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Speaker 1: Happy Monday. Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into Texans All Access from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: John Harrison, Mark Vandermiir with you.

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Speaker 2: Sorry we couldn't make it for Texans Monday, but we

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Speaker 2: had basically just arrived as the show was starting, so

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Speaker 2: we needed a couple hours, a couple I think that's

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Speaker 2: what we're on right now. It is about two or

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Speaker 2: three hours of sleep. But it doesn't matter because twenty

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Speaker 2: to ten over the Kansas City Chiefs defending AFC champions

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Speaker 2: makeshift feel pretty good?

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Speaker 1: How about that? Mark Vandermiir.

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Speaker 2: The Texas are two to zero against last year's AFC

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Speaker 2: Championship game combatants, the Bills and the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, how are you? Yeah, I'm doing great, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: And when you look at the two MVPs, right he

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Speaker 3: get faced.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And you didn't face Lamar Jackson this year obviously when

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Speaker 3: you played the Ravens. But the numbers against those two

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Speaker 3: are amazing for the Houston Texans defense. But the macro

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Speaker 3: thing is this, and I've gone through my memory banks

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Speaker 3: and I don't think, in fact, I know the Texans

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Speaker 3: have never won a game like this.

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Speaker 1: They've never won a game like this. In their history.

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Speaker 3: Look, we've had taken gigantic steps over the years, and

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Speaker 3: the first one was twenty eleven getting into the postseason.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twelve, you had a shot at New England.

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Speaker 3: That's what I comped this one too, exactly because you

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Speaker 3: went into that game with.

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Speaker 1: A better record than them.

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Speaker 3: You were playing a primetime Roady, Mikey and Night football game,

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Speaker 3: and you came up way short. They kicked your butts yep,

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Speaker 3: and you were never the same after that, really. And

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Speaker 3: in twenty fifteen you got a big win in December,

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Speaker 3: winning at Indy for the first time, but you weren't

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Speaker 3: playing a full deck Indianapolis team, and you weren't a

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Speaker 3: full deck team yourself. Okay, you were down to your

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Speaker 3: third fourth quarterback literally in that game. So you got

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Speaker 3: the job done, though, and it was a gigantic step

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Speaker 3: at the time, it was a big step. Twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: you did it again up at Indy. But Johnny, when

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Speaker 3: have you won a game like this? Twenty nineteen, you did,

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Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, you didn't. Twenty eighteen, you went to

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Speaker 3: Philly face the defending champions, right and you took your shot.

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Speaker 1: But you missed. You had them on the ropes and

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Speaker 1: you let them up. You let them up.

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Speaker 3: Yep, twenty nineteen, there's really no comp You want some

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Speaker 3: big roadies down the stretch. You beat the Titans, You

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Speaker 3: beat Tampa Bay when they were going good.

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Speaker 1: They had won four in a row at the time.

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Speaker 3: It's not the Chiefs at Arrowhead, and so at night,

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Speaker 3: let's take it to last night, that moment. Look, the Chiefs,

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Speaker 3: this is not the best Chiefs team we've ever seen,

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Speaker 3: although the locals and the Chiefs themselves will tell you

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Speaker 3: they're more talented than last year's team. They're just not

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Speaker 3: winning the close ones. And I know they had linemen out,

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Speaker 3: but no one's going to sing the blues for the

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Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs, including the Houston Texans, who had to

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Speaker 3: go three and a half games without CJ. Stroud, who

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Speaker 3: have had to deal with numerous injuries over the year

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Speaker 3: and had to retool the offensive line on the fly

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Speaker 3: until they found their best five. So the Chiefs are

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Speaker 3: playing with whatever they've got and you lit them up defensively.

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Speaker 3: I know the scoreboard doesn't reflect that, but you lit

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Speaker 3: them up. The stats sheet does. It looks like a

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Speaker 3: rap sheet that you put together facing Patrick Mahomes in

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Speaker 3: that offense. You took it to them on the road

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Speaker 3: in December. They're the kings of the AFC.

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Speaker 1: But no more.

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Speaker 3: Look they can still get into the playoffs and who

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Speaker 3: knows what happens, But for now, you've done your job.

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Speaker 3: Let's go four games left in the regular season. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she set four left.

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Speaker 2: They very easily could go four and oh, and they

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Speaker 2: ten and seven.

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Speaker 1: Ten and seven probably gets them in easily.

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Speaker 4: Not easily.

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Speaker 2: I mean they've got the Broncos and Chargers at Arrowhead,

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Speaker 2: and you don't look Arrowhead. They know the Eagles beat

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Speaker 2: them there this year. We beat them last night. So

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Speaker 2: Airhead is not the house of horrors. It is for

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Speaker 2: other teams for a number of reasons. But when you

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Speaker 2: look at last night, and I go back to training camp,

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Speaker 2: and it was hard in training camp, because especially in

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Speaker 1: How ferocious this defense looked.

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Speaker 2: In training camp, you they just looked different like I've seen.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see, you know, Seth and Gary Walker in

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Speaker 2: that initial defensive crew, which was very very good. But

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Speaker 2: I've seen every defensive Crew basically since with the eleven crew,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't the building yet, but I watched that group,

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Speaker 2: you know, as JJ was a young player. Then JJ's

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Speaker 2: defense for a while, fifteen and then sixteen is number

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Speaker 2: one without JJ. I've seen good defense, as Mark, but

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I've seen a defense like this.

