Texans-Cowboys Is Finally Here! Red Hot Rockets and GBU

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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.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The A team A team.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's do this, Houston.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
It is the A Team Sports Talk seven to ninety
a Monday edition of the program, a double dip edition
of the program, And of course by that we mean
the fact that both teams will be in action basically
at the exact same time tonight. The Houston Texans, finally,
mercifully are going to play a football games taken forever

(00:39):
to get to this game against what's left of the
Dallas Cowboys, and of course your Rockets, the hottest team
in the NBA. I don't think anybody has a longer
than a five game winning streak right now, but they could.
There's some teams in front of them in the Western
Conference standings, but only a couple, and they'll be in
Milwaukee tonight on the second half of a back to
back after they appsebsolutely slaughtered the Chicago Bulls last night.

(01:04):
Wex you were a part of things by proxy since
we don't travel with the team, but.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Rox Is and I combined for one hundred and forty
three points.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
How about the fact that they had just given up
one hundred and forty four to the best team in
the NBA in all likelihood the game prior.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
How about the fact that somebody during their Rockets countdown
show me said they have the worst defense in the
NBA this month. Yeah, let's watch it unfold and we did,
or listen to it unfold.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, no, really really impressive what the Rockets honestly are
doing defensively more than anything right now. But we'll get
to that. We've got it.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Just one other thing, you said, somebody in the NBA
may have a longer winning streak than they do. Yeah,
you're definitely aware somebody does, right, Well, they.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Don't count because they haven't lost yet.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah. Yeah, Cleveland is I think we all predicted that,
not Philadelphia, not Milwaukee, not Boston, but Cleveland, the Cleveland
Cavaliers would be running rough shot over the NBA At
this point. I was in the elevator on my way up,
way later than I wanted to be today, and uh,
they have the Four Letter Network on and it was

(02:07):
an NBA show And yeah, in our elevators, in our elevators,
get on our level. Other office buildings in Houston, no
sound and no not at all, and the clock is
like twenty minutes off, that's all. Oh my gosh, I'm
even later than I thought. No, it's just twenty minutes
off and an hour back. No, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Their
ranks are like first across the board in every offensive category,

(02:30):
and I'm like, you know, it'd be a good matchup
right now is Calves Rockets, But I digress. The biggest
thing on the docket today is obviously not only getting
you ready for tonight's finale of week eleven, but also
going over what happened in week eleven, because there's some
weird and wanky stuff Yesterday. Man, I think we all

(02:51):
thought that this was a good chance that the Chiefs
would lose for the first time. This was the colossal matchup.
I didn't even realize until they put the graphic cup
yesterday that all of the last four games between those
two clubs were determined by three points or less, which
is insane, and no one had led by more than
a score. I guess in the fourth quarter of those games. Well,

(03:13):
that happened yesterday is Josh Allen. I mean, imagine not
being able to bottle up Josh Allen defensively, couldn't be
the Texans, but yeah, the Chiefs could not get a
hold on him, and he just basically took the ball
literally into his own hands and ran it into the
end zone with an amazing play to cap things off
and Pat Mahomes throwing a I guess not really a
game clinching interception because they were down two scores, but

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that was that kind of cap well, it did cap
off unless you watched last night's action. A wild week
eleven around the NFL and specifically in the AFC, because
I think, you know, if we're being honest, probably rooting
for the Ravens to go ahead and lose that game yesterday,
even though it meant these Steelers are now in first
place in the division.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
It there's two ways to look at that Ravens game.
Because you're not gonna have any tiebreaker possibilities with the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
You're head up.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Obviously every tiebreaker after that will be in play. But
you have the Ravens on the schedule, so you can
help bust them down a little bit, but it won't
matter if they're not the division champion because you won't
be competing with them for a spot. It's not that
you wanted them there, and they are difficult matchup, but
I think either way you could have been in a
pretty good spot as long as you believe when Beyonce

(04:26):
is in concert, the side show the opening act and
closing act of the football game that is now a
secondary feature of the December twenty fifth activities, that the
Texans can take care of the Ravens on Christmas Day.
And if you think people are going to the game
for the football, which will probably be good wrong. People

(04:46):
who already had tickets are fired up. People who maybe
thought they could find tickets good luck. Since that announcement
is almost twenty four hours old. Now I doubt it's happening,
but that was the announcement yesterday. It's a pretty big
deal considering how in frequently or I guess in this case,
the first time she's been live since this most recent
album was released. It's it's a little bit loftier current

(05:11):
musical status then your typical regular season game halftime entertainment.
Because the Texans have had regular season halftime quote unquote concerts,
they have them all the time. You have somebody that's
very well known but maybe not super currently popular. Somebody
that's very Houston centric, but maybe not really at the
peak of their career. Maybe that was five, ten, fifteen, twenty,

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twenty five, thirty years ago, something like that. But in
this instance, it's about this is a super Bowl halftime
show caliber performance. I don't think the team, or Beyonce
or the fans accept expect a super Bowl caliber performance.

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They've probably asked the league with their fluttering eyelash is saying,
can we please have just a little bit of extra
time for this regular season holiday halftime game, please, and
illegual aquiesce and say yeah, for sure, We'll go with
Tamiko and we'll get with Harbaugh and say, come on, guys,

(06:15):
go have five more incrustables we got to show to
do and everything will be fine. But that is pretty
interesting and definitely worth a little bit of conversation about
how the size of the magnitude of the game that
we all hope we will get this. I mean I
hope I'll be there, and for everyone else that isn't
there that has to hope watch it on TV that
their streaming service works wonderfully, which we saw Friday night,

(06:39):
might not a lot of good memes about the fight
again we're just kind of walking you through what took
place since we left you a last Friday is an
unbelievable amount of items. Obviously, the Texans game has yet
to be played. The Bills Chiefs game was the game
of the day for who it matched up, But the
game of the day was actually the last game of
the day. If you wanted to see a heavyweight fight

(07:01):
and you knew that you'd been jobbed and fooled by
the Paul Tyson fight two nights before that was a
heavyweight fight between two heavyweight quarterbacks, one of whom has
a team that can't figure out how to be on
the right end of it at the end, and the
other one that is now finally figuring out how to
be on the right end of it. But that was
just one haymaker after the next. A first half belonging
to the Chargers, the second half belonging to the Bengals

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until the very end of the game. We had another
ridiculous Chicago Bears late game decision. That's the kind of
thing that you would think would get you fired, which
is what the Bears should be doing since whenever they
have a new quarterback ready to anoint as the franchise quarterback.
They get rid of their coach that very same year,
as could be the third time they've done so. A

(07:45):
little surprised. It's three o'clock on the East Coast and
Doug Peterson is still the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
How much better do you feel about that? Texans lost
to the Lions. The Lions also one competes with them
except for Houston and the Bucks.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
To be fair, okay since they beat them, but yeah,
for it to go one week to the next, from
a Sunday night game against the Texans to a Sunday
afternoon game against the Jaguars, there's a pretty big difference
in a six win team and a two win team,
and you saw that on display. They scored every single
time they had the football, except their longest drive of
the game, when they took the final six plus minutes
off the clock to end it with their backups out there.

(08:24):
Scored a touchdown on every other possession up until the
field goal drive, which also included their backup. Basically the
worst day of Jacksonville football ever, all during the same
season following their owner saying the time to win is now.
This is the best team we've ever assembled, the best
players we've ever had, the best coaching staff we've ever had.

(08:45):
They're headed into their off week this week. This probably
has to be the decision. If you're a shod Con,
I would be surprised if it were not. We haven't
seen any other firings yet today. But again I think
the day is young, young enough that maybe there will
be so where the stand with the Texans if they
come through tonight, which we expect them to do based
on what everything else it took place in the AFC

(09:07):
over the weekend, the Colts game should be of great significance.
They turned things back over to Anthony Richardson and he
had his best game in my opinion, as a pro.
He had his best game throwing the football when it
mattered the most. He was awesome in the fourth quarter,
two touchdown drives, eight of ten throwing the ball one
hundred and twenty nine yards, and he had both of
the scores, one on a pass, one on a run,

(09:29):
had three touchdowns on the day and because of it,
they came back and won. And there's not pressure more
pressure on the Texans, but mathematically there is. I mean,
the Colts are five and six, you dropped to six
and five if you don't win, even though you do
have the tiebreaker, So it's still essentially a two game
cushion with what would then be six games to play.
But you can maintain your three game cushion if you

(09:50):
just go out there and win the game yourself. Titans
next week, Jaguars the week after that. Taking care of
business is something the Texans should have emblazoned across every
part of their jerseys, their flight, their locker room, everything.
Just take care of your own business, especially starting tonight
with the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, you've got to do that.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
You've got to really almost for your own mental well
being as a football team. I'm not saying they lose
this game tonight and it's over and they're gonna pack
it in. Sure is gonna feel like on this show, though.
I just the more I look at this matchup tonight,
the more I look at, really who's going to be
playing for the Texans, specifically on the defensive side of things,

(10:31):
like just cobble together something offensively, and I'm saying that
with Tongue and che I think they're gonna do more
than that. But defensively, you should absolutely feast tonight against
this Dallas. I say offense with air quotes, even though
we're not on television yet. I think they're going to
absolutely run rough shot over the Cowboys offense. We'll discuss
that and a whole lot more here on a Monday

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Speaker 4 (12:17):
Our number one of four on a Monday edition of
the A Teams Sports Talks seven nineties. We get you
ready for what should have been just a colossal matchup.
And by all accounts, look, it's still Monday night football.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
It's still the Texans.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
It's still national television for the what third week in
a row, Like, you're not gonna have half of the
I guess hoop loss surrounding a matchup against the Titans
a week from now, for example, for the noon game,
but at the stadium, Like, okay, the Titans and the Cowboys,
how much do they honestly have not in common at

(12:53):
this point in time.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
There's a little bit better roster in.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Dallas, a little bit a lot of bit Oh okay,
they have real players. When have they thrown for a
ninety eight yard touchdown pass?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
And they did score six other points and their ten
point loss.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, I was waiting for that part of it.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
I mean, actually, that was a beautiful play, beautiful throw.
It shows you what kind of arm talent every once
in a while Will Levis can put on display. But
they're not a very good football team. I mean, Minnesota
didn't even play very well and had really no trouble
at all beating them by ten points. Cowboys are also
running out their intended backup quarterback. The Titans are running
out a backup caliber quarterback, but that's their starter. They

(13:36):
they have more issues. The Titans know what they are.
Titans didn't think they were gonna compete this year. The
Titans don't have their quarterback of the future they were
gonna give. Basically, it's been a two year tryout for
will Levis as a second round pick, not having their
quarterback previous to that, and it was smart to eventually
say goodbye to Ryan Tannehill, which they did. They know
where they are. The Cowboys can't believe where they are.
Jerry Jones can't believe where they are. They can't believe

(13:59):
that they're about to host a Monday night football game
against the only other team in the state and they're
expected to get crushed as they should be based on
what these two teams have done. There really isn't even
any pressure on them, which is shocking. With this much
season left, They're set to play in their tenth game
of the year and there's no pressure on the Cowboys
whatsoever at all, none, zip zero.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's insane.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
But at three and six, with no wins at home,
with getting blown out at home every time they take
the field, they're not playing for anything. There is nothing
on the line tonight for Ceedee Lamb, for Micah Parsons,
for Jerry Jones, for Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Nothing, literally, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Hard to find a game in season the last I
don't know how many of Jerry Jones this season. I
know there's some losing seasons in there, but certainly not
in any of the Mike McCarthy seasons where it just
didn't matter and it doesn't matter what they try out there,
how they perform. No one's playing for a job even really.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I know.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
It's the thing we say about their players that they
are what they are, you know, the guys that have
already proven what they can do, they'll be back next year.
Parsons is heading into a contract year.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
You would think this.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Offseason a contract offseason because it's time for him to
get paid. He watched Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott spend
a very uncomfortable off season waiting to get paid, which
ultimately they did only to get him on the field
and play bad football as a team.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
The other two teams in.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
The Air Division that are much better than them are
clearly not going to come back to the pack. I
wouldn't think anytime soon. It's up to the Cowboys to
get back to their level, and at least at this point,
I guess if you want the tiniest, tiniest morsel of
stale food to chew on and feel good about. At
least they haven't yet firmly announced it without announcing it,

(15:43):
that they're trying to lose, because that's what the other
team in the division decided to do today. They want
to save money and they want to lose. They want
to save money on the guarantee on Daniel Jones contract
by not playing him at all, taking him from he
gives us the best chance to win.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
He's our starter.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
We gave a fat extension to You're not even gonna
be active in this upcoming game. So two quarterbacks who
clearly we can't win with are gonna go out there,
and it isn't even the line you'd think they'd take.
Drew Locke is going to be the backup and Tommy
DeVito is going to be the starter for them. No
relation to Danny, no relation. The comical jokes will come
from whatever he delivers on the field. You know, somebody

(16:22):
pointed out what seemed obvious at the time even and
even worse now. They went out and clearly this offseason
they chose Daniel Jones. We're talking about the Giants. They
chose to give him the extension. When both he and
Saquon Barkley were up for an extension, they probably were
going to lose. One could franchise the other, maybe an
extension for one, and any number of scenarios they could
play out. Ultimately, they gave big fat, long term money

(16:45):
to a quarterback who'd had one reasonably good season out
of multiple season.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
The other seasons weren't reasonably good.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
They were absolutely embarrassingly awful, and the other guy just
had injury problems while being an absolute star for them.
And when he was on the field, and enough on
the field that their thoughts of what they could be
without him were very, very misguided. But the point of
all that, to bring up all that is they decided
to spend money on the backup quarterback Drew Locke, who

(17:13):
they refused to play. Well, why didn't you just give
that five plus million dollars to Saquon Why didn't you
just meet the demands of the Eagles. Why didn't you
just pay him what another team was willing to when
you weren't that far behind.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Why didn't you just keep them both?

Speaker 5 (17:29):
At what point did you think moving forward with Daniel
Jones and nothing, even though their running game is actually
not even that bad. Tyrol Tracy's a really nice draft pick.
And bring in Singletary just in case you didn't have
anything in the draft. That's fine too, But they're clearly
in a bad spot. They're trying to save money on
all fronts, and they are definitely trying to lose. And

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if they get to the top of the draft, which
is where they are headed, they'll be one of the
teams thinking about one of the quarterbacks in Ward or
Sanders or maybe another. As we get closer to that.
The issues tonight, while we continue to bring the Cowboys
into it because that's who the Texans are playing. I'm
not I can't analyze this game and say the Texans

(18:10):
need to concern themselves with this. I think if Ceedee
Lamb hauls off and has an eight catch, one and
eighty nine yard game with two scores, the Texans will win.
I think if Cavante Turpin turns into special teams or
turn touchdown in this game, the Texans will win. I
think if they don't force any turnovers against Cooper Rush
and the Cowboys offense, the Texans will win. I mean,

(18:34):
there are all of those things together. Yeah, maybe the
Texans come up a little short if they can't force
any turnovers and the Cowboys are able to do things offensively,
If they do give up an explosive special teams play,
if they have no answer for CD Lamb and Cooper
Rush can get them the ball. Maybe if all of
those things happen together, then maybe they won't go in

(18:56):
there and win.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
But I think they have a little bit of pride.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
I think they play hard enough that they're not gonna
lay an egg so large and stanky that they come
back from Arlington with an.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
L Well, okay, but everything you just mentioned. Doesn't that
make this such more a must win situation for the
Texans in that year?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Shut us if they do lose it.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Must win is relative to those who want to get
to utilize the terminology. But you can't go into this.
There's no excuse anymore. But Okay, they can play bad
football all they want. They can play bad football tonight,
you just don't lose the game. But I mean, I
know who they are. They're a cut below the best
teams in the AFC at this point in the season.
If you're arguing otherwise, then you're a homer or you're

(19:37):
not paying attention. If they were better than they're good.
It's not an accident that they took the Green Bay
Packers down to the last kick. It's not an accident
that they took the Detroit Lions, who are awesome, down
to the last kick. I'm not saying they're a bad
football team. And they do have a win over the
team that just beat the Kansas City Chiefs for doing
the exact same thing, except they're the ones that were
ahead at the very very end. But they've had a

(19:59):
few games where I mean, we're looking at what they
did two weeks ago still and how can we forgive them?
How can we forget Okay, that's two straight weeks after
they gave the Jets life. That's where the Jets have
gotten embarrassed by Arizona. And I think they got embarrassed,
but in the way that they let the Colts back
into the game after they took them.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
It was set of three games.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Colts out early, Jets came all the way back and
looked like they were in position to win, and then
they crated again at the end and the Colts beat them.
The Jets are bad, really bad, and the Texans looked
really bad and lost to them. That's pretty inexcusable. This
game tonight would be even more so.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Doesn't that make the last two games from the Texans
all the more frustrating for completely different reasons.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
You look that bad against one.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I mean, I don't know if there's a worst team
in the AFC not named Jacksonville at this point, but
the Jets are just like I was watching that game yesterday,
going are you serious? The Texans really found a way
to lose to this crap That's what they are. They're
crap and then a week later be that competitive, albeit
at home against the best team in football.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Like other than the Bucks that.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
You mentioned, no one has thoroughly dominated Jared Goff, for example,
who was on my bench the way the Texans did.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
But they found a way to win.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
And so it's like back to back weeks where I'm
just I'm stunned at how the Texans can. Absolutely that's
why tonight I don't I'm not willing to say, oh yeah,
it's gonna be blow out. It's away from NRG Stadium,
which means they can find a way to look like
hot garbage.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
They haven't played very well really in two years as
a whole. On the road, they're significantly different home and road.
I wish it weren't the case, but it certainly has been.
The Cowboys, though, kind of are the equalizer. They are
awful in their own building, and I think that's one
of the reasons why I think the Texans will be fine.
I'm not probably not calling for a blowout either, but
I do think they win. I do think they cover.

(22:00):
Do not think the last three minutes of the game
determined whether or not they get back to.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Houston with a win.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
I think they just have a little bit too much
going for them. And the Cowboys simply do not. Nico
Collins is going to play. I haven't seen, obviously the
final list of an actives for tonight, but the couple
of roster moves made today I think all made sense
and all were expected. Jeff Akuda has been activated from IR,
so he takes over a roster spot vacated by Miles Bryant,
who they waive today. JJ Taylor running back wave today.

