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Texans Roll in New England
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Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla kick off the show by discussing the Tampa Bay Rays, now dubbed the "Ramblin' Rays," and their search for a new home stadium after the roof of Tropicana Field was blown off in a storm.
The conversation then shifts to football, where the hosts celebrate the Texans' win over the Patriots. They note the much-improved offensive performance and highlight Will Anderson's dominant presence as a one-man wrecking ball on defense.
They also delve into the beginning of the NFL trade season, focusing on the Bills' acquisition of Amari Cooper and the Jets' move for Davante Adams, analyzing how these trades could impact both teams.
The episode concludes with the show's popular segments: "Horses Ass of the Week," "Tips of the Cap," and "Scumbag of the Week," offering their usual mix of insight and humor on sports blunders, standout performances, and questionable actions.
A lively episode packed with sports updates and analysis for Houston sports fans.
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Transcript
Introduction to Hosts and Show
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to Born on the Bayou Sports, a Houston sports show made for Houstonians by Houstonians. Join Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla every week as they break down the latest in Houston Astros, Rockets and Texans news. Tim's a former minor league broadcaster and Scott has written two books on the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Eric's Journey as a Cy Young Candidate
00:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, if probably Eric could get it figured out, it would make things a lot easier because he was that guy everybody was counting on this year to be a Cy Young candidate, take that big step forward and and help anchor this rotation with Palmer. Since he's come to Houston, you can look at the development of guys like Carlos Correa defensively and Jeremy Peรฑa defensively. We need to know about his fragments. You know, certainly I think I'm better than average third baseman.
00:00:56
Speaker
And now you're putting teams in 3rd and 8th, 3rd and 7th, 3rd and 9th. Now Hill comes to Will Anderson. Pin back your ears, let's go.
Weather Challenges in Texas
00:01:04
Speaker
So if you're by you, born and bred, or just like spending time in the age, sit down, relax, and stay Houston strong.
00:01:23
Speaker
Welcome all my friends to the song that ever ends. Come inside. Come inside. Scott, how we doing this night? Nice little cold evening here in Dallas. I don't know what what you got. We're down in the seventies during the day. I'm guessing sixties now. So, you know, 49 here officially got my winter gear out. Yeah. um I'm wearing the hoodie. So yeah, I'm right there with you.
00:01:48
Speaker
Us Houstonians, or I'm in Dallas now, but in native Houstonians, we don't handle cold well, folks. I don't know about you guys, but um I was cold today. It was it was in the sixties and I just legit couldn't get comfortable all day. Yeah. When I was going to school up there, I used to sport the the double sweatshirt. Two sweatshirts. Yeah. During the winter. So now now that the puffy vests are kind of thing, I guess they're popular in the eighties as well too, based on my knowledge of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Clark Griswold definitely rocks one of these while putting on Christmas lights. But I like to go with the hoodie and then the puffy vest on top of the hoodie. It adds a nice second layer, but I still have the freedom with the arms. Yeah, that could work. I could see that. If it's good enough for a Chicago winter, I think it could hold up to the windy elements here in the colony. Yeah, no kidding.
Stadium Woes of Tampa Bay Rays
00:02:43
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All right, Scott. well
00:02:45
Speaker
Kind of an interesting and what I think could be eventually a hilarious scenario breaking out um in Major League Baseball right now. Right now it's not funny as we'll call them the Ramblin' Rays um are currently looking for a new home based on the damage that was done to the roof and based on the fact that this was always built as an indoor stadium so you can't just take the roof off and and play as an outdoor stadium.
00:03:15
Speaker
they are homeless. Timeline doesn't look good to get this thing fixed for opening day. Um, there's some negligence by the team here based on, you know, the lifetime of this roof and when it should have been fixed. But all in all, this is not looking good. Yeah. And I think you both of you and I have attended games there and having not gone to the Oakland Coliseum for an actual game,
00:03:41
Speaker
It is by far the worst major league stadium I've ever attended the game in. And I went to a game at old Arlington stadium. This is pre ballpark of Arlington. So, I mean, it's pretty bad. I think this would piss a lot of my neighbors off, but the old ballpark in Arlington sucks.
00:04:05
Speaker
It is so fucking hot in that place. Like if you just sit there and bake in the sun and like their solution was to install some sun sails. Like, are you kidding me? Like what, what the hell does that do? Like with no wind at seven o'clock when the shit that was just baking on you, like day games there were awful. And like, I, I worked at a team five miles down the road, outdoor stadium, very well aware.
00:04:32
Speaker
of what the in stadium temperature was at our minor league park. Again, smaller version, less metal, probably worse at Arlington. That place was, like i yeah, it hosted some World Series, but ah outdoor baseball in Texas sucks. But yeah, I will agree. I will say, I think the Rays have done a better job in the last like four years, at least from like a TV standpoint, because like the home runs, they have the flashing lights and it's a better environment now than when I went when they were the devil raised. But, but yeah, it's not like it was never a great major league stadium. No. And, and the problem was, is that, and I think the, the Chicago people, um, for the, uh, the, the Southsiders.
00:05:17
Speaker
They built, you know, that that new Comiskey was the last of the old style ballparks before, you know, that you had Camden Yards, you know, bringing in that new wave. And Tropicana Field is right around that same time frame. And so I don't even know if it was meant to be a baseball stadium, to be honest with you, but it was just in that, I'm going to say not a magic time period. this What is the opposite of magic? Yeah. It just didn't fit anything. It was...
00:05:46
Speaker
that time period where like we thought domes were cool, right? Like we thought like Safeco, was it Safeco the dome in the kingdom? In the kingdom, right? Astrodome, um obviously Tampa Stadium, but like at the end of the day dome suck and the technology for the retractable roof is is vastly superior. And it's not an eyesore, right? Like the Ray Stadium legitimately is an eyesore. You've got a catwalk that That is in play and you know the Astros have rafters and stuff like that with their with their roof that's in play as well We're not perfect But I feel like it's a lot easier to hit the catwalk and I'm pretty sure if you hit one at a certain angle It's like an automatic home run. So I mean, that's like Celebration station batting cage shit, right?
Relocation Prospects for the Rays
00:06:34
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Like we're like hit this target for home run hit this one for double this one's it out like I mean, come on okay, so if if we're gonna assume let's assume that they are
00:06:45
Speaker
out until at least the all-star break, right? And they think that's a pretty safe estimate. Um, so right now they said six months with no other complications at all, right? Like if they get there and they say that this, the only thing that happened is the roof blew off. It's like six months, but the things got is that's if they're willing to spend the money. yeah You're supposed to move into a new state, even three years. So would you pay?
00:07:15
Speaker
To fix this one when you're going to have to demolish this space To build your new stadium. It's already demolished Yeah, that's where you know, that that's the question of what they want to do with it, you know going and forward and here's where I think The most hilarious thing has the potential to happen because I know it won't really happen but what if now that the lease is open they go to oakland and And all of a sudden, just as the biggest middle finger ever to the Fisher family, they're like top five in attendance because all the Oakland fans are like, fuck you, we're going to go to these games because it's not a Fisher owned team and we'll support the shit out of the Ramblin race. Yeah. Could you imagine though, the travel being in the ale East? that was so But the thing is, is that, you know, your, your alternate destinations, right? So we know Montreal.
00:08:09
Speaker
has housed an MLB team before. That's a full stadium though. A full stadium. San Juan has housed the Expos for a bit. um I don't know of any other place that you can have a major league that they would be to themselves, right? And then you have to look at the facts, got two of If you are going to share right if you're gonna go so realistically you have the option of have your own facility in what Montreal San Juan or Oakland are kind of your three Choices there or you can share with one of the minor league teams or spring training facilities in Tampa which is outdoor and Tampa has a lot of in and out rain showers, right delays throughout the day and How do you share a facility with another team when you're costly having delays? Or do you sit there and say, okay, let's try Charlotte, Nashville, you know, one of those kinds of places.
00:09:09
Speaker
Either way, I think they're going to, if they can't get this thing fixed by opening day, I don't think the minor league option is is really there for them. The same way it is, say for the A's who are in Sacramento, because the weather there is just different. Like you are not going to have the same amount of rain out, play a double header of the next day kind of scenarios that you're going to have playing outdoors in Florida. It's just not the way it goes.
00:09:34
Speaker
so I don't know how they work that out like unless they find a a spring training facility that no one's using and go at it that way. I don't know, Scott. I think it's a really awful scenario. But I looking at it like. I if they have to play the whole year somewhere else to me, Oakland's the really the only realistic option outside of maybe Montreal. I'd have to know what's shaped that stadiums and what is what has been done to that stadium since the Expos left. half Yeah. and And the other part of it is you mentioned, ah you know, in text, just to let some people see behind the scenes like, Hey, what happens if we, you know, return the favor that they did for us, you know, during, uh, during Harvey and said like, Hey, come to Houston. But see, the problem is, is that that kind of thing works for like a month or two. I don't see how you can make it work for a full season. Cause you would have to Jerry rig the schedule tour. One is at home while the other one's away all the time.
