00:00We have, we've been here before. This is the sixth time we've been here. The Texans have
00:04been to the divisional rounds six times in the history of the franchise, including the
00:07last two seasons. And each of those six times we are left wondering what needs to happen
00:13in order to get to an AFC title game. And you look at tonight's game or today's game,
00:19which bled into tonight. And if you had told me before this game that the Texans would
00:23out gain the chiefs by 124 yards, that they would gain 150 yards on the ground in this
00:29game, that Joe Mixon would go for nearly a hundred yards, went for 88 yards on 18 carries,
00:35that the Texans would out possess the chiefs by nearly seven minutes of clock time, 10
00:40of 17 on third down. These are all key indicators. Why would they want it won this game, but
00:46unfortunately a combination of the chiefs coming up big in situations where if you just
00:50give them a little bit of an inch, they take a mile.
00:53And I will say this too, a combination of that and yes, all of you fretting and chewing
00:58your nails about the referees throughout the week where I had said, Hey man, live your
01:02life a little bit better. Get excited for the game. Don't worry about the referees until
01:05you have to. Today was a victory for you. Two huge, huge penalties called on roughing
01:12Patrick Mahomes that wound up, especially the one early in the game wound up being big.
01:16I know that's going to be a topic for a lot of you tonight. And I know what needs to happen
01:20in the post season or in the off season here for the Texans to finally get over the hump.
01:25All going to be big topics. A lot of turning points in this game as well. Can already write
01:29the list down of people I think are going to catch heat from you guys. I think there
01:32were some Texans that had really good games tonight too, but ultimately the final score
01:3523 to 14, the chiefs beat the Houston Texans and the off season has begun Clint Sterner.
01:42So this will be our last post game show of the year. So we've got to make this baby count
01:467, 1, 3, 5, 7, 2, 4, 6, 10. Your initial thoughts on the game today.
01:51Uh, look, I feel a lot better right now than I felt, uh, after the Baltimore game last
01:55year. So, so, uh, we're moving in the right direction. I can tell you that I immediately
01:59thought after this ball game, I was like, okay, how does this compare to last year?
02:03And obviously it takes me to the way you go out. And I feel, I feel better about the way
02:09this team lost in the playoffs this year than the way they lost last year. Last year left you
02:14wondering was the whole season of fluke. Are they really as good as, as you think is CJ
02:19as good as you think is Nico as good as you think is this offense really as good as, as you think
02:25now you look at it. And, and I think they went out there and put a product on the field that I
02:30think most Texans fans could be proud of given what they were up against with the Kansas city
02:34chiefs. Now you get to the game and what we watched, I am not typically a, um, lead with
02:42the referee lead with bad calls. Um, I am a okay with people venting, whether it be on social
02:48media or callers calling in here on that text line, you're over there looking at, I have no
02:52problem today with discussing, uh, piss poor calls you're talking about. I mean, unbelievably
02:58egregious roughing calls, uh, that involve Pat, my homes that just cannot happen. Both of them
03:04happen on scoring drives. There was a field goal that followed the one that the roughing, the Will
03:09Anderson's roughing the pastor in the, in the first drive, there was a, it was a touchdown drive in
03:14the second quarter. I believe it was, um, when, when the other roughing call happened. And so
03:21that don't, don't tell me that either keeping a drive alive the first time, cause it was an
03:25incomplete pass on third down or flipping the field by 20 yards. You go from your 35 to now
03:31you're in, in Houston territory on the 35 flipping the field, 20 yards there. Um, you can't tell me
03:37that's not just a huge, especially again, when you're playing Pat my homes and Andy Reed on the
03:42road and that weather that is just difficult to overcome. And, and, and those were two piss poor
03:48egregious calls to where, again, it's not going to be top of the conversations just with the
03:54callers here in Houston. That's going to be top of the conversation on TV shows, like tonight,
04:01tomorrow, and moving forward because something has to be done about it. Uh, you know, you just
04:07can't have a playoff game affected the way that this one was with those two penalties.
04:12I think that's a general issue around the league right now, how that's called, but it, it was,
04:16it was so accentuated today. One, cause it was my homes too, because of the timing of those calls.
