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Speaker 1: What's happened to everybody? Happy Friday? For Annie Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans All acts as Mart Vandermire alongside me, your

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Speaker 1: host John Harris football, I know a sideline reporter as

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Speaker 1: we get ready for Indianapolis and Mark as I said that,

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Speaker 1: did you get chills getting ready for Indianapolis or not yet?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: I was sending a some audio to people at sports

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Speaker 3: Radio six ten and you, and in the subject heading

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Speaker 3: I put Colt's exclamation point at first, and I thought,

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Speaker 3: why am I doing this?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm fired up? All right?

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Speaker 3: I am ready to just explode on Sunday in that boots.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Here we go playing the Colts Week one, Johnny. I

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Speaker 3: can't get over the intensity, the excitement.

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Speaker 2: What this means.

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Speaker 3: Opening anywhere else wouldn't be quite the same. It would

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Speaker 3: still be awesome. This has the utmost magnitude, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure everybody sees.

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Speaker 2: It that way, and that really kind of bothers me.

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Speaker 3: You know, I know this is in therapy, but that

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Speaker 3: bothers me that people don't see it the same way.

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Speaker 1: I'd yeah, I understand that. I completely get that. I

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Speaker 1: want to get back to that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Tell everybody who's on the show, we're here from Dimico

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Speaker 1: here in just a second, you also hear from Nico Collins,

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Speaker 1: who sat down with Drew in our next segment. And

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Speaker 1: then I got to give you my predictions and keys,

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Speaker 1: keys for this win over the Colts, and I do

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Speaker 1: all game predictions for fun, straight up and against the spread.

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Speaker 1: So we'll do that, and we're gonna be here for

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Speaker 1: an hour because we've got Packers the Eagles in South Pawo, Brazil,

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Speaker 1: first time in Brazil, coming up at the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour. So we got one hour, so we got

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Speaker 1: a lot to do. But I came up with this

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Speaker 1: mark before we get to Tomiko. One number to think about.

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Speaker 1: Actually it's kind of a it's a record, okay, So

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Speaker 1: this will be my eleventh game down on the sideline

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Speaker 1: or love it your on the sidelines. So that means

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Speaker 1: I've had ten years on the sideline for openers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my record and openers okay, not so great? Oh three

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Speaker 1: six and one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you know why?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: So your first game was a win.

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Speaker 1: And how about this since seven, twenty seventeen, it's one

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Speaker 1: four and one.

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville with David Cully, David Cully's got the dub.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 3: David Cully comes through with the dub on over the

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Speaker 3: day because they won in fourteen, they won in sixteen,

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Speaker 3: those two and the only other time they won was Wow,

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Speaker 3: we had the tie two tie.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it was like kissing his sister as it said,

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Speaker 1: so so.

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Speaker 3: David Keully over the Jagson Net. Monstrous victory that day.

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Speaker 3: We thought they're going seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Now we didn't. We did go seventeen. O. We thought, oh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thought it might be better than and you know,

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Speaker 3: through a half of the second game Cleveland, it looked

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Speaker 3: pretty decent with Tyrod Taylor, but then he goes out

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Speaker 3: and then we know it had exactly And I don't

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Speaker 3: blame that on Davis at all. He just wasn't quite

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Speaker 1: That was first game as a rookie. And congratulations with Davis.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the extension, I thought it was great

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Speaker 1: adding the extension on that. It didn't fly unto the radar.

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Speaker 3: Keep Davis uh through twenty's phenomenal. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: This is awesome for the squad.

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Speaker 1: If you saw hard knocks New York's Giants offseason, you

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Speaker 2: You don't like Tommy DeVito, doine.

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Speaker 1: Tom's fine.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Tavito, he's fine.

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Speaker 1: He's fine. There's not much there now. More than fine

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Speaker 1: is our guy Tomko. Ryans Mark sat down with Damiko.

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Speaker 1: Get a little pregame vibe from coach Ryan's All right.

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Speaker 2: Coach, here we go Week one. Let's start here physically.

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Speaker 2: You have a bunch of guys who have not played

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Speaker 2: How does that factor into Week one?

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Speaker 4: The guys who haven't played are most of our veteran guys,

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Speaker 4: the guys like LT. Joe Mixing, like, these are guys

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Speaker 4: it's time right now to see those guys in action.

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Speaker 3: How hard is it to block their front? You faced

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Speaker 4: Yeah, their front is what makes their team go right,

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Speaker 4: and they they want to add more pressure right with them.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talk.

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Speaker 4: About Buckner and Stewart on the inside, and we know

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Speaker 4: the force that they are, right, big guys inside along

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Speaker 4: But on the edges right with them adding law to right,

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Speaker 4: with Buckner and Quit he pay all those guys like

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Speaker 4: it's gonna we're gonna have our hands full, right, They're

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be it's gonna be big for us LT

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Speaker 4: and tightest specifically to handle.

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Speaker 2: The edges offensively.

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Speaker 3: They have so many of the same guys, but Richardson

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Speaker 4: Yeah, heavy dose run and run run. So we know

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Speaker 4: great runner. Right, we have to swarm and tackle him.

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Speaker 4: Is gonna take everyone. And then you put Richardson in

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Speaker 4: As to if we're gonna win this game, it has

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Speaker 3: Well, I've talked to you about this kind of thing before.

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Speaker 3: But passion versus doing the right thing assignment wise?

