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badboy said:
This could be interesting but I don't subscribe.

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I don't subscribe.........but here it is:​


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Deshaun Watson's QB coach Quincy Avery trolls departed Houston sports radio host Landry Locker​

By Matt Young,Staff writerJune 5, 2024



Landry Locker, pictured with Houston Texans Foundation vice president Hannah McNair earlier this year, announced his departure from Sports Radio 610's mid-day show to focus on his streaming channel.

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Local sports radio host Landry Locker and quarterback coach Quincy Avery have never been afraid to take shots at each other.

Avery, who trains former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson among others, showed no hesitation in getting in another dig when Locker announced his departure from Sports Radio 610 on Monday.

Locker said he would be focusing on his YouTube channel “The Locker Room” which already has posted several videos focusing on the Texans this week.

“Damn @LandryLocker you got fired huh? Sucks to suck,” Avery posted on Twitter on Tuesday night. “Good luck with your YouTube page!”

After some people took exception to the comment, Avery replied on Twitter, “I don’t feel bad making jokes on a man who lost his job after he talked about me crazy (on) the radio everyday. Today he’s unemployed.”

On Wednesday morning, he made a change to Michelle Obama’s famous turn of a phrase about how to react when people go low in a debate with you. “When they go low. I go lower,” Avery posted.

Locker called the entire interaction "kinda weird" in a direct message over social media on Wednesday.

"Haven’t cared about Quincy Avery for a long time, but appreciate him checking on me," Locker said. "I’m extremely happy with where I am in life and what the future holds. I was critical of him in the past while actually being pretty fair to Deshaun during Watson’s tenure. But that seems like a while ago. I’m a big boy and can take it. No animosity and nothing he says rubs me the wrong way."

Avery came under fire from Houston sports fans when Watson refused to suit up for the Texans after the 2020 season and later was accused of sexual assault and harassment in 24 civil lawsuits filed by massage therapists in 2021.

In 2022, Avery said Watson’s receivers during the 2020 season with the Texans were “like three guys who could have been working at your local Walmart.”

Besides comments about Avery on the air, Locker also has posted about the coach on Twitter.

During Watson’s first game with the Browns, which was a 2022 win over the Texans in which he threw for 131 yards, Locker posted on Twitter, “This is what Quincy Avery teaches? ,” and later, “If I’m facing a QB, I’d send a limo to have Quincy Avery train him.”

Earlier in 2022, Avery posted about Locker: “Why does this guy keep bringing my name up? I don’t know that clown. He’s never heard me say anything not football related. And I know more about football than he will ever know.”





June 5, 2024

Matt Young​

TRENDING SPORTS REPORTER

Matt Young is a trending sports reporter at the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at matt.young@houstonchronicle.com.
Matt has been a sports editor/writer at the Chronicle since 2015. He's proudly from Alief and occasionally sits alone in his four-cornered room staring at candles.​

 
CloakNNNdagger said:
When radio broadcasters go onto other projects by choice, they usually give at least a little heads up to the exit. Landry was here today, gone tomorrow.

From what I've been able to best determine, this was building up and finally came to a head. He was critical of too many aspects of the Texans front office, player moves, long-standing riffs with Mulugheta's boy QB coach Quincy Avery (not to mention Watson and Mulugheta himself) , and questioning Stroud's recent comments regarding Rodgers.

He would reserve or emphasize many of his negative comments on his podcasts which many fans did not follow but were aware of.
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Landry Locker is the pimple that got popped..
Finally
 
Lucky said:
I happened to be out today during the Lopez show, and the guy that replaced Landry may be worse. He was going on and on about how Will Anderson may have put on too much weight and bulk, Saying that Anderson previously weighed 234 lbs.

Will Anderson has not weighed 234 lbs as a Texan. His weight is listed on the Texans website at 243 lbs (which I think is low). Anderson came in at 253 at his combine (which seems right). But whatever it is, it's not 234 lbs. And the guy (Sean something) repeated that number a dozen times, at least. And thought Anderson maybe should not play above that weight. And none of the other morons on the show corrected him.

Why are we treated such buffoonery on Houston sports radio? These clowns opened up the first 20 minutes of their show trying to determine who spat tobacco on the bathroom floor at the station. And sponsors paid for this.
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Long ago 610 went from sports to entertainment .
Seems like decades ago they spent more time talking about movies, TV and restaurants/food.
As with news media, they want to be the news rather than reporting and discussing.
 
Sweech said:
It's a super high turnover industry - guys coming and going isn't at all surprising

I actually quite like Landry, he knows what he is and knows what he isn't.
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He is very cocky and when he was in Dallas Bryan Broaddus tried to teach him how to scout players like an NFL scout. He said he wasn't interested in putting in the time to learn. That tells me all I need to know about Landry and I'm not as down on him as much as many on this MB are.
 
