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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Show two oh one in Age Town. Good Morning Strippers

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and go.

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Speaker 3: Into a Friday edition of The Man Thomas Show with

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Ross as as it came out of your mouth, that

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seems tell me how she is clippable? Does she does? Yeah?

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I clip that now we know you like it hard?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Can I say semi fart? So I had to go

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work somewhere. You didn't just say I'm in the family business. Yeah,

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It's like I'm going there du suction and don't care.

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Sometimes she lets me touch her.

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Speaker 5: I got a lot of answer to you today.

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Speaker 3: Long battle with multip spriers Kansas State alum as well,

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no way, Oh my god, you seriously got me on that.

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That's terrible.

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Speaker 6: Damn you.

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Speaker 3: I thought he do it. I'm sorry. We like to

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have a lot of fun on this show. It is

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and I dare I

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say the best Friday show opened in the business. Shout

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out to Connor McGovern for putting that together. I concur

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I did what I could. I don't have the Matt

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Thomas pa pipes with the Good Morning stripp Thank you.

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I appreciate put.

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Speaker 5: Up a better effort in the Texans Guards Night.

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Speaker 3: Well, we will get to that. Stan Northfleet, thanks for

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c hanging out. Matt Thomas is out. It is the

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Matt Thomas Show with Ross without miss Matt Thomas. He

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is doing his ring dunking with his son who is

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at Texas A and m Are you aware of the

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ring of dunking a tradition?

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Speaker 5: I know they have a thing with their rings. It's

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supposed to mean.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Aggies are obsessed with their rings. They get

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it from Jostin's and it's uh, it's something that they're

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really in.

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Speaker 5: What is the dunking component?

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Speaker 3: Yes, So then when they get their ring, it is tradition.

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I don't know when this tradition started. You put the

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ring in the bottom of a beer picture full of beer,

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and then you chug the picture. This is my understanding.

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That Aggie wants to correct me. This is my understanding.

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So when you get to the bottom of the picture,

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you time it and then you get the bottom of

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the picture. Yeah, and you get your ring, and then

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you've officially earned your Aggie ring. So why do not

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I just put the ring on and drink the beer

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because it's I don't know it's something you look, this

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is the thing. All these college traditions that we talk about,

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and how dumb some of them are, like this one

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for example, Texas is against ou Is. Hey, OHU sucks.

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It's it's twelve oh five and oh you sucks.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: These are not super creative because nineteen and twenty year

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old drunkards came up with them. So among the aggie traditions,

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which like bearing their dogs near the stadium is weird,

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can't touch the grass, weird, dog barks in class classes

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over weird they get dog the the the uh what's

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the name revey? Yeah. Among those traditions, which some of

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them are weirder than others, this is actually like makes sense.

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It's just like a bunch of broskies are getting around

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chucking beer. However, Matt's son does not drink, so what

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is he doing He's going to do. He's going to

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do sweet tea. I believe this is sorry, I don't know.

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You gotta talk to p please do non alcoholic. Hey,

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talk to Peyton. I love Peyton, He's a I like

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Peyton way more than I like Matt. So that's where

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Matt is now his they bring the I went to

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one for one of my high school friends. When I

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was in college at UT I went to college station

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because one of our friends. It's like a big deal

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for them. They're getting their their ring done. We had

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a keg party as you graduated. Ring yes, okay, and

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the parents come. It's a whole thing. Yeah, the priest

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blesses the ring and I'm just kidding, kidder Okay. So

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that's what Matt is doing. So he is out, Stan

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is hanging out, will have Adam Clinton hanging out. I

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will be solo for hour number two or doing a

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Neapolitan edition of the program. You can get into the

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phone lines at seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety seven one three two one two five to

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up with the regular Friday open now unfortunately we have

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to do. If there were any other day than Friday,

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we would have brought you down and started the show

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Speaker 8: Give it to Mixon goes in for the touchdown. Yim

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me second and twelve. Rogers under pressure pays one handed

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Speaker 3: This is what Garrett Wilson could do. This one handed grab.

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Speaker 9: Pretty tight coverage, A risky effort by Petree.

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Speaker 3: He clearly goes for the football. That's either gonna make

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the play or you're gonna give up a touchdown.

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Speaker 10: Poor man.

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Speaker 8: Rush Rogers to the end zone and Wilson Henny one

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hand and then stay in bounds. They say he was

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out out last covering on the play.

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Speaker 3: The knee if it came down, he has a ball.

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Speaker 9: For that other foot just doesn't get down.

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Speaker 3: The knee is closed. That's what the crowd is reacting to.

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Speaker 8: What a grip the one hand in that Oh my.

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Speaker 9: Gosh, meticulous a kid, extra pressure, Go and get Jesus

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Man Adams touch down.

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Speaker 2: We got the bad Cats, then a bad Hats are

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red good.

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Speaker 3: Down and outs in New York City, well more like

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the Meadowlands, New Jersey, Jersey Easy Brutherford MetLife Stadium, the

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worst turf stan norfleets twenty one to thirteen. The New

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York Jets defeat the Houston Texans. They were jetsing so

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hard they tried to hand you that game. They are

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hand They are dropping the ball before they go into

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the goal line. They are committing roughing the punters on

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fourth and twenty one. They are committing roughing the snappers,

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which I don't think I've ever seen before.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, poor John Weeks, he's over there.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know he was in UFC three to nine.

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Over there, John Weeks. Did Jets try to hand you

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this game over and over and over again, and the

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Texans would not take it. They could not protect the CJ. Stroud.

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They were committing penalties, they were giving up pressures and

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sacks like crazy. And then they're going.

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Speaker 11: Did Bobby Slowick explain why you want to go with CJ.

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Stroud who can hardly walk singled up from with a

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Speaker 3: That's no time to get cute.

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Speaker 5: I mean a second and seven down in the red area.

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This is what they called.

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Speaker 3: What happened last night? What was it? Was a halloweens?

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Speaker 1: Spooky?

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Speaker 3: Was there a magic spell? What was that last night?

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Speaker 5: Part of the reason that I chose the Jets, I

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said the Jets would win twenty two twenty. I said

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Aaron Rodgers would do something late with the football and

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give his chance, give his team the chance to win

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the game. This was bad matchup, bad timing because of

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the short week. And then, of course the injuries are

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part of the store. Now I read something that this

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was from who had this. This is from CJ. Nico

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is definitely a big chunk of what we do, and

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of course Steph as well. But at the same time,

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if things even if they were out there, it wouldn't

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have helped. CJ is saying last night wasn't about missus Steph,

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and it wasn't about missing Niko. This is about that matchup.

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This offensive line is so parse. They are an absolute sieve,

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and they have worn down c J. Stroud and they've

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reunited Aaron Rodgers, and once Aaron Rodgers got in the groove,

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it's just hard to stop him and those weapons. That's

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a very talented Roshton New York. I think we pop

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some people did because of the record, but if you

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and Gordon and out we went through the names and

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then they had what three four I think they had

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five starters out of their twenty two by Jets Like,

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the coaching wasn't great, the player, the execution wasn't great.

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CJ is flinching. Gordy's got him rolling out into a

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pass rush. It's just and.

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Speaker 3: He's not been accurate, even in some clean pockets. He

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was missing some throws last night, and that's something that's

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kind of cropped up in the last couple of weeks

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that we didn't really see all of last year, and

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that is something I'm concerned about.

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Speaker 5: Through nine games. Got this graphic from Sports Center eleven

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and four touchdown. The interception ratio CJ. Stroud last year

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was fifteen to two yards per drop back. Last year

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was up one point four yards per drop back. Sacks

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nineteen through nine games last year, thirty through nine games.

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This year, thirty through nine games. You under say they

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play eight they play seventeen games. Yes, So he's approaching

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sixty sacks, call it fifty five.

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Speaker 3: He's coming for you. David Carr's coming for the record

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fifty five sacks. That's not just pressures, all right. So

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we do have to take a break here. We are

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a little pressed on time because we were two different

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show opens, because that's how we roll on and anything

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goes Friday on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, but

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without Matt Thomas. Stan Norfleet is here. I am here

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at Ross viial any angle you I want to get to.

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We got so much to cover with that game. It

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was a twenty one to thirteen game. That sounds pretty mundane,

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but no, there's a ton of stuff to get to

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your thoughts. When I say to you, Texans lose in

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New York, there's six and three and coming up next

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is the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football. How you

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feeling seven one three two, one two five seven ninety

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety A

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million angles to cover on this one. Don't go anywhere more.

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Speaker 10: Matt Thomas now.

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Speaker 12: On Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 3: Twelve nineteen in the PM. Here on Sports Talk seven

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ninety it's the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas with

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Ross very Ill stand Northfleet with you phone lines open

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at seven one three two one into five seven ninety

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that game twenty one to thirteen. The Texans lose to

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the Jets last night, Let's start here, Stan, Why did

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Kenyon Green continue to start games as this season went

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along and it was very clear that he was not

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say something. I have one theory, so.

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Speaker 5: Quite frankly, the coach and Dimiko is a great dude,

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and Dimiko preaches positivity and Dimiko is you know, we're

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a family, and I don't just give up.

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Speaker 3: Yet.

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Speaker 5: So I think it was belief in what he wanted

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to see versus what he was seeing. It made no

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sense to start Kendrick Green. I mean to start Kenyon Green.

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Nick Cassario should have a Demko. Please don't do this

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because now look at the scenario. Josina Anderson reported that

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for weeks now, Kenyan Green has been on the trade block.

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Speaker 3: Yes, with one.

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Speaker 5: Team in the NFC East in particular. Yes, very interesting,

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she says, for a couple of weeks. So let me

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get this straight. You're gonna put Kenyon Green out there

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on a short week versus Quinn Williams and Javon Kinlaw. Yes,

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and now that he's hurt, not only can he not play,

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but now he's damaged goods and you can no longer

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trade him. He shouldn't have played. They should have pulled him.

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Do not play him.

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Speaker 3: And that's where my theory comes in. Who drafted Kenyan Green?

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Case in the first round? How do gms feel about

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their first round picks? You have to hit on your ones,

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m hm. So if a GM who believes in a

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first round pick, would he not push for his guy

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to get every single benefit of the doubt and refuse

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to trade him away. Well, now, I don't know that.

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I'm just thinking.

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buy into the theory Nick has control over draft.

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Speaker 3: And free agency, right and then.

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Speaker 5: Comte blanche over who plays the actually who takes the field,

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Kenyan Green? This team has been one of the most

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penalizing the offensive line, allowing some of the most pressures,

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the most sacked. There was no evidence that Dimico can

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point to that says this is offensive line. This combination

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of five is the best five he should go out

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there with.

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Speaker 3: And he always goes in front of the medians like, hey,

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we need to focus on the good reps from Kenyon Green.

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And and to an extent, there's no NFL lineman that

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gets beat every single snap because otherwise he's a quarterback.

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Would get sacked thirty times, yes, and that doesn't happen, right.

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Speaker 5: But bad far out ways. Like going into last night,

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Shaq Mason and Kenyon Green have both given up the

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same amount of sacks five. Yeah, we just don't talk

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about Shaq.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think Shack is more consistent. I think, yeah,

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he can have the bad plays as well. I thought

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he did a good job last week. I mean, going

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up against uh, Grover Stewart and DeForest Buckner, that's about

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as tough as it's gonna get. While they were giving

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up some pressures and Shaq was Yeah, I thought for

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the most part, I think I feel like in tough matchups,

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Shack Mason can hold his own. He will get beat,

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but he can hold his own. And I feel like

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the opposite. I feel like Kenyon Green will get beat

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way more than he will hold. It's Kenyon and Juice, Yeah, juices.

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Speaker 5: I think it's both of those guys together. Uh now,

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lamber tonsul and tightest. Last night, I had something in

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here about what did I see? I saw a nugget somewhere.

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I believe it was out of the chronicle. Let's see

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if I can get to that here real quick, and

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here we go, Here we go. Houston had just two sacks,

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none in the second half. Okay, Okay, that was their defense. Okay,

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so that's not what I want. Oh here, it is

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regardless if Kenyon or Ken Drick Green were at left guard.

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Ken Drick Green thin it Ken Young Green. He allowed

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a sack and three pressures prior to leaving the game.

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Do the injury. Ken Drick Green comes in, they go

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fourteen plays, not it y'alls touchdown? But Ken Drick Green

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leaves the game giving up six pressures and a sack

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in his own right. So even yeah, I saw something else.

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Titus Howard, Titus Howard, there was a BacT and a

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half attributed to him. The Jets had eight sacks divided

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up amongst I believe it was six dudes, so it

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was enough for everybody.

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Speaker 3: Everybody was eating by the by the Jets.

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Speaker 5: There but six players had at least half a sack

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for the Jets.

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Speaker 3: So we know what the problem is. What's the solution?

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How does this get better? How do we go forward?

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Your thank goodness, Aiden Hutchinson is no longer on the Lions,

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because what you don't want to say good on injuries,

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but you know what I'm saying, Thankfully the Texans don't

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have to face him and that that defense, that front

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seven is in his fears for the Detroit Lions with

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him gone. But they're still good, They're still really good,

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but not even thinking about them necessarily. It's like when

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you get into the playoffs and like you want to

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face Chris Jones and the and the Chiefs and George

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Carloftis and what they have over there in Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: With Way and those guys, So like, here are the

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options that I think are on the table when they're

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meeting as a group over NRG today. Okay, clearly you

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can't trade Kenyon right now. Are we going to put

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Patterson when he can clear his cushion protocol? Are we

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going to put him in at the left guard? Or

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do we put Patterson at center and move you Scruggs

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the left guard? Do we start ken Drick Green at

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left guard?

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Speaker 3: It's got to be something.

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Speaker 5: Do we move Titus Howard from right tackle to left guard?

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And Blake fisher Man's the right tackle spot? And Caserio's

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got asked himself, what draft assets do I have to

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go make a trade for a guard? And is that

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a trade for this year? Is that a sign like trade?

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And then sign that person to a deal. What does

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that look like? Who is that person?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know exactly who the guards are going

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to be on the trade.

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Speaker 5: Andrews Peters out there, Nate Davis and Chicagogo. He's not

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that old. Okay, really, I don't think he's that old.

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Andrew Peat's probably thirty twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, he's thirty, all right. It feels like he's

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been around forever. But okay, I like Andrew Peat.

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Speaker 5: Has been inconsistent, former first rounder, has been nicked.

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Speaker 3: Up three times bowler. He was with the.

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Speaker 5: Saints and then I think he wound up in Denver

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or somewhere. Yes, Raiders don't have anything andrews Pete, Ben

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Davis in Chicago, Nate Dave, excuse me in Chicago if

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someone has come up, Uh, there's a guy that plays

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with the Carolina paint. There are guards out there that

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have been thought to be on the move. What is

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it going to cost you? Do they even jail with

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what Slowik wants to do? I don't know, all right.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Bobby Slock, we got to get to a break. Yeah,

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we do have to have a conversation about him. How

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you feeling about Bobby Slowick and his play calling and

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his job he's doing as an offensive coordinator for the

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Houston Texans last year. Gotta keep Bobby slok. He is

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getting interviewed by the Falcons. No, please go stay, Bobby

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stay now this year everybody hates Bobby Slowik. What do

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you think? Seven one three two one two five seven

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ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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I will answer that question. Stan will as well when

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we come back here on the Matt Thomas Show without

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Matt Thomas with Ross. Back here on the Matt Thomas

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Show without Matt Thomas with Ross. Matt is out. He

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is in college station for his son's ring dunking. Congratulations

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to Peyton Thomas for getting that done. But we got

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stuff to talk about here, And uh, you actually shook

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me to my core, Stan, because we were talking about

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possible playoff matchups for the Texans, and I'm like, uh, let's.

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Speaker 5: See, they're gonna make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna make the play they're gonna win in division

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has a division winner, all right?

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Speaker 5: The game so like right now, I think I just

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looked at it. They've dropped overnight from the two seed

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to the four seed. Okay, so the four seed would

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host the five seed. Let's see, let's just have some

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fun with it.

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Speaker 3: I can find the Denver Broncos right now looking like

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the five seed.

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Speaker 5: If the Broncos were the five coming to n r

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G this Sunday. I want to believe most people would

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pick the Texans over the Broncos in a playoff game.

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Speaker 3: I would pick the Texans, all right.

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Speaker 5: Then at that point it becomes you know, however everything

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else plays out.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the Steelers are the champ right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one Sinsburg to Buffalo. Three Texans at fours, Broncos five, Ravens, six,

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Charger seven. Of course this will change after the games

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on Sunday. But like this is why I'm not completely

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It's the same thing. It's like the Astros conversation all

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over again. My foot is not off the bandwagon. No,

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I've got one leg firmly planted for very different reasons.

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But it doesn't look good right now. It's and we'll

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see j make it to that point.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you where I am. I came into the

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season thinking they were going to make a step forward,

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and I'm now at the point where I say they're

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what they were last year a good not great team.

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Speaker 5: I used the term last night on social media for

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the Texans and specifically CJ, that I hadn't used all year.

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First time I used it last night, the word was regressed.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they've regressed.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 3: I absolutely do, because I think, especially if they're fully healthy,

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I think they're better.

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Speaker 5: The offensive line. This is the five they want. This

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is the five they drafted and paid. I threw this

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number out during our show. The Texans have one hundred

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and thirty one million dollars in guaranteed money currently on

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the books to the five offensive lineman that started last night.

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Speaker 3: I think the offense was second most in the league.

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I think with Kenyon Green out, they're going to be

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better up front. I think you have Joe Mixon this year.

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You didn't have him last year. I think you're better

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on that side as well.

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Speaker 5: You have a better runner. Dalton Schultz has regressed. Yeah,

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up until last night. Tank Dale has regrets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he looked great last night.

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Speaker 5: He looked good last so I went back and for.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get Nico Collins back.

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Speaker 5: You're not winning games with tank Dale having the night

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he had last.

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Speaker 3: I think they're about where they were last year, ten

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and seven Divisional round. That's all looked, you're saying overall.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I had him at ten and seven coming

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into the season.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Yeah, I think I had eleven and six.

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Speaker 5: In fact, when the schedule comes out, like they're on

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pace to what I thought it would be on paper.

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When the schedule came out and I looked at it,

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I said, Okay, that's a loss at the Jets in

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week nine. The only thing that's different. I had the

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Texas beating Minnesota at Minnesota in week three. I didn't

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see that coming.

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Speaker 3: Thirty four to seven.

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Speaker 5: What was the fin I got banged by twenty seven?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever, it was. Okay. So a thing that is

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a constant from last year is Bobby slowick Man, this dude,

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go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Joe Mixon doesn't touch the ball the first six plays

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to start the game.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: Joe Mixon doesn't touch the ball the remaining two minutes

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and forty eight seconds in the game, when you're down

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two scores and go in. And I have a difference

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in philosophy. You still have timeouts, you still have the

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two minute warning, you still have the sideline, You still

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can clock the ball. You need Joe Mixon to put

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your field goal kicking better position. Like Joe Mixon can

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still score. He's your best offensive player.

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Speaker 3: He also should never be throwing the ball to CJ.

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Speaker 5: Stroud that get in seven down in the red area

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and you're.

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Speaker 3: Doing what now? I don't think. I like Bobby Slowick still,

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and I like a lot of the play designs. I

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like the run designs, and I think that I mean,

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they're open and gaping holes for Joe Mixon that entire game.

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But I think we all expected him to run the

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ball thirty plus times. Joe ran twenty four times in

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that game.

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Speaker 5: Seven of those twenty four were in the second half.

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Speaker 4: Seven.

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Speaker 5: You let a half of football go by where your

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best offensive player touched the ball seven times or had

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seven carries, really, and he didn't touch it down the

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stretch when you needed yardage in points right, Bobby slock

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has moments. I remember saying this in the press box

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last year for the Denver I'm sorry, the Cleveland Browns game.

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I said, oh, Bobby slok is in his bag today. Yes,

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how many times have we said that this year? A

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week one, a few week one up in Indy that

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looked good.

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Speaker 3: That was like early on in the season they ran

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a couple end rounds with Stefan Diggs and then they

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did they so they put that on tape, and then

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later on a few weeks later they would fake the

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end a round and so it would be wide open

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for Joe Mixon to go off tackle stuff like like

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they I think he I think he's a smart guy.

