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The episode begins with Tim Costello and Scott Barzilla discussing the Astros' ballpark name change to Daikin Park, transitioning into a broader conversation about the team’s offseason plans.
The hosts then dive into the Texans' win over the Dallas Cowboys, highlighting the defense’s historic performance and an improved offensive showing, albeit against a weak Dallas team. Looking ahead to the Texans’ upcoming game against the Titans, both predict a Houston victory, with Scott expecting a close game and Tim anticipating a more decisive win.
Next, the focus shifts to the Rockets, with praise for the strong performances of Tari Eason and Amen Thompson. Scott and Tim also explore the intriguing possibility of the Rockets acquiring Giannis Antetokounmpo.
The show wraps up with the signature segments: "Horses Ass of the Week," "Tips of the Cap," and "Scumbag of the Week," offering a mix of humor and sharp commentary on the week in sports.
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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.
Bobby Eric's Cy Young Potential
00:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, if Bobby 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 Pomer.
00:00:44
Speaker
Since he's come to Houston, you can look at the development of guys like Carlos Correa defensively and Jeremy Pena defensively. You can know Alex Bregman. Certainly I think I'm better than average third baseman. And now you're putting teams in third and eight, third and seven, third and nine. Now he'll come to Will Anderson. Pin back your ears, let's go. So if you're by you, born and bred, or just like spending time in the age, sit down, relax, and stay Houston strong.
Weather and Country Club Opinions
00:01:23
Speaker
Welcome back born on the bayou sports Tim Costello Scott Barzilla coming to you on a bit of a chilly Wednesday evening up here at the DFW Metroplex. What do you got going on down there at home Scott? We are 54 degrees chilly again Yes, that's wetter weather We're in you're not quite the prep to break out the cardigan yet, huh?
00:01:50
Speaker
No, no, this is a, uh, a Walmart special. I got, uh, I don't know if you recognize this logo here, Scott el do bayoke's country club. Do you have, have you heard what their dues are nowadays? Uh, I mean, dues are more than a grand a month out there. Dues, I think actually are 700. Okay. And then initiation fees, 25 grand. That's pretty standard with the, uh, invited model.
00:02:19
Speaker
Um, I, I left the company for a reason. Didn't, uh, didn't agree with, with the way that they did business over there. But, um, you know, Scott, I think it's time for our, our starting question, you know, something we've been working into the show a little bit more.
Favorite Ballparks to Visit
00:02:39
Speaker
And today I have one for you that I think you're going to really like, um, as a guy who's called yourself an expert in the game the other day.
00:02:48
Speaker
Uh, baseball, that is, if you could visit any major league or minor league ballpark still around, what would it be? Oh, man. You know, I kind of, I kind of fall down in between Finway and Wrigley. Again, my league can be an option too. Yeah, that's true.
00:03:15
Speaker
There's minor league baseball is just fun. Um, I, we, we, we did a good trip with some of my friends from college and we went to three different games in three different ballparks. And my favorite was the, uh, the last one we went to was a ball and they had a postage promotion where the cost of your ticket was the cost of the stamp. That's always a fun one. Yeah, there was.
00:03:45
Speaker
I've been in some pretty fun Miley parks in my time. I've been to a lot of major league parks I think I'm with you Fenway's at the top of my list. I've been to Wrigley take a tour of Wrigley um I'd like to get to Seattle would love to get to a game up in Seattle ah been and part And you know on a minor league level I'd like to go to a game in Biloxi and Um, it's, uh, it's right on the water. There's like a casino in the background as well. Like it's a really cool looking ballpark if you've ever seen it. Um, and then I'd like to go watch the Mississippi Braves play in Jackson. Um, just from like, uh, like we go to Destin, Florida every year on family vacation and we always stop in Jackson, uh, halfway. And somehow three years in a row, we've never been able to catch a minor league game out there. It just lines up that it never works out that way.
00:04:38
Speaker
Um, so one of these days I'm going to time it and I'm going to catch a game of the, uh, the Jackson Braves, the Mississippi Braves. Yeah. So, um, out of all your minor league parks, what would you think would be your favorite? Um, I think, I think Sugarland is pretty great when I worked out there, pretty great facility. Uh, and St. Paul, the St. Paul saints is unbelievable.
00:05:08
Speaker
Um, I mean, literally like playing at a major league level, uh, grounds, at least the way they take care of things. Uh, Chicago dogs were a fun, uh, or a fun stop. And then the, uh, Kansas city, it was T bones at the time. Now they're the, uh, Kansas city monarchs. Uh, it was a pretty great ballpark as well. Uh, worst ones, Sioux city and Sioux falls. Both of those were absolute horse shit.
00:05:35
Speaker
Yeah. I liked, um, I don't know if you've been to winning Gwyneth. I have not. No. Saw our, our good buddy, uh, LaPena playing for Gwyneth at that time. I wish I could say LaPena was my good buddy. Um, well, I mean, we as Astro fans feel like he's our good buddy. Absolutely. So, you know, I think that, I think we can, we can make that statement, but Gwyneth was cause it was actually set out in a residential area. So that kind of made it kind of cool. Yeah.
00:06:05
Speaker
You had some like apartments in the background, so that was kind of neat. I'd even say the the stadium I worked at in Grand Prairie had the potential to be a really, really cool stadium. um it just We didn't get enough fans on a consistent basis for you to get like the true vibe of the stadium. right but we were so Grand Prairie used to build like planes during World War II. It was a training area for fighter pilots, so we were the airhogs.
00:06:34
Speaker
Uh, the building was modeled after like an air hanger. Uh, we had a pool and right center field. We had a bar and grill and left field. Um, we had like a lounge area that like used to be a cigar bar. And at the time, the mayor of grand prairie likes cigars. And so he like made a special exemption for the ballpark that you could smoke cigars indoors.
00:06:59
Speaker
or Inside the grounds of this ballpark so he could sit there and smoke cigars And then he was no longer mayor and the next guy came in and and got rid of the cigar exemption ah But no, it's a cool. It was a great venue. It's now it's been redone as the host of like cricket yeah United States Cricket League, but um I'd like to think we had a pretty great stadium. It's just unfortunately Didn't didn't get attendance Yeah, that's true. but That's part of it, right? Like you can't get a good vibe of a stadium if it's a thousand people there and it holds eight thousand. It just doesn't like it just gives you a bad vibe at that point. Yeah, that's true.
Minute Maid Park Memories
00:07:39
Speaker
All right, timm so here's the burning question. OK, what's your number one memory of the minute Nate Park era? My number one memory as far as games I've been to or just in general, ah either way.
00:07:56
Speaker
I'll give you of games I've been to. Game 1, 2017, A-L-C-S. I am working at the original Carabas. And the day before game one, Mr. Johnny Carabas himself, the father, Mr. C, comes up to me and says, Tim, what are you doing for game one? I said, Mr. C, I don't know. I'm trying to find a way into that stadium. I'll crawl into a van if I have to. He goes, how'd you like to come with me?
00:08:26
Speaker
I say, are you kidding me? He goes, nope, I'm, I got an extra ticket and I would love to bring you. So I'm like, awesome. Great. So I show up, we're meeting. Um, I'm in like Astros Jersey, Astros hat, Astros socks. Like I, I look like a rodeo clown that the theme is Astros, right? Like I am fully decked out right now. And everybody else that shows up are like millionaires.
00:08:51
Speaker
And they're like very muted like pants with like an Astros polo and stuff like that, right? If anything if anything some of them are don't even have like Astro stuff on like, oh man, I messed up and Then they're like, hey Tim. Do you want to drive us? And I'm like what I got a chef a six shift Chevy Cruz most basic car you can have all of you drive Mercedes Do I want to drive? No, I don't want to drive and so like they drive we get there and Um, game is amazing. We're in the disparity suite. I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of being in there, Scott, but it's all you can eat. It's an all you can eat experience right behind home plate. During the game, read Ryan comes over to say hello to Mr. Carava. So I get to meet read Ryan look to my right. Andre Johnson happens to be partaking the game at the same time.
00:09:42
Speaker
I don't know if you remember that game was unbelievable. tight Oh, yeah. We win. I get a Astros win postgame DAP bro hug with Andre Johnson. There you I, I, you want to talk about pretty great memories in the ballpark. That one's up there at the top of the list for me. Now, see my, my number one memory and actually this wasn't, uh, I cheated because this wasn't minute may park.
