The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
11/11 Hour 3 - Grading CJ Stroud + Reasons for Texans Positivity!
This season, Chevy brings classic parings, cookies and milk, mistletoe and kisses, and your holiday plans and a new Chevy. Silverado 1500 gives you power and capability with 430 pound-feet of torque to haul your holiday tree. Equinox EV and the all-new Equinox offer award-winning quality and style to see you through the holiday season. See why Chevy makes everything better and brighter. Chevrolet, together let's drive. Mail call! It's a mailbag Monday with a killer beat. You've got mail. You're going to stack or leave place crazy. It was in the playoffs in '87 against John Elway in the Denver Broncos, and they threw a lateral into the in zone. They got fumbled and then they ever recovered and picked it up at the one. They had a one play. Oilers against the Broncos in the '87 playoffs. They threw a lateral stagger lead, dropped it, fumbled it out to the one. Denver had a one-yard touchdown drive. That's pretty bad. That's worse than anything Titus Howard did yesterday. Yeah, that would have made my life sad. I mean, I was four at the time, but... I was two. I was younger than you. I was humble brag. Actually, I was probably one. I was probably one because I turned two later. Oh, okay. You're right. I would have been three then. Still to your gap, but... We mentioned the J.R. Smith in the finals for LeBron. He gave us a classical LeBron meme where he's got his arms out. I thought the game was tied, and then you mentioned the... Nick Young Lakers shoot the three, turn around and act like... He's celebrating. Then you missed. Yeah. Alright, 713-780-ESP and Mailbag Monday. What are your questions for the B-713-780-3776? Key from L.A. who got the best breakfast in Houston? Ooh. I mean, Denny's. Said the bar high. Uh, Buffalo Grill. Buffalo Grill? I've never had Buffalo Grill. I've done Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club is really good. Yeah, my first vote would be Breakfast Club. They're chicken and waffles. It's amazing. Black walnuts? I like black walnut. Their big breakfast is fantastic. Yeah, the Buffalo Grill pancakes are, like, massive. Mm-hmm. That sounds good. Old school breakfast done the right way. If you do the black walnut, you can do it at the Conroe Regional Airport. And you can watch planes kind of take off and land. It's not a bad way to spend a little week day after noon. Yeah, they have some good breakfast there. Uh, we're missing some. I throw in, uh, this is more of a region or an area thing, but I throw in Tida's Taco House and on bull, yeah. Their breakfast tacos are amazing. They are amazing. They have really good tacos. 59 diners. 59 diners. I don't think I've been there. I don't think I've been there. They're talking about Dot Steiner on the highway? No, there's one, uh, off of Kirby and I want to say Westheimer. There's one on 59 out in Sugar Land. I'm not sure. One of the, one of the, it's a diet. It's literally called a diner, but it's that old school breakfast. Yeah. 8 6 6 4. What part of your daily routine would you be better off without? Tojo. What's that? Uh, I'm not, I mean, like, what, like, getting up. I, I could be better without waking up at 5 45 to 6 o'clock in the morning walking my dogs. I'd be better off without eating the diet that I eat. That's part of my daily routine. I'll go with that. Yeah, that's a pretty good answer. It's hard for me to come up with something better than that. 7 2 3. It's all to me wants to say this show, but I'm not. Wow. I said the troll on me, but I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. Without our producer. Does the Texans offense consistency consistently stalling in the second half ball? More on slow exploit calling or player execution. That's a good question. I might save that for a segment, actually. Is that a combo platter? It's definitely a little bow. It's definitely a portion of both. We'll discuss that one later. That's a good one. Good topic there, texture. JC, assuming money isn't an issue. What are two things you would want your forever home to have? 100,000 square feet. Okay, let's, let's, let's throw out, like, the size of the house. Is that the obvious one? A slide from the slide? Yeah, between floors. Yeah, it'd be fun. A slide? Yeah, why not? That's a weird answer. I know it's weird. Why not? It's fun. I never seen it, but my, because they live in Michigan and I'm not going up that far. I think a lot of people would say pull here. I'm not going to. I'll say golf simulator. That's a good call. That's a good one. Basketball court outside. Maybe. It's huge. A pup, pup, pup, horse outside. That sounds fun. You know what? A low-key, Asana. Asana. Asana's great for your health. Yeah. Terrific for your health. I can't do it. Here's another one. For my forever home and money isn't an issue, give me a chef. Oh, that would. Now your diet is solved, but you say I want to eat healthy, but I wanted to taste good. Plus, I'm not having to waste time cooking, which is probably the reason that I eat out more than I cook at home. I can, hey, chef, cook me up healthy options that taste good. There you go. Chef is the easy answer. That's a good one. Easy answer. Oh, Avalon Diner was the one I was thinking of for breakfast. Oh, yeah. Avalon Diner is pretty good. I'm missing a ton of other ones. I'm not a huge breakfast person, though. A 190 shoes on or off in the house. Off. Off. Everything off. What are you talking about? What do you, why are you walking around your house dressed for the day? Yeah. Look, I understand if you're a guest, obviously. And like, you don't want to be presumptive and take off your shoes unless someone asks you to, but like, if you're in your house, like on a weekend, just chilling and watching TV. Why in the world would you have your shoes? Oh, this is a battle between Lisa and I. Lisa has the flippers that anywhere in the house. She wears them. She wears them. I'm a sock killer because I will wear socks outside to take the trash cans out. I just, I try to get the white socks with the gray or black colored socks so they don't show that I wear my socks outside all the time. Yeah, I'm barefooted all the time. 2484, how would y'all feel about our O line being Tunsel, Howard, Pat Green, Fisher. A text came on us wave on wave. Hmm. I think you got to go Titus at the moment. Yeah. I mean, I don't think they're going to change Titus for the rest of the season