The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
10/08 Hour 2 - How Beatable are the Chiefs for the Houston Texans?
[Music] Don't sweat technique! Now back to the Killer B's. On ESPN 97.5 and 92.5. Live from the Veritex Community Bank Studios, here's Joel Blanken, sharing me brand. 7151.5.1, stratus face more third and longs than anyone in the league. Slow, exposed, and second down plays have hurt the offense, living to its potential. I think there's some validity to that. I have no problem with that take. I'm fine with that as well. I mean, look, I think that we like to think because they're four and one that, you know, that they've had smooth sailing and we know that there have been challenges and we know the fact that with the penalties and all the different issues that they were dealing with with the offensive line, that there were plenty of opportunities. I think it was, was it two games ago that it was like eight of the nine, third down situations that CJ was in was at least ten yards? To where, you know, it again is a feather in his cap that he's been the guy that everything is kind of rested on his shoulders. You know, in those situations in the end of half situations and the end of game situations. And he makes all the throws and he makes the plays when you need them. Yeah, I'm a fan. I think that he's really, really good, which gets into the film Do Not Lie. Because if you watch, just turn on the film, which the twitchers don't do that. They don't know ball like we know ball. I think stratus special. Like you see the precision that he has under pressure, pressure in his face. How cool, calm and collected he stays. The ball placement bless you. The ball placement is fantastic. He's scrambling a little bit more this year too, which he talked about earlier this year, where Joe Nixon kind of challenged him to do that, which I would, I would offer some advice of caution when it comes to that. If you're going to, if you're going to run, which I'm in favor of, that's fine. Let's not take some hits, CJ. Let's slide a little bit more. Yes, absolutely. Get out of bounds. Get out and make business decisions. Whether you're business or our business, get out, get out of harm's way. Yeah, he's, he's, I don't mind him running more, but the whole, him taking hits. I'm not a huge fan of, but shroud, I thought was fabulous in this game. And you go back to the two turnovers, which I mean, yeah, that those new, those do need to be cleaned up. The interception, you know, watching it back, it looked to me like it was in zone coverage, but shroud thought Bernard was in man coverage and thought he was tracking cholts. And at the moment he committed to throw the ball, he turns around. It's right at him. Yep. So that one, I mean, yes, protect the football. You can't throw an interception there. Stroud deserves blame there. Not making excuses. I think it was a little bit unlucky. Not making excuses. Go ahead. I was going to say one that always sticks out in my mind is the Indianapolis game because of the fact that, you know, you're trying to run the clock out. You're trying to, you know, get a first down and you come out of what I think it was the two minute warning on a third down. And you throw an absolute dart on the sideline to Nico in the only place that you could actually complete that ball. And Nico makes a hell of a catch, but I don't know any court, many quarterbacks in this league. If you can go to try that and then put the ball exactly where it had to be. He had one to Xavier Hutchinson, which he was, he did that spin cycle thing. And the TV copy didn't really do it justice because it was on the near sideline. You couldn't see the play. If you go back and watch it behind the offensive line, it was a pretty catchable ball. That play might have been made. Both directions. Yeah, he like went, he went towards the left and then there was a defender there and he spun away from him. It was like to the near sideline on the TV copy as you were watching. That was an amazing play. He had another one where he was immediately pressured and kind of like off his back foot just slings it to Stefan Diggs over the middle of the field. And then he had the one to Schultz on third down late in the game. That's the one everybody's raving about where he moved. He slid the defender was coming at him. He had to change his arm angle and still put it in the only place that it could be. And he had to put it. There we go. Whenever it's Dalton Schultz, it better be better be in the perfect spot because Dalton Schultz is in my dog house. Good to that a second. And by the way, everybody's talking about Nico Collins and that one plus, you know, the deep pass play for the touchdown. That throw was unbelievable. That was 60 yards in the air dropped into the bucket in stride. Unbelievable. The knock out of hangout too was his arm strength on the deep balls. Yeah. He doesn't have like a howitzer. Right. You know what? He can make all the throws and that was a hell of a throw. Yeah, he was I thought he was really stinking good and yes, you have to be critical of his two turnovers. That's fair to be critical of the two turnovers. The fumble. He was a bit careless with the football. D'Amico Ryan's on the coffee with a coach has said that somebody ran the wrong route there. I couldn't figure out who ran the wrong route. There was a receiver who kind of popped for his screen. I wonder if it wasn't a screen, but I couldn't really figure that one out. But he does kind of have the ball out there like a loaf of bread. He had two hands originally and then whenever Fisher got pushed into his lap, he put his left hand on Fisher to kind of get his footing. And when that happened, the fender, yeah, the fender knocked the ball out. But probably more Fisher than Stroud, but Stroud does have to take the take care of the football whenever you have a muddy pocket. They forced Allen and his receivers to win one on one and overall they couldn't win one on one like the Texans coverage probably had their best game of the year. I felt that's why I said, I think when you watch the tape and you watch it, you know, over and over again and you go from week to week, you see a guy in Lasseter that's getting better every week. Sure, he's going to make some mistakes. There's still people are going to question his overall speed and covering receivers. But I think that the fact that he understands the game, he