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Two lifelong Houston sportskies named Adam Talkingyour teams, Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler
are the A team A. Itis the A team here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Look at that wexstraight up three o'clock. The Matt Thomas
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Show actually finished their show on time. All right, now, it's three
oh one man so close, Allright, let's get into it. On
a Friday edition of the program wexAc and the show Killer Dan Matthews with
you. Raise your hand if youwill be going to a Rockets game tonight
to work awesome for radio. Putyour hand down. Wex raise your hand
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if you'll be here at the stationhelping to produce the pregame coverage of said
Rockets game tonight, Dan, putyour hand down and then raise your hand
if you are going to sit intrap on the south portion of the loop
before you pay the park and thenget on a tram to go to the
opposite side of the parking lot,where you will then walk to the other
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side where you need to be amongstlots of sweaty, puking people to watch
them all drink and a human teststand. This guy, it's one of
the three greatest nights of the year. How do you figure and he's just
not being nice about it? Wouldyou say I'm wet blanketing it? I
mean, I wanted to say youwere crapping on it, but I don't
want I didn't want to say that. The only good thing I have going
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through for me wrote world famous,world famous What You Championship Barbecue Cookoff,
which began last night in Persia.Right now. It is the best Germany
loves Rodeo Houston the best, andevery year, for however many years in
a row, I have been unableto attend for two reasons. One is
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usually work, and the other oneis I don't have any friends. But
it is awesome. It's such athat's a great time. I have friends,
I'm one of them. Yeah,but look what you're doing and look
what I'm doing. Well, sorry, you're not invited you this is I'm
a big, big fan of thisand hopefully whoever else is you know a
few people, you get into afew tents. Again, it used to
be that was the only way you'regonna have a really good time there.
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They've done so much more for thosewho aren't six wristbands deep. Getting into
all these places those people are justawesome. They're pigs. But we're in
a good business for this. Yes, with a lot of people. We
work with companies. We work with. Companies that often produce alcoholic beverages have
tents. Media companies often have tents. Musical acts often have you know,
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enough of a following that between allthe people they work with, there's a
place to go. Obviously there's alot of music going on, and the
food and the drink so good.Here's a great place here. How here's
how I would describe that aspect ofany talk about Spring training. When you
go this year, well, Iwill it's the best smell on the planet.
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Until it's not. It's you knowwhat I'm saying. It's never not.
Oh yes it is at the endof the night. It can be
very bad, but that's not thesmell of the place. It is too.
If they're doing those nights, youwould have to be in like New
Orleans level laying in the streets forthat to overwhelm the barbecue smell. Every
time I hear that, I thinkabout the time I stepped in something and
ruined Nike and I still don't knowwhat it was, but it wasn't Water
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on what what location? What streetdo you think I was on? I
don't know, you know what NewOrleans? Okay, so you know what
street I was on, Jackson Street, not Jackson Street. I'm a huge
fan. So you'll have a greattime there. And seeing as they Rockets
are at home, reasonable chance they'llhave a great time there. They played
reasonably good basketball in their own building. They they have not played very good
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basketball and other people's buildings this year. Last night was no exception. But
tomorrow night both teams flying into townafter their games last night, both of
them were losers, Rockets losing inNew Orleans, the Suns losing in Dallas,
and they will meet tonight's over atToyota Center for the first home game
of the second part of the season. Tomorrow brings the first spring training baseball
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game for the Astros. By thetime we hit you on Monday, so
the first game is Saturday, andobviously we will be with you for our
typical show beginning at three o'clock ona Monday, and with the Stros playing
when they do not in our windowsplit squad game on Sunday, more activity,
man, we will be knee deepin non important score updates on the
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games. But if bats, pitches, fielding plays, that's fair game.
Yeah, this person had a niceat bat and did this there. This
person had a nice few batters thathe faced. This was excellent. No.
Fifteen to three, No, eightto seven, and nine innings,
no tie. It was seven toseven. So we'll go back to the
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drawing board. We won't get thatfrom Joe after the game. He's looking
forward to his first game as manager. That come tomorrow, first official game
as manager just about a month away, when he will match wits with Aaron
Boone at minute May Park. One. Like he shows up to the stadium,
he's already in the lead. Thatwas mean. That was really,
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really mean, and I meant everyword of it. Yeah, I just
going back to the cookoff real quickbefore we move on from that subject.
I do look forward to the factthat it's not the first night of it.
I think that's the one thing I'vegot going for me. Well,
you think the people there have troubleshootingto do after their fifteenth straight year of
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inviting people over to their booth,wouldn't you think that? Oh my gosh,
I had no idea. So howmany people wanted our barbecue, wanted
to drink our drinks. I'll putit in baseball terms. We're gonna be
out there for opening Day on Thursdayfor the Yankees, and it's the Yankees,
So every game of that series willbe heavily attended because it's just how
it goes. But I would stillventure to guess it's not going to be
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as ridiculous outside and inside the stadiumthe whole day on Friday as it will
be on Thursday. That's what Imean about tonight. It'll probably not be
as I meant night. Prould beit for me to break something new out
here on the show? I begto different disagree with me. It's Friday
night, brother, that's true.Hello, last night was basically Friday night
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for most of those people that weregranted at certain age. The weekend begins
on Thursday or Wednesday morning. Soyeah, I think you'll enjoy yourself.
Plenty of people watching, plenty ofgood show. What you're telling me is,
I can't say right now, man. Padres are struggling two straight days.
So yesterday when we were talking aboutthe inner, the game that we
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were watching, which was Padre's Dodgers, and they're playing again today. A
few more games today, and everybodywill have played their first game by the
end of tomorrow. The Padres andDodgers and some of the early playing teams,
they've got their two games in theseries that begins before the year does.
But we were looking at the uniformsin light of the unbelievable panic that
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has set in for the players,and it's more than just what they look
like, how they feel, howlame they are. It's now that they're
teams that don't even have them.They're shortages and they literally don't have them.
But I was telling you, ifthese pants were see through like they
claim that they are, we wouldbe able to see the brown Padres jerseys
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very clearly. And since I havefound out the reason why we couldn't see
through them so well is because thesearen't the new pants. The pants that
they had they couldn't even wear.They didn't have enough of them. A
lot of teams, like the Padres, for certain games with certain uniforms and
throughout their spring training activities, they'reusing their old pants because Nike and fanatics
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in the league hadn't even been ableto ensure everybody got the number of items
necessary to outfit their team and theirstaff. Where they're made in the same
factory as the Majestic uniforms would beforeNike took over in twenty twenty, same
factory. I don't know the locationof the Majestic factory. I'm just wondering,
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like where they're mass produced, becausethey're going to have to make new,
different ones. It certainly looks likethat, and I know it's very
much the old first world problem stuff. This is the kind of stuff that
creates an unnecessary problem. Nobody goesto spring training in the last year of
their contract, the first year oftheir contract, their first ever spring training.
You know, they're you know,got a minor league deal and I
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got a chance to make the team. Nobody gets there and then wants to
have to consider, Man, thisis really uncomfortable. These don't fit.
Are baseball players or athletes in generalsuperstitious. Well, I might be the
guy that likes to wear pants thatcome just below the knee so I can
show off my socks and stirrups.That's what makes me feel like a baller,
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a great baseball player. But youdidn't send any pants like that.
I don't have them to wear.I have to wear last year's pants.
Of course, it's a stupid thing, but it's stupid that it's even a
thing. That's the much more stupidpart of it. That they could get
to this point and they've been inproduction and they've had meetings, they've had
focus groups, i'm sure, andfigured out exactly how they could get this
launched, and here they go.They've launched it incredibly poorly. And yes,
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eventually it'll go away, just likeeverything else that has nothing to do
with baseball. But it definitely gotme thinking. So Nike and fanatics have
been in the game for a longtime, Nike's been in the outfitting game
for an extremely long time, andyou're you're looking at They talked with the
union, and they talked with themanufacturers, and they talked with Major League
Baseball, and this is what wecame up with. And it's such a
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minor, minor, almost total insignificantdetail to how the players are going to
perform. If Mookie Betts is wearinga jersey that tugs on the outside of
his left knee, he's probably notgonna hit two sixty instead of three point
fifty. It's probably not gonna affecthim at all, not in any way.
If someone has, you know,a patch on the sleeve of their
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non throwing hand, it's probably notgonna affect them at all. If the
stitching on the back of their jerseyis so weak and lame and raggedy and
cheap looking, probably not going tokeep them in the ballpark when they are
a thirty plus home run guy.So the manufacturing of these particular items really
doesn't have anything to do with thegame that's being played. But they did
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such a bad job with this,right. We actually do talk about an
item almost every single season that wecan't believe the same types of issues occur
because there's like no control the freakingbaseballs. I'm already ready for another season
of Well, we gathered forty sixbaseballs from April first through May fifteenth from
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hypothetically Yankee Stadium and for the goldThen we collected another seventy five baseballs from
Giants Ballpark and the Padres Ballpark andthe Marlins Ballpark, and well, they
don't seem to match up. There'ssomething different about now. They all came
from the same factory at the sametime, the same shipment came here,
and we know it's bogus. Youknow what's funny about that? Can't we
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just play baseball without all the conspiracytheories and the negativity? Apparently, far
be it from me to complain aboutthe game, which we love. Yeah,
the sanctity of it, especially likethat got little whatever's less than zero
attention is what that got a verylegit thing that no one even blinked an
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eye at, because well, Orangeteam bad first and foremost. But like
so we should be using that.So you're telling me the Yankees used doctored
will fly farther baseball. So that'swhat it says at the season in which
Aaron Judge in a sorry, I'msorry Arson Judge broke a record, a
hallowed record. Well what about lastyear? What about last year where the
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baseball is not in use? Lastyear did he hit a record? The
Astros cheated, which means they wononly because they cheated. They're not good
at baseball. They won because ofthat, correct, So they cheated.
Well, according to Dodgers and Yankees, if the Yankees were using you know,
fly out of the ballpark baseballs,and like I said, it says
it right there on the box,how come they were so bad last year
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yeah right, I don't get itwell. And you know, are these
projections that we keep saying, everyday a new one comes up, you
know, win totals and best oddsto win the American League, best odds
to win the World Series. TheAstros are still number one among all American
League teams each time these new projectionscome out. Funny that, but nestled
right there behind them are the eightytwo and eighty twenty twenty three New York
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Yankees. Well they added one Soto, they added Marcus Stroman, you get
another one. Tell me who elsethey add I can't remember. I think
that's it, right, So putWan Soda on Marcus Stroman. Can we
like we did at the beginning ofthe show Good for Radio. You raise
your hand, lower your hand.I'm gonna do it a pretend scale.
Left hand is their additions, allright, Marcus Stroman and Wan Soda.
Ok. Right hand is the managerand general manager that they kept. Where
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does the scale go? Does itdoes it say steady? Does it go
up one way down the other?Here on the radio, looking at Adam
Wesler's hands, it appears it's likeholding on to some Yeah, they're gonna
be holding on to something too,their tails between their legs when they go
home and miss the postseason. Butcan you imagine, no, not with
these odds. Forget about it.Just book it Astros and Yankees alcs.
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Buy your tickets today now, truly. You can buy your tickets on the
first of the month, single gametickets for the Astros Yankees series that is
actually definitively going to be played toopen the season. The five game series.
Single game tickets are on their wayto being on sale again. March
first is your first opportunity to jumpon. In a couple of days later,
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the Rangers will be in town.Those tickets, similarly, will be
available to you. Then, shouldyou decide that I want to listen to
Astros baseball while I'm at the ballpark, you can do that. All right,
here's the deal. We'll talk alot about ticket sales for the Astros.
