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January 15, 2025 166 mins
Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler makes his return to talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on January 15th 2025.

  • Wex FINALLY gets to react to the Texans Wild Card round win.
  • No more Diontae Johnson. 
  • It's the red hot Rockets against the red hot Nuggets in Denver. 
  • Texans get another crack at the Chiefs. 
  • WRT puts in the research for what referee Clay Martin means for Saturday's game in KC. 
  • 5 Good Minutes with Ime Udoka. 
  • James Palmer joins the show and might just be bullish on the Texans. 
  • Micah Parsons sad to see Mike McCarthy go. 
  • The Texans-Chiefs matchup that isn't being talked about enough. 
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking your Teams.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a Wednesday edition of the A Team Sports Sox
seven to ninety and we're back. Well I never went anywhere,
but wex is back in two days away, back in.
It brought the crappy weather with him, So thanks for that, buddy. No,
he is in for the long haul tonight, and I
do mean the long haul because following our game and
a little smattering in between, we'll have the Rockets resuming

(00:40):
their schedule, and it's a little bit of a later
tip tonight, and it'll be even later tomorrow night as
they'll play it back to back, the Denver Nuggets and
the Rockets put their four game winning streaks on the
line against each other. And you won't hear it right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety because it'll be on
news Radio seven forty k TRH. We'll have Longhorn Basketball
for you, but Matt Thomas and wex will have the

(01:02):
call from the Mile High City and hopefully the Rockets
can continue to be the hottest team or one of
the hotter teams in the NBA. And continue that run
right there, solidly placed in the second seed. But I
haven't had a chance to talk to Wex about what
happened over the weekend and since, and the fact that

(01:23):
we didn't know for sure, but we were pretty pretty
good idea that once the Texans knocked off the Chargers,
they'd be headed back to Arrowhead.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
For the second time in as many months.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So I know it was killing you to not be
able to come in here for not one but two
days and talk about a Texans playoff win at home
and the way that it occurred. Especially what'd you think
when you were looking from Afar at the worst mostly
first half that they've played, maybe in playoff history.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
I mean, to have a turnover on the very first
offensive play, Sam might make you think that, but you'd
run one play and you're only down six to nothing. Yeah,
you stopped him on the first drive after they made
their way all the way down the field, You held
him to a field goal after the turnover, and all
of a sudden things were just fine, And they really

(02:13):
were totally fine after that. I know there was the
big play to Xavier Hutchins and they kind of made
everything click. But defensively they pretty much played the same
way the whole game. They got one fluke play where
they were unable to tackle McConkie immediately after he caught
the ball and he took it eighty six yards. Their
offense was out of sorts pretty much the entire day

(02:34):
after the very beginning of the opening drive, and you
knock out that one play. As it turned out, both
teams had similar targeting issues, and to say they both
have one target. The Texans had Nico Collins and the
Chargers had McConkie. They couldn't go anywhere unless they targeted him.

(02:54):
And until the Texans started repeatedly targeting Nico Collins, they
were struggling to move the ball. And obviously most of
that also came after the thirty four yard pass to
Xavier Hutchinson. I don't want to rehash the whole game,
but there were quite a few instances that really stood
out of both good and bad for both sides. As
you kind of look forward to, you know, what do

(03:14):
you want to see from the Texans heading into this
game against the Chiefs. What do you take from the
game against the Chargers, And what do you take from
the game against the Chiefs And that it was just
a few weeks ago. You were there in Kansas City.
You were right there with them in Kansas City. It's
a seventeen to sixteen game. After Tankdell scores his touchdown,
and you're in the second half, and you clearly are

(03:35):
playing the twenty twenty four version of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Not the ones that have embarrassed you in previous years
and ones you just simply can't keep out of the
end zone or keep off the scoreboard, but the one
that everybody keeps off the scoreboard this year, the one
that scores under four hundred points after having mahomes led
offenses in the four fifties and four seventies and five

(03:56):
hundreds over the course of several regular seasons that have
seen them in the AFC Championship Game every time of
the last six years.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
It is very, very different.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
But some of the good and some of the bad
for both sides, just from a play calling standpoint, because
we talked about it so much all year, and I
can't hide from it. Nobody else would either had they
said anything. Man, I thought that game was called so
well and it looks so much better when they executed,
and I wish people would understand that this entire year's

(04:27):
worth of ripping Bobby slock for his play calling, well,
the guys can't execute the plays, so he's got to
throw those out and then he's got to go to
the next set of plays, which they then don't execute.
So you're wondering, what is this guy doing. Well, big
difference when they execute, big difference when the five guys
up front are opening holes, just like they did briefly

(04:47):
against the Titans, because they only played briefly and Mixon
was running through holes. Mixon was finding a hole on
the cutback land. He didn't have to always pop outside
to find yards. So over the course of the game,
I thought he did a great job. But I can't again,
I can't get past the fact he called a half
back pass. I mean, I mean, what are you doing.
You finally got CJ. Stroud finding his groove. You're in

(05:09):
a playoff game, you're in the game, on the scoreboard,
everything's fine. What are you doing? And of course it's
the fumble. It's the only time Joe Mixon's fumbled in
like a thousand years. It's just, oh my god, I
could not believe. And yes, that made me change my
thought on what was likely to happen in the game.
That's the kind of why are you giving the other
team momentum back? I've done absolutely nothing to earn it.

(05:32):
You're doing everything to keep it, don't You don't need it,
You're doing everything you want to do. Just I was
beside myself in thinking about, Yeah, I don't have to
wait till Wednesday to bring that up. Similarly, having Justin
Herbert roll all the way out to his right and
then basically blindly throwing the ball all the way across

(05:52):
the field to Quinton Johnston, the one that Kamari Lassiter
picked off, no reason for that play to be called
at all with how things were going going for them offensively,
and it did exactly what you were glad the Texans
play calling misk you didn't do, because obviously the Charger
didn't take that fumble and put a bunch of points
on the board.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Never game did not get lost there.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
But that's just so completely unnecessary for how they're playing
for the matchups they're up against.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
For a Lassiter v.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Johnston matchup, if you hadn't seen some of the expected
points per play the EPA on some of the defensive
numbers for the Texans the last couple of days. You
haven't kind of looked over that. It's incredible what their
defense did. I think out of four hundred and ninety
four receivers since they've been tracking this, Johnston was at
four ninety two with the suspected plays per target or

(06:41):
per game per EPA. It was just insane how well
they played defensively. And we'll get into some of the
other bits and pieces that have to travel with them
to Kansas City and franchise history says, I hope you
enjoyed the home win. There aren't any road wins on
the Texans franchise history, and the games that have been
played on the road versus the games that have been

(07:01):
played at home are just so remarkably different. And unfortunately,
even in brief history three games, it holds true for
the CJ. Stroud, will Anderson, Debico Ryans led Texans two
home games with total domination, defensively, great quarterback play, even
with the mistake he made and talked about yesterday, CJ.

(07:24):
And then they went on the road and they just
couldn't do anything. They scored three points offensively. This time around,
They've had other games where obviously the thirty one point
game in Kansas City, they scored a few points and
then they couldn't do anything for two and a half
quarters and watch the other team score fifty one points.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, the first thing I thought this might be, this
might make me just a Cenecal Houston sports fan in
me saying this is well, Silver lying and they're not
going to Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
They're not playing Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Walked into to the show today, was talking to Gordy briefly,
and you know, what do you think the Texans chances are?
And I basically said, well, they got the worst team.
I mean, I can really make it sounds awesome as
possibly did. They got Pat Mahomes chiefs in Kansas City
in the playoffs, and they're rested and they're healthier than
they've been all year. And yes, I still believe the

(08:10):
Texans even though they shouldn't be favored.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
They're not likely to win. This is the best case
for me.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Maybe you could argue Buffalo because their defense is gettable.
But now you're telling me the Texans offense is going
to go out there and score and score and score,
because I'm sure the Bills offense will in that they've
seen the Texans defense once and clearly, I think everybody
on Earth thinks the Ravens are the best team in
the AFC right now.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
They're a video game, so that I don't even that's
a non starter.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
I really, I'm not even sure that how hard they played.
This is the dumbest thing I'm ever gonna say. I'm
not even sure how hard they played. After they took
the early lead against Pittsburgh, they cruised. I know Pittsburgh
has a good defense, and they were playing from behind
or Baltimore was playing from ahead. A couple of scores throughout,
they gave up a touchdown and all the oh is
Pittsburgh in it? No, No, they were. They didn't belong

(08:58):
on the same field as them, and they out in
the playoffs and they handled them nicely.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I kind of mentioned this yesterday, but I really wanted
to get into it with you. Aziz al Shaier is
that important to me for this defense. He's that important
and he wasn't there. And I know that they had
injuries that happened in that game, and Tank Dell is
its own category, but you know they had defensive injuries
in that game. Jimmy Ward say what you want about him,

(09:25):
but depth is Miles Bryant, Well, he's not. He's not
gonna be playing, I'll tell you that much. And and so.
But if you can't, you can't refer to a guy
as when we have several times as the quarterback of
the defense, and that's what Demiko Ryans has referred to
as he's Al Shaier as well, and then just pretend like,
well because they were in that game, and tell the

(09:46):
Tank Dell injury and everything kind of fell apart after
that that it's not going to potentially be different. You
just said you got to take that defensive effort on
the road to Kansas City. It's going to be colder
by like twenty degrees I think, and the last time
they are up there.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
That doesn't that that makes no difference to me.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I don't think at least it doesn't affect the game
maybe the way some people would think. But if you
bring this type of defense up there, it's absolutely going
to make a difference as far as how competitive this is. Yeah,
you're you're looking at a very different quarterback, different style
of play, and you're obviously looking at a different team overall.

(10:26):
Who's trying to make history. By the way they're trying
to go back to back to back. You can be
the one that stops that. And it does sound insane
on the surface when Weck says they are playing the
worst team, But.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's all relative, as you would say, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not saying right now
I'm picking the Texans to win.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, it's only Wednesday, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Think this is like some sort of lopsided, you know,
blowout situation.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
No, and the odds of them winning this week. They're
underdog status. It's roughly the same as it would be
if they go to Buffalo next week. Eight and a
half points is what the projected number would be next
week if the end of play a half, and they
would be bigger underdogs in a week projected if they

(11:15):
go to Baltimore. So I think that stands to reason.
That is how it is seen. But it's very relative.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean, they're playing it.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
There's a huge, huge part of what happened against the
Chargers on Saturday that may be not getting enough attention,
and the same thing is going to be in play
this week against the Chiefs. But for the Chiefs, rather
than the Texans, So I wanted to get into that
as we continue here, I got a bunch of things
to get to today. Emy Udokas Rockets, as you mentioned,

(11:43):
are on the court.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Tonight.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
He made his weekly visit here on the station, the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross, So we will give you
a little bit of that as we always do the
day he appears.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
That comes your way at three point thirty.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
James Palmer, who was with us before Chiefs Texans Part
one back in December, he will now be with us
for Chief Texans More Important Part two. He will join
us at four o'clock and again into a huge aspect
of the game coming up on Saturday. It gets this
three point thirty. We need to talk about next The

(12:14):
A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety The A Team
continues on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Ninety eighteen Wednesday edition of the program.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
We's back in the Saddle as we take you until
six o'clock tonight. Some of the things that over the
past two days we've discussed, just as far as the Texans,
you know, coming out of that playoff victory. Channel Romans
in on Monday is all about it because he watches
a ton of football, believe it or not. I know
he's a baseball guy, but he was. It's just it's

(12:58):
so funny to see how these different coaches just react
to different things. Like the whole the whole situation with
Dallas right now is fascinating to me because you've never
heard anything like that from Micah Parsons all season long,
and now all of a sudden, Dad has gone anything like, what, oh,
you know, just how how much he's going to miss

(13:19):
his head coach that they were busy helping to get
out the door all year long.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
What do he say?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, I'd have to make sure we had the audio,
but I've heard the SoundBite for lack of it.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I haven't heard it.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
You haven't heard it. No, thanks for listening to the
Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
All.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
I kind of lock in on the local stuff. I
mean Houston sports. You know, I know, we are the
home of the Southwest, home of New York Yankees baseball.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
This is where wex gets but hurt because I mentioned somebody.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Doesn't Willian Right at the it says four to seventeen
PM Michael Parsons upset here we are. Well, I can't,
I can't, I can't handle this man. We got so
much stuff. You have to wait till four seventeen.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
So at four seven we totally botched the opportunity, the
only opportunity we're going to have during our sixteen segment
show to mention Deontay Johnson won't be catching any more passes.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
I know he probably got to it yesterday, but.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
It will be about as long as his Texans career
if we did.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Now in that instance, you could bring up the Matt
Thomas Show because the Deontay Johnson is a Texan absolutely
fits with his gimmick on the X platform.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
What was your favorite reception as a Texan? Well, then
you're pinpointing what it was. What was your favorite moment?
It could have been it it has to be the
favorite moment.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
No, my favorite moment was when he was in the
Texans locker room and we were talking to or the
media was there talking to him, and he talked about
how it's all team first here in Houston and he's
all about that, except he isn't about that at all,
not in Pittsburgh, not in Baltimore, not in Carolina, nor
in Houston, which is why he's not in any of
those places.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Anymore is and this is just it's not even inside baseball.
But you would under you'll understand when I explain here
you remember brand.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, let me see, I think I still have some
Brandon Tobman in the old.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Handheld phone device here video.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think I've deleted all the video, though it might
be in my cloud. I'm gonna say you have video
of the incident. I'm no, no, okay, video I'm referring to.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Oh there it is.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
It even pops up right there on the year he
was at h Remember he was at Garrett Cole's introductory
presser on at the day. It's at the podium at
the table Brandon Tobman. Why because I believe Jeff Luno
was not available.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
That would be the only reason you would have with
a Garrett and Brandon playing the role of the GM,
because he has the assistant.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
That's some video of Garrett talking. I don't I don't
know that I have any Tobman comments.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
He's the assistant to the regional manager.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, situation until he wasn't bad Beard, Yeah, very bad Beard.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
The reason I say that nice and Astros Orange not anymore.
I mean he probably still has it. Look at those guys.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Look there, I probably doesn't still wear it. I would
be showing the television audience, but they have not arrived
here're not here.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
So the reason I say that I was there, I
was in the clubhouse when that was happening. Had no
I had no idea. Did you know you didn't hear it? No,
because to read some of the stories that written about it,
he was screaming at the top of his lungs. Man,
I'm glad we got that up.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
In after talking to people and obviously reading a bunch
about it and talking to other people who were there,
just kind of understanding where it probably took place, which
is definitely what I expected us to be talking to
him my first day back.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
I'm going somewhere.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Don't worry that that type of atmosphere can lead you
to missing something like that. If something like that happens,
if a player and a reporter even raised their voices,
everybody's gonna hear it.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Garrett Cole not on this particular.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Gary Coles last night as an astro, I kind of
sort of heard it out of the side of my
ear that when he was protest, But yeah, but he
was protest again. Point, you're trying to make you would
think I would have heard that better. But what to
your other point, There's so much going on in there.
If you're not standing right next to the guy, you
still might miss it. I heard like remnants of it,

(17:07):
and then all of a sudden, you're talking to the
guy and I'm like, oh, he's wearn't a Scott Boris hat?
So this is classy? Where are you headed? The point
of all that is, it's even bigger in the newly
refurbished I mean relatively speaking, Texans locker room. That's the
first time.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I've seen it since I got remodeledness then that way
for several years. It's nice.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Uh, it's very nice. I was like, wait, where's the equipment? Oh,
it's now At the other end, I didn't see any
of that happening. And for the fact that Aziz au
Shaier and Joe Mixon were having to console him because.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
He was so upset about his role in the offense.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah, based on who I obviously was not there, Based
on who I talked to him, what's been written about
it sounds more like they were trying to make sure
that nothing that could be seen or heard would take place.
I don't think there's a whole lot of reporting going
on about it as it was taking place, because it's
just didn't seem as if it was going to reach

(18:02):
the point because they helped it not reach that point
to where later in the week we're gonna say, you're
gonna hear the text and say, yeah, it didn't work out.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
He's we're onto the chiefs. That's way too much. Demiko
didn't even say that much. That's literally what he said.
I mean, things didn't work out, We're onto the chiefs.
That's more like it. You used too many words the
first time. Yeah, it was just like, I mean, doesn't
surprise me at all.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
But I'm just like, man, like, you get nine lives
like this, that's why how do you do this? I
know this is why would you think you leopard spots change?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
But I mean, three of these four teams were talking
about Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Houston Panthers don't fit. They're all
almost assuredly going to be winning. As it turned out,
three of them, those three are in the playoffs. You've
been in the playoffs with Pittsburgh your whole career. You've

(18:54):
got an opportunity because you've been traded away from the
bad team Carolina to the team Baltimore. You're going to
the playoffs, you're playing on Lamar Jackson's team, and they
got you for a reason. Now, this is why we
have these issues. Not happy in Pittsburgh because he's not
seeing the ball enough. Not happy in Carolina because they're
not using him enough. When he thinks he's better than

(19:17):
everybody there, probably better than Adam Thielen, maybe better than
the younger players who hadn't proven anything yet, two of
whom have shown, Leggott and Cocher, they're very good. And
then the same thing in Baltimore, Well, why did they
trade for me because they've got to have me on
the field. They have injuries, they only have flowers, they're
not sure what they have at tight end with what
the injury, and you're still not using me.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Me me me me me, me me me.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
And then he comes here to Houston, same thing. They
have one established receiver that's a part of their offense,
and you're still not playing me more or throwing me
the ball more. And I do think there was one
other element of it, and I think John Alexander wrote
about it Aaron Wilson as well. I thought I was
seeing it happening, but I didn't have anybody to confirm
it with during the game. On two Nico receptions and

(20:03):
a third two, I can't remember who.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
I thought.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
He has to be running the wrong route. He is
completely in the way. He's bringing defenders into harm's way
for the intended target. That cannot That cannot be the
play design, and I went with the new guy. Probably
he doesn't know what he's doing. No offense to Deonta.
He happened to be the guy. It's not an easy situation,
but it definitely looked like that cannot be right. It

(20:27):
didn't hurt them, and they had completions on those plays,
and there might have been others, but yeah, this is
it's unfortunate because there's talent there, there's no question about it.
He can absolutely create separation. He's a plus player. But
if you can't trust him to be part of the team,
and my gosh, the culture here. That's one thing you
know about Dimiko's culture. It is team first. I mean,

(20:49):
we joked about Texans Worthy many many years ago. It
would still fit here. They don't use the same terminology.
Clearly say this say it. Yes, it's so obvious if
you're not with us. It's the same thing Tamiko said
on Monday about their defense and the swarm mentality. If
you're not about it, then you're not going to be

(21:10):
out there. That's what he means with a Deontay Johnson.
If you're not about what we do here, how we
are team a a team, we are team first, then
you're not a part of us.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
And he's not a part of them anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
By the way, I told you wide receivers were divas.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
He's seemingly kind of putting himself in a new class.
He's not doing anything to destroy the teams he's leaving.
He's just destroying his own opportunity to play football.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Most of the diva monikers you would assign or to
players that are so freaking good that they would get
away with some of this stuff. I didn't see Deontay
Johnson do all that much in any of these stops
to really. Yeah, his only productives.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Years were obviously with Pittsburgh, and now that was a
year ago and he's been on four different rosters. Getting
on the next roster, it will happen. But if he
hasn't been feared to Cleveland. That's where I would send
him because they're a match made in hell. I think
that I might have had him as like a flex
option on one of my championship teams, But at the
second I think I had him a couple of years.

