Episode #38: Arch Manning & NFL Legacies | Astros Panic, Fantasy Football Draft Tips

Welcome back everyone to the Sport Shots pod. We’re back to our normal regular schedule. I know last week we just – well technically we’re not not schedule but our regular program I guess I’ll say it like that. We’re moving back to Sundays folks. Yep. Moving back to Sundays.

This won’t be a quiz video either where we just jump right in and you hear, you know, Kyle talking about his bowel movements in the first 10 seconds. No, I’m just kidding. I cut that out the last episode. Come on, man. That would have been gold. I mean, I had like some good metaphors that, you know, if we could have coined those phrases, get a trademark, man. That’s another – You got to diversify how you want to bring in income, man. Like, that could have been one way. That’s true. We’re desperate now, people. We were going the ethical route, but now are we standing on streak or desperate? I could go more graphic with it, but we might have kids listening. I thought you started our OnlyFans.

Come on, man. You’re more husky. You got more meat to show, but I’d say we was going to use you as a profile pic. That’s true. I got some love handles currently. Come on. And that’s what’s hot for whatever reason.

I’m not gonna subject myself to that, but you can. You can do it. It’s all you, buddy. You got it. I’m confident in you. Very confident. This is – Hey, plus is body positivity. Okay. Okay. And that’s where we end this. Thank you.

How’s life? Oh, it’s good, man. It’s going good. Just grinding, you know, going to grind. But my baby boy is doing better at daycare finally. He had to warm up to his friends. How does a one-year-old have more friends than me? I asked myself the same question. I don’t know, you know. Damn, man. I suck. But he’s doing better. He’s playing like Legos with them. Everything. He’s also eating better than me, too, which is good. You know, he’s getting his proteins, his veggies, his fruits, you know, like father like son. Yeah.

What’s crazy is that so the daycare that we take him to just got evaluated and they got four out of four stars. Very good, right? And they have a total attendance of like 80 kids, right? It’s a pretty decent size daycare. Now, there’s never 80 kids all at once, you know, but the total enrollment is 80. And we paid near like 150 a week for that daycare. Okay. So my quick math tells me times 4. So we paying 600 a month times 12. Isaiah. I know. Listen. But now multiply that by 80. I’m not going to do that. Multiply it by 80.

That’s how much that daycare is making off enrollment. No, that’s not revenue. That’s and that’s just enrollment. We’re not talking about the other stuff that they, you know, all the – what other stuff do they got to sell to you as part of the package? Well, no. I mean, I’m pretty sure they get government funding maybe. I don’t know. They have to from the county at least, you know, now that’s not revenue, right? That’s just that’s what they’re bringing in. They got to pay for food, right? They got to pay for utilities. They got to pay for the workers, all that stuff, right? But that amount for just 80 – just off just off registration. That’s that’s that’s the cheap rate that – it’s higher for infants. Yes. Yes. I know. That’s just – we’re just – that is literally just based off if there was 80 toddlers. Yeah. At his size, at his age, at needs that he has. Now, let’s say there’s probably like, I don’t know, maybe some four-year-old that’s not potty trained, you know? So the bank – if I’m going to have a kid now it was – it’s just because our – the director of his daycare sent out a daycare-wide message you know just saying like hey we’re raising our rates because of this. But we did like rent. Oh brother I’m basically paying rent for it. I think that’s a car note. That’s definitely a car note. Oh for sure. That’s a car note. Now, y’all have two and send them there. Now we’re paying the rent. Yeah, exactly.

Now, our plan is to hold off on number two till he gets to elementary. So, that way, you know, we could, you know, we don’t have to pay for two daycares, but we’ll say, did you know there’s a PreK3 now? A PreK for three-year-olds? No. I say, you know damn well, I didn’t know. I know. Yeah, I know why I didn’t say. Did you know? But yeah, they’re allowing kids to go to school at three now instead of five. I feel like that was when I started school. Like I was really like that, bro. And I was – cause like I know I went to the same like – No, wait. You were three but probably the size of a 5-year-old probably.

I went to the same place that both my sisters went. So like when my mom was bringing me around picking them up, they pretty much just told her go ahead and drop him off too. And that was at an early age. So I know I was in – I did like the – I remember being in like the little PreK like at three. I was probably like four maybe. I know. I was always the youngest in every class. I just started early. Gotcha. I feel like my mom just kind of like, you know, got rid of me early. That’s why I don’t mind being on my own so much cause I started young. Yep. Started young. I was the last one. She was happy to get rid of me. Yep. She was like, I don’t want to start over a third time. This one’s going to school as soon as he can talk. As soon as he get pissing on his own, he out. He’s out. Pants. It doesn’t matter if his pants are over to the floor when he’s using the urinal. He’s going.

