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It is a ghost town around here. Like and not even just like our office. Like the parking lot is at 70% like 70%. It's like 40% capacity. The parking lot. I don't know where everybody is today a holiday. I didn't know about it. Traffic seemed light today, too. Yeah, it did. It really did. Yeah, even like normally getting on 59 is normally jammed in some of the feeder roads and everything seemed to be pretty light. I got here 10 minutes earlier, and I left at the same exact time. Yeah. Yeah, what's what's the deal? What is happening? What is going on? You said like Jerry Seinfeld right now. What is the deal with the light traffic? I'm not nearly as funny as you know. Everybody lined up to go to Porter to see a Dell Paul and Joe. Yeah, my parents live in Porter. All the Puerto Ricans out there. What's up? Oh, I get it. Yeah. And I'm Mexico. A little different, a little different. Not quite Puerto Ricans, Mexicans. Although, um, there was a bad parking job in the parking lot. Bad parking. You were fringe. Your tell was still sticking out pretty good. You parked on the end. Well, yeah, I parked on the end and he's got a long back, you know, so I'm not really, it wasn't you. It wasn't you. There was a, there was a Lexus out there. Should I say more? There's a Lexus out there and it's left wheels. It's driver side wheels were literally on the other side of the parking lot. The other side. The other side. It was a egregious. Do we know this belongs to? I do not. Probably not anybody at this floor if it was a Lexus. Brian, do you? When you park the car now, especially here, do you consciously think is Jeremy going to kill me for this? Occasionally. I thought I did. I did. Actually, I said it when it happened, but I did the last time I came up on the show, but not today. No, I thought that was fine. I didn't even think about it. I do instill fear in people that isn't characteristic in a trait that I do have. We'll get to our favorite storyline, Texan's coach Bobby Sloeck. He had the questionable third in 15. He answered for does it make you feel better or worse with how he answered it? World Series starts tonight. If your team gets eliminated in the wild card around is the World Series going to make a noise whenever it is played. A new projection on Alex Bregman could potentially get are you paying that? Who said it? And then our guy DJ P NMA will be joining us at five o'clock. Did you see the other new third base coach to Tony Parastica? His title is run prevention coordinator. We're going to talk about the weirdest job titles in sports a little bit later. And then also busy money. We've been killing it on busy money. We also have a new leader in busy money. We have a new, we have new blood atop the busy money standings. You can probably guess who it is. If I'm the Rams blankers, this was a, this was an entertaining game. This is a fun game I thought yesterday. If I'm the Rams, I'm not trading anybody. I beat Minnesota. Yes, they lost their left tackle. Yes, they have seemed on the quarterback, but the NFC is wide open. That division in particular is wide open. They're only a game back of Seattle. They play Seattle next week. The Rams beat Minnesota by 10. Pukin Akua didn't look like he lost anything while he was out. Cooper cup played a good game. Matthew Stafford through four touchdown passes. If I'm the Rams, I'm holding Pat to what I got. I'm making a run at this bad boy in the NFC. You know, we were talking about this yesterday and the consensus was if they win, they're probably not going to do anything, but I don't think anybody going into that game thought, well, they could actually be a team that could make some noise in the playoffs and do something. When you see the way that team played, they absolutely shouldn't trade anybody. I mean, they've got, they've got plenty of pieces. And here's the thing, what they don't have, they can go get the same way we were talking about the Texans looking at some of the teams that are going to be sellers that have really bad records that you might be able to poach a player for or two that you really need. If the Rams get an offensive lineman or two and they have everybody else coming back like they're two best receivers and their defense is decent. Like you said, the division is winnable because the NFC is weak. A playoff position is more than possible. And if they get in and they have a quarterback like Stafford, they can compete with just about anybody in the NFC. My, my acquaintance Frankie yesterday in the group chat, he was the moron who bet Bronnie James over one and a half times in the debut and missed a wide open layup and missed a wide open three and lost all of his money because he bet his mortgage on it. He brought up the conversation. Who is the second best team in the NFC? Because I think you have a clear cut number one in Detroit. After that, you really have a ton of unknowns like Washington's five and two, but you who is Washington rookie quarterback. He's gonna miss this week. Philadelphia's kind of felt like they've been an underachieving team ever since they lost in the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. Minnesota seems to be a little bit imperfect. Green Bay. Maybe it's great day. Frisco's got talent, but then they lose Ayuk. They're in last place in the NFC West after the tiebreakers. Now it's only a game difference Seattle four and three. And then you have three and three and four teams. I think you can make a case for San Francisco. Now if you're going like BCS resume, who has got the best resume through seven games of the year, you wouldn't be picking San Francisco. But in terms of like, if I'm a random NFC team, who do I not want to face in the playoffs, I probably pick San Francisco is the second most difficult team in the NFC. I would agree with you. You got a team with like with Fred Werner quarterback in the defense. You got a strong, strong, strong defensive line. And you've got an offense run by one of the most innovative offensive coordinators in the league that still has plenty of weapons to go to, even if they don't have Ayuk to the point where, yeah, they've underachieved to this point. They've also played the entire season without Christian McCaffrey, arguably one of the best running backs in football. If they're anywhere close to healthy and just get in, there's nobody that wants to see the Niners home or you just wonder if all of the injuries are too much for them because, you know, Ayuk's done for the year. Deebo Deebo Deebo is a good rival wide receiver, obviously, but he always is kind of prone to injury. What is the drop off to Jennings? It's pure saw going to be a factor in his rookie year. I kind of like the Jacob Kallen guy. I think that he might be slept on a little bit in San Francisco, but he's a tiny little body receiver, kind of a kind of a tank Dell type now, probably not as, you know, not as prestigious as tank Dell. And of course, tank Dell, which is a university known as the, the University of Houston. But I think you have a bunch of teams that would be in the conversation for the second best team in the NFC. It's why if I'm Los Angeles, I'm not, I'm not making a trade. I'm not selling Cooper Cup. I'm not trading Matthew Stafford. You're a game back in the NFC West and the NFC is wide open. If you're looking, I think the argument for the second best team and people can kind of have different reasons at, well, seven games in, they look like the best. Well, this is the team that I would be scared of the most. I think that you could come up with your own rationale and reasons as to why you think team X would be the second best team in the NFC. But I think in the conversation is