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I mean, they had a little shoulder injury, but it wasn't too bad. I mean, obviously, you get a couple of games. I don't think it's because of the cloning that brought the year because it wasn't like, you know, I've seen it in locker rooms. I haven't seen him when you take it off his pads or whatever. I've been like that shoulder breaks that guy sometimes have. I didn't see I didn't see any of that. So I don't think it's gonna go after the year at all. I think he should be fine. DJ on that same front, though, we're talking about, you know, injuries. Any updates on Christian Harris? I mean, I we know the line backing core added with with white this week, but we also know that, you know, you're going to lose the quarterback of the defense in El Shire. And where are we on Christian Harris now? Um, no, wait, um, I don't I don't it doesn't sound like it's gonna be back soon. I think we still as far as I could more weeks maybe a few more weeks. Um, when it comes to Christian Harris, I've seen him around the locker room and he's in good spirits. Um, but yeah, I don't it's not. If this is how I look at it, because I'm always big about your actions. That's your words. If he was near, we wouldn't see. They don't want to be inside to that 53 man roster. He was found to the 53 man roster. That's the biggest part. Not to, yeah, he was found for the 53 man roster. You know, like, if he if he's picked up enough of the defense, he'll he'll be out there or like he'll be out there on Sunday. If he's picked up, he's gonna be in a couple of days. Well, if he turns up enough of the defense, um, I could see him being out there, like, whether it's by the team, whether it's, um, you know, well, you know, lack quarterbacks, uh, a playing linebacker or whatever, whatever, you know, you know, a couple of rappers because I also think that, uh, our victory, Harry told, uh, soul practice on Wednesday, but they're fighting on Thursday. And obviously, very today's a super, super, super light day. So I'm not, it's not a guarantee he'll be out there because the protocol, um, by the game, he didn't need like, you usually need three straight days, but I will say what they do on Saturdays, um, they're walked on Saturdays can technically count towards that. So, um, towards being able to get out of the concussion protocol. So he's able to, um, go through that with no, with no issues. And, um, I think that, um, we should see him on Sunday. Down one linebacker with a disease, maybe two, we'll see with Henry Toa Toa with that questionable designation. What do you think they're going to be able to do against this running attack with indeed Jonathan Taylor is going to be back. Anthony Richardson making another start. Do you think there'll be short handed there? Is that an area of concern? Now, not at all, man. Like, I think they, they did a pretty good job and week one, only Jonathan Taylor was on the 50 yards. Jonathan has come off of ankle injury. He missed the last three games. So, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, maybe, you know, start some of what he expects because he'll make some mystery games. And then he went, he's gone for 100 yards both games since we've been back 104 and one 15. So, um, but I think schematically, they match it well with, um, they're rushing in fact. And again, like, yeah, I'll be honest, they're trying to sell out to stop the running because I'm going to be very frank. Anthony Richardson just isn't actually a quarterback at all. And the thing is, is like, he has average intended areas for attempt is like 12. But on throws over 10 yards, he's completing like 38% of those throws. And Texans on throws over 10 yards, our holding teams, our core players are only completing 32% of those throws. So, what he likes to do, um, the Texans this year have shown that, that, that is a strength of theirs. Granted, yes, week one, they had, you know, he was able to complete some big passes. But that's week one, man. Like, week one is a weird week. Um, it was, it was wrong coverage. They weren't usually like icing them up and was able to get, you know, passes where they need to go. You don't need to complete nine passes in that game. And he failed to complete the under 50% of his passes in that game. So, man, I, I think that I know we're going to eventually get to, you know, predict this and all that. But like, I think it's the game that detection should win by least man, like, at least 13 points. Like, and I'm, I'm, I'm, because again, like if they stop one, you know, they should be able to stop the run. And when I say do that, like, I just don't envision a scenario where Anthony Richardson is going to be able to overcome the fact that I'm not having a good run game, you know, like three texts now, six intersections and like, like, I'm not, I'm not sure why he doesn't get the