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Seth and Sean discuss which of the Texans' foes in the AFC South had the most potentially concerning offseason for the Texans.
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00:00All right, here was Jeffrey Simmons. We played this yesterday, but I think it's a good lead-in to what
00:04we're about to talk about here.
00:06Which AFC South team's offseason makes you the most nervous right now as a Texan fan?
00:12This is what made me think of this, is this is Jeffrey Simmons of the Titans talking about what a
00:17great player he thinks Tavondre Sweat,
00:19who the Titans traded away to the Jets, is going to be.
00:22It was a surprise to me, like I, you know, just understanding that and trying to get a feel for
00:30why,
00:31because I feel like Sweat still got, he's got some potential that sometimes he don't understand it.
00:39And I feel like to, for me, it was my, that's the reason why I'm like, Sweat, you coming to
00:43Dallas with me this offseason.
00:44I wanted to pull that out of him to be able to like, I have so much potential.
00:49I could be the best nose tackle in the game of football, and he had the potential to do that.
00:53And, you know, I hate it, like, you know, but it's a business.
00:57That's a business of football that they don't tell you about, man.
01:00It's one of them things to where you build a relationship and things like that happen,
01:03especially with a young player going on year three.
01:06Like, I didn't expect it, but it's one of them things to where I can't really do nothing about it.
01:12If a big part of sports, Seth, is matchups and, you know, styles make fights, things like that.
01:17The move of the Titans getting Tavondre Sweat out of the division was, I was thrilled when I saw this
01:23show.
01:23I was like Jeffrey Simmons.
01:24I was stunned.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Only because we've seen, you know, in the games that he played in, I know he missed a game last
01:30year.
01:30I think he missed that week four game last year when they played.
01:33But the games that Tavondre Sweat has played in against the Texans, he's been impactful.
01:37So I was happy to see the Titans do that and trade him and get him out of the division,
01:42you know, get him out of here.
01:43Yeah, I wasn't that surprised just because it made sense for the style of Robert Sala's defense.
01:50And Tavondre Sweat doesn't necessarily fit exactly the way you visualize it.
01:57And it's just funny because that's the same thing we were saying about D'Amico,
02:00or at least people were saying about D'Amico not potentially wanting a guy like Cade McDonald.
02:04But I think Sala and D'Amico maybe have diverged a little bit.
02:08And for one, Sala, still, Sala's coming in in his first year and needs to try to get that defense
02:15looking more like the personnel that he likes the most.
02:18D'Amico's in a spot now where he's already done that.
02:22And bringing a guy like Cade McDonald in is kind of a cherry on top.
02:27It might not be his first order of business if he were coming in in the first year.
02:31And it wasn't for the first three years.
02:33But right now it feels like, oh, yeah, we can use that.
02:36Like if D'Amico had Tavondre Sweat on the roster right now, he'd be really happy to have Tavondre Sweat
02:41on the roster.
02:42Yes, yes.
02:42So it got me thinking yesterday, all right, the offseasons that these teams have had,
02:46because the Titans have done other things, obviously.
02:50Which AFC South foe had the scariest offseason for you if you're a Texans fan?
02:56Here was Emory Hunt, who we played a little bit earlier.
02:58Is this also from the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, Seth?
03:01No, this is from the – these are all from cbssports.com.
03:05Okay, gotcha.
03:06So this is Emory Hunt on the Titans offseason.
03:10This is a fun team.
03:11I think because you have a young star quarterback in Cam Ward,
03:15getting him some weapons at wide receiver in Cornell Tate,
03:18and what you look at in Wendell Robinson,
03:20and defensively, man, Robertson is going to turn his defense into a monster.
03:23I feel like this team will be one of those organizations that we'll see and, say,
03:28have a puncher's chance in each and every game that they face.
03:31They may be better down the stretch of the season as opposed to the start,
03:35but I love the fact that this team has a franchise quarterback,
03:37has some explosiveness on offense, got better along the offensive line,
03:41and defensively, man, they added a bunch of pieces in free agency and in the draft.
03:45I think this is a team that's probably going to be a year early.
03:49We may see them go up this ranking pretty quickly.
03:51I think 6-11 is the floor for this football team.
03:54That's the killer at the end.
03:57He was talking very gushingly about it, and then he says 6-11 is the floor.
04:02The floor, yeah, yeah.
