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Speaker 1: seven ninety Dan Matthews Live and local h Town breakdown
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Speaker 1: Here's seven nineties Dan Matthews.
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Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you on your home of the
Speaker 3: Astros and the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety. At least
Speaker 3: one of those two gonna be on your airwaves a
Speaker 3: little bit later today. That's, of course the second team
Speaker 3: I mentioned the Rockets, they will be on later tonight
Speaker 3: taking on the Portland Trailblazers, Rossville Reale, going to have
Speaker 3: you covered for Rockets launchpad. Then MT and either of
Speaker 3: the atoms going to be on the call.
Speaker 2: Of course MT there in Portland.
Speaker 3: And I believe it's WEX tonight without looking at it
Speaker 3: in front of me, I'm sure I'll get a text
Speaker 3: from him in a second telling me to look at
Speaker 3: the schedule. You know, you know how wex is semantics, snark,
Speaker 3: you know all of the s's wex as at all.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure he'll probably let me know that here shortly,
Speaker 3: because you know, wex always listening, always listening.
Speaker 2: He's always there. But we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: But of course today, a massive amount of the conversation
Speaker 3: going to be on what's happening in Kansas City at
Speaker 3: three point thirty a little bit later today, that's going
Speaker 3: to be the Texans and the Chiefs Divisional round huge
Speaker 3: one tonight there in Kansas City as the Texans trying
Speaker 3: to make franchise history by taking down the two time
Speaker 3: defending champion Kansas City Chiefs who this season. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, it's funny and you're gonna hear as part
Speaker 3: of our conversation a little bit later on as I'll
Speaker 3: have some of the great interviews we had this week.
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about the just great
Speaker 3: guests that we were able to have on We had
Speaker 3: dan Orlowski with me and Ross when I was in
Speaker 3: for Matt Thomas on Thursday. We're gonna have that sometime
Speaker 3: during the show and also Kevin Harlan, who is going
Speaker 3: to be on the Westwood one radio call today with
Speaker 3: Ross Tucker and his daughter Olivia Harlan Decker is also
Speaker 3: going to be on that call. So it was great
Speaker 3: to be able to catch up with Kevin. And it
Speaker 3: was a double whammie for us with Kevin because the
Speaker 3: night before in Sacramento, he and stan Van Gundy were
Speaker 3: on the call of the Rockets and the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 3: so we were able to get into a little bit
Speaker 3: of Rockets conversation with him as well. So that is
Speaker 3: all for you, So we'll have that a little bit
Speaker 3: later on and then we're also as part of the
Speaker 3: show today, going to get the A team with Sterling Holmes.
Speaker 3: Sterling Holmes is a midday host there in Kansas City
Speaker 3: on eight ten WHB, which is the flagship radio station
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs up there in Casey, so we're going
Speaker 3: to get his perspective of the Chiefs side of things.
Speaker 3: But the Texans for this one at last checked an
Speaker 3: eight and a half point underdog, and as watching the game,
Speaker 3: deview home field advantage on NFL Network right now with
Speaker 3: our good buddy Cynthia Freelan and company. They are talking
Speaker 3: about this game, and yes, it is holding steady right
Speaker 3: there at eight and a half, and I mean, I just,
Speaker 3: you know, I just don't see it. I think this
Speaker 3: is a Kansas City team that all season long has
Speaker 3: kind of by the skin of their teeth one and
Speaker 3: they're fifteen and you know they were six.
Speaker 2: Well were they fifteen and two?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fifteen and two too. For a reason.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's not like it was a
Speaker 3: mistake that the Chiefs were as good as they were
Speaker 3: this season.
Speaker 2: And I say it all the time.
Speaker 3: I think people look at winning close games the wrong
Speaker 3: way is it's not a weakness and it's not an
Speaker 3: indictment on your team. And you can only get lucky
Speaker 3: so many times in the NFL. It becomes a point
Speaker 3: where you know that you can win those games and
Speaker 3: you're comfortable in those situations. And I told you with
Speaker 3: the Texans when they were in so many close games
Speaker 3: and people were saying, oh, that's that's not going to
Speaker 3: be good for later, I said, no, the complete opposite.
Speaker 2: I believe I think that's.
Speaker 3: Going to be great because when you get to this
Speaker 3: time of the year, these are the type of games
Speaker 3: you're going to have you're going to have a tightly
Speaker 3: contested game, and you know, if you're winning and moving on,
Speaker 3: you're probably winning and moving on by about a you know,
Speaker 3: a single score, you know, you know, three or four
Speaker 3: points something like that. I mean, that's that's how you're
Speaker 3: able to move on. So that's what the Texans are
Speaker 3: obviously hoping they can count on today. It's going to
Speaker 3: be a cold one there in Kansas City, so a
Speaker 3: lot to get to on that front. And the Rockets,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, they lost the other night, they snapping
Speaker 3: that five game win streak that they had on their side,
Speaker 3: but trying to start a new tonight in Portland.
Speaker 2: And this has been a fun team to watch. I mean,
Speaker 2: it has been.
Speaker 3: Just awesome, awesome, awesome, And like I said, you know,
Speaker 3: with Kevin Harlan, you know, he was singing the praises
Speaker 3: of em Udoka Rafelstone and the Rockets and what they've
Speaker 3: been able to build up. So it is been a
Speaker 3: lot of fun to be able to keep up with.
Speaker 3: As Jalen Green has been fantastic for the Rockets. And
Speaker 3: you know, I'll say this too, I mean it we're
Speaker 3: probably at least a month away from Jabari Smith junior
Speaker 3: coming back. But we talked about it the other day
Speaker 3: when I was in with Ross on the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 3: Jabari Smith Junior is now a reserve. I mean, you
Speaker 3: necessarily haven't done anything to lose your position, but you
Speaker 3: know what's the old saying, what's the best of what's
Speaker 3: the best ability availability? And you're not available right now,
Speaker 3: and while you're out, Men Thompson is filling in admirably.
Speaker 3: And not only is a men Thompson filling in incredibly well,
Speaker 3: but I mean that's increased minutes for Cam Whitmore, and
Speaker 3: Cam Whitmore has been fantastic off the bench for you.
Speaker 3: I mean he's been pseudo your sixth man. And the
Speaker 3: other night it was also great to get Tory Easten
Speaker 3: back as he's been somebody that I think you have
Speaker 3: sorely missed in what he can give you from a
Speaker 3: defensive perspective as well as you know, just being able
Speaker 3: to just be a bulldog down low on the boards
Speaker 3: and everything else. So it's great to get him back.
Speaker 3: Steven Adams, as he continues to get more and more healthy,
Speaker 3: he has been a massive help for the Rockets. So
Speaker 3: things coming together at the right time for this team,
Speaker 3: and you know, I can't remember. I think it was
Speaker 3: Ben du Bow's when he was on with Ross and
Speaker 3: we used it on Rockets launch pad the other night.
Speaker 3: The Rockets have had one of the most difficult schedules
Speaker 3: in the league. That kind of surprised me. Ben, if
Speaker 3: you're listening, please correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm
Speaker 3: attributing that in the right way to you. But I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, this is still a team that's got to
Speaker 3: play against some of the better teams in the NBA.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, this coming week you're going to
Speaker 3: have the Boston Celtics and then you're going to have
Speaker 3: not back to back in terms of nights, but back
Speaker 3: to back games against the best team record wise in
Speaker 3: the NBA and or at least one of them, in
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Cavaliers. So I mean, that's another test that
Speaker 3: you're going to have. So the Rockets will start to
Speaker 3: see a little bit of an amping up in terms
Speaker 3: of the difficulty of this schedule. But the good news
Speaker 3: for you to this point is that you've been able
Speaker 3: to build a nice little cushion for yourself with these
Speaker 3: wins and taking care of business against some of the
Speaker 3: teams that you need to be able to take care
Speaker 3: of business against. So that's been massive, and they still
Speaker 3: hold on to the second spot in the West, fourteen
Speaker 3: games above five, one hundred and twenty seven and thirteen
Speaker 3: on the season, and trying to make sure they could
Speaker 3: pick up win number twenty eight tonight, that would be massive.
Speaker 3: I was talking about game debut on NFL Network. They
Speaker 3: did a little pick segment just you know, a few
Speaker 3: minutes ago. Our good friend Cynthia Freeland, who we had
Speaker 3: on yesterday with us.
Speaker 2: On the A team.
Speaker 3: She went with the Chiefs but winning twenty six to
Speaker 3: twenty and Patrick Claybaugh went with the Chiefs as well.
Speaker 2: But Greg Rosenthal picking the Texans. So it's not a
Speaker 2: clean sweep right there.
Speaker 3: Usually fan bases, you know, this is more on the
Speaker 3: college game day side that usually fan bases. It is
Speaker 3: a situation where you want your favorite team to be
Speaker 3: picked against and you want everybody to go with them.
Speaker 3: I mean remember in the Georgia Texas game earlier this
Speaker 3: year in Austin, that was the rallying cry for the
Speaker 3: Bulldogs of Hey, you guys all picked Texas to win
Speaker 3: this game. And it's not to say that that's the
Speaker 3: reason they went out there and played the way they did.
Speaker 2: But still it's fun for the fan base.
Speaker 3: Oh you counted us out, you doubted us all of
Speaker 3: these different things. So not everybody doubting the Texans today.
Speaker 3: So Greg Rosenthal picking the Texans to pull off the upset,
Speaker 3: I mean, we dream for a second, how awesome that
Speaker 3: would be. I mean, I'm going to be out somewhere
Speaker 3: later today. Follow me on Twitter if you want to
Speaker 3: find out where I am for the game, as I
Speaker 3: think I actually might be meeting up with Rows and
Speaker 3: Lalima for this one, so we'll see. So if that's
Speaker 3: the case and you spot us out somewhere, come on
Speaker 3: over say hello. But I mean, can you imagine that
Speaker 3: the Texans pull this off? It would be just the
Speaker 3: buzz that that team has created in this town would
Speaker 3: be at a fever pitch if that were the case.
Speaker 2: So we'll see if the Texans.
Speaker 3: Are able to do that a little bit later on
Speaker 3: in the show today as well. I think to start
Speaker 3: off the eleven o'clock hour, one of my absolute favorites
Speaker 3: in the business, and I think many of ours as well.
Speaker 3: Bob Uker passing away earlier this week, from a battle
Speaker 3: with lung cancer. I hated to see the news. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, what wasn't he in life? I think is
Speaker 3: the better question. Because he was on mister Belvidere Wwe
Speaker 3: used him. He was the front row guy for Miller
Speaker 3: LTEs and I saw a nice little touching tribute his
Speaker 3: statue outside of the Brewers Ballpark and people, of course,
Speaker 3: you know whenever a legend passes away, like you know,
Speaker 3: I've told you that for you know, ten plus years
Speaker 3: I worked in Atlanta, and during that time, I was
Speaker 3: there when Hank Aaron passed away. And obviously you know
Speaker 3: what Hank Aaron means not only to baseball but to
Speaker 3: that community. And the amount of flowers, jerseys, hats, whatever
Speaker 3: it was at his statue inside Truest Park. People came
Speaker 3: and put those right next to his statue, in front
Speaker 3: of his statue. And I saw up in Milly that
Speaker 3: there were a lot of Miller Lite cans on Bob
Speaker 3: Uker's statue.
Speaker 2: Of course, you know we knew him from those commercials.
Speaker 3: If you grew up watching Johnny Carson, you remember him
Speaker 3: as being mister Baseball on there. And of course you
Speaker 3: know I've mentioned all of those that had even mentioned
Speaker 3: the one that he's probably most notable for his work
Speaker 3: as Harry Doyle, the voice of the Cleveland Indians on
Speaker 3: Major League So great stuff, and of course, you know
Speaker 3: he had some great one liners during his careers. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna pay tribute to Bob Uker Harry Doyle himself
Speaker 3: a little bit later on, so I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: being able to do that again.
Speaker 2: Just a huge fan of his.
Speaker 3: And if you follow me on Instagram at Dan Matthews
Speaker 3: two seven, I posted a picture of me back in
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen where we were both in the same press
Speaker 3: box together, and I was in the cafeteria there in
Speaker 3: the press box, and I noticed that Bob Buker was there,
Speaker 3: you know, and I knew where he would have to
Speaker 3: walk to get to his booths. So of course I'm
Speaker 3: kind of doing the you know, the creepy you know,
Speaker 3: wait there because I know they have to come through
Speaker 3: here kind of thing. And of course, you know, he's
Speaker 3: walking walking over and I knew that he had enough time,
Speaker 3: so asked him, you know, hey, mister yucker, can I
Speaker 3: get a picture? Absolutely, young man, you know, and of
Speaker 3: course we pose for the picture. Take the picture. And
Speaker 3: you know, just you know, shook his hand and told him,
Speaker 3: really enjoy your work. Oh, I appreciate that very much,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. And he went his way. I
Speaker 3: went my way, but still it was awesome to be
Speaker 3: able to have that brief interaction with him, and like
Speaker 3: many of us, a massive fan of Bob Yucker.
