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Speaker 1: What is up? Texans fans Welcome into a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football anofs', said the reporter.

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Speaker 1: It's so glad to be with you as we prep

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Speaker 1: for Indie Indianapolis, Indiana the Colts on Sunday high noon

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Speaker 1: up there in Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Texans surprisingly

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Speaker 1: have won three of the last four fifteen, sixteen, and eighteen.

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Speaker 1: That's twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, and they lost

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Speaker 1: was in twenty seventeen when everybody was hurt on both teams.

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Speaker 1: It was ridiculous. That game was just It's one of

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Speaker 1: the rare instances going to Indianapolis that I barely even

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Speaker 1: remember everything else combined games there. I mean, every other

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Speaker 1: game fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, they've all been memorable for

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Speaker 1: some reason, but seventeen end of the year, get it

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Speaker 1: over with. Let's just move on. That was that one.

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Speaker 1: But this one it's gonna probably be like a lot

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Speaker 1: like the others of fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and eighteen, just

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Speaker 1: down to the final play, and that's what That's what

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Speaker 1: The Texans have one up in Lucas Oil, but the

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Speaker 1: Colts have won the last two. They beat the Texans

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Speaker 1: here in December, they beat the Colts, or they beat

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Speaker 1: the Texans in the playoff game. And not only did

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Speaker 1: they beat the Texans in the playoff game, to beat

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Speaker 1: them up a little bit in that playoff game two

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Speaker 1: and they ran out of here creating a pretty confident bunch,

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Speaker 1: and the NRG stadium and it was a great day

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. It was not a great day for

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Speaker 1: your Texans, but hopefully that will change on Sundays. The

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Speaker 1: Texans going four and two, coming off win against Kansa Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: The Colts, after a bye week, are also coming in

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Speaker 1: awful win against the Kansas City Chiefs, but they've had

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Speaker 1: some time to heal up and get ready for this one.

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Speaker 1: The Texans while they're trying to heal up after some

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Speaker 1: injuries that took place in that Chiefs game, to get

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Speaker 1: ready for Jacoby Brissette and company there in Lucas Oil

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Speaker 1: Stadium in Indianapolis. All right, what's on the show this evening. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go behind enemy sidelines. Our next segment with

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Speaker 1: Andrew Walker covers the cults for Colts dot Com. Dbcity

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Speaker 1: takes care of that. Then we're gonna talk to our man,

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Speaker 1: dirty Red Clint Starter. You can hear him each and

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Speaker 1: every weekday on Sports Radio six ten from two to six.

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Speaker 1: And then our second hour, we're gonna go men behind

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Speaker 1: the mics with Matt Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts. And

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Speaker 1: then Mark Viennemir sticks around to talk to Andre where

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Speaker 1: our good friend and game analyst for your Texans. And

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Speaker 1: then finally we're gonna go in the lab. Drew Dorty

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Speaker 1: myself took a deep dive into the stats we really

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Speaker 1: liked in that Kansas City game, and all those stats

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Speaker 1: are brought to you by AWS. And who are cream

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Speaker 1: of the crop players? It might be two people you

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Speaker 1: didn't expect. I'll put it that way. I as Drew

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Speaker 1: could have been. It's two other players. You'll find out.

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Speaker 1: You have to stick around to find out who are

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Speaker 1: creaming the crop players were and we have that on

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Speaker 1: our podcast in the Lab, which we do every single weeks.

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Speaker 1: To go check it out wherever your fine podcasts are broadcasts,

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Speaker 1: go check that out. But we are going to start

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Speaker 1: today's show with some hot reads, and we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: with some transactions. And this gets lengthy, very lengthy. Because

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Speaker 1: we go. The Texans have signed a few players. They

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Speaker 1: In addition, the name you've heard before, Chris Clark comes

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Speaker 1: news that we're gonna hear today, and that is Kenny

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Speaker 1: Time to Go Behind Enemy Sidelines with dpcity. This week

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Speaker 1: dot Com. Dep Taken away Andrew and off the bye

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Speaker 1: Leonard being out forces you to kind of shuffle things

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Speaker 1: up at linebacker. You know, it's it's easy for outsiders

429
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Speaker 1: to kind of look at that as you know, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's not good against the Chiefs. But you know,

431
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Speaker 1: credit to mad Eberflus in this Colts defense for stepping

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Speaker 1: out and playing the way they did. Now, even considering

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Speaker 1: the fact Leonard and Gathers might be back, you have

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Speaker 1: to do it all over again against de Shaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: We all know how tough he is and how well

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Speaker 1: he does especially kind of escaping the pocket and making

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Speaker 1: plays on his own. So they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: do it all over again. That's easier said than done. Andrew,

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Speaker 1: I think one of the interesting storylines early on in

440
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Speaker 1: the season was Adam Vinati and his missed kicks. It

441
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: seemed like at one point he was going to retire

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Speaker 1: and just call it a career, which I think everybody

443
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Speaker 1: could understand if he did so. But then Frank Reich

444
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Speaker 1: convinces him to stay on for a few more games.

445
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Speaker 1: And he's coming off a game where he made four

446
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Speaker 1: out of four field goals in Week five at Kansas City.

447
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Speaker 1: How did Terry turned things around for his game? Yeah,

448
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if it was necessarily a

449
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: thing where he was. You know, he's forty six years old,

450
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: this is year in the league. Obviously, retirement's going to come,

451
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: you'd think at some point, and we all hope it

452
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Speaker 1: doesn't come soon. But you know, those are the facts.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's necessarily considering. And I think

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Speaker 1: he was just kind of down that he was, you know,

455
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Speaker 1: um playing so poorly and the games were coming down

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Speaker 1: to those points early on, so um. But I think

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Speaker 1: the fact that he was he's been so solid in practice.

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Speaker 1: He never really you know, slowed down in practice. He's

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Speaker 1: he's actually kicking the ball better now in practice, Frank

460
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: Craik said than he was at any point last year,

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Speaker 1: and there's so many things nowadays to track as far

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Speaker 1: as you know, kicking speed off, off the foot trajectory,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And he's doing even better now and

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Speaker 1: he was last year. So I think it was just

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Speaker 1: one of those things where they wanted to give this

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Speaker 1: guy a chance to write the ship. Um. They were

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Speaker 1: confident that it was just kind of a flump, if

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Speaker 1: you will, and he was going to break out of it.

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Speaker 1: And he's done a good job, um, just quietly coming

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Speaker 1: back and being the solid kicker that he's been, uh

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Speaker 1: the you know, the first twenty three years of his

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Speaker 1: career and and now now he's back to being then

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Speaker 1: he being the goat, and that's exactly what the team

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Speaker 1: needs from him. All right, Good Stephan Andrew Walker. One

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00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: important question for I let you go roof open or

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Speaker 1: closed at Lucas Oil on. You know what, my best

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Speaker 1: bet is always closed, especially as we get into the

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Speaker 1: the you know, the colder months. I guess, um, but

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Speaker 1: you know, you never know if if it's going to

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00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: be sunny and I don't want to you know, fifty

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Speaker 1: sixty degrees, there's always a good chance it could be open.

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Speaker 1: But UM, I do know that that certain players enjoy

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Speaker 1: it being closed more than than open, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: if maybe they can sway the decision for Jim Hursay

485
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Speaker 1: when when it comes down to that. Yeah, I remember

486
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: for many many years we were playing in December. Then

487
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: last year was really the first year that we were

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Speaker 1: there during earlier in the season the roof was open,

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Speaker 1: and I had not noticed how many shadows there are

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Speaker 1: on the field when it is open. It's tricky. It's

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Speaker 1: a different dynamic, for sure, And you know, you go

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Speaker 1: back and look at the pictures or you look at

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Speaker 1: the game film and it's like there's certain parts of

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Speaker 1: the field that just all of a sudden are bright

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. So it definitely adds a dynamic. And

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Speaker 1: it's cool to have the roof. But I'm sure now

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00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, the Colts have always been a dome team.

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Speaker 1: We all know that, so so I'm sure here as

499
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Speaker 1: we get in the later months, you know that thing

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Speaker 1: will be closed obviously a lot more frequently. Great stuff

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Speaker 1: there from Andrew Walker of Colts dot Com. All right,

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Speaker 1: we get back stat for Dirty Red Clint starting to

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Speaker 1: stop buying, give his thoughts and what he saw against

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. What he saw from Deshaun Watson and

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Speaker 1: this offense. Next on Texans All Access, we'll go back

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Speaker 1: to a Wednesday edition of Texas All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio studio. And it is my favorite time

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Speaker 1: of the week because it is my time. And I'm

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Speaker 1: John Harris football and a silo reporter for you Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Talking a good friend here him on Sports Radio six

511
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Speaker 1: ten from two to six year him on a postgame

512
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: show Arkansas Razorbacks fans you heard for a long time,

513
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: and he is wonderful. He's a good friend of ours.

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00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: And it is Clint starting to Clint, what's going on? Brother?

515
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: How you doing man? I'm doing good. It's another good

516
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: week in Newson to be covering his football team. Ain'tybody

517
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Speaker 1: to get to get a big time victory and then

518
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Speaker 1: it's a good time to be alive in the city

519
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: and the media business man. Yeah, I'll tell you that.

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00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean Game three last night, the wind astro's what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. I'm you know, Clint, I'm just glad that

522
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Speaker 1: Texas that are holding up there unto the bargain. I

523
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 1: remember twenty seventeen and we went to Seattle. We played

524
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Speaker 1: our guts out, but we end up losing that game.

