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Speaker 1: Texas All Access Time. Yes, welcome in everybody from the

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Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, as I

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Speaker 1: am each and every Wednesday evening from six to eight

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Speaker 1: right here on our flagship Sports Radio six ten, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst and sideline reporter. And looking forward to a

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Speaker 1: very interesting, interesting weekend ahead on a number of different levels.

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Speaker 1: It starts with the weather. What kind of weather are

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Speaker 1: Hurricane Florence is and has changed path and instead of

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Speaker 1: dip down south into South Carolina and then head maybe

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Speaker 1: in our direction. Obviously, Nashville is well off the coast,

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Speaker 1: it's about eight and a half to nine hours from

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Speaker 1: the coast, but you still could get some of the

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Speaker 1: dirty side of the rain that could play a role.

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Speaker 1: You've got the Texans and the Titans. We know the

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Speaker 1: history the Oilers turned into the Titans. The Texans come in.

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Speaker 1: It's a ribberando. A lot of fans that are here,

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Speaker 1: and there's some types fans still in Houston because they

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Speaker 1: the Texans either way. You got that you two AFC

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Speaker 1: South teams. You're two AFC South teams that are both

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Speaker 1: OH in one desperately needing a win. Yes, it's week two,

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Speaker 1: and I don't like to say must win games, but

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Speaker 1: I think for both organizations it's got to be much

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Speaker 1: it's got to be played better games. They've got to

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Speaker 1: improve from week one to week two. And if the

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Speaker 1: Texans make that week one to week to improvement, I

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Speaker 1: feel like they've got the talent. They've got this squad

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Speaker 1: think there are a couple of reasons why we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about those more on Friday than anything else, But we

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Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about Tonight. We're gonna go behind

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Speaker 1: enemy sidelines with Dbcito. This week. It's senior editor of

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Speaker 1: Titans dot Com, Jim Wyatt. He will talk about the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, the AFC South, and what their thoughts are

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Speaker 1: on the Houston Texas. Then we'll talk to about Buddy

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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter will bounce around in the NFL with him

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Speaker 1: thoughts on Sam Darnold, thoughts on the Texans, the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and John Gruden experiment two point oh. We'll also have

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Speaker 1: the game plan. Brian Gaine, the GM is going to

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Speaker 1: join the Voice of Texas, Mark Vandermer, the Voice to Texas.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandomer will join me a segment after that, and

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Speaker 1: we will finish with our buddy game analyst Andre where

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's a lot going on in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of hours, but we got to kick it

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Speaker 1: off as we always do with our Hot Reads. Hot

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Speaker 1: Reads brought to you by Geico. Fifteen minutes can save

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Speaker 1: you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people talking today, not just me, a lot of

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Speaker 1: players talking today. Let's start with Deshaun Watson was asked

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Speaker 1: today why the energy was low and what he can

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Speaker 1: do to correct it. Going to Tennessee. Whenever something bad

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Speaker 1: We're you know, to focus on the things that didn't

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Speaker 1: something positive. So um, you know that I'd get corrected

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Speaker 1: it snow. It has something to do with Tiger Woods. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll save that for later. Last year, Deshan got his

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Speaker 1: all know how that went. Fifty seven to fourteen. He

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Speaker 1: All on the same page, just clicking doing what coach

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Speaker 1: O'Brien and the staff, you know, put together a great

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Speaker 1: be a joyous time. Right. Well, Whitney said, you know

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Speaker 1: He's right, you'll eventually get those calls and he will

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Speaker 1: about it. I mean, it's it's a division rivalry. It's

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Speaker 1: obviously there's history there, but I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: get to our next hot read transactions, Baby, Yeah, Transactions

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Speaker 1: happening unfortunately too many of them. Let's talk about the bad.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson and Shantrell Henderson both going to the injured reserve,

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Speaker 1: roster opportunities for two players. Roderick Johnson would fill one

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Speaker 1: you know, certainly has has made a good first impression

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Speaker 1: here in Tennessee. Is he still running those sprints before

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Speaker 1: the game starts on the field. Yeah, he runs from

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Speaker 1: run from goal line to goal lines. And that's great.

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Speaker 1: You know, I lost count of how many he did.

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Speaker 1: I watched him in Miami before the game, and he

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Speaker 1: must have done twenty of them, probably more than that.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he looked like a player. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was, I was watching the replay of that fight

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Speaker 1: that broke out on Sunday and uh, and he was

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Speaker 1: trying to break it up. But he's as big as

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Speaker 1: any of those guys that was in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: All Right. You mentioned the offensive cornator Matt Lafloor. He

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Speaker 1: did some nice things with that Rams offense last year.

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Speaker 1: What's that transition been like for Mariota in the offense,

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Speaker 1: getting Lafleur in there, Well, it's been a process, and

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Speaker 1: I think people who expected it to look great from

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Speaker 1: the get go or you know, maybe unrealistic because it

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Speaker 1: takes time. I think Matt Laflour knows that. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, Marcus Mariota knows that. I think Mike Rabel

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Speaker 1: knows it. And uh, certainly all these guys are perfectionists.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to work great at the start, but you

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Speaker 1: know they're going to go through some growing pains there

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Speaker 1: as guys get comfortable in a new offense with a

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Speaker 1: new scheme that includes a lot of new players. I

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Speaker 1: think in the long run, it's gonna be good for

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, It's gonna be good for the before the Titan,

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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, they've got to get uh you know,

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Speaker 1: they've got to get up speed, and they got to

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Speaker 1: do it pretty quickly because now the tides are all

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Speaker 1: and one. They got to you know, a Texas team

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Speaker 1: in here that's tough looking for a win too. After

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Speaker 1: this game, there's five teams on the schedule that either

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Speaker 1: went to the playoffs last year or had a winning record,

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Speaker 1: So you can't. You can't wait for things to develop.

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Speaker 1: You got to make some things happen as you as

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Speaker 1: you reach where you want to get to. And the

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Speaker 1: Titans definitely signed some playmakers this offseason. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the defense. Malcolm Butler, he had an interception in that

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Speaker 1: Sunday loss to the Dolphins, and the Titans defense had

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Speaker 1: some nice things um in the red zone. They were

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Speaker 1: able to hold the Dolphins to just one touchdown in

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Speaker 1: those in those trips to the red zone. But how

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Speaker 1: has Malcolm Butler adjusted to that defense and did anymore

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Speaker 1: come out about all the saga that happened with him

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Speaker 1: in New England. Well, you're you're all right about the

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Speaker 1: red zone. That was the highlight. I think the red

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Speaker 1: zone and the play on third down where they held

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Speaker 1: the office the two out of ten and Malcolm Butler

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Speaker 1: did have a big pick. He gave up a deep

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Speaker 1: ball though, and for a touchdown, So he'll have to

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Speaker 1: clean that up. And in some areas on the defense

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to improve moving forward. The pass

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Speaker 1: rush wasn't as effective as anybody want to be. I

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Speaker 1: thought Ryan tanney Hill had too much time to find

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Speaker 1: open receivers. Guys made play, so tids you have to

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Speaker 1: be better on defense, and I think they'll improve. As

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Speaker 1: far as Butler in New England, he got so tired

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Speaker 1: of asking about that being asked about that during the

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Speaker 1: course of camp, and we had a reporter for the

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Speaker 1: Boston Globe come in here and ask him about it,

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Speaker 1: and I think any national reporter asked him about it.

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Speaker 1: He eventually he talked about it and played along early on,

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Speaker 1: but it got to the point where he just pretty

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Speaker 1: much shut it down and then kind of made a

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Speaker 1: wise crack about how every reporter's coming in here trying

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Speaker 1: to get their best shot in on me about this play.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't really come clean on anything about what happened,

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Speaker 1: and you can tell he's trying to move on. It's

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Speaker 1: definitely going to remain a mystery then, but the rest

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Speaker 1: of us were sort of curious and wanting to know

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Speaker 1: about that. All right, Jim, what about you? What are

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Speaker 1: some of the storylines you're working on for this week

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Speaker 1: for the Titans Texans game? Well, I think I think

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Speaker 1: it's the offense and just where does the team go

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Speaker 1: from here without Delaney Walker, because I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to force a lot of young guys to stuff off.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this team's filled with young playmakers and young targets.

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis is in the second year, Taywan Taylor's in

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Speaker 1: the second year, Toy J Sharks in the second year.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned John hu Smith, who's really going to step

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Speaker 1: in for Delaney Walker. He's in the second year. These

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Speaker 1: guys have all got to come together to kind of

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Speaker 1: pick up the slack. But with Delaney Walker being gone,

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Speaker 1: Richard Matthews, I didn't mention him, he's a veteran the group,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't have a catch on Sunday, so players

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Speaker 1: got to stop up. I think too, I'm curious to see.

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Speaker 1: The biggest question I got after the uniforms were unveiled

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Speaker 1: this offseason was who's going to get the reps? Who's

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Speaker 1: gonna get the carries? Between Dion Lewis and Deck Kennry,

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Speaker 1: And on Sunday it was Dion Lewis. He had, he

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Speaker 1: had the reps, he had the snaps, he had the carries,

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Speaker 1: and was a more productive back of the too. So

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Speaker 1: where does that go moving forward? And then obviously the

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Speaker 1: questions up front on the offensive line, we talked about it,

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Speaker 1: and defensively, just how How does the Titans generate some

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Speaker 1: more pressure and keep what happened in Houston last year

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Speaker 1: when Deshaun Watson the Texans put up fifty seven. How

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Speaker 1: do you keep that from happening again. This is a

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Speaker 1: new team, it's got new players on it, new coaching

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Speaker 1: staff obviously, but a lot of these Titans remember firsthand

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Speaker 1: the issues that Watson gave him when he played, and

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Speaker 1: you got to keep that from happening again. All right,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, Jim, looking forward to this game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Jim Watt, Senior writer for Titans Online. Jim, thanks as always,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you up in Nashville. Okay, we'll see

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Speaker 1: you here on Sunday. Thank you. There he is the

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Speaker 1: great Jim Wyatt from Titans dot Com. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter at Backs Football Guru knows the stuff inside.

