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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Friday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: Monday Texans Radio Studio, the mobile studios. Okay, my crib,

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Speaker 1: Welcome in. I'm John Harris, football analyst and side our

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Speaker 1: reporter for your Houston Texans. And wow, about eighteen hours away.

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Speaker 1: We'll get on the bus to get on the plane

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Speaker 1: to fly to Indianapolis and take on the Colts on

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Speaker 1: Sunday's Overall, we're less than forty eight hours away from

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Speaker 1: another visit with the Indianapolis Colts. Week fifteen three games

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Speaker 1: left in this season, and boy it has been. It's

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Speaker 1: been a long one on a number of different levels.

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Speaker 1: But it's the Colts, man, It's the Colts, and there

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Speaker 1: is at least some good news as it pertains to

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Speaker 1: the Colts in this one with players in that well,

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Speaker 1: we were keeping our fingers crossed that we were going

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Speaker 1: to see certain players in this game, and I think

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Speaker 1: we're going to see them. So we'll get into a

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Speaker 1: little bit more of that. We'll get to it in

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Speaker 1: my Keys to the Game, which I always have. We'll

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Speaker 1: have our predictions that I do straight up against the spread.

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Speaker 1: We will also have our deep slant one on one

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Speaker 1: brought to you Bikes Finity and this week deepe City

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Speaker 1: caught up with Kiki QT, which by the way, and

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Speaker 1: they'll tell us this quick story. We're in Chicago and

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Speaker 1: there's no crowd a lot of times in just in

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Speaker 1: I have to listen to market Andre have to hear

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Speaker 1: back in the studio all that kind of stuff. Well

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Speaker 1: no fans. So every time that Kiki would go back

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Speaker 1: to catch a punt, the Bears announcer go pad o'donald

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Speaker 1: a punt. Kiki qtie like he's a cutie. No, it's QT,

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Speaker 1: like the letters Q and t QT. And he was

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Speaker 1: It was just it was bothering me so badly. And

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Speaker 1: kept calling him CUTEI. It's like, no, it's keky QT

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Speaker 1: like the two letters QT. So great to have Kiki

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Speaker 1: on because it's the Colts and if there's anybody that's

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Speaker 1: We will also have Drew's dozen twelve questions with Nate Hall,

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Speaker 1: linebacker who really popped off the screen against the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: Now we haven't seen him much since, but Northwestern grad

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this just based on what Drew

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Speaker 1: We gotta kick it off with some hot reads heart

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Speaker 1: the head coach of your Houston Texans, and that is

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Speaker 1: Romeo Crannell. Mark, coach, I know you've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions about having played the Colts two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: but what you did in the second half defensively really

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Speaker 1: second half. How difficult is that to duplicate? What can

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Speaker 1: good shape. What about getting to Philip Rivers. You were

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Speaker 1: it this season. Well, yes, I think sometimes teams don't

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Speaker 1: So we'll continue to use that mix of pressure and coverage.

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. Since he's coming to the league, he's top

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Speaker 1: five and every major statistical receiving running back category. He's

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Speaker 1: working for you as a whole. Well, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: all of those things go into it. And Duke has

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Speaker 1: As far as being on the road this year, normally

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Speaker 1: during the COVID part of professional football? I get, you know,

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Speaker 1: But but going on the road done, the biggest change

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Speaker 1: protect ourselves and all right, keep this virus from coming

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Speaker 1: in and spreading coach, you can't win the division, but

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Speaker 1: you can have a lot of say so in who

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Speaker 1: does if you beat the Colts obviously it really puts

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Speaker 1: it's a division opponent that we're facing, and we play

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Speaker 1: There's a good little bit from head coach Romeo Crenell.

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Speaker 1: Texans do have five players questionable, and all of them

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Speaker 1: He is questionable. So fingers crossed that Duke did not

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Speaker 1: So say they're both out, that it's gonna be David Johnson,

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Speaker 1: And this week Deep City had a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: against Baltimore, But you know, what is what is the

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Speaker 1: mental conversation like in your head? You know, as a player,

429
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Speaker 1: when you're sort of waiting to get through those weeks

430
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Speaker 1: because you don't know when your opportunity is going to come.

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Speaker 1: But then when it does you have to be you

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Speaker 1: have to be ready. Yeah, I feel like, um, I

433
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Speaker 1: feel like it's long and hard. You know, you're just

434
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Speaker 1: waiting any given Sunday just to be ready to play.

435
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Speaker 1: So for that sending period of time, you know, you

436
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Speaker 1: can't dwell on it because they can only get worse

437
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Speaker 1: from there. So I feel like, just keep me, keep

438
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Speaker 1: believing in yourself and just being ready to go. You know,

439
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,239
Speaker 1: I didn't know if my number was going to get

440
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Speaker 1: caught again, and it came that New England game. You know,

441
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Speaker 1: Cob had the injury. Now I was unaware of it myself,

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Speaker 1: you know, So I was ready to go, so just

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Speaker 1: to be out there and be back in a moment.

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Speaker 1: So I'm ready to go ever since. And people seem

445
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Speaker 1: to be really happy for you and your success in

446
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Speaker 1: recent weeks. I mean, you already got more touchdowns than

447
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Speaker 1: you did, you know, your rookie year, and you're getting

448
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Speaker 1: in the end zone more and more. But fans seem

449
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: to be really excited that you're you're back out on

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Speaker 1: the field and they can see what you're doing. How

451
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: much does that mean to you? Just being a guy

452
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Speaker 1: from Lufkin, Texas and growing up in the state of Texas.

453
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Speaker 1: How much the Texans fans have embraced now, it means

454
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Speaker 1: a lot to me, just so they still have that

455
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Speaker 1: belief in me even after the best. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: just really appreciate that they're there, They're there able to

457
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Speaker 1: appreciate me and see what I can do. I would say,

458
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Speaker 1: I can just keep doing better things and just keep

459
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Speaker 1: bringing production. All right. Well, Deshaun Watson said that he's

460
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: really proud of you as well. He said that that

461
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: what we've seen so far is not even your limit,

462
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: that that Kiki can get a lot better. So tell me,

463
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: I want to know from you, how do you think

464
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Speaker 1: that you can get better and what is still out

465
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Speaker 1: there for you to just not getting complacent. I feel

466
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Speaker 1: the same way as Deshaun. I feel like I haven't

467
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Speaker 1: reached my limit yet, not even close. So I had

468
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Speaker 1: a lot of great games so far in my career

469
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Speaker 1: back for I can go even further, so, you know,

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Speaker 1: just taking my game to the next level of never

471
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Speaker 1: being complacent. I always want to be the best side

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Speaker 1: in this league one day, So McKy working towards that.

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Speaker 1: All right, we can't wait to see what the future

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Speaker 1: housing store for you. Always a pleasure. Kik QT, thank you.

475
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Excellent stuff right there from the Lufkin

476
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: native key Kei Qt. When Lufkins put out some players,

477
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Speaker 1: a couple of receivers, des Bryant got to the NFL,

478
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: it's some good things. He also unfortunately tested positive apparently

479
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Speaker 1: for COVID. I don't know, nobody really knows, but was

480
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: pretty upset. You can play and that I think it

481
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: was a Tuesday night game against the Cowboys. Man, if

482
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: there's a game that Dez Bryant absolutely, without question wanted

483
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Speaker 1: to be in more than any other, probably in his

484
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Speaker 1: entire career, it was that one. But des Briant, that's

485
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Speaker 1: somebody that Kiki looked up to a lot while he

486
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: was growing up. And then Kiki got himself to the league.

487
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Speaker 1: So I know there are a lot of kids in

488
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Speaker 1: Lufkin looking up right now to the man himself, Keiki QT,

489
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Speaker 1: who faces the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Why is that

490
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Speaker 1: a big deal. Well, whenever Keiki has faced the Colts,

491
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 1: he has found a way to light them up. And

492
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Speaker 1: I was at the Senior Bowl in January of twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: so this was this was after the playoff loss. Now,

494
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Speaker 1: if you remember the playoff loss, Ki scored the only

495
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Speaker 1: touchdown that day, lost twenty one seven. But Kiki had

496
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Speaker 1: eleven catches, had one that went for a touchdown. And

497
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: earlier in the year against the Holts, in the first

498
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Speaker 1: game that he ever played, he had eleven catches. So

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Speaker 1: he had twenty two catches in two games against the

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Speaker 1: Colts that year. And so I was at the Senior

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Speaker 1: Bowl and I was talking to Chris Ballard and we

502
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: were talking about various things. We'd watch a play and

503
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Speaker 1: we kind of write down some notes and then all

504
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, one of us would say something to

505
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Speaker 1: the other. We talked about that in between plays we

506
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 1: watched the other play. We kind of go on like

507
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Speaker 1: that for a while. At some point, it's kind of quiet.

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Speaker 1: As we watched watched the play, he turned to me

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Speaker 1: and he goes, man, Q's pretty good, inn't he. I

510
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he's pretty good. I like seeing this

511
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Speaker 1: guy out on the field. He just kind of looked

512
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Speaker 1: at me and he gave me that look like, man,

513
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: we gotta deal with that guy, don't we. And I

514
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Speaker 1: was kind of like, Yep, you gotta deal with that guy.

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Speaker 1: And since then, Kiki has been a huge problem for

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Scored a touchdown which I think it

517
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Speaker 1: was considered a rushing touchdown in twenty nineteen. Up there

518
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: had two eleven catch games against them in eighteen and

519
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Speaker 1: this year he broke out for one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: one yards I think on eight catches. I think that

521
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: was the number against the Colts in the home game.

