The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
11/05 Hour 3 - Another Disturbing Trend is Emerging with the Texans
[Music] You've found the killer bees live from the Veritex community bank studios. Here's Joel Blank and Jeremy Branham. Today election day in our great country. We're playing some sound bites from politicians and the lead up to tonight and then we're relating it to Houston sports figures. Whether it's a Houston sports figure that is saying it or whether it's a Houston sports figure that they're talking about. So let's pick up where we left off in just a moment. We do want to remind you to join us for the the Telgate November 11th from six to nine. It's gonna be fantastic. Presented by Verizon, the Telgate is celebrating Houston sports and the fans that cheer them on. You'll save her sports-inspired bites from top Houston restaurants including big city wings, loro, pizarro's pizza, yushi and many more. A sip on premium cocktails, bid on memorabilia and enjoy plenty of game day fun. Upgrade to VIP to meet and greet with Texans legends, Brian Cushing and Travis Johnson, courtesy of Verizon. Tickets include all food and drinks to great great time. A little taste of the town. It is so good. Love it. What's the favorite event that we do? At least my favorite event we do. Get yours now at telgate.culturemap.com. Telgate.culturemap.com use promo code ESPN for ten dollars off any ticket type. All right Brian let's pick up where we left off what we have next. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. Oh that one hurts. Okay who who are they leaving the rallies out of exhaustion and boredom? When Jose Abreya played first base for the Astros? It's a good call. Not bad. You can see that. The Texans offense in the second half has been pretty atrocious. You could leave that in exhaustion or boredom. Although it's football and you get one of those a week. So you don't see that as much. If you're Paul Galant you might want to leave in the sixth inning of a baseball game. He doesn't love the baseball a whole lot. I thought you were going to stay working with Joe George. No I like Joe. Oh okay. I wouldn't say that. This week? What was wrong with what was Joe done? No no I just meant you like him this week. It feels like something that changed by the day in the week. I would like to take shots at Joe. Well I take shots of people that I care for that I love deeply. Well you must really love me. I do. I work. I've worked with you for three years. You don't think I love you? It's been that long. I think it's been that long yeah. Wow. Shows you how much I love you. I guess. I took this literally like the boring in the speeches. I took this as like Nicocerio's word salad when he has the press conferences. Oh that's not a bad idea. That's not a bad call. You could also do a Dana Brown because he says a lot about Kenan Green. I don't know if it's not boring. It's not it's not boring to watch Kenan Green though because like that's going to be action packed. Something's going to happen. It's like watching a car wreck. So I don't know if I would say Kenan Green blocking is boring. In fact I think like a really good offensive lineman blocking is boring because you don't see a whole lot of action. You know like it's just a guy doing his job. You know what I mean? Yeah so it's kind of me Fairbanks. Yeah I mean Fairbanks had game winners though. That's true. I don't know if that's boring. Um yeah I'm going to go I'm going to go with Bobby Sloane's offense in the second half. Does Lancely baseball games early? Oh yeah Lance isn't he he doesn't shy away from telling people either. He I think he looks forward to leaving the game early. I think that's part of his plan going into every game. Three three three eights as I would leave listening to go on. That's not nice. Three three eight. We're not going to read those mean things Friday. Yeah we're not going to read those mean things. Come on now. Someone said Lance should have been our nominee for president just so we all could have got the humor in him tripping down the stairs of the White House. Oh oh eight four one zero. That's yeah the ankles definitely would have been going down the stairs of Air Force One. Eight four one zero says thinking McColors is really coming back. That's boring. Okay I could see that. All right let's get to our next one. By a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. Childless cat ladies that want to make the rest of the country miserable too. Because the cat thing gets me with Paul Glenn but see Paul's my answer. Like a childless cat lady that wants to make others feel miserable too. That's my answer. I got to go Paul. Yeah that's the first first gut reaction to it was Paul. Yeah the obvious answer is Paul not just for the cat lady but I think he's also miserable but I went with actually Jeff Bagwell. I feel like Jeff Bagwell is forcing us to be miserable watching his GM moves with the re-signing of Raphael Montero with obviously Jose and Bray you. Michael Brantley's gonna be ready for open day. He's bringing misery to us. I'm going with Jeff Bagwell. Okay a little different. I like that. 3338 says Brian Cashman that's the cat lady. I like that. Virginia says that's about Paul. 75 says Billy. I don't know how Billy is. All right next one. Bill O'Brien. My son was not a loser. He's not a sucker. You're the sucker. You're the loser. Now that's Bill O'Brien. Oh okay. That's Bill O'Brien going at the fan. That's not bad. Yeah that's Bill O'Brien. I didn't even think Bill O'Brien whenever I first heard this but that's a good one. I like that one. I'm gonna go with Bob McNair from his grave. Especially like two years ago because I think Cal McNair is kind of likable. Never, never quit. Like the handlebar mustache. She's got the pinky ring. You know Hannah's been somebody who's been wearing the pants. Like Cal has kind of transformed into a likable owner. He wasn't likable two years ago. So I could see Bob McNair from the grave having that quote about his son Cal. I went with James Harden here. James I was trying to think of he was like the thinnest skinned athlete in recent Houston memory and to me it was James Harden kind