Astros Close Series Against Guardians, Wild Card Series Outlook, Texans Beat Jaguars, CFB Week 5 Recap

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbury.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Sewn Salisbury.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
To usc true longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Sewn Salsbury Show.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
And the Detroit Tigers going to be the opponent in
the wild Card Series as at least two of the games,
if not three, because of course you know you've got
that in parenthesis if necessary, all of them. One thirty
starts one thirty two to be exact, Sean, as I

(00:43):
saw last night, some in Astros country were not.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Very complaining because of the the Please tell me, I'm
not going to hear the Astros are just disrespected. I
mean there was a little bit of that. There was, Yeah,
that was there. Dave Baseball's better th night baseball anyway.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I mean when it comes to postseason baseball, I would agree,
because I mean, the game's run longer as is, and
also too, I mean, you know you're talking about going
from about two and a half hour games during the
regular season to at least the old school three hour variety,
if not more. I mean the good thing is with
the new rules, you can't change pictures every other hitter.

(01:21):
I mean, remember we used to be going through some
of these postseason games where they're running four four and
a half hours long, because I mean it was every
single time. Hey, we're gonna stop, We're gonna you know, here,
here's the lefty to face the left Now let's go
back to the rioting. Now, let's go to another lefty.
You don't get to have that anymore. So at least
we don't have that.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
No, but I please don't let me hear. Well, maybe
we're just do They don't respect us. That's why I don't
put us in prime time. Maybe, but who cares? Well, Okay,
I understand the fan your piss because you don't go
to because you got to miss it because of work.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
That I now me.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
You give me day games one hundred and sixty two
of them because when I'm off the air at ten,
I'd like to go. I love day baseball, day games, day, drinking,
everything about the day is a good thing if you
If you can sneak in an app once in a while, sure,
but I love day baseball so and I don't. Well,
they hate the Rastros. Why are they asss? I mean,
I don't know. Would you rather play an eight twenty game?

(02:15):
So you're up till midnight or would you rather play
give me a one twenty game tour by five o'clock.
I can eat dinner and do whatever I want after that.
I'm all, I'm all a matter of fact. When I
saw it, I said, yes, day, day day, if it
goes that far. So I do get it with the fan.
But postseason baseball, I remember back in the day, if
your teacher in high school loved the team those playing,

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it's a local team, right, a TV be on in
a room. He almost felt like a substitute teacher day. Right,
he got the cart rolling, Oh, no doubt. When the
car rolled in, it was the best day on the plans.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Say you hear the squeaking wheel coming in, and you're like,
all right, here we go. We're gonna be watching some
sort of educational video or something like that. I mean,
it's basically the teacher saying, yeah, the lesson plan. I'm
not really feeling it today, so enjoy. Yeah, here you go,
no doubt, And so I'm okay with it. But please
I'm listen.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
We see it. Hear it every year.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Ashtell has been doing this now eight years in a row,
to where they you know, they're winning divisions, but they
win two more series and they're in the ALCS for
the eighth straight year.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now you've got to take care of business.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Let's please part with the If it's just us bitching
because it can't get a night game because of Ork, fine,
but please spare me the respect and the woe is me.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's a day baseball. Enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Here we go, get to where you want to go.
You'll be playing in primetime games for sure.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I mean, you know you've got the possible ALCS with
the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
If he gets to that point, it's lining up.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Then if you get to the ALCS, it could be
the Yankees on that side. So we'll see how it
all shakes out when it's all said and done. But
like I said, a familiar face, AJ Hinch, he is
in town. So it's gonna be AJ Hinch against his protege,
Joe Aspota. Of course, Joe was his bench coach with
him and Joe stuck around after AJ was showing the

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door after for the twenty twenty investigation and Jeff Luno
as well. But AJ able to land with the Detroit
Tiger's playing good baseball right now too, So this is
not a team that's going to be coming in that
you just feel like, oh man, we could just get
through these guys.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Good front line pitching too now, and they've played outstanding
second half baseball. Man, they are real and it's in
a short series. You can't get I know this sounds simple.
Can't get down on one. No, because a bloop single
in Game two in the series is over.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, I mean that's the thing. I mean, you're in
an elimination game. I mean, everything is going their direction,
nothing is going yours. And yeah, I mean that's why
tomorrow is of the utmost importance for the Astros. And
how funny is it to another storyline from this is
the two teams that everybody was not lauding. They were
doing the complete opposite at the trade deadline. I mean,

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you know, first it was Dana Brown. You know how
they say the first one through the walls, the one
who gets the bloodiest. Well, Dana Brown making the trade
for Ysay Kakuchi and everybody out there, oh my god,
look at what you gave up.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Can't believe it? Best mid season trade. As far as
what happened result best mid season trade in baseball.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Well, it wasn't only that. It was what you've gotten
out of you say, Kakucci. But where I'm going with
this is the other side as well. I can't remember
who the GM is for the Detroit Tigers, but he
got the same thing for trading away Jack Flarity. I mean,
at the time, Detroit was not anywhere in the postseason.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Picture, right. I wanted Flarity. I mean I thought, I mean,
I'd love to have Jack Flarity.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
I would have too, absolutely, But it worked out completely
well for the Astros to, like I said, get Usay Kakuci.
So that was huge for them, but also too as well.
I mean for Detroit to be able to pull off
what they've done this season and find their way into
the postseason, and it looked like too. I mean, you know,

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we're we're coming into yesterday. We're watching those games of
the Tigers taking on the White Sox and also to
Kansas City taking on Atlanta, which, by the way, too,
if you want a primer for postseason baseball, you're getting
it today because wild card spots in the National League
still up for grabs between Atlanta and New York, and

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Arizona's gonna be watching that game pretty closely, so we'll
see how that all goes, but it is that time
of the year, it's the fun time of the year.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
We're looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
So, like I said, the Astros and the Tigers from
Ravaldez tomorrow against Trek Scouble. And that's the thing too,
is I was talking with a buddy of mine who's
in the industry.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's a big Detroit.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Guys from up there, and I was asking him, I go,
all right, so after Schooble, who do you go? And
he sent me back, you know the emoji, the shrugging
guy with the both of his hands out as kind
of like, I don't know, I mean, I think that's
kind of the way that Detroit looks at it. They
really really feel like they need game one. If they
get game one, then it kind of opens up for

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them and they can kind of go through their options.
But the Astros win it, then obviously it is significantly
advance Nitch. Astros, you're up one. Oh, you're at home,
and you've got a guy that you feel pretty good about.
Our own MotorCity mad Man Hunter Brown would be going
game two. That's I have to believe that it would
be Hunter Brown game two. So yeah, and Cocucie Game three.

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That's what it seems like. It's the way it has
to be.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
There's no Blanco would be the way he's pitching before
to me, And I guess maybe you're going to hang
on to the fact that if you needed, I mean,
if Verlander's in your bullpen, I don't know. I guess
we'll find out today how the rosters are set. But
if bullpen, if yeah, today's with deadline today, right is
the deadliners? If if Verlander's on the first the wild

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card roster, and we'll be willing to pitch in the
bullpen because arraghetti is obviously bullpen available. Seals are now
Blanco and would Verlander would be as well, which just
strengthens a bullpen the first three regardless of Verlander's start
over the weekend. I said last week, I said, if
he teases him enough with a good performance, the temptation
would be there. Because he's a veteran, he's playing against

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a former team. He has, you know, been in these
situations many times that you may be tempted. I don't
see how there's any decision other than Blanco and that
group in Arraghetty and Verlander are on.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, if something happens early in a game.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
They're in long relief, going to give you that three
or four, five, and if necessary, they don't start. And
I'm a all hands on that guy in game one too.
I'm not saying you're starting, You're putting a Hunter Brown
in the bullpen. Game one is like first down. To me,
you gotta win first down. You've got to win game
one in a short series, you have even if you're
at home, it's a must. So I treated a single elimination.

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And if you got to pitch eight guys, guess what
you do? Well, you pitch eight guys.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
That's the thing too, I mean, you know where take
Fromer For example, he was a little shaky in his
last outing against the Mariners, where I think he kind
of runs into that situation the fourth inning. I better
see Spencer Arraghetty. I bet I better see Ronel Blanco,
somebody out in the bullpen starting to warm up and
be getting ready to go.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
I don't patience right now. You give you this is
he If you start to get sideways, you got to
make a move.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You absolutely do.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean, and that's the thing too, is I love
how people, oh we've got the game tomorrow. You can't
think that way in the postseason, like every single game
is important that if you have an opportunity to at
least put yourself in position to win, then you better
take that spot where you're in position.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
You don't hoard players in a short series, now men
and k all, we got him, We got them in
the because it's like, well, like if you're watching the
President's Cup yesterday, Yeah, you jump out with Xander Schaffle
and Scottie Scheffler and guys, and you put them up front.
You're up going into the weekend, and then you're up
going into Sunday in the singles matches and while you
got maximum of guys that have been clutch at the end,

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Brian Harmon, who's won a major. But those guys are
there if in fact you need them, you have a
lead going in, you want to close it out and
choke them out early and not like well, and if
you don't get to use those guys for eighteen holes
in the back, good is somebody? Don't You don't hoard
players and you put your best up front. Let's go.
And if it takes me to put the two players

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of the year this year and in Scheffler and and
uh schoffle up front instead of like saving for the
ad because he had to see the field. That's my point.
Sure we had to see the course. If you clinch
it up front, or if the other team jumps out
and whips you, you don't get to see it. It's
the same thing here. I ain't saving somebody. Hey got
him in Game three. Really, I'm not getting a game
three if I don't take care of my business in

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one and two. So I'm all about Game one. To me,
is just as important as a game. Deciding to say,
when you're I'm talking about as a manager and player,
when you're making decisions, I would treat tomorrow at one
little after one o'clock like we're playing elect the series
as one to one.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, it's not only that it's one to one.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
I mean I think you also treat it like the
saying is in baseball when it comes to postseason baseball,
I'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow gets here.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, Like that's that's how the mind way is in
most life.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
I mean, live now, man, and if you go, you go,
put one on them and they're on the road. Now
the game two pitcher, because school's hello, I mean he can,
he can, he can shut this roster down.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well, I mean, he's a pitching triple Crown guy for
a reason.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
That's exactly right. He's a friggin monster. So you got
and you do not let him settle in either. Now
you got to jump in a hurry and get after it.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, and that's the thing too, is I mean I
talked about it numerous times, and people, of course who
follow me on social media, I know that you know
some people are you.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Know you're always too hard on this lineup?

Speaker 4 (11:20):
No, I mean how many times this year and I've
talked about it with you numerous times. Have we seen
this top of the order go three up, three down
in the first whereas at least this last series. And
I understand you weren't playing your full guys, you were resting,
you were doing all those different types of things. But
I liked at least in both games the Astros getting
out to.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
An early aggressive I'm one hundred percent with you in
this team. I would imagine the statistics and metrics across
baseball Reek of Domination and the win loss column when
you jump out and like score two runs or more
in the first two innings. Oh, I would imagine that
the winning percentage is through the roof. I don't know
the overall baseball metrics, but we know the astros how
good they are when they jump out in front. This

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is a pitcher if he gets rolling and like a
lot of them, but a lot of them can't sustain it.
This dude gets rolling and is feeling it and the
way they're playing unless Fromber matches his energy, which Fromber's
done a hell of a job. Let's he fifteen and seven,
fifteen and eight, now, whatever it is, he's done a
hell of a job, proven that he's an ace of
a staff. But you got to jump on this, and

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you got to jump on it in a hurry. The
short series like this against a team that's hot and
feeling it, and as a team that the manager there
knows a lot about this team here, it concerns me.
I'd be a lot less concerned in a seven gamer
I would the three gamer concerns because game one is
so frigging important.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
No, it is incredibly important. And it's also too I mean,
you know we've seen it numerous times. I mean I
brought it up before that. I mean, there are teams
that get hot. This time of the year and you're
kind of like, you know, we're not really thinking about them.
Then they win a game, then they win another one,
then they win a series, and you're kind of like,
I mean, Arizona was that team last year. The Rangers
weren't so much going into the postseason, but then they

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turned it on once they got into the postseason. And
obviously we saw how that shook out. But I mean,
you know, it's been countless examples, countless times of teams that,
again you're not necessarily thinking of as a team that
has a chance to be able to win and move on.
So Astro is trying to stave off the Detroit Tigers
from being able to do that. Also two on the

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show Today, Texans beat the Jags yesterday twenty four twenty
as disease Al Shaier said after the game, I'd rather
be an ugly three and one than a pretty one
in three. He definitely got what he asked for in
that regard, because it has been an ugly three and one.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
I don't think there's any doubt about that. I'm gonna
say something. We'll come back and discuss it. Maybe a
little harsh. They are a soft three in one. Okay,
it not a soft team. It's a soft three and one.
If CJ. Strouds the quarterback of the Jacksonville Jaguars, they
beat the Texans with all those penalties by two and
a half touchdowns yesterday, I've got Lawrence Minsubiti's too many

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easy plays. He's become guy without look at the impact
Stroud and he played out of his mind. He and
Nico Collins together loaded him up and took care of
their business. I'm just telling you they're fortunate and their
offensive line and the penalties. This team's gonna get beat
by a team they're not supposed to lose to, and
they're fortunate. Hasn't happened already. They played one really good
team and what happened, right, They got their ass kicked

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and they're about to go for Buffalo is gonna be
pissed after the embarrassment they put on yesterday, after their start.
And this game's in Buffalo next week.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's easy. It's okay. I was gonna say I didn't.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
I didn't know here there it helps, but you're going
to get the best of Buffalo next week. Be careful,
play like you did with penalties in the last two weeks,
three weeks. You won't beat him. You won't beat them,
Thank goodness for Stroud. Now they're resilient and they're three
and one. So you take it as you get it.
This is a concerning three and one, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I got pushed.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Around with the line of screw too many run, too
much running ability, too many yards in the front seven
in the run game for a Jacksonville team that makes
too many offensive mistakes throwing the ball. They moved the
ball too easy on the on the Texas running it
yesterday for about what one hundred and fifty or so. Yeah,
that's got improve.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes, definitely does both running the ball and run defense
as well. A lot of good college football stuff over
the weekend as well. We'll get into all that as
the show goes along. As Shawn teased, we'll get into
a little bit of the Texans conversation on the other side.
Also to one storyline with the Astros this year that
I don't think it's enough run that I do want
to chop it up with Sean a little bit on that,

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So we'll do that.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
On the other side.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
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Because right now you see lighte on Houston.

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Speaker 1 (15:53):
Back to Sean Salisbury.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
The Longhorns had there CC opener this weekend, a little
clunky in the first half, but able to pick it
up in the second. They went by twenty three over
Mississippi State thirty five at thirteen.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
They're off this week before Mississippi State of bad football.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
That is not a fun time for Jeff Levee and
the crew there in startball.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Learning Mike Leach has missed.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Hopefully it'll turn around for Jeff Levy and his first
head coaching opportunity and some big games this past weekend.
And then what Texas by before they got the Red
River shoot out right there you go, right yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Nice and nice little back to back two for Texas.
Where you get Oklahoma, who looks like they're improved with
their new quarterback ever since they replaced Jackson Arnold, and
then you've got a Georgia team who badly needs to
stay with one loss after losing to Alabama forty one
to thirty.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
That game was just too much to over come tail
to two halves. It really was played two different games
in it, and too much to overcome when you're out
spot them that many points in the first half.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
I made a valiant effort.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Hell what a but you know you're not garantee Kirby
Smart ripped their ass at halftime senseless, and your moral
victories don't happen. You love the effort, But when I
hear people say, well, they played hard, you're supposed to
play hard all the time.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well, you're also supposed to eventually beat Alabama, which Kirby
Smart in his career one in six even without Nick Saban.
So now, oh, win one without Nick Saban, but one
in six career as a head coach against Alabama.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'll tell you this.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
When we got a local kid here, Dan Milroe, who's
a kadie guy. Yeah this, uh. I think Hunter is
the best player in all around playing college football from Colorado.
I do a top five pick. He's not gonna win
Heisman Trophy because they're not gonna be gaudy enough numbers
for him, and Colorado may not have many more wins
on their schedule. Impressive went over Central Florida, but they're

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going to run into some more difficult contests along the way,
so they're not gonna be in the playoff, which is
gonna out of sight, out of mind for what Hunter,
who is a phenomenal talent right now, as much as
I cam Ward's done for Miami and he's a really
good player, and you look around the league, I mean,
the country has some really impactful players. There is nobody

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in the country playing better football than Jaden Milroe. He
has been phenomenal and to do what he did, He's
loading teams on his team on his shoulder and they're
winning weekly. He's got to be the front runner for
the Heisman Trophy in my mind because of his impact
has been amazing. And Beck played a good second half,
but he turned over three times against Alabama on the road.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
It's gonna be hard to win.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Well, I mean locally to Houston guys. You touched on
Jalen Milroe right there, the potential game winning score which
put Georgia ahead for at least about thirty seconds or so.
Dylan Bell, a Kinkaid guy, was the receiver of that football,
running it into the end zone and scoring for Georgia.
But I mean, it's the funny thing is too is

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a lot of people around here obviously don't get this,
but you know, from me being around the Georgia program
like I had been for the last years, there are
two groups of people with Georgia fans that get it
in the shorts more than any other. No matter who
the quarterback is, the fan base seems to hate that
guy and the offensive coordinator, Mike Bobo, same deal that he.