Did you ever get that in your school elementary when you go use the restroom, right? Potty breaks. There’s always that one kid that just straight dropped his shorts to his ankles and just straight cheeked out. Nah, I mean, I always had a kid. I wouldn’t know because we had – we all had like one stall restrooms for each sex. Oh, okay. Okay. And we all had to stand in line. One by one we go in. That’s how it was. Oh, damn. No, mine was – I mean mine was your typical restroom. You know, you – I didn’t have that restroom until I was really in sixth grade. Dang. What’s funny is that the urinals were like basically on the ground. So you know it’s built for the kids. Well, when I got to high school, it probably resembled that because I have horror stories from the boys restroom when –

High School Stories

Speaking of high school, did you go to a ghetto high school or – No. Funny you say that. Let me describe the high school I went to. It was part yellow, part white, and uppity. Okay. So, all the black kids mainly only use one restroom. Well, I was about to say worse. We all came on the bus. The whites all drove in. Damn. Like senior year, all I saw – all I seen when I was able when I drove to school my senior year, all I saw was Porsches and Mercedes in that parking lot. And I knew who those cars belong to. And I’m not even kidding when I say that cause the high school was in like a rich part of Houston. You know, Joel Osteen, right? That grifter. Joel Osteen. Yes. Yes. Okay. His house was like a couple blocks from the school, but it was in that kind of neighborhood. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So, no, it was a pretty – I mean, everyone pretty much got along, but it was economically divided. I saw it more front and center when I was a senior and I was driving and I actually saw the cars that was in the parking lot and I saw the difference in how transportation was, you know, made to the school. I was one of those black kids that took the bus.

Was it cool inside or outside? What do you mean? So, like my school was an old school like it was – it was all open. Like it was a big building but it was all open. It was all – Yeah. The only thing outside was like the courtyard part of the cafeteria and of course – Everything it was all – it was all indoor building. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, mine was mine was pretty ghetto. We had our – our football team when we took showers couldn’t afford hot water. Always cold showers especially during the during the winter. Yeah, that sucks. I was about to say during the – I mean first of all where you went to high school at what was winter like – one week Christmas between New Years football season over part of it. It was – we always made it to like the third round and that third round is like the weekend after Thanksgiving. That third round is when you play a school from either Houston or San Antonio, right? Yeah, exactly. That’s when that’s when you have to exit. Okay. First round first round was Valley. Second round was like Corpus area. Third round San Antonio. And then that was it. Yeah. That was it.

But like our showers, right, just to paint a picture, our showers are like hallways. Like it’s just like a hallway and it’s like individual like showerheads like prisons. No cover whatsoever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think I think prisoners have hot water. No, I’m just kidding. I don’t know, right? Probably not. Let’s not check and go. But I mean I hope not, you know, cause we had to take cold showers when it’s like 40 degrees outside. Heck no. Now, what about the innocent ones, man? What about them? What about the ones that’s doing 30 years and they innocent? They get fully exonerated. They get it too. Both ways. Literally. Oh, oops.

Yeah. So, no, you had a prison shower setup and ours in the locker room it was in a – picture how like my living room is the way you see it. And there would be like a large cylinder pole in the middle with like the different shower heads around it. That’s how my middle school one was. That’s how it had – it was like a large – there was separate three rooms and each of them had like a silver metal pole and it had different shower heads around. So I like the wall showers more because that one easier not to make eye contact, you know.

You know what’s worse if you’re taking a shower in the circle showerheads, right? It’s the circle one and you’re in the shower and do you rather have the guy across from you or right next to you?

I mean you – No, I know that. I know that. But this is either or – across. Keep them across. You wouldn’t mind like getting an accidental peek rather than an accidental touch. My eyes are always closed and keeping them across. I have more space to myself in my you know arm length. You know, you – if we facing a wall and what if his ass wants to use just one in between both – two big ass dudes trying to stretch out and like we knock knuckles, bump fists while we trying to clean up my arm. Might actually bump cheek to cheek. You never know. You guys might turn the same time. No, man. That’s some that’s why I said that’s some prison showers, man. Cause that’s what happens. You saw the booty warrior from Boondocks? I saw it. Favorite episode. I’m just – Why is that your favorite episode? Huh? Yeah, it’s a joke. It’s all come down now. It’s all set down. Did it give you some memories?