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Speaker 1: Now get his thoughts on Sam Donald, Jets, John Gruden's

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Speaker 1: experiment dot Oh, and what do you thought of Texans v.

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Speaker 1: Patriots Week one? Next? And Texans All Access. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from Monday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris. Glad to be

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Speaker 1: joined by our next guest, you can follow on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at backs Bax Football Guru. You have heard him plenty

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Speaker 1: of times on the show. You heard him last week,

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Speaker 1: and you will hear him in this time slot each

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Speaker 1: and every week. Can he joins me? Now? Russell Backs

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Speaker 1: or Russell? Are you doing mah man? I'm doing great? John?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing pretty well? All right, Russell?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. My guess is that you looked this

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Speaker 1: up and I'm gonna ask, do you remember the last

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Speaker 1: time there was a tie on the opening weekend? I

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Speaker 1: think it was in the early seventies before the overtime rule.

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Speaker 1: The regular season overtime rule kicked in. I always like

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Speaker 1: to tell the story. Nineteen seventy four, the NFL decide

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Speaker 1: to go to regular season overtime, John Ye. The second

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Speaker 1: week of the season, the Denver Broncos hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: The game went thirty five thirty five into overtime. Guess

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Speaker 1: how it ended thirty five thirty five. Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: so their first attempt at regular season overtime ended in

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Speaker 1: the tie. Here's here's one for you. The first team

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Speaker 1: to ever win a regular season overtime game was Joe

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Speaker 1: Nameth and the New York Jets over the New York

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Speaker 1: Giants later that year. Wow. And now the Jets have

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Speaker 1: got a new quarterback. We'll get into that that A

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Speaker 1: lot of people have said he's the best sets name.

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Speaker 1: We definitely will do that. Russell I gotta I really

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Speaker 1: got to start with thoughts about the Texans. We talked

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Speaker 1: about it all this offseason about well, you just go

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Speaker 1: up there and you rip the band aid off. You

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Speaker 1: just rip it right off, You rip it right off.

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Speaker 1: And then they did. They ripped the bandaid right off,

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Speaker 1: and then a lot of people are like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to look at the scab. Well, what do

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Speaker 1: you think you're gonna get when you rip the band

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Speaker 1: aid off? You're gonna see a scab. You're gonna see

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Speaker 1: things that you probably don't like. But in the end,

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Speaker 1: you went up to Foxborough, you lost by seven, You

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Speaker 1: played I thought a less than average game, especially offensively,

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Speaker 1: especially in the first half. You said, you got settled

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Speaker 1: in the second half, and you walk out of there

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Speaker 1: losing by seventh to the AFC champs in their building

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Speaker 1: one year after they lost the opener. What were your

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Speaker 1: kind of overall thoughts of Texans v Patriots in Week one,

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Speaker 1: actually on both sides, both Texans and Patriots. What do

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Speaker 1: you think. Well, I thought that the Texans, and understandably so,

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Speaker 1: played tended to football in the first half, and because

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Speaker 1: right now, I think they've attended the quarterback. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's great to come back from knee surgery in less

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Speaker 1: than the year, but having confidence in that knee sometimes

588
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: takes an additional year, and we see it a lot

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Speaker 1: of times, regardless of the position of a player who

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Speaker 1: comes back and he's declared one hundred percent. Now, of

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Speaker 1: course that is physically. That one hundred percent doesn't always

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Speaker 1: cover mentally. And you know, I don't know Deshaun Watson mindset,

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Speaker 1: but he did not look like the same quarterback we saw,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we did get to see him last year.

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Speaker 1: And I think that'll just come with time. As usually,

596
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: they had a tough time cover in Rob Gronkowski, but

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Speaker 1: they hung in there and they had their chances. I

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Speaker 1: think some people would say they didn't look like they

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Speaker 1: were too urgent with the clock late in the game,

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Speaker 1: but you know, your point is right. It's listen, it's

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Speaker 1: a place they've never played. I'm sorry, it's the place

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Speaker 1: they've ever won. It's a franchise they've only ever beaten once,

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Speaker 1: which was I think at the end of the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine season. And I don't know what this means, John,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna throw this out here, because day

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Speaker 1: New England's next opponent is Jacksonville, and b it was

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Speaker 1: the texans eighth straight loss to New England overall, they

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Speaker 1: should feel like they're in good company. The Colts have

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Speaker 1: lost seven straight to the Patriots overall, the Jaguars have

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Speaker 1: lost eighth straight to the Patriots all, and the Titans

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Speaker 1: have lost seventh straight to the Patriots overall. So the

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Speaker 1: AFC South has certainly gone south when they played the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Yeah, no doubt. And obviously the last

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Speaker 1: few times fast few years it's coincided with Jacksonville, Tennessee

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Speaker 1: really being really being at the kind of the dregs

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Speaker 1: of the league, and they obviously are not that now.

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Speaker 1: But New England still has that strangle hold. And you

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Speaker 1: mentioned it. They've got Tom Brady and they have Rob Gronkowski,

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Speaker 1: and if they don't have either one of those, I

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Speaker 1: think the Texans going to win that game. But because

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Speaker 1: they have both of them, they made big places throughout

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Speaker 1: the day. You know, it's it's it's maddening to go

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Speaker 1: up there again and not play well. But I think

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Speaker 1: there were some positives to take out of that and

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Speaker 1: hopefully against Tennessee will get that Russell. Tennessee, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, goes down to Miami. They also lose twenty

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Speaker 1: seven to twenty, but they play a seven hour game

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Speaker 1: in large part because of two delays, two two hour

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Speaker 1: delays that made that one seven hours in six minutes.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much we can take out of

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Speaker 1: what we saw from Tennessee, but losing the Laney Walker

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Speaker 1: is a massive loss for them. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that game changed my opinion of Tennessee or Miami in

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Speaker 1: the slightest. Well, what do you think overall from the Titans?

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Speaker 1: Even though they lost lost Marcus Mariota, they went to

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Speaker 1: Gabbert and actually scored with Gabert. What kind of Tessee

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Speaker 1: team do you think the Texans will be facing this weekend? Well,

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Speaker 1: they'll face a very physical football team. That's that's really

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00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: the calling card of the Tennessee Titans and the last

640
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Speaker 1: couple of years. Obviously, they have the new head coach

641
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: as well, you know, when I was doing my power

642
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: rankings for Fanside the Shameless Bug, I had Miami and

643
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee and I didn't touch them in terms of because

644
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: I thought it was unfair to really gauge a seven

645
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 1: hour and ten minute game. Um, you know where they

646
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: had more. Let's put this way, the game had more

647
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: stops than some of the defenses. Yeah, true way, yeah

648
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: true so. And by the way, it wasn't unusual. I mean,

649
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: we get three games delayed by weather this week, Dallas,

650
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: Carolina and of course the Thursday night opener with Atlanta

651
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. But to really judge what we saw, it's

652
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: really I mean, how much rhythm can you get into?

653
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's like playing be like playing

654
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: another preseason game. Of course, Marcus Mariota got banged up

655
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: as well. Was it was. It was a tough afternoon

656
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: for Tennessee, a playoff team from a year ago. And

657
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: you know Miami, who I think it's one of the

658
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 1: hardest teams to read coming into the season. They got

659
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: rid of Dominican Sue, they got rid of Mike Pouncy,

660
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill. I hadn't been in a game in over

661
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: a year. You know they won that. You know, well,

662
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: let's put this way, the special teams left a lot

663
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: to be desired on both parts. Ye both gave up

664
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: long returns and so on. But it's hard to get

665
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: a gauge on what Tennessee was. And even last year,

666
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: it's hard to get a gauge on what Tennessee was

667
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: when they faced the Texans. They got blown out beyond

668
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: recognition the first time with DeShawn Watson, then of course

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00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: rebounded win the second game. Yeah, and of course no Watson,

670
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: no Watton, no merciless in those games. In that second

671
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: game against Tennessee, and Texans still a shot through an

672
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: interception late in the end zone, down by four now

673
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: about a minute left. But we're letting that be in

674
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: the past, if you will. Russell, you mentioned Jacksonville earlier.

675
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: Jacksonville gets a win over the Giants. I thought the

676
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: Giants would be improved this year. I don't know what

677
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: really to think about either team really at this point,

678
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Speaker 1: other than we know what Jacksonville is. Jacksonville is gonna

679
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 1: play good defense, great defense as a matter of fact,

680
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: and they're gonna run the ball. But with no Leonard Fournett,

681
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: that seems to and no pun intended here hamstring that offense,

682
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: so to speak. What do you think about the Jaguars

683
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: now getting the New England Patriots and a chance to

684
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,959
Speaker 1: break that streak you talked about of all these AFC

685
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: South teams losing to New England. How imagine Jacksonville is

686
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: looking forward to New England in Week two? What do

687
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: you think about the Jaguars getting that win up against

688
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: the Giants? Well, I mean, listen, it's been a long time.

689
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: I believe the only time jack Seville has ever beat

690
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: New England it was in the playoffs, which was twenty

691
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: twenty years ago when Pete Carroll was the head coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it one of ninety nine. So um w.

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00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has the pieces to create a lot of big

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00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: plays on defense. Offensively, they're very limited. They really don't

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00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: have a good wide receiving for at all. I mean

696
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: a lot of their receivers are gone in Marque's league

697
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: is out for the year, so it's but New England's

698
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: in the same boat as far as wide receivers. There's

699
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: you see who the people they They signed Jerry Coleman,

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00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: they signed Benny Fowler. Um, you know they're picking up

701
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: an extra running back to replace Jeremy hill Um, who's

702
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: who's now out for the year. So New England's not

703
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: coming in here with a head of steam at all.

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00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: You know, last year, the difference between Jacksonville winning that

705
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: playoff game and blowing that ten point league was the

706
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: depth on the defensive front. And we're going to have

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00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: to see that this week. Do they have enough guys?