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Speaker 2: And I'm having a hard time when I I was

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Speaker 2: trying to stay away, trying to get back to the

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Speaker 2: and I just thought, it's just different. It's not enough

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Speaker 2: to go get an interception on one drive. It's not

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Speaker 2: an to get a stop on fourth down. It's to

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Speaker 2: do it again. It's to do it again. It's to

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Speaker 2: knock somebody, you know. Basically you know those like air

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Speaker 2: blow up thingies. Yeah, you know that all right, like

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Speaker 2: rental car used car places. That's what Jalen Petrie turned

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Speaker 2: Rashi Rice into. Yep, Like watch him land in his

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Speaker 2: a ferociousness with this defense that is just hard really

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Speaker 2: to put into words, like you almost have to say

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Speaker 2: just watch them.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing that stood out really with

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Speaker 2: If you go back and look at the wins this

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Speaker 2: you know, the star of the game being somebody different.

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Speaker 2: Just think back to you know, go back to the

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Speaker 2: Ravens game on the road. Petrie has the two interceptions. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he has the big hit on Derrick Henry, which it

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Speaker 2: was funny because somebody it may have been Figgy, you know,

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Speaker 2: the neo DiCaprio meme where he's sitting once upon a

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Speaker 1: And he points at this. He gets a many points

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Speaker 1: at the screen.

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Speaker 2: He said, Derrick Henry right now, and he put the

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Speaker 2: video over Rishi Rice. It was Jalen Petrie in that game.

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Speaker 2: And then it gets the Jaguars when we got to

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Speaker 2: make a comeback, it's Daniel Hunter. Daniel Hunter takes over

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Speaker 2: the damn game right, completely takes over. Against the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 2: Kaylan in the back end forces three turnovers. Will has

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Speaker 2: the two and a half sacks against the Colts last week.

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Speaker 2: It's it's kind of everybody at that point on the defense,

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Speaker 2: and then last night it was really you know, everybody defensively,

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Speaker 2: but it was the secondary Kamari played out of his

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Speaker 1: Petrie was incredible.

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Speaker 2: Kaylan has the big hit on the receiver on Petre's interception.

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Speaker 2: Sting knocks down the fourth down throw because nobody throws

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Speaker 1: So Kelsey getting hit by Miles by Here's the other

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Speaker 2: This team has no chill, Like if you wear a

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Speaker 2: different color jersey, you're gonna get the hell.

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Speaker 1: Beat out of you. Right, They're coming after you. They

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Speaker 2: If you it's almost like a challenge to them, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you think you're gonna catch a pass in my area, right,

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Speaker 2: You're about to get smoke.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: And Seth was talking about that this morning. I heard

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Speaker 3: for much of it. Yes, of course, but he mentioned

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Speaker 3: that that, believe me, the offensive players know what is

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Speaker 3: get clocked by this Texans defense. You've got to be tough.

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Speaker 3: You're getting if you're playing this defense. This is no

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Speaker 3: finesse group. They play with finesse when needed, but they

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Speaker 3: come after you. The Petrie hit last night, that Miles

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Speaker 3: pick the juggling pick where Kelsey takes a tremendous shot.

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Speaker 3: That's why he was on the ground and it looked

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Speaker 1: I love watching them operate.

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Speaker 3: We talked about it during the Demico Ryans show that

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Speaker 3: it is a group. Your stats will come, don't worry

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Speaker 3: about it. Play within Demiko's system. Do what he wants

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Speaker 3: you to do, and you'll get yours. You'll get his,

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Speaker 3: He'll get your. You know, you're all going to fill

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Speaker 3: Like you mentioned in the different games, different guys will

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Speaker 3: shine at different times. Hell, you're going into last night's game.

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Speaker 3: Kamari Laughstter is your second leading tackler on the number

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Speaker 3: one defense in the league.

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Speaker 1: A cornerback is the second.

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Speaker 3: Leading tackler, and if you look at Disease as tackle

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Speaker 3: numbers leading the team, it's not like he's with the

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Speaker 3: league leaders. It's not coming from one spot. They are

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Speaker 3: getting you from all over the place. So that is

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Speaker 3: a wonderful thing to see. It's a team unit, beautiful

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Speaker 3: to watch. The whole world is noticing. Now you've had

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Speaker 3: two out of the last three games in prime time

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Speaker 3: where you with the show, your defense was the show,

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Speaker 3: and you won both of them. And look, this is

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Speaker 3: the Houston Texans, Johnny look at great in prime time,

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Speaker 3: Buffalo at home on a Thursday, yep, Sunday night at Arrowhead,

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Speaker 3: and you're gonna get a national standalone game on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: the second to last week of the season, in all

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Speaker 2: All yeah, yeah, I think that's the You know, it's

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Speaker 2: interesting getting on the plane and you and not get

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Speaker 2: a chance to know these guys on this roster. And

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Speaker 2: if you were to tell, if we were to tell people,

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Speaker 2: people you know, ask from outside, you know, different areas

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Speaker 2: you know about these guys.

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Speaker 1: You know Azaz I mean, look at the way he

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Speaker 1: played on in the field.

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Speaker 2: It's like they put their helmet on and it's like

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Speaker 2: there's a whole different persona Like we know Aziz.

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Speaker 1: Al Shire, sweet guy.

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Speaker 2: But whoever is out in the field that's agent zero,

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Speaker 2: you know, Like Kamara Lasser has got a smile that

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Speaker 2: brightens up this entire building, but he goes on the

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Speaker 2: field he's K three, you know. Like Jalen Petrie is

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Speaker 2: the nicest I mean, the stuff that he does for

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Speaker 2: working in the food Bank of Houston. He's unbelievable. He

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Speaker 2: is beloved by Baylor Bear fans. But you put him

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Speaker 2: on a football field and you put that helmet on

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Speaker 2: and he becomes five. Like it's just this different mindset.

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Speaker 2: And there's all that joke about JJ McCarthy becoming nine whatever.

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Speaker 2: These guys transform themselves into heat seeking missiles. But off

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Speaker 2: the field, I take one of those as my son

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Speaker 2: in law, Like I love them that much.

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Speaker 1: It's because they're such good dudes.