same smoke that will let us get right now. Um, because Ruby, everybody's holding on, so I'd go a few quarters of this rookie here. But like, that was a long time ago. You know, I have over a hundred, that was over 300, that was like, oh, sorry, well, over 300, no, almost as long as a day to go. Like, I think the hurt of me and it's updated with me. It's been like a visible. So, and DJ, that's, you know, that's where I was kind of going is the fact that, look, we admit, we even talked about the Richardson aspect, but from week one, how big of a difference are these two teams from where we saw them in week one to now, because we know Buckner's coming back for them. But we know they're focused on and have to be focused on stopping a guy they couldn't stop and Joe mixing. But from a Texans perspective, regardless of who's in the secondary, we know that Richardson missed some throws, but he had a couple of big bombs that were there for the taking and they just didn't make them. And how did the Texans have to be more focused and adjust on the fact that that deep ball was there and they got to be ready for it again. Yeah, but I think those are easy fixes because there wasn't, like, there wasn't a single one outside of, like, the Pierce one where, like, you know, he just kind of, they ran by everybody and obviously the Pierce one, but, like, even with that one, that was a blowcovers because Jimmy Ward, instead of, you know, staying over the top, he did a little bit and then the guy ran past them, you know. And that was that. And then, like, with the other one, that was for, like, 60-something yards. Again, like, if it's easy to be able to get in that one spot, they're fine. And then again, like, that was, like, this one because you don't have to bad back to see angles or, like, that, I believe there's another one. I'm trying to, it's just keeping my mind right now. But even on that one, I remember it, like, again, like, if you've got to get back, so you've got to play on a ball, like, I left that game, you can, like, oh, the kind of people were fine. Even, like, you know, there was that one play where 80 Mitchell got bad by Finley and Kamari, like, they'd be prepared for that because, like, that, it was double moves. And double moves, like, you know, I'm not saying double moves don't move me, but if I want to do a point, if you got to run double moves, you get by me, then that means you can't get by me without trickeration. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, so I'm really not worried about the past events and defending the beat ball as well. And they keep everything in front and force him to throw underneath, like, it can get, I don't want to say it's going to get bad, but they could get bad for the cold team. They could be saying, you look up, and they're like, oh snap. It's 20 to three. It's like eight minutes left in the game, you know, because they couldn't even, like, I'll score, like, barely, I'll score Miami who has no quarterbacks. Like, Anthony was, it was bad in that game. He was 10 for 24. He was abysmal, you know. So, I'm not worried about the beat ball. I'm not worried about much regarding Anthony Richardson and the pass attack. So, a lot has been made of the offensive line because of everything in Green Bay. And we know it's been a topic of conversation all week long. It doesn't think we know they're not going to do anything personnel-wise changes. Are we to believe that it is all fixable, that they are fixing it this week, and that we're going to see a totally different type of result this week? Um, yeah, so that thing, uh, the biggest indicator right now is, um, over at home. That's the biggest indicator, because against, um, against the Packers, for sacks, against the Vikings, I believe for sacks, against the Colts, for sacks. All the road games, they struggle protecting, you know, picking up the stuff to think about nature. Well, they're not going on the road this week. You know, like, they're going to be at home. So, I'm not too worried about that. And another thing too, like, you know, I haven't talked to a few guys, um, they're all just like, man, we just got to execute better. It's not like, you know, as some of them, I would get out of steam. Like, I had one player tell me that the, uh, the stack where Xavier McKinney was able to get seated. He was like, no, I think you got steam on that one. Like, like, that's going to happen, right? Like, sometimes you should get paid too, man. Like, these things are going to make plays, like, you know, it happens. And then, like, even like the one on the first drive where, um, um, the one on the first drive where you had, it wasn't a factor over the pressure and she had it roll out. And then you type over the diary, but the end of sounds are fearful. Like, that won't, you know, people like that. That won't be that scheme. That won't happen. You