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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Saulsbury by Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
To usc truth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Brian Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (00:22):
Good morning, Houston.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Welcome into the Shawn Salisbury Show here on Sports Talk
seven ninety And my goodness, it is a snowy morning
in Houston.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
Hope everyone is staying safe, staying warm.
Speaker 7 (00:34):
I'm up in the Woodlands and it's been snowing here
basically since like seven o'clock last night. We're trying to
get Sean up and running with us this morning. Dan
Matthews in studio, Dan, I know it's been a crazy
morning for you.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Good morning, Thanks for getting in there. What's happening? Oh
you know, I mean sleep? Who needs it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Man?
Speaker 7 (00:54):
Uh Well, it was a lackluster National Championship game for
the most part, and then it got down to where
Notre Dame had an opportunity to get a stop on
Ohio State. So we'll discuss that a little bit. A
lot of Texans notes and news after losing to the Chiefs.
Demiko Ryan spoke to the media yesterday and he had
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some maybe just a couple things to say about Bobby Slowick.
So then a lot of traction running around last night
on the Twitter streets that Bobby Slock may not return.
There's also the offensive line coach Chris Strausser is not
expected to return next season, per Aaron Wilson. So we'll
go through that report. Demiko Ryans basically said he's gonna
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take a week away from the game, essentially, not away
from that's my word, it's not his basically says plans
to take the week before deciding on how he'll proceed
with his staff and personnel. So we've got that to
go through as well. Alex Bregman, you want your Alex
Bregman update at six poht two in the morning. He's
still a free agent. As we get closer and closer
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to spring training for the Houston Astros, which is in
less than a month away. Joe Mixon also speaking, Man,
we've got a lot of text and stuff. But I oh,
by the way, Dan, we've got Astro's FanFest. Isn't that
this weekend?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It is? It's on Saturday eleven to four.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
That's right, A little bit more right, man, Yeah, it's
supposed to be a little bit warmer, but you know
how it goes though too. I mean, you know, I
know that some people are toying around with nicknames for
diyke In Park, but there seriously are fewer cold places
on the planet when it gets below say fifty, than
the Astros Ballpark.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Yeah, we got to stop trying to force feed people
to call it the ice box. Like I'm taking a
hard stance against it. The icebox sounds stupid. Don't do it.
It's dyke In Park. Or you can just keep calling
him in my park like I'm gonna do the h
fat that. Yeah, like people like I see people arguing
about the nickname the icebox.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
No, we're not calling it the icebox.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
It was called the juice box literally because Minute Made
made juices. Dike In Park, dyke In makes It's it's
an h VAC company. Yes, they make things cold, but
it's not an ice box. It's not a refrigerator refrigeration services.
We got to stop force feeding it.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
The one thing that.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I came up with an idea when we had blummer
in with AC is I said, we need to try
to make a trade with the Braves for the freeze
and have that guy's electric Dude and have the freeze
races now, because I mean, like you said, you know
now we've got a heating and cooling service. So either
you trade for the freeze or you create your own version.
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That's something to do with heat.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Yeah, I just I would much rather, Yeah we could.
I mean it's it's hot as hell in that in
that ballpark during the summer. I mean you know that
doing shows there and obviously being a fan, it's it's
ridiculously hot. So hopefully at the very least, yeah, at
the very least, uh, maybe put in some new air conditioners,
so that would be a fantastically I forgot that.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
That's that's a thought right there, because you're one hundred
percent right. You walk up to the concourse, get a beer,
get a dog, whatever, And let's just say you're swampy
in the areas. You don't want to be swampy in afterwards. Yes,
a lot of swamp ass going around.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Not this morning, though it is a bomby twenty five degrees.
Like I said, here in the Woodlands, Dan, it's been
snowing quite literally for like coming up on twelve hours. Man,
I mean it's not not a big blizzard, but walking
my dog this morning.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
She was not having it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
There's a lot of snow on the ground, and I
know across the Houston area it's coming down pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
In the you know, we've got the local news TV
here in the studio, and I mean, you know, you've
got all the reporters out. They look like Eskimo's, you know,
and they're showing car accidents. Of course, you know, city
and county leaders saying stay off the roads, which we get,
we understand. Trust me, I don't think anybody else e
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wants to be out in this, But I mean, I'm
kind of jealous that I don't really get a chance
to do the snowman thing, you know, of being able
to put one together. I've never gotten to do that
min entire life.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well, I think, honestly, Dan, you'll probably get a chance
after you get off of work today, because this snow
is not going anywhere, dude. It's not supposed to get
above freezing for like the next two days, like tonight.
Have you seen the weather for tonight? It could get
down to fifteen degrees jeez, Like, yeah, fifteen degrees, like fifteen,
eighteen twenty degrees. That snow may not go anywhere and
then you'll like this one. Basically, I don't know what
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counties these are towards Beaumont and Port Arthur and then
over towards New Orleans. There is a currently right now
there's a blizzard warning. Interesting blizzard warning during the like
in the Gulf Coast, which is in say here we go,
it's yeah, it's Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, de Quincy, Lake, Charles, Cameron, Jennings, Crowley, Lafayette,
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and Abbeyville.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
See when you get in Louisiana, they don't call them counties.
They call them parishes. I'm trying to think of like
what to certain parishes those are, but I think Chambers is, uh, Chambers.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
County, Yeah, Chambers County.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
I'm trying to think who calls us from Orange every
once in a while, my dad's hometown.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Uh, we've got Kenneth, Kenneth, that's right, Yeah, Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
But yeah, I mean it does seem like that they're
gonna be pretty soupy over there. And can I speak
to a certain group of people, which you know you
one of our teammates here falls into this category. Stop
complaining about the heat in the summer. Stop stop complaining about, oh,
we don't get the four seasons though, we don't get winter.
So guess what for those of you who complain, you
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got your wish. I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Yeah, I don't do it very often, but I'm not
a fan of the summers here in Texas, Like I
hate that.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
But you know, dude, one.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Hundred degrees man, and you know, like you're a baseball
guy just like I am. Especially when I'm coaching and
I'm out coaching on turf and it's one hundred degrees
plus you had an extra fifteen degrees.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
It sucks, man, It's not fun.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
The trade off, I would say though, for not having
all four seasons is that when the rest of the
country is in the thirties, twenties, even lesser than that,
there's chances that were in the seventies here and in people,
Oh it's December and January. I shouldn't be wearing shorts
and a T shirt. I'm like, no, you're one of
the lucky ones, you moron. You don't have to you
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don't have to try to scrape ice off your windshield.
You don't have to shovel your front drive driveway and
stoop and everything else like that. I don't even know
if we have stoops here. But no, you're completely looking
at it all wrong. We've got it awesome in that regard.
This is the part that sucks.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yeah, I did in my previous life when I was
an oil and gas I remember I did a project
in uh it was Wilmer, Minnesota. It was like an
hour and a half outside of Minneapolis to the northwest,
so up the state a little bit. I got there
in March and I left in May. And I'm not
kidding you when I say this. I saw the sun
two times because it snowed every day or it was
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overcast and brutally cold.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It was miserable.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't understand how those people do it. I really
don't like you know how. I don't know if you've
ever seen did you ever see Alaskan State Troopers a show?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
You ever watch that one?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I think maybe go with like Ice Road Truckers, you know, No,
it'd probably run into the same thing.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Alaskan State Troopers.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Obviously they followed the State Troopers in Alaska and Alaska.
I think if for the most part like leads the
nation and suicide rate, and like they get calls like
every night about people, you know, trying to unfortunately take
their own life. And they go up there and obviously
they talk to people off the ledge so to speak,
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and it's all basically because they never see the sun,
like they it's so cold up there all the time.
They get the the weird times where it's only like
three hours of sunlight, four hours of sunlight, twenty four
hours of sunlight whatever, dark all the time, cold all
the time. I just I don't like the summers here,
but it could be a lot worse, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Yeah, I mean I'm not you know, again, the kind
of taste we get is I would say when daylight
savings time hits, where you get a little bit of
this seasonal depression where you know, you look, you look
at the clock and you're like, oh my god, I
swore with how dark it is outside that it was midnight,
it's only eight o'clock, and like you're just so dead
tired at that point. So I get all of that,
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but I mean, yeah, look again, if any of you
out there fall into the subset of people that I
just mentioned who complain about how hot it gets and
that we don't really get a winter here or anything
like that. Well you're welcome. You finally got your wish
and now you can enjoy it much more than anybody else.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Yeah, you talk about seasonal depression. College football season is over.
Oh Man State is your Ohio State, is your national champion.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Well that I'm not so upset about because the family
I'm marrying into they are diehard Ohio State, and the
part of her family that we cannot stand are Notre Dame.
So there were quite a few trolling text messages last
night after that game came to an end.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, man, like in my lifetime at least,
and again, I'm thirty five years old. You're a little
bit older than I am, just by a couple of years.
But it seems like to me, every time Notre Dame
gets into a national title game, semi final game, it's
like and again, I know they made a valiant effort
to try to get back into that ballgame last night,
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but it just seems to me Notre Dame can never
win a national title, or at least in my lifetime,
every time they get to the national title game, they
they just can't. They don't ever win it, they can't
ever win it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Well again last night losing Ohio.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
State, well, I mean, and that's the thing too, is
it's one of those that Ohio State, I think, kind
of let them back into it. You get the Book
of Fumble, you get you know, a couple of stops
on on drives and then their defense just for whatever
reason could not get off the field on third or
fourth down until Marcus Freeman decided to send Mitch Jeeter
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out there to kick a field goal and clank You
get that.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Why are there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Why a few more satisfying noises in sports than adink Off.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
That's got to be. It's got to be one of
the best. Man like that one, especially that one last night. Dude,
that one last night was fantastic.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
That that was very much like you know, a baseball
being barreled up right there. I mean, that's the football equivalent, sye.
But I mean, I couldn't understand why Freeman did that.
But you know, Ohio State as well pretty much found
out that we stopped the quarterback from running, we stopped
their offense. And credit to you know, Jaden Greathouse, who
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played his high school ball at Austin Westlake.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
He did fantastic.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
He was great, But outside of him, there wasn't really
much to talk about in terms of skill position players
as opposed to Jeremiah Smith, a mecha BUCA and you
know the running game that Ohio State had and look
credit goes to Will Howard. I mean after you know,
he had probably everybody and then some in Columbus and
outside of there coming after him saying this guy sucks.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
He's a choke artist. He's just like the head coach.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
You can't beat Michigan either, And I mean, the guy
was the most outstanding player. And I agree with what
Kirk kirk Street said last night of the quarterback talent
that's out there.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I think he's probably gonna get some run now, Yeah,
I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Man, he played well again and what a you have
Ohio State third and eleven with time getting closer to
the two minute warning. Notre Dame needs to stop, and
you call cover zero with single coverage against the wide
receivers for Ohio State.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It's just so stupid.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Man.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
You saw Arizona State the same coverage against the University
of Texas Quinn. You weers dropped the ball in the
bucket for a touchdown to tie that game at overtime,
or maybe it was to force overtime.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I think it wasn't over in one of the overtime periods.
I just don't understand the defensive play call on that
last night. I just I don't. It may not have
made a difference even if they got the stop. Who knows,
they may not go. But it's just I saw the call,
and then they ran the play and Will Howard with
a phenomenal pass rights to Jeremiah Smith and that basically
clinches it.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I just didn't get the call.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Man.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Well, it's I mean, it's kind of damned if you do,
damned if you don't. I mean I think that that
you know. The damned if you do is obviously what
happened you didn't get to the quarterback. I mean, you
had it set up where you had all the pressure.
Ohio State had it blocked up enough. But also you know,
the damned if you don't, I think is the credit
goes to Ohio State for having the you know what's
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to make that throw. And yeah, I mean I guess
the thought process behind it was. You know, I don't
know who made the call, if it was Day or
if it was Chip Kelly telling him, Look, the best
case scenario, this ball is caught. The worst case it's overthrown,
it's incomplete. We're all good. But that I'm guessing was
the call. And not only to have that, I mean
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just the presence of mind to believe, Hey, we might
have Jeremiah Smith one on one. And I saw some
draft experts last night with ultimate high praise for Jeremiah
Smith of saying, Dude, if the guy were eligible to
come out for the draft right now, he would be
the first receiver taken.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Well, I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
That kid is unbelievable, and he's only a freshman, so
he's only gonna get better. All right, let's get to break.
We'll see if we can get big Salzy up and running.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
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Speaker 6 (14:49):
We're gonna talk a lot of Texans.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
We've got some rockets to get to obviously, Ohio State
is your national champion. Let's keep it rolling right here
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You're home for Diastros, coach of the Houston Texans.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
That's how he started his presser yesterday, talking about taking
a week to evaluate, to get away from football essentially,
and then to come back and evaluate staff, personnel and
everything that goes with it. You're listening to the Shawn
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Dan Matthews. You got the Rockets losing to the Pistons.
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They're off tonight. Ohio State beats Notre Dame to win
the national championship. Last night, Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson
said to become the new head coach for the Chicago Bears.
We were talking about these Houston Texas. Let's hear a
little more from Dimico Ryans. He spoke about the growth
of Bobby Slowick.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Overall with Bobby saw some grossaw some improvement throughout the year.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
And that's it, Dan, That's all he said. I mean,
nothing more, nothing less, saw some growth essentially, that's it.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Well, he did the opposite of a Bobby Sloic press conference.
I mean, you know, you asked Bobby Slowik, hey, red
or blue, what's your what's your favorite color? Well, you
know with red, it says it's a simple answer, Bobby,
and I appreciate when people get direct and right to
the point. I mean, I don't I don't need the dissertation.
Sometimes I don't. I don't need you know, the deep
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thoughts of so and so. I need for you to
just give me the answer and get out of the way.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
And he did that. Yeah, and people really ran with that.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
I saw a lot of media members, not just from
the city but also from the national side saying, Hm,
this doesn't sound good for Bobby slog what could this mean?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
And then you know, there's a sense that.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
The confidence in bringing Bobby slock back is not as
high as it once was. And I'll ask you flat out, Dan,
do you think they should bring it back? It may
be a loaded question, man.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I just don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
And that's why I'm trying to because I want to
jump off the right diving board right here. Initially I
would have said no, because, I mean, you just had
an offense that looked like it was hapless, that just
had no imagination, no creativity.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
But funny enough, I did see CJ.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
It looked like doing a couple of checks at the
line of scrimmage against Kansas City, So I was like,
all right, that's some improvement. I don't think he's necessarily
done enough to completely lose the job. Like if you
saw an offense that was say twentieth out of thirty
two in total offense this season, then I would have
been like, yeah, this thing clearly regressed. But as far
as I know, I mean, I think everything was pretty
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much the same way it was the year before. Now
here's where I think it gets interesting. Keep an eye
on Robert Solow and where he goes, because he came
out of that Kyle Shanahan San Francisco Tree as well.
He was once here in Houston when they were all
here with Gary Kubiak. I almost kind of wonder if,
and here's how it goes in the coaching circles, is
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your agent kind of gets wind that there is a
possibility that changes could be made, and they start getting proactive,
and they start trying to look for a landing spot,
and you see it in one of two cases. You
either see it where they're looking to replace you, or
you get wind that the head coach is not long
for that job, so you're trying to find a landing
spot somewhere else. So I think that's something to keep
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an eye on of. Does he try to go ahead
and find a parachute, I mean of maybe feeling like
he's going to be on a very short leash next
year and doesn't want to be out of a job
midseason where he can go somewhere else, start fresh, and
maybe be able to kind of pick up where he
left off.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Robert Saul is going to be interesting, man.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
You know the connection that him and to Miko have
apparently I think then I'm I think I read that
the forty nine ers told him reportedly that they'll make
him the highest paid defensive coordinator of all time if
he wants to go back to the forty nine Ers. Well,
I don't know where he's gonna end up. I know
he's going to be interviewing for head coaching positions. But
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you know, he's got a defensive coordinator spot wherever he
wants to go.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Oh easily. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I mean that's one of those All he has to
do on that is just say yes. I mean, in
terms of head coaching, others have to say yes to him.
I mean, look, despite what we think here of Trevor
Lawrence and Jacksonville, it's really not a terrible roster. If
they put together a decent enough offseason, I think they
probably could be a competitive team at least a lot
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better than they were this season. For whatever reason, it
didn't work out with Doug Peterson. But I mean, you
know the other thought of it too, if you're Jacksonville,
is do we want to go the defensive coach route
when we've sunk so much money into Trevor Lawrence and
we want to try to find every single way to
make him even better. That's where the OC hire matters
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that much. I mean, look at Dan Campbell this year.
Dan Campbell different Dan Dan Quinn. I mean we saw
him have success in Atlanta, but then once he lost
Kyle Shanahan and once he lost Matt Lafleur and other coaches,
then you started to see this guy's not as good
of a head coach as we thought he was. A
lot of times, with defensive coaches, your coordinator higher, especially offensively,
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that matters the utmost importance because I mean, that's how
you're able to have at least confidence in that side
of the ball. And I mean that's gonna be the
interesting thing with him. I think the next best job
that's still open is Jacksonville. I mean the other jobs
that are out there. You really want to go to
Las Vegas. That doesn't look like that's going to turn
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around anytime soon. You really want to go to New Orleans.
You're still paying Derek Carr about fifty million per and
last I checked, Derek Carr is not going to win
you anything.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No he's not. No, Uh, he is not.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Let's let's hear a little more from Demico Ryans talking
about the offense for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Overall, offensively, we have to improve. It wasn't where we
wanted to be. Uh.
Speaker 11 (21:14):
There are challenges throughout the year, just like that's every year.
You have challenges up ups and downs, or you're trying
to figure out the course of who we have and
how to make it work.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We have to improve.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, you need you need massive improvements, uh for this offense,
and that's offensive line play calling is probably gonna be
evaluated as well as along with Bobby Slowick and obviously
we talked about it yesterday or excuse me last last
segment about the offensive line coach most likely not gonna
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return for the Texans and Chris Strausser, So there's gonna
be a lot of evaluation, Dan, and I just think
with the talent that you have at the quarterback position.
You have Joe Mixon, who's one of the best backs,
versatile backs, best backs, physical backs, however you want to
say one of the best in the NFL. You've got
Nico Collins, which he's a number one wide receiver. If
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you bring back stuff on Diggs like you can, you've
got some talent on this offense. And if you can
shore up your line, and if you need to go
get a new play caller, then do it. If not,
then run it back for year three with Bobby Slowick
and C. J. Stroud. But at the end of the day,
it just seems to me like Demiko Ryans is just
very frustrated with how they went out against the Chiefs,
and he knows that they need to do more and
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they need to improve.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Well, the word that was used yesterday, and I know
that when it was used during the season, people kind
of just rolled their eyes and glazed over a little
bit of execution. Yeah, fine, we get it very good.
But I mean that again, it really was kind of
the theme that I got from both the locker room
and from both c J. Stroud and Demiko Ryans at
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the podium. And that's a look at personnel. I mean,
that's that's that's where Nick Cassario owned company. And we
even heard Nick Assario last year during the draft of
talking about we have a standard to play here. If
you don't do it, then you're probably not going to
be around here for long. I mean, guys that are
free agents that again fit into that category that I
was mentioning about, guys that cost this team with penalties
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and and and just cost this team with you know,
the lack of execution and and poor execution in certain
scenarios that they're not going to be here going forward.
And that's going to be pretty telling. I mean, there's
gonna be turnover on this roster as is, but I
feel like that's going to be the first and foremost
that they look at. It's not necessarily coaching. I think
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coaching they feel good about what they have. Yeah, you know,
but I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
But also like when it comes to this evaluation, I
think every single coach needs to be evaluated. And that's
that's honestly. That goes up to the top of Demiko Ryans.
If you're Hannah McNair and cal McNair, and when it
comes to evaluation, you need to evaluate him too. Now,
I don't mean that like to say that he needs
to go anywhere. I think he's done a really good
job of changing this culture and but I'm sure there's
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things that he knows that he needs to sure up.
So when it comes to this offseason stuff, man, everybody
should be evaluated, especially on the offense, defense, special team.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Frank Ross.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I mean you can go on and on when and
then when it comes to players, man, like who do
you want to bring back? They've got quite a bit
of If I'm not mistaken, I have the list here.
When it comes to the free agents, let me go
ahead and find it. Come on, I love doing this
on air. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
It's Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
These are the unrestricted free agents as we get ready
to go to break unrestricted free agents, Stefan Diggs, Darry
ogoombawal A Case, Keenum, Robert Woods, IRV Smith, Junior, Kendrick Green,
Jerry Hughes, Derek Bennett or excuse me, Derek Barnett, Mario Edwards,
Foley Fatakassi, del Seawn Phillips, Devin White, Neville Hewitt, jeff
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O Kudah, Chris Boyd, MJ. Stewart, Eric Murray, John Weeks.
So there's a few names on there that I would
probably try to bring back. There's some others I would
let go.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
But we'll see.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Man Nick Serio's got some things to work on. Let's
continue this discussion about these Houston Texans and c J.
Stroud speaking to the media yesterday talking about some difficult
conversations that are gonna have to be had with this roster.
What did the quarterback have to say? We'll hear it
discussed next right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. But
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It's me and Dan Matthews with you until ten o'clock
this morning. Still working on some technical difficulties, hoping we
can maybe get Sean Salisbury in with us because you
are listening to the Sean Salisbury Show. Rockets lose to
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Dan and I have been talking about the Houston Texans
and a couple of a couple of discussion points with
this offense, and you know, some things that need to
happen being evaluated. Demico Ryans. You heard some audio from
him last segments saying that he's going to take about
a week and then start making some decisions and evaluating everybody, personnel, coaching,
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everything that comes with being a head coach.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
C J.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Stroud spoke yesterday to the media and he talked about
some conversations that need to be had. This is what
the quarterback had to say.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Yeah, I think you know, we're really close, and to
get to that level is really.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
First.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
It starts with, you know, communication and hard conversations have
to be had. There has to be you know, things
fixed and things worked out and just really honest conversation. So,
you know, I think that's one of the biggest things
that I've learned, is like this team won't look the
same next year from top to bottom, and you know
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you have to be okay with that and learn that.
You know, there has to be a from day one
of all season. There has to be a standard set
and that standard has to be where I come from,
like at Ohio State was like, I'm not gonna be
the one to mess this thing up. I'm gonna be
the one to make this team win the game, if
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that's first, if that's Week one, all the way to
the AFC Championship, like that standard from training camp, that
has to be the standard. And so I feel like,
you know that that's what needs to be for us
to get over that hump is those you know, if
you ain't, if you ain't bringing it every day, you
stick out like a sore thumb. And I think that
mentality has to be brought here and I think we
have the guys to do it coaching Lee and and
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some guys playerly wise as well. So I think we
can get better.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
At that as well.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
So that's a c. J. Stroud speaking about the conversation
that you've had.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
So Dan, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my opinion
on this and and what I'm reading between the lines,
so to speak. In my mind, So when he talks
about setting that standard or a standard to be set,
I feel like, now that the season is over and
they're reflecting on the entire season as a whole, going
back all the way to OTA's in you know, voluntary
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mini camp, everything that comes with it, right, and then
going into training camp and things like that.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I wonder if CJ.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Stroud is looking back on some things and thinking, like, man,
maybe our practices weren't as crisp as we thought. Maybe
we didn't take things as seriously. Maybe take it and
take it a little bit for granted. Maybe we looked
into the hype a little bit too much coming into
the season, something like those are my words, right, because
one of the things that Sean always talks about, uh,
is the stuff that we don't get to see, which
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is at practice are they being held accountable at practice?
Like the offensive line and how many times Laramie Tunsel
jumps off sides? How many times you get called for
holding things like that, Like how are they being coached
up at practice? So I wonder if, like hearing that audio, CJ.
Stroud is like, Man, a standard needs to be set, Okay,
so why has the standard not been set?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Is my question? Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
No? It does?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
And you know, I'm gonna start from the back and
move all the way to the beginning of that Stroud
audio is I I was not aware of the words coaching,
lee and playerly. That was interesting to find out there.
And yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, how about that,
So I'll have to remember that going forward.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
But it's funny. At the beginning of it, he had talked.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
About communication, and you're kind of like, oh, well, that's
a direct shot at the coaches. I mean, that's that's
you guys are not necessarily communicating effectively enough how you
want this thing to look and how it should look.
But I think that the crux of it all is
right there in the middle. Hey man, either your in
or you're out. Like there's none of this. You know,
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I had a minor knee surgery and I'm not going
to be in camp for a couple of weeks like
I and and and look, I'll just go ahead and
attach a name to it.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I think he's talking directly to Laramie Tumseel right there.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I think he's saying, hey man, we count on you,
we need you, like when we're ready to go for camp,
you're ready to go for camp. And I mean that
kind of was the theme that I got from a
lot of the players yesterday, is that I don't know
if over the offseason we're gonna have names attached to
you know, some of Hey, that guy just didn't get it.
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But I think the way that you're going to find
that out is if they're not here next year, cause
I mean, that's gonna be the tell all sign of
that guy just didn't get it. That guy wasn't one
hundred percent bought in to what we need to do here,
and we can't continue to roll with that guy. And
I think that's kind of the feeling that's you know, CJ. Stroud,
Will Anderson Junior, any of the team leaders they took
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from this season of saying, let's call it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What it is.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
We lost a lot of these games because we didn't
have guys who were fully bought in. And that sucks
to hear, but that's what it kind of sounds like.
Is the case is that, you know, I don't know
how much Nick Cassario and Demiko Ryans are going to
bring in guys, you know, like j and Willy Anderson
or you know, any of the other Daniel Hunter, I mean,
any of the guys who are kind of the vocal
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leaders of this team. You know, Joe Mixon fits into
that category two. But if they do, I think they're
gonna want their honest opinion of hey, do we keep
this guy or not? And you're gonna have some hands
raised for yeah, let's keep them, and you're probably gonna
have some saying.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Hey, he just doesn't fit here. He's not what we need.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Were you at Were you at Energy yesterday? I was
me and WEX were there. Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Okay, so man, I've you know what, let's talk about
that in seven o'clock hour. Obviously you were there, so
you felt the vibe, you felt how it was in
uh uh did you go into the locker room or
was it just in the press conference HEREA, oh yeah,
we were in the locker room.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
We caught up with a bunch of different guys and
Sports Talk seven nineties Twitter account is where you can
see videos from some of the players talking in front
of their locker and I got some questions in there.
I mean with the offensive lineman like Titus Howard and
Jared Patterson asking point Blake, do you do you expect
there to be wholesale changes on this offensive line? And
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you know we can hear from Titus Howard on that
and Joe Mixon with some interesting stuff to say too.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, Joe Mixon had some very very interesting
things to say in regards to the general manager, Nick Casario,
maybe some moves that he will make. So let's get
into the seven o'clock hour. We will talk about the
Joe mix and stuff. We'll hear that audio, and then
obviously we will talk about the vibe and how it
felt for Dan since he was right there in the
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Welcome in to the Shawn Salisbury Show here on Sports
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here this morning on a crazy winter weather morning, twenty
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thank you your rockets lost of the Pistons yesterday. Ohio
State beats Notre Dame last night in the National Championship.
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said to become the new
head coach for the Chicago Bears. Dan and I have
been discussing these Houston Texans. We've heard from Dimico Ryans,
We've heard from the quarterback c J. Stroud, Dan, you know,
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and obviously let me give another update real quick. Texans
offensive line coach Chris Strausser not expected to return next season.
That coming straight from Aaron Wilson, NFL insider who covers
the Texans and the entire NFL does a lot for
us on Sports seven ninety dot com. And you know,
so we've talked about some of these potential changes, some evaluations,
standards that need to be set, so forth, and so on.
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You were at NRG Stadium yesterday. You were in the
locker room, you were at the podium or at the
the press conference area, so you heard everybody, you were
around everybody.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Just what was it like, man?
Speaker 7 (36:35):
What was the vibe like as they were clearing things out?
Obviously a tough loss to the chiefs.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
C J.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Stroud sacked eight times. You know, they let Travis Kelsey
go Bonanzas. So what was that vibe like, Man?
Speaker 8 (36:49):
Well, I think that probably I would say it was
a healthy balance of optimism but also frustration. The optimism
is they know that this thing is a lot better
than it used to be. I mean that there were
probably years that they came out of locker clean out
days saying, man, I wonder if we're going to have
(37:10):
this feeling again. And I mean that was back when
it was new for them to make the playoffs and
they were trying to be able to set that standard
and then we saw this organization fall off. I don't
think there's a feeling like that second part is going
to happen. But I that's where the frustration, I think
comes in, because I think that there was high hopes
coming out of last year. There was high hopes coming
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into the season of I mean everybody and then some
was almost thinking this team was a, you know, a
shoe in to make it to the AFC Championship Game.
And clearly there was a lot of frustrating games this year.
I mean, let's just go all the way back to
the beginning. You lose at Minnesota, you kind of just say, okay,
early on the season, we're not quite there yet, but
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we're two and one. Things are okay, and it kind
of festered from there, like didn't you kind of feel that, Brian,
like it festered where you never really one hundred percent
had to grasp on games. Yeah, you felt like even
games that you won, you came out of it saying like, man,
there was a lot of meat left on the bone there,
like you should you should have handled that a lot
(38:17):
better than you did. And it would be the same
things from Tamiico Ryans every single week execution Texans don't
beat Texans. And when you're losing games that you're not
supposed to lose, that's when people get annoyed with the
head coach because they're like, dude, like, uhh okay, what
are you doing to fix it? Like I'm not hearing
what you're doing to fix the problem, and it just
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kind of felt like that it just was allowed to
happen all season long.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Yeah, that's that's the Uh Again, I mentioned it last segment,
like that's those are the things that Sean mentioned all
season long here on the show. Is is like who's
being held accountable? Is is Laramie Tunzel being held accountable?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Right?
Speaker 7 (38:57):
Or is he too much of a veteran quote unquote
in the league to not be held as accountable as
others in the league.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
So it's like you've, you know, you know what you
need to fix, yet they're not being fixed.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
That was the adjustments. It just seems like the little
adjustments weren't made as much as.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
You wanted this season.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
And the way to describe it, like you just said, Dan,
is there was so much meat left on the bone
with this team, even with the injuries. Man, if you
look at that game against the Chiefs, they had a
better offense of over one hundred They outgained the Chiefs
by over one hundred yards. There were six, seven, eight
plays away from winning that game, that's it, and they
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were down two receivers. You could talk about the injuries
and being sacked eight times, and yet they were still
right there to beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
So yeah, I think there was a lot of meat
left on this bone, man, for sure.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
When it comes to this Texas season and it's and like,
from a fan perspective, I'm gonna take my quote unquote
radio hat off.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
And just be a fan. It is maddening, dude, it
is so maddening.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
Well it's maddening because I mean, you had players, even
themselves in the locker room saying the same things every
single week, and you're kind of at a certain point saying, well,
then fix it, like play better, like I mean, I
understand on the surface that sounds so simple, but it's
you know, well, then do it. And the example that
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I used all season long was they almost kind of,
to me, sounded like the boyfriend who the girlfriend is
frustrated with and just has had it up to her,
you know, up to her ears in terms of his
excuses and just his general laziness whatever it might be.
And he tries to give you the hey, look, you know,
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I'll be better, I'll change, I'll do all these things. Well,
then finally you realize that if this is poker, you
have a losing hand. So you say this is done.
I'm done, Like I'm not doing this anymore. I'm moving on.
And unfortunately, during a season you can't do that. But
I'll tell you when you can do it, you can
do it right now. I mean for certain guys that
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maybe even aren't unrestricted free agents, certain guys that might
have a year left on their deal if it makes
sense salary cap wise, there's no reason in Nick Cassario
if any of those guys fall into that category, is
not going to say, hey, it's not gonna work out
here anymore. We're gonna release you from your contract. You
can try to be able to catch on somewhere else,
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best of luck, but this is over.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Like, this is done.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
That's as best as I can kind of see it now.
While I was talking about inside the locker room and again, yeah,
I mean, you know there was frustration from certain players.
No names were mentioned. I mean, I'm gonna go ahead
and get that off the top. So it's kind of
up to us to you know, kind of pick through
and parse through the words. But it did sound like
there was some frustration, Like one of them was Joe
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Mixon talking about the offense and saying that honestly, at
times it seemed like buy in might have been a
little bit of an issue for certain guys.
Speaker 13 (42:00):
I think we got to ass up to the players
to really make the play go, you know, And I
firmly believe I think Slow, you know, he did a
great job with that, you know, executing, and I think
that he really honed in on their details towards the
end of the year. And I also felt like everybody
really bought into what we were doing. I think that,
you know, everybody jelled at the right time. It's just
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we came up short. And that's really all it is.
Speaker 7 (42:26):
That's a Joe Mixon talking about buying. I mean, Dan,
that's the second player we've heard now, h CJ. Strout
the first, Joe Mixon the second.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
So what's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Really?
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Like they talk about a standard.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
TJ says, we need a standard that needs to be
set and stay with that standard. And then Joe Mixon
mentions buying players buying in. So who are they talking
about because you know they've got players on their mind.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Oh, absolutely, you have players on your mind. I mean,
you know, in terms of the offensive skill position players,
I don't think necessarily there are many that are on
that list, but you mentioned Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Ear, I'm with you. I'm done with Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
I mean, did you see did you see, like any
any footage of of his blocking attempts against the Chiefs?
Speaker 8 (43:09):
I heard it was not great now to say that
I too. No, I didn't, and and look, I don't
think that's what you ask him to do. I mean,
you know, Kate Stiver was a huge reason why you
drafted him in the first place, for that very reason.
