The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/09 Hour 2 - The Good, Bad, and Ugly from the Astros Weekend vs Arizona
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He's been really good at the plate, really strong, and in the, another double-dong game for Jordon is a good thing. But, uh, thank goodness he is starting to find his groove at Minute Maid Park. Yeah, he was, uh, that line drive he hit to centerfield. My goodness, man. Like, how does that ball, with that flight, leave the yard? That was ridiculous. I mean, and when you see, and a lot of times when a guy's getting started in his career and you're like, yeah, he could fall off and whatever. When you see the company, he's keeping in all these different stat, stat categories with the multiple home run games, with all the things he does. And then when you start combining the average and the power, he doesn't get the national attention, he probably deserves. But you can't argue the conversation we had a couple weeks ago. He's got to be one of, consider one of the best hitters in the entire game of baseball, average power, and then the ability to do what you just said. Like, do the kind of abnormal looking kind of power things that he does. Even a lot of times when he doesn't get the home run, it's not that the ball wasn't striped at a hundred and some miles an hour off the bat where you're going, my goodness, he hits the ball hard. Yeah, that was, uh, that was awesome to see. I thought Fromberg was outstanding again. Fromberg just continues to roll on being Fromberg Valdez that has really turned into one of the best pitchers in baseball for the last few months, both he and Hunter Brown. And then just the series overall. Like, hey, we talk about this all the time. What do you need to do in baseball? You need to win series. Arizona's been one of the best teams in baseball since after the All-Star break. They're a team that went to the World Series last year. Win a series, win a series, Astros did that yesterday's game leaves the sour taste in your mouth. But when a series, you did that against Arizona. I think you had to be happy about that. Yeah, no doubt. I think it's again, always the prisoner of the moment. The last thing you remember is the worst game of the series, but at the end of the day, when you look at the big picture, no, you didn't sweep them. You got spoiled because you swept a good Royals team, but you want two out of three against a team that's been really, really hot. And if you listen to any of the telecasts over the course of the weekend, they talked about just how dominant their offense has been of late and how the commonwealth has been. How the combination of power and putting a lot of runs on the board and crooked numbers is what Arizona has been feasting on lately. They didn't do that for the first two games. You really played good baseball against a good baseball team yet again and won the series. And so you're whittling with everything that you do, whittling more games off the final 19 games. And just stay where you're at. You're going to be fine with the Mariners. Obviously, you're still only within four of Cleveland. You got a chance at that. So you're in a good spot to be in. I thought also, by the way, Altuve, the fact that he was, he was what he was three, six, eight, eight for 14 in the series. It's just something that at the top of the lineup, you love to see as well. Yeah, you love whenever he can be that spark. Now, Cleveland does start a series against the White Sox tonight. So that stinks, but I like that the Astros have a greater lead in the division than the deficit to catch Cleveland. Like, that's kind of been my sweet spot per se, is that I've wanted the lead in the division to be greater than your deficit of the two seed. Now, I still don't feel great about the two seed for back with 19 to play. You do have three against Cleveland. So that's kind of the silver lining there. You'd like to be within three going into that series because if you sweep, okay, we have a conversation. But four and a half, 19 to play, still not enough to be comfortable, but in a sound spot, especially when you consider where they were. It's one point this year, 10 back. Yeah, I even, I even forgot because I was so focused now on Cleveland that when Ravitch made the mention of the fact that they got one series left with Seattle. And I was like, wait, they had that. And it's right before the Cleveland series where you would hope that, you know, everything's out of reach at that point where you keep it where it is or a little bit more before you see Seattle one last time. But yeah, with every passing day, as much as I was really hopeful, I just don't think the two seeds can end up being in their in their cards. I boycotted listening to Ravitch yesterday. That's shocking. Yeah, I boycotted that. Might as well. I was watching. I was watching Sunday night football, and then I had the Astros game on my phone for the only reason was because I didn't want to listen to Carl Ravitch. Wink, wink. What bad? Everybody on the text line saying the bad and the ugly was, was Verlander. Do you want to go to the Verlander conversation now or do you have some other bads and uglies you want to get to first? I think that's, Kakuchi wasn't what we were used to seeing a Kakuchi. He got you sick. Yeah, I was going to say he was good enough. He did exactly what he needed. He got you six. Yeah. So I think that the biggest. I didn't hold on. I got a couple. I didn't think that Kyle Tucker looked great. I don't want to have to be the one that says that. But again, I have to tell you what my eyes see. I didn't think he looked great. I got a hit at the end of the game last night. Like he got on base. Like he had the catcher's interference. He walked a couple of times in the series. He got the hit yesterday, actually scored a couple of runs. He doesn't look like he has his timing nor nor should he know, like nor should he, but let's call a spade a spade. I didn't think Tucker looked