The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/19 Hour 3 - Are the Texans about to Have the Greatest Run in Houston Football History?
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That's good point. $4, $4, $4, $5, $9, $9, $9, $7, $5, but Bill O'Brien is at the top of my list, laughing face emoji. He does, a little-- Not so much the chin, the chin, but-- Or the chin, I like the chin, the chin, the chin, yeah. Josh Initz holds the all-time record, says $1.99. He's on the Mount Rushmore of Punchable Faces in Houston Radio. I'd-- this guy says I punch Branham twice. Branham looks like a sports media action figure, thank you, lay off the bottom in baby oil. I don't get the last part. What does that mean? Does it mean I lather up? Yeah, what is that? I don't know what that last part means. Yeah, like a 1980s wrestler thing. I don't know what that has to be. Do I look shiny ever? No, I don't get the last part. 0452, can you provide some context to that, please? Even though you're just insulting me. Although the action figure part, I'll take that. 0979, Paul 2920 says Initz, Branham's voice alone, makes him have a punchable face. Branham is a tin with his dumb little comb over. The Branham train, making a late run, baby. You don't have a column, you don't have a column. You don't have a column. You're never going to catch Joe and Paul. I don't know. Branham train's making a late run. I think I got a shot, maybe in the electoral. Speaking of the-- you said the oil thing. And it was weird, because there was two things. Because again, I was watching the Yankees Mariners last night, the last two nights too. But weirdest thing ever was Michael Kane, whoever was doing color. They were focused on, is it Wolf, the umpire, that Ron Wolf? No, not Ron Wolf, but it's one of the-- his brother actually played Major League Baseball. But he's got guns, it's like Ed Hockley. They were talking about, does he oil those arms up? Jim Wolf. Jim, he's like, dude, look at those arms. They had the cameras zero in on his arms for multiple pitches. They're big. And they kept talking about it. They're big arms. What are we focused on that? Must have been a slow game. And then the finals-- no, it wasn't. But it was a close game. And then the final stray was, they were like, oh, the Astros won tonight. And the Mariners look like that was when the Yankees were up 10. He goes, well, at least we know one thing. One, they won't make the playoffs. And two will never have to see these ridiculous uniforms they're wearing again. This is really strange. It's a weird hijack you got going on right now. I'm just going to get too straight for the Yankees tell us I'm like, that's New York TV. Honeyglaze, Branham, Joe is 100% a 10 punchable face invoice. We already said that one, I think. A bunch of people are still take Jake Asman punchable face. Yeah, the only thing we thought was there, John? It's not a bad call. All I'm going to say is, the only thing that might save him is he's got the childish baby face that you'd be feel guilty about hitting. Yeah, he's a little-- Yeah, he's a little baby. He looks like he should be punished and his allowance should be taken away. Like he should be roughed up in the back alley. Yeah, like you put him over the knee. It's right. It's exactly right. And then the red reason would get the red buttocks. Blaine says Hoffman catching strays. They realize he'd kick their butts. I mean, it's a texture. Oh, baby oil is the ditty story. That's right. I get it now. Part of those parties, you know? Yeah, you had like 1,500 ounces of baby oil and stuff. Dang, I got ditty. That sucks. Then he would, evidently, all these people that he was like kidnapping to do these things, they'd send him home the next day, and he'd send people to go make sure they got IVs. That's weird. Yeah. That's weird. B. Yeah, that's a I try to stay away from that whole thing. I didn't really read up on that as much, but I did see that headline about that. I don't like that. 4 6 3 1, Branham has grown on me. Don't want to really punch you like I did in the beginning. Thanks. I think what we've learned from the last segment is that the gag show has the most punchable faces. That fair? I think that is fair. I mean, those were the leaders in the clubhouse. Yeah. Yeah, 6 4 0 3 says John Lopez. So go Houston's portrait right now. Yeah, I got I definitely got ditty. That stinks. I don't know if I can recover from this. 100% Brad Kellner dumps smirk and annoying pronunciations. Punch all day. No, the face falls into that childish baby face. Oh, Keith has a great idea. We need a Houston radio punchable face bracket. Well, we know what we're doing next month. We have our March Madness Booker T won our March Madness championship last year with the Houston's, what was it? Media Fight Club. Fight bracket Fight Club, yeah. The most punchable faces in Houston radio. Well done, Keith Bravo. That's really well gone this time. And Keith finally made a valuable contribution. Keith has helped us out. Okay. Dude, they used to stay stage him. So now Brad Kellner is making it like run. Doesn't be, doesn't he have a baby face too? I think he has a baby face. Yeah. Like I don't think he's ever had a shave and he's- That's a good point. He doesn't have a hair on his face. No. Booker T does not have a punchable face. Says 8 4 3 7. Yeah, I mean, the reason you're saying that's 'cause you're worried that a guy who fake fights beach up is why you're saying that. People are intimidated of a fake fighter in Booker T, which is weird to me. Why would you be intimidated of a fake fighter? He's still strong, dude. He's like 80. He's strong for being 80 years old. I mean, you're the one that tells us that he can't run, but you know, you probably- Well, I say he can't hit a golf ball. Oh, he can't, oh, yeah, he can't run. Yeah. His legs are in tough shape. But he's, I mean, he still lifts his stuff, obviously he's strong. He has to golf ball 220. I'm not talking about it. It's how far he can hit you. How far he can hit a golf ball? He has to, he probably hit me to 10. He has to golf ball 220 is a fake fighter. I mean, what are we, what are we, what are we going to be scared about here? Okay. There's wonder- He catches you. Look the hell out. 0754 for sure. All of the wheelhouse. 