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00:00All of our coaches, it's important for me to get input from everyone.
00:06Our position coaches, special teams coaches, we're all in this together.
00:10So it's not just, you know, ultimately the decision will come down between myself and Nick.
00:15You know, again, it won't be a rash decision because we've been thinking about this for a while
00:21and it all works itself out in the end.
00:24And I know we'll have, wherever those 53 guys are, we're going to have 53 tough guys
00:30who are mentally and physically tough and ready to hit the season run.
00:35I feel like, Seth, if you either have a really good team or a really bad team,
00:41those are the ones where there's very little controversy over who's making the squad.
00:47You know, the bad team, it's like, all right, it's one of those things like, all right,
00:50well, these, you know, it's hard to even find 53 guys to put on the roster.
00:54When you have a really, really good team, and I think the Texans have the potential,
00:58especially the offensive line that we've seen in the preseason,
01:00is the one that we're getting in the regular season.
01:03Acknowledging that there's room for improvement that they're putting out there,
01:08I think they've got a chance to be a really good team.
01:10As a result, as we're doing sort of like this roster puzzle here,
01:16you know, I think some of like the average Texans teams through the years,
01:18it felt like, okay, there's like 10 or 15 spots.
01:21I don't know what they're going to do here.
01:22There's maybe five spots on the team right now that are up for grabs, I think.
01:27At most, five or six, you know, if we're looking at the back end of the roster here.
01:33The running back room, it gets really interesting.
01:37I think the offensive line gets interesting.
01:41I think the Jarrett Patterson and Juice Scruggs,
01:43I don't think either of those guys will get cut.
01:45If one of them did, I think it would probably be Juice Scruggs.
01:50But that's, I think both those guys are kind of in a boat of they're still relatively young,
01:56and they want to give them a go in this system to see how they do.
01:59Yeah.
01:59And we've seen a lot of guys so far in training camp look like the better version of themselves
02:04when operating in this Nick Caley offense.
02:08And that's the running backs, though, are the one that's probably giving me the most fits.
02:14Because it also includes guys that are fullback,
02:18you know, British Brooks running back slash fullback slash tight end.
02:20Yakov Johnson is a fullback slash tight end.
02:23So you've got that third tight end position, too.
02:26Do you keep Irv Smith?
02:28Do you keep the rookie draft pick?
02:31Do you keep the guy you traded for?
02:33Those are very hazy for me right now.
02:36Yeah, yeah.
02:37I think offensive line was one of the easier ones for me,
02:39just because I do think Juice Scruggs and Jarrett Patterson and Blake Fisher are all making the team.
02:43I think there's like 14 or 15 guys, I think, that are battling it out for like six spots.
02:52And it's not even like Irv Smith is battling Harrison Bryant for the third tight end spot
02:57as much as Irv Smith, and I'm just using him as an example,
03:00is battling Tommy Togiai or Jamal Hill or guys like that for the 52nd and 53rd spot.
03:06Like, oftentimes these decisions come down to not who is the best of these tight ends, let's say.
03:12It's do we want to go with four tight ends or do we want to go with six linebackers?
03:17And so, I mean, that's what it boils down to.
03:20Like, the names that I have here, the wide receiver room,
03:23do you think they end up keeping seven wide receivers like they did last year
03:27where they kept six wide receivers and Stephen Sims, who was listed as one,
03:31but was really the return guy for the team?
03:33I know.
03:34I think partly with what I've seen out of Nick Caley,
03:38it's that they're focusing a lot on the core of the offense,
03:45using a fullback, using multiple tight ends.
03:49And because of the Joe Mixon injury and the uncertainty about that,
03:53I think you end up keeping a normal number of wide receivers
03:56and you end up having just maybe one extra running back slash fullback slash tight end.
04:01Do you think Tommy Togiai makes this team?
04:04I think he does.
04:05I think he does.
04:05And the thing about Tommy Togiai that's interesting is that there's a –
04:09I think there's a little bit of a –
04:11it's a classic thing that Pete Carroll would do in his defenses,
04:14or does in his defenses, which is you've got a very aggressive mindset up front.
04:18Your defensive linemen are just firing off the ball.
04:21But sometimes that can hurt you.
04:23So what you have is you have one more of a plugger that can line up,
04:29head up on the backside guard and almost play like a linebacker
04:34behind the really aggressive penetrating defensive linemen.
04:37And I think Tommy Togiai fits that bill.
04:40I think that he's just so strong.
04:41He uses his hands really well.
04:43He's not all that, you know, athletic by defensive tackle standards,
04:47but he just flat out gets the job done.
04:49And a lot of the stuff he does really well,
04:54it's kind of stuff that you would see more of a gap control defense.
04:58But there's a place for that on this team.
05:00So I think they – it's just hard.
05:02He just consistently produces and he imposes his will physically.
05:07That part of it I think D'Amico's got to love.
05:09All right.
