Welcome aboard, Welcome to another Space City Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety Dad
Matthews Live and local h Town breakdown of the world that matters to you,
the Houston sports world, all these great Houston fans here. We love y'all.
So finish up on that to do list, flute up the cooler,
because you can't drink in talk sports all day if you don't start. Now
bear me the eight. This is Space City Saturday. It's insane. Here's
seven nineties Dad Matthews. Remember I've given the rules before about day drinking.
You know, it's one of those where you won't get the looks from the
judge, the old woman. Well it's before noon, how could you be
doing that? And I've said that. A couple of places that are fine
are the airport. If you're at the airport and somebody does that, hey
dude, I'm nervous about flying. What's your problem? Or even on a
football tailgate day, and that's where you can be able to get those things
going. But Saint Patrick's Day weekend, and I call this Saturday of Saint
Patrick's Day weekend adult Saint Patrick's because it's funny. I was talking about this
with Ross yesterday. Ross Hiller real, of course, is who I'm talking
about, and he was saying about Monday, because Matt is going to be
out. I believe they are leaving to go to a DC for the second
part of their games against the Washington Wizards, them being the Rockets, of
course, and he was saying, you know, oh, Monday, you
know it might be a little sluggish. I said, well, dude,
do your Saint Patrick's day partying on Saturday. That's the plan right there,
and tomorrow we're green. I'll do all those different types of things, but
the day drinking is going to cease at a certain point and I'll start to
get ready for the week because we're adults here after all right. I mean,
that's really what it finally boils down to. And that's kind of what
I related to Ross is, Ross, we can't be showing up Monday hungover,
man, Like we're past that age. It's one of those you know,
hey man, you know everything, all right, Yeah, I'm a
little hungover man. That's messy. That's come on, man, like you
or where's your life? You're kind of spiraling out of control. That's that's
not the way to live. So anyway, I feel like today is a
day that if you're out there and you're of the adult variety, well then
put it on. But if you are not, and you feel like you
can still hang with the young kids, well then sure go tomorrow. Go
go crazy tomorrow. I know. I think our friends over at the Buzz
are doing stuff all weekend out in Edo. I know that Teresa rock Face,
Teresa Clanton, she's gonna be out at what was it Little woodros in
Edo tomorrow. So's a lot of good stuff happening all weekend here. So
again, not to be lost in all of this, Happy Saint Patrick's Day
weekend. All right, hour one of the show today. Here by the
way, Dan Matthews here with you on a full Space City Saturday. It's
been a while, Adam Snyder since we've been able to say that, So
got Adam Snyder behind the glass helping me along this morning. But we will
do the full two hours of the show and then coming up in about five
hours, Rockets launch Pad can be coming your way right here. So that's
the other thing as well, a little bit of Rockets basketball coming up today.
Normally Saturday evenings is when they come your way, but no four o'clock
tip for that one over at Toyota Center, so you can have Matt Thomas
and the crew bringing that along for you, so you have that to look
forward to this afternoon. And also too on the iHeartRadio family of stations four
fifty Astros and Mets Spring Training Action, where can you find that? News
Radio seven forty KTRH is where you can find that one. And then the
Kugs going for the Big twelve title this evening. You can find it over
on Talk nine to fifty. That is KPRC nine fifty, so AM nine
to fifty is where you can find that one. And also to on the
Rockets Call today, it's going to be empty and WEX coming your way,
so you have that to look forward to. But here an hour one of
Space City Saturday gonna be all Astros conversations, So if you want to weigh
in, you can. It's someone three two, one, two, five,
seven ninety. I know most of us yesterday, I mean the day
got started with Chandler Rome's report that the Astros still in the free agent market
for a starting pitcher. Then we get the news about Jose Archidi, and
then last night we get the report that the Astros were in pursuit of Blake
Snow, Well, where does that stand right now? I think it pretty
much stands a status quo of what we learned last night. But we will
see exactly where things are as we move along in the show today. Of
course, gonna be scouring the interwebs to see if there's anything that is broken
on that front, but we will keep you up to date here on your
home of the Astro Sports Talk seven ninety so you got that to look forward
to. So again here on this episode of Space City Saturday, we are
on Blake snow Watch, so we will keep a watch. Jose Rakety leaving
his start yesterday, Chandler Rome reporting that the Astros should know more about him
today, so we'll see exactly what is the latest with Jose Rakety. I
mean again, you know I've talked about this before, I mean with Justin
Verlander when he first had the shoulder issue and we were a little bit worried
about him. Then we started to wonder, all right, is this gonna
be a long term thing? Because we've seen shoulder issues that have crept up
and have been persistent with certain astros before. Didn't mcculors have a shoulder issue.
But you know, of course, I mean we remember Michael Brantley having
the most famous of all astro shoulder issues that you know, it's one of
those things that when you hear about it at first, and of course you
know, Jake Myers had had one too that lingered for about a couple of
years. But for pictures normally, I'm not as concerned about shoulder issues.
And for Verlander, the good news with him has been he's been throwing through
a bullpen and yesterday, you know, was asked about the fact that,
you know, maybe that live hitters could be on the horizon for him,
and he said, yeah, that's definitely on the table. So we'll see
how that all progresses. But we'll see if indeed he is throwing two live
hitters next week. But erkaty, that's what I'm getting to is the elbow,
And as soon as I hear sonis in the elbow, I'm like,
uh oh. I mean, you know, ask a Yankees fan this week
how they feel about elbows. Because Garrett Colean it's going to keep him out
for at least two months. And that's the other part of it as well,
that for the Yankee fans out there listening, you're thinking about Garrett Cole,
and you're thinking about, you know, is he going to pitch some
time this season? I mean, think about it. If he's shut down
for about two months, then he's got to come back and he's got to
ramp back up. All right, fine, you know that's long toss,
that's flat ground, that's all of those different types of things. Then he's
got the rehab assignments. So at this point, that's April, that's May,
June, July, maybe after the All Star break. Is when you're
talking about Garrett Cole. If everything lines up and goes perfectly right for him,
I think, is what you're talking about with Garrett Cole. So with
Rakidi, I mean, it's definitely not ideal, especially too, when you
factor in what he means to this rotation and what he means in, you
know, just overall to this team in terms of being able to give you
a lot of innings, and being able to give you useful innings, and
being able to throw strikes, all of those different types of things. That's
what hurts about that middle relief questions. All of those things, they persist
and we will get into all of them as well. But let's head on
out to the phone line. Someone three two one two five seven ninety.
Always know I can count on this guy, Martin and Angleton wants to weigh
in here on Space City Saturday. Martin, what's going on, buddy?
Hey Dan? How are you doing, sir? I just have one question
about Blake Blake Sanell? How many years is he looking at? Are we
looking at with his contract? I'll saw online it's in the range of thirty
million per year? But how many years are we looking at with Blake Sanel?
Do you know? I have not seen any in terms of reports of
what they're looking for, what the Astros are offering. But if I had
the guess, I mean, I would think that the you know, maybe
a little bit of the hang up right now is that he's looking for a
multi year commitment and the Astros might be offering him, I don't know,
a year plus a club option or maybe even a player option or something like
that, and that's probably the hang up at this point. But if I
had the guess, I mean, for the numbers that you were just throwing
out right there, of about thirty plus, I would have to believe the
Astros would want it on the short term variety, or maybe even he goes
kind of the Carlos carea route of basically, you're on a one year contract
for three years, where every single year it comes to an option of do
you opt in or do you opt out and try to get a longer term
deal somewhere else. So in terms of just the overall terms, I have
not seen any of those disclosed just yet. How much How old is Blake
I didn't even check this morning how old he is. Do you know how
old Blake is? Blake Snell is thirty one, So thirty one. Yeah,
So I mean that's probably why you wouldn't want to go long on a
deal. But yeah, I mean, you know, I think that that's
probably what's holding a little bit of this up right now. He did make
sixteen million last year, by the way, Martin appreciate the call. Buddy
got a run. Did make sixteen million last season. But you know,
I mean again, it just also to you factor in what the Astros have
been in terms of an organization, and they are, for the most part
an organization that when you have guys that are around the age that Blake Snell
is, well, you're not going to go super long here, because if
they do, I feel like that sets a dangerous precedent for negotiations they have
coming up. Alex Bregman, Kyle Tucker, Robert Valdez, those type of
guys that you also have as well, that if you, you know,
bend the knee here and give a serious amount of money and years to Blake
Snell, then all of a sudden, the same guy who represents him is
the same guy who represents another one of those huge names that I just mentioned.
Alex Bregman is going to come back and say, oh, you know
you did it from my other guy, why don't you do for this guy
too as well? And I think that's a little bit of the song and
dance that's being sung and dance to right now with the Astros and Scott Boris.
But again, you know, I think that the other part of it
as well is that if Chandler Rome is reporting that this is at least being
discussed at the moment, then I'm going to take it as biblical word.
Because Chandler does a fantastic job covering the team. I don't just say that
because he's on with us on the A team every single week. But you
know, if he is putting it out there, he's putting his name on
it, then I think you could pretty much take it as yes, the
Astros are serious about trying to do this, so we will see how it
all shakes out. Again, if you want to join Martin and the crew
joining us here on the show, you can at someone three two on two
five seven ninety. You know, by the way, I thought about this
on my way in, and you know one thing that I will never do
to you the listeners out there is what do you think? Radio? That
is never going to happen. I'm going to throw out my thoughts. I'm
going to be having a conversation with myself, maybe with a guest or somebody
like that, who knows, But I'm never going to do the what do
you think? Radio? So I just want you to know that the door
is always open to you if you want to join in. It's not just
me. You're welcome to join in and talk to me talking to myself in
all of you. Absolutely at seOne three two on two five seven ninety.
