Texans Short-handed Again, Astros Bregman Optimism and Chandler Rome Joins The Show

Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on November 6th 2024.

• Texans Practice Update- No Nico or Will Anderson Jr.
• Dana Brown delivers the latest on Alex Bregman's possible reunion. 
• Scott Boras is the Dad Joke master. 
• Rockets preparing a beat down of the Spurs. 
• Chandler Rome joins the show from the MLB GM Meetings In San Antonio. 
• AC enjoys Browns doubt in Deshaun Watson. 
• AC/Wex annoyed with Nick Caserio's view of the trade deadline. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named at him talking your
Teams series, Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A
Team A Team.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's up Houston, Texas is? It is a Wednesday edition
of the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety. Wex and
AC with you until six o'clock tonight before we make
way for Rockets basketball. You've got the San Antonio Spurs
in town, and the Rockets will look to go up
to one on their season series with them. Victor wimbin

(00:38):
Yama looking to put up big numbers against the Rockets
and Alperham Shingoon, I would say in that matchup, looking
to play well better than he did the last time,
since that's always the two that seemed to match up
in the low posts. So we can maybe get into
that a little bit. Obviously, the fact that the Texans
are back at it at practice getting ready for I mean,

(00:58):
I'll just say it, it's probably the most daunting opponent
will definitely since the Minnesota game. But I didn't I
didn't go into the Minnesota game with the I'm gonna
use a big word here, trepidation that I get such
a liar. That's not true.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You definitely have a big words dictionary right by the
front door every time you leave every day.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That was a very very dicey sentence that you just
made your way if you meandered through. I don't I
don't have you know what, I don't keep any sort
of books in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's more of a peel and toss.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Each day.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
You just tear it off and throw it away.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Like the calendars. Yeah, little paper calendar.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
We're in sixty five day a year sports trivia calendar.
I'm gonna find one that I have from who knows
what year, nineteen whatever. I'm gonna bring it in you are.
I'm sure I have one somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
That actually might be fun just to see.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You know, I would no way, I would tear the
pages off because I want to keep it so I
can keep looking at it fifteen twenty thirty years later.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You're a pack rat.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh my god, I have some great stuff. Does Robin worse?
But it's the greatest? Well, but yeah, some of it
is good, really the greatest. Like you, obviously, nothing's ever
been greater the best.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
As some sports talk show hosts would say, do you,
I mean you obviously, if.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You're gonna be a hoarder. You want to be the greatest,
You want to be the best hoarder. Do you have
the papers from the day after the Rockets win cha.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
For you somewhere.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I have some bags, some Duffel bags full of newspapers.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I actually have every championship day after chronicle framed in
my room.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Will you drop the word trepidation? You have no trepidation
about going to Minnesota as a two and zero football
team and trying to take on the Vikings. They whipped
the Texans thirty four to seven roughly halfway through the season.
I think you could make a pretty good case if
you or I or Dan or whomever were to put
together an NFL Power rankings kind of rank the teams

(02:44):
where they are at this point in the season. You
put the Texans wherever they are, nine eleven, eight thirteen, whatever.
One through five would be nothing but teams on the
Texans schedule. The Chiefs, the Lions, Ravens, the Vikings, the
Bills all on the Texans schedule. And the Dolphins are

(03:07):
in the twenties because they have two wins.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, but they're not.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's a deceptive record, but yes, it doesn't meant.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
To win a game with two of before I should
have won anoint them as their back. But yes, I
think people at some point are going to realize that,
you know, they need to win some of those games.
They obviously did. They've played two, they've won one. They're
one and one against those five teams. They beat the Bills,
they lost to the Vikings. They played one of them
in Houston, which they won. They played one of them

(03:34):
on the road, which they lost. This game is in Houston.
I sadly today was the day I checked yesterday and
the Lions had not yet updated their game notes for
this week, So today was actually the day I had
a chance to really kind of comb through them, and man,
they're they're pretty good.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
They're very They're the best team.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
In the NFL.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Some notes that will that will give you trepidation about
Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
You agree with that statement. What right now, they're the
best team in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
But they're playing the best football right And that's kind
of what we heard from Dan Campbell during a Football
at five yesterday. He speaks on Monday, spoke again today
and he didn't really talk at all about the Texans
on Monday. Obviously, today he did hopefully we'll hear a
little bit of that from him. But yeah, he said,
I feel like because someone point plank Asten, you think
you're the best team in the NFL. He said, it's
hard to say, but I feel like we can go

(04:23):
out there and beat anybody we play. That's what it's
all about. He's basically saying, yes. But I think Kansas
City definitely feels the same way. They've literally done exactly
that whoever they play, they beat. They've played eight games,
they've won eight games. You know, the Lions lost of
the Bucks in Week two. That also means they've won
every game since then. And as they've played better football,
that feeling of we are invincible, we are unbeatable starts

(04:45):
to grow louder. They haven't lost any of their games
away from home this year, so the zero is dropping
off of somebody's note. This week, Texans are four and
zero at home and the Lions again are undefeated away
from home. Practice today for the Houston Texans. As you
make your way through some of these injuries, it's obviously
notable who was or was not out there. I already

(05:08):
we have a new segment on the way, by the way,
but the production is not yet done yet, so I
don't want to.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Tell you what it is.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm on Bobian, get it together.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Not on him, he's completely unaware.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Sorry, Bobian.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
If this segment was already launched, this particular item from
me would make its way in there. We some of
the days where they practice outside on Wednesdays, just from
the time, you know, the players come across the street
and they go into the bubble for their pre pre
preparation for the practice. So when we're waiting in the
parking lot or waiting outside the gate, we don't see

(05:39):
them at that point because they're already there. They just
happen to be inside the bubble when they let us in.
Is when the team exits the bubble to go onto
the practice field.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
So every once in a.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
While, we're kind of quote unquote getting there at the
same time. So one of the players that was jogging
a handful of steps in front of me onto the
field in his unbelievably awesome shiny chrome helmet. They are
bleeping they're practicing, Yes, because you're gonna wear it.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I get this, but I feel like it's the
same helmet other than the pain on the outside so
I thought, I mean, I think they're really I guess
that's good for like visual, Yeah, you have to do that.
I didn't even think about.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
That everything fit all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
But see that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I would think that whatever helmet you're wearing, it should
be the same fit on the inside. But visually for
a special for a quarterback, things like that, you want
to see what you're.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Looking in the past when you were younger, bought the
multiple pairs maybe acid washed and black, say five oh
one jeans fit the same way. You need to make
sure that they do like your helmet.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
So point was.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
One of the players that was jogging out of the field,
clearly in uniform and ready to practice, was Jarrett Patterson,
who we were hopeful would be out of concussion protocol
and would be there. So I immediately went to my
to thumb out the tweet the post on X and
it reads Texans ol Jarrett Patterson parentheses concussion has retreated

(07:01):
to practice. I obviously when practice begins, I'm smashing out
a bunch of tweets. Will Anderson is and al Shai
here Is said we're treated. And so the auto correct,
which I didn't catch before I hit post was has
retreated to practice? Was he getting away from well? David
was wondering the same thing. Dang are the red coats coming?

(07:23):
Carlo said, Man, I hear you X. The election has
us all bleeped up? I get it, and a couple
of other gifts and whatever to mock my mistake, which
normally when I do something, it's it's I don't Oh
my god, he deleted it.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
What did it say? What did it say? What did
it say? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I usually delete it so I can correct it, so
five hours from now, somebody doesn't read something that was
just wrong. I made a wrong comment, or I put
statistics together incorrectly, or I had an auto correct issue.
But I actually quote tweeted myself and say, normally I
would delete this, but I want the mocking for this
because I find it kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Do you have a statute of limitations on when you
delete it versus leave it there and do what you did,
which is quote tweet it, post fund it yourself if it's.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
If it's like in game stuff or statisticals I'll delete
it as fast as someone's pointed it out. Well, because
it's wrong. Yeah, Like Kyle Tucker just hit a three
hundred and seventy five home run to left, his seventeenth
of the year. First comment, which I don't see for
ten minutes as stupidly, do you know your directions? That
was to right field?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I do that all the time.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, and I will immediately delete it because it's just
wrong and things like that. But so Jarrett Patterson was practicing.
I think, if nothing else, confident in saying this. We
don't get to see enough of practice any of the
days that would confirm it visually, but I feel confident
saying this. Jarrett Patterson is starting for the Texans on
Sunday Night football.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I'm guessing a little bit, but I feel confident guessing.
I just don't necessarily know where. It's not a given
that he just slides in for the left guard where
Kenyon Green will eventually be put on ir He was
obviously not out there. They have a roster spot already
opened because of the Khalid Davis trade. But if you
remember last year, what did the Texans look like the

(09:11):
first few weeks of the season.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Who was snapping the ball to C J. Stroud?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Jared Patterson, his most experience in the NFL, virtually all
of it is at center. I had a long conversation
with people here during the lead up to the season,
off air and on air, why is Jared Patterson not
in competition to start at center at the very least

(09:36):
in competition to start somewhere? He basically ran second team
all year, all training camp, all off season to either
Juice Scruggs or Kenyan Green. I wasn't sure why then,
and I'm still not sure why now, and considering it
as so much experience at center, their current center has
tons of experience at guard left guard, which is vacant. Again,

(09:59):
I'm not telling you that's what they're going to do,
and I don't have any Like I said, if I
were at practice all day today and we're allowed to
tell you what I saw, I would have probably seen
whatever alignment they're trying to go with. And Kendrick Green
is somewhere in the mix, but I don't know that
he's automatically part of the starting five. I don't think
his play last week suggested that he has to be.
I think everybody's play suggests you have to consider all

(10:20):
your options. But I think there's a real possibility that
that is what they end up doing with Juice Scruggs
sliding over no longer needing to be the kind of
play caller of the O line, and Jarrett Patterson starts
at center. Otherwise we'll just see what we saw in
the game. Kenyon was pulled where Patterson came in for
him at left guard and you stayed at guard. Everybody
else on the offensive line is out there and practicing.

(10:42):
Will Anderson did not practice. Jimmy Ward and Aziz Al
Shaier both did practice. The two players that were designated
for return and have their twenty one day practice window opened,
we're practicing today. That's Jeff Akudah and Jerry Hughes. Akuda
in the defensive secondary, likely their number three corner if
he's ready to go this week, and Hughes maybe in
a numbers game at edge. Dylan Horton also wasn't practicing today,

(11:05):
so that might mean they they would, if healthy, activate
Jerry Hughes for this game. I already mentioned Will Anderson
Junior was not practicing, and Nico Collins, as you may
have read from our Aaron Wilson earlier, he appears to
be healthy. He was not practicing today. He was not
on the practice field we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Okay, Lots on that front for us to get to.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, just your tiny little appetizer of our sixteen segment
show today we are on from two until six. Lots
to get to in a lot of different areas.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
And you might be able to argue that the main
course has nothing to do with football, but I don't know.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
It's up to you, guys.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I mean, it depends how punny we want to be,
because the deliverer person for the main course is mister
pun And I don't know if everybody looks forward to
talking with him every year at the Baseball GM meetings
or they don't. He had like eight good ones and
we'll deliver some of those for you as we make
our way through the afternoon. Here on a Wednesday edition
of the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
The Ag On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
There's a Space City.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Home Network's Todd Kallis, there's.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
The at You got him.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
It's Adam Clinton and Adam.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Wegler Clinton stop impersonating me on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
So, somehow on a week where the best team in
the NFL in the NFC is visiting Houston to play
the Texans, on Monday night football, Sunday night football.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Excuse me.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
According to AC the main course today is baseball. GM
meetings are going on pretty far away San Antonio. We
have some comments from Dana Brown, has a media availability,
had a media availability, spoke with some of the local reports,
including Chandler Rome and Maria Alexander, Matt Kawahara. He also
spoke with some nationals. John Morossi and today was the

(12:56):
day they brought the apple boxes out. You know what
an apple box is, don't you?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
An apple box? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I mean it's a very very very specific term for
what could be a very very much more simple and
easy to understand term.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Has nothing to do with the company.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, has to do with fruit as well. Technically, yes
it has. It literally is an apple box, it is
a crate. But why would people in this industry sports
media or news media or TV know what an apple
box is?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Is that like some sort of metaphor referring to the
people who are free agents.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
No, it's what people who are short stand on when
they're doing TV interviews.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh that's mean. See I was going to be nice
about it. I knew where you were going. I was
playing on them many many times. Yeah, well you're shorter
than that's by point.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
So if you saw a Chandler's post today and a
few others, everyone somehow frothing at the mouth, waiting on
pins and needles, looking forward to it. For three hundred
and sixty some odd days each year, be in front
of the Boris Corp backdrop. Scott Boris had his meat
with the media as he usually does meetings, and from
Chandler's picture right behind the microphone, you could see that

(14:04):
they had placed two apple boxes down for him to
stand a top. It's actually helpful for the media as
much it is. He's actually not short. You've stood next
to him. I've stood next to him.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
He's not short. He doesn't need it.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
But when there's no built up platform because they're at
whatever hotel they're at or whatever setting there is, it
actually does help the media because there's so many cameras there,
it's easier for them to work with someone who's a
little higher up than much further down with all the
media standing in front of Nonetheless, I know we have
to get to the Dana Brown on, Alex Bregman and
yuse Kakuchi and whomever else. But Scott Boris was the

(14:40):
star of today's show. I've got three puns from him
for you. We'll save the Bregman pun for last. He
was talking about Blake Snell. He's asked if Snell will
have a different free agency experience this year. As you
know and I know, he wanted a free agency last
year and landed a deal he really didn't want to
have to take, and then pitched well enough, especially over

(15:02):
the last four months, to go back into free agency
opt out and much more likely to get a great
deal this year. And Scott said as much when he
said about Blake Snell, one of his clients, there's no
doubt the Snelling salts created a lot of whiffs and
the market has definitely awakened.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'll pause to let that marinate.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
I mean, there is a free agent, first Baseman from
New York. He played for the Mets. He was asked
about Pete Alonzo, one of his clients. Yeah, he was
looking for a multi year, multi million dollar deal, and
we'll get it. His answer about Pete and his market.
There's been a lot of talk about this being a
bear market for first Baseman, but for Pete's sake, it's

(15:44):
the polar opposite. Do you think he writes polar bear?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Pete Alonso's nickname. Yeah, and Pete is his real name.
So when you say for Pete's sake, I mean does
he write these down before he walks into the ballroom.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
You saw someone speak with the assistance of writers and
a podium late late late or early early early this morning.
He has a team of writers. She also has a
team of writers had she needed to give an acceptance speech.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Sometimes she goes off script.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Late night talk show hosts who love this election stuff,
they have writers. Scott Boris definitely has writers. Is he
is he the writer? He might ultimately be the the
person who came up with this one or that one,
but he has a big agency. He's not the only
agent that works there. Every time we say, oh, I
wonder when do you have time to talk to Scott

(16:36):
Boris and you're gonna get in front of board, there
are other agents in his Boris Corporation that do handle
some things. And they probably also on their resume when
they try to get a job. Resume have to indicate
whether or not they are proficient in dad jokes, because
I'm sure it helps the company. Now, our last thought
about the nonsense asked about Alex Bregman Alex Bregman for

(16:59):
Chandler Rome from Scott Boris. Boris said, he provides an
infusion of championship blood. He's a B positive. M. Can
you have more fun, Scott? I mean, this is awesome.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
The fact that he okay, first of all, the fact
that that is a blood type. Yeah, well, all the
rest of them have just one letter. He found the
one that has two and also happens to correlate with
one of his free agent clients, Alex Bregman a B
which not a lot of people here call him that,
but some have, you know what I mean, Like, it's
it's more common than you would think, yet it's not.

(17:34):
I think I hear Breggy the most. You know, if
you're just gonna call him because you know how baseball guys,
when especially managers do this, you know, huh. You gotta
talk to Strawmy about that. Well, I don't know, Breggy,
I mean, what would they would call you wexy? It
would have to that's and I don't know. You can't
do anything for mine. It doesn't work. My last name
doesn't cooperate this.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's how host of free agents the Astros and the
only one that truly has that set about him, Miss JV.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
You mean an initial thing.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, CC did not sign with the Minnesota Twins. I'm
pretty sure GS did not go over the border to
sign Carlos He but you know what, Okay, so GC
did not sign a nine year deal with the Yankees.
George Springer what was he? He was always referred to
as what George? But I don't remember them saying George

(18:27):
King George King. George is something I heard, but not
when like other guys on the team are talking about him.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
The same same thing with Carlos Korea. Did they just
it was either his first or his last name?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well, you remember when Boris did this with Carlos, He
gave him a nickname. He wears number four. His name
is Correa. He's C four. He's gonna detonate gosh, this
is what Scott does.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
But like Jeremy Pania JP JP three.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I just didn't include him because he's not has not
gone through the free age of process for sure, for sure,
And I don't think the Astros getting Jordan to sign
an extension will prevent him from hitting free agency at
one point. But even if he does not, Hya, I
don't think we're a year away from Katie or Yeah.
I positive is something that Scott can keep for himself.

