Texans Win Over Cardinals Make 6 Straight, CFB's 2025 Heisman Trophy Winner, Rockets vs. Denver Preview

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Text some touchdown.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
How about that? A third and goal shroud end zone
cuts bio columns, A third and goal shroud end zone.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Cuts bo columns, a lot of Nico, a lot of
tight ends, just a lot of scoring in this one
for the Texans.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
And with that we say away we go in good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Here it is the Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports
Talk at seven ninety Texans forty the Arizona Cardinals twenty. Well,
I mean we said it, Cole. You needed to go
out there. You needed to handle business, which you know
is funny. Before the game, I was just you know,
going around on social media and assaw that I guess,
you know, whatever John Gruden does with barstool, he had

(01:05):
bet Big Cat where he said, I will take you
and your wife anywhere in Chicago for dinner if the
Texans do not cover this game, well, I guess that
Big Cat's not going to get that dinner. Because the
Texans were able to cover this game, it was nice
to finally have one that you didn't have to sweat
it out.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
This is the first time since Week five that you
felt like that you were able to just kind of
kosh your way into the second half, and I mean, honestly,
let's call space Bay did. This was a complete performance
on both sides of the football. We're nitpicking today if
we're looking back at the film and we're studying what
went wrong. We're talking about why did they drive in
with the Kayami fairbearing field goal over a touchdown?

Speaker 7 (01:41):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:41):
We're talking about why were they not able to convert
on third down when they had a wide open receiver
fifteen yards down the field. We're talking about why was
the protection on one play mediocre? And then the very
next play they were able to run it up the
gun Like we are quite literally nitpicking for what I
would say was the most complete performance from the Houston
Texans that we have seen at home in twenty twenty five.

(02:02):
And I know that we're gonna get phone calls coming
on in. I know people are gonna go ahead and
comment on it. I said that this was gonna be
a win for the Texans. You heard me last week.
I said they were gonna cover this game and it
was gonna be a blowout watching them yesterday. But the
way the offense looked, watching the way that they were
able to establish a solid run game, watching the way
that they were able to find open receivers and build

(02:22):
a good identity and set the tone early on in
the matchup and be able to kind of punch their
way unto the end zone, get up seventeen to nothing,
knowing how this defense performs, knowing how you need them
to get turnovers, knowing that momentum was able to shift
out of Arizona's hands on multiple occasions because of the
way that your defense was able to put pressure on
Jacoby Brissett, for your way that you were able to

(02:43):
get Camari Laster involved, in the way that you were
able to break up passes and quite lowly take out
everyone besides Trey McBride, who on a field day, but
besides him, it was nobody else. I'm ready to start
believing in this Texans team is a legit threat to
win the AFC. I think at this point, depending on
where they are against the NFC opponent, we get out
of that conversation on will they win the Super Bowl.

(03:04):
But from an AFC standpoint, knowing how well that they
dominated this game, they basically shut down Arizona offensively and said,
you want to beat us, you got to be us
through the year that's not happening on a regular basis.
You gotta feel mighty confident about this being a team
that actually has the juice, the identity, and a solid
game plan that you can actually believe is going to

(03:25):
lead them toward a massive post season run.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
And you know that's the thing that we had asked
for this team too, is that we wanted to see
it offensively. I mean, defensively we've seen it. We don't
we don't have to have the defense prove themselves. But
I mean, CJ Stroud, you know, one of the things
we'll talk about this morning, looking like twenty twenty three,
CJ in this one, no mistakes, no real misses of

(03:50):
throws that I can really point to.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
I mean, I think there was one, like like I
think that there was just maybe, like.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
You said, picking nick netpicking. I mean, that's that's one
hundred percent what it is is. I mean that you
know he is, you know, on most of his incompletions,
it was just throwing the ball away. Just just don't
don't put the ball on harm's way.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
You know.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
You know what's what's the what do they call the
hippocratic goath? You know, do no harm. I mean, that's
that's what it is with the quarterback. You're you're a
doctor out there, do no harm like I you can't
have that, and I mean in this case right here,
he didn't. And he only get sacked once in this
game and it was for a minimal loss four yards,
So I mean that's not terrible. But just overall, it

(04:33):
was the performance that you want to see out of
number seven.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
And here I go again nitpicking and performance. But where's
this rushing attack been all year? Because Jaard Shordan coming
off of a practice squad getting one hundred and one yards,
averaging six point seven yards of play, two runs of
over twenty yards down the field, I get it. Noboody
Marks for the second half. To meek O, Ryan said,
you know, if we could have played him, we would have,
but we didn't have to because he felt comfortable.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
With the game.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Still, you look at Woody Marks. He was averaging four
point four yards of play. And how about the awareness
to understand the bat snap underneath Jake Andrews. No problem,
five yeard touchdown, We're gonna make it seventeen. Nothing like
this was such a good performance to have like that,
exhale moment of you're watching what's happening up in New England,
you're watching what's happening out in Duval because you're seeing

(05:16):
as the as the Jaguars somewhat.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Look like they have a pulse for the first time.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
You're watching a Denver is able to handle business against
Green Bay and now they're gaining momentum and they're the
number one seed. And the last thing that you want
to do is leave any shred of doubt that you're
not capable of going and playing against quality teams in
the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
I don't feel that.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Way like at this point, even with how well all
the other teams that need to win yesterday to keep
ground with you looked you handled business and did the
exact same thing, which is why you got to feel,
I think, pretty confident and where this team is going
into next week's matchup against Las Vegas and then two
games to close out the year were one of what
you're going up against a forty four year old grandpa
who did not look like he was actually out of shape.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Speaking of Duval, Twitter, did you see by the way
that Trevor Lawrence is been when.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Was he ever here?

Speaker 6 (06:02):
How about we start with that when in the last
five years have you ever said Trevor.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Lawrence has a ride? Maybe year two. I don't think
then I would even say that.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
No, no, no, no, no, no, I will I shouldn't see
one three ninety genuinely, name the last time that you
ever heard the words Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Has a ride doesn't exist.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
So you can't be here or be back if you've
never actually been to this moment before the.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Chiefs went on Monday night.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
You know, maybe maybe that's one thing more.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
He fell down, didn't get touched, and somehow was able
to throw his body into the end zone Justice Gate
on bike.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah again, I mean, you know you're talking about Texans
picking knits. I mean with Trevor Lawrence, it's you know,
being able to try try to find that spot at
least for for for Jacksonville fans.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
How about this, how about uh, don't play against an
incomparable defense known as the New York Jets and still
finally have an opportunity to where you get six time
chats on the day. Maybe do that against qualified defense. Well,
we'll actually go ahead and give you some credit, Jacksonville,
but sorry, you're not turning my tune around and saying
that I believe that you're going to make a run
in the playoffs because you beat the Jets well.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
And that's what the Jags were able to do yesterday,
the Texans obviously taking care of business, and then looking
at the Colts in Philip Rivers, which we'll get into
the rest of the league because a lot happening yesterday,
and even some big names that even though there's only
three games left in the regular season, not going to
be with us the rest of the regular season. And

(07:35):
the Texans though able to take care of business. You
mentioned Jawar Jordan having a great performance. What he marks,
I think that that was more than anything with him,
the way that they handled him, that was preservation. That
was all right, we've got a fresh running back. Let's
use said fresh running back and Daria Goomba Walle, which

(07:55):
both of those guys able to carry the ball twenty
times combined. Whereas what he marks with the ankle. Although
after the game talking with us didn't seem too concerned.
He just said that, you know, more than anything, they
used him as kind of that preservation role and we'll
use you if we need to use you.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm telling you right now. I set up next week.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
I genuinely think that where you are, how good of
a play position you're in to go into the last
two games, and how valuable he's going to be. Knowing
what we have seen from Las Vegas this year where
they just got thirty one hung on them, you can
win that game with Darin Juar Like. Honestly, both of
them I think showed me enough to where if Nick
Chubb and would he show any signs of stepbacks or

(08:35):
regression or then out one hundred percent capacity, I'm not
wasting them in a game against a two win team
when I need them for the last two games of
the year.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
See, here's the interesting part. And we can get into
this too as the show goes along again. You want
to dial in and be part of it, you can
do so someone three two, one, two five seven ninety.
I mean, you can't put Jawar Jordan back on because
if you put him on the practice squad, you're going
to have to waive him again.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
If I'm not mistaken, well, you.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
Can have him up for two more times because if
he's only been caught up once, okay, so you still
have the opportunity to utilize him before you would have
to wave him or sign him to the act of Brothers.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Okay, all right, all right, So I was trying to
remember how it went. But I mean, either way, you
don't want to put him in any remote possibility that
somebody else could pick him up, because I mean, this
is just then it's not easy to be able to
just you know, jump on to the active roster and
run for one hundred yards. I mean that's something that

(09:30):
if you were to remotely put him within any shot
of being picked up by somebody, I think that a
team out there would say, oh yeah, no, absolutely death
for sure.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
But what I will push back on is if you
take away the fifty yard run, he only finished with
fifty one Carrey.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
I thought about that too.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
So the one big play, which again great play by him,
good execution, good ability to trust your avenues and your creases.
Terrible run defense by Arizona. Arizona sucks defensively, like I
was embarrassed watching a Jonathan Gannon led squad that at
one point his defense was playing in the Super Bowl
and going down to the wire with Patrick Mahomes. How
anemic they looked against a guy like Jerwar Jordan, But

(10:08):
still like you take away that run, you're averaging about
four point two yards of play, and I'll take that
for next week because you're facing off against another crap
defense in Las Vegas. Then they're not going to have
any momentum going into that game. They probably want to
gain the first overall pick at this point. But it's
one of those things where I'm not trusting Jerwar Jordan
to get me yards after contact when you take on

(10:28):
Los Angeles or better get even Indianapolis that was able
to hold Kenneth Walker and Zack Charbonay and check on
the road.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Yeah, and I mean, you know, you get the big
run out of Jordan. You also, I mean just mentioned
you know, CJ fantastic in this one. And defensively, I mean,
Kamari Laster just continues to be Kamari Laster.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
I have a hot take that I want to give
in a second, but I'm no.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
I was just saying, you know, he almost looked like
he was the receiver on that play, Like if you
had just you know, not been paying close enough attention
and he looked up, you saw a throw into the
end zone and then you hear cheering and you see
Kamaria Laster with the football. You would have thought that
he was the receiver if you had seen like him
catching the football. He looked like that he it was

(11:13):
being thrown to him and not to Michael Wilson, and then.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Going full Spider Man afterwards just to rally the crowd.
That was awesome.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
I understand that Derek Stingley Junior is paid like a
number one corner. I understand that Derek Stingland Junior is
an All Pro and he has been great this year
when targeted, which is why teams stay away from him.
If your list of top ten cornerbacks, top six cornerbacks
is not featured Kamaria Laster, you're doing it wrong. Once again,
he has shown me that he is far and away

(11:41):
bona fie top seven cornerback in the league. He has
done everything that you could want in a year two
corner and honestly, you're at the point of where you
feel confident that you can set him up against some
number ones and he's gonna dominate. Because once again, they
didn't have Marvin Harrison Junior out there yesterday.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
They didn't have Say Jones out there yesterday.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
You only had Trey mcbriden and Michael wils and on
two plays you watch as Kamari Laster shut down fourteen
and that was a reason to wear momentum.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Shit did back in favor of the Texans.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
I can't live in a world anymore where you're saying
that Kamaria Laster is not a top seven cornerback in
this league. The Texans can win a Super Bowl right
now simply because of they have the best one to
two combination of the cornerback spot.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
It's a good spot to be in there.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Nine to five now on this season, and again three
games left to go. You get a couple more at
home and then one on the road in between there
against the Chargers in LA, which the Chargers able to
make sure that history doesn't continue for one team yesterday.
So we'll get into the NFL as a whole too
a little bit later on in this hour. But Juwar Jordan,

(12:43):
nice little outing yesterday. May a role have been carved
out for himself. We will discuss right here as we're
just getting going on a Monday. Here it is the
Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports SOX seven to ninety.

Speaker 8 (12:57):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
You're loaded for bear when you don't need to be
loaded for bear.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
I think I owe Fernando and apology loaded for Bear?
What even is that? Well, I mean, you're you're loaded
to fight. That's that's what it is. You're you likes
to fight.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
Guy, I never heard that ever be uttered as a
phrase before in all of American society.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I don't even know necessarily what it means, other than
you know, it just sounds like, you know, what for bear?

Speaker 5 (13:26):
What am I doing hibernation for the month of December?
Is that? What could be? Whatever?

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Diego Pavia was snubbed Heisman Trophy. But I'm not gonna
argue because Fernanda Mendoza wanted, which, by the.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Way, Diego seemed to go in reverse of how he
should have gone.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. He had he had a point.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
But at the same time, dude, you're at the highest
level of the honor of the college football world. Maybe
don't give more ammunition to why people hate you solf much.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
And it was it was twofold too, So we'll talk
about that a little bit later on. You want to
join In seOne, three, two, one, two, five, seven nine,
he is the number two.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
Get in.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
See a couple of you waiting to get on. So
while we'll get you into the fold, we'll go ahead.
Let you hear a little bit from Tamiko Ryans talking
after yesterday's game. We mentioned Juir Jordan one hundred and
one yards. Finally, week fifteen, you get somebody who runs
for over one hundred yards in the game individually. I
mean he had it a handful of times last year

(14:23):
with Joe Mixon. Well, you've been waiting until this point.
The Texans is a team yesterday running for one hundred
and forty three yards. But here was Tamiko Ryans talking
about the play of his young running back.

Speaker 9 (14:35):
For the young man to come in and for his
first game to have a debut like he had. Man,
of course he broke a record most yards is a
Texan and her debut game. He ran the ball very
very well, efficient, showed some the explosiveness, show the speed
that he's had and that we've seen in practice and
what he's been on practice squad for us. It just

(14:57):
shows again like whenever your number is called, are you
ready for that opportunity? And no one knows until you
get that moment and it's about you taking advantage of
that moment and not looking back.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
And I thought ja Wore handled it very well.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
And that's one of Demiko's rallying cries with his team
is you know, you get your chance, make the most
of your chance.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
And Jair Jordan he did.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yes, I'm gonna say this again, this is nitpicking, going
back to the main standpoint. Did he make a good
impression because of he was ready to go? Did he
make a good impression because this was the twenty ninth
three run defense in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, I'm sure probably it was a little bit
more of the latter than it was the former. But
I mean, look, you know he could have fumbled, He
could have, you know, not had the long fifty one
yard at carry. I mean, you know, he could have
had all of those things, and he was able to, again,
I mean, make the most of his chances. And six
point seven yards of carry that's not nothing.

Speaker 6 (15:54):
If you take away the fifty yard run, it still
is about four yards of play. So at that standpoint,
you'll take four yards. You're not at one hundred yards
for the daft for the afternoon. But you know what,
who cares? So a team that was able to average
four point three yards of play. They found their way
into the end zone behind woody marks, They set up
multiple scoring drives because of the rushing attack, they were
able to take pressure off of CJ. Stroud to have
to deliver shots down the field. They were able to

(16:16):
get some rapport going on the ground, and they were
able to build an identity that allowed them to coast
their way to a twenty point victory. A nitpicking here
because of again, it just is the way that my
brain works when it comes to trying to figure out
what is the fault of this team, and I'm always
gonna be that way, I simply to Sam, but you
got to be impressed with how well that they were
able to run plays, And credited to Nick Kayley too,

(16:39):
he started, i think getting to his element of where
he could trust some of the offensive play designs. Still
got some questions when it comes to the red zone efficiency,
but overall, there were a lot of plays that you
look back and say, this is where you could start
to see everything that you wanted to back in week one,
clicking in week fifteen.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Well, if you're gonna have a decent enough run game,
you got to have a good offensive line up front,
and Damiko Ryans thought on how that group of five played.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
I'll have to go back and look at the film.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
From my vantage point, looked like we were finishing blocks
a little bit better today. Still always room to clean
some things up, but for the most part, thought we
finished better. Therefore, we were able to have a better
average in the run game today.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
And that's exactly what they had.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
I mean, you know mentioned about Jordan running for what
he was able to run for in the team as
a whole, able to put together a good performance on
the ground. As a team, they ran for four point
three yards to carry one sack on the day.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Cd strou was able to go twenty two to twenty
nine to two hundred and sixty yards. Good overall protection,
I think, good understanding of your surroundings, being able to
get the ball on in a timely manner against a
team that does that have a great pass rush and
hasn't played well when it comes to winning at the
line of scrimmage. Again a nitpicking here, very solid overall
performance to make you feel confident in the direction of

(17:55):
this team. If anything, I could probably nitpick more of
what the defense didn't do then I could pick on
what the offense needed to finish to accomplish drives.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, Trey McBride, Man, they're gonna be seeing Trade McBride
in their sleep this week. I mean, it seemed like
anytime that they needed to have a huge conversion or
that you know, you had a huge play down field,
it was number eighty five Trey mcbridey McBride.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
Twelve gats, one hundred and thirty four yards, eleven point
two yards to play, two touchdowns, three plays of over
twenty yards downfield.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I say it all the time, that's not nothing. That
is not nothing, And I mean I guess if nothing
else too. You know, this is a defense that prides
themselves on, you know, being stifling and being able to
completely keep opponents out of the end zone. Well, you
almost wonder if brock Bowers is the one that gets
the the the brunt of it this week because of

(18:44):
what Trey McBride was just able to do.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah, But again, at the same time, Trey McBride's an
all pro tight end. Like I understand that we look
at George Kittle and we look at Rock Bowers and
what they've been able to accomplish. But if I'm starting
a franchise right now and I'm picking a tight end
to build around, Bride's got everything I want. He's a
good blocker, he's an exceptional route runner. He doesn't drop
any balls. He's gonna fish with back back over a

(19:07):
thousand yard campaigns. He's good inside the red zone. He's
a mismatch for nickel defenders. He's a terror because of
his speed for safety play. Like, honestly, right now, if
you were to ask me one player on the offense
that I could trade for this offseason, Trey McBride would
probably be in the top three.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
You Know.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
The funny thing is, too, is if there was still
a Kubiak that was part of this organization, Trey McBride
would be a Texan.