05:10He doesn't get up field real fast, but he just bullies dudes.
05:13Yeah.
05:13And he tosses them around.
05:14So I think he makes the team.
05:15They like him a lot.
05:16What do you think happens with D'Amico Autry?
05:19Because keeping Tommy Togiai impacts D'Amico Autry's situation.
05:22For those who don't know,
05:23D'Amico Autry has been on the pup list for the entirety of training camp so far.
05:27Yeah.
05:28And hasn't gotten on the field all that much since he became a Houston Texan
05:31over a year ago.
05:32I don't think it affects – you can keep five defensive tackles pretty easily.
05:36So I think it's more of a Kurt Heinish –
05:38Well, let's list them.
05:39Hang on.
05:39Let's list them.
05:40Because you've got Mario Edwards, Tim Settle, Foley Fadakasi,
05:44Sheldon Rankins, Tommy Togiai.
05:46That's five.
05:47That's five.
05:48Yep.
05:49So I was saying, how does it impact D'Amico Autry?
05:51D'Amico Autry I look at as an end.
05:53Oh, okay.
05:54So you have –
05:55So it's Daniil Hunter and Will Anderson.
05:58Yep.
05:58Then you've got Darrell Taylor, D'Amico Autry, and Derek Barnett.
06:02Derek Barnett.
06:02So Dylan Horton is not –
06:09Unless they might decide, all right, we've got to keep some of this youth around.
06:13We might lose Dylan Horton and Solomon Bird if we cut them.
06:16So maybe it's between Derek Barnett and Danico Autry and Darrell Taylor.
06:20They make a decision between one of those three guys.
06:22Well, and I guess they – and I guess my point with Danico was less about tackle and end
06:26in that they can still keep him on the pup list and kind of kick the decision down the road for –
06:31you know, kick the can down the road for four games.
06:33Yeah.
06:33That's what will be interesting to me because they – look, they have some –
06:37they have – they're among the bottom five in cap space right now.
06:40Cutting Danico Autry does give you some dry powder for salary cap purposes.
06:44You save several million there.
06:46So I think that will be an interesting one to see.
06:48For anybody that hears that, that's not like a drastically bad –
06:51the Texans are fine in terms of cap space in future years.
06:54It's just right now they're operating a little bit.
06:56You like to have a little bit more cushion in case somebody gets injured
06:59or a trade comes open or whatever.
07:01Trade deadline, yeah, absolutely.
07:02You want that dry powder.
07:04Do you think Jamal Hill ends up making this team?
07:08Hmm.
07:11No, I don't think so.
07:12I think Hanson.
07:13I think they like – I think Jake Hanson they trust more,
07:16and they end up sticking with him and hoping that Jamal Hill,
07:20at least to begin the season, is a practice squad guy.
07:22Do you think that Arthur Millett makes this team?
07:25That's a great question, Sean Pendergast.
07:29He's had – he's flashed a little bit.
07:31Yeah.
07:32And he's a bet.
07:33I think – I don't think – I don't think so,
07:36and it's not because I don't like him.
07:37But, again, I think there's a lot of guys that are not going to make this team
07:40that are going to get picked up elsewhere
07:42or that are 100% going to be on the Texans' practice squad.
07:46That's a lot amongst cornerbacks right now.
07:49That's what I'm concerned about.
07:50Like, there just aren't enough veterans that I feel really good about.
07:54And I think there's a guy out there that the Texans are going to trade for
07:58or would like to trade for, I think,
08:00that ends up squeezing some of these younger, promising guys off.
08:03Tremont Smith, D'Angelo Ross, Arthur Millett, Miles Bryant, Jalen Mills.
08:08I guess sort of Jalen Reed, although he's been hurt too in camp.
08:11Six-round pick.
08:12Like, I almost feel like Jalen Reed, he's shown so –
08:15he's practiced so little and he's a six-round pick that if they were to waive him,
08:20they would easily be able to bring him back on the practice squad right now.
08:22Yeah.
08:23Yeah.
08:24I guess, you know, when we were talking earlier about how a lot of the guys
08:27you have in the secondary right now are guys that have been on the team before
08:31when we were kind of worried about the depth of the secondary.
08:33Yeah.
08:33I'm looking at the depth chart from September of 2022, from September 1st, 2022.
08:40That's some Google.
08:41That's some Google skills right there, man.
08:43What's that?
08:44That's some Google skills.
08:45Our lads, our lads.
08:46But, like, Tremont Smith, your backup cornerback.
08:49MJ Stewart, your backup safety.
08:51Yeah.
08:51There are guys that – those guys have stuck around because they like –
08:55you know, they like them for a certain reason.
08:57And I think they make the team probably, you know, for those same reasons.
09:02But they're – you've got to be constantly looking to upgrade some of that.
09:07D'Angelo Ross has been on this team since 2022.
09:10I looked it up on his Wikipedia page.