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Speaker 2: How do you balance the two out?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to you have to lock in, right,

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Speaker 4: everybody's gonna be passion. Everyody's gonna fired up first game,

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Speaker 4: everybody's excited. But when it comes down to it, like

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Speaker 4: one player at a time, and that has to be

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Speaker 4: our mentality, right. It doesn't matter about all the hooplog

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Speaker 4: going on with the season opener. It's about focusing in

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Speaker 3: With the kicking game, particularly the kickoffs, we went through

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Speaker 3: it in the preseason, but now it's the regular season.

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Speaker 2: Do you expect changes.

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Speaker 4: I'm interested to see what happens, like, are they gonna

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Speaker 4: So I'm just I'm interested to see, you know how,

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Speaker 4: what's their game plan. I know we're ready to return

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Speaker 1: And our kickoff coverage.

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Speaker 4: The biggest thing with the new kickoff rule, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Make the play.

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Speaker 2: Coach, thanks a lot, good luck, Mark.

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Speaker 1: I just feel more confident I think when I hear

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Speaker 3: I just feel that much better. And I hear Demiko

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Speaker 3: talking ball. Uh, Demiko is so centered. He is so

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Speaker 3: people's heads off figuratively speaking, yet be better men, father's husbands,

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Speaker 3: no question, you know. After that conversation, he was asking

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Speaker 3: And he performs at a high level as a coach.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's that way with people, and he's an

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Speaker 2: Step, good start, let's see where we go from here.

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Speaker 3: They're coming out three wins in twenty twenty two, and

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Speaker 3: I said, I'm here for it all because I'm here for.

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Speaker 2: The long term with that man, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. We went to Pittsburgh for our preseason game,

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Speaker 1: we had Klil Davis and so we did all that.

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Speaker 1: And so after the game was over, I went right

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Speaker 1: postgame with with Miko always get to Bee Go after

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Speaker 1: the game for a few minutes, and so we did

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Speaker 1: our little postgame shot it for TV. We get done,

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Speaker 1: and he just looked at me like as soon as

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Speaker 1: joked me, he said, coach. I only criticized you once,

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Speaker 1: which I didn't, but I just like, I only did

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Speaker 1: went great, thank you for asking coaches. Yeah, it was cool.

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Speaker 1: It's cool. And I was like, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 2: The awareness level to even think that the.

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Speaker 1: Great way of putting it. The awareness is I think huge.

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Speaker 3: And I think what about the playoff game, Johnny when

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight? All right?

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Speaker 3: And it almost wasn't enough, right because that touchdown. If

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Speaker 3: Good night, everybody. And what would they have won it

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Speaker 3: We're going to see C. J. Stroud flourish. If you

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Speaker 3: And on defense, you know you're gonna you have to

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 3: They work all the off season along all of them weights.

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Speaker 1: think you hit right on it. I think you've got

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Speaker 1: in Texas six times. I put this in my know

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor's played Texans six times. He was drafted in

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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: because Lamar Jackson became a success that made people see

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Speaker 3: He was amazing, and Anthony Richardson was, you know, flashy.

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Speaker 1: Can I interest you in a number? Yes? Okay, see

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Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. It was fifteen through nineteen in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: Week two against the Chicago Bears. But here's my number.

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Speaker 1: Number seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Since his twenty twenty graduation from Gainesville East Side High School, Gamesville, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Anthony richard and Richardson has started a total of seventeen games,

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Speaker 1: zero on twenty twenty. He's a true freshman. One in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, as a sophomore, twelve in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: four last year, four years, seventeen starts.

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Speaker 2: He got drafted based on one year starting.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Here's the other side of that number, including

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Speaker 1: regular season in playoffs. CJ. Stroud started how many games

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Speaker 1: last year for the Texans fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, seventeen, the

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Speaker 1: number seventeen starts for CJ. Stroud as a rookie, seventeen

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Speaker 1: total starts in four years for Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 3: How many games has he not been able to finish

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Speaker 3: due to injury?

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Speaker 1: Well? The only fit? Well, yeah, that's that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many of that was in college,

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Speaker 1: but I do know in the NFL is only one.

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Speaker 1: I think he finished only one.

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Speaker 3: How about that opening week he goes out, Week two,

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Speaker 3: he goes out, he comes back again.

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Speaker 1: I think it was one week. I think it was

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Speaker 1: one week to where I think it might have been

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Speaker 1: one of mean week one because he actually went back

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Speaker 1: into game to finish it.

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Speaker 3: He's the big wild card here, totally card expect. You

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Speaker 3: might not know what to expect about the Texans offense

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Speaker 3: with the big three and how they're going to really

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Speaker 3: organize things and mix in and look, I'm so excited

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Speaker 3: about that. And that's a wild card of sorts. But

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Speaker 3: you know, the Texans offense is going to be prolific

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Speaker 3: no matter what. You know, they're going to be able

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Speaker 3: to put up numbers points, yards. With the Colts Richardson

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Speaker 3: is truly a wild card if he stays upright the

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Speaker 3: whole game. What's he really do with exactly? What's the production?

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Speaker 3: Like him and Taylor together? They only played him what

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Speaker 3: a couple of games together.

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Speaker 1: It was a couple of snaps. Yeah, he was like

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Speaker 1: two snap, one snap or two snaps something like that.

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Speaker 1: Something crazy. All right, So along those lines, are they

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Speaker 1: just going to protect him early on and just say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Taylor, just bang it in the line.

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Speaker 1: They won't stop you. I mean, if I'm if I'm

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Speaker 1: the Miko, and I'll say this later because this is

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Speaker 1: one of my keys, I make Richardson beat them. And

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Speaker 1: if he does, yeah, yeah, congratulations, I make Richardson beat.

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Speaker 3: Look, having said everything I said about Richardson, if I'm

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Speaker 3: the Colts, he's got.

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Speaker 2: To run the ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to because of question.

