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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Got the Texans getting back out on the practice field,
rockets off tonight. They're gonna get back to action tomorrow
afternoon against the Nets in Brooklyn, and then the college
football playoff starts tonight. You got the Cotton Bowl between
Miami and Ohio State. So let's just get right to it, Cole,
because I mean, you know, the Texans inching towards the playoffs.
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They're in the playoffs. That's not the issue. It's just
a question of where. And I guess when I mean
probably no matter what. Just without off the top of
my head, remembering all of the teams are going to
be playing on Wildcard weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, they won't be the first game, because that's gonna
be whoever comes to the NFC South. Well, I think
that they won't be the first game if they are
the wild card team, because if they're the Steelers, I
would probably even get that could be a Monday night,
So you think it would be the last game play, Yeah,
I think it could be. I would say it's the
Saturday night game. I still don't think it's going to
be on Sunday. I think it's the Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I mean that's the beauty of who they would
be playing against, because I mean the last couple of years,
let's just look at it. Even though in Cleveland the
Browns are a big enough draw, nationally, they're not a
big enough draw, so you knew that that's where it
was going to be. It was the same deal last
year with the Chargers. When you play teams like the Steelers,
the Chiefs, maybe even the Bills, teams like that, then
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you're not going to get that very first game right
out the game.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Right I mean, if you're looking at it from the
standpoint of where would be the match between Tampa and
and who I'm playing on Carolina may be facing off
against Seattle or San Francisco. I think is the notion
that one, because that would the loser of the NFC
West game on Saturday night this week. They're the highest
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seat in the wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right, So I mean, just looking at it right now,
and of course, you know you get the spinning wheel
when you really need something to pop up on you.
That would probably be My guess is that I will.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Say right now that is going to be the first
game to kick us off in playoff Formatt.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, I mean and again too, you know just what
the Texans getting, you know, where they look like they're
going to be there against whoever wins the AFC North.
I mean, I think even Baltimore would you know, just
with their recent success, would be somebody that you're not
gonna have playing right out the gate.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But no, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, whoever you know plays between Tampa Bay or Carolina.
I think that that's the one that the NFL would say, Yeah,
that's probably the one that we can lead things off with,
like it's a good enough game, but it's not going
to be a massive enough draw.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Then you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It would be either against San Francisco or against the
Seattle Seahawks. If it's Seattle, because San Francisco wins that game,
then yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I will say if Seattle is the representative in the
wild Card round, your matchups will be per order. Saturday
afternoon will be Carolina versus Seattle. The night game will
be whatever game Houston is in, whether that be they're
hosting a playoff game at home or they're playing against
Pittsburgh Steelers or the Baltimore Ravens. You'll have Jacksonville play
the next day you'll have Buffalo be the CBS game
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whoever they face off against, and then you'll will have
the Chicago Bears be the night game, and then the
Monday night game will be the number. I believe it
would be three seed Philadelphia versus Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Do you know what we're completely you know, just glossing
over the fact that I mean, if things stay the
way that they are right now, Jacksonville wins, which they
probably will against Tennessee on Sunday, So Jacksonville wins that game,
it would be them. That is, if chalk holds right
now the way it is, it would be them against
the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's your Saturday afternoon game. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about
that game. I'll fight back with you on this one. Yes,
it's a Saturday game that will be the Saturday night game.
I think that's because because you can't sell me, okay,
just to me a favorite. Can you really sell me
on the idea at any point Monday night standalone game
or just Sunday alone game, Carolina versus whoever is going
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to be a better matchup than Jacksonville versus LA. You
can sell me on it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For a Saturday night. That would be a great matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can't sell me that Carolina is gonna be a
more primetime event than Jackson versus LA. No, Carolina is
gonna get either one of the early windows.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean, I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You're gonna want You're gonna want to have good primetime matchups.
That's where you know, Saturday night, Sunday Night, and then
which I mean, I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
To remember, did they do a Sunday night or do
they do Sunday Night.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's it's it's two three two, okay, so it is
two three one.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I mean I think that probably, you know, one
of those will be Buffalo, New England. I mean again,
if if things stay the way that they are, that's
that's what you'd be looking for.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Affalow in New England I think will be the midday
game of Sunday, and then the night game will be
Chicago versus LA.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's okay, Yeah, that makes sense all right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But anyway, I threw it out on Twitter on the
Sports Talk seven ninety Twitter account. You can follow us
there at sports Talk seven ninety. The Texans season is
a success. If the Texans season is success if you
get past the division round. That's what I said too.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's I mean because of let's just call it as
says dude. This is the first year in the Demico
Ryans era where you will not go with ten wins
into the playoffs. This the first year in the Demico
Ryans era where you will have unequivocally the best defense
in the NFL. You've had great defenses in the NFL,
but this is the league's best defense. This will be
the first year in the Dimico Ryans era where potentially
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you could be a playoff team, and so it's changing
the narrative. This is the first year where it does
feel like it's so open, because if you don't have
Patch Mahomes winning on one side or Joe Burrow kind
of cast getting in the other corner, and you're ready
to figure out what the hell is going to happen
between Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But neither one of those teams scare.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You that it's wide the conference, So you don't have
that tricky pathway of going toward a Denver or New
England or Jacksonville to think that, okay, if we lose
this game, it all comes down to because if we
weren't prepared or we weren't the batter team. No, you're
all evenly matched and you each have a fault to
where as long as that doesn't show up for four quarters,
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you should win.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm not saying going to the super Bowl or bus.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm saying, for the first time in franchise history, if
you want to sell me on the idea that this
team with twelve wins has actually taken that next step forward,
you could win the division route well.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I mean, and that's I think a little bit of
a difference here is exactly what you just said. I mean,
because even last year when you went to Kansas City,
I don't think that there was a strong enough belief
you can win that game. Like I think that if
the Texans had won that game, it would have been Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, they really performed in this one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And I mean, you know, not only having to battle
against Kansas City, you had to battle against the refs.
And then the NFL admits that significant mistakes were made
enough to be able to tell some referees. Yeah, your
services are no longer needed in this league. And you know,
I mean, just with all of the things that Texans
were saying after the game. It was warranted because it was, hey,
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we got jobbed, this sucked.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You got job But at the same time, I didn't believe,
like I maybe that's again, that's again doubting Cole coming
to the front lines and saying, look at me, look
at me.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm not believing in the Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
My big fear going into that game was number one,
your offensive line was not going to hold up for CJ. Stroud,
and number two, you were going to slow down Travis Kelsey.
Both things became realities in that game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Both of them did fair. Baron missed a field goal,
all of that kind of stuff. But you know, just
where I kind of think the Texans are right now.
I think they're in the same category as the Astros
were before they finally won in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You mean, good enough to be in the playoffs, not
good to that's it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean, because you know that's the thing is
fair or not doesn't matter the sport.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Your regular season doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like does anybody talk about the Rockets finishing second in
the West last year all the time?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Man?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You don't read the reddit boards. I mean a handful
of people. But yes, yeah, no, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I mean, because what if people talk about you lost
in the first round, fair or not you lost in
the first round. I mean the Astros all those years,
the ninety eight season, best record in the National League,
fantastic season, Randy Johnson's here.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Does anybody talk about the ninety eight season?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I mean it just it, it just.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Over It underscores what exactly matters the most, what you
do in the playoffs, because the only way that people
will talk about this team is exactly what you said.
You get to the AFC Championship Game. If you do that,
it's something you've never done before. I don't want to
see any banners if you don't win in the AFC
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Championship Game. I don't need any AFC finalist banners going up,
none of those things.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Don't want to pull a Jim Mercy. No, okay. And
then you know what for wild card win winners, that's
not even a banner, you know how, Like you've got
like the little kind of patting yale around the walls
on the field, throw down there right, bingo, there you go.
AFC wild Card twenty twenty five, just just it, just
put it in the corner somewhere where we can see it,
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but it's not prominent. No, you know what I mean,
we're even getting to the point here where I mean,
for the first time in a really long time, I
sat as a fan inside in RG Stadium the other
day and I was on the side they could see
the division winners, and I even thought about it. At
one point, I go, they can have to start putting
them on the other side. I think you get to
a point kind of like the Astros. Do you know
where the division flags are? Yeah, they're painted on the
very top top bingo. Yeah, yeah, right right there on
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the upper deck. Like if you're sitting up there, you
can see them. But aside from that, you're kind of like, hey,
the one that you're sitting in, like eighty four versus
so five, I can't see five. I'm sitting all the
way in the corner for sixty four.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But I mean that's by design because now the standards
have been raised over there at dyke In Park. But
the standars should have been raised for the Texans a
while ago, I think, at least since Tamiko got here
and they won and they went ten and seven and
won their first playoff game.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I mean when he first got here, we didn't know
what we didn't know sure, So I mean that first season,
I think it was a little bit of a feeling,
kind of like I remembered being at the Falcon Seahawks
playoff game when the Falcons miraculously pulled off the win,
and you had Pete Carroll and everybody coming off the
field and saying, you know, this sucks, this feeling, but
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we also know the future is so bright. And then
the future happened the very next year because they went
to and they won the Super Bowl. There was a
little bit of a feeling of that here of even
though they got pants in Baltimore by the Ravens, it was,
let's make some improvements and we can run this thing
back and we can do some special things.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's why I think last year.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Was such a disappointment to people, because you really didn't
capitalize on good momentum.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, but at the same time, the injuries that derailed
the season defensively, especially in the secondary hurt. Not having
a stable offensive line, heard the wide receiver constant miscues
that you have with no Stefon Diggs, and we don't
want to talk about him this morning, Tank Della, this
situation gone on with him, like those things also derailed
the seas.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I agree with you on one thing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Like the Texans in twenty twenty three, you can go
ahead and sell me on the idea that they were
only a few pieces away from being a championship contender. Guys,
they had a fourth play schedule, they went ten and seven.
You established it that you have a franchise quarterback, a
franchise difference maker coming off of the edge, a really
good wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
One take that as a win.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like I I'm not trying to say that the goal
at the end of the day should not be to
win the Super Bowl. It's year three for Demiko Riots.
That should be the goal. At this point. You have
the talent, you have the veteranship, you have the maturity,
you have the experience in the playoffs. But like year one,
you went to the playoffs, you won a playoff game,
and you held yourself for a half against Baltimore, Like
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that's a good moral victory.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But now it's your three, there's no more moral victories.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
There is a We've done this before, We've been in
the situation before.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Why can't we get past the situation. And that's exactly
it is. I mean, you know, I talk about it
all the time, of getting up to the line. I
mean Texans fans are tired of getting up to the line.
I mean they've been up to that line. Twenty eleven,
you thought, all right, you know, first playoff team, first
division winner, and you've got TG Yates is your quarterback.
But this defense is amazing, and you've got Arian Foster,
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You've got Andre Johnson. You feel like, all right, hey,
maybe you can pull off a win. And then you
get a muff punt budge of Kobe Jones and Baltimore
is able to win and they're able to go on
their run. Twenty twelve, you ran into the Patriots. I mean,
we all know the history of this team. That winning
the divisions, that's not the goal anymore. Getting to the
playoffs the same deal there. Winning a playoff game, bingo.
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Now it's get past that divisional round, get past that
divisional round and get to the AFC championship game, and
then you can recalibrate your expectations from there.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think this year is different because of who is
in the playoffs for the AFC, because of the fact
that you are one of the more experienced teams, because
of the fact that you are one of these teams
that has an elite defense that can bail you out
of trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
And we've talked about this so many times. Dude, twenty
is the number.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You give me?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Twenty points. I'm not saying I'm comfortable with it, but
I can work with it. I I'm Demika rans you
give me twenty, I feel good. That should be a
reason why. Doesn't matter. Location, doesn't matter, opponent doesn't matter,
quarterback doesn't matter, defense that you go up against. You
should feel confident going into the playoffs that you can
make it to the championship game. Can you make it to.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The Super Bowl? Let's wait and see.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Let's do something that the city has never seen before,
which is going to play in the third round of
the playoffs. Speaking of that Texans defense, they're really good
this season for one particular reason we'll discuss as that
We are just getting going here on a New Year's
Eve edition of.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Right here Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Where then tomorrow, you get Texas Tech Oregon, you get
Alabama Indiana, and then you also get Georgia Ole Miss
in the nightcap, which, by the way, did you see
that Georgia and ole Miss almost had a repeat of
Miami and Florida years ago?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love the fact that these two teams are gonna
hate each other for the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
See, and that that works for me too. But I
gotta tell you, and I mean, I think most people
are probably pulling forward to easily eas easily. So, I mean,
you obviously can't see in the studio right now, but
I have just because also it's too it's it's really warm,
but I've got a Georgia pullover on.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This is how dare you wear other SEC colors? You
Tiger fan? Well, I mean see, And that's the thing too.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is a lot of it, A lot of it's okay,
A lot of it is either A I like the
look of it, or B in this case right here,
a lot of good friends that I have in the
program over there, So I'm supposed to one day because
if I have good friends in Tennessee, where that gaudy
orange color.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
As an Alabama grad.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I mean, if you want to sure never catch me
wearing the colors of my enemy. You will never catch
me where in the same repetition of my foes. That
is the dishonor of what we see in the world
of college football. I wear Crimson and every once in
a while because my wife makes me, I wear Texas color.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So that's well, I mean, like, you gaa d Josh
Brooks good friend, he's a good guy, really really good guy.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, I know that you want them to win, because
if you just want a litle miss Fancas, shut the
hell up.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well no, there's that too.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Like I'm just so sick and tired of the just
recency bias, and not only recncy bias, but just like
completely glossing over the fact of why you're there.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And I know that you do some work with sec
and filtered.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I completely agree with your co host Chris Phillips where
this is where coaching is going to matter.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh listen, I think it's going to be a close
game because if I trust the quarterback play of both teams.
But at the end of the day, you're telling me, hey,
Pete Goldinger, Kirby smart, that's a question that's The problem
here is like I can come up with every scenario
of how good it's going to be for ole Miss
and what they could do to set the tempo and
if they do X, Y and Z. Brother, you're telling
me a guy who's going into a second game as
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a head coach versus a two time national champion and
the dude who learned underneath Nick Saban on how to
beat up on teams like you throw thousands of dollars
so millions of triple A, take my next paycheck for
a month and a half and just throw it all
down on Georgia to win. If they lose, I'll double
your pay. That's so that's what I'll do right here there.
You go, TRIPLEY. That sounds like a move for you. Listen,
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it's it's just it's simple. It's very honest and open.
We understand that. You know, you look at Kirby Smart
versus Pete Golden. They're gonna win that game. But that
doesn't mean it can't be close. Talent does have the
matter and Olmost still is a talented team.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, and that's the thing too that we'll talk about
here a little bit later on this hour, because I
do want to get into the college football Playoff because
I'm intrigued by all four matchups. Like, I think the
only one that I could see getting a little lopsided
is tonight, Like I could see Ohio State completely throwing
fastballs and being able to pull away at Yeah, I
push back.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
This is the one game I think is going to
be the closest. Really I do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I like my like Miami's a defense pre me last
week when they faced off against Texas A and M.
And the thing about that was Miami coming into that
game had nine sacks, they had eight tackles for losses.
A and M's offensive line only gave up eleven sacks
during the regular season. Can you tell me how many
sacks are in the regular season Ohio State's offensive line
give up?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I give you hand. I just said the number. What
was the number eleven? They gave up five eleven. I'm
just saying it's the exact state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So if you get a better offensive personnel, you're not
going to be outside in thirty mile per hour wins.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
So kicks should be going up at Jerry World.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Jerry Jones is probably throwing some money down on the
officials to go ahead and make sure that Ohio State
suffers and makes it closer than expected. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I think this is going to be one of the
better games than the college football player.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Jerry seems to like the Ohio State guys a lot
on his team, means Zeke Elliott a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So I mean, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There's probably off a defensive lineman that he would love
to pair alongside with Quinn Williams that currently plays out.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Make sure that they move on a little bit more
or you know, help out his cost a little bit,
sell the identity of him coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The one that excites me the most is the first
one out the gate tomorrow, Texas Tech and Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's physical on physical. That's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's the one game I can't put a pit on. Like,
if you told me Oregon won by ten, wouldn't be shocked.
You told me the Texas Tech wins by twenty five,
wouldn't be shocked. You told me it comes down to
a game winning field goal, wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I think that's gonna be one of those Whatever the
over under is, take the under because I mean, both
defenses are fantastic.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
See I push back. Oregon's defense is good. Texas Tech
defense is a lead. Like that's where And I'll tell you,
I'll tell you what the stat that I'm gonna look
at the most. If you tell me the rushing yard
total for Oregon in this game over under, I'm gonna
set it at one. If it's over one forty, Oregon
wins the game. If it's under one forty, tex Tech
wins game. That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It gonna be a lot of fun. So you got
some good college football to get ready for. And also
to the playoff push still happening in the NFL. And
that's one thing too that with the Texans. You know
why this defense is so good, and it really comes
down to one word simple.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
It's simple.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So Football Insights on Twitter posted a graph last night
of team's shell rotation rate, which is a coverage rate,
and then also to blitz rates and all the way
right there on that graph the bottom left is the
Texans where blitz rate they are way under twenty percent,
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like I want to say, like they're almost like under
fifteen percent, like maybe like twelve or thirteen percent in
terms of their blitz rate and then shell rotation rate
just slightly above twenty and Football Insights at f ball
Underscore Insights on Twitter pointing out Texans defense minimal blitz,
minimal coverage, rotations, wreck havoc. Simple, as I said, it's
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one of those things that the beauty of this defense
works in its simplicity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure, I was gonna say more so the fact they
have an elite secondary that makes plays on the football
and just takes away balls from quarterbacks is what I
would look for. But I mean, yeah, I mean simple
minimal bzzays.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I guess that works too, because I mean the simplestity
of it too is you really got three good guys
that can get after the quarterback and you feel like
that they can win those battles.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Just to the same Bowl rush, Yeah, I would say five. Really, well,
Sheldon Rank is up to the interior. I think would
be considered as one. He showed that on Saturday, you
throw the two all pros.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Sure you thrown Derek Barnett.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I would probably then say Tommy Togia for how he's
played over the last several games.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Maybe even Deniko Autrey.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So yeah, six, six, I mean you're talking about six
dudes that on any given play can work their way
up into the backfield and make a quarterback feel the pressure.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
So the moral of the story is is Matt Burke
and Demiko Ryans say, we don't have to get exotic here,
we don't have to do a bunch of stuff. We've
just got guys that you put them one on one,
we can beat you, and you can only and you
can only double team really.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
One of them.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The same thing, though, needs to be said about what
you got in the secondary though, because of if you
get some coverage sacks, the reason why you're able to
create opportunities where you are running so simplistic is, hey,
we got a lockstep dude running toe to toe with
Derek Singland junior. We got an all pro wide receiver
that's getting shut down by Kamari last year. We got
Kaylin Block sitting over the top and he's hawking, and
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he's spying around, and you know, the second that you're
gonna watch, you're gonna watch a ballby throw across the
middle of the field. He's swooping in like a pear
green falcon going for the kill shot. I mean, like
the secondary I think has been such an underrated area
of success for Houston this year. That that's the reason
you can trust minimalistic blitzes and coverages and packages because
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of their taking away the deep shots down the field.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
All right, So some have a chance to make it
into their hall, but at least one of them has
something eyebrow raising about them, but it's not in their control.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
We'll discuss right here.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
As that we continue on the Morning Drive with Dan
and Cole right here on a New Year's Eve editions.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
So the LA Chargers now in LA, previously in San Diego,
and fairness Drew Brees did play for them, so releasing
a graphic yesterday with Breeze of course clad in the
powder blue Chargers jerseys, which by the way, I mean,
I I don't mind the Navy ones that they wore.
As a matter of fact, they're they're still pretty good Chargers,
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have a good uniform game, but the powder blues, I
feel like are what they need to go with at
all times.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
With the white helmets chargers. Yeah, it's it's the best
uniform combo in Thefoo. It's a it's a good look. Yeah,
it's a lot better than that p yellow that they
had that they decided to go with and people were like,
what is this?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Wasn't that their their their color Rush?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I think a few years a few years ago. I
think I want to say, when it even this year
that they did it?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Gross?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Was it this year? I think it was this year.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
See, I thought they went back to the dark blue
instead of the yellow ones because of how bad it was.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I mean, and that's the thing is, if you're gonna,
if you're gonna do color Rush, go dark blue.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Or maybe you go blue. At least looks good because.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I mean, the only one, you know, all powder blue
would be a little rough.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That'd be kind of tough, you mean, like with a
powdered blue helmet.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, but the only thing that can pull that off
ise ole miss in my opinion, Well.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I mean, and I do like their look with that.
It is good.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You of h It's it's kind of one of those
because fan base is it seems like, you know, if
if things don't go well when you wear an alternate jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Then your fan base tells you don't do it anymore. Well,
look at the look at the Oilers. Oh am, I
bad the.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Titans, man, I mean it hadn't gone well for them,
but I mean not a ton has going well for them.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The LA Chargers putting out a graphic with Breeze, of course,
because he did play for the Chargers San Diego with
a graphic twenty twenty six Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
In the caption Closer to Canton.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The responses are exactly what you think it would be,
and who do you think they would come from? All
just joy, all just absolute and agreeance. Yes, we love you,
we love you drew out here in San Diego because
we actually didn't leave like that team that decided to
go ahead and say stey a later.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So one of the first responses is somebody that I
think you all know that I'm a massive fian of
hold the Mayo. Devin Snow, sure, yeah, he's he's a
New Orleans guy, y'all. That first old lady who thought
the grass was greener had no problem moving on. But
want to talk about how much the guy meant to you?
After becomes because he becomes a living legend, and other
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Saints fans started to weigh in on this too. I
mean it's one of those that it's like, yeah, he
did play for you, but he didn't make his bones
with you.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I mean, the reason why we talk about him and
what he was able to accomplish as a rising star
wars because of what he did in San Diego. Now
what we remember him for is playing for to New
Orleans says absolutely.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I won't fight back with you on that, but I
brought this up with you. Also.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Steve Young, he's a Hall of Famer, great, great, great
great quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Won multiple Super Bowls. Where did he start his career
in Tampa Bay?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Actually it was with the LA Express and the USFL,
but still, yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Tam Bay in the NFL. Yeah, nobody reminds him of that.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But if Tampa Bay wants to go ahead and say
you got your start here, they're allowed to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
They were the ones that took him, they were the
ones that molded him. So Jim Kelly could have gone
in as a Houston gambler if he will not because
there's not a USFL Hall of Fame for that well,
it was pro football. It's the Pro Football Hall. Is
there a section that is set aside for the USFL.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
If there's a section set aside for the USFL, then
we should see a two time Hall of Famer in
Jim Kelly, one for the Causton Gamblers and then one
for the Buffalo Bills. We should, But that's not what
I'm trying to say here. What I'm trying to say
is that you look at a team, you look at
a guy like Steve Young. Sure, by all means go
in as a San Francisco forty nine er. That's what
you're known for. But if Tampa went to claim him,
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they're kind of allowed to because of they drafted him.
San Diego drafted Drew Brees, but the first pick of
the second round. He started for them for multiple years.
That's the only good grace that they have as a
Hall of Famer right now, because Philip Rivers just shot
himself in the foot and took him out of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So you have some others that, along with players, are
up for enshrinement.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Bill Belichick is one of them. You've got.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
He hasn't been out that long though.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I mean I saw him on the list of being
up for enshrine. Man is coaching different than players?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It must be, okay, and it must be because I
mean I saw that he was on there, and then
also too as a contributor Robert Kraft.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I saw, I saw it for it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Let me ask you, if Bill Belichick is to be
inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he will get
there eventually, is he a lot of coach in the NFL?
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Again?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
See, I wanted the same thing. I mean, I would
think so. I mean, it's one of those like you
can't keep somebody from an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
If I was told, well, okay, Phil up Rivers, let's
say he gets in the Hall of Fame this year.
He like, let's say he's sat out all of this
year and now he's forty five years old, Right, is
the NFL going to allow him to go come back
and play as he's already in the Hall of Fame?
Probably not. They probably say, dude, we gave you your
accoli accolades, you're in the enshrinment. You're done. I think
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that has to be a question asked to Bill, Bill,
are you actually coming back? Like, are you really gonna
want to get this thing going one more time? Or
are you good in college? Are you gonna go end
up being in Chapel Hill? Are you in Geordam gonna
get married up there and.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Just call it a day? Correct?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But it's gonna happen. So this is gonna She's gonna
run him dry.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
See.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I mean, somebody who used to sit in one of
these seats here on this show brought up what happens
when they have a child, and I was like, oh, gross.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But you mean grandpa bought. I mean grandpa Dad is
gonna be taking care of him Insuran's gonna be changing
two diapers soon. We're okay with that anyway. So you've
got let's see how many on this list? You got
two out of automatic qualifiers that are gonna be in true.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So you got fifteen on this list.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And yeah, I mean those two guys that you just
mentioned Willie Anderson, who I think should be in h
You got Jarry Evans, Frank Gore, Tory Holt, Luke Keighley,
who I also think should be in Eli Manning, Terrell Suggs,
Adam Vinattieri, Reggie Wayne, Kevin Williams, Jason Witten, Darryl Woodson,
Darren Woodson, and Marshall Yonda our finalists on this list.
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I said about four that if I had votes that
I would put in on this one. The first two
that we mentioned, obviously Breeze and Fitzgerald their locks. I
would put Willie Anderson in, and then I would put
Adam Vinatieri.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You have one more vote, though, because it's five, okay,
so you can do five of them.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Five, boy, it gets challenging it at a point.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean this is a tough one between Keighley and Witten,
because I mean, Witten was one of the best at
his position and and Keithley was too.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You see, that's the thing. Keickley's peak was shorter is
the problem, but it was it was better. No, and
that's exactly it is.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I mean, because when he was at his best, he
was the most dominant inside linebacker in the game.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I want to say the controversial part out loud. I
love Jason Witten, and I think he's a very solid
player and he should have get in the Hall of Fame.
I love Frank Gore. I think that he's a very
solid player. He should get in the Hall of Fame.
I'm not getting you in first ballot.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
The argument, the argument against Gore is going to be
he held on for so long.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
That's the point is that both of them held on
for so long, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
But I also think though too. And it's again, you know,
whenever we get into these discussions, what comes in is,
you know, the whole reason that Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens are not in the Hall of Fame isn't because
of their ties to performance enhancing drugs. It's because they
were jerks. That's the only reason that they're not in.
Look at David Ortiz. David Ortiz is a guy that
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was affable as the day is long, and for that
very reason, people were willing to say, yeah, he made
a mistake. But if Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds played
the game with the media a little bit better, they're
Hall of famers right now.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But at the same time, I got five opportunities to
get people in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now, that's the thing, And that's the thing with Jason
Witten is that it's he was so terrible at being
an analyst.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
What does that have to do with his playing career? No,
I agree with you on that.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But like, I'm looking at Tory Holt and I'm looking
at Reggie Wayne, two top ten wide receivers in terms
of yards, in terms of catch, and they've been on
the ballot for multiple years. And I'm looking at Jason
Witten and I'm looking at Frank Gore, and They're two
guys who have proven that they have the numbers to
get on in. But the reason they also have the
numbers is because of the longevity. It's hard for me
to say, yeah, you guys were great players. Were you
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as elite as Reggie Wayne? No, were you as the
lead as Toy Holt. I think Toy holds one of
the most underappreciated wide receivers in the NFL. It's hard
for me to go ahead and say, your first year
in the ballot with these guys waiting after Andre got in,
that they don't belong in that conversation before you, Like
I will say, Willie Anderson, Drew Brees, and Larry Fitzherb
be my first three.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I thrown Keickley, I would thrown Reggie Wayne well.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And you know, I think the other part of all
of this, too, is that I always love, you know,
they're a Hall of Famer, but not right now.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And some people push back on that.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I get the argument, because it's okay, you only
have so many votes to be able to put people in.
Sometimes it's the number scheme that you just get edged
out where you've got the credentials you should be in,
and you eventually will be in, because well, then there
will come a year where maybe I don't know, you've
got ten finalists or whatever it is, that you've kind
of like whittled down the list enough, and then f
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fifteen is.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
The problem, and then you just bet every single year
it gets smaller and smaller of names who are actually
qualified for right. So like that's where you are, Like
I'm looking at Darren Woodson and I'm like, is he
an elite Hall of Famer? No? But has he been
on the ballot long enough to where we can have
the conversation of him versus Frank Gore him versus Eli
Manning him versus Jason Witten?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And I think at that point that's where you got
kind of go look and say, we're out of situation.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Up when we don't have a name that feels so elite.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We got to look at the entire longevity of their career,
their peaks, their highs or lows, and their situation on
the ballot.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Like Reggie Wayne, Torry Holton, Darren Woodson.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I think of a better case than Frank Gore and
Eli Manning right now, simply because of what they accomplished
in their careers and how long they've been waiting.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
See Like I mean, I even see a guy like
Reggie Wayne, and you wonder how he's out because I
think the argument is he wasn't even the best he
wasn't even the best skill guy on his team.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah, but it helps when you have a number two
that goes along cyber Marmon Harrison.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Oh yeah, it absolutely does, and he became the number one.
I think that that's something else that when the argument
is made in there. And you know, I remember a
few years ago working with John McLain and he kind
of took us through how this process goes. I mean,
there is where whoever the Indianapolis beat guy is, that's
that's been on the beat for years will stand up
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and they'll give their presentation to the voters of why
this guy is a Hall of Famer. I mean, McLean's
done it numerous times, and you have it all throughout
the league. So whoever that is, I'm sure will probably
give you know their reasoning for why Reggie Wayne should
be in, and that's probably going to be number one.
Is Okay, Yeah, you're gonna say that he had Marvin
Harrison there, he had Dallas Clark there and in all
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very very valid reasons.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
But then look at later in his career he became
the guy. He was the guy. Reggie Wayne right now
has under two hundred fewer receiving yards than Marvin Harrison
Junior in his career they both played. I believe it
was thirteen years. So we're talking about just like picking
stones on where you are. The fact is that Reggie
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Wayne's career may have not started off as quickly as
Marvin Harrison's, but when you look at the status quo
and what he's been able to accomplish during his tenure,
if Marvin Harrison's in the Hall of Fame, why is
Reggie Wayne not in the Hall of Fame? Because if
he's now ahead of a guy who's already been in
the who's already been inducted in Andre Johnson. And I'll
go step further to say you look at Tory Holt.
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Tory Holt is seventeenth all time in numbers. His teammate
Isaac Bruce is six all time in numbers. You at
some point I've got to look and say, yeah, what
you accomplished standalone or sharing a title with somebody did matter,
and you were a big factor into the team's success.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Therefore, you've been on the ballot long enough. Let's go
ahead and put you on.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
A college coach is on the war path for reasons
that a lot of you might agree with. We'll discuss
right here as we continue along in the six o'clock
hour on a New Year's Eve edition of.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Age Town. The Morning Drive continues. Now, now here's Dan
and Cole. More often than not, two things are going
to come up. Transfer portal, name, image and likeness. Both
of those things are going to be talked about because, well,
the transfer portal window opens tomorrow or excuse me, on Friday.
So you'll start seeing your programs where they start getting
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commitments from guys and then they can go ahead and
post up the graphics of you know, so and so
is a uh Cougar, and so and so is a
Texas a and m Aggie whoever it is.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So you're telling me right now that Steve Sarkishian was
not as what is the best flavor of cheese? Its
A's Chieza bull.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Isn't there only one?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
No, there are like eleven flavors of cheese. Its Dan Matthews.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
But it's like Dorrito's.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I mean, I understand that there's like many different ones,
and I understand that people say that one of the
others doing this.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Is one of the best, But I mean there's one.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You know what, don't don't continue with your story. I
don't want to lose my mind over at overright, So
on both of those things.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Steve Sarkisian, as I mentioned a coach on the war path, Well,
let's just say Steve Sarkisian not holding back on his thoughts.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
It's one about need, it's two about money, you know,
and the cost uh and and and where's the market
and you know which agent you're dealing with. There's some
agents that are rational, and there's some that that this
is their first time ever being an agent.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I don't even know if they're licensed to be agents.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
But all of a sudden, they get to be agents,
you know, because we have no certification process in college
football where the NFL you have to be certified in
college foot it might be their college roommate, you know,
their freshman year, who's their agent right now? And this
guy's throwing numbers at you, and it's like, we can't
even deal with this, like you just move on. And
so it's it's unfortunate and we'll get there in college football,
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but right now, it's it's a tough situation.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And I mean the part that he threw out that
a lot of people were focused on was roommates. I mean,
you know, that's how Jimmy Sexton got his start, right,
got to start with Reggie God, why why am I
blanking on his name? Reggie White? That he Reggie White
was getting all of these calls from agents and from
teams and everything, and that it was Jimmy Sexton who
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was his roommate, and he was like, hey, can you
handle these? He was like yeah, sure, And then he realized, Hey,
I'm pretty good at this. Why don't I go ahead
and become one of the most powerful and one of
the ones that's going to absolutely get SEC and college
football coaches paid all over the place.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And then I'm going to take a profit of five
percent and be able to live very cushionedly for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Every time I think of him, I always think of
and I'm sure you could probably find it on YouTube,
is one of the Welcome to the NFL because he
represented Tim Tebow. And I just remembered that it was
Tebow and him and I think his dad and whoever
sitting in the room at Tebow's draft party and he
gets a Denver phone number, and I just remember, what
was it, Jimmy Sexton going, that's.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Damn and to the phone. Anyways, back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So you're talking about when it comes to the money
and the portal, Listen Texas right now.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
And I brought this up last season.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Texas in the playoff was so focus in on trying
to guarantee that they would win a national championship that
they weren't focused enough on getting in portal players. And
you saw the result of that on the field this year.
Bad wide receiver play at times, horrible offensive line play
at times, inability to be able to build a great
defense at moments.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
A lot I've exposed to plays downfield.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
So what do you do now? Now you have your
Bowl game played on December thirty, first portal opens up
on January tewod your attention can now go towards landing
key players, high profile names, superstar talents. And if you
want to talk about money purposes, ladies and gentlemen, what
coda Campbell's do went out in love of Texas? You
got like five or six dudes who are on the
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payroll for Texas that can get that done in a weekend.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Well, and I think there's a couple of different things.
Here's number one, nobody's going to feel sorry for Texas.
But number two, I mean, you've got a support staff
of hundreds, now hundreds, So I mean like you don't
have a group of people who can handle this, Like
you seriously don't. And then you know, every once in
a while, as part of the meeting, Hey, by the way, coach,
we're in on this guy, we're in on that guy. Okay, cool, Well,
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if you need me to hop on face time with
him for a little bit, I'm willing to do that.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Well, right now, it's not even that you meet with
them anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
What you're doing is you're meeting with these so called
quote unquote agents, and now an agent's getting a phone
call from a representative from Texas. They bring the money
and the offer to the parents or to the player.