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Speaker 2: But man, when they are out there together, and dare

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Speaker 2: I forget to mention my guy? In training camp, there

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Speaker 2: was a guy talked about if I went back and

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Speaker 1: Right number two, no more CJ. Gardner Johnson.

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Speaker 2: I know it had to just. I can't do this,

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Speaker 3: Well, think about this, Stafford MVP candidate. Yeah, what did

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Speaker 1: Getting it in nineteen yards. He had that game.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was loud.

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Speaker 3: When you know, when you have that golf shot where

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Speaker 3: I loved it because save your three points. Yep, later

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Speaker 3: on what would have happened? Who knows? Things change? The

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Speaker 3: let's talk about the offense. Okay, first half, you got

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Speaker 3: I do believe this though, when you look at again

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Speaker 3: Stroud stat line, both quarterbacks throw for under fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: This is not what you want to do in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: However, Stroud avoids turning the ball over, no strip sacks,

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Speaker 1: Often than not.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you were behind the sticks sometimes, but you

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Speaker 3: They get paid too. This is a good defense. It's

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Speaker 5: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it really not gonna happen tonight? Is there any

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Speaker 3: The fourth quarter begins with you can call it on

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Speaker 3: I don't like that. As a Texan. I'm thinking, Oh,

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Speaker 3: It's got so many different plays. It's Mahomes, it's how

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Speaker 3: who knows what happened after that, but the fact that

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Speaker 3: They can't do everything they used to do. Kelsey's getting

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Speaker 3: He's phenomenal. He's phenomenal. I mean, come on, he's one

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Speaker 2: And I know there are a lot of narratives that said, oh,

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Speaker 2: he's lost the step, he's lost this. He actually had

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Speaker 2: He had almost sixty catches going into that game. He

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was incredible. He's not that.

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Speaker 3: Best Kelsey game since had the Texans do in twenty

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Speaker 2: It was never the same guy. There was one time

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Speaker 2: But over all the years, I mean, I think about,

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Speaker 2: it's spiking it in Zach Cunningham's face and doing all

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Speaker 1: Then he owe a Jacksonville game. Then he had another

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Speaker 3: Now they got it going enough in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: I was so happy for him. Was Darry is a

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Speaker 3: folk hero for the Houston Texans. Field goal made two

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Speaker 3: years ago, game winner against the Jags last year, the

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Speaker 3: fake punt against the Dolphins, all of it.

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Speaker 1: Special team's tackles.

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Speaker 2: He had another special teams tackle last night where Thornton

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Speaker 2: tried to cut across the field and if he makes

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Speaker 2: it a foot race, that's the fastest dude.

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Speaker 1: In the building, and Dari cut him down. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing worth watching.

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Speaker 3: On a little side note, running back health, Nick Chubb,

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Speaker 3: how's he gonna be? Do you have to do something?

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Speaker 3: We'll see as the week goes on. Of course we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk about that. But Johnny, I feel like

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Speaker 3: Dimico's philosophy here is, don't turn it over, CJ. Don't

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Speaker 3: take the sacks, don't force it. If it's not there, fine,

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Speaker 3: punt will be okay, even at Kansas City, even in

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Speaker 3: that house of horrors, will.

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Speaker 1: Be all right. And they were all right when they

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Speaker 1: got their opportunity.

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Speaker 3: They scored the go ahead touchdown and they got the

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Speaker 3: later field goal, and it was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It was absolutely beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Now, Mark and I were not on Texans Monday this morning,

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Speaker 2: an nd clue stepped in and did a hell of

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Speaker 2: a job. He sat down with Texans All Pro offensive

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Speaker 2: lineman Wade Smith, our good pal. They had a great

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Speaker 2: conversation while that for you. Next right here on Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. What's up and everybody there, welcome back to

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Speaker 2: this edition to Texans All Access on a wonderful Monday evening.

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Speaker 2: A wonderful one because your Texans are eight and five,

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Speaker 2: they've won five in a row. And think back to

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Speaker 2: the first game of this streak, three and five, down

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Speaker 2: twenty nine to ten going into the fourth quarter against

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Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars, the AFC South leading Jacksonville Jaguars. It

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Speaker 2: was not to be for the Jaguars on that day,

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Speaker 2: as that Texas would win that game thirty six twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: win four in a row after that, and now sit

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Speaker 2: eight and five, the number seven seed. If the playoffs

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Speaker 2: were to start today, if the Chargers lose tonight, so

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Speaker 2: go Berts, the Chargers would fall behind the Texans. Texans

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Speaker 2: would move to the sixth seed, and if the playoffs started,

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Speaker 2: they would go to Jacksonville to take on the Jaguars

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Speaker 2: into opening round playoff game. That's down the road. Let's

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Speaker 2: focus on the task at hand. Because Mark and I

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Speaker 2: got just a few hours sleep. Indy Kalu was nice

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Speaker 2: enough to step in and do a tremendous job on

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Speaker 2: Texans Monday, and he chatted with Wade Smith. This is

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Speaker 2: a great conversation between and D and Wade.

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Speaker 7: And the guy that used to lead block for many

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Speaker 7: great running backs in this league and protect quarterbacks. One

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Speaker 7: of my favorite offensive linemen. Most of them are trashed,

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Speaker 7: but this guy's good. Dude, Wade Smith, what's going on,

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Speaker 7: big Wade?

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Speaker 5: I'm good man.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate being one of the few offensive linemen that

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Speaker 8: you don't consider trash. I appreciate that, indeed, uh and

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Speaker 8: I also appreciate that that that comeback audio of that

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Speaker 8: played the Woody Marks. I thought that was an excellent

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Speaker 8: job by Woody Marks of a flashing and showing that

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Speaker 8: he was going to protect and block that linebacker and

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Speaker 8: then slipping off of him and find himself wild though

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Speaker 8: before a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: That was good ball up and down for the Texans offense.