But I Am never going to just do the oh hey, do you think
the astro should sign Blake snow someone three two one two five seven ninety.
That is awful radio. That is horse bleep radio. You don't want any
part of that radio. And some of you might say, oh no,
I like that radio. You don't like that radio, okay, And if
you don't, then it's time for people like me to tell you you shouldn't
like that radio. So we're not gonna do that here ever, ever,
ever. So I just want to let you know that the door is always
open. Now here's the caveat to it as well. Is I'm talking Astros
right now, right And you call up Adam Snyder and you say, oh,
I want to talk Texans. Well, guess what, Adam Snyder,
We're not talking Texans right now. We're not talking rockets, we're not doing
any of those things. So if stuff like that happens, be prepared to
hold or just call back later. We'll get into those conversations. But anyway,
we'll continue the Astros conversation because there is a ton to get to.
Jake Myers continues to become Rake Myers and down in spring training, so we'll
talk about him from or getting the nod for opening day. Yep, that's
on the table. Next hour, we'll get into a little bit more of
the other topics of conversation sports wise, I mean Texans, Oh, you
know it, We're gonna get into some Texans. We will do that next
hour as well as the Coug's going for their first Big Twelve title in basketball.
We will talk to them and maybe sprinkling just a little bit of Rockets
there, just a little bit, because well, you know, as we
get to this point in the season, yes, they are technically in the
play in round conversation, but for the most part, I mean, I
think we can agree that it would pretty much be pipe dream at this point
for the Rockets to reach that point. So we'll see if indeed they are
able to do that, but again we will talk all of it. Koog's
in Iowa State coming up a little later this afternoon over on KPRC nine point
fifty. That's where you can catch Jeremy Brandam and the crew calling that one.
But we'll continue the Astros conversation next because coming up next, if the
Astros do you land Blake Snell, you can think guys like Renelle Blanco for
making that happen. What's the connection you'll find out next right here, Horse
Talk seven ninety. We now return to Space City Saturday. Sports Talk seven
ninety Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews here with you on this Saint Patrick's Day
weekend Saturday. So you know you're driving around, You're driving around. You
know, a little one in the back seat. I gotta go to the
bathroom, daddy, not now, damn it. There you go, a
little Tommy boy for you. Don't say I never did anything for you.
And you don't want the new guy in the corner pucinis guts out, you
know, you don't want at the end all because you want to save a
little bit of money on your break pads. I mean to me, that's
get out. So there you go. That's where we'll ended right there.
But anyway, I know that the errands are being run right now. Maybe
it's an oil change, maybe it's a car wash, maybe it is you
know, whatever the hell is being done, especially too, you know with
the weather out there. You know, as I was talking some golf with
Doug Pike there the do busters, maybe a little bit of a tough task
this morning, trying to get the early morning golf round in. But maybe
that was the case as you wanted to try to get it in. But
we'll see how the weekend all breaks down. All right, So I said
that Renel Blanco will be a huge person to think if indeed the Astros do
land Blake Snow Because I'm driving around last night listening to Robert Ford and the
Astros radio crew as they were doing the game between the Tros and Phillies.
I mean, at least hitting wise, good stuff last night, and I
talked about this last week. Look, don't do pros and cons with spring
training baseball. I saw somebody do that last week on social media, and
I seriously wanted to jump through my computer screen and grab the person and yell
in their face stop doing that, because it's ridiculous. It's preseason football,
preseason basketball, all of those things on steroids. Do not try to break
down and analyze a single spring training game. That's ridiculous. Baseball about the
long game, right, we know about this, and we'll talk about this
a little bit later on in the show, But don't ever analyze a single
spring training game. It's ridiculous. It's dumb. Because it's also too every
single day guys are going out there with the really you know, strong purpose
of you know, I want to be able to work on keeping my back
leg, you know, in terms of a swing, or I want to
work on my timing. I want to work on tracking the baseball. All
of those different types of things hitting wise, those are things you're trying to
do pitching. I mean, that's where I saw it. I saw this
person say the pros and cons for a for what was it Christian Hobbier's outing.
Guess what the pros are? And the only thing that matters did he
throw strikes? I don't care about anything else. I don't care how hard
you got hits. I don't care about two home runs giving up. I
don't care about anything else. Did he throw strikes? That's all I care
about. That's the number one thing. That's the only thing that I care
about. That's it. So anyway, I say all that to say of
what Robert Ford said last night, and he was talking about if the Astros
did indeed land Blake snow Well, we know that the Astros I believe,
lost their second and fourth draft pick for signing Josh Hater. Okay, fine,
if I'm not mistaken, and again you can get at me at Dan
Matthews Hou on Twitter at Dan Matthews Hou if I am mistaken about this,
but I believe Robert Ford said that the Astros would possibly lose their third and
sixth highest picks if indeed they did sign Blake Snell. And I know that
some of you out there might be seeing, well, wait a minute,
Dan, we can't just be given away draft picks, right, I mean,
we lost a couple of them in twenty twenty because of the sign skeealing,
and I believe twenty one as well, they lost draft pick or draft
picks for that year. But now we get to the point where it's you
know, now you're gonna be losing more this year. And I'm reminded of
something that Dana Brown said about a month ago when we met with them before
they headed down to Florida for spring training. It was when the Astros did
their whole Hey taste our food, this is what we're gonna have at Minute
Made Park this season. Hey, we're gonna let you know that we're relentless
for twenty twenty four. So you got that going. And Dana Brown asked
about the draft, you need talked about look in every draft, if you
can find a couple of major leaguers in that draft. Then you've done your
job. And I think that Dana Brown looks at it and says, even
though that the draft is a little bit more paired down it that he used
to because it's no longer fifty rounds, they finally said, yeah, that's
adding too many guys into the minor league system. We don't need that many.
Let's go however many rounds it is now, what is it twenty five
or something like that. You get my point, it's not as long.
So anyway, I think Dana Brown looks at it and says, okay,
let's just say conservatively, we have a draft pick in every single round,
right, so that would be twenty five new players. But if you take
away at least for right now, where you'll have twenty three, or if
you signed Blake Snell and they add two more, you'll have twenty one players.
I think Dana Brown looks at it and says, this is why I'm
here. This is why you brought me here. You brought me here to
be able to run that part of the team. You brought me here to
be able to find those guys and to be able to develop those guys.
But more importantly, where does Renel Blanco and guys like him fit into this?
I said Christian Hobvier. Christian Hobvier, He's another example from Ervaldez,
He's another example. Remember, these are guys from the international market that the
Astro has been lauded for for signing later on in their careers and signing them
for cheaper and now they've become very meaningful contributing players on a championship roster.
And Renel Blanco is the newest guy who last night another impressive outing, and
I think he's pretty much giving himself at least a real tough conversation for Dana
Brown and Joe Spotted to have as we break in about a week, which,
by the way, next week that is the end of spring training.
Then we come back it's the Astros against the Space Cowboys. And then in
earnest March twenty eighth, right here on your home of the Astro Sports Talk
seven to ninety, this season gets going from ber Valdez against Nestra Cortez.
We already know the opening day, the lineup, the way it's going to
be in terms of the rotation, how it's going to go. So we've
got that. But the way that those guys fit in on this is I
think the astros feel like we have success doing that, We have success signing,
developing and bringing these guys along from the international market. That the draft
at a certain point, Yeah, it's important, we need it, don't
We don't just completely discard it. We're not going less sneed of the la
rams here and having shirts on that say f them picks. But I think
the astros absolutely subscribe to something else that somebody said, my good buddy Casey
Stern of MLB Network Radio, where he's got a shirt out there that says
parades over prospects. And that's the way that Jim Crane, that's the way
this organization looks at it right now is they say, we're not necessarily in
the prospect business. It's nice to be in that business. It's fun,
it's great, but soon enough you've got to be able to turn the corner
where it's the Major League roster is the one that means the most at the
moment, because the Astros are very much square in a window where they can
continue to go for more Commissioner's trophies to be put inside the trophy case over
there at minute made Park and adding a guy like Blake Snell can absolutely do
that. And it's kind of the Damn the Torpedoes approach here at that point,
because it's saying, yes, the draft is important, but at the
same time, it's not the utmost importance for us. The utmost importance for
us is getting back to the Alcs and getting back to the World Series.
Who can help us do that? Oh God, that's one to say.
