The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/17 Hour 3 - How Many Teams Were Better Than the Texans Last Week?
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I don't think, I think teams that were there a week ago are now gone. I think that when you look at the AFC and then you look at the overall NFL, there's not a whole lot of teams that I believe in are better than the Houston Texans. And I think that the one that's interesting, I think Buffalo really looks like they're a contender. And I didn't think they were going to be. And I was wrong about that. And I think Buffalo has climbed up, but I think that Baltimore obviously has fallen back. I think Cincinnati is a team that is much talent that they have. That they have to climb back from '02. So I think that from the standpoint of, and the Eagles lost, so many teams lost. That to me, I have the Texans at number two. I have the Texans right below the Kansas City Chiefs as the second best team in the NFL after everything that happened through last week. I know that we started with power rankings. We see everybody's power rankings from week to week. I know that in a lot of power rankings, they have now moved up into the top five. I think the Texans are the second best team after two weeks of the season of what happened last week, right behind the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay. So it sounds like more, who are your top teams after two weeks of the NFL season? Because if you were just going based on week two, I think the Bills were better. I think the Saints were better. I think Tampa Bay was better. Like they went into Detroit beat the Lions. I think the Vikings were better. Like they beat San Francisco. But I just think overall Arizona was better. The totality of two weeks of the season. And the fact that I think that on both sides of the football, I would take the Texans against the Saints. I would take the Texans against the Vikings. I would take the Texans. Look, I think the Bills that there's an honest discussion there because of how much better they were than I thought they were. But I think that to me, maybe it's a little homeless. But I'll say right, right behind the Kansas City Chiefs, the Houston, Texas should be number two. I think the debates probably are the second or the third. Because if you're going to eliminate all the teams that have lost a game, well, it's a nine team conversation. It's the Bills. It's the Saints. It's the Vikings. It's the Texans. Chargers, Seahawks, Steelers, Chiefs and Buccaneers. So if you're, if you're eliminating teams that have lost, you're operating with those two Kansas cities, the defending, reigning champion of the world, then you would have them at the top. And then it's now you going Bills. You go in Texans. How much are you going to put the Saints to that conversation? Probably not a whole lot, even though they destroyed Dallas on the road on the road, no less. So I do think you have to consider them. They have looked great. I mean, they, they're margin of victory, 62 points in the first two weeks of the season. No one's even close to that. But I, I wouldn't have them ahead of the Bills. I wouldn't have them ahead of the Texans. So Chiefs and the conversation is who second Bills or the Texans. If you look at, I mean, the Texans played at Indy, who is 0 and 2, they beat Chicago at home, who has a rookie quarterback, Buffalo beat Arizona, who looked really good in week 2 by 6, and they blew out Miami by 21. They were up 21 and 2 got hurt. So like they were up 21 before 2, and even got concussed when he ran into Lamar Hamlin. So I would have Buffalo second ahead of the Texans. I would be tempted to have the Saints higher than the Texans based on two weeks of results. But the way that you put it, like if they're playing in a football game in Dallas tomorrow, maybe I shouldn't put it in Dallas because that was kind of the Saints home turf on Sunday. If you were, if they go play at the Alamo Dome, I would, I would pick the Texans to beat the Saints on a neutral field today. But if you're going based on resume after two weeks, I'd have the Saints ahead of them. Yeah, I think that in the, you know, I don't know, everybody looks at it differently. I think that there are teams that have lost a game that I still think are going to be legit Super Bowl contenders just because of the fact that from the standpoint of we were talking about this with the O and 2 teams, I think it's good as the Chiefs are. I think Cincinnati looked like that they might have been the better team. They just lost the game. I think Cincinnati's got a boatload of talent. I don't think Jamar Chase was right that they're the team to beat. But I think at the end of the year, Cincinnati's still going to be heard from Twer. I think they're a really good football team. This is why I hate power rankings though. They mean nothing. Like go play. Like go, like this is the beauty of the NFL. Like there are qualifiers to make the playoffs and then you have a playoff where you have to play. Like, like who cares that I think the Texans could be potentially fourth behind Buffalo in the Saints. They're going to have an opportunity to prove that they are the best team in the NFL. So then right after week, that's why I said, so instead of doing power rankings through week two or, or after week two or just because of week two, how many teams are better than the Houston Texans? I think it's just one. I think that's power. That is a power. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's a fine conversation to have because I think that is okay. Are you taking the bills? Are you taking the Saints? Are you taking the Texans? Where do you have the one in one teams? Like if you're going strictly resume, it's hard for me to include the one in one teams up there. Yeah. I mean, you think about it from as good as the Niners looked in week one, then they go and they crap the bed against Minnesota. I would have them off. And get it that McCaffrey didn't play. But nonetheless, you still had enough weapons and you're still supposed to be such a hyper-talented team. You're not supposed to lose that game and lose it by, you know, they were losing the whole game. So, and Philadelphia. Philadelphia is a team that, you know, basically had the game in their back pocket. They found a way to lose. I think that from a good team perspective, good teams find a way to win that game. They don't lose that game. And I think that that's a knock against them to where I would put the Texans above them right now. Yeah, Twitch is lighting up. Big C says, "Blankers love you, but you're crazy." That's because the season's been tied. That's true. Todd, the show barely beating the Bears isn't a great sign. Cap nearly is neither is barely beating the Colts. 75 barely beating a team of the quarterback who paints his nails is bad. That's a, that's a stray. Okay. But we, you say barely beating the Bears, but we already said that if Tank catches the ball up the seam and they don't fumble within inside the four yard line with Cam Akers, that that's not a barely beating the Bears team. They look like they were in total control of that game all night long. That's a mission butts though. But they did that though. I mean, we could say if they don't, if Tank catches it and they don't fumble, but Cam did fumble it and Tank did drop it. I mean, that's part of it. Like the teams that blow other teams out were catching those passes and not fumbling like the Saints didn't. Okay. But at the same time, they won the game. The margin of victory, we talk about all the time, whether it's two or 12 or 20, they won the game. And they look like they were in complete control of the game as opposed to teams that didn't and or lost the game, like Philadelphia. Well, this is all a beauty contest because you're, what, there's nine undefeated teams. So they'd all have the two and all record. And now you're comparing basically beauty who did it more impressively in the Texans combined margin of eight points. Is it, if you're strictly looking at resume at any point in margin over two games, is it going to look as a oppressor to some of these other teams? Like, because I'm going to the head to head card too. So I'm looking at roster as well as did you win if you want to include by what margin did you win fine. I'm more concerned with did you win and how much do I believe that you can continue to do that against whoever you play. And I believe they're rosters better than the Saints. I believe that. I agree with that part. I agree with that part. Where do you have them? I have them. I have them second. I had them second last week. I don't see a reason to move off of it. I mean the 49ers with the injuries, the Debo and the Christian McCaffrey, obviously the loss on the road to the Vikings wasn't, wasn't didn't inspire much confidence. The bills is the tough one. I think that is the debate at two bills or Texans. I had Texans better. So I'm going to keep them better until they play on the field and prove it otherwise. I do trust CJ more than Josh Allen. And I do trust the defense in Houston. Even though they've had some problems, I trust Amico more than what they do in Buffalo. So I'll stick with the Texans too. Sounds like we're the college football playoff committee. Yeah, a little bit resume is better. Straight to schedule. 0 4 2 6 says New Orleans 8 3 4 1. The Saints beat the Panthers and the Cowboys big whoopi. I mean the Cowboys are better than any opponent the Texans have been. Yeah, don't dismiss the Cowboys. They've won. We had a Brad Kellner pointed this out when we were had him on on Friday. They've won 12 games in a row or they've won 12 games in a season three years in a row. The Cowboys are a good team. They didn't look like it on Sunday, but you can't dismiss that. You can't dismiss that as some cupcake win like the Texans have had. No, I mean, they're a playoff team. They're a playoff team and they got. They got rolled at. I mean, the Saints rolled them in their building. 4 3 2 1. Are you kidding me? The Texans are not number two right now. I would put the bills, the Saints, maybe even the Packers healthy. Possibly. The Packers aren't healthy. We don't get involved in that discussion. 3 0 6 6. Be careful. Vikings are going to get that butt on Sunday. Skull 4515, what game was Joel watching? Texans did not look good this weekend, which they did, but the Saints demolished two teams in a row just to start with who looked better. I mean, they won by six. They scored 19 points. The offense was a nemeck in the second half. Okay, but they had 12. They didn't look good. They look good in the first half offensively. I think they look good all game defensively. And I think that there's plenty to see there to say that they are a damn good football team. I think that I think that they have shown in each of the two games that they have the potential to be really stinkin good. I don't think that they've played great football yet. That's fair. Great football. I think the Saints have. I think the Saints played great at the end, but to flip that to say, can the Saints sustain that? Do you feel like the Saints are a team that's going to compete when the playoffs come around as opposed to the Texans? I would say the answer to the world is no, this is based. This is more of an argument of how you compile your rankings. Quite frankly, it's like you're looking at, okay, these teams are good. They've had the wins. They beaten these teams. And then this is what I predict of them to go forward, whereas I'm looking at just giving me a two week resume, which again, I hate this conversation. I think it's stupid. Like in any sport that has a playoff, these conversations are moot. The only time that these conversations ever matter is clickbait