The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
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You got a violin case or some kind of way to hide your weaponry? Oh, keyboard? That's my weapon. Yeah, it's a keyboard. I just shut down the stream. The ultimate keyboard warrior. I like it. That's the weapon. Looking at the quarterback rankings, whatever, you know, make of them what you will. But the athletic does one each and every week, kind of their stock report. They kept CJ Stradd at number three. They kept them at number three ahead of Josh Allen, ahead of Joe Burrow, ahead of Jordan Love, who, yes, through two interceptions in that game, but was easily the better quarterback on the field on Sunday. Love CJ Stradd. I definitely think he's a top five quarterback. The season he's had and especially coming off the worst game that he's had all year through for less than 100 hard through for less than 100 yards. I have a very difficult time having him ahead of Allen and Burrow if we're if we're just taking a stock report throughout the entire year. No doubt. I mean, this is one where it is earned and it is deserved and there's no way that he should be anywhere near the top three on this list until he has a bounce back game and shows he can get back to where he was. I mean, look, he got off to a great start. He played. His stats were terrible. They were putrid and he didn't play his best football this last weekend. And we've talked about these when these lists come out every week. The fact that, you know, he was when we called out the fact that he was like 15 on certain lists after he played really well. I mean, a lot of these guys are trying to do these things to get the clicks, but there's no way CJ belongs to be a number three. No, I think it's a little it's a it's, you know, it's a high it's a high compliment. It's high praise for what Stroud has been so far. But if we're if we're gonna keep score of these things and like we look at team power rankings and it's like they move and adjust based on their performance, I think that you needed to move CJ Stradd if we're just being in the interest of fairness. Now, I think the quarterback that's being incredibly disrespected here, incredibly disrespected. I think he's got a chance to win the MVP. He's the Mike Strove, one of the best offenses in the NFL. There's no reason that Jared Goff should be as low as number eight. Like if we're if we're taking in everything, everything matters, team success, how well the offensive performance, the quarterbacks, individual stats, he's eight behind party. There's that's ridiculous. There's no way he should be below party. Maybe Jordan Love, although I just kind of gave praise for Jordan Love because he played better than Stroud. I would have golf had a stradd right now burrows teams records. Not great. Although they've they've kind of rebounded. They're kind of playing better. Golf being at number eight's way too low for me. He's he's at least in the top five, I think. And you make a case for the most talented offense in football right now. They're healthy. They have weapons at every position. And he is orchestrating everything that they do and Brock Purdy right now lost weapons. But they were struggling. Their record isn't as good. And when you look at them of the two teams, you would say Detroit is the team, the better team, the better weapons and has the better quarterback. And I think that same thing with Jordan Love in the same division, they have a better record. And he is the more proven quarterback and he is doing big, big things, putting up big numbers. And I think that right now when you look at it, the Lions right now, I don't think it should be even questioned that they're the best team in the NFC. And if you're the best quarterback of the best team in the NFC and you're putting up the numbers, their offense is putting up, then he legitimately should be in the top five, probably in the top three coming over to my side. Jared golf. Great. I'm not gonna say great. Good. Yeah. I'm talking into it a little bit more than Brian did. Yeah, I'm talking into the greatness that is golf care about the entire ranking. They have looked at Lamar jump Pat Mahomes, which is hard to argue. I mean, about my homes is for his standards kind of bit Pat mid homes, but their teams undefeated and you'll always expect him to flip the switch. I'm not doubting Patrick Mahomes, but Lamar Jackson is putting together another MVP type of year. Like the dude in the regular season might go down as the greatest quarterback of all time. Now his postseason success has not been very good. Although I'm getting more and more of the fill if they stay healthy that this is their year. I think I think I'm with you. I think that when you look at their calling card has always been Lamar, you know, Lamar offensively. And then the defense, he's got so many weapons to go to now when you add a Derek Henry that's playing the way he's playing in that system, which is a natural running system with a really solid offensive line. And now instead of, you know, multiple, you know, musical chairs at running back, you've got a bell cow that can do what he does. And then you add some of the receivers that they got two tight ends now with likely as well as Andrews and Andrews are starting to come on. I've already mentioned their line is solid. Their receivers are better than they've been. There's no reason to believe that their offense can't equal their defense. And that this is as complete of Raven's team as we've seen in the last five years. 