The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/27 Hour 1- Hot Takes on the Cowboys: Are They a Playoff Team?
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We're giving away a bunch of stuff throughout the show, so you don't want to go anywhere. Todd Callis, live from Cleveland. Maybe some yordon news? TK will be joining us at 4.15 after a spot of talks to the media in Cleveland. We got busy money. We've been crushing it with busy money. We got Hoos said it. We got DJP Ganymay joining us at 5 o'clock as well. So we're jam-packed. Friday edition of the show. I love football. I don't know how you guys feel, but I just-- I love football. Football is awesome. Football is great. Doing Sports Radio during football season is a pleasure. It's a joy. I would do it-- no, I wouldn't do it for free. But it's very, very fun. Definitely wouldn't do it for free. Yeah, don't give the boss-- Yeah, I might be on to it for free. That's exactly right, Brian. I don't even really like talking, to be honest. So that's like the work for me. I'd much rather be quiet and watch football than watch football than have to talk about it. But hey, it's the job, and you know, somebody's got to do it. I didn't learn much from the Cowboys Giants game last night. If I'm being completely honest, hey, congratulations. Dallas Aubrey's my favorite Dallas cowboy of all time. He's my favorite cowboy that has ever existed better than Eggman. Not better. I like him more than Eggman. Like him more than Michael Orvin. More than Emmett Smith. Dion Sanders. All of them. All of them. Aubrey is already my favorite Dallas cowboy. Now I hate Dallas, so that's a big factor into this. But he's my favorite Dallas cowboy that's ever existed. Maybe that's my main takeaway from yesterday's game. Yeah, I saw a lot of bad football. I saw the fact that I had to listen to Al Michaels try to think in as many creative ways as he possibly could. You caught a stray yesterday. I'll be honest with you. I didn't. Yeah, you did. I can't remember who tweeted this. But I remember Al Michaels had that flag day joke. Yeah, what day's flag day? Is it June 14th? Somewhere in June. I heard it. Yeah, it was a terrible joke. But it was bad. Tons of penalties, I get it. Now, Michael's like, it's June 14th. It's flag day. And I tweeted. I was like, that's a bad joke, Al Michaels. And somebody in the comments said that was a blanker's joke. Probably. I'm on the straight. I'll own that one. Yeah, I like the dad jokes there. But that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the fact that Al needs to probably wrap it up. Because that was embarrassing the amount of penalties. We talked about it from a Texans perspective. When the Texans had the penalties, they had a week ago. This has been going on for two years now with Mike McCarthy. They haven't found a way to fix it. When you looked at who were the worst, the most penalized teams over the last year and Dallas was in the top three, they look ridiculous. The Giants don't look much better. And I said yesterday when you and I were talking about this, this might be the game for who isn't on the hot seat or who saves their job for the year. I don't think there's any question now. Both guys are firmly on the hot seat. As much as Dallas won the game, they didn't look good doing it. No. And I think the Giants, aside from Malik neighbors, are a mess. I think that for me, this guy says Aubrey's your favorite cowboy. He must have had Giants plus five and a half. He did miss that kick lay. Yeah, he's my favorite cowboy, but I have a bias against Dallas. So that's probably a big variable in the equation. I was watching two mediocre football teams, two mediocre. And I do think that Dallas is the better of the mediocrity than the Giants. I mean, the game was in New Jersey. So like you go on the road, you win an ugly game on the road in the NFL in the division. Like I'm not knocking that. I think whenever you win divisional games on the road, it really doesn't matter. It's not a beauty contest. You win the game, you win the game, you move on, you try to rack up as many wins as you can. But whenever I'm, so I give them credit for winning the game. I'm not trying to dog the Cowboys for winning a road divisional game. You get those however you can get them. This is more about how I project them going forward. That running game is incredibly, it's not even mediocre, man. Like that is bad. They need to just feed Rico down to the ball. I'm like, you're our bell cow, you're going to be that guy. But to me, because their running game is so poor, I can't really take them seriously as an NFC contender. Oh, no, no, no. I think as much as people were talking about the potential for the Cowboys being somebody, it's a team to be reckoned with that might have some playoff aspirations. They look anything, but we knew that a week ago with the disarray between the in-fighting and the way they couldn't stop anybody defensively. But offensively, if that's all they can do is kind of throw the ball wherever they can try and get some, you know, a couple of yards here and there. Their running game looks just awful. And they look in complete disarray on both sides of the football. Now you're going to be out without two of your three best defenders for at least a couple of weeks because Parsons got hurt at the end of the game and Lawrence already had gotten hurt in the middle of the game. They look like they're going absolutely nowhere. Both teams do. Yeah, the, I think you guys are coming back to my side. The Cowboys flame out. No, I don't think they flame out. I think they're a wild part too. That it's, that it's great to be all. Yeah, but the NFC six, seven spots are going to be very mediocre, very mediocre. Just like they were a year ago. Did I have Dallas in? I don't remember. I don't know. Yeah, I know that if I did, it was at the very end. I mean, look, I'll tell you right now, they're not a playoff team. That's a bad playoff team. I think they're a playoff team. I don't. I think they're, I think there are six, seven C in the NFC. I don't. I, I just don't. I think that they're poorly coached. I think that you hate McCarthy though. You have a bias against. No, because I've seen McCarthy coach or quote unquote coach. And I don't believe in anything that, that he's been able to do outside of when he had Rogers. And, and I think they won 12 games last year. Didn't they? They won 12 games around. Yeah, a couple of years in a row. To say that he hasn't done anything since Rogers. And he's winning 12 games without Rod. How much is that? A little disingenuous. How much is that? I mean, I think coaches are prisoners of their situation. It's a weird way to put that, but you can't say that he didn't do anything without Aaron Rodgers. And he won the division with Dak Prescott. Like that's an accolade. Is it because of the roster? Sure. But he's done stuff without Aaron Rodgers. Well, OK, but you know, I just think when Jerry Jones hired him, I had serious reservations. Those haven't changed. I don't believe in him as a guy that's going to lead that franchise any further than how far they've gone already. And I saw nothing last night to think anything. But that's probably a little bit too grandiose of a bar to set for them. I think they're worse than that. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't like I'm calling a mediocre. I'm calling a little upper echelon mediocre compared to the Giants. But like you look right now, teams that have two wins in the NFC. Green Bay, who I do think Green Bay is good. Detroit, I think they're good. Philly's good. That's three. Tampa, eh, eh, like you're still out. Will there be a wild card that comes from the NFC South? Because Tampa's two and one Saints are two and one. Or is that whoever wins the division, you are the lone representative of the NFC South. Before the season started, I thought it was going to be whoever wins the division is the lone representative. But because the rest of the NFC has been floundering a little bit, there's a chance because I didn't expect the Saints to do what they did early on in the season. And Atlanta, I expected more. But I still think that they've played well enough to win a couple of the games they've lost. If you get two teams that just beat up the sisters of the poor, the other two teams in the division, maybe you can get a second team from the NFC South. I think Seattle's kind of for real, and I think Minnesota's kind of for real. So that's like five teams. Like just Washington in the mix there. I think the sixth and the seventh seed in the NFC are going to be what we would describe as very mediocre, very, very mid. And I think that Dallas is going to land in that conversation, in that area. Yeah, I think that the fact is, is that the NFC we knew was the lesser than conference of the two conferences. I don't think that, I think it's going to take a couple of teams actually proving that the early start is something that they can maintain because I still don't believe in Tampa Bay overall. I'm still, I still have questions about the Saints, but their offense looks a hell of a lot better. But overall, I thought Atlanta had way more talent than what they're doing and how they're utilizing it. So I think there's a couple of teams that can step up. If they don't, does that open a door for Dallas? Maybe Washington's a team you got to watch too, because I think I thought they were a year away. But right now, the way that that whole team is playing and the fact that their offense is putting up numbers, that's a team that might be able to compete with Dallas for that last spot. If he's this year's version of CJ Shroud, no doubt. I think that Washington will be in that conversation too. I think that anywhere between the sixth and the tenth spot in the NFC are going to be the same echelon of teams. It's not really a shocking statement. I think Dallas is going to be in that mix. I think Washington's going to be in that mix. I think a second NFC South team will be in that mix. So yeah, I could see Dallas landing six, seven. I could see him landing eight hours. Playing out the Washington right now. Yeah, I mean, their offense has dudes, man. Like Dak Prescott's one of the more, yeah. Dak Prescott's one of the more underrated have guys. See, I think Dak's underrated. I don't trust Dak in the postseason. I don't think Dak's the top five quarterback. I think Dak Prescott, though, is disrespected. That dude puts up numbers that you could say regular season numbers, and I would say that's fine. But we're talking about getting to the playoffs. We're not talking about them and their performance in the playoffs. Now, the Micah Parsons News, that's going to be something that hurts them quite a bit, because he's their best defensive player. And CD lamb is second, third best receiver in the NFL. So yeah, I do trust that the Cowboys have been running good, even without their running game, I still feel like they're good enough offensively to win nine games, which I think would get them a wildcard. But I think we also slept a little bit on Minnesota. I didn't think Minnesota could be this good. Yeah, we factor in those teams. I did very well. We just counted on them. What do you mean, did I factor? We just counted them? Yes, I factored them. No, I didn't even hear what I said. Factoring in, for part of my reason why the Cowboys are going to miss, are the teams that have jumped up and been better than I thought. We just did that practice. We just counted the top teams in the NFL. For my opinion on that. But you should have heard it as a producer of this show. I'm off the set. I'm off the list. OK, we'll set it up for a spot. I think that. Do it in the middle of a hard word quote unquote. That's fair. The bike started to meet. You didn't hear it. I had written off before the season started. I just didn't think their quarterback situation was stable. And I didn't know what they could be, though I do know that they have Justin Jefferson, and they have some talent with some of their skill players. They're another team who they are and who they define themselves to be in the next several weeks. We'll go a long way, because I didn't have them even sniffing the playoffs, and they got a legit shot. Yeah. Now, the Cowboys running game does have to improve. And I think that it can improve. If they just say, hey, Rico Dowd will take us as far as you can take us. Because I think he is their most talented running back. Or they can make a move at the deadline, something like that. Try to get a little bit of juice in that room. They do need to improve in that area. Malik neighbors is a stud. Malik neighbors is freaking good. Hated to see that concussion yesterday. At the end of the game, just fell face first on his forehead. That's stunk. Hopefully he doesn't-- I mean, I'm saying hopefully he doesn't miss any games. That sounds very callous in this game. Probably going to miss a game nowadays in the NFL. Oh, you do have extra days. You have the extra days that you played on Thursday. That guy's a freak, though. I think he has the upside of being a top five receiver in the NFL. He's damn near a car, though. Like watching him last night, it felt like he was unguardable. It felt like we were watching the next Justin Jefferson. That's what it felt like, which is funny. Because they all seem to come from LSU. LSU has been an incredible wide receiver factory. The only concern with Malik neighbors. Because he's not a huge guy. They were relying on him so much, which of course they do. He's their only credible offensive weapon. But with as small as he is, just take watching. Because there's a few hits even before he got the concussion, where they came and hit him in the midsection. He kind of crumpled. And I know in my group, Chad's like, man, Malik neighbors, if he keeps getting this usage, he's going to fall. He's going to fall. That's sure enough. The concussion happened, which I get is freak. But the amount of usage he has right now, I am a little concerned about his frame. He looked like he was getting ticked off it. Because he was taking a lot of hits on those short-- He took a lot of hits. --those underneath routes and everything. He was getting pounded. And he did not look happy about it. Walking back to the huddle. I hesitate to say this. And I know he had the concussion. So take the concussion out of this. Do you think Malik milks his hits a little bit? Do you think he's a little slow to get up sometimes? No, I think he's just little. Some guys have been known to do that. I think you might milk a little bit. Now that you can't say that on the concussion, I understand that. But there was a lot of hits that he took. A lot of hits he took, where it took him a long time to come up. And then all of a sudden, he's good to go five seconds later. We went four games to his career, calling him soft. Maybe. Maybe. He got to get Brandon's soft list. We just put it down. We get a board over here. We got your soft and his collar. It doesn't help my case that he got concussed later. That doesn't help my case. I love that you're judging how hard he was hitting how much he should hurt while watching under count. But you see that, though, where it takes players-- some players-- and let's take the specific players out of this for a second-- where it takes some players a little bit longer to shake it off and get up. That doesn't mean he's milking it. Maybe he's a definition of milking