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Speaker 3: Not exclusively, of course, but people have to be who

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Speaker 3: they are, and I think that's who he is. He's

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Speaker 3: one of these like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, one of

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Speaker 3: these guys who likes to run and throw and really

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Speaker 3: good at it. You hope, if you're a Colts fan,

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Speaker 3: that he's really good at it. I'm hoping he's terrible

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Speaker 3: at it. So yeah, but I think you're right, and

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're right. I know you're right when

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Speaker 3: you say you have to let him be him. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I think if anybody's gonna understand it, Shane Stikeen,

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Speaker 3: because Stikeen started with that Eagles offense back in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one with Jalen and it was like, man, how

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Speaker 3: do I kind of do this?

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Speaker 1: And then they kind of found their stride by smart

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Speaker 1: pio stuff some so and recent and he kind of

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Speaker 1: put that together for Jalen. And I think if I'm

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Speaker 1: the Miko and then that's probably one of the I

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Speaker 1: probably go watch those games with the Eagles and say,

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Speaker 1: what did you do with Jalen? I think that's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna end up seeing on Sunday again it's Richardson. Now.

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Speaker 1: My guess is they will be a little scared to

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Speaker 1: run him early on that they'll he'll have a run

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Speaker 1: where he scrambles on a throw and that might get

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Speaker 1: the crowd all jacked up and then maybe they kind

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Speaker 1: of open it up from there. But I think early on,

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Speaker 1: my guess is they'll have him throw deep, really deep,

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Speaker 1: or just short and quick, just kind of those little

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Speaker 1: side arm throws and hopefully he ends up throwing them

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Speaker 1: throwing us one, which is fine. Force force them to

516
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Speaker 1: dink and dunk that thing all the way down the field.

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Speaker 1: Don't give up deep shots, because that's the only way

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Speaker 1: they're really gonna be going to push you. But if

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Speaker 1: you just, okay, dink and dunk. Now you're get in

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Speaker 1: the red zone, you're gonna have to be incredibly accurate.

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Speaker 1: And we don't think you're going to be subtle for

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Speaker 1: field goals. And that's if that's your kind of bend.

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Speaker 1: But don't break sort of philosophy or whatever. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: but he's the one that has to beat you, not

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Speaker 1: twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: What's your prediction right now? How many times do we

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Speaker 3: kick it into the end zone versus tempt the return

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Speaker 3: or force the return in this case?

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Speaker 1: All right, well, we're gonna score fourteen touchdowns, so I

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Speaker 1: think all I think thirteen of them are gonna kick

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Speaker 1: it into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna put them at the we have.

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Speaker 1: Last night it was two returns.

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Speaker 2: I think it was two returns total.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 3: This new rule is really going to go out to

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Speaker 3: force teams to return the football.

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Speaker 1: I just go back to my conversation of Big TWEO

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Speaker 1: media days and I was talking to Eric Alco, who

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Speaker 1: helped Sam Schwarztein kind of get that going in the XFL.

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Speaker 1: And Eric said, you talked to a team that said,

543
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Speaker 1: bleep it, We're just gonna kick the endzone every time.

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Speaker 1: And I remember thinking like, oh man, that's gonna be bad.

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Speaker 1: Teams aren't gonna do that. They're gonna want to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of this. I think that's what teams are gonna do.

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Speaker 3: The Chiefs put the Ravens at the thirty to open

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Speaker 3: the game. Ravens march right down the field. Now it

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Speaker 3: wasn't right down the field. They converted a couple of

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Speaker 3: third and alongs. I think it was not an easy drive,

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Speaker 3: but they got it done. If you made the opponent

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Speaker 3: start at the thirty five, does that change your thinking?

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Speaker 1: I think it does. I would it changes my thinking.

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Speaker 1: You put the ball to thirty, Yeah, I mean think

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Speaker 1: about that. If you know last year, you know the Colts,

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Speaker 1: the one thing the Colts gave up a lot to

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Speaker 1: the Texans, Nico running that deep dig in the middle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's yeah, you're also in a midfield. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Now you're a sniff away from field goal range.

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Speaker 1: If you're playing at home, you're playing at home. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't know what we'll have in India. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like we're have great weather and the roof will

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Speaker 1: be open. But if you're playing inside, you run it

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Speaker 1: for five more yards, you're you're in Kayemi's range. It's

565
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Speaker 1: long range, but it's one completion, one run and you're there.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: love that, but it's gonna be interesting. I think there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of touchbacks, but somebody's gonna get

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Speaker 1: a chance in that game, and that could kind of

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Speaker 1: determine the way that it goes to the sevens.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Now, one guy who won't I think run back kicks

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Speaker 1: is a guy who was dominant last year in Week

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Speaker 1: eighteen against the Colts. That's right, Nico Collins. He is

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Speaker 1: next with Drew Doherty right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 5: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Everybody walking back this Friday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from Monday, tex Radio Studio, less than forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: away from Colts, the Texans at Lucas Oil Sunday, kickoff

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Speaker 1: at noon, Mark Andre and myself your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analysts, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. We'll have

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Speaker 1: the call, pregame with Shawn and Seth, postgame with Clint

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Speaker 1: and Sean. It is all there, and hopefully in the

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Speaker 1: postgame Clinton Sewn will be talking about a Texans win

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Speaker 1: over the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 5: Now, the last time we went.

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Speaker 1: Up there week eighteen, everybody remembers it was a tremendous win,

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Speaker 1: twenty three to nineteen. Remember the Colts tacked on that

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Speaker 1: safety of Texans gave him. It was twenty three to nineteen.