great. I didn't think he looked that good. Should he have looked good? No, absolutely not. But again, let's let's call a spade a spade. He's got some work to do before he gets that time and see what he did for Friday night fireworks. No. Oh, yeah, I did. I did. After the game, while the fireworks are going on, you looked down on the field. Kyle Tucker's running sprints in the outfield. I guess he's still trying to work some kinks out there, too. Yeah. I mean, hey, get back. Get your form back. Yeah, I like the work ethic. Anytime your ons running scares me, I don't like him taking extra bases. I don't like him sliding. I live a fearful life, put me in a bubble, put your on in a bubble. And then the Gary Pettis wave of Singleton on Friday, I think it was, where he got thrown out at the plate. That was all time bad. Like it has to be brought up. I believe it was Friday, so they still won the game. But they waved. They waved. Gary paid us wave Singleton on the most awful wave I've ever seen. Singleton was out by like 20 feet. Like it was so bad. Pettis has his moments where you kind of like scratch your temple. Like sometimes he's hyper-aggressive. Yeah. Then other times with two outs and clearly, you know, two out base hit, you got to take your chances there and he won't. Yeah. And I could never quite figure him out. Before this year, he was just uber-aggressive all the time. Now this year, you've seen him be like more conservative. But the one the other night was like the most egregious windmill I've ever seen from Gary Pettis, who has lived the life of egregious windmills. But it didn't cost him the victory. And then now Justin Verlander. Verlander's 0-4 with a 9-68 ERA since coming off the IL. He gave up eight runs yesterday in three innings. Bad, ugly, both all of the above. That was abysmal. Yeah. It's so much worse than that too. When you hear physically, I felt great. I just was atrocious on the mount. Like, okay, this was supposed to be your spring training. I get it. When you're also supposed to be coming back from an injury. Okay. But the fact that you felt physically good and you felt great in your words. And then you pitch like that. It's like how much more leash are you going to give this guy? And then when rabbit starts the conversation off and then everybody piles on about, well, he's either got to be a starter or he's not going to go to the bullpen because he's never done it before. And that's not going to fit for him. That's where the conversation starts, you know, rattling your brain going. We had this conversation about is he going to be one of the starters because the organization wants him to be. And he's also down the stretch, working some things out. Right now, he looks like he shouldn't be a starter for anybody. I get the, because I think Dana Brown said this after his last start making the excuse of, well, he's in spring training. I heard you mention those words spring training at all. But I think that excuse has to, not that you were making it, but that excuse has to end for fertilizer. He had two minor league rehab starts. This is what his four start back in the major leagues. That's six stars. I mean, what are you getting spring training for? Maybe five at most. He's had an ample amount of time that if he had it, he would be ramped up by now. This is not, you know, to me at this point, well, spring training, building up my arm strength, getting back at rhythm, because I was out for two months. You've had six starts. I mean, it's tough to say anything, but you look washed at this point. Yeah. And I think that's the other thing. I mean, now, a week ago, we were talking about, well, Eric Getty is in the mix. And then Eric Getty throws up all over himself. And then you've got some concern. But now it's like, basically, what are you doing to Blanco in the meantime by putting him in the pen when it looks like he's a guy that has a lot more significance right now than Justin Verlander. The fact that Justin Verlander looks the way he does, you're going to cringe the next time he goes out and the rest of the regular season when he goes out there. And I don't know why anybody has any confidence that he's suddenly going to find it. He said last night, they mentioned on the telecast, he found something in the bullpen warming up that they think they could capitalize on. Yeah, he found a way to make a ball even more hitable so a guy could have a career in one game against it. Yeah, not great from Justin Verlander. All right, a bunch of college football over the weekend as well. I believe that. What do you believe after this week of college football? 713-780-3776. It's the bees on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. 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With the killer bees. What do you believe now from the college football weekend 713-780-ESP and HR&P listener line? What do you believe 713-700-376-flankers? What you got? I'm telling you right now, I really believe that Dion Sanders is not long for the Colorado job and I don't think it's going to be anything to do with him taking another one. I think Colorado is going to get, if they're not already, very sick and tired of the routine, the act and everything that's going on. And you can't continually have the kind of bleep show that they have going on around the fact that he makes it all about his kids and Hunter and the fan himself. And when you watched everything that happened the other night and you looked at and then he starts blaming the fact that he had a couple, he has his stars, but it's a shame that he's got everything everybody else around them. It's your fault. You're bringing these players in. You're the one that made all the game. I'm not saying they had like 60 transfers. This is his roster. It's all on him and yet he's kind of what was me in going, yeah we got these two great players and got not a lot about around him. That's on you, bro. Did you hear what the rumor is, what he told the band? The band's not allowed to play the