100% still catching stress. 8576 has Michael Conner. I wanted to hit him so bad. Why did he want to hit Michael Conner so bad? I think there's something there because he's a ginger. I think- It's so a shake. Well, okay. Did you disagree on that one? I'm not upset enough. So, so I think you're making my point. Oh, I think I've been good standing with it now. Now I'm being, I think they would more encourage me than previously. Yeah. I think there's just something inherently there with gingers that you kind of want to punch him. 107, 7, the entire wheelhouse is a punchable face. Hey, did that show? Glad you guys are here. You can't be nice to us. We don't, we don't like kindness. We like, we like you to be mean and rude and say nasty things to us. A punch beard to whoop your ass. Kind of be fair bearing as a punchable face. Does he? You think Kaimi's got a punchable face? I don't. I don't think so either. I like Kaimi. He's also got kind of a baby face. Mm-hmm. I think he does. Yeah. Yeah. One, two, two, nine, most punchable time spent on Houston radio has got to be Josh Inness. The early national ESPN radio show before 7 a.m. would like to punch all three of them. Who does that now? I don't even know. I should. That's not good. Is that Canty, Chris Canty, and the one lady- I don't know. I think it's, I think that's Canty show. Do you know? Do you know who does the- I don't know that. It's a VSC radio. It's not unfiltered. It's something like that. There is a name to it. Yeah. It's Chris Canty, another guy, and then a blonde lady. That sounds right. That's very uncomfortable. That's very uncomfortable. It's Chris Canty. He looks like he could still do some damage. It's a misogynist of you, I think, a little bit. Why? Because you identified hers. You know, the color of her hair. I said some guy. I don't know who the hell he is. I didn't invite. Yeah. And a blonde lady to give you more context. David Carr, punchable face. You never, you would never say like a blonde guy, though, would you? Like there were three guys and you could differentiate them by hair if I didn't know their name. We use hair to describe women more than men, though, don't we? Probably. Yeah, I think we do. A brunette and blonde. Yeah. And this guy says David Carr. I could see David Carr having a punchable face. Like he looks very pretty. He's got lego man hair. We used to do the sideline thing where he'd have his hands inside his shoulder pads. Yeah. And we just kind of hang them there. It was definitely a very punchable face. He was the first guy. I heard someone talk about this on our station the other day, one of the other shows. But he was the first guy that went out and said he wore two gloves as a quarterback because have you seen where I have to put my hands and how sweaty it is down? Come on, bro. That's punchable. 694.1 says Jim Parsons. I want to punch that drift that tweet every time I see him. Jim Parsons. What is that? What is Jim Parsons? That's the guy from that 70 show or whatever that no, he's a big, big theory. He's right. But no, I'm here. Yeah, he's from the area. No, he went to school. Jim Parsons. Go Cougs. Oh, go Cougs. Yes. You have. Really? He liked the who? The lesbians. And he would invite them all the games and all the celebs he would want to be close with, hoping that they would invite him on set. It was crazy. This guy said he wanted to hit all three of the host and one of them is a woman. I guess so. That just clicked to me. Because isn't that the morning show on ESPN? Look it up. This guy, this guy hits women must play running back for the Texans. If a lot would get punched and talk mad, McCullers for most punchable face. Yeah, I can see that. If we're saying in general, Mel Kuiper has a punchable face, Stack Prescott for sure. It's an unsportsman like with Evan Canty and Michelle. Yeah, Michelle. So Michelle would be the blonde lady. People were texting us on sportsman like I didn't register that that was the name of the show. I thought they were talking to us, but I knew that wasn't right. But yeah, it's unsportsman like with Evan Canty and Michelle. I said, John Lee, John Lee's punchable. No. He's he's he's on pepper pepper pepper sprayable. Yeah. John's gonna. No, yeah. No one is adorable. Some should be wrong with you. You want to punch John. They find out knowing seven six definitely would punch PC straight to the four. I love PC. But yeah, he has a punchable call and cow herd for sure. I'm not saying I'm saying that you don't not that you like don't like. Like him. I'm saying PC looks like the kind of like you feel sorry for the older guy. I wouldn't punch pieces. No, it looks like he used car salesmen that's that's popping off and wise and like, all right, man, you've had one too many comments here it comes plus he's like from New York too. Yeah, I can see the accent you like instilled instilled in New Yorkers. You have like you've been conditioned to kind of like come across as like arrogant and kind of kind of mean and not that he is not that he is at all. He's nothing like looks like your local mailman and I just I wouldn't punch PC. Do you know what your local mailman looks like? Yeah, I did. Really? Do you have a mailbox? Do you have like a male community? We have the we have the I have no idea what my male we see the male guy here all the time in the building. I don't. I've never seen a male man in this building. Oh my God. Almost every day. Really? Yeah. 