525
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Speaker 1: And then that night was Game five of the World

526
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Speaker 1: Series and the Astros having all timer win in extra

527
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Speaker 1: innings over the Dodgers. I'm just glad to Texas were

528
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Speaker 1: able to hold up there into the bargain and Clint

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Speaker 1: from that perspective going into that building against that quarterback.

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Speaker 1: What does a win like that mean? And you've been

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Speaker 1: around in a long time in college the NFL, what

532
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Speaker 1: can a win like that mean to your team to say, hey,

533
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: wait a second, maybe we are that good that people

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Speaker 1: have talked about or maybe not talking about. What does

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Speaker 1: a win like that do for a team? You think

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Speaker 1: just the win in general relative to beings versus a

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Speaker 1: top tier AFC team and a former MVP on the

538
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Speaker 1: road at one of the toughest places to play, I

539
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: mean that that is a huge win for an organization period.

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00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those where you go, Okay, now, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if if arrived is the

542
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: right term, but but I'll use you that. Now you've

543
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: arrived on the scene as one of the one of

544
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: the top ten teams in this league because because you

545
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: know your explosive you know you can, you can score points.

546
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: You know you've got a solid defense, But to just

547
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: haven't going on the road and beat a really good

548
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: football team at the right time. And I think all

549
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: those things, um you wrapped into one happened this weekend.

550
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: The Uston Texans went on the road and beat and

551
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: established very very good organizations at a time when quite frankly,

552
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: they needed the win in a big time, big time way,

553
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: knowing that they're going to Indie John. You take it

554
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: one step further though, and you go. You just speak

555
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen MVP, the leading MVP candidate for twenty nineteen,

556
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: one of the best play callers in the business, last

557
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: year's runner up in the AFC, And you dropped four

558
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: touchdown pass it. You had some some tough penalties to swallow,

559
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: You had another slow start, You scot yourself in the

560
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: foot multiple times, and you still won convincingly. You still

561
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: control the clock, You did some amazing things versus some

562
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: of the best in the league, and you scot yourself

563
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: in the foot several times. So big win, A lot

564
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: of improvement can be made. So how good can this

565
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: franchise really be at this point? That's a great question.

566
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Speaker 1: And I would hope that going into week seven they

567
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: start to realize that as they go face the Annapolis Colts.

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00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a little bit, But Clint,

569
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: the offense the last couple of weeks, I felt like

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00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: what we saw against Kansas City, Now there were some

571
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Speaker 1: deep shots and you said it, there guys that aren't

572
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Speaker 1: able to hang on down the field. That would have

573
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: been tough catches in some sense. Now Deandres would not

574
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: have been that would have been a walking touchdown. I'm

575
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: still in shock at that one. But they did have

576
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: the opportunity to score a lot of points, but it

577
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: felt like they were doing in a different way. They

578
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: were using a lot of RPO game against the Chiefs,

579
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Speaker 1: whereas the Falcons the deep shots. Obviously we were coming

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Speaker 1: to fruition the fact that they showed a number of

581
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Speaker 1: different things against the Falcons and then had a number

582
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: of different things ready for the Chiefs. Clint, what do

583
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: you think that says about this offense and having to

584
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Speaker 1: prepare to face this offense down the road for opposing

585
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: defenses like the Colts, the Raiders, the Jags, etc. That

586
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: they're pulling out some different things that they haven't shown

587
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: thus far this year. Look, I think it's it's absolutely beautiful.

588
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: It's all about it's all about how difficult can can

589
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: this offense make it on opposing defensive coordinators and defensive

590
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: units right, and in the past that they've always been able,

591
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: since DeAndre Hopkins Um and Deshaun Watson have been together,

592
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: they've always struck fear in defensive units and defensive coordinators

593
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: relative to the shot plays and being able to score

594
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: from anywhere on the field at any point in time.

595
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: But there was nothing in between. It was all or none.

596
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: It was sink or swim, it was penthouse or outhouse.

597
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: There was nothing in between. And and so now after

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00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, you look at just I call

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00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: it creative quis whether it's whether it's RPOs and hit

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Speaker 1: the tight end of the flats, or it's an RPO

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Speaker 1: and hitting Will Fuller or Hopkins out in the slot

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00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: um or it's ending them. They it's very creative. And

603
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: now that defense has to prepare for a wide, wide

604
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: ram change a variety of offensive schemes coming at him.

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00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: And on the flip side of it, it's it's very efficient.

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00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: It's very The difficulty, the degree of difficulty to execute.

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00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: It is very low for the Texans, and so look, man,

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00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those where to me, it's absolutely

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00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: beautiful to see just just thinking that Sis John of

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00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,719
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, that gout, no doubt, one of, if not

611
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Speaker 1: the best receiver in the league, one of, if not

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00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: the best deep threat in the league. And now all

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00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he has a nine catch game for

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Speaker 1: fifty five yards where he converts multiple third and shorts

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00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: and fourth and shorts. That is now you've got hands

616
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: down the best receiver in the league because Bill O'Brien

617
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: is using him in multiple ways. Just that guy alone

618
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: is ten tenfold more difficult to prepare for right now

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Speaker 1: than he was two weeks ago. And that's the that's

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Speaker 1: the case for the offense as a whole as well. Clenn,

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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what you thought about when the

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Texans signed Darren Fells after he was a cap casualty

623
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, but I know when Kallie Wearing was drafted,

624
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: we looked at the tight end group and when boys

625
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty good tight end group. But what about

626
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: this Darren Fells character. Oh, he's kind of a left

627
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: left tackle or right right tackle, they'll use him for

628
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: a pass protection, and they'll use him for run blocking.

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Speaker 1: He does those kind of things. Clinton tight ends have

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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: been instrumental in this offense in a number of different ways.

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Speaker 1: And there's a time in which Jordan Thomas and or

632
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Kyllie Wearing can be coming back sometime soon from the

633
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: injuries that they sustained in the preseason. You an opportunity

634
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: to play for Dallas Cowboys, and one of the greatest,

635
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: if not the greatest tight end of all time, Jason Witten,

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: was there. When you have an outlet like Jason Witten,

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Speaker 1: and you have outlets that are playing now like Darren

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00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: Fells and Jordan Nakins, what does that do when the

639
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: interior passing game can be as efficient as it's been

640
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Speaker 1: the last few weeks, Oh well, the tight ends ability

641
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: to compliment meant and be used as a one off

642
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: from the run game is what's is what's really special

643
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: just talking about that position, you know, you can't take

644
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: your eye off of him in the run game because

645
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: he'll double up to the backer level or he'll he'll

646
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: he'll reach the edge, but the edge defender and hook him,

647
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: and then the run gets outside and so and then

648
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: on the flip side of that, you also can't take

649
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: him for granted in the past game because he'll hurt

650
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: you on third downs at the very least. And so

651
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: you're talking about a very crafty guy that I don't

652
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: think we knew, and Darren Fell specifically, I don't think

653
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: we knew how crafty he is. But you know, when

654
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: you ask you that question, John, I'd immediately think. I mean,

655
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: I immediately go to the way that Bill O'Brien's using him,

656
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: the way that Tim Kelly's used in him. Think about

657
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: this week, how many times you saw him slip the

658
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: defensive end and get into the platform a little rpo play.

659
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: And when I see that. When I see that, you

660
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: know what I think of. I think of a big

661
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: man in basketball screening and rolling to the bucket yep right.

662
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: And when I when I see him catch that ball

663
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: last week against Atlanta in the could be end zone

664
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: and hold it up over his head, I think about

665
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: a big man in basketball using his body to rebound,

666
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: or using his body to catch a pass in the

667
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: paint and two hand jamming. That they're using him in

668
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: a very unique way that I think is obviously it

669
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: highlights his talent specifically, it's not just randomly. Let's use

670
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: this tight end. What does this guy do well? He

671
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: slips guys, He's elusive, he can high point the ball.

672
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: A lot of basketball terminology there, and you see that

673
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: working on the football field. For Darren Fells, I love

674
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: the way that the staff has used him the last

675
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 1: two weeks. And for any of you kids out there

676
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: thinking about specialization, keep in mind that these two tight

677
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: ends both were professionals in other sports before they got

678
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: into football. Jordan Nakins was in the minor leagues playing

679
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: baseball and Darren Fells played basketball professional overseas before he

680
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: came back here to play college football and get ready

681
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: for the NFL clues foot over the other side of

682
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: the ball. Patrick Mahomes lights up everybody. He did not

683
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: light up the Colts, but a lot of that had

684
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: to do with some of the injuries they suffered. They

685
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: did not have Tyreek and that game they did I

686
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: have Sammy Watkins. Alignment went down, the guard that went

687
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 1: in was not very good. Then Mahomes was hurt himself.

688
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: But the defense, I mean after the first quarter where

689
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: they were putting I say putting a bad spot, but

690
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: they gave up to ninety yard drives. Overall, Clinton felt like,

691
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: as I'm sitting and watching the game, the defense did

692
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: a pretty good job. Then you see the numbers and

693
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 1: you go, wow, they actually did a little bit better

694
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: than I thought. Now forty minutes the time of possession

695
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: will do that for you. But it felt like the

696
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: defense even without Bradley Roby and Jonathan Joseph. Now I

697
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: say that, but I know you don't want to go

698
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: without them for a long time. You may have to

699
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: do with Roby for a little bit bullse but even

700
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: without those two guys, it felt like the defense played

701
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: a very consistent ball game against Patrick Mahomes. What do

702
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: you think about the way that unit played, Clinton, Well,

703
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: I mean you can't. You can't argue giving up forty

704
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: one yards in the second half to Patrick Mahomes. I mean,

705
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: they don't. We don't need to dress that one up

706
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: to make it look pretty now. There ain't no doubt

707
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: about it. And the time of possession. We didn't talk

708
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: about it when we're on the offensive side of the ball,

709
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: but but that their ability to possess the ball and

710
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: literally allow Kansas City to have the ball just a

711
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: little over twenty minutes. That's the best since they started

712
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: recording time of possession in nineteen seventy seven. For a

713
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: home team to be limited to twenty twenty minutes of

714
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: time of possession, it's crazy, man to think about what

715
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: the game plan allowed them to do. But the defensive

716
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: side of the ball, man, when you play Kansas City,

717
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: it's it's all about keeping them from getting in rhythm

718
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: and keeping them from gas plays. They had two big plays.

