00:00Listen up, H-Town. Now is the time we separate truth from trickery. Fact from fiction.
00:08It's real or fake on The Drive with Sterner and Hughley.
00:19Alright, let's do it a little real or fake right here on The Drive. It's Tuesday, so we throw out
00:26a statement.
00:27How many of you let us know if it's real or fake? Those of you on the text line 713
00:32-572-4610.
00:34I see Frank. I see Chris. I see Trey. I see Rocco. Or Rocky, excuse me. I see a lot
00:42of you on there.
00:42You can jump in here and get your thoughts as well. Real or fake? Let's kick it off with you,
00:48Tyler Milner.
00:50Real or fake? CJ Stroud will play Thursday night against the Los Angeles Chargers. Real or fake?
00:57Oh, I say that is completely fake. I don't think we see CJ Stroud in Game 1 on Thursday here
01:03in Houston against Chargers.
01:04I think they're going to be extra cautious with him, careful with him.
01:06He's an established veteran quarterback now for your football team. I don't think we see CJ Stroud fake.
01:11Alright, you go fake. Real or fake?
01:13Clint, do we see CJ Stroud play Thursday night?
01:18CJ Stroud will play Thursday night against the L.A. Chargers. Real or fake?
01:23I think it's real.
01:24I just, I just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just leaning into what we've heard from Nick Casario and Dabico Rines
01:32all year long
01:33about buy-in and ownership and communication and chemistry and yada, yada, yada.
01:38Then you throw on top of that, you got a, a rookie center in that mix.
01:42I just don't know how, to your point, knowing that they're not going to play in a third preseason game,
01:49I just don't know how, to some degree, you don't take advantage of these reps.
01:53And today when Dabico spoke, he said a handful of guys.
01:56He didn't say, you know, he specifically said a handful of guys.
02:01So I got to believe that's a smaller number.
02:03And so I'm going to go, I'm going to go real.
02:05CJ's going to play Thursday night.
02:06This is interesting because they are not above sending a message to certain guys.
02:12And they have, they have repeatedly sent messages to him in the off season.
02:16Like we're not, we're going to give everybody around here a contract extension except for you.
02:21They've sent that message.
02:22I could see them, I could see them definitely sending a message to CJ and to me and the offense
02:30of that.
02:32And I'll be honest with you, I'd be in favor of that message.
02:34I think they need to roll through and I don't think it's just for CJ.
02:37I think the whole offensive group could take that.
02:41But I'm going to go with Tyler here and say fake.
02:44Just the way they set up today and how they set up that practice that looked
02:51and they really tried to make today's practice feel like a game situation
02:56where the coaches had the headsets and they were talking and sending out plays
03:01and everything like that.
03:02But I feel like they're going to try to make that the preseason game.
03:07I'm with you.
03:07I think I need to roll out there.
03:09But I think CJ doesn't play based off what they did today to try to make that.
03:15All right.
03:15Real or fake?
03:18Tyler, Dana Brown gets a multi-year deal to remain as the general manager
03:24after this season for the Astros.
03:27Real or fake?
03:28That sure as hell better be fake.
03:31Hell no, that should be fake.
03:34Absolutely.
03:35Dana Brown currently in his final year of the four-year contract he signed.
03:38Lame duck, baby.
03:40And I need this guy gone to be very frank about it.
03:43I mean, given what we saw at the MLB trade deadline,
03:45I think that's kind of already in the works.
03:47I think we're seeing that Dana isn't necessarily in the good graces right now
03:51of owner Jim Crane.
03:52And frankly, Dana Brown has not been a good GM for this team, in my opinion,
03:57here the last season or two.
03:58And the MLB trade deadline this year was a complete joke.
04:00You needed pitching, pitching, pitching is what we were told.
04:03You don't come away with it the one thing you really needed.
04:05So I say fake.
04:06Dana better be gone.
04:08All right.
04:08You say fake.
04:09Real or fake?
04:10713-5724-1610.
04:12YouTube and Twitch.
04:13You can jump into this.
04:14Real or fake?
04:16Dana Brown will get a multi-year deal to remain as the GM after this season.
04:23Real or fake?
04:24Oh, I think it's fake.
04:24This one's a fake.
04:25I think it's fake.