know, um, obviously the other stunt, they got to be better there. Um, but if you come to that institution, like, one was like, it's not even coaching for us. It's just more like we got to over communicate on the road. So really, like, in my, in my, just to be transparent, like this week, is it, is it, is it going to indicate anything easier way? Because for me, it's more about, can they do it on the road? Um, even if they struggle a little bit at home, that won't bother me because I've seen them be very, be fine at home. It's more about the road. The road feels like more of it because it's the thing because of the cloud noise and then not over communicating, right? Because like, like one guy was telling us there's times where like the, like the, the line call, does it make it to the tackles? Because they're not, you know, one guy, you know, God doesn't hear it or he says it. Like I say, let's say alphabetically juice it. Uh, it's coming around call and you tell the shack and then chat, chat, tell the Titus and Titus can't hear it or, you know, Titus, Titus can't hear it, right? Or if it's, that's right. Where, probably, you know, juice tells, um, saying, saying to himself, Larry me, but like, Larry doesn't hear it or saying doesn't hear it. This is so loud, you know what I mean? So that's that, like, I'm not actually, um, I got, I just want to know the players about, um, if, if, you know, I thought maybe, maybe there's issues there because, you know, can, you know, juices a young player, uh, no, you just have to make your audited calls. Like, you know, a lot of good calls. So like, that's not really an issue. Some are cool. So at least now I have that stowaway is not necessarily him. Um, and I'd ask the, I actually, what if they're just scheming against him and like, nah, because they don't know our call. So it's not like, they can necessarily be like scheming against whatever call that we're going to make. Maybe they might know, cause I'm trying to make it, I've got a lot of spirits, you know what I'm saying? So, um, I think that for me, it's more about what it looks like on the road because it's more of a communication thing. And then there's anything else. Yeah. I'm with you on that one. DJ, great, uh, great stuff as always. We'll talk to you next week. Any problem? DJ B NMA joining us on the HR and P guest line phone on Twitter at DJ B NMA for all of your Texans wants, desires and needs. We're going to get our toast of the week when we come back. Also Tony, he's the third base coach, the new third base coach for the Houston Astros. He's also listed as a run prevention coordinator. I believe this is the first time I've seen this in baseball. What are the weirdest job titles that you've seen in sports? 713-780-3776. It's the bees on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ESPN 97-5. Now back to the killer bees. On ESPN 97-5 and 92-5. Live from the Veritex community bank studios, here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. 713-780- ESPN, Tony Ferrestica, run prevention coordinator for the Astros. What are the weirdest job titles we've seen in sports? 713-780-3776. The first, time for our toast of the day. Who are you toasting this week? 713-780-3776. Who are you toasting, blinkers? I am raising my stellar Rosa Black cherry in honor of Fernando Valenzuela, one of the greatest left-handed pitchers that I saw and loved watching when he was in his heyday, and just the fact that he's gone too soon is one thing. But people forget how dominant he was, and there was a clip on social media about the one year we had 20 complete games that he won the Cy Young, I think it was, but he was unbelievable for that window of time when he was at his peak. So passed away, I think in the last week, but in the last week, but definitely raised the glass for Fernando. Yeah, I'll piggyback off of that. I used to love the look to the heavens. Yeah, his windup was awesome. Thank you for the best of me, Brian. I was gonna get to all that. Looked at that. I couldn't get in there fast enough. He's like Carl Lewis out of the gates. Go cooks. No, that was my eye. I loved the look to the heavens. So yeah, that's a good call. I'll raise my glass. Brian, do you want to finish what I was going to say? No, I know. I wouldn't. I wouldn't like to be raising your class. I'd like to raise my glass to Paul Galat, who finally had a Reese's peanut butter cup today for the first time in his life at age 35. Man, if Paul, welcome to the world, Paul Galat. If Paul's doing that for the first time at 35, what are the other things he's doing at 35? That feels like it was in bits for next week. What else is he doing for the first time? Yes. I just kept thinking, like, what kind of parameters did you have as a child to not try, at least try a Reese's peanut butter cup? Yeah, I'm worried, man. Maybe he was, you know, they, they didn't allow to