719
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: One of them was an illegal pick. One of them

720
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: was an off side which, by the way, if you

721
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: watch the film, Tyreek Hill flinched on that play that

722
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: should have been an offensive penalty instead of a touchdown.

723
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: M But but those you take those two plays out

724
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: of it, and Kansas City was locked down, not shutdown,

725
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: locked down, And so there's no doubt about it. Man

726
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: with this defense was able to do and I think

727
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: this is a week where you go the scheme was huge,

728
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: that the bin don't break, that they eliminate the gas plays,

729
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: the get off the field when you get him in

730
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: third down situations where you can make a play, go

731
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 1: make that play and get off the field. I think

732
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: the scheme once again was was big to help overcome

733
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: the second half injuries, but really just sustained the lead

734
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: that they had and get out of there with a victory.

735
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: Man Clint Jalen Ramsey traded to the La Rams, and

736
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see how his back is feeling

737
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: this week after missing the last few weeks with a

738
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: back injury. I'm sure after being traded for two first

739
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: rounders and fourth rounder that back will get healthy very

740
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: very quickly. But he moves out of the division. So

741
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: you've got the Jags with no Nick Foles, now Gardner

742
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: Minshew and no Jalen Ramsey. You've got the Cults without

743
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. You've got the Titans now making a change

744
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: with Ryan Tannehill at quarterback. This game on Sunday for

745
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: the Texas becomes huge. I think the culture a lot better,

746
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: and people think even without Andrew Luck, I think Jacobe

747
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: precent is not Andrew Luck, but that run game is legit.

748
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: But in the division, it just feels like there's so

749
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 1: many things, you know, kind of going on. If the

750
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: Texas can just stay the course and what they're doing

751
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: get better every week, they can put themselves really where

752
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: they want to be. But let's go back to the

753
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: Ramsey thing. What do you make of him being traded

754
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: out to LA and play for the Rams. I don't

755
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: know that I agree with it for the Ram's sake

756
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: of what they're giving up, considering it's more the old

757
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: line that's the issue for them than it is the DBS.

758
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: But Ramsey goes to LA. What do you think about

759
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: that move? Yeah, I look, it's great for the Texans

760
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: that he's leaving the division, no doubt. But John, I'm

761
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: opposite to you. Man, I'm okay with giving up that

762
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: kind of draft capital. I know it's a steep price,

763
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: but man, when it's a Lammy count, a left tackle,

764
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: or a lockdown corner, I mean, those guys change You're

765
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: not just your organization, but those guys change your entire approach.

766
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: I mean they affect the play caller, the quarterback, the

767
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: run game, the past game, and then thee from a set.

768
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: From a quarner standpoint when it's the best in the league,

769
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: I mean that guy literally what a lockdown corner allows

770
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: the rest the other ten guys on the field to do.

771
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Whether it's now that safety can shade over the top

772
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: of a different corner that's struggling. Now, they can bring

773
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,959
Speaker 1: a ton more pressure more often because they're not worried

774
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: about that corner getting beat deep. Now, if DeAndre Hopkins

775
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: comes in there, all of a sudden, you've got a

776
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: guy that you can lock down DeAndre Hopkins and follow

777
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: him around wherever he goes. Now, hot may seek it off,

778
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: but over four quarters, you're not concerned about DeAndre Hopkins

779
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: beating you because you've got confident in your cornerback. So

780
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: that when when it's that when it's that caliber player, quarterback,

781
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: tackle or cornerbacks. For me, two first rounders, I'm giving

782
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: up all day long. And I know it's to speak pride,

783
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: but boy, the really really good guys if those three positions,

784
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: they don't fall off the old tree very often. If

785
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: I get, if I get, if I get lucky and

786
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: can go get one, I'm going and get any baby.

787
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: But good for the Texans. I'm glad he's out of

788
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: the division, and it gives the Texans that much more

789
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 1: of a reason to win this thing and run away

790
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: with the division if they can win this week. Now, brother,

791
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: you and I agree on that. I don't. I still

792
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: don't think the Texans gave up too much in the

793
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel deal. I just felt like the Rams needed

794
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: help on the offensive line. Like if the Rams could

795
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: have gotten Laramie Tutsle deal, that would have helped them tremendously,

796
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: because that offensive line has been hot garbage for them.

797
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: But Ramsey steps right in for Marcus Peters, and I

798
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: know Peters wasn't playing all that well. I just feel

799
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: like the Rams had other issues. For the Texans. I

800
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: felt like tackle was a major issue and they addressed it.

801
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: And you know what's interesting, You don't hear a lot

802
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: of people talking about that Laramie Tutsle deal anymore. It's just,

803
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, Laramie's part of a really good offensive line,

804
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: and to me, I think Laramie has become one of

805
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, left tackles in the league,

806
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: and he's really solidified that group upfront. But it's funny

807
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: because you don't hear any of that anymore, Like, oh, Bill, Brian,

808
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: the Texans gave up too much. You don't hear that anymore.

809
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: You just hear what zero sacks for two straight weeks?

810
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right though, And it's funny Clinton you

811
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: say that because when people ask me this summer They're like,

812
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: who you know, who would you give up multiple picks

813
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: for it? And Jalen Ramsey was at the forefront, like, yeah,

814
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: I'll give it up for Jalen Ramsey. I know he talks,

815
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: I know he's he's loud, he's arrogant, he's cocky, whatever

816
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: you want to say. But he is locked down in

817
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: the league that really doesn't have a bunch of lockdown corners.

818
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Clinton, We've gone, you know, to such a

819
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: passing league and there are some good corners, but they're

820
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: and I know Deon Sanders was a different dude, but

821
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: there are no Deon Sanders out there. There aren't guys

822
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: that just lock down one half of the field. Jalen

823
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: Ramsey does that. I mean, he's a rare dude in

824
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: his game. John think about it like this, man, and

825
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: I love the guys that Texans, have no doubt about it.

826
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: I'm really really high on Bradley Robie. I hate that

827
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to see him against t Y

828
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: Hilton this week. But but think about this, if the

829
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: Texans had a Jalen Ramsey right, and you go into

830
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis game with the way that this team can

831
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: play defense, versus a run and you go, Okay, now

832
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: you got Ramsey, let's lock him up wherever Hilton goes.

833
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: Think about what that does for this secondary and the

834
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: defense and the safeties and racked the play caller. I mean,

835
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: that in itself is a very simple example of how

836
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: powerful ZA caliber player can can be on the field

837
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: on Sundays and the impact he immediately has. I mean,

838
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: it's just an absolute game changer, you know. And again

839
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to seeing Robie maybe be that

840
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: guy this week. But but with that injury, we're not

841
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: gonna get to see it. But but it would, it would,

842
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: it would be a game changer for sure, man, if

843
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: you had that kind of guy. So two first round

844
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: draft pick for Jalen Ramsey. I'm signing that check all day,

845
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: every day. And he's got another year left on his

846
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: contract too. Everybody thought, because you packed at the brink

847
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: struck up in training camp, that he was out of contract.

848
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: He's got nineteen and twenty where you're getting him for

849
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: the rest of this year and next year for roughly

850
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: fifteen million, maybe a little more than fifteen million. UM.

851
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: That's a bargain, you know, relative to what he's gonna

852
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 1: make that's that's a bargain. So wasn't a bad deal

853
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: for La at all. I'm just glad he's got a

854
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: division and when the next time Jacksonville and the Titans

855
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: faced each other, they won't have to worry about the

856
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: best corner of the game. Man, the man with Hopkins again, Yeah,

857
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: no doubt. Clint Stern. You can hear him two to

858
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: six on Sports Radio six ten. You can hear him

859
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: our postgame show Arkansas Razorback fans, you can hear him

860
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: breaking down Razorback football. Clinton, You're the best ball man.

861
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Brother, will talk you next week.

862
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: You guy, a John Shoe man. Take care. I say

863
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: this every weekend. I meet it every week. Love talking

864
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: ball with that man right there, Clint Sterner. Okay, we

865
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: get back. It's time to go behind the mics in

866
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: this one. Good friend Matt Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts

867
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: will join our voice of Texas, Mark Vanimer. Right here

868
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: on Texas All Access. We are kicking off the second

869
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: hour of the show Texas All Access from the Hounday

870
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, football

871
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: Analyston silent Reporter, and Sunday I will join Grey Where

872
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: and the Voice of the Texans, Mark VanderMeer in Indianapolis

873
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: for a big one against Indianapolis Colts. The man calling

874
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: the action for the Colts is in his second year

875
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: with the Colts, a guy that we've gotten to know

876
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: and got to know very well, and he is excellent

877
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: his job. He is one of the most wonderful men

878
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: you're ever gonna meet. I hate that he has a rival,

879
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: but he is fantastic. Let's go behind the mics, the

880
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: men behind the mikes, Matt Taylor, the Voice the Colts

881
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: with our Voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir Matt the

882
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: bye week behind you. Now right back into game week

883
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: and what was the reaction to the victory over Kansas

884
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: City for the Colts. It was huge. I mean it

885
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: was huge, especially considering the Colts arguably let one slip

886
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: away the week before against the Oakland Raiders at home.

