00:00So the Texans, here's D'Amico Ryans, this was funny yesterday, D'Amico Ryans, do you look at the, I think it was Sarge that asked it, because Dusty Baker used to say he looked at the standings every day.
00:10Sarge said, yeah, Dusty used to say he looked at the standings every day. How about you?
00:13How about you, D'Amico?
00:14Just find a way to win. You know, those standings really doesn't matter, you know, right now at this point.
00:21Like, what matters is, whatever had the standings, however the standings look, I know what improves the standings is winning.
00:27So my focus is on doing everything I can possibly do to help our team be in position to win this game this week.
00:35And the standings and all those things, they will take care of themselves.
00:37That is the exact right tack to take if you're the head coach of the football team.
00:41Well, and it's, that's my preferred tactic for any head football coach, especially midway through the season.
00:48We're past midway. But this year especially, I mean, it is anybody's guess what the hell's going to happen here.
00:54The Ravens look like they might be one of the best teams in the league again.
00:57They're five and five. The Chiefs don't really look like one of the best teams in the league.
01:01They're five and five.
01:02They get the benefit of the doubt though from everybody.
01:04The Texans of the teams that are on the bubble right now, the Texans are the eighth, would be the eighth quote unquote seed.
01:10Yeah.
01:11Then the Chiefs are ninth or the Ravens are 10th. All three of those teams are five and five.
01:17The Chiefs breakers already to the bills.
01:20They lost. They lost to the Broncos.
01:22They lost to the Jaguars.
01:23And the Jaguars.
01:25Yeah.
01:25Yeah.
01:25Yeah.
01:26So, so the Texans and that, and I think that's the gist of what I wanted to convey in this segment here.
01:31The standings, the standings, we got seven games left and there's a bunch of teams within a couple of games of each other, including the Texans right now.
01:38Now, the positive about where the Texans are right now, Seth, is that they're in a really good spot tiebreaker wise.
01:45They're going to need to keep winning to stay in this thing.
01:47So they're inherently going to be winning some games here that continue to help them with tiebreakers, starting with the game two days from now against the Buffalo Bills.
01:55They're three and one in the division.
01:57They're four and two in the conference.
01:58They've got a head to head win over Baltimore, which is what's keeping them ahead of Baltimore also in the standings right now.
02:05So they're, they're in, they're in really good shape from a tiebreaker standpoint.
02:09I think the other things they have going for them is that that indie game in week 18 is kind of a wild card right now.
02:15The Colts could be resting guys if they keep winning.
02:17We're starting to approach, we're starting to approach a time of year where the, the math on winning the division is running out on the Texans here,
02:25especially if they lose to Indianapolis next week in week 13, there may be a point here where we're just hoping that the Colts rip ass over everybody that they play in the AFC
02:34and help the Texans help the Texans get a wild card spot.
02:38The biggest thing, these, this three game gauntlet here, as opposed to last year,
02:42when the three game gauntlet that the Texans had looked every bit as difficult as you expected it to be going through the whole season.
02:49Cause the Steelers, well, the Steelers were willing to accept it when they had to face the Steelers,
02:53the Ravens and the chiefs all in a three week period.
02:58The Dolphins.
02:59Yeah.
02:59The, um, the, it was in 11 days, those two teams, the, the, were the big ones that obviously the Texans just didn't pass the test.
03:08The chiefs and the Ravens.
03:09Yeah.
03:09Um, we've been looking at this bills, Colts, chiefs stretch for a long time.
03:14Now, um, the bills, despite all of their inconsistencies on offense and their incredibly bad run defense,
03:21they're still one of the best teams in the league and Josh Allen at any given night can really, really hurt you.
03:26They're favored by five and a half points.
03:28The bills in this game, the Colts and the chiefs are the ones that man, uh, there's not a chance in hell.
03:33I'm ever going to act like there's anything reason you should take the chiefs any more lightly or then, you know,
03:39like there's not on Sunday night football, no, no.
03:42In Kansas city, Kansas city in December.
03:45Colts are interesting.
03:46Cause Daniel Jones has started to look a little bit more like the Daniel Jones.
03:50We've come to known and no one chuckle at, um, through the years.
03:54But like, if you win this game versus the bills, you've got, so right now, the athletic probability calculator,
04:01a 23% chance to make the playoffs right now.
04:04If you beat the bills, 35% chance.
04:07Okay.
04:07If you beat the Colts, it goes up to 56%.
04:13Okay.
04:13Yeah.
04:14So these next, in the next two weeks, you can get on the right side of the coin flip to get into the playoffs.
04:19You can get into like, okay, we're not really climbing uphill.
04:22Now all of this will change if any of these other teams lose down the stretch, obviously.
04:27But the way it looks right now, that's the.
04:28If they're seven and six, if they take two out of these next three, this three game stretch you're talking about here,
04:34home bills this Thursday.
