LIVE From Toyota Center: Chiefs Eliminate Texans, Stroud Gets Sacked, Officiating Issues, Rockets Host Pistons

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They should? They should? I think the Urinals all they've done.

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Yeah, and then I'm gonna go over to Kate terrrit
to work for four hours after that, so pro bono, which, yeah,
I don't mean to peel the curtain on this, but
I don't know what I mean with I. I was
selling listening people on the rockets yesterday we were coming
back from Portland. I was like, when you have tornadoes
and hurricanes, you say, okay, this hurricane, the eye of
it's here, or the traffic is here, or the power

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has gone out here, or tornado warnings for this area.
I've lived in snow cities. I mean, I've lived in
Salt Lake in Minneapolis. It snows, it ices, but it's
not like.

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It's a fast moving storm, and it's essentially the easiest
thing to do is just don't leave your house, suck
it up and stay at home and actually like your
family for a few hours.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well that's the best thing for a hurricane usually too,
well not necessarily being if you're like evacuating and stuff
like that. Yeah, so that we will not be in
that situation and hopefully we did not lose any power tomorrow,
because that will be the worst part of it all
is that people can't keep themselves warm but tomorrow, and
so if you listen to me, tomorrow between three o'clock
until seven on K Terry.

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It just me a lot of stay at home, don't
go outside. But we'll be there for you.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
We are here today for you to talk about all
things about the NFL playoffs and no namely about the
Houston Texans As. The thirst, the quest, the chance, the
charge to go to an AFC championship remains unfilled.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
The first time ever.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think now are they zero and six all time
on the road in the playoffs. The Houston Texas is
a franchise. I believe that's correct. I can't think of
a road oh for I just don't know if it's
five or so. I think it's oh for six now
all time on the road, never been to a championship game.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm regretting becoming battle red Ross. This is just terrible. Okay,
So there's so many layers to this. Yes, and.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I want to hear his I want to carefully measure this,
as you know, and you are with me about ninety
nine point nine percent of the time on this, maybe
even maybe one hundred. You and I disrespect people that
bitch and moan about officiating.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yes to a point.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now we can bitch and moan about bad calls, but
to a point to where it is is determining the
outcomes of games. The number one reason why the Texans
lost the game on Saturday was not because of the officiating.
Was it a factor in the game. Were there two
ridiculously poor calls made?

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Was there almost a third call made when Pat Mahomes
uh you know, was zeken and zagging and moving his
way down the field and inside to bump in and
bump out. And I was definitely afraid of flag was
gonna come at that point. That was I scared about that, absolutely.
But frankly, I'm embarrassed for so called media.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
That were just running to their Twitter accounts as fast
as possible. The Texans got job. This, this this, The
Texans did get screwed on a couple of calls. You can't.
It is indefensible to describe the amount of penalty yards
that Pat Mahomes not only gets got on Saturday, ROSSI,

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but what he gets over his career. But that's the
superstar treatment. We see it in the NBA all the time.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Lebron, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, James Harden, James Harden. We
have seen strike zones that are bigger for the elite pitchers.
Greg Maddox is the greatest example of a rapt He
was about the size of a barn his strike zone.
So Tom Brady is an NFL player, got calls. Everybody
gets calls, and it sucks, it does, and it's the

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human element of it all. I don't know if the
officials think that the stars are bigger than they they
get they get. We're gonna have to deal with this today,
which is I'm not gonna be very power dancers.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
We're catching a nice rehearsal and play a little Michael
Jackson to Okay, back to what I was saying. I
got distracted.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm focusing tunes. Look at me, stare mean, not them.
Look at me, Matt, stare me. The movements, the gyration.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Superstar calls are a part of life, yes, and I
don't like it. But we had superstars, so we know
what it's like to have to give and receive such treatment. Yes,
but you cannot blame the officiating for the reason why
the Texans lost. And I'm afraid way too many people
who I thought I respected are doing that. While it

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is something that we are used to and something that happened.
It's also something when it happens, we do need to
call it out. We do need And I thought Troy
Aikman and Joe Buck were outstanding. I mean Troy Aikman
of all people, a guy who got his fair share
of calls over there also a guy that's kind of
had beef with Pat Mahomes back in the day. True
he was he was ill afraid to go out and

(06:43):
say that's ridiculous, even though he replayed. Dude, I've never
heard of the guy until he was on either. Was
he even a referee was like like one of those
those guy was on. He was like, Oh, this is crazy.
We gotta do something about this. So there's a lot
of things. And I mentioned this on Twitter on Saturday,
the NFL competition can He's gonna look at a lot of
things in that particular that game. Well, they apparently they

(07:03):
added to the rule book talking about the will Anderson
roughing the passer that if there is any doubt, throw
the flag. I mean, why would you add that in
your rule book except to just extend drives and keep
points getting on the board. Yeah, NFL is doing this intentionally.
What happened this past weekend is what the NFL wants.
They want drives extended by these penalties. And another thing

(07:24):
that people are pointing out, which is true, is.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Pat Mahomes knows this.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Pat Mahomes knows he's gonna run around for a while,
people are gonna get close, He's gonna curl up and
do a turtle shell, and he's trying to get these penalties.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Like when he flopped and he.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Went out of bounds, like he he slowed up to
get pushed out of bounds and.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Then did a full off flop.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I got a shotgun shell to my back flop. So
it's on Pat Mahomes, but he's also just manipulating the
rules kind of like it feels like we're like James
Harden discourse, Like, hey, yes, is James Harden manipulating the
foul the referees?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yes, but those are the rules.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
The NBA made adjustments to it, just like I think
the NFL will do this. It'll be a conversation point
coming up and will they ultimately change it. No, because
they want the court, they want the quarterback to protect it.
But backtime general point, the Texans saw their quarterback go.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
To down eight times Yes, the Texans.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Saw Travis Kelcey, who I thought was fifty one years
old before kickoff, looked like he was twenty six years old.
They were clearly enable, unable, I should say, to stop
anything that Travis Kelcey did. And if Travis Kelsey was
even just a wee bit faster, I mean he's awesome.
Speak because he's been the league a long time. I
hit a lot, and plus he's you know, doing things

(08:40):
with Taylor Swift that a lot of others would.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Like to do. Point being is that fountain of youth.
Fountain of youth.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
He he was fantastic and was little enseppul and that
last touchdown through that Pat Mahomes made, I mean that's
why he's potentially the goat two point zero. Yeah, he's
fin That was a great play. He's falling down, which,
by the way, also wasn't that a taunting on Travis
Kelcey Speaking of the referee, he's I feel like of
a Texans WAF Nico Collins does that, it's a taunting.

(09:08):
Six taunting penalties come in. But Travis Kelsey does it
and there's nothing but no, the play was made. I
hate taunting anyway, So I'm not even gonna focus on that,
but yeah, Pat Mahomes made a great play. Travis Kelsey's
been sitting in that same spot in zone for like
like ten yards up.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
The right scene.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
He's been sitting there for fifteen years, and nobody ever
stops him. He was there like ten times on the
game on Saturday, and the Texans weren't properly covering him.
Kaymie Fairbarn chose his worst game as an NFL player
to be a part of the divisional playoff.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
I thought the offensive line was atrocious.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I thought Dalton Schultz probably should have joined what's his
name boyd back on the on the bus back to Houston, I.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Thought, you're gonna say Mark Andrews. Oh, we'll get to
that later. How do you think Mark Andrews slept last
night or did he? That's a great question. Probably not great.
A couple of the defenders are like, uh, that not
defenders like we're saying the throw was a little bit
behind them.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I need to take a little extra insulin to have
a little more extra alcohol that night. Oh all right,
So we got a lot to get to today on
the radio program. Your thoughts about the Texan season, If
you want to bitch your mom about the officials. We're
here for you because there were some very bad calls,
very very poor calls. And it scares me that even
though the NFL game is under a microscope, Rossy, we

(10:30):
continue to have these sort of controversial plays in every
single playoff game.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
It feels like every sport. And I feel bad because
we're not getting any Uh. We're not getting the officiating
is not getting better, like the technology is getting better. Yeah, match,
put that on a T shirt. That's a little wordy,
still fits, Okay, just hashtag it okay.