887
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: They didn't play well. It was kind of an uncharacteristic

888
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: game and a lot of different levels. So to be

889
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: able to come back and play, you know, one of

890
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: the best teams in the AFC in their home field

891
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: or on their home field on Sunday night football in

892
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: primetime and just dominate them up front the way they did.

893
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: I thought it was a big tone center. It was

894
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: really just the exact same game plan that the Texans

895
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: used a couple of days ago to knock off the Chiefs.

896
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: So ball control and dominating the game up front was

897
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: the blueprint. And the Colts are built to win that way,

898
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: so are the Texans. So that's that's really what makes

899
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: this game so compelling on Sunday. Two heavyweights, and I

900
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: just can't wait to get it going. It's gonna be something.

901
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts with us is Marlon

902
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: Mack maybe the quote star of the offense. Dare I

903
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: say that, how do you look at that kind of thing?

904
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: Who's on the marquee for the Colts offense? I would

905
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: say it's two guys. I would say two guys kind

906
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: of split the headliner, if you will. That would be

907
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton and then Marlon Mack. And then if

908
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: there's enough room on the on the marquis, I would

909
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: put all five guys up front from the on the

910
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: offensive line, because I mean, knock on wood, if you're

911
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: a Colts fan, all five of those guys up front

912
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: have played every single snap this season. They're the only

913
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: offensive line in the NFL that can say that. And

914
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, this was the unit last year that that

915
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: paved the way for a couple of two hundred yard

916
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: rushing performances and multiple one hundred yard games for Marlon

917
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: Mack and they all got resigned and stuck around the

918
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: off season, and they've been healthy this entire twenty nineteen campaign.

919
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: And you know, that's how That's how the Colts want

920
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: to win. That's their identity right now. They are. It's

921
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: it's really kind of bizarro world for Colts fans that

922
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: have been following this team for the last you know,

923
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years. They're so used to seeing, you know,

924
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck throw the ball for you know,

925
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty yards per game. They're just used

926
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: to seeing, you know, the Colts be top five and

927
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 1: passing and near the bottom and rushing, and this year

928
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: under Frank Raich, it's it's completely the opposite. You know,

929
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: they're a top five rushing team, near the bottom of

930
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: the NFL and passing in yards per tent and all

931
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: that stuff. In terms of throwing the ball, so the

932
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: Colts definitely have a blue collar identity. They're gonna stick

933
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,959
Speaker 1: with their run. They're going to run the ball. They've

934
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: got a great offensive line, and Lamac is proving to

935
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: be one of the best running backs in the NFL

936
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: in terms of his vision, his patients running the football.

937
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: He's a great pass protector. He can catch the ball

938
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So as far as that part

939
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: of their offense is concerned, they're loaded. And Jacoby Brissette

940
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: can throw the ball too. You know, we saw him

941
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: throw over three hundred yards one time. This seas him

942
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: he just hasn't been asked to do that because the

943
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: rushing attack has been so consistent. Colt's voice Matt Taylor

944
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: jrunning a fun Texans radio. Jacoby Brissette. What's he doing better?

945
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: What is his game like at this stage of his career?

946
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: Matt So, Jacoby Brissette as of right now, is a

947
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: really good decision maker. You know, he only has three picks.

948
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: He's made a couple of bad decisions. He's had a

949
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: few hiccups where he's turned the ball inside the red

950
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: zone in a time or two, but for the most

951
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: part of his three picks through five games, you can

952
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: definitely live with that completing a much higher percentage of

953
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: his passes now compared to when he was the full

954
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: time starter in twenty seventeen with the Colts. I think

955
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: he's over six five percent completion percentage. And I think

956
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: something too that that gets taken for granted that's not

957
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: going to show up in the box score, is he's

958
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: just very elusive in the pocket. He's a big guy.

959
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,439
Speaker 1: You just forget how big he is. He's six foot four,

960
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred twenty five, two hundred and thirty pounds.

961
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: He's a hard guy to bring down. There's been multiple

962
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: cases this year where it looks like he's going to

963
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: be sacked, he's dead and rights, and then somehow he

964
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: shows off that strength and that that brute force that

965
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: he has to evade a sack and get rid of

966
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: the football and escape the pocket. He's got a lot

967
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: of Ben Roethlisberger in him in that regard. So he's

968
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: getting better every game. But he's just he's just making

969
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: really good decisions. And he's been really good in the

970
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: red zone as well. I think he leaves the NFL

971
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: and the red zone touchdown passes with nine of his

972
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: ten coming inside the twenty yard in line. So he's

973
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: done a very good job managing this offense, putting it

974
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 1: in really good situations, changing the play at the line

975
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. I think that's the biggest thing from twenty

976
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: seventeen to now is his mastery of this offense has

977
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: really taken off because he's had essentially two four years

978
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: in almost two off seasons as the starting quarterback because

979
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: of Andrew Luck's injuries and you know, some of those

980
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: questionable things going into the going into seasons, and of

981
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: course Andrew Luck deciding to retire about two weeks before

982
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: this season started. Matt Taylor, Voice of the Cults with

983
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: US on Texans Radio. What about the defense, because when

984
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: you beat the Chiefs there I'm looking at it with

985
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: note Darius Leonard, Clayton gather As, Malik Hooker. Yet you

986
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: put together that kind of performance with only thirteen points

987
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,240
Speaker 1: allowed in that game on the road. What's the Colts

988
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: defense doing well? What are they like well? In that

989
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs, they really veered away from who

990
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: they were in the secondary in terms of a tactic.

991
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: You know under Mattieberflus they play a four three defense.

992
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: It's mostly kind of zone coverage and teams have been

993
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: kind of taken advantage of that with a high completion percentage.

994
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: And they change it up against Kansas City where they

995
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: played over seventy percent press, man, man and man coverage.

996
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: They got in the face of wide receivers. They really

997
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: disrupted Travis Kelsey just like the Texans did, so I

998
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: think that was the biggest difference. And like you said,

999
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: without Darius Leonard, without Clayton Gethers, both of those guys

1000
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: should be back on the field this weekend. They've really

1001
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of good play from their younger players,

1002
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: guys like Cary Willis who's a rookie, George Odom who's

1003
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: a second year of safety. Those guys stepped up big

1004
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: time against the Chiefs, and they've gotten some good consistent

1005
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: play up front. Now the biggest thing for me in

1006
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: my mind is their pass rush without Komoco Toore. He's

1007
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: now on IR because of an ankle he got hurt

1008
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs game, So it's kind of next man

1009
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: up in that regard. Who did the Cults turn too?

1010
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: You know, Jabal Shared is slowly but surely getting back

1011
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: to full health. He missed a lot of time dating

1012
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: back to training camp so where's he at where they

1013
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: rely more on al Quantine it. Another thing they could

1014
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: do is they can move Tae Kwon Lewis from an

1015
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: interior player to an outside edge setter, which is what

1016
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: he did in college at Ohio State. But he's been

1017
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: banged up and they haven't. They don't. I don't think

1018
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: they really want to do that because they see him

1019
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,919
Speaker 1: more long term inside. So we'll see if they get

1020
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: in the pinch and have to go that route. But yeah,

1021
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: definitely taking advantage of this Titus Howard situations for the

1022
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: Colts is something they want to look to because the

1023
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: Texans have been really good at past protection in the

1024
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: last two weeks. As you guys know, no sacks in

1025
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: the last two ball games for Deshaun Watson. He's made

1026
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: posing defensive pay. So the Colts want to get a

1027
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: more consistent pass rush in this game. And they've been

1028
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: good at times upfront, but there's also been a handful

1029
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: of times where you know that the well has gone

1030
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: dry in terms of you know, winning the one on

1031
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: one matchups up front and disrupting the posing quarterbacks. So

1032
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: I think for the Colts that's going to be paramount

1033
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: on getting after Deshaun Watson and getting him off his

1034
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: timing a little bit, because we've seen this rhythm in

1035
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: this quick passing game for the Texans take over in

1036
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: the last couple of ball games. Matt Taylor, voice of

1037
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,959
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, joining us on Texans Radio. Okay, so

1038
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: the Texans played the Raiders next. Coaches can't look ahead,

1039
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: but we can give me the scouting report on the Raiders,

1040
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: a team that did beat Indy in Indy. What do

1041
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: you think well in that game, I was really impressed

1042
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: with Josh Jacobs, you know, the rookie out of Alabama.

1043
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: He really ran the ball hard, ran it well effectively.

1044
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: I think they ran for one hundred and eighty eight

1045
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: yards on the Colts in that game, and that was

1046
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: the biggest problem. The Colts got down early and they

1047
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: just could never get back because they were on the

1048
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: field defensively a ton because the Raiders running game was

1049
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: just working so well. When I look back to that

1050
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: game offensively also, I mean Eric Carr has one of

1051
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: the quickest triggers in the NFL is getting rid of

1052
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: the football in about two point four seconds, So that

1053
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: negated a lot of the Colts pass rush in that game. Defensively,

1054
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: they played very well against the Colts. In the Running Game,

1055
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: I talked about the consistency the Colts have had. The

1056
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: one outlier as far as rushing the ball for Indianapolis

1057
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: was that Raiders game. Their front seven really did a

1058
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: nice job. They came down and they stacked a box.