Washington, even in the conversation? Not right now to me. I mean, they're leading the NFC East. They're five and two. They have tied for the second best record in the NFC. But you've got a rookie quarterback that's hurt and he's been phenomenal. You just don't know their defense has been good, but you just don't know enough about can they stop and play with really, you know, really good football teams? They've got weapons on offense. I just feel like they're probably a year away. I don't think it's this is their year. But because they've surprised so many people because year one under Dan, under Quinn, they're actually playing really good football and they seem to be finally coached the right way that you can't count them out of the discussion simply because the fact there's talent and there's young talent and they're well coached this year. Yeah, I lean your way. It just feels uncomfortable to leave a five and two team off. But I wouldn't have them in the conversation as the second best team in the NFC either. Now, maybe they make me look foolish in a month in two months and we circle back to this conversation. They clearly are the second best team in the NFC. I just don't think that they're yet either. I think Philadelphia would be in the conversation. Yes, Minnesota lost yesterday, but Minnesota probably deserves to be in the conversation. Green Bay's in the conversation. Nobody in the NFC South. Sorry. San Francisco's in the conversation. I think it's those four teams that are in the mix to be the second best team in the NFC. Yeah, I think that the other teams all have deficiencies and you talk about a Rams team that has been decimated by injuries early and you didn't know what they were doing early because they were trading off guys and getting rid of guys that have been kind of key looked like looked at. They would be key pieces to the puzzle. The difference to me between San Francisco and Philadelphia is the fact San Francisco has been, you know, besieged by injuries to key players to where they're they've been less than Philadelphia has had everybody as a full compliment and yet they have struggled because of whatever's going on internally and whatever's going on with the offense and Jalen hurts. So I would lean San Francisco simply because they haven't been at full strength yet and yet they're still right there to where I think that like we said, if they're if they're close to full health, then they're going to be a team no one wants to play Philadelphia on the flip side between Siriani and Hertz. There's too much and Saquan. There's too much talent for a team to have underachieved so far to say that they're above San Francisco 0 9 7 9 Philly got the receivers back along with the running game. It's gonna say AJ Brown is three games. That's about this. Smith was the game. They could be they could be second. The issue that I personally have a Philly and maybe this is a bias of mine. Maybe it's a it's a blind spot. Although it would be the opposite of a blind spot because I think it's a huge giant wort on their team. I'm not a Nick Siriani guy. I have looked Nick Siriani was very close to winning a Super Bowl. So maybe I'm the foolish one. Maybe I'm the idiot. Now that the coordinators are very good. You're not because the coordinators made him look really, really good. And a lot of times look credit on the coach for hiring the right coordinators. But at a certain point when the coordinators go and so does everything that's been good about your football team, it's easy to point the finger and say Siriani, it might be you. Yeah, see, I think that they have I think that they have the second most talented roster in the NFC. They haven't been at full health all year. My biggest bugaboo when it comes to Phillies that I just cannot stand Nick Siriani. I'll admit it. I'm a Nick Siriani hater. It's just the way that it is. San Francisco, I think has a really San Francisco has the highest ceiling. They're just nowhere near that ceiling right now because who knows about Christian McCaffrey like is Christian McCaffrey going to be available in their first game of the playoffs? Should they even make the playoffs? Would he be available? I think right now it's not even a coin flips chance. Like I would put it at 30% the Christian McCaffrey would play in their first playoff game. Should they make the playoffs? You would think he'd be back by now and it seems to be again another one of these mysterious injuries where we know the body part, but we don't know and the chances and likelihood that it's not going to be season threatening because it's gone on too far and too long already. I think from the standpoint of looking at at Philadelphia, the big question to me aside from Siriani is the fact that you know the chance I can coached up Jalen Hertz to a tee, but Jalen Hertz without Shane Steichen has looked like a lesser than after he was basically you know at one of the most dominant quarterbacks in the league and played really well even in the Super Bowl when I was a guy questioning him being a you know a starting quarterback on an above average team in the NFL. He looks right now like he's taking several steps backwards to where you don't know what he can be. I don't think he's as good as he was two years ago, but I think he's better than he was last year. I think he does have a much better coordinator. He has been got that Brian Johnson is there always Z which is a terrible hire. Kellen Moore, people are kind of like like wishy washy on Kellen Moore. I think because there's probably a little bit of an anti-Dallas bias which is fair. I'm not holding that against you. Kellen Moore has orchestrated the number one offense in the NFL. I think that that was a good hire. Like I'm telling you, I don't like Nick Siriani, but I thought he got he did make a good hire when it came to Kellen Moore. So I think that Chanel and Hertz is playing at a higher level. I think that their offense is playing at a higher level. Plus they added Segua Markley. I don't think that's the only reason why people are down on Kellen Moore though because he also went to say to the Chargers last year and didn't it didn't result in the leap forward for Herbert. I think people were expecting that. That was just a tough spot though. It was because they had leisure head coach who's defensive minded. So you have a defensive minded head coach that's you know you're coming in there. You can't really unleash what you want to do. Like you mentioned, Herbert didn't have the toys that were the toys that were necessary. And I think Herbert missed some games last year too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think he had a rib issue. Yeah, those ribs. So yeah, I think those are the contenders for the second best team in the NFC. How about Puka yesterday? He's limited. He's limited in the game. And all that happened was that Puka got targeted like what nine times? Seven catches nine times. How did that guy slide to the fifth? I googled it. Google AI told me because he ran a slow 40 and he was injured in college. We put way too much weight on 40 times way too much weight on 40 times. Show me how fast he is in game. Show me if he's productive in game. I still think it's flawed by these NFL scouts and general managers. They put way too much of an emphasis on 40 time IMO. Yeah. You know what we always say and I think it's in different ways. It's an incomplete science because of the fact that we look at just in our own backyard. We look at what happened with the Texans. We look at a guy like, you know, like Lasseter and say, you know, everybody believed he was too slow. Everybody believed that he was not an outside corner. And it was, you know, 40 times and things like that. And