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Speaker 4: Away we go here on Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews
Speaker 4: here with you. A shorter show today to that here
Speaker 4: in just a second. But great to be joining all
Speaker 4: of you here on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: A beautiful Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, I tell you all the time
Speaker 4: that the production usually hits and sometimes it doesn't because
Speaker 4: I mean, well, you know, we get a hint of
Speaker 4: winter around here at times, and sometimes with that winter
Speaker 4: time likes to have that wet stuff falling from the sky. No,
Speaker 4: not the frozen stuff like I'm talking about where it's
Speaker 4: in like the forties or fifties and it's just rainy
Speaker 4: and it's just it's gross.
Speaker 2: But this is not one of those days.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, as you just heard me and
Speaker 4: Doug Pike talking about a second ago.
Speaker 2: Up there, it is.
Speaker 4: I see the sun poking through the sky right there.
Speaker 4: I see the ground has got the sunshine on it.
Speaker 2: So it's a beautiful day out there.
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of you probably moving around
Speaker 4: heading to the grocery store, heading to the butcher shop,
Speaker 4: whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: You're getting set up for tomorrow.
Speaker 4: So you know, God bless you for doing that, and
Speaker 4: hopefully we all get to enjoy a great game tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know this is also too, as
Speaker 4: the voice guy tells you, you can't drink all day
Speaker 4: if you don't start right now. So this is prime,
Speaker 4: prime at day drinking weather. I mean, I told you
Speaker 4: last week when me and Melvin Brown, Chris Gordy connored
Speaker 4: Dey McGovern everybody else that was out there also shout
Speaker 4: out Rob Logan from sales. We were out at Cedar
Speaker 4: Creek for the sixth annual Gumbo Cookoff. Shout out to
Speaker 4: Relicious Foods for taking home People's choice. So that was
Speaker 4: a lot of fun out there at Cedar Creek Cafe,
Speaker 4: and we really had an awesome time. I mean, you
Speaker 4: had the New Orleans Hustlers brass band come through, Pack
Speaker 4: of Strays up on the stage. I mean, you want
Speaker 4: to talk about the versatility of the Pack of Strays.
Speaker 4: They were playing everything from Randy Rogers in Ryan Bingham
Speaker 4: in all the Texas Country slash Americana to even bringing
Speaker 4: down the house by playing some classic rock like Tom
Speaker 4: Petty throwing that out there, a little bit of collective soul.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know for some of you when I.
Speaker 4: Just put collective soul in the classic rock, but trust
Speaker 4: me learn A few years ago when I was writing
Speaker 4: in an uber in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the driver picked
Speaker 4: me up and had it on whatever the Biloxi classic
Speaker 4: rock station was, and you know, heard the sweeper come across,
Speaker 4: you know, classic rock, whatever number it was, And the
Speaker 4: first song they played was Kryptonite by Three Doors Down.
Speaker 4: And I'm thinking to myself, this song was a banger
Speaker 4: when I was in high school. Well, I just had
Speaker 4: my twentieth high school reunion, so yeah, unfortunately that's the truth.
Speaker 4: But anyway, hey, look, you are what you are, right.
Speaker 4: You can't fight it. You try your best, but just
Speaker 4: accept it. When it's all said and done, we all
Speaker 4: get older. As a good buddy of mine, you tell
Speaker 4: me father time is undefeated. But anyway, we don't have
Speaker 4: to focus on that today because we do have a
Speaker 4: big game tomorrow, literally the big game, super Bowl fifty
Speaker 4: nine in New Orleans, the Chiefs and the Eagles. It
Speaker 4: is finally, finally here. I can't wait. I mean, it
Speaker 4: is going to be a fun game. And that's something
Speaker 4: we're going to talk about too here in the next segment.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, is you know, we like to.
Speaker 4: Throw the word narrative around, and I know last week
Speaker 4: to close out the show, I talked about how it
Speaker 4: seems like we throw the words goat. Well, actually it's
Speaker 4: not a word, it's an acronym, but we throw out
Speaker 4: the acronym goat and elite a ton. Another one we
Speaker 4: seem to throw out all the time is narrative and
Speaker 4: this one, I feel like has a couple of narratives
Speaker 4: around it. And I'm sure most of you probably know
Speaker 4: where I'm going with this, but at least one way
Speaker 4: I'm looking at tomorrow is this is greatness against redemption.
Speaker 4: And I mean, you know, we always look for storylines
Speaker 4: and games and you always want to have at least
Speaker 4: the TV side, the interviews and pieces to kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, build up the momentum and build up the
Speaker 4: hype for the game. I mean, you know, it's funny
Speaker 4: how people look at things like UFC and boxing and say, oh,
Speaker 4: it's all promotion, It's all of that. Sports is no different,
Speaker 4: especially too, when you have a build up to a
Speaker 4: game like we have for the Super Bowl, to some extent,
Speaker 4: like we have with the College Football Playoff. I mean
Speaker 4: even too a little bit with you know, the World
Speaker 4: Series and games like that. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 4: just get a little bit of absence makes the heart
Speaker 4: grow fonder to lead you up to the game. And
Speaker 4: not only that, it's also for a lot of people
Speaker 4: where Super Bowl Sunday it's fun, but then reality sets in.
Speaker 4: I was thinking of this example this morning that it's
Speaker 4: almost like when you're a kid Christmas Day and the anticipation.
Speaker 4: I mean, you get to Thanksgiving and you're kind of
Speaker 4: just like, all right, let's get through Thanksgiving, and then
Speaker 4: you know, the real fun starts because the Christmas gifts
Speaker 4: start being bought, the decorations are going up, the Christmas
Speaker 4: music is playing. I mean, you're really hoping that you
Speaker 4: get that Gi Joe or a teenage mutant Ninja Turtles toy,
Speaker 4: and you know you're just hoping that it's gonna be
Speaker 4: the best Christmas ever. But then as soon as the
Speaker 4: presents are open, you have everybody going to bed, and
Speaker 4: you see the Christmas lights are on the tree, but
Speaker 4: there's no more presence underneath it. So as a kid,
Speaker 4: you're just kind of like, oh, it's over, isn't it. Like,
Speaker 4: you know, the twenty six, the twenty seven to twenty eighth,
Speaker 4: they're all just kind of days at that point. I
Speaker 4: mean for football fans, I think it's kind of the
Speaker 4: same thing that once the Super Bowl comes and goes,
Speaker 4: you're kind of like, oh, yeah, we don't have this
Speaker 4: for another seven months.
Speaker 2: Yeah bummer.
Speaker 4: But anyway, that is what we have to look forward
Speaker 4: to tomorrow. But you know it's also too, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna talk about a little bit too,
Speaker 4: even though I'm gonna make most of the show today
Speaker 4: about tomorrow's game, just because I mean it's one last
Speaker 4: time to be able to talk actual, real, earnest football
Speaker 4: for the next few months. I mean, the next time
Speaker 4: that we're doing that is Draft Day, weekend, and then
Speaker 4: after that we're talking OTA's and mini camps, and it's
Speaker 4: a little bit of you've got that, you know, that
Speaker 4: itch on your left arm, and you're kind of trying
Speaker 4: to scratch it a little.
Speaker 2: Bit to make it go away or at least subside
Speaker 2: just a little bit.
Speaker 4: But you don't really have it until once we hit August.
Speaker 4: I mean, once you hit August, then okay, you know,
Speaker 4: you build up and you're able to know that football
Speaker 4: is right around the corner. Then once we hit September,
Speaker 4: there we go. We're hitting it all over again. But
Speaker 4: there's still the game tomorrow, so we've got that to
Speaker 4: look forward to.
Speaker 2: And I talked about it too.
Speaker 4: It's greatness against redemption and also to the star power
Speaker 4: in this game.
Speaker 2: And I know, at least one.
Speaker 4: Side of the star power, we're tired of hearing about
Speaker 4: Mahomes and Kelsey, at least some people are. And I
Speaker 4: would say the second name I mentioned is more because
Speaker 4: of who he's connected to, and I get that too.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's funny seeing some of the footage
Speaker 4: of from last night, I guess Travis and Tata stepped
Speaker 4: out in Uptown, New Orleans for a nice meal, and
Speaker 4: one of the news stations there had them going into
Speaker 4: the restaurant, and then when they came out, word got
Speaker 4: out to all the Swifties out there, so all of
Speaker 4: the Swifties were there on the sidewalk looking to get
Speaker 4: a glimpse of Taylor and Travis coming out of the restaurant.
Speaker 4: Which you know, I know that some people fit on
Speaker 4: certain categories. I mean, you know one of them is
Speaker 4: Taylor's people probably told them they were gonna be there
Speaker 4: just so they could have the photo op. And then
Speaker 4: there's the other people. Can they just enjoy a meal
Speaker 4: in piece? I mean, come on, people, do we have
Speaker 4: to do this? But that's what the Super Bowl is.
Speaker 4: It's funny. I was talking with a friend of mine
Speaker 4: this morning, and you know, we've had the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: here twice in Houston. Of course, when it was the
Speaker 4: Patriots and the Panthers the very first time at then
Speaker 4: Reliant Stadium now in RG Stadium, and then just a
Speaker 4: few years ago the Falcons and the Patriots for an
Speaker 4: all timer in that one, at least for one side,
Speaker 4: one that the other side would definitely like to forget.
Speaker 4: But we've had it in our town before. You know
Speaker 4: how it is. I mean it's larger than life. I mean,
Speaker 4: it takes over your city. It's a really cool thing
Speaker 4: where everywhere you go there's some sort of reminder. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you have that game that you've been watching on TV
Speaker 4: all these years, it's in person. It's right here, It's
Speaker 4: right in front of you, like like you have the
Speaker 4: entire world watching your city the entire week. And it's
Speaker 4: pretty cool from that perspective. But then it's also I
Speaker 4: mean getting to experience things that you don't normally get
Speaker 4: to experience here in Houston. I mean, we've got a
Speaker 4: lot of really cool things about this city. But I
Speaker 4: mean let's just say you're going out to eat and
Speaker 4: you can look to your right, Oh hey that's so
Speaker 4: and so. Look to your left, Oh wow, hey that's
Speaker 4: so and so too. I mean, certain you know celebrity
Speaker 4: and you know football players, or you know, any type
Speaker 4: of encounter that you can have out there. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's in your city. And I was talking with a
Speaker 4: friend of mine because I saw on Instagram. Uh, they
Speaker 4: went out to a club there in New Orleans last night,
Speaker 4: and Diplow is spinning like one of the greatest DJs
Speaker 4: of all time, is there in their town, spinning and
Speaker 4: doing a set there at that club. So that's what
Speaker 4: this week is. It's the parties, it's everything. The funny
Speaker 4: thing is is, I know a lot of people people
Speaker 4: don't get to experience some of the things that I've
Speaker 4: got no experience in this business.
