January 15, 2025 • 7 mins
Looking ahead to Saturday's kickoff the Texans get ready to take on Pat Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs for a second time this season as both teams have now reached the AFC Divisional Round. Following another highly anticipated game this weekend, many have taken in account the weather factor this weekend. With the expected temperatures to get very low and with wind gusts playing a crucial factor for the players as well on the field, lots of talk has derived that the Texans may not be ready for Saturday's 3:30 kickoff. Noting how some of the teams in the league are stationed in areas that receive heavier inclement weather than others and are use to cold and weatherly conditions, teams that aren't in those destined areas tend to not uphold so well. Sean and Brian pose the question to listeners, could the weather be an issue for the Texans as we inch closer and closer to the Divisional Round kickoff?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The most refreshing way to start your day. Shower, shave
and sean they're done. The courtesy flush is old ways appreciated.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank God, thank the good Lord.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you from the management team here at Sports Talk
seven nineteen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Back to Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's supposed to be really, really, really cold in Kansas City.
We talked about a little bit yesterday in regards to
the weather and how it's just gonna get colder as
the day goes on. It's the playoffs. A lot of
these teams that you're going to be playing outdoor stadiums,
it's going to be cold. So Demiko talked about the
mindset going in to a cold weather atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The weather can be a challenge if you allow it
to be a challenge. For me and for our guys.
It's something we can't control. You don't control the weather.
All right, wherever we have to play, we're ready to
go play. We understand we'll be on the road, is
gonna be cold. That's that's what we have to deal with.
And it's not a it's not a challenge for us.
(01:07):
It's just something the other team has to deal with
as well. So we're ready to go there's no excuses
about weather. We gotta go suit up and we gotta
go play ball.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Gotta go play ball. You can't control the weather man.
The reality of it, though, is it's a funny thing.
I don't know if you've ever felt this. It doesn't
matter what level of sports you played. That feeling of
you know, the game's coming, it's a big game. You
know it's gonna be cold or rainy, all those things
that go and like on a Monday, you're like, yeah,
we got to plan a game, but there's a party
(01:38):
that thinks it's never showing up right, Oh the weather,
we will. And then when you wake up on game
day and it's game day, yeah, and the world's watching
when I say the world, the football world, and you're
one of eight left, and it's getting more pressure and
the more you and you know how this goes. Have
you ever had that point when you're feeling pressure, not
feeling right and or ill prepared for something, and then
(02:00):
it's cold.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You're colder, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, there's that feeling of you're even more like nerves
bring out make you even feel colder. It's weird. I
don't I don't even know how to explain. I don't
know if I'm explaining it right, but that feeling of
the playoffs Sean, you're starting in your first playoff game,
Oh cool, I got five days, and you think it's
never coming. And then you but you prepare, you think,
oh it's okay. It's a long and you blink in
(02:24):
his pregame warm up and you're like, I gotta beat Denvers. Yeah,
or I got to beat whoever I'm playing right and
with them, the Kansas City Chiefs and all the challenges
are there, but I'm with Demiko Ryan's on one thing
and it helped me in my career. Listen, and I
don't mean this arrogant, but if I could have played
in bad weather as a California guy, yeah, it's really weird.
A lot of my best player play ever was in
(02:47):
either rain, snow, cold, inclement, where I almost felt like
it was my advantage of whether it's mental toughness or
size too you could grip the ball, but whatever it was,
I tried to spin it to my it's my advantage
because that guy suffering, But I don't know, I'm not
suffering over this.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Do you think it was because you thought more about
the the conditions rather than the game plan, or rather
than I got to complete this pass. So I I'm
trying to relate it to the best game I ever
played in college. I was hungover as all get out. Well,
it took away game. You'd have a built in excuse
for your I wasn't thinking about I wasn't thinking about
(03:25):
pitch sequencing. I wasn't thinking about is he going to
try to pitch me backwards? It was literally I went
back to the most simple thing, seaball hit ball, and
I was like I went off on a weekend because
I was completely hungover.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I'm convinced that some of the best games I remember
a high school game I played. I was sick, like
I mean sick.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It was a high school football game, and I was
I had like a lower abdomen like strain, which was
that's brutal painful at quarterbacks. Oh god, dude, I were
playing against our arrival. I wouldn't have missed it for you.