1059
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: With Paul Hunter, the defensive coordinatory, he was dedicated an

1060
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: extra person up front to make sure the Colts couldn't

1061
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: dictate things up front. That man, Jacoli Brisset, had to

1062
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: drop back to throw more times than he would have liked.

1063
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: So it's just kind of a bad day for the Colts.

1064
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: They had a turnover in the red zone that game,

1065
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 1: they had a bunch of drops. They just got down early.

1066
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: And going into that game, the Raiders were kind of

1067
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought, you know, they're just left

1068
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: for dead. Plus they you know, they they played the

1069
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: next week in London, so they're looking past the Colts

1070
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: and that just wasn't the case at all. So they've

1071
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 1: kind of turned their season around after a slow start.

1072
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to start, and they got a jump started

1073
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: again against the Colts and they're pretty good. They are.

1074
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: They're a darn good football team. Their record didn't show

1075
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: it at the time, but they came in. They the

1076
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: Cults are really bad taste. But like I said, the

1077
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: Colts did a nice job of bouncing back the week

1078
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: after and knocking off the Chiefs. You just hope, for

1079
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 1: the Colt's sake that we don't get into a week thirteen,

1080
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen scenario and you look back to a week

1081
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: three game or a week four game against the Raiders

1082
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: and say, if what could have been? How we not

1083
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: let that one slip away? Yeah, the Texans are hoping

1084
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: that Carolina won't turn out that way for them as

1085
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: far as common opponents go or anything like that. Matt Taylor,

1086
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: voice of the Cults with us. All right, one more

1087
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: for you. You beat the Titans in Nashville and they're

1088
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 1: a hard team to figure. One week pretty good, the

1089
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: next week not so much. And they're just coming off

1090
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: a loss to Denver. A lot of questions about them.

1091
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: What do you make of Tennessee? And maybe i'll throw

1092
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville too, even though you haven't faced them. Yeah,

1093
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: it's for me, Mark, I mean for my money right now.

1094
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: And this is just me talking. I don't know how

1095
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: you feel, but I think it's a two horse race

1096
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: right now. I think both of those teams are done

1097
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: as far as really contending for the AFC South. I mean,

1098
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 1: when you don't have a idea of what your franchise

1099
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: quarterback situation is going to be there in Tennessee, I

1100
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: just I just think that sends a bad message and

1101
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 1: it kind of permeates into the rest of the team

1102
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: and the rest of the locker room. Same thing with

1103
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville right now. I know Fols is eventually going to

1104
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: come back, but I think the Gardner Minshew honeymoon is over.

1105
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: He's kind of limited. Their offense is limited with what

1106
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: they can do. So I think long term, I just

1107
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: think it's the Colts and the Texans, and we're just

1108
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: gonna have two epic matchups, you know, of course, starting

1109
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: Sunday and then about a month or so down in Houston.

1110
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it's hyperbole. I think these two games

1111
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: are going to directly decide who wins the AFC South

1112
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: because I just don't see I don't see Tennessee or

1113
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: Jacksonville getting their act together enough to the point where

1114
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: they can contend with either of these teams. So you know,

1115
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna have, you know, typically in the past, we've

1116
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: always had, you know, a December matchup between these two squads,

1117
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: and it's it's, you know, the the de facto AFC

1118
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: South Championship game. I think we're gonna have two of

1119
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: those this year, starting on Sunday. And this is this

1120
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 1: is a massive This is a massive game on Sunday.

1121
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: You know this. I'm sure I looked it up the

1122
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: other day. Nine of the last ten AFC South Championships

1123
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: have been won by either the Colts and the Texans.

1124
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to change this year. Oh yeah,

1125
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: it's a tremendous matchup. And everybody's going nuts here about

1126
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: the win over Kansas City, as I'm sure they are

1127
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: an India about your win over Kansas City. But it's

1128
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: all about Sunday with this divisional game. Matt, one more

1129
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: for you. I lied when I said one more before

1130
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis vibe the fan base. When Andrew Luck retires,

1131
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: I know that's got to be devastating news for everybody.

1132
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: But here is the team doing well with a fan surprise.

1133
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: Are they back on board? Where they not on board?

1134
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: How do you define what's going on in the community

1135
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: around the Colts. Well, I mean, certainly when it happened,

1136
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: it took you know, it took the entire community by storm.

1137
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: I mean, it happened on a Saturday evening. You know,

1138
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to rehash everything, but it wasn't planned

1139
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: to go out. It wasn't planned to happen that night.

1140
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: We actually had a preseason game against the Bears. It

1141
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: came out during the game and then it was just

1142
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, the i've never seen you know, words start

1143
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: to spread throughout his stadium to the point where, I mean,

1144
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: no one was really paying attention to the game. Everybody

1145
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: was just on their phone. It was like a gigantic

1146
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: game of telephone. He's trying to stay on top of

1147
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: the news. But um, you know, shortly after that, you know,

1148
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: I've I've just been really impressed with the short amount

1149
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: of time in which it took the Colts and the

1150
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: players in the locker room, the entire organization to say, okay,

1151
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: it happened. Um, there was a lot of things that

1152
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: led to Andrew Luck getting to this point where he

1153
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: wants to decide that football is not in his best

1154
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: interest anymore. And that's okay, let's let's roll, he's not

1155
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,919
Speaker 1: coming back. We wish him the best and we want

1156
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: him to be happy and healthy on several different levels.

1157
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: But at the same point, Jacoby for sets a pretty

1158
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: dark good football player. He's a pretty smart quarterback. And

1159
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: this team has more depth and it's better suited to

1160
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: compete now for the long term than it has in

1161
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years because of the way they're building

1162
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: it and they're drafting well, they're developing guys, they're saving

1163
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,479
Speaker 1: their money, they're being proved in the free agency. They're

1164
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: just trying to build from within and resign the reward

1165
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: guys that do it the right way. So there's more

1166
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: depth on this team right now than there has been

1167
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: in the recent past, and that's why I think they're

1168
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: still in a good position. Obviously, they're three and two

1169
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: at this point. Last year they were one in five,

1170
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: so they're obviously off to a much better start now

1171
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: than they did last year. And they still made the

1172
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: playoffs this season ago. So that's why the optimism and

1173
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: the fans support has really never wavered. Of course, when

1174
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retired, it was you know, the local radio

1175
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: station was live and local for you know, four or

1176
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: five straight days it didn't take a break from the topic,

1177
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,479
Speaker 1: and I totally understand that it was an unprecedented thing

1178
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: and maybe the top sports storyline to ever happen in

1179
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: this market. But football players, as you know, Mark, they

1180
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: crave normalcy, they crave routine, So they just wanted to

1181
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: get back to that as quickly as possible, and they've

1182
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: been able to kind of compartmentalize with everything that's happened

1183
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: this season. And to be honest with you, I mean,

1184
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: that was only about a month and a half ago,

1185
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: but in the grand scheme of things, there's a lot

1186
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,479
Speaker 1: that's happened since then. It feels like an eternity since

1187
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck has decided to retire, and it just feels

1188
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: like it was so long ago and kind of out

1189
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: of sight, out of mind right now in terms of

1190
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: the narrative and the storyline of this Colt season. Very

1191
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: well put I said to you in a text, I

1192
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: think the season goes at warp speed for those involved directly,

1193
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: and it seems like a lot of time has passed

1194
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: and the Colts certainly have a new identity. Matt, thanks

1195
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, and we look forward to

1196
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: seeing you on Sunday. My pleasure. Mark Safe travels that's

1197
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: a great dude right there, But hopefully Sunday he's experiencing

1198
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: in l at Lucas Oil Stadium. Matt Taylor, voice of

1199
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: the Annapolis Colts. Now, I said a little while ago

1200
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,479
Speaker 1: that on Sunday I get a chance to spend time

1201
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: with Mark van Very and our game analyst Andrea. Where

1202
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Dre next right here, Texans Alexis.

1203
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: This week's Stats Challenge is brought to you by Schlumberge.

1204
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: Visit Houston Texas dot com today to register to take

1205
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: the stats challenge. Now, there are plenty of stats from

1206
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: this pass game with the Kansas City Chiefs that blew

1207
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,439
Speaker 1: my mind. Let's see where do you want to start.

1208
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: You want to start with Brian Anger with zero points

1209
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 1: in the day. That's a pretty good one. How About

1210
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: the fact that the Texans gave up zero sacks on

1211
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: the day. That was pretty nice. How about then we'll

1212
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: go with this last one. I like this last one.

1213
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: The Texans time of possession over forty minutes, nearly forty minutes, sorry,

1214
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: thirty nine forty eight to the Chiefs twenty twelve. That

1215
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: is amazing. There's I mean, they're just there's such good

1216
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: stats in this game. The Texans at thirty five first downs,

1217
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,439
Speaker 1: that four hundred seventy two total yards, the Chiefs three

1218
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: o nine. The Chiefs were averaging I think four gosh,

1219
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,439
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the number was. It was a

1220
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: gargagan amount. They're averaging three hundred fifty five through the

1221
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: air and they had a total of three h nine.

1222
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: So Texas defense got it done, offense got it done.

1223
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: Everybody got it done. I would tell you Brian Anger

1224
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: got it done. But even punt that's a good day.

1225
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: Now calling the action Sunday and every Sunday, but usaid

1226
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: Texans is Mark Vandermer and our game analysts a good friend.

1227
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: Andre ware Market up with dre earlier today, good times.

1228
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: Last couple of games, two wins in a row, looking

1229
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: for three at Indie this weekend. What's changed for you?