09:12I'm like, how long has he managed to stick around?
09:15Yeah.
09:15And he's stuck around, not only been here since 2022,
09:17but managed to survive a coaching change, you know, to D'Amico Ryan.
09:21You know, D'Amico likes him, obviously.
09:23Yeah, I mean, that's one thing that identifying cornerbacks in the draft.
09:28But it does – it does just feel like there should be better depth.
09:33If you're that – if you're that good at identifying the actual starters
09:36and what have you – and maybe this is just the hazards of always, like,
09:40hey, look, your backup secondary is never going to – you're never going to feel
09:44as good about it as your starters.
09:47That's just flat out the way the cookie crumbles.
09:49Well, especially when your starters in this secondary are these guys.
09:52You know, like, your starters are elite in this secondary.
09:56All right, so a few names kind of kicking around right there.
09:58We'll see.
09:59It'll all hash itself out, as D'Amico said.
10:01It'll all work itself out over the next day or so.
10:04The two big stories from around preseason over the weekend nationally, it appeared.
10:12One, Micah Parsons at the Cowboys game on Friday.
10:17They were playing the Atlanta Falcons, and Micah Parsons was laying –
10:23he was, A, he was the only Cowboy that wasn't wearing his jersey.
10:27Like, even the guys, even the starters who weren't playing were wearing Cowboy gear.
10:33Micah Parsons was in regular, like, civilian sweats,
10:37laying down on a medical table while the game was going on.
10:40Almost looked like he was taking a nap over there.
10:43To which Brian Schottenheimer, the new head coach of the Cowboys,
10:46had to answer questions about that, saying,
10:48hey, I'm going to talk to Micah about this.
10:50But this all appears, Seth, to be woven into the current contract situation with Micah Parsons.
10:56It's hard because Micah Parsons is just kind of a free spirit to begin with.
11:00So there's a lot of things you could look at that Micah Parsons does or says
11:05where any of this contract stuff, you might think,
11:09is he trying to send a message?
11:10And you realize, oh, no, it's just Micah Parsons being kind of goofy.
11:13I don't know.
11:14This doesn't feel extreme to you?
11:16Not wearing the jersey is the big one.
11:18That feels like you're very clearly not, like, one of these things is not like the other.
11:24That's bigger.
11:25It's very conspicuous.
11:26That's bigger than laying down on a medical table while a game is going on
11:31and everybody else is standing on the sideline watching the games.
11:33Yeah, because you wasn't riveted by the,
11:35Sean, not everybody's watching the game on the sidelines during a preseason game.
11:38No, no, no, I understand it.
11:39No, I can't.
11:39No, no, humor me here for a second.
11:42Like, not standing there and laying on the medical table is a little much.
11:46Would you admit that?
11:47No, I feel like it's one of those things that gets noticed
11:49because people are specifically looking to see what Micah Parsons is doing on the sideline.
11:53Yeah.
11:53So I don't, I just, yeah, I, if I had seen it and it was just some random older veteran
12:00or something, I would, I'm like, oh, he's just, yeah, I don't know.
12:02I can't, but, but you combine it with him not having the jersey on, then it, then it does,
12:07it's something different.
12:09That's interesting.
12:09Okay.
12:10Yeah.
12:10No, I know everybody's not interested in the game standing on the sidelines.
12:12It's like every now and then when they catch somebody taking a whiz on the sideline
12:15and they make a big deal out of it.
12:17I'm like, that happens.
12:18Well, it used to happen every single game.
12:19Now they got the medical tank.
12:20Yeah.
12:21So they're still doing it.
12:22They're just doing it inside the medical tank.
12:24Yeah.
12:24I gotcha.
12:24Gotcha.
12:25The other thing was Shadurmania lasting all of two weeks in Cleveland.
12:30Well, it's still lasting for a lot of people, Shadurmania, but in terms of him being even
12:35reasonably close to a discussion of being the starting quarterback for the Browns, that's,
12:39that, that ship has now sailed.
12:40He's, and it's reached the peak of idiocy when it comes to people's conspiracy theories
12:44because there's a certain comment that got a lot of traction that one of the reasons that
12:51they're, they're blackballing Shadur Sanders is because he's a Christian.
12:55And I'm like, that's the first I've heard of that.
12:58I didn't see that.
12:58Dude, oh man, when people bring, that's when, you know, it's a crossover hit because those
13:03are people who aren't actual NFL fans that just somehow somebody heard, they heard it
13:08from somebody that like, oh, well, you know what they don't like about him is he's a Christian.
13:11This notion that there's like six Christians in, uh, in the NFL as opposed to, no, the
13:16reality of it is it's like you're working in a Chick-fil-A when you're, uh, when you're
13:20working in an NFL team.
13:21You can't, you, you can't, you can't walk three feet without stumbling over somebody's
13:25Bible or something.
13:27But yeah, it's very, very religious workplace.