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Damian Pierce was on the roster, but he had missed
the last couple of games because of a groin injury.
He will be back for the game this week. Gives
them their stable of three running backs Joe Mixon, Damian Pierce,
and dari Agoombawalle. They did activate Mario Edwards Junior, which
was expected. They do get the one week exemption after
he comes off suspension, just like with Denico Autrey, they

(22:51):
didn't need it or want it, so he was activated
officially today, so he'll be active for tonight's game. Upfront
for the Texans, just more ammunition for what they need
to do to keep doubt l from having a good game,
to keep Cooper Rush from having a good game. No
official word yet questionable is how left Saturday. Saturday was

(23:12):
their last practice. The status of Kamari Lassiter in concussion
protocol and close to being ready, we'll find out probably
just a little bit before Marly, about two hours before
the game. I bet you we will see a report.
Ninety minutes before game. It will become official whether he
is inactive or not. Blake Fisher, the other player that
was somewhat surprisingly listed and limited it practice via a concussion,

(23:35):
He is out unavailable as their swing tackle for this
game for the first time this season due to that concussion.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hopefully Laramie Tonsil stays up right then. Well.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
The tackles in their reserves now are guys who've not
taken a snap at tackle for this team this season.
A Nick Brokers not played tackle for the Texans in
a game this year. And I really hope the player
who has played tackle so far this season for another
team against the Texans when they clabbered him does not
get out there tonight, but he'll be active.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
Mister Thomas, oh good on a night where you're gonna
face off.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Definitely do not want to hear from mister Thomas tonight,
unless it's on Sports Talk seven ninety with the Rockets
and the.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Bulls from milliewak A. Yes, yeah, Michael Parsons is lining
up on the other side of C. J. Stroud, So
let's stay healthy, guys. All right, we will take a
quick time out. We'll come right back and continue to
dive into this and some of the other things that
happened around the NFL and week eleven when we return
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say this. You know Dan mentioned this earlier. You know
how I watched that Tyson fight Antonio Brown's Twitter feed
that was just incredible to see unfold in real time. Yeah,
Netflix isn't working, but if you just watch Antonio Brown's
Twitter feed, He's just holding his phone camera up at
the giant screen in Jerry Worlds that you can see
what's going on in the fight.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
I could be mistaken, but I think I have this correct.
He was talking about the Monday Night football game at
some point on somebody's post and said and came to
an agreement with whoever he was talking to that. Yeah, yeah,
Texans quarterback Stroud, Chris Stroud. That's him, Chris Stroud.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Is that what he said?

Speaker 4 (26:21):
I believe so.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
I mean, I pretty much from the start of my
life to where we sit today here at two thirty
five on a Monday afternoon in November. Don't pay mind
to Antonio Brown's information. But in this case, in this case,
his information was perfect. His information was not a direct
result of him in any way. He just had the conduit.

(26:44):
Here's my phone, here's the screen you can watch. But
a very important caveat to what you just said. His
phone was charged enough to bring seven plus million people
the stream. They couldn't get on the actual device. It
was supposed to be streamed on Netflix. So why was
he so why was he able to get it? Was

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he at the event? Yeah, okay, he.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Was sitting in a suite, gotcha, and the screen was
so big that all he had to do was go
And just.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Again, I'm torn on what exactly to do with the
event itself, because this is just more evidence of when
we have things go on in our country the last
probably five to ten years. Ultimately we just have to say,
this is America. This is I can't tell you it's
right or wrong. I can't believe it myself. The people spoke,

(27:32):
they wanted to see this, yep. They wanted to tune
in for Jake Paul against fifty eight year old Mike
Tyson in massive, massive numbers, and that's just who wanted
to see it on Netflix. We can't act like the
on site portion of the event, the actual attended event
was some kind of disappointment, either not to the promoters,

(27:54):
not to the people who put it on.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
And not to the people who went. Apparently.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
I don't think they're upset that they were a part
of this event, even though it absolutely seems like a
sham to me, which is why I try not to
fall for it and try to didn't have much. I
did bring it up in the five o'clock hour on Friday,
just in the fact that it was happening a few
hours later, but nothing more than that. It's it's a
The word I keep thinking about is joke.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
It was a joke and their performance was a joke.
But people want to see it.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
So these events continue to get put together, they continue
to be a huge deal, they continue to get tons
and tons of people interested in whatever it is. And
for the people involved, at least the two combatants, I
guess if you want to call it that, I mean,
I'm not going to speak negatively on Mike other than

(28:46):
I think he got over on everybody just like Jake did.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Well twenty million dollars said he's done what he did.
I mean I think people he did, but you had to.
I mean, he's been doing that since the eighties. I
think this would have been worse. I'd feel even feel
little bit differently if people were even dumber to shell
out individual evening's worth of money for this. But do
you remember was one hundred dollars That's what I was

(29:09):
going to buy in for. This was a I have
a Netflix subscription event. Yes, yeah, nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
Makes more sense from a business standpoint and even from
a consumer standpoint.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yeah, in nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty eight or
whenever he was in the midst of his ridiculous pre
prison prime where he's just knocking fools out in the
first minute of the first round of any typical fight.
What was the going rate for a pay per view
back then? You're a little bit older the mes you
would remember.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Back then it was it was I mean, I don't
know what you want to call reasonable, but fifty nine
probably was probably the max for a h in the eighties.
And this is after he spent twenty plus fights on
over the air ABC in middle of the afternoon on
a Sunday, being right, Marvis Fraser. But then they got
a little bit bigger. This was this is one hundred
dollars pay per view event. I have no doubt if

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that's the way it was marketed and sold, this would
have been an range, you know, eighty nine, ninety nine
or ninety nine or one on nine, so much you
knew they would have gotten it. But knowing what I
thought we were going to see, and it was happening
while we were handling our radio broadcast for the Cougars
Arizona game, So yes, we were aware of what was
happening as it was happening, and there were people in
other booths that had it on, so I was aware

(30:20):
of what was going on. But in going back and
kind of looking at it and the fact that almost
immediately people are questioning the integrity of both fighters, I mean,
what do you expect. Here's one of the many, many
reasons why they can't possibly grab my undivided got to
see it, attention for it, not telling you they shouldn't

(30:43):
be doing it, But I'm probably not the the audience
for it because I know what I think, I know
what to expect I'm much more entertained by two unknown,
legitimate twenty three to twenty eight year old heavyweight fighters
going at it for ten rounds.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
But those are unknown, but they're.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
Going to provide a more entertaining product. You're watching not
for what you're seeing. You're watching for who it is.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
But nothing happened. Well, that's the thing, And I didn't expect.
Did you expect a knockout? You expect too. I am
very secure enough to sit here in this chair with
a live microphone in front of my face and say, yeah,
I admit it. I thought Tyson was gonna beat him up.
I thought Tyson was going to but you know why,
because Tyson in the first round is who I thought

(31:27):
was going to be there every round. And then Tyson
after the first round was fifty eight year old Michael Tyson,
some civilian.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Maybe that was after they you know, had a clench
and Jake was able to say.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey man, this is for charity,
getting charity. Take it easy, Mike though punches.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
I mean, I'm glad you got to throw them in
round one, but can you can you not throw them anymore?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
You watched his training videos. I'm talking about Mike, I
wanted no part of that. If I'm Jake Paul, Logan, Paul,
Chris Paul.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Those training videos we did all see if they were legit,
if they were timely, if they weren't from four to
ten years ago, if they were really real, where.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Was where was that guy? Right?

Speaker 4 (32:11):
And I'm like, okay, well, if he's trying to keep.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
His head on changes once you get hit in the mouth. Well,
but for the five thousandth time Mike has if.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
You're trying to keep your head on literally on your shoulders,
not on a swivel in a boxing fight or whatever
that was, and that's your end game because you're fifty
eight and you've been hitting the head a lot already,
then yeah, he accomplished what he needed to. He got paid,
He had a competitive round, and then he just basically
did some cardio in the middle of a ring in

(32:40):
the middle of his football stadium.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
He went cheek to cheek with Jake Paul Friday night.
Everybody saw it.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
The memes were outstanding. Jimmy Carter is not going to
fight Logan, Paul Erk, whatever his name is, Jake Paul, Logan, Paul,
He's not going to fight his he's that's not gonna
be his next opponent. But it was a really good joke,
as was some of the dead people they were going
to match him up with for his next fight.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
I don't think they be as successful, and I don't
think it's that awesome for that other person. Again, I
don't blame either fighter. I mean, honestly, it's more of
the This is what can happen in this era of influencers,
social media, immediate popularity, turning your not expected popularity into cash.

(33:25):
I'm not gonna be grudge anybody doing that. It is
people in the crowd would fit that to a t
random street interview say something, Now you're going to fights.
Your name is Haley and you have your own podcast.
People for some reason are interested in what you have
to say. I cannot believe it, but it's a deal.

(33:45):
And obviously with the influencer status of YouTuber, that's who
was in the ring last night, a YouTuber. But he's
turned it into I mean, an incredible stream of money.
He obviously to some extent, he's taking it.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Seriously.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Look at him and look at what he has been
able to do, and maybe there is more legitimate fighting
in his future. And I think there really could be.
This didn't happen to be evidence of it. No, but again,
go out. You know, Mike can only make so much
money from Hangover eight eight years from now or whenever
it comes out.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
I haven't even seen part three.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
There's no four, five, six.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
That is the absolute truth.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
All Right, We're gonna come back wrap up the non
televised portion of the show straight Ahead.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Back to Adam Clinton had Adam Wexler the eighteen on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
You know, there was more people in that stadium on
Saturday night than there were, say, in Madison Square Garden,
but that was a bigger pop.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
I'm just saying, well, it's fourth about four time you
get seventy thousand, four times.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Well right, Well, in Massive Square Gardener it has like
twenty five, doesn't it. So it's not quite for it
more than three presumably.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
Yeah, that both It was pretty I mean what actually
also happened in that evening's main event. That is what
people came to see. That is what I mean. Not everybody,
and not everybody is induct and I could be wrong.
My personal opinion on most UFC events the Dana White's

(35:30):
putting on all these numbered events into the three hundreds. Now,
it's so hard for the night to be a failure.
It's so hard for the night full of matches to
leave you dissatisfying.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
From the products.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
The main event might not be great, the fight leading
to the main event might not be what you wanted.
But probably one of the other eight fights was awesome.
Probably two others were. I can't believe what I just saw.
The cards they usually put together in it advance of
what you're gonna, what everybody's paying for, it's on the marquee,
what's on your digital ticket, They're almost all there's almost

(36:06):
always something. The most memorable fight from the night might
have been the brutal women's fight of the night. But yeah,
John Jones to go out there and to do what
he didn't, I don't even know in pro team sports,
of players that we followed, I can't even think of
a player whose career has gone like that, from being

(36:28):
awesome to being over, then to being back and being over,
then coming back and it being over like twenty five times.
And there he is back doing what he sent the
other guy into retirement, won his fight, and yes, there
was a huge pop for the event itself. There would
have been, but some of the new cabinet members were
there with the pro confirmed.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yet, Well they will be, but you can just call
them the Avengers.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
I probably won't, I know, but yeah, there was no
question about it. He has he will do that and
has done. He's done it for now ten years, from
the time he first decided to run for this office
to his time in office, threw his time out of office,
and now back into office. Uh, they usually draw, I
mean it isn't. We've seen in our lifetime all sorts

(37:15):
of presidential attendances at sporting events. Back then, we pretty
much way back when we only had maybe it was
a boxing event versus any other regular team game. You know,
President Obama might show up at courtside at a Wizard's game,
which he did, he did a lot of. President Clinton
went to a handful of games, Arkansas games, et cetera.

(37:35):
And then for maybe a bigger game you might see them.
He has been much more visible at many more sporting events,
it seems like, than any of them it was. And look,
guess he has time.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
He does until he doesn't. But yeah, when when he's
not in charge right now. I don't think he hasn't
taken office, yere. I don't think you're gonna be seeing
him at UFC events, say post January whenever, the day
it is, twentieth, twenty fifth, whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's no question. But the event itself,
just the sports angle up it was. It was another
as fights all right.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, so you've been to ones in Vegas too, right?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
The first one I went to was sixty nine. It
was here at Toyota Center.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Nice. I remember that. Actually, it was great. It wasn't
that long ago. That's what happens when you have one
every month.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
It seems like a long time ago, but it was.
It was pretty awesome, I believe. Was that during the
Super Bowler event. I think he was one of the
headliner fighters, George Saint Pierre. Yeah he lost, Which was
the wow moment?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Was that that Atlanta, New England comeback super Bowl weekend? Maybe?
I don't though, well think about it. That was sixty nine,
were at three Oh what was this past weekend? Uh huh? Yeah,
And that was in twenty seventeen. I believe you got it.
That was the last time the Super Bowl was here,
which is crazy to think about. It's been that long,

(38:54):
So yeah, I would I would assume that was the
one you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
And I listen, there was.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
One at Sarah George Saint Pierre. It was in two thousand.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Seven.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh, I was off by a mere decade.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Well, the first one I went to was the last
one that was here, and it was basically the biggest
event like that in sports since COVID had happened.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Nice, let's get back into the area where it was.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
And I mean, you know, big boxing matches, big events
of any kind like that, always have the celebs come out, right,
they did on Saturday night.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
And Saturday night. Yes, also here Friday night in at
AT and T Stadium. Just as much as we knock
them or knock him or Dallas, et cetera. Non Cowboys events.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
At AT and T Stadium, they're always yeah or always Well,
there's been two WrestleManias there.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
I've been to one of them.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
But yeah, like it was, there were I mean what
I remember attending my first one, and full disclosure, it
was as a member of the media, so I was
real close.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
It was not boring because you're very you're as close
as you could possibly get. Like if that had been
me on on Saturday night, I would have been sitting
essentially the road behind Donald Trump and where his entourage was.
That's where we were sitting. And the first thing I
noticed is if you like blink, you're gonna miss like
a pretty big celebrity or celebrities within, Like.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
You might even miss the ring girl.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
No, I didn't miss that. Brittany Sydney. Yeah, but Britney
Palmer is like, oh that.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Was way back in the dark ages the current.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Oh is Brittany retired? Is she just painting now?

Speaker 5 (40:36):
I don't know what she's up to now. I'm sorry,
she's a painter. Okay, great?

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Peyton Manning, Yeah, Like we're walking around and oh yeah,
there's Bill Goldberg just hanging out next football player exactly
for the Falcons. So yeah, they're They're incredible. And uh,
I'd like to I'd like to go to one that
wasn't in the middle of COVID. I'd like to go
to a Vegas one. I wish I knew somebody that
worked for UFC that could help out with that. Oh wait,

(41:02):
I do, Uncle Hunter, Uncle John called him.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
I believe Unter wait.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
John, at the end of his fight, he was talking
about his future. You'll all will see what's coming up.
We decide what we want to do. I'll talk to
Uncle Dana and see what's going on. I'll talk to
I appreciate everyone that made all this happen and Uncle Dana,
uncle Hunter.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Did he say that?

Speaker 5 (41:19):
He said it as he meant.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Okay, now I have to text Hunter during the break
and see if that's what because he was he was
a lot like us. He was in the building though,
and I'm like, tell me, that was as ridiculous of
a pop as he was. It was unbelievable. It just
he said, it's very surreal was the word he used
to describe being in the middle of Madison Square Garden
when all of that was going on. Yeah, as you
mentioned the uh, the product itself and the main event

(41:46):
winner himself and what he is, just like, what an
incredible story and that's what boxing used to be and
not just the pomp and circumstance, the actual product itself.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
So yeah, that was.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Pretty cool to see one of a million things that
felt like was happening. We haven't even scratched the surface
of the college football weekend and what that you know,
basically spells out as it pertains to the rest of just.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
The SEC itself.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
That game. I know that Texas has to get through Kentucky.
There's that little matter, but the fact that the ticket
prices for A and M and Texas are what they are,
and people are lining up for them on campus there
when they are for as long as they are and quickly.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
The game was announced today by the SEC as expected.
It's a six to thirty game on the thirty at
that Thanksgiving weekend because it's Thanksgiving weekend. Normally, the student
ticket pull for a game is the week of the game,
preceding the game. Well, they did it this week instead
because it's Thanksgiving week, so they did it early. So
when you caught wind of.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Students are lining up Saturday night and students are already
in line, well, it's because when the ticket pull is
not because they're going to be there for eight to
ten days waiting for the ticket ta camping outside of
that stadium, like in a tent for over a week
just to get your tickets to the game and then
go inside.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
I would have to imagine it, because I've never done it.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
People would be ripe at the end of that situation. Yeah,
so that is going to be just over the top.
And again, Kyle Field, there's another event that I don't
want to be in attendance to try to get out of.
So a lot of that type of conversation on the
way is. We will switch to the simulcast side of
things for our number two coming up next here on

(43:29):
the A Team Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network.
When we come back, more on tonight's big matchup in
Arlington between your Houston Texans and the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named at him talking your team,
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A team A.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Straight up three o'clock here in Houston, Texas is the
eight team Sports Talk seven to ninety and Space City
Home Network. He's wex I may see one hour in
the books, three more still to come as we get
you ready for Texans Cowboys tonight Rockets basketball against Milwaukee,
which you will see and here on both of those entities,

(44:18):
and a whole lot more as we kin we've tried
to scratch the surface on the weekend that was a
lot of NFL action. There's no longer an undefeated team
in the NFL. After what happened with the Bills and
the Chiefs yesterday.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Yeah, after you major way to Toyota Center on Friday night,
me all the way from Arizona made it very clear
that was what I predicted would happen. I did think
the Bills would beat them. They've had very good success
against the Kansas City Chiefs with Josh Allen against Pat Mahomes,
provided it wasn't the postseason. Yesterday it was not a
postseason game, and they had a lot of success. They
did some things to their offense. Mahomes had another game

(44:56):
where it was on him quite a bit of the afternoon.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Again it done.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
I don't know if the Bills intentionally said, look, if
we can keep Travis Kelcey and DeAndre Hopkins from doing
things and make him lean on Xavier Worthy in Kareem
Hunt and others, we like our chances. Worked out that way.
They did deliver the first loss of the season, and
now all teams have at least one, but there are
still three teams in the AFC with two or fewer.

