The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
09/30 Hour 3 - CJ Stroud Vs Trevor Lawrence
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Maybe their first game, I can't remember exactly. But Stroud Lawrence was a hot topic. I wasn't a big fan of Trevor. Nobody played really well against the Texans once last year. Remember, he had a game against the Texans where he went nuts last year. Yeah, but I've just never been sold on him. I know you and I have gotten into it about him before because he made some throws in that game that you notated, and I had to relent. Yeah, those were some good throws. I just have never really fully been into saying he's going to be someone in the NFL that's a really good quarterback. I think you would be justified with that because he's been playing poorly lately. He has not been very good. Last year he had a game against the Texans. It was actually week 11, where they came into Houston. They won, he threw for 364 yards, and I think that was the game where he was just hitting every throw. He was accurate. No, 23-38, it's not super accurate. His first game against the Texans, 27-40, but they lost by 20 at home through for 279. If Trevor Lawrence was mediocre yesterday, the Jaguars win that game. Oh, no doubt. If he was average, the Jags win that game by two possessions, I think. He is, it's almost like Jalen Greenesque when we always talk about the potential that you see, the ability that's there, when he's right, he's so right. But then when he's wrong, he's so bad that he can cost you the game. Even if it's not a turnover, the missed throws yesterday were ridiculous in terms of how painful they were to the Jags. Like the, he missed Kirk on the deep ball. He missed, I mean, how many times did he miss Thomas on balls that could have been difference makers? But then in the second half, when he had to make some throws, the one on the sideline, and there was a couple others in traffic where he kind of just lasered it in and I'm like, "See, that's why he got the money." Because he has all the tools, and occasionally, he hits on him. But man, the misses yesterday were blatant and they were bad. That's, look, I don't watch every single Trevor Lawrence game 'cause that'd be weird. I watch him every time he plays the Texans, I watch him whenever they're on prime time, which is not that many. And I watch him whenever they show him on Red Zone, which is an inaccurate, which is not an accurate representation of who they are as a quarterback. That's the worst I've seen Trevor Lawrence look. He was wildly inaccurate. The deep balls are annoying. Like the deep balls by its nature are like the most difficult passes to complete. But he had multiple ones that he missed and that he overthrew. The one that annoyed me, like if I'm a Jacksonville fan, is that third-in-one rollout? And yes, there's a little bit of pressure there, but he had ETN kind of wide open. And for NFL standards was wide open and he overthrows him. Like he's hit too far in front. It went off of ETN's fingertips, falls in complete. And then he has the audacity after doing that, which again would have annoyed me if I'm the coaching staff and a Jacksonville fan. Deep balls, yes, he missed them. But third-in-one for NFL standards, easy throw to make, throws too far in front of ETN. And then it has the audacity to come to the sideline and be like, "Let's go for it. Let's go for it. How about you complete an easy third down? I can't go for it because you can't complete that Trevor. You can't complete that pass. I can't go for it." I think where he missed was also really, really disturbing because the ones that were the deep balls were obvious. But the one to Thomas that was kind of a medium to deep route on the right sideline. Not only was it not in front of him and it just wasn't like an overthrow, it was behind him and it was headed for like the chain gang and the guys sitting in street clothes. I'm going, that wasn't even like competitive with the throw that he made there. So who won the fight yesterday, CJ and Trevor Lord? CJ. I give it a 10-8 round. I think CJ was easily better than Trevor Lord's was awful. And again. That's fine. Knocked him out in the fourth round. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. Trevor Lord's was so bad. He was so bad in that game yesterday. He was so bad and then going back and watching it a second time to realize how good CJ was that people were kind of losing sight of because of the offensive line, because of the penalties, because of the kind of inconsistent running game. When you go back and look at the throws CJ made and what he had to do to be able to make those throws, he deserves a lot more credit than he got. I think it was the best game he's played this year. Very well. Yeah. Probably was because they won in India and it wasn't spectacular and they won in Chicago and didn't really struggle in the second half and they got hammered last week. So it probably was. I test matters more in football than statistics. We'll give you the numbers though, 27 for 40, 68%, 345 passing yards. They ran a ton of plays yesterday and didn't run at great. No picks, no turnovers, 110.9 passer rating yesterday. What would you grade shrouds performance in yesterday's game? I'm going to give him an A minus. I'm going to give him an A minus just because of the fact that you'd like a little bit higher completion percentage, but overall with what he was dealing with, the pressure was constantly there, whether they were getting a completely home or not, and how he had to adjust and adapt. And then the throws that he made, particularly off script, yeah, I'm going to say he's definitely in the A category. So I'll go A minus 68% pretty dang high, especially when you consider the pressure that he was under throughout that game. So I don't. I didn't think the accuracy was poor. I think there was one poor throw that he made. I give him an A for that performance yesterday, a for anticipation. He was fantastic. The only throw that I wish he would have back was the one to Nico Collins at the end of the first touchdown. He missed. He missed a touchdown there. That's the only reason that he doesn't get an A plus for me. He gets an A for that performance yesterday. King of Twitch says, give me a plus for C.J. Strout. King of Twitch, a big C.J. Strout guy. He thinks he's the best quarterback already in the NFL. So King of Twitch has him down for an A plus Alex is giving the round to C.J. Strout 10 eight over Trevor Lauren, 7 1 3 7 8 0 3 7 7 6. Go ahead. No, I was just going to say 10 