00:10:33
Speaker
Correct. I mean, like the Mets and Yankees shared a stadium at one point. Um, but you would have to know that I feel like going into the season, right? You can't, I feel like if this is too late in the year to try and make changes like that. Obviously there's extenuating circumstances, but when you do stuff like that, like you're not just changing the Astros and race schedule, you're changing most of the American league and probably some national league games too, at that point. So that's not really an option for the whole season, but I agree. If, if, if the race need a month,
00:11:03
Speaker
right? If they need a month and then their stadium would be ready. As an Astros fan, knowing that there was a team four hours up the road who who flipped us the double bird and and the Rays in Florida said, we'll come here. We'll take care of you. How do you not open your door back up to them, right? And
Fan Support in Tampa Bay: Why the Struggle?
00:11:22
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say, Hey, you guys need a month. We'll share our facility for a month.
00:11:26
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ah You guys will probably have a decent crowd to play in front of it, you know cheap tickets realistically For fans and you know what we'll show some love because that's just the way Houston baseball fans are and Hey, it's a win-win for everybody. If it's more than a month. I think you got to look at finding a as you said a situation That's just for yourself um I don't know. I think I think Finding a big enough Minor league facility is probably the best option that you could either share with someone or maybe Buy them out for the year. I don't know. What if you went to like a a nice independent team and and said like hey, um I Don't know Hey, Cleburne railroaders. I will give you Five million dollars to sit this season out and let me have your facilities for the year Yeah, I mean I could see that i yeah the
00:12:20
Speaker
the appeal of Houston would be, well, I'll draw Tampa Bay fans for the race. Correct. I mean, that's, you know, and and part of it is got to, you got to look at these things long-term. And I think, you know, Oakland and Tampa Bay are such different situations. I think Oakland's a situation where they were supporting their team, but their facilities just went such into crapper. And, you know, when the owner was a shitbag and wouldn't like spend on the team.
00:12:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so as soon as you, you know, you were clear that you were given Oakland the double birds, Oakland fans are not going to go back. But the thing is, is that Tampa Bay has had some really good teams and they still don't support. So, I mean, that's just a situation where the ballpark was hard to get to. You probably don't remember that, but it was as somebody who was driving there, who's not from the area, getting to that ballpark was not a fun experience.
00:13:19
Speaker
And so I don't know where they're building the new one. Hopefully it's in ah on the same site. They're going to tear down the old one and build it like next door. The old one's going to be like parking lot. Well, uh, well, good luck. Yeah. That's like, it's not going to change anything. And like, let's, be let's be realistic about the city of Tampa Bay, right? A large portion of it are, um,
00:13:47
Speaker
People who are not born in Florida, right? We have people who move there for work. It's ah it's a pretty big shipping and receiving area. There's a lot of you know commerce for that, but also people who are retiring to Florida, AKA the village's style lifestyle, right? Snowbirds. Huh? It's called snowbirds. Right, snowbirds. Well, snowbirds technically um come south for the winter, then go back to their home.
00:14:15
Speaker
um For the summer because it's too hot in the summer so they go back like my my aunts and uncles do that from Florida and Connecticut But then you've got also the people who just full-on Retired of Florida and move into places like the villages and drive around on the golf cart and do their thing, right? But the thing with those people are you grew up a fan of? the Cardinals the Yankees the Cubs the Mets the Oreo whoever it is, right and in today's day and age and You can still watch your team in Florida, in Japan, in wherever you are through technology and apps, right? When when my dad moved to Houston in 1983 or whatever it was, I'm sorry, in 86, you couldn't still watch the the Yankees and Mets, right? Like he was at Houston. So as a baseball fan, my dad became an Astros fan.
00:15:08
Speaker
Now, here's the reverse. Tim, in 2018, moves to a new city, can still watch his team, does still watch his team, and will never be a Rangers fan, right? That's because of technology. If you put me in Tampa Bay, guess what? I'm still fucking watching the Astros in Tampa Bay. I'm not watching the... I'm not going to raise games unless the Astros are in town. Yeah, that's true. and And it's not a huge market. I mean, even if you include St. Petersburg, you know, and you throw those two together.
00:15:39
Speaker
It's just not, and I mean, there's not much around there. like Like Janet was talking about, Hey, can they go to Orlando? And it's like, yeah, but a spring training facilities seats, what, five, 10,000. You can't, you can't put a you know big league game in those kinds of facilities. Most big league games. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. You got a point there. I think if you get like a good 15,000 seats, spring training, Marley facility, like It probably looked like a pretty decent crowd actually and whatever, but I mean, at the end of the day, um, it's a sad scenario. It sucks for players more than anything, right? Like you get drafted, where you get drafted, you get signed, where you get signed. Like it's not like you're choosing to, like I'm a lifelong race fan.
Texans vs. Patriots: Game Analysis
00:16:22
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I want to play for the race. Like there, I'm sure there are people like that.
00:16:25
Speaker
But at the end of the day, like you go where you go and you play for who you play for. and And now your team doesn't have a stadium. like It sucks. From a smaller perspective, right like I've worked an independent ball where we had a team drop out. They ran out of money. And so now we have an odd number of teams a week before the season. So what do we have to do? We've literally put together a road-only team. And this team,
00:16:49
Speaker
never had a home game the entire year. It was basically the roster was pilfered over by every other team in the league. Anytime someone had an injury, they just made a bullshit trade and got somebody off the road team. And then they had to go find somebody else. And these guys had a shit year, man. Like they never had a home game. They lived on the road, hotel after hotel after hotel, and their record reflected it. But at the end of the day, that's what they signed up for. And they were willing to fight through it because that's what the league needed. Yeah, exactly.
00:17:18
Speaker
Uh, and really, you know, it was sad is that that's a team that knows what they're doing in terms of developing talent. Yeah. Um, and, and they they've got a good team. and They got it, you know, good a bunch of guys, you know, they, if they could spend a little bit of money, they could probably, you know, compete in the ALE, east but as it stands, they really can't. Yeah. Well, speaking of competing, the Texans went to new England and they did a lot more than competing. They opened up a cam.
00:17:47
Speaker
of wopa And Scott, I just want to give you a couple moments, you know, take us through, you know, you wrote it up for Battle Red Frog. Give us the breakdown of the game. Well, so basically, I think, you know, I changed it. I usually do a good, bad and ugly. I couldn't in good conscience use a bad and an ugly in a game that you're up by 20 points. So basically, you know, and let's start off with, you know, the great. So, um,
00:18:17
Speaker
The great, I think, obviously is there were just a number of defenders that had some really good games. I mean, ah Will Anderson shows up three sacks, also a deflected pass that Eric Murray somehow caught for an interception. So, you know, that was a great game by him. You know, we've been waiting for Will Anderson to show up and to to completely dominate a football game. And I felt like, you know, that was probably the first game of his NFL career, at least least on the stat line, where you can sit there and say, that's the Will Anderson, we drafted number three overall. And then of course, you you had some other guys, you had Mario Edwards, who unfortunately is now suspended for juicing. You know, maybe the juice was in in him and him in this game, because he had a career high eight tackles, also recovered a fumble.
00:19:09
Speaker
Um, and so, you know, he played big, uh, you had, uh, Kaylin Bullock with an interception and a FOMO recovery in the game. You turned them over four times, which is something that this defense with the exception of the Bears game really hasn't done all season long is turn the other team over. And so you, but you applied pressure to Drake May.
00:19:32
Speaker
I thought he looked pretty good overall for a guy starting his first NFL game, but you forced him into enough errors to where you made it an easy day for your offense. Now, the good, I think, was the fact of having Joe Mixon back. Joe Mixon had a you know very efficient day. you know I think 13 carries over 100 yards plus you know three big catches, including a touchdown receiving and rushing.
00:20:02
Speaker
So, you know, big fantasy day for, you know, Joe Mixon owners. I think he put in 28 points. My poor opponent didn't start him because I think it's just assumed he was injured. Uh, too bad for you. He could have beaten me with Joe Mixon, but, uh, Damien Pierce, one big, huge run. Um, I think we'll get more to him whenever, uh, whenever Tim gets back on, but, um, at least he had a nice big run towards the end of that game, 50, 40 yards.
