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Speaker 3: In a way we go here on Space City Saturday.
Speaker 2: Dean Matthews here with you.
Speaker 3: For the next couple of hours, looking forward to being
Speaker 3: able to cover it all soup to nuts right here
Speaker 3: as you heard, Doug Pike kind of lead me into
Speaker 3: it right there where by the way too. I've got
Speaker 3: a merchandising item for Doug Pike. An idea for Doug
Speaker 3: Pike is you know I heard one of his promos
Speaker 3: yesterday and he had a good line in it where
Speaker 3: he goes, if you drive him, shoot him or spool him. So, Doug,
Speaker 3: if you're still out there listening, I think we need
Speaker 3: to create a shirt for the Doug Pike Show where
Speaker 3: the front of it says, drive them, shoot him or
Speaker 3: spool them, and then on the back have the time
Speaker 3: of the show and on Sports Talk seven to ninety
Speaker 3: and Doug Pike Show, I'm thinking that maybe there's a
Speaker 3: merchandising opportunity there, Doug. So anyway, just wanted to get
Speaker 3: that out of the way off the top of the show.
Speaker 3: But as I mentioned, we got a lot to be
Speaker 3: able to chew on today. I mean, even though the
Speaker 3: Astros are not in the postseason, we're not gonna talk
Speaker 3: much postseason because I'm sure most of you are casual
Speaker 3: at best in terms of watching it. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know that I have been. It's been pretty much with me.
Speaker 3: If I have almost any thing else to be able
Speaker 3: to watch, then I say, yeah, I'm not gonna watch
Speaker 3: Dodgers Mets. I'm not gonna watch the Yankees Guardians. Although
Speaker 3: I mean the other night we were treated to a
Speaker 3: pretty classic finish in the Guardians game, which again, you
Speaker 3: know I was able to catch as highlights. But I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, there's still excitement, there's still fun, there's all
Speaker 3: of that, and you know it's funny. Last night having
Speaker 3: dinner at a place up here in the Woodlands area,
Speaker 3: with my fiance and I said, you know what, I'll
Speaker 3: be very honest, this is much more relaxing to watch.
Speaker 3: But I kind of miss that, like, you know, hanging
Speaker 3: on every pitch, hanging on every play. So hopefully the
Speaker 3: Astros can get that back for us next season. But
Speaker 3: as it stands right now, the Yankees as painful as
Speaker 3: it is to hear, and painful enough for me to
Speaker 3: say the Yankees one went away from moving on to
Speaker 3: the World Series and look talked about a little bit
Speaker 3: earlier in the week with Ross villar Real, and I
Speaker 3: threw out the hashtag on Twitter, hashtag shot or stabbed,
Speaker 3: because you kind of feel like, if it is the
Speaker 3: World Series, then I'm sure that Fox really wants in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. Really once again, if you put him
Speaker 3: in that room of truth, I mean, it is kind
Speaker 3: of a little bit of a deal of would you
Speaker 3: rather be shot or would you rather be stabbed? And
Speaker 3: in this case right here, it's kind of like you
Speaker 3: start to play through it in your mind.
Speaker 2: You're like, well, you know, if.
Speaker 3: This happens, I mean, you know, that's somewhat okay, and
Speaker 3: if that happens, but you know, we're not going to
Speaker 3: talk much about that. I've spent more time on it
Speaker 3: than we needed to spend, which, by the way, too,
Speaker 3: is I'm talking you know this through right now.
Speaker 2: I'm loving that. You know.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things every single week on college
Speaker 3: game day is the kids kicking the football. And the
Speaker 3: one kid who just kicked it from Texas absolutely hit
Speaker 3: a worm burner, and he's asking for another chance because
Speaker 3: I think if he makes this kick, it's for ninety
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. He's got Tony Hinchcliffe in his face too,
Speaker 3: making fun of him. If you watch the Tom Brady
Speaker 3: roast or if you know about Kill Tony, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, shout out with the Kill Tony.
Speaker 2: You guys remember Trey Trey Campbell.
Speaker 3: The guy that used to be one of our producers
Speaker 3: here at Sports Talk seven ninety. He's a regular contributor
Speaker 3: on Kill Tony. Pretty good comedian, So if you're ever
Speaker 3: in the Austin area, look up Trey. But anyway, Hinchcliffe
Speaker 3: one of the best roasters out there, and I think
Speaker 3: they are going to give this Texas kid another chance,
Speaker 3: which I mean I think after that, which, by the
Speaker 3: way too, it's also as well. I understand it's hard
Speaker 3: enough to be able to make. But as McAfee gets
Speaker 3: into like the one hundred thousand dollars range and like
Speaker 3: the ninety thousand dollars range, I kind of feel like, oh,
Speaker 3: and they didn't need to give him another chance, brutal.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like like you need to like
Speaker 3: make it, like, hey, if you're going to make this kick,
Speaker 3: like you know, kind of like in basketball you go
Speaker 3: to a rocket scheme, you know how they do like
Speaker 3: the thirty second challenge or I can't remember exactly what
Speaker 3: they call it, but you get the layup, you get
Speaker 3: the free throw, you get the three, and then of
Speaker 3: course if you run out of time on those, or
Speaker 3: even if you make all three of them, you get
Speaker 3: the one shot. For I believe it's ten grand is
Speaker 3: what they do at the Rockets games.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a.
Speaker 3: Good chunk of change, and you got to make a
Speaker 3: half court shot. So I think that, you know, it's
Speaker 3: one of those things that you got to make people
Speaker 3: work for their money on that. But anyway, that's a
Speaker 3: side note on that. We'll get into plenty of Texans
Speaker 3: talk in this show today because Texan's up.
Speaker 2: In Green Bay and you're gonna hear from somebody.
Speaker 3: A little bit later on, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: about thirty minutes from now, Mike Heller from ninety seven
Speaker 3: to three up there in Milwaukee joined us on the
Speaker 3: A team earlier this week, and he was talking about
Speaker 3: this is gonna be the Packers' biggest challenge this season.
Speaker 2: Now, I know some of you out.
Speaker 3: There might be listening and saying, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: didn't Green Bay play against Minnesota and he seemed to
Speaker 3: believe that the Texans might be able to put together
Speaker 3: a better test for them than the Vikings did. I
Speaker 3: think that a lot of just don't believe in Sam
Speaker 3: Darnold right now. And I mean, I know he's played
Speaker 3: incredibly well. I know that it's one of those things
Speaker 3: with him where you're looking at him and saying, this
Speaker 3: is the guy that I think the Jets thought they
Speaker 3: were getting coming out of USC. Just took him a
Speaker 3: little longer to kind of get to this point. And
Speaker 3: who knows. I mean, since we're in the business of
Speaker 3: always making comparisons, maybe Minnesota is to him like what
Speaker 3: Sean Payton and New Orleans was to Drew Brees.
Speaker 2: I mean, remember, Brees was.
Speaker 3: Kind of a guy that I don't think had a
Speaker 3: ton of expectations when he was with San Diego and
Speaker 3: at the time, yes, it was the young kids out there.
Speaker 3: It was the San Diego Chargers, not the LA Chargers.
Speaker 3: But when he was there and finally replaced by Philip Rivers,
Speaker 3: he was kind of thought of. I mean remember too
Speaker 3: as well, it's the old story that Nick Saban has
Speaker 3: told numerous times. They thought they were gonna get Drew
Speaker 3: Brees there in Miami and he failed as physical because
Speaker 3: he had a shoulder issue, and then I guess had
Speaker 3: that shoulder issue corrected and then was able to go
Speaker 3: to New Orleans and it was a marriage and a
Speaker 3: match made in Heaven for Sean Payton and the Saints.
Speaker 3: So that might be the case with Sam Darnold. But
Speaker 3: I also though think too as well that no matter
Speaker 3: how good you are, there is a regression that comes.
Speaker 3: I think it comes this weekend against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: I get no Aiden Hutchinson for Dan Campbell's team, but
Speaker 3: also too at the same time, I do think that
Speaker 3: that is a Lions team that is playing really, really
Speaker 3: good football. And by the way, too, they'll factor in
Speaker 3: a little bit later on in the show. And we've
Speaker 3: got some audio to play from somebody who was not
Speaker 3: too pleased about the Lions and how they handled the
Speaker 3: end of that game last weekend. And oh yes, oh yes,
Speaker 3: you know that we're going to get into Jerry Jones
Speaker 3: with my good buddy R.
Speaker 2: JH.
Speaker 3: Choppie and Sean Sharief up there in Dallas earlier this week.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I think that there is a comparable
Speaker 3: angle here as well, because you all listen. You know
Speaker 3: that during Rocket season, for example, every single week on
Speaker 3: the Matt Thomas Show, you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna hear Emai Udoka on.
Speaker 3: And during Astro season, you know that on the Sean
Speaker 3: Salisbury Show, we're gonna get the general manager, which, by
Speaker 3: the way too, you know some people out there might
Speaker 3: be confused of why does Jerry Jones go on the radio?
Speaker 3: No owner goes on the radio. Well, it's also the
Speaker 3: GM of the football team. So the GM usually does
Speaker 3: join teams who have the broadcast rights, says the flagship
Speaker 3: stations usually does join them weekly.
Speaker 2: So that's what the case is up there.
Speaker 3: Like I said, down here in Houston, we get Dana
Speaker 3: Brown every single week, and then of course Joe Spot
Speaker 3: every single week on the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: So that's the beauty of being a flagship station.
Speaker 3: Excuse me getting choked up kind of talking about it,
Speaker 3: But I am going to talk us through just a
Speaker 3: little bit of you know, kind of you know what
Speaker 3: that's all about. I mean, I think that there is
Speaker 3: kind of a little bit of a thought that because
Speaker 3: you're the flagship station, that means you have to carry
Speaker 3: the water for the team.
Speaker 2: I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Think that, and I don't want to give away too
Speaker 3: much of it right now now, but I mean there
Speaker 3: is a little bit of a fine line to kind
Speaker 3: of work. Yes, you are business partners. That is the
Speaker 3: reality of it all. You are business partners. And when
Speaker 3: you are in a partnership with somebody, you kind of
Speaker 3: try to look out for them, but then also too,
Speaker 3: you want them to look out for you as well,
Speaker 3: but also too as well. We're in a business that
Speaker 3: criticism is part of the game, and it is part
Speaker 3: of the business.
Speaker 2: But we'll get into it all.
Speaker 3: A little bit later on, And you know, it's kind
Speaker 3: of a I think we can all agree who everybody
Speaker 3: believes was in the wrong in that scenario, but we'll
Speaker 3: play it for you a little bit later on in
Speaker 3: the show. Probably second hour of the show is when
Speaker 3: we'll get into all of that.
Speaker 2: But we will do that.
Speaker 3: And like I mentioned at the top of the show,
Speaker 3: Dusty Baker, he was on with Joel Sherman and John
Speaker 3: Hayman talking about his time with the Astros. Would he
Speaker 3: maybe want to try to give it one more go
Speaker 3: at being a manager, why he stepped away, and also
Speaker 3: to some interesting thoughts about the future of the Astros
Speaker 3: that I think has a lot of credence from him
Speaker 3: because obviously he knows about this phase of where the
Speaker 3: Astros are right now, and he was the last manager
Speaker 3: to lead him to the LCS. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: just a year one of Joe Spota. But I just
Speaker 3: thought he had some interesting comments. I know at first,
Speaker 3: I'm sure some of you when you read the comments,
Speaker 3: if you did the Chronicle threw him up there. I'm
Speaker 3: sure you were probably like, wait a minute, Dusty, like,
Speaker 3: you know, do you feel like you have like an axt.
Speaker 2: To grind against this team.
Speaker 3: I didn't take it that way at all, and I
Speaker 3: think that you're going to listen to it, and I
Speaker 3: think you're going to hear that that's not the case.
Speaker 3: There are some things that I think probably raises a
Speaker 3: little bit of attention for some of you because you're
Speaker 3: kind of like, well, you know, why wasn't this brought
Speaker 3: up when you were there? Who's to say it wasn't
Speaker 3: brought up? But anyway, I don't want to give away
Speaker 3: too much of the surprise. I'm gonna let you hear
Speaker 3: from Dusty himself and we will do that a little
Speaker 3: bit later on as well. Also to get into just
Speaker 3: a small amount of Rockets talk on this show today,
Speaker 3: because yes, the season starts on Wednesday. Gonna be an
Speaker 3: exciting season. Looking forward to it definitely. I want to
Speaker 3: see how, you know, how deep this roster truly is,
Speaker 3: and just some scenarios that I could kind of see
Speaker 3: playing out this season for the Rockets. I was actually
Speaker 3: talking about it with a good buddy of mine. It's
Speaker 3: a huge Rocket fan, and you know, of course, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of questions about this team. Number One, can
Speaker 3: you kick in that door? Can you at least make
Speaker 3: the play in Round this year? Or can you be
Speaker 3: one of those top six teams in the Western Conference
Speaker 3: and find your way out of the play In Round
Speaker 3: and waiting for one of those play in teams to
Speaker 3: come in and be able to be part of that
Speaker 3: group of eight that in Earnest gets a chance to
Speaker 3: go for the Ilari O'Brian Trophy this season. But it's
Speaker 3: going to be an exciting year looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: I know that Matt Thomas and the interchanging group of
Speaker 3: Adam Clanton and Adam Wesler bringing you the games this year,
Speaker 3: looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Of course, me and Ross.