He was supposed to be the guy that's supposed to
be the thumper and and and the guy that's gonna
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take on the blocks up front. But you didn't have him,
and then you didn't have Tutriano. I mean, that's the
whole reason why Andrew Beck was up. But that's the
part to me that I'm kind of scratching my head with.
I mean, I don't dismiss what Joe Mixon said. I
think probably after hearing that, the follow up would have been,
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why do you think that was? Like, I mean, do
you think that that's a player thing? It's a you know,
maybe the the message is not being communicated a effectively
enough for them to get it, there's no incentive for
them to get it. So I mean I think that
all of those things are kind of follow ups that
that that should be had and should be asked.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Yeah, man, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (44:14):
It is really really interesting to hear U two of
your stud players on offense in C. J. Stroud and
Joe Mixon basically saying you know, damn near the same thing.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
One talks about.
Speaker 7 (44:28):
Buying in Joe Mixon, the other one talks about standard
need to be needs to be set and stayed with.
So I just feel like they're there's they're talking, they
have people on they have players on their mind, and
I mean obviously they're not calling them out. I mean
they're calling them out without calling them out by by name.
So you know who that could be. I'm not sure.
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I think I have my opinion on it, meaning I
think it's some of the offensive linemen because that was
basically the biggest weakness, uh for this Texans team. So
it's and I appreciate the transparency honestly. You know, from
both of those guys, you know, Joe Mixon has been
in the league for a long time. He knows how
to handle press conferences and things.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Like that.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
So some good transparency from him without calling out I
mean call like I said, calling out his teammates, without
calling out his teammates. If if that's kind of the
progative you had, and then CJ. Stroud excuse me, you know,
being the quote unquote leader for this offense as well. Man,
it's it's uh, We're headed into a very interesting offseason
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for the Houston Texans. They have the what number twenty
fifth draft picks, so not super high. I'm not sure
if they're gonna trade up. There's some you know, pretty
good wide receivers coming out in this draft class. Like
basically there's the two or three best wide receivers for
the University of Texas they're gonna be in this draft
class or some other good ones coming out from all over.
So interesting to see if they go and try to
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get a wide receiver. But we'll talk draft you know,
later on down the road because it's only January twenty. First,
let's uh, let's continue to talk Texans. But we got
to get to the steakout next right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
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Time for the steakout here on the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Shawn Salisbury, Brian Lima, Dan Matthews. Rockets fall to the
Pistons yesterday, They're off tonight. Ohio State beats Notre Dame
to win the National Championship. Lions offensive coordator Ben Johnson
said to become the new head coach for the Chicago Bears.
Big Salsey in the building, man, what are you out
there doing? Making snow angels? Little snowman running around with
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keelout and the snow.
Speaker 6 (46:54):
Now you're back or what?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Sure as hell? Trying not to be in the building.
I am at the crib. But technology sometimes out here,
and you know, as you know, we got a little
bit of a construction out on FM fourteen sixty three
in full Shire. You know the parade, the parade root shocker, Yeah,
it take him my. I can get to uh San
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Other than that, it's great and the internet is back
when Fred Flintstone was was actually you know, raising bam bam.
You know Barney isn't bam bam. Barney's gout. Yeah, Barnes got.
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So that's it. So as we get this, you know,
the technology, but got it worked out. You know, Gordy's
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chipping in in Ohio. And you know what if you
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to tell how rough the water. I don't want to
tell you how rough the water was to get here.
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I'm just gonna tell him bring it in the ship. Okay.
Speaker 7 (47:52):
So I'll tell you what man that that water this
morning is ice cold, Manning.
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Yeah, I'm standing outside. I got cantor next time, but
I'm standing outside. Yeah, I'm break. You can't quite here
the hear all that. Yeah, I'm better braving a do
it a radio show. I got no ear muffs on,
you know. I'm just I'm gonna dig a ditch. I'm
gonna maybe, you know, plant some winter stuff. I'm just
doing a lot of stuff out here, you know, contributing
to society in the snow.
Speaker 6 (48:18):
You got me, Yeah, you got Jimbo Canty out there
with you.
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Man.
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That's how you know this winter storm is crazy is
when Jimbo shows up to your city.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
You've heard me talk about the main streets. Jimbo wants
no part of full Sure. I mean you roll up
in here and when it's storm season you probably throw
out all the records. Okay, can toy didn't want Yeah,
he didn't want this. Tell them to take yeah, take
that meteorology somewhere else, Jimmy, that's right, that's right. Yeah,
(48:47):
told to get fourteen, get on f F fourteen sixty
three and he'll never get here.
Speaker 9 (48:51):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
All's good man, good to be on.
Speaker 6 (48:54):
He would not, man, that's that's good stuff.
Speaker 7 (48:56):
Hey, well, glad you're here, man, Glad you got that
technology fixed. Out shout outs our guy out in Cincinnati,
not sure his name, but uh, total team after this
morning with Dan coming in, I know Tripley had some
issues this morning as well, So thank you Dan for
you know, sitting in with us. Obviously, Chris Gordy, it's
been a crazy morning here in the city. But now
that I got you, Sean, and you're gonna be here
with us for till ten am. Man as we're in
(49:19):
the steak out, I know we got a couple of
callers that we'll get to after this segment. Seven seven
ninety Ohio State Man took care of business last night.
They take down Notre Dame early in the six o'clock hour.
Dan hit on it with me and Dan hit on
it just a little bit. It just seems like Notre
Dame can't get over the hump and win a damn
national title.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, what's it been since eighty eight, Lou Holtz? I
think was the last time? You know, and I don't
mean this in a derogatory way. I mean as an
sc guy too. I have a tremendous amount of respect
for her Notre Dame and my recruiting trip there still
gives me the chills and how cool it was to
walk on that campus. And so I've always been a fan,
you know's it's it's for me. It's always been hard
(49:59):
to hate him. I know a lot of people you
either love them or you hate them, just because you know.
They're one of my first TV visuals, along with sc right,
so I you know, for me, there's it's such a
great program. But they finally started to catch back up
the recruiting and the speed as we talked about, and
Ohio State was a step above everybody in the postseason.
(50:20):
They were, but Notre Dame it's been a while. I
think Marcus Freeman has him on the right path. I
think they do some great things. But here's the one thing.
The quarterback play Riley Leonard, God bless him, ment tough.
That first drive is one of the great pieces of
old school football. I've ever seen nine carries the quarterback
had on the opening drive and what eighteen plays go
(50:40):
down score and you're thinking Notre Dame's got themselves chance.
And I watched the entire game. The problem is, and
there's other reasons why you don't get there? Do you
keep up? And the thing that the recruits Notre Dame
used to get when I was coming out of school
and even after, and they still get great recruits. Don't
misunderstand me, but people recruited Notre Dame. You didn't. Notre
Dame didn't have to recruit a lot because it was
Notre They walk into your living room, It's like this
(51:02):
is Notre Dame and that's that reputation. Well, as recruiting's
gone on, we've seen college football has been set on
a tier you can no longer walk in because kids
don't care a lot of times about legacy or historic programs.
They want to know, Hey, can Eastern Washington pay me? Okay,
I got a chance to go to pros And while
Notre Dame's building the program, my point is is that
(51:23):
they have done it the right way and now they
keeping up with all the Ohio States and the LSUS
and the Texas's. I think it's a tribute to them
for the way they go about their business that they
were in this position. I know we'd love to see
him at a conference and all that, but I think
I thought it was a hell of a game for
a minute, physical but we saw Brian and we've talked
(51:43):
about it. Dan, you know this as well. I think
Ohio State was the most gift we set it all year,
the most talented team in the country, and it went
from like are they underachiever to after the loss and
the Michigan and wanting him fired Brian day two, look
what they did in the playoffs. It was a phenomenal
run because they dominated everybody. So you know, Notre Dame
doesn't have to apologize, but you're exactly right. There's something
(52:04):
missing in this game, like whether it's one more extra
burst of speed, whether it's the quarterback. But you can't
win in college football just running it unless you're a
military academy. You got to throw it in. While Riley
Leonard's a good player, you could see at times the
lack of passing production because eventually you were going to
take away Leonard's legs as much as you could if
(52:25):
that means lining up eleven cats at the line of scrimmage,
you weren't going to let that happen. Well, they adjust
and they just haven't got to the next level of
that quarterback. You know, Joe Montana's not there anymore. And
we see that at some schools, and I think there's
got to be an elite player. Maybe this is not
just to see in your transfer, but a guy that's
in the program for a couple of years and we
can see it grow. We're not seeing that a lot
(52:46):
with some of these blue blood programs because they can
get a stud and play them right away. But tripa
to Riley Leonard loved him, but there's just they're just there.
There's still a step behind when it comes to that
extra athlete on the perimeter. They just are. And that's
no disrespect because my Trojans have found that out on
a couple times along the way as well. Waiting for
their next national title, even though we've had one a
(53:07):
little sooner than Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (53:09):
And one thing I want to do ask you about
this National championship game last night before we get to break,
is the Notre Dame defense had Ohio State third down
and eleven late in the game. I believe there was
like three minutes left, maybe four minutes left, They're down eight. Yep,
they go cover zero Sean and Will Howard drops it
(53:30):
in the bucket for like thirty five yards to Jeremiah Smith.
For whatever reason they let they let Jeremiah Smith go
one on one, one of the best, if not the
best wide receiver in the country.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
I don't understand it. We saw Arizona State do the
same thing against the University of Texas in the playoff
in overtime.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Why why Well, you know, you get to a point
and think, okay, they're they're expecting zone at third and eleven.
That's the only way I can decipher this. They're expecting
zone at third and eleven. So let's see if we can,
you know, get a sack, move it back, flip a field,
get a you know, an eight ten yard sack. Who
knows and then all of a sudden, you don't get
to the quarterback and you play zero coverage and he
(54:08):
makes a throw for a big play against a guy who,
quite frankly, is about five years ahead of his time
as a freshman wide receiver. So I don't get it.
I'm more of a blitz. Force you to throw hot,
catch and tackle, and let's get out. I don't And
you know, they also might get to a point where
they don't want to let you get half the yardage
back and they're trying to create a big QA and
(54:29):
they needed it. They needed it, So I get it.
From that standpoint, especially, you don't want to get locked
into constant trends and tendencies. But we saw one. Notre
Dame does. They've been a hell of a defense all
year long, and like I said, their team speed increase
and there are another level without being able to go
in and pay somebody eighty billion dollars for nil. I mean,
they could, but they're they're a little more stringent on
their package obviously, so I don't in the package on defense,
(54:51):
I would have zoned him up and hopefully got them
and you know, put some pressure, catch and tackle and
hopefully get a ball back. But I understand you're trying
to create an ex explosive on defense. That's the problem
with that, Brian. And the problem is if you don't
get your hands on a great receiver that's got speed.
You saw the result. Quarterbacks begged for zero coverage because
we know we get man coverage. There's no middle of
the field help. You're on an island. Everybody's got their own.
(55:13):
If you can just set up and get the ball out,
you're gonna win most of the time. That's a big
burden to put on a secondary and Notre Dame's loaded
with good players, but that's a mismatch for any great
wide receiver. They beg for man coverage, as do good quarterbacks.
They want it, they don't want to they don't want
to see zone all the time. They want a chance
to hit a home run. And they did.
Speaker 7 (55:33):
Yeah, I just I didn't understand the call third down
and eleven. You got plenty of time, you got the
two minute warning, you got you got at least one
time out left and they go cover zero one on
one coverage.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
It was just you're in creding while you're inviting and
begging for a huge play for your explosive defense. You
know what the other side is, You're you're you're setting up,
you're setting yourself up for a monster play on the
other end, it's that big risk reward, right Yeah, and
they then they then years it didn't pay off for
Notre Dame, but uh, they'll be back. That's a good
team who's well coached. I'm a huge fan. I love
(56:04):
that guy. I do. Yeah, Marcus correct, Yeah, congrats to
Ryan Dad didn't mean interrupt you. Congrats to him. I
know he's been through some crazy ass stuff that he's
been ridiculed, and you know, he's got the highest winning
percentage of any active coach and it finally got validated
last night with a national title. Good for him.
Speaker 7 (56:22):
You know when they when they lost to Michigan for
the fourth year in a row or whatever it was,
and then the brawl happened, and Ryan Day's just sitting
there staring at his team brawling with Michigan because of
plane in a flag. I really thought he was gonna
get fired shown I really I thought that.
Speaker 6 (56:37):
I thought. I thought he was done after that, and
I I thought he was I did. I thought he
was done. I really did.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, I think, But you're not alone. That was a
long line going into it, and we're and we talked
about ten or eleven in every year. You know, I
know they lost a couple of times and you you
get beat by your rival again, hammered and physically, man,
it was an embarrassing and oh but but Ryan Day's
got to go yet. You look at the percent regular season,
but it's kind of falls into the quarterback got to
win me a big game category in the NFL. Well,
(57:05):
can you imagine that he could have think about how
that program if they would have gone into the tank,
think about how this season and he probably would have
been fired at the end of the year. But here
he goes and they played out of their mind with
all that skill. It's amazing they matured and they hit
their pinnacle in the postseason playoff. They did, and that's
a lot of good teams do that. But he finally
(57:26):
the whole buy in after that nonsense. Has been great
and good on Ryan Day. To be able to keep
this team together after getting beat by Arrival, that's a
hard thing to swallow, but they chewed the rest up
and spit it out, brother, and they took care of
their business. That's a gifted, gifted program with gifted team.
And it's nice to have a big nil package to
go get players, it really is. And that veteran quarterback
(57:46):
you got, you know, accurate, so kudos, But they were
the best team in the postseason and it wasn't really
that close.
Speaker 6 (57:53):
In truth, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (57:54):
And that's that's the name of the game man, having
that big an il package and getting those players.
Speaker 6 (57:58):
All right, let's get to break as we continue to
talk Texans.
Speaker 7 (58:03):
Here on the Sean Salisbury Show, Joe Mixon talking about
Nick Cassario's plan for the off season. We'll hear that
audio and discussed next right here on the Shawn Salisbury Show.
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Speaker 3 (59:35):
Never sounded so good.
Speaker 6 (59:36):
No, they're no soul of State lost.
Speaker 2 (59:38):
They don't do that.
Speaker 7 (59:39):
No, No, we don't do We don't do chants and
cheers and you know we don't. We we just go
out and win. We just go compete, dude, we don't.
We don't worry about the pageantry, you know. We just
we get get put our hand in the dirt and
get after the quarterback on our football team, even though
we only want three games this year.
Speaker 6 (59:54):
But who's counting, Sean, who's counting?
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (59:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (59:58):
Is this a uh? Is this a dig at the aggies?
I mean, I don't know. It feels a little bit
of a you you took the Ohio State song that
Danny boy had for you. He gave you some history
and some knowledge. You turn around and flipped and said,
we at the Ross. Oh no, no, we just compete.
(01:00:20):
We don't do traditions and all that stuff and all
the dances and you know, mascots and all that. Was
that a dig at your guys? Maybe, I'm no, I
mean as a graduate degree, Aggie, No, I mean, who
wanted to brag? You know what I'm saying. I don't
want to brag. Why would I You know what I'm saying.
You know, I mean there's no need to No. Hey,
(01:00:40):
let me take my hand off my back for a
second as I pad it. But you I was in
a kind of a dig at my at my aggies
a little bit, I mean just a little Dan. I
felt it was a little disrespect, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
Well, the kind of bringing on themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
If we're being honest, here comes that's right, the Georgia LSU. Honk,
here we go, that's right.
Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
Well, I mean, you know, hey, look they they got
l s U this year.
Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
And as I've continued to say, and I will continue
to say, I can't wait to see what the commemorative
cups look like next year at Kyle Field.
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
Hey, Sean, I'll tell you what though, Man, if if
you want to get Dan fired up, just ask him
about the UH Texas Rangers or anybody from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh yeah, dude. That that that's is that that gets
back to the Hatfields in McCoy's conversation, does it.
Speaker 15 (01:01:30):
So that?
Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
I mean, it's mad as hell and he's not gonna
take it anymore. That was what set you off, Danny.
Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Yeah, it's it's the people. It's the people. Because the
city itself is fine. It's it's a fine place.
Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
I just don't understand the arrogance, like I I I
don't understand like like the entitlement to feel like you
can feel that way.
Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
That's what I just have never gotten with people from there.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I can't wait to see Dan stroll up like Highland
Park over there, have you. I mean, they'll love that one. Yeah, Dan,
they I mean they they created, they created Dallas. That's
that's why all that money is, man, that's where that
attitude is gonna come popping.
Speaker 8 (01:02:11):
Well, that's the thing, you know. I head in the
Katie Trails ice House or somewhere like that. I'm gonna
have the Kirby smart line to all the people in there,
there's nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide.
Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, Brian, are you as distanting you have as much
distained for Dallas as Dan?
Speaker 14 (01:02:30):
Does?
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
It really McCoy's when it comes to Houston Dallas.
Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
I got a couple of college teammates that's that live
in Dallas. So obviously I like.
Speaker 7 (01:02:39):
Those guys and their significant others. I I don't like
Ranger fans put it to you that way. And then obviously,
you know, like I used to have a big beef
like as a just as a you know, as a
pure like Houston fan. I used to have a pretty
big beef with Dallas Cowboy fans, but now they're just
(01:03:00):
the laughing stock of the world, not even the country anymore,
because the Cowboys suck. They're ran poorly, uh from Jerry
Jones as a GM perspective, so like they don't even
have any argument, Like they haven't won anything and since
NOM pretty much since NOM, so I don't have a
beef with the people.
Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
It's just the fan base.
Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
I think they said, they just they're just I'm kind
of with Dan on the arrogance though, that kind of
bothers me a little bit, you know. But uh, look, man,
there's some really nice areas of Dallas. There's no no
question there.
Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah. Well, at least you finally found somewhere where you
have big beef. Anyway, just a kind of curiosity.
Speaker 8 (01:03:42):
Slid that one in there going yeah exactly. He busted
you inside with a good fastball right there, did, dude.
Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Right on my hands.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yeah, but you but you you came up and start
a crowd in the plate with that close stance, and
I'm not letting you take that insight in our inner half. Dude,
I'm in a little chin music. Bump you off it
a little bit, right right? Then you come in you know,
the the hard sweeper off the plate the other way,
So you know I had to bust the end though,
I had to bust you.
Speaker 7 (01:04:08):
Well, well, as long as I'm not Jeremy Payney, I'll
probably be able to fall foul that sweeper off.
Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
And also and also look, we've had about five inches
of snow up here in the woodlands, and some say
five inches a lot of snow, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yeah, Well, well, I mean I know that I know
that that's That would be a great bonus for you
up there to have five extra that would be nice.
It would be nice. But hey, listen, who's really back
to the who's counting?
Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
You know, it's it's it's me, it's not you.
Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Okay, yeah, of course, okay, yeah, it's there. You go.
But you know, for Dallas and me, you guys might
you can't. Can you hate a place? Well, this is
I'm gonna answer my own question. I love the place.
I mean, can you hate a place that you grew
up and went to high school and everything? And say, well, yeah,
California for me, because the leadership ru in that state.
(01:05:03):
Now you know there was a leadership and grown adults
that can't sit in the room and you know, do
the right thing for the people that ruin that state.
The state's still beautiful. But when it comes to Dallas
and Houston, can you actually hate a place that your
kids went to high school? Do you raise them? For me?
Speaker 9 (01:05:17):
Can? I?
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Like, you know, you don't bee a thing because I'm
a kind of a tweener, right, I was in Dallas
for like eleven or twelve years. I've been here since thirteen,
which is what is not eleven years, so about the
same amount of time in both cities. But my kids
were young and they went you know there in A
and M and in plain Old West High School and
all that, so you know, all their buddies and stuff
that spent the night at your house all the time.
(01:05:39):
So is it would it be when I say that
I and then I come here and I've been great people.
I love both. It's not like Auburn Alabama? Can you
love both if you've spent a certain part, like doing
my career here with people. I like being around stuff,
so it's kind of changed my outlook as you know,
in my career, I love it. And then going up
(01:06:00):
that's when my kids were personalities and their friends were
shaped are going to be in their weddings and their
best man and and you know, made of on all
those things. So can I actually hate Dallas even though
I'm here? Is there room to love both? Or is
it Alabama? Auburn is?
Speaker 15 (01:06:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
You know, and can you can you not love both?
Speaker 15 (01:06:18):
Well?
Speaker 7 (01:06:18):
I think for you it's completely different when you bring
the family aspect into in your kids, you know what
I mean? Like for me, it's always that propect that
right for me, Yeah, I think, okay, right, if you
haven't lived in either of both places, it's just that's
that rivalry build up that's normal or should be right
that part of.
Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
It, I would say, Sean, it's I'm going to go
Biblical on us right here. Hate the sin, love the center.
Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Pretty much probably the best way to describe a conversation
we could have for an hour that you can describe
in one sentence, that's probably you, you, you, the sin,
and the center. That's a great point. I guess that
would be the case. And the sins different for others?
Is I mean for some the sins different? Right? And
is the center? So you know, whether it's the people
the person there you go. I like it, that's fair.
But I don't have a disdain because I think there's
(01:07:03):
some nice areas. But the people have shaped my kids' lives.
They're friends, so I think that's why I'm part of
that as an adult. See, my kids haven't spend much
time in Houston, but all the friends. For me, Houston's
kind of shaped some of the things. Profession that I have.
A friend of mine, one of my best friends, always
been in this town, said Houston will grow on you.
He told me that first six months I was here.
(01:07:24):
He goes, you'll come in here, be ablity to grow
on it, because he wasn't from here either. It's from
California and different parts of the country. And I'll be
damned he was right. So, but I do get why
if you're like hating a franchise as opposed to a city, right,
And we always don't, don't We always a lot of
times it's either the people or the sports teams. When
we when we disliked the other city, Right, there's somebody
(01:07:45):
who bought you there from an experience, or it's it's
it's your baseball team or your or your football it's
if you're your basketball team or your football team. It's
rarely just because you don't like the beauty of a
nice restaurant. That's usually what it comes down to. Center Center.
Good call by you, Dan, Yeah, that is a good call.
Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
Let's let's get the break.
Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
We'll hear from Joe Mixon talking about some off season
moves that Nick SiO might have cooked up.
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What did he say? We'll hear it discussing next right
here on The Shawn Salisbury Show.
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Oh yeah, they love this weather.
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Huh.
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You know I couldn't get him in the house last night.
He just wanted to stay outside.
Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
This morning.
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You know, I'm walking in this you know, I had
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don't know how I'm gonna get it in because I mean,
he just loves it.
Speaker 9 (01:10:25):
He just sat out there where it was snowing and everything.
I just crazy.
Speaker 10 (01:10:29):
It's like those.
Speaker 7 (01:10:30):
Videos John, It's yeah, it's it's like it's like those
videos you see of huskies and and and long haired
dogs that are used to the used to this, and
and people send them outside and they don't come in.
And then you got you know, male carrions and female
careens that are like, oh my god, you're abusing your dog. No,
I have a husky, I got a great Pyrenees. They
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love this stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Yeah, yeah, no, you're abusing me a dog if you
take it inside. Those dogs are like I got to
stay out there, kidding me.
Speaker 9 (01:10:59):
So yeah, I'll just I'll just leave outside as long
as he doesn't bark and stuff.
Speaker 16 (01:11:02):
I mean, I'm okay with that. So but uh hey,
yeah playing the doors too. That was good, a little
the nice little cut there, but uh yeah, you know,
I just want to wait a little bit on the Texans.
You know, I think you know, no no names need
to be called out. I think we've all talked about
where the issues are. I think that the Texans have
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got to put money into that offensive line. Yeah, if
they can get some free agents. I mean it's like
Kansas City, you know, and they got when they when
Mahomes got roughed up in that Super Bowl. What to
Kansas City do They They spent some big money on
some interior linemen and they also drafted well but uh
but you know they they value that over the receivers.
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And I think that's what the Texans need to do.
They just need to shore up that offensive line.
Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
I think.
Speaker 9 (01:11:50):
I think the coaching needs to be changed obviously, but uh,
I think I.
Speaker 16 (01:11:55):
Think that's where it is. I mean, you got a
lot of players that you know, they practice when they
want and stuff. I mean, some of that stuff's got
to stop. But uh, I think, uh, you know, it
was uh it was that, and there's just you know,
there's an issue with discipline. They weren't a discipline team
and uh so there are some things they need to
be addressed. I think some of it goes to coaching
and some of it are the players and and uh,
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I think that's where the Texans need to focus. They
need to get some good interior alignement, whether it's through
free agency or what. And uh, I think that's the
number one I think that's the number one thing they
need to do. I mean, yeah, they need receivers and stuff.
I mean, you got to show up that offensive line first,
because you know, it doesn't matter the other parts. And uh,
there's just too much regression in that line. Uh, they
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didn't improve at all. In fact, they got worse, it
seemed like.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
And we saw it.
Speaker 16 (01:12:44):
It started to show, it started to fall apart that
second half. And uh, that's where that's where the needs are.
And I think I don't think.
Speaker 9 (01:12:51):
Any names need to be we know who they are.
We know we know the names that need to be addressed.
And uh, I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
So thanks, stay warm out there, man.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, be safe. I love those dogs. Man, I love
those dogs. Just love to play warms in my heart
With that one part about this, and it's so true
and John kind of hit on it. Let me reiterate this.
I can have a great think about a football team.
I could have the best perimeter finesse people in the
world if I have an offensive line. And I'm speaking
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of any offensive line. College high school pro I don't care,
and I can't protect, and i can't move piles, and
I'm not nasty upfront. You will not win a championship
with the great give me the okay you put matter
of fact, you go ahead and put your greatest receiver
group and quarterback and running group of the last twenty
years who you want each position, and then I'll give you.
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And then you tell me the offensive lines the lower
third in the league with just stuff they're doing wrong,
You're not winning a super Bowl. Now, flip it. Give
me the best big fellows up front in all of football.
I mean, I'm talking about a group that's like, go
Dallas Cowboys. I mean Aikman Smith if you want to
go any I don't care over the last when when
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when big you know Jonathan Ogden was in Baltimore or whatever,
and give me that. I can tell you this now,
you may not win a champions if you don't have
the other elements. But you give me a great offensive line.
And let's say you had a middle of the road
quarterback and some good players, but not a oh my gosh,
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that guy's a Pro Bowler every year wide receiver and
a good solid running back in a forty nine ers scheme,
what I got a chance to win every every time,
I at least have a chance. Now the quarterback's gonna
have to be a stud when it gets to the postseason.
All those things can at least have a chance. But
I don't have a chance playing seven on seven on
eleven man football on Sundays, you can. You cannot sustain
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winning without interior people. Offensive line, defensive front, finesse is
all fine, and they looks pretty and it's sexy. It'll
get you, you'll get you paid. But when all is said,
you ain't putting a ring on your finger if the
guy's upfront can't protect. And I don't care who it is,
no matter if for CJ. Stroud Brady comes here and
you don't get protection, you'll get to a certain level
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and then you will You'll Falter Mahomes one Super Bowl
he lost, had no right tackle, no left tackle. They
were both hurt, they lost, and they happen to lose
to a pretty good quarterback on the other side. The
point is, in a John's think that has to be addressed.
And if you think that's the best group you got,
then coach him up and teach him better and let's go.
But you have to address that, and they will, and
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that's not going to be the only place they addressed
because there's one thing I do know. My job as
an owner and a quote coach is to find somebody
that's better than you every frigging day, every year. Your
job is to prevent me from finding somebody better. Right now,
they have to look and see.
Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
Seven seven ninety is the number to join that. Let's
get into the a eight o'clock hour. We got more
to talk about this Houston Texans team. Let's talk about
buy in. What's going on with that buy in?
Speaker 6 (01:16:07):
CJ.
Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
Stroud spoke about it, so did Joe Mixon. We'll discuss
the next on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
Kondo Houston heard radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
The Rockets.
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Sports Talk seven ninety Your home for your home, Jeens,
looks like you've.
Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Been missing a lot of work lately. I wouldn't say
I've been missing it, Bob.
Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. You can also
listen to us on the free iHeartRadio app. Shawn Salisbury,
Brian Lilima, Dan Matthews. Your Rockets fell to the Pistons
yesterday at the Toyota Center. They are off tonight, Ohio
State taking out Ure Dame to win the national championship.
Last night in Atlanta, the Lions offensive coordator Ben Johnson
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reportedly going to become the new head coach for the
Chicago Bears.
Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
We've been talking a lot of Texans football this morning.
Speaker 7 (01:16:59):
Obviously, it's say, snowy, snowy morning here in the city
of Houston. Hope everybody is staying safe, staying warm. It's
about twenty five degrees. The snow is still coming down
pretty heavily across the Houston area. Let's get out to
the phone line seven one three two one two five
seven nine. He got a couple of more.
Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
John's on hold. Let's talk.
Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Let's talk to our guy John out in Needville. What's
happening to John? What's happening Potner?
Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
You there?
Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Question for you, bro?
Speaker 9 (01:17:28):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (01:17:28):
Oh, Dan, sounds like we've got a little communication issue
on now on the now, John, We're gonna put you
on hold and we'll get that figured out.
Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
Uh Dan, Can we get to the other John?
Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
John you there?
Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Yeah, Yeah, what's on pels?
Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
What's happening?
Speaker 16 (01:17:48):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:17:48):
You staying warm out there?
Speaker 14 (01:17:50):
Oh Man, It's just snowing out here in Frins though.
Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Man, it's coming down. It's coming, It's coming down.
Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
Brian is coming down.
Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Man. But it looks good, octure you it look really good,
you know.
Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
But anyways, Uh, I got a question I want to
ask Sean. Sean, I want to ask you something because
you played the position and uh, I know, you know,
if anybody know, you know, I want to know what
is it about Lamar Jackson and get through that people
don't like this man?
Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
Is what two times gonna be three times?
Speaker 14 (01:18:23):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
MVP.
Speaker 14 (01:18:24):
I watched him every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
He bring me jaw.
Speaker 14 (01:18:27):
He do stuff on the on the football field that
I ain't never seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
And I just love watching him play.
Speaker 14 (01:18:34):
And yeah he had a few hooked ups, but he
made up for it. And uh, Andrews got the footballer.
I just want to know why they why they keep
moving the gold post for this superstar and act like
he he just why they put all the problems because
and I just want to get uh, you know, because
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they said the super Bowl and the super Bowl, but
to me, uh, you got to win game. Didn't even
get into the playoffs. There's a whole lot of quarterbacks
that didn't even make it to the playoffs. He gets
him there, he gets into the position to get to
the super Bowl, and one day he don't get it.
Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
But great as he is, why do people keep moving
the goal post?
Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
All Jackson? And I did.
Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Thank John? Yeah? John? I Uh, it's getting to the
point for those people who just criticize him because they're
looking for a reason or it's a race reason. I mean,
we know that exists somewhere, it just does, I mean,
crazy enough in twenty twenty five we still got to
talk about that part of it. You know it exists
(01:19:41):
in some h I mean, you know the slot. This
is a slot receiver coming out of college. Really, I
think the guy's already if he if he would have
won a super Bowl this year, he's already a Hall
of Famer. And if you had a third MVP, Yeah,
I get why early on mechanics wise, he doesn't, you know,
because he's so good. We get this thing like if
you're dual threat quarterback, which is everybody now it feels
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like I'm not saying every summer obviously more apt to
do it. But when you got a guy who beat
you both ways, everybody's looking for that guy, it's almost
if you just don't set your foot in the pocket
and throw from the pocket all the time, well we
kind of call you a quarterback that we don't. And
a lot of those guys are sitting home watching all
year long and didn't do a third of the stuff
Lamar Jackson did. Yeah, I'm with you, John. I got
early on when he came out. Okay, Louisville, they threw
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a lot the offense. Okay, what's the system? All right,
let's bring into Baltimore. Change coordinators, boom, put him here.
He's got a drop back quarterback in Flacco. Has that
mean change the things around? And the guy adjusted to that,
and then the guy adjusted to the next one, and
then he'd adjust the monkin. And then he does it
without a lot of great perimeter people. And then he runs.
Oh he's a runner first. And now he's beating you
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from the pocket. He throws good against pressure, he beats
you with his feet. I don't know what more you want.
He had his best year ever this year. I'm quite frankly.
The criticisms, Okay, you can't make a few of the
throws he made this last week, but I can tell
you this as good as John Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens
are and their organization and when Ozzie K. Newsom was there,
how they drafted people. Impeccable, phenomenal, phenomenal organization. But I
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can tell you this, even with those players and the
you know, the ray Lewis passed and the great players
and moving on through here at the organization has become
one of the best in football. Without Lamar Jackson these
last five years, the Baltimore Ravens are a floundering. They're
trying to make the playoffs every year they just are.
It goes back to you better have offensive line, which
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they got, and you better have a guy under center.
So I see him beat people from the pocket well
because he can run. He's not a He's not what
we call a traditional pocket passer. I've watched him elevate
his game and throw from there and beat beat, beat
coverage with a big post over the top, a dig route,
throwing off schedule, sidearm thrown from the pocket at different angles.
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He looks like he's in the best command I've ever
seen him while the game's going on. He's taken me
to a new level every year. This year there's nothing
about him other than he doesn't have a super Bowl.
But that's unfair because there's eleven on eleven. There's got
to be other things that come in. You got to
get a stop, you got to kick the field goal,
all those things. But that's how we judge quarterbacks now
is well always do you have a championship ring. It
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doesn't diminish how good Lamar Jackson is. Hey, I'm for him.