NFL Legacies & High School Football Stories

Who’s the – Do you have a story where you played a really good football player in high school against and they end up going to like the NFL? Like is there anybody that – I didn’t play – I didn’t technically play against him because I didn’t play in the game but well like were you like a team we played against Jake Matthews. Oh the tackle for Atlanta played for Elkins High School. I think that was the name of the school. Fort – he went to A&M and Falcons that makes sense. Yeah the Falcons. Cause now you know that’s a Matthews kid, right? And hopefully you – Yeah, Clay. Yeah, Chris. That was Bruce Matthews. I think he was actually at the game also. And we almost got into a fight against that team because they decked our kicker at – No, I forgot how it went. Yeah. No, in the end they definitely decked our kicker in the end and that’s when, you know, both sidelines kind of like almost fully cleared out. and it was like so but yeah that’s mine would have to be – do you remember Kellen Mond? Yes quarterback A&M for a while got drafted by Cleveland the Vikings – Vikings okay and it was somewhere up north yeah so Kellen Mond before he went to IMG academy he played for San Antonio Reagan. He was a sophomore when I was a senior.

You got to get a scholarship to go to IMG. Yeah, I know. But he went there. He went from San Antonio to Florida. IMG, but I almost sacked him. So, I was coming off from his blind side and I got around the oversized 6’7″ tackle that San Antonio just produces every year, right? I only got around with speed, not strength. So, I got around him and I’m coming behind Kellen Mond about to just have the highlight of that game, right? About to blast him. Now, Kellen Mond was like my height, right? Or a little bit taller than me, but he was my height during that time. I’m not going for his legs. I’m going for his back. I’m trying to bring down the quarterback so we have a chance to win this game. And as I’m coming and I’m going in for the hit, he ducks me and I miss him. So you mean so you’re telling me that the kid that got a scholarship to IMG was able to get around your fat ass? I could have told – Okay. I was 220 at the time. I wasn’t that big like I am now. But I’m messing with you. He ducked me, bro. And then once he got drafted, one of my high school friends text me. He’s like, “Hey, do you remember the quarterback for Reagan?” I was like, “Yeah, I do.” He’s like, “Well, he just got drafted to the Vikings.” And then he brought up that play where he just absolutely like ducked me. If I could find it, I’ll show you. I doubt I could find it, but he was a sophomore at the time starting for San Antonio Reagan.

So, yeah. Now he’s actually playing for the San Antonio Brahmas. Little fun fact. What’s the UFL, right? UFL. The USFL and the other one joined forces. The one that The Rock owned and then the other one. There was two. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Was that the AAF, the Alliance or whatever it was? Something. Yeah. The AFL. That one. I thought that was going to last. I thought so, too. I mean, the seasons only last like two months or three months, but I always watch the Houston Roughnecks or the San Antonio Brahmas anyway. But yeah, no, that’s probably the best one I played against. Didn’t really have a too much of a career in the NFL. Jump from team to team. Yeah, he got there. He got that rookie contract. He got drafted – drafted third round. Yep. Okay. Third round. Get paid. Oh, yeah. But they get paid. Hey, NFL checks a check. I’ll tell you that. Just don’t be like Antonio Brown because them checks going to run out and he’s still going to have to pay for them all. Child support don’t stop till the kids had 18. And when he got nine of them, I don’t know how much he has. I’m just assuming. Oh, no. He had like 14. Oh, I was undermining him. Yeah. Pump them numbers up. He had he had a couple touchdowns worth of kids. You’re telling me those were rookie numbers? Yes. No, those are Philip Rivers numbers. Oh my god.

You know what? He has a kid starting college. Really? Yes. Where is this kid at? Wait. Well, no. Oh, no. I’m thinking of Asante Samuel. Asante Samuel has Samuel Jr. Yeah, he’s in the league already. Chargers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He got drafted. I think he’s playing for the Chargers. I’m glad how this conversation slowly transitioned to what the podcast is about. Yes. Kids of former athletes. As a matter of fact, speaking of one high school sport athlete, you know what we got to be looking out for? Who? I don’t know. I forgot the kid’s name already. Peyton Manning’s – Arch Manning. No. Oh, no. Peyton Manning’s – No, his cousin. His little cousin. Man. That whole family tree is crazy. Okay, here we go. Gunner Rivers. He’s Gunner. Oh my gosh. That sounds like he has an arm already for real. I mean – His daddy used to gun it. I mean his daddy was called the sheriff. You hear them footsteps? No. Okay. He passed by. Remember what I told you before? I did mute it in time, but it was – I’m hearing them footsteps going back and forth. Yeah. Yeah, he’s getting offers from NC State and Auburn and he’s –

SEC is going to be like let’s get all the legacy kids. Oh, that’s – Oh, you’re talking about Philip Rivers kid. Yeah, Philip Rivers. Yeah. Oh, you I thought you said Peyton Manning. Oh, no, no, he’s still – he’s about to jump into high school right now. I was reading somewhere where they said he had – he enrolled him into some exclusive academy. So you know what that means? Football only. He said son – now is this his first son of the 12? You talking about Philip Rivers? Yeah cause you know Philip Rivers is also he’s a white version of Shawn Kemp. Yes. Yes. you know, but I think all with one wife. Okay. See, that’s what I was about to say. Okay. I was about to go somewhere along those lines, but you know, like let’s – I mean that’s I don’t know. That’s however many by however many, but Rivers, you know, it’s all the same on the birth certificates for all. How many?