Speaker 3: And a cast of others also going to have rocket
Speaker 3: launch pads and postgame shows for you this season, so
Speaker 3: definitely looking forward to that. Definitely looking forward to seeing
Speaker 3: what does Reed Shepherd look like this year. I know that,
Speaker 3: even though it's the preseason, you had to really like
Speaker 3: what you saw at alprin Shingoon and also out of
Speaker 3: Jalen Green as well, Men Thompson another year in the league,
Speaker 3: Tarry Eason coming back. You saw how much of a
Speaker 3: factor he was for this team last year. So definitely
Speaker 3: want to see what those guys have this year. But
Speaker 3: coming up next we'll get into some Texans.
Speaker 2: Conversation in Earnest.
Speaker 3: Because a path to a win for the Texans, I
Speaker 3: do think it's pretty simple, but it's just how well
Speaker 3: they can do that is another issue.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: On the other side, It's Dan Matthews here on Space
Speaker 3: City Saturday.
Speaker 2: What's you until noon? On your Home of the Astros
Speaker 2: and the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Space City Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Sports Talks seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you and your home the Astros
Speaker 3: and the Rockets. As you can always count on, Melvin
Speaker 3: Brown will always find the right tone to introduce the
Speaker 3: segment here on Space City Saturday. And maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit of foreshadowing right there, Melvin, you say, and another
Speaker 3: one bites the dust in terms of a Texans victim
Speaker 3: this year, because well, at least five out of six
Speaker 3: weeks this year.
Speaker 2: That has been the case. They're trying to make it
Speaker 2: six out of seven.
Speaker 3: They get the Green Bay Packers tomorrow up there at Landbow.
Speaker 3: And I know that probably some of you if you
Speaker 3: are packing your bags this week, you know you're doing
Speaker 3: like I think most of us do. Whenever you're packing
Speaker 3: up for a trip, You're looking at your phone, checking
Speaker 3: the weather. What does the weather app say? And the
Speaker 3: weather app saying Chamber of Commerce day. So even though
Speaker 3: it is the middle of October, which I don't think
Speaker 3: it's fully cold there yet. I mean it's not necessarily
Speaker 3: that way much of anywhere around the country at this point.
Speaker 3: But supposed to be high sixties, low seventies tomorrow, so
Speaker 3: the frozen tundra it will not be there at Lambeau.
Speaker 3: So Texan's going to have a nice weather day to
Speaker 3: be able to work with. They're in the in the
Speaker 3: Great North there in Green Bay. If you want to
Speaker 3: weigh in on the Texans conversation, you can do so.
Speaker 3: Phone lines are open, readily available as well. Someone three
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Speaker 3: not everybody is huge on calling in. That's fine if
Speaker 3: that's the case. My Twitter account is always a great
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Speaker 2: As I've seen.
Speaker 3: Some people already weighing in, one person, Ashley saying that
Speaker 3: she has watched more WNBA Finals than she has watched
Speaker 3: the MLB postseason. I mean, I never really thought that
Speaker 3: I would get into the show Vampire Diaries. But fiance
Speaker 3: is a huge fan of Vampire Diaries, you know, Stepan Damien.
Speaker 3: They have a bourbon too. By the way, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken, I think that Adam's wife Teresa did an
Speaker 3: event with them a couple of years ago at one
Speaker 3: of our great sponsors, Specs. But anyway, that's that's that's
Speaker 3: been on the TV a lot more than the NLCS
Speaker 3: or the Alcs have been on And of course if
Speaker 3: the blue and orange of the Astros is not part
Speaker 3: of the Alcs, well then yeah, our attention is elsewhere.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it is, you know, just part of a
Speaker 3: new way of the Astros, you know, just kind of
Speaker 3: navigating through the end of this season, but also too
Speaker 3: as well getting ready for the next season when hopefully
Speaker 3: they can tee it up and get it going again.
Speaker 3: One thing though, before get into my Texans conversation, I
Speaker 3: threw this out on Twitter as well, and I see
Speaker 3: Eric has waited on it. Where right before I joined
Speaker 3: you all on the show today, I guess Nick Saban
Speaker 3: was kind of putting the crowd there at Texas through
Speaker 3: a little bit of kind of a locker room speech
Speaker 3: of like he was speaking to his team and it
Speaker 3: was firing everybody up. I gotta be honest, you know,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things. It's kind of firing me
Speaker 3: up too as well. But threw it on Twitter. Who
Speaker 3: knew that Nick Saban would absolutely relish being on college
Speaker 3: game day And one Eric, who I know is in
Speaker 3: the business, said, I did, if you talked to him
Speaker 3: one on one talk about life, very kind, very charming,
Speaker 3: And yeah, I found that to be the case as well.
Speaker 3: But anyway, he's having fun. Looks like a fun atmosphere
Speaker 3: up there at Texas today, got the signs going, I
Speaker 3: mean seeing that almost every single sign is pretty much
Speaker 3: getting after Georgia for the legal issues they've had off
Speaker 3: the field. But no, it's looking like a fun time there.
Speaker 3: There's set up right there in front of the tower
Speaker 3: at ut SO looking like a pretty awesome atmosphere up there.
Speaker 2: And you know what, Hey, if.
Speaker 3: Any of you are heading up to the game right now,
Speaker 3: you got us on either the app, if you're outside
Speaker 3: the listening area, or if you're still in the listening
Speaker 3: area and making your drive either up ten to seventy
Speaker 3: one or up to ninety, give us a shout out.
Speaker 3: So you know, we'll definitely be getting into some Texas
Speaker 3: Georgia conversation a little bit later on. Like I said,
Speaker 3: coming up here in about ten minutes, we're gonna hear
Speaker 3: from Mike Heller from ninety seven to three in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: He joined us on the A team to give us
Speaker 3: the Packers side of tomorrow's game against the Texans, and
Speaker 3: then bottom of next hour we're gonna hear from Craig Way,
Speaker 3: of course, who you hear mostly here on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven to ninety for Longhorn games, but for this one today,
Speaker 3: little PSA for you, a little programming notes. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be over on news Radio seven forty k TRH tonight
Speaker 3: because in terms of pregame shows and broadcasts starting before
Speaker 3: the other one, LSU's is actually starting before the Texas one.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have right here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 3: ninety we're gonna have LSU and Arkansas, which is gonna
Speaker 3: be a really good game in its own right. And
Speaker 3: I know that some of you out there might be saying, well,
Speaker 3: of course you think so, Dan, I'm sure that you
Speaker 3: and Gordy are probably fired up about that, and we are,
Speaker 3: but it's also too I mean, you know, LSU had
Speaker 3: a tough one last week. Their games against Arkansas are
Speaker 3: always very tough, and as you've seen the Hawks this year,
Speaker 3: they've already gotten one team on their home field. They're
Speaker 3: hoping to make it two in a row of being
Speaker 3: able to add another loss to a team's season, as
Speaker 3: LSU in a little bit of a tough stretch this
Speaker 3: season right here. I mean, I think, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 3: it's Arkansas today, which is no easy shakes. You come
Speaker 3: to College Station next weekend against the Aggies, and then
Speaker 3: you go to or excuse me, Alabama comes to play
Speaker 3: them in Baton Rouge. So if LSU is going to
Speaker 3: try to remain a one loss team this season, they're
Speaker 3: going to have earned it because all three of those
Speaker 3: tests going to be incredibly tough for them. So we'll
Speaker 3: see what Brian Kelly's team is made of. But for
Speaker 3: the Texans tomorrow taking on this Green Bay Packers, I
Speaker 3: was about say Minnesota Vikings team, Now they already did
Speaker 3: that and that one was a little bit of a
Speaker 3: tough day for them. It is going to be a
Speaker 3: situation where you're facing a team that is pretty decent
Speaker 3: against the run, green Bay's run defense gives up four
Speaker 3: point three yards per run. They've given up six hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty yards on the ground this season. But also too,
Speaker 3: this is a team that will also cause you to
Speaker 3: turn the football over. They forced five fumbles this season
Speaker 3: in the run game, and they are actually the best
Speaker 3: in the NFL at punching out the football for ball
Speaker 3: carriers out the backfield. So that is something to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on it for this team. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: that's one thing that you've heard Demiko Ryans talk about
Speaker 3: all week, and even you know, other players on this
Speaker 3: team have talked about the fact that the Texans are
Speaker 3: going to need to be mindful of that that this
Speaker 3: is a Green Bay team that is very turnover conscious.
Speaker 3: They will try to punch the football out either in
Speaker 3: the run or in the passing game. And also too,
Speaker 3: they'll intercept the footballs as well, and they will get you.
Speaker 2: In that regard.
Speaker 3: But I talked about this a little bit last night
Speaker 3: with Ross on the Nightcap, and you know, I think
Speaker 3: that the key to the Texans win is going to
Speaker 3: be kind of the way that they've gotten two of
Speaker 3: them this season, and in both of those games, the
Speaker 3: factor was you had Joe Mixon being able to make
Speaker 3: plays for you last week, yet Damian Pierce also being
Speaker 3: able to help out for you in the explosive plays
Speaker 3: for the Texans in that win over New England came
Speaker 3: in the run game. As you got Joe Mixon with
Speaker 3: a long touchdown run. You got you know, Damian Pierce
Speaker 3: as well well with a long touchdown run for the Texans,
Speaker 3: And those are parts of the game that's going to
Speaker 3: be huge for this team tomorrow. So I think that
Speaker 3: there are three factors for the Texans to be able
Speaker 3: to come away with a win tomorrow. Number One, you've
Speaker 3: got to be able to establish the run and it
Speaker 3: is gettable right there. I mean, as I talked about,
Speaker 3: I mean teams averaging about four yards of carry, and
Speaker 3: I mean you come out of it. If you run
Speaker 3: on first down, you get it to second and six,
Speaker 3: maybe you can run again. Then you're in third and
Speaker 3: short and maybe it's a possibility right there. So that's
Speaker 3: something that is definitely in the back pocket of Bobby Slowick,
Speaker 3: and that's a huge part of it. The second part
Speaker 3: of it as well, you cannot turn the football over
Speaker 3: in this game. I mean, this has been a Texans
Speaker 3: defense that for a couple of games this season has
Speaker 3: been very good at being able to force takeaways. And
Speaker 3: what was also the constant in being able to force
Speaker 3: those takeaways. They did it against two rookie quarterbacks. You
Speaker 3: did it earlier this season against Caleb Williams, and you're
Speaker 3: going to excuse me. Last week you faced Drake may As,
Speaker 3: another rookie quarterback who was making his first start. And
Speaker 3: you're not facing a rookie quarterback, but you are facing
Speaker 3: a young one in.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love.
Speaker 3: As you know, yesterday I was listening to the Matt
Speaker 3: Thomas Show, and I believe it was the Packers play
Speaker 3: by play man who talked about that Love sometimes will
Speaker 3: be a little reckless with the football. So that's something
Speaker 3: else that, you know, kind of trying to cheat the
Speaker 3: angle here a little bit if you're the Texans, is
Speaker 3: maybe you can be able to force a takeaway or
Speaker 3: two and that helps you out. So the turnover margin
Speaker 3: is going to be huge in this game tomorrow and
Speaker 3: the final one. I think that probably we can point
Speaker 3: to the Buffalo game. Even into last week, the Texans
Speaker 3: have started to kind of cool it on the penalty front,
Speaker 3: and this is going to be interesting tomorrow. You're going
Speaker 3: into a hostile environment. I mean, lambeau Field is a
Speaker 3: tough place to play, it's even tougher when it is
Speaker 3: the frozen tundra. It's not going to be that, but still,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a rally fan base, that is a
Speaker 3: fan base that shows up and supports their team. And
Speaker 3: I mean that's something that you know, you went into
Speaker 3: a hostile environment in Minnesota and you had a lot
Speaker 3: of pre snat penalties. You just had a sloppy afternoon
Speaker 3: in that game and ended up not going your direction
Speaker 3: and you came out of there with your first loss
Speaker 3: of the season. So I think that's going to be
Speaker 3: a huge part of a discipline part of this game
Speaker 3: tomorrow is not only the pre snat penalties, but also too.