of always sniping. It seems like he always had rabbit ears for everything people were saying about him. That took me. That clip took me as someone who had heard what someone said about them and decided you know what I'm gonna really get them back. I'm not a loser. You're a loser. Yeah. He also had Secret Service agents that would take care of his dirty work for him. There you go. Oh yeah. What was it? Most of the most of the sun. I better not say that too loud. You kind of did. Did he have a does he have any sons though? None that he knows about? That goes back to the whole other thing with Harden running and the issues and we're not getting into all that. Oh so some real stuff like real political stuff like that. 4776 is that's Vernon Maxwell. Somebody I guess that has anger maybe. Lance McCullers is cat lady says 8807. Huh. And then 3338 said that last one's definitely Bill O'Brien. All right. Do we have another one? See I'm a different kind of a person. I fired most of those people. Not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them. They never fired one person. They didn't fire anybody. Okay. This is different people because Jim Crane yeah Jim Crane without a doubt he fired whoever he wanted to including James Click and other guys if they just didn't talk to him the right way. Yeah specifically James Click too. Like specifically of all of them. Like that is correct. They just want a World Series. Like I'm gonna fire somebody right off the hills of winning a World Series for me. I don't care that you won the World Series. I'm going to fire you. Well you gave them the one you're doing. It was he knew what he was doing. He knew what he was doing. Trying to come up with a different one. I think Jim pranks the right answer but I'm gonna go to be different. I'm gonna say Cal McNair or or slash Hannah McNair because obviously you bring in Jackie's to me. He's been fired. Lovey Smith's got fired. David Coley got fired. We went through a brain game got fired. I mean there was a period of time where they were running through GMs and coaches almost every single year. Yeah that's a good call. Could it also be Tillman? Because Tillman didn't care about what Darrell Morrie had done in the past and he even had Trump tell him is that guy still working for you and the next thing you know Tillman said yeah I could do whatever I want. You're fired. Didn't I mean didn't Morrie like resign though like retire? No they worked out a buyout but he knew that Tillman wanted him to go. Because he went away to spend time with family right? Yeah for two weeks. For two weeks on the Sixers pay roll with a race. 3338 Jim Crane all day. I can't think of another one. I like where you're going with the McNair's because they did fire what three head coaches in a span of like three years and a couple of general managers too. 4776 is but Adams but I'm fired a lot of people. I don't remember fired a city. He did actually it could be less Alexander when he first bought the Rockets because that was the long standing reputation that he just fired people whenever he got they he didn't like a decision they made. Okay there you go. You survived it. I did somehow some way but we went through like 40-50 employees that whenever they did anything wrong he said just fire him get someone else. What sir did you have unless? I did know what his paper of you aspirations were. I do know that. 8755 says Nicocerio he does and he has to cut a lot of people but that's kind of nature of the business. I think Crane is the answer here. All right what else we got. Wasn't this Easter be to wasn't the Easter be get that they said both on business and football he was just going in and clearing house and firing whoever he wanted. I remember the ballboys the ball adults got fired because they got letters in the mail your services were no longer needed. No I don't really keep up with ballboys from his culture. I told this story on the air. I must not have been listed. They have been like they were ball boys. They grew up into being ball adults that were still working for the Texas and all of a sudden the Easter be gave them a letter in the mail that said you know your services are no longer needed. No I don't really pay attention to ballboys and ball adults. Yeah all right we have another one. We don't have to go back. Let's not go back. We're not going back. It's time to turn the page. Let's turn the page on this. Let's not go back. Let's chart a course for the future and not go backwards to the past. Okay all right. Is this the new college football playoff? Oh okay. Go back to the teams and don't want to ever go back to that. Let's let's be excited about going forward going into the future with the 12 team playoff. Mine is the the Texans like they the David Coley, Lovey Smith Texans. You won 11 games in three years and now you know you want you won the AFC South last year. You're on your way to winning the AFC South again this year. Going to be back to back AFC South champions. Can we stay here? Can we stay here in playoff contention winning the division each and every year? I don't want to go back to 11 wins in three years. I don't want to go back to tasting the like three win four win season. I don't want to embrace the suck. I don't want to be rooting for losses so I can get the number one pick. This is where I want to be. Let's not go back to that. Yeah I took it as Texans also I went a little bit different route though. This would be someone like someone pointing out something that you wouldn't view as flattering like maybe you've got five playoff wins and two of them against Andy Dalton and another one against the Raiders third string quarterback or your quarterbacks have a five way tie for first place and playoff wins including Brock Ossoater being part of that group. So that that's where I kind of went with this. Let's let's forget that you know the Texans did nothing for almost 20 years and focus on going forward with CJ Stroud. You could talk specifically about the quarterback position too. Like let's not go back to not having a franchise quarterback. Like let's have a franchise quarterback for a while. 