christian Kirk similarly, it appears all

(01:13:51):
of their receivers will be available for them to utilize,
and however they deem I would imagine all six will
not be active, and I would imagine that they just
go back to having Braxton Burrios inactive, but that's not
yet determined. I hate to put it this way because
it seems to minimize it, but I would assume with

(01:14:12):
that news this was the minoriest of concussions.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
I don't grade them well. I mean, there are varying
degrees of it. Obviously are yes.

Speaker 6 (01:14:21):
The timing of getting in and out of the protocol
would suggest he probably was dealing with fewer symptoms for
a shorter period of time than others.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
Well, in light of what defense they're playing against, even
without certain and this newfound competence on the offensive line,
I'm excited to see what that means.

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
So they had two pass plays of better than forty
yards in the last week's game, and we talked about
the Woody Marks play many times already. I don't think
we've talked about the Jalen Nole play nearly as much.
And that's much more of a description, an example of
how you can make things work when you have an
obvious weakness. That's what the Texans did on that particular play.

(01:15:04):
That's a legitimate downfield pass play that worked tremendously well.
The Woody Mark's play was more of That was the
third progression. He's in the flat, nobody went with him,
he had blocking, and he took a very very short
pass and ran fifty yards with it. Jalnoles tackled the
moment he caught the ball and it went for forty
four yards. That's a forty four yard pass down the field.

(01:15:27):
And I don't know how many people knew realized it
at the time. Not always that easy to see it
on TV. Not even that easy to see at the stadium,
where I was very easy to see when you watch
it countlessly on a loop, when it's clipped and you
go back and watch this play. The Texans were playing
two on seven in the Niner secondary in the Niners

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none front four, and they completed a forty four yard pass.
The play was designed for two players that broke the
Texans huddle to run a route that was it two players.
They had six linemen in on the play. Lake Fisher
was tackle eligible obviously CJ. Stroud was receiving the snap.
Two players out in a row, that leaves two more.

(01:16:11):
Those other two players were Harris and Bryant nick Chubb.
Nick Chubb lined up off to CJ's right and looked
for somebody to block initially and then slowly made his
way along the line of scrimmage out to CJ's left.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
If he were needed, he could have probably.

Speaker 6 (01:16:26):
Thrown him the ball, but he wasn't more than seven
to ten yards away from him, wasn't even far out
in the flat. He hadn't even gotten to that point.
Harrison Bryant was lined up to CJ's left, and at
the snap he immediately sprinted across the line to pick
up any blocker that might be coming through, any blitzer
that might be there, somebody who would have maybe beaten
their initial block. And then the other six linemen, three

(01:16:50):
interior linemen, and three tackles, and they were all behind
the line of scrimmage when CJ let that ball go.
Seven Niners in coverage, two Texans running routes, and Jalen
Knowle was wide open. It took a great throw to
get it where it needed to be, so he caught
it very easily. The defender behind him. Maybe wide open

(01:17:12):
is a bit much. The defender behind him, like I said,
tackled him immediately upon the reception. But there was a
passing lane. There wasn't fitting it over this guy and
between that guy and around this guy.

Speaker 5 (01:17:22):
He was open. That's a better way to say. It's simple.

Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
He was open and CJ had time in the pocket,
had time to step into his throw.

Speaker 5 (01:17:28):
He didn't have to make three reads. There weren't three
reads to make in this play.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
In particular, I'm bringing it up for the very reason
of why Nick Kayley is here, not him personally, but
that a replacement was brought in. You aren't capable of
running an eighty snap a game offense without help for
your pass pro and leaving all but two players in
for pass protection is a sure sign that the offensive

(01:17:56):
coordinator knows that, even against the Niners, who go almost
no pass rush because they knew it for the whole game.
He didn't put it in here and well, maybe we'll
use it there. He just said, we're protecting you this game,
and we're gonna put the personnel on the field to
do it, and we're going to be able to call
all the plays that we can run off of this
particular pass pro and these personnel groups. We can run

(01:18:17):
out of this, we can pass out of this, and
we can get open even though the math the numbers
aren't in our favor. Well, those seven guys in covers,
they don't know where Jalen's going. That's what makes pass
defense so difficult. He ran a nice route, he got
to an open spot, he caught it in stride, forty
four yards. It was all about the pass protection, all

(01:18:38):
about the pass protection and last year's OC for whatever reason,
there just wasn't enough evidence that he recognized that, and
they just weren't adjusting to it. Nicks made the adjustment
in season. They weren't running six linemen out there at
the beginning of the year. I wish they would have.
He probably should have known it beforehand, but he let
it play out a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
So as it pertains to this week though, and it
completely different defense, which absolutely gets after the quarterback and
all that, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
Like well, just because of the phrasing of it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
The coach for the other team actually said that this week,
Sean Payton said, preparing for a totally different defense. Now
I can't use his audio this week, Sean Payton like
we did in the past when he was talking about
Russell Wilson, when he then after the fact, tried to
cover up for the fact he was totally throwing shade
at him. He said, this week, it's a totally different look.

