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Blankers at Drift Bar, I'm in Arizona, but the Vives at Drift Bar way better. It's just about to be. I mean, get off work, go to Drift Bar, hang out, have a good time, they'll have UFC 309 tomorrow, college football all day tomorrow, college basketball. Love me some college basketball and Drift Bar is the place to be to watch your college basketball. It's the best patio in the Heights, the weather, beautiful, you've been dying to get outside. All summer long, well now is your chance, and if you're going to do it, do it in the best patio in the Heights at Drift Bar, book your Christmas parties, your company parties, all of that. Drift Bar, where the southern coast meets a true Texas ice house. It's awesome. Thank you. How's it going on this Friday in Houston? Things good? Things okay? Everything's good. Traffic was a little bassy, but no problems here. And Polly called it the, inarguable, the best day in the city of Houston this year. He may be right. It is phenomenal outside. It is the perfect, it's about 74 degrees, sunshine, clear skies. It is beautiful here at Drift Bar. Yeah. I left this morning, of course, and it was, it was, it was, it was, dare I say a little chilly. Dare I say it was a little chilly early this morning before the sun rose? Is it fair to say that? Fair. I'm walking the dogs. Yes. I caught that, that breeze you're talking about. Yep. Yeah. All right. So Thursday night football yesterday, the, and we're going to talk about Bobby Sloeck. Bobby Sloeck, he got liquored up and ran his mouth again. We'll talk about Bobby Sloeck and what he had to say today. I also have a theory on, on this coach speak stuff. People like to, to have all these takes are Alex Breggman. What does plan be if the Astros do miss out on Alex, Alex Breggman and today he's a big day blinker. So yes, it's Friday, yes, Houston plays Arizona, yes, you're at Drift Bar. All of you should be. But year two of the NIT begins tonight for the Houston Rockets. So of course we got to talk about that later on as well. But Thursday night football Eagles coming from behind getting the victory over the commanders of Washington was the biggest takeaway you had of that. First of all, it was a, it was a horrible first half. It was at times it was a tough game to watch. But the funny thing to me was aside from just saying how good Saquon Barkley has been for the Eagles and how no matter what that people thought about, you know, was he worth all the money and the questions that even we were talking about, you know, his biggest problem was could he stay healthy? He has been phenomenal for the Eagles all season long and dominant and he was again last night. And I think that is huge for an Eagles team that has been up and down and there's, the funny thing Jeremy is there's still similarities between the Eagles and the Texans and the fact that they're also having a tale of two haves. Only no one's talking about it because they're winning games and their struggles are in the first half. They get off to slow starts and then they just have dominant second haves and they're like, well, should be that be a concern? It's not that big of a deal unless we get to the playoffs and then you get off to a slow start. Whereas if it's the opposite, like Texans, people are going, what the hell is going on on every single, you know, second half? Yeah, the, my biggest takeaway from this game, really like looking at this from an NFL perspective, Houston Texan perspective a little bit, not really the individual team perspective. Although I'd be, if I'm a Philadelphia fan, I feel good from both of these team standpoints if I'm a fan of their teams, like I feel good where the Eagles are like eight and two. Your offense has a lot of pieces. They're starting to play a lot better. The defense is good. Now you are coached by a jabroni, like that, that's my biggest hesitation there, but you know, jabronis like jabronis, maybe Sirioni's kind of liked and adored a little bit in Philadelphia. Um, you know, if I'm a commander fan, I love what my organization's at, right? Like you were an embarrassment these last few years and the ownership of Snyder, you bring in Dan Quinn, you draft Jaden Daniels and it's like, Oh, we've all of a sudden been able to find significance in the NFL. It really is the Texan story. The Texans hit rock bottom. They find DeMico CJ Stroud, they're relevant again in the NFL. It's the same thing with the commanders. They, they were been a joke of a franchise for quite some time now. You bring in a stable head coach with really good leadership and you hit on quarterback, you're now significant in the NFL and relevant in the NFL. So I would be, I would be pleased from both the perspectives of both fan bases with where those two teams are now from like a bigger picture view. I think the NFC is deeper than the AFC and this sounds like blasphemous, right? From where we were at the beginning of the season, but we were talking about the standings a little bit on Tuesday when you brought up the cash and retraction where the Packers are. And there's not a whole lot of wiggle room there because the NFC is deep. I think the NFC, and I'm going on record. I don't think the NFC is deeper than the AFC and it's the first time it's happened in a few years. It really has. It's like the Western Conference in basketball for years and years and years was kind of that kind of top to bottom, steady, solid, dare I say, dominance in a lot of ways. And when you look at it, it's also basically attributed to the fact that you had teams that we thought were going to be better than they were in the AFC this year, like Cincinnati who's fighting for their lives, like the Dolphins and the Jets, depending on how you felt about either one of those two teams. There's teams that fell off that you were like kind of expecting they were going to be better, even a Cleveland at the start of the season. And they're not. And then you look at, you mentioned Washington and the fact that I don't think anybody at the start of the year thought well, Washington's going to be in the mix for a playoff spot. Yeah, there were people talking about Chicago, but oh, so Brian, Brian raised his hand that he thought Washington was going to be a playoff team. But other than be back, not many people thought the year. I guess so. Yeah, I guess you guys are like, well, I guess I could turn myself down a