04:03I think I would agree with – I pulled these clips mostly because these guys,
04:08I agree by and large with pretty much everything they said.
04:11And he was kind of – when I heard him talking so bullishly on the Titans offseason,
04:17I was like, man, he's kind of building to a crescendo here.
04:19And then he says the floor is 6-11.
04:21I'm like, yep, yep, that sounds more like – I think they did some good things in the offseason.
04:25They did some things to kind of form them in the mold of what Robert Sala wants.
04:30They did things to help out their young quarterback.
04:32And yet it's hard for me to envision it being an immediate turnaround.
04:36No, but by saying the floor is 6-11 implies – I mean, that would double their win total from
04:42last year.
04:43Right, it would double their win total.
04:44We're right, but like, you know, the lowest – like you always point out,
04:48the lowest you're going to see on win totals is usually 4-1⁄2.
04:50Sure, sure.
04:51You know, because it's hard to not win games in the NFL when you're a bad team.
04:55So the other part that was relevant there was he said they're a team that could get better
04:59by the end of the season or the second half of the season.
05:02Yeah.
05:02Which, you know, week five, I don't think that's necessarily when it would start clicking.
05:06But the final game of the season, if that's an important one for the Texans,
05:10you could see the Titans being a team that's out of the playoffs,
05:13but they've got a player's coach and a really good motivator in Robert Sala
05:18that you could totally see the Titans being a five-win football team,
05:22but that's played a bunch of close games.
05:24Yeah.
05:24And saying, hey, this is our playoffs.
05:26We've got to prove that we can beat teams like this.
05:28The Texans need this game.
05:30Let's spoil their postseason or their seeding or whatever it is.
05:34And if Cam Ward has had a season where it looks like he's made progress
05:38and they're married to him still,
05:39there's no reason for them to lose that game at the end of the year.
05:42You know, there's no reason to jockey for a draft position or something like that.
05:47So that game will be meaningful just in terms of trying to continue to establish a winning culture.
05:53I agree with you.
05:55I agree with you on that.
05:56They spent a ton of money on the defensive side of the ball.
05:59They moved on from LeJarrius Sneed, but they signed some other corners.
06:02They signed Franklin Myers, the defensive tackle.
06:05So they spent a lot of money on that side of the ball.
06:08The thing that would have really scared me about the Titans offseason,
06:12because I've got to tell you, you know, the whole thing,
06:14like they drafted Cardinal Tate and they signed Wandale Robinson.
06:17I'm like, okay.
06:18I mean, we'll see.
06:19If Jeremiah Love had made it past the Arizona Cardinals at three
06:23and he was drafted by the Titans at four,
06:27that would have made, that probably would have blindly made me have the Titans
06:33as the answer to the question in this segment.
06:35Well, that's kind of one of those things that, yeah, it's an X factor in every single game they play.
06:42So if the Titans are an improved team and they're the kind of team that can play,
06:46then maybe they lose a bunch of games, but they're by one score.
06:48Yeah.
06:49Jeremiah loves that guy that all of a sudden just flips the script with one big play.
06:53Yep.
06:53And like a young Vince Young, you know, his rookie year versus the Texans.
06:59It's like, all right, Vince Young breaks off a couple of big runs,
07:02makes one incredible pass, and you lose to an inferior football team.
07:06They were really aggressive on defense.
07:09They added at least five starters in free agency, and they drafted the linebacker, Anthony Hill.
07:14They added three starters in free agency to the offensive side of the ball,
07:19and then they drafted Cardinal Tate.
07:21It's a lot of new talent, but it's also a lot of change,
07:25and at least a few of those free agents aren't going to work out.
07:28I think Cardinal Tate is one of those guys where you could see, man,
07:33I think he could end up being a really good pro, but he doesn't necessarily terrify me versus this defense.
07:39Right.
07:40He's not the guy that's going to all of a sudden just be running by everybody.
07:43Kamari and Stanley.
07:45Yeah, yeah.
07:45He could have some productive games and whatnot because he's very, like every other Ohio statewide receiver,
07:52very polished.
07:53Sure.
07:53But he doesn't strike fear in my heart the way that Jeremiah Lovewood has been.
07:57No, no, and that would have put it over the top for me.
08:01I think Titans had a good offseason.
08:03I get what you're saying, Seth, about sweat and the style of defense Salah wants to play.
08:09Yeah.
08:09The sum total of everything.
