Speaker 1: Neale Hunter, will Anderson, Togi I togi aw Alshire Alshire here,
how do you want to pronounce Sheldon Rankins, Sheldon Ranks,
Jalen Petrie, Kaylin Bullock. I mean this Stingley Kamari Lasser
is a dog. I've been missing a lot of You
mean Georgia bulldog. He's a dog. It's again, I brought
this up thirty minutes ago. I should go find Baltimore
radio host and find out how you talk about a
team that Trent Dilfer was your quarterback and you won
a Super Bowl with him. And I'm not saying, look,
c D shroud is I would think should be better
than the Trent Dilfer. Yes, they didn't play like it yesterday.
He was Trent dolver esk yesterday. The assignment is don't
cost them the game. He tried to. But you can't
ross going way ahead of the came. You can't pay
somebody sixty million dollars a year to say, don't cost
us the game Anders stand And also, I mean, look,
you know we were talking to we were talking about
this middle of the season. If he can, if he's
going to turn the ball, if he's going to play
like that every game. Of course, you can't pay him. Obviously.
I'm not saying, hey, this guy's turning the ball over
three times, having horrible fumbles and throwing ineptly bad interceptions.
Pay the guy. Last night was if you'd have dropped
me out of a or woke me up out of
a coma, and I only saw that game of c. J. Stroud,
I would have said, you're never paying that guy. So
if he is going to play like that, obviously don't
pay him, and don't get anywhere close to even offering
him any kind of big money. He's got to be better.
You got me, You have a legitimate and this will
be This obviously is for stuff we'll talk about when
the season is done, whatever that may be. But you've
got a potential conundrum because here's the thing, Ross, you
don't have to extend him after this year. Although I
think in report alluded to the fact that they're going
to start talking about it. Yeah, it's better to get
it done now than wait a year from now. But
how do you go to your fan base and say
we're about to put this amount of money into the
piggy bank of a C. J. Stroud. When Fellow first
round Pickwell Anderson wants to be that paid. The highest's
gonna pay them both, and there you're going to but
you're going to be losing players because of it. Yes,
and every team goes too. Daniel Hunter. Bye. We were
talking about this yesterday. With this hard salary cap. You
have to seize the moments of when everything is Kamari
Lassiter on a rookie deal, Daniel Hunter on his deal
right now, Will Anderson on a rookie deal, Cej Stroud
on a rookie deal. You have to seize these moments.
It's like college where you have to have guys graduating
and everything working out at the same time, where the
freshman and the and the juniors and the sophomores and
you have this great UH team. You have to seize
those moments. The windows can close so quickly. Yeah, the
window close. How's the window looking for the Baltimore Ravens.
How's the window looking for the Kansas City Chiefs? Right now?
You have to seize these moments, and right now this
is a moment for the Houston Texans because if you
don't guess what you're gonna be. Dak Prescott, the Dallas
Cowboys paying crazy amounts of money, but letting Michael Parsons
go crazy amounts of money, but not being able to
have secondary people that you trust. Yeah, I mean, this
is this is the it's the hardest. I think being
a general manager of an NFL team is the hardest
of them all. I really do, because you are having
because even look Baseball, general managers have to worry about
position players and a pitching staff. I get that, but
you are worrying about now not only the twenty two
guys that are on the field playing, but you're worried
about saving money for future drafts, saving money for free agency,
and knowing now you do have a caveat you can
also release. Playing a lot of language with I mean
hard well with the hard cat, but talking about like, yeah,
roster bonuses and signing buy it's very convoluted restructuring of contracts.
It's every Yeah, every general manager job is tough. The
CBA for the NBA is probably the biggest. Yeah, with
the aprons and all that stuff. Yeah, but I mean
in terms of just construction of roster, it's like, you know,
you're gonna pay Kevin Durant, You're gonna pay out and
all those I mean, you got you got your five
to six core guys you're paying, you get your You've
got bird rights in your back pocket, right, and which
means you can pay your own guys. For those of
you who don't know, you need to pay your number.
You're gonna ma sure. You've got a good running back
who's gonna want to be heavy to heavily compensated. You're
gonna need your quarterback who needs to behave. You need
your left tackle be heavily competent, you need your number
one cornerback to be high. And then you got an
edge rusher who, by the way, is playing unbelievable. And
you get two to three golden tickets every year in
the draft, and you don't want to squander those golden tickets.