it. Sorry? I think it's the definition of milking it. I think everyone handles-- not everyone handles pain the same way. You could say maybe he doesn't have a great pain tolerance. I think that could be fair. But that doesn't mean you're milking it, though. We would call that soft. If it takes a guy a little bit longer than another guy with the same exact hit-- So everyone gets to an injury the exact same way. No. That's my point. No, I'm not saying that everybody-- but we would call the ones that milk it or take longer to get up as soft or a little bit of a show boat. Because there are guys that do that to kind of milk the camera and know that, hey, you know what? I'm tough. I took a shot. And that split second, because he's reacting immediately. You have the idea that in that split second between hit and acting quote unquote, you have the idea like, all right, I'm going to milk this one. I'm going to stay down for the cameras, give a little extra. That thought process, to me, is crazy. I think we're going to have to go watch it. Because the first time she was doing that, if the officials recognize it, then you got to sit a play, right? If you don't get up and talk, yeah. If they have to stop the clock. So if you're milking it, you got to milk it quick. Because you still got to get back in a certain amount of time where the officials are going to call the trainer. A lot of guys would be getting up on the three county. He was getting up on the nine count. He was getting up on the nine count. I mean, we see this-- we see this in the Astros. We see these with the Astros. Like, who's Lance McCullers? Who is the hardest Astro pitcher? Like, tough guy, gritty, that he's going to take the ball, and he's going to give you all he's got. And isn't going to complain about injuries or whatever. Like, who is that? Do they have to even have that guy? I don't think they have that guy. Maybe Hunter Brown? Like, Hunter Brown is quite me. I wonder what a Fernlander maybe? No. I mean, Fernlander misses six weeks with a little bit of an x-ray. Yeah, no, not anymore. No, Fernlander's the little bit of an x-ray when he was 28 would have been far and less than when he was 41. But we're talking about the moment. We're talking about it now. And Fernlander's been on the injured list like four different times in the last two years. I think Hunter Brown-- I think Hunter Brown is a dog though. Of the starting pitchers, I would go Hunter Brown. Like, if Hunter Brown got knicked by a comebacker, and Lance McCullers got knicked by a comebacker, which of the two is going to take a little bit longer to be ready to pitch? Good old Lance. Good old Lance. Like, that's what I'm trying to say here with neighbors. I think, I think Naris would be a guy. Naris, they talk about every time he has a chance to get the ball, he'd take it, and he gets emotional. So I think Naris would be a toughness guy. But I think Hunter Brown-- I think Jeremy nailed that when that's Hunter Brown. See, I think-- I think Frohmer's a bit of a bulldog too. Now, he has the rare hitting his elbow on something, and then missing a start. But I think that he's a bit of a bulldog too. I wouldn't say he's harder than Hunter Brown. Please don't. But I think he's got to be a tough bulldog. You've got to be mentally strong too. And he's been one of the most consistent pitchers in the last five years. He was kind of mentally strong guy you get sometime. All right, so that's-- That's physically tough versus mentally tough. No, it's not, he starts freaking out mentally before he fields the ball. But is there a difference between soft, mentally, and soft physically? Oh, yeah. I think that's what we're saying. Yeah, Frohmer's tough physically, but maybe not mentally. Yeah, I think that you can. But if you're going with the all-encompassing soft, then maybe Frohmer can play into this. 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Bet anything, anytime, anywhere. With the only place I tell you to do it. Mybookie.ag, use our promo code, bet nine, seven, five. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Broadcasting live from the Peritex Community Bank Studios. It's The Killer Bees with Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. - On ESPN 97.5 and 92.5. - It is the bees, ESPN 97.5, ESPN 92.5. What are your favorite story lines for the Texans Jags game on Sunday? 713-780-377-6. Jasper's coming at me. I'm here to say concussion suck. Oh wait, Branham, didn't you get a concussion putting on your socks or something? He was a little unwarranted. I didn't get a, no. - Oh, I think that was Josh Beard. Now, how are you? - Oh, he's right, he's right, he's right. - Maybe he's concerned that Josh did fall down the stairs so technically wasn't putting on his socks. - But he slipped because his socks on the carpet. - He slipped because of socks and yeah. - Jasper's confusing me with beard. Okay, I see. - Yeah, same initial. - Yeah, so Jasper, that you're wrong, but I see now why you said that. - Same body type, okay. - I thought that was mean text a little early. - Come on. If I am Beard's body type though, I can bench press 800 pounds, like you used to say that he could do. - What you could also tell everybody that. - Wouldn't ya? - Yeah, I work out. Look at me, I work out. I lift weights, I go to the gym. - I work out. - There you go, you know, I'm anti-exercise though. I don't believe in exercise. I don't think I, well, I think I was concussed once, but it was undiagnosed. We were playing baseball on the baseball field and I went to catch it past, of course I caught it, 'cause I have elite hands. And whenever I fell back, I hit the back of my head like that on the warning track. And I was dizzy, I was seeing stars, but I kept playing 'cause I'm a dog. - Yeah, I don't know that even if I ever was concussed, I don't, well, I shouldn't say I don't remember it, but I-- - That would be a symptom. - I don't think I was ever diagnosed. I just kept doing whatever I was doing, but yeah, I don't think, I can't remember any time that I was. - Do you think I had a concussion in that moment? - I would say chances are greater than 50/50. - Looking back, I think I did. - I think if you see stars, that's one sign, but then it's the lingering effects, like the sunlight. - I was pretty dizzy. - The sunlight or any kind of light gets to ya, and there's the nausea and some of those things that go with it. - Those are, I think, more extremely impossible. - I don't think everybody gets nauseous, man. - No, I don't think there's degrees to it. Three, seven, two, six, huge difference between milking it and just taking your time to get up because you're in pain. Probably, maybe milking's too strong a word, of a word, but I feel like Malik neighbors takes it a little longer to get up than most people. I think pain gets to him more than, it bothers him more than others. He has a high opinion of pain, whereas others do not have a high opinion of pain. - But you think it's more associated with his pain tolerance than it is that sometimes he milks it like just to get the attention. - It's just something that I'm be monitoring in the career of only neighbors. Let's just keep an eye on that with Malik neighbors. Let's like, we know that Lance McCullers at this stage of his career is a bit soft. We know that Jordan Alvarez has some soft tendencies. Let's see Malik. Let's see Malik. And I'm not saying that concussion was soft. I'm talking about everything that happened prior to that. Textions Injury Report is out. Tengdell has been ruled out for Sunday's game. - Thanks, Amiko. - I really, really hope that getting Tengdell those reps, with Davis Mills, by the way, I really hope those Tengdell reps with Davis Mills down by 27, with