Speaker 3: I mean we've also seen after the play penalties with
Speaker 3: this Texans team of you know, unnecessary roughness or you know,
Speaker 3: even unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, any of those things. That's going
Speaker 3: to be something to keep an eye on for this
Speaker 3: Texans team tomorrow. And I think those are the three
Speaker 3: ways that this team is able to come out with
Speaker 3: a really good win. If you are able to do
Speaker 3: that and you come into a situation where next week
Speaker 3: you come back home for the Colts, as you know,
Speaker 3: that's going to be a team that's gonna be looking
Speaker 3: to try to get revenge for the first week's loss.
Speaker 3: I mean kind of like I think the Texans were
Speaker 3: ripping and ready to go for that game against the
Speaker 3: Colts last year for a has to go to the playoffs,
Speaker 3: where I think they kind of came out of that
Speaker 3: Week two game last year saying, hey, you know we
Speaker 3: should have beaten those guys. How do you think Anthony
Speaker 3: Richardson and the coltsfield coming into this game this next week.
Speaker 3: So you're getting into where we've talked about, you know,
Speaker 3: this being a tough schedule for this team, and it
Speaker 3: is going to be a you know, tough stretch that
Speaker 3: you're going to be entering into right now that pretty
Speaker 3: much every single team you're going to see for about
Speaker 3: the next five or six weeks is going to be
Speaker 3: a playoff potential team. So you know, if you feel
Speaker 3: like you're one of the best in the AFC, you've
Speaker 3: got to be able to prove it. And it starts tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And those are the three parts of the team. I mean,
Speaker 3: you've heard Tamiko Ryan say it numerous times, you cannot
Speaker 3: beat yourself. And at least in that Minnesota game, the
Speaker 3: Texans beat themselves, and they nearly beat themselves, and the
Speaker 3: wins over Indianapolis and over Chicago as well, and nearly
Speaker 3: did it against the Jacksonville Jaguars as well. But again,
Speaker 3: I mean, five out of the six weeks this year,
Speaker 3: you've been able to You've been able to come out
Speaker 3: on the right side of the game because you've been
Speaker 3: able to close it out there in those close games
Speaker 3: late in the ballgame. And that's gonna be something else
Speaker 3: to be able to hopefully have go your way again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how it all goes. And we'll also
Speaker 3: hear about the Packers side of the game tomorrow because,
Speaker 3: like I said earlier this week on the A team,
Speaker 3: we had a chance to be joined by Mike Heller,
Speaker 3: who is also part of the Packers radio pregame show
Speaker 3: up there in Wisconsin, as he joined us from ninety
Speaker 3: seven at three ninety seven to three of the game
Speaker 3: up there in Milwaukee. As we will hear from him
Speaker 3: next right here as we continue to roll along here
Speaker 3: on Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews here on your home
Speaker 3: of the Astros and the Rockets Sports Talks seven ninety.
Speaker 1: This is Space City Saturday. On Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Seven ninety Space City Saturday.
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you on your home of the
Speaker 3: Astros and the Rockets. Like I said, we're gonna hear
Speaker 3: from Mike Keller here in just a second, but real quick,
Speaker 3: Martin and Angleton wants to weigh in on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seventy ninety.
Speaker 2: Martin, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, before I had to say, I'm a big
Speaker 4: Oilers Texans fan. All the way you said that the
Speaker 4: Texans beat themselves against the Vikings, I totally disagree with that.
Speaker 4: The Vikings just beat the h E double chopsticked out
Speaker 4: of the Texans in every way.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it was a combination of the
Speaker 3: two Martin. I mean, yeah, I'm not taking anything away
Speaker 3: from the Vikings. I'm not going Lane Kiffin and Jackson
Speaker 3: Dart for Ole miss against LSU last week of saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, we lost the game, they didn't win it. No,
Speaker 3: that's not what I'm saying. But I mean you even
Speaker 3: heard Demiko Ryans after the game say we have to
Speaker 3: stop beating ourselves. So it was a combination of both
Speaker 3: of those things in that game, and the Texans being
Speaker 3: on discipline pre snap was a huge part of why
Speaker 3: they didn't come out of that game with a win.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, the Texans made mistakes, but it was because
Speaker 4: of the Vikings that they made mistakes. That's my point.
Speaker 4: The Vikings just kick the living kick the living ass
Speaker 4: out of them, and as simple as that. For me,
Speaker 4: that's that's the way I look at it. It was
Speaker 4: the Vikings, not the Texans.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, Martin.
Speaker 3: I mean yes, I mean, like we said, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a great effort in that game. And also
Speaker 3: too as well. I mean the Vikings had you know,
Speaker 3: we're playing really good football that day. They were able
Speaker 3: to convert third downs, they were able to you know,
Speaker 3: keep the Texans off the field, turn the Texans over.
Speaker 3: So no, I'm with you on that, but I mean
Speaker 3: it is also too as well. Again, I mean it's
Speaker 3: a mutual relationship in that part right there where. I
Speaker 3: mean I think the you know, Texans could have been
Speaker 3: able to allow things to go a different direction had
Speaker 3: they been a little bit more cleaner on their side.
Speaker 2: But that was weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Don't have to worry about it now, and hopefully you've
Speaker 3: learned from it too as well, because I mean that's
Speaker 3: something else that can come out of a football seasons.
Speaker 3: A week doesn't go your way, Well, what did we
Speaker 3: do wrong? All right, let's take inventory of that, and
Speaker 3: then let's be able to try to make sure we
Speaker 3: don't repeat those same mistakes again to allow for a
Speaker 3: game to spiral out of control like it did that
Speaker 3: afternoon in Minnesota. And that's indeed what happened against the Vikings,
Speaker 3: so hoping that's not gonna be the case again tomorrow
Speaker 3: against the Packers. Speaking of the Packers on the Green
Speaker 3: Bay side of things, we had a chance to catch
Speaker 3: up with Mike Heller of ninety seven to three up
Speaker 3: there in Milwaukee, as they are the flagship of the Packers,
Speaker 3: as he joined us on the A team. He's also
Speaker 3: too part of the Packers pregame show up there, but anyway,
Speaker 3: he joined us on the A team this week, and
Speaker 3: let's hear that visit right now.
Speaker 5: Mike Heller joins us from the Mike Heller Show seven
Speaker 5: to three the game they're in Milwaukee. I really appreciate
Speaker 5: the opportunity to catch up with you, Mike, talk about
Speaker 5: this matchup and kind of where things stand for these
Speaker 5: two teams, And there are a lot of reasons why
Speaker 5: I think they can be tied together kind of from
Speaker 5: the timeline of each of their quarterbacks making their twenty
Speaker 5: second start. Both became full time starters at the beginning
Speaker 5: of this past season. Obviously, Jordan Love had been there
Speaker 5: for a bit before that happened, but late last season
Speaker 5: it seemed like they were consistently producing eye popping numbers
Speaker 5: week after week after week as both of these franchises
Speaker 5: were charging towards playoffs, and then they each won their
Speaker 5: opening playoff game before falling the following week.
Speaker 6: Do you believe in is there any sense.
Speaker 5: Of that there in Green Bay in Packerland that these
Speaker 5: two quarterbacks are going to be quote unquote kind of
Speaker 5: with each other over the next handful of years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I sure think so. I think they're going to
Speaker 7: be compared favorably towards one another, even though they weren't
Speaker 7: in the same draft class. To your point, they began
Speaker 7: starting at the same time, and the numbers that both
Speaker 7: have put up have been pretty extraordinary, maybe more so
Speaker 7: for Stroud because he was doing so in his rookie season.
Speaker 7: But I looked at Jordan Love the back half of
Speaker 7: last year when he was going on an eighteen touchdown
Speaker 7: one interception run. It was just really impressive. And that
Speaker 7: Packers' mantra, their marching orders, as it seems, has been
Speaker 7: now for more than thirty years, is to put the
Speaker 7: quarterback in waiting. You know, they did it with Aaron
Speaker 7: Rodgers for three years. They did it with Jordan Love
Speaker 7: for three years, and that model has worked really well.
Speaker 7: And Stroud's just really impressive every time I see him
Speaker 7: do his work. I'm impressed. The quarterbacks are pretty similar too,
Speaker 7: aren't they. I mean, neither one wants to run. They can,
Speaker 7: but they want to beat you with their legs to
Speaker 7: their arm rather than just their legs.
Speaker 6: There's no question about it.
Speaker 5: I'm curious what you think happened during that run of
Speaker 5: Love's excellency was clearly good. Prior to that, the record
Speaker 5: wasn't as good, and he obviously was making more mistakes.
Speaker 5: So in that pocket of games where things went so
Speaker 5: well for him and obviously for the team, and I'm
Speaker 5: not sure how you view his four games this year
Speaker 5: compared to like the first six, seven, eight, games last year, Like,
Speaker 5: what's the real difference and when he was so incredibly
Speaker 5: sharp during that last you know, really eight games of
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 7: Well, I think in part Adam Matt Lafleur deserves a
Speaker 7: lot of credit because he what he told us were
Speaker 7: the Packers flagship. What he told us is he just
Speaker 7: told him to let it go, let it fly, stop
Speaker 7: worrying so much, just play, stop thinking so much. I
Speaker 7: think that's an oversimplification of what they really told him.
Speaker 7: But I think at that point he just began to
Speaker 7: trust what he had learned and stopped worrying so much
Speaker 7: about what he was doing. Plus, I also give credit
Speaker 7: to the head coach and the bodies around him that
Speaker 7: he young. The Packers got a really young receiving corps,
Speaker 7: including the tight end Tucker Kraft and Luke Musk. Gravy
Speaker 7: was hurt right now, but the wide receivers, you know,
Speaker 7: Romeo Dobbs is relatively new to the to the NFL,
Speaker 7: had you know, the third fourth year in the league.
Speaker 7: Then you look at the Jayden Reid. Last year was
Speaker 7: his rookie season. Christian Watson hasn't been healthy, but one
Speaker 7: he is, he can take the top off the defense,
Speaker 7: the Packers just had a ton of weapons in I
Speaker 7: think at some point last year, back half of the season,
Speaker 7: Love let it go. I think, look for there are
Speaker 7: some things there that are deeper than just let it fly.
Speaker 7: And then this year, I think the difference is Jordan
Speaker 7: Love had a sloppy first game and he didn't play.
Speaker 7: He played one series three plays in the preseason. He
Speaker 7: had a sloppy first game, then had the MCL on
Speaker 7: the last offensive drive of that game. This two games,
Speaker 7: came back, wasn't sharp, and then in week two that
Speaker 7: he was back, he was much better. And then last
Speaker 7: week being back, he was fantastic.
Speaker 5: It definitely seemed like that was a major uptick, just
Speaker 5: quickly before you get into the additional analysis from the
Speaker 5: practice report, with three of those four receivers you mentioned
Speaker 5: all Butt Dobbs listed is limited and Jyle Alexander there
Speaker 5: and Kraft as well, is there real concern that some
Speaker 5: of these players will not be available for the game.
Speaker 6: It didn't seem like it.
Speaker 7: I don't think so. Reid's injuried. He would be the
Speaker 7: one I would worry about. From a Houston perspective, I
Speaker 7: think that the defensive coordinator I think defensively, Houston and
Speaker 7: everybody else the Packers play have to account for Jaden Reid.
Speaker 7: He lines up a lot in the slot, but he
Speaker 7: is very much their best player in space once you
Speaker 7: get the ball in his hands, and he's got great
Speaker 7: hands and great instincts. Christian Watson is the speed component,
Speaker 7: and he is healthy and if you don't roll safety
Speaker 7: help to him, he can run by defenders. He's a
Speaker 7: very talented player. And Romeo Dobbs is the combination. He
Speaker 7: is probably the best receiver. He's had an off field
Speaker 7: issue that we're not exactly certain what the base of
Speaker 7: the basis of it was, but he was suspended for
Speaker 7: a game, then last week came back and caught two
Speaker 7: touchdown passes. I think they're healthy enough, and I think
Speaker 7: Crap is healthy and he's a difference maker at the
Speaker 7: tight end position as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely a good group.
Speaker 5: Mike Heller talking with us here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 5: to ninety on the A team yesterday. On our show
Speaker 5: just we were talking about off season moves and I
Speaker 5: thought one of the moves in the AFC that kind
Speaker 5: of shifted things in a positive direction maybe the best
Speaker 5: move addition was Derrick Henry going to the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 5: and if I was flipping it over to the NFC,
Speaker 5: I think two names stand out as maybe the most
Speaker 5: significant additions in the offseason. Clearly Kirk Cousins in Atlanta
Speaker 5: is one. Xavier McKinney in the defensive backfield for the Packers.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine isn't the other or one of the others.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's surprised everyone of how many plays he's made,
Speaker 5: But I think the expectations you tell me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 5: were that he would be a difference maker, regardless of
Speaker 5: whether it showed itself in interception after interception after interception.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and dude's been great. He had interceptions in six
Speaker 7: straight games, the last game for the Giants a year
Speaker 7: ago and the first five games for the Packers this year.