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Go to 975hair.com. >> ESPN, 975. >> Broadcasting live for the Veritex Community Bank Studios, it's the Killer B's with Joel Blanket, Jeremy Brano. >> It's the fact that Brano's taking a shot at Houston legend Booker T makes me want to punch him in the face now. Maybe we're playing the long game. Maybe there's some long game storytelling. Maybe at some point you're going to see on the marquee, Booker T versus Brano T. >> Well, as you said, maybe there's some long game storytelling going on 8327. >> You got to hit the right. >> Maybe it's some long. Hey, hit me. Everybody's got a price. But I do need to know. >> They said you got to run them. I can't outrun them. >> You just scramble around the ring. >> I mean, if it's fake, probably not, fake wrestling, I wouldn't need to run around. He would protect me with a body slam and then he'd hit me with a spinnerroony. >> Okay. >> So, and maybe we're playing the long game here. All right. We're about to go on the greatest Houston NFL run in history. And I really believe this. Now, it is a low bar. Let's go ahead and put that out there right away. It is a low bar. And when I say Houston NFL history, I mean both organizations that have been here. I'm talking Houston Texans from '02 through now, and I'm talking about the NFL Houston Oilers from 1970 through 1996. If you go with what the Houston Texans like their greatest run of success really isn't great. You're probably looking at 2011, 2012, where back-to-back years you lost in the divisional round. I made the playoffs back-to-back years, three different times, 11 and 12 lost division around, lost division around, 15, 16 lost wild card, lost divisional, 18, 19 lost wild card lost divisional. So all the Houston Texans have to do to match the greatest run in Houston Texans history is make the playoffs this year. If they go to the divisional round, they've already matched it. If you go to the playoffs this year, you don't get to the divisional round, do it next year, and you would have surpassed the greatest run in Houston Texans history. So I firmly believe and I 100% believe that this run that the Houston Texans are currently in 2023 through present and going forward will easily surpass anything the Houston Texans have done. Now, if you want to go Houston Oilers, there's two great runs, and great might be too strong of a word, but there's two runs that you probably need to decide which was the better run. '78, '79 through '80 Houston Oilers lost in the AFC Championship, lost in the AFC Championship in '79, they lost in the wild card round in 1980. Good run. Pretty good. Good run. Now, there was a longer run that never got to a conference championship between '87 and '93. They made the playoffs seven straight years, lost in the divisional round, lost in the divisional round, wild card round, wild card round, divisional round, wild card round, divisional round. So which of the two runs do you think is greater? The '78 through '80 two conference championship games, but only three straight years or '87 through '93 never got to a conference championship game, but made it seven straight years. I wasn't here for all of that, but just from what you said and the magnitude of making it to a conference championship game, I would lean less years, but two conference championship games in three years means you were pretty dominant, and that was a pretty damn good football team. I would go that route. I would too. Maybe the peak over the longevity, not to, like, not to poo poo on the longevity, because that was a great run. I think it is very, very close, but to kind of give it the edge or maybe even break a tie, give me the peak of the '78, '79, '80 run over the seven years, never get to a conference championship. You can also say that, you know, there was at the Renfro, like the Renfro catch that was called out of bounds. Like you get the call there, you go to the Super Bowl. So I'll give that run the greatest run in Houston NFL history. I think this run that the Houston Texans are on right now, last year division around, and now building off of that with D'Amico, with CJ Stroud, with this foundation that you have, I think we're going to look at this present run for however long it turns out to be, whether it's four years, five years, seven years, nine years. This present run that we're currently living, and I think we're in the infancy stages of this early run, will be greater than any run we've seen in Houston NFL history. I can see it. I think that, you know, the writing is on the wall there, the fact that they turned it around so quickly, they did things that not many people thought they were capable doing that quickly. And now it looks like they're even better. I think that the biggest obstacle that you have is the fact that you're in a conference where you have a lot of talent, loaded quarterbacks and Pat Mahomes. And that's, that's kind of like the Utah Jazz and the Seattle Sonics when Michael was in the league and