08:11I think they – look, when you have $100 million in cap space, you're going to win the offseason
08:15unless you just make some stupid moves.
08:17I think they had the best offseason of the other teams in the division.
08:22I do, too.
08:23I think they're the most improved team.
08:26Now, the Jaguars are obviously starting off a lot higher, but I think the Titans are the
08:29most improved.
08:30Right, right.
08:30Well, let's look at the other two for a second here.
08:33Here's Emory Hunt, same guy we just heard from, on the Indianapolis Colts offseason.
08:38I'm seeing them taking a slight step back.
08:40They'll still be in the mix in the hunt.
08:42The biggest issue for me, and maybe is I'm a little biased because of the running back position,
08:46but Travis Achan being just unceremoniously let go or just moved on from – I feel like
08:52that's going to be a big, huge loss for this offense.
08:54He was the explosive element out of the backfield.
08:58Travis Achan.
09:01Travis Achan.
09:01He's talking about the Colts?
09:03I think the cuts got mixed up.
09:05Oh, yeah.
09:06That was the – oh, did I label those wrong?
09:08All right.
09:09Sorry.
09:09That's okay.
09:10So the Colts –
09:11You're talking about the – that was for the Jaguars, obviously.
09:13We have leisure on the Colts.
09:14We have – oh, okay.
09:16So let's just play the one – whoever – this is somebody talking about the Colts.
09:20Backfield.
09:21First three games, Ravens, Chiefs, Texans.
09:23I mean, that's a tough gauntlet for Daniel Jones, especially coming off an Achilles injury.
09:28And then they lose front-line kind of faces of the franchise.
09:31When you talk about Zaire Franklin, the linebacker, not being there anymore.
09:34Kenny Moore, who was not only great on their team, but great in the community.
09:38And then Michael Pittman.
09:39So, like, there's a lot of change with this team.
09:41They didn't have a first-round pick.
09:42Like, essentially, Sauce Gardner was their first-round pick.
09:45Love what they did in the draft.
09:46But when you just look at the other teams in the AFC South, I felt like this offseason,
09:50the Colts have kind of taken a step back.
09:52Okay.
09:53I got confused for two reasons.
09:55One –
09:56Because I mislabeled the clip.
09:58Yeah, yeah.
09:58That was the Jags cut.
09:59Yeah, we flipped them back and forth.
10:00That's okay.
10:02I completely forgot that we're calling Travis Etienne A-Chan now.
10:06Yeah, that's right.
10:06In my mind, I heard it.
10:09I'm like, did Seth pull a Dolphins cut here?
10:11No, I was thinking of the Jaguars, and you said A-Chan.
10:13Yeah, you forgot about the whole A-Chan pronunciation thing?
10:16Yes, I totally forgot about it.
10:18You did?
10:18Oh.
10:19Yeah.
10:19I haven't stopped thinking about it.
10:20Yeah.
10:21Well, I was also expecting a cut on the Colts, too.
10:23Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:24So I was going in super confused.
10:25I was wondering why you were all confused about A-Chan.
10:27I was like – then I got confused.
10:29No, no, no.
10:30Yeah, right.
10:30A-Chan went to the Saints, yeah.
10:32Well, if I knew it was a Jags cut, then I would have –
10:35I know, I know.
10:36Yeah, yeah.
10:36No, as far as – so who are we on?
10:39We're on the Colts, right?
10:40Yes.
10:42We're on the Colts.
10:43There's the thing about the Colts and the Jaguars.
10:46They didn't do anything.
10:48And the Colts – because neither of them had a first-round pick.
10:51Because as he said right there, I mean, Sauce Gardner is their first-round pick.
10:56That's why the Colts had painted themselves into such a box, into such a corner with Daniel Jones
11:04because they had traded away their future for Sauce Gardner, who ended up injured for them.
11:10And the crazy thing about that is you might say, well, yeah, it's unlucky that Sauce Gardner got injured.
11:16It wouldn't have mattered.
11:18Daniel Jones got injured.
11:20And it would – like they traded away everything, and now they've got to roll the dice on Daniel Jones
11:25for another year.
11:26They're coming off a torn Achilles tendon.
11:28They're a mess, man.
11:29I don't – what's the over-under on the Colts right now?
11:32Probably, I would guess six and a half, seven wins.
11:35Daniel Jones is going to suck again.
11:36Like, I know it in my bones.
11:38What are you – like, you're expecting – you want your running back to stay healthy the whole season?