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00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that pass rush had fifty five sacks last

709
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: year but faded in the fourth quarter at New England.

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00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: So can they still rush Tom Brady like Philadelphia was

711
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: able to rush Tom Brady in the fourth quarter in

712
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and that you're right, and that obviously

713
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: was the key, and that was one thing we actually

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00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: did in the second half. We rushed Brady a little

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: bit better. But Russell, you bring up a great point

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00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: with the Patriots in that game against New England. Chris

717
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: Hogan had one catch and they targeted four or five times.

718
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: But Philip Thorset stepped up and actually proved by why

719
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: he was a former first round pick. He had a

720
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: good ball game. But really, you're right, the Patriots are

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00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: definitely limited at wide receiver, which is unfortunate going against

722
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville because that allows Jacksonville to put Jalen Ramsey on Gronk,

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Speaker 1: probably the only guy in this league that could shut

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00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: down Gronk in any way, shape or form. So I'm

725
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: definitely curious to see how that goes. Russell I mentioned

726
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: on the outset we talked about the Jets a little bit.

727
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: You mentioned Joe Namath, and that's a name we hear

728
00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: a lot of nowadays because Sam Darnel is now with

729
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: New York with the Jets, and people were saying, oh,

730
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: he's the most exciting quarterback since Joe Namath. He wasn't

731
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: perfect on Monday Night, but wow, what a win for

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00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: the Jets to kick off the Sam Donald era. I

733
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: don't know, we get too excited. Always call week one

734
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: way over reaction Monday because we react so much to

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00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: what we see. But I gotta think, if you're a

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Speaker 1: Jets fan, you gotta feel way better than you ever

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00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: have with him at quarterback and what they're building there

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Speaker 1: in New York with Todd Bowls and Mike mccagnets at GM.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about Donald the Jets? Well, listen,

740
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: he threw across the field and threw a pick six.

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00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: Settled himself down, did just enough. I mean it was

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00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: a complete team effort. That's you know, when your defense

743
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: is picking off passes left and right, it takes life

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00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: easier for everybody. They got a special team's touchdown as well.

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00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: You know, I think you've got what they many people

746
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: were expecting given the way he played during the preseason.

747
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean, they're down seven nothing, they're on the road,

748
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: it's Monday night football. It's a lot of factors there,

749
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: and he really kind of took it in stride. So

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00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: they don't give out wards after one week, as you

751
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: well know. But I think the adversity and the ability

752
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: to bounce back from it early on and not getting

753
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: himself rattled was the key to that whole performance. Yeah,

754
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: no question, he does not get rattled, and that was

755
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: one of the keys to Deshaun Watson's performance last year.

756
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: But not getting rattled, not getting rattled. And I think

757
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: you're right when you mentioned that earlier, Russell about this

758
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: Sean the first time coming back from a knee injury.

759
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: We talked to Bill Bryan about that and he said

760
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: when Brady came off the knee injury and after two

761
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, the first game of two thousand and nine.

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00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: He struggled right out of the gate. The first half

763
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: was not great. Second half he started getting dialed in

764
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: and then he started seeing the kind of the same

765
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: old Tom Brady after that. But it takes a little

766
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: while to get kind of get going. Russell I mentioned

767
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 1: the tie earlier in the NFL that was the Browns

768
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: and the Steelers, and the Browns, with a shot at

769
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: the very end get a field goal block, could have

770
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: got a win, but they settled for a tie. I

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00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: would imagine the tech the Browns are going to break

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00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: the top the losing streak at some point, and maybe

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00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: they do it with some a plump. But what do

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00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: you think of the Browns? Are they really a team

775
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: that can win six or seven games this year? I

776
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: think eventually they'll those shuffle the quarterbacks. I think they've

777
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: got a nice decent two headed running game, um, but

778
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: their offensive line still needs a lot of work. Obviously,

779
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, I know, didn't play the last nine games

780
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: of the year last year, but you know, they thought

781
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: they might have had the left tackle that they were

782
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 1: looking for, and lo and behold, they traded into San Francisco,

783
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: Sean Colevin. Yeah, yeah, you know new left tack They

784
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: gave up seven sacks the other day. T J. Watt

785
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: M t J Watt had eleven tackles, four sacks and

786
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: blocked the field goal at the end of the game.

787
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: Other other netting into a damn thing. So um, they

788
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: better learned to block somebody. But I will say this

789
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: opposing offense is better learned to block Myles Garrett and

790
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: that defense, which was awfully impressive. I was the sloppy game.

791
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: I know was the reign, the fact that they were

792
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: relentlessly coming after Ben Roethlisburg, even in the fourth quarter,

793
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: down two touchdowns and making plays and getting strip sacked

794
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: Greg Williams JUnit. And by the way, there were a

795
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: number of people knocking the Browns for taking Denzel Award

796
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: over Bradley Chubb. Again, one game doesn't make a career,

797
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: but it's worth pointing out the Denzel Award had two

798
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: picks in his first game as a rookie. Yeah, Denzel

799
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: Ward can play. He can play, just at number four.

800
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: It was a little bit. I was not surprised they

801
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: took him, But then again, Miles Garrett is the absolute

802
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: truth and I saw him in College every single week

803
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: in Russell, You're absolutely right. People better get ready to

804
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: face that guy. There's no question about that, Russell. Last

805
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: one before I let you go, the John Gruden return,

806
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: ye didn't go so well in Oakland, and then this

807
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: team is going to move to Las Vegas at some point. Russell,

808
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: I really feel like the fan base, first of all

809
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: our he turned on Gruden. It feels that way after

810
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: the Khalil Mack trade. Then David Derek Carter does not

811
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: played well the other night. I feel like this could

812
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: go really badly for Gruden this year. It may not

813
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: get better for the next couple of years. What are

814
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the Raiders and the Gruden experiment two

815
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: dot Oh, well, I think we have to see what

816
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: happens with you know, the ramifications of the trade. You know,

817
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: it sounded like you know, and there were reports out

818
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: there that John Bruten had not talked to Khalil Mack,

819
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: which have proven to be absolutely false. I think the

820
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: bigger question in Oakland right now is he's running the ship? Right?

821
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: Is it John Gruden? Is it Reggie mackenzie. Are they

822
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: on the same page, Because they've been an absolute, you know,

823
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: an absolute lot of transactions between with this team and

824
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: so on during the offseason. They continued, he just bought

825
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: Martakeos Bryant back after they had cut him, after they

826
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: had traded for him. You know, they traded for Ryan

827
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: Switzer's from the Cowboys, and then they traded him to Pittsburgh.

828
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Speaker 1: So it seems like there's a lot of shuffle a personnel.

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00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if John Brudl on the sidelines Monday

830
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: had a play sheet or a depth chart. You're right,

831
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: he probably needed. I actually probably needed both depth charts

832
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: we all use in the press. Spot. Yeah, exactly one

833
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,959
Speaker 1: of those flip cards. Maybe he needs one, There's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And I think you're right, Russell, as I said, I

835
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: think we gotta wait a little bit to let this

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Speaker 1: play out and see what they get back in the trade.

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00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: But the immediate aftermath people not too happy out in Oakland.

838
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: I wonder what they're thinking in Las Vegas. You can

839
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: throw out team that had a new head coach next

840
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 1: week last week, and five of them made their NFL

841
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: head coaching debuts, and two of them came back, Pat

842
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: Shermer and John bruten That's the account was and seven Yeah,

843
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind it staying that way. Even though I

844
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: like Mike Rabel, I wouldn't mind it staying that way

845
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: into week two because the Texas take on Mike Rabel

846
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: and the Titans in Tennessee this weekend. At Backs Football

847
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: Guru Fansida dot Com. Russell does a great job and

848
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: he joins us every single Wednesday at this time. Russell,

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00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: you're the man. Thank you very much, my friend. You

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Speaker 1: got it, sir, coming up now, it's the game plan. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Brian Gaine joins the voice of Texans Mark an Ry

852
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Speaker 1: next right here in Texans Axis. We really appreciate you

853
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Speaker 1: listening to Texans All Access coming to you live from

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Speaker 1: the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. Glad to be with you

855
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: for this second hour. Yes, during the season we get

856
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: two hours on Wednesday night, six to eight, so we

857
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: are glad to be with you. I'm your host, John

858
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: Harris Football House. That's Salad Reporter. It's time food gain plan.

859
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine, General manager. Okay, Brian, So week one is

860
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: in the rear view mirror now, and last week we

861
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: talked about putting together the roster and everything, and right

862
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: away going into week two, you have work to do

863
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: on the roster because of injuries and everything. It never

864
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: stops for you. The roster is this amiba that takes

865
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: different shapes all throughout the course of the season. Bill

866
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: and I are always talking about contingency planning, and I'm

867
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: constantly working on those contingencies with our personnel staff Matt Bazigan,

868
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: our director of player personnel, and Rob Kissel, our director

869
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: of pro scouting. Along with the pro personnel scouting staff,

870
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: we're always strategizing the next best out there at every position.

871
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: Who's the best available offense, defense, every single position scheme,

872
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: fit system, fit players. But equally, we're evaluating players on

873
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: other teams practice squads, and they were always evaluating the

874
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: waiver wire on a daily basis to see who's coming

875
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: available so that we can rank and prioritize players when

876
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: and if the bill rings and we have to go

877
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: get a player to solve a problem. I guess it's

878
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: a strange question, But earlier in the week, Michael Prewitts

879
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: signed from your practice squad ont to Tennessee. They had

880
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: a tight end need because of Delaney Walker and everything.

881
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: That's kind of an interesting situation in this league though,

882
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: that you can actually go into someone's building and remove

883
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: a player, but you have to put them on your

884
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: fifty three. And it's been that way for a while correct.

885
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: So every NFL team has a ten man practice squad,

886
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: and we like to consider ours the developmental squad, and

887
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: they're very much a part of what we're doing here.