less than five minutes left to play, were worth it. I hope that was worth it, Amiko. And it's not the same as playing on the first play of the game. - Malik O. Ryan's has forced Tengdell to be ruled out, because all of the starters, with the exception of CJ Shroud, were in the game playing against the Viking second string defense down by 27, with less than five minutes, with Davis Mills operating the offense. - Yeah, I don't want to get into beating the dead horse to be yesterday. - I do, I told you I was going to be loud about it. - But at the same time, I just don't know how you can justify that now, especially because he's going to miss the following game. That's the crux of what I was getting into. You're not thinking about the game that you were finishing. You're thinking about the games ahead, because that one was already out of reach. And the last thing you want is to have your best players missing, because you decided to try and compete further in a game that was out of reach. And that's just a bad look. - And for what game? For what game? Momentum, Momentum with Davis Mills. Momentum with Davis Mills against the Viking second string. That's a way different defense that you're going to face the next week, whatever. Also, Damian Pierce has been ruled out. There were reports earlier this week that he would be back. Damian Pierce is out. Jimmy Ward has been ruled out with the mid-growing train that he has questionable, fully, fat, a cosy. Joe Mixon is questionable, was a limited participant today at practice in the Nico Cons full participant. He told DJB anime, he'll be joining us at five, and he's good to go and we'll play. So, shorthand and receiver. Look, I still think the Texans will be fine. Like, you have hutch, you know, Metchi's probably going to be active. I really don't have concerns that the Texans are going to lack from the wide receiver room. Would you rather have Tengdaele or not? I rather have Tengdaele and I think it's foolish, the opportunity you gained in week three in a meaningless game versus not having them on the field at all. But what are your favorite storylines, Texans, Jags, coming up on Sunday? 713-780-3776, what are your favorite storylines? - Well, I mean, it starts with the offensive line. We know what we saw last week, and we've heard that they're cleaning it up, and whether it's just the individuals doing what they have to do or the fact that the focus was on the continuity of the entire offensive line, let's see it. Let's not talk about it, let's be about it. Let's see that the fact that they're going to reduce the number of penalties, that they're going to be on the same page, and it goes a lot deeper than that about knowing where they're going in coverage and based on how many rushers are outside or the stunts coming inside, the communication level between all involved to make sure that the holes are blocked and that guys are getting, you know, hats on hats, that'll be a huge step in the right direction for this team to kind of just put the game last week behind them and move forward, knowing they're going to be better off. - Yeah, my favorite story, look, this game doesn't have the, you know, divisional opponents that you think, oh, storyline rivalry, and you know, Texans jags way back in the day, used to be a pretty intense rivalry. I actually think this game lacks storyline versus last week. Like last week you had tons of intrigue, you had a lot of, you had digs returning to Minnesota, you had John Bernard on the other side who was hyped up and had a huge game. You had all the former Houston Texans on the other side, you had the sexy matchup of Kevin O'Connell versus D'Amico Ryan's, even the undercard with Brian Flores versus Bobby Sloeck, Justin Jefferson is stingly going to travel. Like you had tons of storylines last week, Daniel Hunter returned home, you had so many storylines last week. The storylines this week are kind of boring. Other than it being a divisional rival, what's the main storyline here? Will the Texans offensive line line up in a legal formation? Like that's a means what I'm most intrigued about. Do they fix all the stuff that they were doing wrong, but from like a sexy storyline perspective? I actually think this game lacks that. - Yeah, I think it's more about the teams themselves. The storylines are about each individual team with what they're dealing with. It's not about the fact that you got two teams fighting for the division that have had rivalry over the years already or this players and these matchups and these things have happened. It's all about, can the jags get right? And is there any chance of salvaging their season and how quickly can the Texans bounce back from that hiccup last week? - Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. It's like the jags, oh, we need to win a game. Trevor Lawrence is in a rut whenever he, he was playing really well like last year. They had won like 13 of 16 games and then he's lost like nine of his last 10. He's lost like six in a row, something crazy like that. So they have a lot of internal things. - So they have a lot of internal things. I mean, on the hot seat, they're watching that. They're already talking Belichick rumors. I mean, they have a lot of storylines in terms of what they have to deal with in their own house. - Belichick doesn't strike me as a guy to go to Jack. - I don't feel it either. I feel Dallas more than I feel. Dallas or Philly before I would feel Jacksonville. - Yeah. - I think they're more ready to win. - Even New York. - Maybe, yeah, New York and he's been there before. But I think when you look at the teams where he's kind of like, he's lined up now where he wants a team that he can, he has guys that are, he's ready to go and take them to the next level. You got good defensive players on Philly. You got good defensive players on Dallas. He could do, he could do some things there and offensive players that can play. Jacksonville seems to be where it'd be too much work for him. - Yeah, I do too. I don't, Jacksonville doesn't make a whole lot of sense. - And I agree with our Jacksonville guest yesterday, which I hope he's safe from the hurricane on the east coast. Oh, that stuff was bad. I was watching some storm cover yesterday. Hope everybody is safe, even though it hit the west coast. - Do you have to hang on to a street sign? Jim Cantore and he normally-- - I didn't watch that. - He normally gets right in the middle of the big win storm. - Yeah, it was still to a category four. - Yeah, at 12 hours. It went from a cat one to a cat four and 12 hours. - I don't know if you guys saw the map of just the size of the storm, but it basically covered half the United States. It was, it was unbelievable. It was thicker than Florida. It was, it was the width of that hurricane was thicker than the entire state of Florida. I was watching some people on TikTok and YouTube. They're nuts. People like go out there in the storms and like run out there in a cat four, they're idiots. - They're saying it's gonna affect a ton of college football tomorrow, too. - Yeah, I saw some games got canceled. All right, let's go up to the HR and Pete listener line. His name is being hidden from us. We can't see the name. We can see that he wants to take exception to me saying that I'm being soft. So, caller, don't know your name. It's invisible. You're in the hive of the bees. What's up? - What's happening, Billy? - Jeremy, come on, man. You can't be thinking yourself on the farm stand because you, you don't, you're going on with, you're going about to make your plan take and whatever game. - No, no, 20, 27 point game with a few minutes left to play. Don't, don't, don't get it twisted. You can't say whatever game and just