(19:17):
Dana Brown was at the meetings. Obviously, Scott Boris is
at the meeting, so thoughts from them about where the
astros stand in certain things. There's really much more pertinent, concrete,
meaty pieces of this main dish you wanted to serve
to our listener.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, John Morosi was among those who and I don't
I think this was a one on one.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
I don't know for sure.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I didn't see anybody else holding a microphone at the time,
so maybe it was an exclusive, but I know, you know,
other people spoke to Dana. It's not like it was
just a uh.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
If he's the only one speaking to him at that time,
you better believe they're going to call it an exclusive interrogation.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
That version of these same comments, but he's saying similar things.
He says, go.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Outside the Texans locker room for Adam Wesler standing by, Yeah,
I've got an exclusive interview here with me, Collins. Don't
worry that he just talked to every single other member
of the media in a group two seconds ago.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
This is my interview. Yeah, basically, but we like John.
He's a friend of the show, he's been on the
show before, and I think he's one of the national
guys that I actually do like because of the fact
that he does a good job and doesn't do some
of the other things that some of the other guys
who also stand on apple boxes do.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
He was asking about just in general, interacting with Scott Boris,
having conversations with Scott Boris, especially since he is the
agent for so many Astro's clients on Dana's roster.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
We've had multiple conversations with Scott Boris, so you know,
Alex has been great for this organization. We would love
for him to stay here. We feel like, you know,
there's a good chance we're gonna get something done, and
so the conversations back and forth with Scott had been
quite interesting. So we're optimistic.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
We're optimistic.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Now, look a lot of what he just said right there,
let's face it, that's that's gene speak, that's organization speak.
That's pretty generic. However, he did have something to say
a little bit more specific as it pertains to Alex Brugman.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
You're going back and forth with both of those guys.
I mean, I mean we want them here, so I
mean we'll try to make whatever adjustments we have to
make that are fair to both him and our club.
But you know, ultimately we'd like to get him done
and keep them here in Houston. We feel like he's
a big part of what we've done here, and he's

(21:32):
been a big piece of what we've done here, so
you know, ultimately we will hope to get it done again.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
A lot of that is for the most part, once
you strip away all the layers, it's it's agent speak
or GM speak whatever, it's pro generic. But I just
feel like of all the guys that have been a
threat to leave, and I think this is going to
be different from Kyle Tucker because mainly I think Kyle
Tucker is gonna leave, But it's just never the player

(22:02):
in question at this point in time has never been
spoken about this way by multiple members of the organization
and by Scott Boris. That's something else that we need
to talk about, and maybe we can get into that
in the next segment.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
I don't even think.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Scott Boris is talking about Alex Bregman the way he's
talked about you know other clients that have departed from Houston.
So still a lot of layers and a lot of
a meat on that bone to get to on a
day where the Texans and the Astros are forefront on
November sixth, but for very different reasons than usual.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
The a t on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
You don't have to be a pip to get your
lady to work at your command, mister Bone. That's right, Jess.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
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Speaker 2 (22:54):
Okay, this is out of hand. Before we go any further,
I have to I don't even know. Like so, we
got a tweet during the breaks we were talking about nicknames.
You know, baseball guys especially do this. AJ Hinch did
it obviously, uh AJ, what keep going? Dusty Baker did

(23:14):
it to a certain extent. Joe Spotta does it. But
it happens. Are you in sports? Yeah, sure, but you
do it. But it's baseball more than anything. I don't
hear it as much in football. I definitely don't hear
it in basketball.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
You gotta start covering a hockey team. It's the best
they do it. Everybody's name is Ze Jones. Oh yeah, everything,
and that's like the first cousin of what I'm talking
about here.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Well, so Chris, Chris tweets in this is at Grover
and Friends, says this is a long time coming, and
he tweets us both, and he's talking to me. I've
tried referring to you as Clanny since your late night
show on seven ninety, which preceded another show that's defunct.

(24:00):
Now embrace it ac slash Clanny. We're not doing that here.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Your last name's pretty bad for that. It's Mine's fine.
You want to call me wexx like plenty of people do. Yeah,
that would be fun. Sexy wexy is even an option. Yeah,
if you're feeling froggy, there's probably some parameters within which
I would accept that.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
What are those parameters?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
I mean, just you know, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
No, That's why I'm asking.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Clanny sounds not great? Bad?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah it does, Chris, So.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Let's just uh, it sure does, Chris. Yeah, I bet
I don't use it, Chris. What don't I car you Chrissy?
Since we're just adding wise to people's names, is this.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Guy's this tweeter this poster's real name.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Jim Jim Everett. I mean, I don't think he's gonna
come in here to throw a table over, but he might.
I just bet he won't. I bet I do, Chrissy.
So yeah, we're not We're not gonna be calling me that.
I'll just stick to the usual AC And yeah, we
already have perfectly fine as I say it, almost the
beginning of every segment, definitely the top of each hour.

(25:05):
Hey there's Wex over there. I may see nowhere? Have
I ever said, Hey, Wexy over there? Clanny right here?
That sounds awful? Sorry, Chris, is not a personal attack.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
It just sucked.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
So anyways, back to Scott Boris and John Morose's interview
with Dana Brown and really just Dana Brown in general.
And by the way, you mentioned Chan Lauren, we're actually
gonna talk to him at the top of the four
o'clock hour live from San Antonio, which, by the way,
when when did they determine that it was going to
be in a market where there's no Major League Baseball team?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Is this normal? Is it in San Antonio every year?
And I just didn't know about it?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
And it moves around?

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Why?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, But of all the places in America, you could
have it. We're gonna go there. Yeah, okay, they have
an airport and space. Easy. You can do it anywhere.
You know, you might as well have just said they
have an indoor plumbing and stop lights.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Is there another reason why you think they should go
to San Antonio?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Is there a reason why they should earth?

Speaker 7 (25:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (25:58):
I mean that's what it felt like.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
They just through a dart at a board and they
wound up in the Alamo City, which does not have
a basement, by the way.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
So okay, last year they went to the hotbed of
Major League Baseball, Nashville.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Okay, that's true. Yet yet Nashville is constantly talked about
as a destination rumor for the next expansion team.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
All the time it's talked about.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
I'm sure they can use the Alamodome if they want
to give the San Antonio Major League Baseball team San
Diego the year before.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
By the way, that's a good place, especially in November.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
All right, So what actually happened at the meetings? All
this teasing nonsense, Let's go back to the meet okungrey,
just before we get to that. Don't you agree that
it does that? The tenor, I guess is different around it.
I felt like it, like the altuove stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
All that, I know, it seems like I'm trying to
make too much out of something that's just a SoundBite,
But multiple sound bites from Altuve, multiple soundbites from Dana Brown,
multiple sound bites from Bregman himself. It just it's not.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Their pursuit of Springer was basically non existent.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I think he knew he was gone then.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
The years is upon years of no long term extension.
You keep going to arbitration every year. When he finally
reached the opportunity for free agency, it seemed like he
already knew what their best off.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
He was ready to move along.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
And in Carlos Correa's situation, they did some serious in
their minds. They did a lot of serious negotiating with him.
They put several offers in front of him. Each year
was a different reason why this wasn't the right year.
Carlos even said one off season, I'm not interested in
talking about it with them.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
This year.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
From my standpoint, I didn't have a good year. I
don't like the way I played. The time is right
for me to go and get better. I mean again,
all that kind of just sounds like he's saying, dude,
I don't want to sign a deal after that year.
I want to sign a deal after a better year.
But I got his point at the time. This has
been dramatically different WordWise, doesn't necessarily mean it's going to
be different playing out wise. And where the franchise sits

(27:56):
is another angle to it. Where were they when George
wanted to test free agency, ready to win another World
Series no matter what he did. Where were they when
Carlos Carrea wanted to move on, ready to win another
World Series? Pretty much no matter.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
What they did the next year?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yes, it's different now the pitchers that were helping them
do that either aren't here or are about to not
be here and can't pitch like that. And several of
the hitters, there's two of them we just mentioned, are
clearly not a part of this team anymore. And you
could see the difference in who they are offensively, You
could see the difference and who they are pitching wise.
Now give them credit, they pitched their backsides off. Yeah,

(28:35):
last season during the season with who stepped up in
the starting role and how Fromber and Hunter Brown were
probably the best one to two major league baseball starters
for three months, the final three months of the season,
they were incredible. I don't think another team had a
better one two. But they're clearly not that same team.
So you can't just keep losing players and that not

(28:57):
necessarily have the players ready to fill that void. So yeah,
I do think there's both a different time and where
this team is and a different tenor into what's being said.
Dana was asked about how what would you say, because
you keep using the phrase productive conversations, what does that mean?
He was talking about it like, well, here's what non
productive conversations are. What do you guys think about this offer?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Click?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I can't believe you hung up on me.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Click. This is the best we can do.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Click. That's not productive. And so he essentially described productive
conversations of here's something we're thinking about doing. Maybe we
could put a deal together this way with these figures,
over this amount of time, and we could tie it
to this. And here's why when you look at the
rest of our roster, and it's not about what he
means to us. We can't be any more clear about
how much he means to us, but we think this

(29:44):
is something that might make sense for both sides and
then the other side, let's say the Boris Corp. Side
comes back with it's a good starting point, or we
like what you're thinking there. This is certainly a place
we can start from, and we'll get back to you.
I've got fifty other teams on the phone, half of
which want to talk to me about Bregman and the
other half want to talk about my billion other clients

(30:04):
that are about to become or re become multimillionaires, so
become There's a lot on the table, clearly in his case,
and he's one of the four or five guys that
are kind of the the domino should fall after him.
Maybe Soto's dominoes first, and maybe Blake Snell from pitching
side is that first domino. Bregman's right there after that right.
Teams that are interested in Juan Soto probably have an

(30:27):
opening for Alex Bregman or Pete Alonzo. Probably again none
of those three play the same position, But I do
believe those teams from a spending perspective, most likely have
a way to make it work. Maybe this person's moving
over to that spot, or we slide this person over there.
That these are teams that would also be in the
mix for them. But I don't think you're hearing things.

(30:47):
I don't think you're making it sound like that. You
can believe that you want to believe this is all
for the public consumption. Yeah, so both sides. I think
you're gonna play games to a certain extent publicly, as
long as they're not playing too big of games with
each other. Because there's so much at stake, you'd hope
the honest negotiations and the truthfulness of it would be
there to a certain extent. But anybody who's dealt with

(31:09):
a negotiation, a lot of our listeners, ourselves have made
large purchases for our families to live in called houses.
We've bought a house, or we've negotiated a price. Maybe
you have a real estate agent and maybe they.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Have a real estate agent.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Shout out to Lily Jang.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, and they're going to say this is it. That's
my best and final. Doesn't mean there won't be another offer.
It's just a negotiating tactic. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
How low is our first offer? Can we get it
even lower without them saying that is a low ball offer?

(31:44):
Carlos Korea is not even going to respond to that,
and there's a little bit of gainsmanshipped to it all,
and I'm sure both Dana and Scott are playing a
little bit of.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
That, you know. Unlike some of the promises that are
being made in front of lecterns over the past few hours,
this is not a situation where the price is ever
going to go down. It's always going to go up
without fail no matter what.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Now, when Scott says I have lots of other teams interested,
we'll pick up on that. Yes, when we come back
here on the A team, there's an angle to be
played by the agent, there's an angle to be played
by the team's GM, and Alex Bregman probably will have
nothing to say about it publicly until it's all said
and done. I think that's probably the most prudent way
for a Scott Boris client to handle things.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
We'll pick right back on that. Obviously.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
We've got a bunch of other things to get into
regarding the Texans and the Lions and a host of
other things as we also get ready to bring you
Rockets basketball letters tonight right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
Touchdown Texas coach Stark here back to the eighteen with
the Adams, Adam Wesler and Adam Clanton on Sports Talk
seven ninety, Houston's home of Longhorn Football.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Winding down our number one of four here on Sports
Talk seven ninety it is the eighteen WEX and AC
with you today as we take you up until six
o'clock tonight. Mentioned that all the chatter going on at
the winter meetings, there's there's a lot of that going on,
and Scott Boris is always a busy man this time

(33:26):
of year.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
We already know that.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
And obviously he's not just meeting with Astro's officials, and
he's obviously meeting with the team that came out of
the American League this year about a number of situations
and specifically meeting with Brian Cashman. I mean, there's just
all sorts of stories about this. That's what this time
of year is about. The hot stove is would you
say it's warming up? Is that we're at? Is that

(33:49):
the stage?

Speaker 9 (33:50):
RN?

Speaker 10 (33:50):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I just rattled through what happens and what's likely from
a domino perspective, what's going to happen at these winter meetings. Well,
Scott Boris has other clients. Yeah, and he has poured
some of those ingredients into the Boris Corp pot. And
from a Yankees perspective, they liked what Boris's client served
them last year and tasted like last year all the

(34:13):
way to the World Series. Yeah, they're having conversations about
Juan Soto. Absolutely, the Yankees and Boris. You better believe it.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I mean, who are the biggest three free agents out
there on the market this year? Juan Soto, Alex Bregman,
and Pete Alonso. Right, that's probably make smell somewhere in
the mix. But yeah, from an offenses none pictures day, Boris.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Guys, Yep, it's just you talk about the rich getting richer.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
They'll be.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
I'm talking about him.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Williams of dollars billions of dollars in contracts signed by
Boris Corp clients.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Which means he'll get millions in commissions if we're to
believe how everything goes down.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
But yeah, especially if Soto helps get him to that
figure with some sort of five six hundred, seven hundred
million dollar deal.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm wondering what it's gonna end up being because of
the one thing less.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, Well, if I saw the other day was thirteen
years five seventy five.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, and again that's to me now way way less
because of the years you're adding to it. I mean,
you just had a guy signed for seven hundred million
last off season. He was the best pitcher on the
market and the end of the best hitter on the market,
and you're gonna get I mean, is it stupid for
me to say he got thirty five million dollars a
year twice.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
If you look at it that way, Well, he actually
got a million a year what until later.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
And he technically last year he got seventy once because
they didn't pitch.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
By the way, they finally reported yesterday that Dave Roberts
lied to everybody publicly about the injury. I'm sure that's
his job. Well, you don't have to lie so clearly.
When he said, oh, it was just a sublaxation. I'm
sure he'll be out there. I mean, he played why
the Astros did it and it's just a bone bruise.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, he didn't play. This person played.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Now it's not basketball or football, where like Hoosiers, you've
seen the movie. Please say you've seen the movie. Okay,
he just nodded, yes, we're not on TV yet, so
he nodded. I've absolutely seen. It's one of my favorites.
I think Dennis Hopper was one of the greatest actors
ever in a sports movie.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I love it, love it.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
That's what Ac just said, without saying anything. If you
know that one of the very few players on Hickory's
team has a very bad cut on his shoulder, well
you're gonna hit him in the shoulder until the stitches
pop out, and stupid Norman Dale wants to keep him
in the game when he's bleeding out and he's got
to have his assistant coaches tell him to take out.

(36:34):
Probably in baseball it's different. But if Shoheo Tani was
quarterbacking the Los Angeles Dodgers and everybody on the New
York Giants knew that he had a completely dislocated and
separated shoulder, non throwing shoulder, you better believe they're gonna
hit him there legally, you better believe they're going to
maybe land on him where that's what he falls on.

(36:56):
And again it's baseball. I don't really know if they're
gonna pitch a much differently, but do you have everything
kind of making him lean over the plate where he
has to wide open swing. It was pretty clear he
was hurt because of how he was running, how he
was holding onto his his arm to keep it close
to his vest by the way chest. But he's having
surgery to correct a dislocated shoulder and torn labram a

(37:18):
torn labor Sorry, well they're both. I thought it was
a say, much more significant and accurate way to say it.
I should have said that from the beginning. A torn
labrum non throwing is pretty significant.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, but as a guy who has torn his laborum
and did not have surgery to repair it and then
just let it go, And then they were like, all right,
the only way to fix this is to rehab you
in a most painful method, to basically break up the
scar tissue that's grown over the years of neglect, to
the point where I was like, I don't even want
to do it. I just will go the rest of
my life without lifting anything over my head and not

(37:51):
have the arms that i'd like to have from working out.
That's the trade off.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Probably an old Matt Thomas esque caliber reference, being that
it's two fifty, I think it's still a okay, Like,
why couldn't you just fix it like Martin Riggs would
fix this dislocated shoulder. No, I mean MARTA's partner. Oh
oh uh, how did he do it?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Well?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
It helped him get out of a straight jacket because
it could dislocate his shoulder basically upon command, and then
when he wanted it back in place, he would just
slam his shoulder into the ground. The file cabin at
the wall.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Is that how David Copperfield got out of his straight
jacket while he was hanging upside down over flaming spikes.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
I think David Copperfield's performed more hard to believe magic
acts than that.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
David Copperfield is so ridiculously rich and people just don't
even know it.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
He owns his own island.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yes, the magic act I was referencing was Claudia Schiffer. Well,
that's one of them, man. It's just proof that if
you're famous and have a lot of money, you can
pull anything. But anyways, back to what we were talking about,
that's that's a significant injury.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
I know you just said non throwing.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I get that because he's pitcher first, but that does
not not just have a small effect on your swing.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Doesn't matter what side you swing from.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah, this possibility that during a swing in the future
he experiences that during a I'll say this. I will
say this, he will not repeat his feet from this
past season because.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Of this injury, his feet of home runs hit.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Fifty to fifty. He will steal way way way less
because as in their fifty nine bases, as they're seventy
million dollars per year investment, they're going to tell him
to do that less.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Not to mention, his career high in steals prior to
this year was twenty six. I was going to say
twenty five when he was hitting and pitching for all
but one of those years.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
And by the way, that is not an unreasonable request.
When you are hitting and pitching, your shoulders are more
valuable than a typical hitter or pitcher.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
If you want to make pitchers throw over, fine, take
a big lead, just stop stealing bases. That's that's probably the.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Track of your disengagements, Yankees.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
It sometimes pitchers will do it. I'm not sure why.
It looked like Weaver realized it during his throw over
to first.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Like ah, crash, yes, and the balls halfway to first, Yes, Well,
I don't care. They lost it's great. So yeah, it's
it's going to be a very interesting winner. But I
keep going back to this. I just I have had
this feeling. And look, have I communicated with Alex Bregman myself, Yes,
But it's nothing like sources. Well, that's a big, pretty
big source. That's the horse's mouth, as they say. That's