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I think he has good play designs. I just think

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situtation only. Sometimes he tries to be too cute, like

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we talked about with this.

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Speaker 10: CJ.

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Speaker 3: Shroud can hardly walk. If CJ. Shroud is going down

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multiple times on the turf and you look, it's fun.

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You got this red zone play and you've been practicing

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it for however long, and you like, I can't wait

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to get this one out. Look, everybody's gonna think how

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smart I am put it in your back pocket When

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your quarterback number seven is getting crushed and can hardly walk,

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How can you call that play the way that he

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saw him walking around? He was that game.

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Speaker 5: He was the only receiver over there. He didn't even

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give him an opportunity some fake like somebody else was.

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Speaker 3: This was me when that play was happening. No, they're not. No,

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they are they gonna do it? Are they gonna? They

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did it? Why would they do that?

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Speaker 5: I didn't have an issue with the with the formation. Yes,

477
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I had an issue with Joe. By the way, Joe

478
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Mixon is actually thrown for a touchdown, I do believe

479
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when he was in Cincinnati. But I was like, Joe,

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don't you throw that. Joe your throat stop on second

481
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and seven. Yes, with Joe Mixing in my backfield and

482
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Joe Mixon at the time, what do you have last night?

483
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Four point something per What did Joe have?

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Speaker 3: Joe four and a half? I think four point four?

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Speaker 5: Mixing was doing four point four. I'm giving the ball

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to Joe Mixing.

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Speaker 3: I have three words for that time and place. That

488
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was not the time, That was not the place.

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Speaker 5: That's what play calling is. Yes, so look at what

490
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look at the difference in what the play caller in

491
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New York did versus the Texans play calling New York.

492
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Aaron Rodgers is getting the be Jesus knocked out him.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Denico Archery sacked him twice in the first half. Aaron

495
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Rodgers has the worst half of football in the history

496
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of his career. They come out heavy dose of breze

497
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home and Aaron Rodgers starts getting the ball out of

498
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his hands in two point two two seconds. According to

499
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next Gen Stats, Bobby Slought has seven it seven second

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half touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: In the last eight games or something like that. That's

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about touchdowns.

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Speaker 5: They got out score twenty one to six in the

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second half.

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Speaker 3: Rice south Side. Your thoughts on Bobby Sluck.

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Speaker 10: Not very good?

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Speaker 13: Does the playbook seem like it's missing some things like

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draw plays, screenplanes.

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Speaker 3: I don't see any of that kind of action going on.

510
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Speaker 5: They do run the end a round reversus. This is

511
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not a great screen team. I think he's gonna have

512
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the green bay. The timing is not right. CJ can

513
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get the ball out there, but then like the linemen

514
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,440
and the receivers and like the pathway on the screen

515
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to get down the field after you catch the ball,

516
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they don't have a lot of confidence in that. They

517
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don't have it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Titus Howard or Shack on the right, so you get.

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Speaker 5: There all So Bobby Sloyd, I mean, this is a dude,

520
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that's what was it? Was it third and two versus

521
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the Coats and this man ran out of the shotgun.

522
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Some toss to Joe Mixon. This is a man in

523
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Green Bay that ran hurry up to the line of

524
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scrimmage to run darry A Gwalle up into a gaps.

525
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This is the stuff Bobby Slots doing. And this is

526
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what Royce is talking about.

527
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Speaker 14: Go ahead, Russ, So do you think is gone actually

528
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make it to the end of the season.

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Speaker 12: After last night's performs.

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Speaker 5: They act like, because let's be clear, and roy and Ross,

531
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I'm sorry if I'm talking too much on your show.

532
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,519
Everything that happened last night, we've seen it the previous

533
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,079
multiple weeks, certainly the previous two. So last night didn't

534
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:51,680
shock me. CJ getting hit like that. We if it's there,

535
00:28:51,839 --> 00:28:54,880
if you want to look at it, is CJ gonna

536
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,519
finish the season, not like last night because they're gonna

537
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have Mike upon that says he's gonna look at that tape.

538
00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 3: What's he gonna do?

539
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,359
Speaker 5: You mentioned Buffalo, I mean Baltimore. You mentioned Kansas City

540
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,480
like there are other defenders.

541
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Speaker 3: Here, Cam Hayward, Pittsburgh Steelers. If they playoff, If the

542
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,440
Ravens win that division and the Steelers have to come

543
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to town, I'm scared. I'm very scared.

544
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Speaker 5: Do you think Bobby slow is offensive coordinator for the

545
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Texans in twenty five?

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Speaker 3: I will say, I'll put it this way. I don't

547
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think he gets fired. No, So I will say he's

548
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:30,599
either hired away.

549
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Speaker 5: He's not getting a job.

550
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Speaker 1: He might.

551
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Speaker 5: If you're an owner right now, you're hiring Bobby Slowt.

552
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Speaker 3: He was one of the hottest names of the planet

553
00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:43,039
last year. And of course he's not because here's.

554
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Speaker 5: What owners are gonna look at. Wait a minute, you

555
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,920
got more groceries this year, but the meal looks and

556
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:50,839
tastes worse.

557
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,559
Speaker 3: Is there more groceries?

558
00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:55,839
Speaker 5: This team is infinite healthy.

559
00:29:56,319 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not healthy still on al Can Collins in there.

560
00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 5: Listen to what I'm saying, Steph just went down right healthy.

561
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,640
This is a top five, maybe seven roster in the league,

562
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,680
and their offensive scoring has been average all year.

563
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it also start because they've had issues with

564
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the offensive line. Kenyan Green, Key, that's under his watch, Bobby.

565
00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:21,279
It's Bobby Slowan's fault that Kenyan Green keeps going out

566
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there and blowing blocks.

567
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:27,039
Speaker 5: Bobby slog is the offensive coordinator.

568
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Speaker 15: Is that.

569
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Speaker 11: I know?

570
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Speaker 3: If that's how football works, he's the one Okay, you

571
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,720
can make him responsible, but it's not his fault. It's

572
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,559
his fault. Kenyon Green is getting trucked by Quinn Williams.

573
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That's his fault.

574
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Speaker 5: When when Demico and Bobby sit down at the conference

575
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room table and Demiko asked, Bobby, all right, walk me

576
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through what you're thinking. Hey, I really want to run

577
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,519
this play with Joe. Okay, Domiko's gonna ask him who's

578
00:30:46,559 --> 00:30:49,319
in the game. I can't run this with Kenyon in

579
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the game. We gotta take Kenya out for me to

580
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do this.

581
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Speaker 3: You can't. You have to elect the like the way

582
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that Demiico Ryans has the belief in Kenyon Green. Unfortunately,

583
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,480
Bobby Slow has to have that same belief. You can't

584
00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:01,599
draw plays up saying we're gonna have a complete sinkhole

585
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,160
in Left Guard. I mean, you could try, but it's

586
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,079
gonna throw off your game plan. It's gonna throw off

587
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:07,640
the whole it's gonna hold throw off everything.

588
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Speaker 5: I refuse to believe.

589
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Speaker 3: I'm only gonna run to the right team. That's gonna

590
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be on tape and teams are gonna see that. So

591
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:13,200
I mean, I.

592
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Speaker 5: Refuse to believe Bobby and the brain trusts over their

593
00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,839
coaches sit down and come up schematically and say we're

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gonna put the quarterback in the team in the best

595
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possible position with Kenyon Green and Juice Scruds blocking like that.

596
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,839
Speaker 3: I don't believe that, Okay.

597
00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:32,839
Speaker 5: So I believe there were other recommendations and Demiko vetoed them.

598
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 3: Okay, Why he vetold them, I don't know. I don't

599
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:37,039
know either, but.

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Speaker 5: I know ultimately Dimiko is held responsible for the production

601
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and performance of the forty eight men or the twenty

602
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,000
two that go out there to play at a time.

603
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Speaker 3: Well, I think Kenyon Green is gonna be out. We'll see,

604
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,720
and I think that'll make the Texans offensive line better. Okay,

605
00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:52,759
we are late for a break here on Sports Talk

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seven to ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show without

607
00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:57,279
Matt Thomas, with Ross and with Stan Norfleet hanging out.

608
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You want to get in seven one three two one

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two five ninety seven one three two one two five

610
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,759
seven ninety much to continue to discuss on the Texans

611
00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:09,200
and the Jets last night, and we'll do it after

612
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the short break.

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Speaker 16: Back back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk

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seven ninety.

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Speaker 10: Home of Your Astros.

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Speaker 3: Thanks grip, welcome back to what is this? This is

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the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas, with Ross out,

618
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,640
Stan Norfleet hanging out. Appreciate you for that on a

619
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post Texans loss. Look, I guess maybe I shouldn't be

620
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,119
as angry as I as I am because I predicted

621
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,079
nineteen to sixteen jets. I thought it was gonna be

622
00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:59,480
low scoring. You're missing all the pieces, You're giving up

623
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:03,480
so many pure Williams versus Kenyon Green. We talked about

624
00:33:03,519 --> 00:33:05,359
that yesterday, like, were you.

625
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Speaker 5: One of the people trying to tell me Aaron Rodgers

626
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,720
is washed? I got them on my phone lines, Aaron

627
00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:14,680
Rodgers doesn't have anything left. Those receivers hadn't done a

628
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:15,279
damn thing.

629
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 3: Well, you were right the first half.

630
00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 5: How about now?

631
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Speaker 3: I think he is still He's not anywhere close obviously,

632
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,039
not anywhere close to where he was. The question is

633
00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:25,799
where would you put him in a pecking order of

634
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,200
quarterbacks in this league.

635
00:33:28,279 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 5: I wouldn't even do that for me, And I know

636
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,319
where you're going and I'll follow you there for me.

637
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:34,799
It's real simple. Aaron Rodgers was good enough to beat

638
00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:35,759
the Texans last night?

639
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: Yes he was. And that was also I mean, Garrett,

640
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:42,680
some things. Now, a lot of things went to Texans Way,

641
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,119
which we talked about. You got the roughing the punter,

642
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,880
you got the roughing the snapper, you got the Malachi

643
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,160
Corley drops the ball. That was the only turnover you

644
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,000
force in that game. Oh you technically on the stat

645
00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:57,640
line it goes down as a force turnover. But he

646
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:00,599
dropped the ball. You forced zero turnover, so you should

647
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,559
be down seven zip. Yes, so that game could have

648
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,840
gone even much worse, but you did. The things that

649
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:14,400
went against you were the Kymie fairbaron miss too, miss too.

650
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,119
That definitely hurt. And Garrett Wilson, I mean that's one

651
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,760
of the all time great catches. I mean that was

652
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:26,079
saying he went full Michael Jordan jump in or do

653
00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:30,800
you remember when Marshaun Lynch jumped at the in ze, Yes,

654
00:34:31,079 --> 00:34:34,119
that's what he like. He went full Michael Jordan jumped.

655
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Speaker 5: That was incredible. It wasn't as being compared because it's

656
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:41,199
New York. The Garrett Will catches being compared to Odell

657
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,679
Beckham Julia even Garrett Wilson said, and I agree, Odell

658
00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:47,840
came down with two feet and the ball was going

659
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,960
to him. Catch Jarrett kind of high pointed it. Whereas

660
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,559
the ballpark catch, no question.

661
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 3: Absolutely it took a special catch. The defense was great

662
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,880
in the first half. What went wrong in the second half.

663
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,039
Speaker 5: Will Anderson Junior changed how they had coverage. When you're

664
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able to get pressure with Will Anderson Jr. And the

665
00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:15,639
Nico Artrie and Daniel Hunter, Tim Settle has been really.

666
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,079
Speaker 3: Good, yeas Edwards Junior's absence.

667
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 5: When you can't get pressure with four and now you

668
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:26,159
have to add a fifth or a sixth rusher, sometimes

669
00:35:26,159 --> 00:35:30,880
a seventh rusher. You leave guys back there in compromise

670
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,159
situations meaning man coverage or you've got a single high safety,

671
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:41,239
a rookie in Kaitlyn Bullock smartly, Aaron Rodgers and whoever

672
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,079
else calling the plays over there. They motioned and by

673
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:49,719
formation put the Texans at a disadvantage, and the disadvantage

674
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,360
was they caught Jalen Petrie playing not as a nickel

675
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,559
defender but playing as a nickel corner. Two different things.

676
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,440
I know, we say nickel, yeah, whether you're nickel star

677
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,639
or the money position. They're kind of doing some different

678
00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:07,800
things based on the defense point being, is Will Anderson

679
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,400
not being there? De Miko must dial up more pressure.

680
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,239
Leaves those guys on the island versus a pretty good

681
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,199
cast of characters at receiver and running back. They got beat.

682
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Will Anderson's really been coming on. Unfortunate that he

683
00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:20,840
had to go out in that one, all right.

684
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Speaker 5: With him and his ankles, it's always his ankle.

685
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Speaker 3: Let's tap him up a little better.

686
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Speaker 17: I don't know.

687
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Speaker 3: Maybe he's got weak, maybe got Steph curry on.

688
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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, hanging out with stuff, hold me

689
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another faith.

690
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Speaker 3: Maybe Jacob on the north side, what's up? Hey, guys,

691
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:36,480
Thanks you're taking my call.

692
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Speaker 14: I was kind of surprised today to hear so many

693
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people shocked in the performances yesterday. I don't think there's

694
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been a single game, and maybe I'm mistaken, but I

695
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,960
don't think there's been a single game all season long

696
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,599
where we've had our full complement of offensive weapons. I

697
00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:52,480
mean that minimum, even game one of the season. I

698
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,079
believe Damian pierceon. Yeah he's a running back too, but

699
00:36:55,159 --> 00:36:58,000
he was out in the game one Piers played.

700
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Speaker 5: Pierce got three carries, he averaged five yards.

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Speaker 3: Carry Week one at the get hurt in that game or.

702
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 5: No, uhh, he just didn't get a ton of carriers

703
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,480
because everything was going to Joe Mixon. Okay, so Joe

704
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:09,280
Mixon had the thirty carries for one fifty nine, Nico

705
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,119
had over one hundred yards receiving, and Steph Diggs had

706
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:15,000
those two reds on touchdowns. So week one, to your point,

707
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,559
that's the most we've seen of everybody at one time healthy.

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Speaker 14: Right, right, right, So it just we've seen signs over

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00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,840
the rest of the season of deficiencies and the offensive line.

710
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I mean, they're not much different than they were last year.

711
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It's basically the same personnel and it wasn't great last year,

712
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so I don't know why anybody would expect that it

713
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:38,599
was going to be any different this year, and it's

714
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getting progressively worse as the season moves on. You know,

715
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we had a glimpse of hope when Patterson came in

716
00:37:44,599 --> 00:37:47,760
for the one series before he was concussed. But Kenyan

717
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,760
Green is a turnstyle and I don't think his future

718
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,079
is going to be very bright with the Texans. But

719
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to your point earlier in the previous segment about about

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Slowick and should he or should he not be by

721
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or whatever, I just it's kind of hard to put

722
00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:06,760
it all on him when he's not the guy making

723
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,880
the hires, right, he's not the guy bringing in the talent.

724
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Speaker 3: He's managing what he has and he's.

725
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Speaker 14: Got a lot of her players and offensive lind made

726
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,440
up of you know, six to seventh round draft picks.

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Speaker 5: So I'm sorry, my bad, Jacob. You're writing what you

728
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,480
said ross a bit of breaking news.

729
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: Oh can we get a breaking news sound or how okay?

730
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,159
So you know the Matt Thomas system is one through five?

731
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,599
Is nuclear war one? Is fairly innocuous. How many are

732
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:34,760
you calling for here? So one and five, one and five?

733
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:36,159
That doesn't make sense?

734
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Speaker 5: It will.

735
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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 5: This is thirty six seconds ago. According to our Texans

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Insider at seven ninety Aaron Wilson, Oh boy, from this morning,

738
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:54,559
Texans guard Kenyon Green suffered a dislocated left show. Per

739
00:38:54,679 --> 00:38:58,159
league sources, I would not presume, my words, not Aaron,

740
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that we will not see Kenyan Green versus the Detroit

741
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Lions a week from this Sunday for Battle Red Day,

742
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:08,440
Sunday night football in front of the nation. This location,

743
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,320
now what I would like to see, and I imagine

744
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,639
that Aaron is doing his due diligence there. Kenyon Green

745
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,480
missed all of last year because of the shoulder. You

746
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,840
remember Nick Casario famously saying it was a matter of

747
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,039
if not when the shoulder came out. Is this the

748
00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:28,239
same shoulder as if the surgically repaired shoulder? No, man,

749
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,039
good quick Google search. So it's the left shoulder. Now

750
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,800
what shoulder Kenyon Green? Surgeery.

751
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 3: Well, we'll let you search that, but we do have

752
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,480
to get to a top of the hour. You can

753
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,920
get out of here anyways. Thanks for hanging out, Sam, sure,

754
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,239
appreciate it by quick. Appreciate it all right. So I'm

755
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,039
going to be flying solo in the second hour, which

756
00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:48,840
means I need a co host. It can be you

757
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,079
if you want to get in for a couple of

758
00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:52,320
minutes on the phone lines. If you'd like coming up

759
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at two o'clock, it will be Adam Clinton as well.

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We're talking Texans and New York Jets. How we feeling

761
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:04,039
about Bobby Slowick and the Texans offense? Kenyon Green dislocated

762
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shoulder now probably going to be out. Does that fix

763
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all their offensive line problems? I don't think so, but

764
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we can talk about it. Seven one three two one

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two five seven ninety The phone number seven one three

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two one two five seven ninety. Hour number two of

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The Matt Thomas Show Without Matt Thomas with Ross coming up.

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Speaker 1: Next lunchtimers, This is the Matt.

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Speaker 11: Thomas Show one oh two pm here on Sports Talk

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seven ninety.

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Speaker 3: Ros viria O with you here on The Matt Thomas

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Show Without Matt Thomas with Ross. That is me. Seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety is the

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phone number if you'd like to get in seven to

775
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,199
one three two one two five seven ninety. Thanks to

776
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,719
Stand Northfleet for hanging out. Adam Clanton will come in

777
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,800
around two o'clock unless he's gonna be late and he's

778
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,880
gonna blame traffic or make up some sort of lim excuse.

779
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,880
I don't know he's washing his Halloween costume. Who knows

780
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,679
what he's going to be up to. But we'll figure

781
00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:09,760
out what's going on when he gets here. But in

782
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,599
the meantime you can get in at the phone lines

783
00:41:11,639 --> 00:41:15,239
at seven one three two, one to two five seven ninety.

784
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So we mentioned in the last segment Kenyon Green injured

785
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:24,039
reserve with a shoulder injury. Ian Rappaport providing some clarity

786
00:41:24,039 --> 00:41:27,519
in the last few minutes at least on Twitter, there

787
00:41:27,639 --> 00:41:30,000
is at least, he says, a chance of a late,

788
00:41:30,159 --> 00:41:32,840
late return depending on how rehab goes and where the

789
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,559
Texan season stands. So out indefinitely and possibly for the

790
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:41,960
season for Kenyon Green. And I don't want to celebrate injuries.

791
00:41:42,159 --> 00:41:45,920
I'm not happy that Kenyon Green got hurt, and I

792
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,280
wanted him to do better and go out there. And

793
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,639
as Zamiko Ryan said, there were some reps that he

794
00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:54,159
was winning and he was looking good sometimes, but far

795
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,360
too often he was getting pushed around. And you knew

796
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,760
coming into the game that if you were going up

797
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,760
again against one of the best d tackles in football

798
00:42:03,079 --> 00:42:05,800
on the other side, that they were going to get

799
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,440
the better of Kenyon Green over and over and over again.

800
00:42:09,039 --> 00:42:11,960
We saw it with the Colts and Grover Stewart and

801
00:42:12,039 --> 00:42:14,719
DeForest Buckner depending on who was lined up on him.