You to have to kill me before I miss that game. Yeah,
Sampa squall Golden Eagles, And I take that back. It
was a Sampa squad we got to It was Escandido
(04:01):
High School same. There's three of us. They were our
other rival, and we're at their facility, and I thinking
being pregame, t how am I get through this? And
then and then the abdomen You're like, I don't know
how it's going to did. I could have closed my eyes,
thrown yanked out of my eye and it would have
gone right to the guy I was stilling it to.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's just you know why, It's that it's the building.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You don't you take all the pressure off yourself because
you almost build in the excuse. Well, if I don't play,
not for out outward, if I don't play well today,
I got a built in excuse.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And what it does It actually frees up your mis
It makes you freeze. It's like you play back in
your backyard recess fuel.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That's exactly right. So it also with the mental part. Listen,
there are times when hey, we can't control the weather,
can't let it bothers now in a driving rainstorm where
it's a deluge of rain and the ball you literally
you see him hold a towel or one of those
type of rainstorms. Listen, it's hard to throw any It
doesn't matter, It doesn't matter if you got King Kong
(04:58):
hands right, the you can wear a size seventeen extra large,
it's still miserable because the guy catching it it's tough
on him too, and you can't see and people are slipping.
Now in a snowstorm, that's just regular snow. And I've
always if it's raining or inclement weather, offense always has
an advantage. You know where you're going, you know where
your cuts are. Defense is a major disadvantage. So but
(05:20):
the cold and a little snow, Listen, you hope it
snows because if it's too cold to snow, that's miserable.
And then if it's not quite cold enough to snow
and it's rain and that's miserable. You want that one
where it's snow, hopefully not windy, because when's the worst
of them all, because it affects you going into it
and with it, and you want that. That's the feeling
you want the snow. But for me, I never wore
(05:42):
a glove on my throwing hand in any weather. I
wore one on my other hand, just to you know,
try and get some sense of warmth. And then you
have handwarmers in that little pouch that we wear. But
I never I always wanted to have my hands on
the foot of the grip of it, right, but it
was it was mental and it was tough.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But I don't know how you get to it.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But you've got to get You've got to convince yourself
throughout the week because the game is coming. Saturday will
be here, and it's coming here quicker than you think
is you go through the same preparation. And the truth
is you just can't overly grind yourself on it. It's
gonna be cold, it's gonna come.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It's not like you can start like when you hydrate,
start drinking water and Tuesday from when you're going to
play Denver and you're hydrated, or it's one hundred and
ten degrees out, you're not going to stand outside with
you with your hands on your knizz zuts, you know,
at midnight at night for the next three nights, thinking
you're gonna get used to it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You're not.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It's the mental side. And once you get rolling, it's good.
You play well, you'll get hot quickly, you're miserables, get
your ass kicked. It'll feel a lot colder. So yeah,
but to me, and I think to me, because right
it is simply why was Far so good in inclement weather?
His mental toughness with it. He used it to his advantage.
A lot of them do. It's the one who comes
(06:55):
into the game and it's like, yeah, you know, if
you start convincing yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You're going to be miserable the whole time.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Good lucky, fulfilling prophecy, and it could be missing and
it's gonna be cold as balls. But you're either gonna
come out of this game you want regrets or you
mean you're gonna come out of this game saying, man.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It was cold.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
We got our ass kicked and now we got to
explain it. Or do you want to come out of
this thing? I was freezing, but we want and they'll
let them explain why the cold was bad? Right, So
it is and you know it's like threshold of pain,
same thing here. Yeah you either And like I said,
it'll affect everybody if it's a delusion. You can't see
the ball, you can't see receiver because rain and sideways
and windy, nobody can operate. And you hand the ball
off and hope you win the game, survive. But if
(07:32):
it's cold, and I'm talking about fifteen degrees eight togree. Well,
and if you can't handle it mentally, then you then
you probably better have an off season where you change
your shift to paradigm or find a way to deal
with it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, that's just the way it works. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Demico Ryans talked about the swarm mentality and what it
does for his defense.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Let's talk about it next
The most refreshing way to start your day. Shower, shave
and sean they're done. The courtesy flush is old ways appreciated.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank God, thank the good Lord.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you from the management team here at Sports Talk
seven nineteen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Back to Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's supposed to be really, really, really cold in Kansas City.