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Speaker 1: The Texans walked out of there with a playoff birth

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Speaker 1: and then with some help from the Titans next day,

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Speaker 1: ended up winning the AFC South. So it was an

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Speaker 1: exciting weekend to say the least up there at Lucas Oil.

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Speaker 1: One of the main reasons why it was that exciting

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Speaker 1: was one Nico Collins nine catches on ninety five yards

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Speaker 1: one Toddy that's seventy five yard to start the game.

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Speaker 1: He was fantastic. So who did Drew Doherty ask for

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Speaker 1: for his pregame interview for Week one? That's right, Nico Collins.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to what Nico had to say

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Speaker 1: with Drew take it away, Drew.

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Speaker 6: At long Last, the regular season is here, Week one,

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Speaker 6: Texans at Colts, and we've got a guy who's very,

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Speaker 6: very familiar with Indianapolis. It's wide receiver Nico Collins. The

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Speaker 6: past is the past. We're not gonna talk too much

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Speaker 6: about that, but hey, for one last moment, it was

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Speaker 6: pretty nice to start the offensive series the way you

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Speaker 6: did in Week eight?

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Speaker 1: Team, wasn't it?

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Speaker 7: Most Definitely, I feel that's unforgettable. I feel like that's

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Speaker 7: that's just a play you always remember your entire life,

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Speaker 7: especially like opening a playoff game, you know, for that

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Speaker 7: game to be for a playoff win, you know, just

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Speaker 7: opening that game off with that thne center, you know.

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Speaker 7: I feel like that's one play you'll always remember and

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Speaker 7: always get.

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Speaker 6: It's a different offense, it's a different team as a whole,

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Speaker 6: both sides there and here with Houston. Definitely, what's got

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Speaker 6: your most excited about the twenty twenty four offense as

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Speaker 6: it stands right now?

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Speaker 7: You go, I feel like, man, it's a lot of weapons. Man,

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Speaker 7: it's a lot of opportunity on the field. Man, a

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Speaker 7: lot of playmakers. Anybody get the ball in their hand. Man,

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Speaker 7: you never know what's gonna happen. But I feel like, Man,

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Speaker 7: it's just the weapons that's all around the field, on

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Speaker 7: both sides of the ball, both offense and defense. Man,

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Speaker 7: I feel like this team, man is special. But I

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Speaker 7: feel like it's gonna come down to a man, just

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Speaker 7: who wanted more. Come down to the small details, you know,

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Speaker 7: no matter what, all seventeen games, if not twenty, harboring

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Speaker 7: on the details and remembering your job and remember like

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Speaker 7: what's your mission? That's all across the league. You know,

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Speaker 7: we could be stacked, we could be the best team

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Speaker 7: in the league. But I feel like you don't even

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Speaker 7: not locked in on the details, you know, going into

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Speaker 7: a Sunday, you know, I feel like none of that matters,

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like, man, this team is loaded. Man.

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Speaker 7: I feel like going out and practice everyday and competing, man,

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Speaker 7: getting each other better. Man is definitely showing.

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Speaker 6: It's wide receiver Nico Collins, how much value do you

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Speaker 6: think there is in guys like you, Tank, Dell Dalton,

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Speaker 6: Shuld c J. Stroud Being in this system for year

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Speaker 6: two with everybody coaching wise. Coming back in that regard.

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Speaker 7: I feel like it's great for everybody, man, you know,

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Speaker 7: second year in the system, for everybody to just learn

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Speaker 7: the details of the playbook, slowing it down, you know,

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Speaker 7: hearing the play call here in the process and going

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Speaker 7: out there, man, just executing, you know, and doing what

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Speaker 7: we do. You know, this is I'm blessed though to

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Speaker 7: have you know, two years in the offense. And when

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Speaker 7: I was here, you know, it was up and down

653
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 7: a lot. But blessed enough. Man, it's a year two

654
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 7: in the offense, man, and it's great. Ota was a

655
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 7: ground count. It was a hell of a ground and

656
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 7: now you know, I feel like now is we got

657
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 7: to continue to sharpen the blade every single day, you know,

658
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 7: continue to be sharp going until going until until this

659
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 7: week and the rest of the season.

660
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta be sharp against this sp Indianapolis bunch.

661
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 6: Tell me about the defense, specifically in the secondary. What's

662
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 6: the most impressive part, what's the most challenging part?

663
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 7: You think for you guys, man, solid team. Man, you

664
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 7: see him twice a year. You know, that's not a

665
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 7: team like you just wanna walk over. You know, them dudes,

666
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 7: they hungry there's a bunch of dogs over there.

667
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 4: Man.

668
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 7: I feel like for us, like I said, it's gonna

669
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 7: come down to the details. Who wanted more that?

670
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: Really?

671
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 7: That the small details that really, you know, make a

672
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 7: difference in a game. Fourth quarter, second quarter, you know

673
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 7: you run, blocking and assignments you wrapped up, just little

674
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 7: things like that. I feel like it's gonna come down

675
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 7: to you know, it's gonna be, you know, a great

676
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 7: game every every every time we see him, He's gonna

677
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 7: be a matchup, you know. I feel like as a team,

678
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 7: you know, that's as hungry. You know, we're hungry as well.

679
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 7: I feel like there's a lot of dolls on that field.

680
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 7: It's gonna be fun.

681
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 5: Man.

682
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 7: I feel like this that's what you want, you know,

683
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 7: as football, you know, you want to have that competitive

684
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 7: feeling and go out there. Man, hey, there's no no

685
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 7: better feeling going out there with your brothers.

686
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 5: Man, you know, go in the war.