3 3 3 8 says move on from Lance. It's funny how these are all like the same answers. Like Lance is always an answer. Oh Ryan's a good answer. 6 1 8 1 says turn the page on Bill O'Brien. A 4 3 7 says Jeff Fisher. Huh that's interesting. I mean also be U of H basketball and or Astros baseball. You don't want to go back to 100 lost seasons. You want to just keep it going. I think you do want to go back because they're they're back as a dynasty. It depends on the time or the dynasty. They were 100 lost season for multiple years. So it depends on the time line. You want to keep sustainability and keep the winning. It's possible. Yeah you could. I mean if you define it with the timeline you absolutely could. You probably do with any you know organization. How many more we got here Brian? Oh we got a few. We'll do a couple more. We'll face basketball class if I do because Calvin would know. Yeah. You don't want to go back to the pre-Kelvin Samson era. Whatever Hoffein's Pavilion. Ray. There was a few but Ray McCallum's looking at McCallum and. Yeah there was quite a few. That's all right. What else you got here Brian? We're no longer respected. They they don't like us. We give them everything they want and they they think we're stupid. They think we're very stupid people. This is this is the Astros and everybody thinking that they were just dumb and they and that they were the only ones cheating and that they the garbage cans was the most Neanderthal way to do it when everybody was cheating and everything up but they all want to hate the Astros. I'm going to go with Chris trouser. Texans offensive line coach here. Like we keep doing the same stupid stuff. We keep running Kenyan green out there. We keep doing all this stuff that we think's going to change and it's not going to change. I'm going to go with Chris trouser for being that stupid person. I also think it's the Texans but this is almost quite literally the open for the Texans season of hard knocks. If you just insert the names Brian Hoyer and Ryan Mallet. This is Bill O'Brien going on and on in that that meeting that you know was played off like they didn't know was being recorded about. No one respects us around this league. No one thinks our quarterbacks are any good. I'm going to go Bill O'Brien from their their season of hard knocks. Okay. Yeah. I think that's a good call. Easter be another Easter be Astros and Texans Astros. All right. Next one. Oh, we have microphones and everything. Oh, I didn't realize that. Okay. Well, you'll be at the afterwards. We just told family. This is Sean at the front desk of the Houstonian. It's a good call. I think that's where the truth came out. Man, this one's hard. This is um, hmm. When was the last Astro pitcher that was tipping? Tipping their pitches and getting hit all over the ballpark? Maybe Hunter Brown early in the year? Yeah. Maybe Fromber Valdez. More importantly, it was Spencer Araghetti too. Spencer Araghetti. Oh, yeah. Whenever he was talking about it. I'll go any Astro pitcher that is tipping pitches in the last 12 months. Give it away. All the secrets for everybody to know so they can pound my pitches all over the ballpark. I'll go with Astro pitchers tipping. I'll give this to the future, uh, Astros front office member that eventually reveals the secrets of this is this is who who wanted who this is this is who made what decision? Was it bad? Well, was it Reggie Jackson? Was it Jim Crane? Was it Dana Brown? Well, when we eventually find out who all made these decisions in the eventual 30 for 30, I'll go with that Astros front office member. That's a good call. Laramie Tunsel said somebody to Sean Watson said another texture. I see one more final one. A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating. They're eating the pets of the people that live there. Rest tough one. Yeah, this is tough. They're eating the dogs. Are you the cats? They're eating the pets. Hmm. Nothing popped in mine. I had something popped in mine immediately for me. Go for it. Listen, this is to me what the posing teams right now are doing to the Texans offensive lie. They're coming and facing the Texans each week. And they're eating our dogs and they're eating our cats and they're hitting our quarterback. They're just concoming into town, destroying everything and then leaving. It's a good one. It's a good one. So I guess it'd be somebody that comes into your house and just kind of dominate you. I mean, it could be you know who this is just looking at layer. I mean, because we're going to get in green. He's just eating his lunch. He's eating his lunch. He's eating his pets. Yeah, it's not your back. You know what this could also be biting kneecaps off. He's just eating them up. This is, I hate saying this, but this is what Astro playoff opponents are doing when they come in the minute may park last two years. Detroit to an O Rangers sweep through the AOC estimate in May Park. I think this is the national national series in the World Series in 19. This is Astro opponents in the playoffs at minute made park. They're having their way with the Astros when they're playing at home. They're eating their lunch. They're eating their hot dogs on dollar dog night on Tuesdays. They're having their way. I think that's who it is. Yeah, I can see it. All right. Enough of that. Enough of that though. Another bad road game for the for the Texans last week. I've noticed another disturbing trend starting to happen with the Houston Texans. Am I losing my mind? Is there something here? I like to go to blankers and Brian to put me in check at times. Is this one where they have to put me a check? It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 95. You're listening to ESPN 97 5. Broadcasting live from the Veritex community bank studios. It's the killer bees with Joel Blanket, Jeremy Branham on ESPN 97 5 and 92 5. Killer bees ESPN 97 5 ESPN 92 5. So I've started to notice a disturbing trend when it comes to the Houston Texans. Am I am I losing my mind? 713 780 ESPN. For at least this reason, there might be other reasons why I am 713 72 or 377 76 talked about this a little bit with the DJ last Friday. People were talking about like the Texans and adjustments and all of these things