We talked about a little bit yesterday in regards to
the weather and how it's just gonna get colder as
the day goes on. It's the playoffs. A lot of
these teams that you're going to be playing outdoor stadiums,
it's going to be cold. So Demiko talked about the
mindset going in to a cold weather atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The weather can be a challenge if you allow it
to be a challenge. For me and for our guys.
It's something we can't control. You don't control the weather.
All right, wherever we have to play, we're ready to
go play. We understand we'll be on the road, is
gonna be cold. That's that's what we have to deal with.
And it's not a it's not a challenge for us.
(01:07):
It's just something the other team has to deal with
as well. So we're ready to go there's no excuses
about weather. We gotta go suit up and we gotta
go play ball.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Gotta go play ball. You can't control the weather man.
The reality of it, though, is it's a funny thing.
I don't know if you've ever felt this. It doesn't
matter what level of sports you played. That feeling of
you know, the game's coming, it's a big game. You
know it's gonna be cold or rainy, all those things
that go and like on a Monday, you're like, yeah,
we got to plan a game, but there's a party
(01:38):
that thinks it's never showing up right, Oh the weather,
we will. And then when you wake up on game
day and it's game day, yeah, and the world's watching
when I say the world, the football world, and you're
one of eight left, and it's getting more pressure and
the more you and you know how this goes. Have
you ever had that point when you're feeling pressure, not
feeling right and or ill prepared for something, and then
(02:00):
it's cold.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You're colder, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, there's that feeling of you're even more like nerves
bring out make you even feel colder. It's weird. I
don't I don't even know how to explain. I don't
know if I'm explaining it right, but that feeling of
the playoffs Sean, you're starting in your first playoff game,
Oh cool, I got five days, and you think it's
never coming. And then you but you prepare, you think,
oh it's okay. It's a long and you blink in
(02:24):
his pregame warm up and you're like, I gotta beat Denvers. Yeah,
or I got to beat whoever I'm playing right and
with them, the Kansas City Chiefs and all the challenges
are there, but I'm with Demiko Ryan's on one thing
and it helped me in my career. Listen, and I
don't mean this arrogant, but if I could have played
in bad weather as a California guy, yeah, it's really weird.
A lot of my best player play ever was in
(02:47):
either rain, snow, cold, inclement, where I almost felt like
it was my advantage of whether it's mental toughness or
size too you could grip the ball, but whatever it was,
I tried to spin it to my it's my advantage
because that guy suffering, But I don't know, I'm not
suffering over this.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Do you think it was because you thought more about
the the conditions rather than the game plan, or rather
than I got to complete this pass. So I I'm
trying to relate it to the best game I ever
played in college. I was hungover as all get out. Well,
it took away game. You'd have a built in excuse
for your I wasn't thinking about I wasn't thinking about
(03:25):
pitch sequencing. I wasn't thinking about is he going to
try to pitch me backwards? It was literally I went
back to the most simple thing, seaball hit ball, and
I was like I went off on a weekend because
I was completely hungover.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I'm convinced that some of the best games I remember
a high school game I played. I was sick, like
I mean sick.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It was a high school football game, and I was
I had like a lower abdomen like strain, which was
that's brutal painful at quarterbacks. Oh god, dude, I were
playing against our arrival. I wouldn't have missed it for you.