Just kidding, but we do havea number of I think very enticing
and eclectic. Those are the twoe words I'm going to use. Audio
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soundbites that we're gonna hear from today, of all varieties NBA College, perhaps
there's a lot to get to.We're gonna give away Whiskey Myers tickets once
again, and when we come back, our non signature segment, the JV
Update of the Day where Adam Weslersings us into it. It's all coming
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putting at our eighteen returns now kickingout free Mohawks. Back to Adam Clinton,
Pat Adam Wexler find Sports Talk sevenninety. It is the eighteen here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Ican't belie leave an actual headline today is
MLB players add see through pants tocomplaints. So they already had a list
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of complaints and they've added this one. That is what qualifies as news in
spring training here in February of twentytwenty four. And we talked about in
the first segment. It's not goingto be a huge part of the show,
but I man, I almost wishthe Rockets would have like blown out
the Pelicans last night, or youknow, I thought maybe Zion would be
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worth anything to the Pelicans and thegrand scheme of things other than just taunting
Dylan Brooks. Nothing, nothing,is going to supersede this on a daylight
today as far as headlines, noteven a little bit. Well, like
I said, you name it everyalmost every single part of the uniform,
and until they threw them on,they probably didn't realize it. And you
had a bunch of teams going throughphoto day and some want to say,
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oh, it must just be thelighting. It doesn't really appear that it's
the lighting when you know, youtuck in your jersey and all the ticking
that's colored on the jersey can beseen right through their white pants. So
imagine what it might be like onany other day out in the sun playing
ball games during the year. Andno, the Rockets did not blow out
the Pelicans. The Pelicans played withouttheir best player, and after the middle
of the second quarter, I hadno trouble running away from Houston, which
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unfortunately, like I said earlier,it's how things have gone on the road
a small stretch of a game,or last night it was a longer stretch
of a game where they just can'tmatch up. The other teams keep scoring
and they can't score. That tendsto get you blown out. It's a
forty seven to forty five game infavor of the Pelicans a few minutes to
go before halftime. Then they weredown thirteen and a half time, then
they were down twenty nine. ThePelicans are a very good offense with or
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without brandon Ingram. They showed thatlast night. And while I don't necessarily
think on a player for player basisor even some of their schematics, they're
an awesome defensive team, but they'rejust stupid long, and they gave the
Rockets fits. Fred van Vliet probablywon't have another four turnover game this season.
Maybe twenty seven games to go,we'll see, but he had four
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turnovers like almost immediately last night hisfirst game back. They are so lengthy,
they do get up into you,and even though they do leave some
wide open shots because of their aggressiveness. The Rockets made them early and then
didn't make them the rest of thegame. Hit five of their first six
threes, each of them coming froma different member in the same starting lineup
that they have not made a changeto, and then, like I said,
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it's just got further and further awayfrom him. Their starters were nearly
doubled up by the Pelican starters.Pelican starters had one hundred and five points,
and that's without their top score.The Rocket starters had fifty three.
And again this was not all becausethey sat in the fourth quarter. The
Pels did have to. I don'tknow if they had to, but Willy
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Green felt compelled to have some ofhis, if not all, of his
starters in for almost the entire fourthquarter. The Rockets scored fourteen points in
our own in the fourth quarter andneeded fifteen more if they wanted to tie
the game. But again, WillyGreen had his starters out there throughout the
run, and then after the runhad more of his starters back out there.
I guess they just wanted to makesure that they had a sizeable victory
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to kick off their post all Starbreakportion of their season. Rockets get the
Suns in Oklahoma City in the nextgame, and the next game, and
the next game, in the nextgame and the next game. Starting tonight
with the Suns, we'll see ifBradley Beal returns. Doesn't seem likely.
He did not play last night forthe Suns and their loss to Dallas.
Obviously, it'd be nice for theRockets to try to take advantage that they
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did it at the beginning of theyear. Remember, they had a stretch
of about four weeks in a rowwhere somebody important was not available for their
opponent. Last night, Brandon Ingramwasn't available, tonight's probably Beal and a
Nurkic that may not be available.Allow time to take advantage of that and
try to get back in the rightdirection. Rockets definitely stumbled into the break,
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just that one win over that sevengame stretch coming against the Knicks.
Like to not have it extend evenlonger. First six games out of the
All Star Break for the Rockets comeonly against teams in the top six in
the Western Conference. Last night's Pelicans, Suns thunder Ageahin and five of those
games are against two teams coming upjust crazy, all right? How earth
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shattering is today's update on a scaleof one to ten, one being barely
a blip on the radar, andten being he guaranteed a twenty win season.
Well, none of the spring trainingupdates on Justin Verlander will be earth
shattering. Even the very very firstpre non signature segment update from Justin himself
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when he said he had a hiccupthat was even That wasn't even earth shattering.
Oh okay, I don't. Ididn't think I thought you had.
I thought you were referencing an additionalhiccup. And I'm like, it is
becoming literally none of them so farand nothing today earth shattering? Is he?
They ramped up and he threw offthe mound. That was yesterday.
He woke up today feeling not toogood, so he went in for an
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MRI and we'll have the results foryou later. And then the next day
we come in and after reports havesurfaced that Justin Verlander, again, those
of you just tuning in, thisis all this is just nonsense, hypothetical,
making it up stuff very much.If you find out that, yes,
in fact, he needs to havea procedure and it's going to shelve
him for an extended period of time. Nothing of the sort has happened so
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far, and nothing of the sortis coming your way today, so you
can just relax again. They haven'tplayed a game. JV has not had
any setback while in West Palm Beach, Florida working with the Astros crew.
Joe spot is preparing with a hugesmile on his face for his first game
as manager of the ball club tomorrow. It's all good. Trust me when
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we deliver today's JV update. JVupdate, It's all good. JV update.
No one said now, I dohave to turn to your favorite major
league reporter. If you recall earlierthis week, what superstar of baseball media
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covered the Astros this week at WestPalm Beach, Florida. Superstar of baseball
media would be, Oh, therearen't any. He was talked about on
the show this week. Tall.I know who isn't tall? Remember that
dumb conversation. No, it's JohnHayman, John Hayman that he it's a
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sarcasm font just say when you readon the X platform. Okay, that
doesn't exist. John Hayman covers theEast Coast quite a bit, a lot
of New Yorky's. Thus, somehowhe was able to sidle up to Justin
Brooks Verlander while he was at Astroscamp, and the only nugget gleaned from
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his article was the obvious. Butnonetheless, with JV saying it it can
be taken into account opening day,it's going to be tight. Would not
rule himself out for opening Day,but he did say it's going to be
tight. So I've ruled him outalready. But I said he's not going
to pitch on opening Day. Idon't have any reason to go back on
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that. You sure, Yeah,I'm sure. If he's saying it's tight,
then that means it's the same asit was when he got there.
Well, if you're a couple,it's like we talked about it with Chandler,
We talked about it with amongst ourselves. If you're a couple weeks behind,
then you're not going to be readylike you want to be for March
twenty eighth, when we would wantto be ready to throw minimum seventy five
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pitches, probably more like between seventyfive and ninety and a couple weeks behind
means that's not going to be thecase. So Do you want to go
out there on opening day when youhave a pitch limit in very low numbers?
Do you want to go out thereafter very few other appearances? Does
he want another appearance? Does hewant to work through minor league camp?
Does he want to spend even afew days the minimum on the IL to
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open up the season? All thosethings are still in play. Guess what.
The Astros will be just fine.He will make this season's debut prior
to when he made last season's debut. He pitched in the thirty second game
of the year last year. Hewill pitch before then for your Houston Astros.
That's my JV update. I dolike the outro because they did do
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that. Does he still use thattheme? That's ABC? Right, dude?
You used to work for the networkthat's NBC. Yes, Oh,
I didn't know that. That doesn'tmean anything to me. By the time
that song started playing, I wasalready on my dinner break. That's how
that goes, all right, I'mgonna give you a choice, and I'm
taking the first choice. No,you have to wait until you hear them.
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Fine, you know what, He'lltake the first choice and y'all will
find out what that choice is whenwe come back. You like free stuff.
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seven ninety X and AC with youlike to put the finishing touches on the
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daily JV update, Uh huh becauseit usually includes a JP update as well.
Yeah. JP Frantz kind of gotlost in the Hiccup shuffle earlier this
spring training since he also was havingsome slow it down brother issues getting ready
for the season. He was upon the mounds throwing fastballs only. But
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again, as we gauge from Afarexactly how much effort on a zero to
one hundred percent scale any random pitchermight be using on any random day,
they're right there throwing pitches. Hewas. He was throwing real fastballs with
real velocity behind him, but notyet ready to let him unleash some of
the off speed stuff. But justlike with JV so far, saying with
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JP, the Frenchman appears to bemaking very encouraging progress towards being ready to
help this ball club win ninety twoand a half games. As the projector
says of today today it could change, and we'll keep you up to date
on that. All Right, here'sthe deal. If we're playing audio from
Stephen A. Smith, there betterbe a good reason, because if there
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isn't, then one of us inthis room's blood pressure will go through the
roof. And his last name isnot Clanton. So with that in mind,
Stephen A. Smith was I mean, I don't know how the conversation
came up other than to say hewas kind of giving us a peek inside
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the world at will. But thisis not from his programming. This is
sitting down with Taylor Lawan Busted withthe Boys earlier this week, just kind
of chopping it up, if youwill, very long conversation, so a
bunch of different things. Yeah,and which, by the way, like
on a lot of what we havetalked about all this week has come from
those type of settings, because atthis point, I mean, it's just
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there is a lot of good contentcoming from guys that are not only you
know, in the sports world,but are still currently playing in a lot
of cases. So he goes onand kind of gives us a peek behind
the curtain at to what he weall like became aware of Stephen a smith
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for him doing originally, which wasbeing a beat writer. I mean,
he's been in TV for a longtime and I don't even remember the last
time he actually covered sports from thatstandpoint, but the Philadelphia Inquirers where he
got his, I think, reallyreputation before becoming the TV personality he is
now, and in that vein,and during that time he was privy to
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us of information. And if youwant to know what I'm talking about,
well I'll let him say it.So just imagine that you're covering sports and
you're dealing with twenty year olds andlate twenties and early thirties, and imagine
the stuff that you're making, allof this money and the stuff that you
might find yourself getting into because youknow, you living a life that most
people don't get to live. Thinkabout the trouble that brings. You think
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I didn't know that you got tradedbecause you were in the same girl as
the coach and the coach one thatyou gone. You think I didn't know
that the coach couldn't stand you becauseyou try to come on to his wife
and his wife was interested. Doyou think that I don't know that you
really really can't stand this dude,because guess what, you wouldn't trade with
this team because that former executive usedto screw around with your wife and you
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didn't want anybody to know. That'swhy when you remember, if you we
recalled the whole Boston Celtics thing whereemail U Doka got pushed out because of
a consensual relationship with somebody, yousaw me going ballistic because I was like,
oh, that's the first thing thathappened. I've been in this business
for thirty years and a year thatwent by that I don't know about people
screwing around in the office. It'salways happening. He does like to make
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everybody think that he is the numberone most connected person in the history of
covering basketball, which is a bitof a stretch. Like massive, we
all know that's a up for debatebetween WOJ and Scham's. WOJ is not
anywhere nearly as connected as even stephenA. This is who they have anointed
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as the person and we're gonna telleverything to. It's the same thing with
Schefter. It's not because they're soawesome at their job. It's that the
path that we've taken in media hasbasically forced the hand of the networks,
each of them, the NFL Networkor ESPN for their respective sports. We
want everything going through here. Thisis how we want it done, and
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you just need to go ahead andkeep cult. They don't have a relationship
with the players, that's what Stevenastom. But beat writers have relationship with
the players. Welj doesn't have arelationship with the players like that. He
knows the agents, he knows themanagement, and when news is there to
be broken, of course he's goingto get it first or close to first,
just like the Rappaport Pallisero, GarafoloSchefter quartet. If you will,
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all right, did not see youbleeping all over Woje in this segment coming?
But here we are? Well youthink, I mean woch does?
He does? He doesn't know thisstuff. He really doesn't. Well that's
because as most people would say,and you would probably be one of them,
this stuff doesn't really matter. Wellyou're right, but well, to
a certain extent it does matter.But if that was really step and A
know this, would he have knownthis and which is why he doesn't really
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know it now. It sounds likebecause practice right, he covers the team
he's in the locker room. Hetalks to players when it's not him and
twelve other reporters firing inane questions atthem. I've seen him do it.
Rather he's sitting down with a player, or he's met up with a player.
And in older days, you know, a few years ago, that
was much more commonplace than it isnow. But you have off the record
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conversations which fifteen or twenty years laterbecome on the record podcast. That's the
That's the number one thing about thissound bite that took us ten minutes to
get to what are you doing?Like? I guess he doesn't care anymore
because he knows he's never going togo back to that. That's the only
explanation for going on national television,well not national television, going on a
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regional, hardly watched podcast except actuallyis very popular exponentially. You could probably
have more view but like what becausethis gets viral? Yeah, but okay,
keep going, you've done. Okay, let's get to the real point.