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Speaker 7: You know, Waite, I'm glad you brought that up because

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Speaker 7: as a player, you're very detailed. As a businessman, you

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Speaker 7: and I've talked and I've seen you at work, you're

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Speaker 7: very detailed and specific. Kind of talk about that because

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Speaker 7: a lot of guys, a lot of casual fans, they

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Speaker 7: just think about blocking, catching running, but talk about the

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Speaker 7: details of what Woody Marks did on the play to

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Speaker 7: help him get open, to help him hit pay dirt.

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Speaker 8: Well, that that was definitely something that was a play

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Speaker 8: called or technique that was taught to like, Hey, we

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Speaker 8: want to we want to show that we're going to

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Speaker 8: block this guy and get him to try to defeature

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Speaker 8: block and get to the quarterback. You see c J

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Speaker 8: strung out after what he Marks went to go block

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Speaker 8: that linebacker. He kind of slides a little bit to

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Speaker 8: the right to buy himself a little bit of times

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Speaker 8: because he knows that the rusher is gonna come free

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Speaker 8: and he's wide open. You know, to me that you

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Speaker 8: talk about some of the things that the Texans have

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Speaker 8: been trying to do to be more successful in the

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Speaker 8: red zone. To me that I thought that was a

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Speaker 8: great job of executing something that I'm sure they worked

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Speaker 8: on on practice that that we can saw something out

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Speaker 8: of Kansas City is like, hey, I think there's gonna

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Speaker 8: be an opportunity to make a play off of that

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Speaker 8: because they're so aggressive, and you saw throughout the game

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Speaker 8: they did a good job of blitzing the Texans, but

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Speaker 8: that one was a big time play for the Texans

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Speaker 8: to score a touchdown based off of the fact that, like, hey,

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Speaker 8: that's the same guy that has you and coverage that linebacker,

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Speaker 8: he's also the guy that's rushing. He's supposed to rush

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Speaker 8: to cover, and it's tough to be able to know

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Speaker 8: right at that moment if this guy's actually blocking me

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Speaker 8: or if he's running a route. And you know something

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Speaker 8: that I was always taught as an offensive lineman when

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Speaker 8: you talk about play action passing that if you believe,

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Speaker 8: they'll believe if I come off the ball hard and

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Speaker 8: I drive into Indie Kolu or Seth Paying or whoever

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Speaker 8: that d tackle is, they're gonna sit down and expect

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Speaker 8: that they're getting double team And when that happens, those

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Speaker 8: linebackers are gonna bite up and they're going to think

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Speaker 8: that it's a run and then there's a play action

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Speaker 8: pass right behind it, and you see he Andrew Johnson righting

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Speaker 8: running wide open over the middle. It's the same kind

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Speaker 8: of concept for that running back to sell it on

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Speaker 8: that play of like all right, I'm gonna sell it

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Speaker 8: like I'm gonna sit down and what he marks, you know,

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Speaker 8: he's he's shown throughout this this rookie year that he's

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Speaker 8: an excellent pass protector and he'll drop you. I'm sure

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Speaker 8: those linebackers saw the like, I ain't gonna let this rookie,

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Speaker 8: you know, run me over in pass protection, so that

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Speaker 8: I think plays into it as well. And so he

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Speaker 8: used that against him, use that against the.

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Speaker 7: Linebacker slipped him, and he's wide up before a touchdown.

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Speaker 7: Speaking with way Smith from a Pro Ball offensive lineman,

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Speaker 7: played over a decade in the NFL, and one of

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Speaker 7: those stops in Kansas City. Talk about because when people

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Speaker 7: ask me, you know, the proverbial where's what are some

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Speaker 7: of the toughest stadiums to play in? I always bring

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Speaker 7: up Kansas City because I remember playing in Kansas City

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Speaker 7: at times and it would get so loud. I would

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Speaker 7: have to be reminded, like, oh, we're outdoors, like that's

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Speaker 7: how great the fans are over there, and that's how

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Speaker 7: loud they get. Just talk about going into Kansas City

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Speaker 7: and still in a victory when they have their backs.

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Speaker 5: Against the wall.

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Speaker 8: I think that's the biggest part of it, when you

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Speaker 8: said that they have their back against the wall. They

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Speaker 8: have been the boogeyman in the AFC and in the

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Speaker 8: NFL since Pat Mahomes have gotten there pretty much the

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Speaker 8: past ten ever many years that Pat Mahomes has been

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Speaker 8: in the league, the Kansas City Chiefs, that's a very

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Speaker 8: difficult place to go out there and get a win,

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Speaker 8: and they've been the boogie man, and they've been somebody

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Speaker 8: that you know has been very difficult to beat and

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Speaker 8: for you to go on the road and beat them

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Speaker 8: when they know they needed to win that game. If

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Speaker 8: they lose that game, they're out of contention for winning

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Speaker 8: their division in there, and severe disadvantage of trying to

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Speaker 8: get into the playoffs. And when you have you think

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Speaker 8: about scary movies and you think about villains. Those villains

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Speaker 8: don't just die off the first time when you when

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Speaker 8: you when you stab them or shoot them or whatever

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Speaker 8: you do to them, you push them down some stairs.

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Speaker 8: All of a sudden, they're gonna pop back up again,

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Speaker 8: and that's what you saw out of them in the

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Speaker 8: third quarter. But for the Texans to overcome that, regardless,

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Speaker 8: going against that crowd, going against the fact that you're

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Speaker 8: playing against champions. A lot of those guys on that

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Speaker 8: team have won multiple Super Bowls. For you to go

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Speaker 8: in there and get a w that's that's a huge

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Speaker 8: deal and a great credit to Demiko and what he's

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Speaker 8: done over there, and this the entire organization and those

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Speaker 8: players going out there and making plays and beating the

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Speaker 8: team that you know, you got to knock out a champ,

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Speaker 8: and that's what the Texas did last night.