Speaker 6 (19:31):
Do you really think he would have been drafted in
the first round by the Texans because he wouldn't have
been there when you.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Hear Colorado State would have helped him because remember Gary,
Gary the Colorado State players, What was the deal with
that his son played there? Okay, I was wondering, I
mean in a Denver guy, but I mean it was
it was almost one of those things that, like Day
three of the draft, it was always selling so Colorado State.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
It's like, of course.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
So the thing that I always love is when the
Senior Bowl was being run by Jim nag we got
to go all the time. We would see the next
big time players and we always like bank on one
dude who he thought was going to paint on out
from senior bore practice. I remember watching Trey mc briden
saying this is going to be the next big tight
end in the NFL and lo and behold, five years
into his NFL tenure he has become I.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Would say, the face of the position.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
He certainly has gotten paid for what he has accomplished,
and I think after yesterday and what we have seen
this season, he's underpaid. Still for being the highest paid
tight end in the NFL, he still isn't paid.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Well.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's also too, I mean, you know, it's one of
those deals where you know, you play in a place
like Arizona, who I mean, you know, we talked with
John Gombadora last week, and I mean, that's that's that's
a team that aside from a few years here and there,
they've they've never had winning football there ever. I mean
it is so I mean, you know, Larry Fitzgerald. I mean,

(20:47):
I think we knew about Larry Fitzgerald before he got there.
And of course, you know the years with Bruce Arians
and Carson Palmer and Patrick Peterson when they were able
to actually like make some hay in the NFC.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
For the most part, ever.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Since then, they've they've been just you know, oh oh yeah,
they're still in the league, like it is almost kind
of an afterthought of an organization.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
So I heard a podcast recently talk about what's the
most forgettable franchise in sports? Honestly, Arizona is in the
probably I would say top fifteen.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah, i'd say, yeah, the Arizona Cardinals. I mean, Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Columbus Blue Jackets, right, I mean sure, sure.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I mean you know, if you're a hockey fan them Baseball,
I don't know, the Kansas City Royals, like I mean,
you know, just you teams out there that like you
look at and you're just like, God, that must suck.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Like the Colorado Rockies.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
See, the Rockies are the one that I forgot about,
Like you know, it's like it's like God's that sucks
to be a fan of that.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
To be fair, to look at this glass half full
and be optimistic this morning. Nobody has shut down Trade
McBride this year. He's number one in the NFL and receptions,
he's six in the NFL receiving yards, he's third in
the NFL and touchdowns. He leads all tight ends and
yards per play, and he leads all tight ends and
yards after contact.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
So like we're again if.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
We're nitpicking here, Yeah, the Texans got blown apart and
picked apart by a team that really only has one
weapon that can thrive.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Nobody stops him.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
Like if eighty five is open, eighty five is getting
the football and you're force feeding.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
It as much as humanly possible throughout it.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I just know how this defense is, and I know
that you know, with them giving up twenty points yesterday,
it's not gonna sit well with them. So we'll see
exactly here exactly what's coming from them this week. Billy,
see you right there working in You want to join them?
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Speaker 10 (22:42):
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Speaker 4 (22:56):
Holf Friday Nights the battle of Cole and Triple E
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is gonna be what gets us started.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
So what's interesting is that ESPN has bought the rights
of the Friday night game, so usually they're gonna have
it be a matchup for teams that are on their network,
so that being two SEC teams, they said, scirt.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Just lean into it.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, just just say you know what, you guys think,
we're SEC hawks.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Anyway, We'll just go ahead and do it. We don't care.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Just McAfee, go enjoy yourself at Memorial Stadium. Go ahead
and have a fun show, and then we'll see on
Saturday don A Kyle Fey.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, so you'll get that one.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
And then I mean you're not gonna have to wait
long for the Aggies, which I gotta believe the Aggies
probably look at that and say, dude, couldn't you have
given us like the night game.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
So here's the problem again, TNT bought the rights to
the night games, so they said, screw it, you're getting JM,
you and you're getting two lane.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
We're not giving you A and M.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
But like, from the standpoint of just the semantics of
it all, don't you think that ratings would have been
better regards of what network you're on.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
If Texas A and M and Miami was the night game.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
I would have thought that that would have been like
last year's Ohio State Tennessee like that, that's the one
that that's the one that you would have wanted to have.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
I mean maybe the CFP and and you know, honor
of Fairness was like, you know, hey, one year, you
guys will have the night game, and then one year
you guys will have the night game, and then I mean,
let's be honest here too. I means, as this thing expands,
you're gonna get NBC being part of this, You're gonna
get Fox being part of this.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Well, as long as Notre Dame makes the playoff. Because
they're a top eleven seed. They're always gonna have a
game on her.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
There you go, and we'll talk a little bit of
some college football again as the CFP gets going this week,
so we'll have that a little bit later on.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
But CJ.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Stroud outstanding yesterday. Good to see that. And I know
that a lot of you want to be able to
get in on the Texans conversation. So let's get it
fire and seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 11 (24:50):
Good morning, Billy, Hey, good morning guys. Uh yeah, we
had adults and should siding. Yeah, well, pretty impressed with that. Uh,
we got it. We're gonna have to get the get
They got more active in the in the red zone.

Speaker 12 (25:07):
That was.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
I think that's still a problem for this team, and
they've got to fix that before the playoffs. I think
right now the playoffs are pretty sure. Uh if if
all my my calculations are right, they need to win.
If they get to ten wins, they're all most guaranteed
the playoff spot. Yeah they are, but they've got to

(25:31):
clean some things up. Here we go again. Offensive line
on the tush push, how do you line up off
sides on offense? Look down the line. If you can
see the ball back up, it's not hard, but still
pre snat penalty is not as bad, but still there.
And yes, I'm nitpicking, but my frustration with yesterday's game

(25:53):
was was twenty points from Jacoby Brissett Trey McBride. Okay,
tram Bride's good trade, McBride, but you know you also
had some big runs that got by value and it
was just it was frustrating to me to see a
team that prides itself on keeping people out of the
end zone and they just didn't do it. Now, here's

(26:14):
my question for you. Do you think that this was
a game where, hey, we know we can throw a
pair of cleats out on the field and we're gonna
win this game. Let's back off, let's get the win.
Let's get through this healthy, because we've got bigger things
ahead of us. And I'm not saying that they I'm
not saying they dogged. That's not what I'm saying. I'm

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just saying that they didn't come out with full blitzes.
They didn't come as hard as they have been for
most of the year. This was a don't worry about it, guys,
we're gonna win the game. That's all that matters. And
like I said, just stay healthy and we did. And
that's what it looked like to me. And you know,
my dad even said that the defense relaxed, and in

(26:57):
some way, Kays, that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
I mean, I'm guessing, yeah, you're tucking more defensively with
you know, the blitzes. I mean, this isn't a team
that blitzes a ton as is. If they get to
the quarterback, that's more or less just a straight up
bull rush that they're getting there with. But I mean,
just overall, I mean, I don't think that there was
anything like, you know, hey, we're gonna we're gonna taper
off here. I think that this was, you know, a

(27:23):
defense that just played their game plan of you know,
you get somebody with the football, appreciate the call. By
the way, Billy, you get somebody with with the football,
first guy slows them down, the next two guys are
able to bring him down.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
That's pretty much what you saw.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
I would go a step further, Billy said that, did
you feel as if the team con took their foot
off the gas and felt like that they could just
kind of coast their way through You never want to
act like that you're coasting your way through. What I
will say is I felt good about the B team
defense being out there and still giving up less than
twenty five points. So to me, it's really hard to
argue with again, what the results were. You still for

(28:00):
a couple turnovers, you still were able to capitalize. Take
away Tray McBride, you hold them to seven points. Everybody
cannot stop Trey McBride this year, like that's just been
the case. So it's like, you look at it from
an offensive standpoint, you arrested what he marks because if
you knew you didn't need him in the second half.
You didn't force feed Nego Collins because you knew you
didn't need to in the second half. Your offensive line

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did just enough to go ahead and keep CJ.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Stroud up.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
But upright, this was a be performance and it felt
like an A plus win because of how dominant you
were against a crappy team.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
I just think that there is a, you know, the
human element of it where you started the game off
so quickly, I mean two plays in you're already up
seven to nothing, and then what a handful of plays later,
you're up by two scores already, And I mean you
gave up your first score when you were up by three.
I mean you were up seventeen to nothing at that point.

(28:54):
You give up that touchdown after a pretty good drive
by Arizona. I mean, I will give them credit for
what they were able to do to get those points.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
Did you feel like, though, after that touchdown, that this
was where momentum was shifting in favor of Now.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
There was never a feeling that that momentum was going
over to Arizona's side even when they got it to
le was it?

Speaker 5 (29:11):
They were going for two and they missed it.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
So, yeah, it was the Michael Wilson touchdown, right, It
was still down by twelve at that point.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yeah, a thirteen thirty but still, I mean, you know
it's even at that point you would have been up
by two scores and then I mean you were able
to pull away from there with nine more points, so
or seven more points, so in math, it's one of
those things. It's fine either way. Even if they were
to get that two point conversion. It was a double digit,
two possession game to where all you had to do

(29:40):
was play keep away and you were going to win
and not get the ball back to Arizona to have
any momentum. So, like you look at the standpoint of
how they were going to mount a comeback when they
were down by two scores with eleven.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Minutes left, Guys, the game was over.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
I mean, I'll be completely real, The game, in my opinion,
was over after Woody Marks caught a bad snap from
Jake Andrews because of the player is supposed to be
a shotgun and instead it went right between the legs
of CJ. Stroud and he jumped into the pylon into
the end zone for an easy score. When it was
seventeen to nothing. I kind of was able to clock
on out and start looking and nitpicking on what are

(30:14):
things that are going to hurt this team when they
play Indianapolis, What are things that are going to maybe
give momentum to Los Angeles when you got to play
on the road. I start looking at games around the
league at that point and saying, Okay, here's what's going
on in Kansas City, here's what's going on in Duval,
here's what's going on in the NFC, and trying to
compare them to what did we see from the Texans
that definitely would have put you in a position of Okay,

(30:36):
if they do X, Y and Z, they're losing that
football game. But that like, like that's how you know
that you're confident in winning a game when you can
tune on out and go, oh, Nico Collins not just
waying to the end zone. Oh, he got a thousand
yards of the season, which, by the way, congratulations to
him three straight years in a row. He's now the
third player in franchise history to accomplish that feat, joining
Andre Johnson and DeAndre Hopkins. But like, when you're able

(30:57):
to act that way, you know that this game is
over before he truly began.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well, and it's also you know, very nice too to
see twenty two of twenty nine, two hundred and sixty yards,
three touchdowns. You only get sacked once you don't throw
an interception. No turnovers out of c. J. Stroud, No turnovers.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
I'll tell you what, man, That to me was probably
the biggest stat line to where if you are a
Nick Kayley hater, you at least got a tip of
cap and say you put him in a position to
where he wasn't turning the football over. You got you
put him in a spot where you could trust the
run game, and that he was able to be at
his best version of himself and CJ.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Stroud too. I mean, he was able to do that
for himself. Where again, I mean, you know, these these
were things just uncanny accuracy, especially on the move. And
I mean, you know, we've seen the deep ball overthrows
and we've just seen just bad misses, you know, here
and there. But I mean his missus yesterday, the overwhelming
majority of them more intentional. I would probably say, and

(31:53):
I don't remember the throw you were talking about where
you're like, oh, man, CJ wants that one back. But
I mean I would say, what six out of the
seven where him just saying now just burn it, you
know away.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
You know what he looked like twenty three version of
himself who quite literally would just throw it away, get
back to the line of scrimmage and say let's hit reset.
And that was why a lot of people said this
was a top seven quarterback in the NFL going into
twenty twenty four, and yesterday it looked like that version
of himself had reappeared after a long awaited twenty four
month hiatus, which again, if that's the version you get

(32:23):
going into the playoffs, with this defense who's beating them
quite literly. It will be the self inflicted wounds that
keep you out of going to Santa Clara.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Well, I look at the shield at least half of
the shield from yesterday, and how it pertains to the
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Speaker 8 (34:22):
Age Town Bill Morning Drive continues. Now now here's Dan
in Cole.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
I just don't trust anybody and he just makes me laugh.
So he's my favorite comedian. Imight as well, just trust
that he's gonna make me laugh. Well, I mean, you know,
but comedians too.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
I mean, although Bill Burr would push back on this
that comedians are usually on current events and you know
just you know they they have they have sharp opinions
one where or the ore.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
You know what changed my opinion. I'm going to Bill
Burr because Bill Burr says it as is.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, I'll go that far. I'm gonna say, Bill Burr.
Some people trust Joe Rogan. I trust Shack.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
I don't. Oh, that's actually a good one. I trust Shack.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I mean, I don't thin think it's any any coincidence
that Shaq is as counted on as he is to
promote I mean from anything from printers to you know,
lord knows whatever else.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
But I trust Shaquille O'Neil. Do you trust Charles of course?

Speaker 13 (35:15):
Why?

Speaker 5 (35:16):
Absolutely? Why do you trust Chuck because he's brutally honest.
I trust brutally honest people.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Brutally honest people are the best people to know because
there is no there is no blurred line.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Chuck is broke, He's lost all his money by.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Putting too much trust. I'm not asking the guy for
financial advice.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
But you want me to put my trust in him
when he can't trust his financial aids to keep him out.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Of the I don't think I don't think he's broke.
I just think that he's lost a good amount of
money gambling Charles from.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
From what fine, So you can't trust him at the casinos,
you want to trust him with life advice.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
At this point, guy puts it on the law. It's terrible.
That's what it is. That's what I'm telling you right now.
He's a terrible person. I'm sure. I'm sure if you
looked up networth, I'm sure Charles is doing just.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
I'm sure that it's lying to you, just like Diego
Pavia a lot about being six.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Charles just gave one hundred thousand dollars to the v Foundation.
So you're giving You're giving one hundred thousand dollars as
a donation.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
You're doing more than just fine.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Yeah, I'm sure he's waiting to get I'm sure he's
sweating and he's waiting for the checked account to cash.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
No, he'll be fine, He'll be good, all right, Like
I said looking at the shield yesterday in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Let's start first with the news of the day.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
And that was Philip Rivers putting together the performance that
he did. I mean, let's think about this. He hasn't
played a meaningful game in five years. He comes back,
he has one week of practice and nearly leads the
Colts to a win. Now was it the greatest performance?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
No?

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Did he look old out there? Yes he did. All
of those things can be true. But here was Philip
Rivers after the game in terms of the motivation, not
only for him, but maybe for others out there who say, hey,
you know what, I'm not too old to do this.

Speaker 14 (37:03):
You know, maybe maybe it will I don't know, inspire
or teach, you know that not to run or be
scared of what may or may not happen, you know, hopefully,
you know, certainly I think of my sons and those
ball players you know that I'm in charge of at
the school, Uh, that they'll say, like, crap, coach, one's scared.
You know what I mean. It's like, shoot, sometimes you uh,

(37:24):
there is doubt and it's real and you uh again
you can you can. The guaranteed safe bet is to
is to go home or to not go for it,
and the other one is, shoot, let's see what happens,
uh you know, and so uh yeah, I hope that
in that sense that it can it can be a
positive to to some young boys, you know, or young
people that is we boys.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
He is the Lance Berkman of the NFL.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
I did tell him where I mean, you know that
both he and Lance You're you're never gonna have to
worry about a cuss word slipping. Like that's one of
those like you listened to it right there and you're like,
he said, shoot, two o's and a T and there
that's what he said.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Well, he's got ten kids at home. He doesn't want
them to have to go they have to use the
soap in other ways. Let's be real, you don't need
to put in your mouth.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Although I mean a guy it's a big fan of
his and a in a big cold sky, Pat McAfee
posting a video with he and his daughter watching and
his daughter's like two, and he said the S word
and then the little one said it and he goes
he goes, yeah, that's right, and it's just like, oh okay, Pat,
there you go. So there's probably a lot of people
out there to look good parenting Pat. It's like, dude,

(38:32):
look these kids are gonna say it regardless one way
or another.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
In life.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
It's it's not the worst thing in the world. You obviously,
you know, you tell them, don't say that in public.
That's the only mushrooms only mommy and daddy talked that way.
That's you know, that's that's the that's that's where that's
where the parenting lesson comes in.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Right there. Why are we talking about parenting lessons?

Speaker 6 (38:52):
I'm watching Philip Rivers not be able to get a
win over a Seattle Seahawks team that relying on its field.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well, because you could say that he is the parent
of all parents, with you know, a full house that
he's got.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
I mean congratulations to you need to go ahead and
cash in that four h one k check, to go
ahead and pay for your grandchild now, So I mean
congratulations to listen.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
I commend him for the way he played.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Most people would not be able to come off the
bench and throw for a touchdown pass to Josh Downs
with a week of practice and lead your team into
scoring position where you get a game winning field goal
from sixty yards out with the backup kicker, only to
watch your team fall short because Jason Myers decides to
double down and say no, no, no, no, I got this
game winning field goal instead. Like I give him credit

(39:33):
for that standpoint, but like, honestly, what I took away
from yesterday's game was what are we doing from the
state for the level of building a repertoire when it
comes to backup quarterbacks to where Philip Rivers can come
off the bench and look better than any backup.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
In the NFL.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Well, now, the Kansas City Chiefs have to worry about
that too, because Patrick Mahomes confirming it last night, and
if you were watching that Denver and Green Bay game,
Jim Nantz confirming it on airline that he had indeed
torn his ACL. And I mean it's not just quarterbacks,
it's also edge rushers too. Where the Green Bay Packers

(40:08):
you spend all that draft capital to go get Micah Parsons,
and now for the stretch run of the season, you're
more than likely not gonna have Michael Parsons.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
Well, one team's out of the playoff because of Los
Angeles won yesterday. So see you later, Kansas City and
everyone in the AFC. You could say thank you to
Huston whenever you want to, because they were entering an
elimination game from yesterday from Sunday's win last week, so
you're welcome and Michael Parsons being on out.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Did you believe that Green Bay was going to be
the team for the NFC. No, But I mean I
think the NFC is a lot like the AFC too.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Do you I don't.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
I think the AFC is wide open. I think it's
Los Angeles is to lose at this point in the NFC.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
So you don't believe in Seattle even though that they're
the best team in the West right now.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
I still think if you were to say, one game
elimination matchup, who am I trusting? I'm trusting Matthew Stafford
over San Darnold Rea.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
I mean, and I agree with you on that, but
I mean, look credit to Seattle though, I mean I
think in some ways it's a little bit of a
throwback with them to lead in a boom with the
way that that defense is playing. But I mean, yeah,
that's what it comes down to in the playoffs is
is your quarterback better?

Speaker 5 (41:13):
No, then I don't like your chances.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
I'm going to tease this going into the break because
I want to bring this up to you I believe
that the Texans, but the way that they looked yesterday
dominant offensive performance, quality, defensive performance to where you know
that if you shut down Trey McBride, which again nobody's
been able to do, you got to feel pretty good
about where this team's directions in. There is only one
roster I think in the NFL, both sides, AFC, NFC

(41:39):
to where they were to meet in the Super Bowl,
I think they have no shot, zero chance whatsoever with.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
That's a tease right there.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
As we'll get into the seven o'clock hour, as it
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Speaker 8 (42:00):
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Speaker 1 (42:06):
You mean, this is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
And trying to play injured at the same point. But
the audience doesn't care. Cool, the audience doesn't care, all right,
So you get Sexans winning yesterday forty to twenty over
the Cardinals, and now they'll get the Raiders on Sunday.
You get the Rockets back on the four tonight out
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(42:40):
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(43:02):
nine to five following yesterday's win. They are the seven
seed currently in the AFC. It does not matter to
me if they are to play on the road or
at home. I STU do not believe entirely in the
Denver Broncos. Though I was impressed with how Bonix looked,
not entirely impressed with the New England Patriots. I thought
that they gave that game away to Buffalo. I still
think that Buffalo could be a challenge because of the

(43:23):
experience in the playoff. But you tell me that they
can't beat a team that they've already beaten in the
regular season in the postseason, where both of you right
now very much could be in line to host.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
That matchup again. Yeah, spare me.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
The way the Texas looked yesterday offensively, with how well
they were able to run the football without their two
star running backs, with how they were able to be
turnover pronless, how the offensive line was able to keep CJ.
Shroud upright, the decision making seven, and the defensive performance.
They feel like they're on a collision course to potentially
go and win their first Super Bowl in franchise history.

(43:57):
I truly believe at this point they have answered all
the questions that I have about what is necessary to
build an identity that you can trust me, and going
to the playoffs, I believe that they can go toe
to toe with anybody in the NFC besides one team,
and that's the team that currently clintched its playoff spot
last night in the Los Angeles Rams. From a coaching standpoint,
I think that you will have problems out scheming Sean McVay.