522
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,479
Speaker 1: So another opportunity for Kiki to put some numbers up

523
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Speaker 1: against the team he apparently really likes to face. So

524
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: let's do it again on Sunday, Kiki QT. All right,

525
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Speaker 1: we get back. It's time for our first Community Credit

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527
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Speaker 1: kind of a challenge because two weeks ago I did

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Speaker 1: my keys to the game. Two games have taken place since.

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Speaker 1: Have my keys changed, Yeah a little bit, So we'll

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Speaker 1: get to those next. Right here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back this Friday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: your host this evening, as I have been the last

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Speaker 1: the official credit Union of your Houston Texans. Now the

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Speaker 1: Texans are facing the Colts on Sunday. That is no surprise.

552
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: You've seen it on the calendar. Since when did it

553
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: come out? May? When I came out a little bit

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Speaker 1: later than than it normally does. The schedule that is

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00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: so it was a little bit later, but we've known

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Speaker 1: that we were playing Indianapolis twice in three weeks. You

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Speaker 1: would think, well, not much has changed, But as I

558
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: started to put some numbers in and then I looked

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Speaker 1: at what the Colts have done, like, man, maybe a

560
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: few things have changed. Let me kind of treat this

561
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: as just a completely different animal, if you will, for

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Speaker 1: my keys to the game, and you can read everything

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: that I have to say in my know your faux

564
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: article which is posted Houston Texans dot com. So two

565
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: weeks ago, the Colts were seven and four, coming off

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Speaker 1: a major major win against the Tennessee Titans. I'm sorry,

567
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: major lost to the Tennessee Titans, and Titans just hammered

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Speaker 1: him in Indianapolis. Colts win that game and then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they are cruising because now they've got

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Speaker 1: the seasons sweep over the Titans. Any tiebreakers are going

571
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: to go their way, but they get blitz created at home.

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00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: Then they got to come to Houston. At that point, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with no Will Fuller, We're dealing no Bradley Roby.

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Speaker 1: But it's Colts Texans. These a one score games, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: from that point forward, the Colts beat US twenty Then

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Speaker 1: they went out to Las Vegas and they beat the

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Speaker 1: Raiders forty four twenty seven and really took over in

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Speaker 1: the second half. And one of the main ways they

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Speaker 1: took over was running the football. And that's what leads

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Speaker 1: me to this first point two weeks ago seven to four,

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Speaker 1: Now nine and four, we're getting ready to host US

582
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Speaker 1: at Lucas Oil. When I first put these numbers in

583
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, they were averaging about one hundred and

584
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Speaker 1: one yards per game on the ground. I think it

585
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: was like one to one point four. Two weeks after,

586
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Speaker 1: the Colts are rigging one hundred thirteen yards per game

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Speaker 1: on the ground. They went from like middle of the

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Speaker 1: pack rushing two games one against US, and they didn't

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Speaker 1: really they didn't really go off against US. They did

590
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Speaker 1: against the Raiders, and that two hundred and something yards

591
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: that they ran for against the Raiders jack them up.

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: There now one hundred and thirteen yards per game on

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Speaker 1: the ground, two sixty three point seven through the air

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Speaker 1: that dropped a few yards. That's the tenth in the

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Speaker 1: league and overall offensively their ninth in the league at

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Speaker 1: three seventy six point seven. Roster very familiar you know

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Speaker 1: Phillips at quarterback, Jonathan Taylor has stepped up and become

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Speaker 1: the man in the backfield. T Y Hilton is a

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00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: guy that always kills. The Texans and their offensive line

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Speaker 1: should be back in tack. We talked about this in

601
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Speaker 1: the opening segment. Anthony Costanzo is listed as questionable. However,

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Speaker 1: he should be back. He played in that game against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders and was vital in that game against the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll be back unless there was some sort

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Speaker 1: of setback that we don't know about. Anthony Costanzo was

606
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: going to play and he was a full participant today

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Speaker 1: at practice. So what are the keys to beating the

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Speaker 1: Colts offense? Well, this key hasn't changed. It's key number

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Speaker 1: one and I call it. See if you can pick

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Speaker 1: up my theme here, Hilton honors. You might not with

611
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Speaker 1: that one Hilton honors. And that has to do with

612
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Speaker 1: t by Hilton. And I said this. I pounded the

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Speaker 1: gavel that week and y'all didn't want to listen, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Just like John, he hasn't done anything all year. He's

615
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: called like twenty five passes. Come on, man, this isn't

616
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Speaker 1: the same t By Hilton. I'm like, look, when you've

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Speaker 1: got somebody's number, when you've got a team's number, and

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Speaker 1: this goes for everything. When you've got their number, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, t Y finally had gotten healthy

620
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Speaker 1: and it had his best game of the year against

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Speaker 1: the Titans the week before, caught a touchdown, and that

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Speaker 1: Titans game, all he's done since is account for thirty

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Speaker 1: seven percent of his entire season's total of receptions, forty

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Speaker 1: six percent of his entire season total of yards, and

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of his touchdowns in just the last

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Speaker 1: three weeks. And I try to tell y'all, I try

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Speaker 1: to tell you, Look, he kills the Texans. This is

628
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: just something. There's something about it. And he loves doing

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Speaker 1: an energy stadium. So here's what you do. When you

630
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: go to Lucasoil. You double him. You sent people his way.

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Speaker 1: You figure out they're running rubb routes against man coverage.

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Speaker 1: You got a safety that's gonna clip him or cut him.

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Speaker 1: And I mean not, that's just a coverage call that's

634
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: gonna help. You're not gonna give easy throws to t

635
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. You're gonna make somebody else beat you. You know,

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Speaker 1: what We're gonna walk out of there and t Y

637
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Hilton is gonna have two receptions for eighteen yards. He's

638
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: not beating us this time. That's got to be something

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00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: that the Texans absolutely unacquizzically doing this game is stop

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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. And by stop I mean limited success

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Speaker 1: eight four one oh one and a touchdown or whatever

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Speaker 1: it was. I mean he got most out in the

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00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: first half. So whatever in the second half you were doing,

644
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: sending guys over tops, in the safety over top to help,

645
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: whatever you gotta do, you got to slow down Ty Hilton.

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00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: Number two. The title it was called a rookie runner.

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00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: He had Hilton Honors Rookie Runner, and that is Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 1: He and I saw one of my one of my

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00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: favorite shows on NFL Films and it's on Fox during

650
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 1: the week. It's called Turning Point, and Turning Point talked

651
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: about the game against the Raiders and they talked about

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00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: how Taylor may have hit like a rookie wall like

653
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: week like nine, ten eleven, really just didn't look the same.

654
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: Fumble the ball in a big game against the Ravens

655
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: just it was tough. But then against us, you could

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00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: see he started picking up Chunk's yards. I think he

657
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: was thirteen for ninety one in the running game and

658
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: then he caught a pass for a touchdown on the backfield.

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00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: He was starting to get his juice back well against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Boy one hundred and fifty yards on the

661
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: ground hammered the Raiders. And what worries me, and this

662
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: is probably my overall point about this game. What worries

663
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: me is that the RTDB theory that they espoused on

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00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: Twitter afterwards through their team account and they did it twice,

665
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: actually run the dang ball is something that Colt should

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00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,760
Speaker 1: be doing. With Quentin Nelson and Glewinsky and Ryan Kelly

667
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 1: and Costanzo and Brydon Smith. That's one of the better

668
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: offensive lines of the league. And they will knock your

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Speaker 1: block off. And Jonathan Taylor's two two hundred and thirty

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: pounds of four point three nine speed pound the rock. Well,

671
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: that's what I would do if I for them, and

672
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: I think they're finally doing it, and that's scary. So

673
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: with a rookie running back like this, don't want to

674
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: see a repeat of what happened against the Bears. Guys

675
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: jumping out of their gaps guys trying to do things

676
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: they're not taught to do, and that kills you. And

677
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: that opens up a big hole. Now a sudden, you've

678
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: got a big, thick, burly running back bearing down in

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Speaker 1: his safety. Miss a tackle, it's a house called Jonathan

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00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: Taylor will do the same. And then some tackling has

681
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: got to be on point. Oh, tackling. Let's get the

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00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: number three. I call it tackling time. There is nothing

683
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: more important in this game. Nothing talk about t Y Hilton.

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00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: You can talk about Jonathan Taylor, you talk about all that.

685
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: There is nothing more important than tackling on Sunday. And

686
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: the tackling has not been very good lately. When the

687
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: Texans were playing some better football after the bye week

688
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: in large party, it was because they were tackling very well.

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Speaker 1: That is now. There were some hiccups here and there,

690
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: Browns late in the game that killed them. Throughout the

691
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: entire game against the Bears, the tackling was awful. That's

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Speaker 1: got to change. So key number three, tackling time. Bring

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Speaker 1: your big boy pads, bring your arms, hands, fingers and

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00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: everything you need to wrap up and bring Johnson Taylor

695
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 1: in every single ball carrier to the ground. If you don't,

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: if you throw a shoulder into him, you try and

697
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: go low and roll tackle him, forget it. You got

698
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: to wrap up, get him to the ground. You get

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00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: him to the ground, you live to see another play.

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00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: And that's what you have to do against this team.

