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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbrey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
To usc truths. Longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Texans preparing to take on the Titans is coming weekend,
final game of the regular season, forty nine Ers and
Lions and Monday Night Football Tonight SEWN Triple League. Good morning, Shawn,
welcome back. Hope you had a fantastic Christmas holiday vacation.
A lot of football we'll get into over the weekend.
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, good man, what's happening? Ain't nothing but the rent Dog. Yeah.
It's good to be back, is it. Yeah, it's great
to be back. Yeah, there's a ton of football and
a lot to like with all the football schedule coming
up with the player often, there's a lot to dislike
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about the Texans offense, you know, not being here since
that game. I thought they humiliated themselves on Christmas. I
thought it was a It was as embarrassing and as
soft as I've seen for a team that's going to
the playoffs, and their offense is a major weakness, and
it's unfortunate, but it just is potential. We consider, say
potential potential. We are sixteen games in, they got one
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to go, and they'll beat Tennessee. I'm not so sure
I have to sit them all down. I may need
a little work for a half, honest to God, because
they go in. You watch the way Baltimore and Detroit
and Minnesota and Green Bay and Buffalo and Kansas City,
and you're getting the Chiefs now at they're very, very
They're they're turning into their best. You start to look
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around the league. This offense is a I can't believe
I'm saying this, but they're just a bunch. It's just
a bunch of dudes right now. Yeah, it's not. It
doesn't invoke fear in anybody, and they they'll make some plays,
but the level of consistency you need to be successful
at this is very difficult. It was disappointed. I thought
they were. I thought they went out there and quits
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not a fair word, but it looked to me like
a team who was disinterested and they got their ass
handed to them on a platter they had. I mean,
I'm not even say play hard. They were the fight
in them. It's not one thing playing hard, but the
fight of just defending your home field and showing up.
It was blah yeah, and I it was a bit
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shocking to me that this team. I would have never
thought they'd go into the season with us, And by
the end of the season I was saying that, yeah, man,
this offense is in the quarterback and the rhythm and
the play caller. Or after what I saw a rookie year,
different team play like that, you'll be eliminating in the
first round. Won't matter who you play, the Chargers or
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whoever it is, they will run rough shot over you.
But they still get to get a home game, and
quite frankly, they don't. I mean, I know they wanted
this division, but if you were just seeing it not
by home, they wouldn't deserve a home game. It's the
equivalent of giving a home game to a team that's
not you know, it's not a pad that because they
wanted a lesser conference in college football, and that's what
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it is. Yeah, because quite quite frank you say, what
you want their division is is just it sucks for
Borderline Putridge. Yeah, so its not good. Yeah, I just
it's it's a it's a tough watch and they not
play well. So and then there's you know, with all
this college football stuff in the playoff coming up, and
how's that going to turn out? The stage is set
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for a hell of the next few days, and we'll
see how it turns.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, you look up and down the playoff standings in
the NFL, and Kansas City's offense is better, Buffalo's is better,
Baltimore's is better, the Steelers, the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Hell, the Broncos with Bo Nicks is a.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Better offense right now than the uh No, that's a Texans.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's a fact. Washington commanders better.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, Vikings are much better, head and shoulders better than
a lot of teams, and they're not getting enough pub
as it is. They're going to go into Detroit in
a week for the number one seed. Whoever wins that
game is gonna be the number one seed in the NFC,
and the other others is gonna drop to the five seed.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Least talked about least talked about fourteen fifteen and two
teams or fourteen and two team now that I can remember,
in my entire life playing broadcasting, there's never been a
team that we just say, oh, you can't go fourteen
to two by accident. Right in that division with the
Packers and the Lions arguably, along with the AFC North,
the best division of football. The way they're playing this year,
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and say what you want, Donald's rejuvenation and the way
they've done it has been amazing because outside of Jared Goff,
Donald's been the best quarterback in the NFC. Yeah he
just has he casually just thrown for over three bills. Again, Yeah,
the guy has been great. So this, this team here
has a lot to fix. And then over the weekend,
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you know, in the games and stuff, we can go.
I mean watching by you kick Colorado's asses, I mean
it was unreal. And then you know this is going
to go. You'll get people arguing, if you're healthy enough
to go and break a record and not worried about
getting hurt, then why are you quitting at halftime in
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a game your team needed you and lost by a point.
I well, because he could have got hurt in the
second half. Great, So then don't play. Then just set
it out, sit it out, sit it out, which obviously
enhance all great player had a phenomenon. Has nothing to
do with that. I just think teammates in twenty twenty
four and twenty five are not really good teammates. I
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don't care what you say about the guy. Is it
going to affect his draft status?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I sure, as I'll tell you this, if you got
the guts to take him or Shador Sanders with the
first overall pick, you're risking your franchise good players. But
to me, top first round picks, yes, first pick up
the draft. Are you Are you willing to commit your
franchise to either one of them right now?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Not any of the good I'm not talking about any
of Carson Beck who's going for the NFL Quinn you were,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't pick a guy that's in this
draft as a quarterback. First. I can think of eight
guys i'd take before the quarterback not doing it. And
cam Ward's a hell of a player. As I was saying, well,
he's better than Jim Kelly and then they stop it
and Bernie coming got a long way. He has a
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yurinated to drop in the NFL. Let's slow down. Great
college career and he may be great at the next level.
What's he on his third team in college? So yeah,
I think he's on his third team, which that's okay. Yeah,
that's what we allow the rules set up, but please
spare me the comparisons to Hall of famers right now,
and as a teammate, I mean, like I said, he's
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got the I mean they all have the right to
do whatever they want to do. With the way that
this is set up, I still think it's weak. Don't
tell me it's about not getting hurt and then play
a half to break a record and then say it's
about getting hurt, not saying he said overall, if you're
afraid of getting hurt, sit the whole thing out. I
know here and here I've already heard the excuse. Well,
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they wanted it wasn't him, it was a coach who
said it down. They wanted to see that's a built
in ex So you you actually think crystal Ball would
have said, yeah, you sit down the whole game if
he was given the choice. Of course, he wants him
to play. Yeah, and I understand why you want to
sit out, But if you're going to do that, so
you want to get the record and then sit out,
say and I know people will argue that my old
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thing is sit out the whole time. Okay, that's just
the way the rules as I still think it's crappy,
I'll give it. Listen, Hunter, and at least Hunter and
Sanders on that crappy ass offensive line the way they've
played at times this year. They showed up. Yeah, they
played they should and Hunter made an impact. What's new?
And Sanders, I mean the least he's sitting in there
taking hits and finishing the thing. I'll give them hell
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to me. And I'm not Dog and Camwell because there
are a lot of people in that same situation, but
please spare me the great team just to you know,
he didn't want to get hurt, then don't show Then
don't put a uniform on the whole game, because it
it reeked of. He had to go get the record,
which I don't blamed. Go get the record, then go
get the win, then finish it out. If you don't
do it, don't don't get in at all. So there's
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so much that. But you know that ship has saled me.
If somebody offered me a college coaching job right now today,
you wouldn't take it. I would not, for they could say,
sean quarterback coach at USC for a million dollars tomorrow.
And you know what, I guess You'll always negotiate and listen.
I have a hard time taking the job considering knowing
no matter how hard you recruit, no matter what relationship
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you develop, it doesn't matter. If you're not paying them
more than the next thing, you're not going to get him.
They got to spend well, I'm getting ready for the
for the draft in December. You get so this, this
half of football in a big game. I can't wait
till we have a big time player sit out a
playoff game. That that, and it's coming. I'm just telling
you it's coming. The twelve seed at some point in
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time that doesn't think they're gonna get through it. It's coming.
So you don't have Doug, Please please don't tell me.
I have to love all these kids' decision. I think
most of their decisions to transfer, quite frankly suck if
you ask me. And most of them are gonna get
paid in the thing, and very few of them are
going to play on Sundays. But I honestly, there's other
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things I do. But I'm talking about to coach. Oh,
you want me to go be a general manager for
some college, I'll listen, But I'm talking about to coach
right now. And you know how much I love coaching
and teaching I do. I love it. I'm not sure
with the landscape that I could that I could look
a guy in the face say this is a great decision,
go play a quarter and a half or two cours
and sit out.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, college basketball just lost another long time coach, Jim Lairnega. Yeah,
Miami's all time winning as coach. Well, step down because
he's literally exhausted with an il and transfer.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well, you'll get the you'll get the people. And now
I'll say, well, he just he just an old man
that can't keep up with the recruit Well, even the
young guys are gonna I'm just telling you, the young
guys you see running it in about five years when
they get a little gray hair. The thirty year old coach,
he's gonna hate it. He's gonna flat ass hate it.
Because if your school doesn't keep up with it, you
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can't keep up with winning. It's just the way, it's
the lay of the land. If you're not paying, you
ain't playing for the most part. So, like I said,
it's not just for one guy. I like I said,
if you don't want to play in it, don't play
in it. You reserved there and your code. That's fine.
I refue and I saw some of these young guys
who came in for guys that wan't going to play.
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I like the energy he saw these younger guys, said,
you know what, I'll go play hard. Let's go, and
I like it. So yeah, great. I just I just
disagree with all that. You know what, it's not that
big a deal because this one opinion. Oh come on, Boomer,
it has nothing to do with that. I just as
a great team and once I start a game, I'm
finishing it. If you're not going to start it, fine,
sit out and let's go play the young guy and
see what happens. But after all that, it was a
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it reeked of the only reason he wanted to do
it was to get the record. Had nothing to do
with health, or he wouldn't have started the game in
the first place. So I just there's so many layers
to it. But I would have a hard time now
accepting a job like, hey, come to our court. I
guess you can never say never. Depending on who the
head coach was, I'd listen, but I don't yearn for
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it anymore. I'll coach him on the side could they
can't nil my private lessons. You want to leave, that's okay,
you already paid. See you yeah, see you later. Okay,
don't care about that. But if you want to and
it costs you. And as a matter of fact, now,
if they're making more money, guess what the training price
is going to be. It's going up too, because it's
taking my time away. So but once you decide do
you want to transfer to do all that, I don't
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know how these coaches, quite frankly, on a daily basis,
actually handle it well.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Larrynega for Miami before he's in his step down press conference,
if you will, eight of his players after they made
the final four, said hey, we're leaving. They just made
the final four, and he said he had eight of
his guys be like, hey, we're transferring after the uh
not because.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They don't like it, because you would have left earlier
if you didn't like it. It had everything to do with, well,
let's go and see if somebody get me more money
because we're in the final four. And maybe one of
those kids transfer because he wanted to play. It was
backing up. I don't know, but eight and you so
all this and we'll get don't bury the lead about
the Texans. Anybody that thinks the Texans are a championship
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caliber football teams on crack that they are anything but
that did you watch the whole game?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I watched.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I watched it just to find out where the fight was.
Not Playing hard saved that saved the speech for the
playing hard because they didn't. If that's where we're actually
going they they got. It was a bitch slap right
across your face, humiliating in your building, in front of
your families, they pumped you. And when it comes to
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physicality on on on the side, Oh but it's it was.
It was like I said, it was double a baseball
versus a bunch of all stars on out of a
World Series Astros team. That's what corpus. It was a
hooks first them, No disrespect to the hooks, but you're
just over match and that's exactly what it was. And
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they better get it fixed or they're gonna get humiliated
their own a building because right now, the way they're playing,
they don't deserve a home game. Yeah, in truth, I don't.
They sure don't.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
All right, let's continue to talk about these Houston Texans.
What in the hell is wrong with the offense. That's next.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Why isn't the rat race more racy? Road construction completely
shutting down the Southwest.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Freeways anyway, enjoy your time crawling through Houston Road construction with.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
More shown Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh my goodness, Sean, did you see it? Saw that?
I didn't see the live game. I saw the highlight
he launched Tyler Heroes little lass like it was. It's
like he was a schoolyard bully, man. I don't like
a rag doll. I didn't even see the final score
of the game. They lost by four. There you go. Okay, yeah,
so they're twenty one and eleven now, but yeah, a
little brawl if you all, a little little pillow fight,
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you know, but that's a basketball. Yeah, but it's still
I guess I didn't see it live, but I did
see the highlight of Yeah, Ka got tossed.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
He did get the hev ho man. I love that
dude as a as a head coach. Here, my goodness,
we should love him too. Some accountability involved, which is
a good thing. And they got some attitude with this
rocket stand. Now they're definitely taking uh taking it from
their head coach, which is fantastic. And uh, on the
flip side of it, talking Texans, what is wrong with
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this offense? We've talked about it every single week, even
in their wins and their losses. What is wrong with
the offense? Well, why don't you go the other way
and tell me what you like about you? Tell me
I'm not talking about individuals that have potential. I get
all them, I get all that. You tell me what
you like about the offense right now. Uh, you tell
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me what you love and you say we can sustain this.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
This is the best we've.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Ever done well at at You know, for a while
it was the running game with Joe Mixon and now
it's he's pretty much m I a in it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, what's happened there? I have no idea. So to
answer your question, there's not much they've got. Defensively, they fly,
remember they still give up some plays now they got
they still got pushed around the last recream and I
know they were without a couple of players, but they
got hammered and Lamar and Derrick Henry, they they said
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him alive. I did whatever they want, anything they wanted
at any point time in Mounkin that's how you call
a game. And I mean he's been so good for
for Baltimore. I like I said, there's pieces to like.
How do you not like Joe Mixon's toughness, But where's
he been? How do you not like the the the
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the potential of c. J. Stroud? But he really has been.
It's just some simple stuff that he's missed that's possible.
I feel like there's a bit of anxiety for him
in the pocket. It's not as smooth and he doesn't
look his bored in the pocket. He looks too, a
little more frenzied than I like to see from a quarterback.
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And it looks different. And I understand when you take
those hits. But quite frankly, he can't change it. You
have to while we see it and say, man, I understand,
you still got to stand in there and deliver like
you normally do and make the simple play. Now, Nico Collins,
he plays angry. Yeah. I almost don't feel it's too
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It feels too acceptable. I mean, am I wrong? Maybe
it's just me because it's from a distance. And I
don't forget know one thing that some former players, they
forget that they played how tough the game. Actually, I
know how tough it is, but and it's not about
playing hard, it's about playing smart. And after sixteen games
in having an idea that they're doing this to you,
So how do you respond? It just feels like I've
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said it for a lot of for a couple of
months now, their attention to detail and their foocus on
the little details of the game are not the same. Offensively,
they're just not whatever that is. I don't care if
you want to call it Slowik or Demiko. I saw
people as Demiko lost the team. I don't know the answer,
but I see just hints of regularly because when something
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happens weekly and the trend is weekly, offensively something has
happened multiple times every week, where you're like, offensively, I
ain't got to the defense yet. The attention to detail
is missing, the consistency or the level of focus, whatever
it is. Do I believe they go and thinking, oh,
we're going to leave. No, I know they play hard.
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Who doesn't. If you don't, then I suggest you take
two weeks off, quit and find a new job or profession.
So I don't is it a career or a mission
for them?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
To me?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A mission is the way to go? Is it just
a career? I'm coming and I'm picking up a check.
I don't know, but I can tell you this. When
you repeat the same thing over and over and over
again and the trend kick kicks in, you can't help
us sit back and say, why is this like?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
So?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Are they not teaching it properly on the practical which
I find hard to believe? Are there not focused? Did
they were? They're not able to handle the offseason success
from last year? You know where he got success? And
everybody's doing commercials and everybody's travel. Has that carried over?
I don't know. I think it's a little bit of everything.
And quite frankly, this offense is underachieved. What about discipline? Oh,
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I think they've gotta be like And with that question,
that's such a basic question. Let me take that back.
Discipline and motivation. As you know I've said a million times,
motivations temporary, disciplines permanent, and there has to be something
to it because the only thing permanent about this offense
is that they're constantly inconsistent.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So last year, less playmakers, I think that's fairs. That's
this year very fair, better playmakers, all the way around
on both sides, less disciplined. I don't get it. More
veteran players on this team this year, I just don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Okay, So is it attention to detail during the practice week?
Is it on Sundays? Do they actually think because they
won ten wins, anybody gives a crap about what they
did last year when they go play them. The Baltimore
Ravens weren't getting home field advanced throughout the playoffs. They
still had start to play for against the Texas because
they're bat on what the Steelers for the division and
all that. But did you see one looked like it
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was on a mission. The other looked like it was
breathing aside that we're fortunate we got in. Yeah, and
they both played that way, Meaning the Ravens played like
they're a team that intends to play in February. The
Texans played like a team that couldn't wait to get
the game over and let's just let get to postseason
and hope it's one's working on wish and one's working
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on work. Yeah, the Ravens are working the states, and
I'm sure they're working, but it feels to me like
the Texans are wishing their way through some of these games.
I wish that we'd get protection. I wish we'd make
a play. And that's not going to last song. Like
I said, I don't ever get somebody's head in question.
They've got guts or they do. I mean, now some
guys when they run away from a guy running towards
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them to the side, then we can question their guts.
So I don't think before the game they're like, well,
we're not focused. I don't think it has anything to
do with focus your grown man and your health and
your your careers online every time you go out there.
But there is a different focus and attention to detail
you have to have on Sundays. They to me look
like a team that needs some ADHD medicine. Yeah you know,
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and I don't mean that disrespectful to ADHD or anybody
who's suffering from it. Yeah, it's a fact they some
need medicine because they can't stay focused. It feels overall
like an offense, like it's one big thing. They need
one big twenty five milligram pill or whatever it is
to keep them focused. Not in the medical We're not'm
speaking in football sense, right, but it feels like staying
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focused for sixty five place is a hard thing for
them to do because you see the fallout and you
know what, maybe just maybe they're not that good offensively.
We have we thought about that that. You know, last
year they played good. Maybe just maybe they're just not
that good at executing this year, maybe maybe they're just
not And did Stefan Diggs mean that much? Well to
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the offense, he's got to tell you what, he's got
two feet that he was putting up numbers and headed
towards another thousand yard season and also could say, well,
look what's happened without me when a new contract comes up,
which it's coming up. So I to me, right now,
this team is zero threat to win a Super Bowl.
Ye zero one. Now to me, they're one and done.
If they can turn on the light switch and handle
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a Charger team that comes in here play fit with
whoever it is, their Playings or Chargers, then good and
they're capable of beating both because the Steelers offenses is
up and down as well. But I'm just yes, they
have so I don't know. You can feed me all
you want, but did this team You can't tell me?
It looks anything offensively like you expected coming in here,
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and but it's been like this all fall off. I know.
That's the best season long, not a month. It's been
sixteen games worth. They've had moments in all games where
it's like wow, but they've had more moments where it's
what the hell are you doing? Hard game?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Men?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
They've made it harder on themselves. If they didn't have
this defense, who knows what the record would be the
Colts would be in winning the division even as as
as average as.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
They What a what a choke job? They are, My god, man,
an opportunity to getting the playoffs and you choke and
lose the Giants.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I bet that game and I picked the Giants. Did
you really? Oh? Yeah I did, and uh it was good.
I picked b Why you to kick? I mean it
was one of those days where it's like you just
had a feeling you're in your back. I was, and
it and it hit locked in absolutely, And it'd be
nice if they locked in.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah, it would be be really nice if they could
lock in. Let's continue to talk about these Texans and
the offense and also the regression of c J. Stroud
so far this season. What's the cause of it seven one, three, two,
two five, seven ninety will also open up the phone
lines to you that Texan fan.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
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Speaker 5 (23:08):
Seven one three, seven ninety is the number two joints
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Speaker 7 (23:13):
Mike, good morning, Good morning guys. Ask Sean the first question,
and he's certainly going to know more than I would
before I get into it. That did I see. I'm
fearful about p J. I've seen the same look I
saw from David car way back of the day. I
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was getting why happy feet? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I listen, I I think we overnite you. But I
think at times I hear when a guy asks the sidestep,
we I hear the happy feet comment. I think a
little too much. I think we always like the word great. Oh,
guy makes any a twelve yard curl throw that the
guy's wide open. I'm talking about in any game, and
we'll hear an announced say, oh, what a great throw. No,
it was. It was just a normal throw that every
arter Beck sipos to make same thing here. So happy feet,
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I think at times to me it's the pocket presence.
Last year I felt like he bailed when necessary. This year,
I feel like he's watching the rush more, which is
making him late to coverage. It is. There is a
difference in the way he handles the pocket this year.
So whether the term is happy feet, he feels to
me a little skittish in the pocket. Maybe that's even
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more harsh. I'm surprised. Yes, I feel he's more skittish.
I don't feel like he has the same command. And
whether that's you know, the look in his eye. I
try not to overjudge that, or whether it's the fact
that the cumulative hits or pressures he's received, But there
is a skittish part of him that wasn't there last year.
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Now you got to get rid of it. How you
get rid of it or win? Can you sooner than later?
That'd be great? But there is something there's a little
less confidence in the pocket because he's missing throws that
are normal throws that he wouldn't normally miss that he
didn't miss.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Last It was it was our first possession he had,
you know, he had our He had our tight end.
Tight end had thirty yards in front of him.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
He seems to get off the seat a little bit
I mean one of what I mean to say is
jump jump the air a little bit. I mean, he
missing badly. I've been I've been defending gosh, oh see
what's his name, Bob? Thank you, I was defending him
earlier in the year. But that that first possession told
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me everything I needed to know. Baltimore had one of
the top rated run defensives in the league if I
heard that correctly. And the first two players are up
the middle with with mixing and and golly, you don't
have to be you know, you don't have to be
a genius figure out what were they going to do
on third down?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Today it seems to be getting a little you asked
the question, what do you think. I mean, it seems
to be getting a little too predictable, especially in the
last several weeks with the offense. I barely third quarter
before I started looking for Married with Children reruns.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I mean, yeah, it was that game was over before
it got started.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Sure, yeah, really, And I thought that first possession just
came to the game. You can just see it coming.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And any right, guys, I.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Appreciate your time. I got a boat, so take care
of have a good.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Day, you buddy, thank you. Yeah, it's it's a where
we're looking at something. There's a you can see just
just look at the opposite of some of the guys
that did me. It's like Darnold's past. Doesn't he look
settled in when you watch him using his feet and
see J's done some great things outside the pocket. The
problem is if you're leaving the pocket when it's not necessary.
And I think maybe it was was Ross Tucker on
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that game on Christmas Day? Is he part of the
Netflix game? Who Cawer? No, it wasn't. It was Green?
Now who was it? I can get that because I
can't remember who the analyst was on the game, because
they were talking about his presence in the pocket, how
it felt like he was running into try and I
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felt that way too. There's something watching his head. It
feels to me like C Jason. It's just not a
stroud thing. Don't misunderstand me. I think he's a hell
of a talent, but he has regressed it and I'm surprised.
Oh it was Gregs there you go, that's right.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It was Olsen and Joe Davis. No, no, no, no, Eagle,
that's right because he was the Netflix guy. Yeah, Yeah,
that's right because Iron Eagle did the other game and
he had to introduce his son, and it was cool
because he was talking about doing the other game. It's like, well,
Iron Eagle and No Eagle are doing both games on
Netflix his son. That's exactly right. And if you want,
I think it was Greg Olsen who might have said
at times about the that Stroud and gave him the compliments,
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but there was something Pocket felt like he was bailing
or his head was seeing the pass rush. I can't
remember how he put it, but because that's the sound
of the game I'm listening to, and I'm watching different games,
that's the sound on and I just there there's a
comfortability or lack thereof in the Pocket that has created
uncomfortability in some of this offense. And so it's not
just one guy, but the cumulative effect on his hits,
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but then the cumulative effect on an entire group. You
can see what happens because this offense, of all the
offenses going into the playoffs in the AFC, who do
you trust less? Do you trust Kansas City's less? Absolutely not? No,
Buffalo Baltimore No. So there's then the three wild cards.
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If Cincinnati gets in, I can assure you if Denver
gets in there the way their offense is going and
bo Nicks they've got some things happening, and then that
would either be Pittsburgh or Baltimore, depending on who's the
division winner and who is the wild card. That offense
probably is one where you're like, I don't know, I'm
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not overly. They're talented, like the wide pickens, and they've
got some talented players, but the question is, you know,
it'll depend on what quarterback shows up and what's the
one thing we said about Rus Wilson when he struggling Denver,
skittish was using his feet right away, felt like he
was watching the pass rush and there's a hint of that.
So other than that, the other five teams in the AFC,
you'd take their offense in two seconds over the Texans
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right now? Are they cable going out and exploding? Yeah?
But what what indication do you have they're going to
do it for sixteen minutes in a playoff game?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You don't not this year. No, you don't have that,
absolutely do not, right, No, you really don't. Seven one
three seven ninety John, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Good morning, guys, Hey, I'm going to sound like a
broken record this morning.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I'm gonna confess.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
I mean, when you look at the Texans, I mean,
you know, I was starting to say this five weeks ago.
I mean I don't see any any part of their
game that's improved this year. I mean, everything to me
has taken a step back, and some multiple steps back.
And that's just, uh, you know, that's just a horrible sign.
(29:54):
And I don't like the body language at all. I
haven't liked it the last three weeks. I mean, I
just don't like they just seem I mean, you watched
that Sean you watched that Packers Minnesota game yesterday. I mean,
those guys were going at Those are the two best
young coaches I think in the NFL. When you see
Kevin O'Connell and Matt Lafleur going at it, and those
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teams just don't have any quit in them. The Texans
just don't have that drive. I uh, you know, I wish,
you know, Stefan Diggs would be getting in some players' faces.
I think on this team. You know, I hated to
see him go out because I think he meant more
than we know. You know, He's the kind of guy
that's really gonna demand excellence. I mean, you know, Sean,
(30:36):
what do you think like Bill Parcells or a Belichick
or something would do to a team that had a
performance like that that just kind of hangs their head.
They don't really look like into it that, you know.
So I think the Texans are going to have to
clean house this year. I think they got to look
at the top on down with these coaches because I
just don't see any improvement anywhere that you can you
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can point to. It's everything's taking a step back. Everything's regressed,
and it's not good. You know, we're going into the
playoffs probably looking our worst. I mean, we were at
our best at the beginning of the season and it's
just seemed like.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
It's gone downhill as the season's gone on.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
And I you know, I understand that there's injuries.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But there's everybody has injuries. Everybody everybody has everybody has them.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
I mean look at how the Vikings have just they
went out and got you know, they got a different
quarterback and that guy is just tearing it up. And
I really do think Kevin McConnell is going to be
that he should be the best coach this year. But anyways,
it's just a really troubling thing to watch. I mean, it's, uh,
there's just no improvement that I've seen anywhere from anybody.
(31:45):
And I do ultimately put that on coaching, I really do.
And I think the Texan has got to really take
a hard look from the top on down. I really
really do they there's uh, there's some things that are
very wrong there. I just don't like the look at all.
So I just wanted to weigh in on that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But I appreciate a guy like Parcels or Belichick or
Mike Tomlin. Certain guys probably wouldn't be playing. They would
they they would find a seat for them over on
the bench until they got their their stuff right. They
just would. And maybe Demikos the same way. But maybe
the depth doesn't allow it, and maybe we're not seeing
what they see on the practice field. And that's fair.
(32:24):
But when you say they've regressed, and John did, and
so we hasn't it been everywhere last three weeks. Even
in the run game now, the the upgrade was when
Joe Mixons on the field, this team runs the ball better.
That's taking a step back. So you tell me, where
are they better offensively this year than last year? In
the run game, they are, they are the threat of it,
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there's no doubt, But the last three weeks it has
been semi non existence. So where are they better? Not
individually as a team. Better in the red zone, No,
better in the in the in the explosives, better in
the consistency, better in the quarterback accuracy, better in the
the the threat of hanging thirty on you each week. No,
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and that's everybody, that's that's coaches and players have to
be accountable for it. So I'm trying to figure out
where are they better overall as an offense? And you
know what, you'd be hard pressed to find it. You
can't find it. It's exactly right. Seven three five seven.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I continue to take your cause as we discussed these
textans next on Sports Talk seven to eighty.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
But the Shawn Salisbury Show continues. And if you know
no now you know, start with Brad, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Brad? Hey, what's up? I'm just the last caller.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
Just pretty much what I was saying last week is
no no, no sense of urgency.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Playing anymore with this team.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
It seems like, uh, we are just a year and
a half, maybe two years behind the Ravens. That that
team is just flat out they're playing well. A couple
other games. I'll watched this over the The Eagles look
pretty dark good with backup quarterbacks. It all starts with
that offensive line guys. And so we're gonna go, wait, wait,
(34:08):
go get some picks now next year with some offensive lineman.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
We got to develop them.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
You got Kean Green.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I think that guy his name right, he's a key
Green Kenyon. I'm sorry, I apologize, that's okay. I mean
he's a buzz uh.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It just no sense of urgency with this team, and
he is and he's missing people wide open. Now, last
year he wasn't missing people wide open. He was making
the throws. He's just flat out missing people. And I
think somebody brought it up last week too, was and
they were bringing it up the commentary. Instead of throwing
the ball away, we're taking the sack, running out of bountains.
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I mean, there's some things up there in his head
that he's got to get an adjusted. And if he
has a bad year next year, what do we do.
Are we in that where he could be a flopper?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Are we starting to talk that way, sad. I'd like
to hope that I'm not there yet. I think the
guy's too skilled. But Brad, but I have seen now
there's a lot of irrational stuff that goes on on
social media. Right one guy makes him in one game,
we want to fire coaches and get rid of all
the players and stuff. But this year's trend with him,
and that's been my biggest thing. He's missed now. I mean,
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he'll make the heart that he's missed the easy stuff
too often, that which is not like him. I think
that's the most alarming thing to me. Even with the
pass rush and all that time when he's been able
to set his foot and throw a deep over route
or a route that he normally hits has been off
the mark. And quite frankly, it's not even aims small
miss small. He's missed big and normally he doesn't miss
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the simple play that every quarterback in the league makes.
This year, he's missed plays that you say, what happened,
what's he seeing? And it's and then you'll make a
spectacular throw. But what sustains you is the is just
the ordinary play. And he didn't miss the ordinary play
last year. He's missing it this year awesome too.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
I noticed a.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Little bit when he does take off a run, he's
getting caught from behind. Now, I mean his Brookie year
he was flat out and he was like you said,
he would tuck and go.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
He was making some heckup he runs, But this year
he just like flat out getting.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Caught from the hot Doesn't it feel watching that? If
you said, well, who looks like they're playing with some
clutter in their head? He he does. And that's and
maybe he set the bar so high last year. And
I know this is a quarterback who's to seeing clutter.
Believe me, you you invent stuff going on, but that
it's hard to pull the trigger on time. It's hard
not to watch the pass rush. It's hard to make
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because then you're overloaded. Then what do you do? Oh,
I gotta Then you start to press on things, well
why is this happening? And you start to change this
stuff that doesn't need changed, and got to get out
of your own head. He looks the optics are different,
but the results are different as well.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
This year.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's just that's the facts. It just is real now,
real quick.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
On to the defensive side. I brought it up last
week when you're out, Uh, they're running his own read.
And what is Anderson doing chasing the back? You're a
professional now, you jammed the edge.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
And you wait for it.
Speaker 10 (37:07):
I mean they isoed us all the all game long.
And the linebacker they would just picked a guy and
just iso him and just if he takes the back
out the back door. With Lamar, it was it was
just head and shoulders above. Just great play calling on
the ravens. Uh, great running with Lamar. It's it's pretty
awesome to watch this kid just grow up right in
front of your eyes.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Impressive shot.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yeah, it's pretty awesome to watch this guy.
Speaker 10 (37:33):
He's going to be around for a couple more years
to see if you don't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But dolly, they look good. I'll hang up and listen.
Great new year to his transformation. Lamar Jackson's has been impressive.
He just gets better every year. Yeah, there are guys
that wanted him to be a wide receiver. Yeah when
when When when Todd Monkin left Georgia and when you
remember when he came to Baltimore. I said, this is
going to be a great hire because of his command
(37:58):
and he's got guts and then they add Derick Henry
that some thought was done. And now look at the
bandwidth that offense. I've told you that I think that
they're even pre Derrick Henry defending when you put a
game plan, and they're the toughest team to defend because
the quarterback's ability to do so much. And please anybody
that's out there saying he can't throw from the pocket,
you are not watching football. It may not look as
(38:21):
conventional or perfect mechanics. Like Brady Lamar Jackson can do
everything on a football field, including destroy you with his
decision making and his feet, let alone his pocket presence
and what he's doing. And then you add Derick Henry.
There is no and I'm talking about Detroit, I'm talking
about them all. There is no tougher team to put
in a game plan against than them, because they can
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beat you with a hammer, a sledgehammer, and they can
also beat you finessing you and stitching you to death
right just just you know, like nip it at you
with their finesse play and physically they can be And
the Texans got got a load to what that looks
like because they got handed to him the race evens
did whatever they wanted to against a pretty damn good defense. So, yeah,
(39:06):
you're preparing for the Baltimore Ravens. You you you better
cover sideline to sideline and then into the stands because
they do it all. Yeah. Lamar Jackson is coming up
on four thousand yards passing uh sixty eight percent completion
percentage this season, throwing for like eight million touchdowns too.
It's it's impressive to watch, man, it really is. He's
got let's see thirty nine touchdowns. Yeah, it's I mean
(39:34):
Josh Allen, him and Sakuon Barkley's season this year, and
guys like Golf and Darnold aren't even gonna get a
sniff of the MVP award or Burrow before.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Yeah, Burrow's team was in the playoffs, he would be
the MVP, but then his numbers are stupid.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Even if they get in now but as good as
yeh now, But if they get in, the push would
have been too late because the league's already decided. It's
Josh Allen and Lamar jo Jackson, and and then you
give Saquon Barkley Offensive Player of the Year. One of
those two quarterbacks is going to be left out of
Offensive Player of the Year and MVP in the league.
What do you think about that? Mar Jackson's only throwing
four interceptions this season. It's been phenomenal. See, it's unbelievable.
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Those guys go back and forth. I have a hunch
you're going to be seeing them play each other. I
don't know how those seeds will go in the playoffs.
And I'll tell you what Kansas City's offense is getting
right at the round.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
It is.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's stupid, man, it sure is. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Lets get into the seven o'clock hour. Seven one, three,
seven ninety is the number to join, start or sit.
What are the Texas going to do against the Titans?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
That's next?