Speaker 2: So we'll have that a little bit later on.
Speaker 3: And also too, we're not too far away from Astros Baseball,
Speaker 3: as we had Astro Line last night to know, Blummer
Speaker 3: caught up with Astro's manager Joe Espada, and next week
Speaker 3: we're going to be at dyke In Park as we
Speaker 3: will be there from eleven until four for Astro's FanFest
Speaker 3: next week. So looking forward to being able to do that.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of you going to be out
Speaker 3: there for it, and it'll be a ton of fun.
Speaker 3: And I think the good news is is with the
Speaker 3: hard freeze this week, at least as I was watching
Speaker 3: the local news weather this morning, I don't think it's
Speaker 3: going to be a downright cold where we are all
Speaker 3: going to be just freezing or you know what's off
Speaker 3: as I don't know what it is about dyke In Park.
Speaker 3: You know, even before it was named after an air
Speaker 3: conditioning company. That's I mean for years, you know, if
Speaker 3: you've been there for the College Baseball Classic or for
Speaker 3: anything else that when it's cold out, I mean it
Speaker 3: seems like it is even colder. It's almost like a
Speaker 3: refrigerator in there when it's cold out. So I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is, but bundle up is so what
Speaker 3: I could tell you if you're going to be out
Speaker 3: there next week. But again, I don't think it's going
Speaker 3: to be incredibly cold, so that's good news.
Speaker 2: So hopefully we can get it on the warmer side
Speaker 2: of winter for that one.
Speaker 3: So we'll be out there and of course stay tuned
Speaker 3: to us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. We'll
Speaker 3: have everybody that's gonna be coming by our table sitting
Speaker 3: down with us talking, and I mean we're not too
Speaker 3: far away. Once you hit you know, once you hit
Speaker 3: Astros fan Fest, then you know, about a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks from there, it's pictures and catchers showing up in
Speaker 3: West Palm Beach, and then a week later it's the
Speaker 3: full squad, and then about a week after that it's
Speaker 3: spring training games right here on your home of the Astros.
Speaker 3: So it's right around the corner. We can feel it
Speaker 3: looking forward to it. H Nick and the galleria, John
Speaker 3: in Galveston. I see you guys right there. I'll get
Speaker 3: to you guys here in a second. If you want
Speaker 3: to join them on the phone lines, you can do so.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Once again,
Speaker 3: that's seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 3: Coming up next though, we'll continue the Texans conversation because
Speaker 3: I feel like a convenient excuse could be had, but
Speaker 3: it won't be the reason. I'll explain what I mean
Speaker 3: at next as we'll get to Like I said, Nick
Speaker 3: and John, I see you all right there, get you
Speaker 3: guys in on the phone lines as we are just
Speaker 3: getting started right here on Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews
Speaker 3: here with you on your home with the Astros and
Speaker 3: the Rockets Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Space City Saturday, Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Talk seven ninety Matthews.
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Speaker 3: Every time I hear this song, I always think of
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Speaker 3: It seems like the last one we're gonna have, at
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Speaker 3: we were all watching the news and keeping up with the weather,
Speaker 3: and you know, Tuesdays seems like I mean, I you know,
Speaker 3: I saw too, Melvin where you know you've got school
Speaker 3: districts already, you know, shutting.
Speaker 2: Down for Tuesdays.
Speaker 3: So it seems like, you know, Tuesday is going to
Speaker 3: be the day of go ahead and have everything taken
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Speaker 3: seven ninety is the number to get in again. Sub
Speaker 3: one three, two and two five seven nine zero. As
Speaker 3: you know, I mentioned that this could be a convenient
Speaker 3: excuse for the Texans today, and I don't think that
Speaker 3: it will be the reason if things don't go their way.
Speaker 3: So our good buddy Aeron Wilson, who covers the Texans,
Speaker 3: and this was talked about this week. With Shaq Mason
Speaker 3: coming back on the practice field, there was a question
Speaker 3: of does he get reinserted back into the starting lineup. Well,
Speaker 3: Aaron Wilson this morning on Twitter pointing out that Mason
Speaker 3: is indeed expected to get the start at right guard
Speaker 3: today and I know that that immediately brings up some
Speaker 3: of the reactions. I mean, I didn't see any of
Speaker 3: the responses to it, but it was just a few
Speaker 3: hours ago. Got he he had it just after five am.
Speaker 2: Aaron, when do you sleep? Man?
Speaker 3: But veteran guard Shack Mason back from a grade to
Speaker 3: knee sprain back in starting lineup playoff game against the
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs. Now Like I said, I don't think
Speaker 3: this will be the reason if indeed today does not
Speaker 3: go well. But I mean the question that I have
Speaker 3: for not only Bobby Slowick, but offensive line coach Chris Strasser,
Speaker 3: Tamiko Ryans, I mean, everybody that's making this decision is why,
Speaker 3: like what necessarily has Shack Mason done this year to
Speaker 3: make you say, oh, we have to have him back
Speaker 3: in the starting lineup because what have we heard the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks from the Texans when it comes
Speaker 3: to this offensive line.
Speaker 2: We really like their play. They've been a lot better.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we talked and I talked with
Speaker 3: Titus Howard after the game and I asked him, is
Speaker 3: this group of five offensive linemen are you guys coming together?
Speaker 3: And he said emphatically yes, we are, Like we like
Speaker 3: what we have up front right now, and then of
Speaker 3: course versus he hit the left guard, Larrymy Tunzel left tackle,
Speaker 3: Jared Patterson at center, Jew Scruggs at right guard, and
Speaker 3: Blake Fisher at right tackle. And I mean that's again
Speaker 3: getting back to the why why mess that up? I mean,
Speaker 3: I said the line in the first segment the best
Speaker 3: ability is availability, and Shack Mason hasn't been on the field,
Speaker 3: and those couple of weeks that you've had this group
Speaker 3: of starting five, I understand that the Tennessee game was
Speaker 3: a little bit of an outlier because it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 3: a game that you were giving it a full go in,
Speaker 3: and neither was Tennessee because it was more advantageous for
Speaker 3: them to lose then for them to be able to win.
Speaker 3: But last week, its second half against the Los Angeles Chargers,
Speaker 3: you had your best performance of the season as an offense,
Speaker 3: and I think a huge part of that was the
Speaker 3: guys up front and what you were able to do
Speaker 3: against a very good LA Chargers defensive front, and you
Speaker 3: were able to keep them off your quarterback for the
Speaker 3: most part, art you were able to run the football.
Speaker 3: I mean that was the first time since December, the
Speaker 3: one when the Texans beat the Jags in Jacksonville that
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon had gone above one hundred yards in a game.
Speaker 3: And I mean, it just kind of gets to a
Speaker 3: point where it's paralysis by analysis.
Speaker 2: It's overthinking it.
Speaker 3: I mean, how many times are you told by your friends,
Speaker 3: don't overthink it, don't overthink it. This is overthinking it
Speaker 3: one hundred percent. This is overthinking it. And I just,
Speaker 3: for the life of me, I can't understand, you know,
Speaker 3: the desire to have Shaq Mason back in this starting
Speaker 3: offensive line, because for the most part this season, he
Speaker 3: has not been good. And I think going forward, even
Speaker 3: if you know, you go into the offseason at about
Speaker 3: seven o'clock tonight or if you're preparing for a game
Speaker 3: next week after this season comes to an end, I
Speaker 3: don't have him back. He's one of the guys that
Speaker 3: I think you go ahead and move on from and
Speaker 3: try to rebuild this offensive line in the effort to
Speaker 3: protect your top and.
Speaker 2: Which is your quarterback number seven, C J. Stroud.
Speaker 3: And it's been a rough season on him from that perspective,
Speaker 3: So again, I think that it can be a convenient
Speaker 3: excuse him. I'm sure that the tweets will be fast
Speaker 3: and furious today if indeed, you know, things don't go
Speaker 3: their way, and C. J. Stroud is consistently pressured. But
Speaker 3: I mean again, you know, kind of to do a
Speaker 3: little bit of a best of X right here. I
Speaker 3: mean some of the responses that Aaron getting to that tweet.
Speaker 3: One of them smh, another one, No, hell no, so
Speaker 3: he can get beat every single play again another one.
Speaker 3: I am disappointed with the decision. While I trust the coaches.
Speaker 3: The lines of the line has been below average all season.
Speaker 3: We did some decent improvement after he left with injury.
Speaker 3: So I mean, look, I understand the frustration of it all,
Speaker 3: and I share a lot of it too, but I just,
Speaker 3: for the life of me, you know, Chris Strausser and company,
Speaker 3: you got to explain this one to me, because I mean,
Speaker 3: you went ahead and made the right decision when it
Speaker 3: came to Kenyon Green. You know what Kenyon Green is
Speaker 3: at this point, and injuries are a part of his development.
Speaker 3: But when he's been on the field, he's not been
Speaker 3: good for you. And that's been something that I just
Speaker 3: when you have something consistently going in your right direction
Speaker 3: at this point, that you now decide to go ahead
Speaker 3: and say, oh, well, you know, he's one of our
Speaker 3: our our veteran guys in that group.
Speaker 2: We've got to put him back out there.
Speaker 3: I'm not riding with you on that, so I mean,
Speaker 3: I've I've shared my objections about it. I'm sure some
Speaker 3: of you have some as well. Against someone three two, one, two, five,
Speaker 3: seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Is the number to get in.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Nick in the gallery has waited patiently enough. Let's get
Speaker 3: to you, Nick. What's going on, buddy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I had a question in the light of all this
Speaker 5: Larmi Tounzel stuff throughout the season. You know how how
Speaker 5: players have incentives in their contract to reach certain numbers.
Speaker 6: Can can you do the opposite approach and.
Speaker 5: Find a player for each you know, hey, man, after
Speaker 5: your first five off sides or you know, fall starts,
Speaker 5: we're gonna start funding you, you.
Speaker 6: Know, five grand of pop here.
Speaker 5: Can you start doing that to like Lineman or to
Speaker 5: whoever would be causing you negative impacts based on their
Speaker 5: poor play?
Speaker 3: No, you cannot, And if you did try to do that, Nick,
Speaker 3: you would have the NFLPA filing so many grievances against
Speaker 3: you in such a quick amount of time. And I
Speaker 3: think you would even have guys in your own locker
Speaker 3: room saying, whoa wait a minute, you're taking money out
Speaker 3: of my pocket for things on the field. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, the penalties, things like that. I mean, you
Speaker 3: at that point leave it up to the league. But no,
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's frustrating, I know it's annoying.
Speaker 3: It's all of those things, and of course they try
Speaker 3: to handle it a different way, but no, you would
Speaker 3: be in Dutch with the NFLPA and maybe even the
Speaker 3: league at that point because they'd be like, hey, you're
Speaker 3: creating a situation for us that we don't want.
Speaker 5: Could you could The Texans management kind of threw their
Speaker 5: hands up in the air just say like, listen, you
Speaker 5: know anything. Knowing is it's not going to get approved,
Speaker 5: but just to say, hey, learn me. It's that bad
Speaker 5: that we tried to start finding you five thousand dollars
Speaker 5: per penalty because you're doing that much harm. Yeah, you
Speaker 5: think that could be something that as a statement, but
Speaker 5: not as.
Speaker 6: An actual policy.
Speaker 3: Again, I mean, I just I think you're getting into
Speaker 3: grievance territory. I appreciate the call, Nick, we're up against
Speaker 3: it here, but no, I mean again, you would have
Speaker 3: a grievance filed against you so fast that you wouldn't
Speaker 3: even be able to get to the point where you're
Speaker 3: trying to be able to recoup.
Speaker 2: Some of that money.
Speaker 3: I mean, I get it with Tunsel at times this
Speaker 3: season it's been frustrating, but also though too. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, he had a lot of them early on
Speaker 3: in the beginning of the season, and you haven't heard
Speaker 3: number seventy eight announced by the official on the fie
Speaker 3: as often in the later going this season, so I
Speaker 3: think at least it's been message received by him. But
Speaker 3: in terms of teams doing that, you're not gonna have that.