1230
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: What do you think is better for this football team

1231
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. Well, I think any

1232
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: time you get the type of offensive line play that

1233
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: we're getting, that that affects everything and being able that

1234
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: couple the way getting to the quarterback. Maybe not too

1235
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,959
Speaker 1: much sack in the quarterback, but just forcing the ball

1236
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: out of his hands quickly. You marriage those two things

1237
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: together and and I think you get you get with

1238
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: the you get the results the Tectives have had in

1239
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. And I think with the

1240
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: offensive line, what are your thoughts on the way they've

1241
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: been able to run the football all but one game

1242
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: and that was a win against the Chargers on the road.

1243
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: They've been able to run the football pretty well. And

1244
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 1: if you told me they were going to do that

1245
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 1: with Lamar Miller out for the year and the way

1246
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: camp began, you thought Diante Foreman would figure into the

1247
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: mix somehow. These guys are doing a good job. Hide

1248
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: and Duke Johnson, Yeah, they really are, and it's because

1249
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: holes are there to run through the I think when

1250
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: you start an offensive line or start to put it together,

1251
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,959
Speaker 1: the fastest way that they that you develop continuity within

1252
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: the within that group is just allowing the fire off

1253
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: the football. And that's when an offensive line is having fun.

1254
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: If your initiate contact rather than waiting on somebody to

1255
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: come to you and having the pass protect. It also

1256
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: makes pass protection a lot easier because guys aren't just

1257
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:11,919
Speaker 1: firing enough the field. They have to defend the run

1258
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: first and then approach the quarterbacks, So you got giving

1259
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: yourself an extra split second or so in terms of

1260
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: pass protection. So I think one is certainly hand goes

1261
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: hand in hand with the other. Yeah, it's a great

1262
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: point you make, because that's what the Colts did last year,

1263
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: right with those two rookie linemen, and early on they

1264
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: were doing a lot of passing and then Frank Wright

1265
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: got down with the running game and that really helped

1266
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: open things up for the passing game. What about this team, though,

1267
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: Dre they do run the football well, the Colts. Is

1268
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: it Mac? Is it the line? It's a combination, right, Yeah.

1269
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: I happen to think it's one of the best lines

1270
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: in all of football. And they're they're youngs and it's

1271
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: gonna grow together. But you know, when you get Marlin

1272
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: Mac going and the other backs that they have behind

1273
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: a very talent offensive linement, that that takes a lot

1274
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: of pressure off Jacobe Brissette to not have to win games.

1275
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: Uh with his arm. They're gonna They're gonna be in

1276
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of close games because of the way that

1277
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: they play, but because of the style of play in

1278
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: which they use. But they've been. They've been affected to

1279
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: the two the three games, and you could argue that

1280
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: they lost an open overtime game to start the season

1281
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: and close them in just about all of them. It

1282
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: could have gone either way, but that's just how the

1283
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: Colts are built this year. He is a guy, Jacoby

1284
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: procent is going to take care of the football, very smart,

1285
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: got all the reps and throughout the offseason and uh

1286
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 1: and he's playing with a lot of confidence. So you

1287
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 1: mix that with a running game and the defense that

1288
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: they have in the way they're playing defensively, it's a

1289
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 1: it's a it makes for good football too. Well, if

1290
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: it worn't the Colts the Texans nemesis. I think the

1291
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette story would be a feel good story all

1292
01:04:57,880 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: around the league, But certainly it's not here in Houston

1293
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: because the culture a major factor in this thing. But

1294
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: it is a nice story for a Brissette, the fact

1295
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: that he's been able to play at a pretty high

1296
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: level with Andrew Luck retiring a couple of weeks before

1297
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: the season started. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that

1298
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,959
Speaker 1: they could have gotten a better, anyone better in there

1299
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: in terms of being able to handle that type of situation.

1300
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: He's a very mature young man. I think when Andrew

1301
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck was there, he understood his place. But he

1302
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: prepared himself like he was going to be the starter

1303
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: each and every week. And that's just how going to

1304
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 1: folks around the NFL and how he carries himself as

1305
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: a professional he was. He was always ready to play.

1306
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 1: So when it happened with Luck, he was ready to

1307
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: step in. And I think you're seeing exactly how he's playing,

1308
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: taking care of the football, very knowledgeable of what Frank

1309
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: Reich wants done offensively, and he's got a lot of

1310
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: help and a lot of weapons around it. Andre where

1311
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: joining us on Texans Radio. Andre. When the Raiders beat

1312
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: the car at their place this year, they ran the

1313
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: ball for over one hundred eighty yards, So not a

1314
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: shocker that the Texans are going to feature this in

1315
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: their game plan in all likelihood, Yeah, I think that's

1316
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: probably part of the game plan. This might be the

1317
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: quickest or one of the fastest games that you and

1318
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: I have had a chance to broadcast because of the

1319
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 1: styles that are meeting, so to speak. And they get

1320
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard bag that's going to help a lot in

1321
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 1: terms of their run defense. I think another defensive bag,

1322
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 1: Mary of Safety's coming back from injury this week as well.

1323
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: But and that's that's certainly going to help what they

1324
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: do in terms of their overall defensive packet. So it

1325
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: won't be quite as easy. I don't as gonna be

1326
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: anywhere near as easy as it was last week in

1327
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: terms of being able to run the football against the

1328
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: way you ran it against Kansas City. This is a

1329
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: good sound. The young defensive group that that's going to

1330
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: continue to get better. They have a nice influx of

1331
01:06:55,880 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: some veterans sprinkle with some in third year players, a

1332
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: very young group that that goes well for him. Andre

1333
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: were joining us dre Ryan Tannehills now the starting quarterback

1334
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: in Nashville for the Tennessee Titans. Your thoughts on that

1335
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: move by that franchise, Yeah, I think they're looking for it,

1336
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: Tomark and just weren't getting an inconsistent play at that

1337
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: spot for some time with Marcus Mariotto, whether it's been

1338
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 1: through injuries, whether it's been through injuries around him, so

1339
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: on and so forth. But he'd be Tennessee would look

1340
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 1: like they were ready to turn the corners, and then

1341
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: he would have one of his games and they would

1342
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,959
Speaker 1: take a step back. So uh, he kind of saw

1343
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: this one coming us ronic that you know, both guys

1344
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: were first round picks and Tanny Hill stepping in and

1345
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: who looked good in the preseason for for Tennessee that

1346
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:52,720
Speaker 1: so much so that they have no reservations about installing

1347
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 1: him as as the starter. So I think when you

1348
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: look at it, there's a team respond I think they

1349
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: very well might because they're looking for different results as

1350
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: they work hard each and every week to prepare for

1351
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: games on Sunday. What you think about Jail and Ramsey

1352
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: trade As Ramsey leaves the Jags and goes to the

1353
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: Rams and the Jags get a couple of number one

1354
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: draft choices out of the deal. I'll tell you what.

1355
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: The Rams aren't afraid to spend money and and uh

1356
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: and do what people think that they would be a

1357
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: little bit apprehensive of doing. They were doing. Like in

1358
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue last year. Everybody thought that he might be

1359
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: a problem, this, that and the other, and he ends

1360
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: up there and played very well for him. So I

1361
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:37,560
Speaker 1: like the aggressive style in which they run their personnel department.

1362
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: And it was just sooner or later it was going

1363
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: to have to come to a head. Ramsey was finding

1364
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: reasons not to be on the field. I guess the

1365
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: last game was his back, and I'm sure he'll be

1366
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: just fine this week and where back we'll head. He

1367
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: healed up and he'll be in the lineup for the Rams.

1368
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:56,560
Speaker 1: But almost to a lesser degree, kind of glad to

1369
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:58,600
Speaker 1: have him mind of the division because he's one of

1370
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 1: the better covermen in the in the entire league. So uh,

1371
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 1: we'll see him every once in a while with the Rams,

1372
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 1: but it's good to get him out of the division

1373
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,599
Speaker 1: where we don't see him twice twice a year. All Right, Drey,

1374
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a curveball, pardon the pawn at you

1375
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: because the baseball playoffs in full swing, Alcs, Astros and

1376
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: Yankees going at it. You played this game and you

1377
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 1: were actually drafted, but let me throw this one at you.

1378
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: Baseball is and I was talking to Bill O'Brien about this.

1379
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: It's so stressful, the amount of time between the pitches,

1380
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: the pressure on some of these pitches. What are your

1381
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 1: thoughts having played quarterback at such a high level, what

1382
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on what the pitcher is going through mentally?

1383
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: When he's trying to get a really tough out on

1384
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: the mound. It's you know, pitches are wired a little differently.

1385
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: Some are some are calm. It's like playing quarterbacks exet

1386
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: it's a good parallel, but some are very calm and

1387
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 1: even keel, and you're just trying to to get from

1388
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 1: pitch to pitch work this strag zone, knowing the scouting

1389
01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: report on each and every batter, what one guy like

1390
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: as opposed to the next guy that you're gonna face,

1391
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: and you're just taking them one by one, just like

1392
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. You know, you can't get too high

1393
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: when you when you throw a touchdown passes. You can't

1394
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 1: get too low when you're throw an interception. But uh,

1395
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 1: it just takes the finite skill of just going from

1396
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: one to the next, putting pitches together. Uh, do you

1397
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: have your best stuff that day? Trying to find what

1398
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: what what's working today? Because very rarely and I even

1399
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: throw another parallel in golf, it's like, very rarely do

1400
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: you have all components working together. Your drive, your short game,

1401
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,759
Speaker 1: your irons and UH and your part are working together.