Young a couple of times named Blake Snell. He can do that. And
if you lose draft picks, so be it. I am absolutely on board
with making this move. I've come around on it. At first, before
Jose Orchidi got hurt, before Justin Verlander was going to be on the eve
with even with Verlander going on the IL to start the season, I was
still kind of like, I don't know, I think you feel pretty good
about what you have for the first couple of months, And again a little
bit later on the show, I'll get in about kind of the roadmap for
the season, like kind of how to view things, because the early months
of the season, find your footing. Just find your footing. If you're
around five hundred, then that's fine. And you know the rule is as
well. Baseball fans know this that you don't start standings watching until after Memorial
Day. And then after Memorial Day you can start doing that a little bit,
but even then you're not going to be the same team. You want
your team playing your best baseball in August, September, October, and even
in the November, because if you're playing well in November, what does that
mean? Oh, that means that nice gold trophy with the Pennance on it,
it's hoisted up by your team. Again, you get Kevin Burkhart and
the crew up there, you get Jim Crane talking to the crowd, you
get all those different types of things, and we get another parade in downtown
Houston, which if that happens again, if anybody from the Astros is listening,
can we get on the from Er Valdez float this year. I'd love
to be able to Stone Cold Steve Austin some beers with the guys you know,
and be able to say, hey, this is awesome. You guys
really know how to have fun on this float, man, Let's have some
fun. So that's where we're at, and that's a good place to be.
If you're an Astros fan, because it could be where we've been in
the past where it's hey, those guys are coming, but they're coming later.
We don't want that life anymore, right, And that's something that other
cities are living right now. That's something that other organizations are living. And
I think that it's also too as well that we reach a certain point where
you know exactly what you need in order to be able to try to reach
that point, and adding a guy like Blake Snell absolutely gives you that opportunities.
So as of right now where things stand, sounds like conversations are still
being had between Snell and all so too the Astros and where things are going
from that point. So we will keep you up to date on that.
Again, we will be with you here until noon, so if anything breaks
between now and then, we'll have that for you here on Sports Talk seven
ninety. But again too, if you want to listen to Astros Baseball today
over on news Radio seven forty k t RH, because we're gonna have afternoon
Rockets for you here on your home of the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Stand the man Northfleet. He's gonna be in this chair coming up at
three o'clock for Rockets launch Pad. Than it is sports mpt and Adam Jay
Wexler coming your way on here, as they will have the Rockets in the
Cavaliers coming your way here on your Home of the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety.
So we've got all of that coming up a little bit later on.
But as I said, Astros all this hour, So any of your Astros
comments, questions, anything you have, you can weigh in at someone three
two two five seven Ounty. Like I said, that door is always open.
You want to step in, You want to knock on the door really
quick? Hey, Skip, you want to see me? Yeah, come
on in, sit down, let's talk a little bit. But we will
continue that along because coming up next, if the Astros take a step forward
this year with the Bats, well the season could be even better than we
imagined. And one guy I feel like, unlocks that door and opens it
up even further for all of us. We'll talk about that as we continue
along here on Space City Saturday. I'm Dan Matthews here on your Home of
the Astros and the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety as the Astros again spring training
action coming your way a little bit later on Today over on news Radio seven
forty kt RH is where you can catch the Stros. But as the Strows
continue to move along and get ready for the twenty twenty four season, a
guide that had a lot of people kind of scratching their heads a little bit
in terms of where he could fit into the overall makeup of this team in
twenty twenty four is Jake Myers. And a lot of people when Dana Brown
all throughout the offseason had said that the Astros would be employing him as their
everyday center fielder, a lot of people said, come on, man,
really, like, that's who we're gonna go with every single day. Chazz
Chaz, Chaz Chaz. That's who needs to be the center fielder and then
plug somebody out there in left field. But the Astros like the makeup of
going with Chazz and left, Jake Myers in center and Kyle Tucker over in
right. And the big key with Myers has been how does he handle the
bat well. That's been something that at times has been a little bit of
a struggle for him, although the power last year was one that had a
huge uptick for him ten homers, thirty three RBI for him, batted too
twenty seven last year, which she likes see a little bit more of the
ops. Yeah, I'd like to see that up a little bit more,
as we else six seventy eight. But this spring, hearing about a confident
Jake Myers, hearing about Jake Myers two, who's able to hit the power
ball as well. The last two out of the last three games that he's
played in home runs, one against the Mets there in Port Saint Lucie and
then against the Nationals the following night hitting a towering shot over at Cacti Park
of the Palm Beaches, So you had that. But overall this spring,
it has been a very good spring. Three forty eight one to two ops
out of Jake Myers. Those are definitely things you like to see. And
for Jacob Berkshire Myers, it has been a little bit of a battle of
consistency with him. I mean, a guy that at times has looked overmatched
at the plate. And then there's also times like that series against the Yankees
last year where you're like who is this guy? Like where has this guy
been? Can you show up like a lot more often? Because if you
do, then that's really good. We love to see that, and he
has been kind of just across the board as a major league hitter. But
this season for Myers, I feel like, if nothing else, if he
is able to give you something in the middle there where. I was talking
with somebody last night. I said, if Myers is a two thirty two
to forty hitter, that's a win. That is a guy that hopefully the
power numbers continue to creep along with him and he is able to run into
one every so often. But he's at the bottom of your lineup, and
you already have with the subtraction of Martine Maldonado, now you have a longer
lineup than you had the Astros last year and for many years we're batting with
eight. Let's call it what it is. And if you got a little
bit of contributions out of Maldonado with the bat, that was an absolute bonus.
And now with him gone and you've got Janer Diaz who also has had
a pretty good spring. But for a guy like Myers to be able to
have the spring that he's having right now, and you hope that he is
kind of going through these at bats and saying, huh, okay, this
piece of wood I can swing it. I can be able to put some
barrels on the baseball. I can make some things happen. What he gives
you defensively, what he gives you from a speed perspective, that's a bonus
as well. But he is somebody that holds an absolute key to this lineup
this year because if he is able to be let's just say capable with the
bat in twenty twenty four, then that's an even deeper lineup than you had.
Remember last year in the Alcs against the Rangers, you saw your lineup
against their lineup where they had Loyote Tavers at the bottom of the order,
who is probably going to be a leadoff hitter at some time during his career.
But that was the difference that you had seven eight to nine in your
order was nothing compared to what they had. And in four of those seven
games, that was the difference in the series. They were able to lengthen
the lineup, they were able to make things happen at that point, and
it was something that you know, really turned out to be the difference maker
in that series. So a guy like Myers, he holds the key if
he is able to be like I said, capable with the bat, cut
down the strikeouts just a little bit, but be able to put more balls
in play. Then it flips it over to the top of the order,
al Tuve Jordan Alvarez, which, by the way, too ord On the
foot was not the issue last night. If you missed Joe Aspota after the
game, if you don't follow Brian McTaggart or Chandler Rome on Twitter, it
was an allergic reaction. They said. His left eye started to swell a
little bit. They weren't sure if maybe he ate something or you know,
who knows, maybe got stung by a bee. I don't know what happened,
but that's what happened with jord On. I guess he got back to
the dugout and they're like, oh man, what's up with you. All
right, let's let's pull you out of this game. We don't need much
more out of you for the rest of this one. I mean, that's
pretty much again kind of go back to what I was talking about, was
spring training baseball a little bit earlier. Stuff like that. The Astros see
things like that, they're like, there's no need to push it. Why
are we pushing it in the middle of March. We need you. In
the middle of May, that's where we need you. We need you in
June and July, all of those different types of scenarios for this team,
that's when we need you on the field. So that's what you saw last
night. But for again, a guy like Jake Myers, I'm just looking
for capability this Season's that's all I'm looking for out of him. And I
think that that's probably the conversation that is being had with him by Joe Espada,
with Dana Brown, even with guys in his own clubhouse. I'm just
saying, hey, man, just put it together. Every single day.
There's gonna be oh for Forest, that's gonna happen. There's gonna be three,
four or five game stretches where you're at the plate and you're just like,
man, like, what's going on? Like that's just I just can't
find it right now. That's a major league season. That's what happens,
and slumps happen, and also too good streaks happen as well, you know
where you can really start to run into them and really start to feel good
with the swing and going from the But for him, again, if he
is able to be kind of in that two thirty. If he creeps into
two fifty, that's even more of a win this season for him. And
again, I think that the key for him is just putting together good at
bats, because that's who I had seen at times last season coming back,
and the shoulder had still been a little bit of an issue for him.
Remember too, heard it against the White Sox, and pretty much ever since
that White Sox playoff series, you hadn't necessarily seen a consistent Jake Myers on
the field. But as me and Ross phil Real caught up with him a
few weeks ago, shoulder feels good. He feels good also too. The
confidence is there. I mean, we were hearing about it when we were
there in West Palm Beach for spring training. That's, you know, the
swings feeling good. He likes his approaches at the plate, all of those
different things as he was facing live pitching there on the backfields, and he's
carried it over on to the spring training fields and that's been something that if
he is able to be at least a capable bat there at the bottom of
the order, that lengthens the order even more because the astros as it goes
right now we know the top of the order, right. We know al
Tuve, we know Jordan Alvarez, we know Alex Bragman, we know janer
Diez. To a certain point, He's gonna be an everyday guy this year,
So maybe we get to see a little bit more production out of him
this season. That would be a huge plus. Although I've talked about it
before with catchers, don't think that the production is going to stay there all
the way through. If you're an everyday catcher, the fatigue and the squatting
and all of those things is going to eventually catch up with you and that
part of your game starts to struggle a little bit. So it's gonna be
interesting to see how he holds up this season. Where does Victor Caratini fit
into the mold in terms of giving him days off? Maybe he DHS,
maybe he plays first base. All of those different things fit in, And
Joe Spot has talked about it numerous times of using rest days and using the
DH as a pseudo rest day this year, and then another that fits into
this category as well as Jeremy Pinya. Does the power return this season?