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Speaker 5: They knocked out the champ.

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Speaker 7: Well said, now, you talked about Kansas City, and you

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Speaker 7: talked about the ultimate goal for anybody that steps on

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Speaker 7: in the NFL field is super Bowls. So right now,

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Speaker 7: all excited that Houston Texas one of the hottest teams

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Speaker 7: in the league. Five straight victories, but we still can improve.

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Speaker 7: When you look at the third quarter of the Houston

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Speaker 7: Texas and that offense getting negative two yards in the

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Speaker 7: third quarter. As a guy that excelled on the offensive

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Speaker 7: side of the ball, what are some of the things

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Speaker 7: the offense can still work on to get better on

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Speaker 7: that side of the ball.

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Speaker 8: Well, you noticed in the first half of the game,

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Speaker 8: the Texans did a pretty good job of picking up

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Speaker 8: the blitzes Kansas City try to heat them up. They

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Speaker 8: did a good job of kind of getting outside of

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Speaker 8: the pocket and making some throws down the.

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Speaker 5: Field to Nico Collins. CJY did a good job with that.

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Speaker 8: In that third quarter, the KM City Chiefs were desperate

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Speaker 8: and they were bringing the house and they were getting

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Speaker 8: home and there there's a lot a lot of penetration.

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Speaker 8: They played a very physical brand of ball in that

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Speaker 8: third quarter, and you could fill the momentum shifting and

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Speaker 8: I thought that the Texas did a good job in

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Speaker 8: the fourth quarter of actually shifting that momentum and starting

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Speaker 8: to make a plays and CJ begin to make some

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Speaker 8: more plays throwing the ball down the field and converting

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Speaker 8: on some third downs to allow them to get some

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Speaker 8: points to kind of put the game away. But there's

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Speaker 8: definitely a lot of room for improvement on all sides

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Speaker 8: of the ball, but especially on the offense side of

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Speaker 8: the ball.

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Speaker 5: Getting into the red zone, like, hey.

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Speaker 8: Let's make sure that we're not getting the legal shifts

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Speaker 8: in motions. That was a legal shift that was called

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Speaker 8: early in the ball game. It was a touchdown to

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Speaker 8: Dalton Schutz. That type of stuff when you're get in

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Speaker 8: the red zone you can't do when you want to

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Speaker 8: go and you want to get and you start start talking.

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Speaker 5: About that Super Bowl thing, like that stuff has to

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Speaker 5: get cleaned up. You have an elite defense.

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Speaker 8: The special teams has been excellent the last few weeks,

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Speaker 8: and historically they've been excellent. That offense has continued to

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Speaker 8: improve and you're starting to see things especially compared to

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Speaker 8: what was going on earlier in the season, and so

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Speaker 8: you're starting to get more and more confidence.

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Speaker 5: Watching them go out there and operate.

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Speaker 8: But those little things, those you know, those false starts

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Speaker 8: in the red zone, getting yourself behind the eight ball.

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Speaker 5: You don't want to I have to convert.

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Speaker 8: Third and fifteens and third and twelves, although CJ shows

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Speaker 8: that he can do that, and that's another kind of

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Speaker 8: a mark of a championship caliber ball club. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 8: can you convert on those situations that most teams can't,

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Speaker 8: But you don't want to put yourself in that situation.

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Speaker 8: You don't want to put the defense behind the eight ball.

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Speaker 8: You don't want to have a situation where you're having

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Speaker 8: multiple three and outs in the third quarter. Now the

656
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Speaker 8: defense starts to get tired. That's when Kansas City ended

657
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 8: up scoring and getting back into it. So I'm excited

658
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 8: about what I've seen out of the Texans offense, but

659
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 8: I know that their ceiling is higher and there's plenty

660
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 8: of opportunities for growth on that side of the ball.

661
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 7: You talk about growth, can you make these improvements in

662
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 7: season this season? You know you've played thirteen games, you

663
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 7: have four more regular season games to go. Can you

664
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 7: make the improvements that you think this team needs to

665
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 7: make to be a true contender this season?

666
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 5: For sure?

667
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 8: Like some of the stuff that I'm talking about is,

668
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 8: you know, legal shifts, guys not getting set long enough.

669
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 8: That's a matter of the QB making sure everybody's set

670
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 8: before you snap the ball, or get in the plays

671
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 8: called quicker or getting a place called quicker so you

672
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 8: can get lined up and see how everything is developing,

673
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 8: what's going on the defense side of the ball. There's

674
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 8: a lot of things that are correctible mistakes that happen,

675
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 8: But some of the things that encourage you is Hey

676
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 8: for some reason, the Texans are finding ways to get

677
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 8: the ball to multiple receivers, multiple targets, big targets. Higgins

678
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 8: is making plays, Hutchinson is making plays. Of course, Nico's

679
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 8: making plays. Dalton Schultz is making plays, Woody Marks, Jalen Noel.

680
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 8: There's guys making players all over the place, and it's

681
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 8: very difficult to stop and shut down the defense when

682
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 8: there's multiple guys that are able to convert on third

683
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 8: downs and CJ. When they gave CJ Stroud time, he's

684
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 8: a problem man. He's one of the most accurate quarterbacks

685
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 8: in the league.

686
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 5: And you saw that.

687
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 8: You've seen that since he's come back from his from

688
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 8: his cushions, and you've seen multiple guys, young guys, a

689
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 8: young receiving court making plays, and so there's definitely a

690
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 8: lot of excitement when you look at the ceiling. You've

691
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 8: got young players that are making plays and winning ball

692
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 8: games and figuring out ways to win ball games in

693
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 8: different manners. Back to back weeks, the Texans needed to

694
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 8: run the ball to put the game away, and they

695
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 8: did it. That's such a huge quality of championship ball clubs.

