September 29, 2025 • 13 mins
As October begins and postseason baseball approaches, Houston has faced a challenging September in both the NFL and MLB. The Texans, led by C.J. Stroud, secured their first win by shutting out the Titans 26-0 yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Astros concluded their season by winning their final series against the Angels 2-1, which marks the first time since 2016 that they will miss the postseason. Reflecting on the weekend, Sean and Dan discuss the Texans' shutout victory, while noting areas for improvement that still need attention on the offensive side. Looking ahead, they also provide a couple of suggestions for the Astros' upcoming 2026 season, including offseason adjustments necessary for the team to return to the postseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The offensive futility of this team this year, Well, Sean,
the numbers would show you that this team was twenty
first in runs this year. Home runs they were middle
of the pack, even a little lower in the middle
of the pack seventeenth, twenty sixth, and walks twenty fourth,
in strikeouts thirteenth, in average on base percentage sixteenth, slugging eighteenth.
(00:24):
That's right there with the home runs ops fifteenth, runners
in scoring position twenty third. So what did you do
well this year? Would be the question for the offense,
and those numbers right there, Sean show you they didn't
do anything well. At best, they were average, and that's
at best. They were averaged to pour this season across
(00:46):
the board offensively, and your twelve games over five hundred,
But you're missing out on the postseason? Why are you
missing out in the postseason? I think those numbers just
told you everything you need to know right there, obvious right.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, always say, aren't they an analytics team? That's that's
a huge part of the most part. Aren't they Aren't
they a team that lives on analytics And they're not
gonna argue with that. They know you know, and I
know that well injuries. Like I said, I'm not gonna
I'm not going to qualify that anymore. We know about
the injuries. I'm not saying they're making an excuse. I'm
not making it either. Unfortunately, still got a line up
and play. You play one hundred and sixty two of them,
(01:19):
whether you're hurt or not.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I mean, yeah, you still had jose L two
Bay in the lineup. You still had Carlos Korea on
the lineup. Christian Walker, right, I mean you're young, that's
right for the most part.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Not swinging it. Did you see on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Not a single one of the three balls that he
swung at in that at bat there was his third
app bat of the game after he hit the two doubles,
every single one of them was about a foot outside there.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know what, there's not a lot of middle ground
with him. He's either going pretty good or it's non
competitive on just on some of his swings or non
competitive balls that he's going after, right, pitches that he's
going after the strikes on. But they I mean, as
a team that is heavy analytics, that's evidence. You just
(02:03):
read the evidence. It's a no brainer. Injuries, yes, but
even more so, and you could probably even dive deeper
like they do now with every single category that I
don't even know how you get to certain statistics with
all the you know, it's like most people don't even
know how to get the QBR still, I mean, all
the stuff to go. It's the same thing with all
these wins above replacement. I know how to get to that.
(02:23):
You know my point. There's statistic for everything. So if
you're just going by on the pure analytics, those numbers
right there will tell you exactly all you need to know.
Matter of fact, those numbers that ought to tell you
just how good the pitching was at times, because with
those numbers you shouldn't even be in competitive for the
most part in a playoff race. But the pitching kept
you in it most of the time. And the hitting.
(02:43):
How many times this year did the hitting carry the
pitching for an extended amount of time?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I mean it's spurts, if even. But was there ever
a ten games stretch maybe maybe in June? Yeah, but
off and on I'm talking about where they went on
and you're like, this team's raking men.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, it was, it was just once in a while.
Like I said, there are sometimes team this year. At
the plate, sometimes they were good and sometimes they're not.
Quite frankly, a lot of times they weren't. They were
sometimes good and sometimes average, but a lot of times
they weren't clutch enough to get done what they needed
to get done. The numbers you just you just read,
(03:22):
just validate what we saw with the naked eye. Oh so,
if you're going on feel and analytics, the feel with
your naked eye that you saw this year is exactly
what the analytics will tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
They were not good at the plate scoring four or
more runs this year. They were sixty four in fifteen,
scoring three or fewer, twenty three in sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And that's a lot of scoring three and fewer. That's
a lot of pressure on the pitching staff. Whatp six
times this year. It was like, I said, kudos to
them for be This isn't to me. There's no moral
victory Monday. I don't believe in them. And but the
only the moral victory part of this is that they
(04:05):
I don't want to say they When people say they competed,
you're supposed to compete. The guy who's the backup to
the guy who got hurt wants to prove that he's
worthy of a job. So that they gave a lot
of effort. You're supposed to. I mean, that's that's why
you get paid. So again, I'm never giving anybody credit
for effort. But I worked really hard. Yeah, well so
(04:25):
the other guy that won ninety games that you won
eighty seven. Okay, so they worked hard and executed better
than you did. So yeah, the oh man, they played hard.