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You know, it was after the game the Twitter streets
where well if Bobo did this, well if Carson Beck
did this. My response to them was, well, if you
don't fall behind twenty eight to nothing in Tuscaloosa, maybe
things go a little bit different for you. So you know,
there's a little something to be said about trying to
come back in that case, and they nearly did, but
I guarantee there's no moral victories there, So we'll see

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how it all shakes out. But like I said, they'll
be you know, here in the state in three weeks
against that Texas team badly looking to get their season
back on track.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yeah, there's a hell of a month of October football
coming up on the college level, and Texas is right
the right in the throes of it. I think they're
number one in the country today, aren't they right? Yes,
they number one? And Arch did and I played better
this week against Assissippi State, but he got better and
was accurate with the football. It's a good problem to
have when you got a backup that can step right
in when Quinn yours take some time off, because Andrew

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or when he goes to the NFL next year, is
probably a top ten pick and we'll see where it
goes from there. But that damn Texas team has a
lot to look forward to, and with a bye week
before Oklahoma, it's going to be it's gonna be fun
to see how when they get healthy, what kind of
run they're going to make this year.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
And it's also too I mean, this is the part
of the Texas schedule. They get through it, then I
think they feel pretty good about being able to run
the table and possibly get to the SEC championship game.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
And if you're able to do.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
That, then you're more than likely already in position to
make the twelve team playoffs at that point. I mean,
you know, if you're undefeated going into that game, that game,
aside from being able to win it and have hey,
you know we're conference champions. If you lose that game,
it's not fatal to you. I mean, it probably means
that you're not one of the top four buys that

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you probably have to play the first week. But also
too at the same time, I mean, you know, one loss,
you're in that twelve team play So if Texas.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Loses to Georgia in a couple three weeks and they
run the table from then on to get to the
SEC championship game, they're in the playoffs regardless of that score.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
I said that I want chaos in terms of the
SEC where now with this happening, I want Georgia to
go to Texas and beat Texas, and then I want
LSU to beat Alabama, and that way we've got at
least four teams that probably are going to be one
loss going into that final week of the season.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I know we talked about chaos with four teams, You're
gonna get more chaos with twelve. Sure, I'm not saying
that the thirteenth team has the argument to get in,
and maybe they will, but obviously, where there's more, there's
more chances at chaos, and that doesn't mean to get
into the playoff. But are you the seventh seed, are
you the one seed? Do you get a buye?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Do you not?

Speaker 5 (21:43):
How many SEC teams are you have taken with one
loss or two losses compared to the rest of the country.
I think it's while there's teams that can, I always
find it in Power five schools, and now with this
realignment and conference, it's tough to go undefeated.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
It is really really tough to go undefeat.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
You know, it's funny you say that too about re alignment,
because I mean after the game was over and a
lot of us are probably on the sugar high watching
that game.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
It was awesome. It was an amazing game.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Fowler and Herbstreet did an awesome job, as they always always.
But you know, remember we used to have Pack twelve
after Dark and I said this on Twitter. Now we
have Big ten in Big twelve after Dark just doesn't
have the same zing.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
No, it's different. That's a damn truth. But tell you what,
that football game, if you turned your TV off. You
missed a hell of a second half, and I'm sure
a lot of fans were tempted to because I can't
watch this. It's kind of like what Baltimore did to
sure Buffalo yesterday, although Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Didn't have the run in them that Georgia did.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
This season is far from far from over as far
as the standings go from one to five, there's gonna
be some movement in the next couple weeks.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's the fun of football, there's no doubt, both college
and the NFL. So we'll get into more of the
NFL side locally here. On the other side, as like
I said, the Texans beat the Jags twenty four to twenty,
but a lot to be able to dissect from that one,
so we'll do that on the other side, Dan Matthew,
Sean Salisbury, Triple E, Emanuel el Moore. This is the

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Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talk seventy ninety.

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Speaker 1 (24:29):
But the Shawn Salisbury Show continues.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Uh, the Tigers get in and play against the Astros tomorrow.
But I got to believe that, especially once they get
the workout going at about two o'clock, it's going to
be a lot of people paying attention to Hey, what's
that six foot five guy that wears the number forty four?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
What's he doing?

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Oh he's got a bat. Oh he's got a helmet on.
Oh he's going into the cage. All right, Well that's good.
Oh he's out in left field taking five balls. Well
that's that's good. I don't think going to see the
second part because I would promise not in this series now, No,
not not in this series.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
For sure.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
I think you'd be pretty hard pressed even as far
as the Astros if they are able to advance, that
you see much of Jordan Alvarez out in left field,
because it's not his doing. It's having Jason Hayward around.
That's that's a massive help as well. So you've got
him here, so he takes that off Jordon's plate. So
we'll see what happens there. But first game tomorrow won

(25:27):
thirty two over at minute made park from ber Valdez
against Ataric scooball got into a little bit of college football.
One of the headlines we hadn't talked about too. I
know you're a huge music guy. I gotta believe you're
a big fan of this guy, one of the legends,
Chris Christofferson passing away over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
As well as our guy from Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah,
that's right, that's right John. What's his name?

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Gosh, dang it, well it was John Taggart in the
movie Taggert. Yeah, that's that time. I got him his Taggart.
Great great post by Judge Reynold as well, talking about
all the years of last they have. But yeah, Chris
Christofferson led you know, he's a John Ashton was the
actors right, right, and he made me laugh. And I

(26:10):
think if you like Beverly Hills Cop, then he's a
big reason why. You know that let's see he was
I think he flew planes. Christofferson in war. He's a
Rhodes scholar, actor singer. I mean, if if there's something

(26:30):
out there, the military guy, if there's something out there
that that's been done Chris, I mean, it's had an
opportunity to get done. Chris Christofferson has done it when
eighty eight years old, I think legend and uh missed. Man,
it's gonna be And I know that we say this
about everybody, and you know when they get to appointment.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Man, good life served right. Didn't get cheated out of fun.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
He did not get cheated and uh passing away peacefully
at his home in Maui, Hawaiian.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
So that's the way it'supp I was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
I mean, it kind of reminds me of I saw
the I don't I don't know why it came across
my feet, but do you watch Yellowstone. I forget who
his buddy was, but remember they were out on the
trail and his buddy passed away in his sleep, and
I remember, you know, of course Kevin Costner John Dutton said, well,
I don't know if I could have found a better
way if you'd paid me right, you know, if you

(27:21):
were doing what you loved and that's where you just
kind of passed on to the other side. And that's
how Chris Christopherson so family saying he passed away peacefully
and eighty eight years old in Maui.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
That means he was relaxing and and and uh chilling.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
I was gonna say, that's I mean, it's kind of
the dream too, write like, if you've got the means
to be able to live in Hawaii, then you know,
you live over there and just kind of live out
your days. I mean, you know, it's kind of I
think people look at Bill Murray as a guy that
just kind of like, you know, enjoys life, just goes
through it and it's not really much effort to it.
You admire those people too, you know that, Like they
seemingly like, hey, that guy, you know, he doesn't put

(28:01):
a lot of effort into it.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
No expectations, Yeah, no disappointment there you go. You live
right because people will disappoint you will disappoint people.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
People disappoint you. You have no expectations. Life's good.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
And Christofferson Army Rhodes Scholar, Army ranger, flu helicopters gold
glove boxer.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Obviously a Texan. She's an actor performer.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
He also wrote, uh, you know me and Bobby McGhee
Sunday morning, coming down and help me make it through
the night.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
If you remember that obviously that great cut. So what
a life lived eighty eight years old, Chris Christofferson. I'm
sure he'll be missed and honored obviously as we all do.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
And then as you said, Taggart, who is John last
name again Ashton? Ashton passed away over the weekend as well,
so made good impact on the lost gave us some
good some good smiles.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
So my buddy Andy's brother Ronnie is an actor and
he was in the movie Death in Texas with with
John Ashton, and he shared some some good things about
him yesterday, just talking about what a great guy was,
about how once they would wrap filming, he would come
up to him and say, hey, we're going to watch
college football. The lives you touch, that's it. I love it.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Those guys who live it right and gals who live
it right and don't really care what other people think
about them. I mean, you know what I'm saying, as
long as you're doing right and you're not going to
please them all, and it seems like both those guys
made some I know they impacted me because I love
Chris Christofferson and John Ashton was phenomenal in movies, but
always a great other guy and supporting actor, and like

(29:32):
the Beverly Hills Cops series and a bunch of other stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Was in Midnight Run too. That's exactly right. Underrated movie.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
It is a very underrated VI it was de Niro
when de Niro was still de Niro. I mean, I
think we can agree now he's kind of well that's
all right, you know, well, well we can touch on
that again a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
But Charles growed in that movie. Yeah, that when de
Niro was DeNiro. Best way I put it, yeah, I was.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Gonna say Casino de Niro, you know, Jimmy, Jimmy Conway DeNiro.
That's that's when he was. But anyway, rest in peace
to both of those great showmen. So, like I said,
the Astros, we'll get into that as the show continues.
We haven't really had a chance to get into the
Texans much. We'll do that as well. Rockets Media day too,

(30:15):
they're about to get going with training camp. It's unreal
We were over there last week checking out the facility
right around the.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Corner from us. It's almost to be pretty impressive. It is.
It is, it's it's every bit of it.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
It's one of those like you walk through it and
if you've been to the Posto Hotel or like any
of Tillman's properties, like you look at it and you're like, yeah,
this looks familiar. Okay, I've seen this. Yeah, this is
the guy that's been in hospitality and entertainment for a
long time.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
So I I get it.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
And you know his places make a pretty good meal too,
so no doubt, you know you get you get all
three of them over there at the new Memorial Harmon Hills.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Surprise, he does it right. Yeah, he does it right.
Tilman Fatita does so. I just can't believe it's here.
It's hard, it's fun, it's fun. Still try to get
baseball and football roll in full. I mean baseball is
in full, you know, stride and baseball trying to get
these Texans back to three and one. I guess, like
you said, an ugly three and one. But now basketball
start and we got a adjust to that. Good on them,

(31:12):
but it comes quick. Basketball season flows so fast.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
That's that's why when it comes to sports, October might
be the best month because it seems hockey kicks in
there you go, so, I mean, you get the cross
section of everything going right at the same time.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
So that's the fun of this year.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
But like I said, Texans hadn't had a chance to
really cut into that one.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
We'll do that.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
On the other side. You want to weigh in, you
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The Sean Salisbury Show continues.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Now, you know.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
With Buffalo coming into town. So that's not a good
feeling either. But the Texans able to get to go
ahead score win the game. Penalties were up plenty in
that one, which I think we are all on Laromie
tonsl watch and for good reason, because I mean, you
wanted to see, all right, is the pre snap is
that still gonna be there? You lined up correctly, all right,

(34:06):
you look like you check both of those boxes. But
then the first hold and when I tell you, Sean,
the booze were loud when they said holding number seventy eight,
they were loud and then when he did it again,
they were even louder.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
He grades out so high when the ball snapped normally.
He's one of the better players at his positioned in
the league. And I'll say it like I said, since
this he's led the league in penalty since twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Offensive line. He's just it's a constant. It is becoming
a detriment. I'm just telling you they're not beaten Baltimore,
Kansas City. You're not beating those good teams getting penalized
ten to twelve times a game.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
I don't care how good Stroud is. And Stroud's a monster,
said before a Stroud. If you just flipped the quarterbacks,
the Texans are fortunate to be one and three right now,
and the and the Jacksonville Jaguars will be four and
zho I mean and yesterday, I Stroud's the quarterback for them.
It's a seventeen point victory for jack to build the
way they're playing, if you're being honest with yourself. And

(35:02):
this is something too. And we'll hear from some of
the players as the show goes along. But I mean,
of course, you know they're gonna give you.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Oh, you know, nobody blows anybody out in the NFL
all that kind of stuff. You know, they're all close keys.
I get that, but I mean also too at the
same time. I mean, let's be honest with ourselves with
this team. You could have lost it Indianapolis, if you
probably have better quarterback play out of Caleb Williams, then
you lose on Sunday night to the to the Bears.
So you're possibly owing two at that point. Last week

(35:31):
wasn't even a shot against a good team, a really
good team that's playing good football, who nearly coughed it
up yesterday.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
But they boy, they got a little over ambitious with
some stupidity in the second half of their football game
yesterday and especially the fourth quarter. Sure they had them
dead to rights and turn. I mean some of the
decisions they made not to kick a field goal at
one point in time would have been a two touchdown lead.
That's neither here nor there. But the Vikings are playing
good football and then yesterday, right, so it is. And listen,
I'm normally, and I've preached on this for years. I'll

(36:01):
take a win. Wins are hard to come by, sure,
and if you start off great in September, Man It
just bodes well for the rest of the seed. Would
you rather be one in three Cincinnati Bengals at three
and one Houston Texans the three and one Houston the three.
But I can tell you this that if they're watching tape,
and you know they are with when they're watching tape,

(36:21):
and great, and it hard that Demiko Ryance knows that
they've got away with some I mean that they've been fortunate,
you know that.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
But it's an un it's his.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Undisciplined which is shocking to me because the way he
goes about his business. It's his undisciplined teams there is
in a league on the offensive side of the ball, especially.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
You were seventy yards away from going goal line to
goal line with penalties yesterday.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Twelve penalties for ninety three yards in that game. Yeah,
it can't keep happening, but it's it's not just a
one off. This is a trend now. And the offensive
line got better in to a couple of sacks.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Is all got better. Let him set his feet.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
I love that Slowak was more aggressive on play calling
and attacking and getting the ball to your best players.
And Nico Collins is their best wife receiver make no
mistake about it. And they were able to scratch out
with you know, the run game and being efficient in
that and then the touchdown you know, out of the
backfield to put them ahead and secure a win. But

(37:13):
I can tell you, man, and I usually come here
and say, okay man, that's a what a great comeback,
what a way to hang in there. And it is
true resilience. Yesterday and Stroud playing again, he can make
throws in the windows at the average guy. Just look
around the league at some that can't make those throws.
Stroud's phenomenal. But it's it's getting to the They should
have booed Tunsil yesterday when he did, They should have

(37:35):
Kenyan Green had three or four himself again, and it
just can't keep happening. And I don't want to hear
one out soul there against the Texans for what. They're
against the Texans for what because the JJ Watt won
three Defensive Players of a Year or because the Texans
are finally winning. It didn't like they're the villain because
well textas the villain. They don't I understand why people

(37:55):
are like the Astros they're the villain. They keep winning
and don the Chiefs have become a villain Golden State
to become a I mean, when you're winning that, it's
just automatic. The rest of the world seems to hate you.
And the Texans may get to that. Five years now,
there's no you're still working to be a blip on
the radar. When it comes to the national consistency focus.
Stroud's put him there, Dimico's put them there, and now

(38:16):
they're starting to expand that. But let's slow down on Oh,
they got it in for the Texans for what? For
what win in three games two years ago and win
in ten x. No, they don't have an in for him.
It's called undisciplined, crappyass the discipline and focus on the
football field.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Well, I mean and Tamiko Ryans talked about that again yesterday.
I mean, I liked his line where he said it's
a broken record at this point. But I mean, we're
still the Texans playing against the Texans, right and he
will grate them hard and I'm sure get on him
the right way. We'll keep him enthusiasm because you do
not want to bury the lead. The lead is they won.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Sure, the leads they won and they're three to one
but they beat a Chicago Bears team that's not going
to win a lot of games this year, but impressive
win and they took They did a good job against
the Rams. They also we know that Indianapolis and go
back to what you said, Caleb Williams missed and throws
turn it over against him.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Anthony Richard has had.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Two deep balls in the first game wide open man
Trevor Lawrence had a couple deep shots yesterday. I'm talking
about twenty yards open that he missed. He misses pedestrian
plays that a quarterback can't miss. Stroud doesn't miss those.
That's a big difference in yesterday's game and penalty. So
as much as I'm always enthusiastic and I'll take three
and one till the Cows come home, the problem is

(39:28):
you keep running into this schedule. You're not gonna be
three and one if you get better play from in
three games from the quarterback position on the other team.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Well, it's also too I mean, Cassario said the exact
theme thing that you're talking about right there, at least
your last point at the combine where he was like
we won a lot of close games last year, Like
let's not get it twisted and think like that this
is a ready made like see ye, he is going
to be built up on and we're just gonna walk
into the postseason and go into the AFC Championship this year.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
That's not happening, agreed.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
So it's I mean, there's so much that, there's so
many layers to get through this. But look at the elevator.
Nico coins wasn't even one hundred percent healthy and playing
like a one. He is as much respect as I
have for Stefan Diggs. The best receiver on this team
is Nico Collins right now. But they've got a bandwidth
and it goes to show you just how important Joe
Mixon is to the success. I mean, getting him back

(40:18):
is going to be paramount.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
He just is.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
But they've been able to do this playing in quite
frank in four games. They've had spurts of great football
on offense and defense, and they even overcome a special
teams blunder yesterday. Right, I don't know what is the
drop kick early in the game, the drop punch? Should
I say?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
I mean, so you spotted in points immediately, and then
even Steven Simms hurt them again.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Later, so and he started it and heard it later,
I mean eight times, so and you still overcame it,
which tells you the Jacksonville is just they've got some major,
major issues. And they they they gave a game away
with their and and the defense did a nice job
of not giving up a ton of home run plays.
They just did, But there was a couple guys running

(41:02):
through that Lawrence should have hit.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
And we're wondering today if we're on Doug Peterson watch,
I mean's the whispers.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Are already starting.

Speaker 5 (41:08):
I've I've I've heard from buddies might have lived there,
the whispers starting to change the coach? Why not bench
the quarterback? Well, you're not going to bench the quarterback?
I mean, I guess may who's their backup now?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (41:18):
It's not Kenny two gloves? You know who's the who's
the backup in in Jacksonville. It's a veteran who's been
a who's played in this league before. We're it's uh,
you're not gonna bet, but Lawrence is missing too many
easy plays?

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Why am I losing my mind?

Speaker 9 (41:35):
There?