at halftime and how slow it do whenever he's, you know, punched in the face, the whole Mike Tyson, which they're actually sure Mike Tyson said it, but he's always attributed the quote that, you know, everybody's got a game plan until they get punched in the face, which does have a lot of wisdom to it. The Texans in the first half are plus 41 in point differential. They are minus 40 in the second half. And look, I think point differential does matter. Small sample, like how much does it matter versus the long sample of like a baseball season? Probably not as much. Texans on the year are plus one. There is six and three football team with a plus one point margin. But the fact that they're plus 41 in the first half and then minus 40 in the second half to me is pretty alarming. I think it is eye popping whenever you see that. I think it's a disturbing trend that this team has trouble adjusting in game. Yeah, we've been talking about this for a majority of the season, at least when they, when they don't play well, because we can literally go back to every game, even the games they won, like Chicago and say they didn't make any adjustments. They haven't scored a touchdown in three games in the second half. Like, what are they doing when you know that the other team knows what you're doing or vice versa? Like the fact that you knew that the jets were going to come out and load the box up even more in the second half, because they knew they were still getting home and they knew Joe Nixon was killing them. So how do you adjust? In the case of Bobby Sloake and the Texans offense, they have it. They don't. And this is why that disturbing trend is what it is when you start talking about the, the point differential. It's, it's, it's embarrassing that they don't do more in game adjustments. It's, it's staggering that it's that wide. Like the fact that you're plus one at six and three, like, okay, you got blown out in a game or you blew out a team in a game. It's going to skew the numbers. Remember, you're only looking at nine results. But if you look around the league, six and three teams are better. Green Bay, six and three on the year, their point margins plus 36, Baltimore, six and three, their plus margin plus 64. Atlanta's the closest to you. Atlanta, six and three, plus five, Philadelphia, six and two, plus 44, Minnesota, six and two, plus 59, Pittsburgh, six and two, plus 68, Washington, seven and two, plus 74, Buffalo, seven and two, plus 87, Detroit, seven and one, plus one 10. And the Chiefs, it's kind of weird too. Eight and oh, and they're plus 56. So every team that in like even the, the Chargers, they're five and three, they're plus 88, Arizona is minus seven. They're five and four, Denver plus 22 at five and four. So any team that's five and three or better, you have the lowest point difference in the entire NFL. So like on one hand, it's, oh, you're plus 41 in the first half. That's great. Maybe that's a sign of your talent being better. Maybe that's a sign of your game plan being good. But the fact that your minus 40 is unbelievably bad. Yeah, normally those numbers are easily to equate to a team that has a losing record and is going nowhere, not a team that's in first place that has one of the better records in the conference. Yeah, I think it's brutal. When you look at the numbers, like you mentioned plus one, but sometimes I think people might think, okay, well, maybe the Minnesota game is skewing a little bit, right? Like maybe you have one game where you get completely blown out. But if you remove the bat, like the worse of the worst kind of the, and it gives you the median result is actually not that bad. Well, you'd have to get rid of the Patriots on the side of that though. Well, you know, if you're getting rid of the worst result, you got to get rid of the best result. That's the point I'm making though, because like, I think it'd be natural for people to make that assumption that maybe like a game like the Vikings is skewing it. But when you go game by game, the Texans have only outscored their opponent in the second half one time all season. And it was the game you just mentioned, Jeremy, the Patriots game. Every other second half of the season, they've either tied or lost it. They have not won a second half all year with the exception of New England. So like your minus 40 in the second half all year. If you eliminate the new England game, you outscored them 27 to 14. So you were plus 13 in the new England game. If you eliminate that, then you're minus 53, you're minus 53 in the second half in every game except for the new England game. Every single one, that's it's bad. That's all except in like that number minus 53. Like let's go look at the other teams in the NFL. Dallas on the year minus 54, they're three and five Texans are minus 53 in the second half of games. If you eliminate New England, Miami, two and six minus 63, Jacksonville's minus 57, two and seven. The Saints minus 22, two and seven. The Giants are minus 63, two and seven. You're minus 53 in the second half. You get rid of the new England game like that. It's crazy how bad they've been in the second half of games. Like it's one of the worst in the league. Yeah, that's just unacceptable. It's just not something that any team should be doing unless let you know you're headed for, you know, trying to get as high a draft pick as possible. The fact that you're sitting here on top of your division and before the Jets game, you had the number two record in all of the AFC and that's what you're doing is reason for more reason than ever for people to start pointing a finger at Bobby Slough. Because yeah, people are pointing the finger because Bobby Slough's play clone. Yeah, they're saying that, you know what, you need to adapt and change your play calling and the calls that you're running when you know your offensive line is less than. But then when you take those two things and you factor this in as well, this is squarely on the shoulders of an offensive coordinator that is not making in game adjustments. I don't think you can stop at the offense though. Like he the the offense isn't the only thing playing a factor into the point