(45:21):
The Bills got to nine and two. The Steelers forgot
to score a touchdown and remained undefeated in games they
don't score touchdowns. They're now two to zero this season
in games they haven't found the end zone, and in
both of those games, Chris Boswell kicked six field goals,
three of them were fifty yarders in yesterday's game, and

(45:42):
they were able to hang on. I'm not exactly sure.
In listening to the Ravens after, I'm still not sure
what exactly they were trying to do on their two
point play, which could have tied the game late after
they got a late touchdown on a Lamar Jackson his
eight flowers touchdown pass, but it obviously was unsuccessful. Then
they then decided to kick off, which to me is

(46:05):
I know the success rate of an on side kick
is low, but it's not zero. I would on side
kick every single time in that situation. Shocked that they didn't.
They had all three of their timeouts. But what's the
difference If you kick it deep in a normal kick scenario,
you have to stop them and maybe you have a
few extra yards twenty five thirty on your final we
don't have any time left possession, or you take the

(46:27):
small chance that you actually get the football on the
on sidekick, or you stop them on those three downs,
and then they have to kick to you, and a
kick that right very possibly end up in the end
zone or you have a chance to return.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
It didn't really like that.

Speaker 5 (46:40):
Justin Fields almost had one of the biggest goofs ever.
Super smart to put him out there on second and long,
and they rolled him out and he ran for the
first down, except he slid too early and they had
to run a third down play, which they then got
and were able to kneel down. The Pittsburgh Steelers four
wins with Justin Field in six games and now four

(47:02):
wins with Russell Wilson in each of his games, and
they're one of the other teams in the AFC that
still has just two losses. They finally got into the division,
which I think is very very good outside of Cleveland
obviously Baltimore. They played and beat Cincinnati. Keeps playing really
good offensive football and really bad defensive football. That's why
they are three games under with arguably the best quarterback

(47:23):
in the AFC playing for them this year. I thought
it was an awesome day a football wished in the
midst of it we'd seen Texans football. I could have
even handled an eight to thirty kickoff in the morning
from overseas, which we did not have.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
I don't want to do that, but.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
The standalone game on Sunday night was awesome. The game
of the day in the afternoon thirty to twenty one
turned out to be very good as expected, and I
think the Bills should feel just like they have every
year for the past, almost all of Josh Allen's seasons,
pretty much after he walked off the field at NRG
Stadium after his first ever playoff game where they should

(47:56):
have gotten embarrassed, but instead they got all the way
back in the game, only for them to lose to
Deshaun Watson and Taiwan Jones in overtime. Ever since then,
they think Super Bowl and yesterday's game proved again without
a ton of well known targets, they should be again.
They've lost a lot of talent, they lost a lot
of defensive players. They're right back in the mix. If

(48:19):
you told me the Bills are gonna win the AFC,
I'd buy it.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Yeah, that's another Okay, how many games that the Texans
have played are we gonna look back at with such
strong emotions one way or the other based on where
they currently are right now and thinking about what could
have been, what should have been. In the case of

(48:42):
the Bills game, what was They were able to stave
off the comeback, but they made Josh. They made Josh
Allen have one of his worst games ever. They made
Jared Goff have his worst game ever this season, no
question about it. There's not a worst game performance wise
individually for Jared Goff than the one he played against

(49:03):
this Texan defense. They should be better than they are.
I know they can't protect I know, I know, but
barely like it. It goes back to if they do
win a game, if it's not the Patriots, it's still
got we gotta go down to the wire for this thing.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Let me let me spin it just to yesterday's game
to see how I can get an answer. Do you
think differently about Kansas City today than you did on Saturday?

Speaker 4 (49:26):
No, but not the way you think.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Because we have they aren't overwhelming. Whether they have found
a ways to win, we knew ultimately they're going to
be in a game that they don't win, whether it's
a good team or also ran that just stayed in
the game with them. I still think they have as
good a chance as I did a week ago and
win the AFC if they don't think any less of
them because they came up short in that game. Considering
how much they have built up from the rest of
their season, the Texans don't have enough built up for

(49:49):
us to I think, buy into if they had done that.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Could they have done that? There's no equity?

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Well there, yeah, there's no equity, especially since they did
start five and one. Well, then what the last four
games have been? You found a way to lose at
the Packers despite being a plus three in the turnover game.
You snuck past the Colts, who weren't very good at
the time, You lost to the awful going nowhere top

(50:17):
of the draft bound New York.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Which yet with a patented second half no show.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
And then you had an even bigger no show because
you allow way more points when after a half of
being so good, you know, the last four weeks, any
equity you think they built with a bunch of close
game wins out the windows?

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Out the window?

Speaker 5 (50:35):
So they are what the record is very indicative of
the caliber football they've played. They've beaten three teams in
their division, or they've won three games in their division.
They've won three of the other seven games when they
haven't played a team that's not going to the playoffs
in their own division. A few other teams aren't going,
like the Bears aren't going to the playoffs and they
beat them. The Patriots aren't going to the playoffs, they
beat them. Few of those teams are still on their schedule.

(50:56):
One of them specifically is tonight. The other one is
probably the Dolphins, even though they got a win, they
have a schedule. They're just beat the Cowboys, the Titans,
the Jaguars, and the Dolphins. And if you lose every
other game you want eleven times this year. But here's
You're going to be no worse than the four seed.

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You're going to host a playoff game, and you might
even be playing your best football at the right time.
You might be healthy at the right time. Outside of
Stefan Diggs, maybe Christian Harris suits up for this team
at that point in time, like their best football had
better be in front of them.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
I actually believe that it is. Well, it has to be.
But you just mentioned the Jags. That's another game that
went down.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
To the wire.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
Yeah, I see one thing.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
I know. I can't Why can't you just see that
because I can't. I saw the game. I can't unsee it.
I can't unsee the fact that they struggled to beat
the Colts the first time. Struggle twenty nine, twenty seven.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
Yeah, two fourth quarter touchdowns to say you're not coming back,
you can't stop us.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Day three, great fourth quarters rise.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
Remember when the Texans thought they were gonna be good
in the second half in Week one?

Speaker 3 (52:05):
I do remember that.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
I do remember that, the struggle fest that was the
Bears game.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
I did see a meme today that had our good
friend spider Man pointing at our other good friend spider Man.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
Yeah, and then there was a third spider Man.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
No, well maybe, but it was more about that. Yeah,
there's a third spider Man. But there's only two captions.
One was the Cowboys defense and the other was the
text and second half offense.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
I can't keep with stone Cold.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
In the Rock and the ring together with that very
same caption.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Which match was it?

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Probably one they were the slap fighting each other, they
had the upper hands three WrestleMania, So I need to
know which one it was. I know who they are.
They know who they are. They have to prove otherwise
or else last year's postseason is gonna mirror this year's
postseason or worse.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
They have an opportunity with who they put on this team,
especially defensively, to make something happen. They have a quarterback
that needs to elevate his game, that needs the players
around him to allow for him to elevate his game.
He has played, He played on an incredible level for
I think right around half the season in twenty twenty three.

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Half the games eight nine or ten of them somewhere
in that neighborhood, a really, really high level. We haven't
seen four of those games this year. We probably haven't
seen three of those games this year. Not putting it
on his shoulders alone, there are clearly reasons why, but
that still is probably the determining factor on if this
season ends any differently than last year when you went
out and made all these changes, So it would end

(53:31):
differently as in better, as in more playoff wins, as
in the possibility that you weren't just the four seed
and it's not a slam dunk that they're locked in
it for. But they're sitting there as a division leader
with six wins. The other one has eight. The other
two have nine.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Yeah, it's not. And here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
You beat the Cowboys, you beat the Titans, and you
beat the Jags, two of those on the road. You're hot.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Three game winning streak.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
You're hot.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
We're back maybe the dregs of society. And what does
that even tell you about where you are at that point?
Three weeks from yeah, they could be three and oh. Well,
technically four weeks from now, they could be three and
oh in those games. And I'm still not going to
know what we're dealing with here yet necessarily, But.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
I think that's saying it before you've seen it. If
you go out there and do certain things.

Speaker 4 (54:14):
Dominate in these three games, which you haven't done against
crap teams.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Dominate, protect, execute your offense the way you want to.
Don't let these other defenses do to you what every
defense had done to you up until the Lions game.
And even though the pressure numbers were very similar, the
Tecans were able to operate for the first time in
five games what they wanted to do offensively. Whether it
worked or not, that's different. They need to operate their

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offense the way they want to against the Cowboys, Titans, Jags,
and Dolphins in the next four games. There is an
off week after the Titans game, before or after the
Jags game before the Dolphins game. If they can show
me that, then they've shown me something. Then I'll have
high hopes for them upsetting the Chiefs and giving Beyonce
a good show on Christmas Day. I know she will

(54:59):
give a good show, do you Yeah, I'm pretty confident.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Well, a lot of people in this town thought they
were gonna get that not that long ago, and they
didn't get that.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
I was not billed as a concert, it was paid
as one. Maybe, Oh no, that's facts. Whatever.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
If Beyonce's showing up and millions of dollars are exchanged,
I expect her to sing, you.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Might expect it, But this is being billed as a
halftime show.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
She will be performing. Yeah, that's gonna be interesting, and
not the least of which will be whether or not
people's Netflix signals can handle it. Will continue to discuss
all of these shenanigans straight ahead.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
The a on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
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Speaker 1 (56:14):
Back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler the eight on
Sports Talk seven ninety eighteen.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
We're rolling along here on Sports Talk seven ninety You know,
before you know it, wex the calendar will flip to
twenty twenty five and we will be getting ready for
you know, meaningless for US spring training games. And then
before you know it, dyke In Park's going to open
up for Astro season.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
Yeah, the sugar Land Space Cowboys will have the honors
along with the Astros.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Not the Yankees like the last time.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
Well, they have an exhibition game prior to the regular
season opener, which will feature the Mets and the Astros.
That same last week of March of twenty twenty five,
when the newly named officially the name was announced, it
becomes dyke In Park. Minute made Park currently dyke In Park.
On January first of twenty twenty five. I think most

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people were aware of this. Today was the official announcement.
Jim Crane, among others, was there to indicate that they've
got a fifteen year deal. Minute Made is continuing as
a major Astros sponsor. They just will no longer have
their name on the ballpark. So some of the things
you grew to love about Minute Made Park, like some

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of their offerings concession wise, I'm sure we'll still be
in place. They didn't replace a beverage sponsor with a
beverage sponsor. Dyke In is a little bit more well
known for the air that you're enjoying. They're an HVAC
manufacturing company. They have a huge facility here Waller, Texas.

(58:02):
Actually had their name on a stadium in Waller. Still
do and now we'll have their name on the ballpark,
which we will continue to call Minute Made Park through
its final seven weeks of named existence and they move
on to the next name. This Minute Made Park was
not named number one either.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
Well.

Speaker 5 (58:20):
Dykin Park takes over for the upcoming season. Probably impacts
the Astros payroll by nothing. This is not a well
now Jim Crane can think about doing this now, he
can consider doing that. Personally, I felt the same way
with all of the teams, and the Astros, to a
certain extent, are one of those teams that were faced

(58:42):
with RSN financial issues. The Rangers and about fourteen other
Major League teams expecting blank number of millions of dollars
from their RSN deals and now no longer getting them.
But these weren't in the hundreds and hundreds of millions
of dollars, and in my opinion, thus they were not
not really impacting your financial decisions on your payroll unless

(59:03):
you're doing it wrong. And I don't think this deal
is bringing in so much money that now all of
the money's coming from the people it always has. It's
coming from other sponsor deals. This one is included, but
it's coming from the fact that they are still bringing
in close to three million people, and in previous seasons
more than three million people. And he essentially said so today,
from a spending standpoint, we have been in the CBT.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
Now could we be in it again?

Speaker 5 (59:27):
Yes, we're one of the highest spending teams in baseball
and that could continue.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
Probably will.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
That's me saying that not him the probably part, though
he did not say there was any substantive update for
him to deliver on the pursuit of retaining Alex Bregman
as their third basement of not only the present, but
the future. Did indicate that, as we know, conversations have
been ongoing between the general manager, Dana Brown and the
agent for Alex Bregman, Scott Boris, for several days, several weeks.

(59:57):
He said he had talked to Scott once basically over
this process. Chandler Rome, Matt carhar Brian McTaggart, among others
there at the event today, indicating all of these things
I'm sharing with you now. But they will have a
new name, and it is dyke In Park. If you're
wondering how to pronounce it, that's how you pronounce it, Yeah,
dyke in Park.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
My favorite two things to come out of today's festivities
were the fact that well, now that they've got these
naming rights, I mean, obviously they're going to be able
to sign these players or resign their own, which is
just laughable.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Not always I.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Feel, not trying to minimize how much they got. I
just don't think this is the wow, Oh my gosh,
they have so much more that they can now do this.
They they could decide that I would says one plus
one equals too.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Yeah, it was a thirty year naming rights agreement that
made it basically twenty years, and with the caveat that, well,
if somebody else comes along that is willing to pay more,
we can pull out of this deal. That's exactly what happened.
Dyken's like, we'll give you more money, and hence the
statements made about well, well they resign these guys now.
The other thing I really enjoyed about today's festivities was

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Jim Crane was actually asked what's going to happen to
the oversized oranges in the train? And he was coy
about it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Yeah, he said, we have something in the works. You'll
just have to wait and see. Obviously, any other sign
is related to Minute Made parks a little bit different
most ballparks. It is pretty simplistic. Well, their names on
the building. We got a bunch of signage here that
says Minute Made Park. This particular sponsor of this particular
ballpark for twenty years, had something that very few others

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do from a sponsor standpoint, to be involved in such
a way that every time Martine Maldonado would hit the
ball over the fence, that the train filled with your
sponsor's product basically would roll across the tracks. That's just
not something every other sponsored ballpark had well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
And the thing is it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Would also do that for Jake and Chaz and Jose
and Jordana. Homer's Yeah, mentioned Marty.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
If you're gonna put something in that train and you
think it's going to be a takeoff of the product
that they provide, not orange juice in this case, and
instead HVAC air conditioned, you know, oxygen air. If you will,
you're not gonna put ice cubes in there. That's not
what they do.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
But that's the other thing that came of this and
had been wandering around the internet streets and radio streets
for a little bit. If you just you only slightly
have to alter what it was called. Just take the
U and the J that were at the front of
the word and throw them out and all your left
whistles the ice box.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
That's probably gonna be what ends up happening, because it's
just rolls off the tongue easier. It's pretty simple. Yeah,
and listen, I none of the comments about the climate
inside that stadium were missed by me in They're absolutely
accurate because while Matt Thomas declares that the press box

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is one of the coldest in all of sports, I
don't usually sit in there to watch games, and the
rest of the stadium is in say August, with the
roof closed, is entirely too hot.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
Yeah, other than banks who sponsor stadiums a lot, when
you get a sponsor, that's so much different from a
product standpoint, like Minute Made Park. Now potentially like dyke
In Park, their companies, they would want to include what
their company does in the ballpark. Maybe costly and maybe
you choose otherwise. But if dyke In wants to enhance

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their heating and air conditioning within the ballpark, their name is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
On emphasis on the air conditioning and less on the heating. Probably.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
I mean, I just wanted to make people aware that
they also handle a heating Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
Yeah, no, it's here in the age absolutely, But I
just you know, come on, now, like it's if you're
gonna have an indoor stadium, well let's make it feel
like you're indoors in the middle of the summer and
not sort of halfway like what is when the when
the roof is closed, it minute made right, it's not
really that you know that side little pocket you mean

(01:03:58):
where the rain comes in. Yeah, well there's actually several
of those places, but I'm talking about right behind you know,
the flagpoles and the party deck and all that, where
the roof meets the side of the rest of the
building and it's just open, and it's actually a I know,
there's some sort of airflow situation going on. From an
engineering standpoint, it actually is impressive to me that it's
not even warmer than it is, especially if you're sitting

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out in that area.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Yeah, it's the climate to me, when we've been out
in the seats for all of these years, it's perfectly fine.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Well by the time where we.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
Do shows, when there's no game going on, or we've
been there for a post game and we've gone after
the game, right, it's not very comfortable, But there's that's
they're not paying for it to be comfortable.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
When nobody's there open, it's not gonna be comfortable. It's
going to be swampy.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
I mean, there's a bunch of Friday nights, especially with
the fireworks at the right time of year where it's
perfectly comfortable to go to a game outdoors when the
sun got well, if they were playing games right now,
the sun will be about down about ten minutes from now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
Well, I just meant when they open it up for
the the inevitable fireworks spectacular on a Friday night after
the sun's been down, been down for hours. Way better
but still hot. Hey, Houston's incredible. Finds a way to
be in the nineties at midnight during the middle of
the summer. It's just how we roll here. So speaking
of which, though gonna be a much different affair up

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at Jerry World tonight, there's a stadium that has its
own little idiosyncrasies like the sun that won't be coming
in on this game either, but still was a point
of contention.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
They actually have a roof there too, do they not?

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
They do?

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
What's eyes ironic about it is this is not new right.
What happened to Cede Lamb got blown up like this
has never happened before. It's happened a lot and teams,
Cowboys included. They all of these games. They're one of
the two teams that play.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
You account for it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
You choose your side. If you have the opportunity to
do that based on what's going to happen, you maybe
are a little more judicious with how specific your play
calls are. I want to run this play, I think
it's gonna work, but I have to account for the
fact that I shouldn't be calling it at this point
in the game. It may be unfortunate, you may be
mad about it, but you've got to go into the

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game already knowing that, especially if you're the Cowboys, the
other team probably isn't as used to It isn't as
much in tune. No matter how many people are on
their analytics and research staff on the weather you're gonna
you should be the team that gains an advantage from
it if it is a factor on game day. And
in this instance, I guess that's why I got such
or so much run is because they were the team

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that suffered from it. In calling a play that was
designed to have a receiver staring at the sun with
a Cooper Rush pass headed his way that he could
not see Cooper Rush.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
That is the opposing quarterback tonight, when CJ. Stroud and
company come in trying to snap a two game skid,
sounds so ridiculous. When you say it with football schedules,
but that is what the Texans will technically be trying
to do tonight, as they will kick things off about
a quarter after seven from Jerry World tonight and looking
to get a much needed road win. We'll hear from

(01:07:05):
a guy who hopes to help make that happen, Nico Collins.
When we come back.