unless he gets hurt. I just, and I think that he's done after this. Yeah, I got to do it too. 5030, best restaurant for a steak with ketchup. None. Yeah, none. Leave the restaurant. This is Joel saying none. There's a lot of good steak houses in Houston. I would be remiss to answer this question because I'd be remiss to leave off a bunch of them. There's one you should probably say them. What? Vick and Anthony's. Why should I probably say Vick and Anthony's? That's untilment. Are they a sponsor on this show? No, but it's tillment. Well, when they're a sponsor on this show, make sure to say Vick and Anthony. Kill and steak house in Perilence. Pretty good. Killins is solid. Killins does almost everything well, but. Killins is solid. Josh from Seabrook Metalbag Monday. If you're ever in Seabrook, try the Pelican Grill. It's not a question. I usually go for the driller plate. Careful there. Two eggs, two bacon strips, two sausage links, your choice of toaster bait or a biscuit. I usually go for a sourdough toast. My go to the home price. Thank you, Josh from Seabrook for your order there. Skattest full menu items. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think that's going to have four four eight eight college basketball crazy now. The AJ store that transferred to Wisconsin from St. John's and transferred again this year to Kansas. It goes where the money is in the opportunity to win. It wasn't at Wisconsin. Wisconsin's basketball program is a joke, and he made the right move to leave. Much as I hate to see him go. How are his minutes there, like for Kansas? I haven't seen anything for this year for Kansas. I just know that they made him an offer he couldn't refuse like 27 minutes against North Carolina. That's good. That's good run there. I was a good win for can. They're up 20 in that game. North Carolina rally back to a late lead. It was a fun game. It's a good game. It was another day, too. Auburn tip cap. They say the freshmen from Auburn's pretty good. Oh, he had a good game. Yeah. Yeah. He was he was really good. He wasn't one of the guys fighting each other on the plane. I was like, he wouldn't have been there. No, he wouldn't have been there if he had the two that were fighting. We're not there. Yeah, but Auburn's good. Auburn's really good. That was a good top five. That was a good game. 9392 Mexican food for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Dinner. Yes. I mean, all, but I would say I would say actually lunch, but all you give me a little I go for breakfast. I'm going to have for lunch might might take it easy and just have some fajita nachos for lunch. Yeah. He like taking it real life. Easy. Take it. Like just have some funny fajita nachos for dinner ability to do anything out of the equation. Sorry. After dinner. That's why I said dinner because I'm going to do I'm going to do it big and then I'm going to probably go to bed. Yeah. Now I'm with you on that. But yeah, I would just go. I'd go be fajitas for dinner. Yeah, I'm pretty, I'm pretty like like playing when it comes to my Mexican food. I just like good beef fajitas. I did chicken fajitas Saturday night with all the fixings and everything like that was happy as could be. Went home. Shut her down. That's it. Someone Brandon. Why are you dressed like Al Borland hashtag full time because I dress how I dang well, please. And I work in radio so I can dress however I want. Why do you think I got in the business to dress like Al Borland? Exactly. I said Friday that the text will lose Sunday then when four in a row and all will be well in Texans world. Do you believe that? Will it be? Stay tuned. Do you believe that they'll win four in a row? I think he said three in a row. No, he said four. Well, the way the reason I remember three in a row because they have three games going to the buy and it's Cowboys, Jax, Titans. No, I'll debunk your theory by saying that the way he did the math was and that'll still put them at ten and four and that's exactly where I said that they would be. I said nine and four. I do think they love y'all's conviction. I feel 80% on that. I feel stronger than that. What is your okay? Well, what is your life? I feel 95. I will go find it in the break then, but I do think there's an element of they go. They take care of business against the Cowboys, Jax and Titans. They end up nine and four going into the buy. I don't say everything's forgotten, but I think we're full of all right because I think he wrote off the fact that the dolphins were going to be any good. And so he thought that it was going to be going in the way the first game of the boy. I thought he was just talking about going into the buy. Okay. One five zero nine. Any chance that the Texans can bring in Kubiak or another proven offensive coordinator guy? I don't think Demico is going to rock the boat this stage of the season. Maybe click Kubiak next year. Next year. Yes. Yeah. I look at this happens all the time. Like teams do this a lot. Teams will bring in outside counseling to, you know, shake things up or just overlook things. Yeah. Happens all the time. I wouldn't hate it. They did it. I mean, why not? Like you get more eyes on things, more resources. I don't know if Kubiak would be open to it, but yeah, I would be. I'd be okay with a new set of I'd not even call plays just, you know, somebody in the room. And a lot of times like with the Salah situation, as long as he's not the head coach, he gets all the money from the Jets and he wants to stay involved in busy and football. So he gets to be a consultant and get extra money. Yeah. Yeah. I think it makes the guy and the team. I think it makes a lot of sense. All right. Uh, for Mel bag Monday, seven, one, three, seven, eight zero ESPN, let's create CJ shroud. What did you think of CJ shrouds performance yesterday? It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN, not a two, five guys, where we go to the break and we're good friend, doc Lindville. He's right here in the medical center and he has the answers. If you have questions about losing your hair, he can get your hair back. It's your own hair and he can take care of everything right here in Houston. You don't have to worry about all these commercials you see on late night television and on the internet trying to get you to spend your money and go to regardless of where it is somewhere else in the country to try and see if they have solutions for your hair loss. Doc Lindell handles it all right here in Houston. He's