(22:11):
And you can always like like like this year, Patrick
Mahomes was not a very good fantasy quarterback.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
He was fine, he just wasn't going.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Jared Goff ended up being a better option for me
from a fantasy standpoint. But you never would have even
thought of that even a year ago, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
No, but seeing how they performed over the course of
the year and maybe guessing on you know, some of
the maybe guessing Rashid Rice wouldn't be a huge part
of the offense because of legal problems. It turned out
he wasn't a part of the offense because of injury.
You didn't know what else would happen injury wise, and
it definitely impacted it. But there's not the same offense.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
And but Deontay fell off numbers wise, I could see
it like tangibly, and then you know, obviously all the
other stuff.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah, what I wanted to point out here was it's
a simple thing that I thought the Texans took great
advantage of against the Chargers, and I think the unfortunate
part is the Chiefs have an opportunity to take great
advantage of coming up on Saturday. You know, the Texans
went into NRG Stadium on Christmas Day and got their
clocks cleaned by Baltimore and then Will Anderson and many

(23:12):
other players. I bring up Will because he literally did
not even suit up for Tennessee, but many other players
barely played, played less than two series, played less than
a half, played only a half. So between December twenty
fifth and January eleventh, even though you just went through
three games in eleven days, you got a rested team.

(23:33):
Tell me you don't think the Texan defense and the
speed they were playing with didn't look rested. Aziz al
Shayer obviously fits in there also in that he had
even more rest than the other players. He barely played
in the final final game. He had rested and worked
out over the three weeks prior three games that he
had missed. That was a very very fresh team, both

(23:54):
offensive line and defensive defense in general. And obviously I
shifted over to Kansas City now because I would play
it exactly how they did. I am not playing my guys.
I'm never going to side with rest or rust over rest.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
It may play out that way.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll take it every time the Kansas City Chiefs lock
things up with weeks to go. They played Pittsburgh, they
dominated them same day, and then they didn't play against Denver,
and then they didn't have a game last week December
twenty fifth to January eighteenth. Pat Mahomes will shake off
the rust during the game, might be on his first pass.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Everybody else is very rusty towards Derek Stingley because facts
like that.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
They're so fresh and they're healthy er in general because
they got guys back and everybody else that was banged up.
They may still be banged up to a degree, but
they haven't been playing through it for a month.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is it to me.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
That is a.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Monster advantage that you just kind of have to face
when you're the team playing the only team that had
the off week, like the Texans are heading into Kansas City.

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Speaker 3 (26:03):
Sports Talks seven ninety is the best of X.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Where we perused the streets of the artist formerly known
as Twitter. We find funny things that are happening in
the sports world. Sometimes they're not funny, sometimes they're sad,
sometimes they're very serious. But something I saw last night,
and I think it was I knew I was gonna
draw a blank on his name. Who's the TNT analyst

(26:27):
that was wearing the blazer last night? That Dion Sanders
wanted a piece of Greg something or other.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, Cole Anthony's dad, I knew you would do that.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, Greg Anthony, mister, I hate the Houston Rockets. Wow,
well back in the day he did as a player.
Oh well, that's okay. Then, wasn't he the one that
was wanting to get into the game when Starks couldn't
shoot straight? And he had been earlier that year and
Riley was like he was chomping at the bit, frothing
at the mouth over on the bench because John Starks

(26:56):
was busy going two for eighteen in game seven? Am
I wrong on this? Or was it another play? It
wasn't Doc Rivers.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
What if it was, what would he be saying to Pat.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
Put me at the game.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
This guy gets shoot.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I can't believe he's still out there? What the hell?

Speaker 8 (27:08):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, See, I like when you you get to be
the wind up doll, because there's so many good things.
I'll have the greatest wind you up doll segment plan
for later today, especial.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Who uh, it's gonna be no wound up and you're
gonna be wound up your dance.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
You were going, oh my god, this is gonna be
the greatest dance you ever do for our listeners.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Roll on that Dan whenever it is.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
So.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Greg Anthony was ten of thirty one, one of eight
from Deep in the seven game series that they lost
to the run.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Those were his seven game numbers.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
How many minutes did he play?

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Eighty minutes? He got up thirty one shots.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh my gosh, and he was one for eight from distance,
and he was saying put him in.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
I mean Starks was at thirty seven percent. Greg was
at thirty two stars. Was awesome game, not a tough call.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Game six. He was hitting everything.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
So Greg Anthony was part of the broadcast team. He
was playing the role of Mike Furteller next to iin Eagle.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
I don't think so, I know what a slip screen is.
So they were doing the game.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Last night television broadcast of NBA basketball, Jared Greenberg was
handling the sideline reporting duties and the transportation duties of
the garment in question.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well, Prime, who's all over the news right now for
various reasons. We'll get to those.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
I thought. He said, no, well, but go ahead. Discussions
are ongoing.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
But they were ongoing last night because he tweeted, you
know something to the effect.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Of I need that blazer that at Greg Anthony fifty
has on tonight on at NBA on TNT.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, see this is where first world takes it to
another level because I guarantee you I dare on to
you did. If Greg Anthony's on TNT, if he doesn't
have a wardrobe per dim or stipend or whatever they
call it these days, then he just went out and
bought something nice himself because he's made good money.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
That's just these guys, what these guys do.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Calvin Murphy has a place that custom makes his custom
made from head to toe. He's like the nature boy.
But I guarantee you this is not a cheap item.
That's what I'm getting at. So when Prime is like,
I gotta get that, I need that thing, and his
son is literally sitting a few seats down because when

(29:30):
the TNT set makeshift whatever you want to call it,
is in town, they literally take out seats from the
court side, which, by the way, I wonder if TNT
like gives the ownership a piece of that. Do you
ever think about that those seats go for uze you
out of seats well paying customers ferry.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
The TNT or ESPN national set is basically where four
seats would be five, six, probably a few more, and
it's where the fertita's seats are.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Court side seats at any NBA game, They're not cheap.
So anyway, plenty of all this is. That's how close
he is to Shadur Sanders, who's sitting just down the way.
And so the aforementioned sideline reporter Greg hands him his jacket, says, hey,
you probably will see Prime before I will next go
ahead and give it to him because I saw his tweet.

(30:20):
It's just you can see Shadur is like, wait what,
he's getting an explanation.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
I think he said, say what. He's like what, and
then he hands with the jacket he kind of gets
and he puts it behind him to Prime's tweet that
I read to you. Obviously, there's some responses to it.
Cover City, said Shadur in Dallas, Prime at Jerry's World
next Cowboys head coach.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh yeah, we should mention that it was in Dallas
where this was taking place last night exactly.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
So I just hope they make it in silver and blue.
It actually did look like something you could have worn
to your introductory press conference.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
As new Vegas Raider, or.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Or if it was blue and silver, maybe you could
have had had it on deck when he signed that
extension that everybody loves right now.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Your buddy, Don said, I'll buy you one if you
take the job in Dallas.

Speaker 8 (31:13):
Don.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Who It's just that's just handle Oh your buddy Don, Yeah,
that's what he got. I mean I thought it was
like Don Henley or something, Oh your buddy Don. I
know it's you couldn't follow along. It's so easy, is
Don on the phone? Yeah? Like it was just the
most hilarious happening in real time thing.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, because it was on X it was on all
sorts of so.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I actually saw it originally on Instagram, but it was,
you know, a reproduction of the whole you know, tweet
from from Prime. I just I thought it was hilarious
because it was all happening in real time and you're right,
Shadeur Sanders' face is like okay, wait what like okay?

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Also added a picture a gift with this line should
when they handed him the blazer, you could probably guess
the gift.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
You could probably guess the gift.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
It's a about a two second gift of a presidential
press conference, current presidential press conference.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
He's kind of looking around like, huh, what.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, there's a lot of those Eh yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Looks like you got a coach it's all you all
the time, got plenty more where that came from. If
you become our head coach, Like is meteoric a rise
as this might be. And you can't speak for all
Cowboys fans. Doesn't seem like the majority fifty point one
percent would be against a Deion Sanders hire.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
They should. It's not gonna go well. There's gonna go
well for people like us.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Which which head coach that they've hired recently did it
go well for?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
It went well in the regular season for the guy
that they're getting rid of.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
As you like to say, that's pretty irrelevant. Like Mike
McCarthy's winning is clear. He won a bunch of regular
season games. They had some wins with Jason Garrett, terrible postseasons.
You know, Wade Phillips time there was much better than
people think it was. But there wasn't sees the success
to go with ourselves. I mean basically, what did they
do right? I mean they fumbled a snap. I always

(33:07):
want to say, well, what did they do after Jimmy left? Well,
I mean Barry Switzer would still be the answer. But
Campo and Gaily and on and on and on and
you I mentioned.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
A few others. It's just it won't go early. Piss
off Astros fans. Barry Switzer, Dusty Baker, same guy.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yes, that would that should which actually you should include
more than just Astros fans. I would probably include everybody. No,
could not be further away from that. Literally, like the
did absolutely nothing in the NFL his whole life. Ever,
Dusty not the same, well, not even close.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm just talking about the role they played on a
very talented roster, having a championship for.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Four straight years. Yep, totally the same. So I'm with
you now now that you've explained it to me, I'm down.
Barry Switzer, Dusty same I just like to troll the
Dusty enthusiasts every now and again, But why because they
get sold was win.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's all he did.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
That's all he did. Yes, that's all that's all they did.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Well he was here, no hell won same number of
titles after him, I mean, in not the same number
of years. But making a point, all he did was
win here all he won everywhere until he didn't and
then he finally won here. Literally won everywhere. Yes, exactly
five straight times. He said, you want to go to
the playoffs in baseball where it's hard to come on along,

(34:26):
I'll get you there every single time.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
As we're talking in the middle of this segment about
coaches who had great regular seasons and then flamed out
in the playoffs, like Dusty did a lot before he
got here.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Also in the World Series.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
I mean that's I mean, which of these Cowboys coaches
flamed out in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Down to the point, but they were still on the
playoff stage where other teams weren't because they had beaten
them in the regular season.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
All it took was one non playoff season for Jerry
to say, oh my god, get this guy out of here.
They went to the NFC title game the first year,
he won the Super Bowl. Next year, hold on, I
went back to the playoffs the following year and won
a game.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
But oh my god, you're six and ten. Bye, give
me that. Not That non playoff year also happened to
coincide with his last year of his contract, conveniently enough,
Like like Mike McCarthy, that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm talking about Mike McCarthy. He coincided with you.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'm talking about Barry Switzer.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I'm already moved on from that that was such a nothing.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Burger, every bite of it. Barry Switzer out there, Yeah,
oh it is.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Easy, so easy. You're rusty because of all the rest
you've had. You're like the chiefs, all the rest I've had. Yeah,
two days, I guess, well, and that's on you if
you want to put all that Oh my gosh, all right,
we will on.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
The injury report with parenthesesus' rest. Like Nico Collins, I
d n P the show two days. Well, we don't
know that he did that to day. He might have
practiced today.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
He might have We don't know yet, though, No, we
don't until the injury report comes out, which he is
not in. And he looked very healthy on Saturday night
after he had a franchise record performance.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Way to go, franchise, one hundred and twenty two yards.
I love Nico Collins.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
I haven't even told you about the best part of
an interaction I had with him before he started talking,
but I will when we come back.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
And there are the rumblings.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
About the officiating crew for this weekend's game, so we'll
talk about that too when we return.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Where are you watching the game on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Are you going to one of the thirteen convenient locations
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Speaker 1 (37:32):
The A team continues on Sports Talk seven nineties.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
It is the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's
do something crazy. You ready, you did it all this
week without me? Nope, not at all. Well, I take
that back. Aaron Wilson did call the Shawn Monday, but
he's aware of that. Yeah, let's take a call from
a listener. Yeah, and it's not it's not to insult Biscuit,
but he doesn't cover the teams. Just trust I said different,

(38:11):
different can be good. Let's go to the phones. Yeah,
ninety Biscuit, what's up?

Speaker 7 (38:16):
Man?

Speaker 11 (38:18):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, Glad just squeezed me in here. Hey, I'm
with you, man, that was a bad analogy with Dad Clinton.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I don't have a Schnauser could have won the World Series.
I'm just tweak in him. You guys know that.

Speaker 11 (38:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, let me ask you this man,
and this is uh.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
I'm curious what your response is.

Speaker 11 (38:37):
I got a multiple choice question for you, and being
at the Texas had just recently played the Chiefs, was
maybe gonna be four weeks coming to Saturday.

Speaker 10 (38:47):
Yeah, who do you think.

Speaker 11 (38:48):
Is the bigger beneficiary of that recent plane to make
the adjustment?

Speaker 7 (38:53):
A Andy Reid, b Demiko c.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
Slowick or the Spagnolia Who do you think by seeing
the other team it is gonna make the bigger adjustment
to me is that's gonna be kind of the key
of the game. And one last thing is the matchup
I'm watching and I think it's gonna be key in
the game is Number four on d Hop. I think

(39:20):
it's gonna be two or three occasions in the game
where it's gonna be thirty six or third and five
and Number four keep d Hop from getting that first
down because he's physical just like four.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
So that's gonna be interested to watch for me, those
are a couple.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Of really great angles to take that we should be
talking more about. Will save the Hopkins Lasseter situation for later,
because your other point is unfortunately a major major factor
in the game. You're basically saying Andy Reid versus Demiko
Ryans literally, that's the offensive play call in the defensive
play car they're going head to head in this game.

(39:53):
That matchup matters. I think we have great respect for
both of them. I think we recognize that Tomiko is
probably beyond his years and how he's adapting its defense,
how he's making calls, how he's fooling offenses, and clearly
Andy Reid needs no hyping. He's phenomenal. And then the
other matchup is Steve Spagnolo and Bobby slowk. I mean
it sounds like that's a clear advantage on paper in

(40:18):
theory to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, the answer to his first question is always Andy Reid.
Anytime Andy Reid is in a group of those types
of people and you're asking who the eventage, it's always
Andy Reid.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
And in this situation, evil genius.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, maybe more so than his decade plus in Philadelphia.
While his quarterbacks were clearly very good, he didn't have
Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Then he does.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Now whatever adjustments he needs to make, whatever plays that
they need to go through, whatever stuff they want to
do during the week, it doesn't even matter at some
point because this guy's going to do something for you.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Oh that didn't work. None of my reads were open.
I have nowhere to go.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
The guys missed their blocks, all right, I'll just outrun
somebody for another tenth of a second and get to
the first down stick, or I'll throw it out of it,
or I'll throw it where only Travis Kelsey, who's fallen down,
can pick it out. Are some agp Ryn if you
don't recall that ridiculous floated oops. I'll throw it over
the defense. My receiver will get up because he's already

(41:13):
fallen down. I threw it while he was on the ground,
and he was able to get up and go catch
the ball and continue moving the change. That's the ultimate
advantage beyond all the ones you mentioned. But being in
this that is Andy Reid's quarterback, for him calling the offense,
that's probably where the advantage even in game lies the greatest.
But Spagnolo v. Slowck again, in theory, that's a Spagnolo advantage.

(41:38):
So those are two oop I don't know how they
beat them kind of thing. But they had all these
advantages most games all year, and Kansas City found a
way to win in the end games that they in
years past would have dominated teams with. They just simply
that's just not how they play football. So far throughout
this year, we'll see what it takes for the Texans.
I do have one or two important things they must do,

(42:01):
and we'll revisit the other point that Biscuit made as
we get to three o'clock.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety two. Lifelong Houston
Sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series, Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
A I wonder if it looked on camera like we
were planning for something in the future. We were talking
about it and I was gesticulating wildly, and that was
on camera, So I'm hoping that was the case. Hey,
Space City Home Network viewers, welcome in to our number
two of the A Team here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Of course, those of you listening have been hearing us
talk all about the Texans. Biscuit called in last segment

(42:49):
and actually dragged up something that is going to come
up later in the show as I don't want to
say it's a key, but it certainly is a reminder
of how, in my opinion, this is far beyond just
oh well, CJ would take the next step forward as
a cornerback and Dimiko would have a feather in his cap,
and the organization would be where they've never been before.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
If the Texans upset the Chiefs at Arrowhead this weekend?

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Was it not brought up to CJ that very fact
yesterday and he's like, I, I didn't even realize that.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Well, see, that's the beauty of You know, ignorance is
bliss in that regard.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
And there's a difference between being focused like they are
and focused like the Chiefs are because a couple of
things were brought up that was brought up to CJ.
And he wasn't aware. Well that's team history, right, that's
not his history. He hasn't been through the man. I
can't believe we keep losing in the divisional round. Well,
he's been there once, he lost once.