Speaker 12 (40:35):
Av E Houston, AHD two Houston, an iHeart radio station,
the Astross the Rockets, Rockets, East Fall your home for
your home teams.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Saul Spray, Houston.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Sewan Salisbury then.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
The USC Truths, longtime friend, Shown Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
This is the Sean Salsbury Show, John Salisbury, Brian Lima,
Manuel Elmore, Rockets, Lucid, the heat They're off tonight. Texan's
getting ready to play the Titans, forty nine Ers, Lions money,
that football. What's happening you see percolating?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, I was just thinking of all this. Uh huh
Corbyn Burns when he got paid to ten Yeah, stayman playing.
I have no idea. I don't know Labor Torrez. Where
did he go?
Speaker 6 (41:36):
Troit?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Detroit?
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:37):
I keep reading though, Like people, this is a good
day to sidn like Ben Verlander. This would be a
great day for Detroit to sign Alex Bregman and lou
uh Marloney in Boston. This is a good time to
jumping on Bregman.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
What's the hold up? Is this going to be a
December thirty one stump? No, it'll be uh, it'll be
like the week before spring training that he he signs.
Just typical Boris style. If you're pregnant, you so you're not.
You don't know where you're gonna go until then.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
What's gonna suck is when he signed somewhere for twenty
six million a year and it's not here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
I just and Detroit's moving their stud Uh who's the guy?
Speaker 5 (42:19):
They're basically they're moving uh Torkals and they don't know
what they're gonna do with Torkosen and they're moving one
of their infielders to start playing first base. So hello,
third base is wide open. Spencer torkleson, Yeah, good one.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Former what first pick or second pick?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
One? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, Spencer Torkosen steps up to the eighteen T box down.
That doesn't sound like a good golf name he's from.
He's a brit to a great Britain. Spencer torkles Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, what's is Breglan? How anti climactic is it now?
I mean, now it's gonna be it's And Clorbyn Burns
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Arizona says, well, let me take in Baltimore. Will another
big time name that the Blue Jays missed out on.
We were talking about this on Friday. I had a
Paula Dez in for us on Friday and we talked
about how many big time players that the Blue Jays
are in on every single offseason and they could never
sign anybody. Ever, Well, how many times have we told
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this team that's a World Series team and they can
never get there? Well, I'm talking Aboutito Gaston and since
those days, you know, and after, but they just they
always come in highly publicized. Maybe we're gonna temper our
thoughts on them because right now ain't picking them to
win the division. I get to place that East is
too good. Now, the Red Sox have had some movement.
The Red Sox have decided that the Yankees, We're not
(43:40):
gonna let the Yankees and Baltimore dominate this division. We
got to keep pace. Tampa's obviously got their run. The
Red Sox have decided to jump back in the frame
and compete. Now, if they can land Bregman, they're legit,
legit the American League East. No best corner infield in baseball. Yeah, arguably, yep.
The first there's well, you get one of the great
(44:01):
hitters and then you get one of the great defenders
and put him at the corners and you you don't
have to worry Devers. Well, he's become serviceable as at
third base and that's not his strength, but swinging the
baseball bat is right right, and so putting him at
first base that'd be a really good combo. But yeah,
Toronto disappoints all the time, and they just can't quite
(44:22):
unless they become the fifty first state, which Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yeah, maybe then there, Toronto becomes more real soul imagine. Yeah,
but the truth is is that they just they keep
coming up short and they've had They've been loaded with
pitching and hitting for a hand for for half a
dozen years minimum players.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, under underwhelming every single season for Toronto. Seven seven
ninety is the number to join Randall. What's happening?
Speaker 7 (44:52):
Hey, good morning Sean, Brian and Triple H.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 13 (44:57):
I want I wanted to know, Uh do to the
coach and the quarterback coach have a lot to do with.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
The mechanics of c J.
Speaker 14 (45:06):
Stroud And is he, you know, communicating with him? Uh?
Speaker 15 (45:11):
You know, I think that it's all mental and Seun
hit on it.
Speaker 14 (45:16):
It's mental toughness, you know.
Speaker 13 (45:17):
To me far as the comparison, I look at Lamar
Jackson versus c J.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Stroud. C J.
Speaker 14 (45:24):
Stroud played like.
Speaker 13 (45:24):
A choir boy, a church guy, and Lamar Jackson played thugball.
So I don't want nobody to think that I'm attacking
Lamar Jackson's character.
Speaker 15 (45:36):
It's just an analogy.
Speaker 14 (45:38):
Uh, he just played thugball. He has that mental toughness.
Speaker 6 (45:41):
C J.
Speaker 15 (45:41):
Stroud is not a leader, so somebody needs to step
it up on that team and uh, you know, we
almost had a malice in the palace last night, and
I think that it all.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Started with Van Fleet and the roferee.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
So the Astros.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I hate that they didn't sign Bregland.
Speaker 14 (46:03):
That's my guy and I hope he gets signed soon.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Thank you, Thank you Randall. Lets give you going on
the phone lines, doctor Ray Ray, good morning.
Speaker 15 (46:12):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (46:13):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (46:14):
Soos?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (46:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Where are you being? Big dog a man just out
here working, grinding man? Watching these Texans and these Rockets.
Speaker 7 (46:22):
Man, you know come up short in times of late.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
You're still up in North Dakota.
Speaker 7 (46:27):
Yes, sir, man, yes sir, that ain't gonna change.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
But no, man, quick thing about the Rockets. Man.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
I know you guys like that toughness stuff with.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
That email laying down.
Speaker 16 (46:41):
But I think like last night kind of epitomizes like
to me, I think that that you know, that's those
scuffles and altercations with the referees from the head coach.
I don't think I think that's getting a little old,
you know what I'm saying. I get it, and but
that's kind of to me that looks like you know,
starting from the top, it's kind of undiscipled and which
kind of explains like some of the undisciplined play at
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the end of games and stuff like that. I think
that email as a leader, like that's cool. He laid
down that, Hey, we're gonna be a tough team. But
when when your coach is out there, you know, getting
in the rest face and bumping rests and stuff like that,
you know, I think that sets a bad precedent to
me and to me like with guys getting upset like
that and doing doing those types of things at the
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end of the games when they have made bonehead mistakes
to start losing. It's kind of it gives to me,
it gives off loser vibes, sore loser vibs.
Speaker 10 (47:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
That's on the Rockets.
Speaker 16 (47:34):
Second thing on the Texans, I'm jack Shaun is like
I noticed in a lot of these games. I think
if I think, you know CJ's missing a lot of throws. Yeah,
but I think it's up to the offensive coordinator also
at times to kind of make the game easier for him,
to make it more comfortable for him in the pocket
early on. Starting now, and I've been watching a lot
of these games, and a lot of these games, I'll
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be saying with CEEJ.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Stroud, he's missing that check down down and.
Speaker 16 (48:00):
That swing out to the back that's there a lot
of times on a lot of plays, and I think
like if he starts to hit those look for those
more often and kind of hit those checkdowns and get
those four five yards and stuff like that, that it'll,
you know, kind of draw the defense in a little
bit more and make it easier for him to look downfield.
Because if I'm not mistake mistaken, I thought I heard
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you guys say early on in the season doing like
training camp, that they had c J.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Stroud like not going to his first.
Speaker 16 (48:28):
And second reads and making him go to like his
third and fourth reade or something like that, and practice.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
That wasn't me. I didn't say that. I don't know
if I.
Speaker 6 (48:37):
Heard that somewhere that they were saying that.
Speaker 16 (48:39):
They reported that that they were saying that they were
making him not go and I was just wondering, like,
so why would they why would they make him like
not do like not go through his first, second, third,
reason hold the ball, Ray.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
I think what happens is, you know, different coaches have
different drills, and if there's something you feel like patients
in the pocket and I haven't heard that, and maybe
I don't know where you heard it, but if somebody
saw it or was told that, let's assume that was
the case in a drill or during two days. They'd
take a day or so every now and again and
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go through a practice or a drill where it's you
go through your progressions and then get to the third
guy all, hey, hit your heat button. Yeah we got it,
we had we had to cut you off as too loud.
Is what you'll do. You go through a drill where
it's like, okay, we're gonna get we'll give you the play.
You go through your reads. One first hitch is not there,
a second you don't like it, Boom, check down. All
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it is is teaching you pocket patience, to let you
know that the third guy, to teach you to get
through your thing. I doubt very seriously did during every
practice they're teaching, dude, do not throw it to the
first guy, because if you're late to the first guy,
you're going to be late to the second guy, which
means you're late getting the checkdown. Windows open and close
their coffee can size windows in the NFL, so you
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got to get the ball out on time. So I
don't mind a drill that says, boom, curls out there,
flip your feet outside to the flat that's not their
boom reflip your feet and flip your hips back inside. Checkdown.
I had no problem because I put quarterbacks through drills
and I'll go and I'll maybe i'll you know, say ball.
I'll make them go through drills one to okay, ball
meaning get to the you've already got through the second guy.
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Or I'll call out the number. You know it's curl
flat checkdown. I'll say three, Well three would be the checkdown.
So what I want them to do is go, curls
out there, boom underneath coverage, took away the flat because
it was covered too, flip your hips back inside those
drills to get them used to knowing where people are
are good. But I doubt that anybody looked at me
and said, don't you dare throw to the first or
second guy in a game. Those are just drills. I
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would imagine that gets you to understand how to boom,
flip your hips, flip your feet, play on schedule, and
stay in the pocket without bailing because a lot of
young players once the first one and second one, they
decide to bail because it's a comfort zone instead of
get to the third one. And I can tell you
this a lot of times, the third guy in NFL
college and high school, they never cover them. By the
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time you get to the third read if you're patient
enough to do it, they don't cover the guy. There's
gonna be somebody open, but you can't pass up first
and second windows that are open, right, Yeah. I think
the biggest thing. And I even saw last night with
Michael Pennix on that past the pits the uh. I
think it was to tie the game late late in
the fourth The window that he fit that football in
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was unbelievably small, like in just the door. It was
just an absolute dot. Oh dude, you got a good
gosh Darnold threw an over route to Jefferson did when
he scrambled right and there was a comeback, but he
hit Jefferson at about twelve yards. Yeah, y, and I
put it the only place you can put it. Yeah,
I mean the windows are so small in the NFL.
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College you get bigger windows. High school they're huge and
so you get his comfort zone and thinking, oh, that's
the way windows are. No, no, no, they shrink quickly.
And so you've got to get to your progressions. And
if there's clutter or if you're indecisive, do anything indecisive
and you tell me if it feels normal, it doesn't. Yeah,
And at that position, if you're indecisive, you're late. You
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take sacks and it just doesn't. The ball doesn't come
out the way you want it to. The potential is
obviously there, but you know what, right now, it feels
like everything has to be perfect for them to succeed offensively,
and there ain't nothing perfect about the way they've played. No,
not even close. Inconsistent as hell. Let's get to the
steakout next right here on seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
This is an agreement.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
He's agree for a.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Three ball an sit down.
Speaker 2 (52:29):
Saw Salisbury continues. Now, oh, sports talk seven ninety for
your rockets, All right, Sean, what are you hearing out
there now?
Speaker 4 (52:42):
The Salisbury stakeouts Salsbury's takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
It's time for the stake out here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show, shown Brown and Tripley talking Texans seven one three, two,
two five seven ninety is the number to join before
we get to the steakout question, Doctor John, been on
off for a while, John, appreciate you holding buddy was happening.
Speaker 6 (53:04):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Was everybody's Christmas good Man?
Speaker 11 (53:09):
All right, real quick, A couple of things on this
Brakeman deal you were talking about. Yeah, Scott Boy's gonna
screw him up? Who was the two pictures last year
that he screwed up?
Speaker 2 (53:18):
All hold out?
Speaker 11 (53:19):
Hold out, hold out, and they ain't get.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
Jack because Jordan Montgomery was one of them.
Speaker 11 (53:24):
Montgomery was Blake Snell, Snell was the other and then
Snell just I think, didn't Snell just get a big contract?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
He opted out? And uh yeah I signed a big
one with the Dodgers, A billion dollars with the Dodgers.
Speaker 11 (53:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which you know, yeah it came around.
But I don't think Braden was gonna have to wait
that long. But this, this is getting kind of interested
in why he hasn't signed so and I know boys
had gotten fired by.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
A couple of cats because they were tired of.
Speaker 6 (53:53):
Waiting on their money.
Speaker 11 (53:55):
But uh, let's talk about these note shows. Look many, dude,
why is it. You know, I'm hearing everybody call and
talk about Bobby slogan. Bobby slogan. Why aren't any of
y'all holding Jamico Ryan's feet to the fire.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
He is the head frigging coach.
Speaker 11 (54:18):
He needs to quit being their frigging best friend and
put his foot up some grown men's.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
But that's all it is to it.
Speaker 11 (54:27):
These cats didn't want to be there, dude. It looked
like a freshman squad going up against a varsity squad.
That was the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in
from a Houston franchise. And I've seen a lot of
crap over the years of living around this area from
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what Texans Astros and the drama queens have done on
the hardwood floor. But you know, Son, you said it
earlier this morning, earlier. This team not a super Bowl contender, dude.
This team ain't getting out of the first round.
Speaker 6 (55:06):
Though.
Speaker 11 (55:08):
Don't let my Steelers come in here, because Biden, that's
that's what you do. Pull some crap like that with Tomlin.
See if Tomlin ain't throwing things around a locker room
and holding people accountable, he's smiling on the sidelines where
Demico Ryan's linebacker mentality went from high school college and
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the pros is beyond me because there It's just he
did not have these guys ready. These guys wanted to
hurry up and get back home and open up their
gifts with their families. They didn't want to be there, man.
And I'm telling you, I've said it before. Quit hold
hold it. Color called and said, well, first two players
out the gate were running plays by the OC. Okay,
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I'm forgetting, but don't we pay a ton of money
for those fat asses on the front line to open up.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
Holes for Joe Mixon?
Speaker 11 (56:06):
Hold them accountable quick blaming the coaches when the players
are the ones that have to execute these plays.
Speaker 5 (56:14):
So John, let me let me ask you getting it done,
let me ask you a quick question on that. I
agree with you that they are overpaying some of these
offensive lineman.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
They do have a job to do.
Speaker 5 (56:22):
But if you know that the Baltimore Ravens have let's
just say, two of the best defensive tackles in the game,
and they have an incredible, incredible defensive line, why are
you calling play calls or run right down Broadway when
you know that's the strength of their defense and I
think that another thing on that is we have seen
this same thing every single weekend. I think that's why
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fans are so tired of Bobby Sloak's offense. It's like
Sean and I have talked about execution is one thing,
but also they have to put their players in the
best place to succeed.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
But I but one thing I agreed as well Brian.
But I also with what John saying is that's on
point in time a head coach has to say this
is the way you're going to start to do it
or else. I agree. If if we're if we're holding
a head coach accountable in Dallas, shouldn't you be holding
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a head coach down accountable here if you're the head
coach they're trying to throw. There's people who want Kyle
Shanahan out because of this one bad year than anybody.
Let me ask you both this and not to put
you on the spot. Who's the offensive coordinator in San Francisco?
Kyle Shanahan, who's the That's exactly my points. I've always
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calls the plays and does it, but he has a
label of a you know, of an offensive coordinator. My
point is, you see the accountability falls it starts there,
so what but but the one thing who? Who the
hell knows what's going on in meetings rooms and accountability?
But they looked like a team who was disinterested in
playing on rist mistake. And Baltimore looked like a team
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that said, we got a mission involved. This isn't just
our career. We got a mission. And they played like that.
Speaker 11 (58:08):
Let me ask you one quick question. I want to
make one quick comment and then.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
I'm gonna let y'all have it. But let me ask
you this.
Speaker 11 (58:14):
Okay, I'm gonna drop you a shell for you. Has
Demico lost that locker room?
Speaker 2 (58:21):
Now, go ahead and make your other comment. Go ahead
and make your other comments and we'll answer.
Speaker 6 (58:26):
All right.
Speaker 11 (58:26):
My other question, My other comment is about college ball.
What the hell Miami? What the hell University of Miami?
You let your quarterback go out there for a first half,
and now I'm not playing them more, I'm doing it?
Speaker 3 (58:41):
Are you freaking kidding me?
Speaker 2 (58:43):
Commonplace? John Sadly, I know, I dud I've already gone off.
Speaker 6 (58:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
It's wearing me out. It is the nil is about.
Speaker 11 (58:53):
You people, and I wish, I wish we could get
and I'm not saying his son and.
Speaker 6 (58:59):
I loved talking with Kiviny Christmas.
Speaker 11 (59:05):
He left an oh clue, Indy kalue he was Indy
when Indy was on the radio with him and Uncle
Greg and all those years, all you heard about Indy
was saying about n I Oh, yeahs great, it's great.
It's gonna be great for It's gonna be greatful.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
I wish the guy.
Speaker 11 (59:20):
Would get him on because I would love to hear
his intake about it now, because I've said it. Now,
you're gonna get governed.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
This is gonna stop.
Speaker 11 (59:28):
All this money and all this crap, it's gonna stop.
You got a kick Now they're staying into college.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
Well, I got news for you. It's not gonna stop, John,
It's not gonna stop. That's gonna have to get it's
gonna have to get regulated to the point where we're
gonna need a salary cap for nil for each team.
We're gonna need a salary cap. So now is has
Demico lost the locker room? Yeah, we'll answer that, John.
Thanks much.
Speaker 6 (59:51):
John.
Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, I hope you have to marry Christmas and the
good New Year coming up twenty twenty five will be epic.
I'm always a little reluctant to say somebody's lost the
locker room. That's got a division winner, even though the
division is not that tough, and it's hard for me
to think in that short period of time he's lost
the locker room. But I can tell you this, it
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is very You can debate it by the way you
see them perform. Right, I'm gonna lean on the side
of no, they haven't lost locker room. And I'm not
giving him a hall pass because you know, I love
dmko Ryans, but I also know that he's not above criticism,
and I don't think he thinks he is either. But
I can tell you there's performance offensively. Is somebody's lost
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something because this team looks like a very forget playing hard.
Like I said, that's I expect that it looks very
disinterested and disorganized and wherever that falls on the part.
And the head coach is responsible for coaching his coaches
as well. And as far as college goes, it's never
going away. They're gonna have to regulate it. We need
a salary cap, and we should be able to cut
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players that you should. We should be able to cut
a sophomore that's not performing that's underperforming and free up
a scholarship and cut him. If they can up it,
you should be able to cut the I don't. Well
they're just kids. No they're not. They're full blown. We
had a kid that transferred from Tulane to Duke eight
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million dollars two year deal. It's the highest. He'll be
the highest paid player in college football. Dude, you know
he's gonna how much money he's gonna be making more
the court. You don't know his name? Do you to?
Lane's quarterback signed with Duke and got the report is
he's now the highest paid nil player on the planet
at at two med four men's Yeah, played quarterback at Tulane.
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He's receiving a record breaking nile deal at Duke. Yes, so,
and this is Duke paying it. They got a lot
of money. But would they get would they jump into it? Well,
apparently they're jumping into it.
Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
So wow.
Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Point and it's not going away. It's a matter of fact,
it's going to get worse before it gets better. But
at some point in time you're just gonna have to
put a sour cap on it because it's out of hand. Yeah,
it's just gonna get out of hand. I don't mind
him getting paid. The way we're doing it, it's not
the right way, right, it's not that's it is absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
The right way.
Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
College football has become less interesting. I'm just sorry it has.
It just that it's become more chaotic but less interesting.
That's Saturday.
Speaker 13 (01:02:12):
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
It's never I say, you use the word pure loosely.
It's no long it's not. You know, we'd like to
think that eighteen it's pure the right. I mean, you
had that, and then you also had student athlete student athletes. Man,
that's long. The degrees and I'm not putting an umbrella
over everybody in bad state, but blanket statement, the degree
is secondary, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
And I really can't I just can't believe that we
have to wait until next year to watch the college
football payoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
What do you mean this year? No, next year into January?
Well January first, I mean yeah, next year, twenty twenty five,
I mean, yeah, well we've been doing that, but it
hadn't that been the playoffs every year? You know, next year?
But hasn't the playoff been in January? Every year?
Speaker 6 (01:02:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
I know, next year? Right? Yeah? So you can't believe
you got to wait a few more years. No, just
I can't wait tomorrow? Right, yeah, well one tomorrow and
a bunch on there is one tomorrow on Wednesday. But yeah, crazy,
they get to play, you know in twenty twenty four.
We gotta wait till twenty twenty five. Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (01:03:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
So I uh, I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I wouldn't say to Miko's lost the team, But there
are some things that there are. They are hints of
a team that looks a little less focused.
Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
I just don't understand, and we can continue to discuss it.
But I just the maddening thing for me is I
look at last year and I look at this year
less playmakers. Last year they were better and more disciplined.
This year, way better playmakers and so much lack of discipline.
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I just don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
So let's continue to discuss that right here on The
Shawn sALS Ray Show. The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, Biscuit,
good morning, what's happening, hey.
Speaker 14 (01:03:45):
Man, Olima, ain't with the what's the old saying? Ain't
no fun when the rabbit got the gun? And I'm
talking about college football.
Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Man.
Speaker 14 (01:03:55):
For the years, the players was getting tooken advantage of
and exploited and whatever other words you want to use,
and now to hit and flip it other way, you know. So,
hey man, this is this part of a capitalist society.
You know, you have you ups and you have your downs,
but you know they do needs and tweak into it.
But I'm not gonna get outraged, you know what I'm saying.
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If you wouldn't out raised before, don't get outraged now,
you know that's that's not pulling out.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, I just think that I just I just wouldn't pay.
I wouldn't pay the money they're paying. That's how you
stop it. I mean, you're right, the coaches had. The
coaches had all the advantage the players. Now all this
player empowerment you got, you got to you've got to
stop it and put in play You've given If you
gave them an inch, they'll take a mile. And they
have with the transfer portal they have with the money,
and now people are scrambling around, how do I keep up?
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I just to me, there there would be we would
have limits that we would follow by. And if you
don't want to come play here, there's another guy that can.
Because not every five stars that good. Anyway, there's plenty
of them three stars that are better, that are late bloomers.
So somehow they're gonna have to put a stop. I
don't play. We should be paying the play. But the
way we're doing it, it ain't ain't it And it's
and it's and it's we've we've lost a lot of
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what we had about college football that separated it from
the NFL. And now you can't tell the difference. And
that's it. To me, that's a problem. And it's and
and it is. We're overpaying your play. We're overpaying the player.
Now we just are Well, you know.
Speaker 14 (01:05:20):
Sean, anytime you put some new system in the play,
you know gotta come back and make some tweaks.
Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Absolutely, yeah, that's why we can't be over the outrage.
You just got to grown adults in the room got
to fix it.
Speaker 7 (01:05:32):
And then that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
And then that's that's what it comes down to. Yep.
Speaker 14 (01:05:37):
And now with the going to the text and Sean,
and let me say this that John ass I don't
think the micos locks locking them guys still respect the
Miko them guys probably are still playing hard.
Speaker 7 (01:05:49):
In my mind.
Speaker 14 (01:05:50):
A couple factors in the play Shine number one. They
got a tougher schedule this year. You know, this is
what happens when you play the first play schedule. They
playing tough competition. So now you see okay, I mean,
who if you thought the Texa was going to the
super Bowl this year, you would delusion the right there.
Now now they see that they not good enough.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
They gotta, they gotta. They got a taste of what
it's like to get to. There's another level to their game.
They're they're still playing when it comes to the big boys,
they're still Triple A. They're not quite They're not Baltimore,
They're not They're they're just playing on a different level
than those guys are right now. But you're right when
you're when you have to face eight or nine teams
that are going to there are possible playoff teams, well
guess what it's it's a little easier for them and
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a little more difficult for you. The year before, nobody
gave you any respect and you rolled the ten wins.
Now it gets tougher because now you're playing some teams
that that do play in January and February. You are
one hundred percent correct, and they haven't adjusted the way
we thought they would. There's no doubt offensively especially and
there goes.
Speaker 14 (01:06:51):
Now, well, Demko, I think we said it before Sean. First, Well,
let me say, and I'm always saying to Sewan, now,
I'll try to be consistently. Have to stay the course.
You know what I'm saying, This is what you want.
Three years ago, man, we won two games or three,
You know what I mean. You just it's the wrong
one built overnight, as old folks say, it takes time
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to build a championship team. So they got to stay
the course. However, the Miko got some decisions to make,
and I mean as far as his coaching staff, he
got to decide this staff is good enough to get
into where he needs to be. Now my question, you
Shine say, somebody like die Ball.
Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Get let go.
Speaker 14 (01:07:32):
You mean to tell me you're not gonna go ahack
to try and get Dieball to b old sne and
you know, slow, you know he may be doing the
best he can do. He is his second year offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Shot, yes, more experience, yes, no doubt. And you know
what's interesting, Biscuit, I'm with you that just like we
evaluate players, I'm evaluating every single one of my coaches
during and right when the season ends, they get the
same evaluation. The player does matter how much I like
you and I hired you two years ago. If in
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fact you have regressed or are not living up to
the things that we had planned, and a guy like
Brian Dable comes available, or someone like that, or like
if defensively Robert Salah right that this that has had
great success as a defensive coordinator, I am I will
consider them as well, because like players, you were great
for me last year, but guys been cut the next year,
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traded that. It's a level of consistency that the great
teams have, and so you got to keep up. As
a coach, you, I'm evaluating them just as hard buddy
or nobody. If you're not performing you, you're gonna have
to find another place to coach it. I'm with you.
You have to evaluate them. And if one of these
guys comes available, you say, damn, and I just trust
that that play caller more, then you have to make
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that switch friendship or not.
Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
With you.
Speaker 14 (01:08:50):
The most concerning thing, Sean is it looks like data regressed.
Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Yep.
Speaker 14 (01:08:56):
And because the best thing about C Day and I'm
going back to our stayd is his placement not the ball.
I mean, you know, he you could say what you
want to say, that that guy would put the ball
where it needed to be, at the right spot, at
the right place, and now he's missing some throws. They're like, wow, okay,
So that that would be a concern for me. You know,
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if I was to me go, I'm like, man, I
got to get this guy back going in the right direction.
And if I had to make a change with the
offensive line coach and the deep office coordinator and whoever else,
and so be it, because you know, at the end
of the days John said before it is at some
point gonna come back to me go. And so you know,
if you don't get the ship right it then at
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some point he gonna you know what I'm saying. So
I got somebody else go before they let me go,
And so, uh, I think the tension go. The last
question I'll ask you, Sean, are you playing guys this
week or are you gonna rest guys and go in
to play on the pre game loser street Man.
Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
See, there's a part of me, Biscuit that I gotta
I gotta get a couple series. I got to get
them feeling good going into the playoffs. I'm not sure
I sit them the whole game. I do need some
rhythm somewhere, but yet I don't know if they will.
They're not good enough to take time off right now.
They're really not offensively, So appreciate the call. I know
it's you know, listen. Of course you want your best players,
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but I'm not so sure. I don't come out like
you would a preseason game, although it's a different intensity,
and get some series. You know, Let's say you go
down to score in your first couple series, didn't get
them out. Yeah, but I'm not so sure I can
go into a playoff gam with my last offensive memory
what I saw against Baltimore most of the year. I
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almost think you got to say, you know what, we're
not beating them if we play this average injury or
not backup quarterback or starting quarterback. We got to get
this right and I got to have some feel good
psychological feelings going in. I'm going to tell you now,
if I'm the head coach, I'm starting my regulars. How
long I play them is another thing. The right no
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offense to sit a full game. I just pull Sean
what does that mean. It means that I need to,
as a head coach, feel good about my team going
in next week because if this is the offense we got,
it won't matter who the quarterback is. Hell I come
out of retirement, won't matter. So I got to get
us feeling good about what we're doing. Blitz pick up,
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and then if we scored it's seventeen to three, get
them out. But there's something psychological about the feel good
because right now I don't know how they're going to
get out the field with the way the Chargers run it,
and right now Herbert's playing at a high frigging level. Dude,
the guy doesn't throw the ball the other team. No,
like five hundred throws. He does not throw the ball
the other team. So you're in danger and you're dealing
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with defenses on both sides. They'll give you hell to
yeah regards if it's the Steelers or the Chargers, that's
exactly right. They're both physical, very very very physical teams.
Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
I know this, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
I reserve the right to change this between now and
the weekend. But as I sit today, if I was
a head coach, I'm starting my guys. Yeah, how long
I play will depend on how good they play early. Yeah, well,
you're taking a risk. I'm taking a risk going into
the first round of playoffs of humiliating my team by
allowing this offense and this team to roll into the
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first round of the playffs playing like they played. Yeah,
if they play like that, it won't matter who the
quarterback or the coach is. No, it won't survive it. Nah,
I won't. I got to see better. I gotta see
more rhythm. Let's talk about lack of game planning for
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I thought, I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I
thought New Year's Eve was on Wednesday, and New Year's
(01:13:33):
Day it was Thursday, right, But no, I was clearly off.
It's just like Christmas. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
I don't know, but is that the time once Christmas
Day is over? Uh huh like the Thursday Friday the
week it kind of run it. I woke up on
a Friday days it's Saturday Sunday. You can't keep track.
And another thing is do workers do people who work
around like once December like fifteenth hit? No, do they
(01:13:54):
just quit for the month?
Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
They do?
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Yeah, there's six people in here this morning us. But
really it's almost as if Thanksgiving hits and maybe the
first week of December, and then after that around the
car it's like, yeah, no one works. Do people take
the month of December off? Yes? Yes, you see to say,
is today a work day for most people?
Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Why not? It's the thirtieth and it's because of work day. Yeah,
I know it is technically unless you have a legitimate vacation.
Is it today a workday?
Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
It is, I mean it is, But no, it's so
basically you're saying, no matter what, once like December eighth
hits the rest of the month, if you're looking for
anything to get done, it's not getting done. It's in
the business world, correct, unless you're in like retail or
like Starbucks, because then you're gearing up for your biggest
time of the year. Yeah, Barbers is a big time
(01:14:46):
of year. Hairstyle is so nails nails, Yeah, yeah, you
get you're getting your stuff right. Right, parties and stuff,
and they're packed because people in the business world are off. Yeah,
it'll work so really, but it's almost feels like even
if you didn't take a vacation that it's really you're
you're you're you're not working today. No, right, it's just
I mean we are, but you get my point. It's
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almost as if like the world kind of just wants December.
It just kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
Actually, it's not even when December hits. It's pretty much
when Halloween Giving. When Halloween hits, people start gearing. But
thanks to yeah like Thanksgiving and get that awful. Okay,
I'll give you the first week of December and then
it's like people just disappear and then like so really
the next day of work that people are thinking is
January or six. Yeah, the first Monday after New Year's
(01:15:36):
is the This is when businessess hours come out.
Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
I think different. Can you get a lot of business
done when nobody else, when everybody is sleeping on it?
Do you like between like one of the big bigger
deals I was able to get done was between the
fifteenth and now in a business world heading into the
next year, right, a different business you know what I'm
saying where you can capitalize on people lollygagging, correct, you
know what I mean, you can just kind of jump
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in and get stuff done because a lot of people
are feeling good about heading into the new year and
the rest of it. I almost feel like December is
a month to pounce on the new year with people's
optimism for January.
Speaker 8 (01:16:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
I almost feel like if you're January, you're like, they've
already said, then they'll come back to you. We already
set our budgets, you know that. You know it's certain
businesses out there, well if you pass the December Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Usually in December there are people that yes they have
that new budget sent, but the old budget still has
money left in it, so let's on.
Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
It, right. Yeah. So I just I just laughed because
I think it is it just like a are they
just like throwaway days? Yeah? Aren't they apparently? But it's
just odd to me. Yeah, it's a working day, but
it's really not. If you're not on a vacation, do
you go to work day or just like maybe is
it kind of like a two cocktail day and you
just kind of you're kind of lollygagging and you're part
(01:16:49):
into work, but you're not. I mean, what is it? Yeah,
so I'm right, aren't I? Yes, the psychological aspect of
people kind of check out. Yeah, on's like the tenth
of December hits. Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
HTx Hobo girls said, must be nice to work in
one of those industries. This is busy season. It's the
best time to work. Fewer people here equals more work done.
Speaker 6 (01:17:08):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Amen. But it's just kind of like, well, it's December,
we get nobody's working. No, man, I'm telling you, once
we work eleven months of years, well we don't know.
It's it's I'm telling you, it's it's even less than that.
Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Once Halloween finishes and November hits, dude, people not just
I'm not saying here, but but society.
Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
In my previous industry, when I was.
Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
An oil and gas dude, once once Halloween hit, dude,
you were on cruise control and unless you were struggling
to hit your goals. Like for me, I always busted
my ass during the summers so that I could I
could knock out my goals.
Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
And my hit my uh hit my tour. If you
reach your goals, and then there's five other goals. You
can add new goals and just exceed it by a
long shot in the month of December. Let's be real here, man.
People once they hit that one goal, people don't give
a damn.
Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
I guess I think different. Yeah, well you do, we
know that. I guess you do. Yeah, but I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Once Halloween hits in November, dude, Walmart starts putting out
Christmas decorations. You got thankskeeping plans start to formulate. Yeah,
people don't.
Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
People slow down, man, it's a tripping unless you go
to the mall and you're working in the mall, you know,
and then like when you used to work at Hollisterree
you know, oh yeah, it was chess king, oh yeah.
And then then they tried to January sixth. They want
to pounce and get right. It's like, well, to me,
it's January sixth, it's just another it's another Monday and
the new year. But it's it's it's like we January thirty,
(01:18:30):
I mean December thirty, January sixth, it's like we joked
last year and we're going to do it again.
Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
But it's like you don't see anybody in the office
until January sixth this year, and it's like, oh, happy
New Year, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
New Year was five six days ago. Why are you
tell me happy New Year? Right?
Speaker 6 (01:18:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
How long do you tell people Happy New Year?
Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
New Year?
Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
And I almost feel like people build psychological path psychological thoughts.
So once December hits in society, it's kind of a
month to check out.
Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I feel like people think that it is. It's to me,
it's the say, today's Monday, the thirtieth, And if you're
not on vacation, shouldn't you be working? You should be Okay?
How was traffick for you this morning? Easy? It was phenomenal.
It was unbelievable. It's great, unbelievable. A lot of people
take vacations for a long time, for a long time
between Thanksgiving and January six. Yeah, it's crazy. It is crazy.