(40:37):
a better stores than Scott Boris.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Even Boris also said something of pretty big significance, even
though we in Houston already do and I'm not sure
that everybody else around the country was aware that he
did have a surgical procedure on his elbow.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
I also related which he told me, but I wasn't
supposed to say anything about it.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
But he essentially told everybody in the media and publicly again.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
There after the fact.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
There's twenty nine other teams that might not their fans
might not have been paying quite his close attention, right.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
But the crazy thing is he still made stupid, ridiculous
throws from third sometimes outside of foul territory.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I couldn't notice that. I couldn't notice anything at all
wrong with his elbow when he was jogging back to
the dugout saluting the fans. When Joe spot. It took
him out of the game early and didn't notice anything there.
I don't want so he could say his goodbyes. Yeah,
so the fans could say good buys.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Even the fans were like, wait, what this isn't this is.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
That's not what we're doing. We're not saying goodbye, are we?
He didn't do this because he knows, did he? Joe
knows already. He's doing this on purpose.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
He's not leaving the Astros after losing to the freaking
Tigers hard? Are we going to play Jordan Belfort when
he returns to the Astros? I mean, what, how how often?
What's the copyright rules on the TV side?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
What's the limitation? What's the maximum?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Because because if it's just if it's a movie and
it's just a line from a movie, I think we're
good on music.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Definitely say it sayings one word.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I might say the word because I'm gonna be so excited.
I mean, when the adrenaline is pumping after you've had
very good news, all sorts of things happen.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Before we hit the top of the hour. Break Yeah,
real quick, just fifty right now today, sixty forty in
favor of.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Him staying Wow, Yeah, I think Bregman.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
I think Alex Bregman suits up in twenty twenty five
for spring training and the home opener and all that stuff.
At a minute, may park as a Houston astro. We'll
start three o'clock hour next.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking your Team,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
A What's up Houston? Straight up three o'clock here on
sports Sock seven ninety and Space City Home Network. It
is the A team with wex and Ac. I say
that because during the first hour, we learned that those
are the only terms that we will be using to
shorten our names. Our number two of four underway, we've

(43:08):
got a lot to get too, still, and we've already
gone over a lot of territory on a day where
not only are the Texans back at work, so to speak,
practice and whatnot as they get ready for the Detroit
Lions to come into town. By the way, I saw
somebody I followed on Twitter, I believe earlier today, had
a picture and I don't know if they took it
or if they found, you know, somebody else that they

(43:29):
knew took it. They were on the freeway and the
Sunday night football eighteen wheelers were making their way down here.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
I guess the satellite equipment or whatnot.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Whatever it is, it the truck, even though sometimes it's
an eighteen wheeler, but.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
It looked like there was more. There was multiple trucks.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Well, they've got a production truck and I think they
also maybe have some trailers as well. Same idea for
some of their people, gotcha that we see on TV.
They have lots of people we don't see on TV.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Well, here's the thing, and I know on this this
is this is strictly a Houston fan inferiority thing. I
think when the Texans have been featured on national television
in a prime time setting like this, you always hear
the consternation, oh man, Like, at least in the past

(44:17):
this has happened, and this is when they're not so good.
When they're really good, it's like, like, well, how are
they gonna screw this up? The funny thing about that
is this time around, they're on national TV so much
that I just I haven't heard that a lot.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Now.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
It hasn't gone well on National TV so far this year.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Not great. I mean they're five hundred. Yeah, I mean,
but the last you're only as good as your last performance,
and your last performance, well, frankly didn't feel like you
performed because you weren't allowed to, because the line wouldn't
block to your quarterback. They were allowed. They weren't allowed.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
You were Maybe you should just run the same kind
of stuff out there every snap after snap after snap.
Maybe maybe you the coach have to reconsider some of
the plays you're running with the other shortcomings you have
at some point that.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
That's your way of saying, feed Joe Mixon more.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Oh, that means stop seven step dropping into a pocket
that's not going to exist. While people are running long,
slow developing routes. You are in a perfect play, but
a little bit too often. I'm very lucky that I
co host a show with you at this very exactly.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
I think you're probably the best person to ask, because
not only do I think you'll know the answer, you
probably have it in some electronic organized situation, as in
a spreadsheet. What are the percentages or what are even
the raw numbers on the type of dropbacks? No, I
don't have that, but you probably have an idea. You've
at least probably glossed over these data. Think about it.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
You've watched the last three games Green Bay, Indianapolis, and
the team they just played, New York. Yeah, just run
through your mind real quickly, roughly one hundred and fifty plays,
one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy. Does
it seem like he's had very many snap one, two, three,
throw quick slant. Does it seem like he's had any
quick immediate screens? I can definitely recall one. It's through

(46:05):
a screen to tank with Xavier Hutchinson blocking lost three yards.
They had three defenders there, he blocked neither of them.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
So I'm not saying they're not all the same.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
They've all had one other similarity, which we still don't
know if it's going to change this week. That play
is designed for whomever, but the player that runs it
the best, the player that gives you the highest chance
to succeed on it, because he's going to either win
his route with his feet or he's gonna win his
route with his feet and his body. It's Nico Collins

(46:37):
who's back this week, according to doctor Clanton.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Yeah, I'm the guy. I'm the guy you come to
for these confirmations.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
The facts of it. They practiced today, he did not practice. Yeah,
And in order to practice, he has to be designated
for return. He has not been designated for return. It
can happen tomorrow, It could happen on Friday. They could
make a decision after not practicing at all this week.
And I've explained this before Wednesday's practice. On a regular
game week, it's pretty light in effort to maybe have

(47:09):
more players out there with you practicing because you're not
going quite as hard, and maybe it's a little bit
easier for some players or not at a one hundred
percent to participate in that form same thing on Friday.
Thursday is tomorrow. Thursday is the day that if you're
out there and practicing, definitely, if you're listed as a
full participant, you're gonna play barring an illness coming Sunday.

(47:29):
And we'll find out on Jimmy Ward and as he's
al Shair if that's the case for either of them
or both, because they practice today and I don't know
in what form or fashion they're not on IR so
their practice window was always open. They can come back
and play whenever they're deemed healthy enough to do so.
Nothing from a roster standpoint has to be done. Nico
can't do that. He has to come back in that

(47:53):
practice window fashion. He also gets counted against their designated
for return number, which is dwindling extra really quickly with
still eight more games to go. I like how you're
saying it with confidence. We've both been pretty confident about
it for the last couple of weeks, thanks mainly to
Aaron Wilson's reporting on his status, which he gave another

(48:13):
information piece on that before practice today, saying there haven't
been any setbacks. He's running without limitation, and he's reaching
his top speed without limitation, but he might not practice today,
which he did not.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
I'm gonna say something that's probably going to be offensive
to a lot of people. I know it's going to
surprise you. I just feel like if they and again
this is assuming he's he could play Ie. This is
a playoff game. You know, if it were this scenario,
he'd be out there, which is what I think. That's
where I think we're at right now, without you know, knowing,

(48:46):
without actually being his doctor. In a way, it feels
like if they don't trot him out there this week,
you're not exactly conceding the game. But man, conceit. Think
about this. Wow, I know that's why I said it
was going to sound offensive. I was preparing you for
the hot take, but it's not really that hot if
you actually like sit there and marinate and think about

(49:09):
what's or what's going on here. You're playing the best
team in football, that's playing the best football in football,
that has a ferocious pass rush, even without their best
pass rusher, they do not have as all.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Right, maybe night Sunday, well, only because of their opponent
and their acquisition.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
But you can't ignore that. Well, it's not your offensive
line by design makes anyone's pass rush elite, which that's
where we're at right now.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Then that's all the more reason to give CJ every
weapon you can, even if the weapons in question aren't
necessarily good offensive lineman. I know that it's a cause
and effect thing, and if he doesn't have time to throw,
then it doesn't matter if Nico's running routes out there.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
But that brings me back to my original point.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
If they don't think that it's worth it, and he's
maybe eighty percent ninety percent, then maybe they're conceding because
they think that they're conceding he can't play. Seeding's a
harsh word, but that's not what I can think of
that's better in this case, because that's how I'm gonna fail.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Looking at it, they're not giving themselves their best chance.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I mean that sounds a little bit more fairing what
you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
You really don't think the Texans can beat the Lions
because Nico Collins is not returning.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
I think they have a much You think they well, yeah,
I think they much a chance to do it based
on what's happening. But here you are understanding if they
had an even functional offensive line, I'd be like, yeah,
rest Nico, make sure he's one hundred percent. Tank Dell
and whoever else can get this done because CJ is
going to make that happen. If CJ's arm is behind
his back, one of them, maybe two, because he's getting

(50:49):
you know, chased into the turf every other play, I
just right should be optimistic.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
So the issue isn't whether he's back or not. The
issue is whether he has a stre has here's offensive liner.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Now, we've seen CJ make chicken salad time and time again,
and you know what I mean by that, he made.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Chicken steck, you know what I mean, at least two
or three times each week for the last three weeks
because there was nothing else to do.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
The problem of those weeks were involved in.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Yeah, some of those weeks, those plays were made in
addition to the routine plays that they now no longer
make because they're not available to them. They can't make
a routine eight yard play, They can't make a routine
seven step drop and thirteen yard completion. He doesn't have
the time to do it. They don't have time to
run the routes to get there. So these miracle throws
that he continues to make, they're the only things. And

(51:38):
there he has a game of ten completions, yeah, and
a game of eleven completions over the last three weeks,
and then the one in between is the game they won.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
But again, the other obvious thing about this, and I'm
saying it's painfully obvious, but it needs to be said.
If if Joe Mixon isn't out there, it's just a
complete non starter.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
But he is.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
It's not just that Nico Collins is out there so
your chances improve because he's out there. It's him in
conjunction with the Joe Mixons and the Tank Dells and
whoever else you want to, you know, spread the ball
round two on offense, whether it's running or passing or
screens or anything else you're gonna have to do because
you are going to have to get creative against this
Detroit defense. I know it's not the same without him,
but they're still good and it's still a big reason

(52:20):
why they're as good as they are.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Their corners are excellent.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, I'm here for a reason, and I will prove
that once again.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Is it wet or is it sopping?

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Well?

Speaker 4 (52:26):
The blanket you're about to throw on this.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
I'm not throwing it on this. I'm throwing it on
you at you. Oh okay, not bringing it out in
advance either, bring it on Nancy. Joe Mixon's last three
games virtual carbon copies from a running perspective. Each time
twenty four carries, twenty five carries, twenty five carries, touchdown rushing,
touchdown rushing, two touchdowns, rushing one hundred and fifteen yards,
one hundred and two yards.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
One hundred and six yards. Mister consistent, and they've won once,
yeaus twice.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
He is going to do that and if Green Bay
didn't show you last week how teams can and will
run on the Lions. We'll watch any of the other
seven games it has happened. He will also be able
to do that. He's going to have success. I hope
he's used in the passing game. That's one thing that
was different last week. That was his first zero catch game.
It was his first zero target game. How is he

(53:15):
gonna target ball three times in every game he's played
in as a Texan until last week when they targeted
him zero time?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
But how's he supposed to get targeting mark when the
quarterback is running for rest Well?

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Targeted six times against the same no blocking scheme the
week before, three times the week before that zero is unacceptable?

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I agree, So that will change.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Otherwise, the running part of it, heavy use should help
you in the play action pass game and should help
you take some of the heat off of your quarterback.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
But it doesn't. It hasn't.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
They're gonna make changes on the offensive line. I don't
think there's gonna be any difference in Joe Mixon in
the run game. He's gonna see twenty plus carries. If
he's showing any kind of success, he's going to be
able to turn three yard games into seven yard gains.
He's going to make a cut in the backfield when
they get through and turn a TfL into a three
yard game. All this discussion about how often CJ has

(54:06):
been hit, and about how often he's been sacked, and
how many players have been blown up, they're also giving
up TFLs left and right. Ten plus three straight weeks.
That little defense mechanism you put in every week. The
offensive line just clearly has not been up to snuff.
As we continue here on.

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Speaker 1 (55:32):
Today, the A Team continuesus on Sports Talk seven nineties.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
It is the A Teams Sports Talk seven ninety Space
City Home Network, where you will see the Rockets and
the Spurs round three tonight. Both teams have split the
season series so far, both of which was in San Antonio.
What are you?

Speaker 4 (56:03):
What's going on now?

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Both teams have split?

Speaker 2 (56:06):
That is accurate?

Speaker 4 (56:08):
How would you have said it?

Speaker 3 (56:10):
They've split the season series.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Both teams have not one of them, just one, just
both of them. Yeah, both teams have a win. I
guess is what I was trying. I was mixing up
my my statements. I don't ever do that, do you know?

Speaker 4 (56:21):
What about that series?

Speaker 2 (56:23):
So they had the two games in San Antonio, and
the first one was on a back to back, but
it's I believe it was. Yeah, they played the night
before and uh, it just it's a short trip. But
it just felt like, I don't know, I didn't feel
good going into that game the whole time, and they
came out looking like I thought they would just kind
of sluggish, that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
And then I so I kind of felt that would happen.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
And then the next time they played each other, I
thought they were going to destroy the Spurs, and they
did for most of the game until they allowed them
to come back.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
It's amazing. It sounds like we're making it up or
anybody's making it up when they talk about the NBA.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Oh, no, lead is safe.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
And God was back in the league watching Rockets opener
eighteen point lead lost by five Rockets against the Spurs.
Both of the games you just mentioned massive leads in
both games for either team. Both team losing came back
teams or yeah, both teams had big leads, just different games.
And then the last two nights. I mean the Dallas game,

(57:18):
Rockets had a huge lead.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Mavericks came all the way last State led them by
thirty one, and they took the lead in the fourth
did the Rockets before losing home last night?

Speaker 3 (57:26):
The Rockets were up by fifteen just before halftime, and
again that's not quite as large as most of these
other leads. We're talking about. The last couple of minutes
of the first half. I think the Rockets would like
to have back. It made life a lot more difficult
in the fourth quarter, in the second half in general,
but as has been the case in their wins, they've
been the better team in the fourth quarter. They were
the better team in the fourth quarter, and last nights

(57:48):
or two nights AGO's game.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
And plus Sibido runs his players into the ground, so
Jalen Brunson's legs were shot.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
He also was the Rockets have the ability to defend,
especially smaller guards, with players that can make life miserable
for them, and that's what a men Thompson provides for
this team. If you were listening earlier today with emi
Udoka's weekly appearance on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross,
he mentioned that this is some it's an asset in
their tool belt to use because he can make life

(58:16):
miserable for guards in general, certainly guards that thrive off
of their array of moves he does. While short, he's big,
he can push players around. Talking about Brunson, we can
push him in around all he wants, and then a
man just sticks his hand up and he still has
to shoot over that, which can be difficult. Tonight they
have the San Antonio Spurs, like you mentioned, third time

(58:38):
in the first eight games of the season. Won't see
him again until February twenty sixth. They'll both have the
same record. If the Rockets don't win, they both before
and four coming out of this game, before heading out
on the road for a weekend date in Oklahoma City
Friday and the weekday or afternoon game Sunday against the
Detroit Pistons. Probably ask a see if he thinks the

(59:01):
Houston will go undefeated against Detroit on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I think I already know the answer.

Speaker 11 (59:05):
No.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
But if the Rockets win tonight, they were all five hundred,
They're five and three to open the season, coming off
of the years they had, coming off of just getting
to forty one and forty one.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
It would be a huge.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Way to start what you hope is a playoff season.
They would have won four out of five. In doing so,
they would be over five hundred. At home, where they
were actually were pretty good last year. They were twenty
seven and fourteen at Toyota Center last year, which is
a record that playoff teams have. If they weren't dreadful
on the road, where they were fourteen and twenty seven.

(59:37):
If you just won eighteen games on the road, you
went eighteen and twenty three, which stinks I would have
been you would have been in the playoffs. Basically, your
forty five wins would have had you thinking very differently
down the stretch last season.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
I think I am very confident in saying this. I
think they win by double digits tonight. Jeremy, So is
it so? Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:00:00):
Han?

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I always forget this or do you pronounce the ch
You do not. That's why I thought baby Rodman, discount Rodman,
whatever you want to call him. He's gonna be out
for an extended period of time with a broken thumb.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
He is a pest like Rodman, and he wears the
same number and hairdoo often like Rodman.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
He doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
He doesn't play basketball like Rodman.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
No, he scores, he can.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Put the ball in the basket, and he's nowhere near
the ferocious defender or rebounder.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
They're gonna win this game comfortably. They're gonna win the
game at Detroit comfortably. That's my opinion.

Speaker 12 (01:00:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
That game against the Thunder. Every one of their games
with the Thunder last year was an instant classic if
you remember, I don't know what it was. The Thunder
were the best team in the Western Conference from much
of last year. They went down to the wire before
I think they finally relinquished the top eight seed. They
were the number one seed. Okay they were, but I
think they lost it for a few days or weeks there.

(01:00:51):
But it was always back and forth between them and
Denver whatever. But every time they matched up with the Rockets,
and again one of those games, I think Shay Gil
just Alexander was missing game. Neither team played full strength.
I think in any of those four matchups, maybe they did.
One of them went to overtime, I mean high scoring.
I want to say one of them was like one
thirty two to one to twenty seven final in that range.

