Astros Off Today, Kyle Tucker With a Fracture, JV Uncertainty and Full On Game Week

Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton talk about what's going on in Houston sports and more on September 3rd 2024.

• Astros off today.
• Tough outing for JV in loss to Reds. 
• So Tucker did have a fracture after all. 
• Texans game week is here! 
• #SayWhat?! W/ Brian Kelly and Billy Napier. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam talking Your Team series.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Am back into it on a Tuesday edition of the
A Team Sports Talk seven to ninety and Space City
Home Network. His name is Adam Wexler. My name is
Adam Clinton. And I think the Astros wanted some attention
this weekend because they knew it was the opener of
the college football schedule, you know, the real one, and

(00:36):
they wanted to make sure that we were all still
paying attention. So after after sweeping the Kansas City Royals
out of town, which may have been the most impressive
series of the entire year given so many different circumstances
going into that thing, laid a dud yesterday in Cincinnati,
with Justin Verlander being the main culprit. But hey, it's

(00:58):
not a disappointing Astro's law if they don't strand the
bases loaded at least once.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Wex yep two losses in their last seven games. All right,
you got three hours to guess which pitcher was on
the mound to start both of those games.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Oh that's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's well, actually all three of us starts since his
return from injury, having l's for the Astros and they
only have three other losses the entire time. It's not
all justin but a lot of it is. It's not
pitched very well. But we welcome you into a work
week for us Astros. Baseball took over for us yesterday.
It is game week for the Texans, Texans and Colts
coming up on Sunday, and of course there is NFL

(01:33):
football now just two days from now.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
The season begins on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
There's another game on Friday, and the bulk of the schedule,
as per usual during the course of an NFL season,
to be played on Sunday noontime.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
For the Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
The Astros lead of a current six games over the
Seattle Mariners. Well, if it's still six games when the
Texans and Colts are playing on Sunday, well then the
Astros magic number will be well below the nineteen it
currently he sits at today. It is that time time
to consider what that magic number is. They have to

(02:06):
consider what's going on in front of them, and they
are now not at the bottom of the playoff picture.
But is Cleveland winning, is New York winning, is Baltimore winning?
Can the Astros find themselves beyond just winning the American
League West And is there still an opening for them
to slide into one of the two spots at the
top of the division winners in the post season that

(02:26):
allows them to take several days off to set up
their rotation like they want to have an opportunity to
continue doing what they've done every other year of this
extended run, which means we're not playing in the Wildcard
Game or the Wildcard Series because we're just too good,
and they still have that in their sights.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Every loss does put a damper on that.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
So even though since we last left you, yesterday was
the only time they lost, as Ac mentioned, they wrapped
up the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday four game sweep of
the Royals since we last spoke, and in some very
exciting fashion, they continue to get unbelievable starting pitching probably
the best month of pitching most everybody listening to the

(03:07):
show has ever seen in Major League Baseball in their lives.
I mean, I believe there are probably some listeners born
before nineteen sixty eight, but that was the last time
a pitching staff put together a dominant month in Major
League baseball in the manner that the Astros did.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's what makes these justin.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Verlanders start stand out even more, unfortunately, because nobody else
has run into that. Almost every single time, somebody else
is getting the ball, and clearly they're in a six
man rotation right now.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's why they have a chance to win.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
They only scored three runs yesterday, but that's still a
lot of what they had been doing behind a from
ber Valdez start, behind a Spencerrighetty start, unless he throws
a no hitter for seven innings and they score ten times.
But for the most part, they didn't have a barrage
of runs to win a lot of these games. Heck
I just told her it was the best pitching month
arguably this team's ever had. They lost ten times in
August because their offense has looked at like it did yesterday.

(04:01):
A Daz knocking in all three of the Astros three runs.
The Reds did their part in keeping the Astros close.
They left a billion runners on base also, and JV
just couldn't simply get out of the inning both times,
the front side and the first inning when he walked
the bases loaded to open the game, and then his
last inning when he couldn't get the final out of
the inning against multiple different batters, even after a mound visit,

(04:25):
which we'll discuss here, since both JV and Joe Spotted did.
But I think most of you guys have been waiting
for this since at least Friday, if not the week
before that, or the week before that, or the week
before that, or the ten weeks that preceded it, where
we wondered what was going on with Kyle Tucker. Hey,
guess what terminology? Be damned, there was a little bit

(04:45):
of a fracture in there, it looked like, and which
was so obvious from the get go, and we can
speculate the reasons behind it. I wonder if the Astros
will have anything additionally to say. Joe Spotted didn't yesterday,
though he indicated he might tomorrow before the second game
in Cincinnati on their third day in Cincinnati, because they're
not playing today, it got the day off, midweek series

(05:08):
on the road, the short little road trip after their
short little homestand and yes, they are still six games
ahead in this division because the Seattle Mariners, when they're
not playing in Seattle, well they are dreadful. Seven consecutive
road series losses is what they'd be looking at if
the Chicago White Sox had not been one of those opponents.

(05:29):
That's the only road series they've won since prior to
the All Star Break, and they lost another one over
the weekend, losing again in walk off fashion, and it
keeps the Astros in an incredibly strong position, among the
best positions in baseball, considering their division lead, just to
qualify for the postseason.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yet again, believe it was McTaggart, it was.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Maybe it was one of like Astro's mus one of
the numbers accounts talking about the last several seasons where
the Astros were or at this point in the year
and what do they have seventy What do they have
right now?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Seventy wins?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Seventy five and sixty three seventy five wins, that's right,
And they had maybe what seventy eight this time last
year and they were like a game back eighty five
the year before or something like that. I was just
you know, going it wasn't necessarily an exact, you know,
downward trend, but I'm like, this is like maybe the

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least competitive the division has been for the Astros in
spite of their own shortcomings and their record right now
that we've seen since twenty nineteen when they like boat
race the whole thing, even with their slow start in May.
And it's just I don't see put it this way,
And I said this last week that series with the

(06:47):
Seattle Mariners, I'm shocked if it ends up meaning anything
by the time it's played in like two weeks is
it two weeks from now ish?

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Maybe three?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, the way stas now, if they play even up
between now and then, it will still mean something because
they'll have a six game lead with six play.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
But specificeah, no for sure.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
But I think like the way things are going right now,
and I know that I'm saying this, even with the
the Astros and specifically Justin Verlanders spilling coffee all over
his shirt like I did right before I walked into
the studio today, I just don't see the way they're
pitching right now, Like, why is that going to stop
all of a sudden if your name's not Justin Verlander
just because the calendar flipped, And I can't think of

(07:25):
a better guy to go in the next game that
the Astros have on the calendar because he just got awarded.
He and Josh Hater just got awarded for their services,
if you will, in their respective roles, the Rookie of
the Month and the Closer of the Month on the
same day. And it's I mean, I actually thought, all right,
are there other awards that I don't know about that

(07:45):
they could get as a rotation because they've been ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
So where it all starts, it's probably where it's all
gonna be if there's a long postseason run in front
of them, And it definitely looks like Kyle Tucker is
going to be a part of it, which is a
huge asset, hopefully to this team. They got a little
bit better production from the latest two editions, Ben Gamble,
who's played almost every day since he was added to
the roster, and Jason Hayward, who's played a little bit
less and has contributed largely because of that a little

(08:11):
bit less also has provided. Both of them have provided
a strong outfield defense, which none of all of the
other guys who've been out there have done the same.
They also, as we suspected when we were last with
you on Friday, did not expect to see Alex Bregman
in the lineup. At any of those games, and we haven't.
It's very similar to what took place the last time
he needed this many days off, and that's what he

(08:32):
himself has told us and many others have echoed. This
is what it's going to be like in the postseason.
Is not going to be much different. He just likely
will play through it and give it a go when
it's clearly not right. This is one of those injuries
that's even without serious commentary from the team or obviously
the athletic training staff, there's a surgery in Alex Bregman's future.

(08:54):
Like maybe they instead of going into the clubhouse after
their last game, he'll just go right on over to
get a gallon and gets suited up, and they'll go
ahead and fix things so he can get back to
baseball during his offseason of free agency. But you could
see it a lot of games out there. There's a
play at third that's almost made, and you don't even
think about it when he's out there. So this is

(09:16):
what they continue to do. Their last one hundred and
twelve games. They're five games better than anybody in the
American League. It's one hundred and sixty two game season
over one hundred and twelve of them. They've been five
games better than everyone they're competing against to get to
the World Series, and that obviously now includes a four
game sweep over the Royals, it includes going two and

(09:38):
two on the road in Baltimore. This is a team
that clearly, even though the personnel is different, how they're
doing it is clearly a little bit different.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
The names are slightly different. I think that.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Teams are equally aware of the Juggernaut because the results
are what they are, the facts are what they are.
They're out playing everybody in baseball. They're doing it with two.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Key members of their lineup on the shelf more often
than not. Kyle Tucker's been out since June and Alex
Bregman has been out since well the middle.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Of last week. But their offense is suffering. Yeah, no,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
But here's the thing, and I know that they've already
played a game in another series since but I hated
the fact that we couldn't come in here and talk
about what they did to the Kansas City Royals, and
specifically what they did to as Chandler Rome put him accurately,
by the way, the truth Bobby Witt Junior He had
his first hit in the series in the late stages

(10:32):
of Game three, and it was a home run, and
he hit another home run. He's awesome, don't get me wrong.
They shut him down, and they shut most of that
lineup down. Now, they got help in the form of
pass between h getting hurt. But like that, that has
meant you got to play and actually drive in a run,

(10:53):
you know, and get hurt.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, well you didn't have to go there.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I was just gonna leave plant for the people who
might have enjoyed their weekend. Great tribute video, by the way,
it was awesome. Yeah, and he's the most unassuming guy ever.
He can get emotionally. Hey, Stoic, I'm here to play baseball.
He was making his season debutted. Then he started just
walking on the field.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
He's like, hey, maybe if I walk down to third
base here or something, they'll stop paying attention to me. No,
but they they really did a number on that offense.
And it was about as impressive a series as I've seen.
And it's such a clear example of the fact that
they're a completely different team now than when they played
them in early April.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
No question about it. And that's why that record that
I keep mentioning is so significant. That's what the other
most of baseball has seen. It was just a twenty
six game stretch. And I know some other people are
pointing to twelve and twenty four. I keep going back
to seven to nineteen. Whatever way you look at it.
This team has been that good for this much of
the season, and that's why it's so fun as they
get down the stretch here. Magic Number watch is on

(11:51):
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Speaker 1 (12:55):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
All Right, wex here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm gonna rain on the astros parade, and you get
to choose how I'm gonna do it this segment. Uh,
with what we argued about last week or what we're
going to argue about anyways this week.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Well, let's go.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Let people get the old news out of the way first.
All right, we all knew Kyle Tucker had a fracture.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
So again I'm gonna ask for the umpteenth time, even
though you don't care and you don't see what difference
it makes to use your phrase made baseball sense?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, but what does make a difference from how you
run your baseball team? Sense doesn't make any difference about
on the field unless you think the two are intermingled.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
What about okay, how about a third option?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Though? What about how your player is perceived?

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Since, uh yeah, we can get into that, but let's
hear it from Kyle first and foremost with one A
here from Kyle Tucker, as brief as it could possibly be,
with all the stuff he finally said and could have
said at any time over the last I don't know
how long because he doesn't even know what the timetable is.
I can't remember the day when this happened or that happened.
But he did acknowledge the obvious, as Chandler Rome first
wrote about yesterday, it's gonna be there. Oh, I know

(14:19):
it's there. I put it in its one A. It's
gonna be there soon. It's probably just not firing off, obviously.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Icknowledging swelling and everything kind of calmed down, you know.
Then there's revealed. There's a little fracture.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Machines as simple as that. Sweet Again, he said a
lot more. We did a lot of imaging after the
swelling went. We've heard all those things before because Dana
said that and now Kyle has said the same. Those
parts are not unknown or inaccurate. And also that is
how most all injuries like this are dealt with. Well,

(14:52):
has he had an MRI? A? Well, no, the swelling
has to go down, and then you have one, and
maybe you miss it because the swelling's still clouding what
you can see or something else is there or you
see something else. And as we discussed last week a
little bit and probably three or four times over the
last now three months, that he has been unable to
play the Astros a robust forty eight and twenty nine,

(15:13):
starting with the game on June fourth, the first full
game that he missed. But that's a long period of
time in Major League Baseball, some terminology differentiation, the article
Channel wrote to several weeks back, citing other outside non
studying Kyle's specific injury doctors, that you know, these can
be injuries that linger, even if there is never a
determination that a fracture, or if way down the line

(15:36):
a month later, two months later, it's revealed that there
was a fracture. When was that fracture revealed? Again, I
could let you hear what Kyle said, but it's on
and on and on about I don't know, so we
won't the baseball side of it that I was mentioning
before we heard his comment he was going to miss
this amount of time no matter what was publicly said.