little bit. I don't know what's going on with your in there, but no, my, I don't know if you guys, I guess, oh, I guess the answer is no, you don't remember, but I had a cashier trashed that Washington was going to be the Texans of this year. Okay. Did you think they make the playoffs? Because I mean, there's, you could look at that from two point of views, right? Like they are the Texans. I mean, I didn't sense that they returned to relevancy versus they are going to be a playoff team like the Houston Texans. You can go, you can kind of go both ways on that, depending on, you know, the perspective. Sure. And I wouldn't have said it, and I didn't say it at the time that it was a hundred percent lock. But yeah, I thought there were going to be a nine to 10 win team and be right there in the playoff conversation. Yeah. I think NFC is loaded, man. It really is. They are. And that's what's saying that, you know, Dallas fell off. We didn't think Minnesota was going to be as good as they are. And they've been really, really good. So Dallas was a team that I think much like the three or four teams I rattled off in the AFC. Dallas was that one team where like, maybe not, maybe so, we'll see, but they're probably a playoff team. They look anything but that. But other than that, there's been a lot of overachievement on the NFC side and a lot of underachievement on the AFC side. If you look at the three wild cards in the NFC, it's Minnesota, who's seven and two, by the way, Green Bay, and then the final wild card are the commanders. The first team out of the playoffs currently San Francisco. So like the bottom of the NFC, you're looking at Minnesota, Green Bay, Washington, San Francisco, currently out. You look at the AFC and their wild cards, now Baltimore, obviously, very, very good. They're the first wild card, but then you go Chargers, second wild card, Denver, third and final wild card, and then you have the Colts, the Bengals, and then the Dolphins after that. So the NFC's got some depth to it that it hasn't had in years. That was kind of the takeaway that I had watching that one. I also looking at this from a very nuanced New York giant way. I think Saquan Barkley is going to get Joe Shane and Brian Dable fired. Obviously their record and their performance this year is a huge variable in that as well, but I think that Shane and Dable could have gotten by and could have gotten another year. Saquan Barkley left them and was not good, but the fact that Saquan Barkley left them went to a rival has been one of the top three running backs in the NFL this year. And then you couple that with their performance up there in New York. I think that Saquan Barkley is going to have a huge determining factor in getting those two guys fired out of the Giants. I think and again, maybe this is where hard knocks can get you to depending on how you look at it and who was in favor and who was against, you know, Saquan, the biggest thing to me is that I think Dable would be the one guy that could survive that. I think Dable can survive it because of the fact that he got dealt the hand of Daniel Jones for the time he's been there. He's done the best he could, but Daniel Jones has been way lesser than if he was involved a lot or heavily or said that he didn't want Saquan, that would be a different story. But other than that, I think that, you know, you're right, there could be some serious heads rolling in New York because of the fact that he's stayed healthy. He's the same player. He was that everybody thought he was going to be when he came out of Penn State and when he's healthy, he's so damn athletic and so talented, both catching and running the football that he's dominant. Yeah, because I mean, in house though, I like cleaning house like if you're going to, if you're going to get rid of the general manager, you might as well get rid of the head coach too and come together with like this unified front, I will agree with you that Dable has a much better chance than Shane. I think Shane, I think Shane's done whereas Dable I think can still fight and keep the job. I'm with you on that just generally speaking, I like if you're going to, if you're close to pulling the trigger on both of them, you might as well just pull the trigger on both of them starting to kneel. Well, remember the conversation we had even here in the fact that we were wondering about Casario simply because normally you want the synergy between coach and GM of guys that have known each other, guys that have worked together, you know, and if you're a GM, you want to be able to just like we say with the coaches and the GM's that want to pick the groceries if they're serving dinner. If you want to be the GM that's in total control, then you want to have a coach that you picked and that's a difficult scenario if Dable survives, but I think Dable's a good enough offensive mind and I think he deserves a chance with someone other than Daniel Jones. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out and then the final takeaway that I had, Cliff Kingsbury, like the Cliff Kingsbury angle and I don't want to be like, I'm in a good mood. It's a Friday, right? It's Friday. I'm in Arizona, you know, doing what people in Arizona do, which I'm not really quite sure what that is, but looking at the Cliff Kingsbury offense, like it's a lot of fun and I know they didn't have this tremendous night of offense yesterday, but they have had a good body of work in 2024 and we've had the, yeah, I wish it was Cliff Kingsbury, not Bobby Slowock. I actually have a positive spin out of this though. If it wasn't Bobby Slowock, we think it would have been Cliff Kingsbury, right? That gives me some belief that when Dimeko Ryan's does have to go higher another offensive coordinator, which who knows when that will be, maybe it'll be as soon as this off season. Because Cliff Kingsbury was the runner up, I feel like Dimeko Ryan's going to be good at hiring offensive coordinators. I hope so. I hope he's better than Necessary who is drafting offensive lineman and if that's a good situation, that's a winner. You know, I think that, you know, Dimeko coming from as a defensive minded coach, coming from an offensive system probably helps too because he had contact with a lot of guys that were on an offensive side familiar with Shanahan's offense, like Bobby Slowock, like other guys, that that might be able to open some doors too, but yeah, I mean, I