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some people on ESPN that scream and yell just because
they won't to have their hot takes. Yes, and then
there's also some people that, frankly can be brutally honest,
let yet level headed. And I thought this clip from

(12:53):
Teddy Bruski from ESPN yesterday was pretty good. So here
is Teddy talking about the Texans and the Chiefs and
how ROSSI to get over the next step, to get
over that obstacle of going on the road and beating
somebody as good as Kansasity.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
And when you beat teams as often as they do,
you get some teams thinking, like Will Anderson said, we
are the better team. But then he says, we just
keep making the same mistakes over and over and over
and over. I don't think the Houston Texans understand how
to win a football game like this, I think there's
just a big difference in class of coaching staffs and
in players here, and I recognize it right away. I

(13:29):
mean in terms of the opening kickoff, and then I
mean it was Chris Boyd going absolutely ballistic because he
thought he forced to fumble, him pushing his coach. And
then the defense, Yes, the defense is outstanding minus fifteen
yards from that and they get the three and out.
Maybe it's a tougher field goal to make those little things.
They just don't understand. Will Anderson, you know that that's

(13:52):
Patrick Mahomes right. If you give the officials any type
of excuse to throw the flag, they will throw the flag.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I played with a guy.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
That, Yeah, he had the same type of carte blanche
slash Jordan rules that Patrick Mahomes also has. All Right,
you're gonna you're gonna get those calls, and you have
to know how to win those type of games. To
hear Demiko Ryans afterwards talking about, you know, everybody against us.
Of course he's talking about the officials. But when you
lose a game and you're talking about officials, the chiefs

(14:23):
will just look at that and just understand that you
never really understood how to beat us. Because what Patrick
said was exactly true. It doesn't matter what the game is.
They know how to win the game they're in, not
the game that they thought it would be. That's how
good the Chiefs are.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
You want to slay the dragon? What are you going to?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know you're gonna have to You're gonna have to
overcome a lot of things, frankly, and you can't overcome
a very poorous offensive line. You can't overcome two miss fielgeals,
a missed extra point. Uh, and you can't overcome Travis
Kelcey finding himself routinely open for our Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, they just weren't good enough.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I don't think I disagree with his first point about
it being a reflection of the coaching staff because of
Chris Boyd.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh, you're right, that was that was hollow.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Chris Boyd, He's been in the NFL for six years
on three different teams. He should know not to take
his helmet off and get all fired up for a
for a And that was that was boneheaded.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, like that was just horrible. That could happen to anybody.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
But yeah, but to what he said, Yeah, they're not
necessarily in that class.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
But it's also because they they.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Aren't good enough on the offensive line, because they don't
have the pass catchers, because I mean, they did get
a couple of calls it didn't.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Go their way.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
You add it all up and and yeah, it they're
not good enough to get into that hump. And also
it's really hard left in these playoffs in the AFC
is Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, and and the CJ.
Stroud in the Texans, Like those three teams were all
better than the Texans.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
If we're ranking them one through four, those teams are
really good. It's hard to win.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
They didn't make it to where we thought they were
and where we were hoping for because a lot of times,
and especially in the offseason, this happens every year. It's
gonna happen this year. The Texans are gonna get their
draft picks. The Texans are gonna sign a couple of
players and be like, man, they got better, but you
always point out Matt as well.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
The other teams get better too.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
The other team gets drafted too, and they already have
Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and John
Harbaugh and Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
So it's just at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
At the end of the day, they are not in
the class of those three teams. But it's also just
it's really hard to get into that class, and it's
really hard to win a Super Bowl, and they didn't
deserve to be there.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I think Will Anderson said, it's just a minute ago
at the Texans fasode. I don't if I'm miscoding the player,
I apologize, but somebody just put on Twitter I said,
I think it was Will Anderson said. If we're gonna
get over the hump on this, we gotta be in Houston,
Texas more than just one playoff game. And that means
you can't afford a loss to a Tennessee You're gonna
have to go be twelve. If you're gonna go do
what you think you can do, you're gonna have to

(16:53):
be a thirteen and four football team and have the
home for advantage. Yeah, the Chiefs won one home game.
They're in the NFC Championship. That's it. Yeah, you win
one home game, you're in the AS Championship and you're
hosting it. Yeah, you have you have to to win
the regular season and you have to.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, you have to take care of that.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
And of course again it's gonna be hard because there's
so many good teams and you have to get that
much better. You have to have the balls bounce your way.
I mean how many times did the ball bounce the
way of the Chiefs as well? But you can create
your own luck as well. Yeah, I just you had
to play a perfect game.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
The officials, it's maddening, it really is, because they're not
you know what in whatder that is? Rossie.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
They're also getting older too. I'm as look at some
of the side judges in the game this weekend. I
mean there are some blue hairs out there. You gotta
get their eyes checked well, but I mean not moving
and grooving like the US. You're fifty eight years, fifty nine,
sixty years old and you're refereeing a game in seventeen
degree weather.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I mean, is that gonna be great? Probably not?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
And also, of course we have to say it is
a hard job. So let me ask you ask you this,
and I brought this to you before we went on
the air today. If well, if it's too defensive lineman
for the Texans and the hit goes to Mahomes when
the fifteen yard penalty was calling, Will Anderson, Does CJ
get that call?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You think, well, you.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Were hedging a little bit. I think quarterback protection still
is at a very high level. I don't think J
would have gone ill. I'll answer your question in this way.
Do I think Pat Mahomes gets more calls than c J.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Stroud? Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I would completely, one hundred percent agree with you. So
I don't know that he gets that call in that instance.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
But man, the official was looking right at him, right, Adam.
And that's why.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Again and every every defensive lineman has to know you've
got a referee whose sole responsibility right now is to
watch the quarterback. That primary responsibility for referee on a
specific gameplay is to watch the action of a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
We had what was it in a Vikings game middle
of the season, there was a there was like the
most egregious face mask in like NFL history.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Referee is standing right and it was in the zone. Flag. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it happens.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
It happens at every like, how do you miss that
It's three inches off the plate and you call it
a strike and you know NBA's with the with the
found I mean there's there's overturned calls almost every NBA game.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, with the challenges, Yeah, I just and I think
there's a lot of us that feel helpless about the
situation because you want to be an even playing film,
but the human element. You'd like to have every game
that you watch.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Whether it be baseball, football or basketball officiated fifty to fifty.
Those those penalties extended drives for the Chiefs and they
did not give them points. And the curious lad in
game fourth and ten call where the Texans and Treatment
is screaming from the booth. You got to call time
out and they look this they're coming out of the
huddle late. I mean, it just it was it was

(19:42):
like it was a team that was on the stage
with a big time in the stage was too big. Yeah,
the margin for That's why Andy coaches like Andy Reid
and Bill Belichick what his greatest asset was his attention
to detail, because every little thing matters when you get
later into the playoffs. One play, one penalty, one miss
time out, one any little thing can cost.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
You the game.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Because that's just what the margins are in the NFL.
When you get to this level and it deserve margin.
You have to overcome with officials giving Pat Mahomes calls.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I mean.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I guarantee you Bill's Mafia next week is going to
be all over the officials.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
If if Pat Mahomes good to all.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
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Yes, that's right, Well, Pistons are good now.

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Speaker 5 (22:19):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (22:21):
You tell us?