(44:19):
From a quarterback standpoint, Matthew Stafford still is playing like
an MVP. You look at the overall personnel with the
offensive I daddy, if they're able to keep DeVante Adams
healthy and you put him a puk nakua, good luck
stopping that Tatum on a regular basis, they run the football,
They don't have a lot of turnovers, and they're great
on the defensive.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
Line, winning their one on one battles.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
Right now, after what I saw yesterday in a double
digit win by at seven point women. It was a
nearly double digit win over the Detroit Lions Alliance team
that I think is good, a very good Lions team.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
An Alliance team that looks like that they were going
to be able to have a nice afternoon there in LA.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
I still think right now, until proven otherwise, the Los
Angeles Rams are the team to beat in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Well, I mean I think that, you know, some people
might throw your beginning logic there where you're talking about
the Texans and the Bills in this one too, where
it's like you know, oh, hey, you only lost by eight.
That was all the way back in Week one. And
I think two things can be can be true in
this case. And you know, for that game, the Texans
are a different football team.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
So are the Rams.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
I mean, I think what you were able to limit them,
you know to defensively in that game are some things
that now become a strength. I mean, you talked about it.
Karen Williams, a really good running back, went two yards
to play two touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Yeah, I mean, so.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
It's a run game that's complimenting Again, I mean what
you brought up where it's not going to surprise me
if the MVP of the league is Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
Hu Gatakuro right now is second in the NFL and
receptions only behind the guy you faced off against yesterday.
He's second in the NFL receiving yards with over thirteen hundred. I'man,
the dude's a monster. You're force feeding twelve and if
you don't get the ball to him, you're getting into seventeen. So,
like any way that you view this up at this point,
they're doing such a good job of spreading the rock
around and keeping you unbalanced.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
Also, Dan, we talk about how well the Texans have
transformed since that Week one game. They're nine and two
over their last eleven appearances. They've played exceptional football offensively
to kind of close out the month of December, and C. J.
Shrodt even said this in the postgame show. They're getting
hot at the right time. They are finding ways to
play their best version of football in the month of December. Well,
everything I just said, you can flip on over and

(46:27):
say the exact same thing about Los Angeles. They're playing
their best version of football in the month of December,
and momentum like that is hard.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
It is so damn hard to slow on down.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
And I feel like it's almost impossible to do for
a Los Angeles team that knows that this may be
the year where they have to win it because they
don't have another year of Stafford left in them. They're
gonna eventually have to hit a little bit of a
reset or a law at some point.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Well, I mean, and you know, I mean, he's a
guy that now what. He came into the league in
oh nine, So if you played again next year, they'd
be what seventeen years in the Leafs eighteen years? Which,
by the way, did you know that there was a
guy on the field yesterday it's played eighteen years in
the league who wasn't always Campbell, the man got the
man who blocked the field goal right before the half. Yeah,

(47:11):
that was Kalayis Campbell that blocked that. So you probably
heard that name and you're like, he's still playing. I
anestly forgot that he was still playing.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
I did too.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
You wonder why, because like the last three years he said,
this is my last season, this is my last season.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
And then you go to a team that you know
is not gonna be good.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
So it's like, Okay, this really has to be your
last season, dude, Like you can't be saying anymore.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
It's like the boy who cried wolf.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
Okay, buddy, at some point we're just like you could
say you're retiring.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Let's see you be actually the same for five years.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Nobody did it like these two guys, Roger Clemons and
Brett Farv. Those guys were experts at doing that.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
I remember when Brett Farv retired by the Green Bay
Packers and less than twenty four hours later signed with.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
The New York Jets.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
And then he was with the Minnesota Vikings, and then
he smacked his head on the turf at the Golden
Gophers Stadium when they were playing there because they were
not in their new spot yet, and that was pretty
much the end of Brett Farv's career.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
Holt up when they played in the when they played
at Minnesota Minnesota go to and go for stadium, was
that because the Humphrey don't have the snow Gaven.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Okay, I was making sure that was the reason for no.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Yeah, that was that was it. So yeah, I mean,
you know, it's it's it's one of those that I mean,
you know, the players will talk about it all the time.
You know, you're you're mentally you're good with it, You're
ready to move on. But I mean for a guy
like JJ Watt, I heard him talk about this on
the McAfee show where he was like, I wanted to
be a retire and stay away guy like I wanted

(48:34):
to be once I'm done, I'm good with this killing
it in the broadcast exactly. But I mean that's the
thing is he got to that point. I mean, and
even Demiko's first season where people are like, hey, you know,
if Demiko called you, would you think about it? And
he played into it a little bit, But now I mean,
hearing that, I don't think he ever really played it.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
He was never coming out of retirement.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
Like I remember seeing everyone on Twitter being like I
cannot wait to watch ninety nine come out for what
for a practice, to sit in the broadcast booth, to
call a game from the sidelines for ESPN like you
just saw with the SEC Championship, Like is that gonna
be what we see from from him.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Because he's not playing anymore.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
You just gave me an idea there, God that that
if when I do that, that that if CBS had it,
it had the Super Bowl, which I think is it
NBC this year?

Speaker 5 (49:20):
I think it's yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
So I mean, if if you had had this opportunity
that you would have had Iron Eagle and JJ Watt
do like an alt cast.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
I would have listened to that over over Tony Romo
and Tip right and have them doing it from the field.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
I don't think it would work, though, I just because
Iron makes it such a good experience, and he's doing
that because he gets the bird eye view. If you
have him on the field, I don't think he's gonna
have that same mentality, all right.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Put him in the crow's nest, put him in the
little uh, the the cart cam. You know what I
would rather have rather like they used to do with
Paul McGuire, I'll tell you, actually you would rather have.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
I'd much rather see JJ and Matt Ryan be on
the field. I think that would be a really good
pairing because you see even the offensive standpoint and the
defensive standpoint, and it'd be a mutual feeling because well,
maybe it wouldn't because the Texas could be gone the
Super Bowl. But we know that right now that the
Atlanta's done, like they're firing their coach, they're starting all over.
They may need to get into a new quarterback in there,
So Matt would be Matt would be unbiased as all
hell when it comes to this game.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
I think Matt's also another one that's like, no, you
know what I got.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
I've got the.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Kids at home. I'm doing pretty good here in studio.
This seems nice. Student, I like this, I promise you.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Matt Ryan looks back at the film when he was
with Indianapolis and said, I should have just retired with Atlanta.
I would have gone out on such a blaze of glory.
People would have remind would have been remembered and been
fond of the way that I played football. I need
to quit when I was ahead. Although it was always.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Kind of funny with him in that town because you
have to remember he took over after a really really
charged time there with Michael Vick, So you had a
lot of people in that town who were always on
the Matt Ryan sucks train, and no matter anything he
did well, it was always well yeah, you know, but
Ryan didn't do this. Ryan didn't do that. It's like,

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got one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Okay, what are we talking about?

Speaker 6 (51:07):
So basically it's what's going on with Lamar and Joe
Flackett pretty much, because literally there's still people out in Baltimore.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
Who were here pretty much.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Yeah, no, I mean, it's it's it's it's never fun
to be the guy after the guy. But in that
case right there, it was, okay, well then you want
do you want to go back to Chris Redman and
whatever the hell else you have? And your coach puts
a letter in players lockers to let him know that
he's not gonna be there anymore, Like, is that what
you want?

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Got the buying Patrino experience, what a life to be alive, and.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
That still still thought of. It's it's it's still talked
about there.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
I see, And I only think of him for the
motorcycle accident. I remember that he quit on that Atlanta
thirteen games into the season.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Yeah, he just said, I'm out, see you guys out here.
College is calling me back later.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Yeah, And it seemed to work out well for him, well,
at least for a short time.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
It did Roger Trey. See you guys, work you in.
You want to join him?

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Someone three two one two five seven ninety against semone
three two one two seven ninety also two in the
seven o'clock cour an apology.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
I owe it and we'll give it as we are getting.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Going here on a Monday edition of The Morning Drive
with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (52:14):
Dan Matthews, Cole Thompson. This is the Morning Drive with
Dan and Cole.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
More than likely the Pittsburgh Steelers at that point is
the five.

Speaker 6 (52:26):
Okay, so rank it right now? If you were the
wild card team, where would you.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Want to go first? Pittsburgh would be ideal? Now number two?
Would you rather go to this? Face off against Jacksonville
or New England? New England? See, I agree with you
on that one.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
I actually the last team I would want to face
off against is Jacksonville. I don't know why. I don't
know if it's because of its indivision opponent or because
of the last Like this may be a moment where
travesy Dan gets one big play, but like I agree,
that is the only one I'm like.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
That is number three for me. I'd much have to
go play in Foxborough.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
You get the Rockets again, starting up a six game
road trip tonight there in day for taking on the Nuggets.
Seven thirty Rockets launch pad coming your way. And then
Fernando Mendoza we'll hear from here in just a few
he is your Heisman Trophy winner for this year. Seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety is the
number to get in and let's keep it going this morning, Roger,

(53:17):
good morning.

Speaker 15 (53:19):
That was a good win yesterday.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Guys.

Speaker 15 (53:22):
They played all faces of the game, you know, even even.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
The what do you call it?

Speaker 15 (53:26):
The when that guy they recovered a fumble on the kickoff,
you know, special teams. You know, let's keep this rolling.
You know, we have the Raiders next. Let's not fall
asleep at the wheel.

Speaker 16 (53:38):
You know.

Speaker 15 (53:39):
And like you said, we I'd rather go to New
England or Pittsburgh and not play the Jags. You know,
the Jags look comfortable yesterday. You know, uh, did you
see that scrappy team in Indianapolis yesterday? Wow, they almost
pulled a miracle out there. You know, what is it
that forty four year old guy, you know he was
you know, he was playing really good. Mister Rivers was

(54:00):
really playing you know, adequate. You know, the defense would
have stood up without that field goal, you know, they
would have had another win. And here we go, we're
in that chase. I just hope the Texans, you know,
their defense continues to improve, not not any more than
what they are is really good, and the offense continues
to put points on the board, so they can you know,
so that defense can withheld you know, whatever offense we're

(54:23):
going to play in the playoffs. Because that's what I'm
thinking now, you know, let's start getting mentally prepared and
let's go in there and and and you know, hope
for the best and get to the super Bowl. Because
you know, our quarterbacks in the three, what is he is?
This is his last year on this contract.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
Correct, He's got one more year and then he's got
the fifth year option if they wanted to use that one.
So yeah, he's got at least two more before. I mean,
my guest is Roger that next training camp we're going
to be hearing about a contract extension for CJ.

Speaker 15 (54:57):
Yeah, and then plus you also have Anderson that needs
an extension.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
Correct, Now that's a guy who he will be getting
an extension that's a non negotiable in my opinion.

Speaker 15 (55:05):
Yeah, well, and that's what I'm saying. You know, I
hate to say this, but you know you're gonna have
to pick your poys, and you know you have to.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
You have to.

Speaker 15 (55:14):
You have to look study the team, look at good
and I'm hoping, you know, within the next two years
we can get to that Super Bowl and pay the
man his money, you know what I mean. So thanks
a lot for your show, guys. I love it, and
you'all have a great less to stay and stay warm.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Okay, Hey, same to you, Roger, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
So I mean, now that's that's why I mean these
you know, these last couple of years. I mean last
year it kind of felt like the Texans with going
out and getting Stefan Diggs that there was a little
bit of a thought of all right, hey, we're going
for it. We got the rookie quarterback, like this is
this is the time to be able to go for it.
You're in the position now where you can go get
the toys. When when they got c J and Will

(55:51):
Anderson Junior, it was, hey, what do our receivers look like?
What does the rest of the team look like and
at the time, I had said, you're not in a
position to be able to go out and shop for toys.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
Not yet. You've got to get the basics.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
You gotta you gotta build, You gotta build your home
up with the basics, and then you can start thinking
about renovations. Then you can start thinking about additions, you
can start thinking about all of that. Well, then it
only took about a year to be able to get
to that point, and now you're in that position.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
What we do when we're talking about toys here, I mean,
I get that Santa Claus is coming this upcoming week,
but like, really we're bringing up toys. No, they're just
they're they're weapons, they're stunts. Toy toys feels like it's
a passive aggressive way of like explaining an offensive personnel.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Well, I mean it's it's a simplified way.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
I would say, no, go for weapons, go for killers,
go for X factors.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
That's a better way to phrase than toys.

Speaker 6 (56:36):
Toys to me just sounds like, oh, look at that
little little suits. He's getting a little toy this weekend,
Like what are we doing?

Speaker 4 (56:41):
Well, I mean, look, toys can mean many different things.
I mean, as you're an adult. You know, toys a
nice car.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
That's what she said.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
You know, Yeah, I say I can go down that
pathway if need be, Dan, I don't want to.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
I want to call them weapons because guess why, I
don't get that confused.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
Boy, you know how to disarm, don't you? You did
it well right there, right you're at the loop. Listen, listen.

Speaker 6 (57:03):
Texans right now have good weapons. They've been able to
build a round CJ. Stroud with quality assets that have
been able to elevate this team. But now you are
in a position to wear and then you know what's
interesting is like do you remember like the draft class
for the for the New Orleans Saints in twenty seventeen.
It's like the greatest draft class of all time with
Alvin Kamara and Trey Hendrick stand and Marcus Williams. The

(57:23):
Texans are nearing that point where there are gonna be
some names that you know you want to be a
part of your long term future and a foundation for
the foreseeable run of a lifetime in the AFC that
you're gonna have to part ways with because you can't
afford to.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
Pay everybody well.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
And that's where I mean being able to draft is
going to be imperative for Nick Asario and uh for
for that group, because I mean, once you pay the quarterback,
well then soon enough you can't go out and get
you know, the top tier receiver. You better find said receiver.
But you can get one, but you can't get two, right,
So I mean, you know, and that's and that's why

(57:59):
you know, obviously you saw them handle the draft. They did,
let excuse me, the way they did last year with
Jayden Higgins and also with Jalen Knowles. Those guys were
brought in for that express purpose, Noel, especially because you
knew you weren't going to have tanked Dell Well.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
I mean yeah, for this season when it comes to
special teams. But offensively, again, it feels like that they
just don't want to utilize.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Them in any way.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
Like and maybe yesterday was a day that you just said, hey,
we're gonna dink and dunk our way to the victory
with Darig and Mawalle out of the backfield and get
some plays in Dalton Schultz cause I think.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
He had like eight catches for seventy six yards, Like
he had a good day. I get it. But like
there's a.

Speaker 6 (58:34):
Point of me that also at some level as saying,
what was the reason of drafting a player to only
be a factor on special teams? When you brought in
a guy for five million dollars who was only going
to be a factor on special teams?

Speaker 5 (58:45):
And now he's in Now he's in active, he's out
the scratch every week and you're not letting him play.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
And I'm like, okay, and this is not a shot
at Noel, because I think that Nole was actually a
really good receiver and I want him to be more
involved in the offensive play design. But there just comes
a level of like you're sitting here and you're asking yourself,
imagine if that pick was an offensive lineman, or imagine
that pick was a secondary defensive tackle, because now you
don't have Tim Settle for the year. And while Tommy
TOGII has been great, I'll tell you who's been underwhelming.

(59:12):
Mario Edwards has not been good all season. He has
been horrendous when it comes to run support. You look
at the PFF grades, his numbers continuously drop and you're asking, well,
what if we were have filled this position with exposition?
And it's not to say that, you know again, you
don't believe in the offensive line.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
I mean, you don't believe in the wide receiver corps.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
But like I'm looking at it from the standpoint of
if I brought in Jalen Nolan, I utilized him to
be an asset, Why am I not utilizing him in
some of the best skills that he has, which is
short to intermediate games for first downs and really good
in the open field.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
To go ahead and make defenders.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
We even used Nakwon Jones in the game yesterday and
you only acquired him about a couple of days before.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Like JaMarcus Ingram has played more this season I think
than Jalen Nole at times, or at least over the
last two weeks offensively, and he was picked up off waivers.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Well, I mean, at least the Texan's able to make
it happen yesterday with the guys that you count on
the most, with Dalton Schultz and Nico Collins. Dalton the
leading receiver in terms of catches, but for yards it
was Nico of course, helped out in large part by
that fifty seven yard catch and run to get the
game started. And you heard those highlights played a little
bit earlier, but I mean just the bald distribution yesterday.

(01:00:24):
I mean, you know, just looking at the list of
all the guys that you saw factor in Daria goomble
Walle he's able to factor, Keith Stover able to help
out Jaard Jordan.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Same deal there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
You get to catch a piece from Xavier Hutchinson, Woody
Marx and also from Jayden Higgins too. Jayden Higgins least
productive game that he's had here in the last few weeks.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
I say, he was averaging like four catches for like
forty eight yards one catch for four yards on the day.
But again, you have all those games you just listen.
One that I would love to see get more of
a chance fourteen because guess what he did make an
impact yesterday, had the big sixty eight yard kickoff return
and then two other returns that were from positive, positive
net gains. It's come to a point where I'm asking myself,

(01:01:08):
what more do you need to see from fourteen to
let him start seeing reps with the first team offits
on a consistent basis.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
Roger, We're gonna give you a chance, a We're gonna
give yourself a chance to shine here coming up. But
also too, I'm sorry, and it's a heartfelt apology that
has audio to go along with it. We will have
that for you right here as we get even deeper
into the seven o'clock hour here on a Monday, it's
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Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
Cooker Roger wants to weigh in.

Speaker 17 (01:01:47):
Roger, good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Fine, that's our job, Roger, That's what we're supposed to do.

Speaker 17 (01:01:54):
Like talking this morning, man, I'm talking to the guys
who were here at my job.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Hey, guys, guys in the background, I want you to
shut your mouths all right, let's go Rogers.

Speaker 12 (01:02:04):
Talking exactly exactly anyway. So yeah, good job by the text.
They did exactly what I wanted them doing. Gif I
swim and nobody got hurt. They sharpened up their off
fan beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 17 (01:02:16):
Uh yeah, just more of the same next week. I
like that little running back, but that'd be back in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (01:02:22):
Let's see what him and uh him and uh the
other running back Mark can do together. Uh Thunder and lightning,
Tambo baby and uh yeah, just keep that going, man.
I like the way they look. The Jags. I just
think they're false needs and I think they're fake news.
I really think we can overcome them and take the base.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
They suck. They're terrible, Roger, They're the worst thing alive.

Speaker 17 (01:02:47):
Yeah, kind that quarter the quarterback kind of reminds me
of Rickey Bobby a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
His hands building a fence or something. In the background.
I was like, what's what's going on back there?

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
Listen?

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
I I enjoyed myself some white noise to fall asleep
that would keep me awake at night.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
I guess say, Man, it's not like loading up a
truck doing a bunch of different things going on there.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
But I appreciate Roger Russ been in a few minutes
with us.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
You know, even though it sounds like that the Monday
is getting underway there, it's a lot better than you know,
one of the previous incarnations of this show. I could
totally tell that there was a guy that was like
in a coffee shop or something, and he was distracted,
and I finally just go, dude, are you like getting
your latte or something?

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Oh yeah. I was just like, all right, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
We appreciate you listening, but get the coffee first, then
give us a shouts.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
That's how this works.

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
I'm going to go back and just remind everybody that
yesterday as we nitpick away at a forty to twenty
Texans victory, which again we do this thing called nitpicking
because of we didn't sye perfection. It was very close.
Texted the ball eleven times yesterday. They scored on nine
of them and the only other time they didn't score
was a was on a missfield goal that was blocked

(01:03:57):
the line of scrimmage at a punt side that they
scored on every other play.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
You gotta be impressed with.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
That's that's what I love to you know, Demiko Ryans
in the postgame press conference where he gave a shout
out to the special teams and he was, you know,
saying about Tommy Townsend.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
Yeah, you know he punted it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Well, it's like, Demiko, I mean you could say punted
singularly because that's all he did.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
He just punted once. No, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
And then that came on the worst drive of the
day where they still took two minutes off the clock.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
You know. The interesting thing too, and I know Susie
wants to wait and give you a chance here in
a second.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
But the other Roger brought up about Philip Rivers all
of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Now that I mean with the way that they played
yesterday and that defense, No, just give me a second.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
I will give you a second.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
The way that they played that game against Jacksonville and Indy,
it's not a shoe in for Jacksonville. We were thinking
a couple of weeks ago that was the case. Rivers
and Jonathan Taylor. They they might be able to find
a way. It's not like Jacksonville's war beaters.

Speaker 7 (01:05:01):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
It's not like they're a team that's that that that's
I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
They're gonna be favored in that game for sure. Okay,
so let me start off by saying I apologize to you.
I should let you finish because of my what'd you
think I was gonna say anything about the Texans. I'm like,
they're gonna kill Philip Rivers. It's not gonna be a game.
It's gonna be it's gonna be the end of all
be No.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
I'm talking about it from because I mean it also
too at that point might be where they're just like
you know, because they they very easily could lose these
next two games. I mean, it was a nice it
was nice to see that yesterday, but I mean two
at the same time. You know, it's like, all right,
it's it's about doing it week to week here and
the man's forty four years old, so can you still

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do it week to week?