thankfully, Nick Siriani, I mean, Nick Siriani, Nick Sirio and his guys decided the fact that, hey, in pads, dudes, dudes fast enough. He can do what he needs to do. And I think that a lot of times we get so enamored with, as a lot of people call it, the spandex Olympics, when they start getting to do everything before the draft, that we don't focus on the fact of what the true football player is. He's a hell of a football player and he's tough and he does everything you need him to do whenever his numbers called. Last night was impressive. Yeah, big fan. I'm a big fan of Puka fifth rounder, fifth or unbelievable. What a find by the the LA Rams. Now they play the play at the end of the game. Sam Darnold sacked. There was a miss face mask call there. A lot of people are just bashing the officials and look, I get it. But the officials, they have a difficult job. Like you have seven officials out there. You have 22 professional athletes. You're going to miss calls, especially that play kind of tough. You see, you saw one of the two officials that line up behind the quarterback. One of them is like, he's obstructed. He can't see the white hat had the best chance, but he's probably looking at the offensive line to see if there's holding to me, like all the referees are the worst in the world. I saw Ryan Clark bashing the official. Okay, Ryan Clark, you go officiate a game and say how you do. Like these are the best officials in the world. I hate like, yeah, they miss calls. It's going to happen, but they are the best at what they do versus everybody else. Now where I think the NFL can help matters is I think that one, I think that play should be reviewable when there's a clear yes, no. There's some, there's some calls that require judgment calls, right? Like there's some vague calls, there's some that have gray area. Like passenger affairs can be very much a gray area, which is a reviewable play once upon a time. When the answer to a call is yes or no, I feel like it should be a reviewable play. Now, to get overturned, it has to be egregious and obvious, like a holding penalty is going to be very difficult to overturn because there is a lot of discretion when it comes to that. But I think that face masks should absolutely 100% be a reviewable play. I'm not going to referee bash because it's a difficult job. Ryan Clark, you go referee, see how you do, but I do think that that should be a challengeable play. Yeah, I think you're right. And I think that the bigger thing is that a lot of times baseball has done this to where, because I've been critical of the NBA, where they used to allow the coaching staffs to be able to challenge, you know, two plays or two or three plays a game. And then in the final two minutes, we're in critical points in the game, the referees could do it. I think that you, if you're truly in the belief that and the league is truly honest with themselves and everybody else in saying the really, the true goal is to get the play called correctly, then when you have all the different camera angles you have on television, when you have the people with the league obviously watching the game while it's going on and everything's transpiring, and you can see a clear and obvious miss. I think that there has to be a way that the league steps in, the official step in, however you want to word it like they do in baseball, but saying after, what do they call it? It's not replay review, but they'll say after replay assist, replay assist. If they, if we, through, thanks to replay assist, whether it be, you say it in the league office or in the TV trucks, we were able to determine this was indeed a penalty, because that was a key moment of the game and a key juncture when they needed to get a drive going. It was, you know, this was a game changing moment as it turns out. I think that you have to get that call right. I, I like that idea because my, how I would fix it is they, they currently have seven officials on the field. Why not add a sky referee? And it could be that, you know, replay assist and it's only, it's only going to be on a, like a egregiously missed calls, like a holding in the box, like you're never going to overturn that unless it's just blatant. It can only be something that's super egregious, which yesterday would have applied. Yesterday was super egregious, like help out the officials because they do have a difficult job, like help them be criticized less. I do think that NFL referees are the best referees that we see go looking at NFL referees versus college rest, go looking at NFL referees versus high school rest, go looking at NFL rest versus middle school rest. The NFL referees are the best in their profession. It is a very difficult job to officiate. How can you help them? I think that's one really good way. That's, that's the one way that I would help them the most. So you remember now, when it was golf and they, they wanted to get away from the fact that you had all these fans calling in the things that they saw on TV, trying to call the TV trucks and get them to reverse that. Yeah. Okay. That's one thing. You don't want, you're going too far. You don't want the, the involvement of viewership, but it's television using utilizing every resource you possibly can to get the call right. Again, if the league's true belief is our objective is to get every call called correctly as much as we can. Yeah. Then it doesn't matter if you got it through technology, if you got it through outside league resources, get the call right. No one's going to, you know, hold your butt to the fire if you get the call right. Even the, I forget the guy's name like that, that made the sack. He's running away from the play with his hands on his face masking. Oh, no, I screwed up. And then it's like, oh, they didn't call it. That's neat. 9506. You're only going to criticize things that you personally can do. No, I like for there to be a solution. I don't like when people criticize things for the sake of criticizing it and don't offer up something that is better. So that's my biggest issue. I'm all for criticizing things. I'm a professional hater. I'm a professional criticizer, but you need to offer up solution. If you're now all the referees are the worst in the world. Okay. Well, who's going to do it better? What are your, what are your plans to fix the game? Like there are other things that you can do that would make those officials better at their job. So that's why I criticize those that are critical of the referees in yesterday's game. Alex is someone who broadcasts football on Friday night and if I'll referee's are definitely the best. Yes. And if I'll referee's are definitely the best. That's the thing. Help them out. Like it's so difficult. These are the best athletes in the world. You have 22 players on the field at a time. You have seven referees. How are they going to see it all? It is impossible. So add the sky in the eye. Help them. Help them. All right. 713-780-3776. What are your favorite storylines ahead of Texans Colts on Sunday? 