(01:19:28):
They played the Cowboys last week. Oh so it's a
look so at all it sounds exactly like you want
it to be. He is shading the Cowboys. They're awful.
We prepared last week and we were laughing in meetings.
It really was easy. Yeah, but before I this was
clipped and I only I saw someone write this, and
I'm like, well, I'm gonna go. You know me, I

(01:19:48):
went to the press conference, so I went to see
where it happened and what he's like five minutes before
or a couple minutes before he got to that comment.
He said, with all due respect, and he explained what
he was talking about before he got to the line
of it's a totally different look because you spend all
week preparing for a defense. How they play their defense
is very different than how the Texans play defense. How

(01:20:10):
fast the Texans are, their mentality of getting to the football,
and there's tons of evidence against this opponent last week
in San Francisco, which is a lot of the film
you would normally look at. But yeah, if I wanted to,
I mean, I'm a radio host, after all, this is
what we do. I could absolutely pluck that audio out
and say, hey, Dallas, Sean Payton, like everybody else on earth,
thinks your defense sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
Yeah, well that's becoming his mo by the way, throwing
shade at people and not really particularly caring if you
know about it. That's definitely Sean Payton's modus operandi. All right,
we will reset things when we get back. Matter of fact,
we'll hear from the Texans head coach. He doesn't typically
throw shade at anybody. Pretty nice guy by all accounts.

(01:20:51):
That's Tamiko Ryans.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
He has thoughts on the Broncos offense, Sean Payton's offense.
Coming up next.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Two, lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your team.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:21):
Four o'clock how We're underway here on a Thursday edition
of the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety Space City
Home Network, wex Ac and Cole Thompson with you as
we take you until six o'clock tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
It's Halloween eve. Wex what are you? What are you
going as tomorrow? Nothing?

Speaker 6 (01:21:38):
Not even a cantankerous curmudgeon total talk show. Our light
will be on and candy will be handed out. Oftentimes,
people who do not go trick or training will costume up.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
I will not be doing that. Are you guys not dressed?
Not tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
I was thinking about wearing something tomorrowking about wearing for
the show, Yeah, to end the show. I mean you
heard my actual reaction to that or even considered it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
What if I rolled up in full costume tomorrow and
I just wore at the entire show on camera.

Speaker 6 (01:22:08):
That would be awesome because you obviously have somewhere to
go to trick or treat, so you wouldn't just be
putting it on for our listeners. Well, let me put
it this way. You're going to go trick or treating.
You're wearing a costume.

Speaker 4 (01:22:18):
Our son, who is seven years old, has this weird
dynamic going on right now. He sees all of the
neighborhood decor. And I'm talking about the over the top
ones that you get at, like you know, local hardware stores. Yeah,
the awesome stuff, Yeah, the stuff that's giant, that's animatronic,
that is Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:22:39):
So we've got neighbors that like routinely every holiday put
out just right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
And he looks at that yard and he's scared of it,
but he knows that he's in his yard and he's
safe because Dad's there, So he gets brave, he gets
uh cocky, actually puts his hands on his hip and
tells the animatronic across the street to shut up, like
Nancy Pelosi. I taught him how to do that. Shut

(01:23:08):
shut up, That's what he says to him. He knows
that I have a mask on the way for this costume,
and he like is scared of it. But yet he
knows it's me, and I'm not gonna put it on until,
like he sees me put it on, so he sees
me normal before I'm wearing it, like, I'm not gonna

(01:23:28):
walk in the house with it on.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
All right. She's upset. She thinks I'm gonna scare him.
Tomorrow night. We'll find out. But yeah, I I I
seem concerned. Oh, we'll find out. Your plans aren't changing regardless,
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:23:42):
I feel bad, like if he's scared of it, even
if he sees me put it on, and then he's scared,
like should I lose the mask? No?

Speaker 5 (01:23:48):
No, well you guys, are you?

Speaker 6 (01:23:50):
Are you going to be who I think you're going
to be? If I don't just yeah, let mean you'll
figure it out when you get there. Don't listen to us,
But you've got a costume. He's old enough. I think
and you guys know him better than I do in
this situation to handle it. You'll find out if he
can or not? Or are you gonna at least wear
your shirt tomorrow with me? When I wear my Jason one, Well,
I'm not gonna wear that shirt. I am guarantee I'll

(01:24:13):
be wearing a shirt tomorrow. You wear a wet blanket.
You got some ideas what I should be wearing. You
should be a wet blanket for Halloween. Sound very comfortable
during the show.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
What doesn't happen?

Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
Actually, I can turn the ac up a little so
I won't catch cold. What if you just wearing a
doused blanket? Why don't you wear an afghan over there?
I would have to get one. You don't own an afghan? No,
you're your grandmother didn't knit one for you by hand
several years on.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
The knit one for anybody else either, but certainly not
for me.

Speaker 6 (01:24:49):
Man, you missed out and your child. I will come
as a sports reporter. I will wear the clothes I'm
currently wearing. I'll come as an undercover police officer, and
I will look like this. I'll be a teacher. Here
you go, here's the get up. What else can I
not dress up for but say I'm in costume accountant.