802
00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:18,199
As far as those matchups and losing those, and we

803
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,280
talked about it as well with this matchup with Quentnin Williams. Now, look,

804
00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:24,480
you said, sometimes you do have to tip your cap

805
00:42:24,519 --> 00:42:26,440
to the other guys. Quinn Williams a freaking ager. That

806
00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:30,519
dude is super good. He's strong, fast, good, detackle. He's

807
00:42:30,519 --> 00:42:33,400
gonna beat up a lot of guards in the NFL,

808
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,239
But you know coming in when it's Kenyon Green that

809
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,360
it is just going to be a long night and

810
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,800
he is gonna lose much more often as far as

811
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,559
the reps than other guards out there. And do you

812
00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:50,400
have a better chance with Kendrick Green. I'm not exactly sure.

813
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,880
We'll see what happens. Because Stan went through the stats

814
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,199
it was like something like six pressures in a sack

815
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,760
or something that like that allowed by Kendrick Green last night.

816
00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:01,880
So whatever it is, they're gonna have to be better

817
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:05,519
at the left guard spot than they have been. And

818
00:43:05,679 --> 00:43:09,880
Kenyon Green, according to our friends over at Pro Football Focus,

819
00:43:10,519 --> 00:43:17,559
has been the worst, the worst guard in football. I

820
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:19,639
don't know whe they have some kind of snap threshold.

821
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,000
They had him seventy seventh out of seventy seven before.

822
00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:25,280
Now they have him seventy third out of seventy three.

823
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,000
Maybe because he played an extra game and that puts

824
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,199
some people out of qualification and they'll be back next week.

825
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,199
I don't know. The bottom line is Kenyan Green has

826
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been graded as the absolute worst guard in football by

827
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:43,960
those metrics, So you're hoping to improve there and get

828
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,519
better and give up fewer pressures. Maybe you're gonna have

829
00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:50,920
some easier matchups up front than you have had in

830
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,440
the last couple of weeks. But that's not even about

831
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,199
what you have in the next couple of weeks. It's

832
00:43:55,199 --> 00:43:57,840
about going into the playoffs. And I would be deathly

833
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,960
afraid of I mean, what some teams you could possibly

834
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,000
face in the AFC playoffs. Mentioned the Kansas City Chiefs.

835
00:44:06,039 --> 00:44:08,880
They're the one seed right now. The AFC goes through them.

836
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:12,800
You want to go to Arrowhead with Steve Spagnolo and

837
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,920
the Mad Hatter stuff he does with disguis and coverages

838
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,559
and guys coming late and stunts and all that type

839
00:44:18,599 --> 00:44:21,920
of stuff, which the Texans have not shown an ability

840
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,000
to block this year. And you're adding that loud Arrowhead

841
00:44:25,639 --> 00:44:29,000
a crowd with guys like Chris Jones and George Carloftis

842
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:34,159
that sounds like a problem. Pittsburgh Steelers with Cam Hayward

843
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,119
and TJ. Watt up front, does that sound like fun?

844
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:40,559
Los Angeles Chargers have which Bosa?

845
00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:40,639
Speaker 10: Do?

846
00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:43,079
Speaker 3: They have Joey Bosa and Khalil Macker playing at a

847
00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:45,639
high level this year? For that Chargers defense is really good.

848
00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:48,079
You go up a really against a really good defense.

849
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:52,440
I have huge questions about the Texans' ability to score

850
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:57,559
points consistently against that team, especially if you're going to

851
00:44:57,599 --> 00:44:59,639
be down step On Diggs, which you are because he's

852
00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:05,039
torn his ACL. So yeah, there are major problems right

853
00:45:05,079 --> 00:45:09,760
now for the Houston Texans. And in the offensive line.

854
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:15,119
It starts there. So what's gonna happen? Where do they

855
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:17,760
go from here? You dig do, get the extra days off,

856
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,039
some time to heal up, some time to game plan,

857
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:21,880
some time to figure out what you are gonna do

858
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,280
with your offensive line now that you know that Kenyon

859
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,840
Green has to have shoulder surgery and you gotta do

860
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,039
some retooling, and you got to figure out a way

861
00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:33,800
to score as many points as the Lions are gonna

862
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,559
score on you. It's gonna be tough. They should be

863
00:45:36,559 --> 00:45:38,599
getting Jamison Williams back. I think it was a two

864
00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:42,679
game suspension for what was it PDS or performance enhancing

865
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,719
or substance abuse. I don't remember. I think it was

866
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,760
performance enhancing for Jamison Williams. It doesn't matter, but the

867
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:52,239
Texans offensive line, that's where it starts. And then I

868
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,320
mentioned Bobby Sloan, we were talking about him as an

869
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,840
offensive coordinator for the Texans. I put the Twitter poll up.

870
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,599
I hope Bobby Slowk isn't on Twitter. You don't have

871
00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:03,360
to go on there, buddy, at Sports RV if you

872
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,719
want to vote. I made it very simple. Bobby Slowick

873
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,239
as an offensive coordinator. And I know recency bias. If

874
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,400
I had to put this up after I don't know,

875
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:15,199
say they had gone and won and scored twenty nine

876
00:46:15,199 --> 00:46:17,599
points in Week one against the Colts and Joe Mixon

877
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:20,400
looked great, You're probably gonna get a different answer week

878
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,679
to week. People are reactionary. We're prisoners of the moment.

879
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,519
That's how we are. People talking about the Texans not

880
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:29,320
even making the playoffs and stuff like that. Stop. They're

881
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,239
still gonna make the playoffs, I think. But Bobby Slowick

882
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,719
not doing so hot on this poll. Seventy six percent

883
00:46:38,639 --> 00:46:43,719
voting not good and twenty four percent voting good for

884
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,639
Bobby Slock. And as I said with Stan, I like

885
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,880
Bobby Slock, I would vote good on this. I'm with

886
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,079
the minority. I know we're all upset, and you got

887
00:46:53,079 --> 00:46:55,559
to stop with the cutes the time and a place again,

888
00:46:55,679 --> 00:46:59,280
as I'll go back to you cannot when CJ. Stroud

889
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,400
is getting beat up the way that he has and

890
00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:05,079
looks like he's walking gingerly on the field, and and

891
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:06,880
he did look like he kind of got his strength

892
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,360
back and wasn't limping as much later into that game.

893
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,920
But still at the end of the day, put put

894
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,920
that back on the shelf, put it back in your

895
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,039
back pocket. That play where you're gonna run Joe Mixon

896
00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:21,360
in a wildcat and then you're gonna have you're gonna

897
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,360
have c J. Stroud singled up and have him run

898
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,039
a goal line fade. I mean, I was in disbelief

899
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,840
watching that happen. I was like, what are they doing? Okay,

900
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,679
they're getting cute, cool, They're gonna run with Joe Mixon.

901
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,320
I'm down with a run with Joe Mixon. Whatever you

902
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,199
want to do. And then Joe Mixon start pulling up

903
00:47:36,519 --> 00:47:40,519
to pass it, and I'm like, oh my god, there's

904
00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:43,880
no way, there's no way there. Oh he threw it.

905
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,559
Oh maybe that was a pass interference, but it didn't matter.

906
00:47:47,559 --> 00:47:49,679
It was incomplete and that that play was set up

907
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:54,400
to fail when when CJ. Stroud was walking around the

908
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,960
way that he was it just it was a ridiculous

909
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,719
play call. It was It wasn't a time or place

910
00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:03,519
when you're on second and seven in the red zone

911
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:08,840
and that's what you do. I couldn't believe it. So

912
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,880
that was a horrible decision. Getting too cute, I do

913
00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:18,519
question not running Joe Mixon in any of the first

914
00:48:18,559 --> 00:48:21,039
six plays, not running him much in the second half

915
00:48:21,079 --> 00:48:23,440
when you had been gashing them on runs for the

916
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,519
most part, to where Joe Mixon had another one hundred

917
00:48:26,519 --> 00:48:30,000
plus yard game with a touchdown for the Texans. And

918
00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:32,920
I mean, it's twofold. You're gashing them with the run,

919
00:48:33,639 --> 00:48:37,280
and when you're running Joe Mixon, you're not dropping back

920
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,920
with CJ. Stroud, meaning he is not going to get

921
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,119
hit and pressured or sacked or take any sort of damage.

922
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,199
He hands off the ball and you let Joe Mixon

923
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,679
do his thing. So the benefits twofold there, and it

924
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,400
didn't happen enough in the second half. But I do

925
00:48:54,559 --> 00:48:57,920
like Bobby slowk overall, I understand he's the Shanahan tree.

926
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,840
And that's the thing too, is like established the run.

927
00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:02,880
The whole Shanahan's philosophy starts with that, and they didn't

928
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,800
establish the run in the beginning. Now you could tell me,

929
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,719
and I'm sure he would that. Yeah, Well, the Jets

930
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,599
are expecting us to establish the run too, so we

931
00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:11,480
were going with something a little bit different, and they

932
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,320
were moving the ball somewhat in that first drive before

933
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:21,159
stalling out. But sometimes you got to keep it simple,

934
00:49:22,039 --> 00:49:26,079
and too often last night, Bobby Slowick didn't do that.

935
00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:29,800
The Jets tried to hand you that game. Malachi Corley

936
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,840
handed the ball off at the goal line to try

937
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,480
and hand you that game, and you couldn't take advantage.

938
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,360
There have been times where the Texans did take advantage

939
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,559
of the team handing them the game, talking about the

940
00:49:44,559 --> 00:49:46,559
Colts in the way that they handled their two minute drill,

941
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,800
talking about the Bills and the way they handled things

942
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,280
at the end of that game where they ran a

943
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,559
couple of times, or sorry, where they ran three straight

944
00:49:53,599 --> 00:49:56,760
times at the end of that game. Bill's gift wrappeding

945
00:49:57,119 --> 00:50:02,920
that one, You've taken advance of some gift rappings, and

946
00:50:03,639 --> 00:50:05,559
quite frankly, the Jets tried to get wrap that one

947
00:50:05,559 --> 00:50:08,079
for you last night. You didn't take it. And you

948
00:50:08,119 --> 00:50:11,360
can't afford to do that in the NFL now, you're

949
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,440
six and four. If you go, you're gonna tell me,

950
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,559
you'd be the craziest thing ever if they went and

951
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:18,280
lost to the lines at home and then lost on

952
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,679
the road to the Cowboys, and you're sitting there at

953
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,119
six and five. I'm not gonna tell you that's crazy.

954
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,639
So you're in a tough spot. You needed that one

955
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,079
last night and you didn't get it. Seven one three

956
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:31,719
two one two five seven ninety. The phone number here

957
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,960
on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one

958
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,920
two five seven ninety. Those of you on hold, I

959
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:39,760
promise we will get to you next. But it's time

960
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,039
for a quick break. Adam Clinton coming up at two o'clock,

961
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,159
but right now it is the Matt Thomas Show without

962
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:45,519
Matt Thomas with Ross.

963
00:50:46,599 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 12: Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk seven ninety.

964
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:08,519
Speaker 3: D skills h Town on Twitter crazy that he talking

965
00:51:08,559 --> 00:51:11,719
about Bobby Slowik was talked about for head coach positions

966
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,119
last year and will get fired this year. Life comes

967
00:51:15,159 --> 00:51:18,559
at you fast. I really don't think he's as under

968
00:51:18,559 --> 00:51:21,000
as much fire as you all think he is. I

969
00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:23,760
really don't. I think the Texans are happy with him.

970
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,559
I think a lot of the problems they feel like

971
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,639
are with the personnel and with some communication issues on

972
00:51:28,679 --> 00:51:31,159
the offensive line, Kenyon Green has been one of the

973
00:51:31,159 --> 00:51:33,440
worst on the planet. The offensive line has given up

974
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,760
a lot of pressures. Now you can put some of

975
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,480
that on the offensive coordinator, like maybe they need to

976
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:41,159
I don't know, motion a tight end to get behind

977
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,719
Kenyon Green and help him in certain matchups, or running

978
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,880
away from him or something like that, running away from

979
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,280
Kenyon Green. But you can't run right every single plate.

980
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,000
You just can't do that. Then teams are going to

981
00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:55,400
know what you're doing. We're talking about the smartest players

982
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,360
and smartest coaches on the planet playing chess matches with

983
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:07,119
each other. But uh, inexplicable to me to call that

984
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:11,679
play in that situation, in the condition in which CJ.

985
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,599
Stroud was where he is clearly not one hundred percent

986
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:21,440
to run him out on a route like put him

987
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,360
out there. Sure, if he just stands there while Joe

988
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,719
Mixon runs up the gut, I'm down, whatever, But to

989
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,119
put him out there and actually have him run a

990
00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:33,039
route and ask him to possibly jump up and catch

991
00:52:33,079 --> 00:52:35,480
a ball when he got whipped on the shin and

992
00:52:35,519 --> 00:52:41,159
he could hardly walk for the second half unbelievable, unbelievable

993
00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:44,280
play call right there in my opinion, seven one three

994
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,039
two point two five seven ninety the phone number here

995
00:52:47,119 --> 00:52:50,159
on the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas with Ross.

996
00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:52,320
Matt Thomas is alive and well he just tweeted me

997
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,599
have a seat sports RV. And it is a big

998
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,960
one of those big novelty chair Wooden years with an

999
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,239
Aggie logo on it, and it's just howdy good for them.

1000
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,000
I hope things are going great over there in college station.

1001
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,400
All right, as I mentioned, seven one three two one

1002
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,719
two five seven ninety is the phone number. Oh real quick.

1003
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,400
I did want to play this in the last segment,

1004
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,320
but I got off on a rent and then I forgot.

1005
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:20,719
And here is Demiico ryans. What's going on with that upfront?

1006
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:26,119
A line? Tomiko, uh No, that's my computer, I think

1007
00:53:26,159 --> 00:53:27,719
is having issues. Let me do this.

1008
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:30,119
Speaker 18: What's happening up front? We will watched the film and

1009
00:53:30,199 --> 00:53:32,559
see what it is. But obviously we give up eight sacks,

1010
00:53:32,639 --> 00:53:36,679
and you know, every drop back or pass situation looks

1011
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,800
like you know, we're in scramble mode. So it's just

1012
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,880
not good enough and we can't operate on time. And

1013
00:53:43,079 --> 00:53:44,079
we got to get that fix.

1014
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 3: So yeah, not sure, he's got to watch the film.

1015
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,679
But here's also on the Wildcat play. Here's what Dimiko

1016
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,000
Ryan's had to say about that.

1017
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,159
Speaker 18: Yeah, that played there. You know, you know we Joe

1018
00:53:57,199 --> 00:53:59,920
takes the ball and he's you know, simulating a run

1019
00:54:00,039 --> 00:54:02,400
in there and trying to get get a throw the CJ. Uh,

1020
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,599
you know, didn't get the look that we wanted and

1021
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,159
executed the right way, and everybody trick players are great

1022
00:54:08,199 --> 00:54:10,960
when you execute him all right, and then everybody's a genius.

1023
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 5: We run trick playing.

1024
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 18: It doesn't work, then everybody's looking like why you call

1025
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,719
the play? So it's you take a chance on those plays.

1026
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,639
If they were great, If they don't, hey.

1027
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 10: Not so great.

1028
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:26,159
Speaker 3: I agree with that sentiment in theory. But again I

1029
00:54:26,199 --> 00:54:29,719
will say, as it was playing out, I was shocked

1030
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,920
that they threw the CJ Stroud because of the physical

1031
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,760
state he was in, like he was limping around. He

1032
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,480
was hurt multiple times and gone down and shaken up

1033
00:54:38,519 --> 00:54:43,639
in that game. Not the time, not the place. David

1034
00:54:43,639 --> 00:54:46,840
and Cyprus, what's up, hey.

1035
00:54:46,679 --> 00:54:49,119
Speaker 19: Ross Man, love you guys, show man, you guys cracking

1036
00:54:49,159 --> 00:54:53,880
me up. Let's agree, Yeah, I agree with that. That

1037
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,599
play call was just horrible. Man, that wasn't the right situation,

1038
00:54:56,679 --> 00:55:00,280
and everybody watching the game new and Straw went out,

1039
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,320
uh you know to receiver that he was gonna probably

1040
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,039
gonna gonna get the ball Like that was ridiculous play

1041
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:07,840
to call at that at that situation.

1042
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 17: It just didn't make any sense at all.

1043
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:13,159
Speaker 19: If they wanted the pitcher to uh, I should have

1044
00:55:13,199 --> 00:55:15,159
running back and had and throw it back Straw, they

1045
00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:20,039
were in more sense they had receiving and throwing the ball.

1046
00:55:20,079 --> 00:55:22,239
That just to make any cinise at all. Then on

1047
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,000
the offensive line, uh, you know we got of green.

1048
00:55:25,519 --> 00:55:29,159
Uh you you never see anybody get hurt, but you know,

1049
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:35,480
secretly we all would like okay, yeah, yeah, go ahead.

1050
00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:40,360
Uh but uh, one thing I noticed last night too,

1051
00:55:40,519 --> 00:55:44,280
Uh ross was just a tackling tackling was Haulble last night?

1052
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 17: Uh number forty three I forgot. I forgot his name.

1053
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:51,039
Speaker 19: Before he met several tackles that that should have been

1054
00:55:51,559 --> 00:55:53,280
uh uh tackles for.

1055
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 17: Loss or short the yardage.

1056
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,280
Speaker 19: But uh that one at one play when when Aaron

1057
00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,960
Rodgers ran for the first time, it was like Aaron

1058
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:02,360
was winning still motion and like we couldn't staple a guy.

1059
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,119
Speaker 17: It didn't make any sense, man, exactly. Night was just horrible.

1060
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like there was definitely some some bad

1061
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,360
angles Tank and thank thank you, David, appreciate you getting it.

1062
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,159
Let's still let's start all all the points that you hit,

1063
00:56:15,199 --> 00:56:16,960
starting with the out. I mean, we're in agreement. I mean,

1064
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,760
was there anybody at home, Like, if there's one person

1065
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,199
who was on their couch watching that game, or on

1066
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,119
their phone on Prime Video or on like Adam Schefter,

1067
00:56:26,199 --> 00:56:28,719
if you were on meth streams, did you see Adam

1068
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,800
Schefter going to meth streams that he he posted a

1069
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,559
video of the of the game last night, if you

1070
00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:37,159
were on an illegal stream and I won't name any

1071
00:56:37,159 --> 00:56:40,719
others because well, we don't need the d the DJ

1072
00:56:41,199 --> 00:56:44,199
taking away our freedom, so I'm just kidding. But anyways,

1073
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,679
wherever you were watching that game illegally, illegally or otherwise,

1074
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,159
when you saw that play, when you saw Joe Mixon

1075
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,239
run to the right, You're like, okay, well this play

1076
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,400
looks like it's getting blown up. Then he pulls up

1077
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:02,239
to throw and I'm like, oh my gosh, no way.

1078
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,400
Is there a person on the planet that thought that

1079
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,440
was a good idea that thought that was gonna work out.

1080
00:57:10,679 --> 00:57:13,639
Uh could have had the penalty called. We do have

1081
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:17,800
to say that, but still that was a head scratcher.

1082
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,679
And then yeah, on the offensive line, No, we're not

1083
00:57:20,719 --> 00:57:23,599
gonna celebrate Kenyon Green being out with his shoulder injury.

1084
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,840
That's also we do have to remember that while Kenyon

1085
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,119
Green has been out there and he had been not good,

1086
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,079
that the Texans get to see the other options in practice.

1087
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,960
And it very well could have been that the Texans

1088
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,039
are thinking to themselves in their O line meeting room,

1089
00:57:41,079 --> 00:57:44,239
maybe when the old line members are out, like, yeah,

1090
00:57:44,239 --> 00:57:47,000
we don't like Kenny Green and he's not any good,

1091
00:57:47,039 --> 00:57:49,039
but he's better than Kendrick Green and he's better than

1092
00:57:49,119 --> 00:57:52,039
Jared Patterson at that spot, so we we gotta we

1093
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:53,960
gotta keep putting him out there. It is what it is,

1094
00:57:54,559 --> 00:57:57,400
So we'll see. We've seen last year that Kendrick Green

1095
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,239
can be solid. Jared Patterson and a very very small

1096
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,559
sample sides can be good as well. But we're gonna

1097
00:58:03,559 --> 00:58:06,199
find out at the end of the day. That's the

1098
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,800
interesting thing, and that's the beauty of it of sports.

