Not All On CJ, Bobby On Shaky Ground? SayWhat and What To Do With The Dome

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

Speaker 2 (00:18):
What's Up, Houston, Texas. It is a Tuesday edition of
the A Team Sports Talks seven to ninety. He's wex
I'm Ac. We will take you up until six o'clock tonight.
We'll be on TV in about an hour from now.
So if you want to, you know, watch us like
the fish bowl that we are in, you can fire
up the Telly and put us on Space City Home
Network where we will be simulcast from three to six.

(00:40):
But with our new hours, first hour is well, it's
a little bit lucy goosey here, I'm just kidding. We
have plenty of things to get to today we will
talk about your Houston Texans. As a matter of fact,
I have selected the second hour of the program today
wex for my hottest take of Tuesday. It's not a
sponsored segment. I'm not even calling it that. I just

(01:01):
think that it's not HTT if I were gonna do
something like that. It's not STT that sounds that sounds
far too close to something dangerous. We don't need any
stts on this.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Show, no days of the week that begin with D.
I feel pretty safe. Well they all end in day though,
Well that's not what we're calling it. But yeah, that's
what I'm gonna do in the second segment. I'll save
that and you'll absolutely see. Maybe I should do it
when we're on television so that people can start counting
the eye rolls, because you'll get it. But it's honestly,
if you're looking at this text and season, how would

(01:36):
you describe, like, give me one word or I'll even
allow a phrase. And I was thinking about this early
and I wanted I was very interested to hear what
you would say organically. How would you describe through four games,
either with a word or a phrase?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
This current twenty twenty four text in season?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
You mean only considering these last four games?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, no, you said through four games?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Through ten games?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Ten?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Did I say four?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was thinking six and four in my head. I'm
sorry I did that. Yesterday I said, hey, play cut
number twenty three, and I was reading the amount of
seconds that was the SoundBite. This is after you left yesterday.
My brain is just I.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Watched a lot of it after I left, and there
was volume on in the media workroom. I was not
in the media workroom, and it took about twenty minutes
or so to get there, so I caught that part.
But then once arrived at TC, it was time to
buckle in, eat fast, and lock into the broadcast.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Which was a good broadcast. I would assume I didn't
hear any of it. I mean, the broadcast quality was excellent. Unfortunately,
I will still answer your question. Yeah, it's you know,
the Pistons game the day before. Highlights galore, drama galore,
intensity galore. The teams were not separated by many points.
Both teams made a bunch of great highlight reel Matt
Thomas worthy screaming calls. Last night's game there were very,

(02:51):
very few. The Rockets waited until the fourth quarter to
embarrass the Wizards. Wizards talentless group.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I appreciate the effort that it looks like their players
are giving at this point in the season. It's bad roster.
It's way too young of a roster. They are very
They're getting close to what the Rockets thought. Some people
thought they might be the last couple of years when
they got a lot of young players. But I don't
know if anybody's great, Well, they don't have even as
much talent. They just have a lot of young players.

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And then what the Rockets finally did this past year.
I think the Wizards are waiting on that until or yeah,
until they actually have something to build on, and they
don't know if they have that yet. I mean, the
Rockets were pretty deliberate adding Fred Van Vliet and Dylan
Brooks and Jeff Green and Jack Landell and Aaron Holliday,
veterans that you know in that whole group of five,

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So we're gonna play a lot. The other guys were
gonna be a huge part of helping these players understand
what it's like to win and be a pro. You
can learn to be a pro, but if you don't
know how to win, it really doesn't matter. And that's
kind of where Washington is, you know right now. Kuzma's
an excellent talent. He was smart to get his money
and smart to accept their content. I think he should

(04:01):
be quietly or loudly saying get me out of here
whenever the time is right. Jordan Poole, he's a tough one,
super super creative, offensive talent. Don't think he's going to
be a part of a winning team when he's anywhere
near the top of the list of talented players on
that team, because he's probably their most or second most
talented player. But that means your team stinks, and he

(04:24):
needs to find a spot where he's less counted on,
like this body was in before before he got punched
in the face.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
You know what I think of When I look at
Jordan Pool on any NBA floor on any given night,
I think to myself self, I can see why Draymond
Green would punch this guy. I really do. And it's
not after the fact, because now you can put it
all the time ramon fan by any stretch. Yeah, but
and I don't condone what he did, but I can
see why he did it.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, but you can also say the same thing and
flip it to the other player. I can see why
that player did it because that player is liable to
do those things.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And he did it again the other day, did you see.
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
And I'm not even anti Draymond Green. I like him.
I don't like that he constantly has to apologize for
things he's done because an stop himself from doing it.
So I want to believe him when he says it
won't happen, or some of the times he's finally I
think he's gotten to the point where he doesn't apologize
any more.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Why when they punish him and people are like, this
isn't enough, this is proof of that.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, because it doesn't serve as a determ. But yeah,
the Rockets took care of business. That's what they hopefully
will do moving forward this year, maybe a little bit
more than they did last year. I mean, you finished
last year with a little bit of a flourish. You
got yourselves to five hundred. You just came up a
little bit short, a little bit late in the push,
and now you've started seven and four. Quite honestly, I
think everybody in that uniform and in that building knows
they should be no worse than eight and three. When

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you consider what happened in the opener, and maybe you think, well,
we kind of already made up for it because we
went to Dallas and beat them with their two stars
on the court. You know, maybe there's a little give
and take, but you got to put yourselves in a
good position to when or if injuries hit. They were
playing light last night with no Fred and no Jock.
But against the Wizards, it's acceptable and still able to
win very easily. And what happens when you do hit

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a little bit of a spell when you are in
a little bit tougher stretch of schedule, when you're playing
the very few teams that are actually ahead of you
in the standings. A seven to four record puts them
in a great spot here. If they were in the East,
they'd be at the three seed. There's only a couple
of teams playing better than five hundred basketball. But taking
care of business on this home stand would also be nice.
The NBA Cup begins tonight. Around the league Tuesdays and Fridays.

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Over the next couple of weeks, you'll play those games.
The rockets first two Cup games are Friday games, both
at home. This Friday the second of two games against
the Clippers. The Clippers are one of the five teams
in their group. And then next week they actually have
a fairly similar setup. They're playing the Clippers Wednesday and Friday.
Friday the NBA Cup game. Next week they're playing the
Blazers Friday and Saturday, and Friday is the NBA Cup game.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
The Kings and the Wolves or the.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Other two teams and the Rockets bracket or their pool
play group play, so certainly could prove to be fun
to watch, and you also get your first chance of
two to see the Rockets other NBA Cup court. It
will also Wednesday's game will draw us within one week
of the Hometown Heroes debut. The uniforms come out for

(07:17):
many dates. They just released all the dates they expect
to be wearing them, and they also go on sale
on Thursday. But tomorrow night's game against the Clippers puts
us one week out from next Wednesday's game against the Pacers,
when they will trot those out there today. If you're
kind of trying to follow along with the Texans schedule,
being that they play on Monday night, they just basically

(07:39):
added a day to their work week on the front side,
which was yesterday. So today essentially begins what a normal
week would be.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Monday.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
After a game, you have players available. They were at
the podium today and then Diamiko Ryans has his game
after presser. There just was a day in between Tomorrow
is there Tuesday? It's actually Wednesday, but that's the day
they're off, and then instead of being on the practice
field Wednesday, Thursday Friday. They're on the practice field Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
have to get all their stuff together for the extremely

(08:09):
long trip to Arlington on Sunday afternoon to make their
way comfortably to the Metroplex so they can take on
the Cooper Rush led Cowboys. And Jerry made the decision
official today, announcing in his weekly appearance on the radio
that is it for Dak Prescott in his first season
after signing his massive, long term, millions of dollar extension,

(08:35):
He's gonna go ahead and have season ending surgery. I
don't know all the particulars of it, but I do
know it's not expected to impact really much of his preparation,
if any, for next season. The Cowboys preparations for next
season are rapidly approaching because I would imagine, like you
saw the Bears do today, with their offensive coordinator, the

(08:55):
Cowboys coaching staff and personnel group, it's gonna have some
serious change just when the twenty twenty five season begins,
and they're probably beginning their path towards your prediction from
going competitive the.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
First few weeks of the season.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
From a record standpoint, we can still win, we can
still compete. The season's not quite over, Well, there's two
teams in their division with seven wins. There's a bunch
of other teams in their conference that are significantly better
than them that the only way they can catch them
is to hope to beat them and get help, all
while having Cooper Rush and Trey Lance as their quarterbacks
the rest of the way.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh that's not even the most I think interesting Dallas
Cowboys news of the day, which we will certainly get
to throughout the course of this one. By the way,
today is my Tuesday. I just wanted to put that
out there as far as my schedule goes mine too,
So yeah, yours too, but I don't want to see
hear for.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
You other than the Texans yours as well.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yours as well, exactly. Okay, So all of that is
to say, how would you describe the Houston Texans season
thus far with either one word or one phrase underwhelming?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
But that's only as it relates to expectations, which, as
we know, like when coaches win Coach of the Year,
they went Coach of the Year because we were wrong.
I didn't realize your team was that good. I didn't
realize you were gonna win that much. We thought this
and then you did that. Now it's just kind of
the reverse. Our expectations were, well, they were really good
last year. They won ten games, they won a game
without c. J. Stroud, they won a playoff game, they

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were tied at halftime in a road playoff game in
the next round against the Baltimore Ravens. Now they have
altered their defensive line, adding Daniel Hunter. They have made
a couple of draft picks that all indications are they're
gonna be on the field and helping this team and
the secondary. You've added al Shair to the linebacking group,
and at the time I think we thought Christian Harris

(10:41):
would be playing football with him.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
He has not.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
You added Stefan Diggs, you traded for Joe Mixon, you
re signed Dalton Schultz. Yeah, my expectations were, and I
believe we've gone over this if I'm accurate. Still, you
had them one win better at eleven and six. I
think because it was the reverse. I had the one
win better at eleven and six. You had them at
the same ten and seven. So at six and four

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they're still tracking to potentially hitting either of those. I
would hope you know, four and three the rest of
the way clearly gets them to ten and seven. Five
and two. The rest of the way gets them to
eleven and six. With Kansas City and Baltimore on the schedule,
you'd have to sell me that they're winning every other game.
I would be with Tua. Yeah, Miami with Tua. If
you were watching last night, you can see how awesome

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Miami with Tua is.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Wow, they are really, really, really good. If the Texans
are underwhelming, then the Dolphins are inconsistent at best.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, too much of their season has been played without him,
and Tyreek Hill was clearly not one hundred percent for
last night's game. So while I mock with my voice
and sarcasm thickness, yeah, I don't think they're a particularly
good team, and if the Texans are a better team
than them, they have to go out and prove it.
In the next three weeks. They might be able to
do that. So I'd probably say underwhelming as my choice,

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because it's less about the record and more about their consistent,
instantly underwhelming offensive play. Because their defense has been better
than expected for me, their offense has clearly been worse.
That's why they said at six and four, That's why
the last five games have been so kind of hard
to stomach for people, winning just two of them and
having so many offensive issues throughout. And it was no

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different in this game this past Sunday, the second half problems.
You would think this far into the progression of this team,
with the SoC with this quarterback, with basically the same line,
they'd have figured out ways to go about it a
little bit better. They have not for us to help them,
and we'll do that a little bit more here on
this program today. We'll talk more NFL football three hours

(12:38):
from now when Matt Miller joins us NFL insider and
draft expert. There's some interesting aspects about the quarterback position again,
especially off of the firing today in Chicago, promotion of
Thomas Brown to their new OC and the firing of
Shane Waldron. Are the Bears ruining Caleb Williams or more

(12:58):
to the NFL point in our conversation's point, because this
team was just here a year ago, is blank team
ruining blank quarterback that just got to the NFL? It's
an age old conversation that teams outside of Houston are having.
But is this team needing to include itself in that
conversation is Bobby Slowick ruining CJ.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Stroud?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
I asked that quizzically because I wonder what you guys think.
Seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety Just
Underway sixteen segment show four Hours with you on the
A Team.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
We now return to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexelwerth on Sports.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'm not gonna call this a hot take Tuesday thing.
I'm not gonna name the segment unless somebody wants to
sponsor it. But uh, I've been seeing how everybody's been
reacting to the Texans loss to the Lions over the
past twenty four to forty eight hours. I guess we're
not quite forty eight hours out from that game. But

(14:07):
it's interesting because it's not just that they lost. It's
not just that they lost in last second fashion. It's
the manner with which they gave that game away in
the second half. And more so, it's weird both of
us yesterday. I think we're in lockstep that we did
not have really much of anything to criticize about the defense.
Yet that's you know, it's a part of why they

(14:31):
lost the game. They didn't score in the second half, right,
but they also didn't stop them from scoring. And there
was some there were some broken plays, But to me,
it all comes back to the offense. And so on
a day where the Chicago Bears, after ruining another quarterback,
if you think that's what they've done, fire their offensive coordinator.

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That's not something that was even remotely lightly being discussed
on the streets of Twitter and other places after the
Texans game about Bobby slok, like everybody was coming for
Bobby slock. And when you start looking at the numbers,
it's not that far off from what's happened with the
Bears offense. That's the crazy part. This guy's name is

(15:17):
John Crumpler, and he just laid it out. The Texans
passing success rate is forty one percent, the Bears is forty.
Texans pressure rate forty one to three, Bears is forty.
The winning percentage lost to sacks one hundred and ninety
six point four. I don't even know what that means.
By the way, minus one ninety six point four, I
should say Bears minus one forty eight. Texans rushing success

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rate thirty four point two percent. The Bears is thirty
eight point five. It's to say it's I mean, what
happened to Bobby Slowk's offense and how much of that
is him versus how much of that is the offensive
line versus how much of that is CJ behind said
offensive line. It's not as easy as just saying, oh,
Bobby Slowak sucks. Now, that's not what I'm saying. But

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something's got to change, whether it's someone is let go
or something has to change with what they do moving
forward with everybody staying put because it's not working, particularly
in the second half. And if you know what the
problem is, then you have to figure out how to
fix it. What is the problem? They can't score on
the second half? They don't that's not the problem. Well
its been No, that's the result. What's the problem? That's

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the offense? The offense is the problem.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
With This is what they're struggling with. What is the
problem when we're not blocking?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Okay? Well why not? Well? Who is it? The people?
Is that?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
The coaching is at the scheme? Is it the play calling?
I think if they really truly will were watching film
each week and had an answer, then they would be
doing something differently to fix it. Because to me. They
tried fixing it once. It came Sunday when they finally
made a change with the offensive line.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
And the offensive line looked decent for most of the game.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
I think the the reason why they looked better, I'm
hesitant to say decent, is because I think they did
something differently with their play calling. Finally, in as an
ants are to their inability to allow their quarterback time
to throw the football, time for plays to develop, we
kept saying, these slow developing plays and these guys aren't
getting open. Each factor weighed into it, and I don't

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know that it's different than Chicago. It seems different in
that the two guys at the beginning of the season
that you were throwing the ball to most often, well,
they weren't available to you. Nico missed all five of
these last five, and now Stefan Diggs is basically played
in half of those five games, missing two and then
the end of the one prior to that.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
That changes things dramatically.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
When not only are those your top targets, they are
your top targets for reasons beyond just the jersey they
wear and the pedigree they care with them carry with them.
They're your top targets because they're open, because they create separation.
Their separation creation figures were excellent with those two players
over the first five weeks of the season, and the
separation for the players that have replaced them, well, during

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the same first five weeks, those numbers were terrible. Those
numbers have gotten a little bit better more where those
players have played, but we've had you know, basically, Xavier
Hutchinson's been on the field for sixty percent of the
offensive plays for four consecutive almost five consecutive weeks, and
there's no uptick in his production at all. There's no
uptick in his targets to the point where he's taken

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on a role commensurate with the only other receiver that's
on the field that much. He's been on the field
that much with Digs and Dell. Now he's been on
the field that much with Dell and Mechi, and Mechi
has had one of those games, and I hope there
is possibility for another because they might have to think
a little differently about how they're doing things next week
if Nico's out there, Well, is it Nico hutch and

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Dell or is it Nico Dell and Mechi? Both Mechi
and Xavier I think are regarded as as blockers they
can use, and I think most of the year when
they're not one, two or three, when they're on the field,
it's a run and I think other teams know that,
so they have to be a little bit more careful
with their personnel. Big picture, here's the biggest similarity between

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the Bears and the Texans. And we've actually talked about
this many, many times because it seems so unfortunately obvious.
What did the Texans do in year one with c J.
Stroud and then more so in year two. He's got
to have some people to throw the ball to, and
he's got to have some help in the backfield. They
didn't know what they'd get in Damian Pierce in year two,
and they went out and got Devin Singletary kind of
as a helper ad justin case. He added Dalton Schultz

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in the off season, and you were hopeful that the
addition of Tank Dell to Nico Collins would give you
a little bit better receiving corps.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You added Robert Woods.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
You felt like, well, we've done some things to make
the life of a quarterback a little bit easier. And
the Bears clearly traded for Keenan Allen, drafted rom Of Doonza,
added DeAndre Swift, they already had Cole Comet. They essentially
did the same thing in the rookie season for their
quarterback Kayleb Williams as the Texans did for their quarterback
c J.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Strout.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Texans have had a second year and have added Stefan
Diggs to it also and re signed Dalton Shooks Schultz
and went out and got a better running back. And
but the Bears aren't there yet because it's only year one.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
The real painful similarity they didn't do bleep for their
offensive line to help Caleb Williams and the Texans could
be described as the very same. The Texans have players
they pay a lot of money to who haven't made
any changes to make their offensive line better that have worked.
I mean, George Fants is the best player they've added
to their offensive line in two years. He was added

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last year out of necessity if we need another tackle,
and it turned out he had to play a lot,
and he was better than any other player that's been
added to their offensive line mix in that time, better
than Patterson, better than Scruggs, who are both now entrenched
as starters. And when I hesitated to say that their
offensive line was significantly better, their interier of their line
was definitely better, but not where it needs to be

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for the change that was made, or else you're just
going to continue looking to figure out what other change
needs to be made. The Bears fired their OC because
their quarterback doesn't know enough about the NFL yet. Not
his personal fault, but that clearly is part of it.
CJ running for his life the last couple of weeks
was something we know shouldn't happen because we've seen it
not happen. He's been out there for twenty five games.