Speaker 7: He didn't have one last Sunday. But he's always around
Speaker 7: the ball. He's a difference maker on the back end.
Speaker 7: He's got good corners in front of him, especially in
Speaker 7: Jayra Alexander, and he trusts them and he trusts to
Speaker 7: put them in the right positions, and then he's allowed
Speaker 7: to truly roam and do what a free safety does best,
Speaker 7: and he has played the ball.
Speaker 8: Last week, Kyler.
Speaker 7: Murray didn't threaten him, didn't challenge anything deep over the middle,
Speaker 7: which is where McKinney has made his hay so far
Speaker 7: this year. But he has been you're dead on. I
Speaker 7: think he has been the most significant offseason edition of
Speaker 7: any team in the NFC, with some credit to Kirk
Speaker 7: Cousins as well, but he's been a difference maker without
Speaker 7: a question. The Packers also are faster defensively than they've
Speaker 7: been in recent years. Eger and Cooper, a linebacker Koy
Speaker 7: Walker and his third year as a linebacker. Their speed
Speaker 7: reduced what Kyler Murray could do a week ago. They
Speaker 7: held Jalen Hurts in some check in the opening game.
Speaker 7: They've they've been really good. So the Packers' defense, with
Speaker 7: a new defensive coordinator this year, Jeff Athlete, who came
Speaker 7: from Boston College as their head coach, has been a
Speaker 7: breath of fresh air. The Packers are more aggressive defensively.
Speaker 7: They play more pressman and they've taken taken some opportunity
Speaker 7: to get after him turn the ball over seventeen times already.
Speaker 7: The Packers have gotten turnovers this year, and that's in
Speaker 7: six games. Last year, in seventeen games, they had eighteen turnovers,
Speaker 7: so they have been fantastic in taking.
Speaker 8: The ball away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that number seventeen struck me as most impressive,
Speaker 5: and that no other team even has fourteen. They've got
Speaker 5: four more takeaways than every team, any team in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I've been asking this question throughout the week and really
Speaker 5: throughout the offseason, because I didn't really have a good
Speaker 5: answer for it.
Speaker 6: I'm curious if you do.
Speaker 5: Why did the Packers offensively decide to move on from
Speaker 5: Aaron Jones so they could move forward with Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest reason is they traded years. They
Speaker 7: traded years for similar money and they got I think
Speaker 7: about well, he's three or four years younger, depending on
Speaker 7: where you look at the calendar. That they just got
Speaker 7: younger from Aaron Jones, who also last year his finish
Speaker 7: was fantastic and when he's on the field, he's a
Speaker 7: difference maker. However, he has not been on the field enough.
Speaker 7: He was loved in Green Bay. But they traded youth
Speaker 7: for about the same amount of overall money that they
Speaker 7: were investing in Aaron Jones. And in this league, the
Speaker 7: goal is to always be young, and certainly Brian Goodikunz
Speaker 7: the Packers GM has embraced that model because they are
Speaker 7: again and I think it's the third straight year that
Speaker 7: the Packers are the youngest team in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Yes, the rest of their division, which is very good,
Speaker 5: and the rest of the NFC, I definitely think, is
Speaker 5: very unhappy about that fact.
Speaker 6: And we've been talking about it all week.
Speaker 5: I'm curious in this final minute here, what's been your
Speaker 5: view and what's been the talk about facing CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud in this Texans offense.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think it's the best team that Green Bay has
Speaker 7: played this year. And I say that with some level
Speaker 7: of understanding that I'm sliding by Minnesota, who beat you,
Speaker 7: who beat Houston in their head to head match up.
Speaker 7: The Packers lost to Minnesota, and the Vikings are five
Speaker 7: and oher so I get it. But I think Houston
Speaker 7: is the best overall team that the Packers will have
Speaker 7: seen so far. They'll get Detroit in a couple of
Speaker 7: weeks and maybe that will be in that mode. This
Speaker 7: is kind of for a lot of us, This is
Speaker 7: kind of a prove it game for the Packers there
Speaker 7: they're foreign to They won a couple of games with
Speaker 7: Malik Willis and then with Jordan Love. Last week was
Speaker 7: easily his best performance, and I think Packers fans think
Speaker 7: that he has now found that rhythm again. But this
Speaker 7: is a prove it game for a lot of Packers
Speaker 7: fans to see if this team that's foreign too, is
Speaker 7: ready to make their run and truly be a Super
Speaker 7: Bowl contender.
Speaker 5: I tend to believe fans here in Houston feel similarly
Speaker 5: about it being a prove it game on the road
Speaker 5: for the Texans. Mike really appreciate the time, Mike Heller,
Speaker 5: you can find him on the X platform at Heller Sports.
Speaker 6: Really appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 7: You're welcome, Adam, thank you all.
Speaker 3: Right, there you go, And to echo what West through
Speaker 3: in there at the end of the interview with Mike,
Speaker 3: I mean interesting to hear him say that from the
Speaker 3: Packers perspective as well. I mean, he kind of feel like,
Speaker 3: you know, they've been a team that's played good football
Speaker 3: to this point. But funny enough, did you know that
Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers are actually last place at the
Speaker 3: moment in the NFC North. That's tough division this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, because you've got an improved Chicago team. You've
Speaker 3: got a Minnesota team that obviously is playing incredibly well,
Speaker 3: and the top two teams in the division gonna be
Speaker 3: playing each other tomorrow. It's gonna be Detroit against Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Believe that game is in Minnesota, so it'd be interesting
Speaker 3: to see who is able to take that one when
Speaker 3: it's all said and done. But Texans trying to pick
Speaker 3: up their six win of this season, it will not
Speaker 3: be any easy shakes. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: what you hear from both Tamiko Ryans and CJ Stroud
Speaker 3: on being able to try to pick up this win tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you about another ten minutes left
Speaker 3: to go here in the first hour of the show.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you all pretty much have a
Speaker 3: good theme of how the show goes. I mean during
Speaker 3: Astro's season, it's a lot of the first hour being
Speaker 3: about the Stros. Of course Stros not playing right now.
Speaker 3: Texans season is in, so get into a lot of
Speaker 3: Texans talk. So you want to do that, you can
Speaker 3: do so some one three, two, one, two five seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you, Melvin Brown back in our
Speaker 3: uptown GALLERYA Studios with us until noon. As next hour
Speaker 3: we'll get into a little bit of the Texas and
Speaker 3: Georgia game that's gonna be happening as well. I know
Speaker 3: that's gonna have a lot of people's attention. I mean
Speaker 3: I talked about it last week, how we were getting
Speaker 3: set up for a great weekend of football. I mean
Speaker 3: where you had some great games. You had Texas, so
Speaker 3: you you had also too as well. You know that
Speaker 3: LSU ol Miss game. You know we focused on those
Speaker 3: in last week's show and of course getting you ready
Speaker 3: for the Texans getting that win against the Patriots and
Speaker 3: this week same deal. I mean, you've got a great
Speaker 3: day at college football, can have some great games tonight,
Speaker 3: Like I said, the Texas Georgia game, which again will
Speaker 3: be over on News Radio seven k TRH and the
Speaker 3: LSU Arkansas game is going to be on here Sports
Speaker 3: Talk seven to ninety. But like I said, we were
Speaker 3: going to talk about the Texans and Packers tomorrow and
Speaker 3: let you hear from Demiico, Ryans and also CJ. Stroud
Speaker 3: as they both had some thoughts about this Texans team
Speaker 3: heading into the game. This was from earlier this week
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, when Dimiko met with the media. That's the
Speaker 3: first full day of practice to get ready for the game,
Speaker 3: but also to the first chance for the Demiico to
Speaker 3: address injury concerns. And Henry Toto, we knew that he
Speaker 3: was going to be out with the concussion, or at
Speaker 3: least had a good idea that probably he was going
Speaker 3: to be out. We were wondering about Aziz al Shaier well.
Speaker 3: With the injury report coming out yesterday. Both players are out,
Speaker 3: so it's gonna be up to Neville Hewitt and Jake
Speaker 3: Hansen to make plays at the linebacker spot, and Demiko
Speaker 3: talked about the prospect of that being the case now
Speaker 3: that it's a reality.
Speaker 10: Nevill and Jacob they've been here with us for a while,
Speaker 10: They've gotten a lot of reps. They know what, they
Speaker 10: know how we play, they know you know what to expect,
Speaker 10: they know how to communicate, so there's nothing new to
Speaker 10: them if they have to go out and get snaps.
Speaker 10: Feel confident in those guys being able to step up
Speaker 10: and help us.
Speaker 3: And that's been a kind of a constant that Demiko
Speaker 3: has had all throughout his tenure. I mean, he's seemingly
Speaker 3: is a guy that is going to have the same
Speaker 3: answer whenever he is asked about an injured player, and
Speaker 3: he's going to say, yeah, you know, we'd love to
Speaker 3: have him, but we don't, and we've got to go
Speaker 3: out there and make plays with the guys we've got.
Speaker 3: And that's the same, you know, similar tone that he
Speaker 3: just struck right there by talking about nevill Hewitt and
Speaker 3: Jake Hanson. I mean, are they as good as as
Speaker 3: Ziz Alshaier and Henry Totou. No, because well they would
Speaker 3: be on the field if indeed that were the case.
Speaker 3: But in this case right here, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a lot of plays for them. You've seen he would
Speaker 3: be able to make some good plays on special teams.
Speaker 3: And Hanson is somebody else that I think, you know,
Speaker 3: players and coaches alike, we're excited about coming out of
Speaker 3: a training camp this year, so they will get their chance.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think there's two things that you
Speaker 3: have to look out for on this Packers team. One
Speaker 3: is the play action game. But what also sets up
Speaker 3: the play action game for the Packers is a strong
Speaker 3: run game and former Raider Josh Jacobs is a huge
Speaker 3: part of that, and Demiko Ryans says Jacobs is tough.
Speaker 10: Thank It's been a nice addition for them.
Speaker 2: I know Matt wants to run the football.
Speaker 10: That's where they want to thrive, that's where they want
Speaker 10: to live first, names first. They want to establish a
Speaker 10: run game and it as much as they can. And
Speaker 10: so with Jacobs, he's a strong, powerful runner, great contact balance.
Speaker 10: You know, one guy doesn't take him down a lot,
Speaker 10: So it has to be a collective effort from our
Speaker 10: defense or backside guys, everybody getting off of blocks, closing,
Speaker 10: and we have to swarm and corral Jacobs because he's
Speaker 10: such a tough runner.
Speaker 2: And that's also too.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know a huge thing that the Texan's
Speaker 3: going to have to look out for tomorrow in terms
Speaker 3: of defending him, because you're not going to have Mario
Speaker 3: Edwards Junior is not going to be on the field
Speaker 3: for this one. You've had a couple of other guys
Speaker 3: go down. I mean fully, Photocossi is questionable for the game.
Speaker 3: Limited in practice yesterday with the shoulder. But I mean
Speaker 3: it does help that you get Derek Barnett back last
Speaker 3: week and he's going to be available to you. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know what Willie Anderson Junior and also what you
Speaker 3: know the Daniel Hunter are capable of on the edges,
Speaker 3: and also this week you get Denico Autry back. But
Speaker 3: I think the question is with Autrey is how much
Speaker 3: is he can be able to play in this game.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's missed the first six weeks of the season.
Speaker 3: You can do as many hill sprints, straight sprints, everything
Speaker 3: of the sort to be able to try to get
Speaker 3: as much air in those lungs as possible. But we
Speaker 3: all know that, you know, the training for games and
Speaker 3: actually being in game shape are two different things. So
Speaker 3: I think that's something new keep an eye on with
Speaker 3: Autrey tomorrow. But in terms of guys that can help
Speaker 3: on the offensive end, I mean, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3: You're not going to have Nico Collins at least for
Speaker 3: the next couple of.
Speaker 2: Weeks, so he's out for it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You do have Joe Mixon on the field, you do
Speaker 3: have Damian Pierce, and you also do have Daldon Schultz,
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs, and Tank Dell C. J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 3: Speaking about a couple of those guys this week, the
Speaker 3: veterans of that group, Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs, he
Speaker 3: says having them on the field definitely gives them confidence.
Speaker 11: And Stephan Joe came here, they were just like, man,
Speaker 11: you got it, bro, You just you had what it
Speaker 11: takes because we've been around it, you know, these past
Speaker 11: couple of years, being around Borrow and Josh Allen, so
Speaker 11: you know, and they're not comparing me to those guys,
Speaker 11: I don't think, but you know, they're just telling me
Speaker 11: like I have that or I have that that way
Speaker 11: I carry myself, you know. And so I thought that
Speaker 11: was pretty cool because I never really heard that before,
Speaker 11: especially with two guys who've been around some some really
Speaker 11: successful quarterbacks. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And I mean, you know that's the thing as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to have as much confidence as
Speaker 3: possible playing the quarterback position and c. J. Stroud definitely
Speaker 3: doesn't lack that, but also too, no matter how confident
Speaker 3: you are, it's nice to be able to hear from
Speaker 3: people of saying, hey, you got this, you can do this,
Speaker 3: You're pretty good at this, so keep going with it.