00:10:09
Speaker
I went to the inaugural game. I don't know if you went to that game. The one against the Yankees at Enron? Yeah, the one against the Yankees. So because here's what's funny about that, do you know who the starting pitcher was for the Astros? I do. It was, oh, Mr. Gooden. Yeah, Doc Gooden, who I don't think actually pitched in a regular season, I don't think. That was my appearance. I actually had a pennant from that game, probably somewhere in my shit somewhere.
00:10:39
Speaker
They remember the red and black hat with the mesh batting cap hat. I had that with like an inaugural game. I had a pennant. I had all that stuff, man. It's just the banter with the fans because you remember we had just come out of the dome. And so like, Hey, did we park before the bushes or after the bushes? I don't know if you, if that reference may means anything to you. and go um know Yeah. Going through the Astrodome where it was just a circle.
00:11:07
Speaker
and still Remember the parking at the dome like I remember going to the dome. I remember going to games in the dome I remember walking up the fucking You know ramp back and forth to all these levels. I don't remember the parking I really don't man working work over there. I was pretty young that that was fun, but I think The the best game obviously, you know, it's easy to sit there and say watching them clinch the World Series against the Phillies I mean else your dawn has turned this game upside down. I But I think, you know, that game, the game five against the Dodgers was just such a ah classic, classic game. I think that game alone took like years off my life, like oh yeah just the back and forth. But also I remember, um, I was living in a place over by the Galleria at the time.
00:11:59
Speaker
and uh like I was sitting on my balcony because like I used to smoke cigarettes I was smoking cigarettes and like watching the game through my window on the tv and like you could just hear I feel like the whole city like celebrate the big moments all at once right because everybody was just I mean everybody was watching the game like I mean it was it was like a moment in time like I'd never seen before right because I wasn't I don't remember anything from the Rockets championship runs besides the parade because my mom took me to that But I don't really remember that I remember the comments but like You know not everybody was into that but like after Hurricane Harvey and everything that had happened Everybody was watching the Astros and you just could feel the electricity of the entire city in a way that you know will never capture again, right you will will never have a
00:12:54
Speaker
your first world series come after your city has just been wrecked by a hurricane and just people are watching and camping chairs with with no drywall on their house right like the images of i still get emotional when i think about that because it's like That World Series will always be more special than anything else because of the circumstances that came with it. Games like game five, moments like game two where Marwen, you know, goes deep off Kenley Jansen, who's never been the same by the way.
Astros Contract and Lineup Challenges
00:13:23
Speaker
That's kind of like like his Brad Lidge, Albert Pujols moment. Maybe Marwen broke Kenley Jansen. But no, I mean, it's been it's been a great era of baseball at Minute Maid Park.
00:13:35
Speaker
But I think it's a great time to preference it. As you said, we're moving from the juice box. to the Icebox, right? where We are now taking part. I like Icebox, you know, it's an air conditioning company. um So I think at least this makes sense, right? Like there's some places that that put naming rights on stuff and it's like web dot.com or, you know, whatever. And it doesn't have anything to do with the city or whatever. Like at least this makes sense to me like this. We love air conditioning in Houston. We see everything. We're an indoor ballpark with air conditioning and it's an air conditioning manufacturer like
00:14:11
Speaker
Okay, like this one lines up to me. Well, so here's a yeah trivia question for you. What are, with the Dyken part coming online, what are the four different names that the ballpark has been called? Dyken is the number four, correct? In this question. Right. The Minute Maid Park. Right. Then Astro's Field, because they had to quickly distance themselves from the original name and run field.
00:14:41
Speaker
That's the one that I, you know, that some people probably would not get the Astros field that happened mid season. That was a, uh, Hey guys, we got to get Enron taken off the side of the fucking building and do it fast. Well, so here's, but here's my question though. So obviously with, uh, with minute made park, you had those oranges that were the size of.
00:15:03
Speaker
maybe large pumpkins that were in the train. So are you thinking of putting in a bunch of space heaters? Or what what do you think is the, uh, I think you go the other way and I think you kind of maybe steer into like a, like a frozen, like a Disney frozen thing and have the train driver dress up as like Kristoff and have a bunch of like ice, like ice cubes, like large chunks of ice cubes and like, and go like for a frozen vibe. Yeah. Okay. I could go with that.
00:15:32
Speaker
I haven't dressed like Christopher, blonde wig, overalls, whatever, you know, and just be like an ice salesman. See, and here's, here's the funny thing. So, um, when you, uh, even this may have missed payment before your time, but do you remember what the summit was after the summit? The compact center. Yeah. And so my question is the only question I have, is I only remember it at the compact center, Scott. I don't really remember the summit. I remember going to the compact center.
00:16:02
Speaker
See, but thing, and this is my point though, for people of a certain age, like me, we always called it the summit. We never called it compact center. And so questions the question is for Dyken is, do you think, is this $175 million dollars well spent? For them? Yes.
00:16:21
Speaker
Because at the end of the day, that you're betting that the Astros will continue to play high leverage national televised baseball. Because do you know what happens as a, I am a broadcaster. I do live games and more often than not, when I come back from a break, welcome back to Lyman Wildman field, Tim Costello here in Arlington, Texas. So now it's going to be welcome back to Dyken part bottom of the fifth inning.
00:16:46
Speaker
Astros on top two one, you know, whatever it is, right? So you are banking on High-leverage national audiences continuing to hear your name like at some point you've got your money's worth if you're everybody who drives by sees it on 45 or 59 and a national audience continues to hear the name over and over and over again and because you're playing in a playoff game or you're playing on Apple TV Friday night or you're the Fox or Fox Saturday game of the week or whatever it is, right? Like at some point that's what you're paying for, right? Yeah. And so, um, the only other question with that $175 million, dollars you think he just endorsed that check over to Scott Boris and Alex Bregman or, um,
00:17:34
Speaker
although I heard a rumor, Oh, he's asking for the moon. Yeah, I heard a rumor was 11 million, 11 years, 330 million, something like that. I mean, I asked for a lot more money than I got when I got a new job too, Scott, you can ask for whatever the fuck you want, but the market is the market, right? Like, well, I i don't think that teams are going to look at Alex Bregman and say, this is a guy that we want at 45 years old making 30 something million dollars a year, right? Like that's not,
00:18:06
Speaker
A good contract and if if someone does say that it's going to be a situation like chris bryant Where you end up in fucking colorado and you hate your life there And I have nothing like I think I would love personally to live in denver However, i'm not a a major league baseball player and that team has been in contention like two times in the last 25 years realistically So yeah, and so my question is from an answer's perspective then How long do you indulge in it?
00:18:36
Speaker
Because I think if you remember the ah the initial Carlos Beltran negotiations back in 2004, between 2004 and 2005, the big problem was is that we allowed Boris to drag his feet and we lost out on everybody. I mean, we couldn't replace, you know, we couldn't spend that money that we were going to spend on Beltran on anybody because everybody had already signed. So is there a drop dead date in your mind where you said they say,
00:19:05
Speaker
I'm sorry Scott, we're out.
00:19:09
Speaker
um I think that depends on how you want to play third base going forward, right? Like there's some rumor out there apparently that William Thomas may be a guy the Astros look at if Alex Bregman says no. But I think the thing is, Scott, Bregman is going to be that first domino to fall. I think a lot of people are going to base what they take off what Alex Bregman gets.
00:19:31
Speaker
and so I don't know. I don't know if you're, you're going to have the opportunity to really say, Hey, I'm done waiting. I'm moving onto this guy. If no one's ready to move until Alex Bregman moves. Yeah. and I don't, um, I was looking up the numbers. Uh, Thomas has nice counting stats, but Bregman is the more valuable player. Now, I think a large part of that, if you lose Bregman, you have to do something, right? yeah Because the large, the large part of that is that his defense has been so negative and you can,
00:20:02
Speaker
Think, okay, what happens if we move Adamus to third base, does he become a mediocre defensive third baseman? I don't think so. Yeah, where he's now below average as a shortstop. I think he'd be fine. like i I would prefer Bregman because I think they're going to get similar money. Maybe Adamus is a two or three million dollars a year less, right? But, you know, I i don't want to value shop when it comes to the remainder of Jose Altuve's career.