I'm sure that the validation of wanting to give one,
he's gonna have to go earn it like everybody does.
It's a hard thing to do. And when Brady's been
in the league in mahomes hell, that's forty seven super
Bowls between two cats, So there's not a lot of
room to get in. I'm with you, John. For whatever reason,
people get stuck in their crawl. There's not a thing
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on the football field Lamar Jackson can't do. Now. He
is what he is, the ultimate weapon burrow a better
pocket passer. Oh yeah, he's as close to Brady as
we have from the pocket. Is somebody else, maybe a
bigger guy. Yeah, he's not as big as Cam Newton,
but Lamar's good size. You guy can pick something from
everybody that may have a little bit different than somebody else.
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But what he does do is everything better than everybody
else right now except get to a Super Bowl winning.
So there's no week there's no weakness in his game.
There just isn't. So Yeah, But if you're just looking
for a traditional dropback passer and it doesn't fit your bill,
not you, John, but anybody out there, Well, he doesn't
throw from the pocket like Bural does, but just do
the numbers from the pocket. Just go look at the
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analytics and how he plays against pressure and he lets
him up there. The guy's phenomenal football player. So you
can have all the opinion people want and criticize. He's
not above criticism. But if you're telling me the guy's
not a great quarterback and a great football player, you
ain't watching the same football I'm watching. The guy's special
ultimate weapon in NFL right now is him because what
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he does with his arm, his legs, and quite frankly
now with his mind and how he can manipulate defenses. Yeah,
Lamar Jackson, I can win with him a lot.
Speaker 7 (01:23:48):
Let's go to another jealousy. If we get John and
Needville up and running, John, what's happening right Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Can you hear me? What's up? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
We got your big dog? What's happening?
Speaker 9 (01:23:57):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (01:23:58):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Where are you at? You had station? Ye?
Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
Who you did? We lose John again?
Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Man, I'm on a roof.
Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
I'm on a roof right now, big dog. I got
my cougar paws on. I'm up on a roof. Man
doing this the show in the snow?
Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Man?
Speaker 10 (01:24:19):
Hey man, how wonld command you if you drove in
today from.
Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Uh element?
Speaker 6 (01:24:26):
Dan? Can you go ahead and put him back on?
Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Hold?
Speaker 6 (01:24:27):
Man, he's got to I don't know what's going on.
He might have to hang out and call us back.
Speaker 7 (01:24:30):
We got some issues because it's coming in super choppy John,
give us a shout back. Uh seven one, three, two five,
seven ninety is the number to join Sean?
Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Why is he?
Speaker 6 (01:24:38):
Why is he all up in my grilled dog?
Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Because he wanted to give you a common thing and
you were like you you you know, weathered the storm,
you got up and you know walk three three miles
uphill to school, you know in a short sleeve shirt.
Remember the back when from the main streets and you're
growing up you had to trudge uphill. Had a right
he wanted to. You wanted to see if you if
you had a set that actually drove into work.
Speaker 6 (01:25:02):
That felt kind of personal from this side of the.
Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Yeah, it did did.
Speaker 6 (01:25:07):
Yeah, man, yeah, you know, but look, man, it's you.
Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
He was trying to throw.
Speaker 7 (01:25:15):
Yeah, I think so, But joke's on him because I'm
up on a roof right now. You know, I'm out,
I'm out out working John. I got my cougar paws on.
I'm giving an estimate. I'm up here with an insurance
adjuster right now. Except no, no, no, they're.
Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
Called cougar paws.
Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
You're on the roof, you said, yeah, yeah, on the roof. Okay,
cougar paws. You don't slip, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (01:25:41):
Yeah, man, I got to make it happen up here, man, Yeah,
because somebody John ain't working this morning.
Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
John's probably John's probably at home right now. Either that
or he's sleeping in his truck.
Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
He's probably got some venison getting ready to throw. You know,
cook a little venice.
Speaker 6 (01:25:55):
Dude, It's a breakfast taco. Hits different though, Man.
Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Sure does spice it up a little bit too. You
had that spice on there, bro. That's my peace, Dan.
You don't want any part of me. It is Salz
and Esco. It ain't this cold homes gonna say.
Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
I was about to throw out Indio, but that's right,
yeah you.
Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Indio is not far from where the last of the
golf tra out there in Palm Desert, Palm Springs, that's
out the Indio Way about two hours and about two
hours from uh from from the mean streets of Esco.
Hour forty five to two is Palm Springs to Esco
and then Esco to the coastlines another fifteen eighteen miles.
(01:26:43):
So but it's me what you don't want to do.
A matter of fact, Dan, you'd probably be a part
of this too, You and Brian when you come down
to Esco with me. Unless you're in the car with
me and you see signs that say via Ranchell Parkway, Escondido,
keep driving. If I'm not with you, keep driving. I
want to make sure you guys make it back safe. Okay,
all right, But while you do that, pop in that
(01:27:04):
nord Stroms and grab some cologne there, maybe one of
those one of those box breakfasts.
Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Yeah, dude, you got to hit the local nord strims man.
Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
But if that's not good even Marcus right around the corner.
Maybe a nice big steakhouse. But other than that, the
mean streets just depends on what side of the you know,
the streets and track you're on. But I don't, I don't.
I don't want you guys going in there alone. Okay,
you guys be careful now.
Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
You know, if Nema Marcus is closed, Sacks Fifth Avenue
is a block away, baby, get over there.
Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Hey, hey, and then they will well also you come
out of there. We may have some street talk was
about a mile away. You never know, man, you never
know what my peeps and Esco are gonna do. But Brian,
you always, you know, you communicate with my essays. You
know what I'm saying, A sousy.
Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
Man, and what's this white stuff coming down on the grass?
This snow man? We don't see this over your homes.
Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
That's about exactly how they say it too. Do you
still have that Do you still have that flannel back?
And when you were an Esco orange remember we used
to wear those on Fridays? Dude? Yeah, yeah, I still
have just a little small.
Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
Yeah, man, you got the one button up up? What
thet man to you?
Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Do you think I'm playing with a white T shirt.
That's my home town. I know you go.
Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
I don't think you're.
Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
I know you're not playing respect. That's right.
Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
Oh, the seven seven one, three two two five, seven
ninety is the number to join. We will continue to
take your calls here on the Shawn Salisbury Show. Hey,
we gotta, we gotta talk about buying for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 6 (01:28:42):
Was there not enough? Joe mixed and hit on it.
Speaker 9 (01:28:44):
So did C. J.
Speaker 7 (01:28:45):
Straw will also hear that audio and discuss it next
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Speaker 7 (01:29:01):
At our sister station, News Radio seven forty Kora if
you want to stay up to date on the latest
with this crazy snow it is, dude, it's a damn
near a blizzard in downtown right now, which is insane.
Speaker 17 (01:29:14):
Sorry, I'm senator staring out I'm just saying it looks
like you're like I'm sitting in Utah or Montana staring
out my window.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
It's like blowing sideways because it's windy out here in
full sure as well, and it's like I I mean,
we're sitting in Houston, Texas. It's just so it's it's hot,
you know, it really is, and it's coming down like
it is a snow start stop. You know. I understand
people in Minnesota laughing their ass off at it. It's like,
come on, you ain't snow. But here it's like shuts
everything down, Katie. The airport completely shut down on I
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mean Peck. In Chicago and Minnesota, they're like, oh, keep
it rolling, man, let's go. I mean, they got it's crazy,
but hey, hopefully it'll end quicker and we can get
back to seventy degrees. How far are we await from
seventy degrees, Danny and Brian, We're ways away.
Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
Are I think it's supposed to touch it?
Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Is it? I think so?
Speaker 9 (01:30:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Sunday, Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
Astros FanFest Day is supposed to be mid sixties, I think,
so okay.
Speaker 6 (01:30:15):
I mean, that's gonna be balmy compared to this.
Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
Yeah, I know in the next uh, I know, in
the next couple of days it is gonna it's not
supposed to get above freezing.
Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
I mean, they say thirty eight today, but I highly
doubt we reached that. So Brian I know you've got
channel two on at your house. Yeah, it's like the
reporter that's out in the field right now, is he
trying to like help this car drive over a mattress
or something?
Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
So yeah, just so yeah, I've got a KPRC Channel
two up and like dance that there's a reporter out
there that's trying to help a guy in a Mercedes
Benz and uh, I don't know if that's a mattress,
a cardboard box.
Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
I don't know what he's stuck on, but it's not working.
And that is some thick snow out there.
Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
That is just absolutely wild to watch here in the
city of Houston. So again, if you're driving, dude, go home,
Like what are what are we doing? Like look at this?
This is just what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
It's just wild?
Speaker 7 (01:31:07):
Seven one three, two two five seven II is never
to join. All right, Let's see if we can get
John and Neville up and up and run of John.
Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
We got you, man, there you go.
Speaker 6 (01:31:16):
Can you what's happening?
Speaker 10 (01:31:17):
Let me kill you? Just you you just wanted me
to call, but I was gonna leave it alone. But
now then you gotta start running you. Yeah, you knew
this was coming you you you knew it was coming though.
Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
Hey, John, is do you favor don't cuss today?
Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:31:35):
That don't cuss today? You cuss?
Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
Yes, I'm a man.
Speaker 9 (01:31:39):
I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
Hey, I was gonna give you prompts.
Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Sean was right.
Speaker 10 (01:31:43):
I was gonna give you prompts because you rather the
storm from coming in from your almighty the woodlands. But
you know, hey, you didn't go in and you stayed
at home.
Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:31:55):
I made a business decision, man.
Speaker 9 (01:31:56):
I mean you know what, Sean, I came up with
a idea.
Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:00):
You know, as much as we all love the show
and everything and a lot of us call us man,
I could be the fourth comedian on this show. I
could be the fourth person. We could run like a
like the Oh my god. Could you imagine me and
Brian in the studio together?
Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Yeah? Do you know what would be great? John? Here's
the problem is, in our business, we want good ratings
and great shows. We don't want crappy ass shows. So
why the hell would I put your non funny ass
on here? Oh damn, I got dog. Hey, Look if
I could let you, if I could let you cuss
(01:32:36):
every third line. We'd have the greatest show in the world.
Speaker 10 (01:32:38):
There you go, Bright, you know that's a that's an
Irish and cagun blooded.
Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
I love it, brother, I love it. Hey, check it out.
Speaker 9 (01:32:44):
Man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:45):
So yesterday after I dropped the S bomb and then
did some more researching as I should have before, I called,
Lamar was talking about himself.
Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
You're absolutely right, Beat, You're absolutely right. Now it's all
good man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:59):
Let me let me go back to this other John's question.
Why do people hate on Lamar? Because Lamar tells him
what he believes. He doesn't sugarcoat it. He doesn't be pc.
Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
He calls it like it is. Lamar is the.
Speaker 10 (01:33:15):
Black sheep, if you know pun intended. He is the
black sheep of the family. He says what's on his mind.
He doesn't politically correct it like Kermit the Frog does.
Now let's go to these Texans. Houston Texan fans. Have
(01:33:37):
you heard what Joe Mixon said? Let me shout it
from the cheap seats. People need to buy into the system.
I've been saying it all season. It ain't Bobby Slovak,
even the running back.
Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Let me rephrase that.
Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
The All Pro running back has said Slovak calls the
good games. People need to buy into the system. So
what they need to do is get fat ass Larry
Tunstall out of there. He is not Joe, He is
not Anthony Munos, John Ogden. Okay, hell, he ain't even
(01:34:15):
the great Alan Fannica from from right here in Lamar Consolidator.
He ain't a top five tackle. They need to hold
that old line accountable, the old line coach accountable. And
I said it yesterday and I'm gonna say it again
to Miko. Quit being friends with your players.
Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
And be a coach.
Speaker 10 (01:34:36):
Fine, And I hope everybody stays safe and warm today.
The lives are out running in the pasture. They playing
in the snow. Brian, I don't know. I'll tell you, dog,
pay attention, a man, I'm talking.
Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
I'll be hey man, I'll be out on a roof.
I'll be out on a roof in about about two hours, man,
so catch me out. We appreciate it, John Man, look
like you later. Jo appreciate your brother. Hey, let's real quick.
Let's get to uh branded before we get to break.
And then we'll hear that Joe Mixon Audio.
Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
Brando, we got snow, baby, how we feeling.
Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
This morning, Brandon, Brandon, unbelievable man. You know, Sean, you
can you can lead a horse to water, but you
can't make him drink. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Yeah, I mean I've never heard that phrase before. Incredible. Yeah,
I mean, dude, the way you can come up with these, Yeah,
this almost feels like that's like been around forever, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:35:31):
I know, but it's just it's not it comes.
Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
It's because it's so natural for you to play, like
like hey, yeah, hey, you got to walk before you
can run. That would be like a bride you'd give us, right, Yeah,
I mean yeah. And then I mean the book a
Better Fact that I got a coffee table. It has
a book of quotes, Brian. I mean, one of them,
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't
make him drink. Force through the trees, walk, crawl before
(01:35:55):
you walk, walk before you go. I mean, well, how
you you you know what, it's your your You're ubiquitous.
Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
If you're scared, go to church, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
Yeah, I'm just saying, dude, I was pumped to get
Brandon on the line. It's we got we got snow outside.
It's damn near a blizzard in the city. You know,
he's probably pumped up about it. In just crickets.
Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
It's like, come, did you call for the right hand
or what happened?
Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
I guess man, you know.
Speaker 7 (01:36:22):
You know between him not watching not watching the Rockets
games and the Texans games, and you know, we thought
he was gonna get tacos and he went and got
chicken fetacini. Alfredo, Like, come on, Brando, let's step it up,
big dog.
Speaker 9 (01:36:35):
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
He he've had his own game plank, dude.
Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
We got to send him to Fayetteville. Sean, I've had enough.
You're setting him though single Feteville.
Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean you're not ready to
get him to Corpus yet. No, it's tough.
Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
I've had enough.
Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
I've had I've had it. I've had it up to here, man,
I've had it up to here. Let's uh, let's let's
hear from Joe Mixon. All right, we got to talk
about this buying stuff. I want to get your thoughts
on it.
Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
Sean.
Speaker 7 (01:37:01):
I know you had some technical difficulties earlier, so you
missed the audio. It's it's a good piece audio.
Speaker 15 (01:37:05):
Dan.
Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
Dan was actually in the locker room yesterday when this
stuff was being talked, so we can get his thoughts
on it as well. Since he was right then and there,
let's hear from Joe Mixon. We got that audio where
he talked about buying for the team and for the players.
So let's hear from Joe Mixon next on sportslock seven
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Speaker 6 (01:38:24):
From Joe Mixon.
Speaker 7 (01:38:25):
So he spoke yesterday to the media excuse me, and
he talked about buying Well, what did the running back
have to say for the Texans here?
Speaker 13 (01:38:34):
It is, I think we got to ass up to
the players to really make the play go, you know,
And I firmly believe. I think slow, you know, he
did a great job with that, you know, executing, and
I think that he really honed in on the details
towards the end of the year. And I also felt
like everybody really bought into what we were doing. I
think that, you know, everybody jeled at the right time.
(01:38:57):
It's just we came up short. And that's really all
it is, all.
Speaker 7 (01:39:01):
Right, Sean. So there's some audio from Joe Mixon. He
spoke about buy in now.
Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
CJ.
Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Stroud also spoke about some a standard that said we'll
hear that audio probably next segment because it's a little
bit longer. So I just want to get your take
on and I guess I'll just ask you this, do
you think there was there was an issue with buy
in after hearing what Joe Mixon had to say.
Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
Well, one thing I do know is players know everything
that's going on. They know who should be starting, they
know what's being said in the building about contracts. They
know and in this case, I would imagine that if
he addressed it like that, it at some point in
time people were questioning if there was full buy it,
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why else would you address it? I mean, unless I
didn't hear the question, was the question is this team
bought into what they're doing or was it more of
a slowick He's got the offense down. One thing, one
thing that One thing that did bother me is when
he said it felt like he dialed into the details.
I'm not quote that he mentioned details. He said at
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the very end here he said he felt like he
dialed into it. It was more detailed the details. So
were they not detailed for the first twelve weeks. It
doesn't bother me that Joe said it. But if was
there a perception the building about the buy in on
one end and is there are we getting to the details?
(01:40:29):
Go listen to what Mixon said, He mentioned details and
slow it in the same sentence, and I and like
I said, I were not there. All is ours of
speculation unless we hear from somebody. But I do know this,
if players are bringing it up, the subject has been
brought up or is I don't know if it's a
point of concern or contention or something that just they
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felt needed to justice. It may not even been a
big one. It may have been some small but the
small stuff is how you build championship teams anyway. The
big stuff's obvious. It's the little cracks that end up
being fractures and ended up just crushing your team if
you don't get to those cracks and seal them up soon.
And I think kind of that's kind of how I
feel here. I don't think it felt like the team
cracked completely this year. I don't think they played their
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best football two games in a row. Matter of fact,
the last two playoff games may have been the best.
We saw them go back to back both sides of
the ball. For the most part, they just ran into
the chiefs. And Joe's right about that. You know, it
just didn't do enough. That's called being a football player.
In an athlete, You're not gonna win them all the time.
But I'm looking, and I'm assuming you are with the
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questions and why we're playing this. Is there a deeper
dive into was there buy in? Does the buying exist
with every coach and player on the staff. It can't
just be eighty percent of them. Was there was this
discuss because Joe's become the verbal guy in the locker
room and pair, I mean, you know, motivational speeches and
team meetings and players only means Joe's been like the
(01:41:53):
voice at least that's what we hear and what it appears.
But in this case, I would imagine the subject's been
broached and brought up. But I also wonder, and we
can go hear Joe again at the end there when
he talks about got more detailed at the end. Were
we missing details at the beginning? At times they played
like it. So the details in the buy in are
one and the same. It just depends on which is is.
(01:42:15):
It comes from the coaching side of the player side.
So details you can't you can't overlook the small things.
I don't know if they did, I'm just going by it.
If they did and they dialed in, that's got to
be eighteen we are with You're not going to win
them all, but you do have to dial in and
then the buy in. But I need to when when
we talked about hiring a new coach here before Demiko
and anytime they're hiring new coach, Sean, what do they
(01:42:36):
need And I already got the head coach, can find
assistant coaches to give me xes and O's I need
a head coach who's a great leader, maximizes the building,
and gets buying. Buy in is always a part of it.
So is there is there a gap or a chasm
between the buy in and the players that I don't know?
Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
So one thing, you know, I wanted to hit on.
Speaker 7 (01:42:56):
That one thing I wanted to hit on that is
because we discussed this so much this season, Sean, is
you know we talked about accountability, We talked about Laramie
Tunzel on his false starts. We talked about lack of
effort at times right from the offensive line and other players.
Speaker 6 (01:43:15):
And one thing that you.
Speaker 7 (01:43:16):
Continued to say and continue to bring up in our
discussion was, well, how is it at practice?
Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
How is it in the film room?
Speaker 7 (01:43:23):
Stuff that we're not privy to right our coaches coaching
at the right way during practice? Are coaches holding certain
players accountable or everybody accountable, so things like that. So
then when I hear Joe Mixon out of all players,
it's Joe Mixon talking about buying in and it's up
to the players, it goes right back into what we've
discussed is are people being held accountable when they need
(01:43:45):
to be held accountable or is there like a I
would there.
Speaker 6 (01:43:48):
I'm not trying to say that there's any kind of uh,
I get it.
Speaker 7 (01:43:52):
Yeah, there's not conflict, right, But then it just it
makes me think about, man, is there there there? Obviously
if he's talking about it and he didn't call anybody out,
but if he if or specifically call anybody out, but
if he's saying those words buy in, that shows me
that there wasn't enough buy in this year.
Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Well you heard buy in details, and you've heard me
say the undisciplined part of it. You can't consistently win
and be undisciplined, whether it's pre stamp of personal foul,
undisciplined route running, undisciplined in your reads as a quarterback,
undisciplined in what hole you hit, undisciplined as a coach,
(01:44:30):
you overlook a small detail during the practice week, but
then expect your players to play at at a high
level on Sunday. That's something you didn't coach properly or
all as we can do is speculate from here, because,
like I said, we don't set the meeting room, and
I it'd be like, you know, in anything we do,
I can't tell you what a board of directors is
talking about it at some company unless the board of
directors guys a buddy of mine, it comes out and says,
(01:44:50):
here's the notes from the meeting. So but you can
you know, we interview people, we talk to people close
to the situation, and you kind of I think we
can all see from from the naked eye, there's some problems.
There's some issues I'm not talking about with with player
to player. I'm just talking about the issues of why
is there so many pre snaff penalties? Why is there
so many why is it trying to get a fairly
(01:45:13):
clean game very difficult offensively? Why why are we talking
about buy in? Wasn't buy in one of the first
things we said when Diamiko was hired, this team's bought in?
Did they buy in as last year but didn't buy
in as much this year because they took their success
for granted. Have they not handled success well? Yet? They
won a playoff game and had a chance to win
another one, and we're actually playing as consistent of football
(01:45:34):
the last two weeks as they've played at any point
in time this year. So you can grab gather the
six and one half half dozen in the other and
that you know where's the glass or in the lower
part of the upper part. There's a lot that needs
to be fixed. I'm going to tell you when you'll
know your answer about this buy in slash details slash
is that they make a coaching change, two or three
(01:45:54):
different position coaching change. If they go in there and
change staff members, they that will tell you that in
their evaluation, that position and that coach was not living
up to snuff. That's what that will think. Not if
somebody leaves and goes to as a head coach, who
goes and takes a coordinator job somewhere else. I'm talking
about if they make changes and specifically they're telling you
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that they weren't on the same page, that what they
were trying to accomplish and what they did accomplish wasn't
wasn't sufficient enough, or it's not being taught the way
that the head coach wants to talk. You keep an
eye on that staff. So these questions that we're trying
to answer that we can see they're undisciplined. Yet some
great playmakers that that's the inconsistency, which is in the details.
(01:46:36):
That's how you stay consistent. Do the little details right.
You will know when they if they change the staff member,
if they're telling you that, well, you know what, we've
got to coach that and get more out of that
position and get more buy in. It's not just buy
into the head coach, it's buying at each individual positioning
group because that's different too. There's levels of buy in
(01:46:57):
because the head coach and the rest of them. So
that'll tell you you keep an eye on that. If
they changed some coaches, they'll tell you that it wasn't
sufficient or up to Texans standards.
Speaker 6 (01:47:07):
Let's hear from CJ. Stroud. He also spoke about setting
a standard. What did he have to say. We'll hear
that audio and discuss it next on the Seawan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
This Sean Salisbury Show continues.
Speaker 7 (01:47:21):
Sean Brian and Dan Matthews with you this morning. But
talking about these Houston Texans. They spoke to the media
yesterday quite a bit of players and coaches obviously clearing
some stuff out of their locker rooms after they lost
to the Chiefs on Saturday, their season comes to a close.
We just heard from Joe Mixon. He talked about buying
(01:47:42):
and details for this team.
Speaker 6 (01:47:44):
Well. C. J.
Speaker 7 (01:47:44):
Stroud also spoke to the media yesterday and he had
some things to say about a standard that needs to
be set.
Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
This is what the quarterback had to say.
Speaker 12 (01:47:55):
Yeah, I think you know, we're really close and to
get to that level is really.
Speaker 9 (01:48:01):
First.
Speaker 12 (01:48:02):
It starts with you know, communication and hard conversations have
to be had. There has to be you know, things
fixed and things worked out and just really honest conversations.
So you know, I think that's one of the biggest
things that I've learned, is like this team won't look
the same next year from top to bottom, and you
(01:48:22):
know you have to be okay with that and learn that.
You know, there has to be a from day one
of off season program. There has to be a standard
set and that standard has to.
Speaker 15 (01:48:32):
Be m M.
Speaker 12 (01:48:34):
Where I come from, like at Ohio State was like
I'm not gonna be the one to mess this thing up,
Like I'm gonna be the one to make this team
win the game if that's first, if that's Week one,
all the way to the AFC Championship, like that standard
from training camp, that has to be the standard. And
so I feel like you know that that's what needs
to be for us to get over that hump. Is
(01:48:55):
those you know, if you ain't, if you ain't bring
it every day, you stick out like a And I
think that mentality has to be brought here. And I
think we have the guys to do it coaching Lee
and some guys player why as well. So I think
we can get better at that as well.
Speaker 6 (01:49:12):
All Right, So that's c J.
Speaker 7 (01:49:14):
Stroud Shawn talking about uh standard that needs to be
set all the way into the offseason program and we
know that there are a couple of players year in
and year out don't show up to those programs. And
it's not it's not mandatory. But there you go, your quarterback,
your leader, your franchise QB talking about a standard that
needs to be set.
Speaker 6 (01:49:32):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Well, did he just answered the question you asked last
break and you asked what we're trying to figure out,
Was there enough buy in? Was there enough attention to detail?
Without naming a name.
Speaker 10 (01:49:44):
C J.
Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Stroud basically just told you this roster is gonna look different,
which is obvious, Which means they're replacing players that everybody
on there ain't meant to go forward, okay, and not
everybody's meant to stay in your life, and not everybody's
meant to stay on your team the whole time. He
answered point blank. Secondly, he said, uh, coaches and players,
(01:50:04):
we got the guys, some of the guys in the building.
He's telling you that. I mean, he's saying, so this
means this isn't just on this past weekend. This is
a cumultive effect things you've seen that maybe the same guy,
whoever that guy is, nobody's We don't know who the
the guys are because we're not at practice, like I said,
we're not sitting in a meeting room or their off
season commitment here. But we don't see it. That's that's
(01:50:26):
where you're at. He answered the question point blank, just
like we did. There will be changes on the offensive line,
there will be changes at wide out, they will I back,
whatever it is offense is going to make changes and
there will be some ads because, like I said, my job,
and it's not personal as your coach, friend or not,
is to find somebody to replace you. I'm always looking
(01:50:47):
for a better player. Now, if you're fortunate enough to
be c J. Stroud, who's going to be there one
of those guys you're in the fifteen years, I couldn't
find anybody better. But the second I do, I am
replacing you. That this is business. This isn't the first
turn to the league where you get an extra beer
if I keep you longer. This is business. So my
job as a coach is to coach you up, to
lead to coach my coaches. And when it's when I
(01:51:10):
find somebody who's better than you, I love you. Hopefully
you'll get paid somewhere else. You're not for it, We're
moving on Stroud's basically that that's what he's that that's
the answer without throw anybody in the bus to saying
there's not enough guys in the room who have the
same whether it's the commitment to excellence that we've heard
for the Raiders for all those years when al Davis
was there, but that commitment of the daily grind of
(01:51:32):
an expectation of a standard set. And I'm gathering from
this just from my from trying to read between the lines,
is that CJ. Stroud obviously a leader. People are looking
to him. He's a going to be a third year player,
and that they know. The players know, as I said
last break, know which guys aren't bringing it every day.
(01:51:52):
They know, and I'm just telling you they'll be and
it's not a snitch thing. They'll just eventually that will
mushroom and you'll see the guy stick out keeps doing
the wrong thing, doesn't understand concepts. Why are you continuing
to make mental mistakes? Physical mistakes will happen, but why
are you putting yourself in a position to make a
physical mistake because mentally you didn't prepare right. Stroud's saying,
(01:52:14):
he's just without saying it and putting a name on everybody, saying,
there will be changes. There's got to be a standard
and a commitment and the details got to be you know,
as I paraphrase paid attention to from his conversation there,
it tells me that they're not at that level yet,
which is what we already saw and we saw it
all year long, at times yes and at times no.
(01:52:35):
And a whole bunch in between. And if you're going
to live in between the good and the bad, you're
going to make the playoffs and be eliminated. And the
great has got to rear its head at these times.
And Stroud knows that, and I think he's speaking for everybody,
and so did Mixing. Yeah, if you're taking away from that,
there wasn't full buy in. I think that you could
probably come up with that answer if you're blind, and
(01:52:57):
you we'd have to see or hear to understand. He
said loud enough what Stroud was saying. That roster will change,
and that was the first thing he said. So keep
an eye on that, and keep an eye off the
coaching staff's part of it as well.
Speaker 7 (01:53:10):
You think he, by chance was or either of these
players Mixing and Stroud do you think they were talking
about the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
I think they were talking about players. I think that
the elephant in the room is we have a pretty
good idea. Okay, but I Am not going to speak
for him. Then naked eye can tell it. I mean,
come on, man, I don't think that it's being derogatory
by saying what the blatant obvious, big the biggest neon
sign flashing, is that that's where it starts without because
(01:53:39):
you want to take care of your guys. But yeah,
I think that's part of it. But I don't think
that's it's limited to that. I think that there's probably
you know, you never know in the pract what guy's
late to practice or who's kind of dilly dally in
and not you know, who's not all in, who's kind
of in. I'm sure there's a couple of them. I
mean every team has one or two that aren't fully
bought in, whether they're a backup or starter, they want
paid more, whatever. But I think that's where he's starting.
(01:54:03):
And I think when you go back we went back
and watched the tape of the game, I could say, Brian,
look at that. Look at that. You could look at
that and say, now, does that look like a physical
mistake or an attention to detail step by a right
guard or a left guard who stepped wrong. Yeah, attention
to detail, that's what he's talking about. And so the roster,
there will be changes. They are every year, but you're
always looking for a better player, and at certain positions
(01:54:24):
they're going to have to find better players. They just
are And it starts exactly where we're talking about. Can't
take eight sacks a new way trying to get to
the AFC Championship game, or you just can't win it.
Won't beat anybody that way. And yet they were still
in it, which is a tribute to a phenomenal defense
with great potential on offense, great production on defense. A
defense will be a top five defense for a long time.
Speaker 7 (01:54:47):
Yeah, and Sean mentioned keep an eye out on the
coaching staff. Well, there's a report out by our guy
Aaron Wilson in regards to a coach that may not
be back.
Speaker 6 (01:54:56):
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Dan Matthews Rockets lose to the Pistons yesterday. They are
off tonight Ohio State as your national champion in college football.
They beat Notre Dame last night. Lions offensive coordinator Ben
Johnson is said to become the new head coach for
the excuse me for the Chicago Bears. As we get
into the nine o'clock hour, we're gonna continue to talk
Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
What's that got john No, I didn't. I didn't mean it.
I didn't know if you did hear me say that.
I know because where we are so people know our communication.
Because we're not in studio together. It's a little difficult
because we don't none of us can see each other
with this weather and trying to get in. So I
think they probably understand what I was going to say
is real quick before we give the back to the Texas,
that Texas think that the Detroit stuff. Think about how
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fragile we're talking about the Texans and it applies how
hard it is right to win consistently and get everybody
on board and get by and they're asking this question
in a lot of you think they're asking it in Cincinnati,
You damn well know they are right. They've already fired
their They fired lou their defensive coordinator, who a couple
of years ago was held and is hired for guard
deserves in the league because they had him in a
Super Bowl. So how fragile it is from one year
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to the next, from one week to the next, let
alone one meeting or practice to theay the Detroit Lions,
by all accounts, I would think we'd all agree for
the majority, even though they had a home field avench,
the best team in the NFC and much of the
season the best in the league, or at least with
Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo. They in the conversation, right, and
an NFC favorite. Well, they they win fifteen games, play
(01:57:18):
great football, have phenomenal players all over the place. Both
coordinators Aaron Glenn and been you know, with Ben Johnson
being looked at, and Aaron will probably get some real
good look as well. And Ben Johnson's been the hottest
coordinator commodity for two years. Okay, one's gonna leave already.
The other one probably gonna leave if he gets an
(01:57:38):
a head coaching offer. If not, I'll be back. But
there's Dan Campbell. You've put this together. Goff's been playing well.
Look at the roster and remember what happened to Philly
when they tried to replace their two coordinators, how much
they struggled. They had to fire those two guys, and
then they went out and got Kellen Moore in the
new coordinator. See how quickly they went from Super Bowl
to coordinators, leaving to people wondering if Jalen Hurt should
(01:57:59):
have got the contract to want to fire Nick Sirianni
to having to fire those the two coordinators after the
replacement for Gannon and Steichen, and then they came in,
they got fired, and then they brought in two new ones,
and now Kellen moorees being considered to be a head coach.
Look at Detroit fifteen and two turns the ball over plays,
a bad time to play a bad game. And now
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with one coordinator gone and a good chance that Aaron
Glenn Mayley even maybe he takes an assistant or two
with him and names him a coordinator or what have
you at their place. And now think how fragile that is.
Are we sure? Detroit is still going to be able
to operate at the same temple. Is the same guy
going to do it? Ben Johnson does to maximize a'm
and Ross Saint Brown. See why those windows how quickly
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you got to you got to capitalize. They may not close,
but you're telling me that you think right now? If
I ask you and Dan, both of you can answer it.
Going in right now? If Aaron Glenn's gone, do you
expect the Detroit Lions to hit the ground running like
they did last year with two new coordinators regardless of
who they No, I don't. I think those just for
tempo and buy in. Right, you know, you're learning a
(01:59:03):
new system because it's going to be somebody who's gonna
want to teach his stuff. So and they may, but
you see how tough it is. Hence why that Like
what does Kansas City do every year? Guys, they may
lose a coordinator, but who's in charge of calling the place?
You know, you lose the b enemy, you lose Matt
n Aggie, Andy Reid, the stability of it.
Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
And there's only so many good coaches out there too.
Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
Right, That's that's the problem. The top night top, and
there's a difference scene, a position coach and a coordinator
where getting into the rhythm of call and plays and
x's and o's different because if you know both, great,
but it's hard and so you start to think about
the way that these things start to shape up. It's like, oh, now,
possible new system. Well, what if the next coach comes
in doesn't quite teach offensive line play the way that
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you know Ben Johnson wanted to play for the when
he talks to the offensive the offensive line coach. So
you never know, and it may be the same, but
think how see how quickly it can shift. So you're here,
You've got good players, but it's hard to win. And
when you do. In the Chiefs they keep Spagnola's still
be in there. Think about the continuity from owner to
front office to head coach the dude so their GM
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to head coach to quarterback and the guys come and
go with the stability of their team. Says in Tech,
it's hard. So you got to try to jump on
this as soon as you can. Because a coordinator leaves,
somebody else leaves. Who knows what's gonna happen to slow it,
what's gonna happen to graw Johnson, you take over here,
maybe somebody else wants them as a quarterback coach, see
how And trying to find guys that fit exactly what
you want to do and find the culture and the
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buy in two new coaches is always a challenge as well.
So brying back to your text and stuff, I just
it does apply to the Texans and Detroit was so
close to having a Super Bowl championship and an opportunity
at least, and here they are now wondering if they're
gonna lose half their staff and can they get the
same buy in. It's a trip man, hard sport, hard sport.
Speaker 7 (02:00:53):
Yeah, And talking about, excuse me, some staff changes. Aaron
Wilson reporting that Texans offensive line coach Chris Strausser is
not expected to return next season. This is the and
we talked about it early early in the show, Sean,
this is the kicker for me, and I asked An
about it earlier this morning. Strausser reportedly contemplated retirement prior
(02:01:18):
to the twenty twenty four season, yet he continued to coach.
And one thing that we discussed is were you all in?
Speaker 6 (02:01:24):
Were you half in? Were you one foot in? What
was the deal? But looks like he's not expected to
return next season.
Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
Well, that's a fair question, right, and it's not disrespectful
to him. I think there's some things that we saw
that make you wonder, like on a simple thing, and
I'll go back to it again for anybody that missed
the show. When you got a guy that mugs uptight
that it may have very well have been just tied
as hour who blew a gasket and didn't do it.
How you let the guy run free between the center
(02:01:51):
guard a gap and you punch outside instead of inside.
The most dangerous man had a clear path in the
guy who was further away from the quarterback. If you're
not teaching then there's a wrong part of detail. If
you are teaching it, then you better find a different
lineman who can soak it in and understand the simplest
part of protections that you learn when you're in the
fifth grade. So if he was contemplating retirement, Brian, didn't
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we talk about distractions when coaches get interviewed, And I
heard Michael Strahan say it on Sunday as well, we
did Detroit. Did all that come into play at all?
I actually thought Ben Johnson got too cute on the
reverse pass. Do you remember that? You guys remember seeing
that play? He did throw a pick, didn't he he
threw to the other team. He threw it to the
(02:02:35):
other team instead of puting in your quarterback. So as
good as Ben Johnson is, it almost like he got
too cute, which which instead of doing what they do.
And I know they do that, but in the time,
hell you needed you needed to go and close this gap.
You didn't need a hero. You needed consistent and then
keep nipping away at the score in the clock, so
you know, uh pounded it and doing what they do.
So those things happen. But with this and with what's
(02:02:59):
going on with what you and Dan were talking about,
is if a guy's retiring just like a guy leaving,
or if he has if his mind's on retirement, is
he all in? I'm not saying he wasn't. He was
just coaching, half asked, But where's his mindset? Is he
thinking retirement? I want to I just want to retire
to a ranch or I got a motorcycle, or I
want to be my grandkids or my kid whatever. And
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he stayed another year. So the quote you have to
ask yourself was it being was it his intense and
is at his most coaches I know take the job
real serious, and I'm sure he does too, especially offensive
line coaches. They don't want to be embarrassed. So you'd
think that he'd pay attention to detail. But are you
all in on a Friday holiday weekend even when you
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know maybe not everybody's listening or in any job? Ooh,
I could get away. It's a three day weekend. Let
me get away. Is your mind one hundred percent on
the job before you get to your weekend? I don't know.
It might be, it might not be right. So that's
what you got to ask yourself with this was that?
But it's we can't just limit it to offensive line
play guys and the offensive line coach, but it start there,
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and it's it's a valid question by you, Brian, about
was he all in? Uh? Like I said, if he
didn't come back, you'll have an idea that even if
he was all in, did they need to change there?
If that's the case. Yeah, players, it's not just the
coach though, the players. I hate when we don't put accountability. Player.
I can tell you this, even if you didn't get
taught it. The oldest The easiest thing to remember. His
(02:04:25):
alignment is most dangerous man? How do you not? How
do you not? Step Bay? I'm still baffled by that play,
I am, which led to a bunch of other stuff.
I'm still baffled by it. Elementary school details, did you
can't miss on? It wasn't even an SAT test. It
was an elementary school third grade to fourth grade test.
It's pretty simple football one oh one? How do you
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not know that?
Speaker 6 (02:04:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Where's the disconnect? Where's the disconnect? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:04:51):
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seven ninety is the number to joint. Let's continue to
talk about that disconnect. So I think there's some other
valid points that need to be discussed, because it's not
just on the coaching staff. It's lack of execution and
some other things. So let's continue to talk about these
Houston Texans as we roll along right here on the
Sean Salisbury Show.
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Speaker 17 (02:06:22):
I'm a diehard brand.
Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
Back to the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (02:06:26):
Let's go to Brandon. What's up? Brandon? Good morning, Brian,
Good morning, Seohn.
Speaker 8 (02:06:32):
Hi you guys, we're well.
Speaker 3 (02:06:35):
An, you guys, hear me? Okay, now.
Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
We got your bad this week.
Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
Here, we got you okay.
Speaker 1 (02:06:44):
Uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:06:46):
I was taking pictures out of the snow.
Speaker 6 (02:06:49):
Yeah, snowing out there, Brandon. What's on your mind this morning?
Speaker 8 (02:06:52):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 5 (02:06:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:06:55):
I saw I was watching the Wackets game the first half, and.
Speaker 12 (02:07:00):
I was watching the second half, and I can't do
the pird half because.
Speaker 4 (02:07:06):
I saw we lost.
Speaker 7 (02:07:08):
Yeah, they didn't play well yesterday. They uh a little sluggish.
They lost with the Pistons, a team that's barely five hundred.
So not a good game for the Rockets, Brandon.
Speaker 6 (02:07:17):
But we can do it again with the tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (02:07:21):
Yep, they do play tomorrow. Hey, Brandon, before we let
you go, you're gonna get out and enjoy this snow.
Uh no, no, oh man, that's probably probably a better
idea to stay inside and stay warm. We appreciate the call, Brandon.
We'll talk to you tomorrow, buddy. All right, thanks Brandon.
I can't even get him outside, Sean.
Speaker 2 (02:07:43):
You know, thought I thought might be I thought he
might be a guy who likes to go out and
muddle it up in the snow a little bit. You
know what?
Speaker 7 (02:07:49):
They thought that thought the same thing. Man, Like I said,
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't
make him drink. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Yeah, no, yeah, it applies perfectly here, it does, doesn't it. Yeah,
I figured you come up, Well, you could lead a
snowman to snow, but you can't make him right. Well yeah,
well yeah the heat come on. Yeah, just mix a
metaphor for just give me anything, give me something.
Speaker 6 (02:08:15):
Well, it's you know, it's it's like I mean, yeah, yeah,
there is. But what I was gonna say is.
Speaker 7 (02:08:23):
Look, man, you can build a snowman, but if you
get it near the near some heat, it's gonna melt.
Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:08:29):
Stay away from the heat man.
Speaker 2 (02:08:31):
What a message.
Speaker 6 (02:08:32):
It's hard analysis right there. You can only get in here.
Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
That's that's that's like doctorate stuff. Nice.
Speaker 6 (02:08:38):
Yeah, stay away from the heat man.
Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
So you're basically that's your lead a horse to water.
If you can't make a brink. You can build a
snowman in the snow, but you don't want him around heat.
Is that what you said? Okay, yeah, I got it finished, right,
let me write that down?
Speaker 6 (02:08:53):
Yeah, go ahead, right that jotted down?
Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
Yeah, okay, well I got heat. If I got it,
I gave you credit for it. It said, it said,
b l there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:08:59):
There go, there we go. Cool, good, good good. Hey,
I know we've talked a lot of Texans. You want
your Alex Bregman update.
Speaker 2 (02:09:08):
Uh still uh not in probably not interested in the
short term contract.
Speaker 7 (02:09:13):
Uh he's not interested in a short term contract. He
is still a free agent. So there you good Man,
there it is.
Speaker 2 (02:09:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (02:09:23):
I know, Dan, I know you're ready for that one
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
Yeah, you're the You're the it's a you know who
you are. What is with Bregman? You're the weather reporter
in San Diego. It's seventy two, and Sonny it's seventy two,
and Sonny seventy two and Sonny it's Alex Bregman day.
It's he's still a free agent and hasn't signed. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (02:09:43):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
I hope he's got his plan. I hope he's got
a plan. I hope he's got a plan. Man.
Speaker 6 (02:09:48):
Uh one two. So this Thursday will be three weeks
until pictures and catchers report and he's still a free agent.
Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
And then the question is can you turn back and
still come back here? What's that? What's well to get through?
What's that door looking I mean money wise, yeah, or
is it?
Speaker 7 (02:10:06):
According according to uh Joe Espada, he he actually visited
with our guy Nate Griffin of Fox twenty six Sports,
and he said, essentially that the door is still open
in case.
Speaker 6 (02:10:20):
Bregman wants to sign with the Houston Astros. Not sure
what that would look like.
Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
At their price, right at the astrosk price right that
that that's the.
Speaker 7 (02:10:30):
Yeah six for one fifty six. So uh now, I
don't know who knows what's going to happen. And Dan
happened like the week of spring training? Yeah, Dan, what's up?
Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:10:41):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
I was gonna ask you, okay from your vantage point
and we can get back to these Texans. What How
big a loss is Bregman? How big a losses if
you lose bregmant? How big a loss is it? For
forget the Kyle Tucker stuff. We already know that's a
huge loss. Just not having Bregman as an Astro next year?
How big a loss is it?
Speaker 8 (02:10:57):
As things have gone along, I've thought that it would
be an even larger loss, Like I think there would
be kind of sticker shot and buyer's remorse if you
brought him back, because no matter what you pay him offensively,
he's not going to live up to that deal. And
people can give me defense, they can give me a
great clubhouse guy, all of those different things.
Speaker 6 (02:11:16):
Do you hit or do you not? And he's kind
of slumped off on that.
Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
Do you guys ever think you'd see Alex Bregman an
average hitter? Is he average?
Speaker 6 (02:11:29):
He's he's a very good hitter.
Speaker 8 (02:11:31):
But very good hitters are the ones that I'm willing
to pay good money for ones that are you know,
below that probably not.
Speaker 2 (02:11:41):
The production hasn't been the same and we we that's
that's that's in the in the in the metrics.
Speaker 8 (02:11:46):
And the analytics of right, So I can't have him
disappear in April and may like that. That can't happen,
Like you've got to give me more out the gates.
And I mean you saw it last year and I
think it was Dana with you that said, this team
goes as Bregman goes, and once he.
Speaker 6 (02:12:03):
Started to hit, they started to win. What a novel concept?
Speaker 2 (02:12:06):
Yeah, And you can't when and then the truth is,
we I know we always well he just starts slow. Well,
he just starts slow. Right, think about the two guys
that start slow in two different sports, Bregman and Burrow.
This is Burrow and Cincinnati do this every year. How
many games did Cincinnati miss the playoffs by a game?
Then that we play games in September? Right, Dan? Exactly right, Brian.
(02:12:31):
So as you know, you guys know, I think Burrow
is otherworldly when it comes to as a quarterback. He's phenomenal.
That think about his slow and the Bengals slow start.
If they just win one of those they got beat
by what who? Who came in New England? Was it
New England?
Speaker 15 (02:12:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
Opening game of the season. Didn't they go into Cincinnati
and beat them the very first game? No business, that
zero business doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:12:51):
And I won either of those Baltimore games.
Speaker 2 (02:12:54):
That's exactly right. So just one of them, and if
you take care of one. Everybody says he's in December,
Well they play pretty damn good down to stretch and
Burrow was out of his mind and as good as
he is. One of those games from him or the
defense or in September, and the Cincinnati Bengals may still
be playing in the AFC playoffs because they can score
and they get a good quarterback. So apply it to this.
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I mean, you know, just slow starts, maybe the difference
in three or four games at the end where you'd
have a cushion to rest or you'd win the division,
or you don't win the division, you go on the road,
you stay at home. It's just and I'm we pooh
poohed away and just blow it up like, well, that's
who he is. But I think, Dan, what you're saying
is if you're going to get paid that mind, that
kind of money, that can't.
Speaker 8 (02:13:36):
Be who you are, is what you're saying to start right,
And it's also too, I mean, you're just not as
deep a lineup as you used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:13:42):
I mean that's a fact.
Speaker 8 (02:13:43):
I see the memes that everybody shares of the twenty
nineteen World Series lineup. That's not going to be around
here for some time. But I mean you're getting to
the point where seven, eight to nine in this lineup
is kind of a little bit of a it's a
hole for you. And I mean you get to that
point and people talk about oh runners in scoring position,
everything of the sort. I like Jake Myers as much
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as the next guy. I can't count on Jake Myers
on a daily basis. I can win with him, I'm
not going to win because of him. And I feel
like there's a little bit too much trust in Chas
McCormick too, And I know that they're kind of stuck
financially at the moment, but I mean, I've got to
add somebody out in left field. You cannot sell me
on this, Mauricio du Bond platoon out in left field
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and tell me this is an AL West champion team.
Speaker 6 (02:14:29):
I don't buy it. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
Yeah, I'm just ha.
Speaker 7 (02:14:37):
Yeah, we've we've talked about upgrade that outfield because you
can't start. It's you can't have an outfield that starts
Jake Jake Myers, Chas McCormick and Risio Dubon.
Speaker 6 (02:14:45):
I'm sorry this it's not gonna win you. It may
not even win you. The AO wes to be honest
with you.
Speaker 2 (02:14:50):
Well, you may be playing in truth, you may be
playing kind of like playing two bad. I mean, I
don't mean this is I know they both started, but
it's almost like two of the three outfield, well really three,
because one's your Swiss army knife. Who's ben zobrast right
in Mauricio Dubon and then the other two. I mean,
I don't know, do you do you think that either
one of them should be starting him and maybe they
should one hundred and fifty five games a year, or
(02:15:12):
do you look at them as move them around start
one hundred and twenty games? Are they Are they going
to give you the production? And maybe maybe so? I mean,
we know this organization is loved Jake Myers for a minute,
but love his glove, but his bat is inconsistent. But
he's a good guy to have on the team. And
then McCormick two years ago was outstanding, and then last
year he hit you know, he ran into I had
(02:15:33):
a struggle, struggle like tried to pull everything all the time.
See my dogs. Even he isn't even commenting on it.
I don't have I don't have a I don't have
a mute button on the on set. So there's nothing
you could do. So you guys just have to deal
with Opus letting the world out. Yeah that's Opus, right,
So what am I gonna what he says? But but yeah,
I mean you start talking about you start talking about
starting fast Opus, like, yeah, come on, we need better
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production at the in the outfield. So a lot of
respect for those guys, but you're still missing A and
A an All Star and everybody else. For all three
good players, all three good players, but is there a
great one? And they all serve the right purpose. But
it's not like you're lining up with Harper and right
field and I get that you lost that guy. So
there's some things and losing Bregmant and all that, but
(02:16:16):
it is it's we're paying people for production at the plate,
right guys, isn't that And if he wants to come back,
I'm sure the door's open. But I almost feel like
they feel like he's not going to take that money anyway,
and that that's a foregone conclusion. You guys feel different
than that.
Speaker 6 (02:16:28):
I also just worry about the corner outfit.
Speaker 8 (02:16:30):
I mean, you know, let's just take Dubon and last
year struggled at times with the Bat and you know
people were wondering, Okay, well, you know, Mauricio Dubon is struggling,
And my response was, because there's a shelf life for
Mauricio Dubon. What you've gotten out of him is squeezing
as much out of that orange as you can. And
(02:16:50):
you know when he starts to level off of the bat.
That's the market correcting itself. And you know, with Chas McCormick,
the worry I have is I wonder if last year
is the rule not the exception. I mean, what we've
gotten out of him before has been fantastic. But once
you get more of a book on a guy and
you realize what he likes to chase and how you
can get him out well, then if you can make
(02:17:12):
that adjustment to them making the adjustment to you, then
you're successful. If not, then we see what we saw
out a Chas McCormick last year.
Speaker 7 (02:17:23):
I just think I just think going ahead into this
season again, I just all reiterated as we go to break,
you can't. You got to try to upgrade the outfield
if you can, whether that's jerks and pro far.
Speaker 2 (02:17:37):
Hell.
Speaker 7 (02:17:37):
You know, I've even read some things that they may
even try to put jose Al Tuvey splitting time in
left field because they don't want to have yourd on
plane out there every single day. So they're gonna have
to get creative if they don't make any more moves.
I just think with Chas McCormick, Mauricio Dubon and Jake
Myers that's one of the worst starting outfields and that
those no disrespect of those guys, just a fact based
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on their So we'll see if they make any more moves.
We're coming up on three weeks until pitchers and catchers report.
Who knows what will happen in between now and then.
There's still a couple of guys out there that they
could probably sign on the cheap.
Speaker 6 (02:18:10):
We'll see if it's it's done.
Speaker 7 (02:18:11):
But I think one of the things that all three
of us just hit on is games that are played
earlier in the season. So I'm gonna bring it back
to the Houston Texans because each year they win, you know,
each year that we've seen over the last two years,
they win the division, yet they go on they have
to go on the road every single time in the
playoffs and even back when Bill O'Brien was the head coach.
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So let's talk about the early season games that matter
for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 3 (02:18:38):
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Wouldn't you rather take his word for it?
Speaker 7 (02:19:02):
What the Shawn Salisbury Show today, Seawn Salisbury, Brian Willima
here with you. Obviously, we had to make some adjustments
due to the snow this morning that's continuing to fall
around the city. We're talking Texans here on the show.
I just want to go through a couple things real quick, fellas.
When it comes to regular season games for the Houston Texans,
they had some bad losses this year. They also had
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some losses to really good teams that they should have won. However,
they found ways to lose that game. So let's go
back to Week seven. They lost to Green Bay with
a plus three turnover margin, which only eight point six
percent of teams have done since.
Speaker 6 (02:19:43):
Two thousand and five.
Speaker 7 (02:19:44):
Week nine they lost to a terrible Jets team in
which they led it halftime. Week ten, they lost to
Detroit despite Jared Goff throwing five interceptions, and then in
Week twelve, they lost to one of the worst teams
in the NF actually the worst team in the NFL
since they have the number one draft pick, which is
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the Tennessee Titans. They sacked Will Levis eight times, they
had a pick six, and yet they.
Speaker 6 (02:20:12):
Lost to the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 7 (02:20:15):
Sean, I know we've talked about this all the time,
that the games, it's just like in Major League Baseball
games in April and may matter just as much as
they do in September, and just like in the NFL
games in September matter just like they do in December.
And you look at some of these terrible losses for
the Texans, well you if you're Demico Ryans, you can't
be having these anymore. You know, we saw bad losses
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last year. The Jets was one of them. The Carolina
Panthers after a bye week was another. It hurts your seed,
and stop getting the four seed, winning your terrible division
and having to go play on the road, or first
of all, playing a wildcard and they go play on
the road against the Baltimore Ravens or Kansas City Chiefs
because those two teams aren't going anywhere. So yeah, and
these early season games matter.
Speaker 2 (02:20:56):
Of course they do, and we get caught and it's okay.
We'll get them in December. Then you're in a chase
mode and then everything you do and sometimes that's a
good thing to put people in pressure, and then their
attention to detail lasers in So you got it somehow,
and it's not human nature. It doesn't allow. It's hard
to win all of them, and it would have been
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hard to get a home field advantage this year when
Kansas City was sitting at fifteen and one going into
the last game of the season and didn't play their starters,
they got to fifteen to two. They may not get
to that mark, but you're exactly right at least got
to put yourself in position against teams you're supposed to beat.
You're gonna lose one of those. More than likely a
year most teams do. Oh, I lost the game. I
shouldn't have lost. Okay, for the Texans, it had happened
more than once. But the crazy thing, I hear this
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all the time, and I can't stand it. It goes
with a third down. All third down is the most
important down. Sure it is, because that's the last down.
If it's third down four, you got a punt. But
the truth is, if I'm third and nine, like they
were a lot this year. Guess what I'm going to
do most of the time, punt, so take care of
the early down. It's the same thing in a season.
I'd much rather be in a position to where I
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can I don't want to say lollygag, because you don't
ever do that. Nobody wants to get hurt. You want
to do everything you can but and be competitive. But
we're the last two weeks of the season. I'm not
under must win situation to get where I need to
go if I take care of my business September. And
it's a mindset, it's buy in, it's the details, it's
the discipline of saying, yeah, we lost the game. And
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I know that it's relative in all sports, but really
it's hard to compare it to baseball. Even though you
want to start fast and do it all. It's because
in seventeen games you really don't have a lot of
room for error. You just don't if you want to
win divisions and go and stay at home in the playoffs.
In baseball, you crazy enough. You can literally start two
and ten and you have one hundred and fifty two
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games to get on a roll. Knowing that the exhaustion
that the exhaustion is going to kick into every team
in football. Some teams Kansas City didn't face exhaustion this year.
They did just enough without emptying the gas tank. Talk
about being able to pace yourself in games, to take
care of the close ones. Win big if we can
but pace themselves so at the end, our legs are fresh,
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ready to go, and look at them. Here we are again.
Eight what eight in a row? Seven in a row? So, yes,
I hear it. Allow, it's more important to win in December. Well,
if you're olling four in September, one in three, or
one in five in the first five weeks of the
six weeks of the season, December ain't gonna matter that
much unless you have a run like the Cincinnati Bengals.
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You just put a lot more stress on your team.
And it goes back to the focus and attention to
detail from the time the season starts. Hard to do.
The elite teams in the league have it most of
the time.
Speaker 7 (02:23:41):
Will Anderson Junior actually spoke about this topic winning games
in the regular season, and he also spoke about being
right there.
Speaker 6 (02:23:49):
So let's hear from Will Anderson Junior.
Speaker 15 (02:23:51):
We gotta win these regular season games so we can
get home field advantage. Like I know, talking to some
of the guys after the games, like, well, that's what
we have to so we can't lose to the teams
like the Titans, the Jets. You know, we gotta beat Detroit, like,
we can't suffer losses. They're like, we've got to get
home field advantage. And I think that's really gonna help us.
But if we don't, we got to find a way
on the road to win, no matter the noise, no
matter what it is, Like, we gotta find a way
to win.
Speaker 6 (02:24:12):
That's Will Anderson Junior basically reader, and what we just
said Sean.
Speaker 2 (02:24:16):
Yeah, and it is true, and it's it is And
like if you went back and looked at those games again,
if we just decided let's do it, let's let's do
it again again. Let's let's make a retroactive back to September.
Let's go back and check this out. I'll bet you
us three could sit in there and we could watch
the games together and see a play and then the
accumulation of three of those losses, I will be able.
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I'll bet you anything that you won't get to fifteen
plays that are the difference in the winner the loss.
We I'm talking about all three combined. It won't be
one play, but there'll be three of our go back
to this game this week even just don't don't even
count all the field goals. And I know it's not September.
You gotta win them early. But just what he's talking
about being able to win on the road in the postseason,
if you don't have home field advantage, even if you
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miss one of the field goals, and find a way
to hit too and kick an extra point, if you
make a tackle and stay in your lane on the
opening kickoff and don't give three points away before anybody
had any gatorade. If you block an a gap blitzer
to prevent a sack, so now you're not long out
of situation, and now you got a punt if you,
I mean, Baltimore is gonna look back and say the
one throw by Lamar Mark Mark Anderson's, I mean Mark
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Andrews drop this one play mistackle on defense, I'll go
through and say, yeah, not we great them out. But
if you if we look at the impact of four
to six plays, six to eight plays, that's the difference.
So you tell me, is it that the other team's
just so much. Were the Titans physically better than the Texans?
Absolutely not the Jets. It's the attention to understanding that
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the then pros don't like to get embarrassed. So if
you're playing a team that guy, remember they're getting ready
to play the Jets. And if I'm not mistaken, the
week before, didn't the Jets get humiliated in New England?
Did that?
Speaker 9 (02:25:57):
Was?
Speaker 2 (02:25:57):
Wasn't that the week the two week stretch? Did the
Jets go up to New England and get beat by
the Patriots in Foxborough? I believe they did, and they
were embarrassed. They looked horrible. Next week, I believe if
I if my memory serves me, the Texans went in there.
What did we say on the show? Brian players don't
like to be embarrassed. Usually when you get humiliated. After
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the Baltimore Ravens did what they did to the Texans,
I know they had Tennessee, but then they they started
to play pretty damn well. Because you were humiliated by
a team that's the Super Bowl caliber team, Yeah, you
get humiliated. So am I right? Jets? Yeah? They did?
Speaker 6 (02:26:32):
They lost in in Foxborough?
Speaker 7 (02:26:34):
YEP, it wasn't they didn't get their ass kicked, but
they gave up the lead late in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:26:39):
No Rogers numbers. Yeah they didn't play well. He was no.
Speaker 7 (02:26:45):
Yeah he only threw for two hundred and thirty yards.
Breeze Haul didn't even rush for e rush for seventy
nine yards. Yeah, they did not they they got embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (02:26:53):
Right, Okay, So then they come back the next week
and they played a little better. Point is moral of
the story is the same focus?
Speaker 15 (02:26:59):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Will Anderson gets this because before the twelve team playoff
and we were down to four in the BCS, You
know what, you couldn't lose a game early, and if
you did, you had to be an Alabama or somebody
and win it late. But you couldn't. If you lost
two in September, you're pretty much done. Now with twelve teams,
Ohio State the champion. You can lose a game or
two and still be alive because you stay in the
top twelve. You're in the tournament. But in the NFL,
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I mean, and when you start to lose these games,
you get to a points like man and it's only
it's just a couple. It's a handful of plays every time.
But you have to treat the college like it's You
got to start treating September like it's single elimination. I
try to tell you why is September twenty it's not
as important as as January first, or as December fifteenth.
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It is as Cincinnati they will tell you it is
because they missed the playoffs by a game, and it
came to the last game of the season when somebody
else won. They had to trust somebody else to get
out of the regular seam to make the West. They
had to count on somebody else. Counting on somebody else.
Go take care of it yourself.
Speaker 7 (02:28:03):
Detail make it happen in the regular season, win the
games that you're supposed to, and take care of business.
Let's get to the final segment here on Sports Talk
seven ninety the Sewan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (02:28:16):
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Sean Salisbury continues on seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:30:02):
Snowing like crazy in the city. Do we talk Texans
basically all show long? Sean, I got your I got
some audio of your favorite head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
You ready to hear it?
Speaker 6 (02:30:14):
Uh mmmm, here's our favorite, Steve Kerr.
Speaker 7 (02:30:20):
Prior to the game against the Celtics yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:30:24):
Here's Steve Kerr. I don't know, I didn't watch you
chose to to watch Celtics team.
Speaker 2 (02:30:32):
Didn't just a thought of what this game. I always
love playing on MLKDA.
Speaker 11 (02:30:38):
It's curious day in for all Americans, and I think
the NBA has really kind of adopted it as.
Speaker 2 (02:30:48):
Part of our culture and we're proud of that. Yeah,
a very meaningful day for for everyone for sure.
Speaker 7 (02:30:56):
All Right, So that's Steve Kerr. He chose to bring
up Paul. It takes per usual. He was asked about
MLK Dan and he said, oh, I chose not to
watch inauguration. I chose to watch the Celtics tape.
Speaker 6 (02:31:08):
You know what the score was last night, Sean forty.
Speaker 2 (02:31:13):
Yes, I watched it, part of it. I was on TV.
I was watching it and they got they got curb stomped.
And maybe the coach needs to maybe coach a little
something else yesterday, because he coached him right into a
forty point ass whooping. But that's neither here nor there.
He's got rings on his finger and he's done a
hell of a job. But he brought into politics, right,
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of course he did. And he didn't need to watch it.
He doesn't. He doesn't need to watch. That's his dig.
He and Pop love to do that. That's fine, we
all have a little fun. Didn't bother me at all.
He he just he can't wait for an opportunity to
do that because he can't stand you know, the guy
that won and it's just the way he is. He
missed a he missed some good parts of it, like
Kerry Underwood win the music they couldn't get music sella
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and it was even better because the music would have
gotten the way of that great voice. It was Christine phenomenal.
It was done so yes yes and significant day in
history Martin Luther King Day, as Steve Kerr ported so
eloquently pointed out, there was no doubt and part of
the yesterday was a significant point in our history too.
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It's another president and an inauguration, so it does matter
because it's gonna affect Steve Kerr at some point, Steve
Kroby affected by it whether he thinks it's good or bad,
and that's up to him. I don't care about his
political opinion. But of course he's going to dig and
get a dig in and make me laugh. My biggest
laugh was, man, you study that Celtics tape. Boy, your
team shirt didn't play attention to detail because you got
curb stop by forty. Maybe you should have listened and
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watched might have helped a little bit yesterday. So yeah,
I don't. I don't really listen, you know. Anytime he
can get a little you know, rasin in or dig
in on that he will, but that he didn't watch
the inauguration so he missed that. And he also missed
the team bus at the game because they played like
nobody showed up. So there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:32:55):
Hey Dan, what what did you tell me off air
in regards to, uh, this Warriors team? Didn't you?
Speaker 7 (02:33:02):
Didn't you say something along the lines of, like players
are it might be kind of optically looking like Steve
Kerr might be losing his team.
Speaker 8 (02:33:08):
No, it was as players were tapping themselves up at
the end of the game that, uh, you know, like
Kerr was trying to like get involved kind of deal
of you know, hey, I want to say my salutations
and didn't seem like he was really being given the
time of day.
Speaker 2 (02:33:23):
Hmmm, hey, got a lot of rings on those fingers
man from his time as a player Chicago and now.
But I know what their theme song is gonna start
to be if they keep getting their ass kicked, other
teams are gonna walk into the building. They're simply gonna
play this Wris come back to play. They didn't come
out to play yesday, boss and said, oh uh, we're
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gonna take you down in New Jersey Turnpike or take
you down to Coney Island and uh and and dump
on the Warriors because they played like they didn't want
to show up yesterday.
Speaker 14 (02:33:54):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (02:33:56):
They got their ass kicked. Man, my goodness, they got
their ass kicked the Texans.
Speaker 2 (02:34:03):
Texans, go to work this offseason, take some time off,
get back to work on rebuilding the roster. Dude, you
got a lot of stuff to build on core players.
I'm not trying to give them motivational speech. They've got
to be changes if they're gonna get where they want
to go, because they are a step down from the
elite teams in the league. But they have some elite
pieces to this and they've got a legitimate shot. So
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rough one tough way to go out, man. On the
way that they went out with eight sacks and three
and the special teams that didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (02:34:32):
Hey, and last thing, as the college football season has
come officially come to a close stop, playing the national
title game on a Monday night is a.
Speaker 2 (02:34:44):
Gorgeous Yesterday lost all kinds of buzz. Yeah it was.
It was wrong bad timing award. We played college football
a lot of times on Saturday. It wouldn't be a
bad thing to do that with it. It was asking
was count great stuff though in Congrats Ohio State on
a big win and Notre Dame. Uh to Dame's close
to being back. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (02:35:03):
Hey, Dan Man, we really appreciate you getting into the studio.
I know you got it loaded.
Speaker 2 (02:35:07):
Thanks d Man.
Speaker 6 (02:35:09):
We always appreciate you, man. Thanks, thanks again, Man, you
all the best.
Speaker 2 (02:35:12):
We're gonna do it. Thanks, Dan, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:35:13):
Brother that is going to do it for the Seawn
Salisbury Show.
Speaker 7 (02:35:16):
He is Sean Salisbury, our producer today filling in doing
all things for Sports Talk seven ninety as always is
Dan Matthews.
Speaker 6 (02:35:23):
You can, Danny you want for the rest of the day,
like what you got play it by year. There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:35:28):
Well Dan.
Speaker 7 (02:35:28):
You can hear Dan later on the afternoon, of course
with the A Team Adam and Adam, or with the
Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 6 (02:35:33):
Uh with Ross, which is next right here on seven
ninety
Saulsbury by Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
To usc truth, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Brian Lima, go Lobos. This is the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (00:22):
Good morning, Houston.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Welcome into the Shawn Salisbury Show here on Sports Talk
seven ninety And my goodness, it is a snowy morning
in Houston.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
Hope everyone is staying safe, staying warm.
Speaker 7 (00:34):
I'm up in the Woodlands and it's been snowing here
basically since like seven o'clock last night. We're trying to
get Sean up and running with us this morning. Dan
Matthews in studio, Dan, I know it's been a crazy
morning for you.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Good morning, Thanks for getting in there. What's happening? Oh
you know, I mean sleep? Who needs it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Man?
Speaker 7 (00:54):
Uh Well, it was a lackluster National Championship game for
the most part, and then it got down to where
Notre Dame had an opportunity to get a stop on
Ohio State. So we'll discuss that a little bit. A
lot of Texans notes and news after losing to the Chiefs.
Demiko Ryan spoke to the media yesterday and he had
(01:17):
some maybe just a couple things to say about Bobby Slowick.
