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Speaker 1: Zero on wild Card weekend, and the streak ends Mike

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Speaker 2: Tomlin was undefeated in those situations.

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Speaker 1: That ends tonight, if you want to count it along

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Speaker 2: Thirty to six.

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Speaker 1: Houston prevails over the Pittsburgh Steelers, a game that was

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Speaker 1: because the defense was rolling tonight for your Texans. Coke

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Speaker 1: the best coke ever? Try and decide. The Texans got

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Speaker 1: After that Kirk touchdown Pittsburgh after a Texans fumble. They

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Speaker 1: Twenty four to six after the extra point. That was

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Speaker 2: Let's get the pass rush report from Dre.

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Speaker 4: Yeah our chib sack report. The Texans had four sacks

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Speaker 4: of sex sacks for Hunger ChB will donate one thousand

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Speaker 4: sacked the quarterback. The HB Sack Attack brought to you

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Speaker 4: by EGb, the official tailgate headquarters of the Houston tex.

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Speaker 1: That's weird was the stat crew wearing black and gold.

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Speaker 4: Just don't hurt yourselves with the offense. You got a

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Speaker 5: My man? Amazing coming to a place like this, get

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Speaker 5: What was that life?

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Speaker 5: I just think it speaks to who our team is. Right.

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Speaker 1: It had the TD against Jacksonville, had the TD tonight.

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Speaker 1: next after this message from your local station, Texans fans

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