11:44Good luck with that.
11:45Okay, what do you think it is?
11:47I'm looking at what it is at DraftKings right now and a couple other spots.
11:51It's the same in some of the big betting spots right now.
11:54What do you think the season win total is for the Colts?
11:57Okay, I remember looking at the season win totals and the differences between the games last year
12:03and the games this year, and the Colts didn't drop off all that much.
12:06So I'm guessing their win total is eight and a half.
12:09Seven and a half at DraftKings, but it is up to eight, eight and a half in other places.
12:14So it's seven and a half skewing upwards, I'll call it.
12:17So it's not that – it's not a win total of a horrible team, but it's not the win total
12:22of a team that people think is going to be in the postseason.
12:24I think they're going to be a bad football team this year.
12:26I do too.
12:27I'm not scared of the Colts at all.
12:29And I've never been scared of Daniel Jones, including last year, ten games into the season.
12:35I mean, I was saying there's a shelf life on this guy.
12:37There always has been.
12:38It was – look, Kalen Bullock said it.
12:40He probably shouldn't have said it, but he said it before the Colts game, said they're not worried about anything
12:47other than Jonathan Taylor.
12:48That's it.
12:48He didn't say Daniel Jones specifically, but Jonathan Taylor is the engine that makes the – he's the engine that
12:55drives that offense.
12:57And if he stays healthy, great.
12:59That's still a huge headache and a concern.
13:01But Daniel Jones, who really relies on his mobility and also having a guy like Jonathan Taylor or Saquon Barkley
13:09back in the day to really make it work for him.
13:12And I just – I don't see it.
13:14The biggest thing I'm rooting for in the division – and keep in mind, this is in a division where
13:18we hate the Titans for obvious reasons.
13:21We hate the Colts because of the history with the Texans.
13:25The biggest thing I'm rooting for is that this offseason that the magnificent Gladstone has had, where he's let a
13:31ton of guys walk, including some really good players, Travis Achan, Devin Lloyd, let those guys walk, where he did
13:38a bunch of – he had a bunch of picks in the draft that were – like the vast majority
13:44of his picks were overdrafted compared to the consensus.
13:48And I know what people are going to say.
13:49Well, the Texans drafted Keelan Rutledge and Marlon Klein.
13:52They were overdrafts.
13:53I get it.
13:54They are.
13:54And in that – and maybe they're risky.
13:56We'll find out.
13:57But every single one –
13:59Gladstone did it for the whole draft.
14:00It was – this is the thing about Gladstone is that every step along the way, he has operated like
14:06a cliche version of a young hot shot that thinks he's smarter than everybody else.
14:12And every now and then, one of those guys is a Theo Epstein.
14:16You know, more times than not, they self-immolate.
14:21They just – they are just clever by three measures too many.
14:26And this draft was just – if it was one thing, if it was some other GM that did it,
14:32maybe a guy had been around for a while, you might think, oh, well, maybe he's on to something.
14:36Maybe he's doing something.
14:37We don't know.
14:38Well, the place Gladstone came from, the Rams, if Les Snead were doing this, he's got the trust level in
14:44day two and day three to do things like that.
14:46Right, right, right, right.
14:47So he might be Theo Epstein.
14:49He might be Jeff Luno.
14:50Who knows?
14:51It's just – that's hard to – it's harder to pull off these days now that everybody is on board
14:58the analytics train.
14:59It's like you're not going to be – when some of those teams started using analytics really effectively, it was
15:04a huge gap between them and people who were doing it the old way.
15:07You can only gain so much of an advantage now when most teams are pretty heavily analytical.
15:13And I think that it's just – maybe if James Gladstone came along in the year 2005, he would have
15:18revolutionized the sport.
15:19Right.
15:20I just don't – I feel like right now he's a little too big for his britches.
15:23And I need that –
15:23And they're tiny little britches to begin with.
15:25They are.
15:25They're skinny little, tiny little vampire face britches is what they are.
15:29And they – I need them to implode.
15:33That's the biggest thing I need in the division.
15:35I need that – I need Gladstone's whole offseason to blow up in his face.
15:40You know what – you know the one – one of the annoying tech bro things that they'll talk about
15:44is they all want to be a disruptor.
15:45Yeah, it's a big word.
15:47They all want to be a disruptor.
15:48I'm really surprised we haven't heard him say disruptor.
15:50Oh, he has at some point.