eat sweets or I wonder if he was, you know, kind of, what does it call whenever you're holding back? Yeah, yeah. Repressed. Maybe he was repressed as a child over there and whether it was the Northeast or the Southeast of Florida. That's wonderful. It makes you wonder. It makes you, it makes you wonder. It makes you question, but this is very good. That's very, very good. The Stella Rose of Black Cherry. It's the balance of classic semi-sweet flavors, a red blend. It goes well with spicy foods, fruits, cheeses. What do you call it? Shacoonery board? Shacoonery board. My wife loves a shacoonery board. And desserts and something. Yeah, this, this is very good. It is tasty. I am enjoying this. Thanks you for allowing me to have some of your, you know, available at your local retailers, but please celebrate responsibly. Yeah, I like that little catchphrase too. It's a good catchphrase to 1-8-8-0. I'm not going to, I'm not going to read what you said, but yeah, it makes you wonder, right? If he's doing that at the age of 35 for the first time, what other things at the age of 35 that Paul Galant's doing for the first time? All right. So Tony Bestica, he's the new third base coach for the Houston Astros. He's going to be the infield coach, which is good because the Astros need a little bit of help defensively, especially with a replacing fragment. But he's also been given the title as run prevention coordinator. I have never seen a run prevention coordinator in baseball. Maybe I've overlooked it. Maybe it does exist. This is the first time that I have seen it though. He is the run prevention coordinator for the Houston Astros, which is a great title, right? Because I mean, that's half the job, right? Preventing the other team from scoring runs. But what are the weirdest job titles that you've seen in sports? 713-780-3776. What sticks out to you, Blake? I got a couple from personal experience. The first is Mike Dantoni naming an NBA assistant coach, his defensive coordinator. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that was so weird. Like, that's a football term. It does make sense. It's also because he wanted to blame him because he was an offensive minded coach if the defense sucked. He needed someone to blame. Who was, what was his name? Jeff Bestelik. Bestelik. Yeah, I couldn't. Yeah, that's right. Jeff Bestelik, coach, the Grizzlies. He was for a little bit. He was a head coach for a little bit. I can't remember where it was though. What was the other one? And then the other one was I, when working in the Rockets front office, one year we had a change at the very, very top with our president, and he decided to like give people promotions or give them different titles. And he named a woman chief of staff. That's not so bad. And like Secretary of State. And we're like, Secretary of State's kind of weird. No, we're not in a political office. We're, or a cabinet, we're in a front office of a basketball team. And we were just like, wait, what? Can we get a job description on that? Yeah, the Secretary of State's the weird one. The other one makes some sense. Chief of staff. Like that's kind of a business. But we already had a CEO and a CFO and a president. So like, so what exactly does the chief of staff do? It's so funny. Like whenever you're giving somebody a promotion, but you're not really giving a promotion, you just change the name of their title and give them a little bit more money. I would say in banking, you get the VPs and the big, big titles because you don't get any money. Oh, really? In the banking. The one that sticks out to me is whenever all of a sudden in college football, all of these CEOs of culture popped up. I think Ed Reed might have been the first one in Miami, or maybe he wasn't the first one, but he's the first one that I can remember. I think wasn't Vince Young. He was a staff coach. My mind was gonna be Matthew McConaughey, who was the minister of culture. Minister of culture. Jack Easter because wasn't he the minister of culture? Also, not that I'm aware of, but Jack Easter me was another guy. You guys just mentioned the changing of titles with the raise and it means nothing. Easter be had that towards the end before he eventually got fired. Yeah, Matthew McConaughey is the minister of culture at Texas. That might be the best answer. I forgot about the minister aspect. Yeah, because I remember the CEOs of culture, but he was the minister of culture. That's even better. And what was what is it now? What's the key new term for college athletics with overseeing NIL and all the sponsorship dollars for athletes and stuff like that? Because in college football, you never have a general manager, but there's a certain business term from other sports that college is now using for the guy that kind of because the guy that the board just hired at Alabama has that title. And I was