12. Jesus Christ. Listen, he was getting busy, you know, he was – I can’t – this whole thing is about all of a sudden about kids and – I know more than go two or three. This – he’s ranked I think I’m reading this right. He’s ranked the number two quarterback in the nation. Talking about Manning or Gunner? Gunner Rivers. Rivers. I mean, with a name like that, you better be 6’3″ and a half, 205. He’s built like a QB. Yeah. Yeah, that’s a QB. QB. Yeah. Oh, man. We getting old, dude. We are. The players we watched growing up are now – they have their kids coming in in all sports. NBA, MLB. Oh, I know. That’s crazy. We basically saw all of LeBron’s career. I mean, it’s still going on, but like now his son’s playing with him. Do you see those little cartoon shorts? Maybe I sent a few of them to Instagram about Bronny. What is it? LeBron and Papa. Yeah, that’s hilarious. That stuff is hilarious. They have LeBron constantly sniffing glue and drinking wine like just passed out like a shell of himself.

Dang.

College Football Week Zero

You know, speaking about football, week zero is coming up finally. You had a joke for week zero last year when I said it. I can’t remember what it was. Yeah, I said week zero gets zero watch time or zero viewers. Well, not this year because let’s see, we got – you remember last year the top 25 was Georgia Tech and Florida State and Florida State just got absolutely manhandled and they continue to get manhandled the rest of the season. They did. Talking all that stuff. Now, this next top 25 matchup is Iowa State ranked 22nd against Kansas State, ranked 17th, but they’re playing in Dublin, Ireland.

And I forgot where – I think last year’s was also I think in Germany. I think that’s where they played. I feel like it was Northwestern or someone in Germany. I know. I feel like it was a Big 10 school. I can’t remember off the top of my head, but yeah, they actually got not too bad. I mean, the second best game probably is going to be that Fresno State Kansas game. That’s probably it. Whoa. Whoa. Come on. Put some respect on Iowa and Kansas. They’re top 25. I said the second best game. Oh, the second. Sorry. That’s my fault. That’s my fault. You don’t listen to me. Jesus. I don’t. I’m terrible. I’m a terrible husband to you. I don’t listen. Yeah. Don’t ever say that again.

Let’s see. Houston, I know they start on Thursday. Yeah. So, let’s go ahead and get them out the way. Huh. They’re playing at the same time as Minnesota and Buffalo. So, I wonder which game I’ll be able to get up here. Well, the Houston one’s on ESPN Plus, so Kyle’s livid. He’s visibly frustrated.

Hold on, man. Yeah, I know you’re messing with me because I’m about to look this up right now and I’m – Nah, man. It’s a Thursday again. Listen, I think Kyle’s going to fall into the temptation and maybe go on those illegal websites and – No, I’m pissed that if that’s – I’m trying to see ain’t nothing showing what network it’s on cause you’re just messing with me that they can’t even get on ESPN 2. Messing with me on that. Listen, I’m on I’m on the ESPN website and it says ESPN Plus.

You know, I guess obviously Fox Sports is showing that Buffalo and Minnesota game.

SEC man, you know, screw you, ESPN. Yeah, tell them. Tell them.

Astros Panic Mode: Injuries, Pitching & Playoff Hopes

Tell them they don’t show Houston no respect. Anyways, I didn’t even really have – Oh, I did have college football on the notes. Well, you know what? Screw that. I don’t even want to talk about that no more. What’s wrong with the Astros, man? I’m like ready to go nuclear right now. I don’t know, man. They were just so hot and now that I feel like after the trade deadline, they’ve been moderate all season. We were just the beneficiary of a crappy division where we was able to build the lead just because we played well enough. But there were so many holes. We have the best record against plus .500 teams. Let’s still hold that. Okay. It’s just I just feel like we’re hitting our low right now. You know, at one point we were what plus 15 – 17 games. We was 20 over .500. There you go. Thank you. We was well over 20. There you go. Now it’s like I ain’t even worried about the record. I’m worried about the lead. Okay. We can win a division at 83 wins and go make a run to the World Series. That has happened. All right. Yeah. Not by us, but it happens. I don’t care. I don’t care if we’re 100 wins. I don’t care for 90 wins. I say just hold on to the lead. Hold on to it. I’m tired of worrying about what Seattle does when it doesn’t matter when we don’t handle our own business. Yeah. I mean, for the winning records, we have the lowest run differential, too. So, we’re winning, but we’re barely winning. Oh, yeah. That’s been that’s been the case for the past couple years. Yeah. World Series. I’m looking right now. Seattle has a higher chance to make the playoffs than we do and we’re one game ahead of them. Well, that’s because you got to look at the current state and you look at the momentum right now. If you was to take stock, who do you think is – if the season ended? If the season ended today, obviously we’d be in. But are we really a playoff team right now? If it ended today, no. We’d be out quick. We’re too injured. We ain’t – our pitching is too beat up. Can’t trust nobody to go more than five, you know. Can’t – I don’t know who to trust outside of Abreu coming out the bullpen. I’m sorry, the arm barn.