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We're going to talk talk some college football.
Speaker 5 (01:21:22):
Got the college football playoffs, uh second round kicking off tomorrow.
Also got a full slate of college football games that
happened over the weekend. Before we get to that, let's
take another call. Talk to Scott Scott.
Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Good morning, Hey, good morning. How are you doing, good man?
Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (01:21:39):
Well, as I was on hold, I had a second question.
Speaker 6 (01:21:41):
But first I would ask.
Speaker 9 (01:21:44):
Convince me and other Houstonian fans why we should buy
season tickets to the Texans next year with this product
that they're.
Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Putting on the field.
Speaker 9 (01:21:55):
And secondly, who do we put on the field next
week against the Titans because we don't want to injure
our players, of course, and I'll take your answers off
the air because I gotta drive.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Thank you, thank you, Scott well Sean. Why should people
buy season tickets? Well, m m hm, why would you
either one of you buy season tickets? And I'll tell
you why. Uh for me, I wouldn't buy season tickets.
Speaker 6 (01:22:18):
One.
Speaker 5 (01:22:19):
I'm not trying to spend that kind of money and
to the money to get good seats is outrageous. So
I'm not spending I don't even know how much season
tickets are he plus on, I think you gotta wait
in line to get them. I'm not I'm not spending
multiple thousands of dollars to sit in those bleeds.
Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
With and with this offense, I ain't doing it.
Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
I don't go to NFL games anyway, So I wouldn't
buy season tickets. I mean maybe the Raiders, but for
the average fan. I mean, I don't don't know if
I could make it. The average fans not buying normally.
I mean when I say average fan, the fan that can't,
I mean that one game of year's expensive. They're not
(01:23:01):
buying season tickets, right, and the ones that are are
going to do it because they're hanging on that. Okay,
there's a lot of potential why you'd buy them. I
can roll through the Nico Collins and C. J. Stroud
and Will Anderson. There's some really good pieces and players
on the team. But I can understand that the way
they've gone this year, you'd take a step back and hesitate.
There is no doubt. I would imagine a lot of
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fans are sitting in purgatory right now, not knowing which
way to go because of they love the potential and
love the ability, but the production has not matched the potential.
Or let's turn that around, the potential is not matched
for the production, right The production is far the potential
we have way up here, and the production has been
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mid even though they won the division. How many teams
are they beaten that are good this year?
Speaker 6 (01:23:48):
Name?
Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
I can't one Buffalo and who else it's a good team.
Who else have they beaten? They beat Miami, which is
Miami's basically a five hundred team. Okay, so that is it?
Otherwise than that? And I know people say, well they've
been one score games. I didn't know there was a
category the fourth one. Well, look at look okay, Kevin O'Connell,
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look at his run, look at his since he's been
in the league, his wins and losses in one score games, Yeah,
he was like eleven and all right. So if they're oh,
they they've been in every game, Well, we don't have
a whole lot of the NFL one double digit spread,
I believe going into the weekend this week maybe maybe
a second one.
Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
We don't.
Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
It's not like college. We don't have him very often.
So a nine point win or a ten point win
in the NFL is a big that's a lot of points.
So one score games meaning eight points are less. You're
losing them. Oh you're in it, but you're losing them.
So is there a category that says we almost won
hang a ban or no. You got to learn how
to win them. So why you'd buy season tickets is
(01:24:49):
the potential in the quarter You say, man, there's there's
a lot of players to like here. If we can
get man in tank Dale, boy what that's going to
be difficult to come back from sooner than later. That's
a hard He's a is rehab, mental rehab ahead of
just not just the physical and the emotional part of
It's going to be a rough road. But Stroud and
Nico kNs there's a lot to like. And on defense,
(01:25:10):
they got some guys that fly around, but the production
says to you, i'd hesitate, and I don't blame them.
And what was this second question? Did you have to
say this other point was the Texans offense? It was
I thought it was just a season ticket question, but
he made he made a second point. That's the key
is though, that's would you and is this team you know,
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productive enough for you to warrant Let's let the playoffs enroll?
For oh, I know what it was, but let's let
the playoffs go. Maybe they go on hot streak and go,
but the trend this year is that's not who they are.
He asked about who would you play the injuries, about
playing this week, I personally, we're not playing well enough
healthy to win against a good team. So I'm not
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going into this worried about getting twelve guys hurt. I'm
I offensively, I need to get into a rhythm. I'm
starting CJ. Stroud this week. I would now, well, it
means nothing. It only means something to rhythm and feeling good.
I get it. But you've gone this far. I just
I just don't coach that way. I can't coach worried
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about the injuries. I mean, now, I'm not going to
do anything stupid in a game like this and play
them and play and play them and people getting knocked
around to it. And of course you take a risk
every time you go out on the field. But I
personally think the offense needs to get something feeling good
about themselves. I would play them early. Yeah, you have
to see how the flow of the game goes. There's
no sacred cows on offense right now. No, They're just not.
Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
I mean, just just take the running game. Joe Mixon
had twenty six yards rushing against Baltimore. He had fifty
seven against Kansas City. Dari A goombawalle led all rushers
against Miami with thirty five yards.
Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Okay, are you comfortable enough going in and say, oh,
our offense is where we want to be. Let's sit
him out after what you saw against Baltimore. And now
you sit them out and then then you play them
the next week in the playoffs. That's a long time
for a team that doesn't have offense, that doesn't have
a lot of production to feel good. I actually start them,
(01:27:13):
but in truth, I would imagine you're going to get
a bunch of guys sit that it doesn't matter, But
to me it does because what if they go into
this game, get an ass kicking and they don't play
their starters. Aren't you going to feel awful? Yeah? I
mean not that it matters. I mean they go in
there and win the playoff game. Who the hell knows
they won their first playoff game last year, but they
were a better team at this time last year. Not
more talented, but better, better production. So I would imagine
(01:27:37):
a lot are going to sit I personally, and I know, well,
Sean wy it doesn't make sense. It makes sense to me.
Now you can disagree. Somebody else calling can say rest them,
sit them. They don't need it. They do need the work.
They actually do need the work, because sometimes they play
like rookies. They do need the work. And I would
try to get him too a rhythm and play like
it with single elimination at least for a quarter, and
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say we got to have something good because I right now,
I don't know about you. I don't trust that the
offense is ready to play against their first playoff opponent.
Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
They're not. I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
I got to see more for me to trust that
they're ready to go into the following week.
Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
They need consistency, They need to, quite frankly, just they
need to put together a game plan. That's where I
teased a couple of segments ago. A game plan to
make this offense look like basically look like they haven't
looked so far the season, meaning consistency, balance, non predictability,
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like all those things we've seen, it's been inconsistent, it's
predictable at times, and quite frankly, it's just been average
at best.
Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
I mean, if they tell you Stroud or Dumiko Ryans
or Bobby Slok right now, I looked at you and said,
we don't We're gonna be okay. Do you trust him
saying that no because you haven't seen there. Actually you
know what, and I know you're on vacation.
Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
Last week we had Aaron Wilson on and he had
a video of up on his social media of what's
his name, Titus Howard. Everybody else in the locker room said,
we got embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
CJ.
Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Stroud said, it's the worst game of my career. We
came out flat. Daniel Hunter said we needed a game
plan better. Everybody was being honest and then you had
Titus Howard go, oh, I'm not I'm not worried. And
I asked Aaron, I said, what what are you buying that?
Titus Howard literally said, Oh, I'm not worried. I'm not concerned. Yeah,
I'm not concerned about this team. What do you mean
Everybody else in the locker room is telling us that, Hey,
(01:29:20):
basically we have looked terrible and you're gonna sit there
and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not concerned.
Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Well you should be.
Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Well, that's the old football macho approach of we got this,
don't worry about it. So the trend says we have
to be worried about you the way you've played. Yeah,
I uh, I don't understand when I hear the word flat.
You're playing the friggin Baltimore Ravens in your building and
there's only two teams playing that day, so the whole
football world's gonna watch you, and on the time you're playing,
(01:29:48):
nobody else is on. And how do you when I
hear we were flat? Yeah, I think that's a bitch
ass excuse how how and if anything, they kicked your
ass in the playoffs last year? You right, Baltimore wasn't flat. No,
Kansas City, and they're actually on the road, not going
to be with their families for Christmas till later that night.
(01:30:08):
You at least got to be home with your families
on a six o'clock wake up call or later in
that day. So flat. Yeah, flat in the preseason game.
Flat in a game in September that you're supposed to
win in your twenty point favorites, Flat against Baltimore. Yeah,
in December on Christmas Day. Flat That that's a that's
(01:30:31):
a flaw. Yeah, Titus Howard said, quote, I'm not concerned.
This team is resilient. I know what we can do.
Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
End quote.
Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Yeah, well, okay, I disagree with Titus Howard. Yeah, I
think I know what they can do too. There's a
big difference in knowing what they can do and actually
doing it, and they haven't done it enough offensively. Now
they may come out next weekend and kick ass that
in this last game, and in the PLATFF game, we're like, Okay,
looks like they're back for a game. But you tell me,
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we're the trends of showing you that this team is
going to dominate anybody with their offense.
Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
There is nothing. There's no nothing. We have been nothing
but complimentary when they've earned it. Well, why this isn't negative,
This is just fact. Yeah, because I hate seeing it too.
But you can't tell me this team hasn't taken a
step back offensively. It's a major step back. Yeah, I
mean you want to go through the league of the
playoff Tampa Bay's offense is better than the Texans right now. Yeah,
look what Baker Mayfield is doing with that offense. There's
(01:31:24):
not one person or one coach's fault. But they have
got to get better. And I'll be honest with you
they I'm playing them for a little little bit this week.
I need I need to see some rhythm for me
as a play.
Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Caller, just real quick as we go to break, Kansas
City has a better offense. Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh charge the Chargers,
And honestly, like I said earlier in the six o'clock hour,
the Denver Denver Broncos with Bo Nicks right now has
a better offense than the Texans. Those are the playoff teams.
Then you look go over at the NFC Minnesota, Philadelphia,
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the Rams playing good football, Tampa Bay Detroit, the Commanders
of Green Packers, all of those have better offenses.
Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Now, you could argue that of the twelve or the
fourteen playoff teams that this team is is the one, Yeah,
second or third, They're they're at the bottom. They'd be
ranked if we go and rank the fourteen playoff teams,
Uh huh, they'll finish thirteenth or fourteen. Yeah, offensively not
potential production production, Yeah, production this season, I would agree. Yeah,
they're down towards the bottom. I would agree.
Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
In the NFC, every single playoff team right now has
a better offense. The three that would be at the
bottom for me in the AFC would be the Chargers,
yet they I'm sorry, it'd be Denver and Houston would
be the bottom two.
Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Be the rookie quarterback in Houston and then depending on
who Russ Wilson is and play because I trust their
defense in Pittsburgh as well. That that's where. Now, how
you slice those last three, fine, but it's going to
be twelve thirteen to fourteen, twelve thirteen, fourteen, those are
the three. How you trust those threes? Fine, but you can't.
You can't even the other eleven teams. There is no question,
(01:33:00):
what offense you'd take over them? All of them? Yeah,
that's all with all these playmakers. And I get right,
I'm actually saying this, but production says this is not hyperbolic, right,
it's a fact. Yeah, the lack of production. Man, I'm
starting my regulars for at least a quarter this week.
I need some rhythm. You do need rhythm, There's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
Let's continue the discussion next right here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show.
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On Sports Talk seven ninety black Ship Station of your rockets.
Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Which one was a pop Tards Bowl That was Iowa
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a new friggin Yeah. They do a really good job
of promoting that specific bowl game. You know, b why
use a better team than Colorado? That's why they put
it on them, and it showed their better team. They're
ass man, They're a better team. They had no excuse there.
And I love the fact that those guys played. But
they just were. They were out And I know they
(01:34:23):
put big old insurance policies on their two big dogs.
They ensure the whole team, and they put a big on, uh,
you know, on Sanders and Hunter. But B they were outmatched.
B why you just handled them in every way shape
and for them. So it was uh, I guess, But
I do like some of the enthusiasm I'm seeing from
young players who decided that young players who get a
chance to play when the veterans hold out or decide
(01:34:45):
not to play, we're seeing some energy. But that's because
they're a young player and until their opportunity comes and
then they're a veteran and they want to save their careers,
they'll they'll sit out too. I guess I shouldn't be
that negative. It bugs me, though, but Sanders and Hunter
playing was impressive. Although they got their ass handed to them.
It was I like, when you show up and play, you, uh,
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you find it odd.
Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
Let me talk a little FCS real quick. South Dakota State.
North Dakota State played in one of the semifinal games.
North Dakota State one twenty eight twenty one, Montana State
and South Dakota played in the other semifinals. Montana State
won thirty one to seventeen. Are we ever gonna have
teams that are not in the North in the FCS.
Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Every now and then you'll Jamship James Madison when when
Sam Houston was an FCS school. You'll get them.
Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
But but I mean South Dakota State, North Akota State,
South Dakota and the Montanas and then Montana State. Montana's
always good, yep, Montana State's always good.
Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Southdast South Dakota State, and now a second team in
South Dakota that's not South Dakota State, and rude ones
in like what's North Dakota State, I think is one
of them's in Brookings. And then the South Dakota just
not state, but just South Dakota. They're in it. I mean,
so we got what Montana State in North Dakota State
in the in the final, Yeah, which will be that's right, yep,
(01:36:07):
that'll be a hell of a football game. Montana State
fifteen and oh, North Dakota State thirteen and two. Yeah,
it's gonna be a fun watch and they play some
hellified football. Man, I love it. So you're right. If
you want to a FCS school, head to one of
the Dakota's if you'll be right there. Good Yo. Yeah,
I had to one of those schools where you have
make it underground tunnel during the during the school year
(01:36:29):
so you don't freeze to death. Don't hate them, man,
showing up and competing. So what do you think about
bull season so far? Nondescript?
Speaker 6 (01:36:38):
You like it?
Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
I've seen some energy from you know, watching an army play.
They were fun to watch as they play.
Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
Actually, Sam Houston, they they won their bowl game. They
played well so far. I don't know, I mean just kind.
Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
Of Miami game was uh, was a good game. I mean,
you know in the forties, I.
Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Mean you look at on the day after Christmas, there
was some really good games. Kansas State won forty four
to forty one. Toledo won in six overtimes against pitt
forty eight forty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
So I watched every one of that, that overtime, back
and forth and back and forth and penalties and then
back and forth. That was a great watch. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
Arkansas thirty one so that not a lot of blowouts. Well, actually,
you know what, my Kyle McCord and that Syracuse offense, dude, real,
come man, fifty two thirty five over Washington State.
Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
They will I bet the over in that one. And
it's like take the over when those two teams that
went throughout all the records of LetGo, Kyle McCord had
a monster year. Yeah he did. He is going to
be sneaky this offseason because here's a guy who left
an eleven win team that was in the playoff, went
to a different offense that obviously showcased him led the
nation in passing. Yeah, and now is going to you know,
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playing some of these All Star games and get a look, Hell,
might he be the best quarterback NFL ready quarterback in
this draft.
Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
He's waiting to see if he gets another year of eligibility,
right because agently he applied for it.
Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
But if he's going to be a first round pick,
if he was going to be a first round pick,
don't why stay? Yeah, But if you're like, if it's
a tweener and they're not sure and go put up
those yards again, look what it's done for cam Ward.
He goes my look, what it's done for his I mean,
now he's in the talk him and Sanders as who's
going to be the first quarterback taken? So McCord, that's
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why listen. Now that takes guts. Now, I know he
got paid from Syracuse and all that, but he left
a great team, the most talented team in America to
go play at Syracuse. Put up these numbers. Now, that's
why you transfer. You think, well, I mean, I get
the job. Will Howard's going to get the job. I'm
going to transfer after I was already the starter. And
then you go there and then you play like that,
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like that. That's that's how the transfer portal was invented.
That that's why, right, get it, get a shot. Maybe
an offense fits you better, Maybe you and Ryan Day
didn't hit it. Whatever it is, don't say any of transfer.
He ain't transferred anywhere else, say the Syracuse for playing
on Sunday. So he's really had a monster year. So
there's been some fun offensive games, and I'm telling you
down the road, continue to keep an eye on. I
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told you my guy can't state their quarterback. He was
different coaching him in an All Star game, and his
feet are filthy. I'm just telling you that that that
you that kid's going to be a blast to watch
over the next couple of years. Avery Johnson, Oh my goodness, Yeah, dude,
when when I told you this and the bear's repeating.
When we had him my first year in the as
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the offensive coordinator in the US Army game, we called
read option on our first drive to the left an
r PO. He pulls it, takes it to the edge,
puts his left foot in the ground, and cuts up
the field. Boo boom was in the end zone. And
we all knew because a lot of times it's walked
through in these auto We're not going full speed during
practice for the most part. You're you're getting stuff in.
But we're saying there when he takes off in scores,
(01:39:52):
I take a look at like my wide receiver coach
and then my head coach was Houston Nutt, the former
from Ole Miss in Arkansas, and I said, I mean,
I knew he had some bursts. I didn't he had that, dude,
and so and it and it played itself out his
freshman last year and now this year he's even a
better college player. And that All Star he was the
MVP of the game and he could do anything he wanted.
That's how good he was. And it's carried over into
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college football. That is going to be one of the
funnest watches in college football. He and the quarterback. I'm
telling you you keep an eye on him, and you
keep an eye on a quarterback from South Carolina Sellers
over the next two years and watch how these guys
do some different stuff that every quarterback we want. Now,
can you beat me from the pocket and can you
beat me on the edge? And both have proven they can.
It's a fun watch. We've seen some good play in
(01:40:35):
this postseason by some young players, which I like.
Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
Yeah, that's that's been the best part about ball season.
Let's continue to tell.
Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
My Trojans went in there and played did some good
things against A and M too, So leave that out now.
Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Yeah, I think we need to discuss Texas A and
M because they got to they need to re evaluate
a lot of things. Yeah, and this, no, this is
no disrespect against USC, but USC did not has not
played well this year and for Texas A and M
to go into that bowl game and and just it's
it's like time management was a question.
Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Asked, kicked in the game. I know, I mean twenty
one points in the fourth quarter for USC to win
that game. Yeah, my son and a bunch of his
buddies were out there because he went to A and
M and he's an SC fan, right, so got a ticket.
He said, he picked SC on the money line, and
when you're down twenty one points, he's like, oh man, Yeah,
it was awesome to come but it was a great comeback.
And the quarterbacks struggled, but they played it and finished
(01:41:28):
the full thing and took care of their business, which
was a great game. But yeah, A and M. The
inability to put your foot on the throat minds you
of a couple of teams, doesn't it sure does?
Speaker 6 (01:41:39):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Yeah, they've got to get better at it. Where the
team in Austin right now, when it gets close, they're
relying on physicality. They put your their foot on your throat,
and they're gonna get another chance to do it again
this on Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Yeah, let's look at some of those college football playoff matchups.
Next to sport Stock seven ninety, the.
Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Sean Salisbury Show continued, Well, what what's the well you
have no, Yeah, you know what you're gonna get right answers,
Oh yeah, or is it overrated to get them into
rhythm and just like let him take another week off
and go almost draft the s bom for for the
the the way that the offense has looked.
Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
I'm playing my guy, I'm starting my guys depending on
what it looks like a half, just to try to
get some sort of rhythm together, I would agree. And
you got Deontay Johnson, the guy they picked up awful waivers.
That's gonna be one of your wide receivers this coming weekend.
You got to get him into the playbook because you're
gonna have to have to have him in the lineup
when he goes into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Oh, he's gonna play. I would imagine you're gonna play
him regardless of Yeah, you are, but you want to
play regardless of who the quarterback or running back is.
But you want them with c J. Stroud and some
live game reps, don't you.
Speaker 6 (01:42:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
I mean, if you're c J. Stroud, you should want
to play. Yeah in this game. Yeah, you can't go. Man,
you just got your ass what by the Ravens. And
that's not the last thing I want to know or
remember going into the playoffs. But I mean, I'm sure
we'll hear from Demiico Ryans all week talking about that
real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
On some college football. If you're Texas A and M
sean first time in forever, you play ut at home,
you get manhandled, you don't even put up an offensive touchdown,
you don't put up offensive points. M hm, you go
eight and five and you lose the bowl game yep,
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after one points. Yes, if you're Texas A and M.
And again, I'm not saying fire Mike elgo by any means,
not even close.
Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
First year.
Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
I think he's gonna be a really good head coach
for them. Agreed, you got to reevaluate some things, though. Man,
it just seems to me this is the story for
Texas A and M. Every single season. High expectations, playmakers
and five stars galore, and they just fall flat every year.
Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Yeah, I was every season. I was going to say,
it feels like there's something missing from How do I
say that? Because you know, I like the program. I
think like Elko is going to do a good job.
Have you ever noticed that it feels like they're just
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always a player or two away, always from all the
ways of important positions. No matter how much money they spent.
During all that money, when they got the quote unquote
the top recruiting class and the history rated commuter recruiting
class in the history of college football, was it. Yeah,
that that's you know, was so point is And you know,
(01:44:31):
like I said, not all these these these these scouting
services get it right. Exactly. You spend more money with
those scouting services, you become real quick. Yeah. So, but
they don't always get that right and the development of it.
But it almost feels like every when Jimbo was here
and before when someone was here, they used to start
(01:44:53):
fast and wear out in the SEC at the end
of the season because the other teams were too physical.
And then when they're physical, you're like, there's a quarterback
that they don't throw it well enough, but they can
run it with the quarterback. There's always quarterback gets hurt.
You know, we had huge expectations for Wigman and we'll
have them here at the University of Houston for him
that didn't work out. There's always they're always a player
(01:45:16):
or two or a player or two from being in
the elite category. Yeah, every single and yet season three
weeks ago they are still in the platform. Yeah, but
that's the point. It gets to this and they find
ways not to get it done. Yeah, And I don't
know what. There's not one thing. It's not just one thing,
(01:45:38):
and you and I both know that, but you keep
going and keep going and keep going. It's like, damn,
what is it that's missing? I almost feel like put
them at eight and four, nine and three, that's who
they are. They'll get close, they'll be competitive, they'll play
in a good Bowl game, but there's always something that
feels like they're not quite championship caliby, right, I don't
(01:45:58):
know what it is. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe an A
and M fan, And it's not because they played my tropes,
to be honest with you, that was both teams looked
about like they have this year, some good, some bad,
some in between. USC just had more offense down the
stretch and bigger playmakers when it mattered. But there's all.
And I feel the same way about my Trojans. There's
always something defensively offensive, there's always over the last decade
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there's something missing. A lot of similarities between the Trojans
and highly rated. Everybody loves them going into the season,
and by the end of the year. You're like, what's missing?
Speaker 6 (01:46:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
My Troses just happened to be on the right side
of the Aggi's on this one. Yeah, but the similarity.
So I've gone through this with SC but as an
A and M fan, which I like A and M.
And if you're a lum and you're watching or your
football player, there's always something missing that prevents them from
getting to where they want to go. And it doesn't
matter who the coach is, No, it doesn't. It doesn't
(01:46:53):
I do, but I hold Milco in high regard. But
whether it's a game management decision, when do you use
a timeout, a bad throw by the quarterback and injury
to the quarterback, two running backs getting banged up, defensive players,
somebody transferring, this didn't work. It just it's always something
see and then the Trojans have gone through the same thing.
They just got them this time.
Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
And then I look at obviously the Texas A and
M and the Texas rivalry is heated all the way
around and all the loud talking that A and M
fans do about the University of Texas. University of Texas
in their first year in the SEC, played in the
SEC title game. I know they got beat now they are.
They have one of the best defenses in all college football.
Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
As physical as we have in the country right now,
and large man handled them physically and is saying something.
Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
In the University of Texas is on like their fourth
and fifth running back and they're still during the quarterfinals
of the college football playoffs. So with all that being said,
it seems like for whatever reason, with Texas A and
M they might be down a running back or a
wide receiver. Other teams are down to their team Texas, right,
and I just don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I don't get it. The team should be a national
championship type team every year with the recruits and the
the recruiting area and the money they spent, right and
and quite frankly, they get good players.
Speaker 6 (01:48:05):
Yea, we know this.
Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
And it's a great facilities, everything about it. What's not
to love. You have one of the best, no doubt,
best stadiums in all of college and and facilities and
you'll there's no question, no, absolutely no question about it.
But also, didn't Mike coach Elko say that they're the
class at Tech? What didn't I hear in his post
pret conference? What was he saying in his post press conference,
(01:48:26):
did he say, did we are the we are the
program in Texas? Did he say that after the game
against USC And am I right about that that I
or did I hear it wrong? Because people were making
comments about it. And I would imagine if you're a
longhorned fan, you're saying, no, no, no, no you right
now you're the team in Texas happens to be the
guys that are playing. It's that's about the mentality they are.
(01:48:51):
They're they're a step below. It's almost I hate if
Mike Elko did say something along those lines. And you know,
like I said, I've got great connected. I love my
kid went there. I got my masters from A and M.
I love it. But let's let's call it real real.
They're they're a step down from it from from Texas
right now on the field football wise, he said they
should not be.
Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
He said, some of the things I've seen, He said,
the story of the game is the story of the season.
We can't cover the forward pass. I have apprehension when
the other team drop drops back to throw the ball.
Starting against Florida, we got lucky. Starting against Missouri, we
got lucky. LSU threw for four hundred yep and SC
second I had they came back and made does. But
he said something about the program in Texas. I thought
(01:49:31):
he did unless I heard it wrong. But the point
is is that that they're just I hate to say this,
but it's like USC and UCLA in the past, We've
always been chasing them in basketball, right I'm talking about
when I was going to college, and you know, it's
got us these basketball correct programs picked up, but football,
when you looked at it was always SC football first,
(01:49:51):
Ucla second.
Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Now we've been beat by UCLA. Don't misunderstand me talking
about perception, right, Yeah, it's the same thing here. I
understand how A and M wants to think, but I
hate to say this because I love A and M.
They're they're a step below Texas. Yeah, they just are. Yeah,
they are. And that's just that's the that's just the
(01:50:12):
unfortunate reality of it. Now it can change, but right now,
the team in this state resides in Austin. It just
does when it comes to when it comes to football.
Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
And over the last couple of years, pretty much since
Steve Sarkisian has gotten there, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Been painful to say I know for Aggie fans, I
hate saying it, and that doesn't mean that you're not
a good program, but there's something and Mike Elko hit it,
if you can't stop the forward passing college football, you
ain't getting to where you want to go. I think
A and M believes that they're talented enough on a
regular basis to be playing this week, right, you know
I'm talking about in a playoff game, but they there's
(01:50:51):
something always missing in a game that doesn't allow them
to go four or five where they're dominating and everything
looks like, Okay, this is a NASH championship team and
wants to change that obviously.
Speaker 5 (01:51:03):
And you know how the hit to the ego for
some of these big big Texas A and M alumni
and boosters are when you see this season and how
close you were to getting too the SEC title game
and you got dominated in front of one hundred and
eight thousand by the University of Texas. Just to see
them go into the SEC title game in their first
year and then win their first game blowout Clemson, even
(01:51:26):
though it was a little bit closer on the scoreboard,
and now you're in and they're in the quarterfinals, against
Arizona State.
Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
Do you realize if they beat Texas? If A and
M beats Texas, guess what they're doing. They're playing in
the college fotball payoffs? Right, Yeah, And obviously and maybe
not to show up the right way and that one.
But the reason it pains me to say just because
I've lived it. And that's easy for me to say,
because when I say it rolls off the time because
I've been saying this about USC for years now. We're
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always loaded with talent. It's just like, what's missing? Yeah,
what is miss? Physical?
Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Well, we're just good quarterback terrible defense, the physicality defense,
poor quarterbacks, points like sustained body blows were not good
at Yeah, but how do we beat him? How did
s beat?
Speaker 7 (01:52:09):
A and M?
Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Put the ball in the air, spread them out, did
their thing, finessed them to death, mixed in the run
and did what A and M can't defend the forward pass?
And they went good on Lincoln Riley to attack, to
not quit on, say you know what, we'll overcome this.
Throw some picks, come back and fight through this and
give me what you've got. And then they started to
get into a rhythm and A and M hasn't been
able to defend the pass against anybody who's got a
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decent quarterback, let alone a good one this year, and
it's been that. It's been a big problem for them
and Mike Elkle, who's a great defensive coach. That's bothersome
and probably going to spend a lot of time this
offseason e value waiting not only his defensive staff, but
his overall staff and his players as well. Because A
and M should be we should be talking about them
in the national title hunt every year every year. We
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should They're they're they're they're good enough to do that,
and they've got enough money.
Speaker 6 (01:52:56):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (01:52:56):
Yeah, that's that's for damn sure. Seven one three two
one two five, seven ninety. We'll get out to the
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Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
Hey, real quick, before we get to our calls before
you well, you're not even reading headlines this break sorry
is the norm, and I agree, and we will be
in the minority of rest your starters with the Texans
this week. And I normally say, you know what, but
it's going to be almost three weeks before they would
have played again. Their last memory is an embarrassment, and
(01:54:33):
I would like to think they go off in the
one end of season with a what are they nine
and seven right now? End up with a win. But
I understand preserving your starters for that. But my decision
to start them has nothing to do with injuries. And
I wouldn't give mix And a touch. I want him
fully fresh. I don't I don't need him. I get
I get you know, Piers, and let's let those guys
(01:54:56):
get their carries in whoever and get it rolling. Personally,
would just like to see them feel good for themselves
about it, and I would not argue if you said them,
I get it. Maybe it's my emotion of the frustration
of damn guys, let's get this thing going. The majority
of people and are probably right rest them because the
(01:55:16):
only risk about playing on I'm not even worried about
the injury. No, it is for me if they go
out there and they urinate down their leg again against
this team, and the offense doesn't. They sputter, and you're like,
oh man, we've even compounded and make it worse. Maybe
just being away from the thought of starting football gives
you a chance to clear your mind and get rid
of that clutter that's been the inconsistency all year and
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let you breathe, and then you'll feel fresher coming back
for the first round playoff game. That I do get,
and it's at home that part I do get. I
guess the emotional part and the quarterback part, and me
not the fan. The quarterback part of me says, I'm
tapping coach and saying, we give us a couple series,
we'll stand of Arm's way, throw the ball away, give
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us a couple series, and then if we go down
and move the ball in the first two, get everybody out.
Here's the problem. You can't rest them all right. You
don't have enough players. So then one star is gonna
be like, well, I'm going the whole game, but this
guy's not. So that you get how that give and
take goes. So I understand most fans are gonna say,
don't play them, And I understand you want to clear
your mind. I'm looking at it the other way. I
want to feel good going into the playoffs because right
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now I don't know how you can offensively, but you
also run at risk with the way they've played by
playing them, Is it getting worse? Because I got to
believe that Tennessee's close to have checked out, I would
think so.
Speaker 6 (01:56:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
I mean, now I know their coach will say they haven't.
They'll play hard. They always play hard. They do when
when I said, I'm being a bit facetious by using
the play hard. But even though that the season for
them is done, They're still going to show up because
they know they'll demand it and I get it. And
why wouldn't you want to play well with with this there?
That would be a sweep of the Texans. Right, If
Tennessee beats them, they will have swept them.
Speaker 6 (01:56:52):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Correct? So I just the smart thing to do injury wise? Yeah,
sit them. I think the wise thing to do is
to get him into a rhythm. And even if you
go down in the first series ten plays eighty two
yards and score, wouldn't you feel better going into the
next week? Yes? Plus I had three weeks, Bud. It's
a long time for a team that hasn't been in
rhythm to find their rhythm by not playing. Yeah, so
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there is some decisions that Demiko Ryans is gonna.
Speaker 6 (01:57:18):
Have to make.
Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Yeah, they're gonna have to figure that out. If I
was in the meeting room with him, I'd say, let's
run run him out their few series and and not
put him in harm's way. Get the ball out quick.
See if we get into rhythm and then get him
out right, That's what I do. Yeah, get some kind
of rhythm, man, I would need it. I would get
the kJ before gets the top of the hour. kJ,
thanks for holding buddy. What's going on?
Speaker 6 (01:57:37):
Oh first and foremost man? Shout out to the DJ,
and that was David Rufflan by the way, one of
my favorite hits matter Classic school School holding a wild jam, right,
So shout out to the DJ.
Speaker 7 (01:57:47):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:57:47):
Took my hat to your young man, but appreciate it
real quick, real quick.
Speaker 17 (01:57:53):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
I know you guys talking about rest of the players
or whatever. Look rest them, play them? Who care? They
not going to get a rhythm in full quart of
the Bay guy in the sixteen games already, So I'm
cool either way. What I've seen with this team so
far this season gives me no room for optimism. This
offensive line is about as useless as the screen door
on the submarine, though.
Speaker 7 (01:58:17):
And sure, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 6 (01:58:21):
When you played, do you, off the top of your head,
do you remember the worst button whooping you ever received
on the field? You may, I may ask you this
question a month from now. You may give me a
different ethor. But on the top of your head, can
you've recalled the first button whooping you experienced on the field?
Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
I can?
Speaker 6 (01:58:38):
Yeah, Okay, you don't. We don't have to go into
the details. How did you feel after that?
Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
And I was miserable till we played the next game
and hopefully a change I practice sucked. You try to
get You know we're taught, and you know this, I'm
not telling anything. You don't know. We're taught as athletes
kJ to get over it quick, right, well, fan, I
fans immediate. We we we suffer a fans longer than
the players do, and we wonder how they get over
it so quick. Now the plane ride home, if it
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was a road game, we got your ass kick was silence.
You aren't talk coaches it. You better act like you
got your ass kicked and we're not we're not doing
all the celebrating playing cards. You better, you better let
this fester. It sucked. It absolutely sucked. Now you do
got to get over it because you got to get
back to practicing. But even then, when you went home
or you watch the tape, the constant reminders gosh, what
we we embarrass ourselves. So yeah, it did suck. And
(01:59:27):
then you go out there and say, but I can't
lose sight of what the next prize is. But yeah,
it was miserable. Practice was miserable. Flight was miserable. At
home was miserable because it's always on your mind thinking, well,
let's not do that a second time. But what if
you know, creeps in, what if we do this again?
But you've got you just got to come carmentalized. What's
what's that?
Speaker 6 (01:59:48):
You know what that's that's two things. That's two things
right there, and again I never stepped full of the
NFL level.
Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
It's all relative high school or college to the same thing. Right, Yeah,
what ass kick?
Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
And right, that's two things. That's called being a competitor,
and that's called having pride. You were upset because both
of them were compromised in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
I was embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (02:00:15):
I want to give you this. I'm going to give
you the offensive lines mindset in the microcost at the
end of the game last against Baltimore right after the game,
rather than sulking, rather than being upset or whatnot. Uh
Laramie Tunsel is posting reposting a tweet of some cleats
(02:00:36):
on Instagram. You've just got your hat, your backside and
everything else handed to you in the game the last
You're talking about not being able to read the room
right now, Demico Rise, I don't know what loyalty, I
don't know what pictures Bobby Slowan has on him. He's
gonna allow Bob the slow to cost in this job.
And I'm not going to get into a loan down
(02:00:57):
trap about what's going on with the team right now.
I'm just at the point playoffs or not, because there's
nothing and these sixteen games that we've seen that makes
me believe they could do anything they get any one
of the playoffs. I'm ready for this season to be
up with and I literally want to see back now
that you face some extreme adversity. Demico and Cacereo and CJ.
Stroud and everybody else that plays a role in this league.
(02:01:19):
I want to see if your pride and your competitor
is going to kick in this off season to get
you compared for next season as usual. Fellas, even though
I don't call it in, I'm still.
Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
MISSINGKJ appreciate it. I'll tell you this real quick. We'll
get to the cars at the top. Is I was
a miserable prick to live with after a loss. I bet,
even if miser I bet for the whole week. And
then you get back in and while they say, well
that's that's that's too much up and down, Yeah, well
it's called just I was embarrassed. You know what, you
know what the Texans played like last week. Here's here's
how I can put it. Remember in high school or
(02:01:49):
elementary school, when a coach with after a game like
or a baseball game, have you run on the field
while you're in your uniform while your parents are waiting,
because you embarrass yourself. You tras, oh, we're gonna go practice,
like I think Bob Knight didn't he have his team
practice in the gym? After all? I think it was
coach Knight. If that was what they were doing, you
would have had a bunch of grown men running in
(02:02:11):
the stadium and practicing seven on seven and all after
the game in their full grown up uniforms. That was
how humiliated you should have felt about your performance. Yeah,
if it doesn't bother you, then you're probably playing the
wrong score you are you have no competitive fire. Yeah,
you know, I get it. Kj's right though. It's got
to bother you enough that that sitting out bothers you
(02:02:35):
the next week. It's got to bother you that even
if you are sitting out, it's got to bother you.
You can't check out.
Speaker 5 (02:02:41):
And that game it felt like they did on Christmas
from my optics against Baltimore, who kicked your ass in
the playoffs. That's just crazy, man. It's getting into nine
o'clock hour right now on Sports Talk sevent to.
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Okay, let's do this.
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in twenty twenty four, Fellas, it's your mind right?
Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Is your mind right?
Speaker 6 (02:03:52):
Are you?
Speaker 11 (02:03:52):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03:52):
Are you dialed in to finish this this a year strong?
Or you kind of just lays it into it? Uh,
probably just laysing into it. Honestly. Really, I show up
a show out, but you made so have you mailed
it in?
Speaker 10 (02:04:04):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
No, no, no, I'm here dog. I mean felt like
maybe knew me. Yeah, I thought maybe you showed up,
but just as socide you didn't want to show out. No,
I'm showing out. Yeah, making sure. I mean that's that's
too your I mean, that's your m O. But you're
only you're only as good as your next performance exactly.
(02:04:26):
You know what I'm saying. We're we're only as weak
as the chains link as what. Yeah, we're only as
weak as the week You're as weak as the weakest link.
Would you say as this? So you're basically saying, and
I mean it's true, Hey, every you gotta have a
(02:04:48):
pride every day right, Yeah, you're as good as your
last performance. I thought it was You're only as strong
as your weakest link. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah,
you said you're as weak as you're we that's true. Different, Yeah,
the phrase is half the truth. Basically, you're as strong
as your weakest link. So basically, got eliminate the weak link.
You do it starts in order to build strength. You
(02:05:11):
know the fat? Got trim the fat man? Yeah, with
a p. No, it's not.
Speaker 5 (02:05:16):
It's like when you know you got a good steak.
You know your good meat, you know as you like it, right,
you know, trim the fat.
Speaker 2 (02:05:21):
You're good. Nothing like some good meat, right, I'm with you. Yeah,
but you showed up. Yeah, that's sure. Did what'd your
boyfriend get you for Christmas? Where you going with this?
Almost said it?
Speaker 6 (02:05:41):
Hmm?
Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
Just his love, his care, his affection, Okay, his want
to Okay, his desires. Oh I had him hog tied
over the okay, all right, you know what you tie up?
All right? Right, it's what I meant. Yeah, all right,
(02:06:05):
why are you so dirty? I'm not what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (02:06:07):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
Come on, man, I mean I'm sure in the everybody's listen,
all right, everybody's here. Yeah, we're talking about a country club.
Speaker 6 (02:06:18):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
Man, Hello, like.
Speaker 5 (02:06:26):
Us the news radio seven for our age, Ye sky Mike,
because dude never skyed sky Mike over the weekend on
Sunday ninety nine weeks because I was still jamming Christmas
meeting this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
This guy's not playing now he's not, and we mean
we've shown up. He'll show up and show out. Would
you say, though, your earliest week is as early as
week as yours. The link Yeah, if it falls off,
you're pretty weak. It's a good place because yeah, you
don't have all your links. There you go, Yeah, you
get it. See, I feel you. It makes sense. I'm
picking up what you're putting down. There we go, sucked, Garrett,
(02:06:59):
what's up? Garrett?
Speaker 17 (02:07:01):
Hey, Sean Brian Emmanuel wanted to say happy New Year
and thanks for really making our year great with a
great show and and great talk every morning.
Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
Appreciate that you.
Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
Hey, hey, not a problem.
Speaker 17 (02:07:16):
I just wanted to talk about Sam Daniel and.
Speaker 18 (02:07:19):
Ask you Sam Tarnald good Heavens, and ask you a
question about him whether you thought he should be franchise
tag for next year with this great performance, whether they
should maybe offer him an extension, and uh, just what
you thought on his future, maybe he should be traded
or or JJ McCarthy should be traded, just on that
(02:07:41):
whole situation, because you know, obviously fourteen wins, you know, uh,
and and just four thousand yards. I mean, he's shown
he can play.
Speaker 2 (02:07:52):
And just what y'all thought. That's a great question, Garrett,
And I'm gonna tell you it's a great problem to
have with your Minnesota But it's a problem. Here's here's
the deal. Sam Donald is playing exactly. Remember I told
you I have not talked to an expert at that
position when Sam Donald was going through his worst that
told me that Sam Donald can't play. There was always
(02:08:14):
I don't know if it was an excuse or always.
I assure you gets coach right, he can play. I'm better. Well,
look at him now. He's playing, quite frankly, like an
MVP of the league. But he's playing like people expected
him play when he was the third pick of the draft,
behind Mayfield and Saquon Barkley. And by the way, both
of those guys are playing like the first pick of
the draft and like a guy the best running back
(02:08:35):
in the draft. In truth now after after the think
about it, Barkley at his struggles and the Giants. He
had a couple good years, but up and down right
on a bad team. Obviously, Baker Mayfield's on four teams
now as the first pick of the draft in Cleveland
would beg to have him back, and he's playing Pro
bowl level football in the NFC. And Donald has got
his team a game away from being fifteen and two
(02:08:55):
am And it's not in side of him, it's because
of him. Right, Oh, Garrett, here's the point. You got
Darnold as a stop gap, but with hopes that he
was going to be better. Oh, it's better. Now, here's
the irony of it. Everybody in the world says, you're
in no rush to play your draft pick. What are
we rushing for the player? Draft pick? Let him, let
(02:09:18):
him sit and watch, and in the second the guy plays,
what are we gonna do? McCarthy's got to start. I'm
not saying yeah said, but I've heard it. I want
in Minnesota. You want to, Well, you've got the perfect story.
And plus he's coming off a season any injury, so
he didn't eve get to play this year. So he's
literally a rookie again next year because no practice time, nothing.
And I love McCarthy, but if you're in Minnesota, are
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you really gonna let a fifteen and two MVP style
quarterback walk in hopes that the rookie plays great in
his second year. Absolutely not. Plus we're saying let these
young guys develop. Well, here it is. You got a
guy and he's built in. You have to sign him
now if you want to go about it the business
(02:10:01):
way and really protect yourself and wonder if it's a
one year hit one hit wonder you franchise him. You
pay him the forty two or forty three million dollars
on a one year deal top five and quarterbacks, but
the average areas the yearly salary, and you say, go
run it back again. And if he goes and plays
well again, then it's the next year because you know
what McCarthy can be there learning, You can get packages
(02:10:22):
in for him. If Sam goes back to back on this,
then you're going to be looking at sixty million dollars
next year. So now here's the other thing you drafted, McCarthy.
Are you willing to go Sam, let's go four years
at two hundred million and we'll guarantee one hundred and
forty of it, and then you're telling McCarthy basically you're
not playing. That's the kirk Cousins situation with Michael Pennox. Now,
(02:10:46):
so the truth, the smart thing, for the smart thing
for Minnesota to do is Darnold's your guy McCarthys in waiting,
but he gets a chance. Look because he really it's
not like he pulls a rookie you played part of
the year like Nix or these guys that are playing.
He's gonna be a rookie. You got an MVP type player.
You franchise him, Yeah, even though well, are you doing
(02:11:07):
him dirty? No, it's within the rules because if he
got a contract bigger than that and you didn't franchise him,
he'd go start somewhere. It's perfect for Minnesota and Sam
Donald and for JJ McCarthy, and if it doesn't work out,
JJ's right there Sam. But if Donald goes and plays again,
the real question mark isn't this year, it's if you
franchise him, what are you going to do and he
goes out and plays again? The same way where if
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they go win a Super Bowl, what if they go
win it or they're in it. You're going to trade
him and hopes that a rookie that hadn't had one
snap in an NFL game is great. I think McCarthy's
going to be a hell of a player. But Donald's
earned the gig.
Speaker 6 (02:11:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Oh yeah, and so I would franchise him. I'm sorry, Sam,
we got to see you do it one more year
and then i'll give you six. By that time, it'll
be almost sixty million fifty five million a year for
four years or five years, and guarantee seventy five percent
of it because he will have earned it. If you're
Minnisota and you're smart, you cover yourself both ways. You
give him McCarthy hope that he can come back and
(02:12:04):
compete for the starting job. Donald that he is the starter,
because you're paying him forty plus million on a franchise tag,
and you've covered yourself both ways. With a young guy
and a veteran who's finally playing the way we expect
and playing draft, there's absolutely no way if you're in
Minnesota you can let Sam Donald leave that building. Sam
Donald is third in yards passing. One year, ten year,
(02:12:25):
ten year, ten million dollar deal is what he signed
for he's fourth in touchdowns. Okay, he is, and he's
about to have his team or his second best record
in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (02:12:36):
If this keeps up, what are we doing here battle
an NFC this week? Yeah, it'll be for the number
one seats he's got. Let's see thirty five touchdowns and
twelve interceptions, completion percentage of sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:12:53):
You're gonna tell me let's just get rid of him. No, no, no,
I can't take the risk. JJ mccarthy'll be ready, and
he may be ready, but we want to let our quarterbacks.
Why are we rushing them? You don't have to rush McCarthy's.
Darnold saved you there, and he's gonna come back even
more confident. This year was a testing ground. Now look
at it. Now he's stepped into it. You in Minnesota
(02:13:16):
will keep Sam Darnald. Yeah, and Minnesota will. I'm assuming
franchise him to make him do it again. And if
they don't franchise him, it'll be one of those four
year deals at like forty eight million dollars a year,
fifty million dollars a year. And you know what's crazy
as a starting quarterback on a fourteen to two team
fifty million dollars a year is probably light considering what
we're paying guys. So he's had nine games with a
(02:13:41):
QB rating of over one hundred. Yeah, you can. The
Minnesota has to. Garrett's a great point. It's a good
problem to have. I can develop the young guy coming
off an injury, and I got a bona fide front
rate no top line starter in Sam Donald.
Speaker 5 (02:13:57):
I'm sorry, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen games.
Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
You can't just say Sam will be a free agent
somewhere else and start his Tennessee. If you're like Tennessee,
there's team standing in line to.
Speaker 7 (02:14:11):
Go get him.
Speaker 2 (02:14:12):
His QBR this season on average on hundred and six
point four. Yeah, Sam Donald, Sam Donald, Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield,
and Jared Goff have been the NFC's best quarterbacks this year.
With with the Jordan Love is going to be close, right,
He's a good player. You absolutely have to keep Sam Donald.
Now you got to decide if you want him for
a distance or if you want to make him prove
it one more year on a franchise tag. And I
(02:14:32):
think Sam would understand that. Yeah, I think so so,
But it's business. If the rule says like in franchise
you guess what, buddy, Yeah, I'm protecting my team, right,
I'm keeping you though. Yeah even that, but that, but
that franchise tag, that'll be whatever that right, we'll be
in the thirty between thirty nine and forty two dollars
close in right around forty ish. Yeah, you won't get
(02:14:54):
the signing bonus and the guaranteed money, but one year
that is guaranteed money. So that's forty million. And if
he goes improves it again, now he's looking at fifty
five to sixty million for five or six years after
that because he's still in his twenties. Yeah, he's twenty seven.
There you go. Good, good little gig for Sam Darno.
And they're fourteen and two two yeah, and they're playing
for the number one seed. And have you heard that
guy make an excuse at any point in time in
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his career? Not one time?
Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
Great kid, right, he is a great kid. Let's continue
to talk about the NFL. Do you start CJ. Stroud
and the starters for the Texans or not. Let's talk
about it next.
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Seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:17:27):
Manifesting, this is a Boston Red Sox City Connect City
Connect hat looks like U C l A. Yes, A
lot of my Trojan friends when they've seen it of like,
what are you doing, dude? This has nothing to do
with the UCLA Bruns. I don't have a Bruins hat
and I never will okay, and much respect to my
UCLA buddies, but that's just blasphemous. Okay, this is if
(02:17:50):
Bregman's not going to be an astro, I am breathing
lifting him up. Give me an amen, Give me an amen,
like right, lifting him up and landing him at the
hot corner in Fenway Park. Union work exactly exactly. Well, yeah,
(02:18:13):
what for tomorrow today to be today? For tomorrow today,
you better union work. I'm on today. I'm thanking a
union worker in Boston for landed, bragmented fedway if he's
(02:18:34):
not here? Is that fair? So don't hate to say
U c l A and you know better than that dog. Yeah,
I don't play. You ever see me wear a Yankee
hat in here your life?
Speaker 13 (02:18:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
I don't have one day, damn right I did. I
can always wear the the the hat to the team
that well, they're they were the World Series champs before
most recently, uh before this year. So that's okay, that's
that would be like an owe to my friend I
lived there for ten years. Yeah you did, that's right. Yeah,
but no, you know you know where my allegiances so
(02:19:06):
it's right here in the red Sox. So if he's
not going to be here. You might as well go
to find way you feel me today.
Speaker 6 (02:19:14):
You better thank your union member.
Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
You better? Can I get an amen? Oh? You better
than a union member? Well, I am a union member.
I was okay, I still am because I paid you know,
paid dues to well.
Speaker 6 (02:19:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:19:44):
Well, yeah, you better thank your union member. Okay, let's
go that was a class Oh, let's go to Brandon
on the phone lines. Brandon, good morning mine, Brian, how
are you guys?
Speaker 15 (02:20:00):
Fair?
Speaker 2 (02:20:01):
Fair to Midland? You know, fair to Midland's kind of
in between good to fit on life's good? Fair to Midland.
How are you okay?
Speaker 6 (02:20:11):
Sean good?
Speaker 2 (02:20:12):
I wanted to say that for a while. You know,
everything's great. I want to say, oh, fair to Midland.
That's just kind of somewhere in between, right, But I'm
actually doing great today. Brandon. Did you have a great Christmas?
Speaker 6 (02:20:23):
Yes? I did? How about you?
Speaker 2 (02:20:25):
It was fantastic? Thank you?
Speaker 14 (02:20:28):
What did you get for a Christmas?
Speaker 2 (02:20:31):
Nothing but love? I got some you know, some clothes,
some golf clothing, some uh, some stuff, some to get
some good good boot tequila and bourbon for my two
patners here. I got some new shoes some clouds and
some dress shoes. Uh, like I said, clothes, get some
(02:20:52):
a little bit of bit of everything that I wanted
at Christmas. Yeah it was good man, thank you. I mean,
you know, I'm more about the love and the giving,
but I got some some put it this way. I
got one of those Christmas where the things I got
are all necessities and needed and will be used, right,
not one of those that just sits. So it was good,
very thoughtful gifts.
Speaker 6 (02:21:11):
Thank you, and shn.
Speaker 14 (02:21:13):
I got a new record player.
Speaker 2 (02:21:15):
You did nice? Have you spun anything on it yet?
What's the first uh? What's the first vinyl you put
on it? Who was it?
Speaker 9 (02:21:24):
I played the whole record?
Speaker 2 (02:21:25):
Which one? Who's the record? Who's the album? Who's the singer,
who's the group?
Speaker 6 (02:21:34):
Number the way? Who've seen the forget the name of it?
Speaker 2 (02:21:41):
So you have it on your on your record player,
but you're not really sure who it was? Okay?
Speaker 11 (02:21:47):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:21:48):
Is she?
Speaker 2 (02:21:48):
Is she your favorite singer? Yes, Adele Dolly Parton? There
you go, I remember her? Yeah? Nice, that's a good
choice to Dolly Parton. Still still uh still kicking ass
better than Landy Wilson. Yeah, well they sound the same
over twenty and ass. Yeah, no, I think that's I
(02:22:09):
think she's legit. Brandon, what's on your mind about these Texans?
Speaker 9 (02:22:14):
Texans very good, not like they did for.
Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
A Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (02:22:21):
Can't have Yeah, I can't have that performance.
Speaker 6 (02:22:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:22:26):
They just need they need to do good, right, Brandon, Yes,
there you go. Well, we appreciate your call, buddy. We'll
talk to you tomorrow. Okay, thanks Brandon, Glad you had
a good Christmas, buddy. Merry Christmas, matters, good for you,
Thank you, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, buddy, letter brand.
It's good to break, you know, one of those Christmas
you get like, oh that'll work, or that'll work or
how dare we speak? Merry Christmas? Yeah? What do you
(02:22:50):
guys doing with it?
Speaker 9 (02:22:51):
Is?
Speaker 2 (02:22:51):
It is outside of my mind that she actually said
that to people. Yeah, I don't know. I to me,
it's I don't even It's always been Mary Cradl. Yeah,
that's when the hell did it ever go away? I
don't know. That's she's been in my rearview mirror for
a long time. And now you won't have to worry
about her in the political spectrum anymore. Just thank a
union member. Yeah, that's what you gotta do? Thank you Union,
(02:23:13):
remember you better? Okay? Oh, but it was a merry Christmas.
I hope you guys had a good one too. The
first time I've talked to you guys since Christmas. So
it was good. Blessings of health for the new year.
Epic twenty twenty five ahead, control can't wait to see Yeah,
look forward to it.
Speaker 5 (02:23:29):
Yeah, I can't wait for twenty twenty five to be here.
And as we get to break and we continue to
talk about c J. Stroud and if they should play
the starters, we got to dig into that a little more.
Speaker 2 (02:23:37):
Well, if he plays the NFL PA, he better thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:23:42):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
He's part of a union, he is part of What
should he do? He's you better thank your union.
Speaker 6 (02:23:51):
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Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
The Sewn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
Continued, People got it a judging? Yeah, he said, we
would just take a white man and stake of it
and watch him changes his watch of changes his verbiage
of the way he talks, classic my biscuits. I'm just saying,
but you better, She said, you better thank you? You remember?
Speaker 5 (02:25:44):
Yeah, what do you have the MLB PA, right, this
Players Association, and then you have the umpires union. Right,
So if she was like speaking to the umpires union.
Speaker 2 (02:25:53):
She would say, you better thank your union member.
Speaker 6 (02:25:55):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:25:56):
You're damned right man. Class when a triple can you
give us?
Speaker 8 (02:26:01):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
I don't know. Impersonate me real quick, me being a
basic white guy. What do you you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (02:26:06):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:26:07):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (02:26:07):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (02:26:08):
That's how you talk?
Speaker 6 (02:26:09):
Brian?
Speaker 2 (02:26:10):
How is it? You know what I mean? Yeah, there's
no yeah, there's no basic white guy. I mean, you
really got no soul in your voice? I don't think
that's what he was saying, but you just you'd be
better off just thinking of you. And remember, hey, all
I'm saying is you want him to talk about you
(02:26:30):
as a basic white guy.
Speaker 5 (02:26:32):
Yeah, I'm telling you when when brothers impersonate white guys,
it is the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (02:26:38):
Oh it's it cracks me up every time. What's up there?
But everybody's not I know, but that's how they do it.
Speaker 14 (02:26:46):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:26:48):
I'm just saying billion dog. And I'm also just saying that.
Uh you know, it's New Year's Eve tomorrow and then
in a couple of days it's supposed to get down
to like the teens here.
Speaker 2 (02:26:57):
See that you did. Don't get scared now, I can't
you scared? So so wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (02:27:04):
Our way.
Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
You're the DFRA. Are you scared?
Speaker 6 (02:27:07):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (02:27:07):
Loaded and loaded up. It's gonna be in the twenties
making maybe get a little snow if there's some moisture
out there. I hope people are okay from the natos
that hit some natos over the weekend. Yeah, tornadoes out
there the Katy areas saw that. Why was at the
gym when that happened? And they made a shelter in place.
So I'm telling you, the general manager of this gym,
then I'm not gonna throw onunder the bus. He's just
(02:27:28):
the biggest douchebag of all time.
Speaker 7 (02:27:30):
Whoa.
Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
And he made he came back into the freeway Terrea
screaming at people get in the locker room. So he
made all the women go into their locker room, made
all the men come to our locker room. So I
got in there and there's like one hundred sweat ass
dudes in there, griming nasty, and.
Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
I was like, in my mind, it's not a big
locker room.
Speaker 5 (02:27:47):
I thought to myself, if if a tornado does hit
and I got a chance of dying, I ain't dying
in here with a bunch of U U clowns.
Speaker 2 (02:27:53):
So I grabbed my bag and I left. You don't
want any swamp ass when you have to deal with
that right where you got to cozy up with some
swamp ass. I'm not cozy enough with a bunchet. No,
but hopefully, I mean that was there was some surprising
and then they they did some damage. Man I did. Yeah,
never new ca tacket for granted, Yeah, they got pounded.
(02:28:15):
I know, uh, out your way. There was a conro
area as well, Katie yet Off ninety nine. Yeah, so
you know, hopefully people recover from that. But man, the
mother nature don't play and you know that, and mother
Nature thank you union member too. I'll tell you that
that's the SoundBite that I could clas in here for
(02:28:36):
the rest of the tourney. But you bless those folks
who went through. I hope everybody recovering pretty quickly from that.
But that chill is about to come and cover your
flowers and plants. Brian, Well, it's a good thing on around.
Speaker 6 (02:28:45):
Good thing.
Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
I don't own a home anymore, man, I got some
covering to do in the next week or so.
Speaker 7 (02:28:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Yeah, you're gonna do yourself. I'm springing into twenty twenty
five like a like a boss, as they say, isn't
that the old say? Hey, it in there like a
ball coming in hot? Yeah I am, I'm coming in hot,
are you?
Speaker 6 (02:29:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:29:03):
Yeah, big time? Yeah, I'm Yeah. It's the epic. Hey,
that's my word for twenty twenty five. I know I've
noticed you've been leaning leaning into epic. Yeah, so good luck. Hey,
let's go where we're going to the top. Yeah like that.
Still yeah again, Hey, there's always a new top to create,
just building more steps. See what I did there, that's
actually pretty good. Yeah, I need to write that in
(02:29:24):
a little black book. We're at the top, Well, how
do you get Well, if you got to the top,
how do you get to the next level the top? Well,
you know you do? You start building steps from the
foundation you're standing on at the top. Ain't no limit.
Let's go the epic.
Speaker 5 (02:29:37):
Yeah mmm, I gotta got you're looking for a quote, Yeah, yeah,
let's see. Oh and also also, I don't want to
not mention Greg Gumble passing away legend, losing his battle
to cancer. Man and it's literally one of the best
to ever do it.
Speaker 2 (02:29:59):
Class gentleman. One low key, versatile play by play studio
studio host. He's obviously the guy who when Ernie was
working one. He does the n C two a basketball
tourney with Chuck and the rest of him. He is
beloved and has been beloved four years. One of the
finest human beings in the business, one of the better
pros in the business. Lost his fight to cancer. Was
(02:30:21):
seventy eight years old. They Greg Dumble held in the
highest regard by anybody that's ever worked with him. And
I didn't know. I didn't know he was sick because
he was doing NC to a tournament last year. I
had no idea that he was sick. Sad, sad. And
one of my very good high school friends, two of
them over the weekend. One lost is who I was
(02:30:42):
close to. My teammate and roommate lost his older brother
to cancer. And a friend of mine, one of my
best gal friends from high school and her husband out
of nowhere cardiac unexpected, lost him in December. It was
it so it man, it almost feels it's like it
happens too often, and it does. And when it hits
(02:31:03):
close to home, it you know, I'm sure a lot
of people have gone through that. It makes the holidays
a little tougher on them. So my prayers and blessings
to my two family friends that I love you guys
beyond belief. And to the Greg Gumbel family. What a
legacy and what a run, Yeah, what a run and
one of the best I ever do that guy look
back and a what a phenomenal career he carved out.
(02:31:26):
And whenever you hear people talk to the better person
than a broadcast that's saying something because he was top shelf.
Speaker 5 (02:31:31):
Broadcaster, no doubt man final segment next here on the
Sewn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 4 (02:31:37):
Let the celebration start more Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:31:45):
I'll here here from arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (02:31:46):
He was speaking to the media about an hour ago
media days for the college football playoffs. I want to
make sure to give credit where credits do hang on
me get it. I pulled down my notes rivals. This
audio coming straight from arch Manning himself. This is what
he had to say about the transfer portal?
Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Are there any changes you'd like to see to that
calendar or to the playoff in general? I mean, I
really have no plans on entering the portal or anything,
so I don't really know about it. That's the headline
right there, and so I mean I don't really I'm
probably don't got to ask about that too. There you go.
(02:32:30):
Arch Maning ain't going anywhere. Did we really think he
would a.
Speaker 5 (02:32:34):
Lot of people actually speculating that quin you Weres and
arch Manning would both enter the transfer portal?
Speaker 2 (02:32:39):
Why to go get big money somewhere else? Texas has
got plenty of it. There would be no there's gonna
be no ni L that at least has the ability
to pay their players more than the University of Texas.
Their NIL has been run by they got some some
top quality people running it and they can afford it.
(02:33:00):
I can't. I can't fathom that arch Manning, if he
was going to leave, he'd left already. In my opinion,
he's not leaving. And in truth, regardless of what happens,
the guy that would that, I would think they may continue.
If they go. Let's say they go on and play
well and do it, and he's not ready, he's not
going to be drafted in the first round. Let's just
say I could see Quinn Yours playing quarterback somewhere else
(02:33:21):
next year. Yeah, arch Manning is going to be your
starter when we open up in the fall in twenty
twenty five, you will be. I'm pretty sure. And you know,
you know have my affinity for Quinn Yours love him,
But I could see I see that more than arch
Manning transferring. But go get big money. Why do you
get big money? There's plenty of it right here on
this campus. I just don't see there being room for
two of them next year. Does that make sense? There's
(02:33:42):
not because our arch has been patient and you know
his family, he's obviously well well taught when it comes
to these things, right, So if you're arch Manning, you're
just waiting in time. And he's got those great feet
and Quinn yours has played really good football and they
got a chance to win ant title. So why would
arch Mann even be concerned about the portal? Both of
(02:34:03):
them could get paid big money if they left, but
they'll I imagine you get picked big money if you stay.
I don't anticipate arch Manning being a problem when it
comes to the portal. You ready for some news on
the college football playoff format? Brett McMurphy and I hope
that that Quinn Ewers finishes this up really strong so
he can have that option to go to the NFL
or or decide what he wants to do college wise.
(02:34:24):
What's that now? Brett McMurphy.
Speaker 5 (02:34:26):
Brett McMurphy against on the show YEP obviously one of
the best college football insiders in the country for Action Network.
He tweeted out about an hour ago saying there will
be in depth conversations and discussions about not guaranteeing conference champs.
The top four seeds in twenty twenty five. Top five
(02:34:46):
conference champs still would get in playoff in the playoff,
but rankings would determine seeds. Sources said this would require
unanimous approval by all stakeholders to change in twenty twenty five,
but conference commissioners are open to getting this seeding rights.
Speaker 2 (02:35:00):
Sources tell me, I'm gonna tell you this, I'm going
to short of guaranteeing it, I'm going to be as
close as I can to guaranteeing it. There is no
way they're going into the twenty twenty five season with
the Boise State or Arizona State getting a one seed
because they I mean a bye yeah, and playing getting
a buy the first round and getting a top four
seed because they are a conference champions in power for conference.
(02:35:22):
That's not going to happen. They are going to find
a way to put the four best teams the committee. Yeah,
as your four top seeds, like the NFL did some
you know what I mean, I get it, But the
problem is with that, what if a record, what if
Boise State has the best record in their confer Boise State?
Is Boise State better than Georgia? You get my point?
(02:35:44):
So that would Still what you need to do is
the committee. Get the committee right. But it's the top
four teams. Whatever you come out with the top four teams,
it's just and it may very well be those four
teams as well moving forward. It may be the four
conference champions. But if you are really doing it the
right way this year, as much respect as I have
for Arizona State and Boise State, and they belong in
the playoff, they don't belong as once as top four seat, right,
(02:36:07):
they don't. So I don't believe you should automatically get
a top four seat. If you're a conference champion. You
got to look at the schedule, strength of schedule, who
you played when you played him, the losses too, if
you have any. So it could be that way, but
you shouldn't guarantee that the top four because in truth,
we damn well know that Arizona State and Boise State
would not have got a first round by as much
(02:36:27):
respect as I have, they wouldn't have got that. Twenty
twenty five will be different. There's no way we're doing
it that way next year.
Speaker 5 (02:36:33):
And we moved on to the topic real quick, but
I was sarcastic, being sarcastic about the bowl games.
Speaker 2 (02:36:38):
There is one today. It's just Iowan Missouri. Whoa what
I was? Basic white guy you versus basic white guy.
Speaker 6 (02:36:46):
You help?
Speaker 2 (02:36:48):
There you go, which will give you?
Speaker 6 (02:36:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:36:52):
Where's that game being played? Nashville?
Speaker 6 (02:36:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:36:54):
Good, good? The trans Perfect Music City Bowl? The what
it's perfect? Okay, so there you go. No, I had
no idea. I think it was the baby. That's we
were on pace. Uh so we get a bowl game,
my football, and then we kick it in tomorrow with
a bunch of them. Yeah, quite literally, because they do
(02:37:15):
kick footballs. Hey, real quick, as we get ready to
go into twenty twenty five, you think you'll ever tweet
me back? Did you tweet me? Come on, man, I
didn't look at much social media.
Speaker 5 (02:37:25):
Yeah, you tweeted about the Jets in the transfer portal.
I said they were interested on the new quarterback Johnny Ligma.
Speaker 14 (02:37:30):
You see it?
Speaker 6 (02:37:31):
I did?
Speaker 16 (02:37:31):
I did?
Speaker 2 (02:37:31):
I like one of yours. When you mentioned something about
was it the Texans or the Astros? I hit a
like I didn't see you. No, no, this is yesterday.
I didn't see it. I'll get back and like it. No, no, no, no,
no worry about it now. And plus it's notma. Yeah,
I know the Jets are going to try to get Okay,
(02:37:52):
I didn't see star. I guess I should have did.
I got a look at Twitter, so that's all right. No, man,
were you feeling sort a little bit?
Speaker 5 (02:37:58):
Yeah, because then I wake up this morning to see
you tween at four fifteen on the drive.
Speaker 2 (02:38:02):
Is I didn't see your tweet driving? I got it.
If it's not in that first page, scroll back, my
bad dog.
Speaker 6 (02:38:10):
But I really do it.
Speaker 2 (02:38:11):
I did text, and that's a good point. Yeah, don't
do that. Stop signed though? Oh were you yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:38:14):
Oh you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:38:15):
You're talking to N fourteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (02:38:17):
Oh you're at your local gas station talking to Abdul close. Remember,
Oh that's right closed. I don't hop until six now, right, Yeah,
my own program is Abdul upset.
Speaker 2 (02:38:27):
Well he's that's gotta be racing, does you because we'll
discuss him tomorrow. What do you mean, man, tough it triple,
that's gotta be.
Speaker 6 (02:38:37):
That's gotta be.
Speaker 2 (02:38:38):
Oh no, dude, that's not how we're into the show.
Speaker 1 (02:38:41):
You brought it up?
Speaker 2 (02:38:43):
No, yeah, no, yeah, crazy whatever. Man, his name is
Mike Hey, last show at last show that's nowhere near
Abdu but Mike, Yeah, okay, but go ahead with it.
You run with that one. Okay, let's gett's get out
of here. You guys see tomorrow New Year's Eve tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (02:39:00):
That's gonna do it. He is Shawn Salisbury. Manuel Elmore
is our producer on Brian LINEAM, but thank you for listening.
We're back New Year's Eve edition tomorrow six am. Don't
go anywhere. Matt Thomas Show with Ross's next right here
on seven ninety
Saulsbrey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
To usc truths. Longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Texans preparing to take on the Titans is coming weekend,
final game of the regular season, forty nine Ers and
Lions and Monday Night Football Tonight SEWN Triple League. Good morning, Shawn,
welcome back. Hope you had a fantastic Christmas holiday vacation.
A lot of football we'll get into over the weekend.
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, good man, what's happening? Ain't nothing but the rent Dog. Yeah.