understands angles and you see some of the way he's able to take some of the receivers, either not completely out of the game, but make it extremely challenging for better receipt, you know, better than average receivers to get the football. I think he's only going to get better and he's way better than Henderson and Akuta and guys you brought in thinking they were going to be the guy opposite a thing with this year. Yeah, last year, I think last year been good. He's willing to deliver a little bit of thunder that that hit he had on a cook. That was pretty awesome. I thought Anderson was better on film. I know I've been critical of Anderson on today's show. I thought he was better on film. He drew some chips. He drew some double teams. He had the extra attention of the bills. He did hurry Josh Allen at times. Perhaps the biggest play was that third down whenever Buffalo had it deep in their own like inside their five yard line after the Tommy Townsend's on their last series, the turnover on the punt. They went three and out on the goal line on their final offensive series. That third down play where he had Mac Collins running wide open in the middle of field. Will Anderson disrupted that play because he was in Josh Allen's face and led to Aaron Throw. Dalton Schultz, I think he's been playing poor football. I think Dalton Schultz has kind of went into business for Dalton Schultz. He had the one play inside the 15 where it's right there. Like he had to leave his feet a little bit lunge for hit him in the hands. It hit Dalton Schultz in the hands and he dropped it. He had another one on a third in like seven or eight, which he wasn't going to catch it for the first down. It had been a couple of yards short. He all he alligator armed it. He alligator armed it. Because what was it a couple of games ago when we were talking about the ball over the middle that CJ gets, you know, people looking at him going. Oh, that was a miss throw. You didn't you didn't hit him. Well, if Dalton Schultz doesn't, you know, doesn't alligator on the ball over the middle, he's probably got a reception there. The one that really got chapped me to in that game is you're a veteran. You're an experienced veteran and you get a 15 yard penalty for throwing the ball at the guy after the play. But yeah, we're talking we're talking about plays and penalties and things that the team doesn't need and the coaches are facing heat because you're wondering like what are they doing or not doing. And then you've got a guy that does something stupid like that and really screws you, especially after they called it dead ball. I saw some people defending that. Why? I don't know. Like it was kind of like it wasn't like he didn't throw the ball at him. Like, I mean, in terms of like a great like he didn't spike it on his forehead. But he tossed the ball at him like you have to be smarter than that. Yeah, he waited the guy looked like I don't know if the guy was still on the ground and he waited and the play was the referee standing right there and he just decides to throw it right at him. Yeah, that was that was dumb. Some people thought it was a soft penalty, which, you know, maybe it's soft, but at the same time, don't throw the football at him Dalton Schultz. Blake Fisher's first start. I thought he was pretty stinking bad. Titus Howard. It's pretty superior to Blake Fisher right now in their NFL lives. Fisher was pretty stinking bad in this game. Yeah. And, you know, we heard that he was raw, that he needed work, that if he played an extra year at Notre Dame, he'd have been a first round pick next year. They were hoping to kind of groom him and bring him along. There's a whole lot of work to be done because it just looks like he's getting manhandled a lot. He's getting shoved back into the quarterback, even when he stays between the defender in the quarterback. And I don't feel real comfortable with him playing right tackle for any length of tongue. I never thought I'd be clamoring for the return of Titus Howard, but here we are clamoring for the return of Titus Howard. Woods was criticized for his two points that he filtered inside the five, but I thought he was actually really good in the return game. He needs to stop fielding it inside the five, but you got points at the end of each half field goals at the end of the first half field goal. Obviously, at the end of the second half, both were sparked by a big return from Robert Woods, both times. So just I wouldn't be shocked if Stephen Sims is is cut at some point this year. One at the end of the first time was one return the corner and got to the sideline and got like 25. I think that was his biggest return. Yeah, it was at least. Yeah, that was a really, really key return right there. Yeah, just cut Stephen Sims. Just just move on from Stephen Sims. I don't want to see a lot of Xavier Hutchinson because it means that Nico Collins is hurt, but I really like Xavier Hutchinson. I think he's better than Metche. Oh, no doubt. Yeah, no doubt. We were talking about the start of the year that, you know, maybe there's a guy that you try and hide on the practice squad or you might have to get rid of. I think that he's proven that no matter where you drafted John Metche that Hutchinson's a better receiver. And, you know, I think he's going to continue to get better as he gets the reps in game, but I think he's got a future here. I think they're two separate positions, kind of quite frankly, because Xavier Hutchinson's more of a boundary receiver, Metche's more of an inside receiver. Yes, they're kind of interchangeable and can all do the same thing, although I think that's a reason that Hutchinson played so many snaps because he's the X receiver, the backup to Nico Collins. I liked what I saw from him. I don't want to see a lot of them because I want Nico back as healthy as possible as quickly as possible, but a fan of him was a fan of Eric Murray in this game. Eric Murray was good in this game. He and Bullock to me, Bullock, my bad, he and Bullock to me are easily the top two safeties on this team. Ward's a distant third for me. And Eric Murray is active and he's all over the field and yes, there's going to be some plays that they're not great, but for the most part, he does step up and seem to also make a lot of quality plays for this football team to where I agree with you. I think especially in coverage, I think that, yeah, there's a time, a time or