Speaker 3: So that's what obviously Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs with
Speaker 3: their words show him, but they also can show it
Speaker 3: on the field with their play as well. Trying to
Speaker 3: be able to do that again tomorrow. All right, coming
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Speaker 3: A huge part of this Texans effort tomorrow is going
Speaker 3: to be the defensive effort and without some key players
Speaker 3: both up front but also to the linebacker corps, and
Speaker 3: I talked about Al Shaier and also too too, both
Speaker 3: going to be down for this one. So it's the
Speaker 3: Neville Hewitt and Jake Hanson show for the Texans. And
Speaker 3: you know it's also to this the defense that kind
Speaker 3: of runs a four two five if you will, of
Speaker 3: four down linemen. Obviously we know who those guys are
Speaker 3: for the most part, two linebackers, because I mean you
Speaker 3: do have Jalen Petrie. That star position almost kind of
Speaker 3: as like a pseudo hybrid linebackers slash safety for the
Speaker 3: Texans still, but that is pretty much what they've been
Speaker 3: running all season. You haven't had Christian Harris for much
Speaker 3: of the season. And also too, you haven't had the
Speaker 3: guy we want to talk about right now, Denico Autrey
Speaker 3: and what he can do. And you remember too, Audrey
Speaker 3: was one of the key signings for the Texans this offseason.
Speaker 2: This was an off season.
Speaker 3: Where I think we knew they were going to be
Speaker 3: pretty active in terms of being able to add to
Speaker 3: this this team because I mean, the beauty of it,
Speaker 3: and I've talked about it numerous times. You got a
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback right now that you don't have to make
Speaker 3: one of the highest paid in the league and is
Speaker 3: not going to chew up a large amount of your
Speaker 3: salary caps. So while you have a rookie quarterback, that's
Speaker 3: when you go get Stefan Diggs and Daniel Hunter and
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon and also to Denico Autrey. So Audrey on
Speaker 3: that defensive line, a guy that is known as somebody
Speaker 3: that even from the interior of the line when put
Speaker 3: there at times can be able to make some really
Speaker 3: huge plays for you, and that is something that the
Speaker 3: Texans counting on tomorrow again facing a quarterback that, much
Speaker 3: like c J. Stroud, does have the ability to take
Speaker 3: off and run, but they do prefer to stay in
Speaker 3: the pocket and try to look downfield for throws and
Speaker 3: that's what Jordan Love tries to do.
Speaker 2: That's what c J. Stroud tries to do.
Speaker 3: But also too he's elusive enough to be able to
Speaker 3: get away from you and also you know, setting up
Speaker 3: the play action passing game which we talked about what
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs is a huge reason why they are able
Speaker 3: to make that happen. So that is something that Texans
Speaker 3: will be keeping an eye on tomorrow, and Denico Autrey
Speaker 3: is somebody that will try to make Jordan Love's day
Speaker 3: tough on him. As we had a chance earlier this
Speaker 3: week to have Adam Wesler out there in the locker
Speaker 3: room after one of the Texans practices, And'll Anderson was
Speaker 3: one of the players talking with the media after practice,
Speaker 3: and he talked about Daniko Autrey and what he has
Speaker 3: already gleaned from him through training camp, but also now
Speaker 3: getting him back in the fold after coming back from suspension,
Speaker 3: Anderson a huge fan of Autrey.
Speaker 9: They got everybody in the d LA roll for real.
Speaker 9: For like, I really look him as a big brother,
Speaker 9: like we just I think we just have that relationship now.
Speaker 2: Like he was.
Speaker 9: Quiet when we first got here, like me mug everything.
Speaker 9: But like the more I staid pick on pig on
Speaker 9: the mess when he opened up a little bit.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 9: But he's great having him there, man, Like I told him,
Speaker 9: I was watching his highide I think he celebrated until
Speaker 9: I watched his highlights and I seen him jumping up
Speaker 9: and down and he got me ready to play with him.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 9: But he's gonna bring something different, like just his physical
Speaker 9: playing style, his relentless effort to get to the quarterback,
Speaker 9: even on the edge and side.
Speaker 3: And you know that's the thing that you know, we've
Speaker 3: talked about the versatility there that the Texans can run
Speaker 3: in terms of being able to kind of have him
Speaker 3: all over the defensive line. And he's somebody that can
Speaker 3: rush from the interior. He's somebody that if you need
Speaker 3: him to rush from the outside, he can do that
Speaker 3: as well. I mean, remember two when the Texans signed him,
Speaker 3: Remember it was Jeffrey Simmons of the Titans. I think
Speaker 3: his tweet was just simply damn in terms of being
Speaker 3: upset about losing him to the Texans and what you know,
Speaker 3: he brought to that Titans defensive front while he was there,
Speaker 3: and now it's here in Houston and the Texans are
Speaker 3: hoping that he can be able to make those havoc
Speaker 3: plays upfront much like he did during his time there
Speaker 3: and joining Will Anderson. In terms of the chorus of
Speaker 3: praise for Autrey is his defensive coordinator Matt Burke talking
Speaker 3: about Audrey and what he brings to this defensive line,
Speaker 3: saying kind of in that same vein, he's a huge
Speaker 3: ad to this team.
Speaker 7: Toughness first and foremost.
Speaker 13: I would say he's a very unique rusher just as
Speaker 13: a sort of not really want to say hybrid, but
Speaker 13: as a big, big in an inside rusher. I mean,
Speaker 13: he's had successful spots, so it's uh, he just offers
Speaker 13: some different pitches in terms of or this. He rushes
Speaker 13: like an end inside, which is hard sometimes regards He's
Speaker 13: not a lot of times offensive lineman interior can there's
Speaker 13: not a lot of space. It's close quarters combat when
Speaker 13: you're rushing inside, right and so sometimes there's not a
Speaker 13: lot of room for moves or things. You got to
Speaker 13: be a little bit more direct. Somehow he's able to
Speaker 13: create some space.
Speaker 3: And I mean that's something too, like I talked about
Speaker 3: with some of the injured players on this team, of
Speaker 3: being able to add some of that versatility.
Speaker 2: It's huge.
Speaker 3: But you know, I think that it all comes down
Speaker 3: to exactly what I've talked about earlier with him, is
Speaker 3: that he is somebody that has been down. He has
Speaker 3: not played, he has not you know, taken on those blocks,
Speaker 3: he has not taken on that physicality that he is
Speaker 3: going to be facing on the field. And also too,
Speaker 3: I mean just going through those plays, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: this is something of a Green Bay Packer offense that
Speaker 3: likes to use a lot of pre snapp motion, likes
Speaker 3: to be able to try to kind of you know,
Speaker 3: have your eyes going different directions and you know, have
Speaker 3: your eyes being caught in the wrong spot. That's how
Speaker 3: they're able to make plays down the field. I mean,
Speaker 3: we've seen it all throughout Matt Lafleur's time with this team.
Speaker 3: And I mean remember last year in the playoffs against
Speaker 3: the Cowboys, that was something that the Cowboys just could
Speaker 3: not adjust to and that's why you saw so many
Speaker 3: huge plays downfield for the Packer offense in that game.
Speaker 2: And we also saw a playout too as well.
Speaker 3: Of what I talked about earlier is something this team
Speaker 3: has to stay out of, and that is being able
Speaker 3: to stay out of turnover prone situations. And you know,
Speaker 3: if you're down in a game, they're trying to force
Speaker 3: throws down the field, that's when they can turn the
Speaker 3: football over. And also too as well, Like I said,
Speaker 3: I mean, they forced five fumbles in the run game
Speaker 3: this season. It's the best in the NFL. That's something
Speaker 3: else they're going to try to do. So, you know,
Speaker 3: being able to have him out there. I know that
Speaker 3: Dylan Orton has done some good things since coming back
Speaker 3: on the field. Jerry Hughes as at times done some
Speaker 3: good things for you as well, and you've gotten good
Speaker 3: plays out of the defensive line as a whole. Where
Speaker 3: I think that it was a part of this team
Speaker 3: that had a little bit of concern. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: there's two parts of you know, just the concern that
Speaker 3: goes into this this season is coming off of last year.
Speaker 3: I mean, you saw in the second half of that
Speaker 3: game against the Baltimore Ravens. This was a team that
Speaker 3: was getting beaten upfront physically by the Ravens and being
Speaker 3: blown off the ball in certain cases, and they were
Speaker 3: able to, you know, pick up a huge chunksy yards
Speaker 3: on the ground in that game, and that was a
Speaker 3: difference in the game. And the other part of it is,
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of days after that game, it
Speaker 3: was Demiko Ryans at the podium for his postseason, you know,
Speaker 3: end of year wrap up press conference, and he talked about,
Speaker 3: we've got to we've got to get better up front,
Speaker 3: We've got to get stronger, we've got to get bigger.
Speaker 3: We also have to have more guys that can roll
Speaker 3: through those spots. And it was a little bit of
Speaker 3: an interesting offseason in that regard. I mean, where, yes,
Speaker 3: you do add Deniko Autry, you added Mario Edwards Junior,
Speaker 3: but also too as well. I mean, you lost Malite Collins,
Speaker 3: a guy that was huge for you last year, you
Speaker 3: lost Sheldon Rankins. Didn't really do much to address it
Speaker 3: in the draft, which I thought was kind of interesting
Speaker 3: from Nick Cassario and his crew. I mean, I definitely
Speaker 3: thought that, you know, maybe they would have gone that
Speaker 3: route but ended up not. But you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: have Kurt Heinish elevated for this game as well, so
Speaker 3: I mean he's somebody else that can roll for you
Speaker 3: in this game. So I mean, if you're able to
Speaker 3: continue the good play that you've had so far this season,
Speaker 3: you know Minnesota was able to make it tough on
Speaker 3: you in that game. I mean, nothing went right that day,
Speaker 3: as you know talked about earlier with Martin and Angleton,
Speaker 3: that just across the board was not a good day.
Speaker 3: It was more about what they did and you didn't do.
Speaker 3: But what you did do is you made it hard
Speaker 3: on yourself with penalties as well. So that's something else
Speaker 3: that this team hopefully has buried in the past, and
Speaker 3: having a guy like Autry out there can hopefully help
Speaker 3: them get to that point of being able to play
Speaker 3: a clean enough game to be able to come out
Speaker 3: of here with a win tomorrow. If the Texans do
Speaker 3: win this game, which again, even though I've given you
Speaker 3: the reasons why they could talked about it last night,
Speaker 3: if you were listening to us on the nightcap that
Speaker 3: I mean, it just for me, seems like with these
Speaker 3: injuries it might be too much to overcome. For the
Speaker 3: Texans tomorrow, I mean, this is a Green Bay team
Speaker 3: that badly needs a win.
Speaker 2: And and not say that you don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, every single week in the NFL, you're going
Speaker 3: out there with the express purpose of tried to win
Speaker 3: the game. But two, at the same time, I mean,
Speaker 3: this is a Green Bay team that is trying to
Speaker 3: not fall further behind in the NFC race.
Speaker 2: And I mean this is a NFC you.
Speaker 3: Know, North Division that is probably going to have at
Speaker 3: least as currently constructed right now, three teams make the postseason,
Speaker 3: and that is something that they're on the outside looking
Speaker 3: in at right now. And you know, that's a huge
Speaker 3: part of this game that they're going to be, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to you know, take control of the game and
Speaker 3: win this game because i mean, again at four and two,
Speaker 3: they're in last place at the moment, so that's a
Speaker 3: huge part of it tomorrow. But also two, I mean,
Speaker 3: when you're facing a team that is so good in
Speaker 3: their pre snap motion running the football play action game,
Speaker 3: I mean, first and foremost, for the Texans tomorrow, it's
Speaker 3: going to have to be you have to limit Josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs as much as possible.
Speaker 2: If you're not.
Speaker 3: If he's able to get five six yards a carry
Speaker 3: or close to it, then you're really setting yourself up
Speaker 3: for a tough day against that packer, you know, receiving
Speaker 3: corps that does have a lot of really good options.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not necessarily a team that has a
Speaker 3: true number one. They seemingly have three or four guys
Speaker 3: that they feel very comfortable with making plays downfield. So
Speaker 3: that's going to be another part of it as well.
Speaker 3: And without having you know, a z z Aushai here
Speaker 3: and being beaten up there at the linebacker spot, being
Speaker 3: beaten up up front on the defensive line, I just
Speaker 3: think that it could be a tough ask for those guys.