696
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 8: The defense knows if we don't stop you we lose

697
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 8: this game and it's over for us, and you're still

698
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 8: able to run the ball down their throat. That's what

699
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 8: championship ball clubs do. That's what competent offenses do. And

700
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 8: that's what you saw the last couple of weeks out

701
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 8: of Houston, Texans.

702
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 7: As a guy that's been a leader in the locker room,

703
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 7: and if you're in this locker room coming off your

704
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 7: fifth straight victory and you're fixing a play Arizona Raiders

705
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 7: Chargers calls, let's just focus on Arizona. What are you saying,

706
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 7: Wade Smith, pro bowler, leader in the locker room, to

707
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 7: make sure the rest of the team, the young guys,

708
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 7: don't try to overlook Arizona. Who's sitting at three and

709
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 7: ten right now.

710
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 8: This is the league, man, anybody can get any given Sunday,

711
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 8: this is the league. Any those guys are playing for

712
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 8: their jobs, they're playing for their careers. They're going to

713
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 8: go out there and play well. What you do is

714
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 8: you get on a team like that early. You get

715
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 8: on that team early and have them looking for ways

716
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 8: out instead of ways in, and so you don't want

717
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 8: you don't want to allow them to hang around and

718
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 8: start to have belief. That's the most dangerous thing that

719
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 8: you can have in sports, especially in professional sports. Like, hey,

720
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 8: if you give a team that you're playing belief and

721
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 8: that they can actually pull it out when they're a

722
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 8: lesser team, that gives them confidence, and that gives them

723
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 8: the ability to start making plays that they might not

724
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 8: otherwise make. So you want to just continue to improve

725
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 8: on what you're doing yourself, Like, it's not like the

726
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 8: Texans played a perfect game. We just talked about it.

727
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 8: There's things out there that they need to improve on

728
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 8: in order for them to play the complete game that

729
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 8: they want to play. So if you're focusing on getting

730
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 8: better every day, you're focusing on improving on the things

731
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 8: that you made mistakes on, you're not worrying about the

732
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 8: fact that your opponent, whatever their record is, that stuff

733
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 8: doesn't matter.

734
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 5: And then when you.

735
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 8: Look at the players on the field, they're gonna have

736
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 8: players that are high level players that will embarrass you

737
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 8: if you allow him to. And so that in itself,

738
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 8: just being a competitor of like, hey, I want to

739
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 8: put away whoever's lined up across from me. That's the

740
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 8: type of stuff that will get you in the right

741
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 8: mind frame and in the right temperament to go out

742
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 8: there and execute and get another w at home.

743
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 7: Speaking with Wade Smith's former offensive lineman, when you talk

744
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 7: about the best offensive lines in Texan history, it's always

745
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 7: going to be the units that way Smith played on.

746
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 7: We're gonna go a little off track. That's what I

747
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 7: do when I get in front of a mic. December nineteenth,

748
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 7: are you going to be in Tampa, Florida? Do you

749
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 7: even know why I'm asking you that? And if you don't, Wigh,

750
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 7: I'm putting you on the spot. If you don't, there's

751
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 7: gonna be some folks that like, we might have to

752
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 7: take his card away from him, and I'll explain. December nineteenth, Tampa, Florida.

753
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 7: Do you know what I'm talking about?

754
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not gonna be there, but I'm gonna be

755
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 8: watching it for sure, And I'm interested to see why

756
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 8: you would bring that up. If I was playing the

757
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 8: if Memphis was playing against Rice, then I would get

758
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 8: the question. But seeing that we're playing NC State, it's

759
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 8: kind of like, I don't know the connection there, but

760
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 8: I'm definitely gonna be watching it on TV. Uh, the

761
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 8: Memphis Tigers, you know, in a Bowl game again for

762
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 8: I don't know how many years in a row, which

763
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 8: is something that you couldn't say when I was there.

764
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 5: But congratulations to the Right Rights Ours. Man.

765
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 8: You guys are going to a bowl game going into

766
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 8: the season. I'm sure that's not what I thought was

767
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 8: gonna be on Jimmy, you got a new head coach,

768
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 8: but I thought coach Scott Abell has done a great

769
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 8: job with that program getting them to five wins this year.

770
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 8: I'm sure that they and I think I just saw

771
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 8: that they had a really nice recruiting class. So things

772
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 8: are on the up and up and looking good over

773
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 8: there for those Rights hous And you know, I got

774
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 8: loved for the Rights House.

775
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 5: You know, my daughters are Rice volleyball players.

776
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 8: So shout out to the Rights Ours volleyball team, and

777
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 8: shout out to the Rights House football team, and hopefully

778
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 8: you guys can go out and get the w against

779
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 8: Jexas State.

780
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 7: Wade is part of the Rice war Owl family. He

781
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 7: sent his beautiful daughters and talented daughters to Rice, so

782
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 7: we appreciate that. I'm impressed, Wade. I thought I was

783
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 7: gonna catch you slipping and I was gonna have to

784
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 7: remind you that your Memphis Tigers made a bowl game,

785
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 7: So I appreciate that though you've played over a decade

786
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 7: in the NFL, though you've had success after the NFL,

787
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 7: you still keep up with your Memphis boys. So that's

788
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 7: why I wanted to put you on the spot, but

789
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 7: you passed with flying Colors. I will say this, and

790
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 7: like I said, I'm getting off track, but that's what

791
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 7: we do. I'm talking to a football player that had

792
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 7: success in college and in the NFL. The state of

793
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 7: college football. Yesterday, I'm sitting there with my son, who

794
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 7: plays a Baylor and you know, he's looking at his

795
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 7: phone like all people under thirty, and he's telling me, Oh,

796
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 7: this team opted out of a ball game. This team

797
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 7: opted out of a bowl game. And I finally said, like, man,

798
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 7: I asked my son Wade. I was like, y'all even

799
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 7: enjoy playing football? Or is it just about the transaction

800
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 7: and trying to get the nil money and trying to

801
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 7: you know, transfer to greener pastors. And do you have

802
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 7: an issue with what we're seeing in college football today?