8 fine. It's a knockout when a guy is your franchise quarterback and you're stuck with him as the leader of the franchise and he couldn't lead yesterday. When you watch that performance, it's one thing to say he missed some throws. He's the number one. He might be the sole reason why you lost that football game. You got to turn over in the, in the special teams game that led immediately to a touchdown. It sets you up on the road to have a seven point lead early. You had multiple opportunities to blow the top off it. We talked about the one that would have given you a double digit lead and basically almost for, for all intent and purposes, put the game on ice for you to, to a certain degree or really give you a huge advantage. You missed every possible throw your receivers were especially Thomas was extremely frustrated trying to hold it back because of how many times he was wide open and the ball wasn't there. That's a single reason why the Jags lost that game. No doubt. No doubt. So that's a knockout to me. Yeah, that's, that's fine. Knock out 10, eight round, 10, eight round means you knocked him down twice in the round. It just, you didn't knock him completely out, but maybe you did because they're on four. A lot of people are blaming, a lot of people are saying Peterson's going to be fired. Peterson had to quote, I saw a conkel posted that he kind of threw blame at the players. Oh, he, he, he, if you watched the actual sound bite, it took everything he had to like stop mid sentence because they were saying when asking him, are he, is he thinking about taking over play calling duties from the OC press. Um, I forget what his last name is, but he's like, um, no, I thought he called the hell of a game. And at a certain point, you need to make the, the guys need to complete the plays and make the plays on the field. There's no doubt in my mind that there's a disconnect there and he knows his guy can't get done. The plays they're calling you probably can't throw the players under the bus. Like he did. Not, not especially that franchise. And he, he did do that. He did, he did blame it on the players really, but I don't think he was wrong. Like, I, I do think that they called a good offensive game. Like they were there at the big, big speed run. Like he, he picked a great time to run. DeMico Sina Blitz runs right into the blitz has a huge game, which could have easily went for a touchdown and game over the, the deep balls were there multiple times. You can play one of them. Jags probably win that game. So I actually did think that he called a good game. I think it was solely on the shoulders of, of Trevor Lawrence. I would say this. The only reason, the only area where I would put some of that on the coaching staff was their last possession before, before the, the garbage time with a couple seconds left was the fact that they didn't run any time off the clock when they could have really made it difficult for the Texans to just get down a field goal. That's a good call. They went, they went run play, didn't waste any time, pass play and complete, pass playing game. Yeah. And in the three and out only cost you about 18 seconds if you're the Texans and that should not have been the case. No, no, you're right about that. Now the Texans really weren't in like danger of not scoring though. Like they still had time outs and like they still would have had the time, but I agree. They could have used more time, but I also understand them trying to get a first down more than using climb time there because the first now would have been way more beneficial to their chances of winning than that. The thing that encourages me though, because like who cares their grades, right? Who cares what we think their grade is for CJ. Who cares what we think he competed against Trevor Lawrence. The thing that is really nice is that when the game is on the line, you think that you have a shot with CJ Stroud, you're down by a possession, two minutes left to play, whatever team that you're playing, you know that you have a punchers chance with CJ Stroud, which you didn't really feel that you might have felt that way with the Sean, it might have been blind. Like like thinking that with the Sean, you didn't really had that with shop. You didn't have that with any other quarterback that that wasn't named those two. You can only make a case for those two. This is the first time that I felt that when you give the quarterback a chance of the quarterback of the Texans, a chance to win the game that you feel pretty dang good with CJ Stroud leading that drive. You absolutely should. And you know, you got it helps that you have your full compliment, but you have as long as Niko's on the field too, no matter if you had digs a year ago or not, you go back to the Tampa Bay game and the way that CJ just ice water in his veins stayed composed, did what he had to do, led you down the field, time running out, got you to win. You look at both drives at the end of both halves yesterday, yes, he missed the touchdown pass to to Niko, but at the same time, he got you there. He made the tough plays. He got everybody involved. He extends plays when he has to. He's intelligent enough and has the feel to step up. The touch throws are still there. The one that got called back the digs play on the sideline, another touch ball perfectly placed so that digs could get the toe tap and get in and out. He has so much that makes you believe that regardless of last year and people doubted can he do it for a second year and what you've seen so far this year, he can make all the throws and the composure and the knowledge of the game and the feel is something that it's hard to put a value on, but you should always feel you got a shot when you've got time in the ball and CJ's hands. Oh, Joe, I trust CJ, but probably not as much as he trusts his offensive line given how he holds the ball instead of checking it down. He was better at that yesterday 0 4 5 2 Trevor's been terrible since he was drafted yet jags give him all the chances. Bryce Young on the other hand, that's a racial text 7560. I didn't watch the game, but home team one, yeah, let's hope they can keep the spirits up with baseball is over because we all know the Toyota Center is going to be boring. Interesting text. All right, let's go out to the HRP listener line Vera. You're in the hive with the bees. What's up Vera? Hey guys. Hope you're all well. A couple of points, right? I think a lot has been said about the offensive line. And I think this is something that the commentator that had said last