Speaker 2: But it's also to kind of.
Speaker 4: Take you behind that curtain, you know, to to kind
Speaker 4: of you know, see behind.
Speaker 2: The Wizard of Oz if you will.
Speaker 4: Is once you get to Saturday in a weird way,
Speaker 4: and this is you know, trying to add a little
Speaker 4: bit of perspective because don't get it twisted, like we're
Speaker 4: incredibly lucky to do what we do for a living. Like,
Speaker 4: never gonna hear me complain about anything in this business.
Speaker 4: Some of the experiences I've gotten to have are just amazing.
Speaker 4: So this is kind of again the ultimate of first
Speaker 4: world problems. When you cover a Super Bowl, is you
Speaker 4: get to Saturday, you're kind of like, oh, yeah, they're
Speaker 4: going to play the game, because I mean, I get it.
Speaker 4: Woe is me get the smallest violin out. But it's
Speaker 4: all the parties. It's everything, you know that goes into
Speaker 4: the work that Chris Gordy did on Media Row this week,
Speaker 4: Like if you're there on media row in person, it's
Speaker 4: chasing guests, it's it's doing all of those things. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, it's work in every sense of the word.
Speaker 4: Trust me, it is. And a lot of people in
Speaker 4: the business usually once you get to Friday, some people
Speaker 4: to who do you know, morning and midday shows. That's
Speaker 4: usually when they take the opportunity to head to the
Speaker 4: airport and head back to whatever it's city that they
Speaker 4: are originally from and be able to take in the
Speaker 4: game that way. But I remembered the last time when
Speaker 4: I was working in Atlanta. Good buddy of mine, shout
Speaker 4: out Jason Minnox from the Sports Star there in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: He gave me his passes to go to Lee Steinberg's
Speaker 4: party and went there.
Speaker 2: It was cool, And I.
Speaker 4: Remember my buddy another shout out, my buddy Blake, who
Speaker 4: might be listening right now. He went to the party
Speaker 4: with me, and I can't remember the Hall of Famer,
Speaker 4: but you had a Hall of Famer sitting there with
Speaker 4: their Canton gold jacket, and he goes, I've never seen
Speaker 4: one in person, and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, dude, like that's what this week is. It's
Speaker 2: pretty cool.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that's the part of it that you get
Speaker 4: to experience and stuff from this week and the game
Speaker 4: and everything of the sort. So really looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a ton of fun Rockets basketball coming
Speaker 4: up later today, yours truly doing a Rockets launch pad
Speaker 4: come your way at one o'clock leading up to a
Speaker 4: two o'clock tip from there at the America Airlines Center
Speaker 4: in Dallas. Gonna be the debut of Anthony Davis for
Speaker 4: the MAVs, as he's probable expected to make his debut,
Speaker 4: so that's gonna be pretty interesting. I was thinking of
Speaker 4: shooting a text to Matt Thomas and seeing if their
Speaker 4: engineer has the in house feed on their mixing board
Speaker 4: to be able to fire up for the pregame introductions,
Speaker 4: because I'm going to be interested to hear what Mavericks
Speaker 4: fans feel about Anthony Davis. I mean, I kind of
Speaker 4: almost get a vibe a little bit, and you know, look,
Speaker 4: you can weigh in if you want, if you're a
Speaker 4: MAVs fan out there. I mean, even though you know
Speaker 4: we're here in Houston, I understand when want the Rockets
Speaker 4: side of it, But if a MAVs fan wants to
Speaker 4: weigh in at seven one three two one two five
Speaker 4: seven ninety.
Speaker 2: I almost kind of get the feeling.
Speaker 4: That this is shades of Mario Williams with the Texans,
Speaker 4: Like people were excited about Mario Williams. Like I remember
Speaker 4: about a month or two after he got drafted that year,
Speaker 4: I just happened to be in an Astros game and
Speaker 4: they put him up on the train there at Minute
Speaker 4: Made Park and of course, you know, Bob Ford, you know,
Speaker 4: let's please welcome, you know, the Texans first round pick
Speaker 4: Mario Williams. And it was kind of a little bit
Speaker 4: of a smattering of like, you know, yeah, hey, that's cool,
Speaker 4: because remember, I mean, we wanted Vince Young. He was
Speaker 4: just coming off of the historic win at the Rose
Speaker 4: Bowl over USC to win the national title. Like Texans
Speaker 4: fans wanted Vince Young. Texans fans wanted Reggie Bush. They
Speaker 4: didn't want Mario Williams. And that kind of carried all
Speaker 4: the way through. And I'll be honest with you, Mario
Speaker 4: Williams kind of remembered that, and when he had his
Speaker 4: first chance to be able to bolt and leave town,
Speaker 4: he said, yeah, Deuce is everyone you never really loved me, so, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go somewhere where hopefully they do. And I
Speaker 4: guess he found that in Buffalo. But you know, it's
Speaker 4: nothing against Anthony Davis. It's just Mavericks fans. And you know,
Speaker 4: I was talking about my fiance about this. I remember
Speaker 4: being at the at the Astros Rangers. It was game
Speaker 4: four of the ALCS when the A team went up there,
Speaker 4: and I was with the guys there in Arlington for
Speaker 4: that game, and I remembered they showed Luka Doncic on
Speaker 4: the video board there at Globalie Field and the crowd
Speaker 4: went nuts, like, you know, that's how much they loved
Speaker 4: the guy there in the DFW Metroplex. And you get
Speaker 4: the news last week that he's been traded. I mean,
Speaker 4: full disclosure. We went out for Megan's birthday last week
Speaker 4: in downtown Houston and my phone had died and I
Speaker 4: was so tired when we got back to the room
Speaker 4: that I forgot to charge it. So the next morning
Speaker 4: I charge it up and it's the old that your
Speaker 4: phone is blowing up at that point, and I'm kind
Speaker 4: of like, this has to be a joke. There's no
Speaker 4: way that this is true. And I start looking and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, they really traded him.
Speaker 2: So I get it.
Speaker 4: The Rockets are on a five game losing streak, but
Speaker 4: things could always be worse. I think we all know
Speaker 4: that in sports, and the worst of it is on
Speaker 4: the other end of today's matchups. So the Rocket's trying
Speaker 4: to break that five game loser. We might get into that,
Speaker 4: but like I said, the majority of the show today
Speaker 4: going to be on tomorrow's game, and not only that.
Speaker 2: It is Bregman Watch Day.
Speaker 4: I don't even know at this point, but we do
Speaker 4: have the report that Ari Alexander KPRC two threw out
Speaker 4: there that the Astros have improved their offer to Bregman,
Speaker 4: but the caveat to that still not expected to get
Speaker 4: the job done. So we'll see where things stand. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're less than a week from pitchers and catchers reporting,
Speaker 4: and that's usually when position players like to make their
Speaker 4: way to either Florida or Arizona. So I think of
Speaker 4: your Bregman timing is of the essence here, and I
Speaker 4: almost kind of think that if you're him, you kind
Speaker 4: of got to get to a point of all right,
Speaker 4: is this as good as it's gonna get. Let's do
Speaker 4: it and just get some finality to this, cause that's
Speaker 4: really what we all are with this, right. I mean,
Speaker 4: like I just I feel like, you know, yes, we
Speaker 4: would like to have Alex Bregman back. We'd love to
Speaker 4: have Alex Bregman back. But I think most Astros fans
Speaker 4: at this point are just like, dude, just make a decision, like,
Speaker 4: just get it done. Like it's just this this constant
Speaker 4: storyline and just this constant you know. Oh, you know,
Speaker 4: as soon as you see a notification from Chandler Rome
Speaker 4: out there of you know him, or Brian mctagger, then
Speaker 4: Matt Kawaharow, you're kind of like, Okay, hey, something's finally happened. Right, No,
Speaker 4: nothing's happened. So anyway, that's where things stand. But you're
Speaker 4: welcome to join up today if you want to do
Speaker 4: so again Sebon one three two one two five seven ninety.
Speaker 4: Once again, that's Sebone three two one two five seven ninety.
Speaker 4: Just a housekeeping note here, a reminder. We are gonna
Speaker 4: be done at eleven thirty today because that's when Craig
Speaker 4: Way and the crew are going to take over for
Speaker 4: Texas men's basketball against Vanderbilt. It's gonna be coming away
Speaker 4: starting at eleven thirty this morning, So cutting me thirty
Speaker 4: minutes short today, don't tell Matt Thomas.
Speaker 2: Trust me, you know, if your show is preempted.
Speaker 4: In any way, Matt Thomas will let you know that
Speaker 4: your show is being preempted.
Speaker 2: So can you all get me that.
Speaker 4: Let's please not let Sports MPT know that I'm working
Speaker 4: thirty minutes less today. All right, I appreciate you making
Speaker 4: that deal with me. But anyway, coming up next, there
Speaker 4: is a narrative this week about the game that I
Speaker 4: just can't shake from my head.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that right here.
Speaker 4: It is Face City Saturday, on your home of the
Speaker 4: Astros and the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: We now returned to Face City Saturday, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Space City Saturday.
Speaker 4: Dan Matthews here with you getting us fired up. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, we can always count on Melvin Brown to
Speaker 4: be able to set the mood right, and he absolutely
Speaker 4: hits every single time. And you know that's one of
Speaker 4: those things again, you know, taking back behind the curtain here,
Speaker 4: I always tell you we're the show of honesty around
Speaker 4: here on Space City Saturday. Not to say that everybody
Speaker 4: else isn't but we always just want to be able
Speaker 4: to be completely transparent and honest with you. And one
Speaker 4: of the things that Melvin will ask before the show is,
Speaker 4: you know, what are we feeling today music wise? Like
Speaker 4: last week we were out the gumbo cook off there
Speaker 4: at Cedar Creek Cafe, which again, can't stress it enough,
Speaker 4: it was an amazing time.