margin. Okay. Yes, but for the most part, your offense has been inept because of the numbers that you just gave about the fact that they're not we I just said they haven't scored a touchdown in three games. Well, those numbers are overall. It's not just offense. They are. But still, the majority of your points is going to come from an offense. And if you're and we know that they're not making adjustments on the offense out of the ball, you're right that they should also make adjustments defensively. I mean, look at the Jets game. They shut the Jets out in the first half of that game on Thursday, then the Jets came out, figured out they could beat them with the quick screens and get them over the top. They adjusted their offense and they scored on was a 21 to three the second half. So I mean, or something like that. But yeah, I mean, they're not only are they not adjusting on offense, but they're not adjusting on defense. And I also think you can in addition to the non adjustments on defense, which you could put at least partially on Demico. I know he's not technically the defense coordinator, but that is his side of the ball. But you can also say at times that the nature of a defensive minded head coach in Demico and sometimes not putting, you know, the pedal the pedal all the way to the floor in certain situations that we have a lead like you did against Buffalo is also something that's playing into this. Yeah, point margins, a total team thing. Yeah, okay, I understand. I mean, I understand, but I'm just saying for the most part, because what I pointed out was there's three different examples of where Bobby Sloech for as good as he was a year ago and for everybody singing his praises. He needs to face the criticism of him being roped into that as well as the other things I mentioned in the fact that, you know, he's got to be better that yeah, yeah, the team has to be better. But offensively, you have to be able to be more creative minded and make adjustments to make sure that you're you're dealing with what you have to deal with. If the line sucks, move the pocket, you know, change the play call, do some different things. Like these are the kind of things where when it's coupled with the offensive line play has been horrible and the point differential and you're not scoring touchdowns in the second half, there's plenty to work on. Yeah, I mean, I agree. I agree. I think it's both sides of the ball, though. I don't think it's only a Bobby Sloech, you know, problem. I think Demico has the same issue as well. You're right. Everything you said about Bobby. I don't disagree with you, but I think it goes beyond just the offense. I think it goes to both sides of the ball. I'm going to look, I'm going to look a little deeper into this. I'll report back tomorrow because I'm curious about something. I don't want to tip my hand because either other shows listen to us. No, they'll still our content. All right, 713-780-ESP and HRNP listener line. Who's in your dog house this week? 713-780-3776. Who's in your dog house? It is the bees on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ESPN 97-5. You listening to the killer bees with Joe Blanket, Jeremy Brannam. On ESPN 97-5 and 92-5. Broadcasting live from the Peritex community bank studios. Who is in your dog house this week? 713-780-ESP and who's in your dog house? 713-780-3776. Blankers, who is in your dog house? Joe LMB. Joe LMB. The fact that you just got suspended today by the NBA for three games because you shoved a reporter in the locker room because of the fact that you spent all summer playing basketball and everything seemed to be right in the fact that the season starts and you're suddenly unavailable and then you're coming out and basically saying for all you gave to the city and all you gave to the fans and the organization that you don't deserve this. Tough it out big fella but don't tough it out and start shoving reporters. He's standing on business, man. He was talking about his brother and stuff. One of the comments, you still put your hands on somebody else and you still don't spend all summer kicking it with the Olympic team only to not play a single game so far this year after they re-upped you at 60 plus million dollars a year. Load management, saw the rage in the NBA. Now, trust the process, Joe. Trust the process. What's the story within Beach, brother? He's passed away. He passed away in the last couple years so MB named his son after his brother. And then the writer did what in the article. And the writer referenced it when saying that Joel MB has always preached that he wanted to play the right way and he said he would play the right way to represent his brother and you know and do the things necessary to you know make the most of his name and his game and he has them. Borderline? Borderline? How would you react there? He shouldn't have mentioned the reporter shouldn't have mentioned it. It doesn't mean you put your hands on them and it doesn't. When you start going to physical violence because a reporter wrote something, that's taking it too far. What do you say when the twitchers say something about your family? Well, you're going to go there. I'm not going there. I'm asking what do you do when that happens? I'm not going there. I would never say anything about your family. You understand? I mean, look, I totally understand that the family is supposed to be off limits. Media, when they're reporting about the ultimate story about why he named his child and you'd have to get the exact writing from the article, it wasn't like over the top severe, but he did point out the fact that MB did name his son and say he was dedicating whatever his career to. Yeah, I thought it was Borderline. I thought it was Borderline. Like, I'm with you that he shouldn't put his hands on them, but at the same time, if you feel like somebody's crossed a line with your family, I mean, I think you would stand up for him. I would stand up for him. Like, I get that aspect. I agree with you about the hands on the reporter, but I also understand standing on business. No, look, I understand standing up if that's the thing you want to make of it. But before that, he was