like, you know, you have some of the greatest teams in franchise history for both Utah and Seattle that never got to a title and won it, because every single freaking year you got Michael and they were Western conference teams, Mahomes is in your conference. That's the one thing that bothers me because you would think that, you know, you just have to get by Kansas City and maybe they have a down year injuries happen. I get it. But I firmly believe that we are ready to see kind of an Astros ask it might not be dynasty type. No, but it will be better than what you've said. See, this is why I don't think it's like a huge hyperbolic statement is because I don't think that's a tremendous bar, like you get to one Super Bowl. It's already a greater run like if we're saying, give us the peak of two conference championships as opposed to seven straight playoff years where the furthest you reach was the divisional championship. If the Texans go to a Super Bowl this year, divisional round, a Super Bowl don't even have to win it. Divisional round Super Bowl, I would say is greater than two conference title games in a wild card. Well, plus it includes a conference title game and you want it because of the fact that to get to the Super Bowl, you would have had to done that too. Sure. So yes, so then probably because of that, the back to back conference championships is impressive. But if you go divisional round and then you go all the way to the Super Bowl, including a win in the, then I think that yeah, that's, it's right there. You don't even have to go to a Super Bowl to surpass this run though. You go divisional round conference championship game conference championship game wild card round. It is now surpassed to the greatest run in Houston NFL history. It's a low bar. That's why this isn't a hyperbolic statement. They would have to do it again next year too. The conference championship. Not necessarily. You would just have to be in the window. In this run, if they go divisional round divisional round divisional round championship round championship round, wild card, wild card, never make the playoffs again. That's a better run. It is. It is. Yeah. Because it's longer with more, yeah, with more sustained success at a higher level than a lot of the wild card rounds. Yes. Now, would you consider a run if you missed the playoffs and then add on to it? Like let's assume the Texas missed the playoffs this year division around missed the playoff conference championship conference championship division around. Yeah. I think you have to because injuries happen and sometimes, especially if it's a key player, especially if it's your quarterback, God forbid, but we've seen it before. You could have the best team on paper and the favorite team to do a, you know, to win a championship. If you lose your best player or one of your best players and everything changes and it costs you to miss the playoffs, I still would accept it for you. We'd have to because the Astros have a year in the midst of their dynastic run 2016. I mean, I mean, no one counts 15 as part of the dynastic, though, starts at 17. You don't, you don't even consider their run starting at 15. I mean, when people talk about the golden era in this dynast, the dynastic run, I'd never see 15. I don't either. I get that. They didn't even get to the ALCS that year, but they obviously should have beat the Royals up for runs. We all know what happened. If they're the Royals are the eventual World Series champions that year and a lot of the pieces that were there in 17, obviously, other than like guys like Vermeiner and Braggman were there in 15. So I do consider a part of the run. I would argue that it should be. Absolutely. I agree with you. But what I don't think most people do. I think people look at 17 as the start of the run. The argument there would be to your point, Brian, that if the guys that were there in 15 were there in 16 and then we're all, or for the most part, were there for this entire run that in football the same way, whether it's injury or not. But if you had the same core group involved in this run that started CJ and Nico and some of the guys on defense, if it starts with last year and they're here for the run and you have a down year for whatever reason, then it's part of the run. Dre saying, can the Texans win 11 in a row like in 93? See, it doesn't matter to me so much the regular season. Like we grade seasons based on how far teams go in the playoffs, so I really don't care about regular season record. Now you have to do something in the regular season to make the playoffs, but do I care about a 12 and four year versus we can't have that anymore, but do I care about a 12 and five year versus a 10 and seven year? Not really. If it ends both in like a conference championship defeat, to me, that's the same caliber here. This is one, what? Nine in a row, a couple, a couple of years ago, Sean, yeah, they started 0 and 3, 1, 9 straight. They won nine in a row. But what did they do? We don't remember it. We don't look at it. We don't say you got to do that in order to get this because of the fact that they won nine, but they didn't do anything significant. I think I had the playoffs there. They made the playoffs. I think they lost. I think that was the year they lost to the Colts. It was the 2018 they lost the Colts and the just wasn't enough. It doesn't stick with people the same way it like if you run, if you win nine in a row or 11 in a row, but then you win the Super Bowl, not you're talking about a team that everybody's going to be talking about like