Speaker 3: But again, you just need it for one game and
Speaker 3: you hopefully start to get some guys back next week
Speaker 3: and the week's going forward where this team can hopefully
Speaker 3: continue to play good football and continue winning as well.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how it all breaks out tomorrow. But
Speaker 3: having Denico Autry back definitely a huge plus for the Texans,
Speaker 3: and we'll see how much heat factors in the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, we will get into a
Speaker 3: little bit of college football. Texas hosting Georgia in Austin.
Speaker 3: The game day crew, by the way, they feel a
Speaker 3: certain way about this game. How does this game all
Speaker 3: play out tonight? We will get into that so you
Speaker 3: can weigh in on that if you want to. I
Speaker 3: know a lot of you probably on your way to
Speaker 3: Austin or either there in Austin, or who knows, maybe
Speaker 3: you're like me, gonna be watching it in Section HD tonight.
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Speaker 3: as well as the Texas and Georgia game. Gonna be
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Speaker 3: We can continue that here on this side. But I
Speaker 3: do want to get into this Texas Georgia game, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, coming up here in about ten minutes,
Speaker 3: we're gonna hear from the voice of the Longhorns.
Speaker 2: Just mentioned his name, but I'll mention it again.
Speaker 3: Craig Way joining next up with Stan Northfleet Chris Gordy
Speaker 3: earlier this week to preview this matchup, So we'll hear
Speaker 3: from Craig as he'll get us going for this one.
Speaker 2: But this is a game for Texas.
Speaker 3: That kind of like I was talking about with the
Speaker 3: Texans in the page, or Texas and the Patriots, Texans
Speaker 3: and the Packers tomorrow that Green Bay badly in need
Speaker 3: of will win. This is a Georgia team that comes
Speaker 3: in incredibly hungry for a win, especially after the way
Speaker 3: that their trip to Tuscaloosa went a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know them like LSU now, like Ohio State,
Speaker 3: many teams all throughout college football where I think we
Speaker 3: can agree that with the expanded playoff to twelve teams,
Speaker 3: that you know, losing more than one game is not
Speaker 3: fatal to your chances. As a matter of fact, we're
Speaker 3: probably gonna see two three with at least two losses,
Speaker 3: maybe even more getting their way into the playoff this season,
Speaker 3: because I mean, you've got more expanded spots for that
Speaker 3: to happen, and you find your way in there, and
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with Army and Navy. I mean,
Speaker 3: it looks like we could possibly be talking about. You know,
Speaker 3: that's the other thing as well. I mean, obviously, if
Speaker 3: you follow the college football season, you know how it goes.
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving weekend obviously is the final weekend of the regular season.
Speaker 3: Then the following weekend you get championship games, SEC, Big twelve, ACC,
Speaker 3: Big Ten, everybody like that, you know, playing in their
Speaker 3: respective championship games that same weekend the American Conference, which
Speaker 3: both Army and Navy are in, they could both possibly
Speaker 3: be undefeated playing for that, and whoever wins that one
Speaker 3: obviously would get themselves in position to make the college
Speaker 3: football playoff because then the following day you would have
Speaker 3: the playoff selection.
Speaker 2: Then the next week would be the Army Navy game
Speaker 2: in earnest.
Speaker 3: So aren't we all for interesting is playing out in
Speaker 3: college football? Some people will call it chaos, whatever you
Speaker 3: might be, But in this case right here, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a game that you know, I think we all
Speaker 3: watch just because of what it represents and who the
Speaker 3: players on the field represent, but also too, I mean
Speaker 3: it's one that's always exciting, and it's a respectful rivalry
Speaker 3: and one that we love to be able to peek
Speaker 3: in on. So anyway, the Texas Georgia game today, as
Speaker 3: we were talking about earlier on in the show, College
Speaker 3: Game Day there in Austin, And if you're a Longhorn fan,
Speaker 3: you got to feel good with what the crew. Herbie
Speaker 3: refrained from picking in this one because of course he's
Speaker 3: calling the game tonight with Chris Vaalor so it's kind
Speaker 3: of a faux pas to pick as you're on the call,
Speaker 3: because then of course you make a pick, then you
Speaker 3: know the audience out there if they feel slighted and
Speaker 3: you're speaking, you know, positively about the team that you picked,
Speaker 3: and you know they start saying, oh, you know you're
Speaker 3: rooting for the that team in the booth. All those
Speaker 3: different types of things. The Herbie's are pro. I mean,
Speaker 3: he doesn't do any of those things. But two at
Speaker 3: the same time, you know, you just you just want
Speaker 3: to be able to just have a you know, unabated
Speaker 3: call of the game and not have any distractions of
Speaker 3: the sort going into a calling said games.
Speaker 2: So that's why he stays out of it.
Speaker 3: But to a man, you had Pat McAfee, Nick Saban,
Speaker 3: Desmond Howard, and Lee Corso all picking Texas for this
Speaker 3: one tonight, which the line at one point had gotten
Speaker 3: up to five and a half Texas.
Speaker 2: Now it's down the four and a half.
Speaker 3: So maybe you're starting to see some sharp money coming
Speaker 3: in on the dogs. We'll see if maybe that even
Speaker 3: creeps down to you know, probably I would probably guess
Speaker 3: it's not going to go any lower than four for
Speaker 3: this game. But if you get enough money in, maybe
Speaker 3: it goes back to the original three and a half
Speaker 3: for Texas in this one.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a fun one, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: And as you're watching the game tonight, you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: be looking down on the sideline, you're going to be
Speaker 3: seeing a guy wearing his normal get up that he's got,
Speaker 3: you know, the the long sleeve, white shirt, sleeves rolled up.
Speaker 3: He's got his own cowboy hat on. Of course, you
Speaker 3: know I'm talking about the top Longhorn himself. Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 3: and the famous Texas X taken to social media earlier
Speaker 3: this week to share his thoughts on tonight's game.
Speaker 14: In October the twenty four, he got a little team
Speaker 14: called Georgia bile doll such him in there over days
Speaker 14: US and warms up stadium. That's a night game. Oo
Speaker 14: fasted the fact everyone's gonna as copyment you Precats season,
Speaker 14: did Edison correct? I mean best the teams we got
Speaker 14: there and handled that. He continuous play against how nearly
Speaker 14: we can be. That's too add ETHNI can play while
Speaker 14: playing them and given them fullish facts, taking no time
Speaker 14: for long. There's no time for exhale.
Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously that one is to be hyped up. We
Speaker 6: will be way up to this game. Just got to play.
Speaker 14: As Coach Parkes, you say, play smart intelligion and then.
Speaker 3: Shout said, there you go. Matthew McConaughey doing it. The
Speaker 3: only way he knows how is to just put it
Speaker 3: in his own words. And I mean, you know the philosophy,
Speaker 3: the philosophies that are out of Matthew McConaughey, well, you know,
Speaker 3: whenever he speaks, I guess, so we definitely want to
Speaker 3: be able to keep an ear out and listen for
Speaker 3: whenever he speaks. But in this case, I mean, for
Speaker 3: you know, Texas and I I mean, I've told you
Speaker 3: the Georgia side of it and how badly they need
Speaker 3: this one tonight. But for Texas, I mean, I think
Speaker 3: that it's kind of another step in the direction of
Speaker 3: getting this program back to where it was when Mac
Speaker 3: Brown had it rolling from two thousand and four to
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine. I mean, this was probably the
Speaker 3: you know, best, most consistent, you know, performing program.
Speaker 2: During that time.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you had a season or two
Speaker 3: where it didn't end necessarily the way they had hoped.
Speaker 3: Losses to Oklahoma ten and three seasons but still at
Speaker 3: least ten wins during those times and being able to
Speaker 3: make it to BCS Bowl games, if not the BCS
Speaker 3: National Championship twice during that period.
Speaker 2: I mean, two thousand and four, get to the Rose Bowl,
Speaker 2: you win it.
Speaker 3: That sets up the momentum for you to be able
Speaker 3: to carry over into the next season where you add
Speaker 3: Jamal Charles and of course you go back to the
Speaker 3: Rose Bowl and win the National Championship that season. Two
Speaker 3: thousand and nine, you go undefeed it through the regular season,
Speaker 3: get to the BCS Championship game and an SEC team
Speaker 3: was right there waiting for you and the Alabama Crimson Tide,
Speaker 3: and they took care of you in that game. But
Speaker 3: I think that what we've seen the transformation of this
Speaker 3: program under Steve Sarkisian is something that you know, for
Speaker 3: the longest time, Texas had been trying to do a
Speaker 3: little bit kind of like what I've talked about before,
Speaker 3: that they do a lot they're in college station, and
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's a you know, rare time
Speaker 3: where both programs seemingly have gotten it right with not
Speaker 3: necessarily the sexiest option at coach that they could have had.
Speaker 3: I mean, for the longest time that had been kind
Speaker 3: of A and m's calling card of you know, we're
Speaker 3: A and M. This job is is not for a coordinator.
Speaker 3: It's not for a guy that coached at Duke. Come on,
Speaker 3: we were a program that needs to go and steal
Speaker 3: a coach from someone. I mean, we're good enough, we
Speaker 3: can go and steal Dennis Francioni and he was so
Speaker 3: so then they had to settle a little bit and
Speaker 3: ad Mike Sherman. But Sherman was probably one of their
Speaker 3: better performing head coaches in terms of being able to
Speaker 3: prepare guys for the next level. I mean Von Miller
Speaker 3: coming through the program at that time. You know Ryan
Speaker 3: Tannehill also coming through the program at that time. I
Speaker 3: believe it was Sherman that were recruited Mike Evans. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to remember if if Evans was already there when
Speaker 3: someone got there. But of course, I mean we saw
Speaker 3: what Kevin someone was able to do during that time
Speaker 3: with Johnny Manziel. But then post Johnny Manziel, you started
Speaker 3: to see signific regressions. So you go out and get
Speaker 3: Jimbo Fisher and you're thinking to yourself, oh, man, look
Speaker 3: what he did at Florida State. Of course he's going
Speaker 3: to bring that over here. It just never clicked. And
Speaker 3: now you had a guy who I think, you know,
Speaker 3: all across the board gets what the job is in
Speaker 3: Mike Elko. I mean, one of the first things he
Speaker 3: did when he got the job was he went to
Speaker 3: the Texas high school football coaches breakfast that they have
Speaker 3: every year after the season and kind of let him know, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you've got a friend in college station. And I know
Speaker 3: that Steve Sarkisian does the same things as well. But
Speaker 3: where I'm going with this is sometimes, you know, having
Speaker 3: the you know, hot named head coach out there a
Speaker 3: lot of times does not meet the expectations. It's about
Speaker 3: making the right hire for a guy that can be
Speaker 3: able to implement a culture, and that is something that
Speaker 3: Sarkisian has been able to do. I mean, he brought
Speaker 3: over a lot of what he learned from Nick Saban
Speaker 3: there at Alabama. He learned obviously a ton from Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll during his time when he was at USC and
Speaker 3: he got another chance of being a head coach again
Speaker 3: and he was I think kind of taking some of
Speaker 3: those lessons and some of the hard lessons that he
Speaker 3: learned during his failures, you know, when he was at
Speaker 3: SC that got him out of a job and trying
Speaker 3: to make good on it this time. But I think
Speaker 3: one of the best things he did was number one,
Speaker 3: hired an outstanding staff, but number two of really implementing
Speaker 3: a culture of you've got to earn it here, and
Speaker 3: that's something that I think in Austin had not been
Speaker 3: there for a really long time. I think that you
Speaker 3: continuously heard, oh, we're going to win because we're Texas.
Speaker 2: Why are you going to win because you're Texas?
Speaker 3: Nobody thinks that, And the results on the field showed,
Speaker 3: and I think that that was kind of a little
Speaker 3: bit of a brick wall that he had to, little
Speaker 3: by little try to chisel away at of letting these
Speaker 3: guys know you're not just going to win because you
Speaker 3: show up in your Texas. We have to be a
Speaker 3: physically stronger program. We have to be a lot more
Speaker 3: athletic than we are right now. And also too, you
Speaker 3: have to be able to try to put all of
Speaker 3: those together on game day and have good discipline performances
Speaker 3: to be able to win on game day. And this
Speaker 3: is I think, you know, one of those things as
Speaker 3: well as a program that even if you lose tonight,
Speaker 3: there's still a lesson to be gleaned from that because
Speaker 3: it's you have one loss, your season is not over.