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00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: Number four. Read and react. Now, back in the nineties,

702
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: whenever you would hear press conferences and coaches would say, yeah,

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00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: we're a reading react defense, coach fans would hear that

704
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: and go oh god. Basically, what that means is you're

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00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: non aggressive. You're trying to see everything happening and then

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Speaker 1: react to it as opposed to no, no, no, no, no

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Speaker 1: no no, we're penetrating, get up to create chaosts all

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00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Read and react is not that

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00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: I'm not talking that the Texans should be a reading

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00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: react defense, But here's what I mean by that. You

711
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: have to as a defense read things on the fly,

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00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: especially at the second and third level of the defense.

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Speaker 1: And that's not something that Texans have been doing. And

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a great example. Nine Hinds five yard

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00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: touchdown run against against the Texans in the first matchup

716
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 1: should never have happened. But you've got too many guys

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00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: going into the same gap. And because you have too

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00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: many guys going into the same gap. When you have

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00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 1: a guy doing his job, Whitney Merciless, he's doing his job,

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00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: you kind of cave in the side of the line.

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Speaker 1: He's got no help on the outside because guys aren't

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Speaker 1: reading what's happening in front of them and reacting appropriately.

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Speaker 1: You've got too many guys. You got a safety and

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00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: two linebackers go all up in the same gap. Well,

725
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: Nwim Hind sees all that and he's like, well, I'm

726
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: gonna go out here. And now it was a tough

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00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: play because it was man coverage and so those those

728
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: man defenders have got to go inside with the receivers.

729
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 1: But still that allowed two linebackers and a safety to

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: read that and react appropriately and did not, and that

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00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: has killed the Texans. In that same game, Charles A

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00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: manner Who and JJ Watt they kind of hugged each

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00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: other after a play, and in large part it was

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Speaker 1: because Charles had gone into the as he said, he

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00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: went into the wrong gap and kind of cut off

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Speaker 1: JJ's path for rush and it kind of an impacted

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Speaker 1: There's got to be a read react. Hey, if my

738
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 1: guy does this, I gotta do this. If this gets

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00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: done here, I gotta do this. And look, I know

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00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: everybody wants to make a play. Defense hasn't been playing well.

741
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: You want to make a play, but you have to

742
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: read things and how it's unfolding and react appropriately. Now

743
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you gotta take away from the

744
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: aggressiveness of your defense and play a read react defense,

745
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: but you've got to read how things are going and

746
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: react appropriately. And when you don't, plays like that happen.

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00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: Number five, as Andre Ware likes to say, the pastry

748
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: store needs to be open. I call number five pigskin pastries.

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00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: It's time for turnovers. We did not get one in

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00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: the first game against the Colts and lost. We do

751
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: need to get one against the Colts this time and

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00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: hopefully it'll be in a win. All right, Flip over

753
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: and look at the Colts defense and what are the

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00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: keys for Dashawn Watson and company against this outstanding defense,

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00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: one that is sixth in the league in total offense

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00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: allowed per game at three twenty seven yards per game,

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00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: less than a hundred yards on the ground. Texas did

758
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: run okay on them last time. He had a Shawn

759
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: Watson account for some of that. But but David ran

760
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: it okay against them, and David will be ready to

761
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: go for this game. Teams are throwing it for two

762
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: hundred twenty seven point eight yards per game. That's thirteenth

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00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: in the league. But here is the key. These guys

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00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: turn teams over in a big way. Fifteen interceptions this year,

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00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: My goodness. Now, what are the keys to winning versus

766
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: the Colts? Defense? North and south? Now, if you didn't

767
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: pick up my theme earlier, it was a literation. Hilton

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00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: Honors rookie runner, tackling time read react, piskin pastries. This

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00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: is the only one that was not a literation because

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00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: like well, I couldn't find a way to do it,

771
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: so I didn't. But the key here is for the

772
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: Texans runners to go north and south. This can't be

773
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: a wide running game. This cannot be let me try

774
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: and get the edge on this run. This has to

775
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: be bowling a china shop, buddy, how David Johnson going

776
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: down hill now like right away, there can't be any decisiveness.

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00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: It has to be north and south, No east west.

778
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,720
Speaker 1: They've got to be going north and south, falling forward

779
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: for every single inch that they can possibly get this.

780
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: Texans offense has got to generate some form of a

781
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 1: running game to have any shot of winning this game,

782
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 1: and the only way they can do that is for

783
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: these running backs to go north and south. This defensive

784
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: front for the Colts makes it hard enough as it is,

785
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: whether they have the forced buckner or not. Look, Grover

786
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: Stewart was probably better in the first game than the

787
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: forced buckner was. He caused a ton of problems. But

788
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: you have to go north and out. You have to

789
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: get on those linebackers right now. And if you do that,

790
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: you got a chance to have some semblance of a

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00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: running game. Number two, a Wearing warning. If there's something

792
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: that I want to see more than anything else, I

793
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: think in this game it's Kyllie Wearing to do something. Now.

794
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: He's been on the field, He's run some routes down

795
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: in the red zone. He's been on there for a

796
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: few handful plays. He was targeted once in Detroit, and

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00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: he was targeted once in the game against the Colts

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00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: on a ball that Sean had to throw kind of high,

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00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: and Wearing was not able to get his hands on

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00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: it covered by anymore. And I think that's really been it.

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00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Kyllie Waring wearing be more a

802
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: part of this offense. No matter what, just try and

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00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: get him involved. Tim Kelly said, Look, he's working his routes,

804
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: he's working to get open. The ball just hasn't found

805
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: him yet. Well, hopefully the ball is gonna find him

806
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Number three. Qt continued, coming out out doesn't go.

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00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: But you get the point, Kiki Qt. As I mentioned earlier,

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00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: I want to spend too much time, I said this

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00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: earlier has been monster against the Colts. Anyway you can

810
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: find to get him the football, along with Brandon Cooks,

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00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 1: who's at number four with Cooks counts. Having Brandon Cooks

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00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: back is as as important as anything that could happen

813
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: this weekend, outside of having everybody that's hurt back. Having

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00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks back is massively important. And last, and certainly

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Speaker 1: not least, which one Which one is it going to be?

816
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 1: Which player is going to step up? Ala Chad Hanson

817
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: Ala Buddy how Ala Kiki Qt. Which guy's gonna step

818
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: up that maybe we haven't seen or heard from? Is

819
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: it gonna be wearing? Hopefully? So? Those are your first

820
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: Community Credit Union first class keys to the game, and

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Speaker 1: that's one hour in two books we get back. It's

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Speaker 1: Men behind the Mics Mark Vannimhir with Matt Taylor of

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00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: the Annapolis Colts. Annapolis Colts, Napolis Colts. We've got one

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Speaker 1: hour down in one hour left and go right here.

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Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: Football Else the Slide Reporter. It's time for one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite segments that we've ever done on this show

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00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: in the seven years I've been doing it. That is

829
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Speaker 1: our men behind the Mikes. You know Mark Vandimir the

830
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: voice of the Texans, But how about Matt Taylor, the

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00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: voice of the Indianapolis Colts. I believe he's been the

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00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: voice now. This is his third season. He took over

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00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: early in twenty eighteen for Bob Lamy, who abruptly retired,

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Speaker 1: so he had to deal with the twenty eighteen season,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retiring in twenty nineteen, and then a COVID

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Speaker 1: season of twenty twenty. Boy, Matt Taylor's had a tough However,

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00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: he will say the same thing we all say in

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00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: this business. We are not crying in our beer. We

839
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: talk about football for a living. That's not bad. So

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Speaker 1: here we go our men behind the mics this week.

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00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: Mark Vanimir with Matt Taylor of the Inianapolis Colts. I

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00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: think I've talked to you more than I've talked to

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00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: any member of my family in the last couple of weeks.

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00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: Here we are Texans and Colts again. How you doing.

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00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: I'm well, Mark, good to talk to you again. Yeah,

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00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: we got this on speed dial here with two games

847
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: in three weeks. But it's all good right where we're

848
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: playing games and that's that's all that matters. That's all

849
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,720
Speaker 1: that matters, and the Colts are really gunning for something

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00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: special here. Well, take me back to your experience seeing

851
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,959
Speaker 1: the Colts and Texans play a couple of weeks ago,

852
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: and there we were, the Texans at the doorstep, ready

853
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: to break the hearts of the Colts and unable to

854
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: get it done. What did you take away from that game?

855
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 1: Give me some of your thoughts post game. Well, I mean,

856
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: I thought to your point that the Colts were really

857
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 1: fortunate to come out of there with the win, because,

858
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: as you said, you're facing second down on a goal

859
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: from the two yard line, and there in the two

860
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: minute drill, the Texans are just humming. And I think

861
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway for me from that game is that

862
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: just Deshaun Watson. I mean, I'm not breaking any news here.

863
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is really stinking good. I mean, the guy has,

864
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, the ability. You know, I think only like

865
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: four or five guys in the league you can say

866
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: this about. But he's got this ability to elevate everyone's

867
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: play around on him. And I'm not at all trying

868
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: to be disrespectful, but I mean Saturday night before the game,

869
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: I had no idea Who's who, idea who Zach Hanson

870
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: was like, I had no idea like game prepping for

871
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: that game, I had to you know, crash course. And

872
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: he had one hundred yards in that game and keke

873
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: qt had one hundred yards in that game. QD continues

874
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: to be, you know, the Colts killer. He's been over

875
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: one hundred yards in three games in his career, all

876
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: of them against Indianapolis. So the biggest thing for me

877
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: is just offensively, as long as you got Deshaun Watson,

878
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: you're always going to have a chance. I respect him

879
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: that much, and he's able to again elevate everybody's playing

880
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: around him. I mean you're kind of depleted at wide receiver.