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah, well, let me let me ask you this and
let me know what you guys me, because you know,
it's getting to the point where, like you said, the
officials is really uh, you know, I don't know what
exam that they normally take them, you know, but I'm
quite sure they do. But look here, don't you think
that the students of the game is getting so competitive

(22:43):
and everything that okay, why not have coaches have uh,
you know, a flag challenging you know, calls that's really
meaningful that they think it's meaningful. Keep looking because they
extending those DRAMs, you know, with fat calls. It's hard
on the deep business. So what do you think about

(23:04):
adding more at least adding you know another situation where
coach and challenge are called, especially as blatant like that,
and the officials mission, because think about it, if the
NCO could have challenged both of those calls with with
with uh patting the home getting hit and then the
call you know, hey, it's it's definitely devastating. And and

(23:26):
let me ask you this, what do you think as
far as the deepense I mean, or even though the
deepens play pretty good, looked like keelfully hit us and
feed us every time we went into a zone, every
time one of the own he killed. We're playing man
the man it was. You know, we were straight up.
But let me just your opinion on what you think
about those two particular courts.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Thank you, good conversation.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
For the NFL tried to add subjectivity to instant replay.
It was called patch interference, and it was a complete
and utter disaster. And there was a horrible pass interference
called in the in the Bills Ravens game. And but yeah,
as you said, because they used the clear and obvious language,
and if it's not clear and obvious, a lot of

(24:11):
times it's fifty to fifty or it's seventy thirty, and
if it's seventy thirty is not clear and obvious. So
nothing was getting overturned and they completely wasted their time
with it, and they.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Got rid of it. Yeah, they wasted their time extended games.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Frankly, Ross, I couldn't put commercials around it, which would
which if they could put commercial around it, maybe they
would not let it have it I have the review sponsored.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, and maybe they'd do it then.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
So let's say that you could challenge the path the
rough in the passer call on Will Anderson, I don't
think they would have been enough to overturn it.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Either Walt Anderson the NFL's representative of the Competition Committee
or I'm sorry he is the he's like the NFL's
refereeing czar whatever.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I don't know. I think he's an emeritus or is
he still involved. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
But he said on NFL network that he doesn't think
either of those. He thought both calls were correct. So
the NFL state run media, well, yeah, great, are great,
but they were close enough. They were, and we do
have to remember they look agregious on slow motion replay,

(25:18):
which the referees in live time they don't have the
luxury of slowman and they don't.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, and you can't challenge those plays.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
And these are like some of the fastest, most powerful
athletes on the planet, so it is hard to do.
And there was a little helmet contact with Dewill Anderson one,
but it's supposed to be forcible. It was not forcible contact.
It was incidental, so it shouldn't have been called. But
would that have been overturned on I don't think so.
I think it would have been a call stands yeah, yeah, again,
it should have never been called. Well, I mean, look,

(25:46):
I deal with this in the NBA all the time
when I see things and go there that wasn't contact,
or that was a legal defensive play, or that was
should have become all offensive. These these rule books, these
interpretations are done by people that spend.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Eight hours a day looking at stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
It doesn't mean it's right, but I'm saying they're going
to look at it with a much deeper analysis than
you and I are as a Joe fan. And that's
why I always tease Wexen and Adam and they client
will work with me, is that I don't want to
look at these replays anymore and judge it because what
I think seems fairly obvious gets I get it wrong
eighty percent of the time. And I think that's what
we're doing here is that I thought to myself two

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things I thought of, if you had a challenge system
in place, that call is not getting overturned. And then
the other thing I thought of was if the roles
were reversed and there were two Kandasty chiefs colliding with
each other and colliding with CJ's trial, would that have
been a fifteen yard penalty. I'm going to lean to
believe that there would have been, but I could certainly
understand what somebody would say, No, they would not be.
And as far as his own coverage is concerned, all

(26:48):
of the Texans did a pretty decent job of mixing
up their coverages. It wasn't the receivers that were having
the big day. It was Travis Kelcey. It was for
his whole career. Yeah, I don't think there's anything from
a defensive perspective that would have caused confusion. Pat's got
great est capability crack. Pat keeps plays alive. The Texas

(27:09):
defense did its job for the most part. I mean,
there were some incredible catches and the biggest problem they
had in the course of the day was and it's
been like this, I think ever since you and I
have been agun as a show.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Had the Texans ever done a really good job of
covering elite tight ends? I mean Mark Andrews had some
big games, Dallas Clark had big games. Name some other time.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean Gravis Kelsey's breakout party to start his career
as a big time tight end when he got two
touchdowns I was against the Texans.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, Like, how many years ago was it this?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I just I've never felt like this ever been that
We've been a touchdown tight end killer. No, how many
tight ends of the have the Colts had over the
years of scored big Clark and the Boys of Thing
also was out there, but there was others.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
They had.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
They looked rusty for a while, but it wasn't like
I was like they didn't look off sync the Texans.
The Chiefs couldn't move much in the first half because
the Texans defense is good. The Texans defense played its
ass off of the month of January. That's indisputable. Yeah,
the defense was up to the level of everyone else.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
The offense was not. Along with c J.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Stroud did have he had a pretty good playoff. He
wasn't spectacular, wasn't terrible. He wasn't like, you know, oh
my god, he's going out and putting the team on
his back and winning this game. Wasn't throwing under terrible coverage.
There weren't a bunch of drop interceptions.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
He was good.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
But if you want to win at this level in
the playoffs, at the divisional round, you need elite. Josh
Allen was elite. Lamar Jackson was not. Who won that game?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, Josh, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Lamar was good yesterday. Not great, but can't He wasn't great.
Turned the ball over too many times. But I do
feel bad for him because the ball thrown to Andrews,
Oh my god, that wasn't time. I mean, it wasn't
a It wasn't a one on a scale of one
to ten pass.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
It wasn't It was an eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, it ma, I mean, yeah, it wasn't the ten,
but it was any gobacks lightly to put it. He
made sweet he made sweet love to that football and
then it dropped. Yeah, and well, and also that's the
funny thing is that whole night, I think the short
passes there were a lot of drops because the balls
coming out so much faster in that cold. The deep passes,

(29:19):
nobody had any problem with because it just didn't. It
wasn't I guess stinging the hands or whatever. So I
think they should have ran it. But and I'll say
one more thing here. We'll get more on the Texans,
and we're gonna play some more audio throughout the course
the next hour. So I'm gonna uckway for a few
minutes ago I'll go talk to email for our pregame conversation.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
This is totally unrelated to the Texans. I watched that
Washington Detrent game before I was getting ready to call
the Rockets Blazers, and yes, Washington Jane Daniels was as
I as Thomas Sports Enterprises knew it was gonna be
a great player, right.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I told you, Okay, thank you. The guy taking number
two overall been bussed works.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
The number two bus. You know that. You know I'm
not wrong on that. I actually felt sorry for Detroit.
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, Detroit was the sexy story. It was the
most vaunted offense. The problem was they were losing defensive
players every five seconds, and it finally caught up with
We told you on Friday, their defense wasn't good enough
to make him to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Take them to the Super Bowl. It was probably Connor.
It was me, wasn't you? Okay?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Well, also, I didn't know Jared Goff was gonna be
helping him out with all those turnovers too. Again, Jade
Daniels elite, Jared Goff wasn't who won that game?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You get one quarterback for the next ten years? Oh,
here we go, what's up?

Speaker 1 (30:36):
You're gonna take CJ. Stroud over Jade Daniels.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, if we were here last year, we would have
said c J.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Stroud. So yeah, I want to stay the course.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I'm in with you too. Jade Daniels is great, and
it's okay to be one and one.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
And yeah, he's got a better offensive line night far too.
I'm not saying you're doing this, but too often, like
when somebody says, oh, I like Lamar Jackson better than
josh anat like josh that means that doesn't mean.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
The other guy's trapped. That's right.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I think Jade Daniels is incredible. Yeah, let's do with
our guy in Houston. I could be wrong, but he
needs an offensive line one more year he wants he
needs an offensive line. Let's see if Jadeon Daniels has
a bit of a sophomore slump. Let's see what happens
with the with the offensive line, and.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Look sophomore slumps happened. Yes, I wouldn't say. I wouldn't
say CJ at a slump. But he wasn't as good
in his second year as he was a first.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
And I think if he gets a couple of linemen
to help him out and not unt fearing for his
life and concept into his throws hitting getting hit eight
times in twenty three weather Ross, you could tell, I
mean clearly tell he was braving the elements and braving
being getting his ass.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Bet he was tired of getting beat up.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Can I tell you one problem with the offensive line?
Offensive all line? Offensive line?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Nick Caceario built this offensive line.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, Blake Fisher from and look I got people got
really mad at me at the trade deadline. He was
Nick was dismissive of kicking the tires. I'm not saying
he had to do something. He was like scoffing, but
he was like no, no, no, no, we're fine, and
it's just transact It was his mealy typical Casario mealy

(31:59):
mouth transactional.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
We couldn't find any everything. It is your responsibility to
improve at the trade deadline, no matter what sport you're in.
And frankly, Ross the NFL has had more trades in
the last two years are probably on the previous five.
If you're gonna tell me there wasn't a single lineman
that could have helped this team at the deadline, I would,
I would, frankly choose how to believe that. I don't