(15:58):
The Astros had way more information than we did at
some point, thus they probably would have acted from a
team standpoint accordingly, meaning when we were getting reports, they well,
hopefully he's doing this soon, and hopefully he's doing that soon.
And it was late June early July, it hadn't even
hit the All Star break yet. If they knew that
was really untrue, which they might have, they could have

(16:20):
acted accordingly, been more aggressive in finding a bat somewhere,
whether it was at first base DH at his outfield spot,
rather than piecing it together like they did with one
call up after the next, and then Ban Gamble and
then Jason Hayward all while he was out. But they
knew this the whole time, so to me, they still
felt like that was the best course of course of

(16:41):
action having all the information, and his return would not
have been hastened if they had told us this publicly.
That's where I come in from the I don't want
to say who cares, I don't care. I do care
about the how it has come about, which is what
we'll definitely dive into But the baseball side of it,
I don't think would have been handled any differently. It

(17:02):
would be any different He would have still missed what
will probably almost be depending on if he plays Wednesday, Thursday,
or Friday, because we're pushing close to eighty one games missed,
which kind of, you know.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
A nice little benchmark on a six round. But it's not.
It is still possible that he mill miss zero more games.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, I'm here to tell you right now. I think
he's gonna be in a lineup tomorrow. I really do.
I know the safe bettest to say, Well, when they
come home for Arizona, we give him a comfortable setting.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I don't know why I'm talking about. I think it'll
be very comfortable in a Hits ballpark. No, they were
talking about that on the broadcast yesterday.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
How guys in bagwell, specifically guys love going to that ballpark.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
It was funny that the timing of that ballpark, and
obviously en Ron Field as it was once known, as
he referred to it yesterday, this was the batter's haven
pitcher's nightmare. Oh my god, five billion homers at this
ballpark and the Astros have to reshape How they've put
their French together from now until eternity, and in reality,

(18:03):
the ballpark in Cincinnati was just a launching pad and
has been ever since, provided Cincinnati puts a good product
on the field.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah, which I feel like.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
And I was talking to this yesterday because I had
a buddy come over to watch the game because it
was a day game, it was a it was a holiday,
and well, my wife wanted to be super lazy yesterday
and so we did that and it was raining outside.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
He was like, hey, you missed it.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
They did the overlay because he knows how much I
nerd out for those overlays.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
I love when they do that.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Except for when it shows where a home run would
have gone out in every ballpark except for the one
they're showing you. I don't like that's if it's an
Astros home run that ended up being a flyout.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
I still wonder like Jordan's one non homer at Minute
May Park this weekend, when Hampson went up and grabbed it.
It will say it was not a home run at
Minute May Park because literally it didn't leave the ball
and he was out. Yeah, but why are you really
factoring in the defensive player as well, is the program
really factory? It went over the fence? How is not

(19:00):
categorized as a home run, even though clearly it was not.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
That has to be factored in.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
You know, if it's the Crawford boxes, it's either going
to go over the fence or it's gonna hit it right.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Is not going to get the field right? Then the height.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And your name's Milky bets and als it matters? Or
did the fans like a fan reaches over, well, he
would have grabbed it for sure. So we're going to
take two runs off the board, Joe West, you dog.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
So the continued conversation from last week into this week now,
so it is pretty clear that Kyle was aware that
there was a fracture in his shin some point. I
don't I don't really want to speculate when, but it
definitely wasn't August. It was prior to this full month.
How about this already passed. Could have been sometime in

(19:44):
early July, I guess. But if the injury occurred on
the fourth. I'm not a doctor, but the swelling's probably
not in the way of seeing it. Even though this
is probably some tiny, tiny fracture that you know, doctor
X might not have seen, Doctor Y might not have
seen doctor Z might have finally said, hey, hey, let's
take another look at this and let me But either way,
it strikes me sometime within the first let's say, four

(20:07):
weeks of the enemy that's lasted twelve weeks.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Right, So that's the thing. I'm not either not, but
this is what we do because we don't have another choice.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Both a real life doctor Clanton and doctor Wexler out
there in this area.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh well, and then my uncle was another doctor Clanton,
the late Craig Clinton May he rest one of my
favorite uncles. But I just I look at this and
I'm like, Okay, at some point they reimaged and were
able to see what they see. And then it gets
into the semantics that you love so much. If you
don't want to tell everybody what's going on for real,

(20:43):
for whatever reason, I'm not here to speculate on what
it was because I don't care. I think if you've
got your best player who's in the MVP race and
he has a fracture in his leg, I don't understand
why you're lying about it other than okay, well, are
you not also then telling his teammates and the organization
outside of the two or three of you that were
in the medical room, because you're afraid that it's going

(21:03):
to bring down the psyche of the club, which is stupid.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
And I know that. I'm just putting out a scenario.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Because you know, the scenario is the players in the
clubhouse that are trying to get this team back in
the race and I stay in the race win.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Now they're taking another blow, are they.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
They're trying to protect these championship caliber players, fragile psyche
not letting him in on the fragile minded that Kaucker
is going to be gone an extended bay.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
They knew, probably before Kyle knew. And I'm being I'm
being facetious, but like they.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
All knowing it. I mean, he doesn't see the image.
The doctor probably looks at it before he does see you.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Think Bregman was in the waiting room. Hey man, I
got some bad news. I'm gonna be the one that
breaks it to you.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Joe, do you want to do this?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Not really, Dana, No, Alex, what do you say?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Tortillas on the shelf and he comes in and he
gives them the news.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
No Brew's chin, no Paris Texas, Texas is big.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Teresa loves that part where all too they opens the
map and it covers up.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Guys, I can't see, I have to say, I thought,
when he does that, come on, Look, he's driving this
nice five passenger massive SUV.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Without the brand on it because of commercial and of.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Course he has a camera as his rear view mirror. Yeah,
jose Al Ksuve can do jumping jacks behind him. He
can still see out the camera. Hope, are you ready
for this? It's a very obvious answer. Well, it's almost
like they hid Lance. He's in the back seat. He
does have a speaking role with his pretzel eye, but
and now Tuve chips it off perfectly for the bite.

(22:29):
By the way, that's exception. I don't know who's the
worst actor in the passenger seat. Well, I think they
had him exhaust his acting chops in the babble.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
It was like the fiftieth take that he gave his
line being ridiculous. But they all sing very well, very
good stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Keeps us all entertained during the breaks between beating up
on Kansas City and rising to the top of the
American League West and wondering when Kyle Tucker will return
to the lineup again. We're now at the point where
the baseball side of it is finally there is a
point in time we've seen all the videos. He looks
significantly bigger. To me, he's put on a little bit wait,
because there's only so much you can do with a

(23:08):
bad bruise, yep or broken lake, and so I do
think that has had some impact on the.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Size of the belt holes was never a specimen, a
little bit of a gut if you can hit that
ball in the same powers there because listen, nothing has
been keeping him from keeping up the upper body strength.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
You can do things like that.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
And the other thing is that with Dana indicating there's
a possibility Dana Brown obviously the Astros general manager, not
Danid Gordon, tomorrow morning at nine point thirty for his
weekly visit with the Sean Salisbury Show. Maybe Wednesday or
Thursday of the Cincinnati is a possibility. Maybe it's on
the home stand. Joe Spotta will address that again tomorrow
and we'll see about the lineup. All those things being said,

(23:49):
they've pushed the season so far that he's not playing
any games for the Hooks or the Space Cowboys. He's
gone through what is essentially his ramp up and his
game play by facing live pitching. Whether it was back
at Minute May Park, are now in Cincinnati. So all
those things are getting that rapid return to the lineup
now right in front of our faces. We continue Tucker

(24:10):
to the Astros next.

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JV and the Uncomfortable conversation.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Finish up with Kyle Tucker first, since we got more
to hear from Kyle Tucker other than as I have
a fracture ship.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh yeah, I forgot that because.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
We're speculating on the timeline of it. And as I mentioned,
Kyle was very nonspecific about exactly when he knew.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Doesn't have the dates off the top of his head.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Came across like it was of no concern to him
that once he had that information, what was going on,
how they handled everything. But from what he had to
say about where things are, this is pretty clear. I
think what I've said about it is something that he
appears to at least agree with on whatever the case
may be.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Here's where we are today.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
He talked a little bit about the process of rehabbing
the fracture.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
I mean, I think we did a pretty good job
rehaving it. Regardless, I think timeframe wise, it probably roughly
would have been the same. I mean, obviously you've never know,
but you know, it kind of is where it was
at the time. And I think i rehab process has
going pretty well, and I feel pretty good now and

(26:37):
I'm just excited to get back out there.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
So a lot of what I've said over the last
couple of weeks, calling it a bruised shin as the
team did, and knowing that sometimes the terminology from a
hairline fracture to a bruised shin to a deep bone bruise,
there's very little actual difference sometimes, and the reality is,
you know, you don't see what you don't see until
you finally see it. He's probably not saying the time
frame is probably about the same unless he's been given

(27:01):
that information. That's yeah, right a doctor at the point
whenever that point is that they did determine, yes, there
is a fracture, we can see a fracture in there.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
But here's where we all were at the timeline.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Had we seen it earlier than you would have been immobilized,
we would have decided for surgery. We would have put
you in a full leg length walking cast by the
ways unlike.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Dispute on that. So I was told by someone on
very good authority that at least the day of the fracture,
I guess in this case now he was wearing a
walking boot out of the stadium. Then I see various
reports this weekend where that was never the case. He
never had anything on at any point. And I just

(27:44):
I mean, a hairline fracture is different than a broken leg.
You know, we've seen the difference between a Monday night
game where they got to bring the cart out on
the field on an NFL contest versus this. But I
just I guess, going back to the original point, I
just don't understand why all the mystery, well.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
You're also you're talking about different before the team could
solve at all, they choose not to go to that point.
And maybe Joe Will will choose otherwise tomorrow, but I
don't think so. Normally, a foot, a bad toe, an
ankle will put a player in a walking boot in
this instance, when again the player was trying to stand
the game before he finally realized that I can't do

(28:23):
it on the shin area doesn't often call for a
walking boot, But they also didn't think he broke his leg,
which again wouldn't necessarily call it. Probably pretty immaterial at
this point, he seems again publicly in what he commented
on that you heard to be Yeah, the timeline is
probably not too much different. Maybe he's indicating he could
have been back a week or two earlier had they

(28:45):
gone a different ROUNDE. Maybe not, But the length of
time here hopefully is giving him the confidence that when
he's back on the field, he should feel comfortable that
he's not going to round second and have the biggest
moment of his major league baseball career or something of
the like. He also indicated, from his standpoint now putting
him in my shoes and your shoes, we spent three

(29:07):
months wondering about what really is going on? There was
there any of that for him? Thinking early on, as
he continued to be out and not feeling very well,
did he wonder if maybe there was more to what
was wrong with him?

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Obviously, you'd love to know as early as possible, which
is why we did a lot of I mean, I
took a lot of ho Horizon Soft leading up to
the point. So that's kind of why we overdo some
imaging stuff, just to make sure that you know, we
try not to miss anything, and you know, something does
pop up, we get as much as possible. But I think,
I mean, in my mind, you know, the timeline would.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Probably it is what it is regardless.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
So I was just worried about my rehabit trying to
get back and play as soon as possible, rather than
questioning anything.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
So that was that was pretty much both of us
right there, both of the hosts of the A team
right there. Rather than question that's you, you absolutely and
rightfully questioned everything. Yeah, and right before that was me
saying it is what is. The timeline probably doesn't change,
but and hopefully I'll be back. I was so focused
on the he's not playing today. If his leg is broken,

(30:15):
doesn't matter, if his shin is hurting, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
He is not playing. He is not ready to play.
He can't run, he can't stand in the cage, he
can't hop he can't round the bases, that's what I know,
and that's why I know it's going to be a
while before he gets back, even though the literal what
exactly is going down was unknown.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Here's the deal, and it's like kind of what you
just said, rounding the bases and you have a big
uh oh. There's gonna be no doubt about the fact
that this thing's healed. You know, like from a standpoint
of they're not gonna it's not going to refracture, it's
not going to open back up. This isn't the foundation
of a house. Well, we didn't get the foundation treated right,
So we're seeing some crackage on the back corner again

(30:52):
in the backyard. It's not gonna be like that, So
you don't have to worry from that standpoint. But this
is why the main reason they're not gonna send him
to Sugarland is because the timing does that's a thing.
I don't care how good he was playing, as far
as I'm concerned for Kyle Tucker, that's last season. That's
how long it's been. So you're timing in all that.
Even as good as he is, even as fast as

(31:14):
it might come around, it's still a thing. And we've
got no time to waste on it, because it's September third,
and we've got meaningful games to play down the stretch,
and especially when the calendar flips October.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Possibility of him playing this series, which picks backed up
tomorrow and then Thursday before they wrap things up in
Cincinnati from his general manager Dana Brown, yesterday as he
always appears, or this weekend as he always appears with
Astros Radio.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
Yeah, this is sort of like a you know, rehab
assignment fro him. You know, he's got a chance of
maybe you know, playing in the Cincinnati series towards the
end of that. You know, that would be really nice,
and that's kind of our goal. We can get him
to play Wednesday or Thursday, it would be really nice.
So he's been getting that live VP, running the basis,

(32:01):
throwing from the outfield. You know, I've always said I
think once he starts to feel better, this is gonna
move quick. And so you know, he's on track to
potentially play maybe on Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
It's so funny that you think about a funny and
no possible way about this injury. But it has been
excruciatingly long for a player with no timeline. You broke
your leg, we had surgery. It takes six to eight weeks,
then you can start doing baseball activities. None of that
took place. You had Tommy John surgery. It's ten to

(32:33):
twelve months. And this is gonna and this none of
that took place. And him to say, who's never hurt.
Once he gets going, it's gonna go pretty quick. You
think it's so it's one weird, yeah, because it has
done anything but go fairy.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
But there's two things about that.