Then they accept the offer and they go back to
Texas and send it that way. That's the issue with
college football right now, is that because we don't have
regulations because of anybody can just throw on a suit
and tie and say, hey, listen, I represent so and so.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I'm going to get a profit of their money. That's
how it goes.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
There's not a AA in position like we have in
the NFL, So you're dealing with idiots who are who
are giving people bad advice which allows them to go
on in the TRISP.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I've said numerous times, don't complain about the rules. Make
the rules work for you.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah, but there is a difference about when you have
thirty three hundred kids in the portal before January first,
because of the getting bad advice and people who are
trying to get a quick buck off of their name
image of line.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
You have the money and the resources, use it. That's
what I would say. All right, let's continue the college
football conversation. Because four games for a chance to make
it down the two and could we be looking at
the closest we've ever seen. We'll discuss right here as
we getting at the seven o'clock cour Here on the
Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety at
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Speaker 3 (39:50):
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Speaker 7 (39:55):
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Speaker 1 (40:07):
Is the Morning Drive with Dadd and Cole.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
As Riley Leonard is going to make the start for
Indianapolis here in Houston, and you get the Rockets tomorrow
in Brooklyn taking on the nets. You'll hear that game
right here Sports Talk seven ninet. You don't forget coming
up later on this afternoon, one o'clock is going to
be when coverage gets started for Texas and Michigan in
the Cheese Its Bowl, and that will lead up to
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tonight where you get the start of the College Football Playoff,
the next round of the playoff, the quarters of the
college Football Playoff, and you get the Cotton Bowl between
Miami and Ohio State. That'll be a fun one. I
think the first two are going to be probably two
of the more fun ones where you get tonight, you
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get tomorrow Texas Tech and Ore then you get to
Alabama and Indiana, and then followed up by the finale
of a quarter final week and that's going to be
Georgia and Ole Miss. I just I think all four
games really you look at because last year it got
to a point where you had Boise State as part
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of it and you were like, Okay, soon enough, this
nice little run is going to end. And it did
because Penn State was able to handle them pretty easily,
and people were looking at Boise State saying, why are
we doing this?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Because that was the rules. Mean, like, if you want
the honest answered, that was the rules. Like I remember
last season people complaining and bishing all the time about
how it was bad with you know, certain teams getting
on end. But like, honestly, if you just switched some
things up, Boise State doesn't get the first round by,
Arizona State doesn't get the first round by, you give
Texas the first round by, and let's just say you
give it to Ohio State as well, or you give
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it to Penn State instead. Is anybody really complaining now
that you have better home on home matchups in the
first round. Probably not, but that was the thing that
they changed this year. It wasn't the four conference champions
get an automatic bid. You just get to go to
the playoff. Your reward is you're in the thing. But
if you're better in the SEC or the Big ten,
you're getting the pass.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
You also found out last year too that you know,
Arizona State was one of those teams that people complained about,
but then it was like, well they damn near beat
Texas and probably should have won that game.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
No fourth down throw to Matthew Golden was the reason
why Texas went to the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
The next week.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
So, I mean, you know, just with the games this weekend,
I mean, you know, you've got the one tonight where
Miami was able to show just how good they are defensively.
Ohio State really good defensively, I mean, and they showed
that too all throughout the week, all throughout the season,
and even on championship weekend against Indiana where that was
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a closely contested game and you had the Hoosiers able
to win that one. But I mean, just every single
one of them, you know, starting with tonight, I mean,
that's gonna be a fun one I still could see.
I mean, you know, judging off of what we've seen
in recent history. I mean we saw this last year
Ohio State, the very first game they had in the playoff,
they completely blew doors off Tennessee, completely blued the doors
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off of them. And then the following where they played
against Oregon and had that rematch, which we do have
another rematch here in quarterfinal week this year with Georgia
and Ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
But so that means that because of what we saw
out in the Rose Bowl, that's what's gonna happen now
for Old Miss versus George.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that it is
hard to beat a team twice.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
I mean that that is.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
So if it's hard to be a team twice, Dan,
I mean, it's gonna be really hard for Kirby Smart
to beat Old Miss twice.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Right, I just this is and now I understand it,
but this is more or less two where I just
I I need I need the suffering to commence, like
I need the realization to come in for them. That's okay,
what you had was nice. It was fun, but it
was also due in large part to a guy that's.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Now with your hated rival. Yeah, but at the scene,
and that's fine.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Look, hey, you know, not everybody is as good as
everybody else in life.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
That's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Okay, And some people can come and knock on your
door and say, I'm taking your girl, I'm taking their
coach job offer.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
He definitely got an upgrade. Nobody's gonna argue with you
on that one. But let me ask you just to
be completely honest here, Dan, can you be the head
coach of LSU and coach the ol Miss Rebels?
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Well, I mean, then why do you be the head
coach of LSU and coach the Olmoss rebels? Sure, he can't.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
If if you if you have the guy that's going
to Ole Miss coaching in I mean, it is a
bowl game, and then you also have everybody who's going
to be on staff with him coaching at ole Miss
right now, then why not?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Because of why are you going to allow a guy
who has made it clear I got a better job
than what is here and that you going eleven and
one wasn't good enough? Then be consistent across the board.
Then Charlie Weis doesn't get the coach. Then you can understand,
you know, then then you know Chris Kiffin, whoever else?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
I don't Chris Kiffin's on the side. Okay, so he's
not so, but I mean you get my point though.
Is everybody else that Joe Cox and all of those guys.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Joe Cox is staying around?
Speaker 4 (45:04):
No, he's with us, you know, Joe Judson was thinking
of right.
Speaker 6 (45:07):
No.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
I mean, look, I understand what you're saying. But at
the same time, there's a reason why they're there in
Lane Snod. You can replace an offense coordinator, you can
replace a running backs coach. They've already replaced a running
backs coach. Welcome to the party, Frank Wilson. We're gonna
enjoy your time in Oxford. But you can't replace a
head coach. Mantra when a guy who is the sole
proprietor of setting up the team's schedule, setting up the
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team metric, setting up the team Aura is also telling
players like trade At Shamblis and Keywan Lacey, Hey, it
doesn't really matter what to do in this game. I'm
gonna make sure that you get paid a pretty penny
when you come on down to baton.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Rouge I just you know, boy ole miss fans would
really hate to know that Pete Golding was dangerously close
to getting on that place.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
To get on the planet. They didn't promote him.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
So you know for all of this, you know his
his sharp words and his you.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Know, I'm not doing yoga and I'm getting rid of
the basketball goal and all of that. That's fine. You
can be mister billy badass right now. It's all fine
and good. But most people know that you were getting
on that plane and going the baton rush.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
When you get offered an opportunity to coach at a
premier school in the eyes of the public, which is
the SEC, it still is a big time logo. Even
though you and I know the parameters of almost football
and what is in that FLTIC department. Depending on what's
at the status of LSU, this may be your one shot.
You change your tone instantaneously. It happens in every line
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of work because of you may never get an opportunity
like this again.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
So, of course, of course everyone.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Knows that Pete Golding was going to be on Lane staff.
Of course everyone knows that there is a certain badassory
that's being made up because if you have to be
the front and center guy in Oxford, but at the
same time, anyone else in this position, when you know
that you have an opportunity to be the next guy
that can help continue the success and the dominance that
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we've seen over the last four or five years with
Lane Kippin at the Helm, you have to take your opportunity.
So it's like you can have your kick at to
in some ways, but the other time, when you get
your shot, you have to take it. And that's what
Pete Golding did. I stand behind it. You can go
ahead and now that happened.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
College football coaching is the closest to politics, because I
mean that's the same thing like you get in the
primaries where you have everybody taking their shots at each other,
and then whoever wins the primary, then it's everybody, Hey,
we're campaigning for them all. We love this guy, he's
always he's always been a great friend of ours, you know,
really really really love him. It's like, man, you were
throwing some pretty personal shots at him just a few
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months ago. It's amazing how that's all changed Overnightkeeth Golding.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Got fired in two years at ole Miss and he
needed a job right now. Guess what, I'm sure that
Lane Kiff and if he didn't make him his office,
zef's coordinator would make of his linebackers coach something like that,
and they would be campaigning things like, oh, I always
love my time with Lane. I always enjoyed working alongside him. Here,
I got room for a film coordinator.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
You want to be that.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Listen, if it can happen for a guy like Steve
Sharkeys and at Alabama, can happen for Pete golding down
at LSU. I want to ask you rank the four
college football playoff games because you think that these are
going to be great matchups. And if I were to
tell you that we didn't have the twelve team playoffs,
so no jam you know too, Lane, would you think
of this is a great playoff this year if it
was just the eight.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Well, I mean, now that we're past the first week,
it's the most evenly matched.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
No, no, no, no, But like, let's just say that
these were the eight teams in and there was a
twelve team playoff it was an eighteen playoff.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
Would this not be a great playoff?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, it would be, because I mean, I think all
four games have a real chance to be close.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
So you're telling me that the right number was always
eight and not twelve.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Well, I mean I was even before they they they
expanded it to twelve. I said, you need to make
this thing as exclusive as possible. Exclusivity is what makes
things great. It's not letting everybody in. Hey, everybody deserves
a chance. Hey, let's let's let a group of fives in,
because you know, they had a really good season despite
the fact that they lost to UTSA as part of
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that season. I mean, like, what are we doing at
a certain point.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You mean the Frisco Bowl champion UTSA road Runners?
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Was that the team that you're.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Talking about, Dan Okay, I mean, you know, then you
had an exciting finished last night. But in TCU and
and USC, So shall we let TCU in?
Speaker 9 (49:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (49:04):
I mean absolutely, we shall let TCU. And they went
nine to four in the Big Twelve this year. They
were the seventh place team in.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
The different point here, I mean, like, there has to
be reasons why you let a group of fives into
this thing, and one of them I think needs to
be It's not just the highest group of five inside
the top fifteen, inside the top fifteen yeah, that's why I.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Said you need to have the number at eight.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
That way, you don't put in teams because let me
just ask you seven one, three, two, one two five,
seven ninety. You look around the world or the college
football playoff, how many teams can actually win the national title?
How many teams can actually hoist up a championship down
in hard Rock Stadium come January twentieth. Because I can
tell you right now it's not twelve. I can guarantee
you right now, it's not even eight.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
You just you saying that. I would probably say six.
But that's my point is that you can't have six.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
So you make it eight. You throw in two teams
that maybe have a good resume or a good straight
up record, or prominent programs that are able to kind
of buff out their chefs.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
Guess what happens.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
They're in the playoff and you give them a shot
to prove that they are the doubters. They become the
new Chief five representative. But the problem is is that
money runs college football, and it's no longer. And this
is the one time that I will one hundred percent
agree that what you have said all along, I'm starting
to buy into it. Is a television show, That's all
it is. So they want the pretty names, but they
also want the television show, the reality show, to go
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a little bit longer. Therefore, they're going to continue to
expand because as long as there are millions and millions
and millions of dollars being flooded into their bank accounts
and into their profit margins, they could care less about
who is on the field.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
They just care about how much money they can make.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Proper segue right there by Cole Thompson, because there is
a college football coach who believes that TV could be
on their side. We'll discuss right here as we continue
on the Morning Drive and standing Cole here on a
New Year's Eve, Sports Socks seven.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
Ninety Dan Matthews, Old Thompson.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
This is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Okay,
I mean, I think there's many different ways you can go.
I mean, hell, I could even say like the Sprite
Citrus Bowl. Yeah, but want to pay for it? That's
the problem. Jesus wants to pay for a trip down
to Orlando. Well, and then it's also too you get
doused in cheese. It's which I would probably say of
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all of the dowsings out there, which I mean, we
just saw the Texas Bowl. Kinders is a seasoning and
barbecue sauce company, God bless and I mean, and that's
the thing too, is the celebration was taking bites out
of a massive bee frib.
Speaker 4 (51:38):
Which that's good. I mean, that's that's all fine and good.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
But I kind of feel like the celebration has to
be you're getting doused in barbecue sauce.
Speaker 5 (51:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
I mean, I listen, I understand where you're coming from it,
I do, But I'm okay with the b frib. The
pop Tarts one still is the goat. I will die
on this take. It is the greatest college football play.
It's the greatest college bowl game of all time. Live
cannibalization and eating of a mascot is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Sick.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Pop Tarts have made a revitalization in today's society. I
want everybody to enjoy them. I think of the other
one that like, the one that grosses me the hell out.
I can't really talk about it.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
The mayonnaise.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, Duke's yeah, all right, all right, all right, No,
I get it, trust me, trust me.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I'm a I'm a sensory guy too. I understand, but
Steve Starcus is the worst one out there. I'm sorry,
I'm not like I really.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
This isn't a bit by the way like he he
literally is getting visibly ill here in studio.
Speaker 4 (52:30):
So yep, take down that coffee, all right.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Steve Starcus and thinks that the Citrus Bowl could outrate
some of the college football playoff games. I'm as excited
as anyone of what our number looks like coming out
of this game on the thirty first, even saying that
he wouldn't be surprised if their New Year's Eve game
winds up outrating multiple of the games this weekend.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
So I know that tomorrow night that's not gonna be
the case.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
The Rose Bowl the same deal, because you have to
also look at with college football where the hotbeds are
for viewing in this country.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Like tonight, it's going to get a huge number.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, because Ohio State is going to get a massive number. Miami,
at least from the casual fans out there. You know,
it's still oh it's the you.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
It's like, man, Miami drew in fourteen point eight million
views in the first game against Texas A and M.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
And I think a large part of that too was
A and M. I mean, you know here Dallas, like
a lot of like the major cities were watching that
game just because of the connection to A and M.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
Too. I think that was that was a massive part
of it.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
I won't fight back and say that Texas A and
M has a bright fan base, because they do. They
have a fantastic fan base. It's one of the best,
I think in college football. Miami fans come and droves.
They're like Yankee fans and LA fans that live out
and meet we Hawk in New Jersey or they are.
Speaker 4 (53:43):
Very I would say that.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I would probably say, I mean, you've got a lot
of T shirt fan bases in this I mean Ohio State,
Alabama two of the biggest ones that are that are
still left in the college football playoff. But Miami, you
have to remember, is a very small school. So I mean,
like of all of them. Because that's what always cracks
me up is the O did you go to school there?
I mean it's just like, what does that have to
do with anything? Like you can be a fan of
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somebody and not have gone to school there.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Trust me, you don't have a fan base if you
don't have the T shirt fans.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:15):
Sure, But at the same time, I mean, you look
at a team like Miami, their fan base is like
Yankees and Lakers fans of the past. Like I have
a cousin that lives out in Tom's River, New Jersey.
His favorite team is the Miami Hurricanes. I have a
friend that lives out in Butte, Montana. His favorite team
is the Miami Hurricanes. That's what I'm saying is that
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they do draw in a fan base. Like every single year,
we hear about the U being back here, about it's
gonna be partying like we were back in the A.
We're running this stuff. We're making sure that we're the
best team in college football.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
Like we hear it all the time.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
I mean, your former co host was is a Miami fan.
He works out Atlanta. I mean, like that's just the
bottom most South Florida guy. But still, like you, you
have fans because of it's the branding, it's the recognition.
Miami and Notre Dame fan are the most casual fans
in the standpoint point of you could have never gone
to the school, never lived in South Florida, never get
attended a game, but yet still you root for them
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like your life depends on it. This game is going
to be big.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Texas and Michigan will pull a number, but it's not
going to be massive, I think for the most part,
I mean, especially to both fan bases where you're not
in the college football playoff. It's a if I'm around it,
I'll watch it. But if not, I mean, okay, you
just you know, I'll check it on the score every
once in a while. Like I think it's going to
be very loosely viewed today, New I pushed back entirely.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I think this is going to be one of the
highest rated games of the Bowls season that isn't a
playoff game because you have two teams that right now
are looking to do something that will kind of settle
the score. For Michigan, it's proving that you are still
a coach away from being in the conversation of a
legit playoff team get into ten wins. Same thing for Texas.
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But Dan, I don't know if you're paying attention to this.
I know that some people would like to go ahead
and say it doesn't matter, and probably you are one
of them, because I know that you feel this way.
Bullseason doesn't matter anymore. Well, so far, the Big Ten
is six and one, the SEC is two and five.
Getting a win in this game is important because for
the SEC standpoint of being able to still run their
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mouth and act like that they run college football, you
have to beat the Big Ten. You lost yesterday by
a bad Tennessee team against an average Illinois team. You
have Iowa playing against Vanderbilt earlier today. You have to
win this game in terms of just the conference. I'm
not saying that this is going to be a game
to where you look at and go, oh, well, you know,
Texas has got to prove it a point. It's like,
just for the standpoint of stability to say you're better
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than the Big Ten in these ranked matchups, you got
to show on out. And I think that fans care
about that stuff a little bit.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
Well, I mean, you've still got three teams left in
the college football Playoff, and two of them are playing
against each other, so I mean it's gonna go against
you just a little bit. But you know, it's you
and the Big Ten with the tide for the most
that are still left in the eighteen playoff, and then
you got one Big twelve and the one acc.
Speaker 4 (56:57):
Right, But at the same time, I'm looking at it
from the stand.
Speaker 3 (57:00):
We didn't have a like now we get the rank
games coming on up, Like now we have a match
up between a top twenty five Texas and a top
twenty five Michigan that felt like it was snumping the
College Football Playoff conversation, So prove it there, Like I'm
at this point of where it's getting hard as somebody
who loves the SEC, as somebody who believes the SEC
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truly is the sanctity of college football to defend the
conference when you have average teams from both sides, one's
losing and the other one has proven a point that
maybe there isn't that much of a difference between the
top but what the top heavy teams like Vanderbilt this year,
like out Texas this year, like Alabama in the Rose Bowl.
You need to win those games because if not, then
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the Big Ten is going to start running its mouth
and saying like we create a college football Well, and
as we switch gears here on the Morning Tribe, somebody
has decided to step away and they were a disappointment
to everyone but themselves.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
We'll discuss right here. As we continue on the Morning Drive.
Roger c right there, we're working in you want to
join him seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Again it's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
It is again the Morning Drive. Right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (58:12):
Matt Brin Shingoon, Hey Salpi.
Speaker 7 (58:14):
Turns left, Spens Rise, stay clutch with the iHeart Radio.
Speaker 4 (58:19):
Suits Sports doll seven nine Palm all Raucas Basketball end
of an era.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
The Angels and Anthony Rendon have agreed to a buyout
that will conclude his time. After the third Basement played
for them for years and as Barstool has it in
their headline, robbing them of hundreds of millions of dollars,
that uh, the Rendon era has officially come to an end.
The Angels and the Star have agreed to restructure the
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remainder of his contract. The thirty five year old is
owed thirty eight million for the final year of his
seven year, two hundred and forty five million dollar deal.
The Angels are going to pay that out over the
next three to five years.
Speaker 4 (59:02):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (59:05):
So the biggest waste of a contract in Major League
Baseball history is finally over. Cool story, did I mean
like it's It's the problem I always have with the
Anthony Rendome conversation.
Speaker 4 (59:16):
Isn't the fact that you paid the money.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
He earned the money from what he did when he
was in Washington, and everyone thought that he was gonna
end up being the key that would bring LA to
a new level, with Shohy being already there and my
drop being there. But it's the fact that after you
were dealing with all the injuries, you came out and
made it clear that you're not trying to get better,
You're not trying to get healthier, and then you openly say, yeah,
(59:38):
this is a job for me, And I get it.
I understand this is a job, and I understand that
there is a long trialing path. It's one hundred and
sixty two games. It takes a toll on your body,
it takes your way from your family. But when you're
getting paid thirty eight million dollars per year, at least
be out there. And you didn't even do that part, right.
Speaker 2 (59:56):
I understand how that sounded to people too when he
said it, but I understand stood what he meant where
he said it's not the priority for him anymore. Like
I was fine with him saying that I had no
problem with that, Like, that's truly the.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Way you feel, be honest, it's all good.
Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
No, no, not all good.
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
And they then get back the money. Then then get
back the money if you want, that's not gonna happen.
It's guaranteed money, right exactly. You paid it, so so
then you collect, so then you learn from your mistake.
But I'm sorry, if you want to go ahead and
quit the way that you did, then by all means,
make sure you work out a buyout, because if you're
not going to be there, that guaranteed money should at
least be going towards somebody who wants to play well.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I mean it's also too, I mean the Angels have
been one of those teams, which I will give them credit,
over the last few years. I think that they have
started to get a little bit more savvy in terms
of their spending because you did the huge contract for
Albert Pooholz largely that was a failure, and you did
the huge contract here with Anthony Rendon, same deal there.
So I think that probably with Perriman Aging and crew
(01:00:54):
out there, they're like, we're not gonna live in that
world anymore now, that's not who we are.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Let them keep doing it because you want don know
what it is, perfect, pristine, clear as day. Malfunction by
an organization that is so incompetent. It needs a full
on rebuild. And you can't do that when you have
a guy like Perrmanessens so run on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
So Anthony Rendon, Happy Charles, I'm glad you got paid.
I'm glad you out of baseball. Nobody's gonna miss you,
nobody's gonna care about what you do in your future endeavors.
Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Just go ahead. He's a local guy too, you know
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
But in the terms of baseball standpoints, I'm sorry when
you when you tarnish the legacy of the game the
way that you did and the way that you went
about it, when it came to the conversations that you
had and made it clear that this is nothing more
than just a quick payout for you. I don't really
care if you're a local guy or not. You tarnish
your own legacy in that standpoint.
Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
I mean again, you know, I think that he's a
guy that did accomplish a lot, but I mean he
took the money, went out there. It didn't work it
in LA, I mean nothing in LA. But before that,
I mean, he's a world champion. We found that out
the hard way here, right, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
A world champion for the Washington Nationals, and two players
from that team have two of the worst contracts we
have ever seen in Major League Baseball history. Steven Strassburg,
who pitched a grand total of thirty one innings after
getting that mega deal, and Anthony Rendon taking the money
out to LA and barely playing what would be three
total seasons on a seven year contract.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Someone three two and two, five seven ninety. I know
some of you want to get in on the conversation,
so let's get it fired up. We've talked from Texans
already today. That's where Roger wants to go. Roger, good morning, Good.
Speaker 11 (01:02:28):
Morning, Dan Cole, and man behind the wheels is still
mister e uh Yeah, I just won't click on that
ant anyone doing thing. Yeah, I I totally get why
Jim Crane doesn't see those crazy type deals. When you
get those splash I only want to splash deals. You
splash your ass back to the Stone ages and that
kind of stuff. And I just I just thicked to
it was crazy when it happened. And now the uh
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yeah with the Texans Stefan diggs MANH yeah, that's gonna
leave a mark over there in New England. You know
we weren't we were would worried about the Patriots. You know,
there's really no no jogger got out there. And I
love the Texas. Start on the road and and and
just stay on the road.
Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Why not.
Speaker 11 (01:03:08):
The defense trans travels like no other. Uh and uh,
you know there's gonna be something down in that locker
room now. And you know the Denver.
Speaker 8 (01:03:16):
Denver's the only one that worries me, but not really.
Speaker 11 (01:03:19):
I think it's strout can provide. You know, it's a
twenty point thing, right, we get sports twenty points we went.
I kind of wish we could stow on board and
that's hey, Uh, who should say we won't in the playoffs? Maybe, uh,
THEOC has something in store. Maybe mister Nico Rise lets
him get a little more feet, a little slack on
that chain and lets us, you know, maybe convert a
(01:03:42):
third down or a long third down once in a while.
But the thing, the thing that the head scratching with
me is that I'm shifting the basketball now, Nikole Yokis
is the he's gone for a while. I guess it's
four or five weeks and women's gonna get all the
phrase and deserve me. So it's a good player. I
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just don't see his body sustaining the way he plays.
I'm sorry to say. I don't want to be wish
Matt uh anything bad on him, but that guy is
the first last line of defense of the Spurs. He
plays like a wild man. He's an awesome player. I
don't see that fragile body just handle him that kind
of that kind of play. The way he plays, he
just leaves it all out there every game. It's a
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good player, man, no doubt. I just don't see it
happening from him. He's gonna I don't know. I see
the Rockets coming out in the West, maybe want t
sheet again, and I just I just hope that they
can play uh the way they played the other day
without without without Alti, and then just learn how to
play with him and be more a little more fluid
(01:04:48):
uh in the in their and their approach, because the
defense is it's gonna be there.
Speaker 8 (01:04:52):
I think, you know. I like the Javari is playing
a lot better. Uh, he's playing he's he's shooting better.
Uh read ship seems to be. I love his presky style.
Defense is ever now and there, you know, knockdown or
clutch three when we need it. And you know, I
think we'll be fine. Guys. Only only the very best
you and yours of the coming year, fellas, and have
(01:05:13):
a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Same to you, Roger. Appreciate it. Appreciate you, Roger. I mean,
it's just there's there's so many different things.
Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Well, let's talk about the Texans, because Texans are a
good thing, Rockets some player. Right now, Texans are playing
on Sunday. Texans are having an opportunity to get to
an ASC South Division title, and that that's the most
important thing right now, Dan, is that Texans need to win.
Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Rocket scene. I mean the Titans neing to win. You're
in problem solve. There you go, that's the Texans.
Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Suck.
Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Martin and Angleton, good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:05:45):
I heard yesterday. I was listening and I heard Cole
talk about how some people like to smell of their
own part Yep, Dan, what's up? I have two thoughts
about this.
Speaker 9 (01:05:59):
Anticipation store.
Speaker 12 (01:06:01):
When I'm at the grocery store, if I have one
bubbled up and ready to go, I will purposely look
for an aisle of people around and and I will
go find them and and do a fly drive I want.
I walk by, I walk.
Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
By, Walt, You're ripping a wet one on a drive by.
Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
I love it, Martin.
Speaker 12 (01:06:24):
Yes, And there's another thing. When I was a little kid,
in my room, I have one of those old Panasonic
UH tape recorders, cassette tape recorders. You put a cassette
in and you push uh the record button. And what
I would do is is when i'd have one ready
to go, I would go to my room and I
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would record my uh flatulence to the tape recorder. And
I had about a maybe I don't know, forty five
seconds or a minute of a compilation of all of
my flatulence. So when I was pitching, and when I
was pitching, when I was in the bullpen, I was
(01:07:11):
shrounded by you know, five or six guys in the bullpen,
and I would entertain them with my flatulence.
Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I can't I can't believe it. So you see, you
were known as the fark iron Campus. I love that, Martin.
I appreciate that. Do you like Danny canell.
Speaker 12 (01:07:27):
Who is? Who is?
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
That's you know what?
Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
They would get along great Martin. I wish you were
happy New Year, Bud. I really do. Thank you for
the time. Man, all right, I love this.
Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Ye what what what?
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
What?
Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
The show?
Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
The show, it's a lot of Martin.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Martin and Angleton is known around these parts, and especially
ten to two. Matt Thomas knows Martin and Angleton quite
a bit. But let me just say that that call
right there explains a ton about Martin.
Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
I mean, he's going down and he's and he's running
a dry.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
That wasn't even the one that stood out to me
the most, and I think we all can agree which
one stood out the most.
Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
No, to me, that's the one that stands out the most.
Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Now I'm looking for Martin and Angleton if I'm ever
in Angleton.
Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
The second story was the one that again where it's like,
you know, hey, you want to know something about somebody.
Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
That explains a lot right there right there.
Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Because if he recorded his own flatch Lench, well, we
did one time as part of a prank with one
of our guys who took himself way too seriously.
Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
When when I worked at a previous stop. We did hide.
Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
A fart machine in his room and were uh you know,
in his studio while he was doing his show, and
we would periodically hit the remote to have it go off.
Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Well, that that's the problem, is that that was what
Martin was doing, probably.
Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Because then he started to blame his producers of seeing like, oh,
one of you guys is playing a prank when it
was actually us that was playing the prank on the
back of the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
And this led a hit.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, and then we were we were listening in on
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
And then of course, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
The same thing. He didn't have a he didn't have
like a whoope cushion around. So what he did was
he recorded his own farts and then threw it on
a wall and the plated like probably in school.
Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
It was a fantastic break. That's what Martin and Angleton does.
He has fun with life. I see you over here
being serious about how dare we talk about farts on
this show? No no, no, no, no, look you're getting it
all wrong. I have no problem with it. It's just
you know, see to me, I'm sorry doing a dry
by inside of an aisle. What if there are children involved.
(01:09:28):
Martin like, how how can you absolutely live with yourself
with the toddler walking away?
Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I mean literally you have the steam on you too
that if you run into that person at the checkout line,
then they're like, hey, that's that's the farter.
Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
No no, no, no, no no no, no no no. If you're
doing it, it's better be on the very last trip.
You better be gone after that. If I'd be down
the final aisle and it's like you got to pick
up the loaf of bread and you're like, this is
where I go ahead and let it fly.
Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
I judge. I judge people for numerous things. Smells is
one of them.
Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Really, yes, absolutely, Like if it's somebody that I know
that has bad breath, I stand back from them. See
there was that's just like, what what made you earlier?
Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
If I tell you a story but I can't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Get down ninety Okay, take quick time out, let's come back,
let's reset, not talk about Flatch once. Let's close up
at seven o'clock hour with the conversation on the Texans
more specifically, actually, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Let's go look around the shield. Yeah, let's let's look
at the shield. Let's look at the shield, because there's trouble.
Someone's out of a job and missing all of those things.
Right here on the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
To Dan and Cole as the Morning Drive Cruise.
Speaker 9 (01:10:44):
Is of.
Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
We we we really do. You guys are family. The
audience is family. I've told you guys this numerous times.
It's just you know, sometimes when families get together, I mean,
you have got some times where you come out of
it and you know, maybe the family has to come back.
I could say, hey, you know, last time we were together,
you know, I apologize for that, you know, or any
of these other things, and it's just like now, nay,
look it's all good. We're family for anything. What I'm
(01:11:10):
not apologizing for anything. I am who I am. You
accept me for who I am, or you just hate
it as it I.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Just I remember, it's funny you say that because I
had a buddy of mine a few years ago. We
were like, hey, we gotta do something about so and so,
and then one of our other buddies said, hey, look,
he's at a certain age. It's either you accept him
for who he is or you just move on without him.
Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
I'm not changing who I am. I'm I'm enjoying. I'm
enjoying when Martin and Angleton calls in and tells me
as fart stories.
Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
I want one per day at this.
Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Point, Martin, every single day, something about what's going on
with your flatch one's buddy.
Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
You're always welcome here to maybe like once a month, okay,
can we agree on like once a month?
Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
I want the Angleton hour where Martin calls on in
and this, okay, how about the Angleton said, what.
Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
Do you are you trying to like? Don't don't say,
don't don't say certain things like.
Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
That around the Angleton clock from Martin. That'd be a
great segment for two for two shows a week. Let's
us go talk about farts all day. We're good with that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Maybe like the around the Angleton minute.
Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Okay, all right, we'll give it a minute around the shield.
Let's do that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
All right, Let's let's look around the shield, all right.
So Stefan Diggs in a little bit of trouble. Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
A report came out that he was facing assault charges,
including strangulation.
Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
And this all stems from.
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
A police report where a woman went to police on
December sixteenth said that she was working as a private
chef when the incident occurred when Diggs entered an unlocked
bedroom allegedly smacked her across the face as they had
discussed money owed to her. Diggs and his team deny
(01:12:53):
all of this, and the Patriots said, like what any
team says in a situation like this where you know,
gathering the facts and no comment other than that. This
is big for the playoff run because right now we
don't know if Stefan Diggs will be able to be
active for the game. I don't think he was gonna
be playing this week anyways, because of you already won
the division. You probably can get the number one seed
(01:13:15):
with or without him, But his status for the postseason
is really big because if more information comes on out
team can't have him out there. That changes the way
that you go about preparing for a team like New
England and what their offense is. Have an experience like
Stefan Diggs in the playoff for a young quarterback making
his debut in the postseason massive, so it's gonna be
really interesting to see.
Speaker 6 (01:13:35):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
And then his younger brother, Trevon Diggs, with one game
to play this year.
Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
The Cowboys say do something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
See yeah, as he's going to go through waivers and
will be a free agent if he is not claimed.
Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
I mean, nobody want to pick up that lucrative four
hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars from one game of
play on their record.
Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
Crazy, crazy that nobody want to pick that up?
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Well, I mean I think that you know, once he
becomes a free agent, then you will see somebody that's
going to pick him up.
Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Do you think that he will be on a playoff team?
Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Yes? Okay? Do you have an inclination right now where
you would want to go?
Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
I mean, I'm trying to think who could probably use
cornerback help. Could Pittsburgh use cornerback help?
Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Na?
Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
I see the Rams?
Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Okay, I think that right now Los Angeles, knowing that
they've lost the division title, lost the number one seed,
and largely due to let comes back comebacks happen with
and then blowing early leads against.
Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
Atlanta, they need some quarterback help.
Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
I would not be shocked to see him be paired
along side of jacous wife in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
And then finally, Christian McCaffrey sitting out practice on Tuesday
ahead of the forty nine ers upcoming game against the
Seattle Seahawks, says it is going to be a Saturday
game for that one to see who not only controls
the NFC with the number one seed, but also too
who wins the NFC West. We've seen this in the
past with the Texans, and probably even going to see
(01:14:54):
it today, I would probably have to guess that the
injury report is going to be long and lengthy for
the Texans today. Of a lot of guys taking veteran
rest days, They're not gonna have anybody out there today
that's important. I mean, the people who will be out
there that will be important will be CJ. Stroud and
maybe I would go a ziz Aushi year and even
still even hamming.
Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Probably on the injury report like I'm and I would
be reialded.
Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
I usually don't have a conversation about guys missing practice
until Thursday. I'm waiting until Friday this week. Get as
much rest as possible. Make sure that you're in a
good state of mind before you go ahead and put
your body on the line heading into Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Anthony Robert, see you guys right there working in you
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Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
And when it.
Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Comes to the Texans, this season is a success if
capital if on that one, we'll discuss we get into
the eight o'clock hour right here on the morning Drive
with Dan and Coles Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's talk
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Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
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Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
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Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
All right, I pulled my soul back in. Welcome back in, Yeah,
welcome back in, Buddy, I pulled it back in. We're good,
We're good. It's all good. It's all good. Hey, you
know everybody, you're still there. Nobody got hurt, nobody died.
My feelings got hurt. I appreciate that, though I don't care.
I'm dead inside. I've been dead in size since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
That's not very I mean, that's not good. You're in
your twenties. You still got a long way to go here.
Thank you for thinking I'm you still got many more
years of disappointment left in front. You know what I appreciate.
Thank you, Dave Matthews. You have just made my day
thinking I am still in my twenties. That to me
is probably the greatest complent that you get. That was
like when I went through something rough a couple of
(01:18:38):
years ago. My brother goes, You know, you think that
life gets easier when you get older, it gets harder.
I'm like I'm like, this isn't really the pep talk
that I think I'm supposed to get right now, Ryan,
I think I'm supposed to get like some like uplifting
message right now, like you know, to like, you know,
make me believe that better days are ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
That's what I'm supposed to get right now.
Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
I remember a buddy of mine's dad said, when you
were young, you were drinking cause you thought it was cool.
When you get old, you're drinking because it's the one
sanctity of actual happinessue have in your life.
Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
There is some belief to that that some people do have.
Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
As I've gotten onto my my fitness journey, I would
say that it's it's more or less now.
Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
It's a it's kind of a once. It's not a need.
Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
I mean, there was a time in my life and
this sounds terrible, but like where I was like I
felt like I needed it. Now I'm kind of like,
I'd rather work out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
I do love it, and I appreciate the fact that
you said that it only does get down to hell
from here.
Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
I woke up on Saturday morning and that's not true.
Like I was being a little hyperbolic there You are man.
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
I don't think like I woke up on Saturday morning
and some people become billionaires in their fifties and sixties,
sit there and realize I had back pain because if
I slept on it wrong and I'm like that, and.
Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Now that does get worse. So I'm not gonna lie
to you on that way.
Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
I told somebody who works here, I will leave his
name blank Doss.
Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
But anyways, he told me.
Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
By the way, Bud, I just want you to know
it only goes downhill from here. Like this stretching is
not gonna do anything for you. You just gonna have
to wake up with back paid, take it all, leave
before you sleep.
Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
Tiger.
Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
There there is a little bit of you know, you
reach a certain point in life and Anthony and Roberts,
you're right there, get back into the Texans conversation. But
there is a certain point in life where it's just God,
why does this hurt?
Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
I didn't even move yesterday? Like that that does come
into play.
Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
See if you want to get to Robert, do you
want to get to Anthony.
Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Longest in line? Anthony is that guy? Anthony?
Speaker 13 (01:20:24):
Good morning, Hey, good morning fellas Hey. So I had
a question for you guys. So, the Texans have some
obvious draft needs on the offensive line and and things
like that, But my question is, Dalton Schultz is third
in the league amongst tight ends behind Trey McBride and
(01:20:47):
Kyle Pitts when it comes to receiving yards. So CJ
obviously loves to have that that good safety net there
with the tight end. My question for you guys is,
do you guys see the Texans going to get like
a Michael Tripp or Terrakozil or something like that in
the draft this year?
Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
Ooh see see Anthony named one of my favorite players
in the draft this year, Michael Trick. Like that's ball.
Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Nooer right there.
Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Anthony knows football and he understands what is going out
in Waco, Texas. I appreciate Anthony for understanding who that
player is. So I don't know, man, Like it's like, like,
are you giving up on Kate Stouvern, are you giving
up on Brevin Jordan?
Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
At this point, it's my first question, my.
Speaker 13 (01:21:27):
My well, so my thought is is like Kate Stover
has been pretty non existent since he's been here, and yeah, yeah,
Dalton Schultz is under contract until twenty twenty six. I
was just curious, you know, if you guys think that
the Texans seeks some stability.
Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Because I think the tight end position is.
Speaker 13 (01:21:47):
Probably one of the more underrated positions in football. And
if you have a good tight end, just look at
Kansas City. If you have a good tight end, it
really helps your quarterback out and bails him out when
he needs it. So I was curious if you guys
thought that they maybe seek a long term elite option
at tight end in the draft.
Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
See this is why he has just become my favorite caller,
because if he said the magic word underrated position, tight
end is the most underappreciated position in the NFL, and
it has been for over two decades. It is a
phenomenal position that needs to be talked about more. And
I'm glad that we have tight end you that goes
out to Nashville every single year to get more recognition
(01:22:28):
for what that position is. No, I don't think the
text as added at a tight end though.
Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
I mean, it's just it's I mean, even though you
know Nick Cassario will tell you numerous times that we
don't track for need and you know, player available, I
don't even know what that means.
Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
It's like, yes, you do know what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Explain it to me, Dan, I just I have no
idea what's going on with Hey, Hey, we just look
for good football players around here. But that's always that's
always his back. Well you know it, really it really
comes down to the player. Thanks Nick, Thanks So you
didn't a you didn't add him because of his booming personality,
Like that's that's seriously why you didn't. Because there's another
(01:23:04):
one too that people in football, will you know, when
they don't want to talk about someone else that they
defer to.
Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Oh, you know, yeah, I love him. He's got a
great smile. Every time I hear that, I go, did
you die inside? Saying that out loud? Like you know
for a fact that has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Why are you talking about a smile. I want to
know about his forty time. I want to know about
his rock cons I mean that was like.
Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
This, That was like the same thing that like you
would hear about certain players in the past with the Texans,
like one of them was, oh, he lights up a room.
Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
Okay, that's great, Like you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Exactly, go go host a party somewhere like I'm asking
you to make plays.
Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I'm sorry, Like, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Kind of what we talked about earlier this season with
Demiico Ryans, you know, caring about the player. Demiko, That's
not our job, dude, that's your job. Our job is
to tell you what is going on. I mean, it
was such an innocuous thing. It was seriously like it
was you were asking about a report out there.
Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
You were trying to get clarification. We were trying to
put the narrative back to you to control it.
Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
And then it's, oh, well, you're asking about this because
you don't care about the guy.
Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Not our job. Sorry, not our job.
Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Steven one three two one two five seven ninety Robert
in South Houston, what's time to mind? Ed?
Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (01:24:17):
Call?
Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Dan Techrivilli?
Speaker 9 (01:24:19):
Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (01:24:20):
Uh, you know they always say, you know, uh, controlling
the tempo and time of possession.
Speaker 15 (01:24:28):
Is really important in football, and I.
Speaker 14 (01:24:32):
I saw or I came up with a stat that
I find really uh interesting that I see in the
wind streak. Is they the Texans besides the Jags game,
have not trailed in any of the games for more
than six minutes. So I think that was pretty impressive
and I I just wanted to point that out to
(01:24:53):
you guys, and I gotta get back on the road.
Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
Thanks, I appreciate it, Robert.
Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
It's a way to be able to guarantee you get
a is you gave your I mean, you given off
the offense comes out, they're able to give you two
to three drives of success. I'm not saying it's got
to be three straight touchdowns. It could be two touchdowns
in a field goal. It could be a touchdown and
two field goals, but joining up to thirteen points, making
it a two possession game. That gives you an opportunity
(01:25:18):
to let your defense have a mulligan without bending entirely.
And I think that's been a major element of the
success of the Texans this year. See. And that's the
whole thing too, is I mean, I understand, you know,
you win the toss, you want to defer, you want
to do all that to get the ball in the
second half.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Dude, I'm always deferring.
Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
I am well, I mean, I get all of that,
but I think when it comes to the Texans, I
want the offense on the field.
Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
First, I want my closers on the field.
Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Second, see, I want to set the tone because I
want to be able to be I want to be
able to know that I'm getting three and out, getting
the ball back, I may be able to score at
this point, and then going out a break in the halftime,
I can come out and score.
Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
The same things that we have noticed about this Texans
seem the entire year still are on display coming out.
Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Of the break.
Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
They always get the ball, they always got three and out.
So it's becoming a pattern to where maybe you want
to switch some things up. And the last week Chargers
they defer Texans, they got on the field, they score
on seventy.
Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Secs three plays later in the end zone. I mean
that took my dogs outside really quick, and I came
back in and I was like seven nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
But at the same time, that's like an outlier, just
like right now, the outlier who would be if the
Texans were to score coming out of break in the
second half. It's not guarantee because we haven't seen it
at a consistent level this year, and we haven't and
we're not gonna see it until I would say, probably
we get to the playoffs, and even still that would
just be a minor data point.
Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Given the flow of most of their games, I would
probably believe that it's more likely to happen early on
in the game than it is later in the game.
Usually it's preservation late in the game's that's what the
Texans are going for. They don't play well from behind.
I mean, there are certain teams that are able to
do it better than others. That's like, you know, kind
of like you know in the NBA, Oh you know,
we weren't good in transition defense.
Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Nobody's good in transition defense.
Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Like I always love like when people say that, oh
you mean, when you've got three on one, you're not
that good?
Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Surprising who knew.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
But at the same time, I think that with the Texans,
keep doing what you've been doing all year, because if
it's working for you, if you get if you win
the toss, defer because of at this point it helps
you out in so many ways because you know that
you're gonna set yourself up for a good positioning. Like
I haven't seen a moment where Houston's defense is starting
to unravel in the first quarter we see it in
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the second quarter, we see it at the start of
the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
We don't see it on the opening drive.
Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
So if that continues to be the recipe for success
on an eight game winning streak, who am I to say,
go ahead and change some things up?
Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
All right, So we're getting in the guest saratory here.
Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
So coming up in about fifteen minutes, we're gonna have
Jake Crane Craning Company, part of the Daily Wire. He's
gonna talk some college football with us at a thirty
nine o'clock Aaron Wilson, which is normally our Friday, because
today is our Friday. Well, then Aaron Wilson's gonna join
us at nine, and then Brad Kellner from Inside Texas
he's gonna hop on with us and be able to
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talk some Longhorns. So actually I said Inside Texas Texas
Sports Unfiltered. I apologize, Brad, So I got that for you.
But anyway, got all those coming up. Kelener will be
on with us at nine thirty. So looking forward to
all of that. But we mentioned it's earlier. Let's bring
it back again. The season is a success if capital
(01:28:20):
if right there, we'll discuss right here it is the
Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:28:27):
The Morning Drive with Dann and Cole on Sports Talk
seven ninety, home of the Strolls, Rockets, and Houston's best
sports talk.
Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
There was the video that made its rounds the other
day of the people who had stacked shopping carts so
they didn't have to walk through a puddle there, and
people are like, that's soft. I go, look, you're looking
at it all the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
It's soft.
Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
But we get Okay. Then you could say the same
about us with snow and ice. Yeah, but I love
snow and ice.
Speaker 4 (01:28:56):
I get it. But my point is is that we
don't do it well. So they don't do rain well
out in California. That's it.
Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Yes, why it's rain because it doesn't rain, but for
like twenty days a year, that's why.
Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
Okay, okay, But still, like I remembered, a.
Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Buddy of mine told me that when he and his
wife moved, he was from here originally, but he had
moved out southern California and met his wife and they
moved back. She had never seen a thunderstorm before because
she grew up in the in the desert right there
in southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Now, have you never seen a thunderstorm in your entire
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
You got to ask her, Okay, call her up, let's
go three.
Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
We got time, Yeah, I Oscar. If your wife's listening,
you have her call in.
Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
But anyway, he told me that the first time she
saw a thunderstorm, she freaked out because she was like,
what is this and he was like, it's just a thunderstorm.
Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
It's fine. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
But in Texas again you say that it's with the
snow and the sleep, there's a little bit of a difference.
People don't know how to drive on that stuff. People
don't know how to function walking in that the same deal. There,
you get your feet wet, that's all it is. Oh
my goodness, it is soft. If you can't handle a
little bit of wetness around your feet. Yeah, I mean,
not to be the serious guy in all this, but
then like also though too out there.
Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
You gotta worry about mud slides.
Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Okay, cool, you worry about mudslides. I'm not worried about mudslides.
Going into a grocery store. About where I'm gonna get it,
like like literally, I'm gonna take the words out of
Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. You afraid to
get wet, Like that's all it is. At that standpoint,
that's pretty good. Afraid to get wet because I've coached
you well on on weaving in movie lines.
Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
That's very good.
Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
But like, it's stupid as all hell to think that.
Oh no, my, my, my six hundred dollars Louis Vauton
shoes are going to be destroyed where a pair of
sneakers is stopp being a pretentious.
Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
I think this was like in like Alta Dina or
somewhere like that, even a bigger pretentious Delta Prova Lance.
Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
No, I don't think Alta Dina is. I think it's
like kind of like working class out there.
Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Then you should definitely not be afraid of rain. You
would think not. But I mean again, so California, you're
not used to it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
I don't care if you're not used to it. I'm listen,
people in the state Texas are not used to snow.
The reason why it shuts downs because you don't properly prepare.
You got to learn how to prepare for a little
bit of a wetness.
Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Well, then you know a lot of us get to
stay in a hotel room and have a good time
and get get free drinks and no, it was fun
last year when we got to do that during the
snow and ice that we had here. What do you
mean me, Ross, Matt who else? I think it was
just us three that not in a like singular hotel room,
but we got put up in a hotel nearby.
Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
Because if they want to make sure you can go
to work, that's it. I mean, yeah, I am so
we were here, so.
Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
I slept in the studio one time, not the studio
on another place because of they said, hey, just stay here,
we'll pay for you.
Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Oh I mean, and you know we've done it during
hurricanes too. We've had the same thing where it's like, hey,
we're gonna have air mattresses.
Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
It's like, oh okay, yeah, I slept on an air
mattress for two days because they want to make sure
that we had radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Going all right real quick here before we shifted over
to college football and talk with Jake Crane.
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
The Texans season has success if they go to the
AFC Championship game. Only way to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Sorry, you've been to the playoffs now three straight years,
I didn't need to make O Ryan's. You have an
opportunity to win the division three straight times under Demiko Ryans.
You have an opportunity to win your third straight game
in the wild card round under Demiko Ryans.
Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
What has this city? What is this organization?
Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
What has this franchise never experienced playing in conference championship weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
This is the best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
This is a functioning somehow some way on its last
two legs, but still good enough to get the job
done offense. And it's a special teams unit to ninety
eight percent of the time, you can trust Kyami Fairbair
to make a kick for fifty five yards out. You
do not have Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs, not of
Joe Burrow in the playoffs. You do not have Lamar
(01:32:37):
Jackson as of right now. In the playoffs. You have
an agent Aaron Rodgers, a bunch of young dudes, and
a bunch of teams that don't have experience. You have
no excuse this year to say you can't go to
the Anti champions This hasn't been as loud as obviously.
You know people who yell about the Astros twenty seventeen.
But if the Texans do have one of their best seasons,
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do you think there are gonna fan bases out there
that kind of do like the with the Rockets. Yeah,
but you won those without Jordan there. Do you think
that that could be there? No?
Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
But what would be the difference there? I mean, I
wouldn't see there being much of a difference. I would say, well,
you were a loser and you weren't there.
Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
You mean, like because Mahomes wasn't out there, but because
Jordan wasn't out there, that's fine. No, No, Listen, Jordan
was retired at that point, like he'd was that when
he kept away or was he still playing? Well, he
came back midway through or was it midway through ninety five?
Speaker 6 (01:33:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Ninety five?
Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
Okay, So he he released the statement that just simply
said I'm back.
Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
But he wasn't there for ninety four. He was not
there for ninety four, but he made it clue that
he was done playing basketball. So what are you supposed
to say at that point? Oh, because if he eventually
came his way back in that that's a reason why
we can't have a white phrase. I got you that
we can't believe that that's a reason why things went
our Wait, no, we did our job, We handled business
against everybody in the West, and then we beat the
(01:33:54):
crap out of the Eastern Conference team in the playoff
in the finals. Same thing for the Texans if you
get there.
Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
Well, I mean again too.
Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
For a great regular season, that's all fine and good,
but set at numerous times, great regular seasons don't mean
a hill of beans. This is the time of year
that means the most because I mentioned the ninety eight Astros.
Nobody talks about the ninety eight Astros, one of the
best teams record wise they'd ever had, and then they
lost in the first round of the Padres. Same deal
last year with the Rockets, hey second best team in
the Western Conference, losing the first round to the Golden
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State Warriors. It's the what have you done for me lately?
That's what it is. So I mean, it's going to
be the same deal with the Texans this year. Eleven wins,
twelve wins, okay, great, awesome, What did you do in
the playoffs? That's what we care about because we've seen
twelve wins seasons here now you've seen it potentially twice
you've seen division winners and get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
You've seen them win in the playoffs. You've seen all
of those things. People are done with it.
Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
People want to see this team take the next step,
and then the success of this team this season is
exactly that getting the next step.
Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
The problem is just you look at the overall status
of this team, what you have defensively, what you think
that you could be playing on the road, the teams
that you're going up against. There's not an excuse, like
there's nothing standing in your way other than you and
the incompetence of your offense stalling at the worst time
possible or your defense giving up one explosive play, and
you can't counteract that from you making it to at
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least a conference championship game. I'm not saying you got
to go to Santa Clara, but you should at least
have your side set on either hosting or playing in
a conference title game.
Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Real quick here before we get to Jake Crane casts
on Twitter sharing exactly what I said about people from
southern California did a thing with scouts in twenty twenty
three in West Virginia, and they were from all around
the country. The Scouts from San Diego were in awe
of a thunderstorm. They'd never seen lightning before.
Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Get outside, more, ladies and gentlemen, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
I mean that's just it.
Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
I mean they have then go set your horizons to
go visit Colorado or something so you can actually see stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Everybody's got their thing that either they're used to or
they're not used to. Like for us, it's like heavy rain.
We're just like, Okay, it's just another day. But you know,
elsewhere and then you know, it's the same deal where
you know, you'll have people in the Midwest and in
Northeast make fun of us because we don't know how
to deal with snow and ice. And then the response
to that is, well, I mean it's just like you
guys went in the college football playoff.
Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
You don't know anything about that. I gel one, actually,
you know what, that's the way you got it.
Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Actually is one that I saw somebody had had and
I decided to share. I just don't know who it
is for proper attribution now, and I apologies. Well, here's
the bottom line. They don't know how to handle it.
Play anything past eighty two degrees. There you go seven
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way to get in. Let's talk a little bit about
that CFP and we're gonna do that next with Jake
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Speaker 9 (01:38:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
That's where we go right now to talk with a
really good guy in this business, Jake Crane. Crane and Company,
part of the Daily Wire, joins us right now. Talk
some college ball, Jake. Happy New Year to you, buddy.
Let's just go ahead and get it started with tonight's
game between Miami and Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
Do you see any surprises tonight?
Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Well, first off, thanks for having me guys into Happy
New Year to everybody else out there listening. Man, you
know I feel like, really the one playoff game where
I'm not saying I know exactly what's going to happen,
but I think you know that there's the widest spectrum
for something to happen is probably Oregon Texas Tech. You
feel like this Miami Ohio State game is going to
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be low scoring. Now I'm not saying that that Ohio
State come out, couldn't come out and go up seventeen
to nothing and win twenty four to seven or something
like that, but you just feel like with the way
that both these front sevens are playing. Even though Miami
has shown the ability, especially in crucial moments with Fletcher
to be able to run the ball and have success there,
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Carson Beck just looks like, you know, a kid who's
meeting Santa Claus for the first time at the mall.
They just freak out and don't know what's going on.
And what's crazy is he's thirty five years old. So
you know, measure those two see how that works out.
But when when I look at this game, it's just
really hard for me to find a way that if
Ohio State gets to the ten point mark, then Miami
(01:39:39):
is going.
Speaker 9 (01:39:39):
To be able to win.
Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
Outside of you know, a defensive touchdown the special team's
touchdown are both.
Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
Jake, you brought up. I'm in toll agreance with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
You told me right now that it's a twenty one
to nothing win in favor of Oregon.
Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
If you told me came down to a game winning
field goal between Texas Tech and the Ducks. I believe
that these are two teams that have elite SATs against
you each other. This is one of the best offenses
in college football going up against I think one of
the most slept on defenses. They're number two in run defense,
they're top five and scoring the right inside the red zone.
If I were to give you a stat line of
which spreaks first, the rushing attack of Oregon or the
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defensive run support of Texas Tech, do you think that
that is the metric that will decide this game.
Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
Well, it's funny, Colon, and you're exactly right. It is
strength versus strength here when you look at Texas Tech
defensively and Oregon offensively.
Speaker 15 (01:40:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
That's going to tell the story, though. I think this
is actually one of the games. And I'll answer the
question you asked, but I do want to make this point.
I think this is one of the games where the
weakness on weakness is going to determine it and whose
weakness is weaker, and I think it's Oregon's defense. Guys,
if you really look Oregon's defenses under Dan Lanning, which
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is shocking in big games, they have not played well.
I mean, heck, they just gave up thirty points to
one of the guys who helped sign the Constitution. Texas
Tech's not amazing on offense, but they're good enough with
Dicky and Williams and Baron Morton, who sounds like he
helped sign the Constitution, but he didn't. I don't know,
maybe in his family, or they may just you know,
(01:41:13):
own the salt company. But I actually think it's it's
Texas Tech's offense against Oregon's defense that could be the difference,
because I wouldn't be shocked to see somewhat of a
stalemate when we're talking strength on strength because of how
talented Dante Moore is and to your point, how good
this Texas Tech defense is at making you one dimensional,
which if you're one dimensional, you're non dimensional.
Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
If that's a word again.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Jake Crane, Crane and company hopping on with us here
for a few minutes. Talk from college football in the
morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Let's talk about even some of the teams that were
just on the outside looking in. We're going to see
him to day Texas, and I mean Steve Sarkisian coming
out and seeing what he said yesterday about the transfer portal,
innil everything else of sort. They've had quite a few
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guys that have decided to leave the program since then.
Do you kind of sense a little bit of the
wagon wheels are shaken there in Austin or do you
think they're gonna be just fine?
Speaker 6 (01:42:12):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
I you know, nothing upsets me more than watching rich
people cry about and how the cake takes.
Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
I mean, this is this.
Speaker 15 (01:42:21):
Is this, They're lucky.
Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
This isn't you know eighteen hundred France or whatever with
Marie Antoinette or are they just sent start to.
Speaker 9 (01:42:28):
The guillotine after that one.
Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
I just I'm not gonna sit here and listen to it.
I just think it's hilarious that, you know, a A
And I've got nothing against Texas hearing y'all complain about
nil and this, that and the other Are you kidding me?
You're you're like one of the You're like the Rockefellers
of this stuff.
Speaker 9 (01:42:46):
I don't have time for it.
Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
But as far as the bowl games go that you mentioned,
it's just it's sad, Dan, because it's somebody like you
who loves football, who grew up loving football and college
football and understanding, you know, how how much fun the
ball games are.
Speaker 9 (01:43:05):
It just, man, it just doesn't hit the same. It
just really doesn't.
Speaker 15 (01:43:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
I had a buddy in college who's who's fiance cheated
on him, and it was just never the same again.
And it just feels like that, like we'll never rekindle
that magic. That's why we need to get my plan,
and we need to have a twelve team n IT
style tournament with nil money on the line for teams
that don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
I'm one hundred percent all four because I'm getting flocked
from Texas fans every single day, dude about how they
belong in the playoff for being the first team with
three ranked wins against top ten opponents since twenty nineteen,
and I'm like, okay, cool, don't lose Ohio State or Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:43:45):
This is this is a moot point, guys, so.
Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
Like with that, well yeah, and also like you again,
and and look, do I think Texas should have been
in over Tulane and JMU, Yes, just like I think
that Notre Dame aim and BYU should have a Vanderbilt
should have been over. But you know it's funny, they're like,
you're the first team to do this since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 9 (01:44:08):
That's really not that long ago.
Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
If you can hit me with like nineteen forty eight,
we can have a discussion, but not twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
Like Texas A and M is, how does it won
a national title since World War II was underway? I
mean like, look, like give me a stat like that,
and then I'll feel sorry for you at some point.
Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
Well, yeah, which we look which we should just automatically
give those titles to the Army, the Navy, and the
Air Force, even.
Speaker 15 (01:44:30):
Though the Air Force wasn't you know what was still
in its infancy.
Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
We should just World War two era all the titles
should go to the Academy.
Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
Yeah, those boys, I'm showing some real physicality on the fields.
Speaker 5 (01:44:40):
You want to talk about the RPO, Yeah, for sure,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Again Jake Crane, Crane and company hopping on with us
here for a few minutes of the four games here
over the next couple of days.
Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
Who do you think is on upset watch the.
Speaker 9 (01:44:54):
Most look, I've already we already did our prediction.
Speaker 15 (01:44:59):
Social it's out there. I think Bama's gonna beat Indiana.
Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
I think they're gonna beat him. I think Steven Hanley
being out's a lot bigger deal than what people are
know really across the kind, especially in the South, because
you know, again, I'm not trying to downplay anybody's love
for the sport, but I don't think a lot of
people have watched Indiana that much. From Maya and our
neck of the woods. Indiana's very quality, very quality. Stig's
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done a great job upgrading that roster.
Speaker 15 (01:45:31):
They played in their strength, but they don't have a.
Speaker 5 (01:45:33):
Lot of guys like eight running around in that front
seven And Bama's kind of run the ball a little
bit better. You saw him against the defense in Oklahoma
that is one of the best in the country.
Speaker 9 (01:45:44):
Find a way to run the ball there.
Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
At the end, I think Alabama ends up beating Indiana,
And I know the Joel Klepts of the world and
the Chris Fowlers of the world won't love it, but
it would be kind of funny, especially after watching the
SEC get there, you know, pants pulled down and spanked
in front of everybody in Kroger.
Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
Listen, Jake, you know how I feel about this because
of Less's Collegepan Spain. I'm not hiding it. I would
love nothing more than to see Alabam. I'll find a
way to get the job done. I will say you's
read on something last night that I think you hit
right on the head. In today's day and age of
the world of college football, we are no longer going
to see these Super Conference that is the SEC run
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
There is going to be more parody in the sport.
Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
But at the same time, there is a difference, and
I wanted to be able to explain the audience because
of your knowledge on the sport. There's a difference of
saying that the SEC is going to be losing some
traction when it comes to middle teams like Missouri, Tennessee,
South Carolina almost going back to eight and four versus
A Now we're gonna still have five teams at the
very forefront that would kick the crap out of anybody
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in college football, just like the Big Ten does. It's
more parody in that standpoint, and then there's more middling
grounds because of the future with nil and transferportal news.
Speaker 5 (01:46:56):
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, that's one hundred percent correct.
What again, I think we have to be able to
call balls and strikes regardless of where you're from.
Speaker 15 (01:47:05):
You know, the level.
Speaker 9 (01:47:06):
It's like, you can't argue with.
Speaker 5 (01:47:08):
The level of dominance of the SEC from what well
what two thousand and five to two thy twenty, right,
I don't think we'll I don't think you could argue
the level of dominance in the Southeastern Conference. I don't
think we'll ever see a run like that. And to me,
you know again, whenever we have this this argument of oh,
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what's the best conference, well, you have to develop what
metrics you're using.
Speaker 9 (01:47:34):
You know, some people think it's just national champion.
Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
Some people think it's the amount of teams that you
get in the playoffs. Others think how you doing bowl games,
and even some look at the NFL Draft.
Speaker 15 (01:47:45):
I think it's all of it.
Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
I think you've got to put it all together to
be able to make that assumption. And that's not to
say that one conference won't be able to string together
some good years.
Speaker 15 (01:47:57):
We're watching the Big.
Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
Ten do it right now, but there is no way
that you're gonna be able to replicate in today's landscape
within IL and the transfer portal.
Speaker 15 (01:48:07):
What the SEC did.
Speaker 5 (01:48:08):
Over really that you know, fifteen to seventeen year period,
and you're always going to have these teams at the
top that are going to be able to go and
do the things we saw in the past. Is what
has changed the game is now you have some of
these middle ground teams or these middle of the road
teams that not only can compete in the SEC, but
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go look at the Big ten, right even go look
at the ACC in the Big twelve.
Speaker 15 (01:48:35):
That's that's what's kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:48:37):
Changed the the total dominant factor of one comp you know,
one conference. You can't monopolize the sport anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Jake, I guess you out of here. On this transfer
portal opens up on Friday. A lot of teams, mister
college Football playoff. They want to make a run back.
Who is the team you're most interested in? To see
how they target the portal to upgrade their roster going
into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (01:49:01):
I mean, Vandy's gonna be interesting post Diego Pavia. You know,
I don't care how many letters he writes to the President.
I don't think they're gonna give you a twelve year bud,
you know, just to see if Vandy. I know Jared
Curtis is going there too, just to see how they
approached the portal. Outside of that, man, you know, we
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doesn't it feel like we know the teams that are
gonna have success in the portal, Like it's not really
like a stretch that, oh well, you know, bring back
up Texas. You know, yeah, they've lost some guys, but
they're still gonna have success in the portal. So I
would say Vandy just because they're super intriguing to me
how this is gonna look post Diego Pavia.
Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
It's gonna be fun to watch. I think there's any
question about that. Again, East Jake Crane, Crane and Company
part of the Daily Wire, hopping on with us here
for a few minutes. Jake, always the best, buddy. Happy
New Year to you and yours and hope to see
you this summer in Tampa at SEC Media Days.
Speaker 15 (01:49:57):
Let's go man, met Kenny Powers and STEVIEE and Cole
can come too.
Speaker 9 (01:50:01):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Any eastbounding down references are always welcome on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:50:06):
You know that. Appreciate it, buddy, you get it.
Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
There you go, all right, Jake Crane, see you buddy,
all right, there you go. Yeah, if you if you
can weave in eastbounding down, I'm always for it. And
yeah that was that was Stevie's line right there to
see you later, blank down.
Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
I need to go back and watch the show. It's
such a great show, such a good show, it really is.
And McBride, to me, is one of the most underappreciated
comedy actors.
Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
And it's funny too because it's making its rounds on
Twitter right now. I saw that of one scene where
you know, it was obviously Kenny was in Mexico and
they were like, you can clearly see that Danny McBride
is breaking character because he's laughing so hard at it.
Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
I always love stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
I always love like when the when the fourth wall
is is preached like where you can see because I mean,
of course, one of the ones that's the worst at
it is Jimmy fallon on on Yeah, on on Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
That was a bit at the very end, like hey,
how quickly can we make you can can we can
we break Jimmy's character? Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
But like whenever you see that, it's it's always the
best and I always love to you like when like
you go back and see it, like where you're like, hey,
you know you can see Matt LeBlanc here on Friends laughing,
you know, as you know what's off at something that
happened in the background.
Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
It's like, oh, that wasn't planned, No, it wasn't. Okay,
we got to quick time out when we come back.
Jake said something about the transfer portal. There is a
thing that we need to discuss, especially when it comes
to the future as Texas. One name Longhorns have got
to add in. I'll explain why this is important on
the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Sex seven
ninety monks do it right here.
Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
They are on Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
Especial things to.
Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Jake Crane, Crane and Company. He'll be back. We'll definitely
have Jake back on.
Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
Big fan of Jake as talking a little college football
with him because you got the Longhorns taking on Michigan
as part of the cheese at Citrus Bowl one o'clock
right here on sports Stock seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
That's gonna be coming your way.
Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
You got the college foot playoff tonight, firing up Miami
and Ohio.
Speaker 4 (01:52:03):
State, and the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
You're gonna get sections on the practice field getting ready
for the finale against the Colts, to the regular season
on Sunday inside in RG Stadium, and then you get
the rockets on the floor tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:52:16):
I know that you teuse something. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
But what can't be underscored here is our audience is
not fans of Jimmy Fallon. I have found that out
during the break weeks have been coming fast and furious.
Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
Name one person that actually likes Himmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
I think that he probably has some people who give
him some some pity love, because I mean, he's really
not that funny, and you know, it's at least kind
of widely thought of that he's a nice guy, so
it's like, okay, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
But I think for the most part people look at
him as being a tryhard. I think that he is
a giant try hard. He's always been a try hard
and outside of Fever Pitch, it's there's something I've liked
from him at all. That's about. That's pretty much where
I was gonna go. I was gonna say Fever Pitch
was it. I will say it's a good movie. It
is a great rom com. It's a crappy bass like.
I'm not considering it a baseball man, but that's label.
(01:53:04):
It's a rom com that has baseball around him. Then
don't put it in the baseball category. If I go
on to Netflix and it shows up on the sports category,
why the hell am I gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:53:12):
Be watching it? That's fair? What do you got on
the Longhorn? Okay, so what is the long?
Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
What has Steve Sarkusan done better than most when it
comes to fixing the offense?
Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
I'm not really sure. Cole transferportal wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Oh okay, Xavier Worthy was at Michigan, gets out of
his deal, He comes down to he comes down to Austin.
He ends up breaking a school record as a freshman.
Big time reason why the Longhorns are able to establish
a culture. Who is the other guy that came on
in eighty Mitchell from Georgia comes on in, ends up
helping this team go to the College Football Playoff Matthy
Golden Natty Golden last season, comes on in from Houston,
becomes a first round pick the Texas Longhorns. You need
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to go get Cam Coleman from Auburn, the number one
wide receiver in the transfer portal at one point of
five star plus wide receiver was supposed to go to
Texas A and m Jimbo Fisher gets fired. He stays
close to home. He is on the portal after having
two underwhelming seasons out on the planes. He needs to
head on down to the forty acres. Get yourself a
weapon for arch Manning Well.
Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
And here's the thing though, too is I think that's
where the priority has to be this offseason for him
because now you have completely put the bulls eye on you.
If you're Seve Sarkisian and the offensive play caller, you
have another season of ho hum offense when you made
the defensive coordinator change and threw him under the bus
of saying, you know I was having to rob Peter
to pay Paul Oh you were, I mean I shared
(01:54:28):
that last night where they were talking about the stat
lines of Marcel Reid and also John Mattier against Texas,
and I was like, hmm, so much for having the
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
So my big point is that you look at where
you are right now. Offensively, you lost off your wide
receivers DeAndre Moorrees going to the transfer portal. We don't
know Aboutryan Wingo sas long term. You got a couple
guys are gone pro. You need a veteran in there.
Because of arch Manning at this point, I think has
shown everybody listen. I started off slow, but that wasn't
my fault. That was Paul fine Bomb's fault. Putting to
much pressure on me to deliver it become the second
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coming of Tim Tebow, like that was the narrative around me.
But I have proven that I am actually the right
guy for the job. I can be the quarterback that
you always envisioned, but you gotta give me some supportive health.
Speaker 4 (01:55:11):
I like that you have a guy like Ryan Wingoso around.
Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
You got some young players like Khalil Lockett, Jamie French,
but you need an enforcer.
Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
This is a six foot three, do it all bad ass.
Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
I'm ready to go ahead and run it down to
your throat test me in single man coverage type of
receiver that if you add him into this offense, it
is going to be a starch difference from what we
saw in twenty twenty four. And then can bring back
coach Boom, and then you can bring back in some
good defensive names, and you have a good foundation in
place with a lot of the defensive talent returning this year.
Texas with their schedule should at least be ten and
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two in the College Football Playoff. They got to get
themselves a legit number one. You did it for Quinn Yewers,
you gotta do it for arch Manning.
Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Well, we'll get into a little bit of Texans here
as we get into the nine o'clock hour because it's
our weekly visit with our own Sports Talk seven to
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Canna hop on with us right here. It is the
Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:56:07):
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Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
This is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.
Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
That's coming up Sunday inside NRG Stadium. You've also got
the Rockets on the road tomorrow afternoon, coming your way
against the Nets, and you'll hear that right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety and the college football playoff fires
up tonight. You've got to Miami and Ohio State before that,
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety, you got to
Texas and Michigan coming your way at one o'clock as
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Texas closest thing out in the cheese it's Citrus Bowl.
But you know, just getting ready to catch up with
Aaron here in a second, I mean the Texans heading
into this one.
Speaker 4 (01:57:10):
We talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
I mean I had the you know where we're talking
about this team and saying that you want to play
this like any other game.
Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
You're on a roll right now.
Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Don't switch things up, don't put yourself in position where
you've got to restart this thing the following week. But
at the same time, though too, Cole and we'll get
into this with Aaron a little bit when we catch
up with them, is that it seems like this is
going to be a situation where.
Speaker 4 (01:57:37):
At least a couple of people on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
Maybe it's an assistant trainer, maybe it's I don't know,
somebody else is going to be there and periodically going
over to Tamiko and being like, hey, it's ten to
nothing Jacksonville. You know, hey, it's the fourth quarter and
they're up by twenty five. Now, I think if you
hear that one, that's when all of a sudden, it's
going to be Davis Mills in at quarterback, Juar Jordan
over at running back, and that the wide receiver group
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of everybody else not named Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz,
even though he's not a wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
But you get my point. Yeah, I mean to an extent.
Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
But at the same time, I think that you're not
worried about that, that you're worried about making sure that you
win the game, like because of again, at this standpoint,
if you lose, and if Los Angeles wins, and if
Buffalo wins, your head to head doesn't matter anymore because
you have six losses and they have five losses, which
means now instead of going to Baltimore going to Pittsburgh,
you're going to New England or to Denver, or to
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Jacksonville and I'm not saying that those are easier path
like those are more challenging pathways, because I don't believe
in Jacksonville. I don't think that New England, with even
all the experience we've seen from Mike Rabel in the playoffs,
it's a young quarterback making his debut in the postseason.
I'm not so that those things are gonna hurt you.
But I can tell you what I want the easiest
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pathway as possible to get to the divisional round, to
keep my season alive. I feel a lot better about
playing Pittsburgh and playing Baltimore. So you got to worry
about you first. Don't worry about what's going on in Jacksonville.
We don't worry about if you're gonna be hosting a
playoff game. Worry about setting a tone in the first
half to where you feel like even if Jacksonville is losing.
Let's say Jacksonville's losing by three, but you're up by twenty,
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you can still feel like we're gonna put our backups in.
Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
Let's get them some reps just in case of anything.
Speaker 2 (01:59:16):
Well, I mean, and that's the thing, I mean, this
is all predicated on if you have a lead. If
you don't, well, then of course, yeah, you gotta win
the football game. You gotta find a way, which I mean,
you can't assume anything with this team. Unfortunately, it seems
like that anytime we felt like, oh, that should be
a coast, I mean, the Raiders game was case in point,
that being the case where you thought that now you'd
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be able to handle them, it's not really gonna be
a problem, and then well you found out that you
had to grin and bear it out, and then you
had to have a miraculous third down conversion for you
to even be able to go to knees.
Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
Is there somebody on the Texans offense that our minds
you as HEAs? I'll shire And I bring that up
because of yesterday. I was driving home and I was
thinking about that Raiders game. I think about the tru
and the impact of what Aziz al Schiier meant to Houston,
especially when it came to the run defense, especially when
it came to attacking the intermediate part of the field.
Where did Las Vegas find most of their success intermediate
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part of the field and explosive plays. Do the Texans
have that guy on offense right now to where if
you're missing him on the field, it may not seem
like a big deal, but you look.
Speaker 4 (02:00:20):
Back, it is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
And like Nico Collins is the easy answer. But I
feel like that there's like another name you can go with.
Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
I mean, I would say that probably right now, it's
got to be CJ. Even though you were able to
you you were able to keep this thing afloat with
Davis Mills. But I mean, you just feel like that
you've got more big play opportunities with CJ out there
than you do with Davis Mills.
Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Can I thought a name at you? Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Dalton Schultz, number two on the team of receptions, number
one on the team in targets, number two on the
team in yards per catch, number two on the team
in yards per game, third most important tight end in
the NFL. Receptions. It doesn't seem like a big deal
because it's Dalton Schultz. It's just a tight end. It's
a guy who is a part of an offense that
does not draw in a lot of names like Trey
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McBride or George Kittle or Travis kelcey. But the second
that he's gone, you gotta turn to Kate Stover. You
gotta turn to Harrison Bryant. You gotta turn the guys
who are on the practice squad. There's a giant difference
between having him on the field versus having Kate Stover
getting all the reps just like as he's all show,
you're not being on the field for Texans defense.
Speaker 6 (02:01:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
I mean, those are definitely concerns that you have, and
I mean the Texans, you know, just trying to be
able to, i mean, find any type of capable production
out of this offense. I think is the big thing.
In last week, I mean, you saw it. You know,
we'd been told that you could expect big playability out
of Jayden Higgins. You finally saw it. Same to you
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a lot of Jalen Nole. We've been seeing it all
season long out of him in the return game. I mean,
it's been one of those that it kind of feels like,
all right, any time here that he touches a football
on a kick return, he's gonna be able to run
that back.
Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
And he nearly did Arizona though. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Yeah, well see I was glad that they finally got
Jalen Nolan involved in the passing attack and last game
because I've been waiting all season for Fourteen to be
a bigger factor in the offense. Not because if I
don't think that you don't have other guys that you
like with Nico and Jayden Higgins. But you drafted the
guy seventy eight, I mean seventy fifth overall. You brought
him on in to compete for first team reps. You're
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not getting the production that you thought you were going
to get out of Christian Kirk. So thankfully, for the
first time, it felt like we're going to make a
priority to get fourteen the football. And like I've told
you all year, when you get him in space, he
makes plays. He did so in the Seattle game, he
did so in the Arizona game, he did so against
Los Angeles. That's a guy I want to see more
reps from moving forward. Well, I mean, and it's also too,
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I mean, you drafted him for a reason. I mean,
I think that's the biggest thing of all of it,
is that you've got him here. And I understand that
you've paid a lot of money through a draft or
through a trade to get Christian Kirk here. But Jalen
Nole is my future. Christian Kirk is not. I'd much
rather see Jalen Nole. Like the thing that I hate
about the text at times is that they will have
players that are on lucrative contracts or on major deals
(02:03:05):
to where you feel like, if we're going to get
the benefit out of this, out of this money, we
have to play him, even if it's a problem for us,
even if we know that this is the wrong move.
Like Cam Robinson, they had to play him at one
point because if they said, we paid fourteen million dollars,
we guys, he what we get he end up being
a backup, then you trade him off.
Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
Someone was willing to take on that contract.
Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
They knew that they need to get somebody else in
the as an offensive tackle problem solved. Sometimes it's okay
to submit. You were at fault, you swung, you missed.
Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
But you have a.
Speaker 3 (02:03:35):
Guy that offers you similar traits, similar skills, similar upside,
more potential, and he's a good fit for what the
offense is running right now.
Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Let him play on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
Like remember when they were games where Braxton Burials and
Justin Watson were taking reps away from from fourteen Like
I was, I was baffled by the fact that I
understand that you have these guys on like one year deals.
It shouldn't matter that he's on a rookie contract. What
matters is we're putting the best eleven players out there,
and usually that's something that Demiko is very adamant about.
Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Well, I mean it's also too. I mean it's kind
of realizing the era of your ways. I mean with
Braxon Barrios, I mean, the whole reason he was here
was for his return shops and then you found out
what we've got Jalen Nole, so that takes away what
he was brought here to be. He wasn't brought here
to be a receiver. He was brought here to be
a really good return guy for you, and then once
that was taken from him, it was all right, well,
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that's one job that's already and that's one more guy
that we don't have to worry about in terms of
active or inactive.
Speaker 4 (02:04:33):
Well, you just should have kept him a enact at
that point.
Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Like, I get that you didn't want to release him
just in case of somebody else picks him on up
and then becomes a problem for you. But at the
same time, you knew at this moment that he had
no value for your team. Jalen Nole has the value.
And I'm at that point where I'm not saying release
Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4 (02:04:51):
He's been a part of the roster all year. He's
helped you get to this point.
Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
He's been a part of the offense that now is
going to the playoff. But let's just call it as is,
who would you rather have in the field or Christian Kirk?
You know my answer exactly, So why are we having
an argument about about how many reps you have? Nick,
the guy who offers you more potential, needs to be
on the field for your biggest potential running the playoffs. Well,
and I mean you saw that play out last week.
Speaker 2 (02:05:13):
Again, like I mentioned, Higgins and Noll, able to score
your two touchdowns and not only able to score them,
but also too, I mean able to make them happen
in huge ways.
Speaker 4 (02:05:22):
I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
Would like to see that the Texans have that in
their back pocket of being able to stretch the field
that way heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (02:05:29):
That would be nice.
Speaker 2 (02:05:31):
But I mean again also too, I will give Nick
Kaylee credit where it does seem like you know a
couple of different times this year, one credit for him
one for CIJ where I said that that Monday night
game against Seattle, I kind of felt like CJ was
kind of getting back to being twenty twenty three, CJ
again of saying, Hey, the pressure is gonna come. I
get all of that. I'm gonna get hit, that's fine,
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But I'm still gonna be looking down the field and
I'm still gonna be able to drop dimes on people.
Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
He made a few throws in that Kansas City game
that felt very similar to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
And then I mean with Kaylee as I mentioned, I mean,
seeing some of the routes that they had open in
that Raiders game, I was like, I kind of feel
like he's building up something right there, and then we
saw it payoff against La.
Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
Yeah, but at the same time, we also saw two
blundering interceptions, including one that I thought was inexcusable with
the Elijah moldepick.
Speaker 2 (02:06:16):
Well the Texans, I mean, as mentioned getting ready for
the regular season finale, I guess we'll catch up with
Aaron another time. It seems like I guess he probably
got caught up with something. So it's all good. Let's
get into a little bit of a Sunday's game, because
while the Texans are not facing the old grizzly veteran,
he still is a pretty big fan of this guy,
(02:06:37):
and he even thinks that he's got some staying power.
We'll discuss right here as we continue on the Morning
Drive with Dan and Cole. Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:06:46):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Philip Rivers has been benched. And I don't think a
lot of people were necessarily surprised about that. I mean,
remember I said that he was asked about it after
the game on Sunday and was like, you know, hey,
if this is it, what a what a great ride.
You know, obviously would have liked to have won games,
(02:07:06):
but you know, still glad that I took this chance
and came back, did all that kind of stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:07:11):
You did it to get in the Hall of Fame.
Let's just say that.
Speaker 2 (02:07:13):
Well, I mean, but still did not I mean, did
he not do Why would he need to do that?
I mean, I think he would have had a really
good chance of being able to get in. How did
he just sat out?
Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Okay, but now he has a guaranteed shot of getting
on in you don't play for four and a half years,
should go on out you throw more touchdown to those interceptions.
You have more touchdown passes than your former first round
pick and a guy that's waiting in the wings that's
starting on Sunday combined this season. I mean like, at
that point, it's got to be I mean you he said,
he went like two fifty five. Dude, wait over two
(02:07:43):
seventy out there, and he was sleeping around like no
one's business. The dude's a Hall of Famer Now.
Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
Well, Riley Leonard's going to be getting the start in
Philip Rivers meeting with the media yesterday saying Riley Leonard's
going to be around somewhere for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:07:57):
Riley is a pro.
Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Riley is going to work hard, and obviously I don't
want to put a ceiling on anything that he can do,
and certainly will continue to pull for him. But I
said before he ever got drafted, or early on when
he was at Notre Dame, when I got to be
with him and some of the guys, I was like,
he's going to be a double digit guy in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
To what extent that is? Who knows?
Speaker 6 (02:08:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
Is he a starter.
Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
He's one of those guys that is talented enough throwing it,
and he obviously athletic enough to run around. He's going
to work at it because he cares enough, and he's
going to be around somewhere for a long time.
Speaker 3 (02:08:34):
Look, I don't want to be doom and gloom. I
also don't care because if it's Riley Leonard, he's better
throwing it than people give him credit for.
Speaker 4 (02:08:44):
Dan did you watch Nardan football last season? Yeah? Did
you watch Riley Leonard at Nordan Football last season?
Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
He counted a lot on Julian Love last season, So
I mean but still I mean able to Jeremi Love.
All right, Jeremiah Love, I'm sorry, able to get them
to the national championship games.
Speaker 4 (02:09:00):
So obviously he was doing something right.
Speaker 3 (02:09:02):
He threw for under three thousand yards and nearly rained
for one thousand. He had almost as many touchdowns running
the football as he did passing. He averaged seven point
one yards to throw. Dude is not a He's not
a quarterback. He's a guy that knows how to throw
a football that can run it better. He's this version
of Tim Tebow, but better better. When it comes to
the actor, I was gonna say Taysom Hill now, because
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at least Tasom Taysom Hill can't throw a football to
save his life. This guy at least can make can
hit the target.
Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
That was always the go to in New Orleans was, Hey,
maybe they can start Taysom Hill a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:09:33):
I'm sorry, that was the dumbest thing that far and
away was the dumbest and most infuriating thing to hear.
To hear Saints fans come up with all the time,
well we got to move off with Drew Brees Taysom
Hill time.
Speaker 4 (02:09:43):
No stop it stop, Like like, come on, man, you're
better than that. But I mean, he clearly is a
bright guy.
Speaker 2 (02:09:49):
He clearly is somebody that can understand offenses and I
mean some of the other things you can work on.
I mean, that's where I think he couched it a
little bit. If he didn't say he was going to
be a star. He didn't say that he could be
a franchise quarterback. He just said that he's somebody that
could be around for a long time, i e.
Speaker 4 (02:10:06):
A backup or.
Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
A coach that moves into the broadcast. But like there's
a lot of things he could be around in the
NFL for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
I just think that, you know again, I mean, would
it had been cool to have seen Philip Rivers on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (02:10:19):
Sure it would have.
Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
But at the same time though too, I mean, if
you're the Colts, I mean just looking at it, you know,
from not only this final game, but going forward for them,
they've got to find as many answers as possible, because
hell they are, they are steering down the barrel of
really lean times in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (02:10:37):
You're telling me that right now, Riley Leonard may be
an answer for you.
Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
I mean, I think that you at least give an
opportunity if he plays well enough that you can say,
maybe there's something to work with here.
Speaker 3 (02:10:48):
He has a completion percentage of fifty four point five percent,
four point four yards of pass thirty six point three
yards per game passing, two interceptions against zero, and a
passer rating of forty point six.
Speaker 4 (02:11:02):
I'm just saying, you.
Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
Don't know until you know, and you don't know until
you put him out on the field.
Speaker 4 (02:11:08):
I think that's what.
Speaker 3 (02:11:09):
He was out on the field. He played against the
Jacksonville Jaguars and he's stunk. He was awful. It was
a horrible performance and it led to now Jacksonville gaining
more ground in the AFC South. If he delivered that game,
then maybe Houston would take a kind on him because
they would be in the leadership, they'd be in the
front seat for the for the AFC South title. But
you didn't do your job, Riley, So now you gotta
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be taught a lesson here in Houston. That's daneil Hunter,
that's Sheldon Rankins, that's disease outshy Year, and that's Will
Anderson corraling you into throwing into double coverage where Derek
Stingley interception to the house is waiting on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
Well, I mean that's the thing too, is you know
just looking at the rest of the division. I mean,
are we like even possibly thinking about the chance that
the next few years could be just the Texans and
Jags battling it out for this thing.
Speaker 4 (02:11:56):
Money's always going to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:11:57):
Do you have a lot of money out in Indianapolis
and Tessee in salary cat space, and do you bring
in the right free agents because Tennessee can spend money
this offseason, they get the right coach in the building.
Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
It's a fourth place schedule.
Speaker 3 (02:12:08):
Do you think that you can grow with cam Ward
all little things that will play a major factor. If so,
I'll throw test scene into the mix. Andy shot itself
in the foot because if it doesn't have a first
round pick for the next two years with sasgarter, so
you're locked into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven
not picking until let me also ad this in the
middle of the second round. Your first pick is like
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forty fifth. You're not getting a full on starter at
the forty fifth. I mean, with the forty fifth overall pick,
you're getting a developmental guy that you hope can pan
on out and you have some money in free agency
and some money in salary cat space, but not enough
to go swing big for like a name that is
really gonna hit you over the head and be like
a wow factor. So Indy's out in my opinion, Tesness
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See maybe gains a little bit of ground.
Speaker 4 (02:12:54):
I think it's yeah, Jacksonville, Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Well, but it's also though with Indy, I mean they've
been living this life of either free agency or trade
one way or the other to find their guy. Since
I mean, Anthony Richardson isn't that guy. So I mean
Kyler Murray's gonna be out there. You're gonna have a
couple of other guys. It could be a possibility out there.
I mean, he's another one that I think could It
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could be on the block to be up for anybody
that wants a man.
Speaker 4 (02:13:20):
You're gonna give up your second round pick for Tua?
I would say you don't.
Speaker 2 (02:13:24):
But again, that might not be up to Chris Ballard
because I wonder almost if Chris Ballard's gonna be making
that through money.
Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
Black money is gonna come for a lot of teams.
It's not just head coaches, it's gms. Chris Ballard will
not be the GM of the Union oppos Colts coming
Ay morning. You can't make a trade like that when
it comes to Sauce Gardner and he doesn't play, and
then you having a three game division lead, blow it
and finished below five hundred, you simply can't.
Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
You can't be kept around at that standpoint. It's tough
to argue that you have staying power at that point.
And well, again that's the Colts problem, not necessarily the Texans,
but Texans just trying to get their twelfth win to
at least locked themselves into the fifth seed, and of
course you need some help from the Tennessee Titans, so
hopefully they can help you out on Sunday in Jacksonville.
Speaker 4 (02:14:08):
And that's the case, and you're talking about a division winner.
Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
But we'll get more into the Texans conversation a little
bit later on. Do you want to get back into
the college football conversation because we're gonna catch up with
our good buddy Brad Kellner Texas Sports Unfiltered and also
with Locked On Longhorns. He's gonna hop on with us
here as we'll get into a little bit of Texas
football right here on the Morning Drive with Dana Coles
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Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
Wow, sucks some longhorns.
Speaker 3 (02:14:46):
Right now, Brad Kellner from Texas Sport Unfiltered and Locked
on Longhorns joins us on the Morning Drive. B K
Happy at a twenty twenty five and I can tell
you probably as a long horn fan, you're ready for
twenty twenty six because you're sick and tired of hearing
about how you missed the playoff?
Speaker 6 (02:14:58):
Right, absolutely ready to turn the page to twenty twenty six.
You know, nine and three for a lot of teams
is not a bad season.
Speaker 9 (02:15:07):
But the long Horns.
Speaker 6 (02:15:08):
Have obviously made it to the College Football Playoffs semi
final the last two years and started the years the
preseason number one team in America. So the expectations were
not talking about how cheesy we woke up feeling today.
We were thinking about a playoff this year. Unfortunately it
didn't happen. So yeah, a lot of the focus is
about what's going to happen in twenty twenty six for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
And Brad, I mean, you know a lot of people
look at bowl games now and they're like, if you win, well,
you know, that's momentum for next season. If you lose,
it didn't matter you had about half the team not playing.
But sounds like this team is really loaded up for
this one, like they want to be able to kind
of prove like, hey, you should have had us in
the college football playoff.
Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (02:15:48):
Yeah, they're saying that right man. I mean, Steve Sarkisian,
all the players, all the coaches, everybody who's been in
front of a microphone. Since the Longhorns got to Orlando
on Friday, have been talking about going out wanting to
win this football game. So you know, we've seen times.
I think of Georgia after the twenty twenty three season
when they were left out of the college football playoffs,
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they clearly were on a mission to prove to the
playoff committee that they made a mistake by leaving them out.
Speaker 9 (02:16:13):
They boat raced Florida State in their.
Speaker 6 (02:16:15):
Bowl game, and then at times, you know last year
with Alabama at nine and three.
Speaker 9 (02:16:19):
Sorry about this, coal.
Speaker 6 (02:16:20):
But they got left out of college football playoffs, and
you know, they know showed against the same Michigan team
and they were Liaquest Bowls, So you know, a lot
of opt outs. I mean, seven defensive starters for Texas
will not play in this game. The Longhorns are down
four running backs, they're down a receiver. So on one hand,
it's it's not the full compliment of players that they
had during the regular season. But again, I mean the mindset,
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at least outwardly, has been all about doing whatever they
need to do to win this game today. So yeah,
I think I think Texas will have the energy. I
think they'll have the intensity, and it seems like they're
treating this one the way they.
Speaker 9 (02:16:55):
Treated every game during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (02:16:57):
BK, what does a win mean over Michigan's, especially if
arch meaning is able to ball on out in today's game.
Speaker 6 (02:17:03):
Yeah, well, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 9 (02:17:05):
To me, it doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot.
Speaker 6 (02:17:07):
I mean, ten win seasons in college football used to
mean something, but with how devalued these non playoff bowl
games are, I don't think any Texas fans should be
puffing their chest out too much if the Longhorns are
able to win this game. But I am focused. I'm
glad you brought up arch Manning because that's my focus
today is just individual performances. And arch Manning obviously finished
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this twenty twenty five season on a.
Speaker 9 (02:17:29):
High, and he was really really good.
Speaker 6 (02:17:31):
In the second half of the year after so many
people wrote him off following the Longhorns loss to Florida.
I mean, it would be nice against a good Michigan
defense to have a really.
Speaker 9 (02:17:41):
Really good game.
Speaker 6 (02:17:42):
You know, you're looking for some of these young guys
to step up to give you confidence that Okay, the
returning players that Texas has for next season are good
enough to where you can feel confident that the Longhorns
can get back to the college football playoffs. So you know,
you're looking for good, strong performances. I don't think too
many folks are going to be crowning Texas with the
win today, considering everything that Michigan has gone through over
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the last three weeks since they fired. Sure own more
and considering some of the opt outs on their side,
but would be nice from a confidence standpoint. And again,
I know some old school college football fans still care
about that ten wins thing. Texas hasn't had three straight
ten win seasons since Mac Brown two thousand and seven
to two thousand and nine, so it's been a while
for the Longhorns to stack these, you know, consistent good
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seasons together, so there's definitely some pride in that. But again,
more of it for me is just about looking at good, strong,
individual performances to try to get some confidence for what
this team's.
Speaker 9 (02:18:35):
Going to look like next fall.
Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
But I'm I'm old, I'm sorry, man, I apologize that
I am somebody who cares about this sanctity of bowl
games and that ten win seasons do means something to
me at this part in town.
Speaker 6 (02:18:47):
You know, I'm still trying to learn the ways of
the SEC.
Speaker 9 (02:18:51):
Right, this is only.
Speaker 6 (02:18:51):
Texas's second year in the COPG.
Speaker 4 (02:18:54):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:18:55):
I'm just preparing myself, Like, if the Longhorns lose today,
I have to say we didn't want to be there, right,
I'm just this game even before kickoff, I'm letting y'all
know that we don't want to be there. So just
in case things don't go well this afternoon, you guys
know at least one Texas fan stands on this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:19:14):
Yeah, hedging, that's allowed, Brad. I mean, well, well we'll
allow you to do that.
Speaker 4 (02:19:18):
Hedging.
Speaker 2 (02:19:18):
Hedging is being smart with your money, and in this
case right here, it's credibility on social media.
Speaker 4 (02:19:23):
We get it, we get it, We totally do. He's
Brat Kellner again.
Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Texas Sports Unfiltered locked on Longhorns as well. Hey, I
mean we've talked about this a lot on this show,
and curious to get your thoughts on this and what
you guys have been talking about in Austin. I thought
I thought sarks line that he had about moving on
from Pete Kwakowski and bringing in Will mus Champ.
Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
I thought it was pretty weak.
Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
Do you feel like that Longhorn fans are gonna be
looking even harder at him and his offensive play calling
now that he has made that decision and moving away
from a guy that has been really good as a
defensive coordinator.
Speaker 6 (02:19:57):
Yeah, Dan, I mean, you typically don't see coaches at
any level college football in the NFL, even high school
that do things that turn up the heats on their seats, right,
and that it feels like that's what Steve Sarkisian did
by making a move off of Pete quit Kowski. I mean,
Texas's defense has been better than its offense over the
last three seasons. There are a lot of Longhorn fans
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asking about coaching changes to Steve Sharksan's staff because of.
Speaker 9 (02:20:23):
The disappointment of this twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 6 (02:20:25):
I don't think a single Longhorn fan was asking for
a change at defensive coordinator. And like you said, I
mean sark referenced it in his press conference right after
the move was made, basically talked about, you know, kind
of hinted to having to babysit Pete Quitkowski, right, he
had to do too much on the defensive headset on
game day, which prevented him from being able to coach
an offense that he wanted to. So it's a big risk.
Speaker 9 (02:20:47):
Again.
Speaker 6 (02:20:47):
You typically don't see coaches make moves like this to
increase the pressure on themselves, But it's Steve Sarkisan telling
you that, you know, he thinks the move to Will
Muschamp is going to make the defense better but also,
more importally allow him to focus on the Longhorns offense
even more in twenty twenty six. And yeah, it was
a bit of a down yere. I mean, Texas had
his worst rushing offense since nineteen forty four this year.
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Obviously some inconsistencies with the passing game. The offensive line
was as bad as it's been in the five years
that sark has been the head coach in Austin. So
sark side of the ball.
Speaker 9 (02:21:19):
Was not nearly good enough this year.
Speaker 6 (02:21:21):
And everything he's saying is talking about that offense being
better next year and him being able to focus on
that side of the ball more next year. Longhorn fans
are definitely expecting the results to be a heck of
a lot better in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
Okay, be caam, I'm gonna put you on the spot.
You get to play matchmaker in the transfer portal. It's
opening up on Friday. Who is a name that you
have to see in a Longhorn uniform in twenty twenty six.
I'm gonna go step further?
Speaker 4 (02:21:44):
Might step further? Gotta be offense only offense?
Speaker 6 (02:21:47):
Okay, okay, I mean it's obvious, and this is the
guy who has yet to announce his intentions to enter
the portal. But it's Staton Ball, the second team All
SEC running back from Florida. As the Longhorns also made
a change at running backs coach. They got rid of
Kat's guy they hired recently tired, or I should say
you know, he was let go after the coaching.
Speaker 9 (02:22:04):
Change at Florida.
Speaker 6 (02:22:05):
But they brought in Jabar to Luke, who was Jayden
Ball's running back coach at Florida, the guy who recruited
him to Gainesville a couple of years ago. I mean
that's the guy again. I mentioned that Texas had its
worst rushing offense since World War Two this season, and
the Longhorns have already seen four running backs enter the portal,
including Trey Wisner, who shocked everybody by entering the day
after Christmas last week, So Texas is in dire need.
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I think they probably are going to bring in two
running backs from the portal, but they need a difference maker.
Speaker 9 (02:22:32):
They need an impact player at that position.
Speaker 6 (02:22:35):
Because the identity everyone's going to focus on Arch Manning,
just how it works when your last name is Manning.
But the identity of the Steve Sarkisan offense at his
core is about the running game. Right this was the
first year that sark has been a head coach. We're
an offensive coordinator that he did not have a thousand
yard rusher on his team, so it's imperative for his offense.
Speaker 9 (02:22:54):
To do what it wants to do that.
Speaker 6 (02:22:56):
They have a really dynamic difference maker in the backfield.
Jayden bar instantly will become the number one running back
if he hits the portal. And again, I think Texas
would have hired jabbarge to Luke regardless of if Jaden
Ball was coming, but that would be the icing on
the cake if they're able to bring in a difference
maker like that at running back. So he is priority
number one for I think like ninety percent of Texas
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fans out there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:23:18):
Cole Hey brad Let's just go ahead and take the
pessimistic view next season at this time, if we have
you on and it's a similar season nine to three,
you miss out on the College Football playoff. You even
mentioned it about sark putting himself on the hot seat
with the decision to bring in Will muss Champ. If
that happens, what are Texas fans saying about his job?
Speaker 6 (02:23:39):
Yeah, I mean it's a great question, right, It's you know,
it's funny with results come expectations. Obviously, Steve Sarkkeyson has
a tremendous job turning this Texas football program around. I
mean they were admired in a dozen years of suck
from twenty ten to twenty twenty two. And obviously, you
know sark was able to lead Texas to back to
back playoffs wards won the Big twelve championship in twenty
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twenty three, that got to the SEC title game in twenty.
Speaker 9 (02:24:04):
Twenty four, which is great.
Speaker 6 (02:24:05):
But when you have those results again, the bar gets
raised even higher. And if the Longhorns go from that's
to missing the playoffs and back to back years, yeah,
there will absolutely be people calling for Steve Sarkisian's job
here in Austin. Now, he's got a pretty hefty buyout,
but we see buyouts look like nothing around the country.
And y'all know as well as I do that Texas
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has enough money to pay whatever they need to pay
to make something happen. So yeah, I mean, there would
be a ton of disappointment if Texas doesn't make the
playoff next year. I don't think the Longhorns are going
to be preseason number one in twenty twenty six, but
I do think they'll be preseason top five. And also, Dan,
I think part of the answer to that question is,
you know, what does the playoff look like next year?
It sounds like we're headed to at least fourteen maybe
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sixteen teams. If we had that in twenty twenty five,
Texas would have been in the playoffs. So it'd be
a totally different discussion surrounding this team in this situation
this year. If it's a sixteen team playoff in Texas
gets left outs.
Speaker 9 (02:25:03):
Then yeah, there are going to.
Speaker 6 (02:25:04):
Be a lot of folks looking for answers and some
folks looking for changes to be made in Austin.
Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
For sure, Bek, I'll get you out of here on
this college football playoffs starts tonight out in Arlington, three
more games tomorrow, then two, then one. You have an
opportunity to name who is going to be the national champion?
Who is your pick?
Speaker 4 (02:25:21):
And why?
Speaker 6 (02:25:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Georgia. I mean, they were
my preseason pick to win the SEC. They were my
preseason pick to win the national championship. And I think
my UTSD might be kicking in a little bit because
of what they've done to the Longhorns the last few
times they've played. But I mean, it's scary to see
a Georgia team with the confident, high powered, explosive offense right,
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and that they've always been known for their defense under
Kirby Smart.
Speaker 9 (02:25:48):
And it's not like their defense is bad, it's still very,
very good.
Speaker 6 (02:25:51):
They don't have the difference makers that they've had in
some recent years. But love the way Gunner Stockton's playing,
Love the way that running game has evolved. I think
they're battle tested by playing in the SEC.
Speaker 9 (02:26:03):
And yeah, I mean I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6 (02:26:05):
I'm gonna go with George even though I'm in Columbus,
Ohio right now. Guys, quick story here, I've got a
New Year's Eve wedding tonight and it's an Ohio State
fan who's the groom that's getting married, And I'm kind
of rooting for some chaos there, kind of calling for
a Hurricanes upset just to see what happens at this wedding.
Speaker 4 (02:26:25):
That's perfect, that's exactly what we want.
Speaker 9 (02:26:26):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (02:26:28):
So Ohio State's good. I mean, Indiana is obviously a
great story. But I think Kirbye Smart's the best coach
in college football. I think that Georgia roster is complete again.
I think they're battle tested.
Speaker 9 (02:26:37):
So they are. They are my pick, and I know
I'm not alone right now for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:26:42):
DK, thirty seconds, you're least say something nice about Texas Tech.
Speaker 6 (02:26:48):
No, can I just say no for thirty seconds? No? No, no,
you know it's it's great. It's good for them. They
need a big brother to leave the conference for them
to finally do something of notes. So, you know, congrats
to Texas Tech. They're obviously having a great year. Look there,
they're in a position in the Big twelve to kind
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of run that league for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 9 (02:27:12):
So a great year for Texas Tech. But obviously it's
going to get.
Speaker 6 (02:27:16):
A heck of a lot tougher having to play Oregon
and you know, some real teams from some real conferences.
Speaker 9 (02:27:21):
Once this playoff get to going.
Speaker 3 (02:27:22):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (02:27:23):
That's what I wanted to see here.
Speaker 2 (02:27:24):
See you're truly in the sec now, Brad, you got it,
You got it well, Welcome in, Welcome in, all right.
He's Brad Kellner again, Texas Sport's Unfiltered as well as
you can find his work as part of Locked On
Longhorns too as well.
Speaker 4 (02:27:37):
And he hopped on with us here for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:27:40):
BKA, have a happy new year, buddy, be safe getting
back from Columbus, and I'm sure we'll be catching up
with you again here very soon.
Speaker 6 (02:27:47):
Always fun, guys, Thanks so much for the time, and
happy New Year to you all and all's listeners too.
Speaker 2 (02:27:52):
There we go, Brad Kelener again, hopping on with us
here on the morning drive.
Speaker 4 (02:27:55):
A New Year's Eve wedding that is different, I mean
what sans if people do, it's a very big trend.
Speaker 2 (02:28:01):
Here's the thing though, too, is I mean you know
he mentions the groom being an Ohio state guy, so people,
of course, oh how could you schedule? I mean again,
when you book a wedding you're doing it months, maybe
even a year in advance, then.
Speaker 3 (02:28:13):
Don't do it during the college football season. See that
is that is a good point, but it is also okay. Also,
you're an Ohio State fan, you're going to the playoff
every year.
Speaker 2 (02:28:21):
Well, but it's also I would think with this is
you have to keep in mind it's a two person
decision here. So maybe you know she had it in
her head that she wanted to be married and head
into the new year on a right foot.
Speaker 3 (02:28:35):
Does she love you, because if she does, she knows
the rules. Don't get married during college football season.
Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
I feel like bowl season though, it's kind of a
moving target. So you're kind of like, hey.
Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
You're marrying an Ohio State fan. You're gonna be in
the playoffs, so you're.
Speaker 2 (02:28:48):
Thinking that maybe you're gonna be playing in the Rose
Bowl the next day. So then there you go the
first day of marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:28:53):
That's still not a good enough excuse.
Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
I'm not risking it for anything, and go get married
on Saint Patrick's say, celebrate the Irish drunk.
Speaker 4 (02:29:00):
That's a way to go bring in the new year.
That's a thought. Actually, I need to lock that away
for future reference.
Speaker 2 (02:29:06):
Who knows, but anyway, a familiar face that we know
around here. He's got a new job and also two
crisis averted both of those things. As we close out
this edition of the Morning Drive right here on the
home of the Rockets and the Astros, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:29:26):
Page town Bill Morning Drive continues now now here's Dannen Cole.
Speaker 2 (02:29:34):
And then at one o'clock that's when Texas Football, as
part of the Cheese at Citrus Powl taking on Michigan,
gonna be coming your way right here on your home
with Longhorns here in Houston, Sports Talk seven ninety got
the Texans on the practice field getting ready for the
regular season finale against the Colts on Sunday inside NRG Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:29:51):
Rockets are going to be.
Speaker 2 (02:29:54):
On the road tomorrow taking on the nets that'll be
coming your way tomorrow'pnion right here Sports Talk seven ninety
And I mentioned it's a familiar face as a new job.
Congratulations Kevin someone, you're the coach of the UFL's Houston Gamblers.
Speaker 4 (02:30:08):
Did he really get the job there? He did?
Speaker 3 (02:30:10):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:30:11):
Welcome, welcome back to Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:30:13):
Indeed, and you know, immediately when I saw this, I
was like, oh, they play their games at TDECU.
Speaker 4 (02:30:19):
They're at Rice, aren't they? They are at Shell Energy Stadium.
Speaker 3 (02:30:23):
Then they're playing at the Dynamo Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:30:25):
Now They're playing at the Dynamo Stadium now.
Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
So the Houston Gamblers even on Twitter all in on
someone Kevin someone has been named the head coach at
the Houston Gamblers.
Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
How long ago was this?
Speaker 4 (02:30:34):
This was thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (02:30:36):
So it just came out, okay, because my phone's on silence,
so I usually get the emails from the uff USFL
people tell me that they're like who they hire.
Speaker 2 (02:30:44):
I think I've told this story on air before, so
if I have bear with me. But if I haven't,
well then here you go. Is there was a guy
that I used to work with that was a producer
that every single time something broke like it would be
like right around now or like forty five minutes later,
Hey do you hear this out?
Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
And Hey do you hear that happen?
Speaker 2 (02:31:01):
I'm like, yeah, I work in the industry, of course
I heard it happened, like I saw it, like right
when it came down.
Speaker 3 (02:31:06):
I'd be so mean, just like, yeah, of course I
heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
It just it got to a point where, like when
he kept doing it, I just go, hey, David, let
me just go ahead and tell you, dude, I've heard it.
Speaker 4 (02:31:15):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (02:31:16):
Okay, do you want to make your cow? Do you
want to make it because we have triple he for
a few more minutes. You want to make your college
football predictions for the week now?
Speaker 4 (02:31:21):
Or do you want to wait?
Speaker 15 (02:31:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
We can do it now. Yeah, Triple is here.
Speaker 3 (02:31:24):
Triple A first game up Miami Wyo State. How are
you going with same thy for three? Oregon versus Texas
Tech Triple A. Orgon, This is a tough one. It
really is.
Speaker 4 (02:31:40):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (02:31:40):
Like I said, I mean I can see this being
twenty to seventeen something like that. Like I think that
it is going to be a knockdown, drag out. I think, Orgon,
I think the experience Oregon.
Speaker 9 (02:31:52):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:31:54):
I'll go bold, I'll go I'll just be different. I'll
go Texas tex Here's the thing about Texas Tech that
I can appreciate. They don't have a legit number one receiver.
They have a one receiver per drive. So if you
take away Terrence Carter on one drive, you got Douglas
on the next one. You got queaking on the third one,
and Jake brought up a really good point about this defense.
I have my questions and doubts when it comes to
Oregon's defense, and it'd be a massive win for the
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Big twelve long term Alabama, Indiana Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (02:32:19):
Who you got? Give me the Hoosiers. Let's go. My
dad loves you right now, let's go. Yeah, how's that
gonna go?
Speaker 1 (02:32:25):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (02:32:25):
I haven't talked to him yet, Like he's listening.
Speaker 3 (02:32:27):
I know he's listening in and I guarantee you that
I'm gonna be trying to make plans on what we're
gonna do tomorrow. I'm not I'm not excited to be
sitting around him for three hours because either way it's
a loss. I got Bama, I also have Alabama. You
kidding me? I'm not gonna take my own team to
go win a championship. Hell yeah, I'm gonna take them.
Final game, Georgia versus O miss Ole, Miss miss You're
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going miss Dogs, and it's not close. See I'll split
the difference. It's close, but I will go Georgia. I'm
I'm surprisingly impressionable. I appreciate the loyalty to treat on Champ.
Speaker 4 (02:33:02):
With the company going to fall off the upset.
Speaker 2 (02:33:04):
Real quick here before we get out. I saw this
a couple of days ago. Is it a you know,
a case that the Big Ten avoided a crisis by
actually having two of their more high profiled openings be
filled with the guys that they did? Mean well, I
mean like if Michigan had completely struck out and had
to go with somebody that was a complete reach, and
the same deal for Penn State. Urban Meyer thinks, so
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he thinks that they avoided a possible tragedy for the conference.
Speaker 4 (02:33:31):
But Michigan, Plain Texas, is that a tragedy?
Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
No, just talking about them striking out on their head
coaches and the future trajectory of the program.
Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
Oh you're talking about the coach. See this is the
thing about about the about the Big Ten. I can't
stand you run the dumbest coaching surges I've ever seen.
You look like morons and nitwitch. You have no incompetence whatsoever.
Yet you hit home runs with bost times, but you
have home run Hires and Kyle Whittingham and Matt Campbell.
It's an absolute goldmine of a coaching staff that are presenting.
Speaker 4 (02:34:02):
I have no idea how.
Speaker 3 (02:34:03):
You got there, Like just the pathway to the long
dic of water. It applies in the Big Ten for
coaching searches.
Speaker 11 (02:34:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:34:09):
Coming up next you get to Matt Thomas, shwe with
Ross with me and Cole sitting in with you. But
for us here I'm Dan Matthews, He's Cole Thompson, Triple
Emmanuel Elmore. Everybody, have a happy and safe New Year's
and we will talk to you on Monday.