Speaker 2: I said, let's let's go a little bit of z Idaco.
Speaker 2: Let's let's set the mood, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna be eating gumbo, We're gonna be
Speaker 4: day drinking, we're gonna be having a good time, all
Speaker 4: of those different types of things.
Speaker 2: And that's that's what we went with.
Speaker 4: And then today I said, hey, you know, let's go
Speaker 4: like maybe a little bit of like NFL films music
Speaker 4: something like that, and that's what we decide to do.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna be coming with all of the good
Speaker 4: football music out there today. Before I get into my
Speaker 4: narrative topic, here do you want to throw out if
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Speaker 4: you saw what we have for you here on the
Speaker 4: show today. Less than ten minutes away from my good
Speaker 4: buddy John Kincaid from the Morning Show on ninety seven
Speaker 4: to five. The fanatic up there in Philadelphia. Johnny a
Speaker 4: lifetime Philly guy. I mean he loves, loves loves his Eagles,
Speaker 4: or as he says in his Philly accent, the Eagles.
Speaker 4: So we will have John coming up here in about
Speaker 4: ten minutes. He's a great guy and you probably know
Speaker 4: that name pretty well too from his work on the
Speaker 4: Four Letter Networks radio side as well as CBS Sports Radio.
Speaker 4: So he's done a lot of national work. So John
Speaker 4: is fantastic and he will have it all for us,
Speaker 4: soup to nuts when it comes to the Eagles. Yesterday
Speaker 4: on the A Team, if you were listening, you heard
Speaker 4: Chris Gordy as I mentioned, doing a lot of great
Speaker 4: work this week on media row there in New Orleans. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a chance catch up with Texan's edge rusher Willy Anderson Junior.
Speaker 4: So in about thirty minutes we're gonna hear from Anderson Junior.
Speaker 4: It was a good visit from there, and just a
Speaker 4: couple of days ago. On the A Team, we'll get
Speaker 4: the Chiefs side of tomorrow's game from Nate Taylor with
Speaker 4: the Athletic. He is the beat writer for the Athletic,
Speaker 4: and we'll get the Kansas City side of tomorrow's games.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna have you covered everything. We will have
Speaker 4: it all for you right here on at Space City Saturday.
Speaker 4: So I know the narrative that people think I'm going
Speaker 4: to bring up here, and know it's not about the
Speaker 4: people who wear black and white stripes.
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be watching our antenna is raised for tomorrow
Speaker 4: for any of those penalty calls.
Speaker 2: If there is a you know, kind.
Speaker 4: Of shaky roughing the passer call on say I don't know,
Speaker 4: Jalen Carter or somebody, or Nolan Smith, then immediately we're
Speaker 4: gonna say the up there they go. They're showing for
Speaker 4: Mahomes again. They're doing it. The fix is in. I mean,
Speaker 4: we played the Roman Reigns cut yesterday during Best of
Speaker 4: CTS of him saying football of work, and that's been
Speaker 4: something for some time, and you know, look I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean I was probably like many of us in
Speaker 4: the Texans game where we were just like, come on, man, like, really,
Speaker 4: that's that's roughing the passer. Oh, that's unnecessary roughness. Good
Speaker 4: to know, thanks really appreciate it, reps. But no, that's
Speaker 4: that's not where I'm going with this. The narrative that
Speaker 4: I think I've heard a lot this week that I
Speaker 4: really just cannot understand, and I think that a lot
Speaker 4: of it is recency bias, is this is going to
Speaker 4: be a boring game tomorrow. This is a boring matchup.
Speaker 4: This is a matchup that we're tired of seeing. We
Speaker 4: just saw it a couple of years ago, and we've
Speaker 4: seen back to back Super Bowl matchups before. I mean,
Speaker 4: back in the early to mid nineties, you saw two
Speaker 4: straight years of Cowboys and Bills, and both times the
Speaker 4: Cowboys got Buffalo in those games. And you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's kind of one of those things that we say
Speaker 4: out loud that we're tired of seeing the same teams
Speaker 4: over and over again. I mean, right now, it's the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Just a few years ago, it was the Patriots. In
Speaker 4: the nineties, it was the Cowboys. We were tired of
Speaker 4: seeing them. And you know, on the college side, I mean,
Speaker 4: we got so tired of seeing USC and that, you know,
Speaker 4: and people.
Speaker 2: Want to say that UFC a UFC USC.
Speaker 4: Had a dominance at that time during the mid two thousands,
Speaker 4: we all really truly know that they only won one
Speaker 4: national title during that time, Like, that's what cracked me
Speaker 4: up when people were saying, Oh, they're going for a
Speaker 4: three peat against Texas.
Speaker 2: Really because, as far as I know.
Speaker 4: We take the BCS national champion, and the BCS national
Speaker 4: champion was LSU. And people might try to say that
Speaker 4: USC would have beaten LSU. Yes, they probably were a
Speaker 4: more talented team, but can I tell you that night
Speaker 4: that LSU beat Oklahoma inside the Superdome, there was nobody
Speaker 4: that was going to beat that team that night. They
Speaker 4: had magic on their side in that game. So go
Speaker 4: ahead and take that for what it's worth. But anyway,
Speaker 4: people throughout USC people got tired of Alabama. You got
Speaker 4: tired of seeing Alabama and Clemson in the College Football
Speaker 4: Playoff all these years. So I get it that you
Speaker 4: want to say out loud, oh these teams again. But
Speaker 4: it's also even if you're not a fan of a
Speaker 4: certain team, and we're kind of dealing with it here
Speaker 4: in Houston, the rest of the country is getting tired
Speaker 4: of seeing the Astros in the LCS and the World
Speaker 4: Series almost every single year. We love it because it's
Speaker 4: more baseball for us. It's more of a chance for
Speaker 4: you to probably wear your astros gear around and know, hey, people,
Speaker 4: if nothing else, even after the revelation of what happened
Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen, they're probably, if they're being honest themselves,
Speaker 4: deep down gonna say, but I do respect you guys,
Speaker 4: because it's.
Speaker 2: Not like the Astros.
Speaker 4: We're a fluke with what happened that year when we
Speaker 4: all know without a shadow of a doubt that other
Speaker 4: teams are doing it. The Commissioner even said as much.
Speaker 4: But for whatever reason, the Astros have been made the poster.
Speaker 2: Child for it.
Speaker 4: And I've given the reasons before for that. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, the case study was last year with Michigan.
Speaker 4: The amount of shilling and just you know, absolute stumping
Speaker 4: that people were doing for Michigan with Connor Stallions was
Speaker 4: exactly what I said. I said, if this were any
Speaker 4: of the heritage organizations in baseball, you would have had
Speaker 4: Ken Rosenthal in everybody saying, well, you know, everybody in
Speaker 4: baseball was doing it. It wasn't just a Yankees thing.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just a Dodgers thing or any of these
Speaker 4: other teams. We all know how it goes. The Astros
Speaker 4: are low hanging fruit. They were an organization that for
Speaker 4: the most part never won anything of consequence, and once
Speaker 4: they started doing it, well, then everybody started to say, well,
Speaker 4: there's got to be a reason why. I mean, nobody
Speaker 4: is truly that good at being able to develop talent,
Speaker 4: nobody is really that good at being able to have
Speaker 4: all these players in their farm system, and nobody is
Speaker 4: really this good without having to spend gobs of money.
Speaker 4: And that's what the Astros were able to do. But
Speaker 4: with the Chiefs and what they've been able to do,
Speaker 4: that's the part that I think is the saddest thing
Speaker 4: of this entire run for the Chiefs is that they've
Speaker 4: won three Super Bowls out of was it four or
Speaker 4: five years during that span. I mean, of course they
Speaker 4: lost the one to Tampa Bay and Tom Brady a
Speaker 4: few years ago. But a chance to go for something
Speaker 4: that we've never seen before in our history, a threepeat.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. That's fun, that's an awesome storyline. I'm there
Speaker 2: for it. I'm here for it.
Speaker 4: And then I mentioned it in the opening segment, redemption
Speaker 4: from the Eagles. Just a couple of years ago, this
Speaker 4: very organization beat you and they went home with the
Speaker 4: Lombardi Trophy, not you.
Speaker 2: So that's another part of this.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got an Eagles team with a historic
Speaker 4: running back in Saquon Barkley this year who just missed
Speaker 4: out on breaking a single season rushing record, but he's
Speaker 4: been amazing. We of course here in the Houston area,
Speaker 4: we're rooting hard for Jalen Hurts being a Channel View guy,
Speaker 4: and he still represents his city. And that's the fun
Speaker 4: of this entire matchup. So I'm really excited about tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be amazing. I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be an incredible game to be able to watch too,
Speaker 4: So it is going to be just a ton of
Speaker 4: fun to be able to sit back and watch. And
Speaker 4: coming up a little bit later on in the show,
Speaker 4: I kind of give you a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of a guide for tomorrow. I'm just gonna try
Speaker 2: to help you out a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe if you're on the fence of what to provide,
Speaker 4: if you are having people over at the house, or
Speaker 4: maybe even if it's just you it's a small intimate
Speaker 4: get together with immediate family, you know what, that's even
Speaker 4: awesome as well. So we'll do all of that coming up.
Speaker 4: But immediately coming up, we're gonna head up Philadelphia. We're
Speaker 4: gonna talk for my good buddy John Kincaid from ninety
Speaker 4: seven to five to the fanatic. He's gonna give it
Speaker 4: the Eagles side of tomorrow's game. We'll do that right
Speaker 4: here Space City Saturday, when you're home with the Astros
Speaker 4: and the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Space City Saturday continues Fine Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4: Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews here with you, I can
Speaker 4: he's here. John Facinda right now, speaking of John. We've
Speaker 4: got a John right now, John Kincaid join us here
Speaker 4: on a Space City Saturday. You can hear him morning's
Speaker 4: six to ten on ninety seven to five. The fanatic
Speaker 4: up there in PHILADELI via John. It's great to hear
Speaker 4: you again. You've got a John Facenda story or two,
Speaker 4: don't you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't think you even know this one, or you may.
Speaker 6: My dad was John Facenda's mailman. Okay, how about that?