(01:25:10):
I mean maybe on casual Friday. Well, it's gonna be Friday,
you'll be casual.

Speaker 5 (01:25:16):
I could do that. Sure you can dress up as
an attorney at law on his lunch break.

Speaker 6 (01:25:20):
Yeah, but see if why don't you dressed up as
Michael Scott. If you're an attorney, it has to be
casual Friday. Or when your older client comes in and
sees you wearing jeans at the office and he says,
I've got this a very serious matter. This is my
will we're talking about. I want you to take it seriously,
and you'll say, well, it's just casual Friday. I'm taking
it very seriously. I'm just dressed like I would be

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at home.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
I don't like it. I can't have my business. Remember,
next Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day, So don't pass it down. Milton.

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
If you want to wear a Hawaiian shirt andould I
come as be a football player throwing a helmet in
a jersey. I really think if you wore a full suit,
you'd look like Michael Scott. He does a man suit
or a woman's suit like Michael sometimes wears. I would
wear the woman's there's a man suit, but on the
side it was in the bin. Remember when Jim discovered

(01:26:10):
it really was and his eyes lit up. I think
Daryl was pretty excited about it as well. Everybody was,
except for Michael, of course, who was wearing the woman's suit.
Of course it was Yeah, I mean Michael Scott costume
only worked if he has his fellow dunder mifflinites. Okay,
that's not true. Okay, it worked well. Otherwise you're just
wearing a suit. What'd you say called I'll be Dwight
and then you be Pam.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
No, no, no, no, no, no no. We're not all
dressing up as members of the don't want to be Pam.
I think you'd look at greatest Pam. No, I don't
have the hair. Angela definitely not Angela. How about Creed?
I could pull off.

Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
Die.

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
How about the extremely important to the show redheaded lady?

Speaker 6 (01:26:48):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
What was her name?

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
Well, there's two of them. There's Nelly and then there's
also Uh. That's a good point later here, Nelly later years, yeah,
later years. Last season I made.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
I don't think I'm in the minority.

Speaker 6 (01:27:00):
I think I'm in the normal people who watch really
good TV shows that get ruined later by newcast members.

Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
Nobody. James Spader. Was he on the office in California?

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:27:11):
He wasn't. You didn't like Wes will Ferrell in the office,
Yeah he was not. What about?

Speaker 6 (01:27:18):
What about Kathy Bates? Was she on the office on
because Steve didn't leave yet? Come on, that's close, hilarious,
that's border line. She was funny, baby, I liked her character.
She was Now Gabe was on the show. But Gabe
was much earlier than all these teachers, all these new
bosses come on show.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
So are you talking about the rest toiling? Here's the office? Aaron?

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
Aaron was there early enough, she worked at Michael. Then
who's the redhead, the what's her name? The one who
got run over, the one who's always dude?

Speaker 5 (01:27:52):
What it now?

Speaker 6 (01:27:54):
Because she's not important to the show, which is the
whole purpose, I guess what was her name? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
I hate it when you do this. Maybe I can't
remember either. That's not true. You know who it is
right now? Pam, Oh my god, it's like the same
thing every time. Just say the name. What was the
crazy person that made the candles? What was her name?

Speaker 8 (01:28:15):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Jan?

Speaker 6 (01:28:17):
Jan who was Jim, tall guy his girlfriend worked at
the all O their often.

Speaker 5 (01:28:28):
I got it. It's Meredith.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
She had a drinking problem, she had a partying problem,
she had a lot of problems, right, Meredith Palmer.

Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
Yeah, I mean most of the people. There's only a
handful of people. You dress up as an office member
and they would know who you are. Otherwise, could I
dress as Toby? Could I dress up as the Temple?
You already dressed up as Team You got to put
a name tag on or else you're just wearing a
suit or you need the ensemble cast?

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
Can I dress up as the Nard dog? Wear suits?
Can you not ever dress out as the dog? So
that's far I haven't. I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:29:00):
Usually I'm begging you. The worst character on the show,
far and away. No, I hate Andy more than he's
got the worst character on the Office. He's far and
away one of the worst characters in television history.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Gabe was a worse character than him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Gabe was supposed to be annoying.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
They made Andy supposed to be funny. He became annoying.

Speaker 6 (01:29:18):
If there's an easy to recognize, doesn't need five other
people to dress up with me costume that I can
easily put together.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
I'll consider it three whole punch trim go with him tomorrow.
Come on, man, beat Michael.

Speaker 6 (01:29:32):
We're gonna dress up for Halloween. It's tomorrow, it's today,
October thirtieth, and it's the first I've thought about it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Yeah, because you guys brought it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
The thing about Michael Scott costume quote unquote for you
is you just dress like look, dress up like you
would for like a Rockets pregame on Space City Home Network.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
Just put a suit on exactly. I can do that.
I mean, I can do that if you want. Just
don't make the tie super bright because he never did that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
It's very inconspicuous time dark colored suit and you already
look like him.

Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:30:04):
I got a text message from our dear producer on
the opposing side, Frankie, you should dress up as prison Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:30:11):
Oh my gosh, I forgot.

