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little while. This is the game that some of these teams are going to get into, or maybe already in. You're waiting for Aaron Glenn, the defensive coordinator of the Lions, and you're waiting for Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator for the Lions. They're probably both getting jobs this upcoming season. But you have to wait. They're still in the playoffs and probably going to be in the playoffs for a
few more weeks. Maybe they're going to a super Bowl. Therefore, if you're bringing in people to interview and you're holding out help that you may get one of these two and that may hold up maybe hiring somebody else, or maybe you do go and hire somebody else. You don't wait. You know, the Raiders I think have the inside track with Ben Johnson, certainly all indications point towards that. And Aaron Glenn with the Jets. So if you're the Saints, the Bears, like some of these the cowboys, like what
are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for? And are you holding out false hope that these guys might be there? I'm going to imagine that Jerry Jones is looking at Ben Johnson because he probably wants that offense, that excitement. You know, maybe this will help Dak Prescott. You know, if you helped Jared Goff, he should be able to help Dak Prescott. But what if you don't get him? Did you fire or let Mike McCarthy walk? And really not having a plan be and I know
the betting favorite is Deon Sanders. I just don't know if that's a real story. And look, maybe it is. Maybe Jerry is going to get Dion. He does like those shiny objects. Look at who I brought in. But I just don't get that feeling. And I don't get that feeling from Dion either. I could see Jerry doing it. I don't know if Dion feels like that's the right place or maybe the right time for him to go and coach in the NFL. But that's why it's kind
of quiet. Now you haven't heard too much Mike McCarthy interviewing with the Bears. The Bears have interviewed. I would feel bad if I was a candidate and I didn't get it interviewed by the Bears. He han, did the Bears call today? No? All right, well let me know if they do. Ready for my zoom call here. But that's kind of the and why it's a little bit quiet. You know what else is quiet? The Chiefs are going for a three P and I don't know if there's
Chiefs fatigue, but it certainly feels that that way. And I know every commercial you see or every other commercial you see, it's Mahomes, it's Andy Reid, it's you know, Travis Kelcey Kelsey's podcast, Taylor's swift. I get it, but let's not lose sight of what they're doing or trying
to do. It's never been done before. It's an Oh, by the way, they're going for a three p and it feels after a while and it is fatigue, Like we have voter fatigue, Like there's no way Joker is going to win another MVP because they'll be voter fatigue. You know, we had this same feeling with Golden State years ago. It's like, oh God, can somebody knock off the Golden State. We get, you know, a fan fatigue, voter fatigue, and I think we have Chiefs fatigue right now.
Where you go? Do we really care? They have this Saturday afternoon game against the Texans. If this was New England with Brady and Belichick, I can't imagine they would open up the divisional round of the playoffs at home in a four thirty afternoon start against the Texans. Now, this says a lot about the Texans. Apparently, it's like they're in all right, we got to put them on TV, you know, maybe true TV. We could put them on. Yes, Pauli.
If you look at the NFL schedule this weekend, Texans Chiefs feel like an opening band at a big concert festival. They're on the secondary stage at four pm, and Ravens Bills feels like the headliner.
Yeah, it's like Coachella and then you're going to open up. But here's the Chiefs. Oh, by the way, and you know we're ready to annoint Patrick Mahomes pretty soon, as you know, the best quarterback of all time, Travis Kelce hall of Famer, Andy Reid hall of famer and going for a three peat. And it's sort of like and maybe the Chiefs like this that maybe they're not being focused. You know, we're focused on what we're focused on. Lamar Jackson maybe another MVP. Can he get to the super Bowl?
How about the Lions? Maybe this is the year for the Lions. Hey, you don't want to play the Rams. The Eagles might be the most balanced team. And we keep talking about everybody except for be defending champs, the two time defending champs. And look, maybe you'll tell me if you call in each seven to seven three DP show,
if you do have that Chiefs fatigue? Why because even when they lost one game and then you know, they lost to Denver at the end of the season, but even when they're fifteen and one, did we talked about they're lucky. You're not going to be able to play this way in the postseason, like we're almost waiting, hoping, or at least you get that feeling from people that, no, not the Chiefs again. But if you have Buffalo and you have Baltimore and they make it to the super Bowl,
I think people would be thrilled. NFL fans would be thrilled if one of those two teams was there, And maybe not because you're rooting for them as much as you don't want the Chiefs. Oh gosh, here we go again.
