00:00You are hypothesizing that the Texans are making that happen around the AFC South now.
00:05You know how sometimes you start pressing?
00:08Yes.
00:08It could be at work.
00:10It could be on this show.
00:12It could be in basketball.
00:13It could be in golf.
00:13It could be at the plate when the bases are loaded and you have three balls.
00:17Right.
00:18And you're not going to let that go.
00:21It's so dumb to me.
00:22You're not going to let that go either.
00:23It's a 3-1 count.
00:24It is.
00:25And he hasn't thrown you anything in the zone.
00:26No.
00:27Why are you?
00:28Yes.
00:28Yes.
00:29So you know how sometimes you start pressing?
00:32Mm-hmm.
00:32I'm getting the feeling that because the Texans, they're so good and they're, what's the word
00:40I'm looking for?
00:40I guess connected and organized and, you know, they just have everything, all their ducks
00:48proverbially in a row.
00:49I feel like some of these other teams in the division are pressing a little bit.
00:52And that includes Jacksonville, which, you know, I know Jacksonville, you know, won the
00:56division and they seem to be getting a lot of love.
01:01But something kind of triggered my thought on this.
01:04The Titans, for sure, are pressing.
01:07Did you see what they did with their...
01:08You think they're pressing?
01:09I think they are.
01:10Interesting.
01:10Okay.
01:10I want to hear your thought process on this because I think this is the complete opposite.
01:14So I think you're basing this off of the president of operations, former president of operations
01:18now for the Titans, Chad Brinker, is stepping down from his role.
01:22He was previously, I think he was the assistant general manager under, was that Ron Carthon?
01:30There we go.
01:30And then he was charged with bringing in the new general manager.
01:33Yes.
01:33Then he got hired above Ron Carthon.
01:36And then when they fired Ron Carthon, as you mentioned, he was charged with bringing
01:39in the new general manager, who is now Mike Bargonzi, who came over from Kansas City.
01:44Yeah.
01:44Now, after some time, right, he has decided to step down.
01:48And you're viewing this as an unforced error from the team.
01:50Yeah.
01:50I think they're just overthinking things here.
01:52And part of it is Amy Adams-Drunk is just awful at her job and an awful person.
01:56Anything else you want to say about her?
01:58That's part of it.
01:59Did you see who they're rumored, reported, Paul Kaharski, who's so plugged into the Titans,
02:05it was saying that they could be creating room for Bryce Wasserman.
02:10And I know you're asking yourself, who's Bryce Wasserman?
02:12Oh, man, I'm familiar with Bryce Wasserman, man.
02:14We go way back.
02:15Yeah.
02:15Went to his bar mitzvah.
02:16Did you go to the wedding?
02:17Because Amy Adams-Drunk was there.
02:19Oh, really?
02:19Bryce Wasserman is Amy Adams-Drunk's son-in-law.
02:22Ah.
02:24Ah.
02:26Got it.
02:27I think, like, the whole, and so that kind of triggered it, and then it was kind of sort
02:32of galvanized with this.
02:34I saw this list of even the Jaguars, you know, considered to have reached a lot in the draft,
02:41right?
02:41So there was a consensus big board, which Nick Serra talked about yesterday, and we'll get
02:45to that later.
02:46But there was a consensus big board.
02:48And these are the picks that the Jaguars made.
02:52The first number is where they were expected to be taken.
02:54The second number is where they were taken.
02:57Nate Borkinger, 163 and was taken at 56.
03:01Albert Regis, expected 150, taken at 81.
03:05Jalen Husky, expected at 187, taken at 100.
03:08Wesley Williams, expected at 236, taken at 119.
03:12Every single player they drafted was a reach.
03:15Like, they almost are, hey, we did some smart things last year, thinking out of the box.
03:19Let's think some more out of the box.
03:20Let's, you know, let's, they're expecting a curveball.
03:22Let's throw a fastball, you know, or vice versa or whatever.
03:25And of course, we know the Colts are kind of, you know, pressing for lack of a better
03:31way to do it.
03:31I mean, they don't.
03:32Just the Daniel Jones of it all?
03:33They're banking on Daniel Jones.
03:34They're banking on Daniel Jones.
03:35They have, they've let a couple of players, you know, walk.
03:38Brayden Smith being one of them, you know, and.
03:41I wouldn't put the Brayden Smith as a press.
03:42Who's a free agent.
03:43They've got young, they've got young tackles that they are immediately allowing us.
03:47They've got young interior players that they like, and we'll see about the tackles, but
03:51they don't have a coherent, coherent, that's the word I was looking for.
03:55The Texans are very coherent, you know, in what they do and everything they do.
04:00Meanwhile, the Titans are hiring sons-in-law.
04:02The Jaguars are, you know, it got good to them that they, you know, that they kind of
04:06thought outside the box, and now they're doing it across the board.