04:21Like you said, the first one, man, if the Texans get off the field early in that game, you know,
04:27with a game still tied at three early in that game, and you get off the field on that third
04:31Nate, the I'm a firm believer that like, there are a lot of forks in the road and games where games
04:36can change drastically. And those forks can be eight minutes into the game, you know? And, and
04:40so, so I think the timing of those calls, but just the, they weren't even borderline like they like
04:46will Anderson's helmet. Didn't hit Patrick Mahomes helmet, Henry Toa Toa. He went helmet to helmet
04:53with his teammates on player. Like it was, it was, it was crazy. So, and I hate that as I'm
04:58watching these, I'm like my, my least favorite kind of radio is referee blaming rate, right?
05:03Because I led with that, but I can't help. No, no, no. I know you and I are on the same
05:07page with this thing, man. Like it, those were two massive calls in this game and I could live
05:12with it a little bit more if the Texans were deficient in several other areas of this game.
05:16But I thought the Texans actually played. I thought they like overall, I thought they played
05:22about a B or a B plus game today in Kansas city. I thought the defense played an a game considering
05:27the situations they were put into and those calls that we're talking about here. Yeah,
05:31absolutely. The fact that they didn't turn Kansas city or I shouldn't say a game and a
05:34game would have involved winning the turnover margin. Well, at least the B plus. I mean,
05:38look, you're, you're up against it. I mean, there's at the end of the day,
05:42I just think there's several conversations here because I've got, I've got a conversation that
05:47we got to have of, of how in the hell are we still dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. And I got a few
05:53things that we got to discuss. How are we still seeing these things in critical moments of a ball
05:58game at 19 to 20 weeks into the damn season. Like I got a problem with that, but we've got to lead
06:03with these penalties because the issue with the penalties, right. Is, is you, we can talk about
06:08the penalties and the effect they had on, on, on those specific drives. And then if you take it
06:14away from just looking at the box score, the team stats and look at how they happen, you also had
06:18Pat Mahomes running the sideline and flop trying to pull another one. Clearly he knew that they
06:22were looking out for him and he was trying to draw into the penalty, right. I mean, he LeBron
06:26flopped on the damn sideline. Right. And then you look at the second roughing call where he was
06:30running the football one, he's running the football, but okay. It's a quarterback. You got
06:34to protect him instead of Detroit and made the, I thought he made a great point. He could have just
06:38went and got the extra yards and got out of bounds, but instead he cuts back in he's bobbing
06:42and weaving. He's playing this little delay game and baiting guys and then dropping bottom, dropping
06:47out of him the last second expected not to get hit all in all. I think they were bull jive calls.
06:53I think it's, I think it's exactly like Pat, what Pat Mahomes did today is exactly what you're
06:58trying to get out of the game. Not the slide late, not the slide, the egregious hit what you're
07:03trying to get out of the game is exactly what Pat Mahomes did today. And he's clearly aware of what
07:07he's doing because he's flopping like LeBron on the sideline. I just, and here's the other thing.
07:11I don't know the rule. I, this is the first time I've ever heard Troy Hickman. And I guess it was
07:16Joe Buck talking about, you know, they could, the officials could overturn the call on the
07:21roughing call on the field. I don't know how you don't overturn both of those calls.
07:25One. Yeah, both. They, they were both when Troy Hickman is done with this
07:29whole scenario, these core Troy Hickman is so done with these quarterbacks,
07:34tippy-toeing around trying to draw and that's a quarterback that his career ended with a concussion.
07:38That's like, yeah, yeah. Troy Hickman has been concussed more times than the starting quarterbacks
07:42in the league combined probably right now. Yeah. Look, I, I just, I just don't, I mean,
07:47for me, man, it's, it's a, I have a hard time playing this card, but, but not today, man,
07:52that was, it's too difficult. It's too difficult to go on the road and play that football team
07:57and win in that environment. It's too difficult to do that. And look, you can't give up opening
08:02kickoffs at 60 yards. You can't, you can't give up sacks when the game, when it's a one score game,
08:07the way that the way that you gave up sacks, you can't do those things. Correct. But that's
08:13a Texan problem. Yeah. The ref things should not be a problem, right? The bad calls should not be
08:18a part of the game. So miss me with the, Oh, you attempted a 50 plus yard field goal and missed it
08:23and gave Pat Mahomes the ball. And, and you know, your field goal missed it. Your, your field kicker
08:27missed an extra point and you did this and you did that. Those are all Texans things, all good
08:31and fair. We can talk about that at any given time. That's part of the game is the players are
08:35responsible for it. This crap with these officials and given the fact that it could have been
08:39reviewed, it should, it shouldn't, it just shouldn't happen. Yep.
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