a big supporter of ESPN 97 five. And when we've sat down and talked to him on multiple occasions and had dinner and we're just, you know, kind of chewing the fat, he would say, I don't really, I'm not trying to make a ton of money off of this. I want people in Houston to know I can actually get the results. I can get your hair back. I can get your hairline back. I can get the, the spot filled on the top of your head because of the fact that the system that we use works, it's called the neograph procedure and the neograph procedure simply put his taken hair from places on your head that you're never going to lose it. No matter how bald you go in other spots, you never lose the hair on the sides in the back of your head. I didn't know that till he told me, but then he said, Hey, it's kind of like in long terms. I can re-sad the lawn where you need it by using some of the hair where it's never going to go away and it works and it grows in the same direction and it's the same color because it's your hair and because I'm taking it from a spot where it's never going to leave, it's going to be with you for the rest of your life because it's phenomenal. And then as part of that process and also possibly if you have hairs on your head, but they're just not as thick and strong as they used to be, PRP treatments work. We've heard about PRP treatments from all the different athletes that use it for their shoulders and their knees and different joints on their body. It also works with hair and the PRP treatments actually get the blood stimulated so that the hair actually gets stronger and longer and is more like it was when it was at its best instead of kind of fading the way it looks now. He does all these things for you and you can get a free consultation with Doc and his staff to explain everything to you and see if it's something you might have considered just by going to 975hair.com. People off the street pay $150 just for the consultation. You don't pay a thing. It's absolutely free because you're listening to me and you want to talk to him, just go to 975hair.com, set up a free consultation. Go in, ask questions, get answers. Some of them explain everything with PRP and the neograft and see if it might be something you'd consider doing. If you do, you're going to be thankful you did. I did it. Could not be happier with it and if you don't, nothing lost, nothing out of pocket, no signing on the dotted line, no commitment. Just you getting a question and answer session about one of the top of the line best solutions to hair loss. Check them out today. Go to 975hair.com, set up an appointment, and tell Doc Linville I sent you by. You're listening to ESPN 975. [MUSIC] >> Broadcasting live from the Veritex Community Bank studios, it's the Killer B's with Joel Blank and Jeremy Branham on ESPN 975 and 925. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> It seems like a different every week, you know, I feel like this game was on me, you know, definitely got to make plays, got to make throws, can't turn a ball over and we're in scoring position. So it's not blaming this on me, you know, I got to be better. [MUSIC] >> Tough one for me because I kept watching the game thinking if they win it, you know, what the grade would be. And then when they lost it, to me it was C minus, to me it was just that the two picks in the second half were so costly and kind of got the momentum back for the Lions. And you know, there were some good throws for sure, but there just wasn't enough good all around for me to not be as honest as I could be. I'll say C minus. >> Yeah, this was a, it was a weird game because he was, he was good in the first half, like he was really good. He was making some pretty high level throws. I thought the ball he threw to Metchi over the middle in between the zone and tight window throw, really nice throw. You look at the final drive that he had where he threw Metchi a touchdown later, a really good throw. I thought he played really well in the first half and he had some time and he had a clean pocket which is vital for any quarterback. >> Even the Stover, did you see the Stover on the, he had him right between the numbers and he dropped it. There were a couple drops. >> I really remember one, like I saw a bunch of people talking about drops and I really, like one that was easy, like there was one where Robert Woods could have made a really good play in the end zone, like hit him in the hands, make that play. >> I remember the Stover one. >> Yeah, the Stover one for sure sticks out and I want to say there was at least one on the left side either on the sideline or kind of the middle to the out where someone dropped the ball that was. >> Tank dropped the one that I thought he should have made, but they ended up scoring anyways. >> Was it, was, did Schultz drop one? >> I don't remember Schultz dropping any. >> I'd have to go back and look at it again, but I thought there were two that stuck out to me where guys actually didn't do him a solid and could have caught balls that were there. >> So I thought that he played really good in the first half, but I thought he was, quite frankly, I think he choked in the second half. I thought he was atrocious in the second half. What choked? That's a big word. He had tanked out wide open in the corner of the wide open and he saw him late. Okay. See him late, but still you make it halfway decent throw. That's an easy touchdown to the Texans win the game. The Texans easily win the game from that point of the, the, his last throw of the first half and his first throw of the second half, those had to be two different guys. Those had to be two different people because he threw the touchdown to matching the very first inter, the very first pass he threw in the third quarter, trying to find Tengdell and he just throws it right to the defender. Here's what he said afterwards about what he saw on that interception. Here's CJ's trout on the first interception that he had. >> Yeah, just didn't see the coverage. He did a good job. I had to cover two and just left it as hard. Can't do that. Didn't see the cup play on the ball. So it was my fault. Didn't see the coverage. >> I saw Davis pretty clearly on the inside of that one, but yeah, I mean, and he jumped it. I mean, I know maybe you didn't see him start to start the jump to move in front, but boy oh boy. Yeah, you threw it right to him. >> And even if he like doesn't see the coverage there, an accurate throw doesn't