Now, who do you think?What trades do you think he's talking
about? I mean, where's atrade that makes no sense where I can't
believe they got rid of this playerfor what possible reason because we don't have
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those You know why we don't thinklike that anymore, because when players that
are great or really good get moved, we all know why they get moved
because they don't want to be there. And it doesn't have anything to do
with I don't want to be herewith this player who has this girl or
this there's this relationship, or we'vewhatever the case may be. That probably
happens, but that's not the reason. That's like tenth on the pecking order
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of interesting things. About what hejust said, who are all these wives?
My goodness, well, this wifeof this player, or this wife
of this coach, this wife ofthis executive, she was interested in this
guy over here, she slept withthis guy over there. Like what kind
of wives are we bringing into theNBA? Like these are some promiscuous women
apparently, well maybe maybe you're notbringing them into the NBA. Maybe they've
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been around the NBA before you decide. Hey, sounds like is the operative
phrase. I just was like,wow, okay, but again, the
the executive part of it, LikeI'm the twelfth pick in the draft,
I'm a lottery pick, I'm playingfor this team, I'm in my fourth
year how many people that work forthe team that aren't in sweats at practice
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with you and are on the flightright? How many people in the organization
and their wives? Do you knowYou've met them at their corporate event,
you've met him on one road trip, you met him at a season ticket
holder set up, anywhere else?Like, come on, man, where
are these relationships coming from now?Amongst players? And they've all gone out
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and all we met up with thisperson. Oh, I didn't know you
knew her. I know her biblically. Oh, that was a couple of
years ago. I worry about it. I know her, I've been with
her. I mean, it's justcrazy to me. And yet it's not
like I want to I want to, you know, be very clear about
this. It's on the surface likewow, and then when you think about
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it, it's like, yeah,it didn't really surprise me about really any
sports league, not just the NBA. This one is much smaller, though,
and there's certain aspects to go everypiece of it. There's because the
times he's really talking about aren't necessarilycurrently where you have more than fifteen players,
which means you have even more coachesand even more development people and even
more assistants and even more security becauseduring the time where he was truly in
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and around locker rooms every day,the numbers were way smaller. Coaching staffs
were way smaller, traveling parties wereway smaller. Players also weren't as young
as they are now. I mean, look at the last couple of years
of the Rockets. Are you twenty? No? Me? And these eight
guys haven't turned twenty one yet.If you had a twenty one year old
on your roster, that was amiracle. It just didn't happen because of
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the rules that were in place.I mean the Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnetts
and Jermaine o'neils were super extreme exceptions. Jalen Green and more than half of
his team spending one year or noyears in college is the norm for about
forty percent of the roster, andthis one even more so. So that's
a huge, huge difference. Butyeah, it's beIN it to another sport.
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I mean, when you're you're talkingabout a baseball team, they're all
how many people are flying in andout of town for how many days,
which cities? And then football isthe most meet well, that one's the
most unlike the others. Traveling forfootball totally different in and out of town.
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You're not literally hours. You getthere like six o'clock the night before
the game, like you play,you fly out at three ish in the
afternoon. So Wednesday or Thursday,you've got to make your plans on who
you're meeting up, whether you can'tjust hope to get there and find somebody
and then you and then you can't, we'll do it again tomorrow night.
Well you're not gonna be there tomorrownight exactly Sunday afternoon. You're even like
waking up with them a bit ofa task, and that there is no
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wake up you have to that hasto be the night before the game,
which means you're waking up with himbefore you go to the game, which
I'm not saying it doesn't happen,but that's how it has to happen.
Yeah, I mean, or youjust say all right, but that's it
for me, So you can seeyourself out. So it's not gonna be
like American Psycho. We're not doneyet. I mean, I'll buy you
breakfast, but I won't be there, all right, So we've gotten caught
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up on all that just do youhave any superstitions Jerry, what's your what's
your pregame routine, especially on theroad. Just go ahead and get into
it. For me, Jerry isjust a random name. West it's football.
Oh oh oh, we were inOkay, uh, Jera, you
didn't say it. You didn't pronounceit the right way. No, because
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us don't really think Jerry's flight plansfor road games or as similar to the
team. Can we arrange a tripto the zoo on our way out of
town? You know why? Allright when we come back. Good news
for players at least and maybe someexecutives. We do have one more angle
of that story that you're talking aboutwhen we come back, because oh it's
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Talk seven ninety and then not toodistant future, we will get to the
major news of the day, whichdid come from the NFL when they announced
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an alarmingly high number for the upcomingsalary cap figure for each team, much
much higher than most who covered thatparticular aspect of the game very closely expected
to see. And they explained why, and part of it was unbelievable TV
money and broadcast rights, among otherreasons, but on others, how that
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affects the team that plays here inHouston, who already had a boatload of
space. Should they have decided touse it, they will have several boatloads
worth of space. But then again, so will a bunch of other teams
being put in it. Maybe alittle bit different decision making process because of
that figure. So, like Isaid, we'll get to that top of
the four o'clock hour, I mentionedthere was an aspect of the wild wild
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times in the NBA. According tosas So, Rockets are in town tonight.
They are playing the Phoenix Suns.If I told you that you should
be on Celebrity Watch tonight, ifyou're over at Toyota Center, and I
will be who should I be lookingfor in light of the fact that that
is the team that's in town.Is Devin Booker still dating a Jenner?
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He wasn't for a long period oftime, but reports say, Reports say
after being spotted at the super Bowlin the suite, though not with her,
none other than Devin Booker in thevery oft scene Kardashian suite at the
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super Bowl. Lots of people inthere, ye, But they apparently have
not been together for over a yearand the reason they stopped being an item
together. So the sources say wasjust because time. You know, you're
very busy, successful model. I'ma very busy successful ball bouncer and shot
taker, and so it's just notreally working out. Their lives haven't changed.
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She's too busy being a model.She's very busy, busy. What
we'd like to hire you to walkdown this runway and close We'd like to
hire you to put this swimsuit onand let us take pictures. I could
just absolutely slam schedule. It's verybusy. Yeah, and you know,
side part of the television program overthat time as well, keeping up with
the not Kardashians because she's a Jenner. But yeah, apparently she was also
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there in Little d last night atthe MAVs Sons game, And it's not
too hard to make it from Dallasto Houston in a day, so there's
a chance. First I'll make surethat Matt Thomas has his eyes peeled for
Kendall Jenner. Wouldn't be the firsttime a member of that family was sitting
courtside for a participant in a Rocketsgame, well, being that Travis Scott
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has a pretty strong relationship with thatfamily. They've definitely been to Rockets games
that duo Kylie at one time amember of the Rockets organization had at least
a fleeting strong relationship with a memberof that family, A strong, well,
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an attachment was more like it.That's how I term it. They
were exclusive. Weren't they exclusive towhat? I'm going to? What?
Well? So yeah, so ifthat's what you're you know, it's Friday
night after all. So, likeI said, big doings, there's always
people, there's always good people watchingdown there at Toyota Center. It's the
place to be. It is likewherever you are, that's the place to
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be. So demon can even havea good time at Toyota Center. But
here's the very important plan. Tryto not be like MAVs fans. Rockets
fans. When Kevin Durant walks out, don't call him a five letter word
that rhymes with which. It isstill amazing. And this one's the biggest
one basketball. Because of your proximityto the players, players literally fall in
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your laps during games. If you'resitting courtside and your four feet from them,
there is nothing in between you.There's nothing. I mean, football
player has to actually go into thecrowd after a touchdown or something like it.
A major League baseball player could endup in the stands, but it's
pretty infrequent. Sometimes each year fallsin a girl's lap, and then years
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later they let her throw out theceremonial first pitch because she loves him.
That happened for Seattle. But inbasketball, literally you're right there, and
we saw it a couple of yearsago. I was when you had people
protesting on the court. You hadsomeone trying to run from behind the bench
to get on the court, andsecurity was all over it tackle them on
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their way to the court brilliantly.In the instance you're talking about last night,
as their sons are making their wayonto the court, their pre game
on jogs from the locker room throughthe tunnel onto the court and starts throwing
up layups and dunks and long jumpers. But before Kevin Durant could even get
to that or even take off hiswarm ups, he heard two people who
were not surrounded by anybody. Therewere no other fans. There was no
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doubt at least of allizations. Andthat's what they decided. They are perfectly
You know, they're in their rightbecause they are at a basketball game.
To just be saying this to abasketball player because he plays basketball, not
for any othering. Even it's notpersonal, it's not about I don't like
you because person you know, Iknow you, and I don't like you,
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and let's fight when you might normallyhear that, like the players do
on the court, I fans areway out of control with what they think
they should be able to do,why they want to do it is just
it's kind of embarrassing. I justwish but it's embarrassing is not doing it,
just as to how awful it isand how much it needs to be
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gotten rid of. I just wishDurant would have walked over and said he's
an idiot to the one guy.Well, apparently he obviously stopped if you
saw the video, and spoke tothem, and I'm sure questioned them to
what they why they do what theydo, why this is their purpose for
being in an NBA game, Andwe heard a little bit of them.
And then he also didn't do whatmany other players do, which is just
said I don't need this, getthem, get him out of here,
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throw them out. He did theopposite, said you don't have to throw
them out, and then one ofthem tried to shake his hand. I
just it's so it's so predictable,it really is. All right, four
o'clock hour coming up next. Wewill get to the biggest news of the
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six o'clock tonight. Dan Matthews,the Showkiller, our producer along for the
ride as per usual, talked alittle bit about the Astros and spring training,
a little bit about the Rockets,a little bit about thirsty NBA peeps.
I like that in the first hour, and of course the run in
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that Kevin Durant had with some idiotsin Dallas who should probably mix in some
salads. That's my commentary, noone else. As we get our number
two underway, though, something wedid not really get to in the first
hour, and it's pretty big newshere heading into the weekend. The salary
cap each and every year is fluid. Let's put it that way. You
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have an idea about what it's goingto be. Is it usually a situation
where there's this much more available thanpreviously? Okay, that's why it was
alarming. Exactly thirty million. That'sgreat for everybody, not just the Texans,
but that's great if you're the teamwith a fourth most cap space.
It should be great for the players, hopefully, and that's what they should
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be hoping for. It might meanfewer players have to be let go,
might mean some players aren't necessarily restructuring, though you might as well keep doing
it. There's really no downside toit, just ask the Saints. They
do it every year. And thisis the prime example of why constantly don't
let gms and personnel people and capgurus off the hook. If you can't
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figure out a way to get bettertalent on your team and pay for it
under the extremely loose constraints of thesalary cap, and the way to get
around is circumvent that. Like ifyou wrote the book on the salary cap
and then you wrote the addendum calledthe loopholes in the salary cap, the
loophole portion would be larger because there'sa billion of them. Avoidable years the
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new most fashionable way to manipulate things. I mean the Saints going to every
off season. Well, the Saintshad another disappointing year. It didn't win
a playoff game, came up alittle short, don't have a good quarterback
since Drew Brees, and they're eightybillion dollars over the cap. And then
what do they do. They pushit all into the next year. And
then what do they do that year? They push it all into the next
year. Because you can you cando it all. All you have to
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do is get to where you needto be under the cap for like an
hour basically when I'm paraphrasing a littletaking some liberties, but by this point
in time, you got to beat this figure to be within compliance under
the cap. And then the newleague year starts and you'll figure out,
Okay, we got this much roomand this guy, we can restructure.
The Saints, restructure there extremely mediocrequarterbacks. Deal Derek Carr so he can
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come back and lead them to anotherextremely mediocre season, if not worse next
year. But it cleans up.Oh good, we got a cleaner cap
sheet for twenty twenty four. Ohman, twenty twenty five is gonna be
a real Oh, we'll just doit again. That's what you can do.