00:20:31
Speaker
Right, like I will accept that once I'll see these contractors up, we may have to. you know, go back into the shadows for a few years and retool. But as long as you have a healthy and productive Jose Altuve, you owe this man a competitive roster. Like, you owe it to him. He's done everything for your franchise. You can't sit here and give him the Drayton McLean treatment and and and sell me on a half-built roster and say, this is the the World Series contender, right? Because that's what pissed all of us off about Drayton, is that you'd make one move and try and act like that one move is going to save the city.
00:21:06
Speaker
when in actuality there was 15 holes to plug and you really didn't solve any of them you just brought in you know a new pitcher or a shiny a shiny new Preston Wilson or you know whatever it was and so um you know we haven't seen that from crane yet right this was the first year in a long time where i really felt like This team just didn't have it going into the playoffs. Like you and I both talked about that many times. Like things would have to really play right for this team to be in the World Series and it would have to be carried, you know, essentially by the starting pitching. And that didn't happen. And, you know, here we are. Right. So this team needs a lot of bats.
00:21:46
Speaker
If it's not Bregman, okay. But like you can't bargain shop right now. You've got an unbelievable collection of arms. You've got a young Jose Altuve. You've got another year of Kyle Tucker. You've got yiner Diaz. You've got karatini. There's a lot of pieces here. You know, you can't cheap out now. Like now's not the time. No. And I think the main thing is, and I've said this many times before, is that if you're willing to spend $30 million dollars on Bregman,
00:22:14
Speaker
you got to be be willing to spend $30 million dollars period. Now, for me, there's a debate as to whether or not you want another $30 million dollars player, or would you want three $10 million dollar players?
00:22:27
Speaker
To me, I mean, I think there's an argument. I was going to say to 15 million. But yeah, like if you don't get Bregman, I'm OK with you taking an approach of, hey, there's not another Alex Bregman out there. However, I can go get this power bat to play left field for 12. I can go get this guy to play center field for 10. And I can get this guy to play third base for eight. And there's my 30 million in stats. Yeah, exactly.
00:22:53
Speaker
Exactly. And I think that you're, you're, the problem that you had with your lineup is that your lineup was essentially assuming health. Altuve, Bregman, Yordon, Tucker. That was your line. Yeah. e yeahder yeah I mean, Yiner had, you know, moments, but I think those guys were your consistent performers.
00:23:16
Speaker
I think, you know, because you could say Diaz and Pena are kind of in the same boat where I think and yeah Diaz had a pretty good season. man Yeah. I never had a, it was a little less power than I, than I think we anticipated, but like he did hit for average and drive in runs. Yeah. Your overall production was pretty good, but I think it came pretty streaky. yeah right Yes. And so when you're looking at, and when you're sitting there saying, if you're not, not going, we're not going.
00:23:46
Speaker
That's a dangerous spot to be because as great as Jordon is, then Jordon has been streaky. Yeah, he's so so to me, your your best bet is to get a line of the seven, eight guys deep. That, you know, at least could be big league average or better. And then I think, you know, you're in better shape. I tend to agree with that. I mean, I still think bringing Bregman back gives you the best chance to win.
00:24:15
Speaker
um And I think even if you spend 30 million dollars on Bregman It should not stop you from going to get a ah bat and left field like I'm fine if you platoon Chaz and Jake and center field if that's what we have to do next year I don't want to see Chaz and left Jake and center. That's a killer right like I need a legitimate good bat and left field were we miss Michael Brantley and So bad, just a guy who's a professional hitter who will show up and give you a quality of bat and make it a tough out. And you're not just going to get three, you know, sweepers, low and away, and you're going to get a quick chassis fizz punch out, right? Like at the end of the day, left field was a huge problem for us this year.
00:24:59
Speaker
We got some like you know some lucky production from Ben Gamel. We e got a couple good weeks of Jason Hayward. But for the most part, left field was a giant black hole this season, this past season. And it's something that has to be addressed. there's and Unless you're going to tell me that, you know, Bryce Matthews, you're going to come up and and rake at third base and you're fine with that and we're going to go big in left field.
00:25:24
Speaker
I don't see Dezenzo as a guy who's going to come be your everyday major league third baseman. And he's done some nice things in winter ball, but the the the swing and miss rate on fastballs was way too high last year for me to trust this guy to come up and and be given that job. Yeah. And I think one of the things, yeah and and I, and I get a trust in Dana Brown. I think he's going to have to start doing some creative things with the payroll.
00:25:50
Speaker
in order to make these things happen. And so we've already heard that Ryan Presley is on the trade block. I think that makes probably way too much sense. I think obviously, I think Chaz will be on the trade block. um and and you know And then you start to talk about Fromber. Are you signing Fromber long term? And if you're not signing them long term, is it a time to now make a deal and get things and pieces in return, you know, that that could fill some of these holes. Like the one team I would think that would be for him would be Baltimore. Cedric Mullins is a guy that hits, he actually hits right-handers really well. And I think Meyers hits lefties really well. So you could have a platoon there that would actually be pretty decent.
00:26:46
Speaker
Um, I think, you know, seeing some platoons and then, you know, I don't know who else they could, they could send our way, but probably some prospects. I know they have a couple of third base prospects that are, you know, fairly decent that you could try to make that work. If you're not going to resign Bregman, but crane pretty much, uh, that they're going to maintain the level that they're at now, they are seven or $8 million dollars under the tax threshold.
00:27:13
Speaker
I don't see this team going out and spending $50 million dollars above where they are now. So there's going to have to be some moves that happen in order to trim some of that fat. I don't disagree.
00:27:26
Speaker
um Tim Costello, personally, you're going to have to pry Fromber Valdez from my cold, dead fingers. If I'm the GM of this team, I extend him and you'll never, and he'll retire Houston Astro. I love Fromber. I absolutely love Fromber. And to me, that's the kind of stuff that plays later in a career, right? The, the singer baller with late moving action, like he's not up there throwing a hundred miles an hour. Like fromers trying to get you to ground out. He doesn't necessarily want a ton of swing and misses the best starts that he has. He's getting two or three pitch at bats with weak contact to the right side or a chopper at third base. I would take from or 10 out of 10 times. And if with a big game on the line, if I have to have a game that I have to go win at this point with the state of the Houston Astros, I want from her on the Hill.
00:28:14
Speaker
So if that's the case, then do you trade Tucker? No. I mean, but see the thing here. I trade Christian Javier. Well, nobody's trading for a guy that's off Tommy John. I don't know, man. Like, I don't know where you want to go with this team. They are built in a way that you kind of have to rely on the collection of young arms that you have.
00:28:36
Speaker
Like, I don't know who you're going to trade away. Like, you can't trade Kyle Tucker right now. Like, where else are you going to get production if you go and trade Kyle Tucker? You're not replacing that that production on this team. It's just not out there. Well, going to have to trust that. Kyle Tucker's still in arbitration. Like, trading him doesn't really save you that much. Well, it doesn't save you that much. But what you're looking at is you're looking at the same situation that we're sitting in with Alex Bremen right now. Are we going to re-sign him or not?
00:29:06
Speaker
And that's the same situation you're sitting with the fromber. So until you extend them, you're basically in no man's land because if you let them, I get it. Like, I get, I get it. But if you start trading these guys, you're blowing it up. Like that is not something that you could, I don't think it's a strategic way to move a Kyle Tucker and get better. Right. And less like.
00:29:32
Speaker
I don't know. Unless like the Braves want to make a move and we get Austin Riley, the third baseman, and they get Kyle Tucker, you know, and they extend them there or whatever it is. Okay. Like if it's a move like that, we can talk. Well, I think what you got to look at, and and this is particularly true in those two cases, um, is, I don't know. Do you remember the Ken Griffey trade from the Mariners to the Reds? I don't remember the try. I thought he signed as a free agent. No, it was a trade.
00:30:01
Speaker
And they ended up getting like basically Mike Cameron and just filler, uh, you know, some prospects. And I don't know if any of them really, you know, uh, if any of them really hit, but the key to the deal wasn't the fact of who they got in return. The key to the deal was what were they able to spend their money on? Uh, with the savings that they got. And so if you trade Kyle Tucker, you're probably talking three prospects. And so, or any of those prospects.