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Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
I have confirmation before we hear from Nico Collins. By
the way, Dan, I put the cuts on the rundown.
Hunter got back to me. Sadly, John Bones Jones was
not referring to him when he said, quote uncle Hunter,
but he did say that he did. Okay, I said,
did Jones really refer to you as quote uncle Hunter?

(01:08:28):
And I put three question marks just for my emphasis,
and he wrote back and he said, haha, Nah, that's
our number two, Hunter Campbell, so he must be number three.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
He's just not one or two. Whatever number he is.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Well, number one's Dana, and then number two, I guess
is Hunter Campbell. Which makes me very interested as to
why Dana decided to hire two people named Hunter directly
underneath him, as they would say in office space, have
as many as two people. Maybe he directly underneath him.
I'm sure we'll get back to that when time permits.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
What would you say you do here?

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Wex get the Nego Collins sound, try to line up
good fights. I guess all right, there's gonna be a
pretty good fight, I'd say tonight. You know, whoever decides
that they think it's a good idea to match up
against Nico Collins in the secondary for the Cowboys. It's
not gonna go their way very well, I don't think.
But if if I know Nico Collins, he's going to

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put an imprint on this game before all is said
and done tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
And that's what he's hoping to do.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
As he was talking about this game and his first
action back in a long long time, basically the equivalent
of an NFL eternity, he says, Look, I'm ready to
make plays.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
I feel like you gotta take advantage opportunities, the ball
coming away, take advantage of it, you know. And I
feel like for me just going out there and taking
taking advantage of the players having fun and the being
that with my bothers. Man, I feel like it's just
the best feeling you to have. And I's been on
their teammates man and making players, you know, moving first
down spunteschdowns, man and just having that joint like us.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
That's what I missed the most.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
I'm glad that you could grab him in the team
shower to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
If you haven't been in there, and most of our
listeners haven't. You immediately walk into the locker room, there's
a little hallway first off to the right of some
other office area for the people that work in the
locker room. You take an immediate left through a large,
heavy door, and as you enter the locker room on
that immediate left, on your immediate left, the very first

(01:10:25):
locker is Nico Collins locker.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
It's the Pollard Memorial locker.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
Immediate right, which would run the length of the locker
room is Dalton Schultz locker. And if you want to
get kicked out of the locker room immediately, you can
take a right into the showers.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Uh, it's close the proxy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
There are multiple entryways to the showers. That is one
of the ways in and out. There's one in the
middle and there's one at the end.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
Also, sound like there was some spirited chatter in there.

Speaker 5 (01:10:55):
And he also happens to locker onunderneath one of the
locker room speakers during the week, really a non issue
at this game. Occasionally there's music being played and it's
right while you're waiting.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
To talk to me. I'm sure it's the clean version
of whatever song is playing at any given time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
I'm sure it is. But yes, he is ready to
make plays. I want to hear one more thing from
Nico before I get into something on X platform that's
directly related to this conversation. Okay, so the other thing
he said is about what you have been. I hate
to bring it up again, crying about for five weeks
and it's been a long long time. It has sucked
a long process for it has been too long for

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his return.

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
Bream, go out there and do what I do, go
through my routes, go through you know, just the testing
I have to do with the training thousand to let myself.
I feel like that was my main part, you know.
So I'm going to those finishing it with feeling good.
So I feel like there's a finish those session I
have with no no ben femins. That's the great progression,
right So the second day tacking the rehab, that's all

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you can That's why I'm not feeling great.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
So I'll tell you among the things he said there,
so you could read about a writer on our website.
Click to Houston's website as well. Aaron Wilson writes, Colins said,
when asked if he's one hundred percent for sure, I
feel like myself, I feel like that's a great progression.
And then as you heard there in just stacking days
feel like been attacking the rehab. So the people who
we trust myself included at times Aaron and others, to

(01:12:28):
cover the team and deliver the information we might not
otherwise have, especially when it comes directly from these sources,
and you don't even site sources because the person himself
said it. We know that Nico Collins is good to go.
We know not only is he going to play, what
else do we know? We know this isn't basketball. He's
not on minutes restriction or a snap count restriction or

(01:12:49):
a play count restriction. Like we know all that because
Nico basically told us that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
We know all that because.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
He probably could have played in the last game and
they chose to air on the side of health caution.
Let's give him another eight days of rehab and you
work out. How do you feel after you work out?
You go full go, everything's good. You keep waking up
feeling good, You keep going into the next day like
you haven't had the injury at all. It sure could

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come up again, any injury, you could come up again.
But we know from Nico and from the way the
team has handled this, and even from some of the
things to Miko's we know he's one hundred percent going
into tonight's game. We know he's not on any kind
of restriction right especially because we here in Houston here
on Sports Talk seven nine, we covered the team. We're
there five days a week. That brings me to the
Thank God. He tweeted this portion of the show after

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missing Houston's past five games due to a hamstring injury.
Texans wide receiver Nico Collins is considered a full go
for Tonight's game versus the Cowboys COMMA with no playtime
restrictions period. I have been listening to you during the
segment and even speaking some myself, but I began this
during the break. I just have not come to a
decision on what exactly I want to include in my

(01:13:59):
quote of this. So far, I've come with this isn't
basketball hashtag No kidding. Yeah, we already knew this since
we talked to him this past week and he told
us this. I'm just not sure what to go with
on the quote tweet. And I don't do this all
the time, although I've brought it up on the show
many times. He does have a national audience. There's another
forty nine states worth of NFL fans. Here in our country,

(01:14:24):
and lots of other fans that follow him around the
world that probably don't listen on iHeartRadio to this program,
maybe aren't subscribers to Space City Home Network and would
not have that information otherwise. So I do appreciate that
he's telling them, but I'm not usually very appreciative of
the manner which, oh well, I don't even think it
happened unless he said it. I don't even think that's

(01:14:45):
a possibility unless he said it happens too often.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Sorry, you're looking for the quote?

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
What should I add? What should I write on the
quote tweet of this?

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
No kidding.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
It's like saying, Hey, the Cowboys and Texans have decided
to play at seven to fifteen tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Sources indicate, do you want to kill two birds with
one stone? Maybe hon't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
I don't want to kill anything.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
You can use your trademark snark I'm trying, and you
can bit steal from the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
and how am I gonna do that? Just right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
And I quote.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
Audio play So it's a little tough, but I guess this.
I mean, it's not new information to us, but it's
new for everybody else.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Nico Collins.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
This just in They're gonna want him on the field
a lot tonight, and he'll be physically capable of doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
And he will make it to where even if Micah
Parsons and company is breathing down the neck of c. J. Stroud, well,
there's a good chance he can make him pay for that.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
And I'm not gonna say he's gonna take his normal
snap count. He might, he might not, but it's not
because he's not one hundred percent. It's because that's the
way a lot of times teams go about it following
an injury. Heck, the stuff people were saying about Jamar Chase,
I don't know how much he's gonna give in this game.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
He didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
He missed all of camp. I don't you know, he
barely practiced this week. He went out there and it
was totally fine and handle everything they wanted him for
in the opening week of the season. Granted, they lost,
but that wasn't his fault and they've lost a bunch
of since. But yeah, it's just an avenue of thanks
for letting us know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
It just feels different with not.

Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
A member of the A team. Should I add that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Yes, No, you absolutely need to Did you do it? No,
I already hit the leap man. You need to like
get it done is what you need to do. All right,
we will get it done as in the three o'clock
hour coming up next here on the A Team, Sports
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Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
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Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Ninety I'm still getting a kick out of some of
the responses to the Dyikin Field renaming.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
It will always be.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
In Ron Field in my book. You know what's funny
about people getting upset about this because if you go
to like the Astros social media and you see the comments,
it's just utterly ridiculous. Well, this is terrible. Really, it's
the name of the stadium. It's not like they named it.
I don't know, like was it Miami where one.

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
Of the.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Adult themed establishments was trying to and by that I
mean Sites was trying to buy a sponsorship on the
side of the Miami Heats Arena.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
I think that's as the story goes.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
Yes, that definitely happened. And usually whenever anything happens with
celebrities or closely related to sports, they will send out
a pr release saying, we noticed that you did this
or are into that. We'd love to give you this
amount of money if you want to let us do
this and film that. It's it's a attention grab. It's

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smart on their part. It was never going to happen.
It was never It's not even a thing. But let's
put it out there and you know, people like us,
I mean social media. Of course, we'll all talk about it.
It's free publicity.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
People that are getting online mad and all about a
naming rights. Do you remember I'm old enough to remember
this when they went from I mean they had to
change it because it was Enron.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
You had to do something because.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
Bring my Enron field ball cap to the show tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
Really because I should bring my Inron Field opening Day
T shirt from April of two thousand. It's all green,
like the seats I'm old enough to remember when they
went with minute made and people are like, really the
orange juice, Like it's so ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
It's you know, naming rights, sponsorships or sponsors on jerseys,
and that non soccer sports here in this country is
still keep the logos and the team name front and center,
which obviously on the pitch, that's not the case. I
think that's something people were hung up on and probably
will be when they do ultimately make that change, because

(01:20:25):
money will talk. I mean, there was huge national sponsor
in the World's in the postseason in Major League Baseball this.

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Year, smack dab on the middle of the helmet and
who was it? Don't remember Bingo? I mean, are we
really caring about this?

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
Like I care about this, and everybody's gonna say, let's
check the highlights from over in Houston at they say
the name of the ballpark, let's go to M and
T Bank Stadium, let's go to whatever it is. That's
why they pay for it, that's why people say it.
That's hopefully why you can come up with something to
call it. If there's a nickname that's appropriate, and there
obviously was. I mean, there used to be a basketball

(01:21:02):
team in this city that played at the Laptop. I
mean I didn't think that was a very good nickname.

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
But obviously problem that was you were going from such
a cool venue name to that.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
Well that's in the Look how far back we're going
to when none of the revenue streams were your stadium there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
That was the first one.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Oh wow, look at that kind of money we could make.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
You had two venues, two teams played in one of them,
one of them moved, and then you had that one.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
The day you signed your deal with Compac to have
it called Compac Center. What if somebody in the office
thats say, man, this is awesome. How about if we
get sponsors for the jerseys and put a patch on it.
People just like you're insane, that's never gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
Well, it's because they think. I believe they, these people,
these sports fans, thought that it was going to look
like either a NASCAR driver or a soccer kit. Which
is another stupid thing about it. Stop calling it different
names for clothes. You're not Australian.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
You try to call what the managers in baseball are
wearing a costume.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Because they're not.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
They're wearing the same thing as the player is the
player wearing a costume a costume, but it's not if
the players wearing it because they're playing, Yes, they're players.
What about the third and first base coach?

Speaker 4 (01:22:15):
I don't know, they're dressed up too well, they're working,
It's serious.

Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
Dusty's working, Joe's working.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
It would be like this huge furor for like a
week if those guys, those people who currently wear costumes
started wearing like same thing. Udoka and his staff do
nice pullovers.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
Coaches they wear whatever they want, and they wear suits,
don't They A lot of them will wear a suit.
Football coaches can pretty much wearver whatever that they wear
team gear, and some of the smartest ones, like Demiko,
wear very specific, easy to see stand out from the
others gear.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
He's the one wearing bright red battle red. I like that.
It's very smart.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
Hoops coaches have gone from stupidly needing to wear a
coat and tie to their current version of why not
be comfortable, which is phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Jeff van Gundy loves it as I got to see
not one but two games of him where what he
always wanted to instead of a frumpy suit.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
And even that, even this, I think some people think
I don't like it? Well, how come because they all
look the same, Like when they walk out from the tunnel.
When you're looking at the teams during a timeout, there's
eight guys standing there wearing the same pants, the same pullover.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Yeah, they all were so what. I'm old enough to
remember when everybody on TV had to wear a tie
if you were a man.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
They don't do that anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
Yeah, let's progress. Let's put a check mark next. So
that's okay. I mean, it's just you know what, if
they had a company that had a name that was
so awful or so easily made fun of, or something
that would clearly make you feel bad about your team's building,
they might think twice about, well that's what we're going with.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
But that company would still pay to have it named something.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
Was it a big deal when we went from Reliant
Stadium to NRG Stadium?

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
It was for some people.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:24:01):
I just there's certain names that if they don't roll
off the tongue at least a little bit, like what's uh,
what's the one in Phoenix, Candlestocking? Yeah, resort, Yeah, Candlestick.
I'm thinking of San Francisco. Yeah, Well it's too long
of a name. It's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Hey, uh the old.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Name for the U of H Stadium, I'm not gonna
say it because that's a competing financial wasn't it. Isn't
that a financial facility or entity? It's called called that.
I thought they changed it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
It has not come into effect. Well say it, that's fine.
Five letters preceding stadium.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue though.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
How about their basketball arena?

Speaker 4 (01:24:44):
You like that one? Well? Duh, pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
Plus he's signed some checks that I cash. Yeah, but
that's the first.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
For TITA Center.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
Has a nice ring to it. But do you miss
hawf Eines pavilion? Or is a guy I used to
work with? It's like the most obvious EXAs same thing. Yeah,
that's the person's name building where By the way, the
coolest thing about Roy Hawfines is that he had an
apartment in the Astrodome that he lived in nice like
he went home at night. What a dome? What are the.

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
Apartment's thoughts on the potential reno? What do you mean
is it still there? Do we have to accommodate for
what we're going to?

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
Apartment years ago? I'm sure they did yes, to put
that scoreboard in or they put seats in the replacements before.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
What we're gonna do for you, Bud? Oh great, bye?

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Seriously, if I would like, if i'm the Fertitas, if
I'm Patrick, right, all right, young single guy, you can
be Patrick, that's fine. Why we're gonna leave Blaine out
of it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:42):
I mean, for the two of us sitting here, that
made more sense. Tokay, wouldn't you live at Toyota Center?

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Why not? It's smack dab in the middle of downtown.
And who's gonna say anything to you? You own the team.

Speaker 5 (01:25:53):
You look like you just woke up. Man, it's the
second quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Matter of fact. Live here. Matter of fact.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
I would go a step further.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
Build a helipad on the roof of Toyota Center so
that Tilman's chopper can land whenever it wants to, and
you can just walk into the building where his apartment is.
You know it's not flat up there. Well, they can
build a little area. They've got places they can do that.
I'm sure they have.

Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Good It feels like we're sliding.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
It's all right. I'm a I'm a very good pilot. Yeah,
I mean, I would do that. If I own the team,
but he can do whatever he wants, all right. The
four o'clock hours coming up next here on the A Team.
It will include, among other things, the good, the bad,
and the ugly from the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety two lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team, Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler are the A Team A.

Speaker 4 (01:26:56):
It's our number three of four here on the A
Team sports Stalk seven nine. Now, I got breaking news
on the state of Jerry World. So they are obviously
broadcasting NFL live from there right now, and I don't
know which way the set is pointing, but they might
want to get on top of things because the sun
is already coming in from the side here and Laura

(01:27:17):
Rutledge's corny as could be in danger.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
It's during the day. Kickoff is still three plus hours out.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
Someone else was trying to do their job in the
middle of the day and he couldn't because the sun
was in his face and there were drapes that could
be used, but Jerry didn't want to.

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
I don't think it's of much concern. Something we mentioned
earlier in the day. I figured We would get that
information sometime before five point forty five when the official
inactives come out and Aaron Wilson delivers as per usual.
His sources indicate this will be a Kamari Lassiter free
game for the Houston Texansk and it's not official, but
trying to get into and out of the concussion protocol

(01:27:55):
and a span of eight days is no matter. I mean,
it's the It would seem like the smart thing to
do is not play, and I think that's exactly what's
gonna happen. You know, if a player's clear, the players cleared,
but you would want to be careful with a player
good or bad, young or old, last er leaving last
game with a concussion or heading into the concussion protocol

(01:28:18):
after not being cleared to return after getting hit by
Jimmy Ward. Kadar Holman took the snaps for him at
corner after that, and the odds are he will do
the same this week or tonight with the help from
Jeff Akuda. Akuda is not taking a snap yet this
season with the Texans. Was signed in the offseason after
a couple of stops elsewhere, some good, some bad, certainly

(01:28:42):
nothing that suggested he should have been a top five
overall draft selection several years ago, but nonetheless broad here
to Houston to try to provide some depth. At the time,
the thought was he would provide competition as a starter.
That lasted about five minutes. Kamari Laster was inserted as
a starter during the off season and that he maintained
his spot all the way through training camp.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
So it's just a matter of where would.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
Okudah fill in essentially be the backup at both spots.
Then he got hurt, so they've played with other backups.
Of those two spots, D'Angelo Ross has gotten a ton
of snaps. He's no longer with the active roster. Kadar
Holman was not with the Texans at all until the
season began, not until October, and now he is potentially
a part of their starting group. I wonder, and I

(01:29:26):
think I already know the answer. I would wonder aloud.
Does this encourage Matt Burke and Dino Vasso and Demiko
Ryans to think otherwise about how they defend this particular
team where they clearly have a star and nobody else
that should make you sweat or keep you make you

(01:29:47):
lose sleep. That's Ceedee Lamb and then the rest. Meaning
would they even consider having Derek Stingley Junior challenge him
all the way across the field, run with him on
every snap, stay with him on every play. I asked
it almost rhetorically. They've never done it before, and I
don't expect him to do that now either. I think
they trust that they have the right people, and that's

(01:30:08):
other people, not just the replacement player, but other people
in place to make sure that just because their other
starting corner isn't there, it's not gonna be lined up
on Lamb exclusively. The Cowboys are going to devise a plan,
devise some plan that never has him defended by anybody
other than a mismatch. It's mismatch a lot of the time,
no matter what your personnel is. But no, it's not
great news. But I don't think it's team killing news

(01:30:30):
by any means. Just about everybody else they could hope
for other than Will Anderson Junior will be out there
defensively fully caught Fotakasi, as we learned Saturday, also out
and that's one of the reasons why both the elevation
for Tommy Toy a second week in a row and
the activation of Mario Edwards Junior are in place for
tonight's game. Both of those players will play a large

(01:30:53):
role in what they're doing up front. Edwards Junior had
a very very good first six games this year, and
last week they got really good production from that player
that they elevated, and I think they expect more of
the same this week. Shouldn't be a huge concern. It
would be nice. This should not be a swing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
I don't like their chances anymore. I'm not a fan
of Holman. I'm not gonna lie to you and say
I think he's gonna do great things. But that's why
I think the timing actually worked out a little bit
better for the Texans, and that Akuda is at least
healthy enough to be active.