Speaker 2 (41:35):
You go back from New England. That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah, so, and you know he's physically limited on some
of the things he can do. But we go to break,
we'll we'll talk about it at nauseum. But I just
my concern is, I love that they're winning these games,
but you're winning them against three quarterbacks that can't dress
in the same locker room as Stroud right now with
the way he plays, and the defense is obviously getting
better penalties and allowing average teams to hang around is

(42:00):
putting them in a mind it at some point it's
going to flip the script on your ass. And you
played a good team last week and they put it
on you. So I'll take three and one anyway I
can get it. But make no mistake, this is not
a super Bowl caliber team. Four games end of the season.
They've got some stuff to do. Yeah, if the record
says yes, performance says no. A lot of work to do,
no doubt about it. One hour is in the books,

(42:20):
so we've already put in a lot of work here.
If you want to weigh in, you can do so.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Once again,
that's seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
Will continue the Texans conversation. Also to got to get
into the Astros talk. I know earlier I teased a
storyline that I don't think has talked about enough with
this twenty twenty four Astros team will do that on
the other side as well. Seven o'clock hour up next

(42:43):
right here on the Sean Salisbury Show.

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Speaker 4 (43:28):
You know, couldn't remember exactly where it was, but anyway,
they will start training camp here pretty soon. Talked about
you know, uh, actor John Ashton passing away, of course
you know him from Beverly Hills Cop but also to
actor singer, songwriter Rhodes scholar, former military.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Man, did emmy ranger?

Speaker 4 (43:49):
I was gonna say, I mean, it's pretty much one
of those that, like it almost doesn't even sound real
about Chris Christopherson where you're like, what what what didn't
this guy dude?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Did he? What was he in a major League camp
somewhere as well.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Wouldn't be shocked. I was gonna say, I mean, what
a well life lived man. Good for him, eighty eight
years old, been a good run.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
And like I said, passing away peacefully at his home
in Maui, Hawaii. So Chris Christofferson had it figured out.
There's no doubt about it. But if you want to
weigh in, you can do so someone three two one
two five seven ninety. I wanted to get back into
the Astros conversation here for a second. Like I said,
they're gonna be working out today over at Minute Made Park.
They got back in from Cleveland just after ten o'clock

(44:28):
last night. I was talking with somebody with the team
and I was like, Hey, if you guys landed yet,
and he's like, yeah, yeah, we just landed. So able
to get home, get somewhat of a good night's sleep.
But then they will get it fired up for a
workout later today. Like I said, we're gonna be all
eyes on number forty four. What's he doing? Is he
is he swinging the bat? Is he in the cage?
Because I think that's gonna be the tell all sign

(44:50):
if they have him in the cage taking BP. I
think that probably shows you he's at least he's at
least trending it towards being a go uh. And of
course you know we'll get the roster. I think tomorrow
is when you have to have the roster final.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Like at a certain time during the day.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
Right, they're gonna spend I think Dana Brown told us
last week, they'll spend after the weekend Monday, making these
hard decisions that some guys are gonna be bummed about.
Missing one series doesn't mean you're missing them all right exactly.
So I mean, you know you've got taxi squad everything else.
I mean kind of stay ready. And it's also too
I mean, as we saw in twenty twenty two, Julie
Gurioh went down and somebody else had to step onto

(45:27):
the roster and try to contribute in that final game
to win the World Series. Here that I believe how
important Jordon is this team. And I know seventy five
plus games or whatever it was with Kyle Tucker did
gamble in the group. They were able to mix and
match and hang in play really good baseball in postseason.
Your face and everybody's best all the time. They can
win a series without Jordon. They can't win a World

(45:50):
Series without him in the middle line up.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
See, and that's gonna be the interesting thing as well.
I mean I think that probably the way the Astros
would look at it.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
I mean, it can, but the odds, the odds are slave.
It would be to that on them.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
You don't you don't want to be going in without
your best player, no doubt. I mean, and that's the
thing is in terms of hitting, Jordan is your best
player when it comes to that, I mean, I understand
what Kyle Tucker is, I understand what hose Acer is the.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Best all around player. Jord's your best hitter. I agree
with that.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Yes, yeah, peer, peer across the board, that is the case.
One thing, you know, I talked about this on my
weekend show, Sean and I played some audio from Joe
Aespota where I asked him last Wednesday in the dugouts
after they had clinched. I said, you know, you stayed
calm all season long, like, no matter what happened, you

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were the same guy, seemingly in the postgame press conference,
whether you won, whether you lost, whether you you know,
won five in a row, whether you'd lost you know,
five in a row. He seemingly was the same guy
every single week. And you know the reason why I
bring that up too is I had mentioned it before.
You don't see that at first year managers. You know,
you don't even see it. I mean, you know, let's

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think of the guys too, who were vet managers that
ran hot all the time.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
The l Russas, the lou Panella's, the uh you know.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
I'm rest his soul recently, Bobby Cox's Bobby Cox. I mean,
you know, just just those guys that seemingly if they
if they felt like they need to go to the
nuclear option of hey, these guys got to play better,
and in seeing it and you know, not so many
nice words, he never went that route. And I mean
I think that that is a huge reason why this
team is in the position they're in, is that he

(47:27):
was a steady, calm presidence the entire season, and the
guys responded to him. Even at a time when fans
wanted him to like explode, to get ejected. We all
said it could we get a little more emotion, right,
So the same things that people were bothered about is
quite frankly the same things that this team needed they
are because early on in the season, like he's got

(47:49):
fire as he is?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
He is he in over his head? Right?

Speaker 5 (47:52):
Is he too, buddy, buddy to be fiery with the
meg because of his relationship with players, and they struggled
in at twelve and twenty four. All those questions were valid,
fair enough, But when you're what thirty six games into
a season into a managerial career, or you wouldn't bury
a player thirty six games into his career, you wouldn't
say done. So thirty six years, thirty six games, that
year's thirty six games in their career.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
You get them a chance. Like Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Thirty six games into Kyle Tucker's career, people were done,
you know, like, wow, man, what's going on with him?
Well that's not enough at bats. Then finally when he
does it, you realize, now the guy's going to make
thirty million a year or more for a long time.
So you got to stay with Joe Spotted and I
get the questions aj Hinch and Dusty Baker to that
shoes the film man and the success they've had, and

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then a spot stayed the course that the press conference
is the same boring and it's okay, Sure, that's okay, boring,
just never he never showed h Now maybe in the
clubhouse the emotion's different, but he never allowed him to
see him. He's never changed his personality, you said, when
they were getting their ass handed to him, and know
they're handed to somebody else their ass. His his personality

(48:56):
and his approach to interviews and his approach to the
media has never changed. His dugout demeanor has never changed.
And at times while people are bothered, they want all
the emotion that goes with the Dow Jones in the
up and down. Would you invest every day and when
you're watching it, would you pull it out an investment,
put it back in, pull it out every single day
based on one day of the stock market, of course not.
It's the same thing here, he didn't. I mean his

(49:18):
ability to just.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Just just stay there, even though when you're not going
well you want that, and when you are going well
you love that. Does that make sense? Sure?

Speaker 5 (49:27):
So his body, everything about him, a calming, stabilizing force
was needed, and he stayed the course when everybody else
wanted him to change early on, and he was true
to it and impressive for him to get him in
this position and to not lose his way what.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
He believed was the right way.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Well, it's also too, I mean, baseball is such a
game that emotions can play a part, but you don't
want to be overly emotional.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 5 (49:52):
Yeah, It's a slow grind, man, a long, slow grind
in a game and in a season.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
And that's I mean.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
And that's the thing too, is I mean, you know,
I remember it in twenty seventeen kind of the same
deal when the Astros went up to the Bronx and
lost those three games, and you're kind of thinking to yourself,
all right, maybe this just isn't it, you know, because
now New York's coming here. All they need to do
is win one game and this thing's over. JV goes
out shoves game six, and then you get the Lance
mccullors curve balls in Game seven, and you go the

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World Series and you beat the Dodgers. So but where
I'm going with this is I remembered kind of thinking
the same thing about aj Hinch is he would go
to the podium. He was the same guy. I mean,
it was all right, you know, backs are against the wall.
He's being asked about it, decisions, everything of the sort,
and he's you know, all right, you know, we've got
a good team, We're gonna stick with it, and these

(50:38):
guys will find a way. And eventually they did. And
that's something too that in baseball. I mean, the less
you think, the better off you are in baseball. I mean,
it's one of those that one of the things when
I used to go to skip Burtman's baseball camp as
a kid. Oh yeah, coach he he. He had a
term how to win awareness. They called it the HWA
of their program, and their whole point was of knowing

(51:02):
what to do in certain situations, but not pressing in
that situation because you go with what you were taught.
But also too, you rely on your talent to be
able to push you through and be able to be
successful in those spots you invite.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
The truth is, the most successful people I've ever been
around stay out of their weaknesses, push themselves into strengths,
but invite hero moments. They invite without trying to be
a hero. Is I think it's said the same way
where you're talking about is that prepare for those moments
and sometimes you're not prepared for them. But if your
mindset says, if it's like anything, if you're what's the

(51:37):
best thing you're supposed to do, if you fear something,
do it sure and immediately do Yeah, well, I don't
want to hit right. Well, if you hit rock bottom,
nobody loves rock bottom. But once you hit it, there's
nothing anybody else can do because you know what that's seened,
You know what the real estate and landscape looks like. Sure,
so there's nothing anybody can do for those of us
hit it. Had a damn thing anybody can do to
me or say to me that that I haven't seen

(51:58):
and been through, whether it's a loss of a family
speaking from me per se, when you go through it,
you're not afraid of anything, because before you go through,
you're like, damn wonderful. It's like down there. Well, when
you hit it, you know, it's just like at the top,
when you go up there. It's hard to live up
there and to stay there. Getting there's one thing, staying
there's another. Most of us live somewhere in between. Right,

(52:18):
But when you fear something, the best thing to do
say I'm gonna take this bitch on and let's go. Well,
it's the same thing with that you take on and
you put you you prepare and visualize, but you welcome
the moments.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I guarantee you are not.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
Al Alvarez would rather hit with guys on second and
third than nobody on the base in the bottom of
the eighth inning, bottom of the ninth inning in a
plaif Cain, I guarantee it.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Well, that's why they thrive. It's also too to your point.
I mean, you know, when you're going through it, you
don't appreciate it, but you appreciate the lessons that it
taught you.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
There's no bigger growth than those moments. Successful moments are
fun in that paved road. There's no bigger growth than
an unpaved road. Dude, It's what makes you fun.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
New path, right, sure, I mean it makes you appreciate
it even more because you realize what it took to
get there. Sometimes the wrong train takes you to the
right path or to the right stop. And you know,
at twelve and twenty four it was it felt like
the train was wrong. But the conductor, to be cheesy
and say, Joe Espada did they didn't stop the train.

(53:15):
He did not ye rolling here we are and this
team responded to I mean, we talked about it as well.
I mean, you know, you had seven and nineteen, you
had twelve and twenty four, you had Kyle Tucker go down,
you had Justin Verlander go down, you had to.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Five starters and the pitching staff gone most of the season.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
And you had and you had to elevate, you know,
guys like Spencer Arraghetty when probably you did not want
to elevate guys like Spencer Arraghetty at this point in
their career.

Speaker 5 (53:38):
But now you know who he is, right, I know
what the guts are. So let's say, and you found
out sooner than you would have. That's it.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
So the Astros going through all of that, and now
they find themselves in the postseason. One thirty two going
to be the start time tomorrow for the Stros and
the Tigers in the wild card round to get that going.
So we'll continue talking about that as well. If you
went to weigh in on the phone lines, do so
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(56:28):
a lot about the Astros while Carter Ron gets going
Tomorrow Texans as well as the Texans went an ugly
one at yesterday. Demiico Ryans after the game, not mincing
words the mental penalties, he said, can't stand him killing us.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
A man, I'm with him because they look like the
most undisciplined offense in all of football, which is I
didn't say worst, the most undisciplined, thank goodness, play caller, quarterback.
They know how to overcome, and they've got some They
had some great I mean some great moments in a
game yesterday, but even the great ones get overshadowed.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
But what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (57:05):
And then at one time, if Stroud did make a
mistake holding them all a little too long, taking a
sack ly, you know in one of the.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Those he wasn't the problem.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Yeah, no, So he is just a great deliverer of
the football, and I always feel like you have a
chance with him in it, thank goodness. With Jacksonville, you're
always wondering when are they going to screw things up,
and they did yesterday, but they did the penalties are
They will not consistently beat good teams with penalties. Minnesota
already proved that to them, and if they do, if

(57:31):
they have twelve penalties against Buffalo, the chances of them
winning the game are not only diminished greatly. Take Buffalo,
they cannot do it.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Well, it's also too I mean a couple of things
in that game yesterday. I mean, the penalties are one thing,
more than half of them, even though they weren't necessarily
although you did have a false start by Shaq Mason
the pre snap variety, but more than half of them
were by your offensive line, which I understand. You know,
the offensive line is gonna be looked at closely holding
all that kind of stuff where you lined up correctly. Sure,

(58:01):
But it's not only that, but it's also too. I mean,
to your point, a close game like that, special teams
comes down, and special teams failed them yesterday. And it
was one guy in particular who failed them on special teams. Yeah,
both with a muff punt and then also too of
getting a little too extracurricular and getting them a fifteen
yarder backed up towards their own goal.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Stupid. That was dumb. The second one's dumb the first one. Listen,
you could handle a physical err once in a while.
You can handle one once in a while, but you
can't handle It's like in the Minnesota game. I believe
it was a VIC game. You know, you watch all
of them, you try to string them back together. They're
winning the game. Alls they got to do. Just feel
the punt and they kick it to a guy and

(58:41):
he jumps up and tries to catch it over his head,
lays it on the ground, team recovers, take it in
score the what next play?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Right? I mean? Just just high football, IQ.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
I'll never still understand why when your feederre planted at
the ten, you go back and catch it at the five.
Since you were in like eight years old, your feeder
planet ten. If you've got to take a step backward,
leave the ball alone, but you can't make Now, those
are the penalties Domico's talking about, unforced airs like in tennis.
Just keep hitting it into the net yep and putting
your offense and your defense and a bund and forcing
them to make.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
More pleasure your kicker.

Speaker 5 (59:11):
Because of mental penalties and pre snap penalties. I can
live with a holding penalty where you're trying to protect
your quarterback, it happens. I cannot continue to sit here
and make excuses for an offensive line that quite frankly,
it's gotten to the point if they don't get a penalty,
you want to celebrate for like twenty four hours. But

(59:32):
you don't get that chance because they are beating their
offense down and putting their defense in a bund and
their quarterback who's able to overcome it with their constant
stupid penalties.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
Here's a movie reference that fits. It's Roy McAvoy in
ten Cup. You don't want to be Roy McAvoy in
ten Cup. You lose the US Open that way?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yeah, and nobody cares who finished the second? That's it.
That's it. Well, I mean, at least he made it
back to the US Open the year before.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Here's Damiko Ryans on the unforced air by the Texans
yes day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Via the penalties.

Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
At the penalties that bug me the most, and we
have to get off of our tape and off of
our team. It's the mental penalties that's the ones I
can't stand and I can't go for it like we
have to play smart. If we want to be a
good football team, you have to play the game smart.
And we talk about, you know, we look at other
teams around the league, and we have meetings on these things,
and gods just have to own up to it and

(01:00:26):
be mad enough to stand up and just play the
game the right way. A lot of them just you know,
just bonehead penalties that are and it's uncaus for right,
you don't need those. They're not helping us at all
when we still we have positive things that happen to us,
and we're going backwards. We're in field goal range and
we go backwards because of our own mistakes. So again

(01:00:48):
for the seem like I'm a broken record every time
I stand up here. The Texans have to get out
of the Texans way for us to be a good team.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
They will lose a game that they had one. If
this continues, they are going to lose and it won't
just be one.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Well, it's also too, I mean, the life of the
NFL is you know, all right, hey, we got these
guys this week. Ah, they'll beat those guys and then
we're doing this show that we're doing right now of
how the hell did you lose to the Las Vegas Raiders.
How did you lose to the Arizona Cardinals? Like you know,
I mean that happens in the NFL, to your point,
and it's situations like this. It's a slow burn that

(01:01:24):
finally it gets hot enough and it boils over.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Yeah, and we'll go through the league at all times,
whether it's you're going in. If you're the Carolina Panthers
who couldn't beat anybody, roll into Oakland or to Las
Vegas two weeks ago and beat them, then I mean
it happenst the Chicago Bears, the Rams coming off a
huge win against the forty nine ers, go into Chicago,

(01:01:47):
Chicago beats them who came here and they turned it
over and did some stupid stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
They lost the game.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
You go into Minnesota penalties and don't beat them in
any phase of the game. Minnesota dominateh I mean, listen,
things you can't control need to be controlled. And he
is one hundred percent correct. There is a mental focus
and a mental discipline that you must have for this
team to get where it wants to go. And listen,
I will take the dan. I promise you acrawl ten

(01:02:13):
miles over broke Glass to get through September three and one.
It is a hard league, man, and you'll take them
anyway you can get them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
The problem is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
If you're really going through the tape of the fine
truth come, which he will, on penalties, stupid mistakes and
why things aren't happening and why things are the good stuff.
You got to focus on those two. But he understands
the big picture of you can't you can't win against
the real good team sustain winning with the way they're playing.
My favorite thing about yesterday was the aggressive nature which

(01:02:43):
they attacked offensively, and I always think the defense is
going to elevate the play.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
You don't give up big plays.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
If you're on the Texans defense, you're going to be
in every game because they fly around and they will
get after you. But Trevor Lawrence helped out, and I'm
sure the defense helped that out yesterday. But Stroud and
Nico Collins were phenomenal yesterday, and I thought that Bobby
Slowak had his.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Best performance yesterday the of this season.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
We'll get back into the Texans conversation as the show
goes along. Want to get back into the Astros though.
Coming up next with the Wildcard Round starting up tomorrow,
as a couple of groups of players on this Astros
team that are a must if this thing is going
to be a long term thing. In October, we'll talk
about that. On the other side, he's Sean Salisbury. I'm

(01:03:27):
Dan Matthews, Triple E, Emmanuel Elmore right here, Sean Salisbury Show,
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
The Sean Salisbury Show continued, Yeah, I want to shelve him.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
I was gonna say, I mean, you know, you can
hopefully give time to soft tissue injuries. It's the breaks,
it's the tears, it's all that kind of stuff. We
can't have that. So let's avoid teares with him. I
talk about it all the time on my Saturday show.
Try to be the show of honesty, and in this
case right here, kind of like you know how programs
in college sports will report violations, Well, I'm gonna I'm

(01:04:01):
gonna self report myself right here. So we have in
the business what's called X screen. It's the call screener.
And I did the postgame show for the Astros on Saturday,
but it was over on seven forty. I had my
call screen on seven on seven forty, So I'm looking
at it, and I'm like, why are the phone's blocked off?
So I asked Triple E d'uring the break? I go,

(01:04:23):
I go, hey, Triple E, you know, what's what's the
deal with the phones? You know we are we uh,
you know, blocked up right there. He's like, no, we're
not blocked up. It's because I had it over on
news radio seven forty k oh Man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
So they're good. So did anybody hand was a peat?