Speaker 8 (43:42):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
I wouldn't call that keep losing.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
And in Mahomes case and Andy Reid's case, there was
a difference this week when they're asked, you're trying to
do something nobody's ever.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Done before your team.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
You two guys and another twenty five to thirty players
on this team. Now you're just trying to beat the
Tech since on Saturday your first playoff game, but it's
the first step in this season's attempt to win a
third straight Super Bowl. Their history is literally these players
in this particular team's history. The Texans not ever advancing
the AFC title game is the franchise's history. It's not

(44:17):
CJ's history, it's not Will Anderson's history.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Well, that's That's why it's interesting when the SoundBite is
slugged that CJ hopes to make it to first AFC
Championship game.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Well, who's he talking about?

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Let's see, is he talking about him individually or the franchise?

Speaker 9 (44:33):
You know, I didn't know that, you know, but I
think I'll be a huge accomplishment. And you know, this
team are really motivated to, you know, go up there
and play some good ball. And you know, great Catas
fifty team has been in these moments forever. So you
know it's we that's gonna take all of us. I'm
gonna take a lot of you know, execution and you know,
get that done. So gotta be on that game, all right.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
So CJ's too nice to say this. If I were
CJ and I was the quarterback of the Texans and
I didn't know that and somebody asked that question, my
answer would sound something like this.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
These guys have been around since two thousand and two
and they haven't even made it past the divisional round.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
That is so pathetic. I'm making this happen.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
They're not even the only franchise that hasn't been to
the Super Bowl. So we have the playoffs this year.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Who are how many are left? Not many? Four?

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Believe that's correct Jags, but not in the playoffs, it's
correct answer. Not the team that expanded into the league
with them. Obviously. The Panthers have played here can the
super Bowl and lost and have been to the Super
Bowl with Cam.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yeah, that the first time when they played it was
obviously the beginning of a dynasty of Jake colome Texans
legend Jake Colomee. Yes, stop it, I know this should
be obvious.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Well, the obvious one is Dan Orlovsky's more famous former teams,
the Lions, right back of the end zone, just like CJ. No,
not just like CJ. Very different than CG. He was
running for his life, where Dan was just like people
trying to compare those two. Whoever they are.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Hands That sounds like I renumber one? Yeah, who is
number four?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Is it obvious? Oh?

Speaker 3 (46:17):
It's just some other team. I think they call Cleveland home.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I was gonna say the Browns, but I was like,
there's no way I thought Jim Brown won a Super
Bowl or something like that. I don't know, not really important.
There's no way you were headed that way be brought
up CJ being unaware and saying that they need to
bring their A game to the Chiefs game. Yes, and
and by the way, since we're on the subject of it,

(46:43):
the other thing that he talked about, and this is
very way more pertinent than stupid franchise historical non facts
or I guess facts that nobody cares about it. I
guess it's the best way to say. You're seeing the
Chiefs for the second time in as many months. You're
seeing them where you're gonna have as I is al
Shaier playing for you on defense, and again I cannot
like everybody's talking about, Oh, Chris Jones is gonna be

(47:04):
well rested, he is the defensive nine. Well, you're going
to see the case and I wish people talk like
that more. You're gonna see AZ's al Shair if you're
Patrick Mahomes and listen, I'm just gonna say it now.
If Mahomes does his thing that he does, and you
know what I'm talking about, especially near the sideline where oh,
I'm gonna do a little figure, he will get knocked

(47:26):
the bleep out and his'z al Shaire will probably be
arrested and taken away from the stadium in a paddy
wagon if it happens, and probably they'll be pelting the
field with things.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
But if it's Mahomes v.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Al Shaire near the sideline, there's gonna be a business
decision made by both men.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
I mean, there's sixty maybe sixty five seventy coming up
in this game for the Chiefs on offense.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
But only one's gonna knock Mahomes. I'm so sure this
is happening because.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
He does it a lot. Mahomes does what games on
the ground.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, but the sideline, no, no, no, no, no, no no, it's
how he gains them, and it's how he and oh,
there's not the only one that does this takes advantage
of how the rules are currently written.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
If you're gonna give yourself.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Up, give yourself non slide related correct is just at
the sideline.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
That's on you to make the right decision. I know
what you being who the defense is, that's easy.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
But see when whether you're that bounds or you're not
out of bounds, you can pretty much figure that out.
Like Azaz was involved in this exact play against the Bears,
I know, unflagged and non illegal. He hit him in
bounds because Williams didn't get out of bounds.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
And then he got fined for it anyways, because he
punched a guy. Well that's that's this minor details. You
think it fine for the hit, but when you but
when you say it's easy, I can't disagree with you.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
More than a slide, much easier than a slide.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
But we all know Mahomes is gonna fake a slide,
more fake and shook, and then he's gonna standish heat.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
I'll go out of my way here to say I
will I'm happy to wigh.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
And you know, fake money.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
If you'd want to box cheese, it's a silver dollar,
a two dollars coin.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
That coin.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Don't fake a slide in this game. How about a
two dollar bill? Whatever you want?

Speaker 8 (49:09):
I mean this.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
What about a box of cheese? It's okay, the last
box I got. There's bad boxes and good boxes, you
know that, right, all right?

Speaker 4 (49:17):
You're the box with the huge bag or the box
with forty two mini.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Bags family size, so you want just the one. If
you get a normal sized check to put.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Them in a lunch or anything, you're trying to eat
them all in one sitting.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
If you had if you gave me a regular, non
family sized box of cheese its and say, all right,
you're gonna snack right now for whatever setting this is,
you know, the weekends when I cheat, it's not I'm
not putting it back in the pantry.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
It's gonezo. Man, It's just a matter of how long
it takes.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
And I don't care if it's bad for me, and
I don't care if there's products in it that are
not in the European version of it where there's dies
and probably in all these like fifty consonant words that
are in there that are bad for you, that are carcinogens.
I don't care. It tastes good. And here's the thing.
There's bad boxes and good boxes. And the people need
to know this. By the way, clearly the last box

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I got might have been a top five all time.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Do you know what makes a good box of cheese?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
It's if the salt particles have go to the bottom. Listen,
you do not make some sort of snack food that
is salt related and then don't put salt on it.
And I know from the first bite I take when
I open one of those things whether or not it's
going to be a good box or a bad box.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
So if you see someone at the store or the
warehouse club and they've grabbed the big box that has
maybe the two big bags in it, and.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Well that's the costco version that a category in the box.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
You know they're ruining the box. Is that what you're
trying to say? Because they're knocking all the salt off
the individual.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Pieces of Because a good box of cheese, its the
salt stays on there, all right. But I'll say this,
on average, when I go get them at the place
that schmashmo, I love it when I steal.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
That bit and you hate it worst bit, it's the
best bit.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I mean, I didn't have to I said it. I
didn't have to. On average, those double bagged boxes are
usually good boxes overall. Whereas lottery, if you go to HEB,
it's a total lottery, it's a total.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
What well, they do offer you more options, Hebb. Would
that be better if you're looking for the parmesan version?

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Maybe no, don't.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Waste your time with all that. And and white cheddar
can absolutely go to hell. Disgusting.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yep, Texas Chiefs, It's gonna be awesome. I wish they
were playing in the cheese At Bawl. Yeah, they're not
playing the Packers. Why why can't they be in the
cheese a Bowl? I need to attend today? These two teams.
Why can't you hope that the Owls, the Cougars, the Horns,
the Aggies, but gets to the cheese at bowls.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Kill two birds with one stone the football team I
root for the most. I would like them to play
in the cheese At Bowl so that I could kill
two birds with one stone. Just have my favorite snack
and then they you know, they're bathing in it after
the game and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
That's more pop tart thing, but it could happen.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Another very good snack food with horrible products in it
for you, but.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
It tastes good. What's your favorite one? Brown sugar, cinnamon.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Really, I did not take a little heat it up
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
You got a second favorite, probably strawberry frosted something like that.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Cherry frost is number one, but blueberry is underrated. I
haven't been in the house in a long time, though,
so I don't eat them very often.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Who's in charge of getting that kind of stuff?

Speaker 2 (52:27):
You or her?

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Either I mean we'll go together, or she'll go or
I'll go.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
We all do. I'm guessing you'll be the next one
to go to the grocery store. I'll definitely be driving.
Do it, Okay, get pop tarts and cheese. It's and
I want to picture. But what am I social media
for dinner?

Speaker 3 (52:44):
I don't know. I see what you did there, I
would do that, all right.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
So anyways, the Texans and the Chiefs this weekend and
the fact that they the Texans have seen them once.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
I know the Chiefs have seen them too. That's how
this works.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah, I wanted to point out the Chris Jones nonsense.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Why is it nonsense? He's rested.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Yeah, from the people who think that's who they have.
That's the guy. Take care of him. You're good to go.
Their defense is better than it's been throughout this run.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
He had four quarterback hits on CJ.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
Stroud back on December twenty first, the same number as
the guy at the other end of the line. Jones
does line up inside quite a bit, but George Carlaftes
also four quarterback hits. Great late first round selection by
the Chiefs. As per usual, we talk about Baltimore all
the time.

Speaker 7 (53:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
The Lions quite a bit. Who's the running back again
the Chiefs Checko. Wasn't he the last pick of the
first round of the draft that he was taken in?

Speaker 3 (53:42):
That was Edwards hilairecheck He was a sixth rounder.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
They pulled the spurs. They do a great job with
what they have at their disposal. While they keep winning,
while they keep landing bad draft picks because of how
late they are in every round, they keep finding players.
It's a very very well run team who's managed to
keep a ton of talent on their roster while also
paying a ton of talent on their roster, like Jones
Kelsey and Brittany Mahomes husband.

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Speaker 2 (55:23):
Have ever told you how happy I am that we
are on Space City Home Network. Now it's awesome. I
get more compliments about the simulcast, not about me. They
all look at you and they're like, A, how is
that good looking guy you do the show with? And no,
but people in all seriousness.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Everything, Okay, I noticed you weren't on TV today.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Ew, why is Blum on?

Speaker 2 (55:44):
That's like Blum talking about Blum. Did you know Chandler
Rong was killing it with Blum impressions?

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Was that during the segments that were aired on TV
or radio or during the time where commercials were playing
during both?

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Okay, because I told him, I said, you know, between
years impression of Blum in my impression of callous, we
could probably do an ending together of like Mystery Science
Theater three thousand, but it's it's those two guys. We'll
have to make that happen this year. I think he
would totally be down for that. Sounds good. Chandler loves
being a gimmick. No, he's really good at it. So anyways,

(56:22):
really quick, I wanted to uh, I wanted to play
this SoundBite from CJ about the uh the fact that
essentially you're playing them for a second time, but it's
a totally different like you were talking about Chris Jones
and the rest of the defense. That's good, by the way,
the defense better than the offense for the Chiefs this year,
fair or not very fair, okay, because the offense sucks.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
In relative to what they have been.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
That's the second part of the that's the context. Yeah,
I mean, what was what was the peak of their
powers fifteen sixteen, whenever it was they won the first one.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
I mean, they've had some five hundred point seasons, so
I think two they had one.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Well, they scored this year two hundred seem like it's
saying they I think saying they stink is probably a
little bit much.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
All I know is that there was no fifty burgers
being put up by Mahomes on Fantasy.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
There was a point made here that the Texans scored
the exact same number of points as their opponents. The
Chiefs outscored their opponents over sixteen games by just sixty
points because I'm going to account for the fact that
they gave up thirty eight in their finale and where
nobody played, where nobody played, so they ended up outscoring

(57:35):
their opponents literally for the numbers sixteen season.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
It's just just what we're used to.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Wasn't a massive number, but it still was a pretty
healthy we're going to win the division number because teams
scored two hundred and ninety points against them through sixteen games.
Because their defense was not only better, but better than
they have been. It's it's kind of the same thing
they've got, you know, two footballs and offensive football and
a defensive football, and you put them on the scale.
Most of Mahomes years, the football that he's holding was

(58:03):
way down below because it was super heavy and full
of all those points and the defense. And it's just
kind of fluctuated a little bit as Spagnolo's really gotten
into the personnel that they have. You know, we obviously
mentioned Jones and Carlaftis. We could easily mention any of
their linebackers Bolton specifically, and on the back end when
they're at their healthiest with McDuffie leading the way, this

(58:26):
is an elite player at every spot and other very
good players.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Before we hear from Bobby Slowick on the aforementioned Chris
Jones and the entire defensive unit, but he talked about both.
You know, I'm being fair and balanced like you are.
This was CJ talking about seeing the Chiefs for the
second time and again it is in as many months,
but I think it's very different with the rest that
the Chiefs have had, plus the fact that ziz Al

(58:51):
Schaier wasn't there, and the Texans are coming off arguably
considering the stakes, their best defensive performance of the season
not named Detroit in the first half when I said
they peaked the full game, Yeah, they came back though
that I think they might have peaked this weekend.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Maybe the peak is coming up on Saturday. But either way,
it's about seeing this Chiefs squad for the second time
this year.

Speaker 9 (59:13):
Yeah, you definitely got to go back and you know,
see you know, things that work, things that didn't work,
you know, And I think that definitely helps playing them
so recently. But you know, they also have that advantage
as well, so you know, we got to be able
to you know, still have a new game plan and
do things that are you know, new, and but yeah,
it definitely does help to see a familiar team again.

(59:34):
And you know, they're you know, they do a lot
of great things, and you know, we didn't really see
a whole bunch of it, I think of their exotic things,
so you know, I wouldn't be surprised if that stuff
started to show up. So yeah, but it definitely does
help that we've seen them not too not too long ago.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Yeah, hopefully there isn't too much exotic stuff because that
likely means the fastest player on the field would be involved.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Xavier Worthy.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
I did enjoy the fact that there's some sort of
chip commercial that I just saw featuring the Super Bowl experts. Oh,
since you guys have been there so much, why don't
you help us out in grading out these commercials for
the Super Bowl? And Xavier Worthy was one of the
players chosen for it. Create Humphrey Mahomes Chris Jones their mascot.
They were there too. They have been too many Super Bowls,

(01:00:16):
all of them. Xavier hasn't been any He's just new
to the team. Thought it was an odd choice, but
just as an aside, we were talking about their offense
as a whole, the team that did not reach the
Super Bowl when they lost to Joe Burrows Bengals, or
excuse me, the team that did not reach the super Bowl.
In mahomes first year, that was number one in the

(01:00:38):
NFL at offense five hundred and sixty five points in
sixteen games. That's the most they've ever had. Each of
the four years that followed they had at least four
point fifty. This year they had three eighty five. That's
one hundred and eighty fewer points in the five Mahomes offense.
Because it was in the same number of games. They
didn't have any points in their last game teen games

(01:01:00):
in his first year as a starter and this most
recent year as a starter, they had a one hundred
and eighty point dropoff from arguably the greatest offense ever
to an offense that was fifteenth in the league this
year in points mediocre and sixteenth in yards and in
a lot of different areas they were pretty mediocre. So
like I said, I wouldn't call them awful, I wouldn't
call them bad. They just look bad compared to where

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they've been number one offense the NFL two years ago,
now back to back years as the fifteenth highest scoring team,
but in both of those years where they finished fifteenth
in points. Last year, in this year, they were top
five defensively. Never been top five defensively with Pat Mahomes's
quarterback until last year and this year.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Where are the Texans defense? Where is that rank? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
See that's why some of these numbers and I points
per game is not necessarily like the Texans game yesterday
or this past weekend, their points per game was eleventh,
the Chargers was first, Right, how did that work out
for whole week? Trying to see say, look at these areas,
the Texans are better than them here. They're better than
than there. They're better here. They were better in way

(01:02:06):
more places. But the reason they finished eleventh and the
Chargers finished first is because of what happened inside the twenty.
The Chargers were probably the best team in the NFL
combined in a gold to go situation defensively or in
the red zone. They were first in one third in
the other. The Texans were at the bottom of the
league in both categories. That was the difference. And guess

(01:02:27):
what the Chargers did in the red zone against the Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
They never got there. That's how you avoid falling into
that trap. You don't let them get there. They turned
them over four times, which is something they did most
of the season. The better competition they played, the fewer
turnovers they forced, and that was at play against the
Chiefs zero turnovers forced against the Ravens zero turnovers force.
And look what happens when you force four turnovers. They

(01:02:51):
have a hard time putting points on them. They scored
on an eighty six yard touchdown and two early field goals.
Those are all their points for the whole day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Before we get to Bobby's slog on defense and uh,
the Wexler research team. If we can squeeze all this
in this segment. Do you I know he's a friend
of the show because he's been on the show before.
Do you follow Mark schal Earth.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
I probably don't.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Otherwise I'd probably see more of his stuff, but I
usually see it when it's there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Did you see what he happened to tweet during the
Texans Chargers game over the weekend. The only reason I.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Asked this is because I reacted.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I'm gonna guess that he's not just for his own
personal history.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
I hope he's not. He's like anti Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
He wasn't he should be. Well, he's a Bronco, he's
he's coming off as anti Texan.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Okay, what he said with these two back to back.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
So during the game after the turnover, the Chargers need
to put a scoring drive together. Their offense has been abysmal,
you know, like just they showed up and they weren't
playing very well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
And I of course needed to educate him, right, why
are you crushing him?

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
I said, was their offense has been abysmal because Houston
has been and it's kitchen all afternoon. I was just
putting some fact out there I wasn't mean I like
Mark slaiv.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Maybe you were trying to get him to respond with
some sort of oh so, have you tried my sau
so yet?

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
There in my kitchen, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
So today, just now, I believe Travis Kelcey will be
unleashed in all caps in the playoffs. Here's why I'm
buying all my Kelsey stock now. And then he fixes
a YouTube video of him I'm sure, talking about how
Taylor Swift's boyfriend is going to go off against the
Texans defense or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Well, you've been with me enough of these.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
We go to the championship game in the conference every year,
we go to the super Bowl practically every year. Travis
Kelcey is, without a doubt, the best playoff tight end
in NFL history, better than anybody else you want to
bring up, including Gronk Gonzales, anybody else, No debate for me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
He's been unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
He's going into the playoffs this year off a very
different travel Kelsey season, though, So I do side with Schlereth,
but it won't shock me if he doesn't. He's been
so good, he stepped up his game, he's looked for
more often.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
He's trusted so much.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
He and Mahomes have been in this offense way longer
than everybody else. That stuff usually matters on playoff game days.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
I just hope. I don't even think there's not one
guy that I fear on the Chiefs other than Patrick Mahomes.
You know, it's not because of those seasons past we're
talking about. That's why they were putting up the numbers
they were. Travis Kelsey was a video game.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
What I keep talking about is the Derrick Henry Lamar
Jackson combination. I'm not again, I'm not sitting here saying
all Texans are winning this game. I just feel better
about this particular matchup, this particular year than maybe I
ever would have given the same circumstances.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
All Right, We will continue here on a Wednesday edition
of The A Team Sports Talk seven ninety. We will
hear from Bobby Slowick talking about that defense that the
Texans are going to go up against and more. As
we continue here on a Wednesday edition of the program.