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
My big thing is like when it comes to Jacksonville,
and I'm glad Roger brought this up, it's fools goal
because just keep in mind, do you remember who was
starting for the New York Jets yesterday? An undrafted free
agent who threw three in our city shows yeah, from Missouri.
You have a good season. Missouri had one hundred and
seventy six passing yards. Like your defense is incompetent, you

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have no superstar outside cornerback with Sauce Gardner being gone,
and you allow Trevor Lawrence to score six total touchdowns
Like that says more about who the New York Jets
are right now underneath Aaron Glenn. That says who Jacksonville
is with ten wins, Like I'm sorry, I refuse to
believe that the Jaguars are actually as good as they're
playing football right now.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
Well, I mean they did the same thing to the Jets,
like what was expected of the Texans to do yesterday
that the Cardinals.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
You handle business.

Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
But at the same time, when I look at the Texans,
I've seen their defense win them football games. I've never
seen Jacksonville's offense against a comparable team be able.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
To win it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
When it win football games like, I don't see that.
I see that with the other team. I see that
with the team that currently resides, that plays at Energy Stadium.
That's what's why I don't believe in the in the
franchise down in Duval County. They're a joke. They're duns.
They're not gonna do anything in the playoffs. They're gonna
be a one and done and Trevor Lawrence is gonna
go back to being the reality mediocre quarterback that has

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existed throughout the conference for the last five years.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Seven one, three, two and two five seven ninety is
the way to get in Susie, Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 15 (01:07:07):
I have a question if the text with the same record,
who would win the division?

Speaker 17 (01:07:14):
I mean, yeah, Sen, who would win the division?

Speaker 15 (01:07:17):
Does it go by conference or something?

Speaker 11 (01:07:19):
You have the same.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
You're cutting out, Susie. Well, I think we got your
question the tiebreaker with them in Jacksonville, who would win?

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
And he said he's asking who would win the tie.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
Identical records, So it would be the Texans, right, I
believe it would be the Texans. Now, it's low complicated
right now because if you've got to go through a
couple of different setbacks that would decide on how this goes.
For starters, the tiebreakers would be measured by head to head,
which means that because if they have a tiebreaker over
the Bills and they don't have one over the Broncos,
but if Jacksonville had one over the Broncos, then it

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both finished with the same Indivision record, then Jacksonville would get.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
The division lead. So depending on.

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
What happens, let's say let's say the Houston.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
Wins on out.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
Let's say that Denver loses next week to Jacksonville, but
Jacksonville loses to Indianapolis. Houston at that time would get
the head to head because they'd finish five and one
in division play versus Jacksonville that finishes four and two
in division play.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
But let's say that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
They beat Denver, but they and they beat Denver, they
lose to some random team and they beat Indianapolis, and
they're both saying at five and one. Well, now, because
if you're both at five and one and you have
the head to head, it then goes to the next
head to head afterwards and then goes to straight the
conference record.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
So then that means that the next couple of weeks
we're rooting for horses. Let's go horses.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
What do you mean, horses?

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Who?

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Because you get the Broncos this week for Jacksonville Colts.

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
Yeah, there we go. Okay, yeah, you see. You gotta
lead me down the pathway, dude. There's sometimes that when
you go that, when you say stuff. I'm like, I'm
trying to keep passing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
I feel like I did a pretty good job of saying, hey,
there's the pathway right there. Oh, you gotta leave me
down it. I just said, hey, there's the pathway right
You can lead a horse to water, It doesn't mean
he's good drink. I mean literally in this case, especially
with us talking about horses, like.

Speaker 6 (01:09:04):
Like yesterday's game had no tear. I've had no bearing
on any time. Breakers. Texans still own the path of
the division right now. If they went out and Jacksonville
wins out, they get the wild card. I mean that's
kind of case.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
I mean we said it last week too, that this
would be the most Texans season ever if you win
twelve games and it's still not good enough to a
when needed vision, but b be able to get you
a home game for a second straight time the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (01:09:30):
But does that mean that I'm gonna jump off the
wagon of saying that Jacksonville sucks.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (01:09:34):
I they could be thirteen and four and I'm still
gonna call them a mediocre crap show.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Well, I mean, I think the good news of all
of this is that, I mean, again, you know we
were talking about it, you feel like in the NFC,
the Rams are the team to beat, and the Rams
might be the team to beat in the in the
entire league, because I mean, as you were talking about
that too, I was looking and I was like, it's
not Tampa Bay, it's not Philadelphia. And I even think
to on point, like, I think that probably of all

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the losses that Texans had this year, Seattle is another
one too that they.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
Look at and they're like, we could we could beat
them if we play.

Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Them against See I don't worry about the Seattle game
because it just felt like that something was missing offensively
in that matchup. It was you also lose Nico Collins
for the fourth quarter, so remember he gets the concussion,
so he's out for the entire the entire final fifteen minutes.
The only game that I can say, honestly, it felt
like that they had no shot of winning. Just feels
like Los Angeles for some reason, because of the self
inflicted wounds that cost you multiple opportunities. The Jacksonville game,

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if you don't have the fumble by Nico Collins, if
you don't give up the forty six yard play to
Brian Thomas Junior, you win that one. The Tampa Bay game,
if you stop Baker Mayfield on fourth down, you win
that one. And honestly, the Seattle game, the only reason
why I feel like that that's even close, I mean
it's not close, is because of you had very little
offensive success. But the Denver game, I constantly am gonna

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say you should have won that one. Even with Davis Mills,
you should have won that one. All you need to
do was stop Bo Nicks and get Kayamie Fairy. Are
going to the field goal range and you win, and
then you're on a nine game winning streak going into
the final three games of the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
All right, it's not a bit steal, but the i'm
sorries are flowing. We'll have that for you right here
as we close out seven o'clock hour here on a Monday,
it's the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk
seven to ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:11:20):
Back to Dan and Cole as the Morning Drive cruise
is on.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
Well, I mean, that's the thing. I think.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
If anything, it's just going to be focusing on this
side over here, which is what our audience cares about.
But aside from that, yeah, you do, you want to
hear how bad it is?

Speaker 6 (01:11:38):
Just read the stat The twenty twenty five Las Vegas
Raiders have been outscored one hundred and two to six
in their last three games.

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
Is that good.

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
I'm not breaking down that game whatsoever. Texans are winning,
they're covering the spread. It could be forty two points.
I'm still taking the Texans to win and cover. Yeah,
it's gonna be interesting to see what the spread is
for that one. Because the Texans were nine and a
half year today. What do you think we're probably looking
at there like thirteen and I would say bare minimum fourteen,
bare minimum early. I'll tell you what the early line
is right now.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
So got that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
I got the rockets back on the floor tonight. They're
out in Denver taking on the Nuggets. Seven thirty rockets,
launch pad coming your way for that. And while Cole
scrambles that number, Fernando Mendoza the Heisman Trophy winner. Now,
I'd been kind of hard on young Fernando, and I
apologize for that. As I said, this is not a
bit steal, because you know, on Fridays the Matt Thomas

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Show with Ross will do the I'm sorries, you know,
and and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
Do their apologies. So what are you apologizing for.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
I'm apologizing for calling Fernando Mendoza corny because when he
won the Heisman, and you know, of course the winner
is uh Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, and everybody, yeah, all right,
you know Andre War is.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
Up there, everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
There are a few I canna say, yeah, I think
a contingent that uh, you know, maybe the quarterback played
at Vanderbilt and the family is from the New Mexico.
I think that probably would be the ones that I
didn't hear any booze, but maybe you know, they could
have thrown those out, so they were none too pleased,
but some mendoza.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
Of course, whenever you win the Heisman, you give a speech.
And as I've said.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
Before, Fernando's had some robotic appearances with the media before,
and so much to the point where I had said
that he was worse than Russell Wilson. Well, when it
comes to a chance to give a speech after winning
the Heisman, it's a chance for you to be able
to not only show the personality a little bit, but

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also to be able to command the stage at that point,
and Fernando took the chance to do that a couple
of different times, one of them given a shout out
to a person that's probably about all of our hearts.

Speaker 13 (01:13:47):
Mom, for my family's unconditional love and belief kept me
going and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
Pushed me forward.

Speaker 13 (01:13:53):
These are the people who built me long before football did.

Speaker 14 (01:13:58):
Mind.

Speaker 13 (01:14:00):
This is your trophy as much as his mine. You've
always been my biggest fan, You're my light, you're my why, you're.

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
My biggest supporter.

Speaker 13 (01:14:07):
Your sacrifice is courage love. Those have been by first
Playbook and the playbook that I'm gonna carry it through
my side, through my entire life.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
He told me that.

Speaker 13 (01:14:14):
Toughness doesn't need to be loud. It can be quiet
and strong. It's choosing hope. It's believing in yourself when
the world doesn't give you much reason to together. You
and I are rewinding what people think is possible.

Speaker 5 (01:14:28):
I love you. Nice moments and really really really nice
moment right there for.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
Those of you that don't know. For Nanda Mendoz's mom
is battling MS. She has wheelchair bound, she's losing her
ability to speak. She wrote a beautiful piece in The
Player's Tribune talking about what it meant for her to
be able to see her son be even honored for
this award, and just to go even a step further.
Fananda Mendoza kind of spoke of how much he wants
to get back to the community by honoring multiple family

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members in New York City and taking them out for
a shopping spree right before the highest Tevy ceremony for
those who were battling MS.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
So he has put his money where his mouth is.

Speaker 6 (01:15:05):
He's used his ability to a platform for a good cause,
and ultimately he's done a good job on the football
field where he won over I think a lot of
people when it came to his on field play.

Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
But then, like.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Dan just said, the cordon has run away, and the
sentiment kind of came on in and warmed your negative
three size hard on.

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
Whatever the hell of the gritch said that day, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
At least it was it was less dark that day,
I guess watching Mendoza give his speech and the doubted
part of it will come up in just a second.
But another part that I love too is his grandparents
were Aaron Fernando obviously is Cuban American, and he spoke
Spanish to his grandparents that were there, So that was
another nice moment. But this was his parting words that

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he had because Mendoza, I think, coming out of high
school was what like the two hundred and eighteenth prospect
in the state of Florida, goes all the way out
to cal Place quarterback for a few years, and then
transfers over to Indiana and puts the together the season
that he did. Like in a certain way, you could
almost say that, I mean, he didn't have the numbers
that Joe Burrow had, but it's it's like a little

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bit of a Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Burrow storing, although I mean Burrow, Burrow.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
Was a highly totted guy coming out of high school,
goes to Ohio State, he's blocked, so then he has
an opportunity to go to LSU and shine and have
the seasons that he did.

Speaker 6 (01:16:23):
But the other thing when it comes to Burrow is
Burrow had a really good first season at LSU and
then he just took.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
The world by storm like.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
And the thing was that when he was at Ohio State,
the only reason he didn't got on the field was
because Twyne Haskins was there, and then before that it
was JT.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Barrett.

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
So there wasn't an opportunity for him to break into
the spotlight. Where he started at Cow for two years
and actually got cal to a pretty prominent light before
they hired Brian Harson to be their offensive coordinator. Nobody
liked him, nobody liked had any of the offense, and
so he left him, went and played for Kirkseynatty.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
All right, So as mentioning about being doubted, and that
was exactly something that Fernando Mendoza spoke about during his speech.

Speaker 13 (01:17:02):
I want every kid out there who feels overlooked underestimated
to know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
I was you.

Speaker 13 (01:17:09):
I was that kid too, I was in your shoes.
The truth is, you don't need the most stars, hype
or rankings. You just need discipline, heart and people who
believe in you. And you need to believe in your
own abilities. I hope this moment shows you that chasting.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
Your dreams are worth it, no.

Speaker 13 (01:17:27):
Matter how big or impossible they seem. God bless goo hooders.
Thank you guys.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
All. Okay, nice speech, Good for him, listen, I'm all
for it, and trust me, I think that he won
over a lot of people. I will say. The thing
that does bother me is when you're saying stars don't matter.
Stars do matter. They very much do matter at helping
teams win national championships. Yeah, I mean you do have
to have talent, which I mean clearly he did. I'm

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sure probably just you know, a little overlooked, which that happens.
But also too, I mean development is a huge part
of it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
So I mean clearly he was able to develop well
enough out at California at Cow and then even able
to continue it at Indiana.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
So good for him.

Speaker 6 (01:18:09):
Okay, but can I push back and say the idiots
out there that did not have Diego Pavia on their
ballot to begin with. Do they need to go ahead
and take their votes away? I'm sorry, Are we giving
away an award because if it's supposed to go to
the best player in college football? Or are we giving
away an award because if we don't like the kid
and therefore we're gonna punish him when we just don't
think that he belongs in the pedigree of that Like,

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there were so many idiots and nitwits out there that
decide to put guys who weren't even on any ballot,
they were in tenth or eleventh in the voting, because
if they don't like number two, like I'm sorry, like
you want to go with Fernanda Mendoza, there should be
no pushback. But to say Haines King or say say
Ruben Bain from Miami, they deserve a first place vote

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over the guy who took Vanderbilt the second losing his
program in college football history to a ten win season.
You want to say that that he doesn't belong, that's
seeing conversation. Just write yourself out and say you don't
like football, that you hate the sport that you cover,
and more specifically, you hate the kid and that you
didn't want to give him any accolades or prints.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Well, he definitely didn't help his case with those people.
Oh he lost it all.

Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
I mean, trust me.

Speaker 6 (01:19:14):
I'm not defending his actions afterwards, but I'm saying that
in general, how do you not have him on.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
Your top three ballot? Like, can you truly.

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
Tell me four other players who were more impactful to
their team's success than what Pavia did?

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
He would have been my vote. That would have been
my vote.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
It would have been my vote. Mendoza would have been second,
and Jeremiah Love would have been third. I would have
actually gone Jeremiah Loved second. I would have gone to
Ferana Mendoza third.

Speaker 6 (01:19:36):
That's me personally, But again, I'm not saying that Bernana
Mendoza didn't deserve to win the award. I'm just saying,
please explain to me, other than the words I hate
Diego Pavia, why he was out on your ballot and
Caleb Downs was, or why Ruben Bain was or why
Haines King was. Because there were people who actually voted
first place for them and did not have Pavi even

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mentioned on the ballot whatsoever. And that's where I'm going
to push back and say you do not deserve to
have a vote for the Heisman Trophy if you're gonna
treat it like a joke.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
Strong performance just today inside NRG Stadium, and the head
coach very happy with it all the way around. But
if you ask them about this, you're not going to
get an answer that you expect. We'll discuss right here
as we get into the eight o'clock hour, as it
is the Morning Drive, Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:20:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
This is the Morning Drive with Dad and Cole.

Speaker 6 (01:20:52):
I'm gonna ask both of you this question before we
move any further. The over under of points scored in
this game is set at four twenty one and a.

Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
Half true or false. Oh, I'll stay true. Yeah, I'll
say true on that.

Speaker 6 (01:21:04):
False thirty seven and a half points. That's how little
they think of both offenses take Really, I'm thinking thirty
seven and a half points. I am taking the over over.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
Let's say that get that over. That's gonna be up
to like forty two by Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
Okay, So to be fairer, to be fair, and I
will agree to triple on this one. The Raiders are
coming up back to back thirty one nothing losses, so
you need to score thirty seven because it's very clear
they're not scoring any points. If they're not scoring any points,
do you think that they could score thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
Seven that the Texans?

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Yes, yeah, if they just did what they just did
against Arizona, I think absolutely against the Raiders for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:21:38):
Would you say, okay, would you say a forty two
nothing burger is on the horizon, Sure, I may lean
thirty eight nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
I would go that far. I don't think I could
go for two.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
Well, I mean, you know, forty two would just be
straight touchdowns, which we all know that's not gonna happen.
So you'd have a couple of Kaymi fairbarn Field goals
in there. I mean, yesterday, how many do you have
you had?

Speaker 6 (01:21:58):
You had four field goals from Kaymi? You had five
at times, Okay, so there you go. I mean you
were quite literally you were a block field goal away
from scoring on every.

Speaker 5 (01:22:06):
Single So we'll go, we'll go, We'll go three Emmy
field goals.

Speaker 6 (01:22:09):
Okay, so then you would say, what four touchdowns? Yeah,
so four touchdowns, three field goals, all right, so that
would be.

Speaker 5 (01:22:17):
Thirty seven. Okay, yeah, so there you go, right.

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
So you know you're still you're still over, you're saunder
it's at thirty seven and a half. You need thirty eight.
Vegas will get into the end zone, they'll kick a
field goal. Five touchdowns, two field goals. That will be
my prediction.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
Okay, there you go. You just heard it right there
from Cole Thompson.

Speaker 4 (01:22:31):
So anyway, so yeah, like we said, the Texans do
what they did. You get the Rockets back on the
floor tonight. Inconsistent just games lately for the Rockets where
you had the game on Thursday nights and then have
they played since then Nope. So yeah, so I mean
you had the break in between the Saturday to that

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Thursday nights and then you got the break again where
tonight they get back out there on the.

Speaker 6 (01:22:57):
Floor Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, back home on
Sunday on Janil.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
So you start to get back in the regularly scheduled
programming a little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:23:06):
I amaz starting on Saturday you do when you go
back to Denver for the Round two matchup, because you've
got a game against Denver. Then you're on the road
against New Orleans. Then you're back on the road against Denver,
then you have the whole then you play against Sacramento.
Then you're two days later playing in LA, and then
two days after that you're playing in LA.

Speaker 5 (01:23:24):
By the time that you get back.

Speaker 6 (01:23:25):
For the twenty seventh, when the Texans face off against
the Chargers, that I think is when you're back to
regular programming more so, I consistent. Two days off, one
day on kind of feel all right.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
So the Texans won their sixth straight game yesterday, but
if you ask Demiko Ryans about it, he's going to
act like that he does not know that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
I didn't even know six in a row. So he
just told me.

Speaker 9 (01:23:49):
It's truly is is the one game at a time mentality.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:23:53):
I know nobody wants to hear, but that's that's what
I believe. That's all what we can control is one
game at a time. I'm out handle business right each week,
that's what we have to keep doing down the stretch here.
We got to go out handle business. I told our guys,
you go out handle business each week, and you just
putting yourself in a better spot. So you just keep
going out control of a week, control and not really

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focused on all, right, what everyone else in the AFC
is doing. Focus on the Texans, focus on, you know,
stepping your game up and playing better.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
So he said six games.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
I think he was being a little sarcastic, okay, but
I think that Demiko Ryans is fully aware that they've
won six straight.

Speaker 5 (01:24:33):
I will go step further.

Speaker 6 (01:24:34):
I think that he thinks they should have won eight games,
and if not for a bonus fourth down conversion, they
would have won eight in a row.

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
I mean, and that's you know that I understand what
he's saying too, of like, you know, don't make this
larger than it needs to be. Don't, you know, think
about things that are already in the past. Don't think
about things that are in the future, any of those things.
Like I get all of that. Like I think that's,
you know, just kind of the approach he's trying to
And look to his credit, since they started going on

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this six game run, and he's been saying that he's
been talking about it's this game it's this game. It's
it's the one that you got in front of you,
which I mean for them, it's pretty much the way
that they've needed to handle this because you know, you're
not going to fast forward your way to making into
the playoffs. You've got to be able to get the
ten wins, then to eleven, and then hopefully even at twelve.

Speaker 6 (01:25:20):
So you know me at this point and how I
can't stomach the coach speak demeanor.

Speaker 5 (01:25:25):
I simply I think it's a I.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
Don't think most people who I you know, who are
not sensitive to having their their intelligence insulted. I think
that it's the one that their antenna is up towards.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
Here's what I will say.

Speaker 6 (01:25:43):
It doesn't bother me the Demiko Ryans is talking this
way after when against the Arizona Cardinals. And the reason
why is because you're supposed to beat a team like
Arizona in this type of fashion. You're supposed to beat
a team like Las Vegas in the fashion that you
did yesterday against Arizona. You're supposed to win these games
and you're supposed to outright show while you're the better team.
So I don't really care when it's these type of games.