one of the greatest seasons put together because of the fact that you did both. I'll also say if they don't surpass the greatest run in Houston NFL history, which we've defined a 78 through 82 conference titles, wildcard, Texas saying that those three years they lost to the three Super Bowl champions in each of those years, like that probably does add the cherry on top of that. I will go as far to say that if this Houston Texans run doesn't surpass that, we're all going to be super disappointed. Oh, no question. In this window, I'm not saying this year, like you're talking about five years as long as shrouds here as long as the Mikos here, whatever, if they don't get to at least two conference titles, we're going to be talking about this period as a waste of talent, didn't live up to the potential, didn't get to where you should have gone. No doubt. Absolutely. Because I've lived through just like you're talking about Oilers and some of the things that happened before I got here when I've lived through the far of era and the Rogers area and you got two Super Bowls, that's a massive disappointment. That's 40 some years of football with one of the, with two of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the game and you only won two Super Bowls. That's a massive underachievement. You don't want that for this Texans team because this is going to be the best assemblance of talent starting with the quarterback and going there that this franchise has ever seen and it looks like they're in go for it mode. Yeah. You don't have to be this year. Like, you don't have to be this year. Just this run is going to be the greatest run we've ever seen in Houston NFL history. All right, seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero ESPN. Let's take Stefan Dix temperature. He didn't catch two touchdowns in week two. He didn't get targeted a whole lot. He's talking to shroud who was miked up during the game. What did he have to say? Let's take Stefan Dix temperature. We'll use the pain scale again, the little kids pain scale when doing this. This is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. I never have any pain when I'm talking about the HR and P company we use here HR and P human resources and payroll. They're fantastic. We use them here at gal, as you know, and they're the best. 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Next up on Dig's temperature in a moment, first we got to get to, uhh, Damiko Ryan's, Damiko Matumbo, anytime that he's asked a question about injury, what does Damiko Matumbo do? No, no, no, he rejects it, that's Damiko Matumbo, the head coach of the Houston Texans, he was asked a question yesterday, by our dear friend Aaron Wilson, and uhh, you know, the Damiko Matumbo, he didn't necessarily like the question from Aaron Wilson. Yeah, we'll take it day by day with Joe and his injury and see where he ends up at the end of the week still, and the hole in that hole that he can make it. There you go, nothing burger from Damiko Ryan's, he actually gave you a little nugget on the end, he actually gave you a little, he was feeling bad, he gave you a little nugget on the end, uhh, but. Not today. Pretty much rejected it, rejected it, Damiko Matumbo, don't ask Damiko injury questions because what's he going to do, we're going to see where we're at at the end of the week. Every single injury question, not in my house, we're going to see where he's at at the end of the week. Every single time he's asked an injury question, we'll see where it's at at the end of the week. Unless it's like season ending. Yeah, no. And I think that's the way it should be. I, I, it's gamesmanship. We know how it works. We know that Belichick was the classic of all classics on doing it, but don't give up more than you have to. I mean, you look around the league and you know that these guys from a fancy football perspective, it sucks, but most coaches are going to want to take it all the way up until the bitter end to make defenses and, and coaches have to do extra work, extra practice, plan for two guys, see if that whenever, whether it has little effect, no effect or some effect, that's the way teams should operate. We shouldn't be giving you everything just because you want to know. No, I agree. I, I, I like where D'Amico stands is on this, but D'Amico Matumbo is a fun, all right. Step on Diggs. Let's take the temperature on step on Diggs using the little kid's pain chart. We're zero green, happy face, no pain, tens, the angry red, unimaginable, unspeakable pain, which is a 10. Last week, I think, I think I was a, I know I was at a zero. I was at a zero. I think I could remember if you were zero or one, definitely zero. All right. So no pain. We were both at no pain last week. Step on Diggs this week didn't score two touchdowns. He had four catches, 37 yards, no touchdowns for step on Diggs. Let's keep that in mind. Here was step on Diggs sitting next to CJ Strauss. CJ Strauss was miked up during this game. It's why we got that Caleb Williams audio. Here was Diggs sitting down next to CJ shroud. And he said, what about CJ shroud's ball? It's so friendly that I'm like, he caught his, he caught his ball friendly. Step on Diggs is saying you throw such a friendly ball. I've never heard that. I've kept up with football for a good amount of time now. I've never heard somebody tell a quarterback, they throw a friendly ball. Me either. Right? That's new. I believe that's new. I think it's like you throw a good ball, you throw maybe, maybe you protect me. You're not hanging me out to dry over the middle. I