Yeah, Paul, and I did see some people on social media this weekend when it was Texans at Chiefs. Even though the Texans had a great week last week, it feels like the Chiefs path got easier. Either the Ravens or Bills will be gone. They don't have to face one of those two teams.
Yeah, all right, we'll come up with the pole question. Yes, Marvin, this might be a Texans thing.
So I just looked up divisional playoffs Patriots versus Texans. It was on a Saturday jun you were fourteenth, twenty seventeen. They played on a Saturday afternoon. Wow, so it might be the Texans sections.
Okay, that's a good research there, thank you. Uh see, what's pole question for the first town Well, let's see.
We could start with game you were most looking forward to watching this weekend. That's not Ravens Bills.
Oh, okay, we're taking them off the board.
That you got to take that right off the I mean, that's the best game of the weekend for sure.
Okay, but you have.
Texas Chiefs, Commander's Lions, Rams Eagles. Oh those are those are all pretty good. I would say I would put Rams Eagles towards the top of that. But Commander's Lions.
Is that's yes, that to me seems like that's the the marquee matchup, and that's a that's a Saturday night game. But it feels like, you know, it's still Ravens in the Bills because of those two quarterbacks, and we keep waiting for one of these guys to win a big game. Now, Josh Allen has won a few more big games in the playoffs than Lamar has but it feels like that one we're all tied up with who's gonna win, and you know, is that gonna be the MVP game that
you were Whoever wins, you're gonna go. Yep, they should be the MVP even though it's a regular season award. It feels like we're attaching a whole lot to that matchup with these two. Yeah, PAULI, it does.
I feel like Commander's Lions is great because it's two great stories. The Lions, everyone kind of roots for them, even if you don't love them or grow up on them. And Jade and Daniels and the Commanders, like you said a couple of weeks ago, he made them likable, you know. Notre Dame's now likable because of Marcus Freeman and whatever, but the Commander's being likable that's been a long time coming.
Yeah, it's a great story. I don't think you root against either one of these teams unless you're in the NFC East and you don't like Washington. But this is not This is not your typical Washington team that you wouldn't like. I think the fact that they got out of out from underneath Dan Snyder's stink, the Lions are still likable, but that could change though, you know if they win the Super Bowl and then Dan Campbell's doing
all these commercials. You know, Jake from State Farm is there with Dan Campbell and they're biting kneecaps or whatever. But Jared Goff, Jared Goff does an insurance commercial and this is the only thing of it ever seen him in, and it's a it's a woman whose last name is the same as his. Is that that golf insurance company? Marvin? The law firm, law firm? Yeah, okay, okay, now is that Is he related to this woman? Because I see the signs where he's standing next to her, and he's
got kind of a generic football jersey. I mean, it's not one of those, Hey you're on State Farm. It's yeah, I'm with a law firm, and it just so happens. It's the woman who I think runs the law firm, has the same last nick. I don't know if he's related to her, yes, Tod.
Yeah, it's Brooke Goff. The billboards all over the place. She did stuff with Mike Tyson and other celebrity types. She's got quite a racket going.
Okay, thank you, ton, This First Hour bought you by seems to be a legitimate business.
Yeah, that's kew negative when you say racket.
He's very successful.
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in thunder. So we're in the middle of January. At what point do you go?
All right?
I guess they're legitimate. You know, I said that the Rockets were going to be the surprise team in the West starting this season, and they're second in the West right now. But you might be going all right, they're twenty seven and twelve. Well, considering that they lost at least sixty games the previous three seasons, this seems like a pretty good turnaround for the Houston Rockets. Twenty seven and twelve. But the Calves In the East, you probably
still say, well, I take the Celtics. Or if you say, oh, the Thunder Now, I don't know who else you would go. You might say, can the Rockets be the best team? Who else? In the West? Where you go, they're going to be formidable, you know, Golden State. I thought maybe they make a trade here at some point. But you start to look at some of these teams and you go, how many teams can win the championship this year? You know,
Miami with their mess with Jimmy Butler, the Bucks. It feels like we're either in or out, you know, depending on the week. I did watch wem Banyama again last night. Oh my goodness, he's spectacular. How he didn't win Defensive Player of the Year last year? I am I am stunned. Stunned. John Moran had a dunk over Wembanyama. Now it didn't count, but it was it's going to count for something. I mean, that is a poster if you see it and Jahn Moran is going up against Wembanyama and he dunks, but
it didn't count. It did count for me when I watched it, because I can't erase it from my memory bag. Yes, Marvin, So I.