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
So we've got Rob on the phone lines. So Rob,
I'll get to you in a second. I see John's
right there. Jimmy, I know had called in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
So Jimmy, if you're out there, I apologize.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Jimmy two times said everything twice like I'm gonna get
the papers, get the papers.

Speaker 14 (01:04:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
I apologize to you all out there if you were
on hold. That's on me two times, yeah, because like
you said everything twice, like I'm gonna get the papers,
get the papers. Well, actually he said it twice, right,
But it was Ray Liota Henry Hill telling us why
they called him that Nicky No nos was another.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Guy there about Polly Walnuts.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Well, Paulie, you know, was stuck in the pine bearings
with Christopher.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
Right there is Why does every Paulie have to be walnuts?
Have you ever noticed it? I've never noticed that in
the Hey Paulie, Yeah, Pauli walnuts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Then then you had you know, Adrian's no good brother
who bankrupted Rocky, and then they had to, you know,
go back to their humble beginnings because of them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
I call him yo, like to color yo. Yeah, yo, yeah,
I just call her yo. There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
But hey, listen, so now you know what you're only
going to get a slap on the hand from That's it,
the n C two A because you got out in
front of it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
That's it. We self reported style. We didn't hide from it.
We didn't try to cover it up any of those
different types of things. So, as promised Robin, Tom Ball, rob,
I apologize, please forgive.

Speaker 10 (01:05:51):
I'll forgive you this one time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
There you go, I'll take it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:54):
I just wanted to touch on the whole Tonsil situation and
the stupid penalties and mental mistakes. You know, if we
don't have both Stroud and Collins on the field, we
don't win that game. I don't think it's a one.

Speaker 10 (01:06:11):
Or the other.

Speaker 8 (01:06:12):
As good as they both are. We won that point.
We won that game by three points, and as far
as I'm concerned with ninety three yards worth of penalties,
the mough fun at the beginning, we shouldn't have lost
that game, or we shouldn't have won that game by
less than two touchdowns, because with that right there, they
get one less touchdown and we ninety three yards.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
In my mind, that's a whole touchdown.

Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
As far as I'm concerned, we should have had at
least a two touchdown lead by the time that clock
run out.

Speaker 10 (01:06:38):
At the end of the game.

Speaker 8 (01:06:39):
We don't have both Collins and Stroud, we don't win
that game at all. If we've got one or the other.
I don't think that would have been enough to overcome
the mental mistakes that we made. And with that being said,
every time our offensive line makes these mistakes, they're keeping
those crucial elements on the field longer than they need
to be, and they're risking further injury. If one of

(01:07:01):
those penalties. As much as it hurts the team and
that moment in that game potentially costing us a win,
that's nothing compared to the fact that if that extra
time on the field, those extra drives. Those extra plays
that those guys have to make over again lead to injury.
Our season is in a very, very dire state if

(01:07:22):
we lose either one of those guys. I mean, we're
getting by without mixing. But when you think about it,
our our offensive game should be one of the most
terrifying offensive games that any any team is gonna have
to face, between the air game of having Collins and
Schultz out there, and then on the ground game just
with having Mixing, you know what these guys can do,

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and then Stroud it himself. Of course, our offensive scheme
should be terrifying in a pain for any team coming
into our stadium or US coming into THEIRS. And with
that being said, you know they they mentioned something interesting
on the broadcast yesterday to someone was out there wearing
red gloff against white jerseys. I'm personally not a not
nearly the football guy that I am the baseball guy,

(01:08:07):
but that was a concept I wasn't familiar with. I've
never thought about it, but it seems like it'd be
common sense. So I just wanted to get y'all's take
on how much of this stuff that we're seeing right
now is starting to become truly more mental where they're
overthinking what they're doing and it's actually causing more mistakes
and are simple things like that again, like to a
football brain, I would think would be common sense. Is

(01:08:29):
that type of thing discussed, Like the broadcasts are made
a valid point. You can't go out there if you're
known for holding and you're having that issue. You can't
go out there with red bloofs and put them all
over white jerseys. They're gonna call you every single time.
Just wanted to get y'all's take gas.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Thanks while the men mental lapses, I personally, it's it's
maddening and it's yeah, becomes mental, but that's just lack
of discipline and lack of focus.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Pre snap penalties.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
You're gonna get a physical penal, you're gonna drop the ball,
you're gonna pass interfere you gonna hit a guy laid
on accident once in a while, go full speed.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Listen. I can live with those I can't continue to
live with what they're doing. You just can't.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
And you listen, You'll always take the win, but when
you go, it will not be a fun session to watch.
Now they'll come out of there because they won, but
each individual position. When you're grading it hard and grading
yourself hard, you'll come out of the thinking we are
close to being one and three, and they are three
and one, and they beat one good team one and

(01:09:30):
that was well, I take that back. They beat a
team we perceived as good, and that was in the
two teams in the the Colts in the opening. We
thought their defense would better and they got gas in
the run game, and we thought Jacksonville had a chance
to come around be a good team. They actually I
take that back. They lost to the one good team
they played. They beat what we thought in game one
was supposed to be a good coal seam. By game
four we knew Jacksonville wasn't any good. They didn't won

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a game. They don't know how to win. And the
Chicago Bears are still growing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
There's too much talent there that on that Jacksonville team
to be what they are.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
There is no question in Trevor Lawrence is regressed. He
just has. But yes, this I told you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
The beginning of the year that the bandwidth on this
team is the best they've had since I've been here. Now,
penalties will put bad getting out of a field wheer
it's all the little things that are pretty obvious. But
I will tell you the lack of discipline, and it
is common sense. Fashion has become Wow man, I got
to look good, great, look good in white gloves. White
glove against the white jersey. It's not just a good point,
it is what would make you think that, even at halftime,

(01:10:26):
you wouldn't go in and change him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
I mean, they stick out. It's like if everybody's driving.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
Out a freeway in a white vehicle and all of
a sudden, the red Ferrari comes ripping by by forty
miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Who you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
If you're white and you're fitting in, They're just gonna
go okay, it's all you know. When I'm talking about
vehicle colors, everybody's got a black vehicle in the red one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Bam. Same thing here.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Why open it up to let a to make a
hamburger call instead of a stak call for a referee.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
It's too easy. But it's the pre snap ones that
drive me nuts. I'm telling you, my frustrations boiling over.
Not they care what I think. But they will not
be six and they go through fourth. I have to
promise you this.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
They won't be four and one if they play with
the lack of discipline they had the last two weeks,
Buffalo will kick their ass.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
Well, Buffalo, I mean, you still got Kansas City, you
still got Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
We saw what Baltimore did last.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Night about the next one on the schedule, and Baltimore
boat raced Buffalo. Buffalo will come ready to play. And
there's gonna be very few games where Stroud is the
second best quarterback in the game going in. At least
by the Wayholmes, Josh Allen's playing like an MVP this year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
Well in the Josh Allen, Josh heinz Allen, at least
for the most of the second half of the game
day was not out there. And for the time that
Laramy Tunsil was off the field, you had your second
round pick, Blake Fisher out there. He looked like a
rookie offensive tackle against Josh Heinz Allen.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
There is no question about it. So there's some stuff
that's got to get done. Because while it's great now,
game five's coming up, and Game five is gonna be
tougher because the guy on offense, that quarterback is the
by far, including Darnold, the best quarterback you faced to date,
and he will not do the thing. He will not
miss like Trevor Lawrence did or Anthony Richards just won't.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
And it's also too to the point you just brought up.
I mean, I think a lot of us were looking
at this Jacksonville team, who is not as successful this
year as the team you're going to see this week.
But that was a team that coming in, their backs
were against the wall. They badly need a win. They did,
for the most part, what they could do in order
to try to beat you. But still you're good enough

(01:12:27):
where you allowed them to be in that position because
of what you didn't do or in certain cases, what
you did to hurt yourself self inflicted.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Self inflicted put him in a bund and thank goodness,
Stroud and Nico Collins is playing like a madman and
it's fun to see continues to elevate his game, but
mental mistakes, penalties and turnovers will kill a football team.
Thank goodness they were able to elevate and be aggressive
on the offensive side yesterday, because it's about two plays

(01:12:55):
away from being they're about eight, five or six plays
away from being one to three.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
That's the NFL ticket, Yes, it is.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
As the Texans now go into the second phase of
their season as September now in the books at a
three and one mark. You want to weigh in on
the phone lines, you can do so. Semone three two
one two five seven ninety. I know a lot of
you want to get in on the Texans conversation, so
we can keep it there. On the other side as well,
with this Texans team of a certain guys that did

(01:13:24):
show up for this team yesterday, we'll talk about them
on the other side as well, kJ and Cyprus a
Sea John Northwest side. If you want to join them
on the lines, do so. Someone three two one two
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Salisbury Show continued.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
And then maybe you know, like for all the champagne
everything in there, he needs to go with like the
the Gorton's fisherman hat, that the the yellow little kind
of uh you know hat that the Gorton's fishermen wore, right,
So like maybe maybe that's something that spark he needs.
Maybe those even like those glasses that have the windshield
wipers on him to to.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
To make sure he can roll through without it stopping.
He do we go shirtless or wife theet Right? He
went shirtless last time?

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
I think, yeah, yeah, you got to go for effect
when it comes to the overalls, especially those.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
I think I think next time he goes shorts, overalls,
no shirt, one strap on and one strap dangling like
like I said, like the ladies, but you can't do that.
If you're the ladies with with you, you got to
cover yourself up right straight. See, you can go shirtless.
Larrys can't. But here's the key. Timberland's okay with some
tim okay that look with some times coming into little kind,

(01:16:04):
I think we'll have to run it by Sparky.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Sparky seems like he's the type of guy it's up
for anything. Okay, what I hope I talked to him
to it's first, Sparkle, let's not bury the lead here.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
Sure, let's look ahead. You're allowed to look at we're
looking at the celebration. Yeah, that's just what if when
the world's right there and I'm gonna suggest what we'd
like to see and see where he comes in with this.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
A good hypothetical never hurts. I mean, look, you know
it's one of those that you know, certain people I
don only answer hypotheticals.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Well, in this case, it could be fun. So I
I think any may say I'm not talking about it,
and that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
Sure, yeah, I mean look, you know, you never know,
maybe Sparky. Uh they got back in a little later
last night because of you know, the rain delay that
I mean, it got to a certain point and I
thought that when you know, we saw the pictures and
videos of uh, you know, Joe Aspata, Dana Brown, whoever
it was down there speaking with the umpires. That that's
when they'd say, all right, you know we're gonna bang this.

(01:16:57):
It's not like you guys need this one. It's not
like they need this one. Nobody's playing for anything. The
only thing that can happen is people get hurt. But
then they decided, well, let's wait it out. And then
all of a sudden, did you know, here's here's the
funny thing. I don't know if coincidental is the right
term for it. Actually in this case it is. Did
you notice that the Astros Guardians game got banged as

(01:17:19):
soon as the uh uh uh the Tigers game ended
against Chicago?

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
I wonder why? Yeah, you know what, I'll be honest
with you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:28):
I didn't give a fuzzy rats ass about Astros baseball
this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
There's any three innings of it, because you know, you're
listening for the Jordan and make sure everybody's health. I
did have an eye on the Justin Verlander performed, It's
just to see how he was, but I didn't care.
I'm looking at it, you know, possible different matchups, all
those things. When it came to with that college football
weekend and Sunday, I didn't watch three inning. Normally I
watched the ninety percent of games. I didn't watch three

(01:17:54):
inning because I didn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Sewed up.

Speaker 5 (01:17:56):
They're not going to move any there, They're not going
to win the you know, they're not having the best
record in baseball. We know who they're getting ready to play.
Once we that was decided. All I was looking for
is health, you know. And you saw different guys leading off,
and I like how they mix and match the lineup,
but I did not care one bit. Get out of it, healthy,
tell me where yourd on is. Let's get this thing settled,
ready to go. And now all eyes focus on that.

(01:18:18):
But man, I uh, gearing up for this after The
one thing that hits hard is just where they were
and how they got here and now sitting here when
I can tell you eighty five percent of the baseball
world had gave them no shot at twelve and twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Five, Well, I mean that was the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
I mean, you know you had them well and Ben Verlander,
he was the one from the beginning as well of
saying now I'm not worried about this team.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
They'll they'll find a way.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
And of course everybody, oh, oh, your brother, everything like that,
and he turned out to be right. So we'll see
if the Astros are able to pay off on it
as they start their postseason push tomorrow one thirty two.
First pitch from ber Valdez Trek scuball going to be
the mound match up for that one. Let's close out
the second hour with some Texans. Let's go with John

(01:19:06):
on the Northwest side wants to wait in here on
Sports Talk seven ninety John, what's up, buddy, Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:19:10):
Guys, good morning.

Speaker 14 (01:19:12):
I know you got a lot of people that I
want to talk about the offensive line.

Speaker 10 (01:19:15):
To me, it's just what momentum killers.

Speaker 14 (01:19:18):
Those penalties are and what it has really alarmed me
this season so far as our lack of physicality.

Speaker 10 (01:19:24):
I was hoping we'd be a lot more physical upfront.

Speaker 14 (01:19:27):
But I've noticed, like the last few games, especially that
Minnesota game, but yet yesterday and like just lately, like
when we do a running play, that offensive line just disintegrates.
I mean, it's like our running backs are running into
a defensive brick wall and it's just really concerned here.
Like pass blocking, I'd probably give him a CC minus maybe,

(01:19:50):
but boy, run blocking it it just looks atrocious and
that's something we've got to fix because with Buffalo coming
in and I watched that Buffalo Baltimore game last night.

Speaker 10 (01:20:01):
Both those teams are so physical. We would just get.

Speaker 14 (01:20:04):
Crushed, you know, in the trenches by those teams.

Speaker 10 (01:20:08):
And I don't know, Sean, and what do.

Speaker 14 (01:20:10):
You think, what do you think like all these penalties
and stuff that's happening with the offensive line, how much
do you attribute to coaching?

Speaker 10 (01:20:16):
Like the offensive line coach.

Speaker 14 (01:20:19):
I just think there's something that he needs to be
done where he can get these guys and sink because
it just seems like it's not getting better. And I
know that's kind of where I'm putting the blame right now.
We just need somebody that's going to really just kick
butt in there. And then also Nico, you know, like
four and fifty five yards or four and forty five

(01:20:40):
yards so far. Man, he's just having a special season.
So anyways, that's what I wanted to say, And thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Yep, John, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
I'm gonna answer that we come back because I think
it deserves a little more attention.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
The irony is that I trust demikol Ryans as a
disciplinarian and to do it the right way. But we'll
get to the individual coaching and how we're blame lies.
It never lies just within one. It's it's somewhere in
the middle. But well, we'll discuss that. I am concerned
as well. I've told you bad quarterback play, lack of physicality,
and an undisciplined team, you're not winning championship. They have

(01:21:17):
great quarterback play, they still haven't even tie. I mean,
yesterday looked more like an offense that he's we're gonna
score points as long as the offense. The penalties and
the stupid penalties don't kill you. And it is concerning
to me because the lack of physicality right now in
the front set the stuff that they wanted to dress,
and we thought in the first game they had whipped

(01:21:38):
the way mixing ran the football and they moved.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
It was like a confidence thing to there. You can't
we can't keep relying on just the offense. Now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
The defense is good, they're going they tackle well, but
penalties you can't just say, well, it's okay, we'll get
CJ to pull it out for us. Eventually. The other
guy on the other team's pretty good too.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
Well, especially too I mean, like you said, when you
have a quarterback matchup that's a wash this week, I
think we could probably say very much it's going to
be a wash because Josh Allen is incredibly good. You're
gonna face Mahomes, You're gonna face Lamar Jackson. I mean,
there's a lot of guys that you know, you say,
you know when people like to do the positional matchups

(01:22:15):
of who's got the check mark next to them for
those games that's going to be I mean, either check
them both or check that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Right right there. There's no question about so.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
John, I'll tell you how I feel about undisciplined, non
focused football players, and it looks to me like that's
they're they're fortunate to be three on one, let's put
it that way.

Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
Well, they're they're your favorite type of guys, right, I mean,
I think that's that's something we can agree on on.
Sean Salisbury, No, the complete opposite obviously, all right, seven
one three two one two five seven ninety number to
get in on the phone lines. You want to do that,
kJ and Cyprus, Dom and the Heights. I see you
guys there right there. If you want to join them.
We got a couple of other lines open, you can

(01:22:55):
do that. The two groups of Astros players will get
into that as we get in the eight o'clock hour
as well. Also Steve Spark coming up right here on
the Sewan Salisbury Show. Dan Matthews in for Brian Lima
here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
The end of October, that's when they will get going.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
And that's the NBA season getting fired up.

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
And Tigers in the wild Card Series that gets started
tomorrow one thirty two. First pitch over at Minute Made Park.
Of course, Robert Ford, Steve Sparks gonna be on the
call for fromber Valdez against Trek Scooble. Texans went in
yesterday twenty four to twenty, moving to you at three
and one on the season. We'll continue the Texans conversation

(01:24:22):
here in this hour. Also to bottom of this hour,
Steve Sparks gonna join us to talk a little bit
of astros for his weekly visits. By the way to
a little bit of an interesting exit yesterday from NRG stadiums.
So just walking out of the building, you know, doing
what I normally do, parking in the lot that I

(01:24:43):
park in. And you know you've crossed streets tons during
your entire life, right, so you know about you know
the traffic signals that show you, like, hey, you can walk.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
You get the.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
Flashing hand that tells you, hey, if you're in the middle,
you better step on it and get across because the
light that's gonna be coming from your left to your right,
that's gonna be turning green here pretty soon. And then
we can't help you once once you get to that point.
But I'm leaving the stadium yesterday. Where I'm going with
this is I almost wasn't here today because my light

(01:25:17):
to walk, you know, get the walking man right there,
I can go. And I hear this lady to my
right like loudly gasp and I'm like what and I
look to my left. A luxury car that was a
ride share ran a stone red light, and instead of
me being in this chair right now, you would have
been solo. I would have been probably in Ben Tob

(01:25:38):
hospital or something with hopefully at the very least just
broken bones at that point, because.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
I almost dead.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
We don't need you to be. No, I don't want
that either. I mean, it would have been one of
those you see me, I'm a pretty big guy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
That windshield would have been spider webbed at the very least. Well,
you probably popped up and just kept walking though you're
Dan Ms and Matthews.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
So the funny, you know, it's funny when we went
out and buckhead once, some of me and some of
my friends when we were when I was living in Atlanta,
one of my friends did get hit by a car
and he did get up, dust himself off, and he's like,
all right, next bar.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
I'm like, that's incredible, Like he had a few cocktails beforehand. Yeah, okay,
it just kind of was able to relax the Yeah,
I wouldn't encourage a walk between bars to get hit
by a car. No, it's it's it's not a discourage that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:29):
Yeah, but thank goodness that you heard the woman gasp
and yeah, took took a quick look.

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
And on top of it too, because I think I
was kind of just like shocked of like how it happened,
Like I'm walking, you know, across the AirLand through it. No,
he's probably going like twenty twenty five. But still, I
mean it would have put a hurting on me because,
like I said, it was a luxury car, so you know,
you got a lot of momentum behind that right there too,
No doubt you know, the inertia I would have I
would have felt a word inertia, a little physics lesson

(01:26:54):
for you. It's one of my favorites. What inertia? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
inertia applies to the football field. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Hey, I was asked, Hey, Tripoli, who asked the question?
Who called in to asked the gdrian.

Speaker 10 (01:27:06):
One of ours?

Speaker 15 (01:27:07):
Just wanted to get your grade on the Texans first
four games.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
See, And that's exactly yes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
I don't want to quote him, but he did.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
I don't I can't remember if he says C minus
or a C.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
But he did say yes.

Speaker 5 (01:27:18):
With the reason why it's not C minus is because
there's individuals that are having playing really good football. Sure
Diggs has made a contribution, Nico Collins is playing at
a Pro Bowl, all pro level.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
C J.

Speaker 5 (01:27:31):
Stroud goes without saying defensively got guys flying around. It
is Stingley played a good football game yesterday. So I
don't know how he's going to grade out, but he's
a very talented kid. So I would give them a
C simply because it's a C with concerns. And they're
three and one. You think three and one were they

(01:27:53):
They they're fortunate that they've got resilience and they've got
some fortitude with certain players that have carried him in
a situation, whether it's a key sack, whether it's the
first game where they dominated the run game, whether it's
Collins and Stroud making a bunch of plays yesterday, all
you know, somebody different helping him, whether it's you know,
Digs contributing in game one. And I like the fact

(01:28:13):
that they tried to throw that old throwback pass yesterday
and he made a playout of and got on the Endsie.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
It just they got that, So that keeps it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
But it's a and it's not even a solid see
I'm C, but I usually like to wait four or
five games too great to say, Okay, you're about a
third of the way through the season. Yeah, where what
a fourth of it right now? Pretty much? Four games
in it's a it's a C. But another twelve game
penal and a loss puts them at three and two.

(01:28:39):
Now you're looking at him at a hardcore C minus. Well,
and I think if they're being right over, I've talne
about the sum of the parts, right, the whole thing,
it's a C for me. There's some guys that are
playing A and B football and the offense. Bobby Slowech
had a pretty damn good game the aggressiveness, but overall
I give him a C. And the penalties have brought
that curve down on no doubt. Yeah I was gonna say.

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
I mean, there's some guys that have missed a couple
of answers on the test, and if you had a
couple more that missed us some more, well, then you're
probably looking at a CNUS or a D at that point.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
Especially considering the expectations we have for them, what the
bar they set last year and by what they did
this offseason to have themselves ready to play. It's a
disappointed Listen, three and one. Hear me when I say this.
It's not a knock on them. The compliment is that
they're able to win not playing their best football because
it's hard to win. But and the difference between the
best team in the league and the worst team a

(01:29:32):
quarterback about three players in about four or five plays
a game.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
Well, especially to what's so disappointing is how disciplined they
were as a team last year. And they were even
younger last year. So you're kind of like, I don't
only understand like how you don't carry that part over.
I mean I understand the success might not not necessarily follow,
because I mean, that's the NFL for you. It doesn't
mean because you won last year, you're gonna win this year.
But that's I think probably the most disappointing of all

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of it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:56):
Yeah, they set the bar so high for us, and
even though they're three and one, like I said, it
is hard to win, but they know how quickly you
could have shifted that to one and three if if
a few guys don't make a couple of plays in
each game. About slippery slope and the margin for air.
Right now, with this team is not real wide. Well,
you you're just not giving yourself any chances. That Again,

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like I said, you have that disappointing week where you
lose and we're coming in here on Monday saying how
did you lose that game? Don't really understand.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
I mean that's when those losses get amplified even more
is because of exactly what you're talking about right there,
you know, undisciplined and not necessarily being able to capitalize
on your chances. And luckily for the Texans when it
came down to it, they were able to capitalize enough
to get the win. Yesterday, kJ and Cyprus wants to
weigh in here on Sports Talk seven ninety kJ.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
What's up real quick fellows.

Speaker 10 (01:30:50):
They love to show bloody and action. Manki, thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:30:57):
I just recently turned fifty put folk three hundred and
twenty five pounds and I can still bench pressed over
three hundred pounds.

Speaker 10 (01:31:06):
I hate this when the.

Speaker 15 (01:31:07):
Guys get on there talk about their high school accolades.
Let me say this me personally, I played any high
school some ways. I'm right now, but I'm still at
to this day. The pride that goes along the plane
of sport I don't care what.

Speaker 10 (01:31:24):
What level you play at.

Speaker 15 (01:31:25):
That well, the penalties that the officive liner wouldn't be
so glamory if we just see the day shop running
for his life on the foot. We saw some gas
and holes consistently for the running backs.

Speaker 14 (01:31:39):
To run through.

Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
Yeah, I can't, Jay, I think the connection not really
cooperating with us.

Speaker 5 (01:31:46):
Yeah, call back. We were only getting about one every
six words or so on. Man he got he was
talking about his high school and he benched that he
can still bench press. Then they were talking about the
undisciplined part of this football team with penalties. So, uh,
if he can call back, get a claim, we'll try
to get him back. I mean, it's the physicality, the strength,
everything like that. That's all fine and good. But I mean,
you know this as well as anyone because you played

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in the league, Sean. Everybody's got that, Like you know,
it's one of those things like you know, talk about
it all the time of people, Oh I do this
at work, I do all of that. The response is,
so you do your job, Okay, great, everybody else in
the building does their jobs. Like That's what I think
kind of is the point right there, is that you
know you can talk about, hey, you know, these guys
have strength, they have size, they have athleticism.

Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
Well so does every other team in the NFL. Like,
what's your point when it comes down to it. I
think that's kind of where we're going with this.

Speaker 5 (01:32:35):
Yeah, And like I said, when you when you got
a football field of penalties, good teams will beat you.
And the good teams are coming. We played one good
team in four weeks and that's just it. I mean,
you know you not only have that, but it's also
too as well. You can win a game right now
but lose one down the road. And I think we
see that all the time in sports, where it's hey,
you know, we were lucky to win that one. But

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then if you're coaching it right, you're telling your guys
we shouldn't have won that. You're incredibly lucky.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
And if you do that again, and you do it again,
then we're not going to be so lucky the next time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
And eventually, like I said, one of that the lack
thereof will get you. You're fortunate it hasn't yet, but
you're playing with fire, and eventually that it's like putting
down putting down a you know, on your driveway. If
you catch the hole and it goes in, God bless you.
If you missed the hole, it's gonna it's gonna roll
down the street, and that's gonna be a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
Then they better get this fixed. I was gonna say
that short game, it can get you. You know, you
can drive it, but you definitely make your money by
being able to putt for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
All right, Brandon, I see you're right there.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
We'll get to you on the other side as well
as anybody else who wants to wigh, and you can
do so. Someone three two one, two five seven ninety
will rope it back into the Astros conversation as the
eight o'clock hour goes along. About fifteen minutes from now,
Steve Sparks gonna be joining us for his weekly visit.
As we continue to roll along here on the Sean
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Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
With Steve Sparks for his weekly visit. A lot to
talk about us. We turn the page from the regular
season to the postseason as I'll get going tomorrow Wildcard
series against the Detroit Tigers from Rivaldez against Tark Scuball
gonna be coming your way at one thirty two, first
pitch tomorrow from there at minute made continue with Texans Conversation.

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Brandon wants away in here on Sports Talk seven ninety Brandon,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 6 (01:36:18):
Good morning, Dan, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
How are you guys doing well?

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
How are you hey?

Speaker 6 (01:36:24):
Welcome to the morning, Dan. How how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
I'm good man, got decent enough sleep last night, so
I'm ripper orin ready to go?

Speaker 6 (01:36:34):
Hey, teching one and we beat the Jags.

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
Yeah, I mean, as we've been talking about all morning, Brandon,
it was not pretty to say the least. And I
mean you can enjoy the win, for sure, but I
mean it's one of those that you continue down this path,
it's not going to be a good conclusion of this season.

Speaker 6 (01:36:54):
Okay. And then do you know what time I'm going
to be on Saturday?

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Yeah, I'll be on at ten am like I normally am.

Speaker 4 (01:37:01):
As We're not gonna have LSU or Texas in the
way this week, so I'll be my full tend to
noon on Saturdays. So appreciate you hopping along with me, man.

Speaker 6 (01:37:12):
And what times first pitch for postseason tomorrow? Two?

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Yeah, one thirty two is going to be first pitch tomorrow.
I think if it does go all three games, all
of them gonna be just after one thirty starts on
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
Okay. And do you know who are we playing? After
the Tigers series, after Honey, after the Guardians, after we
won three.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Games with dam Well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
I like your optimism, Brandon, So it would be the
LCS between whoever plays the Yankees in the DS and
whoever wins that series to move on. So I guess
it'll be Baltimore in Kansas City in the wild Card round,
and whoever wins that moves on and faces the Yankees.
So if the Yankees lose, then the Astros move on.

(01:38:06):
Then it would be the LCS home field advantage for
the Astros. If the Yankees win, then you got to
go to New York because they had the best record
in the American League.

Speaker 6 (01:38:17):
Okay, we need to beat New York.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
I agree, I agree, bring them on two. Yes, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
I mean whenever, whenever you see the Yankees in the postseason,
you definitely like the Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Chances when you get to that point.

Speaker 6 (01:38:31):
You guys have a good day and say, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Thank you brother, we appreciate you. You have a good day.

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
Real quick, Dan, I'm am seeing a bank with this
Saturday at five o'clock at Spindle Tap. It's for Jay's house.
It's benefiting Jay's house. It supports Boyce Foster Care. They're
doing some phenomenal work though. Go to my Twitter at
Shawn Unfieldday just posted it. There's more Hall of Famers
you can count on a helmet. It's the live auction
is up. It'll be a ticket's still available at Spindle Tap.

(01:38:59):
It's five thirty ob fifth, Get damn seat. We'll have
some laughs. Joe Green, Kenny Houston, Calvin Murphy, you know,
Larry Dirker, Richmond Web, Dan Pastrin, and a whole host
of others for some great times and great for a
great benefit. These kids in foster care need to be
treated with the utmost respect in there, and Jay's House
is doing it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
That's a hell of a lineup, I mean, you know,
and especially too, I mean that's something that I definitely
appreciate to know that you're doing that because I'm adopted.
So I mean you obviously you know, for for kids
that you know, get to you know, find their their
family and you know, be able to you know, know
that you have support and love and everything around you

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and being able to get to that point.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
My mom is also a costa advocate.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
There.

Speaker 5 (01:39:40):
You go, so there and they're the exactly which is
so difference making and and the way they're changing lives.
So you're gonna help boys in foster care. It's October fifth.
The live auction item is up. Now go make a
bid because it's going to a phenomenal clause and you
can still buy tickets to the event October fifth, five thirty.
It's Pendle Tap. We'll have some laughs. It'll be about
these kids raising money. It's Jay's that's j S House

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dot org and they're still tickets available.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
So I look forward to that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Hey, love your kids, man, love love your kids, but
also to love kids that need love as well. So
definitely a great benefit life. No, absolutely, it is. I mean,
you know, it's you want to know that somebody cares
about you. I mean, that's that's the number one in
orders of the battle brother. No, absolutely, and I mean
and especially for kids as well. I mean, you know,
one of the worst things that you can, you know,

(01:40:28):
do to them is to let them know that you know,
nobody cares about them. I mean, and I think if
there is any group of people in life that you
want to, uh, you know, feel like that there's somebody
in their corner for it's it's kids, There's no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
So glad to hear that you're going to be a
part of that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
John Stick and stay man, because I need to get
out so we can get Steve Sparks in here for
his weekly visits. If you want to jump in, you
can do so someone three two, one two five, seven ninety.
It's that time of the week, Steve Sparks. He joins
us right here. Sports Talk seven ninety The Shawn Salisbury
Show continued.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
The Sparks astro's broadcaster joins us, as he does every
single Monday. I mean it's got to be the highlight
of your week, huh, Steve, I mean think about it
just for you and I can conversing on a Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Well, what's better than that?

Speaker 7 (01:41:17):
How long do I get to think about it?

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
Eight seconds? Dude? Just like riding the bull?

Speaker 9 (01:41:22):
Okay, I would say this is my second favorite part
of every week.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
What's the first? Well that's.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Hey, we also had to I mean, you know, because
I don't want to get ahead of myself. But let
me you know, they say you still take it one
game at a time. I know all you guys got
to do that, but I don't have to take it
one game at a time. I can look ahead, and
I'm looking ahead to when we win the World Series
and you're in there. Can we get Yeah? See how
far ahead I'm looking Steve? I why not nice kaleidoscope.
So when we get there, can we get possible shorts?

(01:41:56):
I mean the shorts? Uh what overall's no shirt? One
of the straps undone and dangling and Timberland boot Timberland boots.
Oh that's the tims are the final.

Speaker 9 (01:42:10):
Touchdoll I did have on the short overall people in
the know called that as.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Exactly what it's called.

Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
But don't you think the tims? The tims like with
no socks really add to the end of it? Though,
if you can you go Tim's maybe.

Speaker 7 (01:42:33):
Are you trying to embarrass me?

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
No? No, why would are you? Kidd mean you're the
only guy I know that could pull it off and
and probably turn it into a fashion connoisseur. Now are
you kidding me? But think about the tims? Can you
think about Yeah? No doubt will there you will? Okay,
I got.

Speaker 5 (01:42:50):
From my grandpaty, I got ahead of us, I already
got us in the World Series. Now that's a good start.
But let's back up to Steve. Overall all the ys
you've been doing this, I don't know if satisfying is
the right word, but everything they've been through, where does
this rank regular season for you?

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
And how it ended.

Speaker 7 (01:43:08):
I think satisfying is a good word.

Speaker 9 (01:43:10):
I was maybe surprised after starting twelve and twenty four
that they were able to get back into it so quickly.
But it takes two to tango, right, I mean the
Mariners collapsed, you know, Minnesota Twins collapsed and allowed Detroit
to get in, so they can say the same thing.

Speaker 7 (01:43:25):
Is like, it takes two.

Speaker 9 (01:43:27):
You got to get hot and you got to do
a lot of a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:43:29):
Of good things.

Speaker 9 (01:43:30):
But you know, Danas said it a lot, and he's
probably he probably says it to you too.

Speaker 7 (01:43:35):
Is like you looked at the team and you knew
they weren't this bad. You knew they're a good team.
They've got a lot of talent.

Speaker 9 (01:43:42):
But I think I'm most surprised Sean the ground that
they made up while Tucker was gone. He was going
for over three months and they were still able to
play such a good brand of baseball and turn it around. Pitching,
I didn't see that coming. With Hunter Brown and a
Getty the way they threw the first six weeks to
the season, I wasn't so sure that the rotation was

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going to be consistent enough to get this done.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
And here they are very strength. Yeah, no doubt about it, Steven.
If they go on and win this whole thing, man
alive what to be able to overcome all that and
still go. But I, unlike us, they I still think
that they believed they could. Hence why they're here. And
with that in mind, and you mentioned Kyle Tucker and
the resilience of this team to do to win like

(01:44:29):
they did. But and we'll get to Jordon's health in
a second. If they had to go two or three
series without Jordon, and hopefully they don't have to go
any of that, can they win a World Series without
him in the lineup?