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For the majority of those twenty five games, it has
not happened for Caleb Williams. This has been a running
path trend towards it. It wasn't real good this week.
It got worse this week. Now it's even worse. Now
we have to fire you. It got so bad. It
was sacked nine times. He's been sacked eighteen times in
the last three weeks. He can't complete passes, and it's
not just because he doesn't have time. It's because he's

(21:34):
also not at that level at no point this year,
I don't think, and you guys can tell me otherwise.
I don't think he's had one game as strong as
the five any of the four, five, six, ten best
games CJ had last year. I think there's a major
difference in these two quarterbacks. And I'm not writing the
end of story book on Caleb by any means yet,

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but I don't think he's as far along with being
a great NFL quarterback as we found out CJ was
year one. So you package all that together, this would
be akin to the Texans telling Bobby Slok to hit
the bricks last year in his first year in the
middle of the season, which clearly was not at all similar.
What's going on in Chicago this is year one. They

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just hired Shane Waldron. It's going so badly, and they're
also lucky that they smartly put together a good enough staff.
Thomas Brown isn't just replacing him. He's an excellent coach.
I think this will help them a great deal and
it probably helps his profile again. He interviewed for the
Houston Texans head coaching job a couple of seasons ago

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and well deserved, and has been on other head coaching
interviews and will continue to get them. So they're probably
in an okay spot making the change in season, and
they know what they're up against this year anyway division
with three really good teams and they're the fourth team.
So I think this move was probably correct. And since
you asked, I do not believe the Bears are ruining

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Caleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Well I didn't ask that, but others have. And do
you think Bobby slowk is ruining CJ Stroud?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
I did ask that last segment and the answer, of
course is no.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay. Just making sure that we're all in the same
thing means it's over.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, well Bobby slow can get fired and all, but
CJ's ruined. So no coming back from that.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, it's over. The funny thing about that very topic.
From CJ's perspective, they're hurting his season. Is it difficult
to succeed this year? I'll bring a good question. I'll
bring that up when we come back here. As we
continue the two o'clock hour on a Tuesday edition of
the show.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
The Eight on Sports Talk seven ninety, we now returned
to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexwerth on Sports.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Talk seven NY talking a lot about the Texans, as
we are wont to do this time of year, especially
in light of all the drama surrounding a team that
started off hot and has kind of slip slid into
I don't want to call it mediocrity, but if you
look at the some of the Just Power rankings, which
is something I put very little stock in, but it

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does tell you what other people that cover the league
think about the Texans. The amount of teams that, for example,
SI has in front of them is staggering. All right,
go ahead, we'll use it and I'll refute it. No, no, no, no,
I mean, look, I'll just give you the list. The
Arizona Cardinals, the San Francisco forty nine Ers, the Washington Commanders,

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the LA Chargers, the Packers, the Steelers, the Eagles, the Vikings,
the Ravens, the Bills, and the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, the list you ran on in the Alliance and
just be succession rapidly. Were the teams that are definitely
better than Houston based on how they've played. I know
they have a win against the Bills, and you know
you can get into that debate, but each of the
teams you said first, you said much more slowly knowing that. Gee,
I wonder what would happen if they played right now
right which puts them again much closer to the top
ten than even though fifteen sixteen, seventeen fourteen, that's pretty

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mediocrets right there, roughly in the middle of the league.
They're not far off from that. Nor is a six
and four record very far off from that. You can't,
I mean, refuting it is probably the wrong way to
say it.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I do.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I am still fooled if that's what it is. I
still believe better football is coming from this team. I
just don't think that they are doing certain things they
can be doing which defenses would allow. And defensively, I
don't know that they're gonna get into a stretch where
they create more turnovers.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I really don't even think.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
People realize how incredible they have been in that regard,
from the beginning of the season to where we sit now.
It's I mean, I'd have to go back and look
at team history to see if it even is better
than anything they've ever done. But the way this season began,
I kept saying it on the show, they have to
do something more than just create pressure stop the run.

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I mean the point totals weren't overwhelming, and the point
totals haven't changed that much over the last few weeks.
But five games into the season, the Texans defense had
take in the ball away three times three games with
no takeaways in a row against Minnesota, Jacksonville, and Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
They won two of those games.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
In the first two games of the year against Anthony
Richardson and Caleb Williams, they took it away twice against
Williams and once against Richardson. They intercepted them three times.
They had not forced even a single fumble that they
recovered in any of the first five weeks. They were
sitting on three takeaways through five games, was among the
worst in the league for a defense clearly capable of

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playing winning football and essentially, outside of an enormous factor turnovers,
they were playing winning football.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
The team was a four and one.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
They were doing things that were helping their team win,
and they had a great pressure rate, and will Anderson
and dealand Hunter were doing what they do to normally
force turnovers. They just weren't happening. And then the last
five weeks, as they've stopped winning, they've gone two and three.
They've lost three out of four from three turnovers forced
three takeaways in a five game stretch to fifteen takeaway

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in a five game stretch, zero games with zero takeaways,
three games with three or more takeaways. And while the
offense hasn't been phenomenal in taking care of the ball,
they've been adequate. They had five or excuse me six
giveaways in the first five games. They've had five in
the five cents. It's absolutely manageable the number they've given

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it away. And they've been way on the plus side.
They're a plus ten in five games.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
How come they're two and three?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean, those don't usually add up. In Texans cap
Troy posted the numbers I was referencing yesterday. It's a
ninety four percent winning percentage over the last several hundred
games in the NFL. When you're plus three, you win
ninety four percent of the time. The Texans are zero too.
This year when they're plus three, they're ruining the entire

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percentage all by themselves. And I told you yesterday, up
until the game against s Green Bay, it was ten
years since the text and said lost a game like that.
They had won fifteen consecutive games a little over one
maybe two games a year where you're plus three, you
win them all. They you don't win a lot of them,
you win them all. They've lost all of them yes year,
I think.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
And that's when you said underwhelming as your word to
describe them. I think frustrating would be mine because of
things like that. And it's not the only reason that
frustrating comes to mind. But I would say the same thing.
If they were seven and three after a win last
Sunday night, I would say the same thing. That they
were eight and two after wins in both Green Bay,
you would say, because they're making it too hard on themselves.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
They're except I don't really think Demico's saying what he
means in this one instance. I think pretty much every
other time he is, whether it's protecting his team or
giving us the truth, he keeps talking like the games
in the NFL have to be like this, They just
end at the end. I'm sorry, that's just what it is.
We waste our time for fifty five minutes entertaining you.

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We were doing what we can, but we know it's
just an entertainment product, and then the last five minutes
we'll see who wins.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
It doesn't have to be that way. Every other team.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Besides Kansas City, who literally is doing that every week.
It doesn't have to be like that, and they know it.
They're not the team making up for it. They're the
ones that are always in front and allowing it to happen.
That's why they have such an advantage in the first half.
Huge plus in the scoring column in the first half,
huge negative in the scoring column in the second half.
They're constantly the team that is up by a score,

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up by two scores, up by sixteen points, up in
the fourth quarter, and not making it up by more
in the fourth quarter, not taking a one score game
and turning it into a two score game. They could
have done it against Indianapolis in the first game of
the year, but they couldn't stop Indianapolis from scoring. Luckily,
they kept scoring themselves to keep themselves in front, but
they had touchdowns. They were doing the right thing, and

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then that was the one instance where their defense could
not keep them from or kept them from having one
of those lopsided Coast victories. You can run it three
straight times and punt in fourth quarter because you're up
by multiple scores and all you're trying to do is
run the clock out, and you can take a knee
for multiple snaps at the end of the game because

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it's already over. You can send Davis Mills out there
more than you have so far, because you're just saying, well,
why not just preserve CJ for these kneel downs or
handoffs or whatever the case. They've been in position to
do that. They were in position to do that two
days ago. A thirty to thirteen lead is what they
should have had. If one thing is different. In the

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middle of that third quarter, CJ makes the CJ pass
instead of a I don't know, a bad throw and
take catches the touchdown and you kick the extra point.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
You're up thirty to thirteen. That might be the one
play of the game that I'm most frustrated with because
it does because of what it would have led to
that score. And if that's the score, then I just
even if everything goes as it did, or even if
you give up a big play, I just don't think
there's enough time. Oh.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think there's plenty of time and the way that
they play for them to do things, But.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
It also would have shown you, Okay, this is silly.
This second half malaise that's total nonsense. Why is it happening.
It's totally on us.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
It's not the Lions who changed their strategies, not the
Packers who change their strategy. These are not halftime adjustments
teams are making. We're failing. We're floundering in the second
half with our own business. What's coming from upstairs, what
they're seeing, what they're telling SLOWK, what's he's calling from
the sideline, our own individual execution, whether it's upfront or
at CJ, like it was this past Saturday. If they
go up thirty to thirteen, they're not gonna win thirty

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to twenty four. They're not gonna win thirty to twenty seven.
They're gonna win thirty seven to twenty seven. They're gonna
win thirty six thirty that. I don't believe that was
the end of the scoring for them that night, even
though I know they didn't score at all in the
second half. They need something successful to happen for them,
highly successful and driving down the field against them and
taking advantage of some of the turnovers that weren't at

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the end of the half or at the goal line,
and putting points on the board. They did that on
two of the other three turnovers, and they need to
do it all on all three. And those are just
some of the ways I can't watch them for these
ten games and think, no, I'm just not there yet.
The you know face at wex this is who they are,
this is the offense that they run. This is how

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ineffective it can be at times you're overrating the talent
that they have. Certainly upfront with their O line face it.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
This is who they are.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
It is gonna come down to the end of the
game every single week, probably even the next three weeks
against bad team, bad team, bad team. That sucks to
hear that the three teams they have the next three
weeks have seven wins this year.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Comeine, that's not great? All right? Do you want more
good news? I'd love good news.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm spreading good news all across our iHeartRadio, app Our
sportstocks seven to ninety year waves and in eighteen minutes on
Space City Home Network via the simulcast, I can't.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Wait tidings in good cheer and someone that wex loves
weighing in on the mississ CJ straup, how would you
I would like to get Robin Wexler's take on CJ
and what ails him?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
But it won't be her here who it is next
the a t on Sports Talk seven ninety. We now
returned to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexelworth on.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Are you ready to hear about America's team? So the
Texans are going to go to Arlington this Monday night
and they're gonna take on the team that still runs
with that, which is just hilarious because America didn't ask
for this.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
And we're gonna have to adopt the same moniker that
this country has to adopt. What's that make the Cowboys
great again? Because they're clearly not well. The problem is
you have bad people in charge. To do that, You've
got to get them out and put good ones back
in you. I mean, would you allow residents of Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas,

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and I'm not sure anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Would you know them play?

Speaker 3 (33:53):
No, I don't mean it's so Tyler, that's Dallas. Would
you allow them to have the power the right to
vote their leader out like we do in America, which
we basically did if I'm phrasing it that way, We
did just vote our leader.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Out mm hm.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Being Jerry Jones running the Cowboys their leader. Well, would
you give them the power to vote him out? And
if you did, who would you put in? Well, we'll
get to that by what overwhelming landslide. Even with what
he's done, you can't say the entire Jerry Jones administration
has been poor because he's helped to refill their trophy cabinets.

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They have Super Bowl championships with that leader.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, unlike the other part of the analogy you were making,
he did do some good.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Things well in the if you were only comparing apples
to apples, uh huh, you wouldn't be able to say
that the same about Jerry. You'd be able to make
Jerry like the current leader because in the last four years,
Jerry hasn't done any of the things I'm talking about. No,
and when just voted into office decades ago in nineteen
eighty nine, and they keep re upping with him every

(34:59):
four years. He keeps winning the Cowboys election every time,
even over the last four or five elections, when they've
done absolutely nothing.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
But yes, my point is he did hire the people
that brought those three titles to now.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
He hires the people that he has to fire almost
immediately Yeah, well, so yes they would. I'm not concerned
currently with who they replace him with. And I'm obviously
this is a whole sarcastic joke segment. But if you
really gave them the power to vote, even though many
of them are older people that are were literally there
when the Cowboys won the Jerry Jones led championships, and
they still are with them when they're winning twelve games

(35:34):
each year and winning the division and going to the
playoffs and giving him a home playoff game, which they've
done for the last several years, would it be a
super overwhelming majority not even knowing who your new leader is.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
No, because that's the difference. You wouldn't know who's coming
in in the case of America, like he's running who
is coming right, and you knew what you were gonna
gill with that person's self.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Do you want to keep him or replace him? I'm
not asking you to give us another can yet.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
But the problem is anybody you brought in there. Well,
actually this might not be the problem. How about if
you did have a guy who was successful because he
had done the job prior and then you brought him
back in. Well, successful was obviously in the case you're hypothetical,
non hypothetical. The most important perception, the things that are

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most important to you, like winning games.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Well that I don't think yes, in football sense, I
think everyone's goals are the same. I don't know that
our country's goals are all the same. Everyone has the
people like being broke, well, some people don't. Some people
care more about other things. Yeah, so there are difference
like immigration or even other things, as there are more others.
It's pretty much all people cared about this election those

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two things.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Maybe I think so. But anyway, Uh, the whole point
of this is we're always told that they're America's team, but.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
There are enough of America's team that we're always talking
about him. We'll talk about living rent.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Free, also say that, but at least this week the
Texans are playing then. But the what's the basis for this?
That people that want to have you believe that their
America's team always come back to hey slick at the ratings.
They are always top of the ratings. Every Okay Sunday
Night Texans Lions Cowboys were nowhere near this game. Most

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watched Week ten matchup for Sunday night football in five years.
That's a lot of Dallas Cowboys games that weren't as much.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Cowboys Giants games, and in fact have been a couple
of those, a lot of those Sunday night games early
in the season.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
They point three million. This from our buddy Greg rajon
over at the Chronicle talk to them before the game
on Sunday. Didn't know that this would rate as well.
I think the Texans had something to do with it.
I think, as evidenced by something I posted today that
the NFLPA posted today. The number one jersey sold from

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April through October is CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Granted, this list is full of younger players, players who
what's the first time anyone's bought their jersey. It's not
like I mean, Pat Mahomes is more popular quite obviously,
and I'm gonna guess more people have a Pat Mahomes
jersey than CJ. Stroud, for instance. But this is measuring
jersey sales in that time period. People who've bought a
Pat Mahomes jersey have been doing it for five years.

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They don't necessarily need a second, or a third or fourth.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
People who are.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Buying Cjay's jersey more often than not in this particular
window or buying them for the first time. So that's
the Texans popularity angle to it. And the simple angle
of the second part of it is, well, you brought
the best team in town. You have the best team
in the NFC as the opponent. I don't think anybody's
doubting that through this point in the season. So winning
definitely sells. Their market is an awesome football market. It's

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a great football city. It's a really good sports town.
But I don't think the Detroit part of it is
such a huge It's not the La part of it.
They're not for Philadelphia, they're not for California. But that's
how much people who watch primetime football they want to
watch the best team.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Why the NFL's king because Nike. Again, I go back
to the NBA analogy I made either. I mean, it
was last week. You don't have to have Detroit and
Houston really TV markets those are I mean, Houston's a
top ten market in TV, but barely.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
And think about the production angle of it. All, right,
standard procedure will take I'll go through all the steps
of putting up this Sunday Night football together. Gotta need
a backstory on the GM. We're gonna need a story
on the quarterbacks. Do the coaches have some former relationship
they're both former players. We got to do that, all right.
What about history between these two teams.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
We've got a run store. No, we don't.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
We don't have any history. There's nothing of significance.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
The tirap Thanksgiving Day game.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Where yeah, who's watching it knows that the Texans fans
and the Lions fans and justin foresaid and not bene
family people that helped create a humongous rating. I mean
that oftentimes is what they do the whole week leading
up to a game. The last time these teams met,
when they met in the playoffs a year ago, they

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played in the Super Bowl. They've played in the playoffs
multiple times. These weren't even rivals in any way.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
It's just are these teams worth watching? And did's one
team have a quarterback worth watching?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
It? Is the other team great? And are your ratings? Yeah?
And this game was not particularly close in the first half,
which means Detroit fans hung around to see if they'd
come back. Well, the ones that were there certainly did well. Yeah,
that's for sure. By the way, as we go to
break the first two responses to this tweet. Just awesome.
First one, nineteen million viewers watched Bobby Slowick ruin the team.