throw out a nothing scenario. Let's talk specifics. They were down by 27, which is minutes left to play. So, let's set the scene a little bit better than that. - I know it, but let him soak in it. Let him soak in it because the way it is played. So, he left him out there. What I'm saying, you talking about the soft stuff, you being soft now and tight, but because the tank got hurt, take the football player. You don't have to, a hell of these kids or these, these attacks to get him or whatever, because he got a little risky. Come on, man. You need to play football. - He got a little what? - Huh? - He got a little wristy? - Yeah, well, that's what's wrong with him. His wrist is right away. - Oh, it's his chest. I think Aaron Wilson was wrong on the report. They said if they did say that on the TV broadcast, there was hand wrist, but I think they screwed that up. He's on the injury report with a chest. I don't think it's a hand wrist, Jake. - Okay. - Do you think I'm being soft? Because I don't want to tank down a 27-point deficit with just minutes left to play, 'cause I think it's important to have him going forward. That's why I'm soft. - Yeah, I mean, okay, football. I'm saying, see, they got better than that. That's the more important player on the field. And, you know, maybe he was dealing with some, but the mother players, I don't know, see, they're out there too. - It's open there, in that one thing that was getting, I was a small right there. You want to play like this? Okay, you're going to play the whole game. - And then if CJ Stroud got hurt in that game, you're cool with that, Jake? - I'll be, I'll be all right. - Oh, okay, Jake. Come on, man. - We got a different perspective. - We agreed to disagree on this, Jake. I respect your opinion. I think that you argued it well, because they were getting their butt whooped. They deserved to stay on the field. Old school mentality. I understand that old school mentality. I have a lot of old school principals too, Jake. Just not when it's foolish and it's dumb and it lacks common sense. And like the whole, the whole hashtag football, it's football, they got to be out there. What does that mean? You're telling me because it's football that I can make really stupid decisions, because football, you may want to say, you understand that mindset. I'll go out on the limb and say, I don't understand the mindset at all. - But it's football. - I know. - You can make stupid. - Two plus two is seven, football. - But even, despite it being football, you're down 27 with three minutes to go. You have no, like, I would ask that caller or anyone on that side of the conversation, what is there to gain in that moment? - And there's nothing. - There's zero to gain. - They're learning a lesson because they got their butt whooped. - Hashtag football. - How many? - How many callers are gonna stand up and have that same principle too of saying, and if CJ got hurt or one of our best players, so be it. - Oh, he was full of it in that one. - Yeah, that's completely. - He knew if he said that, if he knew it, if he agreed with you guys on that, then he loses the argument intellectually. So he just, he stood on business. - I love the football defense. Well, I'm a macho football man. They should be playing down by 27. Okay, common sense, my guy. One, one, CJ Stroud was out of the game. So like any sort of momentum that you're building, you're doing it with Davis Mills. Is Davis Mills gonna start this week? Secondly, the Vikings, also a football team. They took out all their good defensive starters. They were playing their twos. And then let's look at other sports. Yes, it's not football, but let's look at other sports. When you're down by 20, is LeBron James in the game? Is Kevin Durant in the game? Are your starters in the, no, what are you doing? You're down by 20, up by 20. You clear the bench. Is Jordan Alvarez taking it bats up by eight, down by eight? Is Jose Altuve in the game up by eight, down by eight? Is Aaron Judge, is Show Hayotani? No, why? Because it's foolish to lose some of your best players in garbage time, but football. - I mean, in basketball, the NBA, everybody makes a run. So if it's in the first half, those guys will be in the game. But yeah, if the game's out of reach? - It's not late. - Yeah, there's no way. - Garbage time. - Garbage time. - It's just, it's intelligence for a professional sport. That's what it is. It's intelligence for professional sports. Yeah. Well, it's part of that too. But in college, there's more of, and maybe now it's different because of all the money involved in the NILs and the transfer portal. But in college, I can see a coach being ticked off and trying to teach the guys a lesson. But there's no way in professional sports, you're going to do that knowing that you've got the majority of your schedule ahead, and there's no chance in hell you're winning this game. - And I think it's fine. I think it's fine if you have a developmental team. Like if you have, like I said this yesterday, if you're the Titans and you want Will Levis to get reps because he needs it, cool, I don't care. That's fine. If it was David Cully, Davis Mills, Lovey Smith, Davis Mills, they need reps. They're not a winning team. Who cares if they're in the game? But when you're a team that's supposed to win the AFC South, that is supposed to make a deep playoff run, what is the advantage of playing your starters down by 27 with less than four minutes left to play? You are potentially damaging your future to which you're trying to hang your hat on. It could have been Nico. It could have been Laramie Tunsel. It could have been Tank. Like this guy right here, Tank is soft. He's been underperforming this season. And now he's hurt again. Okay, that could be true. It's a different conversation. Not only soft, he's just kind of small and fragile. I think there's a difference between the two. But would you rather have Tank or would you not want to have Tank on the field? That is the question. You can't all of a sudden move the goal post or gaslight. Well, Tank doesn't mean that much to this football team. Would you rather have Tank or would you rather not? Because whenever I watch the film, these defenses are having to adjust to Tank Dell. They're trying to have to compensate for Tank Dell. Do I think the Texans are going to be fine without Tank Dell for a week? Hopefully it's only a week. Yeah, I do. They're playing the jags, but it doesn't defeat the principal. What if it's Nico? What if Nico tore his Achilles and he's lost for the year because you played him in a 27-point game? Like Brian's been saying all week, Bill O'Brien did this to Aryan Foster. It is foolish, but football. So dumb. - It's just, I love to be good, respect to be good so much. So it's just as hardening to hear and basically regurgitate the same crap you heard from Bill O'Brien 10 years ago. - I think that's why too. Yeah, I mean, we've been-- - We've been traumatized by this before. Yeah, we've had enough of that. We thought we were beyond that. Because you're right. I mean, if the mix and injury happens in garbage time, down 27, that's a totally different conversation because of how important he was and looks like he is to the running game. - Triggers me. - All right, 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. I'll try to move on. With all the negativity and panic after the loss to the Vikings, what would you accept for the Texans this week? 'Cause it's winning just enough. Do they have to win by a certain point total? Score a certain amount of points. Pinaldy's offensive line. What do you think? 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. It is the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. Hey Betters, Branham here to tell you about my favorite sportsbook and casino. That's betUS.com. 