Speaker 6: John Facenda was. And John Facenda was an anchorman in Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: a news anchor which a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 6: But he had just such a great voice that when
Speaker 6: NFL film started, and it started here and they set
Speaker 6: up their base here, they were looking for a great voice,
Speaker 6: and that's why they went John Facenda, and then upon
Speaker 6: his passing, went to Harry Kallis, and then after Harry
Speaker 6: Kallis passed, they've had, you know, a bunch of different people.
Speaker 6: But John Forcenda was My dad was his mailman in
Speaker 6: Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, and he used to wear three two pays.
Speaker 6: He had a long one, a medium one, and a
Speaker 6: short one, and my dad would be delivering mail and
Speaker 6: Missus Fascenda would on Saturdays wash the two pays and
Speaker 6: they'd be out on the line in the air. So
Speaker 6: my dad would go buy and were John to send
Speaker 6: us three two pays so you would pretend that he
Speaker 6: was getting haircuts. I think it's pretty creative.
Speaker 7: I gotta diet. It's pretty creative.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, for sure, for sure the way we
Speaker 4: remember the way we remember our idols, right John, But yes.
Speaker 6: It is any it is amazing, So.
Speaker 2: For sure, for sure.
Speaker 4: Good stuff there again, John K and K joined us
Speaker 4: here on Space City Saturday. Let's just start off with
Speaker 4: just a broad view of tomorrow. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: people talk about this matchup with both lines both very
Speaker 4: good upfront, but when it really comes down to it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: If the Eagles are the ones raising the Lombardi Trophy,
Speaker 4: what do you think will be the storyline of their win.
Speaker 6: I think it's the fact that, unlike in the last
Speaker 6: Super Bowl where they're running back broke his wrist on
Speaker 6: the first play, his first garry in Miles Sanders, I
Speaker 6: think that this game they will have a consistent rushing attack,
Speaker 6: and they've obviously run the better ball better this year
Speaker 6: even than they did that year, and at that point
Speaker 6: they had a historic rushing attack. This year they just
Speaker 6: broke the record book in half and started, you know,
Speaker 6: waiting their own chapters. So I think that'll be a
Speaker 6: big part of it. But Dan, this number one defense,
Speaker 6: to me is going to have to be on its
Speaker 6: you know, on its toes, because when you're facing Mahomes
Speaker 6: and Andy Reid, it's a chess match that I don't
Speaker 6: think anyone can ever say they've got the advantage in
Speaker 6: when you're facing those two, any defense I don't think
Speaker 6: you can say, yeah, well, that defense is going to
Speaker 6: get the advantage on them, because we respect Andy very
Speaker 6: much here in Philadelphia, and Mahomes, if you don't respect him,
Speaker 6: you're just trying to find a reason.
Speaker 7: Not to like the guy because he's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: And you know, just talked about that in the last
Speaker 4: segment of you know the word we like to use
Speaker 4: in this business John narrative, And of course you know
Speaker 4: the chief narrative this week, no pun intended, is oh,
Speaker 4: how much of the referee is going to help him out?
Speaker 4: But I mean that's you know, I talked about it
Speaker 4: in the opening segment of the show. I said, this
Speaker 4: is greatness against redemption, and that's where I'm go on
Speaker 4: with the next one. I mean, you know, bringing up
Speaker 4: Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman and everybody up there that
Speaker 4: I'm sure most of your listeners they wanted them gone
Speaker 4: after last season, and you get the reprieve that all
Speaker 4: coaches get, where Sirianni gets to fire his OC and
Speaker 4: his DC, bringing Vic Fangio, bring in Kellen Moore, and
Speaker 4: you have the season that they had. So where I'm
Speaker 4: going with this is, I mean, did anybody in Philly
Speaker 4: see this coming, even with the addition of Saquon Barkling.
Speaker 6: Well, remember last year, before the collapse, which by the way,
Speaker 6: was a historic collapse, they were ten and one and everything,
Speaker 6: and that's coming off of a Super Bowl, and then
Speaker 6: all hell broke loose, mainly because of the fact that
Speaker 6: Brian Johnson there offensive coordinator, who was handpicked by the
Speaker 6: quarterback Jalen Hurts, because of their lifelong friendship. Brian Johnson,
Speaker 6: I honestly, I wouldn't hire him to walk Nicky falls
Speaker 6: my dog. I would not. He was over his skis.
Speaker 6: He wasn't prepared. And then you had a defense. It's
Speaker 6: a coordinator and Sean Deci and Matt Patricia who was
Speaker 6: just a meddlesome force in the building. And so those hires,
Speaker 6: by the way, were made by Howie Roseman, who then
Speaker 6: went out this offseason and went and got Vic Fangio
Speaker 6: and Kellen Moore.
Speaker 7: So he made those highers.
Speaker 6: So sometimes how he gets a lot of credit for
Speaker 6: all the stuff he gets right, and he is fantastic.
Speaker 6: He is a great drafter, talent evaluator everything. He's great
Speaker 6: strategies and the best capologists.
Speaker 7: In the business.
Speaker 6: But make it be clear, his poor decisions on who
Speaker 6: we're going to be the coordinators last year for that
Speaker 6: team cost that team dearly because everything fell apart as
Speaker 6: the season went along. They were ten and one. But
Speaker 6: they were winning games a lot like the Chiefs did
Speaker 6: this year, winning games like by the skin of their teeth,
Speaker 6: having to pull stuff out. And that wasn't the way
Speaker 6: they won in twenty two, and that really wasn't the
Speaker 6: way they've won in twenty four again.
Speaker 4: John k and K ninety seven to five the fanatic
Speaker 4: up in Philadelphia, join us here on Space City Saturday.
Speaker 4: Foind him on Twitter at John Kinky. And defensively, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I know we've talked a lot about the
Speaker 4: offensive side of the football, and for good reason. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's what people focus on the most when they're watching games.
Speaker 4: But defensively, you know, we can talk about some of
Speaker 4: the names that people will be focused on tomorrow, Jalen
Speaker 4: Carter obviously, Nolan Smith, what you know me and you
Speaker 4: know those guys from their work.
Speaker 2: And our former workplace.
Speaker 4: But talk about a guy like Zach Bond in what
Speaker 4: he's meant to this defense, because it seems like whenever
Speaker 4: there's needed to be a massive turnover or just a
Speaker 4: massive stop, he seems like he's the guy that's usually
Speaker 4: spearheading that effort.
Speaker 6: It's been incredible, Dan, and I'm not afraid to tell
Speaker 6: your audience that when Zach Bond got signed, I had
Speaker 6: to go to Google. I had no idea who he was.
Speaker 6: I had never remembered hearing his name. He was a
Speaker 6: special teamer for the most part with the Saints. I
Speaker 6: had no idea what he was bringing to the table.
Speaker 6: But all I had heard when I started to do
Speaker 6: a little more conaissance, was that Vic Fangio loved this
Speaker 6: guy and wherever he was going to be this year,
Speaker 6: he was going to want to go get Zach Baum.
Speaker 6: And it just tells you what a crafty DC can see.
Speaker 6: He has been incredible Dan not only you know, he's
Speaker 6: a guy that has been fantastic in coverage, which nobody like.
Speaker 7: Really was expecting.
Speaker 6: He has been incredibly solid in the run defense. But
Speaker 6: the Eagles take care of their rush defense a lot
Speaker 6: at the front line. You know, a lot of times
Speaker 6: it doesn't even have to get to the linebackers. But
Speaker 6: he's a great tackler, and he's been a disruptor as
Speaker 6: far as stripping balls, huge fourth down stops. He's been
Speaker 6: absolutely incredible sideline to sideline. I have no idea how
Speaker 6: people didn't see what this guy was bringing to the table.
Speaker 6: But obviously it was missed by a lot of nflgms.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and also to the team that he was with
Speaker 4: because it was in the city. They're playing tomorrow's game,
Speaker 4: so their loss is definitely the Eagles game for sure.
Speaker 4: A couple more minutes again with John Kincaid ninety seven
Speaker 4: to five, the fanatic up there in Philly and John,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I've talked about this numerous times
Speaker 4: with you, the reputation that Philly fans have everything of
Speaker 4: the sort. But did you ever think you would see
Speaker 4: a day that, let's just go the wrestling example here,
Speaker 4: a team from Kansas City would be the Heels and
Speaker 4: the team from Philadelphia would be the Babyface.
Speaker 6: Well, what I'm going to say to you, Dan is
Speaker 6: you know, I'm always honest about the fan base and everything.
Speaker 6: It is the most rabid, wild fan base I think
Speaker 6: God ever created. But I also think that many many
Speaker 6: times they've stepped in it and created their own sort
Speaker 6: of negative press. But one of the things is that
Speaker 6: hasn't happened. Honestly, for the most part, that doesn't happen
Speaker 6: much anymore. In fact, the stuff I see in other
Speaker 6: stadiums seems far worse people getting killed in the parking
Speaker 6: lots and stabbed and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But what I will say.
Speaker 6: Is this is that I think the Eagles are a
Speaker 6: very likable story. There's nothing that you know down there
Speaker 6: in Space City. And one of the things that I
Speaker 6: admire about Jalen Hurts is by the way he never
Speaker 6: hides his love of Houston. He never has decided to
Speaker 6: pander to this city. Even when the Phillies were in
Speaker 6: the World Series against the Astros, he wore his Astro stuff, which,
Speaker 6: by the way, he wears around. He wears his Astro set.
Speaker 6: He loves them, And so to me, it's they're a
Speaker 6: likable story. They don't pander to be part of Philly,
Speaker 6: but man has Philly embraced them. And those Georgia Dogs,
Speaker 6: those kids, it's an amazing story. If you haven't gotten
Speaker 6: to see, and if your listeners haven't gotten to see,
Speaker 6: they have a little video library of the year, like
Speaker 6: a video diary of their season. The Georgia Dogs playing
Speaker 6: here in Philly. Those guys, they love each other, their
Speaker 6: family away from home. They've created an atmosphere here where
Speaker 6: they are rock stars in this town. And then you
Speaker 6: add CJ. Gardner Johnson and some of the others, Darius
Speaker 6: Slay giving us are we now have the Exciting Whites
Speaker 6: as they are called, and yes there are. Everybody in
Speaker 6: town has a T shirt CJ. Gardner want CJ. Gardner,
Speaker 6: Johnson and Darius Slay, tag Reid Blank and Ship and
Speaker 6: our boy Cooper Degen, two white safeties as the exciting Whites.