The Texans defense will be raising a Lombardi Trophy now,
whether doing it their own and the season party for
their main manufactured Lombardi trophy or the real one. Is
remains a b C A lot of football left, but
they can beat anybody with this defense. And that's the
crazy part, is it. I think generally speaking, again, I'm
only speaking, I'm only listening to the show before us,
but it feels like most people are very happy that
things are going as well as they are, but they're
also of concern. And the fact is New England is
going to be a significant step up in competition. Drake
May is significantly better than Aaron Rodgers. Their running back
situation with Stevenson is significantly better. They've got better skill
pas it. I mean, dk metcalf was good in the
first quarter, but you couldn't hear from him after that. Yeah,
they didn't even go to the tight end. Was a
hell of youth or Frankan Muth, Frankenmuth or whatever to
like the early fourth quarter. And I think the good
news is, though, too, is that no matter what city
we're in, matt and we're talking playoff football, nobody's completely
happy with their team. Drake, I guarantee you. Boston Sports
Radio is nervous as hell about Drake May. Bustle has
been nervous about the run defense, interior run defense, which
the Texans thrived in Denver radio. Are we sure Bonicks
is the quarterback? Right? Are we sure? Yeah? Z? And
Courtland Sutton's r WR one. He's good but in a
w exactly All right, Let's go to the phone talk
to some people. We'll start with Vince in Midtown on
the Mat Thomas Show. Ross Vince, good morning to you.
Speaker 2: Good morning guys, Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you guys remember, maybe about three or four
weeks ago, I called and I was talking about how
CJ play scared and if I was like a lawyer
and I was in Portalaal, I could just show that
last interception he's through, and I think I would win
the case. I mean, he had no business trying to
make that throw. His feet were all over the place,
he looked like he didn't know what he was doing.
I mean, it was just crazy. And you know, in
light of what you guys have been talking about whether
we pay him or not, I just I just don't
think so. I mean we lost in spite of him.
I mean three turnovers and thank God for the defense.
That's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Vince. I remember call, and I remember
I argued with you, Vince. I was like, no, he
doesn't play scared, And on that particular play and a
couple of other plays last night, he did look scared,
but he didn't look scared when he had Titus Howard
in his grill and he was throwing the ball forty
yards downfield. He didn't look scared when he was loft
in the ball to Christian Kirk over the right side.
For huge games as well, and that unfortunately has been
too much the CJ. Stroud experience, those plays where he
looks completely lost and those where he looks very comfortable
and like he knows what he's doing. And last night
was even more extreme for everybody. It felt like, Yeah,
and the fact is either he's not doing it because
he doesn't want to, or he's been told he's not running,
and he's also not very He's just not fast. He's
I mean, I don't want to say this, but it's
the truth. Just because he's a black quarterback does not
make him runing quarterback. I I'm sorry, he just doesn't
say that because I think people do have that misconception.
Absolutely tell you Josh Allen is a significantly better runner
than there would be Josh all Lily White arch Manning
will be better as a running quarterback in the NFL
than C. De Strout will be. Yeah, he doesn't mean.
I do like the little rolls out of the control rolls.
I did like yesterday those are good. He lumbers, and
he even talked about it this season, how he just
doesn't move like he used to, even from his rookie year.
I think a lot of it is not because he
doesn't want to do it. I think you'd like to
do it. I think he's afraid of getting hit. I
think I think he has had too many concussions in
his young NFL career that he's like, I'm not taking
much chances. Yeah, but here's a round that coached into
you can you can actually just you can cuss just
as much. In the podcast, multiple concussions that they don't
want him getting hurt again. There was multiple people, maybe
even at least a dozen, saying Davis Mills needs to
play in this game. That's ridiculous. The Texans are not
doing that. You think you think you for the first
class or coach to Pittsburgh yesterday Davis Mills. Yeah, I'm
sure your first class from So he was going to
miss the game because he had a baby, right, No, no, no,
that was not going to miss the game. They were
gonna he was not. He missed the commercial, he missed
the charter flight to Pittsburgh because of his baby. Yeah, okay,
name Maximilian or something or maximics. Well you know what
he does. Got dad's strength, now, That worked for Bregman
a couple of years ago. Yeah, oh, he'd been ready.
But to replace him? No, no, no, no you think no,
not even a conversation