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I love the second one, and the Texans crapped themselves
in the second half, allowing something that hadn't happened in
fifty four years. Awesome.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
That's the old five interception game with the dub the
old five interception five interception game. I think with fifteen
or fewer completions than maybe under three hundred yards passing somewhere.
I think all those things together make it a fifty
year rarity in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, Bobby slok ruined the team.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
He loves the same guy who designed the play that
got a wide open Tank Dell on the end zone
in the second half. They put it, put you up seventeen.
Same guy is just incredible.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
All right.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
I promise we will get to some of the things
that a certain leader to finally get to Phil Simms kid,
Yes that see, I wasn't even going to give you
that much, but there you have it. WEX told you
who's going to talk about CJ and his struggles and
well it's not really his fault. We'll get to all
that more when we come back for the three o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham Talking Your Team.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
A Welcome into a Tuesday edition of the program, hour
number two of four here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and now Space City Home Network. He's wex I'm Ac.
We've got you until six o'clock tonight. As per usual,
as we have talked a whole lot of Houston Texans

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football over the first hour if you've been listening on
Sports Talk seven to ninety, no surprise at all. I
asked if we should fire Bobby Slowick, because you know
everyone else is asking that lately. And the Bears fired
their offensive coordinator today, which sounds ridiculous when you consider
the fact that head up, the Texans beat them early
on this season and you just don't look at the

(42:22):
two quarterbacks even remotely the same. But then you dig
into the numbers a little bit and it's kind of similar.
What's been happening more and more often with the Texans offense.
Another week in which they don't score in the second half,
an excruciating loss against what I think is the best
team in football. On Sunday night, where the entire country
saw that, Hey, even though you have CJ. Stroud, there's

(42:44):
just things that are not clicking the way they need to.
In Texan Land, we talked a little bit about the Rockets,
who got another win last night. By the way, Dallas
Mavericks they're at five hundred now. The Rockets are at
what seven and four at this point. I'm not saying
that they, you know, a shoe in for the Western
Conference championship like the Dallas Mavericks had last year, but

(43:06):
I think it's just further proof, especially in light of
the fact that Chet Holmgren broke his hip like an
eighty year old. That's not really what happened, but that's
sort of the injury. Definitely the injury. Just take out
the eighty year old part. He went up to block
a shot from Andrew Wiggins. Wiggins hit him, he went flying,
his leg went flying up in the air, and so
he landed flush on his hip. Most bigs don't do

(43:27):
that because they carry just a little bit more weight.
It's a great challenge.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
I applaud him for not being afraid of being on
a poster, which I wish every player was so kudos
to Kaid Cunningham as well.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Boy, because he got on one.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
I mean, you're trying to prevent the other team from scoring, right,
not the other part of it. But yeah, he went
down so hard that he's it's an indefinite period of time,
but it's multiple months. They went out and blew out
another opponent without him anyway, last night, Just so you
others are aware, there's a couple of really really good
like the seven and four Rockets trailed. Just a couple

(43:58):
of teams in the West is seven and three Warriors.
They're the team that just beat the Mavericks. They trail
the Suns. Well Sons have also beating the Mavericks twice.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
The Pacers are now rolling again offensively. That's another team
that beat the MAVs. Rockets have played a little bit
different group of eleven teams than the ten that the
MAVs have played.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, and they did trail by thirty one to the Warriors,
but they took the lead. So I don't know, I
don't know. I just don't know what to make of
the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
They're entertaining, They're they're a better team than they were
a year ago. Fully healthy I think that's okay to
say that.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
I would think that's accurate. But I would also think that, hey,
you've played some dregs of society and you've made it
way too interesting every time out. Even if you've won
those games, and sometimes you haven't, you shouldn't have lost
to the Spurs. Ever they suck. And speaking of which,
if that ain't happened to.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Wimby, other teams that Dallas has lost to is Houston.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Yeah, which was a gutsy performance, by the way, by
the Rockets. When they play like that, it's fantastic. But
if Wimby, if Victoria, if Victor Winmbinyama, whatever you want
to call him, had gone up in the exact same
manner as chet Holmgren, I think the exact same thing
happens to him because he's just as slow. He's not
as slight. Nobody's as slight as chet Holmgren's.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Slighter Wimby, he's definitely thinner than chet Holmgren, in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I don't think so. Not just eyeballing them, I.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Mean that's all I'm going to do. I'm not going
to handle them or go into the weight room with them.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Well, that's good I just think that now uh wimbin
Yama is a few inches taller.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Yeah, he might not have to leave the floor in
the same manner, and players might challenge him a little
bit differently.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Chet just looks skinnier to me.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Yeah, And I think he's actually being that he's been
through this a little bit longer, just one extra season,
even though he missed that whole year. I think he's
had a chance to do something with his body a
little bit more like Victor's off season wasn't I don't
I go play in the Olympics. By all means, you
definitely should, especially considering where they were. But I don't
think it was necessarily the best thing for his body,

(45:59):
because I don't think it work on some of the
things that actually would help. It was really good for
his game and really good for his competition. It was
awesome for his popularity, and I don't think that's why
he did it, but it was a good summer for him.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
It's just different.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
You know, Chet had a season where he couldn't even play,
and then he worked on his body. Then he played
every single game last year, and then he worked on
his body, and then he came back this year and
he fell on his hip.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
The crazy thing is he beat the Rockets mainly from
the perimeter. The other night he hit I mean four
of his eight makes were from three. He took six
shots from out there, So it wasn't I don't know,
it's he. He is what I think Victor woman Yama
would like to be but isn't.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
And Victor had a really awesome game last night. Is
the Spurs very easily handled the King. Yeah, as long
as he doesn't play the Rockets, he has a chance
to well. I think you're also expecting the well. I
don't not sure that the Spurs make the playoffs, make
the top ten. They're definitely better than last year's Spurs
by a lot, and now that Devin Vessel is back,

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I think the Rockets caught a break. They should have
won all three James, but not seeing him at all matters.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to keep an eye on how
things shake out in the Western Conference. But yeah, so far,
so good for a Rockets team that has I think
lost some games that maybe they shouldn't have considering where
they would like them to be. But as it pertains
to the Texans, Chris Simms, who is again one of
Wex's favorite television personalities analysts, just a beacon of light

(47:29):
when it comes to fantastic information about the game of football. Okay,
I'm being very very sarcastic laying it on thick, but
I do think, just from an interesting standpoint when it
comes to what ails the Texans on offense specifically and
on CJ. Stroud specifically, he said a couple of things

(47:50):
here that, while they may not be surprising, it's just
interesting to hear it coming out of a quarterback's mouth.
And the first thing and the most obvious thing, which
we've all been talking about out he thinks the Texans
offensive line stinks.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
It's the protection and it's not only the protection of
the men themselves, the Jimmy's and the Joe's upfront, which
there's issues issues there in the interior, but there's been games,
whether you go back to Green Bay and other games too,
where the schematics of how they block upfront earn issue
and defenses have figured out how to expose them and

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how they block certain looks and kind of trick them.
And that's been a big problem from them too, and
that's led CJ. Stroud to be under duress and not
enough good plays or plans against the blitz from the
Houston Texans offense.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
So this is from the This is Football podcast. I
should give credit where it's due just before we move
on nothing. He said, there's really surprising or I don't
disagree with it.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprising to anybody that's been listening
to the A team two to six weekday afternoons here
on Sports Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
So far, all right, exactly.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
What we all everybody who's been to a Texans game,
everybody who's listening to us talk about it, everybody who's
watched the game on TV. I do know that he
has more and just that part of it is literally
why their offensive line has been performing so poorly, and
what we have been talking about it is every aspect
of it.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
They run blitzes.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
The Texans five man group seems totally confused by well,
where's the rusher coming from? Well, which way are we
sliding and why? And when we slide this way? Who's
there to make up for this? There's a guy standing
right here and nobody's pointed to him. Is he's just
going to be a free rusher. Well, let's find out
and he is yeah, he's right, of course, he's right.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Yeah. So then he goes on to say something that
maybe not everybody will agree with it, and I think that,
you know, I saw this a lot on Sunday night
during the game. People started to criticize CJ. Stroud that really,
I mean, it's probably been happening a little bit. But

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it was like, okay, this is this is the first
real example. And look, I think rightfully so on two
of those passes, especially one of the end zone, the
one we talked about, that would have made the score
what it would have been thirty or thirteen or whatever
it was, and you've got a sizeable lead there. That
makes the comeback all the more difficult as opposed to
what ended up happening, which is a missed field goal.

(50:18):
But what Chris sim said is that the offensive issues
are not on CJ. Stroud. It's a bigger problem than
c J. Stroud.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
It's right, I mean, he's not perfect, but CJ. Stroud
is still really damn good. And when you see stat
lines again like we saw two weeks ago when they
played the Jets on Thursday night, ten of thirty with
arguably the most accurate quarterback in football. I would say CJ.
Shroud or Joe Burrow can probably dot the eye as
good as anybody in the game. When it comes to accuracy.
That's not CJ. Stroud. This is not like we're talking

(50:47):
about Anthony Richardson where he misses the broad side of
the barn every now and then.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
You know, it's interesting he brings up Anthony Richardson, obviously
because he's in the division, but also because he just
wanted to throw shade at somebody. I mean, it's like
polar Opie just is like what happened? Whoa hey, Like,
what did you get me in there? What would have
been a better or I guess a less completely polar
opposite comparison.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Anthony Richardson got bench because he doesn't throw the ball
where his receivers are. He's incredibly inaccurate. This year, you
throw in a bunch of drops because they've had quite
a few, and that's the perfect analogy.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
It just happened.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
I mean, that's what we call catching strays, which is
the perfect quarterback to put. In that conversation, he's saying
CJ's accurate. CJ having an eleven for thirty game against
the Jets a ten for twenty one game against Green Bay.
That's he didn't just forget how to throw the football
overnight leading into each of those contests. And now this
happened twice. Maybe you'd pause a second to say it,

(51:41):
but you've seen the game before, the game after it,
the games before it, all the games last year other
than the Jets game. You know that's not him. And
you watch the calling him the most accurate passer in
the NFL. You got to take that, I think for
what he actually means, and what he really means is
he makes some incredible throws that you can't even believe.
He put the right where it had to be, the

(52:01):
only way his guy can catch it, the only place
the defender's not going to touch it. Unbelievable that he's
on the run and he's still found Mechi going across
the field n Eco Collins crossed his body. The reality
is he's probably never gonna leave the league in completion percentage.
I mean, even at his best, I think he's probably
gonna come in at sixty seven, sixty eight, seventy percent.
But I'm glad he said that because we shouldn't be

(52:22):
tied only to that number. There's a reason why some
quarterbacks are quote unquote super accurate for a lot of
the plays they call in the passes that they throw
and the windows that they're throwing into, and he's not
doing He has the opposite. He's throwing into tiny windows.
He's throwing where you wouldn't expect the ball to get there,
and it still does. He's right again, No, at the

(52:43):
games stand out so much to you. You know, there's
more to it than he's just not throwing the ball.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Well, yeah, and a lot of that might have to
do with the the calls themselves or the looks, as
we'll get to in a little bit. But Bobby Siloyd
did come up in conversation and he's going to until
he doesn't anymore. I know that sounds pretty simplistic, but
that's how I feel that. That's where I feel that
the Texans are right now. Until something changes or they're

(53:12):
able to either keep their foot on the gas in
the case of big leads, or gut it out and
not win by a last second field goal. Bobby Slow
is probably going to get the most heat, and that's
probably well deserved. As we continue here on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 1 (54:24):
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Speaker 5 (54:28):
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Speaker 2 (54:39):
Completely off topic, but something that I want to take
six seconds. I want to keep an eye on. Oh no,
you weren't paying attention.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I mean, you'll ask a question and then I'll take
us in a different sports path, but we're essentially on topic.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, well, I don't ever give you that courtesy. I
just do it. We're going off the rails now, there's
no courtesy the Astrodome Conservancy. Are you gonna do something
finally or is this just another round of well, this
is what we could do, but it ain't gonna happen.
That's how they talk those people still. I just I

(55:14):
just wonder if something's ever gonna happen. Here's why I
bring it up. I got a buddy who went to
the Lions game on Sunday night and he's.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
I probably did too, But whoever it was, I didn't
talk to him.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Well, but he's a Detroit fan from Detroit.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Seventy sixty to seventy thousand people that were there probably
have one.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
A Detroit fan, a Detroit native.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Maybe ye I I got a couple friends, but maybe
you got me on that.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Well, so he's walking into the game and he's going
in on the I guess this would be and you
have no idea about this the east side of the stadium,
the east and trum may even guess.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Well, come on, so there's the side that is up
against Kirby.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
That's the west.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
There's where you can walk in from the blue lot,
which is where you see the banners hanging down. Let's
say south side. You're ruining because you're telling me on
my way around. Now, how am I supposed to guess?

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Well, there's two other sides left, since it was perfectly well,
you just.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Told me which one was the south side. If I
can't figure out where the east is now, then go
ahead and redoing first grade.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
That's maybe you should. That's the side that faces the astrodome. Duh.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Now, if you would not have given me a tip
a hint, I want to see hundred times out of
one hundred, Even with all those extra guesses, I probably
would still get it wrong.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
You're the person that says inside or outside of it ten.
I'll never understand that. It's the most fascinating thing I've
ever I think it might be the most fascinating thing
you've ever told me.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Today's November twelfth.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Ask me where the south side of the of the
of Energy stadium is in a.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Week or two, I'll probably forget. That's unbelievable. He sends
me a picture at six fifteen on Sunday night. He's
clearly going into the game. It's already dark out, but
there's lights. He's entering. He's clearly on one of the
ramps on the east side. That's the side that faces
the dom Wex and he says, tear down this eye.
Ha ha ha. I mean, I think he's clearly an

(57:05):
out of town guy. Yet I went to school with
him at Sam Houston State, so he got to know
the Houston market. He worked here for a little bit before,
I think moving back to Dallas is where he's living now.
I think, by and large, that's how people would look
at it. Even though it's the first Dome stadium, right,
people are going to say, well, if you can tear
down a Yankee stadium, I mean you can tear down

(57:25):
this place in that place.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
You've kind of gone through that angle of it a
bunch of times before. Granted, first is different. We all
know that first is first. If you're not first, you're
not first. And there's a historical landmark, But what about
the other domes that followed the King. Where are they now, Well,
one of them's still up, one of them in New Orleans, okay.
And then the Superdome, and that's the Super Kingdome, the

(57:47):
Silver Dome.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
That I was in Seattle. It's a metrodome. It's okay, Yep,
it's okay, it's okay. I'm one of the people who
a little bit later than the older people.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
I grew up in the astrodome. I grew up with
the oilers. I grew up with the astros. I've got memories.
I have memories of coming around the loop and finally
when you get close to Buffalo's speed, there it is,
We're almost there. Only another hour to wait in traffic
and we should be inside.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Right. I'm I did all those things. It was awesome.
You may take a step further with a very hot take. Yes,
there should be much more hand ringing, consternation, wailing and
gnashing of teeth, rending of clothing. These are all biblical terms.
I suppose. When they tear down Minute Made Park, you
know why, championship you want something there, and they played

(58:34):
for other championships there. They ain't doing anything in the
astronom for anything. If you tear down Minute Made Park.
What would be the reason for it? What would be
the reason for tearing it down?

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Because you're going to play somewhere else, Yeah, obviously, but
you're not going to build it on that site.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Well, I would think not.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
It's a little small. It was clearly small the first
time they built a stadium. I mean, but if it's
not a city block, that's why. Totally fine. I'm curious
when that will be this item. You're just talking about
the Astrodome Conservancy potentially having something for us all tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
We did.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
The Harris County Houston Sports Authority has made a bunch
of changes here recently.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
We haven't talked a lot about them.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
They have a new CEO and other people in their
leadership positions that just announced today. The nominees which you listeners,
ourselves media can all vote for Moment of the Year
and play Athlete of the Year at the high school
and professional level, etc. All those things were just announced
earlier today by Daniel Geta and we'll kunkle over at Fox.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
There's a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
For them to be concerned with the age of multiple
stadiums in this city are among those things that should
always be under consideration and discussion, and I think with
this recent change in leadership that's one of the main
focuses of why that happened.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
The scary thing is, just like it was twenty plus
years ago. They were all bill within like a year
of each other. In ron Field two thousand, Minute Made Park,
I mean not Minute Made Park, NRG Stadium two thousand
and two, Toyota Center two thousand and three, the golden
era of constradiums, Yeah, of sports facilities. And I keep

(01:00:17):
talking about it with the with the Texans, if they
do what we thought they were gonna start trying to
do this year, which is get closer to a Super Bowl,
I don't know what, you know, it's kind of incomplete
at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Yeah, last year they finished it as the four seed
in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
This year the four seed. You want to really like
like get under some people's skin. The Texans win the
Super Bowl, Yay, stop getting under my skin, and they're like,
all right, now we want our new stadium. You know
what we're gonna do. We can't play an NRG stadium
while it's being constructed, but you know what we could
do knock the dome down and build a new one

(01:00:53):
on that site that would so make people mad. But
you could have as big as stadium, as fancy stadium
as you want it. There's all that land right there,
and then knock the other one down. Why not? What
are your options?

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Also things that need to take place from all the
things that have to go into building a new stadium,
and there are numerous of them. All those things have
to take time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Why don't you use the plot of land that you
said was so valuable when you tore down Astra World
and put the new stadium there. Why not? You haven't
done anything with it? Since where are the cars going
to park? They go to the rodeo at the at
NRG Stadium when they tear that down.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
I mean, are we just saying, hey man, it just
worked out for you. What do you ride share programs? Yes,
people are gonna need you more than ever.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
You know what, Just to have a time, Just because
I'm morbid this way, I think you should build the
new stadium there on the side of the old Astro
World and then tear down both stadiums, put the parking
on that side, and then just leave that one bridge
that led you into Astra World up. Is the only
entrance in let's see how they can get Let's just

(01:02:08):
see how many people can squeeze across that bridge while
playing you know, chicken with the like south loop traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Making all the way from the parking lot on the
NRG side or Astrodom side to water World or Astra
World or never went.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
To I was a splash town guy. It was was
a north Sider.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
It was an overrun with people. Nobody was pushed up
against the fence that kept you from falling onto the
freeway was no problem. I think the scenario you describe
would be a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Like I mean the celebrations after a big win, you're
going out across that same bridge. By the way, that
bridge looks like a co could collapse any second. It's
nine used for. It's just old cemented bakes in the
sun every summer, kind of like the Astrodome.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
It's fine, it'll be fine. Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
We're gonna be getting a text from Craig Levati in
about three two. Good one. He's absolutely league gonna be
against me on that. I'm all for preserving you know,
historical what have you, but it's not like it's the Alamo. Okay,
let's you're comparing. You don't mean the Alamo Dome, Okay,

(01:03:15):
I think tear the Alamo Dome down anytime they want.
That place is a dump and they built it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Not The Alamo can stay, but the Astrodome needs to
go where we're part of this state's history was born
and stories have been told. Hey this but the stadium
that housed a baseball team and the rodeo and a
football team and concerts.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
So here's where you're go. I got the logic. The
reason you should keep the Alamo Dome over keeping the
Astrodome is that Hakeem destroyed David Robinson in that building
on his way to a title. You ain't do that
in the Astrodome. They did play some basketball in the
astro the greatest game of all time or the greatest
game ever in an All Star game. Yeah, Jordan played

(01:03:57):
in that. I believe the MVPs of that game where
co MVPs Karl Malone and John Stockton. Just another reason
to tear that building down.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
We let two Utah guys do that here in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
The h Jazz Utah Jazz because there's lots of jazz there.
As you know. Yes, another dumb thing so I'm just
saying it's out there. There's a story out there that
the Astrodome Conservancy is there's a new plan. What is
the plan? By the way, real quick, you got thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
I mean, I would imagine it'd be probably innovative, definitely viable,
some sort of redevelopment, redevelopment concept, probably answers the question
of what to do with the landmark astrodome. That's what
the Astrodome Conservancy will be up to. Thank you, mister
Bishop from kh OU. He had tweeted that yesterday. I
just basically read the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
So what's the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Plannovative and viable? When you don't give the plan away
before you tell everybody what the plan is, you tease
them with we've got a plan, Well what is it?
I can't tell you yet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
See Brian tweets in even Yankee Stadium is gone, exactly
house of champions that's not even the same many championships
as they want a new Yankee Stadium zero and counting.
All right, what are you doing, Dallas Cowboys? There are
betting odds, betting odds about who the next head coach

(01:05:18):
is going to be. And I kind of want this
to happen even more than Bill Belichick. We'll tell you
who the next coach of the Texans, next opponent's going
to be next.