00:20:32
Speaker
touchdown run. And so this is a team that puts up 190 yards rushing. And the thing is with the Texans offense is I think contrary to what D'Amico Ryans or Bobby Sloak think, this team is never going to be a grind them out football team like the 49ers. That's just not going to be who they are. I think they're going to be more of a chuck it around the yard kind of football team, because you know quite frankly, CJ Stroud is better Um, then Brock Purdy. And so that, that's, you know, just one thing. And then of course, you know, our targets are about as good as the 49er targets, you know, when they're all healthy. But with 190 yards rushing, that is enough. And you had enough big carries to where the defense had to respect the running game, which opens up things on the back end. You know, it's not a, it's not a day where, you know, Strauss numbers are going to jump off the page.
00:21:29
Speaker
He had three touchdowns. He had an interception that really wasn't his fault, but, you know, overall all good. Um, so I was saying to him, um, the one I was saying the great was the defense. Will Anderson, I think that was his best game as a Texan by far three sacks plus a deflected pass that turns into a pick.
00:21:54
Speaker
Mario Edwards Kerr high eight tackles and then of course he gets you know pinned for PDS right after the game. It wasn't PEDs. It's uh It's an illicit substance is what it is. Actually, maybe maybe he was maybe a like a daddy Maybe it was an upper because he he was a and then Caleb Bullock with an interception and a foam recovery So really some great, you know performances on the defense and then and then I said the rushing attack was you know, the other good thing I think you know mixing really nice day and Obviously you had the 54 yard run by Pierce, but I think we'll talk more about Pierce here shortly. But the key is for the Texans, I don't think they'll ever be the 49ers in terms of like just grinding teams out on the ground consistently. But if you can have enough of a running attack to keep the defense honest, I think that's about as good as you can you can hope for. I agree, but I also think Joe Mixon's just a different kind of cat, man. like
00:22:52
Speaker
It's back when, you know, we had Aryan Foster, you could have the same rushing attack and put Alpha Blue in there or put Ben Tate in there or put, you know, Chris Polk or, you know, all those, all the other names that weren't Aryan Foster when Foster wasn't active.
00:23:10
Speaker
And it wasn't as good. But the moment you plug Arian back in, his combination of patience and vision and ability to make the first man miss and just turn it on was just something different that those other guys didn't have. And I think you and I can both agree, Joe Mixon doesn't do it the same way Arian does. However, he has that little bit something extra that no one else on this roster has. He has the ability to hit a home run literally on on almost any single play.
00:23:40
Speaker
but he also has the ability to gas you for five yards a carry and just slow cut, slow cut, slow cut, slow cut to all of a sudden you can't stop the bleeding and he's breaking loose towards the end of the game. So I do think if we can keep Mixon healthy, the run game will continue to be better and continue to be more productive because the two games that Mixon has played a full game, he's been healthy, he's rest for a hundred yards against what was supposed to be two good run defenses.
00:24:06
Speaker
Yeah. And I think the biggest thing that he brings the area and also brought is just the hands out of the backfield.
Upcoming Texans vs. Packers: Preview
00:24:15
Speaker
Uh, there was that one plan. I don't know if you saw this. It was a play where, um, a couple of linemen got loose on Stroud and he just kind of had to float it up in the flat and all of the, he led him a little bit too much. He just.
00:24:32
Speaker
reaches out, grabs it in full stride and ends up gaining like 20, 25 yards on the play. Um, that's just not, you know, something that most backs are able to do well. And you know, that we've seen. And so when you add up both of those things, I was just pointing out, cause I know this cause in our fantasy league, my opponent had Joe mixing and didn't start them.
00:24:55
Speaker
28 fantasy points that That she could receiving receiving touchdown rushing touchdown hundred yards. I mean my prediction was 125 yards. I don't think I said rush. did I don't know if I said rushing but he had 125 total yards when he was receiving and he had two touchdowns Your prediction was that tank Dell? I can't remember has a good day. I know you said he's gonna have a touchdown He definitely did that he had a very productive day um I mean, I felt for the most part like Texans offense was kind of running at full, full strength this week. Um, you know, ah a bad pick that was not on Stroud, he hit Dalton Schultz right in the hands. And yeah, unfortunately it gets in the hands of Cougar legend, Marcus Jones, and he returned it pretty well, which is what he was famous for in college. It's one of the NCAA's greatest return men of all time. Um, but yeah, he's, he did what he always does. And I don't know if you saw this, he and tank Dell did a little Jersey exchange after the game. Well, Cougar on Cougar love.
00:25:54
Speaker
Well, in Schultz, you know, had another drop, you know, uh, later on in the game. And so, you know, on the, on the, uh, battle red blog chat, you know, throughout the old movie line, don't throw it to stone heads. Um, I'll get into this a little bit more later, but if you can name that movie, Tim, uh, I don't know, Scott, uh, replacements, that was necessary roughness. Oh, I've only seen that one a few times. It was sin bad in it, right? Yeah, it is. It wasn't a great film, but you know, that was,
00:26:24
Speaker
But yeah, you leave 10 points on the table and there's going to be games against good opponents like this one we have on Sunday. You can't afford to leave 10 points on the field against the Packers and win. I mean, you're going to have to take advantage of all your opportunities. Absolutely. As you mentioned, Scott, let's, let's transition our way to the, uh, the Packers games. I've got the little.
00:26:53
Speaker
title there ready to go what are you what are you predicting sunday in green bank i think it's going to be nut check time here for your houston texans right you went into you went into wingland a traditionally tough place for you to win but this ain't the saint tom brady really leaving the pass on the field anymore right that was kind of an ass beating definitely an ass beating This is a good Packers team with a good quarterback with a fantastic group of wide receivers, one that would rival the Texans when the Texans are healthy. Might even be better just based on the number of good wide receivers they have. They've got a great running back. um The guy from ah the the Raiders last year. um Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs. They've got, again, love mobile quarterback.
00:27:40
Speaker
Young has shown in a couple of seasons that he's capable of of taking his teams as hopefully the promised land. If you're a Packers fan, this is a big game. and And this is a, as I said, not check time for your Houston Texans. Yeah. And it's a point that I'm going to get to a little bit later on how this game is not a prime time game. I'm not exactly certain.
00:28:01
Speaker
I think you and I are gonna get to similar points because I had to watch the last week's game on red zone because in Dallas Texas with the Cowboys not on at the same time CBS felt I'd rather watch um The Bengals and whoever the fuck they were playing last week. Oh the beng like Giants Bengals Giants was a fucking game I got last week. Well, that was on Sunday night Okay, I can't remember. I'll have to look up what my coverage map was cuz yeah, it was it it wasn't pretty I And I'll get to that later. But i'm I'm worried about this game. I can see this being another Texans loss. I think the Packers are one and a half point favorites last time I looked. um And I think the key is Jacobs, because you know the the Texans are pretty banged up on their linebacker core. And of course, you know you you have some injuries in that you know that secondary as well, particularly in the safety room.
00:28:56
Speaker
and so you're I don't know. I mean, Petrie usually plays as like an extra linebacker, but they may have to bring him back and play him more as a traditional safety with the injuries that they have. So I don't know. Um, I'm worried about the running game more than I'm worried about, uh, about love. I, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, I definitely agree with you. 2020.
00:29:24
Speaker
Banged up. Al Shair banged up. You've lost your defensive tackle by the best game of his career. You get back an end that you're probably going to try and move inside. I don't know how well that's going to go in the first game, right? um You're down a cornerback. You're down to safety. Like, yeah, defense is definitely banged up. But this is that D'Amico swarm mentality, right? This is number one always has to be stopping the run. And and this is where I think it's time for Will Anderson and Daniil Hunter to step up.
00:29:54
Speaker
Right. I think those two guys have to have a big game. I think Anderson had a great game last week. I think Hunter caused a lot of that too. You know, you can't stop both of them. One of them is going to get free and sometimes they're both going to wreak havoc. And if the Texans are going to find a way to stop the run or slow down this Packers offense, those guys got to get home at least ah one or two times each. Right. and And I think what you saw with Hunter and this is what you want to see is this team has one of the best pressure rates in the NFL.
00:30:24
Speaker
But in those first first five games, they weren't getting to the quarterback a lot. They were pressuring them. They were forcing them to make bad throws. But Daniel Hunter has one sack. Now, what happened during that one sack, Tim? Fumble or pick? I think it was a pick. It was a fumble. It was a Mario Edwards and when he recovered on the 10 yard line. You've got to make plays like that. Whenever you get to love, you have to make it count. And you have to get them down.
00:30:51
Speaker
You got to get them down and you got to at least force one turnover, whether it's a bad throw or it's, you know, it's a fumble. I was going to say, uh, Kurt Heinisch, uh, fill off his couch to him when you forgot to mention him coming back. Uh, I know everybody's looking forward to, you know, great things from him. Of course, my tongue, and my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek there, folks. Um, you're right. But the the thing about.