13:28I guess just to get people up to speed on what exactly is going on in Cleveland.
13:32So this is what happened this weekend is that Joe Flacco started the game, uh, against,
13:38uh, the Rams, uh, was very, very good.
13:41Dylan Gabriel then came in and, and went like 11 for 19 and he looked solid.
13:46I think through a touchdown pass, like Dylan Gabriel looked good in came Shadur Sanders with
13:51the threes and he was three for six for 14 yards and was sacked five times, including
13:56this 23 yard sack that you're about to hear right here.
14:00Sanders being pressured, spins away again, keeping the play alive.
14:05The fans love it, but that's one of those plays where maybe he's got to roll out and
14:10throw it away.
14:11Maybe you think, I mean, the, the line of scrimmage, the line of scrimmage was the 46 yard line.
14:16And he got tackled at the 23.
14:18So the other thing we should point out is that with two minutes to go in the game with
14:23the Browns trailing 17 to six, Kevin were in chose to bring in Snoop Huntley, who by
14:30the way was cut this morning, chose to bring in Snoop Huntley, the, the fifth quarterback
14:34on the team to come in and he actually engineered a game winning drive.
14:37They kicked the field goal.
14:38They win the game.
14:39So the things that people were most upset with the Shadur fans were most upset with were
14:44one, Kevin Stefanski put Shadur in with the threes and he wasn't calling the plays that
14:49he was calling for Flacco.
14:51He's not calling the same plays.
14:53He's a, he saved the good plays for Gabriel.
14:55Yeah.
14:55Yeah.
14:55That's number one.
14:56And number two, number two was replacing Shadur, not giving Shadur a shot at redemption
15:01at the end of the game.
15:02He brought in Snoop Huntley, who's not even going to make this team.
15:06Yep.
15:07Uh, the, the Snoop Huntley thing, I could see where people would raise an eyebrow at that.
15:11There, there is part of it that you do, you do try to be a place that allows guys a chance
15:18to play in the preseason game.
15:19So other teams can get film on guys.
15:21And it's more of an indicator to me that, yeah, they'd already made their decision about
15:24Dylan Gabriel, which people out of Cleveland have been saying for a couple of weeks now
15:27that they just, they like Dylan Gabriel more so than they like Shadur Sanders right now.
15:32Um, so it's not like Shadur was going to have a chance to earn his spot on the depth chart
15:37or whatever.
15:37He's going to be on the team.
15:39The, so the Snoop Huntley stuff doesn't, doesn't bother me one bit.
15:42I think though, where I might, I, I think it's the thing that's bothering me is I don't have
15:48an issue at all with the way they're handling Shadur Sanders, but I also don't like leaning
15:52into that one really bad scramble as somehow the evidence that obviously he sucks or something
15:57like that.
15:58There's plenty of young quarterbacks who have, who do the same thing.
16:01It is part of his scouting report that he holds onto the ball.
16:06If you watch long, he doesn't make something out of nothing.
16:09So it's something that he does need to continue to work on, but it's, it's the sum total of
16:14everything the Browns have watched during training camp and the OTAs and everything
16:17else.
16:18And they've Dylan Gabriel has worked with the ones more.
16:21I mean, people bring up training camp stats and completion percentages and what have you.
16:24Yeah.
16:25Part of that is that Dylan Gabriel is, has been going against the first team defense a lot
16:30more than Shadur Sanders has the, the biggest thing that you brought up that makes the most
16:34sense, Sean, about the, the conspiracy theories about Shadur is exactly what, what would be
16:41the motivation for the NFL at large to have some kind of a campaign against Shadur Sanders?
16:47He's not that big a deal.
16:49Like in terms of like, there's nothing he does controversially that's different than so
16:55many other young players in the NFL.
16:57I don't understand where the, well, I don't even get why there's conspiracy theories that
17:03the NFL wouldn't want Shadur to get drafted high or to be playing or what have you, because
17:08it's, there's nothing unique about him when it comes to things you, okay, the people don't
17:13like his personality. Oh, I forgot about how, how so few guys with unlikable personalities.
17:21He's the first unlikable guy to be drafted into the NFL ever.
17:25So that, it cuts it off at the knees. There's just, it doesn't make any rational sense. Now,
17:30if the Browns made the wrong decision, possibly, sure. I could go with that. But you're also,
17:35in trying to paint the Browns as the demons here, like this is a team that was the only
17:43one out of 32 teams that drafted Shadur because as soon as they don't make Shadur the starter,
17:52they become enemy number one in people's minds where it doesn't make any sense at all.