713 780 ESPN HRMP listener line 71378037776. A big dobs who's a big fan of the show follows on Twitter and communicates with us on Twitter. He says that his Texans PTSD is starting to flare up. Is your Texans PTSD starting to flare up? Why is it starting to flare up 71378 03776? It's the bees on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 92.5 listening to ESPN 97.5 You're locked in with a killer bees on ESPN 97.5 and 92.5 live from the Veritex Community Bank studios. Here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. Oh yeah, I'm getting tweets right now. Oh, you're in jail. You can't respond to this. Oh, I'll get you back just because I'm in lock up right now. What's the old saying? Payback's the bitch. Okay, that's not the one I was going to use. Yeah, let's go with that. I think that works. Go with that. You might have your you get your punches here for the next eight hours, hopefully sooner than that. But just know that Branham we come back with a vengeance. Branham taking notes. Recidivism rate. I don't know. You might be headed back to jail. You can't use that word. If people don't know what you're saying, what's the point of using the word? Well, that's the term for how likely it is a prisoner is to go back to prison. Thank you. One person who has just said that. He's going to said there's you know, the likelihood of a prisoner going back to prison is I set it up by saying what's the term? I was fact trying to fact check myself. I didn't know. We're we're morons in a microphone. You think we know? I said the bar too high for you. Clearly you're a prisoner. I think there's a spatula on you know, the human body and you're going. I don't even know if I could repeat what you said. I think I got it right. Didn't I recidivism? Recidivism. There you go. Recidivism. How many of you know the word recidivism 71378? And as soon as you say that, just know that you're you're showing off whenever you say oh, I knew it that word, man. Okay. All right. Be prepared for the spelling bee when we throw other nine syllable words that you and say define it. Recidivism. Use it in a sentence. Maybe that could be a little bit. Yeah, use it in a sentence. I'm going to come back stronger than ever. I hope y'all know that. So everybody that's tweeting, you know, you're punching somebody who has their hands tied behind their back. But as soon as my hands get unleashed. Come back at you. Textions injury report. Um, the big thing here's Kamari Lasser practiced. He was limited, but practiced. I hate to do this, but I got to call BS on Aaron Wilson story on this. Aaron Wilson said he had a fractured spatula. And this would be the first time in NFL history, according to my research, that a football player came back from a broken spatula in two weeks would be the slightest of hairline fractures. And still, even then, yeah, like even then I looked up, um, like the anti cow tucker, like, come on, like a broken bone. And you're coming back. You miss two games. Like I'm calling BS on it, especially where it's at. I looked up at like the history of this injury from other players and other players in the NFL that it's pretty rare. Like it doesn't happen a whole lot. Like people are arguing me on Twitter. It could be broken, but he's making this miraculous recovery. So I went and actually like looked this up. I found this, uh, like a thesis that was done by the, the Baylor college of medicine, which they had three different case studies in football with a broken spatula. The first guy was 29 years old and he was in a sling for two weeks. He was in a sling for two weeks. At six weeks, the fracture had healed. So like he wasn't returning to play football because his arm was in a sling. The second case, 23 year old wide receiver had a direct below. Uh, so that was probably a little bit more severe. This one caused him to be out six months because of this. The case, the case number three was a 26 year old running back and he missed a month. So three different cases that were done by the, the Baylor college of medicine, uh, just players who have been out with scapula injuries over the, you know, recent memory in the NFL, according to Google and their AI, I don't even know these guys names, uh, but Bruce Miller, 2013, full back for the 49er, suffered a broken scapula after being hitting the shoulder in the face Mac. He was a face mask. He was immobilized for six immobilized for six weeks. Britain Covey, the most recent player in the NFL earlier this year, a receiver for the Eagles broke his scapula during a game against the Saints. He was sidelined for six weeks. His did not require surgery. Sam Darnold, last year heard it. It was last year or two years ago, whenever he was with the Panthers. So case after case, after case, it's a minimum, a minimum of four weeks. And he's returning after missing two games with a broken spatula. I'm calling BS on it. He's the only one that's added. Aaron's the only one that has had it. So the Texans never said they have not. They said, no, they all they said shoulder. Okay. They've all they all they said shoulder. Look at the other beat writers, like even DJ, he just says shoulder. Yeah, at least it isn't like the Astros where it's discomfort that turns into the unknown, which turns into them saying things that we know. Yeah, this is the opposite. Yeah. Okay. It would just be a missed report by Aaron. But like if he if he got hurt, he misses two games, he's back. You can make the case that there's like three weeks between injury because you're not playing into that next Sunday, but he's practicing now, by the way. So he's back after missing two weeks. He's practicing today as a limited participant. There's no way. Especially if you're practicing, like you could be rehabbing. You could be like getting it stronger again and trying to work on some things to get flexibility back. You're not going to be a participant in practice that soon if it's actually a break. If it is, if it is a break, this would be the fastest return from a broken spatula in known NFL history. It would. I believe you. And that makes me believe what you believe, which is Aaron Wilson overstepped. I think so. Like and I hate to do it because Aaron's right, you know, 83% of the time. The, like the other clue to me too is if you're the team and you give, because obviously he's getting x-rays. I hope they're not as incompetent as the Astros training staff, although I'm not sure if the Astros training staff, it might be their PR staff. But if they had an x-ray done, which we know that they did, they see a break in the spatula, they're placing them on the IR. Oh, for sure. Either they're placing them on the IR, they're being like, hey, he's going to be out for several weeks, not doing the whole week to week thing. Take sports out of it. You know, if there is a legit break in the scapula, that basically past precedent says it's going to be a while. It's going to be a month. So you put them on the answer list. Yeah, I think it's a, I think it's a bad report. I got