So then a lot of traction running around last night
on the Twitter streets that Bobby Slock may not return.
There's also the offensive line coach Chris Strausser is not
expected to return next season, per Aaron Wilson. So we'll
go through that report. Demiko Ryans basically said he's gonna
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take a week away from the game, essentially, not away
from that's my word, it's not his basically says plans
to take the week before deciding on how he'll proceed
with his staff and personnel. So we've got that to
go through as well. Alex Bregman, you want your Alex
Bregman update at six poht two in the morning. He's
still a free agent. As we get closer and closer
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to spring training for the Houston Astros, which is in
less than a month away. Joe Mixon also speaking, Man,
we've got a lot of text and stuff. But I oh,
by the way, Dan, we've got Astro's FanFest. Isn't that
this weekend?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It is? It's on Saturday eleven to four.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
That's right, A little bit more right, man, Yeah, it's
supposed to be a little bit warmer, but you know
how it goes though too. I mean, you know, I
know that some people are toying around with nicknames for
diyke In Park, but there seriously are fewer cold places
on the planet when it gets below say fifty, than
the Astros Ballpark.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Yeah, we got to stop trying to force feed people
to call it the ice box. Like I'm taking a
hard stance against it. The icebox sounds stupid. Don't do it.
It's dyke In Park. Or you can just keep calling
him in my park like I'm gonna do the h
fat that. Yeah, like people like I see people arguing
about the nickname the icebox.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
No, we're not calling it the icebox.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
It was called the juice box literally because Minute Made
made juices. Dike In Park, dyke In makes It's it's
an h VAC company. Yes, they make things cold, but
it's not an ice box. It's not a refrigerator refrigeration services.
We got to stop force feeding it.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
The one thing that.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
I came up with an idea when we had blummer
in with AC is I said, we need to try
to make a trade with the Braves for the freeze
and have that guy's electric Dude and have the freeze
races now, because I mean, like you said, you know
now we've got a heating and cooling service. So either
you trade for the freeze or you create your own version.
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That's something to do with heat.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Yeah, I just I would much rather, Yeah we could.
I mean it's it's hot as hell in that in
that ballpark during the summer. I mean you know that
doing shows there and obviously being a fan, it's it's
ridiculously hot. So hopefully at the very least, yeah, at
the very least, uh, maybe put in some new air conditioners,
so that would be a fantastically I forgot that.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
That's that's a thought right there, because you're one hundred
percent right. You walk up to the concourse, get a beer,
get a dog, whatever, And let's just say you're swampy
in the areas. You don't want to be swampy in afterwards. Yes,
a lot of swamp ass going around.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Not this morning, though it is a bomby twenty five degrees.
Like I said, here in the Woodlands, Dan, it's been
snowing quite literally for like coming up on twelve hours. Man,
I mean it's not not a big blizzard, but walking
my dog this morning.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
She was not having it.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
There's a lot of snow on the ground, and I
know across the Houston area it's coming down pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
In the you know, we've got the local news TV
here in the studio, and I mean, you know, you've
got all the reporters out. They look like Eskimo's, you know,
and they're showing car accidents. Of course, you know, city
and county leaders saying stay off the roads, which we get,
we understand. Trust me, I don't think anybody else e
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wants to be out in this, But I mean, I'm
kind of jealous that I don't really get a chance
to do the snowman thing, you know, of being able
to put one together. I've never gotten to do that
min entire life.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well, I think, honestly, Dan, you'll probably get a chance
after you get off of work today, because this snow
is not going anywhere, dude. It's not supposed to get
above freezing for like the next two days, like tonight.
Have you seen the weather for tonight? It could get
down to fifteen degrees jeez, Like, yeah, fifteen degrees, like fifteen,
eighteen twenty degrees. That snow may not go anywhere and
then you'll like this one. Basically, I don't know what
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counties these are towards Beaumont and Port Arthur and then
over towards New Orleans. There is a currently right now
there's a blizzard warning. Interesting blizzard warning during the like
in the Gulf Coast, which is in say here we go,
it's yeah, it's Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, de Quincy, Lake, Charles, Cameron, Jennings, Crowley, Lafayette,
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and Abbeyville.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
See when you get in Louisiana, they don't call them counties.
They call them parishes. I'm trying to think of like
what to certain parishes those are, but I think Chambers is, uh, Chambers.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
County, Yeah, Chambers County.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
I'm trying to think who calls us from Orange every
once in a while, my dad's hometown.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Uh, we've got Kenneth, Kenneth, that's right, Yeah, Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
But yeah, I mean it does seem like that they're
gonna be pretty soupy over there. And can I speak
to a certain group of people, which you know you
one of our teammates here falls into this category. Stop
complaining about the heat in the summer. Stop stop complaining about, oh,
we don't get the four seasons though, we don't get winter.
So guess what for those of you who complain, you
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got your wish. I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Yeah, I don't do it very often, but I'm not
a fan of the summers here in Texas, Like I
hate that.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
But you know, dude, one.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Hundred degrees man, and you know, like you're a baseball
guy just like I am. Especially when I'm coaching and
I'm out coaching on turf and it's one hundred degrees
plus you had an extra fifteen degrees.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
It sucks, man, It's not fun.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
The trade off, I would say though, for not having
all four seasons is that when the rest of the
country is in the thirties, twenties, even lesser than that,
there's chances that were in the seventies here and in people,
Oh it's December and January. I shouldn't be wearing shorts
and a T shirt. I'm like, no, you're one of
the lucky ones, you moron. You don't have to you
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don't have to try to scrape ice off your windshield.
You don't have to shovel your front drive driveway and
stoop and everything else like that. I don't even know
if we have stoops here. But no, you're completely looking
at it all wrong. We've got it awesome in that regard.
This is the part that sucks.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yeah, I did in my previous life when I was
an oil and gas I remember I did a project
in uh it was Wilmer, Minnesota. It was like an
hour and a half outside of Minneapolis to the northwest,
so up the state a little bit. I got there
in March and I left in May. And I'm not
kidding you when I say this. I saw the sun
two times because it snowed every day or it was
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overcast and brutally cold.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It was miserable.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I don't understand how those people do it. I really
don't like you know how. I don't know if you've
ever seen did you ever see Alaskan State Troopers a show?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
You ever watch that one?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I think maybe go with like Ice Road Truckers, you know, No,
it'd probably run into the same thing.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Alaskan State Troopers.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Obviously they followed the State Troopers in Alaska and Alaska.
I think if for the most part like leads the
nation and suicide rate, and like they get calls like
every night about people, you know, trying to unfortunately take
their own life. And they go up there and obviously
they talk to people off the ledge so to speak,
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and it's all basically because they never see the sun,
like they it's so cold up there all the time.
They get the the weird times where it's only like
three hours of sunlight, four hours of sunlight, twenty four
hours of sunlight whatever, dark all the time, cold all
the time. I just I don't like the summers here,
but it could be a lot worse, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Yeah, I mean I'm not you know, again, the kind
of taste we get is I would say when daylight
savings time hits, where you get a little bit of
this seasonal depression where you know, you look, you look
at the clock and you're like, oh my god, I
swore with how dark it is outside that it was midnight,
it's only eight o'clock, and like you're just so dead
tired at that point. So I get all of that,
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but I mean, yeah, look again, if any of you
out there fall into the subset of people that I
just mentioned who complain about how hot it gets and
that we don't really get a winter here or anything
like that. Well you're welcome. You finally got your wish
and now you can enjoy it much more than anybody else.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Yeah, you talk about seasonal depression. College football season is over.
Oh Man State is your Ohio State, is your national champion.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Well that I'm not so upset about because the family
I'm marrying into they are diehard Ohio State, and the
part of her family that we cannot stand are Notre Dame.
So there were quite a few trolling text messages last
night after that game came to an end.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, man, like in my lifetime at least,
and again, I'm thirty five years old. You're a little
bit older than I am, just by a couple of years.
But it seems like to me, every time Notre Dame
gets into a national title game, semi final game, it's
like and again, I know they made a valiant effort
to try to get back into that ballgame last night,
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but it just seems to me Notre Dame can never
win a national title, or at least in my lifetime,
every time they get to the national title game, they
they just can't. They don't ever win it, they can't
ever win it.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Well again last night losing Ohio.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
State, well, I mean, and that's the thing too, is
it's one of those that Ohio State, I think, kind
of let them back into it. You get the Book
of Fumble, you get you know, a couple of stops
on on drives and then their defense just for whatever
reason could not get off the field on third or
fourth down until Marcus Freeman decided to send Mitch Jeeter
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out there to kick a field goal and clank You
get that.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Why are there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Why a few more satisfying noises in sports than adink Off.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
That's got to be. It's got to be one of
the best. Man like that one, especially that one last night. Dude,
that one last night was fantastic.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
That that was very much like you know, a baseball
being barreled up right there. I mean, that's the football equivalent, sye.
But I mean, I couldn't understand why Freeman did that.
But you know, Ohio State as well pretty much found
out that we stopped the quarterback from running, we stopped
their offense. And credit to you know, Jaden Greathouse, who
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played his high school ball at Austin Westlake.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
He did fantastic.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
He was great, But outside of him, there wasn't really
much to talk about in terms of skill position players
as opposed to Jeremiah Smith, a mecha BUCA and you
know the running game that Ohio State had and look
credit goes to Will Howard. I mean after you know,
he had probably everybody and then some in Columbus and
outside of there coming after him saying this guy sucks.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
He's a choke artist. He's just like the head coach.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
You can't beat Michigan either, And I mean, the guy
was the most outstanding player. And I agree with what
Kirk kirk Street said last night of the quarterback talent
that's out there.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I think he's probably gonna get some run now, Yeah,
I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Man, he played well again and what a you have
Ohio State third and eleven with time getting closer to
the two minute warning. Notre Dame needs to stop, and
you call cover zero with single coverage against the wide
receivers for Ohio State.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It's just so stupid.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Man.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
You saw Arizona State the same coverage against the University
of Texas Quinn. You weers dropped the ball in the
bucket for a touchdown to tie that game at overtime,
or maybe it was to force overtime.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I think it wasn't over in one of the overtime periods.
I just don't understand the defensive play call on that
last night. I just I don't. It may not have
made a difference even if they got the stop. Who knows,
they may not go. But it's just I saw the call,
and then they ran the play and Will Howard with
a phenomenal pass rights to Jeremiah Smith and that basically
clinches it.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I just didn't get the call.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Man.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Well, it's I mean, it's kind of damned if you do,
damned if you don't. I mean I think that that
you know. The damned if you do is obviously what
happened you didn't get to the quarterback. I mean, you
had it set up where you had all the pressure.
Ohio State had it blocked up enough. But also you know,
the damned if you don't, I think is the credit
goes to Ohio State for having the you know what's
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to make that throw. And yeah, I mean I guess
the thought process behind it was. You know, I don't
know who made the call, if it was Day or
if it was Chip Kelly telling him, Look, the best
case scenario, this ball is caught. The worst case it's overthrown,
it's incomplete. We're all good. But that I'm guessing was
the call. And not only to have that, I mean
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just the presence of mind to believe, Hey, we might
have Jeremiah Smith one on one. And I saw some
draft experts last night with ultimate high praise for Jeremiah
Smith of saying, Dude, if the guy were eligible to
come out for the draft right now, he would be
the first receiver taken.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Well, I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
That kid is unbelievable, and he's only a freshman, so
he's only gonna get better. All right, let's get to break.
We'll see if we can get big Salzy up and running.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
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Speaker 6 (14:49):
We're gonna talk a lot of Texans.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
We've got some rockets to get to obviously, Ohio State
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You're home for Diastros, coach of the Houston Texans.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
That's how he started his presser yesterday, talking about taking
a week to evaluate, to get away from football essentially,
and then to come back and evaluate staff, personnel and
everything that goes with it. You're listening to the Shawn
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They're off tonight. Ohio State beats Notre Dame to win
the national championship. Last night, Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson
said to become the new head coach for the Chicago Bears.
We were talking about these Houston Texas. Let's hear a
little more from Dimico Ryans. He spoke about the growth
of Bobby Slowick.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (15:53):
Overall with Bobby saw some grossaw some improvement throughout the year.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
And that's it, Dan, That's all he said. I mean,
nothing more, nothing less, saw some growth essentially, that's it.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Well, he did the opposite of a Bobby Sloic press conference.
I mean, you know, you asked Bobby Slowik, hey, red
or blue, what's your what's your favorite color? Well, you
know with red, it says it's a simple answer, Bobby,
and I appreciate when people get direct and right to
the point. I mean, I don't I don't need the dissertation.
Sometimes I don't. I don't need you know, the deep
(16:29):
thoughts of so and so. I need for you to
just give me the answer and get out of the way.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
And he did that. Yeah, and people really ran with that.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
I saw a lot of media members, not just from
the city but also from the national side saying, Hm,
this doesn't sound good for Bobby slog what could this mean?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
And then you know, there's a sense that.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
The confidence in bringing Bobby slock back is not as
high as it once was. And I'll ask you flat out, Dan,
do you think they should bring it back? It may
be a loaded question, man.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I just don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
And that's why I'm trying to because I want to
jump off the right diving board right here. Initially I
would have said no, because, I mean, you just had
an offense that looked like it was hapless, that just
had no imagination, no creativity.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
But funny enough, I did see CJ.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
It looked like doing a couple of checks at the
line of scrimmage against Kansas City, So I was like,
all right, that's some improvement. I don't think he's necessarily
done enough to completely lose the job. Like if you
saw an offense that was say twentieth out of thirty
two in total offense this season, then I would have
been like, yeah, this thing clearly regressed. But as far
as I know, I mean, I think everything was pretty
(17:50):
much the same way it was the year before. Now
here's where I think it gets interesting. Keep an eye
on Robert Solow and where he goes, because he came
out of that Kyle Shanahan San Francisco Tree as well.
He was once here in Houston when they were all
here with Gary Kubiak. I almost kind of wonder if,
and here's how it goes in the coaching circles, is
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your agent kind of gets wind that there is a
possibility that changes could be made, and they start getting proactive,
and they start trying to look for a landing spot,
and you see it in one of two cases. You
either see it where they're looking to replace you, or
you get wind that the head coach is not long
for that job, so you're trying to find a landing
spot somewhere else. So I think that's something to keep
(18:34):
an eye on of. Does he try to go ahead
and find a parachute, I mean of maybe feeling like
he's going to be on a very short leash next
year and doesn't want to be out of a job
midseason where he can go somewhere else, start fresh, and
maybe be able to kind of pick up where he
left off.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Robert Saul is going to be interesting, man.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
You know the connection that him and to Miko have
apparently I think then I'm I think I read that
the forty nine ers told him reportedly that they'll make
him the highest paid defensive coordinator of all time if
he wants to go back to the forty nine Ers. Well,
I don't know where he's gonna end up. I know
he's going to be interviewing for head coaching positions. But
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you know, he's got a defensive coordinator spot wherever he
wants to go.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Oh easily. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I mean that's one of those All he has to
do on that is just say yes. I mean, in
terms of head coaching, others have to say yes to him.
I mean, look, despite what we think here of Trevor
Lawrence and Jacksonville, it's really not a terrible roster. If
they put together a decent enough offseason, I think they
probably could be a competitive team at least a lot
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better than they were this season. For whatever reason, it
didn't work out with Doug Peterson. But I mean, you
know the other thought of it too, if you're Jacksonville,
is do we want to go the defensive coach route
when we've sunk so much money into Trevor Lawrence and
we want to try to find every single way to
make him even better. That's where the OC hire matters
(20:03):
that much. I mean, look at Dan Campbell this year.
Dan Campbell different Dan Dan Quinn. I mean we saw
him have success in Atlanta, but then once he lost
Kyle Shanahan and once he lost Matt Lafleur and other coaches,
then you started to see this guy's not as good
of a head coach as we thought he was. A
lot of times, with defensive coaches, your coordinator higher, especially offensively,
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that matters the utmost importance because I mean, that's how
you're able to have at least confidence in that side
of the ball. And I mean that's gonna be the
interesting thing with him. I think the next best job
that's still open is Jacksonville. I mean the other jobs
that are out there. You really want to go to
Las Vegas. That doesn't look like that's going to turn
(20:49):
around anytime soon. You really want to go to New Orleans.
You're still paying Derek Carr about fifty million per and
last I checked, Derek Carr is not going to win
you anything.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No he's not. No, Uh, he is not.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Let's let's hear a little more from Demico Ryans talking
about the offense for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Overall, offensively, we have to improve. It wasn't where we
wanted to be. Uh.
Speaker 11 (21:14):
There are challenges throughout the year, just like that's every year.
You have challenges up ups and downs, or you're trying
to figure out the course of who we have and
how to make it work.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We have to improve.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, you need you need massive improvements, uh for this offense,
and that's offensive line play calling is probably gonna be
evaluated as well as along with Bobby Slowick and obviously
we talked about it yesterday or excuse me last last
segment about the offensive line coach most likely not gonna
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return for the Texans and Chris Strausser, So there's gonna
be a lot of evaluation, Dan, and I just think
with the talent that you have at the quarterback position.
You have Joe Mixon, who's one of the best backs,
versatile backs, best backs, physical backs, however you want to
say one of the best in the NFL. You've got
Nico Collins, which he's a number one wide receiver. If
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you bring back stuff on Diggs like you can, you've
got some talent on this offense. And if you can
shore up your line, and if you need to go
get a new play caller, then do it. If not,
then run it back for year three with Bobby Slowick
and C. J. Stroud. But at the end of the day,
it just seems to me like Demiko Ryans is just
very frustrated with how they went out against the Chiefs,
and he knows that they need to do more and
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they need to improve.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Well, the word that was used yesterday, and I know
that when it was used during the season, people kind
of just rolled their eyes and glazed over a little
bit of execution. Yeah, fine, we get it very good.
But I mean that again, it really was kind of
the theme that I got from both the locker room
and from both c J. Stroud and Demiko Ryans at
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the podium. And that's a look at personnel. I mean,
that's that's that's where Nick Cassario owned company. And we
even heard Nick Assario last year during the draft of
talking about we have a standard to play here. If
you don't do it, then you're probably not going to
be around here for long. I mean, guys that are
free agents that again fit into that category that I
was mentioning about, guys that cost this team with penalties
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and and and just cost this team with you know,
the lack of execution and and poor execution in certain
scenarios that they're not going to be here going forward.
And that's going to be pretty telling. I mean, there's
gonna be turnover on this roster as is, but I
feel like that's going to be the first and foremost
that they look at. It's not necessarily coaching. I think
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coaching they feel good about what they have. Yeah, you know,
but I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
But also like when it comes to this evaluation, I
think every single coach needs to be evaluated. And that's
that's honestly. That goes up to the top of Demiko Ryans.
If you're Hannah McNair and cal McNair, and when it
comes to evaluation, you need to evaluate him too. Now,
I don't mean that like to say that he needs
to go anywhere. I think he's done a really good
job of changing this culture and but I'm sure there's
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things that he knows that he needs to sure up.
So when it comes to this offseason stuff, man, everybody
should be evaluated, especially on the offense, defense, special team.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Frank Ross.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I mean you can go on and on when and
then when it comes to players, man, like who do
you want to bring back? They've got quite a bit
of If I'm not mistaken, I have the list here.
When it comes to the free agents, let me go
ahead and find it. Come on, I love doing this
on air. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
It's Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
These are the unrestricted free agents as we get ready
to go to break unrestricted free agents, Stefan Diggs, Darry
ogoombawal A Case, Keenum, Robert Woods, IRV Smith, Junior, Kendrick Green,
Jerry Hughes, Derek Bennett or excuse me, Derek Barnett, Mario Edwards,
Foley Fatakassi, del Seawn Phillips, Devin White, Neville Hewitt, jeff
(24:59):
O Kudah, Chris Boyd, MJ. Stewart, Eric Murray, John Weeks.
So there's a few names on there that I would
probably try to bring back. There's some others I would
let go.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
But we'll see.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Man Nick Serio's got some things to work on. Let's
continue this discussion about these Houston Texans and c J.
Stroud speaking to the media yesterday talking about some difficult
conversations that are gonna have to be had with this roster.
What did the quarterback have to say? We'll hear it
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It's me and Dan Matthews with you until ten o'clock
this morning. Still working on some technical difficulties, hoping we
can maybe get Sean Salisbury in with us because you
are listening to the Sean Salisbury Show. Rockets lose to
the Pistons Ohio state as your national champion. They beat
Notre Dame last night. Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said
to become the new head coach for the Chicago Bears.
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Dan and I have been talking about the Houston Texans
and a couple of a couple of discussion points with
this offense, and you know, some things that need to
happen being evaluated. Demico Ryans. You heard some audio from
him last segments saying that he's going to take about
a week and then start making some decisions and evaluating everybody, personnel, coaching,
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everything that comes with being a head coach.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Well.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
C J.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Stroud spoke yesterday to the media and he talked about
some conversations that need to be had. This is what
the quarterback had to say.
Speaker 12 (28:25):
Yeah, I think you know, we're really close, and to
get to that level is really.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
First.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
It starts with, you know, communication and hard conversations have
to be had. There has to be you know, things
fixed and things worked out and just really honest conversation. So,
you know, I think that's one of the biggest things
that I've learned, is like this team won't look the
same next year from top to bottom, and you know
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you have to be okay with that and learn that.
You know, there has to be a from day one
of all season. There has to be a standard set
and that standard has to be where I come from,
like at Ohio State was like, I'm not gonna be
the one to mess this thing up. I'm gonna be
the one to make this team win the game, if
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that's first, if that's Week one, all the way to
the AFC Championship, like that standard from training camp, that
has to be the standard. And so I feel like,
you know that that's what needs to be for us
to get over that hump is those you know, if
you ain't, if you ain't bringing it every day, you
stick out like a sore thumb. And I think that
mentality has to be brought here and I think we
have the guys to do it coaching Lee and and
(29:37):
some guys playerly wise as well. So I think we
can get better.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
At that as well.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
So that's a c. J. Stroud speaking about the conversation
that you've had.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
So Dan, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my opinion
on this and and what I'm reading between the lines,
so to speak. In my mind, So when he talks
about setting that standard or a standard to be set,
I feel like, now that the season is over and
they're reflecting on the entire season as a whole, going
back all the way to OTA's in you know, voluntary
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mini camp, everything that comes with it, right, and then
going into training camp and things like that.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I wonder if CJ.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Stroud is looking back on some things and thinking, like, man,
maybe our practices weren't as crisp as we thought. Maybe
we didn't take things as seriously. Maybe take it and
take it a little bit for granted. Maybe we looked
into the hype a little bit too much coming into
the season, something like those are my words, right, because
one of the things that Sean always talks about, uh,
is the stuff that we don't get to see, which
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is at practice are they being held accountable at practice?
Like the offensive line and how many times Laramie Tunsel
jumps off sides? How many times you get called for
holding things like that, Like how are they being coached
up at practice? So I wonder if, like hearing that audio, CJ.
Stroud is like, Man, a standard needs to be set, Okay,
so why has the standard not been set?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Is my question? Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
No? It does?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
And you know, I'm gonna start from the back and
move all the way to the beginning of that Stroud
audio is I I was not aware of the words coaching,
lee and playerly. That was interesting to find out there.
And yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, how about that,
So I'll have to remember that going forward.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
But it's funny. At the beginning of it, he had talked.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
About communication, and you're kind of like, oh, well, that's
a direct shot at the coaches. I mean, that's that's
you guys are not necessarily communicating effectively enough how you
want this thing to look and how it should look.
But I think that the crux of it all is
right there in the middle. Hey man, either your in
or you're out. Like there's none of this. You know,
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I had a minor knee surgery and I'm not going
to be in camp for a couple of weeks like
I and and and look, I'll just go ahead and
attach a name to it.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I think he's talking directly to Laramie Tumseel right there.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
I think he's saying, hey man, we count on you,
we need you, like when we're ready to go for camp,
you're ready to go for camp. And I mean that
kind of was the theme that I got from a
lot of the players yesterday, is that I don't know
if over the offseason we're gonna have names attached to
you know, some of Hey, that guy just didn't get it.
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But I think the way that you're going to find
that out is if they're not here next year, cause
I mean, that's gonna be the tell all sign of
that guy just didn't get it. That guy wasn't one
hundred percent bought in to what we need to do here,
and we can't continue to roll with that guy. And
I think that's kind of the feeling that's you know, CJ. Stroud,
Will Anderson Junior, any of the team leaders they took
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from this season of saying, let's call it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What it is.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
We lost a lot of these games because we didn't
have guys who were fully bought in. And that sucks
to hear, but that's what it kind of sounds like.
Is the case is that, you know, I don't know
how much Nick Cassario and Demiko Ryans are going to
bring in guys, you know, like j and Willy Anderson
or you know, any of the other Daniel Hunter, I mean,
any of the guys who are kind of the vocal
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leaders of this team. You know, Joe Mixon fits into
that category two. But if they do, I think they're
gonna want their honest opinion of hey, do we keep
this guy or not? And you're gonna have some hands
raised for yeah, let's keep them, and you're probably gonna
have some saying.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Hey, he just doesn't fit here. He's not what we need.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Were you at Were you at Energy yesterday? I was
me and WEX were there. Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Okay, so man, I've you know what, let's talk about
that in seven o'clock hour. Obviously you were there, so
you felt the vibe, you felt how it was in
uh uh did you go into the locker room or
was it just in the press conference HEREA, oh yeah,
we were in the locker room.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
We caught up with a bunch of different guys and
Sports Talk seven nineties Twitter account is where you can
see videos from some of the players talking in front
of their locker and I got some questions in there.
I mean with the offensive lineman like Titus Howard and
Jared Patterson asking point Blake, do you do you expect
there to be wholesale changes on this offensive line? And
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you know we can hear from Titus Howard on that
and Joe Mixon with some interesting stuff to say too.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, Joe Mixon had some very very interesting
things to say in regards to the general manager, Nick Casario,
maybe some moves that he will make. So let's get
into the seven o'clock hour. We will talk about the
Joe mix and stuff. We'll hear that audio, and then
obviously we will talk about the vibe and how it
felt for Dan since he was right there in the
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Speaker 7 (35:16):
Welcome in to the Shawn Salisbury Show here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. You can also listen to us on
the free iHeartRadio at Brian Lilima Dan Matthews with you
here this morning on a crazy winter weather morning, twenty
five degrees outside, snowing, its ass offense snowing for like
ten hours. If you're out driving around, what the hell
are you doing? Take your ass back home. If you're
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at home listening to us on the free iHeartRadio app,
thank you your rockets lost of the Pistons yesterday. Ohio
State beats Notre Dame last night in the National Championship.
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said to become the new
head coach for the Chicago Bears. Dan and I have
been discussing these Houston Texans. We've heard from Dimico Ryans,
We've heard from the quarterback c J. Stroud, Dan, you know,
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and obviously let me give another update real quick. Texans
offensive line coach Chris Strausser not expected to return next season.
That coming straight from Aaron Wilson, NFL insider who covers
the Texans and the entire NFL does a lot for
us on Sports seven ninety dot com. And you know,
so we've talked about some of these potential changes, some evaluations,
standards that need to be set, so forth, and so on.
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You were at NRG Stadium yesterday. You were in the
locker room, you were at the podium or at the
the press conference area, so you heard everybody, you were
around everybody.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Just what was it like, man?
Speaker 7 (36:35):
What was the vibe like as they were clearing things out?
Obviously a tough loss to the chiefs.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
C J.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Stroud sacked eight times. You know, they let Travis Kelsey
go Bonanzas. So what was that vibe like, Man?
Speaker 8 (36:49):
Well, I think that probably I would say it was
a healthy balance of optimism but also frustration. The optimism
is they know that this thing is a lot better
than it used to be. I mean that there were
probably years that they came out of locker clean out
days saying, man, I wonder if we're going to have
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this feeling again. And I mean that was back when
it was new for them to make the playoffs and
they were trying to be able to set that standard
and then we saw this organization fall off. I don't
think there's a feeling like that second part is going
to happen. But I that's where the frustration, I think
comes in, because I think that there was high hopes
coming out of last year. There was high hopes coming
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into the season of I mean everybody and then some
was almost thinking this team was a, you know, a
shoe in to make it to the AFC Championship Game.
And clearly there was a lot of frustrating games this year.
I mean, let's just go all the way back to
the beginning. You lose at Minnesota, you kind of just say, okay,
early on the season, we're not quite there yet, but
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we're two and one. Things are okay, and it kind
of festered from there, like didn't you kind of feel that, Brian,
like it festered where you never really one hundred percent
had to grasp on games. Yeah, you felt like even
games that you won, you came out of it saying like, man,
there was a lot of meat left on the bone there,
like you should you should have handled that a lot
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better than you did. And it would be the same
things from Tamiico Ryans every single week execution Texans don't
beat Texans. And when you're losing games that you're not
supposed to lose, that's when people get annoyed with the
head coach because they're like, dude, like, uhh okay, what
are you doing to fix it? Like I'm not hearing
what you're doing to fix the problem, and it just
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kind of felt like that it just was allowed to
happen all season long.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Yeah, that's that's the Uh Again, I mentioned it last segment,
like that's those are the things that Sean mentioned all
season long here on the show. Is is like who's
being held accountable? Is is Laramie Tunzel being held accountable?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Right?
Speaker 7 (38:57):
Or is he too much of a veteran quote unquote
in the league to not be held as accountable as
others in the league.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
So it's like you've, you know, you know what you
need to fix, yet they're not being fixed.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
That was the adjustments. It just seems like the little
adjustments weren't made as much as.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
You wanted this season.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
And the way to describe it, like you just said, Dan,
is there was so much meat left on the bone
with this team, even with the injuries. Man, if you
look at that game against the Chiefs, they had a
better offense of over one hundred They outgained the Chiefs
by over one hundred yards. There were six, seven, eight
plays away from winning that game, that's it, and they
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were down two receivers. You could talk about the injuries
and being sacked eight times, and yet they were still
right there to beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
So yeah, I think there was a lot of meat
left on this bone, man, for sure.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
When it comes to this Texas season and it's and like,
from a fan perspective, I'm gonna take my quote unquote
radio hat off.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
And just be a fan. It is maddening, dude, it
is so maddening.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
Well it's maddening because I mean, you had players, even
themselves in the locker room saying the same things every
single week, and you're kind of at a certain point saying, well,
then fix it, like play better, like I mean, I
understand on the surface that sounds so simple, but it's
you know, well, then do it. And the example that
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I used all season long was they almost kind of,
to me, sounded like the boyfriend who the girlfriend is
frustrated with and just has had it up to her,
you know, up to her ears in terms of his
excuses and just his general laziness whatever it might be.
And he tries to give you the hey, look, you know,
(40:40):
I'll be better, I'll change, I'll do all these things. Well,
then finally you realize that if this is poker, you
have a losing hand. So you say this is done.
I'm done, Like I'm not doing this anymore. I'm moving on.
And unfortunately, during a season you can't do that. But
I'll tell you when you can do it, you can
do it right now. I mean for certain guys that
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maybe even aren't unrestricted free agents, certain guys that might
have a year left on their deal if it makes
sense salary cap wise, there's no reason in Nick Cassario
if any of those guys fall into that category, is
not going to say, hey, it's not gonna work out
here anymore. We're gonna release you from your contract. You
can try to be able to catch on somewhere else,
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best of luck, but this is over.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Like, this is done.
Speaker 8 (41:26):
That's as best as I can kind of see it now.
While I was talking about inside the locker room and again, yeah,
I mean, you know there was frustration from certain players.
No names were mentioned. I mean, I'm gonna go ahead
and get that off the top. So it's kind of
up to us to you know, kind of pick through
and parse through the words. But it did sound like
there was some frustration, Like one of them was Joe
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Mixon talking about the offense and saying that honestly, at
times it seemed like buy in might have been a
little bit of an issue for certain guys.
Speaker 13 (42:00):
I think we got to ass up to the players
to really make the play go, you know, And I
firmly believe I think Slow, you know, he did a
great job with that, you know, executing, and I think
that he really honed in on their details towards the
end of the year. And I also felt like everybody
really bought into what we were doing. I think that,
you know, everybody jelled at the right time. It's just
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we came up short. And that's really all it is.
Speaker 7 (42:26):
That's a Joe Mixon talking about buying. I mean, Dan,
that's the second player we've heard now, h CJ. Strout
the first, Joe Mixon the second.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
So what's going on?
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Really?
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Like they talk about a standard.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
TJ says, we need a standard that needs to be
set and stay with that standard. And then Joe Mixon
mentions buying players buying in. So who are they talking
about because you know they've got players on their mind.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Oh, absolutely, you have players on your mind. I mean,
you know, in terms of the offensive skill position players,
I don't think necessarily there are many that are on
that list, but you mentioned Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Ear, I'm with you. I'm done with Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
I mean, did you see did you see, like any
any footage of of his blocking attempts against the Chiefs?
Speaker 8 (43:09):
I heard it was not great now to say that
I too. No, I didn't, and and look, I don't
think that's what you ask him to do. I mean,
you know, Kate Stiver was a huge reason why you
drafted him in the first place, for that very reason.
He was supposed to be the guy that's supposed to
be the thumper and and and the guy that's gonna
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take on the blocks up front. But you didn't have him,
and then you didn't have Tutriano. I mean, that's the
whole reason why Andrew Beck was up. But that's the
part to me that I'm kind of scratching my head with.