1402
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: It's about two weeks out of the years. How I

1403
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 1: like to too I kind of analogize that, but with

1404
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: a pitcher, it's that way. Sometimes some games you're got

1405
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: at all, and some games you don't have two out

1406
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: of three pitches or maybe one out of the three

1407
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: that you gotta lean on. You just gotta find ways

1408
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: to get guys out. But the overall common thread is

1409
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: just you have to remain calm and in the moment

1410
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: every pitch matters. I must not be playing golf during

1411
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: the two weeks out of the year where I have

1412
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:10,600
Speaker 1: everything together. I'm missing those weeks. Dray, darn it. I

1413
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 1: mistened to man, that's going on in November and I'm

1414
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: not playing darn it. Okay, one more for you. Where

1415
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: are you at? In college football? This week headed up

1416
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. Cincinnati and Tulsa, who just almost took down

1417
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:28,680
Speaker 1: an undefeated team a couple of weeks ago, and I

1418
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: played very well in a triple overtime game that was

1419
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: eventually lost, But they ended up to Cincinnati, a team

1420
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: that's five and one, playing real well and has got

1421
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 1: a chance to really run the table. They only lost

1422
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: an ugly lost to Ohio State, but in my mind,

1423
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: I think Ohio State might be the best team in

1424
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: the country. Right now. You know how I feel about

1425
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 1: bye weeks, and they had a bye week last week.

1426
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: We'll see if they can ramp it up and get

1427
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 1: themselves going a game. But before that bye week, I

1428
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 1: don't know that there was anybody in the country that

1429
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: was playing any better football than Ohio State. That's that's

1430
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: the only loss on the Cincinnati schedule. Luke Fickle has

1431
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: done an outstanding job now on his third year there.

1432
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 1: So my second trip there looking forward to it. I

1433
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 1: know where all the good food is, so I'll be

1434
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: visiting a couple of restaurants there. Well, you could almost

1435
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,759
Speaker 1: drive to Indy from there. I mean, yeah, yeah, I could,

1436
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: but but you won't have the game's over and I'm

1437
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: mentally worn down. I'm gonna get in the seat and

1438
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: let a pilot fly me in and make my way

1439
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: to the hotel that night. All right, very good, Thanks

1440
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,679
Speaker 1: for joining us, my friend and safe travels. I appreciate him. Man. Thanks.

1441
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it each every weekend.

1442
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: He's a warrior. Man. Hold the smokes, Andre Ware joining

1443
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:44,560
Speaker 1: us on this show. All right, it's time for in

1444
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: the lap crew today could deep dive into what you

1445
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: saw on Sunday against Kansas City and our cream other

1446
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: crop players. We'll do that next to Texans All Access.

1447
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: What final segment of Texans All Access from the Honday

1448
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am your Sean har Is glad

1449
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: to be with you. It's time for the end of

1450
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 1: Lab crew to step up to the plate and well,

1451
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:11,280
Speaker 1: I'll let Drew tell you what's on the menu tonight.

1452
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do is look back and cover the

1453
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: stat basically my favorite stat of the week. I'll have one,

1454
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: you have one. Okay, we'll each have a cream of

1455
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: the Crop of the week, and I'm gonna start with

1456
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: my favorite stat because I don't want you to steal it, Okay,

1457
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: because there's lots of good stats from this, but you

1458
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: know what my favorite one was, Okay, two quarterback hits

1459
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: absorbed by Deshaun Watson and zero zero sacks zero for

1460
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: the second straight week in a row. I like that

1461
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: because what had we seen two weeks ago, three weeks ago,

1462
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: Sean was getting hit, Deshaun was getting hit at a

1463
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: pace that was a little bit ahead of last year's,

1464
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 1: which was pretty bad at points. He scaled that back

1465
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: the past protection scaled that back the offensive line has

1466
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 1: scaled that back. I think throughout this season offensive lines

1467
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: pretty played pretty darn well. I think Deshaun's switched some things,

1468
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 1: and this offense is switched some things, and they're getting

1469
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 1: the ball to different guys out a little bit quicker.

1470
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,839
Speaker 1: And I love, love, love what I've seen and remind

1471
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: and keep in mind, john that's an offensive line that

1472
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: lost its starting right tackle and Titus Howard in the

1473
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: middle of it all. And what happened Roderick Johnson came

1474
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: in and played pretty capably, And you pointed this out.

1475
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 1: He knocked Tyron Matthew on his pocket watch there to

1476
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 1: put it in an old time return, almost knock him

1477
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: into the passing line. Yeah, on that fourth and three

1478
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: conversion in which Hop got the bullet from Deshaun Watson.

1479
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: But above all, I love that number four is not

1480
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: getting hit, staying clean. Yeah, And it's it's probably gonna

1481
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 1: change a little bit this week because basing a different

1482
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: set of defenses. But that's what I love over the

1483
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: last game. What's your favorite stat? They're a bunch of them. There,

1484
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of and I don't they're they're

1485
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: kind of stats. And man, there's so many ways to go.

1486
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:04,759
Speaker 1: Hmm um. Do you want to hear about Brian Anger

1487
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: having played nine years in the NFL and never played

1488
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 1: a game in which he never punted. He's the maytag

1489
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: repairman in the last two weeks. He punted on the

1490
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: first drive a week ago against the Falcons, and he

1491
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: hasn't punted it since nineteen drives. Yeah, he hasn't punted

1492
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: nineteen consecutive drives. Now, it's not always good because you

1493
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 1: turned it over three times against the Chiefs, but Brian

1494
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: Anger did not punt. You want that one, that's a

1495
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: good one. Here's another one, go ahead drive, ninety three

1496
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: yard drive. I know where you going with it. I

1497
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: think it was twelve plays ninety three yards. How many

1498
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 1: third down conversions did they have on that drive? Goose

1499
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 1: egg and think about how rare, how rare that is, right,

1500
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 1: and why they didn't face third down right single exactly?

1501
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: That is rare. They did not have a third down

1502
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 1: conversion on that drive because they didn't get to third down.

1503
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 1: We're just gobbling up yards, I mean just taking chunks

1504
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: of yards. That was that to me was here's my

1505
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: last one. Drew the fourth to three conversion at the end.

1506
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: It turned into a fourth to three conversion because I'm

1507
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: third and one. Texans tried to hammer Carlos hide in

1508
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 1: there and they tackled him. I can't remember. I think

1509
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,760
Speaker 1: it was Agua maybe that had gotten though. They did

1510
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: a good job bottling. Yeah, they bottled him up. That

1511
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 1: was right at the two minute warning. Right. That was

1512
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 1: the only only negative yardage play the Texans allowed in

1513
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: the game, and it came at the two minute warning.

1514
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 1: Now there were penalties. Yeah, that's the only time they

1515
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,639
Speaker 1: had a clean play that didn't go for positive yardage.

1516
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Yeah, it was. It was just incredible to

1517
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:50,600
Speaker 1: think about no negative plays all game long. And it

1518
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: shows now I say no negative, no negative yardage plays. Right,

1519
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: because they had negative plays because Sean threw unfortunately the

1520
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 1: two interceptions and they had to fumble in the first play.

1521
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 1: I think that shows you how good the offense was.

1522
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: You and I talk about this all the time, turnover margin.

1523
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: If I would have said going in, you're gonna be

1524
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 1: down in seventeen three, you will lose the turnover battle.

1525
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna hold that out, You're gonna get blown up

1526
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: by about twelve points. John, That's what I would have said,

1527
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,799
Speaker 1: here's the flip side, not a you won by seven,

1528
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 1: but you could have won by a much where you

1529
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: could have scored almost fifty because you missed a field

1530
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 1: go on extra point. That's four points. Hop drops the touchdown.

1531
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: That's right, And I mean he was outside the goal.

1532
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: He was outside like the two yard line, but he

1533
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: probably powers in. Yeah, if not, he gets it down

1534
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: to the two yard line. It's still to me the

1535
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: weirdest thing I've I've seen because you so we so

1536
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: rarely see him ever do that. And I mean it happens.

1537
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: That goes to show you happens to the great ones.

1538
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: He just but he got it back. And then Will

1539
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 1: had three opportunities and the people say, oh he dropped,

1540
01:17:56,320 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: you drop him. Those are all really hard catches because

1541
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: when you run a fast as Will does and the

1542
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: balls you're you're tracking up, that is so hard to do. Yeah,

1543
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: but there's one of them. I think Will would tell you,

1544
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: yeah that I definitely should have had that one if

1545
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: he makes one of those. So let's say Will catches one.

1546
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 1: Hop catch is his, you had the four points from

1547
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: the field goal on the extra point. I'll do the

1548
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: math for you. That's eighteen points plus thirty one, that's

1549
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: forty nine points. Yeah. Now the game probably shakes out

1550
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: a little bit differently with the shows, but you're right,

1551
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: they've had lots of opportunities. And that's that's why Bill

1552
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 1: O'Brien he's never gonna be rob Roy after a prep,

1553
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: after game or during a press conference. But that's why

1554
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: he's pointing out, Yes, we did some good things, Yes

1555
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: we won, but there's still a lot to clean up,

1556
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 1: there's still a lot to improve upon it. And you

1557
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,879
Speaker 1: understand why. Now, I'm proud of you and me because

1558
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:49,320
Speaker 1: or you and I sorry if that English teachers out there,

1559
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: sorry about that. You and me proud of us because

1560
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 1: we didn't say and we could have, and we would

1561
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: have in fine saying it, but we didn't say the

1562
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 1: time of possession. That was a big deal, right, Nobody

1563
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:01,760
Speaker 1: he's ever gone into Arrowhead and had a time of

1564
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: possession against the Chiefs like that. Wow, And a lot

1565
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,520
Speaker 1: of people say, well, that's the way. That's the blueprint

1566
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: for beating the Chiefs is to keep Patrick Mahomes off

1567
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: the field and hold the ball for thirty nine minutes

1568
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: and change. You're gonna beat anybody if you play like that. Yeah,

1569
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who the hell you're gonna as long

1570
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 1: as you do that. If you say, if you're scoring

1571
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: at the end of it and you stay cleaner with

1572
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 1: the ball, you're gonna win. Okay, Like that's a blueprint

1573
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: for beating any money, not just Patrick Mahomes and the

1574
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: chief Chiefs. But that was awesome too. That was a

1575
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: good We'll make that our honorable mentioned staff. Well, here

1576
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: is my honorable here's what I'm gound have thrown there.