Speaker 3: You've got a really good path to be able to
Speaker 3: try to still get to Atlanta for the SEC Championship
Speaker 3: game and be able to be in prime position to
Speaker 3: make the College Football Playoff. But if you win this
Speaker 3: game tonight, that again is I think the final straw,
Speaker 3: well not the final I think it's the you know one,
Speaker 3: It's the second to last straw for this team to
Speaker 3: be able to truly let you know, yeah, this program
Speaker 3: is back. This program is in position to compete for
Speaker 3: national titles year in and year out. I think the
Speaker 3: next one is being able to get there and win
Speaker 3: the national title, and Texas is definitely in position to
Speaker 3: be able to do that. So this is a huge
Speaker 3: step for the Longhorns tonight. I don't think there's any
Speaker 3: doubt about that. I mean, this is a program. You've
Speaker 3: heard people talking about them all week. They are physical,
Speaker 3: they are tough. They are a team that has a
Speaker 3: deep enough roster to be able to beat teams like Georgia,
Speaker 3: who has won a couple of national titles in the
Speaker 3: recent years under Kirby Smart and a program that has
Speaker 3: been able to build up a recruiting juggernaut and also
Speaker 3: to a team that you know gets the benefit of
Speaker 3: the doubt in games like this, but at least this weekend,
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, just the way that
Speaker 3: you're looking at it from the betting odds and also
Speaker 3: too from you know, just the experts out there. I mean,
Speaker 3: talked about it on game day, everybody thinking that Texas
Speaker 3: and the atmosphere tonight's going to be too much for Georgia.
Speaker 3: But we will see it's going to be a lot
Speaker 3: of fun to be able to watch as a man
Speaker 3: who is going to be on the call of said
Speaker 3: game is somebody that joined us earlier this week on
Speaker 3: Next Up with stand Northfleet and Chris Gordy craig Way
Speaker 3: joining the guys earlier this week. Want to let you
Speaker 3: hear that visit as he was able to catch up
Speaker 3: with them. So we'll do that on the other side
Speaker 3: right here on Space City Saturday.
Speaker 2: Dan Matthews here with you for about.
Speaker 3: Another thirty minutes on your home of the Astros and
Speaker 3: the Rockets and Longhorns at Football and Basketball as well
Speaker 3: as LSU here in Houston Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 2: Space City Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety. I like it,
Speaker 2: Milton Brown, I like it.
Speaker 3: Melvin Brown always keeping us on air at our uptown
Speaker 3: Galeria studios. As like I said, huge college football weekend
Speaker 3: that is already underway. The eleven o'clock games going right now,
Speaker 3: also too, got a good two thirty one's coming up
Speaker 3: a little bit later today. By the way, Dan Matthews here,
Speaker 3: Space City Saturday, home of the Astros and the Rockets
Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety as you'll get the third Saturday
Speaker 3: in October as it is called.
Speaker 2: That's a thing too as well.
Speaker 3: For Texas fans that are new to the SEC, you
Speaker 3: have to note that almost every single rivalry game is
Speaker 3: not just called the whoever against whoever game. It's always
Speaker 3: some sort of game. The third Saturday in October clean
Speaker 3: old fashioned hate, although that one's SEC and ACC.
Speaker 2: Paul Meadow Bowl Bowl. What's it?
Speaker 3: I mean, unofficially it's the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
Speaker 3: But of course, you know, my god, we can't bring
Speaker 3: drinking to college football games, and we've got underage kids here.
Speaker 3: There's no way we could ever do that, So of
Speaker 3: course that goes out the window.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've already understood it a little bit.
Speaker 3: I guess you were prepared for it with Red River
Speaker 3: coming into the SEC. But anyway, the Alabama and Tennessee
Speaker 3: game always called the third Saturday in October, so oddly
Speaker 3: enough third Saturday in October here we are, so that
Speaker 3: one coming up at two thirty falls against Alabama, so
Speaker 3: we'll be watching that.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 3: Of course tonight the one that most of us, if
Speaker 3: not all of us around here are going to be
Speaker 3: paying attention to, that's number one against number five. Number
Speaker 3: one being Texas, number five being Georgia. And you will
Speaker 3: hear it over on news radio seven forty KTRH. And
Speaker 3: the man who's gonna be on the call for that.
Speaker 2: Game is Craig Way.
Speaker 3: He joined at stan Northfleet Chris Gordy earlier this week
Speaker 3: on next up, let's hear that visit right now.
Speaker 12: I'm stupid excited. I got to do some volunteer work
Speaker 12: over at Acres Homes courtesy of the good people at Tomac.
Speaker 12: I'll be up there a Greater Commission Church doing some
Speaker 12: volunteer work open to the public. Texans Astros rockets coming out,
Speaker 12: So if you want to pull up on me, I'll
Speaker 12: be over there, but I'm going to be leaving man
Speaker 12: site to get home in time to cut on the
Speaker 12: screen as the number one team in the land in Austin,
Speaker 12: where Burnt Orange and White will welcome in that black
Speaker 12: and red crew from down in Athens to help us
Speaker 12: pass through how this action might go. Voice of the Horns,
Speaker 12: courtesy of our sister station thirteen hundred to Zone in Austin.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Craig Wade, welcome back in the next up, my.
Speaker 15: Friend, Hey, Dan, Gordy Grace, visit with you guys again.
Speaker 12: All right, So I was a little bit peeved that
Speaker 12: we couldn't get you own last week because I thought
Speaker 12: it's bleeping Texas and OU in Dallas and they're both
Speaker 12: in the s SEC and it's the State Fair and
Speaker 12: it's a big deal. But you made me feel good.
Speaker 12: You say, stay, come down. The dogs are coming to Athens,
Speaker 12: Coming to Athens, Lord, the Dogs coming to Austin next Saturday.
Speaker 12: I got you, okay, rig Uh point spread has gone
Speaker 12: up in favor of the Horns. Tell me why.
Speaker 15: I have no ideas? And by the way, I did
Speaker 15: mention to you last week when we were going to
Speaker 15: I said, there's the chance that Texas O you could
Speaker 15: wind up being nearly the undercard, and it's kind of
Speaker 15: turned out that way. And I would never think of
Speaker 15: the Texas ou Red River Rivalry gate as an undercard anything.
Speaker 15: It has its own special style and significance, obviously, but
Speaker 15: clearly coming off of that now it's the number five
Speaker 15: team in the country, a perennial national power in Georgia.
Speaker 15: And then of all weekends for this to be happening,
Speaker 15: when you got the Formula one race going on as
Speaker 15: well on Sunday, so it's F one mania also, So
Speaker 15: it's it's crazy right here to your question, I think
Speaker 15: you know, I'm I'm not the best authority on this,
Speaker 15: but I've always been told that the boys in the
Speaker 15: desert are setting those numbers to try to make sure
Speaker 15: they get equal action on both sides of the line.
Speaker 15: And maybe the original Texas line seemed a little bit
Speaker 15: elevated for the wagerers, so they come back and put
Speaker 15: put their wagers on the.
Speaker 8: Other side line.
Speaker 15: Maybe, you know, maybe that's the reason, I don't know,
Speaker 15: or it was a little lower, and then you know
Speaker 15: that sort of thing so not sure about that, but
Speaker 15: I do know this, these are two really good football
Speaker 15: teams to getting ready to get it on.
Speaker 16: It's interesting Craig talking with people about this game this week.
Speaker 16: I've asked people and look, Texas can only play who's
Speaker 16: on their schedule. Schedules made, it's pre ordained. You can't
Speaker 16: do anything about it. But most people I say what's
Speaker 16: Texas's best win, they say Michigan, And then I look
Speaker 16: at the numbers and say, I see Michigan. Now their
Speaker 16: offense is ranked one nineteenth in the country, and obviously
Speaker 16: Oklahoma's offense is putrid, and you know some of these
Speaker 16: other teams. I started to look at it and go,
Speaker 16: is you all Munroe their best win? They're five and one.
Speaker 16: It's just an interesting angle of I think, hands down,
Speaker 16: this will be the best offense and best quarterback they've
Speaker 16: seen to this point this season.
Speaker 15: Though, without question. And I think it'll be the best defense. Now,
Speaker 15: you know, Michigan had pretty solid defense and Oklahoma has
Speaker 15: a pretty good defense as well, but I think it'll
Speaker 15: be the best defense, but easily the best offense they
Speaker 15: will have seen. With ETN in the backfield, and in
Speaker 15: addition to Trevor etn Carson Beck will easily be the
Speaker 15: best quarterback they will have faced. And there's that championship
Speaker 15: aura that surrounds Georgia and they know. And to listen
Speaker 15: to Kirby Smart this week here and him say we
Speaker 15: just haven't put a full game together yet. And to
Speaker 15: think about that, I mean, it was the second half
Speaker 15: of that game against Alabama when they spotted in the
Speaker 15: big lead and came back and actually had the lead
Speaker 15: and a chance to win late. This is still a
Speaker 15: really good Georgia team that they're going to face. It's
Speaker 15: definitely the best team they will have seen to this point.
Speaker 12: That's the voice of Craig Way play by play voice
Speaker 12: for the Horns. You can catch them on social at
Speaker 12: Horn singular Horn voice again. Our family there in Austin
Speaker 12: thirteen hundred is Zion all right? Quinn Ewiz doesn't get
Speaker 12: wally pipped. He goes back into the starter, puts up
Speaker 12: a ton of bleeping points. Any concern there from the
Speaker 12: faithful that maybe they got distracted emotional win over ou
Speaker 12: or I can't imagine Sarkas gonna have these boys not
Speaker 12: emotionally ready to go when Georgia comes to town. But
Speaker 12: do you get concerned when you have back to back
Speaker 12: weeks and you're gonna need all your own emotion? What
Speaker 12: does Dabbo say, bring your own guts those type of games.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think it was it's more about the physical
Speaker 15: and mental grind that ensues playing these kinds of games
Speaker 15: back to backstand and less about you know, not being
Speaker 15: fought for a team or anything like that. I can't
Speaker 15: get up for playing Georgia. Can You can't get up
Speaker 15: and think about Oklahoma?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Yeah, And folks did the same thing going in the
Speaker 15: know you game, well, you know they're only ranked eighteenth.
Speaker 15: You know that doesn't matter. None of that stuff matters,
Speaker 15: And it didn't matter last Saturday, and I don't think
Speaker 15: it'll matter this Saturday. But we did say before the
Speaker 15: start of the year, this was going to be the
Speaker 15: belly of the beast, This was going to be the
Speaker 15: grind getting through this. And at the time, at the
Speaker 15: time stand, we were talking about two games, Texas OU
Speaker 15: and Texas Georgia. Oh, by the way, what's next? Venderbill
Speaker 15: on the road Alabama and Nashville, so that the grind
Speaker 15: will continue, and then they would have an open day
Speaker 15: to buy week so they can find a way to
Speaker 15: get through these next two weeks, then I'm not going
Speaker 15: to necessarily say it's a down. He'll run to Atlanta
Speaker 15: and the SEC Championship, but they will have been passed
Speaker 15: the most difficult part of their schedule.
Speaker 16: Let's suck a little personnel here. Craig obviously, Kelvin Banks,
Speaker 16: he's been fantastic. He's named SDC Offensive Lineman of the
Speaker 16: Week there. But they do lose Derek Williams of safety
Speaker 16: for the season, and he was really good at a
Speaker 16: pick against Michigan, had to force fumble this past week
Speaker 16: against Oklahoma. But it also sounds like Isaiah Bond he
Speaker 16: was banged up. It sounds like he's gonna go, is
Speaker 16: what it sounds like to you.
Speaker 15: He's been better and he's he's he's been getting a
Speaker 15: little bit better as the week's gone on. Uh, Tuesday
Speaker 15: and yesterday where the big you know, load in heavy
Speaker 15: days in terms of the work, and he's been able
Speaker 15: to work. I think they're still going to just kind
Speaker 15: of watch him very carefully through the practice today and
Speaker 15: the walk through tomorrow to see if he's ready to go.
Speaker 15: But I would expect that he'll be ready to play.
Speaker 12: Craig rough Start, what he got sacked? It wasn't that
Speaker 12: what first drive? Maybe I think the first play and
Speaker 12: then he throws the pick on his first pass. Rough
Speaker 12: Start think he worked out the kinks, uhs in these
Speaker 12: big boy games. Is there any concern physically or his
Speaker 12: resume and being ready to take advantage you know what
Speaker 12: Kurvey's gonna do defensively with his dogs.
Speaker 15: Well, I think his resume shows he's pretty good in
Speaker 15: these big games at Alabama last year and and uh
Speaker 15: obviously in the big CULP championship game. It's a big game,
Speaker 15: and and I think Quinn Ewers is going to be
Speaker 15: fine on those kinds of things. It was a little
Speaker 15: bit sluggish last week, and Quinn, by his own admission,
Speaker 15: said he didn't play his best. They had a misprotection
Speaker 15: of one play and then they had a couple of
Speaker 15: receivers have a difficult time getting off the line initially,
Speaker 15: so they were timing. I think was a little bit
Speaker 15: of an issue that not remedy, I believe after the
Speaker 15: first quarter. And yes, an offensive line played well enough
Speaker 15: after that, so I think he's back in the rhythm
Speaker 15: and a group. But I do think he needed that game,
Speaker 15: and he needed that first quarter to try to get
Speaker 15: back on track.
