The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
10/29 Hour 3 - What Are the Biggest Gut Punches in Houston Sports History?
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Was that right? - It was, yeah, it was. - It was the COVID year. - Yeah, and then he didn't play the next year, right? - Right after that. - Yeah, 'cause he didn't have Tommy John until late in the year. When he had it kind of immediately, maybe he's back at the second half of the next season or in the playoff run of the next season. - And the other one I had was the McCullers the year that after they brought him back for early in that White Sox series and he pitched really well but he got hurt and then it turned into, not only was he not gonna fit pitch in the rest of that series or the World Series or talk about a guy that didn't have the surgery until late then it was the never ending saga of Lance McCullers. - That was a weird one 'cause it was normal rest but it was a day earlier than he thought he was gonna pitch because they had to move that game to the travel day because there was rain in Chicago that previous day. So he had a full four days rest but he thought he was going the next day as opposed to that day. And yeah, just kind of that elbow just never has been the same. Maybe someday it'll be the same again. 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. Uncle Barney says losing Moses Malone to the 76ers and traded Moses to the 76ers. Not a good return either. I remember looking back at what it was. - Did he not want out though? - I have no idea, I wasn't born yet. - Yeah, I don't remember anything about that but I thought maybe he wanted out. - Yeah, I don't, 7-1-3-7-8-0-8-0-8-0-8-0 if you know the story behind that but yeah, they didn't get a whole lot for there. For what I've read on it, I've never read anything saying that Moses Malone wanted out. Not saying that that's what happened. - Okay, I thought there was some kind of falling out, not as drastic as like a team in Charlie Thomas but I thought that there was some kind of falling out. I think there might have been a falling out between like he and the staff. Maybe Uncle Barney says free agent. I thought they traded him. I thought he got traded to the Sixers. Maybe it was like a sign and trade though. Like back in the day. 71378 0ESP and Brian, what do you have? I mean, obviously a lot of the things you guys mentioned around my list, Chris Paul, the Oilers leaving town. One that obviously we look back upon now and probably doesn't matter because we found out we find out the guy is a scumbag and he is not any good anymore. But when Sean Watson tore his ACL on the day of the Astros World Series Parade in 2017 and he'd been playing so well in his rookie year, that was a major gut punch at the time. I mean, we look at it now, you know, who cares. But at the time, that was a big one. I had Chris Paul's hammy on there as well because that was that was demoralizing for Rockets fans. Yeah, that was a tough one. Another one I think we could bring up. I mean, does it get any bigger than the Astros betting, or not betting scandal, but the cheating scandal with the idea that they're stealing pitches. Now, I know we all believe that the Astros are being scapegoated and we have our own thoughts and opinions that fact sure. And I agree with those facts, but I'm just saying like the idea that the first World Series title in Astros history, regardless of what we believe to be the truth is now forever something we have to argue about and you hear outsiders, you know, diminish that title is to me something that is a gut punch for me. Yeah, I don't look at it the same. I just I don't care about others, others opinions. I don't care about like the talking heads opinions of the whole thing. I'm a believer that everybody was science dealing or at least most teams were science dealing. I think the evidence points to that you've had a lot of a lot of witnesses that were on teams that have talked about this other places. So I just don't think it's that big a deal. I think I think we'll still there's still more to come from players I think as we get further and further away from it. But I think to Brian's point, if Brian Cashman still bringing it up that people are never going to forget it and it sucks because it was the first baseball title in this city. The fact that you finally win the World Series, you had a great team regardless. And that is going to always stick with that title. Sign and trade for for Moses Moses sign with Philly. He matched the deal, but then traded them to Philly. The Rockets did and they got to Caldwell Jones and an 83 first round draft pick and with that pick, they passed on Clive the glide Drexler and took Rodney McCray. Yeah, out of that of Louisville. 713780 ESPN. DeAndre Hopkins traded for David Johnson. Don't forget second round pick. It's a good one. He's turning the brain and cooks. He did. He basically got cooks in Johnson for for Dre for DeAndre 2180 June 15 1985. The world's biggest rat Mike fires is a very good. Ocho says that all I can think of is the stupid trade they made for Stefan Diggs soon, soon, come on, but he's been on that. To be fair, to be fair, he was on the moment the Texans made the trade for digs. He was one of the few that said he didn't like it. So to be fair to Ocho, he was on it from day one. He was a day one. Did they get that happened before the draft? Yeah, because Brian Thomas Jr. was obviously having for the draft. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Everything is with Ocho is connected somehow, some way to Brian Thomas Jr. Passing on VY says 9506. They were right, though. They got the best player of those three Mario Reggie VY. They got the best one. They did. They did because it's not the more glamorous position. I don't think that a lot of people see it that way because they see Reggie Bush and what he did with the Saints. Yeah. But I think they did get the right guy in 2019 World Series, not using Cole. That's a good call. Case tearing is ACL versus UCLA. A few people texting that one in. I'll go. I'll go with you. Really that whole year. I mean, you lost your snakebit last year shed before that you had tugler before that you had arsenal. Like last year was you were snakebit the entire year for sure. 713 780 ESPN losing the arrows. Rest in peace. I never really moved my needle a whole lot. I went to a few games. They were fun, but it wasn't a gut punch. Now I do want an HL team in Houston. I do want that to happen. It would be it would be fun to have another sport in this professional sport like that in the city. I just remember we worked in the building with the arrows guys and those games were not very well attended, but all of a sudden, they typed up when I tripped off, but they curtained off the entire top. Yeah, they sure did 686 0 Watson tort tearing his ACL the day after the Astros won the World Series. They sacrificed his ACL for the Astros. Somebody else said Watson Terry is a kiddies because he liked to watch that bum play this year. Yeah, he liked to see his misery. Watson asking for the trade. Did that bother you in real time? Like, I mean, obviously stuff came out later. That was not. Yeah, at the time, sure, I didn't always thought Watson was overrated. I think it was overrated. I think most people saw the spectacular plays and and felt like he was the franchise. I remember Dabo said he was going to be the Michael Jordan at the end of the year. Yeah, that was that was that was on. I think my show at the flagship. Yeah, I remember it well. Look at that flex by Brian Ryan's flexing. No, no, but yeah, I think at the time, look, I mean, I get that in your point of him being overrated. Certainly with the benefit of history is proven correct. But at the time Texans have been so starved to have a franchise quarterback arguably never had a franchise quarterback. And you finally have one and he wants out. That was a gut punch. Largo says the Oilers leaving. Sure. When it came left Houston for Toronto. See that one didn't bother me too much because he was an old was washed. Yeah, he was washed. I also I don't have the fillings in sports like a lot of people I think I think I think I'm very cold left off sports. I'm just going to say the thing. Yes. Why is that? I mean, I think that's a question of that yourself. Astro's losing Luno and Hinch. See, that's probably the bigger ramifications are signs doing thing. If you don't care about the perception of it, losing especially Luno, losing Luno is pretty massive. It was to the to the I would I was there was an alternate reality of what we saw Luno do with the Astros going forward because he was aggressive. He was always he went and cutting edge. He was bleeding edge. They called it. I'm very fascinated of what it would have looked like with with Luno still at the the helm. Al Tuvay robbed of home run in 2018 ALCS. Yeah, old Joe West. That one still triggers Mookie. Mm hmm. They called fan interference. Yeah. When Mookie Batch was in the fourth row. What do you mean fan interference? He's in the fourth row. 9506 says every time Bagwell says baseball card. Ha ha. It's funny. You could go with the bag while breaking his hand a couple of years in a row though. Yeah. Yeah. He was having some good years when he actually the year he won the MVP. It benefited him to break his hand. It did. Yeah. It did because the strikes shortened year in 94th the strike. He broke his hand like in the final week or two of the season. And if that season would have had the full 162, he wouldn't have had the counting numbers to win the MVP. So it actually helped him that year. Watson tearing his Achilles again. McGrady going down the year the Rockets had our test. I went from big art. Who was your favorite third best player during the Yale Tracy era? Was it our test? Or was it bad? I think bad. I think bad. Yeah. To me bad. It was great. But man, to the texture's point, like when both Yale and well T Mac was already out, then yeah, goes goes out and game one against the Lakers and then our tests along with that crew of what who else was on that team. Luther had I'm trying to remember some of the other names of that team. Aaron Aaron Brooks was on that. Aaron Brooks and Chuck Hayes. I mean Chuck Hayes and Carl Landry. They still want two more games against the Lakers in that series. But with with one, our test is the best player. It was that and that was a really fun time, even though they end up losing in game seven at L.A. That was a fun time. Two five eight five. What about the year JJ got robbed of the MVP? That's not a gut punch. I don't think you got robbed of the big Rob 16 17 JJ white back injuries, back brain and back. He fighting patrons at his own bar. I didn't know that happened. I didn't know. I didn't know that happened. It's not great customer service. It's not. It's not the best customer service. I would throw a 2010 the Texans start four and two, but then DeMico goes down with the season ending injury. It looked like obviously at that point 2010, Texas have never made the playoffs. I believe that's the injury that led to the lawsuit as well. If correct me