Was gonna ask that question last night when I saw the dunk. All right, so play the day. I'm thinking it's that I know it didn't count, but we don't do play the day that county.
It's just play the day period, right, Yeah. Yeah. But Wembin Yama, Uh, he had thirteen points, twelve rebounds, and he had eight block shots.
Who stand of the day? Style of a day?
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Jeep Span Melissa Etheridg's there stat of the Day brought to you by a Panini America. Wembin Yama is he's just figuring this thing out and it is remarkable. I know, I know, I keep throwing verbal bouquets at him, and you know, he's just he's young and is still figuring out the game. And that's what's scary. You see him do things and you go, that's not normal, that's not normal. Both ends of the floor. He's probably the best two
way player in the NBA in my opinion. Now, you might have somebody else, Marvin, you might suggest somebody else, but if I look at what he does on the defensive end. I don't think there's anybody who can guard the top of the key and in the paint at the same time, and he does that. I mean he's averaging twenty seven a game. Yes, Marv, actually DP, I completely agree with you. I don't really think it's playing.
As far as the best two way player in the game. But my question is when do people start hating him year four, year five, if he doesn't want to start winning championships.
Because we've done this with other people too, I don't think we're there yet. And he's in San Antonio, so he's not featured, he's not on commercial like, he hasn't gotten to the point of being an irritant. It's I mean, the reason why people had a problem with the Spurs usually because Greg Popovich. You know, he was gruff, but that was it. Like Tim Duncan, what did you dislike him for being boring, boringly great? And people did. They're like,
oh god, the Spurs again. It's weird how we don't embrace I grew up when you had dynasties, but I don't think we liked dynasties anymore. You know, you don't want that one team where you go, that's the team to beat. It's like you want new blood in there constantly. You know, we had Patriot fatigue, but it was Patriot greatness that was right in front of us. Or if you're watching and you're watching tennis, not him again, not her again, But like, we shouldn't lose sight of greatness
that's there. You may not like because they beat your team, but if you don't have a dog in the fight, just to appreciate what the chiefs have been doing and replaceable parts, that's what's amazing. It's really really difficult for a variety of reasons to stay this good for this amount of time.
Yeah, Paul, I saw an article a few years ago. I think it was Sports Business Journal or one of those Forbes. Leagues do best when there's dynasties. They get the best ratings when there's dynasties, the Bulls, the Warriors, NFL baseball, because it makes it easy for the average fan or casual fan to consume the sport. They don't have to relearn the stars or relearn the teams. They said, it's actually worse when there's a new title winner every year whatever major sports there is.
Yeah, because you're now aware you're familiar with these players, with this team, with this coach, and therefore you can watch a game and either be fascinated by watching them or be rooting against them. All right, well, we're just getting started on this Thursday. Chris Collinsworth will join us coming up top of next hour. Jerome bettis Bus will join us a little bit later on as well, settle on a poll question. We'll get phone calls as well. We're back after this.
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good defense. Although if they had Tank Dell and they had stuff von Diggs. Maybe we look at them as really dangerous. Nobody's talking about them beating the Chiefs. No one, it's like, hey, if they do this, and I know they're what nine and a half point underdogs here, but they were Darling's last year. They I think got brought back to Earth this year. Part of that is the schedule they were playing, although they play in a bad division.
But I don't know, it feels like we don't look at the Texans as Hey, the Texans are on TV. It's oh, the Texans are on TV. Yeah, don't the Chiefs sort of deserve that respect of nobody's talking about the Texans beating them? Don't they kind of haven't they earned that? Well, aren't we looking at all the scenarios for how do the Commanders beat the Lune? Like I think we're trying to game plan of, well, how do
the Rams beat the Eagles. I don't think anybody is spending a lot of time on the and I don't think the Chiefs were like dominating this year. How many most games did they have? And That's why I'm a little bit surprised that nobody's giving them any chance to win this game. It feels like, now, if the Texans would win this game, they could honestly, legitimately say nobody gave us a chance, and they would be correct. But I'm just kind of surprised. You don't hear much out of the analysts there.
