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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to inside inn RG Stadium. Here

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Speaker 1: in the Hunday Texans Radio Studio four, the show that

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Speaker 1: keeps you up to date with your Houston Texans. That's

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Mark Vandermer with you. It's Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: Game week Ready in a rock. We have the General

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Speaker 1: John McClean from the Houston Chronicle joining us this evening

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Speaker 1: and John eager to get back to it. I am

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Speaker 1: sure how you do it. I love buyes like everybody else,

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Speaker 1: but I'm ready for some football. Is not if the

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Speaker 1: bid come when it was oz and three, that'd be

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Speaker 1: one thing. But when your team you cover is hot

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Speaker 1: and wins six in a row, you don't really water

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Speaker 1: a week off. Although it's sure is good for the team.

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Speaker 1: Came to a great time and the Texans will be

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Speaker 1: in the best physical condition they've been instanced the first game.

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Speaker 1: I think a big question about this game is not

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Speaker 1: just the matchup itself, but how the offense might be different.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect any differences? As Watson continues to get healthier,

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Speaker 1: we have more distance from the chest injury. We have

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Speaker 1: receivers coming back while receiver and Kiki qt to Marry

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Speaker 1: What do you think of how the offense might change,

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Speaker 1: might be different at all versus the last few games.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll change at all. Bill O'Brien went

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Speaker 1: more runs in the last three when they haven't turned

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Speaker 1: it over. They have run thirty five times a game

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty three yards. And he's not

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Speaker 1: getting obliterated. And the fewer times he drops back, the

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Speaker 1: better he'll be when he does drop back. Now, I

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Speaker 1: think if they had to, like the say the Redskins

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Speaker 1: it all over the place, they will. But I don't

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Speaker 1: know why you would get away from something that's been working.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you on that. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try to run the ball. We all know this.

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Speaker 1: The Redskins are actually statistically yardage wise, it looks pretty

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Speaker 1: And when I just look at the numbers, it must

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Speaker 1: be so tempting to just come out throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they always start with the game. That's

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Speaker 1: just how it's going to begin. We'll see where it

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Speaker 1: goes from there. What I would like to see Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien do more of is throwing short passes on first

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Speaker 1: down four yards five yards that would be a good run,

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Speaker 1: And I saw a step this week. Texans or second

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Speaker 1: bye week for a column. I did last week every

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Speaker 1: first down play in these last three games, and it

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Speaker 1: So that's when fans got so upset. Redskins play the

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Speaker 1: run great. Denver did not, but the Broncos put their

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Texans Nemesis with a front one record against

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Speaker 1: him and Deshaun Watson. Whichever the two quarterbacks plays the best, Well,

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Speaker 1: you're going to Kansas City, Alex Smith. Now. Two thousand

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Speaker 1: note here, John, is that Smith was left for dead

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Speaker 1: keep Colin Kaepernick and Andy Reid used him really well.

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Speaker 1: despite DeShawn Watson's five touchdown passes. He threw three hundred

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Speaker 1: But Fitz he was throwing the ball all over the

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Speaker 1: Really shows you're not too good in the red zone. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Now sidebar another one here on the Redskins, John, this

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a couple of Redskins stories. My wife

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Speaker 1: the talk shows all week. That's what they're talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting what's happening between them and their fans

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people better, like my wife, that

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Speaker 1: Like people talk about Washington and Houston, they haven't beaten anybody.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Charge schedule. The only team they've beaten

428
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: it as a winning record right now is Tennessee. They've

429
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 1: beat them by one. Now, I'm not Philip Rivers is

430
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 1: playing great and I'm picking the Chargers, but you think

431
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: they're a little inflated. I do, and I think they're

432
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: going to definitely be one of the wild cards. And

433
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: if i'm the Texans, did they when did they lose

434
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,679
Speaker 1: to them two years ago? When Philip Rivers came in

435
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: here two years ago and the Texans were favored and

436
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: he just carved them up. I would not want to

437
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: play a Philip Rivers team in the playoffs. That was

438
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 1: a short week after the Mexico City game. Not that

439
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm making excuses, but the Chargers did look good that day.

440
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: The Raiders at the Cardinals. Okay, we don't need to

441
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: talk about that. No, no, no, no. The two bad teams.