if I'm wrong there, but they finally felt like the Texans had a chance or four and two and then you lose your best defensive player for the year. Yeah, he also sued you. Yeah, I did. He also sued you six, six, nine years before that were sorry were Andre. They started two and O with a wins against the Chiefs and then at Carolina in 2007, but Andre Johnson had like, I think it was the hamstring and he missed nine games. Nine games. Yeah, it was 2007. They started off two and O again, never had success before in franchise history or two and O playing really well. You went at Carolina when they were still really good and then Andre's out for nine games. Tucked the win without Andre Hall of Famer, Andre Johnson, 6, 6, 9, 1 meeting OJ Simpson. When I was a kid, only to find out weeks later, I was shaking the hands with a murderer alleged alleged murder 6, 6, 9, 1. He was led off. He won the criminal case held the civil case go, not great, not great for as well as other cases after that. Why'd you, why'd you grimace whenever I said allegedly? Oh, nothing. If the glove didn't fit, then you must acquit. So Johnny Concord said RIP Johnny. I went back and listened to audio of that when OJ died. He didn't really say it that exact way. Like it was, it was a little different the way he said it. Like it's kind of weird how we kind of move the old post on history because he said it a little differently. I can't bring the exact wording, but he didn't say if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. He said it a little differently. So seven, five, zero, three, Warren Moon going to the Vikings. It was weird seeing Warren Moon not an oiler blue. Was that the first one? Because he also was in Seattle and Kansas City. I think he went, I think he went to Minnesota first, then Seattle, then Kansas. He had a couple of good years in Minnesota, I believe. Yeah. Randy Moss. Yeah. I think there was a, I think there was a brief amount of time where he was like the passing leader for three different teams at one point. Pretty sure he had Chris Carter too. I think he had Moss and Chris Carter at the same time. Yeah, I would say that's a pretty good. Well, see, Randy Moss started in 1998. That was his rookie year. Oh, Moon wasn't there in 1998. No, no, no, but I think he was there. I think I think he was. I think he did play with Randy. I think you played with Culpeper because Randy Moss did. I think Randy Moss played with both of them. No, Randy Moss had, uh, Randy Moss had a Randall Cunningham. He had Dante Culpeper and I think he had Jeff George the first year. Yeah. Yeah. Because George played for the Bears. He didn't have Moon. He didn't have more than him. He didn't have more than him. Okay. He had Chris Carter. Yeah, because Moon's final year was 96 at the age of 40. Moss's first year was 98. So he just missed him. Yeah. Um, but yeah, Chris Carter. So he went Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, Kansas. He played into his 44. Wow. He didn't play much the final two years. He, in fact, he only started one game with Kansas City. He hurt or just, he might have been a backup. He only played one game in 99. He started one game in 2000. And that was it. So he didn't play much in Kansas City, started one game. A lot, a lot of people still say that's the prettiest spiral in the history of the game. Yeah. Here. See the story on that where he would, uh, during the game, you'd have fingernail clippers and clip his nails to the perfect length and then it helped the spiral. Huh, ma'am. Never knew that. He also had some allegations off the field, seven, one, three, seven, eight, zero, ESPN, HR and B listener line film. Do not lie. It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Listening to ESPN 97 five. Coming to you live for the Veritex community bank studios. It's the killer bees on ESPN 97 five and 92 five. Here's Joel Blank and Jeremy Branno. You have a age looking to keep it rural and on Saturday. They take on the Kansas state Wildcats ranked Wildcats team should be a lot of fun on Saturday at two 30 inside of TD ECU stadium. Googers looking for back-to-back wins looking for their third big 12 victory this year, which would be the most in program history. Get ready for an afternoon of thrilling plays, hard hitting action, unforgettable moments. Nothing beats the tradition, pageantry and the roar of the credit at college football game weather is going to be beautiful. Don't miss our blackout special, by the way, ticket and a t-shirt for only $30 to grab this deal, visit uhcoogers.com slash black uhcoogers.com slash black ticket and a shirt for just 30 bucks. 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A lot of people pissed off because you don't mess with that. You don't tell you lose. You keep going with what you what you were wearing. Bad karma has really set them back. They've never won a title since. One low key thing I don't love about the rockets uniforms currently. I don't like how their red uniforms had the black trim. I like it better with no, I like it better with white. Very like who cares whatever who you get fashion advice. You're wearing Crocs. I get it. But uh, yeah, I wish they had the white instead of the black trim. You know, just a little minor thing. Uh, film do not lie. Just, you know, putting in hours. It's a labor of love and I do it for all of you have. I don't do this for myself. I do this for you. Will Anderson's a stud. Well, it's so good at football and he's playing it at a really high level right now too. And like, yeah, he gets the sacks and he's getting the TFLs and