888
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: We feel like they're a part of the team. We're

889
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: constantly working with those guys to develop them, to give

890
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: them the reps they need to progress and improve, coaching

891
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: them just like the rest of them. They're just as

892
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: much part of our program as the guys are that

893
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Speaker 1: are in the fifty three. But our scouting staff is

894
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: always evaluating our own practice squad players on a day

895
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,479
Speaker 1: to day basis, but we're also evaluating the other thirty

896
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: one teams practice squads again, ranking prioritizing those players by positions,

897
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: so that when an f and need arises, we know

898
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Speaker 1: who's available on the proverbial street and then who's available

899
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: to be had from other teams practice squads. In this instance,

900
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: they lost to Lonnie Walker in Tennessee and they were

901
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 1: looking for a tight end to fill the roster spot

902
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: and then call on McCole pruit to fill that role.

903
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have the ability to keep those players and

904
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Speaker 1: you promote them to your active roster, or you find

905
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: a way to recruit them to stay here. But he

906
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: opted to choose and to pursue that opportunity, and we

907
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: would do the same as it relates to going to

908
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: other teams practice squads and when those times come to

909
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: fill a need. In this specific instance, right now, we

910
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: feel like the Titans is a position of strength, so

911
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 1: we're comfortable of what we have. As you go deeper

912
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: into the season, you mentioned you're always evaluating people on

913
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: other teams practice squads. You really have to go with

914
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: what you've gotten in the preseason or through history, right

915
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,720
Speaker 1: because you really don't know how they're doing in practice

916
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: week to week, and some guys might really be developing.

917
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: So it's got to be tough to gauge that sort

918
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: of thing as you go. But sometimes you just have

919
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: needs and have to fill it. Yeah, the best answer

920
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: I would provide there is the preparation that we put

921
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: in during the preseason to evaluate so many of those

922
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Speaker 1: players that do end up on the practice squad, and

923
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Speaker 1: some of those players who don't make the fifty three

924
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Speaker 1: or land on the practice squad and they end up

925
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: on what you would call your ready list, your short list,

926
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Speaker 1: your player available is. So we spend countless hours in

927
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: the preseason to really help us, not just at the

928
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Speaker 1: fifty three man cut down, but at any point during

929
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Speaker 1: the season. It could be week two, week five, week ten,

930
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: week twelve, or the work you did from August first

931
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: to September first can pay a dividend for you when

932
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: the bell rings and you have to fill a need.

933
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: But one thing Bill and I have always talked about is,

934
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Speaker 1: you know, our natural reaction when we have to fill

935
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Speaker 1: a roster spot, it's always going to be what's our

936
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: internal solution? Right? And then all right, let's talk about

937
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: what the external solutions are and then measure what's what's

938
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: the best opportunity to help our team win. How gratifying

939
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: is it for you? Obviously you want to win every game,

940
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: but in defeat and in victory you always want to

941
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: analyze every little thing and the new guys, the rookies.

942
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: You have played pretty well. When you look at Justin Reid.

943
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: Let's take him for example. You liked him coming out

944
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: of Stamford, and he made some plays for you in

945
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: the game and kind of looked like he belonged. I

946
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: know there's things to work out, but so far, so

947
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: good with him. Yeah, Justin, we felt played well this

948
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: past weekend. Look anytime we take the few week we

949
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: played a win. Unfortunately it didn't happen that way. But

950
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Speaker 1: you never play maybe as good as you think you

951
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: did when you watch the tape, and maybe you never

952
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: play as bad as you think you did. The bottom

953
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: line is we didn't win the game. We're gonna work

954
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: like Keck this week to try to put us in

955
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: position to win a game. But we felt like Justin

956
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: performed and what I would call a winning performance at

957
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: a winning performance this past week. And we think he's

958
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: got a high ceiling, a lot of upside, a lot

959
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: of potential. You've heard me talk about this before. He

960
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: has all the physical parameters we look for, the look

961
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,280
Speaker 1: for at the position. He has the height to weight, speed,

962
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: the experience. We think he's a two way player where

963
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 1: you can play the run, he can play the pass.

964
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: Get a very good pass breakup on the Gronkowski pass

965
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: I think they're in the second half, which forced the

966
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: punt and gave us the ball back on offense and

967
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: gave us another chance to put a drive together, had

968
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: a few key tackles, showed up on special teams, so

969
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: we're excited about his progress and his potential. Brian, if

970
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: the offensive line, we're a home remodeling project in the offseason,

971
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: you could say you took it down to the studs

972
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: and redid everything there. And then in the course of

973
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: the game, you lose Sean Trelle, which I know had

974
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: to be especially painful obviously for Sean Trelle, but for

975
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: you bringing him here and having the history with him

976
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and then you have a switch going on

977
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: during the game where it Rankin plays left tackle and

978
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: Davenport right, and I know you prepare for these things,

979
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: but boy, you're thrust right into that week one. Yeah,

980
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: unfortunate for Santro, and we felt like he had a

981
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: good training camp and even the two series that he

982
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: was in this game, we felt like he was playing

983
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: at a winning level, at a high level. So it's unfortunate,

984
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: but it's the next man up. And again it goes

985
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 1: back to the contingency plan and you're constantly planning for

986
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: when and if those times come. We drafted Martinez ranking

987
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: in the third round for a reason. We think he's

988
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 1: got good developmental upside potential, He's got a high ceiling

989
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: and you've heard me see this before. He's really an

990
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. He's not just a left tackle. But Julian

991
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: Davenport gives us the flexibility to play on the left

992
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: side of the right side, and we felt right now

993
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: for a rookie entering the game that it might be

994
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: just just best to keep mental left and let julianne

995
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: Go play the right. And this is the reason why

996
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: he's here. We drafted him for a reason to go

997
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: play football, and Mike Devlan's done a good job of

998
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: getting him ready as well as Julian and next man

999
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: up guys got to get in there and get the

1000
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: job done. He signed Tyrn Matthew in the offseason and

1001
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: then he's a captain and he makes a couple of

1002
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: big plays in the game, has the fumble recovery, the interception.

1003
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how they grade out and other things

1004
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: with all these defensive backs, but your reaction to his

1005
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: debut as a Houston Texas The first thing I think

1006
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: about his production two way production and shows up in

1007
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: the running game and equally the passing game. You can

1008
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: play man coverage. He can play his own coverage. One

1009
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: of the top qualities that tarn has is his natural

1010
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: instincts and it just finds a way to be around

1011
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: the football, whether it's in the passing game or in

1012
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: the running game. And and his ball awareness when the

1013
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: ball is in the air is really special. Equally as leadership,

1014
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: the things that go on outside the lines, just you know,

1015
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, communication, and the guy plays hard. His

1016
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: energy and is intensity throughout the game is consistent. So

1017
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: those are some of the intangibles that stand out to me.

1018
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: But we're excited about about his promise and potential here

1019
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: for the eighteen season and the impact that we could

1020
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: have here on our defense. Brian, what do you do

1021
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: during the game? What are your eyes on during the game?

1022
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: How do you focus your attention? First and foremost, you know,

1023
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch how the game and evolves, Watching

1024
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do on offense, watching what the

1025
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: opponent's trying to do on defense vice versa, on the

1026
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, and then and then fourth down,

1027
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: observing field position battles and how those are being won

1028
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: and lost. There's some individual battles that are going on

1029
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: in the game, I have a heightened sense of awareness

1030
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 1: to the players who may be dealing with some injuries

1031
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,280
Speaker 1: and playing through those things. And then when injuries do occur,

1032
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: immediately we're already contingency planning for if we have to

1033
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: get players here and for tryouts and workouts Monday and

1034
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: Tuesday to react to those injuries. So we spend a

1035
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: lot of time doing that. And then, uh, you know,

1036
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: you're hoping for victory at the end of the day,

1037
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: you're hoping for victory. But a lot a lot is

1038
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: told that, you know in the post game with the tape. Yeah,

1039
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: and people may or may not know this, but the

1040
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 1: flights are spent flying back from wherever you are watching

1041
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 1: the film and digesting the game and seeing certain performances,

1042
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 1: and you know, on the winning end of things, it

1043
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: excites you. And when things don't go your way, you

1044
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: want to get alien to correct the measures, what you

1045
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: got to do to turn things around, to find a

1046
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: way to win. We could probably do a whole show

1047
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: on technology, right, because when you started in this business,

1048
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: I would imagine it would take a while to get

1049
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: that tape so you could look at the game. I mean,

1050
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: now you get something right, away on a pad and

1051
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: you can see the whole thing right, all twenty two

1052
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: and everything. Yeah, Tim Bragg, our video director, does a

1053
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: great job with you and his staff. I've given us

1054
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: the resources to do our jobs well, so we appreciate

1055
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: their best efforts. What about what's going on with college scouting.

1056
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: This is a whole other dimension that's happening during the

1057
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: season because the college season is taking place and you

1058
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: have to prepare for the draft right now, right, yes,

1059
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: So for those that may or may not know, we

1060
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: really start our draft preparations for next year's draft starting

1061
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: right around June first, where we get all our latest

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Speaker 1: our scouts work on summer projects. We enter into training camp,

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00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: but our own training camp, and then our scouts dispersed

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00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: roughly the first week of August and they're visiting all

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00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: their areas, training camps, and their programs that they have

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00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: to go to. And then once the games start, you know,

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00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: our scouts are going to do the school visits through

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00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: the week, evaluating the prospects, attending games on the weekends.