04:26I think the minute that Jim Crane vetoed a trade that he had made.
04:30Oh, forget about that.
04:31That was actually made a little bit more sense.
04:34At least the baseball heads I've talked to made a little more sense to make that move.
04:39That particular move right there tells me that there's not a ton of respect there
04:43for the general manager of the jobs he's making, the trades he put on the table.
04:49So I've got to think that Jim Crane makes a move.
04:54The only thing is there is a deal.
04:57Don't you do it.
04:58But there's a deal, Tyler, and you know it, that if they perform well enough,
05:04it becomes hard to cut him loose.
05:08Now, Jim has fired someone who has won a world championship the next year.
05:15He moved on.
05:16Shout out to you, Jimmy Click.
05:17He moved on from Click after winning a championship.
05:21But I'm going to say, I'm going to say fake.
05:28Fake news.
05:29But there is starting to have a feel of a Jerry Jones aspect to Jim Crane.
05:38That's aggressive.
05:39There it was.
05:40Glory hole.
05:41Not the glory hole portion of it, but the portion of.
05:45What's your point?
05:46I think he likes to be a major decision maker in this.
05:51I think he likes to have a big voice in the room.
05:54I think he believes, and I think it's true,
05:56I think he believes he knows baseball as well as some general managers.
06:01And I don't know if he wants to buck up against somebody that's more established.
06:06And I know, based on what you're saying, what you just talked about,
06:11he knows he could punk Dana Brown.
06:13Here, Dana, you go do this stuff I don't want to do.
06:16And then, I mean, he went bad well and all that before he finally rolled into those guys.
06:21I'm going to say fake because I don't think they're going to win enough to get there.
06:27But I'm here with you.
06:30All right.
06:31Real or fake, Clint?
06:33Indiana football is a one-hit wonder.
06:36Real or fake?
06:38Oh, I think that's fake.
06:40Now, if you're just saying national title or another national title, then I think it's real.
06:45But, I mean, I think they're a contender.
06:48I think the coach is real.
06:49I think he's, I think in a day and age where there was a huge opportunity for the Indianas of
06:54the world
06:54to make a huge stride, huge jump, he did it.
06:58I do think he's captured lightning in a bottle, if you will, and knows what the hell he's doing,
07:04knows how to replicate it.
07:06And so, no, I mean, hell, I look up the other day and I think they signed the number one
07:10receiver in the country or something.
07:11Yeah, I don't think they're going away.
07:12Yeah, no, I think they're the real deal.
07:15So, I think they'll be competitive.
07:16They'll help the Big Ten draw closer to the SEC, no doubt.
07:20I think they'll be competitive this year at a national level.
07:23Now, I'm with you on the real, too.
07:25Now, I don't think that they're going, they're about to be, you know, a blue, like they're about to be
07:32LSU or Michigan or something like that.
07:36But they feel like they're about to be whatever, like, Wisconsin has been over the time.
07:43Like, they feel like they're going to be a team that's, hell, they may be better than this,
07:49but they feel like they're going to be a team that's always around.
07:51Yep.
07:52Nine, ten games, they win, and they could probably have a special season every couple of years.
07:59Now, the only problem, and this is good because someone just texted in, is, yeah, but what are they going
08:07to be without the coach?
08:08And that is a fair thing.
08:12The minute Kurt Zignetti leaves, whether that's through retirement or somebody has lured him in, then I don't know if
08:23I have the confidence that Indiana's going to be Indiana.
08:26I mean, they've already extended him.
08:28He's got a clause in his contract, I believe, where he's got to be top three or there's some kind
08:33of trigger that when other guys get paid.
08:36And they've been able to keep his assistance that he's been able to bring over from James Madison.
08:39I'm going to tell you, man, Indiana's figured it out.
08:41I mean, I don't know exactly what the formula was for them, but they figured it out, a way to
08:46afford the coach, take care of the coach, keep him comfortable,
08:49as well as the NIL game capitalize in a time.
08:53Like I said before, I thought they did a good job when they hired him.
08:56I thought his plan of bringing over half the damn James Madison roster that had won a title, I think,
09:02the year before, or at least competed for one.
09:04And it worked, too.
09:05Yeah, I mean, that's the way you jumpstart that thing, and then they got the NIL piece figured out to
09:10where they can go get players.
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