I mean, I don't dismiss what Joe Mixon said. I
think probably after hearing that, the follow up would have been,
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why do you think that was? Like, I mean, do
you think that that's a player thing? It's a you know,
maybe the the message is not being communicated a effectively
enough for them to get it, there's no incentive for
them to get it. So I mean I think that
all of those things are kind of follow ups that
that that should be had and should be asked.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Yeah, man, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (44:14):
It is really really interesting to hear U two of
your stud players on offense in C. J. Stroud and
Joe Mixon basically saying you know, damn near the same thing.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
One talks about.
Speaker 7 (44:28):
Buying in Joe Mixon, the other one talks about standard
need to be needs to be set and stayed with.
So I just feel like they're there's they're talking, they
have people on they have players on their mind, and
I mean obviously they're not calling them out. I mean
they're calling them out without calling them out by by name.
So you know who that could be. I'm not sure.
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I think I have my opinion on it, meaning I
think it's some of the offensive linemen because that was
basically the biggest weakness, uh for this Texans team. So
it's and I appreciate the transparency honestly. You know, from
both of those guys, you know, Joe Mixon has been
in the league for a long time. He knows how
to handle press conferences and things.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Like that.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
So some good transparency from him without calling out I
mean call like I said, calling out his teammates, without
calling out his teammates. If if that's kind of the
progative you had, and then CJ. Stroud excuse me, you know,
being the quote unquote leader for this offense as well. Man,
it's it's uh, We're headed into a very interesting offseason
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for the Houston Texans. They have the what number twenty
fifth draft picks, so not super high. I'm not sure
if they're gonna trade up. There's some you know, pretty
good wide receivers coming out in this draft class. Like
basically there's the two or three best wide receivers for
the University of Texas they're gonna be in this draft
class or some other good ones coming out from all over.
So interesting to see if they go and try to
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get a wide receiver. But we'll talk draft you know,
later on down the road because it's only January twenty. First,
let's uh, let's continue to talk Texans. But we got
to get to the steakout next right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
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Speaker 6 (46:19):
All right, Sean, what are you hearing out there now?
Speaker 5 (46:22):
The Salisbury's takeouts, Salsbury's Takeouts on the Seawan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
Time for the steakout here on the Shawn Salisbury Show.
Shawn Salisbury, Brian Lima, Dan Matthews. Rockets fall to the
Pistons yesterday, They're off tonight. Ohio State beats Notre Dame
to win the National Championship. Lions offensive coordator Ben Johnson
said to become the new head coach for the Chicago Bears.
Big Salsey in the building, man, what are you out
there doing? Making snow angels? Little snowman running around with
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keelout and the snow.
Speaker 6 (46:54):
Now you're back or what?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Sure as hell? Trying not to be in the building.
I am at the crib. But technology sometimes out here,
and you know, as you know, we got a little
bit of a construction out on FM fourteen sixty three
in full Shire. You know the parade, the parade root shocker, Yeah,
it take him my. I can get to uh San
Antonio faster than I can get to my grocery store.
(47:17):
Other than that, it's great and the internet is back
when Fred Flintstone was was actually you know, raising bam bam.
You know Barney isn't bam bam. Barney's gout. Yeah, Barnes got.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
Yeah pebbles and Vambarni's kid.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
So that's it. So as we get this, you know,
the technology, but got it worked out. You know, Gordy's
chipping in. I got I got a Cincinnati tech guy
chipping in in Ohio. And you know what if you
bring the Cincinnati tech guy from MOHI listen, I'm just
here to make plays. So I don't I don't want
to tell how rough the water. I don't want to
tell you how rough the water was to get here.
(47:49):
I'm just gonna tell him bring it in the ship. Okay.
Speaker 7 (47:52):
So I'll tell you what man that that water this
morning is ice cold, Manning.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah, I'm standing outside. I got cantor next time, but
I'm standing outside. Yeah, I'm break. You can't quite here
the hear all that. Yeah, I'm better braving a do
it a radio show. I got no ear muffs on,
you know. I'm just I'm gonna dig a ditch. I'm
gonna maybe, you know, plant some winter stuff. I'm just
doing a lot of stuff out here, you know, contributing
to society in the snow.
Speaker 6 (48:18):
You got me, Yeah, you got Jimbo Canty out there
with you.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Man.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
That's how you know this winter storm is crazy is
when Jimbo shows up to your city.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
You've heard me talk about the main streets. Jimbo wants
no part of full Sure. I mean you roll up
in here and when it's storm season you probably throw
out all the records. Okay, can toy didn't want Yeah,
he didn't want this. Tell them to take yeah, take
that meteorology somewhere else, Jimmy, that's right, that's right. Yeah,
(48:47):
told to get fourteen, get on f F fourteen sixty
three and he'll never get here.
Speaker 9 (48:51):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
All's good man, good to be on.
Speaker 6 (48:54):
He would not, man, that's that's good stuff.
Speaker 7 (48:56):
Hey, well, glad you're here, man, Glad you got that
technology fixed. Out shout outs our guy out in Cincinnati,
not sure his name, but uh, total team after this
morning with Dan coming in, I know Tripley had some
issues this morning as well, So thank you Dan for
you know, sitting in with us. Obviously, Chris Gordy, it's
been a crazy morning here in the city. But now
that I got you, Sean, and you're gonna be here
with us for till ten am. Man as we're in
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the steak out, I know we got a couple of
callers that we'll get to after this segment. Seven seven
ninety Ohio State Man took care of business last night.
They take down Notre Dame early in the six o'clock hour.
Dan hit on it with me and Dan hit on
it just a little bit. It just seems like Notre
Dame can't get over the hump and win a damn
national title.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, what's it been since eighty eight, Lou Holtz? I
think was the last time? You know, and I don't
mean this in a derogatory way. I mean as an
sc guy too. I have a tremendous amount of respect
for her Notre Dame and my recruiting trip there still
gives me the chills and how cool it was to
walk on that campus. And so I've always been a fan,
you know's it's it's for me. It's always been hard
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to hate him. I know a lot of people you
either love them or you hate them, just because you know.
They're one of my first TV visuals, along with sc right,
so I you know, for me, there's it's such a
great program. But they finally started to catch back up
the recruiting and the speed as we talked about, and
Ohio State was a step above everybody in the postseason.
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They were, but Notre Dame it's been a while. I
think Marcus Freeman has him on the right path. I
think they do some great things. But here's the one thing.
The quarterback play Riley Leonard, God bless him, ment tough.
That first drive is one of the great pieces of
old school football. I've ever seen nine carries the quarterback
had on the opening drive and what eighteen plays go
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down score and you're thinking Notre Dame's got themselves chance.
And I watched the entire game. The problem is, and
there's other reasons why you don't get there? Do you
keep up? And the thing that the recruits Notre Dame
used to get when I was coming out of school
and even after, and they still get great recruits. Don't
misunderstand me, but people recruited Notre Dame. You didn't. Notre
Dame didn't have to recruit a lot because it was
Notre They walk into your living room, It's like this
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is Notre Dame and that's that reputation. Well, as recruiting's
gone on, we've seen college football has been set on
a tier you can no longer walk in because kids
don't care a lot of times about legacy or historic programs.
They want to know, Hey, can Eastern Washington pay me? Okay,
I got a chance to go to pros And while
Notre Dame's building the program, my point is is that
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they have done it the right way and now they
keeping up with all the Ohio States and the LSUS
and the Texas's. I think it's a tribute to them
for the way they go about their business that they
were in this position. I know we'd love to see
him at a conference and all that, but I think
I thought it was a hell of a game for
a minute, physical but we saw Brian and we've talked
(51:43):
about it. Dan, you know this as well. I think
Ohio State was the most gift we set it all year,
the most talented team in the country, and it went
from like are they underachiever to after the loss and
the Michigan and wanting him fired Brian day two, look
what they did in the playoffs. It was a phenomenal
run because they dominated everybody. So you know, Notre Dame
doesn't have to apologize, but you're exactly right. There's something
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missing in this game, like whether it's one more extra
burst of speed, whether it's the quarterback. But you can't
win in college football just running it unless you're a
military academy. You got to throw it in. While Riley
Leonard's a good player, you could see at times the
lack of passing production because eventually you were going to
take away Leonard's legs as much as you could if
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that means lining up eleven cats at the line of scrimmage,
you weren't going to let that happen. Well, they adjust
and they just haven't got to the next level of
that quarterback. You know, Joe Montana's not there anymore. And
we see that at some schools, and I think there's
got to be an elite player. Maybe this is not
just to see in your transfer, but a guy that's
in the program for a couple of years and we
can see it grow. We're not seeing that a lot
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with some of these blue blood programs because they can
get a stud and play them right away. But tripa
to Riley Leonard loved him, but there's just they're just there.
There's still a step behind when it comes to that
extra athlete on the perimeter. They just are. And that's
no disrespect because my Trojans have found that out on
a couple times along the way as well. Waiting for
their next national title, even though we've had one a
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little sooner than Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (53:09):
And one thing I want to do ask you about
this National championship game last night before we get to break,
is the Notre Dame defense had Ohio State third down
and eleven late in the game. I believe there was
like three minutes left, maybe four minutes left, They're down eight. Yep,
they go cover zero Sean and Will Howard drops it
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in the bucket for like thirty five yards to Jeremiah Smith.
For whatever reason they let they let Jeremiah Smith go
one on one, one of the best, if not the
best wide receiver in the country.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
I don't understand it. We saw Arizona State do the
same thing against the University of Texas in the playoff
in overtime.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Why why Well, you know, you get to a point
and think, okay, they're they're expecting zone at third and eleven.
That's the only way I can decipher this. They're expecting
zone at third and eleven. So let's see if we can,
you know, get a sack, move it back, flip a field,
get a you know, an eight ten yard sack. Who
knows and then all of a sudden, you don't get
to the quarterback and you play zero coverage and he
(54:08):
makes a throw for a big play against a guy who,
quite frankly, is about five years ahead of his time
as a freshman wide receiver. So I don't get it.
I'm more of a blitz. Force you to throw hot,
catch and tackle, and let's get out. I don't And
you know, they also might get to a point where
they don't want to let you get half the yardage
back and they're trying to create a big QA and
(54:29):
they needed it. They needed it, So I get it.
From that standpoint, especially, you don't want to get locked
into constant trends and tendencies. But we saw one. Notre
Dame does. They've been a hell of a defense all
year long, and like I said, their team speed increase
and there are another level without being able to go
in and pay somebody eighty billion dollars for nil. I mean,
they could, but they're they're a little more stringent on
their package obviously, so I don't in the package on defense,
(54:51):
I would have zoned him up and hopefully got them
and you know, put some pressure, catch and tackle and
hopefully get a ball back. But I understand you're trying
to create an ex explosive on defense. That's the problem
with that, Brian. And the problem is if you don't
get your hands on a great receiver that's got speed.
You saw the result. Quarterbacks begged for zero coverage because
we know we get man coverage. There's no middle of
the field help. You're on an island. Everybody's got their own.
(55:13):
If you can just set up and get the ball out,
you're gonna win most of the time. That's a big
burden to put on a secondary and Notre Dame's loaded
with good players, but that's a mismatch for any great
wide receiver. They beg for man coverage, as do good quarterbacks.
They want it, they don't want to they don't want
to see zone all the time. They want a chance
to hit a home run. And they did.
Speaker 7 (55:33):
Yeah, I just I didn't understand the call third down
and eleven. You got plenty of time, you got the
two minute warning, you got you got at least one
time out left and they go cover zero one on
one coverage.
Speaker 2 (55:42):
It was just you're in creding while you're inviting and
begging for a huge play for your explosive defense. You
know what the other side is, You're you're you're setting up,
you're setting yourself up for a monster play on the
other end, it's that big risk reward, right Yeah, and
they then they then years it didn't pay off for
Notre Dame, but uh, they'll be back. That's a good
team who's well coached. I'm a huge fan. I love
(56:04):
that guy. I do. Yeah, Marcus correct, Yeah, congrats to
Ryan Dad didn't mean interrupt you. Congrats to him. I
know he's been through some crazy ass stuff that he's
been ridiculed, and you know, he's got the highest winning
percentage of any active coach and it finally got validated
last night with a national title. Good for him.
Speaker 7 (56:22):
You know when they when they lost to Michigan for
the fourth year in a row or whatever it was,
and then the brawl happened, and Ryan Day's just sitting
there staring at his team brawling with Michigan because of
plane in a flag. I really thought he was gonna
get fired shown I really I thought that.
Speaker 6 (56:37):
I thought. I thought he was done after that, and
I I thought he was I did. I thought he
was done. I really did.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, I think, But you're not alone. That was a
long line going into it, and we're and we talked
about ten or eleven in every year. You know, I
know they lost a couple of times and you you
get beat by your rival again, hammered and physically, man,
it was an embarrassing and oh but but Ryan Day's
got to go yet. You look at the percent regular season,
but it's kind of falls into the quarterback got to
win me a big game category in the NFL. Well,
(57:05):
can you imagine that he could have think about how
that program if they would have gone into the tank,
think about how this season and he probably would have
been fired at the end of the year. But here
he goes and they played out of their mind with
all that skill. It's amazing they matured and they hit
their pinnacle in the postseason playoff. They did, and that's
a lot of good teams do that. But he finally
(57:26):
the whole buy in after that nonsense. Has been great
and good on Ryan Day. To be able to keep
this team together after getting beat by Arrival, that's a
hard thing to swallow, but they chewed the rest up
and spit it out, brother, and they took care of
their business. That's a gifted, gifted program with gifted team.
And it's nice to have a big nil package to
go get players, it really is. And that veteran quarterback
(57:46):
you got, you know, accurate, so kudos, But they were
the best team in the postseason and it wasn't really
that close.
Speaker 6 (57:53):
In truth, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (57:54):
And that's that's the name of the game man, having
that big an il package and getting those players.
Speaker 6 (57:58):
All right, let's get to break as we continue to
talk Texans.
Speaker 7 (58:03):
Here on the Sean Salisbury Show, Joe Mixon talking about
Nick Cassario's plan for the off season. We'll hear that
audio and discussed next right here on the Shawn Salisbury Show.
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Speaker 3 (59:35):
Never sounded so good.
Speaker 6 (59:36):
No, they're no soul of State lost.
Speaker 2 (59:38):
They don't do that.
Speaker 7 (59:39):
No, No, we don't do We don't do chants and
cheers and you know we don't. We we just go
out and win. We just go compete, dude, we don't.
We don't worry about the pageantry, you know. We just
we get get put our hand in the dirt and
get after the quarterback on our football team, even though
we only want three games this year.
Speaker 6 (59:54):
But who's counting, Sean, who's counting?
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (59:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (59:58):
Is this a uh? Is this a dig at the aggies?
I mean, I don't know. It feels a little bit
of a you you took the Ohio State song that
Danny boy had for you. He gave you some history
and some knowledge. You turn around and flipped and said,
we at the Ross. Oh no, no, we just compete.
(01:00:20):
We don't do traditions and all that stuff and all
the dances and you know, mascots and all that. Was
that a dig at your guys? Maybe, I'm no, I
mean as a graduate degree, Aggie, No, I mean, who
wanted to brag? You know what I'm saying. I don't
want to brag. Why would I You know what I'm saying.
You know, I mean there's no need to No. Hey,
(01:00:40):
let me take my hand off my back for a
second as I pad it. But you I was in
a kind of a dig at my at my aggies
a little bit, I mean just a little Dan. I
felt it was a little disrespect, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
Well, the kind of bringing on themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
If we're being honest, here comes that's right, the Georgia LSU. Honk,
here we go, that's right.
Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
Well, I mean, you know, hey, look they they got
l s U this year.
Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
And as I've continued to say, and I will continue
to say, I can't wait to see what the commemorative
cups look like next year at Kyle Field.
Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
There you go.
Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
Hey, Sean, I'll tell you what though, Man, if if
you want to get Dan fired up, just ask him
about the UH Texas Rangers or anybody from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh yeah, dude. That that that's is that that gets
back to the Hatfields in McCoy's conversation, does it.
Speaker 15 (01:01:30):
So that?
Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
I mean, it's mad as hell and he's not gonna
take it anymore. That was what set you off, Danny.
Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Yeah, it's it's the people. It's the people. Because the
city itself is fine. It's it's a fine place.
Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
I just don't understand the arrogance, like I I I
don't understand like like the entitlement to feel like you
can feel that way.
Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
That's what I just have never gotten with people from there.
Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I can't wait to see Dan stroll up like Highland
Park over there, have you. I mean, they'll love that one. Yeah, Dan,
they I mean they they created, they created Dallas. That's
that's why all that money is, man, that's where that
attitude is gonna come popping.
Speaker 8 (01:02:11):
Well, that's the thing, you know. I head in the
Katie Trails ice House or somewhere like that. I'm gonna
have the Kirby smart line to all the people in there,
there's nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide.
Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, Brian, are you as distanting you have as much
distained for Dallas as Dan?
Speaker 14 (01:02:30):
Does?
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
It really McCoy's when it comes to Houston Dallas.
Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
I got a couple of college teammates that's that live
in Dallas. So obviously I like.
Speaker 7 (01:02:39):
Those guys and their significant others. I I don't like
Ranger fans put it to you that way. And then obviously,
you know, like I used to have a big beef
like as a just as a you know, as a
pure like Houston fan. I used to have a pretty
big beef with Dallas Cowboy fans, but now they're just
(01:03:00):
the laughing stock of the world, not even the country anymore,
because the Cowboys suck. They're ran poorly, uh from Jerry
Jones as a GM perspective, so like they don't even
have any argument, Like they haven't won anything and since
NOM pretty much since NOM, so I don't have a
beef with the people.
Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
It's just the fan base.
Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
I think they said, they just they're just I'm kind
of with Dan on the arrogance though, that kind of
bothers me a little bit, you know. But uh, look, man,
there's some really nice areas of Dallas. There's no no
question there.
Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah. Well, at least you finally found somewhere where you
have big beef. Anyway, just a kind of curiosity.
Speaker 8 (01:03:42):
Slid that one in there going yeah exactly. He busted
you inside with a good fastball right there, did, dude.
Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Right on my hands.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yeah, but you but you you came up and start
a crowd in the plate with that close stance, and
I'm not letting you take that insight in our inner half. Dude,
I'm in a little chin music. Bump you off it
a little bit, right right? Then you come in you know,
the the hard sweeper off the plate the other way,
So you know I had to bust the end though,
I had to bust you.
Speaker 7 (01:04:08):
Well, well, as long as I'm not Jeremy Payney, I'll
probably be able to fall foul that sweeper off.
Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
And also and also look, we've had about five inches
of snow up here in the woodlands, and some say
five inches a lot of snow, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yeah, Well, well, I mean I know that I know
that that's That would be a great bonus for you
up there to have five extra that would be nice.
It would be nice. But hey, listen, who's really back
to the who's counting?
Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
You know, it's it's it's me, it's not you.
Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Okay, yeah, of course, okay, yeah, it's there. You go.
But you know, for Dallas and me, you guys might
you can't. Can you hate a place? Well, this is
I'm gonna answer my own question. I love the place.
I mean, can you hate a place that you grew
up and went to high school and everything? And say, well, yeah,
California for me, because the leadership ru in that state.
(01:05:03):
Now you know there was a leadership and grown adults
that can't sit in the room and you know, do
the right thing for the people that ruin that state.
The state's still beautiful. But when it comes to Dallas
and Houston, can you actually hate a place that your
kids went to high school? Do you raise them? For me?
Speaker 9 (01:05:17):
Can? I?
Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Like, you know, you don't bee a thing because I'm
a kind of a tweener, right, I was in Dallas
for like eleven or twelve years. I've been here since thirteen,
which is what is not eleven years, so about the
same amount of time in both cities. But my kids
were young and they went you know there in A
and M and in plain Old West High School and
all that, so you know, all their buddies and stuff
that spent the night at your house all the time.
(01:05:39):
So is it would it be when I say that
I and then I come here and I've been great people.
I love both. It's not like Auburn Alabama? Can you
love both if you've spent a certain part, like doing
my career here with people. I like being around stuff,
so it's kind of changed my outlook as you know,
in my career, I love it. And then going up
(01:06:00):
that's when my kids were personalities and their friends were
shaped are going to be in their weddings and their
best man and and you know, made of on all
those things. So can I actually hate Dallas even though
I'm here? Is there room to love both? Or is
it Alabama? Auburn is?
Speaker 15 (01:06:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
You know, and can you can you not love both?
Speaker 15 (01:06:18):
Well?
Speaker 7 (01:06:18):
I think for you it's completely different when you bring
the family aspect into in your kids, you know what
I mean? Like for me, it's always that propect that
right for me, Yeah, I think, okay, right, if you
haven't lived in either of both places, it's just that's
that rivalry build up that's normal or should be right
that part of.
Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
It, I would say, Sean, it's I'm going to go
Biblical on us right here. Hate the sin, love the center.
Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Pretty much probably the best way to describe a conversation
we could have for an hour that you can describe
in one sentence, that's probably you, you, you, the sin,
and the center. That's a great point. I guess that
would be the case. And the sins different for others?
Is I mean for some the sins different? Right? And
is the center? So you know, whether it's the people
the person there you go. I like it, that's fair.
But I don't have a disdain because I think there's
(01:07:03):
some nice areas. But the people have shaped my kids' lives.
They're friends, so I think that's why I'm part of
that as an adult. See, my kids haven't spend much
time in Houston, but all the friends. For me, Houston's
kind of shaped some of the things. Profession that I have.
A friend of mine, one of my best friends, always
been in this town, said Houston will grow on you.
He told me that first six months I was here.
(01:07:24):
He goes, you'll come in here, be ablity to grow
on it, because he wasn't from here either. It's from
California and different parts of the country. And I'll be
damned he was right. So, but I do get why
if you're like hating a franchise as opposed to a city, right,
And we always don't, don't We always a lot of
times it's either the people or the sports teams. When
we when we disliked the other city, Right, there's somebody
(01:07:45):
who bought you there from an experience, or it's it's
it's your baseball team or your or your football it's
if you're your basketball team or your football team. It's
rarely just because you don't like the beauty of a
nice restaurant. That's usually what it comes down to. Center Center.
Good call by you, Dan, Yeah, that is a good call.
Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
Let's let's get the break.
Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
We'll hear from Joe Mixon talking about some off season
moves that Nick SiO might have cooked up.
Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
What did he say? We'll hear it discussing next right
here on The Shawn Salisbury Show.
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Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
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Speaker 16 (01:09:57):
Good morning, guys, one a morning. I'm from Minnesota. So
I'm loving this weather. And uh, I'm taking care of
this Pyrenees right now. And I don't know if you
know what a Pyrenees dog is.
Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Oh yeah, they love this weather.
Speaker 14 (01:10:10):
Huh.
Speaker 16 (01:10:11):
Oh god.
Speaker 9 (01:10:11):
You know I couldn't get him in the house last night.
He just wanted to stay outside.
Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
This morning.
Speaker 16 (01:10:17):
You know, I'm walking in this you know, I had
this park right outside my my back cake, and I
don't know how I'm gonna get it in because I mean,
he just loves it.
Speaker 9 (01:10:25):
He just sat out there where it was snowing and everything.
I just crazy.
Speaker 10 (01:10:29):
It's like those.
Speaker 7 (01:10:30):
Videos John, It's yeah, it's it's like it's like those
videos you see of huskies and and and long haired
dogs that are used to the used to this, and
and people send them outside and they don't come in.
And then you got you know, male carrions and female
careens that are like, oh my god, you're abusing your dog. No,
I have a husky, I got a great Pyrenees. They
(01:10:50):
love this stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Yeah, yeah, no, you're abusing me a dog if you
take it inside. Those dogs are like I got to
stay out there, kidding me.
Speaker 9 (01:10:59):
So yeah, I'll just I'll just leave outside as long
as he doesn't bark and stuff.
Speaker 16 (01:11:02):
I mean, I'm okay with that. So but uh hey,
yeah playing the doors too. That was good, a little
the nice little cut there, but uh yeah, you know,
I just want to wait a little bit on the Texans.
You know, I think you know, no no names need
to be called out. I think we've all talked about
where the issues are. I think that the Texans have
(01:11:24):
got to put money into that offensive line. Yeah, if
they can get some free agents. I mean it's like
Kansas City, you know, and they got when they when
Mahomes got roughed up in that Super Bowl. What to
Kansas City do They They spent some big money on
some interior linemen and they also drafted well but uh
but you know they they value that over the receivers.
(01:11:46):
And I think that's what the Texans need to do.
They just need to shore up that offensive line.
Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
I think.
Speaker 9 (01:11:50):
I think the coaching needs to be changed obviously, but uh,
I think I.
Speaker 16 (01:11:55):
Think that's where it is. I mean, you got a
lot of players that you know, they practice when they
want and stuff. I mean, some of that stuff's got
to stop. But uh, I think, uh, you know, it
was uh it was that, and there's just you know,
there's an issue with discipline. They weren't a discipline team
and uh so there are some things they need to
be addressed. I think some of it goes to coaching
and some of it are the players and and uh,
(01:12:18):
I think that's where the Texans need to focus. They
need to get some good interior alignement, whether it's through
free agency or what. And uh, I think that's the
number one I think that's the number one thing they
need to do. I mean, yeah, they need receivers and stuff.
I mean, you got to show up that offensive line first,
because you know, it doesn't matter the other parts. And uh,
there's just too much regression in that line. Uh, they
(01:12:40):
didn't improve at all. In fact, they got worse, it
seemed like.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
And we saw it.
Speaker 16 (01:12:44):
It started to show, it started to fall apart that
second half. And uh, that's where that's where the needs are.
And I think I don't think.
Speaker 9 (01:12:51):
Any names need to be we know who they are.
We know we know the names that need to be addressed.
And uh, I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
So thanks, stay warm out there, man.
Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, be safe. I love those dogs. Man, I love
those dogs. Just love to play warms in my heart
With that one part about this, and it's so true
and John kind of hit on it. Let me reiterate this.
I can have a great think about a football team.
I could have the best perimeter finesse people in the
world if I have an offensive line. And I'm speaking
(01:13:27):
of any offensive line. College high school pro I don't care,
and I can't protect, and i can't move piles, and
I'm not nasty upfront. You will not win a championship
with the great give me the okay you put matter
of fact, you go ahead and put your greatest receiver
group and quarterback and running group of the last twenty
years who you want each position, and then I'll give you.
(01:13:48):
And then you tell me the offensive lines the lower
third in the league with just stuff they're doing wrong,
You're not winning a super Bowl. Now, flip it. Give
me the best big fellows up front in all of football.
I mean, I'm talking about a group that's like, go
Dallas Cowboys. I mean Aikman Smith if you want to
go any I don't care over the last when when
(01:14:11):
when big you know Jonathan Ogden was in Baltimore or whatever,
and give me that. I can tell you this now,
you may not win a champions if you don't have
the other elements. But you give me a great offensive line.
And let's say you had a middle of the road
quarterback and some good players, but not a oh my gosh,
(01:14:31):
that guy's a Pro Bowler every year wide receiver and
a good solid running back in a forty nine ers scheme,
what I got a chance to win every every time,
I at least have a chance. Now the quarterback's gonna
have to be a stud when it gets to the postseason.
All those things can at least have a chance. But
I don't have a chance playing seven on seven on
eleven man football on Sundays, you can. You cannot sustain
(01:14:55):
winning without interior people. Offensive line, defensive front, finesse is
all fine, and they looks pretty and it's sexy. It'll
get you, you'll get you paid. But when all is said,
you ain't putting a ring on your finger if the
guy's upfront can't protect. And I don't care who it is,
no matter if for CJ. Stroud Brady comes here and
you don't get protection, you'll get to a certain level
(01:15:16):
and then you will You'll Falter Mahomes one Super Bowl
he lost, had no right tackle, no left tackle. They
were both hurt, they lost, and they happen to lose
to a pretty good quarterback on the other side. The
point is, in a John's think that has to be addressed.
And if you think that's the best group you got,
then coach him up and teach him better and let's go.
But you have to address that, and they will, and
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that's not going to be the only place they addressed
because there's one thing I do know. My job as
an owner and a quote coach is to find somebody
that's better than you every frigging day, every year. Your
job is to prevent me from finding somebody better. Right now,
they have to look and see.
Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
Seven seven ninety is the number to join that. Let's
get into the a eight o'clock hour. We got more
to talk about this Houston Texans team. Let's talk about
buy in. What's going on with that buy in?
Speaker 6 (01:16:07):
CJ.
Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
Stroud spoke about it, so did Joe Mixon. We'll discuss
the next on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
Kondo Houston heard radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
The Rockets.
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Sports Talk seven ninety Your home for your home, Jeens,
looks like you've.
Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Been missing a lot of work lately. I wouldn't say
I've been missing it, Bob.
Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. You can also
listen to us on the free iHeartRadio app. Shawn Salisbury,
Brian Lilima, Dan Matthews. Your Rockets fell to the Pistons
yesterday at the Toyota Center. They are off tonight, Ohio
State taking out Ure Dame to win the national championship.
Last night in Atlanta, the Lions offensive coordator Ben Johnson
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reportedly going to become the new head coach for the
Chicago Bears.
Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
We've been talking a lot of Texans football this morning.
Speaker 7 (01:16:59):
Obviously, it's say, snowy, snowy morning here in the city
of Houston. Hope everybody is staying safe, staying warm. It's
about twenty five degrees. The snow is still coming down
pretty heavily across the Houston area. Let's get out to
the phone line seven one three two one two five
seven nine. He got a couple of more.
Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
John's on hold. Let's talk.
Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Let's talk to our guy John out in Needville. What's
happening to John? What's happening Potner?
Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
You there?
Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Question for you, bro?
Speaker 9 (01:17:28):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (01:17:28):
Oh, Dan, sounds like we've got a little communication issue
on now on the now, John, We're gonna put you
on hold and we'll get that figured out.
Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
Uh Dan, Can we get to the other John?
Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
John you there?
Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Yeah, Yeah, what's on pels?
Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
What's happening?
Speaker 16 (01:17:48):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:17:48):
You staying warm out there?
Speaker 14 (01:17:50):
Oh Man, It's just snowing out here in Frins though.
Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Man, it's coming down. It's coming, It's coming down.
Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
Brian is coming down.
Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Man. But it looks good, octure you it look really good,
you know.
Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
But anyways, Uh, I got a question I want to
ask Sean. Sean, I want to ask you something because
you played the position and uh, I know, you know,
if anybody know, you know, I want to know what
is it about Lamar Jackson and get through that people
don't like this man?
Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
Is what two times gonna be three times?
Speaker 14 (01:18:23):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
MVP.
Speaker 14 (01:18:24):
I watched him every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
He bring me jaw.
Speaker 14 (01:18:27):
He do stuff on the on the football field that
I ain't never seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
And I just love watching him play.
Speaker 14 (01:18:34):
And yeah he had a few hooked ups, but he
made up for it. And uh, Andrews got the footballer.
I just want to know why they why they keep
moving the gold post for this superstar and act like
he he just why they put all the problems because
and I just want to get uh, you know, because
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they said the super Bowl and the super Bowl, but
to me, uh, you got to win game. Didn't even
get into the playoffs. There's a whole lot of quarterbacks
that didn't even make it to the playoffs. He gets
him there, he gets into the position to get to
the super Bowl, and one day he don't get it.
Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
But great as he is, why do people keep moving
the goal post?
Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
All Jackson? And I did.
Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Thank John? Yeah? John? I Uh, it's getting to the
point for those people who just criticize him because they're
looking for a reason or it's a race reason. I mean,
we know that exists somewhere, it just does, I mean,
crazy enough in twenty twenty five we still got to
talk about that part of it. You know it exists
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in some h I mean, you know the slot. This
is a slot receiver coming out of college. Really, I
think the guy's already if he if he would have
won a super Bowl this year, he's already a Hall
of Famer. And if you had a third MVP, Yeah,
I get why early on mechanics wise, he doesn't, you know,
because he's so good. We get this thing like if
you're dual threat quarterback, which is everybody now it feels
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like I'm not saying every summer obviously more apt to
do it. But when you got a guy who beat
you both ways, everybody's looking for that guy, it's almost
if you just don't set your foot in the pocket
and throw from the pocket all the time, well we
kind of call you a quarterback that we don't. And
a lot of those guys are sitting home watching all
year long and didn't do a third of the stuff
Lamar Jackson did. Yeah, I'm with you, John. I got
early on when he came out. Okay, Louisville, they threw
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a lot the offense. Okay, what's the system? All right,
let's bring into Baltimore. Change coordinators, boom, put him here.
He's got a drop back quarterback in Flacco. Has that
mean change the things around? And the guy adjusted to that,
and then the guy adjusted to the next one, and
then he'd adjust the monkin. And then he does it
without a lot of great perimeter people. And then he runs.
Oh he's a runner first. And now he's beating you
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from the pocket. He throws good against pressure, he beats
you with his feet. I don't know what more you want.
He had his best year ever this year. I'm quite frankly.
The criticisms, Okay, you can't make a few of the
throws he made this last week, but I can tell
you this as good as John Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens
are and their organization and when Ozzie K. Newsom was there,
how they drafted people. Impeccable, phenomenal, phenomenal organization. But I
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can tell you this, even with those players and the
you know, the ray Lewis passed and the great players
and moving on through here at the organization has become
one of the best in football. Without Lamar Jackson these
last five years, the Baltimore Ravens are a floundering. They're
trying to make the playoffs every year they just are.
It goes back to you better have offensive line, which
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they got, and you better have a guy under center.
So I see him beat people from the pocket well
because he can run. He's not a He's not what
we call a traditional pocket passer. I've watched him elevate
his game and throw from there and beat beat, beat
coverage with a big post over the top, a dig route,
throwing off schedule, sidearm thrown from the pocket at different angles.