442
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: Raiders are gonna win a second game at some point.

443
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: It's so funny. Derek Carr's gone like three or four

444
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: games without an interception and they've lost them all. Cardinals

445
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: got Josh Rosen. They're at home. They're terrible too. I'm

446
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 1: gonna take them just because they're at home. I'm blown

447
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: away about Derek Carr. Two years ago, everybody was so

448
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: high quarterback in football. Yeah, and you look at it

449
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: the day that the Texans lost to the Raiders in

450
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: Mexico City, Carstock could not have been much higher. I mean,

451
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: he looked so tremendous in that game. Looked like he

452
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 1: was carrying his team. They all fed off his energy.

453
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 1: They needed scores. He got them quickly for them. And

454
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: now look at that. He should beg for a new

455
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: zip coat. They're gonna take a quarterback that Gruden wants,

456
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: that Gruden wants to develop. So go ahead and trade

457
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: car before the draft for a one or whatever you

458
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: can get for him and move on. Eagles at the Saints.

459
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: He already picked the Saints in oh yeah, yeah, no doubt.

460
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: Vikings at the Bears. I got the Vikings on the road.

461
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 1: That's a tough when the Bears of defense has been

462
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: playing great. Trubisky has been up and down, but boy,

463
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: when he's up, he's really good. I'm going with Chicago.

464
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,360
Speaker 1: Minnesota's defense has played played great in the last game

465
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: and coming off of bye, but I'm not picking against

466
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: the Bears at Bears and Soldier Field, all right, So

467
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Rams will get together in La. How

468
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: big of a problem is this for the NFL that

469
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: the Mexico City game does not go down? Just eggs

470
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: Benedict all over their face. And how in the world

471
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: they could have a crew down there and not have

472
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Speaker 1: it in the contract that you can't have certain events

473
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: on that stadium for like say, two or three weeks

474
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: to make sure the grass is okay. They're embarrassed. I'm

475
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: surprised we haven't seen more out of Mexico with people suing.

476
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: Fans suing down there because they paid no telling what

477
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 1: for inflated tickets, Fans here suing unless because they're i know,

478
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: United said they're not charging a change. Feel well, that's

479
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: so nice of them, and but you know there's gonna

480
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: be fans and attorneys are gonna file class action lawsuits

481
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: ambarrassing secondary market tickets. The NFL should have to subsidize

482
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: everybody that lost money because of the nfls and ebness

483
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: of not making sure that stadium was taken care of

484
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: before they played there. I was John McClain saying that,

485
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: not me, ladies, that was me saying that that stadium

486
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: is a dump anyway, and I thought it was terrible.

487
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: And it's been renovated four times since the first time

488
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: I went there with Oilers and Cowboys. They really could

489
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: use a hundred twelve thousand. That stadium is a dump.

490
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: But you know what, it was one of those stadiums.

491
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm in there and I'm thinking, and by the way,

492
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 1: I know that there are nit pickers out there would

493
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: say the plural of stadium is stadium stadio isteca. Yeah,

494
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: please with the proper Latin terminology. Anyway, the I kind

495
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: of liked it because of the history of it, and

496
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: you know the vibe I got when I was down there.

497
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: It was one of Aloha Stadium, you know, old place

498
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: that's way past its prime. A lot of stuff has

499
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: happened in there that you remember, but my gosh, and

500
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: stuff that you don't even know about because they play

501
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: all these football matches in there that are I'm sure

502
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: you went on a team bus and you're bus driver

503
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: knew where to go. Mine had no clue where to go.

504
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure was disaster. And when I went

505
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: down there the first half there were people living in

506
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: the parking lots in cordboard boxes from refrigerators and stuff,

507
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: and machine gun guards everywhere, as far as the Low

508
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: Eye Stadium, which I've been to many times. When you're

509
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: sitting in that stadium, you're not calling it a dump,

510
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: and you're looking around and you see mountains and you

511
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: see Osha and you see you see Pearl Harbor in

512
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: the Arizona. It's a little different. Yeah, it is a

513
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: little different. John, we have going out of the Houston Chronicle.