00:31:15
Speaker
Sacks come in bunches, right? That's what Wade Phillips used to say. And and when, I think, Will Anderson's games is is ah is a great example of that, right? If you're consistently putting pressure on the quarterback, you're gonna have a game like Will Anderson did, maybe not with the other curricular stuff he did, but you're gonna have a two or three sack game if you're living in the backfield the way this Texans front has at this point in the season, right? It was bound to happen.
00:31:38
Speaker
It's Daniil's turn realistically, like no one is li launching himself at the quarterback the way this guy is. I mean, he is the effort level from this man is is like no one else on the field realistically. He's relentless and that kind of pressure is what's needed.
00:31:54
Speaker
But that kind of effort to stop the run is also needed. Like we need some big time TFLs from these guys. You've got to, you've got to keep Jacobs in the box. You can't let them bus contained outside. And then at that point, you've got to win your man on man stuff up in the front seven and make it three. You don't have to bring eight in the box. If you can stop the run with seven and sit back and have those guys in coverage. If there's a play action, if they run a pass out of a heavy set or something along those lines.
00:32:23
Speaker
You've got to be able to stop that too. Cause they've got a pretty good tight end and craft. So, I mean, the the coverage, the coverage is going to be top. They've got four or five wide receivers. They've got a pass catching running back and they've got a tight end who can make big plays for them too. So between stopping the run and then lining up against that team, this one's one that, you know, realistically could be a Super Bowl matchup at some point. Yeah. And I think what you're looking at with the Packers offense is one that mirrors the Texans offense really well when Mixon's healthy.
00:32:53
Speaker
It's, you know, basically what do you choose to stop? Now I feel good about the run defense this last week. If you take away the Drake may rushing yards, cause I mean, those are kind of on broken plays, you know, and you're not traditional run plays. If you just look at running back rushing yards, Texas defense did pretty well against the team that likes to run the football in New England. So you kind of hoping that you can get that kind of performance again, even though Mario Edwards is not going to be there.
00:33:23
Speaker
Part of that, though, Scott, is probably the game score dictates it a little bit there as um you know the Texans were were up big, late you know for a good portion of the second half there. So the pass had to throw to get back into it. So that you know that goes into it, too. If the Texans can score in their opening two drives, you know if you get the ball first, go score, stop, score, and you're up 14-nothing, all of a sudden, stopping the run becomes a little bit easier because you're down two touchdowns.
00:33:52
Speaker
Well, and I would point out, I hate to, you know, I hate to do scoreboard watching in week seven of the NFL, but if the Texans should find a way to pull out this game, they're looking at a likely three game lead in the standings. And so my question is, I thought of this, you know, a game show, NFL network game show, where Mr. Khan, the owner of the Jaguars, says like, what analysis to the team,
00:34:20
Speaker
I purchased 90 tickets to London. I purchased 89 to return. Who's staying? I think i was cause I was about to ask, considering the Jags are in London two weeks in a row, is that the only reason Doug Peterson hasn't been fired yet? Like if they came back from London after last week's game, do you think he already would have been fired? But considering they're already there, let's just let him finish out the London excursion and then fire him on the way home.
00:34:50
Speaker
Maybe, or maybe they sit there and say, Hey, if you split, you stay. But as it stands now, I don't, you know, looking at what I saw from new England and Drake may, they have a really good chance to win that game. I mean, I thought, you know, Drake makes did some good things. Although Drake may have an MRI today. So we'll see there, but I mean, I picked up the Mario Davis and fantasy. Yeah. I mean, george Douglas, tomorrow, Douglas.
00:35:17
Speaker
Yeah. So there's, you know, there's some of that going on. So, and then of course you got Tennessee and, you know, yeah have you seen the Will Levis Manny's commercial yet? I have. It's pretty funny. But I don't know how long that guy's going to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. He's pretty terrible. Yes. I don't know. You know, and and of course, Mason Rudolph is no great shakes, but I feel like Mason Rudolph would do a better job with the receivers that they have. Then certainly Will Levis would do.
00:35:47
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, Calvin Ridley made some comments, um, in the locker room after their last game. And he's like, yeah, I had eight targets, but you know, how many of them came before the fourth quarter, right? Like you got to get me involved earlier in the game. So I have a chance to get into the game flow, right? Like you can't ignore me all game and then come look my way in the fourth quarter and expect me to be in the flow of that game. And like, yeah, you're a professional and you should always be ready, yeah yeah yeahda but you're also right. You know,
00:36:16
Speaker
This is a guy who doesn't understand how to get his teammates involved. Like this guy wants to play hero ball all the time. And that's just not how the NFL works. No, and I have a, you know, Tennessee's coach, obviously Callahan's in his first year. So he's not going anywhere, but, uh, who is your number one on your dead man walking list in the NFL? Oh, it's Peterson with a close second to McCarthy.
00:36:43
Speaker
Yeah, McCarthy, I just don't see Jerry Jones pulling a trigger mid-year. If they get waxed, I guarantee you, if they get waxed by the Houston Texans on Monday night football, that guy's done. Well, that if he lasts that long, I mean, based on you know what's what's been happening. I mean, when's their next home game? I mean, this is a team that's looking forward to going out on the road because they' that's four games in a row where they have just gotten absolutely lambasted at home. Yeah.
00:37:12
Speaker
That's a bad, that's a bad football team at the end of the day. They've got a lot of money tied up in two guys. One of which is performing, you know, CD lambs a beast, but the other one is, is your quarterback. And at the end of the day, when your quarterback sucks, your team's going to suck. Like it's really damn near impossible to win in the NFL with even average quarterback quarterback play. Right? Like a guy like Rex Grossman, taking a team to the Superbowl is pretty rare because the defense was so good.
00:37:41
Speaker
to have a guy who's a net negative, forget about it. I don't know that he's a net negative as much. Mike Zimmer. Dak? Mike Zimmer, that defense is probably the worst defense I've seen. Now, particularly with Parsons out, they don't have anybody over on that side of the ball that's doing anything. Yeah. I mean, we've got Lyman trying to score touchdowns on you. That's pretty bad. Well, when you're giving up 40 plus points,
00:38:09
Speaker
I mean, you could have Johnny United back there quarterbacking for you. It's not going to matter. Yeah, you're not wrong. And then at the end of the day, we'll get into this later, but I mean, the Cowboys did this themselves, right? Like Jerry Jones goes in the off season and says, we're all in, right? And then does absolutely nothing delays paying these guys to right before the season. And then you're in, and then you guys are half to a terrible start. So, um,
00:38:40
Speaker
Yeah, no wonder his seat's hot at the end of the day. But the Cowboys are never going to be good until Jerry Jones dies. Like you're not going to get away from this disaster until that man is six feet under because at the end of the day, he still wants to be in charge of everything. I feel bad for Dak because I don't think Dak is horrible. I just think he's not elite and you're paying him like an elite quarterback and the surest way to lose in the NFL is to pay an elite, pay an average quarterback like he's elite. I don't disagree with you. And looking hindsight, obviously 2020 Scott, but would you rather let Dak play out his contract, maybe suck for a year and go into the draft with a high pick, looking to get your next guy at a much cheaper rate? Or do you think it's worth it to keep a guy like him at an inflated number like that? Oh, no, this is not hindsight. I mean, I was thinking that at the time.
00:39:39
Speaker
You see what or Donald is doing right Sam Donald you could go get a guy like that for a year and Or shit, you could assign you could sign Sam Donald for probably half of what you're paying yeah There's no way Donald's going back to Minnesota Because if you're Darnell, why would I take a long-term deal when I've got JJ McCarthy sitting in the background ready to take over? So if you're Sam Darnell, you're going somewhere and Where are you going? I mean, are you going to Las Vegas? Maybe. Are you going to, I mean, what, what situation would be better than Dallas? Realistically for somebody like Sam Darnold. Yeah. It's, it's baffling, you know, but Hey, Billy Belichick is sitting there just waiting in the wings. I think the power struggle between those two would be fantastic. I don't know if you would ever take that job.
00:40:36
Speaker
after having dealt with Robert Kraft and all that stuff and Kraft coming out and saying he gave Belichick too much power and all this other stuff, I don't know if Belichick would go into a Jerry Jones run house without having full control of everything because, you know, him and Parcells got into it over the same thing, right? Like eventually Parcells was like, I can't, I can't cook if you don't let me shop for the ingredients. Yeah. The only thing is, is that you realistically CD lamb and Dak are there for the long haul.