like, wait, what? Yeah, they all have like liaisons that are in the NIO game, but I don't I don't remember the title. I don't know the title of that. Yeah, the two one eight zero. I honestly thought the run prevention coordinator title was held by the Texans offensive line without mixing. Great. Joe, not too bad. Yeah. Give that one a six eight three, three, three, eight. How's a third base coach preventing runs? He's not even on the field unless we are trying to score runs. Well, that's because he's also the infield coach. He's going to be working on the defense on the infielders. He's responsible for two different jobs. He's responsible to coach third. And he's also the infield coach Gary Pettis was the outfield coach. Yep. Gary Pettis was the outfield coach and the third base coach. Like they always have multiple jobs. I think Dave Clark's going to be the new outfield coach and first base coach. And then Tony. He's going to be the third base coach and then the the infield coach and the run prevention coordinator. I've never seen this in my life. Any other weird ones that you've seen? The one that this is I think has become kind of common now, but the one that always struck me is weird that I think this was mostly college football, but I saw the NFL too, but the get back guy. Yeah, I don't know if that guy ever had any other responsibilities, but there was always the get back guy that was responsible to drag the coach back to the sideline. He's usually the strength coach that and there's also though there's always the guy that is like following the coach around like trying to keep him from tripping over the wires and connected to his headset. There's always like that guy that's got to wrangle the wires on the sideline. That's always a weird job. Usually the equipment guy. You don't see that as much anymore because now they're all wireless. There was one the other day though that I saw that still likes the wire. I think it might have been horrible. Oh, real. That makes sense. Yeah. He's an old easy work. Yeah, it was horrible. Yeah, I think there's still a coach that uses the wire. It's like, Hey, you know, it's 2024. You can go wireless now. 7308, not sports, but sometimes I'll tell tell one of my employees that I am promoting him to VP of parking lot cleanliness before making them go out and sweep the parking lot. That sounds kind of demeaning. It does sound condescending. Yeah, it's just right. Yeah, you go clean up the parking lot. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna call you the VP of parking lot cleanliness. I don't think you're tricking anybody there. There's actually the cleave of the parking lot. Yeah, I think you're being a little demeaning. I wonder if your employees like you. Do your employees like you 7308? I almost fell on the ground when chief people officer was created. I don't remember that one. Austin, do you remember Austin the guy who texted that in? I don't was a chief people officer officer. I don't know that one for the Texans. I don't know. It's a senior executive who manages an organization's human resources and culture. So I think this is just like in the business world, CPO chief people officer. I've never heard of that one. I'm not in business. So maybe I shouldn't have heard of that one. But yeah, head of PR at a company. So as Laura Beavers, our chief people officer, I would say that she is. Oh, for sure. Because she's senior executive manages our HR culture. This has compliance, employee relations, work environment, benefits and compensation, HR process retention and growth. Yeah, Laura's our CPO. She's our chief people office line. She handles the money and the HR stuff. Yeah, that's pretty pretty much got the pulse. Yeah, they're the she's the chief people officer of the ESPN 975. A 50 10 isn't to Sean Watson, also known as little cowboy, depending on who you ask. Yeah, three, four, one, three, what is Andre Johnson's role with the Texans now? I think he does have a weird title. The one that I was thinking about when you look, if you're looking it up from Alabama, was it was that DeBore brought his general manager from Washington to Alabama. And then someone tried to poach said general manager. And I was like, when have there ever been a general manager in college football? You start to see that pop up more. Yeah, you start to see that pop up more like they have the control of the roster and all of that. I don't think they actually have control. They're not they're not more important than the head coach. But I've seen the general manager used a more and more in college football and basketball, but it's rare. It's not very you don't see it too much. Build and foster relationships essential to the success of the program. Now you think that's NIL or you think it's like somebody who's helping out with like roster management in terms of roster size scholarship? I think it's all