881
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks I think should be coming back this week,

882
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: which is a great sign because I love him as

883
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: a player as well. But again, Deshaun Watson is just

884
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: a top five quarterback. I respect his game so much.

885
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: And again on defense as well as Zat Cunningham's playing great,

886
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: Adams is playing great. J J. Watt had a sack

887
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: and four tackles for loss against the Colts, which is

888
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: no surprise that he routinely torments Indianapolis in their offense.

889
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: So it was another, you know, I think, stereotypical cliche

890
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: Colts Texans AFC South game that went down to the wire.

891
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: The thing, the thing for me is going into this game,

892
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: you know that the Texans are four and nine and

893
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: not much to play for it in terms of, you know, playoffs,

894
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much out the window. But they're

895
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 1: gonna be playing for pride. So if I'm the Colts

896
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: with a lot in front of them in terms of

897
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, seating in the playoffs and still having a

898
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,280
Speaker 1: chance to win the AFC South, here I sell this game.

899
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 1: I try to manipulate my guys to the point where

900
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: I've got them convinced by Friday Saturday that the Texans

901
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: are thirteen and ozero and they can win this game.

902
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: Because I absolutely think the Texans are good enough to

903
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: win this game, because again, Deshaun Watson is that good

904
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,439
Speaker 1: and I respect his game so much. But if I'm

905
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: the Colts, if I'm the Colts offense, I'm watching that

906
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: the second half of that game where the Texans shut

907
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: out the Colts offensively in the first meeting. And if

908
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: I'm the Colts defense, I'm watching the first half where

909
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and company gashed the Colts to twenty points

910
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: in the first two quarters. So I'm selling it really hard,

911
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: like this is the Human Nature Bowl. It's human nature

912
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: to kind of let up. You're coming off a big

913
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: win over the Raiders, you played really well on offense,

914
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: and now you've got a team under five hundred coming

915
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: in that you've already beaten. You know, you've got to

916
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: fight against human nature in this game. And so that's

917
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: kind of the the tag I'm giving it. If you're

918
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: a Colts fan, Human Nature Bowl, kind of rise up

919
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: against that, and and you know you can't take it

920
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: for granted, because the Colts really need another win to

921
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: ensure they make the playoffs and help their playoffs seating

922
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, voice of the Cults joining us. Okay, what

923
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: about t Y Hilton. You mentioned QT being a Colts killer,

924
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's put up some numbers, but t Y

925
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: definitely as the Pelts here against the Houston Texans, and

926
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: he's erupted to a degree lately. He's in year nine.

927
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: It seems like he's healthy. Now, what are you seeing

928
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: out of t Why? Yeah, I think he kind of

929
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 1: hit the nail right in the head right there. He's

930
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,720
Speaker 1: healthy for the first time in three years. He's healthy

931
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: in the month of December. Um, So that's big. And

932
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: I know this is just a hunch because we're not

933
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: around him every day Mark like we normally are in

934
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: years past. You know, we're not out of practice like

935
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: we can be and in the past. But I just think,

936
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, Philip Rivers when he was with the Chargers

937
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: in LA and San Diego, you know he had some

938
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: big bodied targets. You know, he had Antonio Gates and

939
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: Williams and Keenan Allen and those were guys that I

940
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: think he was just comfortable with, Like he could throw

941
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: the ball over the middle, they could box somebody out

942
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: and he could throw the ball in a tight window,

943
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: and he trusted those guys to make a play for him.

944
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: And not that not that Rivers never had trust in

945
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton from the get go, but I think

946
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: as of right now, it's kind of at an old

947
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: time high as far as this season is concerned. He

948
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: you know, t Y is not the biggest guy, and

949
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: he's five nine, five five eight, five nine, somewhere in

950
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: that range. But I think as of right now, Phi

951
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: Rivers is really comfortable and is starting to understand what

952
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of receiver he has in Ty. He can back

953
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: shoulder throw t Y open. You know, he can put

954
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: the ball in a tight window for t Y, and

955
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: even though he's not the biggest guy, he can he

956
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: can go make a play for him. And it's fun

957
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: to see this offense kind of operate right now because

958
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: all season long, for the most part, it's been eight

959
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: or nine ten receivers or pass catchers every game getting

960
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: involved in the Colts offense here. But lately, you know,

961
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: it's been kind of the triumphant the trio of Hinz

962
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: at the running back spot, Jonathan Taylor at running back

963
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: as well, and then t Y Hilton and what I like,

964
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: you know from the Colts in terms of what they're doing.

965
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: They're getting Ty going early in some of these games lately.

966
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: They're taking advantage of man to man coverage and they're

967
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: establishing Ty and getting his confidence going early on. He

968
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: saw that in the first Texans game, had a couple

969
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: of big catches early, got his rhythm going, guy's timing going,

970
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: got a couple of big first downs, and kind of

971
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: just established that it was going to be at t

972
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: Y Hilton kind of day early on. So that's what

973
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: I like in terms of what the Colts are doing

974
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: with Ty Hilton and with him being healthy. As I

975
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: talked about, I think that's gonna be big for this

976
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: team going forward in these last three games to continue

977
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: to have tyb the star of the show on offense,

978
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: but a really good supporting cast around him with solid

979
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: football players and role guys like Zach Pascal and Trey

980
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 1: Burton and Jack Doyle and Moiley cox Man. No one's

981
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: ready to send Jonathan Taylor to the Pro Bowl just yet,

982
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: but he's playing really well. And why is that tell

983
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: me about his progress? It seems like the rookie wall

984
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: or whatever is not a problem for him because he

985
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have all those touches. But how are you seeing it? Yeah,

986
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: I think that's a really good question. And same kind

987
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: of thing with t Y Hilton. He's kind of finding

988
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: his rhythm in this offense right now. I mean, he's

989
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: over four hundred scrimmage yards in the last three games,

990
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: over three hundred rushing yards in the last three and

991
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: it's coming off by far, his best rushing performance of

992
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: the season last week in Las Vegas, where he ran

993
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty yards and twenty touches, and

994
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: he's over well over five yards per carry in the

995
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: last three games. I think the biggest thing for Jonathan,

996
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: you know, the Colts are a shotgun team. He's used

997
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: to lining up in the I formation behind a quarterback

998
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: and a fullback at Wisconsin and kind of running downhill

999
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: and the Colts are doing that some this season, but

1000
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: for the most part, they've been a shotgun team and

1001
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: they run out of the gun a lot. And I

1002
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing for Jonathan Taylor is he's gotten

1003
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: a lot He's gotten used to more comfortable running out

1004
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: of the shotgun, which he didn't have to do a

1005
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: lot in college, So I think that's the biggest thing

1006
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: for him is he's starting to be patient, as starting

1007
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: to let the offensive wine kind of set up the

1008
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: run for him, Whereas in the beginning of the season,

1009
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: not that he was having a bad year, but he

1010
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: wasn't being as patient as he needed to be. So

1011
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: I think right now you kind of that November speed

1012
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: bump that he hit, you know, I had a couple

1013
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: of he had the one fumble in a game and

1014
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: just had some unpros. I think that that's kind of

1015
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: smoothed out for him, and he's really kind of in

1016
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: the zone for the most part here in twenty twenty,

1017
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: playing the best football of his young career. Matt Taylor,

1018
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: Voice of the Colts, joining us. Matt, last time, we

1019
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: talked a lot about Philip Rivers and what I see

1020
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks here, because the last

1021
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: time we spoke, you were coming out that tough loss

1022
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: to the Tennessee Titans. But when you're running the ball well,

1023
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: when the defense is playing well enough, he's spreading it

1024
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: around a little bit, he's so effective. He could still

1025
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: be extremely effective at this stage of his career. What

1026
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: did he throw at twenty eight times against the Raiders,

1027
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: but they had the ground game cooking, so it all

1028
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: worked out very well for you. Yeah, I mean balance

1029
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: was the name of the game. And that last twin

1030
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: over the Raiders, I mean, you threw it for two

1031
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: forty four, you ran it for two twelve. Again, you

1032
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: had eight different guys to catch a pass, and Rivers

1033
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: didn't have to do a whole lot. I mean, only

1034
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: twenty eight passes, two touchdowns, both of them to t

1035
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. You're just getting very very high level quarterback

1036
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: player right now from Philip Rivers, even though he's thirty

1037
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: nine years old. I mean, in the last eight games,

1038
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: I mean around here in Indianapolis, we kind of point

1039
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: to that Cleveland game where it was the most uneven

1040
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: performance of the year. Since then, and it's been eight

1041
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: games and you're talking about sixteen to four touchdown to

1042
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: pick ratio, sixty seven percent completion percentage, well over two

1043
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: thousand yards and that span quarterback ratings over one hundred

1044
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: and one. And the Cults are six and two. So

1045
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: they're getting I think they're getting everything they thought they

1046
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: would and then maybe then some with Philip Rivers right

1047
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: now and he's playing just like they thought he would

1048
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: when they signed them back in March and free agency.