and the college football playoff committee before they expanded the playoffs to now 12 teams. And that might matter a little bit whenever you're looking at the teams on the bubble. Same thing with like NCAA tournament. A 7 1 3 7 8 0 3 7 7 6 out to the HRMP listener live Keith during the hive of the bees. What's up? Hey guys, power rankings. Big game this weekend. Obviously Vikings Texans, a couple of two and O teams at the end of that Niners Vikings game brought pretty one up and Brian Flores had a quick exchange. He said something like this, your scheme is crazy. The Vikings have 11 sacks in two games. Our Texans fans feeling about this game is just going to be a tough game. We'll talk to you about it on Friday. It's too early to do Viking preview radio. Sorry, Keith. Sorry, Keith. The pseudo program director. Yeah. Well, we'll just we'll do that stuff more later in the week for three, two, one. The bears also from the goal line. So there's that didn't they didn't the Texans did the bears and the bears didn't fumble on the goal. I'm not missing. No, the Texans didn't give the Saints time. They'll start to blow it soon. I do agree with that. That's where like blank like the the subjectiveness of rankings is kind of what's in play here. They're like blankers doesn't believe in the Saints going forward, which I agree with them. It's just if we're looking at it based on two weeks, I think the Saints have been the most impressive team behind the maybe the most impressive team comes down to between the teams themselves and the players on them. You get so many people that want to just attack them like they look like absolute dogs, not when you realize, Hey, there's something to getting the W there's something to the fact that there was a whole lot that you can see there, but eight other teams have done that too though, but I but but then it became more impressively, but that's the thing. It gets down to, you know, a lot of times you can put lipstick on a pig. I mean, you got the win now, but do I believe that that's a team that's going to win when it's important? No. Do I believe that when you have teams that are supposed to win when it's important that have already lost multiple games or a game and look bad? And I think that the Texans have their building in the right direction and they have a great roster in a lot of town. Yeah, you're looking more if they plan on a neutral field tomorrow, who's winning, but what if they're playing a neutral full against the Ravens right now? I think I take the Texas over the Ravens. Okay. Three zero six, six blankers ain't given the Vikings credit Vikings legitimately beat the 49ers. It's going to win. It's going to win. A three four one. Oh no. Now we're looking at the back of the baseball card at the Cowboys, like, isn't that how you do power rankings though, like looking at the back of the baseball card and what has been unburdened by what will be the Texans have potential to be great potential something that hasn't happened yet. Let's go back out to the HR and be listener line Chris from cypress here in the hive with the bees. What is up, Chris? Hey guys. Thanks for taking the call. I just want to point out a couple of things about some of these lands that the Vikings and the Saints got. Now, you know, thank they would detect some new coach, new offensive coordinator, new quarterback. You kind of got to kind of get, they got surprised by their schemes, they didn't have much tape. The same thing with the Vikings, the Saints got a new offensive coordinator. So now those surprise wins or can be contributed to, you know, we come in and we supposed to beat on these guys. Hey, they brought out these tricks. They brought off something we don't have on tape and they kind of got these surprise wins. Whereas the Texans, you have a, you know, year work to tape on the Niko, you have a year work to tape on CJ and some of their schemes. So that's all I got to say. I want to put it out there. So I think those wins can be attributed to that early. Those are good points, Chris. Appreciate the call. The one thing on the flip side on the Texans, however, is the fact that they did add a whole lot of pieces that you didn't know how Demico was going to use because he didn't have them last year. Yeah. But you have, I mean, scheme and stuff. Like you kind of get a pretty good feel. Now you can go back and watch, you know, San Francisco stuff whenever you're looking at Clint Kubiak and get it, get an idea. I think Chris, Chris's point has some validity. I give it a lot of validity, but there ain't nothing that's a surprise about a 44 19 woman. That's not a surprise. It was 35 to 16 at the half. Like that's not a surprise one in week one though. They were talking about how great the Dallas defense looked and the talent on the defense and how Zimmer's just that long term defensive minded book that, you know, like really smart defensive coordinator. That was embarrassing. Yeah. Seven one three seven eight zero ESPN. Let's get to some overreactions around the NFL. What are your overreactions around the NFL after the second week of the year? The yearly. It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. ESPN 97 five coming to you live from the Veritex community bank studios. It's the killer bees on ESPN 97 five and 92 five. Here's Joel Blanken. Jeremy Branham. Eight eight, three, five. Dang. Y'all stiff arm. Keith's call. Wow. Viking scheme is crazy. 11 sacks. Two big wins. Love Keith. I think the Vikings are way better than people give them credit for Blake Cashman's playing like a wild man. John Bernard. Hopefully you don't have a grade one ankle sprain. Sam Donald's better than advertised preview radio sucks, especially on a Tuesday. Has Gennard had any sacks yet? Well, yeah, I think he had one this past week. Yeah. Well, we'll do that Friday. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. And Vikings on Tuesday preview radios off full and I love Keith. Keith gives me his, his lunches and stuff and tells me to grade them and they're usually terrible. He's easy. He eats office. I love Keith. But his taste sucks. Yeah. Yes. I do question his palate. All right. What are your NFL overreactions after week two seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six. What is your biggest overreaction after two weeks into the year? Well, there's been a lot. I just, I really believe that as much as everybody's thinking that the end is near for the for the Ravens and for the for the Bengals, I saw so much to be encouraged about, especially with the Bengals and the Ravens, I always find a way to figure it out. For me, it's more about the Bengals as much as there was concerns in week one about Joe Burrow and he can't pick up a water bottle and Jamar Chase and the Jamar Chase doesn't play. And then he already makes the statement that everybody's gun informed for because they're the team to beat. They didn't give you a whole lot of reason to not believe that if they played again, that they would have a legit chance to beat Kansas City. I think that the demise of the Bengals has been grossly overrated and that the Bengals are going to be heard from loudly at the end of the year. Yeah. My biggest, I have two in minor division related, I believe I were overrated the AFC South. I think the AFC South is the worst division in the NFL. I think they, I think they have one, one beauty queen in the Houston Texans into the rest of the division is awful. I think the AFC South is not good. I would go as far to say the worst division in the NFL. And I severely overrated the division as a whole. On top of that, I severely underrated the NFC South. The NFC South is pretty stinking good, at least for two weeks. The Saints are two and oh, they blasted Dallas on the road. The Falcons one in one, but what did they do last night? They beat Philadelphia in Philly Tampa Bay's two and oh, they want to Detroit. The NFC South has built up a resume after two weeks. That looks pretty nice. No, there's no doubt about it. I severely underrated Baker Mayfield in the Buccaneers. I severely underrated the Saints and Derek Carr of all people and Camara, who I thought didn't have much left in the tank. The Saints have been extremely impressive. They have a legit offense now and they look really good on both sides of the football. And I think even from a Patriots perspective, I didn't know what Gerard Mayo was going to be. The quarterback situation looked great, no matter which direction they turned, whether you believe that Drake May was going to get the start, but he wasn't there yet or beset there again. And you don't believe in him. I think I grossly underrated all three of those teams. Yeah. Your biggest overreaction seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six, zero, seven, three, zero, eight, biggest overreaction, how on the aggregate the Texans offenses look pedestrian. I don't know if he's saying that they are or he thinks that's an overreaction to the fact that they haven't been. I think the Texans offense has been overall good. I feel like they haven't been the most efficient in terms of scoring points, but they had six of their 10 drives in week one ended in points. Two of those drives were effective into the first half should have ended in points. Final drive didn't score points in that game, but four minute offense didn't allow the Colts to get the football back. So against Indy, I thought eight of their 10 drives were efficient. That's pretty good production. It's half against Chicago, they scored on for their first five drives in the first half second half. That's where the issue is. But I think the Texans offense has been generally good two games into the year. Yeah, I think there's room to improve, but I think that's what you want at this point in the season. And you look at how many numbers and how much inconsistency there's been offensively across the league, but to know that they have still been very effective, CJ's had better numbers than the majority of the quarterbacks, but with all the weapons that you have, and I think Dalton Schultz, you could say was underutilized, but he hasn't really been a factor. The fact that mixing got hurt means when he comes back that we want to continue to see it. But it looks like that offense from a running game perspective can be really, really good. The line looks really good and now you lose juice scrubs. So I think that they can get better, but I just think that they're they already shown enough to know that they have an offense to be reckoned. Yeah, I don't think they've played close to their best. They've shown the potential to be a really good football team. I don't think through two weeks they've played like championship, contender, good, because that you don't have to be there in the first two weeks, you got to put yourself in a position to be there late in the year. I think they have a really good chance to do that eight, three, five, chief should be 0 and two. My homes is not a good fantasy quarterback without Pacheco. This team will fade. My homes is not a good fantasy quarterback. I agree with that. I faded him a lot. Should they be 0 and 2? That's tough to say. But check was only going to this isn't a season ending deal of Pacheco. I think that they're going to be fine. I think they're still going to win games. I think they'll get Pacheco back. I still think they're going to be very dangerous once the playoffs happen. Yeah. No, look, I think that there's no doubt about it. We can leave it there. I just feel like the how many times have we been through this where you look at the chiefs and people are saying, even last year, they're done, they don't look the same. They're not going to win it. And all of a sudden and Kelsey's washed and they don't have the receivers. And at the end