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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to a Friday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We are less than forty eight hours away from your

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Speaker 1: Texans taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in the City of

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Speaker 1: Brotherly Love and Lincoln Financial Field in a big one.

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Speaker 1: Eagles seven and seven, still a playoff hopes, a live

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Speaker 1: Texans ten and four with an opportunity for a bye

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Speaker 1: week in the playoffs. A lot at stake this weekend.

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Speaker 1: This weekend will go a long way and telling us

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Speaker 1: and giving us an idea what is going to happen

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Speaker 1: in the future. A lot of games going on outside

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia that will impact the Texans and the Eagles. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles keeping an eye on what's going on with Dallas,

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Speaker 1: keeping eye what's going on with Washington. Everybody will be

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Speaker 1: watching the Saturday night games. Washington goes to Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: then you got the Baltimore Ravens going to the LA Chargers.

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Speaker 1: All of that has an impact on a game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So plenty of things going on in the NFL, but

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Speaker 1: we'll focus on this one. The Texans take on the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Not taking the cheese, I guess we got to talk

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Speaker 1: about it, but we gotta talk about this game in particular.

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Speaker 1: We are going to focus on that. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do that by talking to Christian Covington. Our Deep Flint

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Speaker 1: Interview of the Week is a good one with C

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Speaker 1: four and he tells you where that C four comes from.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea Christian Covington will join us for

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Speaker 1: our Deep Flint Interview of the Week. Then I will

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Speaker 1: give you my first community Craig Unique Keys to the game.

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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter is gonna join us. Then I'll give you

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Speaker 1: the Texans pick them, and then it's our players segment.

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Speaker 1: We got a little kay Jack TV. We'll have a

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Speaker 1: little get to know and then it's the Final Word

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Speaker 1: with Drew Dougherty. This week gets Demarrious Thomas. But we

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Speaker 1: kick it off each and every week with some hot

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Speaker 1: reads and we always start with that. Coach your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, who sat down with the Voice of the

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Speaker 1: Texas Mark Vandermer earlier today. Coach, do you think all

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Speaker 1: the time that the guys have spent away from this

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Speaker 1: building together, from training camp, even some of the guys

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Speaker 1: last year, all the time you spent on the road

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Speaker 1: has helped them in road performances this year, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think when you go on the road,

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Speaker 1: it's a very difficult challenge. You know, you're going on

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Speaker 1: a road this week against the team that won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year. That's a really good team. And

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Speaker 1: so you have to have that mentality of when once

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Speaker 1: you get on that bus, get on that plane, this

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Speaker 1: is all you need. You know, this is the mentality

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Speaker 1: that we have. This is what we have. We don't

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Speaker 1: have our fans with us. You know, we're in a

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Speaker 1: hostile environment, so you know this is these are the

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Speaker 1: guys that we're gonna go to war with, and uh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a battle. And I think our guys

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Speaker 1: have understood that all year. It hasn't always been perfect,

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Speaker 1: but we've got the right team to be able to

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Speaker 1: play on the road. I believe the way Philly runs

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Speaker 1: the ball by committee, does the style change with the

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Speaker 1: different facts? How do you address that? Absolutely? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at Josh Adams. I recruited

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Speaker 1: so I've known him for a long time. He's a

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Speaker 1: big guys, he's a powerful runner, He's he's got good

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Speaker 1: then obviously when they put a guy like Wendell's Smallwood

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Speaker 1: a different deal. You know. It's more of a quick guy,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely differences in the skill sets. How difficult was

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Speaker 1: I thought our scout teams did a good job. We'll

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Speaker 1: that helps us on Sunday. You preach ball security, but

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Speaker 1: So you know, that can win you a lot of

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Speaker 1: all right. Other than that, key factors and pulling one

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Speaker 1: then our offensive line they'll come to play, and then

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a battle both ways. Their offensive line

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a battle in the trenches. And then

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Speaker 1: be big I think going back, not to repeat, but

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent ball security and trying to take the

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Speaker 1: the formula for US. Coach, thanks a lot, good luck,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Annie. All right, great stuff there from coach O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate him for stopping by. Our next hot read is

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Speaker 1: actually a little bit more sound. But I wanted to

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Speaker 1: play this be at the second I heard it. Tyrn

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Speaker 1: Matthew earlier this week went to speak to Marshall High School.