1049
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: I think the fascinating thing now going forward, if we

1050
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: can kind of fast forward into the off season, what

1051
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: are they going to do with Rivers Because it's a

1052
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: one year deal. They don't have a quarterback on their

1053
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: roster right now who signed beyond this twenty twenty season,

1054
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: so they have a decision to make. But based on

1055
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,479
Speaker 1: everything we're seeing right now, I don't think there's any

1056
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: reason to believe that he can't play at a similar

1057
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: level at age forty that he's playing with here right

1058
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: now at age thirty nine. I just don't think there's

1059
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a big drop off, and that might afford

1060
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: the Colts even more time to figure out, you know,

1061
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, you know, long term at the quarterback,

1062
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: because Rivers is not going to be here and you know,

1063
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: two to three years certainly not five years. So the

1064
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: Colts are buying a little bit of time here. Whether

1065
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: it's the draft, maybe they can package up and move

1066
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: into the first round high in the first round and

1067
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: go after somebody they like similar maybe what the Chiefs

1068
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,240
Speaker 1: did a few years ago with Patrick Mahomes just completely

1069
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: spitball in here. But Philip Rivers has done a good job.

1070
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: He's afforded the Colts the opportunity to continue to box

1071
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: themselves out of the corner that they were kind of

1072
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: put in when Andrew Luck decided to retire two weeks

1073
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 1: before the two and nineteen season. And what Philip Rivers

1074
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: is giving them is, you know a guy that can

1075
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: still play at a high level, efficient quarterback play, and

1076
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: marry that with a young roster that's pretty much well built.

1077
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: Not a lot of holes on this team. It's a

1078
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: young team under financial control, a lot of guys on

1079
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: the rookie contract, and they're trying to marry those two

1080
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: parties and get as much out of one another for

1081
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: as long as possible. Matt Taylor, Voice of the Indianapolis

1082
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: Colts joining us. Matt, the drama that's going on right

1083
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: now down the stretch between the Colts and the Titans.

1084
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm watching this from where I sit. It's

1085
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: like watching two ex girlfriends on The Bachelor. I mean,

1086
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: we're not really part of it. I mean we can

1087
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: help spoil it. We could prevent a rose here or

1088
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: there down the stretch with the game this weekend and

1089
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: the one against the Titans the final week of the

1090
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: regular season. But tell me about what you're thinking here

1091
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 1: down the stretch because you split with them. The last

1092
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: game didn't go so well for the Colts, but you're

1093
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: done with them in the regular season. How do you

1094
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: see a play out these final three weeks. Yeah, I

1095
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be fun. I think, you know, the

1096
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: big you know, hopefully both teams, you know, just for

1097
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: the argument's sake, you know, those that want down to

1098
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: the wire AFC South battle, you know, hopefully, you know,

1099
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: if you just don't have a dog in the fight

1100
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: outside of Houston, you know, you're hopefully you're setting up

1101
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: you know, both teams win this weekend, and then I

1102
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: think next week's going to be really fascinating because the

1103
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: Colts have to go on the road play at Pittsburgh.

1104
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: I know the Texans already did that, and you know,

1105
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's kind of smarting right now a little bit. You know, offensively,

1106
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: they don't look very good here at the moment. They

1107
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: dropped a couple of games, and then uh that that

1108
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: same week. Next week, the Titans have to go on

1109
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: the road and they have to play at the Packers,

1110
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: and you know, there's not gonna be any fans in

1111
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: the game at that at lambeau Field, but it's always

1112
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 1: a tough place to play, and the Packers are probably

1113
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: still going to be planned for, you know, seeding and

1114
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: home field advantage and things like that. So I think

1115
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: next week is going to be a really fascinating week.

1116
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: Both teams have to play two division games. Um or

1117
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: I should say the Colts have to play two division games.

1118
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: Uh the uh. The Titans have to play a home

1119
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: game this weekend against the Lions. UM. So it's gonna

1120
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 1: be fun. I mean, as we've talked about in the past,

1121
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: the Titans are a team it's not hard to figure

1122
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: out how to beat them, but they're so good at

1123
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: what they do it's hard to execute that game plan.

1124
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: They're a much better team when they play with the

1125
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: lead and in control of the game. The biggest thing

1126
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 1: for me is when they can When they can to

1127
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: four to give Derrick Henry, you know, twenty five to

1128
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: twenty seven carries per game, they're hard to beat. And

1129
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: when they don't have that luxury, if they're playing from behind,

1130
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: you know, they're a much different animal. When Ryan Tannehill

1131
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: has to rely on some of those receivers, not that

1132
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: they can't do it, but obviously their bread and butter

1133
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: is run the football, play action pass with Ryan Tannehill.

1134
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they execute it to an absolute tea against

1135
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: the Colts back in the Sunday after Thanksgiving, where you know,

1136
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: it's it's not hard to figure out how to beat him.

1137
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: It's slow down, Henry, take away, the play action game

1138
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: take away, the big passing plays to, you know, to

1139
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: Corey Davis and A. J. Brown, and the Colts didn't

1140
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: do any of those things and they they got beat

1141
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: bad and he wasn't even close. So it's it's gonna

1142
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: be a really fun last three weeks here in the Aves.

1143
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: South matt Texans fans are doing a lot of thinking

1144
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: about who the new GM and coach, who they're going

1145
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: to be for this franchise, and how it's all going

1146
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: to be set up because we really don't know. Tell

1147
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: me about Chris Ballard and Frank Reich and their chemistry.

1148
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: I know McDaniels was supposed to be the guy, didn't

1149
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: work out whatever, But here you are and you're having

1150
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: some success with these two. What is it like between them? Process.

1151
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: How do you see it? Yeah, I think you know,

1152
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: first of all, great and mutual respect between the two guys.

1153
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: Both guys appreciate the other guys' job, you know, in

1154
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: the bigger picture of grand scheme of things. You know,

1155
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: Frank is obviously the guy that has to you know,

1156
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: play the cards that he's been dealt. And you know,

1157
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: I remember I go back to twenty and eighteen when

1158
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: the Colts didn't have nearly as as solid of a

1159
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: well put together roster as they do now, and Frank

1160
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: Reich thought, you know, hey, this is a super Bowl team.

1161
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of his mindset. No matter you know,

1162
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: who's on his team, he feels like he can make

1163
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: it work. Um. So they have a tremendous amount of

1164
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: confidence in the talent that they have. UM. But again,

1165
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: it's it's much better now than it was two three

1166
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: years ago when when Chris Ballard first got here. Um.

1167
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: But Chris is he's got an eye for talent, and

1168
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's it's easy for me to

1169
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of stay that because he's so much better at

1170
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: at evaluating things and product acting guys then than I

1171
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: ever could beat. But you know, obviously for them, the

1172
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl is a really big avenue of you know,

1173
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: evaluating players. They put a lot of stock in the

1174
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. I don't have the exact number in front

1175
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: of me, but I would stay in the last three

1176
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: or four years a high majority of their draft picks

1177
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: have been guys that played in that game. So they

1178
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: put a lot of stock in that um. And they

1179
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: also have you know, baseline um, you know, prerequisites for

1180
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: certain positions, every position you know they've got to get.

1181
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: They have, you know, things that that players have to meet,

1182
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: hight weight, speed, arm length, things like that. They don't

1183
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: deviate from them, you know, and if they if they

1184
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: do deviate from them, as in the case with Kenny Moore,

1185
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: they have to have like a trait that overcompensates for

1186
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: something that they're kind of deficient in. And so in

1187
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: Kenny's case, it's his wingspan, it's his arm length, and

1188
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: it's his vertical leap. And we saw that last week

1189
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: and Sunday on Sunday against the Raiders. Kenny's five eight,

1190
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: five nine, but he plays like a guy who's six

1191
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: one six two because he's got unbelievable wingspan. His arms

1192
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: are really big. I mean he can go up and

1193
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 1: just snatch that ball out of out of mid air

1194
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: with one hand, and so that that's sort of how

1195
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard operates. And he's really big into character. He's

1196
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: really big into you know, locker room chemistry and culture.

1197
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,479
Speaker 1: You know, it's that old saying where you know, Chris

1198
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: is the leader of the team, but the team kind

1199
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: of dictates, you know, how well it plays and how

1200
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: far it's gonna go. The locker room dictates, you know,

1201
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: a lot of that success. And he's a big believer

1202
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: in that. You know, you just look at Kenny Moore,

1203
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: Guys like Rigaberto Sanchez, Jack Doyle, Guys that do it

1204
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: consistently on the field and do the right things off

1205
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: the field, they're gonna get rewarded. Those are the guys

1206
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: that get contract extensions under Chris Ballard so far in

1207
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: three years. So they put a lot of weight, you know,

1208
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: with character off the field what you're like as a person.

1209
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: You know, they have a former marine on their staff

1210
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:08,439
Speaker 1: who's sort of like a character evaluator. They take him

1211
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: well everywhere, they take him to the combine, they take

1212
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: him to do all these draft interviews, and he's not

1213
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: asking football questions. He just wants to know how you tick,

1214
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: how you operate, how you are as a guy, because

1215
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: they think that goes a long way in terms of

1216
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: your football success, is kind of how you handle yourself

1217
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: off the field. So they kind of weigh the whole equation,

1218
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: not just football success, but also character evaluation as well.

1219
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: All right, very cool, great information, Matt. We appreciate the

1220
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: time as always, looking forward to the game on Sunday.

1221
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, sweetness, my man, you got it, my pleasure.

1222
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: There is Matt Taylor, the voice of the Indianapolis Colts,

1223
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: of course, alongside the voice of the Texans, Mark Vandimer.