Have you ever noticed that Normally when they said he
played hard, it's in a loss, not the asters I'm
talking about in football or anything. My guys, they played
hard today. There's always about after it. But we didn't win,
(04:46):
so so that I'm assuming the team that beats it
played hard but actually executed it a little bit better
than you did. So hey, listen, we can go through
all the things we want. Injuries, poor performance at the
plate for the majority of the season, pitching carrying them,
and for two straight years now, hitting has been a
foreign in their side, with runners in scoring position and
(05:06):
at the right time, hitting at the right time, not
just hitting hitting at the right time, and they didn't
do enough of it this year. If you're really trying
to make it as simple as we can, that's about
as simple as it gets. And they get to watch
the playoffs for the first time. So what year did
you say.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's twenty sixteen years, So you're talking damn near decade
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A decade and it happens now. The key is get
to work on making sure it doesn't happen again. If
Lamar was and they were getting all their players back
this week, I'd be a little nerve wracked. Why because
you would be getting a team that's pissed and embarrassed.
Right you face the Kansas City offense. It's been very
subpar and they did anything they wanted. The last Buffaloes
(05:49):
hammered them. You saw last week they got hammered. Their
defense has become soft now. A lot of that may
just be injuries, but they've had a lot of guys
that are banged up and it showed. And now with Lamar,
if you rest him now, you may still be able
to go to beat the Texans in your building, but
they are. The Texans are getting them at the right time,
(06:09):
and with a win yesterday, the Texans got better. But
there's still some things they got to clean up. Dude.
They Tennessee's a bad football team.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, that was, And that's what I even said too
on Twitter, is that you know, yes it's a win,
but the only reason you wont is because Tennessee is
much worse than you are. That that Titans team yesterday.
I don't know if they win a game this year,
they might say that. Well, I'm between them and the Saints.
I'm not sure if either one of them is gonna
win a game, and they're gonna be battling.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They're both played for the first pick of the draft.
There there, I mean, aside from the fact they're not
real good offensively, very average defensively and special teams. Kicker
miss two which could have made it six to six,
and maybe the momentum is different for them in game,
but the Texans played better, but they still got protection problems.
Did you watch them? They can't block simple stuff, dude,
(06:53):
it's an embarrassment. I am so tired of talking about this.
They they they early in the game, think it was
in the first quarter. Second quarter. They bring up just
two guys. Chubb doesn't know who to block. The right
guard steps down, two guys run, They get the left
tackle half of the block. Two of them don't even
get away. I mean their their protection schemes and their
inability to pick up simple stuff is humiliating against Friday
(07:16):
night football crap.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I know they won, will get into all the good
stuff you do that against a team that pressures you.
They Stroud almost spent time in a damn hospital with
some of the hits he took. And he's got to
get better at throwing the damn ball away. One time
he scrambled right, held it, held it, held it, trying
to play hero ball. Throw the ball away, especially know
when the team you're on you can't afford loss series.
(07:39):
He's going to be a hell of a player, and
he's been a hell of a player. And you see
how he can deliver the ball. He played good yesterday.
When you finally do so protections and get the ball
out on time, the touchdown to the flat right now,
another blitz that they came. He through to the left
flat early in the game, bam to get a completion
and get them going. Those are things you gotta have.
They're gonna have to get beat. That are upfront defense
(08:02):
is playoff defense. Man. They continue to smother teams and
give you a chance to win, and they did win.
But I wouldn't get too caught up. We're back just yet.
I'd slow my roll a little bit on that. But
they they're protect I don't understand either they're really dumb
football IQ wise up front, and I know they're not,
but I'm just trying to deduct what is it. Either
(08:23):
they have zero clue how to process one ounce of
protection information, or they're either physically soft as a wet
paper towel, or they're not getting taught right. It's one
of the three or all of them. I'm not sure
what it is, but there's there's no way the simple
what's gonna happen when you got to run into complex stuff?