1099
00:58:09,039 --> 00:58:10,719
That I'm gonna sit here in front of this microphone

1100
00:58:10,719 --> 00:58:13,199
and talk about this offensive line over and over. They're

1101
00:58:13,199 --> 00:58:15,880
gonna go out there, They're gonna play and they're either

1102
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,039
going to perform or they're gonna not. It's going to happen.

1103
00:58:20,199 --> 00:58:25,159
We will see whatever shuffling they try to do with

1104
00:58:25,639 --> 00:58:30,639
Juice Scruggs, Jared Patterson, and Kendrick Green. Because Kenyon Green,

1105
00:58:30,679 --> 00:58:34,960
if he had not heard he dislocated his shoulder, He's

1106
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,280
gonna go on, ir will he come back? That will be?

1107
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,199
That is TBD. According to Ian Rappaport said, you can't

1108
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,280
rule out the possibility of him coming back at the

1109
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,400
end of the season. If if his replacements are playing well,

1110
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,880
then he probably won't. I don't know. I mean what

1111
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,880
kind of scenario. It's funny the way that Ian Rappaport

1112
00:58:55,960 --> 00:59:01,280
worded this, as he said, there is at least a

1113
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,000
chance of a late, late return depending on how rehab

1114
00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:08,280
goes and where the Texans season stands. As if as

1115
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,599
if everybody's like, man, well, we need to batten down

1116
00:59:11,599 --> 00:59:15,039
the hatches until Kenyon Green can get back. Man, he's

1117
00:59:15,039 --> 00:59:19,199
gonna save our season. Hold on, folks, one more week

1118
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,679
till Kenyon Green is back. I don't think that's gonna happen,

1119
00:59:22,599 --> 00:59:24,760
or if it does, the Texans are probably in very

1120
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,599
bad shape and like battling it out with the Colts

1121
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:32,559
for the AFC South. But Kenny Green bottom line expected

1122
00:59:32,599 --> 00:59:34,800
to be out for the season or a very very

1123
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,920
late return, depending on where the Texans are. Oh, he says,

1124
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,840
Texans season. Maybe he's talking about playoffs. Okay, I'll shut up.

1125
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,800
That's what he means, deep into the playoffs or Super

1126
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,199
Bowl or something like that. But even then I'd be like, yeah,

1127
00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:48,199
Kenyan Green, go ahead and sit this one out here.

1128
00:59:48,239 --> 00:59:50,039
Ken Kon's nice this time of year. Why don't you

1129
00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:54,239
go over there? So Kenyan Green out for the foreseeable

1130
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,599
future for the Houston Texans. Okay, time for a quick

1131
00:59:57,639 --> 01:00:01,239
bottom of the hour break here on or Talk seven ninety.

1132
01:00:01,519 --> 01:00:03,760
It is the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas. He

1133
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,719
is in college station. I am here. My name is

1134
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,119
ros viy Real. Adam Clinton's coming at two o'clock. You

1135
01:00:08,119 --> 01:00:09,760
can get in if you'd like it. Seven one three

1136
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,239
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1137
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:23,320
one two five seven ninety You know what I'd like

1138
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:27,480
to personally apologize. It's Cam Whitmore we haven't mentioned the

1139
01:00:27,559 --> 01:00:32,159
Rockets once. They got a nice win in Dallas over

1140
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:35,480
the Mavericks, getting up big in that game, I think

1141
01:00:35,519 --> 01:00:39,679
by over twenty. Mavericks came rallying back late, but the

1142
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,239
Rockets pull out a one oh eight to one oh

1143
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,360
two win. You go two and one on a road

1144
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,159
trip in San Antonio Dallas, that means you are crowned.

1145
01:00:48,199 --> 01:00:49,760
These are the rules. I don't make the rules, I

1146
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,039
just follow them. These are the rules. You are crowned

1147
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:55,920
the best team in Texas. Rockets three and two now

1148
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,320
on the season, Jalen Green leading the way overall with

1149
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,960
twenty three points on twenty one shots. That's fine. Fifteen

1150
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,159
points from Tara East and ten from Amn Thompson. They

1151
01:01:06,159 --> 01:01:08,440
were big off the bench as the Rockets got the win.

1152
01:01:08,519 --> 01:01:11,039
They'll be next in action here on Sports Talk seven

1153
01:01:11,159 --> 01:01:15,320
ninety this Saturday, coming up against a Golden State Warriors.

1154
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,360
That game will be at Toyota Center. Their tour of

1155
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:22,559
Texas has done three straight home games here against the Warriors, Nicks,

1156
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:25,440
and Spurs. And I'll be with you for the Rockets

1157
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,280
launch pad Saturday, six o'clock here on a Sports Talk

1158
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,639
seven ninety. But we're still on The Matt Thomas Show

1159
01:01:31,639 --> 01:01:34,679
without Matt Thomas with Ross that's me. Phone lines open

1160
01:01:34,719 --> 01:01:38,039
at seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

1161
01:01:38,119 --> 01:01:40,960
We got Adam Clinton coming up at two o'clock. We've

1162
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,880
been talking a lot about Texans. Very little, well, just

1163
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,400
those couple of minutes I gave you about the Rockets.

1164
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,320
But I mean a national television Yes it was on

1165
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,000
Prime video, but we're still gonna call it national television loss.

1166
01:01:53,039 --> 01:01:55,840
It was a slow game in the first half. Jets

1167
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,440
really got it going there. In the second half, Texans

1168
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,519
had opportunity after opportunity. Jets tried to give wrap that

1169
01:02:02,599 --> 01:02:05,320
game for them. Uh and well they couldn't get it done.

1170
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,920
They gave up eight sacks, they lost. They're now six

1171
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:11,320
and three back to the drawing board with the Detroit

1172
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:15,719
Lions coming in to town. Yikes for Sunday Night football.

1173
01:02:15,719 --> 01:02:20,760
Seven five, seven ninety. Doug south Padre has been holding patiently. Doug,

1174
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go ahead. The floor is yours there, boss.

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Speaker 7: I got I got two questions for you about Slower's

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play column, and they're both different. I mean, first one

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three games in a row. Now we've had the ball

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with the first half winding down very little time left

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between the thirty and the thirty five, and instead of

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running the ball and taking your three points, Stroud takes

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a deep drop, he gets sacked. We're out of field

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01:02:44,159 --> 01:02:46,480
goal position. It would have cost you the game against

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the Colts, except they turned around and gave you the

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ball right back with that stupid pass with what twenty

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01:02:51,559 --> 01:02:54,599
seconds left against Green Bay, those three points would have

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won the game. And then last night you would have

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gone in the halftime with the two score lead. And

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they do it every single time. When they should run,

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they pass. Now on the flip side, and this is

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my second question for you. When they get down to

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anywhere from the fifteen to the eight, chance to score

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six times in a row. Now they just hand the

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ball off, get zero yards. Then Stroud has to drop

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01:03:17,199 --> 01:03:20,239
back to pass. He gets blitzed. They lose yards. Last night,

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watching that game when they got down to the eight

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yard line and it was our first chance to score,

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I said to my wife, you watch, the first play

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is going to be mixing up the middle for no game,

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which it was, So you watch the second place is

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going to drop back and you're going to get sacked.

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Not only did he get sacked, he thumbled the ball

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and they scored and it's just a casual guy on

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the coach. But if I can call these plays sitting

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on my couch, i'm sure that the opposition can. So

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I guess my question for you is, why on earth

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do we give up the three points when there's very

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01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,639
little time left. You could just run the ball up

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the middle, kick the field goal, take the points and

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then on the flip side, every single time we get

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down to the red zone, it's a handoff your first play.

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Speaker 3: You want them to hand the ball off at the

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end of halfs and you want them to pass the ball.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's reticably if you had an offensive line that

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could protect Stroud, obviously, because it's always third and eight,

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01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,400
third and nine, third and eleven. When when at the

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end of the half, and that's happened for three games

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01:04:17,039 --> 01:04:19,320
in a row, he takes a deep drop, he gets

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01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:20,880
sacked and you're out of field goal position.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're not trying to take those situations done,

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Yeah they're they're like last right, it was third and yeah,

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I hope so it was starting ten at the end

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01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,199
of the game, I mean at the end of the

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01:04:31,239 --> 01:04:32,840
half there there were they were what on like a

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thirty something yard line. They were trying to get closer. Yeah,

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01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,440
they're trying to get closer and they're trying to get

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a touchdown, and I realized, you can't. You see, Stroud

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01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,280
needs to be aware, you're not You're not to take

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a sack in that scenario.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's happened three games in a row, and if

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you had an absolute line protect them, I would understand that.

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But I think it's why they send. You know, they

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just unleashed the hounds after Stroud because they know he's

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going to pass. You could do a draw play, you

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01:04:58,719 --> 01:05:01,480
could do a quick screen, a quick hit your tight end, whatever,

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But those deep drops has been them three times in

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a row, and now on the flip side, when they

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01:05:06,199 --> 01:05:09,159
do get down near the goal line, first down is

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the best opportunity to pass and catch your defense possibly asleep.

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01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,000
It's always hand up up the middle of no game.

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He's got to throw a second down and once again

1241
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:20,199
they're unleashing the hounds. I just don't get it, man,

1242
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I was watching it because it happens time and time again.

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Speaker 3: Well, I just feel like whenever it's something like, for example,

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01:05:26,639 --> 01:05:29,480
the beginning of the game, Doug. They they that wasn't

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01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:31,239
predictable to me. At the beginning of the game they

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started with six straight pass plays. Do you think that

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01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:34,880
was something? Was that something you predicted?

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01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,679
Speaker 7: No, it was not. But my point being when they

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01:05:37,719 --> 01:05:39,639
got down to the eight yard line, I think it

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01:05:39,639 --> 01:05:42,159
was a ten yard line, it's like, okay, here we

1251
01:05:42,199 --> 01:05:44,719
go again. We're gonna hand off right off. We never

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01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,519
pass when we get down near the goal line.

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Speaker 3: To catch the defense on first time, I'd have to

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01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:51,599
see percentages on that. I'm gonna guess it's not a

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01:05:51,639 --> 01:05:53,679
hund Thank you, Doug, and appreciate it. I will agree

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01:05:53,679 --> 01:05:57,079
with your overarching point that it's sometime the Texans can

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01:05:57,159 --> 01:06:00,480
be a little too predictable. We talked about it at

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01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,639
the end of that Green Bay game where they ran

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01:06:03,679 --> 01:06:06,679
a couple of times and then passed where they should

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01:06:06,679 --> 01:06:09,480
have been a little bit more aggressive. And I think

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I don't know if it's a Bobby slowk thing, if

1262
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it's a Demico Ryans thing, but just I would say

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it's also something that league wide, the old clichit when

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you get a defensive coach is that we're gonna run

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the ball, We're gonna be conservative, we're gonna win with

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01:06:26,599 --> 01:06:29,719
our defense, and we're gonna squeak out close games. And

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really the last couple of years that's kind of been

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what Texans football has been. I've been winning a lot

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01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,880
of one score games in the last couple of years.

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A lot of that is because of CJ. Strout, A

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01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,280
lot of that is because of good defense with Demiko

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01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,599
Ryans and his guys, and stopping Anthony Richardson at the

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01:06:47,679 --> 01:06:49,679
end of a game, and stopping Josh Allen and the

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01:06:49,719 --> 01:06:52,719
Bills at the end of the game and winning in

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01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,599
those situations. And then the Colts getting down to a

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01:06:55,639 --> 01:06:57,599
hell Mary and drawing up a good play at the

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01:06:57,639 --> 01:06:59,840
end of that game and winning that one. Like they're

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01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:01,360
just it hasn't been a whole lot of blow's. They

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01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:02,760
won with their defense, I think at the end of

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the Jaguars game too, right, so it's oh no, that

1281
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,480
was Where was that a late comeback? It doesn't matter.

1282
01:07:09,599 --> 01:07:11,239
The point is they've been in a lot of close games,

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01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,639
and yeah, I would say oftentimes they do play it

1284
01:07:13,719 --> 01:07:15,760
a little bit too close to the vest. That's why

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01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,280
I was surprised to see them run, excuse me, pass

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01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:23,400
the ball six straight times to start the game last night.

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But that was Bobby Slowick zigging when you think he's

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01:07:27,599 --> 01:07:32,119
gonna zact. And yeah, when they run the ball with

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Joe Mixon down in the red zone, they're looking to

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get touchdowns. And they've gotten the touchdowns with him a lot.

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That's the thing you don't talk about. They've run on first, second,

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01:07:39,159 --> 01:07:41,960
third downs in that red zone. Joe Mixon's got a

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01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:45,559
lot of rushing touchdowns over the last several weeks and

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01:07:45,599 --> 01:07:49,559
when he's been healthy, so it does work running in

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01:07:49,599 --> 01:07:54,320
the red zone very clearly. Joe Mixon has six touchdowns

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01:07:54,599 --> 01:08:01,440
on the season. He's played what five games, six games,

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01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,760
so when he finishes a game and doesn't get hurt

1298
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:06,840
in the middle of it, he does a pretty good job.

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01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,960
And he's getting to the end zone a lot for

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01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:15,159
the Texans. So to me, there can be an I'm

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01:08:15,159 --> 01:08:16,840
with you, there can be an air of predictability. But

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01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:22,239
I still think overall the offense has been solid enough

1303
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:26,680
to win games. But I'm not gonna even begin to

1304
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:33,319
try to defend that second and seven CJ. Stroud fade play.

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01:08:33,399 --> 01:08:36,319
That was just that was just ridiculous. In the moment

1306
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,479
when it happened, I just I couldn't believe that that

1307
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:45,119
was being called. But a year ago we're talking how

1308
01:08:45,199 --> 01:08:47,479
great note of a genius Bobby Slowick was, and what

1309
01:08:48,079 --> 01:08:51,199
a great job he's doing with CJ. Stroud, and and

1310
01:08:51,239 --> 01:08:55,359
how he's getting hired. Please don't hire him away Atlanta Falcons. Now,

1311
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,039
well everybody hates him. He's the worst, and such his

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01:08:58,159 --> 01:09:02,720
life in coaching in the NFL and really college in anywhere.

1313
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,600
One minute you're hot, the next minute you are not.

1314
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:08,520
The good thing is a lot of football left for

1315
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,680
the Texans, a lot of points to be scored on

1316
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,399
the board, and some things to be figured out, certainly

1317
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,199
with the offensive line and improving this offense. Kenyon Green

1318
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:21,520
with that shoulder injury down for the season, Well that

1319
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:24,319
thing will that make worse things worse? Or better for

1320
01:09:24,359 --> 01:09:28,399
the offensive line? I would think better, But remains to

1321
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,920
be seen. We shall see. Seven one three two one

1322
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:34,720
two five seven ninety is the phone number if you'd

1323
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,760
like to get in here on the Matt Thomas Show

1324
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,079
without Matt Thomas with Ross. But it is time for

1325
01:09:39,079 --> 01:09:41,880
a break at seven one three two one two five

1326
01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:44,439
seven ninety. Those you hold that promise, we will get

1327
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,159
to you. We also got Adam Clinton, come up at

1328
01:09:46,159 --> 01:09:48,640
two o'clock or with you until three. Leading into the

1329
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:50,960
A team here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

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01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 16: Back to Matt Thomas prives this day to left center fail.

1331
01:09:56,199 --> 01:10:00,239
Speaker 10: This is Sports Talk seven ninety, home of Astros Baseball.

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 3: A goal line fade with C. J. Stroud, who can

1333
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:25,279
hardly walk. Nine minutes left to go in the game.

1334
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:32,600
You are trailing at that point, fourteen to ten, nine

1335
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,920
minutes left in the fourth quartern. You have to have

1336
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:41,000
a touchdown in that situation, and then then you get

1337
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:45,159
bailed out for for roughing the snapper, and then you

1338
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:48,680
can't punch it in twenty seven yard field goal missed.

1339
01:10:49,039 --> 01:10:52,000
My god, what a comedy of errors for both teams.

1340
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,880
Are we gonna chalk that up to mid season Thursday

1341
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:55,960
Night football? Are we gonna say the Jets and the

1342
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,279
Texans need to be better? I'm gonna say the latter,

1343
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,239
seven to five to seven ninety the phone number here

1344
01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:04,600
on Sports Talk seven ninety and the Matt Thomas Show

1345
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:07,159
without Matt Thomas, but it's with me. Ross Connor McGovern

1346
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:11,359
is here as well, and Adam Clinton will be joining

1347
01:11:11,399 --> 01:11:13,800
us coming up at two o'clock. But right now, let's

1348
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,439
go on to the phone lines, Willie and Cyprus has

1349
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:17,880
been holding. What's up, Willie?

1350
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:22,319
Speaker 15: Hey appreciate Sheriffords and contributions is always WROF. Thank you

1351
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:27,479
bring some perspective of balance from a Texans fan. You know,

1352
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:31,960
in recent history, I'd have to say the Cincinnati Bengals

1353
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,920
with Joe Burrow at the helm and their makeshift offensive

1354
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:37,119
line that year. By the way, Joe Mixon was the

1355
01:11:37,199 --> 01:11:39,079
running back. That was the only team I knew that

1356
01:11:39,119 --> 01:11:40,960
made a rally kind of got it right in the

1357
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,039
middle of the season. So we do have some recent

1358
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:47,800
data to look at. That said, this is a levy

1359
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,520
situation that the organization is gonna probably have to choose

1360
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:55,079
where they're gonna have to let water through the play calling.

1361
01:11:55,359 --> 01:11:58,520
Offensive line, you don't have a consistent threat. I mean,

1362
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:01,279
Nico may come back, right, but that's aft tissue.

1363
01:12:01,319 --> 01:12:03,079
Speaker 6: We know that's a variable.

1364
01:12:03,239 --> 01:12:08,600
Speaker 15: So it's not consistent past target, make shift office a lot.

1365
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,840
There's a conglomerateive issues that on the fly. Look, I'm

1366
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:14,560
not trying to be a pessimist same here, but let's

1367
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,800
just have repectations. I just see a season where we're

1368
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,119
gonna have to see what they do on the fly,

1369
01:12:20,319 --> 01:12:21,239
whether that's making.

1370
01:12:21,119 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 6: Offense, trade or move. And again I look at.

1371
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:26,319
Speaker 15: It from a standpoint, there's just a lot of hopes

1372
01:12:26,359 --> 01:12:31,119
above here in this season, so temper expectations. They can't

1373
01:12:31,119 --> 01:12:33,800
get it done. There's a good consistent running back. But

1374
01:12:34,279 --> 01:12:36,479
I'd say, you know, teams are smart, and the way

1375
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,319
the play can's been pretty vanilla. They're gonna starteaen in

1376
01:12:39,399 --> 01:12:41,159
on Joe Mixon and what do you do there? So

1377
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:43,800
just temper expectations fans, and that's all I got.

1378
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 3: All Right, thanks a lot, appreciate it, Willy, and yeah,

1379
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:49,119
we'll see. They have some things to figure out. They

1380
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:50,640
have some time to go to the drawing board. The

1381
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:55,000
season is not over. The pressure rate is really ramped up.

1382
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:58,880
In the last three weeks is where it has really

1383
01:12:59,119 --> 01:13:05,159
gotten batter. And as far as the percentages, there's a

1384
01:13:05,159 --> 01:13:07,840
guy follow he does its fantasy stuff that he does.

1385
01:13:08,199 --> 01:13:10,640
His name is Ian Harditz. But putting the pressure week

1386
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:12,840
a pressure rate, week by week by week. I'm not

1387
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,399
going to go through all of them, but just know

1388
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:16,800
the first six weeks it was thirty five percent and

1389
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:21,520
below the worst NFL in the in the league of

1390
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:23,600
the worst team in the NFL is forty three percent,

1391
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:27,159
and they've been over that for three straight weeks. Fifty

1392
01:13:27,199 --> 01:13:30,800
two forty six percent, forty eight percent pressure rate in

1393
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:34,239
the last three weeks for c J. Stroud and the

1394
01:13:34,279 --> 01:13:37,279
Houston Texans. Some of that is on him, some of

1395
01:13:37,279 --> 01:13:39,279
that is in c J. Stroud has not been perfect

1396
01:13:40,319 --> 01:13:43,199
in this run. I don't think he's regressed as some

1397
01:13:43,239 --> 01:13:46,359
people are saying. I don't think he's a worst quarterback

1398
01:13:46,399 --> 01:13:50,800
than he was last year. I've said this consistently this year.