It's good to be back, is it. Yeah, it's great
to be back. Yeah, there's a ton of football and
a lot to like with all the football schedule coming
up with the player often, there's a lot to dislike
(01:02):
about the Texans offense, you know, not being here since
that game. I thought they humiliated themselves on Christmas. I
thought it was a It was as embarrassing and as
soft as I've seen for a team that's going to
the playoffs, and their offense is a major weakness, and
it's unfortunate, but it just is potential. We consider, say
potential potential. We are sixteen games in, they got one
(01:24):
to go, and they'll beat Tennessee. I'm not so sure
I have to sit them all down. I may need
a little work for a half, honest to God, because
they go in. You watch the way Baltimore and Detroit
and Minnesota and Green Bay and Buffalo and Kansas City,
and you're getting the Chiefs now at they're very, very
They're they're turning into their best. You start to look
(01:47):
around the league. This offense is a I can't believe
I'm saying this, but they're just a bunch. It's just
a bunch of dudes right now. Yeah, it's not. It
doesn't invoke fear in anybody, and they they'll make some plays,
but the level of consistency you need to be successful
at this is very difficult. It was disappointed. I thought
they were. I thought they went out there and quits
(02:12):
not a fair word, but it looked to me like
a team who was disinterested and they got their ass
handed to them on a platter they had. I mean,
I'm not even say play hard. They were the fight
in them. It's not one thing playing hard, but the
fight of just defending your home field and showing up.
It was blah yeah, and I it was a bit
(02:34):
shocking to me that this team. I would have never
thought they'd go into the season with us, And by
the end of the season I was saying that, yeah, man,
this offense is in the quarterback and the rhythm and
the play caller. Or after what I saw a rookie year,
different team play like that, you'll be eliminating in the
first round. Won't matter who you play, the Chargers or
(02:56):
whoever it is, they will run rough shot over you.
But they still get to get a home game, and
quite frankly, they don't. I mean, I know they wanted
this division, but if you were just seeing it not
by home, they wouldn't deserve a home game. It's the
equivalent of giving a home game to a team that's
not you know, it's not a pad that because they
wanted a lesser conference in college football, and that's what
(03:17):
it is. Yeah, because quite quite frank you say, what
you want their division is is just it sucks for
Borderline Putridge. Yeah, so its not good. Yeah, I just
it's it's a it's a tough watch and they not
play well. So and then there's you know, with all
this college football stuff in the playoff coming up, and
how's that going to turn out? The stage is set
(03:40):
for a hell of the next few days, and we'll
see how it turns.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, you look up and down the playoff standings in
the NFL, and Kansas City's offense is better, Buffalo's is better,
Baltimore's is better, the Steelers, the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Hell, the Broncos with Bo Nicks is a.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Better offense right now than the uh No, that's a Texans.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's a fact. Washington commanders better.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, Vikings are much better, head and shoulders better than
a lot of teams, and they're not getting enough pub
as it is. They're going to go into Detroit in
a week for the number one seed. Whoever wins that
game is gonna be the number one seed in the NFC,
and the other others is gonna drop to the five seed.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Least talked about least talked about fourteen fifteen and two
teams or fourteen and two team now that I can remember,
in my entire life playing broadcasting, there's never been a
team that we just say, oh, you can't go fourteen
to two by accident. Right in that division with the
Packers and the Lions arguably, along with the AFC North,
the best division of football. The way they're playing this year,
(04:39):
and say what you want, Donald's rejuvenation and the way
they've done it has been amazing because outside of Jared Goff,
Donald's been the best quarterback in the NFC. Yeah he
just has he casually just thrown for over three bills. Again, Yeah,
the guy has been great. So this, this team here
has a lot to fix. And then over the weekend,
(05:00):
you know, in the games and stuff, we can go.
I mean watching by you kick Colorado's asses, I mean
it was unreal. And then you know this is going
to go. You'll get people arguing, if you're healthy enough
to go and break a record and not worried about
getting hurt, then why are you quitting at halftime in
(05:22):
a game your team needed you and lost by a point.
I well, because he could have got hurt in the
second half. Great, So then don't play. Then just set
it out, sit it out, sit it out, which obviously
enhance all great player had a phenomenon. Has nothing to
do with that. I just think teammates in twenty twenty
four and twenty five are not really good teammates. I
(05:45):
don't care what you say about the guy. Is it
going to affect his draft status?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I sure, as I'll tell you this, if you got
the guts to take him or Shador Sanders with the
first overall pick, you're risking your franchise good players. But
to me, top first round picks, yes, first pick up
the draft. Are you Are you willing to commit your
franchise to either one of them right now?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Not any of the good I'm not talking about any
of Carson Beck who's going for the NFL Quinn you were,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't pick a guy that's in this
draft as a quarterback. First. I can think of eight
guys i'd take before the quarterback not doing it. And
cam Ward's a hell of a player. As I was saying, well,
he's better than Jim Kelly and then they stop it
and Bernie coming got a long way. He has a
(06:29):
yurinated to drop in the NFL. Let's slow down. Great
college career and he may be great at the next level.
What's he on his third team in college? So yeah,
I think he's on his third team, which that's okay. Yeah,
that's what we allow the rules set up, but please
spare me the comparisons to Hall of famers right now,
and as a teammate, I mean, like I said, he's
(06:50):
got the I mean they all have the right to
do whatever they want to do. With the way that
this is set up, I still think it's weak. Don't
tell me it's about not getting hurt and then play
a half to break a record and then say it's
about getting hurt, not saying he said overall, if you're
afraid of getting hurt, sit the whole thing out. I
know here and here I've already heard the excuse. Well,
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they wanted it wasn't him, it was a coach who
said it down. They wanted to see that's a built
in ex So you you actually think crystal Ball would
have said, yeah, you sit down the whole game if
he was given the choice. Of course, he wants him
to play. Yeah, and I understand why you want to
sit out, But if you're going to do that, so
you want to get the record and then sit out,
say and I know people will argue that my old
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thing is sit out the whole time. Okay, that's just
the way the rules as I still think it's crappy,
I'll give it. Listen, Hunter, and at least Hunter and
Sanders on that crappy ass offensive line the way they've
played at times this year. They showed up. Yeah, they
played they should and Hunter made an impact. What's new?
And Sanders, I mean the least he's sitting in there
taking hits and finishing the thing. I'll give them hell
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to me. And I'm not Dog and Camwell because there
are a lot of people in that same situation, but
please spare me the great team just to you know,
he didn't want to get hurt, then don't show Then
don't put a uniform on the whole game, because it
it reeked of. He had to go get the record,
which I don't blamed. Go get the record, then go
get the win, then finish it out. If you don't
do it, don't don't get in at all. So there's
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so much that. But you know that ship has saled me.
If somebody offered me a college coaching job right now today,
you wouldn't take it. I would not, for they could say,
sean quarterback coach at USC for a million dollars tomorrow.
And you know what, I guess You'll always negotiate and listen.
I have a hard time taking the job considering knowing
no matter how hard you recruit, no matter what relationship
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you develop, it doesn't matter. If you're not paying them
more than the next thing, you're not going to get him.
They got to spend well, I'm getting ready for the
for the draft in December. You get so this, this
half of football in a big game. I can't wait
till we have a big time player sit out a
playoff game. That that, and it's coming. I'm just telling
you it's coming. The twelve seed at some point in
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time that doesn't think they're gonna get through it. It's coming.
So you don't have Doug, Please please don't tell me.
I have to love all these kids' decision. I think
most of their decisions to transfer, quite frankly suck if
you ask me. And most of them are gonna get
paid in the thing, and very few of them are
going to play on Sundays. But I honestly, there's other
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things I do. But I'm talking about to coach. Oh,
you want me to go be a general manager for
some college, I'll listen, But I'm talking about to coach
right now. And you know how much I love coaching
and teaching I do. I love it. I'm not sure
with the landscape that I could that I could look
a guy in the face say this is a great decision,
go play a quarter and a half or two cours
and sit out.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Well, college basketball just lost another long time coach, Jim Lairnega. Yeah,
Miami's all time winning as coach. Well, step down because
he's literally exhausted with an il and transfer.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well, you'll get the you'll get the people. And now
I'll say, well, he just he just an old man
that can't keep up with the recruit Well, even the
young guys are gonna I'm just telling you, the young
guys you see running it in about five years when
they get a little gray hair. The thirty year old coach,
he's gonna hate it. He's gonna flat ass hate it.
Because if your school doesn't keep up with it, you
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can't keep up with winning. It's just the way, it's
the lay of the land. If you're not paying, you
ain't playing for the most part. So, like I said,
it's not just for one guy. I like I said,
if you don't want to play in it, don't play
in it. You reserved there and your code. That's fine.
I refue and I saw some of these young guys
who came in for guys that wan't going to play.
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I like the energy he saw these younger guys, said,
you know what, I'll go play hard. Let's go, and
I like it. So yeah, great. I just I just
disagree with all that. You know what, it's not that
big a deal because this one opinion. Oh come on, Boomer,
it has nothing to do with that. I just as
a great team and once I start a game, I'm
finishing it. If you're not going to start it, fine,
sit out and let's go play the young guy and
see what happens. But after all that, it was a
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it reeked of the only reason he wanted to do
it was to get the record. Had nothing to do
with health, or he wouldn't have started the game in
the first place. So I just there's so many layers
to it. But I would have a hard time now
accepting a job like, hey, come to our court. I
guess you can never say never. Depending on who the
head coach was, I'd listen, but I don't yearn for
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it anymore. I'll coach him on the side could they
can't nil my private lessons. You want to leave, that's okay,
you already paid. See you yeah, see you later. Okay,
don't care about that. But if you want to and
it costs you. And as a matter of fact, now,
if they're making more money, guess what the training price
is going to be. It's going up too, because it's
taking my time away. So but once you decide do
you want to transfer to do all that, I don't
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know how these coaches, quite frankly, on a daily basis,
actually handle it well.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Larrynega for Miami before he's in his step down press conference,
if you will, eight of his players after they made
the final four, said hey, we're leaving. They just made
the final four, and he said he had eight of
his guys be like, hey, we're transferring after the uh
not because.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
They don't like it, because you would have left earlier
if you didn't like it. It had everything to do with, well,
let's go and see if somebody get me more money
because we're in the final four. And maybe one of
those kids transfer because he wanted to play. It was
backing up. I don't know, but eight and you so
all this and we'll get don't bury the lead about
the Texans. Anybody that thinks the Texans are a championship
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caliber football teams on crack that they are anything but
that did you watch the whole game?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I watched.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I watched it just to find out where the fight was.
Not Playing hard saved that saved the speech for the
playing hard because they didn't. If that's where we're actually
going they they got. It was a bitch slap right
across your face, humiliating in your building, in front of
your families, they pumped you. And when it comes to
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physicality on on on the side, Oh but it's it was.
It was like I said, it was double a baseball
versus a bunch of all stars on out of a
World Series Astros team. That's what corpus. It was a
hooks first them, No disrespect to the hooks, but you're
just over match and that's exactly what it was. And
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they better get it fixed or they're gonna get humiliated
their own a building because right now, the way they're playing,
they don't deserve a home game. Yeah, in truth, I don't.
They sure don't.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
All right, let's continue to talk about these Houston Texans.
What in the hell is wrong with the offense. That's next.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Why isn't the rat race more racy? Road construction completely
shutting down the Southwest.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Freeways anyway, enjoy your time crawling through Houston Road construction with.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
More shown Salisbury on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh my goodness, Sean, did you see it? Saw that?
I didn't see the live game. I saw the highlight
he launched Tyler Heroes little lass like it was. It's
like he was a schoolyard bully, man. I don't like
a rag doll. I didn't even see the final score
of the game. They lost by four. There you go. Okay, yeah,
so they're twenty one and eleven now, but yeah, a
little brawl if you all, a little little pillow fight,
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you know, but that's a basketball. Yeah, but it's still
I guess I didn't see it live, but I did
see the highlight of Yeah, Ka got tossed.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
He did get the hev ho man. I love that
dude as a as a head coach. Here, my goodness,
we should love him too. Some accountability involved, which is
a good thing. And they got some attitude with this
rocket stand. Now they're definitely taking uh taking it from
their head coach, which is fantastic. And uh, on the
flip side of it, talking Texans, what is wrong with
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this offense? We've talked about it every single week, even
in their wins and their losses. What is wrong with
the offense? Well, why don't you go the other way
and tell me what you like about you? Tell me
I'm not talking about individuals that have potential. I get
all them, I get all that. You tell me what
you like about the offense right now. Uh, you tell
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me what you love and you say we can sustain this.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
This is the best we've.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Ever done well at at You know, for a while
it was the running game with Joe Mixon and now
it's he's pretty much m I a in it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, what's happened there? I have no idea. So to
answer your question, there's not much they've got. Defensively, they fly,
remember they still give up some plays now they got
they still got pushed around the last recream and I
know they were without a couple of players, but they
got hammered and Lamar and Derrick Henry, they they said
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him alive. I did whatever they want, anything they wanted
at any point time in Mounkin that's how you call
a game. And I mean he's been so good for
for Baltimore. I like I said, there's pieces to like.
How do you not like Joe Mixon's toughness, But where's
he been? How do you not like the the the
(15:48):
the potential of c. J. Stroud? But he really has been.
It's just some simple stuff that he's missed that's possible.
I feel like there's a bit of anxiety for him
in the pocket. It's not as smooth and he doesn't
look his bored in the pocket. He looks too, a
little more frenzied than I like to see from a quarterback.
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And it looks different. And I understand when you take
those hits. But quite frankly, he can't change it. You
have to while we see it and say, man, I understand,
you still got to stand in there and deliver like
you normally do and make the simple play. Now, Nico Collins,
he plays angry. Yeah. I almost don't feel it's too
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It feels too acceptable. I mean, am I wrong? Maybe
it's just me because it's from a distance. And I
don't forget know one thing that some former players, they
forget that they played how tough the game. Actually, I
know how tough it is, but and it's not about
playing hard, it's about playing smart. And after sixteen games
in having an idea that they're doing this to you,
So how do you respond? It just feels like I've
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said it for a lot of for a couple of
months now, their attention to detail and their foocus on
the little details of the game are not the same. Offensively,
they're just not whatever that is. I don't care if
you want to call it Slowik or Demiko. I saw
people as Demiko lost the team. I don't know the answer,
but I see just hints of regularly because when something
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happens weekly and the trend is weekly, offensively something has
happened multiple times every week, where you're like, offensively, I
ain't got to the defense yet. The attention to detail
is missing, the consistency or the level of focus, whatever
it is. Do I believe they go and thinking, oh,
we're going to leave. No, I know they play hard.
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Who doesn't. If you don't, then I suggest you take
two weeks off, quit and find a new job or profession.
So I don't is it a career or a mission
for them?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
To me?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A mission is the way to go? Is it just
a career? I'm coming and I'm picking up a check.
I don't know, but I can tell you this. When
you repeat the same thing over and over and over
again and the trend kick kicks in, you can't help
us sit back and say, why is this like?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
So?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Are they not teaching it properly on the practical which
I find hard to believe? Are there not focused? Did
they were? They're not able to handle the offseason success
from last year? You know where he got success? And
everybody's doing commercials and everybody's travel. Has that carried over?
I don't know. I think it's a little bit of everything.
And quite frankly, this offense is underachieved. What about discipline? Oh,
(18:24):
I think they've gotta be like And with that question,
that's such a basic question. Let me take that back.
Discipline and motivation. As you know I've said a million times,
motivations temporary, disciplines permanent, and there has to be something
to it because the only thing permanent about this offense
is that they're constantly inconsistent.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
So last year, less playmakers, I think that's fairs. That's
this year very fair, better playmakers, all the way around
on both sides, less disciplined. I don't get it. More
veteran players on this team this year, I just don't
understand it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Okay, So is it attention to detail during the practice week?
Is it on Sundays? Do they actually think because they
won ten wins, anybody gives a crap about what they
did last year when they go play them. The Baltimore
Ravens weren't getting home field advanced throughout the playoffs. They
still had start to play for against the Texas because
they're bat on what the Steelers for the division and
all that. But did you see one looked like it
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was on a mission. The other looked like it was
breathing aside that we're fortunate we got in. Yeah, and
they both played that way, Meaning the Ravens played like
they're a team that intends to play in February. The
Texans played like a team that couldn't wait to get
the game over and let's just let get to postseason
and hope it's one's working on wish and one's working
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on work. Yeah, the Ravens are working the states, and
I'm sure they're working, but it feels to me like
the Texans are wishing their way through some of these games.
I wish that we'd get protection. I wish we'd make
a play. And that's not going to last song. Like
I said, I don't ever get somebody's head in question.
They've got guts or they do. I mean, now some
guys when they run away from a guy running towards
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them to the side, then we can question their guts.
So I don't think before the game they're like, well,
we're not focused. I don't think it has anything to
do with focus your grown man and your health and
your your careers online every time you go out there.
But there is a different focus and attention to detail
you have to have on Sundays. They to me look
like a team that needs some ADHD medicine. Yeah you know,
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and I don't mean that disrespectful to ADHD or anybody
who's suffering from it. Yeah, it's a fact they some
need medicine because they can't stay focused. It feels overall
like an offense, like it's one big thing. They need
one big twenty five milligram pill or whatever it is
to keep them focused. Not in the medical We're not'm
speaking in football sense, right, but it feels like staying
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focused for sixty five place is a hard thing for
them to do because you see the fallout and you
know what, maybe just maybe they're not that good offensively.
We have we thought about that that. You know, last
year they played good. Maybe just maybe they're just not
that good at executing this year, maybe maybe they're just
not And did Stefan Diggs mean that much? Well to
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the offense, he's got to tell you what, he's got
two feet that he was putting up numbers and headed
towards another thousand yard season and also could say, well,
look what's happened without me when a new contract comes up,
which it's coming up. So I to me, right now,
this team is zero threat to win a Super Bowl.
Ye zero one. Now to me, they're one and done.
If they can turn on the light switch and handle
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a Charger team that comes in here play fit with
whoever it is, their Playings or Chargers, then good and
they're capable of beating both because the Steelers offenses is
up and down as well. But I'm just yes, they
have so I don't know. You can feed me all
you want, but did this team You can't tell me?
It looks anything offensively like you expected coming in here,
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and but it's been like this all fall off. I know.
That's the best season long, not a month. It's been
sixteen games worth. They've had moments in all games where
it's like wow, but they've had more moments where it's
what the hell are you doing? Hard game?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Men?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
They've made it harder on themselves. If they didn't have
this defense, who knows what the record would be the
Colts would be in winning the division even as as
as average as.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
They What a what a choke job? They are, My god, man,
an opportunity to getting the playoffs and you choke and
lose the Giants.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I bet that game and I picked the Giants. Did
you really? Oh? Yeah I did, and uh it was good.
I picked b Why you to kick? I mean it
was one of those days where it's like you just
had a feeling you're in your back. I was, and
it and it hit locked in absolutely, And it'd be
nice if they locked in.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah, it would be be really nice if they could
lock in. Let's continue to talk about these Texans and
the offense and also the regression of c J. Stroud
so far this season. What's the cause of it seven one, three, two,
two five, seven ninety will also open up the phone
lines to you that Texan fan.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Next on Sports Talk seven to eighty, the Shawn Salisbury
Show continued.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Seven one three, seven ninety is the number two joints
get out to the phone lines.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Mike, good morning, Good morning guys. Ask Sean the first question,
and he's certainly going to know more than I would
before I get into it. That did I see. I'm
fearful about p J. I've seen the same look I
saw from David car way back of the day. I
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was getting why happy feet? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I listen, I I think we overnite you. But I
think at times I hear when a guy asks the sidestep,
we I hear the happy feet comment. I think a
little too much. I think we always like the word great. Oh,
guy makes any a twelve yard curl throw that the
guy's wide open. I'm talking about in any game, and
we'll hear an announced say, oh, what a great throw. No,
it was. It was just a normal throw that every
arter Beck sipos to make same thing here. So happy feet,
(24:03):
I think at times to me it's the pocket presence.
Last year I felt like he bailed when necessary. This year,
I feel like he's watching the rush more, which is
making him late to coverage. It is. There is a
difference in the way he handles the pocket this year.
So whether the term is happy feet, he feels to
me a little skittish in the pocket. Maybe that's even
(24:25):
more harsh. I'm surprised. Yes, I feel he's more skittish.
I don't feel like he has the same command. And
whether that's you know, the look in his eye. I
try not to overjudge that, or whether it's the fact
that the cumulative hits or pressures he's received, But there
is a skittish part of him that wasn't there last year.
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Now you got to get rid of it. How you
get rid of it or win? Can you sooner than later?
That'd be great? But there is something there's a little
less confidence in the pocket because he's missing throws that
are normal throws that he wouldn't normally miss that he
didn't miss.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Last It was it was our first possession he had,
you know, he had our He had our tight end.
Tight end had thirty yards in front of him.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
He seems to get off the seat a little bit
I mean one of what I mean to say is
jump jump the air a little bit. I mean, he
missing badly. I've been I've been defending gosh, oh see
what's his name, Bob? Thank you, I was defending him
earlier in the year. But that that first possession told
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me everything I needed to know. Baltimore had one of
the top rated run defensives in the league if I
heard that correctly. And the first two players are up
the middle with with mixing and and golly, you don't
have to be you know, you don't have to be
a genius figure out what were they going to do
on third down?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Today it seems to be getting a little you asked
the question, what do you think. I mean, it seems
to be getting a little too predictable, especially in the
last several weeks with the offense. I barely third quarter
before I started looking for Married with Children reruns.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I mean, yeah, it was that game was over before
it got started.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Sure, yeah, really, And I thought that first possession just
came to the game. You can just see it coming.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And any right, guys, I.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Appreciate your time. I got a boat, so take care
of have a good.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Day, you buddy, thank you. Yeah, it's it's a where
we're looking at something. There's a you can see just
just look at the opposite of some of the guys
that did me. It's like Darnold's past. Doesn't he look
settled in when you watch him using his feet and
see J's done some great things outside the pocket. The
problem is if you're leaving the pocket when it's not necessary.
And I think maybe it was was Ross Tucker on
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that game on Christmas Day? Is he part of the
Netflix game? Who Cawer? No, it wasn't. It was Green?
Now who was it? I can get that because I
can't remember who the analyst was on the game, because
they were talking about his presence in the pocket, how
it felt like he was running into try and I
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felt that way too. There's something watching his head. It
feels to me like C Jason. It's just not a
stroud thing. Don't misunderstand me. I think he's a hell
of a talent, but he has regressed it and I'm surprised.
Oh it was Gregs there you go, that's right.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
It was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It was Olsen and Joe Davis. No, no, no, no, Eagle,
that's right because he was the Netflix guy. Yeah, Yeah,
that's right because Iron Eagle did the other game and
he had to introduce his son, and it was cool
because he was talking about doing the other game. It's like, well,
Iron Eagle and No Eagle are doing both games on
Netflix his son. That's exactly right. And if you want,
I think it was Greg Olsen who might have said
at times about the that Stroud and gave him the compliments,
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but there was something Pocket felt like he was bailing
or his head was seeing the pass rush. I can't
remember how he put it, but because that's the sound
of the game I'm listening to, and I'm watching different games,
that's the sound on and I just there there's a
comfortability or lack thereof in the Pocket that has created
uncomfortability in some of this offense. And so it's not
just one guy, but the cumulative effect on his hits,
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but then the cumulative effect on an entire group. You
can see what happens because this offense, of all the
offenses going into the playoffs in the AFC, who do
you trust less? Do you trust Kansas City's less? Absolutely not? No,
Buffalo Baltimore No. So there's then the three wild cards.
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If Cincinnati gets in, I can assure you if Denver
gets in there the way their offense is going and
bo Nicks they've got some things happening, and then that
would either be Pittsburgh or Baltimore, depending on who's the
division winner and who is the wild card. That offense
probably is one where you're like, I don't know, I'm
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not overly. They're talented, like the wide pickens, and they've
got some talented players, but the question is, you know,
it'll depend on what quarterback shows up and what's the
one thing we said about Rus Wilson when he struggling Denver,
skittish was using his feet right away, felt like he
was watching the pass rush and there's a hint of that.
So other than that, the other five teams in the AFC,
you'd take their offense in two seconds over the Texans
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right now? Are they cable going out and exploding? Yeah?
But what what indication do you have they're going to
do it for sixteen minutes in a playoff game?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You don't not this year. No, you don't have that,
absolutely do not, right, No, you really don't. Seven one
three seven ninety John, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Good morning, guys, Hey, I'm going to sound like a
broken record this morning.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I'm gonna confess.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
I mean, when you look at the Texans, I mean,
you know, I was starting to say this five weeks ago.
I mean I don't see any any part of their
game that's improved this year. I mean, everything to me
has taken a step back, and some multiple steps back.
And that's just, uh, you know, that's just a horrible sign.
(29:54):
And I don't like the body language at all. I
haven't liked it the last three weeks. I mean, I
just don't like they just seem I mean, you watched
that Sean you watched that Packers Minnesota game yesterday. I mean,
those guys were going at Those are the two best
young coaches I think in the NFL. When you see
Kevin O'Connell and Matt Lafleur going at it, and those
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teams just don't have any quit in them. The Texans
just don't have that drive. I uh, you know, I wish,
you know, Stefan Diggs would be getting in some players' faces.
I think on this team. You know, I hated to
see him go out because I think he meant more
than we know. You know, He's the kind of guy
that's really gonna demand excellence. I mean, you know, Sean,
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what do you think like Bill Parcells or a Belichick
or something would do to a team that had a
performance like that that just kind of hangs their head.
They don't really look like into it that, you know.
So I think the Texans are going to have to
clean house this year. I think they got to look
at the top on down with these coaches because I
just don't see any improvement anywhere that you can you
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can point to. It's everything's taking a step back. Everything's regressed,
and it's not good. You know, we're going into the
playoffs probably looking our worst. I mean, we were at
our best at the beginning of the season and it's
just seemed like.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
It's gone downhill as the season's gone on.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
And I you know, I understand that there's injuries.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But there's everybody has injuries. Everybody everybody has everybody has them.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
I mean look at how the Vikings have just they
went out and got you know, they got a different
quarterback and that guy is just tearing it up. And
I really do think Kevin McConnell is going to be
that he should be the best coach this year. But anyways,
it's just a really troubling thing to watch. I mean, it's, uh,
there's just no improvement that I've seen anywhere from anybody.
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And I do ultimately put that on coaching, I really do.
And I think the Texan has got to really take
a hard look from the top on down. I really
really do they there's uh, there's some things that are
very wrong there. I just don't like the look at all.
So I just wanted to weigh in on that.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But I appreciate a guy like Parcels or Belichick or
Mike Tomlin. Certain guys probably wouldn't be playing. They would
they they would find a seat for them over on
the bench until they got their their stuff right. They
just would. And maybe Demikos the same way. But maybe
the depth doesn't allow it, and maybe we're not seeing
what they see on the practice field. And that's fair.
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But when you say they've regressed, and John did, and
so we hasn't it been everywhere last three weeks. Even
in the run game now, the the upgrade was when
Joe Mixons on the field, this team runs the ball better.
That's taking a step back. So you tell me, where
are they better offensively this year than last year? In
the run game, they are, they are the threat of it,
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there's no doubt, But the last three weeks it has
been semi non existence. So where are they better? Not
individually as a team. Better in the red zone, No,
better in the in the in the explosives, better in
the consistency, better in the quarterback accuracy, better in the
the the threat of hanging thirty on you each week. No,
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and that's everybody, that's that's coaches and players have to
be accountable for it. So I'm trying to figure out
where are they better overall as an offense? And you
know what, you'd be hard pressed to find it. You
can't find it. It's exactly right. Seven three five seven.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I continue to take your cause as we discussed these
textans next on Sports Talk seven to eighty.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
But the Shawn Salisbury Show continues. And if you know
no now you know, start with Brad, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Brad? Hey, what's up? I'm just the last caller.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
Just pretty much what I was saying last week is
no no, no sense of urgency.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Playing anymore with this team.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
It seems like, uh, we are just a year and
a half, maybe two years behind the Ravens. That that
team is just flat out they're playing well. A couple
other games. I'll watched this over the The Eagles look
pretty dark good with backup quarterbacks. It all starts with
that offensive line guys. And so we're gonna go, wait, wait,
(34:08):
go get some picks now next year with some offensive lineman.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
We got to develop them.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
You got Kean Green.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I think that guy his name right, he's a key
Green Kenyon. I'm sorry, I apologize, that's okay. I mean
he's a buzz uh.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It just no sense of urgency with this team, and
he is and he's missing people wide open. Now, last
year he wasn't missing people wide open. He was making
the throws. He's just flat out missing people. And I
think somebody brought it up last week too, was and
they were bringing it up the commentary. Instead of throwing
the ball away, we're taking the sack, running out of bountains.
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I mean, there's some things up there in his head
that he's got to get an adjusted. And if he
has a bad year next year, what do we do.
Are we in that where he could be a flopper?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Are we starting to talk that way, sad. I'd like
to hope that I'm not there yet. I think the
guy's too skilled. But Brad, but I have seen now
there's a lot of irrational stuff that goes on on
social media. Right one guy makes him in one game,
we want to fire coaches and get rid of all
the players and stuff. But this year's trend with him,
and that's been my biggest thing. He's missed now. I mean,
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he'll make the heart that he's missed the easy stuff
too often, that which is not like him. I think
that's the most alarming thing to me. Even with the
pass rush and all that time when he's been able
to set his foot and throw a deep over route
or a route that he normally hits has been off
the mark. And quite frankly, it's not even aims small
miss small. He's missed big and normally he doesn't miss
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the simple play that every quarterback in the league makes.
This year, he's missed plays that you say, what happened,
what's he seeing? And it's and then you'll make a
spectacular throw. But what sustains you is the is just
the ordinary play. And he didn't miss the ordinary play
last year. He's missing it this year awesome too.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
I noticed a.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Little bit when he does take off a run, he's
getting caught from behind. Now, I mean his Brookie year
he was flat out and he was like you said,
he would tuck and go.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
He was making some heckup he runs, But this year
he just like flat out getting.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Caught from the hot Doesn't it feel watching that? If
you said, well, who looks like they're playing with some
clutter in their head? He he does. And that's and
maybe he set the bar so high last year. And
I know this is a quarterback who's to seeing clutter.
Believe me, you you invent stuff going on, but that
it's hard to pull the trigger on time. It's hard
not to watch the pass rush. It's hard to make
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because then you're overloaded. Then what do you do? Oh,
I gotta Then you start to press on things, well
why is this happening? And you start to change this
stuff that doesn't need changed, and got to get out
of your own head. He looks the optics are different,
but the results are different as well.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
This year.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It's just that's the facts. It just is real now,
real quick.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
On to the defensive side. I brought it up last
week when you're out, Uh, they're running his own read.
And what is Anderson doing chasing the back? You're a
professional now, you jammed the edge.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
And you wait for it.
Speaker 10 (37:07):
I mean they isoed us all the all game long.
And the linebacker they would just picked a guy and
just iso him and just if he takes the back
out the back door. With Lamar, it was it was
just head and shoulders above. Just great play calling on
the ravens. Uh, great running with Lamar. It's it's pretty
awesome to watch this kid just grow up right in
front of your eyes.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Impressive shot.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yeah, it's pretty awesome to watch this guy.
Speaker 10 (37:33):
He's going to be around for a couple more years
to see if you don't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But dolly, they look good. I'll hang up and listen.
Great new year to his transformation. Lamar Jackson's has been impressive.
He just gets better every year. Yeah, there are guys
that wanted him to be a wide receiver. Yeah when
when When when Todd Monkin left Georgia and when you
remember when he came to Baltimore. I said, this is
going to be a great hire because of his command
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and he's got guts and then they add Derick Henry
that some thought was done. And now look at the
bandwidth that offense. I've told you that I think that
they're even pre Derrick Henry defending when you put a
game plan, and they're the toughest team to defend because
the quarterback's ability to do so much. And please anybody
that's out there saying he can't throw from the pocket,
you are not watching football. It may not look as
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conventional or perfect mechanics. Like Brady Lamar Jackson can do
everything on a football field, including destroy you with his
decision making and his feet, let alone his pocket presence
and what he's doing. And then you add Derick Henry.
There is no and I'm talking about Detroit, I'm talking
about them all. There is no tougher team to put
in a game plan against than them, because they can
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beat you with a hammer, a sledgehammer, and they can
also beat you finessing you and stitching you to death
right just just you know, like nip it at you
with their finesse play and physically they can be And
the Texans got got a load to what that looks
like because they got handed to him the race evens
did whatever they wanted to against a pretty damn good defense. So, yeah,
(39:06):
you're preparing for the Baltimore Ravens. You you you better
cover sideline to sideline and then into the stands because
they do it all. Yeah. Lamar Jackson is coming up
on four thousand yards passing uh sixty eight percent completion
percentage this season, throwing for like eight million touchdowns too.
It's it's impressive to watch, man, it really is. He's
got let's see thirty nine touchdowns. Yeah, it's I mean
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Josh Allen, him and Sakuon Barkley's season this year, and
guys like Golf and Darnold aren't even gonna get a
sniff of the MVP award or Burrow before.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Yeah, Burrow's team was in the playoffs, he would be
the MVP, but then his numbers are stupid.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Even if they get in now but as good as
yeh now, But if they get in, the push would
have been too late because the league's already decided. It's
Josh Allen and Lamar jo Jackson, and and then you
give Saquon Barkley Offensive Player of the Year. One of
those two quarterbacks is going to be left out of
Offensive Player of the Year and MVP in the league.
What do you think about that? Mar Jackson's only throwing
four interceptions this season. It's been phenomenal. See, it's unbelievable.
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Those guys go back and forth. I have a hunch
you're going to be seeing them play each other. I
don't know how those seeds will go in the playoffs.
And I'll tell you what Kansas City's offense is getting
right at the round.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
It is.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's stupid, man, it sure is. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Lets get into the seven o'clock hour. Seven one, three,
seven ninety is the number to join, start or sit.
What are the Texas going to do against the Titans?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
That's next?