underrated at what look at the defensive or the offenses and how much they focus on Will Anderson, whether it's a tighted in motion chip in them, whether it's a running back lining up to his side, whether it's a flat out double team, they are way more worried and concerned about Will Anderson than they are about the Neil Hunter. Like think about how much of a compliment that is that offenses are way more concerned about Will Anderson than they are to Neil Hunter. That's a huge compliment. Yeah. Underrated element of his game that I think we don't really talk about enough and maybe we do is that he's really good against the run, especially on a play that's run away from him. He had a couple of tackles where he was making, he was made to the stop on a play that was run to the opposite side of the field than him and he just hustle play, hustle play, getting there, making the stop small game. Like they're not even TFL. I noticed a couple of times he actually crosses right behind the center as he comes from his end to the other side to stop the running back order to get in the back. And I think to both of those guys's credit, but I think they both lost having more sacks because of the elusiveness of Richardson because there were multiple times that they had him in the grasp behind the line of scrimmage and he found a way to get to elude them. Yeah, makes sense of stud too. But yeah, they don't really show up on this on the on the box score other than tackles because like these aren't even TFLs. Like these are gains of one or two, but they're preventing gains of four or five or six or six or seven. He's just really good. And I wanted to be known that I think that because sometimes people think I don't like Will Anderson. I do like Will Anderson. I think he is very good at football. CJ shred, I thought was better on film than life. Actually, recognition of the blitz. I thought was really good. Now there were times where he had some errant throws because he had a muddy pocket and hey, it's the NFL, you got to be able to make those throws of the muddy pocket. If you want to be amongst the elite of the elite, I agree with that. I have no problem with that argument. I think it's fair, but great recognition of the blitz. I thought great recognition of when the offensive line was was beat and he was getting rid of the football quickly. Like he's probably should have been sacked more than he was. I didn't realize this number when we were talking yesterday, did you know he was pressured 58% of the time in that game? Like he didn't look that way. So 58% of the time was the most he's been pressured in his entire career and broke the record of the previous week against Green Bay. So 58% of the time against the Colts. What do you think it was against Green Bay? 56. 48. He got pressured 10% more against the Colts than he did Green Bay. He was supposed to be better. But he the offensive line you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah, I guess it wasn't. But also like his performance. Like think about how Stroud played versus the Colts and how he played against Green Bay, yet he was pressured a good amount more against the Colts than the Packers. And this is the problem that I have because I saw on a couple of national shows in the last two days how they started talking about how CJ's regressed and taken a step back this year. It's like if you watch the games consistently enough to realize, no, he hasn't. It's just the the element of running for your life on every play and not having the confidence and the trust that your line is going to hold up long enough for you to go through all your progressions that leads to a lot of times some of the things you said where he doesn't make as accurate a throw or as good a throw because he thinks he has last time or he literally has a guy in his face. Yeah. And I think that we not maybe not we, but like we did hear some yesterday. Oh, Stroud, he was he was misfiring. He was inaccurate. All of these things. I think there was really only two that were bad. Like two where they're just complete misfires. He had the one to Schultz on the sideline where it's like, yeah, it's kind of a catchable ball. I would have taken a good play, you know, and like maybe that was a misfire. He had the one where he airmailed Schultz like a make a play there and Schultz is kind of open. But if you eliminate like two or three misfires, I thought he was really accurate. Was there a crossing route where he threw it behind the guy slightly? Yeah, I think it was caught still though. Or was it the first place that was the one digs that the ballot was stopped? I think it was a third and two and it bounced off of the defender was able to break it up because he left the ball inside. Okay. Well, it could have been there was at least there was at least one over the middle that I thought he threw behind somebody. The one to mix in that mixing dropped. That wasn't a great throw. Like that was a little bit behind them. Like it was here. And so that might have been the one. Yeah. And then Brian does mention that one. There was one. There was another one to dig. I thought was a little behind him that was actually caught. But it kind of took Diggs momentum away from possible like bigger yardage. Look, if we're going to bash Dalton Schultz when he plays poorly, I think we have to give him praise when he plays good. I thought that was Dalton Schultz's best game. Quite frankly, and they're using Stovermore in the blocking. Schultz is still involved. Stover is an unbelievable blocker. But Schultz, I thought played really