1399
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:55,000
Really in the last year that CJ. Stroud's numbers as

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01:13:55,039 --> 01:13:57,520
far as five interceptions, that was misleading because he had

1401
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:01,800
a number of drops in interceptions. There was a thought

1402
01:14:02,279 --> 01:14:05,560
from me and others that there could be not a

1403
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:10,439
regression from CJ. Stroud, but a situation where he hit

1404
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:14,720
the ground running so well that perhaps he was very

1405
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:19,119
close to his ceiling in year one and would be

1406
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:23,560
the same and more consistent to that ceiling in season two,

1407
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,640
rather than busting through that and just on a meteoric

1408
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:32,479
upward trajectory where in year two he's gonna far sur

1409
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,359
pass I mean, how do you farceur pass? Whatever? It

1410
01:14:34,399 --> 01:14:37,760
was twenty three touchdowns, five interceptions ten and seven record.

1411
01:14:38,079 --> 01:14:40,840
I mean he was already hitting the scene making a

1412
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,479
splash as one of the top ten quarterbacks in football.

1413
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:48,039
It would be a close to unprecedented for him to

1414
01:14:48,079 --> 01:14:51,680
be making such a leap in year two that he

1415
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:55,319
would just be the unquestioned, I don't know, top three guy.

1416
01:14:56,319 --> 01:14:58,199
He's not playing as well Asamar Jackson. I mean Pat

1417
01:14:58,199 --> 01:15:00,239
Mahomes wud put his number one. He's having a terrible here.

1418
01:15:00,239 --> 01:15:04,159
But that's another discussion for another time. But there have

1419
01:15:04,239 --> 01:15:07,119
been some struggles from CJ. Stroud. I still think he's

1420
01:15:07,159 --> 01:15:09,760
really good. I still think he's great. I still think

1421
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:13,560
there are most weekends, there are a handful of times

1422
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:17,520
where you say, WHOA, there's only a handful of people

1423
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,279
on the planet that could have just made that play

1424
01:15:20,319 --> 01:15:25,560
that c J. Stroud just made. Dirty pockets, moving moving around, pressure,

1425
01:15:26,159 --> 01:15:29,880
finding guys off of one foot, throwing the ball on

1426
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:32,800
a dime twenty eight yards down the field like he

1427
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,600
did to John Matchi in that Colts game where you say,

1428
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,359
I gotta watch that again and again. I can't believe

1429
01:15:39,359 --> 01:15:42,720
what I just saw. He does that. He makes special plays,

1430
01:15:43,039 --> 01:15:46,199
but he's been missing some plays that he should have made.

1431
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,159
Last few weeks. A lot of that, I do think

1432
01:15:49,239 --> 01:15:52,199
is because of the pressure and duress he has been under.

1433
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,239
And I don't want him getting happy feet. I don't

1434
01:15:56,239 --> 01:15:59,520
want him seeing ghosts back there. As Sam Darnold famously

1435
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:03,479
once said, So, I think CJ. Stroud's gonna be great.

1436
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,359
I mean, he is great, and he's gonna be fine.

1437
01:16:05,359 --> 01:16:07,039
And I'm not worried about him as long as he's healthy,

1438
01:16:07,239 --> 01:16:11,279
as long as he can walk. But uh, you got

1439
01:16:11,279 --> 01:16:14,920
to keep him up right. Obviously, it goes without saying

1440
01:16:15,119 --> 01:16:18,720
he is the number one most important ingredient to the

1441
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:22,520
Texans' future success, not only this season but in the future.

1442
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,640
But specifically talking about twenty four, you need CJ. Shroud

1443
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,159
number one. You need Joe Mixon number two. If you

1444
01:16:28,199 --> 01:16:30,640
ask me, all right, seven one three, two one two

1445
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:34,119
five seven ninety Oh, Robert in South Houston has gone

1446
01:16:34,119 --> 01:16:35,199
on the phones. What's up, Robert?

1447
01:16:36,239 --> 01:16:37,039
Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on?

1448
01:16:37,119 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 10: Ross?

1449
01:16:38,079 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 20: I just wanted to kind of say two things. I

1450
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,399
feel like that I feel like with the Texans is

1451
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,399
like you know how like when they were really good

1452
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:49,720
and they were going like to the playoffs for like

1453
01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:51,920
two three four years in a row with match job

1454
01:16:52,039 --> 01:16:55,199
and the defense was really good, but they just they

1455
01:16:55,239 --> 01:16:57,880
just didn't have that I feel like it maybe like

1456
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:03,239
championship pedigree, and I just feel like we're at the

1457
01:17:03,279 --> 01:17:06,079
same place we were last year. I mean, if if

1458
01:17:06,079 --> 01:17:08,920
they lose to the Lions, right, they'll be six and four,

1459
01:17:09,319 --> 01:17:13,319
which is where they were last season, six and four,

1460
01:17:13,359 --> 01:17:16,920
And I just I just think, like I honestly think

1461
01:17:17,199 --> 01:17:19,039
they got a little bit worse. I mean, they got

1462
01:17:19,159 --> 01:17:22,399
rid of some key defenders, right Jonathan Gernard, And then

1463
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,880
there was another guy on defense they got rid of, right,

1464
01:17:25,119 --> 01:17:25,680
Blake Cash.

1465
01:17:27,119 --> 01:17:27,520
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1466
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:30,159
Speaker 3: So I mean, but you brought in Danil Hunter, and

1467
01:17:30,199 --> 01:17:33,279
you brought in when which when he's healthy, he's been

1468
01:17:33,399 --> 01:17:35,560
very good. So I don't think they slipped much from

1469
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:36,119
that standpoint.

1470
01:17:36,119 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 20: But go ahead, Robert, Right, but do you really, I mean, honestly,

1471
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,520
like at the beginning of this season, did you do

1472
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:46,159
you did you really think that they could hang with

1473
01:17:46,239 --> 01:17:49,199
like the the Ravens at their best, the Chiefs at

1474
01:17:49,199 --> 01:17:49,600
their best.

1475
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:52,239
Speaker 17: I mean, do you do you put the Texans.

1476
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:55,119
Speaker 20: In that in that degree, in that in that level,

1477
01:17:55,359 --> 01:17:56,680
at that level yet or No?

1478
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 3: I put them at their their tier two right now.

1479
01:17:59,239 --> 01:18:00,960
And even though they the Bills had to head, I

1480
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,119
would say the way that both teams are playing right now.

1481
01:18:03,159 --> 01:18:05,119
I mean that was a few weeks ago, and really

1482
01:18:05,159 --> 01:18:06,800
the Bills kind of get wrap that game for you,

1483
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:08,439
even though the defense did do a really good job

1484
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:11,039
against Josh Allen. But now they've had Martin Cooper Coleman's

1485
01:18:11,039 --> 01:18:15,000
playing better. I would say, if you, if you really

1486
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:16,880
put me on the spot and it's like a neutral

1487
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:18,920
site game, I would probably pick the Buffalo Bills.

1488
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 17: Right now, right, I got you.

1489
01:18:22,119 --> 01:18:24,239
Speaker 20: Yeah, I just I just feel like, I mean, they

1490
01:18:24,279 --> 01:18:27,800
just they just they need something that and I feel like,

1491
01:18:28,039 --> 01:18:30,520
I mean, yes, Stroud's in year two so and the

1492
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:33,279
Mico's in year two, so you know, they they they

1493
01:18:33,319 --> 01:18:36,000
got to earn it, right. The Chiefs didn't win three

1494
01:18:36,039 --> 01:18:38,119
super Bowls, you know, overnight.

1495
01:18:38,199 --> 01:18:40,039
Speaker 3: I mean it was there was growing pain.

1496
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 20: With Alex Smith, and you know once once they got

1497
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,960
my homes, that's what got him over the hump, you know.

1498
01:18:45,119 --> 01:18:48,600
So like now it's like we got to improve everywhere

1499
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:50,079
else except for quarterback, you know.

1500
01:18:50,159 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 17: And and then like well.

1501
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:57,359
Speaker 20: Oh god, your other coworker, I forgot his name. I

1502
01:18:57,359 --> 01:19:01,680
can't think of his name now. He said, uh no, no, the.

1503
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:04,359
Speaker 3: Adam Wexler.

1504
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 20: He was just saying, they gotta you know, they got it,

1505
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:11,640
they got to improve.

1506
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:14,279
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just yea, yeah, thank you, Robert, appreciate it.

1507
01:19:14,279 --> 01:19:15,359
We got to get to the top of the our

1508
01:19:15,399 --> 01:19:18,199
break here. But yeah, that's what I said. I expected them.

1509
01:19:18,279 --> 01:19:19,920
I didn't expect them to make a leap to where

1510
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,800
it'd be like, oh, number one team in the AFC, Texans,

1511
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:25,800
watch out. I expected them to kind of beat in

1512
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:29,680
that conversation with the Chiefs and the Ravens and the Steelers,

1513
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,119
and when they were sitting there at six and two,

1514
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,640
I was feeling like, Okay, yeah, but this this game

1515
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:38,479
was bad. You've got sample size of three straight weeks

1516
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:41,920
of allowing an extremely high pressure rate. You've got the

1517
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,439
injuries cropping up. Stefph on Dis's come down. You get

1518
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,279
Nico Collins back that will be huge, and so the

1519
01:19:47,319 --> 01:19:50,399
team can't improve. There's a lot of football left to

1520
01:19:50,439 --> 01:19:53,760
be played, but right now it's feeling like last year.

1521
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,720
And last year was great because it was a surprise.

1522
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:58,680
I was like, oh my gosh, we thought we thought

1523
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:00,039
they were gonna what was their win total six and

1524
01:20:00,119 --> 01:20:02,600
a half or something like that. They won ten games,

1525
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:06,920
so I predicted incremental improvement. I had them at eleven

1526
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:09,640
and six. Right now they're looking like about last year

1527
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:13,079
ten and seven Division Round because you get out classed

1528
01:20:13,119 --> 01:20:15,680
by a better team. That's what it feels like. And

1529
01:20:16,119 --> 01:20:22,359
unfortunately that stagnation can even though it's up from a

1530
01:20:22,399 --> 01:20:24,079
level of where we were a couple of years ago,

1531
01:20:24,359 --> 01:20:28,079
the level of expectation has changed and the Texans are

1532
01:20:28,119 --> 01:20:32,039
not up to the expectation of this year. To this point.

1533
01:20:32,079 --> 01:20:35,000
Despite the six and three record, they have a positive

1534
01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:43,119
point differential by one single point. So that screams mediocrey.

1535
01:20:43,239 --> 01:20:46,119
It just does. After nine games, you got a differential

1536
01:20:46,159 --> 01:20:49,399
of one that is mediocre. All right, quick break here

1537
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,079
on the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas with Ross

1538
01:20:52,119 --> 01:20:53,239
those you on hold, will get to you in the

1539
01:20:53,239 --> 01:20:55,600
next hour. We also got Adam Clinton coming in and

1540
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:58,199
you on the phone lines. We're talking some Texans football.

1541
01:20:58,279 --> 01:21:01,039
I love it. Let's get in three two one two

1542
01:21:01,239 --> 01:21:05,079
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.

1543
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:12,520
Speaker 1: Ninety lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, two o.

1544
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 3: Two in the PM are on Sports Talk seven ninety

1545
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:20,560
Where in the world is Adam Clinton? Let me check.

1546
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:26,359
He hadn't even said anything. Hopefully he's alive. Ah man. Oh,

1547
01:21:26,399 --> 01:21:27,840
I thought it was thought you had him on a

1548
01:21:28,119 --> 01:21:31,880
like on a remote or something. Okay, well, there he is,

1549
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:37,600
Adam Clanton. Your reaction to last night's Texans game, ah man.

1550
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:41,680
What were you thinking when you saw that CJ. Stroud

1551
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,720
split out wide and Joe Mixon loaded up to throw

1552
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:48,720
the ball at him? Ah man? And then your reaction

1553
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:53,520
Adam Clanton to Kymie Fairbairn missing that field goal. Ah man.

1554
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,239
All right, thank you, that's great analysis. That's why we

1555
01:21:56,279 --> 01:21:58,680
bring in Adam. We do really appreciate it. Seven one

1556
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:02,159
three two one two five seven ninety is the phone

1557
01:22:02,239 --> 01:22:04,840
number if you'd like to get in. Seven one three

1558
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,399
two one two five seven. Oh, the real Adam plan

1559
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,239
is here. Okay, we don't man, Yeah, I know. That's

1560
01:22:10,279 --> 01:22:14,560
my reaction to all Oh man, you're early. Man, we

1561
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,079
appreciate you. Two o three that's early. I've heard that

1562
01:22:17,159 --> 01:22:19,960
I'm on that Ross VIEO schedule. Rush show up just

1563
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:23,039
in time. Hey, hey, no, I was here early today

1564
01:22:23,159 --> 01:22:25,680
when Matt's out when it just kick my you know,

1565
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:27,600
it's the easiest job in the world. I just kicked

1566
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,439
my feet up and make fun of Matt for three hours,

1567
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:31,039
and when he's out, I got to actually get to work.

1568
01:22:31,039 --> 01:22:34,840
It's amazing you get paid for that. It's I say it,

1569
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,239
and I don't want to say it so our bosses

1570
01:22:36,279 --> 01:22:38,239
can hear. But I have the best job in the world.

1571
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,199
I'm so lucky. I mean, except for nights like last

1572
01:22:41,239 --> 01:22:42,600
night where we got to come in and talk about that.

1573
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:43,399
Speaker 10: No, I love it.

1574
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 3: Let's go, let's yell. What are you thinking, Bobby Slowek? Okay, anyways,

1575
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:49,680
I've been talking about it for a couple of hours.

1576
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,960
I'll just go ahead and lay it out, and then

1577
01:22:52,079 --> 01:22:55,960
lay out for you, mister Clanton, because I know, uh well,

1578
01:22:56,119 --> 01:22:58,560
just judging from your text last night, you're not happy

1579
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:01,600
with the performance from the textans last night. But they

1580
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:03,960
drop a ball at the one yard line when they

1581
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,239
should have had a touchdown. They're committing roughing the punters

1582
01:23:07,239 --> 01:23:10,359
on fourth and twenty one. They're roughing the poor John

1583
01:23:10,399 --> 01:23:13,560
Wicks is taking a knee to the chest like he's

1584
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:18,039
in a John Wick movie. And then you are crashing

1585
01:23:18,239 --> 01:23:22,000
and burning as the Jets try to hand you that game.

1586
01:23:22,359 --> 01:23:25,680
They try to hand you that game, you lose your

1587
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:28,159
six and three, and the Lions are next up on

1588
01:23:28,199 --> 01:23:28,640
the docket.

1589
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,159
Speaker 21: Well, it's easy to sit there and say, hey, this

1590
01:23:32,279 --> 01:23:34,680
line is offensive trash. That's the only problem there is.

1591
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:39,560
But you just, you know, eloquently laid out so many

1592
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:43,399
other things that were gift wrapped in the Texans favor.

1593
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,119
I saw your tweet by the way about dropping the

1594
01:23:46,159 --> 01:23:49,159
ball when you get to the goal line, Like, what.

1595
01:23:49,039 --> 01:23:51,520
Speaker 3: Are we even doing? Time? Does it keep it happening? Well,

1596
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:54,840
I'm like, there's no one in the building. It's a

1597
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:55,800
very large building.

1598
01:23:56,079 --> 01:23:58,199
Speaker 21: Yes, there's no one in the building that has a

1599
01:23:58,239 --> 01:24:01,439
better sense of where you are on that football field

1600
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,840
then you if you have the football right, like the

1601
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:08,800
can be a line judge or any sort of official

1602
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:11,199
that's trailing you on the play. There could be a tackler,

1603
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,359
doesn't matter. You have the best idea of where you

1604
01:24:14,399 --> 01:24:17,319
are on the football field. And so how this is

1605
01:24:17,359 --> 01:24:21,880
still happening in twenty twenty four is beyond me, because

1606
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:24,239
all you've got to do is hang on to it

1607
01:24:24,279 --> 01:24:26,960
for in his case, a split second longer and it's

1608
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:27,720
a touchdown, not.

1609
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 3: Even yeah, just wrap it up. You just get in

1610
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:31,920
the habit of this. But doesn't that hand it to

1611
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:35,079
the official. Every time you should go. You should get

1612
01:24:35,119 --> 01:24:37,439
a meeting room. You get all fifty three plus the

1613
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:42,000
plaque practice squad ir everybody. Hey, guys, hand the ball,

1614
01:24:42,239 --> 01:24:45,119
do not do any You can celebrate, you can cartwheel,

1615
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:46,760
you can do whatever you're gonna do.

1616
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:49,239
Speaker 21: At the Worthy Symposium after they tell you not to

1617
01:24:49,279 --> 01:24:53,319
get you know, tied up in honeypot situations and you

1618
01:24:53,319 --> 01:24:54,239
know whatever else.

1619
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, pratfalls are out there from where your profylactics have

1620
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:58,079
a fall.

1621
01:24:58,119 --> 01:25:01,119
Speaker 21: Guy from a if you're bookie, is going to take

1622
01:25:01,199 --> 01:25:02,960
money out of your account and place bets.

1623
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 3: Ma I remember that. You remember that Chris Carter audio.

1624
01:25:06,079 --> 01:25:09,000
I'll make sure you have a fall, guys, But he

1625
01:25:09,119 --> 01:25:12,159
was right, like, that's the crazy thing about it. Well,

1626
01:25:12,279 --> 01:25:15,199
make sure you yes, put that up on the on

1627
01:25:15,239 --> 01:25:19,960
the PowerPoint presentation. You score a touchdown, first thing you

1628
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,560
do is you hand the ball to an official and

1629
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:27,199
then do whatever planned choreograph celebration you got, find the

1630
01:25:27,279 --> 01:25:30,119
four K cam and do all that stuff after you

1631
01:25:30,159 --> 01:25:31,239
hand the ball to somebody.

1632
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 21: It's just incredible that that was one of several things

1633
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,159
that happened. And by the way, I know that you

1634
01:25:38,199 --> 01:25:41,439
know the defense had its moments last night. Uh from

1635
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:43,439
a standpoint of oh, they gave up a big play here.

1636
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,720
First of all, another tweet of yours I enjoyed. Hey

1637
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:51,680
at sports r Jordan on the catch, I mean that

1638
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:53,399
was that was absolutely.

1639
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:54,359
Speaker 3: And you gotta throw your hands up on that one.

1640
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 21: No, it's nothing you can do though he caught it

1641
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:59,560
with one hand. Secondly, he managed to keep his shin

1642
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:05,479
in bounds for the second step. I look, Jalen Petrie

1643
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:07,800
lost his step wouldn't have mattered on Davante Adams.

1644
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 3: He burned him. That's just a guy lin bullet could

1645
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,359
have got over there faster. Yeah, that's true.

1646
01:26:11,399 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 21: But at the end of the day, DeVante Adams said,

1647
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,279
I'm going to put my physical god given abilities up

1648
01:26:17,279 --> 01:26:19,600
against yours, and yours aren't as good as mine, and

1649
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:21,600
so you just have to tip your cap at that point.

1650
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 3: But it doesn't mean that you.

1651
01:26:23,279 --> 01:26:26,199
Speaker 21: I mean, I get why JJ Watt thought what he

1652
01:26:26,239 --> 01:26:28,199
did going into this game, and I get why he

1653
01:26:28,239 --> 01:26:29,399
was tweeting what he was tweeting.

1654
01:26:29,399 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 3: Afterward.

1655
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 21: They took that game from the Texans, and you can

1656
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,199
really say that when you talk about the fact that

1657
01:26:36,239 --> 01:26:38,479
they did give them all those gifts for them to

1658
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:42,640
win the way they did in the second half. And again,

1659
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:46,039
the number one problem is the offensive line. I'm not

1660
01:26:46,119 --> 01:26:49,000
saying it's not. And honestly, it kind of pisses me

1661
01:26:49,039 --> 01:26:52,039
off at this point because nobody didn't see this coming,

1662
01:26:52,199 --> 01:26:55,800
least of all Nick Cassario. Nobody like, you've got one

1663
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:58,039
of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL when he's

1664
01:26:58,039 --> 01:27:01,880
protected and he's looked like, I mean, I don't know

1665
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,520
where would you put him based on He.