17:57You're somehow more angry at the Browns than the 31 other teams that didn't draft Shadur
18:02Sanders. Well, and this is where I feel bad for Shadur. And by the way, like it's, it is,
18:05it has turned some otherwise intelligent people into saying some of the dumbest things that I saw
18:11a Twitter account yesterday. The Browns made a bunch of cuts yesterday. And this person said,
18:17Oh my God, look, they cut four of the offensive linemen that were playing with Shadur as if that
18:22was a morsel of the conspiracy theory. And I'm like, yeah, that's what teams do. The two days before
18:31the deadline is they cut third string offensive line. Sorry, he's third string. And I feel bad
18:36for Shadur in all this. Cause you know what Shadur hasn't been doing? He hasn't been fueling any of
18:40this. Shadur has handled his business by all accounts. And from everything I've seen with my
18:44own eyes, very, very well, the, what the Shaduraholics are doing right now is they are making
18:51it harder for Shadur to stick somewhere else. If the Browns decide to move on, I can tell you this
18:55right now. If the Browns wanted to keep four quarterbacks with Shadur being one of them,
19:01but they're worried about wasting a roster spot on keeping four quarterbacks, put Shadur on waivers.
19:06Nobody will pick him up with the way all these, all these lunatics are acting right now. Do the
19:11other 31 teams want this sort of drama in their building right now with Shadur? I feel bad for
19:16Shadur. The people who are out here pumping up this conspiracy theory stuff are doing Shadur
19:21Sanders zero favors right now. Right. And no, no, so much of it. I mean, there's people
19:25out there, there's actual non-football fans weighing in now too, but some actual football
19:33fans saying that it looked like the offensive linemen weren't trying as hard when they were
19:38blocking. Yeah, the guys fighting to make the team, just trying to feed their own families.
19:44Right. And this isn't an exaggeration with those guys. They are literally trying to feed their
19:48families. A lot of those guys that get cut today are never going to get a job in the NFL
19:52again. So they're literally trying to feed their families because they're somehow involved
19:58in this vast conspiracy to keep Shadur Sanders down. It's wild, man. All right, let's do
20:03Acknowledge Me. Let's get to these. We got a bunch of acknowledgements we need to do, a
20:07whole bunch. We got some football. We got some baseball, some local business. It's all good.
20:13Um, let's start with Nick Caley. Acknowledge Me. Texans offensive coordinator. This just looks like a
20:19much better coached offense through the preseason. Preseason's done now. This looks like so far the
20:24first step, which is the implementation, the installation of the offense and getting a bunch
20:29of new guys on the O-line. This thing looks like it's moving in the right direction. You know who
20:33loves him some Nick Caley? Rob Gronkowski. This was Rob Gronkowski. I think this was with Edelman
20:39on the podcast. Yeah, this was Gronk talking about Nick Caley. Who's, uh, who's the offensive
20:44coordinator? Uh, offensive coordinator. Oh, shout out to Nick Caley. He was my tight end coach for a
20:51couple of years here in new England. And he FaceTime called me out of the blue a couple of weeks ago,
20:57man. And Nick Caley brings absolute juice to the table every single day on a daily basis. He loves
21:03the game of football. He's a smart coach inside and out, knows all the tricks and traits to being
21:10a great coach. So I'm excited about him. Actually, I'm more excited about Nick Caley being the
21:16offensive coordinator and seeing what he does with this offense with CJ Stroud and the other guys.
21:21I got Nico Collins, who's one of my favorite receivers in the league. Big guy. I love my big
21:25guys. You know, I just relate to them big time, big guys that can move and make big plays. And
21:29Nico Collins is one of them. So I'm, I'm looking out for Nick Caley big time. And I think he's going
21:36to strive and be excellent. I think that's the right fit for him as well to be a first time
21:41offensive coordinator. I just love Gronk's delivery. Well, that's a, you know what though? That was more
21:45of a, that was like polished TV Gronk. Yeah. You could tell, I think he was working from notes a
21:50little bit, but not in a bad way. He just, it was almost like he was, he was getting ready to do a
21:56Sunday hit on the pregame show and still not super polished, which I love it. But you're right.
22:01But in a way that it's still endearing. I love it. That's what I'm saying. Let the emotion come
22:06through more so than trying to the, the first year he was on there. It felt, it felt like they
22:11had tried to put an orangutan in a, in a suit or something. And it just, it wasn't a good fit.
22:16Now I think he's found a good balance there. Yep. Yep. Yep. And I love what he said about Nick Caley,
22:20his form. I love that Caley's just popping open his phone and FaceTiming Rob Gronkowski for no reason
22:25a couple of weeks ago. There was another former Patriots player podcast a few months ago that had
22:30some really good words about, Oh, it was Cole Popovich. And yeah, that was, uh, it was Nickovich.