(32:21):
think Nick, who built this line thought there was as
big of a problem as everybody else did. Now his
eyes may be different. He's a general manager and trained.
I'm just you know, Jimoke here hanging out with you for.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
A couple of hours, right, But I thought it was
criminal how flippant he was about not going to try
to improve things. And I'm to stand by that stance.
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Speaker 3 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
Let's go to uh David in Well, let's pop this
up here. I can do it, can you all right?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Boom David and Link sitting on seven Ony David, good morning,
Thanks for holdingy.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
No, no problem. They just want to talk about Mahomes.
I mean, it's it's not so much that he gets calls,
but it's the fact that it's like on the Anderson
uh Neil, you know, you see Anders and Bardy tapping
and then all of a sudden, the head flies back,
the arms go flailing.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
He was at play later on in the first half
or a hunter you know, reached out as he was
kind of going by and hit him in the left
shoulder with his with a hand ye, and he goes
flopping to the ground. Arms fly him, you know, and
just you know, uh, you know, and even on the
play where the two got the other roughing the passer,

(35:21):
I mean he was out there, he's jogging, he's jumping
back and forth, back and north, back and forth and
finally falls down. He had plenty of opportunity to uh
take the safe you know, drop, but he waited until
there was going to be contact. And then the same
thing on that play on the sidelines. He stops at
the sideline and waits for somebody to you know push him,
and then he goes into this flop thing. That's something

(35:43):
in the NFL should be able to see, recognize and anticipate,
you know. And I'm surprised he didn't call the one
on the sidelines because I mean it's just that's just typical.
But you know, there needs to be something he needs
to be uh kind of lies for flopping unsportsulate like
conduct whatever whatever they could make it. But he's just

(36:06):
gaining his system, you know, yeah, you know, years ago.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I mean, I problem, here's a problem again, David and
you're bringing up a very fair point is that this
is done in real time. There isn't time to go
back and look at this stuff. You know, you can't
challenge a subjective call. And that would have been a
subjective call. Now, if there would have been insant replay
put it in place, David, then they didn't. I think
you're absolutely right. They would have called the NFL's version

(36:31):
of flopping, whatever that is. I don't think there's even
a call call flopping in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
But that was it.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I will say this to your to your thinking, there
are NFL referees that watch that game. The NFL is
going to NFL referees are going to see that tape
of what he did, and they're going to be a
lot less lenient David to throw that flag that Now,
Pat Mahomes has that reputation of doing that.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
He just does.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
He's had that reputation though, and it just continues to
happen over and over.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
I didn't he didn't get cold there though. The flop
didn't get cold there. No, it did.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
It would have and I think everybody would have thrown
their televisions through the through the glass windows.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
But yeah, David, I just I hate to tell you this,
but in real time it's awfully hard for them to
stop what they're doing and challenge a subjective call because
right now it's not in the by laws of the
NFL to do that.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
Yeah, but you can be aware of you know, somebody
who has a propensity for doing stuff like that. You know,
Peyton Manning used to, you know, he used he used
to jot uh with the Spike deal. He would walk up, Oh,
I'm just black, and I'm must like and I must
like it. And then he'd bend down and he'd take
it and then stand up and token.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Right.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
It's kind of like, you know, but if somebody had
hit him, you know, oh look at that.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
It's just you know, they got to be aware of that.
They can see us. And you know, if when you
even if it's even if you let the first one stand,
you know, when he son he pulled on the sidelines
should have been flagged, you know, and you know, and
he ought to be he should be at least fine.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Well, but the problem and thank you David for the
phone call. You can't flyg something that didn't That wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I mean, it didn't.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Affect the Yeah, he didn't break a rule. He just
tried to get away with something. Right now, if you
you know, you can't flag him for that, but you
would like to, in a perfect world be able to
say flag throne, challenge play go look at the replay,
and the replay says that he he flopped just like
it happens in the NFL in the NBA. Is it

(38:31):
a flopp or not a flop? And I don't know
if the NFL has that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
No, they don't. You said this a minute ago, and
I hope you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I hope that this will that Saturday's flop was so
egregious that they will stop letting the benefit of the doubt. Go.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Oh, he must have been hit that way. He's been
flopping around for years.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
My son, who is the biggest bandwagon fan of individual players, now,
he went to text tex so he loves Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
He is. He sent me two texts during the game.
He's like, I'm not a fan of this guy. Oh
and if you and if you have Cameron, if you
lose Cameron Thomas as a fan and he's a text attack, right,
that must have been something really serious. Wow, interesting.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
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everybody know that he wore is Davis Mills Jersey to
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
The game on Saturday. I'm like, Sun they lost. I mean,
it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Well, Davis Mills almost came into the game. It looked
like he was going to and that first quarter was
hobbling around.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, yeah, all.

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(39:51):
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We have the coldest control room in North America. That's true.

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I believe it's constantly below freezing in there. Connor was
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He's probably in a full park at this point.

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I know there are some out there that do, but
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I know you haven't. I haven't heard of one. You're
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I just yeah, january' is a little tough. What is it?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I think it's fourteen out of eighteen games on the road. Yeah,
we're We're here this week and then I'm going to
be staying in the city the next couple of nights
because of weather. So I was able to kiss my
family yesterday and spend three to four hours of quality time.
Why don't you have them come stay in the room
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a big house and out with your family.

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Should do it from the room. We could got the equipment. Yeah,
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an hotel.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
As long as you're fully clothed, there's nothing weird about.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
It, that's true. I never thought of it that way. Hey,
you got to actually put on pants.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Okay, ten and two on that and then uh, I
will be with Kate Trha three to seven, So be
eight guest book.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
What's the deal? I don't know. They I just go
in there and.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Say storm Team coverage, sport News Radio seven forty. You
know how you do the news at new in your
little news voice. I'm putting the news voice on tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
I like it. I'm calling you as Dale from Magnolia. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Man, we got about six inches up here.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Excuse me what, I don't care what you're carrying?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Dale talk about snow? Oh okay, what are you talking about?
I don't know, but that was very odd.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Dale. All right, real quick for going back to the phones.
Go ahead, it's rally. You're doing great. Come on now.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Uh Buffalo Baltimore was everything is advertised.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I feel terrible for Marc Andrews, really really bad because
there have been some drops in sports, and you know,
Bableton the legs of ball, Bill Buckner, and there's been
miss Nick Anderson's mis free throws and that kind of
thing that you don't Jackie Smith or Jackie Smith of
the Cowboys. You know, there's some drops you just can't
get past. And that's gonna be one that's gonna resonate

(46:08):
because people are putting them in AI pictures with Jeffrey
Epstein as his head.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
It's just not right. Matt. He's he's been one of
the best pass sketching tight ends in the NFL for
about a decade, right, yeah, give her take? Yes, Oh
my god, these these.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I've been having fun with this Grock Ai too, it's
too much. I gotta stop. Yeah, come on, focus on
the show.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
See I was winning, Pat Mahomes getting married to a
record Oh there.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Was, there was.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
There is a photo of Andy Reid on his knees
on the field that I was like, come on, game everybody,
let's let's be a little more professional here.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
People.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
You know, it's too much people, I'm sorry, but yeah,
Mark Andrews, I was a great game.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Philadelphia game was good too.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Honestly, Yes, all four divisional games, the team that gained
the most yards gained the most yards.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Loss.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Isn't that weird? Yes, but comes down turnovers. Comes down to.
One of the reasons that Texans lost this by gaining
more yards than the Chiefs is because that big that big.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Return in penalty yards as well. And by the way,
the NFL is going to make sure they can have
as many games outside as possible. Do not want dome
teams playing in the playoffs. Deep I also saw Texans Chiefs.
Did you see this?

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Thirty two point seven million viewers, the highest audience for
an ESPN playoff game that wasn't the super Bowl ever.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
They've never had a super Bowl on ESPN. Oh you
know what I mean? Yeah, Abc.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Yeah, highest most watch NFL game ever on the ES
networkout and a lot of that because the game was good.
And another thing is ross we talked about this four
divisional weekend is fantastic football. And also they add up
to numbers. But it's on ABC and ESPN correct, and
it was their ESPN two some kind of alternate that
I don't know, but ABC ESPN Plus, yeah, there was.