adamant about the fact that he had done everything. No one should question his work ethic. No one should question his dedication to playing. When throughout his career, the biggest thing has been, why is he not playing more? Why is he playing in the biggest games? Why is he failing out of series? Why is he, you know, getting all the money, but not doing all the things a star is supposed to do by being a bit, the best ability is available. Yeah, I'm with you on that aspect of it. The family one is kind of borderline to me. And I agree with you that the, you know, you can't put the hands on the reporter, but that's the biggest thing. I'm totally with you that you stand up for your family. Yeah, like, guys, you probably should have had a man-to-man conversation with him. Right. Not putting your hands on him. So I'm with you there. I just, you know, it is, it's very, it's on the fence, I think. Nicocerios in my dog house looks up on the best trade. McAfee, Pat McAfee's a lunatic. And I love him. Um, yeah, I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put Nicocerio there, not making a trade on deadline day, whatever your team needs to, needs some help. You know, the prices for these players that have been traded to, like six, seventh rounders to improve your team. So, Nicocerios in my dog house for not getting anything done today. My dog house this week includes the NFL for the way they even out and distribute the bi-weeks. I don't know if you guys have looked like this. And this is mostly a fantasy football complaint, but although I do think it plays a factor in guys having the, the right amount of rest going into the most important part of the season. But when you look at how they distributed out the bi-weeks this year, and this has been the case for a few years, but week seven and nine, there were just two weeks, eight, week eight, no bi-weeks. Yeah, when we get to weeks, 13 and 14, there's six buys in each of those two weeks. I don't know why the NFL can't take an approach where you have five weeks with six teams all out at the same time, knocking all out in the middle season, go like seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and not have these weeks where it's either no bi-weeks two, that's six, and pushing bi-weeks all the way back to week 14, or having as early as week five when teams don't really need it yet. I don't know why this is so hard for the NFL to get right. That's a fair point too. I mean, look, as much as I think the guys need the bi-weeks, there's no doubt. I think sometimes I don't understand in the first three or four weeks of the season teams getting bi-weeks, and also I don't understand, you know, the excessiveness as you're mentioning. I mean, I'm sure it's TV related, right? Like, they want to spread out the buys that way they can have the maximum amount of games that you potentially can throughout, you know, a chunk of time during the season. But they don't even do that. Like, we get there was no one in place because they were expanding the schedule the first time. I wonder, she said week eight, there are no buys. Week eight, there's no buys seven at nine, there's only two. This is week 10. This is week 10, yes. So that would have been, what, Halloween weekend? Halloween week. So something close to that, yeah, where they anticipating World Series going longer. Yeah, one, it's got to be TV related. Like, it has to be. Like, their best viewership probably has to be the weeks where they have very few buys, and I think that they want to stretch it out over a long period of time. That way, they have their most inventory they can possibly have in very specific weeks. From a, from a, like a playing point of view, from a player point of view, I hate it. I think it's dumb. I think that the buy should be coming as close to the midpoint of the year as possible. You're in an 18 week calendar schedule now in the NFL. So the halfway point is after week nine. I think that it should be three weeks prior, three weeks later. I think that every buy should be between weeks six and 12. And I'd be okay. I would, I would have five, five weeks of six teams on buy seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and then knock it all out. Yeah. Well, okay. Which, every team, you don't have this weirdness of either waiting 14 weeks into the season for your buy when you're already beaten, have to help me down. If you are having like week five and you don't need it yet. Yeah. From a competitive point of view, from a player point of view, I completely agree, but it's got to be TV related. Like everything, everything that the NFL does is TV related, right? I think you're right. Either that or like from a perspective of something, something with another event competition is that they don't want to go up against. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Oh, who's in your dog house? I wanted your guys's opinion on this one as well, but I had Joe Kelly, not in the dog house, but the outhouse. Joe Kelly doesn't play in the World Series. Joe here, I don't know if you caught it random, but by now it's been all over the place. But the kind of synopsis is, Joe Kelly doesn't play in the World Series. He wasn't on the playoff roster, but he goes on someone's podcast. And the first thing he basically says is, is that they've they've seeded everything wrong. The Yankees were completely overmatched by the Dodgers. If you did it like an NCAA tournament style, the Yankees would have been the nine seed going against the Dodgers that are a one seed. He's crapping all over the Yankees in New York and acting like he had anything at all to do with a getting a ring with the Dodgers. It's just Joe Kelly being Joe Kelly and he's just working. Yeah, he might not be wrong. You can't be running your mouth. You're not even on the roster. Yeah, but exactly. How could he be wrong with the Yankees? Well, then they have the best record or one of the best records. They have the best records. The American best league in the American league. Yeah. Oh, they're playing the weak American league would be Joe Kelly's point. Not that I agree, but that would be Joe Kelly's point, right? Yeah, but I mean, even comparing