sidetracked there. So our friend, big Dobbs, big member of the hive, love, love him. Love you, big Dobbs. He says that he is his Texans PD as a PTSD is starting to flare up. Is your Texans PTSD starting to flare up? 713-780-3776. And why? Blakers, is your Texans, I usually just call this Houston sports battered fan syndrome. A PTSD is a fair way to put it, although it's kind of insensitive to the military, just saying. Is your PTSD starting to flare up? No, not yet. I had them going, I had them six and one and losing in Green Bay. I didn't have them getting beat by Minnesota. But in looking at what this team, where they are right now, I still, there's plenty of season left to where I'm not going to already start saying that this is where the roof starts caving in and things start going the wrong way. And I believe that they're too talented. And I believe that you still are going to get guys back from injury, whether it Nico coming back or Autry starting to work his way back in or whatever happens with Christian Harris. I just believe that there's too much talent on this team. They're in a good position where they still sit firmly in first place in the division to where it's too soon for me to start thinking about what could be in terms of negativity. I think that there are some areas you're like, okay, well, this team's not there. And like, I look, I don't think the sky is falling in the sense that, oh, the Texans are going to go on this three, four game losing streak and they're going to miss the playoffs. And they're going to be eight, nine, no, no, you know, we didn't think that Demico was good or CJ was good. Like, I still, I still believe in Demico. I still believe in CJ Shroud. But where I could see it is the we're not good enough aspect of it. Like we're not that Super Bowl team, like we were hoping to be like we were trying to talk ourselves in and maybe some, you know, realist didn't allow themselves to get there. But there was a good amount of the fame. Oh, this could be the year we make a run through the AFC. So I could see the element of, oh, man, we're not a top two team in the AFC. We are the third team where has kind of been the peak of franchise history. So I can see it from that angle. Yeah, I think that it depends on what your level of expectation was at the start of the year. And I think my expectations were pretty tempered in the fact that I was very, very leery of the schedule. I thought that they were a year away from making that next big, big step to being a Super Bowl contender. I was pleasantly surprised that with the moves that they made, that it looked like they had improved enough that there was chances for them to be better than they were a year before. But because of that, I don't think that I had the grandiose expectations to say, I'm really worried that this team could implode. I think that they're too good. They're coached too well to implode. Are you telling me that they're that I don't have concerns about or asking if I have, of course, the offensive line concerns me deeply. Of course, the fact that with Lasseter out that the secondary and even the safety position concerns me, depth at linebacker concerns me. But also what encourages me is the fact that Nico and the receivers are so good. He got off to the great start. Because you have digs, you have depth when he went out. The fact that you've got a guy in Joe mixing that looks like they got way better than a lot of people thought he was going to be. And the defensive pieces are still, I think they're still going to get better. So I think there's just too much talent for me. And because my expectations weren't as high as some, that I'm totally cool with where they are right now. And I still believe that they're going to be a very competitive team. Here's a here's a good one from nine five zero six. My PTSD says CJ will get frustrated and ask out in three years. That's the agent for it. That's some serious PTSD there. Although I think Deshawn wanted out because of some stuff that was going on off the field. Maybe. Yeah, lefties didn't work out. No, not lefties. At least not that lefties. I was going to say because righties was probably in there too. I mean, I don't know. No comment 6505 when NFL team doesn't have major flaws. McCombs has six to eight interception ratio and leads the NFL and interceptions. Okay. Do you think my homes will flip the switch though and figure out in the playoffs? But you're right. You're right about that. Every, every NFL. I wouldn't go major flaws. Like I don't look at the Ravens and say they have major flaws. I would look at the Lions like they have major flaws. I don't look at the Lions and say they have major. And they lost Hut. They lost the biggest flaw they have right now is they lost the defensive end that was dominant. And whether they replace them or not, I still don't think they have major flaws. No, the Texans have a very clear major flaw. The Texans offensive line is a major flaw. The Ravens don't have a flaw as big as the Texans. The Lions don't have a flaw as big as the the Texans. I see we are coming from texture because I agree that every NFL team is imperfect. That's the point of a salary cap league is that every team is going to be imperfect. But who wins the champions? Usually the teams of the best quarterback head coach, but also the ones with the fewest imperfections. Texans have a bigger imperfection than a lot of those contenders 0 9 7 9 absolutely not five and two. They're good and offensive line is good. Also, they win their division and possibly win a playoff game. In what world is the Texans offensive line good? I think he has to watch the games. You know what world on the back of the football card, even then, but still you've got here. Sure. Check on the back of a solid player. Titus has been indifferent. Drew Scruggs is still too early to have a baseball guard, but when you have Laramie Shaq and Titus, that should be good. Yeah, I wouldn't say they're offensive lines good. But yeah, like the capital you spent on the offensive line, you would think that you have a good offensive line. Titus Howard's been the highest paid left tackle twice. Um, that I meant, I meant Laramie Tunsel. Laramie Tunsel been the highest paid left tackle twice. Titus Howard was drafted in the first