Some teams don't do it as often, but teams like that have gotten
into this hole and they don't haveany reason to get out of it or
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any way to get out of it, and you don't have to. You
can just keep pushing those dollars offinto the future. I'm always a little
surprised during the Nick Cassario years whyhe doesn't really seem to care about the
dead money that he creates. Nowwhen they were not very good. I
thought it was just foolish. Itwasn't really preventing them from clearly doing anything
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because they weren't attempting to do anything. He didn't keep them from signing a
great talent because they had no intentionsof signing a great talent, but in
order to keep things in a certainway, just for last year, there's
several players that signed one year deals. Well, presumably there's no cap dead
cap hit for you when they leaveafter a year or when that contract is
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played out, well unless you dosome void years, which I guess they
felt like they needed to do tofill out their roster and then sign some
additional players. And I'm not sureif some of the guys were talking about,
like Sheldon Rankins and Dalton Schultz,who are going to have dead cap
figures on next year's cap because oftheir one year deals that were signed and
played through and now complete. Butsome of that money was roughly half taken
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off in twenty twenty three, sohalf could then be put on twenty twenty
four, even if they're not here, even if it was just a one
year deal. So I'm always alittle curious why he specifically, because this
is the arrow we're in with theTexans felt like that was what needed to
be done with the types of playersthey still want to go out and sign.
And while you're doing that, youknow you're going void year with Schultz,
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you're going void years with Rankins.But you're just signing Robert woods to
a two year deal straight up.I mean, I really, I know
you got another thirty million on topof you're already a top ten team in
cap space, and you'll remain atop ten team as other teams try to
pass you with all the things,all the mechanics of cleaning up your cap
space and creating more of it.But the Texans can do the same thing.
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If they tell Robert woods Man,that was an awesome year, but
we are uninterested in retaining you throughthe second year of your deal, he
would be due to make x amount, but the dead cap figure is half
that, so while it will hittheir cap, it would have hit their
cap in full if he plays here. So you can save over four million
dollars with just a move like that. And there are several others that,
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even though it seems like they haveall the money in the world, they
will probably do that. I'm morecurious about how this impacts they're thinking on
players that make a difference. That'sJohn Garnard first and foremost. I already
said earlier this week, right afterthe offseason began four weeks ago, this
is a player that should be aTexan next year, not telling him definitively
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how to do it, because Idon't know how he and his agent view
this season. Is it okay forthem to accept the now one million dollar
more on the franchise tag because thefranchise tag figures are a fixed to the
cap. Well, when the capwent up thirty million, so do those
projected numbers we've been using all week, and so it's about another million for
an edge rusher then would have previouslybeen noted. And you would think on
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the open market, these edge rushers, there's probably four or five of them
at the top that he's definitely apart of. He's in that top group
of available edge rushers, maybe moreat the back end of a top five,
but certainly in that group. Iwould think, can he get sixty
million guaranteed forty five million guaranteed versustaking the you know, if the textans
say we're offering you this and it'syou know, a good deal, but
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he thinks he can get more elsewhere, so he doesn't sign it, and
then they franchise tag him, sonow he can't get it elsewhere because he
won't know that because he won't beon the open market at that point.
But would it just make more senseto get a big chunk of guaranteed money
by signing a deal with the Texansrather than hoping that you And again it's
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we're talking about this window that closeson March fifth, So it's not like
he's free and clear to like AlexBregman, when he hits the market,
he's on it. When the seasonends, he can just I'm not signing
with you in the next few days, but I don't have to stop negotiating
with you. They're totally different ruleswith this franchise tag. Can you imagine
if Dana Brown could just slap afranchise tag on Alex Bregman, it'd be
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unbelievable. Well, technically that wouldhave happened way back when, though,
well, no, he agreed toan extension. Oh that's right. I
didn't even think of it that way. Yeah, I guess. But the
franchise tag in Major League Baseball isan automatic one. All those arbitration years
are basically franchise tags. They're underyour control even though you're only signing him
to a one year deal. Well, he can't go anywhere next year because
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they're not even restricted free agents likefootball, they're literally not free agents at
all. And that's kind of theidea of what the tag can do.
But I do think there again,this this means to me even more than
I thought before. There's a way, whether it's long term, guaranteed money,
and I'm absolutely willing to do itwith John Garnard. Some might not
be, but a four or fiveyear deal. Certainly, I'd love a
three year deal, but I thinkthe player would be looking for more.
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And you know the front of thecan it be a three year deal and
guaranteed money and if things don't workout, you're out of it in three
years and it doesn't kill you onthe dead money either way. If you
can't get together and figure you're onthe road to getting something done and you
can continue to negotiate after the tag. But by March fifth, I'm pretty
sure that he will be tagged bythe team for a long time. And
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again, this is just another exampleof the NFL and how it evolves the
adage by a lot of people believewas that if you won free agency,
you actually lost. You think thatstill applies to today's NFL. I think
it's a bad general rule in whatway because it's viewed that you won free
agency if you signed the best playersout there, but it's more about what
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are you before. Then the Texans, if they signed the best players out
there right now this offseason, SaquonBarkley some elite safe to your corner,
and Xavian Howard's going to be outof that list when it becomes official with
the Dolphins, reports are he isgoing to be shown the door. Still
a good player obviously if healthy,and I'll say Mike Evans even though I
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don't really mean it, but ifyou signed all the best players available in
the positions of need for where thisteam is, then I would agree you
probably won because you're time. You'retaking a team on the rise, a
team that you're hoping they're not yourcore. You're adding them to your development
pace you need. This offseason isthe equivalent of saying no to nomdi Austin
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Wah but saying yes to Jonathan Josephand Danielle Manning because that's what happened back
in twenty twelve, or was itYeah, I was twelve and or was
it eleven? I think it waseleven. Actually JJ's rookie year, and
it completely helped to change the complexionof a defense that was awful the year
four and twenty ten and became oneof the league's best, along with JJ
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being a rookie and all the piecesthey added in the draft and in free
agency. While Nandie Austin Wall wentto I believe it was the Eagles he
was coming from the Patriots or wasthat the other? Do you have that?
The Round Raiders? Okay, whatever? He sucked after that, relatively
speaking, he wasn't nearly as goodand he also had some major injury issues.
Yeah, but that's that's a goodexample of what you're saying. It
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just depends on what offseason and who'savailable. Yeah, and Jonathan Joseph should
have been regarded as an awesome getI think he was. Oh man,
you still got that first year.Well, I don't mean how he played,
I mean who he already was.Oh yeah, like on the free
agent market, a player that caliberfor what he did in Cincinnati, that's
an awesome but yeah, he didit in Cincinnati, which at the time
was you made a Pro Bowl.He's he's he's a good player, and
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so to me it was looked at, oh, that's that's a good recovery.
It shouldn't have been looked at likethat. I think people had this
pedestal that they put Austin Waan thatwas so much better than maybe the next
guy in line. In the realityis even in their play, it just
wasn't awesome. Will was great,but you're not talking about somebody in Joseph
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as much as you should have.He I don't even know how people grade
his time here, to be honestwith you, because there are sometimes we're
like, man, this is notgood, and then there are other times
like this is really good. Hisside of the field is shut down.
He really has a handle on howto work in this defense. But it
was a great signing. He wasfantastic. But if you're in the we
won free agency, that usually meansyou're bad. And in order to get
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good, we got to go outand spend all this money. That's not
usually the way to build the rock. The Texans are in a building position,
and the building blocks, which ayear ago are like, I don't
know where any of these guys are. Well, now we do. Yeah,
and there's one that you actually mentionedthat we'll get to you next segment
because he is available and he's fromthis area. So if the Texans were
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to get this guy as opposed tomaybe drafting at that position, it could
be a very interesting pickup this offseason. We'll explain when we come back.
Adam Adam the eight team in theafternoon, what he came up with that
idea. Possibly Adam went back toAdam Clinton and Adam Wexler Sports Talk seven.
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It is the A team here onSports Talk seven ninety. You probably
did it on purpose last segment.You let it slip one of the now
marquee defensive free agents that's going tobe on the market. It's not official
yet, it's slip informed the people. No, you let it slip.
You were trying to keep it asecret. Now, Xavian Howard of the
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Well formally soon to be formerly ofthe Dolphins, as I understand it,
from this area, and is interesteddepending on who you're talking to, about
joining the Texans. As a matterof fact, more than one person has
floated out there that they've got sourcessaying, Hey, a lot of people
want to come play for Demico Ryansand play with CJ. Shroud Yet no
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kidding, that's not breaking news,But whether or not it happens is a
completely different scenario. And I thinkthat's why. You know it seems on
the surface that Nick Cassario's got itmade this offseason, I think it actually
makes his job harder because you haveto balance the signings with the drafts.
You've got to try and hit homeruns with those draft picks. But you
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also don't want what happened with NandiAwesome weall, for example, to blow
up in your face if you dospend big money. So I think he's
got actually more pressure on him thanhe has ever had at any point in
his Texans tenure, because he's notcleaning up messes anymore. He's trying to
not to make a new one.Yeah, of what you said, you
think his job is even harder.I mean, I'll check out on that
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one. But you think he hasthe most pressure on him now, well,
yeah, because guess where it wasbefore zero zero. Well that's not
true though, his first year zeropressure at all. I've test said this
many times. He could have madea bad Now I need to say it
again, the worst general manager inthe history of the NFL other than Bill
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O'Brien could have cleaned up that mess. It's so when you're not trying to
win, when you know where you'regoing, when you see the writing on
the wall and everybody could see it, there aren't options. This is what
you do, okay. But nowthere's one other move that was taking place
during that time, and we alwaysseparated, and that's the Deshaun Watson mess.
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That's not Bill O'Brien mess. BillO'Brien's signings and handling the Clowney deal
and the trading for Tunsil and missingpicks, that's the mess. The Deshaun
Watson mess is not a Bill O'Brienissue, and it was not a bad
thing to do and not a terribleway to manage your personnel and your cap
But once he didn't want to behere, and once all the lawsuits came
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and it was clear he needed tonot be here, there was pressure for
that to go right, and itdid. I don't know what they're gonna
end up with because there's still moreto come. That's what comes this year
with the remaining picks, and youcan debate what you want to say about
what already got here because there's somany trades involved. It's not just these
are the picks they got and theyuse them on these players. They use
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some of those picks to make otherdeals, and then they use some of
those picks to make other deals.Obviously having those picks, having additional super
valuable assets have allowed you to makesome of these deals. Whether it's Will
Anderson or Christian Harris or John Metchi, they're all somewhat intertwined in the fact
that you just had additional picks.There's no trading up to get Will Anderson
if there's no second first round pickin twenty twenty three. I mean,
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that's the phone call doesn't even getmade to Monty Austin Ford if you don't
have that Monty. So that isobviously huge aspect. And I don't want
to just say Nick did a goodjob on that Deshaun Watson trade. I
want to yell he did a goodjob. That was phenomenal. Yeah,
that is a humongous reason why he'sgoing into this offseason with pressure because you
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did good things. Good things bringpressure. CJ says it all the time,
the pressure and the privilege, likethe diamonds, you've actually done something
worthwhile, so there's pressure to domore. So okay at this point now
because again Xavi and Howard age allthat since you began the conversation with him.
Yeah, it's it's a bit ofa concern, right. He'll be
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thirty one this this coming summer,so prior to playing next year, in
the throes of the first few daysof training camp, we'll have a Xavi
and Howard birthday party July fourth,as a matter of fact, his birthday,
so he shares one with Tea.He does not r Let's just say
they're roughly the same age. Okay, she would love that. That's why
(01:02:45):
I said every year she's thirty.Yep. I think there has to be
a little bit of a okay,so we're the team that's gonna give him,
you know, whatever number guaranteed overthe four years of this deal,
hoping that he gives us three goodyears. Is that Is that too much
to ask for a safety at agethirty one to two and three or a
cornerback. Excuse me to give youthat kind of play? And again,
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this deal, you don't even haveto sign Howard at a pretty hefty price
if you're comfortable signing Steven Nelson.Again, was Steven Nelson good enough to
bring back rather than spending a lotmore money or a very important draft pick
on a replacement. There's nobody onthe team that he's replacing it, right,
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That's the thing I don't I'm finewith you not wanting to sign Howard
because of the age, for example, and or the money, but I
don't think I think you need toimprove from Steven Nelson. And I don't
even think Steven Nelson was necessarily bad. But I just think at that position
in today's NFL, specifically or particularly, I guess is the better word to
(01:03:51):
use. You've got to have twoelite guys. You've got one on the
other side when he's out there,because instingly has shut up a lot of
people, starting with me, ashas Cassario. Frankly, I was about
to ask you we talked about thisbefore last season, and you were it
was like a foregone conclusion in youropinion, he would be gone. Where
do you rank? Where do yourate him now? Like what letter grade
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you give him at this point inhis tenure? Everything, not just this
last year, offseason, the draftthat went into it, but overall getting
here, cleaning up the mess,dealing with the extra curricular, not letting
it distract in the way of doingthings that he has done well. Is
he does he have an A infront of his name or is it like
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a B plus B solid B minus? Is it a C? It's definitely
not a C. That's didn't thinkthat's a little unfair. That's a little
as like holding a grudge or something. I'd give him B plus just to
just to kind of clarify where I'mcoming from. You had one team in
the division win ten games, andit was a team that one had won
eleven in the previous three years.They did a lot of things right,
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however they got here. I don'tI'm not too concerned because it wasn't a
I don't really view it as along process. I view it as overnight,
like, yeah, he had toclean it up, and you couldn't
do anything until that happened. Butthat was so obvious, and that should
have taken one off season, whichessentially it did. And like I said,
anybody would have done that. Therewas no other way to do it.