(01:01:13):
They're instant Classics. These two teams match up well against
each other. It's just always entertaining. Now, could the Thunder
blow them out? Thunder have made some changes, big changes, actually,
Alex Caruso correct, Yes, okay, he's a rocket killer.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
I don't know why. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
The logic doesn't make sense to me. The math doesn't math,
but he does every time he plays. He's a glue guy.
He is going to make plays that help you win basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
I not like him going to the Thunder.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Well, what's even better about it, if you care for
the Thunder, which we don't, is they took away a
player that is a complete opposite Josh Kitty's playing well
in Chicago, much more effective offensively than he ever was,
in my opinion with OKC, but getting him away from them,
which they did themselves last year. They took him out
of the starting lineup. They played him a lot less,

(01:02:00):
they saw it, but to turn that spot in their
rotation into Alex Caruso. They don't need more offense, they
don't need some ball handler, they don't need they don't
need anything. They need a player like Alex Caruso, and
that's exactly what they got. They're loaded and this is
a fit player for a team who was trying to
win a championship. And those are the types of additions

(01:02:20):
you'd like to make super young, the players they've drafted
continue to pan out year after year after they miss
a year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
Sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
By the way, chet Holmgren missed an entire year and
it's missed zero games since then. He played every game
last year. He's played every game this year so far.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
It's weird because the thing that kept him out, which
was a broken foot right or was it like a
muscle thing, It was a foot injury.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
It was a foot injury he suffered playing basketball in
the offseason.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
It's the thing that I think is going to end
up affecting Victor wimen Yama. But I if you're to
ask me my projections on their trajectories, say that five
times fast. I just think that chet Holmgren's gonna wind
up having a much better and longer in this case,
career than Victor wimbin Yama because of maybe it's the

(01:03:11):
additional height, the size, whatever. I just he's so much
more frail than than Victor is, and Victor's very frail.
But I just think that, and he's such a good
fit like he and Shay Gildos Alexander that is, it's
an incredible duo. I hate it because it's gonna be
a problem and you're gonna have to get through them
when the Rockets finally get to the point where I

(01:03:32):
we're making the playoffs, we're trying to get out of
the West or make a long run in the West.
They're gonna be inevitably in the way at some point,
and I just hope it's not one of those deals
where they're sticking be cause they've got all those draft picks.
And I know you think Sam Prest he's a goon,
but well, I'm going on you know, past reactions when
I say his name, you recoil, like you know, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
I can appreciate his eye for talent, and I can
appreciate how he built a team, because he's built two
championship caliber teams, same franchise, but he built them to
do what they're doing, which is compete for a championship.
I just I'll never get past him saying, Nah, not
interested in winning a championship this year. I think that's dumb.
What can I do to make sure that does not happen?

(01:04:15):
James Harden, where you send him what you get for
him irrelevant. Asking him to not play basketball for a
season in which you have him under contract for was stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
By the way, Steven Dumb is the guy that became
that pick that the Rockets sent. Correct, it's funny that
he now plays for the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
But if you could have traded for, like I said, anything,
you were not going to make that year's team more
capable of winning a title the year after they won
the West, and you should have figured out a way
to not have to move James at all, because you
were talking about four D was what you really thought

(01:04:55):
permanently could be great. I have doubts about that, which
I assume Sam did too. You have two ball dominant
guards that their solution initially.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Was, well, let's just bring one of them off the bench.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Clearly that was going to have to change, and James
showed that if you give me a team, look what
I can do. I'm the best player in the league. So,
on top of how stupid I just said it was,
he said, I don't want to win a championship even
if it means trading away the best player in.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
The league, which is what he did and when he
did not have to, And look at the trade, it's
never going to be good, but it was highway robbery.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
The best player in the league in a trade is
always the best side of the trade every single time
the trade.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Yeah, the best player going, whatever team gets the best
player always wins the trade. That's as the saying goes.
But you don't have to not be competitive in the trade.
You don't have to grab your ankles in the trade.
That's what you did if you were Sam Presty. I did.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Really good at finding talent. Their team is loaded again
this year. They're probably gonna be number one seed in
the West. It will be hard for the Rocks to
meet him on Friday. They got to tune up tonight
against the Spurs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
That's a good word for it, the San Antonio Spurs
being a tune up in this game. There is still
a lot to get to as far as the winter
meetings and baseball and things that are being discussed as
it pertains to not only Alex Bregman but other members
of the Houston Astros.

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
We will get to that next.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
The a on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
One segment away from Cindy Lapper tickets if you're interested
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about two segments away, well literally two segments away from
catching up with Chandler Rome live from the Winter meetings
where the Astros and Dana Brown or talking to Scott
Boris and all sorts of stuff is going on. And

(01:07:12):
we'll get to the details on that in a little bit.
But obviously the fact that the Lions are in town.
They are not they're not the best record in football,
but pound for pound, in my opinion, they are the
best team in football. And as Wex mentioned, it's probably
the best way to put it to kind of combine
the two. They're definitely playing the best football in the
NFL right now. They're not just finding ways to win

(01:07:34):
like the Chiefs have done most of the year. They're
dominating a lot of their opponents. And it's just I
remember being in this room laughing at the actually I
think it was the old studio laughing at the eating
kneecaps SoundBite from Dan Campbell. Whenever you say something like that,

(01:07:54):
if you don't become something as a head coach player,
what have you?

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Whoever says something like that, you're gonna look silly. But
he wasn't thinking about that at the time. He has
not changed a bit. Personality is still the same. The
wine comment a couple weekends ago was funny. He's just
he's that guy. He's a lot like to meet going
that way, very easy to root four and very easy

(01:08:19):
to follow into battle if you're on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
His team, unless you're a politician.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Chris Christy Well, I mean, who cares what Chris Christie
thinks about anything, bingo, especially if you're Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Lions have played three one score games played three one
score games to open up their season. They went tow
to one, beat the Rams, beat the Cardinals, lost to
the Bucks. Their five games since then, only one of
them has been a even remotely close game one one
score game, the game against the Vikings they won.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Thirty one to twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
They've scored forty two, forty seven fifty two, and last
week they went into Green Bay only scored twenty four points,
but again one by ten. They are, as you said,
handling teams quite nicely. They are number one in the
NFL in scoring that in thirty two points per game.
They are the most explosive offense I think when it

(01:09:11):
comes to big plays, and there's a number of ways
to grade that out. They have as good a balance
as any team in the league does. If you look
at Jared Goff's season, which is another reason why I
often point to total passing yards as a silly way
to grade a quarterback, he's middle of the pack in
passing yards because he's so freaking good at getting the
team down the field without having to throw over and

(01:09:33):
over and over again. And when they get short fields
they turn it into touchdowns. Guess which team is number
one in takeaway giveaway margin. I'll give you an hour.
I wonder if you'll figure it out in one second.
They're dominant when it comes to turnovers this year. They're
plus eleven. The Bills are plus eleven, the Lions are
plus eleven. Jared Goff's completion percentage is record setting this year.

(01:09:54):
His performance over the last four games is record setting
this year. He's doing it while rowing for far fewer
yards than most of the other quarterbacks that are considered good.
See Jay Stroud for instance, way fewer yards, but he's
completing the ball to his receiver seventy five percent at
the time when he throws it. They're just mowing teams
down and he's able to do that because they can't consider, well,

(01:10:17):
what do we do to stop Jared Goff when they
can't stop David Montgomery or Jamier Gibbs from gouging them
and making their roll all the way down the field.
We've been talking about Josh Jacobs making things easier for
Jordan Love early in their game last week against the Lions.
Go look at the plays the Lions were running to
open up their game. Hand off hand, off hand, off hand,

(01:10:37):
off hand, off hand. Oh my god, we're in the
red zone. Well, Jared Goff can have complete a couple
of passes and I'll have a touchdown. He'll have contributed
fourteen yards to this seventy yard drive. So are you saying,
for example, that he's smart with the football. Well, he
definitely is smart with the football. Four interceptions, same number
that CJ has. He's done that on fewer attempts, and
he's got fourteen touchdown passes. But it's for me, it's

(01:11:00):
it's all about how effective he's been three out of
every four passes are complete.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
That's unheard of.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Yeah yeah, it's well seventy five percent.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Technically it's seventy four point nine. But it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
It's funny he's had a perfect game oh likely quarterback
rating well yes, but also in non here's every back,
here's all of them being caught. Yeah yeah, well, I mean,
when you don't throw forty times a game, that's a
lot easier to do. Ripping his eighteen for eighteen performance, like,
it's so easy, it's easier than forty for forty. But

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it's funny. You should mention that you think that Jared
Goff is smart with the ball, because you know who
else thinks that exact same thing.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
Tamika Ryans where golf.

Speaker 10 (01:11:43):
I think he's very well coached. He does a great
job of protecting the football. He's not going to give
you many opportunities to take the ball away. He's very smart,
makes a great decisions with the ball. Uh, they're an
explosive of offense. But he sticks out about him is
when the explosive is not he does a great job
of getting the ball to his checkdown so their team
can continue to turn out positive yardage. So it's one

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thing that sticks out about their entire team, like they
don't make many mistakes, they're gonna make you beat them,
and they play clean football. So Golf has done a
great job of getting completions no matter what the defense is.
He just takes what's given and he's been doing a
very good job of that. Just keeping the offense on schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Plays clean football is the thing that really stood out
to me other than him saying he was smart with
the football. Of course, that's something that that's a term
that he uses every single week about his team. We
need to clean things up, we need to play a
cleaner game, we need to play four quarters of clean football,
on and on and on. That's the ultimate I think

(01:12:51):
in this era especially and just going into this game
and who they're taking on, it's the ultimate compliment that
Demiico Ryans could pay them as a team, but as
a specifically pertains to Jared Goff, it's funny because when
he's saying, you know, he doesn't give you many opportunities
to take the football away or to basically make him
make a bad play.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
I just keep thinking about what we were just talking about. Well,
if he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Throwing a ton and you have a great running game
as a big part of that. Well, yeah, that's I mean,
it's all working together. You can see. It's not very
hard to see why the Detroit Lions, in my opinion, are,
pound for pound, the best team in the NFL. So CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Stroud throwing the football or regular game by game basis,
first five six games of the season thirty one attempts
or more, last two games thirty or more. He only
has the one game where he had fewer attempts twenty
one attempts against Green Bay. They didn't have the ball
quite as much, and it was another game where well,
I can't even throw the ball because I can't even
drop back to two to throw football. So thirty or

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more every time he goes out there, but one game
Jared Goff has attempted thirty or more passes once. They're
only loss, our only loss.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Of the seasons. Are you saying they got out of
their game plan.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
They had to, and it was not in a high
scoring shootout type of game. It was in a game
where they were having a hard time putting points on
the board. They weren't having a hard time moving the football.
He threw for three hundred and seven yards, but it
took him fifty five passes to get there. It's clear
how their formula is. It's awesome for them to go
get David Montgomery and draft Jamiir Gibbs in the same offseason,

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perfectly fine with setting up a very very potent one
to two punch. They used more assets than people would
normally use on a running back like Gibbs just for
where they drafted him. But they had a plan for
what they wanted to do offensively with Jared Goff at quarterback.
Remember Jared Goff, the quarterback that the Rams threw away.
I can't continue playing here. We can't have you as

(01:14:47):
our quarterback anymore. We've got to stop with the innovator
Sean McVeigh. And it wasn't working. I'm not even saying
they were wrong. No, it was the most boring super
Bowl ever. Well this was several years later when they
signed him to an incredibly large deal.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
When I think of dead cap, yeah, when I think
of Jered Goff, the Ram, I think of the only
Super Bowl I ever watched where I fell asleep, the
only one I'm not even kidding. I fell asleep during
the game. It was brutal fell asleep. You fell asleep well,
front and back and all that good stuff. That's that's
how that game went down. But yeah, it's again. It's

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gonna be an interesting matchup, especially when you consider that
their line is in bad.

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you want to handle the pun or would you like
me to?

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Earlier today you might have seen it on the social
media landscape or on this program we discussed it. Scott
Boris usually does this when he meets with the media
at the GM Winter Meetings, whether they're in San Diego, Nashville,
or currently in San Antonio. He's got clients, he has puns.
He had a pun about Blake Snow, he had a
pun about Pete Alonzo, he had several other puns. He

(01:17:19):
had a pun about your best friend at third base,
Alex Bregman. What blood related pun did Scott Boris make
earlier today, which we discussed at length here on the show,
about Alex Bregman when he met with the media in
San Antonio at the GM Winter Meetings for Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
What blood related pun did he make?

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
All you gotta do is call in seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Let Dan know what blood
related pun he made about uh Alex Bregman, who nobody
that I know of inside baseball calls him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Maybe that was part of our discussion as well.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Yeah, good stuff, Reggie. Maybe not very often.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
They don't call it an ab bomb.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
They do, they do, so I don't know what what
Scott Boris refers to as his home run balls, but
I do know that Damiko Ryans and company, I know
that it's weird. When you look at the Texans six
and three through nine games, sounds really good. You take
that at the beginning of the season, right, it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
Is really good, but don't you think it's division winning
home playoff game, top four in your conference.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
It's really good. But now that you've seen how the
season has unfolded, don't you get a little greedy? Don't
you think you could at least have seven wins, if
not maybe eight, same thing Green Bay game. Same goes
the other way though, No, when you're wing, that's that's
absolutely But it does feel like especially when you lose
on the last second. You won on the last second exactly,

(01:18:54):
you've won on the left. But again going back to
like that game that was Buffalo, why were you even
in that because we know why they were in the
position against Green Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
I think they were in that position. It'st Buffalo because
they thought they were in the NBA where everybody comes back.
They don't have to, right, but it sure seems like
they were dominating in a way that the scoreboard should
have also indicated that, and it just didn't. You only
lost by one score against the Jets. You had an
on side kick. Against the Jets, you played terrible football,
and you had an on side kick, attempt to get
the ball back and try to score or get the

(01:19:25):
ball in the end zone. Twice a touchdown on a
two point conversion. The Colts twice have been one score games.
First game, you kind of held them off, but they
kept coming and you kept letting them score, and you
had to keep scoring. Testans had three possessions in the
fourth quarter of their opening game of the season, touchdown, touchdown,
run the clock out with Nico Collins catching Joe Mixon's run.

(01:19:48):
If they didn't, they lose. It was twenty nine to
twenty seven. They could not keep the Colts from continuing
to chase and score against them. The last game was
you were able to get him to tap out for
a play and that helped. It ended up leaving them
with just a field goal try. And then there's those
games that they clearly were not competitive in. Don't I

(01:20:09):
really don't anticipate it being a non competitive game. On
Sunday Night, you referenced the possibility that they would concede,
like Dave Roberts was conceding games in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
This year seems like, I.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Mean, we're not gonna win today. I'd rather just load
up for another game just because it's a best of seven.
I can kick this game to the curb and we'll
still win the series. We like the Texans can say, well,
we're gonna concede because Nico Collins isn't out there. We're
gonna The obvious is we don't have as good a
chance to win because Nico Collins is great. He's one
of the top ten receivers in the league. If you

(01:20:44):
play without him, you suffer.

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

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
That's what every team does when great players are not
out there with them. He did not practice today. He
is not off of IR, he's not even had his
practice window open. We didn't really talk much about the
gamesmanship of it.

Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
Is there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Well, they have only so much time to prepare for us. Well,
they're not going to prepare too much for Nico Collins
if he doesn't practice Wednesday or Thursday or Friday, and
then we can open up his practice window where he
doesn't practice an he plays, or should we just go
ahead and do it and then they spend more time
on it. We're not dictating how they go about preparing
for us, but if there's an element of it, then

(01:21:19):
maybe that plays into what they're thinking. Nico Collins from
Demico Ryan's own words and his availability. He was asked
about it on Monday. He was asked about it again today.
To refresh your memory on the lengthy answer that Demiko
Ryans gave about the health status of Nico Collins. This
is what he had to say about Nico's availability for
this weekend's game against the Lions.

Speaker 10 (01:21:39):
Yeah, we'll continue to evaluate Nico throughout the week, see
where he see where he is.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Was asked the very same question today basically, and here's
what he said about Nico Collins availability to be playing
in the game on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Yeah, Nico, he's doing good. We'll see where he ends up.
Come on, man, locked and loaded on not coming from me.
You want to know about You're not gonna spot gives
longer soundbites about he doesn't time, he doesn't have to.
He just I'm not telling you. He could literally see

(01:22:09):
show say that, but I'm not telling him, at least
in that sense. I would be like, Okay, well, I
respect that because you're you're being brutally one hundred percent transparent.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Nico out there at practice today, how are things coming on?

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
I'm not telling you.

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
It's gonna be awesome when he plays on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
You are convinced.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
Still, why wouldn't I be?

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
You're I mean, you can't tell about that. All that
we had heard throughout this four game ir Stint was
how much ahead of schedule he's been, how he's a
fast healer he's playing he's a fast healer. Yeah, we
even hear that from the astros. Well, you know, Al
he's a fasteeler. I know his age says. Maybe he's

(01:22:51):
a fast steeler healer. He's not a thirty five year
old basketball player. He's not a thirty two year old
Major League baseball player with his ninth hamstring injury. Ah,
he's a kid.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
Well, he's also this I don't want to act like
last year he wasn't hurt because he was.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
He's played four years in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
He's had an injury that's kept him off the field
for at least two games every year. This year is
at four through their first nine. It will be five
of their first ten if he doesn't play on Sunday.
And I'm not saying they shouldn't have given him his money.
I absolutely loved that they did it now and gave
him what he'd earned. You you're kind of in between.
Are you paying for what he's done in this case,

(01:23:28):
you're paying for what you think he's going to do
at that age of I mean, he's three years into
the league, and you're giving him three more years to
remain elite. Well, he was elite for the first five
games of the year. He was the best wide receiver
in this league. From a production standpoint. I like to
measure your quality of play by production.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
He had nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:23:44):
But he still maintains a rather lofty spot on the lists.
Of statistical lists five games or five weeks later, after
having missed the last four games, they're clearly better with
Nuko collins They should be able to put a game
plan together that they can execute without him and play

(01:24:06):
go toe to toe with a team as strong as
the Lions instead of conceding. Yes, I can't have that comment.
Texans sending nobody out for the coin toss, no captains today.
The Lions have called heads that come up tails. But
since the Texans nobody out there, the Lions could do
whatever they want and take. They can get the ball

(01:24:26):
to start the second half, and man, my understanding is here, Chris,
that the Texans have conceded. I don't know about that, Mike,
but we'll see how this plays out for Tamiko.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
You know how everybody always gives all up in arms
about how Chris Collinsworth blathers on about the opposition because
he's not blathering on about you. It's gonna be pretty
It's gonna be pretty thick coming up this Sunday night.

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Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
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Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
As promised, let's bring him in.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Chandler Rome of the Athletic joining us live from the
MLB Winter Meetings GM Meetings in San Antonio. Chandler, First
and foremost, how did they come to San Antonio? And secondly,
how much do you love going to the riverwalk there?

Speaker 7 (01:26:38):
Do you want the honest story of how they got
I kind of do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
So.