Fox song after his rap song. Sanders throws a touchdown because they have to play his rap song. If that is true, that is ridiculous. And then to piggyback off that one, two blankers? Yeah. Shoulder Sanders is blaming teammates most game. Oh, no doubt. Oh, we got audio for correct. Yeah. How if you're an NFL organization, do you see that? And you're like, yeah, that guy's going to be my franchise quarterback. He and his dad are dipping the O line in the grease and and dipping the all the guys around his players, you know, in the grease. And then when like you mentioned Jeremy, it's the rumors about the song after the touchdown. It's banning media people that are critical of his program, which happens in every sport and every media conference that you're going to have. And it's like you give this guy total control and he's just running a muck and it's all all about his endorsement and his kids and I L money and putting the blame on everybody else. To piggyback on what you were saying, Joel, the offensive line thing is particularly kind of offensive to my ears because this is entirely an offensive line that he brought into the transfer portal. I mean, they put up the graphic preseason about Colorado, completely built off into line. These are all guys, the on Sanders picked if they suck. Second time around because the first guys, he didn't think we're good enough, so he went out and did it again. Yeah. I don't think they make a ball game again. They went four and eight last year. You look at their schedule because this is one of my beliefs too, so I'm not just kind of all skipping here, but I'll just give it a mention. You look at their schedule, they got four ranked opponents left. I don't think they'd be Baylor. I don't think they went at Tech. I don't think they went at Kansas. You're like, I think you're looking for an eight again for Colorado. They might get Baylor game, but yeah, other than that, I don't see them doing very well. Enough about Colorado. Northern Illinois number 25 team in the nation. I'm pretty sure that they're going to win a national championship. Here's the final call. They're upset against Notre Dame. He's lining it up. Five seconds left. NIU up 16-14. 62 yarder. Snap hole. Cheaters kick this block. It's blocked. It's blocked. Pick up NIU. Pick up NIU. The Huskies have done it. The Huskies with the biggest upset in NIU history. They come to South Bend, Indiana, and they knock off the number five team in the country. NIU 16. Notre Dame 14. The football gods were shining down on NIU. They were. They were. Maybe a touchdown Jesus shining down on Northern Illinois. I was walking around the neighborhood today, sick brag, and I saw Northern Illinois flag outside of one of the neighbor's house. Good day to me. Today's the best diet. Yeah. Their national championship, baby, wins over Western Illinois, win over Notre Dame. The Huskies. They're on their way to the nanny. This is so funny that basically they basically solidified a spot for Notre Dame after they beat A&M. And then Notre Dame is going to Notre Dame and you look at it and go, "Man, that's enough." They have one of these games every year. Ugh, ugly loss. Yeah, that was bad. What you got, Brian? Look, I can't believe we've gone this far without mentioning the Texas Longhorns and that beatdown. They gave the Wolverines and Ann Arbor, but this is more about Michigan here, like that Michigan team. I don't know how much of the game you guys caught. I know Jeremy was traveling and had his own Cougars duties, but whatever the score was, I don't even remember what else on the top of the head. You can add 20 points here. That was a complete beatdown. The Longhorns completely took their foot off the gas after the first touchdown in the third quarter. That Michigan football team is a joke, a travesty on offense. They can't pass the ball more than 10 yards down the field. I feel like I look at the team, 7 and 5 the best, like the E-USC. You got Washington, you got Oregon, you got Ohio State. I mean, 7 and 5 I think is true at this point. 500 I think is what I was thinking. The rest of the schedule I was looking at, I couldn't find the extra loss to get them to 6 and 6, but it wouldn't shock me. It's not a good football team. No, and I told you guys watching a play, they're open, they're against prejudice. I was like, I don't care what their defense has and I think that we had talked about the fact they got a couple of studs on defense that are going to be first-round picks. Offensively, I don't know what was going on. You won the national championship, you should have loaded up and had plenty of quarterbacks to choose from. And you're replacing Quorum, you should have running backs galore. Their offense looks brutal. Yeah, that looked good. I think you were as Heisman in a hype is real though. Yeah, no, I wish I had placed a bet on it pre-season. He's certainly going to be top three at this point probably. Yeah, well, she got blinkers. To me, I mean Alabama wasn't good either. When you looked at it and Alabama goes to Wisconsin and I'm like, oh, the badges are going to get their doors blown off next week. As bad as bad as Wisconsin could be this year, they might be able to give Alabama a game. Alabama, I think is grossly overrated. I think it was a three-point game going into the fourth quarter. It was one-point, it was 14-13. There you go. And I'm like, this is an Alabama team that's top five. I was like, unimpressive, man, and Milro and company, I'm like, nope, ain't doing it for me. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, I think Du Boer is going to get them playing better and better. So is that a team that gets better as the season goes? I believe so. I think they're well coached. But I agree they didn't look all that great. ACC got their statement win, guys. Statement win by the ACC. After another game, let them down, even though they're not ACC. Cow beats Auburn. Cow beat Auburn. Statement win for the ACC. This is classic ACC, guys. Cow carrying the torch for the ACC. What a league. What a league. Yeah, you freeze right back on the hot seat. Yeah. True. He's right back on the hot seat. Yeah, you're right. Nothing says ACC Atlantic Coast Conference like a win by Cow over Auburn. That's embarrassing for Auburn. I mean, good Lord. How the mighty fall sometimes. Yeah, that's a bad loss for a team that nobody wanted. As you mentioned, it's an ACC team. And Auburn is supposed to be a lot better than that. And every year, they're another team that always finds a way to kind of pee down their leg. All right, Brian. Just count Mahomes, Dylan Ryola. It's hilarious. He's... I can't believe I'm saying this because I don't think I've been able to say this since 2009. And even then, it was because of a defensive player with a suit. I was about to put your first name. But, man, Nebraska, I know they're playing Colorado, so you're basically playing the FCS school. But Nebraska for the first time since 2009 is interesting and fun to watch. It's kind of comical and cheesy at times, though how much Dylan Ryola tries to mimic Patrick. He does the manual-risms. He's got the same facial hair. He's got the same haircut. He wears the same number. He walks the same way. He does the same side armor. Like, he is completely infringing upon the Patrick Mahomes. Exactly. But, hey, he's a true freshman. Nebraska is now ranked. I believe they're 21 after that win against Colorado. So, credits in Nebraska. They're actually interesting for the first time since, like, 2009. They got a stud defensive back who went toe-to-toe with the verbal jab with Hunter and won and had a pick six. They got a running back and a running game which used to be their staple where they can actually run the football and he's elusive. And Matt Rule, make sure the NIL money's still there so you can pay whatever you need to pay for the next quarterback that you need when you say you need. You've done it three times now. But, man, oh man, the kid looks like he can play. Yeah, Matt Rule can coach, college. Yeah, Matt Rule is a good college ball coach. And I'll say it since you guys are anti-Big 12. The Big 12 is underrated. Kansas State wins at a school that won a new year's sixth game a couple years ago. Iowa State wins at number 19 Iowa. Oklahoma State beats an SEC school. Arizona State beats an SEC school. U of H goes on the road and almost beats number 15 OU SEC school. And if you weren't for that call on that muff putt, maybe wins. And BYU wins at ACC Power SMU. The Big 12 is underrated. Arkansas took that game away. Who won? Who was celebrating? Who was celebrating? We celebrate W's. That was one of Lee's picks. He had Arkansas plus eight. It ended up being a push because of the double overtime and happened to go for two. But man, Arkansas blew that game. The 12 underrated. That's the moral of the story here. Big 12 is underrated. Did Lee picked Michigan, right? Yeah, he went one, one, and three last week. His only win was the Texas. Yeah, I had a buddy trying to say that it was Michigan. I was like, no, I think you heard that wrong. Yeah, he can't. Texas is hovering. That was his win. He did. All right. What was the moral of the story here, guys? Big 12 is underrated. All right. Say it with me. All right. 7-1-3-7-8-0-ESP. Let's get to the Mel Bag Monday. What do you want to ask the B-7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6? It is the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. It's a Mel Bag Monday with a Killer B's. You've got Mel. What is your question for the B's 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6? What is your question for the B's? Also, I'm going to give away some Houston rice tickets coming up. I can tell you exactly when. But soon, you have to answer a trivia question to be a winner for the Cougar Rice Game coming up on Saturday. All right. Mel Bag Monday. What's your question for the B-7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6? Let's go out to the HR&P listener line. Peña. What's your question for the B's? It was going on, guys. A quick question before I get to my real question. Have you ever offered to have you up in the chedders? Yes. To chedders? Yes. Yes. Chedders. All right. So the croissant, the honey croissant, or whatever they're called. That's cut. The red lobster. Thank you. Have a great day. Chedders. This gets it red lobster. Aren't red lobsters going out of business? I think so. I think so too. Not all of them, but yeah. It's pretty poorly. It's trimming poorly for sure. I don't remember the cheddar croissants. I remember the painkiller, but I don't remember the croissants from chedders. A lot of people love the cheddar croissants. Yeah, the croissants. Dude, I don't remember them. Look, I guess I'll have to cut them since I don't remember them. I will. I'm going to bench the red lobster biscuits, and I'll start the roadhouse. Now the one thing about the roadhouse thing, it's really, it's really the butter. Yeah. Me too. But of like my three choices, that's the one that I would want the most of. So I'll start that one. See, because the one to me that always comes to mind when you mentioned that too and they went out of business, Black Eyed Peas used to always have the fresh rolls and they give you the brown gravy. And they had cornbread too. You get the rolls and the cornbread and you get a side of gravy and be like, oh, that's a meal in itself. Yeah. I'll go. I'm not a big croissant guy anyway, so I'll cut the croissant. I'll go with the cheddar, the red lobster cheddar biscuits one, and then the regular biscuits to the roadhouse biscuits too, and then I'll cut the croissant. Yeah. Unanimous. I'm going to cut the croissant. It's good, but it's not as good as the other two. I think I'm going to start the cheddar bay biscuits and then I'll bench the roadhouse rolls just because as Jeremy laid out, we really love it because of the cinnamon butter. I mean, the roll itself, if it went straight, you know, heads up, straight up against the cheddar bay biscuit, I think