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Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Who's winning five straight?

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
Tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Wex well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
The Nuggets and the Rockets are both in the same
boat the first meeting of the season. They'll play three
times this year. The Nuggets and the Rockets is the
best basketball the Nuggets have played all year. And yes
they're on a four game winning street coming off of
a forty five point performance from Jamal Murray. Rockets coming
off a forty two point performance from Jalen Green. There's
four players in the NBA averaging thirty points per game

(01:07:29):
this month.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
He's one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Jalen's been phenomenal and they've needed it, and it's pretty
awesome that each of their last two games are wins
against the team right behind him in the standings. Well,
they can help make sure Memphis stays right behind them
in the standings by beating Denver, so Denver doesn't potentially
catch them this evening. Memphis is also playing. They've got
San Antonio tonight. It was a pretty good situation for

(01:07:52):
the Rockets. They keep distancing themselves from any team that's
not playing great basketball right now, and Memphis isn't, and
the Rockets keep eating them. Denver is so they're keeping pace.
Pretty much everybody else is either much much further behind
or is falling much further behind. It's also the first
night of a back to back for the Rockets. They
are in Denver tonight and then they have the Kings

(01:08:13):
tomorrow night. We found out earlier today a back to
back is now on their schedule. The postponed game between
the Rockets and the Hawks from the eleventh has been
rescheduled for the twenty eighth.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
It's back to back for both teams.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
The Hawks will be in Minnesota the night before, the
Rockets will be playing in Boston the night before, so
we'll see what the Rockets have in store for them then.
But this opening night of the back to back, as
we mentioned, is against Denver, and we also mentioned earlier.
We like to bring you a little bit of conversation
emy Udoka had with Matt Thomas and Ross on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross earlier today, and that's where

(01:08:49):
things start with em Udoka talking about the Rockets the
Nuggets being on a back to back.

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
Yeah, they had a good back to back against Dallas.

Speaker 12 (01:08:57):
Obviously played really well last night, been playing well lately,
eight one, eight out of the last ten. You know,
had some lumps early with some guys in the out
of the lineup, and others are stepping up now.

Speaker 8 (01:09:08):
So it will be a good challenge for us tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
Hey, great wins against Memphis. Your last two games, uh,
sixteen to thirty one from three point range, and.

Speaker 8 (01:09:16):
Obviously that's happened a lot so far this year.

Speaker 6 (01:09:20):
How good was it to feel that to see the
guys not only getting those shots, getting the open looks,
the extra pass, but knocking them down as well.

Speaker 8 (01:09:28):
That was great.

Speaker 12 (01:09:28):
I think, you know, a lot of these teams are
packing the paint, you know, when Edi is out of
the game or certain guys, they try to protect the
paint by committee and us being unselfish, you know, getting
the paint touches, kicking out the wide open shots is
a good recipe for us. But then just like that,
we had guys attacking down He'll get into the basket.
So it was a nice mix of all those things,
getting to the free throw line as well and making

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them at a higher clipp in Memphis, and had the
guard in the fourth quarter to get back in.

Speaker 13 (01:09:53):
It feels like we talk about him in Thompson every
week on this show, and we're gonna do it again
with him. The starting lineup in lieu of Jabari Smith Junior.
I guess philosophically, I was wondering how it was gonna
fit with the lack of shooting, but it has worked
and the offense has been really good.

Speaker 12 (01:10:10):
Why is that, Well, we have a lot of our
really good shooters in the first group anyway, so although
Jabbari is not there, we get at a different at
a different rate. I guess he's handling a lot more.
Fred is being the recipient off ball. Obviously, Jalen shooting
the boxtremely well, and then Dylan's one of our most consistent,
so we still have the shooting there. We just have

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another pace we can play out with him in the lineup. Obviously, defensively,
we're gonna not gonna have any drop off with them
in in there. It actually gives us more versatility to
put him on some guys that we would traditionally put
Dylan on, and dealing can guards some of the biggs
and take care of those actions. And then, like I said,
he's just getting other guys going in pace and transition.
He's another guy that can break down the defense and

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make passes, and so a.

Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
Lot of guys are benefiting from him being on lineup.

Speaker 13 (01:10:56):
Last six games, thirty points on average from Jailing Green.
What's working for him and it feels like we've seen
these runs before.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
What does he need to do to sustain.

Speaker 12 (01:11:05):
Its confidence is aggressiveness, but not just settling for threes
or whatever the team was trying.

Speaker 8 (01:11:14):
To give him.

Speaker 12 (01:11:15):
He's still getting downhill, get into the basket, getting to
the free throw line eleven for eleven from the free
throw line last game, and then he's reading the defense
is better and making plays for everybody, and so all
those things on the offensive end are great. He's taking
the challenge defensively and had to put him on some
tough matchups over those games you mentioned and held up
really well there.

Speaker 8 (01:11:33):
And so just a combination of everything. Becoming a more well.

Speaker 12 (01:11:36):
Rounded player, competitive on both sides of the floor, but
ultra confident and aggressive on offense is always a good
thing for him.

Speaker 6 (01:11:43):
Fred has not had the type of shooting season I
think he would be happy about it as compared to
what he's done in the past. But there ben snights
where he's taken over games. Didn't shoot a lot against
Memphis a couple of nights back. Is that a hey,
I like you doing more distribution, get to other.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Guys the hot hand, or or is it did he
just he.

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
Has to free reign and he said, you know, want
a night like this, I gotta let the other guys eat.

Speaker 12 (01:12:07):
I think Fred is always gonna take what the game
gives him, and if it's a night where he has
to be a facilitator.

Speaker 8 (01:12:13):
And get everybody involved, he'll do that gladly.

Speaker 12 (01:12:16):
If teams are trying to take away Jalen and Alp
being some other guys and he has to score more.
He'll do that as well, and so you've seen that obviously.
But I think inserting them in into the lineup gives
us another ball handle that creates for everybody, and so
he's not getting the same amount of reps as he was,
you know, as far as the ball handling duty with
the Man and Jalen doing their part as well, and
I think he's totally fine with that.

Speaker 8 (01:12:34):
He guards certain guys.

Speaker 12 (01:12:36):
He guarded Band extremely well five points in the first
half and really well at their place, and so he'll
take on some certain certain matchups on that end. But
I think it's good for him to have a break
offensively at times and be a recipient of some of
those passes and plays that guys are making.

Speaker 8 (01:12:49):
And so whatever it's called upon, he'll he'll do.

Speaker 12 (01:12:52):
And obviously he saw him make a big three down
the stretch for us, and he's done that throughout the year.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
As a dinner last night with Ryan Hollins and he
was like, I love a man and Jalen are.

Speaker 8 (01:13:02):
On the floor at the same time.

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
And obviously, you guys chart every different possession, who's out
there for, how long is there? They play a lot
with each other, So maybe this just latest run is
not even worthy of note. But do you notice something
different when those two guys are each touching the ball
every trip down the floor, when they're on the floor
for a significant period of time together.

Speaker 12 (01:13:23):
Yeah, Well, before even before a men started starting, him
and Jalen, we're really good tandem on the floor together.
We have seen that that was a great trend for us,
and so it's just more of the same now that
they're starting together, playing more minutes together, and so we'd
like to pair them on the floor when a man
was coming off the bench. And like I said, they
compliment each other very well. Both guys get out in transition.

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High flyers can get out and run and push the pace.
But I think a man creates a lot of attention
for guys and he can make those passes, so he's
free ended up for Jalen, for Fred and some of
those guys. And that's why when you said a man
being on the line, we haven't really missed a beat.
Like he's gonna compliment guys on both sides of the
ball offensively. Beats about and plug him into any position.
He'll he'll make it work.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Yes he will.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Hewer told you how much I love the fact that
emy Udoka is the head coach of the Rockets right now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Uh yeah, many, many, many, many times.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Fred noteworthy last ten games shooting forty one percent from
behind the three point line. He may also mentioned he
had a big three in a lot of these games
the beginning of the year. Even when he was struggling,
he did seem to hit some key late threes, even
in games where you finish out and he was Sometimes

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it was his first shot that night. Sometimes absolutely his
first shot in Last Night for Sea Make. I guess
I should say first make didn't come until later in
the contest. But uh, just beyond the what he did
get into And I know Ryan's talked about it during
their game broadcast on Space City Home Network, and you
guys have as well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
I have as well with Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:14:56):
It's pretty obvious without looking at the numbers, how they're
playing and beyond the numbers, I mean, this is fun.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
I've said this from a network standpoint since e Maay arrived.
This is the type of team that you want fans
to watch play hopefully it's not a night where they
shoot thirty percent, jack up forty plus threes and here
in the last ten games, they don't have any of those.
But what they do have is Cam flying up and
down the floor, the defense getting after it, rim rattling

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from Jalen Amen, Cam, whomever. This is what you should
want people to watch. You want to promote NBA basket I.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Said it this morning on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
A Men Thompson's worth the price of admission every single night.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
More on the Rockets.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Plus you'll hear from Bobby Slowick on the Kansas City Defense.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Coming up next, the A Team On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (01:15:49):
There's a Space City Home Network's Todd.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Kallis, there's the A Team. You got him. It's Adam
Clinton and Adam Webfler. Clinton, stop impersonating me. On Sports
Talk seven ninety. Hey, team rolling along here on Sports
Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network. Good to hear

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Emai Udoka's thoughts heading into tonight's It's a pretty big
matchup by the way that nobody's really probably talking about
a because it's the NBA right now and it's January,
but b because when they do talk about the NBA,
it's always about this, that and the other. Like yesterday
Steph Curry's comments, everybody could not stop talking about that

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as far as in NBA circles, Oh my god, because
we're not at the beginning of anything in the NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
We're at the end of something. We're at the end
of Lebron's time or at the end of Steph's time.
As someone who matters from a win loss standpoint, they
both matter from the league and ratings and popularity for sure,
and they will for as long as they're in it.
But their teams don't. And the Lakers are closer to mattering.
But you can see why on a pretty regular basis,
they really don't matter because I don't know what kind

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of deal they could even consider putting together that would
change their outlook.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Now they're going to get Zion, have you heard that?

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Well, it's not that's and that prett how much that
would help them hardly at all because it won't play
well even if he does play. They're not losing because
they are not offensively gifted enough. They're losing because the
other team becomes one of the best teams in the NBA,
no matter who they are, Because they're playing the Lakers defense.
What the Spurs, the bleeping Spurs did to them in
the final quarter of their victory in a game they

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weren't winning. I mean, that's embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Well, I was told a generational talent, it's going to
absolutely win the next ten championships.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
So I just can't agree with you there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
But he wasn't even him.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
It doesn't even matter who the other team has. It's
that they get to play against the Lakers defense. It's
it's awful, which, by the.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Way, with Anthony Davis should not you shouldn't be able
to make that state.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
He's doing everything he can and sometimes, you know, you
can even win the individual matchup with him. Sometimes he's
still a good rim protector, but you can once you
draw him away from the basket, it's over. You got,
you know, the other superstar you know you gotta have
on the floor when it's you know, fourth quarter time.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
But he don't do anything to help your team win.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
If he doesn't make every single shot I'm talking about Lebron,
then you're cooked because he's not going to stop the
other team from making almost every single shot. But we
also have eight teams left in the NFL until we
have none or one standing. The NBA is still going
to be a little bit in the back seat. We
still have two teams in college football. You don't have
a national champion yet. That does not come until next week.

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So I think still more front and center than almost
at the halfway point of the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
You know what I think, And I've told you this
off the air, and I've told other people this off
the air, I really think and it's not to I mean,
it sounds so morbid and it sounds so honestly grotesque.
But in hindsight, you can say this now. The NBA
blew it during COVID because that was the perfect opportunity,

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in my opinion, to rearrange They already did. They rearranged
the schedule. They had to because there was like they
weren't playing games, and then they came back. You famously
talk about, yeah, that's how the Lakers won because Anthony
Davis got all.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
That rest so healthy and didn't miss any game.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
The bubble also basically just think the opportunity to reshape
the schedule of the program.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
The people's habit not start the NBA on Christmas, basically
emitting defeat which is perfectly fine. Everybody admits defeat to
the NFL as long as they have a pulse.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
If you just recognize it and just move along, then maybe,
and it's not a guarantee that if they were the
basically the only thing going, and they're still not going
to be. No, you start in December, you're battling the
NFL for two months still, and now college football for
even longer. You don't have baseball for a couple of months,
and then when you're doing more of your season, you're

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they are too.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
But your championship round with that shift would be in
the exact dog days of the baseball season, where the
NFL has not started training camp yet, and so you're
gonna have the most eyeballs on your product, which is
when you want them, honestly, when the stakes are the highest.
And nobody pays these attention to the beginning of any
season anyways, unless it is opening Day for baseball or

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the NFL's kickoff, but they pay attention to every one
of those weeks because the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
Is king definitely something I think would make sense. I
get some reservations. I think it's something they should continue
to look at.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Now, how if you do it, you're shortening your off season.
You have to at some point one of the sports. Yeah, exactly,
So I just think it would have been the best
time to do it. But I've never confused Adam Silver
with David Stern or any other good commissioner in.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
The history of the times.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
As much as he catches the heat and a lot
of people are giving it to him, Adam Silver, the
ratings clearly aren't what everybody wants, especially the people who
are bending over backwards to make NBA players and owners
super crazy rich. The ratings clearly not where they want them.
The money they're generating way more than they could have

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ever dreamed of.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Which is his job is and why at the end
of the day, nobody cares what Adam Clanton says about
Adam Silver because he's doing his job.

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
And what they're doing, like the NFL is capitalizing on
everybody who wants part of their business. The NFL has
all these new partners. We have games on only this
streaming service, only this streaming service, in addition to all
of the networks who can't.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Get enough of it. Well, the NBA has gone that route.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
That's part of the reason why they had their issues
with the Time Warner T and T group because of
how they almost pushed them out, but obviously are saving
that part of the program. But now they have more
partners and more money, and yes it ends up in
the player's hands, as it should. You know, when the
BRI goes up, then so do these salaries for the
players who have that in the CBA, and it should

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be that way. Be nice if they could see more
eyeballs on it. It'd be nice if the prices at
the arenas weren't also skyrocketing, and well they aren't in Phoenix.
Well some of the prices there. I know they have
their value menu available for.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Year back that make value menus great again in this country.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
The Phoenix Suns, lest you forget, were one of the
best teams in the NBA. If you look at record
at the beginning of the season when they busted out
of the gates at eight and one.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Now what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
They lost a bunch of games. They're eleven and nineteen
since then, shame and eleventh place is dead place. You're
dead in the NBA as you're not a part of
the postseason party.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
They should probably break it up and get their draft
picks back. I wonder who has that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:38):
Well, if you listened to us four minutes ago talking
about the Lakers, I could have been talking about the Suns,
Kevin Durant thirty five, Devin Booker thirty one, other team
as much as they want, because the Phoenix Suns won't
stop you. No Nurkic. Right now, Bradley Beil's been moved
to the bench. It worked one game. He's barely contributing

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now off the bench. Their bench got absolutely massacred in
their game last night, and that's why they keep coming
up on the wrong side of things. So it is
possible they're basically brand new owner. This is their first
year together. We'll finally see what's happening and have some
reservations about not doing something about it and try to

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unload a good player.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
So not Bradley Beal and to a lesser extent, not
Kevin Durant.

Speaker 4 (01:23:28):
Well, we're just told the Rockets should be brought into
the conversation for only the obvious reason. It helps Phoenix
more if they trade with Houston, because they get their
controllable picks back. Control is if there are picks, we
control where they are in the draft. By losing if
they get somebody because the Rockets have their picks. I

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think people know that, but just it's the perfect marriage.
You can trade these players to any other team, but
those teams picks unless they come from another.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Two players are making us better. And by giving us
those players, you're gonna suck. And so these picks we're
giving you back are going to be better. Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
By the way, Rockets in need of not a whole lot.
As they continue to sit second in the West, they
continue to put themselves in a great position to host
somebody in the opening round of the playoffs as a
top four Western Conference team, and they are finding out
exactly what they hope to I think the longer this
goes of what they really have with their core cam

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whatmore's last eleven games Amen Thompson as a starter January,
or really the last nineteen games for Jalen Green. The
arrows pointed up, we're talking with James Palmer, Texans Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
Next the a teed on Sports Talk seven ninety two
lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A team.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
As promise to shift back to the big matchup this weekend,
the first matchup of the weekend on the AFC side
Division Round playoffs. Texas have been there five times before
looking for win number one. They've seen the Chiefs in
this spot before in Kansas City and did not go
the way they would have hoped. Although that has little
if anything to do with this matchup for the Houston

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or obviously some carryover much more so on the Kansas
City side. Well, let's talk about it with James. Palmer
spoke with James right before the game between the Chiefs
and Texans in mid December, before those teams were fully
finished with their three games in eleven days Underdog Fantasy
some of the many places Bleacher Report as well where

(01:25:44):
you find James work. I did have something to pass
along for Steve Smith, if you wouldn't mind, James, as
I talk about how awesome Nico Collins is. Nico Collins
is so awesome that he actually averages more yards receiving
in his playoff career per game then Steve Smith, who's
phenomenal at ninety one yards per game in his eleven

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postseason contests.

Speaker 7 (01:26:07):
That's pretty good, and Steve's gonna Steve would have immediately
been like, are you taking a low blow at my
lack of postseason Super Bowl? Super Bowl appearances? But hey,
you know, Steve Is, I think on the cusp, maybe
he doesn't get it this year. I think in the
next two to three he's a semi finalist this year
for the Hall of Fame. I think he gets in
in the next couple more.