So far this spring, we've not seen a ton of power out of Pania.
But then again, you know you're playing every other day, maybe getting
a little bit of action on the backfields in minor league games. I mean,
I know that that's something they've talked about, as well as getting him
as many at bats as possible with this new batting stance and being able to
try to see him try to come along and get that part of his game
back. But overall, I mean, you're thinking about this batting order one
through nine, of having the outfield the way that I broke it down.
The infield, we know how it is, we know how the battery is
going to be. With the starting rotation at least currently constructed, and also
too with THEANR. Diaz and Victor Karattini behind the plate, this is going
to be an Astros order that is deeper than it was last season. And
that's a good thing, especially too, when you factor in the way that
this pitching rotation is going to look, and also to how the bullpen is
going to look, especially the back and the middle of the bullpen order right
now, middle relief, that is something that's kind of a work in progress
building. I mean, you know, we'll get to that maybe a little
bit later on in the show, but that is part of this team that
they're still trying to work through. And I told you too that that was
the way that spring training was going to go. That is the way that
spring training is is those parts of a roster are always up for grabs because
you're looking for guys that can get out. You're looking for guys that if
you're in a game and your starter only goes what three and a third,
three and two thirds something like that, and you have to go to a
long relief man to try to eat up some innings and maybe you work your
way back into the game and you can get some of your high leverage guys
at the end of a bray, You, Presley and Josh Hater that that
is a winning formula for you to be able to try to win as many
games as possible and the Astros trying to get back into the postseason again and
again, it's it's a long road to be able to get to that point,
but it also too is one that takes a lot of patience, but
also too has you dealing with the highs and lows of a major league season.
And that's the way that this is going to go. Because that is
where we are going to go next. Because Steady is the race. It
is a baseball season, so don't try to hurry it up. We will
talk about that and much more as we continue here on Space City Saturday.
I'm Dan Matthews here with you until noon on your home of the Astros and
the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety. Welcome back to Space City Saturday one.
Sports Talk seven ninety continuing with Chad Kroger and the boys. They rocked
Rodeo Houston the other nights. That's Reliant Stadium in ourg Stadium. I still
call it Reliant. It's kind of like Twitter X. You know people,
oh, you know on X. I'm like, well, what is that?
Huh? What are you? What are you talking about? But no,
it's just the old school in me. I guess I don't know.
But any way, the Rodeo wrapping up, I believe tonight is it Eric
Church and then tomorrow night I think is the close to the Houston Livestock Show
in Rodeo. So if you have a chance to get out there this year,
hopefully enjoyed it. If you didn't, well you know, you're kind
of like me bummer. I mean mine, you know, first year back
of the rodeo, and it was funny. I was talking with the fiance
the other night and she was like, we'll have years to be able to
go to the rodeo. You know. She's always kind of the more rational
one, you know, whereas me I didn't have a chance to go this
year. Well, you know, so be it all right. If you
want to wait in, you can at someone three two one two five seven
ninety. That's how you can get in on the conversation someone three two and
two five seven ninety. Like I said, a lot of you probably driving
around getting the things done today before settling in for the conference tournaments again.
The Koogs and Iowa State Cyclones coming your way for the Big twelve title,
which, by the way, I saw this on social media not too long
ago, that the Kog's have a chance to make some history today that no
team has ever joined a major conference and won both the regular season and conference
tournament title in their first season. So coug's having a chance to make some
history today. So hopefully Kelvin Sampson and the crew can get that done again.
You can listen to that game over on KPRC nine point fifty four forty
five is when that coverage gets going. Five o'clock tip from there in Kansas
City as the Houston Cougars try to finish things off and go into the NCAA
Tournament on a high note. I mean it's also too you factor. In
the first season of Kelvin Sampson and the crew, they've dealt with injuries,
Terrence Arsenal going down, Tugler going down as well, and a little bit
of a scary moment last night with Juan Roberts, but looked like he was
able to come back in and finish off the game. As the Coug's able
to take down Tech last night in a huge win. So they try to
beat Iowa State for the second time this year. And by the way,
too you know good on the coves of all three teams they lost to this
year in conference play, well, they got revenged the second time around.
First time it was Iowa State, last week it was Kansas and then earlier
this week in the Big Twelve Tournament they were able to take down at TCUs.
So good on at Kelvin Sampson and the crew. Hopefully they can go
into the field of sixty eight on a high note, So we will be
keeping an eye on them this afternoon. But I talked about it before with
the Astros season and just a baseball season in general, and I get it.
It's one of those things you want to win every single game, but
if you're a really good team out there, well you're probably gonna lose at
least sixty five seventy times in a season. And I know that for some
it's one of those that on the surface, you look at it and you
say, man, that's a lot. Well, one hundred and sixty two
games is a lot of games, and the Astros slated right now, I
think to finish around that ninety two to ninety three win area this season.
So if that happens, then yeah, you're going to have a high sixty
lost total and that's a really good season. But it's also to the way
that you look at a season. So on the surface, when you hear
say, for example, justin Verland are going to start the season on the
injured list, you're saying, ah, man, I mean I wanted to
see him on opening day. Sure, we all want to see him on
opening Day. But the Astros have known, at least during this recent stretch
of success that they've had. That this season is broken down into particular areas
in the month of April, which this year is going to start in late
and in late March, so you start in late March, and I really
think that once you get through the month of April, if you're looking at
it and you're around five hundred, that's a good thing. You're good,
You're you're all fine, You're you're starting to find yourself as a team,
starting to find your footing in the you get into May, you want to
start to kind of ramp things up a little bit. And in June and
July that's when you really want to showcase yourself as yep, we are the
standard in the division. That's how things go. And then you want to
be playing your best baseball in August, September and then into October and November.
Now as the season goes along. But that's how you look at a
season, is you kind of look at it as this is a long race.
I mean, say, the Astros at the end of April are four
games back of the Seattle Mariners. I'm just throwing it out there. It's
not the end of the world. It's not even remotely close to being anything
other than, hey, they're playing good baseball right now, and we're playing
decent baseball. We're not playing our best baseball yet that's fine. That's the
way that a season goes. And you know, we saw it last year,
even later on in the year, where the Astros had to make that
strong finish to be able to try to close this thing out and try to
get into the postseason one way or another, which we knew going into that
final Sunday of the regular season they were going to be a playoff team.
We just didn't know are they going to be at home? Are they gonna
have to go on the road as a wildcard team and try to work their
way in. And then we saw that Sunday the Astros finish off their win
in Arizona and we have to wait and see what happens up in Seattle.
And the Mariners, who were out of it, we thought, well,
if they're out of it, maybe they're gonna kind of lay down a little
bit, or they're not gonna go full bore today in this one. And
that wasn't the case. They ended up taking it to the Rangers, and
the Rangers had to go on the road as the wildcard team, and the
Astros got to come home and face the Twins, taking care of the Twins
in four games, and then we got that ALCS. But again, you
know, it's one of those things that the losing streaks are gonna happen.
The Astros will go a week or two this season where they don't win a
ton of games, and I understand how frustrating it is. I understand how
you know, it's like, man, come on, you know the order
is going to go through their lolls as well. We've seen it in the
past. But as we've also seen with this Astros roster over the years,
and the way they are with the bats is that if they're down, they
don't stay down for long and then they finally do breakthrough and you're like,
Okay, that's the team. I know, those are the guys. That's
the way that this team is supposed to look going into the postseason. But
I mean again, I think if nothing else, it has shown you that
steady is the race that is run by a good pace, and the Astros
have set a good pace for years. Some years they've gotten to the month
of October where it wasn't necessarily a you know, real suspenseful run to get
to that point, and you know they've been able to find their way into
October and be able to kind of recalibrate and go from there. The DS
has not been an issue for them. And then they get to the CS.
In many years they win and move on to the next round, or
they've run into a team like the Rangers or the Red Sox in twenty eighteen,
or the Tampa Bay Rays. I mean, it's happened, and it's
unfortunate. I mean, because now we know what the expectation is. The
expectation is to not only reach the World Series, it's to win the World
Series. I mean, you heard when me and Ross were in West Palm
Beach for Astro spring training catching up with Kyle Tucker, and Tucker said it
clear as day. He said, We're not here just to win a bunch
of baseball games and then say all right, that's enough, you know,
we move on. No, we're here to win a World Series. That's
the way this season is. And how do you win a World Series?
Well, you just get through the season as healthy as you possibly can and
at a good pace as best you can and be able to get to that
point, and last year it was a little bit different from them. But
it's also too Baseball is the ultimate sport that can't be put into a fish
bowl because let's look at it from the football perspective, like, yes,
you lose a game in football, especially in college, well, that can
be somewhat fatal to your season in terms of national title aspirations, right,
but teams have lost games numerous times and they've been able to make it to
the college football playoff and go from there. In the NFL, I mean
I would say that probably it's a little bit closer to baseball because you are
going to lose. You're not going to be the seventy two Dolphins and make
your way through an entire season because notice I just said one, So you're
going to lose games and you want to be able to try to find your
way into January and February and be able to give yourself the best opportunity you
can to be able to win the Lombardi Trophy. I mean, we saw
you look at the Chiefs last year. I mean you saw the way that
they look during the regular season and thought to yourself, hmm, they don't
look the way that they have in the past, but then once they got
to the playoffs, they said, this is our time of year. That's
why the comparisons are made between them and the Astros, because the Astros have
been that team numerous times during this run of success where you know, twenty
twenty under five hundred making into the playoffs as a wild card team, face
the A's Mike Fires on the other side, he's making fun of George Springer,
he's doing all those different types of things. Well, enjoy it,
Mike Fires, because guess what you lose in that one. The Astros move
on. Your season is done and you get to continue to be the rat
that you are. And the Astros have done it the other way as well,
where they've been able to have a huge run throughout the regular season and
the last week of the season doesn't necessarily matter because the division is locked up
and they're able to move on. And that's the way that those years have
gone. So I say all of that just to say that every single season
looks different, and every single season is different, and all that matters is
how well are you playing at the end of the season. And that's the
way the Astros are trying to at least right now before we even get going
in this twenty twenty four season with Verlander going on the il of trying to
say, hey, the early part of the season, we're just trying to
make sure that this team is in the best position it can be later on
in the season. So reason there's no reason to rush him right now.