we'd all take the cheddar bay biscuit. Yeah. I'll start cheddar bay biscuit, bench the roadhouse rolls and cut the croissant. Let's go back out to the HR and Pete listener line. Mel back Monday, 713-780-3776. Robbie from Dayton. What's your question for the bees? How are y'all doing today? I'm doing great. Okay. Okay. Direct TV, and Disney are having a dispute on contract. Yeah. Do y'all have that? Because I can't give E.S.C. in and I cannot get ABC 13. So, I'm going to hang up and listen on how y'all feel about not getting football when they start the football season off and you can't get some of the great games that you're going to have on ESPN. Well, Robbie, I'm here to try and help you get your football. I just got to make sure you got the ability to do it because I had Jeremy Brandon was going to get me some links to do some things. Hey, what's up with the southern accent? Well, because you got to get football. You got to get football and Robbie, I actually tweeted it out last night because I have ESPN Plus. I'm in the predicament with Direct TV. You can get right now, they're running a deal with Amazon where you can get three free weeks of YouTube TV and hopefully it won't last longer than that. That was my answer, YouTube TV. So, I've had it for years, it's great. Yeah. So, I got YouTube TV for 3D. How do you watch Astros there, Brian? I either borrow a password or when it's in national games, then I don't have to. But yeah, I have a buddy who I can borrow a password for, but yeah, that's the only downside is no Astros, no Rockets unless you have a buddy in borrowed passwords. Nothing's creamed guilty than Brian's elongated eye. Well! Yeah, I'm not going to incriminate myself, Robbie, but I appreciate the question. 713-780-ESPN. HRMP listener line. What's your question for the killerby? 713-780-377-6. There was a baseball question. Oh, here we go. Actually, what? Cap on Twitch. Do you think the Steelers quarterback situation is the best Tomlin has had since been retired? Uh, yeah. I think it might be. It's a low bar. It is a low bar, but at the same time for Kenny two gloves, Pickett never really turned out to be the deal. And he's in the Rudolph? Oh, man. And the whole, he was more known for the helmet with Miles Garrett. I think that there's a chance that, I mean, though, I think they'll force feed Russ back into it at some point. It feels just manages the game and they capitalize on his running like they did yesterday. Yeah, at least he's got options. He's got two options. Trabisky behind Kenny two gloves wasn't great. He's got some options here. I mean, he hasn't had any quarterbacks. It's a big pin. He's had Pickett. Right. He's had Trabisky. Now he's got Fields. He's got Wilson. Like, sure. I guess. Question mark, if you want it that way. I mean, it's kind of a tallest little person. I hope your defense plays the way they played all the time. And hope you're facing a little quarterback coming off of Achilles. Guys, I think the Falcons might be incompetent. Like, I'm starting to feel more that way. I was reading this whole, the way they were using cousins yesterday. They used him in the pistol like 35% of the game. He had played like five snaps in the pistol his entire career. What are you doing? Like, what are you doing? And you think he'd make more of a statement and stand up and tell him that and go, "Look, this is where I'm comfortable." You paid me this ungodly amount of money for two years minimum. Like, let's make this thing work. And the whole weather, you thought Kirk Cousins was going to come back from the injury and not be washed or not look bad. You want to make him look good. You didn't do that. And you went out and drafted his replacement after you signed him to the deal. There's a lot of things to question with the Falcons right now. They might be incompetent. 1047 of Richardson gets accuracy. Are they Super Bowl contenders? With the Colts? Yes. No. No, I don't think so. I mean, sure. I think the secondary is questionable. I think that, and that's a big if if he gets accuracy. I don't think that's going to happen overnight. What one guy in history has made that turn, Josh Allen? Yeah, it's not. I mean, even Josh Allen, I think he's inaccurate. I think they just kind of make him a little bit more accurate based on the throws that they have of throwing, which is kind of why I'm a little disappointed with Steichen. Yeah, sure. But if I get $3 billion, I'm now rich. Like, okay. 7137803776, back out to the HR and Pete Listener line Travis from Spring. What's up? Hey, gentlemen. Question is, are the Texans secondary as bad as they look yesterday? Or is it the result of being offered relatively three weeks? They haven't really had a good game with their starters in about three weeks. I'll hang up and listen. Have a great day. Thanks for the call, Travis. I don't think they were that bad yesterday. Yes, there were slip-ups we mentioned and talked about. You know, it's game one. They're overplaying the run. They were vulnerable to spots. Were they in the wrong position in some spots? Yes. But I think they can clean that up and it's going to be dependent from week to week on the opponent, too. Yeah. Let's wait to see where it goes. Like, I'm not. I'm not giving up on the Texas secondary. I think the Texas secondary is going to be just fine. I think it was very game plan specific when we saw yesterday. Oh, Joe, which Texans offensive lineman stood out to you yesterday? Well, I mean, from a past block, as much as I've been critical of him, Ken and Green, from a run block perspective, was doing some things. I mean, he was all over the place. He was Mack trucking some guys. He was all over in the running game, being the kind of guy that he was drafted to be, coming from the running games, the running game that had at A&M. I thought he was extremely impressive in the running game and better than I expected in the past game. Yeah, I thought Ken and Green was the one that stood out to me. Tonsu, I mean, Tonsu's still a