(08:45):
I just don't get it. Well, they got better. Tennessee blows,
So say whatever you want, Tennessee's awful. They're awful. You
beat a team that would have trouble winning on Saturdays.
Little hyperbolic, but you get my point. And so while
it's good, but the frustration I watch and say, yeah,
they did some good things, but you should be beating
teams like Tennessee by forty Tennessee's Tennessee is not even
(09:07):
add They're a team that they are five players away
from being five players away you were six nothing for
much of the game, and about the end of the
third fourth quarter is when you start to pull away
the way that you did. But you even miss a
Fueld goal in there. So it wasn't like the offense
all of a sudden. I know people are talking about
(09:28):
the game that what he marks put together.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He gave a.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Scheme, but he is a bright spot and Chubb rand
physical and they should they run block pretty damn well,
I'll give him that. It's the pass protection, how to
decipher drives me nuts and what he marks. As we
said going in on Friday, the guy needs to touch
the ball more. He's a threat with the ball in
the open field. He's good in the past in the
receiving game. He's got touch the ballmore. I'm going to
(09:51):
tell you right now. By the end of the season
he will continue to get I mean, as it goes on, Well,
Nick Chubb's going to get the majority of you know,
pounding the ball inside. You're going to continue to expand
this offense. If you don't, then you're an idiot. Well,
I'll span the offense with what he mark, and he
showed you yesterday what.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
He can do when the ball's in his hands, and
I think that probably a lot of people are gonna
be calling for him to be the number one running
back right now.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Not time yet, but it'll happen eventually. You just got
to say the ball ain't heavy. Put him in, especially
if he expands his ability to pick up protections and
understand what's going on in the in the protection game
as a running back. But there's still a lot to do.
I'll take a win any way I can get it.
We all will, but I would temper my, oh my gosh,
(10:36):
we're back stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, Seventeen carries, sixty nine yards and a touchdown out
of Mark's I mean, stroud not bad twenty two or
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He was really he looked like when he set his
feet and threw on time, I mean, and he didn't know.
He still missed a few throws but held the ball
too long on a sacker, you know, and a couple pressures.
But I know he's trying to make plays. But you know,
he gets out the ball quick for a touchdown. He
did a nice job, like I said, throwing one to
the left bowl, put his foot in the ground, didn't
(11:05):
wait for a guy down the field. Hit the guy wide,
opening the flat, those little things and what eight and
a half yards in attempt. So they did some good
things and they what a novel concept. Get targets to
Nico Collins early, even if you miss a few, get
him to him early. So it was a solid game
for Stroud. There's still things to develop, There's no doubt
(11:25):
there's some good things, but the overall, the overall, there's
still so much needs to be done against a good team.
And if you were facing a loaded Ravens team, you
would have to you sure as hell would have had
to be a lot better than you were yesterday and
have been during the season. But listen, wins are hard
to come by. I saw some things. The run game
was impressive to me yesterday. I liked it, and then
(11:47):
they did a great job of complimenting it with some
passes and got into the end zone and took care
of their business. But he's still there's still some elements
to that team missing that they're going to have to
fix and hopefully they will. No wine yet in the
Ravens game.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I know that Lamar was going to get you know,
more imaging and more testing today on the hamstring, but
I mean, if it's Cooper Rush and a handful of injuries,
you finally have a chance to go to Baltimore get
a win.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't think they ever have. Yeah, but I will
tell you this, Cooper Rush didn't stupid. He's a I mean,
he's been pretty solid as a backup in the league
and guys like that can come in and we see
it around the league. The Giants got smart and finally
played the guy they should have played coming out of preseason.
Could Jackson Darts double the talent right now? The Russ
Wilson is. You saw the energy change all the way around.
(12:39):
Brian Dable hugged him at the end of the game, like,
thanks for saving my job. Well, if you didn't stay,
if you've done in a handful of weeks ago, you
may have won one or two more. Now they're going
to be Molik neighbors out. But the energy that Jackson
Dart brought. And you know, Cooper Rush has been in
the league long enough now to understand just be smart,
make good decisions, and you know what, maybe ball comes
out on time. We were so used to Lamar making
(13:01):
a million plays with his legs in his arm that
sometimes just a little change up to give him some
time off. I wouldn't go in there thinking backup quarterback.