get picked because they're on the inside of tank. And if he throws it to the outside of tank, he doesn't get there. I thought he was really bad in the second half, I thought he choked a bit in the second half. The fell touchdown to tank Dell was a problem and look, you could say, well, he was really good in the first half. He was really bad in the second half. You average it out. You come away with like, you know, a C plus or whatever. The problem though is the second half matters way more than the first half. Like you win and lose games in the second half. It's kind of like, you know, taking your course who cares about the pop quiz whenever the final is worth 90% of your grade, you could ace the pop quiz and then bomb the final and then you're going to fail the class. So I give CJ shot and F I thought that the second half performance was one of the worst he's played this year missed a lot of targets. The offense couldn't find any sort of rhythm in the second half and you can blame a variety of things. Oh, slow explain going. Well, the running game didn't get going. Well, the offense of line still allowed a ton of pressure to strategy can never get comfortable. I thought CJ Stroud was very poor. I thought he threw a lot of near interceptions too. I thought he was poor in the second half because the second half matters more than the first half. He gets an F for me. Wow. That's, yeah, that's pretty severe. 16 point lead. The throw that you're right though. The one that it was bad in real time, but the throw to, to tank for the easy touchdown, if he just doesn't put any, the amount of air he puts under it and just puts any kind of zip on it at all, it doesn't have to be a laser, but just kind of puts it more on a line. He's got a 30 yard cushion and Davis just made up all that ground because that ball was up in the air seemingly forever and it was like, what are you doing there? It's the NFL. I mean, you don't have many opportunities to put a ball like that on a receiver that has no one around him, but you just can't give the defense time to recover and that was awful. Yeah. There's a couple of plays to where it's hard to see on the TV copy where it's like, I think he had some guys there and just like missed it. So I'm eager to see, because there was one where he had, he had a Dalton Schultz that it looked like he was open on the TV copy, but sometimes they aren't whenever you can see the, the all 22, but I'm eager to see what, you know, he was looking at in the second half because that was a bad half of football. I think Hutch was the guy that he dropped one. That was a white guy. No, I'm saying. Oh, he dropped one. Yeah. The other one. Besides the one that hit Stover in the numbers, I thought Hutchinson might have dropped one that he put on. I don't remember that one. Hutchison, of course, had that big picked up the PI. Probably should have picked up another too. That'd have been really nice. 713780 ESP at HRP Listener line 0891 says, Shroud first half a second half in F. So what's the average there? What's the average there? A zero nine seven nine says he didn't blow the lead. No, he just didn't score any points in the second half and he threw three interceptions and he cost them an opportunity cost to seven points because he missed a wide open touchdown and threw an interception clown. So there is that. It was just so disappointing because of the fact that, you know, everybody's old and they're making a big deal of it on TV and moving the Campbell interview was pre-taped and they were just running it at the absolute right time. But yeah, it was ironic that it happened like that, but you got to know coming out of the break too that they're going to be looking to try and make up ground and they're going to try and jump on you, you know, to try and to change the momentum. But yeah, I mean, he just gifted him that first one and they didn't do anything special though. Like they were sitting in his own and he didn't see it. Like it's not like they had this exotic blitz or this is not a scheme. Like it wasn't this like we're going to force the issue. Davis was staring right at him. Yeah, I wouldn't like this. Yeah. And there was no one behind him. No, see, to me, it looked like CJ predetermined his, Oh no, yeah, from the pre look from either the play that was called or the look he got before the snap, he predetermined his throw. I mean, Davis was staring right at him. Any throw that was lazy to the flat there, he was going to easily pick it was a terrible decision in the bathroom. I mean, they go through their progressions, right? Like they have their number one option and then they go to the progressions of the one options not open. They go to their two. They go to their three. It's very clear that that was his one option and it's like, that's the one spot you need to be looking to see if you need to get off your number one target and he I mean, he flat out said it in the post game. He's like, I didn't see him. I don't know how. I don't know how he missed them. He just locked in on tank and easy interception, and then the second one was just as bad, just in a different way. Yeah. He was late. He probably put too much loft on it. It was, it was a bathroom. And there's a lot of folks too that are like, well, you know, that interception didn't come back to hot them because the Texans got that interception right after that. Okay. But the Texans also, it went three and out, had to punt, gave up a short field and then the lion scored like a three four play drive. How much you lose by? So the chain of events still impacted the lions getting that first touchdown in the second half. Because you have to assume, I forget the exact yardage line there on, but with the way fair where I'm playing, pretty sure the field goal from that spot was under 50. So if you're assuming three points, talking about the first one, okay, the first one. Okay. My fault. I was talking about the second interception because you, I mean, even if, even if they stopped the lions on the possession following the second one where he threw late to the end zone, I mean, you still took three points off the board, at least for yourself. So you can't say that didn't factor in. So the, uh, remember, cuz throughout through the interception on the first play of the third quarter, and golf, you're an interception to last year, but it pinned the Texans at the one yard line and they were bringing out, punted, lion, short field, and then the lions had a three