Speaker 6 (01:30:13):
And easy to put together. I might even have a
purple bandana at the house. How about David Wallace? You
could come in with a hoodie that says suck it.
I need a drum set?

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
What was fat? Michael Scott? Uh, I don't recall, God
darn it, whoa.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
I still when they put Roy's mugshot on the screen
in the early seasons when he gets You.

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
Know, I could pop to dresses someone from the warehouse
like Darryl or the aforementioned didn't get to marry Pam Guy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Michael Klump, that's true, Michael Klump is good. What about
Michael scarn oh Man? What a great film level? Midnight?
All right? Have we have we run the gamut?

Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:30:59):
Yeah, we haven't. I mean, we could fit OJ into
this segment. We could do a lot of things. Do
you want me to dress up as Oj? No version?
I think a lot of people have gotten in trouble
for doing that, don't. I don't have any Italian dress shoes.
I do Molly's.

Speaker 6 (01:31:12):
I do have gloves that don't definitely don't fit isotonas.
It's just a variety of I've grown out of.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
We only have to wear one. Of course, I don't
have any thirty two jerseys. Got no USC gear? Do
they do the thing on?

Speaker 6 (01:31:25):
You know what? I could dress up in a suit
and act like I'm a sideline reporter for the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
You know on NFL dot com. J Simpson.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
They won't let you make a ron Mexico jersey. Do
they allow you to make a thirty two Simpson jersey
for Buffalo I Guild here?

Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
Why he played there? He was all time rusher. He's
a Hall of Famer. You can get a Simpson jersey.
Don't run from your legacy in the NFL thirty two bills,
Simpson jersey.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
It's not our fault. You put a double murderer in
the Hall of Fame or he murdered both people, Well
you can take him out. You know he took his
heisman away. Did they give it back to him though.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
Well, he's tried to get it sold. It is that
one of the things he tried to get to get back.
It wasn't in the Vegas hotel room.

Speaker 6 (01:32:05):
Those were other artifacts like Joe Montana autograph cards.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
Nobody move the office in OJ right out of the
gate four o'clock. There had to have been an OJ
joke on the office. Here's a percent of joke on
the office, right, but remember.

Speaker 6 (01:32:21):
A little sports on the office because Michael didn't do
for Immediately that comes to mind is when they didn't
believe Daryl was actually hurt at work and they staked
out his house and his sister was wearing a jersey.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
The Kelly Green. Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
By the way, if you dressed up as Michael Scott
playing basketball in the office or in the that would work.

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
That's actually a solid costume. Please, I said, I would
think about it. All right, he's got twenty four hours
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
The a on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
All right, apologies for a last segment not getting to
Dimico Ryan's thoughts on the Broncos offense. I mean, after all,
when we're trying to go Wexler into actually dressing up
for Halloween on a television or a televised radio show,
sometimes we deviate off the normal path. So we'll see

(01:33:25):
if he shows up tomorrow in full Michael Scott gear
of some sort and keep a Looxi or a lookout
for that, because it is obviously a simulcast radio show
and we love to present that kind of thing to you.
In the meantime, all this talk about you know, what
the Broncos defense could do to CJ.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Stroud and that offensive line.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
Was it real last week or was it just another
example of a decimated defense getting taken advantage of. Has
not allowed to talk about the Broncos offense. There's even
more talk about the Texans defense, but as as it
pertains to what Sean Payton does best, I think which
has put up points devised game plans on the offensive

(01:34:10):
side of things. Uh Demiico Ryans asked about that situations
the Broncos coming to town with the Texans looking back,
you're looking to get back to five hundred.

Speaker 8 (01:34:18):
The most difficult thing about Sean Payton's offense is it's
a high volume of offense. So you're gonna see a
ton of different different plays, a lot of variety. He
does a great job of, you know, whether it's using
a quarterback and some zone read type plays, getting in
a wildcat, using this receivers on jet sweetness, just it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Ton of variety.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
So you really have to trust your rules.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
You have to trust your techniques, things you worked from
OTA's and training camp.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
He's going to.

Speaker 8 (01:34:45):
Test all of your rules, so you have to have
elite eye discipline, and you have to be exactly where
he's supposed to be. It's really a rules speriore, supposed
to be a discipline matchup because he's gonna test every
single thing that we've had, any issue plays that have
come up he does. It's a great job of attacking
it to see if you cleaned up those issues. So
we'll get a heavy dose of a lot of different plays.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
What say you.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I mean, it's a pretty good description of what Sean
Payton has done his entire tenure as a head coach.
But I don't think you could say that about him
in the well. You definitely couldn't say that about him
during the Russell Wilson era.