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
I would have actually used that number to say, quite
the opposite, Steve Smith in the postseason, better than Julio Jones,
better than Andre Johnson, better than Isaac Bruce, better than
Devontae Adams, better than Michael Irvin, and eleven games worth
of that should suggest it To make my point about Niko,
He's only three games in to last year, won this year, obviously,

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all with CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Stroud.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
This is the guy in the past game for the Texans.
Everybody knows it, The Chargers know it, The Chiefs knew
it into December. They're going to know it in January.
Is Trent McDuffie tasked with making that stop the connection
between Nico and CJ?

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
And can he?

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
I wouldn't honestly say that, you know, the Chiefs don't
shadow Trent's on the smaller side. As a corner, I say,
he's one of the best corners in football for sure,
but they use him in so many different ways defending
the middle of the field. He still is honestly a
better corner on the inside than he is on the outside.

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And they have some size with some other guys, and
with Spags, it's pretty damn unpredictable about how he goes
about his business once in a while, specifically when he
has some extra time to prepare. I wouldn't be surprised
because they got some size with some other corners that
they try to combat size with size, give it extra help,
and then let Trent kind of go somewhere else. Oftentimes,

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Spags has implored that kind of like Belichickian way of
playing defense guys, where it's you don't put your number
one corner on the number one receiver, you put your
number one corner on the next option. They take that
completely away, and then you give the added help to
the number one I could see that being something that
he uses, but I don't see Spags sticking with one

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way to go about Nico Collins the entire week, I
mean the entire game. I think they're going to use
a variety of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
After with all the attention on both of these quarterbacks
for obvious reasons, you know CJ's trend to make that
take that next step, and then we all know what
Mahomes is and what his legacy is already becoming. Is
that what you think this winds up coming down to?
Is this game's determined by which defense? Which is probably
I don't want to say the Texans defense is underrated,

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but I think we talked about this earlier. The Chiefs
defense has outshined its offense for this particular season, and
considering what the Texans defense did against the Chargers, is
that what you think ends up determining this game?

Speaker 8 (01:28:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:28:58):
I completely agree. I think I don't think the Texans
defense has gone under the radar nationally by any stretch.
I think Sting has gotten the appropriate amount of attention
that he deserves. I mean, he's been just outstanding. But
the other members of the secondary are young and playing well.
I think if they can get after Patrick Mahomes, obviously

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that's how they win this game. To me, what comes
out of this is really if they can continue to
force turnovers, and I think if you want to upset
you know, within one of these games, and obviously the
Texans winning a narrowhead in the divisional round would be
an upset. You have to create some splash plays, and
to me what stands out is this Texans defense has
the ability to do it right, like you have the

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ability to force some turnovers. And I think my buddy
Albert Brier, fellow Buckeye, no big deal national championship around
the corner guys, but he pointed this out and I
think it makes perfect sense. You look at what Justin
Herbert did during the regular season three picks, four in
one game against the Texans. To a tongue of Baya loa,
what do you have seven picks this year? How many
have against the Texans three? I think golf had twelve

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for the year at five versus the Texans. So like
guys that have the ability to protect the ball, and
Mahomes has done that brilliantly. He hasn't throwed a pick
since I think November seventeenth, where he threw two against Buffalo.
He's protecting the ball well. Guys that do protect it
can still turn it over against his defense. And I
think with the pass rush, with the ability to turn
the ball over in the secondary. Houston has to do

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that to win. I think that has to happen for
them to win, and they clearly have.

Speaker 8 (01:30:25):
The ability to do it well.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
To add to your point, before I pat you on
the back for bringing Bert into our conversation, we've probably
got time for one buck guy fighting Irish question before
we let you go. But the top four teams in
the NFL this year in fewest giveaways are the team
the Texans just knocked out of the playoffs and the

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three other AFC teams that are still in the playoffs
that they could face, Buffalo, La, Baltimore and Kansas City.
That is the problem with what you do against them.
Beating them straight up becomes almost impossible, and that's what
the Texans tried to do in Kansas City. As it
turned out, they didn't force any turnovers. It was nearly
a tie game late in the game. It ended up

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being a one score game. The Chiefs only have one
score games outside of the Miami game to open up
their postseason last year. There are other eight games over
their last nine playoff games have all been one score games,
and they've won all but one of them. There has
to be more to it. Beyond mahomes magic or Reid's
play calling. Is there something you could pinpoint as to

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how come they just keep winning all these close games
year in and year out, and especially in the postseason.

Speaker 7 (01:31:38):
Yeah, I think, honestly, what it comes down to a
couple of things. One Mahomes doesn't make mistakes and crucial moments,
he just doesn't. They wait for other teams to make mistakes.
That's often the case when they're a defense. You've seen
the defense come up big late in games, whether the
ball bounces off Aiden O'Connell's chest when they're trying to
run one more play before they kick a game winning
field goal, or somebody falls asleep on the Broncos s

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field goal team and gets obliterated and they blocked the
field goal. Like they just wait for you to make
the mistake. And they're so well coached, and they their
attention to details is through the roof. Like, I don't
think people do understand that all of these off seasons
are not equal. And I'm not trying to just like
toot the Chiefs horn, but the amount of time that
that Andy Reid spends on situational football during OTAs, during

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training camp, during mini camp at the end of periods
during the week where it's hey, it's two minutes to go.
What happens here is far and away more than most
teams in the NFL, and so they are so overly
prepared for these one score games and for the tightness
that you participate in those games. They're so loose and
relaxed because of their preparation. And they've been there so

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many times, and I've talked to players that have gone
against them, and it's been this, like there's a vibe
about the Chiefs that they're just they just feel like
they're going to win, and you have to overcome that
in a sense. And I think that's why teams like
the Texans and others in the past have tried to
display this to their guys to your meetings. But I
don't think you get over it until you just naturally
feel it in the moment that you can do it.

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I think CAJ has the ability to feel that in
the moment. I think you just have to get over it.
They've toyed with the fire too much, guys this whole year.
For I picked, honestly for the Texans to win this game,
just because the Chiefs have been teetering on this edge
for so long, it eventually has to not go their way.
I mean, right, yeah, no.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
I'm right there with you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
I just we've been talking about it all season long,
and they just keep finding ways to win. And that's
you know, that's a testament to them in credit where
it's due. But you're not seeing the just insane offensive
numbers particularly, And we went over this a couple of
segments ago. They're way down from the standpoint of their
points being scored. And that's good for a defense coming

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in playing, you know, with their hair on fire like
the Texans were last week and then coming in But
that's what I wanted to get to next. And we
discussed this earlier, the whole Rest versus russ thing. If
it were anybody other than the Chiefs, would you maybe
think not that they're at a disadvantage, but the layoff
has been so long, and I don't We talked about
this before the Astros ran to the World Series Championship

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in twenty twenty two, and it just wasn't It wasn't
a factor.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
Is it different for football?

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Do you feel like it might in some ways be
too much of a of a layoff or is this
just them getting healthier in their bodies getting so much
needed rest.

Speaker 7 (01:34:23):
Well, they needed the rest, Adam for sure, I would
say this and maybe you guys noticed that. To me,
it blows my mind. Do you know who had the
longest amount of rest healthy that they sat before their
first playoff game of that season?

Speaker 8 (01:34:36):
Do you know who it was?

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
In what year?

Speaker 4 (01:34:38):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:34:39):
Tell us Houston. Euler's quarterback Warren Moon in nineteen ninety
three had twenty two days rest between the end of
his last game because they lost things up in his
first playoff games. These guys break that with a twenty
three day rest now for Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jons
and company. So I would say that is a very
abnormal long period of time. I would also say nobody

(01:35:02):
handles buys better than Andy Reid in the history of
the NFL. I mean, his record is astonishing. Patrick's is
equally amazing. But obviously a lot of it's done together.
But they do find a way. And I've talked to
head coaches about this with the rest versus rustling, and
it's this, as long as your practices, if you're resting
guys have a significant purpose and meaning to them. And
you can accomplish that, and I think they have the

(01:35:24):
proper leadership in place player wise too, to do that.
They'll throw the pads on, they'll get physical. Andy has
a good vibe and pulse because he's done it before
to get through this. But I do think that's a
really long period of time, like it really is. And
so I'm curious if Houston has the thought process of
how do we try to jump out early right, how
do we try to get out of the gate quickly

(01:35:45):
to maybe before they settle in because some of these
guys haven't played, we can take advantage of it quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Well, you got five seconds, James.

Speaker 4 (01:35:52):
By how many points will Ohio State beat Notre Dame
for the national title?

Speaker 8 (01:35:58):
Probably forty two?

Speaker 7 (01:35:59):
No, I'd say we're gonna win by We're gonna win
by ten. Uh, We're gonna win by ten in this one, man,
I'm gonna be a very happy camper. I had a ticket,
But where comes first?

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Guys, wese have it?

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
I love hearing you say that you and Bird have
a great time enjoyed this game, and we always appreciate
this part money what.

Speaker 7 (01:36:17):
They took my money, I deserve to say we for
college sports because I paid to go there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Totally understand that, my friends is James Palmer's.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
The ad on Sports Talk seven ninety. To be a
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Los Angeles or New York and not understanding the dignity
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Speaker 10 (01:36:44):
Now that's gotta be hard, really hard.

Speaker 11 (01:36:47):
YEA.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
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Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
This stuff as always James Palmer, Underdog Fantasy and Bleacher
Report probably should have mentioned. Had I had the time
to do that near the end, I would have. He
co hosts a podcast with Steve Smith. That's why I
brought up Steve Smith, and it's kind of cool the
name of the podcast. They just decided to add up
the number that they both wore in the NFL and

(01:37:17):
the some of those two numbers they used as the podcast,
the eighty nine podcast. Steve Smith's wore eighty nine. James
doesn't have a jersey number. He didn't play in the NFL,
so they never played well, I never played it down.
But he did go to Ohio State, paid all that
money to get a degree.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
We are going to win by forty two, even though
I clearly called him out for it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
That does feel different, don't you agree?

Speaker 4 (01:37:39):
College sports, especially when you've attended your city sometimes I
feel is a little different than your pro city, like
Houstonians who rooted for Rice or the Cougars or Prayer
View or Texas Southern. I feel like there's a little
bit of a difference there, But there's clearly a difference
if you've attended the school.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
My calling it we and this, that and the other.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
I mean, we were definitely watching as twenty one to
fourteen with five tries at the goal line turned into
twenty eight fourteen. Clearly we were locked in on that.
And Ohio State's a sizable favorite, and the fact that
they just beat arguably the best team in the playoff
because he thought it was for sure if you thought

(01:38:21):
it was Texas, they beat them.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
Yeah, there's not gonna be any question about if if
Ohio State wins, and I think they will handily by
the way that they absolutely deserve to be the national
there's not gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
Be all, well if no, like they played, what if
Carson Beck healthy?

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
Well, I mean, how's just supposed to win a playoff
game or something that nobody like Carson Beck sucks. Don't
tell Miami that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
He absolutely sucks. Oh great, he's this awesome car. What's
he gonna do at the NFL level. It's so fantastic different.
It's not different. Sure, I don't care what these guys
do at the NFL level.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
Look at Tim Tebow, one of the greatest college quarterbacks
everman is an NFL player.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
True, and you can about the quarterbacks in the greatest
college football game of all time. Yeah, even though Vince
was the better one and at the pro level, ten
I just and the higher draft pick. I've never been
more unimpressed with supposedly a good quarterback on a you know,

(01:39:23):
powerhouse team.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
And Carson's beck.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Well, he ran through a stretch this year where he
was in an interception machine and it included the run
through Texas the first time. He made mistakes in that game,
but Texas made more and in the worst possible places
on the field and they won the game.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
Uh, he's he got.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
He was had a real good beginning or a nicer finish,
and I don't know what beyond four million dollars and
his girlfriend made him decide to go this route when
he's probably a higher draft pick than Quinn Ewers, who
made his announcement official today.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
I would love to see the team that picks him,
which of the two Carson Beck Okay, well, Car sitting
here saying Quinny yours is good either as far as
a pro prospect.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Nor should you.

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
But he did declare for the NFL Draft, like most
of his eligible teammates other than Michael taff who said
he's going back to school, which is huge for the Longhorns,
who are going to basically wipe out their entire offense.
Other than arch Manning, who clearly was a near non
factor in the semi final.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
Game, take Golden on the Texans because I would.

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
Yeah, I mean, everybody knows this by now listening here
to the show the last couple of years. I couldn't
have been more impressed with him when he was here
in Houston. He was so good with the Cougar, so
good in the return game, so good in the past game.
They didn't have a very good offense, they didn't have
a very good quarterback for some of his time. Obviously,
he was becoming who he was right after Clayton Tone

(01:40:44):
and Tank Dell were together. For the most part, he
was obviously a small part of that, but going to
Texas was genius going into that. Like to me, what
he did in a year is why arch Manning is
still there as much as Sark deservedly so is catching
heat for his play calling at the end of their game,
literally when it all went away, and in previous games

(01:41:07):
when they've been in similar situations. Golden's there because look
what he did for his pro PROSPSS. Playing with a
good pass, happy passing scheme, NFL type of offense. He's
absolutely shined among a huge talented group of transfer receivers
and wingo. He's going to be very, very very well

(01:41:28):
liked the next three months by NFL scouts and it's
gonna be awesome for him. But those things were on
display here, just not on the national stage and not
with a very good offense or quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
I'll ask you the same question.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
But now I would love to have him here, and
he's not gonna be He'll be there when they're at
least when their first pick comes up. I think he'll
be there when others come up to uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
And that's the point where you say, yeah, he would
be nice in this offense, but what we really need
is one of their offensive linemen.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
That's my next question.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
How many Longhorns offensive linemen are a gonna be going
in this draft? And b should be looked at seriously
by the Texans versus it always feels like the best
offensive lineman that a team like the Texans need are
from some random you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
It happens a lot because you can be good.

Speaker 4 (01:42:16):
It should happen less moving forward, because once they're recognized
as a good offensive lineman some major program, we'll say
would you like three million dollars and they'll say, yes,
I'll go put it there. Two of them I think
will go in the first round, Banks being the first
Lombardi Award winner, and you might see all four of
them drafted in whole one thing we should we mentioned
it around this time playoff time in the NFL. The

(01:42:36):
Texans victory means they will not draft before the twenty
fifth pick, even if they lose this week, And if
they lose this weekend, that will be their pick. They
will draft ahead of anybody else who might lose this.

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
Week and a while since they've drafted that low.

Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
But if they win now, all of a sudden, they
won't draft before twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
What was last year's pick?

Speaker 4 (01:42:55):
I came it was twenty three, which ultimately ended up
in the hands of the Jaguars. I say that can't
be true, because they won last year, they would have
been in the exact same position. I guess it was
twenty five to begin with. Last No, they gave let's
see twenty Sex feel like he was drafted like seventeen.
The pick they earned themselves was traded to the Vikings, Okay,
and then they used that pick forty two for Kamari Lassiter.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
He was taking that low. Yes, that makes it even
more impressive. It is very impressive. Come on, Nick, why
can't you put an offensive line together when you make
all of these other moves that are just fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:43:31):
Yes, their bullock pick was even further back than that,
a third rounder stud Yes, absolutely, he still.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
Lead the team of picks. Or did Derek stinglely pass
him in one night on Saturday?

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
And nobody counts the regular season in the postseason?

Speaker 2 (01:43:44):
Why together, I've just been told that the Texans have
eleven wins this year.

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
I haven't said that. I'm not sure next to their name.
I won't do that. I don't not into that hold
on I believe you. I just don't really find that useful.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
I don't get it because it is separate. But then
exactly at eleven and seven and are taking on the
you know, fourteen and one Chiefs, Sir.

Speaker 4 (01:44:03):
Fadico Ryans has twenty victories on his all time ledger
and two more in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
That they are separate. They will always be treated.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
Unless you how funny, and you can bring them together
at the end of the day, but they're they're separate.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
When you mentioned Michael McCarthy is not back with the
Cowboys because of his one and three record in the postseason, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Tell you the last two days not being here.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
I also I did a lot of great work while
I was off to the side, and that's why the
Wecheler research team has some really awesome stuff to present
you about this Chiefs Texans game. But they totally let
this slide. The coaching interviews and requests and we've completed
and general manager searches, the document is in shambles. It's

(01:44:46):
totally non updated. It's way behind. I haven't even added
d al to a column because of Mike McCarthy's departure.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
Its matter with you it's a shame. It's shameful.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
But I'll work on that overnight while I'm doing Rockets basketball.
We'll get there. Tomorrow will be all good. But it
is amazing. What is going to happen. I do think
is going to happen this coaching circle. And that's the
next thing that happens with a Texans victory. I don't
think Bobby Sloak's in line to get any of these jobs,
and even if he does, I think the Texans will
be fine. I actually think his stocks should probably be

(01:45:17):
going back up again. So, as I said in the
opening segment, he called a very very good game outside
of the half back pass to Joe Mixon. Called it
a pretty good game and when the players are able
to execute, it looks that much better. To that end,
the Texans injury report, I found it fairly interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Today only one guy didn't participate.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
One guy didn't participate, probably more so how things changed
with guys who did participate on a limited basis, because
I took the four guys that didn't practice yesterday. Robert
Woods remained there, didn't practice yesterday and did not practice
today due to a hip and wide receivers probably a
notable position. They signed Jared Wayne to the active roster.

(01:45:59):
He played three games late in the year, one in
November and two in December. Yes, the game in Kansas City. Yes,
the game where he was essentially physically responsible by hitting,
running into, diving into Tank Dell's leg the injury there.
But he's now on the active roster and it's going
to be active for this game, especially with woods situation.
Raven's wide receiver Deontay Johnson is no longer a Texan,

(01:46:23):
but I said that correctly. He is once again a Raven.
Apparently they put in a claim as the Texans waived him,
but this is merely a ploy to add to their
compensatory pick pool, potentially because they don't have an intention
of bringing him in the building. He's not eligible to
play for them and they don't want to sign him
next year. So when ye signs elsewhere as an outgoing

(01:46:47):
free agent from their roster, it will affect their compensatory
pick selection formula. So it's a very shrewd and smart move.
But as he's al Shire, Juice Scrugs, and Shaq Mason
all moved from did not participate to participate it on
a limited basis. Joe Mixon also from no injury designation
to limited today. I think all of them will be

(01:47:10):
available for the game. The Mason one is the most interesting.
Don't do it, Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
They're gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Don't do it. Don't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:21):
We're doing something very, very fun and new. Next in
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Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
Segment, the eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety if.