well. Like maybe he was just against who you're playing. Maybe he was down, you know, leaving Schultz open, focusing on other things. But I thought Schultz played his best game that he's played this year. I told you my nitpikiness of that was in watching it a second time was yeah, he made the catches. But I felt like after he made the catch, he just basically, you know, did like the bear hug around the football and and took made a business decision in terms instead of getting extra yards. Yeah, there's nothing that I saw where I'm like, dang, Dalton Schultz is a dog. Right. Like there was a couple of plays where Kate Stover like Kate Stover had the broken tackle of Grant Stewart who Grant Stewart last week had 19 tackles the single most in a seat in a game this year, fourth most in NFL history, go Cougs, Cougs or dogs. But Kate Stover broke the Grant Stewart tackle and then like ran and got the first down. Stover had this like depleting block of a dude that on the Colts defense that led to a mixing is actually the play the tank del stopped mixing whenever they collided. Remember that? Like Kate Stover in motion just wipes out a dude on the edge and just takes him off of his cleats. Like there's nothing that Schultz is doing like that. But this was the best he looked, especially as a pass catcher. Like it's like, okay, that's the that's the Dalton Schultz that I remember from last year. So, look, if we're gonna dog Schultz got to get him praise when he shows up on the film. Kamari Lasseter. I'm a big fan of Kamari Lasseter. I can see why the Houston Texans are big fans of Kamari Lasseter. He had this one play on a on a screen pass. You had a blocker in front of the guy who caught the ball. So they have numbers. You got a blocker for Lasseter. You have a receiver that now caught the screen that's ready to run. Use the block. Kamari Lasseter runs into the blocker, shoves him a couple of yards back and makes the tackle. They had two on one. Kamari Lasseter makes the stop and then he gets really excited. That's the one where he was beating the hell out of his helmet afterwards and everything like that. Unbelievable play, especially for a corner. He runs through the block moves the blocker back and then makes the tackle. Unbelievable play. And then people were commenting too on the on Twitter about it. They're like, look at Kamari Lasseter's first step. Look at his instincts. Look how quick he is reading that play and recognizing the play. And he's he's moving before other guys are moving. He's moving like a beat before other guys are moving. So it's like, Hey, this guy runs a four six, but his instincts, his reactions are very, very good. So like who cares if you run a four six, if you get the quick step, if you get the first reaction plus, like you said, that makes up for some of the time because we're talking about field speed, not a combine speed in the fact that on what the Texans guys have always said is on the field in pads, his speed can stay with just about anybody. And that's what they like. And I think that they hit on both of them because I the more you see both guys with the more you see Bullock too. You realize, Hey, no matter how they were ranked going into this draft, they got two really good football players for the long haul. I'm a big fan of Bullock. I'm a big fan of Lasseter. It gives me a lot of confidence in Courserio and D'Amico drafting defensive players and not the first round of the drafts. And if you go back to D'Amico and his time at San Francisco kind of had that same ability to kind of turn even late round picks in San Francisco, but like mid round picks into starters, that's a good problem to have, especially in a salary cap league where you need your young players to be pretty big pieces of your team, whether it's starters or whether it's on your too deep. So that that encourages me there. Bullock did get beat on that. That play where Josh down scored the touchdown, the crossing route or were Petrie ran into whoever the Colt receiver was people thought that might have been a big play. I thought it was legal. I didn't think the Colt guy went out of his way to block Jalen Petrie. I thought he was running his route. I thought it was legal. I guess you could argue that. Kalen Bullock is playing center field there and he gets turned around. So like probably a play where he like yes downs is still going to get a big play, but if Bullock reads that right, it's not a touchdown. It's a 40 yard game as opposed to, you know, 70 yard score. I think and that's the perfect storm when it actually gets timed out so well that there's actually contact made for the between the one receiver you're not throwing to and it clears out the guy that's responsible for the guy you are throwing to and a lot of times they're in the same vicinity. So at least they have to pause or slow down and then you have some space to make the throw. But that was just so blatant that the timing was perfect to knock him completely off the route. Do you think it was a penalty? I don't not not that far down the field because it's so right off the line of scrimmage. It's really easy to tell when they're blocking first. When you're running that, you're creating, you're mucking it up, you're trying to create some just some kind of a little mesh. Yeah, but you're never, like I said, that's a once in a long time when you actually create contact with the timing. Yeah, you have to be it has to be a pretty clear block. I thought he was running his route. People disagree with me there though. 