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It's when you need to celebrate the big victories, like
going on the road and beating Kansas City for the
first time in your franchise with Demico Ryans as your
head coach, going on the road and handling business against
an Indianapolis Colts team that was in the division lead,
beating up on a Thursday night short week with Josh
Allen the raining MVP, and getting seven sacks in the
second half. Those are the type of games that you

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need to be able to celebrate a lot more these.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
I mean, and I say it all the time that
when you've won six straight games, you can have the
QTc sayings, you can have the cliches, you can have
the coach speak. That's that's fine because your fan base
is it's like, yeah, right on, coach, absolutely, you know,
one game at a time. Want to know every single week,
that's that's that's.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
That's absolutely what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
But you know, say they lost three games in a
row and you know you do stuff like that, then
your fan base is like, that's cute. Keep winning football games,
that's all we care about.

Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Well, I mean, go back to the very beginning of
the season and then talking about how we were a
few plays away. Yeah, we all saw it. You were
a few plays away. What are you gonna do to
change that so that we steer the ship in the
right direction? Like, I mean, that's just the bottom line
is that you're talking about a team that probably should
have beaten Tampa Bay. It's a team that definitely should
have beaten Jacksonville. You should have already clinched your playoff
berth and you should be fighting for a number one seed.

Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
But you're sitting here and saying, oh, we were a
few plays away.

Speaker 6 (01:27:20):
Well, those few plays is why you're starting off ozho
and three and now you're gonna have to make history
a second time.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
Why are you laughing like a madman?

Speaker 4 (01:27:27):
Because I'm gonna do my best to explain this to
the audience, because I'm remembering back to one of those
early press conferences and somebody asked a question about them
not being the seventy two Dolphins, and it was Matt
Thomas and Ross playing it live at the time, and Matt,
you hear him in the background going, what kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:27:45):
Question is that? What kind of question is that?

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
Well, they weren't the seventy two Dolphins. Nobody's the seventy
two dolphins. Nobody's going undefeated in this.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
That's what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
I hope I explained it well enough, but I just
I got the visual picture of Matt Thomas getting visibly ancreased, so.

Speaker 6 (01:28:00):
You're getting upset that Matt is losing a gasket and
the complete opposite.

Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
I was laughing at it because it was funny at
the time, and and I just I love when Matt
Thomas becomes snarky Matt Thomas, especially when it comes to
questions and press conferences.

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
I love when you see Matt Thomas trying to paud
his non fake hair then the top of his head.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
I don't think, and maybe it is like kind of
like one of those like you know they say it
with amputees that like you have like a phantom limb syndrome.
So I mean, like, could you have like phantom hair
syndrome for Matt? I mean, I guess I don't know
how long is he even bald? As long as I've
known him, so I mean that's over fifteen years.

Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
So then I mean at this point, I think it's
been a part of his repertoire. He is who he
is and he embraces it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
Normally I would say Matt would be listening right now,
but when he's on the road, I'm not so sure.

Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
But he's away, he's definitely hearing what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
I'll get I was going to say, you usually we
know when when Matt's listening, because then we get a
text from him, and you know, it's it's some sort
of factor.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
It's it's it's it's one way or the other.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
It's either mildly inappropriate or it's also just somewhat insulting
towards me and you back.

Speaker 6 (01:29:06):
To coach speak though, again, nobody cares when you have
this type of attitude of your winning football games, and
you are right on that standpoint. But for me, the
reason why it doesn't bother me whatsoever is because of again,
look at the competition that you're going up against. A
team like Arizona is fighting for a top five draft pick,
a team like Las Vegas is fighting.

Speaker 5 (01:29:24):
For the number one overall pick.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
And in years past you lost to a team that
ended up getting the number one overall pick like you
actually ended up hurting their case to guarantee a surefire,
no questions asked, they're getting the top selection. So when
I look at it from that standpoint, it doesn't really
bother me because of you're doing what everyone expects you
to do, Like I'm sorry, people want to go ahead

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and say, well, why are you not talking about this
Raiders game? This could be a trap moment. It's a
trap moment. If you're supposed to be good enough to
compete with anybody in the AFC, whether that be Denver,
whether that be Jacksonville, whether that be Baltimore, whether that
be Pittsburgh, you should be able to handle business against
the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
They can't run the football, their offensive.

Speaker 6 (01:30:05):
Line is a turnstile factory of sadness, their quarterback situation
is an absolute joke, and their defense is laughable to
say the least. Like I shouldn't be breaking down those
games because of you should just be able to send
your backups in Like this is the.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
Perfect performance of where Davis Mills. If CJ.

Speaker 6 (01:30:21):
Strout takes a hit in the first quarter and you're like, hey, hey,
let's let's let's let's rest him for the next week's matchup.
On a Saturday against Los Angeles, you throw Davis Mills
in the mix and he should be able to score
four touchdowns to cover the spread. What exactly is a
turnstile factory of sadness? Basically just a bunch of misery
that continuously never comes to an end.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
Okay, So it's like basically a merry go round that
never ends.

Speaker 6 (01:30:43):
Yeah, basically okay, it's like being in a twenty year
marriage and knowing that there's no one in sight and
let's you pull the trigger. Wow, I'll go dark on Tuesday. Matthews,
I don't really care.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
No, he just did. I mean, that's that's like one
of those where it's just like, man, that doesn't sound fun.

Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
It's a factory of sadness. There's not a lot of
joy in your life. Do you find joy in that standpoint?
You're in a loveless marriage where nothing ever goes good
for you. But oh my god, it can't get off
this merry go round. I gotta stay together for the kids.
That's what a factory of sadness is. And that's the
Las Vegas Raiders. That's been the Las Vegas Raiders for
over a decade, seems.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
Like it has been ever since that Super Bowl and
just never been able to get back there. But that's okay,
As I say, all the time. That's their problem. It's
not the Texans problem. The Texans, as Cole mentioned, fourteen
and a half point favorites for that one. Speaking of
things that you're willing to, you know, at least have
the stomach for, well, when things go wrong, but then
they turn out to be so right. That happened with

(01:31:37):
the Texans yesterday. And we'll let you hear the explanation
for it from both CJ. Stroud and Demico Ryans right
here as we continue on a Monday edition, it is
The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:31:51):
The Morning Drive with Dann and Cole on Sports Talk
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Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
I mean, they don't to me, but then they do
to most people.

Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Yay, you get Ole Miss two Lane, and then you're
gonna finish up that night with Oregon and James Madison.

Speaker 5 (01:32:09):
I'm gonna watch all four quarters of every game. No,
of course, yeah I am too.

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
I just I feel like, you know, of the competitive ones,
you're gonna get the first two that are gonna be competitive,
and then the other two will be just they're there.

Speaker 6 (01:32:22):
Watch the g five teams actually deliver a performance in
the first half that we're gonna be talking about, and
the other two games people outs, so.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Then it will be, oh, hey, the G five's belong here.
They don't. No, they don't listen.

Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
The entire argument that comes with the G five thing
has nothing to do with their record or their strength isscus.
Has everything to do with the fact of who they
faced off against during the season. If you do not
face off against one ranked team and you end up
blowing out all these rosters that finish five and seven
or six and six, and the only time that you
get to go up against a ranked opponent you get
blown out, you don't belong in the college football playoff.

(01:32:54):
Like that's what this entire argument comes back to. It's
not a oh, we haven't earned our right to be here. No,
you haven't name one team that you played that it
was competitive against, Like JM. You sitting here and being like,
we belong in because we won a conference title. You
played one team ranked in the top forty this year
and you lost by seventeen on a Friday night and
it wasn't competitive up until the fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Like, let's be real for a minute, guys, Louisville was six,
it was eight and four. This year you weren't good.

Speaker 6 (01:33:21):
And by the way, too, Lane, another team you got
blown out by a six and six utsa roster and
you lost to both, and you lost to the team
that you're facing off against this weekend, where the backups
came in and they ran for two hundred against you. Like,
this isn't me saying I don't love G five football.
I'm just saying you're not playing the same game. They're
not even remotely close.

Speaker 4 (01:33:41):
Well, what was not remotely close was the Texans and
Cardinals game yesterday. And by the way, too, the Woody
Marks touchdown. Did you know that it did not count
as a rush, no count as a fumble. Yeah, it
count as a fumble recovery. And that was a play
that probably in the past, you know, when the Texans
were going through their off times, well then you probably

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don't have that happen. But when things are going good
for you, seemingly the bounces go your way. So we'll
start first with Tamiko Ryans talking about said play, and
uh yeah, Dimiko says, you guys kidding jokes on you.
Of course, that was by design of course, you know it.

Speaker 9 (01:34:17):
Was design perfectly, perfectly ran play.

Speaker 5 (01:34:21):
I wanted to snap it right back to you.

Speaker 9 (01:34:24):
No, no, yeah, we gotta.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
Put that one in now.

Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
It's you know, sometimes the ball has to bounce your
way a little bit. They're a little miss you there
with Jake and CJ and uh, you know, Woody very
heads up play. To be able to just get on
the ball, press forward and get in the end zone.
Not how you draw it up, but sometimes when things
are going your way, you need some plays like.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
That to happen.

Speaker 9 (01:34:46):
And uh so I'm happy we were able to get
on the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Most importantly, well, and Demiico was not the only one
who felt that way, because you heard him talk about
the miscommunication between CJ and Jake. Andrews Well, the quarterback
talked about that in the post game as well.

Speaker 18 (01:35:02):
Yeah I think you know, uh, you know, I probably
say a gun in the huddle or something, and uh,
you know I went under center. You know I should
have been in the gun and then the ball snapped,
and you know Jake still thought I was, you know,
under center, So I mean, uh, in the gun.

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
So you know I put that on me.

Speaker 18 (01:35:16):
I gotta you know, be able to communicate, but you know, uh,
at least we got on his own.

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:35:21):
To be fair, I'm gonna push back a little bit.
I will say, if that ended up happening, if you
knew that this was a play that worked in your favor,
just just go down there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
With it, just just just leaning with it. Of course
we met snap it through two sets of legs.

Speaker 6 (01:35:36):
Guys, Guys, Jake Andrews was supposed to snap it higher.
It's all on him. It was always supposed to execute
that way. It was supposed to be that low Woody
Mars was lined up in the wrong spot. That's why
hit him in the in the in the knee, cap.
I mean, they go with it, lean into the skin.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
Only question that I I mean, the the only thing
that I kind of pushed back on is wouldn't you
know that another man's hands are in between?

Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
Like wouldn't wouldn't you feel that?

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
Yeah, I see what you're saying, Like you like you
said it was supposed to being gun, but yet you
see him underneath like.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Cow, how is that?

Speaker 4 (01:36:09):
Jake Andrews like not turning around and being like, hey, wait,
I thought you said gun. That's a good way to
put it. Man, I'm not how do you actually not
know that?

Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
I mean, that's was his hands.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
I don't know about you, but I feel like, you know,
if I were a center and you know, the quarterback,
I mean maybe it's just you know, you're you're so
used to that sensation.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
At this point. What would you be used to that sensation?

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Well, I mean just because it's happened so much so
it almost just feels like I don't even know, like
you just you don't even you don't even notice it anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:36:41):
There's no other way that I got to be a
sensation to begin with.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
Well, I mean, wouldn't you know if somebody has their
hands underneath your ass?

Speaker 7 (01:36:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
I would, because if it doesn't happen on the regular
for me. So that might just be the reasoning.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Maybe that's not off the record question that Jake Andrews
if I'm ever there, just be like, hey, like, do
you just like not even like notice that the quarterbacks there?

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
I don't want to know this, if I'm being completely honest,
I just want to.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
That's a fair point too, because that's one of those
like where maybe like you've got to have like a
good rapport, so like he would kind of know where
you're coming from, and you know that way has to
ask that question. See what the response can Well, again,
I wouldn't ask it on the record. It would be
you know, just one of those Hey, Jake, level with me.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
Okay, so off the record, I'm gonna punch you in
the face and we can go have this conversation later. Yeah,
off the record, this doesn't count toward me having assault.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:37:26):
I think you'd just be like, hey, I would try
to counch it as best as I possibly could. I'd
be like, hey, off the record here all right, and
and and just just so you know this is gonna
this is going to come out weird.

Speaker 6 (01:37:35):
But I'm glad that you preface that's already gonna come out.

Speaker 5 (01:37:38):
Yeah, so there you go. So just be like hey, like,
because that doesn't lower the tension in any way.

Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
How do you how do you not know that the
quarterback's hands are there? You definitely know the quarterbacks hands
are there. That The first thing I'm just going to
say is, dude, I messed up. Move on with this
comment a conversation. It's weird to me out you asked
that question. I'd be a little weirded out bout you.
How do you not know another man's hands or on
your ass?

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
What? Well? And in this case it would be under
because you know, either.

Speaker 6 (01:38:02):
Way, why is it near your moody?

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
Here's here's the thing though too, in all seriousness, I mean,
because if you're snapping it like it's a shotgun, you're
probably putting it with a little bit of force right there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:13):
We're lucky we're not talking broken fingers right now.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
Well you mean for seat drain. Yeah, see, but the
ball was so low that it just it hit the ground.
It never was near his hands, So.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
Maybe it was midst snap that like he realized like,
oh he's under center.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Like that's the thing is that you look back at
the snap, Dude, it hit the ground like it just
it like quite literally just went like on a bullet.

Speaker 4 (01:38:34):
So maybe that's the question then, And maybe it's not
the other way. I could just be like, you know, hey,
like when it was shotgun, like, it's it's less force, right,
You're just like basically like you're trying to get it
back with like some amount of force. But like you know,
like when it's an under center snap, like you gotta
you gotta make sure it's there.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
Again, I'm just telling about everybody here. Just play it
off like that was supposed to be the play from
the get go. Woody knew it was gonna be on
the ground. We knew we were gonna scoop it on
up the a gap was open, he jumps on in touchdown.

Speaker 5 (01:38:59):
That's just almost looked.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Like the play that won for the the mean Machine
in longest yard. Oh but the Fumblerooski, Yeah, that's pretty
much what they ran. I mean to an extent. Yeah,
I get what you're saying to an extent. But like
at the same time, the only thing that was missing
was for uh CJ to like pull off like Patrick
Mahomes did it earlier this year, where he was like

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this never works and then they snapped it and it worked.

Speaker 7 (01:39:24):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
Yeah, but like the play that that was the play
that won the game, the fumble Rouski was the one
that got them into the end zone to begin with.

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
Yeah, so the ball just stayed.

Speaker 6 (01:39:31):
Down when everyone else moved, and then what he would
have had to pick it up from that standpoint.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Yeah, and the and the guy said that he knew
that Paul Crew had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.

Speaker 5 (01:39:39):
And he would back him up on that.

Speaker 6 (01:39:42):
Okay, to be fair, that's one of the very few
movies that's a remake that I actually enjoyed him whin
the original I.

Speaker 5 (01:39:46):
Never even saw the original reference. The original was Burt
Reynolds and.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
He played and then Burt Reynolds was in this one.
He just wasn't Paul Cruwe.

Speaker 5 (01:39:54):
No, he But was he Paul Crew in the initial one? Yeah?
Was his actual name Paul Kruz? I think it was. Yeah,
I thought he.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
I thought that he just still stayed the character. But
I mean, I think he was supposed to be the
Paul Crew.

Speaker 15 (01:40:05):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:40:05):
But what I'm saying is he just stayed as the
character that was in the initial movie. So he wasn't
Paul Crewe. He just was the He was the baseline
of who Paul Crew was. Sure, Sure is his name
Paul Crew in the universinal movie?

Speaker 5 (01:40:19):
You're yelling? I don't know. I'll look it up.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
I'm asking you if you're saying that he's Paul Crew,
then he would have to be the Paul Crew in
that movie.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Or is he just the Paul Crew character persona in
that movie? Hey? As as the Italians say, Okay, patients.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
Okay, I speak English, so I have no idea what
you're just said.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
Just patience. We'll we'll find that out, sure we will.

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
And we'll also get to Gary in spring Gary, Gary,
you will be worked in. And also to continue talking
about the Sexans because it was a banner day for
a guy that was just looking for an opportunity. We'll
discuss all of that as we continue here. It is
the morning Drive, Dan and Cole SPORTSOX seven ninety.

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Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
Baby Texans, nice performance yesterday, Jair Jordan, fantastic in the performance.
You finally in week fifteen, get somebody on this team
that has run for one hundred and one yards in
a game, or at least one hundred yards in a game.

Speaker 5 (01:41:29):
So he does it? Buy one?

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
But I asked Adam Wexler yesterday when I looked down
and I saw I think it was eighty one yards
is what Jordan was at at the point, And I go, hey,
what's the most that somebody's run for in the game,
And in true wex fashion, he answers, how many yards
does your Jordan have?

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
And I said eighty one? He goes, that's it? Is
that really the most we've seen this year from a player?

Speaker 4 (01:41:53):
I think the most previous was what he marks had
sixty eight in a game.

Speaker 5 (01:41:57):
He had it last week against against Kansas.

Speaker 6 (01:41:59):
He's done it at two different times now, okay, but
last week he averaged two point six yards of play
and he only got it on twenty eight carries. So
the other one he had the big run in that game,
So I guess that that was the difference.

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
That's just it's so wexed to answer a question that way. Hey,
what's the most that somebody's run for this year? How
many does you are Jordan have?

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
Of course I don't care what wax. He is one
of a kind for a reason.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
By the way, we did find out that Burt Reynolds
was indeed Paul Wrecking Crew.

Speaker 6 (01:42:28):
I'm so glad that we decided to argue about that
for five minutes when we're just gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
Oh, I didn't decide to do anything. You were the
one who were so incensed by it.

Speaker 6 (01:42:35):
Well, I had to get us off the conversation of
talking about Jake andrews ass. I made to find a
way to go ahead and move into the different conversations.

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
I mean, I look, I appreciate, you know, the the
intentional steering right there.

Speaker 5 (01:42:47):
That was good by you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
But I didn't realize though, too, that the seventies longest
Yard was pretty much just like the current day longest Yard.
And I say current day because like longest Yard came
about like twenty years ago. It's crazy to think that,
But I mean, you had like Ray Nichke in it.
You had a lot of different NFL players, and then
of course this one you had. I mean, you had

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kind of like a mixed mash of everything. You had
professional wrestlers and uh former NFL players like I know that.
Uh Bill Romanowski was one of the uh the prison guards,
and then you had stone Cold Steve Austin was one
of them too.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
Well, you had Goldburg that was on the mean Machine.
Can he was?

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
He was on the mean machine? Y yeah, great colleague
was was on the mean machine too. Nelly Nelly Nelly
was the weird one for terry Terry crews had the
uh yeah, yeah, you know. I always love that part
in the uh the pickup basketball game between uh Michael
Irvin and uh and Adam Sandler.

Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
Protecting my nuggets.

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
Well that one, but then also where uh cheeseburger Eddie,
where he goes.

Speaker 5 (01:43:52):
It ain't easy being cheesy and he starts throwing cheeseburgers
into the stands. I just want to know where did
he get the cheeseburgers to begin with? He had a plug.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
I understand he has a plug, but how does he
have them at all times throughout the entire movie.

Speaker 4 (01:44:04):
He had somebody on the outside that was able to
help him out, and he had somebody on the inside
that was able to get him to him.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
I still think the.

Speaker 6 (01:44:09):
Best line of that movie is I got a bird.
His name is Ronnie. Will you bear tell Roddy that
you just got knocked up out? That still, to me
is the best line in the entire movie.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
It's a great movie, it really is.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
And our and our good buddy Nick Deturo part of
it too, Joey Diaz and it's you know, canna con
give me a diet coke?

Speaker 6 (01:44:27):
The best Joey Dia sorry that I've ever heard is
the one with him and Tom Sicker right before they
go on an airplane.

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
He he is one of Rogan's favorites. And like I guess,
like they were supposed to do some comedy like Showcase
in New Jersey once and he he said that like
he never texts, he always calls.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
He only calls you.

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
So they called him and were like, you know, hey, Joey,
we're about to go on stage.

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
I gotta be honest, dog, I never left Vegas.