514
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: I am writing to call him tomorrow about Demarrius Thomas

515
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: and he's hanging out with Deshaun Watson in his house

516
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 1: to help him learn the offense as he used to

517
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: go and hang out with Peyton Manning at his house

518
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: and how much more comfortable he feels now. And Aaron

519
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: Wilson's writing about Jadevion Clowney for tomorrow and then Aaron's

520
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: got a big story Sunday on Deshaun Watson in this game,

521
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: and thank you very much as always. Well, how many

522
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: catches for Thomas on Sunday? What do you think I'm

523
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: going to say, because they're not gonna throw it a

524
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: lot and listen behind, So I'll say four. I think

525
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: four is a good number. I think they'll spread out.

526
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: The four won't be like you know, he had two

527
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: on the opening drive last time and then they won

528
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: on the next drive and that was it for him

529
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: for the Weston three fours of the passers are going

530
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 1: to DeAndre Hopkins as they should they should. I'm interested

531
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: in this game. Tyler Irvin getting cut. I was surprised

532
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: because he was reliable, he didn't fumble. Who's gonna be

533
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,479
Speaker 1: the put punt returner and kickoff returner? And are they

534
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: gonna be reliable? You know what? The Redskins fans and media,

535
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: you know what, they remember Andre Johnson's Sonny liston. You

536
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: know the Red Dodie play. That was a great catch

537
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: back of the end zone from match Shop. And I

538
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: remember Shannon Kylin Mike coming into the dressing room to

539
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: congratulate Gary Kubiak and the players. That's very very good.

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00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: That's a nice memory. John, Thank you, Thank you. Mark.

541
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: We're right across the hall in the locker room and

542
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: down the hall from a staircase that goes to the

543
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: offices and coming down from those offices, Jamie Roots, the

544
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: president of your Houston exen's joining us right now. And

545
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: we don't have you on all the time, but it's

546
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: a pleasure, sir. Oh gosh, it's great to be with you. Mark.

547
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: Thanks you. What to do to keep the keep the

548
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: fans informed, keeping the fires burning, and we need them

549
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: now because it's chilly out. Yeah. Absolutely, it feels like football.

550
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: In fact, you know Turkey Bowl with Thanksgiving coming up,

551
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: it's Turkey Bowl ten. So Christopher and Caroline are going

552
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: to bring their friends over. A yeah, yeah, it's great.

553
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: It's a great tradition for our family. Of course, by

554
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: next week it'll be like eighty degrees or something. That's okay,

555
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: we've sweated through it before. It's Houston. It changes very quickly,

556
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: all right. So now this is interesting because tonight Covenant

557
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: House is having a special event and I wanted to

558
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: get to this first because you're speaking there and I

559
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: never thought i'd say this, but you're sleeping there. What

560
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: is happening with Covenant House the Texas sleep Out. Well,

561
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: first of all, let me tell you about Covenant House,

562
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: and it's really focused on kids that are eighteen to

563
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: twenty four that are experiencing homelessness. It's kind of that

564
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: area in between you're no longer child, but you're not

565
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: quite in the adult world. And and unfortunately, there's a

566
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: number of our Houstonians that get you know, get caught

567
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: in that trap and so they're they're homeless, they have

568
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: nowhere to go. And so the Covenant House provides that resource,

569
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: brings the kids in, helps to get them the you know,

570
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: finishing education that they need and hopefully into the work

571
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: world and you know, back in and productive and awesome

572
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: Houstonians potentially future leaders. And so Covenant House each year

573
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: has a sleepout and it's a group of business executives.

574
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: This year is going to set a record. I don't

575
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: know exactly how many, but it's approaching a hundred that'll

576
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: be sleeping out with me, and we'll raise a record

577
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: amount of amount of money this year. It's you know,

578
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: it'll be approaching seven hundred thousand dollars that'll go go

579
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: to a lot of good for kids and you know,

580
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: for me. The Covenant House is as a special place

581
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: because my son's seventeen, Christopher, right, he's almost in that

582
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: place where those kids are experiencing homelessness, they're experiencing desperation,

583
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: and the Covenant House is there for them. That is

584
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: an incredible story, right there, really of these kids that

585
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: need this kind of help. Yeah, and you're actually going

586
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: to sleep there though. I mean this, this is to

587
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: draw attention to this important cause you, among others, will

588
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: be there. Yeah, exactly. We want to we want to

589
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: shine a bright spotlight on this because it's it's a

590
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: place that doesn't get a lot of attention. But if

591
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: we can save these kids from uh, you know, a

592
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: life of homelessness, they get out of the safety net

593
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: and they become really productive members of our society, you know. Uh.