Speaker 12 (40:35):
Av E Houston, AHD two Houston, an iHeart radio station,
the Astross the Rockets, Rockets, East Fall your home for
your home teams.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Saul Spray, Houston.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Sewan Salisbury then.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
The USC Truths, longtime friend, Shown Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
This is the Sean Salsbury Show, John Salisbury, Brian Lima,
Manuel Elmore, Rockets, Lucid, the heat They're off tonight. Texan's
getting ready to play the Titans, forty nine Ers, Lions money,
that football. What's happening you see percolating?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, I was just thinking of all this. Uh huh
Corbyn Burns when he got paid to ten Yeah, stayman playing.
I have no idea. I don't know Labor Torrez. Where
did he go?
Speaker 6 (41:36):
Troit?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Detroit?
Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:37):
I keep reading though, Like people, this is a good
day to sidn like Ben Verlander. This would be a
great day for Detroit to sign Alex Bregman and lou
uh Marloney in Boston. This is a good time to
jumping on Bregman.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
What's the hold up? Is this going to be a
December thirty one stump? No, it'll be uh, it'll be
like the week before spring training that he he signs.
Just typical Boris style. If you're pregnant, you so you're not.
You don't know where you're gonna go until then.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
What's gonna suck is when he signed somewhere for twenty
six million a year and it's not here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
I just and Detroit's moving their stud Uh who's the guy?
Speaker 5 (42:19):
They're basically they're moving uh Torkals and they don't know
what they're gonna do with Torkosen and they're moving one
of their infielders to start playing first base. So hello,
third base is wide open. Spencer torkleson, Yeah, good one.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Former what first pick or second pick?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
One? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, Spencer Torkosen steps up to the eighteen T box down.
That doesn't sound like a good golf name he's from.
He's a brit to a great Britain. Spencer torkles Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, what's is Breglan? How anti climactic is it now?
I mean, now it's gonna be it's And Clorbyn Burns
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Arizona says, well, let me take in Baltimore. Will another
big time name that the Blue Jays missed out on.
We were talking about this on Friday. I had a
Paula Dez in for us on Friday and we talked
about how many big time players that the Blue Jays
are in on every single offseason and they could never
sign anybody. Ever, Well, how many times have we told
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this team that's a World Series team and they can
never get there? Well, I'm talking Aboutito Gaston and since
those days, you know, and after, but they just they
always come in highly publicized. Maybe we're gonna temper our
thoughts on them because right now ain't picking them to
win the division. I get to place that East is
too good. Now, the Red Sox have had some movement.
The Red Sox have decided that the Yankees, We're not
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gonna let the Yankees and Baltimore dominate this division. We
got to keep pace. Tampa's obviously got their run. The
Red Sox have decided to jump back in the frame
and compete. Now, if they can land Bregman, they're legit,
legit the American League East. No best corner infield in baseball. Yeah, arguably, yep.
The first there's well, you get one of the great
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hitters and then you get one of the great defenders
and put him at the corners and you you don't
have to worry Devers. Well, he's become serviceable as at
third base and that's not his strength, but swinging the
baseball bat is right right, and so putting him at
first base that'd be a really good combo. But yeah,
Toronto disappoints all the time, and they just can't quite
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unless they become the fifty first state, which Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I saw that.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yeah, maybe then there, Toronto becomes more real soul imagine. Yeah,
but the truth is is that they just they keep
coming up short and they've had They've been loaded with
pitching and hitting for a hand for for half a
dozen years minimum players.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, under underwhelming every single season for Toronto. Seven seven
ninety is the number to join Randall. What's happening?
Speaker 7 (44:52):
Hey, good morning Sean, Brian and Triple H.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 13 (44:57):
I want I wanted to know, Uh do to the
coach and the quarterback coach have a lot to do with.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
The mechanics of c J.
Speaker 14 (45:06):
Stroud And is he, you know, communicating with him? Uh?
Speaker 15 (45:11):
You know, I think that it's all mental and Seun
hit on it.
Speaker 14 (45:16):
It's mental toughness, you know.
Speaker 13 (45:17):
To me far as the comparison, I look at Lamar
Jackson versus c J.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Stroud. C J.
Speaker 14 (45:24):
Stroud played like.
Speaker 13 (45:24):
A choir boy, a church guy, and Lamar Jackson played thugball.
So I don't want nobody to think that I'm attacking
Lamar Jackson's character.
Speaker 15 (45:36):
It's just an analogy.
Speaker 14 (45:38):
Uh, he just played thugball. He has that mental toughness.
Speaker 6 (45:41):
C J.
Speaker 15 (45:41):
Stroud is not a leader, so somebody needs to step
it up on that team and uh, you know, we
almost had a malice in the palace last night, and
I think that it all.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
Started with Van Fleet and the roferee.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
So the Astros.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I hate that they didn't sign Bregland.
Speaker 14 (46:03):
That's my guy and I hope he gets signed soon.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Thank you, Thank you Randall. Lets give you going on
the phone lines, doctor Ray Ray, good morning.
Speaker 15 (46:12):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (46:13):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (46:14):
Soos?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (46:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Where are you being? Big dog a man just out
here working, grinding man? Watching these Texans and these Rockets.
Speaker 7 (46:22):
Man, you know come up short in times of late.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
You're still up in North Dakota.
Speaker 7 (46:27):
Yes, sir, man, yes sir, that ain't gonna change.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
But no, man, quick thing about the Rockets. Man.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
I know you guys like that toughness stuff with.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
That email laying down.
Speaker 16 (46:41):
But I think like last night kind of epitomizes like
to me, I think that that you know, that's those
scuffles and altercations with the referees from the head coach.
I don't think I think that's getting a little old,
you know what I'm saying. I get it, and but
that's kind of to me that looks like you know,
starting from the top, it's kind of undiscipled and which
kind of explains like some of the undisciplined play at
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the end of games and stuff like that. I think
that email as a leader, like that's cool. He laid
down that, Hey, we're gonna be a tough team. But
when when your coach is out there, you know, getting
in the rest face and bumping rests and stuff like that,
you know, I think that sets a bad precedent to
me and to me like with guys getting upset like
that and doing doing those types of things at the
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end of the games when they have made bonehead mistakes
to start losing. It's kind of it gives to me,
it gives off loser vibes, sore loser vibs.
Speaker 10 (47:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (47:33):
That's on the Rockets.
Speaker 16 (47:34):
Second thing on the Texans, I'm jack Shaun is like
I noticed in a lot of these games. I think
if I think, you know CJ's missing a lot of throws. Yeah,
but I think it's up to the offensive coordinator also
at times to kind of make the game easier for him,
to make it more comfortable for him in the pocket
early on. Starting now, and I've been watching a lot
of these games, and a lot of these games, I'll
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be saying with CEEJ.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Stroud, he's missing that check down down and.
Speaker 16 (48:00):
That swing out to the back that's there a lot
of times on a lot of plays, and I think
like if he starts to hit those look for those
more often and kind of hit those checkdowns and get
those four five yards and stuff like that, that it'll,
you know, kind of draw the defense in a little
bit more and make it easier for him to look downfield.
Because if I'm not mistake mistaken, I thought I heard
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you guys say early on in the season doing like
training camp, that they had c J.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Stroud like not going to his first.
Speaker 16 (48:28):
And second reads and making him go to like his
third and fourth reade or something like that, and practice.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
That wasn't me. I didn't say that. I don't know
if I.
Speaker 6 (48:37):
Heard that somewhere that they were saying that.
Speaker 16 (48:39):
They reported that that they were saying that they were
making him not go and I was just wondering, like,
so why would they why would they make him like
not do like not go through his first, second, third,
reason hold the ball, Ray.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
I think what happens is, you know, different coaches have
different drills, and if there's something you feel like patients
in the pocket and I haven't heard that, and maybe
I don't know where you heard it, but if somebody
saw it or was told that, let's assume that was
the case in a drill or during two days. They'd
take a day or so every now and again and
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go through a practice or a drill where it's you
go through your progressions and then get to the third
guy all, hey, hit your heat button. Yeah we got it,
we had we had to cut you off as too loud.
Is what you'll do. You go through a drill where
it's like, okay, we're gonna get we'll give you the play.
You go through your reads. One first hitch is not there,
a second you don't like it, Boom, check down. All
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it is is teaching you pocket patience, to let you
know that the third guy, to teach you to get
through your thing. I doubt very seriously did during every
practice they're teaching, dude, do not throw it to the
first guy, because if you're late to the first guy,
you're going to be late to the second guy, which
means you're late getting the checkdown. Windows open and close
their coffee can size windows in the NFL, so you
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got to get the ball out on time. So I
don't mind a drill that says, boom, curls out there,
flip your feet outside to the flat that's not their
boom reflip your feet and flip your hips back inside. Checkdown.
I had no problem because I put quarterbacks through drills
and I'll go and I'll maybe i'll you know, say ball.
I'll make them go through drills one to okay, ball
meaning get to the you've already got through the second guy.
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Or I'll call out the number. You know it's curl
flat checkdown. I'll say three, Well three would be the checkdown.
So what I want them to do is go, curls
out there, boom underneath coverage, took away the flat because
it was covered too, flip your hips back inside those
drills to get them used to knowing where people are
are good. But I doubt that anybody looked at me
and said, don't you dare throw to the first or
second guy in a game. Those are just drills. I
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would imagine that gets you to understand how to boom,
flip your hips, flip your feet, play on schedule, and
stay in the pocket without bailing because a lot of
young players once the first one and second one, they
decide to bail because it's a comfort zone instead of
get to the third one. And I can tell you
this a lot of times, the third guy in NFL
college and high school, they never cover them. By the
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time you get to the third read if you're patient
enough to do it, they don't cover the guy. There's
gonna be somebody open, but you can't pass up first
and second windows that are open, right, Yeah. I think
the biggest thing. And I even saw last night with
Michael Pennix on that past the pits the uh. I
think it was to tie the game late late in
the fourth The window that he fit that football in
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was unbelievably small, like in just the door. It was
just an absolute dot. Oh dude, you got a good
gosh Darnold threw an over route to Jefferson did when
he scrambled right and there was a comeback, but he
hit Jefferson at about twelve yards. Yeah, y, and I
put it the only place you can put it. Yeah,
I mean the windows are so small in the NFL.
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College you get bigger windows. High school they're huge and
so you get his comfort zone and thinking, oh, that's
the way windows are. No, no, no, they shrink quickly.
And so you've got to get to your progressions. And
if there's clutter or if you're indecisive, do anything indecisive
and you tell me if it feels normal, it doesn't. Yeah,
And at that position, if you're indecisive, you're late. You
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take sacks and it just doesn't. The ball doesn't come
out the way you want it to. The potential is
obviously there, but you know what, right now, it feels
like everything has to be perfect for them to succeed offensively,
and there ain't nothing perfect about the way they've played. No,
not even close. Inconsistent as hell. Let's get to the
steakout next right here on seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
This is an agreement.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
He's agree for a.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Three ball an sit down.
Speaker 2 (52:29):
Saw Salisbury continues. Now, oh, sports talk seven ninety for
your rockets, All right, Sean, what are you hearing out
there now?
Speaker 4 (52:42):
The Salisbury stakeouts Salsbury's takeout on the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
It's time for the stake out here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show, shown Brown and Tripley talking Texans seven one three, two,
two five seven ninety is the number to join before
we get to the steakout question, Doctor John, been on
off for a while, John, appreciate you holding buddy was happening.
Speaker 6 (53:04):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Was everybody's Christmas good Man?
Speaker 11 (53:09):
All right, real quick, A couple of things on this
Brakeman deal you were talking about. Yeah, Scott Boy's gonna
screw him up? Who was the two pictures last year
that he screwed up?
Speaker 2 (53:18):
All hold out?
Speaker 11 (53:19):
Hold out, hold out, and they ain't get.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
Jack because Jordan Montgomery was one of them.
Speaker 11 (53:24):
Montgomery was Blake Snell, Snell was the other and then
Snell just I think, didn't Snell just get a big contract?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
He opted out? And uh yeah I signed a big
one with the Dodgers, A billion dollars with the Dodgers.
Speaker 11 (53:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which you know, yeah it came around.
But I don't think Braden was gonna have to wait
that long. But this, this is getting kind of interested
in why he hasn't signed so and I know boys
had gotten fired by.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
A couple of cats because they were tired of.
Speaker 6 (53:53):
Waiting on their money.
Speaker 11 (53:55):
But uh, let's talk about these note shows. Look many, dude,
why is it. You know, I'm hearing everybody call and
talk about Bobby slogan. Bobby slogan. Why aren't any of
y'all holding Jamico Ryan's feet to the fire.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
He is the head frigging coach.
Speaker 11 (54:18):
He needs to quit being their frigging best friend and
put his foot up some grown men's.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
But that's all it is to it.
Speaker 11 (54:27):
These cats didn't want to be there, dude. It looked
like a freshman squad going up against a varsity squad.
That was the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in
from a Houston franchise. And I've seen a lot of
crap over the years of living around this area from
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what Texans Astros and the drama queens have done on
the hardwood floor. But you know, Son, you said it
earlier this morning, earlier. This team not a super Bowl contender, dude.
This team ain't getting out of the first round.
Speaker 6 (55:06):
Though.
Speaker 11 (55:08):
Don't let my Steelers come in here, because Biden, that's
that's what you do. Pull some crap like that with Tomlin.
See if Tomlin ain't throwing things around a locker room
and holding people accountable, he's smiling on the sidelines where
Demico Ryan's linebacker mentality went from high school college and
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the pros is beyond me because there It's just he
did not have these guys ready. These guys wanted to
hurry up and get back home and open up their
gifts with their families. They didn't want to be there, man.
And I'm telling you, I've said it before. Quit hold
hold it. Color called and said, well, first two players
out the gate were running plays by the OC. Okay,
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I'm forgetting, but don't we pay a ton of money
for those fat asses on the front line to open up.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
Holes for Joe Mixon?
Speaker 11 (56:06):
Hold them accountable quick blaming the coaches when the players
are the ones that have to execute these plays.
Speaker 5 (56:14):
So John, let me let me ask you getting it done,
let me ask you a quick question on that. I
agree with you that they are overpaying some of these
offensive lineman.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
They do have a job to do.
Speaker 5 (56:22):
But if you know that the Baltimore Ravens have let's
just say, two of the best defensive tackles in the game,
and they have an incredible, incredible defensive line, why are
you calling play calls or run right down Broadway when
you know that's the strength of their defense and I
think that another thing on that is we have seen
this same thing every single weekend. I think that's why
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fans are so tired of Bobby Sloak's offense. It's like
Sean and I have talked about execution is one thing,
but also they have to put their players in the
best place to succeed.
Speaker 2 (56:53):
But I but one thing I agreed as well Brian.
But I also with what John saying is that's on
point in time a head coach has to say this
is the way you're going to start to do it
or else. I agree. If if we're if we're holding
a head coach accountable in Dallas, shouldn't you be holding
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a head coach down accountable here if you're the head
coach they're trying to throw. There's people who want Kyle
Shanahan out because of this one bad year than anybody.
Let me ask you both this and not to put
you on the spot. Who's the offensive coordinator in San Francisco?
Kyle Shanahan, who's the That's exactly my points. I've always
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calls the plays and does it, but he has a
label of a you know, of an offensive coordinator. My
point is, you see the accountability falls it starts there,
so what but but the one thing who? Who the
hell knows what's going on in meetings rooms and accountability?
But they looked like a team who was disinterested in
playing on rist mistake. And Baltimore looked like a team
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that said, we got a mission involved. This isn't just
our career. We got a mission. And they played like that.
Speaker 11 (58:08):
Let me ask you one quick question. I want to
make one quick comment and then.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
I'm gonna let y'all have it. But let me ask
you this.
Speaker 11 (58:14):
Okay, I'm gonna drop you a shell for you. Has
Demico lost that locker room?
Speaker 2 (58:21):
Now, go ahead and make your other comment. Go ahead
and make your other comments and we'll answer.
Speaker 6 (58:26):
All right.
Speaker 11 (58:26):
My other question, My other comment is about college ball.
What the hell Miami? What the hell University of Miami?
You let your quarterback go out there for a first half,
and now I'm not playing them more, I'm doing it?
Speaker 3 (58:41):
Are you freaking kidding me?
Speaker 2 (58:43):
Commonplace? John Sadly, I know, I dud I've already gone off.
Speaker 6 (58:48):
It is.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
It's wearing me out. It is the nil is about.
Speaker 11 (58:53):
You people, and I wish, I wish we could get
and I'm not saying his son and.
Speaker 6 (58:59):
I loved talking with Kiviny Christmas.
Speaker 11 (59:05):
He left an oh clue, Indy kalue he was Indy
when Indy was on the radio with him and Uncle
Greg and all those years, all you heard about Indy
was saying about n I Oh, yeahs great, it's great.
It's gonna be great for It's gonna be greatful.
Speaker 2 (59:20):
I wish the guy.
Speaker 11 (59:20):
Would get him on because I would love to hear
his intake about it now, because I've said it. Now,
you're gonna get governed.
Speaker 2 (59:27):
This is gonna stop.
Speaker 11 (59:28):
All this money and all this crap, it's gonna stop.
You got a kick Now they're staying into college.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
Well, I got news for you. It's not gonna stop, John,
It's not gonna stop. That's gonna have to get it's
gonna have to get regulated to the point where we're
gonna need a salary cap for nil for each team.
We're gonna need a salary cap. So now is has
Demico lost the locker room? Yeah, we'll answer that, John.
Thanks much.
Speaker 6 (59:51):
John.
Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, I hope you have to marry Christmas and the
good New Year coming up twenty twenty five will be epic.
I'm always a little reluctant to say somebody's lost the
locker room. That's got a division winner, even though the
division is not that tough, and it's hard for me
to think in that short period of time he's lost
the locker room. But I can tell you this, it
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is very You can debate it by the way you
see them perform. Right, I'm gonna lean on the side
of no, they haven't lost locker room. And I'm not
giving him a hall pass because you know, I love
dmko Ryans, but I also know that he's not above criticism,
and I don't think he thinks he is either. But
I can tell you there's performance offensively. Is somebody's lost
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something because this team looks like a very forget playing hard.
Like I said, that's I expect that it looks very
disinterested and disorganized and wherever that falls on the part.
And the head coach is responsible for coaching his coaches
as well. And as far as college goes, it's never
going away. They're gonna have to regulate it. We need
a salary cap, and we should be able to cut
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players that you should. We should be able to cut
a sophomore that's not performing that's underperforming and free up
a scholarship and cut him. If they can up it,
you should be able to cut the I don't. Well
they're just kids. No they're not. They're full blown. We
had a kid that transferred from Tulane to Duke eight
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million dollars two year deal. It's the highest. He'll be
the highest paid player in college football. Dude, you know
he's gonna how much money he's gonna be making more
the court. You don't know his name? Do you to?
Lane's quarterback signed with Duke and got the report is
he's now the highest paid nil player on the planet
at at two med four men's Yeah, played quarterback at Tulane.
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He's receiving a record breaking nile deal at Duke. Yes, so,
and this is Duke paying it. They got a lot
of money. But would they get would they jump into it? Well,
apparently they're jumping into it.
Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
So wow.
Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Point and it's not going away. It's a matter of fact,
it's going to get worse before it gets better. But
at some point in time you're just gonna have to
put a sour cap on it because it's out of hand. Yeah,
it's just gonna get out of hand. I don't mind
him getting paid. The way we're doing it, it's not
the right way, right, it's not that's it is absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
The right way.
Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
College football has become less interesting. I'm just sorry it has.
It just that it's become more chaotic but less interesting.
That's Saturday.
Speaker 13 (01:02:12):
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
It's never I say, you use the word pure loosely.
It's no long it's not. You know, we'd like to
think that eighteen it's pure the right. I mean, you
had that, and then you also had student athlete student athletes. Man,
that's long. The degrees and I'm not putting an umbrella
over everybody in bad state, but blanket statement, the degree
is secondary, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
And I really can't I just can't believe that we
have to wait until next year to watch the college
football payoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
What do you mean this year? No, next year into January?
Well January first, I mean yeah, next year, twenty twenty five,
I mean, yeah, well we've been doing that, but it
hadn't that been the playoffs every year? You know, next year?
But hasn't the playoff been in January? Every year?
Speaker 6 (01:02:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
I know, next year? Right? Yeah? So you can't believe
you got to wait a few more years. No, just
I can't wait tomorrow? Right, yeah, well one tomorrow and
a bunch on there is one tomorrow on Wednesday. But yeah, crazy,
they get to play, you know in twenty twenty four.
We gotta wait till twenty twenty five. Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (01:03:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
So I uh, I don't.
Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I wouldn't say to Miko's lost the team, But there
are some things that there are. They are hints of
a team that looks a little less focused.
Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
I just don't understand, and we can continue to discuss it.
But I just the maddening thing for me is I
look at last year and I look at this year
less playmakers. Last year they were better and more disciplined.
This year, way better playmakers and so much lack of discipline.
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I just don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
So let's continue to discuss that right here on The
Shawn sALS Ray Show. The Shawn Salisbury Show continued, Biscuit,
good morning, what's happening, hey.
Speaker 14 (01:03:45):
Man, Olima, ain't with the what's the old saying? Ain't
no fun when the rabbit got the gun? And I'm
talking about college football.
Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Man.
Speaker 14 (01:03:55):
For the years, the players was getting tooken advantage of
and exploited and whatever other words you want to use,
and now to hit and flip it other way, you know. So,
hey man, this is this part of a capitalist society.
You know, you have you ups and you have your downs,
but you know they do needs and tweak into it.
But I'm not gonna get outraged, you know what I'm saying.
(01:04:16):
If you wouldn't out raised before, don't get outraged now,
you know that's that's not pulling out.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yeah, I just think that I just I just wouldn't pay.
I wouldn't pay the money they're paying. That's how you
stop it. I mean, you're right, the coaches had. The
coaches had all the advantage the players. Now all this
player empowerment you got, you got to you've got to
stop it and put in play You've given If you
gave them an inch, they'll take a mile. And they
have with the transfer portal they have with the money,
and now people are scrambling around, how do I keep up?
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I just to me, there there would be we would
have limits that we would follow by. And if you
don't want to come play here, there's another guy that can.
Because not every five stars that good. Anyway, there's plenty
of them three stars that are better, that are late bloomers.
So somehow they're gonna have to put a stop. I
don't play. We should be paying the play. But the
way we're doing it, it ain't ain't it And it's
and it's and it's we've we've lost a lot of
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what we had about college football that separated it from
the NFL. And now you can't tell the difference. And
that's it. To me, that's a problem. And it's and
and it is. We're overpaying your play. We're overpaying the player.
Now we just are Well, you know.
Speaker 14 (01:05:20):
Sean, anytime you put some new system in the play,
you know gotta come back and make some tweaks.
Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Absolutely, yeah, that's why we can't be over the outrage.
You just got to grown adults in the room got
to fix it.
Speaker 7 (01:05:32):
And then that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
And then that's that's what it comes down to. Yep.
Speaker 14 (01:05:37):
And now with the going to the text and Sean,
and let me say this that John ass I don't
think the micos locks locking them guys still respect the
Miko them guys probably are still playing hard.
Speaker 7 (01:05:49):
In my mind.
Speaker 14 (01:05:50):
A couple factors in the play Shine number one. They
got a tougher schedule this year. You know, this is
what happens when you play the first play schedule. They
playing tough competition. So now you see okay, I mean,
who if you thought the Texa was going to the
super Bowl this year, you would delusion the right there.
Now now they see that they not good enough.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
They gotta, they gotta. They got a taste of what
it's like to get to. There's another level to their game.
They're they're still playing when it comes to the big boys,
they're still Triple A. They're not quite They're not Baltimore,
They're not They're they're just playing on a different level
than those guys are right now. But you're right when
you're when you have to face eight or nine teams
that are going to there are possible playoff teams, well
guess what it's it's a little easier for them and
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a little more difficult for you. The year before, nobody
gave you any respect and you rolled the ten wins.
Now it gets tougher because now you're playing some teams
that that do play in January and February. You are
one hundred percent correct, and they haven't adjusted the way
we thought they would. There's no doubt offensively especially and
there goes.
Speaker 14 (01:06:51):
Now, well, Demko, I think we said it before Sean. First, Well,
let me say, and I'm always saying to Sewan, now,
I'll try to be consistently. Have to stay the course.
You know what I'm saying, This is what you want.
Three years ago, man, we won two games or three,
You know what I mean. You just it's the wrong
one built overnight, as old folks say, it takes time
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to build a championship team. So they got to stay
the course. However, the Miko got some decisions to make,
and I mean as far as his coaching staff, he
got to decide this staff is good enough to get
into where he needs to be. Now my question, you
Shine say, somebody like die Ball.
Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Get let go.
Speaker 14 (01:07:32):
You mean to tell me you're not gonna go ahack
to try and get Dieball to b old sne and
you know, slow, you know he may be doing the
best he can do. He is his second year offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Shot, yes, more experience, yes, no doubt. And you know
what's interesting, Biscuit, I'm with you that just like we
evaluate players, I'm evaluating every single one of my coaches
during and right when the season ends, they get the
same evaluation. The player does matter how much I like
you and I hired you two years ago. If in
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fact you have regressed or are not living up to
the things that we had planned, and a guy like
Brian Dable comes available, or someone like that, or like
if defensively Robert Salah right that this that has had
great success as a defensive coordinator, I am I will
consider them as well, because like players, you were great
for me last year, but guys been cut the next year,
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traded that. It's a level of consistency that the great
teams have, and so you got to keep up. As
a coach, you, I'm evaluating them just as hard buddy
or nobody. If you're not performing you, you're gonna have
to find another place to coach it. I'm with you.
You have to evaluate them. And if one of these
guys comes available, you say, damn, and I just trust
that that play caller more, then you have to make
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that switch friendship or not.
Speaker 6 (01:08:48):
With you.
Speaker 14 (01:08:50):
The most concerning thing, Sean is it looks like data regressed.
Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Yep.
Speaker 14 (01:08:56):
And because the best thing about C Day and I'm
going back to our stayd is his placement not the ball.
I mean, you know, he you could say what you
want to say, that that guy would put the ball
where it needed to be, at the right spot, at
the right place, and now he's missing some throws. They're like, wow, okay,
So that that would be a concern for me. You know,
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if I was to me go, I'm like, man, I
got to get this guy back going in the right direction.
And if I had to make a change with the
offensive line coach and the deep office coordinator and whoever else,
and so be it, because you know, at the end
of the days John said before it is at some
point gonna come back to me go. And so you know,
if you don't get the ship right it then at
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some point he gonna you know what I'm saying. So
I got somebody else go before they let me go,
And so, uh, I think the tension go. The last
question I'll ask you, Sean, are you playing guys this
week or are you gonna rest guys and go in
to play on the pre game loser street Man.
Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
See, there's a part of me, Biscuit that I gotta
I gotta get a couple series. I got to get
them feeling good going into the playoffs. I'm not sure
I sit them the whole game. I do need some
rhythm somewhere, but yet I don't know if they will.
They're not good enough to take time off right now.
They're really not offensively, So appreciate the call. I know
it's you know, listen. Of course you want your best players,
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but I'm not so sure. I don't come out like
you would a preseason game, although it's a different intensity,
and get some series. You know, Let's say you go
down to score in your first couple series, didn't get
them out. Yeah, but I'm not so sure I can
go into a playoff gam with my last offensive memory
what I saw against Baltimore most of the year. I
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almost think you got to say, you know what, we're
not beating them if we play this average injury or
not backup quarterback or starting quarterback. We got to get
this right and I got to have some feel good
psychological feelings going in. I'm going to tell you now,
if I'm the head coach, I'm starting my regulars. How
long I play them is another thing. The right no
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offense to sit a full game. I just pull Sean
what does that mean. It means that I need to,
as a head coach, feel good about my team going
in next week because if this is the offense we got,
it won't matter who the quarterback is. Hell I come
out of retirement, won't matter. So I got to get
us feeling good about what we're doing. Blitz pick up,
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and then if we scored it's seventeen to three, get
them out. But there's something psychological about the feel good
because right now I don't know how they're going to
get out the field with the way the Chargers run it,
and right now Herbert's playing at a high frigging level. Dude,
the guy doesn't throw the ball the other team. No,
like five hundred throws. He does not throw the ball
the other team. So you're in danger and you're dealing
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with defenses on both sides. They'll give you hell to
yeah regards if it's the Steelers or the Chargers, that's
exactly right. They're both physical, very very very physical teams.
Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
I know this, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
I reserve the right to change this between now and
the weekend. But as I sit today, if I was
a head coach, I'm starting my guys. Yeah, how long
I play will depend on how good they play early. Yeah, well,
you're taking a risk. I'm taking a risk going into
the first round of playoffs of humiliating my team by
allowing this offense and this team to roll into the
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first round of the playffs playing like they played. Yeah,
if they play like that, it won't matter who the
quarterback or the coach is. No, it won't survive it. Nah,
I won't. I got to see better. I gotta see
more rhythm. Let's talk about lack of game planning for
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I thought, I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I
thought New Year's Eve was on Wednesday, and New Year's
(01:13:33):
Day it was Thursday, right, But no, I was clearly off.
It's just like Christmas. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
I don't know, but is that the time once Christmas
Day is over? Uh huh like the Thursday Friday the
week it kind of run it. I woke up on
a Friday days it's Saturday Sunday. You can't keep track.
And another thing is do workers do people who work
around like once December like fifteenth hit? No, do they
(01:13:54):
just quit for the month?
Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
They do?
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Yeah, there's six people in here this morning us. But
really it's almost as if Thanksgiving hits and maybe the
first week of December, and then after that around the
car it's like, yeah, no one works. Do people take
the month of December off? Yes? Yes, you see to say,
is today a work day for most people?
Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Why not? It's the thirtieth and it's because of work day. Yeah,
I know it is technically unless you have a legitimate vacation.
Is it today a workday?
Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
It is, I mean it is, But no, it's so
basically you're saying, no matter what, once like December eighth
hits the rest of the month, if you're looking for
anything to get done, it's not getting done. It's in
the business world, correct, unless you're in like retail or
like Starbucks, because then you're gearing up for your biggest
time of the year. Yeah, Barbers is a big time
(01:14:46):
of year. Hairstyle is so nails nails, Yeah, yeah, you
get you're getting your stuff right. Right, parties and stuff,
and they're packed because people in the business world are off. Yeah,
it'll work so really, but it's almost feels like even
if you didn't take a vacation that it's really you're
you're you're you're not working today. No, right, it's just
I mean we are, but you get my point. It's
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almost as if like the world kind of just wants December.
It just kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
Actually, it's not even when December hits. It's pretty much
when Halloween Giving. When Halloween hits, people start gearing. But
thanks to yeah like Thanksgiving and get that awful. Okay,
I'll give you the first week of December and then
it's like people just disappear and then like so really
the next day of work that people are thinking is
January or six. Yeah, the first Monday after New Year's
(01:15:36):
is the This is when businessess hours come out.
Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
I think different. Can you get a lot of business
done when nobody else, when everybody is sleeping on it?
Do you like between like one of the big bigger
deals I was able to get done was between the
fifteenth and now in a business world heading into the
next year, right, a different business you know what I'm
saying where you can capitalize on people lollygagging, correct, you
know what I mean, you can just kind of jump
(01:15:59):
in and get stuff done because a lot of people
are feeling good about heading into the new year and
the rest of it. I almost feel like December is
a month to pounce on the new year with people's
optimism for January.
Speaker 8 (01:16:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
I almost feel like if you're January, you're like, they've
already said, then they'll come back to you. We already
set our budgets, you know that. You know it's certain
businesses out there, well if you pass the December Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (01:16:21):
Usually in December there are people that yes they have
that new budget sent, but the old budget still has
money left in it, so let's on.
Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
It, right. Yeah. So I just I just laughed because
I think it is it just like a are they
just like throwaway days? Yeah? Aren't they apparently? But it's
just odd to me. Yeah, it's a working day, but
it's really not. If you're not on a vacation, do
you go to work day or just like maybe is
it kind of like a two cocktail day and you
just kind of you're kind of lollygagging and you're part
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into work, but you're not. I mean, what is it? Yeah,
so I'm right, aren't I? Yes, the psychological aspect of
people kind of check out. Yeah, on's like the tenth
of December hits. Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
HTx Hobo girls said, must be nice to work in
one of those industries. This is busy season. It's the
best time to work. Fewer people here equals more work done.
Speaker 6 (01:17:08):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Amen. But it's just kind of like, well, it's December,
we get nobody's working. No, man, I'm telling you, once
we work eleven months of years, well we don't know.
It's it's I'm telling you, it's it's even less than that.
Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Once Halloween finishes and November hits, dude, people not just
I'm not saying here, but but society.
Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
In my previous industry, when I was.
Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
An oil and gas dude, once once Halloween hit, dude,
you were on cruise control and unless you were struggling
to hit your goals. Like for me, I always busted
my ass during the summers so that I could I
could knock out my goals.
Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
And my hit my uh hit my tour. If you
reach your goals, and then there's five other goals. You
can add new goals and just exceed it by a
long shot in the month of December. Let's be real here, man.
People once they hit that one goal, people don't give
a damn.
Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
I guess I think different. Yeah, well you do, we
know that. I guess you do. Yeah, but I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Once Halloween hits in November, dude, Walmart starts putting out
Christmas decorations. You got thankskeeping plans start to formulate. Yeah,
people don't.
Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
People slow down, man, it's a tripping unless you go
to the mall and you're working in the mall, you know,
and then like when you used to work at Hollisterree
you know, oh yeah, it was chess king, oh yeah.
And then then they tried to January sixth. They want
to pounce and get right. It's like, well, to me,
it's January sixth, it's just another it's another Monday and
the new year. But it's it's it's like we January thirty,
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I mean December thirty, January sixth, it's like we joked
last year and we're going to do it again.
Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
But it's like you don't see anybody in the office
until January sixth this year, and it's like, oh, happy
New Year, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
New Year was five six days ago. Why are you
tell me happy New Year? Right?
Speaker 6 (01:18:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
How long do you tell people Happy New Year?
Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
New Year?
Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
And I almost feel like people build psychological path psychological thoughts.
So once December hits in society, it's kind of a
month to check out.
Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I feel like people think that it is. It's to me,
it's the say, today's Monday, the thirtieth, And if you're
not on vacation, shouldn't you be working? You should be Okay?
How was traffick for you this morning? Easy? It was phenomenal.
It was unbelievable. It's great, unbelievable. A lot of people
take vacations for a long time, for a long time
between Thanksgiving and January six. Yeah, it's crazy. It is crazy.