Speaker 6 (01:44:52):
I got to ten millis got how much did you
really give me ten? All right, you're gonna think you
have a fan attack in the tube of this guy.

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
And Joey's quite a character. You can see the devil now.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
So I'm one, three, two and two, five seven ninety
is the number to get. And there's so many people
in the audience that have no idea what we're talking about.
All we can just tell you is just go look
it up. But Gary wants to weigh and good morning Gary.

Speaker 16 (01:45:17):
Hey, good morning guys, great show as usual. I was
telling my wife yesterday, I said, I can't wait to
get to work, turn the radio on and listen to
all the damn Nation seers mean because they're just you know,
they're just over and above a lot of ignorant fans
out there. But anyway, I just wanted to call in
with some positivity, as I tried to do normally. And
what a great time in Houston right now. You got

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the Texans started zero and three, what are they, uh,
six out of their last nine or or something of
that nature, winning six in a row or something of
that specal Way. And you got the Rockets winning Yay, Rockets,
Go Rockets. And then you got the Astros. They're an
off season so while two based getting some rest. So man,
it is all good in Houston right now. And plus

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Saturday morning, which is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
At eleven am, we.

Speaker 16 (01:46:04):
Got the my college team. The Aggies are playing, but
I'll take it. At least they're in the playoffs. So
I just want to shout out to my son in
law and to my my nephew that are just taro CJ.
Stroud out. He's so inaccurate. He's no good. They need
to keep there the quarterback going. I just want to
tell them to suck it for that one thirty eight

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QB rating and everything and everything looks good, man, Let's
just keep it going and uh and one just like
Ni coach, Oh that one, that one play on the
goal line. I was telling my wife, look at this coaches,
they're they're diversifying their offense. I thought it was a
design play, but you look at it and you don't
get that coast to the goal line and do these
play act with these trick plays. So but anyway, everything

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looks good. Guys, great show and keep the positivity running.
Appreciate y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
I appreciate Garry. Gotta love the good digs at the
son in law too.

Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
Yeah, that's the entire point of having a son in law.

Speaker 6 (01:47:00):
Just make fun of him and relentlessly put him down
as much as humanly possible.

Speaker 5 (01:47:03):
That's pretty much true. I mean, I agree with that.

Speaker 6 (01:47:07):
You're a terrible individual. You took my daughter. Hell yeah,
I hate you. Just go lean into it completely at
this point.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
Well, I mean, you know, I think that you can.
You can like the son in law. No, you're supposed
to hate him.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
That's my role. I don't think you hate him, but
like you know, I maybe in like relative terms, you're
supposed Okay, let me phrase it. You're supposed to be
the smart one of the crew.

Speaker 6 (01:47:26):
And whenever he says something dumb you call him out
for it and relentlessly make fun of him until the
end of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:47:31):
Well, I mean, we're guys, so that's really something that's
probably always in play, because like stupidity with with with
our species is never that far around the corner.

Speaker 5 (01:47:41):
I'll make fun of Gary son in law.

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
At this standpoint, you really think that Davis Mills was
the right call over c J.

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
Stroud. He was the only one.

Speaker 4 (01:47:49):
Look I'll get I'll give Gary some you know, Gary's
son in law some grace on this one.

Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
There was just part of the band of idiots that
decide to go ahead and start the Davis Mills slams.

Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
So you're gonna join in with Gary. Look at you
in the crowd fall. I don't. I'm not a crowd follower.
I am a approven I am.

Speaker 6 (01:48:04):
I am an improval list of understanding of what good
football is. And Davis Mills did exactly what you pay
him to do, hold down the fort for twelve quarters
and let your quarterback get healthy in a position where
you have must win games coming on up, and he
ends up not being the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:48:19):
Yeah, I said, he's like a kid when his parents
go out of town, when when he's in high school.
Don't burn the house down, don't get arrested. Sure, and
guess what he did all the things you want. They
didn't have any house parties. He didn't have anybody come
on over.

Speaker 5 (01:48:29):
I didn't. They don't have house parties. I'm just saying,
just no.

Speaker 6 (01:48:32):
Sticked that with an eighteen fifteen win, I mean a
sixteen thirteen win over the Tennessee Titans. You're throwing a
house party that night. Now you have a couple of
buddies over for a beer or two, and then you
go to sleep by ten. That was a step for
that one, you do.

Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
But for the Buffalo one, I would say, yeah, yeah,
throw a house party, have a good time.

Speaker 6 (01:48:47):
I mean the defense came on over and they destroyed
the house in that standpoint, but they.

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
Know, you know you didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:48:52):
You didn't have the house party. You went to a
house party. You just don't break any vases, don't break
any lamps.

Speaker 16 (01:48:57):
They went there.

Speaker 6 (01:48:58):
No, no, no, He invited his friends over to the house.
They pregame there, and then the second half they went
over to the buddy's house, where the Coles got caught
on him and they got arrested for destroying the property
because you had seven sacks against Josh Allen.

Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
That's what you did in that matchup. Am I wrong?

Speaker 7 (01:49:13):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
I mean that's someone else's house, to say the crabs,
that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:49:19):
You went over to somebody else's house, you drink their beer.

Speaker 6 (01:49:22):
You broke their vase, you got them in trouble with
their parents. They're now grounded, they're going to military school.
You were in their lives and you go away scott free.
That was the offense that day. That was you did
nothing in the second half that made Jor worry. You
did enough in the first half to guarantee you that
you were gonna win the football game, and your defensive
side to explode all over Josh Allen.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
That was it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
Razing aside, well, the offense definitely taking a step forward
yesterday as we were hoping they would. But one guy
in particular was especially good yesterday, and we will give
him his praise as we close out the eight o'clock
Cowery Here it is the Morning Drive with Dan and
Cole here on a Monday Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:50:02):
They are on Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.

Speaker 6 (01:50:10):
They also beig can't suy Chiefs fans, right, is he?

Speaker 5 (01:50:13):
I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:50:14):
I'm just saying, if you're a Yankees fan, you're probably
kat Patrick Mahomes fan.

Speaker 5 (01:50:17):
Oh is that the whole thing?

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
Like if you're an Alabama fan, you're a Yankees fan,
you're a Lakers fan, you're a Duke basketball fan.

Speaker 6 (01:50:22):
I think that would also mean you're either cowboysoys.

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
I was gonna say that the Cowboys are the ones
that everybody always and I think that you would be.

Speaker 6 (01:50:30):
Manchester United for the probably International League proper Boys.

Speaker 5 (01:50:33):
That's something along those lines. I don't know what you'd
be for hockey.

Speaker 6 (01:50:35):
I don't think you'd be Chicago, even though a lot
of people say Chicago.

Speaker 5 (01:50:38):
Maybe like the Red Wings or somebody. I don't know.
You really want to be a team.

Speaker 6 (01:50:41):
You want to for a team that hasn't done anything
since the two thousands. Okay, good for you, I guess, well,
but the end, to be fair, every team is doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:49):
The offense yesterday for the Texans able to do some
things that they hadn't been doing, so you mentioned it.
Cayomi Fairbear and four field goals so then you had
to have twenty eight points from somewhere else, and three
came off the arm of CJ. Stroud. One of them
came off a fumble recovery. That what he marks jumped
into the end zone, which, by the way, too, he
jumped from like the one and then he was he

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was like halfway in the end zone when he finally
landed on someone's back. I think he jumped for like
the three and then got kind of pushed his way,
So it was pretty impressive. Like I was just like, damn, man,
you you've got a broad jump there.

Speaker 6 (01:51:22):
Brother, all means do it? I mean, who the hell cares?
As long as you in the en zone, That's all
I care about.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
Well, c J.

Speaker 4 (01:51:26):
Stroud after the game, talking about not only his offensive
performance but also to the offensive performance as a team.
As I mentioned, he had three touchdowns. You're able to
get into the end zone at least from that way,
which was not a rush, but still a way that's
not a touchdown pass. And you would say that yesterday
was balanced all the way around for the Texans.

Speaker 18 (01:51:48):
Oh yeah, I think you know that was a goal
of ours, you know, coming out the case week, you
know it was just you know, not leaving anything out there,
you know, in the run or pass game. And I think,
you know, in practice, you know, we communicated a bunch
and then it went to the game and it you know,
it went over to the game and we executed a
high level. So I think it goes back to our preparation.
I thought we did a good job of add.

Speaker 4 (01:52:07):
Three hundred and ninety nine yards of total offense yesterday
from the Texans, two hundred and sixty of that from
the arm of CJ, and then the rest from the
rushing game.

Speaker 6 (01:52:15):
You had eleven drives, you scored on nine of them.
You were able to find your rand of the end
zone on four different occasions, you got into the red
zone on seven different trips, you walked away with points
on six of them, if I'm not mistaken. So overall,
you're kind of nitpicking again. I I'm not saying that
I'm underwhelmed by the performance. I am saying that there
are still things you gotta clean on up. But you

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can't really be beggars, can't be choosers when you win
by twenty points against a mediocre team.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
I would also say, though, too, that some of the
route concepts that I saw them running yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:52:45):
I was like, that could be open, that could be open,
that could be open.

Speaker 6 (01:52:48):
There there were times that I saw him just missopen
receivers and he tried to go for the second play downfield.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
Well, and then a lot of times too where he
would take the safe play where he's going underneath, and
you're like, yeah, you didn't have to do that, But
I wan't.

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
To argue with that one, because of as long as
you're gaining traction in some bit of positive yards, then
that's at least a win in my book, because there
have been so many times that we've seen him do
the checkdowns, or he's waited too long for a ball
to get on open and he throws the interception, or
he misses a wide open target downfield. At least you
were gaining some net positivity in that same point.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
I'm just saying that, you know, usually in games like this,
you know you talk about, hey, you know, don't show everything,
because I mean, you're getting close to playoff time. But
at this point too, I mean, it's not like whoever
they would play in the playoffs that they're not going
to have enough tape on knowing, hey, this is what
he looks for.

Speaker 5 (01:53:32):
This is what he wants. Any of these other things.

Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
You can show whatever you want, it's just about actually
being able to do it well.

Speaker 6 (01:53:38):
I think at this point you're just trying to gain
as much positive traction for your team and also showing
that you are able to handle business against whoever you
face off against. And this is where I hate the term.
I think it's a stupid phrase, but the nameless opponent,
this is what you want to see in these matchups.
You treat it like you would against a New England team.
You treat it like you would against the Los Angeles team.
And if given the opportunities to what a good repertoire

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and in an overall decent score, you need to capitalize
to put yourself in this position, which I think they
were able to do.

Speaker 5 (01:54:06):
For the Get Go Mar from CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
He knows that they're on a six game win streak,
but he also talks about how the offense has looked
in those six games.

Speaker 18 (01:54:15):
We started off a little rapid course and then you know,
you want to be playing our best ball in December,
you know, going in January, and I think you know,
since we're doing that is really good but there's always
things to improve on, and.

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
You know, we left we left a little bit out there.

Speaker 18 (01:54:26):
But I feel, you know, like we got better than
we did last week, you know, better for the last week,
and every week we just keep progressing. I think that's
all we can do right now.

Speaker 5 (01:54:33):
Okay, I haven't been negative enough yet.

Speaker 6 (01:54:34):
Today they were still problematic in the red zone, and
that's something that they could end up being the reason
why they don't win a playoff game.

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
Well, I mean that's something too that hasn't necessarily cleared
up as because I mean when you're in those short
yard situations, I mean, especially against these better teams, you
don't trust that they're gonna be able to win those.
I mean, they showed it against Kansas City. They're not
a playoff team, but still a really good defense with
Chris Jones, and you showed you couldn't win those battles
earlier on in the season against Denver.

Speaker 5 (01:55:03):
You're gonna be in some of those.

Speaker 6 (01:55:05):
You need to be again to Denver again, like literally
in four weeks you could be traveling up to Mile
High to go face off against them in the divisional round.

Speaker 4 (01:55:12):
And I mean, and that's something too that you know
in those games, those are the situations that matter the most.
I mean, those are the ones where you get that
you know, fourth down conversion and you're able to keep
the clock going and you're able to hold on to
the football.

Speaker 5 (01:55:25):
That's what matters.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
And I think that's something to go along with the
concern you just had there in the red zone. I
think it's just, you know, just overall, just offensive effectiveness
as a whole.

Speaker 6 (01:55:35):
Let me pick your brain on something real fast. Who
were you more impressed with by yesterday The five touchdown
performance and sixth total touchdown game from Trevor Lawrence against
the New York Jets or bow Nicks throwing four touchdowns
three hundred yards against the Packers.

Speaker 5 (01:55:49):
I'm gonna go with bon Nicks.

Speaker 6 (01:55:51):
I I feel like that we're at a point where
I'm disrespecting Denver because of the Texan should have won
that game. But that's the only reason I'm disrespecting them.

Speaker 5 (01:56:01):
If they end up playing out.

Speaker 6 (01:56:02):
The way that they should and they finished the season
with the fifteen to two record, they've earned the right
to call themselves a legit and tender in the AFC.
The only reason why I get them flack is because
I just think that the text should have easily beaten
them at home in week nine where Jacksonville. I think
it's fools gold, I really do. I don't believe that
Trevor Lawrence is actually turning the corner. I don't believe
this defense is that great. I don't believe that they're

(01:56:22):
able to put up this type of traction on a
regular basis, and that they're playing mediocre teams and that's
kind of stifling what their overall ideaity is like. It's
it's quite literally pushing up the agenda of who they
are as a program in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:56:35):
Well it's also too I mean, you know with Denver,
I was watching the post game when Bonnicks caught up
with Tracy Wolfson, and he even made that joke quick
where he was just like, I guess we just continue
to find ourselves in these games.

Speaker 5 (01:56:50):
Okay, sure, why not?

Speaker 6 (01:56:53):
Yeah, But to me yesterday I didn't feel like that
was it for Bonis whatsoever. I mean, they dominated the
second half. They won twenty to I mean they won
twenty ten in the point differential. He had four touchdowns
in a passer rating of one to thirty four. They
were great on third down execution. You know, yet you
were able to punch your way into the end zone
on multiple occasions. You were more balanced when it came
to your play calling, Like this is one of those

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games to where it felt like in the first half
that was what we were accustomed to seeing from Denver.
In the second half, they took advantages and said, now
we got to put together a drive to where we
know that we are the best team.

Speaker 5 (01:57:24):
In the AFC oh I'd say, just do it again,
do it again.

Speaker 6 (01:57:28):
Well, they face off against the team in Jacksonville this weekend,
so one of them is going to be fools Gold.
Like That's kind of the beauty about what the schedule
says is that I'm either gonna be vilified right to
say it's time to start believing a little bit more
in Denver and that Jacksonville's joke, or I'm gonna have
to eat crow because of either way, one of these
teams is walking away with a win and the other
one is going to show you who their true colors are.

Speaker 5 (01:57:47):
Like I said, these next couple of weeks, let's go horses.

Speaker 6 (01:57:50):
Jacksonville, Kansas City, and Los Angeles to close out the year.

Speaker 5 (01:57:53):
For Denver.

Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
If they do, they will be fifteen to two get
the number one seed. Jacksonville closed up the season with
Denver Indian out Listen, Testie, So I really think that
you need to lose too if you want to guarantee
that you gained some traction at least in the AMC
South Division.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
Well, twelve and five would give you an opportunity. I mean,
you know, just waiting to see what happens. Obviously with
the Patriots, they lose yesterday, So who knows. Maybe that
two seed is not al of the realm of possibility
for the Texans. Only time will tell. The defense yesterday.
One thing that we didn't see a ton of and
well for the most part, we haven't seen a ton

(01:58:26):
of it the last few weeks. We'll discuss right here
as we get into the nine o'clock hour. Here on
a Monday, It's the Morning Drive with Dan and Coles.

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Speaker 4 (01:59:05):
Texan's winning yesterday forty to twenty over the Cardinals.

Speaker 5 (01:59:08):
Next up are the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
They're nine to five on the season, Patrick Mahomes done
for the season. Torn acl and the Packers believe the
same thing. According to reports of Micah Parsons and College Football,
some news just came down as Pete the AMIL reporting
that Florida quarterback and willis product DJ Lagway intending on

(01:59:29):
entering the transfer portal.

Speaker 5 (01:59:31):
He's going to Texas Tech.

Speaker 6 (01:59:32):
They're gonna pay him a lot of money to go
work with Joey McGuire and macluff, which is offense, and
they're gonna keep the good thing rolling out in Lubbock.

Speaker 5 (01:59:38):
That's my prediction right now.

Speaker 4 (01:59:39):
There you go, and Texas Tech, of course off this week.
Of the four games that are being played, they wait
to see who wins out of Oregon and James Madison.

Speaker 5 (01:59:48):
I'll go ahead and spoil it for you. It will
be Oregon.

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
So will you will have Oregon in Texas Tech facing
off Agains.

Speaker 6 (01:59:54):
What I will say is that's probably the most intriguing
game of the second round because I see a scenario
where either one of those teams, whoever wins goes to
the National Championship.

Speaker 4 (02:00:02):
Between Texas Tech and Oregon. I love love defenses.

Speaker 6 (02:00:06):
I think both offenses have some things that they got
to work on, but there's enough to believe in what
you see from offensively, the return of guys like Decryan
Moore and Evan Stewart and having a good tight end
in Kenyan Sadique that Oregon could easily punch their way
to the semifinals.

Speaker 5 (02:00:21):
But I'm at Dalton.

Speaker 6 (02:00:22):
Texas Tech because of their defense has been a lead
all year and if they just get a few stops,
low scoring game, that truly, in my opinion, favors the
Red Raiders.

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
So speaking of defenses, the Texans defense, yesterday they're able
to get a turnover.

Speaker 5 (02:00:36):
That's nice to see.

Speaker 4 (02:00:37):
You get a special team's turnover too, that's also another
nice thing to see. But one thing that you didn't
see a ton of yesterday and really pretty much since
the Buffalo game, they haven't really put a ton of
pressure on quarterbacks. Last week, able to pressure Mahomes enough,
but the sack totals weren't necessarily that high, and yesterday

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only a couple of them. I didn't lies until heading
into the game I was watching one of the pregame
shows and they had mentioned that neither Daniel Hunter or
Willy Anderson Junior had gotten a sack in the last
three games. So Dan Neil got sacked though yesterday, but
he got one yesterday. Yes, so Daneil House was a
pre game. Yeah, I didn't know that either.

Speaker 5 (02:01:18):
I knew.

Speaker 6 (02:01:18):
I knew in the Indianapolis game neither one had to sack.
I knew in the Kansas City game, neither of them
had to sack because Sheldon Rankins was the only one
that got pressure in that matchup. And then Tommy Togy
I I think, was credited with the sack in that game.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
So then I guess it was the last two because
I mean because Buffalo was before.

Speaker 5 (02:01:35):
Because kids, they was before Kansas City.

Speaker 6 (02:01:37):
But I was gonna say, I know for a fact
that Will got a sack in the in the Buffalo game,
and I'm pretty sure Daniel got two of that game. Yeah,
so I think two and a half, so that would
have been So it would have been two straight games.
It's not three without Will Anderson getting a sack, all right,
But I mean still.

Speaker 4 (02:01:51):
A little bit of a loll between both of them,
which by the way, too, I didn't really read much
into this, and I was in the locker room post
Geme Well Anderson Junior usually speaks, declined yesterday.

Speaker 5 (02:02:04):
I don't took about it.

Speaker 6 (02:02:06):
Listen, there's gonna be a narrative that's painted around it
that he doesn't want to work with the He is
fantastic to work with the media. He's always does a
good job of answering questions. One day of him not
showing up in the locker room and again locker room
opens up later today. I guarantee you that people who
are there in person will be discussing how jovial and
how excited Will was about the win, Like did people

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will lean way too much into this negative connotation because
of overall stat lines or things are going on behind
closed doors that they think that they know everything. To me,
it's a moot point, Like there were so many other
guys you could speak to yesterday. I'm sure that we'll
will be able to speak this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (02:02:41):
Yeah, I mean that's the Again, you know, I was
with you not reading much into it. I mean, you know,
it could also be Hey, I got friends and family here,
like you know, I want to I don't want to
keep them waiting too long. Let me go do that
and I'll get you guys tomorrow. Because you will have
that a lot too of players, you know, you go
ask them if they got a few minutes, and I'll
get you tomorrow. Like you do have a lot of
guys that will hit you with that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:02):
Well, I don't even think that.