Speaker 3: You don't want to set that precedent because you start
Speaker 3: doing that. I mean, you know, the Texans are trying
Speaker 3: to improve this offensive line this offseason, and if you're
Speaker 3: trying to go out on the free agent market, you
Speaker 3: do stuff like that, don't you think that other players
Speaker 3: are gonna be like, well, hell, I'm not going there
Speaker 3: if I've got to do that much overthinking on the
Speaker 3: field in addition to my play, Yeah, it's a non starter.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate to call Nick, but yeah, not happening.
Speaker 3: The best you can do is try to coach it
Speaker 3: out of him, and that's at least what Chris Strausser
Speaker 3: and the Texans coaching staff have tried to do all right.
Speaker 3: Coming up next, as I mentioned yesterday on the A team,
Speaker 3: we had a very very very special guest. I know
Speaker 3: that AC was especially excited at when he joined us,
Speaker 3: Kevin Harlan, who of course is going to be on
Speaker 3: the west Wood one radio call today, but also we
Speaker 3: know that he's with Tea and Tea. You see him
Speaker 3: on CBS with the NFL coverage and also part of
Speaker 3: March Madness. He is just a treasure in every single way.
Speaker 3: So we appreciate Kevin Harlan's time and it was great visits.
Speaker 3: So I want to give you guys a chance to
Speaker 3: be able to hear that that's coming up next right here,
Speaker 3: Space City Saturday. Dan Matthews here with you until noon
Speaker 3: on your home of the Astros and the Rockets Sports
Speaker 3: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: This is Space City Saturday on Scorns Talk seven night.
Speaker 3: The Rockets, one of those teams comes up in the
Speaker 3: conversation you're going to hear right now because Kevin Harlan,
Speaker 3: the legendary voice of CBS Sports. You also see him
Speaker 3: as we did on Thursday night as part of the
Speaker 3: Rockets or excuse me, the NBA coverage there on TNT,
Speaker 3: and also today you're going to be hearing them on
Speaker 3: the radio if you're listening to the west Wood One
Speaker 3: call of the Texans and the Chiefs. He does it all,
Speaker 3: and he's incredibly talented and incredibly entertaining, all in one swoop.
Speaker 3: So we appreciate Kevin Harlan's time with us yesterday on
Speaker 3: the A team. So here is our visit with one
Speaker 3: of the legends of our business.
Speaker 7: Joined as promised by the Man, the myth, the legend,
Speaker 7: friend of the show.
Speaker 6: His name is Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 7: Kevin, I know you're calling the Texans Chiefs game tomorrow
Speaker 7: and I should hesitate to congratulate you because it's not
Speaker 7: official yet, but I'm really rooting for that Amazon deal,
Speaker 7: and I'm just going to say it out here in public.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. Yeah, we're not quite we're not quite there.
Speaker 4: Were trying to figure out a few things. Will be
Speaker 4: nice to say that. By the way, I didn't see
Speaker 4: your Rockets last night. Did the game for TNT out
Speaker 4: in Sacramento, and that's a good young team you have
Speaker 4: out there. My goodness, it's the first time I've seen
Speaker 4: them in person actually, and wow, at TNT, we haven't
Speaker 4: done the Rockets and for so this was really a
Speaker 4: treat to see what has happened. They kind of fell
Speaker 4: off the NBA map, but not no longer number two
Speaker 4: in the West and playing well and even though they
Speaker 4: didn't win last night in the second of a back
Speaker 4: to back for them after beating Denver the night before,
Speaker 4: there's a lot to like about that team. But the
Speaker 4: NBA is a great product. I'm honored that they want
Speaker 4: to have me maybe involved and in the next chapter
Speaker 4: of how they're going to televise these games, and we'll
Speaker 4: see where it takes us.
Speaker 8: We are the home for the Rockets on the radio,
Speaker 8: the flagship station. But obviously we are aware you and
Speaker 8: Stan had the call of the game last night, and
Speaker 8: I definitely hear what you're saying about they've not been
Speaker 8: there in a while on national TV on TNT, because
Speaker 8: we've talked about that quite a bit. It's a totally
Speaker 8: new era with what the email has put together and
Speaker 8: obviously the talent that Rafel has added to this team.
Speaker 8: And obviously we could go on and on about how
Speaker 8: exciting they are to watch now that you've seen them
Speaker 8: just the last night. But obviously a little focus on
Speaker 8: the postseason game tomorrow with your crew, with Westwood One
Speaker 8: coming in for it or going to Kansas City for it. It's
Speaker 8: kind of like every year to us here, who's going
Speaker 8: to be Kansas City? Who's going to keep them out
Speaker 8: of the AFC Title Game at least if not the
Speaker 8: Super Bowl? What has come to your attention this week
Speaker 8: that makes you even think, yeah, maybe it's the Texans.
Speaker 4: Well, the dynamic playmakers on defense, which we saw. Trent
Speaker 4: Green and I did a couple of the Texans games
Speaker 4: for CBS's past year. Most recently we did the game
Speaker 4: they played against Miami down in Houston, and the defense
Speaker 4: was just superb. And after watching what they did last week,
Speaker 4: to Justin Herbert, they're right in line and building in confidence,
Speaker 4: and I don't think they're going to blink. You know,
Speaker 4: they just played the Chiefs this season late in the
Speaker 4: year and lost, but it's not like they're coming in
Speaker 4: having never faced them, not knowing what they've got and
Speaker 4: how they work. They're in the playoffs last year, they're
Speaker 4: in the playoffs this year. They got to win now,
Speaker 4: and I think why not? Why not the Texans? I
Speaker 4: know that in a lot of people's dance cards, it
Speaker 4: may not be that close the game. I think just
Speaker 4: the opposite. Quite frankly, I think I think the the
Speaker 4: Dexans will come in. I think they'll play loose, and
Speaker 4: I think they'll rely on that defense. I think the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks playing with confidence, and I mean, you just never
Speaker 4: know in these games. Right, We've seen some amazing spreads
Speaker 4: and the underdog has come in out of no place
Speaker 4: and won. And it would be a formidable challenge clearly
Speaker 4: to come to Arrowhead and win tomorrow. But I don't
Speaker 4: see any reason why you'd be amazed if they came
Speaker 4: in and beat the Chiefs. The Chiefs have been beat
Speaker 4: the ball season. They have just found ways late in
Speaker 4: games to win. They played it with a lot of grit,
Speaker 4: and but when you live on the edge like that,
Speaker 4: sometimes some of the magic that you pull off doesn't
Speaker 4: necessarily work. And I think that's what the Dexans are
Speaker 4: counting on and trying to build off of last week's
Speaker 4: nice went over the Chargers.
Speaker 7: You've been in a million different venues, You've called a
Speaker 7: billion different games, and it just doesn't always line up
Speaker 7: this way where a team goes back to the same
Speaker 7: venue they just played in about a month ago. And
Speaker 7: you know, sometimes people buy into things like that or
Speaker 7: look into things like that because it's Arrowhead, because it's
Speaker 7: the Chiefs, because it's.
Speaker 6: Mahomes and the aura and all that.
Speaker 7: Do you think there's any advantage to having just been
Speaker 7: there for this Texans team as it pertains to this
Speaker 7: playoff game tomorrow?
Speaker 4: I do you know? I know that this is the
Speaker 4: scene where Tank was injured and the loss for the season,
Speaker 4: and the emotional loss that was let alone. The loss
Speaker 4: was on the field, and his close relationship with CJ.
Speaker 4: But I would envision that might be a rallying Cris
Speaker 4: saying let's go back to the the crime, so to speak,
Speaker 4: and and and see, uh see if we can. They're
Speaker 4: not gonna blink. Like I mentioned before, they've uh if
Speaker 4: you haven't played someone in a long time and aren't
Speaker 4: and and all you do is you watch and read
Speaker 4: about what they've accomplished in the championships they've gotten. I
Speaker 4: can see where a team that's an uncommon opponent would
Speaker 4: come in with a little bit of like like a
Speaker 4: little wonder, a little bit of like uh oh like,
Speaker 4: but not I don't get that from the Texans. I
Speaker 4: I like you said, they just played them, familiar opponent,
Speaker 4: and uh they know exactly what they are. So some
Speaker 4: of that aura, so to speak, some of that that
Speaker 4: that mystical feel that championship teams always possess. I don't
Speaker 4: know that that's going to be an influence on the
Speaker 4: Texans at all. I think they're going to look at
Speaker 4: just another football game and just try not to make
Speaker 4: mistakes and a lot of resting on that young quarterback, clearly.
Speaker 4: But when you have the kind of defense they've got
Speaker 4: and what they showed last week, defense can travel in
Speaker 4: this league regardless of the of the weather conditions. And
Speaker 4: it is going to be cold in Kansas City tomorrow
Speaker 4: for sure, but the Chiefs are going to have to
Speaker 4: play in it too. So I do think it's an
Speaker 4: advantage that they've just played them. They know about them,
Speaker 4: and it's not like they've they've just been looking at
Speaker 4: Afar and wondering, you know, what it's like to play
Speaker 4: the great Mahomes. They just did it, and they and
Speaker 4: while they lost, they it was a close game and
Speaker 4: tight game's.
Speaker 8: Talking with Kevin Harlan will be on the call of
Speaker 8: Westwood One Radio of this game coming up between the
Speaker 8: Texans and the Chiefs.
Speaker 6: Kind of along those same lines.
Speaker 8: It's the fourth playoff game in you know, thirteen months
Speaker 8: for CJ. Stroud and Will Anderson Junior and Demiko Ryan's
Speaker 8: all new to the league, but now not new to this.
Speaker 8: Do you think that also plays into just going out
Speaker 8: there and playing football beyond being worried about anything else
Speaker 8: that now they're kind of used to what playoff football
Speaker 8: is like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And what a blessing right that these kids have
Speaker 4: been exposed to big games as early in their career,
Speaker 4: games that are important and matter. You know, a playoff
Speaker 4: game in any sport is such a great experience. But
Speaker 4: to go through it as they have now multiple times
Speaker 4: for young players in two years of the young coach, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, this is just it's you could not ask
Speaker 4: for a better recipe to to broad development, to aid development,
Speaker 4: to you know, be a you know, to to join
Speaker 4: the growth that these games always bring out of the players.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt that you know, you can play a
Speaker 4: regular season game and and it's it's amazing in the
Speaker 4: NFL or the NBA or whatever sport, but the playoffs
Speaker 4: are always faster, sharper, require more focus. They just it does.
Speaker 4: It takes it to another level. And the fact that
Speaker 4: these young players are now playing in multiple games at
Speaker 4: this stage of their careers only adds and in fact
Speaker 4: in the kind of team they are to become and
Speaker 4: the kind of players they're going to become. Listen, this
Speaker 4: is the way that CJ and Anderson have developed, and
Speaker 4: what Denil has done for that team since he's been there,
Speaker 4: and the way that secondary I love that secondary, by
Speaker 4: the way that secondary that as the makings that secondary,
Speaker 4: if they stay on this path, could become one of
Speaker 4: the great secondaries ever. I mean, I just think there's
Speaker 4: enough talent. It's young, but boy, if they've been incredibly impactful,
Speaker 4: and sometimes you know you, age doesn't matter. It's skill,
Speaker 4: it's concentration, it's focus, it's preparation. They'll come the Texans
Speaker 4: will with all those assets and arrow at tomorrow. I
Speaker 4: don't think they blink. I think they come in there
Speaker 4: and they play a whale of a game. Winning is
Speaker 4: one thing, but they would not get embarrassed. They'll build
Speaker 4: upon last week. Brain's going to continue to roll. This
Speaker 4: is all This is the good stuff right here. These
Speaker 4: are the beginning moments of what's to come, and clearly
Speaker 4: what's to come for this young team, young coach, young
Speaker 4: quarterback is incredibly impressive.
Speaker 7: Kevin Harlan providing the goosebumps here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 7: to ninety right now. You know, we talk about the
Speaker 7: future and the promise of this Texan squad and then you,
Speaker 7: obviously on the other side, you have the establishment. And
Speaker 7: as a guy who called so many of Tom Brady's
Speaker 7: amazing games, did you ever think we'd be even having
Speaker 7: discussions with a straight face that Patrick Mahomes or anybody
Speaker 7: at the quarterback position might be able to chase his
Speaker 7: ring count down at least this early on after Brady
Speaker 7: finally walked away.
Speaker 4: Now, I really didn't, and you hit all the points.
Speaker 4: So this close to the end of that New England
Speaker 4: dynasty and Brady's run to do this is just unbelievable.