1666
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,560
Speaker 3: Still makes special plays, but he looks It's not necessarily

1667
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:09,960
his fault, but he has been missing some throws he

1668
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,079
would normally make, and I don't know if that's the

1669
01:27:12,119 --> 01:27:14,840
pressure wearing on him or because he's not one hundred percent,

1670
01:27:15,199 --> 01:27:18,159
which Kirk Krbstreet talked about on the broadcast, Like c J.

1671
01:27:18,279 --> 01:27:20,159
Stroud kind of whispered to me when we were talking,

1672
01:27:20,239 --> 01:27:22,319
like I'm banged up, and then he.

1673
01:27:22,239 --> 01:27:24,239
Speaker 21: Got hurt in that gay imagine why in the eight

1674
01:27:24,319 --> 01:27:27,199
sacks later. I wonder if he's more or less banged up, That's.

1675
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 3: What I'm saying. So he has been missing some throws

1676
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:32,319
the last few weeks, and we saw it for a

1677
01:27:32,359 --> 01:27:34,199
spell for a couple of weeks last year, and that's

1678
01:27:34,239 --> 01:27:37,319
because I think he got concussed in a game or

1679
01:27:37,319 --> 01:27:40,319
two last week last year. So it kind of looks

1680
01:27:40,319 --> 01:27:42,399
like that where he's in a couple of a week malaise.

1681
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:44,600
And I think that is because he's not one hundred percent.

1682
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:47,079
I still think of him as an elite quarterback. I

1683
01:27:47,159 --> 01:27:49,399
still want to This team is still gonna ride or

1684
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:51,600
die for c J. Stroud. He not I would say this.

1685
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:52,960
He is not holding this team back.

1686
01:27:54,039 --> 01:27:58,079
Speaker 21: No, no, he's definitely not holding the team back, but

1687
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:00,840
he is probably being held back. I feel like he's

1688
01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:04,640
playing quarterback with one hand tied behind his back every week.

1689
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,560
And the problem with this is, and I I was

1690
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:10,039
texting with somebody after the game that knows what they're

1691
01:28:10,039 --> 01:28:10,479
talking about.

1692
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:11,319
Speaker 3: I'll just leave it at that.

1693
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:15,119
Speaker 21: The problem with this is there's no quick fix out there.

1694
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:17,680
You can have a great draft, doesn't matter. It's not

1695
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:20,520
gonna fix it overnight. And the last time I checked,

1696
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,800
unless they're just not wanting to pay a guy offensive

1697
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:26,399
linemen that are studs, they just don't let him walk

1698
01:28:26,399 --> 01:28:27,960
out the door anywhere in the NFL.

1699
01:28:28,119 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 3: There's some exceptions. Trent Williams, I guess would be one

1700
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:35,000
of them. Cam Robinson just got traded to the Vikings

1701
01:28:35,039 --> 01:28:37,279
because they're Christian darisaw is that the name of their

1702
01:28:37,359 --> 01:28:40,000
left tackle. The Vikings just they had an elite left tackle,

1703
01:28:40,079 --> 01:28:42,319
just go on Ir. So they traded for Cam Robinson.

1704
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:46,560
That is rare, but it is possible if the Texans

1705
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:48,960
want to go out there now, especially, I mean, you

1706
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,279
have an excuse. Even if you're gonna say, well, Kenyon

1707
01:28:51,319 --> 01:28:53,079
Green's our guy. We're gonna roll with Kenyan Green. Well

1708
01:28:53,079 --> 01:28:55,079
he Doesbody should be saying it, just nobody should be.

1709
01:28:55,119 --> 01:28:57,479
But the Miko Ryans and the Texans have been. But

1710
01:28:57,760 --> 01:28:59,760
they to Miko's saying that because he has to.

1711
01:29:00,239 --> 01:29:03,640
Speaker 21: Yeah, the general manager and Demiko behind closed doors are saying,

1712
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,000
get this bleep off my team.

1713
01:29:06,039 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 3: They gotta do something.

1714
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:07,199
Speaker 17: Somebody.

1715
01:29:07,199 --> 01:29:10,560
Speaker 3: It's good. Somebody's choice. Listen, I'm not I don't. I'm

1716
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,319
not going to like sugarcoat it or try be Oh well,

1717
01:29:13,319 --> 01:29:14,079
they're all professionals.

1718
01:29:14,119 --> 01:29:16,079
Speaker 21: They're all trying to you know, you couldn't do it.

1719
01:29:16,119 --> 01:29:17,680
Of course I couldn't do it. I'm not a three

1720
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:20,159
hundred pounds offensive lineman. But I'll tell you this. If

1721
01:29:20,199 --> 01:29:23,039
I was doing it, and I was getting CJ killed

1722
01:29:23,079 --> 01:29:25,520
every week, and the only chance that this team has

1723
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:28,840
is him being upright to win. I mean, Nico Collins

1724
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:31,840
is coming back against the Detroit Lions. Great, if he

1725
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:34,359
can't see him because he's looking up at the stadium roof,

1726
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:35,399
it's not gonna matter.

1727
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1728
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:38,520
Speaker 3: Well, Kenya Green is now out. He dislocated his shoulder.

1729
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:41,880
So what's the prognosis on that. The Ian Rappaport says,

1730
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,000
depending on how late, he's basically out for the year

1731
01:29:44,079 --> 01:29:47,159
unless they make deep a deep playoff run. I think

1732
01:29:47,239 --> 01:29:50,159
is the implication. I can pull up the exact words

1733
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:53,840
of a good friend of the show, Ian Rapaport, but

1734
01:29:54,159 --> 01:29:57,680
it's basically something to that effect. I mean, I would

1735
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:01,720
think he says there is a a chance of a late,

1736
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:04,319
late return depending on how rehab goes and where the

1737
01:30:04,359 --> 01:30:08,840
Texans season stands out. Indefinitely possibly for the season. Well,

1738
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,079
that's the thing. They're gonna win the division. Yeah, so

1739
01:30:11,119 --> 01:30:14,319
they're making they're making the playoffs, they're gonna be a

1740
01:30:14,399 --> 01:30:16,720
top four seed. Is there gonna be a point of

1741
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:18,560
the season they're like, man, we can't wait. We got

1742
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:20,319
to just hold on until Kenyon Green gets back and

1743
01:30:20,359 --> 01:30:22,399
we'll be good. So I don't think that's gonna happen.

1744
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:24,920
Speaker 21: I don't think if I'm like pining for for Kenyon

1745
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:28,039
Green for a playoff game, by the way, the most

1746
01:30:28,039 --> 01:30:30,079
important game of the year, I want him being the

1747
01:30:30,079 --> 01:30:32,359
guy that's, you know, one of the last last lines

1748
01:30:32,399 --> 01:30:34,880
of the defense literally for U. C. J.

1749
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,560
Speaker 3: Stroud. But yeah, it's just I don't know.

1750
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:40,600
Speaker 21: I mean, there has been like exactly one time in

1751
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:43,039
franchise history where they actually gave a crap about the

1752
01:30:43,079 --> 01:30:45,399
offensive line and it showed. And now is when Gary

1753
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:48,119
Kubiak first got here and they ran the zone blocking scheme.

1754
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,760
That's it. They didn't care about it enough to facilitate

1755
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:52,880
anything to help David Carr.

1756
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:56,359
Speaker 3: They tried here. I mean, they signed Laromy Tunsel, they

1757
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:59,199
like Titus Howard. This this is Dick Casario's guys. They

1758
01:30:59,279 --> 01:31:01,279
took n They too Kenyan Green in the first round.

1759
01:31:01,279 --> 01:31:06,359
Speaker 21: I'm gonna say something that's going to absolutely just Wex

1760
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:08,960
might die of an eye rolling accident if he hears this. Okay,

1761
01:31:09,239 --> 01:31:10,640
it doesn't matter, turn it.

1762
01:31:11,319 --> 01:31:12,079
Speaker 3: Put it on yacht Rock.

1763
01:31:12,399 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 21: I don't like I know that Pro Football Focus and

1764
01:31:15,039 --> 01:31:17,319
all these sites are like, oh, Larremy TUNSI great pass,

1765
01:31:17,319 --> 01:31:21,239
but he's not good enough and here's why the rest

1766
01:31:21,279 --> 01:31:24,840
of that line follows him, follows his cues, follows his lead.

1767
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:29,159
It's just not it's not a right recipe. I'd blow

1768
01:31:29,239 --> 01:31:32,159
out four of them right now. But I just I

1769
01:31:32,199 --> 01:31:34,840
don't mean that literally, just get rid of him. I

1770
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,039
know you can't do that. That's what I'm saying. No,

1771
01:31:37,159 --> 01:31:39,399
you can't this line. Like, there's a reason that we

1772
01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:41,439
had a show on this station called in the Trenches.

1773
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:43,520
There's a reason that that's a cliche, like that's where

1774
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:45,600
the games are won and lost, and if you don't

1775
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:48,520
have an offensive line, doesn't matter whatever else you put

1776
01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:50,319
around them. I said that all offseason as they were

1777
01:31:50,319 --> 01:31:53,520
getting all these free agency signings, and you know none

1778
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:56,840
of them were stud top end offensive lineman.

1779
01:31:58,079 --> 01:32:02,520
Speaker 3: Well, just because you address something, Brown was a stud guy. Yeah,

1780
01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,079
day Dwayne Brown bed and Tunsel by the way, if

1781
01:32:05,079 --> 01:32:09,000
we're just freeing effectively. But anyways, yeah, Kenyan Green. We'll

1782
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:10,800
speaking of Pro Football Focus, they have Kenyan Green as

1783
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:13,039
the worst guard in football. Well, there you go, that's

1784
01:32:13,079 --> 01:32:16,720
one of five. I'll go down the line and ask yourself,

1785
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:18,800
if you're CJ. Stroud, if they're putting the best product

1786
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:20,800
possible in front of me to succeed. All right, we

1787
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:22,920
got to take quick break here. That's Adam Clinton. Thank

1788
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:25,800
you for hanging out at him. I appreciate you. He seriously, Marty,

1789
01:32:25,840 --> 01:32:27,479
you're on hold. We'll get to you. You guys want

1790
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:30,239
to get in, you can. We're talking Texans, jets, we're

1791
01:32:30,279 --> 01:32:32,479
talking anything you want to get to, and it hasn't

1792
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:35,239
really been and anything goes type of Friday just because

1793
01:32:35,279 --> 01:32:38,039
it's like post Texans reaction and they were on well

1794
01:32:38,239 --> 01:32:40,920
kind of national TV streaming last night, but anything you

1795
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:42,920
want to get to seven to one three two one

1796
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:45,319
two five seven ninety seven to one three two one

1797
01:32:45,399 --> 01:32:48,079
two five seven ninety Texans on.

1798
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:55,079
Speaker 16: Back to battle, Red Ross and Liberty White Ass Matt Thomas,

1799
01:32:56,760 --> 01:33:01,439
this is what I am real pale Texans continue on

1800
01:33:02,359 --> 01:33:03,000
Thomas Show.

1801
01:33:03,279 --> 01:33:16,720
Speaker 4: What uh yeah, I mean, I thought, you know, we

1802
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:18,399
had that played lined up.

1803
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:21,079
Speaker 22: We thought it was a good look, and you know,

1804
01:33:21,279 --> 01:33:22,960
we gotta do a better job of selling to run

1805
01:33:23,079 --> 01:33:26,119
and you know, making the dB fall asleep, and you know,

1806
01:33:26,159 --> 01:33:27,760
I gotta find a way to maybe just catch it.

1807
01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:30,119
I thought I got held or I'm not a receiver,

1808
01:33:30,199 --> 01:33:32,880
so I don't know, but you know, I thought they

1809
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:34,800
got a couple of calls that we didn't get. But

1810
01:33:34,880 --> 01:33:35,920
at the same time, you know, at the end of

1811
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:38,600
the day, man like we can go just call that call.

1812
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:40,399
We didn't win the game and we got embarrassed. We

1813
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:42,920
got kicked from point A to point Z. So we

1814
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:44,680
gotta get a lot of get a lot of things fixed.

1815
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:47,239
Speaker 3: I agree with what he said at the end there

1816
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:54,680
c J Stroud on the inexplicable second and seven in

1817
01:33:54,800 --> 01:34:01,319
the red zone Joe Mixon wildcat throat, which, like I said,

1818
01:34:01,359 --> 01:34:03,680
you install that during the week, that's cool, but when

1819
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,439
you see that your quarterback is limping around for three

1820
01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:08,359
and a half quarters, maybe put that one in the

1821
01:34:08,399 --> 01:34:10,399
back pocket at him clayting. You know what we're gonna

1822
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:13,039
have to not worry about is somebody you pick it up.

1823
01:34:13,039 --> 01:34:14,319
Bobby Slowik as a head coach.

1824
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:17,560
Speaker 21: I put that to bed pretty quick, probably matter of fact,

1825
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:20,359
if he's not their offensive coordinator next year. I'm not

1826
01:34:20,439 --> 01:34:21,960
saying I'm one of these people, but I don't think

1827
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:23,359
there's gonna be a lot of people that are gonna

1828
01:34:23,359 --> 01:34:24,920
be like wailing and gnashing their teeth.

1829
01:34:25,199 --> 01:34:27,520
Speaker 3: Well, I did a poll at sports RV. It's still

1830
01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:32,119
going I just shocking Bobby Slowik at offensive as offensive coordinator.

1831
01:34:32,199 --> 01:34:34,800
No shocking that I did a poll. I like doing

1832
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:35,359
Twitter polls.

1833
01:34:35,359 --> 01:34:35,520
Speaker 20: I know.

1834
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:37,680
Speaker 3: That's why I said that. It's fun. You got polls

1835
01:34:37,720 --> 01:34:39,079
of the people. I did one the other day just

1836
01:34:39,119 --> 01:34:41,760
to mess with wex after you get it. Twenty one

1837
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:46,319
percent not good, seventy eight percent. I voted and you voted.

1838
01:34:46,399 --> 01:34:51,600
I didn't say I vote, I vote good. I don't

1839
01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:53,800
think he's incompetent. I think he's bad. I think that

1840
01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:57,279
was a Situationally, sometimes he can be a little predictable.

1841
01:34:57,479 --> 01:34:59,319
But also you know when when they run in the

1842
01:34:59,359 --> 01:35:01,920
red zone and mix and busts a touchdown, we're like, wow,

1843
01:35:02,199 --> 01:35:04,239
great on Joe Mixon. We don't say good call from

1844
01:35:04,279 --> 01:35:07,079
Bobby Slowick. It's one of those things, like I kinda

1845
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:11,119
with I would put in similar category to a baseball manager.

1846
01:35:11,359 --> 01:35:13,359
You make ten moves, nine of them work out. We

1847
01:35:13,399 --> 01:35:15,439
don't say a word that won the dozen. You're an idiot.

1848
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:18,039
I was, Uh, there's a couple of things about that

1849
01:35:18,159 --> 01:35:18,640
last night.

1850
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:24,039
Speaker 21: One, I was to a point probably late in the

1851
01:35:24,119 --> 01:35:27,640
first half of a chist, I mean, what a what

1852
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:30,840
an amazing show of offensive prowess that first half of

1853
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:32,000
football was last.

1854
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 3: Night seven to zero. It was a very Thursday night game.

1855
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:35,680
I don't know how it's like Vegas.

1856
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:38,319
Speaker 21: How does the NFL do it every year consistently put

1857
01:35:38,399 --> 01:35:41,720
the worst possible matchup on Thursday Night? But anyway, I

1858
01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:43,880
was getting to the point rapidly where I was like,

1859
01:35:44,119 --> 01:35:46,319
just hand the ball to Joe every time. What's the

1860
01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:48,279
worst that could happen. Yeah, you might not get a

1861
01:35:48,319 --> 01:35:49,720
first down. You might have to pump the ball, but

1862
01:35:49,720 --> 01:35:51,560
you're gonna do that anyways. If you're throwing, and I

1863
01:35:51,680 --> 01:35:53,359
know you gotta throw the ball, you gotta do some

1864
01:35:53,479 --> 01:35:56,680
things you have c J Stroud, But it was the

1865
01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:02,000
safest option given again the shape of that offensive line.

1866
01:36:02,439 --> 01:36:06,520
And the other thing was I've seen it again because

1867
01:36:06,520 --> 01:36:08,840
I see it every week when things don't go particularly

1868
01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:11,159
according to plan, which they really haven't offensively this year.

1869
01:36:11,920 --> 01:36:16,159
People just Bobby slow this fie. There does come a

1870
01:36:16,239 --> 01:36:19,319
point where he is he is also limited at what

1871
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,680
he can do because of the lack of protection.

1872
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:22,199
Speaker 3: For CJ.

1873
01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:24,439
Speaker 21: I know what you want him to do, and I

1874
01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:26,680
know what on paper it says you should do, and

1875
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,079
it definitely doesn't say you should do a running back

1876
01:36:29,199 --> 01:36:32,920
pass under these circumstances with the hurd quarterback. That's where

1877
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:35,000
you get me. And I can't say I can't argue

1878
01:36:35,039 --> 01:36:37,920
with you there because that just looks stupid. You're wanting

1879
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:41,079
him to do more, but then when he does more,

1880
01:36:41,279 --> 01:36:43,960
and it's ridiculous. I understand that side of things too.

1881
01:36:44,159 --> 01:36:47,680
So I don't know, man, this offensive line, I just

1882
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:52,079
I scream from the mountaintops all off season, knowing full

1883
01:36:52,159 --> 01:36:54,560
well that I didn't really know what they could do

1884
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,720
unless they just load up on offensive linemen in the draft.

1885
01:36:58,039 --> 01:36:59,479
Like do you know how much I wanted them to

1886
01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:02,239
draft Joe Alt just because we interviewed him.

1887
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:05,479
Speaker 3: Gosh, what was the Award show? I always get it

1888
01:37:05,479 --> 01:37:09,920
mixed up with the Lombardim was it Lombardi Defensive? You know,

1889
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:14,039
the Outland Trophy or the I don't know what it is.

1890
01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 5: He was there.

1891
01:37:15,119 --> 01:37:15,680
Speaker 3: He was great.

1892
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,439
Speaker 21: All offensive linemen are great because they're traditionally the smartest

1893
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,119
guys on the football field at any given time.

1894
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:24,640
Speaker 3: But uh, just to have like Joe Moore, award goes

1895
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:28,159
to the whole offensive line. But what is the it's

1896
01:37:28,159 --> 01:37:31,199
an it's it wasn't an offensive line Awards show. I

1897
01:37:31,239 --> 01:37:32,880
mean there was tight ends there. I can't remember. It's

1898
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:34,680
one of the big ones. I'm just it's slipping my mind.

1899
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:37,800
Everybody that's listening is like I said, Elkland trophy, didn't

1900
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:40,399
I yeah, but that's for interior lineman. Hold on, that's

1901
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:42,800
not what it was over and it was over across

1902
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:46,439
the street anyway. Anyway. Yeah, well Joe went before the

1903
01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:49,159
Texans drafted so correct, and he's doing a good job

1904
01:37:49,199 --> 01:37:53,000
for the Chargers or Titans, Titans whatever, Oh yeah, one

1905
01:37:53,039 --> 01:37:56,479
of those. But yeah, I just, uh, I don't know

1906
01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:58,840
what you do. He's a charger charger, Okay, I get

1907
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:00,439
the blue teams mixed up, that's true.

1908
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 21: I just I don't know how you fix this quickly.

1909
01:38:04,239 --> 01:38:06,880
And again that's not what you want to hear. Because

1910
01:38:07,479 --> 01:38:09,960
you're in that little window where you're not paying CJ.

1911
01:38:10,119 --> 01:38:13,680
Stroud insane money. You're supposed to strike while the iron

1912
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,079
is hot here, so to speak. And I just feel like,

1913
01:38:16,199 --> 01:38:19,079
again he's playing with one hand tied behind his back

1914
01:38:19,119 --> 01:38:22,279
because he's just not he's not given enough time. Like

1915
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:24,880
last night, I took this prop bet for our Stone

1916
01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:27,239
Cold Locks. It was over under ten and a half

1917
01:38:27,319 --> 01:38:28,199
rushing yards for CJ.