Speaker 14 (01:47:32):
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Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
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Speaker 10 (01:47:38):
Listen live for free on any smart device.

Speaker 1 (01:47:45):
A little help over the hump with some Wednesday BS, two.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
Adams, and a whole lot of bit stealing.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
Bit stealing with the bit stealers, better known as the
eighteen signature segment.

Speaker 4 (01:47:58):
Time for me first of the week on a Wednesday.
Wednesday's BS normally the B and the S that stands
for bit stealing, and we lean on Sean and Brian,
Matt and Ross, Dan, Doug, Chris everybody else that cranks
out greatness here on Sports Talk seven nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
I still want to know what Doug Pike's bit is
that we would steal.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
When we steal it for the first time, you will know.

Speaker 4 (01:48:19):
Okay, but today we're actually taking the bit stealing out
of BS and just we're going straight bs.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
That's what the segment is today. Oh my kind of segment.

Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
Yeah, So Monday night we were talking about it with
James Palmer.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
You know what's happening on Monday night? Yeah, the National
Championship Wait what Monday night? This is coming Monday night?

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
I should know this, but the National Championship game, which
obviously is what we talk about here on a sports show.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
For some reason, I thought it was on Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
The twentieth. It also happens to be the same night
that we will inaugurate the recently elected.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
That's why I thought it was Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
But I'm getting it mixed up with actual election day,
you know, sourday. That's what we'll be doing. We won't
be talking about Ohio State, Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
Jd Vance probably will be thinking about it, but we
won't be talking about it. Instead music, please, we will
be talking about this instead. It is inauguration night. So,
as I mentioned earlier in the show, I will pull
the string and you will do your thing. That's my
theme music. I was in the receipt of inauguration bets

(01:49:26):
like prop bets, including celebrities songs, dancing, an assortment of
goodies of what we will maybe see and what's favored
to be what we may be see on Monday night.
So we could do this the final six segments of
the show. There's so much here, so I'll try to
find the stuff you'll find most entertaining. Tell me which

(01:49:48):
Trump family member is the favorite to be closest to
Trump during the oath?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Well, it's gotta be Millennia. She's married to me, and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
She'll Millennia is not an acceptable answer.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
Why it's it's h Evanka or Baron? Those are top two.
You got two out of two. Good job.

Speaker 4 (01:50:14):
I think it's gonna be Baron is even money. He
is the favorite to be standing closest to Trump or
be closest to Trump during the oath.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
You know, he's the one that told me to go
on Rogan's podcast and I.

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
Did it and it got me elected.

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
Which of these two things is the favorite? After the
oath or before the oath? When will Trump dance on stage?
Which is the favorite?

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Will they be playing the village people on the PA
If they do, I will do the Trump in shimmy.
Right there, you have it. After the oath, after the
oath as I dance on the grade. Nancy Pelosi, who's
not quite dead but almost dead, she used a walker.

Speaker 4 (01:50:58):
A category of which celebrities will attend the inauguration. These
two gentlemen are even Money, Kanye West and Tucker Carlson.
But there are six other people who are bigger favorites
than even Money.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
And Carrie Underwood is not a choice because she's performing. Correct.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
So how many of those six people who they feel
very very strongly about attending, Thus they are the six
biggest favorites.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
How many can you name? Dana White will be there?

Speaker 2 (01:51:29):
Correct? And actually I know that he'll be there because
I confirmed it last night.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
He's he's one to two, he's right behind the leader.
But that was a correct answer. Joe Rogan is not
a correct answer, but he's just off that he's a
nine to four.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
Jeeze, Now it gets hard.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
One is a musician, oh oh from Greenwood?

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
No not, The answer is kid.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Oh yeah, that's that's a good. One was a recently
booed wrestler.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
His name is Houlko God, but his real name is Terry.
One is coach Bud Kilmer, John Voight.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
Oh gosh, John Voyd's been on board for a while now.

Speaker 4 (01:52:17):
The other two a little bit tougher. One was a
featured star on an extremely popular, extremely long running reality show.
So I think they're in their seventeenth year.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
It's not Survivor. No.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
At the beginning of the show, this person had a name.
By the end of the show, the name that that
person now had was different, as was that person's sexual orientation.

Speaker 15 (01:52:45):
Oh, Caitlin Jenner correct on Time Magazine's number one the
favorite if you were wagering on it. Celebrity to attend
the inauguration is a doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
Doctor? Ohs not that one doctor, remember when he ran?

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Oh yeah, I will definitely be there. I've got a
laundry list of cares and concerns from the American people
that I have to put in front of my good
friend Donald's face so he can address them all.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
Twenty minutes over under length of Trump's inauguration speech over,
you're taking it over.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Did you see his speech at the Republican National It
went two hours and forty five minutes. I'm exaggerating, but
it was the greatest speech in the history of speeches.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
I might say it was quite good.

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
The total words Trump stumbles over during speech. The over
under is one.

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
He doesn't stumbles a lot, thus a very low. But
he's never stumbling.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
So if you take the under, that means ze you
think it's going to be zero. Anything above one is
an over.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
This is like CJ's shroud passing touchdown. It's always one
and a half. I'll take the under. He's he's so confident.
Everywhere he goes doesn't matter what he's saying, it doesn't
matter where he's at. He's in North Korea, like you know,
he's setting footwear no one ever has, and he's absolutely
in charge. They called me rocket Man. Do you remember

(01:54:19):
they played the Elton John song.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
I love that song?

Speaker 4 (01:54:21):
You you brought up musicians, which village people? Which song
will village people sing first? Which is the favorite? Macho
man or YMC A.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
They can't start with ymc A. That's you know, his
actual theme song, not this that we're playing. Tail to
the Chief.

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
I don't like that song. I want to play the
village people.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
I like the cup I love police officers, and he's
the best one.

Speaker 4 (01:54:49):
To be played to be sung first. The favorite is
ymc A.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
Come on, what what.

Speaker 4 (01:54:56):
Other song do they have? There's a lot too mar
That's what I'm say him, this person who's been going
to be president.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
Yeah, but if.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
They're playing at the inauguration or whatever, there's only two
songs they can play. That's what I'm saying. There's what
are the other what's the third? What's the third? Village? People?

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
There's only two on the list. They have deep cuts.
No one knows about them.

Speaker 4 (01:55:22):
Which former potus will trump mention the most times. We'll
see how many you can get in order.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Myself because I was forty five too and I was great.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
Not on the board, but a good guess.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
Joe Biden, he's the favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
Joe, he's the favorite to be mentioned the most. You
know who. I won't mention Crooked Hillary because she didn't win.

Speaker 4 (01:55:43):
The next well, she obviously would not fit this category.
So these two have the same odds. Bill Clinton is
sixth on the board at seven to one. Okay, so
Barack Obama excuse me, Barack is fourth at six to one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
Barack Hussaying Obama spoke with him, They chatted out next
to him at a funeral.

Speaker 4 (01:56:03):
So the two long ago former presidents that slot in
right behind Biden. He's eighth. God, really, you gotta go
back a long way to get these two right, William Taft,
how about Lincoln and Washington? Are the next two?

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
The only two ahead of me?

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
As I said, there are many, many more of these,
but that's all we have time for. In this installment
of the signature segment Wednesday's BS.

Speaker 10 (01:56:28):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 14 (01:56:33):
Adam Clinton, Adam Wet for the eight team.

Speaker 3 (01:56:44):
It is the A teen. I'm sorry, still here, Sorry
she ever leaves. That is true. Whenever needed, string can
get pulled.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Seriously, though, I don't even know if this is true,
but if Baron said, hey, you should probably go on
Joe Rogan's podcast because a lot of people listen to
that and it would be good. I'm glad he did.
Forget how you feel one way or the other. Just
I think we can all agree with We definitely can
all agree that Joe Rogan has the biggest media conglomerate

(01:57:15):
entity that's not traditional in the world. Right, Like the
numbers he gets are insane. So it figures the reason
that anybody that was invited to do that and was
in the race.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
So that's two people. The one that said.

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
Yeah, I'll do it probably had a decent chance of
at least getting eyeballs or in this case, ears on them.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
That they would be more of a non traditional setting.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
Obviously, So if there are things that he wanted to say,
probably was easier said there than maybe elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
Let's just say you thought it was going to be close,
no matter what which way you lean, all that kind
of stuff. Why then would you say, all right, I'll
go on it, but only for an hour, and I'm
not coming to you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:59):
You got to come to me.

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
It's just such an anywhere not I don't even think
we're a full sixty into this segment. There's totally different
that last segment.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
In this segment, well that's because Adam Clanton is now
making commentary and not there.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
There was no commentary last segment, just merely having some fun.

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
Yeah, I was going straight down the line I want to.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
I would have been able to do the same thing
if the new president was the other candidate. There would
have been odds on what would happen during her inauguration,
and we would have enjoyed that. Your impression of her
is not useful, nor are I mean, I'd have to
really go out and find somebody that could do that.

Speaker 3 (01:58:41):
I hope there's not someone else that can do that.

Speaker 4 (01:58:43):
Obviously, during the race, there are a bunch of people
on social media that cranked it out brilliantly.

Speaker 3 (01:58:46):
There's people that currently do a.

Speaker 2 (01:58:48):
Trump Sean Sean for I've been trying to get him
to do a liner for I'm just gonna just break
down and do ai. I mean, why not?

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
So anyway back to business.

Speaker 2 (01:58:59):
Yeah, so I told you guys we were gonna hear
from Bobby Slowick, and I kept telling you, and I
kept telling you, and now you're actually going to get
the delivery.

Speaker 4 (01:59:06):
Today is Thursday for the Texans, it's Wednesday for everybody else.
So today's the day that Special teams coordinator Frank Ross
coming off pretty good game, Matt Burke the DC coming
off a pretty good game, and Bobby slowk also coming
off a pretty good game.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
But you know who had the best game of all
those guys, right who?

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
Not Burke?

Speaker 4 (01:59:24):
Okays slow Okay, it was Frank Busiest because basically celebration.
Well you do realize they blocked a punt, they blocked
an extra point.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
You should get more than two for that, and they
returned the extra point for two points. If it's like
and it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:40):
Is because it's always at the other end of the field,
give or take. But you should.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
You should just get more than two for something like that.
That's a lot of effort for just two points. That's
what I was thinking of it. I'm trying to score.

Speaker 4 (01:59:51):
Only gets one if they succeed, that's point. You're just
trying to prevent them from scoring that. Oh, new rules.
Let's go ahead and get a couple of it yourself
if you pick it luckily Universe for the Texans, Luckily
University of Houston or University of Texas. Kicker Cameron Dicker
appeared unaware of the rule and he glover quinned it
right into two points.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
So he batted it down into the opposing player's hand.

Speaker 4 (02:00:16):
Well, I mean it did bounce a little, but yeah,
he went up there and he got Oh he would
have gotten clobbered either way.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Even if he had caught it and gone down with it. It
would have prevented two points. Though.

Speaker 4 (02:00:25):
Man, he got that was as hard to hit as
a kicker is probably gonna take in any year.

Speaker 3 (02:00:29):
You know what, I haven't ask yet.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
And maybe we don't play Bobby slog because we just
keep getting sidetracked. But we will.

Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
Much maligned Eric Murray with the pick six.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
Out of all the guys who got picks in that
game or have this season, I don't know. Speaking of
prop bets, I don't think he would have gotten good
odds to be the one who would run it back
because Stingley almost did. I thought he was going to.

Speaker 4 (02:00:51):
Yeah, these there's two other plays I didn't bring up
the beginning of the show. Eric Murray had a clear path.
I didn't even need much help to get there, just
where they were on the field and where the ball
came to him. That's kind of a quarterback's worst nightmare
type of scenario, where.

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
You such a nice dude, everybody knows it's over.

Speaker 4 (02:01:07):
He's There have been a lot of people outside the
buildings that have been pretty hard on him media wise,
myself included.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
But it's not because of his personality.

Speaker 4 (02:01:16):
Because other guys have been less available. He's been available
and they've needed him, and he's done the job they've
asked him to do for the most part pretty well.
I mean, that Detroit game was not real fun for
anybody defensively other than the picks, which sounds ridiculous, but
they did score twenty six because the second half sucked, Yes,
But the two other plays I was going to bring up,

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the CJ. Stroud run and the Stingley interception return that
he tried to score with, they both only succeeded to
a certain extent because of blocking. On Stingley's return, Murray
and Will Anderson kind of got lost in the play
and lost where they were and didn't realize there was
another player besides Justin Herbert trying to stop him, and

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neither one of them. Murray didn't see him in time,
and Anderson wasn't in front of Dobbins and they couldn't stop him.

Speaker 3 (02:02:08):
Cost the Texans four points.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
See, that's why Derek Barnett's scoop was so great, because
he had a teammate in front of him, get out
of my way, I'm gonna shove you down.

Speaker 4 (02:02:17):
And he was able to carry their smaller receiver into
the end zone the other place. I mean, I'm not
sure where, just kind of what happened when c J.
Stroud took off and had that big, huge run. Look
at the players in his proximity because Schultz was a target,
and I think he thought, Okay, I'm the only guy
he's got left. He's out of the pocket. He's scrambling,

(02:02:38):
He's just gonna toss it to me. But he kept running,
and when he kept running, Schultz just stopped. He didn't
block the defender that was on him, who ultimately ended
up tackling him. But the three receivers that were in
front of him, one on his left and two on
his right, they immediately turn around and start shoving people
and trying to get in the way exactly like so
they're supposed to. And had Schultz maybe done the same,

(02:03:00):
there probably were even more yards.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
I've got We're gonna get to slowik right here, but
next segment for Football at five before we get underway
with the actual Football at five topic, Yes, I've got
to tell you the story about Nico that I was
referenced to earlier, and it involves Dalton.

Speaker 3 (02:03:16):
Schultz is the one.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
That got the conversation started by what he just casually
mentioned to Nico as we were all waiting for him
to finish getting dressed.

Speaker 3 (02:03:23):
They you start talking.

Speaker 4 (02:03:24):
We mentioned this before, and you who had not seen
the setup as awesome as it is. Right when you
walk in the locker room, if every player is at
their locker, the first two people you're gonna see Dalton
Schultz is gonna be on your right, Nico Collins is
going to be on your left. That's where you walk in,
so not too surprising. You and Dan were both in
there covering things for us inside the Texans locker room
following their thirty two to twelve Win appreciate the work

(02:03:46):
he did with Derek Stingley Junior on the Good Morning video.

Speaker 3 (02:03:49):
Always a nice added bonus.

Speaker 2 (02:03:51):
He did not want to do that, and it was
I don't know how you guys watched the video, loved it,
great pieces new Rex would be a featured attraction, and
then there were so many highlights to run through.

Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
I was not expecting what I saw at the end
with Derek. That was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
Well, because he's not that person else his postgame interview
so he's so shy. He is he I think honestly,
if he didn't have his sunglasses on, maybe he wouldn't
have said yes, yeah he.

Speaker 4 (02:04:20):
Does he because of his play. We we do want
to talk to him quite a bit after games. We'll
talk to him a lot during the season, a couple
of times during camp. Another nice guy, super nice guy,
just not super He just doesn't need to do the media,
and he just doesn't want to do it in a
nice way.

Speaker 2 (02:04:35):
He's shy.

Speaker 4 (02:04:36):
Well, hey, what you see on this play? What'd you
do on this play? What about this? How do you
feel about helping the team swit for the ball?

Speaker 2 (02:04:42):
And then what do you think about teammate X teammate?
Why he'll talk here off and running. He's the ultimate
team guy. He is not Deontay Johnson. All right, I
promise we will play Bobby Slowick. But we don't have
time to play at all here because it's fifty seconds long.
So as Dan tells me, we have thirty seconds left
in the segment. In my ear, when we come back,

(02:05:04):
football at five begins with Bobby Slowick, a conversation that
started with Dalton Schultz and Nico Collins. And then we're
going to bring back some old memories. It's all gonna
come full circle this Saturday in Kansas City. I'll explain
that it'll all get done. I promise, on my son's life.
It's happening.

Speaker 3 (02:05:24):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
That's a little extreme, but I've got to do it.
I told you I would, and we will. When we
come back.

Speaker 1 (02:05:31):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team series, Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler are.

Speaker 10 (02:05:48):
The A Team A.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
It is time for football at five here on the
A Team. It's a Wednesday edition to the program. We
are on Sports Talk seven to ninety. We are on
Space City Home Network. Wex is back in the saddle.
Nature is healing. All is right with the world here.

Speaker 3 (02:06:13):
You hope, So so far, so good.

Speaker 2 (02:06:16):
People don't know why that's so funny right now. But anyway,
all right, before we get to the other things we
had planned for this, I promise you would hear from
Bobby Slowick and listen. The Texans are going up against
a defense, and specifically Chris Jones in this case, but
the entire defense well rested, all the you know, banged
up Dean's injuries, all.

Speaker 3 (02:06:36):
That kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
While they may not have gone completely away, they are
certainly probably further in the rearview mirror after twenty four
consecutive days of rest for the two time defending champion
Kansas City Chiefs and specifically their defensive units.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
So Bobby Slowick, good luck with that.

Speaker 16 (02:06:57):
I mean, really an unbelievable football, you know, and and
when we were out when we were playing them and
he was out there, obviously presents a lot of problems,
presents a lot of problems to a lot of defenses,
makes you do adjustments in the run game in the
past game, and and SPAGS does a fantastic job being
very aware of that. And they have a lot of

(02:07:17):
schematic things they do to kind of counter how you
feel you may have to handle Chris Jowanes.

Speaker 3 (02:07:24):
So that's really where.

Speaker 10 (02:07:25):
It all starts.