round and then you paid him top five right tackle money. Shaq Mason was coveted in a trade, resigned him. Drew Scruggs, you traded up in the second round, Kenyon Green, you drafted in the first round. So the capital tells you they should be good, but they have not played as a unit anywhere near that capital. That kind of basically debunks, whatever else they put in that comment is the fact that there's no credibility there because they're not good. They haven't been good. They should be good. And I think that's why it's such a big concern because between the money and the draft capital that you allocated and put towards that offensive line, they should be substantially better than where they currently are and the way they've played all year 7 5 8 4 every top tier team has consistent O line play. Everything starts there blows my mind, uh, we're making no changes. That is the thing. Um, you know, the some reporters I saw from students that they're not making a change to the offensive line that it's going to stay status quo, which kind of what I like kind of heard from Dameko Ryan yesterday, listening to him, uh, 6 7 0 3 PTSD because O line showed just how hopeless they are against a decent pass rush this past Sunday. Couldn't trust them to put up much of a fight against a high school pass rush. That's a bit hyperbolic. They would, they would be just fine against channel views off a defensive line is the people that always go. Well, you could take Georgia's defense and put against any team in the NFL and they dominate. I mean, I see what you're doing there. Like you're, you're being hyperbolic for the, you know, the sense of getting your point across, but it's kind of silly. I don't think that the Texans offensive line will have trouble against Katie Tompkins. Now against the, you know, mighty Katie Tigers might be a different story against North Shore might be a different source. They're still good. Seven lakes. I don't think he's going to have, you know, put up much of a fight, humble Wildcats. I don't think going to put up much of a fight. Klein Collins, not much of a fight. Uh, all right. You get my point there. A 7 1 3 7 8 0 ESPN HRMP listener like Titus is terrible. 8 8 1 5. I actually think Titus has played better than people think. Not good. Not good. I just think that the perception of Titus and the narrative we hear on Titus. Titus has actually played a little bit above that this year. I, I think that if you're going to have the number one culprit that everybody points the finger at, it's obviously Kenyan green. And then you kind of, then you can kind of, you know, rank him from there. But I think he is the lowest of the five guys and the guy that should just deservedly get the most scrutiny. I think that when you go from there, I'm with you in the fact that I didn't expect personnel to change this soon because I think that D'Amico firmly believes it's more like communication and the way that they go about their scheming and things before he's going to start pulling guys out. But if they're going to pull guys out, I think they started left guard. 9 6 8 2 9 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 David Carr PTSD CJ getting hit too much by underperforming offensive line. Yeah, he's going to get a little fresh. I don't think it's going to get to the point of David Carr where he's terrified to put his hands behind center and you know, can't audible anything in the huddle because he's afraid to get his head ripped off. But you don't want a guy as good as CJ has shown to be getting hit and scared out of that. I mean, he's chased out of the pocket as much as he has. Yeah, what was the big word that you use, Brian, the big word that no one knows that starts with an R recidivism. Recidivism. Recidivism. 9 5 0 6. Everyone knows that word. What did he just call me? Said 8 5 3 exactly, right? Criminal major here. I do. That was Steve. Look at all those people showing off behind their behind their phones. Over 60%. Well, what is it? Recidivism rate. I learned this in collegiate criminal justice classes. Branham will definitely be a repeat offender. Wink emoji. Don't don't send me wink emojis. I've been to the I've been to the clink. How are you sending me wink emojis? How do you think I'm going to respond? Are you still in? Maybe that's why you send me wink emojis whenever I've been a prisoner. You know, I'll mess you up. Mess you up. I hope you come in tomorrow with a teardrop tattoo. Man, you gave it away. You're all about the spoilers, man. 9 9 2 0. If I break my spatula and I go to dollar general to get a new one, you do your shopping at dollar general. Why would it flare up Kansas City where 11 and six last year during the regular season? I'm not putting the Texans on the echelon of Kansas City, though. Like the Houston Texans winning 11 games in the regular season versus the Kansas City Chiefs winning 11 games in the regular season. Which one do you think has a better chance in the postseason? Kansas City. Yeah, no brainer. 4 3 2 1. The Texans have won four games by a total of like 10 or 12 points combined. They blew out one team that is right now is the worst in football and they've lost two games. This point, they're barely a top 10 team in my opinion. I think it's fair. My PTSD is set in because I shouldn't be concerned about them losing to Indy by a field goal on Sunday. But here we are. And if they do, you now have a tie atop the first place. Yeah, that's the biggest thing. When we when we saw the season start and the first two weeks unfolded, you were two and all and everybody in your division was only two. The obvious thought is they're going to run away with the division. And now here you are. And that's the biggest concern, not that the whole season is going to implode. But it looked like you had a cake walk to get a playoff spot because you were going to win the division. And if you lose the game on Sunday, now you're going to be in a hell of a battle. All right, 713 780 ESPN. Let's bless our stress with our guy Garrett next. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. Hey guys, before we go to that and get to the break, I want to tell you about banditford air, you can go to vanderfordair.com right now and see all the different services they offer because they can put a full humidifying system in your AC units in your house. They can re pipe your house. They can do so many things to help you with your heater. But the main thing that we're focused on here in Houston is that AC unit and your HVAC and AC units, they are the, the only service company I tell you to call and the only AC people that you should use because they take care of you every step of the way. 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So I'm doing just fine. I want to apologize that I haven't liked your tweets since about 10, 30 today. I've been locked up in solitary confinement. So my apologies if you've seen me like fewer of your stuff than I usually do. It's because I've been in prison. So I apologize. What are we blessing and stressing on so far? Well, I was wondering about that. I was kind of getting disengaged. I wasn't getting stressing. Yeah, stressing about that. But, but yeah, as far as I was stressing about that, but the first topic I have is, you know, the most recent news. Are we blessing or stressing the Texans signing Devin White? I'm sure y'all have been discussing this already. I love it. I love it. I'm blessing it. I think that it's high risk low. I mean, low risk high reward. I think that you're getting a guy that if he lives up to anything like his resume says that 26 years old still has plenty left in the tank. He might bring some ability to the table, but more so than anything else, you need depth at linebacker right now. And what you saw at a Hanson at least him alone probably tells you you could use an upgrade credit to Nick Casario for always looking to upgrade more than just his starters to see what he has and maybe what he could get and what he could find. And I like it. I'm not as high on blankers when it comes to the reward that you can get. I think that Devin White's ceiling is pretty limited, but I do think that it helps your overall roster. I think it's an upgrade to the 53. I think he's an upgrade over Jake Hanson, how they use him will be interesting. But yeah, there's nothing to stress here. Like, if it doesn't work, you cut him next week. Like, so what? What did you lose there? Like a league minimum salary that's prorated down to one week? Like there's zero risk here. I agree with blankers on that front. As far as like who he's going to be, I don't think he, you know, starts for you at any point. I think he might be like a rotational linebacker. For me, it's more death. Like, if there's guys that get hurt, obviously you would start. But yeah, I'm, I'm blessing this. There's zero to stress. Yeah. So I'm blessing and stress. And the reason I'm blessing is the reasons he all said is because he's a low risk high reward kind of guy. He's more of a speed linebacker. And then you throw in the fact that Demico Ryan's is the linebacker whisperer. He can maybe rejuvenate this guy to get him back to where he's at. But the reason I'm stressing is because what this may indicate for the health of the linebacker room, this has me absolutely worried about Christian Harris and Aziz al-Shahir. So it seems Aziz may be, you know, longer than what we thought. But, but really, I think that this is a telltale sign that Christian Harris is injury. Like we've all expected maybe even worse than what we thought was worse and worse and worse. So that's why I'd be stressing on that. I can't push back too much on that because that could very well be true. And I know zero about the status of Christian Harris and Aziz al-Shahir. I know that Aziz hasn't been placed on the IR. So if it was something like, okay, we tore his ACL or, you know, I think he would probably, we probably know that by now. So that's kind of the solace I take there. The Christian Harris thing is a complete mystery to me. He's been out for two and a half months after he walked around a training camp that re-aggravated a strain calf. So I don't know that. I think the Nicoceria would make this move even if Christian Harris was coming back this week though. I think it could be something that they saw on tape and didn't love Jake Hanson a whole lot. Not dismissing what you're saying, but I still think the Nicoceria makes this type of move, even if they knew for a fact, Harris was coming back soon. Because he's always looking to upgrade the roster. He did with TR Tarte last year, late in the year. Derek Barnett. Yeah. And I think that didn't, I saw some video from, from practice today that I think that they had Aziz was back out on the field in total. But whether they are. Total was Harris or Aziz did not practice. Okay. Because I still, I'm not going to be overly concerned about that. I think the main thing that you could, you have reason to stress about is the fact that I think we all are hoping that we're wrong and what we're feeling. But we're all feeling like Christian Harris might be done for the season or for a way longer period of time. Because it might be way more severe than what anybody built it to be. Yeah. It's a hundred percent speculation in my part. So I hope you are correct. It's just something I kind of. Sure. That was, when I read that news, that was my first thought. It could be right. It could be. I think they're two separate things, but it could be right. Yeah. It could be right. All right. Well, next up I got a Blessinger Stress in the Texans end of game management and also challenges. You know, early on, I was kind of not really stressing on it, thinking it was fine. But, you know, Demiko's a young coach, but it's been almost a year and a half. And there's been several instances for both end of half, you know, before halftime and end of half for the game that kind of has me stressing as well as challenges. But he's been pretty good overall, but there's definitely been some like in the game against Green Bay where he didn't challenge the backwards pass, which may or may not have been. But to me at the very least, you know, our defense as a result of us trying to decide whether or not the challenge was out of place and resulted in a touchdown. So even stopping the clock, they would have been fine. But the end of game stuff kind of has me worried how conservative we are. It's like we just want to drain the clock. We're not aggressive. So I don't know where you guys sit on that. There's an absolutely no question you should