This will be no problem because Baltimore's got some pride too,
and they've been humiliated early in the season, and everybody
around the league is talking about what a soft team
they are this year, and they don't want to hear that.
The offensive futility of this team this year, Well, Sean,
the numbers would show you that this team was twenty
first in runs this year. Home runs they were middle
of the pack, even a little lower in the middle
of the pack seventeenth, twenty sixth, and walks twenty fourth,
in strikeouts thirteenth, in average on base percentage sixteenth, slugging eighteenth.
(00:24):
That's right there with the home runs ops fifteenth, runners
in scoring position twenty third. So what did you do
well this year? Would be the question for the offense,
and those numbers right there, Sean show you they didn't
do anything well. At best, they were average, and that's
at best. They were averaged to pour this season across
(00:46):
the board offensively, and your twelve games over five hundred,
But you're missing out on the postseason? Why are you
missing out in the postseason? I think those numbers just
told you everything you need to know right there, obvious right.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, always say, aren't they an analytics team? That's that's
a huge part of the most part. Aren't they Aren't
they a team that lives on analytics And they're not
gonna argue with that. They know you know, and I
know that well injuries. Like I said, I'm not gonna
I'm not going to qualify that anymore. We know about
the injuries. I'm not saying they're making an excuse. I'm
not making it either. Unfortunately, still got a line up
and play. You play one hundred and sixty two of them,
(01:19):
whether you're hurt or not.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I mean, yeah, you still had jose L two
Bay in the lineup. You still had Carlos Korea on
the lineup. Christian Walker, right, I mean you're young, that's
right for the most part.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Not swinging it. Did you see on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Not a single one of the three balls that he
swung at in that at bat there was his third
app bat of the game after he hit the two doubles,
every single one of them was about a foot outside there.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know what, there's not a lot of middle ground
with him. He's either going pretty good or it's non
competitive on just on some of his swings or non
competitive balls that he's going after, right, pitches that he's
going after the strikes on. But they I mean, as
a team that is heavy analytics, that's evidence. You just
(02:03):
read the evidence. It's a no brainer. Injuries, yes, but
even more so, and you could probably even dive deeper
like they do now with every single category that I
don't even know how you get to certain statistics with
all the you know, it's like most people don't even
know how to get the QBR still, I mean, all
the stuff to go. It's the same thing with all
these wins above replacement. I know how to get to that.
(02:23):
You know my point. There's statistic for everything. So if
you're just going by on the pure analytics, those numbers
right there will tell you exactly all you need to know.
Matter of fact, those numbers that ought to tell you
just how good the pitching was at times, because with
those numbers you shouldn't even be in competitive for the
most part in a playoff race. But the pitching kept
you in it most of the time. And the hitting.
(02:43):
How many times this year did the hitting carry the
pitching for an extended amount of time?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I mean it's spurts, if even. But was there ever
a ten games stretch maybe maybe in June? Yeah, but
off and on I'm talking about where they went on
and you're like, this team's raking men.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No, it was, it was just once in a while.
Like I said, there are sometimes team this year. At
the plate, sometimes they were good and sometimes they're not.
Quite frankly, a lot of times they weren't. They were
sometimes good and sometimes average, but a lot of times
they weren't clutch enough to get done what they needed
to get done. The numbers you just you just read,
(03:22):
just validate what we saw with the naked eye. Oh so,
if you're going on feel and analytics, the feel with
your naked eye that you saw this year is exactly
what the analytics will tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
They were not good at the plate scoring four or
more runs this year. They were sixty four in fifteen,
scoring three or fewer, twenty three in sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And that's a lot of scoring three and fewer. That's
a lot of pressure on the pitching staff. Whatp six
times this year. It was like, I said, kudos to
them for be This isn't to me. There's no moral
victory Monday. I don't believe in them. And but the
only the moral victory part of this is that they
(04:05):
I don't want to say they When people say they competed,
you're supposed to compete. The guy who's the backup to
the guy who got hurt wants to prove that he's
worthy of a job. So that they gave a lot
of effort. You're supposed to. I mean, that's that's why
you get paid. So again, I'm never giving anybody credit
for effort. But I worked really hard. Yeah, well so
(04:25):
the other guy that won ninety games that you won
eighty seven. Okay, so they worked hard and executed better
than you did. So yeah, the oh man, they played hard.