two that he might not have the right swivel, he might not, he might get caught a little off guard, but overall I've been happy with his play. Guys, I'm curious, because I know Ward was hurting that game, but he came back in. He came. The bizarre thing was too, was that it was his shoulder, I thought. I thought he was concussed. First I thought he was concussed, then he went to his shoulder, then he went to the blue tent, and then didn't he leave the game with like a leg injury. Maybe so. And I'm going, well, where did that happen? Maybe that's why he left the game, but I think it was for the better because I think Murray's better in coverage and they were playing a lot of man. Ocho, speaking of Burrow and Stroud, this Texans offense reminds me of the Bengals during Burrows rookie season. They went to the Super Bowl behind a poor offensive line similar to the Texans. They even had mix in. I think it's a pretty good comparison. I think the Texans offensive line should be better than that Bengals offensive line, though, should be. We talked about whether you just look at it on paper and think that, or you just know and have seen enough of a guy that's supposed to be still a top five left tackle and the guys that you've put out there, obviously Howard didn't play this week. But when we've talked about the fact that you haven't had injuries to speak of until the Howard injury and you've used the draft cap of use, I think this offensive line should be a lot better than it's been so far this year. All right, 713 780 ESPN. Did you watch the Monday night game yesterday? I'm sure you did. My takeaway from that? I think the Chiefs are beatable. I think they're beatable. Tell you why next. This is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. Live in the paratex community, thanks studios. It's the killer bees. Now back to Joel and Jared. I'm over the Chiefs. I'm over them. Yes, I know they're undefeated. Yes, I know Kareem Hunt running for over 100 yards. Juju Smith Schuster is going for 130. Looked like Travis Kelsey washed up his washedness. That my home's over 330. Yes, I know Kansas City's 5 and 0. Yes, I know they win championships all the time. They're beatable. The Chiefs are beatable. I think that you can get to the Chiefs. Yes, they put up huge numbers yesterday against a decent Saints defense. But I think you can get to their offense. I think especially if you have a good defense. Yes, their defense is really good, but I think they're beatable blankers. Yeah, I think right now they are. I think the scary thing is that there's still time for them to figure out wide receiver. I was thinking about it this weekend with just how bad Cleveland's imploding that Amari Cooper might be in play more than a Devontae Adams where they might still be able to find another wide receiver to kind of fortify what they don't have to make up for the fact that they were just going tight and heavy as can be yesterday and still somehow making that work along with the combination of their backs. They're beatable right now. There's no doubt about watching that game because that game was not entertaining. That game was tough to watch in a lot of ways, but that's Andy Reed just finding whatever means necessary to get a win. But the scary thing is is that if they do add a receiver or two, the rest of their team, their defense is still really, really tough and really good. And Jones just wreaks havoc all over the football field that when you've got Patrick Mahomes, you're probably going to be good, but when you've got Patrick Mahomes with an extra couple of weapons they're missing. They still can be really good. Yeah, a gun to my head who wins the AFC. I would pick the Chiefs, but I think you can get to them. I really do. And like the wide receivers you mentioned to me, I don't think that they're great fits. Amari Cooper is not really a burner. I think they like speed and quickness in their wide receiver room. I think it's why they drafted Roshi Rice a couple of years ago. It's why they drafted Xavier Worthy this year. They have made trades for receivers. I think in the each of the last two deadlines. So I do think that they're going to be targeting a receiver. I have a feeling it's going to be somebody that we don't expect. I don't think it's going to be in Amari Cooper. I don't think it's going to be DeAndre Hopkins. I do think that they're going to look for help there. They lost Hollywood Brown in the preseason. They don't expect him to play in the regular season. The news came out on Roshi Rice. He's going to be out for the rest of the year, which Adam Schefter report was weird. Adam Schefter was tweeting it yesterday and Schefter was like, yeah, you know, this is the news they got was better than they expected. And then five minutes later, he's out for the season. It's like, OK, thanks for that, Chef D. And how many opinions has he had? Because they've been second opinioning and having different guys look at him ever since he went down and you keep hearing different things. But at the end of the day, I got to feel like that they feel pretty confident that he's not going to play because you saw what we saw last night. And I don't think that there's anything that tells you that he's suddenly going to have this miraculous recovery. They need help sooner rather than later because they got to get a guy that's got to learn the playbook and fit into the system too. You think you don't think they can get by without bringing in a receiver? I don't. I think they could. For the long haul. I mean, what's your Super Bowls with that one? Yeah. I just think that Judu Smith Schuster to me. Yeah, he played well last night. I don't think he's going to be able to do that weekend week out. It's better than Caderius Tony and all the other garbage they've won one titles with. And that just tells me that Mahomes can make, you know, he can make do with anybody, anybody that he gets on his roster. But I think that they need help this year. I think because you've lost. Have they lost multiple guys now? Yeah, it was rice and Hollywood. Yeah, I just feel like they need at least one guy. I think it would make them better. I think they can get by without it though. And I think that they would use a lot of what you mentioned. I think they would run a lot of 12 personnel. I think they would kind of reinvent who they are. I think they would go a lot of two receiver sets. Obviously Kelsey older, but Kelsey