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
If you want to call it that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
Yeah, So look at him more for when he has
a competent quarterback, and I think he has that now
with bo Nix. An interesting stretch of games for a
guy who's only in his second season. We kind of
walked through what has been basically a full season. His
last sixteen games. They've won eleven times. They made the
playoffs during that stretch. Because they closed out last year
so strongly, they were able to make a run to
the playoffs. And this year, obviously they've gotten off to

(01:35:45):
a nice start. They've also won five consecutive games. Included
in there as a win over Philadelphia, and included in
there mainly because of that Philadelphia game, but then they
did it even more so in the win against the Giants,
that they have done it on multiple occasions this year.
So looking around on some other things regarding the Broncos
and their offense, and I knew this would be the

(01:36:05):
case before I got to the numbers, and I haven't
been able to put them all together, but eighty five
points scored by the Broncos in the fourth quarter. They've
made those two miracle comebacks. They've had some games where
they've gotten off to miserable starts and it doesn't really
seem to phase them. And I don't know if it

(01:36:26):
puts the other team in some sort of some sort
of false sense of we've got them, we've got it.
It's a real credit to their offense, their play caller,
their design in that they're able to come up with
stuff that eventually works or this isn't working, let's go
with that. Forty four points in the first quarter, fifty
five in the second, twenty three in the third, eighty

(01:36:47):
five in the fourth quarter. Have blown out the competition
in the fourth quarter over their eight games, out scoring
them by.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Almost fifty points.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
It's not really good news for the Texans, who have
had situations where a game got away from clearly against
the Bucks in the fourth quarter. They've been okay against
the lesser teams, and again, there's so many different ways
you can point to it. And even if you're looking
at the Texans offense, the three teams they've been able
to outscore thus beat have been quarterbacked by Cooper Rush,

(01:37:17):
cam Ward and mac Jones. They're not facing a team
like I'm not giving you anything else that they're about,
and there are clearly those factors are there, but this
is a team quarterback by bow Knicks. Bow Knicks has
had six of his touchdown passes. Six of his fifteen
have come in the fourth quarter. He has fifteen touchdown passes,

(01:37:39):
and again, very slow starts hasn't really phased him either.
His interceptions have almost all come early in the game.
He's only got five. Cj similarly has five. These are
things that are one reason why you can count on
your team and it's where the Texans need to be.
It's a massive difference between the Texans and the Broncos

(01:38:03):
in what can get done when the game's still on
the line. I mean, they don't believe they're ever out
of it, obviously with those two comebacks that they've had,
but they have confidence in what they've done.

Speaker 5 (01:38:12):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:38:13):
The Texans offense has also been good in the fourth quarter.
But why they've been so good in the fourth quarter
most of the time is their defense. Eighty five points
scored by the Broncos offense of the fourth quarter, thirteen
points allowed by the Texans defense in the fourth quarter.
That's it all year. Seven games. They if they have

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a lead, they've maintained it in the three wins. Quite obviously,
they weren't that competitive. Well, the other games were close
enough that nobody was scoring. And remember the Texans only
led the Titans six to nothing going to the fourth quarter.
All right, so add twenty of those fifty six points
came in a game the other team didn't score any
It made it easy, it made it lopsided. You got

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the shutout, but you scored points in a game that
at that point wasn't really competitive anymore. Institute, the same
thing happened, so to speak, with the Ravens game. You
just kept piling up points. Now they've got to matter.
They've got to be in a game where okay, they scored,
now you scored, they scored.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
We got to score. We got to match them, or
here's our last chance.

Speaker 6 (01:39:15):
We've got the ball, ninety seconds left, one time out,
down a score starting at the twenty five go in
the game.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
It's funny you should mention that, because I mean, and
nobody's gonna confuse the Texans defense with the Giants when
the Broncos put up all those points in the fourth
quarter and made that miraculous comeback. But it sounds like
the way things have gone for Denver this year that
if you're if you're the Texans and you do have

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that lead going into the fourth quarter, even though you
have maintained that lead, this might be the most dangerous
version of a team that could make that comeback against you,
even though I guess technically that's what the Tampa Bay
Bucks did in the waning second time.

Speaker 5 (01:39:57):
They scored one time.

Speaker 6 (01:39:58):
It's not like they were down multiple scores and you
didn't know what to do with him and they just
kept scoring, and you let a game get away from you,
let him score one drive. You gave him one drive
at the end of the game, which you had multiple
opportunities to get him off the field, and you just
couldn't do it. You know, his fourth quarter numbers best
of obviously for him across the board, He's only been
sacked fifteen times the entire season. But he's excuse me,

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he's only been sacked eight times the entire season in
their eight games. These are the things, and I know
this question was about the other side of things.

Speaker 5 (01:40:27):
To that point.

Speaker 6 (01:40:28):
C J. Stroud and the Texans offense, they're the only
team that hasn't allowed to sack in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Really, Yeah, that's say, are you sure about that? I
am sure about that? Was it? I'm trying to figure
out Jay Stroud is the only one.