Speaker 6: It just became a punchline and fun and they're exciting
Speaker 6: Whites T shirts merchandise and they're launching a podcast in
Speaker 6: the offseason because they enjoy each other's company so much
Speaker 6: to talk football and have a little fun and they
Speaker 6: say they're gonna sip white wine while they do it.
Speaker 6: But it has been a They're a very likable team.
Speaker 6: There's not there there is a big villain on this
Speaker 6: team or anything like that. And it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 6: And I gotta tell you, you know, all those Georgia guys,
Speaker 6: they've been it's been incredible. And the strategy of going
Speaker 6: to one school and grabbing like five players from it,
Speaker 6: I sort of was like, is that the smart thing
Speaker 6: to do? It has worked beautifully and Vic Fangio says
Speaker 6: those guys entered the NFL with their undergraduate degrees already
Speaker 6: in NFL football. He thought they were so well coached
Speaker 6: and coached up that these guys just entered the NFL
Speaker 6: better off. And I'm sure top programs like Georgia and
Speaker 6: Texas and things like that you might find that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, John, it's funny you say that,
Speaker 4: because I mean, we heard the same thing all season
Speaker 4: from Damiko Ryans and all the coaches about Kamari Lassiter.
Speaker 4: So I mean, you know, yeah, it's something something to
Speaker 4: be said about not overthinking it on draft nights. Some
Speaker 4: teams get that. Some teams, I don't think necessarily do.
Speaker 4: The ones that don't, they continuously have to remind you.
Speaker 4: And I think you know where I'm going with this,
Speaker 4: that they have to continuously remind you, Oh, we know
Speaker 4: what we're doing in here. Oh you do, We'll continue
Speaker 4: going eight to nine.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 6: I have one problem with Dan today, on the eve
Speaker 6: of the Super Bowl, I'm a little less than thirty
Speaker 6: one hours away and my wife has told me to
Speaker 6: get out of the house now. I'm doing a special
Speaker 6: party tomorrow that I'm broadcasting from in middle of the day,
Speaker 6: but my wife has said I'm not going to be
Speaker 6: able to deal with you, so you have.
Speaker 7: To find stuff to do.
Speaker 6: So literally, she's like sending me out like she's like,
Speaker 6: you're bouncing off.
Speaker 7: The walls, you are pacing the floors. You're driving me crazy.
Speaker 6: Any any advice, I mean, you know, you know us both,
Speaker 6: Any advice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna saying, I mean, look, I don't
Speaker 4: know what the weather is like up there, but today
Speaker 4: here in Houston, it's.
Speaker 7: A beautiful storm this afternoon.
Speaker 6: That's coming in around three o'clock. Snow and ice part
Speaker 6: of the beauty. Moving back to Philadelphia, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, for sure.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, look, I would say I would say indoors,
Speaker 4: you know, that's that's still a spot that you can
Speaker 4: be able to get a good drink or two. And
Speaker 4: then look, you've got Ralphs, You've got South Philly there
Speaker 4: you can go find a good, good meal somewhere.
Speaker 6: I'm sure I'll do something. But thirty one twenty, by
Speaker 6: the way, that's the final score. They're gonna the Birds
Speaker 6: will hoist their second Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling you on that. I'm feeling you. I think
Speaker 4: that you know, just the one and a half All
Speaker 4: week I was kind of like, man, it's gonna move.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling that. But it states you see my tweet.
Speaker 6: Did you see my tweet yesterday about the underdogs? Every
Speaker 6: every super Bowl, every super Bowl played this century, there
Speaker 6: have been twenty three of them because two thousand was
Speaker 6: not the turn of the century. Two thousand and one
Speaker 6: is the first year of the new century. Every season
Speaker 6: that there's been a Super Bowl, the underdog is sixteen
Speaker 6: and seven straight up. Interesting, interesting winning the game. The
Speaker 6: underdog has won seventy four percent of the Super Bowls
Speaker 6: this century. So Vegas has been abysmal at identifying who
Speaker 6: the better team is. I can't believe it because they're
Speaker 6: never usually that bad, but seventy four percent of the
Speaker 6: time they've been wrong, the underdog has won the game outright.
Speaker 6: So think about that when you are placing your legal
Speaker 6: wagers or illegal ones' that's just my r you know.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's the knowledge that John ky Kate brings
Speaker 4: us here on Space City Saturday. Johnny, you're the best man.
Speaker 4: Give my best to Chris and live and it's always
Speaker 4: great to catch up with you, buddy.
Speaker 6: Dan, great job, buddy, I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: See you, buddy, John Kinkaid again ninety seven to five,
Speaker 4: the fanatic up there in Philly, and uh yeah, you
Speaker 4: know the Vegas side of it, trust me. I mean
Speaker 4: Matt Thomas might tell you he loves Vegas. Nobody loves
Speaker 4: Vegas like my good buddy John Kinkaid. So great to
Speaker 4: be able to talk the Eagles side of tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: And look, I gotta be honest with you. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I'll give the full on prediction later on,
Speaker 4: but I mean that one.
Speaker 2: And a half.
Speaker 4: I just kind of feel like Vegas is kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, telling you, hey, this is a pick them
Speaker 4: in every sense of the word. So sixteen and seven
Speaker 4: the underdogs winning straight up. John Kinkad just throwing that
Speaker 4: out there, so appreciate him. Join us here for a
Speaker 4: few minutes. You want to react to anything John just said,
Speaker 4: or be able to get in with any Super Bowl conversation,
Speaker 4: you can do so sebon one three two one two
Speaker 4: five seven ninety once again, that's seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two five seven nine zero. But also coming up next,
Speaker 4: like I said, let's get the Texans side. Even though
Speaker 4: they're not the Chiefs, they're not the Eagles. They're not
Speaker 4: in this game, but how do they eventually get into
Speaker 4: this game? Well, we will dive into that a little
Speaker 4: bit as our good buddy Chris Gordy catches us up
Speaker 4: with Will Anderson Junior of the Texans there in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: We will have that for you here coming up on
Speaker 4: Space City Saturday on your home of the Astros and
Speaker 4: the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 4: You don't always get the this is a presentation of
Speaker 4: the NFL.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 4: You don't get that type of music. That's a that's
Speaker 4: a good poll by you, Melvyn. It's it's a banger.
Speaker 4: It kind of lets you know this is the National
Speaker 4: Football League and tomorrow we'll be watching it. Kevin Burkhart,
Speaker 4: Tom Brady, and Aaron Andrews as well as Tom Rinaldi
Speaker 4: there in New Orleans. So you know, it's just it's
Speaker 4: so funny. Like I was talking about earlier, you just
Speaker 4: you feel like the week leading up to the game
Speaker 4: that finally gets to the game and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right, that's that's what we were doing all this
Speaker 4: partying and everything for right, like we're actually gonna play
Speaker 4: a football game. So that's so we get tomorrow the
Speaker 4: Eagles and the Chiefs playing for it all here in
Speaker 4: the NFL. So we'll see who is up on the
Speaker 4: stage hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. Is the confetti going to
Speaker 4: be gold in red or is it going to be
Speaker 4: white and green?
Speaker 2: I guess we'll just have to wait and see for tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But one of the teams that is not in it
Speaker 4: is the team that we love around here, that is
Speaker 4: the Houston Texans. And as a matter of fact, Jason
Speaker 4: did call in earlier, so gonna pull just a quick
Speaker 4: audible before we hear about that five minute visit with
Speaker 4: Willy Anderson Junior. Jason real quick from Katie wants to
Speaker 4: weigh in here on Sports Talk seven ninety Jason, what's up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to remind Houston that we hold
Speaker 5: a dubious honor in the NFL, and that is the
Speaker 5: city of Houston has the longest conference championship route of
Speaker 5: any team bar the second would be Cleveland Browns in
Speaker 5: eighty nine, the last time a Houston team made it
Speaker 5: with seventy nine. And another thing, every other team has
Speaker 5: been to at least two conference championship games. Since the
Speaker 5: last time I've seen from Houston went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate the call, Jason.
Speaker 4: Now, I mean, you know, the Texans, we obviously know
Speaker 4: since they joined the league in two thousand and two,
Speaker 4: they haven't gotten past the divisional round. And you even
Speaker 4: touched on to the team that was here previous up
Speaker 4: until what was in ninety seven to ninety eight, the
Speaker 4: last season of the Oilers, So it's been a while.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time coming in Jason. As a
Speaker 4: matter of fact, good on you, because you just did
Speaker 4: a great segue here in the business, a nice little
Speaker 4: lead in to the conversation that Chris Gordy had because
Speaker 4: to your point, the Texans have never reached the AFC
Speaker 4: Championship game erego, they've never even been one of the
Speaker 4: final two teams at the end of the season. But
Speaker 4: that's where Chris Gordy and Will Anderson Junior got things
Speaker 4: started yesterday, Gordy asking Will, Hey, what do you guys
Speaker 4: do to get to that point?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we's gonna do a better job of executing,
Speaker 3: man and making sure we're being all on the same page.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's really just somewhere us the players
Speaker 3: making sure we're sacrificing our time and making sure that
Speaker 3: we need to do what we need to do, set
Speaker 3: ourselves ahead, and make sure we're going out there competing
Speaker 3: to the highest level that we can. Yeah, it's it, man.
Speaker 3: It had to be nice.
Speaker 8: I remember talking to you when you were at Alabama
Speaker 8: because you used to talk about you got a lot
Speaker 8: of double teams and it was hard. Teams were focusing
Speaker 8: on you and you win, you know, defensive Rookie of
Speaker 8: the Year and all that. It had to be nice, though,
Speaker 8: bringing over a sud defensive end on that other side
Speaker 8: to kind of take some of the attention away from you.
Speaker 3: Most definitely, Danil has been a great help man. He's
Speaker 3: been a blessing to have on his team. Man, He's
Speaker 3: taught me so much going and off the field, the
Speaker 3: way he prepares, the way he's persistent, the way he's
Speaker 3: so consistent in his game. He rubbed off on me
Speaker 3: so much and I took so much from him, just
Speaker 3: like working my hands after practice, working my hands during
Speaker 3: practice on the sideline, when the office is going, how
Speaker 3: I'm taking care of my body, how I'm eating right.
Speaker 8: And he's just been unbelievable for me. What did he
Speaker 8: has changed it all from last year to this year.