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We got the college football playoffs kicking off tomorrow, the
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Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
We're going to talk talk some college football.
Speaker 5 (01:21:22):
Got the college football playoffs, uh second round kicking off tomorrow.
Also got a full slate of college football games that
happened over the weekend. Before we get to that, let's
take another call. Talk to Scott Scott.
Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Good morning, Hey, good morning. How are you doing, good man?
Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (01:21:39):
Well, as I was on hold, I had a second question.
Speaker 6 (01:21:41):
But first I would ask.
Speaker 9 (01:21:44):
Convince me and other Houstonian fans why we should buy
season tickets to the Texans next year with this product
that they're.
Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Putting on the field.
Speaker 9 (01:21:55):
And secondly, who do we put on the field next
week against the Titans because we don't want to injure
our players, of course, and I'll take your answers off
the air because I gotta drive.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Thank you, thank you, Scott well Sean. Why should people
buy season tickets? Well, m m hm, why would you
either one of you buy season tickets? And I'll tell
you why. Uh for me, I wouldn't buy season tickets.
Speaker 6 (01:22:18):
One.
Speaker 5 (01:22:19):
I'm not trying to spend that kind of money and
to the money to get good seats is outrageous. So
I'm not spending I don't even know how much season
tickets are he plus on, I think you gotta wait
in line to get them. I'm not I'm not spending
multiple thousands of dollars to sit in those bleeds.
Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
With and with this offense, I ain't doing it.
Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
I don't go to NFL games anyway, So I wouldn't
buy season tickets. I mean maybe the Raiders, but for
the average fan. I mean, I don't don't know if
I could make it. The average fans not buying normally.
I mean when I say average fan, the fan that can't,
I mean that one game of year's expensive. They're not
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buying season tickets, right, and the ones that are are
going to do it because they're hanging on that. Okay,
there's a lot of potential why you'd buy them. I
can roll through the Nico Collins and C. J. Stroud
and Will Anderson. There's some really good pieces and players
on the team. But I can understand that the way
they've gone this year, you'd take a step back and hesitate.
There is no doubt. I would imagine a lot of
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fans are sitting in purgatory right now, not knowing which
way to go because of they love the potential and
love the ability, but the production has not matched the potential.
Or let's turn that around, the potential is not matched
for the production, right The production is far the potential
we have way up here, and the production has been
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mid even though they won the division. How many teams
are they beaten that are good this year?
Speaker 6 (01:23:48):
Name?
Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
I can't one Buffalo and who else it's a good team.
Who else have they beaten? They beat Miami, which is
Miami's basically a five hundred team. Okay, so that is it?
Otherwise than that? And I know people say, well they've
been one score games. I didn't know there was a
category the fourth one. Well, look at look okay, Kevin O'Connell,
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look at his run, look at his since he's been
in the league, his wins and losses in one score games, Yeah,
he was like eleven and all right. So if they're oh,
they they've been in every game, Well, we don't have
a whole lot of the NFL one double digit spread,
I believe going into the weekend this week maybe maybe
a second one.
Speaker 6 (01:24:28):
We don't.
Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
It's not like college. We don't have him very often.
So a nine point win or a ten point win
in the NFL is a big that's a lot of points.
So one score games meaning eight points are less. You're
losing them. Oh you're in it, but you're losing them.
So is there a category that says we almost won
hang a ban or no. You got to learn how
to win them. So why you'd buy season tickets is
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the potential in the quarter You say, man, there's there's
a lot of players to like here. If we can
get man in tank Dale, boy what that's going to
be difficult to come back from sooner than later. That's
a hard He's a is rehab, mental rehab ahead of
just not just the physical and the emotional part of
It's going to be a rough road. But Stroud and
Nico kNs there's a lot to like. And on defense,
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they got some guys that fly around, but the production
says to you, i'd hesitate, and I don't blame them.
And what was this second question? Did you have to
say this other point was the Texans offense? It was
I thought it was just a season ticket question, but
he made he made a second point. That's the key
is though, that's would you and is this team you know,
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productive enough for you to warrant Let's let the playoffs enroll?
For oh, I know what it was, but let's let
the playoffs go. Maybe they go on hot streak and go,
but the trend this year is that's not who they are.
He asked about who would you play the injuries, about
playing this week, I personally, we're not playing well enough
healthy to win against a good team. So I'm not
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going into this worried about getting twelve guys hurt. I'm
I offensively, I need to get into a rhythm. I'm
starting CJ. Stroud this week. I would now, well, it
means nothing. It only means something to rhythm and feeling good.
I get it. But you've gone this far. I just
I just don't coach that way. I can't coach worried
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about the injuries. I mean, now, I'm not going to
do anything stupid in a game like this and play
them and play and play them and people getting knocked
around to it. And of course you take a risk
every time you go out on the field. But I
personally think the offense needs to get something feeling good
about themselves. I would play them early. Yeah, you have
to see how the flow of the game goes. There's
no sacred cows on offense right now. No, They're just not.
Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
I mean, just just take the running game. Joe Mixon
had twenty six yards rushing against Baltimore. He had fifty
seven against Kansas City. Dari A goombawalle led all rushers
against Miami with thirty five yards.
Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Okay, are you comfortable enough going in and say, oh,
our offense is where we want to be. Let's sit
him out after what you saw against Baltimore. And now
you sit them out and then then you play them
the next week in the playoffs. That's a long time
for a team that doesn't have offense, that doesn't have
a lot of production to feel good. I actually start them,
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but in truth, I would imagine you're going to get
a bunch of guys sit that it doesn't matter, But
to me it does because what if they go into
this game, get an ass kicking and they don't play
their starters. Aren't you going to feel awful? Yeah? I
mean not that it matters. I mean they go in
there and win the playoff game. Who the hell knows
they won their first playoff game last year, but they
were a better team at this time last year. Not
more talented, but better, better production. So I would imagine
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a lot are going to sit I personally, and I know, well,
Sean wy it doesn't make sense. It makes sense to me.
Now you can disagree. Somebody else calling can say rest them,
sit them. They don't need it. They do need the work.
They actually do need the work, because sometimes they play
like rookies. They do need the work. And I would
try to get him too a rhythm and play like
it with single elimination at least for a quarter, and
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say we got to have something good because I right now,
I don't know about you. I don't trust that the
offense is ready to play against their first playoff opponent.
Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
They're not. I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
I got to see more for me to trust that
they're ready to go into the following week.
Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
They need consistency, They need to, quite frankly, just they
need to put together a game plan. That's where I
teased a couple of segments ago. A game plan to
make this offense look like basically look like they haven't
looked so far the season, meaning consistency, balance, non predictability,
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like all those things we've seen, it's been inconsistent, it's
predictable at times, and quite frankly, it's just been average
at best.
Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
I mean, if they tell you Stroud or Dumiko Ryans
or Bobby Slok right now, I looked at you and said,
we don't We're gonna be okay. Do you trust him
saying that no because you haven't seen there. Actually you
know what, and I know you're on vacation.
Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
Last week we had Aaron Wilson on and he had
a video of up on his social media of what's
his name, Titus Howard. Everybody else in the locker room said,
we got embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
CJ.
Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Stroud said, it's the worst game of my career. We
came out flat. Daniel Hunter said we needed a game
plan better. Everybody was being honest and then you had
Titus Howard go, oh, I'm not I'm not worried. And
I asked Aaron, I said, what what are you buying that?
Titus Howard literally said, Oh, I'm not worried. I'm not concerned. Yeah,
I'm not concerned about this team. What do you mean
Everybody else in the locker room is telling us that, Hey,
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basically we have looked terrible and you're gonna sit there
and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not concerned.
Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Well you should be.
Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Well, that's the old football macho approach of we got this,
don't worry about it. So the trend says we have
to be worried about you the way you've played. Yeah,
I uh, I don't understand when I hear the word flat.
You're playing the friggin Baltimore Ravens in your building and
there's only two teams playing that day, so the whole
football world's gonna watch you, and on the time you're playing,
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nobody else is on. And how do you when I
hear we were flat? Yeah, I think that's a bitch
ass excuse how how and if anything, they kicked your
ass in the playoffs last year? You right, Baltimore wasn't flat. No,
Kansas City, and they're actually on the road, not going
to be with their families for Christmas till later that night.
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You at least got to be home with your families
on a six o'clock wake up call or later in
that day. So flat. Yeah, flat in the preseason game.
Flat in a game in September that you're supposed to
win in your twenty point favorites, Flat against Baltimore. Yeah,
in December on Christmas Day. Flat That that's a that's
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a flaw. Yeah, Titus Howard said, quote, I'm not concerned.
This team is resilient. I know what we can do.
Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
End quote.
Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
Yeah, well, okay, I disagree with Titus Howard. Yeah, I
think I know what they can do too. There's a
big difference in knowing what they can do and actually
doing it, and they haven't done it enough offensively. Now
they may come out next weekend and kick ass that
in this last game, and in the PLATFF game, we're like, Okay,
looks like they're back for a game. But you tell me,
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we're the trends of showing you that this team is
going to dominate anybody with their offense.
Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
There is nothing. There's no nothing. We have been nothing
but complimentary when they've earned it. Well, why this isn't negative,
This is just fact. Yeah, because I hate seeing it too.
But you can't tell me this team hasn't taken a
step back offensively. It's a major step back. Yeah, I
mean you want to go through the league of the
playoff Tampa Bay's offense is better than the Texans right now. Yeah,
look what Baker Mayfield is doing with that offense. There's
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not one person or one coach's fault. But they have
got to get better. And I'll be honest with you
they I'm playing them for a little little bit this week.
I need I need to see some rhythm for me
as a play.
Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Caller, just real quick as we go to break, Kansas
City has a better offense. Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh charge the Chargers,
And honestly, like I said earlier in the six o'clock hour,
the Denver Denver Broncos with Bo Nicks right now has
a better offense than the Texans. Those are the playoff teams.
Then you look go over at the NFC Minnesota, Philadelphia,
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the Rams playing good football, Tampa Bay Detroit, the Commanders
of Green Packers, all of those have better offenses.
Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Now, you could argue that of the twelve or the
fourteen playoff teams that this team is is the one, Yeah,
second or third, They're they're at the bottom. They'd be
ranked if we go and rank the fourteen playoff teams,
Uh huh, they'll finish thirteenth or fourteen. Yeah, offensively not
potential production production, Yeah, production this season, I would agree. Yeah,
they're down towards the bottom. I would agree.
Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
In the NFC, every single playoff team right now has
a better offense. The three that would be at the
bottom for me in the AFC would be the Chargers,
yet they I'm sorry, it'd be Denver and Houston would
be the bottom two.
Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Be the rookie quarterback in Houston and then depending on
who Russ Wilson is and play because I trust their
defense in Pittsburgh as well. That that's where. Now, how
you slice those last three, fine, but it's going to
be twelve thirteen to fourteen, twelve thirteen, fourteen, those are
the three. How you trust those threes? Fine, but you can't.
You can't even the other eleven teams. There is no question,
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what offense you'd take over them? All of them? Yeah,
that's all with all these playmakers. And I get right,
I'm actually saying this, but production says this is not hyperbolic, right,
it's a fact. Yeah, the lack of production. Man, I'm
starting my regulars for at least a quarter this week.
I need some rhythm. You do need rhythm, There's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
Let's continue the discussion next right here on the Shawn
Salisbury Show.
Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
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Speaker 16 (01:33:33):
On Sports Talk seven ninety black Ship Station of your rockets.
Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Which one was a pop Tards Bowl That was Iowa
State in Miami, Oh yeah, where they have the uh
pop tart guys, yeah, running around and they uh literally
put out a massive pop tarts good pop tart warmed
up a little butter on it. It'll take you, It'll
take you to new level, it will take you to
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a new friggin Yeah. They do a really good job
of promoting that specific bowl game. You know, b why
use a better team than Colorado? That's why they put
it on them, and it showed their better team. They're
ass man, They're a better team. They had no excuse there.
And I love the fact that those guys played. But
they just were. They were out And I know they
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put big old insurance policies on their two big dogs.
They ensure the whole team, and they put a big on, uh,
you know, on Sanders and Hunter. But B they were outmatched.
B why you just handled them in every way shape
and for them. So it was uh, I guess, But
I do like some of the enthusiasm I'm seeing from
young players who decided that young players who get a
chance to play when the veterans hold out or decide
(01:34:45):
not to play, we're seeing some energy. But that's because
they're a young player and until their opportunity comes and
then they're a veteran and they want to save their careers,
they'll they'll sit out too. I guess I shouldn't be
that negative. It bugs me, though, but Sanders and Hunter
playing was impressive. Although they got their ass handed to them.
It was I like, when you show up and play, you, uh,
(01:35:08):
you find it odd.
Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
Let me talk a little FCS real quick. South Dakota State.
North Dakota State played in one of the semifinal games.
North Dakota State one twenty eight twenty one, Montana State
and South Dakota played in the other semifinals. Montana State
won thirty one to seventeen. Are we ever gonna have
teams that are not in the North in the FCS.
Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Every now and then you'll Jamship James Madison when when
Sam Houston was an FCS school. You'll get them.
Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
But but I mean South Dakota State, North Akota State,
South Dakota and the Montanas and then Montana State. Montana's
always good, yep, Montana State's always good.
Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Southdast South Dakota State, and now a second team in
South Dakota that's not South Dakota State, and rude ones
in like what's North Dakota State, I think is one
of them's in Brookings. And then the South Dakota just
not state, but just South Dakota. They're in it. I mean,
so we got what Montana State in North Dakota State
in the in the final, Yeah, which will be that's right, yep,
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that'll be a hell of a football game. Montana State
fifteen and oh, North Dakota State thirteen and two. Yeah,
it's gonna be a fun watch and they play some
hellified football. Man, I love it. So you're right. If
you want to a FCS school, head to one of
the Dakota's if you'll be right there. Good Yo. Yeah,
I had to one of those schools where you have
make it underground tunnel during the during the school year
(01:36:29):
so you don't freeze to death. Don't hate them, man,
showing up and competing. So what do you think about
bull season so far? Nondescript?
Speaker 6 (01:36:38):
You like it?
Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
I've seen some energy from you know, watching an army play.
They were fun to watch as they play.
Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
Actually, Sam Houston, they they won their bowl game. They
played well so far. I don't know, I mean just kind.
Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
Of Miami game was uh, was a good game. I mean,
you know in the forties, I.
Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Mean you look at on the day after Christmas, there
was some really good games. Kansas State won forty four
to forty one. Toledo won in six overtimes against pitt
forty eight forty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
So I watched every one of that, that overtime, back
and forth and back and forth and penalties and then
back and forth. That was a great watch. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
Arkansas thirty one so that not a lot of blowouts. Well, actually,
you know what, my Kyle McCord and that Syracuse offense, dude, real,
come man, fifty two thirty five over Washington State.
Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
They will I bet the over in that one. And
it's like take the over when those two teams that
went throughout all the records of LetGo, Kyle McCord had
a monster year. Yeah he did. He is going to
be sneaky this offseason because here's a guy who left
an eleven win team that was in the playoff, went
to a different offense that obviously showcased him led the
nation in passing. Yeah, and now is going to you know,
(01:37:51):
playing some of these All Star games and get a look, Hell,
might he be the best quarterback NFL ready quarterback in
this draft.
Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
He's waiting to see if he gets another year of eligibility,
right because agently he applied for it.
Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
But if he's going to be a first round pick,
if he was going to be a first round pick,
don't why stay? Yeah, But if you're like, if it's
a tweener and they're not sure and go put up
those yards again, look what it's done for cam Ward.
He goes my look, what it's done for his I mean,
now he's in the talk him and Sanders as who's
going to be the first quarterback taken? So McCord, that's
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why listen. Now that takes guts. Now, I know he
got paid from Syracuse and all that, but he left
a great team, the most talented team in America to
go play at Syracuse. Put up these numbers. Now, that's
why you transfer. You think, well, I mean, I get
the job. Will Howard's going to get the job. I'm
going to transfer after I was already the starter. And
then you go there and then you play like that,
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like that. That's that's how the transfer portal was invented.
That that's why, right, get it, get a shot. Maybe
an offense fits you better, Maybe you and Ryan Day
didn't hit it. Whatever it is, don't say any of transfer.
He ain't transferred anywhere else, say the Syracuse for playing
on Sunday. So he's really had a monster year. So
there's been some fun offensive games, and I'm telling you
down the road, continue to keep an eye on. I
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told you my guy can't state their quarterback. He was
different coaching him in an All Star game, and his
feet are filthy. I'm just telling you that that that
you that kid's going to be a blast to watch
over the next couple of years. Avery Johnson, Oh my goodness, Yeah, dude,
when when I told you this and the bear's repeating.
When we had him my first year in the as
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the offensive coordinator in the US Army game, we called
read option on our first drive to the left an
r PO. He pulls it, takes it to the edge,
puts his left foot in the ground, and cuts up
the field. Boo boom was in the end zone. And
we all knew because a lot of times it's walked
through in these auto We're not going full speed during
practice for the most part. You're you're getting stuff in.
But we're saying there when he takes off in scores,
(01:39:52):
I take a look at like my wide receiver coach
and then my head coach was Houston Nutt, the former
from Ole Miss in Arkansas, and I said, I mean,
I knew he had some bursts. I didn't he had that, dude,
and so and it and it played itself out his
freshman last year and now this year he's even a
better college player. And that All Star he was the
MVP of the game and he could do anything he wanted.
That's how good he was. And it's carried over into
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college football. That is going to be one of the
funnest watches in college football. He and the quarterback. I'm
telling you you keep an eye on him, and you
keep an eye on a quarterback from South Carolina Sellers
over the next two years and watch how these guys
do some different stuff that every quarterback we want. Now,
can you beat me from the pocket and can you
beat me on the edge? And both have proven they can.
It's a fun watch. We've seen some good play in
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this postseason by some young players, which I like.
Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
Yeah, that's that's been the best part about ball season.
Let's continue to tell.
Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
My Trojans went in there and played did some good
things against A and M too, So leave that out now.
Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Yeah, I think we need to discuss Texas A and
M because they got to they need to re evaluate
a lot of things. Yeah, and this, no, this is
no disrespect against USC, but USC did not has not
played well this year and for Texas A and M
to go into that bowl game and and just it's
it's like time management was a question.
Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
Asked, kicked in the game. I know, I mean twenty
one points in the fourth quarter for USC to win
that game. Yeah, my son and a bunch of his
buddies were out there because he went to A and
M and he's an SC fan, right, so got a ticket.
He said, he picked SC on the money line, and
when you're down twenty one points, he's like, oh man, Yeah,
it was awesome to come but it was a great comeback.
And the quarterbacks struggled, but they played it and finished
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the full thing and took care of their business, which
was a great game. But yeah, A and M. The
inability to put your foot on the throat minds you
of a couple of teams, doesn't it sure does?
Speaker 6 (01:41:39):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Yeah, they've got to get better at it. Where the
team in Austin right now, when it gets close, they're
relying on physicality. They put your their foot on your throat,
and they're gonna get another chance to do it again
this on Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Yeah, let's look at some of those college football playoff matchups.
Next to sport Stock seven ninety, the.
Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
Sean Salisbury Show continued, Well, what what's the well you
have no, Yeah, you know what you're gonna get right answers,
Oh yeah, or is it overrated to get them into
rhythm and just like let him take another week off
and go almost draft the s bom for for the
the the way that the offense has looked.
Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
I'm playing my guy, I'm starting my guys depending on
what it looks like a half, just to try to
get some sort of rhythm together, I would agree. And
you got Deontay Johnson, the guy they picked up awful waivers.
That's gonna be one of your wide receivers this coming weekend.
You got to get him into the playbook because you're
gonna have to have to have him in the lineup
when he goes into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Oh, he's gonna play. I would imagine you're gonna play
him regardless of Yeah, you are, but you want to
play regardless of who the quarterback or running back is.
But you want them with c J. Stroud and some
live game reps, don't you.
Speaker 6 (01:42:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
I mean, if you're c J. Stroud, you should want
to play. Yeah in this game. Yeah, you can't go. Man,
you just got your ass what by the Ravens. And
that's not the last thing I want to know or
remember going into the playoffs. But I mean, I'm sure
we'll hear from Demiico Ryans all week talking about that
real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
On some college football. If you're Texas A and M
sean first time in forever, you play ut at home,
you get manhandled, you don't even put up an offensive touchdown,
you don't put up offensive points. M hm, you go
eight and five and you lose the bowl game yep,
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after one points. Yes, if you're Texas A and M.
And again, I'm not saying fire Mike elgo by any means,
not even close.
Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
First year.
Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
I think he's gonna be a really good head coach
for them. Agreed, you got to reevaluate some things, though. Man,
it just seems to me this is the story for
Texas A and M. Every single season. High expectations, playmakers
and five stars galore, and they just fall flat every year.
Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Yeah, I was every season. I was going to say,
it feels like there's something missing from How do I
say that? Because you know, I like the program. I
think like Elko is going to do a good job.
Have you ever noticed that it feels like they're just
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always a player or two away, always from all the
ways of important positions. No matter how much money they spent.
During all that money, when they got the quote unquote
the top recruiting class and the history rated commuter recruiting
class in the history of college football, was it. Yeah,
that that's you know, was so point is And you know,
(01:44:31):
like I said, not all these these these these scouting
services get it right. Exactly. You spend more money with
those scouting services, you become real quick. Yeah. So, but
they don't always get that right and the development of it.
But it almost feels like every when Jimbo was here
and before when someone was here, they used to start
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fast and wear out in the SEC at the end
of the season because the other teams were too physical.
And then when they're physical, you're like, there's a quarterback
that they don't throw it well enough, but they can
run it with the quarterback. There's always quarterback gets hurt.
You know, we had huge expectations for Wigman and we'll
have them here at the University of Houston for him
that didn't work out. There's always they're always a player
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or two or a player or two from being in
the elite category. Yeah, every single and yet season three
weeks ago they are still in the platform. Yeah, but
that's the point. It gets to this and they find
ways not to get it done. Yeah, And I don't
know what. There's not one thing. It's not just one thing,
(01:45:38):
and you and I both know that, but you keep
going and keep going and keep going. It's like, damn,
what is it that's missing? I almost feel like put
them at eight and four, nine and three, that's who
they are. They'll get close, they'll be competitive, they'll play
in a good Bowl game, but there's always something that
feels like they're not quite championship caliby, right, I don't
(01:45:58):
know what it is. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe an A
and M fan, And it's not because they played my tropes,
to be honest with you, that was both teams looked
about like they have this year, some good, some bad,
some in between. USC just had more offense down the
stretch and bigger playmakers when it mattered. But there's all.
And I feel the same way about my Trojans. There's
always something defensively offensive, there's always over the last decade
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there's something missing. A lot of similarities between the Trojans
and highly rated. Everybody loves them going into the season,
and by the end of the year. You're like, what's missing?
Speaker 6 (01:46:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
My Troses just happened to be on the right side
of the Aggi's on this one. Yeah, but the similarity.
So I've gone through this with SC but as an
A and M fan, which I like A and M.
And if you're a lum and you're watching or your
football player, there's always something missing that prevents them from
getting to where they want to go. And it doesn't
matter who the coach is, No, it doesn't. It doesn't
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I do, but I hold Milco in high regard. But
whether it's a game management decision, when do you use
a timeout, a bad throw by the quarterback and injury
to the quarterback, two running backs getting banged up, defensive players,
somebody transferring, this didn't work. It just it's always something
see and then the Trojans have gone through the same thing.
They just got them this time.
Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
And then I look at obviously the Texas A and
M and the Texas rivalry is heated all the way
around and all the loud talking that A and M
fans do about the University of Texas. University of Texas
in their first year in the SEC, played in the
SEC title game. I know they got beat now they are.
They have one of the best defenses in all college football.
Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
As physical as we have in the country right now,
and large man handled them physically and is saying something.
Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
In the University of Texas is on like their fourth
and fifth running back and they're still during the quarterfinals
of the college football playoffs. So with all that being said,
it seems like for whatever reason, with Texas A and
M they might be down a running back or a
wide receiver. Other teams are down to their team Texas, right,
and I just don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I don't get it. The team should be a national
championship type team every year with the recruits and the
the recruiting area and the money they spent, right and
and quite frankly, they get good players.
Speaker 6 (01:48:05):
Yea, we know this.
Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
And it's a great facilities, everything about it. What's not
to love. You have one of the best, no doubt,
best stadiums in all of college and and facilities and
you'll there's no question, no, absolutely no question about it.
But also, didn't Mike coach Elko say that they're the
class at Tech? What didn't I hear in his post
pret conference? What was he saying in his post press conference,
(01:48:26):
did he say, did we are the we are the
program in Texas? Did he say that after the game
against USC And am I right about that that I
or did I hear it wrong? Because people were making
comments about it. And I would imagine if you're a
longhorned fan, you're saying, no, no, no, no you right
now you're the team in Texas happens to be the
guys that are playing. It's that's about the mentality they are.
(01:48:51):
They're they're a step below. It's almost I hate if
Mike Elko did say something along those lines. And you know,
like I said, I've got great connected. I love my
kid went there. I got my masters from A and M.
I love it. But let's let's call it real real.
They're they're a step down from it from from Texas
right now on the field football wise, he said they
should not be.
Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
He said, some of the things I've seen, He said,
the story of the game is the story of the season.
We can't cover the forward pass. I have apprehension when
the other team drop drops back to throw the ball.
Starting against Florida, we got lucky. Starting against Missouri, we
got lucky. LSU threw for four hundred yep and SC
second I had they came back and made does. But
he said something about the program in Texas. I thought
(01:49:31):
he did unless I heard it wrong. But the point
is is that that they're just I hate to say this,
but it's like USC and UCLA in the past, We've
always been chasing them in basketball, right I'm talking about
when I was going to college, and you know, it's
got us these basketball correct programs picked up, but football,
when you looked at it was always SC football first,
(01:49:51):
Ucla second.
Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Now we've been beat by UCLA. Don't misunderstand me talking
about perception, right, Yeah, it's the same thing here. I
understand how A and M wants to think, but I
hate to say this because I love A and M.
They're they're a step below Texas. Yeah, they just are. Yeah,
they are. And that's just that's the that's just the
(01:50:12):
unfortunate reality of it. Now it can change, but right now,
the team in this state resides in Austin. It just
does when it comes to when it comes to football.
Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
And over the last couple of years, pretty much since
Steve Sarkisian has gotten there, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Been painful to say I know for Aggie fans, I
hate saying it, and that doesn't mean that you're not
a good program, but there's something and Mike Elko hit it,
if you can't stop the forward passing college football, you
ain't getting to where you want to go. I think
A and M believes that they're talented enough on a
regular basis to be playing this week, right, you know
I'm talking about in a playoff game, but they there's
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something always missing in a game that doesn't allow them
to go four or five where they're dominating and everything
looks like, Okay, this is a NASH championship team and
wants to change that obviously.
Speaker 5 (01:51:03):
And you know how the hit to the ego for
some of these big big Texas A and M alumni
and boosters are when you see this season and how
close you were to getting too the SEC title game
and you got dominated in front of one hundred and
eight thousand by the University of Texas. Just to see
them go into the SEC title game in their first
year and then win their first game blowout Clemson, even
(01:51:26):
though it was a little bit closer on the scoreboard,
and now you're in and they're in the quarterfinals, against
Arizona State.
Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
Do you realize if they beat Texas? If A and
M beats Texas, guess what they're doing. They're playing in
the college fotball payoffs? Right, Yeah, And obviously and maybe
not to show up the right way and that one.
But the reason it pains me to say just because
I've lived it. And that's easy for me to say,
because when I say it rolls off the time because
I've been saying this about USC for years now. We're
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always loaded with talent. It's just like, what's missing? Yeah,
what is miss? Physical?
Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Well, we're just good quarterback terrible defense, the physicality defense,
poor quarterbacks, points like sustained body blows were not good
at Yeah, but how do we beat him? How did
s beat?
Speaker 7 (01:52:09):
A and M?
Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Put the ball in the air, spread them out, did
their thing, finessed them to death, mixed in the run
and did what A and M can't defend the forward pass?
And they went good on Lincoln Riley to attack, to
not quit on, say you know what, we'll overcome this.
Throw some picks, come back and fight through this and
give me what you've got. And then they started to
get into a rhythm and A and M hasn't been
able to defend the pass against anybody who's got a
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decent quarterback, let alone a good one this year, and
it's been that. It's been a big problem for them
and Mike Elkle, who's a great defensive coach. That's bothersome
and probably going to spend a lot of time this
offseason e value waiting not only his defensive staff, but
his overall staff and his players as well. Because A
and M should be we should be talking about them
in the national title hunt every year every year. We
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should They're they're they're they're good enough to do that,
and they've got enough money.
Speaker 6 (01:52:56):
To do it.
Speaker 5 (01:52:56):
Yeah, that's that's for damn sure. Seven one three two
one two five, seven ninety. We'll get out to the
phone lines, take your calls about these Texans college football.
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Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
This is the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
Hey, real quick, before we get to our calls before
you well, you're not even reading headlines this break sorry
is the norm, and I agree, and we will be
in the minority of rest your starters with the Texans
this week. And I normally say, you know what, but
it's going to be almost three weeks before they would
have played again. Their last memory is an embarrassment, and
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I would like to think they go off in the
one end of season with a what are they nine
and seven right now? End up with a win. But
I understand preserving your starters for that. But my decision
to start them has nothing to do with injuries. And
I wouldn't give mix And a touch. I want him
fully fresh. I don't I don't need him. I get
I get you know, Piers, and let's let those guys
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get their carries in whoever and get it rolling. Personally,
would just like to see them feel good for themselves
about it, and I would not argue if you said them,
I get it. Maybe it's my emotion of the frustration
of damn guys, let's get this thing going. The majority
of people and are probably right rest them because the
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only risk about playing on I'm not even worried about
the injury. No, it is for me if they go
out there and they urinate down their leg again against
this team, and the offense doesn't. They sputter, and you're like,
oh man, we've even compounded and make it worse. Maybe
just being away from the thought of starting football gives
you a chance to clear your mind and get rid
of that clutter that's been the inconsistency all year and
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let you breathe, and then you'll feel fresher coming back
for the first round playoff game. That I do get,
and it's at home that part I do get. I
guess the emotional part and the quarterback part, and me
not the fan. The quarterback part of me says, I'm
tapping coach and saying, we give us a couple series,
we'll stand of Arm's way, throw the ball away, give
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us a couple series, and then if we go down
and move the ball in the first two, get everybody out.
Here's the problem. You can't rest them all right. You
don't have enough players. So then one star is gonna
be like, well, I'm going the whole game, but this
guy's not. So that you get how that give and
take goes. So I understand most fans are gonna say,
don't play them, And I understand you want to clear
your mind. I'm looking at it the other way. I
want to feel good going into the playoffs because right
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now I don't know how you can offensively, but you
also run at risk with the way they've played by
playing them, Is it getting worse? Because I got to
believe that Tennessee's close to have checked out, I would
think so.
Speaker 6 (01:56:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
I mean, now I know their coach will say they haven't.
They'll play hard. They always play hard. They do when
when I said, I'm being a bit facetious by using
the play hard. But even though that the season for
them is done, They're still going to show up because
they know they'll demand it and I get it. And
why wouldn't you want to play well with with this there?
That would be a sweep of the Texans. Right, If
Tennessee beats them, they will have swept them.
Speaker 6 (01:56:52):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
Correct? So I just the smart thing to do injury wise? Yeah,
sit them. I think the wise thing to do is
to get him into a rhythm. And even if you
go down in the first series ten plays eighty two
yards and score, wouldn't you feel better going into the
next week? Yes? Plus I had three weeks, Bud. It's
a long time for a team that hasn't been in
rhythm to find their rhythm by not playing. Yeah, so
(01:57:15):
there is some decisions that Demiko Ryans is gonna.
Speaker 6 (01:57:18):
Have to make.
Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Yeah, they're gonna have to figure that out. If I
was in the meeting room with him, I'd say, let's
run run him out their few series and and not
put him in harm's way. Get the ball out quick.
See if we get into rhythm and then get him
out right, That's what I do. Yeah, get some kind
of rhythm, man, I would need it. I would get
the kJ before gets the top of the hour. kJ,
thanks for holding buddy. What's going on?
Speaker 6 (01:57:37):
Oh first and foremost man? Shout out to the DJ,
and that was David Rufflan by the way, one of
my favorite hits matter Classic school School holding a wild jam, right,
So shout out to the DJ.
Speaker 7 (01:57:47):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:57:47):
Took my hat to your young man, but appreciate it
real quick, real quick.
Speaker 17 (01:57:53):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
I know you guys talking about rest of the players
or whatever. Look rest them, play them? Who care? They
not going to get a rhythm in full quart of
the Bay guy in the sixteen games already, So I'm
cool either way. What I've seen with this team so
far this season gives me no room for optimism. This
offensive line is about as useless as the screen door
on the submarine, though.
Speaker 7 (01:58:17):
And sure, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 6 (01:58:21):
When you played, do you, off the top of your head,
do you remember the worst button whooping you ever received
on the field? You may, I may ask you this
question a month from now. You may give me a
different ethor. But on the top of your head, can
you've recalled the first button whooping you experienced on the field?
Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
I can?
Speaker 6 (01:58:38):
Yeah, Okay, you don't. We don't have to go into
the details. How did you feel after that?
Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
And I was miserable till we played the next game
and hopefully a change I practice sucked. You try to
get You know we're taught, and you know this, I'm
not telling anything. You don't know. We're taught as athletes
kJ to get over it quick, right, well, fan, I
fans immediate. We we we suffer a fans longer than
the players do, and we wonder how they get over
it so quick. Now the plane ride home, if it
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was a road game, we got your ass kick was silence.
You aren't talk coaches it. You better act like you
got your ass kicked and we're not we're not doing
all the celebrating playing cards. You better, you better let
this fester. It sucked. It absolutely sucked. Now you do
got to get over it because you got to get
back to practicing. But even then, when you went home
or you watch the tape, the constant reminders gosh, what
we we embarrass ourselves. So yeah, it did suck. And
(01:59:27):
then you go out there and say, but I can't
lose sight of what the next prize is. But yeah,
it was miserable. Practice was miserable. Flight was miserable. At
home was miserable because it's always on your mind thinking, well,
let's not do that a second time. But what if
you know, creeps in, what if we do this again?
But you've got you just got to come carmentalized. What's
what's that?