You to have to kill me before I miss that game. Yeah,
Sampa squall Golden Eagles, And I take that back. It
was a Sampa squad we got to It was Escandido
(04:01):
High School same. There's three of us. They were our
other rival, and we're at their facility, and I thinking
being pregame, t how am I get through this? And
then and then the abdomen You're like, I don't know
how it's going to did. I could have closed my eyes,
thrown yanked out of my eye and it would have
gone right to the guy I was stilling it to.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's just you know why, It's that it's the building.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You don't you take all the pressure off yourself because
you almost build in the excuse. Well, if I don't play,
not for out outward, if I don't play well today,
I got a built in excuse.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And what it does It actually frees up your mis
It makes you freeze. It's like you play back in
your backyard recess fuel.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That's exactly right. So it also with the mental part. Listen,
there are times when hey, we can't control the weather,
can't let it bothers now in a driving rainstorm where
it's a deluge of rain and the ball you literally
you see him hold a towel or one of those
type of rainstorms. Listen, it's hard to throw any It
doesn't matter, It doesn't matter if you got King Kong
(04:58):
hands right, the you can wear a size seventeen extra large,
it's still miserable because the guy catching it it's tough
on him too, and you can't see and people are slipping.
Now in a snowstorm, that's just regular snow. And I've
always if it's raining or inclement weather, offense always has
an advantage. You know where you're going, you know where
your cuts are. Defense is a major disadvantage. So but
(05:20):
the cold and a little snow, Listen, you hope it
snows because if it's too cold to snow, that's miserable.
And then if it's not quite cold enough to snow
and it's rain and that's miserable. You want that one
where it's snow, hopefully not windy, because when's the worst
of them all, because it affects you going into it
and with it, and you want that. That's the feeling
you want the snow. But for me, I never wore
(05:42):
a glove on my throwing hand in any weather. I
wore one on my other hand, just to you know,
try and get some sense of warmth. And then you
have handwarmers in that little pouch that we wear. But
I never I always wanted to have my hands on
the foot of the grip of it, right, but it
was it was mental and it was tough.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But I don't know how you get to it.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But you've got to get You've got to convince yourself
throughout the week because the game is coming. Saturday will
be here, and it's coming here quicker than you think
is you go through the same preparation. And the truth
is you just can't overly grind yourself on it. It's
gonna be cold, it's gonna come.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It's not like you can start like when you hydrate,
start drinking water and Tuesday from when you're going to
play Denver and you're hydrated, or it's one hundred and
ten degrees out, you're not going to stand outside with
you with your hands on your knizz zuts, you know,
at midnight at night for the next three nights, thinking
you're gonna get used to it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You're not.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
It's the mental side. And once you get rolling, it's good.
You play well, you'll get hot quickly, you're miserables, get
your ass kicked. It'll feel a lot colder. So yeah,
but to me, and I think to me, because right
it is simply why was Far so good in inclement weather?
His mental toughness with it. He used it to his advantage.
A lot of them do. It's the one who comes
(06:55):
into the game and it's like, yeah, you know, if
you start convincing yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You're going to be miserable the whole time.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Good lucky, fulfilling prophecy, and it could be missing and
it's gonna be cold as balls. But you're either gonna
come out of this game you want regrets or you
mean you're gonna come out of this game saying, man.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It was cold.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
We got our ass kicked and now we got to
explain it. Or do you want to come out of
this thing? I was freezing, but we want and they'll
let them explain why the cold was bad? Right, So
it is and you know it's like threshold of pain,
same thing here. Yeah you either And like I said,
it'll affect everybody if it's a delusion. You can't see
the ball, you can't see receiver because rain and sideways
and windy, nobody can operate. And you hand the ball
off and hope you win the game, survive. But if
(07:32):
it's cold, and I'm talking about fifteen degrees eight togree. Well,
and if you can't handle it mentally, then you then
you probably better have an off season where you change
your shift to paradigm or find a way to deal
with it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, that's just the way it works. Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Demico Ryans talked about the swarm mentality and what it
does for his defense.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Let's talk about it next
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