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Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Topics on TV now, and I can't hide it. Yeah,
I'm just telling people that that is an untruth with
my face.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
You didn't even I roll now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
I just told them it is an untruth with my word.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
With your words, using only your words. All right, So
if I were to tell you that, I mean, I
don't need to tell you that Americans are gambling degenerates
buy and large when they do that. I'm not talking
about all Americans. I'm just talking about the ones that
do gamble on things. It's one thing to wager on

(01:06:28):
some games here and there. It's another to be you know,
the prop bets at the Super Bowl and things like that,
if you're putting ones, but if you're putting serious money
on that. Don't you think maybe you have a problem
just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Presumably you're trying to win any of the bets. Well,
that's what you're trying to do. When when you gay it,
I mean, there's some there's some science to this, there's
some history and research you can do on some of
these props.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
What is the research that goes into determining the color
of gatorade? I'd love to hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Well, you're talking about those props.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah, prop bets, not actual prop bets, like
we give stone cold locks on with our tongue firmly
plant in our cheek. But like, for example, if you
are laying odds on who the next coach of the
Dallas Cowboys is going to be, like he might have

(01:07:17):
a problem. You might have a little bit of a
gambling problem, especially when you consider that Right now, as
we speak, November twelfth, twenty twenty four, just after three
thirty pm Central Standard time, Dion Sanders is the and
I say this because it's written in all caps heavy
favorite to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys,

(01:07:40):
per Bovada Bravada Official. And they say this after three
eyes emojis, so six eyes total, three sets of eyes?
You like when I read the uh the emojis. Coach
Prime has had an amazing relationship with Dallas owner Jerry
Jones for over thirty years now now the fit is perfect. Okay,

(01:08:04):
A couple of things here. He's had a lot of
relationships with a lot of people over the years. Well said,
thank you. I thought I was hoping you would pick
up on that. And some of them have been good,
some of them have been bad. Whatever. We all remember
the both commercials that Dion started in once he signed
with the Dallas Cowboys. Hey, offense or defense, Dion both?

(01:08:24):
You remember that? Was it Pepsi? I think it might
have been a Pepsi commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Now it is commercials with Nick Yes, coach Nick Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
And he's having a much better season than he did.
You remember when we came on the air and we were
like just gushing. I mean, we could not give him
enough flowers at the beginning of last season. And then
it started looking real, real bad that we had done that.
As the season progressed and some of the off the
field stuff coupled with the losses piled up and the
way they were losing, and on and on and on.
But he's doing a much better job this year. And

(01:08:53):
so that's what I mean. That's the kind of thing
that happens when you're a successful head coach, especially in
the college game, and especially when you have tie to
this kind of organization. Now I'm to the point where
I see this, I can't decide what I want more.
The disaster that would be Dion Sanders being the next
head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, or the disaster that
would be Bill Belichick and Jerry Jones trying to coexist

(01:09:16):
if he were tabbed as the next head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
And that's why the whole idea that they've had a
good relationship or a long standing relationship, which is true
in both of those relationships we're talking about Bill with
Jerry and Dion with Jerry, is not relevant to the
new relationship they would have. You can be friends all
you want. You never worked for him, you never head
coached his football team, as he's the owner of the team.
That's what changes. It changes everything. I think Bill knows

(01:09:39):
far too much about what it would be like to
ever accept that job, even though we keep talking about
that as a possibility. And I think Dion probably knows
enough about it also that maybe that's not like there's
this ultimate lure because of what the Cowboys have not
done for such a long period of time, and it
a little bit of it was there when Jimmy took

(01:10:01):
the job. Jimmy Johnson, if you win with the Cowboys,
if you win with the Cowboys in twenty twenty eight,
twenty thirty, whatever the year is, after all these years
of not winning, it will mean even more than it
would if you just want a championship. In most places,
I really do think that is a little nugget that
entices a an established coach who doesn't have to say yes.

(01:10:25):
A lot of these other coaches that might be looking
for their first job, that are going on their interviews,
that have been offered this Cowboy job, they're not in
a position to say no, I don't think so. Jerry's
the owner. They're in a position to say, absolutely, give
me my millions, win or not. I've got my money,
I've got experience as a head coach now, and maybe
it will even work. Dion and Bill are not in

(01:10:46):
that situation. Bill's not quite in the power position he
was last offseason or at least we thought when we
said clearly Belichick's okay, so he's not the Patriots coach.
There's thirty one other teams. There's fifteen other teams that
aren't sure of their few. There are seven teams with
an opening. Surely he's going to go there with or
without an interview, and he's gonna win, and he's gonna

(01:11:07):
get offered the job, and they're gonna work off his terms,
and he's gonna be the new head coach. We thought
that was gonna happen in Atlanta. I think Atlanta has
chosen a very very good head coach in Raheem Morris,
who's now getting his second opportunity to be a head coach,
a well deserved second opportunity. Is Bill Belichick in a
better position to say no to a job that gets
offered to him this offseason, like potentially the Cowboys, because

(01:11:29):
I'm talking about it from their position, knowing full well,
Jerry doesn't think like that at all. He doesn't think, well,
maybe this relationship that's been so good all the years
would be soured, Maybe these guys don't want the job,
maybe this guy's not right. He'd absolutely go over go
after both of them probably very front of the line.
That's why their odds are where they are. I don't
doubt that for a second. It's on their end that

(01:11:49):
I think they have to realize this. And Dion, I
think is in a very powerful position too. There may
be some teams that are concerned about how much power
a coach who already has that much which power might
have with their team because they're the owner. At a
university level, he has tremendous power Colorado. He had tremendous
power at his last stop. Also he now with this
season coupled with his last season before he came to Colorado,

(01:12:13):
they're winning.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
They're winning football games.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
The last three games on Colorado's schedule this year is
against three awful Big twelve teams. Kansas at least showed
that they can compete when they feel like it, which
they did last week against Saowa State. That's one of
their remaining games. Utah and Oklahoma State or the others.
Oklahoma State has zero conference wins this year. That is shocking,
but it is true, and Utah has won the favorite

(01:12:38):
to win the conference to play in the conference title game.
Utah have one win. Granted, it was clearly stole one
win was stolen from them a week ago, so said
their ad who got fined forty thousand dollars for that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
But this is what's left.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
That's all that stands between Deon Sanders Buffalo's from a
ten to two regular season and a spot in the
conference title game, with which a win brings a top
four seed in the playoffs. They'll have the announcement of
the next set of rankings tonight. Now they'd have to
beat BYU, who currently is undefeated. BYU's path to the

(01:13:15):
title game is comparably on the soft side after their
game against Utah. They do have a final regular season
game when they host the Cougars at the end of
the month. But all that being said, he's going to
be in a really good position if he chooses this
as his last year at Colorado. I think other universities
will be coming after him, and if he's ready to
move to the NFL or move at all, the Cowboys

(01:13:36):
won't necessarily be the only team that's interested, the only
owner that wants him. They definitely should be at the
top of the list. The rest of the list looks
like every other We are looking for a head coach odds.
Guys with experience, Mike Vrabel, Brian Flores, Matt Nagy, they're
all on the list. Guys that have oc experience Ben Johnson,

(01:13:58):
Joe Brady, Ted munkin there on the list, and then
guys that are super pretty and witty Cliff Kingsbury and
Lame Kiffin also on the list.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
And none of it's gonna matter because of your roster.
That's what it comes down to. Like, Oh, Dak's perfectly
healthy coming back next year. Great, look what he was
doing for you before he went down. So Cowboys have
a lot, a lot of big problems, which means it's
even more of a must win situation for the Texans.
Coming up on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Well here from Texan's head coach Tomico. Ryan's at the
top of the hour. An hour from then, we will
be joined by Matt Miller of e ESPN for a
little football conversation real quick, how are you feeling about
the fact that it's super super quiet on the Astros
front with Alex Bregman.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Well, other than the Angels front, it's super super quiet
on almost every team's radar. They just signed Travis Darno
to back up their catching position, per Jeff Passon. And
admittedly there was a reporter earlier today or late last
night that the Soto sweepstakes are now underway, with meetings
scheduled for a bunch of teams with a bunch of

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money who think he will put them over the top.
The Astros are not among them. So the Astros front
being quiet is not unexpected. But that doesn't mean at
a moment's notice things could change, because it's two fold
their own interest in one particular player and everybody else's.
I figured, at least what looks like is happening. Would

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you can have your meetings with Alex Bregman if your
other teams, and you can give him an idea of
what you want. But unless you're a team that very
very interested in Alex and absolutely disinterested in Juan Soto,
then you're probably not gonna go ahead and kind of
set things up and put things in motion and work
on signing Alex Bregman yet.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
And I think the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Agent for those players who's the same is probably going
to help make that not happen. So while Alex Bregman's
probably not signing with the Blue Jays, it's probably not
signing with the Mets. But until you tell me he's
definitely not being pursued by those teams. Until Scott Boris
knows he's definitely not being pursued, it's going to work

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it financially, I would assume to his player's advantage.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Well, and the talk about him going to second base
is so textbook Scott Boris, Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
What book he's reading out of, because it's nice to
say that publicly. It's even nice to say it in meetings.
But I guess when Chandler was on with us last week,
I brought it up to him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
I'm a dumb I don't understand the comment.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
He's just won the Gold Glove, right, He's the best
third baseman in one league, for sure, He's probably the
second best third baseman in all of baseball at the
very least, and the other one, Matt Chapman.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
He's not going to that team. Yeah, So why would
he not play third base for whatever team he's going
to because you have a better third baseman than him?
Because yet well no, but you have maybe a hole
at second base where he said he would play, and
then you could add Alex Bregman while keeping whoever you
want to keep a third base.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
Because that person or nobody else on your team is
capable of playing second. But Alex Bregman is, So let's
move the gold glover. And I know that that's literally
exactly what you're saying, and it would probably work.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Real quick. That's why I said it's textbug buick.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
Alex Bregman plays how many games at second base under
his current contract that are in's future contract that he
will sign more than ten or less than ten, less
than ten.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Okay, so because he's gonna be playing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Nextbook, then it must be in chapter I'm not gonna read.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Am I the only one that's like completely and wildly
convinced he's coming back here? Yes, I you are. I
don't know. I mean I don't think it can happen.
Doesn't mean I don't think it might be fifty fifty people.
You say wildly convinced, you're talking about eighty twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
You're about ninety ten. Yeah, I think you're in a
very small group of people that believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Because here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
As long as you and Jim are in that group together,
then he'll be right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
If Juan Soto does not come back to the Yankees,
meaning he lands in New York, Yeah, with the Mets
any number of places, though he could he could go elsewhere.
Though he could go to other places he could. I
don't think that automatically just means the Yankees are gonna
pivot to Alex Bregman. Would you if you're a Brian Cashman?

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Though if he did that talking about Brian Cashman, it
would be probably the best signing he's made that wasn't
a pitcher. From the standpoint of what Alex Bragman would
bring to that clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
In my opinion is that would be his second pivot
or one in one A. I think they would pivot
to Peede Alonzo personally and say, well, we don't have
Rizzo anymore. We can put him over at first, we
can slot him in the order to help protect Aaron
Judge like Judge was protecting Soto. I would think I'd
think he would bat after Judge and Judge probably goes
back to the tech.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Somebody needs to protect Aaron Judge from himself in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Well, they can't go up to the plate for oh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
You were talking about baseball terms. I was talking about
something else, like his brain, how it shrinks under the
bright lights of the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
He's still just as intelligent when he goes up there.
He thinks those pitches are good ones to swing out.
During the year too, Sometimes he was intelligent, he would
know that's not the case. Well, there are strikes. Half
the time he's missing strikes. He swings through pitches that
are in the zone as much as he does elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Yeah, it's a brain issue.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
But like we can agree that the idea of the
Yankees returning to the field in twenty twenty five with
one offensive star is not likely, Aaron Judge, is that
one if one Soto signs elsewhere, then Alex Bregman or
Pete Lonzo or on down the very very short list
of available stars, they'll be a Yankee. Rights didn't win

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the World Series right with Juan Soto? How are you
going to accomplish more without them out him and no
reasonable addition to the team.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
And by the way, there's question mark, but we'll save
money in their pitching staff that weren't there probably going
into even this season, even though I know so of them.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Well, maybe there's an opportunity to look at your staff
and say, hey, Clark Smith, Clark Schmidt could have a
really good year again, or and maybe even better. You know,
maybe Heel has another good year. You still have Garrett Cole,
and maybe you have them for the whole year. You
don't want to base all these if if if Radon
maybe is a little.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Less inconsistor, isn't nasty.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Maybe Nessa isn't going to the bullpen, not in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
If they don't intimidate me, and all they didn't intimidate
me this year.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
And yet they had the best record with that pitching
staff for the regular season.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
And they both races again.

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
My point is they could still make an addition there
and believe they're going to be better. I think they'll
be wrong if they don't add an offensive player while
losing Juan Soto.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
Uh, there's a zero point zero percent chance.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
On picking them to win their division and certainly the
al I want if you're.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
If you're a marquee free agent or even just a
regular free agent, whatever the difference is, Yeah, why do
you want to go play for the Yankees Because they're
the Yankees and they play in New York you have
a chance to win.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
I mean, outside of the twenty twenty three, eighty two,
and eighty season, they're pretty much a the next best
lock after the Dodgers and the Astros to be in
the postseason according to chance and according to us. I'm
not saying they're not going to make the playoffs next year.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
I'm saying, maybe I guess I should.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Jackson Deming, Jason Domingez.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
They'll be awesome. They're gonna play them this year. They
should have played it last year. I don't know why
they didn't. I don't either. I just I should have clarified.
I'm saying, if Juan Soto passes on them, yeah, that right,
there is an indictment. Well, I don't want to come
back here. That's not what it's not because they don't
have the money. That's not fair to say why, because
you don't know who has more money than the Yankees. Nobody,

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the Dodgers. Okay, so that's all it was. He just
wanted to take money to go across town. His decision.
Yet he knows that he's he's already played a season
in New York. Huge numbers, all I understand, and I'm
not very close to the situation. I think he had
a great time in the in New York. I think
he had a great time being a Yankee.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
I think he did like his team, just as everybody
said afterwards, I think they'd all love to have him back.
But he also this is why he said no to
the Nationals with their extension that was massive. This is
why he never came to an agreement, because he wants
free agency. He wants to see what's out there, and
I think there's a really good chance he just simply
wants the most he can get, which is good for everybody,

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including him.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
I can't wait till he goes back to Washington. They
gotta be amazing. I will love It'll make It'll be hilarious,
and it will break Yankees fans hearts. It's a win
win for everyone. When the Yankees cry we win and
it happened again in the World Series. Couldn't be happier
for the scumbag Dodger fans that got that World Series
first one since nineteen eighty eight four o'clock gour and

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Demico Ryan's Thoughts straight Ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:24:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
Lifelong Houston Sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team. Ay.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Hopefully this portion of the show, the second half will
be excellent, unlike what you saw on Sunday night and
each of the three previous games before that. For your
Houston Texans should be able to do this each week
normally on a Monday. This week on a Tuesday, as
Stimigo Ryans meets with the media after their most recent contest.
He obviously speaks postgame, but now there's a day in

(01:25:08):
between him revisiting things then and kind of looking ahead
to what this week will hold with the Cowboys on
the schedule, a three win team, a team that the
Texans as a road team are favored by a touchdown
plus against, and certainly would do well to go ahead
and finally get that seventh win. I've had a couple
of opportunities to do it. Unable to do so against

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the Jets on a Thursday, the first of three consecutive
primetime games. Unable to do it this past Sunday night
at home with a sixteen point lead in the second
half against the Detroit Lions, and now an opportunity to
get that seventh win for a third time in a
third consecutive primetime game. They have the last game of
the week, Monday Night Football against the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys

(01:25:51):
are going to be starting Cooper Rush. They probably will
have a third quarterback on their practice squad to be
available in an emergency, and may even play Trey Lance
rather than just resorting to having him relieve Cooper Rush
as they did last week and their lopsided loss to
the Philadelphia Eagles. But that's what the Texans are up
against this week. A couple of spots from Dimico here

(01:26:14):
some of the brief version of Demiko at the podium
from today. We've done this before. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Dimiko Ryans asked and commenting on a couple of different
things today. Initially with problems they might have had on
offense and defense, some issues.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
What were the real issues there with.