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00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: And now the videos are starting to come in, so

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Speaker 1: we're already strategizing putting together our draft boards for the

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00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft based on who we think is coming available,

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Speaker 1: and that's all in pencil. Obviously, that that that that

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00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: changes as the weeks go on. But our scouts are

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00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: all on the road right now, working hard in the

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00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: thick of it and ranking guys, grading guys. Reports are

1076
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: coming back in and we're slowly but surely starting to

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Speaker 1: watch the film ourselves from an internal standpoint. And the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans our next step for the Houston Texans. So

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00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: back to back on the road. This is a big

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00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: one for the organization. Divisional game and you know, some

1081
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,360
Speaker 1: of the key pillars to how we want to succeed

1082
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: here at the Texans is, you know, the heightened awareness

1083
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: to divisional opponents. So it's the first division game of

1084
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: the season, it's the next game. You've heard me say

1085
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: this before, singular focus, singular purpose. So we're both fighting

1086
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: for a victory. So we're going on the road in

1087
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: the tough environment versus a formidable team who was a

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00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: playoff talented team last year. So we're aware of that

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00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to play our best football going

1090
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: near and pull out a victory. Brian has certainly stayed busy,

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00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. With all the acquisitions that

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Speaker 1: we talked about earlier in the show. Appreciate Brian. I'll

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00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: catch up with him on Sunday from the Nissan Stadium sidelines.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time for this week's stats Challenge, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Schlumberge. Visit Houston Texas dot com today

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Speaker 1: to register to take the stats Challenge. Now, the number

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00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: is twenty eight point six percent. What was that? That

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00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: was the New England Patriots third down conversion percentage four

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00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: out of fourteen. Now, if you do some ratio conversion,

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00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: it's essentially two out of seven. Do the math in

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00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: your head. That's twenty eight point five to seven percent.

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Speaker 1: That's a pre salty number for a defense holding Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady in check on third down four of fourteen. Now,

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00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: you would love for that to be one of fourteen,

1105
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: because every stop you get on third down helps you

1106
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: that much more. I think it helps you exponentially. But

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00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: getting those stops when they did massive for the Texans defense,

1108
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: and really I think it's sort of bore itself out.

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00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: They got one touchdown on a short field, they got

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00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: one on the last drive for the half, and Brock's

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00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: big play was a factor in there. I don't think

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00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: they had a third down. Whenever they had a third down,

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00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: they were They were essentially shut down on that drive

1114
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: by this defense twenty eight point six percent. If you

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00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: hold opponents to twenty eight point six percent on a

1116
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: third down, you're gonna win a lot of games in

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00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: this league, no doubt in my mind, you'll win a

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00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: lot of games in this league. So the defense has

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: got to do that, and then some on Sunday against

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota or Blaine Gabbert. Either way, this Texas defense

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00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: has got to be great again on third down. All right,

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Speaker 1: when we get back, the Voice that Texans, Mark Vandamer,

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00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: joins me. We'll talk about this weekend's game. Will Hurricane

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00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: Florence play a big role in this one? We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that next right here in Texas Access, Welcome back

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00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. Honday Texans

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00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: Radio Studio. It's where we are, and I say we

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Speaker 1: because it's now time for the Voice of Texans, Mark Vandimer,

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00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: to join me. I am John Harris, your host this evening. Mark,

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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Johnny? I'm over it. I gotta say,

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00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm kind of over the loss. I was gonna ask

1132
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: you that I went through Elizabeth Coobler Ross's Five Stages

1133
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: of Death very quickly. I think I was in a

1134
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: bit of denial on Monday because it was still fresh

1135
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know what, it wasn't that bad.

1136
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: We'll get through it. I actually felt worse on Tuesday,

1137
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: and I think that I did on Monday. Tuesday morning anyway,

1138
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: I thought, oh man, did we really do that? Did

1139
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: the Texans lose to the Patriots? Hoping? But then I realized, again, Hey,

1140
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: it's week one. We said that it was gonna be tough.

1141
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: We knew it was gonna be tough. They didn't get

1142
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: it done, and they're worse some positives, and if they

1143
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: don't build on those positives, then that's on them. Obviously

1144
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: they'll be the first ones to tell you that, but

1145
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: I think they will. And we all want to see

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01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: it happen starting Sunday. But and I'm sure you've brought

1147
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: this up or you will, it could be one of

1148
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: those ugly games because of weather. I think that's an

1149
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: emerging factor and story related to this game. Yeah, the

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01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: hurricane Florence has her eyes set on North Carolina, it seems,

1151
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: but once it gets inland, then it can take a

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01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: completely different path. I've been checking the weather, and I

1153
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: check the weather all the time. As soon as we

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01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: leave one city, this is what I do. As soon

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01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: as we leave one city, I delete that city off

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01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: of my weather. I have like five cities that can track.

1157
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: I take that city off the next city on and Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

1158
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: just bright shiny sun in Nashville. But you know how

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01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: those things are though. With the hurricane though, you know,

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01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: a different ball game. It's funny because even during a

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01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: hurricane in Houston, and I've lived through a few now,

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: during the hurricane, I'll go to the ten day or

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01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: there by our weather forecast and it doesn't say hurricane

1164
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: off and it'll just say rain. And I'm thinking, oh, really, yes,

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01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: it is raining very good, whether channel or whoever I'm

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01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: logging onto for that. So I don't know about this,

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01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: because I think they might not know because you look

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01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: at the models for this thing. It's like, you know,

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01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: at first it was they thought it might go north.

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01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: Right now it's like taking a left turned south. And

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01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: that even scares me more because I'm like, don't head

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01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: out to the Gulf and rejuvenate or anything. Just dissipate

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01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: and get out of here, right, And it sounds like

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01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna be a rough one page and

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Speaker 1: I we're talking about the last night my wife. Page

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01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: was from North Carolina. Family all over the state, and

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Speaker 1: she said we were talking about because we went nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six. We got kicked out for berthough. We were

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Speaker 1: down in Moorhead City, Amerdile, North Carolina, and we were

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01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: having vacation and we got kicked out. We got we

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01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: had to evacuate because the hurricane hit and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: I think it ended up being a category two when

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Speaker 1: it hit. It's a good name for a hurricane, though,

1184
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: if you're going to name, yeah, comes Bertha and then Florence.

1185
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: Because I hear Florence, I think of See that's the thing,

1186
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: and I think of Florence. I think of Florence Henderson.

1187
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: Of course you think of Carol Brady and she would

1188
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: never hurt anybody. But she said that she could never

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Speaker 1: remember hurricane hitting North Carolina that was a category four

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Speaker 1: really or five? Maybe it's five maybe what they had

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01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: never had a category five, but the one that had

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Speaker 1: hit the Carolinas was Hugo back in eighty nine ish

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Speaker 1: and that hit the last ten fifteen years, a bad

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01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: one hit North Carolina, but it was bad, but it

1195
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 1: was never a Category five five so either way, and

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Speaker 1: not a direct hit it was or it's it was

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01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: coming up along the coast after hitting Florida or something.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was a couple of years ago. It

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Speaker 1: was I want to say Floyd, but that was looking up.

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Speaker 1: But that's exactly what happened to Kurt. Hurricane basically hit

1201
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: north to Jacksonville about a half hour and then just

1202
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: rolled basically up the coast before it then rolled back

1203
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 1: up the seat. But it's just kind of skimmed. But

1204
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,919
Speaker 1: that's the thing. The the initial tracker had it going north.

1205
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: So did I just say nuisance? They're more than a nuisance.

1206
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: It's a deadly beast that's coming our way. And unfortunately,

1207
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: I think what's gonna happen. What it sounds like is

1208
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: the same thing that happened here where the thing just

1209
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: sat installed. But by the time Harvey hit here, it

1210
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: was a category one or two, Yeah, but it just

1211
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: sat finding. This one's gonna be a category four, potentially

1212
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: category five, and it's gonna sit install so, but didn't Ike?

1213
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Speaker 1: Did I just say Ike, Harvey? Didn't Harvey? Wasn't it

1214
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: stronger before it hit than it slows down? I think so?

1215
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: I think remember all like details. All I know is

1216
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: what happened, And you're right, this could be really nasty,

1217
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: and I think football wise, going back to that, it

1218
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: could affect the game. You're on the dirty side of

1219
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: it in Nashville, but it's not any kind of direct

1220
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,919
Speaker 1: hit there. But you know we're talking. It's a football show.

1221
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:51,919
Speaker 1: I just think that it could be rainy. It could

1222
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: be a bit of a factor on Sunday. How does

1223
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 1: that change things? I thought about this when we went

1224
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: up to New England because the initial forecast for New England,

1225
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: like a week out, was there was potential for rain.

1226
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Speaker 1: I remember saying, I don't want rain for this offense.

1227
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: I don't want rain for our offense. I would think

1228
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: the rain would favor the Titans just because of the

1229
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Speaker 1: kind of offense I would expect they're gonna have. But

1230
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: they're taking to the larky, exotic smash mouth maybe right,

1231
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't but they ran the ball okay the other day.

1232
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: Not great, But I don't know. I don't know if

1233
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: rain helps either team. To be honest, I would like

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01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: to think that the way the Texans ran the ball,

1235
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: you think you could you could be mutters for a

1236
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: little bit and run the ball pretty well against Tennessee.

1237
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: But but I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'll

1238
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: play Joe webbitt quarterback. I'm just kidding about that. But

1239
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: Joe Webb's a mutter. If there's anybody, if there's anybody

1240
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: on this team, if there's anybody on this team that's

1241
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: a mutter, it's Joe Webb, there's no question. But Watson's

1242
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. I think that with this particular,

1243
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: with these conditions, there's rain and there's rain. You know,

1244
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: sometimes people make too big a deal out of rain.

1245
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: Little rain. You can throw the ball fine, all right,

1246
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: a little bit, But if it's if it's a deluge,

1247
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: then that's a different story. Then you're running the ball,

1248
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: You're doing different things, throwing short passes at the most

1249
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: in all likelihood, and that goes for the snow too.