15:51I'm guessing he has at some point.
15:52I guarantee you.
15:52You know what?
15:53I'm going to Google that and see if we can find a press conference where he said disrupt or disruptor.
15:58I'm with you.
15:59The Titans offseason – just to answer the full question we teased into the segment with,
16:03the Titans offseason is probably the one that – it doesn't scare me.
16:08It's not like I'm scared of the Titans, but I think that if there were some sort of massive shift
16:13by one team in the division,
16:15if I had to pick one team to shift one way or the other, I would say that the Titans
16:20–
16:20I don't think it's out of the question the Titans could finish like second in the division this year.
16:24Fourth place schedule, made a bunch of moves, you got a better head coach.
16:27I'd be happy for them.
16:28I'd be happy for them and all of their inbred fans.
16:30Yeah, as long as it's not at the expense of the Texans.
16:33As long as it's not with the Texans falling to third or fourth, I'm fine with it.
16:36It's hard for me.
16:37I like Robert Sala a lot.
16:38Yeah.
16:38He's one of my favorite NFL coaches.
16:41He was in the building here when you were a player.
16:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:44He was a quality control guy.
16:46He held up the cards for the scout team.
16:48Man.
16:48Look at him now.
16:50A two-time head coach.
16:51He's already a retread.
16:52He had no children at that point.
16:54Now he's got like 19.
16:55Oh, yeah.
16:55He got after it the last several years, man.
16:57Yeah.
16:57He's gotten laid several times.
16:59Doesn't he have like seven kids?
17:01He's got a ton of kids.
17:02He's got a boatload of kids.
17:03I think eight.
17:03Him and Phillip Rivers.
17:04Yeah.
17:05Eight kids?
17:05I think it's eight.
17:06I'm pretty sure.
17:07Oh, my gosh.
17:07Fact check me on that.
17:09I think Robert Sala's got eight kids.
17:11In the meantime, I'll read a couple texts.
17:13Okay.
17:14I tweeted this yesterday.
17:15Eight children.
17:16Yeah, eight.
17:17That's what I thought.
17:19Rasheed Rice needed the weed because he's still feeling the effects of the Jalen Petrie hit.
17:23That's what I said yesterday.
17:24I gave him a pass.
17:25I'm like, hey, it gets a pass.
17:27Look at this hit.
17:27He's got to be feeling that five months later.
17:31Man, that was...
17:31Kind of like, yeah, it's like a scene from Platoon or something.
17:35You can just see him sitting there smoking weed thinking about the time he's been out there in the crap.
17:40He can't get it out of his head.
17:41He keeps playing it on a loop.
17:42Yeah, man.
17:43You had Jalen Petrie coming after him.
17:45Cut the guy some slack.
17:46Yeah.
17:47Was that the Viet Cong?
17:48No, it was Jalen Petrie.
17:50It was Jalen Petrie.
17:53Here's Peter Schrager on ESPN yesterday.
17:56Okay, so we just got done talking about the AFC South.
17:59Are we concerned about the off seasons any of these teams have had?
18:02But the Texans played the Bengals in week two.
18:06This is Peter Schrager saying, hey, you know who might be a hot pick this year in the NFL?
18:13We're saying this in May, but just wait for August.
18:15This is going to be the trendy pick for a lot of people for Super Bowl out of the AFC.
18:19Not only did they spend the fourth most in the free agent market as any team, which is not Bengals
18:25football this offseason,
18:27they bring back 11 starters on offense.
18:3011 starters on offense for an offense that was high flying when Burrow was in there.
18:34All the turnover within the division, Ravens, Browns, Steelers, all new head coaches.
18:39The Bengals seem to be the stable situation, and Burrow being on site there at minicamp,
18:45there's a lot of reason to be optimistic about the Bengals.
18:47Okay, look, are the Bengals this fun young team?
18:53Texans are this fun young team.
18:56Are we, listen, Peter Schrager, are we going to ignore that as you're predicting all of this bubbling optimism for
19:03the Bengals,
19:03that Joe Burrow was probably the most up in his feelings, emo, moping around,
19:11basically making cryptic statements about his future with the organization?
19:16There's just as good a chance that by August, we're already talking about Joe Burrow potential trade destination.
19:23Oh, yeah.
19:23I know.
19:25August is way too early for that.
19:26But they get off to a rough start, man.
19:28Joe Burrow was all but campaigning to be traded last year.