1577
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 1: How many offensive plays the Chiefs running the fourth quarter? Four? Right? Yeah?

1578
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 1: You you basically double how many yards? For what? Minus

1579
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: minus three? Yeah? Yeah, they ended up with a total

1580
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 1: of two yards because there was a five year penalty

1581
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: on an offside that was it, and they had the

1582
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,760
Speaker 1: only two punts in the game. Also, that in the

1583
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: fourth quarter is a remarkable performance by the defense and

1584
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: probably they don't get enough credit because last week they

1585
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: got held the Chiefs to thirteen points. That's the worst

1586
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: output offensively as a team that Kansas City has had

1587
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 1: when Patrick Mahomes started. Second worst what we just saw

1588
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday twenty four, So good job, kudos to the

1589
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:13,639
Speaker 1: Texans all right, Time for cream of the crop. I'm

1590
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 1: gonna go obvious here. I'm not gonna not gonna pull

1591
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: any punches. Carlos hide man. Okay, he came in, he said,

1592
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: I want to I want I want this one more

1593
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:24,800
Speaker 1: than others, understandably, so he didn't get much time with

1594
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: Kansas City was basically the spring in the summer, and

1595
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: then he got traded for Martinas Rank and who wind

1596
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: up starting in the game. Carlos ran man, and Carlos

1597
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 1: ran with anger. Yes, he's with production average four and

1598
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: a half yards per finished with one hundred and sixteen

1599
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: and what I like most, he ran at twenty six times.

1600
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: That meant you were you had opportunities, and you kept

1601
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: giving it to him and giving it to him and

1602
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: giving it to him, and he gets the score on

1603
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: the ground. It's all part of a forty one attempt,

1604
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:59,799
Speaker 1: forty one rushes for one hundred ninety two yards output.

1605
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: Love it. Carlos hides my cream of the crop. Wow,

1606
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. That's really really good. My cream of

1607
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: the crop might be a little bit surprising, but I

1608
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:13,479
Speaker 1: am I'm gonna give a little thumbs up in a

1609
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: thanks here to Brian Baldinger. Okay, Baldy did the game

1610
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 1: on radio National Radio. He didn't do a TV game

1611
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: that was Iron Eagle and Dan Pous, but Baldi did

1612
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:26,200
Speaker 1: the game for National Radio, and so I saw him

1613
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: down on the field. I don't know him, but I

1614
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: saw him down on the field, and he was taking

1615
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: a lot of videos and doing a lot of talking

1616
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: to me. Baldy's gets the whole social media thing. I mean,

1617
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: good for a guy that'd breakdowns are Yeah, he did

1618
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: not follow him on Twitter. We do it. That's where

1619
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: I'm going because I felt like this durned game and

1620
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I talked this guy

1621
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: up because I agree with Baldy. I feel like he's

1622
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: the best left tackle in the game. I feel like

1623
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: he is at that point the best offensive lineman in

1624
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:56,880
Speaker 1: the game. And what ends up happening is when you

1625
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: were that good at that particular job, people forget about you.

1626
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: We talk about the Sean and we talk about hop

1627
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:05,680
Speaker 1: and we talk about Carlos, and we talk about the

1628
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: fancy stats and stuff, and it kind of goes part

1629
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 1: and parcel with what you said early on about zero sacks.

1630
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,719
Speaker 1: But when you watch Laramie Tunsil work on the left side,

1631
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: and you see what he's doing and how good he

1632
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: is and taking pass rushers and just negating what it

1633
01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: is that they do well law long arm. He's facing

1634
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: long arm guys, he's facing stronger guys, he's facing quicker guys,

1635
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: he's facing all these different kind of guys, and he

1636
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: is just completely and totally shutting him down. And Baldi

1637
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: put together a film clip. And it's easy when you're

1638
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 1: And I find myself during games wanting to watch Laramie

1639
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: more than I do because but I'm trying to follow

1640
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: the ball off. There's penalties and things like that, so

1641
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: I can tell Mark. So I want to watch him

1642
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: because I think he is the best at what it

1643
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,519
Speaker 1: is that he does. He's phenomenal. My cream of the

1644
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: crop is Laramie Tuns Leftie. But but but John, the

1645
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:02,839
Speaker 1: Texans gave up too much to get him. You shouldn't

1646
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 1: have given up all that draft capital. They can kiss mine.

1647
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: You know what? I thought, that I find a guy

1648
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: like that, Yes, and you can. You only have to

1649
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: give up two ones for him, I mean, Drew. Here's

1650
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:15,600
Speaker 1: here's here's my thought. I've been thinking about this for

1651
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:18,799
Speaker 1: a little while. I watched the Browns and I watched

1652
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: the Browns struggle, Baker Mayfield struggling and start a lot

1653
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: of interceptions. He's not been protected. And the Browns made

1654
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:28,200
Speaker 1: a huge move in the off season trading. Now it

1655
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: wasn't as much, but they traded, and they only traded

1656
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: for one guy. They traded for Odell Beckham Junior. But

1657
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: they gave up a first rounder and more for Odell

1658
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior. But the thing is they didn't really need

1659
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: a receiver. The receiver wasn't really going to help them.

1660
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: You need to help protect your quarterback. But after it happened,

1661
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: John Dorsey was put up on his pedicial like this

1662
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: is how you GM, this is what you do. And

1663
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: then when the deal was made, Bill O'Brien is like, oh,

1664
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:57,600
Speaker 1: you don't understand how to do this. He gave up

1665
01:23:57,640 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: too much. But it's like we talked talk about this

1666
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: a lot on the radio and and talk about this

1667
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: in social media, and people talk about this all the time.

1668
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 1: A TV shows like what would you give up for

1669
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: the best at a key position in the NFL? The

1670
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: Texans gave up a lot, but they got back in

1671
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: return potentially the best left tackle in the NFL. Like

1672
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 1: what would you give up for Deshaun Watson draft. What

1673
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 1: would if the Texans said, hey, we're open to trading

1674
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 1: DeShawn Oh my god, I mean you'd you'd give up

1675
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: your next three drafts. And that's the thing you give

1676
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,920
Speaker 1: up more probably probably if you had Deshaun Watson right

1677
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: now a veil and I don't I'm not out of

1678
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: I know he's ours, but we love it. We don't

1679
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: want him going anywhere. But you're just talking about worth

1680
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: and value and I mean absolutely, there's no question to

1681
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: get a guy like that. And Baldi said something in

1682
01:24:45,320 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: his breakdown I thought was just it speaks to this

1683
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 1: point about Deshaun too. He said, Laramie Tonsil is helping

1684
01:24:55,640 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: to make the Shawn Watson better and that was the

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Speaker 1: whole goal. That was the whole goal. And you not

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Speaker 1: just for this year, but for years going forward. You

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Speaker 1: didn't get Trent Williams at the age of thirty two

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Speaker 1: and he might play for a couple of years. You

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Speaker 1: got Laramy Tounsil at twenty five freaking years old. You

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Speaker 1: know who else he's making better? Max Sharp? Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: Who's Who's Max Sharpick? He's a really good, really really

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Speaker 1: good college left tackle. Yeah, so you've kicked him inside

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Speaker 1: the left guard. He's playing competently so far right that

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Speaker 1: that's like you're looking at a cornerstone left side of

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01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 1: your line for a long long time, right. And I know,

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Speaker 1: like you said about the Panthers game a few weeks ago,

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01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: people say, well, wait, is that you're talking about these

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Speaker 1: officers the line. That's a damn good defense. That's it's

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Speaker 1: a really good defense. Be it's a really smart defense.

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Speaker 1: And see of those sacks, everybody in a building, including

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Speaker 1: Shan Watson have said the majority of those, if not

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Speaker 1: all of those were on me. Yeah, So from that perspective,

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 1: if you take the man out of its worth, but

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Speaker 1: he said, and I thought it was dead on. He's

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01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: like Laramie Tunsil is making Deshaun better. Deshaun gets more comfortable,

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01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 1: he goes through his reads, and then when that all happens,

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01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: the game slows down for him and he's just picking

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Speaker 1: people apart. At that point. It gets more difficult this

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Speaker 1: week against the Colts, but taking a left tackle in there,

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01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,679
Speaker 1: like Laramie Tunsil, I will feel that much more confident

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Speaker 1: in what this offense can do because he's over there

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Speaker 1: at left Tackle. If you would like to hear the

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Speaker 1: full in Lab podcast, go to iTunes, go to Uston

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Speaker 1: Texas dot com, go to our twitter feeds at JR.

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Speaker 1: Hair's Football, at Dorty Drew and you can pick up

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Speaker 1: the full in the Lab podcast right there. Big thanks

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01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: to everybody for participating on the show. DPC to Andrew Walker,

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Speaker 1: Clint Stirner, Matt Taylor, Mark vanimre Andre where Drew Doherty.

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Speaker 1: To all of you for listening. We will see you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and as always, go Texans