Speaker 4: They have met the two of them in the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl when Brady was with the Buccaneers and Brady beat him,
Speaker 4: so they have crossed at this very important level before.
Speaker 4: But I don't think anybody after watching Brady and Belichick,
Speaker 4: you know, for those twenty years in Voxborough, do what
Speaker 4: they did. The succession of Super Bowl appearance is the wins.
Speaker 4: You're saying, you know, it's no one to even come
Speaker 4: close to it. And here we have a guy right
Speaker 4: on the heels of that who is on that same path.
Speaker 4: And he's not thirty yet. Mahmes is not thirty years
Speaker 4: old yet. So the coach is there, he's in his
Speaker 4: mid sixties. He has no place to go. He wants
Speaker 4: the coach the organization. Although they lost one of their
Speaker 4: assistant general managers to the Tennessee Titans, today is their
Speaker 4: new guy in charge of football down in Nashville. And
Speaker 4: there's a little brain train. And this is kind of
Speaker 4: what happened to the Patriots. By the way. They lost
Speaker 4: assistant coaches, they lost a lot of front office people,
Speaker 4: and they just they just could not stop the flow
Speaker 4: that people were escaping too quick and it was hard
Speaker 4: to replenish those important positions. And the chiefs are actually
Speaker 4: in a position where they may not only lose their
Speaker 4: assistant GM who they coveted, but they could lose both
Speaker 4: their coordinators. So when you have a run like Brady
Speaker 4: and Belichick, they're that certainly the number one sentence in
Speaker 4: that story, But it's all the people that were there
Speaker 4: at the same time, you know, holding out of the
Speaker 4: rope and pulling in the right direction that made Brady
Speaker 4: and Belichick possible. And I think that that Reid and
Speaker 4: Mahomes would say the same thing. It wasn't just us,
Speaker 4: although we may be, you know, the headline. It's been
Speaker 4: the assistant gms. It's been the coordinators. It's been the
Speaker 4: assistants and the staff and the personnel to draft and
Speaker 4: continue to replenish what we have and go out and
Speaker 4: scout like so, it takes a lot of different parts
Speaker 4: to make it happen and when it and it's so rare,
Speaker 4: you know, you can count Dinadh in the NFL in
Speaker 4: one hand. We had Green Bay, we had Dallas, we
Speaker 4: at San Francisco, we had Pittsburgh, and clearly we had
Speaker 4: New England. And now we've got Kansas City. But that's
Speaker 4: over fifty plus years of football, sixty years of football,
Speaker 4: so they're hard to achieve. But clearly in Kansas City,
Speaker 4: this has been a remarkable, remarkable story.
Speaker 7: He called the Rockets game last night. He's going to
Speaker 7: call the Texans Chiefs tomorrow. He's Kevin Harlan, by the way,
Speaker 7: unabashed fanboy moment.
Speaker 6: Marv Albert was always my guy.
Speaker 2: You are now my favorite.
Speaker 7: You're at the top of the list, and we love
Speaker 7: talking to you every time we get a chance.
Speaker 4: Kevin Harlan interviews and that I take that as an
Speaker 4: incredible honor. Marvis d Boys will always be the voice
Speaker 4: of the NBA and just to be able to call
Speaker 4: that great game is terrific. And I'll tell you this
Speaker 4: what I saw last night, And like I said, I
Speaker 4: had not done a Rocket scheme. I was thinking last
Speaker 4: I think Doug Collins was my partner, and I'm going
Speaker 4: and back like six seven, eight years, like forever. And
Speaker 4: we used to be down there all the time when
Speaker 4: Harden was there and and they were writing up the NBA.
Speaker 4: But this team seems to have a lot to it.
Speaker 4: They've got depth, they have talent. It's funny actually, how
Speaker 4: the Rockets and the Texans are kind of on parallel paths.
Speaker 4: They rely on young superstar talent, the talent teams, but
Speaker 4: sure enough to handle the the duty, the job in
Speaker 4: front of them, and they're not They're not disappointing. It's
Speaker 4: it's it's great to watch this revitalization of these two,
Speaker 4: these two franchises. But I'm excited to watch tomorrow. The
Speaker 4: Texans are a quality team. They deserve to be in
Speaker 4: this round, their division champ and I think they'll give
Speaker 4: the Chiefs all they can handle.
Speaker 7: Good stuff as always, Kevin Harlan, we appreciate the time
Speaker 7: and looking forward to hearing your call tomorrow and catching
Speaker 7: up with you again very very soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, great great to be out with you.
Speaker 4: Take here and have a nice weekend, all right.
Speaker 3: We definitely will try to do that, Kevin Ken Kevin
Speaker 3: harl And joining us yesterday on the A team and
Speaker 3: Rockets Sexans fans, you got to feel good about what
Speaker 3: he had to offer right there. Of seeing the trajectory
Speaker 3: of both organizations definitely on the up.
Speaker 2: That is great to hear.
Speaker 3: For sure, the Texans today a huge part of what
Speaker 3: could lead to their success. I think we all know it,
Speaker 3: and it's all about him. We'll talk about that next
Speaker 3: here on the other side as we close out our
Speaker 3: one here on Space City Saturday.
Speaker 2: Again, Dan Matthews here with you.
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Speaker 9: This is.
Speaker 2: Matthew's here with you.
Speaker 3: A great trash you, Ivan. I appreciate you bringing us
Speaker 3: in with good stuff today. As we always know that
Speaker 3: Melvin is going to be all over it when it
Speaker 3: comes to the bumpbacks. He's one of the dynamite guys
Speaker 3: in our business for a reason, so we appreciate him
Speaker 3: doing that. Again, if you want to hop aboard on
Speaker 3: the phone lines, he can do so. Set one three
Speaker 3: two one two five seven ninety. Once again, that's seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two five seven nine zero. So
Speaker 3: we've talked about what the keys are for the Texans today.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I've given my thoughts on the
Speaker 3: reported news that Shack Mason will be back on the
Speaker 3: offensive line as a starter. I've given my objections. I've
Speaker 3: told you I feel about that. We've talked all week
Speaker 3: about this defense, and you just heard Kevin Harland, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, talking glowingly about the Texans not only this defense,
Speaker 3: but the defensive playmakers, as he said, and even calling
Speaker 3: his shot with the secondary of Derek Stingley, Kamari Laster,
Speaker 3: Kayln Bullock of saying that that group could be one
Speaker 3: of the best for some time to come here in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and there would be no better way and
Speaker 3: no better place to prove that you were well on
Speaker 3: your way to doing that than today in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: So we'll see if they are able to do that.
Speaker 3: But trumping all of those is the play of c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 3: Now we saw in the second half last week against
Speaker 3: the Chargers in the wildcard game.
Speaker 2: That was the CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud that we saw all throughout twenty twenty three, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, right, Like, that's the guy that was confident,
Speaker 3: he was making plays, he was stepping into his throws.
Speaker 2: He was that guy again.
Speaker 3: And it's also a question of can that translate to
Speaker 3: this week?
Speaker 2: I mean, because that.
Speaker 3: Was incredibly refreshing to see. After he had the fumbled
Speaker 3: snap and you know, running scrambling out to his right,
Speaker 3: finding Xavier Hutchinson and leading to the Texans Furst score
Speaker 3: of the game, you were.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, Okay, hey, hey, he's that guy. Again
Speaker 2: like there you go.
Speaker 3: We knew number seven, we knew he had that in
Speaker 3: him still and still trying to be able to prove
Speaker 3: that he can do that this week against Kansas City.
Speaker 2: And CJ did speak with the.
Speaker 3: Media earlier this week and going to play a couple
Speaker 3: of those cuts for you right here as the first
Speaker 3: one we're gonna have for you. So the second time
Speaker 3: the Texans are seeing the Chiefs this season. The first time,
Speaker 3: of course, it was the injury to Tank Dell that
Speaker 3: kind of zapped the energy out of this team. After
Speaker 3: Jared Wayne ran into his knee on that touchdown catch
Speaker 3: and they had to bring the card out, there was
Speaker 3: an emotional scene on the field. We've gone through all
Speaker 3: of that part of it all, but CJ talking about
Speaker 3: seeing the Chiefs for the second time and how it
Speaker 3: could really be a benefit to the Texans this time around.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you definitely got to go back and you know,
Speaker 10: see you know, things that work, things that didn't work,
Speaker 10: you know, and I think that definitely helped playing them
Speaker 10: so recently. But you know, they also have that advantage
Speaker 10: as well, so you know, we got to be able
Speaker 10: to you know, still have a new game plan and
Speaker 10: do things that are you know, new and but yeah,
Speaker 10: it definitely does help to see the I know your
Speaker 10: team again and you know they're you know, they do
Speaker 10: a lot of great things, and you know, we didn't
Speaker 10: really see a whole bunch of it, I think of
Speaker 10: the exotic things, so you know, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 10: if that stuff started to show up. So yeah, but
Speaker 10: it definitely does help that we've seen them not too
Speaker 10: not too long ago.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you know he touched on it right there.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is an outstanding coaching staff with Andy
Speaker 3: Reid and with Steve Spagnolo there in Kansas City. The
Speaker 3: defense is one of the best in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's going to have his work cut out for him today.
Speaker 3: And they're also going to look at what didn't work
Speaker 3: the first time against the Texans. What can we exploit
Speaker 3: in terms of giving it to our you know, helping
Speaker 3: ourselves out to our advantage in terms of being able
Speaker 3: to make those adjustments against the Texans this time around,
Speaker 3: and CJ and the offense trying to do the same
Speaker 3: thing today. But you know, I mentioned Tank Dell and
Speaker 3: what happened there in Kansas City the first time. Another
Speaker 3: bit of motivation for CJ in the crew today is
Speaker 3: last week they had Tank Dell and Stefon Diggs on
Speaker 3: the sidelines with them, and the players talked about what
Speaker 3: a huge morale boost that was. Well, trying to continue
Speaker 3: that morale boost up in Kansas City today. CJ talking
Speaker 3: about trying to get it done for number three.
Speaker 10: You know, it's emotional spar we play, especially, you know
Speaker 10: when you be with somebody for so long, you know,
Speaker 10: you see how hard they work, you know how much
Speaker 10: they led a game, and you know the sea tangle
Speaker 10: out like that was was very tough. And I think
Speaker 10: you've been seeing him this weekend after game and better spirits,
Speaker 10: you know, smiling again and gave us like a boost energy.
Speaker 10: So you know, now we got to go do it
Speaker 10: for him away in the same stadium he got hurt,
Speaker 10: But you know we got to find a way not
Speaker 10: sage emotional and channel Dad. And I think we'll be
Speaker 10: able to do that and you know, just be more
Speaker 10: inspired than anything and try to get it done for him.
Speaker 2: See, and I talked about this.
Speaker 3: I had zero issues with CJ and the emotions she
Speaker 3: showed that was genuine. It was in the moment that's
Speaker 3: how he felt. And I know that some people, you know,
Speaker 3: said out the quarterback can't do that, quarter can't show
Speaker 3: any weakness.
Speaker 2: All of those different things.
Speaker 3: We kind of touched on it right there of you
Speaker 3: know a little bit at the end of that cut,
Speaker 3: taking the emotions out of it, and you know, realizing
Speaker 3: there's a job to do there, there's a game to
Speaker 3: be won, and there's a performance to be had, and
Speaker 3: you know that you're not gonna have Tank Dell on
Speaker 3: the field with you, but also go out there and
Speaker 3: try to make sure you keep this thing going in
Speaker 3: his honor and that you're able to continue the good
Speaker 3: things on the field. So you know, I told you
Speaker 3: that I felt like CJ was going to learn from
Speaker 3: that experience. I would probably suspect if something like this
Speaker 3: ever happens again, that he won't have the same reaction,
Speaker 3: because I'm either wondering if just himself, you know, realizing hey,
Speaker 3: I can't do that, or if somebody came to him
Speaker 3: and said, hey man, something like that happens. We got
Speaker 3: to you're you're the guy that leads, you know, sets
Speaker 3: the tone. You're you're the guy that leads the charge here,
Speaker 3: Like we've got to have you still with your head
Speaker 3: in the game and for us to be able to
Speaker 3: try and be able to pa this thing off. So
Speaker 3: good stuff there from CJ. Stroud and hopefully good stuff
Speaker 3: today from the Texans.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a brief break.
Speaker 3: Away from the Texans because, as I mentioned at the
Speaker 3: top of the show, I want to pay homage and
Speaker 3: give honor to a man that was a true titan
Speaker 3: in our business, a man who it's almost a question of,
Speaker 3: like I said earlier, what didn't he do in this life?