Speaker 10 (01:44:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:44:42):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
I mean, do you do you're right? Pitch right? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:44:47):
You got to pitch well, you know, and you're hoping.
I don't know, you know, I'm not sure on Jordon.
And he's going to take batting practice today at the ballpark,
you know, face live hitters and do some things to
tests tess where he's at. So if you're losing for
one series, you're losing for two series whatever, you just
got to make sure he gets back and you don't

(01:45:07):
have to have any more setbacks with him.

Speaker 7 (01:45:10):
But you've got to be.

Speaker 9 (01:45:11):
A lot of good teams, you know, and it starts
with the Detroit Tigers, and you're always going to be
miles better with yord On in there. So you're just
crossing your fingers right now, but not sure where he is.
Can they win without him? I will say yes because
of what they did without Tucker. Tucker, if you remember
he was on a forty home run pace this year.

Speaker 7 (01:45:32):
Yes, when he went down and he was.

Speaker 9 (01:45:36):
In the conversation, is one of the top five MVP
candidates probably you know at the time of that injury.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Yeah, and you could never count.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
I mean with the resiliences team shown, I mean, they've
proven that they deserve at least that respect to say, yeah,
we can win it if we don't have yord On.
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thirty Steve this, I hate.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
Short series unless you go win the first.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
But going into him, I hate him because one bloop
single here, one bad inning there can put you in
a buying and then you lose one and you're already
in a chase mode. In Detroit's pitching staff is pretty good.
In the guy school. The guy they're running out there
first is as good as there is in the league
right now. So with that in mind, tell me about
your thoughts on the dangerous part of a three game

(01:46:20):
series and how quickly you got to lock in.

Speaker 7 (01:46:23):
It's very dangerous. You do have to lock in.

Speaker 9 (01:46:25):
The Astros have way more experience of being able to
lock in early is very important, and I think Detroit
has one player, maybe two players that have postseason experience
Matt Erling who's with the Phillies. There might be another
one in there, but the Astros have loads of experience
so be able to lock in. Like you mentioned, I

(01:46:47):
think it's not going to take nearly as much time
to feel the energy and to calm yourself in to
play your best baseball. So the Astros, who have played
one hundred and three postseason games since two thousand and
fifty have a lot of those guys still on this
roster and know how to get it done from Raval does.
By the way, last couple of months, when you're talking
to a pitching matchup, Yep has better numbers than Trek School.

Speaker 7 (01:47:11):
Not to say that he's better than Trek School. Arrek
Scubel is going to win the Triple Crown.

Speaker 9 (01:47:15):
And he's going to be the the cy Young Award winner,
but the last two months from rival does has better numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
It's a it's phenomenal what what what he has done
and proven that he is the ace of this staff
and those two, you know, good chance to offset each
other with that Steve you mentioned about these are the
experience is experience In postseason you get asked and I
think I know your answer, but maybe some don't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Is it overrated or.

Speaker 5 (01:47:43):
Can you go in where you're like, man, I'm not
really worry you know how sometimes naive teams kind of
go in and they play looser. Is is there anything
said to with experience? Sometimes you can you can press
too hard because you're expected to win.

Speaker 10 (01:47:58):
Son.

Speaker 9 (01:47:58):
You remember when you're growing up in you were wondering
if you had what it took inside to play.

Speaker 7 (01:48:03):
At the NFL level.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:48:04):
You just always kind of wondered until you got a
chance to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (01:48:09):
And it's the same way with baseball players in like,
you know, you might be in high school, you might be.

Speaker 7 (01:48:15):
In college and you want, man if I could just
play Pro Bowl.

Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
But when you're in the minor leagues, you always have
that maybe a little bit of doubt. You're always wondering
can I play it at the major league level? And
do I have what's inside me to be able to
relax and do those things when I'm on TV and
playing in front of so many people.

Speaker 7 (01:48:33):
And then it's the playoffs, that's another level.

Speaker 9 (01:48:35):
Can you slow your heart right down when you know
everybody's watching you? Who expected the Tigers to be in
the playoffs?

Speaker 16 (01:48:44):
This?

Speaker 9 (01:48:44):
You're nobody, right, So they probably couldn't even imagine this
in July. They couldn't. They were sellers at the deadline.
So now they're thrust into this and they come in
with quite a bit of confidence, but there's going to
be a little shred of doubt. They're playing the Astros,
who are kind of the Yankees of the playoffs in

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the last ten years.

Speaker 7 (01:49:07):
You know, they intimidate people. I think I think they
walk in.

Speaker 9 (01:49:10):
There and they've got a little strut to them and
m h, I think it's a little intimidating.

Speaker 7 (01:49:16):
So there's a lot of guys.

Speaker 9 (01:49:19):
That aren't sure on how they're going to be able
to handle this, and I think it's going to take
a little bit to adjust and in a three game,
maybe a two game series, you don't have a whole
lot of time to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:49:29):
Yeah, Steven, to me make a great point because when
I you know, you're getting recruited out of high school
and everybody's telling you you belong. And then when I
went to USC my very first practice to follow my
nobody left school early, like in January like they do now,
mid season senior year, and then goes in spring practice.
I remember the first practice might fall Marcus Allen and
Chip Banks and Joey Browner.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
I mean the list goes on and on. Bruce Matthews,
great players.

Speaker 10 (01:49:51):
You're in awe.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Yeah, oh dude, you get under center. I think, Sean,
don't screw this up.

Speaker 5 (01:49:55):
You were highly recruited the rest of it, but you
still wonder if you can, if you belong. Yeah, you don't. No, No,
you overload your your head. There's clutter everywhere because you're like,
you want to fit in, you want to impress them,
you want to make sure you belong. But you still,
regardless of where you come from, you still have that
doubt that do I belong? So with that, Steve, and
as a phenomenal point by you, you mentioned all these

(01:50:18):
playoff games the ass have played in. Uh, these last
seven or so years now eight years. Is is there
something too that you are that tired does start to
wear you out? Or is that is a new energy
kicking in the postseason? Is playing too many of these
over expanids to the point where you're just beat down
after all these years of playing in postseason baseball?

Speaker 9 (01:50:40):
I think you see it more in the following spring training,
in the first couple of months of the season, and
guys will go down. We saw Christian Javier and Louis
currently and we see guys fall by the wayside, and
you know you're you're crushing your fingers that they're back,
you know, somewhere past the dead or the break next year.
The guys that made it to this point, I think

(01:51:03):
it looks to me like everybody's really healthy, right other
than you know, your doll we talked about that. But
you know, the pitchers got a little bit of rest
here towards the end. There are some lopsided games in
the first two weeks of September. If you look at it,
where you're able to give a bray you a four
day break that he needed badly. You know, just some

(01:51:25):
guys got some rest that they needed. Uh, so the guys,
if they have in consideration beyond the rosters, I feel
like they're in pretty good shape. I didn't pitch yesterday
because of the rain out. Get an off day to day.
They can go up there and play cats, get off
the feet as quickly as possible and rest up and
get ready.

Speaker 7 (01:51:43):
But I like the experience, especially, you know, three games.

Speaker 9 (01:51:47):
It's a crap shoot with this, with this short series,
but when you're trying to adjust quickly, and the only
game I ever pitched it in the playoffs of my
entire career. I was thirty nine years old, but it
was still an knee knocker. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
Who you are.

Speaker 7 (01:52:04):
It's an adjustment.

Speaker 9 (01:52:06):
You're thinking about how many people are watching you and
how close that camera is to your face. I mean,
you know that you're in the spotlight, so it takes
a little adjustment.

Speaker 5 (01:52:16):
Steve, is there anything to the fact aj Hinch being
I know they've played him during the regular season half,
but is there any any advantage to a guy who
knows and I know that there's change, but he knows
a lot of these guys, any advantage at all, or
just that that he's hovering because we know how good
a manager is that he knows this team well and
how to pitch him.

Speaker 2 (01:52:37):
I thinks, I mean they played him plenty of times
a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:52:40):
Yeah, you know, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:52:42):
I think it's like twenty six times since aj left.
So I don't think there's a whole lot of surprises.
He's been pitching like Game seven in the World Series,
or he's been managing like Game seven in the World
Series for almost two months now.

Speaker 7 (01:52:55):
A lot of openers, a lot of bullpen usage.

Speaker 9 (01:52:58):
We know the match tufts and it's easy to probably
scout from the other side. All Right, he's going to
bring in Horton to face this pocket, He's going to
bring in.

Speaker 7 (01:53:09):
Will Vest to face this part.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
I mean, you can.

Speaker 9 (01:53:11):
Figure things out pretty easily and anticipate what's.

Speaker 7 (01:53:15):
Going to happen.

Speaker 9 (01:53:15):
One thing, I look at matchups wise, they're two best hitters.
Riley Green and Carry Carpenter are lefties that don't hit
lefties well the Astros probably, I'm not for sure about this.
I know one of them from er Valdez and you
say Kakuchi or lefties, and that's that's a big advantage

(01:53:36):
for the Astros.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
I believe, Hey, Steve, is there any I look around
the playoff baseball. The way they're pitching. I'm not talking
about reputation or the money they make. The way they're
pitching is our Valdez, Brown and Kokuchi as good as
any one two three going into the playoffs right now
with the way they're pitching.

Speaker 9 (01:53:54):
I think, so, I do you know what the once
you punch, the duo of Dez and Brown stacks up
better than anybody. You look at the numbers, look at
the second half of the season, and that's what you
got to look at. You don't look at the whole season.
Right now, who's hot? Who's hot? When you get into
the dance and Fromber and Hunter Brown are as hot

(01:54:16):
as anybody going in. Kakuchi's been fantastic. They're nine and
one in the games that he's pitched, and the game
that they lost he gave up nowhere and runs in
six innings. So h I like the swing and miss
I like the I like the experience. I like the
Astros one, two three that they're going with.

Speaker 5 (01:54:35):
Okay, in the perfect world, Giz set the line up
for me and everybody's healthy, said to I mean, I'm
talking about batting order.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
I want to know what you'd do. I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:54:45):
It's kind of it's kind of harder.

Speaker 9 (01:54:47):
So I think I think he'd likes the Karatini janer
Diez combo at catcher in first base.

Speaker 7 (01:54:54):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 9 (01:54:54):
I'm not let's see. Yeah, I think that's probably it.
Singleton probably sits against Scoble. Then you go out two
B eight second, pay a short pregnant at third centerfield.
I'm sure is Myers Myers. If I was him today,
I would be practicing bunting. You know, you get in
the situation and you're playing one and two run games, Uh,

(01:55:16):
small ball a little bit towards the end of at
your bottom of your lineup. I don't know. I don't
know this. The status is your done. So Hayward's going
to be a part of this. I'm not sure he's
going to match up with Scooble, so probably the rioting
with Dubon and of course Tucker, who hits righty's and
lefties equally well. Right, So that's that's my lineup. Caroten,

(01:55:37):
he's been a beast. I mean to think of like
ave Ops plus or something, and.

Speaker 7 (01:55:44):
You're thinking he's going to be your backup catcher.

Speaker 10 (01:55:46):
He ends up being an offensive weapon.

Speaker 5 (01:55:47):
It's pretty good, formidable as it gets, man, get all healthy,
it's going to be a blast. And what a pitching
matchup we have in game one. Cannot wait to see it, Steve.
Awesome stuff and we look forward to catch up with
you next Monday and hopefully one series in the bag
and working on another one. So look forward to him,
my man, and thanks for the good insight. As always,

(01:56:08):
in another hell of a regular season, we appreciate you.

Speaker 7 (01:56:12):
You got it, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (01:56:13):
Thanks, that's the great Steve Sparks, come back and discuss
Sports Talk seven ninety Astro is getting rated.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
Tee it up. Three day games in a.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
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Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
If he goes with the timber Lands, who knows, but anyway,
great to be able to catch up with Sparky. Speaking
of the Astros, the regular season is over the Detroit Tigers.
They are up in the Wildcard Series. First game tomorrow.
All three games gonna be just after one thirty, first pitch.
We're hoping the Astros only need two because then that

(01:56:50):
would mean another rest day before you would start the DS,
So that is something they're hoping to do.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
But tomorrow gonna be a tough one.

Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
Eric Scouble, we just talked about him with Steve Sparks
as well as uh fromer Valdez and the rest of
this Astros pitching staff. What they've been able to do
for this team this year, they've been huge. Uh, but uh,
you know, the Astros trying to continue to get back
to the ALCS for the eighth straight season. If they

(01:57:20):
were able to get five more wins. It before bros, dog,
I love it. That's it. It shrows before hoes. That's it.
That's that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, you want, you
want to ride with your bros with the Stros, but
then yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57:32):
It can't be Stros. Yeah, it's gotta be right, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
Mean I think I think the boys would understand though,
if you say, hey, guys, I'm sorry, it's the Stros.
I think if you've got truly good down for down
for the set, they'll ride with you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
Yeah. That's it. That's it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:49):
Hey, you know what I'm feeling on that one. Yeah,
this is uh, this city is so used to this
time of baseball. That's what you love. It's it's become
a habit that I don't think any of us take
for granted. Let's hope and after this is satisfying season
considering all that they've been through it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:03):
And that's what I've loved.

Speaker 4 (01:58:04):
I think for the last couple of postseasons, we've had
the Michael Myers uh uh, the the guy dressing up
as Michael Myers with the Astros flag going around letting
you know it's October and the Astros are Michael Myers.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Because he can't.

Speaker 5 (01:58:16):
October starts tomorrow, right, that's it this season. Yeah, last
day of the September. Are you a Myers or Vorhe's guy?

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
Probably? Uh uh. That's a tough one.

Speaker 4 (01:58:30):
But somebody brought up a great point though, because wasn't
Jason vorhees killed as a kid, So how did he
grow up to be Jason?

Speaker 5 (01:58:37):
I think he just lived underwater, I mean the camp. Yeah,
he seemingly could live anywhere. Yeah, he got he never
breathed under water all those years and came back out
of nowhere and still didn't look like he was one
hundred and fifty years old.

Speaker 4 (01:58:48):
That's I mean, that's the thing though, I mean, you know, Anthony,
Michael Hall. Everybody tried to kill Michael Myers. They couldn't
do it. Yeah, guy's unbelievable. And I mean, you know,
people were stabbing them, they were shooting them, they were
doing all these things, and you know he's still found
a way.

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (01:59:01):
Why do we got to I mean, like with it's
like Michael Myers, Mike Myers and uh Jason Jay Vorhees.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
I want to give them dictaves, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
I mean usually guys like that you probably uh you know,
they don't really endear.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
Themselves to you.

Speaker 4 (01:59:15):
So so the nicknames are are kind of tough there.

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:59:19):
I mean you can't call Mike Myers mikey No, sounds
like be your friend.

Speaker 4 (01:59:23):
I mean, especially you know, because I mean, you know,
Wayne himself, Mike Myers, he's you know, he endears himself.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
We we like him. He makes us laugh. That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (01:59:33):
Speaking of which, I watched old uh Austin Powers over
the week.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
Yeah stupid. He is great.

Speaker 5 (01:59:39):
He is great in that well behave So Yeah, this
Astro series great and if you can listen, confidence grows
immensely if you can roll through schooble and get this win.

Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
No I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:59:50):
And we talked about quarterback matchups, This is one that
could can't put it this way. Let's say both of
them get into the seventh and and though both the
Fromer and School are just off the charts, kind of
like we talked about Josh Allen and Stroud, cancel each
other out.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Both both excellent at.

Speaker 5 (02:00:06):
What they do at their jobs, advanced heavy even though
they've played great baseball with confidence. But so of the Astros.
It's not just Detroit that had to go a tough
path to get here. The Astros have as well, and
with a lot more injuries than most Well, nobody's had
the starting pitching damage that they've had done and still
it's a strength of their team, meaning the Astros that

(02:00:27):
if they cancel each other out, then you say advantage
who well, home field advantage should come into play. But
more so, this lineup's far deeper than theirs.

Speaker 4 (02:00:36):
It is, and it's also too, I think a lineup
that has in some cases underperformed this year.

Speaker 5 (02:00:41):
So there that that's not in some cases in most
of them. Yeah, especially elevated ya right runners in scoring position.
Obviously some of the woes that have plagued the Astros
this year.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
But they've been holding some of it right, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:00:55):
I mean, but they've been able to get good things
happening for them with two as well. They've been able
to carve out some two out magic this season. So
that's something I do want to get into. On the
other side in the final hour of the show, also
to get into some Texans and a quarterback war of words,
one legend and a guy that's trying to reach that status.