afternoon that it was, I think one of the first times for any in the season that all the five offensive linemen had to penalty the game in a single game, the text inside. I mean, tonsil, he has been a false start master, false start master, but he had two holding penalties. Kelly and Green got bull rushed a couple of times, which are one of the facts that CJ took. So I think I don't know if this is just a mere question of mental issues or this is also a question of like coaching issues with Chris Chaucer. I mean, there's something, of course, let him go for a reason, right? I mean, we brought him on shore, I mean, he might be a good skin fit for us. The other question, I did want to also, you know, keep a hat to Dario Cumbowale. I mean, I know, I know a lot of people have showed a lot of good things, but his 30 yards run on a third and 18 and, you know, also then, you know, catching the last touchdown. I think it calls for a lot of good things. So I'll hang up and listen, guys. Thank you. Always appreciate it, Vera. Don't only just show up here in Texan season, but appreciate your listening. Good thoughts. We talked on a lot of that. There's no doubt that if you only know the offensive line coaches name, it's because of all the mistakes that they're making. Chris Chaucer. Yeah. The fact that we're only talking about him because of the fact that it's bad. If it continues like this for a couple more weeks, he's not going to be your offensive line coach by mid season. He just can't because you need to make go and fire him in here. I do. I do. I think that I really, I'm talking to DJ about this after he got done on Friday too. I just don't think that a team that is it has this high of an expectation that was off the rack that has all this town. No, I brought it up to him. I brought it up to him. And I said, is this on the coach? Because you brought it up. We've talked about it. We talked about the fact we wouldn't even know his name, except for the fact that we're dealing with all this stuff, I brought it up to him off the record. Oh, I brought it up. I brought it up to him and asked the question, is it coaching? Because I didn't know if it was just coaching or if it's the players being stubborn. What the fact is, in my mind, he's got to go. This team, you spent so much money in draft capital on the guys that you have. You have committed all these resources. None of these guys are hurt. It's not like a year ago when you were playing musical chairs and wondering if your right tackle could be your left guard and, you know, your center who's also a guard as a rookie. They're too good and you've paid them too much for them to be this bad and for the problems to continue, especially when you made the statement during the week of practice that we've addressed it. Yeah. I don't, I don't, firing an offensive line coach mid year. I don't know what you accomplished there really though, because like he caught up the assistant offensive line coach, does that make you feel better? What's Lance's dad up to? Like maybe that'll make us feel better. I don't know who the, the other candidates would be, but sometimes you just got to get a fresh voice in the room because obviously he's not reaching these guys. Yeah. It's just really hard to bring up somebody like off the streets that isn't coaching anywhere mid year, like on a winning team. You don't see that often. And I don't know who the, I don't know what the answer is, but I can't have this guy not getting any kind of results or showing any progress based on the penalties week in, week out and almost all of them being pointed directly to your offensive line, knowing that coaching is the biggest reason why they were a little better, they were a little better and the pre, the pre snap stuff was cleaned up there. There's, there were all post snap. They just kind of, you know what it was like. It's whenever you're cleaning your room and you just kind of stuff everything up, like underneath your bed and you didn't really clean anything. You just kind of shuffled around with a dirt set, you know what I mean? Like you sweep all the dirt out of the kitchen, but now it's in the dining room. That's what it was. Pre snap to post snap. I just feel like as much as, you know, we always talk about Jerry Jones as a guy that no matter what he knows needs to be done, he always waits too long before he changes coaches or does anything. I just feel like Demico knows that how talented this team is and knows that he's got the right pieces and who knows if digs will be here past this year, but you've got all the weapons and the line is the, the, the literally the engine that makes it all go with CJ being the catalyst that, that if it get, if it continues on this path for the next couple of weeks, I think you've got to do something drastic. Yeah. Six seven six one. This team is one CJ away from being defeated. This team has some huge flaws. Strout is saving it all. I agree. I agree. I don't think that they have a ton of huge flaws. I think they just have one big flaw on the offense, which I think is the offensive line. That's why everything looks worse. A 5 5 9 5, I trust CJ, but our old line doesn't give them enough time to do anything. I tend to agree, tend to agree seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six. Let's go out to the HR and P listener line. It is Keith. Keith, you're in the hive with the bees. What's up? Hey guys. I have a fantasy football question, but one note on the offensive line thing. If you fired the offensive line coach, you wouldn't go for the assistant offensive line coach. You would just hire a recently retired offensive lineman like a, like a Jason Kelsey or Marshall Yonder, somebody chasing a champion and he's not being the offensive line coach for the Texans. You know who might. Yeah. Marshall. You're originally retired offensive line coach. Jeff Saturday. Yep. That's what I was thinking. If he came out of the booth, if he came out of the booth to be the head coach of his beloved Colts, would he not at least know enough from a, from a better perspective to work in that mid year? He'd have the respect of the offensive lineman. The language is different. You're going to have to learn the offensive playbook and playbook. You're going to have to learn all the language, what the offense is like. You're not higher. If you're a winning team, you're not firing the offensive line coach and hiring somebody from the outside. You're not doing it. Okay. Well, first of all, I'm, I completely believe that he could go by mid season. And if you want to