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Dallas had to win this one twice.

The Cowboys erased a 23-13 deficit, watched Houston retake the lead with 2:26 left, then got the final answer from Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb in a 34-30 road win. Austin breaks down CeeDee’s career-high 17 catches, Javonte Williams’ three-touchdown day, and why Dak’s second half mattered far more than his one passing touchdown suggests.

The show also digs into the explosive-play problem that still hangs over the defense, Joey Porter Jr.’s early impact, the Micah Parsons debate, Houston’s penalty mess and the quick turnaround to Tampa Bay on Thursday night.

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• (00:00) - Live Fourth Quarter: Dallas Protects a 27-23 Lead

Chris Young has laid out the traits he wants in the next Rangers roster. Now Texas has to prove those words mean something.

Austin digs into what younger, more athletic and more dynamic should look like in real roster decisions, why Ezequiel Duran may be the clearest prototype, and how health questions around Corey Seager and Josh Jung complicate the roster reset. The show also gets into deGrom and Eovaldi, rotation depth, Walcott/Jung/Burger possibilities, contact and lineup construction, Joc's option, and Houston getting eliminated live.

The first offseason show ends with one question hanging over everything: how much change will it take before this roster actually looks different?

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• (00:00) - First Offseason Show, Astros Hate-Watch

Game 162 made the season final. The problems were months old. Texas lost 6-4 to Minnesota, finished 80-82 and watched Houston take the AL West at 81-81 after a season full of chances the Rangers never consistently cashed.

Austin looks back at the urgency problem that followed this club all year, the decision to pull MacKenzie Gore in the finale, and the accountability facing Chris Young and Skip Schumaker. Then the conversation turns toward 2027: meaningful roster turnover, the hitting operation, Ezequiel Duran as a model for a more athletic lineup, the pitching decisions around Gore and deGrom, and why another mostly unchanged roster would be hard to justify.

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• (00:00) - Rangers' Season Slips Away in Game 162

Dallas rallied from 24-13, drove 96 yards to take a fourth-quarter lead, tied Baltimore with 10 seconds left and still lost 34-31 on Tyler Loop’s 56-yard field goal.

Austin breaks down why the ending belongs more to coaching, special teams and a defense that couldn’t finish than to Dak Prescott, who repeatedly put the Cowboys in position to win without turning it over. The show also gets into Javonte Williams’ 98-yard breakout, Jaishawn Barham’s goal-line stand on Derrick Henry, the Cowboys’ red-zone and clock-management mistakes, defensive roster needs, and what an 0-3 Houston team presents next week.

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Texas answered Friday's 10-2 disaster with a 6-2 win over Minnesota that keeps the AL West race alive for Game 162. The Rangers fell behind first, then scored four in the second and kept adding as Danny Jansen, Evan Carter and Alejandro Osuna helped the bottom of the order drive a 13-hit afternoon.

Austin gets into why that distributed production mattered, whether Osuna has earned more at-bats with the season on the line, and why Nathan Eovaldi's 4.1 innings were exactly enough. The show also digs into Robert Garcia's inherited-runner escape, MacKenzie Gore getting the ball for Game 162, and the strange appreciation that comes with meaningful baseball surviving all the way to the final day.

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• (00:00) - Bats Came to Play, Rangers Lead Late

Texas survived its first true road test with a 20-17 win at Tennessee, and the defense did far more than travel. The Longhorns held the Vols to 221 yards and 2.9 yards per play, piled up 10 sacks, and survived a late onside-kick scare after Texas had already committed 11 penalties for 115 yards.

Austin gets into why the defense has become the most trustworthy part of this team, what Arch Manning's efficient-but-incomplete afternoon says about the offense, and why Steve Sarkisian still has a closing problem to solve. The show also digs into Colin Simmons' five-sack day, Raleek Brown's two touchdowns, the special-teams mess and the cleanup list before Oklahoma.

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• (00:00) - Texas Leads Late, the Defense Has Traveled

Texas handed Jacob deGrom a 2-0 lead in Minnesota and watched the game collapse anyway. deGrom allowed eight earned runs in four innings, the Rangers never scored after the first, and Josh Jung suffered a broken bone in his right hand.

Austin gets into why the loss became more than one bad start: the mental mistakes still showing up in Game 160, how much responsibility belongs with Skip Schumaker and Chris Young, and why the organization may need to stop making comfortable decisions. The show also digs into Jung replacement options, the offense's missing kill shot, and the AL West race after Oakland beat Houston 6-5 to leave Texas and Houston tied at 79-81 with two games left. 

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• (00:00) - deGrom Meltdown, Jung Out for the Season

Texas stopped a three-game slide with a 3-1 win over New York in the final home game, but Austin isn't treating three runs and seven hits like an offensive breakthrough. Josh Jung went 3-for-3 with a homer, Kumar Rocker delivered five steady innings, Corey Seager added insurance, and the bullpen allowed one baserunner over four scoreless frames.

Austin gets into why that combination may be Texas' survival formula for the final weekend, the case for holding Jacob deGrom to ace-level expectations, and the bigger offseason questions around Jake Burger, Alejandro Osuna, Wyatt Langford, Evan Carter and the hitting operation. Then it's on to Minnesota, Joe Ryan and an AL West race that is now Texas' only postseason path.

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• (00:00) - Rangers Salvage the Home Finale

Marcus Semien returned to Arlington and broke a 2-2 tie with an eighth-inning homer, then Brett Baty's grand slam finished a 7-2 Mets win that dropped Texas to 78-80. Houston's extra-inning loss kept the Rangers tied atop the AL West, but Houston owns the tiebreaker, so Texas still needs the better finish.

Austin gets into why the cleaner contact did not fix a four-hit, two-run offense, what the loss says about the urgency Texas lacked earlier in the season, and how much responsibility belongs with Skip Schumaker and the roster construction. The show also turns toward the offseason, fresh faces, and Thursday's final home game.

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• (00:00) - Semien’s Homer and a Season on the Brink

MacKenzie Gore gave Texas five innings and a winnable game. The Rangers answered with three hits, 15 strikeouts and the kind of sloppy fundamental baseball Austin argues a team fighting for October cannot afford.

Austin gets into why Gore was the clean positive in a 6-3 loss to the Mets, what went wrong when Nathan Eovaldi entered in the sixth, and why the defensive mistakes and lack of sustained contact felt bigger than one bad night. The show also digs into accountability under Skip Schumaker, Cam Cauley versus Michael Helman, the AL West tie with Houston and Wednesday’s challenge against Nolan McLean.

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• (00:00) - Gore Gives Texas a Chance, Defense Lets Him Down