inclusive. But I think it I think it's there's a probably an emphasis on the NIL money and the things that the kids get. My employees like me because I'm patient and empathetic and I buy collage season breakfast tacos on Fridays. I guess if you're buying breakfast tacos and collagees on Fridays, I guess your employees are okay with you calling them the VP parking lot cleanliness. I think that is fine. I think that's okay. Yeah, they they call you CEO happy belly. I'm feeding them. I like to eat. The newest title is chief experience officer. Give me a break. See that one's tough because now you're taking away the CEO. I feel like it's not the CEO job, though. Like I don't think that the chief experience officer is the head honcho of the company. No, you're like a you're a lower level CEO is what you are that the other one. It would say that again with the exact title because chief experience officer. They have those in professional sports now, but that's all the fan related things from the fan council to like the game presentation to all the different fan experience. I know we've got to get different. It's like the new thing. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that one. But yeah, there's some weird ones out there, but this is the first time I've ever seen in my life. A run prevention coordinator in baseball. It makes sense. We'll see if it catches who to blame if they don't prevent. Oh, Tony. Yeah. All right, busy money killer bees, hanger winners each and every week. We've been dominating. We've been rolling. We've been hot. We're going to hand you winners. When we come back, it is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Do these guys have any idea what they're doing? Probably not, but that won't stop them from making picks. This is busy money, busy money killer bees have been killing it at busy money. They've been dominating. But you're in first place now of the three of us. No, I haven't tracked that. Brian, you're the one who does track. I know. You were. You were a big joke of it. Yeah. You're boy J bone. First place J bone for the J bone for the win. J bone in first place. Brian's at second and seven and five and in dead last bottom of the division, the worst in the hive. Plankers all the blinkers is six five and one like by one game. Yeah, we're three and two last week, 80 dollars won the big money games last week and we're up to a $1,180 plus one. We did the Brian did sentences games. I think we just faded one of my picks and the other one lost the other one lost. That you were owed to last week. I was only one of them. No, he was only two last week. Oh, but we faded one of them. Yeah, we were on it. All right, blinkers. What's the first game that you're selling to us? I can't. That's why I was asking you which color are you green Atlanta at Tampa. Yeah, I like I like the Falcons over the Buccaneers. I like the fact that the Buccaneers without their two best receivers. I think it's going to be a struggle bus for them. I know that Baker still has a propensity for throwing it to the other team. And I think Atlanta has looked pretty good. And I think they continue to get better. And I think that they have all their weapons. Uh, and I like the Falcons at Tampa Bay. Oh, yeah, I don't really know what to expect in this game. A Tampa Bay is without all of, well, I shouldn't say all. They're without two of their top two receivers. God wins out for the year. Evan's going to be out for a few weeks. I kind of like their young guys though, like it's still thinking it's going to take time. I don't know if I like them enough. Plus, I think we're going to see more running back there. I think we're going to see all three of those guys play more white, Bucky and then Sean Tucker. I still don't think it's enough. Remember when these two teams played on Thursday night football earlier this year? And it was a track meet Kirk Cousins through flight 8,000 yards on the road. I'm leaning Atlanta slightly. I'm leaning Atlanta slightly. So I'm with you like slightly to Atlanta as well. I don't think obviously because it's not going to throw for 500 yards again, they're going to have to win this game on a lower level. But because Tampa's top two receivers are out, I think they do. And I think they win by three to four points. So I would go and land at the cover. I like Atlanta. I like it small here. Yeah, I'm too confident. How much you want to bet here? 25. Okay. Five of that minus two for 25 doll hairs. First game I'm going to sell to you. By the way, you all took all the games I liked this week. I had four games that I like this week. And I was not talking about what's up. Someone already had two picks in when I picked mine. Well, who's who's the one that always likes to go first? Well, Brian. Yeah. Why do you think he was in first place for so long? He had he had the first pick. He's cherry picking the games