Yeah, it's like it's the Chiefs. You're right, it's a lot of close games, but they're fifteen and two. If they were two and fifteen, we still wouldn't be like, yeah, but it's a lot of close fifteen losses. A lot of those were close games, so they're not that bad. You really don't look at it that way. Wait, did you just give me Romo there at the very end? Maybe I don't know Jim.
Close. I think Jim Nance likes when you do Tony Romo. I always get it. I think he gets what might be that kind of kind of laugh from him. But you know, probably Romo will be like, why did they make fun of me?
Well, you had me do al Michaels to mister Michael's, and I don't really know that he appreciated it.
He didn't know all that money. It's kind of a horrifying moment to have an icon look at you and be like that, yeah, yeah, and I have a tendency to do that. When Paul did Andrew Luck to Andrew Luck, did Shannon Sharp to Shannon Sharp? That was not good? It was It's a good impersonation, Chris.
They're in denial. They don't want to know that they sound like that. They don't want to believe that. That is just like some of our impersonations are a lot closer than they'd like to admit, including al Michaels.
I really sound like that, Yeah, kind of you kind of there, he goes. But I forgot to have you do. Mike Tyson to Mike Tyson, would you have done that? Ton? I would have him that.
I would have like hid under my couch for like months after doing it.
No, if he was in if he was in studio, and Mike sits down on my before you get started. Hey, we got somebody who does an impersonation of you. I'd be curious what you think, Todd go ahead with friends like that? Who needs enemies?
Right?
Damn?
I found like that. That's not funny. I appreciate that.
I guess. I guess it depends on Mike's mood. Yes, yes, because there have been times where we've had Tyson on and we're like, dang, who is this guy? And there are other times like I don't think Mike wants to be here. When he was promoting that fight and he came on, I'm like, he not, he doesn't want to and I'm friendly with him, and I just thought he's just all right. I got another interview to do. Didn't seem like he really was excited.
Yes, Tom, that's because he already knew the outcome then he was gonna lose here.
You want to talk about it all that? Oh okay, how many of us think that that fight was fixed? Paul, No doubt, Todd.
I'll stop short of fixed, but I will say not full effort was given those I had to be some type of conversation about.
But he had to be he had to be directed.
To do that.
Oh yeah, but I believe stories that came out, even if it's just kind of bull but I kind of believe that you can throw this punch or not that punch, don't do the uppercuts.
You know. I could see that conversation being that, Marvin, do you think it was fixed? I do? Seaton? What about you? Man?
I it certainly wasn't fought as hard as it could have been. There's no doubt about that. There were certainly punches pulled. But do I I don't think that Mike Tyson would sign up for a fight and agree to lose.
I don't know. I don't know at this age and that kind of money. What did Mike make twenty million dollars from then? And I'm not going to get any other paydays.
And maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I just don't. I just don't think he would sign up and be like, Okay, for twenty million dollars, I'll throw this fight.
I don't know.
The fight, thak, but the money is real.
Thank you, Mike. But if you're watching that fight, and I was watching but not watching when Mike so when I saw all these videos of him sparring, and I'm like, all right, Mike looks good and you know quick and now I know that they said he has a bad knee. But there was one moment when his opponent is wide open to get knocked out, wide open, and Mike pulled his punch. He pulled it, and that's when I went, Uh,
the American public, I just got ripped off. This one felt like, hey, Mike, just make sure you don't knock me out. I'm gonna win. I'm gonna take you the distance. I'm not going to embarrass you, and everybody's going to make more money and then you know, you can ride off into the sunset.
Yes, Jake Paul is running a reality show business. That's where he's running. There's no boxing commission overseeing these fights. The whole storyline is, we don't like this guy. We want somebody to knock him out. And as long as he keeps that storyline going, we're gonna keep paying to see somebody knock him out. And no one's ever gonna because Jake Paul tells his opponents here's the plan. Would you like twenty million dollars to run around in a
ring for fifteen twenty five minutes? Sure, Yeah, here's the plan. And I don't begrudge him. He's running a reality show like the Kardashians. Are those other the shows where you buy houses? Those are mostly scripted and coerced for.