Speaker 6 (02:03:03):
I think as long as it's something that isn't a
consistent you know, a consistent thing that we're seeing, then
we'd have nothing to worry about. And that's kind of
where I'm at it. Like Will Anderson's been here for
two and a half years. Never once has he declined
an interview. Never once, as he said, hey, guys, not today.
So yesterday was the first time it's happened. I don't
put too much stock into that whatsoever. So you get

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the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, well, I mean he's
had enough good graces I think up to this point
to where you ask him, Okay, no problem, we'll talk
to you tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:03:30):
Now.

Speaker 6 (02:03:30):
If it becomes a common theme, if it's something that
where hey, not today, not today, I don't want to
talk this week, okay, then you can bring it up
into conversation but.

Speaker 5 (02:03:38):
Right now it's one time. I mean that there's nothing
to go off of.

Speaker 4 (02:03:42):
I would also say too, with the lack of quarterback
sacks in the games, the last couple of weeks seems
like holding is very optional to be called, and it's
the last couple of weeks has not been called.

Speaker 6 (02:03:57):
You mean like in the camp Okay, So the can
City game, you, I'll give you a little bit of
grace on that one, because yes, I know there were.

Speaker 4 (02:04:02):
A handful of them yesterday that I saw where like
one of them, in particular, Tommy togy I, was turned
sideways and I was like, how did that happen to him?

Speaker 5 (02:04:14):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:04:15):
He was turned sideways with someone's hand inside. That's a hold, Okay.

Speaker 6 (02:04:20):
But at the same time, I mean, let's when did
this happen. Was it in the third quarter or second quarter?

Speaker 5 (02:04:25):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (02:04:25):
So soil seventeen not the game, Okay, I'll give you
the benefit the dowll on that one.

Speaker 5 (02:04:29):
Yes, I see a.

Speaker 6 (02:04:29):
Scenario where you can absolutely get that cold call because
the Kansas City game, Daniel Hunter had one pressure of
the entire afternoon and I mean the entire evening, and
there were clear his day moments from where you could
see a third string center going up against an all
pro defensive end.

Speaker 5 (02:04:44):
They wasn't gonna be a bottle that they win.

Speaker 4 (02:04:49):
Well, and it turns out that they didn't because they
lost that one twenty to ten and the Texans were
able to turn Patrick Mahomes over.

Speaker 5 (02:04:57):
What three times? Four times? Three times in that game?

Speaker 4 (02:05:00):
Yeah, so you had you know, the last or one
and then al Shai Air and then of course what's
his name too?

Speaker 15 (02:05:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:05:06):
Back, I love that dude, Jalen Peatree. How could I
forget about Jalen peach I mean, Chris Collins were said
it was the greatest interception he's ever seen.

Speaker 5 (02:05:14):
That is a fantasmic.

Speaker 4 (02:05:15):
I don't think I've ever seen more of an acrobatic
interception in my life.

Speaker 6 (02:05:20):
I mean, how do you think he felt yesterday knowing
that he was never going to see Patrick Mahomes play
in twenty twenty five again?

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
Well, you do know that that is a stat line
that's been making, or in this case, it wouldn't be
a stat line to be a historical fact that for
the first time since nineteen ninety eight, we will not
have playoffs that include at least one variation of Manning,
Brady or Mahomes nineteen ninety eight, so all the way
since nineteen ninety eight. So okay, so you're saying since

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literally none of them were in the NFL, because that
would be the last time because Brady was was two thousand,
Manning was nineteen ninety eight when he got draft out
of Tassie, and Mahomes is twenty seventeen.

Speaker 5 (02:05:57):
So hold up, So are you sure that's right?

Speaker 6 (02:06:00):
Because did did they not make did they make the
playoffs their first year with Manning.

Speaker 4 (02:06:04):
Not his first year because I mean, remember he had
all the interceptions, So so the.

Speaker 6 (02:06:08):
Second year in ninety nine they made the playoffs, yes, okay,
and then two thousand they made the playoffs, but Manning
was the I mean, but Brady was the backup to
bloodso but he still was on the playoff team, right, Okay,
So now it's making sense because I was going to
say he didn't have his first big breakout season until
two thousand and two, two thousand and one, well one,
but then than two thousand and two was when they.

Speaker 4 (02:06:26):
Won, because that was the two thousand and one season
was they won the Super Bowl and people were wondering
if the fix was in because of nine to eleven.

Speaker 5 (02:06:33):
So you want the Patriots to win the Super Bowl,
who do they face off against? That year Rams? That
was it.

Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
That was the year before was the Giants and Giants
and the Ravens, and that was the that was the Uh, well,
why am I blacking?

Speaker 5 (02:06:46):
Honest name? He just got fired from UAB Traig dilferd.

Speaker 4 (02:06:49):
Yeah, that was and and that was like back to
like where you would have, for the most part, super
Bowls were not competitive games. You would have somebody that
was just far and away better than the other one.
So then second half you're just kind of like, all right, well,
let's go ahead and just finish this up and give
somebody the Lombardy. The last non competitive Super Bowl that
I can remember was the Broncos and Seahawks one.

Speaker 5 (02:07:11):
Like that was the one where the Seahawks just absolutely
was that.

Speaker 4 (02:07:14):
The fifty to nothing burger game. I want to say
it was something along those lines.

Speaker 5 (02:07:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:07:18):
See, I thought the non competitive one was the Panthers
versus Broncos.

Speaker 4 (02:07:22):
It became non competitive because you know, you had the
business decision supposedly made by Cam where you know, could
he jump on the fumble?

Speaker 5 (02:07:31):
Dude? I still think that.

Speaker 6 (02:07:32):
Honestly, that's the play that I will always remember Cam
Newton for in the NFL. And it's bad because if
he's an MVP quarterback that led us seeing the multiple
playoff runs and had incredible success out in Charlotte, But
like I only remember him for not jumping on the phone.

Speaker 4 (02:07:45):
And then also too the Broncos in Seahawks won in
New York or in this case Jersey. Remember that was
the one where the guy infiltrated the press conference and
grabbed the microphone from Russell Wilson and said, I just
want to let everybody know nine to eleven as an
inside job.

Speaker 5 (02:08:02):
I forgot about that one. Yeah, yeah, that was that
guy that did that.

Speaker 4 (02:08:05):
And then I think my favorite part of that was
Russell Wilson, Like, you know, it's just like who is
this guy? And he like kind of like you know,
like ducks back and security like kind of like gets
in between him and the guy.

Speaker 6 (02:08:16):
Forty three to eight was the file score that Super Bowl.
That was the last co competitive one because at least
with the Broncos when it was twenty four to ten
against h exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:08:22):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, because you know, you got to
turn over and then I think they got a light score,
and that's what I sit away for him. But I mean,
for the most part, it was a competitive game all
the way through. Seattle was up a mott mistaken thirty
six to noth What am I thinking about the COVID
year Super Bowl, the one in Tampa like.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
That You mean with that Patrick Mahonson with the BA
offensive line.

Speaker 4 (02:08:42):
Yeah, yeah, the Buccaneers just absolutely crushed him. And then well,
hell last year was not competitive either. It wasn't competitive
from the beginning.

Speaker 6 (02:08:49):
Yeah, But at the same time, at least you knew
that both these teams could win. Like I never like,
okay to be fair, when they when they faced off
against Brady and Tampa for that Super Bowl, I knew
that they did not have an offensive line that was
going to keep Patrick Mahomes up right. I figured that
Tampa Bay was going to easily win that one and
Bruce arians was going to get a championship. I thought
last season it was a very slow start for both teams,

(02:09:11):
but I knew that eventually, if one of them was
able to start hitting their stride at the right moment,
they were going to win that game. I never worried
about it. From the standpoint of that the Tampa Kansas
City game.

Speaker 4 (02:09:22):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's it's pretty much, you know,
just with that game always you want it to be
a competitive, fun game like the one the year before
with San Francisco and Kansas City that was fun, although
it was yet again Kyle Shanahan and the Super Bowl
where it's just like, is this like a little bit
of a blind spot for you there, Bud, Like, is
that what this game is? Because I mean three different

(02:09:44):
times they've been competitive with a chance to win in
three different times it's not gone their way.

Speaker 6 (02:09:49):
Yeah, And three different times. Also the way that they've
lost the game is in a similar fashion. It's because
of one element that was a problem throughout the entire
year eventually caught up to you in the worst moment
possible because again what happened last season their inability to
play in man coverage downfield. Their secondary was complete dog
crap and had a lot of misses.

Speaker 5 (02:10:09):
In twenty twenty, they.

Speaker 6 (02:10:10):
Weren't able to have any protection up front for Patrick Mahomes.
He was running for his life the entire game twenty eighteen,
they didn't have a good running game, and that ultimately
was why New England went the Super Bowl over them.
They always had that one glaring weakness throughout the year
to where they said, if we just stopped them from
doing this and we forced them to act this way,
they're losing every single matchup, and they did, and every
single one they lost because of their Achilles hill.

Speaker 4 (02:10:31):
All right, So Christmas gifts, we all love to get them,
and you know, as you get to a certain point,
you love to give them out too. But at the
same time, this is a Christmas gift that I heard
about yesterday that I'm like, come on, man, we'll discuss
right here. As it is the nine o'clock hour here
on a Monday, it's the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole.

Speaker 5 (02:10:51):
Sportstocks seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (02:10:54):
Back to the Morning Drive. Here's Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson.

Speaker 4 (02:11:00):
Seven one three two one two five. Seven ninety is
the number to get in. I mentioned Christmas gift time
and Cole, you've been around NFL locker rooms long enough
to know that, uh, the quarterback with the offensive lineman gifts,
that's a that's a big thing you know of.

Speaker 6 (02:11:15):
Usually it's if you just get them like an ATV,
or you get the right Rolex or something along those lines.

Speaker 5 (02:11:19):
Sure, sure, you know you want to be something meaningful.

Speaker 4 (02:11:22):
You want to you know, for the guys to know,
like like hey, you know, thanks, thanks for protecting me
all season.

Speaker 6 (02:11:27):
To be fair, I know a lot of people say
that a wide receiver is the quarterback's best friend. No,
that's the offensive lineman. Like, if I'm Nico Collins, I'm
expecting a nice dinner from CJ.

Speaker 5 (02:11:38):
Stroud. If I'm tied to Howard, I'm expecting to Roles.

Speaker 4 (02:11:41):
Shouldn't you be the one buying dinner, Like if you're
a receiver, like, aren't aren't you the one that's like, hey,
you're you're the one making it happen.

Speaker 5 (02:11:49):
You know, let me treat you to dinner.

Speaker 6 (02:11:51):
No, I think it's a I think it's a mutual way.
Maybe you go split the bill fifty fifty.

Speaker 4 (02:11:54):
Well, I think in this case right here, like for Nico,
you know, when I'm not trying to get into another's wallet,
because I mean that's the thing, you know, you don't
you don't get to know another man's wallet. You know,
whatever they make is what they make, that's their business
how they decide to spend it. But in this case
for Nico. I mean, we all know that he makes
significantly more than CJ. So at least for now, it

(02:12:15):
should be Nico picking up the bill.

Speaker 5 (02:12:17):
No, should be CJ picking up the bill.

Speaker 4 (02:12:19):
Like then he's got to pay for the offensive line,
and for Nico Dalton Schultz too. I mean, Dalton Schultz
can pay for I was gonna say, yeah, yeah, Dalton
Dalton can pay.

Speaker 16 (02:12:28):
No.

Speaker 6 (02:12:28):
But to be fair, Nico Collins is over one thousand
receiving yards this season. He's the third player in franchise
history to accomplish that feat three years in a row,
and he did it without without c J stopt for
three games. So therefore you lean in favor of I
think Nico not paying the bill.

Speaker 4 (02:12:42):
So yesterday on the NFL on Fox, it was one
of the rare times that you were able to have
Tom Brady and also Aaron Andrews in studio because they
were of course with Kevin Burkhardt on the Call of
the Lions and Rams. So NFL on Fox originates out
in LA That's where they do it, and one of
the segments they had was about the gifts. So Matthew

(02:13:05):
Stafford has given his offensive lineman extra large plunge tubs,
personalized scooters in the past from Kyler Murray, golf carts
courtesy of Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, custom pickup trucks
from brock Purty. And last, but not least, it's luxury
SUVs from Tom Brady to his offensive line. But here's Stafford, No,

(02:13:29):
here's the catch of all of it is. Andrews and
Thompson both pointed out the catch with Brady was that
the cars.

Speaker 5 (02:13:37):
Were on a one year lease.

Speaker 6 (02:13:39):
Wait a minute, so he bought these luxury suv for
his lineman and said, you only get up for twelve months.

Speaker 4 (02:13:44):
So he basically did Jelly of the Month club to
his offensive lineman.

Speaker 5 (02:13:48):
That's horrible. That's straight up.

Speaker 4 (02:13:50):
That is a straight up assault in my opinion in
that se I mean, it's look, you know, I appreciate,
you know, the effort with the luxury SUV's.

Speaker 5 (02:13:57):
It's very nice of you.

Speaker 4 (02:13:58):
That's that's all fine and good, But like you know,
like Dak Prescott a few years ago did the the ATVs,
you know, like the full on ATVs that like you know,
it's it's it's the car version. It's not the old
version of like a four wheel motorcycle. In that case,
it's it's you know it it's a glorified golf cart
at that point that of course, you know you can
take it off road. So I mean like something like that,

(02:14:21):
like you know, you have a bunch of guys, like
was it Logan Ryan that talked about bow hunting right
there near Patriot Place? And Belichick called him out and
was like, hey, no weapons on you know, on on probody.

Speaker 6 (02:14:33):
Somebody brought in a somebody brought in a crossbow and
they put it in their locker room for when they
were at a practice room.

Speaker 16 (02:14:38):
Right.

Speaker 6 (02:14:38):
I don't remember who it was, but I want to
say it was because they were right next door to
where they went by.

Speaker 4 (02:14:42):
Yeah, that's that's That's exactly it. Because they were like,
you know, hey, you know, we just I think like
they went and got like a turkey hunter or something like.
I forget exactly, Like yeah, maybe it was, but like
they just you know, they said they just went and
they were like, all right, well we're already here, so
we'll just go to the facility.

Speaker 5 (02:14:56):
Yeah, but why don't you just leave it in your car?

Speaker 4 (02:14:57):
Is my question and the only other one that's kind
of reminds me of that. As you know, Ben McDonald,
former pitcher, he does a lot of college baseball stuff
and he does stuff with the Baltimore Orioles. He had
a pet alligator at the time, and he brought it
into the clubhouse and they were like, Ben, you can't
do that.

Speaker 6 (02:15:14):
Was it like the one that like that was like
an emotional an emotional support animal.

Speaker 5 (02:15:19):
It was like a.

Speaker 4 (02:15:19):
Small one, like it was like a you know, a
smaller alligator and like just to like mess around, Like
he brought it into the clubhouse and you know, and
they were like Ben.

Speaker 5 (02:15:28):
Like we got to talk to you, man. You can't
do that. No, you can't do that.

Speaker 6 (02:15:32):
It's not like the one that's like the like the
dwarf one that the dude had that was like an
emotional support one. Wally like, you can't bring a live
pet like that into a side of a city. So, like,
emotional supporting animals are dogs and cats. Those those are
the ones. I don't want to support. Cobra like that
would not just be fun to have an emotional support
mongoose at your disposal.

Speaker 5 (02:15:49):
No, no, I don't want to either of those. I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:15:51):
I don't I don't need a black mom, but I don't.
I don't need any of those are.

Speaker 6 (02:15:55):
Just going through customs to have an emotional support goldfish.
Wouldn't that be fantastic?

Speaker 4 (02:16:00):
And it just seems like it could be kind of
messy for everybody involved, including the goldfish.

Speaker 6 (02:16:03):
No, I think the golfers would appreciate it, just traveling
from place to place all time.

Speaker 4 (02:16:07):
But I mean, let's get back to the you know,
the topic at hand here the one year least, Like,
come on, Brady, you've got more money than God. Like again,
I'm not gonna be the you know, getting into your wall.
It's like I always love that whenever you know, somebody
donates and then people are like, oh that's all they gave.
Oh did you give ten thousand dollars? Because if you
gave ten thousand dollars and I'm willing to listen to you.

Speaker 5 (02:16:28):
We'll see. There's the problem.

Speaker 6 (02:16:29):
I got a checking account in a savings account, and
the checking account's got to be in process with the
savings account the exact same time.

Speaker 5 (02:16:33):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:16:34):
You don't know the joke, do you, no, Kevin Hart, Yeah,
Kevin Heart, I've been checkings, I've got savings account.

Speaker 5 (02:16:40):
How do you know.

Speaker 6 (02:16:41):
I'm genuinely surprised with how much comedy you listened to that.
That's one that you don't know. This is probably gonna
draw a lot of people off sides. But I put
Kevin Hart in the same category as Dane Cook. Okay, explain,
because if Dane cooked Circle two thousand.

Speaker 4 (02:16:57):
Fifing, it's the noises that's like, you know, it's like
all right, like, is this supposed to be like part
of your bit? Because I feel like the bit needs
to be the spoken word, that's the bit.

Speaker 5 (02:17:09):
So what you think that, because we'll hold up.

Speaker 6 (02:17:11):
But Dane Cook, like in his first stand up special,
was fantastic. It was when you try to make him
an a less actor. Yeah, and then you know, people
start to get tired of it because it was the same.

Speaker 5 (02:17:21):
Hold up are you?

Speaker 4 (02:17:22):
It was just like, are you like trying to do
like Tim the Toolman Taylor. I'm kind of lost here
on the bit that you're trying to execute.

Speaker 5 (02:17:28):
So hold up.

Speaker 6 (02:17:29):
So you're saying that Kevin Hart is basically just Dane
Cook light pretty much? Yeah, Okay, from an acting standpoint,
I'll give you that. But from a comedy standpoint, I
think he's great.

Speaker 4 (02:17:37):
I do love the you know, the back and forth
that he and the Rock have. That that one does
crack me up. In the Halloween bit that they did
a few years ago, that was really good. Hey, kids,
the Rock's giving away pennies and raisins to.

Speaker 5 (02:17:51):
Me when it comes back to the whole thing, but
Tom Brad.

Speaker 4 (02:17:53):
You're giving away the good stuff. I am giving away
the good stuff, but not to you.

Speaker 6 (02:17:56):
With Tom Brady in the least thing, I why not
just go ahead and do the eight At that standpoint,
like if you're just gonna go ahead and spend what
would be the equivalent of about two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in cars, just give it to them for life.

Speaker 4 (02:18:07):
At that At that moment, it's kind of like, you
know a place that you used to work at where
it was Christmas bonuses, But then we came to find
out that the bonus money came from something else. So
we were like, oh, okay, well where it come from?
I have no idea?

Speaker 6 (02:18:22):
So how so okay, so hold up, So how was
it a bonus if it came from if it did
you actually get it in your account every single year?

Speaker 5 (02:18:29):
In this case, it was straight, straight cash. So they
gave you.

Speaker 6 (02:18:33):
Cash instead of an actual but they robbed some money.
That was the thing took They took money out someone
else's wall, and they said here.

Speaker 5 (02:18:40):
I'm not naming names where this was. I'm not naming names.
I'm just saying that it did happen. Did happen around here?
Did happen? No? No, no, no, Okay, I know I
know where you're at.

Speaker 4 (02:18:48):
Then well, I mean you might, you might, I know
it is, but I'm just saying though, I mean, look,
when when it comes to the gifts, like.

Speaker 5 (02:18:56):
It is at least even really a gift.