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He looks like he's in the best command I've ever
seen him while the game's going on. He's taken me
to a new level every year. This year there's nothing
about him other than he doesn't have a super Bowl.
But that's unfair because there's eleven on eleven. There's got
to be other things that come in. You got to
get a stop, you got to kick the field goal,
all those things. But that's how we judge quarterbacks now
is well always do you have a championship ring. It
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doesn't diminish how good Lamar Jackson is. Hey, I'm for him.
I'm sure that the validation of wanting to give one,
he's gonna have to go earn it like everybody does.
It's a hard thing to do. And when Brady's been
in the league in mahomes hell, that's forty seven super
Bowls between two cats, So there's not a lot of
room to get in. I'm with you, John. For whatever reason,
people get stuck in their crawl. There's not a thing
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on the football field Lamar Jackson can't do. Now. He
is what he is, the ultimate weapon burrow a better
pocket passer. Oh yeah, he's as close to Brady as
we have from the pocket. Is somebody else, maybe a
bigger guy. Yeah, he's not as big as Cam Newton,
but Lamar's good size. You guy can pick something from
everybody that may have a little bit different than somebody else.
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But what he does do is everything better than everybody
else right now except get to a Super Bowl winning.
So there's no week there's no weakness in his game.
There just isn't. So Yeah, But if you're just looking
for a traditional dropback passer and it doesn't fit your bill,
not you, John, but anybody out there, Well, he doesn't
throw from the pocket like Bural does, but just do
the numbers from the pocket. Just go look at the
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analytics and how he plays against pressure and he lets
him up there. The guy's phenomenal football player. So you
can have all the opinion people want and criticize. He's
not above criticism. But if you're telling me the guy's
not a great quarterback and a great football player, you
ain't watching the same football I'm watching. The guy's special
ultimate weapon in NFL right now is him because what
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he does with his arm, his legs, and quite frankly
now with his mind and how he can manipulate defenses. Yeah,
Lamar Jackson, I can win with him a lot.
Speaker 7 (01:23:48):
Let's go to another jealousy. If we get John and
Needville up and running, John, what's happening right Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Can you hear me? What's up? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
We got your big dog? What's happening?
Speaker 9 (01:23:57):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (01:23:58):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Where are you at? You had station? Ye?
Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
Who you did? We lose John again?
Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Man, I'm on a roof.
Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
I'm on a roof right now, big dog. I got
my cougar paws on. I'm up on a roof. Man
doing this the show in the snow?
Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Man?
Speaker 10 (01:24:19):
Hey man, how wonld command you if you drove in
today from.
Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Uh element?
Speaker 6 (01:24:26):
Dan? Can you go ahead and put him back on?
Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Hold?
Speaker 6 (01:24:27):
Man, he's got to I don't know what's going on.
He might have to hang out and call us back.
Speaker 7 (01:24:30):
We got some issues because it's coming in super choppy John,
give us a shout back. Uh seven one, three, two five,
seven ninety is the number to join Sean?
Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Why is he?
Speaker 6 (01:24:38):
Why is he all up in my grilled dog?
Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Because he wanted to give you a common thing and
you were like you you you know, weathered the storm,
you got up and you know walk three three miles
uphill to school, you know in a short sleeve shirt.
Remember the back when from the main streets and you're
growing up you had to trudge uphill. Had a right
he wanted to. You wanted to see if you if
you had a set that actually drove into work.
Speaker 6 (01:25:02):
That felt kind of personal from this side of the.
Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Yeah, it did did.
Speaker 6 (01:25:07):
Yeah, man, yeah, you know, but look, man, it's you.
Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
He was trying to throw.
Speaker 7 (01:25:15):
Yeah, I think so, But joke's on him because I'm
up on a roof right now. You know, I'm out,
I'm out out working John. I got my cougar paws on.
I'm giving an estimate. I'm up here with an insurance
adjuster right now. Except no, no, no, they're.
Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
Called cougar paws.
Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
You're on the roof, you said, yeah, yeah, on the roof. Okay,
cougar paws. You don't slip, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (01:25:41):
Yeah, man, I got to make it happen up here, man, Yeah,
because somebody John ain't working this morning.
Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
John's probably John's probably at home right now. Either that
or he's sleeping in his truck.
Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
He's probably got some venison getting ready to throw. You know,
cook a little venice.
Speaker 6 (01:25:55):
Dude, It's a breakfast taco. Hits different though, Man.
Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Sure does spice it up a little bit too. You
had that spice on there, bro. That's my peace, Dan.
You don't want any part of me. It is Salz
and Esco. It ain't this cold homes gonna say.
Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
I was about to throw out Indio, but that's right,
yeah you.
Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Indio is not far from where the last of the
golf tra out there in Palm Desert, Palm Springs, that's
out the Indio Way about two hours and about two
hours from uh from from the mean streets of Esco.
Hour forty five to two is Palm Springs to Esco
and then Esco to the coastlines another fifteen eighteen miles.
(01:26:43):
So but it's me what you don't want to do.
A matter of fact, Dan, you'd probably be a part
of this too, You and Brian when you come down
to Esco with me. Unless you're in the car with
me and you see signs that say via Ranchell Parkway, Escondido,
keep driving. If I'm not with you, keep driving. I
want to make sure you guys make it back safe. Okay,
all right, But while you do that, pop in that
(01:27:04):
nord Stroms and grab some cologne there, maybe one of
those one of those box breakfasts.
Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Yeah, dude, you got to hit the local nord strims man.
Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
But if that's not good even Marcus right around the corner.
Maybe a nice big steakhouse. But other than that, the
mean streets just depends on what side of the you know,
the streets and track you're on. But I don't, I don't.
I don't want you guys going in there alone. Okay,
you guys be careful now.
Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
You know, if Nema Marcus is closed, Sacks Fifth Avenue
is a block away, baby, get over there.
Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Hey, hey, and then they will well also you come
out of there. We may have some street talk was
about a mile away. You never know, man, you never
know what my peeps and Esco are gonna do. But Brian,
you always, you know, you communicate with my essays. You
know what I'm saying, A sousy.
Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
Man, and what's this white stuff coming down on the grass?
This snow man? We don't see this over your homes.
Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
That's about exactly how they say it too. Do you
still have that Do you still have that flannel back?
And when you were an Esco orange remember we used
to wear those on Fridays? Dude? Yeah, yeah, I still
have just a little small.
Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
Yeah, man, you got the one button up up? What
thet man to you?
Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Do you think I'm playing with a white T shirt.
That's my home town. I know you go.
Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
I don't think you're.
Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
I know you're not playing respect. That's right.
Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
Oh, the seven seven one, three two two five, seven
ninety is the number to join. We will continue to
take your calls here on the Shawn Salisbury Show. Hey,
we gotta, we gotta talk about buying for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 6 (01:28:42):
Was there not enough? Joe mixed and hit on it.
Speaker 9 (01:28:44):
So did C. J.
Speaker 7 (01:28:45):
Straw will also hear that audio and discuss it next
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 7 (01:29:01):
At our sister station, News Radio seven forty Kora if
you want to stay up to date on the latest
with this crazy snow it is, dude, it's a damn
near a blizzard in downtown right now, which is insane.
Speaker 17 (01:29:14):
Sorry, I'm senator staring out I'm just saying it looks
like you're like I'm sitting in Utah or Montana staring
out my window.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
It's like blowing sideways because it's windy out here in
full sure as well, and it's like I I mean,
we're sitting in Houston, Texas. It's just so it's it's hot,
you know, it really is, and it's coming down like
it is a snow start stop. You know. I understand
people in Minnesota laughing their ass off at it. It's like,
come on, you ain't snow. But here it's like shuts
everything down, Katie. The airport completely shut down on I
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mean Peck. In Chicago and Minnesota, they're like, oh, keep
it rolling, man, let's go. I mean, they got it's crazy,
but hey, hopefully it'll end quicker and we can get
back to seventy degrees. How far are we await from
seventy degrees, Danny and Brian, We're ways away.
Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
Are I think it's supposed to touch it?
Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Is it? I think so?
Speaker 9 (01:30:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Sunday, Oh okay.
Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
Astros FanFest Day is supposed to be mid sixties, I think,
so okay.
Speaker 6 (01:30:15):
I mean, that's gonna be balmy compared to this.
Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
Yeah, I know in the next uh, I know, in
the next couple of days it is gonna it's not
supposed to get above freezing.
Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
I mean, they say thirty eight today, but I highly
doubt we reached that. So Brian I know you've got
channel two on at your house. Yeah, it's like the
reporter that's out in the field right now, is he
trying to like help this car drive over a mattress
or something?
Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
So yeah, just so yeah, I've got a KPRC Channel
two up and like dance that there's a reporter out
there that's trying to help a guy in a Mercedes
Benz and uh, I don't know if that's a mattress,
a cardboard box.
Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
I don't know what he's stuck on, but it's not working.
And that is some thick snow out there.
Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:30:55):
That is just absolutely wild to watch here in the
city of Houston. So again, if you're driving, dude, go home,
Like what are what are we doing? Like look at this?
This is just what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
It's just wild?
Speaker 7 (01:31:07):
Seven one three, two two five seven II is never
to join. All right, Let's see if we can get
John and Neville up and up and run of John.
Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
We got you, man, there you go.
Speaker 6 (01:31:16):
Can you what's happening?
Speaker 10 (01:31:17):
Let me kill you? Just you you just wanted me
to call, but I was gonna leave it alone. But
now then you gotta start running you. Yeah, you knew
this was coming you you you knew it was coming though.
Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
Hey, John, is do you favor don't cuss today?
Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Man?
Speaker 6 (01:31:35):
That don't cuss today? You cuss?
Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
Yes, I'm a man.
Speaker 9 (01:31:39):
I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
Hey, I was gonna give you prompts.
Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Sean was right.
Speaker 10 (01:31:43):
I was gonna give you prompts because you rather the
storm from coming in from your almighty the woodlands. But
you know, hey, you didn't go in and you stayed
at home.
Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:31:55):
I made a business decision, man.
Speaker 9 (01:31:56):
I mean you know what, Sean, I came up with
a idea.
Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:00):
You know, as much as we all love the show
and everything and a lot of us call us man,
I could be the fourth comedian on this show. I
could be the fourth person. We could run like a
like the Oh my god. Could you imagine me and
Brian in the studio together?
Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Yeah? Do you know what would be great? John? Here's
the problem is, in our business, we want good ratings
and great shows. We don't want crappy ass shows. So
why the hell would I put your non funny ass
on here? Oh damn, I got dog. Hey, Look if
I could let you, if I could let you cuss
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every third line. We'd have the greatest show in the world.
Speaker 10 (01:32:38):
There you go, Bright, you know that's a that's an
Irish and cagun blooded.
Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
I love it, brother, I love it. Hey, check it out.
Speaker 9 (01:32:44):
Man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:45):
So yesterday after I dropped the S bomb and then
did some more researching as I should have before, I called,
Lamar was talking about himself.
Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
You're absolutely right, Beat, You're absolutely right. Now it's all
good man.
Speaker 10 (01:32:59):
Let me let me go back to this other John's question.
Why do people hate on Lamar? Because Lamar tells him
what he believes. He doesn't sugarcoat it. He doesn't be pc.
Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
He calls it like it is. Lamar is the.
Speaker 10 (01:33:15):
Black sheep, if you know pun intended. He is the
black sheep of the family. He says what's on his mind.
He doesn't politically correct it like Kermit the Frog does.
Now let's go to these Texans. Houston Texan fans. Have
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you heard what Joe Mixon said? Let me shout it
from the cheap seats. People need to buy into the system.
I've been saying it all season. It ain't Bobby Slovak,
even the running back.
Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Let me rephrase that.
Speaker 10 (01:33:54):
The All Pro running back has said Slovak calls the
good games. People need to buy into the system. So
what they need to do is get fat ass Larry
Tunstall out of there. He is not Joe, He is
not Anthony Munos, John Ogden. Okay, hell, he ain't even
(01:34:15):
the great Alan Fannica from from right here in Lamar Consolidator.
He ain't a top five tackle. They need to hold
that old line accountable, the old line coach accountable. And
I said it yesterday and I'm gonna say it again
to Miko. Quit being friends with your players.
Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
And be a coach.
Speaker 10 (01:34:36):
Fine, And I hope everybody stays safe and warm today.
The lives are out running in the pasture. They playing
in the snow. Brian, I don't know. I'll tell you, dog,
pay attention, a man, I'm talking.
Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
I'll be hey man, I'll be out on a roof.
I'll be out on a roof in about about two hours, man,
so catch me out. We appreciate it, John Man, look
like you later. Jo appreciate your brother. Hey, let's real quick.
Let's get to uh branded before we get to break.
And then we'll hear that Joe Mixon Audio.
Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
Brando, we got snow, baby, how we feeling.
Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
This morning, Brandon, Brandon, unbelievable man. You know, Sean, you
can you can lead a horse to water, but you
can't make him drink. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Yeah, I mean I've never heard that phrase before. Incredible. Yeah,
I mean, dude, the way you can come up with these, Yeah,
this almost feels like that's like been around forever, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (01:35:31):
I know, but it's just it's not it comes.
Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
It's because it's so natural for you to play, like
like hey, yeah, hey, you got to walk before you
can run. That would be like a bride you'd give us, right, Yeah,
I mean yeah. And then I mean the book a
Better Fact that I got a coffee table. It has
a book of quotes, Brian. I mean, one of them,
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't
make him drink. Force through the trees, walk, crawl before
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you walk, walk before you go. I mean, well, how
you you you know what, it's your your You're ubiquitous.
Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
If you're scared, go to church, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
Yeah, I'm just saying, dude, I was pumped to get
Brandon on the line. It's we got we got snow outside.
It's damn near a blizzard in the city. You know,
he's probably pumped up about it. In just crickets.
Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
It's like, come, did you call for the right hand
or what happened?
Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
I guess man, you know.
Speaker 7 (01:36:22):
You know between him not watching not watching the Rockets
games and the Texans games, and you know, we thought
he was gonna get tacos and he went and got
chicken fetacini. Alfredo, Like, come on, Brando, let's step it up,
big dog.
Speaker 9 (01:36:35):
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
He he've had his own game plank, dude.
Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
We got to send him to Fayetteville. Sean, I've had enough.
You're setting him though single Feteville.
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Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean you're not ready to
get him to Corpus yet. No, it's tough.
Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
I've had enough.
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I've had I've had it. I've had it up to here, man,
I've had it up to here. Let's uh, let's let's
hear from Joe Mixon. All right, we got to talk
about this buying stuff. I want to get your thoughts
on it.
Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
Sean.
Speaker 7 (01:37:01):
I know you had some technical difficulties earlier, so you
missed the audio. It's it's a good piece audio.
Speaker 15 (01:37:05):
Dan.
Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
Dan was actually in the locker room yesterday when this
stuff was being talked, so we can get his thoughts
on it as well. Since he was right then and there,
let's hear from Joe Mixon. We got that audio where
he talked about buying for the team and for the players.
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From Joe Mixon.
Speaker 7 (01:38:25):
So he spoke yesterday to the media excuse me, and
he talked about buying Well, what did the running back
have to say for the Texans here?
Speaker 13 (01:38:34):
It is, I think we got to ass up to
the players to really make the play go, you know,
And I firmly believe. I think slow, you know, he
did a great job with that, you know, executing, and
I think that he really honed in on the details
towards the end of the year. And I also felt
like everybody really bought into what we were doing. I
think that, you know, everybody jeled at the right time.
(01:38:57):
It's just we came up short. And that's really all
it is, all.
Speaker 7 (01:39:01):
Right, Sean. So there's some audio from Joe Mixon. He
spoke about buy in now.
Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
CJ.
Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Stroud also spoke about some a standard that said we'll
hear that audio probably next segment because it's a little
bit longer. So I just want to get your take
on and I guess I'll just ask you this, do
you think there was there was an issue with buy
in after hearing what Joe Mixon had to say.
Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
Well, one thing I do know is players know everything
that's going on. They know who should be starting, they
know what's being said in the building about contracts. They
know and in this case, I would imagine that if
he addressed it like that, it at some point in
time people were questioning if there was full buy it,
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why else would you address it? I mean, unless I
didn't hear the question, was the question is this team
bought into what they're doing or was it more of
a slowick He's got the offense down. One thing, one
thing that One thing that did bother me is when
he said it felt like he dialed into the details.
I'm not quote that he mentioned details. He said at
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the very end here he said he felt like he
dialed into it. It was more detailed the details. So
were they not detailed for the first twelve weeks. It
doesn't bother me that Joe said it. But if was
there a perception the building about the buy in on
one end and is there are we getting to the details?
(01:40:29):
Go listen to what Mixon said, He mentioned details and
slow it in the same sentence, and I and like
I said, I were not there. All is ours of
speculation unless we hear from somebody. But I do know this,
if players are bringing it up, the subject has been
brought up or is I don't know if it's a
point of concern or contention or something that just they
(01:40:49):
felt needed to justice. It may not even been a
big one. It may have been some small but the
small stuff is how you build championship teams anyway. The
big stuff's obvious. It's the little cracks that end up
being fractures and ended up just crushing your team if
you don't get to those cracks and seal them up soon.
And I think kind of that's kind of how I
feel here. I don't think it felt like the team
cracked completely this year. I don't think they played their
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best football two games in a row. Matter of fact,
the last two playoff games may have been the best.
We saw them go back to back both sides of
the ball. For the most part, they just ran into
the chiefs. And Joe's right about that. You know, it
just didn't do enough. That's called being a football player.
In an athlete, You're not gonna win them all the time.
But I'm looking, and I'm assuming you are with the
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questions and why we're playing this. Is there a deeper
dive into was there buy in? Does the buying exist
with every coach and player on the staff. It can't
just be eighty percent of them. Was there was this
discuss because Joe's become the verbal guy in the locker
room and pair, I mean, you know, motivational speeches and
team meetings and players only means Joe's been like the
(01:41:53):
voice at least that's what we hear and what it appears.
But in this case, I would imagine the subject's been
broached and brought up. But I also wonder, and we
can go hear Joe again at the end there when
he talks about got more detailed at the end. Were
we missing details at the beginning? At times they played
like it. So the details in the buy in are
one and the same. It just depends on which is is.
(01:42:15):
It comes from the coaching side of the player side.
So details you can't you can't overlook the small things.
I don't know if they did, I'm just going by it.
If they did and they dialed in, that's got to
be eighteen we are with You're not going to win
them all, but you do have to dial in and
then the buy in. But I need to when when
we talked about hiring a new coach here before Demiko
and anytime they're hiring new coach, Sean, what do they
(01:42:36):
need And I already got the head coach, can find
assistant coaches to give me xes and O's I need
a head coach who's a great leader, maximizes the building,
and gets buying. Buy in is always a part of it.
So is there is there a gap or a chasm
between the buy in and the players that I don't know?
Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
So one thing, you know, I wanted to hit on.
Speaker 7 (01:42:56):
That one thing I wanted to hit on that is
because we discussed this so much this season, Sean, is
you know we talked about accountability, We talked about Laramie
Tunzel on his false starts. We talked about lack of
effort at times right from the offensive line and other players.
Speaker 6 (01:43:15):
And one thing that you.
Speaker 7 (01:43:16):
Continued to say and continue to bring up in our
discussion was, well, how is it at practice?
Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
How is it in the film room?
Speaker 7 (01:43:23):
Stuff that we're not privy to right our coaches coaching
at the right way during practice? Are coaches holding certain
players accountable or everybody accountable, so things like that. So
then when I hear Joe Mixon out of all players,
it's Joe Mixon talking about buying in and it's up
to the players, it goes right back into what we've
discussed is are people being held accountable when they need
(01:43:45):
to be held accountable or is there like a I
would there.
Speaker 6 (01:43:48):
I'm not trying to say that there's any kind of uh,
I get it.
Speaker 7 (01:43:52):
Yeah, there's not conflict, right, But then it just it
makes me think about, man, is there there there? Obviously
if he's talking about it and he didn't call anybody out,
but if he if or specifically call anybody out, but
if he's saying those words buy in, that shows me
that there wasn't enough buy in this year.
Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Well you heard buy in details, and you've heard me
say the undisciplined part of it. You can't consistently win
and be undisciplined, whether it's pre stamp of personal foul,
undisciplined route running, undisciplined in your reads as a quarterback,
undisciplined in what hole you hit, undisciplined as a coach,
(01:44:30):
you overlook a small detail during the practice week, but
then expect your players to play at at a high
level on Sunday. That's something you didn't coach properly or
all as we can do is speculate from here, because,
like I said, we don't set the meeting room, and
I it'd be like, you know, in anything we do,
I can't tell you what a board of directors is
talking about it at some company unless the board of
directors guys a buddy of mine, it comes out and says,
(01:44:50):
here's the notes from the meeting. So but you can
you know, we interview people, we talk to people close
to the situation, and you kind of I think we
can all see from from the naked eye, there's some problems.
There's some issues I'm not talking about with with player
to player. I'm just talking about the issues of why
is there so many pre snaff penalties? Why is there
so many why is it trying to get a fairly
(01:45:13):
clean game very difficult offensively? Why why are we talking
about buy in? Wasn't buy in one of the first
things we said when Diamiko was hired, this team's bought in?
Did they buy in as last year but didn't buy
in as much this year because they took their success
for granted. Have they not handled success well? Yet? They
won a playoff game and had a chance to win
another one, and we're actually playing as consistent of football
(01:45:34):
the last two weeks as they've played at any point
in time this year. So you can grab gather the
six and one half half dozen in the other and
that you know where's the glass or in the lower
part of the upper part. There's a lot that needs
to be fixed. I'm going to tell you when you'll
know your answer about this buy in slash details slash
is that they make a coaching change, two or three
(01:45:54):
different position coaching change. If they go in there and
change staff members, they that will tell you that in
their evaluation, that position and that coach was not living
up to snuff. That's what that will think. Not if
somebody leaves and goes to as a head coach, who
goes and takes a coordinator job somewhere else. I'm talking
about if they make changes and specifically they're telling you
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that they weren't on the same page, that what they
were trying to accomplish and what they did accomplish wasn't
wasn't sufficient enough, or it's not being taught the way
that the head coach wants to talk. You keep an
eye on that staff. So these questions that we're trying
to answer that we can see they're undisciplined. Yet some
great playmakers that that's the inconsistency, which is in the details.
(01:46:36):
That's how you stay consistent. Do the little details right.
You will know when they if they change the staff member,
if they're telling you that, well, you know what, we've
got to coach that and get more out of that
position and get more buy in. It's not just buy
into the head coach, it's buying at each individual positioning
group because that's different too. There's levels of buy in
(01:46:57):
because the head coach and the rest of them. So
that'll tell you you keep an eye on that. If
they changed some coaches, they'll tell you that it wasn't
sufficient or up to Texans standards.
Speaker 6 (01:47:07):
Let's hear from CJ. Stroud. He also spoke about setting
a standard. What did he have to say. We'll hear
that audio and discuss it next on the Seawan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 3 (01:47:17):
This Sean Salisbury Show continues.
Speaker 7 (01:47:21):
Sean Brian and Dan Matthews with you this morning. But
talking about these Houston Texans. They spoke to the media
yesterday quite a bit of players and coaches obviously clearing
some stuff out of their locker rooms after they lost
to the Chiefs on Saturday, their season comes to a close.
We just heard from Joe Mixon. He talked about buying
(01:47:42):
and details for this team.
Speaker 6 (01:47:44):
Well. C. J.
Speaker 7 (01:47:44):
Stroud also spoke to the media yesterday and he had
some things to say about a standard that needs to
be set.
Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
This is what the quarterback had to say.
Speaker 12 (01:47:55):
Yeah, I think you know, we're really close and to
get to that level is really.
Speaker 9 (01:48:01):
First.
Speaker 12 (01:48:02):
It starts with you know, communication and hard conversations have
to be had. There has to be you know, things
fixed and things worked out and just really honest conversations.
So you know, I think that's one of the biggest
things that I've learned, is like this team won't look
the same next year from top to bottom, and you
(01:48:22):
know you have to be okay with that and learn that.
You know, there has to be a from day one
of off season program. There has to be a standard
set and that standard has to.
Speaker 15 (01:48:32):
Be m M.
Speaker 12 (01:48:34):
Where I come from, like at Ohio State was like
I'm not gonna be the one to mess this thing up,
Like I'm gonna be the one to make this team
win the game if that's first, if that's Week one,
all the way to the AFC Championship, like that standard
from training camp, that has to be the standard. And
so I feel like you know that that's what needs
to be for us to get over that hump. Is
(01:48:55):
those you know, if you ain't, if you ain't bring
it every day, you stick out like a And I
think that mentality has to be brought here. And I
think we have the guys to do it coaching Lee
and some guys player why as well. So I think
we can get better at that as well.
Speaker 6 (01:49:12):
All Right, So that's c J.
Speaker 7 (01:49:14):
Stroud Shawn talking about uh standard that needs to be
set all the way into the offseason program and we
know that there are a couple of players year in
and year out don't show up to those programs. And
it's not it's not mandatory. But there you go, your quarterback,
your leader, your franchise QB talking about a standard that
needs to be set.
Speaker 6 (01:49:32):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Well, did he just answered the question you asked last
break and you asked what we're trying to figure out,
Was there enough buy in? Was there enough attention to detail?
Without naming a name.
Speaker 10 (01:49:44):
C J.
Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Stroud basically just told you this roster is gonna look different,
which is obvious, Which means they're replacing players that everybody
on there ain't meant to go forward, okay, and not
everybody's meant to stay in your life, and not everybody's
meant to stay on your team the whole time. He
answered point blank. Secondly, he said, uh, coaches and players,
(01:50:04):
we got the guys, some of the guys in the building.
He's telling you that. I mean, he's saying, so this
means this isn't just on this past weekend. This is
a cumultive effect things you've seen that maybe the same guy,
whoever that guy is, nobody's We don't know who the
the guys are because we're not at practice, like I said,
we're not sitting in a meeting room or their off
season commitment here. But we don't see it. That's that's
(01:50:26):
where you're at. He answered the question point blank, just
like we did. There will be changes on the offensive line,
there will be changes at wide out, they will I back,
whatever it is offense is going to make changes and
there will be some ads because, like I said, my job,
and it's not personal as your coach, friend or not,
is to find somebody to replace you. I'm always looking
(01:50:47):
for a better player. Now, if you're fortunate enough to
be c J. Stroud, who's going to be there one
of those guys you're in the fifteen years, I couldn't
find anybody better. But the second I do, I am
replacing you. That this is business. This isn't the first
turn to the league where you get an extra beer
if I keep you longer. This is business. So my
job as a coach is to coach you up, to
lead to coach my coaches. And when it's when I
(01:51:10):
find somebody who's better than you, I love you. Hopefully
you'll get paid somewhere else. You're not for it, We're
moving on Stroud's basically that that's what he's that that's
the answer without throw anybody in the bus to saying
there's not enough guys in the room who have the
same whether it's the commitment to excellence that we've heard
for the Raiders for all those years when al Davis
was there, but that commitment of the daily grind of
(01:51:32):
an expectation of a standard set. And I'm gathering from
this just from my from trying to read between the lines,
is that CJ. Stroud obviously a leader. People are looking
to him. He's a going to be a third year player,
and that they know. The players know, as I said
last break, know which guys aren't bringing it every day.
(01:51:52):
They know, and I'm just telling you they'll be and
it's not a snitch thing. They'll just eventually that will
mushroom and you'll see the guy stick out keeps doing
the wrong thing, doesn't understand concepts. Why are you continuing
to make mental mistakes? Physical mistakes will happen, but why
are you putting yourself in a position to make a
physical mistake because mentally you didn't prepare right. Stroud's saying,
(01:52:14):
he's just without saying it and putting a name on everybody, saying,
there will be changes. There's got to be a standard
and a commitment and the details got to be you know,
as I paraphrase paid attention to from his conversation there,
it tells me that they're not at that level yet,
which is what we already saw and we saw it
all year long, at times yes and at times no.
(01:52:35):
And a whole bunch in between. And if you're going
to live in between the good and the bad, you're
going to make the playoffs and be eliminated. And the
great has got to rear its head at these times.
And Stroud knows that, and I think he's speaking for everybody,
and so did Mixing. Yeah, if you're taking away from that,
there wasn't full buy in. I think that you could
probably come up with that answer if you're blind, and
(01:52:57):
you we'd have to see or hear to understand. He
said loud enough what Stroud was saying. That roster will change,
and that was the first thing he said. So keep
an eye on that, and keep an eye off the
coaching staff's part of it as well.
Speaker 7 (01:53:10):
You think he, by chance was or either of these
players Mixing and Stroud do you think they were talking
about the offensive line?
Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
I think they were talking about players. I think that
the elephant in the room is we have a pretty
good idea. Okay, but I Am not going to speak
for him. Then naked eye can tell it. I mean,
come on, man, I don't think that it's being derogatory
by saying what the blatant obvious, big the biggest neon
sign flashing, is that that's where it starts without because
(01:53:39):
you want to take care of your guys. But yeah,
I think that's part of it. But I don't think
that's it's limited to that. I think that there's probably
you know, you never know in the pract what guy's
late to practice or who's kind of dilly dally in
and not you know, who's not all in, who's kind
of in. I'm sure there's a couple of them. I
mean every team has one or two that aren't fully
bought in, whether they're a backup or starter, they want
paid more, whatever. But I think that's where he's starting.
(01:54:03):
And I think when you go back we went back
and watched the tape of the game, I could say, Brian,
look at that. Look at that. You could look at
that and say, now, does that look like a physical
mistake or an attention to detail step by a right
guard or a left guard who stepped wrong. Yeah, attention
to detail, that's what he's talking about. And so the roster,
there will be changes. They are every year, but you're
always looking for a better player, and at certain positions
(01:54:24):
they're going to have to find better players. They just
are And it starts exactly where we're talking about. Can't
take eight sacks a new way trying to get to
the AFC Championship game, or you just can't win it.
Won't beat anybody that way. And yet they were still
in it, which is a tribute to a phenomenal defense
with great potential on offense, great production on defense. A
defense will be a top five defense for a long time.
Speaker 7 (01:54:47):
Yeah, and Sean mentioned keep an eye out on the
coaching staff. Well, there's a report out by our guy
Aaron Wilson in regards to a coach that may not
be back.
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Dan Matthews Rockets lose to the Pistons yesterday. They are
off tonight Ohio State as your national champion in college football.
They beat Notre Dame last night. Lions offensive coordinator Ben
Johnson is said to become the new head coach for
the excuse me for the Chicago Bears. As we get
into the nine o'clock hour, we're gonna continue to talk
Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
What's that got john No, I didn't. I didn't mean it.
I didn't know if you did hear me say that.
I know because where we are so people know our communication.
Because we're not in studio together. It's a little difficult
because we don't none of us can see each other
with this weather and trying to get in. So I
think they probably understand what I was going to say
is real quick before we give the back to the Texas,
that Texas think that the Detroit stuff. Think about how
(01:56:33):
fragile we're talking about the Texans and it applies how
hard it is right to win consistently and get everybody
on board and get by and they're asking this question
in a lot of you think they're asking it in Cincinnati,
You damn well know they are right. They've already fired
their They fired lou their defensive coordinator, who a couple
of years ago was held and is hired for guard
deserves in the league because they had him in a
Super Bowl. So how fragile it is from one year
(01:56:56):
to the next, from one week to the next, let
alone one meeting or practice to theay the Detroit Lions,
by all accounts, I would think we'd all agree for
the majority, even though they had a home field avench,
the best team in the NFC and much of the
season the best in the league, or at least with
Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo. They in the conversation, right, and
an NFC favorite. Well, they they win fifteen games, play
(01:57:18):
great football, have phenomenal players all over the place. Both
coordinators Aaron Glenn and been you know, with Ben Johnson
being looked at, and Aaron will probably get some real
good look as well. And Ben Johnson's been the hottest
coordinator commodity for two years. Okay, one's gonna leave already.
The other one probably gonna leave if he gets an
(01:57:38):
a head coaching offer. If not, I'll be back. But
there's Dan Campbell. You've put this together. Goff's been playing well.
Look at the roster and remember what happened to Philly
when they tried to replace their two coordinators, how much
they struggled. They had to fire those two guys, and
then they went out and got Kellen Moore in the
new coordinator. See how quickly they went from Super Bowl
to coordinators, leaving to people wondering if Jalen Hurt should
(01:57:59):
have got the contract to want to fire Nick Sirianni
to having to fire those the two coordinators after the
replacement for Gannon and Steichen, and then they came in,
they got fired, and then they brought in two new ones,
and now Kellen moorees being considered to be a head coach.
Look at Detroit fifteen and two turns the ball over plays,
a bad time to play a bad game. And now
(01:58:21):
with one coordinator gone and a good chance that Aaron
Glenn Mayley even maybe he takes an assistant or two
with him and names him a coordinator or what have
you at their place. And now think how fragile that is.
Are we sure? Detroit is still going to be able
to operate at the same temple. Is the same guy
going to do it? Ben Johnson does to maximize a'm
and Ross Saint Brown. See why those windows how quickly
(01:58:42):
you got to you got to capitalize. They may not close,
but you're telling me that you think right now? If
I ask you and Dan, both of you can answer it.
Going in right now? If Aaron Glenn's gone, do you
expect the Detroit Lions to hit the ground running like
they did last year with two new coordinators regardless of
who they No, I don't. I think those just for
tempo and buy in. Right, you know, you're learning a
(01:59:03):
new system because it's going to be somebody who's gonna
want to teach his stuff. So and they may, but
you see how tough it is. Hence why that Like
what does Kansas City do every year? Guys, they may
lose a coordinator, but who's in charge of calling the place?