Speaker 13 (01:26:44):
Last year they were in Arizona, and they were supposed
to be back in Arizonaga and this year. But this
story came out last year in the GM meetings. All
of them got sick because of a food born illness.
Like a lot of the attendees left early because they
all got sick. And basically we put two and two

(01:27:04):
together and the conjectures. Basically they backed out of the
contract because they didn't want to have everyone get sick again,
and on short notice, we ended up in lovely San Antonio.
I hadn't been here in like ten or fifteen years.
I probably won't come back. It's not a dump, but
it's not fun.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Rockets playing the Spurs tonight, by the way, on Sports
Talk seven ninety and Space City Home Network. They'll be
in Houston, which is not a dump. But yeah, let's
get to the meat of the of the matter. And
Alex Bregman, I've asked you this on the air, I've
asked you this off the air. Do you feel any
differently one way or the other having talked to Dana Brown,
having talked to Scott Boris in that whole situation, because

(01:27:45):
you know, to hear the Astros and Dana Brown say it,
it's priorities one through ten this offseason.

Speaker 13 (01:27:51):
Yeah, I mean they have to say that, like Dana
has to say this, and as I kind of wade yesterday,
you heard this with Correa, you heard this with Springer,
like you heard like, oh, that's priority we wanted to
be resigned. I do think that just having talked to
Dana as much as I have, just in his public
comments and how he is like he never he won't lie,

(01:28:14):
and I don't think he's lying here, and that they
think they have a serious shot of getting this done.
But I think what Scott Morris said today kind of
rings true, that the Astras are aware and I think
I'm using his direct quote that the Ashers are aware
this is a very healthy market for Bregman. The translation
to that is they're going to have to pay up,
like this is not going to be a situation where

(01:28:36):
the market falls apart, and he just kind of goes
back to Houston because it's the easiest thing. Like, I
think there are a lot of interested teams. The fact
that you know, I had written this in September, but
it got kind of circulated today that he is willing
to play second base, He's willing to move off the
third and that increases how many teams are available, how
many teams could court him. And then you know, you

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look at there's a couple of things that that Akey
Astra was pursued a little more interesting, and they had
no one behind him to come and take third base.
I mean, I don't mean to pile on Shae Wickhamb,
but I mean you saw what happened after Alex Bregman's
last regular season game, and then it made park when
Shae Wickhamb got in there. I mean, that was a
bad game for him, but it's just not He's not

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the future. Zach Zendo has talked about a ton. Yesterday,
they view him as you know, first base, left field future.
Bryce Matthews had a pretty awful stint and triple a's
in last year, and a lot of scouts don't really
view him as a third basement of you maybe more
as a centerfield or second baseman.

Speaker 7 (01:29:39):
And then the free agent market behind Bregman.

Speaker 13 (01:29:41):
At third base is non existent. I mean, you're looking
if Bregman goes elsewhere, you're looking at Geo or Schella.
You're looking at just kind of guys that don't move
the needle a ton, which is why I found it
very interesting yesterday that when Dana was asked, you know,
as you guys are planning contingencies like if Bregman signs elsewhere,

(01:30:01):
he basically said, we haven't planned for that, like we're
not planning for him to sign elsewhere. That At first
I thought that was misguided, just to not have the
plans out, but I think it does speak to the
fact that they really think they have a shot here
and they think that they're going to be able to
get him.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
Well, two things I need to ask after those comments.
One is I don't even know if it's a question
is probably more rhetorical. I can't imagine a team thinking
the best scenario for adding Bregman is to take the
best fielding third basement in the game and move him
to second so their lesser fielding third baseman can stay
there versus finding somebody else to play second, so we

(01:30:38):
can utilize the fact that he's the best in the
business at what he does down there. My question is,
you and the Athletic have a really I think interesting
article Tim Britton on the projections and the salaries and
where we think things might be. And I know there's
guesswork involved, but with a likely robust market and clearly

(01:30:59):
there's some dominoes that maybe you need to fall first,
especially even in the Boris camp with one Soto et cetera.
What range do you think is realistic that other teams
might be willing to go into because there are a
bunch of other teams that are less afraid of longer
terms and maybe less afraid of higher dollars, maybe not
higher AAV, but higher dollars versus the Astros. And I
know that question was asked of them about how willing

(01:31:22):
might the Astros be from moving away. What's been a
clear plan of limitation on years, limitation on dollars. What
what do you think the market the numbers are that
other teams would be willing to offer Bregman.

Speaker 13 (01:31:38):
Yeah, I don't want to give everything away, so because
everyone should subscribe to The Athletic is a great publication.
But Tim Britain his contract projections, he's usually dead on on.
He had Alex Bregman at seven year, nine million dollars.
You know, Scott Morris tends to go to the higher end. Like,
I doubt that's going to be the starting point. I

(01:31:58):
think that you know, maybe that starts with the two
in front of it is where they're going to start,
and then who knows negotiating and things like that. The
second base thing, you know, I think if Bregman had
his brothers, he'd play third base. I mean, it's obviously
what he's really good at. But also, you know, I
think the other thing, and I wrote this after the
World Series the Astros, like, I think Bregman wants to win.

(01:32:23):
And I know that sounds cliche and every free agent
says this, but like Bregman cares a lot more about winning,
I think than money and years. Look, money and years
are going better. He wants the contract obviously as he should.
He's earned this right to it a free agency, but
I don't think he wants to go somewhere and tether

(01:32:43):
himself to a situation where within one or two years
you look at it and the thing is in ruin
and to rebuild and tear down, saying that's where the
Astros are at. But I had a little bit of
stelling to him as to what they're going to do
to keep this window open because they have one of
the worst farm systems in baseball. They've got Kyle Tucker

(01:33:06):
and from erveld As that are going to be UH
free agents after next year. And then something that Dana
Brown said yesterday that if I was Kyle Tucker's representative,
I would have read it and got very upset.

Speaker 12 (01:33:18):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:33:18):
He said, we're probably not in the market of doing
multiple seven year deals or multiple eight year deals. Well,
if you get Bregman one of those, then I guess
that means you're already sizing off that you're not going
to sign Kyle Tucker. So I think there's a lot
in play here, you know, I think, just on its face,
looking at seven for nine, if that is the like

(01:33:40):
just using Tim's projection, you know, I think that is
a thing that the Astros would do. I think that's
reasonable for them. I mean, they offered Carlos Korea, you know,
five for one.

Speaker 7 (01:33:51):
Sixty in his exclusive negotiating period. Obviously this one's a
little bit.

Speaker 14 (01:33:55):
This is more.

Speaker 13 (01:33:56):
But they've they've been willing to go that route. But
you know, Jim Cranin's is gonna have to go longer
than six years. He's going to have to go guarantee
an amount of money he never has before.

Speaker 7 (01:34:07):
And I think that's the biggest thing here.

Speaker 13 (01:34:09):
Can Dana Brown convince Jim Crane that that's the right
thing to do or is it the right thing to do?
Do They have other plans up their sleeve to keep
this thing open.

Speaker 7 (01:34:17):
So there's a lot of kind of.

Speaker 13 (01:34:20):
Unknowns, but I think, you know, they've made no mistake
that he is their biggest priority. And everything I've heard
and been indicated to me is that they are making
a pretty serious pursuit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
What is justin Verlander at this point in his career
and what are the chances that they come to an
agreement in that area Based on the fact that I
would assume if he comes back to the Astros for
whatever role, that would be it would be an extremely
much lower price tag.

Speaker 13 (01:34:52):
Well, yeah, I mean he's not going to make I
mean his last contract, he's making forty three million dollars
a year. He's not going to be making forty three
million dollars in this contract. As long as Jim Crane's involved,
you never rule out the Astras of Justin Burlander. Jim
Crane and Justin Burland are very c Jim Crane basically
himself had a hand in his last contract with the

(01:35:14):
Astras and orchestrating the trade from the Nets. So as
long as as Jim is has some say, and I'll
never rule it out, I don't see a fit personally, Like,
I don't know that he's kind of what they need,
you know, I think they do need a starter. I
think they need kind of a stabilizing innings eater and
a veteran guy. And you know, if this was last year,

(01:35:35):
the year before, I would say that Erlander could be
that guy. But you know, with the injuries and with
kind of how his season ended last year, you do
kind of wonder if he's on the tail end of
his career.

Speaker 7 (01:35:45):
I don't know, I would never doubt him.

Speaker 13 (01:35:47):
He's he's defied time, he's defied age, he's defied logic.
You know, I I probably put it on the outside
looking in at the Astros come to agreement with him.
But again when Jim, if Jim is involved, you can
never rule it out real quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
Here if you could now know, it was a little difficult,
especially at this point of the off season. Is there
a name or two or three on the lower end
salary wise that you think might make some sense, that
are free agents that the Astros could be interested in.
And again we are just about up to get up
against a Chandler.

Speaker 7 (01:36:18):
I mean, I think it all depends on what Bredman does.

Speaker 13 (01:36:21):
Like if they if they resigned b Redman, then I
don't think they're going to go first basement. But if
they need a first basement on the lower end, you
look at Paul Goldschmith, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
Obviously Houston native.

Speaker 13 (01:36:30):
He's a guy that's been talked about a ton of
these meetings just from other agents and executives to sale.
That's that's a perfect fit. The You know, Houston Native
grew up an Astros fan. I brought up Rizzo to
you guys the last time I was in studio. I
know WEX didn't like that at a time. But Rizzo,
I mean left handed bat. And look, Dana Brown did
say yesterday they're looking for another left handed bat, someone

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that's patient, someone that sees pitches, someone that is different
than what they have on the ross. Now Anthony Rizzo
fits that all to a t. So those are just
two names. But again, and it really a lot of
it is going to depend on what Bregman does. I
think that's going to alter the entire kind of direction
of their off season.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
Good stuff from Chandler Rome Live from San Antonio at
the GM meetings. We appreciate it, as always, Chandler. We'll
talk to you again very soon, I'm sure.

Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
All right, thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
All right, we will discuss some of what he had
to say and more when we come back here on
a Wednesday edition of the program Sports Talk seven ninety
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Speaker 9 (01:38:48):
You came in.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
Guns Blazing earlier today about your positivity. Good vibes about
the return to the Astros the opening A lineup announced
and he's in it for the twenty twenty five Astros.
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friend of the show, soon to be mother of two.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
They can't go, none of them. I mean he can't,
but they can't. So what's your vibe?

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
After our conversation with the wonderful and great member of
the City of Tourism Bureau in San Antonio channel what a.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
Dump San Antonio is? I love that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
You guys that don't understand why you should love Chandlerome
I can't help you at this point. I know some
of you, Well, he's not even a fan. I mean
he would put and he's not even a fan, right,
he does his job. I guess he's just Maybe it's
because I know him personally, Maybe it's because I know
him off the air.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
He's just he's great.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
And I think I said sixty forty you did earlier
in the show. Fact that hasn't changed but that's still
a very good margin if you're an Astros fan, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
And we brought it up a couple I guess it
was a week ago or a couple of days ago,
probably Monday when Tim Britton wrote that piece. Seven years,
one hundred and eighty nine million, you know, twenty seven
million per for the services over seven years. Were players
clearly on the wrong side of thirty throughout that contract?
That still sound about right. There have been no major

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players moved. I have been a few players, like one
of the other Boris clients, Cody Bellinger, accepting an option,
taking the option, not declining the option, and pushing free
agency off a year.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
Maybe what's it gonna make this year? Twenty five, I
believe was the number. I was just trying to figure
out how much weed he could buy with that. We
can you do the math for us?

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
That get not on the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Oh okay, I know those details. No, I don't do drugs,
but I wouldn't. I wouldn't say it that way. I
would have said, no, I can't do the calculation.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
It's a lot. I don't do drugs and you shouldn't either.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Kids a little too difficult to do the math in
my head, and I'm not sure who the who where
I'm getting it from. Yeah, I mean I would go
into much further detail while declining to answer the question.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Yeah, how really? Yeah sounds like sure you would filibuster.

Speaker 13 (01:41:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Absolutely, there's a lot of information that you definitely need
on that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
Well, for medicinal purposes, I think it would be okay.
But otherwise I.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Think it was a three year, eighty million dollar deal
which had an opt out on it, which he took,
So okay, here it did not opt out, so it's
more like twenty six plus little less than twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
And what was what was the baseline or the figures
that you mentioned for a potential Bregman deal?

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Again, well, twenty seven million over seven years if my
math is correct, that's one forty plus forty nine, that's
one eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
That's twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Per What did Matt Chapman get one fifty one for six?
So it's more than him, it's more total money, it's
slightly higher aavy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
That's a starting point before you can even go on
with the conversation, because that's what happens when the guy
that plays your position, who is either on your level.

Speaker 4 (01:42:00):
Or depending on who you talk to, better at some things,
not as good as some things.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
Whatever. I mean, they're contemporaries and they're probably the two
best third third basemen in baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
I have a question for you, especially for those of
you that called in to try to win the Cindy
Lauper tickets, or the two of you that did call in,
She's so unusual and win Cindy Lauper tickets. And for
that we thank and congratulate Will and Colin. Also Paul
from earlier in the week. They knew what kind of
blood Alex Bregman had because that's what Scott Boris told us.

(01:42:33):
You're trying to compare Matt Chapman and Alex Bregman. I
can relate to the way they feel their position. I
can relate to the way that Alex is significantly better
than him offensively, But there's not even a conversation to
be had about all the other parts of it. Where
are all the comments from the Giants or the A's
or the Blue Jays.

Speaker 9 (01:42:52):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
Matt Chapman has really helped our pitching staff do this.
Matt Chapman has been the cornerstone, the face of the franchise.
Bottle of why we are winning and going to the
playoffs and winning in the playoffs and visiting the World
Series and hoisting championship trophies.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
As prevision doesn't matter. It does as per usual, you
get to my point before I can, because well that
would be as per usual. Well that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
Oh he's about to make a good point. I better
stop him.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
But that's where I was going next, because when it
comes to that, you know, if you want to say,
that's what you're paying him more for, especially if, as
you said it, and it's true, he is on the
wrong side of thirty, because once you're thirty, you're on
the wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
Side of it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
That exists. That's how that works. The next day, especially
in the NFL. Right, you can celebrate on your thirtieth,
but then you know you're on your you're practically dead.
There's thirty gms, there's you know, thirty two or seven.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
Let's say there's seventy more personnel people right underneath them,
or a circle of trust person if you'd like, ask
a hundred of them, who's better for my team. It's
it's one hundred out of one hundred. Again, I'm not
afraid of the comparison there. They both happen to potentially
have been free agents this season.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
I only brought him up because he was the last
guy at that position to sign a big deal. There's
no comparison to Matt Chapman, and I've said that forever,
mainly because you know, at times he played for the
A's and they were rivals, and then he played was
the Blue Jays after that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
A's Jays, and then this past year with the Giants,
who is now in a contract.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
I don't thing against Matt Chapman per se, except for
when people would do that. It'd be like, Okay, just stop,
I get it if you want to say they're comparable
numbers wise in this area of that area, but the intangibles,
you're right, it's not, Oh well, we just don't hear it. No,
nobody says it, Nobody talks about. There's a reason that
Scott Boris is probably going to have a very real conversation,

(01:44:41):
if not a legitimate discussion numbers wise with Brian Cashman
about Alex Bregman with fill in other actual winning organizations,
or we think we need this last piece because of
what he brings. I guess I can't just say, off
the field, because it is on the field when he visit.
It's the pitcher, so it's not when he's standing at

(01:45:01):
home played or field the third base, and I just
that stuff matters. It's just like the tax situation. Oh,
that's just that's just something you say because you can
get more money here. No, it matters. But it's one
of those things you don't point to first. But this
is one of those things that after you get to
the obvious the batting average, is the numbers, the slash,
all that kind of stuff. The elite the fielding, the fielding, wow,

(01:45:24):
defielding the elite fielding that this guy has and was
awarded handsomely with.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
By the way, finally, I mean, now can I take
the other side briefly? Yeah, okay, So Bregman won his
first Gold Glove this year. About time, well he could
finally win one because Matt Chapman was no longer in
the American League winning them all. He won four gold
gloves in the American League. Well, Bregman won. Nun who
won in the National League this year, Matt Chapman. Oh okay,

(01:45:52):
so if he had been in the American League, it's
his award to lose, as it has been four times
in the six previous years. Yes, I think this is
why I almost never refer to war. I almost never say, well,
his war was this, and his war is that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
It's very unross of you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
It is because it's I just don't think it's really accurate.
Look at Aaron Judge Alex Bregman. This year four point
one war, he had an OPS at seven sixty eight,
an ops plus of one eighteen, and war factors in defense. Also,
I'm not going to run through their defense. So four
point one war for Bregman this year, uh, seven point

(01:46:30):
one for Matt Chapman, And if you follow war at all,
a difference of three seven point one to four point
one is massive. Okay, it's way better in twenty twenty
four with that type of war, slightly higher ops plus
he was at one twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
As I mentioned, Bregman was at one eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
His OPS was slightly better also, seven ninety to seven
sixty eight. To get that big of a difference, they're
basically saying Alex Bregman, gold glove winner at third base
for the Astros, was nowhere near the fielder that gold
glove winner Matt Chapman was at third base for the
San Francisco Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
All right, I'm glad you brought this. I'm super glad
you brought this up, because what do people always point
to with stupid Aaron Judge.