keep it in house for the rest of the year, fine. But if it really truly unique, maybe you bring in as an assistant, then bring in a guy with veteran experience that the guys would respect that knows offensive line play to make a difference. That's, that's more possible. Like you'd be like, you would have to learn the language. That's tough to do. It's tough to do. What else you got, Keith? Yeah. So my fantasy football. All right. No, we don't do that. We don't, we don't do fantasy football. No, no, Keith, no one cares about your fantasy football team. No one cares about Kansas fantasy football team, Seattle, D tonight. I don't care what you do, Keith. I don't care what you do. Keith, no one cares about your fantasy football team. No one cares about my fantasy football team. No one cares about blinkers fantasy football team. No one cares about the twitchers fantasy football team. They're not asking who you should start on Monday night football, Keith. No one cares, but you, but you will talk to Adam Rona's Thursday with all your question. Seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six. It is the bees on ESPN, nine, seven, five and ESPN, ninety two, five. Great shroud. What'd you think of his performance? How much trust do you have in shroud with game with the game on the line? And someone caught blinkers attention that needs to be discussed. It is the bees on ESPN, ninety seven, five and ESPN, ninety two, five. 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You know, watching it the second time to make sure to jail in Petrie, I know that we talked about, hey, this was a, you know, playing the nickel corner and doing the things that he did at Baylor was going to be the right fit for him. But watching just his inability in coverage was just driving me nuts. Look, we all know he loves to hit. We all know he loves to be up on the line of scrimmage and he's really good tackling. He's really bad in coverage and Christian Kirk was having his way with him all day and tight ends were getting space and having plenty of distance if Lawrence would have made the right throws to get the ball to them and he was given up play after play after play to where I'm not sure by the end of the season he can cover well enough to continue to be your nickel corner. I know the options are limited, but man, he was awful in coverage yesterday. Yeah, he didn't have his best game. I don't know if I would go as far to say that he's awful in coverage. Was he awful in coverage yesterday? I do think so. Now, the Texans do play a lot of zones so they can kind of get away with it at times. I think he will be challenged by the better slot receivers in the NFL. Christian Kirk is one of the better slot receivers in the NFL though, like you're not going to have an opponent each and every week. That's as good as Christian Kirk. You're about to play Buffalo. They don't have a receiver as good as Christian Kirk. I like Shakir. Here's pretty good. Yeah, he's not as good as Kirk. No, he's not as good as Kirk. Gabe Davis. He's fine. I don't think he's okay. Davis is in Jacksonville. Actually, Curtis Samuels had a tough start to his season. He's not as good as Kirk. They key on Coleman, like, I don't think he at this stage of his career is as good as Kirk, especially like speedy, shiftiness type of stuff. Coleman's not the fastest, quickest player. He's more like hands and that sort of thing. So I don't, I don't know if this is an every game, every game problem for Jalen Petrie. I think it's a problem when you face the elite slots in the NFL. Let's hope not because the other thing that we've talked about in the past is term in terms of when he's in coverage is the ankles that he takes. And a lot of times he takes too sharp of an angle when he needs to kind of bow out a little bit. He made a really nice play at the end of the game when they needed it, kind of with the layered throw that Lawrence had to make by getting his hand on it. But overall in coverage and it wasn't just on Kirk, but it seemed like almost every time anything was happening over the middle, everybody was kind of a step and a half in front of him. And then yeah, he was going to make the tackle once the guy got his hands on the football. But you need better than that. And maybe let's hope it was just one bad game because the correlation and combination of one bad game there, but the same thing coverage and then the angles that worries me. See, I don't even, I don't know if it's like the difference between him playing well and playing poorly. I think it's more who the opponent is, maybe because I think that against like average to below average slot receivers in the NFL, I think he'll be able to hold his own, but you get to the top 10 slots in the NFL. I don't think he has a chance and tight and wise too, though, he's got to be better on tight ends where he doesn't need to give him a pad and he should be able to stay with them and, you know, be competitive to mix it up. What are you talking about with that? There was a couple tight end plays over the middle where he was responsible for the tight end and a crossing pattern. I don't remember that. Yes. Yeah. And he just looked like he was a step behind. Yeah, I don't remember him to any of the tight end plays. I remember him being exposed a couple of times by Christian Kirk, Kirk, Kirk had his number and you could tell that the game plan was we're going to, we're going to attack Jalen Oh, no doubt. Christian Kirk. Yep. They did it twice on the first series. They went right back to it at the start of the second half. They were hell bent to give Christian Kirk the football against Jalen Petrie. They felt like that was their best matchup. No doubt about it. Their game plan with unequivocally was one of the matchups they loved was any was trying to expose that one with with with Jalen Petrie and Christian Kirk. Yeah. There's no doubt about that. But I would say this, I'm not trying to just be. It was it was just very noticeable to me and it was problematic looking at it a second time with Petrie and coverage. Maybe it was the opponent and it was just one of those games. But overall, he also I also want to point out he was not alone because no matter who you pick in that secondary, a lot of guys had some hot and cold moments throughout the entire game. They had some good plays. They had some bad plays. So you know, the secondary did not have their best game yesterday. Yeah. Other than like, I would say stingly played well. Yeah. I want there was a tackle miss the tackle and there was there was one or two in