play touchdown drive. So yes, they didn't score on the immediate aftermath of the interception, but the chain of events directly led to a Detroit line down the field position that gave them an easy touchdown. Yeah. Absolutely. So that was, uh, that was costly. What was your grade for sure? What was your first game of C minus C minus feels right when you grade the aggregate. I agree with the, the texture that said a for the first half F for the second half. So I think on the aggregate, I would, I would put it about a C minus. Uh, he missed a few throws. I thought as far as good as he was, and, and, and Collinsworth was pointing this out in the first half first, good as he was in the first half with feeling the pressure, stepping up, still making the play. It seemed like he reverted a little bit in the second half to where he was running out a little bit before he should. He felt he felt like he was uneasy in the pocket and missed some plays that should have been there, that should have been easy. So, and plus you throw the picks on top of that, I would, I would have given them F for the second half, but over the full game C minus. So you think the first half of the second half should be weighed equally. If you're given an aggregate grade, you're saying the first half and the second half are equal. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you run out to, I mean, I know you could, I know, cause I heard you say it earlier in the segment, the second half means more. But if you went out to such a big lead, I mean, at some point, the second half doesn't matter. So I, to me, I do grade in the same. So if a guy has a game winning drive, you're not, you're going to be like, oh, that's the same as a game winning drive at the end of the first half. Ah, fair point, fair point. But I mean, again, what you do in the first half makes the second half to degree less meaningful. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. If you fall way behind or if you get way up, put the game out of reach. Yeah, exactly. Like we thought they did. Yeah. If you were really, if you want to knock, sprout, obviously we could, you could argue we should not be not as great for the first half because they had to settle for full goals on what? Three of their five scoring drives? Yeah, you could. One of them was one of them was the whole, the whole killed. True. I'm just saying, like that if they don't have to settle for Googles, the game's over three six nine one, not converting the five interceptions and the points is just sad. Now, let's, let's define points there because the Texans did turn interceptions into points. First interception got through turned into a touchdown. The second interception he threw turned into a field goal. The third interception he threw was the end of the half. So like you can't convert points there. The fourth interception he threw was a punt and then the fifth interception he threw was a punt. So that's kind of the difference of the first and the second half. First half, you did convert them into points. Second half, you did not. So I think let's tell the whole story here a little bit eight eight zero seven. How is the first half in a that lead came from the defense says the, the capitalized one? I mean, throw to met you was amazing. Yeah, it was a great throw. The one for the touchdown. Yeah. Right at the end of the half. Yeah. I agree. And there were several others that were good. I mean, even Collinsworth was amazed on the one in the scramble drill when he rolled out and kind of bought time and then found Dalton Schultz in the middle of the field. Yeah. Collinsworth kind of makes stuff up though. But I'm saying, I mean, there was a Jalen Petrie tackle where he's like, I think, I think Jalen Petrie might be a little bit better as a, as a, as a tackler than in coverage. Just slightly like hedging what he's saying. No Collins worth. He's way better as a tackler than he is. And then later he was roping in the best safeties in football and the guys, I mean, best nickels in football that should be highly paid and whatever. And through Petrie and the mix, I was like, pad your stats, Chris. He can tackle really well and he's great in rushing the quarterback, getting the back behind the line of scrimmage. Don't watch him in coverage. He just kind of makes things up and he was talking about the Texans game plan against golf. He's like, yeah, they wanted to keep him in the pocket and not let him scramble. Oh, that was weird. Who are you thinking talking about? Then Jared golf turned into Lamar Jackson, the only thing I could think he was, he was trying to say instead of poorly was the play action bootlegs out on the, out on the, because obviously those play action bootlegs, he is technically outside the pocket by the time he makes his throw. I guess he could have been talking about that, but it did come off pretty, pretty weirdly. I think he just makes things up. That's probably the case and you want to be able to put pressure on him because he can't get away. He's, he's an, he's an, oh, he does throw two Schultz though, because he was like back foot and everything. But literally when you go back and look at it the second time, he didn't even wind up and he threw it on a clothes line where he just kind of, yeah. Boom. And there was another, and there was another play. I believe it was also first half where in, in, in Collinsworth pointed out where Stroud face pressure, he climbed up to the pocket, get right to the line of scrimmage and like held a linebacker's gaze that was right in front of him so that he held it. Was he trying to get a date? When did this turn into a romcom? Oh, come on. Anyway, he held, he, he used his eyes to keep the linebacker from drifting over to Metche and then in the very last second turn his head and toss at the Metche to dinner in a movie. That was, I think that was the third and 15. Well, yeah. It was third and long. I don't remember the artist. He lost his law. He lost his emotions and his eyes as they locked it from 15. He wanted to hide his loss. Stroud wanted to hide his lust of getting into Metra into the movie and now a long standing relationship. I didn't realize the use of the word gaze can be so controversial. The word Alex says need more one, need more than one touching off the picks. That's true. That is true. They did score off the picks, but they do need more than one touchdown off the picks. All right. The power of positivity, killer bees are always