3338 disagrees with me. He says it was a pick play. Agree to disagree on that one. 591 to I saw that last dinner covering Pittman more than stingley was. That's not a surprise because the Texans don't travel. Yeah, they play sides. They don't travel. So receive any team in the NFL, they could put their best receiver on on last at her side. You're going to get that match up pretty much every time now. Texans do play a lot of zone. 1117 also don't Houston receivers lead the league and drop passes. I think I did hear that. I'm not, I haven't seen that, but I think I did hear that in the broadcast actually. They lead. I think I heard that on the broadcast. They lead the league and drop passes at least coming into this past game. I feel like I heard that on the broadcast. I could be wrong there. I'm not 100% confident on that, but I'm like 65% confident 6181 if the Texans could fix offensive line issues with trades or bench and Kenyan green. This team still has potential to go far when Nico Collins comes back. Yeah, if some buts, I don't disagree with you. And they did bench Kenyan green. It's just that Jared Patterson got a concussion on a play where it didn't look like he should have sustained a concussion. By the way, I thought that was kind of awkward. But yeah, I still think that the team has good potential even with the digs. And I think I was realistic in saying I don't think it's going to be this year to really maximize the potential of how far this team can go and starting next year. I think that they really can, but there's nothing that says, look, that they can compete with the team. Look, that the chiefs still have have holes while they're trying to fill them. The Ravens still have some full holes, but I think that they can compete for sure. Last thing to on last year, like last year is going to get beat at times over the top because he does lack that top end speed. So if you get a receiver, like especially your good receiver, that's really fast. And you just want to go like there are going to be times when last year does get beat by that. And people are going, Oh, this guy's a bomb. He's slow. Like it's you have to take the good for the bad. Like last year has a lot of strengths. His biggest weakness is that he's probably is susceptible to the deep leg. And we've seen times where it's happened. He just hasn't been actually like executed. We've seen him get burned. We just haven't seen a whole lot of plays that actually have been completed over the top. And that the one in that the times where you just got to hope the safety help is there. If you have it, right, depends on what you call. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because we've seen it both. But look, I mean, everybody, you can say that of everybody. There's been times where stately got beat. Sure. So it's going to happen. That's part of the why they always say with the mentality, get you got to be able to wipe that out and just play for the next play when you're those guys, because there's going to be times that those things happen. All right, 713 780 ESP and HRP listener line. Who is in your dog house? 713 7803776. It's the B's on ESPN 97.5 and ESPN 95. You listening to the killer beats with Joe Blanket, Jeremy Branham. On ESPN 97.5 and 92.5, broadcasting live from the Veritex community back studios. Who is in your dog house? 713 780 ESP and 3338's not in my dog house. Texans are fifth in drop passes. Thank you. 3338 saving me a Google search. Appreciate you. 713 7803776. Who is in your dog house? I mean, bears defensive back. Tyreeks Stevenson still is in my dog house because I just drove me nuts that he was showboating while the play was going on before he tipped the ball that Noah Brown caught. So he definitely starts it off. And I didn't mention this one yesterday, but Saint's defensive lineman Nathan Shepard, if you didn't see it, not only tried to take down Justin Herbert, but he kept trying to twist his ankle and like hurt his leg and it was just a bushelic one. I mean, if you want to win, this is your time to get a beer. How much do you care about winning? I don't care enough to do that. Okay. It's a fair answer. Still got that dog in each other. We found the line. No, I was a bushelic player, right? I'm just having a little bit of fun with it. You know, it's my reputation. It's my gimmick. All right. I want to put on the list, but I can't because I'm enjoying every bit of it. Aaron judge with another playoff failure, because everybody's just looking at this year. But if we talk about the killer bees and the overall history of them failing in the playoff, if you look at, I think it's his last five playoff, he is a visible. Yeah, as a playoff player. Can't hit good pitching. He's off. Can he good pitching Aaron? He's a choker. Love it. He's a choker. 