Porky said:
My main beef is how often they go completely 100% off-topic. They will tease something for the next segment that sounds interesting...and then I come back over and for the next 10 minutes, I'm treated to some sort of juvenile locker room discussion. I have a 60 second rule. You have a max of 60 seconds to get back to the topic...or I'm turning the dial and unlikely to come back. I get that it's hard to fill all of the day parts with 100% sports talk...more so this time of year. As it is, some stuff will need to be repeated. But they must realize that most of the listeners are coming and going. Even during football season, I listen to music most of the time. I also listen to audio books at times. Any talk radio...in a best case is the 3rd choice for me. So if I decide to tune in...I'm giving you my valuable time and I expect that you don't waste it. If you do...I'm gone.

In any event...by this weekend or early next week, I will go into my annual hibernation from all things football for about 5 weeks. No sports talk radio, no youtube football takes, no football podcasts, no Texans Talk. Sometimes I do a small amount of lurking here...but that's about it. It replenishes and renews me. It's like anything you put away for a time - when you come back to it, you're more excited and ready to go.
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badboy said:
Long ago 610 went from sports to entertainment .
Seems like decades ago they spent more time talking about movies, TV and restaurants/food.
As with news media, they want to be the news rather than reporting and discussing.
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Porky, you did a lot of typing to get around to the truth that Badboy pointed out. Good job
 
Random thoughts here so as we get closer to the Texans upcoming football season. Who's counting but I just can't wait.
Go Texans!!
 
On a side note while waiting we have our own pro if you will football in San Antone. The Brahmas and yes the Alamodome is great for football not so with baseball.
I wished the Astros affiliate farm would be here but Corpus CHristi Hooks
Here the affiliate AA Missions are to the Padres.
n That's All Folks!!
 
I'm old fashioned. I believe you let your play on the field do your talking for you. But I recognize the football culture is a little different these days. Talking trash can be part of the game for some of these guys.
 
Just my take on the JJWatt return possibility - I think Texans will monitor our defenses progress and if it is going just fine, they may just roll with what they have.
But, having said that, if our D is killing it, they may ask JJ if he wants to come back as a Texan for a shot at a ring.
It will then be on him.
His experience would be invaluable to all and sundry and his presence on that D inspiring.
 
TexansBull said:
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From a player perspective it is entirely different. Playing on the field losing games while the owner and wife are comfortable in their air conditioned suite.
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Damn, you’re woke af bro. Last time I checked, Lucas Oil Stadium had a roof and had AC, AND it was cold outside of that stadium. But, I guess sure there were a couple of “oppressed millionaires” that were bummed out about having to play a game that pays them millions while the team owner sat in an air conditioned suite. :boogereater:
 
Mangler said:
Damn, you’re woke af bro. Last time I checked, Lucas Oil Stadium had a roof and had AC, AND it was cold outside of that stadium. But, I guess sure there were a couple of “oppressed millionaires” that were bummed out about having to play a game that pays them millions while the team owner sat in an air conditioned suite. :boogereater:
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HoOkEd On PhOnIcS wOrKs 4 me!

Pick up a book and read. It will help you understand how to put words together to understand stand what is being said.

Woke? I can tell you don’t even know the definition of the word the way you use. Are you one of the people who heard someone say it and is just repeating it? I bet you call the old lady driving slow in the left lane woke.

My posts were saying it’s different being on a team that loses and playing the game vs someone like Hannah who sits their butt in a seat and watches it. It doesn’t matter if they are who or how much money is being paid to whomever or how much money someone has. It can be peewee football and a parent in the stands. It is always different if you are the one playing vs the spectator. It’s your body, your preparation, you practicing, you feel the hits and physical exertion not the spectators.

I don’t know if you have ever played sports. I don’t know if you shop in Walmart on a motorized scooter cause you can’t walk. I do know you don’t know how to read or the definition of the word woke. It leads me to believe you get too much of your information from Facebook, Twitter and FoxNews. Too much of that stuff will rot your brain and it shows. Pick up a book.
 
Texansphan said:
Just my take on the JJWatt return possibility - I think Texans will monitor our defenses progress and if it is going just fine, they may just roll with what they have.
But, having said that, if our D is killing it, they may ask JJ if he wants to come back as a Texan for a shot at a ring.
It will then be on him.
His experience would be invaluable to all and sundry and his presence on that D inspiring.
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While they're at it ask AJ to comeback too. Maybe even ask Tony Hollings to comeback.
 