22:36Yep. Sure was. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Um, so yeah, the, the Caley so far, and I'd said earlier in the
22:44show, one of the things that's most encouraging for me to being so good in pass protection,
22:49Damian Pierce earlier, talk about how much Nick Caley and then Cole Popovich, the offensive line coach
22:55works with the running backs. And it just sounds like a different environment there. That's
23:00something that, that I don't take it with a grain of salt because it's the preseason. It's very,
23:05very clear that the running backs are much more capable, smarter dialed in on pass protection this
23:12year. And that is 100% a reflection of coaching. So that's a, it's a really good sign. Woody Marks
23:18Acknowledge me. Acknowledge him for his first, albeit a preseason touchdown, but his first
23:23career touchdown. Second down and four at the Detroit nine. Mertz under center, Marks in the
23:28backfield. Berrios motioning around. Here's the give to Woody over left guard across the five. He's in
23:34touchdown Houston. Woody Marks power running into the end zone. Good blocking on the left side of the
23:43Texans are back in front of Detroit. I'm just saying that's going to be a hot key. I am just
23:50saying. Ben, is it, is it a hot key? Yeah, there we go. We got, we got primal Andre. That's the only
23:59reason I'm acknowledging this right now. I wanted to play that. I want to play that play. A couple,
24:04couple notable things other than Woody Marks on that play. Austin Deculis buried his guy. So good job,
24:09Austin Deculis on that play. But also Braxton Berrios had a couple of blocks. He got, he,
24:16he gave a shove to a defensive lineman and then worked up to the second level. But I, the only
24:22thing I could think of was if that were tanked. Because he's a tiny wide receiver down in there
24:31on goal line blocking in the door. Nobody gave a crap about Berrios. Yeah. Well, I don't know.
24:39It's a, that's where, the one thing that I would stick up with Bob, for with Bobby Sloick was, yeah,
24:44I mean, he's a football player. Like you can't just, you can, if you want him on the field, you can't,
24:49you're going to have to use them at times. You can't just let the defense know that, nope, whenever,
24:55whenever tanked out or Braxton Berrios or anybody tiny is out there, they're just going to be a
24:59blind wide. Yeah. Just don't even worry about him. All right. Um, let's keep it moving and
25:03acknowledge me. Brian Abreu, he's done a really nice job. He's done a really nice job as the
25:11closer of this team. Since, uh, Josh Hader went out with a shoulder injury. In fact, he came in
25:16those two slug fests, man, Brian Abreu should have never had to pitch in either of those games.
25:20The Astros scored 10 runs and nine runs, and they've got Abreu coming in, in games against the
25:25Orioles, uh, to have to close them out. But back to back night, Seth, he had a multi-inning
25:29save on Friday, had to get four outs. And then he came in on Saturday and saved that nine to eight
25:35game, a game. They were up five, nothing in the first inning and snap your fingers. And Christian
25:39hobbyers given the whole thing back, but like the third inning of that game, but Brian Abreu deserves
25:44acknowledgement. He has been outstanding since becoming the closer for this baseball team.
25:49There's no room for, there's no margin for error here on this either. It's the Astros currently have
25:55a two game lead in the division. And, uh, the, uh, they just, I don't know how they're doing it.
26:01Are they running on fumes? It doesn't feel like they're running on fumes. It feels like they're
26:05running on the wrong. The bullpen is absolutely running on fumes. The bullpen is the bullpen.
26:13They're bringing in different guys every day that I've never heard of before.
26:16Those aren't fumes though. Those are, that's, that's bad gasoline. Okay. That's the, you're just,
26:21that you don't even have the right guys out there or anything. You're in a, you're in a high
26:24performance vehicle running on 87 octane. They just don't have the, and then I include in that
26:29the starting pitching because those guys just, they're not, they're, they're not themselves or
26:34they're not the best version of themselves. When I think of running on fumes, I'm thinking of just
26:38like being nearly on empty and the bullpen's just taxed. Forget about the names. Like they're
26:42just getting overused and overworked. So yeah. Yeah. You know, yeah. It's, it's multiple things.
26:47Yeah. They're running on the fumes of a lower octane gas.
26:51No doubt about that. That's a problem. Zero. That's a problem. You've got guys that
26:54shouldn't, guys you don't want to lean on and those guys are tired. Right. Right.
26:59Jordan Alvarez. It's like me running a mile. Yeah. You're like, Hey, who do you, who are you
27:02going to have run the mile for the sports radio 610 intramurals? Yeah. Yeah. Seth Meister.
27:08It's going to be Seth. Yep. Yeah. It's going to be Seth, but no, wait, there's more. He's hung over.
27:12I'm going through, I'm going through our roster. You might not be the worst choice, actually.
27:16Actually. Yeah. What are we saying? Very highly. Yeah. No, no. We will never win a team decathlon
27:23for sure. Uh, Jordan Alvarez. Acknowledgement here. Two for four last night to run double
27:29for Corpus seven for 15, four doubles at double a ball. Get this man back to Houston. Now,
27:36however you get him here, Uber, train, private jet, get him back to Houston. And that's the word
27:41on the street is he's back in the lineup for this. As long as he came out of last night
27:47feeling of this Colorado series. So that's good. Thumbs up on that. Everybody, if you
27:50see him driving back, just go ahead and give him a nice wave. There you go. Yeah. Give
27:54him the Jordan wave. That's right. Which is like a two handed, uh, something like just
27:59take your hands off the wheel briefly. Doing it, doing it on the YouTube for you guys right
28:03there. Um, Ben DiNucci. Acknowledge me. Journeyman quarterback and master self-deprecator.