04:35At the chief Sunday night football week 14, if they're seven and six after that stretch,
04:42I feel really good about their chances of getting into the post season.
04:46Cause the next two games after that are the trash Cardinals who look like they've quit the trash Raiders who looked like garbage last night.
04:55And now you're talking about being nine and six after those two games, you split the chargers at the chargers who the chargers right now of all the teams that are in that,
05:05that cluster of teams.
05:07Yeah, that's the one that I'm talking when I say the cluster of teams, I'm talking about the wildcard teams.
05:11The division leaders are who they are right now.
05:13Some of them may fall back to the pack too, but just right now, snapshot of teams seeds, five through 10.
05:20The chargers have the makings of a fall apart down the stretch because a, they're the chargers and B they've got people like me and Ben blocking for Justin Herbert.
05:30Right?
05:30Yeah.
05:30Austin deculous, sorry, Ben Austin deculous, former Houston Texan wasn't doing a great job.
05:35So they traded for Trevor Penning.
05:36Who's been awful in new Orleans and now he's even worse.
05:39Yeah.
05:40I'm deculous.
05:40Remember Trevor Penning, the guy that was like, he got drafted in the first round because of a good combine.
05:46And because he would, he would beat people up after the play was over and idiots at the senior bowl thought that that was, that he was actually doing well.
05:55Every defensive lineman I talked to that watched Trevor Penning was like, this guy sucks.
05:59What, why are people so excited about him?
06:01But meanwhile, he had all these, all these wannabe tough guy, offensive line coaches.
06:05Look at him.
06:06He's driving that safety all the way off the side.
06:09Well, look at that.
06:10Oh, look at that.
06:10That 225 pound outside linebacker.
06:13After the guy sacked the quarterback, Trevor, you only got to trick a couple of them in the drafting.
06:20I cannot wait until the Texans see Trevor Penning in that week 17, man.
06:25Will Hunter, Will Anderson already made him look like a fool here at energy stadium a couple of years ago.
06:30Yeah.
06:30Trevor Penning had a really rough go of it.
06:32So, and everybody that asks why I am so, why I've got such an axe to grind against Trevor Penning, he also loved to do interviews where he would talk about how much he loved being able to legally inflict violence on people.
06:44Oh, my favorite movie is Saw.
06:46Saw, yeah.
06:47Something that should have gotten put in on a watch list.
06:49People are drafting him in the first round over.
06:52Saw.
06:53Right.
06:53Like, could you give me a Braveheart or something?
06:56Do you want something?
06:56You like serial killers?
06:58Right, right, right.
06:59What a weirdo.
07:00Let me ask you this real quick.
07:02As we look at the Texans' schedule, or standings, good and bad, does this concern you?
07:08The Jags are 6-4.
07:10Mm-hmm.
07:11Four of the games they have remaining are at Arizona, at Tennessee, home for the Jets, home for Tennessee.
07:19Those are four of their remaining games.
07:21They would have to lose to one of those teams in order to not win 10 games on the season.
07:26Yeah.
07:27Does that concern you at all?
07:28It concerns me given that, you're talking about the Jaguars, right?
07:30Jaguars, yeah.
07:31The, uh, that Trevor Lawrence looked pretty damn good last week.
07:34They'd, uh...
07:34They'd put for 150 yards.
07:35I know, but it was, uh...
07:36That's true.
07:37Okay, so he got short fields.
07:38Yeah.
07:39He got...
07:39Yeah.
07:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:40I mean, he didn't screw it up.
07:42All right.
07:43Yeah.
07:43I'm a victim of watching the highlights and the score.
07:46Okay.
07:46Gotta look at that box score every now and again.
07:48Yeah.
07:48Yep.
07:48Um, does that concern you that the Jags have such an easy schedule the rest of the way?
07:52It does.
07:53Yeah.
07:53It does.
07:53Uh, I'm less concerned about it if...
07:57The Texans next three weeks.
07:58It feels like the first half of the season, plus last week's game, was kind of, uh, an
08:04extremely excruciating preseason.
08:06Yes.
08:07I'm hoping to look at it that way.
08:08And they decided to rest CJ for the last three games of the preseason.
08:11Okay.
08:12That's...
08:12You know these modern football teams.
08:14And now here we go.
08:15Yeah.
08:15Nobody plays in the preseason anymore, so CJ sits out the final three games of the preseason,
08:20including this one, which is really the first game of the regular season.
08:24Yeah.
08:25But that's how modern and advanced we are.
08:26That's right.
08:27That's right.
08:27We're gonna get it going in week two.
08:29If they...
08:30I gotta keep reminding myself that, man, all right, you've gone 2-0 with your backup quarterback.
08:34If you go 3-0 with your backup quarterback and that final victory is versus the
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