Speaker 7 (32:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
The funniest thing about that is the only guy on
the roster that you can really say that about is
Jose Altuve because he's like a notoriously fast healer. But
in order to know that, he'd have to have been
hurt before, which he has been. Kyle Tucker's never been
on the Sholf for any reason, way, shape or form.
One of the main reasons why I'm like, yeah, Jim,
go against the grain and be that be shas should

(33:09):
be the one time you open up your money and
give this guy who's obviously older or younger than some
of the other guys who have left all of the
money because he never misses time. And I think I
said that and got that sentence out of my mouth,
and that's when the fracture happened.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Once, so we wrap up the astro side of things,
and our next segment will include yesterday's pitching performance. What
did JV think? What did Joe spot I think? Why
did he not take him out of the game when
he went out there to maybe take him out of
the game. And then at the top of the four
o'clock hour, we dive in on week one in the
NFL as we continue on a Tuesday edition of The
A Team.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety. Back to
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler eight on Sports Talk seven
ninety for the corner at that time, home of your Astros.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Very fired up about what took place this weekend. In
this first weekend of college football, fully full weekend of
college football did give us entertaining football Thursday, Friday, Saturday
for some Sundays for some on Sunday for those that
found a way in this city who have a particular

(34:23):
cable outlet to watch the game. And then again yesterday
for those same people that could find a way to
watch Bill O'Brien's team go one to zero last night,
a very full weekend of college football. We're going to
dig into that at bottom of the hour next hour
four thirty for our signature segment, Say what a couple

(34:44):
of interesting comments from a couple of coaches who wished
their opening games had gone a little bit differently. We're
very excited about NFL football returning Thursday night, where the
Ravens or Chiefs will fall a half game behind the Texans,
and then Friday night, when we hope everything goes off
in Brazil as it's supposed to for an NFL football game.

(35:06):
But I don't even think we've heard one tenth of
the man. It was bad because of reasons of why
the two teams that are there don't really want to
be there. And then obviously we've got Texans football, a
division game of very good stuff from the Texans last year,
for specifically from number seven. Even though the Texans lost
a couple of the games two of the five games

(35:26):
he started against AFC South competition, the next pass that
someone from one of those teams catches from him will
be the first. He was spectacular inside the division a
year ago, and hopefully that will continue. So four o'clock
hour we dig in hot and heavy on what the
Texans have in store for them and what the Colts
need to be worried about with the Texans coming to
their town to open up the season. Update on Will

(35:49):
Anderson junior situation as we're into game week. Also, but mentioned,
we want to wrap up the Astrols with how they're
starting pitching. Wrapped up the games that again took place Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and yesterday Monday afternoon. Since we last visited, Justin Verlander
made his third start since returning from injury. None of
the three have gone particularly well. Five innings or less

(36:12):
in each of the three one of them, yes, only
two runs allowed, but five innings and two runs and
a billion pitches I'm sure is not ideal, even which
with a little bit of a pitch clock on that
are pitch limit on the first of those three starts.
But remember the last two starts he made before going
on the shelf looked a lot like these most recent starts.
Four of his last five starts have included allowing four

(36:34):
runs or more. His last three starts since returning from injury,
he has a six seventy five ERA. He's given up
eleven runs in fourteen and two thirds innings. The other
five starting pitchers who have each started two games have
given up a combined total in those ten games of
ten runs earned runs, which is one less than just

(36:57):
Justin Verlander. So clearly there are things that need to
get corrected on his end. However he sees it and
however we see it. It's kind of a bottom line
situation for me. The results are what they are. Justin
verlinter talking yesterday about the game, specifically on the mound
visit when he was in trouble in what turned out

(37:19):
out to be his final inning and just didn't go
the way he wanted.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, I mean I said I felt good.

Speaker 10 (37:24):
You know.

Speaker 11 (37:24):
He was like, keep in mind, this is like your
thurs Spring training start, and I said, I understood, but
I feel great. So I got this guy, you know,
which makes even more frustrating because you kind of, you know,
you tell him, you tell your manager I got him,
going to get him. Yeah, obviously I know it wasn't
a hard hit ball.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
But still just sucks.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
It's not as easy as just saying that Caleb Ort
comes in and it would have been fine because he
promptly gave up a hit his first hitter. He By
the way, can I just say this before we finish
up the three o'clock hour. I am so sick and
tired of cal Rawley in my life.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I can't stit.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Not Kyle Riley, Oh Rodriguez, let me say how many
I can guess wrong?

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Even though I know who you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Dann, I hate it when he does this. He's gonna
do it on purpose. He's gonna sit here and name
off Mariner's lineup?

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Is it Theo Spain? Is it Larry London?

Speaker 2 (38:18):
So ty Franz sucks every time he fail.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
You know who he is. He's Kyle Seeger.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
This guy's gonna suck against every team out there in
the MLB except for the Houston Astros, and then he's
gonna go four for four like you did yesterday. I'm
so sick and tired of this guy. And the Astros
could have picked him up, but you know what, if
they had, he wouldn't have done this for that.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
The only reason to pick him up is to prevent
the night because he's still having a bad season.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
With since us have a roster spot.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
The hitter who got the hit the final pitch that
Justin Verlander threw and then the hit you mentioned that
Ord allowed were both two players that had been DFAD
earlier this season. And yes, it was a flair. He
threw basically the same pitch in the same spot to
the same player who hit it in almost the same place,
just made it fair and it ended his night five
runs allowed over less than five innings.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
And he pulled him by the way.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Oh, I mean, this is where you're stuck because of
who he is. And you know the back of his
baseball card, the number on his jersey, the Cy Young's
on his in his trophy case. You're paying attention to
all that stuff. And you know, Joe Aspota listened to
to the manner in which he talks about him when
he was asked specifically if if as you made your
way out of the dugout and out to the mound,

(39:30):
was that your intention? Did you know the the mound
visit that you made, were you indicating to yourself before
you got there, did you want to take him out?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
No? I just want to know how we felt.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
I thought he had you know, he was making pitches,
he still have enough in there to get us panel out.
And he looked like he he executed his pitches.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
He's just bald, you know, didn't go his way.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Okay, that was your dress rehearsal, Joe Aspota for the
uncomfortable conversation you're going have to have as an organization
if this keeps up.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
See, I think it's there's the last part of your
statement need not be made, So.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
The conversation needs to be had.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Well, it's just there's nothing. He can't do anything in
my mind, unless there are injuries. I you know, Spencer
Agedy can go have poor starts. You say, can have
poor starts, Hunter Brown can have poor starts. Fromber can
have poor starts. And I'm still more confident that when
I give him the ball, if I'm Joe spot in
game one, game three, game four, whatever, he's going to
give me what we're going to get from him, what

(40:28):
we need to win the game. Versus if JV goes
out there and his last four or five starts are
much better than what we've seen, it's not going to
change my confidence level. My confidence level is set in
stone already. But it doesn't mean that's the decision they're
gonna make. We joked about it last week. You said
with jav and your rotation. I couldn't answer more quickly
with a no before saying, but it's not that easy

(40:51):
of a decision. If it was only about the obvious,
what is he doing when he pitches, then this wouldn't
They wouldn't even have It's not a hard decision. It's
only a hard to say because you're trying to do
the things that have nothing to do with winning.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
You can't And I'm not calling him this guy, but
I kind of am. You can't afford to handle this
the way you handled jose A Bray. You and I
realize there's differences, and I get all that it's September third.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
I'm sorry, Well, he's gonna get the ball every fifth
day or sixth day, and that I think I can
live with. What about the postseason is what I'm talking
about it And that's all that I was to. That's
all I was referencing. I can't imagine the Astros telling him,
you're coming out of the bullpen in this series. My
hope is they get away with it or they have
to go down to Saturday or Sunday of the final
week of the season in Cleveland against the Guardians to

(41:38):
get wins to maybe get the two seed over Cleveland,
to maybe make sure they close out the division over Seattle,
and thus that makes him unavailable before you can't trust series.
But if you win the division, then you got all
those days off. He's clearly available. If you know, if
you win the division and make a one or two seed,
you would have those days off and we'd clearly be available.

(41:58):
But if he pitches well on then they're probably going
to say, yeah, you're you're a part of this, and
so waiting it's just they're just gonna have to get
away with it, overcome it, and hope to get I
don't want to say lucky. He's not a miserable pitcher.
But the numbers are not facing. The numbers are not
brand new.

Speaker 10 (42:16):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
The picture they acquired from the Mets was okay, the
picture they acquired from the Mets this year, a year ago.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
This year.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
He's not good. He hasn't been good. He has a
few good starts. He has way more poor starts, way more.
It's heavily weighted on the wrong side of things.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
And maybe it's more pronounced because every other guy is
nails right now, and so.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
They mean that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
We will discuss that continued in the four o'clock hour,
and it's Game week Baby the AE.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
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Speaker 2 (43:06):
Straight up four o'clock here on Sports Talk seven to
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you on a Tuesday edition.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Of the program.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Hope you guys enjoyed the long weekend, those of you
who were able to enjoy that at least, And we've
been talking a lot in the first hour about the
four game sweep of the Royals, returning the favor by
the way, for way back in April, when jose A
Brayu was starting for the Astros at first base and
they got swept.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, and that of course was the reason obviously the
Astros won the season series. Yeah, by virtue of sweeping them.
They have the opportunity to win another what will be
deemed unimportant series. If they do it against the Seattle
Mariners at the end of the year, they would win
the tiebreaker. But if they sweep the Mariners at the
end of the season, Okay, well, let's just say they do.

(43:53):
That means they've got today they've got a nine game lead,
then with twenty one games to play, they're probably not
going to need the tiebreaker. The mess the Seattle Mariners
in that series, they do.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Have a six game lead.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
In reality, they are off today, the Mariners playing late
tonight after losing yesterday. Bunch of series for the Mariners
inside the division remain. Five of their eight remaining series
are inside the division. That clearly is not very good.
The Astros have half of those series remaining, similarly in
a handful of games against the Angels, two sets with them,

(44:25):
and obviously the Mariners series that.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Still awaits them.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
But we spent a little bit of time on the
Astros in Hour number one, and rightfully so, as they
wind down a season that likely puts them in the
same position they've been in for nearly in a decade
as the Texans try to mirror that.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
But they're on the front side of it.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
A regular season last year that culminated with a win
in the building they will be playing in on Sunday.
That win catapulted them to the division title to the postseason.
Without it, there would not have been one of either
for the Texans last year, and just that sixty minutes
three hours of football, if you will, well, really change
I think a lot of people's ideas on what this

(45:03):
season can be because after hanging on to beat Indianapolis,
they were able to host a team that beat them
earlier this year. Albeit a case Keenum v. Joe Flacco
matchup is not the same as a C. J. Stroud v.
Joe Flacco matchup. As we learned, Christian Harris a huge
factor in that game, in the ensuing game against Baltimore,
in the previous game against Indianapolis, and as we sit

(45:25):
here today, it does look like he will be the
only player of substance unavailable to the Texans. He's unavailable
for the first four games because of the injury situation
and not being on the active roster yet, but it
doesn't look like we have any definitive information on the
rest of the group. Starting tomorrow, we will have injury
reports for both the Texans and the Indianapolis Colts. The

(45:48):
difference for the Colts heading into this second season and
for them they're actually looking at the same things they
just got here a little bit differently. What did the
Texans do last offseason, they spent their very first first
pick on their franchise quarterback after a couple months prior
hiring their brand new head coach, and Shane Steichen I
think rightfully, so got really good reviews for what he

(46:10):
did with Colts last year because their top quarterback pick
did not have much to do with their outcome because
he wasn't out there very much. And now you've got
a player who didn't play a ton at Florida, played
a very little last year for the Colts, had to
have surgery on his shoulder, which, again I think they
took the right path.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Let's take care of this.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Now early in his career, early in the season and
think more about his long term future than maybe getting
him back at some point this season. But you're both
in year two of I think franchises that you spend
the clock back one year prior to the Colts opener,
Prior to the Texans opener, I bet there was comparable
enthusiasm about where they are and it can't quite match

(46:50):
that this time around, because obviously CJ. Stroud has proof,
he has stuff in his back pocket, he has a resume,
he has a postseason experience, he has a posted season
team victory from last year. All the while Anthony Richardson,
who happens to be a close friend of his as
they went through the process together. They knew each other
long before the draft process also, but he doesn't have
any of those things as these two guys get ready

(47:13):
for their respective upcoming second seasons. Among the things that
Demiko Ryans, who even on Labor Day, labored through a
press conference with the media yesterday. Locker room was open
a typical Monday for the Texans. It is game week,
so some comments from some of the players and also
from Demiico. Demiico on the two quarterbacks heading into this game. Again,

(47:34):
the situations are not the same, but the hope for
each of their respective futures truly is That's what he
had to say about the other guy.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
CJ.

