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July 13, 2025 12 mins
Our outlook for Houston this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
My mom holds her breath every time. She's like, oh,
sweet Jesus, She's.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Like, you are not my son. She is the longest
Cowboy fan in our family. By the way, she said,
I do not know you, And no, she can't say
that because she's the only one that can take me
out in this world and be forgiven like that. You know, Hi, Mom,
how are you wait? She's in church never month, she
can't hear me.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Tell Jesus. I said, hello, So you're a Texans fan, right, Texans?
He's the only Texans fan? Were you? What were you
a Texans fan before they were there? That your Oilers fan?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Or here's how here's how I came about because I
never was a Cowboy fan. I grew up a Steelers fan,
and then I switched. When I got I became a
Merino fan, and I was a Dolphins fan for a
long time and then we retired. Is the same year
the Texans started. So now I was not going to
go with the Dolphins. I said, I'm gonna start with
the Texans. I like their uniform like uh, David was

(01:00):
about logo. I am actually I like their I like
their their their whole Uh. I liked Car at the time,
and I liked Johnson, and I was like, you know,
I'm gonna start with the Texans. I'm gonna start fresh,
because I was bummed at the Oilers left. But I said,
you know what, the Texans are going.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
To be helmet logo. Ever, by the way, yes, I
believe so.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And Stroud now then yeah, So so for years I
was in therapy, uh, because we just could not get
it going, and we could not get a line. We
could not get the receiver. We had one that retired
and we had the longest time. The only thing we
had was J. J. Watt and Gatory. That's all we had.

(01:44):
And a first round exit and a first round exit. Yeah,
we did, yeah, more than the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Don't forget.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
We had Shaw and we thought this guy was gonna
be the thing, and then he had a nervous breakdown
and that was it, and so we were back in therapy.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And so then we got.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Then we got Damiko Ryans, and man, that was when
I knew everything was gonna change. And when we got
him it did change. And we got to C. J.
Stroud and then when we had we had the the
when we got that draft choice, I remember I'll never forget.
I'll never forget where I was. I was watching the

(02:22):
Spurs game and the draft, and I was going back
and forth and I saw my son just asked me, Dad,
how's the Texas looking at getting a quarterback?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Son?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
We're twenty one in the draft. We're not gonna get
a quarterback. We're gonna probably get another defensive player. And
that's how they always roll.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
But I mean even when Mario Williams we got him
over Reggie Bush, I was kind of like, I was
so mad, but it turns out did a bit better option.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
But then we got back with so here we got.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Now we got you know, Stroud, and for the longest time,
I was like, man, you know it, strogging to the guy.
And when he had an awesome rookie year, I was like,
you know what, I'm good. I was so excited. I
was so happy. And then he was one of those
guys was just making players better. Yeah, he was making
players better. And then you started realizing who these other

(03:15):
guys were.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
And I think you start realizing he's a rookie. I thought.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I thought Bobby Slovik was going to be like the
next Shanahan or McVeigh like offensive mine to like be
like the next like guru head coach.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I thought saw that was like next up. I thought
he was gonna. Yeah, I thought he was gonna.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I was glad that they kept him at quarterback, I mean,
the offensive coordinator. Then they did. When we got Demko,
I was like, oh see we're called we were, we
are what you call San Francisco light.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
We're getting all the player. True, we are.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
But I gotta ask you this though, because is this
division competitive? Especially when the Jacksonville Jaguars doing what they
did with Travis Hunter. You've got Trevor Lawrence, right, he's
looking to bounce back, as we like to say, Hey Sunchine.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
You know you've got weird juvol And then you've got
the old number one pick. I don't know if you
know of this guy. He used to be a University
of the Carnate word cardinal. You know, cam Ward, he's
got a.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Much slow receiver. So it's gonna be rough as first year.
But we say that, but we also said for CJ.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Stroud it was gonna be a rough year for him
to his first year, and he was very impressive. Cam Ward,
Is that guy. Cam is that guy that can flip
a program around. Because when even when he left Washington
State and went to Miami, everybody's like, what are you
gonna do?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Look what he did with Miami.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Now, of course they did the Pop Tart Bowl or whatever,
but the thing is is that he turned Miami to
go into the University of Florida in the swamp and
just completely destroy the Gators.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is cam Ward. When I saw.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Cam Ward, I said, I like this kid, big kid.
I liked him where I was like, let's trade our
pick for next year and get cam Warred.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
I knew cam Ward was gonna be good when I
saw him in his first year Washington State and he
was doing a lot of the The offensive line they
had back them was terrible, and they run a lot
of like that that the spread offense out there, and
so they have a lot of deep patterns because they
have really bad route runners.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
These guys ain't getting overen for like four or five seconds.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You want to know why I did not want Strout
is when I saw him into Ohio State and when
Michigan was beat man handling him over there.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, the X Wolverine made a lot of mistakes the
X Men, Wolverine, Wolverine tie to do on that.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
And when I saw him on the bench and I
looked like he looked like he had no confidence in
himself whatsoever. I said, I don't want that on our team.
He got rattled by pressure, he got rattled by pressure.
I said, I don't want that on a team. And
I wanted the other kid from USC, Cam Williams, Cam Williams,
No Williams, I said, I want him. And it's like,