of the day, when all is said and done, they're hoisting the trophy for the second time in a row. And you realize Andy Reed is a genius. Patrick Mahomes is damn good, whether it's fantasy points or not. And they make the best of the players that they have. And oh, by the way, they're defense that everybody still sleeps on. Their defense is still a massive reason why they're back-to-back Super Bowl champs. Yeah. Overreaction will levels will be bench for Mason Rudolph. That is an overreaction. I don't think he's. I don't think they shouldn't. But look, I think the Callahan did what he did to basically make the point of, you know you have to be better, but the ability is still enough and it's there that they're going to keep rolling with him. Yeah, I don't think Callahan thinks he's in desperation to win this year. He's got to get a wake-up call and a kind of a swift kick in his ass that says, stop doing that. Yeah. I mean, Levis has potential. He really does. He makes really stupid plays and he's trying to beat that out of him. 8755, I'm overreaction on the guy that texted in last week saying tank look rusty. I'm still saying he looks rusty, but another thing to think about. He may be a slow starter, took a while for him last year is Tengdell, the Texans version of Alex Bregman. Uh, no, no, I think that I think it is as his career goes on, he's not going to do this every year. And sometimes it happens to the best of them. I don't have that kind of feeling with with Tengdell. 7584 biggest overreaction has to be people talking about the Saints as a legitimate Super Bowl contender. See, I will not go to those extremes. I can say that the Saints two weeks into the year have the second best resume in the NFL. Maybe the top resume in the NFL, but I do not think they're legitimate Super Bowl contender. No, I don't either. I think they can win the division. I think two things can be said. They're surprising. They're talented. They're way better than I thought they were going to be. But do I think that they're a Super Bowl contender? No. I think even in the, in the NFC, when you basically have a very top heavy conference, I don't think that they're one of the top heavies. Oh, Joe, my overreaction is fair bears a better kicker now than Justin Tucker ever was. Oh, it's just got some hot days, got some heaters. I love it. Uh, Andy Dalton, that's a cash matression, no cash matressions there. Here's a couple of the other NFL overreactions from, uh, from ESPN, uh, the Saints are the best team in the NFL. That are the NFC, my bad NFC either way, huge overreaction. I just said that in a top heavy NFC, you're not one of the top heavies, San Francisco and the end of the year is San Francisco lost at Minnesota. That's for the end of the year, right? Yeah, he's just like who you had the most confidence in. I have the most confidence in the San Francisco 49ers. I had the second most confidence. Believe it or not, still in the Philadelphia Eagles who lost it home against Atlanta, but at the end of the year, I think everything will be fine. Uh huh. And I think it was the right play call. And I think Saquan's going to make that play. And if he stays, he stays healthy, he's a huge upgrade in their running game. And I think the lions are, are better who lost at home against and I still think that based on where they've been and what they've done, they will be heard from again. No, I think it's an overreaction to the Panthers will draft a quarterback at number one overall for the second time in three years. If they have the worst record, yes, I think regardless, I think they're drafting a quarterback as long as it's a high first drum pick. I, I don't think so, um, I, I don't think it's a good quarterback draft. I think they're going to go a different direction. I still think that they're going to try to get Bryce Young going. Uh, Sam Darnell will lead the Vikings to the playoffs. Oh God. Overreaction. No way. I don't think he's kind of soft. I should have said that I should have picked them as one of the three, two and O teams. Uh, and that's on me, but I'll stick with what I said. But I still think as good as Sam Darnell has been early on, and I think they're going to be decent all year and they've got weapons. I don't think that they're going to be a play. All right. Seven, one, three, seven, eight zero ESPN HRNP listener line. Let's get to our will of bits. You never know what you're going to get. You just know it's going to be really stinking good. It's the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Hey, sports betters. That's you. Uh, Brian, I'm here to tell you about my favorite sports book and casino. That's bet us dot com football is back. So it's time to get in on the action. I endorse one sports book and casino and that's bet us if you want a game plan to win this season, then check out bet us bet us went large for you this season with a huge offer, a 125% sign up bonus on your first three deposits. That's right. A 125% bonus on your first three deposits bet us offers value. 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It's easier to roll off the tongue than the TD ECU stadium doesn't space city financial stadium sound way better than TD ECU stadium telling me it was like brought to you by the network. No, no, it's not no relation. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I had never heard of it, but it does it's new. It was a merger. Okay, cool. I like it. Yeah, it was a merger. It's a way better name. Honeyglaze Branham on the text line asking us, are you going to give juggalo tray his flowers for going on kill Tony? I didn't see the actual bit. I saw people tweeting about it. I saw his picture on it, but I didn't see it. What is kill Tony? It's like a comedian. They're like roster. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, he's big time. Look, I'm extremely proud. No, no, kill Tony is. Oh, but I'm proud of Trey because Trey had issues with like being in stage fright and being in front of people and even talking on a microphone to him doing stand up comedy is one thing, but the fact that he's getting gigs, that's pretty solid. Yeah, that was, I did not expect to see that on my timeline. I'll have to go back and watch it. Yeah, if somebody has it, actually tweeted at me, I don't know exactly where to find it. Oh, I don't want to watch that. Yeah, send it to us. Tweet it at us at Pac-Man Joel at Jeremy Branham. I do want to watch that bit. All right, let's get to our will of bits. The killer bees are back and I honestly have no idea what's happening next. Could it be the next great big food debate? The biggest Joel rants of all time, Jeremy trolling someone to the point of crying or just some actual bees making some honey. Well, let's find out. It's time for the will of bits. Oh my goodness, will you look at this. What an enormous bit. Let's give out great life advice. Great life advice. Someone's offering you a bet on the text line of "Lankers are willing to bet a bottle of whiskey, my titans beat your packers." Care to take the bet? I'm not betting on that quarterback. He goes, I'll pay up if I lose. I mean, I made a whiskey bet with Joe George. He hasn't paid me. He hasn't paid up for that one. He hasn't paid me my hat either. Yeah. All right, let's do a great life advice. Yeah, so I need some of the life advice on handle handle situation. Maybe this is something we could do on a semi-regular basis. I mean, some of this would fit into mailbag Monday, obviously. But if anyone needs life advice, I think there's no three better guys to ask. No question. So, I mean, definitely hit us up. Definitely one. Yeah. We're not going to tell you which one, but you can only show me the only one. Well, someone will. But anyway, so it was my birthday recently, and my sister sent me a gift. She doesn't live in Houston, so there's no chance that she's listening. She lives in San Antonio, and so I get this gift in the mail today. I opened it up, and there's a book in there that's fine. It wasn't a book I'd heard of, but it's fine, and then the other item is what you guys have now seen in your text. It's like this license plate thing to hang up in your room and somewhere in your house. I do have a man cave, but it doesn't seem like she looked fully at this thing because it says little man cave, which is clearly, and you see the graphics on it. It's clearly designed for a 12-year-old. I'm 41. I don't know how, like, I think I just have to lie to my sister, right, and just say, "Hey, great. I love it. That's very thoughtful of you." I don't know how to respond to her because she's, like, I got it today, so she's expecting a text or a call at some point to thank her for this gift, I'm sure. But she sends me this, and it's so clearly with the graphics in the words "little man cave" designed for a 12-year-old, so, I mean, do I thank her for it? What do I say? Do I hang this up in my room when she's over to visit my child? Like, how do I handle this? Maybe she's not saying you're like a little man. Maybe she's saying your man cave's little, and she's shaming your man cave. But she's not spelling your L-I-L. Or maybe she has spelling L. Or maybe she's not aware of the fact that she bought you a child's gift. I don't think she is. That's where I would go, "Ha-ha, you got me. I see what you did there. You poked fun at me with the kid sign." But the book I loved, no. Yeah, but if she doesn't think that, if she doesn't know that she sent me a kiss gift, that she didn't, like, mad or, like, upset herself or mad at me for calling her out on her, like, "I could see this going in a way where she takes it poorly, and it, like, is it worth it?" See, I don't value the relationship with my sister. So I might, I would be brutally honest with that. So I don't give that advice to you because I don't know if everybody's like that. We found out some truths today, I'll show. Oh, big time. Here's what I would do. And I'm usually pretty blunt. I would thank her for the gift. Hey, thanks for the gift. Appreciate it. It means a lot. Love you. Love you. I don't like this. That's what I would do. You guys, birthdays in June, right? Yeah, yes. I don't have a man cave, though, so. I don't either anymore. Oh, okay. Damn. That's what you asked. I think you're just gonna have to re-gift it. Brandon's got kids, though. Oh, that's true. For their room, that could be the little man. Hey, if you give this to me, it's gonna end up in the trash. So, I mean, that's your prerogative. If you want to give it to me, fine, but it's going to end up in the trash. We know you're not giving up the Jason Statham autobiography she got you. No, of course not. No, I don't. Why don't you just hang it up? Because it's for a child. What if she comes over and she's expecting a little man cave? It's so obvious. How big is your man cave? It's a normal room. I haven't measured it. It's a normal bedroom size. What if she comes over? How frequently does she come to Houston? Uh, like four times a year. So she... What if it's not us? Well, let's see. That's the thing. She's usually only here, to be honest. She's mostly here to visit my daughter. So, she's not gonna really be in the man cave. So, I don't think she'll necessarily... That doesn't necessarily mean she doesn't kind of look at the house, walk around. Maybe. Which you've done. But she's gonna be in the living room like 99% of the time. That other 1% could be a killer. I think she's shaming your man cave, quite frankly. I don't think... That would be a bold move. I don't think she was... I think she's having a little fun. What's her personality like? Not someone that would do that. She doesn't like fun. I don't think that's her sense of humor now. Are you all twins? No. No, she's two years younger. What do you have hung up in your man cave? Uh, I