There's no need to try to push him along and get that timeline started for
him to be back on the field. That I think, if nothing else,
the Astros will take this thing as steadily as possible with him. Maybe
next week he'll face live hitters. If that happens, then you're probably looking
at about a month, So I would say conservatively middle of April is when
you can look for Verlander to be on the field. But at the same
time, though, too as well, as I said last week, here's
how that conversation is going to go. Hey, you pitched in Sugarland last
night? How'd it go? I probably need another one? All right?
Gets you another one? So in the next five days he'll get him another
one. Hey, how do you feel I could probably use one more?
All right, fine, take you one more and then we'll see you when
you're ready. To go. That's how that conversation is going to go.
So that's how a baseball season goes. I mean, there are going to
be losses. There are going to be times where I'm speaking into this microphone
where maybe they've lost three or four in a row and you're a little bit
frustrated with how that part of the season is going. But then there's also
the other part. This hour was all Astros. Next hour, well,
we're gonna get into a little bit more like how about the Texans in the
moves that they've made because a particular plan is being put in place. What
exactly it is is anyone's guess. We'll talk about the work that Nick Caserio
and the crew are doing over there on Kirby as we continue this edition of
Space City Saturday into the second hour. Here in the final hour here on
the show, I'm Dan Matthews here on your Home of the Astros in the
Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Saturday, Dan Matthews here with you
until noon on your Home of the Astros in the Rockets, Sports Talk seven
ninety. But of course here in town, even though we don't have them
here on Sports Talk seven ninety the Texans in conversation as it was kind of
a little bit of a roller coaster of emotions this week, was it not?
As the Texans go through the first full week of free agency in the
NFL started early on in the week of legal tampering, and of course you
know the reports that are out there where players could agree but they couldn't sign
until Wednesday. Then we finally get to Wednesday and we start seeing the graphics
come out and the signings announced in the Texans really busy in that first week.
And I get it too. It was one of those things that the
very first day me and Ross were on with you on that Monday, which
I believe it is going to be me and Ross again on Monday as sports
MT starting to make his way to d C with the Rockets, so we'll
be coming your way again and maybe at that point we'll be talking about a
Blake Snell's signing. That would be nice. Who knows, maybe Nick Cassario
and the crew over there on Kirby going to be continuing to work because there's
at least you know, I wouldn't say there are full fledged rumors, but
there is at least belief that the Texans are still wheeling and dealing over there,
But I mean the moves that made. Of course, the largest move
made the pair of moves, and we had a chance to hear from both
Daniel Hunter and also from Joe Mixon earlier this week. Hunter signed with the
Texans two years, forty nine million out of him forty eight million guaranteed for
that deal, and then Joe Mixon traded for and then signed to a long
term extension three years out of him twenty seven million for him over the next
three years. But the trade where the Texans sent a seventh round pick back
to the Bengals, then getting a seventh round pick backed from the forty nine
ers to send them Malik Collins, which I think we believed was going to
set up for them to get Eric Armstead. Well, of course, Armstead
signing on with the Jacksonville Jaguars, so we'll see how things shake out with
the Texans trying to build out this roster. But then the one that came
down yesterday was an interesting one from Nick Cassario where the Texans trade out of
the first round and send their twenty third pick overall to the Minnesota Vikings in
return for pick forty two in the second round and also to pick one point
eighty eight, which is in the sixth round. So that is where the
draft, you know, build up for the Texans starts right now. And
I know that people on the surface look at it and say, well,
wait a minute, first round picks, you know, I mean, can
we really be doing that? I mean, we're still trying to build out
this roster, right. You got to remember, too, where Nick Cassario
comes from. When the Patriots were really moving along and winning world titles,
Bill Belichick and the crew up there in New England, we're notorious for trading
out of the first round because their thought on it was we don't have to
pay them as much. You're also, depending on where you're drafting the second
round, getting a guy that has probably a first round grade, and you
feel like you're getting a caliber player that could have been taken on Night one
for lesser value. You don't have to pay them as much, so cap
wise it helps you even more. And again you have to remember too,
what Nick Casseio had said at the Combine a few weeks ago, where he
had talked about building up a roster, where he said that you don't just
build up for one season. You're thinking a year ahead, you're thinking two
years ahead. You're trying to be as flexible as possible. Where the Texans,
I think right now, are looking at building out this roster and saying
we're not going to be in the business of building this thing with a credit
card. I mean we all have credit cards, right, we know how
it goes. Ah, put it on my card, I'll pay it off
later. That's how a lot of NFL teams build themselves up. I mean,
we've seen it for years with Mickey Loomis and the Saints. They've lived
that life for the longest time where it doesn't seem like it's an NFL off
season without the Saints being in salary cap hill where they've got to try to
restructure. They've got to cut guys loose, they've got to make trades,
they've got to do all of these different types of things in order to try
to get under that number. Well, the Texans are nowhere near that.
But I think if nothing else, Nick Cassario is trying to set the precedent
for how this thing is going to go. Where he's telling the front office,
the rest of the front office over there and the fan base. We're
not going to haphazard is the wrong word, but we're not going to be
We're not going to be reckless with the way that we spend in the way
that we build this team. Just because there's a great player out there that
would command a huge amount of money and just because we've got a huge amount
of money does not necessarily mean we're going to go there. He showed us
that earlier this week with the reports about Saquon Barkley. Texans were in on
Saquon Barkley. They didn't want to go above a certain number because I think
that Nick Cassario kind of like what we talked about earlier with the Astros in
terms of building up a roster. He's trying to say we're not going to
be reckless here. I mean, some people asking again the Astros example,
why hasn't Blake Snell signed yet. Well, it's called negotiation, it's called
conversations. It's called trying to get to that point that you're able to give
them what they want. You're able to get but you want because it's at
least in that case a situation where you're going to have further negotiations with the
guy that represents him. And I think that probably too, with the small
amount of people that you deal with in the NFL, it's Nick Casario not
wanting to signal to NFL agents out there that hey, we're completely open for
business and you ask for what you want, we give you what you want.
He's trying to say, no, we're going to build this thing up
the right way. We're going to build it up where we are responsible with
our spending, but also too we're able to still have an eye towards drafting
and development and being able to build with our own guys from there. I'm
fully on board with it, and with this move being made yesterday of the
Texans moving out the first round, I agree with what my good buddy Jim
Nagy of the Senior Bowl said about the Texans, where he had said that
if nothing else, this looks like that they looked at their draft board and
looked at who they could possibly get at twenty three and said, who's to
say we can't get that play in the second round. Who's to say we
can't get a player of similar value in the second round and be able to
put ourselves in position where we're not paying them a huge amount of money.
Where his suite read like this, let's look at this from the Texans angle.
Guessing there, they assessed this year's board and concluded they could get the
same or very close to a level player at number forty two as they could
at twenty three. If that's the case, they just added another twenty twenty
five second round pick at a very small cost. Screw trade value charts.
I like it, and I agree. I think that if nothing else,
it is a situation where they are saying, we are going to continue to
build this thing responsibly and not just spend the money because we have it and
it's there, and what else are we going to do with it. We've
got to spend it. This is a non This is not a nonprofit organization.
This is an organization that is trying to again not only win this coming
season, but being able to try to win incoming years as well. I
mean, we've seen the Texans run into a situation. I believe it was
the twenty twelve season where they had to be able to make some tough decisions
in terms of not being able to offer Mario Williams what he wanted and he
was able to go the Buffalo Bills and be able to get what he wanted
at that point, because they found themselves in a really tough salary cap situation.
I think Nick Sarrio is trying to avoid that as best he can,
because again, you're building this thing up with future years. These next couple
of years is a little bit of free reign for the Texans at this point,
because when we get to the twenty twenty sixth season and we get into
that training camp, that's when you're during the offseason going to be hearing about
CJ. Stroud's representation and the Texans getting into contract extension talks and trying to
give him that contract extension before even having to get into fifth year option conversations
and all those differ diferent types of things that that will be able to be
on the books. And once that is on the books, that's a huge
part of your salary cap structure at that point. And then you have to
be even better in the draft. And I think that that's part of these
trades that are being made is with a view of getting to that point where
soon enough they have to be able to build up as much value as they
can get in those drafts and be able to get as many good contributing players
out of those drafts, because we've seen teams have to do that in the
past as well. I mean, look for example, at the Kansas City
Chiefs, they have been a team that ever since they gave Patrick Mahomes his
money. They had to say goodbye to Tyreek Hill. They had to also
to make some tough decisions in terms of what they're doing with the rest of
their roster defensive players. We've seen other players move on, Chris Jones sticking
around, although some people wondered they're gonna have the money to be able to
keep him there? Are they gonna be able to make it work capwise to
be able to keep him there. Well, obviously they were, because they
just did. And I think think that, you know, it's one of
those things that the salary cap, pied piper, it comes for everybody in
the NFL. But I think that again, getting back to it, Nick
Cassario is trying to say to everyone, look, we're gonna build this thing
up in terms of spending responsibly, finding the best value we can get,
and also too finding the guys that fit well in our organization. Daneil Hunter
fits that profile. Joe Mixon, same deal. We were worried about it.