coverage early that I was like, Oh, either it was a it was a drop or it was a bad throw. But I want to say there was one or two early where I was like, sting could have probably been in a better position for that. But then late in the game, he was where he needed to be. Murray was up and down, had a good play, you know, got the big sack, had had some good plays, but also got beat on some plays. Yeah. I mean, the sack was kind of easy. Like, let's be honest, like how much how much are we really giving credit for Eric Murray on the sack though? Like it was a draw. It was well drawn up. It was a great call. Murray got into the backfield, finished the play, give him credit for finishing the play. But that wasn't like, Oh, what an elite play by Eric Murray. Like he just did what he was told and brought down the quarterback. He had a couple of good defensive plays, but he also got cooked a couple of times. And again, if Lawrence makes the right throws on a couple of balls, he could have, it could have been devastating. Some of the plays he gave up. He gave him a touchdown. I mean, he gave a touchdown to Brian Thomas Jr. Yeah. The first touchdown they scored, which I don't know exactly what happened on that play. I think it was man coverage. I think it was man coverage. It kind of looks like Murray thought that he had help though. Like he gave him the inside. Like he gave, he had outside leverage, gave him the inside and it looked like he thought he had help. But maybe he just got burned badly by Brian Thomas, which is pretty dang like last year had kind of a tough day too. Yeah. Last year. It wasn't great. No, faster wasn't great yesterday. And the more I looked at it, I was like, yeah, that's a tough, that's tough right there because as much as he earned the position and everything like that, yeah, he had tough day. One thing that I did know, I have noticed with last year though, is that he's willing to allow you, he'll jump on the short stuff. Like people always getting, he's getting, you know, destroyed on these double moves and he's allowing these double moves. I think that that's what he's trying to do. Like I think he's erring on the side of, I'm going to take the short pass array and if you double move me, I have safety help. So I think it is by design, but yeah, he has gotten beat a couple of times because of that. Yeah. No. So I mean, I think the secondary as much as with the easy call was the offensive line. But secondary has got to be better too. And to a certain degree, look, you've got just a phenomenal talent in a rookie wide receiver and you've got Kirk and you've got some guys Davis as an experienced veteran. But I think they just have to be better as a unit overall because you just saw too many deficiencies. Yeah. I just, I don't know if it's a, I don't know if it can be because I think it's kind of a talent thing. You know what I mean, especially with Petrie, like you're not going to, there's not a better nickel. Right. Like are you playing? You're going to make the move. Okay. Desmond King, you're our new nickel corner. We're going to move Petrie back to safety. Like is that what? Is it to that point yet? Well, no, not yet, but at the same time I would, I could, I could still trust him from a safety position to do a lot of good and he still has speed, but he doesn't have to do as much in coverage, but he does have to take better angles when he gets back at safety. But then we saw how many times did the Texans look for corners and change corners and find guys throughout the season that get let go or there's opportunities to where it's not, we're not there yet. And maybe the competition did matter, but in a couple of weeks, if we're still having this discussion, then I could think that it'd be in the realm of possibilities. I do think they have more depth at nickel corner than they do outside corner because I mean, you're carrying miles, Brian Desmond King's back on the practice squad. So like you have options there, whereas outside corner, it's Chris Boyd and D'Angelo Ross outside corner. It's one of those guys gets hurt and it's, oh, no, we're doomed. You know, and I think that I look, I think last year he's learning this is, this is part of the baptism by fire of being the starting corner as a rookie. I think he's going to get better. I think he's still going to be the answer, but he had a rough day. Yeah, he did. He did. He didn't. It wasn't as noticeable with him because they didn't complete the passes as it was by Petrie. But yeah, it was something that showed up. All right. 713 7803776. Let's give out our game balls. Who deserves game balls after most of week four being complete 713 7803776. It's the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5, guys, where we go to the break. We got two games tonight. If you're looking at some people over from Monday night football and the double header and all of that, you're going to be serving some good food. I've got another beverage to add to the beverage list. Yeah, you can only go with your beers and your hard liquors, but sometimes, especially on a Monday night, you want to pace yourself. You want just a nice subtle mix of the alcohol, but with a lot of flavor and a lot of different varieties to choose from. I recommend Stella Rosa once Stella Rosa wines are served chilled and they go with just about anything you're serving from the dips and the chips to the pizzas and wings and all the other things you might be serving. Give your guests a chance to add something else to their possible potential palette when it comes to beverages because Stella Rosa wines are refreshing. They actually serve chilled. Go with just about anything and you're not going to feel it to the degree that you might feel it with some of the other alcohols you're serving. I recommend them because they're convenient. They're easy. They've served at all your local retailers and they go with just about everything you're serving and all the different flavors that we've had when we have our toast of the week. They're really, really delicious and you have the time you're wondering if you're actually drinking alcohol, but you are, but it's actually with a legitimate twist. Real fruit flavors. They're phenomenal as well. Check them out today. Go to your local retailer and always drink responsibly, but absolutely celebrate with Stella Rosa wines. Here's Joel Planken, Jeremy Brant, who gets game balls this week? Moving it up to Monday instead of Tuesday because we're going to be a little bit short tomorrow. We're carrying the baseball game tomorrow. We'll be