Speaker 8: Was it Demico kind of keep things the same or
Speaker 8: the things change? Demiko is Demico Demica. It's like, look,
Speaker 8: I know what this is.
Speaker 3: I have, the guys are doing and we're gonna get
Speaker 3: it done. We just have to continue to do us better.
Speaker 3: And that's what I love about Dimico because his confidence
Speaker 3: is so high. It just bleeds on to us, man,
Speaker 3: and we adapt that confidence, man, and he pushed us
Speaker 3: to be the best that we can.
Speaker 8: You know anything about the new O Seaton Nick Cayley
Speaker 8: coming in. He's a very highly thought of a lot
Speaker 8: of pre snap motion, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Do you know anything about him? Not too much, but
Speaker 3: I heard nothing but great things about him. I'm excited
Speaker 3: to work with him. I'm excited to see what he
Speaker 3: does with CJ and their relationship and what he can
Speaker 3: do with the offense. And I trust the decision, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, And I'm excited about this next year.
Speaker 8: We're going into some injuries happened throughout the year. Is
Speaker 8: that stress even morning offseason?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 8: You got to do everything right to take care of
Speaker 8: your body because it's a grind, man, and you miss
Speaker 8: some games, it's a big loss.
Speaker 3: You can't get those games back. Yeah, most definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it all starts in the off season, just
Speaker 3: like how you take care of about it and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and you know, you know, injuries is a
Speaker 3: party game, you know what I'm saying. I think calleds
Speaker 3: always talk about it, like even though when we have
Speaker 3: these injuries, like whoever's up after you? Like, how are
Speaker 3: you paying attention? How are you getting the mental execution
Speaker 3: that you need to do while you're not in And
Speaker 3: those are the areas that we can improve on as
Speaker 3: well as too.
Speaker 8: How about sting taking Heaven a year? He has Old
Speaker 8: pro Stingley.
Speaker 3: Pro Stingley, Man, Stingley is the best quarterback in this league. Man.
Speaker 3: And I play with Pats certain and I think very
Speaker 3: highly of both of those guys. And both of those
Speaker 3: guys are top. I'm not saying which one has one
Speaker 3: or two, but both of those guys are top. And
Speaker 3: I love Stingley to death. Man. He's he's the best. Man.
Speaker 3: He's the best to do it. The way he can
Speaker 3: go up and get the ball, the way he covers people,
Speaker 3: the way he come down and tackle. He doesn't say
Speaker 3: much Man, he just lets his game speak for himself,
Speaker 3: and he's going to continue to do to do great
Speaker 3: things in this league.
Speaker 8: If you're walking down the hall at NRG and Nick Casario,
Speaker 8: you walk by his office and he goes, hey, well
Speaker 8: come in here real quick. What quick thought? We got
Speaker 8: that first round pick? What do you what do we need?
Speaker 8: What would you tell him?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not I'm not a GM, I'm
Speaker 3: not a coach, I'm not nothing. I'm just like man,
Speaker 3: whatever y'all think needs right, whatever y'all need to help
Speaker 3: me in the team, it don't matter to me. Whoever
Speaker 3: y'all getting. I'm a love up on them. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: make sure that they have whatever they need here.
Speaker 8: Man, what'd you make of for the year Joe Mixon had, Man,
Speaker 8: they added such an added dynamic to the offense.
Speaker 3: Bro Joe was the energy on that offense. Man. The
Speaker 3: way he led that offense with CJ. Man, the way
Speaker 3: he brought a spark to it. Man, it was like
Speaker 3: none other. Man. But he does that to the whole team.
Speaker 3: And we played against Joe last year when he was
Speaker 3: at the Bengals, Man, and I knew how special he was,
Speaker 3: and he brung that energy into the building.
Speaker 8: It was good the added dynamic. Going to guess, play
Speaker 8: your butts off in Kansas City. But like the way
Speaker 8: the way the game goes, do you almost go, it's
Speaker 8: that much more point we get home field. Yeah, because
Speaker 8: we saw that crowd rocking your Chargers game. I mean,
Speaker 8: it is a difference maker. So getting that best record
Speaker 8: AFC matters, it does, it does. It's a lot of
Speaker 8: cool games.
Speaker 3: You gotta get on the road for man, But I
Speaker 3: gotta said, we got to find a way to win.
Speaker 3: Those are what the good teams are doing. They're finding
Speaker 3: a way to win, and that's what we have to
Speaker 3: continue to do. All right.
Speaker 8: You've been in Houston a couple of years. Give me
Speaker 8: give me the best best food.
Speaker 3: Spot, best foods by the in Houston for breakfast to
Speaker 3: break this club, Yep, it's a good one. Barbecue, I
Speaker 3: want to say, Yeah, that's just the truth. It's one
Speaker 3: of the barbecue players. Well, you can't go wrong any
Speaker 3: of them. It's both those like some of the places
Speaker 3: I like a lot. What are you ribs, sausage ribs,
Speaker 3: uhribs just really really okay, it's pretty good, Yeah it is.
Speaker 8: It's not that eating and you played in Alabama. They
Speaker 8: got a good barbecue, they do.
Speaker 3: I didn't even really eat the barbecue that much Alabama.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well yeah, I mean were you were busy shocking
Speaker 8: day and having fun in college when you're not playing football.
Speaker 3: What you're doing fishing with my dad? My dad, me
Speaker 3: and him go fishing all the time. Man, you around
Speaker 3: or no back in Georgia anywhere we go down the
Speaker 3: foot and go fishing.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: And it's been great, Like that's just my my peace
Speaker 3: of mom my comments. That's been really great fish bass.
Speaker 3: What do we kept as large north back? What do
Speaker 3: you use for a lure? Uh? Carolina rig and something
Speaker 3: we use shad minnos, all those different type of things.
Speaker 3: You get out there early, yep. We got out there early,
Speaker 3: right when the sun's right, when it's not come up,
Speaker 3: because if you don't, it'd be too hot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Before I let you go, let let everybody know what
Speaker 3: you do. Who you're promoting here today? Yeah, I'm with
Speaker 3: Jeff Pinot Butter right now, man, and you know of
Speaker 3: a billion people e wings on a Super Bowl, So
Speaker 3: I'm teaming up with Jeff to save the salary right now. Well,
Speaker 3: better way to eat the eat the salary did with
Speaker 3: Peanut Butter. I love it. Well, It's great to catch
Speaker 3: up with me.
Speaker 8: I know you've been doing a million of these, so
Speaker 8: appreciate you taking some time to really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Appreciate uh Will Anderson Jr.
Speaker 4: For his time you have today with Chris Gordy there
Speaker 4: on Media Row in New Orleans. You missed any that
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Speaker 4: you can be able to catch that interview on the go.
Speaker 4: Good stuff there, Let's continue the conversation. We've given you
Speaker 4: the Eagles side of tomorrow's game.
Speaker 2: What about the Chiefs side?
Speaker 4: Earlier this week on the eight team, we had a
Speaker 4: chance to catch up with the athletics. Nate Taylor will
Speaker 4: have that visit here for you. As we get into
Speaker 4: the eleven o'clock hour here on Space City Saturday, Dan
Speaker 4: Matthews here with you when you're home of the Astros
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Speaker 2: Indeed, it is.
Speaker 4: Craig Ackerman, Indeed it is. It's always insane. Doesn't matter
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Speaker 4: appreciate you all taking some time here this late morning,
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Speaker 4: two of the show, an abbreviated hour two, as I
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Speaker 4: gonna have Texas basketball coming your way, the Horns in
Speaker 4: Nashville taking on the Vanderbilt Commodores. So we're gonna have
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Speaker 4: if you can't get enough basketball today, two forty five
Speaker 4: over with our friends on KPRC nine to fifty, that's
Speaker 4: going to be the Coogs in Colorado taking on the Buffalo's.
Speaker 4: So the Coogs trying to be able to get a
Speaker 4: huge win. Obviously no Emmanuel sharp up for the game
Speaker 4: on Tuesday night, which happened to be in the building
Speaker 4: for that for the Coogs and Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Had to sweat it out a little bit.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's been a Koog's team that at
Speaker 4: times this year has looked to disjoin it on the
Speaker 4: offensive end, but they were able to pull off the win.
Speaker 4: The defense always plays for them, So they'll be taking
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Speaker 4: We're going to continue the Super Bowl conversation here on
Speaker 4: Space City Saturday, because, as promised earlier this week, on
Speaker 4: the A team. We had a chance to catch up
Speaker 4: with Nate Taylor. He is the Athletics beat writer that
Speaker 4: covers the Chiefs. We had a great conversation with Adam
Speaker 4: and Adam and Nate, and now is a chance for
Speaker 4: us to get the Chiefs side of tomorrow's game.
Speaker 2: So we'll do that right now.
Speaker 9: Kiss City Chiefs Philadelphia Eagles. We've got ourselves a Super
Speaker 9: Bowl matchup. We've seen it before. There are some differences
Speaker 9: quite clearly, especially in the Eagles backfield and in other
Speaker 9: parts of each of these two teams. Take a trip
Speaker 9: to New Orleans and catch up with Nate Taylor, who
Speaker 9: covers the Chiefs for the Athletic. We certainly appreciate you
Speaker 9: spending a little time with us. By the way, the
Speaker 9: Athletic is set to debut it's new daily game Connections
Speaker 9: Sports Edition coming up on February ninth. I imagine most
Speaker 9: of our listeners familiar with Connections, well connections to this
Speaker 9: game of long run. For people who've covered the Chiefs,
Speaker 9: this is kind of part of your annual schedule. I
Speaker 9: know how many more games we're going to need, but
Speaker 9: we'll take you to the only story that anyone's allowed
Speaker 9: to talk about Nate, the narrative, the striped shirts. It
Speaker 9: does seem like we finally hit the pushback on it,
Speaker 9: both from the Chiefs and even from media, some outside
Speaker 9: Kansas City, but many inside Kansas City. We experienced it
Speaker 9: because the players brought it up during the week preceding
Speaker 9: the game. Buffalo experienced it because their head coach mentioned
Speaker 9: that they had discussed it before their game. How do
Speaker 9: you feel like that plays into what we're gonna watch
Speaker 9: on Sunday?
Speaker 10: You know, you hope it doesn't play into it a
Speaker 10: ton And obviously thank you guys for having me on.