Speaker 4 (02:18:58):
No, it's not a gift at all. That's the problem.
Like now, like you kind of just gave me like
a burden, is what you gave me? Because then it's
all right, so I get this car, But then do
I want to continue to pay for it, which most
of these guys were, being honest, probably could afford to
just say, you know what, fine, I'll least to own.
I'll just I'll just buy a car. What if I
thought the car model was stupid, Okay, that's fine. You

(02:19:20):
just drive it for a year, or you just turn
it back in and just say, hey, look it just
wasn't for me.

Speaker 5 (02:19:24):
Sorry. I appreciate the effort, but it's just I just
wasn't there.

Speaker 6 (02:19:28):
Sorry, Like I mean, like, if you're if you're honestly
struggling to give someone a gift, I'll tell you right
now what the perfect gift.

Speaker 5 (02:19:32):
What the perfect gift is cash. Let them pay for their.

Speaker 6 (02:19:35):
Own gift, and then you send them a picture afterwards
thanks for the gift.

Speaker 4 (02:19:39):
I mean cash for like teens, Like I would say, like,
that's that's the one. Although it was funny because one
of my buddies that I worked with, he said that
he would do that with his nieces and nephews, and
then we were like, well, wait a minute, kids don't
spend cash now. So he was like, so what am
I supposed to vend my mom? I'm like, yeah, that
probably would be the way.

Speaker 6 (02:20:01):
I always just say cash, Just just give me cash
and I'll pay for it out of my own pocket.

Speaker 5 (02:20:05):
Whatever I get, I'll call out to win.

Speaker 4 (02:20:07):
I mean, because there's very few places now because most
places now go the complete opposite way their cash lists.

Speaker 5 (02:20:14):
So then it's like what do I do with this?

Speaker 6 (02:20:16):
Okay, so just zelmi that at that standpoint, put put
fifty bucks in my account in the not just Venmo. See,
I don't like Venmo. I don't like people knowing how
I'm able to spend money.

Speaker 4 (02:20:25):
You don't know how to do the private setting. I
do it all the time. I never had the private
setting on, yeah, and I do it all the time. No,
just tell me that's the problem. I don't have to
worry about a private setting. You can't get into my
bank account if I don't just tell you about it.

Speaker 5 (02:20:36):
Well, I mean, one way or another. Just be able
to make sure that nobody knows. See, I didn't know
you could do that. Thought. The entire point of venmo
was supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
Like this, just like Facebook almost like where you can
you know, do you want to have this go to
everybody or you just want to have to go.

Speaker 5 (02:20:49):
To like one person? You can? You can set that setting. Yes, see,
you learned something new every single day. Band Matthew's with you,
so next time you use it'll help you out with it.
There you go. I don't use venmo though I hate memo.
That's pretty much all I use. Really, So you're not
a zel guy.

Speaker 16 (02:21:02):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:21:03):
Why Because I tried to set it up and then
I had to jump through this hoop and another one,
and it just it it wasn't worth it.

Speaker 5 (02:21:09):
At that point, I was like, I've got venmo.

Speaker 6 (02:21:11):
So the message of the day is that keep everything
private and make sure that when Tom Brady gives you
a lease, you tell him just give me the money.

Speaker 5 (02:21:17):
Yeah. I don't want people.

Speaker 4 (02:21:19):
It's not like you know, you know how much I
sent somebody, but like, no it in this day and age,
and a buddy of mine brought this up a few
years ago, and it's so true. We give away more
information than we need to be given away. So when
it comes to like stuff like that, I don't want
you to know that I gave somebody money, because you
know what happens. Then somebody reaches out to you. Hey man,

(02:21:41):
I'm really you know, I'm really down right now? Can
you help me out? Oh? Are you okay? I mean, look,
help your friends and family when they need help. But
you know it's also though too, It's just like, hmm,
I wonder why I just got this message from.

Speaker 6 (02:21:54):
You seven ninety Why did you get that message from Matthews?

Speaker 5 (02:22:01):
Well, there's there's been some rough times in the past,
but we're past those. It's fine. It's okay, I guess.
I mean, I don't. I don't even know what the
rough times you're talking about are. I mean, you know
we all go through them, you know, do we? Yeah?
It's you know the song you find out who your
friends are? You find out who your friends are? Who
even sings that? Tray Sakins that saying it? I have

(02:22:22):
no idea.

Speaker 4 (02:22:23):
I'm trying to remember, but I just remember it in
the music video roy Oswalt was in said video.

Speaker 5 (02:22:29):
Was he really? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:22:30):
He was doing the inclined bench press and he can't
he can't get the last rep out and somebody spots him.
And as part of it, as you find out who
your friends are, so you had somebody that was there
to spot him.

Speaker 5 (02:22:42):
You learned something new every day, don't you dare there?
You go?

Speaker 4 (02:22:44):
All right, So let's get in a little bit of
college football because it seems like nobody wants this job.

Speaker 5 (02:22:49):
We'll discuss that also too.

Speaker 4 (02:22:51):
As we mentioned the DJ Lagway news, so we'll talk
about that too as we continue here. It is a
Monday here on the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole
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Speaker 5 (02:24:27):
You certainly don't want to miss instantly.

Speaker 4 (02:24:30):
Depending on how things go for the Patriots the rest
of the way. I mean, that's the thing with the Texans.
Let's go Denver this week, because it seems like Denver's
got that locked up.

Speaker 5 (02:24:40):
The number one seed.

Speaker 6 (02:24:41):
Yeah, I will be very shocked if they don't end
up getting the seat at this point, like they would
have to.

Speaker 5 (02:24:47):
Pretty much lose the next three games. Yeah, you also
would need New England to win.

Speaker 4 (02:24:53):
And I think they've got the Raiders somewhere in there too.
It's it looks like Denver is gonna have that. But
I mean the Texans nine five, New England eleven and
three weirder things have happened.

Speaker 6 (02:25:03):
Denver closed at the year with Jacksonville, Kansas City that
won't have Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 5 (02:25:07):
And the Chargers.

Speaker 4 (02:25:08):
Okay, so there you go, and then the Chargers will
still be fighting at that point, probably even though the
Texans could hopefully take care of business. See that's one
we will talk the Chargers game.

Speaker 6 (02:25:18):
Well, yeah, because that's a game that actually has playoff
implications on it, right, and both of those teams are
fighting not just for I think playoff rights, but an
easier pathway to get to the divisional round.

Speaker 4 (02:25:27):
Because I mean it would also be too if the
Texans are able to have the same record as both
Los Angeles and as the Buffalo Bills at that point,
if you won that game, then you would have the
tiebreaker over both of those teams.

Speaker 6 (02:25:42):
To me, the big thing is just like I want
to right now, I want to face off against Pittsburgh.
Like the only reason why it's so important and dire
to win that game against Los Angeles on the road
is not just for you know, you to finish the
year eleven and six or even twelve and five. It's
the fact that you get to now face off against
the Pittsburgh Steelers team that has no momentum and no
offensive identity and may just be lucky to get on in.

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Or you get to take on Lamar Jackson, who again
their team struggled yesterday to get a win over the
Cincinti Bengals up until the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (02:26:13):
And on the college football side, Michigan's still looking for
a coach.

Speaker 5 (02:26:17):
Does anybody want that job?

Speaker 4 (02:26:18):
Because you see that Caitlin de Borr put out a
statement yesterday where he was like, haven't talked with anybody.
I'm not looking to go anywhere. Effectively, I'm not going anywhere. Okay,
So let's just start off with this. If you're Alabama,
what do you expect him to say?

Speaker 5 (02:26:34):
In this standpoint?

Speaker 6 (02:26:35):
You're en route to have a playoff game on the road,
your first playoff game in the twelve team model. If
you win that game, you have to face off against
Indiana on January first, So automatically, the earliest that you
can become made available is Friday. On top of that,
if you win that game, and I think that Alabama
is going to win that game, the earliest you could
get on in is the new year.

Speaker 5 (02:26:55):
You're not leaving a team that's in the playoff.

Speaker 6 (02:26:58):
When you're at a blue blood school, like the difference
between the whole Lane Kiffin and Kaylin. The board thing
is there's what maybe two jobs that you would look
at that are better than Alabama, like in history, Ohio State,
maybe Texas or Ohio State, maybe LSU. Outside that, when
you're out a place that's already at the premiere peak
of blue blood mentality, there's no point to go anywhere else.

(02:27:19):
I think that that's kind of where you're at at
the standpoint. So not that nobody wants a Michigan job,
it's that when it was made available and the options
that you have that you think are actually good enough
for this job, you got to ask yourself, is it
worth giving up on my team that I'm already finding
success with to go to a program where the expectations
are nearly the same.

Speaker 5 (02:27:38):
So it's a lateral move at best, It's not an upgrade.
The only thing that.

Speaker 4 (02:27:42):
I think, you know people would believe that he would
leave that job is maybe there's a feeling of nothing
I do here will ever be good enough. If you
win a national title, well congratulations, the guy before you
won six of them. You go ten and two, well,
congratulations during our heyday of run, those were the worst
years for us around here. So I mean, like, that's

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the only reason that I would see Calen de Boor
saying you know what, maybe somewhere else does sound fun.

Speaker 6 (02:28:09):
But to me, what it comes back to is this
is the new Norman college football. Like, let's just call
a spade a space. The Lord of State loss is inexcusable.
But let's say that you lost to Georgia and you
lose to Oklahoma. Okay, well, two teams in the playoff.
I get that you're complaining about that. I understand that
it's not a good look. But still nobody is going
to love the one with that schedule. Nobody is going

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unscathed with that schedule. Georgia, who in my opinion, is
playing like the best version of themselves in college football
this season up to this point, they lost again to Alabama,
who has kind of fallen off the face of the
earth over the last four weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:28:42):
It's just not possible.

Speaker 6 (02:28:43):
So to come in with this mindset of you gotta
be saban esque, you gotta have the exact same mentality of.

Speaker 5 (02:28:48):
What Nick did. It doesn't work.

Speaker 6 (02:28:49):
And that's the whole thing is that we've talked about
this many a time, dude, is that whenever you try
to replace Saban and do the Sabanism things outside of
the building of where Saban.

Speaker 5 (02:28:57):
Was, it ended up backfiring all the time.

Speaker 6 (02:28:59):
Maybe that's what was necessary for Alabama because let's just
be let's be honest, Alabama has not looked like itself
since twenty twenty when they played in the COVID year
because they haven't won a national title since then, and
they've only been to one playoff game since then.

Speaker 5 (02:29:11):
It's crazy, I think that that's true, but it is.

Speaker 4 (02:29:14):
And I mean, and how how weird would it be
too for them to go back to the place that
ended Nick Saban's career, the Rose Bowl.

Speaker 6 (02:29:22):
Oh yeah, that wasn't And it was against a Big
ten team too, Yeah, it was against It was against
Michigan and overtime. Yeah, I think And now that I'm
looking back at it, and you brought this up like
they were showing like signs of like him playing in
the SEC Championship and like wapping up Kirby, I think
that he knew that regardless this was this last season,
Like I don't think like there were so many people
that came out with statements afterwards and said, you know what, then,

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il with how many kids running in the transfer portal
and they were having agent phone calls right after losing
in the Rose Bowl. I think his mind was made
up well before then. Well, I mean, and that's the thing,
is I mean it sounds like that. Yeah, I mean,
I'm sure probably just where he was and you know,
his career, where he's like, what else do I really
need to do? And at this point do I even
want to do all these things that I have to

(02:30:03):
do now, all of the hoop jumping that you have
to do with this day and age in college football. Okay,
but let me flip it onto you, your ward manual, who,
by the way, should not be the athletic director at Michigan.

Speaker 5 (02:30:13):
With probably won't be when this is all said.

Speaker 6 (02:30:15):
And done, but so he should not be in charge
of a coaching search, just in my hubble opinion. If
you're a ward manual and you're trying to find the
next head coach at Michigan, are you settling for some
of the names that are being brought on up or
are you swinging big?

Speaker 4 (02:30:27):
I mean, I think you have to swing big. But
it's also though too. I mean, you're not gonna get Kiffin.
You're not going to get I don't think you're getting
too board. I'm just gonna throw that out right now.
I don't think that.

Speaker 6 (02:30:39):
I don't think it's a statement that is like filled
with false hope or sense of stability.

Speaker 5 (02:30:43):
They're not getting.

Speaker 4 (02:30:44):
It's just I mean, for him, it's you have to
completely start over, because I mean, I would say that
Michigan's going to be in the same boat as like
a Penn State, where you're gonna have to really hit
the portal hard to be able to stay competitive. I mean,
because there's no there there's no guarantee that Bryce Hunderwood stays.

Speaker 5 (02:31:03):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (02:31:04):
I mean, if I'm in link Kiffin right now, I'm
making the phone call up tarreon Arbor and asking how
much is it going to cost you to get out
of your deal?

Speaker 5 (02:31:09):
That way we can bring it down here.

Speaker 6 (02:31:11):
Because remember he was committed to LSU all the way
up until the last one man him and Joe Sloan,
so like at this point, well.

Speaker 5 (02:31:16):
Why if you're Kentucky, why don't you go after him?
Are you good? I don't have the money to afford.

Speaker 4 (02:31:21):
Him, probably not, but I mean still, I mean, I
mean the relationships are nice, but yeah, I mean it's
it comes down to the money when it's all so.

Speaker 6 (02:31:30):
But if you're trying to hire the next head coach
at Michigan, you're not just settling for a guy because
if he's been made available, like you have to swing
big because this is a premier job.

Speaker 5 (02:31:38):
In the sport's it Brian Kelly go hire.

Speaker 6 (02:31:40):
Him that might end up being the best playing which
again it feels like it's malpracticed because of the way
things ended with him down in Baton Rouge. But still,
I mean, proven track record, a guy who's one of
the multiple levels and it has been to the national championship.

Speaker 4 (02:31:53):
There's thought that Brian Kelly will wait out this year
and then once Wisconsin blows out Luke fickle, that he
would go to Wisconsin. Really, what would be the reason
behind that big ten job is a place that's won
before and that he could win again.

Speaker 6 (02:32:05):
But basically also not having the pressure of having a
little bit to certain expectations and go okay, that makes
sense because honestly, I thought that when John the Smith
that got fired at Michigan State, it was gonna be
him or Papazcherald, Like I just figured that that was
gonna be where he landed. But Wisconsin, I don't disagree with.
You have to swing, though if you are Michigan, you
can't just settle for it. Like I think Kenny Dillingham
is a home run higher because of what he's been

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able to build with the lack of resources in tempeeurs
I mean in Tucson, Arizona, tene Tempe, Arizona. So I
think that there's a reason why that makes a lot
of sense. But like that's the move that you had
the swing for, because if this is a premier job
and you need a premier coach, you can't sell the
identity of well, let's just bring in some random guy
that I think may or may not pan out.

Speaker 4 (02:32:46):
All Right, there's terrible takes and there's the one that
made its rounds on social media this weekend that I
don't think anybody's gonna agree with. We will have that
for you as we close things out here on a
Monday edition of the Morning Job with Dan and Cole.
Is you got the Matt Thomas Show with Ross coming
up next. As we'll continue here Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 8 (02:34:31):
Town Bell Morning Drive continues. Now, now here's Dannan Cole.

Speaker 4 (02:34:39):
Oh no, no, no, no no, and he will We'll
be joining us after I share with us this Bryant Porland.

Speaker 5 (02:34:46):
Who have no idea who this is? On Twitter?

Speaker 4 (02:34:49):
Now, you know the meme that has the guy that's
standing up in like a town hall or like you
know whatever it is, and it's usually used for people
who have unpopular opinions. Well, he said meme of the
guy wearing the jacket standing up, and his take was
Army Navy is overrated and completely waste what could be
an awesome day of football by being the only game

(02:35:11):
on Bryant.

Speaker 5 (02:35:13):
Tweets like that could be left unsaid.

Speaker 6 (02:35:16):
Well, to be fair, dude, I hate to be the
very bad news. You're already wrong because there was another
game on that night.

Speaker 4 (02:35:21):
Yeah, it was Washington versus Boise Sea and it was
a complete and total blowout by the future Michigan. And
then earlier in the day he had South Carolina State
in Perry View, A and M.

Speaker 6 (02:35:29):
Playing and you also had a couple of SCS playoff
games there go awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:35:32):
Same, so he had plenty of football. Bryant, I can't believe.

Speaker 4 (02:35:35):
Why do you hate on America's troops? That's what I
was gonna say. I mean, that's the one I think.
If you're hating on the Army Navy game, then you're
you're hating on the military.

Speaker 6 (02:35:42):
Honestly, I understand if you believe ex rivalry is better
than the the rivalry in college football. But I think
that we all agree that in sun capacity, Army versus
Navy is top three.

Speaker 5 (02:35:51):
It's just it's the.

Speaker 4 (02:35:52):
Football on the field, which both teams are actually pretty decent.
I mean, Army had six wins. I think Navy was
native ten to two and they got a tenant Tailors. Okay,
so so there you go. I mean, so Navy was
a ten win team. I mean, you know, so they're
actually pretty competitive. But I mean it's it's also too
we all know what this game has. It's much more
than just the football on the field. It's you know,

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the cadets, the march ons, all all of that kind
of stuff that goes with it.

Speaker 6 (02:36:18):
Well, see what I loved about this game is that
we actually saw the forward pass be integrated into the
into the matchup for nave both teams, the way that
they score the game winning touchdowns a touchdown touchdown pass.

Speaker 5 (02:36:28):
Who would have thought that ten years ago? Boy, that
full back dive.

Speaker 4 (02:36:31):
I mean, there was a time where if you were
a fan of full back dives, that was your game option.

Speaker 5 (02:36:36):
In the beer. We always love running that stuff, all right,
Larry and Stafford, Good.

Speaker 2 (02:36:40):
Morning, Larry, what's going on, gentlemen?

Speaker 5 (02:36:44):
What's up? Let it rap?

Speaker 2 (02:36:46):
I don't I don't know why y'all trying to eat
up all this time so I can't get at Cole
lass Man. Don't don't be trying to, you know, monopolize
the time, so y'all can get out before I chop
him up a little bit cold. I told you, I
asked man that football was gonna be a little different
for you this week, man, because you was out there
on them streets talking about how you don't believe that

(02:37:07):
the Texas can do this because the offense ain't showed
you nothing. Then they would put that Fardy Burger up man.
And now you're talking like you still got a little
hesitation in your boys. Then you come on the radio
talking about all you gonna remember are Cam Newton for
is that he didn't dive on that football. See the
reason why you have these kind of issues because you
sound like you still was eating Gerba sluts, bananas and

(02:37:29):
strawberry Gerba food when all this stuff was going on. Well,
you got a veterans out here and understand how this
thing go. Look it's a real simple thing, man. You
see what your eyes are telling you. The Texans got
a legitimate football team and a legitimate franchise quarterback, and
they got a legitimate chance to win the AMC South,

(02:37:49):
to take their ass to the Super Bowl in the
AMC Championship. The thing about sports is this, It's all
about when you get hot and when you get the momentum.
And from what I'm seeing after what they did to
the Cardinals yesterday, we know they garbage, and we know
the Raiders are coming in here garbage. But you know
what you do with garbage. You set it out there

(02:38:09):
on the curb and watch the garbage man pick their
hands up and dump them cans in that and that being,
and then you go get your transcand and put it
back in your garage. Cool. You got a lot of
course knowledge, but you're still with me.

Speaker 5 (02:38:21):
I agree with you on this, Larry.

Speaker 6 (02:38:23):
Are we gonna be able to put this behind us
and start fresh tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (02:38:26):
Yes, sir, put this behind it eventually.

Speaker 5 (02:38:29):
Alright, So we put this behind us, we start fresh tomorrow.
Texans are going to the super Bowl representing the AFC.
I agree with you, Larry. There we go see look,
mending fences. That's what we do here on the morning Drive.
We also wra up against the clock. So I just
want to get out of here. It's all good.

Speaker 4 (02:38:46):
He's col Thompson, Triple Emmanuel Elmoret and Matthews said Matt
Thomas Show with Ross coming up.

Speaker 5 (02:38:53):
We will talk to you in twenty hours.