on immediately after the game with our instant reaction after wild card game one used in Detroit, but probably an abbreviated show tomorrow a bit. So game balls today. Who's getting your game ball? 713-780-3776. We got plenty to hand out. Lancaster, who gets your first one? First one to me is the game of the week on the schedule in the NFL, lived up the billing for one team, the Baltimore Ravens, and that starts with Derek Henry. Derek Henry, in one carry, had a game that a lot of running backs would have loved 87 yards and a touchdown. He was unbelievable. He was heading for 200 yards. He was doing anything he wanted, and I don't care when he eats and how he eats it and what he does. That dude at six, six, 250 pounds, out running defensive backs, that was an impressive performance. Brian thought he was washed. Yeah. I'm not going to let him forget that one. I mean, he's washed. He went to Dallas and showed them when they were supposed to be the front runner to get him, but they missed when they didn't get him. And Baltimore was the perfect fit and unbelievable with that line, what he can do. Yeah. Yeah. He ran for 199 yards. They left him in the game without the starters to try to get to 200, which was foolish. I thought that was very dumb. He was the only starter on the field for either team, very foolish. But yeah. I mean, 199 yards, two touchdowns. Derek Henry was a beast. Brian thinks that he's washed. He doesn't think he's a fit for that offense. Jury's still out? No. I'm kidding. I'm going to say that he wasn't a fit for that offense, but all they do is run. Sam Darnell, MVP. Oh boy. 275 yards, three touchdowns, the undefeated Viking Sam Darnell continues to roll. Sam Darnell gets a Branham game ball. Yeah. No doubt about it. I mean, look from a Packers perspective, watching that football game. And yeah, they had a, they had a muffled punt that ended up putting the Vikings in scoring position. Sam Darnell could do whatever he wanted. I mean, Addison back, the Vikings have all the weapons for a team that no one gave, gave a whole lot of help, a lot of chance to do a lot this year. They're one of the best teams in the NFC with San Francisco down in Philadelphia down. You can't rule out the fact that Darnell with that offense and that coaching staff and all those weapons is having an MVP type season. It's so weird that Sam Darnell is good at football. It's weird. Yeah. He's never been good at football. And all of a sudden he's good at football. He's a poster child for Trevor Lawrence, maybe you can be the number one pick and look like absolute butt crack and then turn it around and it's how many, how many guys have done that though? Like how many guys? And Gino wasn't the number one pick. No, it wasn't the number one. He was like what? He was a first round. I think it was like late. What do you like in the twenties? Um, no, he was a second round pick. He was a second round pick, pick 39 out of West Virginia. Like how many top five top 10 first rounders have been absolute bust and have been rolled out as bust and then all of a sudden late in their twenties they turn out to be good. This is rare. Yeah. That's a, that's a good question. And this generation, it is rare. Yeah. I'm just real quick off top of my head trying to think of guys that were taking that high. It's an anomaly. He's a cinder. He's a unicorn. He's a Sam Darnell. It's a unicorn. It's easy to find the guys that were taking that high and suck. Yeah. But then like, but, but to suck for a while for, I mean, he's on his one fourth different team, third different team. How many guys have been top five picks that are on their third team, fourth team that are on their four team that all of a sudden find some semblance of being a good quarterback after they've been terrible and have been labeled a bust for their first six years in the NFL. Yeah. I mean, Justin Fields may end up being there. I don't know. But yeah, even he's allowed a second team. Right. Right. It's crazy. He throws the wrinkle into it that no one's going to compete with. I think he's a unicorn. I think Sam Darnell's a unicorn. All right. One needs one Joe Flacko had to comment that not, you mean, not only did, I mean, first of all, if you're the Colts and Anthony Richardson on a running play hurts his hip and he comes back and the first thing you do is call a quarterback run and he gets hit again. Is it that different than what the Texans do with Joe mixing? Okay. I mean, well, I mean, if I got him back in the football game, the last thing I'm going to do right away is give him a chance to get hit. I don't know. I can't throw, but they don't want to admit that. That's his only weapon. Well, but Flacko does it again. He saves the day. He comes in the relief pitcher extraordinaire and then after the game, the postgame comment was all world when he said that Anthony Richardson's mom was born eight days after he was. So there's no way he thinks he's cool. That was funny. Yeah. Joe Flacko gets one there because boy, talk about extending in a career and then doing well when you get an opportunity, didn't they, he said after the game to that the, the Browns ever offered him a contract. You knew they weren't going to. Yeah, because then he hit you, you have a built in quarterback controversy all year when Deshawn doesn't play well, brutal, Baker Mayfield, he gets another game ball, Baker Mayfield might be a top 10 quarterback in the NFL 30 for 47, 347 yards, throws two touchdowns, runs for another as Tampa Bay continues to be schizophrenic. They lose to Carolina and then they beat the Eagles, although the Eagles were very short handed. Yeah, look, the, the, the Eagles are a very, very confusing team that are headed towards a quarterback change. I mean, a coaching change because they can't change the quarterback, but the Eagles should be a lot better than they are, but credit to Baker in the bucks, because we were talking about how we didn't know who they are. They're making you believe real quick that they're going to win that division. Yeah. Yeah, they look good. Who else you got? I'm trying to think, I want to say, but in a losing effort because I was going to say Justin Fields, but they love your game ball. You can hand out your game ball to losers if you choose. I mean, for the fact that I don't know that Russell Wilson gets a starting quarterback job back, the fact that Justin Fields threw for 312 yards and run the, ran the football well, didn't turn it over. I thought Justin Fields until Joe Flacco came in to save the day, Justin Fields had another great football