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Speaker 1: Now Marshall's playing the state championship game tonight. In fact,

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Speaker 1: taking on Aldo. Now, Alido is one of the powers

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Speaker 1: Marshall had a tragedy a couple of weeks ago. They

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Speaker 1: a leader for the state championship. Tyra Matthew went out

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Speaker 1: to speak to the Marshall Buffs and it is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: the top would be great. So here's Tyra Matthew talking

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Speaker 1: You know, I probably only had one chance to play

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Speaker 1: you know, and football is really my life, and you

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Speaker 1: know it kind of taught me a lot about life.

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Speaker 1: When I take the fielding football game, always start with

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Speaker 1: the end in mind, right, Like I take every practice,

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of the same thing with your everyday life.

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Speaker 1: everyday life. Everything ain't always been what I wanted it

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Speaker 1: we gotta channel all that to get to where we

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Speaker 1: do it for myself. Everybody in this huddle, eat of y'all,

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Speaker 1: make something bigger than me? Because the more you live

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Speaker 1: and for y'all boys to be champions. And that's really

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Speaker 1: all it's about in life. You know, you just want

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Speaker 1: I salute y'all boys. I'm rooting for y'all for sure. Man,

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Speaker 1: Tyrant Matthew as he spoke to the Marshall High School

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Speaker 1: and best of luck to them. Okay, let's get into

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Speaker 1: our final hot read and that will be the injury report.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Oh, this one's tough. Mike

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Speaker 1: Tyson will be out of this game with a concussion.

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Speaker 1: He is the only Texans out. Questionable for your Texans.

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Speaker 1: J Joe who went home sick today. Cinel Calamte deal

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Speaker 1: with a number of different things, both questionable, QT done Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: Miller all questionable. Yes, DeAndre is questionable. It would be

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Speaker 1: a tough go if DeAndre is unable to go. Lamar,

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Speaker 1: But Mike Tyson is out for the Eagles. Corner Sidney

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Speaker 1: pretty big ones Michael Bennett questionable with a foot injury,

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Speaker 1: Timmy Journegan questionable with a back, and Crayvon LeBlanc deal

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Speaker 1: Brandon Dunne, DeAndre Hopkins, Lamar Miller out for the Eagles, Jones,

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Speaker 1: also known as Christian Coral Cleveland Covington. Do you know

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Speaker 1: Dunney and Brandon, they know how to spend that thing.

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Speaker 1: And you know they've been it's always it's always competition

427
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Speaker 1: whenever they're they're up next. Um Jadeveon Heat throws that

428
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Speaker 1: ball so high up in the air and it comes

429
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Speaker 1: crashing down. But it works. It works every time. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't get how you can strike like that.

431
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Speaker 1: Um not gonna say he was the worst. I'm not

432
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Speaker 1: gonna put him one blast like that. But but it

433
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter with this group. Whatever we do off

434
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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's bowling, whether it's you know, pool,

435
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Speaker 1: volleyball or whatever. It's like that eight is competitive and

436
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Speaker 1: I love I love that group. I love this group

437
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Speaker 1: for it. I love your group as well. I heard

438
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Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver does a lot of fun things with you

439
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Speaker 1: guys to help you learn. He's got like a Jeopardy

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Speaker 1: day to sort of go over. Does he still do

441
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Speaker 1: that work? Who told you that? Who told you? Though? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's well. He does a lot of things and it's

443
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Speaker 1: it's all in learning. Learning absolutely the position. So instead

444
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: of just quizzing you guys over it, he does that.

445
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 1: His former teammate Travis Johnson said that when he watches

446
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Speaker 1: the way you guys play, it mirrors how Anthony used

447
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: to play when he was in the league. Have you

448
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: ever watched film of coach Weave A little bit of player,

449
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Speaker 1: a little bit? What do you think when you see him?

450
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Speaker 1: I see a probable guy. It's kind of do you

451
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Speaker 1: see I see a big I see a big I

452
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Speaker 1: see he might hate me for this, But I see

453
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Speaker 1: a bigger guy because that brother, he was big goodness

454
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Speaker 1: compared to what he is obviously not meeting and lifting

455
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Speaker 1: as as a D lineman anymore. Yeah, we make fun

456
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Speaker 1: of him. We make fun of him all the time

457
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Speaker 1: for that. So do you do you feel like it

458
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Speaker 1: you're very similar in the style that he plays or

459
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: is this your own style that has evolved under him house.