This is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Got the Texans getting back out on the practice field,
rockets off tonight. They're gonna get back to action tomorrow
afternoon against the Nets in Brooklyn, and then the college
football playoff starts tonight. You got the Cotton Bowl between
Miami and Ohio State. So let's just get right to it, Cole,
because I mean, you know, the Texans inching towards the playoffs.
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They're in the playoffs. That's not the issue. It's just
a question of where. And I guess when I mean
probably no matter what. Just without off the top of
my head, remembering all of the teams are going to
be playing on Wildcard weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, they won't be the first game, because that's gonna
be whoever comes to the NFC South. Well, I think
that they won't be the first game if they are
the wild card team, because if they're the Steelers, I
would probably even get that could be a Monday night,
So you think it would be the last game play, Yeah,
I think it could be. I would say it's the
Saturday night game. I still don't think it's going to
be on Sunday. I think it's the Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I mean that's the beauty of who they would
be playing against, because I mean the last couple of years,
let's just look at it. Even though in Cleveland the
Browns are a big enough draw, nationally, they're not a
big enough draw, so you knew that that's where it
was going to be. It was the same deal last
year with the Chargers. When you play teams like the Steelers,
the Chiefs, maybe even the Bills, teams like that, then
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you're not going to get that very first game right
out the game.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Right I mean, if you're looking at it from the
standpoint of where would be the match between Tampa and
and who I'm playing on Carolina may be facing off
against Seattle or San Francisco. I think is the notion
that one, because that would the loser of the NFC
West game on Saturday night this week. They're the highest
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seat in the wildcard team.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right, So I mean, just looking at it right now,
and of course, you know you get the spinning wheel
when you really need something to pop up on you.
That would probably be My guess is that I will.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Say right now that is going to be the first
game to kick us off in playoff Formatt.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, I mean and again too, you know just what
the Texans getting, you know, where they look like they're
going to be there against whoever wins the AFC North.
I mean, I think even Baltimore would you know, just
with their recent success, would be somebody that you're not
gonna have playing right out the gate.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But no, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, whoever you know plays between Tampa Bay or Carolina.
I think that that's the one that the NFL would say, Yeah,
that's probably the one that we can lead things off with,
like it's a good enough game, but it's not going
to be a massive enough draw.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Then you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It would be either against San Francisco or against the
Seattle Seahawks. If it's Seattle, because San Francisco wins that game,
then yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I will say if Seattle is the representative in the
wild Card round, your matchups will be per order. Saturday
afternoon will be Carolina versus Seattle. The night game will
be whatever game Houston is in, whether that be they're
hosting a playoff game at home or they're playing against
Pittsburgh Steelers or the Baltimore Ravens. You'll have Jacksonville play
the next day you'll have Buffalo be the CBS game
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whoever they face off against, and then you'll will have
the Chicago Bears be the night game, and then the
Monday night game will be the number. I believe it
would be three seed Philadelphia versus Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Do you know what we're completely you know, just glossing
over the fact that I mean, if things stay the
way that they are right now, Jacksonville wins, which they
probably will against Tennessee on Sunday, So Jacksonville wins that game,
it would be them. That is, if chalk holds right
now the way it is, it would be them against
the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's your Saturday afternoon game. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about
that game. I'll fight back with you on this one. Yes,
it's a Saturday game that will be the Saturday night game.
I think that's because because you can't sell me, okay,
just to me a favorite. Can you really sell me
on the idea at any point Monday night standalone game
or just Sunday alone game, Carolina versus whoever is going
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to be a better matchup than Jacksonville versus LA. You
can sell me on it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
For a Saturday night. That would be a great matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can't sell me that Carolina is gonna be a
more primetime event than Jackson versus LA. No, Carolina is
gonna get either one of the early windows.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I mean, I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You're gonna want You're gonna want to have good primetime matchups.
That's where you know, Saturday night, Sunday Night, and then
which I mean, I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
To remember, did they do a Sunday night or do
they do Sunday Night.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's it's it's two three two, okay, so it is
two three one.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I mean I think that probably, you know, one
of those will be Buffalo, New England. I mean again,
if if things stay the way that they are, that's
that's what you'd be looking for.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Affalow in New England I think will be the midday
game of Sunday, and then the night game will be
Chicago versus LA.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's okay, Yeah, that makes sense all right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But anyway, I threw it out on Twitter on the
Sports Talk seven ninety Twitter account. You can follow us
there at sports Talk seven ninety. The Texans season is
a success. If the Texans season is success if you
get past the division round. That's what I said too.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's I mean because of let's just call it as
says dude. This is the first year in the Demico
Ryans era where you will not go with ten wins
into the playoffs. This the first year in the Demico
Ryans era where you will have unequivocally the best defense
in the NFL. You've had great defenses in the NFL,
but this is the league's best defense. This will be
the first year in the Dimico Ryans era where potentially
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you could be a playoff team, and so it's changing
the narrative. This is the first year where it does
feel like it's so open, because if you don't have
Patch Mahomes winning on one side or Joe Burrow kind
of cast getting in the other corner, and you're ready
to figure out what the hell is going to happen
between Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But neither one of those teams scare.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You that it's wide the conference, So you don't have
that tricky pathway of going toward a Denver or New
England or Jacksonville to think that, okay, if we lose
this game, it all comes down to because if we
weren't prepared or we weren't the batter team. No, you're
all evenly matched and you each have a fault to
where as long as that doesn't show up for four quarters,
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you should win.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I'm not saying going to the super Bowl or bus.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm saying, for the first time in franchise history, if
you want to sell me on the idea that this
team with twelve wins has actually taken that next step forward,
you could win the division route well.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I mean, and that's I think a little bit of
a difference here is exactly what you just said. I mean,
because even last year when you went to Kansas City,
I don't think that there was a strong enough belief
you can win that game. Like I think that if
the Texans had won that game, it would have been Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, they really performed in this one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And I mean, you know, not only having to battle
against Kansas City, you had to battle against the refs.
And then the NFL admits that significant mistakes were made
enough to be able to tell some referees. Yeah, your
services are no longer needed in this league. And you know,
I mean, just with all of the things that Texans
were saying after the game. It was warranted because it was, hey,
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we got jobbed, this sucked.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You got job But at the same time, I didn't believe,
like I maybe that's again, that's again doubting Cole coming
to the front lines and saying, look at me, look
at me.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm not believing in the Texas.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
My big fear going into that game was number one,
your offensive line was not going to hold up for CJ. Stroud,
and number two, you were going to slow down Travis Kelsey.
Both things became realities in that game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Both of them did fair. Baron missed a field goal,
all of that kind of stuff. But you know, just
where I kind of think the Texans are right now.
I think they're in the same category as the Astros
were before they finally won in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You mean, good enough to be in the playoffs, not
good to that's it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean, because you know that's the thing is
fair or not doesn't matter the sport.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Your regular season doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like does anybody talk about the Rockets finishing second in
the West last year all the time?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Man?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You don't read the reddit boards. I mean a handful
of people. But yes, yeah, no, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I mean, because what if people talk about you lost
in the first round, fair or not you lost in
the first round. I mean the Astros all those years,
the ninety eight season, best record in the National League,
fantastic season, Randy Johnson's here.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Does anybody talk about the ninety eight season?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I mean it just it, it just.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Over It underscores what exactly matters the most, what you
do in the playoffs, because the only way that people
will talk about this team is exactly what you said.
You get to the AFC Championship Game. If you do that,
it's something you've never done before. I don't want to
see any banners if you don't win in the AFC
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Championship Game. I don't need any AFC finalist banners going up,
none of those things.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Don't want to pull a Jim Mercy. No, okay. And
then you know what for wild card win winners, that's
not even a banner, you know how, Like you've got
like the little kind of patting yale around the walls
on the field, throw down there right, bingo, there you go.
AFC wild Card twenty twenty five, just just it, just
put it in the corner somewhere where we can see it,
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but it's not prominent. No, you know what I mean,
we're even getting to the point here where I mean,
for the first time in a really long time, I
sat as a fan inside in RG Stadium the other
day and I was on the side they could see
the division winners, and I even thought about it. At
one point, I go, they can have to start putting
them on the other side. I think you get to
a point kind of like the Astros. Do you know
where the division flags are? Yeah, they're painted on the
very top top bingo. Yeah, yeah, right right there on
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the upper deck. Like if you're sitting up there, you
can see them. But aside from that, you're kind of like, hey,
the one that you're sitting in, like eighty four versus
so five, I can't see five. I'm sitting all the
way in the corner for sixty four.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But I mean that's by design because now the standards
have been raised over there at dyke In Park. But
the standars should have been raised for the Texans a
while ago, I think, at least since Tamiko got here
and they won and they went ten and seven and
won their first playoff game.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I mean when he first got here, we didn't know
what we didn't know sure, So I mean that first season,
I think it was a little bit of a feeling,
kind of like I remembered being at the Falcon Seahawks
playoff game when the Falcons miraculously pulled off the win,
and you had Pete Carroll and everybody coming off the
field and saying, you know, this sucks, this feeling, but
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we also know the future is so bright. And then
the future happened the very next year because they went
to and they won the Super Bowl. There was a
little bit of a feeling of that here of even
though they got pants in Baltimore by the Ravens, it was,
let's make some improvements and we can run this thing
back and we can do some special things.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That's why I think last year.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Was such a disappointment to people, because you really didn't
capitalize on good momentum.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, but at the same time, the injuries that derailed
the season defensively, especially in the secondary hurt. Not having
a stable offensive line, heard the wide receiver constant miscues
that you have with no Stefon Diggs, and we don't
want to talk about him this morning, Tank Della, this
situation gone on with him, like those things also derailed
the seas.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I agree with you on one thing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Like the Texans in twenty twenty three, you can go
ahead and sell me on the idea that they were
only a few pieces away from being a championship contender. Guys,
they had a fourth play schedule, they went ten and seven.
You established it that you have a franchise quarterback, a
franchise difference maker coming off of the edge, a really
good wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
One take that as a win.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Like I I'm not trying to say that the goal
at the end of the day should not be to
win the Super Bowl. It's year three for Demiko Riots.
That should be the goal. At this point. You have
the talent, you have the veteranship, you have the maturity,
you have the experience in the playoffs. But like year one,
you went to the playoffs, you won a playoff game,
and you held yourself for a half against Baltimore, Like
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that's a good moral victory.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But now it's your three, there's no more moral victories.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
There is a We've done this before, We've been in
the situation before.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Why can't we get past the situation. And that's exactly
it is. I mean, you know, I talk about it
all the time, of getting up to the line. I
mean Texans fans are tired of getting up to the line.
I mean they've been up to that line. Twenty eleven,
you thought, all right, you know, first playoff team, first
division winner, and you've got TG Yates is your quarterback.
But this defense is amazing, and you've got Arian Foster,
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You've got Andre Johnson. You feel like, all right, hey,
maybe you can pull off a win. And then you
get a muff punt budge of Kobe Jones and Baltimore
is able to win and they're able to go on
their run. Twenty twelve, you ran into the Patriots. I mean,
we all know the history of this team. That winning
the divisions, that's not the goal anymore. Getting to the
playoffs the same deal there. Winning a playoff game, bingo.
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Now it's get past that divisional round, get past that
divisional round and get to the AFC championship game, and
then you can recalibrate your expectations from there.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I think this year is different because of who is
in the playoffs for the AFC, because of the fact
that you are one of the more experienced teams, because
of the fact that you are one of these teams
that has an elite defense that can bail you out
of trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
And we've talked about this so many times. Dude, twenty
is the number.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You give me?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Twenty points. I'm not saying I'm comfortable with it, but
I can work with it. I I'm Demika rans you
give me twenty, I feel good. That should be a
reason why. Doesn't matter. Location, doesn't matter, opponent doesn't matter,
quarterback doesn't matter, defense that you go up against. You
should feel confident going into the playoffs that you can
make it to the championship game. Can you make it to.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The Super Bowl? Let's wait and see.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Let's do something that the city has never seen before,
which is going to play in the third round of
the playoffs. Speaking of that Texans defense, they're really good
this season for one particular reason we'll discuss as that
We are just getting going here on a New Year's
Eve edition of.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Right here Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Where then tomorrow, you get Texas Tech Oregon, you get
Alabama Indiana, and then you also get Georgia Ole Miss
in the nightcap, which, by the way, did you see
that Georgia and ole Miss almost had a repeat of
Miami and Florida years ago?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love the fact that these two teams are gonna
hate each other for the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
See, and that that works for me too. But I
gotta tell you, and I mean, I think most people
are probably pulling forward to easily eas easily. So, I mean,
you obviously can't see in the studio right now, but
I have just because also it's too it's it's really warm,
but I've got a Georgia pullover on.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This is how dare you wear other SEC colors? You
Tiger fan? Well, I mean see, And that's the thing too.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is a lot of it, A lot of it's okay,
A lot of it is either A I like the
look of it, or B in this case right here,
a lot of good friends that I have in the
program over there, So I'm supposed to one day because
if I have good friends in Tennessee, where that gaudy
orange color.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
As an Alabama grad.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I mean, if you want to sure never catch me
wearing the colors of my enemy. You will never catch
me where in the same repetition of my foes. That
is the dishonor of what we see in the world
of college football. I wear Crimson and every once in
a while because my wife makes me, I wear Texas color.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So that's well, I mean, like, you gaa d Josh
Brooks good friend, he's a good guy, really really good guy.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, I know that you want them to win, because
if you just want a litle miss Fancas, shut the
hell up.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well no, there's that too.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Like I'm just so sick and tired of the just
recency bias, and not only recncy bias, but just like
completely glossing over the fact of why you're there.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And I know that you do some work with sec
and filtered.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I completely agree with your co host Chris Phillips where
this is where coaching is going to matter.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh listen, I think it's going to be a close
game because if I trust the quarterback play of both teams.
But at the end of the day, you're telling me, hey,
Pete Goldinger, Kirby smart, that's a question that's The problem
here is like I can come up with every scenario
of how good it's going to be for ole Miss
and what they could do to set the tempo and
if they do X, Y and Z. Brother, you're telling
me a guy who's going into a second game as
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a head coach versus a two time national champion and
the dude who learned underneath Nick Saban on how to
beat up on teams like you throw thousands of dollars
so millions of triple A, take my next paycheck for
a month and a half and just throw it all
down on Georgia to win. If they lose, I'll double
your pay. That's so that's what I'll do right here there.
You go, TRIPLEY. That sounds like a move for you. Listen,
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it's it's just it's simple. It's very honest and open.
We understand that. You know, you look at Kirby Smart
versus Pete Golden. They're gonna win that game. But that
doesn't mean it can't be close. Talent does have the
matter and Olmost still is a talented team.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, and that's the thing too that we'll talk about
here a little bit later on this hour, because I
do want to get into the college football Playoff because
I'm intrigued by all four matchups. Like, I think the
only one that I could see getting a little lopsided
is tonight, Like I could see Ohio State completely throwing
fastballs and being able to pull away at Yeah, I
push back.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
This is the one game I think is going to
be the closest. Really I do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I like my like Miami's a defense pre me last
week when they faced off against Texas A and M.
And the thing about that was Miami coming into that
game had nine sacks, they had eight tackles for losses.
A and M's offensive line only gave up eleven sacks
during the regular season. Can you tell me how many
sacks are in the regular season Ohio State's offensive line
give up?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I give you hand. I just said the number. What
was the number eleven? They gave up five eleven. I'm
just saying it's the exact state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So if you get a better offensive personnel, you're not
going to be outside in thirty mile per hour wins.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
So kicks should be going up at Jerry World.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Jerry Jones is probably throwing some money down on the
officials to go ahead and make sure that Ohio State
suffers and makes it closer than expected. Yeah, I mean, listen,
I think this is going to be one of the
better games than the college football player.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Jerry seems to like the Ohio State guys a lot
on his team, means Zeke Elliott a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So I mean, you know, maybe.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
There's probably off a defensive lineman that he would love
to pair alongside with Quinn Williams that currently plays out.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Oh okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Make sure that they move on a little bit more
or you know, help out his cost a little bit,
sell the identity of him coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The one that excites me the most is the first
one out the gate tomorrow, Texas Tech and Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's physical on physical. That's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's the one game I can't put a pit on. Like,
if you told me Oregon won by ten, wouldn't be shocked.
You told me the Texas Tech wins by twenty five,
wouldn't be shocked. You told me it comes down to
a game winning field goal, wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I think that's gonna be one of those Whatever the
over under is, take the under because I mean, both
defenses are fantastic.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
See I push back. Oregon's defense is good. Texas Tech
defense is a lead. Like that's where And I'll tell you,
I'll tell you what the stat that I'm gonna look
at the most. If you tell me the rushing yard
total for Oregon in this game over under, I'm gonna
set it at one. If it's over one forty, Oregon
wins the game. If it's under one forty, tex Tech
wins game. That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It gonna be a lot of fun. So you got
some good college football to get ready for. And also
to the playoff push still happening in the NFL. And
that's one thing too that with the Texans. You know
why this defense is so good, and it really comes
down to one word simple.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
It's simple.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So Football Insights on Twitter posted a graph last night
of team's shell rotation rate, which is a coverage rate,
and then also to blitz rates and all the way
right there on that graph the bottom left is the
Texans where blitz rate they are way under twenty percent,
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like I want to say, like they're almost like under
fifteen percent, like maybe like twelve or thirteen percent in
terms of their blitz rate and then shell rotation rate
just slightly above twenty and Football Insights at f ball
Underscore Insights on Twitter pointing out Texans defense minimal blitz,
minimal coverage, rotations, wreck havoc. Simple, as I said, it's
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one of those things that the beauty of this defense
works in its simplicity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure, I was gonna say more so the fact they
have an elite secondary that makes plays on the football
and just takes away balls from quarterbacks is what I
would look for. But I mean, yeah, I mean simple
minimal bzzays.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I guess that works too, because I mean the simplestity
of it too is you really got three good guys
that can get after the quarterback and you feel like
that they can win those battles.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Just to the same Bowl rush, Yeah, I would say five. Really, well,
Sheldon Rank is up to the interior. I think would
be considered as one. He showed that on Saturday, you
throw the two all pros.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Sure you thrown Derek Barnett.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I would probably then say Tommy Togia for how he's
played over the last several games.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Maybe even Deniko Autrey.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So yeah, six, six, I mean you're talking about six
dudes that on any given play can work their way
up into the backfield and make a quarterback feel the pressure.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
So the moral of the story is is Matt Burke
and Demiko Ryans say, we don't have to get exotic here,
we don't have to do a bunch of stuff. We've
just got guys that you put them one on one,
we can beat you, and you can only and you
can only double team really.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
One of them.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
The same thing, though, needs to be said about what
you got in the secondary though, because of if you
get some coverage sacks, the reason why you're able to
create opportunities where you are running so simplistic is, hey,
we got a lockstep dude running toe to toe with
Derek Singland junior. We got an all pro wide receiver
that's getting shut down by Kamari last year. We got
Kaylin Block sitting over the top and he's hawking, and
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he's spying around, and you know, the second that you're
gonna watch, you're gonna watch a ballby throw across the
middle of the field. He's swooping in like a pear
green falcon going for the kill shot. I mean, like
the secondary I think has been such an underrated area
of success for Houston this year. That that's the reason
you can trust minimalistic blitzes and coverages and packages because
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of their taking away the deep shots down the field.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
All right, So some have a chance to make it
into their hall, but at least one of them has
something eyebrow raising about them, but it's not in their control.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
We'll discuss right here.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
As that we continue on the Morning Drive with Dan
and Cole right here on a New Year's Eve editions.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
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Speaker 3 (22:03):
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
So the LA Chargers now in LA, previously in San Diego,
and fairness Drew Brees did play for them, so releasing
a graphic yesterday with Breeze of course clad in the
powder blue Chargers jerseys, which by the way, I mean,
I I don't mind the Navy ones that they wore.
As a matter of fact, they're they're still pretty good Chargers,
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have a good uniform game, but the powder blues, I
feel like are what they need to go with at
all times.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
With the white helmets chargers. Yeah, it's it's the best
uniform combo in Thefoo. It's a it's a good look. Yeah,
it's a lot better than that p yellow that they
had that they decided to go with and people were like,
what is this?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Wasn't that their their their color Rush?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I think a few years a few years ago. I
think I want to say, when it even this year
that they did it?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Gross?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Was it this year? I think it was this year.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
See, I thought they went back to the dark blue
instead of the yellow ones because of how bad it was.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I mean, and that's the thing is, if you're gonna,
if you're gonna do color Rush, go dark blue.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Or maybe you go blue. At least looks good because.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I mean, the only one, you know, all powder blue
would be a little rough.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That'd be kind of tough, you mean, like with a
powdered blue helmet.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, but the only thing that can pull that off
ise ole miss in my opinion, Well.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I mean, and I do like their look with that.
It is good.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You of h It's it's kind of one of those
because fan base is it seems like, you know, if
if things don't go well when you wear an alternate jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Then your fan base tells you don't do it anymore. Well,
look at the look at the Oilers. Oh am, I
bad the.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Titans, man, I mean it hadn't gone well for them,
but I mean not a ton has going well for them.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The LA Chargers putting out a graphic with Breeze, of course,
because he did play for the Chargers San Diego with
a graphic twenty twenty six Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
In the caption Closer to Canton.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The responses are exactly what you think it would be,
and who do you think they would come from? All
just joy, all just absolute and agreeance. Yes, we love you,
we love you drew out here in San Diego because
we actually didn't leave like that team that decided to
go ahead and say stey a later.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So one of the first responses is somebody that I
think you all know that I'm a massive fian of
hold the Mayo. Devin Snow, sure, yeah, he's he's a
New Orleans guy, y'all. That first old lady who thought
the grass was greener had no problem moving on. But
want to talk about how much the guy meant to you?
After becomes because he becomes a living legend, and other
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Saints fans started to weigh in on this too. I
mean it's one of those that it's like, yeah, he
did play for you, but he didn't make his bones
with you.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I mean, the reason why we talk about him and
what he was able to accomplish as a rising star
wars because of what he did in San Diego. Now
what we remember him for is playing for to New
Orleans says absolutely.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I won't fight back with you on that, but I
brought this up with you. Also.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Steve Young, he's a Hall of Famer, great, great, great
great quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Won multiple Super Bowls. Where did he start his career
in Tampa Bay?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Actually it was with the LA Express and the USFL,
but still, yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Tam Bay in the NFL. Yeah, nobody reminds him of that.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
But if Tampa Bay wants to go ahead and say
you got your start here, they're allowed to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
They were the ones that took him, they were the
ones that molded him. So Jim Kelly could have gone
in as a Houston gambler if he will not because
there's not a USFL Hall of Fame for that well,
it was pro football. It's the Pro Football Hall. Is
there a section that is set aside for the USFL.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
If there's a section set aside for the USFL, then
we should see a two time Hall of Famer in
Jim Kelly, one for the Causton Gamblers and then one
for the Buffalo Bills. We should, But that's not what
I'm trying to say here. What I'm trying to say
is that you look at a team, you look at
a guy like Steve Young. Sure, by all means go
in as a San Francisco forty nine er. That's what
you're known for. But if Tampa went to claim him,
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they're kind of allowed to because of they drafted him.
San Diego drafted Drew Brees, but the first pick of
the second round. He started for them for multiple years.
That's the only good grace that they have as a
Hall of Famer right now, because Philip Rivers just shot
himself in the foot and took him out of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
So you have some others that, along with players, are
up for enshrinement.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Bill Belichick is one of them. You've got.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
He hasn't been out that long though.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I mean I saw him on the list of being
up for enshrine. Man is coaching different than players?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It must be, okay, and it must be because I
mean I saw that he was on there, and then
also too as a contributor Robert Kraft.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I saw, I saw it for it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Let me ask you, if Bill Belichick is to be
inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he will get
there eventually, is he a lot of coach in the NFL?
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Again?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
See, I wanted the same thing. I mean, I would
think so. I mean, it's one of those like you
can't keep somebody from an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
If I was told, well, okay, Phil up Rivers, let's
say he gets in the Hall of Fame this year.
He like, let's say he's sat out all of this
year and now he's forty five years old, Right, is
the NFL going to allow him to go come back
and play as he's already in the Hall of Fame?
Probably not. They probably say, dude, we gave you your
accoli accolades, you're in the enshrinment. You're done. I think
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that has to be a question asked to Bill, Bill,
are you actually coming back? Like, are you really gonna
want to get this thing going one more time? Or
are you good in college? Are you gonna go end
up being in Chapel Hill? Are you in Geordam gonna
get married up there and.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Just call it a day? Correct?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
But it's gonna happen. So this is gonna She's gonna
run him dry.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
See.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I mean, somebody who used to sit in one of
these seats here on this show brought up what happens
when they have a child, and I was like, oh, gross.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But you mean grandpa bought. I mean grandpa Dad is
gonna be taking care of him Insuran's gonna be changing
two diapers soon. We're okay with that anyway. So you've
got let's see how many on this list? You got
two out of automatic qualifiers that are gonna be in true.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
So you got fifteen on this list.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And yeah, I mean those two guys that you just
mentioned Willie Anderson, who I think should be in h
You got Jarry Evans, Frank Gore, Tory Holt, Luke Keighley,
who I also think should be in Eli Manning, Terrell Suggs,
Adam Vinattieri, Reggie Wayne, Kevin Williams, Jason Witten, Darryl Woodson,
Darren Woodson, and Marshall Yonda our finalists on this list.
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I said about four that if I had votes that
I would put in on this one. The first two
that we mentioned, obviously Breeze and Fitzgerald their locks. I
would put Willie Anderson in, and then I would put
Adam Vinatieri.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You have one more vote, though, because it's five, okay,
so you can do five of them.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Five, boy, it gets challenging it at a point.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean this is a tough one between Keighley and Witten,
because I mean, Witten was one of the best at
his position and and Keithley was too.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You see, that's the thing. Keickley's peak was shorter is
the problem, but it was it was better. No, and
that's exactly it is.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I mean, because when he was at his best, he
was the most dominant inside linebacker in the game.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I want to say the controversial part out loud. I
love Jason Witten, and I think he's a very solid
player and he should have get in the Hall of Fame.
I love Frank Gore. I think that he's a very
solid player. He should get in the Hall of Fame.
I'm not getting you in first ballot.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
The argument, the argument against Gore is going to be
he held on for so long.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
That's the point is that both of them held on
for so long, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
But I also think though too. And it's again, you know,
whenever we get into these discussions, what comes in is,
you know, the whole reason that Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens are not in the Hall of Fame isn't because
of their ties to performance enhancing drugs. It's because they
were jerks. That's the only reason that they're not in.
Look at David Ortiz. David Ortiz is a guy that
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was affable as the day is long, and for that
very reason, people were willing to say, yeah, he made
a mistake. But if Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds played
the game with the media a little bit better, they're
Hall of famers right now.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But at the same time, I got five opportunities to
get people in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now, that's the thing, And that's the thing with Jason
Witten is that it's he was so terrible at being
an analyst.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
What does that have to do with his playing career? No,
I agree with you on that.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But like, I'm looking at Tory Holt and I'm looking
at Reggie Wayne, two top ten wide receivers in terms
of yards, in terms of catch, and they've been on
the ballot for multiple years. And I'm looking at Jason
Witten and I'm looking at Frank Gore, and They're two
guys who have proven that they have the numbers to
get on in. But the reason they also have the
numbers is because of the longevity. It's hard for me
to say, yeah, you guys were great players. Were you
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as elite as Reggie Wayne? No, were you as the
lead as Toy Holt. I think Toy holds one of
the most underappreciated wide receivers in the NFL. It's hard
for me to go ahead and say, your first year
in the ballot with these guys waiting after Andre got in,
that they don't belong in that conversation before you, Like
I will say, Willie Anderson, Drew Brees, and Larry Fitzherb
be my first three.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I thrown Keickley, I would thrown Reggie Wayne well.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And you know, I think the other part of all
of this, too, is that I always love, you know,
they're a Hall of Famer, but not right now.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And some people push back on that.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I get the argument, because it's okay, you only
have so many votes to be able to put people in.
Sometimes it's the number scheme that you just get edged
out where you've got the credentials you should be in,
and you eventually will be in, because well, then there
will come a year where maybe I don't know, you've
got ten finalists or whatever it is, that you've kind
of like whittled down the list enough, and then f
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fifteen is.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
The problem, and then you just bet every single year
it gets smaller and smaller of names who are actually
qualified for right. So like that's where you are, Like
I'm looking at Darren Woodson and I'm like, is he
an elite Hall of Famer? No? But has he been
on the ballot long enough to where we can have
the conversation of him versus Frank Gore him versus Eli
Manning him versus Jason Witten?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
And I think at that point that's where you got
kind of go look and say, we're out of situation.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Up when we don't have a name that feels so elite.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We got to look at the entire longevity of their career,
their peaks, their highs or lows, and their situation on
the ballot.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Like Reggie Wayne, Torry Holton, Darren Woodson.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I think of a better case than Frank Gore and
Eli Manning right now, simply because of what they accomplished
in their careers and how long they've been waiting.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
See Like I mean, I even see a guy like
Reggie Wayne, and you wonder how he's out because I
think the argument is he wasn't even the best he
wasn't even the best skill guy on his team.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah, but it helps when you have a number two
that goes along cyber Marmon Harrison.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Oh yeah, it absolutely does, and he became the number one.
I think that that's something else that when the argument
is made in there. And you know, I remember a
few years ago working with John McLain and he kind
of took us through how this process goes. I mean,
there is where whoever the Indianapolis beat guy is, that's
that's been on the beat for years will stand up
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and they'll give their presentation to the voters of why
this guy is a Hall of Famer. I mean, McLean's
done it numerous times, and you have it all throughout
the league. So whoever that is, I'm sure will probably
give you know their reasoning for why Reggie Wayne should
be in, and that's probably going to be number one.
Is Okay, Yeah, you're gonna say that he had Marvin
Harrison there, he had Dallas Clark there and in all
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very very valid reasons.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
But then look at later in his career he became
the guy. He was the guy. Reggie Wayne right now
has under two hundred fewer receiving yards than Marvin Harrison
Junior in his career they both played. I believe it
was thirteen years. So we're talking about just like picking
stones on where you are. The fact is that Reggie
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Wayne's career may have not started off as quickly as
Marvin Harrison's, but when you look at the status quo
and what he's been able to accomplish during his tenure,
if Marvin Harrison's in the Hall of Fame, why is
Reggie Wayne not in the Hall of Fame? Because if
he's now ahead of a guy who's already been in
the who's already been inducted in Andre Johnson. And I'll
go step further to say you look at Tory Holt.
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Tory Holt is seventeenth all time in numbers. His teammate
Isaac Bruce is six all time in numbers. You at
some point I've got to look and say, yeah, what
you accomplished standalone or sharing a title with somebody did matter,
and you were a big factor into the team's success.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Therefore, you've been on the ballot long enough. Let's go
ahead and put you on.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
A college coach is on the war path for reasons
that a lot of you might agree with. We'll discuss
right here as we continue along in the six o'clock
hour on a New Year's Eve edition of.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Age Town. The Morning Drive continues. Now, now here's Dan
and Cole. More often than not, two things are going
to come up. Transfer portal, name, image and likeness. Both
of those things are going to be talked about because, well,
the transfer portal window opens tomorrow or excuse me, on Friday.
So you'll start seeing your programs where they start getting
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commitments from guys and then they can go ahead and
post up the graphics of you know, so and so
is a uh Cougar, and so and so is a
Texas a and m Aggie whoever it is.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So you're telling me right now that Steve Sarkishian was
not as what is the best flavor of cheese? Its
A's Chieza bull.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Isn't there only one?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
No, there are like eleven flavors of cheese. Its Dan Matthews.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
But it's like Dorrito's.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I mean, I understand that there's like many different ones,
and I understand that people say that one of the
others doing this.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Is one of the best, But I mean there's one.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
You know what, don't don't continue with your story. I
don't want to lose my mind over at overright, So
on both of those things.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Steve Sarkisian, as I mentioned a coach on the war path, Well,
let's just say Steve Sarkisian not holding back on his thoughts.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
It's one about need, it's two about money, you know,
and the cost uh and and and where's the market
and you know which agent you're dealing with. There's some
agents that are rational, and there's some that that this
is their first time ever being an agent.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I don't even know if they're licensed to be agents.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
But all of a sudden, they get to be agents,
you know, because we have no certification process in college
football where the NFL you have to be certified in
college foot it might be their college roommate, you know,
their freshman year, who's their agent right now? And this
guy's throwing numbers at you, and it's like, we can't
even deal with this, like you just move on. And
so it's it's unfortunate and we'll get there in college football,
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but right now, it's it's a tough situation.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And I mean the part that he threw out that
a lot of people were focused on was roommates. I mean,
you know, that's how Jimmy Sexton got his start, right,
got to start with Reggie God, why why am I
blanking on his name? Reggie White? That he Reggie White
was getting all of these calls from agents and from
teams and everything, and that it was Jimmy Sexton who
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was his roommate, and he was like, hey, can you
handle these? He was like yeah, sure, And then he realized, Hey,
I'm pretty good at this. Why don't I go ahead
and become one of the most powerful and one of
the ones that's going to absolutely get SEC and college
football coaches paid all over the place.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And then I'm going to take a profit of five
percent and be able to live very cushionedly for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Every time I think of him, I always think of
and I'm sure you could probably find it on YouTube,
is one of the Welcome to the NFL because he
represented Tim Tebow. And I just remembered that it was
Tebow and him and I think his dad and whoever
sitting in the room at Tebow's draft party and he
gets a Denver phone number, and I just remember, what
was it, Jimmy Sexton going, that's.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Damn and to the phone. Anyways, back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So you're talking about when it comes to the money
and the portal, Listen Texas right now.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
And I brought this up last season.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Texas in the playoff was so focus in on trying
to guarantee that they would win a national championship that
they weren't focused enough on getting in portal players. And
you saw the result of that on the field this year.
Bad wide receiver play at times, horrible offensive line play
at times, inability to be able to build a great
defense at moments.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
A lot I've exposed to plays downfield.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
So what do you do now? Now you have your
Bowl game played on December thirty, first portal opens up
on January tewod your attention can now go towards landing
key players, high profile names, superstar talents. And if you
want to talk about money purposes, ladies and gentlemen, what
coda Campbell's do went out in love of Texas? You
got like five or six dudes who are on the
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payroll for Texas that can get that done in a weekend.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Well, and I think there's a couple of different things.
Here's number one, nobody's going to feel sorry for Texas.
But number two, I mean, you've got a support staff
of hundreds, now hundreds, So I mean like you don't
have a group of people who can handle this, Like
you seriously don't. And then you know, every once in
a while, as part of the meeting, Hey, by the way, coach,
we're in on this guy, we're in on that guy. Okay, cool, Well,
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if you need me to hop on face time with
him for a little bit, I'm willing to do that.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Well, right now, it's not even that you meet with
them anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
What you're doing is you're meeting with these so called
quote unquote agents, and now an agent's getting a phone
call from a representative from Texas. They bring the money
and the offer to the parents or to the player.