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Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
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Speaker 5 (02:04:12):
It's a good old TV look and radio look provide
you with some good information. I'm sure they're pumped about
the start of the NBA season as well, and I
can't wait till college hoops and hockey start as well
to mix in with it. We got a hell of
a fall coming in and teams that are winning here too,
which matters. We're burying the lead though from the weekend.
What's the what's the lead? And I couldn't be happier,
is it? UNLV's quarterback played better than the guy before him. Yeah,

(02:04:35):
and prove that you keep it moving, you stay in
the portal and go do something else. That was one
of my heads. That was one of my I don't
like to see anybody fail. I like to see people's success.
But when you run out on a team and watching
college game Day on Saturday, they were pretty adamant about that.
You know, Nick sabe That's that's what drives Nick Sabman
out of the business as opposed it literally.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
Did out of the business, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (02:04:57):
It just goes to show you the when you think
you're bigger than the program, you're not. And I couldn't
be happier for you and l He beat a good
Freshno State team, and he did it with what was
their backup quarterback who's now their start. With those three touchdowns,
that made my weekend after because anytime you quit on
a teammate or a family, you know, when you quit
on somebody who didn't deserve, everybody needs to come to

(02:05:19):
Jesus sometimes. But when you quit on teammate, I'll go
back to the right guard who's not getting any nil.
It's busting his ass and it's an II quarterback, not
a wee week guy. Right couldn't be happier. And I
guarant asked to you, he was watching that game. Don't
tell me now, Oh I care about my teammates. I'm
glad they don't tell me that. If you cared about
your teammates, you'd done the business away from this, stayed

(02:05:41):
the course, kept competing, and let your agent everybody else
handle whatever details you're going with. And if you didn't
get a signature on a piece of paper, then you're dumb.
Then you're a freaking idiot. And this day when we
used to say handshake agreements, that's an agreement for you
and I. It may be sure, because that's how I operate,
but guess what, I'll no longer operate on a handshake
agreement less somebody I'd like a kid of mine, or

(02:06:02):
these close friends Mike Brodie's or my buddy John, these
people that I know are going to pull through. But
most of them, a handshake agreement's nothing more than a handshake. Okay,
so get it on paper. And if you didn't, which
he didn't, apparently that's on you. But even then, do
that behind the scenes. You don't quit on a teammate.
So it couldn't have happened to a better for a
better situation to go beat a good team and to

(02:06:24):
do it with the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (02:06:24):
Now who takes over? Don't look back.

Speaker 5 (02:06:27):
Sometimes you got to realize your importance is that you're
not bigger than the university of the sport. And unfortunately
he's going to learn a valuable lesson the hard way.

Speaker 4 (02:06:35):
Well, Dave Chappelle taught us that lesson on the Chappelle
Show with keeping it Real goes wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:06:39):
That absolutely, and that's a fact. That's a great call
by you.

Speaker 5 (02:06:44):
So it just you know, maybe it's not the lead,
but from my mind, anytime you quit on somebody who
needs you it's easy to do it when everything's going well,
to hang with them when they need you and you've
got opportunity to do something special. They haven't had many
opportunities at UNLV football to have to do so up
and special. For a while, they got better last year,
they've been wallowing around, firing coach after coach after coach.

Speaker 2 (02:07:05):
They hadn't.

Speaker 4 (02:07:05):
I mean, it's almost been out there, like you know,
it's it's one of those that people will talk about
U of H and how much you know, people pay
attention to u of H, especially when they're not that
good out there in Vegas. It's Oh, un LV they
still play football like that, right, really is what it is.

Speaker 5 (02:07:21):
And now that is Oh they play football here and
with all the sports pro sports coming to town, it's
becoming it's some of those kids that go to Bishop
Gormant are gonna want to stay there and they're winning.
So whenever you bolt on a teammate or teammates, I
got nothing, guy, I got no love for you, man.

Speaker 4 (02:07:36):
I was gonna say, I mean, the worst thing you
can be known as is a quitter. Like that's can
you imagine going your whole life?

Speaker 10 (02:07:42):
Dan?

Speaker 5 (02:07:42):
Now after this now maybe he doesn't care after taxes,
what's sixty if he listen, if the university had an
on a piece of paper and didn't pay him, shame
on them.

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (02:07:51):
You still work that behind that the big we all.
Whether you're going through a contract negotiation, you know, I'm
just say, you know, I'm gonna quit when I'm in
the middle of the negotiat Go go get it fixed.

Speaker 2 (02:07:58):
Higher the people. But focus on what you do.

Speaker 5 (02:08:00):
And if you're eight no, like I said last week,
you'll get a little bit more that. They may want
to hike it up to two hundred grand to keep you.
You know what I'm saying, if you do that. But
I just I can't imagine. I've made plenty of stupid
screw ups. I've messed up, fed up plenty of times
in my life. I've never ran on a teammate. I've
never ever bailed on a teammate or a family member

(02:08:21):
in times of crisis or in good time.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (02:08:23):
So I mean and that I can say always and
never tough to come back. I don't bail on friends
or family or teammates.

Speaker 2 (02:08:29):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (02:08:30):
I may have thrown an interception that cost us and
threw a touchdown pass that helped us. But I'm never
bailing on a teammate or a cowork.

Speaker 4 (02:08:36):
I won't do it well. I mean, that was the
lesson that Jimmy Conway gave a young Henry Hill. Never
rat out, Never rat out your guys, and always keep
your mouth shit.

Speaker 5 (02:08:45):
That's exactly right. And if you're going to talk, make
sure something good comes out.

Speaker 2 (02:08:48):
And you did.

Speaker 5 (02:08:49):
It's to uplift the guys around you. I can't fathom
walking at now. If you transfer because you weren't getting work.
You know, you're the fourth guy, no run and you
got your You're a freshman. He's already transferred from only cross.
He's a senior. If you're a freshman, you want some
I understand the transfer portal. I don't understand doing it
five times. But that's neither here nor there. You got
to learn how to compete in life, because football really

(02:09:10):
is a parallel to life. Getting not kicked in the
mouth and knocked in the teeth and have to come
back up, get up every seven seconds and go do
it again. That's life and football. Hey, we snap the ball,
guy gets his ass kicked for you know the play
leading into it. Five four five six seconds. And it's
the only sport, it's the only part of life I
know where you pick him back up and go ahead,
and you know, going in it's a fistfight the whole time.

(02:09:32):
Life's the same way. Get your ass kicked, get back up.
Sounds cheesy, but it's a fact. I can't imagine living
my life. Mistakes we all can overcome, and we look
back and saying, then, regret this or regret this. One
thing you should never regret is quitting. If you're an athlete,
Quitting on a teammate, to me is the is the
is the biggest sin you got. I'm talking about in

(02:09:56):
sports terms, quitting on a teammate or stealing from a
team mate. And what he did in essence is steal
from his teammates. Yeah, they relied on you and you
bailed on them over over an agreement that's been made.

Speaker 2 (02:10:08):
Away from all this.

Speaker 5 (02:10:10):
Well, the right guard probably doesn't have a dime of
nil money and he's blocking, selling his ass out to
block for you. Nah, I can't buy me. I'm not
giving that kid one ounce a hall pass, not one. Well,
it's also too I mean you were talking about competition.
I mean, you know you can run from competition for
so long, but eventually it'll find you. Eventually you are
going to be in a situation where you don't have

(02:10:30):
a choice. You are going to have to compete against
somebody and and if you're afraid of that, then you're
not prepared for that. You're not gonna handle it well.
And eventually, in real life, when that does, if you
keep running, keep running, Eventually there's nowhere to run.

Speaker 2 (02:10:43):
I mean, if you want to do it on your own,
have at it. We all have to do some stuff
on our own.

Speaker 5 (02:10:46):
But going lone wolf's one thing, okay, But going want
lone wolf when you didn't have to and leaving your
player teammates hanging to me, that's as big as sent
as there is in sports.

Speaker 2 (02:10:55):
Yeah, there's no doubt about. It's real. Quick here, let's
get Andy and we want to talk from Texans Andy.
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (02:11:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (02:11:03):
Before that, before I get to the ugly, let's talk
about something that's great. If you guys haven't seen Charlie
Blackman's exit from the game yesterday, go watch it. Yeah,
talk about a guy. Talk about a guy who did
it right, played for the same team. He's thirty eight.
He didn't chase money. He stayed on the same team and.

Speaker 8 (02:11:24):
Did it right.

Speaker 18 (02:11:25):
You never heard nothing bad about the guy. I had
a great career. Just go watch the Exit's it'll it'll
tear you.

Speaker 6 (02:11:33):
Up real quick.

Speaker 18 (02:11:35):
Sean, you gotta start talking. Stop talking about Punzel being great.
I just did some numbers on Tunzel, on Howard. You
know Howard has left Saxon. He does since twenty twenty one,
He's given up left sacks and he has fourteen less penalties.

(02:11:56):
And I thought, well, Andy, are your eyes still need
the truth? And I said, well, let's look up George Fant.
I look at George Fan and guess what stats are
just as good as tunsles and way better with penalties.
I don't know what this love affection about Tunzel is.
He had the one great year way three years ago

(02:12:16):
when he only gave it one sack and like a
thousand thousand snaps. But and we all know that his
worst thing about him, this hositiality, is his run blocking.

Speaker 5 (02:12:28):
But to hear, Andy, listen for a second, I know
you go look up all these stats, and I said
he can't be considered the best left I've said it
about a thousand times in the last in the last
two weeks, you can't be considered the best left tackle
in football or in the top two or three. If
I'd be like saying a quarterback drops back. Man, he's
really accurate, but about three times a game he throws

(02:12:49):
red zone interceptions, then he's not the best quarterback.

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
That's exactly right. I do agree with that. I don't
call it.

Speaker 5 (02:12:55):
But when the ball snapped, he's really good. And one
thing you can't listen, whether it's Pro Football Focus, whether
it's on the broadcast yesterday even said it. He grades
out it in ninety plus percent regularly when the ball snapped,
So he can't say he's not a good player. And
please sty and I love you, brother, but quick quit
comparing a guy who plays some of the time to
a guy who plays all the time. Okay, in Tunsill

(02:13:17):
and Tunsel's blocking the best players in the league compared Howard.

Speaker 18 (02:13:21):
Howard has more snaps since twenty twenty one, is giving
up once that less and fourteen less penalties. And I
bet your money Howard run better.

Speaker 2 (02:13:31):
Okay, So what does that have to do with our budget?
We're compartmentalized.

Speaker 5 (02:13:34):
I'm not comparing Tunsel to Howard Howard Fant to the
left tackle and you know, to Trent Williams, I'm talking
about Tunsall. Tunsil is becoming a detriment with his pre
snap and his penalties post snap. There is no doubt,
and I've said that he is a good when the
ball snapped most of the time. The guy's the hell
of a football player.

Speaker 2 (02:13:52):
He just is. And he grades out by people who watch.

Speaker 5 (02:13:55):
Endless tape grade every single movement, every snap, every run,
every that. He's grated out year after year high by
the people who get paid a lot of money, too grated.
So he's a good player.

Speaker 18 (02:14:07):
That's what the PFF does, Sean, they watched every play.

Speaker 5 (02:14:10):
That's exactly right. That's my point. That's my point. You
can't say he's not a good player. To call him
the best player in the league at his position is
also wrong because he's not because he puts his team
in a bind every week. But he's also good. I mean,
the key is when you take him out, who you're
gonna replace him with? And that'll be tough. But Tunts
was a really good player. He's not the best left

(02:14:31):
tackle in the league because he puts his team in
a bind every week.

Speaker 18 (02:14:35):
But when like I said, when I called him back
in the day, when he gave him that extension, they
paid him like he was the best.

Speaker 5 (02:14:42):
But that happens all the time, and that happens all
the time guys get there's guys who aren't even the
best player at their position that right now. I mean,
I love to God, please God read bless him that
he's healthy and can play. TUIs could put some good
night and you could see how bad they're struggling without
him offensively. But the guy who's played a couple of
years has been good and and he's got a hell
of a future. If he's healthy enough, he'd make it

(02:15:03):
over fifty million a year. I can go down the
list of baseball players that hit two sixty that make
twenty five million.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
I can go down the list of football quarterbacks. It's
a lot of these guys, are right.

Speaker 5 (02:15:14):
It's the timing of the contract when you're going good,
and it's not just who you are, it's who am
I going to replace him with? When I hear that,
people say, well, get that receiver route, and they say, okay,
who you going to place him with? So that also
comes into play, and nobody's arguing that Tunsil has done
some things that got to get fixed. But we can't
set up here and tell him, and I'm not getting

(02:15:34):
in his wallet. Yes, if I did that, we could
say everybody's overpaid compared to what we all do, right,
But it's called sports and it's fantasy world, and they
get paid. But when it comes to just production on
the field, Tunsl grades out really well. But I've never
seen him more more undisciplined and unfocused when it comes

(02:15:54):
to this pre snap stuff that I have in eight
years that he's been doing it, and it's got to
stay because the team's not good enough to keep overcoming this.
They've done it against three average teams, against good teams,
are going to get their ass handed to him. Hen's Minnesota.
So yes, Tunsl is a good player, great player. Hall
Is he a Hall of Famer today? The answer is
absolutely not. But he's a good player. He's just got

(02:16:16):
to stop the the the the unforced airs. So I'm
with Andy and I say great, he's great at times
when the ball snapped the great and out proves that.
So it's tough. And then we'll get to Titus Howard
and Fad that's another day. We're just talking about Tunsel,
So I'm with you. Yeah, I mean, I think the
other part of it. To appreciate the call Andy I
always appreciated and he's got a passion for it. No,

(02:16:38):
I could feel it. But I think with Tunsil, it's
the injuries. But even more than that, it's the Hey,
it's training camp, Wisney on the field, Oh well, he
had knee surgery, what the Wisney on the field.

Speaker 2 (02:16:50):
Participating in the offreas where you go? I catched it
up to you.

Speaker 4 (02:16:53):
It's those things that I think kind of annoy people
like where it's just it's it's a little bit of
a perception of hey, does this guy really care?

Speaker 5 (02:17:00):
Like is he all in with the rest of these
And it's a fair but his teammates don't say that.
So I always trust the inside here. But it's got
to stop. It's got to get better. I do believe
he cares. I do believe everybody cared. Nobody wants to
embarrass himself, and that's happened too many times this year
for a guy who should be better at it after
being in this league what eight years now? Sure, I
think what's really going on. He's got tons of itis.

(02:17:24):
I I was, I was waiting for the chaser there.
That's that's why sometimes you got to have a cough,
drop throat longer. Tons of lightis will get you got
to get rid of the tons of lightis there?

Speaker 4 (02:17:35):
There you go, there you go, there you go. I
was trying to be there on the base to uh
to get the turn. But uh, you know, I guess
the runner beat me. There.

Speaker 2 (02:17:41):
We got the alls.

Speaker 4 (02:17:42):
We do. We have the lead runner out. That's that's
all we need to do there. We got get in out.
That's the most important part. Speaking of getting it out,
one of some of the things that the Astros need
to try to concern themselves with as we enter into
the postseason. Tony and angleton I see you right there.
You want to join him, you can do so. Seven
one three, two one two five. Seven ninety will continue
with some Astros talk on the other side right here.

Speaker 2 (02:18:02):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (02:18:05):
This is.

Speaker 2 (02:18:11):
Continues now Paul Sports Talks seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (02:18:14):
Huh for your Rockets.

Speaker 5 (02:18:17):
Can cannot beat yourselves? Man, No, I mean I'm so.
I get losing games. I can take beating yourself. They're
fortunate the Texans are they've beat themselves at times on
plays and got away with it because they've got some
spectacular performers. Eventually it gets you, and I don't want
them to be in a position where they lose two
or three games along the year because of stuff that

(02:18:37):
they can control.

Speaker 2 (02:18:39):
Well, it's the old thing. It's either you're coaching it
or you're allowing it to happen.

Speaker 4 (02:18:44):
And I mean, I think that probably what you can
at least deduce from what's happened the first few weeks
of the season that it's not being coached up.

Speaker 5 (02:18:52):
So that question, I think it was John who asked
the question, or I said we'd get a top of
nine o'clock, So John, to answer your question out is
it coaching? I always have a hard time with this
because I do believe part of me says that we're
not on the practiceield when they close prey. We're not
on the practe field every day, right, so we don't know,

(02:19:13):
and we're not sitting in meetings. We don't know the
verbiage or the talk. We can assume, and haven't been
in those locker rooms for all those years, I can
assume the conversation they're having, right, I do know this.
Teams I've been on that let a guy show up
late to stretching a line. It gets at to, you know,
putting his pads on because he's late, and there's no dude,
if it starts at three o'clock, it's not three zero

(02:19:33):
three when you start to let the little I'm not
saying they do. I'm just telling you the overall picture
of teams. I've been on good teams and average teams.
Right the good teams, while you better have talent, it
always starts there. You better have disciplined buy in, accountability
and passion, and you better prepare. So I'm not even
I'm not specifically saying the Texans, but I would imagine

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some of it's happened. First off, Demiko Ryan seems like
is buttoned up great with the players. But there's that
line of I'm your coach. I understand as a player,
but I'm not your best friend. I'm here to coach
you first, coach first, player, second, buddy second. But when
it comes to the preparation, and John makes a good
and I think a lot of people question this. We've
always heard, well, penalties are on the coach. They're not prepared.

(02:20:18):
I can't fathom on the practice field, and if they are,
then shame on Demico and the rest of my I
have a hard time believing this well.

Speaker 4 (02:20:26):
And if there's anything I know about Demiko, that's that's
not who is. He was not that guy as a player.
Why would he be that way as a coach or
as assistant coaches? I can't fathom that is ahead. See,
as a head coach, your job is also to coach
your assistant coaches to make sure that they're doing the
teaching it the way you want to talk, right with
their with their flavor to it, that's within the culture
of what you're building here. I can't fathom a guy,

(02:20:49):
after what we saw a really disciplined team last year,
to get the ten wins that overnight, that these guys
are taking him or this for granted, I can't fathom it.
So with that, I'm thinking, Okay, is it the coach,
is it the line coach, assistant coach, the coordinator allowed
I can't fathom on the PRACXE field that if it
is happening on the practice field and they're just blowing
it off, saying Okay, run it again, then then there's
a reason because I am a big believer. If you

(02:21:11):
practice bad you can't sustain good play. Honest to God,
I don't believe that. So in John, you question, is
it coaches? I still believe.

Speaker 5 (02:21:22):
For me, for instance, if I throw an interceptions out
of the coach, regardless to the play call, I got
the ball in my hand. Sure, it's the same thing.
Like if a wide receiver jumps off side, he is
you're allowing that in practice? I no big deal back
on the ball. Then then there is a coaching issue.
It's just knowing where they were.