Once Devin Singletary moved on to the New York Giants, we were like,
all right, who's our running back. The following day they answered that
question pretty quickly as he's al Shaire, another guy that yes, it hurt
to see Blake, you know, to you know, to see you know,
Blake Cashman move on, and also Jonathan Garnard move on. But the
Texans made concurrent moves pretty quickly to be able to offset those losses. And
al Shaire is a guy that has a ton of experience with the with Demiko
ryans out in San Francisco, same deal with Denico Autry. I mean,
you saw Jeffery Simmons say on Twitter, we did not just lose this guy
the Houston Texans, right, And I think with Daniel Hunter, the interesting
thing is, you know, you hear the saying deadlines make deals, and
in the case with the Texans, it was pretty quickly after the report came
out, Hey, the Indianapolis Colts are trying to get Danil Hunter. That
the Texans said, oh, we know why they're trying to get him.
We need to avoid them trying to get him for that specific reason. And
that is something that we'll get into next. Because the Texans are making their
moves, but others are making their moves with the Texans in mind, what
exactly that means? Well, continue the Texans conversation also too. At the
bottom of this hour, let you hear from James Palmer the NFL Network.
We had a chance to catch up with him over on the A team earlier
this week, just yesterday, right here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
What the national media thinks of the moves that Nick Cassario and the crew over
off Kirby are making it to this point. We'll do all that as we
continue along here on Space Saturday. I'm Dan Matthews here on your home of
the Astros and the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety. This is Space City
Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety. Dan Matthews here with you until noon.
As again, we'll have Rockets basketball coming up a little bit later on Matt
Thomas Adam Wexler from there at Toyota Center as the Rockets try to continue this
winning streak. Things have been going good for the Space City Hardwood crew as
they continue to try to find their way towards being able to get into the
NBA Playing Round. I mean, you know, it's a lot of things
with the Rockets right now that you look at and say, you know,
Alprin Shingoon down for a significant amount of time, what's his return going to
look like? Cam Whitmore as well as the Rockets just find themselves a handful
of games the Golden State Warriors with a chance to try to get into that
tenth and final spot in the NBA playing Round. So we'll have that come
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you got that going on again too. A little bit of housekeeping here before
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can find that. But I mentioned this a little bit in the last segment
of the Texans deciding to move and sign Daniel Hunter, and where a huge
emphasis for that Liede was the fact that it looked like the team that was
neck and neck with you last year for a chance to be able to try
to get into the NFL playoffs in the Indianapolis Colts, where the Colts looked
at it and said, how do we beat the Texans? We affect the
quarterback, right, So how do we affect the quarterback by adding guys like
danil Hunter to our roster, and I think that once Nick Cassario and crew
over on Kirby saw that that was the case, they said, we can't
let that happen because we know exactly why they're trying to make that move.
They're explicitly trying to make that move with the motivation of being able to beat
us. How do they do that, Well, they get to C.
J. Stroud, That's how they do that. How do we avoid that
happening? Oh, we had that guy on our side, and we have
that guy getting after Anthony Richardson, Trevor Lawrence and Will Levis and being able
to control winning the AFC South And that was a huge reason for them to
make that move. But it's also too looking at other moves being made by
teams in the AFC South. Is with the moves that Texans have made this
week. And we'll hear from James Palmer here in about ten minutes as it
is being looked at by the Texans of they feel like that the window has
opened for them to try to be able to make a run at winning a
Lombardi Trophy, something they have not done. They haven't even had a chance
to get into the AFC title at this point, and with CJ. Stroud,
you feel like those days it's not a matter of if, it's a
matter of when the Texans get to that point, because you feel like with
him that they are very much on that track to be able to do that.
But it's also as well a chance for us to look back at the
way the Texans were, because remember in two thousand and nine they had a
chance to make the playoffs, they just missed out. Twenty ten was just
an awful season. You have Connor Barwin go down, you have to Meeko
Ryans go down with injury, and the defense just was awful all the way
through six and ten season. Frank Bush and that part of the defensive staff
you're out. Wade Phillips and Reggie Herring and Vance Joseph and a lot of
different coaches. You are in and Gary Kubiak saying to Wade Phillips, hey,
you handle that side, I'll handle the offensive side, and let's make
some things happen. And that's when the Texans finally again. Wade's dad had
the line, we're gonna kick the sum bitch in and we're going to make
it into the AFC Title game the following year. Well, that was the
Texans same we're gonna kick that sob in and we're gonna make the playoffs the
following year because we're gonna finally have a defense, and wow, did they
have a defense that season. But a huge emphasis for that as well was
even before the neck issues, it was we've got to build this thing up
because there's a team up in Indianapolis with a guy named Peyton Manning that we
have not been able to beat and they have been running the AFC South.
So how do we do that. We have a stifling defense, we have
a defense that can get after quarterbacks, and we have a way to be
able to beat those teams that we can kind of offset what he's able to
do with what we are able to do. And that's what the Texans are
facing right now with what the Colts are trying to do, what the Jags
are trying to do. I mean the Jags going to get Eric Armstead.
That's part of it as well, where they had Trevon Walker as their top
pick a few years ago with the explicit opportunity to be able to get after
opposing quarterbacks, and he's been able to have a good NFL career to this
point. But I think that most people look at him being the top pick
overall and saying, man, we need to see a little bit more out
of him. And I think they feel like adding Eric Armstead is gonna be
able to free him up a little bit more and he can be more of
a defensive presence, especially in the past rush game, and that's what they're
trying to do. Tennessee Titans. Really look at it right now. This
is a three team race. The Titans. Yeah, that's nice that they
get Calvin Ridley, that's nice that they get Tony Pollard. But at the
same time too as well new head coach there, they're kind of in the
same situation that the Texans were in this time last year, and I don't
think that they feel anywhere as good as the Texans felt like potentially they could
be down the road with CJ. Stroud, because let's be honest here,
they were even they were even pleasantly surprised with how last season went. I
think a lot of us, as we're talking coming off of this last season,
say if my prediction had come true where I had said coming into last
season, it's a seven to ten football Seaton. That's a seven and ten
football team, and if they're able to finish that way, you at least
can say, Okay, we see that potential success is on the horizon,
but we're not there yet. They flip that number and they made the playoffs
and they won a playoff game. So now all of a sudden, the
timeline has sped up even a little bit more and the Texans find themselves in
position to be able to have higher aspirations in a shorter amount of time.
And a team that's trying to keep them from reaching those aspirations are the Indianapolis
Colts, and they're saying, look, we're gonna get Anthony Richardson back this
year. Hopefully we can keep him healthy. We feel like if we can
do that with the rest of the roster we've got, if we were able
to add a guy like to Neil Hunter, then we feel like, yes,
absolutely, we've caught up with you and we can beat you this coming
season, and we are the ones moving on as champions of the AFC South,
not you down in Houston. And that was a savvy move made by
the Texans. Is it was set up by the not being you know,
reckless with they're spending in terms of trying to build up to the point of,
you know, adding say a Saquon Barkley or even a Christian Wilkins.
If they added one or both of those guys, then Daniel Hunter is probably
an Indianapolis cult right now. But the fact that they said we don't want
to go above a certain number with those guys set themselves up for an opportunity
to upgrade at that spot. Because, yes, it hurts to lose Jonathan
Grenard. That's not a player that you want to see walk out the building.
But you had a guy that is a little bit older, yes,
but as a guy that is still showing you that he can get to the
quarterback at a high level in Danel Hunter, and you feel even better about
the way that your past rush is going to look this coming season. And
that's something too that we heard from Demiko Ryans at the end of last season.
You could see it clear as day on the field, the look on
Demiko Ryan's face in the second half of that game against the Baltimore Ravens,
and you're saying to yourself, we're not there yet. That was the look
he had. He's probably even internally saying to himself, we are not on
this team's level, not right now. We can get there, but we're
not there yet. And that following Monday, when you met with the media,
he said exactly that thing. We've got to build up up front.
We've got to be more stout upfront. We've got to add guys that can
be able to affect the quarterback, but also too, we can control the
line of scrimmage in the run game and be able to win games that way,
because if you are able to control the line of scrimmage offensively and defensively,
it frees up everyone else. Your secondary Oh we've got secondary issues,
Well, you don't have them as much if you're getting to the quarterback right
because you're not putting them on an island as much. You're not having them
in those one on one battles, because more often than not, if it's
a one on one battle between a receiver in a defensive back, the receiver
is gonna win that one. They know where the ball is going, they
know where exactly it's going to be placed and how to make said play on
the ball than the player who is reacting to it. So in that case,
right there, Texan's making this move being able to offset Indianapolis tried to
do Again, these are going to be off seasons that the Texans will be
facing from here on out. As long as CJ. Stroud is playing at
the level that he played this last season is you're going to see Indianapolis making
moves of how do we try to offset his production when we play against them.