think Cliff, no matter what you say about him, you know, yay or nay as a head coach, he's a good offensive mind. And he does a lot of really good things for quarterbacks as we've seen in college when he worked with Caleb Williams and now doing what he's doing with Jayden Daniels. So he's going to be a hot name and he'll probably be in the game for quite a while to see that I think didn't be going to have any problem because you got the calling card of working with CJ Stroud and good skill position players that most offensive coordinators would go, I'll sign up for that job, that would be fun to be around those guys. Yeah, but you got to be able to identify who'd be good at it. Like it's, it's easy to be like, you know, everybody's going to want it, you want the job because they have a good young quarterback, but so will bad off its coordinators. Like bad offensive coordinators are going to want the job, just as good offensive coordinators. So it's, it's, it's about being able to identify and have an eye for good play calling. And because cliff was second, I think DeMico could have a pretty good idea of like, hey, this is, this is a guy's going to be good off its play card. The counterpoint, I guess would be, well, he brought in Bobby Sloey. Yeah, and he looked like he looked like heroic for doing it in year one. And so here we are, but at the same time, when you look at it, I think it'll be pretty easy for him to decipher guys that know that Shanahan, West Coast type offense, guys that know and have command of modern day NFL football and stay away from the old school guys that have been retreads and recycled and, and just don't fit and understand the way the game's called today, I even a Mike McCarthy who, you know, when he had Rogers, everything was simplistic and easy, but, you know, he, he's calling a style of play that just doesn't work right now in the NFL and there's multiple other cases like that in the league where I'm sure, you know, DeMico will be able to decipher that and find a younger guy that's more hip and tuned with, you know, the idiosyncrasies of that kind of offense and how it would best suit this, this, the skill position players here, a TV guy, Jonah, will be joining us at three 30 talk about the Dallas Cowboys. What is your plan B if the Astros cannot get Alex Braggman? I've also identified who I want as my left handed bat in the outfield. Who said it at four 30? Busy money. We give you a, we give you winners. That's what we do with the killer bees. We give you winners. We'll give you giving you some winners with busy money a little bit later on 713 780 ESPN HRMP listener line. We're on the Twitch Twitch dot TV slash ESPN 97 5 on the YouTube and ESPN Houston. We're on Twitter and ESPN 975 blinkers at Pac Man Joel, Brian, it's sacked by BMAC. I'm a Jeremy Brown. Bobby Sloeick talked today and he ticked a lot of people off. I have a theory on coaches who talked to the media. Also, we'll also listen to what some Bobby had to say excuses, word salad. What do you think of what the offensive coordinator for the Texans who has not scored an offensive touchdown or touchdown period in the last four games had to say about all of that a killer bees broadcast and live from drift bar in the Heights. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 95. You were back with a killer bees on ESPN 97 5 and 92 5. Broadcasting live for the mobile Veritex community bank studios located at drift bar in the Heights. Here's Joel Plank and Jeremy Brando. ♪ As I want you to be, as a friend, as a friend, as I'm known in me ♪ ♪ Take your time, hurry up, chances you don't believe ♪ So the bees broadcast in live from a drift bar in the Heights. Got to get out here. Great beer. The beer is very, very cool. Best patio in the Heights with an emphasis on patio weather. It's your tropical escape in the Heights. Fantastic spots. You're going to love it. You've been there before. How's the scene over there, bunkers? It's beautiful. Jeremy, you know, it's always great here. The fact that they can just roll up these garage doors and you've got the open air feel of, you know, your inside with the breeze is coming through. It's a perfect Friday to get out of work, play a little hooky, get here early. We always talk about the fact that, you know, this is for a bar setting, clean, very kind of upscale feel to it, but the drinks are reasonably priced and the scenery is fantastic. If you know what I mean, it's a fantastic spot. What do you mean? I think that there's good people watching here. I think that, you know, the deck goes all the way around the entire establishment for the most part. So there's plenty of outdoor seating where you can, you know, check out all the traffic that's going by in the Heights with all the different establishments here and there's plenty of TVs to watch plenty of sports too. Well done. Best patty on the Heights too. So you can really do that very nicely, especially with the patio weather that is there. You can also book your Christmas parties, company parties. You're perfect spot to do it at drip bar. All right. Bobby Slowick talked to the to the media today. He talked to the to all of the media that we're waiting. There are there are like sharks in the water waiting for Bobby Slowick to walk through that door. They smelled blood with Bobby Slowick. Bobby Slowick asked about his second half struggles, Sarge asked him. And here's Bobby Slowick going into a very long winded answer. Yeah. I mean, I would say really generally. I mean, I think we all know in the second half for probably the last five weeks or so we've, you know, we've struggled. And it's one of those things when you look at I mean, I think I think we haven't scored a touchdown, like 19 straight second half possessions. And honestly, like our approach is football is football. And what I mean when I say this is when we when we dissect it, because we've known about it for three, four or five weeks now, when you really dive in and you're like, okay, what's going on? It's something off with the play calls. Are they doing something different? Are we doing something different? What's what's happening? It's football, like it's the exact same as it was in the first half. We're not operating and executing the same. And that's kind of been something that we've been going back and forth on as an offense. Really for a couple of weeks now. And ultimately, I think it's it's one of those