Speaker 4 (01:31:24):
Pretty tall task.

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
If several of your first assignments are yeah, you got
you've got eighty eight, hang with him. We got you
if you if you can't handle it, But that's what
the that's what the job intelling.

Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
He's got it back.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
As Gary Kubiak would say, ceed lamb, He'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:31:40):
His injury is strikes me, as we have to say it.
It does exist until he gets hit in the back
again in the game.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
He'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
Are you like me?

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
Though? Like these defensive players specifically that will be in
the lineup for the Texans tonight, this is a unit
that should have more than enough to if they could,
if they could basically keep Jared Goff in check. And
that's actually being like nice. I thought they did more
than that. That made him look pedestrian.

Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
His numbers look awful. They also scored twenty six points.
I know, I know, but that's different. I mean, that's
very different. It is they scored nineteen points in the
second half. You go up nineteen points in a half.
You did not do a great job, especially turned the
other team over twice.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
That's what I was about to say.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
You did yourself. You did not do a great job
in capitalizing on all of the times he gave you
the football. And if what I'm saying is that should
be more than enough to harass a Cooper Rush.

Speaker 5 (01:32:41):
Who's just not doing what they did last week, should
be encouraging in this way. You played your first game
without Will Anderson Junior, and you got after Jared Goff.
Didn't have had zero sacks on Jared Goff, and yet
you altered his ability to complete passes. You altered their
ability to move the ball up and down the field
the way they would have liked. You did a job
against the run most of the game. I do think

(01:33:03):
they got a little bit away from that later in
the game. But all those things are in place today.
You're gonna play another game without Will Anderson Junior, but
you're gonna have Danil Hunter out there. You're going to
have the rest of your front and then some other
than Photocasi. Because of Edward's return, this is one of
the best pass rushing teams in the NFL. Your team,
the Texans top five. Their pass rush win rate has

(01:33:27):
been there all season long, and then again I point
to last week. I point out that they got there
again last week without him against a much better offensive
line than what the Dallas Cowboys have. The Lions have
one of the five best offensive lines, and that even
showed without one of their tackles. Decker was unavailable and
Skipper stepped in sadly did a reasonable enough job that

(01:33:50):
they really didn't take advantage of it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
The Cowboys line is not that good. It used to
be great.

Speaker 5 (01:33:53):
Each year that's gone by, even with some of the
newer talent that they have, which.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Is okay, who has the worst line tonight? The Texans?

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
But by how much, I guess is what I should
have asked.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
The matchup I still think favors the Texans, the Texans
D line against the Cowboys offensive line versus the opposite.
I hope the Texans have the advantage in that matchup,
but you can't. I'd like to ignore it because I
don't think it really happened last week. The numbers say
it did. It's been five weeks since you've gone into
a game and then come out of it and said, man,
their offensive line, the Texans offensive line, they really did

(01:34:26):
a good job today.

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
They won.

Speaker 5 (01:34:27):
They won their battle, and it in turn allowed the
Texans to win, allowed CJ. Stroud to win, allowed their
passing and running game to win, as much as it
looked better throwing the football a week ago, even without
Nico Collins, they couldn't run the ball at all. They
couldn't do anything with it. With the Lions rush defense
that you'll put it all together, They've been really good

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most of this year. Joe Mixon has a lot to
do with it in being able to put themselves in
better situations after handing the ball off twice on first
and second down, which they do too much, and they
do more than any team in the NFL, and the
success they have with it is not matching up. That's
where you say the math ain't math, and you don't
want to do that as often as they do it
if you're not finding success with it. But they keep
doing that. We'll see if tonight it's any different. You know,

(01:35:11):
Joe Mixon's pretty proud, got proud guy, prideful player. He's
not gonna want to turn in two straight weeks where
he and the offensive line can't figure out a way
to you know, bust off thirteen nineteen twenty five yard
runs help them gain yards and put them in better
down in distance. I do like their chances to be
successful both running and throwing the ball, but it all
rests on their line. Well, we're gonna see the same
five guys we saw a week ago to start. They're

(01:35:34):
a little bit thinner behind him with Blake Fisher's injury,
but Jarrett Patterson back at center, Juwe Shruggs sliding over
to the vacated guard spot from Kenyon Green with Shaq
Mason remaining on the interior with him. That's what they
should have been going with much earlier in the season,
and they're not gonna get worse playing together. I'm hopeful
they'll get better playing together against a line that's again

(01:35:54):
without some of their healthy players, they're not as good
as they could be. Micah Parsons being out there is
a bigger challenge against any individual player than they've probably
seen in weeks, not just last week. With Detroit not
playing Zadarias Smith and not having Aiden Hutchinson, they literally
had no elite pass rusher.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
Well Parsons is that.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
He's since he entered the league, he's been one of
the probably six or seven best edge rushers game wreckers
in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
You know, it would be first of all, highly entertaining,
second of all poetic justice coming full circle, any number
of cliches you could call it, I want more of them,
what else, and would be absolutely spectacular. Given the way
the Texans have in their wins, still made it somewhat

(01:36:43):
of a you know, in doubt in the waning seconds
at times. If Michael Parsons was closing in on CJ.
Stroud tonight and he was able to get off the
game winning touchdown pass.

Speaker 5 (01:36:55):
Oh, looking for the Texans to be trailing late.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Let's see that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
Wait, you see what I'm saying though, on brand for
them for this year.

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
That in the first quarter to take a fourteen to
nothing lead.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
Yeah, but then you wouldn't have the poetic jest.

Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
Do that in the second half to take a twenty
one to three lead.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
You get back at Tony Romo for getting the pass
off against jj I.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
That was the one thing we should have mentioned about
the Bill's Chiefs game.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
That Frank Calliando got a shout out.

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
That Tony was trying his hardest to ruin it for me.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
What do you mean trying his hardest?

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
I mean being herself, dude, I know who's sitting next
to you. Everybody does.

Speaker 5 (01:37:30):
Stop telling us who it is so over and.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Over and over again. So what you're saying is you
don't want me to refer to you as your first
name every other second on the show for the rest
of time, because you know I'm gonna start doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
I like the rat I like the analogy you're making.
I'm gonna accept this also is a truth. I am
slightly less famous of Jim Nance. Now we are the
number one team here in afternoons, like they are the
number one team.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
But it's just so like you're talking to him. He knows,
we all know. Stop, So what should he say? Nothing?

Speaker 5 (01:38:03):
Just talk, Just be normal, like how madness makes you. Well,
that goes. I'm not even getting into all the other nonsense,
he says. That's just the one thing that sticks out
more than any other. Thanks Tony.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. The eighteen continues.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
It is the eighteam Sports Talk seven ninety Monday edition
of the program. My goodness, this game is taking forever
to get here. You know, we are still three hours
away from kickoff right now, and I get it. Monday
night games are Oh, it's great. It's like all the
spotlight's on your team and it's the only team game
in town. It's only great if you don't get embarrassed. Well,

(01:38:56):
Texas loss would be an embarrassment. National television losses they're
working on three straight.

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
How many times are they going to be on TV
next year? This team showed a lot. They won ten
and seven, they won a playoff game. They've got two
of the bright young superstars in the league. They've got
a coach that everyone seems to love. All right, Well,
here you go, seriously, national TV. Second week of the season.
You're a home opener, You've got the Christmas Day game,
you have the Saturday game against the defending NFL champion

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Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
What if they go over national television? Well they can't.
They already won one. What if they go over national
television other than the Bears?

Speaker 5 (01:39:34):
Do you want to spend thirty five seconds on the Bears?
Sure so, with thirty five front office spent on their coach,
the last thirty five seconds of the Bears game have
people wondering, why is this guy doing this to us?

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
And that's their head coach.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
Yes, on second down, with the time out remaining, after
a game of three yards to put them sure well
within their field goal kickers rang at better than forty
five yards out, he decided to stand over the football
and let the clock run down to three seconds where.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
He was going to have a coronary.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
The it's my love.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
For a coach to keep his team from being in
the best position to win is something to behold. Some
coaches are really really good at We've had a lot
of people at the end of games this is like
their time to shine. You know, Twitter Warriors and other
people who fancy themselves a is smarter than every single
other coach who gets paid millions and millions and millions
of dollars to either know it or hire somebody to

(01:40:37):
know it. And granted many times they do make mistakes,
but these mistakes that are getting made, it's not you
can't do it. You can't allow that to happen. The
negatives of running another play outweighed the positives in Matt
Aberfelish's mind, so they just let the last thirty seconds
run off, called their time out, attempted the game field

(01:41:00):
goal in a game they weren't tied in, and they
got it blocked with their kicker, who's noted for having
a low trajectory, which is what the Cans or the
Green Bay Packers were well aware of, nearly had one
blocked earlier. Now, far be it from me to give
you both sides of the story. The other side of
the story would be they absolutely cheated on that play,
and the officials let them because you're not allowed to

(01:41:22):
smash the long snapper the way they did, and you're
not allowed to use leverage, which they did.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
But it went uncalled.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
These moronic referees are making it hard for us not
to say these things.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
I want the.

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
Games to come down to the players making the plays.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
I don't want to say what people say. In basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
Let them play, you mean, let them cheat, you mean,
let them foul each other. No call the calls that
deserve to be made. Don't make the calls on plays
that don't. If it's not there, it's not there. If
it is there, you gotta do your job. I mean,
stay out of the way as much as possible. Okay,
but I mean stay out of our conversation. Right, get lost. Okay,
there's a Hail Mary coming, anything goes, I don't mean that,

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which is usually what they do on Hail Mary's. Whatever
you want go ahead, officiated differently than every other play
in the game. So all those things did happen. But
you got You have one job as a head coach.
All you're supposed to do is fulfill this simple statement.
You're just supposed to put your players in the best
chance to win the game. And he repeatedly falls short
of the simplest task of a head coach. I don't

(01:42:28):
know how good they might be. And they did make
a change with their.

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
Oc he's next prior to this game, yep, And there
were times in this game where you could see the changes. Well,
you know, you talk about officials and I'm I hate
to say this, but this season it's like it's it's
we're approaching MLB slash NBA standards where we're we're coming

(01:42:51):
in here every Monday and there's at least one game
that we can talk about something egregious. And by the way,
since the Rockets are playing the Buckston, Yeah, did you
see Doc Rivers get fined twenty five grand? And far
be it from me to feel sorry for.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
Doc Rivers being lighter at the wallet.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
Well, I think he can handle it with the insane
money he's made as a head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
But this guy is like, really, you're gonna call that
as a foul and the crew chief for the officials,
so they called the foul on Giannis what who did
not touch LaMelo ball? Okay, LaMelo ball flopped. He sold
it as they say, I got two free throws to
win a one fifteen one fourteen final. So these two

(01:43:33):
teams have something in common. They both lost to the
Hornets this year. That'll play to night the Bucks in
the Rockets.

Speaker 5 (01:43:38):
The Rockets, though, did not lose to the Bulls like
the Bucks did.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
No, the Rockets put up one hundred and forty three
on them last night. So, uh, after the game, crew
chief is in the pool report. Oh yeah, we missed
that one. Oh and oh, by the way, just in
case you were wondering, or if you weren't mad enough already,
Bucks fans, if they had had their challenge, we definitely
would have overturned that call and they would have had
the ball and won the game in all likelihood.

Speaker 7 (01:44:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
And so then Dog comes out and complains about it,
and so the NBA's response to this is, you know,
we're wrong here, and we get that, and we're right
there admitting it, as is the official that made the game.
But you know what, we're gonna find you from complaining
about it. I mean, it's the stupidest thing I've ever
seen in my life. And it happens all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
Yeah, you see a call and made against you, and
you happen to be right the player, You get mad
about it, you argue about it, and they tee you up.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Yep, it happened in the Rockets.

Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
That's essentially what we're talking about here, Bucks and Rockets tonight,
just so you know the four and nine Bucks. The
four times they've been victorious this year. They beat the
Sixers on Opening night, who played for them exactly. They
have since beaten the Jazz in the worst team in
the NBA. They have also beaten the Raptors in Milwaukee,

(01:44:46):
not a great team. It took overtime, but they did
beat the Pistons. Ooh, those are their four wins now
o Their schedule has actually been difficult. They've already played
the Calves twice, two close losses.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
No wonder the Calves are undefeated.

Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
They've already played the Celtics twice. They're the defending champs
and very good this year, but they're four and nine.

Speaker 5 (01:45:04):
Odds are we will see both are here or see
both Lillard and Jannis. Both Damien and Anotokumpo to have
the match playing tonight. They were both listed as probable.

Speaker 4 (01:45:14):
Odds are.

Speaker 5 (01:45:14):
When we get the latest injury update, which should be
pretty close to coming, they'll both be out there. The
idea that Yannis is who they should be targeting, just
since we're on.

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
It, because they could just put them on their charter
after the game and bring them back via trade and
leave the guys they're sending there. I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
I mean, if there was a lop sided deal, I
would say, sure, go get them. If it was a
reasonable even deal, I'd probably say no. If it was
one sided deal in Milwaukee's favor, I'd clearly say no,
what's reasonable. I want to push that to the side
and just say Yannis as a rocket makes them what?

Speaker 7 (01:45:52):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
They championship caliber because they traded for Yannis. It depends
on who they trade though, does it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:45:59):
Like what could then come up with something that you
can say, yes, they're championship caliber.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
Because right now you don't have a top ten NBA
player on your roster, and you would if you had him.

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
Yes, this old on the wrong side of his star
career is still a star.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
Just scored forty eight a couple of nights ago. Still
a star.

Speaker 5 (01:46:17):
So you're going to trade away most of your draft
picks that of value three to four of given right,
and you're going to take two to three players out
of your current rotation.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
I would say Jabbari's going in that deal because of
the position, if nothing else.

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
But also you're trying to make it nice for the
rockets by saying.

Speaker 4 (01:46:35):
That, well, yeah, I mean, come on, but it just
then it becomes okay, what.

Speaker 5 (01:46:43):
Jalen Shngoon?

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
So you're keeping somehow Jalen Green and Alpera and Chingoon
in a deal that you get Yannis the Bucks do this?

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
Do you think some of the contracts that they put
on the table in front of Jalen and alper and
make it a little bit more difficult to move them.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
But you're trying to match money.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
Here too, you can, Yes, that's part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:04):
Jack Glendell's going in this deal.

Speaker 4 (01:47:06):
Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
I just put any combination you want, like put Giannis
on the rockets and leave everybody there, basically is what
I'm asking. Yeah, did they really elevate? I mean, I
don't want to look at where.

Speaker 4 (01:47:16):
They are two they're at the top half of the weak,
but they somehow got better defensively and they're the number
three rated defensive, So m makes.

Speaker 5 (01:47:24):
You better defensively starting that's where you start. Well, I mean,
of legitimate rim protector, not necessarily you're five, but someone
who off the ball is going to be a good
rim protector on the break. He's a good rim protector.
You don't have to still an elite athlete. Clearly that size.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
Tell me right now, who on the roster for the
Rockets is an automatic twenty and ten, twenty five and
ten any given night can go get you thirty happen
he's an automatic triple double. I'll say, Alpi only the
last two games. I mean, that's that's what it comes
down to. You don't have a superstar and superstars winning
this league, and you probably have to have more than one, so.

Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
You'd pretty much do it it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
I do need to see the deal.

Speaker 5 (01:48:03):
You can't gut thirty next month. He's been in the
league for more than a deck.

Speaker 4 (01:48:07):
I understand all the risks involved, but okay, if the
alternative is what some other the coron old superstar, yeah,
I'll just say yes harder if you'd like Okay, if
that other disgruntled superstar is Kevin Durant, Nope, there you
go see, and everybody's even the article about it their
dream trade. Tark don't like that talking well, I don't

(01:48:29):
think it's accurate because I don't think we're filled. Stone
is stupid and he'd have to be depending on what
you give up.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
The lifespan of Kevin Durant with this extremely young core
of expecting to win.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
With Oh, they can't trade for Giannis, he's on the
wrong side of thirty. But Kevin Durant's carcass bring it
on baby saying it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
I mean, it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
I mean, if you're gonna trade for a son, it's
Devin Booker, it's not Katie's carcas. Sometimes I wonder when
these people write these things, these people that write these
things on social media and in articles at times, did
they even think or did this just vomit before they
put it on the page there or in this cybersphere

(01:49:09):
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly coming up next
here on a Monday edition of the program.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
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Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Now the good, good, the bad that's not good, and
the ugly that's getting real ugly.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
With the A team.

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
It is sid for signature segment number one of the week.
Four point thirty on a Monday, brings us a little
recap of what's taking place since we last spoke Friday.
The good, the bad, the ugly. I will begin I
have the good, it's really yours. It's your thought, yes,
because I'm gonna do yours next. The good is not

(01:51:04):
actually happened yet, but it will happen less than three
hours from now. Number twelve will be on the field
for the Houston Texans, hopefully catching seven passes on eleven
targets from CJ Stroud this evening. That's Nico Collins, he
makes his return. Just some numbers. I'm a numbers guy
that I can point out to you thanks to a
nice little preview piece up on nfl dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:51:26):
CJ.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
Stroud pedestrian or worse without his top wide receiver since
the Week five hamstring injury. Fifty seven point nine percent
completion percentage, seventy seven point one passer rating. Both of
those numbers are those that would get you benched if
you played elsewhere and other factors were in place. Two
hundred and thirty seven snaps SAMs Collins. Now, the good

(01:51:50):
part of it is, since we're gonna see with Colins
snaps tonight, one hundred and fifty one snaps with Nico
this season. How about a completion percentage better than seventy
How about seven touchdowns?

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Two picks?

Speaker 5 (01:52:00):
How about a one oh seven point zero passer rating
that will put you in the top three in the NFL.
That's the CJ, Nico, Bobby Slowick, Joe Mixon driven offense.

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
I do expect to see tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:52:13):
Not mandating it, not predicting it, but I'm telling you
the Texans are going to have a good offensive game tonight.
Texans are going to have a comfortable victory tonight. Nico
Collins will have a huge impact on that. If it
were another edition of a Monday Stone Cold Locks and
we had to give us, say a bold prediction, I
would probably say this will be the Texans' second thirty

(01:52:36):
plus point game of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
Okay, that leads us to the bad, which other than
all three of us taking the under on Tennessee Georgia
the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
I just wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:52:49):
Throw that out there because we also looked bad, but
it still didn't go over until late in the game. Yeah,
which is the worst kind. You think you got it
and then typical of the lines, stupid Vegas. But the
bad is going to be the fact that you still
have to deal with and again it could end up
being good.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
That's the weird thing about this.