think that's what he means. Because if you listen to some of the other audio from CJ when he was miked up, even when a pass was completed, he was like, my bad bro, I got to put that out in front of you. I got to do those things. Yeah. And as a receiver, you definitely appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's what he means by a friendly ball. Like you, you lead me to space, you don't lead me into traffic. You're not, you're not getting me killed. So step on Diggs seemed to be pretty pleased. He also, like you couldn't, it was kind of inaudible at the beginning of that. But whenever you said you throw a friendly ball, he was like, that's what a quarterback does, which is like, okay, you do not think that Josh Allen throws a friendly ball? Exactly. I mean, just wondering, just wondering about that. Yeah. I don't know if friendly is the kids terms, the hip terms today, like fire and Ohio and all the things that. I don't think fires the kids work anymore. Ohio definitely is. But that means bad. If he was like, you don't know. I know. I'm just saying. He probably want to be traded. But I think that he's basically saying he loves playing in this situation. And some of the other miked up stuff too, that you hear when he's hyping up the rest of the team and he's talking to the lineman and the other receivers and things like that. I think he is, he haven't, having a great time. And I think that they're winning and I think that he is as happy as he can be for this season. Last last year, he went up to Josh Allen and told Josh Allen, you throw a podium ball. He said that to Josh Allen a year ago. So it's better that step on Diggs is saying to straddle that he throws a friendly ball than telling Josh Allen, he throws a podium ball. All right. So pain scale here. Zero, no pain, 10 unimaginable, unspeakable. Last week we were at a zero as we take the pain level of step on Diggs. Where are we this week? I'm definitely at a zero. You're still at a zero. Yeah. I just, again, if I see the attitude start weighing, uh, waning. If I see, you know, the stink guys being thrown out there instead of all the raras and the claps and the handshakes and the support that he's given to his team and how he's loving his quarterback and the audio that we've heard, then maybe I'll change. But for now, I'm still at a zero. Yeah. I'm moving mine up to a one. Now him saying that you throw a friendly ball is a good news. I was on the fence between a zero and a one. I almost went back to zero because he talked about how friendly the ball, uh, that CJ straddle throws to him, but I'm giving him a one based on the production and knowing that step on Diggs is in the final year of his deal. So six catches 30 or a six, well, that's what we did last week, six week, six for 33 and two touchdowns. This week he went for four and 37 with six targets, four catches, 37 yards. What is, what does that do in the free agent market? It doesn't get you paid. It doesn't get you paid. So yes, he's talking friendly to shroud. He's talking friendly about his ball for catches 37 yards. I have to go to a one that's still very good. It's still very good, very mild, still very good in between the green faces, still very good, but I'm moving it. I'm moving it to a one. Now, I think we're at a point where we have to at least keep an eye on the yardage total. We have to raise the eyebrow like the rock at the yardage total because everything's fine and Danny right now, they're winning and he's okay. But if he's continuing to have box scores that are 35 yards, 37 yards, 36 yards, by the time we get to week 15, week 14, I don't think it's going to be quite as happy because he's going to know he's going to miss out on that paycheck. So I'll put it at a one point five for now. Okay. I didn't get right now, but if that yardage total doesn't start to tick up, it's something to watch for the second half of the season. He might again with the highest score for a certain population, just saying, um, yeah. So zero, one, one and a half, a few people on the Twitter, uh, CJ says, no pain. Christopher says zero, which is breaking the rules because it's, uh, that's not breaking the rules. That that is no pain. So that's no pain to that last week. It's zero to 10. Yeah. My bad. Scott says, say he's doing great. Don't rock his emotional boat. Happy digs, happy life, we're tweeting, we're treating step on digs like a, like our wife, like do not rock the wife, happy wife, happy life, happy digs, happy life. Is that how the way we need to be treating step on digs like he is our wife. I think that I think that that was the possible philosophy going into the season. So far they haven't had to put that project into place and that plan. I don't put it out of the realm of possibilities for later in the season of things go haywire, but for now, all is good. Yeah. So, uh, and then Dennis calls them a diva, which is not on the list, Dennis, it's zero through a 10 zero, no pain, 10 unimaginable, unspeakable. It's not diva, Dennis. You broke the rules. All right. 