be stressing. I'm stressing because of the fact that like you said, we've seen it multiple times now. We've seen where they either went to the end of the half or the end of a game where they didn't even get a chance to get points because you remember the debacle with the referee and trying to get that straight enough when he was going to start the clock and they didn't even get anything off. And then D'Amico just kind of said, that's our bad to what happened against Green Bay and all the different issues that they had there to the fact that we knew that D'Amico is the leader of men. We knew that he was an upgrade over the end of the other coaches that Nick has brought in. And we all felt great about D'Amico. This first time as a head coach, he's going to make mistakes. It's going to be a work in progress where we haven't seen the need for it in a lot of different areas of head coach in the NFL. This is one where there's definitely room for improvement. Yeah, I'm I'm stressing this. This is this is something that I noticed last year, whereas D'Amico wasn't a very good like game clock manager and was hopeful that, hey, you know, it's your one he'll he'll figure it out and you know, things will be better going forward. And there still is time for that. But you know, the challenge of the lateral the other day, I'm not even sure they overturned that because they didn't have a great camera on it. It's very difficult to call, but was it worth the challenge? Yes. And then what happened the very next play makes it even more difficult because you do the whole hindsight 2020. Oh, throw the challenge. Even if you're wrong, you get you a timeout and you're able to align what you need to do defensively. I've I'd forgotten about the Colts in week one of the first half. It's a great point. And then how about two or three weeks ago? I can't remember. It was the bills game whenever they had the intentional grounding whenever they were already in field goal range. Like, why are you even throwing the ball in this spot? So yeah, they've had some issues there in like, whoa, that's Bobby slowing doing it. The Mikos got the power to override all of that. So yeah, I've been saying that. Yeah, I think he's below average as a as a head coach, you know, one through 32. He's below average in game management, clock management. Don't forget he had the starters in the game down by 27 with minutes left to play against Minnesota. People are crushing Todd Bowles this week because he got Godwin hurt because he was in a 10 point game. Still still possible, still a chance to win. Dameko had him in down by 27. Oh, no, no one bets an eye about that. So yeah, I think he's below average clock game management. I think he's I think he's elite in leadership and, you know, being able to build a culture and things like that. Yeah. And it's definitely concerning too. When you hear his explanations about these situations, he has a chance to say I would have done this, but he kind of doubles down on some of these, you know, the end of game with the third and 12 call or 15 call. And I don't know if that's him protecting Bobby Slough, but to your point too, he has the authority to be the end all be also, in my opinion is if you are the defensive minded head coach who wants to do a certain philosophy in that situation, you want to run a clock out, then why isn't that relayed to Bobby Slough? And say, Hey, do not throw the ball. Do not stop the clock. How? And the same thing with the bills game, no matter what, do not stop the clock. Like, all it takes is one word in the headset. Instead, you have a hundred, I assume you have a hundred percent delegation to Bobby Slough, like putting trust in him to make the right decision. You should have the authority to go step in right there. How about the, I mean, C.J. Shroud, I don't know what our philosophy was on that last rock. How was that? Excuse me. Like, I mean, and I get it. I get it up until the two minute warning and the the Hutchinson catch at the sideline happened on the big side of it. It happened before the two minute warning that led you to the two minute warning. So I get not really knowing there, because you're kind of like in between yes, you're in field goal range, but you still wanted to keep the ball. You still wanted to use clock. You still wanted to score. But after you converted the third and whatever it was, 12 or whatever, to Hutchinson to get the first down the sliding catch near the sideline, that took you to the two minute warning if I remember correctly. So you have the entire team over there. That's the point of time talking about your game plan. Our idea and even like, you could go both ways. You could be like, Hey, C.J. You're the man. Go score a touchdown. You can be like, Hey, you know, the offense, you're not going to say this, but like you in the back of your mind, the passing game hasn't been there. So we want to run the ball. Hey, C.J. What we're trying to do here is we're trying to use up as much clock as possible. Take care of the football. So the fact that C.J. Shroud didn't know that after they come together on the sideline during two minute warning is problematic. You talk about whether it's Belichick or some of the defensive minded head coaches in this league. They don't get involved on a play-by-play situation, but you damn well know that in big time, very urgent situations like this, they are going to make their opinion felt. They are going to make it clear and known this is what I want to do. And it seems like and nothing's more telling than C.J's comment that there not only wasn't one guy's opinion versus the other, there was probably no comment at all from either guy. And that's problematic. He said, basically, he was guessing, like, it's one second to say, Hey, this is what we're doing. Yeah. So that's, that's got a stress and for sure. Next up I got, are we blessed or stressing the fact or the belief that the Texans offensive line can correct this past protection issues relatively soon? I think I'm going to go in the minority and say, Yes, I am optimistic and blessing the fact that they can correct it. To me, the big overarching thing for these issues is number one, it's loud road environments. And then as a part of that underneath that is obviously it's communication, you