803
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 8: It's very difficult to look at what's going on and

804
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 8: be excited about just the state of college football. There's

805
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 8: too much. There's too much going on that it's just

806
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 8: not right. It's not the way we were raised playing

807
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 8: the game. It's not the way that you feel like

808
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 8: things necessarily should be done. You feel like you feel

809
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 8: good about the fact that your players are able to

810
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 8: have nil and to make money when that wasn't the

811
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 8: case when we were there. But it's too it's too

812
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 8: much wild wild West. There's not enough regulation. When you

813
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 8: talk about the movement of coaches, the movement of players

814
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 8: opting out of bowl games, it just it's got to

815
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 8: be kind of a downer if you're a fan. But

816
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 8: I tell you what, there are certain programs where you

817
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 8: can tell those programs the number one thing is not

818
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 8: that it's not in il. It's not you see Indiana

819
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 8: just won the Big Ten. You listen to that coach,

820
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 8: you listen to those players. They're bought in on trying

821
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 8: to be the best versions of themselves and the best

822
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 8: players they can be, and so you know, and everything

823
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 8: else comes after that. And that's I think if you

824
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 8: can just prioritize, you know, being the best version of

825
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 8: yourself winning ball games, all the other stuff have come

826
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 8: will come. And I think if you do it, that way,

827
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 8: then a lot of the movement and a lot of

828
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 8: the the extracurricular stuff that comes along with it could

829
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 8: be minimized somewhat. But it's tough right now. It's crazy

830
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 8: when you think about the fact that, you know, Notre

831
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 8: Dame they didn't get into college football playoffs, so instead

832
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 8: of doing that, you're gonna just not play at all,

833
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 8: Like you're taking your ball and going home. I don't

834
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 8: I've never seen that before. I get some of the

835
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 8: reasons why people say, like, you know, guys are going

836
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 8: to be not wanting to get hurt and guys are

837
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 8: going to be transferring, and so the rosters aren't going

838
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 8: to be the same, and I get it. But at

839
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 8: the end of the day, how it's interesting, it'll be

840
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 8: true to see and I think they talked to Nick

841
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 8: Casario about this, like how do NFL teams evaluate that

842
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 8: if you have a if your guy that's trying to

843
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 8: play in the NFL, how you handle the situations I'm

844
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 8: sure is being looked at by NFL rosters, whether it's

845
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 8: in a good way, bad way, or indifferent, it's being

846
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 8: looked at. And so you just have to make sure

847
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 8: that you're you're you're prioritizing things right as far as

848
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 8: a player, and I think that coaches really have to

849
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 8: be held accountable as well.

850
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, the whole.

851
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,959
Speaker 8: Laanen Kiffin situation that was crazy, like and the fact

852
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 8: that his team is in the College football playoffs and

853
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 8: he's not going to be coaching his team, that in

854
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 8: itself is crazy. So I think I've heard people say

855
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 8: that the college football is broken.

856
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 5: I can't disagree with that.

857
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 8: It is definitely not in a in a great state

858
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 8: right now, and hopefully they can come up with some

859
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 8: things that have some more checks and balances so that

860
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 8: it will make.

861
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 5: It more of a palatable product.

862
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 8: And you can get the best play the best teams

863
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 8: in the in the UH in the college football playoffs,

864
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 8: and you get the best players in the best situations

865
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 8: to where they're taking care of themselves, but they're also

866
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 8: putting the team first. And if you can find some

867
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 8: type of happy medium there, I think things.

868
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 7: Will be better for everybody. This is why I love

869
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 7: bringing you on. You hit so many important points. And

870
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 7: just real quick, this is Texans Monday. But all day

871
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 7: we're gonna hear about the Texans game, and we're gonna

872
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 7: hear about the greatness of the Texans. But I'm so

873
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 7: glad you brought up because the things that I don't like,

874
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what I like seeing these guys get paid.

875
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 7: So I'm not one of those old get off my porch.

876
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 7: I don't like seeing them get paid. They need to

877
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 7: be struggling. Hell, now that's not what I don't like.

878
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 7: Well what I don't like. And again, when I talk

879
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 7: to the youngsters, they kind of look at me like

880
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 7: I'm crazy. With all this movement, they don't really get

881
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 7: to form that bond. Like, you know, I turned fifty

882
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 7: this year and I still talk to my Rice brothers

883
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 7: like we're in our twenties and we still kept that

884
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 7: connection because we grinded, we fought, we you know, well,

885
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 7: sweat lead cry together for four year. So it creates

886
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 7: that bomb. But now these guys just bounce around and

887
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 7: I'm like, man, y'all are missing out, and they're like,

888
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 7: what's this fool talking about. I just got five hundred

889
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 7: g's to sign somewhere else. I'm not worried about these bonds.

890
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 7: But that's the part that I love the money, but

891
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 7: I just feel like they're not getting the experience. But

892
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 7: I love what you said, because it's not just the players,

893
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 7: it's the coaches, like, how in the hell are you

894
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 7: gonna make the college football playoffs? And you're like, oh,

895
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 7: I'm gone. Good luck guys, Good luck guys as I

896
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 7: head to LSU. So I'm with you. That's why I

897
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 7: love getting you on the airways. Wade as always appreciate

898
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 7: everything that you do.

899
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, man. It's always real fellers.

900
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 2: Awesome stuff there from nd Kalu and Wade Smith. Those

901
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 2: guys have been through the fire, They've felt the pain,

902
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 2: They've been exhilarated with wins.

903
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: Throughout the NFL.