Folks, all right, I brought her to the pod. Isaiah is pissed. See, you going to get on me with this. I’m finally got something to get under your skin because people, Isaiah hate – I don’t know where I saw that. It was some super hippie liberal that I was reading from – it was an article that you had read. Yeah. And I passed it off to him cause I was like, “Look, man. The hippies are trying to get over into baseball. They really trying to mess with this and they want to – and they said it was animal abuse or promoting animal abuse to call it the bullpen or something like that.” Yeah. Ever since then, just because it really – it pissed Isaiah off more than it pissed me off – ever since then. I just keep referring it. Usually I don’t get pissed off at stuff like that. Like I’m usually cool, calm, collected, but just that for some reason that just made me upset. And it’s even funnier when I just drop it completely randomly when he don’t expect it. I will say it in text messages and I don’t get a response for the rest of the day. Well deserved. I’ll tell you that. Anyways, yeah, he hates me saying the arm barn, but we don’t have no one that we can trust coming out of there. And right now, they’re playing like guys in the arm barn. Yep. I mean, now Hader’s on the 15-day IL, so honestly,

dude, I think we’ve gotten where we are because of our pitching. We did. I think we just squeezed by with the – We were just squeezing by because the offense really was never there all season. There was Bregman and Altuve. It was just – I’m going blank. What’s – there you go. Thank you. And ever since he went down is even more – yeah, Bregman was literally keeping us in and now that – Altuve wasn’t really hitting to start, but now he’s kind of heated up. Can you imagine if Yordan and Pena didn’t go down? We have – they’re those three right now, you know, the way they are. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, we – maybe this is the year where we actually pay for sins,

pay for our – I say this year because look how it’s happening. I know. But well, we’ve – Astros have had such almost a great decade now. It’s been – making the ALCS a decade. It’s been a decade. 2024. Well, I’m counting since since our first World Series win. Oh, even longer. Well, no. Didn’t we first win? No, no, but I’m saying like cause we’re going further in time. So now this run is getting so much longer that you know now, you know, we’re about to hit – about the 10 year anniversary. Yes. America – 10 year anniversary.

Go Astros. The good news is Yordan’s finally rehabbing. He’s finally on assignment after being out. I know he’s back when he blasts one 440. Not no little wall scraper. Second deck. Either 440 in the second deck or absolute laser beam where there’s no arc. straight laser beam to someone’s – Okay, it’ll be a single because it’ll be a single because if it’s a laser beam, someone’s going to catch it. He ain’t running no more. I’m telling you right now. I’m talking about I’m talking about that 114 off the bat at like 22 degree angle and it just goes over the wall. Just a straight bullet. I’m telling you right now, I know his wrist is – I know his wrist is the problem, but if I’m Dana Brown and Jim Crane, I’m saying you just jog. You don’t even run anymore cause now we don’t need your knees going out too. Oh, and that’s what it’s been the past years. You are only paid to hit home runs. That’s it. And jog. I don’t care. The only time if you try to run for a triple.

No. Can’t have that. Don’t shoot there. Can’t have that. No. No. Just hit home runs. If it’s a double, it’s a double. But you jog. Don’t slide. Yep. Don’t hustle. Don’t shoot there. Listen, I don’t want to see a 3B on that stat line whatsoever. I don’t even – I want to see 1B or HR. That’s it. That’s it. That’s it. I don’t want to see nothing else. I don’t care if there’s a 4-6-3 put out at second. Don’t care. You know, we really don’t have like a triple guy anymore cause like I think over the years it was Tucker. Yeah. Next best bet is probably Meyers. The years before that was probably Straw – throwback now. You could say throwback for this era for this run and that’s for sure. He’s still – Hey, he’s still collecting checks. He’s up in Toronto now. Oh, is he? He’s down with Cleveland now. Yep. It’s the Toronto Astros cause they still got Loperfido and Wagner. Is Joey Loperfido still playing good? Like is he still popping off? He was for a bit. I haven’t heard anything in a while. Astro fans are still crying about him. I am. I’m Astro fan and I’m crying about him. Well, we did lose him for nothing. I mean, you think about it. Oh, okay. Kyle, guess his batting average? Is it north of .250? Yep. Is it north of .300? Yep. Jesus Christ. Is it north of .310? Yep. Is it south of .320? Nope. Oh my god.