game. Do what you want with your game balls, made it out of the game ball to your loser. That's fine. No big deal. Text line saying Alex Smith is the closest to Donald. I don't remember him being awful at his first team though. His first team was, was San Fran. And then, and then he got bumped out with injury for Kaepernick. Yeah. He was fine at San Francisco. Like he wasn't great. You know, you were, they went 13 and three like, he wasn't a bust. No, he might not have been worthy of the number one pick, but he wasn't a bust. A bunch of other people were saying Baker Mayfield, I say, I don't think Baker Mayfield was a bust. Ooh, he busted in Cleveland, I think. I think he busted in Cleveland. I don't think so. I think he was fine in Cleveland. They shouldn't have gotten rid of, they shouldn't have gotten rid of. And then after Cleveland, where do you go Carolina, before the Rams on that real short stint where he had the one good game. Yep. With no prep time. Yep. He has some decent seasons in Cleveland. He's the closest. He had 3,500 yards, 26 touchdowns, eight picks his third year in the league. Like they would be happy if they kept him and didn't have DeShawn. Oh, there's a lot of people we heard, we played the one radio called the Cleveland radio doesn't want to hear that, but that's, there's a lot of people that think they screwed up on that. It'd be better in his first few years in Sam Darnold, in my opinion. I said that the, the Bucks lost to Carolina, they lost to Denver, that was my bad. Both bad football teams, although Denver's defense looks all right. So maybe that's not as bad a loss as we thought. Baker's the closest to Darnold says oh so, the Bucks didn't lose to the Panthers. They lost once this year to the Broncos. Thank you. The Hive's so smart. Nothing gets past the goalkeeper. Nothing gets past the Hive. You say one off thing and they're all, that's why we love you, Hive. Thank you for having my back and correcting me, so I don't sound like a bigger idiot than I am. I remember I didn't lose to Carolina. That's my bad. Jaden Daniels gets my game ball 26 for 32 33 touchdown, did throw a pick, but then ran for 47 yards and a touchdown. King of Twitch says that he's already better than CJ Shroud, but King of Twitch doesn't know ball. We already know that. DeAndre Swift's 165 yards a touchdown, Jordan Mason, 160 total yards and a touchdown. Tomorrow Chase was pretty damn good in that Carolina game, that one run where no one could tackle him and it went for a long touchdown. Yeah, he's, he's a stud. You can give a couple of game balls to defenses, like Denver's D. You can give a game ball to the Vegas D. You can give a game ball to Chris Jones, two sacks and a 17 10 win for the Chiefs. But my biggest game ball is going to young hoh koo. Four for four field goals drill a 58 yarder to win it at the horn. Young hoh koo, the game ball, the radio call was pretty good too. I missed it. At the end, like the goal, they go, yeah, but he drilled it. That was, that was big. And Atlanta, look, Atlanta's a talented team as much as Tampa Bay has been the surprise of that division. Atlanta's been the disappointment, but they still got a lot of talent. Oh, so can we get Nico, another game ball? We don't usually give him Texans. Usually NFL segment. But yeah, you can give him a game ball. It's fine. That's fine by me. Jeremy McNichols, sneaky game ball, two touchdowns with Echler out. Yeah, he didn't have a sneaky game like out of nowhere out of nowhere. All right. We need zero three, seven, seven, six, go to the HRMP listener line real quick. Chad, you're in the hive with the bees. What's up? Yes, sir. Give my game ball to Trevor Lawrence for not being able to complete a pass. There you go. Appreciate it, Chad. Trevor Lawrence was the Texans MVP yesterday. There is no doubt about it. Not one person impacted that game in a more beneficial way to the Texans than Trevor Lawrence. That's a great call. Rackham. Yeah. Trevor Lawrence basically was he should be hated by all of the Jackson feel faithful that realized they have to deal with this for the foreseeable future. And he was the reason why they lost. They're in trouble. I mean, they're going to have to go coach hunting and they're probably going to have to figure out how to get rid of Trevor Lawrence because he's not any good. Nope. All right, seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six. What is your car wreck of the day? It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. This is the car wreck of the day. Make sure you keep it here, top of the hour, the boss and the gloss coming up from six to seven. Make sure you're tuned in. ESPN 97 five ESPN 92 five. What are you nominating for the car wreck of the day? It's a seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, three, seven, seven, six. I mean, as good as he played on the field, Baker Mayfield, I mean, slow down on when Tom Brady's calling the game coming in with the quotes that he came in with. They wanted me to come in, be myself, bring the joy back to football for guys who weren't having as much fun. And then he doubled down and said that he had everybody dialed in Brady did. So I think everybody was pretty stressed out. And Brady responded on the air by saying, I thought stressful was not having super ball rings. That wasn't daycare and it turned into a pretty fun to watch back and forth. Baker apparently like trying to back that down afterwards. Better. Yeah. It's not a fun house. No, he fired up all kinds of people, ex ex Brady teammates and everything like a little down big guy. Yeah, you're playing well, but that's the goat right there. These textures telling me how to pronounce young hoku, like I didn't do it intentionally. That's cute of you. 8, 8, 3, 5, very, very cute. I want to nominate the New York football jets. Yes. Jake Hasman was on one last night. He was he was insulting people's mothers. Uh oh. He was he was insinuating that he was hanging out with someone's mother with the red weasel was on fire. He was mad. He was mad. He said that Braylon Allen needs to get all the goal line carries after this offseason saying that Priest Hall was better than Christian McCaffrey. Which Christian McCaffrey has a kilonitis or whatever it's called in both of his Achilles. So he might be right about that. Yeah, he was hot. He was living. But the jets were awful yesterday. Nathaniel Hackett. He's a he's a bum. He's not any good. He's telling you. Aaron Rodgers is very, very old. Yeah. They got issues. Solace saying, oh, our cadences are too elaborate than