Speaker 12 (47:44):
Richards has been really great matt up for us to
start off the year. Anthony Richardson, as he showed with
the limited amount of snaps that he's had, he's showing
he can be a dynamic playmaker, you know, running the ball,
also throwing a football, So he's a playmaker you have
to account form every single snap is because of his
dynamic ability right to run the football. So he poses

(48:06):
a really good talent for us defensively, and we definitely
have our hands full.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
He's also dynamic, and then he can throw touchdown passes
to the other team as he should in the preseason.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
So I'm hoping that comes out in Week one.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Again, I don't the preseason activity there one of the interceptions.
I'm sorry if there was a second one. I think
everyone's focused on the one that he threw for a
pick six. That stuff is not oh my god, this
guy's got to get it together. That was hey, man,
see what they did defensively. You're supposed to go here,
turn around, sit down, and I'm going to throw the
ball there before you turn around, it's going to be

(48:38):
right there.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
You just catch it.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
And the receiver did something else completely different, and the
first player who was just standing there saying, hey, look
the pig skin touchdowns on the ground in three of
the four games that Anthony Richardson played in last year. Again,
he only played in four games last year for the
first five games of the season, and then nothing over
the final twelve games. For rushing touchdown I think you

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remember where half of them came. They came at NRG Stadium.
Early in that game, he ended up missing the remainder
of after a concussion following one of those rushing touchdowns
when he got hit just as he reached the end zone.
Had kind of pulled up a little bit knowing he
was going to get there and allowed MJ. Stewart to
really hit him pretty good. Four touchdowns on the ground,
threw another three, just had the one pick and that

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came in the opener. But two of those four games
he appeared in he did not finish. The other two
games had a little bit of everything. Throwing the ball
fairly well in the first one against Jacksonville, not throwing
the ball particularly well in the second game that I'm
mentioning that he did finish against the Rams. And now
his first game of substance since then comes against the

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Texans on Sunday. The difference between a commentary on how
that player played and the one that CJ or that
Demiko knows so much better his comments on his own
guy ce J.

Speaker 12 (49:51):
Stroud, Yeah's command is growing. Just how he communicates in
the huddle. You communicate with confidence at a huddle. I
think he's just been more vote. But when you do
it right. For the second time around, it's a lot
more easier. The the verbits of our offense hasn't changed,
so it's easier for him to understand what we're calling

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and communicate that with confidence, and he's doing that.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
That's the biggest thing going into CJ's sophomore season, respect Like,
you know, as far as there's so many things that
are looking promising, but I think you know, you forget
sometimes how much of just a teaching slash learning experience
a rookie season is for a quarterback. Specifically, you're installing

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your like these coaches were new as well, so they're
installing their offense Slowick and Demiko as a staff, but
then they're also trying to you know, impart that over
to their rookie quarterback. Neither of those two things are
as big of a priority going into year two, so
you can just get on the same page.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
You're already on the same page, and the.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Fact that you had that success his rookie year is
a big part of why you don't have to worry
about that kind of thing. I think, you know, aside
from CJ going into facing off against the Colts in
Week one, whether it's on the road or at home.
I don't worry so much about that because I think
CJ's proved he can go to hostile environments and be successful.
If it were just Anthony Richardson or it were just

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Jonathan Taylor that you were having to kind of worry about.
From a running perspective, I think I'd be a little
less hesitant to say, oh, yeah, this is definitely a
one to oher week. But the fact that they're both
out there, that both healthy, that's going to be a
chore for a defense that had its issues against the run.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Yeah, I don't dispute what you said about CJ location
being somewhat irrelevant. He did dominate in the AFC South
last year statistically nine touchdowns, no picks, passer rating over
one ten. They were only three and five or three
and two in the five games he played in and
to the home road splits. He played very well on

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the road six touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of over
ninety one, which isn't great but it's certainly not poor. Again,
not turning the ball over is huge, but he was
unbelievable at home statistically. I mean, maybe we don't look
back at the season and kind of view it that way,
but the numbers were fairly significantly different. His home numbers

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are kind of through the roof passer rating wise, completion percentage,
touchdown to interception, passing, yards per game, points on the
board for his team, and obviously wins and losses. They
won six of the eight home games that he started.
They only won three of the seven road games that
he started, and clearly, when we think back, what were
the poorer outings of his season. It's also even just

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one season's road schedule. I think you could regard it
as a rather small sample size. They only played the
Ravens in one location, right road, and that slides into
his road.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Game of the season, by the way, like this one
on the road.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
They only played the Jets in one location last year
year it was also on the road. Those were probably
two of the best defenses he faced. But similarly, he
went to play two poor AFC South teams in Atlanta
and Carolina in their buildings. They did not win either game,
they did not score very well in either.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Game, but they beat Cincinnati on the road, and he
was the main reason for that, throwing for three p
fifty six. Carolina is the one where you're like, ah,
what happened there?

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Yeah, I'm kind of looking like those were two okay defenses,
and you know, Cincinnati's defense probably should be better. Yeah,
I don't know that they were that day, but some
of these major outings. They dominated Pittsburgh that third week here,
you know, they went out and statistically speaking, what he
did against Tampa that obviously came here and those numbers
are they're gonna skew an eight game sample size heavily

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in the home slate. But then what did they do
at the end of the season, the very last game,
the best game of the season. No, did he open
it in traumatic, tremendous fashion and lead this team to
a victory in the most important game he'd ever been
a quarterback for as a professional to that point in
his career. Yeah, and that's all that really matters.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Yeah, he only threw for two sixty four in that
game against the Colts.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
But it's seventy five.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
We're on the first place, coach, it's about to say,
was it eighty was it seventy five? It was a
lot and hoping to replicate that kind of interesting. They're
gonna book end last season and the start of this
one in the same place. We will continue to discuss
the new team captains next.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
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Speaker 3 (54:32):
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Speaker 1 (55:02):
Back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler the eighty.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Now, there are a lot of things before an NFL
team starts a season where they may seem insignificant or
they might end up being a big deal.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
And it's ours.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
It's up to us to determine which is which starting quarterbacks.
Sometimes this is the case if you've got a true competition.
That's not the case here in Houston obviously.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Like which guys thinks less than Pittsburgh? Yes, very good.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Somehow Russell Wilson won that competition or I guess lost
it in the way you phrased it.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Let's see Denver and Las Vegas would be another couple.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Yeah, Gardner, Minshew or AOC. Who do you want to
go with? And they went with not AOC. The Patriots
going to battle with either Jacoby Brissett or Drake may
currently until we have to change our minds. According to Gerrodmeo,
their new head coach, they're going with Jacoby Brissett over
the rookie. I think bo Nicks actually won that competition

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in Denver fairly early. But yeah, there's a few teams
that had that not going for them when the season began.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
The recurring dumb storyline attached to the Texans right now
has to do with a guy who has yet to
play a real down of football for them. Though we
all know that Stefan Diggs's reputation, fair or unfair, accurate
or inaccurate, is that he can be a bit of
a malcontent if he doesn't get his way or whatever

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reason you want to either point to his solid or
makeup on your own.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
But he was named a team captain.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
In fact, you know the players and the staff, they
all have a part of choosing who these team captains are.
And I mean, look, anybody that's a team caton on
a team that shows something that shows that the rest
of the year.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Keep this guy happy. Is that what you're trying to
say or exactly the trying to say. But I think
it's one of other people.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Well, I put it out there because it's going to
be out there everywhere but here, And I said it
maybe two or three weeks ago. I think I used
the word it's going to be delicious this year when
Stefan Diggs season is nothing but football, nothing but catching passes,
running for yards, scoring touchdowns, helping a very very good

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team go to the playoffs, just like he did in Buffalo,
but nobody seems to remember that.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
I'm not saying he led them there.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
I'm not saying he's the only reason they went there,
and the same will be true here. He's joining a
team that went to the playoffs without getting any catches
or leadership or production from Stefan Diggs, but he was
elected team captain captain for the first time is a Texan.
But he was also a captain last year and the

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year before and the year before for a team that
everyone perceives as team Turmoil, led by captain of the
sinking ship Stefan Diggs, the sinking ship that probably wins
the AFC multiple times, if not for running into the
Kansas City Chiefs. If you kind of look at how
you know, we've marveled at the one season that Josh

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Allen had in the postseason, the game that they allowed
very very little time on the clock after they went
ahead on another Allen late touchdown pass on the road
in Kansas City, but left enough time on the clock
for their defense to say, how many yards would you
like on pass one?

Speaker 4 (58:34):
We'll have about on pass two. Let's see if we
can not win the game.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
He was unbelievable on Stefon Diggs is obviously a part
of all that. But one of these seven elected team
captains is Stefon Diggs, one of a couple of players
joining the team in the offseason that was named a captain.
Ale Shaier also one of their seven captains, and by
the way, their seven team captains, none of them are
a team captain for the first time. All have been

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elect did team captains previously Ward here and in San Francisco.
Each of the others all at different points during their
respective Texans careers.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Obviously CJ.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Stroud and Will Anderson junior, we're team captains last year
as rookies, and there are only other NFL season.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
I guess what I'm getting at is, I don't think
it's nothing.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
It's significant, especially if you weren't here last year and
you were somewhere else. In your name to team captain,
that tells me something about you, whether it's leadership, whether
it's just gravitating towards this guy for whatever reason.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
But as people will tell you, well, he's been Stefan
Diggs has been team captain in other places and that
didn't go too well, or.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
We're trying to tell you something didn't go well when
that's just not really the case.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
And I think, you know, it's interesting. We're by nature
and by default. I think everyone here in Houston is
going to not only see how things are going here
with Stefan Diggs, but in the back of at least
for me, I think, in the back of my mind,
I'm gonna be looking off to the side at how
things are going in Buffalo. Because Josh Allen's awesome. There's

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no he was awesome before Stefan Diggs got there. I
think he was there first, right, Yes, I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
And they're going to say, man, it's just someone's going
to pretend that they got a quote from somebody or
something anonymous to say, well, the air inside, the proverbial
air inside their clubhouse is smooth and isn't carrying extra weight.
It's not weighing down the place. Right while they go
five and six. While Josh Allen doesn't have a great season,
now he has a great season, I still think the

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same will be true. It's not related to who this
person was in their locker room. It's related to them
doing things differently, which they actually kind of started last year.
The reason why do you guys realize the reason he
wanted out of Buffalo is because they said to him
with their actions, we got rid of ROC, we got
a new OC. He doesn't want you as part of

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the offense, and he thinks they can do better with
what they have and what they're going to have by
lessening your role, throwing the ball to different players more
often rather than focusing in on your twelfth target of
the game. And now the results were wins. I don't
think I personally don't really think that's the reason it
worked out that way. Happened to coincide with Miami cratering

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and so you ended up winning the division.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
But now he's not there. Gabe Davis isn't there.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
That kind of shuffled the whole deck offensively, and that
includes their O line, and it is very very much
on Josh Allen shoulders and a lesser known group of
pass catchers the.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Tail as old as time, and it never ceases to
amaze me that this comes up, if not every season,
pretty much every season. I mean I'd have to go
back and look how many times either a broadcaster or
members of the media or whatever newspaper writers come in
and try to manufacture something that may very well be there,

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but they look in the wrong direction. What did we
see during the playoffs last year? Oh well, Lamb's not
too happy with Dak Prescott right now, You absolutely think
that Dak Prescott or any quarterback in a high pressure situation,
which doesn't have to be the playoffs, by the way,
it can just be a run of the mill Sunday
game in October where there are people trying to literally
kill you and take your head off as an NFL quarterback,

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you have the time to think to yourself, I'd throw it.
I'd throw it over there to Stefan. But I just
don't like his personality. Man, I don't like what he
does in the locker room. Oh crap, I'm gonna get
killed now. Like, that's not how it works. And you're
looking at these quarterbacks when you have these conversations, you
need to be looking at the coaching staff because nine, no,
ten times out of ten, that's where any sort of discontent, malcontent, source,

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whatever disagreement lies. It's the coaching staff that's, at the
end of the day, probably more responsible because they're the
ones calling the place.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Yeah, I think they was by design and maybe I'd
like to see what they do this year with a
very different group of receivers, but how they want to
do it. But like I said, just go look at
Stefan's numbers. First, I think seven games of the season
versus the final eleven weeks of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
It was just night and day.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
And it's not because he wasn't capable of doing the
things he was doing before, couldn't get opener, just really
was a philosophical change. So he's like Okay, I know
what I can do. You're now no longer asking that
from me, So I think by time here you're telling
me to request the trade. You're telling me I don't
need to be here anymore. I will oblige you by
hopefully getting out of here. And he ended up here

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in Houston. He's been here one hundred and fifty three
days and was elected team captain. And you kind of
talked about the reasons. The reason the singular is simple.
He's a leader. He was a leader in Minnesota. I
think a leader in Minnesota as he grew into his
NFL role, clearly a leader in Buffalo. And it was
very obvious from going out to games, practices, talking to
other players in the locker room, sideline activities, everything that

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goes along with it. He is a leader here also, Well,
that's what makes you a player that gets elected team captain.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Not only do I not worry about the relationship between
he and Stroud, because they're going to make each other
better just by default because of what they do. From
a talent standpoint, this is a complete even if it
is a one off, it's literally what we're talking about here.
One season experiment. Whatever you want to call it, there
is no way that, provided he stays healthy and Stefan

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Diggs stays healthy, that Nico Collins is not a better
receiver this time next year because of playing a full
season with him in that locker room, in that receiver room.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Yeah, I think he'll be a better receiver. And that's
not a reflection of his numbers. His numbers are probably
going to be awesome. And there's gonna be some things
that he'll do this year that maybe he hadn't done before.
But he's gonna learn a little bit about some of
the things that he might not have been able to
without somebody else there. I'm still like, looking back at
last year just a little bit. I think Robert Woods
probably helped a great deal, but Nico Collins was going

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to year three where he's clearly the most talented player
that was returning. I think Tank Dell's talent puts him
near that category. But two different body types. You were
going to be asked to be doing two different things,
and there really wasn't somebody to say, well, you're the
guy should do this, you should know how to do this,
you should know how to you know, win these battles,
do these things with your feet, do these things with
your hand throw and he's getting all that this year.