687
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 6: With wide receiver Nico Collins. We've talked about this a

688
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 6: little bit in the past, but what's it like going

689
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 6: into an opposing stadium like that one. You've had success there,

690
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 6: you in particularly this team in particular as a whole,

691
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 6: it's not often that you can say the Texans have

692
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 6: won consecutive games on the road in Indianapolis, but they're

693
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 6: in the midst of that right now. What's it like

694
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 6: playing there?

695
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 7: Man, It's it's rowdy, it's loud, man. The coach fans,

696
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 7: they they bought in.

697
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 6: Man.

698
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 7: I feel like it's we walk in, backs are against

699
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 7: the wall. You know, we walking them doors.

700
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 5: Man.

701
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 7: We all we got walked through the doors and we

702
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 7: got played it for each other and you know, never

703
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 7: r on that field between them lines. Man, we know

704
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 7: we're playing for our brother. You know, we're playing for

705
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 7: him and him and the next guy.

706
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: You know.

707
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 7: So I feel like, Man, I feel like anytime you're

708
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 7: on the road, man, your backs always gets the geinst

709
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 7: the wall.

710
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: You know.

711
00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 7: I feel like it's no better feeling than that, you know,

712
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 7: going into a game knowing you're the underdog or like

713
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 7: back against the wall, and I means you go out

714
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 7: there with an edge on your shoulder. Man, just going

715
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 7: out and just having fun, you know, making plays, having fun.

716
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 6: You're a confident guy, and I know you've got high expectations.

717
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's it like this year?

718
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: Though?

719
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 6: Because you we kind of touched on being in the

720
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 6: offense for another year. There's a lot expected of you,

721
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 6: and that's a good thing.

722
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: I know you like that.

723
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 6: But Damika Ryans has said earlier this week, Hey, we

724
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 6: got to feed Nico the ball. We've got to feed

725
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 6: all these guys the ball. But you're somebody that's a

726
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 6: playmaker and he wants to make sure you.

727
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 5: Make things happen.

728
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 7: But man, you know in that situation. But yeah, you know,

729
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 7: I feel like for me, man, it's just just continue

730
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 7: to not get comfortable, continue to work on my game,

731
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 7: you know, continue to find the things I need to

732
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 7: improve on. You know, when I click the field on

733
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 7: watch myself. You know, he's always things to critique. There's

734
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 7: always the little things. And I feel like that's the

735
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 7: mindset you got to have.

736
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 1: Minutes lead.

737
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 7: I feel like you can't get comfortable because you know,

738
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 7: it's guys. As at the end of the day, it's

739
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 7: still the job, you know, and day it's guys that

740
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 7: here the same reason why you hear you know what

741
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 7: I'm saying. But I feel like you really come down

742
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 7: to who wanted more? You know, the little details, you know,

743
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 7: the things you've been hearing when you first became in

744
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 7: the league. You know or now you're in the league

745
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 7: and you know, just just a small things people tell

746
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 7: you know, just don't get comfortable, don't get satisfied. You know,

747
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 7: even when you feel like you got to figure it out.

748
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 7: You got to figure it out already, you don't, you know.

749
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 7: So I feel like that's that's where I'm at right now.

750
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 7: You know, things are slowing down. I'm feeling good going

751
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 7: into these these games, walking on my body, my health, mental,

752
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 7: you know. So I feel like, for me, just continue

753
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 7: to build on that routine, continue to be myself in

754
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 7: every game.

755
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: You know.

756
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 7: I feel like just never getting too hot and never

757
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 7: get into lord, just always haveing a humble mindset, positive

758
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 7: alfhalouk and everything.

759
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: You know, it's going out being me.

760
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 6: All right, Since just a moment ago you touched on routine,

761
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 6: Let's get one last routine questioning before we end this thing.

762
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 6: What's what's the breakfast on the road before.

763
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 5: A noon game?

764
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: Neon game. I'm going omelet.

765
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 7: I'm going omelet, egg and cheese, sausage, bacon for sure,

766
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 7: with a bagel.

767
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: The bagel, what else? Coffee I've never been. I've never

768
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 1: been a coffee guy. Not a coffee guy.

769
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 6: Don't need.

770
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: Don't good for you. I don't.

771
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 7: It's crazy every time I say I do drinkffee. You know,

772
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 7: people living crazy. But yeah, just apple juice. I'm living

773
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 7: a bagel baby.

774
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: And it all right.

775
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 6: It sounds like the breakfast of champions. Hope it pays off.

776
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 6: Nico Collins, It's always good to talk. We get best

777
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 6: of luck today, best of luck this season. Thanks so

778
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 6: much for the time, number twelve.

779
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: Ways, Thank you so much. Bro. My sad Jack ended

780
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: up hearing that last part of the interview there with

781
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: Nico Collins.

782
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 5: He was like, no coffee, What is wrong with him?

783
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, I get it because I don't

784
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: drink coffee. But there are a lot of people out

785
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,719
Speaker 1: there man, like where does your energy come from?

786
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 5: How do you wake up? Man? You need a cup

787
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 5: of coffee?

788
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: Uh?

789
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 5: Well no, not not always.

790
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: You don't always need a cup of coffee, especially when

791
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: you got the juice that Nico Collins has. And well

792
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: last year, remember that was a seven o'clock game, so

793
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: he had kind of all day to kind of build

794
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: up noon game one o'clock Indianapolis time, but a noton game,

795
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: uh for everybody here in Houston. So everybody rocks out

796
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: of bed, gets ready and goes and beats the Colts.

797
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: That's what we are hoping. Now, how will the tech

798
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: since do that? How will they beat the Colts? And

799
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: what's happening in these other oh, I don't know what

800
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: through three fourteen other games, thirteen other games if I

801
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: can do my math correctly. In the NFL, we got

802
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: keys and predictions to close her.