1224
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Speaker 1: All right, it's time to get crazy. In our next

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Speaker 1: segment with Drew Doherty. It's time for Drew's dozen twelve

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Speaker 1: reporter for your Houston Texans and his time for Drews

1251
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Speaker 1: dozen twelve questions with Drew Doherty, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: to know a little bit Nate Hall, linebacker for your

1254
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. We've got linebacker Nate Hall joining us. It's

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Speaker 1: his first go round and the drews dozen. Nate, It's

1256
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: great to meet you via zoom. Wish I could shake

1257
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,479
Speaker 1: your hand and clap you on the shoulder and say

1258
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: what's up like we normally do in non COVID times,

1259
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: but we can't. How are you, my friend? I'm doing well.

1260
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Just finished up a normal Friday practice,

1261
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: you know, just just study with the routine, not bad

1262
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: Friday practices up. My first season I worked with the

1263
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: Texans was two thousand and nine. One Friday practice in December.

1264
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: A fullback the Texans had, guy named bante Leach, went

1265
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: through the entire practice in a Santa Claus outfit. Did

1266
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: anyone go through a practice today in Santa Claus outfit?

1267
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: I can't say that anybody did that this year. Okay,

1268
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: I can't say, but we do. We do have some

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Speaker 1: characters on the team, so I could see how that

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01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: would uh, how that would be a possibility. I like it. Okay,

1271
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: you cracked open that little door. Who are some of

1272
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: these characters? Who makes you laugh the most? Out of

1273
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: all your Texans teammates, Man, the guy makes me laugh

1274
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: the most. It's probably Terrell Adams, Okay, because yeah, he's

1275
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: just a he's an interesting character. A guy who would

1276
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: who would end up coming to practice in a Santa

1277
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: Claus costume probably would be Jake Martin. He's the most

1278
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: out there as far as what he wears. I'm sure,

1279
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure you've seen some of his pre

1280
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: game outfits with the short shorts and cowboy boots and

1281
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: things of that nature. That's pretty good to know that

1282
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: so Jake would be the guy that wears the Santa

1283
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to figure that out in my mind

1284
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 1: each year. Yeah, Fante left after the two ten seasons,

1285
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: so it's good to know that that's the guy that

1286
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: would dress up the Santa Clause. Uh. How about nicknames?

1287
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 1: What are some of yours? I think my most my

1288
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 1: most popular nickname is U Nate Haly y'all just all one,

1289
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: I got, I got. I got that nickname in high school.

1290
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: So um shout out the nar Pinkney. He was a senior.

1291
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: When I was a freshman, I was walking into basketball

1292
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: practice and he just screamed like nay, how y'all, like

1293
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: really loud. Everyone started laughing and kind of stuck. So

1294
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: that's like my handle on most of my pretty much

1295
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: all my social media kind of just shoot my Xbox

1296
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: gamer tag as Nate haw y'all. So that's a that's

1297
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: probably a most popular nickname. Gosh. So as a freshman

1298
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: in high school, you were kind of destined to land

1299
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: in Texas eventually. I mean, you started out your pro

1300
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 1: career with the Cowboys, but now you've been with the

1301
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 1: Texans for the most part. Fortuitous, isn't it because we

1302
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: like to use y'all quite a bit down here. Yeah, yeah, no,

1303
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: it's it's fitting. I was worried when I came down

1304
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 1: here that it wouldn't be h it wouldn't it wouldn't

1305
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: hit home as much, just because the y'all is kind

1306
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: of a common down here. But I think everybody on

1307
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: the team still still loves the nickname. I still get

1308
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: called Nate haw y'all randomly in the locker room, So

1309
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 1: it's great. It just rolls off the lip. I mean,

1310
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 1: that's perfect. It's it's it's a good one. Okay. You

1311
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: had two sacks Thanksgiving Day against the Lions. It was awesome.

1312
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: You played eleven snaps on defense in that game and

1313
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: you produced. I mean, you did the per snap basis.

1314
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: You'd you'd be like the greatest player in NFL history almost.

1315
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: What was it like when you got back to the

1316
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: locker room, You got showered, you got chained, lot of stuff,

1317
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: and you turned your phone back on what happened? Yeah, no,

1318
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: to your first point, my teammates were were making jokes

1319
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: that I was like the most efficient linebacker in the

1320
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: in the leagues. M but no, Yeah, I got back

1321
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: to my phone and it was it was mostly people

1322
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 1: from from back home because we played in Detroit and

1323
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: I from Toledo, so forty five minutes away, and obviously

1324
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: everyone's watching on Thanksgiving. So I mean, I don't know

1325
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: how many text messages I had, but it was like

1326
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,719
Speaker 1: I made it a point to to respond to everybody

1327
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: because most of the people that hit my phone were

1328
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: people that helped me get there along the way. So um,

1329
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was pretty hectic, but I you know,

1330
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: I was Obviously it was a great moment for me

1331
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: and my family. So I was happy, happy when I

1332
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: got back to my phone. For sure, that's outstanding. I mean,

1333
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 1: you strike me as the guy just in general who's

1334
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: thankful and on Thanksgiving Day you're you're extra thankful for things.

1335
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: But that had to kind of like just juice it

1336
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: up even more as far as making it a memorable

1337
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving hearing from all those folks after doing what you

1338
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: get on the field, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean so.

1339
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: And I posted about this on my Instagram, like that

1340
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: Detroit State at Ford Field is where I watched my

1341
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: first NFL game with my father. We drove up because

1342
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 1: I grew up a Minnesota Vikings fan because Randy Moss

1343
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: was my favorite player. So we went up there and

1344
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 1: watched watched that game and it was just, you know,

1345
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: it kind of came to have that type of performance

1346
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: in that stadium, kind of came full circle for me,

1347
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 1: like like the football guys were watching watching out for me,

1348
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,799
Speaker 1: you know, my whole career. So it was a special

1349
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 1: moment for me, and I know it was a special

1350
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: moment for a lot of the people to help me

1351
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: get there, so for sure, and it was like a

1352
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: cherry on top of what was just a fun day

1353
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: all around for the Texans, I mean, offense, defense, special teams.

1354
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 1: They were making it happen that day. That was really

1355
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: cool when I tweeted, because during games, you know, all

1356
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: tweet about big plays that have happened. I just tweeted, hey,

1357
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: you got a strip sack, and then I followed it

1358
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: up with the other sack or vice first. I can't

1359
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: remember the order right now, but in that short span

1360
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 1: it got retweeted and commented upon by Northwestern fans Northwestern football,

1361
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: and I had I didn't tag you, I didn't tag them,

1362
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: but they had their antennae up about you. What's the

1363
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: deal with your Northwestern backing? First of all? And then

1364
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm going to go look, I can talk about this

1365
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: for for for days. Um. I come from a school

1366
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: in Northwestern obviously that didn't get a lot of respect,

1367
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: even when we were winning ten eleven games a year. UM.

1368
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 1: So everybody that comes in the league is still trying

1369
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: to fight for that respect, myself included. I mean, I'm

1370
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: thinking of a handful of guys that were disrespected and

1371
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:44,600
Speaker 1: they're um their college careers and now they're in the

1372
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: NFL thriving, and it's no shock to you know, Wildcat Nation.

1373
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: But um, you know, they like to they like to

1374
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,640
Speaker 1: support us because they know what we're capable of. And

1375
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what what you were seeing,

1376
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, um on social media. So it's it's always

1377
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 1: great to have those those fans still following us and

1378
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 1: having our backs in the NFL, for sure. And one

1379
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: of the cool things about it was there was a

1380
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: guy who played safety brilliantly at Northwestern about a decade

1381
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: ago named Brian Peters. He came here with the Texans.

1382
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: He was a linebacker, but he made his bones on

1383
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 1: special teams. He was an outstanding special teamer. Not in

1384
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: the league right now, but even he was, you know,

1385
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: support you and a big fan of that. What's it

1386
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: like when you see guys from the past that that are,

1387
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 1: you know, recognizing what you did. Yeah. Yeah, it's just

1388
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: a it's a testament to the to the brotherhood that

1389
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: we that we built in evanston Um, and a testament

1390
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: to the brotherhood here too. Obviously. Brian still, you know,

1391
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. Follows Northwestern football closely, uh, follows

1392
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 1: Texans football closely, um, And even I saw him tweet

1393
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: something the other day about his high school Pinkerrington Um

1394
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: in Columbus. So, I mean, that's that's a passion to

1395
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,719
Speaker 1: dude all the way around. But yeah, it means a lot.

1396
01:11:54,760 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: I mean to carry on legacies in my ass, um,

1397
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,719
Speaker 1: bring him here in the NFL and make people proud.

1398
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's a big part of the reason

1399
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: why I still play. You know that's awesome. Okay, switching

1400
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: gears because we're veering into like very serious territory there.

1401
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: If we keep going, I might start crying. You might

1402
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: start crying, and you don't want any of that. Got

1403
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: to keep things light here. Uh. Do you like or

1404
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: did you like The Office? The TV show? Yeah? I

1405
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: dabbled in the Office. I wasn't like a fanatic, but

1406
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: definitely I know the characters for the most part. Which

1407
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: Office character do you most identify with? Uh? Probably Jim.

1408
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to say Jim. Everybody says Jim, don't they. Yeah,

1409
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody said. That's why I didn't want

1410
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: to say because I feel like he's the most normal

1411
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 1: out of everybody's. Like, I'm not that weird, So Jim. Um,

1412
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I identify with any of them.