713-780-3776. We're on Twitch, switch.tv/espn97-5, YouTube at ESPN Houston, Twitter at ESPN 975. Blankers at Pac-Man Joel, Brian at SAG by B-Mac. I'm a Jeremy Branham. We are the beast on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. But killer bees, which bee is the cool bee? Find out weekday afternoons from three to six. Okay, I'll do not write this copy. Joel, please don't be bad. Live in the Veritex Community Bank Studios, it's the killer bees. Now back to Joel and Jeremy. No, this is our cult. This is our team. We bleed blue. This is our cult. Whether win or lose, we love them. For shoe, beat the Texans, horns down on Strauss. Turf, this is our team. Go Colts! The cold noise, man. The cold noise that he does at the end. That is hard to replicate. Do you want to try? I think Brian comes close with his Halloween noise. I don't think Brian has that range. You don't think I could do a name? I think you could do a name. I don't think you could do a name. I don't think you could hit that pitch. Sure, I'll try it. I can't hit that pitch. It's not halfway there. That was closer. It was not closer, but it's still not there. I imagine. What's that Colts fan name do we know? I had no idea. I bet you he hangs out on the twitch of the local sports radio stations in Indy. I've just wondered why. I've never heard someone say horns down for the Texans before. Oh, that is weird. I didn't even catch that. Yeah, in the song, he says horns down on CJ's turf or something like that. Like, I just imagined a forest bug. They're getting a sack and standing up and doing horns down. I couldn't imagine that. I think I'm also getting a 15-yard penalty. We do do the H now, which of course is just basically the backward horn. We see them a lot. But I don't see the. Yeah, I don't see anybody kind of do the upset. That's first time I've heard that. That's first time I've heard that as well. But what are your favorite story lines ahead of Sunday's match? So bad. It pierces my ears. 7 1 3 7 8 0 3 7 7 6. Favorite story lines ahead of Texans coast. There are some injuries for the for the Texans. Some designations have been assigned as he's outshire out with a knee. So weird. Came back into the game. Yeah, I hate that. So he's out with a knee. He's not playing placed on the IR, of course, but he has now missed two games. Jimmy Ward is out with his groin. That looks like a great contract extension that was done before the year. And I questioned it when it happened. And then Henry Toa Toa is questionable. Everybody else is going to play last night. It does not have an injury designation, which is a miraculous recovery. If the alleged spatula was in fact fractured like had been reported by one Aaron Wilson, only one that reported that. It would be the fastest recovery from a broken spatula in American sports history. According to my research, if it was indeed fractured. So pick which side that you want to be on. Cole, tap some injuries to divorce. Buckner, though, will play Jonathan Taylor will make his triumphant return. He will also be playing on Sunday. So what are your favorite story line 7 1 3 7 8 0 3 7 7 6? What do you have? Well, I think the first storyline to me is can the Texans continue to have the success running the football that they had in week one? We've done all this different scrutiny with good reason on the offensive line coming out of the Green Bay game. But the bigger thing is going to be can the can the offense dominate yet again running the football against this Colts defensive line? You mentioned Buckner is going to be back. We know that coming into the season, there was a lot more respect from this D line than what the way people currently view it across the league with mixing back and mixing basically every game he's played in. He has been exceptional for this team. We know the Colts will focus on it. Can they slow the running game down that the Texans have really capitalized and relied on lately? Yeah, that's going to be a fun storyline too. I had that one jotted down as well. Texans ran for 213 yards against the Colts. They they toted they they toted the rock 40 times in that game. Like that's a lot. They ran 72 plays in that game, which is a lot of a 40 carries 213 yards mixing individually had 30 of those 40 carries and 159 of those 213 yards. You're right, like I'm wondering one if the Texans have similar success to the running attack that they had against the Colts. And then secondly, what the counters look like for the Colts to try to combat that should the Texans be having that success. Now what makes things a little bit more difficult for the Texans with the Colts combating the Houston Texans running game is you don't have the luxury of Nico Collins who feasts on the Indianapolis Colts. Nico Collins is the daddy of the Indianapolis Colts. The fact that you don't have him makes it a little bit easier for the Colts to sell out on the run a little bit more and then just try to defend step on digs and tanked out, which you know, you need those receivers to have a big game. The top storyline for me are the stakes of this game. I didn't think after week one, because I didn't think the Colts look great. Colts continued to not look great after that week one performance against the Houston Texans. They lost the Packers the next week. They started 0 and two. The Texans on the other hand started 2 and 0. So I didn't think this rematch would have first place stakes. Yet here we are where this rematch has first place stakes. So that's my biggest storyline is can the Texans create some separation have a two game leaving the Colts in the standings really a three game lead because you own the tiebreaker or will you be in a tie with the Colts after Sunday? Yeah, I think that the division, not that it's in the balance, but I think that you can basically establish with the tiebreaker that this is your division. If you walk away with a win this weekend, but like you said, I mean, when you started out to an 0 and everybody else in the division was 0 and 2, it looked like already it already was going to be your division. So that's definitely a big storyline because you don't want to put yourself on a predicament that you might be looking at wildcard instead of division or that you're going to be in a dog fight the rest of the way with a team that you look like you're clearly better than. So that's that's a huge thing that I think I'll be watching as well. One of the other things that I'm very focused on is the fact that the Texans have to be better against the deep ball because they look, we know the fact that it was there. We know the Colts and Anthony Richardson should have capitalized on at least two deep balls that could have put the game in a different outcome had they connected on one if not both of them. And that's something the Texans have to be ready to adjust for as much as Colts have to adjust to Texans running game Texans have to adjust the fact that the deep ball was there and they just missed him. I wonder that surprise of doing business against the Colts. So when Anthony Richardson's their quarterback like you have Taylor's back. Yeah, like you have to commit quite a bit to the running attack where you're like, okay, what do you want to beat you? Anthony Richardson beating you over the top or the running game to just be able to nickel and dime you. Like if I had to air on one side and obviously you want to be perfect, you want to be good at all of these things. But if I had to lean one way and air one way, I'm making sure that I'm stopping the running game of Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson. And I would leave myself not that you want to be vulnerable or exposed to the deep the deep passes and the shot plays. But I would air to the side of stopping their running game and maybe I give up a player to over the top. Yeah, I mean, the thing I'm looking at most amongst several things I think is the most obvious thing because it's what the Texans have been dealing with all year which started in that week one game against the Colts. But it's the twist and the stunts up front. I mean, we've seen it be more of a problem on the road, including that week one game in Indianapolis, obviously also in Minnesota and Green Bay. But we've heard the rhetoric now from the Demico Ryan's and Bobby Sloeg all year, seven weeks, like, Hey, we know what it takes to fix it. It's just communication. We know what it takes to fix it. Yet