Speaker 16 (02:07:26):
And then beyond that, like they're they're very well coached defense.
They don't make mistakes, they play extremely clean football. They
got physical linebackers, they got scrappy dbs that all can
make plays. It's it's I mean, they're this point in
the year, every defense that's left is really good, and
they exemplify that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:45):
Chris Jones is six foot six three and ten pounds.
There's no way that's accurate and was added to an
already amazing organization, the organization's defense when he was drafted
back in twenty sixteen. I mean, they were already pretty
much set from an offensive standpoint, and everything that Patrick

(02:08:07):
Mahomes has become Houston's own by the way he's born
right here, and I think the best thing that the
Texans have going for them is that he's on the
wrong side of thirty.

Speaker 3 (02:08:18):
Now, that's it. He is amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
So the end of November, he sacked Aidan O'Connell Raiders
quarterback twice the last thirteen games, that is the only
quarterback he has sacked. He doesn't have a sack and
any other game he's played.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
So the Texans basically said back in December, you might
get to see j but we're not letting Chris get
to him.

Speaker 4 (02:08:46):
He got to him four times in non sack variety,
and that's I'm saying that to point out.

Speaker 3 (02:08:51):
Sacks aren't everything. Oh for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:08:54):
He had four quarterback hits in his last game, which
was against Houston. So when you say twenty four days
off more because he has not played since they played
the Texans at an injury late in that game, essentially
played the majority, played almost every snap he would have,
but he has not played since then, so he sat
out the beat down of Pittsburgh. He then sat out

(02:09:15):
like everybody else, the beat up that Denver handed them
and their reserves.

Speaker 3 (02:09:20):
So he hasn't been on the field since Houston. So
he'll be playing CJ.

Speaker 4 (02:09:24):
Stroud in the Texans offense for him this second game
in a row, and he and Karl Laftis each had
four quarterback hits. He has twenty quarterback hits on the season,
So don't look at his seasons eyes. Guy had five
sacks and fourteen games. This guy would well, he's not
all that. He's all right. No, he's pretty much the
same as he's been. He was very healthy the rest

(02:09:46):
of the year. And I think odds are he's back
to that are very close to that for this game
because of the time off. And yeah, they better account
for him, They better account for everybody because even with
the offensive line I think playing very good football against
the Chargers, I think they played very good for their
half against the Titans. Also, there still was a play here,
play there, five plays over the course of the game

(02:10:08):
where you're like, they didn't see that coming, they did
not see that game, that twist, that stunt, and someone
who was lined up across from Laramie Tunsel took a
step back, the two linemen to his right crashed down
and he just looped around him and there was nobody
there to pick him up. Spags as people inside the NFL,
call him like Bobby Sloweck. He'll be dialing things like

(02:10:32):
that up repeatedly when they start working. And they have
even against this five man offensive line that I hope
will be out there. Juice Scrugs has a bit of
an issue that kept him limited yesterday, limited today, I think,
not practicing yesterday, and Shaq Mason has at least returned
to practice on a limited basis. But as I've said

(02:10:53):
many times, since Mason was playing, and since Mason has
stopped playing due to injury, they're not better when he's
on the field. So I hope they don't make that switch.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
And by the way, I think I was mistaken.

Speaker 2 (02:11:07):
Actually they added him the year before they drafted Mahomes
if I'm not mistaken, because he was drafted in sixteen
and Mahomes of seventeen correct, same draft as Deshaun correct.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
Yeah, So they added him knowing that they would.

Speaker 2 (02:11:21):
Be building a dynasty soon, or at least hoping they would,
and that's what they've done.

Speaker 4 (02:11:25):
Patrick Mahomes drafted four picks ahead of Houston Texans defensive
end Derreck Barnett.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
Well, maybe Barnett scores a touchdown this Saturday.

Speaker 4 (02:11:37):
So I'm sure it's been brought up elsewhere. I made
mention of it as it happened on Saturday. You know,
Debiko Ryan's been the head coach for three playoff games.
The last playoff game they played before he became the
head coach was the last trip to Arrowhead in the
playoffs for the Texas fifty one to thirty one game.

Speaker 8 (02:11:53):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (02:11:53):
In that game and in all of Demico's games, they've
scored on offensive touchdowns. They have five of them. That's
how they built that twenty four to zhing lead. Yes,
they blocked a punt Barkevius Mingo, very popular long term Texan.

Speaker 3 (02:12:08):
Awesome first name, blocked the punt.

Speaker 4 (02:12:10):
Lonnie Johnson, who returned to the Texans this year, briefly
returned it for a touchdown. They played the Browns in
the game that followed that several years later and with
Tamiko Noo as the head coach, and both Christian Harris
and Steven Nelson scored on touchdown passes from Joe Placo.

Speaker 2 (02:12:26):
Thanks Joe.

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
Those are called interceptions and the game that guys named
Joe don't get the job done.

Speaker 4 (02:12:32):
At the game after that, they had zero offensive touchdowns.
They had a field goal from the offense. Their touchdown
was a special teams touchdown, Steven Simms Junior returning the
punt for a touchdown, which ended up being their last
points of the game. They missed a field goal after
that and did not score in the second half.

Speaker 2 (02:12:50):
I don't score a lot of offensive points when they
played the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (02:12:53):
And obviously in this last game they had another defensive
touchdown on the interception return, and technically they had two
more points on these special teams return. That's a lot
of extra offense, so to speak, a lot of extra
points that you can obviously use. The thing I put
out today was a little less complimentary to the team,

(02:13:14):
and it was Twenty is the magic number in the
postseason for the Texans. You better score more than twenty
or you're going home. The Texans have had five games
where they've scored fewer than twenty points. They have not
won any of those games. They've all been on the road,
and they've all been in the divisional round, which is
exactly what is in front of them now. They've also
given up a billion points in those games that they've

(02:13:35):
lost in the divisional round. Thirty four twice, fifty one,
forty one, and then the TJ. Yates game they could
have won. They only gave up twenty. But that's what
they've allowed. And again, unless it was last year with Demco,
it really doesn't matter. But even last year they give
up thirty four points to the Ravens. They've struggled in

(02:13:55):
the second half. Mighty leade to get them off the field.
A ten to ten game turned into a lopsided game.

Speaker 3 (02:14:01):
And that was also, you know, CJ.

Speaker 4 (02:14:03):
Stroud's first ever road game in the playoffs, the only
road game he's played to date. I also noted that
he's one of just a couple of quarterbacks active that
have a quarterback rating in the postseason of better than
one hundred. Mahomes, of course, is still ahead of him,
but both of these guys have been very good in
the postseason, and c J. Stroud four touchdowns, one interception,

(02:14:23):
he already became the Texans all time leader in games
one as a quarterback. The other guys all had one.
He's got two of their six ever postseason victories. Just
slid past brock Oswiler, shober Sean TJ.

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
What a stupid time.

Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
Yes, two things looking for three, Mahomes has fifteen. Yeah,
CJ's looking to draw his name to a list of two.
There are two quarterbacks who have opposed the Chiefs during
the Mahomes era that have won only two. One of
them is active, the other one was married to josel Okay.

(02:15:08):
All right, well, the other one is Joe Burrow, the
only active quarterback in the AFC in any FC should
say to beat him. He's really the only AFC quarterback
to beat him that's active, because Brady did it once.
Brady also beat them as a buck in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (02:15:24):
That's why when people are asking Travis Kelcey about avoiding
Burrowhead Stadium all that kind of stuff, because when you're
one of the few guys that have done that, it's
literally the only one in the league.

Speaker 3 (02:15:37):
Right now, Joe Burrow's gotta be looking around thinking what happened?

Speaker 4 (02:15:41):
I mean, they were they just had a they got
you know what really happened the Chiefs if they just
win that game, which they had won until a lake
call went against him and a lake field goal went.

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
Through, shocking the refs were on the chief side.

Speaker 4 (02:15:57):
I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, Okay, to hit
that segment. Absolutely, you brought something up when our co
hosts and for me were in this week Channeler Rome
and Jeff Blum Chandeler on Monday. Jeff on Tuesday that
the NFL is assigned to their officials. You are skeptical
this many days out that the officials would already be assigned,

(02:16:18):
but totally normal in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:16:19):
I just wasn't really I don't pay attention to officiating
in the NFL as much.

Speaker 3 (02:16:23):
That's a compliment to the league.

Speaker 4 (02:16:25):
There are six games that this lead official has been
the lead official for that. The Kansas City Chiefs have
been one of the two teams participating in. One of
them has been a postseason game, the other five have
been regular season games. I think you guys know what
their record is in those games, and I think you
guys know what everyone thinks is happening in the NFL.

(02:16:46):
The opponents of the Chiefs are playing two teams every
time they play the Chiefs. One team is wearing Chiefs
colors and the other team is wearing black and white.

Speaker 3 (02:16:55):
The Zebras.

Speaker 4 (02:16:57):
They believe that you're having to beat both of them
on any given Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, whatever
date you play, going to do my best to dispel
that rumor, that thought, that narrative, at least for this
particular game Saturday afternoon at four Letter Field in Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (02:17:19):
The Age on Sports Talk seven ninety Adam and Adam
are so Houston And even though they don't smoke, they
still have twenty five lighters on their dresser a little bit, Mike, Yes, sir,
they've got to get paid paid.

Speaker 17 (02:17:38):
So back to you it, guys, so real quick, some
leftovers from last segment before we get to the officiating nonsense.

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
You already being talked about heading into this matchup between
the Texans and Chiefs Earlier. You know, DeAndre Hopkins was mentioned.
You know he'll be out there on the field in
a Texans game. He won't be wearing Texans gear. This
is full circle for a number of what like, the
Texans are the ones that started this run by blowing

(02:18:10):
that twenty four to zero lead. The Texans are the
ones that ended up trading DeAndre Hopkins for a ham
sandwich following that season.

Speaker 3 (02:18:19):
Well, they didn't do it. They're idiot.

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
GM actually was their idiot head coach dressed up like
a GM. That's the best way to put the description
of Bill O'Brien, who then traded DeAndre Hopkins to the
Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 3 (02:18:33):
He's now in a Chiefs uniform.

Speaker 2 (02:18:35):
He was awesome that day, nine catches, one hundred and
eighteen yards, but the Chiefs were awesomer.

Speaker 3 (02:18:42):
Twenty eight to three in.

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
The second quarter after the Texans had a twenty four
to nothing lead.

Speaker 4 (02:18:48):
So, not unsurprisingly, both Pat Mahomes and Andy Reid were
asked about what do they remember about that day during
their availabilities this week, and he read, clearly remembered it,
and we didn't do this and got off to a
bad start. He was going through his answer, you know,
we came back, and then he goes, yeah, but and

(02:19:08):
when he finished his answer, he said, yeah, but it
wasn't a very good first half. That actually was like
why not? You were winning when you went into the locker.

Speaker 2 (02:19:17):
Room three straight touchdowns by Travis Kelcey to take the
lead twenty eight twenty four.

Speaker 4 (02:19:22):
If you're down twenty four to nothing in the first
half and you walk into the locker room with the lead,
I would say that was a pretty good first half.
Look at the Texans, bet you have momentum. I'm just thinking,
maybe you have something going well for you.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
The Texans were staring at a six nothing deficit at
halftime until Deshaun worked his magic there at the tail
end of the second quarter. They did not play a
good first half offensively until that series, which was ninety
nine yards. It was all the defense keeping him in
that game. But the other thing I wanted to get

(02:19:57):
to before, you know, stimming from a last segment and
what I promised I So we walked into the locker
room the other night, and DeAndre Hopkins is the guy
whose record was broken by Nico Collins, not Andre Johnson record. Well,
the best franchise game from a receiver is now Nico
Collins seven catches for one hundred and twenty two yards.
He also scored a touchdown on that aforementioned ninety nine

(02:20:19):
yard drive. When we walked in, we were waiting on
Nico to finish getting dressed. He informed us all very nicely,
I'm gonna be about five minutes, y'all. And then once
he was almost ready to start talking, he noticed that
I was standing to his left and there was someone
else's pads in the floor.

Speaker 3 (02:20:39):
He goes, let me get these out of your way
for you, Dylan Horton's pads were in your way, Come on, Dylan.

Speaker 2 (02:20:43):
Dylan is peering around the corner from the showers like, well,
I guess I'm not going to my locker anytime soon.

Speaker 4 (02:20:48):
Is one of the unfortunate Texans who lockers next to
a very popular postgame speaker. And but literally there's also
a postgame speaker right right above Nico's.

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
Locker, and it was it was blasting.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
So right before he starts doing his press availability, Dalton
Schultz channeled his inner Ricky Bobby and if you don't
know what I'm talking about, it stems from this particular
line from the film, Well Deck, here's the deal. I'm
the best there is playing simple.

Speaker 6 (02:21:16):
I mean, I wake up in the more and I
kiss Excellence's.

Speaker 2 (02:21:20):
He looks at Nico and he just very casually says, hey, man,
what's it like to wake up in the morning and
do that? So at that point, Nico's like doing lines
from the movie with me, and I go for you good.
He goes, you know what I'm talking about, right, I'm
like yeah, And then I start rattling off lines and
he goes top five. I go top five like comedies.

(02:21:43):
He goes, yeah, I think so, Like he was still confident.
I said, you're young. I said, but come on, man,
just that decade alone, wedding crashers, old.

Speaker 4 (02:21:53):
School, same vibe all the way around. That's why we
ranked ahead of that. Yeah, probably so. Anyways, that was
the leftovers. Ninety five point three yards per game receiving
for Nico Collins in his three postseason games.

Speaker 3 (02:22:06):
Now, obviously all will see j Stroud.

Speaker 4 (02:22:08):
I brought that up earlier when we were talking with
James Palmer. There are only four other players in NFL
history at least three games played that averaged more yards
per game.

Speaker 3 (02:22:18):
In the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (02:22:20):
Oddly enough, one of them is playing in this game
on Saturday, and it's Marquise Brown.

Speaker 3 (02:22:26):
Oh wow. I don't think people would Hollywood Brown.

Speaker 4 (02:22:29):
I don't think people realize he's been pretty successful in
his three opportunities.

Speaker 3 (02:22:33):
Like Nico, he's only played in three games.

Speaker 4 (02:22:35):
But if you're on that list at any point, and
I did kind of scoff at the record breaker one
hundred and twenty two yards receiving for a team who
played in their thirteenth playoff game like the Texans did,
and who boast a Hall of Famer and who boast
DeAndre Hopkins and others. I kind of thought maybe that
wouldn't be the most. Ever, DeAndre Hopkins won eighteen is

(02:22:56):
what he moved ahead of. In addition to Andrea's one
to eleven and Kiki Qt's won ten. Those are the
four highest receiving game. Was that when he had like
a billion targets Oakland the Colts game, I believe that
they lost here in Houston.

Speaker 2 (02:23:13):
Kiki qt was the leading Well, no ononer they lost.
Well that in t Y Hilton was going off.

Speaker 4 (02:23:17):
Now he did what neither Andre nor DeAndre did, and
Nico matched it. The only receivers in Texans history with
one hundred plus and a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
Yeah, because I yeah there would be times where they
would get the yards but they wouldn't score or vice versa.
Andre had a really nice touchdown in that. I think
it was the second time they played the Bengals in
the wild Card, or maybe it was the first.

Speaker 4 (02:23:40):
Game with you guys had an opportunity on Monday to
revisit the Chris Crocker touchdown scored by Arion foster Man.

Speaker 3 (02:23:47):
Arian being back was cool.

Speaker 4 (02:23:49):
I mean, I'm sure it was for him too, and
he kind of acknowledged that even before he'd gone through
some of the stuff that he was going to do.
When he got with the prize, I think he was
very surprised by the cannon on the field.

Speaker 3 (02:24:01):
Everybody usually is he's to be in the Ring of Honor.

Speaker 4 (02:24:04):
Well, I think this is one of the things that
makes people realize that they this is what you have
it for. That's what are you gonna have a Ring
of Honor for? If Andre Johnson and JJ Watt are
the only ones in it. I mean, to a certain extent,
you want it to be very very difficult to get into,
very very exclusive. You don't want a haul of This
guy's pretty good, but it's gonna be a while. And

(02:24:28):
I don't think Joe Mixon has enough years left as
a Texan to even begin to be a part of
the conversation, which means nobody else is in the conversation.
Twenty four years, in twenty five years, in twenty six
years in however far along we keep going to saying, yeah,
he was almost as good as Arian Foster running the
football for this team. You know, Aaron Foster was like

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Andre just for a shorter period of time. This is
the best running back in football. That's what Arian was
here for multiple seasons in Houston. Obviously, JJ was the
same for defensive players defensive end, and he did it
for many more years, and thus a Ring of Honor
inclusion for JJ Watt is obviously in the works and
very deserved for him.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
But yeah, I absolutely think that is.

Speaker 4 (02:25:11):
You don't have to be a Hall of Famer, even
though I think he did some of the things that
other Hall of famers did, like Terrell Davis, except without
extreme postseason success. You don't have to be a Pro
Football Hall of Famer to join this city's Hall of Honor,
Wall of Honor, red jacket ceremony coming. Yeah, I think

(02:25:32):
he absolutely belongs there, and I do think that's something
that will happen in the not too distant future. Joe
Mixon joined him as a one hundred yard postseason rusher
with a touchdown. He and Aaron Foster are the only
Texans to do that, and presumably CJ. Stroud accumulates one
hundred and forty eight yards passing Saturday, and in doing so,

(02:25:56):
he'll bump Joshan Watson a second all time on the
techin passing list.

Speaker 2 (02:26:00):
I mean he has to have an absolute dog lick
game to not bump down the freak.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
Yeah, they're gonna need him.

Speaker 4 (02:26:08):
Also, yeah, they're probably gonna need I do think they
can have success running the football, and it took a while.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
I'm sure this was mentioned in the last two days.

Speaker 4 (02:26:15):
The early returns on the Texans running game were not
good as that game started against the Chargers and there
weren't places to go for Joe. There wasn't a lot
of ground to gain. There are a lot of bad
down and distant situations facing the offense on third down.
And as the game wore on, as the score kind
of equalized, they got better. They found places to go.