1413
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: I think, Um, I think Kevin is the is the

1414
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 1: most funny character on the show. I just think he's

1415
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: a very sneaky, funny character, just kind of in the

1416
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: back I think, even accounting, right, Yeah, he's really funny.

1417
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: The whole accounting department. It's kind of funny. Yeah, the

1418
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: whole Yeah, they're all They've all got their quirks. Every

1419
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: character on that show has their quirk. Okay, what would

1420
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: your career be were it not for football? What would

1421
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: you be doing if if you were not in the NFL.

1422
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: That's a million dollar question. Uh you get the business background? Yeah, yeah,

1423
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: I did. I did some some pretty hardcore schooling in business. Uh.

1424
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:30,559
Speaker 1: If professionally, probably would probably be something in in commercial

1425
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: real estate, commercial real estate development. Um. I mean I

1426
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 1: have other passions outside of football and even outside of

1427
01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 1: business really, but um, that's probably something I'll I'll get

1428
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 1: into and I'll probably you know, babble in some of

1429
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: that while I'm still playing in the NFL. Obviously, it's

1430
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: not like the NFL limits you from from other business opportunities,

1431
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: as I'm sure you know and a lot of the

1432
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: fans know, so. Um, but yeah, i'd probably say, say

1433
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: real estate development, Um, real estate investment. Okay, you just

1434
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: brought it up. So what are these other passions that

1435
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: you got outside of football? Um. The one that shocks

1436
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 1: people to most is like, I'm really into motorsport, so

1437
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 1: like NASCAR, Formula One. Um, unfortunately they didn't you know,

1438
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: Formula one didn't come to Austin this year because of

1439
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. But that's that's the one that I want

1440
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: to I want to go to. Um yeah, no, I

1441
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:21,599
Speaker 1: mean Lewis Hamilton fan. I was a Jimmy Johnson fan

1442
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: who just you know, uh, you know, arguably the greatest

1443
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: driver of all time in NASCAR just retired this year. Um.

1444
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, people always people are always shocking when I

1445
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: say that. But my dad got me into racing and cars, um,

1446
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,200
Speaker 1: going up to mis Michigan International Speedway when I was

1447
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 1: a kid. Uh yeah, So that's just one thing I'm

1448
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 1: pretty passionate about. I'm not shocked because you know, I

1449
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: didn't watch motor sports growing up. Buds. Earlier in my career,

1450
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: I actually interviewed Jimmy Johnson when he was a rookie

1451
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: riding in his for driving. His first race was at

1452
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: the Texas Motor Speedway back about twenty years ago, and

1453
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 1: I've been to races both there have been open wheel

1454
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: been to open wheel races as well. I think if

1455
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 1: you actually go to a race, I could see easily

1456
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: how you get hooked on that because seeing it it

1457
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: assaults all five of your senses, whereas watching it on

1458
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: TV you don't get as as much of that, you know.

1459
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: Very true, Yeah, very true. I think my first actually

1460
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: my first race was in It was New Hampshire. Okay.

1461
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: Dad has a friend who lives in that area, and

1462
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,680
Speaker 1: we flew out there to visit him, you know, kill

1463
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: two birds with one stone, and went out to the race.

1464
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was. I mean, I can't remember how

1465
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: old I was, maybe ten years old, nine, ten years old. Yeah,

1466
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: that was an amazing experience to like watching on TV

1467
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 1: and then to go see a close and personale just

1468
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, all the things that there are to do,

1469
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 1: the community that's built around it. Yeah, no, I was. Yeah, motorsports,

1470
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: all right, that's pretty cool. That's that's different. Um, Let's

1471
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: say you're trapped in a room. It's ten feet wide,

1472
01:15:56,280 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: ten feet wide, it's a square room. I said, no windows, huh,

1473
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: no windows, and it's filled with food. You've got to

1474
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: eat your way out. If you're gonna get out of

1475
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 1: this room, what's the food you're gonna choose to eat

1476
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:14,560
Speaker 1: your way out with? So another thing people don't know

1477
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: about me. I guess I am Middle Eastern so on

1478
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: Lebanese and Syrian, amongst other things. But I grew up

1479
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: eating that style of food quite often, so i'd have

1480
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: to go with food from that region. So like grape leaves,

1481
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: hummus as peter bread, all that stuff. I could just

1482
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 1: run the list, but those things probably be the most

1483
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: tolerable if I had to eat that much. It's right,

1484
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: And you're they're kind of on the lighter side too.

1485
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: You don't want to, I mean, if you want to

1486
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: get out of there, you know you gotta have some

1487
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 1: light food. Yeah, those are good choices. I like that.

1488
01:16:50,160 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 1: What's the best Christmas present you ever got? Well, I'm

1489
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:05,440
Speaker 1: sitting back here making it seem like I never get Christmas.

1490
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: That many great ones that you can't decide between which one. Yeah,

1491
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to think

1492
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: because because they can't. It's i feel like I'm getting

1493
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: old because they're all meshing together. Oh, you're only twenty four.

1494
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: I'm look my parents. After my parents, I said, I

1495
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,599
Speaker 1: was mature beyond my year. So like by the time

1496
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 1: I when I got to college, I was like, don't

1497
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: give me anything that's like a luxury item. I don't

1498
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: care about that. Just give me practical stuff. So every

1499
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 1: year my mom just renews my Costco membership and I'm

1500
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 1: like super hype about that. I'm like, oh, the gases,

1501
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: the gas is good. The you know, I get to

1502
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: go get groceries in bulk, Like little does he know

1503
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: it means a lot. Even their hot dog and a

1504
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,680
Speaker 1: and soda meal. I mean, that's just outstand in. A

1505
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: couple like the one in Toledo that I went through

1506
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 1: would always make these sandwiches that they would kind of

1507
01:17:55,560 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: use ingredients from the store and make sandwiches. And my

1508
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: wife and I we have four little kids, and my

1509
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: seven year old daughter and my five year old son

1510
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: are it's like taking them to Disney World, you know,

1511
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: like they love the free samples, so oh yeah, yeah,

1512
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't skimp on any there. Well, Nate,

1513
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: this was a lot of fun. You're a unique guy.

1514
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking some time on a Friday to

1515
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,920
Speaker 1: do this. Best of luck, the best rest of the way.

1516
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,759
Speaker 1: Hope you get to watch some motorsports in the offseason.

1517
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: And wait, before we finished this, you gotta tell me

1518
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: about Thailand before all this pandemic. Wow, you got to

1519
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,680
Speaker 1: go to Thailand? How was that? Yeah? That was that

1520
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 1: was incredible man. So um actually, so when I booked

1521
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: that trip, I had no clue about COVID and things

1522
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 1: of that nature. And um, so it was kind of

1523
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 1: right before it became kind of like a scare across

1524
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: the world. It was an incredible experience. I mean, the

1525
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: people over there, the locals so inviting. It's it's it's

1526
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: funny because I didn't expect them to be so willing

1527
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: to share their culture, and it was just such a

1528
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: warm feeling for them to then to you know, share

1529
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: their culture and not not get frustrated when you do

1530
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: something that's kind of out of their norms with to

1531
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: try to teach you about it. Um. Amongst all things,

1532
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful place. I mean yeah, like we went

1533
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 1: to Ppe Islands, m beautiful, Like you really you really

1534
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: get a taste of what island life is like. And

1535
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: I'll say this anybody out there, if you think you

1536
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: know what a mango tastes like. You don't until you've

1537
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,600
Speaker 1: gone to Thailand. I mean mangoes. There was this It

1538
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: was like a mango cafe and it was like kind

1539
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: of breakfast inspired food. And when I was on the

1540
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 1: island for three days, I went there every day like

1541
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,720
Speaker 1: I had so many mangoes I can't even can't even

1542
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 1: comet It was incredible, but no, it was. It made

1543
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: me made me more hungry to travel. For sure. I

1544
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: was gonna say, what's next when this all ends and

1545
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: you can travel, where is the next big spot you

1546
01:19:54,200 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 1: want to go to? I really want to go to Australia, Okay,

1547
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: New Zealand. I haven't done Europe yet, but I feel

1548
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:07,759
Speaker 1: like I have plenty of time to kind of do Europe.

1549
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: I really want to hit Australia, see that, and then

1550
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 1: do some South American countries as well. Having pinpointed exactly

1551
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:20,320
Speaker 1: which ones, but between South America and Australia, whichever one

1552
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: seems to be easier at the moment, it is probably

1553
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,759
Speaker 1: well too. I like it. Well. I hope that's sooner

1554
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: than later for you, because traveling is fun. I've been

1555
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: lucky enough to go to Europe, but I too would

1556
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: like to go to Australia and New Zealand, amongst many

1557
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 1: many other places. All Right, Nate Hall, I promise now

1558
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap this up. You're a great sport, just

1559
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:39,600
Speaker 1: fun learning about you. Have a great weekend. Best of

1560
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: luck against those cults less beat them. It'll be a

1561
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: physical one, but it'll be a good one like always,

1562
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: so hopefully we come on the come out on the

1563
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: winning end this time. All Right, that was fun stuff

1564
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 1: getting to know Nate Hall through Drews doesn't Now, Drew's

1565
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna pop in the next segments as he always does

1566
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: for our Drew's final word. This week it's with Chad Hanson,

1567
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: so you gotta be looking forward to that. But I've

1568
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: also got to do my predictions too, So I'm gonna

1569
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: rip through the predictions straight up and against the spread,

1570
01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 1: and then Drew's gonna stop by for of Drew's final word,

1571
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,679
Speaker 1: and that'll be it for tonight's show. Got it good,

1572
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: Stay right where you are. We got one final segment

1573
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 1: of this Friday edition and Texans All Access. I am

1574
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: John Harris, and we've got a lot to do. We

1575
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: got predictions and then we got to get the Drew's

1576
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: final word with Chad Hanson and I don't have much

1577
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: time to do it, but I'm going to crank through

1578
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: every single game this weekend about as fast as I've

1579
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 1: ever done, straight up and against the spread. Let's pick them,

1580
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: Let's go. The Bills go to Denver for Saturday. Buffalo's

1581
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,839
Speaker 1: favored by five. Bills are gonna win that thing, going away.