was good yesterday. And he kind of can flip the switch. And I don't dislike Gray. I think Gray can play a little bit too. They're playing four tight ends at certain parts of the game running out there in trips formation with three, four tight ends. It was pretty crazy. You can just play the lateral play. He can make anything work there. They didn't have. They had one receiver with over 50 catches last year. Rashi Rice obviously Kelsey was above 52. After that, Caderius Tony was there. Caderius Tony and Justin Watson tied for their second leading their second most receptions last year. They want to super bowl with that. Yeah. And throw it also. Who else was on that to what Mark has about this game? I think it was awesome. He was Skymore who still around. He's still around, but he was the bus of a second. Nicole Hardman who they brought back. They brought back. Yeah. They just they don't they don't need it. I mean, it's the whole reason that Tyreka they don't need it. I think they make it more explosive, but they don't need it. Yeah, I think I think it would help. Obviously. I think it helps them, but I also think they can win without a play to. Yeah, they could win without them. But I think they could really use because they lost two guys. They could use at least one guy that they could that I think you can go and get find on the market. That's probably better than Tony better than Nicole Hardman that, you know, you have an extra guy that Mahomes can trust to go to. Like, I think Rice was that guy. They was really building that with Mahomes. And I think that hurt some more than Hollywood Brown who he never saw in an interview in a game. I think Rice is really good. He is good. I think he's really good. That's a big loss. There's a there's an idea. It is, but Kelsey kind of does the same role. Like, you notice when before Rice gets hurt, Kelsey wasn't doing anything. And the second that Rice gets hurt, Kelsey's put back into the office because they're both kind of running those quick slot, you know, routes where Mahomes were. Respectfully, I think they're different roles. Respectfully. Rice is a lot up in the slot. Same place as Kelsey. Yeah, but I mean, Kelsey's a big slot that moves really slow. It's a physical receiver. They do it differently. They just bunching up on the one side. And then Kelsey's able to kind of just dip underneath or find, you know, sit down in an open area. Whereas I think Rice is dynamic because he's, he's so quick and he can go deep on you, but he's not afraid to go across the middle that he did so much that built up that trust real quick that Mahomes was looking for him a lot. Did you hear the conspiracy theory? Rashi Rice and why they wanted so many second opinions. They were kind of kicking the can down the road. There's some thought that they were trying to get the suspension done this year. Oh, there's just saying, just saying that's been out there. That's why they didn't happen. They said that they're not going to do it really till after the season's over from a legal perspective. Yeah, I don't, I think at this point, they're, they're kind of done. I think that whole effort maybe trying to get a suspension done this year. That's, I don't think the NFL is falling for that. No matter anyway, you can't serve a suspension while you hurt. Well, the NFL said they won't, they won't leave the suspension. But that's why they didn't come out with the injury. I see because there's a spray in a C L. Oh, he's going to be healthy for the final six games of the year. Yeah, but at this point now, let me just spend until the legal decision is made. And now the legal decision has been pushed down the road till the end of the season. Yeah, drop the appeal. Take it to court right now. He doesn't have a torn LCL. He didn't have LCL surgery today through Roger. Okay, put him out there. So spin him for the rest of the season, Roger. Yeah. That's the theory. That's the theory that's out there. Did you guys think that lateral was, was a call, an actual scripted play? I did. Man, I got again, my lessons and my friends. My lessons from a football perspective from a friend perspective. That's what I call the Twitchers, my lessons. They were like, there's no, even Buck and Eggman were kind of torn on it. Eggman, they challenged Joe, challenged Troy to ask the question in the post game. We say I'm not sticking around for that. I thought it was totally a scripted play because you could just see the way they kind of lined up their guys and how the running back was coming right down the sideline in that open gap. I thought that was a completely. Listen, given the situation, it wasn't like it was the first time. They were trying to stand. Yeah, it was like a second and 20 something at that point. I think it's kind of trending in the NFL nowadays too. Like you see, you're seeing some like real hooking ladders though, like drawn up hooking ladders. Like you never saw that. You never saw that outside of trick plays late in the game or late in the half. And now you're seeing it like in the first quarter. Yeah, it's like a staple of like a third and long situation now instead of just like a end of end of game, you know, last ditch effort kind of thing. Yeah. All right, 713780 ESPN, King of Twitch says that I heard his feelings. It was respectful. It was respectful. My fault. All right, cash number trashing. What do you cash in? What do you trash in? 713 7803776. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. I'm cash in proton coops. 