The NFL doesn't cater to anyone that can't make them money.

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Low morale, confusion among officials is a symptom, not the disease
Published June 9, 2024 11:17 AM

NFL officiating has been a problem for years. The NFL continues to be in denial about it.

The problem is money. As former V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino told #PFTPM several years ago, the league doesn’t properly value the job he held. It’s a tactful way of saying the league is cheap.

And if the league is cheap when it comes to the person who runs officiating, it’s fair to conclude the league is cheap when it comes to the rest of officiating.

Why aren’t officials full-time employees? Because the league would have to pay them a lot more than they’re currently paid. Period.

It’s a thankless job. The gratitude comes from the revenue. The Commissioner gets paid as much as he does in part because he’s a pincushion for the oligarchs lurking behind the curtain. During football season, the officials become targets for scrutiny, too. Paying them more money would make it easier to keep their heads down and their mouths shut as their names are dragged through the muck and the mud of anti-social media, and beyond.

As a result, there’s nothing about a recent item from Kalyn Kahler of TheAthletic.com that is or should be surprising. It’s great information, a revealing look at how cheapness impacts the folks doing the work. But it’s a symptom, not the disease.

The disease is greed, plain and simple. The NFL — which 12 years ago loudly insisted that replacement officials would do the job just as well as locked-out officials who dared to ask for more — doesn’t see the connection between paying more money for officiating and getting tangible value in return.

It’s the same mindset that has caused them to strip NFL Network down to old games and Zoom-based shows that don’t require the expenses of a studio. Massive revenues don’t matter. Pennies are being pinched wherever and however they can be.

The NFL currently is dangling the shiny object of a long-overdue (but still far too tentative) embrace of technology to distract from the problems with officiating. That’s how the Commissioner shrugged off the issue when appearing on Pat McAfee’s show on the Friday of draft week, pointing out that people complain about the full-time officials in basketball and hockey.

This ignores the basic fact that, for the NFL, the complaints would have less credibility if the NFL was doing everything it could to improve and enhance officiating. Full-time officials. Complete and total UFL-style transparency.

The league refuses to acknowledge that the fears articulated by the Commissioner when they hated gambling have come to fruition, now that they’re in bed with the sports books.

From 2012: “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust, and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”

More and more fans are attributing “normal incidents of the game” to foul play. The NFL’s biggest current challenge, even if it won’t admit it, is to spend the money necessary to create an environment in which fans see questionable calls as “normal incidents of the game,” and not as “this game is rigged.”

The change will happen after the first major NFL controversy of the era of legalized sports betting. Until it does, the league will keep stuffing its pockets with cash while refusing to spend what’s needed to keep that controversy from ever occurring in the first place.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
The NFL doesn't cater to anyone that can't make them money.

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Low morale, confusion among officials is a symptom, not the disease
Published June 9, 2024 11:17 AM

NFL officiating has been a problem for years. The NFL continues to be in denial about it.

The problem is money. As former V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino told #PFTPM several years ago, the league doesn’t properly value the job he held. It’s a tactful way of saying the league is cheap.

And if the league is cheap when it comes to the person who runs officiating, it’s fair to conclude the league is cheap when it comes to the rest of officiating.

Why aren’t officials full-time employees? Because the league would have to pay them a lot more than they’re currently paid. Period.

It’s a thankless job. The gratitude comes from the revenue. The Commissioner gets paid as much as he does in part because he’s a pincushion for the oligarchs lurking behind the curtain. During football season, the officials become targets for scrutiny, too. Paying them more money would make it easier to keep their heads down and their mouths shut as their names are dragged through the muck and the mud of anti-social media, and beyond.

As a result, there’s nothing about a recent item from Kalyn Kahler of TheAthletic.com that is or should be surprising. It’s great information, a revealing look at how cheapness impacts the folks doing the work. But it’s a symptom, not the disease.

The disease is greed, plain and simple. The NFL — which 12 years ago loudly insisted that replacement officials would do the job just as well as locked-out officials who dared to ask for more — doesn’t see the connection between paying more money for officiating and getting tangible value in return.

It’s the same mindset that has caused them to strip NFL Network down to old games and Zoom-based shows that don’t require the expenses of a studio. Massive revenues don’t matter. Pennies are being pinched wherever and however they can be.

The NFL currently is dangling the shiny object of a long-overdue (but still far too tentative) embrace of technology to distract from the problems with officiating. That’s how the Commissioner shrugged off the issue when appearing on Pat McAfee’s show on the Friday of draft week, pointing out that people complain about the full-time officials in basketball and hockey.

This ignores the basic fact that, for the NFL, the complaints would have less credibility if the NFL was doing everything it could to improve and enhance officiating. Full-time officials. Complete and total UFL-style transparency.