460
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Speaker 1: I feel like any coach that has played the game

461
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Speaker 1: is gonna put their little twist and you know, flavor

462
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Speaker 1: on there with with regards to their coaching um and

463
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Speaker 1: it could be said for it could be said with

464
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Speaker 1: coach Weave two. You know he's gonna sprinkle in you

465
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Speaker 1: know what he's done, what's made him, what made him

466
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Speaker 1: successful in the league, and you know what he's seen

467
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Speaker 1: and being around other successful guys in the league. He's

468
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Speaker 1: gonna take all that and you know, implement it into

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Speaker 1: the way he coaches us. And you know I've seen

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Speaker 1: I've tried to and the way he's the way he's

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Speaker 1: taught me. Like I'm a when it comes to me

472
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Speaker 1: in my game, I know what I know what best

473
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Speaker 1: suits me, so to speak. But I'm all about you know,

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Speaker 1: taking in what other people have to say, Like, that's

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Speaker 1: what being coachable is about. And you see it from

476
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Speaker 1: you know, the vast majority of the guys in that

477
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Speaker 1: room that we're all taking in, Um, every little hint

478
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Speaker 1: that he's given us over the years. You know, we've

479
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Speaker 1: you can see it in the film if you if

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Speaker 1: you want to throw up a comparison film. Uh, it's

481
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: the proof is in the pudding with regards to that.

482
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Speaker 1: And I mean that's just a testament to the you know,

483
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Speaker 1: the success that he's had and the success that he

484
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Speaker 1: wants to be able to have us build. I see

485
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Speaker 1: a lot of players when they're in the league, they

486
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Speaker 1: watch film of other guys that they sort of look to.

487
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: Is there another player in the league that you sort

488
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: of look to just craft your moves to add your

489
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Speaker 1: arsenal that you feel like has a similar playing style

490
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Speaker 1: to you, or or is that guy even in your

491
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Speaker 1: in your room already? Are you? Obviously I watched the JJ.

492
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Speaker 1: Everybody watching the JJ all the time. Uh as far

493
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Speaker 1: as like d tackles go, you know, I love Uh No, obviously,

494
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying. I'm still trying to get to that level. Obviously. Um,

495
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Speaker 1: But I love I love watching film on Jim McCoy.

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Speaker 1: I love watching film on Aaron Donald. You know, he's

497
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Speaker 1: one of the he's one of the best we've ever

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Speaker 1: seen as far as interior defensive lineman. Go um but

499
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Speaker 1: those I say, those would be my those would be

500
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Speaker 1: my top two right now. Him and I love what.

501
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Speaker 1: I love what Jarl's been doing, you know, during his

502
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Speaker 1: career at uh over at Tampa Bay. So I love

503
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Speaker 1: watching film all those us. I know, you guys are

504
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: playing the Eagles this Sunday. You're not on the field

505
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Speaker 1: at the same time as that front, But how how

506
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Speaker 1: many playmakers are on that front and and what what

507
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Speaker 1: is it like when you see what they're able to do? Um, No,

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Speaker 1: it's it's uh, that's that's a that's a line for

509
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Speaker 1: itself to I mean, the the talent alone. You know,

510
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: you're talking Brandon, Brandon Graham, you're talking Flettric Cox, you're

511
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: talking Michael Bennett, you're talking Chris Long, you're talking Hellodi Nada,

512
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Speaker 1: you're talking uh yeah, yeah, the list goes like, the

513
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 1: list goes on. I'm just like, it's kind of a

514
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Speaker 1: crazy defensive line. But you know, obviously you know from

515
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Speaker 1: what they did last year and what you know, obviously

516
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Speaker 1: the talent that they have on that defensive line and

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Speaker 1: that defensive front um, it's it's incredible just to be

518
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Speaker 1: able to watch film, oh you know, and obviously you

519
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: watch film on you know, you know, both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball, just to see what no works and stuff

521
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: like that. But uh, to see what they've been doing,

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Speaker 1: you know, as a as a unit together, it's been

523
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Speaker 1: it's been an incredible to watch. And that's a that's

524
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Speaker 1: a group of pros right there. That is something else,

525
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: all right. Since you've been in the league, the Texans

526
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs your first two years, just not

527
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Speaker 1: last year and then more than likely this year too.

528
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Speaker 1: How is this year different from the others, especially after

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Speaker 1: the O and three start and then rolling back from that.