Speaker 4 (01:47:14):
Oh my gosh, look at his word.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
His war is so magnificent, Oh all of the war?
Name me just one pivotal, seminal, amazing postseason moment for
Aaron Judge that isn't a strikeout or a ground out,
or a kick in the balls, keep the strikeout, or
a dropped play in the field or loss in soul

(01:47:39):
crushing fashion. Come on, keep going, What are you looking for?
Being doubled off by Michael Brantley? Boo, Okay, that's not
his highlights. That's Michael's in the in the center field
concert area. He made he made a spectacular running catch
slamming into the wall. In the same series, he missed
a fly ball that he came in in a five

(01:48:01):
run in that essentially lost them the chance to get
it to a game six. And don't even start talking
about his offames because again that all you are. And look,
this is going to get me some Wario was ten
eight right, This right here is going to get me
some serious heat, and I am all for it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
Well, you were offensive earlier today, that's what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
It's get it's a different hour.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
We have four of them now. So here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
If you are putting up monster numbers in the regular
season and turtling in the playoffs, you're not You're no
different than two guys that we all love and know
here in Houston. Nothing but you're nothing. You're not the
boss of me. You're nothing. Jeff Barnwell and Craig Bigio
have been relegated to pedestrian by comparison. By this era

(01:48:44):
of multiple Astros players, It's not just Bregman. I can
point to Bregman walking off Game five of the greatest
World Series game ever played. He had that hit. It
was a legit hit, it was a clutch hit, it
was an extra innings, it ended a thirty into twelve game. Ie.
That's just one. There's tons of others, both defensively and

(01:49:06):
especially offensively.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
And he's one of several astros that did it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Aaron Judge and all the war in the world doesn't
get you anything, and his ass barely didn't get swept
in the World Series. He was terrible. Alex in the
World Series and other series has never been terrible. He's
been fantastic and that's why you need to keep him
here the A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety. You

(01:49:33):
like free stuff. We all like free stuff.

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Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
A little help over the hump with some Wednesday BS, two.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Adams and a whole lot of bit stealing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
BT stealing with the bit Steelers better known as the eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:49:59):
No longer true over the hump. Technically it is Wednesday,
but we're not heading into the back half of the
A Team anymore. We're heading into segment eleven of sixteen.
We have a Wednesday's BS for you. On a Wednesday,
we have the opportunity to kick back and not relax
today from what I understand, but still get the the

(01:50:19):
pleasure of treating you guys some things they do on
our other programs here and do some bit stealing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
What are we gonna do today? All right, Sean?

Speaker 5 (01:50:31):
What are you hearing out there now?

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
The Salisbury's takeout Salsbury Takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.

Speaker 9 (01:50:40):
All right, So yesterday the NFL trade trade deadline came
and went, and we had Jonathan and Alexander, of course,
who had the report that the Texans don't expect much
from them. It's just not what Nick Cassario is going
to do well. Cassio was on earlier this week with
the in house Texans meeting. Yeah, and this is pretty

(01:51:01):
much how he views the NFL trade deadline.

Speaker 14 (01:51:03):
Usually much ado about nothing.

Speaker 15 (01:51:05):
So essentially, a lot of players, you're a lot of
players that get moved A are on a kind of
expiring type contracts, b hasn't worked out with their team.
Most of it is kind of late round picks, some flips. Essentially,
you saw if you trays there with a compensation maybe
was a little bit bigger than what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
But you're kind of looking at your team.

Speaker 15 (01:51:25):
There's an opportunity to add a player that you have
a specific, defined role for.

Speaker 7 (01:51:29):
Great.

Speaker 14 (01:51:30):
If not, it's just you know, you're not going to
do something just to do something, just to create a
bunch of busy work.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
All right, So screw all that paperwork everything of the sort.

Speaker 9 (01:51:38):
Nickosario looks at the NFL trade deadline and says, so
he's been here for a couple of years, but I'll
do the smart thing before I go into my wrath
the first time I go right.

Speaker 3 (01:51:49):
I'm not concerned about what he did or didn't do
as a general manager of the football team he had
those first two years as they were trying to lose.
The general manager of last year's football team and the
general manager of this year's football team in Houston probably,
in my opinion, should not carry that attitude into the

(01:52:09):
trade deadline. He shouldn't have carried that attitude last year.
He shouldn't have carried that attitude this year. In both
seasons there were no incoming players. They didn't make a
deal to add their totally unnecessary, as he just said,
seventh round pick and the Khalil Davis deal. I almost
feel like, in order to do this right, I need
to hear it again in bits and pieces.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
It's gonna make me so enraged all over again.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
Please please, if you would, maestro, what did Nick Cassario
say about the NFL's trade deadline from a generic sense
about nothing?

Speaker 15 (01:52:42):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
Much ado about nothing that's not true? Right out of
the gate. He's trying to tell me you as well.
You were here yesterday and the day before.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
Stop acting like this.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
Team should have gone out and traded for a difference
maker and made this team significantly better. Stop acting like
that's even a possibility. Stop acting like any players like
that were moved. It's much ado about nothing. We put
our team in place already. We went out and did
all the work this offseason. We have a great football team.
We have a division leading football team. We have one

(01:53:15):
of the best teams in the AFC because of what
I did the trade deadline. As much ado about nothing
is the right attitude, says me. Is there more that
I can rip apart?

Speaker 15 (01:53:25):
So essentially, a lot of players, a lot of players
that get moved are on a kind of expiring type
contracts be hasn't worked out with their team.

Speaker 14 (01:53:35):
Most of it is kind of late round picks, some flips.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
All right, we'll stop it there, because now I got
to the other side of it. Is he describing Marshawn Lattimore,
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
How about DeVante Adams? I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
How about Zadarius Smith who will be in your stadium
on Sunday night to terrorize your quarterback against an offensive
line that there will be change, but they'll all be
in house change. It's just like the media you speak
with every week. So those are the type of players
you're talking about. No, no, no, those ers that get moved.

(01:54:10):
He's that's just three dere Hopkins.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Now, if you want to say that it applies to
these guys we've just listed because they weren't working out
with their other team, Fine, that's accurate.

Speaker 12 (01:54:21):
But bas only person of the equation because they are
working out for their new teams, which they are helping
to win. And if the defending two times Super Bowl
champs can make a trade to make their team better,
you can certainly do something to help your offensive line
that's getting your quarterback killed.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
And I wonder how CJ. Stroud, who's already been concussed
once that we know of during his Texans career, feels
about his general managers saying, Oh, it's much ado about nothing.
We don't need to help. It's not gonna do anything anyways.
I mean, they're just transactions. We players. You aren't working
out with their team. Are you freaking kidding me? Nick Cassario,
much ado about that. Look, if he doesn't feel like

(01:54:58):
it's a deal that works for the Texans financially fit wise, whatever,
that's fine. But you can't approach it when you're asked
about it on record in a SoundBite and sound like
you don't even give a rats. Oh that is so
if you're a Texans fan, if you're a season ticket holder,
you're thinking to yourself, all right, I have PTSD because

(01:55:20):
this is the kind of crap that was done and
said when we weren't run as a serious organization. You
have one of the best quarterbacks in football, and you
don't think you should have come out and made a
trade or tried to help your offensive line or bolster
it even a little bit. Even have discussions sounds better
than going on the record and saying, eh, that's what
he did.

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
I don't know how you spelled that, but that's what
you did.

Speaker 11 (01:55:40):
Me.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
So you remember earlier in the show, I mentioned the
power rankings might look like this. You remember the five
teams I said would probably rank one through five in
the NFL, and the power rankings hit me with one
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Uh, what was the position again, NFL teams Power rankings? Oh, teams,
I'm sorry Detroit.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Okay, Detroit made a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
I just mentioned it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Zadaria Smith, who did not practice today in the fake
practice that the Lions didn't hold it was an estimated
practice and he's just gotten there, so they listed it
as personal reasons. He's going to be available on Sunday night.
I have little doubt. Can you give me another just
the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City Chiefs, they made two deals.
They added DeAndre Hopkins and they added Josh Ucha, both
of whom likely likely will help their team. I think

(01:56:23):
we've already seen one of them help their team tremendously.
Do you have another team?

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
It doesn't have to be a deadline deal, right because
Buffalo's next, and they made a deal. Buffalo added Amari Cooper,
who hasn't even been healthy, but he scored a touchdown
for the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
Much he did score a touchdown when he may or
may not have known the plays. We got two more
spots in there in that top five. Who do you
got Washington? Washington?

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
Did they do anything? Oh? They traded from arguably.

Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
The best player that got moved. They found a team
that's crappy, it's down the road in New Orleans and said,
could we maybe have Marshaun Lattimore.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
We have a bad defense. He might help.

Speaker 3 (01:56:57):
Dan Quinn gave kind of a answer like Jerry Maguire's
future wife gave him when he gave the speech.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
To her Kelly Preston. No, the other one in the movie, Well,
he was engaged twice. Uh, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
One of them was a real The second one, she
was a real character. The person he was gonna marry,
that was. He was her supervisor. Yeah, the one that
has carved her face up now so much that she
looks like a cat. Renee Zelwiger, that's the one.

Speaker 4 (01:57:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
Basically, dan Quinn essentially said when asked about Latimore and
how he could help, he essentially said, you had me
at Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
He just the ways he can help us. Are you
kidding me? This is unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:57:37):
Do you think he came in the room and said
I miss my wife.

Speaker 8 (01:57:39):
He might have.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
So if you were to give us maybe one more team,
you could say Pittsburgh they made two deals. He could
say Minnesota they made two deals, one of them with
the Texans to add cam Akers. I think do we
have time for even one more? Part of that, like
the very very end of it, the very very end
of it about the papers.

Speaker 14 (01:58:02):
You know you're not gonna do something just to do
something just to create a bunch of busy work.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
I mean, I'm not even going to pretend I want
to have my wrath here as we hit the brake.
But that was a money sound bite. I don't want
to create the.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
Paperwork I want to During the break, I'm going to
throw something through one of these mind I'll pick that
one since design and TV. I'm gonna throw my chair
through that monitor during the break.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
Good stuff bit stealing from the Seawn Salisbury show.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
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During the break, I'm gonna tell you about enjoying an
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Speaker 5 (01:59:03):
Adam Clinton, Adam wet for it.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
The eight team.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
Should we do Nick solid and is there context that
I don't have otherwise I'm still mad. No, no, no, no,
not that, But that's just busy work. Gotta be kid. Listen,
if he gets concussed or knocked out of this game
this week, we're gonna play it soundby and I am
gonna go on the most epic rant ever. That was
a sample. He'll get Brian Cashman level nuclear rant. There

(01:59:37):
was one significant offensive lineman moved. The Minnesota Vikings had
just lost their left tackle. I mean, you obviously you
got to protect Sam Darnold if you're trying to win big.
So you're saying if Laramie Tunsel had gone down with
an injury, they would have not done some busy.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
Work like dude, I would say this would have changed
things for sure, if either of their tackles had been hurt.
And even though you have Blake Fisher, I think they
might have done it. But they the Vikings were able
to turn around and go out and get Cam Robinson.
Not a great tackle, a starting caliber tackle, but he'd
also been starting for a team that's now resting their
quarterback because he's sore. That's Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville. But

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it was they had to do something because they opened
up an enormous hole. There's something to be said. I
think we talked about it for two weeks. Offensive lineman trades,
Who are you likely to get somebody that's not playing?
Why aren't they playing? Because they're not good enough to play?
But that's what the Texans gave up in in why

(02:00:35):
am I Gonna blaying da Coil Davis?

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
Well, it's it's a little different.

Speaker 3 (02:00:40):
Well it's a little different because the offensive line is
different than every other position except for quarterback. If you
start end of story, you play every snap every week
of every game. Nobody rotates their players unless there's a reason.
And the Texans aren't rotating players the vikings and it's
you rotate your defensive line and Khalil Davis plays every
week that he's active, play ten to fifteen snaps, maybe twenty.

(02:01:02):
It's a little bit different, but I get the The
point is more likely if if you're not on playing,
then either you are a veteran player who they chose
to play a younger guy over and figured you would
understand and you would get it and you provide them depth.
But you can still play players like George Fant who
they ended up getting last year. And they had they
signed like four tackles last year knowing they needed to

(02:01:23):
find somebody because of potential issues with injuries, and they
ran through a bunch of them in camp and they
all got hurt and he didn't and then he played
and he was great. It's more about the doing nothing
and now hearing his attitude about why he can't do both.
I'm not sure that doing nothing for a line that
has reserves like Nick Broker and Jared Patterson and Kendrick

(02:01:44):
Green who cannot get on the field for your team.
All three of them on the interior. Broker can play both,
but they can't even get on the field for your
team where it's such a glaring area of weakness. Mentioned
the Texans injury report via the ex platform earlier, never
mentioned it on the air. Probably some questions about why
Kenyon Green is on the injury report and Nico Collins

(02:02:06):
is not. Semantics of the injury injured preserve Nico Collins
is still on IR. You don't list players that are
on IR on your injury report unless their practice window
is open. That's why Jeff Akudah and Jerry Hughes are
both on it, and in the case of Kenyan Green,
he's not on IR yet. They have not placed him

(02:02:26):
on IR. They haven't from a roster management standpoint. I
acknowledged that he is not playing this week and is
out for an extended period of time, even though we
know that that is the case. So he's listed there
as a non practice participant with a shoulder injury. Their
practice non practice list was pretty large. We'll get to that.
We do have football at five coming, but I know

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there was one other piece of information we pulled from
Nick Cassario's in house media appearance from earlier this week.
We're in through a little bit of what Demiko said
on his in house media weekly appearance. So the other
part part of the trade deadline conversation that he shared
in house was was this little item about what might

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have been going on as they led up to the deadline.

Speaker 15 (02:03:09):
We always contact teams throughout the course of the fall
look for opportunities. So once you kind of get through
the trade The only thing that's different for the trade
deadline is after Tuesday, everybody has to go through the
waiver wire and including the vested players, So it's not
as simple as you terminate a player. And if you
want to flip into the practice squad, there's a twenty
four hour period where they have to go through. So
some of the just roster mechanics and roster logistics. But

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any end, it's it's probably much ado about nothing, and
it's everybody just tests to do what they think is
best for their football team and just try to make
good decisions.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
Not really what I expected to hear based on what
so that what was there? He He sounded more like
once the season started, I'm out you make fall calls
like the fall. I mean, I guess the fall is
big enough of a window to say he could have
been talking about yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
Sounded like he was talking about months ago. Yeah, that
sounds like the Carl those Krey negotiations with the Astros.
Hold you guys better get this done because once spring
training is over, I am not talking anymore. Do you
think as a potential saving grace for me absolutely baptizing
him last segment? Do you think he is under the
impression that they can get help on the way of

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a wire and that's why he's not sweating The quote
busy work.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
It's not like baseball. I know, sure somebody's gonna buy
out one of their offensive linemen.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
You can hope there's no such they won't do so,
you can hope for nothing. I just doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (02:04:38):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:41):
To reiterate, not expecting a turnaround at the offensive line
type of acquisition. Definitely expecting something a player that can
compete with the players you're now going to have to play.
I wish they played them earlier, but now you have
to play them. Your starter is out good batter otherwise,
on his talent, his ability, he's not playing anymore. They're

(02:05:04):
going to make changes this week, but it's all going
to be with players you chose to not play.

Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
Ahead of this anymore.

Speaker 4 (02:05:10):
But he can't help you either.

Speaker 3 (02:05:12):
And I brought it up earlier in the show, so
certainly revisit it here. You know, Jared Patterson practice today
in full listed as a full participant as he comes
out of concussion protocol, which will turn out to only
cost him the game that they played on a short
week and will cost him the rest of the game
they played at home when he played ten snaps part

(02:05:32):
of a ten play touchdown drive when he replaced Kenyon Green,
but he was then replaced himself because he got need
and the helmet by one of the Colts linebackers. Good
to have him out there, but he's playing this week.
In my opinion, he's playing and starting this week. If
he stays healthy, he's playing and starting and playing every
snap this week. His most extensive experience in the NFL

(02:05:54):
is snapping the ball to c. J.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
Strout.

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
That's what he did last year to open up the
season and for several weeks before he got hurt which
ended his season. And Juice Scruggs was playing next to
the center when he returned from injury, and they barely played,
if at all, because of the timing of their respective injuries.
But they chose Juice Scruggs to play guard while Michael
Dieter played center. Deeter wasn't brought back, and very understandable move.

Speaker 2 (02:06:20):
They have claimed six foot five, three hundred and five
pound tackle Zach Thomas out.

Speaker 4 (02:06:25):
Of San Diego State in his third year or fourth year.

Speaker 3 (02:06:28):
I should say they have multiple offensive linemen on their
practice squad. I'll have to take a look again, but
I think it's four of their sixteen players. I think
now our offensive lineman. I don't think any one of
them is gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:06:39):
I'm actually I'll take it back.

Speaker 3 (02:06:41):
One of them probably will be elevated for this week's
game because they have not made a roster move.

Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
Like I just said, they're not gonna go.

Speaker 3 (02:06:47):
I mean, you don't have to, but I would think
you'd want as many players up as reasonable for this game.
But speculating on their offensive line because we're not a
practice when they line up and able to report on
it even if we were, that option is available to them.
Move Juice Scruggs into the vacated position of Kenyan Green
and slot Jarrett Patterson back into where he had his

(02:07:10):
best success last year. I thought during the offseason that
should have been what they did to begin with. You
should have had competition at center for Patterson and Scruggs,
or you should have had competition for one of them
at the other guard spot with Kenyan Green, which they
did not, And now they're probably both going to be
on the field this week against a very good Lions team,

(02:07:32):
much better offensively than they are defensively. But adding Zadarius Smith,
who will almost assuredly get a full rep snap count
against the Texans. He's been doing it all year with
the Browns as a massive addition, because Brad Holmes decided
paperwork be damned, we're gonna have some We're gonna have
a player that gonna help our team win.

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Speaker 2 (02:09:17):
Well, that sound can only mean one thing. It's time
for Football at five, which means the fourth and final
hour of a Wednesday edition of the program is now underway. Obviously,
wex has departed for Toyota Center, where the Rockets will
be absolutely bludgeoning the San Antonio Spurs tonight metaphorically, of course,
on the floor at Toyota Center. He has the call

(02:09:39):
alongside Matt Thomas. You'll hear that right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. You'll see it right here on Space
City Home Network. So Rockets and Spurs Round three of
four are already going to be finished by the end
of the night here on November sixth of a very
very young, still NBA season. In the meantime, Football at
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(02:10:02):
to pile on someone that is a Houston sports nemesis
of any kind, I'm always going to take that opportunity. Now,
some of you may have heard last segment and thought
that that was Nick Cassario and it's rapidly becoming that
way after hearing him kind of nonchalantly address his apparently

(02:10:22):
nonchalant approach to the trade deadline. And look, I'd like
to say that if I had maybe read that in
an article, maybe my reaction wouldn't have been as vehement,
over the top, visceral, violent ragie.