stud. People were getting on to him for his fall star penalty. You know, if he doesn't jump there, it's probably delay a game, though. Was it? I didn't see that. He was trying to time the snap between one and zero. Like, it would have been a delay game, and the receiver in motion, I forget who it was. It was either digs or a tank. They were moving towards a line of scrimmage when that play was snapped. Like, that either, if Laramie does not jump there, it's more than likely going to be delay a game. And if it's not the delay of game, it's going to be illegal motion. So, like, we point the finger, oh, what an idiot, Laramie Tonsu'll jump it off sides there, jump it and fall start again. It would have been a penalty no matter what. So, like, I give him a little bit of grace there. I think on the flip side, Howard was the guy that stood out to me as, like, that kind of stuff. He was getting pushed around. He got pushed a little bit. Yeah, and then when he got pushed around the one time, he got pushed back into his quarterback. If you could pick one stat that CJ was number one in the league at this year, what would it be? Um, what, I mean, I tell you what I'd like is third down efficiency, just simply because he's so good at it already that that means they're moving the football, but just in the big categories, I would, I would say completion percentage of it stays like that. I was thinking that are yards per attempt. You're both wrong. Jeremy's going to sell, Jeremy's going to say wins. You're darn right. I'm going to say wins. Well, of course. Why wouldn't you? Why did you, why did you, why did you all pick completion percentage and efficiency? Because that is the thing that translates to wins. It doesn't matter if it's quarterback stat, they track it, they track it, but you guys pick stats that translate to winning. Why not just say winning? Look, give me the wins. Give me the win. We didn't have boring answer. It's a right answer. Sometimes it's boring is right and right is boring. 4488. How did Brady do yesterday? Not great. I don't know how much of the game you guys caught. I thought, he, now, and we'll talk about this in Karak, I don't think he was the worst debut announcer to debut this weekend, but yeah, Tom Brady, I thought was, he felt very unnatural during that. Yeah. He didn't have a lot of enthusiasm either. Like his delivery wasn't right. He got to see the guy from Red Zone got drilled for that. No. He actually called that out. They showed the highlight of the long field goal attempt by the Cowboys and the direct TV guy, I forget his name, called him out and said he just wasn't a, what, come on, Tom Brady, show some emotion, get more involved in it and he just got drilled to where he had to like issue an apology. Brady was rough. I mean, it was his first go around. It was, it was expected. It made a whole lot of people value Greg Olson even more than they already did for how good he was. But yeah, Brady's got worked at it. Scott Hanson was joking. Let's be very, very clear on that. It was a joke, he was saying get in jest and yes, he got attacked by the internet. Be sure to. Um, I was, I was watching Red Zone channel for the afternoon game. So it was, I didn't watch him in, you know, totality. It was back and forth and I actually heard Hanson say that. That's how I know it was just, um, I thought, I thought he was support. I thought he was below average. I wouldn't have paid him $375 million. I do think he'll get better though. Uh, key from LA for $1 million or a lifetime membership to wherever you like. Would you rather a skydive, B swim with the sharks or C lose a pinky toe? Whew. Skydive. I mean, skydives, you're going to, I would think you're probably going to survive that and you're not going without a toe or I'm not big on this. Yeah. B's out. I would, I would, uh, I'd rather lose a pinky toe than swim with sharks. I don't, I've never, I've never went skydiving really don't want to go skydiving, but if you gave me a million dollars to skydive, yeah, I'm going to do it tomorrow. Yeah. I would just do it. I'd make some volume too. So like I wouldn't really get nervous or whatever or anxious. I would be heavily drugged for sure. Soft. Make sure you can pull the cord. I never said I was. Well, you, you would have to pull the cord and be terrible in that first jump. Yeah. Oh, well, I've thought, lost that's part of the, the, the plan. Yeah. Yeah. They don't let you go solo. So you've got, I think five jobs. What are millions on the line? Maybe they do. I'm just saying before they're getting cut because maybe I wouldn't give it up then. If I had to go by myself, I'd rather just jump off my pinky toe. Look, you have to chop it off or you can have it surgically removed surgically removed. I can deal with that. I can deal with that. I'm dealing with more than that. Yeah, I would. That would be all right. Like, I wouldn't trust myself to pull a cord. Just what if I like pass out, you know, like game over. So I'm saying, yeah, if you're going tandem for sure, then that's a possibility. If you're not, I'm not in a for like Brian said, you can't, you can't solo skydive until you have like X amount of hours at nine, six, six, six, distinctly being overrated. One game, no, I don't even think stingley really got burned there. I think he was in zone coverage thought he had safety help, which he was supposed to in war got beat personally is what I think one nine seven zero. Do you add salt to chips in a public gathering? I don't I don't add salt to chips ever. My wife always does. And it annoys me if we're sharing the chips. I I always try to be crazy, you know, why wouldn't you add salt to chips that makes it more flavorful? Like if it's their taco chips and they're in your using them with salsa or deco chips, you know, tortilla chips. I don't need a different taco chips. Okay. I mean, I'm a Midwest guy. We call taco chips. Oh, you're not. And I'm Mexico. I'm not, but I enjoy Mexican food and I'm not going to put salt on the chips. If I'm