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Seth and Sean discuss some elevator pitches they might make to DeMeco Ryans as far as rule changes now that he's been added to the NFL Competition Committee.
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00:00The D'Amico Ryans, along with Kevin O'Connell, have been added to the NFL's competition committee.
00:06So the Texans have a voice now, Seth.
00:08They've got a voice on the competition committee, so we can finally try to get some of these
00:12rule changes that might benefit the Texans pushed through.
00:15What were we most hosed by this year with the officials?
00:18I don't know about this year, but I know for sure if you were to put it to Texan fans
00:23about
00:23maybe the last couple years, those couple of calls against Mahomes in that playoff game
00:28were real big game changers.
00:29Son of a...
00:30So Booth Review is going to be a big one.
00:32Booth Review, I would say lightening up on the quarterback roughing calls a little bit.
00:37Yeah, that it's like without...
00:38You know what it is?
00:39Quarterbacks have gotten to the point where they can just whip their head back like Mahomes
00:43did in that situation with Will Anderson.
00:45Yeah.
00:46And an official ends up calling something which he did not see.
00:51Right.
00:51He sees the perceived effect of something, but he didn't actually see Will Anderson hit
00:57his helmet because Will Anderson didn't actually hit Pat Mahomes' helmet.
01:01Yep.
01:01So yeah, you can't call something unless you actually see it.
01:05I do think this year, I thought that they actually loosened up in a good way in some of the
01:11roughing the quarterback penalties.
01:13Yeah.
01:14One of our listeners suggested the land quarterback stuff.
01:20It got to a point where it was extreme.
01:22I felt like this year they were more reasonable about it.
01:25There were a few times where I got nervous because I saw guys, not just in Texans games,
01:30where it looked like, man, two or three years ago they would have called it.
01:33But just because a guy, the worst was guys would be trying not to land on a quarterback.
01:40And if there was like any incidental landing on him at all, he would still get flagged.
01:45They changed that a little bit.
01:46They can always refine it, but I think it was better this year.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Text in.
01:50If you had a chance, if you were at a Texans event, you had a chance to talk to D
01:54'Amico
01:54Ryans for a minute or two, and you could pull out a cocktail napkin and jot down what
02:00rule change you would want to see him try to push through.
02:03What would it be?
02:03Text in.
02:04Base power text line.
02:06713-572-4610.
02:10Mine would be, I felt strongly about this for a long time.
02:14I think face masks are some of the most obvious infractions to see on a review.
02:21A bad face mask is one of the most obvious things that if it doesn't get called on the
02:25field, it doesn't get called at all.
02:28And I just think that's wrong.
02:29I think it's one of the easiest things to see on replay.
02:32I think it's one of the easiest things to adjudicate on the field.
02:35Just take whatever the end of the play was, and now there's a face mask penalty.
02:39And it's an automatic first down and 15 yards.
02:42Because I saw that guy on that play stick his hand inside the guy's face mask and twist
02:47his neck.
02:49That one, that seems just too basic and too easy, and they should totally do it.
02:53But I think that there's, how are people in general feeling about the booth review?
02:58I feel like it has helped with the flow of the game.
03:01I feel like it's helped correct some egregious wrongs really quickly.
03:06Um, I think that there's still, there's moments where they need to do a better job of explaining
03:12that there was a booth review.
03:13Like after the, after the, um, the Brandon Cooks, uh, interception and, uh, or the dual
03:22possession, the interception, whatever in the, uh, playoffs there against the Denver Broncos.
03:27That was, I mean, part of the problem was, I mean, anytime the rules come up with Tony
03:30Romo, it's going to be a dicey proposition, but they just kind of, what to the viewer looked
03:37like, uh, a dicey call, they just rolled right into it.
03:42I feel like some of the uproar over it wouldn't have been as much as if they had just stopped
03:46and explained that, okay, this is why.
03:49And it was, but, um, there ended up being more debate about that.
03:52Cause I finally, and I succumbed to it.
03:54Uh, I like, I finally landed on realizing, okay, no, that wasn't a, that wasn't a catch.
03:59And it was a, uh, it made sense that it was a change.
04:02Yeah.
04:02Yeah.
04:03I mean, it's tough for bills fans, but yeah, that's, that's,
04:06it is what it is.
04:07Um, we need an anti-flopping slash head fake rule.
04:11Okay.
04:12Oh, oh yeah.
04:13So we were talking about the tech's got hosed when tear tart need Dalton Schultz in the
04:18chargers game.
04:19Yep.
04:19Need Dalton Schultz, and then slapped his helmet.
04:22Dalton Schultz gets up and gives just a shove to tear tart.
04:26He gets tear tart 330 pounder flops.