Then they accept the offer and they go back to
Texas and send it that way. That's the issue with
college football right now, is that because we don't have
regulations because of anybody can just throw on a suit
and tie and say, hey, listen, I represent so and so.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I'm going to get a profit of their money. That's
how it goes.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
There's not a AA in position like we have in
the NFL, So you're dealing with idiots who are who
are giving people bad advice which allows them to go
on in the TRISP.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I've said numerous times, don't complain about the rules. Make
the rules work for you.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah, but there is a difference about when you have
thirty three hundred kids in the portal before January first,
because of the getting bad advice and people who are
trying to get a quick buck off of their name
image of line.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
You have the money and the resources, use it. That's
what I would say. All right, let's continue the college
football conversation. Because four games for a chance to make
it down the two and could we be looking at
the closest we've ever seen. We'll discuss right here as
we getting at the seven o'clock cour Here on the
Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety at
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Is the Morning Drive with Dadd and Cole.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
As Riley Leonard is going to make the start for
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right here Sports Talk seven ninet. You don't forget coming
up later on this afternoon, one o'clock is going to
be when coverage gets started for Texas and Michigan in
the Cheese Its Bowl, and that will lead up to
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tonight where you get the start of the College Football Playoff,
the next round of the playoff, the quarters of the
college Football Playoff, and you get the Cotton Bowl between
Miami and Ohio State. That'll be a fun one. I
think the first two are going to be probably two
of the more fun ones where you get tonight, you
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get tomorrow Texas Tech and Ore then you get to
Alabama and Indiana, and then followed up by the finale
of a quarter final week and that's going to be
Georgia and Ole Miss. I just I think all four
games really you look at because last year it got
to a point where you had Boise State as part
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of it and you were like, Okay, soon enough, this
nice little run is going to end. And it did
because Penn State was able to handle them pretty easily,
and people were looking at Boise State saying, why are
we doing this?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Because that was the rules. Mean, like, if you want
the honest answered, that was the rules. Like I remember
last season people complaining and bishing all the time about
how it was bad with you know, certain teams getting
on end. But like, honestly, if you just switched some
things up, Boise State doesn't get the first round by,
Arizona State doesn't get the first round by, you give
Texas the first round by, and let's just say you
give it to Ohio State as well, or you give
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it to Penn State instead. Is anybody really complaining now
that you have better home on home matchups in the
first round. Probably not, but that was the thing that
they changed this year. It wasn't the four conference champions
get an automatic bid. You just get to go to
the playoff. Your reward is you're in the thing. But
if you're better in the SEC or the Big ten,
you're getting the pass.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
You also found out last year too that you know,
Arizona State was one of those teams that people complained about,
but then it was like, well they damn near beat
Texas and probably should have won that game.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
No fourth down throw to Matthew Golden was the reason
why Texas went to the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
The next week.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
So, I mean, you know, just with the games this weekend,
I mean, you know, you've got the one tonight where
Miami was able to show just how good they are defensively.
Ohio State really good defensively, I mean, and they showed
that too all throughout the week, all throughout the season,
and even on championship weekend against Indiana where that was
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a closely contested game and you had the Hoosiers able
to win that one. But I mean, just every single
one of them, you know, starting with tonight, I mean,
that's gonna be a fun one I still could see.
I mean, you know, judging off of what we've seen
in recent history. I mean we saw this last year
Ohio State, the very first game they had in the playoff,
they completely blew doors off Tennessee, completely blued the doors
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off of them. And then the following where they played
against Oregon and had that rematch, which we do have
another rematch here in quarterfinal week this year with Georgia
and Ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
But so that means that because of what we saw
out in the Rose Bowl, that's what's gonna happen now
for Old Miss versus George.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that it is
hard to beat a team twice.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
I mean that that is.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
So if it's hard to be a team twice, Dan,
I mean, it's gonna be really hard for Kirby Smart
to beat Old Miss twice.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Right, I just this is and now I understand it,
but this is more or less two where I just
I I need I need the suffering to commence, like
I need the realization to come in for them. That's okay,
what you had was nice. It was fun, but it
was also due in large part to a guy that's.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Now with your hated rival. Yeah, but at the scene,
and that's fine.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Look, hey, you know, not everybody is as good as
everybody else in life.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
That's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Okay, And some people can come and knock on your
door and say, I'm taking your girl, I'm taking their
coach job offer.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
He definitely got an upgrade. Nobody's gonna argue with you
on that one. But let me ask you just to
be completely honest here, Dan, can you be the head
coach of LSU and coach the ol Miss Rebels?
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Well, I mean, then why do you be the head
coach of LSU and coach the Olmoss rebels? Sure, he can't.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
If if you if you have the guy that's going
to Ole Miss coaching in I mean, it is a
bowl game, and then you also have everybody who's going
to be on staff with him coaching at ole Miss
right now, then why not?
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Because of why are you going to allow a guy
who has made it clear I got a better job
than what is here and that you going eleven and
one wasn't good enough? Then be consistent across the board.
Then Charlie Weis doesn't get the coach. Then you can understand,
you know, then then you know Chris Kiffin, whoever else?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
I don't Chris Kiffin's on the side. Okay, so he's
not so, but I mean you get my point though.
Is everybody else that Joe Cox and all of those guys.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Joe Cox is staying around?
Speaker 4 (45:04):
No, he's with us, you know, Joe Judson was thinking
of right.
Speaker 6 (45:07):
No.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
I mean, look, I understand what you're saying. But at
the same time, there's a reason why they're there in
Lane Snod. You can replace an offense coordinator, you can
replace a running backs coach. They've already replaced a running
backs coach. Welcome to the party, Frank Wilson. We're gonna
enjoy your time in Oxford. But you can't replace a
head coach. Mantra when a guy who is the sole
proprietor of setting up the team's schedule, setting up the
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team metric, setting up the team Aura is also telling
players like trade At Shamblis and Keywan Lacey, Hey, it
doesn't really matter what to do in this game. I'm
gonna make sure that you get paid a pretty penny
when you come on down to baton.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Rouge I just you know, boy ole miss fans would
really hate to know that Pete Golding was dangerously close
to getting on that place.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
To get on the planet. They didn't promote him.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
We know that.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
So you know for all of this, you know his
his sharp words and his you.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Know, I'm not doing yoga and I'm getting rid of
the basketball goal and all of that. That's fine. You
can be mister billy badass right now. It's all fine
and good. But most people know that you were getting
on that plane and going the baton rush.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
When you get offered an opportunity to coach at a
premier school in the eyes of the public, which is
the SEC, it still is a big time logo. Even
though you and I know the parameters of almost football
and what is in that FLTIC department. Depending on what's
at the status of LSU, this may be your one shot.
You change your tone instantaneously. It happens in every line
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of work because of you may never get an opportunity
like this again.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
So, of course, of course everyone.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Knows that Pete Golding was going to be on Lane staff.
Of course everyone knows that there is a certain badassory
that's being made up because if you have to be
the front and center guy in Oxford, but at the
same time, anyone else in this position, when you know
that you have an opportunity to be the next guy
that can help continue the success and the dominance that
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we've seen over the last four or five years with
Lane Kippin at the Helm, you have to take your opportunity.
So it's like you can have your kick at to
in some ways, but the other time, when you get
your shot, you have to take it. And that's what
Pete Golding did. I stand behind it. You can go
ahead and now that happened.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
College football coaching is the closest to politics, because I
mean that's the same thing like you get in the
primaries where you have everybody taking their shots at each other,
and then whoever wins the primary, then it's everybody, Hey,
we're campaigning for them all. We love this guy, he's
always he's always been a great friend of ours, you know,
really really really love him. It's like, man, you were
throwing some pretty personal shots at him just a few
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months ago. It's amazing how that's all changed Overnightkeeth Golding.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Got fired in two years at ole Miss and he
needed a job right now. Guess what, I'm sure that
Lane Kiff and if he didn't make him his office,
zef's coordinator would make of his linebackers coach something like that,
and they would be campaigning things like, oh, I always
love my time with Lane. I always enjoyed working alongside him. Here,
I got room for a film coordinator.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
You want to be that.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Listen, if it can happen for a guy like Steve
Sharkeys and at Alabama, can happen for Pete golding down
at LSU. I want to ask you rank the four
college football playoff games because you think that these are
going to be great matchups. And if I were to
tell you that we didn't have the twelve team playoffs,
so no jam you know too, Lane, would you think
of this is a great playoff this year if it
was just the eight.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Well, I mean, now that we're past the first week,
it's the most evenly matched.
Speaker 3 (48:11):
No, no, no, no, But like, let's just say that
these were the eight teams in and there was a
twelve team playoff it was an eighteen playoff.
Speaker 4 (48:16):
Would this not be a great playoff?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, it would be, because I mean, I think all
four games have a real chance to be close.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
So you're telling me that the right number was always
eight and not twelve.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Well, I mean I was even before they they they
expanded it to twelve. I said, you need to make
this thing as exclusive as possible. Exclusivity is what makes
things great. It's not letting everybody in. Hey, everybody deserves
a chance. Hey, let's let's let a group of fives in,
because you know, they had a really good season despite
the fact that they lost to UTSA as part of
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that season. I mean, like, what are we doing at
a certain point.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You mean the Frisco Bowl champion UTSA road Runners?
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Was that the team that you're.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Talking about, Dan Okay, I mean, you know, then you
had an exciting finished last night. But in TCU and
and USC, So shall we let TCU in?
Speaker 9 (49:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (49:04):
I mean absolutely, we shall let TCU. And they went
nine to four in the Big Twelve this year. They
were the seventh place team in.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
The different point here, I mean, like, there has to
be reasons why you let a group of fives into
this thing, and one of them I think needs to
be It's not just the highest group of five inside
the top fifteen, inside the top fifteen yeah, that's why I.
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Said you need to have the number at eight.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
That way, you don't put in teams because let me
just ask you seven one, three, two, one two five,
seven ninety. You look around the world or the college
football playoff, how many teams can actually win the national title?
How many teams can actually hoist up a championship down
in hard Rock Stadium come January twentieth. Because I can
tell you right now it's not twelve. I can guarantee
you right now, it's not even eight.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
You just you saying that. I would probably say six.
But that's my point is that you can't have six.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
So you make it eight. You throw in two teams
that maybe have a good resume or a good straight
up record, or prominent programs that are able to kind
of buff out their chefs.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
Guess what happens.
Speaker 3 (50:04):
They're in the playoff and you give them a shot
to prove that they are the doubters. They become the
new Chief five representative. But the problem is is that
money runs college football, and it's no longer. And this
is the one time that I will one hundred percent
agree that what you have said all along, I'm starting
to buy into it. Is a television show, That's all
it is. So they want the pretty names, but they
also want the television show, the reality show, to go
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a little bit longer. Therefore, they're going to continue to
expand because as long as there are millions and millions
and millions of dollars being flooded into their bank accounts
and into their profit margins, they could care less about
who is on the field.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
They just care about how much money they can make.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Proper segue right there by Cole Thompson, because there is
a college football coach who believes that TV could be
on their side. We'll discuss right here as we continue
on the Morning Drive and standing Cole here on a
New Year's Eve, Sports Socks seven.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
Ninety Dan Matthews, Old Thompson.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
This is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Okay,
I mean, I think there's many different ways you can go.
I mean, hell, I could even say like the Sprite
Citrus Bowl. Yeah, but want to pay for it? That's
the problem. Jesus wants to pay for a trip down
to Orlando. Well, and then it's also too you get
doused in cheese. It's which I would probably say of
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all of the dowsings out there, which I mean, we
just saw the Texas Bowl. Kinders is a seasoning and
barbecue sauce company, God bless and I mean, and that's
the thing too, is the celebration was taking bites out
of a massive bee frib.
Speaker 4 (51:38):
Which that's good. I mean, that's that's all fine and good.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
But I kind of feel like the celebration has to
be you're getting doused in barbecue sauce.
Speaker 5 (51:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
I mean, I listen, I understand where you're coming from it,
I do, But I'm okay with the b frib. The
pop Tarts one still is the goat. I will die
on this take. It is the greatest college football play.
It's the greatest college bowl game of all time. Live
cannibalization and eating of a mascot is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Sick.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Pop Tarts have made a revitalization in today's society. I
want everybody to enjoy them. I think of the other
one that like, the one that grosses me the hell out.
I can't really talk about it.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
The mayonnaise.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, Duke's yeah, all right, all right, all right, No,
I get it, trust me, trust me.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I'm a I'm a sensory guy too. I understand, but
Steve Starcus is the worst one out there. I'm sorry,
I'm not like I really.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
This isn't a bit by the way like he he
literally is getting visibly ill here in studio.
Speaker 4 (52:30):
So yep, take down that coffee, all right.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Steve Starcus and thinks that the Citrus Bowl could outrate
some of the college football playoff games. I'm as excited
as anyone of what our number looks like coming out
of this game on the thirty first, even saying that
he wouldn't be surprised if their New Year's Eve game
winds up outrating multiple of the games this weekend.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
So I know that tomorrow night that's not gonna be
the case.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
The Rose Bowl the same deal, because you have to
also look at with college football where the hotbeds are
for viewing in this country.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Like tonight, it's going to get a huge number.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, because Ohio State is going to get a massive number. Miami,
at least from the casual fans out there. You know,
it's still oh it's the you.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
It's like, man, Miami drew in fourteen point eight million
views in the first game against Texas A and M.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
And I think a large part of that too was
A and M. I mean, you know here Dallas, like
a lot of like the major cities were watching that
game just because of the connection to A and M.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
Too. I think that was that was a massive part
of it.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
I won't fight back and say that Texas A and
M has a bright fan base, because they do. They
have a fantastic fan base. It's one of the best,
I think in college football. Miami fans come and droves.
They're like Yankee fans and LA fans that live out
and meet we Hawk in New Jersey or they are.
Speaker 4 (53:43):
Very I would say that.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I would probably say, I mean, you've got a lot
of T shirt fan bases in this I mean Ohio State,
Alabama two of the biggest ones that are that are
still left in the college football playoff. But Miami, you
have to remember, is a very small school. So I mean,
like of all of them. Because that's what always cracks
me up is the O did you go to school there?
I mean it's just like, what does that have to
do with anything? Like you can be a fan of
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somebody and not have gone to school there.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
Trust me, you don't have a fan base if you
don't have the T shirt fans.
Speaker 4 (54:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:15):
Sure, But at the same time, I mean, you look
at a team like Miami, their fan base is like
Yankees and Lakers fans of the past. Like I have
a cousin that lives out in Tom's River, New Jersey.
His favorite team is the Miami Hurricanes. I have a
friend that lives out in Butte, Montana. His favorite team
is the Miami Hurricanes. That's what I'm saying is that
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they do draw in a fan base. Like every single year,
we hear about the U being back here, about it's
gonna be partying like we were back in the A.
We're running this stuff. We're making sure that we're the
best team in college football.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
Like we hear it all the time.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
I mean, your former co host was is a Miami fan.
He works out Atlanta. I mean, like that's just the
bottom most South Florida guy. But still, like you, you
have fans because of it's the branding, it's the recognition.
Miami and Notre Dame fan are the most casual fans
in the standpoint point of you could have never gone
to the school, never lived in South Florida, never get
attended a game, but yet still you root for them
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like your life depends on it. This game is going
to be big.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Texas and Michigan will pull a number, but it's not
going to be massive, I think for the most part,
I mean, especially to both fan bases where you're not
in the college football playoff. It's a if I'm around it,
I'll watch it. But if not, I mean, okay, you
just you know, I'll check it on the score every
once in a while. Like I think it's going to
be very loosely viewed today, New I pushed back entirely.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I think this is going to be one of the
highest rated games of the Bowls season that isn't a
playoff game because you have two teams that right now
are looking to do something that will kind of settle
the score. For Michigan, it's proving that you are still
a coach away from being in the conversation of a
legit playoff team get into ten wins. Same thing for Texas.
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But Dan, I don't know if you're paying attention to this.
I know that some people would like to go ahead
and say it doesn't matter, and probably you are one
of them, because I know that you feel this way.
Bullseason doesn't matter anymore. Well, so far, the Big Ten
is six and one, the SEC is two and five.
Getting a win in this game is important because for
the SEC standpoint of being able to still run their
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mouth and act like that they run college football, you
have to beat the Big Ten. You lost yesterday by
a bad Tennessee team against an average Illinois team. You
have Iowa playing against Vanderbilt earlier today. You have to
win this game in terms of just the conference. I'm
not saying that this is going to be a game
to where you look at and go, oh, well, you know,
Texas has got to prove it a point. It's like,
just for the standpoint of stability to say you're better
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than the Big Ten in these ranked matchups, you got
to show on out. And I think that fans care
about that stuff a little bit.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
Well, I mean, you've still got three teams left in
the college football Playoff, and two of them are playing
against each other, so I mean it's gonna go against
you just a little bit. But you know, it's you
and the Big Ten with the tide for the most
that are still left in the eighteen playoff, and then
you got one Big twelve and the one acc.
Speaker 4 (56:57):
Right, But at the same time, I'm looking at it
from the stand.
Speaker 3 (57:00):
We didn't have a like now we get the rank
games coming on up, Like now we have a match
up between a top twenty five Texas and a top
twenty five Michigan that felt like it was snumping the
College Football Playoff conversation, So prove it there, Like I'm
at this point of where it's getting hard as somebody
who loves the SEC, as somebody who believes the SEC
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truly is the sanctity of college football to defend the
conference when you have average teams from both sides, one's
losing and the other one has proven a point that
maybe there isn't that much of a difference between the
top but what the top heavy teams like Vanderbilt this year,
like out Texas this year, like Alabama in the Rose Bowl.
You need to win those games because if not, then
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the Big Ten is going to start running its mouth
and saying like we create a college football Well, and
as we switch gears here on the Morning Tribe, somebody
has decided to step away and they were a disappointment
to everyone but themselves.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
We'll discuss right here. As we continue on the Morning Drive.
Roger c right there, we're working in you want to
join him seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Again it's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
It is again the Morning Drive. Right here on Sports
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So there you go.
Speaker 3 (59:05):
So the biggest waste of a contract in Major League
Baseball history is finally over. Cool story, did I mean
like it's It's the problem I always have with the
Anthony Rendome conversation.
Speaker 4 (59:16):
Isn't the fact that you paid the money.
Speaker 3 (59:18):
He earned the money from what he did when he
was in Washington, and everyone thought that he was gonna
end up being the key that would bring LA to
a new level, with Shohy being already there and my
drop being there. But it's the fact that after you
were dealing with all the injuries, you came out and
made it clear that you're not trying to get better,
You're not trying to get healthier, and then you openly say, yeah,
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this is a job for me, And I get it.
I understand this is a job, and I understand that
there is a long trialing path. It's one hundred and
sixty two games. It takes a toll on your body,
it takes your way from your family. But when you're
getting paid thirty eight million dollars per year, at least
be out there. And you didn't even do that part, right.
Speaker 2 (59:56):
I understand how that sounded to people too when he
said it, but I understand stood what he meant where
he said it's not the priority for him anymore. Like
I was fine with him saying that I had no
problem with that, Like, that's truly the.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Way you feel, be honest, it's all good.
Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
No, no, not all good.
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
And they then get back the money. Then then get
back the money if you want, that's not gonna happen.
It's guaranteed money, right exactly. You paid it, so so
then you collect, so then you learn from your mistake.
But I'm sorry, if you want to go ahead and
quit the way that you did, then by all means,
make sure you work out a buyout, because if you're
not going to be there, that guaranteed money should at
least be going towards somebody who wants to play well.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I mean it's also too, I mean the Angels have
been one of those teams, which I will give them credit,
over the last few years. I think that they have
started to get a little bit more savvy in terms
of their spending because you did the huge contract for
Albert Pooholz largely that was a failure, and you did
the huge contract here with Anthony Rendon, same deal there.
So I think that probably with Perriman Aging and crew
(01:00:54):
out there, they're like, we're not gonna live in that
world anymore now, that's not who we are.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Let them keep doing it because you want don know
what it is, perfect, pristine, clear as day. Malfunction by
an organization that is so incompetent. It needs a full
on rebuild. And you can't do that when you have
a guy like Perrmanessens so run on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
You just can't.
Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
So Anthony Rendon, Happy Charles, I'm glad you got paid.
I'm glad you out of baseball. Nobody's gonna miss you,
nobody's gonna care about what you do in your future endeavors.
Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Just go ahead. He's a local guy too, you know
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
But in the terms of baseball standpoints, I'm sorry when
you when you tarnish the legacy of the game the
way that you did and the way that you went
about it, when it came to the conversations that you
had and made it clear that this is nothing more
than just a quick payout for you. I don't really
care if you're a local guy or not. You tarnish
your own legacy in that standpoint.
Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
I mean again, you know, I think that he's a
guy that did accomplish a lot, but I mean he
took the money, went out there. It didn't work it
in LA, I mean nothing in LA. But before that,
I mean, he's a world champion. We found that out
the hard way here, right, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
A world champion for the Washington Nationals, and two players
from that team have two of the worst contracts we
have ever seen in Major League Baseball history. Steven Strassburg,
who pitched a grand total of thirty one innings after
getting that mega deal, and Anthony Rendon taking the money
out to LA and barely playing what would be three
total seasons on a seven year contract.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Someone three two and two, five seven ninety. I know
some of you want to get in on the conversation,
so let's get it fired up. We've talked from Texans
already today. That's where Roger wants to go. Roger, good morning, Good.
Speaker 11 (01:02:28):
Morning, Dan Cole, and man behind the wheels is still
mister e uh Yeah, I just won't click on that
ant anyone doing thing. Yeah, I I totally get why
Jim Crane doesn't see those crazy type deals. When you
get those splash I only want to splash deals. You
splash your ass back to the Stone ages and that
kind of stuff. And I just I just thicked to
it was crazy when it happened. And now the uh
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yeah with the Texans Stefan diggs MANH yeah, that's gonna
leave a mark over there in New England. You know
we weren't we were would worried about the Patriots. You know,
there's really no no jogger got out there. And I
love the Texas. Start on the road and and and
just stay on the road.
Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Why not.
Speaker 11 (01:03:08):
The defense trans travels like no other. Uh and uh,
you know there's gonna be something down in that locker
room now. And you know the Denver.
Speaker 8 (01:03:16):
Denver's the only one that worries me, but not really.
Speaker 11 (01:03:19):
I think it's strout can provide. You know, it's a
twenty point thing, right, we get sports twenty points we went.
I kind of wish we could stow on board and
that's hey, Uh, who should say we won't in the playoffs? Maybe, uh,
THEOC has something in store. Maybe mister Nico Rise lets
him get a little more feet, a little slack on
that chain and lets us, you know, maybe convert a
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third down or a long third down once in a while.
But the thing, the thing that the head scratching with
me is that I'm shifting the basketball now, Nikole Yokis
is the he's gone for a while. I guess it's
four or five weeks and women's gonna get all the
phrase and deserve me. So it's a good player. I
(01:04:04):
just don't see his body sustaining the way he plays.
I'm sorry to say. I don't want to be wish
Matt uh anything bad on him, but that guy is
the first last line of defense of the Spurs. He
plays like a wild man. He's an awesome player. I
don't see that fragile body just handle him that kind
of that kind of play. The way he plays, he
just leaves it all out there every game. It's a
(01:04:26):
good player, man, no doubt. I just don't see it
happening from him. He's gonna I don't know. I see
the Rockets coming out in the West, maybe want t
sheet again, and I just I just hope that they
can play uh the way they played the other day
without without without Alti, and then just learn how to
play with him and be more a little more fluid
(01:04:48):
uh in the in their and their approach, because the
defense is it's gonna be there.
Speaker 8 (01:04:52):
I think, you know. I like the Javari is playing
a lot better. Uh, he's playing he's he's shooting better.
Uh read ship seems to be. I love his presky style.
Defense is ever now and there, you know, knockdown or
clutch three when we need it. And you know, I
think we'll be fine. Guys. Only only the very best
you and yours of the coming year, fellas, and have
(01:05:13):
a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Same to you, Roger. Appreciate it. Appreciate you, Roger. I mean,
it's just there's there's so many different things.
Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Well, let's talk about the Texans, because Texans are a
good thing, Rockets some player. Right now, Texans are playing
on Sunday. Texans are having an opportunity to get to
an ASC South Division title, and that that's the most
important thing right now, Dan, is that Texans need to win.
Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Rocket scene. I mean the Titans neing to win. You're
in problem solve. There you go, that's the Texans.
Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Suck.
Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Martin and Angleton, good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (01:05:45):
I heard yesterday. I was listening and I heard Cole
talk about how some people like to smell of their
own part Yep, Dan, what's up? I have two thoughts
about this.
Speaker 9 (01:05:59):
Anticipation store.
Speaker 12 (01:06:01):
When I'm at the grocery store, if I have one
bubbled up and ready to go, I will purposely look
for an aisle of people around and and I will
go find them and and do a fly drive I want.
I walk by, I walk.
Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
By, Walt, You're ripping a wet one on a drive by.
Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
I love it, Martin.
Speaker 12 (01:06:24):
Yes, And there's another thing. When I was a little kid,
in my room, I have one of those old Panasonic
UH tape recorders, cassette tape recorders. You put a cassette
in and you push uh the record button. And what
I would do is is when i'd have one ready
to go, I would go to my room and I
(01:06:45):
would record my uh flatulence to the tape recorder. And
I had about a maybe I don't know, forty five
seconds or a minute of a compilation of all of
my flatulence. So when I was pitching, and when I
was pitching, when I was in the bullpen, I was
(01:07:11):
shrounded by you know, five or six guys in the bullpen,
and I would entertain them with my flatulence.
Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I can't I can't believe it. So you see, you
were known as the fark iron Campus. I love that, Martin.
I appreciate that. Do you like Danny canell.
Speaker 12 (01:07:27):
Who is? Who is?
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
That's you know what?
Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
They would get along great Martin. I wish you were
happy New Year, Bud. I really do. Thank you for
the time. Man, all right, I love this.
Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Ye what what what?
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
What?
Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
The show?
Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
The show, it's a lot of Martin.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Martin and Angleton is known around these parts, and especially
ten to two. Matt Thomas knows Martin and Angleton quite
a bit. But let me just say that that call
right there explains a ton about Martin.
Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
I mean, he's going down and he's and he's running
a dry.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
That wasn't even the one that stood out to me
the most, and I think we all can agree which
one stood out the most.
Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
No, to me, that's the one that stands out the most.
Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Now I'm looking for Martin and Angleton if I'm ever
in Angleton.
Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
The second story was the one that again where it's like,
you know, hey, you want to know something about somebody.
Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
That explains a lot right there right there.
Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Because if he recorded his own flatch Lench, well, we
did one time as part of a prank with one
of our guys who took himself way too seriously.
Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
When when I worked at a previous stop. We did hide.
Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
A fart machine in his room and were uh you know,
in his studio while he was doing his show, and
we would periodically hit the remote to have it go off.
Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Well, that that's the problem, is that that was what
Martin was doing, probably.
Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Because then he started to blame his producers of seeing like, oh,
one of you guys is playing a prank when it
was actually us that was playing the prank on the
back of the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
And this led a hit.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, and then we were we were listening in on
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
And then of course, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
The same thing. He didn't have a he didn't have
like a whoope cushion around. So what he did was
he recorded his own farts and then threw it on
a wall and the plated like probably in school.
Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
It was a fantastic break. That's what Martin and Angleton does.
He has fun with life. I see you over here
being serious about how dare we talk about farts on
this show? No no, no, no, no, look you're getting it
all wrong. I have no problem with it. It's just
you know, see to me, I'm sorry doing a dry
by inside of an aisle. What if there are children involved.
(01:09:28):
Martin like, how how can you absolutely live with yourself
with the toddler walking away?
Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
I mean literally you have the steam on you too
that if you run into that person at the checkout line,
then they're like, hey, that's that's the farter.
Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
No no, no, no, no no no, no no no. If you're
doing it, it's better be on the very last trip.
You better be gone after that. If I'd be down
the final aisle and it's like you got to pick
up the loaf of bread and you're like, this is
where I go ahead and let it fly.
Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
I judge. I judge people for numerous things. Smells is
one of them.
Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Really, yes, absolutely, Like if it's somebody that I know
that has bad breath, I stand back from them. See
there was that's just like, what what made you earlier?
Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
If I tell you a story but I can't even remotely.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Get down ninety Okay, take quick time out, let's come back,
let's reset, not talk about Flatch once. Let's close up
at seven o'clock hour with the conversation on the Texans
more specifically, actually, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Let's go look around the shield. Yeah, let's let's look
at the shield. Let's look at the shield, because there's trouble.
Someone's out of a job and missing all of those things.
Right here on the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
To Dan and Cole as the Morning Drive Cruise.
Speaker 9 (01:10:44):
Is of.
Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
We we we really do. You guys are family. The
audience is family. I've told you guys this numerous times.
It's just you know, sometimes when families get together, I mean,
you have got some times where you come out of
it and you know, maybe the family has to come back.
I could say, hey, you know, last time we were together,
you know, I apologize for that, you know, or any
of these other things, and it's just like now, nay,
look it's all good. We're family for anything. What I'm
(01:11:10):
not apologizing for anything. I am who I am. You
accept me for who I am, or you just hate
it as it I.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Just I remember, it's funny you say that because I
had a buddy of mine a few years ago. We
were like, hey, we gotta do something about so and so,
and then one of our other buddies said, hey, look,
he's at a certain age. It's either you accept him
for who he is or you just move on without him.
Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
I'm not changing who I am. I'm I'm enjoying. I'm
enjoying when Martin and Angleton calls in and tells me
as fart stories.
Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
I want one per day at this.
Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Point, Martin, every single day, something about what's going on
with your flatch one's buddy.
Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
You're always welcome here to maybe like once a month, okay,
can we agree on like once a month?
Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
I want the Angleton hour where Martin calls on in
and this, okay, how about the Angleton said, what.
Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
Do you are you trying to like? Don't don't say,
don't don't say certain things like.
Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
That around the Angleton clock from Martin. That'd be a
great segment for two for two shows a week. Let's
us go talk about farts all day. We're good with that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Maybe like the around the Angleton minute.
Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Okay, all right, we'll give it a minute around the shield.
Let's do that.
Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
All right, Let's let's look around the shield, all right.
So Stefan Diggs in a little bit of trouble. Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
A report came out that he was facing assault charges,
including strangulation.
Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
And this all stems from.
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
A police report where a woman went to police on
December sixteenth said that she was working as a private
chef when the incident occurred when Diggs entered an unlocked
bedroom allegedly smacked her across the face as they had
discussed money owed to her. Diggs and his team deny
(01:12:53):
all of this, and the Patriots said, like what any
team says in a situation like this where you know,
gathering the facts and no comment other than that. This
is big for the playoff run because right now we
don't know if Stefan Diggs will be able to be
active for the game. I don't think he was gonna
be playing this week anyways, because of you already won
the division. You probably can get the number one seed
(01:13:15):
with or without him, But his status for the postseason
is really big because if more information comes on out
team can't have him out there. That changes the way
that you go about preparing for a team like New
England and what their offense is. Have an experience like
Stefan Diggs in the playoff for a young quarterback making
his debut in the postseason massive, so it's gonna be
really interesting to see.
Speaker 6 (01:13:35):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
And then his younger brother, Trevon Diggs, with one game
to play this year.
Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
The Cowboys say do something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
See yeah, as he's going to go through waivers and
will be a free agent if he is not claimed.
Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
I mean, nobody want to pick up that lucrative four
hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars from one game of
play on their record.
Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
Crazy, crazy that nobody want to pick that up?
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Well, I mean I think that you know, once he
becomes a free agent, then you will see somebody that's
going to pick him up.
Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Do you think that he will be on a playoff team?
Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Yes? Okay? Do you have an inclination right now where
you would want to go?
Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
I mean, I'm trying to think who could probably use
cornerback help. Could Pittsburgh use cornerback help?
Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Na?
Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
I see the Rams?
Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Okay, I think that right now Los Angeles, knowing that
they've lost the division title, lost the number one seed,
and largely due to let comes back comebacks happen with
and then blowing early leads against.
Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
Atlanta, they need some quarterback help.
Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
I would not be shocked to see him be paired
along side of jacous wife in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
And then finally, Christian McCaffrey sitting out practice on Tuesday
ahead of the forty nine ers upcoming game against the
Seattle Seahawks, says it is going to be a Saturday
game for that one to see who not only controls
the NFC with the number one seed, but also too
who wins the NFC West. We've seen this in the
past with the Texans, and probably even going to see
(01:14:54):
it today, I would probably have to guess that the
injury report is going to be long and lengthy for
the Texans today. Of a lot of guys taking veteran
rest days, They're not gonna have anybody out there today
that's important. I mean, the people who will be out
there that will be important will be CJ. Stroud and
maybe I would go a ziz Aushi year and even
still even hamming.
Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Probably on the injury report like I'm and I would
be reialded.
Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
I usually don't have a conversation about guys missing practice
until Thursday. I'm waiting until Friday this week. Get as
much rest as possible. Make sure that you're in a
good state of mind before you go ahead and put
your body on the line heading into Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Anthony Robert, see you guys right there working in you
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Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
And when it.
Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Comes to the Texans, this season is a success if
capital if on that one, we'll discuss we get into
the eight o'clock hour right here on the morning Drive
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Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
All right, I pulled my soul back in. Welcome back in, Yeah,
welcome back in, Buddy, I pulled it back in. We're good,
We're good. It's all good. It's all good. Hey, you
know everybody, you're still there. Nobody got hurt, nobody died.
My feelings got hurt. I appreciate that, though I don't care.
I'm dead inside. I've been dead in size since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
That's not very I mean, that's not good. You're in
your twenties. You still got a long way to go here.
Thank you for thinking I'm you still got many more
years of disappointment left in front. You know what I appreciate.
Thank you, Dave Matthews. You have just made my day
thinking I am still in my twenties. That to me
is probably the greatest complent that you get. That was
like when I went through something rough a couple of
(01:18:38):
years ago. My brother goes, You know, you think that
life gets easier when you get older, it gets harder.
I'm like I'm like, this isn't really the pep talk
that I think I'm supposed to get right now, Ryan,
I think I'm supposed to get like some like uplifting
message right now, like you know, to like, you know,
make me believe that better days are ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
That's what I'm supposed to get right now.
Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
I remember a buddy of mine's dad said, when you
were young, you were drinking cause you thought it was cool.
When you get old, you're drinking because it's the one
sanctity of actual happinessue have in your life.
Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
There is some belief to that that some people do have.
Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
As I've gotten onto my my fitness journey, I would
say that it's it's more or less now.
Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
It's a it's kind of a once. It's not a need.
Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
I mean, there was a time in my life and
this sounds terrible, but like where I was like I
felt like I needed it. Now I'm kind of like,
I'd rather work out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
I do love it, and I appreciate the fact that
you said that it only does get down to hell
from here.
Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
I woke up on Saturday morning and that's not true.
Like I was being a little hyperbolic there You are man.
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
I don't think like I woke up on Saturday morning
and some people become billionaires in their fifties and sixties,
sit there and realize I had back pain because if
I slept on it wrong and I'm like that, and.
Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Now that does get worse. So I'm not gonna lie
to you on that way.
Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
I told somebody who works here, I will leave his
name blank Doss.
Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
But anyways, he told me.
Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
By the way, Bud, I just want you to know
it only goes downhill from here. Like this stretching is
not gonna do anything for you. You just gonna have
to wake up with back paid, take it all, leave
before you sleep.
Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
Tiger.
Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
There there is a little bit of you know, you
reach a certain point in life and Anthony and Roberts,
you're right there, get back into the Texans conversation. But
there is a certain point in life where it's just God,
why does this hurt?
Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
I didn't even move yesterday? Like that that does come
into play.
Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
See if you want to get to Robert, do you
want to get to Anthony.
Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Longest in line? Anthony is that guy? Anthony?
Speaker 13 (01:20:24):
Good morning, Hey, good morning fellas Hey. So I had
a question for you guys. So, the Texans have some
obvious draft needs on the offensive line and and things
like that, But my question is, Dalton Schultz is third
in the league amongst tight ends behind Trey McBride and
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Kyle Pitts when it comes to receiving yards. So CJ
obviously loves to have that that good safety net there
with the tight end. My question for you guys is,
do you guys see the Texans going to get like
a Michael Tripp or Terrakozil or something like that in
the draft this year?
Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
Ooh see see Anthony named one of my favorite players
in the draft this year, Michael Trick. Like that's ball.
Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Nooer right there.
Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Anthony knows football and he understands what is going out
in Waco, Texas. I appreciate Anthony for understanding who that
player is. So I don't know, man, Like it's like, like,
are you giving up on Kate Stouvern, are you giving
up on Brevin Jordan?
Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
At this point, it's my first question, my.
Speaker 13 (01:21:27):
My well, so my thought is is like Kate Stover
has been pretty non existent since he's been here, and yeah, yeah,
Dalton Schultz is under contract until twenty twenty six. I
was just curious, you know, if you guys think that
the Texans seeks some stability.
Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Because I think the tight end position is.