going to put the chips and dip with you, I just lost me a taco chips. I'm with you overall. It's a way to go. One seven one one, which any should always ask if you're with people. Yes. One one, which teams look the best to you this weekend? Top three. Cheese. The ball right. I think it's all right. That fell. I mean, the the Chiefs count. They look the best. They look like the cream of the crop. I want to say the Eagles because of Saequan and what he's going to mean to that overall offense. So I would say the Eagles and after the Chiefs and then the for one week, third team. Cowboy. Ooh. It's fair. They don't know because their defense look good. I'll go. Chiefs. Eagles Texans. Okay. You go that way. Oh, not cash or trash right now. Nine five zero six taco chips. Question mark. I said it. Does the NFL have anything similar to baseball's war? Not really. They have like that expected point average or whatever that EPA stat is, which I like. But no, I don't think there's anything similar to war football. I can still see my dad yelling. You're in the kitchen. Can you bring me some of them taco chips while I'm watching the game? Yeah. Did he really say that? I'm Mexico. Oh, my mom and my dad called them taco chips. That's hilarious. Yep. Doritos has a taco chip that's Doritos taco flavor is phenomenal. Pretty solid. It's my probably my second favorite Dorito flavor at the Sosa Verde. And I got to go third. Sosa Verde. What is top two the the regular the the nacho cheese and then the cool ranch. Okay. Yeah. Give me Sosa. The cool. We each draw a favorite U of H cook football player the last 15 years. You go first. We know. I love it. Oh, wow. Last one. He was what that was. Uh, case. Of course it is. I love a lot of them though. That's like asking me to pick my favorite child. We all have one. I'll go big in. In public. A big. And Oliver was the man. Yeah. I mean Greg Ward. Yeah. There's been lots of nine five six three no mention of the Saints. They played the Panthers, dude. Yeah. They played the FCS school. Yeah. They played the Panthers. Dude. All right. Let's get to the top stuff from the NFL this weekend. Lots of news like dad getting paid. Tyrek arrested. There's injuries, big injuries to Jordan Love and Pukka Nakua. It's the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Hey guys, before we go to the break, a minute for all state windows and siding. Look, if you're looking all over Houston for high quality windows and siding at an affordable price, do like I did call Houston expert windows siding a door company. All state windows and siding. All state windows and siding replaced my old windows. 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But how about Tyreek Hill pulling a Scotty Scheffler and getting detained prior to, like right outside the stadium, like tellgaters were walking by as Tyreek Hill was in handcuffs. The South Florida police just issued a statement before the Dolphins game yesterday, an incident occurred where Tyreek Hill was placed in handcuffs before being released. First to be clear, at no time was he ever under arrest. He was briefly detained for officer safety after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great risk of danger upon being stopped. Mr. Hill was not immediately cooperative with the officers on scene who pursuant to policy and for their immediate safety place, Mr. Hill in handcuffs. Mr. Hill still uncooperative, refused to sit on the ground, was therefore redirected to the ground. That's an interesting last part of that statement. Because we saw the video of the cop coming over and like punching him in the mouth. Yeah, it was probably a little bit forceful there. So I didn't approve of that. I think that was the officer that's probably placed in administrative leave now, I mean, you know, you do gotta listen, like you do gotta listen when it comes to being pulled over and stuff. So this was, this was really weird. I can't wait for the body cam thing to come out though. I want to see the body cam to see all that. What happened? What went down? I hope it worked and I hope it's not because all the details because the crazy thing is we always talk about is now everybody's kind of a reporter because they all have a phone and some of the phone footage that was coming out where they told him to get out of the car and roll down the window and that I guess basically he was resisting and you hear the officers say, I'll break this effing window and I'll yank you out and then you see the punch thrown and then the one that was the, the bigger issue too is they had made mention of several of his teammates were trying to come to his rescue. They were pulling over as well, OBJ, Kalei Campbell, just one man of the year in the NFL. One of the most upstanding citizens you're going to find and he does his post game interview after the game and they were asking about it. He goes, I was handcuffed for the first time in my life. He's like, I could not believe I was handcuffed just coming to see if he was okay and he's like, it's the first time in my life I was in handcuffs and he wasn't at the end of the day charged, but that too is like now you're handcuffing all of like the pedestrians or the people that are standing around wondering what's going on. Yeah, I mean, we don't know that like, we don't know, but that's why we're waiting to get. And like, it's hard to know, like, did he come out of aggressively? Like we don't know. Like, that's what I'm saying. I'm, we're still waiting to get all the details. I would love to hear when all the truth comes out, but like, for a traffic stop, I don't think you're going to get that physical, you're obviously there's a chance he said, of course, you know who I am, what I'm, what I'm doing. Maybe he didn't want to get out of the car immediately, but you're not going to get arrested for your traffic stops unless you have warrants. Well, they, they detained him because they felt he wasn't being cooperative. That's what they said. That's their story from their