Have you ever noticed that Normally when they said he
played hard, it's in a loss, not the asters I'm
talking about in football or anything. My guys, they played
hard today. There's always about after it. But we didn't win,
(04:46):
so so that I'm assuming the team that beats it
played hard but actually executed it a little bit better
than you did. So hey, listen, we can go through
all the things we want. Injuries, poor performance at the
plate for the majority of the season, pitching carrying them,
and for two straight years now, hitting has been a
foreign in their side, with runners in scoring position and
(05:06):
at the right time, hitting at the right time, not
just hitting hitting at the right time, and they didn't
do enough of it this year. If you're really trying
to make it as simple as we can, that's about
as simple as it gets. And they get to watch
the playoffs for the first time. So what year did
you say.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's twenty sixteen years, So you're talking damn near decade
of this.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A decade and it happens now. The key is get
to work on making sure it doesn't happen again. If
Lamar was and they were getting all their players back
this week, I'd be a little nerve wracked. Why because
you would be getting a team that's pissed and embarrassed.
Right you face the Kansas City offense. It's been very
subpar and they did anything they wanted. The last Buffaloes
(05:49):
hammered them. You saw last week they got hammered. Their
defense has become soft now. A lot of that may
just be injuries, but they've had a lot of guys
that are banged up and it showed. And now with Lamar,
if you rest him now, you may still be able
to go to beat the Texans in your building, but
they are. The Texans are getting them at the right time,
(06:09):
and with a win yesterday, the Texans got better. But
there's still some things they got to clean up. Dude.
They Tennessee's a bad football team.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, that was, And that's what I even said too
on Twitter, is that you know, yes it's a win,
but the only reason you wont is because Tennessee is
much worse than you are. That that Titans team yesterday.
I don't know if they win a game this year,
they might say that. Well, I'm between them and the Saints.
I'm not sure if either one of them is gonna
win a game, and they're gonna be battling.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They're both played for the first pick of the draft.
There there, I mean, aside from the fact they're not
real good offensively, very average defensively and special teams. Kicker
miss two which could have made it six to six,
and maybe the momentum is different for them in game,
but the Texans played better, but they still got protection problems.
Did you watch them? They can't block simple stuff, dude,
(06:53):
it's an embarrassment. I am so tired of talking about this.
They they they early in the game, think it was
in the first quarter. Second quarter. They bring up just
two guys. Chubb doesn't know who to block. The right
guard steps down, two guys run, They get the left
tackle half of the block. Two of them don't even
get away. I mean their their protection schemes and their
inability to pick up simple stuff is humiliating against Friday
(07:16):
night football crap.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I know they won, will get into all the good
stuff you do that against a team that pressures you.
They Stroud almost spent time in a damn hospital with
some of the hits he took. And he's got to
get better at throwing the damn ball away. One time
he scrambled right, held it, held it, held it, trying
to play hero ball. Throw the ball away, especially know
when the team you're on you can't afford loss series.
(07:39):
He's going to be a hell of a player, and
he's been a hell of a player. And you see
how he can deliver the ball. He played good yesterday.
When you finally do so protections and get the ball
out on time, the touchdown to the flat right now,
another blitz that they came. He through to the left
flat early in the game, bam to get a completion
and get them going. Those are things you gotta have.
They're gonna have to get beat. That are upfront defense
(08:02):
is playoff defense. Man. They continue to smother teams and
give you a chance to win, and they did win.
But I wouldn't get too caught up. We're back just yet.
I'd slow my roll a little bit on that. But
they they're protect I don't understand either they're really dumb
football IQ wise up front, and I know they're not,
but I'm just trying to deduct what is it. Either
(08:23):
they have zero clue how to process one ounce of
protection information, or they're either physically soft as a wet
paper towel, or they're not getting taught right. It's one
of the three or all of them. I'm not sure
what it is, but there's there's no way the simple
what's gonna happen when you got to run into complex stuff?
(08:45):
I just don't get it. Well, they got better. Tennessee blows,
So say whatever you want, Tennessee's awful. They're awful. You
beat a team that would have trouble winning on Saturdays.