And cleaning up is is not thathard well, and neither is drafting
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a quarterback at the top of thedraft who basically fell on your lap because
the team ahead of you was deadset on drafting Bryce Young. It's traded
up to get him. Now,again, that's not that sounds like a
shot at Nick, but it's reallynot, other than to say anybody in
his position would have probably taken CJ. Stroud in that scenario, even though
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we know the actual person in hisposition wanted to trade up to draft Bryce
Young. Okay, so it's ascene. That's why that particular item is
always going to be difficult to rationalizebecause that wasn't Apparently that was not who
they had rated highest, and itwas someone they were willing to move up
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from their number two position to goget, and it just was they were
then unwilling to do what was necessaryfor the Bears to say, Yes,
the Bears actually thought there was adeal in place, at least as it
was reported. Jay Glazer is theone who reported that the art of the
deal. Many other people have saidsimilarly without necessarily all the details. But
yeah, I'm looking at the roster, I'm looking at their cap situation,
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I'm looking at their draft assets.As we move into this offseason, they're
in such a good position. Ifyou give him anything other than a bee
or better, then that's not reallyfair. Then you must not like him
for some reason. You must stillattach him to Jack Easterby in some way.
That's a negative. You must thinkof him as Patriots South, and
you don't like that. But justlook at the roster, look at what
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you're paying out. There are somemistakes in there, and there obviously are
more good things than bad, Andthe future is it's in his hands to
a certain extent, And I don'tsee enough of a reason to say I
don't trust him. Not guaranteeing you, he makes the right mistakes, not
guaranteeing you, They make the rightpicks, guaranteeing you, they spend the
money properly. But there should beenough trust in him that on balance,
(01:07:05):
more of the moves that they've made, Certainly the guys they put on the
field, even a lot of thoseone year deal guys, every guy I've
mentioned today, Sheldon Rankins, DaltonSchultz, Devin Singletary, they all made
the twenty twenty three text ands significantlybetter. Try and do that again this
offseason. You might even leave yourselfwith more flexibility. The danger a little
bit is you have a lot moremoney, but now looking at it from
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the player standpoint, so does everybodyelse. So you're offering me a really
good deal, but theirs is alittle bit better. Are you gonna beat
it? And now what you mayhave forecasted to want to spend on player
X in this case I do itmight be even more. I want to
ask a question that comes up alot when it comes to free agency,
especially when we talk about baseball,because it's always a topic with the Astros
(01:07:51):
when we give away these Whiskey Myerstickets. We will get to that next
here on the A team, thisis Joyce Spotto. Listen to the Astros
on your radio and on the freeiHeartRadio app Sports Talk seven ninety it's your
home fil Astros Baseball. All right, here's the deal we're talking about,
(01:08:15):
you know, Zadie and Howard forexample, and other free agents and franchise
tag and all that kind of stuff'scoming up. There's some decisions to be
made by a lot of teams aroundthe NFL in the coming days and weeks,
and the Texans are in a goodspot but as Wex pointed out,
with the unexpected large jump to thirtyplus more million dollars available in cap space
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for everybody, not just the Texans, cap figure was well under two hundred
million five years ago, it's twohundred and fifty plus now was it two
fifty five? I think so saythis all the time in baseball and then
we laugh it off. Well,if you wanted to win here, would
sign here with this ex team righthere? They want the bag. I
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think in the NFL that does factorin at least a little bit more.
I don't think it's necessarily a determiningfactor every time. I do absolutely think
a lot of guys are just outthere to get a bag. Sometimes it's
you know, it's the NFL.You're still playing a game. But I
do think with as as much asyou put your body through and I'm not
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saying you don't put your body throughwhatever in baseball or NBA or any other
sport, but the NFL is adifferent animal. And outside of the USC,
outside of mixed martial arts, there'snot a lot of sports where you
can point to and say, uh, this might be the last day I
ever play because of a hit Itake you know what I'm saying, Like
that just doesn't happen in the NBA. No, that's different. Why you
(01:09:45):
gotta be like that, Why yougotta bring WWE into things? I just
feel like when it comes to bigdecisions like this, including pay day,
This is why the running back justwhat we say about all sports, like,
oh, they san Antonio Portland inthe NBA and a couple of other
teams Charlotte, And it's not aguarantee san Antonio for years. You're never
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going to Kansas City and baseball they'renot gonna get any free agents there.
Nobody used to play there, rightbecause they can get their money from somebody
else. Plus a lot of theseare mid market teams anyway, And in
baseball, the bigger teams can spend, and in basketball, the Lakers have
mismanaged a roster for years and thenlook, Lebron just wants to play because
it's Los Angeles cap no cap,you know, CBT in baseball versus salary
(01:10:32):
cap here. It makes it applesto oranges to tangerine. So it's not
all the same. But it wasthe big defensive player that signed with the
Bengals recently for the Texans, DJReider. Yes, that's an example of
this. It doesn't matter in theNFL necessarily. Like I don't think that
factors into things as much. You'renot playing as many games, you're not
living there as long. I guessat least during the season. In football,
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they will. You can get youcan get up a free agent.
It doesn't matter who you are,what management's like, who your quarterback is.
It does not matter. Now,I'll say on the other side,
if you have all those things inplace, it can help. It can
be something that puts you over thetop, but not if you're offering them
a lot less money. Maybe noteven offering if you're offering them a little
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less money. People are gonna say, I know I can make more and
I can get more guaranteed money ifI signed with Tampa, but I'd rather
sign with Houston for less. Youknow what's prime of my career as I
hit free agency for the first time. And the other thing, you know
what's pro might say it that Iwouldn't count on it correct. You know
what's proof of this though, thatwhat we're saying is absolutely true and it
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doesn't matter at all in the NFL. How many times have you heard a
guy say, uh, yeah,I wanted to sign with this northern located
team, but I actually don't wantto play in those cold, outdoor games
at home. I just couldn't do. No one ever says that. You
never hear about, Oh, well, they've got an upper hand in Houston
or Tampa or Jacksonville or even Nashvillefor example, because they're more southern.
(01:12:00):
Did the team's going to play inwarmer weather or a controlled You know,
the Texans have a dome on theirstadium. No one ever talks about that
stuff. Right, if they're talkingabout Houston, they would say the Texans
have a closed roof stadium. No, you have to call it a dome
because you have to sound stupid likeeverybody else says, say dome. That
would be accurate. There's a domenext You wouldn't you wouldn't be You wouldn't
want to use the actual term retractableroof. Why not? It's the first
(01:12:24):
of its kind ever in the NFL, just like the sister stadium next door
to it was the first domed stadium. Retract it exactly, it's fixed.
So is it going to be openfor the Whiskey Myers Show Nope, it's
gonna be closed, hence why theybuilt one. What about for Rank Williams
Junior is going to be post?What about closed and closed? Keep going
(01:12:45):
in. I'll tell you when it'sgoing to be open, which is never.
Uh, let me ask you onequick thing. Back to the Mutton
busting they open it for that,occasionally lying back to DJ Reader. So
he played out his contract in Houston. Was one of the best draft picks
they ever made. Later round pick, total stud huge ink for the line.
Awesome dude. He signed with Cincinnatiin the off season of twenty twenty.
He's up, I mean in theoff Yeah, the off season of
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twenty twenty in March, you know, soon after free agency open, which
is a month in change before thedraft, the draft in which they held
the number one pick, the draftin which everybody knew who they were taking
with the number one pick. Hedidn't sign with Cincinnati and not care what
they were going to be like.He signed with Cincinnati and didn't care whether
they'd won or not, already knowingthey came. Joe Burrow's going to be
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my quarterback. Correct. That wasa recruit a recruiting pitch, if you
will. Now your recruiting pitch wasthe guy that was taken two and really
three in last year's draft. You'vegot the offensive and defensive rookies of the
year right now, and you're playingfor Demiico Ryans, and we have cap
space, so people are going tojoin you disguise, and you're in a
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division which I do think factors insometimes with what you're talking about. Okay,
the AFC South. Yeah, there'sa lot of up and coming quarterbacks
in this vision. But if youhave your pick right now, is to
who you want to play with forthe next four or five years of your
life, and those are the onlyfour options you have, ain't Nashville.
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Well, so you got you gotnext five years. Let's say let's put
it on a five year scale.Give me which one you would vote for
if this were your poll question.In the next five years, the Texans
will go to the playoffs zero times, one to two times, three times
or four more times. I'd saythree, just to be safe because it's
the NFL, and I would takethe over. Well, yeah, I
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know, but seven teams out ofsixteen are gonna make it every year for
the next five were talking about howviolent this game is I know something could
happen to CJ. Stroud next season? God forbid, I' knocking so hard
recently married Davis Mills. This plentyready to go, stop it, Kate
not having it? You know whatif they went out? How about all
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the not all the but one networkthat has to come up with ridiculous storylines
and it's even on their crawl whilethey're talking about this topic. I think
Russell Wilson sud shine with the Jetsas a backup to Aaron Rodgers. Come
on, should you imagine the quarterbackroom there? Those two hate each other
anywhich one There's no way there's onlyone of them. Yeah, because they've
got to be have separate one.Of course they would probably would take separate
(01:15:15):
flights. The OCI wants to meetthe quarterbacks when you know where I'll be,
well, you know where I'll bein. It didn't go to me
in the same room, and mine'sfirst, by the way, because I
have a massage. Should get toOh wait, my bad, that was
a different, different market. No. I do think this impacts the players
and their agents maybe more than sayany one individual team like Houston. Now,
some of the teams that were ina little bit more cap hell,
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it does, and it certainly affectsthe teams like the Cowboys and others.
Like in the last couple of days, there was plenty written on it.
From the Cowboys standpoint, He's goingdacks going to the final year of his
deal, his cap hit is numberone in the NFL and break the bank.
Either they extend him or they haveto restructure. Right, well,
now, they probably have the optionof, well, if we just take
(01:16:00):
the hit now this year while heplays with this amount of money, can
we make it work and still havea chance to win and still make a
long term decision about dak Off inthe future instead of now, They might
be able to navigate their way tothat a little bit more easily. Then.
They really only had two options.You have to resign him to a
(01:16:21):
new deal, which then spreads themoney out differently, or you have to
commit to doing something dramatically different,which now I don't think they'll have to
do. There's a few other teamskind of like that, just not only
with the quarterback, but every timea quarterback signs a deal, we talk
about two things. What's the guaranteedmoney and what's the percentage of their cap
that this contract will eat up.Well, that percentage just went way down.
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Every quarterback other than Kirk Cousins isunder contract. We know how much
of the cap is eaten up bytheir number, and it just got lower
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a network is talking about the Dodgersseeking their first World Series appearance since winning
in twenty twenty, and it ishilarious nobody thinks they went to the World
Series in twenty twenty. They wentto that stupid stadium up in Arlington with
a bunch of placards out there andwon a Mickey Mouse ring that no one
(01:18:56):
cares. They care about that ringless than they care about the fake one
from last year. And the onlyreason that one's fake is because they played
the Diamondbacks to win it. Isaid what I said. Wex did a
stutta. Five different teams from theNL to the World Series the last five
(01:19:17):
seasons, so parody. That's great. How's the al doing three different teams
the last five seasons? How manywent the most times in the last five
seasons? Uh? Well, let'ssee, every other team that's played in
the World Series in the last fiveyears has been there exactly one time,
and one time only. And thenwhat was the other team? The ass
(01:19:39):
been there three times. I guessthey just cheated though they just were only
good that one year, you stupididiots. Last five years, you got
the Nationals and the Dodgers, andthe Braves and the Rangers, and the
d Backs and the Phillies and theRays have all been there one time.