00:30:30
Speaker
ah third basement ah rightfielder a fielder, a left fielder, another arm. And then on top of that, what are you using that money for? So you got to look at it as not only just those three players, but you're looking at it as what else are we spending that money on as well? So if you're talking about treating, like I say, a fromber for two prospects, let's say, what are you using his money for? If it allows you to get like two,
00:31:00
Speaker
Cause he's probably going to get close. What he's been about the, about the 15, 20 million range in arbitration. Oh, in arbitration. Yeah. So you could be getting two of those $10 million dollar guys. And so then you're starting to look at, okay, I got two prospects and two players that I was able to sign for 10 million apiece. I mean, I get that. I totally get that.
00:31:25
Speaker
I I just can't make that move at this point, right? Like I if you don't get Alex Bregman and then you have to start getting creative I totally understand you however in a world where we can do deferred money now where You can write these stupid make-believe checks for 50 years down the line Fucking throw Bregman a deferred money deal. Give them give them, you know, the eight years of you know, making a low, uh, you know, AAV with like 95% of it deferred and like, Hey Alex, you'll be rich. you You already got all this other stuff going for you. We'll write you a huge check in 50 years. Well, and I think what I'm basically saying, saying is, is that what this team has done is we have George Springer. Uh, well, first we have Garrett Cole. Uh, we can't sign, we can't re-sign Garrett Cole. We need to save that money for Springer. Before him, it was Michael.
00:32:20
Speaker
And then, uh, we, yeah, we can't, we can't sign George Springer. Let's save it for Korea. Oh, we can't sign Korea. But yes, you really, we're just kicking the can down the road. And what I'm saying is, is that if the decision you're going to have to eventually pay one of these guys at least once, you eventually have to. So the decision that needs to be made is which guy and let's do it now. If you want it to be Bregman.
00:32:49
Speaker
Make it Bregman, stand by your decision, and then, you know, move those other guys. But if you want, you want to say Tucker is the best bet long-term, I could see that argument. Make it Tucker. Do you think Fromber is the best long-term bet? Make that argument, make it Fromber. But this off season is the off season where the Astros need to pick which of those three guys are keeping and which one of those three guys are going to let go.
00:33:15
Speaker
And if they decide we're not going to sign them, you need to actually move them and get something for them. We cannot keep allowing these guys to move to free agency and just go like, well, yeah, we offered them a qualifying offer. Yeah, that's a fourth round pick. Fuck you. Let's actually get something for them. I mean, you have, you make a good point, Scott. I can't argue with that.
00:33:37
Speaker
I just, you know, I don't think this team is in a position to lose any of those players at this point. And then when I look at the guys who have left, Garrett Cole's the only one to have success outside of Houston realistically, right? You know, Springer has been a shell of George Springer in Toronto. Uh, Dallas Tykle has been a minor league, a minor league player, basically, um, outside of Houston.
00:34:03
Speaker
Carlos Correa has been injured and I would say underperforming in in Minnesota in his time there. um You know, Marvin was terrible when he went and signed for big money um after leaving the Astros. So, you know, it's interesting to me too of like, the Astros didn't necessarily make bad decisions on letting these guys go, no right? No, but I think with the decisions that were bad is getting nothing for them.
00:34:34
Speaker
I think that's what yeah I don't think the decision to sit there and say, we're going to, you know, your George Freer leaves after an ALCS appearance. Carlos Correa leaves after a World Series appearance. Garrett Cole leaves after a World Series appearance. Dallas Michael leaves after an ALCS appearance like you can't. You can't sit here and try and trade guys that were that are key parts of teams that are playing extremely late post-season baseball. These teams are all built to win World Series, and they at least were in contention for them. You can't sit here and say, we should have traded away the guys going into the season, because who's goingnna who's replacing George Springer on on those teams that but go to the World Series? sir You don't have to. Well, it depends on what you get in return. And I think this is where this is a November conversation.
00:35:21
Speaker
Because, you know, a lot of the, a lot of people, and we we were among them having that conversation and say, may of do we sell? And they decided not to sell. And that ended up being the right choice. I think the decision to trade guys during the season is a whole lot harder than it is during the off season, because now you have the entire off season to add, to answer those questions of if George Springer leaves.
00:35:48
Speaker
who plays in his spot? You've got time to to answer that question. If you're waiting in May or June, you don't it there is no answer. It's just whatever you have in the miners. And we know there's not much in the miners. Yeah. I think the lack of, when you look at where the Marley talent is, you're not replacing Brightman. Like at the end of the day, Scott, like If you don't resign Alex Bregman, this is a team that's fighting for a wildcard. I feel like, you know, it's not a team that's going to go out and win the AOS. Like the Rangers are not going to be completely injured next year. The Mariners are not going to fall off the face of the earth. Like things have fallen in our favor way too often. Like at some point that's going to turn. And so yeah you've got to, you've got to look at this team as like, Hey, we've got a little bit more of a window because of the way these young pitchers.
00:36:40
Speaker
You know, handle the spotlight last year. Aaron Getty showed he could be a big time guy. Hunter Brown showed he could step up. up um I've got Fromber still. I've got Javier coming back. I've got Blanco, right? Like, I've got a staff.
00:36:53
Speaker
Like you've got young controllable arms. Yeah. You can't cheat. Like this is like when you've got CJ Stroud, right? Like you've got a, uh, a franchise quarterback on a rookie deal you spend elsewhere to surround the team. Well, right now the Astros have a collection of starting pitchers that are all controllable and cheap for the next two or three years. You spend the fucking money, Jim. Well that, yeah, it if it were my money, I mean, I would, but I would boast a payroll to 300 million.
00:37:22
Speaker
were my money. Rogers do it. Yeah, exactly. We got to get moving. I talked about CJ Stroud as a quarterback on a rookie deal. Let's talk about CJ Stroud a little bit more. How about them cowgirls, right?
Texans' Victory and Defensive Strength
00:37:38
Speaker
How about them? Did you watch, which broadcast did you watch? Just the main ESPN one. So did you catch that basically,
00:37:49
Speaker
ah troy aman and And Buck, we're talking about, oh, we need to drink. And then Aitman was like, man, I needed a drink in the third quarter. Yeah. I mean, that game was like, the Texans were frustrating because like, we didn't play that well offensively, right? Like we ran it. Well, we, we did some things, we did some elements. Okay. But even with that, like you never felt like the Cowboys had a chance, right? Like Cooper rushed for through for 300 yards.
00:38:20
Speaker
I was never worried. Like I literally, like those were garbage yards. He did not do anything. Like they had one slant play where like dude made a great move, beat his man inside a man covers and took off outside of that three points. Do you see your horn frog turquoise?
00:38:37
Speaker
he' got feet I mean the guy's a burner, right? So he made a great he made a great move made the catch took off with a zero coverage Hey, I tipped my cap to you outside of that the Cowboys had no offense and their quarterback somehow still passed for 300 yards Well, that's an absolutely shitty, you know coverage by Jeff Akuta there That's why he's been on the fucking bench happy So And then when I'm looking at this, so the sequence to me that that just highlighted how stupid this game is, you've got fourth and 20, the Cowboys are attempting a 64-yard field goal. What are the odds going into that kick that it's going to be good? Like 50-50 maybe with that kicker? So on fourth and 20,
00:39:30
Speaker
That's the time when I am a defensive lineman that I'm going to go ahead and use the hat, the head slap maneuver. Oh yeah. Get a personal foul, give them a first down. And my, my, but my favorite part of that whole exchange, you get a calling ball, like drops a a interception. It probably would have been a pick six at the end, you know, just held onto it. And then they go forward on fourth down, take the points off the board. Don't get any points.
00:39:56
Speaker
and give back to you. That's like the dumbest 10 minutes of football I think I've seen in a while. The Cowboys are one of the worst like in-game managed teams I've seen in quite some time. The decisions were baffling. The early fake punt play was highly questionable, I think is the best way to put that. And you know hat tip to robert me to so John Metchie for um you know being aware of what was going on making the play, but like that and that surprised no one it seemed like, right? Like they were well aware that the the fake punt was in play. You mentioned the taking the points off the board. um but yeah I think it's the right move. Right, but you you think going forward on fourth down was still the right move? No. Correct.