Speaker 6 (01:26:32):
The inefficiencies just not only offensively but defensively is just
a matter of just us focusing in and being on
the details of our job.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
And then I'm undoubtedly getting the question absolutely one correct
that elicited this answer.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
So did Nico hurt himself on Sunday?

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
After you brought him off of IR in his practice window,
only for him to then be made inactive on a
Sunday night.

Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
No stand back with Nico.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
That was just a game time decision.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
Got it game time decision, as we already knew, and
he was pleasant with his answer there. And then the
most curious play execution from the game on Sunday night.
Not the poorly thrown ball to Tank Dell that was
picked off the first time by Davis, Not the second

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ball that was thrown to Tank Dell that was picked
off the second time by Davis. Not a decision to
kick a fifty eight yard field goal. A lot of
number of different things, but actually the one play where
you looked like you tried to make your own team
fumble only so you could add to your own fumble
recovery stats. What's up with the Titus Howard forced fumble

(01:27:41):
on his quarterback CJ Stroud With that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
Play was well to start to play, we had an
issue with the cadence. We all weren't on the same
page with the cadence. A guy got off the ball quick,
we were laid off the ball and you were able
to get the sack on CJ. And I'm not sure
what happened. You know, from my look like Titus was
just trying to make sure he hailed CJ. And it's

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this is something that you know, I don't. He wasn't
trying to take the ball, I will say, if you
you know, speculating there, He wasn't trying to take the football.
He's just trying to protect CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
You believe him, Okay, so take him for a liar
and we'll go on the other side. So Titus Howard
intentionally hoped to pluck the ball away from his quarterback.
Remember Titus Howard used to play quarterback well over one
hundred pounds ago, so he wanted the football. He wanted
to take the football from CJ in that situation. And
again diving further into the comment, the player he didn't

(01:28:38):
say by name, I would assume was at least one
of the five offensive line, and there may have been
a second, but it would be apparent that Laramie Tunseell
was not on the same page as the offensive line
with the cadence because that's exactly what happened. The edge
rusher just blew right by and he just ran right
around it. We get on Laramie Tunsell all the time,
for all the false starts that he's now no longer having.

(01:29:00):
For the time being, there might be one on Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Bought us three on Monday night.

Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
This is one reason why offensive linemen are like, Man,
I'm just gonna do it until they call it, and
then if they call it, I'm gonna stop because my
quarterback's not gonna get hit when I do it and
they don't call it, because then I'm the one who's
moving first. Then I'm in a better position than them
I waiting. In this instance, there probably was an additional
cadence issue. You saw what happened to play was blown

(01:29:27):
up from the jump and the result was very undesirable.
So Titus Howard wanted the football. He wanted to take
the football away the offensive lineman, the three hundred pound
tackle wanted to take the ball from CJ. Stroud eight
yards behind the line of scrimmage. Now he was pulling
it towards the line of scrimmage. You really believe in

(01:29:48):
that situation he thought he was going to take the
ball from him and turn and run. That's what you're
you want me sitting here with you on the air
on Sports Talk seven to ninety in Space City Home Network.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Well that's what you want me to believe, right, I
don't want you want me to.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Believe Titus thought, Hey man, we see guys do all this,
all do all the time. Travis Kelce throws laterals across
the field. We saw hook and ladder within the last
ten days. What's the difference. He's about to go down
if I just take the ball from him boom yards.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
I don't want you to believe that, but I don't
know what I'm else, and I'm supposed to believe based
on my own eyes telling me look at him yanking
at the ball. If your argument, which you know Demiko's,
is he wasn't trying to take the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
He was trying to protect CJ.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
So when CJ contacts Howard, who also kind of gave
up blocking on the play because I think he thought
the play was already over, he initially grabs CJ around
the back. He has this left hand on his back,
but isn't able to hold him there. His other hand
is more on the front side of his body, where
the football is, and when his hand slides away from
his back, his whole body kind of slides away from seed,

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and now all these left with is his elbows, wrist,
his hands, the football. The only thing he ended up
clutching was the football.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
They probably would have lost five yards if Titus stayed uninvolved.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
Sack, You're down loss of five. It's fourth and fifteen.
They ended up losing five more yards because the ball
bounced the other way. Did again, did Titus really think
I can squeeze three, four, seven, ten, twelve yards out
of this and potentially we're in position to I don't know,
have a first down. It was third and ten and

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they were still winning twenty three to twenty, and they
were at just under ten minutes to go in the game.
There's a lot for a player to be thinking mid play.
But was that really what you think or you want
me to think? Titus the athlete, and I'm not even joking,
he was a very accomplished high school athlete, went to
school to not be an offensive lineman. Yeah, was going

(01:31:56):
to take the ball from his quarterback to get this
team more yards or at least have them lose fewer
yards roughly around midfield.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Here's what I want you to do. You ready for this? Yeah?
I want you to point to me a situation where
that has ever happened before, because you can't. I've never
seen anything like that in my life. And even if
you want to say, oh, he was just trying to
protect CJ, well, it looks like he's trying to protect
CJ from having possession of the ball. I don't want
that to happen. I'm trying to protect him from this

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horrible thing, keeping control of the football. That's what it
looked like.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Yeah, CJ after the play, gave him a little pat
on the helmet, you know, a little tap like a josh, like.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Is there anything going on in there? No? No, okay,
So that's what I would have done. I don't think so. Well,
I don't believe that was what the comment was.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
A couple of days away from a CJ's appearance at
the podium, it was more about thanks for landing on it,
thanks for keeping possession. This would be a bad place
to give the Lions the football with a three point
lead in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Like it or not. Where you are right now, as
the Houston Texans is your offensive line is under the
map a fine glass every single week until further notice
or further off season's drafts. What have you because that's
just where you're at right now, and if people are
starting to question CJ's decision making based on the fact
that he's got happy feed or doesn't have enough time again,

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I thought he looked like he looked a whole lot
better than he had from that standpoint in several weeks.
But that was a direct correlation to the play of
the offensive line, the negative play.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
So before we get to his comments on that the
offensive line, just let me give you a couple of things.
Did you see the Vince Carter ceremony in the last
couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Very emotional, very very emotional.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
He almost looked like he was at the congregation and
he had his hands in the air and he was
in tears.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
He was really feeling it. One of the athletes that's
blocked me that I regret.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Yeah, So someone posted that gift to the tightest you
just on the old X machine, you've Titus Howard up.
That will pop up to Titus Howard after forcing the
fumble on his own QB and recovering.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
We got that gift. Some comments on the play.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
We're not in the meeting room, but why is Titus
Howard forcing a fumble on his QB Titus Howard with
an elite forced fumble. Shame it was on his own QB.
So I think people are seeing it like we saw
the offensive line. You asked Dimiko did have comments on
his offensive line? Were they a little bit better a
little bit worse? Would you think about their pass pro Demiko?

Speaker 6 (01:34:27):
Yeah, yeah, with the change on the offensive line when
it came to the protection, thought the guys did a
better job of protecting this past week. And you know
with the run, the run blocking, and there was too
many negative plays for us where we have to definitely,
you know, attack the line of scrimmage more, be more
aggressive running out the football.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
You know what's interesting is in again, I could be wrong,
but just my eyes telling me, they tried a whole
lot more of outside runs in the first part of
the game when they were being successful offensively ironically, and
then as the game progressed, they were like, well, that's
not in Joe Mixon, that's not working. I'm gonna try

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and cut it back inside. And it was, you know
a little bit more successful. But that's the first time
since Joe Mixon has you know, laced up in Texans
gear where I was like, man, he just he cannot
get anything going on tonight. It was really another frustrating
part of the game.

Speaker 6 (01:35:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
I think they thought they he had the speed and
they did not have the speed defensively for those plays
to work. And I think they didn't find out quickly
enough that they weren't. They did a great job flowing
to the run, flowing to whichever off tackle he was
basically just the play was designed to go. There were
not nearly enough blockers out there, and because when there were,
there were far too many defenders out there. Much more

(01:35:45):
from Demiko Field, among other things, as they get ready
for next.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
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Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
Ninety back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler the eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
It's the eight teams four sock seven ninety Space City
Home Network rolling along here and now our number three
of four. By the way, programming note, we uh we
moved Matt Miller to tomorrow. He'll be on at five
o'clock tomorrow to talk all things football, Texans and otherwise.
Wanted to make a note of that. I can't wait
to visit with him. Are you seeing? I know I'm

(01:36:34):
not gonna I'm not gonna be here at that time
I'll be on my way to Toyota Center. That's Dan's fault.
I blame him. Nobody's hey, it was just a scheduling
mixap mishap. Not really on the topic, but just kind
of saw this today. And it does affect the Astros
next year, and it obviously affects the Rays.

Speaker 5 (01:36:55):
What a mess.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
Here's what it's gonna cost to build a new roof
for your stadium you don't want to play in and
had approved a one point three billion dollar new stadium
for your team to play in, but also you don't
have a place to play in next season either way.
That's what the Rays are dealing with in Tampa after
the hurricane.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
Yep, and this is something we've talked about it, you know,
from AFAR knowing that, well, there's no way they're playing
games early in the season, and then because of all
those factors that you just brought up, I think most
people were aware of where they stood with this stadium,
especially because they they told us or the reports were this.
This is why we probably got so much damage. These

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were rated to handle what we saw well when they
weren't past their shelf life.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
But there was no reason to replace them because you're
getting a new building. It's fifty it's just under fifty
six million to repair that stadium, which everybody I've ever
talked to, including Matt Thomas who has been there, they
all say the same word. It's a dump. It's absolutely
a dump. And if you're if you're trying to move

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into a new stadium anyways, then just why would you
why would you even do this?

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
They are not You're not telling us they're doing it,
are you?

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
No, It's just that I guess what the we've gotten.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
A number of decision has to come from, right. We
mentioned that the Astros were one of the earlier home
stands of the season for the Rays in twenty twenty five.
That comes in, Uh may, I don't. I never really
thought they'd be playing games there at that point in
the season. Now I think it's totally reasonable to think
they're maybe not playing games there period. There's plenty of

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ball fields.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Around, including the scenario where they play like half of
their games in Montreal. Do you want the Montreal ex
supposed to come back?

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
By the way, it's of extremely sleepover, are you.

Speaker 7 (01:38:50):
I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
I'm all for the success of the league itself, So
if expansion is something good. If moving a team is
something good, I would like here's the game for it.
I don't miss them being a part of.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
The National League that we're no longer a part of it. Yeah,
here's the deal. Usually when you hear about expansion destinations
for Major League Baseball, now that Vegas will I guess
have some of the A's games there. I don't know
what their ownership's doing. Nashville comes up a lot, and
I hear Portland. Now I might be wrong, and there's

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probably some other cities, but those are the two that
I hear the most. Here's my suggestion. Absolutely, put a
baseball team in Nashville. I think it's a great city.
In fact, the only thing I don't like about that
city is the stupid football team. Other than that, Nashville's
great city. My sister lives there now, but i'd been
there several times before she moved there. I think it's

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great put a baseball team there. However, I would put
a team in Montreal, Canada before I would say, drop
a major League Baseball team in the middle of ANTIFA
headquarters in Portland. I know Portland's supposed to what's their address?
ANTIFA headquarters yeah, Portland, Oregon.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
So you just call the number and they buzz you in.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
No, they don't because they got rid of the cops there.
They wanted to. Oh they don't have any.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
I probably don't want to put a baseball team with
no police.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
They police their own times.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
You need escorts and so many fans to part the
ways we got to get to our cars.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
I've never been in Portland either. All I hear is
that it's and I've got you know, a buddy of ours,
Chad Doing does radio there for the iHeart station there
in town. Just loves it, loves the city. It's beautiful there.
Craig Ackerman raves about it's one of his favorite stops
on the NBA tour because the Blazers are obviously there's
a great building, the what is it the Motor Center.

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Oh you've been there, you were, I was there. You
saw Damian Lillard in his prime before he started ruining
the Milwaukee Bucks and then stealing your money when he
got concussed.

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
They knew what they were getting when they decided to do.
It's not his fault. This is just who he is.
That's what that's their fault. They chose that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
But Seriously, if you're the Rays, why would you if
it's going to take a year anyways to fix the roof.
If you spend the money, just be vagabonds and get
your new stadium. I mean, it's the it's the lesser
evil of all of the solutions here, because I.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
Just so in light of the fact that they're going
to play these games, the A's games in a non
traditional major League caliber stadium for several years in their
home in West Sacramento, are they going to be averse
to doing that with a second team, Have them stay
closer to Tampa and play in a ballpark that they

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think they can make more suitable or is suitable, or
move them to any number of teams spring training complex.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Yeah, because it's like, now you're making an inordinate amount
of stops in Sacramento to play two different teams if
you're any other Major League Baseball club. But at least
I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
There are options much closer to Tampa if Major League
Baseball and the Rays are willing to or prefer that
option from a fan perspective, from a logistics perspective, that
they could go with.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
I'm trying to think of like a more major venue
than a minor league ballpark. Can't they just play it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
George Steinbrenner Field, the minor league home of the New
York Yankees.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
How many is that pack in? I don't know. I
feel like they're going to be the Rais fans. Well,
that's the thing. What's their attendance? It's got to be
dead last, right.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
I think they can get as many as eleven thousand
people there, which is not much different than the West
Sacramento look, and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
They're on top of you, so it feels like an
actual home field advantage. I guess I can't even get
it out of a straight face, like I don't. I mean,
And how far is that from Tampa?

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Not far at all? And that the location of the
field is in Tampa. This is why many fans in Tampa. Yeah,
because they play their ballparks it's at Steinbrenner Field.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
It's definitely a better option than going to the others
to play your home games.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
I know, I didn't if it sounded like I didn't
mean to suggest it. I meant, do are they okay
with a second ballpark like that? They're already playing one
team's games for three years in a ballpark that's not
major league caliber. Well, if another team is in dire
straits and the Rays are, would they be willing to say, yeah,
it's okay for you to find a location, even as
a non suited I mean, Toronto did that in Buffalo

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for some games out of necessity.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Yep, Martin Maldonado hit a banger of a home run
to left field.

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
I remember it. Banger. Yeah, you launched it if I
don't doubt. By the way, my favorite quote of this
whole article was when they asked MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred
where will the Rays be playing in twenty twenty five,
and he said, we don't know. I know. It's fun
to poke, it's very fun. How could they know? I know?

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
He I thought, this is a natural disaster. This is unforeseen,
and the timing of it makes it doubly difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
Put him in.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
If this happened at twenty five, twenty six other ballparks,
they'd figure they'd do the study. They probably would have
better information because the ballpark wouldn't have been as old
unless it was Fenway or Wrigley, and they would have
have probably be a lot closer to a plan, probably
be a lot closer to the money and be able
to kind of put this into effect, there wouldn't be
a we don't even I don't even think the Rays

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at this point know what they're doing after this year
because of this, right, because of where things stood and
where this new ballpark plan was, and how old the
current ballpark is. I mean, it might just turn into
something you just didn't really want to do. You've driven
your car for fourteen years, you're not making payments on
it anymore, but it needs work, it needs repairs. Well,
do you sink the money into that or is it

(01:44:41):
you just go spend more than you wanted to because
of you because you have to now it doesn't work anymore. So,
whatever the case may.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
Be, you get the new vehicle and we'll tell you
a great place to do that next week here on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
No, no, no, I'm just gonna sink another ten thousand,
get a new engine in the old vehicles. That's what
the ballpark is gonna put fifty million dollars into this
ballpark you definitely don't want to use three years from now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
And on top of that, say you did want to
do that, which sounds awful. It's a twenty five million
dollar insurance coverage with a twenty two million dollar deductible.
So the city has to foot the bill to do this,
and I'm guessing they've got higher priorities on what to
spend that kind of money on given the disaster that

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hit that area. So yeah, this is a it's it's
something that is completely out of sight, out of mind
here in Houston, even though it's something we can all
relate to because of the the just the subject matter here.
Hurricanes were pretty well first way to weave.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
The money they're looking to spend on this deal into
the money You've talked about insurance on the ballpark. Is
there any way they have like one hundred and eighty
two million dollar insurance on the wander Fronco contract.

Speaker 7 (01:45:52):
Wo.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
He got arrested again.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
He did, Like, dude, there wasn't any question I don't
think for quite some time about his return to Major
League Baseball in that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
There won't be one remains the same. This guy's not
going to return to the freedom loving people of a
society ever, right and nor should he apparently doesn't seem
that way, my goodness. So, yeah, there's the latest on
the Tampa Bay Rays in case you guys are wondering
and then, but it does affect the Astros and everybody else?

Speaker 3 (01:46:20):
How much does it affect them? They still are a
competitive baseball team. Yeah, well, maybe they should sign Juan Soto.
That would go over really well.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
They don't have any ballpark, but here's five hundred and
seventy five million dollars just to get one. So but
you'll have him for the next thirteen years. Uh yeah,
Tampa Bay Baseball. That is a mess right now. Our
show is not. It will continue here on a Tuesday
edition of the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety Space
City Home Network.

Speaker 5 (01:46:50):

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
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It's all your music, sports podcasts, and talk free never.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
Sounded so good.

Speaker 1 (01:47:05):
This is Adam and Adam sweekly choked through mind buckling
moments that make you.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Go, hey, what.

Speaker 7 (01:47:14):
What one?

Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
Ted Water is here?

Speaker 7 (01:47:19):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
Man? On a Tuesday pay what odin I did?

Speaker 5 (01:47:24):
Now say what?

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
We like to call this a signature segment on the
A Team Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network,
where we we dive into the world of sports. See
certain things that UH coaches, players and any number of
people within the sports world have to say sometimes about others.