1918
01:38:28,319 --> 01:38:29,720
Speaker 3: Stroud. You know, why I took the over and I

1919
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:30,960
slammed it because he.

1920
01:38:31,039 --> 01:38:32,680
Speaker 21: Was gonna get flushed out of the pocket all night

1921
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:34,880
long and if there's nobody open, he's got a duck

1922
01:38:34,920 --> 01:38:35,239
and run.

1923
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:38,439
Speaker 3: And he did that. He had he had ten and

1924
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:40,119
a half by like I think the end of the

1925
01:38:40,159 --> 01:38:43,840
first quarter. Well, also on gut feelings, my thirty seconds

1926
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:46,119
of glory. On the gut feelings, I did say Dell

1927
01:38:46,279 --> 01:38:48,399
over four and a half catches, and I did say

1928
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:50,600
al Michaels was gonna be talking about boring the game

1929
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:51,800
was because it was gonna be low.

1930
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:54,239
Speaker 21: Scoring, and it was, I really think, and this is

1931
01:38:54,359 --> 01:38:57,439
full disclosure, because I just I don't watch Thursday night games,

1932
01:38:57,840 --> 01:38:59,600
you know how. I watch them if I have a

1933
01:39:00,039 --> 01:39:04,000
really really good fantasy situation, which that's not happening this year.

1934
01:39:04,399 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 3: But I just I hadn't realized just how bad he's gotten.

1935
01:39:08,239 --> 01:39:09,119
I hear it all the time.

1936
01:39:10,359 --> 01:39:13,720
Speaker 21: It's like, but it's not even like you can make mistakes,

1937
01:39:13,720 --> 01:39:15,119
and the gambling references and all that.

1938
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 3: He's just not good. He yea saying the call on

1939
01:39:21,039 --> 01:39:24,319
the DeVante Adams touchdown from the from the medical tint

1940
01:39:24,319 --> 01:39:25,680
to the end zoneer well, from the locker room to

1941
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:26,119
the end zone.

1942
01:39:26,119 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 5: I like that one.

1943
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,039
Speaker 21: But he was just like he's he's like half asleep.

1944
01:39:29,079 --> 01:39:31,560
But that's exactly that's the most life he showed all night.

1945
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,119
It's not even about the line, like you know, Joe

1946
01:39:34,199 --> 01:39:38,000
Davis the other night used upside down inappropriately again because

1947
01:39:38,039 --> 01:39:40,279
it's that's the Astros line. And but you know he's

1948
01:39:40,319 --> 01:39:43,800
got he's got some he's had his coffee. Like the

1949
01:39:44,199 --> 01:39:46,119
owl sounds like he's not even awake, like he just

1950
01:39:46,199 --> 01:39:48,720
rolled out of bed and bezos just cut the check.

1951
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:50,640
Speaker 3: Baby, We'll be good. All right, Marty's been holding Let's

1952
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:51,920
get him real quick. What's up, Marty?

1953
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:53,560
Speaker 18: What's going on?

1954
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:53,880
Speaker 10: Man?

1955
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:56,319
Speaker 6: Adam, I'm kind of agree with you a little bit,

1956
01:39:56,479 --> 01:39:59,800
but I got a couple of questions. Man, so U

1957
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,760
what let's say that, uh, let's say that.

1958
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:07,720
Speaker 13: Detectives started running the ball because you know, uh, you know,

1959
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:09,279
the offensive line is so bad.

1960
01:40:09,359 --> 01:40:13,359
Speaker 6: Hey, that's a quick spin. Okay, But let's say we

1961
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:16,039
started running the ball. Let's say we we.

1962
01:40:16,159 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 13: Incorporate the tight ends the block a little bit more.

1963
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:20,319
By the way, I don't know what happened to the.

1964
01:40:20,399 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 3: Jordan's uh, but uh uh Gremen Jordans and I are

1965
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:26,960
I think, okay.

1966
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 6: Okay, good, that that's goodn't know, well that ain't good. No,

1967
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:32,279
but you know just nowhere it is so.

1968
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,119
Speaker 13: But but so, man, let's say these guys just start

1969
01:40:35,239 --> 01:40:37,600
running the ball effectively, because if let me tell you.

1970
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:40,119
Speaker 6: Something, every time we're we're praising.

1971
01:40:40,079 --> 01:40:43,800
Speaker 13: Joe Mixon about the run game, but let me tell you,

1972
01:40:44,119 --> 01:40:48,000
every time he touched that ball, he had to jump,

1973
01:40:48,119 --> 01:40:52,079
do an incredible jumps just to get out of the

1974
01:40:52,159 --> 01:40:56,079
way of the of that first defender that was in

1975
01:40:56,239 --> 01:41:00,520
the backfield. JJ, the little the little j J guy

1976
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,680
did an awesome job running. But if we if we

1977
01:41:03,760 --> 01:41:07,279
started running the bomb more, because let's say these guys

1978
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:08,279
blocked down.

1979
01:41:08,159 --> 01:41:09,840
Speaker 6: And feel a little bit better. And I'm gonna tell you.

1980
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:13,039
Speaker 13: I got the reason that uh that that that Larry

1981
01:41:13,159 --> 01:41:16,520
Tompsel is not playing at because he's trying to compensate

1982
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:18,119
for for Green.

1983
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:21,319
Speaker 6: So you know, I think that's the reason. I'm gonna

1984
01:41:21,319 --> 01:41:24,279
gonna give the net excuse. Okay, but why why the

1985
01:41:24,319 --> 01:41:26,680
way he's kind of fell off a little bit. Uh,

1986
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:28,520
Let's just say we started running.

1987
01:41:28,239 --> 01:41:31,399
Speaker 13: The ball a little bit more and DJ wouldn't get

1988
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:34,079
sacked as Mama wouldn't be calling the police for USAF

1989
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:35,439
and and and all this.

1990
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,560
Speaker 6: Kind of stuff. And so so if we started running

1991
01:41:38,600 --> 01:41:41,840
the ball more, okay, would.

1992
01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:45,199
Speaker 23: That take some of the edge off of of of

1993
01:41:45,319 --> 01:41:52,399
the rush the beating uh uh, the horrible beating that

1994
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:53,920
he's that that CJ is taking.

1995
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:59,359
Speaker 6: And and my my reasoning for him not being his

1996
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:02,119
cris is because he's got happy feat back there.

1997
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 10: Uh.

1998
01:42:03,319 --> 01:42:06,079
Speaker 6: Every time he looked up, he's uh, he's his feet

1999
01:42:06,199 --> 01:42:08,239
is just they're just they're just all over the place.

2000
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:10,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, Marty, we got to get to a break,

2001
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:12,479
but appreciate you getting in a lot to address there.

2002
01:42:12,680 --> 01:42:12,800
Speaker 10: Uh.

2003
01:42:13,159 --> 01:42:16,239
Speaker 3: I do think there was some good blocking for Joe Mixon.

2004
01:42:16,479 --> 01:42:18,199
I mean they ran the ball thirty six times for

2005
01:42:18,199 --> 01:42:20,239
one hundred and eighty seven yards. It was well, okay,

2006
01:42:20,319 --> 01:42:23,239
well eight of those are scrambles, so let's let's subtract that. Actually,

2007
01:42:23,439 --> 01:42:26,000
so twenty eight times they ran the ball. There's garbage

2008
01:42:26,039 --> 01:42:29,520
time scrambles too. There were some some of those as well,

2009
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:31,640
So at the end of the day, they could have

2010
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:33,880
done a better job establishing the run. Then it's absolutely

2011
01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:36,880
twofold benefit you get. You let one of your best

2012
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:39,840
offensive player, your best skill player, Joe Mixon. You will

2013
01:42:39,880 --> 01:42:42,199
get the ball into his hands and you keep c J.

2014
01:42:42,319 --> 01:42:44,439
Stroud from getting hit. So yes, they need to do it.

2015
01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:44,680
Speaker 11: More.

2016
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:46,000
Speaker 3: Okay, we got to get to a bottom of the

2017
01:42:46,039 --> 01:42:48,199
our break. More on that when we come back. You

2018
01:42:48,319 --> 01:42:50,079
want to get in you can. It's seven one three

2019
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:53,560
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

2020
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:55,680
one two five seven nighty. It is the Matt Thomas

2021
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:59,479
Show without Matt Thomas, but with Ross and with Adam Clinton.

2022
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:01,760
What with till three o'clock here on Sports Talk seven.

2023
01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:05,640
Speaker 10: Ninety the Rockets coming around from me.

2024
01:43:06,039 --> 01:43:09,720
Speaker 3: Hey everybody, this is Craig Akerman from the Rockets broadcast team. Thankfully,

2025
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:13,279
and finally I am socially distancing myself from Matt Thomas.

2026
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:16,359
Speaker 2: Wait, bye bye to your cash cow because it's leaving

2027
01:43:16,399 --> 01:43:17,039
the past year.

2028
01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 3: Now back to your show. Two thirty two in the PM.

2029
01:43:33,079 --> 01:43:38,000
Here on Sports Talk seven ninety non stop Texans Talk

2030
01:43:38,359 --> 01:43:42,920
Love It, Rosbrial with you Adam Clanton here as well.

2031
01:43:44,119 --> 01:43:46,840
We had the caller in the last segment, yeah, talking

2032
01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:51,520
about I don't know, I haven't seen it a ton

2033
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:52,720
to where I can say, you know what.

2034
01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:53,159
Speaker 14: C J.

2035
01:43:53,279 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 3: Stroud bailed out of that pocket way too early. It's

2036
01:43:55,880 --> 01:43:58,279
just been he's a lot under duress. He's been maybe

2037
01:43:58,359 --> 01:44:00,279
here and there, Gonna have to maybe watch a game

2038
01:44:00,319 --> 01:44:02,000
again tomorrow. I don't know because I was half watching

2039
01:44:02,039 --> 01:44:05,000
the Rockets, half watching the Texans and you had both

2040
01:44:05,039 --> 01:44:06,760
on at the same time. So did you do it?

2041
01:44:07,039 --> 01:44:09,359
Do you have multiple screens? I have multiple screens. Look,

2042
01:44:09,399 --> 01:44:11,880
it's twenty twenty four. You can get good, decent TVs

2043
01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:13,920
for fair fairly cheap. No, No, I know, I know,

2044
01:44:14,159 --> 01:44:16,439
but you know my setup. So no, I don't you've

2045
01:44:16,479 --> 01:44:18,119
been there? Oh the big screen? You only got one.

2046
01:44:18,319 --> 01:44:20,439
Why don't you get now? Is that a projection screare

2047
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:20,680
for you?

2048
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:21,159
Speaker 7: Yeah?

2049
01:44:21,279 --> 01:44:23,039
Speaker 3: So why did you get a projector that can make

2050
01:44:23,119 --> 01:44:26,039
like four screens in one? Uh, you can probably get

2051
01:44:26,079 --> 01:44:28,439
that set up. I'd have to buy a new projector,

2052
01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:30,760
and the projector I bought was like fives. We'll stop

2053
01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:32,880
buying a new jacket every six seconds and then and

2054
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,279
maybe you can get one jackets it would take to

2055
01:44:35,319 --> 01:44:37,039
add up to a projector sell them back.

2056
01:44:37,199 --> 01:44:39,760
Speaker 21: Why don't I just get you know what's funny, We'll

2057
01:44:39,800 --> 01:44:42,640
get it up right now. Multi display projector. Okay, this

2058
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:45,720
is good radio this is such a Matt Thomas show

2059
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:47,960
special right now you looking up here, I guess what

2060
01:44:48,119 --> 01:44:50,680
show this is? Yeah, exactly, and it's anything goes Friday,

2061
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:51,920
so nobody can say anything.

2062
01:44:52,560 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 3: For Friday three hundred and nineteen dollars. Okay, it's gonna

2063
01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:57,720
crap out in like six months if it's that much.

2064
01:44:57,960 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 17: Uh oh No.

2065
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:00,920
Speaker 3: This is a screen actually with projector screen.

2066
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:03,079
Speaker 21: And by the way, if I were gonna do something

2067
01:45:03,159 --> 01:45:05,479
like that, what I would probably do is just put

2068
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:09,399
two smaller monitors underneath the screen where I have a

2069
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:10,239
little wall space.

2070
01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:12,640
Speaker 3: But I don't want to do that. You know, I

2071
01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:12,920
was good.

2072
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 21: The reason I asked is I looked at I was

2073
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:16,800
watching the Texans game on the big screen, and then

2074
01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:19,359
I just streamed the Rockets game on my phone, which

2075
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:21,000
was fine. I just needed to keep an eye on

2076
01:45:21,079 --> 01:45:22,840
those two games. And I'm like, because what I did

2077
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:25,199
is I check on the Rockets score and I see

2078
01:45:25,239 --> 01:45:27,199
that they like like after one it was thirty four

2079
01:45:27,199 --> 01:45:29,560
to twenty one or whatever, and I'm like, oh, okay,

2080
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:32,760
they came to play tonight. And because you know, it's

2081
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:34,920
been hit or miss in the early parts of the season, yes,

2082
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:36,479
it has, especially defensively.

2083
01:45:36,279 --> 01:45:38,439
Speaker 3: Especially against the Charlotte Hornets in the opener that was

2084
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:40,800
that was just brutal. We don't need to talk about it.

2085
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:44,960
Speaker 21: So they go to Dallas and uh, Jalen Green just

2086
01:45:45,119 --> 01:45:47,359
goes off last night. And he didn't go off from

2087
01:45:47,359 --> 01:45:49,720
the standpoint, he scored fifty, but he just took over

2088
01:45:49,800 --> 01:45:51,840
that game in the fourth quarter and you knew Luca

2089
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:52,880
was gonna hit some shots and.

2090
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:55,439
Speaker 3: They were double teams. Are double teaming Jalen Green late

2091
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:57,199
in games. That's that's a sign of respect.

2092
01:45:57,319 --> 01:45:59,520
Speaker 21: But you know what's what's cool about that is some

2093
01:45:59,720 --> 01:46:02,479
credit it that I will give to him. That I'll

2094
01:46:02,520 --> 01:46:04,359
be I'll be honest. I haven't been a huge fan

2095
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:07,039
of Jalen Green in the early stages of his career, yes,

2096
01:46:07,319 --> 01:46:11,119
but he does make good passes when he's doubled in

2097
01:46:11,199 --> 01:46:11,880
those situations.

2098
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:14,359
Speaker 3: He has good court vision, he is getting all he's

2099
01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:18,439
His playmaking and reading of defenses absolutely is improving year

2100
01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:20,800
to year, which you absolutely love to see. And then

2101
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:23,279
I also wanted to get your comments on Victor wibin

2102
01:46:23,319 --> 01:46:27,319
Yama's twenty five point nine rebound, seven assists, five steel,

2103
01:46:27,399 --> 01:46:27,960
five blocking.

2104
01:46:28,079 --> 01:46:30,920
Speaker 21: I'll tell you what my comments on that are about

2105
01:46:31,039 --> 01:46:34,399
time since you went six points eight boards against the

2106
01:46:34,479 --> 01:46:36,760
Thunder in a game that actually mattered two nights prior,

2107
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:37,680
so no credit.

2108
01:46:38,119 --> 01:46:41,680
Speaker 3: Hey the Jazz maybe oh and five exactly? Oh the

2109
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:44,479
Jazz without Rudy Gobert. Yeah that's real impressive, right, But

2110
01:46:44,600 --> 01:46:47,840
the worst team in the NBA. Screw you, Victor, screw

2111
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:50,520
the Spurs. Full Adam Clad experience on this segment. I

2112
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:54,039
love it all right, Well, Felipe, it's been holding alongst

2113
01:46:54,039 --> 01:46:55,199
what's up, Felipe? How are you?

2114
01:46:56,039 --> 01:46:56,479
Speaker 6: What's going on?

2115
01:46:56,640 --> 01:46:56,880
Speaker 17: Guys?

2116
01:46:56,960 --> 01:46:59,760
Speaker 4: It's it runs, I guess now no longer battle Red runs.

2117
01:47:00,439 --> 01:47:04,680
Speaker 3: Hold on, I t oh, because I'm looking at projectors.

2118
01:47:06,079 --> 01:47:08,960
You want to make sure you're gonna have to have

2119
01:47:09,079 --> 01:47:11,960
the hd M I you're gonna want the higher bandwidth

2120
01:47:12,159 --> 01:47:17,640
HDMI cords at him. That's good. Yeah, that's really good now, guys,

2121
01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,039
I real quick comments.

2122
01:47:19,079 --> 01:47:21,359
Speaker 24: I gotta make man last night, you know, and I'm

2123
01:47:21,399 --> 01:47:25,079
gonna say this from a pat Patriots fan standpoint, the

2124
01:47:25,159 --> 01:47:27,800
only football can really watch consistently is Texans.

2125
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:29,199
Speaker 5: So I mean, I'm keeping up with it.

2126
01:47:30,039 --> 01:47:31,199
Speaker 10: Uh Man, last night.

2127
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,399
Speaker 24: I can say this, and we can say it every week,

2128
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:37,000
but Joe Mixon has that dog and man. He he's

2129
01:47:37,039 --> 01:47:39,119
a run like he'll go through, just through the old

2130
01:47:39,159 --> 01:47:41,439
line and just push his way through.

2131
01:47:41,520 --> 01:47:42,319
Speaker 3: He was fighting, man.

2132
01:47:42,439 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 24: I had to give him props for that. That's a

2133
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:48,079
great pick up for the Texans too. Who was our

2134
01:47:48,119 --> 01:47:49,359
other running back last night?

2135
01:47:50,159 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 10: Taylor?

2136
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:55,119
Speaker 3: Okay, that's he's running for his life back.

2137
01:47:56,079 --> 01:47:58,239
Speaker 17: Probably him too, so yeah J J. S.

2138
01:47:58,279 --> 01:47:59,960
Speaker 6: Hitler, Man, I'm not sure.

2139
01:48:00,159 --> 01:48:01,359
Speaker 3: I think it was in a third quarter, man.

2140
01:48:01,439 --> 01:48:04,000
Speaker 24: I tak hip dropped on him. And I just noticed

2141
01:48:04,039 --> 01:48:06,399
recently a lot of them in this league are not

2142
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:09,399
getting called. And that's in every team, every game. And

2143
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:11,039
I just got a bandon.

2144
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 17: He's some you know, has some consistency and go ahead

2145
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:15,119
and start charging these.

2146
01:48:15,039 --> 01:48:15,600
Speaker 4: Players for it.

2147
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:19,399
Speaker 17: And number three, man, the old line woes do continue.

2148
01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:21,399
Speaker 6: And this is going to be the president of this team.

2149
01:48:22,399 --> 01:48:24,239
Speaker 3: Nick Caserio does have to address that old line.

2150
01:48:24,279 --> 01:48:24,399
Speaker 10: Man.

2151
01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:26,920
Speaker 24: You're gonna have your your franchise quarterback run for us

2152
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,600
life every game. I like CD shot, I'm a big

2153
01:48:29,640 --> 01:48:33,479
fan of his. I want him to succeed and uh

2154
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:35,600
and for million years, I've never.

2155
01:48:37,039 --> 01:48:37,720
Speaker 17: Been against him.

2156
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:40,720
Speaker 24: I've always been you know whatever. The look at the Patriots,

2157
01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:43,720
I hope that we beat them. But this every since CJ.

2158
01:48:43,840 --> 01:48:45,239
Shott has been in the league. I've been a big

2159
01:48:45,319 --> 01:48:45,680
fan of his.

2160
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:50,960
Speaker 3: All right, thanks a lot, Felipe, Yeah, I don't. We're

2161
01:48:51,079 --> 01:48:53,039
we're running a long time. I kind of talked about

2162
01:48:53,079 --> 01:48:57,079
it a little bit briefly there Adam about Stan Orfley

2163
01:48:57,159 --> 01:48:59,880
was mentioning Andrews piece. There was Pete there's for the

2164
01:49:00,079 --> 01:49:02,880
Raiders as a guard. That's possible trade like a trade target.