00:40:48
Speaker
You took the point, like you got no points out of it. And then you see the way that Cooper rush is getting just obliterated. Like maybe Trey lands gives you a better chance because he can move a little bit and like, at least just take off run. I don't know. Like it just seems to me like this team is so unprepared, like so just bad. They're not a good football team at any level. Their defense is terrible. We, we literally shoved the run down their throat for four straight quarters.
00:41:18
Speaker
Well, and we scored, you know, on 50% touchdowns on 50% of our trips into the red zone. And that actually improved the percentage for the Cowboys. They were last 77% of drives in the red zone ended in touchdowns. So we need to get to the negative here real quick. Got to talk them about it again. God dang it, Bobby.
00:41:46
Speaker
what What is Bobby Sloak? I mean, where where do you stand on Bobby Sloak at this point? I mean, I thought he called a better game than he has, but there's just, I don't know, seven or eight minimum times a game where you and I are watching, not together, but like we're both, you know, watching the game. We text and we just but between one of the two of us, we just go, what the fuck was that? What was that play call? Why are we doing that? And I feel like,
00:42:15
Speaker
six to six to eight I think would be the number and Even the broadcast had one right where they faked the they faked the pitch outside to mix it and then shoveled it inside Charles so the broadcast is like look how wide open mixing has out here and then look at the congestion and here was Charles right and it's like I Sometimes I think we get a little too cute in the red zone way to wait and and you know you and I talked about during the game and I am not a huge Kubiak guy. Like the offense was so predictable. However, the one thing that Kubiak understood is that when you get in the red zone and you have a guy like Arian Foster, you feed that motherfucker. You've got that guy right now in mixin and look what happened when you fed him in the red zone. He got three touchdowns, you know, but to me outside of that, like I thought we did a good job of feeding mixin.
00:43:12
Speaker
I still don't know what the fuck Bobby's doing out there. Sometimes, you know, the third down and one where you're, where you're just, again, we're shoving the ball down their throats all game with the run. You quick snap on a third and one and throw a quick out route to the flat to tank Dell instead of just again, shove it down their fucking throats. Cause you've done it all game. Like it's just key moments in the game, Scott, where you're just like, what was that? Yeah. And I think, um, when you mentioned Kubiak.
00:43:42
Speaker
One of the things I think, Kubiak, what was the patented Kubiak play? play act The first play of every single game was ah a boot leg to the a play action boot to the right, take a shot deep to Andre Johnson. That's how you start every football game in Houston. But see, how often did it work? It worked one time. And then after that, he's like, I got to do this every single game. They worked, but they did a lot of those plays to Owen Daniels. Owen Daniels, too, yeah. But you know what, Scott? You know what the thing is?
00:44:12
Speaker
The Texans had a baller fucking offensive line at that point when we're running those plays. You can't run a naked boot when your line can't fucking contain anybody. No, no, no. I mean, I'm not suggesting we should be running a naked boot. We do. We fucking do. CJ comes around the boot and there's a guy staring right at him. Now, my point is, is that when you get the ball on your own 20 and you drive eight or nine plays to the other team's 10,
00:44:40
Speaker
Do what you've been doing to gain 70 yards. I mean, it it doesn't make any sense. And just, I mean, you had that pitch play, you had the shovel pass, you had the pitch play to, to mix in on the outside pitch. Like you didn't run that anything remotely like that to gain 70 yards to get down there. Why are we doing it now? You know, why are we, play how about a little fucking low, low, high back screen? Well, but why, you know,
00:45:10
Speaker
keep running the same stuff until they stop it. I agree. i mean i don't Somebody's got to explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old. Have you seen a fade to the back corner of the end zone to Nico at any point? like Instead of some of this crazy-ass shit, why not just throw a fucking jump ball to Nico Collins and let him go up and make a play? like Why is that not in the playbook, Bobby? Yeah, I don't know. and I will say this, I think that if you gave me over 60 throws, I'm going to throw for 300 yards. Is that how many throws that he has for Cooper? 62. OK. Probably not the game plan you want for the backup QB to come in and chuck at 62 times on a Sunday, on Monday night. They couldn't run the ball. And that's the thing in that. I feel like they abandoned the run real early. Well, they did because it it just, they their running game hasn't worked.
00:46:08
Speaker
their running game made our running game last year look like we were the, you know, 1960s Green Bay Packers. I mean, it's, it's, and of course, you know, uh, they're all in, so they didn't, they signed, you know, uh, 47 year old Ezekiel Elliott as they're, you know, they're starting tailback to begin the season, but legend I think the positive though, is that what D'Amico Ryan's has been able to do on defense.
00:46:36
Speaker
We have, quarterbacks have the lowest completion percentage against us by a obscenely wide margin. It's something like 52, 53% where the rest of the league is sitting record 60. It's time to for us to think, okay, this is not Josh Allen having a bad game. This is not Anthony Richardson having a couple of bad games. This is his defense doing this to other teams.
00:47:05
Speaker
And in the part that's just so fucking delicious, Scott, Stingley's young as fuck. Lasseter's young as fuck. Bullock is young as fuck. 2020 is as young as fuck. Will Anderson's in year two. Janille Hunter signed for the next four years. Two. Two next two years. Pardon me. yeah This team's defense is is pretty well set for the next foreseeable future, right? Like you've got a lot of young pieces in great positions.
00:47:35
Speaker
Bobby figure it the fuck out. You've got a historic fucking defense that is giving you unbelievable performances and you are wasting them. Last week you had five fucking picks. You had Jared Goff just spiking the ball to the ground because nobody was open and you found a way to lose that game. Okay. We've moved on. You beat the Cowboys, but you know what I'm i'm sitting here, Scott. So what Cowboys suck. They had a backup quarterback.
00:48:02
Speaker
The fans going into the stadium knew they had no chance. If you look at any of the interviews out there, they're like, yeah, Texas is probably gonna win tonight. That's what a lot of people were saying going into that game. i I thought we'd win by more. like I thought the defense played great. The defense won me a a fucking fantasy matchup last week. However, ah offense didn't do anything to make me go, okay, I feel a lot better now.
00:48:27
Speaker
because that Cowboys defense has pretty much quit on the season. I feel like that's not a good defense. They're terribly called. And, you know, CJ, I think look better. I thought the line looked better, but like better than what better than the worst left guard to ever suit up in the history of football. Like, okay, good job.
00:48:46
Speaker
We're still, we're still running plays. Like I said, the boot, we we run boots when we can't hold the line and CJ comes to make the boot and then someone's standing right there and he's got to deliver it early. Like he's i felt having to throw early now. And this is where ah this is also a D'Amico Ryan's question. Why does it take until the left guard, the worst what left garden football gets hurt for you to make a change? I think because they needed Patterson to come back. But the whole thing is, but in weeks one through seven,
00:49:17
Speaker
Wasn't he hurt in that point? Like he was on PIP to start to pop to physically and impact one that was healthy at that point. I don't know. I, he should have been in sooner. The fact that it took green getting hurt is is insanity. Like maybe Mikko's a little too loyal to his, to his guys. I don't know. He's a player's coach, right? He's a guy who was in the locker room.
00:49:38
Speaker
I don't know, but Kenyan Green is is quite frankly the worst left guard I've ever seen play football in my life, Scott. I literally think if you put an an actual turnstile there, it would slow people down faster than Kenyan Green did. Yeah, and i think but I think this is an ultimate question is, ah you know who is in charge of the personnel in offense? That's a question I'm sure that they won't answer. Do you think we have a like a, uh, remember the Titan scenario where, you know, Denzel's worried about the offense and then the other coach, yeah you you worry about your defense coach. I don't know if it's that far, but I don't think D'Amico Ryan's obviously is not, you know, he's in a, he's involved like in general game planning, I'm sure, but he's going to trust his guy.
00:50:24
Speaker
What do you think he can't do? Hey Bobby, come down to my office real quick. Hey man, I'm watching the tape and I gotta tell you, we have the worst left guard play in the entire league. Is there anyone that we can play that would be better than what we're doing? You have to have somebody, Bob. Come on, man. Nothing? We got nobody? Okay. Running back out, let go. No, come on. Well, and seeing the problem is that, you know, we've we've noted that we've got, you know, the Titans this week. We're seven and I think we're either seven or eight and a half point favorites.