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Speaker 1: I've never been a part of a you know, with

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Speaker 1: my short time here, I've never been a part of

532
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Speaker 1: a team where we've been this close, you know, you know,

533
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Speaker 1: speaking position wise, speaking unit wise, speaking team wise. Um,

534
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Speaker 1: this team has really been truly bought in on the

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Speaker 1: you know, this concept and the idea of you know,

536
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Speaker 1: that brotherhood aspect that comes with football, and it's it

537
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Speaker 1: could really be shown with you know, the guys that

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Speaker 1: we had and added you know via you know, the

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Speaker 1: draft or via free agency. It was kind of seamless

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Speaker 1: how they were able to integrate themselves into the team

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Speaker 1: and integrate themselves into the into the you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: I'm biased, you know, the defensive in the defensive room,

543
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Speaker 1: and you know that's something I hadn't I've never seen before,

544
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Speaker 1: you know, just being such a seamless and just easy

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Speaker 1: you know, transition, and that's really you know, I feel

546
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Speaker 1: like what was what kept us going throughout you know,

547
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: the little adversity that we've had this season, and this

548
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: team is not no, this team is. This team is

549
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: no stranger too, you know, adversity I've obviously you never

550
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Speaker 1: want to do on the past, but I mean the

551
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: past is the past, and you know, you you learn

552
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: from it and stuff like that. Um, but this team

553
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: is UM. This team knows how to overcome you know,

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00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: obstacles on their way. And uh, you know, if I

555
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Speaker 1: feel like if we didn't have that close knit unit,

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Speaker 1: if we didn't have that close knit feeling that we

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Speaker 1: have towards each other and the love that we have

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Speaker 1: for you know, the brother to our left and the

559
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Speaker 1: brother to our right. I feel like we wouldn't be

560
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Speaker 1: in this position today, all right. That stuff We've had

561
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun watching it hopefully continues for a

562
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Speaker 1: long long time to come. I think since I've been here,

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Speaker 1: this has been the most fun that we've had covering

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Speaker 1: this team as well. So Christian Covington, best wishes for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season and good luck. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I never put the c fourth thing together either,

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Speaker 1: now I know, and now you know as well. Great

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00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: stuff there from Cove and also from DP. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, we got our first Community cred Union first

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Speaker 1: Glance Key City game, and Cove is one of those

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Speaker 1: as part of that four man pass rush with Watt,

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Speaker 1: Merciless and Clowney and Covington would they're a big big

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Speaker 1: piece of this game against the Philadelphiagles. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: my key's next right here in Texans Access, the Choose

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Speaker 1: Last week against the Jets some pretty fun moments, and

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Speaker 1: I've played a couple of them for you on Monday

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Speaker 1: and Wednesday. I think this is a pretty fun moment

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Speaker 1: as well. Fifty three yard attempt left hash Mark wins

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Speaker 1: not much of a factor. John Weeks will snap Daniel

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Speaker 1: with the hole. The snap is down. Fairbarons kick plenty

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Speaker 1: of leg and it's good there. It is Kimie Fairbaron,

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Speaker 1: one of five field goals the Man had on Saturday

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Speaker 1: evening against the New York Jets. That as you choose

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Speaker 1: it's time to get into our Keys to the Game

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Speaker 1: First three Credit Union First Plans Keys to the Game FCCU,

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Speaker 1: the Official Credit Union of your Houston Texans. This is

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Speaker 1: where I dive into all the things I think are

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Speaker 1: gonna end up being important in this game. And you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. Usually I start with offense

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Speaker 1: or defense. I'm gonna start with special teams. Today. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you one special teams key that is absolute

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Speaker 1: in this ball game. Absolute and it has to do

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Speaker 1: with a particular player and I'm gonna mention him when

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Speaker 1: we get to our defensive keys. But in some way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form, Darren Sprowles cannot hurt this game in

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Speaker 1: any way, shape or form, and he can do it

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Speaker 1: with returns. I'd rather callimue. Just bang out of the

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Speaker 1: end zone and be done with it. Do not give

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Speaker 1: Sprowls an opportunity to let the Eagles start in twenty

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Speaker 1: five and play defense. I know they've got a good kicker,

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Speaker 1: Jake Elliott. He's not told some really important field goals

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. But I'd rather them

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Speaker 1: have to go the distance as opposed to given Sprowls

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to take one forty fifty yards and set

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Speaker 1: them up in really good scoring territory rather than have

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Speaker 1: to go the distance as opposed to getting a short field.