594
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: There's a quote from from Pope John the twenty second

595
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,

596
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: but what is still possible for you to do. And

597
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: the Covenant out House is really all about possibilities realize

598
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have been otherwise seen. And so it's just

599
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: a great honor to be their chairperson for this year,

600
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: and I'm so proud to see so many business leaders

601
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: coming out and making a difference. You're speaking at the

602
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: vigil portion of the event. Will that quote make the

603
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: speech that might? And might? I got a few others,

604
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: you know. The one that will is from Gandhi and

605
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: I love. This is a true measure of a society

606
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: is how we treat the most vulnerable among us. And

607
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: think of it a you know, a twenty year old

608
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: kid out on the street, not knowing where their next

609
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: meal is going to come from, not having any choice.

610
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: You know, tonight, I have a choice. I can go

611
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: to Covenant House and I can sleep out. They don't

612
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: have a choice. It's what's been thrust upon them, and

613
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: so Covenant House is there to help help rescue them.

614
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: We can't get all of them, but you know the

615
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: starfish story, you know, we're gonna save that one and

616
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: then the next one. We can't get them all, but

617
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: we're going to do as many as we can. And

618
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: with generous supporters and sponsors that are getting behind this event,

619
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot more that we can do in the

620
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: coming years ahead. What very well said now speaking of

621
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: what's important, what's important to the community and the country

622
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: and the world, maybe our service members, our servicemen and women,

623
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: and we salute them this month in the National Football

624
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: League and the Texans haven't played a home game in

625
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: a month or so, but the next one is Monday

626
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: Night Football a week from Monday against the Tennessee Titans,

627
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,239
Speaker 1: and that's salute the service. It's a very special day

628
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: at the stadium. Yeah, well, it's a very big game

629
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: for us, Monday Night Football. Our rival in the AFC South.

630
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: I mean, certainly a team that's on the rise saw

631
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: him last weekend. All of us got a chance to

632
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: see him in that it was our bye week. But

633
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: I tell you, we've had a military salute related event, gosh,

634
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: since the inception of the franchise. I think it was

635
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: started here and that week there's always a buzz in

636
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: this building because we are so proud of those and

637
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: just so grateful for those folks in uniform across the

638
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Speaker 1: planet that are allowing us to live the great lives

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Speaker 1: that we do, and so annually this is our chance

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Speaker 1: to as many as we can, whether it's me as

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Speaker 1: a businessperson, or Bill O'Brien or Brian Gaine or our

642
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: football players to personally tell them thank you and that

643
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: we'll never forget. We'll never forget the serve that they've

644
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: provided that allows us to do what we do. Of course,

645
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: we do it every game as well as such a

646
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: well received portion of the game experience, I mean, just

647
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Speaker 1: a chance to hold up. Because this is such a

648
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: patriotic community, we realize that there are others making sacrifices

649
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: for us. Nobody does it alone, and nobody does it

650
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 1: more than our men and women in uniform across the globe. Well,

651
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: a great week to have all the events Thanksgiving week.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's kind of different. I don't think we've

653
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Speaker 1: done it during Thanksgiving Week before, but it worked out

654
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: pretty well that way. It does, it does, and so

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Speaker 1: we I mean, it's very personal to us. It certainly

656
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Speaker 1: was very personal to Bob and continues to be and

657
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Speaker 1: to his family. He's very patriotic and that filters all

658
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: throughout the organization, and so it's an honor. Certainly, we

659
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: work our tails off to make sure that the experiences

660
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: we deliver for our men and women in uniform are exceptional.