00:50:54
Speaker
And this one, uh, and then after this, we got Jacksonville. So you're in and you're by. So we all participants purposes should be nine and four going into the buy. But the question is, what is this team going to do in the post-season when we're facing a real defense and, you know, and somebody on the other side that can coach their way out of a paper bag.
00:51:22
Speaker
No, you're, you're absolutely right. You know, I think. However, the caveat is you've got a historic defense yourself and this defense will give you a chance to win football games as long as, as long as CJ. Can find a way at the end of games, right? And I think that's he's shown us he can. Um, and we just have to hope that the office kind of gels a little bit. Maybe they, they get something going. You've got the Jags who aren't great. You've got the Titans who aren't great will let us.
00:51:50
Speaker
will turn the ball over. And this is a team that forces turnovers. So theoretically, hey, you get some short fields. You get the offense rolling early. Things start jelling. Then you go to Jacksonville. you know I don't know. We'll see, Scott. But um we're talking Texans, Titans. What are your what are your predictions for Sunday? I'm going to go right around the number. I think it'll be something like 28 to 20 Texans.
00:52:20
Speaker
I think what you're going to see is you're going to see you know a couple of those short fields. But I think the Titans have a good defense. And I just don't trust that we're figuring it out. I think that you had but one of the worst run defenses in football. One of one of the tweets I loved that came out was, ah it might have been mine of Coombs or somebody like that, who said that every running back in the NFL, she gets to play the Cowboys once, just as a reward.
00:52:50
Speaker
And so yeah, Joe Nixon had a hell of a game, but what does that mean going forward? I, you know, the Cowboys are so bad. I just don't know. I think the Titans offense is terrible, but you know, this team has shown over and over again that they find creative ways to keep teams and games. I think the Texans force will love us in a three turnovers. I think mixing goes for a honey.
00:53:21
Speaker
and a touch, and I think this is a big tank del week. I think it's not close. I think it's something like 35-13. I'll take it. i just think I think we get a defensive touchdown this week. I think one of Levis' turnovers might be a ah ah going in the other way kind of turnover. just i mean The guy the god turns it over more than a you know that a pastry shot. The guy is out there left and right popping turnovers out of the oven.
00:53:51
Speaker
Absolutely. All right, Scott. Last but not least, the way that they are playing basketball right now, Houston Rockets are seven and three in their last 10 playing
Rockets' Growth and Trade Speculation
00:54:03
Speaker
tonight. They were winning at halftime. Um, little bit of a heartbreak in Milwaukee, you know, considering, you know, you look at the last two minute review and you know, the rebound that Giannis had before the game winning possession, he actually did step out of bounds, should have been the Rockets ball.
00:54:19
Speaker
then a bad pass, you had a wide open, send going under the basket and you know, a better pass, you get the game winning shot. But overall, this team's playing great ball. Um, we've seen the growth that we've been dying for from a man Thompson. He's, he's there, right? Like he's taking that, that next step that we were hoping he would take. And then I gave him a hat tip last week and he must have heard me because he continues to play at a high level. Tariessen has been fantastic.
00:54:43
Speaker
All right, so as we speak right now, it is 126, 105 Rockets over the Pacers. I just want to highlight this because other than that Milwaukee game, what I think is most encouraging is that not only they're beating teams, they are beating teams. So in that opening of the, uh, the NBA tournament, which is an absolute joke, um, we ended up, you know, blowing out a team by 20 because, you know, it's important that, you know, you do that.
00:55:12
Speaker
So, you know, you're looking at a team has scored 130 points tonight with about a minute left. Um, and what I like tar east and 11 points nine boards. So, you know, another good now Thompson it's only 17 minutes tonight. Um, but the guy I want to highlight, um, it didn't, I don't see fouls. Um, only see rebounds assistant turn points.
00:55:36
Speaker
But, uh, the guys actually turned it on with the last few games. I mean, not good doing anything nuts, but contributing is Reed Shepherd. He's got seven points tonight. So if he's a guy that could give you two or three threes a game, just in key moments. I mean, that that's, you know, that that's something that is going to help you in some of those close games.
00:55:59
Speaker
Especially too when you just have to respect Reed's presence on the floor if he is a guy that's hitting two or three threes a night That means he's a guy who can hit the three and you can't just leave him open in the corner You can't double team too hard on Jaylen or on a men When they get into the paint because Reed Shepard will make you pay right? That's why we drafted this guy. So it's good to see him kind of a finding his place and and maybe working working those minutes up a little bit more and a little bit more, you know, the way you get more minutes is play well, right? And and Reid has been playing better basketball here. Yeah. So I know the the one, you know, obviously, you know, for podcasts like ours, the rumor mill has been starting to churn. Everybody thinks the Rockets are going to be one of two teams to make a major deal this year. And the name that's been floating out is Giannis.
00:56:50
Speaker
And so, um, the rockets on their end have said they are not trading anybody from their core. But then the question is, how do you define core? Who is today that Amen and Tari are part of that untouchable core. Yeah. that's That's been defined. Right. And then I think the fact that you extended Jalen green and you extended Sengoon that kind of says those are my core four right there. Right. So then you've got guys like Dylan Brooks. Cool.
00:57:20
Speaker
Uh, you know, Jabari Smith. Okay. I can turn a combination Scott of Dylan books, Jabari Smith and a collection of draft picks into Giannis Anticompo. And I keep everybody else on this roster. Oh, throw and read shepherd two. That's fine. Like, are you kidding me? Fucking I'll be booked my trip for the parade. Let's go. Yeah. And I think, um, you're probably going to see some filler.
00:57:46
Speaker
Like you'll see like a Jeff Jeff Green, Jack Lawndale, maybe a Steven Adams just ah to make the salaries work. But yeah yeah, there's, to me, so think about what Giannis brings. what what what What is the most important thing you think Giannis brings to the team? ah I don't know. Like there's, I can't put a figure on one thing, maybe just the ability to get into the lane and wreak havoc at will.
00:58:14
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, right now I think he's averaging 31 and 13. So you think about why is Steven Adams on this team? Steven Adams on this team to play 15, 20 minutes whenever he can to provide that muscle inside. So do you think he honest provides that muscle inside? A type of it. You know, I think Adams is there to give you the physicality at center when Sengoon isn't the option that night.
00:58:42
Speaker
But I think you're a different, you're a crazy different team with Senguin and Giannis as your, as your front. Oh yeah. a alone oh yeah That's fucking good luck stopping that. Well, and I think the biggest thing is what we talked about before is when you're talking about a guy that's averaging 31 points. I don't think that on this particular Rockets team, that's a, a realistic expectation moving forward.
00:59:05
Speaker
I think he's more of like a 25-pointing game guy, just because the basketball's got to go into a number of different hands, right? There's so many guys that can't put the ball down. If you go get a guy like that, you run the offense through him. Jalen Green and Senguin take a step back, um and he's going to get his touches, right? like I think Senguin will get your 18 to 20 based off the double teams that come to Giannis, I think.
00:59:32
Speaker
um I don't know. I think maybe 28 would be the low point for him, but I still think he's a 30 game score even in Houston. But I think the big thing is what we talked about before is that he is a guaranteed 20 point minimum, a game guy. He's going to go out and get you, find a way to get you 20. And to me, I don't think there is one guy on this team that I can say, this guy is guaranteed to give me 20. I think that green can maybe be average 20.
01:00:03
Speaker
I think Syngoon can maybe average 20, but I don't think either guy is guaranteed to give you that every single night. You're right. You're absolutely right. Like John is, gets 20 lace, his shoes up, right? Like that guy is, is going to give you a floor that, that nobody else will. Um, and that's just something that we don't have right now, but let's, let's hand out some
Critique and NFL Discussions
01:00:26
Speaker
awards, Scott. It's getting that time of the show horses asked this week, who's winning the award for you?
01:00:32
Speaker
All right. So I'm, I'm going to go with my guy. Um, I've gone with him. Yeah. Dang it, Bobby. Uh, Bobby Sloak, I think has been a punching bag, but you know, I think this is just the time of year where these things, you know, I mean, the Texans are the number one team in town right now because the Astros are in the off season. Nothing's happening in baseball. So if we're giving away a sports award, then, you know, he's got to be the guy. And the thing is, is there's too many.