Speaker 4 (02:10:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
Part of me thinks maybe it still could have been
and maybe worse until I heard the context. But I
just I don't want to hear the GM of the
Texans sound like the trade deadline was just another day
of the week, just another date on the calendar, and
just another day at the office with no sort of

(02:11:01):
urgency or anything whatsoever about improving the only part of
the club that I think barring injury is something you
need to look at and be a little bit more
serious about, especially in light of you know, when you
did address the offensive line, it's not working. Okay, you
have a left tackle that's considered, you know, one of

(02:11:24):
the best, I suppose, but even his level of play
gets downgraded or be downgraded in the case of Mike
Gundy when you put him on the field alongside the
other four guys to his right. So we shall see
how that all plays out. In the meantime. Yeah, I'm
gonna pile on a Houston Sports nemesis, and that would be,

(02:11:46):
of course, Deshaun Watson. So how'd you like to be
Cleveland's general manager? Andrew Berry when asked today about his
standing with the franchise, talking about the Shawn Watson, you know,
he obviously sustain that season ending right Achilles tear a
couple of weeks ago, and so he was asked about,

(02:12:09):
you know, his standing with the club, and this is
one of those things where I don't have the SoundBite,
so I don't know the context. I don't even know
why you would be asking about Deshaun Watson at this
point unless it was this kind of question. But even
this kind of question just kind of seems out of place.
You have traded Amari Cooper, you have basically, if not
punted completely on the season. I mean, you're so behind

(02:12:30):
the eight ball already, in large part because of Deshaun's play,
that you're just you're looking up at a very Uphill
Battle and Amari Cooper, like I said, has departed to Buffalo.
That was the number one weapon you had that you
couldn't get the ball to consistently because your quarterback was terrible.
So anyways, all of that is to say that he

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was asked about his standing with the franchise, which to
me is a little comical when you consider it doesn't
probably really matter what his standing is with the franchise
in that I just I don't know if they're gonna
just cut this guy. The dead cap hit would be astronomical,
you know, at this point and moving forward, it's just

(02:13:14):
not I mean, it's incredible that they owe this guy
this much. He has cap hits of seventy two point
nine next year and twenty six. Uh that's the second
highest in the NFL. In case you're keeping track at home,
dead cap hits would be this is almost this is
like when you see like a video game score that

(02:13:35):
you just can't even like you were playing the game
and you still can't believe how ridiculous it is. The
dead cap hits onto Sean Watson would be one seventy two, yes,
three digits, one seventy two and ninety nine million, respectively
in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six. If the
if the uh the Browns were to part ways with

(02:13:57):
him after this year, they owe him forty six million
in each of the next two seasons, and I actually
thought the contract was longer than that, But I've lost
track of time because the combination of three ish win
seasons and terrible play with COVID and everything else that
was going on, and the Rockets weren't doing very well.

(02:14:19):
I've just kind of not blacked out that that timeline
of Houston sports history. But it's not like I remember
it fondly, and I'm not particularly wanting to. So all
of this is to say that Andrew Barry was asked
about it today and he said, really, our focus with Deshan,
I would say for any player with a season ending
injury and a major injury is first and foremost, and

(02:14:41):
to make sure that he gets healthy from the Achilles injury.
Everything else will deal with it a later moment, all right.
It's standard GM speak and probably the appropriate thing to
say considering he's gone down with a season ending injury
of that Achilles tear. He said, we haven't played well
as a team and we haven't played well as a
unit on offense. I think oftentimes when you don't play

(02:15:02):
well on offense, obviously you're starting quarterback and your play
caller will get most of or will get the most criticism.
But the reality of it is offense is it comes
down to organization and s synchronization. There's just a lot
of shared ownership across the different position groups in terms
of why we didn't perform. And to be fair to him,

(02:15:25):
I mean, take what's going on here in Houston and
take what I was saying about their general manager. It
is to me, it's just a different version of the
same frustration. If your quarterback isn't playing well, and you know,
you're getting to a point where, okay, do we need
to bench this guy that we just invested two hundred

(02:15:46):
and thirty million dollars guaranteed in and you're asking yourself that,
and then you're almost seemingly saved by the fact that
he ruptures his achille his achilles, and you don't have
to even contemplate who you know, whether or not he's
not gonna play anymore because he's done. You almost got
your bacon saved by his injury. But all that does

(02:16:07):
is just fast forward you to the next year of
his Albatross contract. But I guess the difference is, and
I don't know, maybe there's varying forms of frustration in
a lot of ways. I'm not comparing Cleveland to Houston
from any standpoint of, you know, similarities in talent or
play or any of that kind of thing. But if

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you if you think you have a franchise quarterback and
then he just cannot get it together, whether it's mentally
physically he's not playing well on the field, that's a
bad place to be in when you've invested that kind
of money in him. I don't think the Cowboys are
gonna go that direction. But that's not looking like a
great contracting, not even year one for Dak Prescott.

Speaker 16 (02:16:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
It's just because presumably you're gonna invest all that money
in a guy who's gonna get you over the hump,
and he's not even out there to try it, and
when he's out there, it's not going well. But whenever
Deshaun's been out there, it hasn't been going well, and
nobody here in Houston feel sorry for that. But what
if you have the franchise guy and because you didn't
address the five guys or in this case, I guess
four guys in front of him on that offensive line

(02:17:11):
that aren't Laromie Tunsel, or you didn't address it properly.
Then it's not to say here in the same boat
as Cleveland. He's not non functional as a quarterback. He's
not unplayable. He can still do things, and you still
have talent around him that can help him. But it
is a rough spot to be in, and I just

(02:17:33):
I understand both fan bases frustration with their both respective
former quarterback and in this case, their current quarterback.

Speaker 4 (02:17:43):
It's not to say the Texans are frustrated with what
the Browns are going through.

Speaker 2 (02:17:45):
Far from it. We all love that.

Speaker 4 (02:17:47):
I mean, maybe you don't.

Speaker 2 (02:17:48):
I love to see, you know, bad guys, guys that
screwed over the franchise and then we're doing things off
the field allegedly that were probably like a billion times worse.
I don't mind seeing people like that fail, you know,
I'm happy to see bad people fail, you know, that
kind of thing. I don't mind that, But I just
it's really frustrating to see the Texans go through what

(02:18:13):
they're going through right now. And it's not to say
that I'm a chance to win every week anything like that,
But when you go up against a team like the
Detroit Lions coming into town and everything's going for them,
they're cooking on they're they're firing on all cylinders and
the only thing that's been really a drawback for them
is the major injury to Hutchinson. But other than that

(02:18:35):
and one blemish on their record, I mean, what's what's
the complain about in Detroit? And by the way, Detroit
that was you know, like New Orleans before Drew Brees,
that was a football Siberia. You know, that was what
Green Bay's division to lose most years. And if it

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wasn't them, it was the Vikings with you know, any
combination of Chicago and Detroit bringing up the rear most years,
Detroit because at least Chicago went to a super Bowl.
Now Detroit's like the toast of the town, the toast
of that division, the best division in football, by the way,
And it's just I hate that they're coming into town

(02:19:19):
with a matchup that absolutely should be sexy, and maybe
it will be. You know what, maybe the Texans know
more than all of us, and they're gonna quiet us all,
they're gonna shut me up. Nick Cassario is gonna be
laughing at me from the comfort of his suite or
wherever he's watching the game, because the Texans are going
to stomp a mudhole in the Detroit Lions, and they've
made some sort of adjustments and the offensive line is

(02:19:39):
magically going to block and give CJ time and he's
not gonna be running for his life and all that stuff. Maybe,
but the betting money says that's not the case. And
it's a shame because when you look at these these
games coming up on the schedule, it's not just Detroit.
And while I feel like the Cowboys game on the
road is going to be much more winnable with what's

(02:20:00):
going on, Micah Parsons is all likely going to be
lining up against across the way from CJ. Stroud looking
to tear his head off, just like every other pass rush.

Speaker 4 (02:20:11):
Is going to try and do.

Speaker 2 (02:20:12):
And don't even get me started on the Chiefs game
in Arrowhead or the Christmas Day game here at home
against the Baltimore Ravens, because until this line starts proving otherwise,
it is not in any position to help CJ. Stroud
succeed and that is pretty sad. We will continue here
at the five o'clock hour on a Wednesday edition of
the eighteen.

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know that Kushata Casino resort just by itself. If it
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Speaker 4 (02:20:53):
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Speaker 4 (02:21:01):
I've seen it done it really.

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of that, it's time for November events and the eighty
thousand dollars Thanksgiving cash giveaway with twenty four chances to
win ten grand. That's going on November sixteenth. It's all

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things on Sports Talk seven ninety Rockets and Spurs that's

(02:22:15):
coming up. We have also talked extensively today about the
Winter Meetings at times, because look, I just I keep
going back to this. I don't feel like this is
the same when it comes to Alex Bregman's you know,
impending departure or what have you, is would you would

(02:22:36):
the betting money be on him still leaving? I suppose,
But that's kind of what I'm getting at here when
you have the principles involved, the biggest principles. And I
say that knowing full well that we haven't heard from
Jim Crane extensively, if at all, about I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:22:57):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:22:57):
I can't recall a SoundBite or even just a written
quote from Jim Crane about Alex Bregman specifically. But we've
heard from Scott Boris, We've heard, you know a little
and seen it on social media, obviously from Alex Bregman himself.
And then we heard from from Dana Brown, and we've

(02:23:17):
heard from him from multiple sources this this uh the
audio we played earlier today was from a one on
one he did with John Morosi, who's a national Major
League baseball reporter and has been on this show. Great guy,
does a great job covering the game from a national level,
and caught up with Dana Brown and you know, constant
conversations with Scott Boris. We heard from Dana Brown about

(02:23:39):
that open to getting the Bregman deal done and how
they're approaching it, though, is what I'm really getting at,
because when we've heard from all of these scenarios, and again,
we haven't.

Speaker 4 (02:23:51):
Heard from Dana or from from Jim Crane.

Speaker 2 (02:23:53):
We've also heard from jose al Touve multiple times, going
way out of his way to say, hey, you've got
to keep the guy here. We are not the same
without him. It's not just lip service. It's not just
what he does on the field, it's what he does
off the field, in the clubhouse.

Speaker 4 (02:24:08):
In the community.

Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
But just as a teammate and just a member of
this run, it just feels different. And I said that
from the start, and the first thing that got my
attention was the al Tuove thing, and then he said
it again. So it's like, okay, there's something there, and
you know, some people cynics. I guess you could say
look at that and say, well, it's just you know,

(02:24:30):
all jose al Tuve is doing is raising the price
tag with Scott Boris. And again, anytime you're dealing with
Scott Boris, it's a it feels like Russian Roulette or
just a dicey situation. He's out to get he's out
for blood. He's out to get the absolute most money
possible for any given client at any given time, because

(02:24:52):
that's who he is. He's a superagent. And so having
said all of that. It just feels like it's a
different approach maybe from all parties involved in this thing,
but it's not the only one that Dana Brown mentioned
or was asked about. We haven't really heard him talk
about either Kyle Tucker or you say, Kakuchi at length

(02:25:16):
until this interview at least as far as the off
season goes, and we'll start with Kyle Tucker and how
the talks have gone, if at all, with both Tucker
and his representation.

Speaker 6 (02:25:27):
Yeah, I've talked to Casey Close as well. We've gone
back and forth. Of course, we have a you know,
the full year to get it done, you know, because
he's locked up to twenty twenty five, and so another
guy that's had a great career here's been a big
part of all the winning here in Houston, and you know,
at some point, you know, well, we hope to narrow

(02:25:47):
some things down and have some more conversations. But we've
definitely had multiple conversations with you know, Casey Close.

Speaker 2 (02:25:56):
You know, it's interesting because I've just kind of I've
been of the opinion that's he's gone. He's like George
Springer two point zero, guy that came up with the
organization guy that's given you big at bats, you know,
big fielding, and has been a part of a winning
era here in Houston.

Speaker 4 (02:26:16):
He caught the final out the last time they were champions.

Speaker 3 (02:26:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:26:20):
His postseason performance the.

Speaker 2 (02:26:23):
Last two seasons probably left a lot to be desired,
particularly in twenty three, and he'd be the first to
tell you that. But I just always I've been of
the opinion that it's just a matter of win and
should they even I mean some people have asked, should
they even consider trading him? Just because if you know
you're not going to sign him because he's gonna want
so much or because of whatever reason, then you might

(02:26:45):
as well get something for him of value, even if
it's of the rental variety, versus just letting him walk
away for nothing.

Speaker 4 (02:26:52):
But then you don't have him in the lineup.

Speaker 2 (02:26:54):
So I get both sides of that, But I just
I look at Kyle Tucker as not a lost cause.

Speaker 4 (02:27:00):
Sounds like over the top or.

Speaker 2 (02:27:01):
Maybe too negative, but I just don't. I don't look
at him the same way as I do even an
Alex Bregman. At some point in time, I think I
was in my head arguing about the two of them,
like Okay, what if the Astros decided they want to
make a concerted effort to at least retain one of them. Well,
I think for a lot of reasons, the obvious guy
would be Kyle, because he's younger, because he's.

Speaker 4 (02:27:23):
More, he's a.

Speaker 2 (02:27:26):
Higher upper echelon baseball player. It's not a dig at
Alex Bregman, but just Kyle Tucker just does more offensively
than Alex Bregman does at this point.

Speaker 4 (02:27:36):
In addition to the age difference. The defense is maybe.

Speaker 2 (02:27:40):
Negligible because you're talking about a hot corner guy versus
an outfielder. But it is a right fielder and he
does have that arm and you certainly missed that this
season when he was gone for as long as he was.
But if it's if it's a situation where you can
keep one and the path to a successful agreement is
easier to get to with an Alex Bregman, well then
at least you have Alex bregmant there as opposed to

(02:28:02):
letting them both walk away. And it feels like we
go through this like every couple of years because it
was Springer and you know then it was Korea. Garrett
Cole doesn't count he was always going to be gone.
He was a hired mercenary and he still is to
this day. Well, I wanted to play for the Yankees. Yeah,
but it's just that's it just felt like that was
a lost cause. And you knew that if you didn't

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already from the moment he put on his Scott Boris
cap after Game seven, a crushing defeat at home by
the Astros to the Washington Nationals. And by the way,
anybody ever asked, why are Astros fans always so hard
on him? That's why maybe you forgot what he did.
But as it pertains to Kyle Tucker, I just I

(02:28:45):
feel like we're at the point now enough time has
passed and where the timelines are. Get Alex Bregman done
and worry about replacing Kyle Tucker later, versus the flip
side of that scenario, which is both corner and field
old spots are at the present manned by very very

(02:29:05):
young and inexperienced players. Should Alex Bregman sign with another team.
The other side of this that's interesting, I think is
you know, for the for all the talk about Justin Verlander,
and you know, Chandler Rome had tweeted about that and
whether or not there's a path for his return to
Houston be fair significant less amount of money obviously, but

(02:29:27):
it's not even about that to me. What what is
he going to be at his advanced age? And based
on what we saw, I get, you know, rushing back
from an injury and not not being who you thought
you were going to be, not being who the team
thought you were going to be, particularly in a postseason

(02:29:48):
setting where you can't you couldn't even trust him enough
to say, all right, he's on the roster. He wasn't,
and you got swept by the Tigers, and and that
was that. It kind of the problem almost took care
of itself in some ways. But you say, Kokuchi's interesting
because he's like the latest installment of a pitcher that
is maybe not long in the tooth, but certainly not

(02:30:11):
a spring chicken, maybe has n't been playing or pitching
in this case, his best baseball, and then he comes
to Houston and it's like a rebirth happened, And it's
that's what happened with Justin Verlander. Albeit he's a much
much higher upper echelon level pitcher. I mean, he's a
future Hall of Famer. You say Kakuchi though, I mean

(02:30:31):
cannot deny the results one of, if not the best
pitchers for the Astros down the stretch. And whether or
not he comes back. Dana Brown was asked about, well.

Speaker 6 (02:30:41):
That's part of our Scott Boris conversation as well. You know, uh,
Kokuchi's time and Houston was really really good, and so
you know we would be excited to have him back
as well. That would be a nice piece stat to
our rotation. And so you know, talking with Scott, you
know we're gonna try.

Speaker 2 (02:31:01):
We're gonna try. But you see what I mean when
you hear him talk about you say Kokuchi, do you
do you feel like they are gonna try, I mean
try define that What it sounds like is that he's
saying what he's supposed to say in front of a
live microphone, in front of a live camera or whatever,
and that you're you know, it's probably not gonna happen,

(02:31:22):
but we'll we'll have talks and then I'll wind up
somewhere else because either the money doesn't work or what
have you. It's not that's not how they're talking about
Alex Bregman. It's just in my opinion, maybe i'm hearing things.
Maybe I'm not hearing it the way you guys are,
but I just I think it's different. I do think

(02:31:42):
there's you know, Wex asked me earlier, what do you
put on it? Fifty to fifty, and I said sixty
forty because I think it's better than a fifty to
fifty shot that Alex Bregman is back in an astro's uniform.
What it takes to get that done, have no idea.
We threw out some numbers earlier, you know, I think
do I think he's given a hometown discount? No? But

(02:32:03):
do I think that they can get him for maybe
less than maybe all parties were expecting it to be, say,
prior to the twenty twenty four season. Absolutely, and there's
there's reasons for that, but I'm just holding out hope.
I really do think it's a better than average chance,
and I think if that does happen, that's a nice

(02:32:23):
springboard into twenty twenty four and hopefully they can contend
again and maybe not get off to a slow start
like they did. We've got in case you missed it,
and that's coming up next.