803
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 5: Down on a Friday Night's there right where you are.

804
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: It's Texans All Access.

805
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Speaker 1: We one final segment this Friday n issue of the

806
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Speaker 1: Texans All Access and we have got plenty to do.

807
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 5: So let's get going. But I need my music to

808
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 5: get me rolling. So there it is. It is time.

809
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Speaker 5: Let's go to our keys.

810
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Speaker 1: To a win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Now,

811
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Speaker 1: when we do predictions, I won't predict this game, but

812
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: the Texans are three point favorites. Total is forty eight

813
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: point five Indies. Actually, well, it's a little bit of

814
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: a on the money line Indies, a little bit of

815
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: an underdog, so which makes sense if they're the Texans

816
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: are a three point favorite. But let's get into the

817
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: keys of the game. You could check out my entire

818
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: article know your foe. Check out my Twitter at ja

819
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: Harris Football or Houston Texas dot com and you can

820
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: go find it. Get into the keys of this game.

821
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: Three keys off defensively. Number one.

822
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor, number twenty eight. We've seen him way too often.

823
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: Mark and I talked about him earlier and the fact

824
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: that he's he's averaging nearly one hundred and forty yards

825
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: per game in his six games against the Texans.

826
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 5: That's got to stop.

827
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: The two terrors from twenty twenty actually even before night

828
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, actually through twenty twenty three, Derrick Henry and

829
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, those two just absolute nightmares. Well, Derrick Henry

830
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: will see him, but he's not with Tennessee, so that's

831
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 1: at least good. And in twenty twenty three, really shut

832
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry down. Hopefully that follows the twenty twenty four

833
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: for Jonathan Taylor. But gotta tackle, gotta tackle well, and

834
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: I would think stopping Jonathan Taylor as number one, Anthony

835
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: Richardson might run for a bunch, but he's gonna have

836
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: to throw for a bunch two because you gotta really

837
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, without question, you've absolutely got a corral Taylor

838
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: to me, there may be no bigger key in this

839
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: game than that he's got to be stopped. Hopefully that

840
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: will happen. So that's number one. Number two, he's back.

841
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: It's Anthony Richardson. We saw him in Week two last year,

842
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: senior Week one this year. He spent a lot of

843
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: talk in this offseason coming from Indianapolis about, oh, you

844
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: guys haven't seen Anthony Richardson, and when you did, he

845
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: ran for two touchdowns. Bloody blahda blah. Okay, he didn't

846
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: play sixty minutes of a game, maybe, but once if that,

847
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: he has only started seventeen games since his high school

848
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: years at Gainsville East Side. When he runs the football,

849
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward, Jalen Petrie, aziz Au Sharer, any defensive player,

850
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: anybody wearing white, has to hit him with everything they've

851
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: got to make any passing attempts.

852
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 5: After very different.

853
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, if somebody just

854
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: took a whiffotball bat and start banging you on your

855
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 1: throwing arm and you got like three and four at.

856
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,479
Speaker 5: A time, his bang, bang, bang bang. He doesn't feel

857
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 5: great now, You're not gonna go on to the game.

858
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: Probably don't feel great, and all of a sudden, you

859
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: got to throw it on third and eight intermediate routes.

860
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 5: That's what you gotta make him feel.

861
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 1: He has to feel anybody and everybody in that Texas defense.

862
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 5: And finally, ad Ni Mitchell, no Josh Downs. He is out.

863
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: We saw that coming. We don't know about Matt Gay,

864
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: he is questionable. We'll see if he kicks or not.

865
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: But no Josh Downs. So what that ends up meaning

866
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: is that ad Ni Mitchell is gonna get a lot

867
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: of run when they're in eleven personnel or even ten personnel.

868
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: Probably won't go to ten, but they'll go to eleven

869
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: for sure without Pierce, Michael Pittman and ad Ni Mitchell. Now,

870
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: if they don't have his Downs quickness, kind of in

871
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: and out routes, kind of Tank Dell like. So from

872
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: that perspective, without Josh Downs, those little pivot routes with Browns,

873
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: jukes inside routes, things that Josh Downs could do very.

874
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 5: Very ca very easily and get himself loose against this defense.

875
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: Like I told Mark earlier, in that game in week eighteen,

876
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: down twenty three to seventeen, what did the Colts do?

877
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: They just ran Josh Downs on a simple little speed

878
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: out well three yard out route, caught it, ran past

879
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: Desmond King and ended up being almost a thirty yard game. Well,

880
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: the Colts lose that, and that's gonna hopefully work to

881
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,959
Speaker 1: the texans favor without Josh Downs, but it does mean

882
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: that ad Ni Mitchell is gonna play probably a bigger

883
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: role when the Colts get into eleven personnel, one running back,

884
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: one tight end, and that puts three wide receivers on

885
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: the field. So we'll see how that goes for them,

886
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: and hopefully the Texans can take advantage of that.

887
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 5: All right, slip over to this defense.

888
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: Last year, they gave up one hundred and twenty four

889
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: yards in the ground, was twenty fourth in the NFL. Now,

890
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: the Texans didn't take total advantage of that when they

891
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: faced them in Week eighteen, but they did take advantage

892
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: of that secondary. They gave up two hundred twenty six

893
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: yards through the air, that was sixteenth in the league.

894
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: They gave up three to fifty a game that was

895
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the league. They were plus two a

896
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: turnover margin at twenty twenty three, but they didn't generate

897
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: any turnovers against the Texans and that will be big.