it hasn't been fixed. So I'd like to see that what they've been telling us week to week in these press conferences actually comes to fruition. And the problem they've been dealing with for seven weeks, not being able to keep CJ Strat upright because they can't block a stunt actually comes true. And the other thing is, especially now with Jonathan Taylor coming back linebacker death, and we know as these is out, Henry Toe will see. But I mean, Jonathan Taylor, Anthony Richardson, you would assume the Colts are going to try to establish it quite a bit. You got to have healthy linebackers to combat that so that would be something to watch. That's why I'm okay if you get beat by a deep player too, because they're the linebackers of stopping the running game for the Colts and the Richardson scary, obviously Jonathan Taylor when he's right, one of the best running backs in the NFL, the Texans are going to be without as he's outshire, their best linebacker, and then Henry Toe Toe is questionable. Even if he plays, he's coming off a concussion. So that that is something that worries me that does concern me. And then the other the other element of that to what you mentioned, like the offensive line bounce back. Like, yes, that's that's on my notes too. And it's really just the entire offense. Like give me an offensive back, you know, bounce back after, you know, an 87 yard passing game performance, which is embarrassing. But he among those is the offensive line. Now, one thing that I like if the Texans offensive line is perfect this weekend, perfect this weekend, I'm still not going to be over the offensive line. Sure, it's a game. I still need to see them do it on the road. And it gets a great, well, Jets Thursday night. It's a good defense is on the road. I'm with you. Like Colts, we want to check that box. You want to see it be in the in the right, you know, column as far as then be able to execute and block the stunts and twist. But if they do it again on the road on Thursday night on Halloween against the Jets, then I'll consider that possibly the problem is fixed. Yeah, I would agree with that. Like better do it against the Colts at home. Like you're at home. No excuses now. And then do it against the Jets at good defense. And then it's like, okay, we're trending in the right direction. But even if they're perfect this weekend against the Colts, I'm not going to say they're training in the right direction. They have to be able to do it on the road. I think the other thing too is just the consistency of the fact that we thought early on that everything was good. And then all of a sudden it was started with penalties. Then it started with the fact that they can't pass block. And so in one week as much as I questioned if it was fixable that quickly, they may look better this week. They look like they've got some things that they've been working on. But I got to see it over a stretch of like say four four five games to say that both home and road good depending on the opponent. The fact is is that they've ironed out enough of it for and they've done it consistently over a number of games for me to believe. Okay. Now I think that the majority of it, they're still going to happen. They're still going to be penalties and mistakes. But the majority of the stuff that has been really killing them is behind. Yeah. And the last thing that I have is the impact of Josh Downs. I'm always worried whenever the Texans go up against a good slot receiver. I did a pretty good job against Shane Reed. But I think that's because Green Bay was trying to pick on D'Angelo Ross. And the Texans went more zone against the Packers as well. Downs did not play in the first game between these two teams. Downs is a very underrated slot receiver that's capable of huge games. Now most of his big games have been with Flacco and not Anthony Richardson. But Downs versus Petrie, if the Texans are willing to play a good amount of man to man is a matchup that I do not love. No, you're right. And I think that it's, I don't want to say that it's living, it's living dangerously. It's not, it's not like do or die stuff. But at the same time, you know, that we said going into the season that their receivers are pretty damn good. I think a lot of people look past them, but they they've got talent at the wide receiver position. And the big thing also that we realized after the first time that these teams matched up and what we've known previous to that is Anthony Richardson has a tough time hitting them. Yeah. So the bigger thing is going to be it's one, it's going to be what you said. And then the big thing too is going to be can Anthony Richardson actually complete those balls because in week one, if we remember those mid range passes were there, he just missed them. And that's something that is going to be on him as well, because he's going to have the full compliment, it seems like to go to so and he'll have matchups that are favorable. Now, can he get him the football? Yeah, that's going to be a watching Anthony Richardson throw the ball is entertaining. It is ugly. There's a lot of superlatives that go into Anthony Richardson throwing the football. But I agree with you. I like, I actually like their wide receiver room. I think their wide receiver room is good. I don't think they put up huge numbers because of the Richardson factor. Although whenever, you know, Richardson didn't play a lot of games last year, they put up pretty big numbers last season. They put up pretty big numbers when Flacco was playing. It's kind of weird. All right. 713 780 ESPN. What are your favorite storylines ahead of the matchup between the Texans and the Colts coming up on Sunday? Also, Bobby Sloak yesterday met with the media. He explained the third and 15 call on the final offensive series for the Houston Texans. Does it make you feel better? Does it make you feel worse about Bobby Sloak in the Houston Texans philosophy on that series? 713 7803776. It's the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5 a minute for all state siding and windows.com all state siding and windows.com. They are the place that I always tell you to go to if you're looking to do anything with windows siding your front doors, because they're the best in the business. 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They'll explain the siding and the windows and all the different ways that they think they can help and the products that would be best fit for your house and let you make the decision from there. It's fantastic because it doesn't cost you anything and you get to tap into their expertise to make the decisions that you need. Check them out today allstatesidingandwindows.com. Broadcasting live for the Veritex Community Bank Studios. It's the Killer B's with Joel Blank and Jeremy Bram on ESPN 97.5 and 92.5. Ryan says I just hope both of it seems try their best and have some fun out there. I hope I'm CA action. He wants the Texans to bleed. He wants blood on the cold sand. He's also got better accuracy with some football than Anthony Richstone. I don't know if he saw the video. He was one for two. Like I said, better than Anthony Richstone. He was one for two. I did see the video. I don't know anything which is a good one for two. What are those things? They're like those little circular lights that improve light. The ring lights. The ring lights. They're called ring lights. That's the exact thing that they're called. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Brian. He had a little ball like I do and he tried to throw the ball through the ring and he missed. He hit the ring the first time and knocked it over. And then the second time he hit it and he celebrated all. How I say that he celebrated. But he celebrated about as. You might get a jell again if you say what you're going to say. He celebrated how I'm not willing to say over the year he celebrated. I think y'all can all get what you're saying. Yes. I think y'all can get the gist. 1509 is Brian Cushing the best linebacker in Texas history over training notwithstanding. I haven't looked like the numbers. I would want to go. I was going to say the mikko's in the conversation. I would take the mikko over. I mean Cushing was good. Obviously working the year, but I would take the mikko. Yeah. You talk about the fact that from they said almost day one that he became like the leader of the huddle and the captain and all the things that he was able to do. Yeah. Yeah. Always gives him his prop A two one seven. Yeah. I would think the mikko off the top of my head without any research on it whatsoever. A two one seven says don't didn't have my phone yesterday. When you were discussing the burner account yesterday, my guess of who the account owner is on the Twitter is David Gao. David Gao would have an eight. I can't see it. I mean, I went from he likes you as you prep embossing gloves. I don't think he has time for that. So you don't think you would have you ahead of Johnny G? No. You would be at least third. Yeah. That's that's that's as low as I would be as low as three brilliant blank over here. It would definitely be number one. I don't think I would be I don't think I would be eight though. What do you think you'd be on the gals list? I think I'd cry for top five. Okay. I mean, I went from afternoons to drive time. I mean, if we're for being honest, true, I didn't. We did the show did, which the blinkers was three. So that goes without being set. I think it'd be top five. He gets to bring his down. Yeah. I mean, I would hope he listened to all of them. I mean, I don't know if he does, but I know that we know that he does because he texts us. I don't know. That's the compliment we think that it is. Oh, I think it is. But yeah, I don't think it's a Mr. Galley two one seven. What a Turkish thing to say, but it is Friday. We'll have mean text coming up at five 50 a little bit later. So Bobby Sloake explained his third and 15 call versus the Packers yesterday. This make you feel better or worse about that third and 15 call final offensive series that went to Tankdale. Here's the OC starting point is man, that's a pretty bad call, right? So we go into it. They get hopefully we get inside leverage or off corner, you know, like really what they've shown in similar situations is three guys across the end zone, off corner inside leverage on tank, gave him a route he scored on last year, really same part of the field. And then instead we got outside leverage press, which is hard, like that's not for the routes forward. They doubled step. So really for the quarterback, you got to get all the way to the backside answers, which would have been good on that play, but he's already been hit 12 times, you know, he's not that it's everything trickles down in the NFL, right? So it's not always any like one given play. I think what CJ did in that moment was 100% right, like we can't hold onto the ball. We got to get the ball out of our hands and look to be darned a little bit, you know. So to me, like it's the fact that we've had that protection issues early in the game that we're not confident in able to hang in the pocket. Can we, can we bash Sean real quick, Brian? You want to call him out? Can I? Are you going to break it? I don't want to break any production bro code here. Well, I will. In Sean's defense, I don't know what the quality that audio was without him. You know, like when, when he pulled it, like Texans on their website could have had audio of that quality. No, it's not without, it's not. They're not going to have that quality. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. I really posted it. Okay. All right. They stream it live on YouTube and the quality is a hundred times better than that. Okay. Sean pulled this from somebody's Twitter instead of going to their account or their YouTube, lazy bones, mapes, and just lazily grabbed it instead of going the extra mile and pulling a little bit better sound quality. Sorry, mapes, but it's true. It is true. I'm bashing him because he didn't take the extra step. That was terrible. Terrible quality, terrible quality. Who do we think? Who do we think? Who's heavy breathing was that? Why I heard the heavy breathing more than I heard, I heard slow. Who was the heavy breathing? County 71376. I don't see students post videos. I don't know if he does of press conferences. He might. He might. I don't see those videos. I leave that to the big boys. I don't know. Who's heavy breathing was that that was filming off their phone, which is the audio that makes us pulled instead of going to either Houston Texans.com or Houston Texans on their YouTube. Never. Who's heavy breathing wasn't that. 71378037. That's oh man. My goodness. Anyways, sorry I got sidetracked. That irritated me a little bit. A little bit. Yes. It irritated me a little bit. Does that make you feel better or worse about slow ex-decision on third and 15? The reason that he called that passing play on third and 15. I don't like it because no matter what he said by the time he was done saying everything that he said, I questioned why he called it in the first place. If he knew that because of all the pressure all game long that CJ was under, the fact that he understands why CJ didn't play it out to look to the back to the back angle or whatever the back receiver and he didn't want to hold on to it long enough. Well then why are we calling it in the first place? Why aren't we addressing what everybody was addressing right after the game, which is if you're going to run it on the first two downs, just run it one more time, make them burn another time out and do the smart thing, especially if you're thinking now in what you're telling us is that you knew that he had been hit enough, pressured enough that he had some issues. I think it clouds it even more as to why you would make the play call. See, I can understand the pass call. If somebody had a gun to your head and you had to call a pass play, okay, well that makes some sense. In fact, I actually thought that whenever he ran the play was like they were trying to get a quick outright to tank, tank, make a guy miss, run into the end zone. Like that, that I thought that's what slowock was thinking. Now I didn't ever agree with it. The problem that I have isn't the pass play specifically. It's the fact that you chose to pass the ball instead of running the ball. So does it make me feel better? No, you sort of ran the ball, you shouldn't have been passing the ball for screen bay to use their last time out. If they don't want to use their timeout, take 40 more seconds off the clock. So if you're hell bent, not even hell bent, if you're being forced, you have your boss telling you you must run a pass play there. I'm okay with that pass play because yeah, tank del sometimes going to make the catch, beat his corner one on one and get into the end zone. Like slowock said that it's happened in the pass. The problem is you call it a pass. That's an obvious run situation and it's not the first time that it's happened. It happened at the end of the Buffalo gamer towards the end of the Buffalo game. When you should have ran it, kick the field goal, but no, you try to pass the ball in an obvious run situation, which is why he's passing it because everybody knows it's an obvious run situation and it led to an intentional grounding. So this isn't the first time that slowock is done. It's like twice in the last four weeks. I think you just get too