Speaker 3: But Bob Uker passing away earlier this week, and we
Speaker 3: will remember the life and the career in the public
Speaker 3: spotlight of Bob Uker. And so we open up the
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Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety and Matthews here with you on
Speaker 3: your home of the Astros and the Rockets, as we
Speaker 3: will get the Rockets a little bit later on tonight,
Speaker 3: as mentioned earlier, a nine o'clock tip from up there
Speaker 3: in the Pacific Northwest and two teams with completely opposite
Speaker 3: records right on the number, as the Rockets twenty seven
Speaker 3: and thirteen on the season, while the.
Speaker 2: The Blazers are thirteen and twenty seven.
Speaker 3: So the Rockets, hoping they can be able to pick
Speaker 3: up a huge win tonight, would probably expect Fred van
Speaker 3: Vliet to be back on the floor for this one
Speaker 3: after missing the Kings game the other night, So we'll
Speaker 3: see if indeed that is the case, as the Rockets
Speaker 3: up there in Portland to take on the Blazers later tonight.
Speaker 3: See a couple of you on the phone lines as
Speaker 3: we will. As a matter of fact, Martin, I'll go
Speaker 3: ahead and get to you here before we get to
Speaker 3: our Bob Ucker tribute here as Martin and Angleton wants
Speaker 3: to weigh in Sports Talk seven ninety Martin, what's going on?
Speaker 11: Hey, Dan? Hey, before I get some comment? Hey, Thursday,
Speaker 11: you came in for Matt And how'd you like my
Speaker 11: singing exploits my tribute to John Dinner? How'd you like that?
Speaker 11: Pretty good? Huh?
Speaker 2: You know, Martin, I think I appreciate it a lot
Speaker 2: more than Ross. I mean I know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Let me take Ross knows that I'm way funnier than
Speaker 11: he is, and when I come on, I make him
Speaker 11: kind of look bad at times, and he didn't like that.
Speaker 11: But see Ross, Dixy's funny, and he's he's very much
Speaker 11: not funny. And I'm hilarious. I'm a hysterical guy. I'd
Speaker 11: crack people up at work, and and I'm an entertainer
Speaker 11: at work, you know, and people get a big kick
Speaker 11: out of me. But anyway, it shoots in the in
Speaker 11: the Texas, I my boy. You know, I love my
Speaker 11: Houston teams. I love the Oilers. I do love the
Speaker 11: Texas but I just still think the Texans are ready
Speaker 11: for the moment yet. I think they're gonna go up
Speaker 11: there and get beatn like thirty one to six or
Speaker 11: thirty one to nine or thirty three to nine or
Speaker 11: something like that. I think they're gonna get embarrassed. I
Speaker 11: don't think they're ready for it. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 11: I hope they prove me to be very wrong. But
Speaker 11: I think that the Chiefs are gonna win this handedly
Speaker 11: and comfort, and so that's what I think. But I
Speaker 11: hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Dan, Yeah, I appreciate the call, Martin. I don't see
Speaker 3: it going that way. I just I think this is
Speaker 3: a Texans team that was able to find a little
Speaker 3: bit of what they've been looking for all season long,
Speaker 3: and that was that edge to be able to play
Speaker 3: the way that they knew they could play. I mean,
Speaker 3: we knew how good this defense could be. They've probably
Speaker 3: even exceeded expectations this year in terms of stopping the
Speaker 3: run and how good this secondary has been. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think that's something that they have on their side
Speaker 3: in terms of confidence today. And the key is, just
Speaker 3: as I talked about in the last segment, Martin, it's
Speaker 3: the offense, it's c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 3: If he's confident, if he's able to make plays today,
Speaker 3: then you keep yourself in the game. If you're able
Speaker 3: to get Joe Mixon involved, then you're able to give
Speaker 3: yourself every opportunity to stay close and maybe even come
Speaker 3: out what they win today. I think the part that
Speaker 3: you know they can't fall into is, oh, this Chief's
Speaker 3: team is incredibly beatable. That being as true as it
Speaker 3: might be, this is still a team that again, I mean,
Speaker 3: we make comparisons all the time down here to the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and the Astros. Right where the Astros when they
Speaker 3: get into the postseason last year with standing, but when
Speaker 3: they get into the postseason they feel like that's their time.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs feel the same way that. Last year. You
Speaker 3: had a lot of people doubting them being able to
Speaker 3: go to Buffalo and win, they did it. Doubting them
Speaker 3: being able to go to Baltimore and win, they did
Speaker 3: the same thing all of their games. Now, if they
Speaker 3: are able to finish off the string of getting back
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl, are going to be right there
Speaker 3: at Arrowhead. So it's a little bit of a different
Speaker 3: path for them. But you know, they did tempt fate
Speaker 3: quite a bit this season, But the finisher of all
Speaker 3: of that is they still finished fifteen to two on
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 2: That's a really good football team.
Speaker 3: So I don't see it, you know, being that much
Speaker 3: of a gap between these two teams today. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Texans obviously shorthanded in terms of skill position play
Speaker 3: as opposed to what the Chiefs are rolling out there.
Speaker 3: But I still think with this defense, they give themselves
Speaker 3: an opportunity to stand in line to maybe be able
Speaker 3: to pull off the wind. So hopefully they can do
Speaker 3: just that all right now as promised, as mentioned the
Speaker 3: Life and Times of one Bob Uker. I mean, you
Speaker 3: might have known him as Harry Doyle, you might have
Speaker 3: known him as the Miller, like front row guy, mister
Speaker 3: Baseball from Johnny Carson, any of those things. There's one
Speaker 3: thing though, that I think we can agree he did
Speaker 3: this life very well. As the news earlier this week,
Speaker 3: Bob Uker passed away at the age of ninety. He
Speaker 3: had been battling a small cell lung cancer for the
Speaker 3: last couple of years of his life and worked all
Speaker 3: the way until the end. I mean, you know, one
Speaker 3: of the clips that had been making its rounds. This
Speaker 3: week after Bob had passed away, was his final call
Speaker 3: on the Milwaukee Brewers broadcast after the Brewers lost to
Speaker 3: the Mets in the Wildcar and around, and you know,
Speaker 3: talking about the ninth inning comeback by the Mets and
Speaker 3: how that was going to have some sting to it
Speaker 3: for how it ended for the brew crew this season.
Speaker 3: But you know, like I said, with Bob Buker, it
Speaker 3: was the many things that he did during his life
Speaker 3: and of course the things that made him, you know,
Speaker 3: a a household favorite for a lot of people out there,
Speaker 3: and one of them was you were watching TV there
Speaker 3: in the eighties and those Miller like commercials would come
Speaker 3: on and at least one of them had Bob Uker
Speaker 3: as part of it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 12: One of the best reasons about being the next big
Speaker 12: leaguers getting preties to the game.
Speaker 2: Called the front office bingo.
Speaker 12: And once these fans recognized me, I probably won't even
Speaker 12: have to pay for my life here from Miller. I
Speaker 12: love them these fans. No, I'd break lay because it's
Speaker 12: less Philly and it tastes great good.
Speaker 11: See sir off shape Bunny, come on, Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Almost be in the front of crew like beer from Miller,
Speaker 1: everything you always wanted in a beer.
Speaker 4: And less great buddy miss.
Speaker 3: And of course in that commercial too, that's the you know,
Speaker 3: the whole punchline of it, The shtick of it is
Speaker 3: that they moved Bob Uker all the way up to
Speaker 3: the upper deck where he was up there high five
Speaker 3: in Saint Peter and they're at the Brewer's home ballpark
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee. They had Bob Buker seats way up behind
Speaker 3: home plate. I think even might have even had some
Speaker 3: obstructed view as part of the Bob Buker seats. But
Speaker 3: I did see that one cartoonist did a tribute to
Speaker 3: Bob Buker and they had his seat for him was
Speaker 3: row one, seat one, so Bob after his death definitely
Speaker 3: did get upgraded to the front row. So great stuff
Speaker 3: there from Bob on the Miller Lite commercials. And as
Speaker 3: I mentioned to the memorial that Brewer fans had set
Speaker 3: up for him up there in at Milwaukee at his
Speaker 3: statue outside their ballpark as a lot of Miller like
Speaker 3: cans there as.
Speaker 2: You know, hey have one more Bob.
Speaker 3: So anyway, that was one way we remembered him, of
Speaker 3: course too on the big screen in the movies Major
Speaker 3: League one, Major League two, Major League Back to the Miners.
Speaker 3: Didn't have that as part of this montage from Major League.
Speaker 3: But of course, you know, we know the one that
Speaker 3: we were playing all week, the just a Bit Outside
Speaker 3: Call with Rick the wild Thing Vaughn, where Vaughn was
Speaker 3: a juvenile delinquent in the off season.
Speaker 2: I mean, just all of his lines just so good.
Speaker 3: And I think I heard Matt Thomas earlier this week
Speaker 3: talking about Uker on Major League that that was all improvised,
Speaker 3: that it was basically they just told him, hey, just go.
Speaker 3: And I think the director really had no idea that
Speaker 3: he actually was a broadcaster. I think had seen him
Speaker 3: on Johnny Carson and just thought.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, he'd be great for this movie.
Speaker 3: And he brought his broadcasting chops to the the.
Speaker 2: Movies there in Major Leagues.
Speaker 3: So of course we also remember Bob Buker as Harry Doyle.
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Speaker 3: Here's the pitch, ah Man, so good, so good. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, that's that's always to the question what's the
Speaker 3: best men you know baseball movie? Of course, you know,
Speaker 3: some people will go with Major Leagues, some people go
Speaker 3: with Bull Durham, some people will go.
Speaker 2: With the Sandlot.
Speaker 3: But his performance in all of the Major League franchise
Speaker 3: movies so good. As Harry Doyle, I mean, I think
Speaker 3: he almost made the movie himself, just as much as
Speaker 3: you know, Rick the wild Thing, Vaughn, Charlie Sheen, you know,
Speaker 3: Jake Taylor, Roger Dorn, Pedro Serrano, any of the characters
Speaker 3: in the movie that we came to love, Eddie Harris,
Speaker 3: Vaseline Ball, I mean, just all of them that he
Speaker 3: had in Major Leagues, so good stuff as Bob Uker,
Speaker 3: as Harry Doyle. But then finally too, the wrestling fans
Speaker 3: out there, you remember him from one of his best
Speaker 3: moments as part of I believe it was WrestleMania three
Speaker 3: there at the Pontiac Silver Dome. They're in Detroit years
Speaker 3: ago and it was his promo that was cut with.
Speaker 2: Andre the Giant.
Speaker 3: And I know it could be a little hard to
Speaker 3: understand Andre, but it's Uker's part that really makes this
Speaker 3: promo what it is.
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Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 3: I mean Taylor made for WrestleMania coverage was Bob Uker.
Speaker 3: And of course you know the face he's making when
Speaker 3: Andre's feet for hands are around his neck, choking on
Speaker 3: oh oh man, great stuff.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, I can't say it enough.
Speaker 2: It's almost like what didn't he do in life?
Speaker 3: And even though you know he was more regionally focused
Speaker 3: with you know, the Milwaukee market up there, with being
Speaker 3: on Brewers coverage for years, Bob, all throughout the seventies, eighties,
Speaker 3: and nineties he was on our TV sets. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, even as part of Mister Belvedere and again
Speaker 3: on Johnny Carson. Just how great he was whenever Carson
Speaker 3: would bring him out as mister Baseball. So what a
Speaker 3: life well lived by Bob Uker. So just want to
Speaker 3: play some of his best hits from his career, and
Speaker 3: I know that many of us enjoyed those very much.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna get back into the Texans conversation
Speaker 3: coming up next. If you want to weigh in on
Speaker 3: the phone lines, you can do so seven one three
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Speaker 2: We will come back with a conversation we had earlier
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 3: On the A Team with Sterling Holmes from eight ten
Speaker 3: WHB there in Kansas City, as he'll give us the
Speaker 3: chiefs side of today's game and what the Texans can
Speaker 3: expect from the back to back defending Super Bowl champions
Speaker 3: as they try to upset them and move on to
Speaker 3: the AFC Championship. As we will hear from Sterling next
Speaker 3: right here on a Space City Saturday.
Speaker 1: It's Space City Saturday on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Seven ninety and Matthews year with you on your home
Speaker 3: of the Ostros and the Rockets. As a promise, right here,
Speaker 3: we're gonna head on up to Kansas City and hear
Speaker 3: from a guest that gave us the chiefs side of
Speaker 3: today's game there in KSE. He is Sterling Holmes from
Speaker 3: eight ten WHB. He joined us just on Thursday with
Speaker 3: Adam and Adam on the A Team. So let's get
Speaker 3: to that conversation with Sterling Holmes about.