before we were. There's only four games that I like this week. And y'all, y'all played them all. So I had to get a little bit creative here. So like with the shows we're doing with. Yeah, so we have a lot of these picks. That's I'm telling you that beforehand because I'm a good teammate. I'm looking out for the best interests of us all. I don't like the games that I'm picking. But I will start in Cleveland. James Winston's going to be fun, but he's not winning game. James Winston's going to give the ball away. The Ravens are rolling. The Ravens offense is very good. Yes, they're giving eight and a half points on the road against the division rival. Do not care. Baltimore wins this game by double digits. I think it's many points. I didn't like the points. I think I think that Baltimore definitely wins the game. I could see him winning by a touchdown. I just I stayed away because I just don't like I think it's too many points. Yeah, I'm in agreement and I I. Jeremy told is basically told us to fade him. So I'm going to fade it here. It's too many points. I'm going to play when it's first game you're selling to us. First game. I'm going to keep you here in in H town. I'm going with the Texans. Minus five to actually cover the minus five. DJ told us the Texans. I think he said they think they might win by 20. But obviously don't need all of that. Just need five. I think the Texans take advantage of that terrible passing game from the coast of anything which is not being able to hit anything. Joe mix and dominates the game. They win it by seven eight points that cover the minus five. It's a divisional game which worries me. But I hear you and I heard what DJ said. I believe the Texans win this game close to a touchdown. So I'm fine with it. I don't want to go big on it. But I think I like the Texans. These two teams play close games. You look back at week one. Colts didn't have Josh Downs and the only one by two Jonathan Taylor coming back from an injury. Now he was he was healthy in week one. Anthony Richardson stinks. But you look at the Texans wins. You get rid of one of them at the Patriots which the Patriots are terrible. They beat the Colts by two. They beat the Bears by six. They beat the Jags by four. They beat the Bills by three. I don't want to have a double whammy of emotions on Sunday. I don't want the Texans to lose. And they go, Oh, no, we lost money on busy money. I don't like this game. I'm staying away from this game. I think the Texans win. But I think they win by like a field goal. So I'm personally out. You all can override me. So I, yeah, Joe, what's the spread we locked in? It's five. Five. Five. I do 20. Okay. Yeah, 20 20. The Texas. No second game. My second game is the Packers and the Jags. The Jags won. But so what? They beat the Patriots. And I don't, I think the Jags are frauds. And I think, you know, Green Bay. They've won one game. How are they frauds? Because people, I mean, I just think that because they beat the Patriots, you know, that could be like good teams. No, I think that it's the fact that Doug Peterson didn't lose his job because they got to win. But the fact is they beat the Patriots. So they still suck. But, but, you know, people are like, well, their offense put up a lot of points. It's still the Patriots. I think Green Bay and the last number I saw was four. But Green Bay is going to beat the Jags home more road by more than four points. I like the Packers. Yeah, I haven't went in by at least a touchdown. I'm on the Packers side of this too. It's a long way to go. It's far, but I think the Jags are bad. I think the Packers are good. I think the Packers offense is going to do bad things to the Jacksonville defense. Bad, awful, terrible things to that Jacksonville defense. I think the Packers roll. Yeah, same here. I'm going to dream it. Let's go for it. 50. That's a lot. It's your team, your team, but you guys, your call, I will go for because he's in last place. It's the last place. That's true. We got to win. All right. Second game that I'm going to sell to you is zero confidence at all. Miami's at home against Arizona. Miami's giving. I usually associate myself with red, but I'm here. It's not my game. I'm going to go up to Baston. Go up to Gillette. Patriots are getting seven points at home against a dysfunctional train wreck of a team. New England has Mayo that needs to winners and get fired according to some people. Maybe I don't know. Patriots cover the spread. Patriots plus seven cover the spread against the Jets. I think the Jets win, but I think the Jets win by three or four pats cover against a dysfunctional team known as the J E T as just, just I think the Jets win this game. I think they're going to still try and make a statement. I think they've been trying to make a statement now for a couple of weeks. And even with Devonta Adams, it didn't help him win a game