You know why the Asters have beenthere three times. You know why the
Dodgers gave more? Yeah, no, well he won two actually not in
(01:20:01):
the last five years. That's right, they've had a longer run of excellence.
You're right. It was actually longerto go longer than five years.
Then I have to include the factthat the Dodgers have been to three World
Series exactly, and you know whythey only one the one that was fake
because the lights were too bright.The lights were too bright. In other
words, turn them off. Thelights are too bright. Dodgers are Trump.
(01:20:24):
Yeah, Orange team bad. Seewhat I did there? I turned
what their fans say around on them. Just he is orange? Err currently
is he not? He looks thesame to me. I mean the hair
is the same, he looks more. I know this is a dumb question.
(01:20:47):
Is that a piece It's definitely apiece of work, That's what I'm
saying. Though. Is that hishair? Yes, it's his hair,
just like Costanza. But you goit's my hair. Yeah, but you
realize, like most people that seeit are like, that's not that's got
to be a ruck. Keep thisin mind totally. It doesn't matter,
(01:21:09):
right, None of this stuff matters. Well, it matters to some people,
but it should. None of itmatters at all in the grand scheme
of things, Like do you thinkit matters when he goes overseas and has
a meeting, when he goes upnorth and has a meeting? Does it
matter? If you're telling me itmatters, then I guess it does,
but I don't really think. So. What's the clip where uh? I
think it's like the Prince of SaudiArabia, You're like not supposed to touch
(01:21:31):
him, And it's a clip ofTrump walking by and he just like slaps
him on the shoulder because of coursehe did. Why not? What are
you gonna do about it? Idon't think he said absolutely, Believe me,
the guy probably just nodded to hispeople and they took care of it.
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Are you kidding me? Oh?Let me tell you what if that
was another if that was Trudeau,Oh, there'd be some business justin Yeah,
that little cissy. I mean,it is my fault. I always
feel like I can get into andout of it without anything like that.
But it's I'll take you there.I will take you even like even the
most staunch whatever knows that I'm rightabout that guy. He's a total sissy.
(01:22:15):
It's five. He's not Canada.That guy was the leader of our
country. It would be different.It would be almost as bad as the
guy we have. Now. Yeah, why why? Why? Because you
want me to leave for Toyita Center. Now, no, do you have
the whole thing. Let's hear it. Let's hear what the Dodgers. I
(01:22:38):
wanted to hear the lights turned off? That's what. That's the Dodgers when
they got to Arlington. Actually theywon though, so good for them.
All right? Gosh, oh,Mike McCarthy is not going to attend the
NFL Scouting Combine without even reading thearticle or knowing any of the particulars.
(01:22:59):
If you're just blow looking at thatheadline, wouldn't you say the following because
it's so obvious? Well, yeah, why would he? He's a lame
duck that won't be here after thissea. My first thought would be he
must have a reason, like ishe having a procedure? He's just not
a not available even though this haskind of been on the calendar for a
while. Yeah, And my secondthought would be that's nuts, but is
(01:23:21):
it? Yes? Okay, here'swhy it's the reason, here's why it's
not Again, you know nothing aboutthe situation. You just read the headline.
Is he making any of the draftpicks? It doesn't matter. No,
it does it match the coaches insome instances, and Dimika talked about
(01:23:42):
it last year when he went tocombine for the first time. Well,
some of the coaches went. Wehad other ones intentionally stay back. It
was our first year. They've gotwork to do. We needed this.
I get it. He also isthe head coach, and he of course
went. I can't even fathom areason why the head coach would say something
else under my job description is moreimportant for this one week or less than
(01:24:02):
a week if you want it tobe. I don't get it. How
could you possibly think something else thatyou need to do for your job as
head coach of an NFL team meansyou need to not go to the scouting
combine. The job's done. Isjust going through the motions. I don't
even know he going through the motionsof going to the combine. I don't
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want to make this into a hugedeal, but again, it's just a
simple There's there's no I'm not askingif you're going. I'm not wondering if
our coach is going. There's no, nothing to ask. Of course you're
going, that's what you do.I just feel like they should have just
done what they're already going to doin a year. We all know what's
going to happen. It has nothingto do with his lame duck status.
Sure it does. Why because it'sa waste of his time. He is
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going to be gone in a yearand he is not going to be making
any of these picks. Jerah andhis son are Why do you go last
year? I don't know, Ireally do. Maybe because he was in
Jerry's good graces. Then he's gottenin the same place. Dude. No,
he's just closer to dead place.That's what he's about to be.
He was under contract, then heis under contract. Now it's the same
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contract. Doesn't matter if I firedhim. Does he get the money?
How does it work with coaches?Yes, of course the okay coach Cully
only made one year's salary. Ohthat's a good point. I forgot about
that guy stealing money to this alloyabsolutely straight out of the old show called
Seinfeld when Kramer burned himself with acoffee and they went in with Johnny Chiles.
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Jackie Chiles excuse me and tried tofigure out what they could get out
of a Java company. When yousay, as soon as cal said,
we're willing to offer you, itdoesn't matter what the figure is, he
couldn't flapped hands and shook it asany faster. There's no negotiation. Well,
let me talk it over with myfamily and my agent and we'll get
back to you. There was animmediate yes to the humongous pile of money
(01:25:55):
they gave him to not win footballgame. When you said, when you
said that was straight out of tostart the sentence. Yes, I thought
for sure the rest of the sentencewas going to go ed Reid's playbook stealing
money from the McNair family. EdReid probably had a little bit of football
left in him, but it wasn'tcoming here. He looked like he was
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squeeging windshields under the freeway. That'swhat he looked like. Don't tell me
about when he was with the Jetsright after even worse. How about when
he was with the Baltimore Ravens rightbefore even worse. How about when he
was trying to get a head coachingjob this offseason? Was he really Yes?
I forgot that part. I probablyjust laughed it off for that day
when I saw it. He wasserious, though, Yes, as were
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the team of teams that he wastalking to. Is this as serious or
less serious than hines Ward being acoaching candidate. Hines Ward is a coach.
He just shouldn't have been interviewed forthe head coaching job of an NFL
team. He's been an assistant coach, He's been a head coach in other
pro football leagues. He's perfectly reasonablecandidate to be a coach, just not
the head coach that quickly, thatclosely after he'd begun a coaching career at
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all. I know, good,who did they hire? Wait, what's
your kam? Who are we talkingabout now? The Texans? Oh,
we know who they hired? Notthe right guy. Well, for their
purposes, it was the right guy. Look at where they are now,
mission accomplished. Cully to Lovey toDemiko. You're talking about jo as planned.
Yeah, well then they didn't interviewhines Ward the year they hired Demiko.
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I forgot they had real candidates becauseit was a real football You can't
get mad at me. Look howmany bad candidates they did interview. Yeah,
the years they weren't trying to hirethe year they were trying, they
had real interviews in real candidates.Well yes, but they almost hired Josh
McCown and Cal Cal had to comein and say, oh, this is
bad, even for me. That'swhat he said. Would not have been
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Ac Dan Matthews with you here tobegin the final hour of the week,
and typically we will talk about somepressing football issues, and we still might
this segment, but not before Ibring it to both of your attentions that
somebody made an absolute killing at theSuper Bowl. Are you aware of the
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story yet? If you're talking aboutDez Bryant, I guess I am no
that I'm not. So. Doyou remember the guy that was streaking onto
the field in a pink get up? Now I know the story. He's
known as wait for it, thesuper Streaker. Very original. He was
(01:30:02):
a Las Vegas local who apparently placeda fifty thousand dollars bet that there would
be a streaker during the Super Bowl. He ran onto the field by himself
and cashed out with apparently three hundredand seventy four thousand dollars and of course
a thousand dollars. Fine, isthis real? That's my question? Well,
(01:30:24):
this is what I usually on asmaller scale equate to somebody's definitely making
the gatorade. All they have todo is wager on it and then make
it and you win, and whatare they going to do about it?
And some of these other bets,they're like, this is another one,
like this can't be real. Ijust like you, there's no way the
(01:30:45):
casino, like is there not aplace for the small print saying winner can't
be the streaker? Now? Imean, there's lots of follow up tweets
to this, basically debunking it,saying that it's the wrong picture, the
wrong year. Again. It's thestory to me is just so good because
(01:31:09):
there's there's got to be like caveatsto this, right, these prop bets
that we talk about leading up tothe game, there has to be some
sort of like safety net so thatthis kind of thing can't happen in any
of these scenarios, this being probablythe most visible, well literally, which
is why I have my doubts aboutthe authenticity. And yet at the same
time, I want it to betrue, like it would be. You
(01:31:30):
want it to be true, soyou want to promote the idea that this
is how peeps should make their waythrough life with a new avenue for making
money. I'll just wager on therebeing a streaker, and I'll streak,
you know, just whatever, whatever, fine, I have to do,
whatever fun it has to be incurred. There's no problem for the winnings that
I'll have on the other side.But if that were the case, and
(01:31:51):
you were willing to put yourself throughthat and give yourself a record, I
mean, there's any number of peoplethat probably would take that, right,
you probably wouldn't. There's probably otherways. It's a good money if you
could do it, though, allright, Well, I just wanted to
get that out of the way becauseI saw the story. I figured it
wasn't real, but it was justtoo good not to to at least discuss
(01:32:13):
pass along because if it did happen, it would be absolutely incredible. That's
all I got. I apologize.That's okay, You can go onto real
football. Now. Oh well,we've talked about the salary cap being large.
We've talked about Jerry's coach, MikeMcCarthy not going to the Combine.
We've even thought talked about the factthat the Dolphins. Oh, by the
(01:32:35):
way, Zavian Howard's not the onlyI guess high profile cut they made on
the defensive side of the football.I might add, so, Emmanuel,
I'm not going to be able topronounce this. Uugh buh. All right,
well, it never is what youthink it's going to be two years
after signing him to a four year, sixty five million dollar contract, which
(01:32:57):
is why you're always so like fastto talk about, Okay, this is
how much it's actually for. Yeah, right, the actual amount could be
that that is. I mean,he's had a decent start to it,
but had the triceps injury. Sothat's what happens. I mean, he
was really really good when they gothim, and then the last two years
(01:33:19):
he's only been on the field fortwenty four games and it's not been nearly
as productive. And just like XavianHoward, he's at that same age.
He will turn thirty one during nextseason. Yeah, and I think we
talk about this in relation to runningbacks more than any other position, but
that really is in the NFL,it's the magic number. It just is
(01:33:42):
like with the NBA, guys canstill have very elite level seasons. If
you're a freak like Lebron, youcan still be doing it at thirty nine.
But NBA major League Baseball, that'sdifferent when you hit thirty in the
NFL, with the type of gameyou're playing, especially at certain positions you're
playing, I just don't. Idon't the many scenarios were investing a ton
(01:34:02):
of money is very wise for ateam. I don't think that contract is
out there for him either, Butthere are players in the similar situation,
even the guy the Texans got theirhands on last year in season. I
mean, Derek Barnett was pretty productivefor the Eagles for a number of years,
not huge sack totals, but hewas doing what he was asked to
do, and he fit in ontheir defense very well. And the years
(01:34:23):
that went by the last two specifically, he was extremely underwhelming and with Houston,
and I can't imagine they ever thoughthe would contribute as much as he
did and how often they asked himto you know, take snaps. He
was on the field a ton forthem because they had so many injuries there.
But even his figure, I mean, he actually was a five million
dollar player under contract last year forthe Eagles. I don't think it's anywhere
(01:34:46):
near that amount of money to finda player like that. But you're not
going to get better if John Grenardis being replaced by players like that.
That's not the way to do it. And in other years I might have
thought differently, I just can't.And back to the Steven Nelson and Xavian
Howard. When Xavi and Howard getslisted with the rest of the free agent
corners, he's probably in the topfour at worst. I mean Steven Nelson's
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probably in the top ten available freeagent corners, but probably on the back
side of those ten, seven,eight, nine, ten somewhere in there.
It's not one or the other.The Texans can improve the position without
targeting Xavian Howard. There are othercorners that won't command as much money or
might actually be better fits for whatthe Texans like to do well. And
(01:35:36):
I think a lot of mock defendwide receivers. I think a lot of
mock drafts have them taking either.Well, I guess there's three positions I've
seen the most cornerback, defensive linemenof some sort, and then wide receiver.