The league refuses to acknowledge that the fears articulated by the Commissioner when they hated gambling have come to fruition, now that they’re in bed with the sports books.

From 2012: “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust, and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”

More and more fans are attributing “normal incidents of the game” to foul play. The NFL’s biggest current challenge, even if it won’t admit it, is to spend the money necessary to create an environment in which fans see questionable calls as “normal incidents of the game,” and not as “this game is rigged.”

The change will happen after the first major NFL controversy of the era of legalized sports betting. Until it does, the league will keep stuffing its pockets with cash while refusing to spend what’s needed to keep that controversy from ever occurring in the first place.
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It's already happened

The Rams/, Saints NFC playoff game a few years ago. The Chiefs not getting a single holding call in 3 SB's. Even though it was obvious Bosa was held many times. SMH, rigged
 
Thorn said:
And speaking of old age and books, I have a fine collection of old science fiction Ace Doubles. You are old enough to remember those, if you read them. They came in flavors of scifi, western and detective stories.

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Pretty cool. I used to go to the Houston Public library book sales downtown and come home with boxes of books. I love the feel and smell of old books and never read one without a pen in hand so I can fill the margins with notes. Looks like you started out loving science and followed it with your work. I started with Turok and Andar and became a geologist. I know you like your Kindle but you can’t make one feel and smell like an old favorite book. One of the true goods.
 
Will Anderson: Nobody’s expectations are higher than what we have for ourselves
By Josh Alper
Published June 10, 2024 07:04 AM

The Texans are in a very different position than they were at this point last year.

Few people were projecting them to win the AFC South and win a playoff game as the offseason program wound down in 2023, but that’s exactly what happened thanks in large part to the contributions of a number of rookies. Quarterback C.J. Stroud and edge rusher Will Anderson starred on the field while DeMeco Ryans proved to be the right choice as a first-time head coach on the sideline.

Their presence would make the Texans a favorite for another playoff run on their own, but adding the likes of Stefon Diggs, Joe Mixon, and Danielle Hunter to the roster has pushed the bar even higher heading into the 2024 season. Handling the change in expectations has been a frequent talking point around the team as a result and Anderson’s view is that the team will be able to do it because they expect even more from themselves.

“Of course you’re going to see stuff like that, but I think it’s very important that we keep the main thing the main thing, and the main thing right now is just us being able to control what we can control,” Anderson said, via Jordan Dajani of CBSSports.com.

“And that’s everybody showing up for workouts, everybody making sure that they’re honing in on their playbook and everybody coming to practice, competing and having fun, so when the season comes, we can go out and compete and win games, and we can focus on getting to the ultimate goal, which is the Super Bowl. But for right now this offseason, we just want to keep building that team chemistry and making sure that nobody’s expectations are higher than the expectations that we have for ourselves.”

The Texans pulled off a remarkable turnaround in 2023, but that doesn’t guarantee anything for 2024. Anderson’s answer suggests they know that and that there’s still a hunger for growth that could make for an even more successful run this time around.
 
Dejaview said:
Pretty cool. I used to go to the Houston Public library book sales downtown and come home with boxes of books. I love the feel and smell of old books and never read one without a pen in hand so I can fill the margins with notes. Looks like you started out loving science and followed it with your work. I started with Turok and Andar and became a geologist. I know you like your Kindle but you can’t make one feel and smell like an old favorite book. One of the true goods.
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I also have a complete collection of Worlds of IF magazine from 1966 to 1968. It won the Hugo for best magazine for those three years.
 
Thorn said:
I also have a complete collection of Worlds of IF magazine from 1966 to 1968. It won the Hugo for best magazine for those three years.
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If you’ve never been to a HPL book sale you may want to check one out. They usually have old books like you’ve shown. When my son was born we built him a bookshelf with old classics from the book sales. There seems to be something about this. He loved books on animals, especially horses. Fast forward and he’s a high school biology teacher and a wrangler for an outfitter. Good God we need to get youngsters off social media and back to the basics.
 
Thorn said:
I also have a complete collection of Worlds of IF magazine from 1966 to 1968. It won the Hugo for best magazine for those three years.
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I never heard of that one. Maybe we should take this to a new thread as there is a lot to talk about. I was into science fiction early but also westerns such as Max brand and Louis L'Amour.
 
Not sure if posted yet


OB being interviewed about his career.

Interesting notes about his time in Houston:

Regrets taking in GM duties
Seems like he doesnt want to mention easterby by name
Regrets trying to force NE's way of doing everything on the organization

Theres other crap in there too that we knew at the time while it was all happening.
 
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