1250
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes in the snow you can make some

1251
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: big plays like Webb did for Buffalo last year. I

1252
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: think the seauan of the offense, the way they ran

1253
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: the ball in the second half, they'll come out trying

1254
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: to run it. Titans can run it. Like you said,

1255
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about this, though Derrick Henry

1256
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: didn't have so much against Miami, right it was really

1257
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis doing the ground damage for them. Well, it's interesting,

1258
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: is reading. I've read it. I have a couple of

1259
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: people that follow on Twitter, and then those people are

1260
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: retweeting what other fans are saying, etc. There seems to

1261
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: be a consensus building that the people with the air

1262
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: quotes the people people would like to see Dion Lewis

1263
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: a whole lot more than they would Derrick Henry. They

1264
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: just feel like Dion Lewis in this offense might be

1265
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: more effective than Henry is going to be. But last year,

1266
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 1: Henry gets loose on that little flip play at the

1267
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: end of the game. It goes seventy five and we

1268
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: don't have anybody and catch him. So I think they've

1269
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: got a good thing going. I think they should, probably

1270
01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: for their sake, just stick with Henry, knowing that they've

1271
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: got Lewis to be able to counter bounce what he does.

1272
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: But I other than that one run, Henry's never really

1273
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: given us a big issue now. When they had Murray

1274
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: an Henry, it was a two prong threat. Now it's

1275
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: two prong threat, and the other prong is very different

1276
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: from the way to Marco Murray was when he was

1277
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: running the ball well and Lewis can catch the ball

1278
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, good safe option for Mariota or

1279
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: whoever's playing quarterback. The loss of Delaney Walker, though, is

1280
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: a very large, huge, Yeah, absolutely gonna. I was absolutely

1281
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: gonna ask you about that because how many times even

1282
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: when Tennessee was bad in I say bad when we

1283
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: played him in fourteen and fifteen and they weren't very

1284
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: good in either of those years, but there was one

1285
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: guy that still concerned me all the time, and I

1286
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: was Delanney Walker. Yeah, he's the guy who made plays

1287
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: for them. He's a safety valve. He's a well security

1288
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: blanket is a better way to put it for whoever's

1289
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. The other thing is this, you know Tennessee

1290
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. I know that Castle played last year in

1291
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 1: the game in which the Texans had no receivers. And

1292
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: it's so funny how quickly things change. Because I was

1293
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: talking about it with somebody about well, who's playing receiver

1294
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: for the Texans. Steven Anderson was a receiver, and Andre

1295
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: Ellington Ellington the other Llington and Chris Thompson and DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah,

1296
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty nasty to have to deal

1297
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: with on that afternoon, and they were within a throw

1298
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: of winning the game. I know that's how close it was.

1299
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: But you look at Tennessee backup quarterback Zach Mettenberger and

1300
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,440
Speaker 1: castle on occasion, who has been hammered by the Texans

1301
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert once upon a time with a Texans crash

1302
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: test dummy. I mean, you could have a situation where

1303
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: you're just teeing off on Blaine Gabbett. But I think

1304
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: big Gabbert is a better quarterback than he was a

1305
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: few years ago. Yeah see, he's learned a lot. I'm

1306
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: not saying as a starter in this league, but he

1307
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: can still do some damage. They're gonna be all jacked

1308
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: up at home to play some good football get their

1309
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: first win of the year. So you know, those who

1310
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: think that the Texans are gonna go waltzing into Tennessee,

1311
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: waltzing into Nashville or is it a two step and

1312
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: get an easy win. I don't know about that, But

1313
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: just give me a win of any kind and I'll

1314
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: be happy coming home. Yeah, it doesn't matter they win

1315
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: twelve to seven, they win forty two to thirty eight.

1316
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: Just get one, Just get one, get one, onder your belt.

1317
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: I thought about that coming home from New England, about

1318
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 1: getting a win to start the year, and obviously we

1319
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 1: haven't had one since twenty sixteen. But it just gives

1320
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: you just a sigh relief, like, oh kay, got one. Okay,

1321
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 1: that's all it really does, because if you go ohen one.

1322
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 1: I mean the Patriots went on one, went to the

1323
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yeah, the Eagles went they went one and

1324
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: one to start the year and then they won the

1325
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So Vikings were all in one as well

1326
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: last year. The Saints were owing two last year. And

1327
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, he told me all this stuff. Justin Reid,

1328
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: who knows the NFL better than I do, apparently even

1329
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:42,759
Speaker 1: as a media consultant. I mean Justin Reid, a rookie

1330
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: from Stanford, just knows everything there is to know about

1331
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 1: the league. I mean he had a sound bite where

1332
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: he's just reciting all the teams who started on one.

1333
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that O'Brien went there on the

1334
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:52,560
Speaker 1: meeting and it leaked out to the players, and his

1335
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: retention is so good being a Stanford guy. They're so bright,

1336
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: the Stanford guys. But who knows. The point is this Owen.

1337
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: One doesn't end your season. One two does an end

1338
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,839
Speaker 1: of your season either, but it makes it very difficult.

1339
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: We all agree on that. However, you are playing two

1340
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: on the road to start, and we talk about ripping

1341
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 1: off the band aid in New England, Well they ripped

1342
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: it off and it hurt a lot. And now you

1343
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: go to Nashville. You don't want to come home with

1344
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: a loss. I got a feeling they're gonna come home

1345
01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 1: with a win, and the media pundits are gonna be

1346
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: very critical of the way they you know, they might

1347
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: not run the right way, right, you know, they won,

1348
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: but you know, the BCS points are just not going

1349
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,200
Speaker 1: to be there for this team. But that's irrelevant. Obviously,

1350
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: just get the double US thank you. Yeah, absolutely, I'm

1351
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: with you on that. It doesn't matter to get the

1352
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:34,560
Speaker 1: first one. I don't care what it looks like. I

1353
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: guarantee you that the Patriots had a lot of things

1354
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,560
Speaker 1: that they had to work on after that game. A

1355
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: ton of things that they can't. So they couldn't have

1356
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: been they couldn't have been completely played Byley. Mccaren got

1357
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: fired for what he did, dropping a punt. Dropped a punt,

1358
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: got fired at the key moment. Yeah, one thing, do

1359
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: your job. That's what Belichick says, do your job. And

1360
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 1: he didn't do it. He didn't do it. So they

1361
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 1: went out and they found a few of the guys.

1362
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: But I'm sure the Patriots went in there and and

1363
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: Belichick was all right, it's good to get to win.

1364
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: As they all say, it's difficult to win in this league.

1365
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 1: It is. But here's the thing we talked about offseason.

1366
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: Everybody I heard in this town talked about it. Rip

1367
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: off the band aid and rip off the band aid.

1368
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: But then we complain what it was gonna look like

1369
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: once you got the band aid off. Yeah, there's a

1370
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: reason that the band aid is there. Right, you're covering

1371
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:18,640
Speaker 1: up something you don't really want to see. But then

1372
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:20,560
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, just rip it off. Well then you

1373
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: didn't like what you look at. I know, but I

1374
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: can't fault people for being critical only because everybody's so

1375
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: passionate about this football team. They care so much, and

1376
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 1: that's the difference between this team, and you know, they

1377
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: only play sixteen games in the regular season versus other sports,

1378
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: so you're not going to freak out as much over

1379
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: other teams like the Astros are rockets losing. But I

1380
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 1: think that it's understandable because the hype is so great

1381
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: heading into opening day and then you're gonna examine every

1382
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: little tiny thing that happened in a one score game.

1383
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's a one score game. So I'm sure

1384
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:51,640
Speaker 1: the coaches went nuts about it as well, but they

1385
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,759
Speaker 1: knew that the difference is. Like we always say, working

1386
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 1: here in the building, being around the coaches and the players,

1387
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: you see how quickly they have to move on, and

1388
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: if they don't move on, they're dead the next game.

1389
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 1: Like you say, the team beats you twice, you gotta

1390
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,799
Speaker 1: move on. Get ready. You know, Bill O'Brien, he's not joking.

1391
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: It's not just speak when he says sixteen one game seasons,

1392
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,719
Speaker 1: That's exactly how they have to approach it. Win or lose.

1393
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 1: They gotta just reset the decks, start over for the

1394
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: following week, otherwise you're gonna get killed the following week.

1395
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:25,640
Speaker 1: Weather aside, how big a factor is will Fuller coming back. Oh,

1396
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: I think it's huge because if you're tenant to tell

1397
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: me this, if your DPS and Mike Vrabel, you're looking

1398
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: at Will Fuller, you're thinking, oh my gosh, now we

1399
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 1: gotta deal with that and Hopkins and all the weapons.

1400
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: And they're still here, folks. I mean, I know they

1401
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 1: didn't do that much against the Patriots on Sunday, but

1402
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: they're still here. And you looked, I know you looked

1403
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 1: at the all twenty two. There was some very close

1404
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: little situations where you know, Watson, we've seen it before.

1405
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: It's not like we've never seen it from him. We've

1406
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: seen it every other time other than maybe his first start.

1407
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna be hitting these guys. It's gonna happen, and

1408
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: it's gonna be thunderous when it does. It's interesting how

1409
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: the Titans will go about bring them because when they

1410
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: were both with the Patriots, Butler took Fuller and went

1411
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 1: one on one, and Logan Ryan went on Hopkins but

1412
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: got help. Yeah, that's how they chose to attack it.

1413
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: They very rarely put Malcolm Butler on Hopkins. They would

1414
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: put Ryan on Hopkins. Well, last year the Titans put

1415
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 1: Ryan on Hopkins, but didn't give him help, and Hopkins

1416
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: torched him. They had to take Ryan off of him,

1417
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 1: and they ended up putting Lashawn Sims and then gave

1418
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:26,639
Speaker 1: Sims some help. I'm curious to see how they will

1419
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: go about attacking that. That'll be one thing. The other

1420
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: thing is I think the tight ends continuing to get involved.

1421
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Nakins, Jordan Thomas, Ryan Griffin. They tried

1422
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: to get the ball to Griff. I mean, Griff had

1423
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 1: five targets and there were there were a couple of

1424
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 1: moments that if Griff is if if Shann's able to

1425
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: put the ball a little bit closer on the money,

1426
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 1: if Griff doesn't stumble on one, I'm so telling what

1427
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: he was able to do. So I think he's gonna

1428
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: end up being a big factor in this one. Get

1429
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: me something easy for Watson early and to get him

1430
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:52,639
Speaker 1: going right as well. You know, and you know they're

1431
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: gonna run the football. They always do. Watson, no Watson whatever,

1432
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brian, Watson run the football. This is no military secret.