cute. I think that's what it looks like. It looks like, you know, you thought you would, you were going to pull one over and you were going to, you were hoping for an opportunity to almost get lucky and have an opportunity for tank to, to squeak into the end zone as opposed to being intelligent enough to say, hey, I got to rationalize what I'm trying to do here. One, because of the clock, two, because of the timeouts, and three, because you just admitted that your quarterback has been under duress the entire game and might not go through all the routes to do what he has to do on this particular play. Then don't call it. Yeah. And I know that the tendencies of what Green Bay is going to do in those spots. Like, well, I know that they know them. I personally don't know them, but I know that slow-waking the Texans know the tendency. So that's why you call that play. And I saw some other people say, well, they should have called a timeout when they got to the line and they saw the look. You're not going to know if a corner is going inside outside leverage until the ball has been snapped. So you're not taking the time out there. The problem was that he decided to pass the ball instead of running the ball in that situation. 713 780 ESPN Ryan says, whoever recorded that audio has a wake apnea. Maybe that was some severe heavy breathing. I am a little concerned about who can we get to the bottom of this? Can you can you relate it? Mapes makes blocked me a long time ago. Can you text Mapes and ask him what I pulled this from? I wonder why. He's taking a nap. That's no surprise after knowing what kind of audio he pulls. I mean, he's an afternoon nap guy. No surprise. I don't know if he'll be awake right now. That tracks that he's an afternoon napper by just lazily picking you some random Twitter that has terrible audio. You have to get up earlier. So I don't make excuses. Don't make excuses. You know, there's a good chance you've taken a nap because he had to be up like three. You're not completely off the hook on this either. You heard that sound and you see that I posted this with much better on it. Oh, how did I say that you posted that? What do you mean? It's in the audio bit of our rundy. Oh, I didn't mean. I didn't know. You're not completely innocent here. You're not completely innocent either. Now you did work two shifts today. So you I'll make it easy for you to work the morning show. Mapes is unexcusable here inexcusable with what Mapes did. Hopefully he found it for somebody else. No sympathy for all. Early. You know what he says? One way suffers. Mapes me doesn't surprise me to all. He's an afternoon napper after hearing the audio that he pulls. Mapes made the list as Alex said. He did. He made the list. All right. What are the big you just made the list in the NFL this week? Jaden Daniels. Is he going to play? Is he not going to play the two was making his return? Are we okay? This with the concussion issues, the head issues the two had seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six. It's the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. You're back with a killer bees on ESPN 97 five and 92 five live from the Veritex community bank studios. Here's Joel Blanken. Jeremy Branham. I'm really been out of shape right now. I see I'm worried about the station being sued for plagiarism. Not given the credit to who the credit is deserved to with this video. Now I just went on a quick little recon quick little search to see who this video might belong to. I'm down to two. I'm down to two. A texture thinks that it could be the general John McLean. He's not posting videos. Maybe the heavy breathing but not that he's not posting live video. No, he's not posting heavy breathing. I think that it's either big Sarge. But I think it's more likely Aaron Wilson by listening to the audio. It was. I guess. Yeah, you guessed the right. I think I think I think I'm like 70% sure it was Aaron's 30% sure that it's Sarge makes it more likely Sean or whoever pulled it would have pulled from Aaron Wilson and then they would have started YouTube that exists. That's awesome. Awesome audio quality. So 70% of our credit goes to Aaron Wilson. 30% of our credit goes to big start. So whoever there's audio that belongs to or giving you credit, please do not sue the radio station. And you know, if you do, make sure that you know it's the suits upstairs and not the killer bees or whoever pulled the audio. Whoever pulled the audio, you can sue them. You're not going to get them. Sean makes has price six money. He can cover the five. It's all right. He's got afternoon nap monies. What he's got. Who takes afternoon naps? People would money. 713 7803776. Let's go out to the HR and Pete listener line. Eddie, you're in the hype with the bees. What's up, Eddie? Eddie. Yeah, guys. Big fan of the the bees. Your guys are this side and just a long time list are a big fan. I just had a question for you guys about the Texans. You know, last year we suffered a lot of injuries on the O line and I feel like CJ Strauss, you know, still performed great. And you know, this year we don't have as many injuries on the O line and I'm just wondering, have defenses figured out CJ Strauss with the blitz thing or bizarre O line just this terrible. I just want to get y'all thought. Thanks for listening, Eddie. No, I mean, we talked about this yesterday and we've talked about it at length throughout the week. The fact that CJ had a bad game, we all know that, but also at the same time, CJ was one of the best at handling pressure going into the green bag game. And one of the things that we had highlighted was the fact that Jordan Love and I specifically said Jordan Love does not handle blitz packages very, very well. He has a tendency to get panicked. He throws in a double and triple coverage. He did that a couple times in that game. On the flip side, CJ has handled pressure very, very well, but this was like the perfect storm. I don't think anybody's figured out CJ or the line. The line, as we know, had issues communicating and and responsibilities along the line. But I don't think this is something. This is this was in one game before we go and start pointing the finger at CJ or, you know, thinking that defense, no, our defense is, I mean, our team's going to watch the tape from last week and think that there's something there that they can capitalize on. Yes. But I think that's how the NFL works. Yeah. Textures saying that Eddie is glazing. He might have been blazing too. To me, it's not Stroud. Like if you turn on the film and you watch, you know, what's going on, Stroud's making incredible throws. In fact, Stroud, Stroud, a lot of times, is bailing out bad offensive line play. I think he's bailing out terrible situations, third and longs, and Stroud's avoiding pressure and buying time and finding receivers on scramble drills. Stroud's, Stroud's just as good as he was last year. And I think, I think he's better in some ways. The offensive line has been atrocious and they can't trust him. Like, you know, the Bobby Slowa. People are bashing Bobby Slowa. He didn't know how to call anything. No, he just, he's worried about the offensive line. Like he talked about it in that quote, like we have a quarterback that's getting hit. So if we have a quarterback that's getting hit, there are certain plays that we have in our playbook that we literally cannot run. If there's like, if there's routes that are going to take time to develop, okay, we can't run those if your quarterback's getting hit with any sort of pressure. If you have, you know, five, seven step drops, not too much seven step drops these days, but you're, those are pretty much eliminated from your playbook. And people are