898
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: This defense more than likely will have one one new

899
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: starter and that's going to be a layout to Latu

900
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: at defensive end. Sam Stabacom is out of this game, dude.

901
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: An injury could be Taekwan Lewis. He could come into

902
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: the game at some point, but lat two is going

903
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: to see a lot of time whether he starts or not.

904
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: Either way, Taekwan Lewis layout too Latu. It's one different starter.

905
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: So the Texans know this defense. So let's get to

906
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: the keys. Number one. It's those two guys inside. On

907
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: how many times I've said this, and I know your

908
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: faux article. I referenced the paragraph I wrote for week

909
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: two of.

910
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty three. Well, it was the same in week eighteen.

911
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 5: It's the same in week one.

912
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: If you don't block ninety to ninety nine, you got

913
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: no shot, whether throwing it or running it. You've got

914
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: to at least contain them in the run game. At

915
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: least contain them, and that's gonna be very difficult. They're

916
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 1: both healthy to start the year. In the passing game,

917
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: I think you got a better opportunity. There's some things

918
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: you can do, whether it's slide protections, whether it's you know,

919
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: split protections things.

920
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 5: Like that to keep them out of the mix.

921
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: Last year, in a deep throw, people forget this seventy

922
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: five yarder. CJ had a lot of time to throw that,

923
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: but right at the end Buckner was coming clean and

924
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: got a shot on CJ. Those are the kind of

925
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: things that you've gotta stop from happening this week against

926
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: the Colts.

927
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 5: And really you'd love to see Kenyan Green.

928
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: Juice Scruggs and Shack Mason just play one way of

929
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: a game against those two and those two end up

930
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: being ghosts.

931
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 5: All right, it's good the number two.

932
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: It's talked a lot about the offseason that Zire Frankly EJ. Speed,

933
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: they had their podcast. They're just talking and talking and

934
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: talking all that kind of stuff. This is going to

935
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: be a tough battle for them, and that's the way

936
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: that it needs to be. I don't know how exactly

937
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: how much they'll use love personnel against these guys, but

938
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: if the Texas do do that, that's gonna put one

939
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: of those two linebackers on on either Tank Dell.

940
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 5: Stefan Diggs, Nico Collins.

941
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: When one of those lines up in the slot or

942
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: could end up putting them on Dalton Schultz, that is

943
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: not a good matchup for.

944
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 5: Either one of those two.

945
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: They run sideline, the sideline, they make some plays, but

946
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up matched up on one of those

947
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: wide receivers or they're gonna sit there and play zone.

948
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 5: And that is something that CJ in this offense will

949
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 5: just completely and totally eat up.

950
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: Now, the run game, gotta get some hats to them,

951
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: but controlling Butckner and Stewart are the first priority. Hopefully

952
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: one guy can get up to forty four and forty

953
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: five and keep them out of the mix. And even

954
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: when fifty A Loubi comes in the game, he's very

955
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: very good against the run.

956
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 5: So gotta make sure that linebackers have at times.

957
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not never, but hopefully there are a few

958
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: times they can get up to the linebacker level, maybe

959
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: pop Joe Mixon free for a few yards beyond a

960
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: couple three like they were getting in Week eighteen. All right,

961
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: last and certainly not least, this is the same one

962
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: I put last year.

963
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 5: It's the same thing, and when you hear it, you'll.

964
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: Go, well, yeah, duh. But I put this in week

965
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: EIGHTEAM last year. And then I just revised it a

966
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: little bit. Attack the corners again, Juju Branch, Jalen Jones

967
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: more likely the two starters, same two starters that started.

968
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 5: In week eighteen, and what an Eco Collins do to them?

969
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: Nine for one nive and a tuddy and went deep

970
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: on the very first play. Now you throw in Tank Dell,

971
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: Now you throw in Stefan Diggs. Now you throw in

972
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is very good out of the backfield on

973
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: passing routes. Attack the corners again. If you get the

974
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: ball off, I've said it for weeks. If you can

975
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: get it off against them, you can have whatever you

976
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: want to because I just don't think that secondary is exceptional.

977
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: And yes, I love Kenny Moore as the nickel and

978
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: he can do a lot of different things. I wouldn't

979
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: be surprised that we saw more blitz a little bit more.

980
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: But that's gonna put you man to man on the outside,

981
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: and that is going to be a winning proposition for

982
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 1: your Texans. All right, let's talk about winning propositions. Predictions

983
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: for games. I do this every single Friday. Now today

984
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: we only have one out, so that's why I had

985
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: to put keys and predictions in the same segment. But

986
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: that's okay. We're talking ball, right, and so we were

987
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: just talking about Texans Keys. You know, I never picked

988
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: against my heart and my head. I never picked the

989
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Texans games. But let's hope they get to win and

990
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: then cover the three. So let's talk about games predicting

991
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: them throughout the league. Would a guy last night right,

992
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm always honest with you. I tell you

993
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, I would have got right, it was

994
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: said Chiefs, Chiefs cover. They did win by seven, twenty

995
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: seven to twenty tonight right after us right here on

996
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: Port Radio six ' ten. Packers Eagles Philly favored by

997
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: two and a half. I think it's a big test

998
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: for Philly Packers. I think come in and play pretty loose.

999
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 5: But I think the Eagles are gonna win this thing.

1000
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 5: I think I think Saque goes to work.

1001
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: It's gonna take the Eagles a little a little bit

1002
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: of time to figure out that Jeff Hafley defense, but

1003
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: I think they will.

1004
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 5: Eagles a gonna win this by three. That's more than

1005
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 5: two and a half.