(05:58):
we're not gonna get him. We're not gonna get everybody
was picking that we're gonna get stra Stroud. No, I
don't want stress. Sure enough, we got Stroud. But but
but going back to the draft, I just told my son,
we're at twenty one. Then I see Cleveland, as they
always do, Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
So they went in and we got a trade with
the Texas. I'm like, hold on, I said, nobody moved.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And then I started hearing talking about yeah, they're gonna
get a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
They're gonna get a quarter I'm like, oh, nobody move.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, And then I found out that we were going
to have uh we got Stroud yep. And I was like, oh, man,
I was so excited now because he was something that
we're still talking about and somebody can just jump in
there and build his confidence up.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Man Demiko was the guy that said, you know what,
I'm going all.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
In with you, CJ. And he put him in as
a leader, put him in as a leader. And what
happened and.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
What you saw last year from the Texans, and it
wasn't necessarily a sophomore slump.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
It just wasn't as productive as his rookie year.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
But a lot of that had to do. And we
talked about the free show was the offensive line. They
had to reach shuffle for that bad boy. They brought
in Cam Robinson, They kicked out Shaq Mason, who was
the worst guard in the NFL, and Tunsil.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, they moved Howard de guard was good.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
And I don't know how Blake Fisher is gonna look
in his second year at tackle, but y'all have at
least have options.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
I like y'all's interior offensive line more than y'alls tackles
right now, because I'm not really big on Ken Robinson,
to be honest.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
So my thing is the offensive I mean the receiving line.
You know, it's like we got we got Tankdale. I
hope wanted him to come. I don't think he's gonna
be back this year. I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I was hoping he would be back. But we got
Christian Kurr.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
We picked him up off the off the trades of
the of the trade, the wire, the trade wire in
the way wine.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
We had Nico Collins. Nico Collins, who's a stud by
the way, top ten receiver. Oh man, I think I
think at least Diggs. I hated to lose him. We
I think we needed to. It was, yeah, you did.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
He was more of a distraction than he was becoming
to just he wasn't necessary for what y'all want to do.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Right if this was like five six years ago, Stefan Diggs,
you can deal with the distractions and when the stuff
that comes along with that, because the production outweigh is
what he does.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
And now y'all brought in both Iowa state receivers.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I got Jayden Higgins, who's like a six to four monster,
Jalen Knowle, who's like Christian Kirk light really fast guys.
So y'all at least have options for him, and you'll
have old reliable Dalton Schultz, who they really productive.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
He's not. He's not a flashy tight end.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
But if you have a tight end who the bies
can get open, get you eight yards, that's kind of
all you need when you're speeded on the outside.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Anyway, and we got Nick Chubb. I'm not I I
told him this.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
I told Tyler, I told Cowboys fans who asked me
a lot, I don't. I didn't want Nick Chub because
I don't want thirty year od running backs on bad knees,
not knee knees so bad.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
When I'm saying thirty is bad knees, No, the thing is,
I'm past thirty two. But if you're in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
In the NFL, thirty is basically fifty because especially.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
In radio, because I'm forty four, Shane, I'm gonna come back.
I'm gonna come back. When Chubb runs Joe mixing guy,
Nick needs to be the offset guy. He's not the
guy no more, definitely the offset guy.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's gonna be the guy that takes touchdowns from mixing
because it's gonna be one years.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I think in my fantasy, he's going to be that guy. No,
what messes you up?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
In your fantasy sir is you pick your team. Never
pick anybody on your team because they'd be being a
New Orleans Saints fan. There's nobody to pick. It's really
not when people.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Talk about all defensive line, y'all have to top ten,
top fifteen edge rushers and Danil Hunter and Will Anderson,
who are gonna get like ten saxons.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I want to play the Devil's advocate here for you
Texans talk right now. You guys are like, it's a breezy,
it's gonna be AFC SO champions.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Who's who's gonna Who's gonna keep people? Thank you for
leading into my next part here.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I know who's gonna say. But the Jaguars. I want
you to really understand they are a hot mess. Right
but let me tell you this. Who was the most
successful team against the tush push of the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Jaguars. They were the most successful team. They could
stop the tush. They only put exit only on that thing.

(10:00):
Right now, I want you to understand this. Ten one
score losses for the Jaguars last year.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Ten ones. So that's the tail of a flip of
a coin, isn't it. That's that's on coaching.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Now, let me tell you we don't. We run it
in like a man. We don't do that to push.
We don't like a man would we can go off
the tackle, We'll run in there string. We ain't doing
this to push stuff, so they ain't gonna have to
worry about us.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
We run straight.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, Eagle fans push.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I'm gonna tell you right now.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Just like I don't take the South seriously, the Jaguars
are the caveat because I don't believe what the culture doing.
I don't know how Daniel Jones and Anthony Richard his
true quarterback better.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
I think that's huge. What cam Ward? Yes or no? Better?

Speaker 4 (10:46):
For the Titans, Yes, he's better, but but he's better,
and I'm glad they rebuilt it.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
They rebuilt that offensive line. That's huge for him.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
He has. He has a good Titan, but he has
receivers are old and battered, and they all run slot routes.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
He has no one to eat them deep. That's true.
Not only that I didn't I did not see.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't think that they I didn't think they had
a problem at quarterback.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
I really didn't, But.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Hey, yeah you did. You had this guy from Kentucky.
That would he actually put like sour cream in his coffee.
I forget his name, but he and then also is
it May?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, May? It was May. He went to New England. Yeah,
good old New England. Thank God. They're not good any
war back.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I mean, I was trying to remember who their quarterback was,
mayreg May.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's it May. That's right, He's like so knowledgeable. It's
pretty good.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
But to say that, you know, forty four, what is
the age of forty four in radio?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
There's anybody that's going to give the Texas a run
for the money, It's going to be Indianapolis and Jacksonville.
I mean, if they can get because I think they
just picked up another receiver, a solid receiver.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I can't remember who it was. I don't know. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
But coming up, what I want to jump back into,
or shall I say, dribble back into, is the San
Antonio Spurs and how they'll be NBA champions next year.
That's all next on the Fanatics on Ticket seven sixty
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