You know, you lose the b enemy, you lose Matt
n Aggie, Andy Reid, the stability of it.
Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
And there's only so many good coaches out there too.
Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
Right, That's that's the problem. The top night top, and
there's a difference scene, a position coach and a coordinator
where getting into the rhythm of call and plays and
x's and o's different because if you know both, great,
but it's hard and so you start to think about
the way that these things start to shape up. It's like, oh, now,
possible new system. Well, what if the next coach comes
in doesn't quite teach offensive line play the way that
(01:59:47):
you know Ben Johnson wanted to play for the when
he talks to the offensive the offensive line coach. So
you never know, and it may be the same, but
think how see how quickly it can shift. So you're here,
You've got good players, but it's hard to win. And
when you do. In the Chiefs they keep Spagnola's still
be in there. Think about the continuity from owner to
front office to head coach the dude so their GM
(02:00:10):
to head coach to quarterback and the guys come and
go with the stability of their team. Says in Tech,
it's hard. So you got to try to jump on
this as soon as you can. Because a coordinator leaves,
somebody else leaves. Who knows what's gonna happen to slow it,
what's gonna happen to graw Johnson, you take over here,
maybe somebody else wants them as a quarterback coach, see
how And trying to find guys that fit exactly what
you want to do and find the culture and the
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buy in two new coaches is always a challenge as well.
So brying back to your text and stuff, I just
it does apply to the Texans and Detroit was so
close to having a Super Bowl championship and an opportunity
at least, and here they are now wondering if they're
gonna lose half their staff and can they get the
same buy in. It's a trip man, hard sport, hard sport.
Speaker 7 (02:00:53):
Yeah, And talking about, excuse me, some staff changes. Aaron
Wilson reporting that Texans offensive line coach Chris Strausser is
not expected to return next season. This is the and
we talked about it early early in the show, Sean,
this is the kicker for me, and I asked An
about it earlier this morning. Strausser reportedly contemplated retirement prior
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to the twenty twenty four season, yet he continued to coach.
And one thing that we discussed is were you all in?
Speaker 6 (02:01:24):
Were you half in? Were you one foot in? What
was the deal? But looks like he's not expected to
return next season.
Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
Well, that's a fair question, right, and it's not disrespectful
to him. I think there's some things that we saw
that make you wonder, like on a simple thing, and
I'll go back to it again for anybody that missed
the show. When you got a guy that mugs uptight
that it may have very well have been just tied
as hour who blew a gasket and didn't do it.
How you let the guy run free between the center
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guard a gap and you punch outside instead of inside.
The most dangerous man had a clear path in the
guy who was further away from the quarterback. If you're
not teaching then there's a wrong part of detail. If
you are teaching it, then you better find a different
lineman who can soak it in and understand the simplest
part of protections that you learn when you're in the
fifth grade. So if he was contemplating retirement, Brian, didn't
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we talk about distractions when coaches get interviewed, And I
heard Michael Strahan say it on Sunday as well, we
did Detroit. Did all that come into play at all?
I actually thought Ben Johnson got too cute on the
reverse pass. Do you remember that? You guys remember seeing
that play? He did throw a pick, didn't he he
threw to the other team. He threw it to the
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other team instead of puting in your quarterback. So as
good as Ben Johnson is, it almost like he got
too cute, which which instead of doing what they do.
And I know they do that, but in the time,
hell you needed you needed to go and close this gap.
You didn't need a hero. You needed consistent and then
keep nipping away at the score in the clock, so
you know, uh pounded it and doing what they do.
So those things happen. But with this and with what's
(02:02:59):
going on with what you and Dan were talking about,
is if a guy's retiring just like a guy leaving,
or if he has if his mind's on retirement, is
he all in? I'm not saying he wasn't. He was
just coaching, half asked, But where's his mindset? Is he
thinking retirement? I want to I just want to retire
to a ranch or I got a motorcycle, or I
want to be my grandkids or my kid whatever. And
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he stayed another year. So the quote you have to
ask yourself was it being was it his intense and
is at his most coaches I know take the job
real serious, and I'm sure he does too, especially offensive
line coaches. They don't want to be embarrassed. So you'd
think that he'd pay attention to detail. But are you
all in on a Friday holiday weekend even when you
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know maybe not everybody's listening or in any job? Ooh,
I could get away. It's a three day weekend. Let
me get away. Is your mind one hundred percent on
the job before you get to your weekend? I don't know.
It might be, it might not be right. So that's
what you got to ask yourself with this was that?
But it's we can't just limit it to offensive line
play guys and the offensive line coach, but it start there,
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and it's it's a valid question by you, Brian, about
was he all in? Uh? Like I said, if he
didn't come back, you'll have an idea that even if
he was all in, did they need to change there?
If that's the case. Yeah, players, it's not just the
coach though, the players. I hate when we don't put accountability. Player.
I can tell you this, even if you didn't get
taught it. The oldest The easiest thing to remember. His
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alignment is most dangerous man? How do you not? How
do you not? Step Bay? I'm still baffled by that play,
I am, which led to a bunch of other stuff.
I'm still baffled by it. Elementary school details, did you
can't miss on? It wasn't even an SAT test. It
was an elementary school third grade to fourth grade test.
It's pretty simple football one oh one? How do you
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not know that?
Speaker 6 (02:04:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
Where's the disconnect? Where's the disconnect? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:04:51):
Yeah, where is the disconnect? Seven one, three, two two five,
seven ninety is the number to joint. Let's continue to
talk about that disconnect. So I think there's some other
valid points that need to be discussed, because it's not
just on the coaching staff. It's lack of execution and
some other things. So let's continue to talk about these
Houston Texans as we roll along right here on the
Sean Salisbury Show.
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Speaker 17 (02:06:22):
I'm a diehard brand.
Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
Back to the Sean Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (02:06:26):
Let's go to Brandon. What's up? Brandon? Good morning, Brian,
Good morning, Seohn.
Speaker 8 (02:06:32):
Hi you guys, we're well.
Speaker 3 (02:06:35):
An, you guys, hear me? Okay, now.
Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
We got your bad this week.
Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
Here, we got you okay.
Speaker 1 (02:06:44):
Uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:06:46):
I was taking pictures out of the snow.
Speaker 6 (02:06:49):
Yeah, snowing out there, Brandon. What's on your mind this morning?
Speaker 8 (02:06:52):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 5 (02:06:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:06:55):
I saw I was watching the Wackets game the first half, and.
Speaker 12 (02:07:00):
I was watching the second half, and I can't do
the pird half because.
Speaker 4 (02:07:06):
I saw we lost.
Speaker 7 (02:07:08):
Yeah, they didn't play well yesterday. They uh a little sluggish.
They lost with the Pistons, a team that's barely five hundred.
So not a good game for the Rockets, Brandon.
Speaker 6 (02:07:17):
But we can do it again with the tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (02:07:21):
Yep, they do play tomorrow. Hey, Brandon, before we let
you go, you're gonna get out and enjoy this snow.
Uh no, no, oh man, that's probably probably a better
idea to stay inside and stay warm. We appreciate the call, Brandon.
We'll talk to you tomorrow, buddy. All right, thanks Brandon.
I can't even get him outside, Sean.
Speaker 2 (02:07:43):
You know, thought I thought might be I thought he
might be a guy who likes to go out and
muddle it up in the snow a little bit. You
know what?
Speaker 7 (02:07:49):
They thought that thought the same thing. Man, Like I said,
you can lead a horse to water, but you can't
make him drink. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Yeah, no, yeah, it applies perfectly here, it does, doesn't it. Yeah,
I figured you come up, Well, you could lead a
snowman to snow, but you can't make him right. Well yeah,
well yeah the heat come on. Yeah, just mix a
metaphor for just give me anything, give me something.
Speaker 6 (02:08:15):
Well, it's you know, it's it's like I mean, yeah, yeah,
there is. But what I was gonna say is.
Speaker 7 (02:08:23):
Look, man, you can build a snowman, but if you
get it near the near some heat, it's gonna melt.
Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:08:29):
Stay away from the heat man.
Speaker 2 (02:08:31):
What a message.
Speaker 6 (02:08:32):
It's hard analysis right there. You can only get in here.
Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
That's that's that's like doctorate stuff. Nice.
Speaker 6 (02:08:38):
Yeah, stay away from the heat man.
Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
So you're basically that's your lead a horse to water.
If you can't make a brink. You can build a
snowman in the snow, but you don't want him around heat.
Is that what you said? Okay, yeah, I got it finished, right,
let me write that down?
Speaker 6 (02:08:53):
Yeah, go ahead, right that jotted down?
Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
Yeah, okay, well I got heat. If I got it,
I gave you credit for it. It said, it said,
b l there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:08:59):
There go, there we go. Cool, good, good good. Hey,
I know we've talked a lot of Texans. You want
your Alex Bregman update.
Speaker 2 (02:09:08):
Uh still uh not in probably not interested in the
short term contract.
Speaker 7 (02:09:13):
Uh he's not interested in a short term contract. He
is still a free agent. So there you good Man,
there it is.
Speaker 2 (02:09:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (02:09:23):
I know, Dan, I know you're ready for that one
as well.
Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
Yeah, you're the You're the it's a you know who
you are. What is with Bregman? You're the weather reporter
in San Diego. It's seventy two, and Sonny it's seventy two,
and Sonny seventy two and Sonny it's Alex Bregman day.
It's he's still a free agent and hasn't signed. I
love it.
Speaker 6 (02:09:43):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
I hope he's got his plan. I hope he's got
a plan. I hope he's got a plan. Man.
Speaker 6 (02:09:48):
Uh one two. So this Thursday will be three weeks
until pictures and catchers report and he's still a free agent.
Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
And then the question is can you turn back and
still come back here? What's that? What's well to get through?
What's that door looking I mean money wise, yeah, or
is it?
Speaker 7 (02:10:06):
According according to uh Joe Espada, he he actually visited
with our guy Nate Griffin of Fox twenty six Sports,
and he said, essentially that the door is still open
in case.
Speaker 6 (02:10:20):
Bregman wants to sign with the Houston Astros. Not sure
what that would look like.
Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
At their price, right at the astrosk price right that
that that's the.
Speaker 7 (02:10:30):
Yeah six for one fifty six. So uh now, I
don't know who knows what's going to happen. And Dan
happened like the week of spring training? Yeah, Dan, what's up?
Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:10:41):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (02:10:41):
I was gonna ask you, okay from your vantage point
and we can get back to these Texans. What How
big a loss is Bregman? How big a losses if
you lose bregmant? How big a loss is it? For
forget the Kyle Tucker stuff. We already know that's a
huge loss. Just not having Bregman as an Astro next year?
How big a loss is it?
Speaker 8 (02:10:57):
As things have gone along, I've thought that it would
be an even larger loss, Like I think there would
be kind of sticker shot and buyer's remorse if you
brought him back, because no matter what you pay him offensively,
he's not going to live up to that deal. And
people can give me defense, they can give me a
great clubhouse guy, all of those different things.
Speaker 6 (02:11:16):
Do you hit or do you not? And he's kind
of slumped off on that.
Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
Do you guys ever think you'd see Alex Bregman an
average hitter? Is he average?
Speaker 6 (02:11:29):
He's he's a very good hitter.
Speaker 8 (02:11:31):
But very good hitters are the ones that I'm willing
to pay good money for ones that are you know,
below that probably not.
Speaker 2 (02:11:41):
The production hasn't been the same and we we that's
that's that's in the in the in the metrics.
Speaker 8 (02:11:46):
And the analytics of right, So I can't have him
disappear in April and may like that. That can't happen,
Like you've got to give me more out the gates.
And I mean you saw it last year and I
think it was Dana with you that said, this team
goes as Bregman goes, and once he.
Speaker 6 (02:12:03):
Started to hit, they started to win. What a novel concept?
Speaker 2 (02:12:06):
Yeah, And you can't when and then the truth is,
we I know we always well he just starts slow. Well,
he just starts slow. Right, think about the two guys
that start slow in two different sports, Bregman and Burrow.
This is Burrow and Cincinnati do this every year. How
many games did Cincinnati miss the playoffs by a game?
Then that we play games in September? Right, Dan? Exactly right, Brian.
(02:12:31):
So as you know, you guys know, I think Burrow
is otherworldly when it comes to as a quarterback. He's phenomenal.
That think about his slow and the Bengals slow start.
If they just win one of those they got beat
by what who? Who came in New England? Was it
New England?
Speaker 15 (02:12:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
Opening game of the season. Didn't they go into Cincinnati
and beat them the very first game? No business, that
zero business doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:12:51):
And I won either of those Baltimore games.
Speaker 2 (02:12:54):
That's exactly right. So just one of them, and if
you take care of one. Everybody says he's in December,
Well they play pretty damn good down to stretch and
Burrow was out of his mind and as good as
he is. One of those games from him or the
defense or in September, and the Cincinnati Bengals may still
be playing in the AFC playoffs because they can score
and they get a good quarterback. So apply it to this.
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I mean, you know, just slow starts, maybe the difference
in three or four games at the end where you'd
have a cushion to rest or you'd win the division,
or you don't win the division, you go on the road,
you stay at home. It's just and I'm we pooh
poohed away and just blow it up like, well, that's
who he is. But I think, Dan, what you're saying
is if you're going to get paid that mind, that
kind of money, that can't.
Speaker 8 (02:13:36):
Be who you are, is what you're saying to start right,
And it's also too, I mean, you're just not as
deep a lineup as you used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:13:42):
I mean that's a fact.
Speaker 8 (02:13:43):
I see the memes that everybody shares of the twenty
nineteen World Series lineup. That's not going to be around
here for some time. But I mean you're getting to
the point where seven, eight to nine in this lineup
is kind of a little bit of a it's a
hole for you. And I mean you get to that
point and people talk about oh runners in scoring position,
everything of the sort. I like Jake Myers as much
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as the next guy. I can't count on Jake Myers
on a daily basis. I can win with him, I'm
not going to win because of him. And I feel
like there's a little bit too much trust in Chas
McCormick too, And I know that they're kind of stuck
financially at the moment, but I mean, I've got to
add somebody out in left field. You cannot sell me
on this, Mauricio du Bond platoon out in left field
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and tell me this is an AL West champion team.
Speaker 6 (02:14:29):
I don't buy it. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
Yeah, I'm just ha.
Speaker 7 (02:14:37):
Yeah, we've we've talked about upgrade that outfield because you
can't start. It's you can't have an outfield that starts
Jake Jake Myers, Chas McCormick and Risio Dubon.
Speaker 6 (02:14:45):
I'm sorry this it's not gonna win you. It may
not even win you. The AO wes to be honest
with you.
Speaker 2 (02:14:50):
Well, you may be playing in truth, you may be
playing kind of like playing two bad. I mean, I
don't mean this is I know they both started, but
it's almost like two of the three outfield, well really three,
because one's your Swiss army knife. Who's ben zobrast right
in Mauricio Dubon and then the other two. I mean,
I don't know, do you do you think that either
one of them should be starting him and maybe they
should one hundred and fifty five games a year, or
(02:15:12):
do you look at them as move them around start
one hundred and twenty games? Are they Are they going
to give you the production? And maybe maybe so? I mean,
we know this organization is loved Jake Myers for a minute,
but love his glove, but his bat is inconsistent. But
he's a good guy to have on the team. And
then McCormick two years ago was outstanding, and then last
year he hit you know, he ran into I had
(02:15:33):
a struggle, struggle like tried to pull everything all the time.
See my dogs. Even he isn't even commenting on it.
I don't have I don't have a I don't have
a mute button on the on set. So there's nothing
you could do. So you guys just have to deal
with Opus letting the world out. Yeah that's Opus, right,
So what am I gonna what he says? But but yeah,
I mean you start talking about you start talking about
starting fast Opus, like, yeah, come on, we need better
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production at the in the outfield. So a lot of
respect for those guys, but you're still missing A and
A an All Star and everybody else. For all three
good players, all three good players, but is there a
great one? And they all serve the right purpose. But
it's not like you're lining up with Harper and right
field and I get that you lost that guy. So
there's some things and losing Bregmant and all that, but
(02:16:16):
it is it's we're paying people for production at the plate,
right guys, isn't that And if he wants to come back,
I'm sure the door's open. But I almost feel like
they feel like he's not going to take that money anyway,
and that that's a foregone conclusion. You guys feel different
than that.
Speaker 6 (02:16:28):
I also just worry about the corner outfit.
Speaker 8 (02:16:30):
I mean, you know, let's just take Dubon and last
year struggled at times with the Bat and you know
people were wondering, Okay, well, you know, Mauricio Dubon is struggling,
And my response was, because there's a shelf life for
Mauricio Dubon. What you've gotten out of him is squeezing
as much out of that orange as you can. And
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you know when he starts to level off of the bat.
That's the market correcting itself. And you know, with Chas McCormick,
the worry I have is I wonder if last year
is the rule not the exception. I mean, what we've
gotten out of him before has been fantastic. But once
you get more of a book on a guy and
you realize what he likes to chase and how you
can get him out well, then if you can make
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that adjustment to them making the adjustment to you, then
you're successful. If not, then we see what we saw
out a Chas McCormick last year.
Speaker 7 (02:17:23):
I just think I just think going ahead into this
season again, I just all reiterated as we go to break,
you can't. You got to try to upgrade the outfield
if you can, whether that's jerks and pro far.
Speaker 2 (02:17:37):
Hell.
Speaker 7 (02:17:37):
You know, I've even read some things that they may
even try to put jose Al Tuvey splitting time in
left field because they don't want to have yourd on
plane out there every single day. So they're gonna have
to get creative if they don't make any more moves.
I just think with Chas McCormick, Mauricio Dubon and Jake
Myers that's one of the worst starting outfields and that
those no disrespect of those guys, just a fact based
(02:17:59):
on their So we'll see if they make any more moves.
We're coming up on three weeks until pitchers and catchers report.
Who knows what will happen in between now and then.
There's still a couple of guys out there that they
could probably sign on the cheap.
Speaker 6 (02:18:10):
We'll see if it's it's done.
Speaker 7 (02:18:11):
But I think one of the things that all three
of us just hit on is games that are played
earlier in the season. So I'm gonna bring it back
to the Houston Texans because each year they win, you know,
each year that we've seen over the last two years,
they win the division, yet they go on they have
to go on the road every single time in the
playoffs and even back when Bill O'Brien was the head coach.
(02:18:32):
So let's talk about the early season games that matter
for the Houston Texans.
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What the Shawn Salisbury Show today, Seawn Salisbury, Brian Willima
here with you. Obviously, we had to make some adjustments
due to the snow this morning that's continuing to fall
around the city. We're talking Texans here on the show.
I just want to go through a couple things real quick, fellas.
When it comes to regular season games for the Houston Texans,
they had some bad losses this year. They also had
(02:19:26):
some losses to really good teams that they should have won. However,
they found ways to lose that game. So let's go
back to Week seven. They lost to Green Bay with
a plus three turnover margin, which only eight point six
percent of teams have done since.
Speaker 6 (02:19:43):
Two thousand and five.
Speaker 7 (02:19:44):
Week nine they lost to a terrible Jets team in
which they led it halftime. Week ten, they lost to
Detroit despite Jared Goff throwing five interceptions, and then in
Week twelve, they lost to one of the worst teams
in the NF actually the worst team in the NFL
since they have the number one draft pick, which is
(02:20:05):
the Tennessee Titans. They sacked Will Levis eight times, they
had a pick six, and yet they.
Speaker 6 (02:20:12):
Lost to the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 7 (02:20:15):
Sean, I know we've talked about this all the time,
that the games, it's just like in Major League Baseball
games in April and may matter just as much as
they do in September, and just like in the NFL
games in September matter just like they do in December.
And you look at some of these terrible losses for
the Texans, well you if you're Demico Ryans, you can't
be having these anymore. You know, we saw bad losses
(02:20:36):
last year. The Jets was one of them. The Carolina
Panthers after a bye week was another. It hurts your seed,
and stop getting the four seed, winning your terrible division
and having to go play on the road, or first
of all, playing a wildcard and they go play on
the road against the Baltimore Ravens or Kansas City Chiefs
because those two teams aren't going anywhere. So yeah, and
these early season games matter.
Speaker 2 (02:20:56):
Of course they do, and we get caught and it's okay.
We'll get them in December. Then you're in a chase
mode and then everything you do and sometimes that's a
good thing to put people in pressure, and then their
attention to detail lasers in So you got it somehow,
and it's not human nature. It doesn't allow. It's hard
to win all of them, and it would have been
(02:21:18):
hard to get a home field advantage this year when
Kansas City was sitting at fifteen and one going into
the last game of the season and didn't play their starters,
they got to fifteen to two. They may not get
to that mark, but you're exactly right at least got
to put yourself in position against teams you're supposed to beat.
You're gonna lose one of those. More than likely a
year most teams do. Oh, I lost the game. I
shouldn't have lost. Okay, for the Texans, it had happened
more than once. But the crazy thing, I hear this
(02:21:40):
all the time, and I can't stand it. It goes
with a third down. All third down is the most
important down. Sure it is, because that's the last down.
If it's third down four, you got a punt. But
the truth is, if I'm third and nine, like they
were a lot this year. Guess what I'm going to
do most of the time, punt, so take care of
the early down. It's the same thing in a season.
I'd much rather be in a position to where I
(02:22:02):
can I don't want to say lollygag, because you don't
ever do that. Nobody wants to get hurt. You want
to do everything you can but and be competitive. But
we're the last two weeks of the season. I'm not
under must win situation to get where I need to
go if I take care of my business September. And
it's a mindset, it's buy in, it's the details, it's
the discipline of saying, yeah, we lost the game. And
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I know that it's relative in all sports, but really
it's hard to compare it to baseball. Even though you
want to start fast and do it all. It's because
in seventeen games you really don't have a lot of
room for error. You just don't if you want to
win divisions and go and stay at home in the playoffs.
In baseball, you crazy enough. You can literally start two
and ten and you have one hundred and fifty two
(02:22:46):
games to get on a roll. Knowing that the exhaustion
that the exhaustion is going to kick into every team
in football. Some teams Kansas City didn't face exhaustion this year.
They did just enough without emptying the gas tank. Talk
about being able to pace yourself in games, to take
care of the close ones. Win big if we can
but pace themselves so at the end, our legs are fresh,
(02:23:08):
ready to go, and look at them. Here we are again.
Eight what eight in a row? Seven in a row? So, yes,
I hear it. Allow, it's more important to win in December. Well,
if you're olling four in September, one in three, or
one in five in the first five weeks of the
six weeks of the season, December ain't gonna matter that
much unless you have a run like the Cincinnati Bengals.
(02:23:28):
You just put a lot more stress on your team.
And it goes back to the focus and attention to
detail from the time the season starts. Hard to do.
The elite teams in the league have it most of
the time.
Speaker 7 (02:23:41):
Will Anderson Junior actually spoke about this topic winning games
in the regular season, and he also spoke about being
right there.
Speaker 6 (02:23:49):
So let's hear from Will Anderson Junior.
Speaker 15 (02:23:51):
We gotta win these regular season games so we can
get home field advantage. Like I know, talking to some
of the guys after the games, like, well, that's what
we have to so we can't lose to the teams
like the Titans, the Jets. You know, we gotta beat Detroit, like,
we can't suffer losses. They're like, we've got to get
home field advantage. And I think that's really gonna help us.
But if we don't, we got to find a way
on the road to win, no matter the noise, no
matter what it is, Like, we gotta find a way
to win.
Speaker 6 (02:24:12):
That's Will Anderson Junior basically reader, and what we just
said Sean.
Speaker 2 (02:24:16):
Yeah, and it is true, and it's it is And
like if you went back and looked at those games again,
if we just decided let's do it, let's let's do
it again again. Let's let's make a retroactive back to September.
Let's go back and check this out. I'll bet you
us three could sit in there and we could watch
the games together and see a play and then the
accumulation of three of those losses, I will be able.
(02:24:38):
I'll bet you anything that you won't get to fifteen
plays that are the difference in the winner the loss.
We I'm talking about all three combined. It won't be
one play, but there'll be three of our go back
to this game this week even just don't don't even
count all the field goals. And I know it's not September.
You gotta win them early. But just what he's talking
about being able to win on the road in the postseason,
if you don't have home field advantage, even if you
(02:25:00):
miss one of the field goals, and find a way
to hit too and kick an extra point, if you
make a tackle and stay in your lane on the
opening kickoff and don't give three points away before anybody
had any gatorade. If you block an a gap blitzer
to prevent a sack, so now you're not long out
of situation, and now you got a punt if you,
I mean, Baltimore is gonna look back and say the
one throw by Lamar Mark Mark Anderson's, I mean Mark
(02:25:22):
Andrews drop this one play mistackle on defense, I'll go
through and say, yeah, not we great them out. But
if you if we look at the impact of four
to six plays, six to eight plays, that's the difference.
So you tell me, is it that the other team's
just so much. Were the Titans physically better than the Texans?
Absolutely not the Jets. It's the attention to understanding that
(02:25:46):
the then pros don't like to get embarrassed. So if
you're playing a team that guy, remember they're getting ready
to play the Jets. And if I'm not mistaken, the
week before, didn't the Jets get humiliated in New England?
Did that?
Speaker 9 (02:25:57):
Was?
Speaker 2 (02:25:57):
Wasn't that the week the two week stretch? Did the
Jets go up to New England and get beat by
the Patriots in Foxborough? I believe they did, and they
were embarrassed. They looked horrible. Next week, I believe if
I if my memory serves me, the Texans went in there.
What did we say on the show? Brian players don't
like to be embarrassed. Usually when you get humiliated. After
(02:26:18):
the Baltimore Ravens did what they did to the Texans,
I know they had Tennessee, but then they they started
to play pretty damn well. Because you were humiliated by
a team that's the Super Bowl caliber team, Yeah, you
get humiliated. So am I right? Jets? Yeah? They did?
Speaker 6 (02:26:32):
They lost in in Foxborough?
Speaker 7 (02:26:34):
YEP, it wasn't they didn't get their ass kicked, but
they gave up the lead late in that game.
Speaker 2 (02:26:39):
No Rogers numbers. Yeah they didn't play well. He was no.
Speaker 7 (02:26:45):
Yeah he only threw for two hundred and thirty yards.
Breeze Haul didn't even rush for e rush for seventy
nine yards. Yeah, they did not they they got embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (02:26:53):
Right, Okay, So then they come back the next week
and they played a little better. Point is moral of
the story is the same focus?
Speaker 15 (02:26:59):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Will Anderson gets this because before the twelve team playoff
and we were down to four in the BCS, You
know what, you couldn't lose a game early, and if
you did, you had to be an Alabama or somebody
and win it late. But you couldn't. If you lost
two in September, you're pretty much done. Now with twelve teams,
Ohio State the champion. You can lose a game or
two and still be alive because you stay in the
top twelve. You're in the tournament. But in the NFL,
(02:27:22):
I mean, and when you start to lose these games,
you get to a points like man and it's only
it's just a couple. It's a handful of plays every time.
But you have to treat the college like it's You
got to start treating September like it's single elimination. I
try to tell you why is September twenty it's not
as important as as January first, or as December fifteenth.
(02:27:44):
It is as Cincinnati they will tell you it is
because they missed the playoffs by a game, and it
came to the last game of the season when somebody
else won. They had to trust somebody else to get
out of the regular seam to make the West. They
had to count on somebody else. Counting on somebody else.
Go take care of it yourself.
Speaker 7 (02:28:03):
Detail make it happen in the regular season, win the
games that you're supposed to, and take care of business.
Let's get to the final segment here on Sports Talk
seven ninety the Sewan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 6 (02:28:16):
Before we get to that fellas, how we feeling out there.
Speaker 7 (02:28:19):
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Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
Sean Salisbury continues on seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (02:30:02):
Snowing like crazy in the city. Do we talk Texans
basically all show long? Sean, I got your I got
some audio of your favorite head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
You ready to hear it?
Speaker 6 (02:30:14):
Uh mmmm, here's our favorite, Steve Kerr.
Speaker 7 (02:30:20):
Prior to the game against the Celtics yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:30:24):
Here's Steve Kerr. I don't know, I didn't watch you
chose to to watch Celtics team.
Speaker 2 (02:30:32):
Didn't just a thought of what this game. I always
love playing on MLKDA.
Speaker 11 (02:30:38):
It's curious day in for all Americans, and I think
the NBA has really kind of adopted it as.
Speaker 2 (02:30:48):
Part of our culture and we're proud of that. Yeah,
a very meaningful day for for everyone for sure.
Speaker 7 (02:30:56):
All Right, So that's Steve Kerr. He chose to bring
up Paul. It takes per usual. He was asked about
MLK Dan and he said, oh, I chose not to
watch inauguration. I chose to watch the Celtics tape.
Speaker 6 (02:31:08):
You know what the score was last night, Sean forty.
Speaker 2 (02:31:13):
Yes, I watched it, part of it. I was on TV.
I was watching it and they got they got curb stomped.
And maybe the coach needs to maybe coach a little
something else yesterday, because he coached him right into a
forty point ass whooping. But that's neither here nor there.
He's got rings on his finger and he's done a
hell of a job. But he brought into politics, right,
(02:31:33):
of course he did. And he didn't need to watch it.
He doesn't. He doesn't need to watch. That's his dig.
He and Pop love to do that. That's fine, we
all have a little fun. Didn't bother me at all.
He he just he can't wait for an opportunity to
do that because he can't stand you know, the guy
that won and it's just the way he is. He
missed a he missed some good parts of it, like
Kerry Underwood win the music they couldn't get music sella
(02:31:55):
and it was even better because the music would have
gotten the way of that great voice. It was Christine phenomenal.
It was done so yes yes and significant day in
history Martin Luther King Day, as Steve Kerr ported so
eloquently pointed out, there was no doubt and part of
the yesterday was a significant point in our history too.
(02:32:15):
It's another president and an inauguration, so it does matter
because it's gonna affect Steve Kerr at some point, Steve
Kroby affected by it whether he thinks it's good or bad,
and that's up to him. I don't care about his
political opinion. But of course he's going to dig and
get a dig in and make me laugh. My biggest
laugh was, man, you study that Celtics tape. Boy, your
team shirt didn't play attention to detail because you got
curb stop by forty. Maybe you should have listened and
(02:32:37):
watched might have helped a little bit yesterday. So yeah,
I don't. I don't really listen, you know. Anytime he
can get a little you know, rasin in or dig
in on that he will, but that he didn't watch
the inauguration so he missed that. And he also missed
the team bus at the game because they played like
nobody showed up. So there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:32:55):
Hey Dan, what what did you tell me off air
in regards to, uh, this Warriors team? Didn't you?
Speaker 7 (02:33:02):
Didn't you say something along the lines of, like players
are it might be kind of optically looking like Steve
Kerr might be losing his team.
Speaker 8 (02:33:08):
No, it was as players were tapping themselves up at
the end of the game that, uh, you know, like
Kerr was trying to like get involved kind of deal
of you know, hey, I want to say my salutations
and didn't seem like he was really being given the
time of day.
Speaker 2 (02:33:23):
Hmmm, hey, got a lot of rings on those fingers
man from his time as a player Chicago and now.
But I know what their theme song is gonna start
to be if they keep getting their ass kicked, other
teams are gonna walk into the building. They're simply gonna
play this Wris come back to play. They didn't come
out to play yesday, boss and said, oh uh, we're
(02:33:44):
gonna take you down in New Jersey Turnpike or take
you down to Coney Island and uh and and dump
on the Warriors because they played like they didn't want
to show up yesterday.
Speaker 14 (02:33:54):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (02:33:56):
They got their ass kicked. Man, my goodness, they got
their ass kicked the Texans.
Speaker 2 (02:34:03):
Texans, go to work this offseason, take some time off,
get back to work on rebuilding the roster. Dude, you
got a lot of stuff to build on core players.
I'm not trying to give them motivational speech. They've got
to be changes if they're gonna get where they want
to go, because they are a step down from the
elite teams in the league. But they have some elite
pieces to this and they've got a legitimate shot. So
(02:34:24):
rough one tough way to go out, man. On the
way that they went out with eight sacks and three
and the special teams that didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (02:34:32):
Hey, and last thing, as the college football season has
come officially come to a close stop, playing the national
title game on a Monday night is a.
Speaker 2 (02:34:44):
Gorgeous Yesterday lost all kinds of buzz. Yeah it was.
It was wrong bad timing award. We played college football
a lot of times on Saturday. It wouldn't be a
bad thing to do that with it. It was asking
was count great stuff though in Congrats Ohio State on
a big win and Notre Dame. Uh to Dame's close
to being back. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (02:35:03):
Hey, Dan Man, we really appreciate you getting into the studio.
I know you got it loaded.
Speaker 2 (02:35:07):
Thanks d Man.
Speaker 6 (02:35:09):
We always appreciate you, man. Thanks, thanks again, Man, you
all the best.
Speaker 2 (02:35:12):
We're gonna do it. Thanks, Dan, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:35:13):
Brother that is going to do it for the Seawn
Salisbury Show.
Speaker 7 (02:35:16):
He is Sean Salisbury, our producer today filling in doing
all things for Sports Talk seven ninety as always is
Dan Matthews.
Speaker 6 (02:35:23):
You can, Danny you want for the rest of the day,
like what you got play it by year. There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:35:28):
Well Dan.
Speaker 7 (02:35:28):
You can hear Dan later on the afternoon, of course
with the A Team Adam and Adam, or with the
Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 6 (02:35:33):
Uh with Ross, which is next right here on seven
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