01:01:03
Speaker
Too many of those questionable calls. You mentioned the third and one call that it was just ridiculous. You just, you smash it. I don't even care if you're running the ball. Well, if you can't get third and inches on a kind of run, you know, you might as well just pack up a shop and go home. So yeah. yeah It's, I mean, it's been a multiple week issue. There's a reason youve you've named this guy between yourself or myself scumbag. I mean, uh, horses ass or scumbag of the week multiple times. So, uh, I think it's a great call there. I'm gonna stick with the Texans too, Scott, and I'm going to go with Laramie Tunsel. Oh, I want to know how you knew the first play of the game, what it was going to be for a week. That's fucking scripted. You we went through it. You have a walk through it. The first 20 plays.
01:01:49
Speaker
and you find a way to be an ineligible man downfield and get a fucking one-play touchdown drive wiped off the board and then you're just so goddamn nonchalant about everything everything like i understand we still found a way to get it in the end zone however That could have been a lot worse. And again, it's just such an inexcusable penalty because you knew what we were going to do. That play has been worked on over and over again. It was a rehearsed fucking play that you walked through. You walked through that shit and you still found a way to get yourself ineligible. My favorite is I was listening to NFL radio and I had a caller calling a Washington, uh, Washington commanders fan. So like we need a new left tackle. Maybe we can trade for tonsils. Like.
01:02:34
Speaker
Dude, sign me up. Let's let's get this thing rolling. What happens if you never to to trade away Dwayne Brown? what is what is the What is the impact of this franchise if you don't trade away Dwayne Brown, you have a solid left tackle play, and then you don't have to go give two first round picks to go get Laramie. Not on top of that, but who's the the left tackle of San Francisco? Trent Williams. You could have had him for a third or fourth rounder. Yeah.
01:03:03
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And they decided, no, we don't want to do that. I mean, up until this year, tonsils penalties have been like workable, but this year is at a whole nother level. Right. Like, and just again, it's the nonchalance. Like if he was like, I'm killing the team, I have to find a way to get better. This is on me, you know, any, anything, anything, but you know, what's his response? We scored anyway. Yeah. We'll get it cleaned up. I guarantee you, if you look at the, uh, the practice report,
01:03:33
Speaker
either today or tomorrow, he's going to be, you know, get a veteran day off. I guarantee it. I'd rather see him running. Fucking wind sprints. Give me some one. It's one day a week. You can count on it. You can set your watch to it. He will get a day off. Why are you getting a day off? you You're the number one, you're the highest paid offensive player. Not, he's not a quarterback. In fact, cause CJ straws on a Ricky deal.
01:04:02
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you're the highest paid off as a player. Why are you taking days off? Because he's the highest paid player and you wanted to play every Sunday. Yeah. But if is it, you know, if we're nursing an injury, I get it. and this I'm with you. It's, it's ridiculous. It's a weekly issue. Like tonsil will cost us 15 to 25 yards on a weekly basis. It feels like that one costs his touchdown. All right, Scott,
01:04:31
Speaker
Time for a hat tip. All right. So hat tip. I'm going to go with the ankle centers, foot and ankle centers of Texas. So, and I went to a, you know, place over here in Pasadena, had a bone spur removed, like a piece of the bone removed and had another piece that was shaved out. I went in for surgery at six. Actually I got in there before, but the surgery started right around six o'clock. I was home by eight.
01:05:03
Speaker
So, I mean, and I went back to work today, which actually is going to get me, uh, I'm going to talk more about that later when I talk about the, uh, uh, my other award winners. But, uh, suffice it to say though, I'm a surgeon, the doctor been working with him as a great guy. And, you know, he has this, uh, a newer procedure where he goes through the top of the foot. And so I can put all the weight I want on my heel. And so I'm able to walk without crutches.
01:05:32
Speaker
I mean, that's amazing the day after surgery No, that's that's fantastic Scott, I'm glad I'm glad that that worked out for you and it was mostly painless Yeah, no golf for a while. But you know, what can you do? That's tough that would be a tough one for me, but I'm glad that again it went in and out relatively painless and It worked out and and again, you're you're feeling good. You're in good shape All right, Scott, I had the pleasure of being on the call on Friday night for the I guess by district matchup. I had Bowie High School Bowie High School rather taken on. um Dallas Jesuit. And this game had a 98 total points, 52. 5642 was the final score.
01:06:32
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just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And my hat tip goes to a young man by the name of Darion Bowers, who this day, the home team, the team I call games for Bowie High School, playing their final game as seniors at their field, the stadium will be closed for the next two years for renovation. So this is literally the final game that's going to be played at this iteration of the stadium. As a senior playing his final game there, Darion Bowers went for 286 yards on the ground,
01:07:01
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and Five touchdowns Scott you want to talk about putting a team on your back in the playoffs? I watched it up close and personal. This guy was a fucking monster Shaken bacon finding a way to put dudes on the spin cycle. It was absolutely Unbelievable. I I gotta get the UH recruiting staff that tape because if he doesn't end up at a at a bigger school than worries that being offered right now of Texas State It makes absolutely no sense to me. This kid's a monster So is he a part of the winning team or the yeah they won a one fifty six forty two um found a way to ice it late with a fifth touchdown of the game and I finally got to have my my musk my Musgrove call of he's going for the pylon and he's got it because I did it early on in the season and then the play got called back
01:07:57
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And so I felt like ruined it, but, uh, this, this, in this playoff game, I was able to hit the, uh, going for the pylon and he's got it. And, uh, made me feel pretty good. All right. Is it that time Scott to name that time? All right. Scott, someone out there in this world has offended us as time that they be known as scumbags of the week. Who do you got for us?
01:08:25
Speaker
So I'm not calling out any names because I'm not going to be that guy. What I will be is I will be, you know, get off my lawn guy. So I'm just kind of warning you here, you know, from the beginning. So I can remember a day, this is my 27th year of teaching. I can remember a day when teachers would get up and they would actually teach, you know, walk around the room, work with students individually.
01:08:54
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and I work with a group of actually, so this year I work with three different teachers. But what I've noticed is that these younger teachers, they just, they get up and say, okay, here's the assignment. Here's what you need to do. And then, you know, go back and sit down at the desk and just kind of sit there. One of them was on their phone. I was like, you i mean, what are we doing? And so here I am a day after surgery.
01:09:24
Speaker
I brought crutches to work, but I didn't use them. But I'm sitting there, I'm hobbling around, walking around the room to help students. Why am I the one who's doing that? I don't get it. Why am I the one who you know can barely walk? Why am I the one up and around and in doing you know these things? So I guess you know the scumbags, I don't know who's teaching I'll say kids because a lot of these you know teachers are in their 20s and 30s. I don't know who's teaching these kids how to teach, but I understand that a lot of this stuff's online. I understand we got technology at our disposal, but old fashioned teaching methods actually work. and When you get up and you go to the student, especially the ones that are off task, that has a way of making sure that they get back on task.
01:10:21
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It's just, you know, a miracle how that works. And I'm sure your wife's seen the same thing, you know, with teachers at her school where you've got some that just kind of, you know, bark out the assignment and it's kind of propped their feet up. And it's just the most sickening thing I've ever seen, you know, get up off your ass and teach. No, absolutely Scott. is There's a lot of good teachers out there, but there's also those who are Clearly just in it for the paycheck, right? And my wife a couple of weeks ago went to the Ron Clark Academy, uh, in Atlanta and and Ron Clark wrote a book about, you know, his message method and his philosophy, and he likens it to a bus, right? You're going to have some people who are driving your bus, right? You're going to have some people who run alongside the bus. They want to go fast, but they don't necessarily know which way to go. Then you got some people. You just want to ride. They just want to ride along.
01:11:18
Speaker
And those are the ones that bring you down, right? Those are the ones that kill the vibe of everybody else in the school, those those teachers who are willing to go above and beyond and are constantly asked to pick up the slack for the ones who can't. And that's how you kill, that's how you kill a good thing, right? When you don't support your good teachers and you allow um the lazy ones to continue with with that type of behavior. All right, Tim, who you got?