(01:05:07):
So I think the things he might not have been
able to pick up on from a teammate are now
right there in front of him because Stefan Diggs is there.
I cannot wait to see CJ make defensive coordinators cry,
make cornerbacks and linebackers and defensive ends.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Going what were we doing all week? And an opposing
fan base.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
I know we had this, I know this is the
right call. I know we're lined up right. And then
he goes to his third read and it's Tank Dell
and then they forced us into this ridiculous Look. There's
Nico Collins on one side of the field with no
safety help. What were we thinking, Well, we had to
cover Stefan and we had to check Joe out of
the backfield, and Dell was on the other side. It

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is going to be, I think collection that we've probably
never seen here from the Texans ever before.

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Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Time on a Tuesday? Here on the A team X
and AC here with you Dan as well. And there
was a lot of college football this weekend. So those
of you that were listening Friday around this time four thirty,
you know that we relaunched our Stone Cold Locks. So
our Stone Cold Locks from the opening weekend with a
college football game of the week and obviously no Texans

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game to pick. That will change this week. Our Stone
Cold Lock of the Week for some of us went well,
that was the Notre Dame Texas A and M game.
I did not get that one right, both of you
guys did. I actually only got one thing right at all,
and that was easy. I was cam Ward going over
one and a half touchdown passes in an absolute beatdown

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of the Florida Gators, which happened to show up on
Dan's list on the wrong side. Though he was better
than I was. I got one game right out of five,
one pick right out of five.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
He got two.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
You got all of them correct except for the Dabo
Sweeney Kirby smart games, stupid game.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
I thought a few.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
More points would be scored, and with Clemson not offering
much on their side of the Ledger came up.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
A little bit short.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
But heading into week two of the Locks, and heading
into week one, where a Texans selection must be made,
you have a sizeable lead, already winning four of your
five picks and the two of us, Like I said,
as you can see, not real sharp on the opening week,
and I hope you guys are following along understanding the
premise and the slight bit of comedy attached to a

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segment called stone cold Locks, where we're not soliciting you
to call a number, we're not claiming ninety percent winners,
We're not saying first free play for all new callers
or anything like that, not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Using a thick New York accent when saying any of this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
There's a little bit of fun behind calling it stone
cold Locks, which I think you could recognize in the
fact that I had five of them. I only got
inside the door once I was locked out the other
four times.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
What do they say free money everyone, or they say
cocky stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Of course I like the graphic you made though.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Yeah, well, hopefully we will see something with a little
less pink. Pink means you're dumb, you were wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
What has got it wrong? What's the smart one that's
mostly white? That's what you're at. Four whites and one pink,
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
A game of the week this week will be Michigan
and Texas. Of course, Michigan hosting the Texas Longhorns. Opened
at about five five and a half. It's already at
seven and a half. Favorite of the Longhorns different places.
We'll get a final number on the favorite status and
the over under come Friday, and we will lock that
in Texans. Colts will obviously be a part of that,

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but among the games that we had on our board,
it certainly has us talking about them because their coaches
were talking about them.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
After the game.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
All three of us had a thought about LSU and
Southern cal LSU. I tried to ask someone at the
game who sits down the hall and talks to you
guys from ten to noon if it felt like a
home game. Chris Gordy and Miss Chris Gordy, Ye, Lauren, Lauren,
I just want to yea. We're both at the game,

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and it actually sounded like it was fifty to fifty
at the end of the game, but it looked like
it was seventy thirty, sixty five to thirty five throughout
much of the game and all sorts of ancillary sportsbook
looks videos, casino videos. It just looked overrun with purple
and gold as expected. But he did not go that

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way with LSU coming up on the wrong side of it.
LSU's head coach Brian Kelly has I think gotten more
heat for things he's done off of the field, off
of the sideline since arriving at LSU, even though he's
won a lot of football games there. The program is
still in very good position to be very good. But

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he still provides us with excellence when he's either talking
to a crowd at a college basketball game or filming
some social media with the rotating three to sixty camera,
or if he's just at the podium after another disappointing
finish to a game with them losing.

Speaker 13 (01:10:35):
We're sitting here again talking about the same things about
not finishing when you have an opponent in a position
to put them away. But what we're doing on the
sideline is feeling like the game's over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
He's talking like they had a large lead, they seriously
outplayed the other team, and some I'm a body language,
I just don't. I don't mean that's not truly what happened.
And I think both quarterbacks to me make the future
remaining part of the season for both teams, you'd be
very excited about.

Speaker 4 (01:11:10):
Nobody wants to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
With a twelve team playoff, it's not nearly as costly,
but an SEC team's schedule is going to be very difficult.
Very few SEC teams lost well from another coach that
did in a moment, but they also very few of
them played anybody. LSU played a real opponent in a
real game. This happen and showed up. They were good,
they weren't good enough to win. They didn't score enough points,
which I think a lot of LSU fans have grown

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unfortunately accustomed to under different head coaches in different eras,
even with supremely talented players. Didn't run the ball very
well and they just didn't put enough points.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
All that with a pretty good performance from the QB.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
But that's okay provided you don't shoot yourself in the
foot which is what he was really getting after when
he was talking about the personal fouls and the penalties
being selfish, undisciplined penalties. And then he took a page
from the Gary Kuby it's on me. Well, it's the
first cousin of that that falls back on me.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Yeah, a lot of wrong end of the scoreboard this weekend,
coaches saying that's the reflection of me. I didn't do
a good job. The coaches didn't do a good job,
and it showed here on Friday, Saturday, Thursday, whatever day
they game played.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
I don't think that was even remotely.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Close to the least pleasing performance from an SEC team.
Miami Florida was once something that everyone wanted to watch
among the great These two teams might have the most
talent in the country any year. For about a ten
to twelve fifteen year period, it seemed like so obviously
those games are super exciting. There was a lot on
the line, there's always drama with it. The teams are

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in very different places as we sit here today. I
don't know how great either program thought this season might be,
though quarterback play can help determin that, and one of
the quarterbacks with a new home is the one playing
if for the Miami Hurricanes. Mentioned him earlier, cam Ward,
he was spectacular. Billion Napier's the head coach of Florida,
and if you don't know anything about their schedule, I'll

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tell you they are in for an awe full, awful season,
which means he's going to be hearing it a lot
from certain people. And he's already focused in on those
certain people. Just a couple of days after their opening
weekend loss.

Speaker 14 (01:13:11):
We got to go to work on the football part,
you know. And I think we've got to get more.
We got to become a more consistent team, and we
have to execute better. And if we can focus on
those things and not necessarily what some guy in his
basement saying and you know, rural central Florida on social media,
then we got a chance to get better.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Okay, am I the only one that closed his eyes
and thought I was listening to Nick. Saban sounds just
like him, especially now he's not as angry as Saban
has been after wins. But it definitely it gives Saban vibes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
As they say, I don't know, I didn't really I
didn't hear it in what he said the message.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
It was the manner in which and I don't know
about the man.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
We'll have to get more from Napier, maybe after they
lose to A and M or Tennessee or Georgia or
Texas or LSU or ol Misss later.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
This year year A and M.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
I mean, I don't think we're going to see another
extremely poor performance from A and M's quarterback. I think
that's why they did not win this past He said
that falls back on me. Well, he's right, and he's right.
I'm shocked at how clearly he played. Or they're passing offense.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
You see.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
I mean, there was some snarky stuff out there, but
somebody wrote it's so difficult to play at Kyle Field
that even the Aggies can't win.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
That's mean, that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Was rough, good setting, and it's kind of why college
football is so awesome. But that was one of the
other SEC games where an SEC team, the Aggies had
a real opponent, and it was a huge win for
Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Pat McAfee talking about the atmosphere at that place, the
same thing remains its true go to the event, don't
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Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Winding down the four o'clock hour here on the eight
Team Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network just
kind of to dovetail off of last segment's college football
conversation way back in the day, and I told you
about this last week when the University of Texas won
it all, and man, I just want do you think

(01:16:25):
if Cole McCoy doesn't get hurt, the outcomes different in
the Alabama game?

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
Yes, I think I'm asking the wrong person.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
I actually still think they could and should have won
that game with Garrett freaking Gilbert.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Having watched that game, I tend to agree with you.
But we all know what happened, not just against USC
in two thousand and six, but one year earlier when
the two teams that are gonna play at the Big
House this weekend got together and really that was Vince
Young's I don't want to say it's his coming out party,
because he was doing amazing things all season long, but
on a national stage in a big Rose Bowl game

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and all that kind of stuff that was actually has.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
To blind the national media sometimes to get them to, oh, man,
this guy's really good.

Speaker 10 (01:17:10):
Duh.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Do you think though, if Texas at that time, who
was a Big twelve team, had been in the SEC
doing what they were doing. Everything's the same, but they're
in the SEC and I know there's opponents are different
and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Do you think the media's coverage would have been any.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Different, Well, there's a difference between four and five the
regular season. You mentioned the six National title game, being
that it was played in the year January four. Team
lost just the one game they lost to OU that
year with Vince and he was really good and dynamic,
but he was still nowhere near as unbelievable he was.
The following year he was great, ran for a thousand yards,

(01:17:47):
through for twelve touchdowns and eleven picks, had only two
games of two hundred yards passing, completed less than sixty
percent of his passes. And then the next year, when
they were better than the best team ever and proved
it on the field at USC, he threw for three
thousand yards, he threw twenty six touchdowns, he completed sixty

(01:18:10):
five percent of his passes, and duplicated his ground game
with another thousand yard season. And there were games the
Oklahoma State game probably stands out to a lot of
people on the road, a game they weren't going to
win unless he went. Vince on that team late and
later in the game in the second half for how
they started the game, and he ran for two hundred
and sixty seven yards and obviously the sc game that

(01:18:33):
the back to back games in that venue. He ran
for one hundred and ninety two yards against Michigan and
the quote unquote coming out part of the year before,
and then went for two sixty seven through the air
and two hundred on the ground, including the third of
his three touchdowns to win the game.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
It's greatest college football game ever, you can argue with
a wall it's because he was so good. And I
was telling Teresa this the other day. I said, do
you know that Vince Young, Brian Cushing, Matt Liner, Reggie Bush,
and Lynndale White were all on the field that night,
And you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Really could go on and on even with games that
people know, but it was, it was. It was an
incredible path to get there, both teams putting fifty per
both teams went undefeated, and then it delivered.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
The stars were stars. The stars showed up and they
did know Lyndale didn't deliver.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Reggie probably would have preferred one play not being there,
his foolish lateral, but they it was awesome. It was
everything that everybody wanted to see. Texas and Michigan get
together this week That last game that you're bringing up
was one. On the last play of the game, they
got him in position to kick a game winning field
goal and Dusty Mangham popped it through the uprights and
they beat a storied program.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
They clearly don't face each other very often.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Michigan was good, but far from great this weekend against
Fresno State. Phenomenal play in the secondary to put the
Bulldogs away with that pick six. Just a great read
of probably something they'd seen in practice and kind of
felt like, I'm gonna jump this, and it worked out tremendously.
He picked off the ball and went all the way
with it. Probably do have a little bit better feel

(01:20:09):
of what their quarterback play will be like They're gonna
be able to run the ball and they're gonna be
very tough defensively. This was also in the forty Acres
and I was there this weekend. They're not at the game.
People went absolutely berserk because Arch found the end zone.
Arch got in the game the way he did Arch things,
whatever those might be in college.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
The improvisation was nice, but I say this because that's
the last time I was really and I told you
this last week, So last time I really thought, all right,
you t's got a chance, like a real chance to
win the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
Not just oh, you're gonna be a high.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
Ranked team and they'll have a nice little season and
they'll get into the playoff, but like they could do
it all. But games like this are what fascinate me.
And I'm admittedly not as big of a college football
fan as I am the NFL, and I realize I
think I am in the minority most people I talked to,
either in this business or outside of the business, if

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they love football, right, they love the NFL and college
football Nine times out of ten they'll say, yeah, but
I love college football more. And I get that. But
the last time I really thought that was gonna be
the case was you know, that year where they won
it all against USC But games like this upcoming week,
where it's it's the second game of the season, you

(01:21:25):
played a nobody in the first week, Michigan's coming off
of a national championship and the turnover that that provides.
UT on the other hand, is trying to take the
next natural progression in kind of the sark Era, but
also with Quinn yours, and I don't know what I'm
gonna see, And I don't know even if ut goes