know, it's being able to pick up blitzes or stunts or simulated pressures. So we've played in, you know, two of the loudest stadiums in the games that were the worst, which was Green Bay and Minnesota. And then we also obviously had some issues with Indy as well, but you look at the rest of the schedule too, as far as the defenses we are playing, as far as like EPA per quarterback, basically how difficult it is for a quarterback. We've played three of the top five defenses already. So things will lighten up a much a lot more. And then we don't really have very many strong road games besides Kansas City. So I'm stressing the hell out of this, because I don't believe that it's fixable by just doing little things. I think that the overriding concern that I have is based on the fact that we went from penalties, we went from fall starts, we went from illegal procedures in the way we line up, and the fact that those issues with the O line to now pass pro is awful. The fact that, you know, you've got guys that just aren't even communicating on the line of which guy's going to take the outside speed rush, who's going to worry about the stunts inside and some of the moves and where the pressure's coming from to where this is going to be the bugaboo and the main theme of this team. It seems like it already is for the first, you know, half of the season almost, but it seems like it's something that it's not going to go away quickly. And I don't think it's fixable. We were talking about a couple segments ago. I think Kenyan Green is the first guy that's going to face the possible replacement. But at the same time, you can't just put it on one guy. This is an overwhelming theme of the season for these five guys. I think it's important to put caveats here. Like, are they good enough to fix it relatively soon to accomplish what? Like, do I think they can beat the Colts at home? Yeah, I think they can beat the Colts at home. And I think you're onto something too with the home road thing. Like their offensive line has played better at home versus on the road. Their offensive numbers are better at home than they are on the road. I do think that there is something to that, whether it's, you know, the crowd noise, it's got to be crowd noise more than anything else. Cause it can be silent count. They obviously don't know how to use a silent count though. No, like you see, I mean, they communicate to Kenyan Green and then Hey, tap the center on the side of the hip and let's snap. But it's also too, I don't want to interrupt you in your segment, but it's also the play call getting in is Bobby getting the play call on too slow as CJ calling to play too slow. And then you get lined up with two seconds. And now you're trying to figure out this whole puzzle and you just snap it and you're just kind of doomed. You see about three or four times a road game, where Stroud late in the play clock, give me the ball, give me the golf and you still see him pointing around. So they're, they're not getting the call in quickly enough. No, you're absolutely right. And I think the Mikos are even alluded to that where we need to get the play call into the huddle quicker. We need to get out of the huddle quicker. We need to get to the line quicker that way we have more time to execute, you know, XYZ. So we can execute, you know, the, the right coverages and where we're going to go in protection. I Logan Farlow, who used to be an intern here, he does some really good breakdowns on TikTok. I was watching one today where he's looking at the offensive line and you could see them pointing the right way. Like you see Larametunzel point to his left, you see Kenyan green point to his left. You see then Kenyan green snap, you know, touch juice grugs. Hey, that's a snap, snap the ball. And then Larametunzel goes right. It's like, I'm not an offensive lineman guru. I'm very much just a layman, but it's like it looks like their coverages are correct. And then they're just not doing them. CJ Strout was talking to the media today and he said, look, we're in our coverages correctly. Most of the time, it's just about execution. So I don't know what's going on. Like a few weeks ago, I was bringing up Strauser, you know, maybe it's not being coached all that well, but it's like he coached him up pretty good last year with his patchwork offensive line. Now it's still going on six weeks later after we saw a questionable offensive line. Are they not coachable? Like there's a lot of factors here. I think their offensive line is capable enough to win a poor division to be okay at home. But them winning a tough road game in Baltimore, at Kansas City, you know, I don't think their offensive line gets there. I don't. So I'll stress it. So that's exactly what I was going to say is, you know, it can be a bandaid and get us through the rest of the year and we can still obtain our goals. But at some point, the way it projects right now, we will have to play a tough road game in the playoffs. And at that point, we will wonder if this problem will rear its head again or not. And I would suspect, yes, there's nothing to tell us otherwise. Yeah, because, you know, you're absolutely right in the fact that we talked to the other day about from the standpoint of having a veteran center that's able to pick up a lot of coverages and pick them up quickly to CJ saying kind of what Jalen Hertz went through in the fact that when you lose a veteran center, it's on the quarterback more to pick them up to. But then if the play isn't in time in the huddle in time, now you're really up against it for all three factors that are factoring in. And that's not even getting to when you start figuring out when you start seeing, you know, the pre snap and what they're doing and how they're moving around. It's a very complicated process. But right now, yeah, I'm kind of with Jeremy and the fact that it's more on whether they're coachable or not. And if they're listening or not, or they're just too stubborn to change their ways from a veteran perspective, battery check brings up, you know, I wonder how much of this is on an offense or a center who's playing in the NFL as a center for the first year. Obviously, you know, guard last year, you know, I'm trying to pick up the clues like on who's making the cause