Milwaukee Brewers Hot Streak

You want to keep going? How many at bats? All right. How many at bats? 81. Oh, that’s a small – I thought we was talking like 100 or 200 at bats. Small sample size. Okay. Talk to me when he gets to like 250-300 at bats. If he’s still over there, then we’ll determine if we won or lost that trade. Yeah, right now he’s at .358, .409 OBP, slugging .506. Still striking out a lot more than he walks. But hey, that was the book on him. You know what? Guys come up, they get hot. That happens. It does. So, that’s enough on the Astros. Let’s go. Let’s go to I guess the complete opposite of the Astros. The hottest team in the majors right now and it’s not the Dodgers. Well, are we talking about the Brewers? I still can’t believe they changed the name of that ballpark. Listen, I don’t know. I got – I’m not going to say that. I’m just lucky. Listen Miller. Listen, Miller Lite, what the hell man? Why’d y’all let that happen? I’m on their ESPN page and like I just see a bunch of green W’s.

What? What was it? 14 or 15 in a row. Yeah. 14 in a row. 14. And then they lost to the Reds by one and then they beat the Cubs 7-0. What’s the score right now? Are they playing? It was a doubleheader today. Let me see.

I ain’t going on ESPN. It has been postponed. But the second game has been postponed, but they won 7-0 on the first game. A lot of rain up here. Yeah, man. The Brewers, they’ll take their early exit in the division round.

Means nothing, but they’re just doing good as a team, right? There’s no like – I know they have Christian Yelich, but there’s no like – comeback player of the year. He was – he was hurt last year. Yeah, he wasn’t really – Yeah, he’s been – he’s kind of having a resurgence this year. He wasn’t – he didn’t really play much. Oh, thank god Seattle’s getting their asses kicked by Philly. Okay, so that loss means nothing today. Still up by one, baby. Oh man, Texas is losing to Kansas City. I mean, they’re already out, but I just want to just see them keep losing. You know who’s also getting their ass kicked? The Braves by the White Sox. Yeah, I’m seeing that right now. What happened to the Braves this year? I think Acuña coming back just made it worse. I thought it was supposed to be better. I thought so, too. They had – they had the same almost the same team they won the World Series with besides what, Freeman. But they had Matt Olson – more of a power hitter. They lost – No, they lost – Freddie Freeman in free agency. I like how I like how I have this tarp laid out on the couch on part of the couch to lay on and he’s of course he’s on straight up the couch eating his ass. Cats do what cats want to do, man. He’s just cleaning himself, man. Just cleaning himself. I gave him the tarp to do that on and he’s doing it straight up on the couch.

You remember how many rookie cards I bought of Corey Lee? I still bug you about that. I haven’t – Is he even still in the majors or is he playing for the Bananas? Hold on. Chill. There was that was just at the White Sox ballpark yesterday. Let’s see. You relax. All right. Is he – Tell me he’s injured. How come he only has so little plate appearances? I mean, it’s still got a – White Sox.

You went all in on this. Okay. I didn’t go all in. He was dirt cheap when he was in Double A. He has a minus point eight – He has a minus .8 career WAR. Better than a minus one. Hey, you know what? My career WAR is zero. Okay. Well, that’s fair. That’s which means I’m better than him.

I’m a numbers guy. I can’t argue against that.

Oh man. Well, I mean last year he did good. I mean 0.1 WAR in 125 games. Last thing on here is had 12 homers. Yeah. Last thing is that he just got injured. So back in April, I mean I say last year he was part of the worst team in baseball, you know, but hey, you still played unlike us.