Speaker 10: I just I get the sense that even Roder Goodell
Speaker 10: on Monday saying, you know, hey, it's come on, we
Speaker 10: you know, obviously everybody knows that the rest of human beings.
Speaker 3: Of Roger Goodell's point was.
Speaker 10: We raid everybody, like we know who's the best and
Speaker 10: the worst. Ref Like it's you know, it's almost a
Speaker 10: fool to air because uh, you know, yes, the trend
Speaker 10: is the Chiefs continue to win. They win a lot
Speaker 10: of close games, they don't win the games sort of
Speaker 10: in blowout, which obviously kind of removes the the refs
Speaker 10: from like, you know, the equation. But even Roger Goodell said,
Speaker 10: look like there are bag holes for every team in
Speaker 10: every game because you know, we we have a human element.
Speaker 10: I want to remind the audience that, hey, man, if
Speaker 10: you've never been down not on the field, but just
Speaker 10: down that field level of an NFL game, you you
Speaker 10: would miss so much stuff. And these are referees who
Speaker 10: are older than the athletes, who are obviously faster, stronger,
Speaker 10: bigger than they used to be.
Speaker 3: And of course, you know.
Speaker 10: These are pressurized moments, especially when everybody's watching. So the
Speaker 10: Chiefs played more prime time standalone games than anybody in
Speaker 10: the league, so I think that has a part of
Speaker 10: this as well, so you know, for the Chiefs benefit.
Speaker 10: And you know, I think one of the reasons why
Speaker 10: this has sort of started to take a turn, probably
Speaker 10: for the better, is, hey, the Bills had a lot
Speaker 10: of opportunities to beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: They couldn't do it.
Speaker 10: And you know, one quarterback thrives in lake game situations,
Speaker 10: whereas some quarterbacks don't, even the best ones. So it
Speaker 10: helps out the Chiefs have you know, a Hall of
Speaker 10: Fame coach and Andy Reid and a future Hall of
Speaker 10: Fame quarterback and Patrick Mahomes, Well, let.
Speaker 9: Me take you to that statement to a different team
Speaker 9: that they played twice this year, the Houston Texans. In
Speaker 9: either of those games or in both of those games,
Speaker 9: did you feel like what you just said would have
Speaker 9: applied as in, the Texans had their opportunities to win
Speaker 9: both of those games, but mistakes were made or their
Speaker 9: quarterback play since you brought up wasn't quite.
Speaker 2: To the Chiefs.
Speaker 9: How did you view those matchups as to say, where
Speaker 9: do you think the Texans might be as in the
Speaker 9: way of the Chiefs in the near future.
Speaker 10: I don't know how close the Texans are. You know,
Speaker 10: they just replaced Bobby Slow at the offensive coordinator. You know,
Speaker 10: I'll be honest, guys, the Texans are beating the Chiefs
Speaker 10: this season.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if.
Speaker 10: That game was in December, the you know, the first matchup,
Speaker 10: and obviously you know last month during the division round. Yes,
Speaker 10: the game was technically close, but I just remind people that,
Speaker 10: you know, you know, their kicker missed two field goals
Speaker 10: and an extra point or had an extra point blocked.
Speaker 10: See didn't turn the ball over, but he did turn
Speaker 10: the ball over twice in the first matchup. The Texas
Speaker 10: had a number of errors on special teams. They surrendered
Speaker 10: the longest hickoff return season. I remember, I just looked
Speaker 10: this up with Niko Ramihio because I wrote about him
Speaker 10: today here in New Orleans. You know, Pat Mahomes never
Speaker 10: turned the ball over. The Chiefs didn't turn the ball
Speaker 10: over in eight quarters against the Texans. I mean, if
Speaker 10: you want to get close, you got to change some
Speaker 10: of that math. And so I think for Houston it's like, hey,
Speaker 10: it sucks that Tankdale got hurt.
Speaker 3: They have to have, you know, maybe another.
Speaker 10: Receiver or two to help c. J. Stroud, who you
Speaker 10: know is going to continue to get better over the
Speaker 10: course of the season. And I do like Tomiko Ryans,
Speaker 10: but I mean, it's not the you know, a lot
Speaker 10: of people said this.
Speaker 3: I'm not the first, but it's not. It's not the
Speaker 3: ref's fault that as.
Speaker 10: Good as Demiko Ryans is, his linebackers and safeties forgot
Speaker 10: who Travis Kelce was for the large majority of that game.
Speaker 10: And it's why Travis Kelsey had his most yards this
Speaker 10: season in at that time, the most.
Speaker 3: Important game of it.
Speaker 9: We know, we know, you stop telling us how bad
Speaker 9: and dumb and mistake from the Texas are well therefore
Speaker 9: and Mahomes.
Speaker 11: Mahomes did turn the ball over against the Texans until
Speaker 11: the refs turned it over. I just wanted to put
Speaker 11: that out there, since we're being honest about everything. But no,
Speaker 11: I mean, you do have to basically play a perfect
Speaker 11: game to beat those guys. And as someone who is
Speaker 11: sitting here in Houston, Texas and knows all about what
Speaker 11: it's like to cover a team that is affectionately referred
Speaker 11: to as rival fan bases as the Evil Empire and
Speaker 11: the Astros, I'm assuming that that's just kind of outside
Speaker 11: noise for the fan base and even for people like
Speaker 11: you that cover the team, because when you're in the
Speaker 11: middle of that bubble of excellence, it's just it's hard
Speaker 11: not to And I'm not even saying that we've done this.
Speaker 11: It's not like condescending, but it just comes off as
Speaker 11: like it's easy to say that's a loser mentality, to
Speaker 11: blame the refs, and yet it's like being there's questions
Speaker 11: being asked about that before they've ever even played the game.
Speaker 2: The week leading up to the Super Bowl. This is
Speaker 2: just a fascinating subplot to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't think either team is gonna get blown out.
Speaker 10: You know, I think we've seen enough Super Bowl games
Speaker 10: where if it's two evenly matched teams, hey man, the
Speaker 10: rest may be involved. Now, it's not not my fault,
Speaker 10: it's not really the Chiefs fault. That the way the
Speaker 10: last game playoff before these two teams, you know it
Speaker 10: was it was Bradbury, the cornerback for the Eagles, who
Speaker 10: had the holding call on Jujus Smith Schuster, who ran
Speaker 10: a whip route which essentially gave the Chiefs the ability
Speaker 10: to run all of the clock down in the last
Speaker 10: two minutes to set up Harrison Bucker's game. Any field goal, Hey,
Speaker 10: if you're the Eagles, get up by ten, find a
Speaker 10: way to get the ball to Saquon Barkley and just
Speaker 10: see a Saquon can take you home because he's had
Speaker 10: obviously one of the most historic modern seasons for a
Speaker 10: running back.
Speaker 3: In NFL history.
Speaker 10: If you give the issue is if you give the
Speaker 10: Chiefs a chance in the fourth quarter, because just by
Speaker 10: the numbers, they've been in those situations more than you.
Speaker 10: It's it's one of the reasons why they're still the champions.
Speaker 10: You know, if you give them a chance to beat
Speaker 10: you in the fourth quarter, the odds are not in
Speaker 10: your favor because of the experience that you know, Steves
Speaker 10: Bagnolo has a defensive coordinator in terms of finding the
Speaker 10: right blitz like you know, that comes down to Christians
Speaker 10: maybe getting a sack or a pressure on a quarterback
Speaker 10: to you know, make the quarterback make a mistake and
Speaker 10: then usually Mahomes finds Kelsey because Andy Reid has a
Speaker 10: way of sort of manipulating the opposing defense. It's it's
Speaker 10: really a situation of if the Chiefs win dominant on Sunday,
Speaker 10: then I don't know what.
Speaker 7: Any of us are supposed to say other than well
Speaker 7: they've they've.
Speaker 10: Done it again and they're champions, and it just pushes
Speaker 10: it should you know, concede to motivate a lot of
Speaker 10: the AFC because you know, the Chiefs are a three
Speaker 10: point victory in regulation from beating the Eagles, and I
Speaker 10: want to remind people they are a three point win
Speaker 10: in overtime in beating the forty nine ers. So this
Speaker 10: isn't like a walk by any stretch of the means.
Speaker 10: But because they played in so many close games, they've
Speaker 10: always found a way to sort of deliver. But someone's
Speaker 10: gotta like do that to them at some point for
Speaker 10: I think the narrative or the discussion around you know,
Speaker 10: the sports highest you know level to sort of change.
Speaker 9: Talking with Nate Taylor from the athletic at by Nate
Speaker 9: Taylor's where you find him on the socials.
Speaker 2: Uh, you have to pick one of them.
Speaker 9: Which former Houston Texans player for the Chiefs will make
Speaker 9: a memorable play on Sunday. Justin Reid, DeAndre Hopkins or
Speaker 9: Charles Emna who.
Speaker 10: Mm I want to weirdly say Justin Reid. He's gonna
Speaker 10: be on the field a ton because you know, he's
Speaker 10: one of the Chief's best safeties. So who knows, maybe
Speaker 10: he makes an interception or has a you know, obviously
Speaker 10: he can blitz you know, Jalen hurts it and maybe
Speaker 10: create a negative play that way.
Speaker 3: Charles A.
Speaker 10: Minnie has had really a phenomenal return from the ACL
Speaker 10: that was one of the biggest question marks this season
Speaker 10: for the Chiefs. And you know, he had an impressive
Speaker 10: strip sack of c. J. Stroud in the Division round
Speaker 10: game and he's been actually more productive as a run
Speaker 10: stopper in some senses than even you know, generating consistent pressure.
Speaker 10: The biggest question for me is what's gonna happen with
Speaker 10: DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre Hopkins is an amazing player, but we
Speaker 10: are now, in my opinion, officially in the twilight and
Speaker 10: so it's just how long can he maintain the toilet
Speaker 10: of his career, whether he wants to come back next season,
Speaker 10: that's kind of been a question. You know, he's he's
Speaker 10: thirty four, you know, receivers, and I looked this up
Speaker 10: with my editor earlier this week, called I was like,
Speaker 10: how many like the oldest receiver last year? I think
Speaker 10: in the NFL was like thirty five thirty six. So
Speaker 10: you know, DeAndre may never get on the stage. And
Speaker 10: at least he's had two weeks to sort of manage
Speaker 10: his knee injury.
Speaker 3: That's kind of been, you know, nagging at him all year.