1433
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: But you want to get Watson going early, let him

1434
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: feel it, let him get going, and you're gonna have

1435
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: good things happen throughout the course of the afternoon and

1436
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: the Texans defense, Johnny, I really think that this could

1437
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 1: be an excellent defense. I know they have to replace

1438
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,439
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson and what we hoped Kevin Johnson would be

1439
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:15,679
Speaker 1: this year. They'll just have to take it from there

1440
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: and deal with it and maybe move Colvin or Korean

1441
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 1: or whatever they decide to do. But they'll do it.

1442
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: And I still think they have enough pieces to work with. Now.

1443
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: Can they afford any more injuries in the second area.

1444
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I think that they could

1445
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: absorb this one for the time being. We talked earlier

1446
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: in the show. I talked about the additions of Texas

1447
01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: have made it. Sharis right at Corner came on. Webster

1448
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 1: was out of practice today. I don't know if Webster

1449
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: will be totally ready, not sure about that yet, but

1450
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: Sharis Wright could be. He might be called upon to

1451
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 1: do that and he's got to step up. Last year,

1452
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 1: Johnthan Banks had to face the Patriots. It didn't go

1453
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: so well. Here's my fun stat of the day. Okay,

1454
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:54,719
Speaker 1: since twenty twelve, long time ago, right, yea, how many

1455
01:13:54,880 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: teams have beaten the Shawn Watson at their buildings. So

1456
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:02,640
Speaker 1: basically a Shawn Watson road game where he starts and

1457
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: plays the entire game, it's three three three twenty twelve.

1458
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: People are like, Okay, the Patriots, the Seahawks, right, I

1459
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: think who else? Flowery Branch High School in Georgia. So

1460
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: you're saying he never lost a start on the road

1461
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: in college, that he began and finished, that he started

1462
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 1: and finished. Yeah, he got hurt in a Georgia Tech

1463
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: game as a freshman in the first quarter. He was

1464
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: four six for like twenty one yards. Backup, came in

1465
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: through three interceptions, and they end up losing that game.

1466
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: So it's not really like his loss, it's like he

1467
01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: was relieved. That's why I say start in Finnish, Seahawks, Patriots,

1468
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 1: and Flowery Branch High School. Three teams have beaten him

1469
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: on the road in regular season game. I did. The

1470
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 1: incredible thing about it, that is he didn't lose throughout

1471
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: college on the road a start and finish. That's crazy.

1472
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: Did not lose on the road. Now people say, well Alabama, No,

1473
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,640
Speaker 1: that's a neutral cycle game, neutral SYC game. And then

1474
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: he ended up getting them back, and then the senior

1475
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: year they lost, but they lost at home to pitt

1476
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: forty three forty two, So did not lose a road

1477
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: game in college. He's only lost two road games. He's

1478
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: only lost to two teams on the road. The Eagles

1479
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 1: are the Seahawks and the Patriots. That's It's so well.

1480
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. This is his eighth start, Johnny start. Expectations, Yeah, no,

1481
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: I know, and narratives. Expectations and narratives like whatever. He's killers.

1482
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: Give me five give me a five game sample, then

1483
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: we'll really evaluate. I hear you, Mark appreciate it. Thanks Johnny.

1484
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: Coming up next. Oh, it's our body, andre Ware right

1485
01:15:28,479 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: here in Texas Access. What I find a segment of

1486
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: Texas All Access this Wednesday evening. I'm your host, John Harris,

1487
01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: Football and else the Salent Reporter are glad to be

1488
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: with you. Hopefully you're staying drive. You guys are down

1489
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: near the coast. I know you guys have been getting

1490
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: a lot of rain and some possible floodings, So hopefully

1491
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: you guys are staying staying above board and everything is

1492
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: okay for you guys. I know we got some some

1493
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: very dicey hurricane conditions that are going to hit the

1494
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: East coast. I know a lot of people have family,

1495
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: my wife's family all in the North Carolina area, and

1496
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: obviously we're going to Nashville, So I don't know how

1497
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: that's going to impact us on Sunday, one week after

1498
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 1: the Titan has had two two hour delays, So we'll

1499
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: see how it all plays out. But I know this

1500
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: one doesn't sound great for states to South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia.

1501
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't sound great. Thoughts here with everybody,

1502
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: and of course in Houston, here, down and down here, Galveston,

1503
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: down to the coast, and that you guys have been

1504
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: hit with it, and sounds like this ninety five l

1505
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 1: has got some possibilities, but doesn't sound like it's gonna

1506
01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: hit us. But either way, this is a time of

1507
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: year where you just kind of hold your breath and

1508
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,679
Speaker 1: say your prayers and hope everybody's gonna make it out okay.

1509
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: And we know all about that after last year and

1510
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: what Hurricane Harvey hit, So thoughts to everybody out there

1511
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: experiencing the weather at this time of year. All right,

1512
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: let's get to a guy that we have known very well,

1513
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: and you have known him for a long time. He

1514
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: has been the game analyst for the Texans since the inception,

1515
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 1: alongside the voice of Texas Mark Vandermer. He's become a

1516
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: very good friend of mine. He joined Mark earlier today

1517
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 1: to talk about the trip to Tennessee, improvements that need

1518
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: to be made, talking about the Shawn settling in, and

1519
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: obviously where he is going this week for college. It

1520
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,679
Speaker 1: is Andre Ware. So Andre, tell me a few days later,

1521
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the general situation of the

1522
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: Houston Texans heading into week two? Here? I know, I'm

1523
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: so confident about the situation overall, for you know, the

1524
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: fifteen remaining games. It's just you've got to clean up

1525
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: some stuff. You've got to clean up, you know, penalties

1526
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: and in opportune times, turnovers that a one certainly was

1527
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:34,640
Speaker 1: a forced turnover on the interception, and then get the

1528
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: ball handling and things of that sort where you can't

1529
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 1: you can't put the ball on the ground, especially when

1530
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: you're on the road facing a team the caliber of

1531
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,640
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. All right, So, Deshaun Watson week two.

1532
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: Johnny asked you the other day what you would tell DeShawn,

1533
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 1: And it seems like he's really taken to the coaching,

1534
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,559
Speaker 1: he's saying all the right things heading into Week two.

1535
01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 1: We've seen it happen before. It's going to happen again.

1536
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when, right, Yeah, I mean

1537
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: it's coming. It's just one of those things where he

1538
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: had as he's been out of football for a long

1539
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: time and that's the first time in a while that

1540
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: he's been away from it, and then all of a

1541
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: sudden year in an NFL game because the preseason he

1542
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,640
Speaker 1: adds a stimulation of what you might see in the

1543
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: regular season, but the speed of the game certainly picks

1544
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 1: up and it's a lot faster, so you have to

1545
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:24,600
Speaker 1: process and work through things a lot faster in the

1546
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: regular season. And then oh yeah, you're playing a Bill

1547
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 1: Belichick defense. It's gonna throw a lot of different looks

1548
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 1: at you play clocks, you know, ticking down, and you've

1549
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:36,719
Speaker 1: got to make some decisions based on pre snap reads

1550
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: and things of that sort. So you know, it takes

1551
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,879
Speaker 1: a while. We forget and I think we got spoiled

1552
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: last year to how DaShan just how good he is.

1553
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:49,640
Speaker 1: But we still have to take into consideration this is

1554
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: only a second year and there are going to be

1555
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,600
Speaker 1: some mistakes. We don't know what they're gonna do with

1556
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: the Kevin Johnson situation as he goes on. I R.

1557
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 1: What do you think might happen? Do they moved cold

1558
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: and over to outside corner Kareem? I mean, they do

1559
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: have some options here. What is your initial thought? Yeah,

1560
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: Justin Reid has played some pretty good football early. He

1561
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: played well in the preseason, he played well on Sunday.

1562
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 1: At times, he had some flashes when when he got

1563
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: in the game. So I think it's an easy fix

1564
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: to move Kareem back, like the logical thing to do,

1565
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,000
Speaker 1: because he's got some you know, he's got experience there,

1566
01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: He's played there, he's been successful there, moving him back

1567
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: to corner and then insert the rookie Justin Reid into

1568
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: at safety. So I think that's the quickest fix you

1569
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: could go with Colvin. You have some a couple of

1570
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: different ways you can you can do this, Grey, What

1571
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: about the overall situation with the defense? There were some

1572
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 1: encouraging things in the second half of the opener against

1573
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: New England. Yeah, it really was the one thing I

1574
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:54,759
Speaker 1: would like to see more of. I mean, they played

1575
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:59,760
Speaker 1: a pretty good football game for sixty minutes, but I'd

1576
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: like to see more passwords. They got hits on Brady

1577
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 1: at times, but you have to get it when you know,

1578
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 1: when you're not expected to get it, and that's when

1579
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,599
Speaker 1: they're throwing the football and you're expecting run. You still

1580
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: have to be able to get to the passer from

1581
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: from different ways in different situations and how you're lying.

1582
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: So that that's just the one thing coming away from

1583
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 1: the first game that I'd like to see a little

1584
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:28,680
Speaker 1: bit more of. It's just consistent pass rush all the

1585
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,759
Speaker 1: time because in this league, if you if you allow

1586
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 1: a guy like Brady and that's the measuring stick to

1587
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: sit in the pocket, he's capable more than capable of hurden.

1588
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee's coming off that big weather delay situation against Miami.