Blackple You know, yeah, I'm not sure how I got on that top oh impersonations, that's right, Yeah, thank you, Tom Brocko are going to do it next year. Next year with Bonick sickon, you Rock are going to do it. I don't know if we need to go down the Shannon Sharp.
Brof divisual playoff, then mark it.
Down, all right? Uh Seaton wants to pull question Man's. It's a tough one. It is that I remember looking at everybody's faces and you know, Todd did the Shannon Sharp impersonation, I know, in front of him, and I'm looking at everybody's face and it was like, oh my god, he's actually doing this.
So, oh dear, the NFL game you most want to watch that isn't Raven's bills. He's doing fine for himself these days, though.
Yes he is. Yes, yes, Club Shah.
Right now, the Commander's Lions have about fifty seven percent of the vote. Texas chief is in last place.
Yeah don't so, yes, Paulie.
Go back to the Houston Texans. It if you look at the Texans, they're the seventh ranked NFL team and household media market. They have two point eight million people watching their games as possible people, so they're right up there. There are only two spots behind the Dallas Cowboys. But if you looked at ranking teams of national attention getting Dallas is top three, easy and Houston's towards the bottom.
And then the other side of it. You make the case that the Buffalo Bills are a big national draw, correct, I mean yeah, big time, storyline, star power, all that stuff. They're second from last in number of people in number of households that could watch their game. So the whole market does not matter with national ratings.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was just wondering if you take all of the football teams in Texas, I don't even know where the Houston Texans are in that list as far as NFL and college. Yeah, their own popularity within the state and high school.
Yeah, yeah, it's they're the other team, you know, It's like, oh yeah, you know the Texans there. It's like the Mets and the yank You know, there's markets that have you know, Clippers Lakers. By the way, the Nets lost by fifty nine last night to the Clippers. That's one of the worst losses in NBA history. I think that's a top ten margin of victory. What fifty nine points? Okay, I got something for you. How about know your Nets? How many Brooklyn Nets can you name? And I need
first and last name. Oh, you can't just throw out Johnson Todd. How about Williams? No, you can't throw out Williams.
Is one of the Lopez brothers still Now, I was gonna go with Robert or brook Lopez or something.
Dan before you move on, there are two Johnson's and one Williams.
But you need, you know, you have to have a first name. Can anybody name how about one Brooklyn net Marvin Ben Simmons? Okay, I mean, does it collas NBA player right now? How about active? About? Is is there a Cam Johnson?
Cameron Johnson Spring Ankle d MP last night?
Okay, but he's still he's still on the roster, all right?
Yes, I was gonna guess Mikhail Bridges or one of the Bridges. Yeah, and I think I'm wrong though.
He got traded? Isn't he on THEE? Yeah? The Knicks? Yeah? Close enough? Yeah? How about can you name a Toronto raptor.
The Angelo Russell, the Angela Russell Blue?
Did he just got traded? He out there?
He's got He's getting traded back and forth between the same two teams fifteen times.
It was okay, I could take t'angelo out of there. Because we know him all the people that we guess we'll get him out of there. Yeah, okay, Marvin. Can you name a Toronto Raptor.
One of my favorite players in the league, Grady dick oh out of Kansas?
Yep, okay, that they can play? Yeah, fots. Do they have any Johnson's on the Raptors? No, I have no Johnson's Okay, yes? Oh?
R J.
Barrett, Oh that's right, Yeah, Canada's own r J. Barrett. Yes, mar They beat the Celtics last night too, Okay, yeah, I think they're like there for real. Can you name the head coach of the Raptors?
Oh?
What's that guy's name with the glasses?
Not Nick Nurse?
Yeah, Nick Nurse, that's the last one I remember.
No, he's uh oh god, I looked this up yesterday. Why didn't Hey?
Why?
Because I don't know. I don't have a life.
Yes, Marmon, Yeah, I think the head coach was saying he's going to celebrate when Steph Curry retires.