things where you keep doing the same thing and you're operating the same way. Things aren't working out in your favor. And then even though there may not be necessarily a mental roadblock, it becomes a mental roadblock. And that's kind of what we're working through. And I think we're all in the in the right space and have a right intent. And what we're going to do when we come out in the second half going forward and be on the same page, sounding like he borrowed notes from Nick Casario on how to answer a question there, Blankers. Yeah, it did. And it gave everybody a whole lot of frustration. I know Pauli was losing his mind and just basically said because of this quote alone that they were going to lose. First, it was 49 to three and then it got to 69 to two. But he said he did have the right to change it as he gets closer to game time. But like football is football. And I know he enjoys where he and Joe are completely repeating that phrase. That is the worst answer I've ever heard in my life. That is so I mean, there's one thing to say, you know, you're going to use coach speak and word salad like Nick Casario does. It's another thing to use a quote like that that is so easy to be able to just exploit and use over and over again as a way of pointing the finger going. The hell are you talking about? Yeah, I mean, it was a very I usually long answers or ones where they're trying to kind of compensate a little bit. You know what I mean? Like you get the short, contrived answers. You're not really trying to make a case for yourself or defend yourself. So anytime that you take a question and you give this very, very long winded answer, I shouldn't say anytime. But most of the time, especially when you're trying to defend some negativity, usually you're just saying a bunch of stuff and then hoping to like, you know, get the stink off of you, hoping that you can appease the media enough for they can stop hitting you with like some hard hitting question. So that's kind of what I gathered here was that it was just this, you know, long winded defense to him not having a touchdown in the second half of the last four games. The answer in itself, like, what do you really expect them to say? Like, I so many people on the on the Twitter today were like, Oh, he needs to just own it. I mean, he kind of is he's talking about how they haven't been able to score in the last four games. Should he have said something else than football as football, I guess, but is that really that big a deal that he said football is football? Like no, like go score 28 points on Monday night in the second half. That was that's really going to be the only answer anybody wants. You're right. But the biggest problem is is that, you know, it, yeah, it's okay that he said it, but the way he said it, you just gave food and fodder to all the people that are waiting to pounce on something so that they can split exploited as a negative. I think if he would have just said, look, we're aware of what you guys are aware of. We knew you know, I knew you were going to be asking about this because it's been bothering me. We know that we have an issue in the second half. We know we're not scoring points. We know how many games we haven't scored a touchdown in the second half, et cetera, et cetera. But it's still part of the, you know, part of the fact that the game is not just cut and dried at halftime. Everything changes, you know, it spins 180 and you got to adjust. It's adjusting from play to play series to series as well. And we're on top of that. Then it would have been fine. But because you gave them the headline material and the to pounce on, then it's just going to get worse. Yeah. See, I think that he did say all those things that you want him to say. Like he did say, we've struggled here. He did say that we've gotten, we need to get better. He did say that I need to be better. He did say that I'm taking it personal, but you're right. That's kind of like, okay, that's the, that's the, that's the part of the quote, the long winded quote that we're just going to pounce on. And then we're just going to use like beat that to death, the football is football. And you're right. I'm like a PR, from a PR perspective, try to give them nothing that you can then turn around to do that. But again, like nothing that he says is going to change the feelings towards him. The only thing that will change the feelings towards him is if they fix their woes. Yeah. And it's kind of like, you know, you were talking about, and we were, we were saying even how CJ handled his question and answer session. It's like anti-petit versus Roger Clemens with the steroid situation. If you take ownership in it, and if he just comes out and says, look, it's on me. I know that we've got to be better. I see the numbers. I know that, you know, we've got to be able to score points in the second half. People are, well, probably more than likely start to lay off a little bit. But when you, you give them that kind of comment, they're looking to pounce. Yeah. Here's a, here's another one from Bobby Sloech, Landry Locker, asking him about shaking things up. You said you haven't changed. Do you think maybe y'all should change what you've been doing offensively? Yeah. I mean, I say we haven't changed big picture. There's been changes. I can assure you of that. But there's, there's, there's been always, you're always making subtle adjustments. I mean, you're talking through the week, you're talking in game, you're talking what we do at halftime. Like, I mean, we're, we've talked about a lot of different things. That's the, that's the, the media out to get you because of course they're changing. They're coordinators. They change week to week. Well, but then it starts to, you know, behoove you to ask the question, like, what changes are we missing that you made? Cause it really wasn't personnel wise unless you want to talk about what you did on the offensive line. If you want to talk about like play calling, it's been pretty consistent to where I don't want to say it's completely predictable. But most times we can predict what they're going to do based on formation and kind of what they've been doing. Let's try that. We, we need to try that. What do you sit there and they come out in an offensive line, an offensive formation and then do the, uh, the Tony Romo. This is what play is coming. I mean, we could, because I think in a lot of cases, you