positive, never angry. We're always very, very happy. So what were some of the good things that happened in this game yesterday? Look, Texans were up by 16 at the half. They covered the spread. Great teams cover or some of the positive things that happened yesterday, 713 7803776. That's the BZ, ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 92 5. You're listening to ESPN 97 5. It's a new day, yes it is. Coming to your life in the Veritex Community Bank Studios, it's the killer bees. On ESPN 97 5 and 92 5. Here's Joel Planken, Jeremy Branham, very aware of situational ball in these spots. We're very positive. We believe in the power of positivity. What did he say? Today, he was talking about the fact that being critical of the Texans, and he's like, I mean, it's not like the killer bees, I mean, we'll talk about both sides of it, but then we'll turn it over to the killer bees, it'll be three hours of straight negativity. I feel like Paul is the most negative person ever. He's grumpy about everything. He's a killer bee thing. He's grumpy about everything. I'm not detecting a lie. Yeah, I feel like he's grumpier than anything. Paul is pretty angry. I like Paul, but he's pretty angry. How many days will he come in here? Are we looking at him to throw something or storm out? He's something ticked him off. At the old radio station, he broke the glass with his mouth. He got mad at something. It was like the producer's glass, but it was to the side. It was on the door to get it. It'd be like this window here was looking out to the hallways, but it would be like... It was on the door. I remember that. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that place. Yep. And then, you know, he's always getting mad at things. I think he's angry here. There we are. Without question. But you know, that maybe, that's, that's, that's, that's, although you can, you can get a little heated. Oh, there's no doubt about it. Yes. I think we all can. I'm usually pretty good. You don't think I keep my composure? Sometimes. Yeah, but there are times when you... Of the three of us. It's me, Paul. Who has the highest, the biggest temper? Paul won. I think Paul is one. Yeah. I agree with that. I think you'd be two. Yeah. And I think there's a heavy gap to third. I would say a lesser gap, but yes. Jolte who's currently third. Just carry yourself a heavy gap. No, I said the heavy, I said there's a heavy gap between you and I. Right there. Let's get to all the positive things that happened in yesterday's game. There were some good. The Texans covered. There's some good. 713-780-ESP. What were some of the good things that happened in the game yesterday, Blinkers? Well, I mean, look, I continue to be pleased with Autry's performance on the defensive line. I think that he is, he was, he's disruptive, he's, he's doing a lot of things that understand why they went out and got him. And I like the fact that with them, you know, kind of rotating guys in and out of the defense of line, being down, a couple of guys settled, got hurt during the game. But I thought, Autry, wherever he was and filling in to help out with Anderson out, I thought he, he was the difference maker and he, he made a lot of good plays. See, that's why, that's why I can't quit the Texans except their defensive line's pretty nasty. And there was a player. Autry absolutely whipped Penaisul. Was the one that led to the interception? Yeah. Yeah. He absolutely destroyed Penaisul. Yeah. I had, I had Autry online too. Like he was getting to the quarterback. He let, he was the direct reason that there was an interception by Henry Toowo Toowo. He is nasty. And if they can get to full strength with him and Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson, you know, what you have in the middle. We're just coming back. Holy Mario Edwards is not doing his party drugs anymore. We hope at least he's going to serve as suspension for his party drugs or maybe his ADHD drugs. I don't know. Um, yeah, like their, their defense still has a chance and they have been really good. They have a chance to be really, really good. And if you can make a quarterback's life hell, then you have a really good chance of winning football games. So like I, I'm bullish on their defensive line activated hues, but, um, yeah, Barnett was, was active, you know, there was a lot of guys that do a lot, you really don't want to count on those guys though. Like if you're telling a whole lot on Jerry Hughes and Derrick Barnett, I don't think you're very good. No, but as rotational guys, if they can just fill in for place here or there on top of the guys that you have, that literally can hand hand off it between tag team and keep the pressure going at all times. They've got guys that are impactful on the edge and the defensive line stopping the runs been better than I thought it was going to be with the guys they brought in this year. 8 7 5 5. Nothing about the game was good at the end of the day. They lost not going to lie the, the loss spoiled everything for me. Yes, I'm negative right now. That's why the killer bees are here for you. 8 7 5 5. Think of us as your therapist and the power of positivity, the power positivity bees. Look, the first half that they played, they're up 16 against the Detroit Lions, the best team in the NFC. They're up 16 against the best team in the NFC and left some meat on the bone and left some meat on the bone. So that's why I still think the potential of this team is high. Do I think they're going to get to that potential and I still think that they have a high potential. All throw out, all throw, although obviously the negative side would be, well he's still not good at man coverage, but the play Jalen Petrie made on the two point conversion try where he's kind of out wide diagnosis to run right away dives in and it got low and stopped the two point try. He was, he was all, he's awesome against the run. That's been on before though, where he does, he guesses, he guesses right on that one. Hey, we're positive. Hey, we're positive this segment. He got that one right. Petrie's, it's a catch 22 with me with Petrie because he, he, Petrie's really good at football, except for coverage. Yep. So it's like, it's like, how is the play president Lincoln like, or Mrs. Lincoln, president Lincoln died? Good for him. Like the, the, the play could be really, really stinking good. But if you're bad in coverage as a, as a nickel corner, he and Murray, like Murray on the one where Laporta