Speaker 10: But I'm not sure with again, all the options the
Speaker 10: Chiefs have, Xavier the Hollywood Brown, obviously, Kareem Haunt, Isaiah
Speaker 10: Pateko went of course, Travis Kelsey. If Dean's going to
Speaker 10: get as many opportunities, you know, to make a play
Speaker 10: as maybe CHARLESO Minihewe or I think at a higher percentage.
Speaker 3: Maybe justin Reid.
Speaker 9: Well sixteen snaps against the Texans twelve in their most
Speaker 9: recent win over the Bills for Hopkins, probably a good
Speaker 9: way to look at it, Nate, before we let you go,
Speaker 9: you got ten seconds in a one score game, because
Speaker 9: that's all that they play. The Chiefs will beat the
Speaker 9: Eagles by what score? Four twenty four? I don't know
Speaker 9: something like that. Twenty seven twenty ten sounds entertaining.
Speaker 2: We'll take it.
Speaker 7: That's all.
Speaker 3: That's all they play.
Speaker 10: Entertaining one square games where we might have conspiracies about
Speaker 10: the rest, well.
Speaker 2: That will definitely do it. Nate.
Speaker 9: We certainly appreciate the time, appreciate your work with the
Speaker 9: Athletic where they will once again debut their new daily
Speaker 9: game Connections Sports edition coming up off February ninth.
Speaker 3: Enjoy the game, Nate, Yes, thank you, fellows.
Speaker 4: Good stuff from Nate Taylor again at the Athletic with
Speaker 4: us earlier this week on the A teams.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 4: I mean, just to show you how closely connected these
Speaker 4: two teams are in terms of talent and what they
Speaker 4: bring to the field. We're expected to be in for
Speaker 4: a really, really good one tomorrow. There in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: But coming up next, we all have our ways of
Speaker 4: taking in tomorrow night's game.
Speaker 2: And I think you know where I'm going with this.
Speaker 4: It's the presentation or what's on the table for you
Speaker 4: to be able to eat and enjoy while you are
Speaker 4: watching this game. So we'll do that because I feel
Speaker 4: like I've got some pointers that really could Maybe you're
Speaker 4: on the fence right now. Maybe you know you're in
Speaker 4: the car, you're heading to the grocery store as we speak.
Speaker 2: So maybe if you're.
Speaker 4: On the fence and never go to the grocery store
Speaker 4: with an empty stomach because you end up minding stuff
Speaker 4: that you deep down didn't really need. So hopefully this
Speaker 4: can be able to fill the stomach a little bit
Speaker 4: for you to know you're going in there with an
Speaker 4: express purpose. Get this, get that, and you're going to
Speaker 4: have a great Super Bowl Sunday. We'll do that as
Speaker 4: we close out this edition of Space City Saturday. Again,
Speaker 4: Dan Matthews here with you on your home of the
Speaker 4: Astros and the Rockets, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: This is Space City Saturday on Sports Talk seven night.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I feel like it already with the headset
Speaker 4: on right now, I feel like Kevin Burkhart, what a
Speaker 4: great guy too.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge Kevin Burkhart guy.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy that he's now the league guy there
Speaker 4: on Fox. I mean, a guy that's paid his dues
Speaker 4: in this industry and at one time was the Julia
Speaker 4: Morales of the Mets for sn Y and then eventually
Speaker 4: getting his way into the broadcast booth of course with
Speaker 4: Fox leading into this, did some radio games. I can't
Speaker 4: remember what radio network he did for some time, what
Speaker 4: in Westwood, but it was one of those national radio
Speaker 4: networks doing NFL games. So he of course will be
Speaker 4: on the call tomorrow with TB twelve Tom Brady. So
Speaker 4: looking forward to hearing that crew go to work on
Speaker 4: Eagles and Chiefs tomorrow there in New Orleans. But we're
Speaker 4: all gonna be settling in for this one. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you didn't know, Dan Matthews here with you on
Speaker 4: your home of the Astros and the Rockets Sports Talk
Speaker 4: seven ninety Space City Saturday, Here for just a few
Speaker 4: more minutes before we kick you over to Nashville for
Speaker 4: Texas basketball taking on Vanderbilt and again Rockets launch Pad
Speaker 4: coming your way one o'clock today over on news radio
Speaker 4: seven forty KTRH. So that's where you can be able
Speaker 4: to catch those games. But we all know that Super
Speaker 4: Bowl Sunday is the late winter, maybe even here since
Speaker 4: we're into we can kind of call it false spring
Speaker 4: because we all know that about the middle of February
Speaker 4: is when spring usually starts to come along. We get
Speaker 4: a cold snap here and there, but you know, we
Speaker 4: just kind of get a little bit of a primer
Speaker 4: of what's to come because we know during the summertime,
Speaker 4: oh it's one hundred degrees with one hundred percent humidity today,
Speaker 4: that's weird.
Speaker 3: Who knew?
Speaker 4: But that's what we know is coming here in very
Speaker 4: short order. And I know that probably depresses some of
Speaker 4: you out there, but anyway, I where I'm going with
Speaker 4: this is that it's kind of a little bit of
Speaker 4: the U or you know, early spring, late winter, and
Speaker 4: another Thanksgiving for us, because if you're taken in the
Speaker 4: game at a Super Bowl party, well there's food out there.
Speaker 4: At least if the party's well done, there's food out there.
Speaker 4: It's you know, even a chance for you you want
Speaker 4: to bring a side, do that, but.
Speaker 2: We'll take care of the rest.
Speaker 4: So gonna kind of take us through the courses that
Speaker 4: I feel like make the best Super Bowl spread. And
Speaker 4: I know that some of you like to do the
Speaker 4: sports bar thing not done at a time or two,
Speaker 4: but nothing beats being able to be with close family, friends,
Speaker 4: whatever it might be. Maybe you're hosting it at your house,
Speaker 4: like I said, and maybe for some of you out
Speaker 4: there to listening at this point, you're heading to the store.
Speaker 4: You're trying to be able to get the things ready,
Speaker 4: the chips, that dips, all of those things.
Speaker 2: So let's just kind of roll through it right here.
Speaker 4: We all know that dips are a great pairing with
Speaker 4: watching football, right, so I would say that the best
Speaker 4: Super Bowl spread you go with three of them in
Speaker 4: here are the three keso. Who doesn't love a good caso,
Speaker 4: right either, you decide to make it at your house.
Speaker 4: You go get the cheese yourself, you go get the milk,
Speaker 4: You go get the the you know, the the pico
Speaker 4: de gayo, the rotel, whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: To go in there.
Speaker 4: You throw it on the stove. You start to kind
Speaker 4: of fold it all in together right there. And the
Speaker 4: milk is important because you don't want so much viscosity.
Speaker 4: See you get me all choked up thinking about it.
Speaker 4: You don't want so much viscosity with the caeso. You
Speaker 4: want that right balance of being thick enough where it's
Speaker 4: gonna stay on the chip whenever you dip it in
Speaker 4: to be able to get you some k SO, but
Speaker 4: also too where it's liquefied enough to to make sure
Speaker 4: that you're not just eating just baked on cheese at
Speaker 4: that point.
Speaker 2: So k SO my personal favorite.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think we know without throwing out the
Speaker 4: grocery store brand, but I think you know who has it.
Speaker 4: The Brisket ks Oh, it's fantastic. It's amazing. The Brisket
Speaker 4: KSO is awesome, and you know sells it. I don't
Speaker 4: have to tell you who exactly they are, but k
Speaker 4: SO that's one of them. My fiance is seven layer dip.
Speaker 4: And of course, you know, you guys probably out there
Speaker 4: can see many different seven layer dips that you can
Speaker 4: make a recipe, but a good seven layer dip it's great,
Speaker 4: it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: One of my personal favorites.
Speaker 4: Because I know some of you might be saying, well, Dan,
Speaker 4: what about salsa. Okay, you know, look, if salsa is great,
Speaker 4: it's fine, you can throw it in there too if
Speaker 4: you want. But I love a good buffalo chicken dip
Speaker 4: because I feel like there's versatility with a buffalo chicken dip,
Speaker 4: the same as with the seven layer dip. With a
Speaker 4: seven layer dip, you can go tortilla chips, you can
Speaker 4: go free do's. Either way.
Speaker 2: You got it right there.
Speaker 4: Buffalo chicken dip, I feel like you can go those
Speaker 4: two chips. But then maybe you're even throwing in just
Speaker 4: the regular potato chip at that point. And when it
Speaker 4: comes to potato chips, I need thickness and crispiness, not
Speaker 4: the thin little it disintegratees in your fingers as you're
Speaker 4: trying to eat the chips, because that's not good for dipping.
Speaker 4: You want maybe the kettle cooked variety, where again, you know,
Speaker 4: you get a little bit more of that crispiness to
Speaker 4: go in there. So that's the dips to go along
Speaker 4: with the entrees.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 4: I would say that the same place that has the
Speaker 4: brisket queso, go with some stuffed lapenos, some bacon wrapped holapenos.
Speaker 4: You know they hollowed out julapeno cream cheese in there,
Speaker 4: wrapped in bacon. I'll throw them on the grill, get
Speaker 4: that crispiness on them. Let to go wings. You gotta
Speaker 4: throw those out there. The hot and spicy, yep. But
Speaker 4: some people don't like the hot and spicy. Throw out
Speaker 4: some womon pepper throw out, some barbecues, some mild ones
Speaker 4: as well. I'm a huge ranch guy. I know some
Speaker 4: of you rock the blue cheese. But anyway, that's on
Speaker 4: the table. And then dessert wise, go handhelds. Don't go
Speaker 4: cheesecake and anything like that. Cookies and brownies. That's the way
Speaker 4: because again, some of you might be eating standing up
Speaker 4: any of those things, you don't have the chance to
Speaker 4: get the plate and the fork out. So that's how
Speaker 4: that all goes. That's gonna do it for us here
Speaker 4: on Space City Saturday. I want to thank Melvin Brown,
Speaker 4: want to think all of you, and I think John Kinkaid,
Speaker 4: Nate Taylor, will Anderson Junior. Great show, a lot of
Speaker 4: fun Texas basketball coming your way next right here on
Speaker 4: your home of the Longhorns in Houston Sports Talk seven
Speaker 4: ninety I'm Dan Matthews. Talk to y'all next Saturday,