There are a bunch of offensive linemenjust in where they are at twenty
(01:35:56):
three that have fallen into their pickBrian Thomas. I see it over and
over and over again, and Idon't think that for a second. I
don't think that's the player that awill be there and I don't really think
at twenty three that's the position they'llbe taking. But if they do,
I don't have any issue. Ithink Thomas would be an awesome player.
I think Kean Coleman would be agreat player. There's some off season stuff
that we need to see, Ithink, just in terms of maybe what
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they run and how big they trulyare. But those are the types of
wide receivers I expect to be fifteento thirty. They're at twenty three,
so I couldn't tell you exactly whichone, but I'd be fine with one
of those two, and I thinkthat's what they'll I think that's a reasonable
position they got played. They needjust do what you've done. Put players
on the field, draft players thatbelong on the field doesn't really matter where
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they play. I mean, youmight not want to draft a left tackle
pretty much everything else is open.Besides, what about a quarterback. I
mean, I might not do itat twenty three, and you probably don't
need your backup quarterback to be arookie, so I probably wouldn't draft him
at all. But they also needto have somebody. I was really surprised
that there was no young quarterback hereever last year besides CJ. And I
(01:37:03):
guess because you have him, there'sreally no need to develop another one.
But even when they had a fourthquarterback, it was Tim freaking Boil.
I mean, I was just alittle surprised by that. But maybe in
year three they're thinking about it.You don't want to draft a guy that
might be his replacement. And honestly, we literally just watched that happen.
When you drafted brock Perty We're like, well, okay, well, just
(01:37:26):
well he's got some talent, thisguy we could develop, And as Kyle
Shanahan was even saying, well,we're going through camp, we're like,
well, this is our best guy. He's better than the guys we have.
He's better than Lance, and he'sdefinitely better than Jimmy g everybody's better
than Jimmy, but that can't happenhere. Who's better can happen in San
Francisco when they clearly wanted to replaceJimmy Garoppolo their starter. The Texans are
(01:37:46):
not in that business. Who's betterJimmy Garoppolo or Davis Mills? Go Jimmy
by how much? I mean,I don't want them as my starter period?
And I can't. I mean,I know you got a fill space.
I know you're getting paid to crankout articles, but you gotta not
write articles about nine possible landing spotsfor Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean, come
on, it's not important nine.I come on, there's not even nine
(01:38:10):
teams that are which quarterback guy like, they really shouldn't be starting for NFL
team? Which teams should sign themas a backup? That can't be an
interesting article. Well that's a Februarytwenty third article if I've ever seen one.
If it's for the backup, Ican see where you could come up
with a number nine. But man, that's even probably a stretch. That
(01:38:30):
guy led the forty nine er.Well, that guy was the quarterback for
the forty nine ers. Hey,man, were you on the forty nine
ers when they went to the SuperBowl. Normally you don't ask the quarterback
of the team that question, buthe's definitely gotten it before. It's like
and they could have won, likeat the at the NFC Championship game after
party. Hey man, don't youplay for the Niners? Yeah, it
(01:38:53):
must have been fun this year.Man, Yeah, who's that guy that
plays quarterback? That's me? That'ssad all right? In case you missed
it, coming up next final oneof the week when we return here on
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less hits. Oh, we havehad some fun. Adam Clinton and Adam
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the final edition of the Week ofIn case you missed it, Dan Matthews
(01:39:38):
the show Killer take it away?All right, So we talked about justin
fields and unfollowing basically everyone the Bears, the NFL tired of seeing the rumors,
all of those different types of things. Right Well, in Chicago's you
can imagine sports radio. They're havingtheir fun with it. David Kaplan of
ESPN one hundred up there, onethousand, excuse me, I was all
(01:39:59):
different in Chicago. Yeah, onethousand up there as I don't think there
is an AM one hundred. Wellwhatever, we're getting buried in the wrong
details here. But anyway, hetalked about Fields going on a podcast and
saying those things, and he wasnot a fan of the way that Fields
handled his business unfollowing the Bears,unfollowing the NFL. That's a coward's way
(01:40:21):
out. I don't want all therumors on my timeline. I just want
to go one vacation and get awayfrom everything. Then why do you go
on a podcast to become the leadstory on every channel? When is the
Bears ever posted about a rumor?The answer is never, So that's a
bunch of bs justin Two, there'sa mute button. Why don't you just
(01:40:45):
mute the ones you don't want tosee? Or, better yet, you
can delete the app and sign backon when vacation's over, if that's what
you choose. Three, I wantthe TVs turned off. I'm tired of
hearing about the Bears quarterback spot MitchellDavid Trubisky twenty nineteen. How is that
any different than this guy said,I just wanted to be over I'm tired
(01:41:10):
of the rumors, Caleb, JustinJustin Kle Why don't you just keep your
mouth quiet and just get off thegrid? Man? All right, So
a lot to chew on there.That last one, I'm sure is probably
going to curry some favor. Youknow, we've seen in the past of
people telling athletes to be quiet.But I do appreciate fields as honesty.
(01:41:32):
I mean I say this all thetime. We wonder why players give us
coach speak. They give us coachspeak because of reasons like this. But
he does have a great point though, like, why even address it if
you're saying that, Oh, Idon't really want to talk about you know
what it reminds me of and meand you were both here for this.
Remember when Arian Foster went vegan?Yep, and then he started to whenever
(01:41:53):
people were curious about it, becauseat the time veganism was not what it
is now, so people were genuinelycurious about it. And then he was
like, oh, the media ismaking a huge deal about it. You
told us well and okay. Inthe case of Arian Foster, he did
a lot of things that wound upgetting him I guess, as he would
(01:42:14):
put it, unwanted attention. Yethe did the things that got the attention,
like posting his MRI on social media, or my personal favorite was when
Isaiah Carrey was in his driveway andsaid, can I give you my car?
Come on, bro, come on, bro, it's my life.
Bro. I love Arion Foster.I loved his time with the Texans,
(01:42:36):
But you know that stuff is Imean to an extent, To an extent,
you brought some of it on yourselfthe MRI. Definitely you didn't need
to. In fact, I thinkhe got in some hot water for doing
that one. I think I heardthat too. Was it hippa? Is
(01:42:56):
it still hippa if the player inquestion is the one sharing anyway, Going
back to Justin Fields, you know, normally you would listen to this and
you would say, oh, it'sjust a blow hard talk radio guy.
I mean, I've heard that,I don't know a million times in my
life, especially with the way Ireact to some stories. Sometimes we're probably
not doing the job if we're notwell exactly I mean, but you know,
(01:43:21):
he does have a point. Hehas several points. Actually, and
think about this, Justin Fields haswhat as far as his resume his time
with the Bears right in the inthe NFL. Yes, this talk show
host has been through the ringer withevery other Bears fan. And I'm not
(01:43:44):
saying he's a fan, but Iam saying when you cover the team,
in addition to when you root fora team and it just can't they just
can't get it right. It's likebeing in Cleveland with the quarterback position.
That's why why do you think theywere so excited about Joe freakin Flacco.
I think the NFL gave him thatComeback Player of the Year award because they
felt sorry for Cleveland. Remember thatfan that had all of the quarterbacks they've
(01:44:06):
tried on the back of one jersey, just over and over and over writing
all those names. That's to alarge extent Chicago's existence. Who's the best
quarterback in Chicago history? Go aheadand name it. Is it Jim McMahon
because he won a because he wasthe quarterback like Jimmy Garoppolo on a team
that went to the Super Bowl andactually won it because of Walter Payton I'll
(01:44:29):
go on a wild hair here.Brian Greasy. Yeah, I mean if
Brian Greasy is Rex Grossman, Okay, same difference. If that's the top
of the mountain for your franchise,good grief. I mean, even the
Texans have two guys they could probablysay, or at least franchise level quarterbacks
at one point or another, maybetwo and a half. And I don't
(01:44:51):
know who the half is. Isthat shop or is that Deshaun Watson?
Point being, this guy's as sickof it all as everybody else else in
Chicago, and so he's probably goingto have a little bit more of a
shorter fuse when it comes to somethinglike a young kid going off about this.
(01:45:12):
It is avoidable. It's social media. There's a reason a lot of
guys aren't on it. You know, Tom Brady didn't start being vocal man.
Tom Brady didn't even start being entertainingin press conferences, let alone social
media until he left New England.So the all time greats can not do
it. You can too. Andif you're going to do it, or
(01:45:33):
if you're going to go on apodcast like was mentioned, then be prepared
to reap the whirlwind. It's partof an occupational hazard that is being a
multi million dollar athlete, especially atthe most visible position in all of sports.
All Right, so if we havetime, we will get to even
more justin fields here in just asecond. Good sports documentaries. How do
(01:45:53):
we feel about sports documentaries? Imean, in twenty twenty, we obviously
were a huge fan of a docuseries because well it was all we had
with the Last Dance at the time. Apple TV right now has a documentary
on the Patriots Dynasty, which Idid watch this morning, and it is
pretty good. You watch the oldthings, all of them that have been
released to this point. I thinkthey're doing a week by week release.
(01:46:15):
How many total? I think there'sbeen four of them so far, and
how many is going to be likeat one all of a sudden done six
is what I heard. So themost recent one, of course, was
the Almost Perfect Season, but thatis pretty cool. But this one from
Netflix, I almost wonder if theyhad the Astros facility bugged on Monday,
because me and Brian McTaggart and afew of the other media members before going
(01:46:40):
into the clubhouse for open Clubhouse thatday, they had the expos up on
the screen on MLB Network, andI said, you know, that would
be a cool thirty for thirty.Well, I think Netflix was listening to
us because they are going to releasea doc that is going to explore the
setbacks that led to the Expos leavingMontreal and how it continues to spark debate
(01:47:01):
twenty years later. I think they'llbe fascinating. The Expos were on their
way up. Where does it sparkdebate in Montreal of when baseball work in
Montreal? Just in general? Right? I gotcha, because you know we've
heard for years, Hey, theRays, they're gonna split time between Tampa
and Montreal. Oh, if MajorLeague Baseball expands, would Montreal be one
(01:47:21):
of the teams over Nashville or Charlotteor Portland or any of the other markets
that are supposedly pining baseball to theirtowns. By definition, if you are
talking about splitting time between the cityyou're currently in and any other place Montreal
or otherwise, then by definition,it's not working where you are. Right.
(01:47:42):
Well, they went too harsh?Yeah, I mean yeah, but
like, okay, that's that's whothe Montreal exposed became. No, they
went to uh, Washington, didn'tthey? Yes, they became the Nationals.
Okay, I just feel like,instead of well, see, I
get it because major no team wants, in this case multiple teams to be
(01:48:03):
moving. That just looks bad forthe sport. But if you don't even
have that settled, expansion kind ofseems like it's maybe putting your priorities in
the wrong place. I get whythey want to expand. I get why
any league would want to expand.It's it's like everything else, it's money.
But if you have existing team,it's kind of like the NHL.
(01:48:24):
If you have existing teams plural threateningto move all the time, then maybe
get those ducks in a row firstbefore you start talking about expanding to other
cities. I don't know. That'sjust me, all right. So Chad
Johnson Chad Ocho Cinco on Shannon Sharp'sNightcap podcast, saying that a little birdie
told him Russell Wilson is going tothe Steelers. He also went even further
(01:48:49):
that Sharp pushed back and said,well, I've heard Fields to the Steelers,
and he said, no, I'vegot the script. He's going to
Atlanta. I told you wait.So Ocho Sinko comes out says that Russell
Wilson's going to the Steelers. WhenShannon Sharp comes back and says, no,
(01:49:09):
Justin Fields is going to the Steelers. He then says, actually,
just kidding, He's going to theFalcons. But I hear that right Field
would go to the Falcons, andif it's worth nothing, Fields would go
to the Falcons. I got tothe Falcons and Wilson would go to the
Steelers. I got you, Andthe betting odds actually have significantly started to
swing towards him going to Atlanta.Fields that is, well, they always
(01:49:31):
know more than we know. Imean it, It's not a horrible landing
spot for a guy like him,who's obviously going to be motivated to succeed.