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Here's Joel Blank and Jeremy Branham. - Branham, please stop with the football. You're coming dangerously close to sounding like the untalented Paul Galant. He's a clown. That's a nice bird for Friday though. You guys are great. Time for a taco and beer. Have a great weekend. Stop trying to kiss our butts. It's weird behavior. Didn't the Texans get strummed by the Browns like this last year too? It was a bad game. Let's see where we are five to six game for now. Hopefully it wasn't a reminder. You ain't the bad word. Wake up for the season and they got the Browns back in the playoffs. Yeah, I don't think that, like what week three is not really a testament to what the team is going to be for the totality of the year. So it asked the question with all the negativity and panic after the loss of the Vikings. What would you accept from the Texans this week? Is winning just enough? Do they have to win by a certain point total, score a certain amount of points, penalties, offensive line? What do you say, Blakers? - To me, this is a lot of people that are hyper focused on one game. And to the Texas point, look, the Browns game was later in the season. I'm glad this happened in week three. We talked about it because you learned from it, you move on. But a lot of people are already seemingly pushing the panic button. I personally just want to win. I just want to continue to see this team win because at the end of the year, there's not a whole lot of style points for a lot of these games. And people aren't going to remember every little detail of how big you won by. They're going to remember whether you won the game or not. And that's what's going to matter when you're starting to fight for playoffs. This Jacksonville team, they're wounded, no matter what they come out, you're better than them. So just come out and play your game and win the football game. I hear people saying they got to win by nine. They got to win by 10. They got to do this. They got to do it. Now you do have to clean up the penalties and you do have to clean up the offensive line. But at the end of the day, get the win, get the win, get back on the winning track and do some of those things. And then let's press forward. There's just, I just hear so much and see so much on social media about people that are freaking about the way the style points of how you have to win this game on Sunday. No, just win the damn game. - I haven't really seen that if I'm being honest. In terms of like, what do, what I accept? Like yeah, obviously the winning aspect of it is the most important thing. Like winning in the NFL is not a beauty contest. Is it better if you strum your opponent by 20 and all your clicking on all cylinders? Yes, that's not the reality of the NFL. So yeah, I don't need them to win by X amount of points. I just need them to win the game. The other stuff though is like, yeah, I would like to see a game where they're under double digit penalties. Yeah, I would like them to see lined up correctly. Like basic stuff. Laramie, Landry Locker had a video of Laramie Tuncil talking to the media today. And he's like, oh yeah. We've been working on the line of scrimmage stuff in the illegal formation since week one. Week one, what do you mean week one? What are you doing in camp? Like all of these officials and referees were coming around to these teams and saying, here are the point of emphasis this year. You have guys like Kevin O'Connell who was talking to the referees before the game. Like, hey, watch them because we see on film, they might not be lining up correctly. Laramie said they've been working on it since week one. That should have been off season stuff. So clean up the crap and win the football game. That's really all I need to see. Yeah, I mean, and to me, it's very similar in the fact that, you know, just play clean football. And when I've also heard people and I've seen some of these, CJ needs to have a 300 yard game and he, you know, this many touchdowns and do all these things. Who do you follow? You follow some psychopaths. And some people were talking about this morning on one of the shows when I was driving around. And I'm going, no, I mean, if that happens as part of it, great, but just play clean football, you are a talented team and just write the ship. Get the fundamental stuff back and you're going to be fine. I don't care how many individual stats a guy has or how big they win by just win a damn game. Yeah, I don't care at all about the point total, but I would, I don't want to call it style points, but I do care that if it's a win where we feel like they're always in control because that's to me, for the Texans to be the type of team that we expected them be. The team that was capable of winning maybe 11 games in the regular season, winning the division, possibly getting to the first AFC title game. That team at home against the no and three Jaguars team that just got obliterated by the Bills on Monday night needs to be able to control the game against the Jaguars. So I don't care if they win by nine. I don't care if they win by six because you could be up big and late scores and garbage time brings the total down, but we just, I think we have to come in on Monday and think, okay, the Texans were always in control. We never thought, holy crap, this game is getting away from us. The Jaguars are coming back or the Jaguars had a chance. They need to control the game. - Kind of like the Bears game. The Bears game, they had opportunities to really get up. - I know it was six points for so long. - I never felt like three in the second half. - Yeah, I know, but I never felt. - I like a little more convincing than that. - But I never felt like they weren't in control of that game with the big play. The fumbled, they had the drive, sustained a drive going all the way down inside the red zone when they fumbled. And I felt like they controlled that in turn. I just always felt like they were in somewhat control of that game. I didn't think it was ever, I never felt in jeopardy, but maybe you're right. Maybe it needs to be more than a one score game. - But I think it's 'cause of the defense though. Like I also had that feeling, but it was more because I don't think the defense is going to allow them to get into the end zone, not because you played a clean half. - No, no, no, don't even go yet. - So it just didn't make you feel like, like it was a complete team win or good feeling. I think the best way to sum it up is when the game coming on Monday, feeling good about the perspective of the Houston Texans going forward. Like feeling good that going forward, they've kind of rioted the ship. They're back to being this easy AFC South Division champion. They're a team again that maybe can give Baltimore, Kansas City a game if you get deep in the playoffs. And another Buffalo in there, they've looked really good too. - Yeah, if they play a clean game and they do those things, that's all that should matter. The fact that 'cause you got another tough opponent coming up next week and you can start to put that game in Minnesota behind you saying, okay, that was then, this is now, we figured it out, we worked on some things. We're gonna be better going forward because that's what you want to do is improve every week this early in the season. - Five, five, three, five Texans as a whole do need an offensive breakout game. These field goal games are too damn close for the town on this team. They haven't broken out offensively. They've had good offensive games which just haven't finished drives. I thought the offense played well against