1582
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: Bills to win, Bills to cover. Also, Saturday night, the

1583
01:21:56,800 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 1: Panthers take on the Packers. The Packers are favored by

1584
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: eight at home. That's not enough, Packers to win and

1585
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: cover at home. Then Sunday at noon, the Bucks go

1586
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: to the Falcons. Falcons kind of dip it a little bit.

1587
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: After getting four wins in the last seven games, They've

1588
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: lost a couple in a row. They're a six point

1589
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:18,800
Speaker 1: dog at Tampa Bay. I'm going with Tampa Bay to

1590
01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:21,440
Speaker 1: win and to cover. Forty nine. Ers taken on the Cowboys.

1591
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: Joe Montana is not showing up, but the Niners will

1592
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: lose to the Cowboys. Cowp is gonna get a win,

1593
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: so I'm taking those three. Give the Cowboys to win.

1594
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:36,439
Speaker 1: Lions Titans types are fair by eleven. Titans win big

1595
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 1: Patriots taken on the Dolphins down in Miami. Miami's only

1596
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:42,680
Speaker 1: a three point favorite. It's going to be a Patriots

1597
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: upset down in Miami. Believe me, I hope so. Bears

1598
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: taken on Vikings. The Bears need this one after last week.

1599
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: But at Minnesota, and it's so favored by three, the

1600
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: Vikings are gonna get that win and win by more

1601
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: than three. The Seahawks taken on the Washington football team

1602
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: in Washington. Seattle's favored by five. It's upset city, not

1603
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: this time. Washington will get beat. They're playing Dwayne Haskins.

1604
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: The Seahawks will be all over him. The Seahawks will

1605
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 1: win that and cover that five. Jags Ravens. Ravens favored

1606
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 1: by thirteen. It could get ugly. Ravens win big, Jets, Rams,

1607
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: Rams huge. Eagles taken on the Cardinals in a three

1608
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:23,719
Speaker 1: h five game. The Eagles will play well with Jalen Hurts,

1609
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: but I think the Cardinals are gonna pull this out.

1610
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: It's a battle of transfer quarterbacks to Oklahoma with Jalen

1611
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: Hurts taken on Kyler Murray. Cardinals will win this thing,

1612
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,640
Speaker 1: and they'll win it barely by more than six and

1613
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: a half Chiefs taking on the Saints in a great

1614
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon game. Drew Brees is back, but no, Michael Thomas.

1615
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:43,679
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna win this thing by more than they're

1616
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: favored the three and the Browns are taking on the

1617
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: Giants on Sunday Night. Baker Mayfield is hot, at least

1618
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: he wasn't that Monday night game. I'm going with him

1619
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night against the Giants to win by more

1620
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 1: than the six and a half they're favored by. So

1621
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: there you go, Bengal Steelers on Monday Night. Steve, there's

1622
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: huge by more than thirteen. All right, let's get the

1623
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,799
Speaker 1: Drew's final word, and this week it's with Chad Hanson.

1624
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 1: Drew takeaway, Thank you so much, fellas. We've got wide

1625
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: receiver Chad Handsome with us now and Chad, it's been

1626
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: an interesting season. It's been an interesting last two weeks.

1627
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: What have they been like for you on a personal basis?

1628
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's been a lot of a lot of crazy,

1629
01:24:22,280 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: a lot of crazy emotions, you know, going through from

1630
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 1: the practice squad, being pulled up and put into a

1631
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 1: starting role and having a pretty big role. I'd say

1632
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 1: so you know, it's been it's been a great experience

1633
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: for me, and it's been awesome. Yeah, big role indeed.

1634
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean you've essentially been one of the primary targets.

1635
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:42,720
Speaker 1: I know you always had confidence, that's that's clear, But

1636
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 1: how much have you learned about yourself over the last

1637
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: two weeks. That's That's one thing that I try to

1638
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: pride myself on is keeping my confidence. I had been

1639
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: bouncing around for a while, you know, since my rookie year,

1640
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,719
Speaker 1: so it's kind of tough to keep that confidence. But

1641
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:00,160
Speaker 1: but really, as a receiver, that's one thing that you

1642
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:03,559
Speaker 1: can never lose, is that confidence to know that you

1643
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 1: know that you can go out there and play with

1644
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: anybody and win and you know, make all the plays

1645
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: that come to you and gain the trust and all that.

1646
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's been a crazy journey, but it's

1647
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: definitely been very beneficial for my career, no doubt. You know,

1648
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: when you and I talked a bit back in August,

1649
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: we talked about some of those sources of confidence that

1650
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 1: come from many different places. One of them you describe

1651
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: all the time you got to work with Deshaun Watson

1652
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: in May and in June and in July when he

1653
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: was throwing in California and Arizona and Miami. And what

1654
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: did you learn from him during that time, because not

1655
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: everyone has heard of that story. Yeah, well, I mean

1656
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: Deshaun would reach out to the receivers and let them know, hey,

1657
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to be here throwing and better off you

1658
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 1: guys are in the area. I'd love to throw with you.

1659
01:25:47,479 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: So I would always make myself available and you know,

1660
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 1: always be there because I know that as a receiver,

1661
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: having that trust from your quarterback is really the biggest thing.

1662
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: When you have that trust, and I learned how he

1663
01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: works and you know how he expects me to work,

1664
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 1: and getting that timing and being on the same page

1665
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 1: has paid dividends when I've been out there this year.

1666
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:09,760
Speaker 1: You guys have taken very different journeys to where you

1667
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:11,960
Speaker 1: are now, but there are many similarities as well with

1668
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 1: Kiki QT. How nice was it and how nice has

1669
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: it been kind of experiencing some portions of individual success

1670
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,280
Speaker 1: despite what's been going on with the team this year.

1671
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: You know, obviously the team's success is the ultimate goal,

1672
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:26,639
Speaker 1: but just being out there and seeing what Kiki's done

1673
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 1: and how well he's played when he's given the opportunities

1674
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: and kind of like my situation, you know, you're just

1675
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,719
Speaker 1: you're just waiting on your opportunity, confidence in your ability,

1676
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: and you know, once you get that opportunity, you want

1677
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: to make the most of it. And I feel like

1678
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 1: Key's done that and I have as well, that's for

1679
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: darn sure. We saw the big game a couple of

1680
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 1: weeks ago against the Colts. You got seven catches the

1681
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:49,400
Speaker 1: next week in Chicago. As a team, though, how do

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Speaker 1: you guys erase that bad taste from your mouth that

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01:26:51,920 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: came from the loss against the Bears. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they say in football, you got a twenty

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01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: four hour rule, either good or bad. You take twenty

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01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 1: four hours to clean up what you did wrong, or

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01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:05,559
Speaker 1: you can't dwell on all the bad things. So I'd

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01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: say we're past that and we're we're onto Indie looking

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01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,720
Speaker 1: for looking for a win this week. Yeah, tell me

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01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:14,839
Speaker 1: about that Indianapolis Colts Secondary. You guys had some success

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01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:17,879
Speaker 1: against them just two weeks ago when you played them. Yeah,

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01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're they're great players. You know, they

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01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:22,599
Speaker 1: have a great defense. They're one of the top defenses

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01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 1: in the league. So it was it was awesome for

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01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: us to go out there and you know, hit some

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01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: big plays on them and put them on their heels

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01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I think that's probably something that

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01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna be trying to do this week as well.

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01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:36,519
Speaker 1: How nasty is an AFC self matchup? You're part of

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01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: the one a couple of weeks ago, but you've been

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01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:40,120
Speaker 1: around this team, You've seen how it is. What's it

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01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: like when you take on one of the divisional opponents. Well,

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01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different because they know everything that

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01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. We know everything that they're gonna do.

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01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: So really just you know, I don't want to say

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01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: rolling the ball and rolling the ball out there and playing,

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01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,760
Speaker 1: but kind of have a good feel for what they're

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01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: gonna do. So really just went in one on one

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01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: matchups and beating your man. Really, that's all you can do.

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Speaker 1: Nice and we're gonna leave you with Christmas coming up.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite Christmas movie? Christmas Vacation. I grew up

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01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: every year watching That's my dad's favorite movie, so he

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01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:14,719
Speaker 1: made us watch it every year, so it turns into

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Speaker 1: my favorite movie. Great stuff there from Drew and Chad Hanson,

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Speaker 1: The Big Thanks to dru Innate Hall, to DP and

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Speaker 1: Kiki Qt, to Mark and Matt Taylor, to Romeo Carnell,

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Speaker 1: to all you for listening. We'll see you next time

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