(01:47:50):
I know I have one, I know Wex has something here,
UH do payper scissors rocker.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
All right, I'll go first. So there's a couple of
things that are going on. You have the best one.
You said the best one for last the situation. Sunday night,
I was there Texans Lions. It was very obvious what
was going on during the game, especially at the nearing
the end of the game at different moments, and then
at the very end of the game. At every moment,

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that place was way too full of Lions fans, way
too full of Lions fans. I'm not saying they haven't
had a lot of visiting fans over the last four seasons.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
They have. They have had a ton of fans there.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Two years of fans here probably saying, well, I know
I have tickets and I don't want to get rid
of them because at some point I might want them again,
but I'm gonna sell them to fans from other cities.
As the team got a little bit better these last
this last year and a half, there was a little
bit less of it, and certainly the loudness of it
was further away. I've told you before, at the beginning
of games, when the opposing team exits their tunnel and

(01:48:54):
enters the field, you can tell without having your eyes
open because you can hear the fans of the other
team there not. That's not even that big of a deal.
The only fans that are in the stadium forty five
minutes to an hour before the game when that happens
are the opposing team fans. They didn't come to town
to do a bunch of tailgating. They came to town
to see their team play, and they're the ones inside
the stadium. The Texans fans make their way into the

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stadium a little bit later in.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
A night game.

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
Maybe they even tailgated more than usual, but that wasn't
the issue. The issue was when they were doing things
successfully during the game, you could tell because the fans
were happy. You could hear loud, happy cheering fans for good,
positive Lions plays all throughout the game. You guys have
probably seen a bunch of videos on social media of

(01:49:40):
the dancing that was done on the concourses after the game.
I left the game well after an hour after the
final whistle, probably even more than that. And there were
still Lions fans outside the stadium enjoying their victory.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
What else a they gonna do? Go back to Detroit November.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
Or their hotel or wherever else they could have gone
for the evening a Sunday night. I don't know how
much partying the want to do to elsewhere, but nonetheless
it was pretty noticeable for everybody, including the head coach
of the Lions. Listen to this and tell me it
doesn't sound I mean, he kind of gives it away
right at the beginning when he says our fans travel,
but man, it does not sound like something you'd normally
hear from a head coach at a visiting teams stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:50:19):
Our fans are unbelievable the way they're traveling right now.
And I heard them in the fourth you know. And
I'm try not to pay attention to any of that,
but it was noticeable with their offense out there, and
the false start was critical. There was four, so I
can't say enough good things about our guys, our fans.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
I don't actually agree with him, but I could totally
be wrong and he could totally be right. There was
one false start in the game. It was in the
fourth quarter. It was against the Texans. It turned a
second and ten into a second and fifteen. It was
two plays before Titus Howard tried to take the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
From Cee J. St who's just trying to protect them.
More on that in a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
It was on k stover and he went and got
in motion and got set and I really think he
was just he was on the the he he was
not on his heels enough. He was leaning too far forward,
and then he went forward before he should have. I
don't think he missed the count. Like I said, I've
watched it a few times. Maybe I should watch it

(01:51:19):
some more. I don't know if you disagree or agree, it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
Doesn't matter though. Yeah, Dan Campbell's right, they could hear
the fans and the other team stadium at the most
important times of the game when you're trying to as
a home team, put a win away, get a win,
make more plays. You have the ball in the fourth
quarter of a game, you lead by three points, they've
just scored a touchdown to turn your twenty three to

(01:51:44):
thirteen lead into a twenty three to ten lead, and
there's a false start to three snaps into your drive
in your stadium, UK, he thinks the fans they're fans. Yeah,
led to it. You could absolutely hear it on TV too,
I mean playing his day, what they were channing there
at Jared Goff or Detroit Lions or any number of things.
And honestly, I mean I've been there for a Steelers game.

(01:52:08):
I've been there for a Cleveland game. I'm thinking of
like some of the more notable traveling I've been there
for a Raiders game. Both cities, I think they have.
There are fan bases that travel in this league. Packers
fans they all I mean Texans fans, well they're there. Yes,

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it's very well, But I'm saying I'm talking about in
Houston games in Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:52:32):
There's very few fans that don't travel to Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
I've never heard it like that. Yeah, I haven't either.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
For I mean, it was not when the stadium also
is full of Texans fans, not when the Texans are good,
not when it's a close fourth quarter game. And I'm
glad and I'm glad at the same time, I guess
not happy that it was so audible on TV. I
mean I was there, I could hear it. I didn't
know what it would sound like on the broadcast. I've
obviously gone back.

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
And watched it. It was how many times.

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
I'm not too far into it because I was. I
don't know, I didn't need to watch it that many
more times one time. But I also couldn't rewatch it
in its entirety Sunday night because how to watch Yellowstone?

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
How was it? It was fine. I'm not going to
get into it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
I'm not going to spoil it for a single soul
out there who was finding their way to be on
track with this year's season. I got one more real quick,
and I think we're gonna end up saving yours for
the other side, because, like I said, it's it's so,
it's vintage, it's direct, it's solid, and it definitely fits
the person who uttered it to a t. But I'll

(01:53:36):
take you back to Saturday night the mentioned it earlier,
BYU's undefeated season was on the line and they had
the ball and they were down late and they couldn't
They couldn't seal the deal. It looked like they were
going to seal the deal, but they couldn't seal the deal.
And the reason why is because the officials were unable

(01:53:57):
to help them.

Speaker 2 (01:53:58):
I don't think they got the call wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
Utah's coach did. Utah's players did. It extended a drive.
They ended up making it all the way into field
goal range, which they then kicked to win the game.
Stayed undefeated Utah State at one win in the conference
because of it. And most times you're waiting at the
press conference for the head coach to sit down, which
tid Winning did later, and he wasn't very happy. He
had a nice walk off the podium moment, but their

(01:54:22):
ad got there first. The audio is right there in
sports audio, and he just he didn't want to take
any questions, but he definitely had something today. A veteran ad.
This is Mark Harlan. He'll give you his a brief
resume and how long he's been doing this. But he
wasn't very happy.

Speaker 7 (01:54:39):
Fled directors for twelve years.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
This game was absolutely stolen from us. We were excited
about being in the Big twelve, but tonight I am
not we won this game. Someone else stole it from us.

Speaker 5 (01:54:55):
Very disappointed.

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
I will talk to the commissioner. This was not fair
to our team. I'm disgusted by the professionalism of the
officiating crew. Tonight, thank you, thank you. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
He went so long that he made sure that they
would be very unhappy with him, the conference and the
commissioner and the officials, and he got into the crying part,
this is unfair, all that stuff. The beginning of it
was more about this is wrong. We got to do
something about this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:24):
And then he got up said about how professional the
officials were.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
That when he said that, he was like, if you
weren't going to find me before, you definitely are going to.
Now he was fined forty thousand dollars. The commissioner said,
there's a right way to do things and a wrong
way to voice concerns. Unfortunately Mark chose the wrong way,
and yeah, I think he can handle the forty thousand dollars. Fine,
don't repeat that behavior either, or a more serious penalty

(01:55:48):
will come your way.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
The age on Sports Talk seven ninety, Adam and Adam
are so Houston they still can't successfully manage their roundabouts
on made Hey, this is h town, not London town
to Adam. Clinton had Adam work on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Strapped up for our signature segment, but really didn't wrap
it up at all. You heard from Mark Harlan, the
athletic director for one conference win Utah.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
He was very unhappy. He was disgusted. As a matter
of fact, how many points did his team score in
the second half that game Utah?

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
How many points did Utah score in the second half
of their game last week against BYU in which they
lost by one on a last second field goal.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
They did not score in the second That sounds very familiar.

Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
They only had an eleven point lead at the half,
though the Texans lead was sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
What if cow walked in after the game on Sunday
I was like, well, you know, it was very unfair
that we didn't win that football game because of that
past interference they didn't call, and I'm going to talk
to the commissioner.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
Well, he would have said it nicely. It might have
been the right way to voice his concerns. We talked
a lot about that play yesterday. I still want you
to get to the best moment of us say what
for today? But that pass where it was thrown, the
one that elicited no call but should have it was inaccurate.
It was a pass that got knocked down before it
even reached the receiver or the defender who has actually

(01:57:19):
defended him. But it wasn't hit before Hutchinson was hit,
so the penalty still would have should have been called.
But even had it gotten I don't know what I
want to say, gotten through, there was no way for
it to get through. That's how close the defender was.
This was not an open receiver. It was not probably
where he should have been throwing the football. About the
benefit of having the opportunity to look at all the

(01:57:40):
other angles and everything else, and trying to remember that
play when he threw it, I thought, Yeah, that's that's
where he should get a couple of yards, get the
first down, and move the chains and burn out their
timeouts and kick a shorter field goal and or maybe
get even more points. Yeah, it seemed like the right thing.
Looking back, it probably wasn't. And just before you get
to your coach comment from our favorite head coach out there,

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I've got gotten another handful of watches. I think I'm
on watch forty nine fifty and fifty one of the
Titus Howard trying to hold.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
His quarterback up trying to strip sack.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
He's definitely trying to hold him up until he wasn't
that the very last second when his hands have slid
all the way off his back, his arms, his wrist,
his hand, and onto the football. That's when he turns
around to see how far he can go once he
has the football in his hands. Jack Campbell, their linebacker,
was right there and would have I don't know. He's

(01:58:37):
smaller than Titus quite obviously, but he was there to
make the tackle. You see Titus's how Titus's head move
towards where he wants to run. At the very end,
he's looking to see where he can take the pigskin,
where he can run with the rock.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
That's why I don't believe Demiko.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
So what's what's the best first signature segment outside the
parameters of it?

Speaker 7 (01:58:59):
You right?

Speaker 2 (01:58:59):
You might remember Deontay Johnson from such prior seasons in
his career as those where he was productive with the
Pittsburgh Steelers, five of them he was. He was traded
to the Panthers last season, and a lot of people
think that he demanded that trade, but it was never
you know, put out in the open. I guess wasn't clear.

(01:59:21):
I guess there's some form of debate as to whether
or not that happened. And so now the Ravens went
and got him, hoping to kind of bolster their their
wide receiver corps, and it hasn't really worked out because
he just doesn't doesn't catch footballs. That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Just got there. Well, he has played in two games.
This upcoming game will be his third game. He played
seventeen snaps in his catchless game in a blowout victory
over Denver, and he played five plays in the game
that followed, caught one pass on two targets, so he
was targeted on forty percent of his snaps and their

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one point went over Cincinnati. Now, who does Baltimore play
this week? Oh, I'm glad you asked. They play his
old well, one of his old teams the first year
he made his mark in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
Yeah, And it's a big deal because anytime you ask
Mike Tomlin to provide any sort of commentary on pretty
much anything, he's gonna give you an absolute, unfiltered This is.

Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
A banger of a comment.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
Oh yeah. So they're asking him about Deontay Johnson and
you know what he thinks about him coming into this matchup,
And this is what Mike Tomlin had to say, hadn't
thought a lot about it.

Speaker 9 (02:00:38):
He's not on a lot of their video, and so
you know, at this stage of the week, I don't
know that I've weighed you know, what he might mean
to the matchup. They got more significant pieces with larger
roles that are occupying my attention at this part.

Speaker 7 (02:00:52):
Of the week.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
In case you could make out that last comment, which
is where he absolutely puts him in a body bag,
They've got more significant, can't pieces with larger roles that
occupy my attention. That is a fancy way of saying
you don't matter.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
I feel like we're doing a disservice to real journalists
like ourselves. We're supposed to make things as bad as possible.
We're spin doctors here on the radio. Put a person's comment,
if possible, take it out of context, just give you
play the hits that we'll give. We're radio try, we're clickbaiting.

(02:01:28):
Is what we should have done, without comment, what you did.
What we did as a unit here, three men unit.
We gave you the full context. And he talked about
why he hasn't been a big part of the game plan.
There's not a whole lot of film on it. A
legitimately well thought out answer as to why what I'm
about to say at the end is going to be that.

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
But we did it wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:01:47):
We shouldn't have played any of the nice stuff. We
should have played any of the stuff that led into
a perfectly normal comment that right there at the end
took a little dig out, and we should have only
given you the meat, the heavy hitting stuff, the incendiary stuff,
the shade, the visciousness.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
The whoa.

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
I can't believe he said that, that's all we should
have given our listeners, right.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
Yes, yes, do that you know what he might mean
to the match up.

Speaker 9 (02:02:08):
They got more significant pieces with larger roles that are
occupying my attention at this part of the week.

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
That's the last part. That's all we needed, just an
absolute I mean, And somebody was like, well, this is
going to provide him with a lot of motivation. Oh okay,
I'm sure Mike Tomlin's very, very scared of Deontay Johnson
lighting him up this week. Now, look if Lamar Jackson
wants to make it a point to find him great.

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
But again came up a little short tonight. Was it
a part of the game plan to try to, you know,
force the ball to Deontay? I noticed He was targeted
sixteen times in the game tonight, and he's only been
here a couple of weeks. You think that hurt the
offense at all? I mean they beat you thirty five
to six. You think they're going to intentionally use that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:53):
On their side? They have a healthy group.

Speaker 3 (02:02:56):
Wallace had a huge game when he shouldn't have a
week agogainst the Bengals. All they had to do was
push him out of bounds. They couldn't shot. Bateman is
dropping fewer passes. Zay Flowers is a real threat. Agalar
was right there in the end zone for a touchdown.
All sometimes they use Mark Andrews almost looks like they
believe in Mark Andrews again, stupid Ravens.

Speaker 2 (02:03:16):
I hate and Keaton.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Mitchell has now returned. He played in his first game
of the season.

Speaker 2 (02:03:20):
Guess where Mark Andrews was this week on my fantasy team,
right smack dab on the bench?

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
Which one of your eight tight ends did you start instead?
Todder Golin, I got rid of them all, Well you
probably started one. Uh honestly, now I came and think
of it, Ertz, I'm trying to remember what sad sack group.

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
Kertz was the one that the first down. You know what,
I won my FISTU you.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
Catch the ball on fourth down in front of the sticks.
That zach ert That guy smart, Yeah, he very smart.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
He got me. He got me a lot of points
at zach Ertz by less than a point. Unbelievable. I've lost,
I think, by that very same margin. So this is
so pathetic. Ninety point eighty four to ninety point seven.

Speaker 3 (02:04:02):
A win in this particular league usually comes in the
one high one teens, low one twenties.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
You're probably good to win. I've lost by less than
a point this year too.

Speaker 3 (02:04:09):
If you score in the nineties, you should have gotten smoked.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
If you score in the nineties, you should quit the
league at the end of the year because of injuries.
That's what's gonna happen. No, that's that's that's nice. I
reiterated that to Commissioner ross earlier. Uh, don't do that,
I said to him. I said, quitter, I said, Rossie,
I'm out. Don't be a quitter. Me and Matt Thomas,
we're gonna make not playing Fantasy great again, I said.

Speaker 3 (02:04:33):
Scoring in the nineties usually nets un l Yeah, well
not if you play me.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
I scored in the eighties this week.

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
So wait, you're back to back losses, I said, at
the bottom of the league with both of you guys. No, no, no, no,
there's one other person there also with a team ties.

Speaker 2 (02:04:47):
He does not. Yeah, that's all she wrote for This Hour.

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Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
You know what we should talk about because we haven't
talked about it all day. It's football and fortunately for
us it's five o'clock. It's football at five, and so
unless it's a situation during baseball season when channeler Rome
joins us. That's what we talk about this time every
single day because we live in the state of Texas
and it's basically the law.

Speaker 3 (02:06:08):
Yeah, we got a few things to add to our
conversation into the fourth hour of the program today.

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:06:13):
The a team with you each and every weekday afternoon
from two until six. The simulcast on Space City Home
Network remains three until six. Texans pass Rush looked a
little bit different this week. It probably will look a
little bit different from this week.

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
Next week.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
Mario Edwards is eligible to return from his four game suspension.
The second Texans defensive lineman to have served a suspension
this year, Audrey Denico. Autrey served his six gamer to
start the year. Upon his return, it just worked out
that Edwards was hit with his four gamer those four
games served.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
He is like Audrey.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
Granted, the team is granted a one week roster exemption
should they decide not to bring him back for this week,
it doesn't impact their roster.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
I'm not sure why they would do that.

Speaker 3 (02:07:01):
He's healthy and ready to contribute, and he was playing
very well before then. Gives him even more depth. I
don't think they were worried when they traded away Khalil
Davis to the San Francisco forty nine ers. And this
was one of the reasons why I was watching this
past game to see how they would deploy their edge
rushers without Will Anderson Junior. And it went about as
I expected and mentioned on X right before the kickoff,

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Deniko Audrey got a lot more snaps on.

Speaker 2 (02:07:25):
The edge than he would normally get.

Speaker 3 (02:07:27):
When you have both Will Anderson Junior and Daniel Hunter available,
you need Audrey on the edge less. Derek Barnett's healthy,
Dylan Horton is now active on a weekly basis. They
have enough depth there to have him rehavo it, hopefully
on the interior and in Edward's absence. I think that
was something that they're also looking at. But what it
does moving forward is it might open the door for

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Daniel Hunter to move around the line a little bit.
He did it briefly when Audrey returned, and it becomes
more difficult if Anderson Junior hasn't And again tomorrow we
won't get into did Will Anderson Junior practice today because
they won't practice at all tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
Is not there Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (02:08:05):
It's just actually Wednesday, one day further back because they
are playing on Monday night. So Thursday, Friday Saturday are
this week's practice days for the Texans, so Friday's practice
will be the likely more intensive one. I don't really
have a line on where things stand with Will Anderson Junior,
although most of the players who are either about to
be back or are coming back, and Kenyan Green, we're

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all on the sidelines. Christian Harris was on the sidelines,
and he may have been there before. I did not
notice him at previous home games as much as I
did this home game. Will Anderson Junior was there on
the sideline. Nico Collins was out there, Kenyan Green was
with them throughout. They've put him on IR and he
is not expected to return. And remember Nico Collins has

(02:08:48):
already returned. He's no longer on IR. He was by
the way, designated for return and activated Saturday, so he
is on the roster. And Aaron Wilson again reports as
he did a week ago, was not necessarily about is
he healthy. It's about what will the team decide to do.
The team decided, as Demiko said at his press conference today,
they just it was game time decision, But what was

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the decision that they.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
Don't want to play him?