Fantasy Football Draft Strategy & Bijan Robinson Debate

Anyways, you ready for fantasy, Isaiah? I am ready. I’ve been looking at rankings, watching mock drafts. Pretty excited. I’m not going to spend any money this year on fantasy. I’m not playing in my work fantasy. Decided to step down. Don’t want to do it anymore. And I was the commissioner of that league. And now guess what? No one wants to be commissioner. So they’re not having a league this year. You know, I ran a fair and just league and now, you know, they don’t want to do it. So that’s not happening this year. You decided to continue putting – Screw that. You’re gonna have all your focus in this league. Oh yeah, I’ll explain my focus three ways. Now it’s only two. But however, I used to buy a kit from this group that helped me create a tier list based on the league settings – league scoring settings. So that helped. I might give it again just because it gives me insight on if I’m stuck on who to start between two players, I could put them into a model and it tells me like, oh, well, this person’s playing this team and they’ll probably do better. It’s not 100% accurate, but they’ve won awards for it. So, you know, now I’m not saying I’m going to buy it. I’m just saying that’s what I used to use that tool to help me this year. You know, I mean, my draft strategy, it’s going to be based off what pick I am and plus, you know, who falls to me. I think Bijan Robinson’s too high, though. I’m a – I love him. I’m a fan, but like I get it in a PPR league, but I don’t know, man. I need to look at his stats because – give me that. So he had 1,400 – Oh, he had 1,400 yards last year. Listen, let me sit down. And 14 touchdowns. That’s just rushing. Let me take a seat. I mean, that was his breakout season now? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wait. Because last year was his rookie year. He went from 976 yards to 1,400 yards, from four touchdowns to 14 touchdowns. He had 61 catches, one receiving touchdown, 400 yards. 61 catches by running back is a lot. Yeah, it’s no – it’s no Christian McCaffrey, but 61 is more than a Patriots wide receiver won last year. You know, that’s something to talk about.

New England Patriots & Team Fandom Stories

Speaking of Patriots, what you think of your new head coach there? I love him. Now, the whole jumping into a dog pile and trying to get involved. I don’t know about that. Maybe he had some PTSD, some flashbacks, saw some action. I want to get in there. Came out with a bloody cheek, too, of that scrap. But I’m excited for – I think he’s bringing – from having Gerard Mayo, a rookie year coach who had to get his hand held by the GM and other coaches around him really hurt the – how do I say – not the morale but the identity of the Patriots. No, you just wanted to get the black guy out of there. Oh, for sure. I’m just kidding. For sure. Just joking. Just joking. Relax. Calm down. And so now with Mike Vrabel who’s won Coach of the Year – been in playoffs. I know. I’m joking. I’m sarcastic 90% of the time. These people should know that – we’re like almost 40 episodes in. You know, I haven’t got it canceled yet. It might happen. But I’m really excited. Plus, you know, Drake Maye’s second season, we brought a whole new coaching staff. We have four former head coaches on the coaching staff. So that’s, you know, talking about experience. You know, some of them – Mike Vrabel obviously, Josh McDaniels. Marrone, the former coach for Jacksonville. I think that’s his name. Yeah. Doug Marrone. Doug – There you go. Yeah. He’s the offensive line coach. We drafted in our fourth pick, Caedan Wallace, who’s ready to flat out die for his team. I don’t know if you saw him blocking, you saw some reels, but that man is putting people – he’s putting people in the dirt. He might hurt in pass pro, but in the run game, he’s looking for a body. So, I’m excited. Last – before Mike Vrabel was hired the over/under was like four games for the Patriots. I think it’s like nine now. I take the under. And that’s fair. It’s just there’s so much hype around this team now that you know people are taking overs. Yeah. No. Yeah. I don’t give a – You got y’all – the last team to be talking about, oh, we need to do this and get better and all that. Sit your seven Super Bowl ass down, man. Six. Six. Brady has seven. We have six. Okay. Yeah. Well, see, that’s where I lose confusion. Sit your six Super Bowl ass down, man. Nobody gives a damn about y’all struggles. I’m speaking. Listen, I’m new. I’m new to this. All right. I don’t even know what it felt like to lose.

NFL Nostalgia: DeSean Jackson, Nick Foles & Classic Moments

Something I’ve been meaning to ask you for the longest and I’m glad to do it while we still alive. How did you become – Oh, there goes my ice machine. How did you become a Patriots fan? So, my dad – Yeah. So, my family’s a Cowboys fan, right? My dad had family members who were Ohio State fans and they were very braggy Ohio State fans and they really didn’t rub off my family too well. So whenever it was Michigan versus Ohio State, they would go for Michigan. So that’s how my dad became a Michigan fan. Since my dad was a Michigan fan, he saw Tom Brady and watched Tom Brady play. So he became a Tom Brady fan. And by the time Tom Brady got drafted, I was, you know, kind of watching football already. And we always watched Patriots games because he was a Tom Brady fan. And then ever since then, we always watched Tom Brady play. So I became a Patriot fan. And then so I’ve been watching the Patriots since like 2001. So that’s how – look at that father. Yeah, exactly. I owe it to my dad. I’m not even lying. Now, how did you become an Eagles fan? Because you are so Texas born. That’s why you homage into baseball and basketball, but football. Yeah. And that’s easily explained. When I was getting into football, the Oilers were already gone. Houston did not have a team until 2002. Yeah. And I was already a Donovan McNabb fan because he was always beating the crap out the Cowboys because I damn sure was not going to jump on the Cowboys bandwagon. I wasn’t in Houston. Now I still – I still have an affinity for the Eagles because that’s the team that I came up with and that was the team that I always played with on Madden. But I always – I will always like the Eagles, but of course my heart is in Houston.