04:29Like he's just been assaulted on the streets or something.
04:32Yeah.
04:33Yeah.
04:33That's a, at the very least, I'd like to have booth review.
04:36You just to inject some sanity into stuff like that.
04:39Yes.
04:39When somebody is clearly instigating.
04:41Yeah.
04:42I know you're so fine.
04:44If Dalton Schultz still gets penalized, they're fine.
04:47Cause you shouldn't retaliate.
04:49Right.
04:49But for tear tart to go completely unchecked in that, that's bogus.
04:53Well, and for the chargers as a team to benefit from it.
04:56Right.
04:57That took a benefit from it.
04:59Yeah.
04:59That took a third and two and turn it into a third and 17 in that game.
05:03You've incentivized instigating.
05:05Yes.
05:06So in those situations where it's clear, fine, give Dalton Schultz a penalty because he shouldn't
05:10have retaliated, but also can we, can we punish the original criminal here?
05:15Yep.
05:15Yep.
05:16Yeah, exactly.
05:17T.R.
05:17Tart.
05:18Uh, uh, for all legal hits at that, at this, uh, the text is getting a little garbled.
05:24Caleb Williams, either get out of bounds or don't Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence, either slide
05:29or don't.
05:30Yeah.
05:30Also chiefs player did the same to Petrie after the rice hit.
05:35I don't, did Petrie get hit by some, I don't know, but that last part is, but I think this
05:39is something that goes back to the Aziz hit on Trevor Lawrence two seasons ago, back in
05:452024, which is yeah.
05:47Like Aziz is the villain because the hit was fun and it was vicious, but Trevor Lawrence
05:52is also trying to squeeze every last inch out of a play that he himself is turning into
05:57a violent, vicious play.
05:58You know, I, I watched that, you know, I'm not going to say I did a scientific study on
06:03it or anything, but just by my eyeball test, it felt like quarterbacks were not trying to
06:09fake slide or, you know, tiptoe on the sidelines as much this year.
06:14And I don't know if that's because they felt morally compelled to change their ways, or if
06:19it's that the simple fear of Aziz Alshire and a copycat might've actually might've been
06:26a dose of reality.
06:28And yeah, I think Aziz might've cleaned up one of the more annoying things about the
06:31league just in one fell swoop.
06:34Good job, Aziz.
06:35Yeah.
06:35One of the many reasons he was nominated for the Walter Payton man of the year award.
06:39Yes.
06:40That, that in his charitable efforts, but definitely that, you know, cleaning up the league.
06:44He cleaned up the league.
06:45He cleaned up for that.
06:46He cleaned up the league.
06:47It is one thing that they did.
06:49I, and honestly, I know this wasn't popular of me to say at the time, but when CJ got that
06:53concussion this year, that a lot of people were upset because they said, well, look, that's
06:59the kind of thing Aziz did last year.
07:00And he got flagged and suspended for it.
07:03Part of it is that because of that, what we asked for was, man, like if a guy, if a
07:09guy
07:09can't really control whether or not he hits the quarterback as the quarterback is sliding,
07:14then let's not penalize him for it.
07:16And that's what the league did this year.
07:18Cause I saw a couple instances.
07:20There was a time with Joe Flacco in a Browns game, um, where the same thing happened.
07:24The, that he like is if, if the defender hits the quarterback as he's sliding, but he doesn't
07:31hit him in the head, they picked up flags in a few different instances.
07:35And I'm, I'm cool with that.
07:36I know, I know Texans fans felt like they were getting hosed and it was, it was hypocritical,
07:42but it was because of that Aziz hit partly that they did.
07:45They tried to give the defender more of a benefit of the doubt.
07:48Right.
07:49That's right.
07:49That's right.
07:49I think Aziz would have still been flagged this year because there was help, you know,
07:54contact to the helmet.
07:55You're talking if he had the Trevor Lawrence hit again, again, he would probably still be
07:58flagged.
07:59Yeah.
07:59But I don't know.
08:00Maybe they would have rethought the part of his fine and suspension had his priors in
08:05there was a beat.
08:07I mean, there was a, it was a massive kerfuffle after it as well, which wasn't now that was
08:12the fault of the Jaguars.
08:13Yeah.
08:14Remember they get Aziz was on his way to the tunnel and that Jaguars player came over
08:19trying to be Joe tough guy.
08:20Yeah.
08:20It's funny.
08:21He couldn't, he couldn't protect his quarterback, you know, between the whistles, but he was
08:26going to go down and be a tough guy in the tunnel on the way out.
08:28It's funny.
08:29It's funny to say that that's a Garrett Houston stress is texted the show and texted my phone
08:35as well, that that's something he would like to see.