mean, there's like an Euler's fat head, there's some Longhorns memorabilia. There's not a lot. There's like that famous Muhammad Ali Sonny Liston poster, some boxing gloves signed by Ryle Marquez. No, not a whole lot. I think you should hang it up just outside the door. And then you should touch it every time you walk the other day inside, yeah. That, I think is an idea. You should consider that sleep on it. Feel like a little man today when you walk into the cave. Cap says put the sign behind something else and if she happens to notice, tell her it fell. That's a great idea. That is... That's really well played. Like cabinets or TV stand? Yeah. Yeah. Put it behind it. She legit maybe looking forward. That's a really good idea. Like right behind it. Oh, it was on the wall. But it fell down behind it. And catfish is saving the day. Oh my God. Yeah. Because I mean, if you're going to give it away, throw it away. That's the letter. It's the same thing as hiding it behind something. Yeah. And then it fell off the wall. Sorry. Yeah. All you have to do is put up a little pins. Oh, there it was. But look, one of the pins is down. Keep a couple of thumbtacks nearby so that you know what, must have fallen down. Or you could just actually hang it up when she's there and then hide it behind the TV stand when she's not. I don't want it up, man. But then hide it. Hide it behind something where it falls. I think that's the winner. I think you hide it behind like a shelf and she asks, "Oh, it was right there, but it must have fallen on the wall." Yeah. Foe a fall. Because you can't get re-gifted. She may go looking for it. Personally, I wouldn't care, but I'm kind of re-gifted. So would you toss it if this was your sibling giving it to you? There's a chance I might re-gift it, but it doesn't, I mean, probably not a great re-gift. No, it's not. It's not. It's probably. It's a bad gift. I mean, I would either throw it away or hide it like in the, the annals of my closet. I would definitely, if I wasn't concerned about feelings, there's no doubt I would give it away. Do you have a, do you have a little man came down? No. I would give it to Joe's son. Oh, yeah. That's a good call. A little man came for his room. I mean, it's probably maybe a little design for kids a little bit older than Joe's kid, but this is not designed for anyone older than one. Obviously, Jeremy's already said he's not going to put it up for baby, a brand of baby. So that, so you give it to Joe's kid, Joe would definitely put it up. Okay. You think, why do you think he definitely would? Because I just feel like those are the kind of things that he'd be all right. He'd be cool with. Maybe he just says yes to your bad gifts and he, and he hides them behind TV sets. First of all, it was to say they're bad gifts. But him was wife didn't because she unsolicited told me that he's wearing the sweatsuit. I got him. Brian. Are you going to, are you going to tell your sister was a bad gift? No, I'm not a champ. Do you think Brian thinks it's a bad gift? I 100% think it's a bad gift. So I don't know if that's the 100% authority there, Blakers. I do want to test maybe trying to give this to Joe though. See if he puts it up. I definitely would put it up for JJ. And if he doesn't, I'll go with the backup plan of saying it fell down. That's a good call. And just tell me, I might, I might need that back four times a year when my sister comes to town. I'll throw it away. Five, six, seven. Are you the little brother? No. I'm two years older. Oh, okay. Well, then, yeah, the little is not great there. Joe's basically a replacement tray Campbell, gifted, gifted to her child. She doesn't have one. Okay. That makes it tough. Yeah. Can't do that. Hang it behind the open door. Hmm. That one says I swear that the bear is fumbled though. You're wrong. Brian, hang up the gifts. Say thank you to your sister and carry on. No. No, that's a bad look. That's the mature approach, but, yeah, but for three sixty five, I don't want that hanging in the man case. You guys have seen the picture. Would you want that? Hang in your man? No, not at all. 9 9 5 3 to your family's not listen daily. Want the sister hear this? My family doesn't listen to me whenever I'm in the room. My wife, I don't think has ever listened to the show. My sister lives in another city. She's not listening to the show. My sister's in Wisconsin and even when if we were in the same room, she wouldn't listen to it. Uncle Barney Uncle Jack will listen. My wife will listen sometimes when she's in the car. Sometimes in the car. When I was 41, holy cow, was it a goofy type gift? Brian said she didn't really have that personality. I'll be honest, when you showed it to me for the first time and then you then when you came on the air and said it's more of a license plate size, I was thankful because I was scared to death. If that was big, like a sign, a poster size, that ain't going up. Yeah. No, if you thought it was like a street sign size, no, thankfully it's not anything like that would have been too large for for even if it was a joke. Peter says I rather get advice from Twitch than you guys. Well, Peter, you're dumb. That's really stupid. She did that because she did that because she's making fun of you. I don't think that's her personality. Yeah. Either or she's like very subtle and she's like playing. I mean, it's one of the things you have to know the person, but I would be shocked if this was a joke. All right. Well, best of luck with whatever you decide to do it. Hope the book was. I think I'm going to give it to Joe. I think I'm going to give it to Joe. Yeah. Was the book spot on? It's fine. He just got it. It's a sports book. But I mean, it was an apropos for him or did that give suck too? How's he going to know it's good already? He might have gotten him a freaking Barney book or something instead of a book that he'd actually read. It was the sports book. I'll check it out. Well, it was the book. It's something about like best sports quotes. I don't know. It seemed very generic. But whatever. It's something you read on the toilet. Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. God. Jeremy's right. It is. It's what we had to write on the toilet before we had cell phones in our hands. Yeah. Who reads a book on the crapper before we had cell phones in our hands? No. I'm in and I'm out. I'm not wasting time. I'm not going to sit there just reading a book. Yeah. You have a wife. You have a wife and two kids. It's a place. You go for solace. No. 100 percent. 7-1-3-1. I go to the couch. It'll be fine. 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. Where do you take the book? All right. Let's get you our car wreck of the day. What is your car wreck of the day? 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. It is the bees on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. 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As does it not release the line of the end, the Hunter Brown 11 and 8 3 59 ERA going to give him an icon. 12 and 9 3 0 6 ERA, what are you expecting? Hunter Brown, let's six and a third. Two right. I'll take it. I believe that. Is that enough to win the game? It is. I'll take it. I'll take it because it was bitches on the other side tonight with the Astros have also announced that Ben Gammel has been placed on the 10 day IL when they left fibula fracture. Do you remember what the diagnosis was? They sleep better wrong. He left the game with a knee contusion. They were calling this a knee contusion for Ben Gammel and now it's a left fibula fracture. Who is diagnosing the injuries for the Houston Astros? Who is diagnosing? Diagnosing is the wrong word. They're guessing. They're just making it up and lying to us. I listened to a podcast once about Dr. Death, which is a guy who faked his way through medical school and was doing these surgeries and basically guessing. He was guessing. That's safe. This is, I think, Dr. Death is diagnosing the Houston Astros. I think you're probably right. He's from a knee contusion to a left fibula fracture. I mean, that's on par. I mean, we remember half the air next to the UCL added to the list, Brian. It's a laundry list at this point, so it's definitely is a laundry list. So weird. All right. Soccer matters coming up after us. Keep it here. Listen to Glenn Davis, legendary soccer commentator, Jorge Ramos, dynamo defender, Eric Schichenkall, and they will talk Champions League as well as coming up at the top of the hour. Let's get to our car wreck of the day. I was going to say the Astros offense last night, but the Astros medical staff/PR department team. Wherever the hell you should, maybe you should just go back to the word discomfort because you can't do wrong. Right. At this point. I mean, the fibula is like, it's not even close to me. Is that what the tank looks like? It is. Yeah. He broke the fibula, tank broke his fibula, Charlie Morton, that line drive in the world series broke his fibula, Branham playing pick up all the YMCA in college, broke his fibula. I'm a dog. Drove myself to the, uh, to the X-ray machine. I didn't see it. That was the one that I didn't see. Tuckers that was fractured. They said that was actually like the back of the tibia. Okay. Yeah. The fibula is on the side. Yeah. That's so whatever. Oh, yeah. That's a good nominee. I was going to nominate that one too. So I'm glad that you did. Uh, Nick Sirioni, I'll give him the car wreck of the day. I'll go. Oh, Seklon Barkley dropped that ball. No, it's Nick Sirioni. Nick Sirioni's a duperoni. I'll take it. I'll take a shot at Nick Sirioni every chance I get. All right. What do you nominate? I clip from Mad Dog trying to name a Seattle Seahawks wide receiver. The Seahawks blocked a 48 yard field goal in four minutes left, which would have put the paths up six. That was a big play in this game. Smith played well. And as receivers, Metcalf caught 10. Jackson Smith, the good Juba, the kid from Ohio State, he caught 12 more. He was airy on the side of caution. Sometimes you have to do with that word. Well, that Mad Dog never changed. Juba. I bet you got it. You got to take the side. Honestly, it could have gone worse. Oh, yes. It could have gone way worse. Way to do. Yes. Carrick of the day, the last segment. Carrick of the day, the Eagles for out falconing the Falcons. Shosh for Seabrook. And then. Okay. That was probably Keith telling us about this deck. That old guy. All right. What's winning? Easily the Astros. Medical staff. Yeah. From a knee contusion to a broken fibula. Yeah. He might be out the next year. Oh, he's done for the year at the six to eight week injury. That's brutal. He's here. Well, if it's the Astros, he might wake up tomorrow and be fine. No, they're never. They never. Watch it. Be on the playoff roster. They never over exceed expected. How did they wait three days to get them on the I.L.? They had a broken bone in his fibula because they didn't look so bad. Weird. Bad. They win. That does it for us. He's Brian. He's blank. I'm Brian. I'm talking to you tomorrow Houston. Glenn Davis soccer matters right now. You're listening to ESPN 97 5. The kids are back in school. The cooler temperatures are on the way. That's why now is the perfect time to replace your windows. 5280 exteriors can give you and your family energy efficient windows that will keep you warm all winter long. Right now 5280 exteriors is giving you a free low E glass upgrade all through September. Not valid with any other offers scheduled now at 5280 exteriors.com. 5280 exteriors, the altitude of quality. After countless steps and more than a few miles, her dog drives you forward one last time to make that final climb and his the rising sun peaks out from the horizon. 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