offensively pre snap. And CJ talked a little bit today, like how he wants to help juice. So if he's helping juice, that tells me that juice is the one making the call, right? Because if he's trying to provide aid, he's trying to help him. Juice is the one making the call. So I think that that is, there is something to that. I don't know the fix though. Like, I think it's more than just one simple thing. A lot of things. I think it is upgrades at specific positions, namely left guard, maybe center of juice is getting the calls wrong. Although you have players that are saying the calls are right, they're just not executing. Maybe it is a different offensive line coach, maybe it is a different philosophy. But I think it's a variety of a bunch of different things. I don't think that it's one easy quick fix. When I want Kenyan green bench for kindergarten, that's a move that I would have made today. But do I think that's the the a lecture that fixes it all? No, I don't. But we could also argue to the reason that hasn't been done is because of his draft capital position, first rounders, he probably gets a longer leash. But I think one thing too, we haven't mentioned as well, it's the past pros a whole, it's not just the align. Although, they have had their fair share. I mean, tight ends and running backs are just as guilty, especially last week. So I mean, we basically have said those, we just all listed five or six little things, but collectively, that becomes a big thing. So I have another one or we can last one. Okay. Last one I got is are we blessing or stressing the Texans being five and two despite everything going on? I'm blessing. I mean, you know, like I mentioned earlier, I get there's, you know, things that haven't been perfect and the frustrations from the fan base. But if you look at a big picture perspective wise, we're five and two, I believe they have a one game leading the division. If you beat Indy this week, it becomes two, but the fact that it becomes a three game lead since the tiebreaker. So this is a big game coming up, we're right where we want to be. So despite everything that's going on, and I guess you had the argument, we haven't played our best ball yet, and we're still in this position. So I'm blessed. I'm blessing it simply because of the fact that you still have a winning record. You still are in a position of control, as you mentioned, you're not the Niners. The Niners dealing with injuries are are wallowing around 500. They've lost both of their wide receivers, one of them for the year. You've got a guy that's out four weeks and he's ahead of schedule. So I think that your best football still can be ahead of you. What you're dealing with is even as bad as the offensive line might be, there's still ways and there's opportunities to fix it, whether be the trade deadline, or to make switches, or to just make sure that maybe Demico's right and they they work on different communications and things to get through some of this. But they're too talented a team for me to be stressing. I believe that being at five and two and still having issues like this is far better than being full of in overlaid and with issues like this and being three and three or two and four and really having to scratch and claw the rest of the season. I'm going to be a little contrarian here. Now, I had I'm four and three through seven games. They're the fact that they're five and two, they're better than I thought they would be. So I'm blessing the aspect that they're five and two. But I really don't care about record a whole lot. What are you talking about, Brian? I mean, you need a good record to qualify for the postseason. But if the Texans didn't qualify for the postseason, we'd be talking about what a disaster of a year this is. So the way that I've been viewing this whole year is like how far away are the Texans from being at the apex of the AFC? You know what I mean? And I feel like the Texans are further away from the AFC apex today than they were at the start of the year. I felt like they were and maybe that was my fault. Maybe that was my misread of where the Texans were. I'm this read of where the Texans were relative to the Baltimore Ravens or the Kansas City Chiefs. I can own that I was the one that was wrong there. But my personal feeling, even though they're five and two and I had them at four and three, so blessing the aspect that they're better through seven games than I thought, I think that the gap that separates them from Baltimore and Kansas City is greater than what I thought it was at the start of the year. So I'm stressing that part of it. That's fair. And it's hard to argue that. Thank you. And that's what we want. We all have my co-host never ever said well, aren't you? What the hell's wrong with you? You could you can you can you can get some guys some tension going just call me and I'll come and we should have a pretty much need to be here daily. We should have daily. All right. Great stuff. Great stuff. What are you working on this week at HoustonStressons.com? Same stuff. So actually this week, I am working on a content creator directory, which is also a journalist. So I'm basically going to have like a directory for anyone and everyone to follow my information. Yeah. With your approval, of course, I'll put you right at the top. Screw the approval. Sounds good. But yeah, so basically a directory and then still working on the discord on there. And I wrote an article actually about that online discussion. If you want to read on articles and build my newsletter, so all the same good stuff. If you want to do a little investigative journalism on why I got locked up, I would give you a quote or two if you end up doing that. Garrett, great stuff. HoustonStressons.com, IG, Houston Stresson. You can find them on TikTok and Twitter at Texans commenter as well. Talk to you next week. Appreciate it. We bless them. Garrett, HoustonStressons.com coming up next on the killer bees. What are your week seven over reactions? What are your hot takes that you have after the seventh week of the NFL season 713780 ESPN? It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 95. All right, guys. But before we go to the break, a quick minute here for underdog sports. 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