(47:51):
You had plenty of ways to find it. So essentially
what they're doing is they're saying, hey, we know some
of you are cord cutting and don't have an ABC affiliate,
but we're gonna put it on ESPN Plus.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
You ms pans NFL game ever. And I thought Joe
and people rip on Joe and Troy. They were fantastic.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
It was a great call, good drama, fair and balance,
all the blah blah blah blah blah stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
I mean it was you saw the good broadcasters working
this weekend. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
How about speaking of the broadcasting, did you see the
Tom Brady's agents like, oh no, he's going to finish
out that three hundred right there? You go back to
be an l for you it's gonna be an l
unless Mark Davis wants to sell more of the team.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
And does Tom Brady had that kind of money. I
don't think so at this point.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Now would is is he ironically getting money from Fox
that's gonna be put towards an NFL team?

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Very well? Could be.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Yeah, at some point it's like, I guess he's got
to do something with his time.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
But you can't even as we tell as.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
We discussed, he can't interview players, he can't be he
can't watch practices.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
But you don't when you listen to him, you don't
hear that. You don't hear that. No.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
I think it's always nice to say, oh they you know,
they like, oh they talked about this all right, we
meeting the day they said they wanted to do this.
This is exactly what they said they were gonna do
in this situation. Also, criticizing the officials is part of
the game.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
It just is. Yeah, I mean, troyka do it.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Tom can't do that. He can't say this was a
bad call even though it's playing his day. Everyone can
see it. And then the unfortunately puts the onus on
the playbay play man put yeah for him.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
To have to do well.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
The reality is it's also is that you didn't pay
him thirty seven point five million dollars a year because
you were looking forward to twenty games of this analysis.
You paid him because Tom Brady's gonna take He's gonna
jump on a company jet and is gonna go meet
with the Fox officials when they're going to spend look
for ricolob Vultra and spend millions of dollars on advertising.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
That's how that's what tom Brady. You're paying Tom Brady
to go play golf with the executives of the big
three automotive dealers groups.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Yeah, clearly Fox thinks this contract was worth it, or
they wouldn't have paid it, right.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Same thing with Tony Romo, Like he was.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Out there like, oh, man, Ravens are great in the
run game, and they're great in the past.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
That's what you want to be. And I'm sitting there on.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
The couch like he's getting seventeen million dollars to say this. Meanwhile,
Greg Olsen's like, man, I am better and my ass
is sitting at home. He's well, he also took a
big reduction in pay too, right, Greg Olsen, I don't
think he got a big pay to begin with. Yeah,
I mean, I don't think they said not only are we.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
I thought it was like he had to reduce his
money or something. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
I feel terrible for I feel super bad for that
now and then that Greg Olsenan, Greg Olsen made a
lot of money in his NFL course, I won't like
he's hurting. Yeah, olsen salary dropped from ten million to
three million per year because of Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
You know who hates Tom Brady, Greg Olsen. You know
what Greg greg Olsen's gonna plant heroin on Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Tom Brady is murdered. I got my prime suspect. Okay,
Giselle won Greg greg and and by the way, ironically,
on the Big bullsl Jazelle's grappling with the Brazilian jiu
jitsu just trainer.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
She's but she's still a sneaky.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Pick My top three for who murders Tom Brady GIZL
one two would be uh, Greg Olsen in three ironically,
Bill Belichick, wh almost like I have a murdered.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I think they're good. They're no really sneaky. I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I'm just saying it's just you know, if you're looking
for a dark horse space dish, best they're cold. All right,
we're gonna let you hear from the Texans locker room
coming up in just a second here seven one three
two one two five seven, and I'm gonna step away
for a few minutes ago talk with my best friend
Imaya Donka getting ready for tonight' skiing with Detroit over.

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The Man Tana Show with Ross continues so on Sports
Talk seven ninety Liam sit down.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Welcome back to the Bat Thomas Show with Ross Without
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Speaker 1 (52:53):
He is going to interview.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Coach Udoka for the Rockets Radio Network. Coming up, we
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have the Rockets launch Pad with me coming up at noon,
and right now you have the News at noon with

(53:15):
Connor McGovern con govers giving us all the great sports
news of the day, a lot of NFL action over
the weekend and other stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Connor Howard thinks.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Beckett Studio, you're doing okay, there's nobody here. Oh well
it is a holiday and there is appending snowstorm.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Well somebody else, I guess. But anyway, we could talk
about the game over the weekend. The Chiefs are heading
to the AFC Championship Game for the seventh straight season
after defeating the Texans twenty three to fourteen on Saturday.
The Texans have lost in the division round for the
second straight season and have yet to reach the FC
Championship Game. There was multiple unnecessary rophus calls in a

(53:57):
missed uh missed and blockfield goalie kicks and quarterback c J.

Speaker 8 (54:01):
Stroud getting sacked eight times, but.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
They snapped it flits again. Stroud in trouble carloftus is
there Kansas City Ball. Yeah, I mean tough to blame.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
C J.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Stroud to an extent, but all of not all of
those sacks were on the offensive line.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
A couple of those were on CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
It was an extremely high pressure rate he was running
for There were a couple of those times where he
was running for his life. There were free runners and
that just should never be the case in an NFL game,
but it happens, especially with the Steve Spagnola defense. As
I mentioned the past weekend, I was scared about it.
Scared about free runners into the backfield for the Houston Texans.
Happened a couple of times, especially there in that second half.

(54:49):
But eight sacks no way to go through life.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
And c J.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Stroud was good, but he wasn't great, and he could
have made a couple of other players, a couple of
throws missed, and and the penalties we know were a factor.
Starting off with, I mean, can the Texans start off
a game normally the first playoff game they fumble on
the first play, and then the next playoff game they

(55:13):
had a long sixty yard return or whatever it was
given up. And then Chris Boyd, longhorned legend, loses his
mind takes off his helmet, which you should never do.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
It's the first play of the game.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
You're it's not even like you forced a fumble that,
by the way, your team didn't even recover. And then
you and then you're taking your helmet off like it's
the fourth quarter and you just clinched a spot in
the AFC Championship game six years into the game. Chris
Boyd should know better. And then he's pushing coaches and stuff.
What a disaster start in both playoff games for the

(55:48):
Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Sorry, had to get that off my chest. What else?

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Connor mc governor what's going on on the news at noon. Well,
we'll stick in the I will stick with the NFL.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
The other division round matchups in the playoffs saw Josh
Allen run for two touchdowns to defeat Lamar Jackson in
the Baltimore Ravens twenty seven to twenty five the Eagles,
and then the Eagles advanced with a twenty eight to
twenty two victory over the Rams, and the six seeded
Commanders upset the number one seed Detroit Lions forty five
to thirty one on Saturday night. Lions head coach Dan

(56:19):
Campbell was a pretty emotional postgame after the tough loss.

Speaker 9 (56:22):
It just hurts to lose, man, And I don't care
if you're the seven seed, six seed, five seed, one seed,
because I've lost in all of them down there, and
it stings and it hurts.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Yeah. Tough for the Lions.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I mean, while I did predict that they just lost
too much on the defense for them to make it
to the Super Bowl, and I mean the Commanders just
ran all over them, scoring forty five points. Now, seven
of those did come off of a pick six from
Jared Goff, who did have three interceptions in the game,
but almost two hundred yards rushing for Washington. Jade Daniel

(57:00):
was great, two hundred ninety nine yards, a couple of touchdowns,
no interceptions either. It's just that that Lions defense, to me,
was going to be their downfall at some point in
the playoffs, and it happened in that divisional round. You
pair it with Jared Goff just having a horrible, horrible game,
sucks for the Lions. That's kind of how it goes.

(57:20):
We can go throughout history and there are teams that
were dominant and bal didn't bounce their way. Too many injuries,
bad performance at some point, and bottom line is it's
hard to win the Super Bowl. Only one team out
of thirty two gets to do it. All the other
thirty one teams are talking about how much it was
a failure and they got.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
To go back to the drawing board. So Lions didn't
make it.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Shaping up for a Commander's Eagles Championship game. And then
on the other side the Buffalo Bills game. Yeah, that
boils down to the turnovers. Lamar Jackson was good, he
wasn't great. He had that bad interception and then he
had that DeMar Hamlin was sacking him and he tried
to keep the play alive and he lost the ball
because he was trying to one hand it in the
sleet and snow. So oh and then by the way

(58:00):
Mark Andrews with a bad fumble, they're in a bad drop.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
So add that all up.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
It was a thin margin between the Ravens and the Bills,
who I thought were the two best teams in the AFC.
Chiefs get one of them at home. That one is
the Buffalo Bills. Should be a good championship weekend in
the NFL. What else you got, Connor McGovern for the
News at noon at eleven twenty.