Speaker 6 (01:40:47):
Well Davis has taken a couple of kneel down snaps, yeah,
but he has not been sacked in the fourth quarter.
All fifteen times he's been sacked this season, I've come
in quarters one, two, and three.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
That's a wild staff for a team that's just trying
to get back to five hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
Well, when I looked at it, what I thought I
was looking for, I saw I didn't expect this to
go with it. He's been pressured, obviously, I would hope,
because his numbers in the fourth quarter aren't good. They're
actually quite bad. He's thrown five touchdown passes, but he's
been so inaccurate. He's completing you know, he's about seventy

(01:41:22):
about seventy one percent of his passes the rest of
the game first three quarters, fifty eight percent in the
fourth quarter. Like, when are these these? Demico Ryan's biggest
comments of the tenure he's been here. You're gonna play
in close games, You're gonna play in one score games.
And they're playing in a heavy, heavy percentage of one
score games. I don't know how rates around the league.
My guess is they play among the highest percentage of

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their games do end up as one score games. Four
out of seven so far this year, all losses.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
That's wild.

Speaker 6 (01:41:52):
If they're being decided by one score, that means presumably
one or two times in the fourth quarter, you your
offense had the ball in a one score game and
you're not making the plays to win it. And this
is why it's not such a great thing if that's
if that's what happening now, because remember the Texans in
one score games in year one were very good last
year where they were still okay, this year they've been winless, winless.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
Yeah, I think that's something that probably doesn't get brought
up as much as it should when you talk about
the two ten and seven Uh, seasons and the and
the postseason appearances that come with them, like and this
is this is true of a lot of teams every
single year.

Speaker 5 (01:42:33):
Oh that game. I don't don't know if this team
is as good like I mean, look at the Colts
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
We dissect their seven victories and who they came against
all the time, because we just don't want to believe
that a team that was as abysmal as they were
last year is this good with Daniel freaking Jones as
its quarterback.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
But it's it's true. I don't I think they were
they were. They were eight to nine last year.

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
It's not good.

Speaker 6 (01:42:55):
It's not playoff caliber, it's a pretty average, but they
weren't abysmal.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
Well, they've almost matched their win total. And we're going
into Week ten or whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
It's when when is it their eighth win, their ninth win,
their tenth win, week fifth? When do we stop yearing
about who they've played? When just say they're in the
NFL and they have a bunch of wins.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
Probably when they beat somebody that's actually really really good,
which I don't think you could say they they have
done yet.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
I believe in them. I'll say that today I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:43:20):
Not saying they're a bad team, but I'm just saying
I'll believe more in them if they knock off a
really really good team like.

Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
The Chiefs A couple weeks away.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
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Speaker 6 (01:43:33):
Where a new signature seven called.

Speaker 7 (01:43:41):
What's up with that? What's up with that? What's up?
If I say it was up?

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
Who is that?

Speaker 6 (01:43:54):
Very simple question to ask for what's up with that?
It's basically a dozen one of these seem like it
does not belong I ask. I'll give you the names.
You'll recognize. They're all elite hoopers, But I'm asking, does
one of them sound like they might not belong here?

(01:44:14):
Bob Coozy, Julius Irving, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Karl Malone and
Jerry West.

Speaker 4 (01:44:24):
Bob Coozy, Julius Irving, Kareem abdul Ja, Hippie Lettuce.

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
Yes, Karl Malone and Jerry West and Jerry West. They're
all Hall of famers, right, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:44:39):
They're all very very very very good NBA basketball players.
In this instance, they actually are also very very very
good college basketball players.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
Is Carl the only one without a ring?

Speaker 6 (01:44:55):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
I don't really know that that's not the answer. I
don't know. Bob Coozy also not the answer. Karmelone is
the answer.

Speaker 6 (01:45:03):
Now. I bring up this question because it struck me
as odd and the person who posted it clearly struck
them as odd. Also, many years ago, the college basketball
Elite created an award for the best.

Speaker 5 (01:45:21):
Player in the country.

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
The success of this award, best college point guard, was
the Bob Coosey Award, and subsequently they added four new awards.
And this is not new anymore, but they added them
in twenty two thousand and four for each of the
five positions in the still position needed basketball court. It's
not the NBA where it's positionless. We have positions in

(01:45:44):
college basketball. So they named the award after each of
these great players. Bob Coosey, if you win the Bob
Coosey Award, you're the best college point guard. If you
win the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Award, you are obviously awesome.
You play in this position, you're the best college center.
Jerry West, Julius Irving. I think you know where those

(01:46:07):
places are on the court and the awards they represent. Well,
if you're the best power forward in college basketball, then
you win the Carl Malone Award, and it struck me
as odd and created some awkwardness. I would think if
you are, say a really good at college basketball, deserving

(01:46:31):
of recognition, and get said recognition and you win and
you accept your award. If you're Trace Jackson Davis, if
you're Montrez Harrell, heck, if you're Zion Williamson, you have
won this award. Do you get it and say who

(01:46:51):
you want to think and include the name of the
person who it's named after when you thank them. I
wouldn't think you'd want to. You can thank Bob Cousy,
I loved you in Blue Chips. You can thank Kareem
Abdul Jabbar. I thought you were great as an airline pilot.
You can thank Julius Irving. My gosh, you're working the
fish that save Pittsburgh, unbelievable. And you can thank Jerry

(01:47:16):
West and say I thought they did an awesome job
portraying you in showtime on HBO and the logo and
you're a nice logo. But what do you say about
award handed to you to help honor Carl Malone? He
was awesome on WCW Nitro Well, I mean I did
try to not make it quite so harsh. But I wouldn't.