Speaker 1 (02:32:34):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety, This is
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Speaker 11 (02:32:43):
App Sports Talk seven ninety, it's your home fil Astros Baseball,
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Speaker 16 (02:32:54):
About a half hour to go here on a Wednesday
edition of The A Team, it's Sports Talk seven ninety,
It's Space City Home Network, and it's in case you
missed it, Dan take it away.

Speaker 7 (02:33:04):
All right.

Speaker 9 (02:33:05):
So earlier we heard from Sexan's general manager Nick Cassio a.

Speaker 2 (02:33:09):
Couple of different things, trade deadline.

Speaker 9 (02:33:11):
Much ado about nothing, and then he almost sounded like
a character in a buddy cop movie who complains about
the paperwork and having to deal with you know that
painting that you know what of a captain that's up
his backside about things. Well, Tamika Ryans also asked about
the trade deadline, and he said, hey, look, there's no
savior that's coming your way.

Speaker 10 (02:33:30):
Didn't emphasize anything in to our team like we have
the guys we have. I mean, everybody thinks the trade
dayline comes and you're gonna, you know, find this guy
who's gonna save your team. I don't see it that way, right.
Transactions were made across the league, and there has to
be two parties available to do a trade. Everybody's fancy

(02:33:52):
about trades. It's not just us going and taking somebody
from another team. People have to be available and people
that the trade has to be on good turns for everyone.
So I know everybody's in an uproar about us trading
at the deadline. It's like, it's not from a lack
of us working to get our team better and improve
our team, but there's no savior coming to save our team.

(02:34:15):
And there has to be two parties involved in trading.

Speaker 2 (02:34:19):
Oh great, does it even sound like they wanted to
dance with anyone? No, And here's the deal. What he's
saying is absolutely true. We know this because this is
true in all sports. You've got to have two, you know,
dancing partners, and there obviously has to be a player available.

(02:34:40):
They would also, you know, fit the role that you're
looking for. But Okay, then I go back to why
would your GM go on the record and basically just
blow it off. He didn't say that. That's the difference
between Demiko Ryans and Nick Cassario. You know, at least
Demiko Ryans. If you want to take something away from that,

(02:35:02):
it's like, well, maybe there wasn't maybe there wasn't anything available,
or maybe it wasn't gonna work.

Speaker 4 (02:35:07):
It's not eh, it's just busy work.

Speaker 2 (02:35:10):
I just two completely completely different approaches to answering the
same question about why the Texans didn't do more to
bolster an offensive line that's currently more often than not
close to getting CJ.

Speaker 9 (02:35:27):
Stroud killed. Well, I mean it's from the mic side.
I think he's kind of just approaching it as, Hey, look,
I just work here, man, like, I don't have any
control over that. They bring me in for some meetings,
but aside from that, there's not really much I can
do about it, and got a really good football team
coming in this week, So I think I'm gonna worry
more about what's my actual job, and that's having my
team ready to play. So that's kind of how I

(02:35:48):
took what he said. All right, So we're going to
play a new game here on the A team. And
in case you missed it, it's called when was the
moment you felt really old in this business? And A see,
you've been doing this for a few years now, probably
even to the point where some guys that maybe you
got to know professionally from working in this business, or
even grew up watching like Krik Biggio's son. When he

(02:36:09):
got to the major leagues, it was like, come on, man,
you serious? Yeah, I got a new one for you.
Cole Liinert That last name, it sounds familiar well with
Sexans quarterback Matt Lionerts.

Speaker 2 (02:36:20):
That's one way to address him.

Speaker 9 (02:36:22):
Cole Linerts is a twenty twenty six quarterback who has
just committed to SMU. Dude, I remember when that kid
was running around on the practice fields with his dad.
So Cole's grandfather out at Sexans practice.

Speaker 2 (02:36:35):
Yeah, I don't I know. Matt lionert quote played here.
I mean it was in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe a cup of coffee just because of so many quarterbacks,
maybe like a smaller espresso. Yeah that's a good Yeah,
it was less than that. Matt Lioner to me is

(02:36:57):
the quarterback of USC when Vince Young won the Rose Bowl.

Speaker 4 (02:37:01):
I mean he just did. He's the guy that handed
off for Reggie Bush.

Speaker 2 (02:37:03):
He's the guy that took ballroom dancing so he could
stay eligible for one more season, or stay in school
one more year and try to, you know, win that championship.
So from that standpoint, yeah, all those guys that were
playing in that game, which, by the way, I mean,
I hate to say this, we're very close to that

(02:37:25):
game being twenty years ago.

Speaker 9 (02:37:26):
Yeah, two years. Two years from now, it'll be twenty years.
It's less than two years. Oh, that's true.

Speaker 2 (02:37:31):
See January of six, right speaking to a microphone, I
mean January of six. We're closer to it being one
year away from twenty years damn.

Speaker 11 (02:37:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
And I'll never forget where I was watching that game
in the Channel two newsroom and just it's I've watched it.

Speaker 4 (02:37:47):
A million times.

Speaker 2 (02:37:48):
I have it on I think I have it on DVD.
It was really popular to replay during COVID too well.
It was also popular to replay on the Longhorn Sports
Network when they had no other programming. That was also popular.

Speaker 9 (02:38:00):
Player instead of a UT's commencement address or even old
episodes of Friday Night Lights. Guess what you're getting the
O six National championship.

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
Again, there are worse options. It is your school winning
a national championship in the most spectacular fashion possible. N's young.

Speaker 4 (02:38:18):
I really wish he would have been a Texan.

Speaker 9 (02:38:21):
Do you know who attempted to tackle him on that
fourth and goal from the five.

Speaker 2 (02:38:25):
Brian Cushing, he can go. Yeah, a freshman by the way, Yeah,
long hair. There's a lot of future nflers in that game.
Not just future nflers, but like studs that were in
that game. Lyndale White, Reggie Bush, Matt Lioner, Vince Young,
he had Cushing, and I know I'm I'm naming an

(02:38:46):
inordinate amount of Trojans. There was.

Speaker 4 (02:38:51):
There was somebody that was who is their safety?

Speaker 9 (02:38:54):
I feel like was went on to a pretty good
career in the Nflamalu Oh dang know.

Speaker 4 (02:39:00):
I'm talking about Longhorns. Oh Griffin?

Speaker 2 (02:39:04):
Yeah, maybe it was Griffin. He hit a pretty decent
NFL career. Yeah, so yeah, a lot of a lot
of star pirate in that game. Michael Huff might be.

Speaker 4 (02:39:12):
Michael Huff might have be the guy who I was
thinking of too.

Speaker 2 (02:39:14):
And they did they have a receiver that went, uh
pretty pretty high and had a decent career.

Speaker 9 (02:39:20):
Limas Swede had a pretty decent career. Yeah, Okay, So
there's a lot of a lot of guys in that game.

Speaker 2 (02:39:25):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (02:39:26):
Stars have plenty, all right, finely, gonna get you out
the door on this one. Uh, Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes
talking about the future and saying that Mookie Betts is
expected to move back to the infield this coming season.
Does that signal the way for the door to open?

Speaker 4 (02:39:43):
To want so to to l a doors wide open
door is open?

Speaker 2 (02:39:48):
In fact, he's outside and he and he smells a
nice cake baking in the oven. It's wafting out there.
It's inviting. It's warm because it's cold outside. I mean
it's la so I guess it's at night till he's cool.
I think Juan Soto is gonna be a Dodger and

(02:40:09):
I'm gonna I'm gonna start manifesting that. I really do.
I'm not even kidding, like for talk about a guy
who's not talking like he's gonna be back for sure.

Speaker 9 (02:40:19):
That's why I put that audio last week, because like
it was one of those like you're kind of emphatic
and even remember I asked the follow up to Bregman
and he said, I hope so, I mean maybe that
was so didn't say that.

Speaker 2 (02:40:31):
No, And Juan Soto again, you just mentioned the answer
to the to the million dollar question. Well, in this case,
maybe five hundred and seventy five million or more. You know,
where are you gonna put him. You're gonna put Mookie
back in the infield, and you're gonna put him in
the outfield, and you're gonna, you know, maybe go back
to the World Series again instead of losing in the NLDS.

Speaker 9 (02:40:52):
Every year, because I think he kind of looks at
the Yankees as a house of cards.

Speaker 2 (02:40:56):
They are a house of cards, like you know why,
they're run by Brian the biggest weenie in sports, who
knew that maybe Astro fans would somewhat be on the
side of Joe Kelly for what he said about the Yankees.
I'm not even mad at the Dodgers. The thing is
like their fans suck. But that's any fan base that's
stupid and says dumb stuff about the Astros did. I
didn't feel a single tinge of resentment, jealousy, nothing when

(02:41:20):
the Dodgers won that game. I would have been homicidal
the next day in this in this studio, if the
stupid Yankees had won the World Series and the Astros
didn't even get to play them, just completely different alternative realities.
I'm fine, Dodgers can have their first real championship since
nineteen eighty eight, So skin off my back and they've

(02:41:41):
got them in the astros have had the best two runs.

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The eight continues.

Speaker 2 (02:42:56):
Final segment of the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety
Space City Home Network, before we make way for Rockets
launch Pad, with Ross coming up at the top of
the hour. He's gonna get you ready for Rockets and
Spurs Part three. Teams have split the first two games
this season. Spurs they drew first blood, not me, and

(02:43:18):
then the Rockets came right back at him. There was
a back to back there in San Antonio obviously about
a week ago, and Rockets really putting it on him
in that second game before hanging on for the win.
So round three tonight and then these two won't see
each other until I think late February, so we'll get
you ready for that. You can watch it obviously on
Space City Home Network. Tip Off is at seven o'clock.

(02:43:39):
You can hear it right here on Sports Talk seven
to ninety. I'm not gonna go the entire four hour
show without ignoring or with ignoring the elephant in the room.
We all know there was an election last night, and
I'm not getting into the specifics of you know, who
things what and where you happy or you sad.

Speaker 4 (02:44:02):
Are you crying on social media like a wild banshee?

Speaker 2 (02:44:05):
Are you, you know, being completely over the top snarky
because you're happy? Whatever, there's there's probably an in between
there and uh, that's the that's the best part of
us living in the best country in the world is
that you can you can choose who you want so
to speak. Uh, with the the the democratic side of things,

(02:44:27):
but I'm all about the entertainment factor when it comes
to this, right, love him or hate him, Donald Trump
is going to be good for things like say Saturday
Night Live.

Speaker 4 (02:44:43):
That's content. That's how you look at it.

Speaker 2 (02:44:46):
So whether it was Alec Baldwin in the past before
he started shooting people on movie sets allegedly, or I
don't know the name of the guy that that does
his impression now on the show, it's decent, it's not great.
The best Trump is a guy named Sean Ferrish Farrash
who's kind of a political commentator on social and I'm

(02:45:08):
not sure exactly what he does.

Speaker 4 (02:45:09):
He's insane.

Speaker 2 (02:45:11):
You know my guy Jay, well, both my guys Jay
fro and Frank Caliendo do a decent job with a
lot of impressions.

Speaker 4 (02:45:17):
And he's one of them.

Speaker 2 (02:45:18):
But here's the Shan. Oh, yeah, that's the guy who
I'm really thinking of. Sean sounds the most like him.
But I love Shane because, in addition to being pretty
close to Sean's impression, nobody tops Sean. I'm sorry, it's
like you close your eyes and it's like it's Trump talking.
But Shane gillis dressing up like him and going on

(02:45:38):
kill Tony ironically of all shows, is just spectacular. But
here's the deal, Bill Burr, and.

Speaker 4 (02:45:48):
I don't maybe some of you guys, I don't know
how you feel.

Speaker 2 (02:45:50):
About him one way or the other. He's one of
those people when it comes to stand up comedy that
is a take no prisoners, equal opportunity offender. Hate on everyone,
love on everyone, whatever, whatever you want to call it.
Everybody's fair game, right. He was slated to host SNL
this weekend, which, by the way, SNL just became watchable

(02:46:12):
like five minutes ago. I mean, it was bad, bad, bad, bad,
no matter what side of the aisle you're on or
what your political beliefs are like, SNL was a dumpster
fire recently, just not even remotely entertaining at all, and
it actually had a few decent shows lately. But Bill
Burr hosting is appointment viewing. And here's why. The twenty

(02:46:37):
sixteen and twenty twenty elections, you know, they always SNL
always has a political special following the election, and Dave
Chappelle hosted both of those years.

Speaker 4 (02:46:50):
It's gonna be hard to top that.

Speaker 2 (02:46:52):
But if there's anybody that I think could at least
give a different slant while still being more being at entertaining,
or at least competing with being as entertaining as a Chappelle,
because I love Chappelle, I really.

Speaker 4 (02:47:04):
Do, it's it's Bill Burr.

Speaker 2 (02:47:07):
And so obviously you've got to start, you know, promoting
an appearance like this the big deal. But how do
you do that when you don't know who's going to
win the election? Well, I'm glad you asked, because SNL
did just that. Here's Bill Burr. I don't who what's
the name of the other guy in the video? I
don't know who these people are on SNL anymore. I

(02:47:28):
sound like an old you know, fuddy duddy.

Speaker 4 (02:47:30):
Whoever it is, it's him. It's Bill Burr.

Speaker 2 (02:47:33):
They're in like Craft Services on the set of SNL
and they're talking about the election, which they had to
shoot this before it was determined who had won. And
you'll see how they I think cleverly handled that aspect
of this promo here. I mean, I don't know what's
wrong with the car that you have. You know, it'd
be two years. You got to get a new one though.

(02:47:54):
Hey Bill, Hey, what's up man? Good to see you.

Speaker 11 (02:47:57):
Man.

Speaker 13 (02:47:57):
I'm so excited you're hosting election week.

Speaker 7 (02:47:59):
This is big.

Speaker 6 (02:48:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:48:00):
I cannot believe that.

Speaker 5 (02:48:05):
One.

Speaker 2 (02:48:05):
Yeah, I know, right, dude, Never in a million years
and a million years did I ever think that. I mean,
and it was late too unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (02:48:14):
It's eve been crazier.

Speaker 2 (02:48:14):
I was randomly in a steamer with Juliani.

Speaker 4 (02:48:17):
No, he sits down, Harry, Harry right.

Speaker 2 (02:48:20):
It told me who actually killed Epstein? Who he said
it was? No, that's that crazy what he said.

Speaker 7 (02:48:26):
I didn't even think he was a suspect.

Speaker 2 (02:48:27):
Wow, you know, it's weird.

Speaker 7 (02:48:29):
My cousin works it, depending on he told me it was.

Speaker 2 (02:48:34):
Because that was my guest. I said that.

Speaker 5 (02:48:36):
I said that.

Speaker 8 (02:48:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:48:38):
Hey man, I'm between you. Man, I'm kind of freaking
out in a lot of pressure this week. Do you
you party at all? I got you. I actually I
have a ton of life, and I also have like
a full bag of Also, I have like six little
tiny capsules of I'll do that to take the edge off.

Speaker 7 (02:48:56):
And hey, just out of curiosity, who did you actually vot?

Speaker 2 (02:49:00):
Vote for?

Speaker 4 (02:49:01):
Everybody?

Speaker 7 (02:49:01):
Really?

Speaker 4 (02:49:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:49:02):
Just filled them into again no matter what, I'm right,
yeah it wasn't us.

Speaker 2 (02:49:07):
We're on the sidelines. Well, there's one group of people.
Puts a V in my bonnet. It's so damn outstanding stuff.
Can't wait to watch. I'm actually I can't remember the
last time I was like, oh I gotta watch U,
S ANDL. But I feel like that. I mean, Bill Burr.
If you've ever watched his stand up and you're not,
you know, the most sensitive person on the planet, you're

(02:49:28):
good to go.

Speaker 4 (02:49:29):
It's a it's always strong.

Speaker 2 (02:49:31):
I think the last one he came out with was
was that the Red Red Rocks one in just outside
of Colorado, just outside of Denver. I should say it's like,
oh my gosh, he does a bit on the w
n b A during that stand up. I'm not even
going to attempt to start talking about that. It's he's effective,

(02:49:53):
he gets the laughs. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Also, Yeah,
his cousin works with the Pentagon and told him that's
probably my favorite line of that whole thing. Then they
start talking about doing illicit substances, it kind of goes
off into a dark place. But yeah, Bill Burr hosting
SNL on a week in which we have the election
in the books for all intents and purposes, and yeah,

(02:50:15):
everybody is just just absolutely ecstatic about everything. Everybody's agreeing
on everything, everybody's getting along just like we thought they would.
Let me tell you about today, man, social media, if
nothing else, the last twenty four and probably continuing into
forty eight hours, has been some of the most entertaining

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stuff ever.

Speaker 4 (02:50:36):
We hope we've entertained you as well.

Speaker 2 (02:50:38):
We will be at it again tomorrow here on a
Thursday edition of the A Team Sports Talk seven to ninety. Obviously,
Wex as I mentioned, down at Toyota Center, he is
going to be on the call alongside Matt Thomas for
Rockets and Spurs. You can also see the game Craig
Ackerman and Ryan Hollins calling the television side of things,
and we'll bring you that action asap as that thing's

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gonna tip off in just a smidge over an hour
from now. Ross Vireal gonna host the Rockets launch Pad
coming up next by the way, Oh, if if you're
into that sort of thing and you missed Chandler Rome earlier,
we've got his interview from the four o'clock hour up
on the website and over at Sports Talk seven ninety

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social media accounts.

Speaker 4 (02:51:25):
There's a link there for that.

Speaker 2 (02:51:26):
Chandler Rome given his latest on the Alex Bregman free
agency saga and everything else from the winter meetings in
San Antonio for WEX over at Toyota Center for Dan,
i'm ac it is the A team sports Talk seven ninety.
Thank you guys so much for listening. We'll talk to
you guys tomorrow at two o'clock. The A Team on
Sports Talk seven ninety.