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Evan & Tiki

The Weirdest Sports Apology You’ll Hear All Year

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Dan Orlovsky dropped a scorching hot take after Texans vs Patriots, saying Houston wins that game with “31 other quarterbacks” instead of C.J. Stroud. The guys actually debate it, build the list, argue over what Orlovsky really meant, and land on the real truth: the number might be insane, but the point isn’t. From there it turns into a full-on quarterback philosophy fight. Would Justin Fields win that game with a safer game plan? How much of it was Stroud’s turnovers vs the Patriots capitalizing in bad conditions? And if it “wasn’t going to take much,” why didn’t Houston consider going to Davis Mills at any point? They also hit the bigger takeaway: apologizing for a sports take like that is ridiculous, especially when the core point is pretty close to true.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Derrinovsky said something that I think would be construed as a hot take on Monday.

0:04.6

Right.

0:05.2

And then decided to apologize for it a few days later, which I thought was weird.

0:10.0

Because I thought his hot take was really interesting and actually made me start working and making a list and debating if what he is saying as crazy as it sounds off the top is actually true.

0:21.8

So before we get into that, here's the comment Dan made that he felt he needed to apologize for

0:28.4

regarding C.J. Stroud and his performance against the New England Patriots.

0:32.7

If you're Houston, you win that game with 31 other quarterbacks.

0:36.6

Pretty simple. Straightforward.

0:38.4

I have any other quarterback I win.

0:40.4

See, Tiki's doing the same thing I did.

0:41.9

You're thinking.

0:42.7

You're like, let me think about that.

0:44.0

Is it a true statement?

0:47.1

Ponder.

0:47.8

Yeah.

0:48.2

But then for some reason, Dan Arlovsky came back the next day or two days later and said this.

0:52.8

I want to go back to Monday morning because on Monday morning after the Patriot Texans game,

0:58.3

I went on and said, Houston wins that game with 30 and one other quarterbacks.

1:02.1

I want to publicly apologize to C.J. Stroud.

1:04.6

I crossed the line.

1:06.8

He really didn't cross a line.

1:08.5

You didn't say he's a horrible human.

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