19:32It was, the fact that he wasn't more maligned for being so mopey about everything really kind of annoys me.
19:39They open with the Buccaneers, obviously the Texans here in week two.
19:45They're at the Steelers in week three.
19:47So I'm just trying to see if they're, you know, if this is a schedule that's conducive to, you know,
19:52to Joe Burrow feeling that way.
19:53They have the Jags in week four.
19:55Yeah.
19:56And then the Dolphins, Ravens.
19:57Okay, so it's a normal.
19:58There's nothing remarkable about their first six games.
20:01They have some hard games.
20:02They have some easy games, whatever the case may be.
20:04The other thing about, do you realize they're bringing 11 starters back on offense?
20:10Their offensive line stunk last year.
20:12Their offensive line has not been good really since Burrow got there.
20:16And they bolstered their defense because their defense was atrocious last year.
20:20They bolstered their defensive line heavily.
20:23And that's the interesting part.
20:25If it were just Dexter Lawrence, I would say, well, good luck with that.
20:28There's one thing about really good nose tackles.
20:30It's that they're awesome, like, on a really good, like, they can be a key element of a really good
20:36defense.
20:36But there's so many really good nose tackles who are on awful defenses because, especially in modern football, there's only
20:43so much they can do for you.
20:44So the addition of Dexter Lawrence was good.
20:47It was the fact that they added Boye Mafe and Jonathan Allen in addition to that, that, okay, they might
20:53be genuinely more sturdy up front.
20:56So that's the entirety of the offensive line, some of the improvements they made in the backfield, in the defensive
21:03backfield.
21:03That could end up being relevant.
21:05Dude, I was surprised when I saw this.
21:09We know the Texans are favored in 13 of their 17 games.
21:13I was not surprised by that.
21:14I thought it'd be 12, it was 13, so I wasn't shocked by that.
21:17The Rams are favored in the most of their games this year.
21:21They're favored in 16 of their 17 games.
21:23In second place by themselves, the Cincinnati Bengals are favored in 15 of their 17 games this year.
21:32I don't think they're going to be a bad team or anything.
21:35And look, spreads are based on public perception sometimes, and that helps offensive teams more than it does defensive teams
21:44because they immediately think of Joe Burrow and the high-flying offense.
21:47I was just surprised.
21:48I think they're a very average team.
21:50That they were favored in 15 of their 17 games was surprising.
21:52Well, I think the thing about this is, too, it's that I just don't know.
21:57I think the pendulum has swung back a little bit to where the notion, remember that game a few years
22:04ago?
22:05Was it the Rams versus the Chiefs where everybody acted like, oh, yep, this is the future of the NFL?
22:11Yes, it was the Rams and the Chiefs.
22:13In Mexico City.
22:14In Mexico City on a Monday night in 2018.
22:16And it was so premature because people were saying, yep, this is the future of the NFL.
22:23Every game is going to be 45 to 45.
22:25And you're like, well, okay, first of all, these are two of the best offenses in football, and they're playing
22:30in Mexico City at extreme altitude.
22:33Like, yeah, the aerial attacks are, this does not necessarily mean that this is where everything's headed.
22:39But there was a stretch there where, man, it felt like all you needed was a really prolific offense, and
22:43you could win a Super Bowl with that.
22:45I think you've got to be a more balanced team now.
22:48And I'm not sitting here saying that you can win a Super Bowl driven by your defense every year or
22:53anything.
22:53It's just more balanced than it was.
22:55I think you need to be more balanced offense-defense, and I think you need to be more balanced within
22:59your offense.
23:00Yeah.
23:01Running and passing the football as well.
23:03Yeah, yeah, everybody, that's why people are acting like cover two was just invented recently.
23:08Yeah.
23:08And it's because for a while, yeah, it had gone by the wayside, and then Dean's realized, oh, yeah, we
23:14can't allow these teams to just destroy us vertically all the time.
23:18So they're playing, you've got Mel Kuyper on television saying to ban cover two like it's a new one, an
23:24innovation.
23:24Yep.
23:25It hasn't been around since the 1970s.
23:28No, you're right.
23:28The biggest complaint that I'm seeing, by the way, we're going to be giving away a couple journey tickets, pair
23:32tickets to see Journey in November, November 18th here in the next several minutes.
23:37The biggest complaint I've seen about the Texan schedule is on the text page right now, Seth.