superstars to the judge head and MVP year, just like show. Hey, did and and and Soto had a monster year in the regular season. Yeah, Joe Kelly, Joe Kelly's a clown. He really is such a clown. I'm a nominator. I'm going to put Michael Thomas in my dog house for blasting David Carr's brother day. Come on, man. You don't blast teammates locker room code broke code. You don't blast. It was a teammate once a team and always a teammate. You kidding me? Brian, you'll forever be my teammate. Lankers, you'll forever be my teammate. Whatever one of us goes on to a different radio life or they fire us all. I will never speak poorly of any of you to other people ever. Off air. Off air. No, off air on air, either one. That's traceable. I'd actually be more likely to do it on air than off air, but I wouldn't do either one. Like, once you're a teammate, you're always teammates. I don't like the blasting guys post mortal. I'm not a fan of it. There's a reason Michael Thomas isn't in the NFL, even though he had a pretty solid career, at least a window of time where he was really good. Yeah, not a fan of this. The baby says why he's not in the league, because they've always had issues. He's done this with Sean Tate. He's done this with the Saints. He's now doing it with Carr. You know, he's not playing in the league, but he kept saying he still had ability. Well, this might be on you, Michael Thomas. It's an awful look. I mean, he's trying to be though. His full handles can't be charged, Mike. He hasn't been. He's been very good cartable for years now. Not a fan, but that kind of behavior. All right, Brian. My next one is Tyree Kill. This is a fantasy burn, but I was fully expecting, I think, like a lot of fantasy managers that once the two have got back, Tyree Kill was going to explode and be the same great and like, almost number one overall wide receiver that he drafted in a mask. And the two weeks, two has been back in my league, which is full PPR. He's a wide receiver 35, wide receiver 31, has to cut a touchdown. He's been very mad if we were expecting a lot more once two have got back. Yeah, not great. And he's eight. I mean, he's also like, what, 31. You have to wonder and he's also a little bit crazy. So you have to wonder if all these things are kind of making the perfect storm here. One thing that I will commend Tyree Killabout, he seems to be a pretty dang good teammate. Yeah, like he's over there celebrating with dudes. He's like happy for them. Like a lot of deeper receivers. Tell me the ball. Yeah, like, I kind of, I kind of appreciate that. At one point, he put him above Pat Mahomes in terms of his quarterback accuracy, specifically accuracy, specifically accuracy, though. But nonetheless, he's willing to make that kind of statement. Yeah, I don't like Tyree Kill, but I do appreciate that even though he's not getting the ball, that he still seems to be a good teammate. I'm not a locker. I don't know for sure. But he's not pout on the sidelines. And other guys are catching touchdowns. He's going over and doing the waddle dance with waddle after he scores. I like that. I like that from a teammate. I like good teammates. You know, yeah. All right. We weren't at this segment. 3, 3, 3, 8. Yeah. I'll be mean to you, but I'm not going to be mean to you behind your back. Nah, that's not how teammates behave. 3, 3, 3, 8 Texans offensive play calling in the old liner in the doghouse. I think you probably, that's probably about felt like Pat Mack if he shut up. 8, 7, 5, 5, really Cassario would have made a couple of moves, really thought he would make a couple of moves, such a disappointment. Nick Cassario. Fair. Texans are 6 and 3. They're easily going to win the division. I don't feel like the Texans fans are all that like happy. You know what I mean? They were. Look, what we talked about last segment. Yeah. And yesterday too, most people were on the ban on the bandwagon of their pretenders, not contenders. Yeah. Weird stuff. All right. 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, ESPN. What is your car wreck of the day? 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, 3, 7, 7, 6 car wreck of the day. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. ESPN 97 5 You know right? He's broken the bolts coming through. This is the car wreck of the day. What is your car wreck of the day? 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, 3, 7, 7, 6, HRMP listener line. What do you have blankers for your car wreck of the day? I mean, it's got to be the Nick Cassario and the Texans. The fact that I said that they had to make a move, the fact that I'm disgusted that they didn't make a move, the fact that the offensive line got nothing to excite me about a potential for better play and changes, and they made no trade, that gets my car wreck of the day. Yeah, I would usually push back with you and defend Cassario here, but I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm a little bit let down. And like the price of poker wasn't that expensive. You know, like yeah, me going for a fourth. That's Jerry. That's Jerry Jones making a dumb move. I feel like they could have done something. I also moved for sixth and seventh and for veterans. And what are we not doing a lot? Cassario like yes, Cassario dress well, but he also trades those late round picks like their candy on Halloween. My next car wreck of the day, before I get to my car wreck of the day, because it's a segue. Glenn Davis coming up soccer matters whenever we're done, he'll be dissecting the dynamo end of season, hate seeing the way that they went out. UEFA Champions League, dynamo fans, tell us what you think at the end of the the end of the season. My car wreck of the day, since I didn't do my car wreck of the day yesterday, Hector Herrera, the red card over the weekend, man, what do you do? What are you doing? What are you doing? Hector Herrera, you can't and not only that, like if you're going to do it spit at the ref, you know, his feet, if you're going to spat at his feet, do that during the regular season. I'm not condoning spatting at the referee at any time. But if you're just helping on spitting in a referee, do it during the