And also too, unlike you wanting to, you know, using Tom Brady as a link to bond with your dad, I bonded with my dad watching football, but I wanted to be a complete opposite. I always love chaos and rivalry. So, you know, he’s a Giants fan. Yes. So, reason number two why I became an Eagles fan. That’s crazy to do with your own father. You created – he just wanted to watch football with his son and his son – his only son – and that son created a rivalry. The best memory that I have of watching the Eagles and Giants with him. Let me guess. I already know it. You don’t have to tell me. I already know it. What is it? What is it? What is it? Giants versus Eagles. DeSean Jackson’s punt return. I told him right before they punt that ball. I said, “Don’t kick it to DeSean Jackson.” Cause he – You know how sometimes I call – and how many times have I even texted you right before something happens when we watch the Astros or some – I called it happened. I say it’s near 50/50, dude. I freaking called it. I said, “Don’t kick it to him. Don’t do it.” The best part of that whole return was that block. Yeah. You remember you remember that pancake that really sprung him free? Oh man, that – that was when I jumped up and I mean I was bouncing around the living room and I was saying I told you not to kick it to him. That’s because he muffed it first, too. You know? Oh, man. I Man, I still go back to YouTube for that play. That was that – that play that whole season. I wish it went longer in the playoffs, but that was that Michael Vick season. Besides the Nick Foles touchdown pass or touchdown catch, that’s probably the most historic Eagles play. And it has to be – it has to be up there, you know, like for sure top three. You remember that Nick Foles catch? Oh yeah, I was watching it. We was watching. It was that – Oh, yeah. It was that Super Bowl. You know what’s funny? I took a test during lunch. It was highest QBR, top five highest QBR since 2000. And I got 93 out of 96, right? And I couldn’t get an Eagles quarterback in like 2014 or 2015. I was like, I already got Wentz. It wasn’t Wentz. I was like, it’s not Vick cause that’s too late to be Vick. I was like, who was it? And then once I – You got to do it for seven touchdowns in one game. Oh yeah, that guy. Then I saw – then Nick Foles just brought back all the memories. So yeah, I don’t understand how he has one prime career. He was like the Peyton Hillis that year, you know, like that was just his year. And then played backup after that ever since. I hope the Texans can give me some joy like that soon because Houston Texas – Texas in general – a Super Bowl needs to come to Texas and preferably won by Houston. Oh man, I kind of hope Cowboys win a Super Bowl before Houston just so I can see a reaction. Oh wow. Just so I can see your reaction, you know.

All right, boy. You really was getting on my ass today, huh? I just want to see it. Show us how you react. Damn, man. You know, it’s a good thing you’re not in Texas anymore. Yeah, but I still somewhat care about sports, not so much about the stuff that’s happening down there. Yeah, Super Bowl needs to come back to Texas by Houston. A college football championship needs to come back by Houston. Okay, I’ll stop. Already fast forward into October.

All right. I just don’t want to check out of the season by October. That’s all I’m saying where I’m basically waiting for college basketball. Yeah. Hopefully the football team could get you guys to at least .500

Yep. And then watch me start talking – talking about put us on the schedule next season. I can’t wait till you till you guys like win a game like blow out a team, right? It could be whoever – could be Rice and it could be like put us in. Why can’t it be like Baylor or someone? Well, you guys play Arizona, right? Yes. Right. So, but I just kind of – I just – I’m sorry. I don’t, you know, I’m just going off Iowa State or Kansas State, man. Why why is it that every time you talk about the Cougars winning in football in the same sentence, the only opponent you bring up is Rice? Because it’s local. It’s local. You know, the rivalry. That’s – Anyways,

we’ll push that to the next one. I would love to talk about that because I’m interested to get your take on that. I’m good here. Alrighty. This was good. This time I just listened. I know. Okay. Sorry. No, I was looking at something. We’ll go. I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. What’s this interesting thing that I have right here that I was really curious to get your take on. We’ll move that to the – We’ll move that to the next. Oh, okay. I was like, “Are we ending the episode or not?” Yes, I said that. I said I was good. My god. The second time you didn’t listen to me. Listen, what were you over here like – you over here typing like you’re 50? Well, I’m sorry. I got raptor fingers. Raptors. Man. I was going to talk. All right, everyone. Thank you for listening. We’ll catch you on the next one. Hopefully, it’ll be a Sunday. It should be Sunday. So hopefully early weekend from now on. See y’all.