You're going to see the Jaguars trying to do that. Eventually, you'll
see the Titans try to get to that point if indeed they have the right
head coach now and they are on the right track that they want to be
in order to try to get back into the AFC South picture. But when
you get a guy like CJ. Stroud, yeah, absolutely, you have
a target on you and you have others who want to try to come after
you. And that's the next step for the Texans is being able to keep
their dominance of the AFC South because one season does not do that. You
have to be able to do that over multiple years. The Astros have done
that now in the American League. They're the class of the American League.
They finally got past the point of, hey, we just want to make
the playoffs. We want to win the AL West, and we want to
be able to be the team to beat in the Now they have higher aspirations
where the team to beat in the American League. That's eventually where the Texans
want to get. They want to be the team to beat in the AFC.
And now how do you get to that point. You got to get
past the team that just won the AFC and won the whole thing in the
Kansas City Chiefs. They've still got Patrick Mahomes there. You got to be
able to beat that team Baltimore, you got to be able to beat that
team in Buffalo. And you've got other teams who are trying to join you
in that quest and trying to get to that point. And that is the
following step that the Texans have to make. But with the moves that have
been made to this point, that is Nick Cassario again living up to what
he said at the combine about building this thing up for years, not just
this coming year. And that's where the Texans find themselves at this moment.
All right, Coming up next, as I said last segment, we will
hear coming up from James Palmer of the NFL Network he was on a yesterday
with the A Team. A lot of good stuff said by him about the
way that the crew out there in La at the NFL Network are looking at
the moves made by the Houston Texans so far to this point in the offseason.
We'll hear that conversation as we continue along here on your home of the
Astros and the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety. Busy day of programming here
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that one. But as promised, right now, let's go back in time
to yesterday when the NFL networks James Palmer, a guy we know here very
well in Houston from his time for the old CSN Houston. He is now
with the NFL Network and he joined the A team. As we had that
conversation yesterday, our favorite from the NFL Network. Don't tell the other people
I said that, James Palmer. But great having you with us, always
producing great content here with us, awesome stuff on the NFL Report, and
I know even there there's been a lot of talk about the Houston Texans.
So we will start there as we welcome you in here, as we roll
through our Friday James in your best guests, with all the people you're in
contact with, even just inside your own newsroom, etc. What's the general
thought about what the Texans have done from Monday till today. It's really strong,
Adam, I'll put it out there. I do think everybody is kind
of on the same page in what Nick Sara was doing. And I think
you could say that they were aggressive and you haven't seen them be aggressive before,
but I wouldn't even really use that word, Like, I think they
were still measured in a sense, and I think the way they did these
contracts was extremely smart. Like I mean, look at most of these deals.
They're two year deals, and so they're going to be up before you
have to start paying some of these really talented draft picks that you've had the
last couple of years, so your money lines up pretty well, and I
think everybody was curious what they were going to do considering this. We could
say it like I don't know if I'm overstepping, but like this Super Bowl
contender window has opened, like after just one season with CJ. Shroud and
Demiko Ryan. So what are you going to do with the money that you
have in place in a rookie quarterback contract? And what are you going to
go out and do? And I think it was really really smart to build
through the defensive side of the ball. And I mean everybody in Houston knows
this, right, Dimiko's going to build through the defensive line. He values
it, you know, higher than maybe any other position group out there in
terms of what you need to be successful. And there's a chance, and
I've said this on NFL Network, like there's a legitimate chance that Daniel Hunter
and Will Anderson Junior could be the best ed rushing duo in football. Yeah.
I mean that's what has all of us, including the two guys talking
to you on the phone right now, the most excited. But having said
all that, and I agree with a lot of what you said, there
aren't a couple of head scratching moves, namely the one that they made today,
which is also bizarre because I feel like them and the Vikings just keep
flip flopping assets and players either directly or indirectly. But yeah, you have
to go back and forth, it really does. But today's move, and
then also the Malik Collins deal, which seemingly looked like it at first it
was rumored to be for Armstead, and then Armstead ends up going into the
division to the Jags. I think those are the two transactions, or I
guess, in the case of Armstead not coming here, non transactions that we're
kind of scratching our heads about and wondering what's the next domino or what's the
thinking here? For sure, I think the Armstead one and the Malik one
that that makes sense because there is if you talk to anybody around the league,
and that's literally what we do these last several days, has just sit
on the phone, is there's there's a deficiency of good defensive tackles available,
and there's needy teams for interior rushers and interior players. And that was one
of the kind of head scratchers with Houston, I would say, is going
Okay, They've filled a lot of other spots. They got deeper at linebacker.
You know, you get Autrey's like a rotational guy, like he doesn't
have to play a ton of snaps at his age. I think that's a
good deal as well. And like I like most of the moves, and
you go, well, what about this position group, I would advise to
go And I don't know why they made this trade today. I haven't dug
on it and go to Philadelphia and think about Howie Roseman and how he operates
three hundred and sixty five days out of the year. So I wouldn't panic
if you look at what Philly in the last two years has added, even
in the months leading into the season, Like two years ago they added CJ.
Garden Johnson, who ironically is back, but like two weeks before the
year started, and I think he tied for the league leading interceptions that year
and missed like a boat at the time. So my point was that is
right, Like we're a handful of days into free agency, there's still a
lot of ways you can fill your roster. In a lot of time for
you to fill your roster. I don't know all if it has to happen
right, you know, out of the jump and with the trade, what
I see is a team that's very aggressive to go after a quarterback and other
team that's obviously more content and cool with Hey, more picks over the next
couple of years, we've drafted, Well, let's try to keep doing that
and keep acquiring more assets during this time. Is kind of appears to be
thinking of the Texans with you here with us today, James one of the
players they acquired that we almost have talked none about. We need to today.
Five short years ago, this player was wrecking shop for Ryan Days Buckeyes,
became the third overall pick, and now is set to play for his
third team in what will be his fifth season. Why is there hope from
this team that Jeff Okuda will be a starting, a plus caliber starting corner.
Now it's his buckete thrive in Houston. No, just listen. He
he has talent. I think that's that's that's evident. I would say,
if you want to be optimistic and do you take a one year, six
million dollar flyer on a guy who was a former third overall pick, like
yeah, I would say that's not a terrible terrible move. I would look
at what's happened in the Denver. I'm in Denver. What happened in Houston
in one year? Like, I think you've got to rely on your coaching
staff sometimes to go, let's see what we can do. I mean,
like what was turned around with this defense specifically against the run. Now this
has nothing to do with the secondary, but my point is this, like
if Amika Ryans and his group can come in and they were giving up one
hundred and seventy point two yards a game the year before on the ground and
they ended up giving ninety with it ninety six point six, sixth best in
the NFL the next year, Like, yes, some players changed, but
yeah, coaching is really valuable as well. And if you think you can
coach a guy up to play above you know what you've seen. I mean,
it's not a terrible deal on a one year deal for six million dollars
for a corner that definitely has talent, and it's not like you're like pressing
need for him to go out and really really thrive, because he did have
flashes in Atlanta last year. So you talked about building the defensive side of
the football, and I countered with head scratching questions or moves that are head
scratches. I guess your thoughts on Sexan's you know, acquiring Joe Mixon but
then extending him the way they did. Yeah, I was a little curious
about the trade because the running back market for the first time was actually a
market which just hasn't existed for a couple of years. And obviously these guys
didn't really get paid paid, even Saekwon didn't get paid paid. But the
market is better than it's been. There's there's no guys coming out in the
draft, like you had to land somebody, and like there's a stat from
Joe that stands out to me that's like wow. I mean since twenty eighteen,
there's only three players in the NFL that have had five seasons with twelve
hundred scrim in Yarder Moore. It's him, Alvin Kamara, and Tyreek Hill.
And that's it. Like, if you feel like you can use him
in a variety of ways and you think still there's something else from your other
back that kind of lost his job. But if you're still has something,
I think you do kind of make a play there. But because you're not
getting any young talent out of the draft into your backfield, that's a stretch.
I was curious about extending because, like he has been around, and
we know about tread on the tires with running backs, but he's been pretty
tang durable and he's been pretty consistent from what I said so and what the
stats say, and I've covered Cincinnati a good amount. I mean, he
does a lot of different things for them within their offense. I think there's
ways to use him, and you got to have a plan for somebody like
this, and you got to have a help You gotta have help for him
as well that he's not carrying the football honestly too much, and I think
they do have that a little bit. One thing we haven't seen enough of
for a normal offseason, and I'm curious if you think we will is the
well, we have to start moving some players for cap reasons or we're just
gonna have to let him go. And maybe it began yesterday with the Keenan
Allen trade from the Chargers to the Bears. Are there any other veteran,
established, expensive players that you can see being moved to new teams because of
those reasons? I mean, everybody had to be under right the other day,
So like that's where you know, some of the movement ends up happening.