Speaker 7 (58:23):
Well, yeah, you just alluded to the or you just
talked about the championship games. I mean Josh Allen, the
Buffalo Bills taking off Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in
the championship game for their fourth playoff matchup in five years,
probably the NFL's biggest rivalry.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Yeah, that's interesting. It's certainly up there right now, certainly
with teams that aren't if you're talking about teams that
aren't in their own division, they just keep meeting each
other over and over. Unfortunately, Joe Burrow didn't show up
to the playoffs. So he could get into the mix.
By the way, how stacked is the NFC as we're
talking about it? Like Joe Burrow, Pat Mahomes, Josh Allen,
Lamar Jackson, I mean c J. Stroud, the Texans.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
It's tough.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
They did beat Justin Herbert and the Chargers, but they're
really good. Could the Boat Nicks and the Denver Broncos
be coming along as well? Man, it's a stacked stacked AFC.
And it's Bill's cheese for a chance to go to
the super Bowl. Should be fun, should be gangbuster ratings
for CBS coming up next week to be sure.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
Well, we'll continue on with football ball, We'll go to college.
The inaugural twelve team field is down to two and
the twenty twenty five College Football Playoff National Championship Game
is set for tonight between the number eight Ohio State
Buckeyes and number seven Notre Dame kickoff from Mercedes Benz
Stadium in Atlanta except six thirty pm Central. And I
believe the Buckeyes are eight and a half point favorites.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Eight and a half point favorites. What were they six
and a half?

Speaker 2 (59:47):
I think six six and a half over the Texas Longhorns.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
We'll see how much I end up watching.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Thankfully, there's a big winter storm coming in, so we'll see.
But I can't get excited for this game, as somebody
who just watched Texas loose through Ohio State Buckeyes. Buck
guys were the better team in that game. They deserve
to win and all that stuff, but it was at
least a close game down to the end until that

(01:00:15):
fumble six by quinn Ewers, but the right tackle Cam
Williams missed the block completely. By the way I saw,
he's getting a first round grade. He had a billion
penalties and I felt like he got torched in the
first Georgia game and wasn't great consistent all season long.
But what do I know. I'm not a draft expert.
But anyways, I digress. Buck Eyes Notre Dame fighting Irish.

(01:00:36):
I guess I'll pick the buck Eyes. I kind of
don't care. I don't have any skin in this game.
I don't really have a rooting interest. Perhaps I'll flip
it on just because it is basically the only game
in town tonight with the Rockets playing in the early afternoon,
But I can't get excited for it. Are you are
you rooting for your people? The Irish Connor McGovern.

Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
Yeah, I'll go for Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
I mean, Misszoo played Ohio stand the conbo last year
and became.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Catholic school, right yeah growing up?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah, well your last name is will Covert Undia went
to the Catholic school.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
You'll have to be rooting for the Notre Dame fighting Irish.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
Yeah, I'll go for Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
I mean, and then I grew up with family that
really liked the Michigan Wolverine, so it's just natural not
till I Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah, it's okay. So you got a root against Ohio State. Yeah, okay,
I got you another college hearing. Maybe there's some college
football news that you'll care about.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
The Texas has agreed to a new contract with coach
Steve sarkisan seven years.

Speaker 8 (01:01:30):
How do you feel about that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
It's the right move.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Steve Sarkisian is a really good coach. Unfortunately it was
a kind of a I feel like somewhat of a
missed opportunity this year. But they have like fourteen players
or starters or whatever it is going into the draft,
so we'll see what happens. Next year's team should be
pretty loaded as well. Arch Manning will see he's a
good job, he does a good job, he's a good coach.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
There were the NFL overtures.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I felt like that was probably just leveraged to get
this extension. Anyways, I don't know that he would have
been hopping to the NFL. I don't know how much
real interest there was for him, as far as him
declining two interviews with NFL franchises. That being talked about
as one of the reasons that Texas was moved to
send him to give him this big extension.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
So, I mean, I like Sark.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
He's a good play callers, a smart play caller. I
don't agree with everything he does. I don't think he's
a genius, but if you get him really good players,
I wouldn't think he's not an infallible genius. Of course,
win a couple of national championships, we'll go We'll go
ahead and recalibrate, right. I mean, Ohio State fans hated
Ryan Day, wanted him fire for the last several years,
and now the guy's on the precipice of winning a

(01:02:43):
national championship. If he choked that'd be pretty funny. But
Sark is a good coach. Sark has Texas, I mean,
back into the fold more than they had been in
years past. They haven't won a national championship still, but
back to back final fours, great recruiting classes, really good
play caller, really good play designer. I like Steve sarkisian

(01:03:04):
as as the Texas Longhorns head coach. But of course,
as always, the standard is winning the national championship.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Hopefully he can get there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Anything else on the news at noon, con mcgovin.

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
Go to baseball.

Speaker 7 (01:03:18):
The Los Angeles Dodgers have added left hander Tannor Scott,
arguably the best relief picture of the free agent market.
Are gained to terms on a four year, seventy two
million dollar contract. The deal includes a twenty million dollars
signing bonus and twenty one million dollars in deferred payments.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Has Jeff Passon said anything about this?

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Has he?

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Has he come out and said, now, this is just
normal spending for any franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
They can all spin up to this level, they just
choose not to.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
No, I'm definitely not carrying water for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers are Jewish doing with every MLB team has
the capability of doing any statements from Jeff Passon, but
the Dodgers ridiculous spending was their payroll up to now
two billion.

Speaker 7 (01:03:59):
Dollars Apparently the Dodgers' luxury tax payrolls estimated to be
somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred and seventy five
million dollars, which is about seventy million dollars more than
that of the second.

Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
Place full of a Phillies. They are far out pacing
other teams.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
They just don't give an f and they defer a
bunch of money. They're spending all this money. They just
want a World Series. They have that huge TV deal.
They can outspend everyone else, Jeff, and it's annoying, but
whatever it is, what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
I just I don't even know what to say.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
The Dodgers are just and people are talking about, oh,
they've built this, they built this team, like their entire
rotation is players they bought. There was somebody that was
carrying water for the Dodgers too, talking about it's all
prospects and stuff like that. I think it's like only
one regular starter is somebody that they actually drafted. So
I don't want to hear about the Dodgers making me
mad spending billions and billions. Do you know what this makes?

(01:05:01):
You want to say, Jim Crane, go ahead, pay Alex pregnant.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Dodgers can go five billion dollars over the competitive balance
tax threshold. Maybe Jim Crane can do a little bit himself.
All right, anything else, Connor give us a short preview.
I know you'll do this in a little bit here too.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
But the Rockets hosting the Detroit Pistons for the Martin
Luther King Day matchup.

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
I believe the Rockets are in a half point favorites.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Yes, the Detroit Pistons are in town.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
We are broadcasting at the Toyota Center right now, so
we'll have that coming up for you at one o'clock
here on a Sports Talk seven ninety. In thirty minutes,
it will be the Rockets launch Pad. Then the Rockets
Radio Network. All right, thank you, Conn McGovern for the news.
At noon, Matt Thomas is interviewing im A Dooka. He
should be back shortly. My name is Rossby Real. You
want to get in. We've been talking about the Texans

(01:05:50):
We've been talking about Pat Mahomes flopping. What do the
Texans need to do in the offseason. I think there's
a very clear paint plan from Nick Cassario, but do
we trust him to enact that plan. We can discuss
other NFL action as well, your Rockets taking on the Pistons.
Anything you would like to talk to talk about seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. Is the
phone number seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
So what I missed?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Boys eleven thirty three Sports Talk seven ninety. Matt back
with you with Ross inside Tode Center where Men Thompson's
going to play today for the local basketball.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Was that part of your news at eleven twenty?

Speaker 9 (01:06:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
The Rockets? Yeah, yeah, we mentioned it. You mentioned Men
Thompson's back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
We did not mention Amen Thompson was back. I did
see your taxs and I forgot I saw your tweet
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
And by the way, normally the news at noon is
at noon.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
But sometimes TV sports will, I mean TV will do
like an early news because of special programming. Yeah, so
that's why the news at eleven twenty worked. Yeah, it happens.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
We had to do. We we've done it before Connor
do Okay, Oh he did great. What was what was
his off the beaten track story? He didn't have it.
We didn't have time for it, Steve, Steve Sarkisian's extension
that was off the beating. Very happy about that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
I'm not over the moon, but I'm happy. I am happy.
Ask you this, Why are you not over the moon?