I mean, we just got themtalking about some of the reasons why
now. I'm not saying a aChicago sports talk show host is one of
those reasons. I'm talking about thebigger picture things. But there's I guess
(01:49:55):
worst landing spots. And then ifyou're Atlanta, well, how are you
getting him? I is the caseit'd have to be a trade. Yeah,
so what are you trading? You'renot trading your pick to Chicago,
are you. I've seen rumors thatsay a second round pick would probably get
it done. Man, a quarterbackthat young, and all it takes is
a second rounder. He's an Atlantaarea guy too. And I mean since
(01:50:20):
they've moved to that new building,Arthur has had a tough time getting a
large amount of butts in the seats. Except for the first season when they
actually still made the playoffs. They'reblowing twenty eight to three leads. Yeah,
yeah, that happened. I feellike Atlanta and Houston are so parallel
in any given time with how theirsports fans react. It's just so similar
(01:50:44):
at times accurate, and I cantell you that from experience. It's uncanny.
I don't know if it's a Southernthing. I don't know what the
deal is. Baseball teams are verysimilar. Yeah, I would similarly built,
similarly, spend money the way thatthey do. And by the way,
the GM of the Astros came fromthe Braves. Yep, that's true.
(01:51:04):
That is true. All right,We've got about a half hour left
here on the A Team Sports Talkseven ninety. There is a couple of
items that we still have not gottento that I would like to not the
least of which is a topic thatas much as I say I can't stand
talking about it, I can't helpmyself. I'll explain that when we come
(01:51:26):
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roll his eyes at this, andthat's fine. Uh. I actually would
encourage it, because I'm actually kindof rolling my own eyes at this.
You a fan of Life and StyleMagazine, Dan can't say I've read very
many magazines lately. How many magazinesubscriptions has Orlando sold? You? No
subscriptions? Now? The only magazinesI will buy are preview mags, which
(01:52:55):
I guess baseball ones are out soI could go get those. Are you
still is it Dave can Amble thatdid the football every year? Yeah,
there's Dave Campbell, and then ofcourse you know, I've been huge for
college football, mostly not so muchthe pros, but now that I'm more
on the pro side again, Iwill go with the athlon. Yeah,
maybe even a sporting news if it'sout there, or Street and Smith's.
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I don't even know if they're aroundanymore. But yeah, Lindy's. I'll
go with Lindy's. Yep. Soall of those have nothing in common with
Life and Style magazine. Yeah.So, according to a source that told
this to Life and Style Magazine,Travis Kelsey is absolutely fine with Taylor Swift
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giving him her thoughts and opinions onhow to navigate what is such a public
relationship, and according to this source, he actually appreciates it. Then it
continues, he's not so happy withsome of the restrictions she wants in place.
Now again, Travis Kelcey and theChiefs just went back to back and
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won the Super Bowl. They didthis in a season that I think observers
probably think was their least dominant ofa regular season. Their defense actually,
at times you could argue if itdidn't outplay the offense, it was at
least on par with it, becausethe offense just wasn't as dominant. At
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times. You had the Kelsey Swiftsituation, if you want to call it
a distraction, if you don't,whatever. People have arguments on either side,
but this is something that more peoplethan will probably like to admit,
are going to be keeping an eyeon this offseason, if at least if
you're a Chiefs fan. The quotegoes on to say, for example,
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Travis is fine not going to stripclubs anymore because that's one of her hard
rules. But Taylor also doesn't wanthim posing for photographs with female fans,
mostly to avoid inaccurate headlines. Hehad to roll his eyes at that one.
Now again, Life and Style magazine. Honestly, I think this is
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the first I've ever heard of it, So I don't. I don't know
what kind of reputation it has.I don't know who the source is.
Clearly I don't. This all couldbe complete tabloid blotter. But it gets
worse. Since we're on the subject. Some would say, how friends,
this is a quote from the source. Friends claim that Taylor has asked Travis
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to FaceTime her, not just textwhen they're apart. She didn't overtly say
it, but she secretly wants tosee where he is and who he's with
at any given time. Taylor's agood judge of character and feels that some
of his buddies are red flags.Oh now again, this could all be
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absolute gobbly gook. This could allbe apps trash in a magazine to sell
magazines. But this is the kindof stuff that people are always saying is
going to happen with these two.I e. Travis is going to do
something or maybe maybe it's not him, maybe it's her. The relationship is
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going to end, and it's goingto be the next album. And I
just like people were people were legitexpecting him to propose to her on the
field after they won the Super Bowl. Yeah, and then you realize,
Okay, they've been together six monthsin a very very highly publicized relationship.
And again, this absolutely does havesomething to do with sports, because this
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is it's a it is part ofthe it is interwoven into the chief fabric.
At this point, you cannot argueotherwise. I'm sorry. If you're
you try it, tell me,well, I'm separating football with the public.
No, because you can't. Samewith him hosting SNL, same with
him doing Pfizer spots. It's allone big ball. You can't have one
without the other. So this is, unfortunately for people like me news.
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It's news, and this qualifies hisnews, not just because it's slow and
it's February. But check out thenext paragraph. She doesn't want to control
him. Sorry, I had somethingin my throat. Seems like that train
left the station. She doesn't wantto control him, just help. He's
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under a microscope now more than ever. Taylor loves Travis and thinks these rules
will help things with their romance aswell as his career. Stay on the
rails. They're both committed to doingwhatever it takes to make their relationships stronger.
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware thathe's just now under a microscope.
Now now is he under a biggerone because he's with her? Absolutely?
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I get that, but stay onthe rails, microscope, Travis Kelsey's not
like a I think you're tighten inthe NFL. There's a lot to unpack
here. And that last line thatyou had, Oh, it is every
mistake that seems like almost every womanslash girl makes. They're gonna have a
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joint social account, aren't they.I don't know if it's gonna be joint
socials or joint emails or anything likethat. That's always fun whenever it's hey,
what's your email? And by funyou mean miserable? Yeah, John
and Joan at gmail dot com.I don't even know if that's a real
email. But you get my pointhere, Adam. In Theresa Facebook account,
she do y'all? No, okay, no, because we're not weird,
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okay. So I mean it isthe classic mistake that most women and
girls make of thinking, oh,I can change him. Oh, I
you know, like they want totake on a project in that regard and
I guess that she maybe viewed Travisas being a little bit of a bad
boy, which I don't necessarily believethat was the reputation he had. The
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whole nose trip clubs thing, I'vegot to believe, especially to with technology
being the way it is that theytrack each other on their phones, like
you know, she can see wherehe's at and he can see where she's
at. That probably was a stipulationas part of it. Some relationships have
that, but you know the otherpart of it as well. I mean,
I don't know, like it's kindof one of those things that every
relationship kind of reaches that plateau whereit's like, hey, we're grown ups
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here. Either we need to actlike it or we need to coexist separately.
And I think that that's the partfor me where it's like, you
know, the whole texting and facetiming, like are you teenagers? Like you
have to do that? I meanthere's times where I'm apart from my fiance
and it's just as simple, heyday got away from me, good night
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text? Like our relationship is thatstrong where it's not a oh, you
didn't call me, Like we've beentogether for seven years now, like I
think we're pretty much pot committed witheach other. Right, there's a fine
line in any relationship where where youand maybe this is well, it's definitely
more so in relationships where there's beentrust issues on one or both sides of
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things for whatever reason. But likeyou have to reach a point where on
one hand you're concerned about Like,for example, me and Teresa, she
is way more apt to just textme that she's leaving where she's at,
tell me that she's almost home.It's, in my opinion, it's it's
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overkill from the standpoint of I'm justnot apt to do that. Am I
letting you know I'm leaving? Sometimes? Sure? Am I also then letting
you know how close I am tothe house. No, I'm not going
to do that unless I need tofor some reason or I'm stopping somewhere.
You know, everybody has their theirvarying degrees of that. But here's the
thing, like you have to there'sthat fine line of that versus I'm keeping
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tabs on you, I'm tracking you. I want you to turn on your
low key on your phone so Ican see where you are at all times.
That is like a non starter forme, and we've actually had like
discussions about this because we do thatwith you know, our stepdaughter just a
week. But that's a different,completely different scenarios. So I'm sorry,
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you can't feed into the stereotypes thatare already there with this particular not just
relationship, but the female involved init. Her career is built on songs
written about her failed relationships. Thereis no arguing that that's a fact.
It's not subjective, it's not anopinion. It is as black and white
as it gets. Well. Imean, she also, with her most
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recent album, The Anti Hero,her song Hi It's Me, I'm the
problem. It's me, like Ithink like it was kind of like a
cathartic exercise for her of Okay,maybe I have been the problem in previous
relationships, and if that's the case, admission is the first step to recovery.
So maybe there is hope. ButI mean, yeah, it is
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one of those things that you know, it's kind of like the conversation we
had in the last segment about youguys are making a huge deal about this.
You're a public persona like everything youdo is going to have some sort
of either scrutiny or opinion about whatyou do. That's honestly just the life
that you've chosen. Like there's there'snothing you can do. I mean some
people do once they're finished playing decideall right, I'm going to be completely
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out of the public eye. Andthat's that's totally fine. Mmm. I
just got a text from a buddy. I tracked my wife because she's always
losing her phone. That's different.That's that's a whole different thing altogether.
That's that's you have an equipment misplacementissue. But yeah, I just I
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could go on forever about this becauseit's just so it's just so wild.
How about when like you're supposed toread their mind, like I don't know,
just hype a sthethically yesterday garbage isbeing taken out. Oh yeah,
And we didn't have this conversation offhere, right. It was very much
Vince Vaughn Jennifer Aniston of I wantyou to want to do this. I'm
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like, I do what. Iwant to take the trash out. I
didn't say I didn't want to.It's just hey, I like, tell
me you're going to take the trashout and they'll help you. It's unbelievable.
I have to that's not the point. Men are from Mars and all
that kind of stuff. All right, final segment of the show coming up
next. I promise it's not gonnabe a relationship advice. It's not gonna
be a dear Abby or anything likethat. We'll wrap up the show when
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we return. Hey, it's CraigAckerman. The Rockets are certainly popping the
polypi back to the A team withAdam Wesler and the Twitter troll Adam Clinton.
Help me to do it with somebodyI'm not. I don't try it
here. I don't look for fights. Why I get irritated. Adam and
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Adam are on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the A team here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Final segmentof the week. Rockets basketball versus KD
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for that, WEX and MT willhave the call over at Toyota Center.
Speaking of the NBA, And thisis something that's actually we've had on the
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dock that we just haven't gotten to. But I just saw it and it's
like, really, really, Scottie, really, you just mentioned the last
dance Dan in the last segment.It was it was like musty television.
It came at a perfect time becauseall of us were, you know,
locked up in our homes like animals, and it was just something that was
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gripping television to watch, no matterwhat you thought of it, even if
you were say Scottie Pippen and youthought it was the worst thing ever.
Because you've taken every chance you haveto, you know, throw shade at
Michael Jordan ever since basically you hadto sell a book. And now apparently
you are going on tour with twoother members of the Bowl over the years,
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Horace Grant and Luke Longley, andthey're literally a tour. They're going
to Australia for a speaking tour whereyou can buy tickets to basically hear them
whine about the last dance. Thisis the description the trio Scottie Pippen,
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Horace Grant, Luke Longley, whichplayed with Chicago in the nineties, won
three championships, well, two ofthem won three championships. Scotty got six
will reunite down Under and pull thecurtain back on some of the most amazing
stories and memories with the world beatingBulls, arguably one of the greatest teams
ever assembled on a basketball court.Hosted by actor and entertainer Shane Jacobson,
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the quote No Bull Tour will presentAussie basketball fans at a once in a
lifetime opportunity to get unprecedented access towhat it was like playing with Michael Jordan
being coached by mastermind Phil Jackson,the adversity faced during the championship years and
more. I I know that becauseit's in Australia, I do think the
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ticket sales might be a little better. I can't help but think if this
were here in the States, itwould be an absolute terrible no cell they'd
have, they might have to cancelit. It'd be like one of those
tours that's just not getting off theground because you know what it's gonna be.
You know, it's just gonna beScotty Wining the whole time. And
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Horace Grant was actually, apparently,according to a lot of accounts, the
one that was feeding all of thatinformation outside of the locker room about some
of the some of the issues thatbecame bigger issues because it was being talked
about anyway. I Hey, maybeit'll be a big seller for Australia.
I'm I'm kind of crazy and thatI think maybe we just we saw what
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we wanted in the last dance.Maybe that's just maybe just watch it again
instead of buying tickets to this tourin Australia. Anyway, we would kill
for those six years that they hadhere in Houston, I assure you,
especially with the way things are goingwith the Rockets right now. But hopefully
they can turn things around tonight.Before they do that, before we step
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