00:41:05
Speaker
So, I mean, if you're a bill, bell check, it's not like you're going to get to pick your quarterback, your quarterback's picked for you. So the question is, can you win with them, you know, uh, based on the amount of money that they had to pay them and they, they probably paid them 10, $15 million dollars more than they could have got paid them just 12 months ago. Yeah. That's hindsight 2020, right? You let them go have a big year, at least production wise, it wasn't necessarily, um,
00:41:35
Speaker
anything in terms of championship stuff, but you let them put up numbers. And when you do that, price goes up. Same for CD lamb. So Jerry bit himself in the ass on this one. you know I think you look at what Casario did, right? And you look at, say, let's look at the Nico Collins extension by by comparison. You extended Nico a year early. You didn't have to pay him yet, but you did. And in doing so, you did it for a lot less though, was you if you were to let them ball all season this year.
Impact of Cooper and Adams Trades
00:42:02
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Oh yeah.
00:42:03
Speaker
ah Definitely and even with the injury even with him being up four or five games. He's still probably gonna eclipse a thousand yards Exactly. I mean when healthy right now Nikko Collins Legitimately looks like a top three receiver in the NFL Part of that is CJ Stroud part of that's Nikko's a dog man and I'll admit two years ago on this podcast I was wrong about Nikko Collins. I was too. You were not the only one I mean, I thought I thought Nikko had a chance to be a pretty good number two wide receiver I didn't think the ceiling was going to be number one wide receiver. Hey, and I think looking back on it, um you know, now pairing him with a guy like Diggs, who himself was the 146th pick in the draft, who was turned into a number one wide receiver. Perfect kind of maybe two guys to have in a room together to have chips on their shoulder mentality to say, hey, let's go be dominant. No one wanted this. Now they got us. Yeah, absolutely. And Diggs is on pace. I mean, a a minor hat tip to him.
00:43:03
Speaker
He is on pace to have over 100 catches and well over a thousand yards and about 10 touchdowns on the season. Well, speaking of people nobody wanted, let's talk about some people that teams did want because it looks like the NFL trade season is popping off. Um, the Mari Cooper gets out of football purgatory and into the warm embrace of Josh Allen, a much needed, uh, receiver for Josh Allen and just,
00:43:32
Speaker
a wonderful win for Amari Cooper to get out of Cleveland. Well, and yeah I think I texted this to you. This reminds me of when Amari Cooper was in then Oakland. And, you know, Oakland was ah was an absolute dumpster fire. So, you know, Jerry Jones, when probably stupidly pays a first round pick for Amari Cooper and everybody's making fun of him.
00:43:57
Speaker
And what did he do in that season that he went to Dallas? He's like immediately, routinely catching over 100 yards receiving every game. And ended up going over 1,000 yards on a season, even though he was only there for half the season in Dallas. I could see him doing something pretty similar in Buffalo. I could see him putting up easily 600, 700 yards for the remainder of the season, which is only 10, 11 games.
00:44:25
Speaker
And you get to 1,000 yards on the season, even though he's off to a horrible start because of his quarterback, realistically, and not him. Yeah, when you look at his career numbers, I mean, he goes for 1,000 yards his first two seasons in Oakland at the time. Has a down 2017, some injuries involved there, I believe. 2018, you're right, goes for over 1,000 between the Raiders and the Cowboys. Most, 725 of which come in with the Cowboys.
00:44:52
Speaker
Then he goes over 1,100 the next two years, with the Cowboys 865 in 2021. I think he missed some time there, though. 1,100 in 2022, 1,200 in 2023. And then this year, again, as you mentioned, quarterback play sucks and he's off to a slow start. But Josh Allen's dying for a big time receiver, right? and And they got it for him. And then in the move, I think that we all saw coming, um Aaron Rodgers gets his man back in his former receiver, and I guess best friend from Oakland to the Jets. So my favorite is- The Vontay Adams, the receiver. Yeah, my favorite is that everyone, I listened to XM, usually on the way to and from work and they'll do like a sports update. And they said, you know, well, the Vontay Adams is healthy and practicing with the Jets
00:45:48
Speaker
even after mysteriously missing the last three weeks, this is how they, this is how they framed it. to Then the news update mysteriously missing the last three weeks with a hamstring injury, make it a business decision. Yeah. I think that's exactly what happened. And and the thing is, and I'll get to this point later, does this change anything with the jets minimally?
00:46:13
Speaker
I think if maybe, maybe if they won that game against the Bills and they were three and three instead of two and four, I feel a little bit better about it. But at the end of the day, um, you know, the offense hasn't looked very good for them. They just haven't looked like a great football team. Like it, I think Brett Farve looked better in his time as a jet than Aaron Rogers has. Well, and the thing is, so let's say you think that pretty comfortably you need to get to 10 wins to get to the playoffs.
00:46:44
Speaker
ah Yeah, probably. That's an eight and three finish. Yeah. Does that look like an eight and three football team? It doesn't, but you never know, realistically, right? I mean, the weapons, really Garrett Wilson and Devontae Adams, Breece Hall, Aaron Rodgers. They had Mike Williams, which they never really used. you He got thrown under the bus on yeah ah national television. Lazard's had some nice moments for them. I mean, it seems like the guys that he has Packers connections with are going to do fine. And he has trouble linking up with people who he doesn't have a long history with. I think you have two main problems on that team. And this doesn't change anything. Number one, number one, your problem is Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers is basically handpicked that roster. Aaron Rodgers is just not a great quarterback anymore. He's just not.
00:47:42
Speaker
And so, you know, when you look at it, I mean, to me, see, you put CJ Stradnet offense, he's going to win more games than he loses with those targets. I don't, I just don't see it. And so the number two problem is that again, with Aaron Rodgers, he's got his boy, offensive coordinator Hackett calling plays. And apparently if you go according to the, um, the timeline, you tell me what you think this means.
00:48:12
Speaker
Robert Sala in the morning that he got fired had decided that Hackett was no longer going to call plays. Then he was called into the owner's office and told that he was fired. So you tell me, what do you think happened? I mean, Hackett's not calling plays anymore regardless, but I don't know. I think, I think it was like, I think, hack I think Hackett was going to get fired more than anything. I truly think they're downplaying it as Hackett was gonna not call plays, but I think it's more that Salah was gonna fire Hackett, and that's what got him fired. And so Aaron Rodgers did a solid for his boy, which if Aaron Rodgers is doing solids for people, I'm sorry, but that, that you know. I mean, Aaron Rodgers made that trade, right? Yeah, I mean, that's not, that's, I mean, I think it makes them better, sure. I mean, yeah, if you said, you know, if you send Adams to the Texans,
00:49:10
Speaker
The Texas would be a better football team, but I would question Nick Casario's, uh, sanity. If he's trading a third round pick for another wide receiver when this team is loaded with wide receivers. Right. And I do, I will say though, as you said, you got to go eight and three down the stress to put yourself in playoff contention.
00:49:30
Speaker
If I'm a GM or whatever it is, and I'm looking at it from that perspective of this season, I have to find a way to go eight and three. What can I do to make this team better or at least good enough to do that? Going to get that receiver that my guy has chemistry with might be the answer to that question. Maybe, maybe. I think the, I think you definitely knew and I both agreed the Amara Cooper Amari Cooper deal is a lot more impactful.
00:49:58
Speaker
Mainly because he's gonna walk here. So let's say what's the worst that could happen? This move doesn't work out for Buffalo. Maybe he and Josh Allen don't gel. End of the year, you just wash your hands, you walk away and you start over. So I mean, with with um they they what they ended up doing with with Adams is they ah created two voidable years so that they could make the cap hit this year less But he's got a balloon payment of like $32 million do next year. I mean, at the end of the day, though, he's he's a better receiver than Cooper is. And so I don't think having I don't think having the Vase Adams on your team next year hurt you.
Critique of Underperforming Teams
00:50:44
Speaker
But I will say I agree with you. I think I think Amari Cooper is a better receiver. I'd like in it because to be Amari Cooper's guys, he's a vet, he's a professional. he He shows up to work and he does it day in and day out.
00:50:56
Speaker
on the baseball side is just to me. I'm an Astros fan. It's kind of like the Astros getting Michael Brantley, right? Like, you just needed that professional in the middle of your lineup who doesn't strike out, who makes good contact. what is What did the Bills desperately need? A professional X wide receiver. A guy who could show your young rookie how to get it done, who could teach him the ropes, who could help your veteran quarterback. Because at the end of the day, having your tight end as your number one wide receiver has made Josh Allen's season a lot harder than it needs to be.
00:51:28
Speaker
They needed that guy, they went and got that guy, and it didn't really cost them as much. And realistically, after beating the Jets already, who else is challenging them in in the ASCEs right now? Nobody. I mean, the Dolphins, the Dolphins may be going into the air before, to a you know, is turning his brain into mosh, but After that, like I mean the Jets, again, and the Jets may be going on a miraculous run. Who knows? But at the end of the day, they're probably still going to have to beat the Bills one more time or have to beat the Bills in their next matchup if they go on that run. So both these teams did what they needed to do to get better. But like looking at that game, like the Bills should have blasted the Jets.