Speaker 4 (02:09:12):
Yet?

Speaker 3 (02:09:12):
It is to me I agree or disagree, and I
should probably give you my opinion. It's what they've done
before and what they decided to do again, and with
a caliber player of al Shaer as important to their
defense as anybody is. And I think they did the
same thing with Jimmy Ward. I'm not going to dispute
who is the most important player to what they're doing.
If you're not talking about CJ. Stroud, the next answer

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is Nico and you're going to see that. I think
this week against the Cowboys and then the Titans and
the Jaguars over the next.

Speaker 2 (02:09:40):
Three years, maybe don't play Jimmy Ward's and no one
on your team gets hurt.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
Well, that comes with a totally different conversation. And I
asked Jimmy kind of a roundabout question about that they
had all of their safeties healthy for the first time
in weeks and maybe really all year when you consider
even though Kaylen Bullock was healthy at the beginning of
the season, he wasn't what he is now. They didn't,
I don't think realize he should be out there all
the time. You and I talked about it before the

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Lions game. Hey, Jimmy Ward is back, and guess what,
it shouldn't matter for his old position. His old position
is held by Kayln Bullock. A safety isn't just a safety.
You can put them wherever their best fit. His best
fit is no longer on the back end of this defense.
It's Kayln Bullock's best spot. But they chose to go
with a rotation of safeties, and I noted it throughout

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the game. Oh, this series, Kaylen Bullock is out there.
This series, Jimmy Ward is out there. They were the
two that they were rotating. Eric Murray wasn't rotating as
much with them, hardly at all. Jalen Peatree saw fewer
snaps than usual, but I think that's because they wanted
to give the lines a little bit different look, and
I actually think it worked. So I can understand that
the pass play the deepest pass play to Laporta. The

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two big passes that Laporta caught, one was on Henry Toatoa,
which is what every team would hunt your tight end
on a linebacker. I don't think the Texans did something
wrong or got fooled or got out schemed. It happened,
and it didn't work. The other one was the near touchdown.
He went out of bounds inside the five yard line.
He ran right down the middle of the field. They
had one safety back, it was Eric Murray. As soon

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as he turned to his left laporta well, Murray ran
with him with plenty of gap in between them and
without the closing speed that Bullock has completion inside the
five yard line. I'm not saying Bullock makes the play.
He definitely has a better opportunity to make the play
Eric Murray. It's just he's He's actually, I think, been

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much better than I ever would have expected. Way more
want him playing that position in your eleven man defense
as Kalin Bullock is healthy and on the bench. That's
just a mistake in my opinion, and we mentioned that
before it happened, so I continue to say that. But
what they have going on with their defensive line, I
don't I don't know about Will Anderson for this week either,
but like I said, we'll find out when he gets

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on the practice field. Worth noting again story of Daneil
Hunters and I think has been almost sacks and then
the numbers that nobody wants to hear. He's in the
top five now in the NFL in pressure eight. He
has an NFL best fifty four quarterback pressures normally found
in the Texans game notes of via next Gen Stats.

Speaker 2 (02:12:17):
Aaron Wilson had them today.

Speaker 3 (02:12:19):
Guests who had a game high eight pressures on Sunday
night staneil Hunter. And this is without his running mate
will Anderson Junior.

Speaker 2 (02:12:26):
He's the master of the guy that it might not
show up in the box because of the sac numbers.
We always talk about it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:32):
And showing up in the box though it's not next
to his line, it's next to the quarterbacks line. Jared
Goff number one in the NFL and completion percentage, best
six game stretch in NFL history in completion percentage. Oh
and then he played the Texans and completed fifty percent
of his passes. He was fifteen of thirty. It was
because they did force him into quick throws. He dirted

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quite a few to avoid. Again, they didn't get the
lost yardage out of it. They moved them to second, third,
and fourth down by doing well.

Speaker 2 (02:13:01):
One time he threw it his offensive lineman's shoulder, so
he didn't dirt that one he.

Speaker 3 (02:13:05):
Hit Laporte in the helmet on one of his goes,
and five of his twenty completions went to the Texans.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
Yeah, they're not completions when they do that, wex No
they're not.

Speaker 3 (02:13:16):
But Danel Hunter on the season every once in a while,
usually on a Tuesday, when they release them. I'll hit
you with the pass rush win rates and run stuff rates,
et cetera. With your defensive and offensive lineman. It's been
a rapid rise to the top. Aiden Hutchinson, who will
remain here probably for the season, even though he doesn't
play anymore. Trey Henderson of the Bengals, Miles Garrett of

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the Browns.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
That's now it.

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
Those are the only three players with a better pass
was rush win rate no matter how slow I said,
I'll mess it up than Daneel Hunter. And the only
team with two edge rushers not only near the top,
but in the top seven are the Texans with Anderson
and Hunter. Exactly how they hoped it would play out
when Hunter was added to the Texans. All fairness to

(02:14:05):
John Grenard, he's still having an awesome year in Minnesota.
He's tenth in the NFL for the every week of
the season, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
Well, I was gonna say, did the Texans make the
right move, just since we're on that subject.

Speaker 3 (02:14:14):
In my opinion, I think they could have produced an
extremely similar season if they were willing to go more
years with a riskier player for less money. Only say
riskier because he'd done it for less time, he'd had
injury history that was unpleasant with this team. Hunter basically
plays every game, every snap of every game that he's

(02:14:36):
needs also and he's proven it year after year after year. Right,
and this is a bit, I mean, cost you more money.
Everything that you said absolutely makes sense. But also Hunter
his arms alone, that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:14:48):
That's it. That's the comment.

Speaker 3 (02:14:50):
If you noticed when the Texans looks like a cyborg.
So they went with the candy reds for this game. Yeah,
so they usually when teams do that, they'll you know,
change the stadium or maybe they'll change their social media.
They changed the header on their social media on their
Twitter account, and it's a picture of the game details.
It's all in red Texans line, Sunday Night Football, Energy Stadium,

(02:15:10):
all that stuff. And they used one picture of a
player in his red uniform staring at you, intimidating you.

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
It was daneil Hunter. I mean, he's terrifying.

Speaker 3 (02:15:18):
He's like so nice. Yeah, you can spoken extremely thoughtful
with his answers. You know, after the game, when we
were waiting to talk to some other players, he had
not gotten out of his uniform yet. He was just
down at the other end of the locker room talking
with Dylan Horton, talked with Jerry Hughes, they, you know,
just talking about the game before he meets with the media.
Just's a really good fit. Grenard was a great fit also.

(02:15:41):
I'm sure they feel the same way in Minnesota. It
was it was a calculated move where maybe they thought
going into when you consider the other changes they made
on their defensive front, I don't think it's a knock
on what Grenard did or can do. I do think
they did specifically want this particular edge rusher in that
particular body, with that particular skill set, because they did

(02:16:02):
the same thing on the interior of their defensive line.
I don't know that they got better players than Sheldon
Rankins and Malie Collins, but they got the kind of
players they wanted because they thought it would make the
defense better and they were right. Tamiko Ryan's input there
and the fact that that's his unit. He's coaching that unit.
They've been awesome. This is one of the best defenses

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the Texans have ever had.

Speaker 2 (02:16:23):
Where do you go to high school? I know he's
from Katie Daniel Hunter. I think it's it's purple. I'm
thinking Morton Ranch. Could you imagine high school Danil Hunter?
He must have. It's a little like a man of
button boys out there. I can't even imagine the high
school version of that monster trying to get after it
and correct. Okay, he probably played fifty other positions too,

(02:16:46):
because that's how freaks like that are. And I use
that with all of the complimentary tones necessary. We'll continue
on here in the five o'clock hour of a Tuesday
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The A team continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:17:47):
Just one segment away from all of the things we
have not talked about over the better course of nearly
four hours. Here it is a Tuesday edition of the
program WEX and ac with you on a day where
you said earlier, the Texans have kind of bumped everything
forward because it's a Monday night matchup. So while today
is there you how'd you phrase it? Today is their Wednesday.

(02:18:10):
Today is not their Wednesday. Today's their Monday. Can go
That's what I went back. I went in the wrong direction.

Speaker 3 (02:18:17):
Yeah, they're not playing christ they're not moving things up.
They're playing one day later. So that's how they'll schedule
that out. Just as though first of two instances they
went Thursday, Sunday, Monday, three straight primetime games that will
conclude with the Cowboy game. There is another instance of
what day is it today? From a practice perspective standpoint,
and where are we with Triss.

Speaker 2 (02:18:37):
It's going to be weird.

Speaker 3 (02:18:38):
It's definitely going to be odd for them to be
playing a game on a Wednesday. They obviously have the
Saturday game and a Sunday game around there. The Dolphins
and the Ravens and the Chiefs, or the Dolphins, Chiefs
and Ravens as they get there. The Chiefs and the
Ravens are among the two teams that have played as
most would have expected. To a certain extent, they thought
before the year started their Super Bowl contenders. They absolutely

(02:18:58):
should believe that both front there could be you know,
the Bills probably started the season the very same way,
and they should feel that way. I don't know if
there's any other AFC team that should have felt that
way and still feels at least that strongly. There's two
other teams that fit in the statement. The Texans might
have felt that, and certainly some of their fans did,
and some of the people in these seats did, and

(02:19:19):
they probably slowed on that because of the way they've played,
and the reverses probably happened for the team that said, yeah,
we'll probably be better since Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph
aren't taking snaps for us. I mean, I know they
haven't played any Division games. They play this Ravens this week.
The Steelers are seven and two. You can't do that
by accident. We already paid tribute to Mike Tomlin's comment.

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Is Rus Wilson good again?

Speaker 3 (02:19:43):
If you watch their games, he doesn't look a whole
lot different than when he was at his best in Denver,
which isn't very good. He still seems like he holds
onto the ball, he scrambles where he shouldn't. He's not
making a lot of great throws. There's far too many incompletions,
far too many drives that get stunted. And then he'll

(02:20:03):
throw the ball into single coverage deep with his tip,
his patented moonball, and it's a touchdown like he shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (02:20:10):
They should.

Speaker 3 (02:20:10):
I don't know how they scored all the points they
did a week ago with him doing it, but he's
definitely giving them a little bit better chance than justin field.

Speaker 2 (02:20:17):
It's why they made the switch.

Speaker 3 (02:20:19):
There are enough completions being made at key moments for
them to continue winning, and their defense is great now.
Alex Heighsmith's going to miss some time moving forward. That
is of great significance. I don't think they've run the
ball quite as well as they thought they would, though
that can still take place with their two headed backfield
and the kind of once in a while, and it

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happened twice this last week. He's not the best receiver
in the NFL, and he's probably not even in the
top ten, but the most impressive catches made in the
NFL since George Pickens joined the league. He's definitely got
three or four in the top ten, and he had
another couple this past week. And Russ is just doing
a little bit better job of just go make a play,

(02:20:59):
Maybe even better job is worst way to say that.
He's giving him the chance to do it a little
bit more often than Justin Fields did, so they would
be on the I didn't. I didn't realize we could
really probably make another run at it with who we
have this year. They need to prove it inside their division.
Six of their remaining nine games are division games. Bengals
are a playoff caliber team. The record says otherwise they

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put up points clearly. The Ravens are a Super Bowl
contending team. So that's four of your final.

Speaker 2 (02:21:27):
Nine games and then you have Jameis Winston's team twice.

Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
Going back to this week's opponent, that's the Cowboys Texans
Cowboys MNF.

Speaker 2 (02:21:37):
Kind of like I talked about their season at the
beginning of the year, I thought it was gonna be
feast or famine. I thought they finally take the next step,
or it is going to go in the toilet. And
I didn't even say that was because of injury. I
just and it wasn't until Dak went down. I mean,
they were doing a pretty good job.

Speaker 3 (02:21:54):
Not according to Jerry, as he said after this game,
we weren't playing very well with Dak.

Speaker 2 (02:21:59):
Y's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (02:22:00):
So it's not really it's due to other injuries. Maybe yeah,
partially because they've had a bunch.

Speaker 2 (02:22:06):
But going into this matchup, I you know, we keep
talking about all these close games the Texans either win
or lose. At this point, they had a lot of
close wins. Now they've had two really crushing close losses
on field goals to teams in the NFC North. I
don't particularly think there's going to be a close game,
and I'm leaning towards I think the Texans are going

(02:22:28):
to humiliate the Cowboys, or it's going to be like,
what is happening, Bobby Slowick's getting fired? Something just really bad.
I don't think there's any in between.

Speaker 3 (02:22:40):
This week, is there a little bit of the resistible
object meets movable force as the Texans go to Arlington
to a T and T Stadium. Texans have clearly not
played great football on the road for the better part
of two years.

Speaker 2 (02:22:55):
Even though the one of the two games you mentioned,
the Green Bay game, they.

Speaker 3 (02:22:57):
Were leading, they had the lead when the whole second half,
and then they gave up a fieldabal on the final play.
Their overall performances both sides have just not quite been
as strong as the ones at home. The Cowboys at
home have been so incredibly dominated, so beatable, so awful.
I saw this stat earlier, and I tried to make

(02:23:19):
sure it was correct, because it seems just impossible that
it hasn't happened before. There've been some awful NFL teams before.
They've trailed by twenty points in each of their last
five home games. That is the first time that's ever
happened in NFL history.

Speaker 2 (02:23:36):
This has been going on since they opened the building.
The Giants used to love coming to town. They would
smoke the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (02:23:43):
But then the next opponent would lose to the Cowboys.
The Cowboys aren't that far removed from dominating at home,
like many good teams who continually win twelve games a
year do.

Speaker 2 (02:23:54):
What did you call it? The resistible force meets the
movable object. Yes, that's the most non guerrilla monsoon highlight
real for WrestleMania six I've ever heard?

Speaker 3 (02:24:02):
Who would be the true wrestlers for that event? No,
if it was a resistible force and a movable Oh,
who are the wrestlers that go out?

Speaker 2 (02:24:11):
The biggest, most famous jobber of all time was the
Brooklyn Brawler, and he would be taking on.

Speaker 3 (02:24:18):
Very under utilized sports term.

Speaker 2 (02:24:19):
He'd be taking on one of the jobbers who you
didn't really know his name until the only thing, the
only reason you found out his name is because he
was involved in an unfortunate botched spot that like broke
his neck or something terrible. So yeah, that'd be that.

Speaker 3 (02:24:33):
But yeah, so jobber is a wrestler, a tomato can
is a boxer. Is a patsy an NFL team.

Speaker 2 (02:24:42):
No, patsy is a guy who takes the fall for
either a successful or attempted assassination of a president. I
had just a patsy, he said that. Yeah, I didn't
know that Harry Oldman played uh Lee Harvey Oswald. And
was that an accurate line? Like?

Speaker 3 (02:24:57):
Was that a repeated authentic line that was uttered? Uh huh,
which I know some movies are very true to the
acts that are they're depicting.

Speaker 2 (02:25:08):
I believe him, he was just a patsy. I don't
think he shot. I don't think from there and not
with that weapon.

Speaker 3 (02:25:15):
So are the Cowboys the jobber of this weekend's matchup?

Speaker 2 (02:25:18):
Money? Well, both things happened in Dallas. Yes, Well, actually
this is gonna happen in Arlington. But maybe you'll pass
it on your way out of town Dealey Plaza. I
don't know. That's the other thing. I had such a
speaking of bangers, I had such a good, good concept
on deck for the good morning video out the window

(02:25:41):
this week man, I could get in some trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:25:45):
Uh this is a good opponent to maybe snap out
of it. Give you the ammunition even close to the
date wex Yeah, just just so you know, like I said,
the Cowboys aren't far removed from dominating at a home
and Dominating is pretty simple in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
If you win, that's pretty dominant.

Speaker 3 (02:26:05):
Their worst home record in the last three years they
were five and three three years ago. The last two
years before twenty twenty four, they were sixteen and one
at home cleaning an undefeated season.

Speaker 2 (02:26:16):
Do you know I could find out? Was it even close?

Speaker 3 (02:26:20):
I imagine it was not a playoff game. Remember they've
lost playoff games, by the way, as you look that up.

Speaker 2 (02:26:25):
Not only will we be releasing the Epstein files, also
the JFK files will be released when I get into office, paraphrasing,
Oh but it's gonna happen, Yeah, you all think so.
We're also going to release the Diddy tapes. Everything will
come to light that's been in darkness. Believe me, I'm
gonna do it. They this administration.

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
They lost this season opener at home, nineteen to three,
the opener to start the twenty twenty two season.

Speaker 2 (02:26:54):
They're home opener. How do I not have to have
been on national television?

Speaker 3 (02:26:58):
You would think with Saunday Night film, the opponent they
were playing, you would think that they might.

Speaker 2 (02:27:02):
Have the Eagles better. Better than the Eagles was a team.

Speaker 3 (02:27:08):
It was an NFC team better from a television perspective, Packers,
it was Sunday Night football.

Speaker 2 (02:27:19):
Geez, I can't think because the NFC has sucked for
so long. Well, this team didn't, Tampa Bay. There you go,
Okay Brady, Yes, of course, that was the season that
ended with him winning a championship, not the one that
ended with him throwing ducks.

Speaker 3 (02:27:32):
No, it ended with him back in or playing the
Cowboys and losing in the playoffs. Oh that's right, man,
But they beat him on opening day that season.

Speaker 2 (02:27:41):
That was that was the season that lost him. Giselle,
that's why, Well she said it, Well she I told
you to retire, and even less.

Speaker 3 (02:27:50):
Happy had he won that game, because then she has
a love.

Speaker 2 (02:27:54):
Child with her jiu jitsu coach, and he's making billions
of dollars on TV and as a partner has a
love Joe.