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up to the Big House and wins in that environment,
which regardless of what Michigan's got on the field, that's
a tough place to play. That is, it's a staple
venue in college football and really in.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
All of sports.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
I don't even know if you make too much if
you do go up and win that game, you know,
I don't want to make too much out of it.
They've still got a lot of things left to work
to do on the schedule. But man, this early of
a matchup like this is what fascinates me the most
about college football, and I cannot wait to watch this game.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
It will earn them the ranking that they have going
into this game. A couple of teams moved up a spot,
with Oregon moving back a couple of spots.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
Even though they all won.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Texas is now third in the AP pole released earlier today,
just Georgia and Ohio State ahead of them. Michigan clearly
is behind them, so beating them will merely say you
beat a what we believe is a top ten caliber team.
And I think by the end of the year that's
where Michigan will be, so that will look very good.
I do think they're going to go up there and win,
but I'll save how stone cold I feel about it

(01:22:47):
till Friday. But yeah, this is why college football is
so awesome, and I think you saw a lot of
the reasons why I think Texas can do those things.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
They are three.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Huge tests kind of what I consider the front side
of the schedule, even though it's not fifty to fifty
is the Michigan game quite obviously, the Red River rivalry
with Oklahoma, who looked pretty good in their opening Friday
night game, and obviously they played Georgia the very next week.
And then in mid October, you've played all those three teams.
I know other teams the SEC are going to be

(01:23:16):
gunning for them, and I think Arkansas is one of
them that they should at least just don't look.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
Past them kind of deal. But until they get to
the final game of the year, Texas an I don't
think there's a team that they will really be up
against it against after they played Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
But after they played Georgia, they could be five and two.
That's a brutal back to back in a classic. It's
not a track game. Can you got to go all
the way from Austin to Dallas and then all the
way back to Austin to see Georgia.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
The following week. I'm not worried about the travel, but
I am. I mean, you mean the emotions of it all.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
He's the word, that's the word. Circle have them right.
And I do think when the season comes to a conclusion,
the top ten games that we saw unfold, not just
who the teams are. I think the game this weekend
with Michigan and Texas and I think that game with
Georgia will be up two of the ten best games
to have seen this college football season.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Prior to the postseason, my stepdaughter experiencing her first college
football game, and we were facetiming her yesterday afternoon, laid
up in bed with the cough sick. I'm like, you
had you sound like the first month of your freshman
year of college. You've not got enough rest, You've been
out in the sun all day. Yes, you got the allergies.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
I appreciate you presenting to dad now that she was
raging at the football game.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Oh, she left after halftime.

Speaker 12 (01:24:36):
It was so high.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Well the week leading up to the football game, which
also was the first week of school preceded by weeks
of you know, arty rush that can be taxing on
the body. I think the germs were abundant in Austin
this weekend.

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Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
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Astros Baseball. The Texans and Colts get together this weekend.
The Jaguars catch the Dolphins this weekend, a couple of
games of interest. If you are looking at some of
the numbers, those three teams obviously are expected to be
at the top of the AFC South, at least according
to Caesar's nine and a half that is the win

(01:26:57):
total for the Houston Texans, eight and a half for
both the Colts and the Jaguars their win total heading
into the season, and I don't think there's much of
a difference. Was talking to somebody at the last Texans
practice about who I thought was going to give the
Texans the most trouble, who would be in the way
the most, who stood the best chance outside of Houston
to win the division. I don't think there's a whole

(01:27:18):
lot of difference between Jacksonville and Indianapolis, But Indianapolis was
my choice to finish second, and Jacksonville right there with them.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
Maybe they'll end up with.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
The same record both on the outside looking in for
the postseason, I think is the likely scenario, and it'll
go a long way if again there's only seventeen of them,
if the Texans take out the Colts the opening week
in order to do that, and quite possibly the Jaguars
fall in the opening week to a Dolphins team that
definitely has a lot to prove with how they finished
poorly last season and then their postseason performance the Jaguars

(01:27:50):
very similarly. If you recall, the Texans were playing catch
up even after beating Jacksonville early in the season. For
more than half the season, they were looking up at
Jackville in the standings, and we kept saying, well, if
the Texans go for to down the stretch, and that
includes a victory over the Jaguars, then I think there's
a chance. Well, yeah, they blew ended up blowing right
past them because the Jaguars lost every game that Trevor

(01:28:13):
Lawrence started the last seven weeks of the season all
but he only did not start one game, and that
was the one game that they were.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Able to win.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
I know that we I don't think you or I
are going to pick them to finish anywhere other than
dead place, as we like to say here on the show.
But I think that Titans might end up surprising some
people by not just being the dregs of society. They're
not gonna be one of the worst teams in the NFL.
In other words, totally agree.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
I will predict their fourth place finish, but I don't
think they're a bad football team. I said this at
the time, and I didn't know how it would play out,
and the results are still off in the future. I
love the hire of Rank Karthon from the San Francisco
forty nine ers. When they put him in place, I
didn't know if they would try to pair him with
coach Rabel for the long term. I now know they

(01:28:59):
did not play and to pair him with coach Rabel
because one year into their partnership, he stayed and Vrabel
went and now he I don't know if you would
call it his guy, but he was a huge reason
why you hire a coach like that and Brian Callahan.
But I'm much more impressed with what I should be
impressed with the personnel. The quarterback is a different animal entirely.
I don't dislike saying goodbye to Derrick Henry at all.

Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
I like that. I think the Ravens are gonna find
out about that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
I don't really do it's bad, but I think you
can win in a different way. You didn't relying on
him the way they did was the right thing to do.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
When they had him.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
When the team was built for that, it became less
and less built for that. Even though their defense should
be good, their defense should be even better. They lost
alsha Here a captain last year. He's now here in
Houston as a captain. But some of the moves they've
been able to make defensively, the trade for sneed, some
of their trades that have happened since even the fifty
three year, since the beginning of training camp, they all
look very good to be They're gonna need to stay healthy.

(01:29:53):
They're gonna need a monster season from Jeffrey Simmons. But
there is a lot to like about the people they
have on the field. Is it's just a matter of
what kind of quarterback play did they get? And they
all those things. I said, the thing that should have
been first was they made significant attempts to have a
workable offensive line. It was unworkable last year. Just go

(01:30:13):
see the Texans games. There was no time for Will
Levis or anybody else they wanted back there to throw
the football. They were embarrassing offense. You made me feel
better about the Texans offensive. I mean it was it
was a turnstyle. It really was embarrassing what they were
leaving their quarterback out there hold in half by the Texans. Now,
he didn't get rid of the ball very quickly on
top of that, but he had very little time to
make any kind of real decisions. He does have the

(01:30:35):
physical tools, and now it's a matter of putting him together.
I'm kind of fifty to fifty on the Ridley ad
for the amount of money. But you know, if Spears
and Pollard make a nice duo in the backfield, and
I think they will, if the offensive line is at least,
like I said, serviceable. Well, now you're giving Levis a
chance to maybe. I mean there's a real possibility if
he can play that, we're not going to see anything

(01:30:57):
change in the AFC South at the quarterback position for
years and years to come. Lawrence has already got at
his extension. We're just on a timing hold with when
CJ gets his. I think Anthony Richardson and Will Levis
clearly have the opportunity, Richardson more so than Levis to
just say you got your guy, you picked your guy.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
I am the guy. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
And yet, having said all of that, and I was
not kidding when I said that about the Titans, there's
no reason to believe that after Week one the Texans
shouldn't be in sole possession of first place.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Hary Jacksonville at Miami Cocid if you believe that's an
al but Tennessee would have to lose to a rookie
quarterback in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
And I don't know the next time Chicago has a
successful quarterback since Jim McMahon will be the first time.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Really, I know they've been to a Super Bowl. I'm sure.
Rex Grossman appreciates that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
He's Rex Grossman. I mean, point taken.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
You're saying that like you think he's not good. I mean,
am I following you correctly? Do you think he's good?

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
I mean, I know, I'm trying not to be biased
because he all so throw the pigskin for the Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
He was one of twelve quarterbacks that year that threw it.
Few Jake delomb got in there.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
There were, yes, there were a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
Liner, Jeff Garcia, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Let you completely the excellence of a quarterback who started
in the Super Bowl. Sexy Rexy the Super Bowl quarterback
for Lovey Smith's Bears in the two thousand and seven
Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
The star of.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
The Bears for that game wasn't even on either side.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
Of the Balls of Fame. It was Devin Hester.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Technically it should be sometimes on both sides of the
ball was highly contributed. But yeah, uh yeah, I think
that's a reasonable thought. I would probably say I actually
think the Texans and Bears will be undefeated when they
meet each other, So that would fall right in line.
Who did they play in Week two? The Bears the Texans? Wait,
I thought that was a Week three game. No, the

(01:32:55):
Texans home open Week two, Sunday Night against Sunday Night.
For some reason, I had it in my mind that
was week three. Okay, Week three is Sam Donald against
the Texans defense.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
That's not gonna go well for him, probably, I'm if
it's it's definitely Sam Donald though.

Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
That's three weeks out. No, not definitely Sam Darnal. I
think he's going to be back. No, I don't think
he's going to be back. But it doesn't even matter.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
Whoever else they have might have to play because he
stinks or.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
He gets hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
I was about to say he gets hurt, might be
the better bet of those two scenarios.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Like Jacoby Brissette was named the starter for the Patriots,
the Texans are not gonna I don't think gonna be
playing Jacoby Brissett when they meet early in the season.
Drake May will have They the reason they didn't name
Drake May the starter was it does have sound reasoning
behind it, even though you've heard me say you can't
get better if you're sitting on the sideline holding a
clipboard wearing a ball cap, watching somebody else who's worse
than you play. But their offensive line is maybe as poor,

(01:33:50):
probably not quite as poor as the Titans was a
year ago, and they're a little bit concerned that he
isn't going to learn anything while he's unable to read
defenses because he doesn't have any time to do it.
And I think either they'll get it figured out or
they'll just have a better idea of what they need
to do, because the sooner he gets on the field,
the better, and I just think that they'll they'll realize, well,
there's some merit to not putting him out there in

(01:34:10):
week one, even though other teams. Jadan Daniels is gonna start, clearly,
Caleb Williams is gonna start. Bo Nicks is gonna start,
I think soon enough, and prior to Patriots Texans, you'll
see him as the starter.

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
That's week six, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
I'm telling you right now, Wex and anybody else that
wants to get in on this. And I'm not talking
about the Browns because they are one of the first
three opponents. But after the Dolphins game, the Jags host
the Browns, then go to Buffalo before coming to Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
They could easily.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Be one and two coming into that game and then
leave town one and three, not even I'm looking because
what I'm looking at is they're all gonna play the
same schedule. They're all gonna play the same teams. But
early on the Texans, and you said this earlier, they
need to get out of the gate fairly swiftly, if
you will, because they can also take advantage of their

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biggest two competitors for the division, the Titans.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
I just got done complimenting them, but they're not in it.
But the Colts.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
If they lose to the Texans, they go to Green
Bay the next week, they're Green Bay Packers the next week.
Then it's Bears and Steelers before they go to the Jags.
But then they'll beat up on each other. The Texans
could really start to put some separation between themselves and
anybody else if they play their cards right. And by
playing their cards right, I mean just don't lose for
the first like four or five weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
And as we've added a seventeenth game, just these are
where they differentiate as a first place team and as
your crossover NFC game. Those three additional games, the Texans
will play the Cowboys, they'll play the Chiefs, and they'll
play the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (01:35:49):
That sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
It's significantly different and harder than any combination or trio
of three teams.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
That's why we say, first pla schedule. Hey, my air
quotes work now because we're on TV. Yeah, so those
all come by the way.

Speaker 3 (01:36:05):
Late in the year, the Manning cast will sit down
for the Cowboys Texans game, one of the twelve games
they announced they will be doing this year.

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
I'm duh. I mean there's a couple of Monday Nights
they left out, but that is not one of them.
That's an epic matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
Well, I know the cowboy history between the Texans and
the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
If the Cowboys hold up, they're into the bargain right now.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
The battle for Texas on Monday Night football is as
good as it gets.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
Should be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
And again, I'm a I happen to be a huge fan.
I'm not sure everybody is, but I like the show.
I when Monday Night comes around, that's usually my choice.

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
Is this weird to say?

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
Like, I feel like if I were to watch that,
I would feel like I was not missing something because
it's not like the Monday Night broadcast.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
Is actually so good.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
They kind of recognize that when they make fun of
they like we realize like you're kind of missing something.
It's either you're listening to what they're saying, or you're
laughing about something, or they're talking about a play that
happened a couple of minutes ago.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
But it's just a different way to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
I obviously kind of depend on what three or four
guests they bring in for that one.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
Yeah, well, who do you think it'll be though? Will
it be flavored? Texas is flavored? Probably one of the
three guests.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
Yes, like.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Jerry Jones should be on that during unlike the game,
that would be amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
We'll continue next here on the eighteen.