904
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 2: Last night, I know for everybody that wears the bullhead

905
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: logo as a fan of follower, analysts, whatever the case,

906
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 2: might be very excited about what the Texans were able

907
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 2: to do, especially defensively. Look, the offense has got some

908
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: room to grow. Still, offensive line had a tough night.

909
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: And look, I give a lot of credit to Kansas City,

910
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 2: to Chris Jones. He opened up a can of whoop

911
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 2: aass at some point. And when Chris Jones has turned

912
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 2: up the volume ten, he's arguably the best interior defensive

913
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: linean there is. And I say that interior, but he

914
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 2: will go to the outside. He rushed from the edge

915
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 2: a lot on Sunday night. He was all over the place.

916
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 2: He is just a really tough guy to account for.

917
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: But the Texans got to handle it a little bit

918
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: better and keep working at it, keep porking at it,

919
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 2: keep working at it. But it's better to work at

920
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: it after a win, especially when in that building gets

921
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: that team, that coach, that quarterback, that tight end that

922
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: whole organization. Then to come back and go, ah, man,

923
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 2: we were so close. Now finally got the win twenty

924
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: to ten. Texans, get that win. Okay, there's a lot

925
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 2: of news happening in the NFL, and a lot of

926
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: it for an AFC South foe the Texans beat a

927
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 2: couple weeks ago.

928
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: We'll discuss us Indianapolis's plight.

929
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 2: Oh boy, it just got real interesting in Indianapolis for

930
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: the Colts for December and January. We'll discuss that next

931
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: as we go around the NFL. Right here at Texas

932
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: All Access. What's up and everybody? We got one final

933
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 2: segment of this Monday edition of Texans All Access from

934
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: the Hundai Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

935
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 2: very weary and tired, yet very very happy John Harris

936
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: after last night's twenty to ten win over the Kansas

937
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: City Chiefs. Texans hold Mahomes to his lowest point total

938
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 2: at Arrowhead Well at Arrowhead.

939
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 4: Gh GEHA Stadium or GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, held

940
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,479
Speaker 4: him under two hundred passing yards a nineteen point eight

941
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 4: passer rating.

942
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 2: I think of those passing yards he got probably about

943
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: twenty five or thirty on the last drive where the

944
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 2: Texans just kind of let them go up the field

945
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 2: for a couple of catches, so he didn't even have

946
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 2: that much. He ran for fifty nine and that was

947
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 2: almost half the total they ran for. Thirty four hunt

948
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: thirty four p checko run game really shut down. Tommy

949
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 2: TOGII a big factor in that, but just great all

950
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: round team defense. Woodie Marks receiving touchdown, carried it twenty

951
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: six times. CJ did not turn a ball over and

952
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 2: made some key throws. He knew when to cape up

953
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 2: on Sunday night, got it done. Petrie a pick, Kamari

954
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: a pick, played his butt off all night long as

955
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: he's a pick. Just a great performance and very happy

956
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 2: to come home with that win. Now eight and five,

957
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: in one game behind the Jacksonville Jaguars. Because the Jaguars

958
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: yesterday beat the Colts. The Colts are now eight and five.

959
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: They have lost four out of the last five. Things

960
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: are not looking up in Indneapolis. And it got worse

961
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 2: because Daniel Jones, or starting quarterback, who had played very

962
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 2: well in the first six to seven games, torez it.

963
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 2: He'd had the fibula injury on his left leg. Then

964
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 2: he tore his achilles on his right leg. He he

965
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: is done for the year. That is awful news. Then

966
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard, the rookie out of Notre Dame, came in,

967
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 2: had a couple of moments.

968
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: But he is banged up as well.

969
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 2: And the Colts have to go to Seattle this weekend ouch,

970
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 2: so they have Bret Rippon on the practice squad and

971
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 2: they have nobody else, so they don't know whether Riley

972
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 2: Leonard is going to be ready to go.

973
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: Jones is out for the year, and they got Brett Rippon.

974
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 2: That's it, And they got to face the Seattle defense

975
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 2: that a lot of people in Seattle think is better

976
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 2: than Houston's.

977
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: I don't agree.

978
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 2: I think it's very good though it's a tremendous defense,

979
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: and it's going to a different level because Nick even

980
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 2: Worry is an absolute animal. What he did yesterday blocking

981
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: a fuel goal interception, he did something only three other

982
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: players have done since the merger unbelievable.

983
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Seattle defense is legit.

984
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: But Daniel Jones being out, possibly Riley Leonard being out,

985
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 2: and they gotta go to Seattle. Seattle is a ten

986
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite as a result.

987
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: Wow wow.

988
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, the Colt schedule does not

989
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 2: get better over the next few weeks because they've got

990
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 2: to play the Jaguars, the Seahawks, the Niners, and the Texans.

991
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: They may not win a game, they may go eight

992
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 2: to nine and it'll be just a complete meltdown for

993
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 2: the Colts, which I'm here for. But we'll see how

994
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 2: it goes. But they got the Seahawks and that's not

995
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: great for them. Trey Hendrickson, Cincinnata Bengals edge rusher is

996
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 2: going to have surgery core muscle surgery six weeks out.

997
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 2: Seasons only four more weeks unless the Bengals somehow pull

998
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: up out and get a miracle and go to the

999
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 2: playoffs somehow. Winning the AFC North Hendrickson could come back,

1000
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 2: but as it sits now, Trey Hendrickson has played his

1001
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 2: last game as a Bengal as he becomes a free agent.

1002
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: Zach Ertz fortunately tore his ACL, the future Hall of

1003
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: Fame tight end towards ACL against the Vikings and a

1004
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 2: blowout win for the Vikings.

1005
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:28,800
Speaker 1: And that is all the news that is fit to print.

1006
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: I guess is that the way we used to say it.

1007
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 2: Either way, appreciate you being here, Thank you so much,

1008
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow and as always, go Texans.