Aaron Rodgers saying, no, they're not. You're offensive lineman or just idiots. And then saw us like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers is right today. Solace real close losing his job. He might have taken the front runner status of hot seat. I don't know. Like, they're still two and two, like they would have to go really downhill. He said, I mean, who, who, who's there? You can't, you can't. Hackett. That's not saying. Yeah. You can't do that. Rodgers would love to be player coach. I don't think that he could get fired in your, like now, if you're talking about end of the season, yeah, but they missed the playoffs. He's out. Oh, for sure. Oh, yeah. I just don't know if he survived the whole year, especially if they're out of playoff contention. I just don't know how you get tagged in the thing you'll hack it. Who else do they have on that? I don't know who their DC is, but it's all a place, right. But I Jeff Ulbrick, like, look, if they're, if they're out of playoff contention, he'll get a head start on the head coaches for next year and he'll cut him loose. Yeah, maybe, maybe, I think they'll still figure it out and be in the hunt. But not a good look yesterday. I think that Denver defense, a little better than we think they dominated. They dominated Baker, who's been, who's been really stinking good. He dominates the Jets and the Jets, offense is kind of mid. People are still saying this, Alex Smith thing, Alex Smith, bad rookie year, but Smith was fine as a, as a, as a niner. Like he had good years as a niner. Just because you have a bad rookie year, doesn't mean you're a bus or you're Sam Darnell. Hey, you said bad rookie year's successful until he got hurt. And that's when Harbaugh decided to put Kaepernick in and that was hand picked his guy out of college. I don't, I wouldn't call Alex Smith tenure in San Francisco, bust worthy or as bad as Darnell. Did he have a bad rookie year? Yes. But that does not define your career at that place. Seapate Manning, seven, eight, two, three, don't, don't see Bryce Young seven, eight, two, three, CJ Gardner, Johnson, definitely the car wreck, all that talk before the game to get destroyed by Baker, he was blocking people on Twitter too. Oh, really? See, I saw his block. I think he blocked Antonio Brown. I think Antonio Brown was giving him some dicey. Yeah. That's his stick. There's a lot of people like it. Did you see the two of the fact that when Aaron Andrews in the postgame asked Baker about the heat and how he dealt with it? Yeah, it did. And he changed his pants. What's wrong with that? I mean, I understand that, but did you see the numbers? First half with the first half pants, 237 passing yards, two TDs, a rushing TD, zero turnovers, second half, 110 passing yards, and eight, almost 50% that doesn't tell the whole story of that game. No, but it's fun. Talk about the fact that you haven't mentioned you changed your pants. I don't think that's that bad. I don't think that's that rare. Most guys, some guys take a leak in their pants during the game. That's true, but a lot of people change uniforms during the game. Baseball players do it a lot all the time. Football players, I don't think it's that big. I think they change it half time when they're sweating through it. I don't think it happens a lot. I don't think it happens a lot. You know what Baker Mayfield needs? He needs a little Roanell Blanco in his life. Roanell Blanco will tell him how to clean up saturation in a hurry. I think you can use rosin in sunscreen in the NFL. I don't think it's banned. Roanell Blanco needs the Law Baker Mayfield to call. Let him know how to cheat. Yeah. Yeah, it might help out of dry up all that sweat. I think Roanell would help him. I think Roanell would be good for Baker. You know, that could have been an advantage to Texans head every week with this roof situation if they just let it get hot and let opponents deal with it. 4321 Josh Allen, car wreck of the week, no touchdowns, 180 yards, quarterback rating of 79. Josh Allen against good football teams. What happens? He lays an egg. No, it's crazy though. Everybody was just talking about the one throw he did make when the blown coverage had the guy like 25 yards behind the secondary and he just, yeah, he made it on the run. It was a strong arm throw, but I mean, it was just a Hail Mary. Allen, Allen's numbers in the postseason are actually pretty good. They're way better than it sounds. They're way better than like the way I make it sound, but I just don't trust them in big games. Josh from super car wreck of the day, me for not noticing that I had a dead owl in the grill of my car since last Friday night. Go coups. Hmm. He finished it with that? No. Oh, yeah. Because there now he just moved on to me. That's a, I don't know how you wouldn't know that like that stuff would smell in a hurry. Oh, for sure. Smell in a hurry. Any kind of dead animal like that? Yeah. Yeah. That's, oh God. That smell much better. He said since last Friday night. Don't leave the house, Josh. Every day at getting worse. What are you looking under your seats for French fries? Don't smell like that when they're left under your seat. Have you ever, have you ever seen the house at night? They're cool. Their eyes like kind of like radiate. It's pretty cool. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Not at night. Yeah. 7823. He says, five, seven, nine eight. My car right now, I'm an egos to Patrick Mahomes for sabotaging and sacrificing for sea rice is ACL. Yeah. He did it intentionally. That's, um. That was a tough one. Apparently, they don't know like the severity yet. Like they're skidding. I saw him home said that hopefully he can help us at the end of the year. I think they're, they're hoping that it might just be like a, like a strain or maybe not a complete tear. Okay. Because they, chapter tweeted out of just a minute ago that they're looking at second opinions and they're not confirming a torn ACL yet. And usually you know pretty quickly. Yeah. My car wreck of the day is cancer because it took the Ken Belmont tumble at 58 and Deek was one of the all time great human being. Yeah. He was, uh, his humanitarian work a second than that. That's sad. Rest in peace. De Kim. It's going to do it for us. Thanks to be Rod. Boston Rodriguez for filling in for BMAC. He's blank. I'm Brandon the boss in the gloss. Coming up right now on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. The kids are back in school. The cooler temperatures are on the way. 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