Speaker 16: I've been so oppressed with Anthony Hill. He's been fantastic
Speaker 16: for them so far. Defensively, I think back to he
Speaker 16: was he was like a fifty to fifty yard cruit
Speaker 16: between A and M and Texas, and he chose the
Speaker 16: long horns. Colin Simmons was between Texas and LSU. He
Speaker 16: chose the long horns, and just so many of those
Speaker 16: guys in that defense, Craig are starting to merge us
Speaker 16: big time playmakers. But what do you see from Anthony Hill.
Speaker 16: I know he made the Lot Trophy you know watch
Speaker 16: list this week.
Speaker 15: Yeah, the progress that he made really from his freshman
Speaker 15: year to a sophomore year has been most impressive. He
Speaker 15: would tell you that last year he was kind of
Speaker 15: a seaball get ball, you know, just go after something,
Speaker 15: and it wasn't as much technique sounds as he needed
Speaker 15: to be over time, But that was going to come
Speaker 15: with time and working under Peacock Kowski's defense. Colin Simmons
Speaker 15: I had a chance to call both of his state
Speaker 15: championship games for television last two years, and I remember thinking,
Speaker 15: what a beast this guy is. If his game can
Speaker 15: translate and transition out quickly to the collegiate level. How
Speaker 15: special might he be? And we're starting to see signs
Speaker 15: of that with what he's doing. He's still learning the game,
Speaker 15: but getting off the line of scrimmage and harassing quarterbacks
Speaker 15: has been really impressive to watch.
Speaker 13: II.
Speaker 12: Greg, last one, what do you think happens here? I
Speaker 12: don't know if you're able to give a prediction, but
Speaker 12: certainly talk us through this one and what you think
Speaker 12: we can expect the hot this win ends well.
Speaker 15: Sark is fond of saying the key is the ball
Speaker 15: When we do our pregame interview two hours before kickoff.
Speaker 15: He likes to say the bo meaning getting turnovers and
Speaker 15: preventing turnovers. Georgia is a minus one in the turnover category,
Speaker 15: mainly because they don't get and create and haven't been
Speaker 15: anyway creating a lot of turnovers. If that trend continues
Speaker 15: and the log Worns can get Carson back to throway
Speaker 15: sixth interception of the season or seventh something like that,
Speaker 15: continue to slam down the running gag George's thirteenth in
Speaker 15: the SEC and rushing events. I know you wouldn't think
Speaker 15: about that, but if they can. If they can limit
Speaker 15: them on that make them one dimensional like they did
Speaker 15: Oklahoma last week, then it makes a big difference.
Speaker 16: Hey, one last one real quick, Craig, do you want
Speaker 16: to rent out your home for Airbnb this weekend? I
Speaker 16: hear it's pretty hard to get a hotel room this
Speaker 16: weekend at Austin.
Speaker 15: You know, I probably should have given it more thought.
Speaker 15: And here's why you got the game Saturday night. I mean,
Speaker 15: I go up the Dallas to the high school show Friday,
Speaker 15: so I wouldn't going to be here anyway. I just
Speaker 15: had to relocate my wife, you know, And then you
Speaker 15: got the football game. Sunday morning. Linda and I are
Speaker 15: flying to Los Angeles. We're going to see Joni Mitchell
Speaker 15: perform at the Hollywood Bowl. Back on the Red Eye.
Speaker 15: So I mean, again, the home would have been available
Speaker 15: if I have been thinking about it, it could have taken
Speaker 15: care of it. But I wouldn't get that foreign advance.
Speaker 12: Not only did he deny me an appearance last week,
Speaker 12: he did not need the gate the gatecode to his home.
Speaker 12: Craig wait, voice of a horn, being selfish, being a
Speaker 12: bit up bitty if you will, No, great dude, does
Speaker 12: a great job there. We'll all be watching and listening
Speaker 12: courtesy of thirteen hundred am is own there in Austin.
Speaker 12: No one does it better played by play Man for
Speaker 12: the Horns. We appreciate your Craig, have a great call,
Speaker 12: State Travels. Enjoyed that show.
Speaker 15: Thank you, Stan, Guardy. Good to be on with you guys.
Speaker 6: All right, take care my guy, Craig Way.
Speaker 2: Good to be Craig Way.
Speaker 3: I guess, like he said, going to see Joni Mitchell
Speaker 3: at the Hollywood Bowl that's on the list. Not necessarily
Speaker 3: the Joni Mitchell Park, but go see a show at
Speaker 3: the Hollywood Bowl. You know they're red rocks places like that.
Speaker 3: But good point brought up there by Stan and Gordy.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you or any of your friends had
Speaker 3: a property in the Austin area this weekend, you probably
Speaker 3: would have been pretty smart to say, yeah, hey, you
Speaker 3: can airbnb it, you can do whatever in terms of
Speaker 3: being able to rent it, just to make sure you
Speaker 3: return it in the condition that you found it when
Speaker 3: you went in there to stay.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a great atmosphere there.
Speaker 3: I mean, of course, you got the game tonight, got
Speaker 3: the F one race tomorrow, going on. So definitely a
Speaker 3: clashing of crowds for sure in Austin this weekend, so
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. I know, a lot of people
Speaker 3: are there, and you have a lot of friends who
Speaker 3: came in from Georgia for this game. But also too
Speaker 3: as well a lot of friends from down here making
Speaker 3: their way up to Austin. So gonna be fun, no
Speaker 3: doubt about.
Speaker 2: It all right.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, close it out on the show, an
Speaker 3: interesting event happened on sports radio this week here in
Speaker 3: this state. I think you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 3: so too kind of breaking it down of what led
Speaker 3: up to it and also to what comes of it afterwards,
Speaker 3: as we'll discuss that on the other side. Right here
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Speaker 3: More seconds to go with you here this afternoon Again
Speaker 3: a little bit later on right here on Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven ninety, you're gonna be able to hear the call
Speaker 3: of LSU and Arkansas starting at five thirty. The man
Speaker 3: who you just heard from in the last segment with
Speaker 3: stand Northfleet, Chris Gordy on. Next up, Craig wa gonna
Speaker 3: be on the Call of Texas and Georgia. That's gonna
Speaker 3: be over on News Radio seven forty KTRH tonight. So
Speaker 3: if you're looking for either of those games, making your
Speaker 3: way back home, making your way to wherever you're going
Speaker 3: to catch the game, those are where you can listen.
Speaker 3: So that is a little program reminder. Were you all here,
Speaker 3: if you want to weigh in on anything we've talked
Speaker 3: about to this point, we've gotten it's been a football
Speaker 3: heavy show today. Didn't even have a chance to get
Speaker 3: into the rockets. As a matter of fact, too, I
Speaker 3: mean I told Melvin Brown as we were setting up
Speaker 3: the audio for this final segment of the show today,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be talking, of course about the Jerry Jones
Speaker 3: radio interview. I'm sure that's been listened to over and
Speaker 3: over again by many of you out there today, but
Speaker 3: also didn't have a chance to get into the Dusty
Speaker 3: Baker audio that we had. So if you were listening
Speaker 3: to any of our shows this week, I'm sure you
Speaker 3: probably heard his visit with Joel Sherman and John Hayman
Speaker 3: about his time with the Astros and any regrets that
Speaker 3: he had or anything of this such, But anyway, for
Speaker 3: this one right now, like I talked about at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the show, Jerry Jones on with the Cowboys
Speaker 3: flagship station there in DFW one five to three, the Fan,
Speaker 3: Shawn and RJ in the morning, Sean Cherief and r
Speaker 3: J Choppy, who, by the way, if you remember RJ
Speaker 3: actually joining this very show last year, has had him
Speaker 3: on as a preview to the Alcs before the Astros
Speaker 3: and Rangers got tangled up last year, and so he's
Speaker 3: a friend of the show we can call him. But
Speaker 3: he was part of this interview the other day, and
Speaker 3: of course it was a weekly hit that they do
Speaker 3: with Jerry Jones that you know listening to. RJ talked
Speaker 3: about it afterwards, saying, they've never really had a contentious
Speaker 3: relationship with Jerry whatsoever. I mean, they only you know,
Speaker 3: had one time. It was the Colin Kaepernick kneeling when
Speaker 3: he was doing that for the national anthem that the
Speaker 3: team had asked him like, hey, you know, I think
Speaker 3: we've kind of hammered on that enough. Let's move on,
Speaker 3: let's talk football. But aside from that, he said that
Speaker 3: they've never really had parameters of what they can or
Speaker 3: cannot talk about on the show. That Jerry is pretty
Speaker 3: open and transparent with them, and this was really on
Speaker 3: the surface. I feel, as you're not going to hear
Speaker 3: Sean's question to him, but a pretty innocuous question, because,
Speaker 3: I mean, let's talk about it, you know, from the
Speaker 3: Cowboy fan perspective, I mean, I know that you had
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy telling everybody, hey, we're all
Speaker 3: in for this season, and they did not go out
Speaker 3: and get Derrick Henry. They did not really add in
Speaker 3: free agency. I mean, I know that they had some
Speaker 3: cap constraints and also too, I mean, we're on the
Speaker 3: verge of signing both Ceedee Lamb and also Dak Prescott
Speaker 3: to contract extensions. But you know, it was kind of
Speaker 3: one of those things that I'm sure the media and
Speaker 3: fan base alike talking about the Cowboys were like, well,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, does that necessarily say.
Speaker 2: That you're all in when you're not adding to.
Speaker 3: This roster that clearly is not good enough to be
Speaker 3: able to get out of the divisional round. So that
Speaker 3: was the question I was asked to Jerry Jones, and
Speaker 3: let's just say it fired up the team's owner and GM.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a few think I'm interested in a phone call
Speaker 8: with you over radio and sitting here and throwing all
Speaker 8: the good ap with the dishwater. You have got to
Speaker 8: be smoking something over there this morning. I'm not, and
Speaker 8: I really don't, and I don't need want our listeners
Speaker 8: to listen to me to talk about this is not
Speaker 8: your job. Your job is to let me go over
Speaker 8: all the reasons that I did something and I'm sorry
Speaker 8: that I did it. That's not your job. I'll get
Speaker 8: somebody else to ask these questions.
Speaker 6: Man, Jerry, We're just we're trying to figure out why
Speaker 6: the team out.
Speaker 8: I'm not kidding it. I'm not kidding it. You're not
Speaker 8: going to figure out what the team is doing right
Speaker 8: or wrong. If you are are any five or ten
Speaker 8: like you, you need to come to this meeting I'm
Speaker 8: going to today. There are thirty two teams here, your geniuses.
Speaker 3: So there you go a little bit of patronizing tone
Speaker 3: from Jerry Jones at the end. And look, it's a playbook.
Speaker 3: And you see this a lot in the NFL of
Speaker 3: people trying to tell the media you don't know what
Speaker 3: you're talking about. You don't know what the play call is.
Speaker 3: We're the experts here, not you. And how many times
Speaker 3: during the draft have we seen teams try to tell
Speaker 3: us that, you know, when they try to reach for
Speaker 3: a player in the second round or something like that,
Speaker 3: and you just ask them about it and then they
Speaker 3: give you that defensive, angry tone back to you. But
Speaker 3: the truth of the matter is, especially when it comes
Speaker 3: to the draft, most of these teams are guessing just
Speaker 3: like you are. It's an educated guess at best, it's
Speaker 3: a hypothesis of how you think that player is going
Speaker 3: to be. So there's been time and time again proven
Speaker 3: that people who want to tell us that they're experts,
Speaker 3: they're really not. And I think in this case right here,
Speaker 3: it comes down to, you know, situation of are you know,
Speaker 3: are you making it personal when it comes to, you know,
Speaker 3: discussions like this, And I know for a fact of
Speaker 3: listening to that interview, Sean and RJ were not.
Speaker 2: We never make it personal.
Speaker 3: But whenever you know, Sean Salisbury has Dana Brown on,
Speaker 3: he'll ask him pointed questions, but it's not personal. And
Speaker 3: same deal whenever Matt Thomas has Joe a spot on,
Speaker 3: it's it's the same deal. There So the moral of
Speaker 3: the story is, when you have relationships like this, you
Speaker 3: can have your takes, you can have whatever opinions you
Speaker 3: want to have of the teams. Just when you make
Speaker 3: it personal, that's when it oversteps the line. And I
Speaker 3: think that the wrong party there was Jerry, and people
Speaker 3: have let him know that, and then some didn't have
Speaker 3: as much time to talk about this as I wanted to.
Speaker 3: But that's all good. I want to thank Melvin Brown
Speaker 3: back in the studio. I want to think all of
Speaker 3: you who tuned in to us here on this Space
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