like, where's the shot plays? Where are the deep plays? There's a couple of factors that come into that. One, the Texans seen a lot of cover two shells. So that makes it difficult to go deep. And then secondly, they don't feel like they have to the time for these long routes to develop. So you have to go away from that. So I would say that 95% of the Texans offensive struggles, and I might even be putting it lightly is because of poor offensive line. And we talked yesterday about the correlation. And I went through the fact that everything is correlated to the fact that it starts with the offensive line. Yeah, you can say that the quarterback has the ball in his hands to make the play. But if the line doesn't do their job, to your point, then the play doesn't have time to develop and you can't have all the options on your route trees and the progressions on the play because of the fact that he doesn't have time to look at all the options or the best option that's there. And then you factor in also the this was, you know, you lose Nico Collins. Nico Collins was a guy that helped CJ and YCJ was so good was that his security blanket in a lot of these situations was Nico. When when we look at the deep balls, a lot of the times the deep ball was directed at Nico, not that the other guys aren't capable, but they're still kind of adjusting on the fly. Now roles have changed a bit with Nico out of the lineup. So the I think it's on the offense as a whole, but I'm not going to point a finger at CJ Stroud and say that this starts with CJ. Yeah, I'm on the offensive line being the reasons of struggle. Jaden Daniels, how much of a factor would him being out mean for this little one? I mean, obviously it's not going to be a pick. It's not going to be a matchup of the number one team versus the number two, not number one pick versus the number two pick. Like everybody hoped that it would be this game actually got flexed out of the noon start. They got flexed out of the noon start moved to this like, I guess it was just going to be a three 30 game. Is this is this the Fox game of the week? Is this America's game of the week? I'd have to check. I'm not sure. I think they move this to America's game of the week because they got flex from the noon to like the three 30. I don't like that. So especially with Jaden Daniels, but they did it like two weeks ago thinking that it was Williams the number one pick. Jaden is the number two pick. It was going to be this marquee matchup and then Jaden Daniels isn't going to play and it's going to be Marcus Mariota instead. Now he practiced today. And I thought he did. I just saw on the ticker on ESPN that they said he practiced today and it's possible that he plays. If I'm Washington and I'm off to the start that I'm off to, I could care less if everybody in America wants to see the two rookie quarterbacks go head to head. I want you to know that I'm biting my tongue right now. I just want D to know that I'm biting my tongue for not saying couldn't care less. Oh, you're going to care. Okay. The big thing to me is rib injuries, especially with a quarterback, but anybody in the NFL when you get hit all the time. But if you're a quarterback and you have a lingering rib injury, it's going to be a bigger problem as as time goes on. If you don't take care of it, the best thing to do is look, Mariota did a very, very good job. Granted, it wasn't against the great team, but Mariota did his job very well last week while you you were out. I would sit him again this week, make sure I can get him as close to healthy as possible before I put him back out there with not a care in the world about who we're playing and where it's placed on the TV schedule, because you're doing your as a team, you're playing too well, and you have too good of a record to put that in jeopardy for the long haul, because you want your quarterback out there too soon. Yeah, civil one, three, seven, eight, zero ESPN and then to a to his head, to his head to me is really pissing me off. What's interesting about this is that Mike McDaniel said zero medical experts recommended that to a retire. Okay, that's fine. But the thing that really bothered me was the fact that when he came back and started this week and as he was going through the clearance and the protocol that he did his press conference and they said, are you going to wear the cap? No, personal preference. At a certain point with the amount of concussions you've had, whether the league has to get in the way and basically do what the player won't do or just and because the league is going to heat, you know, it's going to be the focus of the league anyway, no matter what he decides to do, I just, I can't see that there isn't some way that you can say, at least for a certain amount of time, you have to wear the freaking cap because he's had his dome has been under attack. He's susceptible to concussions as it is and he wants to play. That's fine. You want to play, but if you're going to play, you have to wear something so that you don't have something more catastrophic or significant happen. His body, his choice blankers. I get that. Mark says it's on the Commander's Bears game. It's a CBS 330 game. So they moved it to their marquee afternoon thing. Let's sneak in. Is it Darryl here 713780 ESPN? It's white, white letters, tough to see on a white screen. Darryl, you're in the hive with the bees. What's up, Darryl? Yeah, if we're going on now, how y'all doing? What's up? Hey, look, I just want to talk about the pictures. If I'm to me go around and stuff, I will keep a close eye on King Green this weekend. See how he plays, and if he starts to struggle, follow them. I wouldn't waste no time in pulling them. I know they probably ain't going to want to, but man, look, they're going to have to, and what I would do is I would kick these scrubs back to the left door and I bring Patterson in and send them because they got to give C-day style some protection so he can get the ball downfield. So the receipts can make plays, man, because I mean, I don't think they can afford to be in denial this weekend and say, well, you know, the old line, they're going to do a little bit better. You know, it's just communication issues. No, no, sir, it's time to get real. Say, okay, this is the problem. This is how we're going to fix it. But right now, you know, sorry, we got to cut our losses. I know he's the first round, but he's not getting it done. You see what I'm saying? Appreciate the call, Darryl. We're responding to that on the other side. I think those are good ideas. I would do one other thing prior to doing that, but that would be my second choice. It doesn't seem like the Texans are going to do that this week. Also, when we come back, the World Series makes me feel what it starts tonight. What is the World Series make you feel like? Because the Astros aren't in it. 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. It's the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. This is ESPN 97-5, KFNC and 97-9-HD2 Montbelvue Houston brought to you by Sadak Jewelers. Chevy has the SUV's you know and love. And now there's one more. The first ever all-electric blazer EV. With the latest tech, incredible range and easy charging, this head-turning electric vehicle is Motor Trend's 2024 SUV of the year. When you're ready to go EV, Chevy's got you. Get all the exciting details on the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV at your Colorado Chevy dealer today. And learn more about EV tax credits and take advantage of current offers going on now. There's only one feeling like knowing your banker personally. Like growing up with a bank you can count on. 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