Speaker 6: Time to visit Kansas City.
Speaker 8: Sports Radio eight ten WHB, co host of The Zone
Speaker 8: mid Days is Sterling Holmes, and he's nice enough to
Speaker 8: carve out a little time for us for our listeners
Speaker 8: here today in Houston, the Chiefs and their billions of
Speaker 8: days of rest have like the cleanest injury report I
Speaker 8: think you could ever see. And it's very unlike the
Speaker 8: last meeting when we were all worried that Pat Mahomes
Speaker 8: and his one healthy leg would find his way through
Speaker 8: the football game. But in all reality, this is truly
Speaker 8: the healthiest this team has been. They've gotten guys back
Speaker 8: like Marquise Brown specifically to the offense. Sterling, how much
Speaker 8: do you think the Texans really might not know about
Speaker 8: how Pacheco and Hunt will be used, how Worthy and Brown, etc.
Speaker 8: Kelsey will be used this time around against the Texans.
Speaker 13: Yeah, fellows, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 16: I think even here in Kansas City, we're still a
Speaker 16: little wondering how it's going to play out with DeAndre
Speaker 16: Hopkins and Hollywood Brown who was getting eased back into
Speaker 16: the lineup. But you have Xavier Worthy who's really taken
Speaker 16: over that wide receiver one role. You have a healthy
Speaker 16: Patrick Mahomes. You have Kareem Hunt who got worn down
Speaker 16: as the season went on. You have Isaiah and Checko, who,
Speaker 16: while yes he did come back, was very ineffective. I
Speaker 16: think those twenty four days off will help him. And
Speaker 16: then you have someone like Chris Jones who was injured
Speaker 16: was gonna miss Week eighteen, whether they needed to win
Speaker 16: that game or not. He was injured with that calfs train.
Speaker 16: Chris Jones will be healthy. I mean, yeah, this is
Speaker 16: great news for Kansas City. I feel for you guys
Speaker 16: out there in Houston. The plethora of injuries to your
Speaker 16: wide receiving corp and now the news about Joe Mixon
Speaker 16: on I kind of feel for you folk down there
Speaker 16: in Houston.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the news on Joe Mixon is much more alarming
Speaker 8: in print on an injury report than I think it's
Speaker 8: likely to be on Saturday. I don't know that for
Speaker 8: a fact, but my belief is since he was limited
Speaker 8: yesterday and did not participate today, that's the designation that
Speaker 8: goes along with it. Fully expect him to be out
Speaker 8: there on Saturday afternoon and leading the rushing attack as
Speaker 8: he has throughout this season and certainly last week against
Speaker 8: the Chargers.
Speaker 6: If I were to ask, and knowing the answer can't.
Speaker 8: Be Chris Jones or Trent McDuffie, who's the most important
Speaker 8: defensive player or who might be the most other impactful
Speaker 8: defensive player in this game on Saturday.
Speaker 16: You would say for the Chiefs, yeah, I'll give you
Speaker 16: two names. I'll give you one obvious one and then
Speaker 16: one I think underrated player. The obvious one Nick Bolton,
Speaker 16: the Chiefs middle linebacker. He is the engine in the middle,
Speaker 16: especially with the Houston techan what they try to do,
Speaker 16: especially with the injury that wide receiver, you know they're
Speaker 16: going to try and run the rock a lot. That's
Speaker 16: at least expectations here in case. Nick Bolton is one
Speaker 16: of the better run stuff in linebackers in the NFL.
Speaker 16: So I think Nick Bolton should have a big game,
Speaker 16: you know, on Saturday. Then more underrated. I think it's
Speaker 16: gonna be church On Wharton. Turk Morton alongside Chris Jones
Speaker 16: gave him to tackle.
Speaker 4: Everyone knows, you.
Speaker 16: Know, George Carlostis and Charles and Van who has come back.
Speaker 16: But Turk Barton has had a really nice, underrated season,
Speaker 16: great year to start the year, got a little overworked
Speaker 16: Charleston men who came back, Turk Morton snapped went down,
Speaker 16: but the effectiveness of those snapcounts really skyrocketed.
Speaker 13: I got took a little bet right now.
Speaker 16: I think Turk Morton gets at least one sack, and
Speaker 16: of the Houston Texans offensive line that's down the best
Speaker 16: in the NFL by any means. Larrymy Tunsil will do
Speaker 16: his thing on the left side going against George I
Speaker 16: think Turk Morton gets a lot of one on one
Speaker 16: then he will win.
Speaker 13: If you won one to miss one.
Speaker 2: Do we want to.
Speaker 6: Reconnect, Yeah, let's give it a shot.
Speaker 8: Work all right, We're gonna say we can fix the
Speaker 8: line a little bit if you don't mind, Sterling, because
Speaker 8: we'd like to hear more of what you have to say.
Speaker 8: And I do think one of the things, well, their
Speaker 8: defensive line. That's why I brought it up every day
Speaker 8: this week I've been here. It's so much more than
Speaker 8: Chris Jones. Bolton because of the rest of the team,
Speaker 8: gets far less mentioned than he should have. Sterling Holmes
Speaker 8: back here with us, and I want to ask you
Speaker 8: something quickly and sorry about that connection issue. Did you guys,
Speaker 8: at any point this week or maybe before the game
Speaker 8: on the twenty first get conversation with Charles Amena who
Speaker 8: about his extreme disdain for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 13: No, we have not heard about his disdain the Houston Texans.
Speaker 16: I will say he's been such an integral part of
Speaker 16: the Chiefs defensive lineo ever since he come back from
Speaker 16: came back from injury, because it really pushes everyone down.
Speaker 16: He's the guy who can win one on one. But no,
Speaker 16: I did not know he had this sort of disdain
Speaker 16: for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 8: To explain it, it doesn't really have much to do
Speaker 8: with this version of it. It's much more to do
Speaker 8: with those that were here there and the management and
Speaker 8: the coaching staff that was there.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 8: It's just something that I know he wasn't real excited
Speaker 8: about how his time went here, and it's probably because
Speaker 8: of what you now see on the field, a much
Speaker 8: more helpful player than I think the Texans ever let
Speaker 8: show and there were instances on both sides where it
Speaker 8: probably could have gone more smoothly. But is in a
Speaker 8: pretty good situation now, And I think he'd say the
Speaker 8: same thing for each of the three former Texans that
Speaker 8: were there in Kansas City for that twenty twenty game
Speaker 8: in the postseason that are now members of the Chiefs,
Speaker 8: Justin Reid and DeAndre Hopkins being the other two.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Justin Reid specifically has really taken on a leadership role.
Speaker 16: Don't know what he was like down there in Houston.
Speaker 16: I know when he first came to Kansas City there
Speaker 16: were some questions about his overall outlook, his impact. You know,
Speaker 16: if PFF grades, if you want to go by that,
Speaker 16: were not great.
Speaker 13: When he was a Texan.
Speaker 16: But he's come to Kansas City. He's been a real
Speaker 16: leader both on and off the field. He's a guy
Speaker 16: that gets that secondary going. Obviously very good in the
Speaker 16: run game, but I think his coverage has really improved
Speaker 16: and matured as he's been here in Kansas City. DeAndre
Speaker 16: Hopkins obviously we've seen him take over a game when
Speaker 16: he was here in Kansas City when they played against
Speaker 16: the Buccaneers. But it almost feels like they're saving d
Speaker 16: hop for the playoffs. Don't know if that has anything
Speaker 16: to do with that lingering knee injury when he came
Speaker 16: over from Tennessee or not. But DeAndre Hopkins I think
Speaker 16: is going to be unleashed in the playoffs. A lot
Speaker 16: more of him, Xavier and a Hollywood Brown on those
Speaker 16: trip set to the left, you saw it just as
Speaker 16: smattering of that as the regular season came to a conclusion.
Speaker 16: But that bunch set on the left was very effective.
Speaker 7: Sterling, you know about this having been there a while
Speaker 7: and seeing this kind of dynasty unfold with the Chiefs.
Speaker 7: You know, when you win a lot, and we went
Speaker 7: through this with the Astros in the last several years,
Speaker 7: you have an aura and so when you show up
Speaker 7: to the venue, you already kind of have that, you know,
Speaker 7: that one foot up or whatever. And I think that
Speaker 7: to me, having Joe Mixon specifically on this Texans team,
Speaker 7: given that he was on one of the teams to
Speaker 7: actually derail that monster at one point in the last
Speaker 7: several years, you know, how much do you think that
Speaker 7: can be an intangible something like that, Because anybody that's
Speaker 7: coming into Arrowhead, it doesn't matter who you are, whether
Speaker 7: you're an upstart like the Texans or you're, you know,
Speaker 7: one of the heavyweights like the Ravens or the Bills,
Speaker 7: you've got to have a certain amount of we're not
Speaker 7: going to be intimidated or you've already lost the game.
Speaker 13: Well, I think it's a.
Speaker 16: Really good point, and I've been bringing this up for
Speaker 16: a long time. Everyone wants to talk about white teams
Speaker 16: collapse in the fourth quartering ins case s it's because
Speaker 16: I think teams are so close, like we're going to
Speaker 16: beat the Chiefs, We're going to do it, and all
Speaker 16: of a sudden it goes to their fingertips.
Speaker 13: They get nervous. The Chiefs don't beat themselves very often.
Speaker 2: You saw.
Speaker 16: I know these are bad teams, but the Raiders, for example,
Speaker 16: with the snap. How many teams does that happen to?
Speaker 16: Because they get scared, they get nervous the moment gets
Speaker 16: too big.
Speaker 13: Very good call on Joe Mixon.
Speaker 16: That is the guy who will not be blown away
Speaker 16: by the Arrowhead crowd. They've been there, they've done that before.
Speaker 16: If you can get that message to c J. Strad
Speaker 16: Nico call into the rest of the guys. I do
Speaker 16: think there is something there. Arrowhead will be laft, it
Speaker 16: will be rocking, and there's a reason why it's the
Speaker 16: loudest stadium in the NFL one hundred and forty two
Speaker 16: point two decibels. Mixon is going to have to be
Speaker 16: the guy that calms Joe, mix it down and hopeing
Speaker 16: the offensive line of Houston in that instance, they don't
Speaker 16: have too many false starts. I know there's been a
Speaker 16: lot of moving pieces on that offensive line. All season long.
Speaker 8: Sounded like you were trying to speak that into existence,
Speaker 8: and I bet she'll be right at least once Sterling Holmes,
Speaker 8: My money's on LARAMIZNSOL Sports Radio eight to ten WHB
Speaker 8: in Kansas City. I'm curious what it was like there
Speaker 8: in Kansas City during this fifteen win season. I'll tell
Speaker 8: you what it was like here talking about this isn't
Speaker 8: the same team. They're so beatable, which was being said
Speaker 8: every week after they would not get beaten every single week.
Speaker 8: And remember this is the only time during this run
Speaker 8: they've had a fifteen win regular season, and they got
Speaker 8: it in sixteen games. What was the view of the
Speaker 8: people covering this year's Chiefs about this year's Chiefs kind
Speaker 8: of as it relates to what we might see on
Speaker 8: Saturday versus what they've always been.
Speaker 16: Well, you had the optimists, right, You had the optimist
Speaker 16: that says it doesn't matter how it happens as long
Speaker 16: as you win, which in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 16: that is true.
Speaker 13: But then it also took a.
Speaker 16: Little bit of digging to see why the Chiefs played
Speaker 16: in such close games, but also why they kept winning
Speaker 16: in such close games. Yes, they had some luck I
Speaker 16: like to call it variants. I don't like using the
Speaker 16: word luck. I like to call it variant. The Chiefs
Speaker 16: had some variants go their way this year, that is
Speaker 16: for sure.
Speaker 4: But they were so.
Speaker 13: Effective on third down. They were so inexplosive.
Speaker 16: Now that might change with Hollywood Brown being back in,
Speaker 16: DeAndre Hopkins and Xavier Worthy, right, but they came into
Speaker 16: the season with a lot different game plan. They expected
Speaker 16: Hollywood the entire year. They had Rashi Rice, who was
Speaker 16: their wide receiver. One you thought you might get a
Speaker 16: little bit of Xavier Worthy, So they had.
Speaker 13: To adjust on the fly, and so.
Speaker 16: They're often poked a lot different. They had to go
Speaker 16: out and bring in Kareem Hunt, who is good for
Speaker 16: three point five yards to carry pretty much just anytime.