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The eighteen continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Eighteen.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety this show
has flown by today. We're already to Tuesday because of
the short week and the holiday. Uh, the astro is
getting the day off today after they had to work
on the holiday yesterday, and all the rest of us
had the day off, or at least a lot of
us did. But justin Verlander and the rest of the

(01:38:58):
pitching staff, you had that tweet yesterday that was spectacular
le depressing looking at the numbers that the other four
I guess five technically, because it has been a.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Six man rotation. You got five guys making two stars each.
And JV made his third start. Since his return, he's
allowed eleven earned runs in those three starts over fourteen
and two thirds. The other five guys, each of whom
have pitched between ten and fourteen innings in their two starts,
they've combined to allow ten earned runs.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
I mean, it was one of the most games.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
And you are a numbers guy, obviously, and even having
said that, in all of the numbers that you are,
your computer and your the fingers attached shoulder sending out
there on the side. It was one of the most
depressing tweets I've ever read. Well, the numbers, in my opinion,
they do not lie. You know, a game his last
start was man that one pitch that turned into a

(01:39:52):
multi run home and all of a sudden it looked
like a poorer game. I just didn't I didn't like
that analysis of it, and I sound like Jessin was
kind of saying that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
He said the opposite.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
This game, he gave up a flare with two outs
in the fifth inning that knocked him out of the game.
That puts the third and fourth runs on the board.
But he said I blew it, basically in his own words, saying,
you know, I told Joe that I got this guy,
and then I didn't. And even though it wasn't you know,
a rocket, so to speak, you know, I didn't get
the job done. And then the run of that was
left on obviously scored also when he stole second and

(01:40:24):
or allowed the single. So it's a less than five
inning outing and he gave up five runs and they
had to make that his last batter because.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
He'd thrown more pitches in a game than he had
all year.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
This is kind of what Renelle Blanco had run into
during his downtime, is he was into the fourth, fifth
inning and you're already looking at, well, how many more
batters can we give him? Because that was his pitch,
his eightieth pitch, and now he's at his eighty ninth pitch.
Now he's in the high nineties, and we're just trying
to get fifteen outs from him. That's been JV and
all three of his starts. The first start isn't fair
to say, but he was at his limit just because

(01:40:57):
he was at a different point in his return pitch
count was his limit was much much lower. But you're
sending a guy out there now with the expanded bullpen,
why one player?

Speaker 4 (01:41:07):
Forrest? I always strike out the side Whitley. It's a little.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
Less difficult, but you really don't want your starter only
giving you fifteen outs, and that's kind of where he's
topped out at, you know, multiple times, both prior to
leaving with the injury in June and now since his return.

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
This is a rhetorical question.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
Is it bad that I'm happy he's going to be
facing Oakland, who's still playing very well versus Arizona. Oakland's
had the second best record in the American League since
the All Star break?

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
Or is that the one.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
There's all these charts that I'm seeing lately, these graphics,
and I can't remember if it was since May eighth,
which I don't think it was, because that's.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
The Astros in the Oakland since May eighth. I'm gonna
say no on that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
Yeah, but I think since the All Star break there
he've got the second best record to the Astros in
the American League, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
The Astros since the All Star break have posted twenty
five wins, which is number one in the American League. Yep,
the Tigers, Royals and A's all tied for number two.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
Yeah, twenty three wins, beast, I thought that was the case.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
And there, I mean, they crush baseballs and that's how
they score most of their runs.

Speaker 4 (01:42:16):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
Yeah, they're a homer hitting machine. The Diamondbacks. Just enough
with this already, another double, another stolen base, another single,
another extra base hit, and then somebody hits one of
and they just kind of make you they're a little
bit and they're not nearly as good. They certainly don't
have the pedigree, but getting through their line it just
seems to be a chore. And we know that well
from what Houston has done. But that's why when you

(01:42:38):
look at who's remaining on every team's schedule, and you know,
I'll put a little graphic together for that also, it
seems like it should go a certain way. But when
you're looking at just these two teams at the top
of the division, in Seattle and in Houston. If Seattle's
not playing in Seattle, it really doesn't even matter who
the other team is. They're just not going to beat them.
And why till they show me otherwise, there's there's thirty

(01:43:01):
teams in Major League Baseball. There are four teams that
are worse on the road than the team trying to
catch the Astros.

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Seattle's twenty nine to forty one on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
There are only four teams worse than that when they're
not at their home ballpark. That is crazy that that's
the team chasing you. And now that we sit here,
they're through one hundred and thirty eight games. They've won
half of them. They're sixty nine and sixty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Nice. That is the epitome of a team. As you've
pointed out.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
The last several years, I've tried to say, well, they
went eighty six and seventy six, so that's a good team,
and you really didn't even want to have it. Well,
now I definitely can't say it. They are not a
good team if they only win half their.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Games, even if they have the best They do have
the best pitching staff in baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:43:47):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Well, they did until the Astros had August and just
started smoking fools with I mean, Spencer, can we get
Spencer Araghetty on the show? I just want to talk
to him and be like, what's it like to walk
around know that nobody can hit anything and even sniff
it when you're on your game. It's how we felt
about Justin when he got here in twenty seventeen. Although

(01:44:09):
I think his stuff is much more deceptive because it's
got more movement on it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
It's been phenomenal watching the delivery and then what the
pitches are doing, and it's clearly baffling hitters. He's mixing
his speed as well. He's working with his catcher very
well setting hitters up. That's part of pitching. It's not
just totally what is your stuff, but his stuff has
been very, very nasty, as spin is through the roof.
Just to the point of who these teams pitching staffs are,

(01:44:34):
the Mariners do still have the number one ERA in Baseball,
and they are still number one in whip and batting
average against. So they clearly have been awesome for the season,
which includes the astros miserable pitching to start. The Astros
are fifth. They've moved that far up with this extended
period of beyond excellent phenomenal pitching. They're now number two

(01:44:58):
in batting average against. This last month. We pointed it
out a couple of times, No pitching staff in any
month since nineteen sixty eight has been better than what
Houston just did in August.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
And I could not feel more opposite about After you
get through this Cincinnati series and you got Spencer Aarraghedtty
tomorrow night and Hunter Brown, I feel good about the
Astros if they can even somewhat put some offense together
taking the next two games of the series. I know
it's baseball, so that might not happen, and they've already
lost the opener. But the opener for Arizona is fromber

(01:45:30):
which plays to what you were talking about with the
type of offense they have. If they're gonna put the
ball on the ground a lot, then I feel good
about the defense behind fromber Well, except for Jeremy Panie,
who cannot field all of a sudden. I don't know
what the problem is there. But then they go or
they come or I'm sorry, they stay home. They got
a six game homestand against Arizona, and then the opener

(01:45:51):
of Oakland is Justin Verlander. Those guys mash he's a
flyball pitcher. Uh oh, like he's just I really need
to see something for him because otherwise it's like you
got to go to the playoffs right now in September
third fromber Hunter Cacucci or Spencer Arraghetti. I haven't gotten

(01:46:12):
to Justin Verlander's name yet, and I might not after
those two.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
Now, just going to his start against Cincinnati in a
hitter's ballpark. He wasn't in trouble because he got hit around.
He was in trouble because he was not in attack mode,
because he's rarely in attack mode in twenty twenty four.
I don't I haven't heard him be been asked this,
and it's a pretty hard question to ask, but he
pitches like he doesn't trust his stuff. I definitely think

(01:46:39):
it was impacted on him getting to the ballpark and
getting on the mound and doing what major league pitchers
have to do, finding out where today's strike zone might be.
Oh my gosh, this is a total disaster for pitchers
and it should never be like that, and yet it
always is. It definitely played against him. I mean, he
didn't throw terribly in the first inning, but he was
unwilling to challenge hitters in the middle of But he's

(01:47:02):
through a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
But the reason he shouldn't you shouldn't be forced to
do that because the umpire has indicated that those pitches
in the zone aren't strikes.

Speaker 3 (01:47:11):
It's okay not to challenge people. Because he did make
his pitches over and over and over again, low and outside,
catching all of the plate, not a call to strike.
It makes things rather difficult. But it was noted yesterday
out Space City Home Network, and I imagine elsewhere he'd
never done what he did yesterday ever in his entire
major league career.

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
Walk the bases loaded open up again and he.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
Had to go talk to said umpire after the first
inning to be like, hey man, where's your zone?

Speaker 4 (01:47:37):
That should never be a conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
It's a constant one, and it's totally stupid because it's
completely avoidable. It's one thing that this is nineteen eighty
five and we don't have the technology. But when the
minor leagues are at least installing a challenge system, let
alone robo OMPs. If you want to be this way,
Rob Manford, fine, you've put your head in the sand
about a million other things.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
It isn't I It's not only him, No, I know,
it's sadly the powers that be the players.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Who is the dumbest, Like if you're not a pitcher,
then I guess I can give you a half a pass.
If you're a pitcher and you don't want this, I
don't know what to do. You're hurting yourself. That's That's
just how I feel like you're hurting yourself when you
do this.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
Hey, we're focused on the pitches that were in the
zone that weren't called. Well, what about the ones that
are two and three feet off, three inches off the plate?
Strack one that works to the picture's advantage. I got
a big strike zones that I can throw it up
and away and continue to get this.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
Call all of percentile. That's it looks good. What ninety
one like? Umpiring, heart surgery, airline pilot.

Speaker 4 (01:48:41):
It's a game. I know I'm not expecting one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
It's a game, but I don't think those other two
things are very fun games to play. It could be
life and death. Yeah, this isn't it could be. This
is a baseball game.

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
Can play it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:53):
He's trying to extend his career into his forties and
he's having to throw thirty pitches.

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
He and Kate going to do if he's not pulling
in the salary that he pulled in this year, next year,
what are they gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Because the Mets aren't gonna be there to pay it. Well,
maybe they will, maybe they want him back. We shall see,
all right, we got about a half hour to go
or so here on a Tuesday edition of The A Team,
Sports Talk seven ninety and Space City Home Network.

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Speaker 14 (01:50:35):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Back here on the eight team around the time, we
usually get you caught up on a few items we
might not have gotten into yet or have not gotten
into in quite some time. We call in a case
you missed it. Some NFL signings taking place. Trent Williams
not long after Brandon I you've got his deal done
now has his own deal done, and the Niners are
back full strength from a financial stamp one as they

(01:50:59):
get ready for their season. Kind of leaves just two
guys out there, Dak Prescott and Jamark Chase. As we
approached the season which starts on Thursday, but not for
either of those two teams. Handful of other things that
clearly we need to get into. Dan will handle those
as he always does, but not before both of us
wish Dan a happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:51:17):
Yeah, happy birthday, Dan, in case you missed that. Yeah,
that's right. We did.

Speaker 10 (01:51:20):
Actually all show long, no one more tell them over
the hill? How time flies?

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:51:25):
Speaking of the forty nine ers, well, they had a
really interesting situation that obviously we can talk about it
that way because it didn't conclude in an even worse outcome.
Rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot over the weekend while
he was shopping for luggage after signing at a local
card show there in the Bay Area, and miraculously missed

(01:51:48):
any major organ walked to the ambulance before being transported,
and Dove Cleimban on Twitter, who's usually pretty good at
nailing this stuff down with accuracy, reporting, yeah, Pierce Saw
is already working out in the team weight room.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
Well, he was shot in the chest specifically, which is
the miracle in the.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
Chest, out the back, and missed, as Dan said, all
the vitals and was alarming to hear it. I was
jarred by the fact that I hadn't seen or read
what happened, and then had seen him, like you mentioned,
he was walking himself to the ambulance. And it's an
awful situation. And again a player that no reason to

(01:52:28):
believe that he's done anything other than be somewhere and
nowhere bad. And another player that's from a football standpoint,
they clearly think. I mean, even though they re signed
Ayuk and they have Debo under contract, that's a player
they expect to just be kind of the next in

(01:52:48):
line for greatness on their offense. And he's gonna miss
They haven't said for sure. I don't think he was
placed anywhere that would prevent him from coming back sooner.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
But four games.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
We're gonna look back on this era of forty nine
ers football.

Speaker 4 (01:53:05):
This is completely separate from the shooting incident.

Speaker 2 (01:53:09):
I really do think we're gonna look back on this
era as they're getting to being one of the greatest
teams that never won anything. Because they may very well
make it back to the Super Bowl this year. I'm
not picking them against anybody that comes out of the AFC,
because if you got out of the AFC, you went
through the absolute gamut they will have beaten who the
Detroit Lions again?

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
Right, But how about going to the Super Bowl and
trying to win against any team you can pick, as
long as they don't have Pat Mahomes. Don't you feel
like the Niners have a chance to beat them, or
might even be the favorite to beat them.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
I know, And here's why I trust the AFC quarterback
going against that defense more than I trust that defense
to neutralize that quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:53:52):
It doesn't matter who pick a team.