know, and one of the traps they fall into is first and second down runs when the run isn't working. Like it's one thing if it, if mix is running wild and then it just makes sense to get them the ball as much as you possibly can. And then when they start to really try to, you know, load up the box, then you can really exploit it in the passing game, but there were times last week where they just put themselves in holes on third down and longer down in distance because of the fact that the run wasn't there and working for them yet he was hell bent on running the football. Yeah, but running, I mean, there's more than one run play. Sure. I know, but I'm just saying whether Joe went to the edge or he tried to find the whole, you know, between the tackles, it just seemed like everything was muddled up and congested yet they, they were so hell bent on. We are going to run the football and this is not, you know, the first time we've heard this from them, they want to be a running team. So when you look at it in that situation, we talked about even the short pass can be a lot more effective when the actual true running game isn't working the way it has. How many times do you, do you think that they ran it versus past it like percentage wise? Oh, man. I would say they, I don't know, they ran it 42% of the time. Pretty close. They threw it at 33 versus running at 28, but that's throwing it more than running it. Like the, the whole they're only running the football. That's not true. Like they're throwing them ball more than they're running the ball. Here's my, here's my theory on coach thought on coach talk and press conferences and all of this stuff. Whenever a coach is liked, that coach can literally say whatever they want, like without, you know, with the exception of, you know, some great grand insult or something that's like racist or anything like that. But for the most part, coaches who are winning and who are adored, they can say whatever. They, they have free reign to say pretty much whatever. But coaches who are struggling and aren't liked by fans, they can't say anything right. Bobby Sloane could have went up to that press conference today and said everything, exactly how you wanted them to say, could have said it perfectly, would have been no problem. And still people are going to find something to dissect and magnify to make it sound bad. Because when you're a coach that is not liked and when you're a coach that isn't doing things well, they're going to turn everything you say around against you. If you took the number one offensive coordinator in the NFL today and he had the exact same press conferences, Bobby Sloane, there, there is no backlash to what he had to say. I think there's a lot of truth to that. And I think that again, that's why, well, to the way we started this when he came after running his quote was the fact that they were looking to pounce. They're looking to because they know their ammunition to do their job best and get the most eyeballs on what they're doing is going to be to kind of focus on what everybody is focused on right now. And that is the lack of production by this offense and specifically in the second half. And when you kind of, and again, not everybody's a public speaker either, right? You know, these, they have to do these press conferences, but not everybody's exact same. Even if it's the exact same, like if you're not liked, you can't say anything. If you're well like you can say whatever. Yeah, and there is a way to try and tip toe around it. But you know, you're right, no matter what you say, they will find a way to put something together that basically kind of drives their narrative and the narrative of the fan because that's who they're trying to appease. I kind of reject all the idea that they're running the ball too much. I think this is kind of going back to basically Nico Collins and the effect that he has on the offense because we saw at some point, especially in the second half the Lions had no fear of the Texans receivers. I mean, not even taint dealt to the fact that they were basically playing man press up and daring to see if anyone could beat them in one on one press coverage. And they really couldn't. And so if that's the situation, I don't know if the answer is the pass up more. Like, I think they do have to run the ball because without Nico Collins, they don't really have the option of being passed having now Nico Collins changes things with Nico Collins. You're going to see a lot of two high safety lugs because Nico Collins is one of the best deep guys in the league. He's going to be he's proven that he could be guys of the deep deep consistently. We saw it in his last play he's had this year in the big touchdown against the Bills. But without Nico, teams don't have a fear of the Texans beating the deep. So they play up and they press. And I don't know if the option is there to be more pass heavy without me. I'm not saying they're running it too much. I'm just saying their pattern of when they run has also contributed to their their ability to have longer third downs to get to because sometimes they stay hell bent to kind of, like I said, a predictability, not necessarily that they're running it too much. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'll think of the opposite of that though. Let's say they go with your suggestion, they pass on first down and sing complete. I mean, now you're going third and 10 if you if you if you if you don't pick, are you running the ball, but it depends on the play you call the third day. Yeah, right. But if it's just if it's just that little dump over the defensive line where the back, you know, hits one block and gets behind the defensive line and turns around, that could be just as effective or more effective than a run when you're having a hard time finding holes. I hear you. It just it feels like sometimes we get wrapped up too much. I think in like what the play is, it just really matters more if it's successful. Like I mean, because if you pass on first down and it's in complete, now you're in a situation where if you don't run it, you're going what three passes or or you're running it and picking up two yards. And now it's 38. So it's really not, well, do we run on first down or we run on second down? It's one being unpredictable. So I will concede that it too. Yep. Is it successful? You just got to be successful, which is an oversimplification. But