just turned him. And then he knew it was coming to Laporta and he had no closing speed at all and got beat. I was like, Oh, Eric Murray, you can hit sometimes, but what are you doing? Positive control, positive. I mean, that Petrie is fun to watch, especially because like he'll have games where his coverage doesn't stand out as much. Cause there's probably only one or two plays where he's covered soon out. Yes. And he has games where he's flying over the field. He's sacking the, he's not, well, they hadn't, didn't have a sack, but he's hitting the quarterback. He's tipping a pass that leads to an interception. He's stuffing the run. Like there are games where he's like, man, he looks good. And then he'll get burned by Devontae Adams and you're like, man, I don't know if I can play that guy. That he wants his own teammate on the crossroads, just down. Yeah. So like he goes from looking like the honey badger and then you asked him to cover and it looks like me to catch 22. What else? What other positives you got? I've got a cup, but look, and unfortunately to some degree NBC kind of exploits it too much, but John Metche looks like I was thinking Hutchinson was going to be a guy that could really kind of step up with digs out. John Metche for the first time showed me signs that he could actually be a contributor to this offense when you get Nico back because he looked like he was doing some really positive things. He had a good big gainer. He had his first regular season touchdown. I thought Metche for the first time really kind of stood out to me as a guy that could play a little bit. Who told you he was standing out on film last week. Who told you he was getting open last week. Stress. Yeah. Told you he was getting open last week that that game film pays off. The game film pays off. You know, I know some ball a little bit, so I'll Metche get open and then it showed up yesterday. And they took my notes. And they took my notes on my guy. Who's that? Elshire. That was the best scene signing of the offseason. That dude quarterback in that defense the way and he was all over the place. The one where he closed on Gibbs, trying to get to the outside in the fourth border. Yeah. I just love watching that dude play football. He's better than mixing. He's all over, huh? Better than mixing. No. Well, but I think that was a trade. Yeah, I guess. I guess technically. That's right. Technically you're right. But yeah, Metche was good. And not just the touchdown either. The third and 16 that Brian mentioned earlier on the opening drive, he had that little pass in the middle of the zone defense that I think was on a third down in a big catch and a third down slant. I was like the Texans were having show like struggles moving the ball, third down. Here comes the blitz. Fire it to Metche makes the catch. That catch. He made a touchdown. That was not an easy catch. He had two defenders right there. I don't remember who the safety was they were there. It might have been their stud. He did. Yeah, he didn't deliver a hit. There was contact. Yeah, he didn't lay him out. There was a safety. He didn't lay him out. I don't think he touched him at all. The guy covering him touched him. Right. The branch came over from like the weeks to the help side didn't even touch him. I wonder if he thought he was early. He could have killed him. But yeah, Metche was really good defense for the most part of the game. I thought was really good, even without their best player. And I do think their best players will Anderson, although although you get pressure like you got yesterday and you still have Autry and you still have Daniel Hunter, your most valuable player on defense might be Derek stingling might be Derek should have had an interception yesterday. They got five, but he had one. I mean, it was also play. He was kind of really amazing, but he should have had an interception yesterday also, though. You immediately forced the punt. They didn't get it. It didn't matter. Right. That was the Steven Sims big punts. You actually got way better field position. Right. That Derek stingly didn't intercept it. So it didn't cost you. But yes, you should have got it. What are the positive? I'll throw out the I like it when they use Joe mix in, especially on a night like last night where they're not running the ball traditionally very well, only picking up like one yard per carry, but when they use him on a sweep like he did on the on the touchdown right after, I guess is the first touchdown the game. Yeah, because the second touchdown was the metche but they brought him on a sweep like they would a wide receiver and then once he gets out and has the space, he is just running over defenders once he's able to build up some speed of momentum. Yeah, just didn't get going enough. But yeah, that's a good sign. It was between Joseph and Brian branch and look like Brian branch was almost a little past the met up metche and he tried to just slap it with one arm. He didn't hit him. He didn't hit him at all and he could have maybe he maybe he was in there early where he'd like because I think I think I think of the play was past him. I think that's really here and he was here I thought he couldn't I don't think he could have gotten him to the angle that he wanted to be the positives for you guys. I think the offensive line in the first half. I want to see their pressure rate. I haven't seen that. I didn't know. I thought it looked better. I test I agree with you. I did notice quite a few times they picked up stunts they picked up where the lines walked up linebackers to the you know right up in the a gap in the first half. So like like the Mico said I think the communication aspect of at least has gotten a little bit better. He likes Jared Patterson more than juice is a communicator on that line promise. Can they run block as well? It doesn't look like it. Yeah, let's I mean more than one game sample any more than one game sample a Camari lasted I thought was very good. Yes, he had the two interceptions, but I just thought he was really good in coverage. It stinks that he's probably going to miss the cowboy game though because Jimmy Ward earholed it. It was just the helmet to helmet with those two guys and it didn't seem like it was that impactful. What are you talking about? Oh, it was he crushed him. It was a flying missile right to his head right to his temple. I mean I know the hell I didn't think it was and then I actually was worried that he hit his