Speaker 2 (02:21:36):
Now.

Speaker 5 (02:21:36):
If this was the first season of Demiko Ryans and
this is what we were getting, I would automatically say
their practice has got to be undisciplined. And I don't
believe that with him because I saw the changes he made. No,
he's out there for training. Can't they're type practice rights,
they're well run exactly. So with that, if the coaches
are preaching we can't keep doing this in practice in
the right way, then it goes and falls on a player.

(02:21:58):
If I'm the left tackle and I know it's a
brutally hard job that you get paid handsomely to perform it,
and it's not just the money you got teammates that
are relying on you, you can't continue to put him
in a mind so do I. I'll blame it only
on the coaches when there's undisciplined if that's the way
they were practicing, absolutely, But then I've been on teams
where coaches let it slack a little and a player

(02:22:19):
will jump out and say, like a center or a
leader on defense, if their defense is not playing physical,
he'll grab him by the damn back. He'll horse call
him by the back of the shoulder pad and say
we're going to get this right now, not caring what
the coaches say. So great leadership says if he's not
gonna do it, we'll do it, and I'll deal with
the coach's wrath later. So I have a hard time
believing that the Texans woes on these penalties are because

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Demiko just allowed just just kind of turns his you know,
turns his head to it and blind eye.

Speaker 2 (02:22:48):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 5 (02:22:49):
So, while it is part of it, if you're allowing
it's a problem, but the players have to take accountability.

Speaker 2 (02:22:54):
That's part of buying saying I confess this is on me,
not I confess they did it. I confess I did it.
I've got to fix it.

Speaker 5 (02:23:02):
And if that's not what they're doing, these will continue
to happen because this is no longer by accident. This
is becoming a trend. And I'm shocked because I don't
think Demico Ryan's coaches like that, nor do his assistance.
They better get it fixed or guess what they're ass well,
they will be eliminated quickly if they don't get it fixed.
It's early, but we can't keep saying it's early, eight
weeks into the season and good teams are coming down

(02:23:24):
the pike.

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
Well, it's also too.

Speaker 4 (02:23:26):
I mean the coaching point there is there's the right
way to do it, and there's the way that you're
doing it. I mean, like that's kind of I think
a little bit of the tack they take. But it's
also the best teams I've ever been around. To your
point about practice, those are the teams that would talk
about practices are harder than the games are. And I mean,
I don't know, if you know, maybe something needs to

(02:23:46):
be adjusted on that end, but I mean to your point,
I mean, it's just every single week now we're we're
looking for it at this point, right over that, well,
you expect it instead of the other you expect. Okay,
we're gonna get eight, nine, ten, twelve penalties, right, and
offensive line is going to commit seven of them, eight
of them.

Speaker 2 (02:24:00):
And those guys are too good.

Speaker 5 (02:24:02):
There's only one team over the course time, and I'm
sure there's others, but that because as a diehard Oakland
Raider fan growing up, they could get penalies fifteen times
and beat you. But when the Steelers came to town
or good teams like that, right, get yourself penalized fifteen times,
your asses going home? There you go because they but
they also had about eight Hall of Famers. I mean
they were able to do it because they practiced. They
knew what John Madden expected, so they they were that one.

(02:24:25):
They gun slingers and wild wild West.

Speaker 2 (02:24:27):
And do it all. But they were able to pull off.
That is the outlier and rare, rare that you do it.

Speaker 5 (02:24:32):
But every now and again, when you do it and
cause yourself a penalty out of field goal range where
bland you can't kick a field goal, guess what, Jack
Lambert and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (02:24:40):
Beat your ass yep, and they did numerous times. Damn right.

Speaker 5 (02:24:43):
They did, and when the Raiders were at their best.
Wall I'm okay with an early send a message penalty. Sure,
Raiders used to do it all the time. Take a
personal foul in the first quarter to send a message
it if you're rolling across the middle, I'm gonna knock
your balls right in a dirt.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
Well, Tom, I mean that's the thing too, you know,
I'm thinking of Nebraska, the the the message they wanted
to send to Charlie Ward in Florida State, and they
they made no bones about it. They were like, no,
we wanted to set the tone right there early on
the game. We'll take the fifteen basketball too.

Speaker 5 (02:25:10):
Guys driving Alo school, Rick Mahorn in that group, they're
gonna you're gonna get punished. So later in the game
when you go and we don't punish you, you miss,
you miss a little kiss off the plexiglass, and we
win the game. So there are messages. I'm okay with
some of those, but you can't continue, especially when you're
a team that's still trying to find your way. You're
in the infancy of this, this this whole regime. They're

(02:25:31):
really good and they are fortunate that they've got some
superstars right now that are carrying them through some really
average play overall, and they're three and one, which is
a great thing. It will not stay that way if
you keep committing these penalties, I promise you.

Speaker 4 (02:25:45):
Well, like I said, I mean, you can win one
now and lose one later because of what you did
to win that game. And hopefully it's not the case
of the Texans all right, Tony Bill John, see all
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to get back into the Astros conversation with those two
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I had to live out there. The Shawn Salisbury Show
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Speaker 4 (02:27:45):
Alabama the game of the weekend, beating Georgia forty one
to thirty four. A lot of fun in that one,
and fun in the fact that Texans won, but not
so much fun in terms of what's surrounded that when
hopefully there is fun over at Minute Made Park. Tomorrow,
Tony and Engleton wants to talk wild Card Series here

(02:28:06):
on Sports Talk seven ninety Tony, what's up.

Speaker 7 (02:28:09):
Good morning, fellas.

Speaker 12 (02:28:12):
From before I get into my stuff with about the Astros,
I want to the Texans. They lost the running back. Man,
no depth at the running back position. You know, you
can't run the ball. Your quarterback's gonna have to make
plays with his legs. They're gonna, you know, it's gonna
They're gonna change the way they attack us. So I
gotta get They gotta get the running back healthy and
get a little depth at that position. Man, They're gonna struggle.

Speaker 10 (02:28:37):
The Texas.

Speaker 12 (02:28:38):
The Tiger that are you kidding me showing the Detroit Tigers,
the team that we did not want to play.

Speaker 2 (02:28:45):
Man.

Speaker 12 (02:28:45):
Listen, the Tigers look a lot like the Astros from
twenty to fifteen, nine years ago. They went up against
We went up against the rule, won the Wild Card,
beat the Yankees and the Yankee Stadium, went up against
the Kansas City Royals, who were come and offul World Series.

Speaker 7 (02:29:01):
They just lost the World.

Speaker 12 (02:29:02):
Series in seven games. We were a bad hop ground
ball to Korea away from winning that series. And at
mid it may park that's the and and you know
we'll see a j. Hinch, you know how he knows, hey,
you can manage his bullpen. I think this series is
gonna come down to the bullpen. I think it's gonna
come at the starters where it's gonna be a low

(02:29:23):
scoring series. There may be one game where a couple
of teams get off, but this is gonna be a tough,
close series.

Speaker 2 (02:29:29):
I think it's gonna come down to the back of the.

Speaker 12 (02:29:31):
Bullpen and how each manager manages those situations. And I
think that, like I said before, this is one of
those years where you can't manage the bullpen like you
like you like you'd like to where Presley's.

Speaker 2 (02:29:44):
Gonna be in the eight inning.

Speaker 7 (02:29:45):
I would not have him in the eighth inning at
all in this series. I know, I just wouldn't show on.

Speaker 10 (02:29:51):
I think it's like.

Speaker 12 (02:29:53):
Not using cold in game in Game seven in twenty nineteen.
It's you've got to manage or to win today. It's
gonna take thirteen wins through this Wildcard series. It's gonna
take thirteen wins to win the win, win the series.
But you gotta you gotta manage every single day and
every single game and every single inning like it's your last,
because the dang sure could be. I think when it's

(02:30:16):
all sitting downe with when the dust settles, I think
that the Texan the Astros will get through this. They'll
get through this series with the Tigers, but there's gonna
be a lot of white knuckling and then and then
from there it's it's it's it's all about the pitching.

Speaker 4 (02:30:30):
Man.

Speaker 12 (02:30:30):
If we get the pitching, I think we're gonna be
just I think we'll be just fine. And you know,
to get at least to the Alcs. I think it's
the Yankees and Dodgers year. I think it's I think
it's a it's a subway series. Kind of here's looking
like that's what everybody wants to see. That's kind of
why I like our position, kind of laying in the
weeds a little bit. You got that extra left hander.

(02:30:51):
I just think it's gonna be the bullpen, boys. I
think the bullpen is gonna gonna be our dagger.

Speaker 7 (02:30:56):
I'll hang up, listen.

Speaker 2 (02:30:57):
I hope it's not.

Speaker 5 (02:30:58):
I hope the dagger there is, the dagger sticking with
somebody else as opposed to it being the problem for
the Astros.

Speaker 2 (02:31:06):
Starting pitching, getting deep will will help.

Speaker 5 (02:31:11):
But I'm I think the bullpen for the most part
this year has really done a yeoman's job, considering all
the injuries and knowing that they were going to be
overworked at times. Tony makes good. This is a This
Detroit team is real, and if they get good pitching,
they can hit two thirty and still win the series.

(02:31:33):
But the problem is you're facing baseball's best starting tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:31:37):
Well it's also too I mean, you know, I brought
up the two groups and we can get into this
on the other side. I mean, the high leverage three
is one of those two groups of a bray you
Presley and Hater. You need those guys to be as
advertised coming into this season. I mean, what were we
talking about coming into the year. Get to the seventh inning,
this scheme is over. And for the most part this
year you were able to play that through and see

(02:31:58):
that through successfully. But you also had some times too
where it's uh, Brave, he's not on. Oh, Hater's not on.
Uh there's a home run after Josh Hater walked the
lead off man. So those are things that you just
cannot have, there's no doubt. And they're gonna need to score.
I mean it's hard when you face them that in
the postseason. These are one run, two run games your
face and everybody's best on the mound regularly, don't.

Speaker 5 (02:32:23):
I mean, the hitting is going to have to elevate
with runners in scoring well at least extendings as best us.
I mean that's more than anything is. I mean, you
get a run here, you get a run there, or
small ball doesn't matter to move them.

Speaker 4 (02:32:34):
When you've got an opportunity to be able to put
up some runs, those are the opportunities you can't miss
out on. So these are things that we will definitely
keep an eye on and we will get to all
your calls before we wrap that.

Speaker 2 (02:32:45):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (02:32:45):
You know what, Bill John c You guys right there
will get you on the other side as well as
get into more of the groups that have to come
through for the astros and also to get you set
up for tomorrow's game.

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Speaker 4 (02:35:01):
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Speaker 10 (02:35:06):
Up, Sean? Quick question?

Speaker 16 (02:35:09):
Thank you, Good morning, sir am. I looking at the
NFL lens to the right lens right now, if you
take records, Sean off the table.

Speaker 7 (02:35:18):
We played four weeks with a game tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:35:21):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (02:35:21):
I'm seeing an NFL right now that.

Speaker 16 (02:35:23):
Maybe has two or three really crappy teams, maybe eight
nine good teams, no great teams, and a whole pile
of average to maybe slightly above average.

Speaker 7 (02:35:37):
If I looking at the NFL right right now.

Speaker 5 (02:35:40):
And you're right when they say Kansas City, Kansas City
is not a great team right now. They have a
great quarterback, their defense flat. They have a phenomenal play
caller and a phenomenal defensive coordinator. The Kansasity Chiefs are
not a great team. Buffalo is not a great team.
The Baltimore Ravens are not a great team. Good teams
with the ability to be great. Texans are not. Texans
are talented, but they're not a great team by any

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stretch right now. So you go up and down forty
nine ers whin yesterday, they've had their struggles. I mean,
you go up and down the league. The Vikings are
really good. Four and oh they're not great. They're beatable.
So yes, there is and most of them, and there's
about three or four at the bottom. Yet those three
or four teams, we've seen the Bears do their thing.
The Giants have pushed the Cowboys to the brink. The

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Carolina Panthers beat the Raiders last week. So yeah, and
then all of a sudden you get Jayden and Daniels,
who's playing like he belongs in a Pro Bowl. The
dude is out of his mind way he's playing. And
Arizona's a decent team. They went in there and carved
them up. So, yes, you're one hundred percent correct. No
great teams. I think we're probably stretching it by saying
nine or ten good teams. I don't think early in
the season. I've seen enough football to tell me there's

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ten good teams or nine good teams. Most of them
live in the middle of this thing that one week
you can be good and then lose two weeks in
a row. So yes, that's that's the lens I'm seeing
it through as well. There's a lot to be designed now.
Defenses are way ahead of offenses right now. Hell, the
Bengals are one and three, one in three, So yeah,

(02:37:04):
you're one hundred percent correct, my man.

Speaker 2 (02:37:05):
Thank you have a good one. Guys, take care Bill.

Speaker 4 (02:37:10):
In terms of the Astros conversation, like I was teasing before,
we just got to Bill right there. You talked about
it of you know how much the pitching is going
to mean to this team because it is going to
be a huge part of what carries them. And the
funny thing is, I remembered when I joined you and
Brian when me and Ross were in Florida for for
spring training. Yep, I remembered you'd ask me what's one

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of the things that concerns you, and I said, well,
probably starting rotation because you know that you're not gonna
have justin you thought at the time you weren't gonna
have justin Verlanders start season. That turned out to come
to fruition. But you weren't sure about Luis Garcia. You
weren't sure about Lance mccullors junior. You were not completely
sure what you were going to get out of Hobvier,

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although I mean he's given you great things at times,
but then he turned out to be done for the season.
With with the torn ucl same deal with the Urkidi
he gets hurt at the end of spring training as well,
but that group has been outstanding. You add use Kakuci
and what he's been able to do for you since
you added him at the trade deadline. Spencer Arraghetty's done
some great things. Hadn't even talked about Hunter Brown. But

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for me, the thing that continues to push this team
and is a thing that I harp on with this team.
I need Jose al Tuve to be that guy. I
need Alex Pregman to be that guy. I need Jordan
Alvarez to be that guy. And what do I mean
by being that guy? I got two runners on. Those
are the guys I've I've got to have put one
over the wall and flip a game.

Speaker 5 (02:38:35):
Okay, so let me ask you this real quick. I
want you to give me and I don't. I want
you to give me by the way they're playing your
feeling now, not by the Lifetime Achievement Award, Verland or
Altuve Hall of Famers talk about right now, give me one, two, three,
in order. Whether it's an individual, a group, a side,
I don't care. I don't care if it's the backup catcher. Sure,
I want your top three strengths going into the playoffs

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right now.

Speaker 2 (02:38:58):
Top three strengths.

Speaker 4 (02:38:59):
Number one starting pitching, Number two I would probably still
go the lineup and number three the bullpen.

Speaker 5 (02:39:04):
Okay, Now, when you say the lineup, the full lineup,
or is there some I mean there's been some weaknesses
this year. Is there individuals in the lineup that you say,
not history, but this year that you trust to come
up big at the right moment.

Speaker 2 (02:39:17):
The full lineup.

Speaker 4 (02:39:17):
Here's why the top of the order, the experience that
you've got out of those guys and what they've been
able to do this time of the year. But also
though too, if those guys do get going, then that
gives confidence to the bottom end of the order. Because
I'm seeing pressing right now out of Jeremy Pania. He's
he's struggling at the plate. But if you're able to
get those guys going, and he kind of, you know,
starts to say, hey, I can relax a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:39:39):
Those guys are carrying the weight. I just need to
keep the line moving.

Speaker 4 (02:39:42):
Then that kind of changes the approach a little bit,
and he relaxes a little bit at the plate, and
you're not seeing him not only chase the outside slider,
but he's started to also be susceptible to an inside fastball.

Speaker 5 (02:39:52):
At least a couple of times last week he got
a lean and chase and then they pound you inside.
It's hard to catch up.

Speaker 2 (02:39:56):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (02:39:57):
And you know, I know that Jake Myers has had
his strug as well. We'll see what Chas McCormick can
give you. But I think a guy also too that's
provided a little bit of stability at the bottom of
the order has been Jason Hayward.

Speaker 2 (02:40:07):
Yeah. Oh, there's no doubt in the way Keratin is playing. Babe,
what I need him in the lineup?

Speaker 4 (02:40:11):
Did I I tell you when they signed Jason Hayward
that he was going to be thought of the way
that he has thought of right now.

Speaker 2 (02:40:16):
I freaking love it.

Speaker 5 (02:40:17):
And that's what makes Dana Brown in contention for executive Here,
the Kakuchi, the Jason Hayward off seat, you getting Victor Carrottini. Here,
They've They've made some brilliant, brilliant moves. Here's the one
common thread that I think on two and three. Some
would say, well, one interview, trust Jordan in the postseason
or when he's going y, Kyle Tucker healthy or Oult too, Vegas,
whatever Bregman's eye, whatever the strengths are. And then you know,

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some would say, well, I'd love a certain part of
the bullpen. Some would Here's what's here's what the common
thread is when it comes to traits and strengths. I
have yet to hear anybody the last month of this
season tell me that the strength, that the number one
strength is anything but starting pitching. Now, I want you
to fathom this for a second. Fi you named all
those injuries, the strength of their team is still starting pitching. Now,

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do that math. Brother, What a hell of a job
done by Josh No and no question about it. And
there's not even there's not even an issue who your
front three are. And that front three if right now,
there's a better third with the way he's pitched since
he's got here. Is there a better third starter in
a playoff series than that guy right now? If he's
missing bats like he has, then it's like top to

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that guy and he can elevate and he can blow
it by it. This is gonna be a blast, and
I can't wait till one something tomorrow. That's gonna be fun,
a lot of fun. Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:41:38):
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Speaker 16 (02:42:00):
And