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, yes, man. Oh, they wanted us to do a Houston, uh, they wanted us to do a Texans injury report on the Twitch. So let me pull up the injury report real quick Thursday injury report. It does look better than it did yesterday, uh, Aziz al Shire, Chris Boyd, Nico Collins and Foley, Fatikosse, uh, they're all limited, though, which is good because Boyd Collins and Fatikosse didn't practice yesterday. Alasketer has all of a sudden shown up on the injury report, but he was a full participant. They're just showing that he had an elbow injury. Joe mixing was a did not participate again. Not a great sign. Damian Pierce did not participate again. Not a great sign. Aaron Wilson says they're getting cam akers ready to be RB one this weekend. Jared Patterson limited juice scrugs, limited MJ Stewart limited, although Wilson did say that juice scrugs is expected to start on Sunday. And then Dalton Schultz went from a limited participant yesterday to a full participant today. So Twitch asked, you get it. We do it for you. All right. 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, ESPN HR and P listener line. Let's get to the car wreck of the day. What is the car wreck of the day? It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five ESPN 97 five. The paratex community bank studios, it's the killer beans. Now back to Joel and Jeremy, I think this might be our favorite one. Is it? I think so. Did you see one of the articles today that Gregman, when they were talking about the intangibles and that I think it was the athletic article and they mentioned that Gregman, aside from like talent hunter Brown to throw the two seamer, said that he recommended that they play wild thing for for Fromber in his when he was warming up or really in music. I was like, that's weird. Okay. How big a hijack is my nomination right now? What is hijack you hijacked it? We changed the subject We talked about the songs that are apropos and from about there's like rollercoaster Yeah, I don't get wild things from bomber. He's not really wild. Yeah, there's a there's a little correlation there It's not a full hijack. Oh, that's like partial hijack. I didn't see that. That's funny I'm from her can be a little wild like with his emotions With his command at times like I don't trust from her would take that good stride true I wouldn't I wouldn't want to risk him being insulted by it and then him melting down on that. That's the thing It's that a wild thing. It's a more in a moat. What's going on between his ears? Yeah, the uh Bilet estecumbia, but we scar see a song was my favorite, but he would have got hurt and screwed that whole thing up So I think this is my favorite the way that we tie in the yeah You know and then boom in the chat of hoochie I think this is my favorite one, but Astros open the final homestand of the year tonight You say kakuchi is on the mound Mariners by the way lead the Yankees right now three to two So Mariners are three outs away from pulling to within four and a half in the division of course the Astros host The Mariners for three coming up this week. What does you say kakuchi do tonight for the struggles? Let's go that's man. Let's go Let's let's let's go. I know it's six is a tough bar for him But let's let's go six and a third and let's go One run the angels are so stinking bad. They are they're terrible. They're so bad The ashes don't win the series disappointment. He has went six or greater at each of his last three starts seven innings against the angels Six innings against Arizona seven innings against Casey. You said six and a third and what? One run. Hmm. Yeah, sure one. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I also think he does it The long ball though I'll take the over but of course we'll take it I think he goes like six and two-thirds seven innings gives him like two runs kind of similar to his last outing He'll give up a home run. He'll give up a dinger every now and then yeah, but I think that's the one I don't think I think you want the eight nine home back-to-back last time they faced him Remember that. Yeah, they both scored that's true. I swore as Jose swan Nicki Moniac. Who got him? Someone got him that was kind of random. I think it was Moniac. Yeah Wasn't Moniac a lefty on lefty when Oppo Taco? Maybe maybe it was Moniac saying a rainbow got the Astros. Yeah Did he win an MVP in past Jose Suarez pitches for the angels one and two 680 area only a second start I wonder he's more of an opener. Yeah, cuz he's been in the bullpen a lot He's faced the Astros a lot, but out of the pen he went for and he's against the Astros The last time that he was pitching so maybe maybe it's like opener or it's trying to extend him tight They were down and he ate up innings when they yanked it. Yeah. Oh, so is it mop up. Yeah, that's why I remembered Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe actually I think he followed up bus and he did he followed up a starter that either struggled a younger guy They got pulled and then he went for innings. Yeah, so he started today. All right. Let's get to car wreck of the day This is the car wreck of the day Car wreck of the day. What is your nominee seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six blankers. Who's your nominee? How can it not start with the debacle in Seattle? I mean, how can it not take Julio Rodriguez because the more I watch that replay the more I keep thinking I've seen guys jump over the bat. I've seen guys take a couple steps back He almost should have been called out for being out of the baseline because he turned around and ran all the way Okay, but he was so far. He was almost like out of the field of play was head towards the dugout almost It was so like drastic how far he got out of the way that it was set. He went brain dead. Yeah, we went brain dead Just jogging back in like I don't know what he thought like the people were saying well He thought it might have been a foul ball. I don't think so. I think he literally lost his mind I think he froze up. I think he froze up and forgot the