28:08He got let go by the Atlanta Falcons. I like this. Ben DiNucci was on the Cowboys last year.
28:14This is just funny to me on Twitter. And this is, if you're a journeyman, this is how you
28:18should treat it, man. All those trips to the airport, all those flights to go try out and
28:22work out for teams. When you get cut by the Atlanta Falcons in training camp, this is what
28:28you do. You post a picture of your airport bar beer and you tweet not many beers better
28:33than the airport. I just got cut from the NFL for the seventh time beer. Trust me, you
28:39wouldn't understand. Very few humans would understand that. I want him on this team. I
28:44thought that'd be funny, man. You know, I'm a big airport bar guy, Seth. I'm a big airport
28:48bar guy. Good, good move by him. Not like, uh, tweeting out the seventh and eighth and ninth
28:53beer too. If he, you know, that's what happens sometimes with these NFL, these NFL cuts.
28:58It's they kind of, they'll cut you and they'll get you to the airport right away. But it's
29:03the flight either there, you know, they're sending you home on Southwest and maybe air
29:08Tran back in the day or whatever. So you end up having some time at the airport. So you
29:13got to be careful because you got to be really careful because you might end up having a workout
29:16with another team the next day. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man. Keep it between
29:20the lines, Ben DiNucci. Let's go. Um, the Aggies acknowledge me. Acknowledge
29:25because they're getting Buc-ee's products at three locations on campus this fall. The
29:34first place outside of the actual Buc-ee's locations to carry Buc-ee's products like the
29:40beaver nuggets. And I would imagine there'll be some of the, you know, the, uh, the big
29:45brick rice, crispy treats with the fruity pebbles in them. Uh, you know, some of the stuff
29:50maybe, maybe even some of the, the sandwiches they have there, who knows? Um, but 45 different
29:55Buc-ee's products are going to be sold on campus at three locations for the Aggies.
29:59Good for the Aggies. It's a smart way for the Aggies to start branching into that side
30:02of the business. Yeah. Yeah. I was a licensing bro. I guess they're producing them and then
30:07selling them elsewhere. Yeah, man. Well, Buc-ee's are a Aggie founded, but I think the founder
30:11of Buc-ee's is an Aggie. So that would stand to reason that they, they get the first dibs on
30:16campus of those delicious Buc-ee's products. Are you nervous that Buc-ee's might be starting
30:20to stray too far outside their core? Outside of what they, yeah. Are they going to take
30:23their eye off the ball a little bit? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe, maybe a little bit. Yeah. Why don't
30:28we have pain and Pendergast products, uh, you know, licensed elsewhere? Why can't we be licensing
30:33billionaires, Sean? Ben? Like so many of these other celebrities. Well, a big book of business
30:37ideas, Ben, become licensing millionaires. Billionaires. Billionaires. Oh, billionaires. Yeah.
30:42Sorry. Jeez. Seth wants to run before he walks. Yeah. Billionaires.
30:46All right. Um, Funplex. Acknowledge me. Closes after 40 years over there on the southwest
30:54side of town. Brandon Scott tweeted that he could do a documentary, Seth, on the times
30:58he spent at the Funplex through the 40 years. Might need the texters to weigh in on that.
31:04And we've, we're only on here. Here to aid a complex memories text in. They called it an amusement
31:11park in the article about this. They called it an amusement park and in the title, they call
31:15it a theme park, which I've got an issue with, uh, the Houston Chronicle and saying it's either
31:20one of those things. It's a, I don't know what you call it, but it's one of these really
31:23cool. It's like a, it was like one of the original Dave and Buster type places, but even with more,
31:29it offers a roller skating and everything else like that, but it's all indoors. I don't think
31:34you're an amusement park or a theme park. No. Unless you're, unless you're, unless you've got
31:39roller coasters and whatnot. Roller coasters, carousels, I would say are a big part of amusement
31:45parks for the kids out there. Yeah. So whatever it is, indoor entertainment complex. Apparently it's a big
31:50part of Houston's fabric these last 40 years. And to that, we memorialize funplex. All right,
31:56last one. I'll tell you what, with places like that, I know from personal experience with family
32:00members who have run kind of roller skating rinks and stuff. Yeah, man, you gotta be, it's the biggest
32:04pain in the ass is keeping the, uh, just keeping the bad eggs out. Keeping the drug dealers out.