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Ryan Williams is going to work his way into the conversation. Because every time I watch that guy, I'm like, "This dude is unbelievable." That would be nuts for a 7-minute wide receiver. I think he's got a future Heisman in his future, obviously. I don't know. After the Vandy game, it's... I don't know. Sorry, Jeremy. Sorry to trust you, but I'm going to trash you. I'm going to trash it for just for the Vandy game. That's going to be hard for an Alabama player to win the Heisman after that Vandy game. But it's Travis? Yeah, but he's going to get docked for not having a big game. He did it, but he's not against Vandy. Against the Commodore's. I think he wins the Heisen before he leaves Alabama. I don't think it's this year. I'm not counting Travis Hunter as a receiver, so I'm going to trash this. What, he's not. He's both. He's in a defensive bag. He's both. He's in a defensive bag before he's a receiver, though. You don't think so? Yeah, probably. Well, Jeremy's point is Heisman resume would be because he's doing both, not because he's a wide receiver. Thank you, Rusty Hardin, DMACC. I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm going to trash it. I'm going to trash it. I trash. Mostly because I don't think Travis is just the receiver. But I think Gen T has a really good chance at Boise State. I think there's still a quarterback award. So yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to trash this one. Cash or trash? The commanders are the best team in the NFC East. Oh boy. That's a, I'm going to cash it. I'm going to cash it because Philadelphia. I thought, I thought at the start of the year had more talent. I didn't give the commanders a chance to be a playoff team this year, this soon. And it wasn't just because of the fact that they had Daniels at quarterback. But right now with the way that everybody else has looked like less than, and they look like way more than I thought, I'll cash it. Here we go. I'm, I'm going to trash it because the Eagles are just, this week should get back. AJ Brown and Devonta Smith. I don't think it's the Cowboys. So I'm almost there with you, certainly not the Giants. But I think the Eagles will end up winning this division still. Commanders in second. I do think they actually squeak into the playoffs as a wildcard, but I'm going to go ahead and trash it. Trash. All right. What do you got? I know this will never happen because they spent the voice a great way to start it. Well, it is. But, you know, I'm just emitting up front that I'm realistic to the idea that the people involved can't make this decision because it involves benching last year's number four overall pick. It does. What to him? Binching. Binching. Not what I heard. Not what you heard. Okay. Well, maybe it was close, but there's no way it'll happen. But if the Colts want to make the playoffs, the move they have to make is bench Anthony Richardson and Sergio Flacko. Oh, there's no doubt to me that at least for this year, Anthony Richardson will not reach Joe Flacko's current level passer. We've seen it not only in Joe Flacko's stat line, but you look at Michael Pittman, you look at Josh Downs, they're 20, 30 yards a week before when Anthony Richards started. You can't get going. The offense is stagnant. You put in Joe Flacko, those guys are exploding and moving the ball down the field. Obviously, they did lose against Jacksonville, but by three. I mean, the game was up and down. I don't think the Colts have a prayer to make the playoffs with Anthony Richardson. I think they came with Joe Flacko. I cash this all day long. I just, I've never believed in Anthony Richardson's ability to throw the football. He can't stay healthy either. But when Joe Flacko comes in, aside from his stint with the Jets, where he's been, he gets results. He can play and what he's been able to do the last two weeks at his age and still get points on the board and win games for his football team. I'm totally cashing them. You look at me. Not that it was the offense's problem. Joe Flacko and the Colts lost to 0 and 4 Jacksonville. They lost to 0 and 4 Jacksonville. So Flacko, who lost to Jacksonville, yes, not the offense's problem, but it shows you the fundamental flaw with the Colts. It's probably more on the defensive side than anything else. I don't think a Joe Flacko, Indianapolis team, who loses to 0 and 4 Jacksonville is better off or is going to make this playoff run. It gives them a better chance to make the playoffs. So right now you take Anthony Richardson's a better quarterback than Joe Flacko right now? I think he's more of an offensive weapon now. Now I think that they need to rethink on how they're using him. I think they're throwing the ball too much with Anthony Richardson. I think they need to be a little bit more like Baltimore's offense. I think it was 19 times too many times. It's 10 times too many. It really is. They need to pass the ball no more than 10 times a game. They need to try to lead the NFL in rushing. With Richardson. They need, yeah. Yeah, there's a problem. They're definitely grittches that can get through that type of game. Probably not. Probably not. But their best chance to be their best offense is when Anthony Richardson's throwing a 10 times a game and they're running right down people's throats. Like Baltimore, like Baltimore, they should replicate what Baltimore does offensively. That's their best chance to win. That's their best chance to have an offense that positions you for winning. Flacko, he'll put up some numbers. He's going to gunsling it all around. He's also going to give you away a couple of games. He's going to throw some picks. Last year he threw an interception in every single game that he played. This year we lost that in the shuffle. We lost that in the shuffle because, oh, he's a great score right now. Now he's a scrambling quarterback to get you yards with his legs. No picks against Jacksonville, Jacksonville, a cashier trash, 7137803776. Textor Bo, Dana Brown will shop around Fromber Valdez to possibly trade him during the winter meeting. Oh, cash that. I think, I think whether he's shopping or he's taking calls, I think he absolutely should because if there's no intentions on signing him long term and he's going into the last year of his deal, why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you try and get what Dana Brown really likes? And that is the ability to get some picks and some prospects that probably he knows what things about to rebuild the farm system because he knows that he's got some pretty good young pitchers that he can still put at the top of his rotation. Not not to nitpick. Not to nitpick here. Respectfully. Respectfully. And then to nitpick. It said Dana Brown will do this because I do think he should. I think he should be trading Fromber Valdez for the best package he could get in return. You can't trade for picks unless their compensation picks. Now, I don't think that Dana Brown's going to. You don't? I think that they're going to run it back one more year with what they have tried to sign Gregman, probably not get it done. I don't think that the Astros have the four thoughts in the bravado, in the courage to make these type of moves. So you're saying they would talk? Yeah. I don't. I want them to do that. I don't think Dana Brown