Speaker 13: He touches the ball.
Speaker 16: He does not break off large carries, but he gets
Speaker 16: you into a lot that third and shorts where Patrick
Speaker 16: Mahomes is the best quarterback on third down. So I
Speaker 16: think what you saw is them putting up twenty one
Speaker 16: twenty two points. They're a very well rounded team, maybe
Speaker 16: the most well rounded team in the Patrick Mahomes era.
Speaker 16: The defense is top ten, the offense is top ten.
Speaker 16: When you break down some of the underlying analytical numbers.
Speaker 16: Special teams has been solid, but a little bit of
Speaker 16: a concern with Harrison Bucker in the injury.
Speaker 13: I just think it looks different.
Speaker 16: So everyone's trying to figure out why they don't look
Speaker 16: the same as when Tyreek Hill was here, even a
Speaker 16: couple of years ago, when the offense was still moving
Speaker 16: the ball very effectively through the air.
Speaker 8: Just before we let you go, you've left you barely
Speaker 8: enough time for prediction.
Speaker 4: On the game.
Speaker 16: Oh man, I don't mean to do it to you, guys.
Speaker 16: I have a lot of respect for Houston. I have
Speaker 16: a ton of respect for that Texans defense. They're outstanding,
Speaker 16: Elzer Alshie Heer's great, Will Anderson's outstanding. Danil Hunter loved
Speaker 16: the Texans defense. But I think the Chiefs offense does enough.
Speaker 16: I think it's a twenty seven to twenty game that
Speaker 16: means the Techans cover, or at least.
Speaker 13: I'm never in Vegas right, give me that. I just
Speaker 13: think the Chiefs offense in Patrick Mahomes in.
Speaker 16: The playoffs, they will be too efficient. With all the
Speaker 16: injuries to the Houston Texans on offense, I think it's
Speaker 16: going to.
Speaker 8: Be a struggle very different than the twenty seven to
Speaker 8: nineteen game that was just played there in December, a
Speaker 8: twenty seven to twenty finals. Sterling, we actually really appreciate it.
Speaker 8: He's going to hit the extra point.
Speaker 6: Good insight and look forward to what takes place on Saturday.
Speaker 13: Hey, thanks fellas, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: There you go, Sterling Holmes again from A ten whb's
Speaker 3: on mid days up there. I know that Soren Petro,
Speaker 3: the PM Drive host up there on A ten, was
Speaker 3: on with Matt and Ross yesterday, so good stuff from him.
Speaker 3: Appreciate his time earlier this week with us on the
Speaker 3: A team. All right, coming up next. It was a
Speaker 3: conversation that I was part of as Matt Thomas was out,
Speaker 3: but Ross Villa Reale was in as part of the
Speaker 3: Matt Thomas Show. With Ross, we were both able to
Speaker 3: catch up with Dan Orlovski, former Texans quarterback. Of course,
Speaker 3: now you see him on pretty much every single ESPN
Speaker 3: program if they are talking NFL, well, the former quarterback,
Speaker 3: he is part of it. And we got hot and
Speaker 3: heavy in terms of some Texan chiefs conversation with Dano.
Speaker 3: So we will do that next right here on Space
Speaker 3: City Saturday. Dan Matthews here with you until noon on
Speaker 3: your home of the Astros and the Rockets, Sports Talk
Speaker 3: seven to ninety.
Speaker 2: Space City Saturday.
Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Saturday. Is exactly what
Speaker 3: the Texans.
Speaker 2: Are hoping they can do today.
Speaker 3: They are hoping they can knock the door down. And
Speaker 3: the door is the AFC Championship Game. So if they
Speaker 3: can get past the Chiefs today, that becomes a reality.
Speaker 3: So hopefully they can do that again. Three point thirty
Speaker 3: kick from up there in Kansas City, the Texans and
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, and in that vein we continue the conversation
Speaker 3: as me and Rossville Real as part of the Matt
Speaker 3: Tomas Show with Ross a couple of days ago, able
Speaker 3: to catch up with a former Texan now you see
Speaker 3: him on ESPN. He is dan Orlovsky and we had
Speaker 3: a great conversation for you to now enjoy.
Speaker 17: Right now, please to be joined by dan Orlowsky. Mister
Speaker 17: do everything for ESPN on get up on the NFL shows,
Speaker 17: does a great job as well.
Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us, Dan.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 15: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 4: How about you? Guys?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 17: We're also pulling our hair out trying to figure out
Speaker 17: what's going to happen with this technisan offensive line.
Speaker 6: We'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 17: But you, as the quarterback, of course, and as somebody
Speaker 17: who played here in Houston, Ross and Dan with you here,
Speaker 17: I do have to ask you right off the bat,
Speaker 17: who is the real CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I mean cjs a sensational player. He's a young man
Speaker 15: that you know, obviously took the league by storm last year,
Speaker 15: and you know all off season I was one who's
Speaker 15: pretty clear of what he did was even greater than
Speaker 15: maybe the numbers painted the picture as because he was
Speaker 15: so remarkable on third down and that masked a lot
Speaker 15: of some of the inefficiencies of the offense as a whole,
Speaker 15: and that's obviously one of the harder downs to be
Speaker 15: good at that position of the league. So it was
Speaker 15: even more impressive then again maybe the surface numbers said.
Speaker 15: And then this year it caught up to them a
Speaker 15: little bit this year.
Speaker 9: The poor performance on first down.
Speaker 15: Caught up to them this year, the lack of consistently
Speaker 15: being able to control the line of scrimmage on a
Speaker 15: load of downs, and the poor production. I remember going
Speaker 15: back to Week one and I did a quick little
Speaker 15: thing on the NFL at I was like, man, they
Speaker 15: better figure out that production because it was ugly and
Speaker 15: it's rained terror on their offense and as it impacted
Speaker 15: CJ's you know, play negatively. There's no question about it.
Speaker 15: Has he played lesser than he has had last year, Absolutely,
Speaker 15: But I think that's the direct reason why that the
Speaker 15: protection has kind of impacted him, impacted his vision, made
Speaker 15: him a little antsy at times, which is a real thing,
Speaker 15: but I don't think that's made him a lesser player
Speaker 15: now again.
Speaker 3: Dan Orlowski joined us here on the Matt Sama Show
Speaker 3: with Rosty and Matthews in for Matt. You know, Dan,
Speaker 3: A couple of the things that we've been talking about
Speaker 3: all week that seemed like it was the aha moment
Speaker 3: for CJ is one the busted play with the fumbled
Speaker 3: snap and he's got to roll out find Xavier Hutchison
Speaker 3: and also using his legs. Did you see a guy
Speaker 3: in the second half who got back to being the
Speaker 3: guy that he was last year where I mean, let's
Speaker 3: call it what it is his own words, he was
Speaker 3: a killer on the field last year.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Yeah, I mean that's kind of one of the
Speaker 15: things that he has done a little bit more, I
Speaker 15: would say this year and just take off with his
Speaker 15: legs and be a threat.
Speaker 9: You know, situationally, it's not necessarily that.
Speaker 15: You're designing quarterback runs for him, but those situational backbreaker
Speaker 15: Patrick Mahomes Joe Burrow type of runs where you know
Speaker 15: it's third and six and they take off and it's like,
Speaker 15: oh my gosh, everyone was covered, but he got a
Speaker 15: first down.
Speaker 9: So yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 15: I don't have any reservations about who CJ is or
Speaker 15: what CJ is. I think that, you know, some of
Speaker 15: the injuries and the lack.
Speaker 9: Of performances have been the significant part of.
Speaker 15: Why the playoffs falling off. But that's going to be
Speaker 15: a huge part of this game for them this weekend
Speaker 15: as well as you know, for both quarterbacks, is who's
Speaker 15: going to have.
Speaker 9: Those two or three runs and those crucial.
Speaker 15: Moments to either you know, keep a drive alive or
Speaker 15: put points on the board, or take three minutes off
Speaker 15: of o'clock longer. And so yeah, I think that's another
Speaker 15: kind of as I don't want see astrisk bullet point
Speaker 15: in this game is you know, can CJ pull those off?
Speaker 2: One of the big.
Speaker 17: Problems with the offensive line has just been allowing those
Speaker 17: free runners Dan with maybe a lack of communication, and
Speaker 17: I am worried about that going up against the Spagnola
Speaker 17: defense this weekend on the road in a loud, Arrowhead environment.
Speaker 17: How did the Texans in the offensive line prepare for that?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it's it's obviously a huge part of
Speaker 15: the challenge.
Speaker 9: I think the number one thing that they can do
Speaker 9: it that is you've.
Speaker 15: Got to run the football and twenty one personnel is
Speaker 15: something that actually going back a couple of weeks when
Speaker 15: they did play, they were decently successful at it.
Speaker 9: And so twenty one putting a fullback on the.
Speaker 15: Field or maybe you doizn't tight end in that role,
Speaker 15: but you've got.
Speaker 9: To be able to do that.
Speaker 15: The second thing is this, Actually, I'll make this the
Speaker 15: first thing. Every single time that CJ breaks down and
Speaker 15: walks the on of scrimmage, he's got to be thinking
Speaker 15: blitz because it comes at any point from anywhere. As
Speaker 15: situations don't matter.
Speaker 9: So there has to be a constant at the forefront
Speaker 9: of his mind, where's the blitz coming from?
Speaker 15: Where's the n If they don't, it's almost like as
Speaker 15: a quarterback, you're often reacting to the blitz. This is
Speaker 15: a reacting to the no blitz situation. If you're CJ,
Speaker 15: like every play, you're expecting a blitz so it doesn't
Speaker 15: surprise you. Then again, the twenty one personnel has got
Speaker 15: to be a big run. I think the second thing
Speaker 15: is you got to try to hit some screens against
Speaker 15: them when they pressure you. You know, there's there's two
Speaker 15: methods that dealing with pressure as an offense. You want
Speaker 15: to try to survive it or you want to try
Speaker 15: and kill it. And one of the ways that you
Speaker 15: try to you know, do both of them at.
Speaker 9: The same time.
Speaker 15: As some perimeter screens where it protects you, you get
Speaker 15: the ball of your hands. There's usually more than not
Speaker 15: a bad play than that. But if you touch it
Speaker 15: at the right time, right angle, right people, you can
Speaker 15: hit on run. And so I think some of the
Speaker 15: perimeter screens or slip screens.
Speaker 9: Would be a big deal. And then I mean, one
Speaker 9: of the things that was disappointing is the plan for
Speaker 9: protection and the execution for protection.
Speaker 15: And so you know, you got to have a plan
Speaker 15: for it.
Speaker 9: You got to know exactly how.
Speaker 15: You want to protect it and communicate it. And while
Speaker 15: it's hard, you know, It's one of the challenges of
Speaker 15: the business. You know, if it's third to out, I
Speaker 15: wouldn't be surprised if you get into some no huddle
Speaker 15: and try to give yourself as much time at the
Speaker 15: line of scrimmage to communicate. And then, you know, one
Speaker 15: of the things I've always learned and I learned this
Speaker 15: from Coach Koubac, and you know, if everybody's wrong.
Speaker 2: We're going to be okay.
Speaker 9: So you don't take the perfection in these situations.
Speaker 15: You know, like to think that you're going to get
Speaker 15: the line stream, you know exactly what's going to happen,
Speaker 15: and that's not real. But as long as everybody's on
Speaker 15: the same page and it knows what or who.
Speaker 9: The problem is, you're gonna be okay more often than not.
Speaker 15: And so that's the big thing is you can't have
Speaker 15: four guys thinking one thing and one person doing another thing.
Speaker 15: That's when catastrophe happens again.
Speaker 3: Dani Orlowski join us here on the Matt Thomas Show
Speaker 3: with Ross and you mentioned the screen game. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's something that I've been screaming about all season. Dan
Speaker 3: with Joe Mixon, I mean, you see it all the time.
Speaker 3: He's running into a wall. He's running for forty fifty
Speaker 3: yards a game. You can't really get the run game going.
Speaker 3: And you hear Bobby Sloan talk about want to get
Speaker 3: the run game going. But all off season Dan, we
Speaker 3: heard about what a great pass catcher he was out
Speaker 3: of the backfield. I mean, are you kind of disappointed
Speaker 3: in Bobby Slowick for not using that part of his
Speaker 3: game more especially factoring in the struggles at times?