with a disastrous second half. I'm leery of more than a touchdown winning by having to win by more than a touchdown. If I'm the Jets, Rogers was iffy, but he's going to play. I think I always expected him to play. I don't know how limited he's going to be, but the offense should be better with Devonta having another week under his belt. They are dysfunctional, man. I mean, I think the Jets win by at least a touchdown, but not much more. Yeah, I mean, the Jaguars just beat this team by what like 16. So I I don't have a great lean either way. I'm pretty fearful of it. I'm fine. We're playing the plus seven angle, but it would have to be a small bet. I don't want to play it. Let's not play this one. Okay, we'll play this game. I'll pick the games that I wanted. All right, Brian. My last one is the return of to Miami Dolphins minus four at home because the air is out of Carlos game. I thought I'm red. Yeah, I usually read to I saw that actually not to have. I saw an interesting stat that apparently Kyler hasn't won back to back games in like some like 23 24 games overall. Obviously one last week against the Chargers. So I think they not only lose this week, but they get rolled. Miami's at home to they get all the weapons are there. I think the dolphins are going to put a big one on the Cardinals. I like the dolphins here. I think they they've got a lot of ground to catch up on and they want to get to a back right as quick as possible. I think they're going to know governors open up the offense and I don't I mean Arizona's okay. I know some people had higher hopes for them and predictions than others. I just don't believe in Kyler Murray and I think the Dolphins are going to roll as well. So I'm fine with that. Yeah, I have the dolphins winning this game by four exactly for exactly four. Yeah, I didn't play this. I played so few games this week. I really did. I'm not I'm not being hyperbolic or funny. Like I'm being sincere. This is a game that I stayed away from. I had it exactly as a push. The Branum metrics at Miami winning by four. So if you guys played, I'd want it to be like 25. 20 or 25, Brian. 25. Okay. All right. So we're on very, very timidly. Miami minus four for 25 bucks. Atlanta minus two and a half of 25 bucks. Green Bay minus four for $40. The Packers have a saying. Go, Pat. Go, Pat. Go, Pat. Go. They stole that from the Cubs. Go Cubs. Go. Nothing. You sure about that? Yeah. How sure? You talk it to a partial team owner here. Yeah. But when did they start saying go, Pat, go? I mean, did the innovation of that happen in the early twenties? That's that's a very sophisticated thing. I don't think that came into like the 70s or 80s. All right. Green Bay minus four for $40 Houston minus five for $20. That's what the other bees are on. All right. Let's get to the car wreck of the day. 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I got a chance to hang out with a bunch of teenagers and toddlers very similar to what I do here at Fox. I love it, baby. I love it. We'll play. We'll play. There you go. There you go. Derek cheater. They're ripping each other. That's what that's a good coaster. They make fun of each other. They rip each other. They make fun of each other. Respectfully respectful. Respectfully and jader taking jader taking some shots the big poppy and Alex Rodriguez. The next step on the mean things you said to us. This was this was something that pogolont tweeted earlier today. Apparently somebody was not too pleased with pogolont singing on the show. So they they texted in. They said tell that inbred R word pogolont to stop singing into the bad word microphone. He's making a mockery of your station. Shut the moron. Someone's taking this seriously. Someone does not vary. I mean, they just don't like Paul singing. They don't like Paul singing. A two one seven earlier said I didn't have my phone when you were discussing that burner account yesterday. My guess is the account owner is David gal. He's ripping. Well, me specifically. Honeyglays, Branham, only way LeBron is going to score any points in the NBA is the flabron holds him up with both arms. Simba style. I did hear somebody the other day saying that's the only way that brawny was a score is LeBron's picks him up and lets him dunk over the rim. That's pretty good. All right. We got to get out of here. World Series game one coming up. Thanks to all of you for listening and saying mean things to us. He was Brian doing all the hard work today. He's blank on Branham. We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the Yankees and the Dodgers in World Series game one. Up next on ESPN 97 5. You're listening to ESPN 97 5. There's only one feeling like knowing your banker personally. Like growing up with a bank you can count on. Like being sure what you've earned is safe, secure and local. 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