and the Astros will. And then you're basically just saying instead of getting any kind of package of prospects and players for each guy. You're going to write it out a little walk like they did with everybody. They've done it with everybody else. That would be that would be a travesty in a lot of ways. If you know you're not going to sign one or both. They've done it every time though. I know it's sad if they do it. Now the last two guys that you're probably right now are going to be able to get like a good package of players for. The saving grace is that maybe Dana Brown's the saving grace and he'll talk Jim Crane into that. But I don't know Jim Crane's the kind of guy that gets talked into that sort of thing. And Dana Brown's had the opportunity with one player. He had a chance to do with Gregman didn't do it. So Crane is showing us time and time again. He's not the owner that's going to trade a player in the final year of their deal. And Dana Brown showed us with one player that he's not going to do that. So I don't believe that it will happen. I absolutely think it should. But no, I'm trashing it. I don't think Dana Brown has shot from a workout doctor. I'm going to try for a slightly different nitpick reason because I don't think Dana Brown would attack it from this broadcast the world that we're trying to use from a weight for the call. The inevitable call to then try to pick up his market because I kind of compared to fantasy football. When you put on glass for the world and someone's on the block, you kind of lower their value a little bit. I think he's going to tell everyone that Frohmer is way available. He's going to wait for the phone call and then start the conversation. OK, but you'll have it. Hope so. I hope he does. I hope he has it. 8 6 3 2, Alex Breggman will have better career numbers than Lance Bergman. It's Keith. Dash the trash. I'm going to trash that trash. I think this is an easy trash. I don't think that Breggman's offensive numbers are going to get better. I think they're going to decline because he's in his 30s now. So I think he's going to go backwards based on like his slash stats. 272 average. Berkman was a 293. Berkman's not going to prove his batting average 19 points. If you want to go OPS, Breggman 848, Lance Bergman 943. I would lay down a wager that Lance Bergman's going to be 100 points better than whatever Alex Breggman's all said and done. You want to go career home runs. Berkman 366, Breggman 191. He's going to catch Berkman. No. Now Breggman's going to have the defense. He's going to have the war. So it's going to be a little bit closer when you look at it from like a war perspective. But no, Alex Breggman will not have the career numbers of Lance Bergman. Lance Bergman should probably get more love than he's got in terms of the whole thing. Lance Bergman's the second best switch hitter of our generation. He got left off on the first ballot. He did. Absolutely got host. He got done wrong. 4965. Cashier trash. The Browns. This is Josh Masebuk. The Browns are going to keep Dashon in as the starter because of the contract and intentionally tank for a top five quarterback. Well, the second half, that's going to be the interesting part. Would they be ballsy enough to take a quarterback with the pick that they get? But I don't think that Jimmy Haslam's going to let anybody bench Dashon Watson as much as he thoroughly deserves it because of the fact that everybody knows that this was his move, what they gave up, what they paid him. That it already should have been done and it won't be done. The only thing I would question is if they use the pick on a court. Um, there's reports that the Haslams are making them play to Sean Watson. I believe there's, I do too. I think that James Winston gives them a better chance to win football games. I don't know if the contract situation is going to be like, it doesn't get better. Like it doesn't get better. So like taking a quarterback whenever you still have the quarterback on the books, it's playing poor. I don't think they're going to tank for a quarterback. So I trashed it on that front. Yeah, that's the only hang up. I think that they definitely should bench him. I think that they will end up with a high pick. I just don't think they'll, they'll use it on the quarter. Brian. Sorry. I was screening a phone call. All right. Then we won't talk to you. Uh, four, one, three, three, cash or trash. Aaron Judge lacks the clutch gene. He spelled it G E A N by the way. She wanted to point that out. So that wasn't voice text. It might have been not when you spell it like that because it would, they would use a word. No, that is a word. I wear jeans. Oh, you said G E A N. That's the thing I said, Jay. I heard G also. My bad. J E A N. My bad. My bad. I'll own it. I'll eat the L. Like James Winston with W's. Cash or trash. Aaron Judge lacks the clutch gene. J E A N. In the playoffs, I'll cash it. His numbers are horrible and it's not just for one or two years. He's 11 for his last 77. Ever since he's been in the playoffs, he's been a less than, he should be a killer B. Except for B part. Um, well, we'll call him bud. I'll cash it too. I think that there's also the fact that I think that during the regular season, he terrorizes mediocre to bad pitching. And I think once he faces the upper echelon of pitchers, he's got swing and missed in his game and the upper echelon pitchers can get him out. You can get Aaron Judge out if you're good. You can get him out with a fastball which you're not supposed to do for a guy that his bomb's lead tanks like that. When a guy is six, eight, like as you guys are kind of talking about, he's going to have spots in his swing and spots, you know, in his strike zone that he can't get to. And the greater pitchers take advantage of it. So I'll catch it. I'm not going to read that joke, but it made me laughed. Cashier trash, New England is going to ruin Drake May by starting him already. I don't think that he's going to, they're going to ruin him. But it's, I wouldn't do it. Yeah, I'm going to trash that. I don't think they're going to ruin him. He might be ruined because he's not very good. I don't think the Patriots are going to ruin him because they're playing him. I guess it's very few times where guys are actually ruined because they're played too early. David Karz, the classic example, but I think for the most part, if you, if you have it, then you'll find a