(02:26:38):
They called I think plays they might have not called
earlier in the game that they thought might be more successful.
Five guys up front did a nice job. I do
think the Texans will miss cade Stover. He was officially
put on IR earlier this week. He will be unavailable
for this game and the rest of the season. Saturday,
he did shoulder injury and subsequent surgery, so hopefully I'm

(02:26:59):
not sure when he'll return, but sometime during the offseason.
Taking Quittorreano at some point this week will be put
on the active roster. I would assume he irvs. Smith
Junior and Dalton Schultz. There'll be your three tight ends
for this game.

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
And it matters, yeah, because Brevin Jordan has not been
there all year and he figured to take the next
step this season.

Speaker 3 (02:27:18):
And yeah, that's why you were.

Speaker 2 (02:27:20):
Even put into the situation where I mean, Kate Stover
was a rookie, but I don't know that he plays
this much if Brevin Jordan's healthy.

Speaker 4 (02:27:27):
Probably not, although I think he brings something that Jordan
and Schultz don't and that's why he's the guy they
line up in the backfield on occasion a lead blocker,
sometimes as a fullback. I do think he runs good
enough routes. They're pretty simple what they're asking him to do.
Just many tight ends that would be the case. It's
not specific just Stover and that he's a rookie, but
I think he mattered. I think he mattered even more

(02:27:49):
just like you said, obviously with Jordan's absence, and I
think it's gonna matter even more that they're continuing to
need to bump guys up or Smith Junior. I think
was a very good pickup I'm glad they finally put
him on the active roster. I think he's a good
blocker to target him all season long. If you remember,
this whole thing got started with Teagan Quatoriano catching a
touchdown pass from Davis Mills to open up the preseason

(02:28:11):
long ago. Here, this twenty twenty four and now twenty
twenty five campaign, lots still to get to. We might
have missed some things or two. That's what's coming your
way next.

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Speaker 3 (02:29:09):
What do we have today?

Speaker 18 (02:29:10):
All right, So while you were gone, wex Mike McCarthy
and the Cowboys. Of course, the news came out they
will not reunite after his contract expires, which in this
case had expired yesterday, so he's free to take any
other job and he will remember earlier this season, people
thought that Micah Parsons was taking a shot at Mike McCarthy. Well,

(02:29:31):
just yesterday Micah on his podcast On the Edge with
Micah Parsons, talking about McCarthy's departure.

Speaker 19 (02:29:39):
Obviously very sad because the relationships, you know, we had
with coach McCarthy and everything he's done for our program,
three straight twelve and five seasons, playoff appearances, and obviously
an unfortunate year due to injuries and things like that.

Speaker 8 (02:29:53):
But it is devastating.

Speaker 19 (02:29:55):
You know, Coach Mike's a great father coach, one of
the most winningest coaches, and you know he's always been
good to us as a unit as to the coaches players.
So you know, losing a great coach like Mike Hurtz,
you know it's going to be a complete reset.

Speaker 18 (02:30:11):
That last part right there, a complete reset, if I'm
not mistaken Micaeh Parsons, entering his final season under contract
with the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (02:30:23):
Coach firings. Isn't that what a complete reset is?

Speaker 18 (02:30:26):
But would you want to be part of a quote
unquote He's huge reset.

Speaker 2 (02:30:30):
He's basically saying, is this the Miles Garrett situation where
he's not wanting to be a part of a rebuild?

Speaker 3 (02:30:36):
He's still very reset and rebuild are different.

Speaker 4 (02:30:41):
Yeah, the reset is normally for a team firing as
coach that didn't get what they wanted, didn't get where
they won, right. A rebuild is the Browns they're drafting
at the top. They stink they won three games, they
won four.

Speaker 3 (02:30:53):
If you're rebuilding in Dallas, that means Dak is going
elsewhere too.

Speaker 4 (02:30:56):
Like a reset could include we're going to rebuild and
we're gonna figure out a way to eat Dax money
now and be bad. And because we're doing that, we
run the risk of exactly what Dan's getting at. Micah
Parson says, Okay, if you're actually calling this reset and
now operating it like a rebuild, No, I don't want
to resign here, but the odds are still pretty good

(02:31:19):
that he's gonna get paid either way and get his
way either way. Either the Cowboys pay him huge money
and maybe it takes a year longer to force them
to trade him with his massive contract, or he runs
the risk of saying I'm not gonna resign here, I
don't want the extension, and then saying we do have
the option of franchise him for year six.

Speaker 3 (02:31:41):
And year seven. Come clowney, Well you.

Speaker 2 (02:31:45):
Saw how that went. Texan's found a way to botch that.
And who's in charge in Dallas the only guy that
could probably botch something more than Bill O'Brien.

Speaker 4 (02:31:52):
Well, consider this at least reasonable enough comparison to Jadevion,
except for the fact that there was no there's no other.
There was another side to the Jidavian discussion. Should you
extend him? Is he gonna stay healthy? Is he everything
you think he can be? And is he enough? None
of those questions exist for Parsons. I mean, his health

(02:32:13):
is no different than any other NFL player, even with
whatever injuries he's had throughout his career. But that's it.
You don't have a question about the player. Arguably, he
had the most impactful season on a per snap basis
as any player in this league. He was phenomenal again
as he always has been from the moment he got there.
He is a generational talent. He is a game wrecord.

(02:32:33):
They should not be available. Cowboys ought to figure out
a way to hire a coach and have a season
that has them competing with the Commanders and others for
the other non division winning available wild card spots in
one year. Do you not believe the Cowboys can compete
for the playoffs next year?

Speaker 2 (02:32:55):
Well, they're not winning the divisions. That's automatically Domino number one.

Speaker 3 (02:32:58):
Yes, I put him after the E.

Speaker 2 (02:33:00):
Does that means you have to be a very good
NFC team in all likelihood because of what else is
in the NFC.

Speaker 4 (02:33:06):
You gotta win nine or ten games. Ten games did
not get some teams in the playoffs, but it did
get other teams in. If you don't do that and
don't have a clear plan of doing that, odds are
pretty good that you're running into one of your multiple
unhappy futures without Michael Parsons.

Speaker 2 (02:33:23):
Are you winning nine ten games in that division when
the commis just got better than you? Two?

Speaker 4 (02:33:30):
What if the Commanders have a Texans like second season
they won. The Texans won the same number of games.

Speaker 2 (02:33:35):
Unless they're not addressing their offensive line, they won't.

Speaker 4 (02:33:38):
That isn't their problem per se. But it's not a
given that second year of a quarterback who had a
great first year, it's automatically going to go tremendously.

Speaker 3 (02:33:45):
Well.

Speaker 4 (02:33:46):
I mean, Deshaun Watson even in Houston went from playoffs
to a four win season while he was healthy the
whole year.

Speaker 3 (02:33:53):
Yeah, but he had other things going on and their
defense was kind of bad allegedly.

Speaker 18 (02:33:57):
All right, what else in case you missed it, because
I think thank you guys talked about a little bit earlier.
Texas quarterback Quinn Yours declaring it for the NFL Draft
and signing it with an agent. So he's gone. It's
arch Manning time there. Here's where things kind of get
interesting with yours. Cbssports dot Com putting out their draft
prospects for yours. They have him as a Day two

(02:34:19):
pick in his comparison Davis Mills. Not a Day two
pick unless that was a time when the third round
was I guess it is a day two pick rounds
two and three. Excuse me that I could see that
and I could see the comparison, and I think there's
others that I would make, and I've had way too
many opportunities to do so. With the Longhorn faithful that
are in this text chain that won't stop. Quinn yours

(02:34:44):
really really good at Texas period. Quinn yours really really
good at Texas this year and last year. When things
are perfect, if you give him a pocket, if you
have a running game, he's been really really good. He
was awesome in winning the game because of how he
played against Arizona State and then against Ohio State. Unfortunately,

(02:35:08):
most of what had caused them to not put teams
away or not perform as well offensively. He's not gonna
make five mistakes in a game, but he's probably gonna
make one big one. And clearly the offensive line had
a hand in it.

Speaker 4 (02:35:21):
Both of the play calls inside the first and goal
five tries situation, you had awful play call on the
pitch play, you have five guys for Ohio State waiting
for it. There's no blocks that could have been made
to make that successful. So now you're eight yards away
on your and goals and then your right tackle doesn't
even lay a hand on Jack Sawyer and quin You

(02:35:41):
were s thought he could get the ball off and
he couldn't.

Speaker 3 (02:35:43):
You're twenty one to fourteen.

Speaker 4 (02:35:45):
Let's say he just falls down twenty one to fourteen
with your timeouts and more than two minutes remaining. That's
not a terrible place to be stop Ohio State and
you got a chance, which they could have instead it's
twenty eight to fourteen. And again it's not on him,
but those mistakes have happened when he's been the quarterback
of this team. Look that have got people on the
other side of his time at Texas, which will probably

(02:36:08):
be viewed better as years go by.

Speaker 3 (02:36:11):
It was a pretty good era.

Speaker 2 (02:36:13):
I was shocked at how many near records he had,
like we're the only guy in front of him was
cult McCoy. I just didn't realize. I guess that he
was putting up those type of prolific numbers just because
he doesn't seem like he's that. But I'm telling you
right now, the narrative, the storyline, the subplot, all that,
it's all in place. If Arch finishes the job, you

(02:36:36):
don't even remember Quinny Eywrs's name, and that's unfortunate, but
I think that's how it's gonna go like from a
you know, the true diehards will but like if arch
Manning finishes, and I know that's a tall task considering
the offense is getting unloaded.

Speaker 4 (02:36:50):
Yeah, I mean quinn Ewers Wingo and the one offensive
lineman that will return next year, they'll probably get it done.
They'll have at least eight new starters next year on offense.
But if they're all better, they're not gonna be all better.

Speaker 2 (02:37:03):
I'm just say I haven't been on the field.

Speaker 4 (02:37:05):
The offensive line is definitely not going to be better.
They have talent even more impressive, not saying they're gonna
fall off the map. And I have tons of talent
in the backfield, backs, your back receivers. They have tons
of talent period, they just haven't played.

Speaker 1 (02:37:18):
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Speaker 3 (02:37:43):
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Speaker 3 (02:37:53):
The Summer of Fun here now into twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3 (02:38:00):
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Speaker 3 (02:38:20):
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So we got a couple of pairs of passes to
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You get to meet and greet and get a pick
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of the deats for Sandlot Crewe and this special viewing

(02:38:46):
and Q and A session. I'm not sure exactly which
of the Yeah Yeah, Ham Squints Scottie Crew will be there,
but hopefully that will be there and in order to
when you call this number and answer this question about
something we talked about earlier this hour is actually a
football at five at seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two, one two five

(02:39:06):
seven ninety mentioned that, of course the A team had
you covered with the Texans Chargers postgame that's me doing
nothing and Dan and Ac in the Texans locker room
after the game. Ac mentioned a conversation he had with
Nico Collins just before he met with the media that
also included Dalton Schultz, and we played for you a

(02:39:28):
line from a very popular movie we now know Nico
Collins believes is a top five all time comedy played
a line from that movie, Nico loves It. What is
the movie that we now know you and Dalton and
Nico were talking about just prior to interviewing him after

(02:39:48):
his record breaking performance against the Charger.

Speaker 2 (02:39:51):
How many people are gonna call in and say that
the name of the movie is the main character's name
instead and get it wrong.

Speaker 4 (02:39:57):
Uh, they won't get it wrong because we're not Al
or Colin or Ken, some of your more popular hosts
or Mayam of Jeopardy program, pop culture celebrity regular Blossom,
I mean well, she hosted some up some one, three,
seven nine Again, Colin, if you know the name of that,
I'm almost ready to start giving the hints away so

(02:40:20):
you can get those tickets to go see the said.

Speaker 2 (02:40:21):
Lot cast hashtag Spider Monkey, hashtag spiders and a lot
of sponsors involved in this movie because of the subject
matter and their meal that became very famous. Passed by
some wonder bread in the store early this morning.

Speaker 4 (02:40:35):
Yep, and uh, probably a good idea, just like NFL
players would say, with now just eight teams remaining, if
you ain't first, yeah, you know where you are.

Speaker 3 (02:40:44):
Hopefully you're hopped up on Mountain dew. Uh, let's see,
let's see.

Speaker 2 (02:40:50):
Dear Lord, baby Jesus in a manger, rackets checks and yeah,
totally lost, no idea. I can't remember you were you
were going some where with Texans.

Speaker 4 (02:41:01):
Well, one thing I never got to and we have
the time to get to it now, all right, Kansas
City Chief Since twenty eighteen regular season, epic or postseason,
they're fifteen to three in the postseason in that time,
what do you think their record is?

Speaker 3 (02:41:15):
And then the regular season one hundred and sixteen games
they've won ninety of them.

Speaker 4 (02:41:25):
That's exactly right, Really, exactly correct.

Speaker 10 (02:41:29):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (02:41:30):
So if insert reference did not know that name is
their official, they win ninety out of one hundred and
sixteen times. Whether it's John Smith, Ron Jones, Sarah Fisher,
it doesn't matter. They're awesome. So when Clay Martin so

(02:41:52):
simple it sounds made up. Clay is named the lead
official for their upcoming playoff game against the Texans, and
it is deemed necessary on the X platform to note
this is over. The Chiefs are six and oh when
Klay Martin officiates their games.

Speaker 3 (02:42:11):
Look it is, I get it. Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (02:42:14):
The research team put more effort into it than than
just what I've given you.

Speaker 2 (02:42:17):
Oh yeah, and we will get to those numbers. But
just before we do, of all people, I understand, trust me,
I do. It's just not the same as the NBA
when you find out Scott Foster's Tony Brothers the other
night was an absolute ass again what he did? Hey, Tony,
I know that you just said that this happened, which

(02:42:41):
you completely made up because you clearly didn't see what happened.

Speaker 3 (02:42:43):
But then on top of it, yeah, it's a neat
second filation.

Speaker 2 (02:42:46):
How there was twenty one seconds on the shot clock
last time I check, it's a twenty four second shot
clocks that's three off. That's not like, what are you
doing out there? And then we didn't even because he couldn't.
We didn't get an explanation in the arena. You know why,
you know, the PA announcer Jonathan Sanford didn't say anything
because he never said anything to him.

Speaker 3 (02:43:05):
He just said, it's their ball. And guess what.

Speaker 2 (02:43:07):
They were trailing by three at halftime after they hit
a three pointer on the ensuing possession after he gave
the ball back to Memphis, but the Rockets once, So
it's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:43:15):
Thank goodness, it's okay. So Clay Martin, Yeah, one of
the games is a playoff game. The other five games
were regular seasons going back to twenty nineteen.

Speaker 3 (02:43:25):
Was at the game? Oh, don't tell me it was
that game? Just these are random. These couldn't be more random.
But was it the game that the Texans lost a
twenty four to nothing lead.

Speaker 4 (02:43:33):
None of the Texans games are included here. The one
playoff game was against Cleveland. Cleveland was obviously a playoff team.
The Chiefs were fifteen to two after that victory, and
they because we always count victories in the postseason, we
have to They won the AFC, they were the number
one seed.

Speaker 3 (02:43:52):
They went to the Super Bowl. They're pretty good.

Speaker 4 (02:43:54):
They won that game twenty two to seventeen, and they
were called for seven penalties in that game.

Speaker 3 (02:43:58):
Cleveland was called for three.

Speaker 4 (02:44:00):
The Chiefs had more penalties, and four of the six games,
the Chiefs had more penalties forty nine to forty. In
these six games, they were penalized for more yards in
four of these six games. The game that James Palmer
brought up earlier today in how they find a way
to win close games. A Klay Martin officiated game where
Vegas' center snapped the ball before the quarterback was ready

(02:44:21):
on the final series of the game, which resulted in
a fumble that the Chiefs recovered. The Chiefs were ten
to one at the time, the Raiders were two to
nine at the time, and a Klay Martin officiated game
won by the Chiefs. They won over Carolina, who was
five and eleven. They won another Raiders game where the
Raiders were seven and nine. They won a game two

(02:44:41):
games against Miami where the Dolphins were called for nine
total penalties and the Chiefs were called for seventeen penalties.

Speaker 2 (02:44:49):
Yes see.

Speaker 3 (02:44:49):
Look, but the.

Speaker 4 (02:44:50):
Seven and two Chiefs and the twelve and one Chiefs
won each time. These are the six games that have
fools on the X platform saying, oh they're six and
zero and Clay Martin is out there.

Speaker 2 (02:45:03):
They're awesome. They win almost every single game no matter
what happens. And I couldn't find any reason even looking
at the individual penalties. Maybe there was a pass interference.

Speaker 4 (02:45:13):
Call that went their way, maybe there's a rough in
the passer call that went their way, and those individual
calls happened with all of the referee.

Speaker 2 (02:45:19):
Even Ben Duboureem would laugh at this, and he knows
I'm giving him some affectionate, good natured ribbing here.

Speaker 3 (02:45:26):
It's just not the same. They can't.

Speaker 2 (02:45:28):
Officials in the NFL can't directly affect the game nearly
as much as NBA guys.

Speaker 4 (02:45:33):
On top of that, yeah, when it happens late in
the game, like against the Bengals this year. It stands
out when it happens against the Saints in a playoff game,
late in the game, when you get a pass interference.

Speaker 3 (02:45:43):
The Eagles and the Chiefs game in the Super Bowl,
that is more.

Speaker 4 (02:45:46):
The first meeting between the Rams and the Vikings when
Sam Darnold was violently pulled by his helmet so badly,
the Rams player put his hands on his head, going,
I can't believe I just did that. They're gonna get
fifteen yards and the officials missed it completely. So it
does happen. It will happen. We will be frustrated. I
don't think it's because of Clay Martin.

Speaker 2 (02:46:06):
Heads up as he's Alshaier. Wait, poor choice of words,
but you know what I mean. Yeah, he's gonna have
a bulls on his back going into the game because
of who the quarterback is and what his reputation is.

Speaker 4 (02:46:15):
Take care of business, so that isn't the only business
we're talking about. Coming next Monday, Rockets basketball on News
Radio seven forty kjr H.

Speaker 3 (02:46:22):
Later tonight, we'll talk to you again tomorrow at

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