08:37If you could hand D'Amico one rule change or something for the competition committee
08:41to consider would be stiffer punishments for guys like the Jaguars instigating after that
08:48hit.
08:49Yeah.
08:49The bears sideline when Aziz hit Caleb Williams legally in bounds.
08:54Yeah.
08:55And he got surrounded like it was a karate kid and the guys, the skeletons were all surrounding
08:59Daniel LaRusso.
09:00Yeah.
09:00Including one of the code over there.
09:02Yeah.
09:02Yeah.
09:02That guy can go die too.
09:03That's right.
09:05Hey, let's get this in here real quick.
09:07Anytime Houston gets some love nationally on a podcast, we do that.
09:10This is Shannon, Shannon Sharpe and Ocho Cinco with Joe Johnson again, Joe Johnson, who
09:16may live in Houston based on his talk in here, because he talks about the yoga studios in
09:21Houston.
09:22This is Shannon Sharpe getting nervous about even talking about the temptations that exist
09:26in our fair city again.
09:28You know, Houston, a nice place.
09:29Man, there you go.
09:32Hey, why y'all scared of Houston, man?
09:34What's up?
09:35I ain't scared of Houston.
09:36I'm petrified.
09:37Hey, hey, Joe, who in their right mind want to go to the devil's playground willingly?
09:42Listen, hold on, hold on.
09:43Ocho, Ocho.
09:44Houston has great yoga studios.
09:46They got great people out there.
09:47Hey, it's going to be a time, boy.
09:49A different type of stretching be going on, Joe.
09:51That's why I say I'm fired.
09:55I'm good.
09:56I'm good.
09:58I'm just saying.
09:59You don't want to fight that temptation they got around now.
10:01No, no.
10:02Look, as an addict, no matter what your addiction is, you got to fight that every single day.
10:08We need to go somewhere like neutral, where they got yoga studios like Iowa.
10:12Come on, bro.
10:13North Dakota.
10:14Don't they got like Jamaica or Mexico?
10:16Can't you stretch on the beach or something?
10:18Don't they got classes on the beach?
10:19Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Tulum.
10:21Look, I'll leave the class, bro.
10:23We, you know, get a couple extras in there to kind of fill in, but yeah.
10:26And also, you know, I'm a Zumba instructor down here in Miami on Wednesdays.
10:30You a what?
10:31Come on, Joe.
10:31Look at my Instagram bio.
10:33I'm a Zumba instructor.
10:34I think I got to come to Miami in March to the beginning.
10:37Come on, that's your boy, Ocho.
10:38You can stay here at my place.
10:40He say he can't bring nobody with him.
10:42Oh, he ain't bringing nobody.
10:43He's just coming just by himself.
10:44He might have this lady with him.
10:45You bringing somebody with you on?
10:46Those that know won't tell.
10:48Those that tell won't know.
10:51I can listen to Ocho saying, hey, Joe, all day long.
10:55It doesn't matter what's after it.
10:56It can be anything.
10:59It was Ocho saying he's a Zumba instructor.
11:01Yes, in Miami, in Miami on Wednesdays.
11:05I believe it.
11:07He probably is.
11:08He's into all kinds of things people don't expect him to be into.
11:10Car racing, Zumba instructing, everything.
11:14That is as part-time as it gets.
11:16I'm a Zumba instructor in Miami on Wednesdays.
11:19I could totally see him doing that.
11:21Oh.
11:21He was always, you know, when he was a young player, he was like, he slept at the facility.
11:26Yeah.
11:26He was just, he's a really unique, eccentric individual.
11:30Hey.
11:30In a good way.
11:31Like, he was, for all of his, you know, antics and everything with the celebrations that people
11:37would, it'd be easy to just look at him like, ah, he's just some flat.
11:40Like, he would work his butt off.
11:42He was a really unique dude.
11:43Hey, real quick.
11:44What is Zumba?
11:45It's like a type of aerobics type of dance aerobics.
11:48Like aerobics, I think.
11:49Okay.
11:49Gotcha.
11:50Gotcha.
11:50Gotcha.
11:51Yeah, I did.
11:51I think.
11:52Okay.
11:52Yeah.
11:53Chad Johnson, Zumba instructor.
11:56Yeah.
11:57I'm going to, I hope I, there's like a him and a, you know, I got some fong, leotard
12:00or something.
12:02Yeah.
12:03I'll ask during the break.
12:05It's all good.
12:05It's all good.
12:07You'll ask what?
12:08I'll find out what Zumba is for sure during the break.
12:10Oh, no, no, no.
12:11Yeah, that's what I was, I was just looking up to see.
12:13You're trying to sign up for his class?
12:14I was like, yeah, yeah.
12:16I get it.
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