00:52:11
Speaker
like but as As we've mentioned, the Jets are not a great team. The Bills are a perennial Super Bowl contender with one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, and you play down to your opponent. So if I'm a Jets fan or if I'm the Jets GM, I'm looking at it and going, hey, if we had a little bit better receiving corps, maybe Aaron Rodgers could have gotten us down the field at the end of the game for that win. If I'm the Bills GM, I'm looking at shit. We just barely beat the Jets and they suck. We need to find a way to be a better football team. I think that's a coach at the end of the season. If he hasn't made it to the Super Bowl,
00:52:42
Speaker
is probably on his way out. McDermott? Yeah, he's a guy that's this chronically underachieved. I mean, the Bills have had one of the best rosters in the AFC. And yeah, you could sit there and say it's hard to get through Kansas City and and I'll grant you that. But they haven't lost to Kansas City every year. They've lost to some other teams along the way as well. Yeah, absolutely. me I mean, if he is not, I'll say this, if he is not in the AFC Championship game, I think he's gone.
00:53:12
Speaker
ands That's a good that's a bold prediction Scott wants to see if that one plays out um Speaking of bold though some people do some bold dumb things It's our job to acknowledge those bold dumb things when we give out our weekly horses ass award Scott do you want to get us started with our horses ass this week? Okay, so in the sports world And I don't know, you know, this is one of those things you never know. I don't know. Is it the NFL? Is it the television executives? But why are the New York football giants on primetime television? Why? We know they suck. I mean, they were my pick to be the worst team in the NFL this year. And they're not the worst team in the NFL, but damn it, they're close.
00:54:06
Speaker
And the thing is, is that, you know, I could sit there and look at it and I can look at the Bengals because the Bengals weren't good coming into that game either. But the Bengals, I could sit there and go like, okay, you've got Joe Burrow. Uh, you've got, you know, you've got some good wide receivers. Okay. I could, I expect the Bengals to be a good faulty. Okay. I get it. Crap happens, right? And, and, and, you know, sometimes seasons go sideways, but who in America thought the Giants were going to be a good football team?
00:54:35
Speaker
Name one person who thought they were going to be good outside of the Giants, you know, football offices. I thought, yeah, this this team. Oh yeah. America wants to see this team. Now they, they put the jets on because I think they think Aaron Rogers drama. People want to see drama. I don't want to see drama, Tim. I want to see good football and the jets are not a good football team.
00:55:03
Speaker
I mean, I could maybe stretch my mind to sit there and see maybe the Jets as a playoff team coming into the season, maybe, but I weren't picking them in front of Buffalo and we're going to be picking them in front of Miami. So, I mean, that's your, your back door in your way into the wild card at that point. So NFL executives, television executives, Green Bay and Houston.
00:55:30
Speaker
You got five and one and four and two. You've got two of the best young quarterbacks in football. And you're burying this game at noon. What the hell are we doing? What are we doing? I'm going to piggyback a little bit onto your your horse's ass here, Scott. I got some numbers for you. Can I pull them up while you're talking? 2023, I feel like we were we had the Jets and Giants shoved down our throat. Take a guess on how many prime time games each one of those teams has.
00:55:59
Speaker
I'm going to go five for the Jets and four for the Giants. Five and five. You were right on the Jets. We had the Giants shoved down our face on prime time five times last year. And they sucked on all of those appearances. So did the Jets. Now we roll into 2024.
00:56:19
Speaker
Everybody knew the Giants sucked. It's okay. We can rewrite the schedule this year Giants still have three fucking primetime games. Do you want to take a guess at how many the Jets have this year? I'm gonna go five again six. They gave him another one right And then here's my biggest problem Scott Not only are the primetime games out of whack the fucking coverage map is is a disaster. I looked it up. We here in the DFW area of Texas, let me say it again, Dallas, Texas did not have the Houston Texans on TV because we had Baltimore versus Washington. Was it a great game? Sure.
00:57:05
Speaker
I am a fucking Texan. I live in Texas. Why am I getting that? Every other part of Texas, except Dallas, got to Houston Texans on Sunday. The Cowboys were not on. They did not play until the afternoon slot on Fox. Explain to me why we can't have a game featuring a Texas team on in Texas. It's absolutely asinine. Well, and I think what it is is they want you to you pay that money to YouTube TV.
00:57:34
Speaker
for the NFL Sunday ticket town. I think that's what they're, they're trying to go after. They get a hundred bucks a year out of me for red zone. Um, you can get it through the NFL app and that's all they're going to get. I can get enough of the game through red zone and following along on the Texans app. You're not going to get me to pay like my wife's a Niners fan. I'm a Texans fan. The best way for both of us to be happy is just to put red zone on. And then we, no one can complain about whose team is getting watched more because that's up to Scott Hanson. Yeah, that's true.
00:58:04
Speaker
All right, my scumbag this week Scott speaking this I'm sorry. Yeah, my horses ass this week Scott um After piggybacking on the years. I'm gonna go Jerry Jones for those of you who who haven't seen it yet Jerry Jones does a a weekly radio show with I think it's 104 3 it's called the fan here in DFW and they're you know, we could call it similar to 610 where they are the flagship station of the Dallas Cowboys um And you know what, I will tip my cap to the fan because they asked some legitimate questions of Jerry Jones saying, Hey, you said we were all in this off season. Then you did nothing in free agency. And now look where the team is. What do you have to say? And instead of like sitting there and answering this questions, Jerry Jones has a literally like Donald Trump level tirade calls these people idiots threatens to have them fired from the radio station says, if you're so smart, come to the NFL meetings. Everybody's looking for geniuses in the NFL.
00:58:59
Speaker
Like, hey man, at the end of the day, these guys are the mouthpiece of your of your fans, right? they They are the loudest fans that you have. They have a little bit of journalistic integrity, they're gonna ask the questions that the fans wanna know, but at the end of the day, what they are saying is what your fans are saying. So when you respond like that, you're essentially flipping the bird to every one of the fans of your team and saying like, I don't give a fuck, you're still gonna come watch anyway.
00:59:29
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, he's a, what 82 years old. Yeah. Can you imagine any team hiring an 82 year old general manager? I mean, what would you say about that team? They're idiots. I mean, unless like, I don't know. Is there a guy at 82 that like, if the Texans brought him in, like let's say Bill Belichick's 82 years old. Okay. And, and our, and Nick Cassario.
00:59:55
Speaker
Just like one day, it's like, you know what? My wife and kids want me home. I'm out. And like, he just leaves. And it just so happens is Bill Belichick's 82nd birthday. And he's willing to come in and be your GM. But he's 82. Would you want Bill Belichick at that point? Because Jerry Jones is even like a football mind, right? He's an oil guy who has a lot of money who made himself a boss. But like, if you could get a real football mind at 82, do you even want that football mind? I don't want him at 72.
01:00:25
Speaker
I mean, just based on what he built without Tom Brady. But, you know, yeah, i poor Jerry. You know, he's living in the same world. We're going to get into the politics here, you know, a little bit layered in the show, but he's basically living like a Trump life where, you know, he's a special little boy and nobody ever says anything bad to him. And all of a sudden somebody asked him one legitimate question and he just goes ape shit. I mean, it's the same basic thing. Yeah. I mean, you're not wrong, ah less of a douchebag that he's going against. No lives are at stake, right? It's Dallas Cowboys football, but his his response is is Trumpian and in many, many ways. Like a guy, but it's not just, it's all these rich billionaires, right? They get old. They think they're excellent at everything because they were good at one specific thing. And they think they're God's gift to humanity. Like I guarantee you, Jerry Jones thinks he's the best thing that ever happened to the Dallas Cowboys. Like he he will go to his grave thinking,
01:01:24
Speaker
Dallas loves me. They are so thankful that I bought this team. They love me here. And I lived a perfect life. Well, on balance, if you look at 30 plus years, sure. He won three Super Bowls. You know, he's made them a ton of money. So on balance, I could say Jerry Jones has been good for the Cowboys. But I think every good person knows I mean, there's times when you just need to hang it up and you need to sit there and say, I'm going to let my son take this thing over because I can't do it anymore. I think, I mean, if anything, the city of Frisco is Jerry Jones, the biggest thank you out of anyone like Jerry has helped put Frisco on the map at a level that no one else has. Um, and Arlington too, you know, Arlington was a small little baseball town and all of a sudden the Cowboys come to town and.