Speaker 15: There's no question about it. I mean, I'm a massive
Speaker 15: fan of the screen game in general. I mean, if
Speaker 15: you look at just if we're tree Top, do you
Speaker 15: look at some of the offenses that have been really
Speaker 15: good this year and certainly in years past, you would
Speaker 15: sit there and go, Kansas City Man, Okay, really good
Speaker 15: screen game. And then you'd go, well, Detroit yet really.
Speaker 9: Good screen game, and all the Minnesota Vikings a really
Speaker 9: good screen game, and the Los Angeles Rams really good
Speaker 9: screen game, and the Buffalo bill is really good screen games.
Speaker 9: So you know, I think as in totality, and you know.
Speaker 15: That that's got to be one of the foundations staple
Speaker 15: of your offenses. It's different screens that you can get to.
Speaker 15: It you're just trying to create a numbers advantage and
Speaker 15: then the space advantage. And so I think it's a
Speaker 15: different way to get Joe mix in the ball.
Speaker 9: It's a different way to you know, what of mix.
Speaker 13: And strengths is.
Speaker 15: You know, he's a tough tackle, man Like this is
Speaker 15: a tough tackle in space, and so you know, I
Speaker 15: think it's also a breather for your quarterback. You know,
Speaker 15: we're calling this player, we're running this laid off the
Speaker 15: think mush and so you know it's something that I
Speaker 15: would try and hit four or five.
Speaker 13: Times on this game.
Speaker 3: A couple more minutes with Dan Orlowski and Dan, I
Speaker 3: mean off topic football wise, I told Ross, I told
Speaker 3: the audience, I'd ask you this. You're pretty renowned for
Speaker 3: your food takes. So two part question here. Number one,
Speaker 3: what gets more of a visceral reaction analysis that maybe
Speaker 3: upsets a fan base or your food takes? And is
Speaker 3: there a food take that you were willing to die
Speaker 3: on a hill for? And I mean even you're hunched
Speaker 3: over skull and bones on that hill when it's all
Speaker 3: said and done, that you.
Speaker 2: Will not come off of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely the fan bases.
Speaker 15: You know, I always say this every year it feels
Speaker 15: like the fans become more and more passionate and listen,
Speaker 15: when you're in my role, like and you're convicted about
Speaker 15: the things you say, it's gonna come your way. So
Speaker 15: at times I'm like, well that's a tough one.
Speaker 9: But definitely the fan bases.
Speaker 15: But the food does make people upset in an odd way.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 15: The food take that I would die on is I
Speaker 15: think mushrooms are disgusting.
Speaker 9: That's the one that I ain't blinking off. I ain't
Speaker 9: blinking off that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9: I often say like I.
Speaker 15: Love a good meal.
Speaker 16: I do.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 2: I love a good meal, but.
Speaker 15: I don't need a good meal every time I eat.
Speaker 15: It's not like I have to walk away from having
Speaker 15: you know, food and being like, oh my gosh, that
Speaker 15: was on a body experience.
Speaker 9: And so you know, I think that that's probably one
Speaker 9: as well.
Speaker 15: It's funny, you guys Houston. We used to live down there.
Speaker 15: We were having in a group text with some friends
Speaker 15: up here in Connecticut. We were my wife was vividly
Speaker 15: describing LTMPO to them and done, I honestly did not
Speaker 15: know that, And it was it was great having the
Speaker 15: questions fired back from them of like wait what they
Speaker 15: put brisket in case?
Speaker 2: So we're like, yup.
Speaker 15: And then they were like, wait you dip your pahetas
Speaker 15: and butter and We're like, yeah, it's just the food
Speaker 15: stuff triggered my mind.
Speaker 17: That's great, that one last one before we get you out,
Speaker 17: just uh your eyes what the Texans defense is going
Speaker 17: to have to do? And then in a prediction a
Speaker 17: prediction and then take it easy on us with the
Speaker 17: prediction here in Houston.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Again, I think can't say wins the game.
Speaker 4: I don't want to.
Speaker 15: Misrepresent it, but I do think Houston can hang. And
Speaker 15: there really question is that can they do enough offensively?
Speaker 15: You know, can they do enough? Obviously the depletion, but
Speaker 15: I think defensively, if you had to ask me, you know,
Speaker 15: build a defense that could you know, really hold its
Speaker 15: own and have success against this Chiefs offense, I say, man,
Speaker 15: you've got to have two good head rushers and you've
Speaker 15: got to be able to play man coverage well, you know.
Speaker 15: And so I think that's what gives them a good
Speaker 15: feel in this game is you know, Will and Danil
Speaker 15: were freaking unbelievable last week, and I think their heavy
Speaker 15: hands are a big deal versus these tackles. Our shy
Speaker 15: here definitely you know, was a miss, you know when
Speaker 15: you felt his impact, and then they can play man,
Speaker 15: you know.
Speaker 9: And so I actually think that their defense.
Speaker 15: Can keep them in the game. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 15: that this is a one score game on the fourth quarter.
Speaker 9: I just I don't know if they could.
Speaker 15: Do enough offensively versus at darn good defense.
Speaker 3: Dan Lawski with earlier this week on The Matt Thomas
Speaker 3: Show with Ross and good stuff from him, and if
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Speaker 3: All right, coming up next, give some final thoughts on
Speaker 3: today Texan's game.
Speaker 2: Of course, predictions have been a plenty from the.
Speaker 3: Guests we had this week, but also too, I talked
Speaker 3: about this a little bit the other night on the
Speaker 3: night Cap, and we'll get into a little bit of
Speaker 3: college football because Texas fans. Yes you, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3: You can't complain anymore. Most of you finally got what
Speaker 3: you wanted, So we'll discuss that on the other side.
Speaker 3: As we close out this edition of Space City Saturday,
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here with you for a few more minutes
Speaker 3: on the home of the app Stros and the Rockets,
Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: We now return to Space City Saturday, Sports Talk seven ninety,
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews here week for another couple of minutes and
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Speaker 3: Texans hoping they can get their role on today. Melvin
Speaker 3: Brown basically just taking me back to middle school, high
Speaker 3: school right there.
Speaker 2: That's the sweet spot of music for me. So now
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Melvin doing a great job as he always does both
Speaker 3: with me, with Doug Pike and if you watch us
Speaker 3: daily on Space City Home Network with the A team
Speaker 3: three to six every single day right here as the
Speaker 3: TV side of things, Melvin our technical director for that.
Speaker 3: So Melvin is a man of many talents. We appreciate
Speaker 3: him very much, so great work from him as always.
Speaker 3: But uh, final a few minutes here if you want
Speaker 3: to squeeze in again someone three two, one, two, five,
Speaker 3: seven ninety. You just spend a couple of minutes on
Speaker 3: the Texans and then a couple of minutes on I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm going to talk about Arch Manning if
Speaker 3: I was talking to Texas fans, So we'll do that.
Speaker 2: But the Texans and Chiefs, I mean, you know, just
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 3: Texans today, look, I just I think that we know
Speaker 3: that it is going to be a tough assignment no
Speaker 3: matter what.
Speaker 2: And I know the Clay Martin.
Speaker 3: Story was a huge part of it of people trying
Speaker 3: to draw comparisons between him being almost the NFL version
Speaker 3: of Scott Foster. Like we know Scott Foster with the Rockets,
Speaker 3: it never really goes well well. Now, the same comparisons
Speaker 3: being made with Clay Martin, because the Chiefs six and
Speaker 3: oh all time, when Clay Martin officiates their games five
Speaker 3: and oh in the regular season, one and oh in
Speaker 3: the postseason. So that's a storyline that's out there. But
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's just really a thing with
Speaker 3: the Texans of fighting yourself at times and at times
Speaker 3: this has been a team that their aggressiveness gets the
Speaker 3: best of them, and we see it with penalties. So
Speaker 3: we see it with pre snap penalties, special teams penalties.
Speaker 3: I mean, geez, how many times we've seen Chris Boyd
Speaker 3: draw a special team's flag on the field at times
Speaker 3: this season. So those are things you got to keep
Speaker 3: to a minimum. And I mean with CJ, he's the key,
Speaker 3: you know, I talk about it when I'm talking rockets
Speaker 3: of the key to the offense.
Speaker 2: It's simple. It's number four. It's Jalen Green.
Speaker 3: If he's shooting, if he's able to knock down shots
Speaker 3: and he's able to put up points, then that frees
Speaker 3: up everybody else on the offense.
Speaker 2: The same deal goes for c J. Stroud today. It's
Speaker 2: really that simple.
Speaker 3: If he is able to get it going on the field, well,
Speaker 3: then the Texans can be able to have some good
Speaker 3: things happen for them. Joe Mixon right behind him. Doesn't
Speaker 3: sound like the ankle is going to be much of
Speaker 3: a hindrance to him. I mean, I know that he
Speaker 3: missed a couple of days of practice, but I mean
Speaker 3: he's not missing this game. That's really as simple as
Speaker 3: it can be. So we'll see if indeed he is
Speaker 3: able to give it a go and it a full efforts.
Speaker 3: I mean, you really want to get him going. You
Speaker 3: heard me talk about with Dan Orlovski in the last
Speaker 3: segment that he is, you know, a guy that can
Speaker 3: also be used in the screen game and is as
Speaker 3: somebody that maybe if you're running into some trouble against
Speaker 3: George Carloftis and Nick Bolton and Chris Jones and that
Speaker 3: you know Chiefs defensive front, that maybe you get him
Speaker 3: going in the passing game a little bit and then
Speaker 3: you know, chances to As I've mentioned before with OC's
Speaker 3: it always just annoys me to no end of Oh,
Speaker 3: we want to get our playmakers out in space, Okay,
Speaker 3: well then do it. So that's something that we're definitely
Speaker 3: hoping to see today from the Texans.
Speaker 2: I got Texans twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 3: I think a thirty nine yard Kyami fairbearon Fueld goal
Speaker 3: to walk it off and send the Chiefs fans home sad.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm banking on today. So I like Texans
Speaker 3: in this one. Let's let's pull it off. Final minute
Speaker 3: here on the show. And you know, talked about it
Speaker 3: earlier this week on the Nightcap with Quinn Youwers declaring
Speaker 3: for the draft moving on. And I mean it's been
Speaker 3: a lot of different opinions of Quinn youewers time with
Speaker 3: the Texas Longhorns. I mean, last year he was fantastic.
Speaker 3: This year he had to make some adjustments in terms
Speaker 3: of not having the same receiver help that he had
Speaker 3: last year, and that was a difference for this Texas team.
Speaker 3: But the message to you Longhorn fans, don't complain because
Speaker 3: a lot of you were, you know, really pining hard
Speaker 3: for arch Manning to be out on the field, and
Speaker 3: now you're gonna finally get your chance.
Speaker 2: And he's going to have a.
Speaker 3: Roster pretty much overhauled last year this coming out in
Speaker 3: the year because you're gonna have a lot of players
Speaker 3: leaving for the draft, transfers coming in, signings, all of
Speaker 3: those different types of things. And the one thing that
Speaker 3: I cautioned people with quarterbacks at all time, you're going
Speaker 3: to end up being annoyed with your quarterback one time
Speaker 3: or another. I mean, God, Patriots fans even at times
Speaker 3: got annoyed with Tom Brady. So what makes you think
Speaker 3: that Arch Manning is going to be any different. One
Speaker 3: of the most thankless jobs and sports is quarterback, because
Speaker 3: if you do one minor thing wrong, then people hold
Speaker 3: it against you. And I think soon enough that's gonna
Speaker 3: be coming arches way. So you know, now you've finally
Speaker 3: got your wish to care for what you wish for
Speaker 3: Texas fans, because it might not be one hundred percent
Speaker 3: what you want. That's gonna do it for us here
Speaker 3: on Space City Saturday, I want to thank everybody who
Speaker 3: jumped aboard, and again I want to thank our guy
Speaker 3: back in the studio, Melvin Brown, doing a great job.
Speaker 3: As always a man of many talents. We appreciate him
Speaker 3: and then some also too. It is great to hear
Speaker 3: from Kevin Harlan, from Sterling Holmes, and from dan Orlowski.
Speaker 2: Again if you missed any of those, I can't harp
Speaker 2: on it enough.
Speaker 3: The new and improved iHeartRadio app it is your friend
Speaker 3: and you can go catch all of those conversations right there.
Speaker 3: Dan Matthews next week talking to you from Dykin Park
Speaker 3: from eleven to four for Astros FanFest.
Speaker 2: Look forward to that.
Speaker 3: Until then, everybody, enjoy the game, enjoy the Rockets tonight.
Speaker 3: We will talk to you on Monday morning at six
Speaker 3: am on The Shawn Salisbury Show, where Brian Alima.
Speaker 2: Other than that, have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Everyone