There's still some teams deciding on some guys, but I think the bulk
of WEXI, the bulk of major moves in that sense, are probably behind
us. In a sense, I thought the Keenan Allen won to me just
personally knowing the Chargers, knowing what Keenan is, knowing what he's done for
the organization, who Harball comes in there, it just goes, oh,
take it easy, bro. I was like, Wow, that was that
was a head scratch. But obviously finances play a part in it. I
don't know if there's too many more of those on the horizon, just because
now we're into the league year and everybody had to be under and so there
might be one or two more where you get kind of a little bit surprised,
But those decisions, most of them were already made. The reason the
Chargers took a little while is because they're trying to manipulate like four different players
that were like thirty million plus cap hits and trying to figure out how to
manipulate all of them. Got two of them back, and you know,
and so I think that's why there's just took a little bit. I don't
see a whole lot more of those happening. Well, real quickly, is
there a second AFC team that you think did themselves well this free agent period?
Obviously ranking behind Houston, Baltimore had some people go out the door,
but I think Derek Henry along with Lamar Jackson, like, this game's about
scoring points obviously, and I don't know what defense is going to feel comfortable
inside the ten with both of those guys in the backfield. And I mentioned
them lose guys, aren't they like the one team you look at and like
anybody gets hurt, somebody goes down O line secondary and then you're just like,
oh, they just plugged so and so in and they're still really good,
Like that's their organization. So I think adding Derrick Henry puts them a
little bit closer into that group. And I think Houston's in that group as
well. That's everybody's hunting down Kansas City. Something from the NFL report with
you and Steve that our listeners need to tune in for. If you like
Max Crosby or you hate Max Crosby, he was unbelievable. I don't know
how you could aid him he's like one of the most likeful guys in the
league. But his interview with us yesterday, it was like twenty minutes.
And if you want to just know about the type of guy he is or
leader he is, there's a story he tells and watching the Last Dance Less,
it's just like out of this world. Like he was watching it in
a hotel in a hotel room after a surgery after his second season and literally
watched it with his wife and change his entire life, like from that minute
on, and it hasn't adjusted from what he eats to what you know,
people to work on his body, everything has changed after watching Jordan. And
that's why he has a massive, unbelievably accurate tattoo of Michael Jordan on his
torso, which is a bit awkward, but it's there accurate. His tattoos
are. His tattoos are like incredible. I mean, I don't know if
it's like I feel very uncomfortable right now being on the radio talking about another
man's tattoos, but like his artwork is like some of the best around.
I'm told I'm not one to you know, I'm not tattoo officionado, but
it's incredible if you look at it, I mean it's nuts. So his
his stories and his leadership, the stuff he talks about in that interview is
just it's next level. He's phenomenal. Well, keep in mind everybody who
watched Thursday Night Football this year when the Raiders were I think it was the
game where they told Brandon Staley he need not continue working. Uh, he
was their shirtless during his postgame interview, So everybody is aware of what you're
talking about. It's a canvas. Yeah, there's a lot going on there.
I think he gets under actually during a out of the artwork because it's
like so detailed. I think you just put under that's the extreme As someone
who does have ink. I've never done that. So are we don't quote
me on that, but I'm pretty sure it's accurate. Are we to assume
that James Palmer has no ink? Zero? Man? Wow? Ditto two
purebreads. I know I can't change my mind too much. I'd just probably
go like, oh I should have done blank. Well it got done.
A little bit of advice. It is permanent. Oh dang, yeah,
good call. It's not going off all right, James. Hey, we
appreciate the time good stuff as always, and I'm sure we'll be catching up
again sooner rather than later, big time man. All right, guys,
All right, James Palmer. And you know, I kind of fit into
that same category as well. I mean, I've had ideas of possibly having
the needle hit the skin, but you know, it's also then kind of
the same thing where I'm like, a, right, you know, do
I necessarily want that look at a certain point? You know, It's just
it's probably one of those if you're not one hundred percent all in the look.
I'm not against them. I think they look great in certain cases.
I just think it's also too one of those things that here, I'll just
be honest, I've seen them like on like older people as they get older,
they're faded all of those different things, and I'm just like, I
don't know if I want that look when I get older, So that's kind
of what keeps me from it. So again, hey, look you got
them. Hopefully you love them, and hopefully you love showing them off for
the rest of us to see. So good on you if you fit into
that category. All right, Coming out next we'll close out this edition of
Space City a Saturday, but something that James said there I think absolutely applies
to the Texans, especially with news that hit today. We'll talk about that
and much more as we continue to roll along and close out this edition of
Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews here with you on your home of the Astros
in the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety. It's Space City Saturday on Sports
Talk seven nighty. Ian Matthews here with you for another few minutes as we
close out this edition of a Space City Saturday. And I've mentioned you know
you have h taken on Iowa State today for the Big twelve title. How
am I just now seeing as a huge fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his work?
How am I just now seeing him as the commencement speaker? I guess
one year at University of Houston and he started doing the Who's House? Adam?
I believe my computer is up. Let's let's see if it because I
was able to add this in, I guess we'll see. Yeah, well
we'll see if this works. All right, Let's let's see if we're able
to play Arnold shouting out to the fans whose house? I guess not,
Adam, it's in KB and me if you want to fire it up,
but no, you know, I was able to see that. I think
Mark Berman actually shared that. So yeah, firing up the crowd was Arnold
one year there at TDECU Stadium and absolutely able to nail it. We got
it. Who's house? Who's house there? You go? Arnold knows,
so the terminator himself, and he was also throwing up the Cougar Paul as
well. So that just goes to show you that the love of University of
Houston, well it goes even to the ones who are trying to keep us
from being swallowed up whole by the robots and everybody else out there. So
Arnold just trying to save us and rooting on the coops. So love to
see that, all right. So I talked about some news that broke earlier
today. So if you follow Aaron Wilson Sports Talk seven nineties own Aaron Wilson,
as he has been all over the free agency news, and one of
the things that broke earlier today was that the Texans had a chance to get
Keenan Allen from the Los Angeles Chargers, and his tweet about an hour ago
said Texans got close on a potential trade for Keenan Allen, who went to
the Bears with Houston offering a twenty twenty five third round pick in a pick
swap return per league sources, ultimately went for the Bears for a fourth round
pick one hundred and tenth. Over All, Texans were willing to take on
Keenan Allen's contract as currently constructed, with an eighteen point one million dollars signing
a million dollar base salary and five million dollar roster bonus, then work on
an extension. Ultimately, it's a moot point as he went to the Bears
an NFC team, but the Texans took a huge swing. While it would
have been nice to have had Keenan Allen because you add him along with Nico
Collins and Dalton Schultz in the return of Tank Dell, I mean, all
of a sudden, what was once a just okay receiver group. I mean
coming into the season. I mean I remember when me and Wex did a
show and we were talking about the group of Nico Collins of Robert Woods.
Yes you had Noah Brown, but you're going into that year saying, oh,
man receiver, I don't know with this team. But the Texans were
able to show no, actually a pretty good group that could actually make some
plays, and they did, and a huge part of that was c.
J. Stroud. And yes, if you had Keenan Allen, that's massive.
But here's the positive part of all of this is that it's not as
huge a loss as you would expect because I've talked about it before, the
receiver position and how it is viewed in college football. Now there is college
basketball happening to day, but college football it's not viewed the way that it
had been in the past. In the past, I think it had been
looked at with receivers coming into the league as a rookie that that, well,
you know, they're gonna have to learn our scheme. They're probably going
to have to learn different route trees that they didn't have in college. So
there's going to be a little bit more of an adjustment period for them getting
to this level of play. And now it's not necessarily a case. I've
talked about the proliferation of the passing game in college football and also to the
passing game concepts that you have in college football. Of course RPOs run pass
option, it's a little bit more on the college level, but still it's
the fact that you have to be able to account for different things. Am
I a blocker here or am I in the middle of a route? Those
are things that I have to be able to account for, and those are
things that college receivers now have. And there's a reason too, with the
amount of recent success that we've seen from roocky wide receivers, that teams are
starting to look at the receiver position as there's so many of them, so
there's so much value out there that demand is not as high and we're able
to find guys that can be meaningful contributors right off the back. And this
coming NFL draft has a ton of receivers, a lot of people wondering if
the Texans had state at twenty three, would receiver had been a route they
had gone at that point, because again, you feel like you're getting really
good value. I have pulled up the cbssports dot Com prospect rankings that I
believe Dane Brugler used to do. I don't know who does them now for
CBS Sports, but anyway, of course you got Marvin Harrison, He's going
to be gone way before the Texans would have taken at twenty three. All
right, fine, Maleak Neighbors, Roma Dunza, Brian Thomas Junior, Lad
McConkie, who has started to really jump up. And I think somebody that
could possibly be there in the second round if you're the Texans, and of
course I know a lot of you out there might be saying, oh,
well, you know a Georgia guy. Of course Dan wants him. It's
also a damn good receiver. Ad Mitchell out of Texas. Another guy that
could be there in the second round for the Texans. Xavier Worthy, same
deal, Keon Coleman, same deal as well. So the picks are a
plenty in the receivers are a plenty. That the move made by Nick Cassio,
well it might just pay off just yet. And also two, while
having Keenan Allen would have been nice, Sexans still have plenty to choose from
next month when they get to drafting up there in Detroit, which as of
right now will be on day two, not day one. We'll see how
it all shakes out. I want to thank Adam Snyder behind the glass.
I want to thank all of you out there for listening to us here on
this Saturday. I'm Dan Matthews. This has been another edition of Space City
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