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Speaker 1: And this weekend we'll be bringing a group of military

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Speaker 1: members up to see us play in Washington, see their redskins,

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Speaker 1: and so that's we plan to kick off our Salute

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Speaker 1: to Salute a Service week. It's unique to have a

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Speaker 1: three game homestand that's what's coming up after this Washington game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a unique mean tiring, Yeah maybe for a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Have to work all these you know, people don't realize

668
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Speaker 1: the amount of work that goes into putting together one

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Speaker 1: football game, one big event, and you have three of

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Speaker 1: these in a row. Yeah, well it's gonna be. It's great,

671
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Speaker 1: it's it's what we do. It's a it's just such

672
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Speaker 1: an important institution within our community and we are blessed

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Speaker 1: to have be in the privileged position to put it on.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why everybody works with such passion because

675
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Speaker 1: we know how how passionately our fans feel about the

676
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Houston Texans football. While we're on the

677
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Speaker 1: topic here, I get a lot of questions about how

678
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Speaker 1: the schedule works out the way it does. This year.

679
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Speaker 1: It's a little different because you had back to back

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Speaker 1: road games to start the season, you have this three

681
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Speaker 1: game homestand late in the season. I know it's been

682
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Speaker 1: a month between home games, but that that also factors

683
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Speaker 1: in the buy But how much input does the organization

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Speaker 1: have into putting together the schedule. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of moving parts here. Yeah, they're baseline pieces of information

686
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Speaker 1: that we provide about stadium availabilities for all the stadiums

687
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Speaker 1: across the National Football League. And as you know, there's

688
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Speaker 1: already a format of who plays who, and you know

689
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Speaker 1: who who's on the who's home, and who's on the road,

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Speaker 1: but you don't know when. And so the league puts

691
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Speaker 1: all of that information into their computer and runs a

692
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Speaker 1: number of iterations, probably thousands of iterations of schedules and

693
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: have to work in broadcasting requirements and others, and then

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Speaker 1: at the end they come out with what the schedule is.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you can't control it, so you don't

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Speaker 1: worry about it. You just go forward and play the

697
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: teams that are on your schedule, one at a time.

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Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl that's coming up before

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Speaker 1: you know it. We're gonna know the matchup in a

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Speaker 1: few weeks. I'm excited for it, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this has become one of the one of the best

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Speaker 1: attended bowl games in America. I think we're fourth among

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Speaker 1: all bowls including the you know, the the New Year's Six.

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Speaker 1: So it's a point of pride for the city of Houston,

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Speaker 1: and anytime you bring these regionally relevant teams big twelve

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Speaker 1: sec and we're always running the traps on who could

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Speaker 1: it be? Who could it be? But at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it's it seemed to have fallen our

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Speaker 1: way since we've been been in this big twelve sec matchup,

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Speaker 1: so we expect to you know, two great football team

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Speaker 1: squaring off. Houston has embraced this game and a huge

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00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: way our friends at Academy Sports and Outdoors see this

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00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: is a great way for them to give back in

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Speaker 1: terms of the economic impact, which is significant, quality of

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Speaker 1: life marketing our community and then of course to Pelgian

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Speaker 1: Children's centers. We've raised well over a million dollars since

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Speaker 1: we've been doing the Bowl game and we'll just keep

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00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: building upon it. So it's a it's a great Houston

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Speaker 1: institution around the holidays, and encourage all of our football

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Speaker 1: fans get out see it another home game if you will,

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Speaker 1: well a game here at NRG Stadium anyway to think

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Speaker 1: about all right, one more for you, Jamie, because the

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Speaker 1: taste of the Texans just happened the last week and

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Speaker 1: I'm still full it's a great event and I mean

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00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: outstanding cause and so much it might be my favorite

726
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: event really when when it all boils down to it

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00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: because it's food. You know. That was our tenth annual

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Speaker 1: and our friends at Cisco, you know, the food provider

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00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: who actually is our food provider here at NRG Stadium

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Speaker 1: and have helped us take it up to a, you know,

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Speaker 1: a world class level in terms of sports performance. They've

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00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: been wonderful partners. They're the presenting sponsor of this event. Uh,

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Speaker 1: friends at Kroger and Marlene Stewart who's the head of

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Speaker 1: Kroger here in this region. She was our chairperson this

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00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: year and we crushed our expectations three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars plus and if you add it up over

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Speaker 1: the time that we've been doing it as well, over

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Speaker 1: two million dollars that has gone back to our community

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Speaker 1: to support the Methodist Foundation and the great work they do,

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00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: whether that's around youth and diabetes or around concussions, and

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Speaker 1: of course the Houston Food Bank, which I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: got folks who go hungry in our community and so

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Speaker 1: they're making a difference in that regard, and so our

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00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: fans came out. Our players did a wonderful job engaging

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00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: with them. It's a perennially sold out event and the

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Speaker 1: tenth was far and away the best. Jamie, thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot for joining us in Good Luck tonight with Covenant House.