Yes, yes, yes, yeah. Do you think he's still the head coach of the Raptors when Steph Curry retired? Well? No, so yeah, yeah, Paulie.
I had the Raptors starting lineup ready, Scottie Barnes, Jakapo, Davion Mitchell, RJ. Barrett, and the aforementioned Grady Dick.
Okay, all right Davion, Yeah yeah at ten thirty one and he in the out of Baylor. Yeah okay. Kelly Olna coming off the bench. Oh yeah, you gotta make room for Kelly Olenock. Yep, he's still in the league. Good for him. Uh. Gabe and San Antonio, Good morning, Gabe. What's on your mind today?
Good morning Dan? And wanted to comments on the poll question. But real quick, you were right. I was wrong on the Ohio State Texas game. Yeah, but they were first in goal on the one yard line and the next thing you know, Jack Sawyer's taking it back to the house. Oh it was crushing. But on the poll question on the game, other than Bill's Ravens, nobody's given the Texans a bit of a chance. What if they pull off
the stunning upset? Can you imagine? Well, do you think they have an even a two percent chance?
Then well, they have a chance because they're playing. I don't think I've ever said somebody doesn't have a chance, because if you're playing, you have a chance. There's a lot of teams that don't have a chance because they aren't playing are they capable of doing it? The defense and you get a couple of flukey touchdowns. Remember when the Texans had the Chiefs down by what twenty four? Was it? Twenty four to three? And then we're thinking, and didn't they have the fake punt and didn't that
change everything? Yeah?
Yeah, Paul, it was like a swarm of bees. It was twenty four to three.
I think it.
Sorenson, the defensive back for the Chiefs, snuffed out the fake punt, and at one point in the game, early in the second quarter, the Houston Texans had a ninety four percent chance to win that game. They ended up giving up nine straight scores, okay of some type. Yeah, at one point again, up twenty four to seven, twenty four zero. They lost fifty one to thirty one.
Isn't the last That was the last time we saw Sean Watson play? Well? Yeah, or at least for a you know, the first half. Tyler and Oregon, Good morning, Tyler, what's on your mind today?
Good morning Dan? So Saturday night watching the game, running back breaks out and I hear Seaton in my head and there he goes, Well, Seaten, somehow you managed to change al Michael's delivery for a man who's been on the top of this profession for decades. So congratulations you are my MBD.
All right, thank you, Tyler. When Seaton, now, I didn't hear al Michaels say that when I watch a game or listening, I didn't hear him go and like that didn't stand out, but Seaton would always go there he goes.
I think, Henry, as a matter of fact, that if I remember the first time it really jumped out at me was I was watching him do a Ravens game.
And then I'm thinking, all right, let me file that away when I have al Michaels on and I go, see, do your al Michaels impersonation to al Michaels And when he said, do I really sound like that?
It's terrible?
Oh it was awesome, it was, and there we goes. All right, We'll take a break. Got our play of the day coming up next.
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Yeah, we're taking Ravens Bills off the board, because that's easily the best game of the weekend. But NFL game you most want to watch that, isn't that one? Commander's Lions kind of running away with that one. They got fifty eight percent of the vote. Rams Eagles have thirty one. Texas Chief just eleven percent. Mike and Dallas, Hi, Mike, what's on your mind?
Winning guys?
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Five? Eight? Five Eagles fans living in Dallas. I wanted to ask you, guys, if you think that there is a candle that the Rams defense can hold against the Eagles offense, whether or not you think Sae Kwon goes for over one fifty, and how you feel about Sean Smith's officiating crew calling that game, considering it was just a few weeks ago that he taught CJG for having a potty mouth and getting smacked in.