Indy that they played well in the first half against Chicago. They did not play well last week. It's been problematic having a complete game that ends with drives in the end zone. And I think the offensive line has a lot to do with that. I think the offensive line is holding the offense back. The offensive line is the governor to the Houston Texans offense. Ocho, I hear people saying the Texans should feel inspired by the embarrassing loss to the Vikings but just because they recognize their embarrassing loss doesn't mean they're good enough to fix the problems. Their offensive line needs upgrades. I agree with the gist of that text from Ocho. I don't think their issues are talent though. I think that they have serious issues with at least communication, at least communication. They're getting torn apart by the same stunts every single week. So at minimum it's poor communication and then potentially it's poor coaching. Potentially it's poor coaching. I couldn't tell you that for sure 'cause I'm not out there to see how they're coaching them up. Maybe they're coaching them up perfectly and they just can't execute because the communication's so poor and they can't work as a cohesive unit. So at minimum it's poor communication with the potential that poor coaching could also be a factor here. - Yeah, I think that both are in play and I think that it's not about each individual player because look at the draft capital and the assets you've spent to put these guys in place and the majority of them come with a resume and playing ability that says they should be just fine ability-wise but the continuity has to change. Maybe it has something to do with juice and a younger center too on some of the coverages but whatever it is, coaching and/or continuity, figure it out because it's only gonna, we're only going into week four and it needs to get better. - Yeah, all right, 713-780-ESP and we're you out with that. And also hearing a lot about how great the Houston Texans are at pressures. Here we go again with this conversation. It is the B's on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 92.5. (upbeat music) - You're back with a killer B's on ESPN 97.5 and 92.5, live from the Veritex Community Bank Studios. Here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branden. Now in its 58th year. Almost sold as life. The original Greek festival runs on October 3rd through 5th, a cornerstone of the fall festival season in Houston and the largest of its kind in the nation. The festival features homemade Greek food, traditional Greek dancing, all sorts of authentic shopping and an opportunity to learn more about the Greek Orthodox faith and culture. Admission to the festival is $8 for adults, children under 12 get in free. There is no charge for admission between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday. For more information, you can call 713-526-5377, 713-526-5377. And we're giving away paratigots right now to call number three at 713-780-3776. Call number three to 713-780-3776. You are going to Greek Fest coming up. All right, Ocho even beyond the penalties, this offensive line is all finesse and needs dogs to get to the next level. I think Laramie's got some dog to him. Like I know that he likes to get high and he speaks a little softly. Laramie Tunzel post-nap is still one of the best tackles in football. - I still believe Shaxx got some dog and I think he's good. - Yeah, I don't know if I completely agree with Ocho. I think, I mean, I think Juice has some dog, Juice might not be good yet 'cause he's only in the second year and he's struggling with communication. I think he actually plays with a huge chip on his shoulder. I think he plays nasty. Quite frankly, I like that for my offensive lineman. I like nastiness for my offensive lineman and it sounds like Ocho wants more nastiness which I think is fair but I think you are selling them a little bit short when it comes to their nastiness. Okay, I like a good old pressure. Pressures are obviously very important. I understand that they factor into the game. You pressure the quarterback. The quarterback has less of a chance to complete the pass. It disrupts the play. I get all of that. But I'm already tired of the Texans who are leading the league in pressures. Like just like last year, Will Anderson graded getting pressures and that's fantastic. That's great. Go finish a play though. Like these guys get paid because they sacked the quarterback. John Grenard said that last year. Yeah, we know that we get paid based on the sacks that we have. You listen to Matt Burke, the defensive coordinator of the Texans yesterday. He was asked about, you're getting tons of pressures. How great is this? He's like, yeah, that's great. But we would really like the sack. Pro Bowl defensive ends, Danil Hunter, Will Anderson, yeah, Pro Bowl. Have combined for the most quarterback pressures in the NFL with 39. Okay, that's great. I rather have pressures than not have pressures, but I really want them to get to the quarterback. Hunter leads the NFL with 20 pressures. Anderson's ranked second with 19. Great stat, but it's a double. It's not a home run. Get to the quarterback and finish some plays. That's what I want to see. I don't want to celebrate pressures anymore. No, you want the John Grenard effective last week. You want, you don't want pressures. You want a guy that's got three sacks in his back pocket that disrupts the game and makes a difference in the outcome of the football game based on what you get, tackles for loss. You know, making something happen by either creating a turnover or forcing a bad throw and getting to the quarterback. And we've all seen it. We've watched enough of the film and watched the games from week to week to know, look, the edge rushes have been good. Even the interior defensive line have created pressure. But at the end of the day, it's all about the result that gets you to the win. And they didn't get it against Minnesota. They haven't been getting home as frequently as you like. And if you look at pressures versus sacks, that's where you'll see the biggest difference. - Yeah, I'm not putting down pressures. I rather have a pressure than not have a pressure, but I rather have a sack than a pressure. Like getting a pressure is all fine and dandy, but it doesn't end the play. Like we saw Sam Darnell get pressured and Sam Darnell of all people escaping the pocket and throwing a touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson. So it's fantastic that you're getting these pressures, but it doesn't end the story. It doesn't close the book. It doesn't end the play. I think it's an equivalent to a double, quite frankly. I think a pressure is a double and a sack is a home run. Like it's great to get the double. It puts you in position to have a chance. It puts you in position to have something positive happen, but it doesn't guarantee the positive result. You know, it does a homer. Same thing with pressures and sacks. Pressures are good. Dodalis pressure is good. That's fine. Give me the sack, man. Give me the sack. Start finishing some play. - It's next level in terms of how they can chart all of this and what it leads to, but you're right, because of the fact that at the end of the day, if the pressure, we talked at the start of the year, hey, look, one of the big assets you're going to have with this defensive line, especially on the outside is, is that the secondary is going to have to work probably less in coverage because the quarterback's not going to have enough time to get the ball off. So if the pressure leads to an interception, then you could say, okay, that's the kind of pressure that I like because it led to a turnover, gave us the football