situation completely I don't think I could think of was like he thought there was two outs because then no chance There was no else I'm saying but if it was that case, but this was no out There's no way you're gonna think the strikeout was the last out I got out of the way of the bat and now the innings Oh, I think he froze that it was just a brain fart I mean, obviously obviously boneheaded for him to the way he jog towards the dugout and took his time getting back Obviously a boneheaded move. I would say though I kind of like with kind of like to see Major League Baseball put in to where the umpire could basically call time on something stop it That's soft. That's soft. Are you kidding you? No. You should be able to allow you to get back. No, you know what a boss doesn't that moment? He catches the bat goes back to the bat. That was so soft. It's soft. Infillies get out of the way of broken bats guys running on third base jump out of the way of foul ball. No, it's not. If the bat is throwing away, you have to leap out of the way. You should be able to get back to the base. It's not a dead ball situation. The ball's live. He's saying it's a runner. The runner from first feeling that the ball's not in play. So it should be a dead ball. You're allowed to get back to the base. It's the wasification of America. That's what I'm hearing. Seattle just won by the way three to two. So the astronaut leads four and a half games. Need a win today to keep it at five. Yeah, I will also nominate the Seattle Mariners because you have Victor Clueless two nights ago and then you had Jay Nimrod yesterday. How do you win a division with Clueless and Jay Nimrod? You don't can't do it. Can't do it. Also nominate since you nominated that Detroit Lion fans. They got to Dan Campbell's address. He's selling his house for security reasons. You idiot fans. Let people have privacy, please. Come on. Don't be weak and soft and illusored like that. What do you know? I'm going to nominate. Well, I guess I'll give two nominations. One to myself for apparently mispronouncing curmudgeon earlier. I didn't hear how you said it. Yeah, I didn't think I didn't think I mispronounced it. I guess I did according to the textures. I'm also not meaning. I don't know if you guys saw the story, but there's a Philadelphia man who's going to face up to five years in prison. Because he got in an online argument with someone in this fantasy football league who apparently lives in Norway and he decided to call in a mass shooting in bomb threat hoax because he was mad at this guy in this fantasy football league. And he's now been arrested and possibly concerned five years in prison. Is this Tommy Pham? No, it's not Tommy Pham. He up Tommy Pham. He went more than a punch in the face. He apparently called like a Norwegian embassy and said this man in his fantasy football league was going to commit a mass shooting and tried to get him arrested and said he got arrested. Now you should pay your league dues without being asked. We don't know that's what this is about. Could be. I bet you it is. Why else would you be doing that? I don't know. It just says there was something out of disagreement. Maybe it's over fat budget. It's got to be something funny. I think it's got to be financial. It's got to be financial. A couple from the text line. A car wreck of the day is Lance's kid for acting like he knows baseball and not knowing who Dylan Cease is. I don't know. He's barking the Astros is what he said. Snacks knows. I think he's more of a diehard NBA. Didn't tell you. No name or clip us too long to play. But Lance actually says he knows everything about the NBA. He's a big basketball. He's just now getting into baseball. Josh from Seabrook, car wreck of the day, whoever said that living in League City is near La Porte and your part. It's like saying that you live near Baltimore when you're in a DC suburb. You're 30 miles away. So a couple of surlines are nominated for car wreck of the day. And then 1509. Can I nominate these bad words that hack into banking institutions. Ugg. This is not fun trying to get your own name back. Who the heck once my trash credit. Yeah. Scammers hackers. That's a special breed. Special. I had people scam in my Panda Express year ago. That's right. Yeah, I got back. Good. I know. Got the panic. But I can't pay on my Apple Pay on Panda anymore. And I locked out my payment. So now I have to go order the air, show them the QR code. It just takes a little longer because the food's not waiting for me. It's a little annoying. First world problems. All right. What's winning? There's. There's not just last night. It's got to be the whole combo platter combo platter Victor clue Victor Clueless and Jay Nimrod. What? What's the dynamic duo? The dumb duo. Victor Clueless and Jay Nimrod. Congratulations. Hopefully that's all you win because they won a baseball game today. Four and a half games. All right. That does it for us. Thanks to Brian. The hard work. He's blank on Brian. I'm talking to you tomorrow, Houston. Good night. Yes. Yes. Owning a rental property sounds like a dream until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. Determine a competitive rent price. Market the property. Schedule the showing screen. Tenants drive at the least at a rent collection. Handle maintenance requests, maintain communication. Sound complicated? Runner's warehouse is here to take the hard work off your rental to do list. Qualified tenants? Check. Rent collection? Check. Maintenance coordination? You got it. 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