1006
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: Take the Eagles to win and cover in South Palo

1007
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: Then on Sunday noon here Central time, but obviously in Buffalo,

1008
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: it's one o'clock. Cardinal's taking on the Bills. Buffalo's favored

1009
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: by six and a half. It's one of the large

1010
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: spreads this week. But I think the Cardinals will get

1011
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: inside this thing. I think they're gonna play hard, and

1012
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: we really don't know what the Bills have. They've obviously

1013
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: lost Stefon Diggs, who's wide receiver one. But as Kena

1014
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: Coleman bring, how do they fit this all together?

1015
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 5: And I think the Cardinals are gonna be one of

1016
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 5: the more improved teams in the NFL.

1017
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: Let's go Cardinals to get inside six and a half

1018
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: with the Bills, to get to win in Orchard Park

1019
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: their last year.

1020
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 5: I think it's the last year.

1021
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: No, next year will be the last year in their stadium.

1022
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: All right, Patriots Bengals, this to me is pretty easy.

1023
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: I don't even Characteramar Chase plays. I think Patriots will

1024
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: fight for a half. That's about all they've got. Bengals

1025
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: are gonna win, and they're gonna cover that seven and

1026
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: a half. That's a big that's the biggest number on

1027
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: the board.

1028
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 5: Bengals win. Bengals cover.

1029
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: Vikings taking on the Giants Daniel Jones will start in

1030
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: the regular season again for the Giants when it Met Life.

1031
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: Vikings will have Sam Darnold. The Vikings are favored by

1032
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: one and a half.

1033
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.

1034
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm gone against the Giants before, and I've learned my lesson.

1035
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: I don't think the Giants are tremendous. I don't think

1036
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: the Vikings are great either because of the two quarterback situations,

1037
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: but it was something to prove a met Life. I

1038
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: am gonna go with the Giants to upset the Vikings

1039
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: and obviously.

1040
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 5: Picking them the win.

1041
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: Picking the cover Titans Bears, Caleb gets his start, Bears

1042
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: are faired by three and a half. Have no idea

1043
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: what to think about the Titans, none whatsoever. Hops banged up,

1044
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: He's questionable. That's pretty typical. But I don't even know.

1045
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: My guess is he'll play. But I think the Bears

1046
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: at home are gonna win the close twenty four to

1047
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: twenty one. That's inside the three and a half, so

1048
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: Bears win. Titans cover Panthers taking on the Saints. I

1049
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: think the Panthers are in for a long, long year.

1050
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: They'll think Saints are great. I think Saints are gonna

1051
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: get this win at home, and they'll cover the four

1052
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: point spread. Steelers have got some missions at quarterback, Russell

1053
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: Wilson's questionable, and they're taking on the Falcons. That's the

1054
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith revenge game. Atlanta's favored by three and a

1055
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: half in Atlanta. I think that the Falcons are gonna

1056
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: win this, but I think the Steelers keep it close.

1057
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 5: I don't even know who plays quarterback.

1058
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: Maybe Justin Fields comes back to his hometown of Atlanta

1059
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: and gets to win, but I don't think so. I

1060
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: think the Falcons will win, but close. Steelers cover. Falcons win.

1061
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 1: Jags Dolphins down in Miami. It's gonna be steaming about

1062
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: ninety two, no tinety three degrees. Most teams should know

1063
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: that and know it well. I think the Jags will

1064
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: play relatively well, but I don't think they hang with

1065
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I think Dolphins win and cover the three

1066
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: and a half point spread. Raiders taking on the Chargers,

1067
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: the Charger favored by three in LA. I had someone

1068
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: from the Rams tell me that the Chargers asked to

1069
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: do a joint practice with them, and the Rams are like,

1070
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: you know what, you guys aren't good enough to get

1071
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: for us.

1072
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 5: To get anything out of it, so he could be

1073
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 5: a tough one for the Chargers.

1074
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: But for Harbaugh in Week one, I think they'll pull

1075
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: it out and they will cover the three.

1076
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 5: Justin Herbert is the difference in that game.

1077
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Broncos Seahawks. Seahawks favored by six at home against the Broncos.

1078
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: Have no idea what to expect from bo Nicks. I

1079
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: think the Seahawks offense does enough to cover the six,

1080
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: winning by seven. Let's go twenty seven to twenty in

1081
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: favor of the Seattle Seahawks. Cowboys, Browns Tom Brady on Fox,

1082
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson gets Dak Prescott. Cleveland's favored by two and

1083
00:46:54,680 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: a half. Let's go Cowboys. Yeah, Cowboys win and cover well.

1084
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: By winning, they will cover. It'll be a minor upset

1085
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys.

1086
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 5: Win that thing.

1087
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: Commander's taking on the Buccaneers in the afternoon.

1088
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 5: I like the Bucks. I like him this year. I

1089
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 5: think Jade Daniels will keep it close. But the Bucks

1090
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 5: are gonna win this thing. Will they win it by

1091
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 5: more three and a half?

1092
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this seven point spread, I'm thinking like

1093
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: thirty four to twenty seven for the Buccaneers and Finally,

1094
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night, Rams taking on the Lions. Lions are

1095
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: four and a half point favorite Matt Stafford revenge Tour, but.

1096
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 5: I don't think it's enough.

1097
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: I think the Lions get this thing in Detroit. They

1098
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: win that thing by seven. That's more than four and

1099
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: a half. And Monday forty nine Ers, Jets fort Niners

1100
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: canna win that and cover that four and a half.

1101
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 5: So there you go. There's the show.

1102
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: Big thanks to Nico, to Coach, to Mark vandermir to Drewderty,

1103
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: to all.

1104
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 5: Of you for listening. Well see next time everybody, and

1105
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 5: as always, go Texans.