Dodgers' Postseason Success
01:02:17
Speaker
That changes everything so to to small-town little cities um that That Jerry has has turned into hot spots of commercial attraction Definitely owe him a thank you, but the Cowboys fans since like 1997 Yeah, very high of him No, that's true. All right Scott. Well speaking of people we don't think very high of let's talk about some people who had a great week people we do think a lot of and people that maybe we want to just tip that cap too. Who you got for us this week Scott? I'm going to dip my cap and i and every bone in my body hates doing this, Tim. But I've got to do it anyway. ah Going in, you know, the NLDS, the Dodgers are down two to one. And what's the conversation? Conversation is, okay, Dave Roberts is going to get shit canned. You know, they the Dodgers underachieve. And then they rattle off.
01:03:17
Speaker
33 consecutive scoreless innings to take them through the end of game three, game four, game five, and game one of the NLCS. So, you know, when your team comes up big and breaks a postseason record, like consecutive scoreless innings, as much as I hate the Dodgers, I got to give you a hat tip on that.
01:03:43
Speaker
You're a better man than me because it was never even on my radar to give the Dodgers a hat tip, Scott. I i will be honest, I've watched zero postseason baseball since the Astros were eliminated. Maybe like a collective three minutes just to check scores, but no desire. Absolutely no desire. My my heart was ripped out and crushed to a million pieces. So baseball season is open for me as far as I'm concerned. I i wouldn't say I've watched. You paid attention. You paid attention, yeah.
01:04:13
Speaker
I'm going to tip my cap this week Scott to Will Anderson. um we We talked about the performance, the best of his career, three sacks, tackles for loss, gets in the backfield, tips a pass. He was absolutely outstanding.
01:04:27
Speaker
um The numbers hadn't been there at this point in the season for him until this game, but we talked about the relentless effort. They are living in the backfield. They just weren't getting home. Well, the sacks came in bunches and hey, he looked fantastic on Sunday. Tip of my cat to Will Anderson. That's a good call. Good call. All right, Scott, from hat tips to scumbags, it's that time.
01:04:52
Speaker
These people have offended us and it's time that they recognized as scumbags of the week. So with your indulgence here, Tim, I want to go sandwich. I'll go first and last, because I think I've got a double one this week. I'm myself having a little trouble narrowing it down. You and I had a conversation. I'm going to move on from the petty scumbag and we're going to get real with it. So you go ahead and go first. Okay. So my first one, stop Houston murders pack.
01:05:21
Speaker
So stophoustonmurders.com. you're not Since you're not here down in the Houston area, you have not been subjected to this treatment. They have run commercials, Tim. And when I say run commercials, I would say in the span of an hour, you see probably 30 of these commercials. And I'm not exaggerating because they run about five or six back to back to back to back to the point where they're interrupting legitimate ads.
01:05:50
Speaker
You're watching a legitimate ad and in like 10 or 15 seconds in, well, nope, we got to go back to this one. So what are Stop Houston murders? What are they saying? So basically their whole thing is we have to vote out all of the Democratic judges in Harris County because they're bad judges. And so what they do is they parade out these people that had family members that were killed.
01:06:16
Speaker
by people that were released by these quote unquote bad judges. And they actually said this and he asked him, all of them are Democrats. Now, when I hear that, when I hear all of them are Democrats, I don't know about you, Tim, but my bullshit mirror immediately starts screaming bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. And then the second thing is we don't have any context as to why these people were released.
01:06:42
Speaker
Were they violent? They were told they were violent. Yeah, they killed somebody. They're violent now. Were they violent before? We don't know. Because they don't tell us who the person is so that we could like research their criminal record. Were they paroled by a parole board? Did they serve their full sentence? We don't know any of these things, Tim. Because, of course, you know they're just going to tell us they're bad judges.
01:07:08
Speaker
yeah and And I gave you the H.L. Macon quote earlier that, you know, there's you know not a complex problem that can't be solved confidently, you know, and passionately and wrong. You know, it's me to sit there and just say, be tough on crime, throw them all in jail. So think about it this way. Let's say I'm a shoplifter. Should I go to jail for life, Tim? No. But you know, not.
01:07:37
Speaker
But, but ah you you don't release me because I might kill somebody. I mean, that's basically what these people are saying. It's ridiculous. I mean, to me, Scott, this reeks of the Willie Horton at this reeks of one of the most racist and vile political campaign ads ever used. And the one that one George Bush senior.
01:08:01
Speaker
or Daddy Bush, the election, right? Like to me, this is literally straight out of the Bush playbook. And it sounds so much like the ad that they ran for Willie Horton. I don't know how you could differentiate it if you put them up side by side. And really, I feel I don't know whether to feel sickened by these people or sad for them, that people are using their tragedy as a as political pause.
01:08:25
Speaker
I guess you have to, it's a combination, right? Like it's sickening that they're using it. And it's sad that these people actually think that they're like helping. It's sad that they think that they're doing the right thing by getting their story out there and it's being taken advantage of in the way that it is. Yeah. Cause I feel bad that, you know, something bad happened to people and I fully recognize that, you know, when you have a family member that's killed, you don't care about the murder, right?
01:08:52
Speaker
Because your family member was killed, but what we what we know, Tim, and the facts are is that not only is murder down nationwide, it's down in Houston. It went down from 2022 to 2023 when these bad judges were in control. So are we saying that the murder rate went down in spite of them?
01:09:15
Speaker
Are we just going to go out and that lie and say like, you know, this is Gotham city and just people are getting murdered left and right. No, it's the latter because two Republicans anecdotal stories are always more important than like legitimate facts and statistical evidence because you can, you can campaign off one welfare queen, but you know, when someone comes to you and says,
01:09:38
Speaker
This is the facts and these are many people are you on welfare and there's the percentage of welfare fraud that happens every year. And all they're going to say is, well, one case is too many. Here's an example. Why this one person defrauded welfare for a hundred thousand dollars. Boom. is one name I think I mentioned him last week as my star bag. Yeah, you did you did. No, but at the end of the day,
01:09:59
Speaker
There's their anecdotal stories work with their audience and so they use them I mean again the Willie Horton ad is Commonly discussed as one of the most racist pieces of political Theater we've ever seen but also it won the fucking campaign for GW So why wouldn't they do it again? It worked? Yeah, exactly Alright, so I've got one and I am pretty sure we're gonna team up on two but for different reasons. I I went back and forth on this, Scott, and i'll I'm going to lightly say, like, I was really considering Donald Trump, um, for his performance at what was supposed to be a town hall and turned into a 39 minute karaoke slash dance session. Um, but like, that's just, that's just too easy, right? So we're going to, we're going to cross Donald off the list and we're going to talk about Raphael Teddy boy Cruz.
01:10:54
Speaker
We had the um Texas Senate debate last night where he and and Colin Allred squared up and we all know how debates work, right? No one's ever going to answer the real questions. Your coach to get to your talking points, your coach to, you know, stay on track. Don't let the other person get you off message.
01:11:14
Speaker
and debating with Ted Cruz is is a special skill. You cannot get into mudslinging with Ted Cruz because when you're a giant piece of shit, you can throw shit all over the place, right? Like I think the South Park episode on Bono proved that like big the world's biggest pieces of shit can always make more shit. So at the end of the day, Allred is not going to sit there and mudsling, but he made some good points and and maybe he was a little weak on others. But Ted Cruz openly laughing.
01:11:44
Speaker
that January 6 was a threat to democracy, that his style of of politics is a threat to democracy. He's laughing. When he's told that women are dying in Texas because they can't get the the health care they need, the reproductive care they need, he's laughing. People's lives are at stake here. And to this man, it's it's a giant joke. And I don't understand Republican, Democrat, Independent. It doesn't matter what your political affiliation is. Like at what point do you just be like, this guy sucks. It doesn't matter that I am a Republican. It doesn't matter that I am a Democrat. This guy fucking sucks. I don't like him. I'm not going to vote for him. But yet for some reason, people like my neighbor down the street with a Ted Cruz for Texas sign in the yard still continue to support this man as he laughs.
01:12:37
Speaker
about women dying from being unable to get the reproductive care that they need. My wife almost died from an ectopic pregnancy, something that has risen in rate of death by 200% in Texas since the abortion laws were overturned. And he laughs at that. Fuck Ted Cruz, man. So I'll give you a quote on Ted Cruz, and I want you to tell me who who you think said it. Quote, Ted Cruz could be killed in the middle of the Senate floor And if they held the trial in the Senate, nobody would vote to convict. Who said that, Tim? It's going to be another Republican. It is.
01:13:25
Speaker
Who's the one who's who's like stroked out on TVs in charge of the judges from Kentucky? Oh, no, Ms. McConnell. No, no, miss mccon no. What about?
01:13:37
Speaker
I don't know. Josh Hawley, maybe? No, he's a Congressman. It's a good guess, but it would be Lindsey Graham. ah knows my home be and That was my third guess. okay imagine Imagine a fellow Republican. Ain't no moreda it a worse, Graham. yes mean Imagine if you know if if I were a Democrat in Congress and Democrats were joking about somebody killing me in the halls of Congress.