Little hyperbolic, but you get my point. And so while
it's good, but the frustration I watch and say, yeah,
they did some good things, but you should be beating
teams like Tennessee by forty Tennessee's Tennessee is not even
(09:07):
add They're a team that they are five players away
from being five players away you were six nothing for
much of the game, and about the end of the
third fourth quarter is when you start to pull away
the way that you did. But you even miss a
Fueld goal in there. So it wasn't like the offense
all of a sudden. I know people are talking about
(09:28):
the game that what he marks put together.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He gave a.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Scheme, but he is a bright spot and Chubb rand
physical and they should they run block pretty damn well,
I'll give him that. It's the pass protection, how to
decipher drives me nuts and what he marks. As we
said going in on Friday, the guy needs to touch
the ball more. He's a threat with the ball in
the open field. He's good in the past in the
receiving game. He's got touch the ballmore. I'm going to
(09:51):
tell you right now. By the end of the season
he will continue to get I mean, as it goes on, Well,
Nick Chubb's going to get the majority of you know,
pounding the ball inside. You're going to continue to expand
this offense. If you don't, then you're an idiot. Well,
I'll span the offense with what he mark, and he
showed you yesterday what.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
He can do when the ball's in his hands, and
I think that probably a lot of people are gonna
be calling for him to be the number one running
back right now.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Not time yet, but it'll happen eventually. You just got
to say the ball ain't heavy. Put him in, especially
if he expands his ability to pick up protections and
understand what's going on in the in the protection game
as a running back. But there's still a lot to do.
I'll take a win any way I can get it.
We all will, but I would temper my, oh my gosh,
(10:36):
we're back stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, Seventeen carries, sixty nine yards and a touchdown out
of Mark's I mean, stroud not bad twenty two or
twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He was really he looked like when he set his
feet and threw on time, I mean, and he didn't know.
He still missed a few throws but held the ball
too long on a sacker, you know, and a couple pressures.
But I know he's trying to make plays. But you know,
he gets out the ball quick for a touchdown. He
did a nice job, like I said, throwing one to
the left bowl, put his foot in the ground, didn't
(11:05):
wait for a guy down the field. Hit the guy wide,
opening the flat, those little things and what eight and
a half yards in attempt. So they did some good
things and they what a novel concept. Get targets to
Nico Collins early, even if you miss a few, get
him to him early. So it was a solid game
for Stroud. There's still things to develop, There's no doubt
(11:25):
there's some good things, but the overall, the overall, there's
still so much needs to be done against a good team.
And if you were facing a loaded Ravens team, you
would have to you sure as hell would have had
to be a lot better than you were yesterday and
have been during the season. But listen, wins are hard
to come by. I saw some things. The run game
was impressive to me yesterday. I liked it, and then
(11:47):
they did a great job of complimenting it with some
passes and got into the end zone and took care
of their business. But he's still there's still some elements
to that team missing that they're going to have to
fix and hopefully they will. No wine yet in the
Ravens game.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I know that Lamar was going to get you know,
more imaging and more testing today on the hamstring, but
I mean, if it's Cooper Rush and a handful of injuries,
you finally have a chance to go to Baltimore get
a win.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't think they ever have. Yeah, but I will
tell you this, Cooper Rush didn't stupid. He's a I mean,
he's been pretty solid as a backup in the league
and guys like that can come in and we see
it around the league. The Giants got smart and finally
played the guy they should have played coming out of preseason.
Could Jackson Darts double the talent right now? The Russ
Wilson is. You saw the energy change all the way around.
(12:39):
Brian Dable hugged him at the end of the game, like,
thanks for saving my job. Well, if you didn't stay,
if you've done in a handful of weeks ago, you
may have won one or two more. Now they're going
to be Molik neighbors out. But the energy that Jackson
Dart brought. And you know, Cooper Rush has been in
the league long enough now to understand just be smart,
make good decisions, and you know what, maybe ball comes
out on time. We were so used to Lamar making
(13:01):
a million plays with his legs in his arm that
sometimes just a little change up to give him some
time off. I wouldn't go in there thinking backup quarterback.
This will be no problem because Baltimore's got some pride too,
and they've been humiliated early in the season, and everybody
around the league is talking about what a soft team
they are this year, and they don't want to hear that.
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