back, changed the momentum of the game for a certain portion of time. But at the same time, other than that, pressures are just that because if quarterbacks are good, if they can get out of the pocket, if they're good at extending a play and going off script, pressures mean nothing. - 713-780-ESP-N, HRNP listener line, texture, what is a pressure, how is it charted? It's a good question, I don't know. My best guess, I don't know the scientific definition of a pressure in the NFL. And I think different sites record them differently. Like if you go look at ESPN's numbers, pro football reference numbers, they're always a bit different. Pressure I think is whenever you make the quarterback adjust. - I was gonna say, or like at the point of release? - This one, and again, this is from the CFL. I just Googled how our pressure started in the NFL and it brought up a CFL thing for some reason. Quarterback pressure is awarded to a defender who either forces the quarterback to move off his initial drop back point to avoid contact. Contacts the quarterback in the act of throwing or has the quarterback in his grasp at the time of the intentional grounding penalty. So it sounds like there's different ways to get it. But if you're like in the NFL, you have so many more mobile quarterbacks, you put pressure on a quarterback, he rolls out of the pocket, you still have a very good chance of an explosive play. So you got a pressure on a play, he throws the ball 20 yards downfield. What good was the pressure there? It's like not all pressures have a positive result. - You get a competition trophy because you got a pressure, but at the end of the day, he got 25 yards and a chunk play and the offense has still got the bell. - Yeah, so it's like Brock Osweiler said about interceptions and interception every interception tells a different story. Same thing with a pressure. If Will Anderson's creating a pressure on Lamar Jackson and he rolls out of the pot, he might run for 50 yards or if it happens and you sack him. Okay, great, that was a great pressure. The other one was not a great pressure. - Yeah, 'cause I mean two of the last two of the three things you mentioned are great. Like in the grasp, running or hitting them are great. But that first one just basically forced him to step up and move off a spot. I mean, to a good quarterback, like my home's means nothing. Now, if it's a quarterback like Will Levis who's never be able to identify pressure in his life and gets hit because he doesn't see it coming, then pressure's great because it'll turn into a sack. But a great quarterback, that means nothing. He steps up, he moves around, he fires the ball down field. - That's the stat is like the pressures that lead to something, lead to a tackle for loss and interception, a turnover, like a fumble or something and/or a sack. Those are the ones that mean the most because you're right. I mean, look, you look at my homes, you look at Josh Allen, you look at Lamar, you look at guys that can either do with their legs or in the case of homes, just he's almost better when he gets outside the pocket. The pressures mean nothing. - Quarterback pressure on pro football reference, hurries, knockdowns and sack plays. So a hurry, I guess you just get to the quarterback in a certain amount of time. - So you got a pressure and a sack if you complete it? - Looks like it, yeah. - Okay. - Yeah. So again, I rather have the pressure than not have the pressure. I'm not saying that. All I'm saying is I don't want to celebrate almost. I don't want to celebrate pressures. I want to celebrate sacks. You know when these defensive linemen do their dances? After sacks, not pressures. 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. Let's go out to the HR&P listener line. Keith, you're in the high for the bees. What's up? - Hey guys, obviously, Jeremy is pretty upset that Tank Della's out this weekend. With that being said, is this the game where the Texans finally get Don Schultz maybe eight to nine targets and he puts up some of those 20-23 stat lines? Or is this like a Robert Wood, Metchi kind of game? - Appreciate Keith. Yeah, thanks for the call, Keith. Look, either one of those would be great. I mean, I think that for your long term, you'd like to see Schultz start to get going. In the short term, if you find something in a woods or a Metchi that you know and you can put in your back pocket that when you need them, you can throw them out there and get them more in the mix than they've been, that'd be fantastic too. But at this point in the season, we just need to see continuity on offense. We just need to see, I don't care who gets the yards and like last week when Diggs had a big game, but they didn't do anything to look like an impressive offense. I need to see this team starts living up to billing in terms of an impressive offense. Finishing drives is a huge key to that. Without field goals, getting touchdowns, doing the kind of things to where people can actually start quantifying and qualifying, the fact that they were supposed to have this kind of offense. - I'm not sure your answer just questioned. - I said, I'd like, I mean, if either one of those things happened to be great, long term, I think it'd be great for Schultz, short term if one of those guys shows you, you can use them more, great too. But I just wanna see the offense have more continuity. If I had to pick one of the two, I'll take Schultz. - I think you could, I think you could carry out Keith. I'm not really not that upset about Tank, really. I'm really not. I think the Texas will be fine. What bothers me is that we're allowing stupidity. That's why I've been so loud about it. Everybody else has been so quiet about it. And I think it's silly. I'm a roadblock for justice. In terms of- - Settle down Batman. - In terms of Schultz, I don't see Schultz having a seven, eight target game. I feel like the Texans actually, because of their offensive line, would rather operate out of 12 personnel than 11 personnel. So I don't think this is gonna be a whole big, like Robert Woods, John Metche break out. I think we're gonna see a lot of 12 personnel. And then also, Jackson go plays a lot of man coverage, which I think bodes well to Nico Collins. - Nico Collins is gonna be- - So I don't see this as a Schultz game. I think he'll play a lot of snaps. I don't think he gets targeted seven, eight, nine times. - I don't either. 'Cause I don't know if you guys will remember those first couple of games of the season last year, same thing as this year. Stroud was getting hit a ton. It was like seven sacks in the first two games. And then what we saw from the Texans, the adjustment, at least initially from Bobby Slope, was a lot of max protect. A lot of three man route combinations, leaving seven in the block. And if they have to do that again, that means Schultz is gonna be in blocking. He's not a great pass blocker, but at least he's somebody out there to take up a body. So that would mean I don't think he would be able to get out there for seven, eight targets. - I wonder if we see Irv Smith. I'm gonna be watching her, like, who cares, right? I didn't really move the needle talking about Irv Smith, but I wonder if Irv Smith's gonna be active on Sunday. Just something I'm looking at. Is it more important to extend, important, I don't know what word that is, is it more important to extend Alex Breggman or Kyle Tucker, 713-780-3776. It's the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. - ESPN 97-5. - KFNC and 97-9 HD-2 Montelview Houston. Presented by Zadok Jewelers. Owning a rental property sounds like a dream until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. 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