I don't think it matters a whole lot about, you know, run rate on first down versus second down. Yeah, I agree with blankers in the sense that like, I agree that that he does things to his tendencies that other teams kind of have a pretty good idea of what the Texans are going to be on predictive wise. I will do that. Obviously, that you're going to be more sophisticated than half back dive or remember the Titans where you have a six play playbook. But the tendencies, I think have been there. I do think the defenses to blankers points have been picking some of the tendencies of Bobby Sloake. And I think that he's given him away sometimes with his formations too, to blankers point. All right, 713 780 ESP and HRP listener line 713 780376 killer bees broadcasting live from drip bar. You're looking for a spot to have a little happy hour drink. Drift bar is that spot. Jonah Javad, who is the TV sports anchor for WFAA ABC in Dallas. Well, join us next talk a little bit of cowboy Texans Monday night football. It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Text community bank studios completed at drift bar in the Heights. Great spot to get your weekend started your tropical escape in the Heights drift bar. It's killer bees ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. Let's go out to the HRNP guest line being joined now by Jonah Javad TV sports anchor for ABC eight in Dallas. Thank you so much, Jonah for hanging out with the killer bees, spending some time with us. Can you fill us in on this quarterback situation? Why is Cooper Rush getting starts over Trey Lance? Because Mike McCarthy is trying his hardest to keep his job. I think that's got to be the only reason, right? Because anyone with a brain knows this cowboy season is pretty much shot to crap. So what do you do? If you're a fan, if you just want to see what else you've got on the roster, Trey Lance makes the most sense, right? You trade it for this guy a year ago, right on a win, hoping that he might be something. Why not give him a shot? Well, Mike McCarthy is in the final year of his contract as head coach and winning games is probably the only thing that even convinces Jerry Jones that he should keep his job in Cooper Rush technically gives you the best chance at winning games. Whether they should be in that mode of thinking at this point in the season is a different question. John, I'm curious just because of the fact that we've all pretty much come to the conclusion, no matter what McCarthy's trying to do, that he's a dead man walking for the most part. And then how does the franchise move on? Because they've locked up Dak, they've locked up CD, you know, Parsons obviously is coming up. But at the same time, it's the Dallas Cowboys that they don't go full reset mode. They don't do what the Texans did a couple years ago and just completely start from scratch. So from the coach to the roster, how do they move forward out of this, being the Dallas Cowboys? I wish there was an easy answer. I mean, what you're seeing this season and really what kind of lays on the horizon for them is a series of bad decisions in the past that have all mushroomed at the same time and blown up in their face this year. We can go back to the CD, Lamb & Dak Prescott contract situations this year. They didn't get them done early and up hurting them contract number wise. And it really top loaded their roster. I mean, they're really top heavy with their contracts. And they didn't fill in the gaps in free agency. You know, Jerry Jones has that famous quote from the spring tunnel. It will be all in. They were not all in. And because of that, they weren't able to add veterans or good depth to this roster. And what happened was injuries to their star players. You get injuries to Dak Prescott, injuries to Michael Parsons, thank Lawrence, and when you don't have the depth and the planning ahead for if those injuries happen, you're left with a roster and really a lineup, a depth chart that is not fit to contend. The front office has made a series of really bad decisions the last few years that drafted pretty poorly which is weird because a few years ago, they were drafting great. Now they're drafting poorly. They're not doing enough in free agency. They're bumbling every single long-term contract extension. It's costing them money and cap space in the long run. And so, really, I've talked about this on air here at WFAA in Dallas and also social media as well as this is Jerry Jones problem. If he can't get out of his own way, if he can't hire somebody, football operations wise to write this ship, it's just going to keep happening over and over. What's the old phrase definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Dallas Cowboys for the last, what, 30 years? Jonah Javad joining us on the HR&P guest line Emmy award winning TV sports anchor at WFAA, ABC 8 in Dallas. I feel like I knew the answer to this and Jerry's not going to fire Jerry. I feel pretty confident saying that. What is the approval rating of Jerry Jones, though, right now in Dallas? It's as low as it's been since I've been in the market. I've been here for seven years. I mean, granted for a number of those years, they had strong winning records. They went post-season most of those years, feeling pretty good. And then they inevitably flamed out pretty quick. And fans were buying the, we'll get them next year, just because they had a talented roster. They were really good during the regular season. I think this year it's been below us I've seen because fans aren't stupid. Fans know that the Cowboys didn't do enough in free agency. Fans knew that they weren't handling the contract situations the way smart front offices do. And they knew that this was destined to blow up in their face. And when it did, fans were annoyed because if they can see this coming, why couldn't Jerry and the rest of the front office? They're the ones who are making the money, paying the bills, whatever. He owns the team. He's got the power to do whatever he wants. But if your average Joe down the road knows what the Cowboys are screwing up and the front office can't do anything about it, how is that supposed to inspire any sort of hope or faith in the team? So yeah, it's tough times in Cowboys nation these days. And then Jonah, what's the vibe on Dak? I mean, you lock him up, he gets another mega contract. He was awful in the playoffs last year against Green Bay and caught