The face for it. All right, he went deep there, Mike, good luck to your Eagles. Uh? With what I saw with the Rams, the way they played with the Vikings, can you put that? I mean, you're going against maybe the best offensive line them or the Lions. It feels like, can you put enough pressure on Jalen Hurts because I think this is where you have to make Philadelphia one
dimensional the best you can. But even then, if you're saying we're going to take away Sakuon Barkley, now we're going to make Jalen Hurts beat us through the air. They do have a lot of weapons. I mean, when you start to look at that team, I think the Eagles are the most balanced team in the NFL. Now that doesn't mean they're going to win, but I do think that they're balanced offensive, defensive lines. You got a lot of weapons in there, star power. Can I trust
Nick Siriani in a big moment? Can I trust Jalen Hurts in a big moment? Those will be the questions that all have. Can I trust Matthew Stafford in a big moment? Yes? Can I trust Sean McVeagh in a big moment? Yes? I got those two receivers there. This is a one of the youngest teams in the NFL. Sometimes you don't know better and you go in there, and you know, would I be surprised? I would not, But you get to this point, like what would really
surprise me the Commanders beating the Lions. That would surprise me, the Texans beating the Chiefs would surprise me. But after that been around long enough to know that, expect the unexpected, and there will be a surprise this weekend. It feels like the divisional round there's going to be one where you go, wow, didn't see that one happening. Zach in Indiana. Hi, Zach, what's on your mind today?
I'm just going to talk about you. Guys mentioned the Texans and the Chiefs playing on the Saturday, and I remember then you mentioned in New England and the Chiefs playing on a Saturday. Brady's actual last start in New England was on a Saturday. It was a Saturday evening against the Titans. But it was a Saturday game. So it might not just be the Texans. It could just be the matchup per season.
Well. I do think it's the Texans because the Texans, I think every one of their playoff games they've always had the early game on Saturday. Every time they've made the playoffs. I believe they open up. If they could have like a you know, eleven am start for the Texans, the NFL would probably try to squeeze like that. That's where Rutgers and Maryland playing in big mean kickoff. You know, like, all right, let's fill up some time here. See if
anybody wants to watch the Texans. But you know, the way they played dominating that game last week, hopefully they're interesting. I just want to see a good match up, doesn't matter, Yeah, Marvin, do.
You think the Texans would resonate with more people if they had just stayed the Oilers and not moved to Tennessee? Because the Texans have been around for maybe what twenty years maybe, so they really have had a long time. They're not a long running franchise like others, So do you think that might be the case.
I didn't even think of that, But you're right. We love the Oilers. I mean, the Oilers had their offensive firepower. Gosh, I love you Blue, I had bum Phillips, Earl Campbell, Warren Moon, those wide receivers were always great. But you know, I'll ask collins Worth Hill Joon is coming up ten minutes. I'll get his thoughts on what is it about the Texans that and why are we sort of looking for these other storylines? And maybe it's because we don't have
a real storyline with the Chiefs. Yes, they're going to do something maybe that's never been done before, win three super Bowls in a row. But we keep looking at the other storylines here. Hey Jaden Daniels, Hey, this is the year for the Lions. Whoever wins Buffalo and Baltimore, they're going to the super Bowl. That's what we keep looking for. It feels like it's wishful reporting. Yes, Bowe.
Going back, before Deshaun Watson got to Houston, they had a run where they had quarterbacks that didn't exactly move the needle. Brian Hoyer, Fitzpatrick, Matt Schaub was a seven year quarterback there. He was not a bad player. He was not a household name in any way or a thrilling person to tune into. So they they haven't had a tune in factor since early in Watson's career.
Didn't they have Tom Savage? Oh?
Yeah, tasty Tom Savage got a pit.
Yeah, And the only reason why I remember him is he got concussed and that that was where you saw him with his hands, you know, jazz hands they call it.
And that.
Was terrible, terrible, And I don't think he was pulled from the game. Oh what about the great T J. Yates? Never forget oh North Carolina's TJ. Yates. Yeah, yeah, maybe that is the problem. But you got CJ. Stroud. Now he's supposed to be a marquee quarterback.
But we loved the Texans last year. They were very hot, and they lightly cooled off this year because of injury, of course, but they've lightly cooled off.
Yeah, yes, Marvin, I was just agreeing with you.
I was just shaking my own Oh okay, but I was gonna say another another North Carolina player.
Well, I don't know if we look at TJ. Yates and go, yeah, they get They put out great quarterbacks, great players all the time. Lawrence Taylor, TJ. Yeah, yes, Eton do we shake our heads to agree with people? You nod, you shake when you disagree. So, Marvin, what is it? Were you shaking your head or nodding your head? We got five seconds left until break dam it. So are you nodding or shaking? I can't tell.