Speaker 13 (01:21:47):
Probably one of the more underrated positions in football. And
if you have a good tight end, just look at
Kansas City. If you have a good tight end, it
really helps your quarterback out and bails him out when
he needs it. So I was curious if you guys
thought that they maybe seek a long term elite option
at tight end in the draft.
Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
See this is why he has just become my favorite caller,
because if he said the magic word underrated position, tight
end is the most underappreciated position in the NFL, and
it has been for over two decades. It is a
phenomenal position that needs to be talked about more. And
I'm glad that we have tight end you that goes
out to Nashville every single year to get more recognition
(01:22:28):
for what that position is. No, I don't think the
text as added at a tight end though.
Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
I mean, it's just it's I mean, even though you
know Nick Cassario will tell you numerous times that we
don't track for need and you know, player available, I
don't even know what that means.
Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
It's like, yes, you do know what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Explain it to me, Dan, I just I have no
idea what's going on with Hey, Hey, we just look
for good football players around here. But that's always that's
always his back. Well you know it, really it really
comes down to the player. Thanks Nick, Thanks So you
didn't a you didn't add him because of his booming personality,
Like that's that's seriously why you didn't. Because there's another
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one too that people in football, will you know, when
they don't want to talk about someone else that they
defer to.
Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Oh, you know, yeah, I love him. He's got a
great smile. Every time I hear that, I go, did
you die inside? Saying that out loud? Like you know
for a fact that has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Why are you talking about a smile. I want to
know about his forty time. I want to know about
his rock cons I mean that was like.
Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
This, That was like the same thing that like you
would hear about certain players in the past with the Texans,
like one of them was, oh, he lights up a room.
Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
Okay, that's great, Like you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Exactly, go go host a party somewhere like I'm asking
you to make plays.
Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
I'm sorry, Like, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Kind of what we talked about earlier this season with
Demiico Ryans, you know, caring about the player. Demiko, That's
not our job, dude, that's your job. Our job is
to tell you what is going on. I mean, it
was such an innocuous thing. It was seriously like it
was you were asking about a report out there.
Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
You were trying to get clarification. We were trying to
put the narrative back to you to control it.
Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
And then it's, oh, well, you're asking about this because
you don't care about the guy.
Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Not our job. Sorry, not our job.
Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Steven one three two one two five seven ninety Robert
in South Houston, what's time to mind? Ed?
Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (01:24:17):
Call?
Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Dan Techrivilli?
Speaker 9 (01:24:19):
Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Hey?
Speaker 14 (01:24:20):
Uh, you know they always say, you know, uh, controlling
the tempo and time of possession.
Speaker 15 (01:24:28):
Is really important in football, and I.
Speaker 14 (01:24:32):
I saw or I came up with a stat that
I find really uh interesting that I see in the
wind streak. Is they the Texans besides the Jags game,
have not trailed in any of the games for more
than six minutes. So I think that was pretty impressive
and I I just wanted to point that out to
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you guys, and I gotta get back on the road.
Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
Thanks, I appreciate it, Robert.
Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
It's a way to be able to guarantee you get
a is you gave your I mean, you given off
the offense comes out, they're able to give you two
to three drives of success. I'm not saying it's got
to be three straight touchdowns. It could be two touchdowns
in a field goal. It could be a touchdown and
two field goals, but joining up to thirteen points, making
it a two possession game. That gives you an opportunity
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to let your defense have a mulligan without bending entirely.
And I think that's been a major element of the
success of the Texans this year. See. And that's the
whole thing too, is I mean, I understand, you know,
you win the toss, you want to defer, you want
to do all that to get the ball in the
second half.
Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Dude, I'm always deferring.
Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
I am well, I mean, I get all of that,
but I think when it comes to the Texans, I
want the offense on the field.
Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
First, I want my closers on the field.
Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Second, see, I want to set the tone because I
want to be able to be I want to be
able to know that I'm getting three and out, getting
the ball back, I may be able to score at
this point, and then going out a break in the halftime,
I can come out and score.
Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
The same things that we have noticed about this Texans
seem the entire year still are on display coming out.
Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Of the break.
Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
They always get the ball, they always got three and out.
So it's becoming a pattern to where maybe you want
to switch some things up. And the last week Chargers
they defer Texans, they got on the field, they score
on seventy.
Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Secs three plays later in the end zone. I mean
that took my dogs outside really quick, and I came
back in and I was like seven nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
But at the same time, that's like an outlier, just
like right now, the outlier who would be if the
Texans were to score coming out of break in the
second half. It's not guarantee because we haven't seen it
at a consistent level this year, and we haven't and
we're not gonna see it until I would say, probably
we get to the playoffs, and even still that would
just be a minor data point.
Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Given the flow of most of their games, I would
probably believe that it's more likely to happen early on
in the game than it is later in the game.
Usually it's preservation late in the game's that's what the
Texans are going for. They don't play well from behind.
I mean, there are certain teams that are able to
do it better than others. That's like, you know, kind
of like you know in the NBA, Oh you know,
we weren't good in transition defense.
Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Nobody's good in transition defense.
Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Like I always love like when people say that, oh
you mean, when you've got three on one, you're not
that good?
Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Surprising who knew.
Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
But at the same time, I think that with the Texans,
keep doing what you've been doing all year, because if
it's working for you, if you get if you win
the toss, defer because of at this point it helps
you out in so many ways because you know that
you're gonna set yourself up for a good positioning. Like
I haven't seen a moment where Houston's defense is starting
to unravel in the first quarter we see it in
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the second quarter, we see it at the start of
the third quarter.
Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
We don't see it on the opening drive.
Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
So if that continues to be the recipe for success
on an eight game winning streak, who am I to say,
go ahead and change some things up?
Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
All right, So we're getting in the guest saratory here.
Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
So coming up in about fifteen minutes, we're gonna have
Jake Crane Craning Company, part of the Daily Wire. He's
gonna talk some college football with us at a thirty
nine o'clock Aaron Wilson, which is normally our Friday, because
today is our Friday. Well, then Aaron Wilson's gonna join
us at nine, and then Brad Kellner from Inside Texas
he's gonna hop on with us and be able to
(01:27:58):
talk some Longhorns. So actually I said Inside Texas Texas
Sports Unfiltered. I apologize, Brad, So I got that for you.
But anyway, got all those coming up. Kelener will be
on with us at nine thirty. So looking forward to
all of that. But we mentioned it's earlier. Let's bring
it back again. The season is a success if capital
(01:28:20):
if right there, we'll discuss right here it is the
Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:28:27):
The Morning Drive with Dann and Cole on Sports Talk
seven ninety, home of the Strolls, Rockets, and Houston's best
sports talk.
Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
There was the video that made its rounds the other
day of the people who had stacked shopping carts so
they didn't have to walk through a puddle there, and
people are like, that's soft. I go, look, you're looking
at it all the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
It's soft.
Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
But we get Okay. Then you could say the same
about us with snow and ice. Yeah, but I love
snow and ice.
Speaker 4 (01:28:56):
I get it. But my point is is that we
don't do it well. So they don't do rain well
out in California. That's it.
Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Yes, why it's rain because it doesn't rain, but for
like twenty days a year, that's why.
Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
Okay, okay, But still, like I remembered, a.
Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Buddy of mine told me that when he and his
wife moved, he was from here originally, but he had
moved out southern California and met his wife and they
moved back. She had never seen a thunderstorm before because
she grew up in the in the desert right there
in southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Now, have you never seen a thunderstorm in your entire
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
You got to ask her, Okay, call her up, let's
go three.
Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
We got time, Yeah, I Oscar. If your wife's listening,
you have her call in.
Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
But anyway, he told me that the first time she
saw a thunderstorm, she freaked out because she was like,
what is this and he was like, it's just a thunderstorm.
Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
It's fine. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
But in Texas again you say that it's with the
snow and the sleep, there's a little bit of a difference.
People don't know how to drive on that stuff. People
don't know how to function walking in that the same deal. There,
you get your feet wet, that's all it is. Oh
my goodness, it is soft. If you can't handle a
little bit of wetness around your feet. Yeah, I mean,
not to be the serious guy in all this, but
then like also though too out there.
Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
You gotta worry about mud slides.
Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Okay, cool, you worry about mudslides. I'm not worried about mudslides.
Going into a grocery store. About where I'm gonna get it,
like like literally, I'm gonna take the words out of
Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. You afraid to
get wet, Like that's all it is. At that standpoint,
that's pretty good. Afraid to get wet because I've coached
you well on on weaving in movie lines.
Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
That's very good.
Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
But like, it's stupid as all hell to think that.
Oh no, my, my, my six hundred dollars Louis Vauton
shoes are going to be destroyed where a pair of
sneakers is stopp being a pretentious.
Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
I think this was like in like Alta Dina or
somewhere like that, even a bigger pretentious Delta Prova Lance.
Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
No, I don't think Alta Dina is. I think it's
like kind of like working class out there.
Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Then you should definitely not be afraid of rain. You
would think not. But I mean again, so California, you're
not used to it.
Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
I don't care if you're not used to it. I'm listen,
people in the state Texas are not used to snow.
The reason why it shuts downs because you don't properly prepare.
You got to learn how to prepare for a little
bit of a wetness.
Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Well, then you know a lot of us get to
stay in a hotel room and have a good time
and get get free drinks and no, it was fun
last year when we got to do that during the
snow and ice that we had here. What do you
mean me, Ross, Matt who else? I think it was
just us three that not in a like singular hotel room,
but we got put up in a hotel nearby.
Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
Because if they want to make sure you can go
to work, that's it. I mean, yeah, I am so
we were here, so.
Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
I slept in the studio one time, not the studio
on another place because of they said, hey, just stay here,
we'll pay for you.
Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Oh I mean, and you know we've done it during
hurricanes too. We've had the same thing where it's like, hey,
we're gonna have air mattresses.
Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
It's like, oh okay, yeah, I slept on an air
mattress for two days because they want to make sure
that we had radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Going all right real quick here before we shifted over
to college football and talk with Jake Crane.
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
The Texans season has success if they go to the
AFC Championship game. Only way to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Sorry, you've been to the playoffs now three straight years,
I didn't need to make O Ryan's. You have an
opportunity to win the division three straight times under Demiko Ryans.
You have an opportunity to win your third straight game
in the wild card round under Demiko Ryans.
Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
What has this city? What is this organization?
Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
What has this franchise never experienced playing in conference championship weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
This is the best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
This is a functioning somehow some way on its last
two legs, but still good enough to get the job
done offense. And it's a special teams unit to ninety
eight percent of the time, you can trust Kyami Fairbair
to make a kick for fifty five yards out. You
do not have Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs, not of
Joe Burrow in the playoffs. You do not have Lamar
(01:32:37):
Jackson as of right now. In the playoffs. You have
an agent Aaron Rodgers, a bunch of young dudes, and
a bunch of teams that don't have experience. You have
no excuse this year to say you can't go to
the Anti champions This hasn't been as loud as obviously.
You know people who yell about the Astros twenty seventeen.
But if the Texans do have one of their best seasons,
(01:32:59):
do you think there are gonna fan bases out there
that kind of do like the with the Rockets. Yeah,
but you won those without Jordan there. Do you think
that that could be there? No?
Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
But what would be the difference there? I mean, I
wouldn't see there being much of a difference. I would say, well,
you were a loser and you weren't there.
Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
You mean, like because Mahomes wasn't out there, but because
Jordan wasn't out there, that's fine. No, No, Listen, Jordan
was retired at that point, like he'd was that when
he kept away or was he still playing? Well, he
came back midway through or was it midway through ninety five?
Speaker 6 (01:33:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Ninety five?
Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
Okay, So he he released the statement that just simply
said I'm back.
Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
But he wasn't there for ninety four. He was not
there for ninety four, but he made it clue that
he was done playing basketball. So what are you supposed
to say at that point? Oh, because if he eventually
came his way back in that that's a reason why
we can't have a white phrase. I got you that
we can't believe that that's a reason why things went
our Wait, no, we did our job, We handled business
against everybody in the West, and then we beat the
(01:33:54):
crap out of the Eastern Conference team in the playoff
in the finals. Same thing for the Texans if you
get there.
Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
Well, I mean again too.
Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
For a great regular season, that's all fine and good,
but set at numerous times, great regular seasons don't mean
a hill of beans. This is the time of year
that means the most because I mentioned the ninety eight Astros.
Nobody talks about the ninety eight Astros, one of the
best teams record wise they'd ever had, and then they
lost in the first round of the Padres. Same deal
last year with the Rockets, hey second best team in
the Western Conference, losing the first round to the Golden
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State Warriors. It's the what have you done for me lately?
That's what it is. So I mean, it's going to
be the same deal with the Texans this year. Eleven wins,
twelve wins, okay, great, awesome, What did you do in
the playoffs? That's what we care about because we've seen
twelve wins seasons here now you've seen it potentially twice
you've seen division winners and get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
You've seen them win in the playoffs. You've seen all
of those things. People are done with it.
Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
People want to see this team take the next step,
and then the success of this team this season is
exactly that getting the next step.
Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
The problem is just you look at the overall status
of this team, what you have defensively, what you think
that you could be playing on the road, the teams
that you're going up against. There's not an excuse, like
there's nothing standing in your way other than you and
the incompetence of your offense stalling at the worst time
possible or your defense giving up one explosive play, and
you can't counteract that from you making it to at
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least a conference championship game. I'm not saying you got
to go to Santa Clara, but you should at least
have your side set on either hosting or playing in
a conference title game.
Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Real quick here before we get to Jake Crane casts
on Twitter sharing exactly what I said about people from
southern California did a thing with scouts in twenty twenty
three in West Virginia, and they were from all around
the country. The Scouts from San Diego were in awe
of a thunderstorm. They'd never seen lightning before.
Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Get outside, more, ladies and gentlemen, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:35:44):
I mean that's just it.
Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
I mean they have then go set your horizons to
go visit Colorado or something so you can actually see stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Everybody's got their thing that either they're used to or
they're not used to. Like for us, it's like heavy rain.
We're just like, Okay, it's just another day. But you know,
elsewhere and then you know, it's the same deal where
you know, you'll have people in the Midwest and in
Northeast make fun of us because we don't know how
to deal with snow and ice. And then the response
to that is, well, I mean it's just like you
guys went in the college football playoff.
Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
You don't know anything about that. I gel one, actually,
you know what, that's the way you got it.
Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Actually is one that I saw somebody had had and
I decided to share. I just don't know who it
is for proper attribution now, and I apologies. Well, here's
the bottom line. They don't know how to handle it.
Play anything past eighty two degrees. There you go seven
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way to get in. Let's talk a little bit about
that CFP and we're gonna do that next with Jake
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Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
That's where we go right now to talk with a
really good guy in this business, Jake Crane. Crane and Company,
part of the Daily Wire, joins us right now. Talk
some college ball, Jake. Happy New Year to you, buddy.
Let's just go ahead and get it started with tonight's
game between Miami and Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (01:38:33):
Do you see any surprises tonight?
Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Well, first off, thanks for having me guys into Happy
New Year to everybody else out there listening. Man, you
know I feel like, really the one playoff game where
I'm not saying I know exactly what's going to happen,
but I think you know that there's the widest spectrum
for something to happen is probably Oregon Texas Tech. You
feel like this Miami Ohio State game is going to
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be low scoring. Now I'm not saying that that Ohio
State come out, couldn't come out and go up seventeen
to nothing and win twenty four to seven or something
like that, but you just feel like with the way
that both these front sevens are playing. Even though Miami
has shown the ability, especially in crucial moments with Fletcher
to be able to run the ball and have success there,
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Carson Beck just looks like, you know, a kid who's
meeting Santa Claus for the first time at the mall.
They just freak out and don't know what's going on.
And what's crazy is he's thirty five years old. So
you know, measure those two see how that works out.
But when when I look at this game, it's just
really hard for me to find a way that if
Ohio State gets to the ten point mark, then Miami
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is going.
Speaker 9 (01:39:39):
To be able to win.
Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
Outside of you know, a defensive touchdown the special team's
touchdown are both.
Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
Jake, you brought up. I'm in toll agreance with you.
Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
You told me right now that it's a twenty one
to nothing win in favor of Oregon.
Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
I believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
If you told me came down to a game winning
field goal between Texas Tech and the Ducks. I believe
that these are two teams that have elite SATs against
you each other. This is one of the best offenses
in college football going up against I think one of
the most slept on defenses. They're number two in run defense,
they're top five and scoring the right inside the red zone.
If I were to give you a stat line of
which spreaks first, the rushing attack of Oregon or the
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defensive run support of Texas Tech, do you think that
that is the metric that will decide this game.
Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
Well, it's funny, Colon, and you're exactly right. It is
strength versus strength here when you look at Texas Tech
defensively and Oregon offensively.
Speaker 15 (01:40:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
That's going to tell the story, though. I think this
is actually one of the games. And I'll answer the
question you asked, but I do want to make this point.
I think this is one of the games where the
weakness on weakness is going to determine it and whose
weakness is weaker, and I think it's Oregon's defense. Guys,
if you really look Oregon's defenses under Dan Lanning, which
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is shocking in big games, they have not played well.
I mean, heck, they just gave up thirty points to
one of the guys who helped sign the Constitution. Texas
Tech's not amazing on offense, but they're good enough with
Dicky and Williams and Baron Morton, who sounds like he
helped sign the Constitution, but he didn't. I don't know,
maybe in his family, or they may just you know,
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own the salt company. But I actually think it's it's
Texas Tech's offense against Oregon's defense that could be the difference,
because I wouldn't be shocked to see somewhat of a
stalemate when we're talking strength on strength because of how
talented Dante Moore is and to your point, how good
this Texas Tech defense is at making you one dimensional,
which if you're one dimensional, you're non dimensional.
Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
If that's a word again.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Jake Crane, Crane and company hopping on with us here
for a few minutes. Talk from college football in the
morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
Let's talk about even some of the teams that were
just on the outside looking in. We're going to see
him to day Texas, and I mean Steve Sarkisian coming
out and seeing what he said yesterday about the transfer portal,
innil everything else of sort. They've had quite a few
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guys that have decided to leave the program since then.
Do you kind of sense a little bit of the
wagon wheels are shaken there in Austin or do you
think they're gonna be just fine?
Speaker 6 (01:42:12):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
I you know, nothing upsets me more than watching rich
people cry about and how the cake takes.
Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
I mean, this is this.
Speaker 15 (01:42:21):
Is this, They're lucky.
Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
This isn't you know eighteen hundred France or whatever with
Marie Antoinette or are they just sent start to.
Speaker 9 (01:42:28):
The guillotine after that one.
Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
I just I'm not gonna sit here and listen to it.
I just think it's hilarious that, you know, a A
And I've got nothing against Texas hearing y'all complain about
nil and this, that and the other Are you kidding me?
You're you're like one of the You're like the Rockefellers
of this stuff.
Speaker 9 (01:42:46):
I don't have time for it.
Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
But as far as the bowl games go that you mentioned,
it's just it's sad, Dan, because it's somebody like you
who loves football, who grew up loving football and college
football and understanding, you know, how how much fun the
ball games are.
Speaker 9 (01:43:05):
It just, man, it just doesn't hit the same. It
just really doesn't.
Speaker 15 (01:43:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
I had a buddy in college who's who's fiance cheated
on him, and it was just never the same again.
And it just feels like that, like we'll never rekindle
that magic. That's why we need to get my plan,
and we need to have a twelve team n IT
style tournament with nil money on the line for teams
that don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
I'm one hundred percent all four because I'm getting flocked
from Texas fans every single day, dude about how they
belong in the playoff for being the first team with
three ranked wins against top ten opponents since twenty nineteen,
and I'm like, okay, cool, don't lose Ohio State or Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:43:45):
This is this is a moot point, guys, so.
Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
Like with that, well yeah, and also like you again,
and and look, do I think Texas should have been
in over Tulane and JMU, Yes, just like I think
that Notre Dame aim and BYU should have a Vanderbilt
should have been over. But you know it's funny, they're like,
you're the first team to do this since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 9 (01:44:08):
That's really not that long ago.
Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
If you can hit me with like nineteen forty eight,
we can have a discussion, but not twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
Like Texas A and M is, how does it won
a national title since World War II was underway? I
mean like, look, like give me a stat like that,
and then I'll feel sorry for you at some point.
Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
Well, yeah, which we look which we should just automatically
give those titles to the Army, the Navy, and the
Air Force, even.
Speaker 15 (01:44:30):
Though the Air Force wasn't you know what was still
in its infancy.
Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
We should just World War two era all the titles
should go to the Academy.
Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
Yeah, those boys, I'm showing some real physicality on the fields.
Speaker 5 (01:44:40):
You want to talk about the RPO, Yeah, for sure,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Again Jake Crane, Crane and company hopping on with us
here for a few minutes of the four games here
over the next couple of days.
Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
Who do you think is on upset watch the.
Speaker 9 (01:44:54):
Most look, I've already we already did our prediction.
Speaker 15 (01:44:59):
Social it's out there. I think Bama's gonna beat Indiana.
Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
I think they're gonna beat him. I think Steven Hanley
being out's a lot bigger deal than what people are
know really across the kind, especially in the South, because
you know, again, I'm not trying to downplay anybody's love
for the sport, but I don't think a lot of
people have watched Indiana that much. From Maya and our
neck of the woods. Indiana's very quality, very quality. Stig's
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done a great job upgrading that roster.
Speaker 15 (01:45:31):
They played in their strength, but they don't have a.
Speaker 5 (01:45:33):
Lot of guys like eight running around in that front
seven And Bama's kind of run the ball a little
bit better. You saw him against the defense in Oklahoma
that is one of the best in the country.
Speaker 9 (01:45:44):
Find a way to run the ball there.
Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
At the end, I think Alabama ends up beating Indiana,
And I know the Joel Klepts of the world and
the Chris Fowlers of the world won't love it, but
it would be kind of funny, especially after watching the
SEC get there, you know, pants pulled down and spanked
in front of everybody in Kroger.
Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
Listen, Jake, you know how I feel about this because
of Less's Collegepan Spain. I'm not hiding it. I would
love nothing more than to see Alabam. I'll find a
way to get the job done. I will say you's
read on something last night that I think you hit
right on the head. In today's day and age of
the world of college football, we are no longer going
to see these Super Conference that is the SEC run
the show.
Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
There is going to be more parody in the sport.
Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
But at the same time, there is a difference, and
I wanted to be able to explain the audience because
of your knowledge on the sport. There's a difference of
saying that the SEC is going to be losing some
traction when it comes to middle teams like Missouri, Tennessee,
South Carolina almost going back to eight and four versus
A Now we're gonna still have five teams at the
very forefront that would kick the crap out of anybody
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in college football, just like the Big Ten does. It's
more parody in that standpoint, and then there's more middling
grounds because of the future with nil and transferportal news.
Speaker 5 (01:46:56):
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, that's one hundred percent correct.
What again, I think we have to be able to
call balls and strikes regardless of where you're from.
Speaker 15 (01:47:05):
You know, the level.
Speaker 9 (01:47:06):
It's like, you can't argue with.
Speaker 5 (01:47:08):
The level of dominance of the SEC from what well
what two thousand and five to two thy twenty, right,
I don't think we'll I don't think you could argue
the level of dominance in the Southeastern Conference. I don't
think we'll ever see a run like that. And to me,
you know again, whenever we have this this argument of oh,
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what's the best conference, well, you have to develop what
metrics you're using.
Speaker 9 (01:47:34):
You know, some people think it's just national champion.
Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
Some people think it's the amount of teams that you
get in the playoffs. Others think how you doing bowl games,
and even some look at the NFL Draft.
Speaker 15 (01:47:45):
I think it's all of it.
Speaker 5 (01:47:46):
I think you've got to put it all together to
be able to make that assumption. And that's not to
say that one conference won't be able to string together
some good years.
Speaker 15 (01:47:57):
We're watching the Big.
Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
Ten do it right now, but there is no way
that you're gonna be able to replicate in today's landscape
within IL and the transfer portal.
Speaker 15 (01:48:07):
What the SEC did.
Speaker 5 (01:48:08):
Over really that you know, fifteen to seventeen year period,
and you're always going to have these teams at the
top that are going to be able to go and
do the things we saw in the past. Is what
has changed the game is now you have some of
these middle ground teams or these middle of the road
teams that not only can compete in the SEC, but
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go look at the Big ten, right even go look
at the ACC in the Big twelve.
Speaker 15 (01:48:35):
That's that's what's kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:48:37):
Changed the the total dominant factor of one comp you know,
one conference. You can't monopolize the sport anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Jake, I guess you out of here. On this transfer
portal opens up on Friday. A lot of teams, mister
college Football playoff. They want to make a run back.
Who is the team you're most interested in? To see
how they target the portal to upgrade their roster going
into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (01:49:01):
I mean, Vandy's gonna be interesting post Diego Pavia. You know,
I don't care how many letters he writes to the President.
I don't think they're gonna give you a twelve year bud,
you know, just to see if Vandy. I know Jared
Curtis is going there too, just to see how they
approached the portal. Outside of that, man, you know, we
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doesn't it feel like we know the teams that are
gonna have success in the portal, Like it's not really
like a stretch that, oh well, you know, bring back
up Texas. You know, yeah, they've lost some guys, but
they're still gonna have success in the portal. So I
would say Vandy just because they're super intriguing to me
how this is gonna look post Diego Pavia.
Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
It's gonna be fun to watch. I think there's any
question about that. Again, East Jake Crane, Crane and Company
part of the Daily Wire, hopping on with us here
for a few minutes. Jake, always the best, buddy. Happy
New Year to you and yours and hope to see
you this summer in Tampa at SEC Media Days.
Speaker 15 (01:49:57):
Let's go man, met Kenny Powers and STEVIEE and Cole
can come too.
Speaker 9 (01:50:01):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Any eastbounding down references are always welcome on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:50:06):
You know that. Appreciate it, buddy, you get it.
Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
There you go, all right, Jake Crane, see you buddy,
all right, there you go. Yeah, if you if you
can weave in eastbounding down, I'm always for it. And
yeah that was that was Stevie's line right there to
see you later, blank down.
Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
I need to go back and watch the show. It's
such a great show, such a good show, it really is.
And McBride, to me, is one of the most underappreciated
comedy actors.
Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
And it's funny too because it's making its rounds on
Twitter right now. I saw that of one scene where
you know, it was obviously Kenny was in Mexico and
they were like, you can clearly see that Danny McBride
is breaking character because he's laughing so hard at it.
Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
I always love stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
I always love like when the when the fourth wall
is is preached like where you can see because I mean,
of course, one of the ones that's the worst at
it is Jimmy fallon on on Yeah, on on Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
That was a bit at the very end, like hey,
how quickly can we make you can can we can
we break Jimmy's character? Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
But like whenever you see that, it's it's always the
best and I always love to you like when like
you go back and see it, like where you're like, hey,
you know you can see Matt LeBlanc here on Friends laughing,
you know, as you know what's off at something that
happened in the background.
Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
It's like, oh, that wasn't planned, No, it wasn't. Okay,
we got to quick time out when we come back.
Jake said something about the transfer portal. There is a
thing that we need to discuss, especially when it comes
to the future as Texas. One name Longhorns have got
to add in. I'll explain why this is important on
the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Sex seven
ninety monks do it right here.
Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
They are on Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
Especial things to.
Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Jake Crane, Crane and Company. He'll be back. We'll definitely
have Jake back on.
Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
Big fan of Jake as talking a little college football
with him because you got the Longhorns taking on Michigan
as part of the cheese at Citrus Bowl one o'clock
right here on sports Stock seven ninety.
Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
That's gonna be coming your way.
Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
You got the college foot playoff tonight, firing up Miami
and Ohio.
Speaker 4 (01:52:03):
State, and the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
You're gonna get sections on the practice field getting ready
for the finale against the Colts, to the regular season
on Sunday inside in RG Stadium, and then you get
the rockets on the floor tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:52:16):
I know that you teuse something. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
But what can't be underscored here is our audience is
not fans of Jimmy Fallon. I have found that out
during the break weeks have been coming fast and furious.
Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
Name one person that actually likes Himmy Fallon.
Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
I think that he probably has some people who give
him some some pity love, because I mean, he's really
not that funny, and you know, it's at least kind
of widely thought of that he's a nice guy, so
it's like, okay, a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
But I think for the most part people look at
him as being a tryhard. I think that he is
a giant try hard. He's always been a try hard
and outside of Fever Pitch, it's there's something I've liked
from him at all. That's about. That's pretty much where
I was gonna go. I was gonna say Fever Pitch
was it. I will say it's a good movie. It
is a great rom com. It's a crappy bass like.
I'm not considering it a baseball man, but that's label.
(01:53:04):
It's a rom com that has baseball around him. Then
don't put it in the baseball category. If I go
on to Netflix and it shows up on the sports category,
why the hell am I gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:53:12):
Be watching it? That's fair? What do you got on
the Longhorn? Okay, so what is the long?
Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
What has Steve Sarkusan done better than most when it
comes to fixing the offense?
Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
I'm not really sure. Cole transferportal wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Oh okay, Xavier Worthy was at Michigan, gets out of
his deal, He comes down to he comes down to Austin.
He ends up breaking a school record as a freshman.
Big time reason why the Longhorns are able to establish
a culture. Who is the other guy that came on
in eighty Mitchell from Georgia comes on in, ends up
helping this team go to the College Football Playoff Matthy
Golden Natty Golden last season, comes on in from Houston,
becomes a first round pick the Texas Longhorns. You need
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to go get Cam Coleman from Auburn, the number one
wide receiver in the transfer portal at one point of
five star plus wide receiver was supposed to go to
Texas A and m Jimbo Fisher gets fired. He stays
close to home. He is on the portal after having
two underwhelming seasons out on the planes. He needs to
head on down to the forty acres. Get yourself a
weapon for arch Manning Well.
Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
And here's the thing though, too is I think that's
where the priority has to be this offseason for him
because now you have completely put the bulls eye on you.
If you're Seve Sarkisian and the offensive play caller, you
have another season of ho hum offense when you made
the defensive coordinator change and threw him under the bus
of saying, you know I was having to rob Peter
to pay Paul Oh you were, I mean I shared
(01:54:28):
that last night where they were talking about the stat
lines of Marcel Reid and also John Mattier against Texas,
and I was like, hmm, so much for having the
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
So my big point is that you look at where
you are right now. Offensively, you lost off your wide
receivers DeAndre Moorrees going to the transfer portal. We don't
know Aboutryan Wingo sas long term. You got a couple
guys are gone pro. You need a veteran in there.
Because of arch Manning at this point, I think has
shown everybody listen. I started off slow, but that wasn't
my fault. That was Paul fine Bomb's fault. Putting to
much pressure on me to deliver it become the second
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coming of Tim Tebow, like that was the narrative around me.
But I have proven that I am actually the right
guy for the job. I can be the quarterback that
you always envisioned, but you gotta give me some supportive health.
Speaker 4 (01:55:11):
I like that you have a guy like Ryan Wingoso around.
Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
You got some young players like Khalil Lockett, Jamie French,
but you need an enforcer.
Speaker 4 (01:55:19):
This is a six foot three, do it all bad ass.
Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
I'm ready to go ahead and run it down to
your throat test me in single man coverage type of
receiver that if you add him into this offense, it
is going to be a starch difference from what we
saw in twenty twenty four. And then can bring back
coach Boom, and then you can bring back in some
good defensive names, and you have a good foundation in
place with a lot of the defensive talent returning this year.
Texas with their schedule should at least be ten and
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two in the College Football Playoff. They got to get
themselves a legit number one. You did it for Quinn Yewers,
you gotta do it for arch Manning.
Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Well, we'll get into a little bit of Texans here
as we get into the nine o'clock hour because it's
our weekly visit with our own Sports Talk seven to
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Canna hop on with us right here. It is the
Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
This is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.
Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
That's coming up Sunday inside NRG Stadium. You've also got
the Rockets on the road tomorrow afternoon, coming your way
against the Nets, and you'll hear that right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety and the college football playoff fires
up tonight. You've got to Miami and Ohio State before that,
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety, you got to
Texas and Michigan coming your way at one o'clock as
(01:56:59):
Texas closest thing out in the cheese it's Citrus Bowl.
But you know, just getting ready to catch up with
Aaron here in a second, I mean the Texans heading
into this one.
Speaker 4 (01:57:10):
We talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
I mean I had the you know where we're talking
about this team and saying that you want to play
this like any other game.
Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
You're on a roll right now.
Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Don't switch things up, don't put yourself in position where
you've got to restart this thing the following week. But
at the same time, though too, Cole and we'll get
into this with Aaron a little bit when we catch
up with them, is that it seems like this is
going to be a situation where.
Speaker 4 (01:57:37):
At least a couple of people on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
Maybe it's an assistant trainer, maybe it's I don't know,
somebody else is going to be there and periodically going
over to Tamiko and being like, hey, it's ten to
nothing Jacksonville. You know, hey, it's the fourth quarter and
they're up by twenty five. Now, I think if you
hear that one, that's when all of a sudden, it's
going to be Davis Mills in at quarterback, Juar Jordan
over at running back, and that the wide receiver group
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of everybody else not named Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz,
even though he's not a wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
But you get my point. Yeah, I mean to an extent.
Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
But at the same time, I think that you're not
worried about that, that you're worried about making sure that you
win the game, like because of again, at this standpoint,
if you lose, and if Los Angeles wins, and if
Buffalo wins, your head to head doesn't matter anymore because
you have six losses and they have five losses, which
means now instead of going to Baltimore going to Pittsburgh,
you're going to New England or to Denver, or to
(01:58:29):
Jacksonville and I'm not saying that those are easier path
like those are more challenging pathways, because I don't believe
in Jacksonville. I don't think that New England, with even
all the experience we've seen from Mike Rabel in the playoffs,
it's a young quarterback making his debut in the postseason.
I'm not so that those things are gonna hurt you.
But I can tell you what I want the easiest
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pathway as possible to get to the divisional round, to
keep my season alive. I feel a lot better about
playing Pittsburgh and playing Baltimore. So you got to worry
about you first. Don't worry about what's going on in Jacksonville.
We don't worry about if you're gonna be hosting a
playoff game. Worry about setting a tone in the first
half to where you feel like even if Jacksonville is losing.
Let's say Jacksonville's losing by three, but you're up by twenty,
(01:59:11):
you can still feel like we're gonna put our backups in.
Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
Let's get them some reps just in case of anything.
Speaker 2 (01:59:16):
Well, I mean, and that's the thing, I mean, this
is all predicated on if you have a lead. If
you don't, well, then of course, yeah, you gotta win
the football game. You gotta find a way, which I mean,
you can't assume anything with this team. Unfortunately, it seems
like that anytime we felt like, oh, that should be
a coast, I mean, the Raiders game was case in point,
that being the case where you thought that now you'd
(01:59:38):
be able to handle them, it's not really gonna be
a problem, and then well you found out that you
had to grin and bear it out, and then you
had to have a miraculous third down conversion for you
to even be able to go to knees.
Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
Is there somebody on the Texans offense that our minds
you as HEAs? I'll shire And I bring that up
because of yesterday. I was driving home and I was
thinking about that Raiders game. I think about the tru
and the impact of what Aziz al Schiier meant to Houston,
especially when it came to the run defense, especially when
it came to attacking the intermediate part of the field.
Where did Las Vegas find most of their success intermediate
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part of the field and explosive plays. Do the Texans
have that guy on offense right now to where if
you're missing him on the field, it may not seem
like a big deal, but you look.
Speaker 4 (02:00:20):
Back, it is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
And like Nico Collins is the easy answer. But I
feel like that there's like another name you can go with.
Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
I mean, I would say that probably right now, it's
got to be CJ. Even though you were able to
you you were able to keep this thing afloat with
Davis Mills. But I mean, you just feel like that
you've got more big play opportunities with CJ out there
than you do with Davis Mills.
Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Can I thought a name at you? Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
Dalton Schultz, number two on the team of receptions, number
one on the team in targets, number two on the
team in yards per catch, number two on the team
in yards per game, third most important tight end in
the NFL. Receptions. It doesn't seem like a big deal
because it's Dalton Schultz. It's just a tight end. It's
a guy who is a part of an offense that
does not draw in a lot of names like Trey
(02:01:04):
McBride or George Kittle or Travis kelcey. But the second
that he's gone, you gotta turn to Kate Stover. You
gotta turn to Harrison Bryant. You gotta turn the guys
who are on the practice squad. There's a giant difference
between having him on the field versus having Kate Stover
getting all the reps just like as he's all show,
you're not being on the field for Texans defense.