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
What do you mean? It's good, he's a good coach.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
He's taking you to the national semifinals two consecutive years.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Yeah, they lost both times.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Oh so it's it's either when it's either your first
year last we're going Ricky Bobby. Here, I'm not saying
we're going Ricky Bobby. I'm not angry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I don't think he's a bad coach, but you're not
you can win. You're not falling with Steve sarkisi okay
or anybody else. He's not infallible.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Who would you like? Nobody is? Who would I like
to have? Yeah? Mac Brown, get it back, that's okay?

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
In all? Is there something?

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Oh so you're just you're you're pleased, but like the
guy's got a lot of Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Yeah, Okay, there you go, folks, Texas fans never happy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Imagine that I am happy. I said, I'm happy. I'm
just not over the moon. The difference between being over the.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Moon being happy. Man, when's the last time you were
over the moon over anything sports related?

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
That'd be January sixth or January fourth, two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Wow, once every twenty year. Bit, Yeah, you dang dude.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Well, honestly, I'm in the same spot. I have been
over the mood since nineteen. Well, the Astros winning October
of seventeen twenty one was actually a little more satisfying.
Now we know about seventy two, twenty two. No, but
seventeen was great in the moment, oh moment. Yeah, but
I was on a plane going to New York. Okay, well,
that that's your being doing fancy matt stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Now everybody else was doing that. We did, We did,
we did. I was on the couch watching with my father,
so it was a great moment.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
And then I headed down to East Downtown to get.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
The people, the get the drunk report. Good times. I'm
ready for that again. I'm ready for a sports franchise
in his town to do that. Can we can? We
get one?

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
And then twenty two we went on air till three
I think I went on until three am. Yeah, I
think I was in Atlanta, so I was. I did
the overnights a couple hours too, and that was just great.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Here I am.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
We're one won a world Series. I'm ready to do
that with the Rockets. We're ready to do with the Texans.
We're ready to do with the Houston. Cougar's ready to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Do it all.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Yeah, you know what, should you feel comfortable that the
Cougars aren't? Ken Palm has a number one every year
and they flame out in the tournament. Now they're like
number three. Maybe you Phil we want to be like
number three?

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Well, number one. It's funny because Lenardi is giving them
no respect whatsoever in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Yeah, why why did we all all of a sudden
make him then?

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
He usually gets it pretty close though, when it's when
he does practice, So it makes me sad he gets
there's plenty of time. Long Word is probably already making
the tournament. They get destroyed by Florida. It's Rodney Terry
buy out watch season. See that's why you're you know
what you're you're unhappiness for Sarkisian is translating onto the
basketball side. We're like, if he's we're gonna really make

(01:09:43):
some contract moves, we need.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
To make it out on the basketball side of things. Whatever,
that's fine. Nobody cares about one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
I don't even know why I choose to care about
long more basketball, but I do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
I mean, it's a building being fulled down falling often.
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Maybe it'll be cheaper to get to a game this year.
I think, head on, head on down there all right
for a winnable game. And SEC's got nine ranked teams,
by the way, it's a filthy conference. Yeah, and actually
Big twelve is down a little bit. Yeah, only one,
only one undefeated team left in conference play. I wonder
who that would be. Rhymes with rumors. Conference play just started.

(01:10:18):
Been enough, by the way, the Cougars game tomorrow has
been moved to Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Okay, is Wednesday gonna be all right? I don't know.
Good question.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Rockets game against the Cavaliers, which should be a huge game,
is tendably.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Still on for Wednesday. Here in the building. Huh okay?

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
So uh you know, look have I was in Atlanta
two weeks ago and it was a one day snow event,
just like we're supposed to get here tomorrow. But they
shouldn't landed down for two days, so I don't know.
I wouldn't be holding my breath here on any of
that stuff, all right, And of course you wanted to
listen to me on k t r H with a
complete weather coverage.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
So do we have a name of the storm? By
the way, do we? I mean they named winter. They
do name winners. I don't know if this one has
a name.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
You call this hurt. You could call this three inches
of snow? Huh, winterstorm met no blizzards, No, don't know.
Put a name after me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
If you're going to name, you should call winter storm
at sports mt Okay, you think you get hate on
this on Twitter?

Speaker 8 (01:11:20):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Oh my god, that's true. Boh way, it is TikTok back.
I'm kind of confused.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
I think it is. I was never been on it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Now I do look at people's videos through TikTok. But
we should ask you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
We got to ask Connor mcgover. Connor, we are we
back on the TikTok or No?

Speaker 7 (01:11:33):
Yeah, it was gone briefly Saturday night and then it
came back Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
So are we are we giving it? Are we giving
Biden credit? Or we giving Trump credit for this one?

Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
Well, the message that showed up on TikTok when you
opened the app was thank you to President Trump for
helping us restore the app. Oh, so they're giving credit
to President Trump even though he wasn't inaugurated at that point.

Speaker 8 (01:11:55):
So I'm not sure what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
But I thought it was a Chinese spy operation.

Speaker 7 (01:12:01):
I believe government officials and employees still can't have it.

Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
Oh, it's got for everybody else.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
That's great, even though I never use it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Do we need to get on TikTok matt uh No,
I am on Instagram. You can follow me there. Brand
at sports Empty WEX is big on TikTok. Wex's just
put the phone down, WEX relax. He's a man about town. Yeah,
I think he's a man about town. I think he's
man on his phone.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Well that too, and yeah, I'm done. I'm on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
I'm on Snap because I watched people's snaps as compared
to I've never sat before in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Oh you pay for some people's premium snaps? No, no, no,
I was told A friend of mine said, get on
my tailor.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Pathis no, how much did you paid Bayler Tech?

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
By the way, she speaking of Taylor, she was bragging
about Texas plus nine and a half And I'm like, girl,
who had that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
I mean, I know it got into the last second.
It got to nine, I want to say, and like seconds.
But she she was forecasting out like three days ago,
Like I couldn't find nine and a half three days ago.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Well, talk to your girl. She's the one, she's the
picks guru.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
She's you know, we start calling her in the business
miss money line. I will take the If you went
money line.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
This week, take lines of the money line, I'll take
you if you take it. If you took lines on
the money line, you lost.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
If you took the Chiefs on the money line, you
you barely made any money. If you took actually, if
you took the bills on the money line, they were
a small underdog at home.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Probably gave me a little bit of money one and
a half. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Uh, if you took money line on in Philadelphia, you
probably want to. I think they were super late movement
on the bills game too, to where it tipped bills.
All right, so we've we've successfully as a radio host
in the show not mentioned whether or not Lamar Jackson sucks. Now, Uh,
he's terrible. How do you think Raven's radio is going today?
Is it's about Mark Andrews. Yeah, yep. But here's the thing,