71370 ESPN. Who's in your dog house? I'm going to start off with mine. Amy Adams skunk. She traded the Andre Hopkins on Wednesday morning. You know what fantasy football players have their waivers? Tuesday. You know who dropped the Andre Hopkins for Jalen McMillan? You're a boy. Apparently both of your boys. Oh, yeah. I didn't drop them from the mill. But I also tried dropped them for Roman Dunes. Hey, yeah, yeah. Now I did pick up the Andre Hopkins back two days later. But it cost me $11 of my fab budget. Well, and I'll get to this other complaints about this league in a second, but my league doesn't allow if you drop someone, you know, you can't pick them up immediately. He has, it has to go through a, I guess, a process of where he's off all the waivers waivers. No, I tried them. I know, I know, I know, I tried to add them on waivers. But like when I tried it, you gave me an error message saying that you're not allowed to pick the same player up that you've just dropped. He actually has to make sense. Yeah, he actually has to clear the initial waiver, and then he can be picked up. So when he's like free, that's for you. Yeah, exactly. All right, what is, who's in your doghouse, Brian? My most expensive fantasy league, I got killed for this, or I killed by this on Sunday. So I've re go, I had Rico dad on that league. It's double flex league 14 team league. So you kind of have to go deep on these. And so he was in one of my flex spots. And of course, we find out like, I don't know, around three, three, 33, I don't know, so around four, maybe, that he's sick and he's not going to play. Well, apparently, I didn't know this. I never, I guess it never come up. But my league once games start at noon, all players, even players in the late games are on Sunday night or on Monday night, all players are locked and not available until waivers run the following Wednesday. So by that time, all my bitch players had already started. So I had no one to put in place. Rico Datto and I lost my game by point and a half. You're in some weird league, man. I lost my game because of a point and a half over not being able to pick up a sequence on my waivers have been an easy swap. Yeah, I had Datto on my doghouse two for the same reason. I was able to my league isn't weird like yours, though. I was able to pick up James Oliver commission this one. I trust me, I've, I've blown the commission up a few times over the weekend. We're going to talk about the offseason. It's a weird rule. He's shown who's boss, Brian, seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six, who's in your doghouse? Honeyglaze, Branham says, Joe George is in my doghouse. That dog is in my doghouse puny little dog. Honeyglaze, Branham says, Joe George and his doghouse, no particular reason. He just always is. Okay. Let's go on to the HR and listen to your line. Keith, you're the high. Well, who's in your doghouse? The person in my doghouse is who ever has been making trades for the Carolina Panthers the last two years. The total return for Beyonce Johnson's CNC DJ more Brian Byrne has been absolutely one-sided and horrendous. He's not wrong. He's not wrong. That might be Keith's best call I've ever had. I didn't even started with, hey, guys, love the show. But since he starts every call with, yeah, I didn't realize he did. Why is he super hyper focused on Carolina? But it's a good call because I made a trade today. There's, you know, right now, but I mean, he straddled off all of those reasons to the top of my, all the other trades. It's what made the call strong is the, it was a strong take. He was, you know, hey, Deonti traded today. They didn't get a good track. He didn't get a good return. Here are all the other things that they've done. I thought it was well argued thereby. Guess what? I think it was the best call I've ever had. He documented all the other reasons they've made for trades. Good work, Keith. Keith is going to tweet us and ask us the greatest call. I'll just do it on the air. Keith, that was an eight, eight, eight call. That was good. It was good. Who asked you to do your dog house, Blankers? Uh, the Texans staff, staff, medical staff, or otherwise, that made us wait this long for this bad of a news on days. Normally, this information's out within less than 24 hours. You don't think they're getting like, respectfully? You don't think they're getting like second-a-burns as respectfully? Even if they were, like, this was excessively long for a team that doesn't, there's Tuesday morning. We haven't even practiced yet. Yeah, but both times on a Sunday game, you know by Monday morning at the very latest of a guy towards ACL. So you wanted it in his press conference yesterday, not today. Yeah. What does that do for you? Like, what does the 24 hours do for you? I wonder just more time to suggest it and move on from it and not be, may not have false hope that he might be okay. That might be just meniscus. Okay. I respect your opinion. Uh, Kayla Williams is my dog house for what it was a dud and a win-a-wole thing to say for me, putting it in that dog for Branham and Fairpoint. Who else you got? Uh, speaking of, uh, guys who've been dogs this year, uh, Calvin really had been a dog pretty much other than one game this entire season. So I put him on my bench this week and the dude has 10, like, I think he had, uh, 10 catches in the first half, but he ends up going for 143 yards, scores over 22 points of my, uh, scoring format, which is full PBR. The dude had been awful all season long and he breaks out, of course, right when I put him on the bench. Watch this. Brian, you're just a bad fantasy football players when I'm learning. Why is that? Because it sounds like you're in weird leagues that make no sense and then you make questionable decisions that come back to burn you. And I think I should have started Calvin Ridley. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great week. Good. Good general manager's predictions going to happen. Not what has happened in the bike. You play in Caleb Williams. Uh, Caleb Williams was my top quarterback on a points score. That's not true. I'm lying. That's not true. Gotcha. Uh, a texture, the Texans offensive line is in my dog house. That's a good one. Yeah. Big dog house. Observe. Who else you got? Um, um, um, well, I mean, if you want to go even deeper, how about Aaron bone who before the World Series knew the splits that Rodon was really good at home and Schmidt was really good on the road. So he started Rodon at Dodger Stadium and Schmidt at home. So went against the splits went completely against the split. That one's tough though. And the back plate. How much do you believe in whole road splits? It sounds to me like he's not a believer in it. They were real. I mean, it was pretty dominant. It was, it was kind of like McCullers the two different years when he was really good either one year at home the next year, but it just, it just made a lot more sense to at least ride that than the and obviously in that looking back at it going to work out so well. Jeremy so on is in my dog house. He's got such a punchable face. He says naughty things about the city of Houston. He's trying to pick a fight with Jabari Smith. He grabs his arm and doesn't let go. And then he's like, Whoa, it's me. Big man trying to hurt me. You're the one that instigated a Jeremy so hand. Got a punchable face. He's in my dog house. Something else in my dog house. I don't know if you've got guys have ever come across this, but there's there's spots in my neighborhood where people there's stop signs, right? But stop signs aren't going both ways. It's not a four way stop. So one one direction has stop signs. The other does it. And the people without a stop sign for some reason will stop in the middle of traffic. Like they're doing you a favor to litch you through when all it is doing is confusing your other drivers and making the traffic worse. If you don't have a stop sign, don't stop for me. I'm at the stop sign. I can see you're coming through. I will wait because I'm at the stop sign. Just keep going. Bad drivers. Yes. Bad drivers. You know bad drivers Jeremy. A lot of times turn into bad parkers. Really? Come on. Now you're instigated. It is all on the bottom. It can lead you to build genre. More negative tendencies when you park said vehicles. The one counterpoint I would have to that is that it's better than the alternative of them blowing through stop signs that are for both are annoying. I will say that Uncle Barney says that Brian Cashman's in his dog house. Saying that the Yankees missed the world series because the Astros score or whatever it was. Let's just excuse this year. I don't know. Yeah. The other team has a guy who gambled on baseball or sports, which is true. That is true. Well, the other team does have a guy that cheated also Joe Kelly. Oh, that's yeah. And Betz Betz has been the most honest. Yeah, we were doing stuff. Everybody was. I know. He fight outside. Yes, we were doing stuff. And you know who the and the Dodgers do employ the video guy. JT Watkins. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. It was Mookie that brought him back. I know. Yeah. He and Mookie had a career year once he brought him back. Sure did. Last one for me, Tari Eason up 101 to 93 eight point lead 45 seconds last night. Tari Eason not only fouls a three point shooter, but he flagrantly fouled a three point shooter. And Chris ball Chris ball hits the three makes the free to have to make one Victor Wimbin Yama then scores fade away and turned an eight point lead into a two point lead. It was a six point possession. Tari Eason. You're my dog house for that. I'll be sorry. I'll be honest. I really thought that the max because they said the maximum is four. Yeah. But I didn't think that you could also get the next immediate possession to maximum is for the shot. And then you get possession because it's a flagger. Yeah. But I always thought that the maximum on any one trip down the floor was four points. So that was news to me that that you could call that a flagrant still give him the two to make the one but that they wouldn't get the ball as well. No, you always get the ball after a flagger. You're supposed to but but once you but I thought in the past in the NBA, once you got four points on a possession that even if you were supposed to get the ball that the other team gets obsessed, we'll have to go to the rule book on that one. I think it's changed recently. I don't know but that's the first I had heard of that rule last time. I need more. I'll put Nicocerio and Demico Ryan's and the dog house for not keeping Noah Brown instead having the Steven Sims on the roster who's done absolutely nothing obviously better options with with with Pearson with Woods returning the ball and obviously Noah Brown's on the end of the hill Mary there from Jayden Daniels. I've been I was I put that out there on Twitter. I'm like it's indigenous history. Yes. Hindsight 2020. Yes. But the Texas should have kept Noah Brown over Steven Sims and people are arguing with me. Why? I mean did they also guaranteed money when they signed him? Yeah, I think they lost about I don't think they save much. Was it a mill? It was just the one year deal they had him on. Yeah, but they lost some money doing it. Like it would have been better just to not sign him obviously but they lost some money doing it. Yeah, I have no idea how you could argue that Steven Sims was literally a healthy and active this past right has literally been binged for the only role that he's valuable and he's not valuable in it anymore and he has zero catches on the year zero because the and chronic didn't work out at least with Noah Brown getting healthy you knew what he did for you a year ago and had two big games for you that he could have done something and then Dennis Allen in the dog house of 8, 8, 3, 5, all right coming up next car regular day. 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