even more scrutiny than he had caught before about being the kind of athlete that we know from Houston, where it's all fun and games and great when you play great in the regular season. If you don't play well in the playoffs, you're going to catch it. And now he's hurt and that doesn't help him anymore. He's got this big number in this big contract. There's rumors about Dion Sanders and trying to get should do her, which just seems to be completely illogical. But how do you move on with Dak? And is there any hope that Dak's a guy that's eventually going to figure it out to be the guy he's always supposed to be? Yeah, I mean, Dak Prescott last year was the runner up for the MVP award. I mean, this is what nine months removed from playing some of the best football of his entire life. And so where you're like, how does he go from that to what we saw this year? I think it's kind of some of the stuff I mentioned, right? Like it just didn't add talented pieces. And he's throwing the fact that we watch the Cowboys every week and then we watch all these other teams, like the Kyle Shanahan's and the Sean McVay's, offenses that are good at scheming their playmakers open and not just relying on the same set of routes. I mean, the Cowboys are allergic to pre snap motion. They're just McCarthy's offense is not really modernized in a way that benefits who the Cowboys have. So either they've got to change their scheme or they've got to bring in more playmakers because just CD land is not going to cut it. They didn't do enough at running back. And so when you add all these parts together, you're really asking Dak Prescott every week to be Superman. And I think Dak Prescott is a good quarterback when he's got solid pieces around him. Is he going to be the guy that elevates a pretty mid roster to a Super Bowl? I don't think he's that. And by now, I think everybody pretty much knows that. But he's definitely good enough to win a Super Bowl as long as they've got other solid parts around him. The front office did him no favors. The coaching and the scheme, the offensive system does him no favors. And so I think there's got to be some optimism. He's a very polarizing player for Cowboys fans. It's bizarre. I mean, people either love him or hate him. And he's been mostly great for them in his time in Dallas. But I think fans are just frustrated and looking for a scapegoat. And you know, the guy who throws the football and throws interceptions and then needs you target. But you know, when your guys aren't getting open and you're down by 20, you're kind of forced to do things that you don't want to do. So I think Dak's put it in a precarious spot. His future with he's still under contract just on that mega deal in the fall. So he'll be here for the foreseeable future. But the front office has to help him out because he can't do it alone. Yeah, I think you know that take with with Dak. Jonah, we appreciate it. Good stuff. Hope to catch up again down the road. Thanks. It'll be good. Jonah Javat, TV sports anchor for WFAA, ABC eight in Dallas, Emmy award-winning TV sports anchor as well. All right, coach speak is this coach speak from Dimeko Ryan seven one three seven eight zero ESPN. It is the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 95. ESPN 97 five. Our foundation is built on love to thank you. I love you and trust they just shows our culture hard work. Now we're gonna prove something we're gonna play with that chip on our shoulder. Gig 'em Aggies. Game coverage of Texas A&M versus Ohio State begins tonight at seven thirty on ESPN 97 five and 92 five. My a stroke no bell. You enjoy tequila. This is the name to know. I'm drinking the onion Hill right now. And this is what I love about my store no bell. It's the variety of excellent tequilos they've created all with different flavor profiles. 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that watches football at all knows that he's not wrong and that he is a very disruptive force and you know i think he's one of those rare exceptions where you can try and speak coach speak to put push a player up and pump him up a little bit but it's pretty accurate with with uh with parsons yeah this is i mean he's this is zero coach make everything he said about mica parsons is the truth mica parsons a very good player in fact it's one of my favorite things to watch in this game like they move mica parsons around so it's not like this one specific matchup but mica parsons versus the houston texans pass protection i mean you talk about mismatches right like you're gonna have a fight tonight mike tyson jake paul john jones fights deep day tomorrow like this is gonna be a mismatch if if mica parsons and the texans pass protection had odds in vegas it'd be mica parsons minus three hundred so that's something that's gonna be fascinating to watch come monday night which is kind of weird they're playing monday night because usually we do story lines and stuff today we can do it on monday here's another one from damiko he was asked this one's funny actually he was asked about the rivalry with the cowboys nothing special for us you know we're just we're hungry and excited about you know getting away i know it's you know it's exciting and it means a lot to our fans uh but for us it means a lot because it's the next one there you go no fun sir uh coach bick oh i think it was more honesty than then you know maybe even the fans would like to hear but it's the truth i mean there's just not you don't play them enough you're in different conferences sure i mean if both these teams were playing at the top of their game we remembered that whether the cowboys came here that there were the parking lot fights and it changed the way you're allowed to tailgate for the rest of the time you go to npg and you know the games themselves and winning the the first ever game in texans history came against the cowboys on monday night football but he's not wrong it's just an honest answer that there's not much of a rivalry there because you just don't play them enough yeah i i second what Joel said there's you don't play you play them once every four years now obviously this is the exception this is not a part of the divisional rotation but when you play a team once every four years even if it's in state i don't think it really means anything for the players in that locker room or the coaches and the coaching staff now now is it a rivalry for the fans