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
But you do have to account for Micah Parsons tonight,
and if that offensive line doesn't even remotely hold up,
I don't I don't like what is possible here. You know,
we're one snap away from our own Cooper rush hell
being realized here in Houston. And when it happened for

(01:53:31):
the Cowboys, I guess in a weird or fortunate I
guess maybe for them way, their season was already on
its way to being over. The Texans still have something
to play for here and can kind of right some
of the wrongs that have happened, a lot of it
their own doing, if they keep CJ upright and he's
able to do his thing and Nico Collins stays healthy,

(01:53:51):
and that dynamic duo can take you as far as
it can possibly take you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:55):
More afraid of Micah than usual. Yeah, because of their
offseason together, because of the.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Trash talk has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 5 (01:54:02):
Why why this week is they've played other good pass
rushers before over the last two years.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
No, but who's better that they've played this season at
getting to the quarterback?

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
I mean he's not having an und he's only played
half the season, but when he was out there and
when their defense was playing. I mean, he hasn't been unbelievable.
He hasn't even been himself.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
Is this the worst offensive line he's gonna face off against? Im?
I don't know. You'd have to look at their schedule,
but I know who.

Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
Was on it, and they've played some lesser teams. But
I also know when they've been protecting their home turf,
they've been embarrassing, correct, but.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
Worse, Well, maybe not that bad.

Speaker 5 (01:54:36):
They're averaging. They're allowing thirty eight points per game at home.
I guess they're on their way to setting a new
NFL record for being the worst scoring defense in home
football history in this league.

Speaker 4 (01:54:46):
Okay, so I guess maybe some part of me is
subconsciously just putting it all out there and laying it
on thick so that I won't be disappointed.

Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
I brought it up earlier to kind of answer your question.
I didn't know it at the time.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
I knew he was really good.

Speaker 5 (01:55:01):
John Gernard was really the one individual that had his
way against the Texans. He was in the backfield all game.
He had motivated, he had a multi sack game. He's
had a better season. He was having a better season
through five weeks than Micah has He's probably the best
they've gone up.

Speaker 4 (01:55:18):
But the Jets sacked CJ how many times again? Yeah,
less than nine? It was eight and they won and
they had no business winning and that was a big
reason why all that the Sections still should have won. Yeah, no,
I don't want that to be a repeat performance, I
guess is what I'm looking at. Well, it's the ugly.

Speaker 8 (01:55:40):
This would be on the same level if the Texans
lost this game tonight to December twenty second, twenty eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:55:47):
Do you remember what happened? It was a Thursday night Colts.

Speaker 8 (01:55:51):
The Texans lost nineteen to sixteen to two dan Orlowski
and the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Yeah, it was the Colts.

Speaker 4 (01:56:00):
Well, at least he didn't step into the back of
the end zone during that game. No, he did far
from that.

Speaker 8 (01:56:04):
He did enough to help beat the Texans that night,
and it was yet again another year where they did
not win in Indianapolis. Oh yeah, If I can add
a quick one, I hate LSU football with every fiber
of my being.

Speaker 4 (01:56:15):
Why you don't think Brian Kelly's a great coach?

Speaker 8 (01:56:20):
I he got so much to the point on Saturday
that I Megan was like, you're not even getting mad.
I go, there's nothing to get mad about anymore. Like
they're like seriously like any semblance of an absolute care
about this team completely left my body after the previous
Saturday night against Alabama. This was just a capper on

(01:56:41):
that one. This was the chaser to the shot. So
your Saturdays are open now very much? Oh very much? Well,
I mean, yact. That is my question about LSU. How
much longer does.

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
He It's still only year three. That's a long time
in the NFL. He'd totally be ripe to be fired.
They have had a lot of talent there and they
still do.

Speaker 5 (01:57:06):
I don't think it's quite barren, and I do think
he and his staff have recruited plenty of talented players,
which makes it worse that you're following the way that
you are, and especially in this particular, since Florida has
had a couple of opportunities to kind of save their season,
they're already past that. This win doesn't save their season.
They're going nowhere, and they still gave a vote of
confidence because of money, basically to billion Apier that that

(01:57:29):
was kind of an embarrassing way to see the season get.

Speaker 4 (01:57:31):
Away from you. It's gone.

Speaker 5 (01:57:33):
It is over for LSU in a season where they
easily could have done so much more even with the
opening game loss. Think they just played worse as the
season progressed. Kind of the opposite of what you're supposed
to do in college football. Things are supposed to be
getting better, you're supposed to be getting more in tune.
You do have turnover in college football, unlike you do
in the NFL every single season, to the point where
playing better as the season continues is a normal progression,

(01:57:56):
and the more teams that do it are the ones
that you see at the end of the year now
succeeding in this postseason. Kind of like what other teams
in the SEC might be doing, but not LSU. I
don't think Brian Kelly's going anywhere just yet. But I
thought it was a He's won a ton of football games.
I think I'm trying to look at the relationship between

(01:58:16):
winning and dislike, and it's kind of like Urban Meyer
in a different way.

Speaker 4 (01:58:21):
Urban Meyer is.

Speaker 5 (01:58:22):
Just such a devious, scoundrel, scandalous type of person. He
seems like he has enough charisma to fool you and
make you like him, so he keeps, you know, looking
good and getting new jobs, and he's got a TV job,
whereas Brian Kelly is just really over the top. He
does not appear to be a someone you want to

(01:58:43):
work with if you're on the coaching staffs. I mean
you getting coached hard is one thing. I just I'm
just not a big fan of what he shows you
on a weekend and week out. It's not LSU that
brought this to my attention. It's the same thing I
saw at Cincinnati, same thing I saw on Notre Day.

Speaker 4 (01:58:57):
Tons of winning.

Speaker 5 (01:58:58):
So who am I to say anything wrong with it?

Speaker 4 (01:59:01):
He needs to get back to tons of winning.

Speaker 5 (01:59:03):
Here three years at LSU, he's got twenty six victories,
but he has eleven losses and there may be more
coming this year with a team that probably should not
have lost as many as they did. Oh well, I
don't think anybody new to the SEC is too worried
about that team falling apart the a.

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Speaker 4 (02:00:12):
It is the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety Space
City Home Network. You know, we haven't done all show
long and it's almost five o'clock. What's that we haven't
heard from the people seven one to three heard from them,
just not on the air two one, two five, seven ninety.
Are they tweeting a lot? I don't even checked that today.

Speaker 5 (02:00:27):
Well, maybe they're on the new social media platform.

Speaker 4 (02:00:29):
You know, I'm considering doing something tonight and I don't
I need your advice on this, Okay? I have the
Rockets game.

Speaker 5 (02:00:36):
Yes, Rockets Bucks seven o'clock tip, six thirty Rockets countdown,
six o'clock Rockets launch.

Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Bad Texans Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (02:00:45):
Seven to fifteen kick nationally televised ball game.

Speaker 4 (02:00:48):
So I'm gonna either have to try and watch two
games at the same time or do the virtually impossible
yet doable thing if I play my cards right and
tell everybody that I know, I know like Matt Thomas,
who will definitely be watching sideways down the line, that
I don't want to watch or know anything that's happening

(02:01:09):
in the Texans Cowboys game. Attempt to this feat and
then watch that when I get home after I'm done
with Rockets Bucks.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
What say you?

Speaker 5 (02:01:17):
He's probably one of the more important people to make
aware of that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
Yeah, because he'll say things.

Speaker 4 (02:01:22):
Yes, it's yeah, he will.

Speaker 5 (02:01:24):
You do have a cellular phone device, I'll have a
really really hard time staying off of that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
No, what I would do is just any I would
close down X, Twitter, what have you, and just if
somebody texts me something. Basically, if somebody besides my wife
is texting me, I don't even look at it.

Speaker 5 (02:01:44):
Because there that's where you claim you get all the
stuff from that you really aren't following.

Speaker 4 (02:01:48):
Like tonight, if CJ.

Speaker 5 (02:01:50):
Stroud opens the game with a sixty nine yard touchdown
pass on a dump off to Joe Mixon. Somebody's probably
gonna tweet you about it or text you about it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:58):
Excuse me. There are certain people that are in my
phone that are gonna one way or the other, and
I just I feel like I shut down my messages.
You've noticed that, Oh, well, is it ex But do
you really think you could? You think you could make it?
You think you could go all night If I don't

(02:02:20):
take a text from me, and I'll tell Teresa what
I'm doing, So like, don't text me unless it's like
somebody's on fire.

Speaker 5 (02:02:25):
That already sounds like you'd succeed. You'd make your way
through postgame, you'd hop in your car and you'd find
out on your way home somehow, or you'd find out
right before you No, no flip it off, or if
I flip on the TV and you'd immediately see it
before you went to the DVR.

Speaker 4 (02:02:38):
Now that's where the clutch gene comes in. If you
get to a point where you you have made it
to the end of the Rockets game without finding out
what's going on in the Texans Cowboys game, which will
still be happening, right, But then I've got you know. Yeah,
it's not lengthy, but it's enough of a ride home.
I will not screw that up at that point by
you know, looking at my phone or turn on the radio.

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I listen to music all the way home and then
fire up the DVR.

Speaker 5 (02:03:04):
Will you be mad at the person that ruins it?

Speaker 7 (02:03:06):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:03:07):
Yeah, okay, well how could I not?

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
Then I'm going through all this effort.

Speaker 4 (02:03:10):
Well if you're.

Speaker 5 (02:03:11):
If you're for it, well we'll announce to everybody your plan.

Speaker 4 (02:03:14):
But at five point fifty five today, I'm deciding I
have an hour and ten minutes to make the decision
good line, and also try to figure out what I'm
gonna eat.

Speaker 5 (02:03:21):
I'm just gonna watch which might be more As they happened,
I had second straight week I was working on or
we were working on a Sunday night, had Texans last week,
had Rockets last night, so I had to catch the
later edition as it aired multiple times of the latest
episode of Yellowstone.

Speaker 4 (02:03:36):
But I'm all caught up.

Speaker 3 (02:03:37):
You're all caught up?

Speaker 4 (02:03:37):
Fair what's the new one?

Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
Land man?

Speaker 3 (02:03:40):
That's why I was trying to think of.

Speaker 4 (02:03:41):
Is that moreous?

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
Wait, she's in it?

Speaker 4 (02:03:45):
Two? Yes, So it's John am Oh my gosh, well,
I'm not even gonna watch Yellowstone now, they'll go straight
to that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:52):
You can probably probably tell the difference, but if you
only watch the open to each show, you won't be
able to tell.

Speaker 4 (02:03:58):
The difference because they're the mountains.

Speaker 5 (02:04:00):
Just everything about how they've produced, like the open to
the show is the same.

Speaker 4 (02:04:07):
So which do you like better after watch? I haven't
watched it at all yet, I will, what about you, Dan?

Speaker 8 (02:04:12):
I watched land Man. It was fantastic. I can't wait
to keep.

Speaker 4 (02:04:15):
So once that episode in, you think it's better than Yellowstone.

Speaker 8 (02:04:18):
Yellowstone is just starting to kind of like stretch out
the storyline a little bit, like where it's like like
we could get this done in about two or three
episodes and call it a day.

Speaker 4 (02:04:27):
What season are they in? Five? Five two? When does
Costner shuffle off into the abyss? Are they killing him?

Speaker 5 (02:04:32):
This is the part of the show where we stop.
I'm being nice to people. We're only eight days into
its season ending premieres, so you know what happened. I'm
not going to tell them anything about this season.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
I don't know anything about the show either.

Speaker 5 (02:04:45):
So that was a question well worth asking, and one
we cannot answer.

Speaker 4 (02:04:48):
I mean, I know everybody knows because off air he's
been like here, I'm okay, so we know it's.

Speaker 8 (02:04:57):
Actually I always said it too, exactly that same tone.

Speaker 4 (02:05:00):
It's like one of the great Like, I don't know
how you would. There's so many awesome achievements on his resume.
I don't even know where he would rank. This a
TV show on a stream probably right after The Bodyguard
something like that. Really, you think his starring role opposite
the now departed Whitney Houston ranks below this.

Speaker 5 (02:05:24):
Yeah, so Bodyguard and Yellowstone are probably like.

Speaker 4 (02:05:27):
Two and three. And then the movie where.

Speaker 5 (02:05:30):
He teaches Ashton Kutcher how to save people in the water,
that's probably number one.

Speaker 3 (02:05:36):
Is that water World?

Speaker 5 (02:05:37):
No, water World is probably one.

Speaker 4 (02:05:39):
A which one who started opposite him in that? Well,
who is his most famous dance partner? And it's not
Susan Sarandon, it's a wolf. Oh he didn't even dance
with a wolf. I'm glad to believe that he did.
That's the same of the movie.

Speaker 5 (02:05:56):
That's a pretty good resume, I would say, good.

Speaker 4 (02:05:59):
He's one of good catalog. I think he's one of
the greatest actors of our time, all.

Speaker 8 (02:06:02):
Right, it's just below for love of the game. Hey,
I don't care what either of you say. I like
that movie's movie. Speaking of what is it with his
co stars, what they pass untimely manners? John c Riley
still here, he's not a young man. Kelly Preston, I'm
aware of her untimely death.

Speaker 4 (02:06:20):
Well, I'm just saying not everybody that's been in a
movie with him is no longer with us been in
a movie with me.

Speaker 5 (02:06:28):
He's been in a lot of movies. Yeah, Yellowstone is
just fine so far this year. I'm not saying it's better,
worse or anything. It has not blown me away by
any means.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
But it's been fine. I just can't of all the
things that I thought you would be like appointment viewing guy.

Speaker 3 (02:06:45):
With I mean I had to.

Speaker 4 (02:06:47):
It took an Act of Congress to make you watch
Training Day and that was Denzel's only Academy, second Academy.

Speaker 5 (02:06:54):
It's another pretty pretty good actor.

Speaker 4 (02:06:56):
Yeah, he's the best of our time.

Speaker 5 (02:06:58):
He's really good in the Pelican Brief. I'm to have
a hard time mocking his career. They're not many as
you should. It's pretty difficult. Yeah, except for Gladiator too.
That's not a good decision. I can already tell you
that he was good underwater in the sub Yeah. Him
and Gene Yeah, and Tony Soprano.

Speaker 4 (02:07:17):
They're fueling their missiles. Oh, there's a lot of actors
in that one. Okay, Well, I'm glad we got to
the bottom of all that and that you're all caught
up on Yellowstone.

Speaker 5 (02:07:26):
All caught up looking forward to watching both the Rockets
or listening to that.

Speaker 4 (02:07:31):
Maybe I should do catching the Texans.

Speaker 3 (02:07:32):
Maybe I should do.

Speaker 4 (02:07:33):
A Twitter poll and see if people think I should
go about this this way tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:07:36):
Yeah, reach out to people, make sure they're on board
or else you're not gonna make it.

Speaker 4 (02:07:40):
That's all that's gonna happen. People will start trying. But
I've told you I'm shutting it down. If I decide
to go this route, every form of communication you'll have
to like have flares to get a hold of me.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
Shutting it down, like putting your phone down and not
dealing with it.

Speaker 4 (02:07:52):
I am so out of it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:55):
I was leaving the house today. What do you do
when you leave the house as not purse carrying people?
You check your pockets for your keys, your wallet, your phone.
I'm on the phone. It's in my hand up to
my ear and I'm tapping my pockets my back, like
where did I leave it? I know, I just had
it getting older in the middle of a conversation. I'm

(02:08:16):
talking on the phone. Who are you talking to? You?

Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
Here's my phone?

Speaker 3 (02:08:19):
You talk to other people besides me.

Speaker 4 (02:08:21):
I think you can deduce who I was talking to. A. Yes,
well is she have to?

Speaker 7 (02:08:25):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:08:25):
After I told her that, she goes man, you're old.

Speaker 4 (02:08:28):
So we both told you the same thing. All right,
Good to know five o'clock hour is right around the corner.
Now we usually do football at five, yes, and so
that's what we're gonna do at five o'clock when we
come back here on. We got one hour left in
the show before we'll have get some predictions in two
hours and fifteen minutes before kickoff.

Speaker 1 (02:08:46):
Here two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham talking your teams.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are DA Team A Team.

Speaker 4 (02:09:09):
Football at five.

Speaker 5 (02:09:10):
Wex and Ac here with you on the A Team
Dan as well, simulcast on Space City Home Network. And
here we are on Sports Talk seven ninety fourth hour
of the show, The five o'clock Hour brings you football
at five. We talk a lot of football. At the
other portions of the show. We have fifteen other segments,
and many of them are littered with football chatter, as
they have been today. A few other games in the
NFL we never discussed probably are worth our time. We'll

(02:09:33):
do that a little bit later this hour or early tomorrow.
We're on at two each and every weekday afternoon. Texans
Cowboys tonight. This is a game that I said earlier.
If there's any pressure on either team tonight, it rests
on only one team. I don't find too many ways
you could tell me that there's pressure on the Cowboys,
even Mike McCarthy. I think whatever happens at the end

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of his time with Dallas has.

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
Already been decided.