32:09Yeah. Kid, there's a, you know, like the kid, the, you know, the 27 year old disguised as a 16
32:15year old that wants, wants to distribute a little bit of something to the kids. Get them hooked. The
32:20pusher man. Yeah. Pusher man. It's true. It's hard to like, to keep a place going that long. You got
32:26to be vigilant, man. Yeah. Got to, got to. Yeah. All right. Um, Jaden Rodriguez. Acknowledge
32:31me. His dad, Nick is a P one listener and he DM me and he said, Hey, he wanted an antibodies for
32:38Jaden Rodriguez. I said, no, no, no, no. We're going to, we're going to acknowledge him. Freshman
32:42year, college baseball career. He's a pitcher at Cedar Valley college when summer Creek high
32:49school. So we acknowledge Jaden Rodriguez, young man, best of luck on the beginning of your journey.
32:54We thank your dad, Nick for being a P one listener. I love this though, Seth, they live in the same
32:58neighborhood. This family does as Tyler Milner and Sean Bajani. So that's, I mean, that, that's,
33:05that's two 12ths of our, you know, producer slash on air lineup. That's that. And one of them is the
33:13guy that we would choose to run the mile for us in the intramurals and Sean Bajani. Definitely Bajani.
33:18Yeah. T-mill looks like he could, like he's not heavy or anything. He does, but he also has a look
33:22of the guy that's going to stop halfway through for a cigarette break or something, you know, I don't,
33:26he doesn't smoke, but he, but it wouldn't surprise me. He looks like he would. All right. So here's
33:30the question I have. And again, hey, Jaden, congratulations. Uh, we're acknowledging you
33:35for sure. Best of luck. What a great time to be alive, man. Freshman year, headed off to college
33:39to play ball. Who would you rather have as your neighbor, Tyler Milner or Sean Bajani? Uh, this
33:44is no offense to Tyler here, but Sean Bajani because of the old saying, good fences make good
33:49neighbors. Literally. Sean Bajani literally builds fences. He does. He does. So I would rather have him. I like,
33:54I would watch Sean as a neighbor because he would build a brand new fence, which would mean
33:58that I don't have to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have a beautiful fence on his side of the lawn
34:03and I'd be like, okay, cool. My work is done on that, on that side of it. It's tough for me. It's,
34:07it's, that's the same thing I thought of right out of the shoot. Not so much that I need my fence
34:11repaired or anything, but like, boy, if I ever needed, I ever decided to actually fix something
34:15on my own, he would have all the tools in his garage that I could borrow. I wouldn't have to buy
34:19him. Now, my guess is that Tyler Milner probably throws great parties as a neighbor, you know,
34:27swimming pool in his backyard, which I'm not sure he does. Um, then it would be Milner. The problem
34:34is I would have a swimming pool and I would be afraid that of the two of them, Tyler would
34:38definitely be the one that I would find in my pool when I got home from work or something like that.
34:43I had a neighbor like that in my first house in Tomball. We put a pool in the backyard and for
34:47some reason, our neighbors thought that it was okay for them. Like while we were doing something
34:52on a Sunday morning to just waltz into our backyard and use our pool. Yes. They just started using your
34:58pool. Not for long, but yes. Yeah, man. The adults are just the kids. Yes. The adults just waltzed over
35:09like it was a community, their family over there. We came home one morning, me and my ex-wife and they
35:14were in our pool. And what did they say when you walked out? Did they, how are you doing? Yeah.
35:24So I let them have their day. I didn't want to make a scene in front of the kids. So I let them
35:30finish up their swimming, gave some players that kind of gave the impression. And then later in the
35:34day, I walked over and said, look, I just want to draw. I just want to draw lines right here.
35:39That's not going to happen again. Like it's, it's not there. Okay. This is one of the weirdest
35:44things I've ever heard somebody do. A hundred percent true. I'm not making it up. What did
35:48they, did they end up being an issue in other areas of being a neighbor or? No, they were actually
35:52decent. He was one of these, uh, Bajani have a bunch of tools in his garage guys. So he did have
35:58a use for me, but not enough to where I'm giving him membership to the pool. I just put it in my
36:02backyard. He must say, you know what? Maybe he grew up in a neighborhood where it was kind
36:05of like one of those. It was older, but there's everything in the neighborhood. Kids would
36:09all just kind of use each other's pools. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Not a bad guy, but that's not
36:15happening. Yeah. But even then, if you don't know the, yeah, to just start. Wow. Yeah.
36:20Yeah. Asking to borrow something from somebody is different than literally walking onto their
36:24property and borrowing their swimming pool. That's like, can I have a cup of sugar? And while
36:28I'm at it, do you mind if I, uh, urinate in your pool? Yeah. Yeah. Right. And he had little kids
36:32too. So they were probably peeing in the damn pool. Yeah. I think about it. Wow. I'm retroactively
36:37angry from 30 years. Fascinated by this guy. I want to interview him. Let's get him on. He's
36:41still, you love doing this. When I bring up some janky person from my past, let's get him on the show.
36:46What became of them? Yeah. Not even remember as 30 years ago, but it's true story.
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