Speaker 6 (01:59:48):
You know what that's that's two things. That's two things
right there, and again I never stepped full of the
NFL level.
Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
It's all relative high school or college to the same thing. Right, Yeah,
what ass kick?
Speaker 6 (01:59:59):
And right, that's two things. That's called being a competitor,
and that's called having pride. You were upset because both
of them were compromised in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
I was embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (02:00:15):
I want to give you this. I'm going to give
you the offensive lines mindset in the microcost at the
end of the game last against Baltimore right after the game,
rather than sulking, rather than being upset or whatnot. Uh
Laramie Tunsel is posting reposting a tweet of some cleats
(02:00:36):
on Instagram. You've just got your hat, your backside and
everything else handed to you in the game the last
You're talking about not being able to read the room
right now, Demico Rise, I don't know what loyalty, I
don't know what pictures Bobby Slowan has on him. He's
gonna allow Bob the slow to cost in this job.
And I'm not going to get into a loan down
(02:00:57):
trap about what's going on with the team right now.
I'm just at the point playoffs or not, because there's
nothing and these sixteen games that we've seen that makes
me believe they could do anything they get any one
of the playoffs. I'm ready for this season to be
up with and I literally want to see back now
that you face some extreme adversity. Demico and Cacereo and CJ.
Stroud and everybody else that plays a role in this league.
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I want to see if your pride and your competitor
is going to kick in this off season to get
you compared for next season as usual. Fellas, even though
I don't call it in, I'm still.
Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
MISSINGKJ appreciate it. I'll tell you this real quick. We'll
get to the cars at the top. Is I was
a miserable prick to live with after a loss. I bet,
even if miser I bet for the whole week. And
then you get back in and while they say, well
that's that's that's too much up and down, Yeah, well
it's called just I was embarrassed. You know what, you
know what the Texans played like last week. Here's here's
how I can put it. Remember in high school or
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elementary school, when a coach with after a game like
or a baseball game, have you run on the field
while you're in your uniform while your parents are waiting,
because you embarrass yourself. You tras, oh, we're gonna go practice,
like I think Bob Knight didn't he have his team
practice in the gym? After all? I think it was
coach Knight. If that was what they were doing, you
would have had a bunch of grown men running in
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the stadium and practicing seven on seven and all after
the game in their full grown up uniforms. That was
how humiliated you should have felt about your performance. Yeah,
if it doesn't bother you, then you're probably playing the
wrong score you are you have no competitive fire. Yeah,
you know, I get it. Kj's right though. It's got
to bother you enough that that sitting out bothers you
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the next week. It's got to bother you that even
if you are sitting out, it's got to bother you.
You can't check out.
Speaker 5 (02:02:41):
And that game it felt like they did on Christmas
from my optics against Baltimore, who kicked your ass in
the playoffs. That's just crazy, man. It's getting into nine
o'clock hour right now on Sports Talk sevent to.
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Okay, let's do this.
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in Monday Night Football tonight. A couple of days left
in twenty twenty four, Fellas, it's your mind right?
Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Is your mind right?
Speaker 6 (02:03:52):
Are you?
Speaker 11 (02:03:52):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03:52):
Are you dialed in to finish this this a year strong?
Or you kind of just lays it into it? Uh,
probably just laysing into it. Honestly. Really, I show up
a show out, but you made so have you mailed
it in?
Speaker 10 (02:04:04):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
No, no, no, I'm here dog. I mean felt like
maybe knew me. Yeah, I thought maybe you showed up,
but just as socide you didn't want to show out. No,
I'm showing out. Yeah, making sure. I mean that's that's
too your I mean, that's your m O. But you're
only you're only as good as your next performance exactly.
(02:04:26):
You know what I'm saying. We're we're only as weak
as the chains link as what. Yeah, we're only as
weak as the week You're as weak as the weakest link.
Would you say as this? So you're basically saying, and
I mean it's true, Hey, every you gotta have a
(02:04:48):
pride every day right, Yeah, you're as good as your
last performance. I thought it was You're only as strong
as your weakest link. That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah,
you said you're as weak as you're we that's true. Different, Yeah,
the phrase is half the truth. Basically, you're as strong
as your weakest link. So basically, got eliminate the weak link.
You do it starts in order to build strength. You
(02:05:11):
know the fat? Got trim the fat man? Yeah, with
a p. No, it's not.
Speaker 5 (02:05:16):
It's like when you know you got a good steak.
You know your good meat, you know as you like it, right,
you know, trim the fat.
Speaker 2 (02:05:21):
You're good. Nothing like some good meat, right, I'm with you. Yeah,
but you showed up. Yeah, that's sure. Did what'd your
boyfriend get you for Christmas? Where you going with this?
Almost said it?
Speaker 6 (02:05:41):
Hmm?
Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
Just his love, his care, his affection, Okay, his want
to Okay, his desires. Oh I had him hog tied
over the okay, all right, you know what you tie up?
All right? Right, it's what I meant. Yeah, all right,
(02:06:05):
why are you so dirty? I'm not what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (02:06:07):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
Come on, man, I mean I'm sure in the everybody's listen,
all right, everybody's here. Yeah, we're talking about a country club.
Speaker 6 (02:06:18):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
Man, Hello, like.
Speaker 5 (02:06:26):
Us the news radio seven for our age, Ye sky Mike,
because dude never skyed sky Mike over the weekend on
Sunday ninety nine weeks because I was still jamming Christmas
meeting this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
This guy's not playing now he's not, and we mean
we've shown up. He'll show up and show out. Would
you say, though, your earliest week is as early as
week as yours. The link Yeah, if it falls off,
you're pretty weak. It's a good place because yeah, you
don't have all your links. There you go, Yeah, you
get it. See, I feel you. It makes sense. I'm
picking up what you're putting down. There we go, sucked, Garrett,
(02:06:59):
what's up? Garrett?
Speaker 17 (02:07:01):
Hey, Sean Brian Emmanuel wanted to say happy New Year
and thanks for really making our year great with a
great show and and great talk every morning.
Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
Appreciate that you.
Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
Hey, hey, not a problem.
Speaker 17 (02:07:16):
I just wanted to talk about Sam Daniel and.
Speaker 18 (02:07:19):
Ask you Sam Tarnald good Heavens, and ask you a
question about him whether you thought he should be franchise
tag for next year with this great performance, whether they
should maybe offer him an extension, and uh, just what
you thought on his future, maybe he should be traded
or or JJ McCarthy should be traded, just on that
(02:07:41):
whole situation, because you know, obviously fourteen wins, you know, uh,
and and just four thousand yards. I mean, he's shown
he can play.
Speaker 2 (02:07:52):
And just what y'all thought. That's a great question, Garrett,
And I'm gonna tell you it's a great problem to
have with your Minnesota But it's a problem. Here's here's
the deal. Sam Donald is playing exactly. Remember I told
you I have not talked to an expert at that
position when Sam Donald was going through his worst that
told me that Sam Donald can't play. There was always
(02:08:14):
I don't know if it was an excuse or always.
I assure you gets coach right, he can play. I'm better. Well,
look at him now. He's playing, quite frankly, like an
MVP of the league. But he's playing like people expected
him play when he was the third pick of the draft,
behind Mayfield and Saquon Barkley. And by the way, both
of those guys are playing like the first pick of
the draft and like a guy the best running back
(02:08:35):
in the draft. In truth now after after the think
about it, Barkley at his struggles and the Giants. He
had a couple good years, but up and down right
on a bad team. Obviously, Baker Mayfield's on four teams
now as the first pick of the draft in Cleveland
would beg to have him back, and he's playing Pro
bowl level football in the NFC. And Donald has got
his team a game away from being fifteen and two
(02:08:55):
am And it's not in side of him, it's because
of him. Right, Oh, Garrett, here's the point. You got
Darnold as a stop gap, but with hopes that he
was going to be better. Oh, it's better. Now, here's
the irony of it. Everybody in the world says, you're
in no rush to play your draft pick. What are
we rushing for the player? Draft pick? Let him, let
(02:09:18):
him sit and watch, and in the second the guy plays,
what are we gonna do? McCarthy's got to start. I'm
not saying yeah said, but I've heard it. I want
in Minnesota. You want to, Well, you've got the perfect story.
And plus he's coming off a season any injury, so
he didn't eve get to play this year. So he's
literally a rookie again next year because no practice time, nothing.
And I love McCarthy, but if you're in Minnesota, are
(02:09:40):
you really gonna let a fifteen and two MVP style
quarterback walk in hopes that the rookie plays great in
his second year. Absolutely not. Plus we're saying let these
young guys develop. Well, here it is. You got a
guy and he's built in. You have to sign him
now if you want to go about it the business
(02:10:01):
way and really protect yourself and wonder if it's a
one year hit one hit wonder you franchise him. You
pay him the forty two or forty three million dollars
on a one year deal top five and quarterbacks, but
the average areas the yearly salary, and you say, go
run it back again. And if he goes and plays
well again, then it's the next year because you know
what McCarthy can be there learning, You can get packages
(02:10:22):
in for him. If Sam goes back to back on this,
then you're going to be looking at sixty million dollars
next year. So now here's the other thing you drafted, McCarthy.
Are you willing to go Sam, let's go four years
at two hundred million and we'll guarantee one hundred and
forty of it, and then you're telling McCarthy basically you're
not playing. That's the kirk Cousins situation with Michael Pennox. Now,
(02:10:46):
so the truth, the smart thing, for the smart thing
for Minnesota to do is Darnold's your guy McCarthys in waiting,
but he gets a chance. Look because he really it's
not like he pulls a rookie you played part of
the year like Nix or these guys that are playing.
He's gonna be a rookie. You got an MVP type player.
You franchise him, Yeah, even though well, are you doing
(02:11:07):
him dirty? No, it's within the rules because if he
got a contract bigger than that and you didn't franchise him,
he'd go start somewhere. It's perfect for Minnesota and Sam
Donald and for JJ McCarthy, and if it doesn't work out,
JJ's right there Sam. But if Donald goes and plays again,
the real question mark isn't this year, it's if you
franchise him, what are you going to do and he
goes out and plays again? The same way where if
(02:11:29):
they go win a Super Bowl, what if they go
win it or they're in it. You're going to trade
him and hopes that a rookie that hadn't had one
snap in an NFL game is great. I think McCarthy's
going to be a hell of a player. But Donald's
earned the gig.
Speaker 6 (02:11:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Oh yeah, and so I would franchise him. I'm sorry, Sam,
we got to see you do it one more year
and then i'll give you six. By that time, it'll
be almost sixty million fifty five million a year for
four years or five years, and guarantee seventy five percent
of it because he will have earned it. If you're
Minnisota and you're smart, you cover yourself both ways. You
give him McCarthy hope that he can come back and
(02:12:04):
compete for the starting job. Donald that he is the starter,
because you're paying him forty plus million on a franchise tag,
and you've covered yourself both ways. With a young guy
and a veteran who's finally playing the way we expect
and playing draft, there's absolutely no way if you're in
Minnesota you can let Sam Donald leave that building. Sam
Donald is third in yards passing. One year, ten year,
(02:12:25):
ten year, ten million dollar deal is what he signed
for he's fourth in touchdowns. Okay, he is, and he's
about to have his team or his second best record
in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (02:12:36):
If this keeps up, what are we doing here battle
an NFC this week? Yeah, it'll be for the number
one seats he's got. Let's see thirty five touchdowns and
twelve interceptions, completion percentage of sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:12:53):
You're gonna tell me let's just get rid of him. No, no, no,
I can't take the risk. JJ mccarthy'll be ready, and
he may be ready, but we want to let our quarterbacks.
Why are we rushing them? You don't have to rush McCarthy's.
Darnold saved you there, and he's gonna come back even
more confident. This year was a testing ground. Now look
at it. Now he's stepped into it. You in Minnesota
(02:13:16):
will keep Sam Darnald. Yeah, and Minnesota will. I'm assuming
franchise him to make him do it again. And if
they don't franchise him, it'll be one of those four
year deals at like forty eight million dollars a year,
fifty million dollars a year. And you know what's crazy
as a starting quarterback on a fourteen to two team
fifty million dollars a year is probably light considering what
we're paying guys. So he's had nine games with a
(02:13:41):
QB rating of over one hundred. Yeah, you can. The
Minnesota has to. Garrett's a great point. It's a good
problem to have. I can develop the young guy coming
off an injury, and I got a bona fide front
rate no top line starter in Sam Donald.
Speaker 5 (02:13:57):
I'm sorry, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen games.
Speaker 2 (02:14:03):
You can't just say Sam will be a free agent
somewhere else and start his Tennessee. If you're like Tennessee,
there's team standing in line to.
Speaker 7 (02:14:11):
Go get him.
Speaker 2 (02:14:12):
His QBR this season on average on hundred and six
point four. Yeah, Sam Donald, Sam Donald, Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield,
and Jared Goff have been the NFC's best quarterbacks this year.
With with the Jordan Love is going to be close, right,
He's a good player. You absolutely have to keep Sam Donald.
Now you got to decide if you want him for
a distance or if you want to make him prove
it one more year on a franchise tag. And I
(02:14:32):
think Sam would understand that. Yeah, I think so so,
But it's business. If the rule says like in franchise
you guess what, buddy, Yeah, I'm protecting my team, right,
I'm keeping you though. Yeah even that, but that, but
that franchise tag, that'll be whatever that right, we'll be
in the thirty between thirty nine and forty two dollars
close in right around forty ish. Yeah, you won't get
(02:14:54):
the signing bonus and the guaranteed money, but one year
that is guaranteed money. So that's forty million. And if
he goes improves it again, now he's looking at fifty
five to sixty million for five or six years after
that because he's still in his twenties. Yeah, he's twenty seven.
There you go. Good, good little gig for Sam Darno.
And they're fourteen and two two yeah, and they're playing
for the number one seed. And have you heard that
guy make an excuse at any point in time in
(02:15:14):
his career? Not one time?
Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
Great kid, right, he is a great kid. Let's continue
to talk about the NFL. Do you start CJ. Stroud
and the starters for the Texans or not. Let's talk
about it next.
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Speaker 1 (02:17:09):
Will the Seawan Soundsbury show, I like you?
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Back to Sean Salisbury and Brian Lulima on Sports Talk.
Speaker 1 (02:17:23):
Seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:17:27):
Manifesting, this is a Boston Red Sox City Connect City
Connect hat looks like U C l A. Yes, A
lot of my Trojan friends when they've seen it of like,
what are you doing, dude? This has nothing to do
with the UCLA Bruns. I don't have a Bruins hat
and I never will okay, and much respect to my
UCLA buddies, but that's just blasphemous. Okay, this is if
(02:17:50):
Bregman's not going to be an astro, I am breathing
lifting him up. Give me an amen, Give me an amen,
like right, lifting him up and landing him at the
hot corner in Fenway Park. Union work exactly exactly. Well, yeah,
(02:18:13):
what for tomorrow today to be today? For tomorrow today,
you better union work. I'm on today. I'm thanking a
union worker in Boston for landed, bragmented fedway if he's
(02:18:34):
not here? Is that fair? So don't hate to say
U c l A and you know better than that dog. Yeah,
I don't play. You ever see me wear a Yankee
hat in here your life?
Speaker 13 (02:18:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
I don't have one day, damn right I did. I
can always wear the the the hat to the team
that well, they're they were the World Series champs before
most recently, uh before this year. So that's okay, that's
that would be like an owe to my friend I
lived there for ten years. Yeah you did, that's right. Yeah,
but no, you know you know where my allegiances so
(02:19:06):
it's right here in the red Sox. So if he's
not going to be here. You might as well go
to find way you feel me today.
Speaker 6 (02:19:14):
You better thank your union member.
Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
You better? Can I get an amen? Oh? You better
than a union member? Well, I am a union member.
I was okay, I still am because I paid you know,
paid dues to well.
Speaker 6 (02:19:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:19:44):
Well, yeah, you better thank your union member. Okay, let's
go that was a class Oh, let's go to Brandon
on the phone lines. Brandon, good morning mine, Brian, how
are you guys?
Speaker 15 (02:20:00):
Fair?
Speaker 2 (02:20:01):
Fair to Midland? You know, fair to Midland's kind of
in between good to fit on life's good? Fair to Midland.
How are you okay?
Speaker 6 (02:20:11):
Sean good?
Speaker 2 (02:20:12):
I wanted to say that for a while. You know,
everything's great. I want to say, oh, fair to Midland.
That's just kind of somewhere in between, right, But I'm
actually doing great today. Brandon. Did you have a great Christmas?
Speaker 6 (02:20:23):
Yes? I did? How about you?
Speaker 2 (02:20:25):
It was fantastic? Thank you?
Speaker 14 (02:20:28):
What did you get for a Christmas?
Speaker 2 (02:20:31):
Nothing but love? I got some you know, some clothes,
some golf clothing, some uh, some stuff, some to get
some good good boot tequila and bourbon for my two
patners here. I got some new shoes some clouds and
some dress shoes. Uh, like I said, clothes, get some
(02:20:52):
a little bit of bit of everything that I wanted
at Christmas. Yeah it was good man, thank you. I mean,
you know, I'm more about the love and the giving,
but I got some some put it this way. I
got one of those Christmas where the things I got
are all necessities and needed and will be used, right,
not one of those that just sits. So it was good,
very thoughtful gifts.
Speaker 6 (02:21:11):
Thank you, and shn.
Speaker 14 (02:21:13):
I got a new record player.
Speaker 2 (02:21:15):
You did nice? Have you spun anything on it yet?
What's the first uh? What's the first vinyl you put
on it? Who was it?
Speaker 9 (02:21:24):
I played the whole record?
Speaker 2 (02:21:25):
Which one? Who's the record? Who's the album? Who's the singer,
who's the group?
Speaker 6 (02:21:34):
Number the way? Who've seen the forget the name of it?
Speaker 2 (02:21:41):
So you have it on your on your record player,
but you're not really sure who it was? Okay?
Speaker 11 (02:21:47):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:21:48):
Is she?
Speaker 2 (02:21:48):
Is she your favorite singer? Yes, Adele Dolly Parton? There
you go, I remember her? Yeah? Nice, that's a good
choice to Dolly Parton. Still still uh still kicking ass
better than Landy Wilson. Yeah, well they sound the same
over twenty and ass. Yeah, no, I think that's I
(02:22:09):
think she's legit. Brandon, what's on your mind about these Texans?
Speaker 9 (02:22:14):
Texans very good, not like they did for.
Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
A Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (02:22:21):
Can't have Yeah, I can't have that performance.
Speaker 6 (02:22:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:22:26):
They just need they need to do good, right, Brandon, Yes,
there you go. Well, we appreciate your call, buddy. We'll
talk to you tomorrow. Okay, thanks Brandon, Glad you had
a good Christmas, buddy. Merry Christmas, matters, good for you,
Thank you, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, buddy, letter brand.
It's good to break, you know, one of those Christmas
you get like, oh that'll work, or that'll work or
how dare we speak? Merry Christmas? Yeah? What do you
(02:22:50):
guys doing with it?
Speaker 9 (02:22:51):
Is?
Speaker 2 (02:22:51):
It is outside of my mind that she actually said
that to people. Yeah, I don't know. I to me,
it's I don't even It's always been Mary Cradl. Yeah,
that's when the hell did it ever go away? I
don't know. That's she's been in my rearview mirror for
a long time. And now you won't have to worry
about her in the political spectrum anymore. Just thank a
union member. Yeah, that's what you gotta do? Thank you Union,
(02:23:13):
remember you better? Okay? Oh, but it was a merry Christmas.
I hope you guys had a good one too. The
first time I've talked to you guys since Christmas. So
it was good. Blessings of health for the new year.
Epic twenty twenty five ahead, control can't wait to see Yeah,
look forward to it.
Speaker 5 (02:23:29):
Yeah, I can't wait for twenty twenty five to be here.
And as we get to break and we continue to
talk about c J. Stroud and if they should play
the starters, we got to dig into that a little more.
Speaker 2 (02:23:37):
Well, if he plays the NFL PA, he better thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:23:42):
You know what.
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He's part of a union, he is part of What
should he do? He's you better thank your union.
Speaker 6 (02:23:51):
What is wrong with you?
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Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
The Sewn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
Continued, People got it a judging? Yeah, he said, we
would just take a white man and stake of it
and watch him changes his watch of changes his verbiage
of the way he talks, classic my biscuits. I'm just saying,
but you better, She said, you better thank you? You remember?
Speaker 5 (02:25:44):
Yeah, what do you have the MLB PA, right, this
Players Association, and then you have the umpires union. Right,
So if she was like speaking to the umpires union.
Speaker 2 (02:25:53):
She would say, you better thank your union member.
Speaker 6 (02:25:55):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:25:56):
You're damned right man. Class when a triple can you
give us?
Speaker 8 (02:26:01):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
I don't know. Impersonate me real quick, me being a
basic white guy. What do you you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (02:26:06):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:26:07):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (02:26:07):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (02:26:08):
That's how you talk?
Speaker 6 (02:26:09):
Brian?
Speaker 2 (02:26:10):
How is it? You know what I mean? Yeah, there's
no yeah, there's no basic white guy. I mean, you
really got no soul in your voice? I don't think
that's what he was saying, but you just you'd be
better off just thinking of you. And remember, hey, all
I'm saying is you want him to talk about you
(02:26:30):
as a basic white guy.
Speaker 5 (02:26:32):
Yeah, I'm telling you when when brothers impersonate white guys,
it is the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 2 (02:26:38):
Oh it's it cracks me up every time. What's up there?
But everybody's not I know, but that's how they do it.
Speaker 14 (02:26:46):
I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:26:48):
I'm just saying billion dog. And I'm also just saying that.
Uh you know, it's New Year's Eve tomorrow and then
in a couple of days it's supposed to get down
to like the teens here.
Speaker 2 (02:26:57):
See that you did. Don't get scared now, I can't
you scared? So so wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (02:27:04):
Our way.
Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
You're the DFRA. Are you scared?
Speaker 6 (02:27:07):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (02:27:07):
Loaded and loaded up. It's gonna be in the twenties
making maybe get a little snow if there's some moisture
out there. I hope people are okay from the natos
that hit some natos over the weekend. Yeah, tornadoes out
there the Katy areas saw that. Why was at the
gym when that happened? And they made a shelter in place.
So I'm telling you, the general manager of this gym,
then I'm not gonna throw onunder the bus. He's just
(02:27:28):
the biggest douchebag of all time.
Speaker 7 (02:27:30):
Whoa.
Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
And he made he came back into the freeway Terrea
screaming at people get in the locker room. So he
made all the women go into their locker room, made
all the men come to our locker room. So I
got in there and there's like one hundred sweat ass
dudes in there, griming nasty, and.
Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
I was like, in my mind, it's not a big
locker room.
Speaker 5 (02:27:47):
I thought to myself, if if a tornado does hit
and I got a chance of dying, I ain't dying
in here with a bunch of U U clowns.
Speaker 2 (02:27:53):
So I grabbed my bag and I left. You don't
want any swamp ass when you have to deal with
that right where you got to cozy up with some
swamp ass. I'm not cozy enough with a bunchet. No,
but hopefully, I mean that was there was some surprising
and then they they did some damage. Man I did. Yeah,
never new ca tacket for granted, Yeah, they got pounded.
(02:28:15):
I know, uh, out your way. There was a conro
area as well, Katie yet Off ninety nine. Yeah, so
you know, hopefully people recover from that. But man, the
mother nature don't play and you know that, and mother
Nature thank you union member too. I'll tell you that
that's the SoundBite that I could clas in here for
(02:28:36):
the rest of the tourney. But you bless those folks
who went through. I hope everybody recovering pretty quickly from that.
But that chill is about to come and cover your
flowers and plants. Brian, Well, it's a good thing on around.
Speaker 6 (02:28:45):
Good thing.
Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
I don't own a home anymore, man, I got some
covering to do in the next week or so.
Speaker 7 (02:28:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Yeah, you're gonna do yourself. I'm springing into twenty twenty
five like a like a boss, as they say, isn't
that the old say? Hey, it in there like a
ball coming in hot? Yeah I am, I'm coming in hot,
are you?
Speaker 6 (02:29:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:29:03):
Yeah, big time? Yeah, I'm Yeah. It's the epic. Hey,
that's my word for twenty twenty five. I know I've
noticed you've been leaning leaning into epic. Yeah, so good luck. Hey,
let's go where we're going to the top. Yeah like that.
Still yeah again, Hey, there's always a new top to create,
just building more steps. See what I did there, that's
actually pretty good. Yeah, I need to write that in
(02:29:24):
a little black book. We're at the top, Well, how
do you get Well, if you got to the top,
how do you get to the next level the top? Well,
you know you do? You start building steps from the
foundation you're standing on at the top. Ain't no limit.
Let's go the epic.
Speaker 5 (02:29:37):
Yeah mmm, I gotta got you're looking for a quote, Yeah, yeah,
let's see. Oh and also also, I don't want to
not mention Greg Gumble passing away legend, losing his battle
to cancer. Man and it's literally one of the best
to ever do it.
Speaker 2 (02:29:59):
Class gentleman. One low key, versatile play by play studio
studio host. He's obviously the guy who when Ernie was
working one. He does the n C two a basketball
tourney with Chuck and the rest of him. He is
beloved and has been beloved four years. One of the
finest human beings in the business, one of the better
pros in the business. Lost his fight to cancer. Was
(02:30:21):
seventy eight years old. They Greg Dumble held in the
highest regard by anybody that's ever worked with him. And
I didn't know. I didn't know he was sick because
he was doing NC to a tournament last year. I
had no idea that he was sick. Sad, sad. And
one of my very good high school friends, two of
them over the weekend. One lost is who I was
(02:30:42):
close to. My teammate and roommate lost his older brother
to cancer. And a friend of mine, one of my
best gal friends from high school and her husband out
of nowhere cardiac unexpected, lost him in December. It was
it so it man, it almost feels it's like it
happens too often, and it does. And when it hits
(02:31:03):
close to home, it you know, I'm sure a lot
of people have gone through that. It makes the holidays
a little tougher on them. So my prayers and blessings
to my two family friends that I love you guys
beyond belief. And to the Greg Gumbel family. What a
legacy and what a run, Yeah, what a run and
one of the best I ever do that guy look
back and a what a phenomenal career he carved out.
(02:31:26):
And whenever you hear people talk to the better person
than a broadcast that's saying something because he was top shelf.
Speaker 5 (02:31:31):
Broadcaster, no doubt man final segment next here on the
Sewn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 4 (02:31:37):
Let the celebration start more Sean Salisbury on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:31:45):
I'll here here from arch Manning.
Speaker 5 (02:31:46):
He was speaking to the media about an hour ago
media days for the college football playoffs. I want to
make sure to give credit where credits do hang on
me get it. I pulled down my notes rivals. This
audio coming straight from arch Manning himself. This is what
he had to say about the transfer portal?
Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Are there any changes you'd like to see to that
calendar or to the playoff in general? I mean, I
really have no plans on entering the portal or anything,
so I don't really know about it. That's the headline
right there, and so I mean I don't really I'm
probably don't got to ask about that too. There you go.
(02:32:30):
Arch Maning ain't going anywhere. Did we really think he
would a.
Speaker 5 (02:32:34):
Lot of people actually speculating that quin you Weres and
arch Manning would both enter the transfer portal?
Speaker 2 (02:32:39):
Why to go get big money somewhere else? Texas has
got plenty of it. There would be no there's gonna
be no ni L that at least has the ability
to pay their players more than the University of Texas.
Their NIL has been run by they got some some
top quality people running it and they can afford it.
(02:33:00):
I can't. I can't fathom that arch Manning, if he
was going to leave, he'd left already. In my opinion,
he's not leaving. And in truth, regardless of what happens,
the guy that would that, I would think they may continue.
If they go. Let's say they go on and play
well and do it, and he's not ready, he's not
going to be drafted in the first round. Let's just
say I could see Quinn Yours playing quarterback somewhere else
(02:33:21):
next year. Yeah, arch Manning is going to be your
starter when we open up in the fall in twenty
twenty five, you will be. I'm pretty sure. And you know,
you know have my affinity for Quinn Yours love him,
But I could see I see that more than arch
Manning transferring. But go get big money. Why do you
get big money? There's plenty of it right here on
this campus. I just don't see there being room for
two of them next year. Does that make sense? There's
(02:33:42):
not because our arch has been patient and you know
his family, he's obviously well well taught when it comes
to these things, right, So if you're arch Manning, you're
just waiting in time. And he's got those great feet
and Quinn yours has played really good football and they
got a chance to win ant title. So why would
arch Mann even be concerned about the portal? Both of
(02:34:03):
them could get paid big money if they left, but
they'll I imagine you get picked big money if you stay.
I don't anticipate arch Manning being a problem when it
comes to the portal. You ready for some news on
the college football playoff format? Brett McMurphy and I hope
that that Quinn Ewers finishes this up really strong so
he can have that option to go to the NFL
or or decide what he wants to do college wise.
(02:34:24):
What's that now? Brett McMurphy.
Speaker 5 (02:34:26):
Brett McMurphy against on the show YEP obviously one of
the best college football insiders in the country for Action Network.
He tweeted out about an hour ago saying there will
be in depth conversations and discussions about not guaranteeing conference champs.
The top four seeds in twenty twenty five. Top five
(02:34:46):
conference champs still would get in playoff in the playoff,
but rankings would determine seeds. Sources said this would require
unanimous approval by all stakeholders to change in twenty twenty five,
but conference commissioners are open to getting this seeding rights.
Speaker 2 (02:35:00):
Sources tell me, I'm gonna tell you this, I'm going
to short of guaranteeing it, I'm going to be as
close as I can to guaranteeing it. There is no
way they're going into the twenty twenty five season with
the Boise State or Arizona State getting a one seed
because they I mean a bye yeah, and playing getting
a buy the first round and getting a top four
seed because they are a conference champions in power for conference.
(02:35:22):
That's not going to happen. They are going to find
a way to put the four best teams the committee. Yeah,
as your four top seeds, like the NFL did some
you know what I mean, I get it, But the
problem is with that, what if a record, what if
Boise State has the best record in their confer Boise State?
Is Boise State better than Georgia? You get my point?
(02:35:44):
So that would Still what you need to do is
the committee. Get the committee right. But it's the top
four teams. Whatever you come out with the top four teams,
it's just and it may very well be those four
teams as well moving forward. It may be the four
conference champions. But if you are really doing it the
right way this year, as much respect as I have
for Arizona State and Boise State, and they belong in
the playoff, they don't belong as once as top four seat, right,
(02:36:07):
they don't. So I don't believe you should automatically get
a top four seat. If you're a conference champion. You
got to look at the schedule, strength of schedule, who
you played when you played him, the losses too, if
you have any. So it could be that way, but
you shouldn't guarantee that the top four because in truth,
we damn well know that Arizona State and Boise State
would not have got a first round by as much
(02:36:27):
respect as I have, they wouldn't have got that. Twenty
twenty five will be different. There's no way we're doing
it that way next year.
Speaker 5 (02:36:33):
And we moved on to the topic real quick, but
I was sarcastic, being sarcastic about the bowl games.
Speaker 2 (02:36:38):
There is one today. It's just Iowan Missouri. Whoa what
I was? Basic white guy you versus basic white guy.
Speaker 6 (02:36:46):
You help?
Speaker 2 (02:36:48):
There you go, which will give you?
Speaker 6 (02:36:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:36:52):
Where's that game being played? Nashville?
Speaker 6 (02:36:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:36:54):
Good, good? The trans Perfect Music City Bowl? The what
it's perfect? Okay, so there you go. No, I had
no idea. I think it was the baby. That's we
were on pace. Uh so we get a bowl game,
my football, and then we kick it in tomorrow with
a bunch of them. Yeah, quite literally, because they do
(02:37:15):
kick footballs. Hey, real quick, as we get ready to
go into twenty twenty five, you think you'll ever tweet
me back? Did you tweet me? Come on, man, I
didn't look at much social media.
Speaker 5 (02:37:25):
Yeah, you tweeted about the Jets in the transfer portal.
I said they were interested on the new quarterback Johnny Ligma.
Speaker 14 (02:37:30):
You see it?
Speaker 6 (02:37:31):
I did?
Speaker 16 (02:37:31):
I did?
Speaker 2 (02:37:31):
I like one of yours. When you mentioned something about
was it the Texans or the Astros? I hit a
like I didn't see you. No, no, this is yesterday.
I didn't see it. I'll get back and like it. No, no, no, no,
no worry about it now. And plus it's notma. Yeah,
I know the Jets are going to try to get Okay,
(02:37:52):
I didn't see star. I guess I should have did.
I got a look at Twitter, so that's all right. No, man,
were you feeling sort a little bit?
Speaker 5 (02:37:58):
Yeah, because then I wake up this morning to see
you tween at four fifteen on the drive.
Speaker 2 (02:38:02):
Is I didn't see your tweet driving? I got it.
If it's not in that first page, scroll back, my
bad dog.
Speaker 6 (02:38:10):
But I really do it.
Speaker 2 (02:38:11):
I did text, and that's a good point. Yeah, don't
do that. Stop signed though? Oh were you yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:38:14):
Oh you're right.
Speaker 2 (02:38:15):
You're talking to N fourteen sixty.
Speaker 5 (02:38:17):
Oh you're at your local gas station talking to Abdul close. Remember,
Oh that's right closed. I don't hop until six now, right, Yeah,
my own program is Abdul upset.
Speaker 2 (02:38:27):
Well he's that's gotta be racing, does you because we'll
discuss him tomorrow. What do you mean, man, tough it triple,
that's gotta be.
Speaker 6 (02:38:37):
That's gotta be.
Speaker 2 (02:38:38):
Oh no, dude, that's not how we're into the show.
Speaker 1 (02:38:41):
You brought it up?
Speaker 2 (02:38:43):
No, yeah, no, yeah, crazy whatever. Man, his name is
Mike Hey, last show at last show that's nowhere near
Abdu but Mike, Yeah, okay, but go ahead with it.
You run with that one. Okay, let's gett's get out
of here. You guys see tomorrow New Year's Eve tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (02:39:00):
That's gonna do it. He is Shawn Salisbury. Manuel Elmore
is our producer on Brian LINEAM, but thank you for listening.
We're back New Year's Eve edition tomorrow six am. Don't
go anywhere. Matt Thomas Show with Ross's next right here
on seven ninety
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