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Speaker 1: We'll be thinking about you. Yeah, say a prayer, certainly

749
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Speaker 1: will Hey calling all Houston area teachers. You want to

750
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Speaker 1: bring a little Texans football to the classroom, then sign

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00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: time for wrist injury in foe because these happened to

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, and it's Houston Methodist Minutes with

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Speaker 1: doctor Jamie Alexander from Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital. Doctor.

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Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you doing well? Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about wrist injuries. And I got to think this

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00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: is not just athletes. I mean a lot of people

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Speaker 1: get rist injuries because they're trying to break their fall. Right,

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Speaker 1: is that the most common cause of a wrist injury

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Speaker 1: in all of humanity, if you will. Yeah, usually it's

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Speaker 1: when someone falls on an outstretched hand and they'll injure

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Speaker 1: their risks. So what are we looking at here? What

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Speaker 1: are the types of injuries? Because obviously there's a fracture,

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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of different bones involved. So

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Speaker 1: what are we looking at? Most often, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the risk is actually composed of eight small bones and

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Speaker 1: two ends of two ends of finger bones, the radius

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Speaker 1: and the ulna, So you can injure those with fractures,

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Speaker 1: but you can also have sprains and strains of the

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Speaker 1: wrist as well as tendonitis at the risk. Is there

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Speaker 1: a way to know right away or is it the

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Speaker 1: kind of thing where you have to get an X rayed?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when someone injures their risk, you'll start to see

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Speaker 1: some swelling, pain, some difficulty with them moving their wrists,

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Speaker 1: and that's an indication that something's going on or they've

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Speaker 1: injured it. I've broken fingers where you don't have to

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Speaker 1: get them set. Now you probably always have to get

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Speaker 1: the wrist set or not. Tell me what happens here,

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Speaker 1: because with these eight small bones, I would imagine there's

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Speaker 1: a whole lot that can go wrong. Yeah, there are,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it kind of depends if if you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with those eight small bones or the rais and

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Speaker 1: the ulna, which are also part of the risk. If

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Speaker 1: they are they can kind of be categorized as whether

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Speaker 1: they're stable unstable, are they displaced fractures non displaced fractures,

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Speaker 1: And based on that will kind of depend on what

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Speaker 1: kind of treatment we do. What about when tendonitis comes

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Speaker 1: into play, how is that caused? Tendons actually connect the

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Speaker 1: muscles to the bones, and so that allows the tendence

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Speaker 1: to move smoothly. However, doesn't really allow from a very

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Speaker 1: much expansion. So when you overuse your tendons, there's just

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Speaker 1: not enough room for those tendons to do the job

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Speaker 1: that it needs to do, and so they can get irritated,

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Speaker 1: they can get inflamed, and so we just kind of

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Speaker 1: have to treat it with anti inflammatory medications splinty and

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Speaker 1: sometimes even steroid shots to kind of bring down that

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Speaker 1: inflammation and hopefully help the symptoms of the patient besides

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Speaker 1: not falling. What's a good method of prevention for risk injuries?

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Speaker 1: Is there anything? Of course, there always is. The best

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Speaker 1: practice is actually to prevent. You can't prevent fractures, but

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Speaker 1: the best practice is having good nutrition and keeping your

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00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: exercise regimen going on is always a good idea. Doctor,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you have a good day, doctor Jamie Alexander

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Speaker 1: of Houston Methodist Clear Leg Hospital. Houston Methodist Orthopedics and

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Speaker 1: Sports Medicine provides expert care and advanced technology to help

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Speaker 1: athletes at all levels return to peak performance. Log on

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Speaker 1: to Houston Methodist dot org slash game on for more

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Speaker 1: information about their customized treatment plans from initial assessment to

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Speaker 1: rehabilitation and recovery. The official healthcare provider of the Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Leading Medicine. Well that's gonna do it for

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. Thank you, Jamie Roots, thank you John McClain,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for listening. John Harris back tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: at six. Have a great night everyone, and go Texans.