Speaker 3 (02:28:01):
Oh you didn't know that, like born No, Okay, Braggers,
it's in the oven.

Speaker 2 (02:28:06):
So that's the latest on Tom Brady's on and off
the field life, in case you missed it, And in
case you missed it, some of the things we have
not talked about that will be straight ahead in our
other signature segment that we do each and every day
here on the show Sports Talk seven ninety Space City
Home Network, Dan, we'll have some of the items we
have not spoken about when we come back.

Speaker 5 (02:28:30):

Speaker 1 (02:28:34):
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Speaker 3 (02:28:47):
To here, some of which we hopefully have touched on.
I mean, we've been on the air for three and
a half hours. You think we get to the most
important things. Sometimes not, and sometimes just a little bit
more time needed to spend on them. That's why we
have in case you missed it here during the final
hour of the four hour ride here on the A team.

Speaker 2 (02:29:01):
What do we have today? And in case you missed it, Dan?

Speaker 8 (02:29:03):
All right, so you guys talked about earlier the BOVAA
odds that have Deon Sanders as the favorite to be
the head coach of the Cowboys. Well, it's not looking
like they're gonna win very many more games this season,
and probably if they lose out, they could be in
position to have the top pickoverall. Who is the player
that people think is going to be the top pickoverall?
Uh shoulder Sanders that's correct. I am actually going to

(02:29:27):
go two full twofold wex right here. I enlisted the
Matthews research team, and I'm also going to be a
wet blanket for people out there who think that Jerry
is crazy enough to say, yeah, not only are we
hiring Dion, We're going to throw our multimillion dollar quarterback
out the door in draft Chador Sanders. Just doing a
quick little Google search, Dak's cap hit next season would

(02:29:50):
be almost ninety million dollars. The year after that, almost
seventy million dollars at sixty eight sixty two. After that,
they do have an out after that sixty two million
dollar cap hit season where they would only have to
have a thirty four million dollar cap hit if indeed
they moved off from the deal that he is currently
signed to. So again, Cowboy fans, if you think that's

(02:30:11):
gonna possibly happen, Jerry's crazy, He ain't that crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:30:14):
Well, this is like Deshaun Watson territory as far as
dead cat money.

Speaker 3 (02:30:19):
If they were to do this, Bapple will go up
each year, but it is still an enormous, enormous hit.

Speaker 2 (02:30:26):
Shadure Sanders at his best, like he has he does
his best CJ. Stroud rookie quarterback impression, It's probably still
not better than Dak Prescott right now for the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (02:30:37):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:30:37):
When he's healthy and he's you know, firing on all
cylinders into other defenders hands.

Speaker 3 (02:30:42):
Shad Sanders would be going into a very bad situation.
That's why one of the reasons why Dak Prescott's not succeeding.
He has got one plus level receiver. The other guys
are probably NFL caliber, but they're not game changers. Ferguson's
a really good tight end that helps disaster in the backfield.
By their own choice, offensive line has not gotten better

(02:31:04):
over these last couple of years. While they've been winning,
they've been consistently getting worse. Shoulder Sunaders comes in next
year and all of a sudden he fixes everything all
by himself offensively.

Speaker 2 (02:31:15):
I don't think that's gonna be the case.

Speaker 3 (02:31:17):
And I did actually run through the Cowboys schedule to
try to see exactly how poorly they could finish. They
do have Carolina and the Giants on their remaining schedule,
which you would think there's some pride with the players
that are on your uniform and going out there play
that maybe those games are winnable. Most of the other
games seem pretty lopsided. Philly the Commanders twice, the Texans,

(02:31:39):
the Bucks, the Bengals. Four wins is probably I think
the fewest they can get at four and thirteen. They're
drafting in the top ten for sure. Not sold that
they're drafting one or maybe even two.

Speaker 2 (02:31:53):
But who's making these picks, well not.

Speaker 3 (02:31:55):
It actually comes down to who is at one and
what do they need. Don't think Sanders is a definite
you draft him first. I would say he's the best
quarterback available. So I do think it depends a little
bit on who's there. Who's their team wise, and that
could be any of the teams in this division with
two wins.

Speaker 2 (02:32:14):
There's two of them.

Speaker 3 (02:32:15):
Jacksonville probably if they land the number one pick again,
then what do they do?

Speaker 2 (02:32:22):
They have to trade? Out?

Speaker 3 (02:32:24):
Right, they did what the Cowboys did. They just signed
Lawrence to a massive the extension.

Speaker 2 (02:32:32):
What the Cardinals did, and they trade him away for whatever,
and they draft the guy that they want to replace.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Him somebody though that was year one. Somebody has to
want Trevor Lawrence and his contract. Somebody is going to
the Killer. But totally understand.

Speaker 2 (02:32:50):
Somebody's going to say to themselves, Okay, this guy has
been through how many coaches and how many offensive coordinators,
So if you just get him with ours, he's gonna
be fine.

Speaker 3 (02:32:59):
Vegas and Tennessee are the two teams that have two
wins that have no quarterback issue whatsoever. Vegas wants to
draft a quarterback by all means, they absolutely should. They
will wherever they end up if they can, or they'll
move into a position to do that. Tennessee has no
commitment to will Levis. They're gonna let him play out
the year if he stays healthy, and I don't even

(02:33:20):
think there's any level of play he could could perform
at where if they fall in love with the quarterback,
they would pass because they have Will Levis. But New
England has three wins. They're not drafting a quarterback. The
Giants are just like Jacksonville in Dallas. They just signed
their quarterback to a massive.

Speaker 2 (02:33:38):
Daniel Jon goes to Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence goes to
New York.

Speaker 3 (02:33:43):
Yes, Sanders plus Sanders to the NFL is something we'll
continue to talk.

Speaker 2 (02:33:48):
About, not just in Dallas.

Speaker 8 (02:33:50):
What else do we have maybe Brian Flores is the
man for the job because the Vikings defensive coordinator was
recently on the Adam Schfter podcast and said that he
would like to be a coach again, and yes, did
touch on his time in Miami. Of course, there was
the tu audio that floated around out there of how
he was treated by him, all that different types of stuff,
and oh yeah, he did have that lawsuit against the NFL.

Speaker 3 (02:34:13):
There's no reason for I mean, I know teams will
do the wrong thing and shy away from it, the
two of stuff. If you can't look past that or
understand what took place there, and that's the reason for
not letting him be your head coach.

Speaker 2 (02:34:26):
I think you're making a big mistake.

Speaker 3 (02:34:28):
I think he's no different than a lot of other coaches,
which he acknowledged when Tuas said what he said earlier
this year as the Vikings DC. I made mistakes. I
did things wrong. I was a first time paraphrasing. First
time head coaches are gonna make mistakes. They're gonna be
better in year two, three, four, five, six, or they're

(02:34:49):
gonna be better in their second job. That's why Matt
Naggy probably undeservingly is being mentioned as a candidate. But
it's the same reason I talked about Raheem Morrise earlier.
He deservedly deserved a second chance, and I don't think
there's much question about him learning from what went down
the first time. Todd Bowles a multi time head coach.
Do you think he's doing a good job in Tampa?

Speaker 1 (02:35:08):
I do.

Speaker 3 (02:35:09):
I think what they're working with and some of the
injuries they're working through, I think he's doing a perfectly
fine job. I think a guy like Brian Flores from
a head coaching standpoint, especially since you're getting his defense,
his philosophy, his game calling, I would assume unless he
decides my second time around, maybe somebody else should call it,
but it'll still be his defense. I think he can

(02:35:30):
make for a very good head coach. The lawsuit part
is a hurdle. Yeah, And it's interesting you would bring
up Todd Bowles because famously, and I think this was
last season, and he was asked about being the first
black head coach to do whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:35:47):
I can't rememberink it was a double black head coach,
and he was just like, I'm just a head coach. Yeah,
he said the exact opposite of Brian Flores. I mean,
he's trying, you know, instead of you know, making this
a big deal. I want us to not need to
make this a big deal because it's not a big
deal anymore. Because more of the league's head coaches are successful,
are black are it doesn't come up in your conversation

(02:36:09):
from a media standpoint, is often because it has no
business doing that anymore. And remember this is the same
Todd Bowles that I said, come on, man, why are
you not going for two at the end of this game?

Speaker 3 (02:36:19):
You're gonna lose to Kansas City in overtime too, and
not even see the football.

Speaker 2 (02:36:22):
He's quietly a really good coach. I mean, and I
don't think it's any accident that Baker Mayfield is. Now
I've said this about Baker Mayfield. I think he got
a bad rap. I think, you know, he had some difficulties.
But the two of them are just kind of quietly
going about their business being a really good tandem.

Speaker 3 (02:36:41):
Yeah, when you can finally talk about who can stiff
arm Nick Bosa for eight yards, then you probably have
a place in this league. Just a by the way,
So he's succeeding in Tampa. He's roughly a five hundred
coach there a couple of games under where did he
come from?

Speaker 2 (02:36:55):
Where he was?

Speaker 3 (02:36:56):
Sixteen games under five hundred Woody Johnson's Jets. So everybody
leaves the people are succeeding as head coach of the Jets.
Speaking out of my cheek, it's punched so firmly in there,
like it's a it's a death sentence for head coaches.

Speaker 2 (02:37:11):
Is somebody gonna rescue him from Matt Lafleur's cabin, his
log cabin in Green Bay and hire him as a
member of their staff. Maybe he comes to Houston.

Speaker 3 (02:37:19):
Don't know that he's hiding him there, But Robert Salah
has a job in the NFL. Maybe not a head
coach next year for sure. As we wrap up, in case.

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Speaker 2 (02:39:02):
I always felt like this generic, non licensed royalty free
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Speaker 3 (02:39:13):
Actually it would be two eas oh yeah and weak.

Speaker 2 (02:39:16):
Why did you short them? I know I made a mistake.
So do you agree with my theory on this game
on Monday night? I know it's a long way off.

Speaker 3 (02:39:24):
Long way off Thursday football. We got a day full
of It's Sunday. We got all our stone cold locks
that are gonna go down Friday night.

Speaker 2 (02:39:31):
Or did you pick the game yet? Did you stop
being scared of the sec I'm not scared of the
sec you're afraid. I was never afraid. You are fearful.

Speaker 3 (02:39:38):
What's the backlash that I'm so afraid of?

Speaker 2 (02:39:40):
I don't know. You're one that brought it up there.
I've done too many.

Speaker 3 (02:39:47):
Has chosen a lot of those games that I thought
maybe it would behoove them to.

Speaker 2 (02:39:51):
Why don't you talk to Red the Wealth Commissioner and
pick a game that involves b y U and Utah GA.

Speaker 3 (02:39:57):
Now, funny you say that BYU was under consideration. Kansas
is at BYU this week and Kansas finally showed up
to play. They just took down Iowa State and now
they have the opportunity to take down BYU. But the
committee thought better of that and they will not, in

(02:40:18):
fact do that. Shocking that the night game will feature
the teams that are our college football Game of the
week six thirty on Saturday night from Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia,
Georgia hosting Tennessee Georgia can do a lot to help
create really tough tie breaking scenarios. At the end of

(02:40:43):
this is probably the only game on the schedule that
Tennessee can lose. Before they get there. They have one loss.
Texas and Texas A and M each also have one loss.
They play each other. I don't think there's a game
on either of their schedules they could lose. But at
Parkansas this week it's a game, but just don't mess
around with that. Is this atmosphere. They're aware of how

(02:41:03):
much this game means to the Razorbacks and their fans.
This is their super Bowl. And the season has gone
about as they would have expected. Some games they played
better in and some others that they said, wired, do
we still have Sam Pittman as our head coach? They're
good enough to Yeah, I could see them winning. I
don't think the Longhorns are going to fall into that.
I don't think they're gonna get out played if they

(02:41:25):
don't make mistakes and yours continues to throw five yard
passes that turn into eighty yard touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (02:41:31):
They should be just fine.

Speaker 3 (02:41:32):
Their defense is also they're they're so good it allows
them to I mean, Georgia could have easily blown them
out by even more than fifteen points if not for
the long Horns defense. Also the fact that Carson Beck
does his best Jared Goff Sunday Night impression every single
week the game.

Speaker 2 (02:41:50):
I don't know if he sucks. I do.

Speaker 3 (02:41:51):
He sure hates keeping the ball in possession of his
like that's your job.

Speaker 2 (02:41:55):
As your jobs as a quarterback are to obviously march
the team down the field and score points of some
sort and also not throw it to the other team.
He does that all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:42:08):
Well, nobody in college football has done it more than
Carson Beck, the quarterback for Georgia, who probably feels like
Kirby Smart feels the same way. I think it's not
an elimination game because Tennessee I don't think is eliminated
from the postseason, but I think Georgia probably would be.

(02:42:28):
And I think that's how they'll approach it, And that's
why when we get to picking the game, probably be
leaning on Georgia to win and cover.

Speaker 2 (02:42:36):
Would you be stunned if that happened? Somehow, some way,
and then the Longhorns go on to win the National Championship. Wow,
I'm I'm going all the way. Yeah, I'm down one,
all out, And then you know you would think about
if you're Georgia, you'd think about that game for like
ever all off season. For sure.

Speaker 3 (02:42:55):
Once should think about the other three games, the ones
who didn't win.

Speaker 2 (02:42:59):
Yeah, but if you saw Texas hold up that crystal ball,
wouldn't that kind of.

Speaker 3 (02:43:05):
Sticky sound like they're trying to figure out the future.
It's a crystal football. It technically is a ball.

Speaker 2 (02:43:11):
I didn't say baseball, it's a ball.

Speaker 3 (02:43:14):
I think they would look at the forty one points
they allowed to Jalen Millro's team, the fact that they
got whacked at Ole Miss, and obviously you're now giving
them another loss somewhere along the way.

Speaker 2 (02:43:24):
Yeah, not the Texas game that they won this week.
That's when I'm giving them a loss. Let's go Valls,
get it done or get her done. I guess since
we're in the ICC, that's how you would say that.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:43:36):
Yes, that will make it to the top of our list. Obviously,
we'll have to wait until Tuesday's show for the final
results because we'll have at least the pick on the
Texans game. Texasans are still favored by seven and a
half over the Cowboys. No change with the official announcement
that Cooper Rush will be starting that game for Dallas,
probably one of the three prop bets will be a
Texans related one.

Speaker 2 (02:43:57):
We seem to do that most every week. I still,
I'm sitting here and we're doing this for a living.
We talk about sports. It's not work at all. No,
very easy.

Speaker 3 (02:44:05):
I don't have to do any prep rolling it two
out at five point fifty six for the same thing
the next day.

Speaker 2 (02:44:10):
Rolling at one thirty. Come on now. No, But like,
I can't believe there was a time and you did
this where we would talk about college football and it's
champion being determined by multiple.

Speaker 3 (02:44:23):
Computers, computers, and before that you would have it was
strictly just a bowl system. This conference plays this conference,
that conference plays that conference. The number one team in
the country who's undefeated, well, their bowl alignment just says
they're playing this team who's eighth, and the number two
team who's undefeated, well they're playing the number three team.

(02:44:44):
And then after their games, we'll let the voters decide
the two polls.

Speaker 2 (02:44:48):
The up and I guess, I guess what is more
infuriating than anything else about this is that it took
so long, in various forms of this evolution to where
we are today to make change. Well, look where we
are now on the far far end of the other
end of it, with twelve teens great in the playoffs.

(02:45:11):
It's great, and people want more.

Speaker 3 (02:45:13):
Well with the reverse, we usually talk about that the
team that was five and six last year Alabama for instance,
Florida State, or Georgia for instance. In Florida State, Man,
they could have.

Speaker 2 (02:45:22):
Won it all.

Speaker 3 (02:45:22):
Georgia could have won it all, no question. This year,
I think they might. We might say this team should
have gotten in. I don't know that we're saying they
should have gotten in because they could win four playoff games.

Speaker 2 (02:45:34):
The teams that don't make it aren't really like man that.

Speaker 3 (02:45:36):
You know, maybe they should won it all. I don't
think we're gonna think about it like that. And we're
also not going to say because they didn't get in, well,
I don't. I mean, just because Texas won at home
game and won two more games, they won the national title.
I don't know that they really would have beaten the
fourteenth best team in the country. The fifteenth best could
have said that last year. I think about Michigan or

(02:45:57):
Washington or Texas, would they have beaten Georgia.

Speaker 2 (02:46:00):
But it feels like you get the most well rounded,
legitimate champion. Mean, it's why did it take twenty five
years to do this or more?

Speaker 3 (02:46:10):
I don't know how because the amount of money that
was involved, and everyone, even though there's now more money
because of it, everyone's trying to protect what they were
getting and I want to make sure I'm still getting that.

Speaker 2 (02:46:20):
Yeah, the pieces of the pie, which is always the
haves and the have nots. That's college football to it
to the undegree that describes it. But you would think
that some of these people, these people that were in charge,
would see, yeah, but you're gonna exponentially make so much
more money.

Speaker 3 (02:46:38):
The package of games will But am my conference which
is dead? If you're the Pac twelve, what do we get?
And this is what they were fighting. It's the SEC
wants their piece of the pie. They're the ones they
think are generating all the money. They're probably right, so
we got to make sure to protect that amount and
get when we make even more money, especially when we're
driving it. We got to make sure that we get

(02:46:59):
there the Thursday night game in the NFL, we'll get
our weekend of football started. And that of course is well,
it's about the first place in the Cowboys Division.

Speaker 2 (02:47:08):
And they're not playing in the game.

Speaker 3 (02:47:10):
Commanders and Eagles were back with you tomorrow between two
and six right here on the A Team. After the
show tomorrow, we got Rockets basketball for you with the
Clippers in town for the first of two games in
three nights. Looking forward all that. Appreciate everybody that was
with us throughout this four hour ride.

Speaker 2 (02:47:26):
We'll talk to you then

Speaker 5 (02:47:29):
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