04:09The Colts are like, hey, Daniel Jones, Achilles heel, no problem.
04:11You're our starting quarterback.
04:13It's almost as if they're forcing these other teams to press a little bit.
04:17That's interesting.
04:18I think that when you remain at the top of a division for some time, you become the hunter,
04:24or the hunted, rather.
04:25If you, especially in a division like the AFC South, where competence has been at a
04:29premium, I think it's fair to acknowledge that teams are trying to get back competent.
04:36I think that, funny enough, I would put these issues with these various different teams a
04:40little bit further away from the Texans themselves.
04:42The Colts, probably.
04:43The Colts, I could see that, right?
04:44The Colts.
04:45Window they think is open.
04:46Right.
04:47You know.
04:47And that feels like, hey, we're competing with what the Texans have been.
04:51I think the Jaguars are just dealing with, we hired a wunderkind, and this is the burden
04:57of perceived genius.
04:58If you believe yourself to be a genius, you have to validate that at every turn.
05:02But that's pressing.
05:03I will validate my genius.
05:04But I don't think that has anything to do with the Texans, per se.
05:06I think that dude in particular, like, he didn't have to be the general manager of the
05:09Jaguars specifically for this to come up.
05:11If he had gotten a job with the Cardinals, if he had gotten a job with the Bengals, he
05:17would be doing this because he feel like, look at me and look at how smart I am, and
05:21I will demonstrate how smart I am.
05:22I will pick things.
05:23Pick players that y'all didn't even think were this good.
05:26Do you feel like the Jags actually hired him because of the Texans?
05:30Maybe.
05:30Were they trying to?
05:31No.
05:31I thought maybe because he's outside the box.
05:33Yeah.
05:33That's what I'm saying.
05:34Man, like, we know who they had as their GM the last few years.
05:39So, I wonder if they felt like they need to try to keep up with the Joneses a little bit
05:44and try to do something they usually don't do.
05:47I think they've been zigging for so long they needed to zag.
05:51You know?
05:51And that to me...
05:53That's what it felt like with the hire from last year, to be honest.
05:55Yeah, and yeah, just changing it to go completely the opposite direction.
06:00I don't know.
06:01I think the Texans are kind of in their heads, at minimum.
06:03Like, we've got to find a way to keep up.
06:05It might be unorthodox, like the Jaguars.
06:08It might be risky, like the Colts.
06:10It might be, hell, you know, we're incompetent.
06:13Let's try this.
06:13You know, like the Titans.
06:14You know, or something like that.
06:16So, I think the Texans are just kind of in their heads.
06:18Maybe that's a better way to put it.
06:19It seems like they're trying to operate like the Texans are going to be around for a long time.
06:23Yes.
06:23Yes.
06:23I do agree with that.
06:25Yeah, I can see that at the very least, right?
06:27And they're trying to get to some level of competence with varying different degrees of success.
06:32I think that this move makes sense, at least for the dude who steps down, Rinker.
06:40Again, the reporting seems to follow that he wanted to be close to the football side of operations.
06:47You bring him Borgonzi.
06:49He was respected.
06:50Yeah, you bring him Borgonzi, and now we're turning more of this over to Borgonzi.
06:53And Robert Sala has enough status to where he also is going to take some oxygen in the room.
06:58And he looked around, and he's like, actually, I'm further away from the things that I want to do.
07:02Now, whether this is pressing or not, the idea to, hey, well, I'm just going to put my son-in
07:07-law in here.
07:07I think that that's the place where you can hit the Titans.
07:10That's where we can laugh at them.
07:11I think the Brinker thing is one of those things that naturally happens.
07:14Do the guy even got some experience or anything?
07:17He's got a title in the organization.
07:20But to make him one of the big football guys?
07:23I'm wondering, if you was a Titans fan, should you feel confident with this move?
07:29No, not in the least bit.
07:31I mean, I like my daughters-in-law and sons-in-law.
07:34I wouldn't expect them to do radio.
07:36Damn!
07:37I wouldn't expect them to do radio.
07:38Have them take over the Bite Me podcast or something.
07:40Yeah, no, that's a hard no.
07:42That's a hard no.
07:43You just went over a few lanes of traffic to hit the daughters-in-sons-in-law for no reason.
07:50But yeah, I wouldn't go that far.
07:52But obviously, it says something to the Texans.
07:54Like, we could plausibly say this because the Texans have been atop of what is happening.
07:58And it doesn't seem like they're stopping anytime soon because of the way that they built this team.
08:03I agree.
08:03But I got distracted.
08:05It should be called the tricycle.
08:07If you are a triple short of the cycle.
08:10Yeah, a tricycle.
08:11But it feels like, in my mind, I hear tricycle.
08:13I'm like, you did it three times?
08:15You did it three times?
08:16How did that happen?
08:17How did that happen?
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