Speaker 5 (02:09:59):
If Jerr is not inclined to move on from him
during the season, maybe and nothing that happens tonight, even
though it is Houston, which is different, which does matter,
And I think with the number of guests that our
show and others have had on leading up to this
game from the Dallas area, that's kind of the difference

(02:10:20):
in this rivalry. Unlike most other rivalries in the NFL,
you know, a rivalry between the Cowboys and the Giants
is pretty obvious to figure out. Same thing with Washington
and Dallas. Same thing with yesterday Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Same
thing with yesterday Kansas City. I said, Pittsburgh and Baltimore,
Kansas City and Buffalo. The teams don't like each other,

(02:10:42):
the fans don't like each other, the players don't like
each other. There's some real animosity and you can see
it on the field. The Pittsburgh Baltimore game was NonStop extracurriculars.
This plays over up. They got to separate these guys
over and over. It matters to the players and they're real,
true vision rivals, which I think is the same with

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the Cowboys and the other three teams in their division.
Most seasons not seasons where you stink and they stink,
like when the Cowboys and Giants get together. But that's
not the case with the Texans. There's no rivalry between
the players now. The players don't pay any mind to
Houston when they play for the Cowboys, and the players
don't play any mind to the Cowboys when they play
for Houston. It's not relevant. It's rare that it's on

(02:11:23):
the schedule and It's not a team that makes much
of a difference to your end goal winning and losing.
This game is not gonna, you know, send you somewhere
you didn't think you could get, give you confidence that
you never thought you'd have, even if these teams were
what they were expected to be when the year began.
And that's two teams competing for the playoffs, not one.
There's one that's Houston because of the Jerry Jones factor,

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because of the marketing angle of his business that he's
always had and has always presented to the league in
an extremely profitable way. He does care, He cares about
Houston as a market, He cares about Texas as his state.
And we did have the comments from overshown last week,
which were great. They'd be awesome bulletin board material if

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this was a bigger, better rivalry. But I don't think
this matters to hardly anybody, even the Texans. The McNair
families owned this team from inception, and there has been
some what the Texans might want as a representative of
the league, what the Cowboys might want and didn't always mesh,
and the idea that another team could maybe come in

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Texas in the NFL was something that certainly Jerry never wants,
and I don't think he even wanted this team, but
I think there was some monetary value in bringing them
into this league just for who they were, even if
it was at his expense to a certain degree, because
I think.

Speaker 3 (02:12:40):
For a second he ever thought about saying no.

Speaker 5 (02:12:42):
Or yes, definitely, this is my state, right, She's going
to give somebody else part of it. But you know,
it's funny fought to keep it that way with just
not just winning winning's the easiest way to do it,
but just everything that they've always done.

Speaker 4 (02:12:57):
But that's why, you know, you always hear about hey
san Antonio, great landing spot for a third NFL team. Nah,
Jerry would never let that happen. Never, Why did he
let Houston happen. I had the power to not let
it happen.

Speaker 5 (02:13:09):
He had the power to help it be more difficult,
but you had to accept an alternative. Somebody was getting
a team, and I think they correctly recognized what has
played out since then in LA.

Speaker 4 (02:13:21):
I mean, they have La.

Speaker 5 (02:13:23):
La has football again, and they have their two teams again,
and they have an awesome palace that they both play in,
which was hard to get to that point it has.
It's gonna be it's a it's a market that you'd
like to have.

Speaker 3 (02:13:34):
It's gonna be awesome when one of them leaves for
Saint Louis.

Speaker 5 (02:13:36):
It's clearly not the market it should be for what
it is from the size that it is. I mean,
they've got so many other things pulling at them LA fans.
It's why the Raiders have bounced all over the place
for one thing, and it's why we've I mean, they
have the San Diego's team. Now they have two teams

(02:13:57):
in LA, both of whom are actually headed towards good
things this year. Once Pokinakua and Cooper Cup got healthy,
all of a sudden, Matt Stafford's offense is good again.

Speaker 3 (02:14:05):
By the way, just.

Speaker 4 (02:14:07):
About Jerry and this game tonight, did you see what
just happened in the last hour.

Speaker 5 (02:14:13):
Yeah, so apparently there was a structural issue. Before you
get to that, you have to go in the order
of things.

Speaker 4 (02:14:20):
What else happened?

Speaker 3 (02:14:21):
They intended on having the roof open tonight, but.

Speaker 4 (02:14:25):
A piece of metal fell on the field. That's the
structural part. I mean, Like, Okay, Pat Dony Donnie, he's
from the NBC. The roof is open at at and
T Stadium for tonight's Dallas Cowboys game versus the Texans.
That was fifty seven minutes ago, and then like a
half hour later, and now after a piece of sheet

(02:14:45):
metal fell off the roof when it was opened. It
here at at and T Stadium. They are now closing
the roof for tonight's game. And then his very next tweet,
here is the piece of metal that fell off. He
took a picture of it. It's right next to the sideline.
It's like bigger across than one whole suite. If that

(02:15:06):
hits somebody, they die. Nobody was hurt.

Speaker 5 (02:15:09):
It did fall to a part of the field where
nobody was I did see some of the on site
personnel walking it off the field.

Speaker 4 (02:15:16):
We will not use rapes and we will not open
the roof for to keep players from dying. That's essentially
what Jerry's done in a week.

Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
I'm glad it happened at the time it did and
nobody was hurt. This certainly could have been an actual tragedy,
but it was avoided.

Speaker 4 (02:15:34):
Ah yeah, yeah, what's there? Has the cold front already
gone through up there? Do they have lower temperatures than
we do. I actually I know that there's a front
in the middle of moving its way through the state.
So I wonder if that.

Speaker 5 (02:15:45):
It will probably still be in the seventies high sixties tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:15:50):
And I say cold front with you know, all of
the disdain of what it actually will be, which is
that we'll have temperatures that are room for about a
day and then it'll go back up to eighty five
and one thousand percent.

Speaker 5 (02:16:02):
Maybe late in the game inside where the roof will
be closed, it could reach into the fifties.

Speaker 4 (02:16:07):
Can't wait for another swampy Thanksgiving here in Houston.

Speaker 5 (02:16:10):
So we're talking about that rivalry a little bit. Get
to that in a second. Joe Mixon had a comment
about this game from a rivalry standpoint. But since you've
been so concerned with number eleven Michael Parsons, he shared
some thoughts on MICHAEH.

Speaker 4 (02:16:24):
Parsons.

Speaker 9 (02:16:25):
Obviously, everybody knows the player that Michael Parson's in, great player,
and obviously it's a lot of respect on our end
in terms of the way that we got to handle them.
And I think that, you know, we just got to
do whatever we can to make sure all eyes is
on Micaeh and all hands is on Michael. So, I mean,
that's just what it is, and that's what it's got
to be. We came back him be the person to

(02:16:47):
dictate and you know, really disrupt the you know, the
football game for us. Our philosophy. We got to go
out there and do what we do and you know,
try to limit his persons any.

Speaker 2 (02:16:58):
Way that we can.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Has there been any comments for Micah Parsons about facing
off against a killer tonight?

Speaker 5 (02:17:04):
Yeah, that was their conversation. By the way, very respectable
member of our meteorological community has indicated the front has
already moved there already. What up justin thank you JS
over at KPRC Local too.

Speaker 3 (02:17:19):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (02:17:19):
Yeah, It's why I figured it's a big state, you
know it is. Michaeh Parsons five games. His last game
was his fifth game of the season. He had missed
the previous four. Cowboys have played nine times. Opening game
of the season. In their victory over Deshaun Watson and
the Browns five quarterback hits, a TfL, a sack, he
did not have another sack until he returned last week.

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The other three games were sackless. One quarterback hit two losses,
a victory over the Giants, and then he missed four games.
He is no matter what he has been doing, and
last game was much more like the Micah Parsons we
should all be concerned about. With two more sacks and
other TfL how impactful were there was their defense. I

(02:18:07):
guess it took a little while for the Eagles to
turn it into a laugher, mainly because the Cowboys offense
was never going to get anything going. He is exactly
Joe's right, and I think in this game against that team,
with those eleven players over there, with who's not available
for them defensively, it's not easy, but yeah, focus on him,

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dedicate more than just a chipping tight end to him,
which the Texans ought to be smart enough not to do.

Speaker 4 (02:18:34):
Then you should be able to do what you need.

Speaker 5 (02:18:35):
You should be able to handle the rest of whatever
their pass rush is, whatever their new schemes that they
put together specifically to play the Texans, who have shown
on film they have not been able to handle certain
things very well. Regardless of the talent of the other
team trying to rush them, you still should be able
to take care of that up front and with whatever
other two tight end package you plan on using. Joe

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also did get into the rivalry aspect of it a
little bit. Uh see if it matches or is a
little bit different than what we have led to believe
between the Texans and the Cowboys.

Speaker 9 (02:19:07):
I'm sure for them it's probably a crazy thing because
it's Houston and Dallas. But I mean for me, I
haven't really looked at it that way as more so
of a we have a football team in front of us,
and we gotta go out there and go execute and win.

Speaker 4 (02:19:25):
The football game.

Speaker 9 (02:19:26):
That's We're gonna keep it simple and it's gonna it's
gonna stay that way.

Speaker 5 (02:19:30):
He's not confuse you when he said to them, I'm
sure it means something. He was referring to the fans,
not the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:19:38):
Uh, He's been in real rivalry games in the state
of Texas in Dallas, you know the Red River Shootout.

Speaker 5 (02:19:47):
Yeah, the fans and the programs despise each other, and
it does mean something. It is a season saver. You
went five and six this year. No, we want one
to Oh, we beat them. It's all the matters. Sometimes
when you don't play a season, that is all that matters.

Speaker 4 (02:20:01):
I really do think though, it's the fans and that's it.
That's it. Like once every four years, these two owners.
It'd be nice to have this win.

Speaker 5 (02:20:08):
But would you agree Jerry wants to beat the Texans
more than Calan Hannah want to beat the Cowboys. Yeah,
and especially this year when the Cowboys have so little
else to play for this week, the Texans need to
get to seven and four. The Texans need to continue
to build instead of get stay stagnant.

Speaker 4 (02:20:28):
Cal just wants to eat ribs. That's all he cares about. Well,
he can do both. One doesn't preclude the other, but yeah,
but he cares more about the ribs. That's how I feel.
All Right, we got a half or no, I'm sorry,
we have about three segments to go before we wrap
things up, and we got in case you missed it,
still to come.

Speaker 1 (02:20:47):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety. We now
returned to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexlwerth on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:21:04):
So I spent portions of the break looking at other things.
The NBA came back and said, oh, sorry, my bad,
that was also wrong, but oh well, yeah, Jason Tatum
hit a game winner over the weekend. He traveled on
that shot, and the NBA let us all know about
it after the fact.

Speaker 3 (02:21:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:21:20):
By the way, if you were watching last night, the
t Wolves got a three pointer at the buzzer, Oh yeah,
from Julius Randall to beat the Phoenix Suns. I'm just
glancing at the last two minutes report. Two minute report there.
Joshakoge was the defender. He was pushed off on by
Julius and went flopping to the ground looking for a call,
also leaving Randall wide open. The last two minute reports

(02:21:43):
says that was a correct no call. His off arm
used against the Kogi is he is not dislodged from
his defensive position as a result of the contact, so
that was a correct no call. However, it also notes
that once Randall got the basketball in the inbounce pass,
he lifted his of it foot prior to releasing his dribble.
That was an incorrect no call and he should have

(02:22:04):
been called for traveling giving the ball to the Suns
a tie game.

Speaker 4 (02:22:08):
Like I realized, I'm saying this as someone who cashes
checks from an NBA franchise and calls games, but like,
if you want to be taken seriously, you can't have this.
Why this is just.

Speaker 5 (02:22:20):
So before they had a last two minute report, they
mistakes still got made. He just didn't announce that they
got made for release. That not everybody other than the
home team.

Speaker 3 (02:22:32):
I mean, we don't want you to, but you can.

Speaker 5 (02:22:34):
That's the other part of kind of this whole officials
discussion that always comes up. Expecting perfection from the humans
with no other help is that's silly, It's never gonna happen, right,
And then coming up with a system that allows them
to them become perfect with digital help is text that's
called baseball. Well, baseball has some limitations also, but the

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Astros have challenged the safe out call at home plate,
the call in the field stands. Thus they have no
more challenges the rest of the game. Or they got
it right because we made a mistake and everybody in
the building saw it. But you're also running out of
challenges to fix more of our mistakes as the game continues.

Speaker 4 (02:23:16):
How about this? And I know this is a novel concept.
Hire better officials. I know that sounds really simple, and
it is just hire better people every other I mean,
how many other jobs on the planet. Does merit actually matter?
And you just get fired if you're not good at
the job, unlike these people who they will just keep

(02:23:36):
rewarding them, sometimes give them raises, and they're definitely going
to have them officiate big time playoff games up to
an including championship games, Scott Foster.

Speaker 5 (02:23:45):
And it's not going to be a problem ever becoming
good at it in all of these sports. I think
it's super difficult.

Speaker 3 (02:23:52):
But how many times, Okay, here's the problem I.

Speaker 5 (02:23:54):
Have with that's when you dump somebody right because you're
sick of them making mistakes no matter what's deluded, because
you just automatically believe that you have people that are
even as good as them. And I know we have
some officials in all sports that we feel are so
egregious with their calls that yes, I think we're just
fine if we like.

Speaker 4 (02:24:11):
The Hockeley crew. You know what you're getting.

Speaker 5 (02:24:13):
You know what you're getting. I'm not even saying they're
good or bad. They just they call things that or
this is the other part.

Speaker 4 (02:24:19):
I should no official groups of NFL referees individual names.

Speaker 5 (02:24:23):
They're known for this and they're no. There shouldn't be
known for amanding.

Speaker 4 (02:24:27):
There shouldn't be not one but two of those types
of officials officiating a game seven with a trip to the
finals on the line. But here we were, it was
Scott Foster and Tony Brothers. Like one's bad enough, NBA.
But the best part is after all of this is said,
then people like us that do what we do for
a living have to then read our colleagues write glowing

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articles about how Scott Foster is such a great guy
off the court.

Speaker 5 (02:24:51):
Not all the time, but sometimes, I mean, come on, Like.

Speaker 4 (02:24:53):
I get it, you're flaunting it in our face that
you're keeping this person employed and in huge situational games.
But I don't need a puff piece on him on
top of that. But that's what we get. And yeah,
the the NFL, Like I don't know who the crew
is for tonight, good, but that's the exactly that's what
I was getting at. Like, as long as it's not

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the Hockeley crew, I feel fairly confident that it'll be
a pretty well officiated game unless something horrible goes wrong,
and then hopefully replay can help with that. I don't
want Nico Collins getting interfered with tonight and it not
being called I don't think it will happen. Yeah, I
just it's astounding to me that that's that they come

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back and that's the thing, then don't point it out.

Speaker 3 (02:25:38):
If you are going to.

Speaker 4 (02:25:39):
Keep these people in those positions, then don't go out
of your way with the last two minute report, say
here's where we screwed up.

Speaker 5 (02:25:47):
Well, if you, I think they still view it differently
than you are right now, real quickly glancing at this one,
I had a probably twenty to twenty five calls is
pretty normal.

Speaker 4 (02:25:57):
It's over the last two minutes of any close game.

Speaker 5 (02:26:00):
Are they okay with sending that out when one call
is missed out of twenty or no calls are missed
out of twenty, many last two minute reports can contain
zero incorrect calls.

Speaker 4 (02:26:10):
I mean, is it on a game winning shot like
this one.

Speaker 5 (02:26:12):
Was in both of the things we brought up today,
and they both happened within the last couple of days.
They were both on game winning shot. Thing about that
is okay? If it's not a game winning shot, does
that make it any better? In the principle, no, it
shouldn't make any difference at all. But if you're pointing
out a last two minute report and you can tell me.
There's eighteen calls on there, and they deem all eighteen
of them to be correct, which happens quite often. It's

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just the Hawks Blazers lt L two to m from
last night is nothing but correct calls.

Speaker 4 (02:26:43):
Good. We should point that out more too. We should
have a whole segment dedicated to when they do their
job well. Since we complain about it so much.

Speaker 5 (02:26:49):
Can't say the same about the MAVs and Thunder.

Speaker 3 (02:26:51):
What happened there?

Speaker 5 (02:26:52):
Well, two of the calls listed or were incorrect.

Speaker 3 (02:26:54):
By the way, the Mavericks are a disaster.

Speaker 5 (02:26:56):
They had a ten point lead with less than ninety
seconds to go, and they hung on to win by two.
But they won without Luca Over Okay, see that's impressive.

Speaker 4 (02:27:06):
It is Rockets were at full strength. They got smacked around,
not by the MAVs, no by the Thunder. They did
the smacking of the of the MAVs quite handily, I'm
at it. Speaking of which, did you see what Daron
Fox has done in the last two games one hundred
and nine points one hundred and nine points.

Speaker 5 (02:27:21):
It earned him a Western Conference Player of the Week
over fellow Western Conference nominee Opera in Shingu this.

Speaker 4 (02:27:27):
Is a betting side. I know it's going to be
shocking to you that I bring this up. So he
scored sixty against the Timberwolves, yep, and a loss, but
on twenty two of thirty five shooting. So it just
wasn't all his eleven free throw attempts, of which he
made ten. And then the next day, so this is
not back to back, he scored sixty and then the
next ninety scores forty nine. Now he shot sixteen of thirty,

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you know, dead legs. Sixteen of thirty is good, I know,
but compared to twenty two of thirty five. I'm just
making a joke here, but yeah, his over under tonight
against the Hawks is thirty two and a half. Ah. Man,
there has been just like zero. That's what makes what
the Rockets are doing this year is so much more impressive.
This last zero defense.

Speaker 5 (02:28:09):
Last NBA player to score one hundred and nine points
over two day span, who do you think that was?

Speaker 4 (02:28:14):
James Harden? Nope, Michael Jordan, Nope, time out, you're out.
Happened in two thousand and seven. He played for the Lakers. Oh, Kobe,
there you go. Well, it could have been Shack.

Speaker 5 (02:28:28):
Could have been a number of players, even the ones
you guessed it just wasn't.

Speaker 4 (02:28:32):
Thanks thanks for that. And this is funny. Freezing Cold
Takes is now reposted the AT and T Stadium tweet
that says the roof is open, y'all, that's the best.

Speaker 5 (02:28:49):
Someone did a time lap of the roof opening, and
I only wanted to do time of the roof closing falling.

Speaker 4 (02:28:54):
But it was not in the video.

Speaker 7 (02:28:56):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:28:57):
I mean again, I'm glad this is a joke. It
didn't necessarily necessarily going to play that way, but if
you missed that earlier, a panel are part of a
metal piece of the roof, and not a small piece.
No fell from the AT and T Stadium roof when
they were opening it. It had not been opened since
twenty twenty two on October game. They wanted to play
that way tonight and they have thought otherwise since.

Speaker 4 (02:29:19):
Well, it would be some really cool visuals too, for
the outside shots, because you know they're going to have
Do they still do blimps or is it drones both?
I feel like a drone would be much more affordable
than you know, gassing up the blimp. But yeah, it
would have been you know, awesome visual for that from
that standpoint, but I guess it's not going to happen.