23:44And I'm curious if you agree with this.
23:46How the hell is the week four Cowboys game a Sunday noon game?
23:50The NFL screwed that up.
23:52Yeah.
23:52Should the Cowboys game be a primetime game?
23:56I guess I want to look at the games that they have.
24:00I meant to pull this up earlier.
24:02The biggest thing about the Cowboys is they already have a boatload of primetime games.
24:05Six of them, yes.
24:06Yeah, so I think that the question would be, all right, which ones should they replace?
24:12And I think 100%, I mean, they have a game versus the Jaguars.
24:16It's a Sunday night game.
24:17They have a game versus the Bucs.
24:19That's a Thursday night game.
24:20Yeah.
24:21Those two games specifically.
24:22And then I would also, I would throw in the Giants game, except that the Giants are just.
24:26That's a division rival.
24:27Yeah, it's a division rival.
24:28It's NFC East, and it's the Giants.
24:30So, like, that makes sense from a TV perspective.
24:32I wouldn't put the Texans ahead of any of the NFC East games the Cowboys would like.
24:36The Bucs and the Jaguars would be the two big ones.
24:39Yeah.
24:39And I feel like, okay, look, yes, the Jaguars were, you know, by the division standings,
24:46a better football team than the Texans last year.
24:49But they're also, like, I feel like the Texans still have more cachet in our bigger market
24:55than the Jaguars.
24:57No question.
24:58Yeah.
24:58And that, I would say that independent of the whole intrastate dynamic to that game.
25:03You know, like, that's, the Texans are just, I think, a sexier national team than the Jacksonville
25:09Jaguars are right now.
25:10Yeah, the only one, so the, and then the other three games that the Cowboys played make total
25:15sense.
25:15The Packers, the Eagles, and the Seahawks.
25:17Yeah.
25:17If it was three, if they had six matchups that were similar to that, I would totally get
25:22it.
25:22It is, it is strange that the Cowboys and the Texans are at noon on a Sunday.
25:27Yeah.
25:27Is that, can that be flexed into the late afternoon?
25:29I don't, I think it's a little early.
25:30I think week four, I don't know if they're flexing games that early in the season, because
25:34you just, we don't know what teams are at that point.
25:37I never know from the, just that late afternoon schedule, how that works.
25:40Oh, could they push him to, could they push him to like the 325?
25:43Is that what you said?
25:43Yeah.
25:44Yeah, maybe.
25:44I don't, yeah, I'm not sure.
25:45I'm not sure.
25:46Yep.
25:47So, yeah, Texter.
25:49So Cincinnati brought back that O-line.
25:51That's part of the 11 starters.
25:53Sweet.
25:53Yeah, exactly.
25:54I don't get it, man.
25:55Well, that's a classic too.
25:56There's putting up numbers and then there's actually being a genuinely solid football team.
26:02And there's things that the Bengals do sometimes where it's just like, all right, yeah, they
26:06put up some, it's, it's, it's, it's like in any sport, the team that can rack up wins
26:11in the regular season, but how well does this really travel in the post season?
26:15And in the Bengals, when was the last time they made the playoffs?
26:18It was 2022.
26:20Yes.
26:202022.
26:21Yep.
26:212022 was the last time.
26:23Joe Burrow.
26:24What's the overall, Joe Burrow in Cincinnati in 2027?
26:28Yeah.
26:28It's the favorite right now, but it's definitely on the board that he wouldn't be.
26:32I like that.
26:33That's a, that, you know, the, he's a top five quarterback.
26:36I know quarterbacks, it's a more fluid market now.
26:40But so I would say it's the favorite that he'll be there, but your overall point is a
26:43good one, which is not as heavy a favor as it should be for a guy who's an elite quarterback.
26:48That's for sure.
26:48Boy, if he got injured again this year, then it would get super interesting.
26:52Cause I'd be nervous as hell for a guy who in three of his six seasons, he's played
26:57less than 11 games that if he got injured again, we're in the majority of his NFL seasons,
27:03he's played less than 11 games.
27:05That would be, I would be really, really hesitant to, to trade a bunch for that.
27:10Joe Burrow has been in the league six seasons.
27:12He's played 10, 16, 16, 10, 17, eight.
27:18So yeah.
27:20So it's, uh, he's in the, and, and again, two of the last three years, um, have been,
27:25um, not great.
27:26Uh, 10, 10 games, two years ago and eight games last year.
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