2165
01:49:03,760 --> 01:49:06,600
The trade deadline is November fifth. I believe that's also

2166
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:08,520
the only thing happening in the country on that day

2167
01:49:09,119 --> 01:49:13,880
and nothing else I can think of. I wonder if

2168
01:49:14,159 --> 01:49:18,079
Nick Cassario because he not necessarily I don't want to

2169
01:49:18,079 --> 01:49:21,199
say tipping his hand, but he showed that he was

2170
01:49:21,319 --> 01:49:23,479
willing to go all in for this season to me

2171
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:27,479
by making the Stefan Diggs move and voiding out his contract.

2172
01:49:27,840 --> 01:49:30,800
That move was made to push in all in for

2173
01:49:31,039 --> 01:49:34,199
this year. So will he continue to do that by

2174
01:49:34,359 --> 01:49:39,520
making a possible move along the offensive line and even

2175
01:49:39,560 --> 01:49:42,359
making it easier to make that move. Is the fact

2176
01:49:42,359 --> 01:49:45,479
that Kenyan Green is going to be out for the season. Yeah, well, yeah,

2177
01:49:45,560 --> 01:49:47,920
that's absolutely two things going in your favor.

2178
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:50,359
Speaker 21: If you're looking to do something like that, But I

2179
01:49:50,399 --> 01:49:54,800
mean the hardest part of the schedule from the Texans

2180
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:59,239
perspective is probably behind them, not from the standpoint of talent.

2181
01:49:59,319 --> 01:50:02,239
They've still got you know, tons of games against well,

2182
01:50:02,279 --> 01:50:04,600
they've got a number of games against really good teams,

2183
01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:06,520
not the least of which is the back to back

2184
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:09,920
Murderer's Row of Baltimore in Kansas City or I guess

2185
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:13,119
Kansas City Baltimore in that order. But what I mean

2186
01:50:13,159 --> 01:50:16,239
by that is they've done the dirty work of you know,

2187
01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:19,640
you have swept the Colts, You've already beaten the Jags once.

2188
01:50:19,760 --> 01:50:21,960
I don't think anybody is going to pick the Titans

2189
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:24,880
against them, So you've already gonna have You're already gonna

2190
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:27,039
have five wins in the division right there. Yeah, you're

2191
01:50:27,039 --> 01:50:29,640
in the playoffs, that's not the goal, right But but

2192
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:31,760
what I'm saying is like, if you're all in on

2193
01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:33,960
this season, Okay, the goal is not just to make

2194
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:36,199
the playoffs, like we just got done saying, but if

2195
01:50:36,239 --> 01:50:38,680
you want to have like any shot at you know,

2196
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:42,399
advancing further than you ever have in franchise history, which

2197
01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:44,399
means you're gonna have to win more than one game,

2198
01:50:45,039 --> 01:50:47,279
then you've yeah, you've got to do something. And the

2199
01:50:47,359 --> 01:50:51,439
other part of that is remember when you remember when

2200
01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:55,680
the the initial trade deadline in Major League Baseball past

2201
01:50:55,800 --> 01:50:59,640
back when they had to yes, uh, and the Astros

2202
01:50:59,680 --> 01:51:02,760
didn't do anything and Dallas Kichel spoke out against it. Yes,

2203
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:06,079
and then they got at the second deadline right with

2204
01:51:06,199 --> 01:51:08,159
thirty three seconds to spare or whatever it was.

2205
01:51:08,359 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 3: Thank you, Kate Upton, We love you.

2206
01:51:11,800 --> 01:51:15,680
Speaker 21: He's not exactly the same, but you know, I think

2207
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:17,960
it would send a message to that locker room that

2208
01:51:18,039 --> 01:51:21,680
you're at least trying, and it doesn't have to send them.

2209
01:51:22,279 --> 01:51:23,640
I like that, That's what I mean. And now that

2210
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:26,720
sounds stupid. It sounds like I'm trying to like manufacture

2211
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:27,159
something here.

2212
01:51:27,239 --> 01:51:29,720
Speaker 3: But that's important, I would say more than any other sport,

2213
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:30,960
the locker room matters and football.

2214
01:51:30,960 --> 01:51:33,600
Speaker 21: Look at what happened when Deshaun Watson, you know, put

2215
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:37,800
his achilles on backwards, Like Jameis Winston comes in and yeah,

2216
01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:40,800
maybe James Winston. To this day, it's not probably the

2217
01:51:40,840 --> 01:51:44,399
guy that you would necessarily choose, but it you know,

2218
01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:45,880
that lifted that locker room.

2219
01:51:46,079 --> 01:51:48,319
Speaker 3: Oh, we don't have de Shawn screwing us over every week.

2220
01:51:48,399 --> 01:51:51,760
Now this is awesome. We got crazy Jamis out here

2221
01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:54,399
eating dubs, and they did against the Baltimore Ravens. I

2222
01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:56,399
just do think that's a I mean, look at the

2223
01:51:56,520 --> 01:52:00,359
Jets without Robert sala Are and and you know with well,

2224
01:52:00,399 --> 01:52:03,840
they lost a couple of games in a row, including

2225
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:07,439
I mean the inexplicable loss to the Patriots. I mean,

2226
01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:10,319
my gosh, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go through the

2227
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:12,439
AFC real quick, and you just tell me. I'm gonna

2228
01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:14,159
say neutral Field. We won't say on the road or

2229
01:52:14,239 --> 01:52:19,079
at home, neutral Field Chiefs and Texans Chiefs winging neutral

2230
01:52:19,159 --> 01:52:24,239
Field Ravens and Texans Ravens, neutral Field, Bills and Texans

2231
01:52:24,560 --> 01:52:28,119
now right now, probably Bills. I'm with you.

2232
01:52:29,079 --> 01:52:32,960
Speaker 21: You you're asking them to hold Josh Allen to his

2233
01:52:33,159 --> 01:52:37,119
worst completion percentage in his career again, because that's the

2234
01:52:37,119 --> 01:52:38,920
only time you're gonna have to win that game. And

2235
01:52:39,119 --> 01:52:42,920
I got another one for you, neutral Field Steelers in Texans.

2236
01:52:44,319 --> 01:52:47,000
That's a tough one because I do think that you

2237
01:52:47,119 --> 01:52:50,800
could get to their quarterbacks. I mean, Russell Wilson doesn't

2238
01:52:51,119 --> 01:52:51,720
doesn't scare me.

2239
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:56,840
Speaker 3: TJ Watt, Cam Heyward against this offensive line. I'm gonna

2240
01:52:56,960 --> 01:52:59,840
let you know right now the way that Russell Wilson

2241
01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:02,079
who playing, and George Pickens, and I know they've beaten

2242
01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:04,800
the Raiders, Jets and Giants the last few weeks of

2243
01:53:04,880 --> 01:53:08,880
the teams they've beaten. But yeah, but they went to

2244
01:53:08,920 --> 01:53:12,119
the playoffs with like Mason Rudolph exactly. I think I

2245
01:53:12,239 --> 01:53:14,319
have to put that and at all just at this

2246
01:53:14,600 --> 01:53:17,800
moment two weeks ago, I would have said Texans right now.

2247
01:53:18,039 --> 01:53:21,880
And how much of that is the morale playing into it.

2248
01:53:22,039 --> 01:53:23,239
I know they've got a good culture.

2249
01:53:23,359 --> 01:53:26,239
Speaker 21: I know that the guys are they rally behind CJ,

2250
01:53:26,399 --> 01:53:29,920
and they rally behind obviously De Miko, But I mean,

2251
01:53:30,039 --> 01:53:33,760
my goodness, it's just it's so bad and it's getting worse.

2252
01:53:34,199 --> 01:53:36,359
It got worse from last year to this year. And

2253
01:53:36,439 --> 01:53:38,520
now if you look at his sack totals eight, that's

2254
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:40,199
by far the most in the game all year. I

2255
01:53:40,239 --> 01:53:41,439
think the most before that was five.

2256
01:53:41,920 --> 01:53:44,079
Speaker 3: It was bad last night, and so yeah, maybe some

2257
01:53:44,239 --> 01:53:47,399
recency bias creeping in for us because it was so horrible,

2258
01:53:47,520 --> 01:53:49,720
but they had opportunities to win that game, did not

2259
01:53:49,880 --> 01:53:53,079
get it done. Certainly some issues for the Texans. Okay, Jay,

2260
01:53:53,159 --> 01:53:55,079
we see on hold one segment to go. It is

2261
01:53:55,159 --> 01:53:58,479
the Matt Thomas Show without Matt Thomas. I'm Ross Viria,

2262
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:01,399
Adam Clinton is hanging out. Governor here is here as well.

2263
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,760
A team coming up at three o'clock and the final

2264
01:54:04,840 --> 01:54:08,800
segment of this program after the short break. This is

2265
01:54:08,920 --> 01:54:18,640
the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Yeah,

2266
01:54:18,680 --> 01:54:23,119
you're all mixed up. It was the Lombardi Awards. Are

2267
01:54:23,159 --> 01:54:23,920
you sure? Yeah?

2268
01:54:24,159 --> 01:54:27,720
Speaker 21: Okay, because the other awards show that we've done the

2269
01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,000
last two years in a row is it's the Lombardi

2270
01:54:30,199 --> 01:54:31,359
and then it's the Bear Bryant.

2271
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 3: It wasn't the John mc Award. No, that's for the

2272
01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:37,520
best tight end. Last three winners brock Barwers, brock Barers,

2273
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:39,560
Tree McBride, and those are the two best tight ends

2274
01:54:39,640 --> 01:54:42,399
in football. That awards ceremony is not held here in Houston,

2275
01:54:42,479 --> 01:54:44,039
is it? Notice not? Yeah, that's why we.

2276
01:54:44,039 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 10: Would be there.

2277
01:54:44,880 --> 01:54:48,199
Speaker 3: Anyways, Welcome back to what is this? This is the

2278
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:52,560
Matt Thomas Show, the Matt Thomas Team with Ross, but

2279
01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:55,359
also without Matt Thomas. He is in college station hanging

2280
01:54:55,399 --> 01:55:01,319
out for his son's ring dunking. Uh, what's the process

2281
01:55:01,359 --> 01:55:08,159
there again? Milk the milk uh Indianapolis five hundred. You're

2282
01:55:08,199 --> 01:55:10,159
thinking no, No, I thought there was something with milk

2283
01:55:10,239 --> 01:55:13,600
with Maybe it's beer. Yes, you put the drink, they

2284
01:55:13,680 --> 01:55:15,840
put the they put the ring in the bottom of

2285
01:55:15,880 --> 01:55:17,880
a picture of beer, and then you chug said beer,

2286
01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:20,000
and then people time it and then people throw up.

2287
01:55:20,079 --> 01:55:21,800
It's a whole ordeal. And that's how you're able to

2288
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:25,920
enjoy being in college station. Yes, that was uh, those

2289
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:30,800
were the words of Adam Clinton. There's nothing you can

2290
01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:33,560
say to me that's going to I would never say

2291
01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:38,399
a bad word about college station. You're differentever. But yes,

2292
01:55:38,800 --> 01:55:40,840
so his son doesn't drink, so they're doing it. He

2293
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:42,079
I don't know if they're gonna do. Are they going

2294
01:55:42,119 --> 01:55:44,319
to a pint or a picture of sweet tea? He

2295
01:55:44,439 --> 01:55:46,119
might go in a diabetic shock if he does a

2296
01:55:46,159 --> 01:55:48,520
whole picture, So hopefully he can just I love a

2297
01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:51,600
good sweet tea, sweet tea, I mean sweet tea. This

2298
01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:55,680
is the perfect scenario. Is gotta be with great Texas

2299
01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:58,359
barbecue and sweet tea. Oh, I was just about to

2300
01:55:58,359 --> 01:56:00,479
say it's it's the best with barbecue with a lot

2301
01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:03,399
of meals, but barbecues, barbecue and a sweet tea. That's

2302
01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:05,399
you know what, that's a that's a death row meal

2303
01:56:05,479 --> 01:56:06,520
type stuff. See.

2304
01:56:07,279 --> 01:56:09,159
Speaker 21: What I don't like is that I know that you

2305
01:56:09,319 --> 01:56:11,960
have barbecue prowess and we haven't had any together.

2306
01:56:12,399 --> 01:56:14,439
Speaker 3: Well let's go, Well where are we going? And will

2307
01:56:15,159 --> 01:56:16,760
I work twelve to three? Do you work three to six?

2308
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:19,880
So it doesn't really work out problem all right Saturday.

2309
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:23,239
Speaker 21: Hey, we're both working the Rockets game. I'm just saying, oh,

2310
01:56:23,279 --> 01:56:26,520
we could go somewhere before. What do you want to

2311
01:56:27,119 --> 01:56:28,800
I got to be there early to do the thing

2312
01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:31,000
with the thing. I gotta do pre game too. We'll see,

2313
01:56:31,159 --> 01:56:33,399
I got stuff to do. I see you're very busy.

2314
01:56:33,479 --> 01:56:35,239
Speaker 3: You're like, Matt, You're like, hey, let's do this, let's

2315
01:56:35,279 --> 01:56:37,439
do that, And you're like, oh, I can't, I'm too busy. Yeah, whatever.

2316
01:56:37,640 --> 01:56:39,520
But when I say it, I'm actually doing stuff. And

2317
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:42,560
when he says it, he's just he just wants to

2318
01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:44,880
be invited to stuff. He doesn't really want to go.

2319
01:56:45,199 --> 01:56:48,640
Matt is a he is the king of Fomo. Here

2320
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:51,399
is seven ninety again the words of Adam Klaan Jay

2321
01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:53,840
You're next up here on Sports Talk seven Arty. What's

2322
01:56:53,920 --> 01:56:56,239
up Jakey an RV.

2323
01:56:57,119 --> 01:56:59,279
Speaker 17: Hey, these three suspects tons.

2324
01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:06,039
Speaker 25: How in the green did these guys participate in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: I believe they not. Tunsel didn't. I don't know about

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the others.

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Speaker 5: I don't have to.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the preseason snap counts in front of me.

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Speaker 25: Jay, Okay, okay, Well, you know what the reason I

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asked said is because if they participated in the practice games,

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in preseason games, I mean, they probably could have solid ten.

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Speaker 7: These guys weren't any good.

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Speaker 25: But now you're stuck with him in their contracts and

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there's no more. I mean, where do you go?

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Speaker 6: You keep them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? All right, Jay, thanks for those insights. I don't Laramie.

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Tunsel is overpaid for what he provides, but he's still good,

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and quite frankly, he's still their best offensive lineman. I

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know there's a lot of the baggage and people get upset.

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He goes off, he goes falls starting all the time

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he did last night. He's been having a lot of penalties,

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and he's still their best pass blocker by and still

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one of their best blockers they need Lerrmy Tunzel. It

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is what it is. People are like bench them, benjam

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01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:08,520
He keeps to getting too many penalties. Man, Well, if

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you bench him, then it's Blake Fisher time. And Blake

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Fisher hasn't been very good. He came in for a

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little bit yesterday, and I do think Tunsil isn't one

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hundred percent the way that he was playing yesterday. But

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the bottom line is you need him and you need

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tight his Howard because your other options aren't good. Yeah,

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I think that. Uh, that's kind of what I was

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talking about.

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Speaker 21: Just because you draft and or throw money at something,

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it doesn't mean you've improved it. You've addressed it from

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the standpoint of going go semantics about this, which you

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know we do from three to six. So it's not

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like he was a wide receiver one last night for

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the Texans, thank Deyl, like I said it would be.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's a question only Adam Wexer could answer.

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Speaker 10: Well.

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Speaker 21: His theory was that there wasn't one because Nico Collins

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and Stefan Diggs were out, And really Nico Collins is

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out because even when Stefan Diggs was here and they

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were both healthy.

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Speaker 3: Put on the slot, uh for Stefan Diggs. But yeah,

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Tank Dell six catches, one hundred and twenty six yards,

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had that fifty yarder. He was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Outside of that.

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Speaker 3: Two catches for forty four yards for Robert Woods, I

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mean Robert Woods, three catches for twenty one yards for

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Dalton Schultz and Squad Douche for everyone else, it just wasn't.

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Speaker 21: But again, I can't even I'm not going to put

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that on the receiving corps when the islandbacks under duress

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all the time.

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Speaker 3: Both times that Mechi was open was targeted, he was

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open and CJ Stroud missed those throws. You know what

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I was alarmed at, though, just what you just the

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thing you just mentioned.

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Speaker 21: I went and tweeted about the offensive line and I

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got an inordinate amount of blowbacks saying.

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Speaker 3: Well, CJ suck too. I'm like, y'all need to like

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they're not watching. I'm sorry, rass Man. It's just I

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get it. He's not perfect and nobody thought he would be.

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Speaker 21: But you can't tell me that some of his struggles

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this year aren't because he's under pressure all the time.

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And the caller that said happy feet, that's a real thing.

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Like David Carr came into the league with hey, well

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David Carr sucked by the at the end of the day.

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Speaker 3: The thing about CJ. Stroud and the thing about good

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quarterbacks is he's still been productive now alas uh, yesterday

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the stats weren't great. Was it the other game he had?

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Speaker 10: Really?

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Speaker 3: Was it the Packers game were hold on? Yeah? Yeah,

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he was ten of twenty one for eighty six yards

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02:00:23,479 --> 02:00:25,359
in that game. But I mean, if he was a

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bad quarterback, he would be ten of twenty one for

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02:00:27,960 --> 02:00:30,359
eighty six yards with like two picks, like he's not

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turning the ball over, missing throwers and he was under

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02:00:34,880 --> 02:00:37,880
dress and the Colts game and he ended up twenty

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02:00:37,920 --> 02:00:39,800
five at thirty seven with a touchdown in two hundred

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and eighty five yards, if he was a bad quarterback

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and was pressured at that point in the middle of

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the third quarter, there was like a seventy percent pressure rate.

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You do not have a bad quarterback with a seventy

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02:00:49,039 --> 02:00:51,439
percent pressure rate at one point and you throw two

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02:00:51,479 --> 02:00:54,560
to eighty five touchdown no picks. He has a good quarterback.

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Speaker 21: It's considered a good week when he's only sacked tw twice, Yes,

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I mean, and there is far too many games where

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he has been sacked three or more times, and most

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of them are four. Green Bay got him four times.

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02:01:08,119 --> 02:01:10,800
Minnesota obviously got him four times. I actually thought Minnesota

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got him twenty times. But that's just you know, it

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02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:13,960
felt like feeling like it.

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Speaker 3: But they also committed like seventy six penalties in that game, true,

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02:01:17,640 --> 02:01:20,760
and they turned the ball over three or four times

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in that game. It was bad. In the Minnesota game, yeah,

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02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:28,159
I think it was three. Whatever it was, it wasn't good.

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That was their absolute worst game of the season. And

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02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:33,279
that was kind of a reality check for this Texans

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02:01:33,399 --> 02:01:36,760
two picks in that game. Okay, so he threw a

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02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:39,560
couple of picks I think, didn't they lose a fumble

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02:01:39,640 --> 02:01:43,359
or something. I can't remember anyways, So at the bottom

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02:01:43,399 --> 02:01:46,000
line is they got some time to go to the

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02:01:46,079 --> 02:01:50,560
drawing board. But the Lions are coming up next and

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02:01:50,640 --> 02:01:52,760
that is good to do it for the Matt Thomas

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Show without Matt Thomas with Ross Adam. Thank you for

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02:01:55,479 --> 02:01:58,680
hanging out. Sorry I was late. It's fried. It's three minutes.

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It was an anything goes Friday three mins nothing, you

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02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:04,479
know that. Thanks to stand Norfleet for hanging out. Do

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appreciate him in the first hour. Thanks to all of

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you for calling in talking some Texans ball here on

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02:02:08,880 --> 02:02:11,159
Sports Talk seven aunety. I do appreciate it. It will

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02:02:11,239 --> 02:02:13,680
continue with not only one atom, it is another atom.

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They call themselves the eight Team. Oh, by the way,

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thanks Coconor mc governents. Well, I'll talk to you folks

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tomorrow six o'clock on the launch pad here on Sports

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Talk seven aunty. Your home for your home teams,