Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

But I want to start by shouting out an H-town clone this morning because this particular H-town

clone has had a pretty huge week. In fact this H-town clone actually has had a pretty huge year and he also happens to have a pretty huge job

because this H-town clone just so happens to run the Houston Texans.

But to be clear, I am not high on Nick Casario's off season because the dude is a golden ticket holding Jeff and Richmond

loving card-carrying clone. I appreciate that he's all those things. I love

that he's all those things, but that's not why I think he's having a huge

week and a huge off season. I think that he's having a huge week and a huge off season because

he's having a huge week and a huge off season because he's having a huge

week and a huge off season.

And I know that I'm not alone in that take, but I would admit

the internet was a little divided by the latest news out of Houston yesterday, which was

the announcement of a pretty shocking wrinkle in the Stephan Diggs trade at Adam Schefter on the X posted, quote,

added incentive for Stefan Diggs

is part of the Buffalo Houston trade.

The Texans wiped out the final three years. the this season, League sources tell ESPN. The Texans also took the 3.5 million,

guaranteed to digs next season, and moved it up to this season, giving him a raise and assuring him of 22.52 million in guaranteed money in

2024.

I mean, damn!

That's wild, right? That is a big swing and a bit of a gamble. That's wild. So wild that at first it doesn't seem like it computes. For instance, Houston

dealt a second round pick for a dude with four years left on his contract only to wipe out the final three years of that

contract and pay him more this season than they had to pay him. Like, huh? But let me

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