way to figure it out and the talent eventually comes through. So I'll trash it. Eight, five, six, cashier, trash. Hot salsa is better than room temp salsa. Oh, trash that trash. Oh, cash. And I would know this. Of course you're upset. And I'm Mexican. You're only supposed to have salsa at hot or cold. You're not supposed to have it at room temperature. It should either be hot or it should be chilled. It should never be room temperature. Definitely not room temperature. Never should be room temperature. Yeah. Either serve it hot, warm, or you serve it chilled. I don't mind at room temperature, but I prefer it chilled. You're going to get sick. All right. You can get Salmonella or whatever it's called. Brandon T. Cashier, trash the Rockets make the playoffs or play in this year. Play in, yes. Play off. I'm going to cash this. I think they're a playoff. I think they get in. Yeah, I think they could get it to play. I mean, they would have been most years last season, so. Tyler and Conroe Cashier, trash tank sophomore year will continue to be a disappointment. Trash. Trash. Just like we talked about a few weeks ago, I thought Shultz was going to start having his moments. I think even more so. Tank's going to be a bigger part of this offense. I don't believe that that's going to last all season long. Yeah. I'm going to trash this as well. Trash. Go cooks. Tank Dell really good at separating. Still very good at separating now that you have Nico Hurt for a period of time, whatever the period of time is. I think Bobby Sloeg is going to game plan him more. And I think he's going to scheme him more. And if you go look at the production, the tank Dell had against Buffalo. Might open. Little drag route. Beats his guy one on one. Out route. Beats his guy one on one. What is he doing? He's separating. Tank Dell is going to be just fine. Let's finish it up with Phillip. Phillip from the woodlands. What is your cash in trash? Cashier. Trash. After the choir, young catcher in the off-season to make yiner the primary first baseman and third string catcher. I will trash it simply because of the fact that they don't have to acquire anything. They have carotini for another year. He could be the catcher, yiner could be the first baseman and your problem is solved. Yeah. I'm going to trash it too. Like I'm with you. I think Victor Cara. If I'm running the Astros, Victor Caratini's my starting catcher next year. Yiner's my first baseman. I'm not sold at the Astros are going to do it. I think they should not sold it. They will. Also, how difficult would it be to acquire a young catcher that is worth anything? We're starting. Like no one's going to trade a young catcher. That's good. So no, especially as good as Caratini. So I'll trash that. I do hope that yiner deals is the first baseman next year. I don't know if the Astros will do it. All right. 713-780-ESP and willabits coming up next. You never know what you're going to get. You just know it's going to be gold, Jerry. It is the bees on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ESPN 97-5. It's the killer bees. And I honestly have no idea what's happening next. Could it be the next great big food debate? The biggest Joel Rant of all time? Controlling someone to the point of crying? Or just some actual bees making some honey? Well, let's find out. It's time for the Wheel of Bits. Oh, my goodness. Would you look at this? What an enormous spin. It's time for Buzzkill Browning. What? I'm prepared for this. I'll go off the dump. We've been getting a lot of this Jose Altuve standing on the table, beating the drum Alex Bregman. He's going to talk to ownership. Everybody and their mother is writing a story about how Jose Altuve's fighting for the right Alex Bregman to allow him to party with the Astros going forward. I hate to do this, but it's going to do nothing. It's going to do absolutely nothing. If Jose Altuve knocks on Jim Crane's door in his very nice office and he says, "Okay, you need to resign Alex Bregman." And Jim Crane's like, "Eh, we don't have the finances to do it." What happens? What's Jose Altuve going to do to man a trade? No, he assigned two team friendly contracts with you. He's very happy in Houston. Everybody's making way too big of a deal of Jose Altuve banging the drum for Alex Bregman. Jose Altuve vouching for him publicly to the media means absolutely nothing. I would agree with you. I think that this goes back from a Houston perspective to when the Texans were looking for coaches and general managers. And Deshawn was still in good standing enough that he felt like he should have been more involved in the decision. Or the fact that we started the show with the Aaron Rodgers drama. I mean, a lot of players feel like they should be involved in every decision or key decisions. The biggest thing is it's not their money. It's the owner's money. It's the franchise's money. And the franchise is going to do what they choose to do. And in a lot of cases, because you're not even talking about prime Altuve at this point, it takes a very, very rare situation where the owners actually going to incorporate what the players' feelings are and what they want in a decision of that magnitude for that amount of money. Real quick. What did you say about Altuve? It's not his prime anymore. I just wanted that on the record again real quick. I don't disagree with that. I mostly agree with Joel's point, but you brought up Aaron Rodgers in the conversation of players not getting their way. It's a very special type of player and an owner's owner that would actually consider and involve a player in any kind of decision. It's one thing to fire a coach. It's another thing entirely to spend that amount of money on a player. I don't think Altuve could talk, you know, Jim Crane from a three or contracting into a six year contract. But I will say if it's the difference of, hey, he's going to walk unless you chip in an extra two or three million over the course of a three, three, four year deal. I do think Altuve could get him there, but it's a very limited window where the influence that Altuve has, and we can obviously debate how much he actually has, but there's a very small window where he would actually be able to move the needle a little bit. If the Astros balk at the two to three million dollar difference, but Altuve is the, like the swinging measure there, the Astros have a problem because if they're losing out on Alex