Speaker 6 (02:01:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
I mean, those are definitely concerns that you have, and
I mean the Texans, you know, just trying to be
able to, i mean, find any type of capable production
out of this offense. I think is the big thing.
In last week, I mean, you saw it. You know,
we'd been told that you could expect big playability out
of Jayden Higgins. You finally saw it. Same to you
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a lot of Jalen Nole. We've been seeing it all
season long out of him in the return game. I mean,
it's been one of those that it kind of feels like,
all right, any time here that he touches a football
on a kick return, he's gonna be able to run
that back.
Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
And he nearly did Arizona though. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Yeah, well see I was glad that they finally got
Jalen Nolan involved in the passing attack and last game
because I've been waiting all season for Fourteen to be
a bigger factor in the offense. Not because if I
don't think that you don't have other guys that you
like with Nico and Jayden Higgins. But you drafted the
guy seventy eight, I mean seventy fifth overall. You brought
him on in to compete for first team reps. You're
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not getting the production that you thought you were going
to get out of Christian Kirk. So thankfully, for the
first time, it felt like we're going to make a
priority to get fourteen the football. And like I've told
you all year, when you get him in space, he
makes plays. He did so in the Seattle game, he
did so in the Arizona game, he did so against
Los Angeles. That's a guy I want to see more
reps from moving forward. Well, I mean, and it's also too,
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I mean, you drafted him for a reason. I mean,
I think that's the biggest thing of all of it,
is that you've got him here. And I understand that
you've paid a lot of money through a draft or
through a trade to get Christian Kirk here. But Jalen
Nole is my future. Christian Kirk is not. I'd much
rather see Jalen Nole. Like the thing that I hate
about the text at times is that they will have
players that are on lucrative contracts or on major deals
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to where you feel like, if we're going to get
the benefit out of this, out of this money, we
have to play him, even if it's a problem for us,
even if we know that this is the wrong move.
Like Cam Robinson, they had to play him at one
point because if they said, we paid fourteen million dollars,
we guys, he what we get he end up being
a backup, then you trade him off.
Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
Someone was willing to take on that contract.
Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
They knew that they need to get somebody else in
the as an offensive tackle problem solved. Sometimes it's okay
to submit. You were at fault, you swung, you missed.
Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
But you have a.
Speaker 3 (02:03:35):
Guy that offers you similar traits, similar skills, similar upside,
more potential, and he's a good fit for what the
offense is running right now.
Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Let him play on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
Like remember when they were games where Braxton Burials and
Justin Watson were taking reps away from from fourteen Like
I was, I was baffled by the fact that I
understand that you have these guys on like one year deals.
It shouldn't matter that he's on a rookie contract. What
matters is we're putting the best eleven players out there,
and usually that's something that Demiko is very adamant about.
Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Well, I mean it's also too. I mean it's kind
of realizing the era of your ways. I mean with
Braxon Barrios, I mean, the whole reason he was here
was for his return shops and then you found out
what we've got Jalen Nole, so that takes away what
he was brought here to be. He wasn't brought here
to be a receiver. He was brought here to be
a really good return guy for you, and then once
that was taken from him, it was all right, well,
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that's one job that's already and that's one more guy
that we don't have to worry about in terms of
active or inactive.
Speaker 4 (02:04:33):
Well, you just should have kept him a enact at
that point.
Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Like, I get that you didn't want to release him
just in case of somebody else picks him on up
and then becomes a problem for you. But at the
same time, you knew at this moment that he had
no value for your team. Jalen Nole has the value.
And I'm at that point where I'm not saying release
Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4 (02:04:51):
He's been a part of the roster all year. He's
helped you get to this point.
Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
He's been a part of the offense that now is
going to the playoff. But let's just call it as is,
who would you rather have in the field or Christian Kirk?
You know my answer exactly, So why are we having
an argument about about how many reps you have? Nick,
the guy who offers you more potential, needs to be
on the field for your biggest potential running the playoffs. Well,
and I mean you saw that play out last week.
Speaker 2 (02:05:13):
Again, like I mentioned, Higgins and Noll, able to score
your two touchdowns and not only able to score them,
but also too, I mean able to make them happen
in huge ways.
Speaker 4 (02:05:22):
I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
Would like to see that the Texans have that in
their back pocket of being able to stretch the field
that way heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (02:05:29):
That would be nice.
Speaker 2 (02:05:31):
But I mean again also too, I will give Nick
Kaylee credit where it does seem like you know a
couple of different times this year, one credit for him
one for CIJ where I said that that Monday night
game against Seattle, I kind of felt like CJ was
kind of getting back to being twenty twenty three, CJ
again of saying, Hey, the pressure is gonna come. I
get all of that. I'm gonna get hit, that's fine,
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But I'm still gonna be looking down the field and
I'm still gonna be able to drop dimes on people.
Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
He made a few throws in that Kansas City game
that felt very similar to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
And then I mean with Kaylee as I mentioned, I mean,
seeing some of the routes that they had open in
that Raiders game, I was like, I kind of feel
like he's building up something right there, and then we
saw it payoff against La.
Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
Yeah, but at the same time, we also saw two
blundering interceptions, including one that I thought was inexcusable with
the Elijah moldepick.
Speaker 2 (02:06:16):
Well the Texans, I mean, as mentioned getting ready for
the regular season finale, I guess we'll catch up with
Aaron another time. It seems like I guess he probably
got caught up with something. So it's all good. Let's
get into a little bit of a Sunday's game, because
while the Texans are not facing the old grizzly veteran,
he still is a pretty big fan of this guy,
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and he even thinks that he's got some staying power.
We'll discuss right here as we continue on the Morning
Drive with Dan and Cole. Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:06:46):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.
Philip Rivers has been benched. And I don't think a
lot of people were necessarily surprised about that. I mean,
remember I said that he was asked about it after
the game on Sunday and was like, you know, hey,
if this is it, what a what a great ride.
You know, obviously would have liked to have won games,
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but you know, still glad that I took this chance
and came back, did all that kind of stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:07:11):
You did it to get in the Hall of Fame.
Let's just say that.
Speaker 2 (02:07:13):
Well, I mean, but still did not I mean, did
he not do Why would he need to do that?
I mean, I think he would have had a really
good chance of being able to get in. How did
he just sat out?
Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Okay, but now he has a guaranteed shot of getting
on in you don't play for four and a half years,
should go on out you throw more touchdown to those interceptions.
You have more touchdown passes than your former first round
pick and a guy that's waiting in the wings that's
starting on Sunday combined this season. I mean like, at
that point, it's got to be I mean you he said,
he went like two fifty five. Dude, wait over two
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seventy out there, and he was sleeping around like no
one's business. The dude's a Hall of Famer Now.
Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
Well, Riley Leonard's going to be getting the start in
Philip Rivers meeting with the media yesterday saying Riley Leonard's
going to be around somewhere for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:07:57):
Riley is a pro.
Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Riley is going to work hard, and obviously I don't
want to put a ceiling on anything that he can do,
and certainly will continue to pull for him. But I
said before he ever got drafted, or early on when
he was at Notre Dame, when I got to be
with him and some of the guys, I was like,
he's going to be a double digit guy in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
To what extent that is? Who knows?
Speaker 6 (02:08:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
Is he a starter.
Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
He's one of those guys that is talented enough throwing it,
and he obviously athletic enough to run around. He's going
to work at it because he cares enough, and he's
going to be around somewhere for a long time.
Speaker 3 (02:08:34):
Look, I don't want to be doom and gloom. I
also don't care because if it's Riley Leonard, he's better
throwing it than people give him credit for.
Speaker 4 (02:08:44):
Dan did you watch Nardan football last season? Yeah? Did
you watch Riley Leonard at Nordan Football last season?
Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
He counted a lot on Julian Love last season, So
I mean but still I mean able to Jeremi Love.
All right, Jeremiah Love, I'm sorry, able to get them
to the national championship games.
Speaker 4 (02:09:00):
So obviously he was doing something right.
Speaker 3 (02:09:02):
He threw for under three thousand yards and nearly rained
for one thousand. He had almost as many touchdowns running
the football as he did passing. He averaged seven point
one yards to throw. Dude is not a He's not
a quarterback. He's a guy that knows how to throw
a football that can run it better. He's this version
of Tim Tebow, but better better. When it comes to
the actor, I was gonna say Taysom Hill now, because
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at least Tasom Taysom Hill can't throw a football to
save his life. This guy at least can make can
hit the target.
Speaker 2 (02:09:29):
That was always the go to in New Orleans was, Hey,
maybe they can start Taysom Hill a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:09:33):
I'm sorry, that was the dumbest thing that far and
away was the dumbest and most infuriating thing to hear.
To hear Saints fans come up with all the time,
well we got to move off with Drew Brees Taysom
Hill time.
Speaker 4 (02:09:43):
No stop it stop, Like like, come on, man, you're
better than that. But I mean, he clearly is a
bright guy.
Speaker 2 (02:09:49):
He clearly is somebody that can understand offenses and I
mean some of the other things you can work on.
I mean, that's where I think he couched it a
little bit. If he didn't say he was going to
be a star. He didn't say that he could be
a franchise quarterback. He just said that he's somebody that
could be around for a long time, i e.
Speaker 4 (02:10:06):
A backup or.
Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
A coach that moves into the broadcast. But like there's
a lot of things he could be around in the
NFL for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
I just think that, you know again, I mean, would
it had been cool to have seen Philip Rivers on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (02:10:19):
Sure it would have.
Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
But at the same time though too, I mean, if
you're the Colts, I mean just looking at it, you know,
from not only this final game, but going forward for them,
they've got to find as many answers as possible, because
hell they are, they are steering down the barrel of
really lean times in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (02:10:37):
You're telling me that right now, Riley Leonard may be
an answer for you.
Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
I mean, I think that you at least give an
opportunity if he plays well enough that you can say,
maybe there's something to work with here.
Speaker 3 (02:10:48):
He has a completion percentage of fifty four point five percent,
four point four yards of pass thirty six point three
yards per game passing, two interceptions against zero, and a
passer rating of forty point six.
Speaker 4 (02:11:02):
I'm just saying, you.
Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
Don't know until you know, and you don't know until
you put him out on the field.
Speaker 4 (02:11:08):
I think that's what.
Speaker 3 (02:11:09):
He was out on the field. He played against the
Jacksonville Jaguars and he's stunk. He was awful. It was
a horrible performance and it led to now Jacksonville gaining
more ground in the AFC South. If he delivered that game,
then maybe Houston would take a kind on him because
they would be in the leadership, they'd be in the
front seat for the for the AFC South title. But
you didn't do your job, Riley, So now you gotta
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be taught a lesson here in Houston. That's daneil Hunter,
that's Sheldon Rankins, that's disease outshy Year, and that's Will
Anderson corraling you into throwing into double coverage where Derek
Stingley interception to the house is waiting on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
Well, I mean that's the thing too, is you know
just looking at the rest of the division. I mean,
are we like even possibly thinking about the chance that
the next few years could be just the Texans and
Jags battling it out for this thing.
Speaker 4 (02:11:56):
Money's always going to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:11:57):
Do you have a lot of money out in Indianapolis
and Tessee in salary cat space, and do you bring
in the right free agents because Tennessee can spend money
this offseason, they get the right coach in the building.
Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
It's a fourth place schedule.
Speaker 3 (02:12:08):
Do you think that you can grow with cam Ward
all little things that will play a major factor. If so,
I'll throw test scene into the mix. Andy shot itself
in the foot because if it doesn't have a first
round pick for the next two years with sasgarter, so
you're locked into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven
not picking until let me also ad this in the
middle of the second round. Your first pick is like
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forty fifth. You're not getting a full on starter at
the forty fifth. I mean, with the forty fifth overall pick,
you're getting a developmental guy that you hope can pan
on out and you have some money in free agency
and some money in salary cat space, but not enough
to go swing big for like a name that is
really gonna hit you over the head and be like
a wow factor. So Indy's out in my opinion, Tesness
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See maybe gains a little bit of ground.
Speaker 4 (02:12:54):
I think it's yeah, Jacksonville, Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Well, but it's also though with Indy, I mean they've
been living this life of either free agency or trade
one way or the other to find their guy. Since
I mean, Anthony Richardson isn't that guy. So I mean
Kyler Murray's gonna be out there. You're gonna have a
couple of other guys. It could be a possibility out there.
I mean, he's another one that I think could It
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could be on the block to be up for anybody
that wants a man.
Speaker 4 (02:13:20):
You're gonna give up your second round pick for Tua?
I would say you don't.
Speaker 2 (02:13:24):
But again, that might not be up to Chris Ballard
because I wonder almost if Chris Ballard's gonna be making
that through money.
Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
Black money is gonna come for a lot of teams.
It's not just head coaches, it's gms. Chris Ballard will
not be the GM of the Union oppos Colts coming
Ay morning. You can't make a trade like that when
it comes to Sauce Gardner and he doesn't play, and
then you having a three game division lead, blow it
and finished below five hundred, you simply can't.
Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
You can't be kept around at that standpoint. It's tough
to argue that you have staying power at that point.
And well, again that's the Colts problem, not necessarily the Texans,
but Texans just trying to get their twelfth win to
at least locked themselves into the fifth seed, and of
course you need some help from the Tennessee Titans, so
hopefully they can help you out on Sunday in Jacksonville.
Speaker 4 (02:14:08):
And that's the case, and you're talking about a division winner.
Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
But we'll get more into the Texans conversation a little
bit later on. Do you want to get back into
the college football conversation because we're gonna catch up with
our good buddy Brad Kellner Texas Sports Unfiltered and also
with Locked On Longhorns. He's gonna hop on with us
here as we'll get into a little bit of Texas
football right here on the Morning Drive with Dana Coles
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Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (02:14:33):
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Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
Wow, sucks some longhorns.
Speaker 3 (02:14:46):
Right now, Brad Kellner from Texas Sport Unfiltered and Locked
on Longhorns joins us on the Morning Drive. B K
Happy at a twenty twenty five and I can tell
you probably as a long horn fan, you're ready for
twenty twenty six because you're sick and tired of hearing
about how you missed the playoff?
Speaker 6 (02:14:58):
Right, absolutely ready to turn the page to twenty twenty six.
You know, nine and three for a lot of teams
is not a bad season.
Speaker 9 (02:15:07):
But the long Horns.
Speaker 6 (02:15:08):
Have obviously made it to the College Football Playoffs semi
final the last two years and started the years the
preseason number one team in America. So the expectations were
not talking about how cheesy we woke up feeling today.
We were thinking about a playoff this year. Unfortunately it
didn't happen. So yeah, a lot of the focus is
about what's going to happen in twenty twenty six for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
And Brad, I mean, you know a lot of people
look at bowl games now and they're like, if you win, well,
you know, that's momentum for next season. If you lose,
it didn't matter you had about half the team not playing.
But sounds like this team is really loaded up for
this one, like they want to be able to kind
of prove like, hey, you should have had us in
the college football playoff.
Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (02:15:48):
Yeah, they're saying that right man. I mean, Steve Sarkisian,
all the players, all the coaches, everybody who's been in
front of a microphone. Since the Longhorns got to Orlando
on Friday, have been talking about going out wanting to
win this football game. So you know, we've seen times.
I think of Georgia after the twenty twenty three season
when they were left out of the college football playoffs,
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they clearly were on a mission to prove to the
playoff committee that they made a mistake by leaving them out.
Speaker 9 (02:16:13):
They boat raced Florida State in their.
Speaker 6 (02:16:15):
Bowl game, and then at times, you know last year
with Alabama at nine and three.
Speaker 9 (02:16:19):
Sorry about this, coal.
Speaker 6 (02:16:20):
But they got left out of college football playoffs, and
you know, they know showed against the same Michigan team
and they were Liaquest Bowls, So you know, a lot
of opt outs. I mean, seven defensive starters for Texas
will not play in this game. The Longhorns are down
four running backs, they're down a receiver. So on one hand,
it's it's not the full compliment of players that they
had during the regular season. But again, I mean the mindset,
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at least outwardly, has been all about doing whatever they
need to do to win this game today. So yeah,
I think I think Texas will have the energy. I
think they'll have the intensity, and it seems like they're
treating this one the way they.
Speaker 9 (02:16:55):
Treated every game during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (02:16:57):
BK, what does a win mean over Michigan's, especially if
arch meaning is able to ball on out in today's game.
Speaker 6 (02:17:03):
Yeah, well, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 9 (02:17:05):
To me, it doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot.
Speaker 6 (02:17:07):
I mean, ten win seasons in college football used to
mean something, but with how devalued these non playoff bowl
games are, I don't think any Texas fans should be
puffing their chest out too much if the Longhorns are
able to win this game. But I am focused. I'm
glad you brought up arch Manning because that's my focus
today is just individual performances. And arch Manning obviously finished
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this twenty twenty five season on a.
Speaker 9 (02:17:29):
High, and he was really really good.
Speaker 6 (02:17:31):
In the second half of the year after so many
people wrote him off following the Longhorns loss to Florida.
I mean, it would be nice against a good Michigan
defense to have a really.
Speaker 9 (02:17:41):
Really good game.
Speaker 6 (02:17:42):
You know, you're looking for some of these young guys
to step up to give you confidence that Okay, the
returning players that Texas has for next season are good
enough to where you can feel confident that the Longhorns
can get back to the college football playoffs. So you know,
you're looking for good, strong performances. I don't think too
many folks are going to be crowning Texas with the
win today, considering everything that Michigan has gone through over
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the last three weeks since they fired. Sure own more
and considering some of the opt outs on their side,
but would be nice from a confidence standpoint. And again,
I know some old school college football fans still care
about that ten wins thing. Texas hasn't had three straight
ten win seasons since Mac Brown two thousand and seven
to two thousand and nine, so it's been a while
for the Longhorns to stack these, you know, consistent good
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seasons together, so there's definitely some pride in that. But again,
more of it for me is just about looking at good, strong,
individual performances to try to get some confidence for what
this team's.
Speaker 9 (02:18:35):
Going to look like next fall.
Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
But I'm I'm old, I'm sorry, man, I apologize that
I am somebody who cares about this sanctity of bowl
games and that ten win seasons do means something to
me at this part in town.
Speaker 6 (02:18:47):
You know, I'm still trying to learn the ways of
the SEC.
Speaker 9 (02:18:51):
Right, this is only.
Speaker 6 (02:18:51):
Texas's second year in the COPG.
Speaker 4 (02:18:54):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:18:55):
I'm just preparing myself, Like, if the Longhorns lose today,
I have to say we didn't want to be there, right,
I'm just this game even before kickoff, I'm letting y'all
know that we don't want to be there. So just
in case things don't go well this afternoon, you guys
know at least one Texas fan stands on this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:19:14):
Yeah, hedging, that's allowed, Brad. I mean, well, well we'll
allow you to do that.
Speaker 4 (02:19:18):
Hedging.
Speaker 2 (02:19:18):
Hedging is being smart with your money, and in this
case right here, it's credibility on social media.
Speaker 4 (02:19:23):
We get it, we get it, We totally do. He's
Brat Kellner again.
Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Texas Sports Unfiltered locked on Longhorns as well. Hey, I
mean we've talked about this a lot on this show,
and curious to get your thoughts on this and what
you guys have been talking about in Austin. I thought
I thought sarks line that he had about moving on
from Pete Kwakowski and bringing in Will mus Champ.
Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
I thought it was pretty weak.
Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
Do you feel like that Longhorn fans are gonna be
looking even harder at him and his offensive play calling
now that he has made that decision and moving away
from a guy that has been really good as a
defensive coordinator.
Speaker 6 (02:19:57):
Yeah, Dan, I mean, you typically don't see coaches at
any level college football in the NFL, even high school
that do things that turn up the heats on their seats, right,
and that it feels like that's what Steve Sarkisian did
by making a move off of Pete quit Kowski. I mean,
Texas's defense has been better than its offense over the
last three seasons. There are a lot of Longhorn fans
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asking about coaching changes to Steve Sharksan's staff because of.
Speaker 9 (02:20:23):
The disappointment of this twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 6 (02:20:25):
I don't think a single Longhorn fan was asking for
a change at defensive coordinator. And like you said, I
mean sark referenced it in his press conference right after
the move was made, basically talked about, you know, kind
of hinted to having to babysit Pete Quitkowski, right, he
had to do too much on the defensive headset on
game day, which prevented him from being able to coach
an offense that he wanted to. So it's a big risk.
Speaker 9 (02:20:47):
Again.
Speaker 6 (02:20:47):
You typically don't see coaches make moves like this to
increase the pressure on themselves, But it's Steve Sarkisan telling
you that, you know, he thinks the move to Will
Muschamp is going to make the defense better but also,
more importally allow him to focus on the Longhorns offense
even more in twenty twenty six. And yeah, it was
a bit of a down yere. I mean, Texas had
his worst rushing offense since nineteen forty four this year.
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Obviously some inconsistencies with the passing game. The offensive line
was as bad as it's been in the five years
that sark has been the head coach in Austin. So
sark side of the ball.
Speaker 9 (02:21:19):
Was not nearly good enough this year.
Speaker 6 (02:21:21):
And everything he's saying is talking about that offense being
better next year and him being able to focus on
that side of the ball more next year. Longhorn fans
are definitely expecting the results to be a heck of
a lot better in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
Okay, be caam, I'm gonna put you on the spot.
You get to play matchmaker in the transfer portal. It's
opening up on Friday. Who is a name that you
have to see in a Longhorn uniform in twenty twenty six.
I'm gonna go step further?
Speaker 4 (02:21:44):
Might step further? Gotta be offense only offense?
Speaker 6 (02:21:47):
Okay, okay, I mean it's obvious, and this is the
guy who has yet to announce his intentions to enter
the portal. But it's Staton Ball, the second team All
SEC running back from Florida. As the Longhorns also made
a change at running backs coach. They got rid of
Kat's guy they hired recently tired, or I should say
you know, he was let go after the coaching.
Speaker 9 (02:22:04):
Change at Florida.
Speaker 6 (02:22:05):
But they brought in Jabar to Luke, who was Jayden
Ball's running back coach at Florida, the guy who recruited
him to Gainesville a couple of years ago. I mean
that's the guy again. I mentioned that Texas had its
worst rushing offense since World War Two this season, and
the Longhorns have already seen four running backs enter the portal,
including Trey Wisner, who shocked everybody by entering the day
after Christmas last week, So Texas is in dire need.
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I think they probably are going to bring in two
running backs from the portal, but they need a difference maker.
Speaker 9 (02:22:32):
They need an impact player at that position.
Speaker 6 (02:22:35):
Because the identity everyone's going to focus on Arch Manning,
just how it works when your last name is Manning.
But the identity of the Steve Sarkisan offense at his
core is about the running game. Right this was the
first year that sark has been a head coach. We're
an offensive coordinator that he did not have a thousand
yard rusher on his team, so it's imperative for his offense.
Speaker 9 (02:22:54):
To do what it wants to do that.
Speaker 6 (02:22:56):
They have a really dynamic difference maker in the backfield.
Jayden bar instantly will become the number one running back
if he hits the portal. And again, I think Texas
would have hired jabbarge to Luke regardless of if Jaden
Ball was coming, but that would be the icing on
the cake if they're able to bring in a difference
maker like that at running back. So he is priority
number one for I think like ninety percent of Texas
(02:23:17):
fans out there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:23:18):
Cole Hey brad Let's just go ahead and take the
pessimistic view next season at this time, if we have
you on and it's a similar season nine to three,
you miss out on the College Football playoff. You even
mentioned it about sark putting himself on the hot seat
with the decision to bring in Will muss Champ. If
that happens, what are Texas fans saying about his job?
Speaker 6 (02:23:39):
Yeah, I mean it's a great question, right, It's you know,
it's funny with results come expectations. Obviously, Steve Sarkkeyson has
a tremendous job turning this Texas football program around. I
mean they were admired in a dozen years of suck
from twenty ten to twenty twenty two. And obviously, you
know sark was able to lead Texas to back to
back playoffs wards won the Big twelve championship in twenty
(02:24:01):
twenty three, that got to the SEC title game in twenty.
Speaker 9 (02:24:04):
Twenty four, which is great.
Speaker 6 (02:24:05):
But when you have those results again, the bar gets
raised even higher. And if the Longhorns go from that's
to missing the playoffs and back to back years, yeah,
there will absolutely be people calling for Steve Sarkisian's job
here in Austin. Now, he's got a pretty hefty buyout,
but we see buyouts look like nothing around the country.
And y'all know as well as I do that Texas
(02:24:26):
has enough money to pay whatever they need to pay
to make something happen. So yeah, I mean, there would
be a ton of disappointment if Texas doesn't make the
playoff next year. I don't think the Longhorns are going
to be preseason number one in twenty twenty six, but
I do think they'll be preseason top five. And also, Dan,
I think part of the answer to that question is,
you know, what does the playoff look like next year?
It sounds like we're headed to at least fourteen maybe
(02:24:49):
sixteen teams. If we had that in twenty twenty five,
Texas would have been in the playoffs. So it'd be
a totally different discussion surrounding this team in this situation
this year. If it's a sixteen team playoff in Texas
gets left outs.
Speaker 9 (02:25:03):
Then yeah, there are going to.
Speaker 6 (02:25:04):
Be a lot of folks looking for answers and some
folks looking for changes to be made in Austin.
Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
For sure, Bek, I'll get you out of here on
this college football playoffs starts tonight out in Arlington, three
more games tomorrow, then two, then one. You have an
opportunity to name who is going to be the national champion?
Who is your pick?
Speaker 4 (02:25:21):
And why?
Speaker 6 (02:25:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Georgia. I mean, they were
my preseason pick to win the SEC. They were my
preseason pick to win the national championship. And I think
my UTSD might be kicking in a little bit because
of what they've done to the Longhorns the last few
times they've played. But I mean, it's scary to see
a Georgia team with the confident, high powered, explosive offense right,
(02:25:44):
and that they've always been known for their defense under
Kirby Smart.
Speaker 9 (02:25:48):
And it's not like their defense is bad, it's still very,
very good.
Speaker 6 (02:25:51):
They don't have the difference makers that they've had in
some recent years. But love the way Gunner Stockton's playing,
Love the way that running game has evolved. I think
they're battle tested by playing in the SEC.
Speaker 9 (02:26:03):
And yeah, I mean I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6 (02:26:05):
I'm gonna go with George even though I'm in Columbus,
Ohio right now. Guys, quick story here, I've got a
New Year's Eve wedding tonight and it's an Ohio State
fan who's the groom that's getting married, And I'm kind
of rooting for some chaos there, kind of calling for
a Hurricanes upset just to see what happens at this wedding.
Speaker 4 (02:26:25):
That's perfect, that's exactly what we want.
Speaker 9 (02:26:26):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (02:26:28):
So Ohio State's good. I mean, Indiana is obviously a
great story. But I think Kirbye Smart's the best coach
in college football. I think that Georgia roster is complete again.
I think they're battle tested.
Speaker 9 (02:26:37):
So they are. They are my pick, and I know
I'm not alone right now for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:26:42):
DK, thirty seconds, you're least say something nice about Texas Tech.
Speaker 6 (02:26:48):
No, can I just say no for thirty seconds? No? No, no,
you know it's it's great. It's good for them. They
need a big brother to leave the conference for them
to finally do something of notes. So, you know, congrats
to Texas Tech. They're obviously having a great year. Look there,
they're in a position in the Big twelve to kind
(02:27:10):
of run that league for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 9 (02:27:12):
So a great year for Texas Tech. But obviously it's
going to get.
Speaker 6 (02:27:16):
A heck of a lot tougher having to play Oregon
and you know, some real teams from some real conferences.
Speaker 9 (02:27:21):
Once this playoff get to going.
Speaker 3 (02:27:22):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (02:27:23):
That's what I wanted to see here.
Speaker 2 (02:27:24):
See you're truly in the sec now, Brad, you got it,
You got it well, Welcome in, Welcome in, all right.
He's Brad Kellner again, Texas Sport's Unfiltered as well as
you can find his work as part of Locked On
Longhorns too as well.
Speaker 4 (02:27:37):
And he hopped on with us here for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:27:40):
BKA, have a happy new year, buddy, be safe getting
back from Columbus, and I'm sure we'll be catching up
with you again here very soon.
Speaker 6 (02:27:47):
Always fun, guys, Thanks so much for the time, and
happy New Year to you all and all's listeners too.
Speaker 2 (02:27:52):
There we go, Brad Kelener again, hopping on with us
here on the morning drive.
Speaker 4 (02:27:55):
A New Year's Eve wedding that is different, I mean
what sans if people do, it's a very big trend.
Speaker 2 (02:28:01):
Here's the thing though, too, is I mean you know
he mentions the groom being an Ohio state guy, so people,
of course, oh how could you schedule? I mean again,
when you book a wedding you're doing it months, maybe
even a year in advance, then.
Speaker 3 (02:28:13):
Don't do it during the college football season. See that
is that is a good point, but it is also okay. Also,
you're an Ohio State fan, you're going to the playoff
every year.
Speaker 2 (02:28:21):
Well, but it's also I would think with this is
you have to keep in mind it's a two person
decision here. So maybe you know she had it in
her head that she wanted to be married and head
into the new year on a right foot.
Speaker 3 (02:28:35):
Does she love you, because if she does, she knows
the rules. Don't get married during college football season.
Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
I feel like bowl season though, it's kind of a
moving target. So you're kind of like, hey.
Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
You're marrying an Ohio State fan. You're gonna be in
the playoffs, so you're.
Speaker 2 (02:28:48):
Thinking that maybe you're gonna be playing in the Rose
Bowl the next day. So then there you go the
first day of marriage.
Speaker 4 (02:28:53):
That's still not a good enough excuse.
Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
I'm not risking it for anything, and go get married
on Saint Patrick's say, celebrate the Irish drunk.
Speaker 4 (02:29:00):
That's a way to go bring in the new year.
That's a thought. Actually, I need to lock that away
for future reference.
Speaker 2 (02:29:06):
Who knows, but anyway, a familiar face that we know
around here. He's got a new job and also two
crisis averted both of those things. As we close out
this edition of the Morning Drive right here on the
home of the Rockets and the Astros, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:29:26):
Page town Bill Morning Drive continues now now here's Dannen Cole.
Speaker 2 (02:29:34):
And then at one o'clock that's when Texas Football, as
part of the Cheese at Citrus Powl taking on Michigan,
gonna be coming your way right here on your home
with Longhorns here in Houston, Sports Talk seven ninety got
the Texans on the practice field getting ready for the
regular season finale against the Colts on Sunday inside NRG Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:29:51):
Rockets are going to be.
Speaker 2 (02:29:54):
On the road tomorrow taking on the nets that'll be
coming your way tomorrow'pnion right here Sports Talk seven ninety
And I mentioned it's a familiar face as a new job.
Congratulations Kevin someone, you're the coach of the UFL's Houston Gamblers.
Speaker 4 (02:30:08):
Did he really get the job there? He did?
Speaker 3 (02:30:10):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:30:11):
Welcome, welcome back to Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:30:13):
Indeed, and you know, immediately when I saw this, I
was like, oh, they play their games at TDECU.
Speaker 4 (02:30:19):
They're at Rice, aren't they? They are at Shell Energy Stadium.
Speaker 3 (02:30:23):
Then they're playing at the Dynamo Stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:30:25):
Now They're playing at the Dynamo Stadium now.
Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
So the Houston Gamblers even on Twitter all in on
someone Kevin someone has been named the head coach at
the Houston Gamblers.
Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
How long ago was this?
Speaker 4 (02:30:34):
This was thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (02:30:36):
So it just came out, okay, because my phone's on silence,
so I usually get the emails from the uff USFL
people tell me that they're like who they hire.
Speaker 2 (02:30:44):
I think I've told this story on air before, so
if I have bear with me. But if I haven't,
well then here you go. Is there was a guy
that I used to work with that was a producer
that every single time something broke like it would be
like right around now or like forty five minutes later,
Hey do you hear this out?
Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
And Hey do you hear that happen?
Speaker 2 (02:31:01):
I'm like, yeah, I work in the industry, of course
I heard it happened, like I saw it, like right
when it came down.
Speaker 3 (02:31:06):
I'd be so mean, just like, yeah, of course I
heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
It just it got to a point where, like when
he kept doing it, I just go, hey, David, let
me just go ahead and tell you, dude, I've heard it.
Speaker 4 (02:31:15):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (02:31:16):
Okay, do you want to make your cow? Do you
want to make it because we have triple he for
a few more minutes. You want to make your college
football predictions for the week now?
Speaker 4 (02:31:21):
Or do you want to wait?
Speaker 15 (02:31:22):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
We can do it now. Yeah, Triple is here.
Speaker 3 (02:31:24):
Triple A first game up Miami Wyo State. How are
you going with same thy for three? Oregon versus Texas
Tech Triple A. Orgon, This is a tough one. It
really is.
Speaker 4 (02:31:40):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (02:31:40):
Like I said, I mean I can see this being
twenty to seventeen something like that. Like I think that
it is going to be a knockdown, drag out. I think, Orgon,
I think the experience Oregon.
Speaker 9 (02:31:52):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:31:54):
I'll go bold, I'll go I'll just be different. I'll
go Texas tex Here's the thing about Texas Tech that
I can appreciate. They don't have a legit number one receiver.
They have a one receiver per drive. So if you
take away Terrence Carter on one drive, you got Douglas
on the next one. You got queaking on the third one,
and Jake brought up a really good point about this defense.
I have my questions and doubts when it comes to
Oregon's defense, and it'd be a massive win for the
(02:32:15):
Big twelve long term Alabama, Indiana Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (02:32:19):
Who you got? Give me the Hoosiers. Let's go. My
dad loves you right now, let's go. Yeah, how's that
gonna go?
Speaker 1 (02:32:25):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (02:32:25):
I haven't talked to him yet, Like he's listening.
Speaker 3 (02:32:27):
I know he's listening in and I guarantee you that
I'm gonna be trying to make plans on what we're
gonna do tomorrow. I'm not I'm not excited to be
sitting around him for three hours because either way it's
a loss. I got Bama, I also have Alabama. You
kidding me? I'm not gonna take my own team to
go win a championship. Hell yeah, I'm gonna take them.
Final game, Georgia versus O miss Ole, Miss miss You're
(02:32:51):
going miss Dogs, and it's not close. See I'll split
the difference. It's close, but I will go Georgia. I'm
I'm surprisingly impressionable. I appreciate the loyalty to treat on Champ.
Speaker 4 (02:33:02):
With the company going to fall off the upset.
Speaker 2 (02:33:04):
Real quick here before we get out. I saw this
a couple of days ago. Is it a you know,
a case that the Big Ten avoided a crisis by
actually having two of their more high profiled openings be
filled with the guys that they did? Mean well, I
mean like if Michigan had completely struck out and had
to go with somebody that was a complete reach, and
the same deal for Penn State. Urban Meyer thinks, so
(02:33:27):
he thinks that they avoided a possible tragedy for the conference.
Speaker 4 (02:33:31):
But Michigan, Plain Texas, is that a tragedy?
Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
No, just talking about them striking out on their head
coaches and the future trajectory of the program.
Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
Oh you're talking about the coach. See this is the
thing about about the about the Big Ten. I can't
stand you run the dumbest coaching surges I've ever seen.
You look like morons and nitwitch. You have no incompetence whatsoever.
Yet you hit home runs with bost times, but you
have home run Hires and Kyle Whittingham and Matt Campbell.
It's an absolute goldmine of a coaching staff that are presenting.
Speaker 4 (02:34:02):
I have no idea how.
Speaker 3 (02:34:03):
You got there, Like just the pathway to the long
dic of water. It applies in the Big Ten for
coaching searches.
Speaker 11 (02:34:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:34:09):
Coming up next you get to Matt Thomas, shwe with
Ross with me and Cole sitting in with you. But
for us here I'm Dan Matthews, He's Cole Thompson, Triple
Emmanuel Elmore. Everybody, have a happy and safe New Year's
and we will talk to you on Monday.
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