regular season, whenever your seat your team season is not on the line, okay? If you're going to spit at somebody's feet, do it during the regular season, get the red card, get the suspension during the regular season. Don't be spitting at the official's feet, whenever it's a must win match during the MLS Cup playoffs, costing your team a man having to play a man down the rest of the way. That's foolish, Hector Herrera, it's selfish, Hector Herrera. I will not stand for it. Especially when you're supposed to be the best player in the team leader. Anybody? Anybody said excusable on a playoff game? Much less what she actually did, but man, I mean, it'd be the equivalent of your quarterback doing it. I mean, it's just, yeah, it's unforgivable. But it's even worse because now, like, that would be like playing without a quarterback to know the way because of the equivalent of having to play a man down. And I'm pretty sure he wears the captain's armband. I know. You can't be the, the player, you can't be the footballer that wears the captain's band around your arm and spat at the official. During a playoff game that's must win, Hector Herrera, I give you another red card, especially since just the match before in game one of that series, I forget the player, Glink, it's how it tells, but they had a car, wasn't it? Say it again? The car a guy, then I put your his name once. No, it may be so, but they had another, they had to play a man down and part of that game, one of that series. Awesome. Because another player got kicked out, argued with the referee. So yeah, it was, it was a series to forget. My car record today goes out to Todd Bowles for not going for two last night. And then say, you know, well, we, you know, we had our chances. Yeah, your chance was the chance to win the game on one play versus giving the ball back to Patrick Mahomes. I don't know why, coaches, you're the underdog on the road against an undefeated team with Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reed. And you'd rather go through a full overtime, potentially, versus one play, if a three yard line, I don't understand for the life of me, why Todd Bowles didn't go for it. Did you hear his answer to the post game? Yeah, he talked about, oh, well, we had our chances and it was, it didn't come down to one play. Well, he could have if you conned for two. He said that we were, he said that we were wanting to get it to overtime. Yeah, it makes no sense. What? Why? It's one play. He thought he was going to win the coin toss, and then he could have done to the Chiefs, what they do to everybody else. Yeah. I'm okay. Do you, do you feel one kind of way about doing it at home versus on the road? Like same exact situation at home. Are you okay playing for the overtime? Are you going for no matter what? No, I'm definitely at home. To be honest with you guys, I'm okay with doing it at home, and I was okay with him doing it last night. Really? I was. I just, the analytics says it's, that it's fine to do it to kick the extra point. I understand it's Patrick Mahomes and that changes a lot of things. But if they win the coin toss and they get the ball first, that's a 50-50 chance. And they scoring, scoring a touchdown against that defense. I just didn't think it was as, did the analytics they go for? It did. No, the analytics actually said, yeah, the analytics actually said that over time. Really? Yeah, I was, it wasn't a big margin. It was like 43% to 41. But still, I don't think the analytics factor in it's Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reed, I'm guessing the analytics are fully factored at him. So I'm going, I'm going to pop his gut there. I'm going pop his gut. I'm going dusty Baker. I don't care about extra velocity. I care about extra two-point conversions and exiting Arrowhead Stadium with a higher chance of winning the football match. A couple of car wrecks on the text line, uh, 1 9 7 0, car wreck of the day was on TC Jester in Washington. I didn't hear about that. Hopefully everybody's okay. That's not anybody's way home, is it? Is it still on the road? Because I don't think I thought I'm aware of it. Anyways, yeah. Well, yeah, maybe not. Um, Josh from CBRA car wreck of the day sweater vest Nick for sitting on his hand, not hands hand during this trade deadline. I've seen more activity watching Kelvin Benjamin and Eddie Lacey stick to their weight loss regiments. How about Kelvin Benjamin and Eddie Lacey catching straight? He's going back a few years. Had to reach for that one. I'm not even sure who Kelvin Benjamin is. Really? Did you tell him Benjamin? He was James. He was James's receiver at Florida State. How do you not know that? I just, uh, I just Google image to him. It's starting to ring a bell now. Yeah, he was, he got so fat, he started to play tight in before he got before he got kicked out of the NFL. Wouldn't you throw it to Marcus Russell? Yeah, Marcus Russell's a known old boy. Did he? Some guys have bad bodies. Don't age well. He didn't come out. He didn't come out of the draft with a bad body. Boy, you left the NFL and got one. Yeah, I mean, I'd probably be the same way. I mean, look at me. Millions of dollars. Sweet bull behind you. What's up? Sweet swimming pool behind you. This is my pad in the city. We should have become cliff also. Yeah. Do you like it? I mean, I, I just wonder how durable and sturdy that fences that keeps your, your tennis court from your swimming pool. If you want to, if you want to come hang out, I'll let the guys know that I Airbnb it to invite you over someday. No, I'm good. You got to put that pickleball court in. What's that? I didn't hear you. Put the pickleball court in next. Yeah, it's time to play pickleball. I think you'd be good at it. I'm worried about tearing my ACL. I've retired physical activity years ago. All right, it's gonna do it for us. Thanks to everybody for listening. Thanks to Brian for doing the hard work. He's blank. I'm brandable. Talk to you tomorrow, Houston. Glenn Davis, Soccer Matters. Coming up right now. Book your team, Brad Gilmore at seven o'clock. Keep it here, locked and loaded. ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. ESPN 97 5.