Braggman for two to three million, but it's going to take Jose Altuve to speak up for them to spend the two to three million dollars, well, the Astros were in worse shape than I thought quite frankly because that's kind of ridiculous. It's kind of silly. I think that the Astros have their number. The Astros have their number. They know Braggman's importance. I genuinely believe Dana Brown, which is dangerous of me because we do know that he likes to talk a lot, or at least is very loose-lipped. I do believe that the Astros would like to have Alex Braggman back. There's not really anybody in the system that's like a guarantee to take over, although there really wasn't one. Correa left either. Jeremy Peña was somebody who had never played in the bigs. I think they called him up straight from double A. Like he wasn't a guarantee to be a big league, you know, regular at shortstop. But the Astros don't have that guy at third base in the system that's ready to take over. No doubt about it next year. The Zenzo is probably the closest, but he has some serious questions if he can be a good enough defender to play third base every day. A Bryce Matthews might be in that conversation. He's still pretty dang raw. It hasn't played a ton of third base in his career. I think it's under like 25, 30 games that he's played at third base. Shay Whitcomb's not a third baseman. We saw him commit 18 errors in one game, might have been hungover, but he committed 18 errors in one game. He's not the answer at third base and they think higher of the Zenzo than Shay Whitcomb. The free agents, we'll see what happens with Suarez because he has a club option. Suarez is the only decent free agent, third baseman. So I do genuinely believe that the Astros would like to have Bregman back because the other options are not great, but the Astros have a price and Jose Altuve being a voice of reason for Alex Bregman is not going to change the number. No, and the biggest thing is going to be they have a price and so does Bregman, but they also have a threshold of how many years and so does Bregman and Bregman's going to be hunting six when the Astros are probably going to be giving you no more than four and would like to keep it at three if they could. So yeah, the price might be something that they could actually agree on for the, for the AV, but they're going to have a big struggle on their hands in terms of trying to get that done for the amount of years that Bregman wants versus what the team's willing to get. Yeah, and I think that Bregman's overshooting his value, by the way, I don't think that Bregman's going to get what Alex Bregman, if you told, if you gave Alex Bregman a sheet of paper today and you're like, Hey, write down what you're worth. What's you're going to get in free agency? I don't think Bregman's going to get that. I don't think Bregman's going to get what he thinks he is worth. I think it's going to be somewhere between the Astros offer and where Bregman hopes to get. But I still think it's going to be greater. See the years or what's in play there because I think I absolutely think he'll get Chapman AAV. Does Bregman get a six year contract in the open market? That's going to be tough. He's 30 more money per year than Chapman got. I don't think he's going to sniff the sixth that Chapman got. I think that Bregman's a slightly better player than Chapman and they are very similar age. So you would think that he would, but the Giants had Chapman all year long. They liked Chapman. Chapman gave him a little bit of a discount on AAV for the luxury of having a longer term deal. In free agency, Bregman's going to have a qualifying offer too. Chapman didn't have a qualifying offer whenever he resigned with San Francisco and majorly baseball gyms have wiseened up where they're not going to give these huge contracts whenever you also lose a draft pick compensation. So that's going to hurt Bregman's value a little bit too. Like yeah, I think Bregman's better than Chapman. But Chapman was resigned by the Giants without them losing a compensation pick whereas Bregman will force a team to lose a draft pick. Yeah, I think that's going to be really interesting because I think that Bregman and Boris have the expectation that they're going to be able to get what they're looking for from at least one team. If not two teams getting into a bidding war to get them where they want them to go. And I just have a hard time believing no matter what people saw at the end of the year, we know what we saw at the start of the year and I just believe that he's not going to age well either. I just, I think that those years are going to be the huge stumbling block. I'm worried about the aging with Bregman too. I would like to have Bregman back, but my best and finals 120 for four. That's the best that I'm doing for Bregman. I'm not doing a dollar more, maybe maybe a dollar or two. One nine three zero. I hear you, but stand up for your boy. Okay, that's fine. Seven four zero four. I know for a fact, Crane will listen to how two of a he told me firsthand he would do anything for him, but obviously not a silly stupid number, but holds more weight than you would think. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see how much weight out two of a really does hold. I don't think neighbor. Yeah, I know. Maybe he is. Well, we'll write down the number though. Maybe we have our insights. There you go. Justin on Twitter. The Astros bocked at a couple hundred thousand with Korea. That's not true. We, it's been reported that the best offer the Astros gave Korea was a hundred and sixty million dollars. Korea got a three hundred and eighty five million dollar contract with Minnesota. That's far greater than a couple hundred thousand dollars for what was reported. Maybe you know something behind the scenes that I'm not familiar with. He also had the monster offer from the Giants when until he failed the physical, so he had multiple teams giving him way more than what the Astros are trying to get. That was the following. That was the following free agency after he. Oh, he did the one. Yeah. He signed with Minnesota. Nothing went wrong there. Then he opted out entry free agency again, failed the physical with the Giants, failed the physical with the Mets and then returned to Minnesota. All right. seven one three seven eight zero ESP and HR and P listener line. 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