yeah we hate dallas we hate the mavericks we hate we hate the rangers we hate everything dallas we hate everything arlington but for the guys in the locker room guys who i mean in the time that they've a lot of the guys on this roster might not even bid on the team the last time they play dallas and have having it been what like uh two years ago when they last played dallas so yeah i i don't think this means anything to the guys on the 53 i like you the texans are struggling right now like if lost three of four games so it's kind of like you're not catching this game at the right time for it to be this big rivalry matchup because we know that coaches like to like look for things to fuel their team to get them through the week the monotony of an nfl season and if the texans are kind of rolling right now we're three and four like three or four games up in the division they're working a whole lot at stake cooper rush is the quarterback not Dak Prescott cowboys aren't playing well i think it'd be very easy to be like oh yeah this is a rivalry we really got to get this one to kind of fire up the troops but like that's not the calling card this week the calling card is get right yeah that's that's the thing Jeremy is the fact that you know the packer bears rivalry is renewed again this weekend and the rookies go out to dinner with veterans in green bay if they aren't familiar with it because there's so much history and hatred and and much like cj and mica in the off-season it got ramped up because guys were talking smack from both sides and now the teams are in a position where it's you know the tradition is there to where it still matters but from your to your point if these two teams are playing the best football and they're playing with a chance to actually do something all that back and forth between mica and cj's gonna be front page news this week they're gonna be pushing that narrative they're gonna be pushing oh man what if mica gets home a few times and cj's got to back up what he said and and then you're gonna really start getting into that whole fan hatred as well but it's just like someone you know let the air out of the sails of this game from what we thought it was going to be at the start of the season 9117 says it's only a rivalry to texans fans that's probably a cowboy fan saying that the texans are not a cowboy rival which is probably true like the cowboys division rivals are way higher than the texans cowboys eagles cowboys giant here's another yeah even washington now because aside from brian no one thought that washington was gonna do it but overall you're yeah all three of those those are rivals here's another one to mico ryan's on cooper rush and cooper has been there a while and he understands how to operate the offense very efficiently like when it comes to everything every operation that goes with the offense the checks are getting them in the right the proper plays like cooper does a great job of managing all of the pre snap operations and he does a great job of getting the ball out you know finding these playmakers making really good decisions with the football so we still have to be on all of our details right cooper has a great record when he started he's won a lot of games so we have to we're not you know we're going in with the mindset of what if you're being about the texans and about us executing the right way coach me there's a lot of coach speaking that there's that's the one where you're trying to put lipstick on a pig in a lot of ways because of how bad their offense is has been and will be and no matter what cooper rush can do he has to coach speak it so he doesn't give him bullet bullet board material but you got to believe that they're planning to see Trey Lance at some point in this game too yeah that was a hundred percent coach speak i mean that was a very long wooded answer from demico where he never mentioned one thing and rightfully about the talent of cooper rush it was oh well he knows the playbook he and he can execute giving them in and out of plays he's been there for a while it was all about well he's been there for a while he's a veteran and technically he knows the offense but nothing was about the talent of cooper rush he was trying to in that long-winded close like okay what can i say without saying he sucks and so he just talked about all the game manager things that was a hundred percent uh coach speak what kind of managers game manager oh okay game manager uh cj style is not a game a manager by the way he is a game changer 20 said uh 20 said yesterday now this is a hundred percent coach speak this was demico ryan's trying to uh be as nice as possible but i mean he's got to he can't be like well cooper rush is a bum guys we expect to dominate him and if he actually did do that you could go back to last year in which he lost to a couple of bums handed bryce young his first ever NFL win does Desmond Ritter come to mind how about losing to zak wilson in the new york jets so in the back of my mind i kind of remember the demico ryan's lost to a couple of quarterback bums a year ago quarter bums qb's so that is uh that is alive and well at least in my mind yeah no doubt about it and i think that you know the point i'm trying to make too is the fact that the one you brought up when questioning the guys in dallas is why aren't you playing trey lance why hasn't he started he's not starting there has to be some kind of an idea in their minds that they've got to see what he is how he how he may have advanced since he left san francisco to see if there's any reason to consider him you know as the backup for deck next year or a trade piece or whatever and if you're the texans you go yeah well we've got the more advanced we've played against the more advanced version if you want to call it that of trey lance with anthony richards and let's see what he's got we know how to defend that too because we want to make anthony i mean trey lance throw the football yeah it's uh it is interesting the whole lance koopa rush thing because if you're i know mccarthy's trying to keep his job but jerry jones is the boss and if i'm if i'm the guy that traded for trey lance i want to see what trey lance looks like and they're both under contract for this year and that's it like koopa rush isn't a guy that's under contract going for he's in the final year of his deal trey lance is in 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