1589
01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: Two big weather delay, seven plus hours it took to

1590
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: get that whole game played. I mean, that's got to

1591
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 1: be brutal to go through a day like that and

1592
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,639
Speaker 1: then lose. Yeah, it is, But you know Miami went

1593
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: through the delay as well and they found a way

1594
01:21:56,880 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 1: to win, So hats off to them. And you know,

1595
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: sometimes it's it's situations and things that you can't control,

1596
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: but you've got to figure out a way to fight

1597
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 1: and get through it and stay mentally locked in, and

1598
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,720
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were able to do that. I think, you know,

1599
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: maybe Tennessee dropped the ball a little bit, but it's

1600
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: still a talented football team. They lost a good football

1601
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 1: player in that ball game into Laney Walker. They're tied

1602
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: in Marcus Marietta. Who knows what his status is for

1603
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: this week's game against the Texans. So it's the right time,

1604
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: so to speak, to go to Tennessee and figure out

1605
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:36,639
Speaker 1: a way to get get one there against a divisional

1606
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: opponent that you're going on the road to face. What

1607
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,719
Speaker 1: about New England going to Jacksonville? How do you gauge

1608
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: this one? With the Jags playing the Patriots so close

1609
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: in that AFC championship game, and boy, the Texans could

1610
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: really use the Patriots to help them out this weekend

1611
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's only week two, but we need

1612
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: the divisional teams to lose. Yeah, I'd feel a little

1613
01:22:55,600 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: bit better about it if if Jacksonville we're going to

1614
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: New England. But for them being at home and kind

1615
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 1: of having that bad taste in their mouth about who

1616
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: knocked you out of the playoffs and things of that

1617
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: sort um, you know, look for Jacksonville to play a

1618
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: very spirited game, and I wouldn't be surprised at all,

1619
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: at in the slightest bit if Jacksonville wins the game. Now,

1620
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: that would take you know, Fournette being healthy and who

1621
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: knows what the status for him or what you know what,

1622
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 1: whether or not he's going to play this week. But

1623
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,200
Speaker 1: then anytime you face the Patriots, you gotta have all

1624
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:33,600
Speaker 1: hands on deck. And I just I just liked the

1625
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 1: roster of Jacksonville. Cournette goes down in their ball game,

1626
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 1: t J Yelden steps right in, catches a touchdown pass.

1627
01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: They are just deep and a lot of different a

1628
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: lot of positions where it really really matters, and so um,

1629
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: you know, they feel the loss of Fournette, but not

1630
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 1: like if it's other teams losing a starting running down.

1631
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about Matt Stafford, because he had

1632
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: a rough outing the other night and just did not

1633
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 1: seem like himself. And then you have the Jets saying

1634
01:24:05,320 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: they knew what was coming play call wise, A lot

1635
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: of different dynamics to that one. But I was really

1636
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: shocked that the Lions got blown out at home like that.

1637
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's finally caught up to him.

1638
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: The lack of talent, a lack of skill talent around

1639
01:24:18,080 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: a guy like Matthew Stafford. You can't get spoiled where

1640
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna take some hits somewhere, whether it's

1641
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: on the offensive lining you can't protect him, or it's

1642
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 1: in the skill positions. And I really think it's finally

1643
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: caught up with him. You make that with a poorer

1644
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: defensive performance, and you don't have enough possessions to go

1645
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:39,679
Speaker 1: out and make any type of run out a football game.

1646
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: So I think it's honestly gonna be a long, long

1647
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: year for the Lions, and Matthew Stafford is going to

1648
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 1: feel the brump of a lot of it because he's

1649
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 1: so talented, the top to paid player on that team,

1650
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: and he's the quarterback, but there's just nothing around him.

1651
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: There's no one to really hang their hat on that

1652
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:00,080
Speaker 1: when it's third down in a critical situation that he

1653
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: can get the ball to him. So I think I

1654
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be a long season for the Lions.

1655
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 1: Dre so much zone read going on in the NFL,

1656
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 1: and obviously college football just filled with it. How would

1657
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 1: you have liked to play in a system like that.

1658
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,720
Speaker 1: You were so productive in a pure running shoot, But

1659
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:18,880
Speaker 1: what about this kind of thing with you at the

1660
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: helm back in the day? And I love it, Mark,

1661
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:24,719
Speaker 1: to be quite honestly, I think it fits my skill,

1662
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: said I. People forget I went to the University of

1663
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: Houston to run the beer and by the time I

1664
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,679
Speaker 1: got to camp as Jack party and the running shoot

1665
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: was there. So then you, you know, just retweet what

1666
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: you were going to do and you wind up in

1667
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 1: something else, and timing is everything. It certainly worked out

1668
01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: that way. But I would love to do some of

1669
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:44,880
Speaker 1: this and still be able to mix some of the

1670
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 1: running shoot concepts in there and be able to run

1671
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 1: the football and things of that sort I could run

1672
01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: back in the day, so I would not shy away

1673
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 1: from it in the least in the least bit. So yeah,

1674
01:25:57,680 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 1: I think it would be fun. It really would. I

1675
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: think I would. I would do very well in today's game.

1676
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: Did you run the veer? In high school? Was that

1677
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: the offense with Dub Ferris? We run the wing tea,

1678
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: which was you know, there's some option in there, some

1679
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot of misdirection in in the wing tea, But

1680
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: I carried the ball a lot of blocked. A lot

1681
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:17,799
Speaker 1: I would pitch and end up being the lead blocker,

1682
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 1: a second blocker in in in a certain play in

1683
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: a different look. But uh, you know you were. You

1684
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 1: were making contact just about every play, or being contacted

1685
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: every play in our offense. But you had to be tough,

1686
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 1: you had to be able to run and uh and

1687
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 1: certainly to be able to throw it as well. I

1688
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: think all those fit in today's concepts of offenses. That

1689
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,599
Speaker 1: timing on the pitch is no joke. I remember Coach

1690
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: Boone and remember the Titans to Sunshine. You could throw

1691
01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: the ball a mile, but you can't pitch your three feet.

1692
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 1: Of course, all my football experiences in movies, but what

1693
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: about that aspect of it one of my favorite movies

1694
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,800
Speaker 1: of all time. I mean, it's still watching it today,

1695
01:26:55,880 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 1: it gets to me kind of emotional because it takes

1696
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 1: you back. I think every player could attest to this

1697
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 1: and take you back to to that time and when

1698
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 1: you played in high school. And there's no better time

1699
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: for a player period than high school football. You can

1700
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: play in college, you can play in the NFL, but

1701
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 1: when you when you think about it and just the

1702
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:18,479
Speaker 1: love for the game, Uh, there's nothing like high school football.

1703
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:20,560
Speaker 1: Do you think the town has a lot to do

1704
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: with it? The fact that everybody lived close by. I

1705
01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:25,600
Speaker 1: mean it's not college, you're all on campus, but in

1706
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:28,040
Speaker 1: high school you all actually live there and your families

1707
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 1: lived there too. Yeah, I mean it's the community. You're

1708
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: playing basically for where you grew up. In college, you know,

1709
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:35,360
Speaker 1: you you look in the stands and you have the

1710
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 1: people you see. You have no idea who they are.

1711
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:40,040
Speaker 1: You don't see them on campus, and you know, all

1712
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden, these you know, if it's if it's

1713
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: someone that's graduated or the alums, you certainly don't know them,

1714
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:48,760
Speaker 1: but you know just about everybody when you come off

1715
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 1: the sideline. It's rooting for you at a high school

1716
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: football game, and you look in the stands. You know

1717
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: you see in your your parents or your relatives and

1718
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. But it's it's the com

1719
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 1: unity bond. It's it's guys that you've grown up with

1720
01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: all your life, and now you guys are competing and

1721
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: fighting for one common bond and that's the win each

1722
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 1: and every Friday night. So it's it's that is that's

1723
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: the most fun, that you'll ever have is when you

1724
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:19,839
Speaker 1: play high school football and it becomes a business, certainly

1725
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: on the professional levels, but you're just playing for the

1726
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,240
Speaker 1: love of the game when you're in high school. Drey,

1727
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: I know you have Toledo and the Miami Hurricanes, but

1728
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: at Toledo this weekend, So this is interesting. I'm sure

1729
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 1: Greg Manse will be locked into this one on digital

1730
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: or whatever, So tell me about the matchup. Yeah, I

1731
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: think it's a great match. What people don't realize is that,

1732
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, as good as Miami was last year, Toledo

1733
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:47,560
Speaker 1: led this game at at half. We're in Miami with

1734
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 1: a lad at the half. Now got away from him

1735
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 1: a little bit in the second half. But when you

1736
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 1: watch the film, you start to break things down, it's

1737
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: it's a It's an offense that could give the Canes

1738
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: some problems where spreading a lot of fast guys out

1739
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 1: into space. You got to be a good tackler in

1740
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: these situations and are in those situations, and they had

1741
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: the problems in that area against LSU. Toledo can run

1742
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 1: the football, They're capable of doing that. They get throw

1743
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: it around and as well defensively. I think it's gonna

1744
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: come down to this, do they have the depth this

1745
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:27,439
Speaker 1: year to get into the fourth quarter when it's still

1746
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: a game and still be able or be able to

1747
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:33,040
Speaker 1: hold on and stay in the ball game for sixty minutes?

1748
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:36,400
Speaker 1: They did it for thirty minutes last year. It boiled.

1749
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:39,760
Speaker 1: It'll boil down to can they harass the quarterback and

1750
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 1: ultimately just have enough depth to hang around late in

1751
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 1: the ball game. All right, Well, we'll be watching my

1752
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:48,480
Speaker 1: friend and safe travels. A lot of storms out there, obviously,

1753
01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: and we look forward to seeing you on Sunday. All right, buddy,

1754
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: I'll see you in Tennessee there it is, and the

1755
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 1: Wednesday show in the books. Big thanks to drey To,

1756
01:29:56,920 --> 01:30:00,240
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine, Mark Vandomir, of course, Russell Baxter, Deep City

1757
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: in Jim Wyatt, and of course you guys for listening

1758
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,720
Speaker 1: to everybody back in Sports Radio six ten. Thank you

1759
01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:07,320
Speaker 1: for keeping us on the air. You guys are the best.

1760
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:09,559
Speaker 1: We'll see them everybody, and as always, go Texans.