01:11:46
Speaker
My scumbag this week is the New York football Giants and Brian Davell. Um, already the idea of benching a quarterback, so that way you don't have to pay him in case he gets injured. Scumbag move, right? Then to jump over your backup quarterback to go to the third string guy. Like, what the fuck? Like, why would anyone ever sign with your team?
01:12:13
Speaker
If that's how you're going to play it, right? Like this guy came here thinking, Hey, if Daniel Jones doesn't do good, I'll be the backup. I'll have an opportunity to play. He's been the number two quarterback all year long. And then what happens when it's time to pull Daniel Jones, you go to fucking Danny cutlets, Danny cutlets out there and.
01:12:31
Speaker
you know like I it's it's all fun and games right it's hilarious he's got the mafia boss agent on the sideline like it's a fun story but at the end of the day like it's bullshit to the guy who's been the backup all year long who's you know and drew lock who's trying to get a ah chance to start to play football you know everywhere he's been he kind of just Never really had the opportunity, never really was quite good enough. Okay, you come to a Giants team, we're like, hell, I can beat out Daniel Jones. Then when it's finally time for you to get that opportunity, you're like, no, we're going to go to fucking Danny Cutlets back here. That's just a scump hack move, man. I get you on the number one overall pick. I get it. But, but like play the game the right way. Well, see, and here's, here's the, there's two problems I have with this, right? The first problem is what are the odds that Brian Dable has a job after this season?
01:13:24
Speaker
Uh, 0% would be my guess. So whose call is this really? I think it's his, I think he's trying to save his job. Well, but the thing is, is like, and this is where, you know, art, uh, our house character in money ball was, you know, not sympathetic. But the one point that he made is, is, you know, I've got to put a lineup out there that I can justify when I'm going to job interviews later on this next year.
01:13:52
Speaker
And so, you know, Brian day balls gotta, you know, be able to justify this when he's interviewing for, I'm presuming offensive coordinator positions next year. How do you defend bypassing your backup quarterback? How do you defend benching your healthy starting quarterback? Is it because he sucks? Okay. But why aren't you going with Drew Locke if he was your backup? And so I'm wondering if this is not giants brass and they're saying, listen,
01:14:22
Speaker
We're not, you know, we're not going to pay this guy for this year. You got to bench him. It's kind of like when the the Texans were with Lovey Smith at home. I mean, they were kind of like, basically we're losing on purpose until Lovey Smith screwed him in the last game and ended up working out. But the second problem I have with this is how many times are the Giants going to be on national TV after this and how many teams.
01:14:49
Speaker
that are going to be battling for playoff positioning are going to be playing the Giants after this. It's not fair to the rest of the league to throw out a third string guy just so you can lose a bunch of games and maybe get the first overall pick because you're going to have what the commanders probably will play them. The Eagles will probably play them. Those teams are battling for the division championship and you're having them battle against a team that is clearly not trying to win.
01:15:21
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I agree. The integrity of the game, um, is, is just being ignored at that point. Right. Like for a meme that we are literally putting a meme at quarterback NFL. And you know what? It's probably not fair to Danny cutlets to, to call him a meme, right? This is a guy who, this is his dream, right? Is to be the quarterback for his hometown team. Like I get it, but also like, bro, you're not a starting into a quarterback, right? Like.
01:15:49
Speaker
Like we can all have fun with this for the, for the next, however many games, but like after they draft a guy, like you're out of here. Well, they got it in the NFL has to do something about these contracts. Cause the Broncos did the same thing with Russell Wilson last year where they benched him towards the end of the year, not because he was playing horribly, but because they decided he's not going to be our quarterback anymore. So the NFL needs to do something about this because you can't have potential Number one, primetime games, because we seem to have to put the Giants on primetime. Yeah, they got to flex the amount of primetime. If I have to watch the Danny Cutlets again, like, because then the AG gets screen time. Like, people get pissed about them showing Taylor Swift. How about we get pissed about showing the fucking mobbed up guy in a zoot suit on the sideline? Like, what the fuck is he there for? And I don't want to watch the Cowboys anymore. I mean, they need to be, I mean, why are they on Thanksgiving? Because they're always on Thanksgiving.
01:16:48
Speaker
So great. I don't know who they're playing, but whoever they're playing is going to beat them by 20 plus points because that's the way the cowboy season's going. So, and that's going to be another home game. So that'll be another 20 point plus blowout. I'm sick and tired, you know, and I'm sick and tired of teams and the NFL is the only league that does this. The NFL is the only league that absolutely gives the number one overall pick to the worst team. The NBA has a lottery. Now baseball has a lottery.
01:17:17
Speaker
Maybe it's time to install a lottery in the NFL. Just sit there and say, you know, fuck you. You're not going to be tanking the rest of your season just so you can get Travis Hunter or Sanders. You want to know what the worst game on Thanksgiving is going to be? And it's not even close. Well, the one on counting the Black Friday game. Counting the Black Friday game. And again, this is it's not even close how bad this game is going to be. Giants Cowboys.
01:17:47
Speaker
Oh Yeah, and so what networks getting that one I think Fox typically gets that one and we've got another Cowboys game on Monday the 9th we've got ah Raiders to Raiders upcoming primetime readers cheese on Black Friday is is a Raiders Falcons on Monday December 16th another Cowboys primetime game on Sunday December 22nd and uh let's see here well see but then the question is is it worse to have two really bad football teams or is it worse to have one team that's obviously you know two touchdowns at least better than the other one i mean we'll probably get a competitive game on thanksgiving with the giants and and cowboys but it's gonna it's gonna be like america loses right like nobody wins america loses kind of situation that we had to
01:18:43
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why I normally watch a lot of football on Thanksgiving. I don't know if I'm going to watch this game, Scott.
Cowboys' Future and Podcast Conclusion
01:18:48
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So who do you, who do you have in a battle between Cooper Rush and Jimmy cutlets? I don't know. I'm hoping I want to see Trey Lance play. I want to see what the kids got. Cause like, again, my wife's a Niners fan. I'm Niners adjacent. And, uh, I'd just like to know that this kid wasn't a complete waste, right? Like I think they gave up so much for him.
01:19:12
Speaker
And he still has hardly played. I just want to see what the fucking kid has. like I just want to see what he looks like. But that's the guy, another guy that wants to keep his job, that is not going to keep his job. No, he's pretty. You had Aaron fucking Rogers in 10 years in Green Bay and you played backyard football and only won one NFL championship. I'm sorry. If you give me Aaron Rodgers in 10 years, I have to think I get at least two. Well, that's where, you know, either Steven Jones or Jerry Jones got to go down there and say, okay, Mike,
01:19:41
Speaker
You're starting Lance. Yeah, but like Lance is worse. I don't give a shit. you're you're We're not going anywhere. You're starting Lance. You got to see what you have, right? Like Cooper Rush is a fine backup quarterback. Like I think, I think he could go into next year and say our number two is Cooper Rush and everyone be like, okay, yeah, that's fine. Like if you have to play him, it's probably not great, but okay.
01:20:06
Speaker
I don't think they want to see Dak back, but I guarantee you they've locked that in. and And the amount of people who think Deion Sanders and Shader Sanders are coming to town is high. I can tell you that even Michael Ervin think that's going to happen. So this is going to be a shit show of an off season for the Cowboys. I can't wait. Yeah. And, and, but that's, it goes back to the fact, what you're saying about the Giants. You're a bad football team and you're not trying. That's just, I don't get it. Yeah.
01:20:34
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yeah' not a competitive look Yeah. Well, Scott, I think that's going to do it for us here this week. Uh, appreciate everybody who joined us, made us a part of their week. Uh, be sure to check out the sub stack thoughts of a native Texan Scott has been pumping out content on there. Like an only fans, like an only fans creator. Oh dear. Not that much, not that much content, but, but a lot of content. That is a fascinating middle image.
01:21:04
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Hey, if you want a picture of Scott's fleet, you you reach out to him. He might be willing to to take care of you. yeah What's the rate for a foot pick, Scott? $20? I'm going to go. Actually, I had a guy that pledged money to our site. He pledged $8 a month. Hey, there we go. I mean, this sub-stack, I think, collects like at least half of that. but Hey, he must really like Tim's mind cannon. Hey, we appreciate everybody this week. Be sure to check out the sub stack, thoughts of a native Texan and see us here. Same bad times, same bad channel next week. I'm born on the bayou sports.