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That's crazy to me with all the issues that the
Texans have had with their roof of late as well,
so and I'm getting this is rapid fire.

Speaker 3 (02:29:51):
I know, I'm going all over the place right now.

Speaker 4 (02:29:52):
But since we were talking about the NBA, Miles Turner
is out tonight for the Pacer m keep an eye
on that. It's a right calf soreness, which you hear
is something like that about well really any athlete, you
want to keep a big time eye on it, just
because of achilles and all that kind of stuff. But
Pacers are in town on Wednesday, and he's a big

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defensive guy for them.

Speaker 5 (02:30:16):
Yeah, that's a secondary factor. He had a huge game
the other night. The main factor is the game is
on November twentieth. That's the day they're going to be
treating us all visually, by the way, with the court
yep and the h Town unis the.

Speaker 3 (02:30:30):
Court's going to be awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:30:31):
Is it gonna say Summit or is it going to
say Toyota Center at the bottom of the logo? Uh, well,
I believe it will say Summit. Yeah, just like the
new logo we've all seen. So they are releasing the
Summit Collection of that day. Yeah, like it's not I
don't even think people know what it looks like. There's
a few items that have the Summit logo that came

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out with the City Collection, but this is like a
separate set of items that are going to come out
that'll be I guess available in the shop that night
for that game in two nights from now.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
So yeah, gonna be good stuff there.

Speaker 4 (02:31:04):
And I hope that they do a better job of
containing Tyrese Haliburton than the last time they played him
there because that.

Speaker 5 (02:31:10):
Was shirts shirts on the game plan.

Speaker 3 (02:31:12):
Was that was brutal.

Speaker 4 (02:31:14):
All right, We have got about a half hour to
go here on a Monday edition of the show Sports
Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network. When we come back,
some of the things we have not gotten to and
believe it or not, there are a million of them.
We just it's been one of those Mondays we come
in and the weekend was absolutely jamm packed. So we
do in case you missed it, about this time each

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and every day and Dan will handle that when we
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Speaker 4 (02:32:17):
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Speaker 4 (02:32:41):
All right?

Speaker 8 (02:32:41):
So, like you guys talked about earlier minute, Made Park
is now Dike in Park for the Astros and Jim
Crane meeting with the media earlier today, of course, giving
an update on Alex Pregman. Nothing really of substantive, you know,
news to report in terms of where things stand with
the pursuit of bringing back Alex Pregmant, but say the

(02:33:02):
Astros cannot bring back Alex Pregman. John Morosi this weekend
on MLB Network with an interesting name to consider if
indeed that does play out, William Thomas.

Speaker 4 (02:33:12):
Interest in him is very broad.

Speaker 10 (02:33:14):
There's a number of teams that love him at shortstop,
and why wouldn't you, but also some that might consider
him in a different position. We could see the Dodgers,
the Giants, the Yankees, the Astros if they don't resign Bregmant.

Speaker 4 (02:33:29):
I love that idea.

Speaker 10 (02:33:30):
By the way, if you put a Domas potentially at third,
Hanya short Altuba at second, I would love that infield.

Speaker 8 (02:33:39):
Now, A Damas did play one hundred and sixty one
games last year, hit two fifty one for the Brewers,
and as you just heard from John Morosi, going to
be a coveted free agent.

Speaker 5 (02:33:50):
He's gonna make a lot of money. I do not
expect the interest here to be as he suggested, although
he's really just saying, hey, he's really good in here
teams that spend money and might have an opening. Adamis
has been really good, really productive for a bunch of years,
both in Tampa and then more recently with Milwaukee. I'm
sure people remember during the Astros near comeback in the

(02:34:13):
ALCS against Tampa. Was part of that crew in twenty
twenty that particular postseason, he had more than half of
his postseason at bats. He's played in thirty five games
in his postseason career, been there in three seas or nineteen, twenty,
twenty one, twenty three, and twenty four. So his teams
have made the playoffs five of the last six years.

(02:34:34):
That one year, I guess said, he had more than
half of his postseason at bats and played appearances that
year when they went to the World Series. He hit
won thirty six had a five oh five ops, which
is awful. He was okay in most of the other years.
So his postseason resume kind of stinks for a player
who's been as productive as he is and for that

(02:34:55):
many opportunities, Because, like I said, he's been to the
postseason five times in six seasons with two very good teams.
It's a really really good player to have as a
fallback option. But that's probably a lot of money to
commit to that particular player, more to commit to Alex.
So it's certainly worth discussion.

Speaker 4 (02:35:16):
Well, okay, which player do you think is better?

Speaker 5 (02:35:18):
I don't think there's much question, although there's a real
I guess there's a real possibility that Adamis could still
be at a level that's better offensively than Alex. The
last couple of seasons in Milwaukee, offensively, you could probably
make a strong case that he was just as good,
if not better. His twenty twenty two wasn't really good.
His twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three were excellent,

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but probably not better than Bregman. He's a good defensive player,
he's not better than Alex. And leadership and all the
other things. I mean, it sounds dumb, but I'll say
it's he's the astro's assistant to the assistant pitching coach.
He's the astros assistant to the hitting coach. Those things
really do make his other eight teammates in the lineup
every day, and the other eight guys he's out there

(02:36:01):
in the field with every day better gives them a
better chance to win.

Speaker 4 (02:36:05):
So he's obviously the better guy, and he's gonna cost.
Like the what's the difference in the cost? Is it negligible?
Who's to say? I mean, if you're if your fallback
is to pay Willia Domas, because you wouldn't spend a
few more million in essence on Alex Bregman.

Speaker 5 (02:36:23):
I think it's more than a well, sure it is
more than a few more million, or otherwise it would
make no sense.

Speaker 4 (02:36:28):
But I'm just like, you've got a guy you're familiar with,
who's familiar with the organization, in the chemistry and all
the clubhouse, Like, if you're gonna spend money, then just
keep him. I know that sounds like an over overly
simplistic approach, but the fact that Willia Domas's name is
being and I know it's John Morossi, and it's he's

(02:36:49):
just putting stuff out there. It's not like there's any
sort of conversations necessarily being had.

Speaker 5 (02:36:55):
Projection from the article we've referenced quite a few times.
Tim Britton over the Athletic projected all these free agent
salaries five years, one hundred and twenty million. Is the projection?
Is projection on Alex was seven for one eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (02:37:08):
That's too many years, I guess.

Speaker 5 (02:37:11):
I mean, it's just it's twenty four million dollars a
year for five years.

Speaker 4 (02:37:16):
I feel like, if if Crane's really hung up on
the year's thing, then just pay them a little bit
more per season. That was his spring projection.

Speaker 5 (02:37:27):
By the way, his current project is basically a Matt
Chapman deal sticks to one fifty. So give him a
little bit more and keep him here. This is for Adamis.

Speaker 4 (02:37:36):
Oh yeah, what's the wait? What's the projection for Alex? Okay,
why does it have to be seven? Just a projection, dude?
Or why does Jim have to say only six? I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:37:48):
Maybe Dyken did bring in more money than we think
and now it is a go what.

Speaker 4 (02:37:52):
Else do we have?

Speaker 8 (02:37:53):
All Right, so this happened on Friday, but it's too
good to not mention. So Jerry Jones, as we've been told,
now makes two weekly appearances on their flagship station in
Dallas Fort Worth. I guess Jason Witten is a high
school coach up there, and his team is pretty good.
I guess they are in the playoffs, everything of that sort. Well,
Jerry was asked about Jason Witten as the possibility of

(02:38:15):
an NFL head coach one day, and Cowboy fans might
really send themselves in norrage with what Jerry says.

Speaker 7 (02:38:22):
Yes, without hesitation, Yes, he has something you can't draw up.
Reminds me a lot of our other tidy in who's
head coach at at Detroit right now? And he's his
own words when he talked his parting ways with the
team boys, it's in the dirt, it's down in the dirt.

(02:38:44):
It's weird. But Jason is very sophisticated when it comes
to understanding football and all the new ounces. But more
important than anything, he really does understand the physical and
the mentality being physical.

Speaker 8 (02:39:01):
All right, Remember that when Jerry Jones hires Jason Witten
to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
I'm calling it right now.

Speaker 3 (02:39:10):
That's not sexy.

Speaker 5 (02:39:14):
Is it any different than McCown being a coach?

Speaker 4 (02:39:18):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:39:19):
No, He's going to be a head coach soon now
that he's actually put in the time to be an
assistant coach. I think he will definitely become an NFL
head coach.

Speaker 4 (02:39:26):
I mean that's a really good I hate that you
brought that up because it reminds me that was a thing.

Speaker 3 (02:39:31):
But that's a really good comp.

Speaker 5 (02:39:33):
And who's to say he's literally going from Liberty Christian
High School to the Cowboys job. He's not really saying that.
He's saying he could become an NFL head coach.

Speaker 4 (02:39:44):
And he absolutely Campbell, Yeah, so well, based off what
based off the fact that he knows both of them,
because he had both of them on his team. I
guess what Dan's getting at, though, is that you're putting
him in the same commerce as a guy who.

Speaker 5 (02:40:02):
It's already successful bing go yeah, yeah, I get it.
I totally understand it.

Speaker 4 (02:40:06):
But I will say that Dan was kind of in
a similar spot when he took over at Detroit and
then he did the kneecaps thing, and everybody's like, this
guy's a lunatic.

Speaker 5 (02:40:15):
I do not think the expect Some people were very
very down on that he'd been an interim coach before
at the NFL level, but he's also he had also
been an NFL coach for you know, a totally reasonable
number of years before he ascended to the head coach.
Jason Witten's been an NFL coach for nothing years. That's
a big, big difference. That's okay, it's just Jerry, right.

(02:40:35):
We love Jerry for the.

Speaker 1 (02:40:37):
Content the eight on Sports Talk seven ninety back to
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler, the eighty.

Speaker 5 (02:40:54):
A lot of people waiting for this Monday night game
to happen, ourselves included, and I'm sure everybody else's would
like to see the Texans. I'm sure at seven and four.

Speaker 3 (02:41:02):
Joe Mason's rushing for two hundred yards tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:41:04):
As they were making their way around the Texans workouts
with the cameras showing the Texans getting in their early stretches. Uh,
they showed CJ. Stroud a couple throws, threw up a
little graphic that said CJ. Stroud blah blah blah. Then
they moved over to the next Texan threw up the
graphic that said Nico Collins has not played. And it
was while they were showing Joe Mixon working out. They

(02:41:25):
recognized their error fairly quickly, pop that one out put
them Joe Mixon graphic In went about their evening's work
mentioned last segment, we were gonna give away tickets to something
That something is over at NRG Stadium. The Monster Jam
show coming up in February. We have tickets, a four

(02:41:47):
pack and pit passes to go see Monster Jam Sunday,
February second at NRG Stadium. We mentioned something last segment.
Now I told you to listen closely seven one three
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(02:42:12):
Jerry Jones say would make an excellent NFL head coach?
He did play for Jerry for a number of years.
Jerry seems to seems to like it. What player did
he say, former player of his would make an excellent
NFL head coach? Set He reminded him of Dan Campbell?
Who is that player? We just talked about it last segment.

Speaker 4 (02:42:34):
How many people are crawling into their car right now
and they're like, oh, come on, it's fine. I was
coming down the elevator.

Speaker 5 (02:42:39):
Seven one three two one two five seven nine. If
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Speaker 4 (02:42:52):
Second.

Speaker 5 (02:42:52):
Last segment here obviously focused back in on a game
that has the Texans at seven and a half point
favorites to deliver the Cowboys their seventh loss in ten games,
to keep the Cowboys winless at home, going all the
way back to their last postseason debacle at at and
T Stadium, averaging allowing thirty eight point eight points per

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game at home this year where they are winless, Texas
are clearly not quite as good on the road as
they are at home. Four of their six wins of
coming at RG Stadium. Just two of their other wins
have been away from home. They're two and three, they're
riding a two game losing streak. They are getting Nico
Collins back. They're also getting Mario Edwards junior back, and
like I said, they are favored to take home the

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dub tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:43:37):
I took the under forty two, Yet I took the
over on the aforementioned Joe Mixon's eighty six and a
half rushing yards total.

Speaker 5 (02:43:46):
Yeah, based on what we've been telling you, this afternoon. Also,
it is now official, now that we're ninety minutes to
game time, the inactives have been released. They are as
expected we knew before the weekend was over. Will Anderson, Junior,
Blake Fisher, and fully fought a Kasi. We're all going
to be inactive with their respective injuries. Rookie Jamal Hill
will be inactive today. With Nico Collins returning, they're going

(02:44:09):
to keep the same number of wide receivers up. And
the odd man out this evening is Stephen Simms, which
means return duties will be made by others. He usually
is back on both kicks and punts, so might be
Damian Pierce on kicks, might be Robert Woods on punts,
and Kamari Lassiter, as Aaron Wilson reported earlier this afternoon,

(02:44:32):
will be inactive. Concussion had him sidelined in last game.
I think they're doing the smart thing. Even if he
was really close, well, if he didn't pass, he wouldn't
be able to play. But it is possible he cleared
concussion protocol and they still decided to not have him active.
So those are the six inactives tonight for your Texan.

Speaker 4 (02:44:50):
He's gonna have about four interceptions against Will Levice. Next
week he has.

Speaker 5 (02:44:55):
He and Kayln Bullock have seven between them.

Speaker 4 (02:44:59):
Ali again, I would think, I mean, if everybody out
there that's playing against any sort of passing, I would
think he was. He's gonna be my note. He just
has a knack for getting to the ball.

Speaker 5 (02:45:11):
Just means he's gonna probably need to make a throw
down the field. And I don't know how many of
those they might actually do that more just because they
don't have anything else, so they're stuck. Other with some trouble.
Darn Bland, as expected, is inactive tonight. I don't think
there's any other players of great significance that the Cowboys
will be without tonight. And obviously Ceedee Lamb, who was
listed as questionable Saturday, is playing.

Speaker 4 (02:45:32):
Are we doing scores?

Speaker 5 (02:45:34):
I mean, I'll hit you with a thirty one thirteen
score if you'd like.

Speaker 4 (02:45:40):
Is that under? I think it is. I was gonna
do like I was gonna make it, make it super
even twenty eight ten. Well, I said.

Speaker 5 (02:45:50):
Earlier they it would get to thirty, so I gotta
get them to thirty. It would be a cover and
an over. The over under we went with was forty two.

Speaker 4 (02:45:58):
But twenty eight is close enough. I mean, it's more
than they've done most of the time this year. So
I'm just trying to get it under that forty two
as well.

Speaker 7 (02:46:07):
But I.

Speaker 4 (02:46:09):
Would like to think that this is the first time
that they go into a game favored like this and
they should do the job, and they actually do it whatever,
I don't even care.

Speaker 5 (02:46:21):
Yeah, they did it once this year and it was
against the team that was new quarterback Drake May. He
had three turnovers that day. Even though they gave up
twenty one points and I only had fourteen to the half,
they scored twenty seven points in the second half of
that game and blew out the Patriots. It really was
never in doubt, even at the half when it was
fourteen to seven and it was on the road. It
was on the road at New England. That was his
first start, had not played. Cooper Rush has years of

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experience playing here and there. Eighth career start comes for
Cooper Rush tonight. Don't expect it to be very good.
I think the Texans defense is up to making sure
that they come in as the better unit and they
should show it tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:46:57):
How about this defensive touchdown tonight. I could see that happening.
I mean, I just got done saying who's going to
get the interception? Why don't I just have him go
ahead and run it back? I mean, depending on where,
depending on where on the field, he ends up catching
that thing.

Speaker 3 (02:47:13):
And it wouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (02:47:13):
The first time Texans have had a pick six this year.
I believe it was against the Bears. I could be
wrong on that. I mean almost positive they have a
pick six, though I just can't remember which game it was.

Speaker 3 (02:47:26):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (02:47:26):
I thought Jalen Petrie had one. Oh, there you go,
good job. And wasn't it. Uh No, they weren't wearing
battle I was trying to think of what he was
wearing when he did it. But it was I feel
like it was at home.

Speaker 5 (02:47:39):
No touchdowns, no interception for touchdowns this year.

Speaker 4 (02:47:41):
Did he get like close to the goal line? He did?

Speaker 5 (02:47:45):
He should have scored. I remember talking to him about this.
He picked the ball off. It was against Indianapolis, that's right,
and he cut inside, which is where it looked like
the hole was The receiver that it was intended for
was Josh Downs. And this was when Aziz al Schaer
was out and Neville Hewitt was on and he went
out there and he took Josh Downs basically into the

(02:48:05):
stands with his block. He just ran him off the field.
And I was pointing that out to Jail and saying,
go back and look at it. And if you see
where that what happened, you could have easily just basically
followed an open.

Speaker 4 (02:48:15):
Hole into the end zone.

Speaker 5 (02:48:16):
They actually have not had a lot of big returns
just because of what happened. And I bring up Hewitt
for that very reason. Absolutely should have been a pick six.
It was against Green Bay and he let Jordan Love
turn him inside. He should just run him over and
run into the end zone, and he let.

Speaker 3 (02:48:32):
Him get him.

Speaker 5 (02:48:32):
And then the Texans didn't score.

Speaker 3 (02:48:35):
Well that's the familiar.

Speaker 5 (02:48:37):
I mean, they kicked a field it was the Tank
Dell drop in the back. That's not a real score,
that's just a field goal.

Speaker 4 (02:48:42):
Yeah. Now, I mean for the amount of takeaways that
this defense has had that.

Speaker 5 (02:48:47):
Even put in the NFL's had more in the last
five games, fifteen of them.

Speaker 4 (02:48:51):
If you got that is why the sound bites that
CJ was giving us about how they're not doing their
part are absolutely accurate. I mean, I'm doing my part,
but they're giving you the ball that many times and
you're getting missed field goals out of it or whatever.
I mean, you just gotta.

Speaker 5 (02:49:09):
Score ten off the five turns of Detroit that last
Sunday that's inemic. Well one of them was a hail
Mary at the end of the half. One four you
got on the half yard line. Yeah, there was actually
the other three It was actually a terrible scenario. So
all right, I got twenty eight to ten, you've got thirty.
Whatever you said. If you want Bucks Rockets predictions, you
have to keep listening. Tonight, Dan and Ac coming at

(02:49:31):
you

Speaker 1 (02:49:33):
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