(01:13:58):
Mark Andrews and I and I don't mean to oversimplify this,
but has he been one of the best tight ends
in the league at least for the last five years,
if not longer.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
He had a bad year this year, but I likely
was just as good as he was. He had a
big time down yere.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Everybody who drafted in fantasy knows exactly what I'm talking
about fair enough.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
So maybe maybe maybe one of the maybe four of
the last five years was very very good. Yeah, he's
been very good. But and I'm looking at the replay, Rossie,
that's a pass he should have caught.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
There's I mean he I guess Lamar could have handed
him the ball. Yes, but it wasn't a ten. But
I think I named him an eight point five on
the pass. It was a nine point two. He did
end up with eleven touchdowns this year, six hundred and
seventy yards in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
The league, with seven years somewhere of them. Right now, yeah,
I thought he was older than twenty nine, quite frankly,
but well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
I know he went to University Oklahoma where people ripping
the crap out of him are going there.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Oh really yeah? Why just because they always it's an
easy way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
It's the little hanging fruit for Texas fantas say, oh
you sucks, Oh well he does.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Indeed, Hey, you know how bad they suck.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
That's the Texas' only win in the SEC Conference in basketball. Ah,
I mean they bring that up all right, final segment
of the radio program.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
We're here from Totas Center. It's actually been kind of
nice and quiet, honestly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Shoot, rounds going up. Let's see who's getting shots up
right now? Mannye Oh, Jalen Green's out there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Fred is usually very late to the to the catching.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Should we need to have a serious conversation about Jayalen
Green being an All Star? We can if you want to,
But I would actually be a betting man. Yeah, I
might guess that there'd be no All Stars as compared
to getting no especially since the also this year.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
And first of all, I don't even care, you know,
I don't have this all Star conversation. It's just for
a recognition, but it's for the for the weekend itself.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
I couldn't be more disinterested. I love the NBA, but
I have no interest in it. All right, how are
we gonna fix the Texans? We'll spend a lot of
time on this tomorrow, but we'll at least get a
little taste of that coming up, we come back eleven
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Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
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I'm gonna do it, and you have been motivating, no energy.
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Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Miles in my mind. By the way, uh, the name
of the winter storm according to sources, winter storm ends
O E N Z O.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Wonderful, which which begs the question what was A B,
C and D. I We can go look it up.
If that's fine. Yeah, We're off the domino. There you
go with it. I'm sorry stereotyping again. I couldn't help myself.
It's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
By the way, late word that President Biden has pardoned
or pardoned the referees and officials that were great the city.
You've been pardoned as well for what crimes? I did
nothing wrong with perpetuity perpetuity.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Yeah, can't you do that? No, can't you, like say,
for any future crimes I might commit. That's actually not
a horrific idea. But pardon myself.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
The officials that were work in that game have all
been pardoned by President Biden. By the way, the meme
that is out there that the official that the referee
that worked the game on Saturday was seven zero going
against Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
As I told you last week, Pat Mahomes has a
winning percentage with every Official's true. There's no official there
that's like two and nine, and with the Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Quarterback, and if there was, Roger Goodell would not send
him to the divisional game. You think they're mad that
you think this is the thing people are like, they
need to change the rules, they need to do this.
You think the NFL's mad that it's Chiefs Bills on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
I mean hell no.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Yeah, ABC is bragging about their ratings and CBS like,
hold my beer, We're gonna take care of it, like
you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
All right, So let's do the quick simple fix them.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Obviously, we'll get more into this on the show tomorrow,
and we've got a little bit more time. The reality
is you got to fix the offensive line. Yes, you're
gonna have to significantly bolster the wide receiving corps. It
went from a disaster two years ago to much better
this year. But unjery injuries not the reason. Not performance
is the reason why. And frankly, can you get out

(01:19:09):
of the Dalton Schultz contract because that looks like that's
bad money spent with two years left to go?

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
Or is it a reasonable deal? It hurts so much.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Schultz Schultz is If long At Schultz is not your
number two, he's fine if you need him as your
number two. Is what they needed by Stephan Diggs and
take Dell down. If not that I spent time looking
at him, but it feels like to me that those
that do I do respect when it comes to evaluation,
said he was not doing his job as a blocker,
that he's simply just a rot runner at this point

(01:19:40):
in his in his career. He is let's see what
is this. He's tenth in the NFL and tight ends
as far as AAV He's behind Pat Fryarmouth and Cole Comet.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
You'd rather have both those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
I don't know what col Comett Cole Comett had a
bad year, can't stay healthy. He's okay, he's ahead of
no offense, Taysom Hill, Dawson, knocks Hunter, Henry Tyler, Higbee.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
He's around that group.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
That's where he's pay So let's okay, So let's knock
him off the list. Then if we're if we're looking
for to do things fixing the offensive line. I know
there has been some whispers of whether or not you
want to lock up Derek Stingley long term, and the
answer would be clearly yes.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
He has one of the top five cornerbacks in the NFL.
He's all Pro this year. He needs to be locked up. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Jalen Petrie apparently recording is on schedule for his return
in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Five, which is a good sign.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Tank Dell had his surgery late last week. I would
be stunned if he makes it again in the NFL.
Looks like Dalton Schultz is still heavy dead money. Okay,
so keep him one more year? Yeah, okay, Sorry, what
were you saying, No, we were talking.

Speaker 9 (01:20:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
This is the thing everybody in their grandma knows. Necessari
who needs to show up the offensive line. The problem
is Blake Fisher was a second round pick. No, he
needs time to develop.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
We'll see. He just Scruggs high trick.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Juice Scruggs was I believe a second round pick. Yeah,
second round pick. Jared Patterson I think was the third
round pick of his.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
That's been the thing is that if you've criticized Casario
for not going after the lineman, that's actually not fair.
You're just not picking the right one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
And Shaq Mason was a free agent signing of Nick Cassio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Like all these guys that we think are very oh
and King. Oh by the way, Kenyon Green was a
first round pick. Oh, Nick Cassario. So we're like, yeah,
Nick Cassario, get the offensive lineman. Well, it doesn't look
like at this point the early returns are he can't
pick offensive lineman. So who is the most trusted mind
in Houston when it comes to offensive line evaluation? Is
there any is there anybody all know of that could

(01:21:42):
give us a good evaluation of some offensive lineman.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
That'd the NFL networks. Man, it's more line. Okay, we
should call and get him on the show. We should.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
We need effective offensive line, they need the receiving corps
bolted up. You've already spent a lot. I'm on your
defensive line this pass offseason. Your linebacking, they need some
interior help still run. Step Settle has come come along,
but I mean full of fully fought.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Acasi is just a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Mario Edwards is kind of like he's decent, and that's
not necessarily their jobs. You can't pay money to everybody
because the linebackers are so good as long as as
long as the defensive tackles the way that this defense is,
they don't need to win. They just need to not
lose because the linebacking corps is so good. But it'd
be nice to get some some consistent interior pressure, which

(01:22:31):
Tim Settle has provided and kind of established himself as
the season went along as a starter.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
But you could still do better. You can still do
better on the interior line both sides.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
But I think if you were to look at the
first three rounds of the draft, and that's where really,
that's where people care. I mean, after round four, people
check out, you're gonna You're gonna go wide receiver and
offensive line in some particular category. Yeah, I'm about two
offensive linemen and a wide receiver. Let's go who says no, no,
I mean and just maybe again? If what if you're CJ?
What do you what are you doing this month as

(01:23:03):
you reflect on the season, do you go podcast tour?
Going to Turkey Venice at Italy? He's gonna do it again,
hanging out with it? Who is the Dallas cowboy? He
was hanging out like Parsons. Yeah, I'm a killer. I'm
a I don't on top three NFL. That's not the
reason why his number. His numbers fall off is because
I think he lost faith in his offensive line. Hey,

(01:23:24):
he looked a lot better, a lot He played his
best one of one of his best games of the
season against the Chargers and then another solid performance this
weekend to where at least he didn't cost you the game.
He didn't go out and win you the game, which
you would have liked, but he didn't cost you the game.
Who was the best quarterback this weekend was the Mahomes
in that fourth quarter magistry?

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Was it the fact that J. Daniels was shut They
just kept putting up touchdown after touchdown. They they never
took their foot off the pedal. The best player this
weekend was Theakwan Barkley.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Oh my god, two long touchdown runs. Imagine how much
fun or lack there is a fun of actually running
that crap.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Yeah, when we were kids, we loved it. At eight ers.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
As an adult, like I'm walking off the plane, I'm like,
I'm gonna fall and crack my head because we were,
we were there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
It's getting like barely falling into the turf.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
That stuff must have been icy over there, and especially
in Buffalo, they were barely falling into the turf and
like getting shaken up. Yeah, speaking of that, do not
go anywhere tonight after nine o'clock, eight o'clock, eight o'clock,
folks are saying, so make it seven to be safe.
Yeah'd be safe. Yeah, listen to radio for us. We're
gonna be on Colin Rocket's basketball here in an hour.
You've got the launch pad in a few seconds, and

(01:24:32):
then I will you and I will talk tomorrow between
ten and two, and then i'll talk to you getting
three to seven on k.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
T as we're gonna be busy the next couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Sit back, listen, relax calls, give us your life story,
Santander Blue Jays sometime there something there, Blue Jay's note
not going to the astros and also does that take
him off the list for pregnant Blue Jays?

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
Take them off?

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
By the way, did you see Joe a spot of
Quota saying we're not giving up on Bregnan.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
All right, we gotta get out of here. We gotta
go out of here. Actually keep talking. No, no, no,
you're gonna get you. Keep going. People want your launch pads. Fight,
You want to hear presdals being right? Get ready? What's
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