01:14:06
Speaker
I mean, how how much of a big of a scumbag would I have to be? Yeah, I mean, he's he's a giant piece of shit. he He ran as a Tea Party member and his has moved further and further right ever since. Like this guy is bought and paid for by Big Pharma. He's bought and paid for by oil and gas. He's trampled on work. He's worked to trample workers' rights and enrich the, we'll call them oligarchs of America, the billionaires. This guy is continually bought and paid for.
01:14:34
Speaker
Is Colin Allred perfect? No. But he's better than Ted Cruz. Shit. A wet fucking sock is better than Ted Cruz because it wouldn't actually do anything and nothing is better than what he does. Yeah, you're right on that. like if you honestly If you honestly were a senator who didn't show up for any of your votes for the entire six years that you were there, I'd say you had a more productive term than Ted Cruz.
01:14:59
Speaker
Well and and I don't know if he or is he or Greg Abbott the most frequent winner of our award. ah I don't know man JD Vance gave him a run for his money there. Oh he got three in a row. yeah yeah I think I hit Ted Cruz pretty hard early on on this show. Yeah it's definitely when you include the snap hook. Large March hasn't made an appearance in a while I think we've just tuned her out. We had a weekly Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter segment at one point. Yeah, we did. We did, absolutely. right john Thank God we don't have that level of insanity in our lives anymore. So, one more, and I think you're going to echo this on me here, but um you're going to take another angle. I am. because here's ah So, here's what I found out today. and I sent you this piece. Jeff Teedrick writes for Substack. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
01:15:53
Speaker
is the the moniker that he goes by. ted and i Tim and I were were kind of remarking that maybe there's some grammar issues, some capitalization issues that you know we see in his writing. That's not a maybe, Scott. That's a definite. But you know i will as a writer, I will say maybe it's a stylistic thing. Maybe that's what he's going for.
Liberal Celebrities' Role in Hurricane Relief
01:16:13
Speaker
I don't know. We'll see. But he brought on the thing. so When you go on social media and you hear conservatives talking about, oh, why isn't this liberal celebrity giving to the hurricane? Why isn't this liberal?
Elon Musk's Internet Offer: A Critique
01:16:30
Speaker
So they're complaining that Taylor Swift only gave $5 million. dollars But you know what's funny, Tim? She actually gave $5 million. dollars You know what Elon Musk did? Elon Musk said,
01:16:45
Speaker
I'm going to give you internet for free. Everybody's like, whoa, boy, look at that. Let's see. Here's what he did, Tim. Three different things that, you know, make him a scumbag in this instance. Number one, you have to pay for the $400 worth of equipment in order to get the three month of internet. So that's number one. Number two, you have to sign a contract that made, you have to pay $120 a hundred and twenty dollars ah month.
01:17:15
Speaker
Now, do you pay $120 a month for your internet, Tim? I pay half of that and I have fiber. Exactly. I do too. We probably have, I have AT and&T. I got AT&T. Yeah, there you go. 60 bucks a month. So he's doing satellite internet. Now, the other thing is, and this is the, the, the coop to grace. I know it's coop to gross, but I like to say coop to grace. It's not going to be up and running until like another like three months.
01:17:44
Speaker
until the internet's reinstalled at everybody else's house. And yeah, if you had AT and&T in Florida, you know, AT and&T in some instances sucks, but I have a feeling that they would get your internet up and running within three months. And I have a feeling Scott, with fiber specifically, um once the power's back on, the fiber will probably be good to go. Yeah, I'm guessing so. It it was when we had the storm, you know, hurricane down here.
01:18:11
Speaker
Like anytime I've had like a tornado, whatever it was come through here, like the internet was able to work. It's just, we didn't have the power to turn it back on. So that's a big issue in this is like, there's no power. If you have a fiber based internet, it's buried underground. I mean, I don't know what flooding and things like that, but like for the most part, I bet a lot of those people can get back on once the power and everything like that is restored. And again, three to four months out, Elon.
01:18:39
Speaker
He's such a fucking piece of shit. Well, and the thing is, if you're the so-called richest man in the world, which he certainly purports to be, although I'm not really certain how much that is since his stocks have been tanking, you know, for instance, with X formerly known as Twitter and things like that, but even if you just paid for the equipment, wouldn't that be actually doing people a solid?
01:19:05
Speaker
Yeah, know he doesn't want to do people a solid. He wants to make money while he continues to put up this facade of like being Iron Man. But you would still make money if you sat there and said, hey, I'm going to pay for your equipment. I'm going to pay for your first month. You've got to sign a contract for a year, for 120 months. You'd still make money. But you wouldn't get as many people.
01:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, not I mean at the end of the day. It's a bad product at that price, right? Like I don't care how good your internet is I don't need to double what I pay for internet when mine works just fine And when you're coming in to save the day save the fucking day don't make money off me Well, you're taking what you're doing is you're taking advantage of people because you mentioned who goes to Florida town It's mainly the old people It's people like my parents who you came to them and you you sit there and said, I'll give you satellite internet for $120 a month. My parents said, well, yeah, where do I sign up? And this is when, you know, both of their children will be like, no, no, hurricane proof, hurricane proof satellite internet. I guarantee you that's how it's being sold to those older people. Like you go into the villages and say, I got hurricane proof internet. Do you want it? You're going to sell out.
01:20:16
Speaker
yeah Exactly, because I've driven
Florida's Retirement Communities: A Spotlight
01:20:18
Speaker
through the villages, Tim. I don't don't know if you have, but it's, uh, we also love those commercials. Those commercials late at night, you're sitting there, you know, watching something stupid on TV. as the v You see some old dude driving down the street, the golf cart. You're like, fuck, I can't wait to be old. But you know what, you know, what's sad about that community, Tim, is that it has the highest STD rate in Florida. It's about two thirds of them are trailers to that too.
01:20:46
Speaker
Tons of golf courses though, but he was like yeah Trump's doing it jumps great for me, man Like you're living in a fucking trailer. How good could he be? And again highest STD rate in Florida's of the villages that little that little zip code right there They can get around in those golf carts Scott All right golf carts go trailer to trailer if you know what I mean. All right, so what do you got Tim?
01:21:10
Speaker
I got Elon Musk funding a dark money pack that is attacking Jewish people to Arabs in Dearborn, Michigan and attacking Arabs to Jewish people in other parts of the country, playing them off against each other. Saying that Kamala Harris is a Zionist to the Muslims and saying that Kamala Harris supports Palestine to the Jewish people. And he is throwing a ton of money at this. Yeah, that that's pretty, that's pretty brazen.
01:21:36
Speaker
pretty yeah isn and Pretty on par for Elon for the guy who promotes free speech but then buys Twitter just to blast his own bullshit out there. Like you're looking at a guy who took away the block feature when he realized he's the most blocked person on Twitter. Well what kills me Tim is I was going to give a hat tip to
Kamala Harris on Fox News: Bridging Divides?
01:21:53
Speaker
Kamala Harris but we really don't hat tip non-sports figures on this show because you know she had the temerity to go on Fox News. Now does that help her campaign?
01:22:05
Speaker
I don't think so. um Was she great in her performance? Maybe, maybe not, depending on how you want to you know consider what Brett Baier tried to do to her. But could you imagine Donald Trump going to NBC? Hell, he can't even go on CNN. He can't even go on CBS. yeah and And the thing is is that Hillary never would have done that. Hillary never would have gone on Fox News. Joe wouldn't have never gone on Fox News.
01:22:32
Speaker
She's making as much of an effort to reach across the aisle as she possibly can. And ah in what's crazy is it's not going to matter. None of it matters. Yeah, it's sad. I mean, it also shows you got cojones, right? Like, I'm not afraid of you people. Like, we know your propagandists. I'll come on your show. You can talk shit. And I'm smart enough to be like, hey, you're wrong. And here's why. As you said, it's not going to matter. Those of us who know that like Donald Trump is a Crazy human being and know that JD Vance is even worse would never vote for a group of candidates like that then there's people who just like Think Trump is cool. And there's nothing you could tell them otherwise, right? Like I don't know how to argue with those people anymore. And and quite frankly, I'm just at the cut amount of my life
Closing Remarks and Sports Updates
01:23:21
Speaker
point. Yeah All right Scott That's all we've got for you here this week
01:23:27
Speaker
um Hopefully we'll be back on a positive note next week after a successful trip to Green Bay, but fingers crossed that those cheese eaters are able to be handled easily. And we are inching closer to the beginning of the NBA season.
01:23:44
Speaker
Very very close read shepherds had some nice looks here in the last week in preseason even impressed some of the Thunder bench in a video that I saw so we'll talk a little bit more Rockets basketball next week But we appreciate everyone who joined us this week. We will see y'all next time on born on the body sports All right