statement. Yeah. So that's why hopefully, Tyree kills handling it very well, better than I thought he would in terms of he and Drew Rosenhouse and saying, hopefully everybody can learn from this and go forward. Kind of like you mentioned, Allah, sheffler. But at the end of the day, I'm waiting for all this, all the details to come out. Yeah. I want all the details to come out. I want to see the initial conversation. I want to see the, if he was being uncooperative, what it sounded like, I would also like to see the driving, you know, like we kind of forget that the genesis of him being pulled over was that he was driving recklessly. Like what did that look like? How reckless was that? Like, I want to see any, they say that he was putting people in danger. Like let's see if there is a dash camera too. Like I'd like to, I hope that we get presented all of the information and until we're presented with all the information, I kind of hesitate to have any sort of stance because I don't know everything that happened. Well, but show me in all the things that you said, show me what warranted the cop physically drilling him in the face. That part is the where I thought that was nuts. Yeah. Like he's standing up, they wanted him to sit down and he came over there and drilled him in the face. It's like, hey, just like maybe, maybe don't be punching him in the face. We just kind of usher him to the ground. Like it was, that was a weird deal. And I bet you that was the cop that was placed in a minute. I would agree. There is some new news on DeShawn Watson, Watson's being sued again, the latest case arising from an alleged incident in October 2020, accused of him of sexual assault and battery while on a date. So another, another, I guess, knocks in the post for DeShawn Watson. Not great. And again, probably need to wait on details to come out on that. Jack Prescott is your first $60 million quarterback in the NFL. I thought this was possible. Now he did jump pretty, pretty substantial amount, 55 million a year was the high and now it's 60. That gets to 60. He's the first $60 million man in all of NFL history. We knew he wasn't going anywhere. We knew that he, they were going to, regardless of what Jerry Jones was saying, that they were going to get a deal done. I certainly didn't think it was going to be $60 million a year. I thought he'd be the next man highest on the totem pole. I thought he would get a little bit more, but I didn't think he was going to get to 60. I mean, you got your quarterback. Can you afford to sign Michael Parsons who looked damn good yesterday? But yeah, you got your quarterback and your receiver for about $90 million a year now for the next four. Yeah. Yeah. So they, they pay him all that, you know, chatter, oh no, they're going to lose that on land. They're going to lose that on deck. They got them both done before the start of the year. Big time injuries, Jordan Love, they're not placing them on the IR. So I guess that's good news. So it's possible to come back within four weeks and surprise they haven't signed Ryan Tannehill yet. Like, what are they waiting for? Why didn't they do that already? See, here's the problem too, Jeremy, is the fact that Clifford, the guy that they cut was their backup. He was so bad that they, they, they were just like, he can't run the offense even when he was playing against second stringers. And then it, they got with Malik Willis right at the end of, of camp breaking and preseason being over. You can't imagine that he's ready to go. Even if you brought in Tannehill, I can't imagine he'd be much more, you know, polished and ready from a understanding the playbook standpoint. I think they're going to give you a better chance to win a game. Oh, I, I, no doubt. I mean, they were both on the same roster. I think Tannehill does for sure. Yeah. But, you know, the people in Green Bear stand, well, they really liked what they saw. They saw something. That's why they traded for Malik Willis. They didn't hardly give up anything to get it. No, I would, I would have signed Tannehill earlier and there were some reports. The honor of SUNY, Rossini, she had reported that they were in conversations with Tannehill and Tannehill was open, but nothing done. I, I would have, I would have made sure to get that done. And you look at their schedule to the next three weeks. They have Colts at home, they have Minnesota and they have one more on Tennessee. They have winnable games, but you're not going to win games if Malik Willis is your quarterback. No. Yeah. I'm surprised they haven't signed Tannehill already. And then Pukka Nakua got hurt yesterday and McVay about 15 minutes ago. He says that they are going to place him on the IR. So it's not an ACL, but it's like a PCL string or whatever. I thought it was like a contusion, the way that he landed on it. Yeah. Apparently it's like a re-aggravation of something. So Pukka's landing on the IR. Got to hope it's not a bone bruise. I know, or at least he doesn't have Kyle Tucker. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. But yeah, Pukka's going to be placed on the IR minimum of four weeks, which, and that guy was a late round wide receiver pick and fantasy football. So that's going to be a loss to a lot of people. That's a huge loss for the Rams too, because Stafford basically with a very much less than offensive line last night, he was phenomenal in the way he kept him in the game. But yeah, as much as we've seen the kind of the resurgence of Cup, you'd like to have Nakua on the other side and have all the full compliment for what they're dealing with offensively. So that's a big, big roadblock right now for the Rams passing game. Yeah. We'll see what happens with Cooper Cup though. I mean, he might be a league winner now. If the Astros season ended today, not only should Verlander not get a playoff start, he shouldn't be on the playoff roster altogether. It is the B's on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 92.5. You're listening to ESPN 97.5.