(01:47:39):
I don't know what committee or what group of people
thought he was. Yeah, he was a great play at
Louisiana Tech. He was also a great player at Utah.
I wouldn't think it would be the greatest idea to
name an award after him, no matter how well he
played basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:47:54):
Well, he's a bad dude, but I think it has
way more to do with the fact that he was, like,
for a long time the number two all time leading
score was he not?

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
It has nothing to do with anything except he's right
at basketball. I get it. This is what they chose
to do.

Speaker 6 (01:48:06):
Yeah, I'm not doing that. You on this because I
don't I know why they did it. I am a
little bit surprised that they did it. I mean, and
I want to know from somebody. If somebody knows what's
up with that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:18):
You know, what's the is the Defensive Player of the
Year Award, the Hakeem elija Wan Award.

Speaker 6 (01:48:24):
Heck, you could pick any of them. But yes, I mean,
that makes sense. It makes more sense than this, I guess,
is the best way to put that. May guy was
a defensive menace. It's the all time leading block shots.

Speaker 5 (01:48:36):
Well, again, they all make sense.

Speaker 6 (01:48:38):
I think Karl Malan was he was unbelievable at power
forward in college.

Speaker 5 (01:48:43):
This is what the award is for.

Speaker 2 (01:48:45):
I totally get it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:46):
But there's a million other power forwards that you could
have named after who weren't jerks.

Speaker 5 (01:48:52):
And again we're being nice. I still think.

Speaker 6 (01:48:56):
I was a little less nice with that comment. So
has not produced a lot of future success. One doesn't
necessarily have to come with it. If you look at
college basketball awards, even all America teams, all that stuff.
Your best players in the NBA, your lottery picks. They

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played a year of college basketball and they weren't usually
the best players in the country. They were very good,
or they splashed. They just have so much future talent
that you're just scratching the surface on. These are all
the players that are expected to be super NBA players,
not necessarily the winners of these awards, not even close. Now,
Cooper Flagg did win the award last year. If you're

(01:49:39):
fired up about that award, well no, technically he would
not have won that award because he won the Julius
Irving Award, which one's that he was categorized as a
player who manned the small forward position. So who are
they again, Bob Coosey, Jerry West, Karl Malone, Kareem and
Julius Irving.

Speaker 5 (01:50:00):
What do you think about the Kareem One? What about it? Well,
it's clearly the center.

Speaker 6 (01:50:07):
Yeah, you mean, for they could have named it after
somebody else who was also very good at basketball and
played center. Yeah, I don't have any issue with it.
I mean, it doesn't have to be the best all
time player. I mean, Bob Coosey's not the best player ever.
I think I was too young to really kind of
know what was going on.

Speaker 5 (01:50:27):
But was he as it was?

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
Kareem as disliked as it seemed he was during his
playing days.

Speaker 6 (01:50:36):
During his days maybe, but being disliked and doing things
that might be what land you in jail forever are different.
He had viewpoints, he was outspoken. He was definitely a curmudgeon.
But I don't think that your personality traits are akin
to your skirting the law at stating habits if you

(01:50:59):
want to call at that. Yeah, yeah, I just thought
it was on.

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
I thought it.

Speaker 4 (01:51:04):
Everybody knows that he's a scumbag. Everybody knows why Karl
Malone is a scumbag. And unfortunately in this case, it
we're not talking about all the things he did on
the basketball court that would apply to that term, which
he did plenty of those things too.

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
But yeah, his it is. It's crazy to me. I
look at him, and I look at this is from
left field, but it applies here.

Speaker 4 (01:51:29):
I look at Superfly Jimmy Snuka in kind of the
same we now with Superfly, we're murder.

Speaker 5 (01:51:35):
Was the act in question. I mean, you know that's
probably the ultimate charged But yeah, I'm not convicted.

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
I actually couldn't tell you right off the top of
my head how that all went down. But yeah, he
did not get into the trouble. A lot of people
thought he should, given the circumstances, the facts, all that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:51:57):
Same as Karl Malone. I suppose he didn't get.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Into trouble that I think a lot of people thought
he should have given what he did right exactly hiding
from the fact that he did it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
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on the final play.

Speaker 5 (01:54:19):
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Speaker 6 (01:54:21):
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Speaker 5 (01:55:05):
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Speaker 6 (01:55:08):
All right, good luck to all the participants, and good
luck if you're Buster Only avoiding crying yourself to sleep
tomorrow night when the Dodgers will lose the World Series.

Speaker 5 (01:55:20):
I thought he was a Yankees guy.

Speaker 4 (01:55:22):
Well they're out, so now he has to move on
to the next biggest market. Okay, that's what he does.
It's who he is.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
Let's talk about Buster Only.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
Buster Only tweeted the following last night at about ten
till ten. Rival evaluator Colin quote seems to me that
the eighteen inning game took a lot more out of
the Dodgers than the Blue Jays.

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
Dodgers are the older team, so to be expected. End
of quote.