head on the the turf. What do you think is a physical hit like Dell aren't hard hitting the barrier Daytona. I didn't think that was very hard either. I was the rest of the race. Miss earned. I crushed. He got crushed. Last one that I have Tommy Townsend, I thought was fantastic. Best game is a Texan. Trash talk in Tommy Townsend. I thought he was really good. I'll throw up. I mean, I think he might have only played the one play. The only time I noticed some Devin White really showed speed getting into the backfield and making a play. He also missed a tackle. He also missed a tackle. When he's when that missiles directed in the right direction, he's got a tremendous fee by zero one zero one of the positives that whenever CJ gazed into the camera, I felt he was looking just at me and that made me feel special. Metchy finally getting a touchdown, a huge positive. They're still much better than any AFC South team says. Oh, so positive. Metchy getting his first touchdown Josh from Seabrook, another positives that Nixon didn't punch a cheerleader. Whatever he was getting upset on the sideline. I saw some people on Twitter talking about how he's an angry man. I'm like, this is what gave it away. This is the information you needed to know this. He's got priors guys. 4661 got to give Metchy some love. Billy Bob hick wants to know why did Brian say good for him about Lincoln dying. Did I? I think you said good for him after the play thing. All right. I obviously wasn't. All right slow moment. Okay. Maybe in real speed. It was. Yes. Oh, let's get to our car wreck of the day seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six. What do you nominate for car wreck of the day? It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. You know, right? He's broken the balls. Come on. Come on. Come on. You brick with my. This is the car wreck of the day. What are you nominating for your car wreck of the day seven one three seven eight zero three seven seven six. What do you have? I'll start with Jack del Rio, Jack del Rio who's already been through quite a bit in his NFL coaching career. Oh, good call. He was consulting for the Wisconsin Badgers and late night one car accident knocked down a street sign offense and ended up in someone's yard and his resign literal car wreck. Yep. Don't. Don't drink. We're going to lift, especially if you're rich, give no excuse. You're getting. We talked about consultants getting double paychecks. He's still getting paid. He's a consultant getting paid on top of that in a in a cushy gig and he got liquored up and decided to run around like Vander Jack, an idiot kicker got liquored up and ran his mouths up doing touchdown passes to Jerry Rice. I always get a little bit thankful for this though. Like whenever this stuff happens and all you hear is that he ran over a street sign. He's so much worse. I guess he came close to someone's house. Like he went through their fence and got into their. Oh, he Billy Joel was in their yard, but didn't get to the house. Yeah, it could be so much worse. We didn't take it to them. No. Oh, Joe, car wreck of the day was literally a car wreck when a police car crashed into a ditch in the Greens Point area. Dang. That's crazy. Not the worst thing to happen in Greens Point. No, no. No, car wreaks of the day from Josh. She broke Bobby, putting the slow and slow. Oh, look at Josh showing off a little comedy. I tied his Howard forever. That play was golf and strout in the third quarter good old fashioned pick off. I want to nominate the state of Florida. I don't know if you guys saw this, but the state of Florida did not have a great sports week. In fact, they had one of the worst sports weeks of all time. This tweet from Tim Reynolds has never happened ever Florida's FBS FCS NFL teams are combined 0 for 11 on the same weekend. FAU lost, Florida lost, Miami lost, Florida state lost, USF lost, UCF lost, FCS, Florida A&M lost, Bethune lost, Stetson lost, NFL, Jags and Bugs lost tonight. We're looking for history. The Miami Dolphins play Monday night football. We're looking for the dream weekend where every football team in the state of Florida, the college or the NFL level loses. We're looking for a clean sweep in the Sunshine State. Isn't it normally when we have news of the weird turned into stupid people doing dumb stuff that normally got out of the state of Florida? This is like a win for Florida. Yeah. Keep it away from that. What are you nominating? Well, first I'll nominate Joel because I was right DJ said three games. I have the audio, but there's no proof of that. I'll play for you in the shows off. We don't have time for it now. The other nominees would be to shout out to Joe George, the Bears scoring three points at home against the Patriots and then the Cowboys pulled the tonsil. No one helped him up. Oh, really? They knocked down. Oh, they don't like Caleb, huh? And the whole offensive. Someone from the other team picked them up. Yeah, that was bad. That's a bad one. They're not. That's not a good one. They're awful right now. Todd, the show, Texan, second half, Cougs, defense in the paint. Delete your account. You're not welcome here. Alex, his car wreck of the day, the Texans and texture sand, the Texans offense. All right. What's winning? Texas. Period. What's up, Texans? Look good. That's fair. All right. Second half, Texans. You win something. Does it for us? He's Brian. He was Brian. Doing hard work. He is blank. I am Brian. And we'll talk to you tomorrow. Houston Aggie basketball, taking on Lamar pregame beginning at 630 right here on ESPN 97 5. This season, Chevy brings classic pairings, cookies and milk, mistletoe and kisses, and your holiday plans and a new Chevy. Silverado 1500 gives you power and capability, with 430 pound feet of torque to haul your holiday tree. Equinox EV and the all new Equinox offer award-winning quality and style to see you through the holiday season. See why Chevy makes everything better and brighter. Chevrolet, together let's drive. There's only one feeling like knowing your banker personally, like growing up with a bank you can count on, like being sure what you've earned is safe, secure, and local. There's only one feeling like knowing you're supporting your community. You deserve more from a bank. You deserve an institution that stood strong for generations. Bank of Colorado, there's only one. Your FDIC Use your vision insurance today to buy one pair of glasses and get 40% off the second pair of glasses.