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
Just go down the list and I'll tell you when
I start thinking, all right, the forty nine ers will win.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
Yeah, I just there's no need to you. I can
hear how you feel, but I'm a little surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
I'm not saying it's not gonna be a contest. I
just think that after sixty minutes, I'm taking Pat CJ,
Josh Allen, all these quarterbacks over that defense. And that's
not a slap at that defense. That's a compliment to
where the game is from the quarterback position.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
I get all that, but I can't help but think
they were in overtime against Mahomes team just a couple
months ago. Yeah, and now they can't beat anybody from
the AFC. Did they win, They did not outscore them
in overtime or in regulation.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
Yeah, it's and that's again, it's just more about how
highly I think of like Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (01:54:41):
At some point the Chiefs, and maybe it's this year.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
I hope not, since I've got Pat Mahomes as my
fantasy quarterback, among other selfish reasons, at some point them
collectively they have to fall off. I don't think he's
falling off any time. But like Travis Kelcey, is he
gonna do it again? Yes, exactly. You didn't even hesitate.
Of course not, and you shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
He will be great again. And I do think Worthy
fits there what they were missing. For all we know
they've got at eighteen week season of Rashie Rice. Also
unpunished because if nothing happens from a legal standpoint, the
NFL continues to say, it's not our place. We don't
know what's going to happen yet, and so it looks

(01:55:25):
like they're gonna have all that working for them. Isaiah
Pacheco is I don't think he's underrated because I think
people who watch the game really understand how strong a
player he is. They don't necessarily count on him to grew. Great,
he's not going to get the love that he deserves,
becausetty awesome. Yeah, they are loaded again.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
It's I didn't even mention Lamar Jackson though all of
these quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (01:55:45):
I take over the forty nine ers defense.

Speaker 3 (01:55:48):
All Right, our season predictions, suck it, San Francisco will
be delivered on Thursday before the season open or what
else do we have?

Speaker 10 (01:55:56):
All Right, So on Sunday, if you were getting set
to watch LSU and USC and you have a certain
TV provider, well at six o'clock when yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (01:56:08):
And if you were about to at least watch the
Alfonso Robero Show of America's Funniest Videos, well then you
were sol if you had certain provider, because that's when
they pulled the plug on all Disney related properties on
their service and their CFO. When asked about trying to

(01:56:30):
restore the service before Monday night's opener in the NFL
the very first Monday night football game of the season,
said not playing the short term game. We need something
that is going to work for the long term sustainability
of our video customers. The resolve is there. So if
you want to be sure that you have the game

(01:56:50):
on Monday nights. You might be sol.

Speaker 3 (01:56:53):
Aaron Rodgers and the Jets against San Francisco, who's obviously awful,
but still getting a Monday night game. There are certain
cities that are a little bit different. Our city is
one of the unlucky cities, I guess in this regard,
and that they are This ABC station here locally KTRK
run through the Disney owned by the Disney ESPN family.
Thus if that falls under their umbrella. If you were

(01:57:16):
in another city over the weekend, like I was, the
ABC station, there was not, so the game was on
and I was able to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
Look, I've been saying for a long time Disney is
a terrible company, and direct TV just did the right thing.
Believe me, they're run by demons.

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
It will, as you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
Said for sports fans, I don't This is not an
a I don't think anything's gonna happen before Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:57:43):
I don't think it will be super long.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
But I don't think there's a solution in our midst
before the first full NFL week of football games are
played Thursday through Monday night.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
By the way, Dan, I haven't looked at the list
we just talked about can A City for like half
the segment. Did you see the Travis Kelcey news off
the field?

Speaker 6 (01:58:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Are you aware? This is definitely an in case you
missed it item cheryld's class Travis Kelcey's management team.

Speaker 4 (01:58:18):
That's a great phrase by itself.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
Travis Kelcey's management team is trying to put an end
to rumors about an alleged breakup contract with Taylor Swift
that's floating on the internet. Earlier this week, a document
allegedly made by La based PR firm Full Scope, claims
to feature a strategy for Kelsey's breakup with the famous

(01:58:42):
pop star. In the alleged document, there's a date for
Kelsey's breakup with Swift and a prepared statement for both parties.
I just this is why I asked if they can
do it again? We gotta do it's I saw this
the other day. It's almost trav It's almost a Taylor
Swift season in a fans can't wait.

Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
So you're wondering if Kelsey can repeat his football performance,
even though his relationship with Taylor might be a sham.

Speaker 4 (01:59:08):
I don't think it's a sham.

Speaker 3 (01:59:09):
They definitely go together for sure are they going together?
I don't know if this fake PR strategy is to
be believed or not.

Speaker 5 (01:59:19):
The a team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
Ninety the eighteen, I'm cleansing the afternoon team, covering your team.

Speaker 5 (01:59:30):
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seven ninety baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
Welcome back. My name's Bob Ross, and we'll be painting
an astro's visual today. We'll have a little start over here.
His name's Justin Berlander, and we're just gonna hid him
over here. He'll be our little secret. That's what that
music made me think of, a Bob ro What was
it called? The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross?

Speaker 4 (02:00:06):
I missed that. I missed that show a lot. Did
you ever watch that? Wex? It sounds like a show
full of sarcasm? Hure? Why why do you hate Bob
Ross so much? May he rest? I'm familiar with his
artwork productions, his artwork productions, Yes, his paintings, if you will.
Did you ever actually sit and watch an entire episode?

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
I mean probably about five to ten minutes worth of
the soft, soft soft voice of Bob Ross.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:00:31):
Do you know how I knew? The work was tremendous? Like,
how is he gonna turn it? Oh yeah, I see it.

Speaker 10 (02:00:36):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
How's he gonna make that look? Oh yeah, perfect, looks good.
It's a nice icy lake you just painted in there.
She's gonna beat the dickens out of his paintbrush right here.
I'm sure he never said that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
He did say it. That was his go to line.
You should watch the documentary on him. It's actually pretty sad.
Docs Here we go. Yeah, I knew, Bob Ross, You
know how I knew it was time.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
I wish all the documents documentaries you've watched were like
box sets, DVDs or Blu rays or Beta Max tapes,
so you'd have them stacked up somewhere in the house
so I could go pick a back when I need them,
give you a list. No, but I mean I want
to actually physically see them as part of the decor
in your man cave.

Speaker 4 (02:01:14):
Well, I can work on that.

Speaker 2 (02:01:15):
You know how I knew that it was time to
go back to school at the end of the summer
when I was you know, basically any time before my
last semester of grade school in my senior year at
high school, when Bob Ross would come on and that
would be chased by Sit and be Fit.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
You remember that show? Wow, do you train on that DS?

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
I mean I'm saying, I'm watching this woman and she's
got to be sixty five.

Speaker 3 (02:01:37):
I mean, it's no different than the infomercial is running
now where I could be sitting here on Space City
Home Network in Sports Talk seven ninety and be keeping
the blood flow, cooking in my legs and getting an
exercise because I have the cycle basically underneath my feet.
Because you have a Fit and be Fit two and
a half pound weights in each hand, something like that,
They're not going to do anything unless you're sixty five

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like her and you just want to get a little
bit mobility in your life, which then I understand.

Speaker 4 (02:02:02):
You're talking about an era.

Speaker 3 (02:02:03):
Clearly Matt Thomas would love that included such featured athletic
performers as Richard Simmons.

Speaker 2 (02:02:12):
I don't remember Richard Simmons having like did he have
a PBS show though.

Speaker 3 (02:02:15):
I mean he was the king of the initial on
rush of cassette or video workouts, workouts, you know, but
he wasn't jazzer sized that like Dave did for Marv Albert. Yes,
Dave did for Richard Simmons and his popularity. Well, Dave
would have him on just to make fun of him.
He would go on and then be frightened of his
activities and tell him, yes he would, and Richard would

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get very offendive.

Speaker 4 (02:02:38):
All right, back to twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:02:40):
Four, Astros take the next two because of who is
starting as pitching or pitcher. For them.

Speaker 3 (02:02:48):
It's not a great team that they're facing. It's in
really no ways. They've fallen well back of being in
any legitimate race. Their thoughts of the postseason have ended. So, yes,
this is a team you'd like to as long as
you keep playing the way you I would expect them
to take the next two games easiest just saying it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
But yes, and ty France gets one in the ribs,
I doubt that. Why not they He's not worth it?

Speaker 4 (02:03:12):
I think he is.

Speaker 3 (02:03:13):
So you plunk ty frant You're seventy five and sixty three,
You're playing a team that's going number and nowhere, and
you want to ask them to throw at your guys.

Speaker 4 (02:03:22):
I will Astros get hit. It doesn't matter if the
Reds get hit well on the base, maybe they don't
have one of those runs yesterday. In fact, they don't
have one of those runs yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
So do what every other pitcher in Major League Baseball
did this year, get him out, got him DF eight.

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Yes, it's unbelievable, man, I.

Speaker 2 (02:03:36):
Mean it's so he's worn how many different jerseys and
produced against the Astros?

Speaker 4 (02:03:41):
Now three? Just these two.

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
I thought he was on a third team and hit
like a Grand Slam against them in the World Series
or something.

Speaker 4 (02:03:47):
I could have sworn which, Yeah, which team was that?
I don't know. Ty France just gets on my nerve.
I don't tweet it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:53):
I hated him after his career as a padre against
the Astros, but he was on the Padres.

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
Maybe he has a couple of hits for years.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
This was one in the nineteen and COVID year nineteen
and COVID year twenty teven.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
I'm like, that's some weird way of you saying it
was like his rookie year in the nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 3 (02:04:08):
It was this rookie year in twenty nineteen. The following year,
I believe everyone in America had COVID.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
Yeah, that's just annoyed me yesterday because it's like it's
one thing to lose to the Cincinnati Reds I get it. Like,
by the way, Ellie da La Cruz again showing why
he's awesome with that catch.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
It helps that he's like six foot eight, not a
very well hit ball, but it almost got placed perfectly.
Not quite as well as Niners.

Speaker 2 (02:04:33):
Gammel, Right, they hit that almost over his head but
didn't didn't. So yeah, I like rag Getty and Hunter Brown.

Speaker 4 (02:04:39):
I can't. Are you like me?

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
The Diesel's not sticking for you is a nickname. I
just don't feel like that that's happening with him.

Speaker 3 (02:04:48):
I mean I don't refer to him as the Diesel
very often, but like Blummer loves it, and that's why
the nickname. I just call him that though, don't they,
Well that's who should really be he. I doubt he
cares if we call him that.

Speaker 2 (02:05:00):
Yeah, but like there's there's nicknames that have stuck in sports,
and specifically baseball. But I don't know if there are teammates,
Like I don't think any of Randy Johnson's teammates refer
to him as unit.

Speaker 4 (02:05:11):
I mean neither did I. He's the big Unit.

Speaker 3 (02:05:14):
Well that's what I mean, But that nickname was legit,
Like I didn't never call Ken Griffy the Kid. Speaking
of nicknames, since you were talking about the Longhorns and
Wolverines this coming weekend, at least two, one for each side,
expected superstar celebrity types one for each side. But Connie

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is expected to be there and honorary captain for the
game for Michigan. Brady, he no, come on now, Brady,
don't have time to go to that football game in
the morning and get to the NFL assignment the next.

Speaker 4 (02:05:49):
Day because he's hung over. Still, he will.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Already be in the city where he's working, which is Cleveland. Oh,
I forget that, so far from the big House. I
forget that he's got some other.

Speaker 2 (02:05:59):
No, actually the captain Jeter Geeta, I forget that he
went there. But okay, you said two, one for each site.

Speaker 4 (02:06:08):
I'm sure there will be others we'll hear about during
the week. Hey, Jeets, how's it gone. Samo's playoff baseball time.

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
I'm sure he could resurrect some of his lines from
Days and Confused and turn them into Jeter lines. You know,
you know Jeter, when you're a baseball star, they kind
of stay the same age.

Speaker 4 (02:06:26):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (02:06:28):
But when you give them those gift bags on the way.
It's the morning. Time for you to get out of here.
All right, all right, all right.

Speaker 4 (02:06:35):
There's not a better murderer's row. That's pretty strong.

Speaker 2 (02:06:38):
I mean I'm trying to think, like I'm sure like
Wilt Chamberlain talked about it a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
Well, I mean, those were just just because they weren't
famous doesn't mean they weren't nice looking ladies.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
I thought you were gonna say just because they weren't
famous didn't mean they were nice humans.

Speaker 3 (02:06:51):
I'm sure they're very nice humans. You just happen to
know the people that Jeter is rumored to have gone
on dates with to.

Speaker 4 (02:07:01):
Have forced to sign NDAs you mean, not forced.

Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
I think you ask them to if you don't mind,
Hey you want to come up stairs of our date
on the down low?

Speaker 4 (02:07:10):
Hey you want to come upstairs? Sure, all right, sign this?

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
I don't think so they're like the dorman doesn't let
her up until she signs it.

Speaker 4 (02:07:20):
Maybe I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, maybe who is
who is the best on that list? Pure heat?

Speaker 3 (02:07:25):
Hm? I mean I think that's what makes Kelly. I
was going to say. Some people would say her, Yes,
that's a that's a list maker. But yeah, I think
Mika just pure straight up strong, very strong way more
off the field life is quite good looking.

Speaker 4 (02:07:43):
Yeah, nice.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
All right, that's gonna do it for a Tuesday edition
of The A Team here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
We will be back at it again tomorrow for a
truncated edition of the program as the Astros will resume
their weird series that has them taking it off and
the Queen City of Cincinnati, Ohio. I hope nobody ate
any of that chili, especially Spencer Araghaty since he's the starter.

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We'll be back at it again tomorrow at three o'clock
here on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (02:08:11):
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