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
So I mean there is no other way to interpret
this other than Buster Only is now making excuses for
the LA Dodgers. The big, bad, big payroll LA Dodgers
couldn't get it done because they were well tired.

Speaker 6 (01:56:06):
They were standing around too long. Yeah, they were standing
in the outfield for too long. They were sitting in
the dugout for too long. They weren't really running the
bases for too long because hardly anyone was reaching base right,
not that many scoring threats, and the extra innings. Remember
the game was tied in the bottom of the seventh
inning on a sho Heo Tany home run, which also
allowed him to jog around the bases. They didn't score
in the eighth or the ninth or the tenth, not

(01:56:29):
the eleventh or twelfth or thirteenth either. They also didn't
score in the fourteenth or fifteenth or sixteenth or seventeenth inning,
and there weren't a bunch. There were a few bases
loaded situations had to get work out of. Thankfully, Clayton
Kershaw was there at the end of an inning so
he wouldn't even have to face the maximum three batters.
Hopefully he could just get the one out and you
could get him out of the game, which they did.

(01:56:52):
But I thought it then, and I'm unfortunately having to
face it now as a I'm trying to remember who
said it. Man, Dude, it's baseball, you play. It's a
baseball game now, Craig Vizio said that will can't play
the next it took a lot out of you, Like, yeah, sure,
it took a lot out of you, and then you
woke up the next day and played in a World

(01:57:14):
Series game. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts and the other
thirty year old Dodgers didn't get set down the last
two days by the Blue Jays because they're old and tired.
Give me a curseword break and don't get it, or
baseball it happens. You're not gonna win every game. Put

(01:57:34):
line your team up. We're gonna expand the Major League
Baseball and every team has to make every player available
via the expansion Draft. The Houston Clantons are getting a
new baseball team. Great, and I'm gonna allow you to
draft thirteen pitchers. You can draft six starters if you
want another seven relievers. They can all be closer, they
can all be middle relief. You can outfit your team

(01:57:56):
with whatever you want. You probably want to get them
proper to position, properly positioned up, maybe a shortstop or
two and some outfielders. But you can put the best
lineup on Earth together that's currently playing baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:58:07):
No money matters. Every team's players are all available to you.

Speaker 6 (01:58:12):
Put that lineup together and send out those pitchers and
put the rest of them in the bullpen, and let's
go play a seven game series. I can't guarantee you're
going to sweep. I can't guarantee you're gonna win every game.
And why not any other players in baseball? I get
everybody else. I gonna have anybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
I want.

Speaker 6 (01:58:29):
You get the best players. Yeah, the twenty sixty best players.
I'll take. Heck, I'll take the field after five other
people take the field. I'll let you take another one
hundred and thirty players off the board, and then i'll
take the next group. They're gonna beat you in one
of those games, because I'm gonna catch tray a Savage
on the mound and you're gonna throw out sho Hel Tani.

Speaker 5 (01:58:51):
He's gonna give up a home run and you're gonna
make an error.

Speaker 6 (01:58:54):
Yep, it's you got don't have to make excuses in
this sport, but you really don't is and the.

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
Best part is your numbers? Guy, right, yes, you ready
for this?

Speaker 6 (01:59:06):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
So after he said, uh, well, he was passing along
what someone else said to be fair.

Speaker 5 (01:59:13):
But he didn't have to.

Speaker 6 (01:59:14):
You don't have to tweet everything that comes into your world.
Definitely are on board with somebody. Definitely gave him the quote.
I mean, just say this, man, stop making me call
everybody in my rolodics until somebody will say this, Hey,
will you say this for me? And I will honestly
quote you But I don't believe it. Fine, I'll go

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on to the next guy.

Speaker 4 (01:59:35):
Say you're my mom, and you'll be my mom called.
That'd be funny if you'd seen Boogi Knights. He just
begging for somebody else. Last part of that Dodgers of
the older team, so to be expected. Well, it didn't
take long for somebody to respond with the numbers. Hey, Buster,
just a heads up. According to ESPN, your employer, your employer,

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the Jays are the second oldest team out of all
the teams.

Speaker 5 (02:00:01):
Oh, I thought you meant in the World Series.

Speaker 4 (02:00:02):
No, but they're also that, which matters apparently since they
were tired, but now as tired as a Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (02:00:08):
Mookie went one for eight. He has since gone one
for eight. He won one for eight in the eighteen
inning game. He's gone one for eight since. Singles in
both cases now prior the game's Prior to that, in
the World Series he went one for seven.

Speaker 5 (02:00:22):
Very different.

Speaker 6 (02:00:23):
He's had a remarkably awesome postseason after they won their
games against Cincinnati. He has been special, absolutely awesome. But
then he played an eighteen inning game.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
And now you know why every time I run into
Buster only at Dykin Park or wherever I happen to
see him, I try to avoid stepping on that little
dumb runt.

Speaker 5 (02:00:47):
The Dodgers got out played? Is this so hard? They
haven't even lost the series? Ye lost four times

Speaker 2 (02:00:55):
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