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Speaker 1: So Sprowls is a problem. Do not kick in the ball,

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Speaker 1: just kick it out of bounds or kick it out

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Speaker 1: of the end zone, not out of bounce. Don't kick

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Speaker 1: it out of bounce, kick it out of the back

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Speaker 1: of the end zone. Force him to take touchbacks if

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Speaker 1: he then does decide to bring it out from five

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Speaker 1: six yards deep. Kickoff coverage has been pretty good. Let's

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Speaker 1: stay solid with that. So let's go with that. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the keys on the Texans defensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. Here's what we know about the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get into our keys. Nick Foles will

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Speaker 1: start a quarterback otherw I don't think there are too

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Speaker 1: many changes up front. Steffan Wiznowski has been banged up,

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Speaker 1: but they've had Isaac Saimalu in there. They've had some

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Speaker 1: guys banged up during the week, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: much he's gonna change. Zach Ertz is playing, Dallas Goddard's playing.

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Speaker 1: The tight ends are a handful. You've got Golden Tate,

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Speaker 1: Elson Aguilar and al Shan, Jeffrey Adams in smallwood running

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Speaker 1: the rock. It's pretty much the same group of skill guys.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same offense, with one big exception.

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Speaker 1: Wentz out folds in. Now, there are some billions some

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Speaker 1: around the NFL. Let's say, well, right now, that's not

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Speaker 1: a horrible change to put foals in there. Look, they'd

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Speaker 1: rather have wins. I don't think there's any questions about that.

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Speaker 1: But they have foles. How are they different? I think

638
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: Wentz throws a cleaner ball. I think Wentz is one

639
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: to take a little bit fewer of the deep balls.

640
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: Foles wants to throw the ball deep. I don't think

641
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: Foles is this accurate in the shorts any intermediate passing game.

642
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: But down the field he's nails. Now Foles gets some

643
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: time to throw because of Philadelphia go offensive lot is

644
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: very very good. Lane Johnson, Jason Kelsey should go to

645
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. They're alternates. Brandon Brooks is going to

646
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and Jason Peters is one of the

647
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: best left tackles we've seen in the history of the game.

648
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: And yet he was a tight end. He's played at Arkansas.

649
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: Now that was many eons ago, but yeah, he was

650
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: like a three hundred ten pound tight end in Arkansas.

651
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: To turn him into a left tackle, and the guy's been,

652
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: I think a Hall of Famer. So it's a really

653
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: good offensive line. So what does this defense have to do? Now,

654
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: let's start with number one, And these are in no

655
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: particular order, but just the way that I they just

656
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: came into my brain. Number one, the defense must understand

657
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: that zach Ertz is a receiver. Every time he's unattached

658
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: from the line. Every time you got treated Michael like

659
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: a receiver, not even a slot receiver, a receiver. So

660
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: if that means Aaron Colvin, if that means one of

661
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: the corners, another corner, if that means Jonathan Joseph at times,

662
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: if that means Tyrn Matthew times, you cannot let him

663
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: exist against a linebacker. I'd rather not be against the

664
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: safety either. I'd rather be against a corner. But zach

665
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: Ertz is as good an athlete as there is at

666
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: that position, and he will embarrass linebackers always, and most

667
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 1: safeties in coverage. If he's treated like a tight end,

668
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: it's a problem. Now he'll mix it up just because

669
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: he knows he has to. But he's not a physical

670
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: guy as a why tight end. But they put him

671
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: there just so you can't draw any tendencies from that.

672
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: But they will split him out, and they love to

673
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: split him out, and when they do that, the ball's

674
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: going to him. He's got to be treated like a receiver.

675
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: Number two. Defense must attack their running backs with more

676
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: than just shoulders and hard hits, must wrap them up.

677
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: Wendell Smallwood will not go down. Josh Adams is playing

678
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: for his life every time he's out on the field.

679
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: You've got to wrap them up. Wendell Smallwood and the

680
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: biggest run of the game the other day against the Rams,

681
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,239
Speaker 1: he got drill by the Marcus Joiner at the four

682
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: yard line. Guess what he did, spin walking the end

683
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: zone touchdown. You've got to wrap their running backs up.

684
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: Number three, speaking of running backs, and I don't even

685
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: know if I consider him running back, but running back

686
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: is his natural position. I guess mighty might triple threat

687
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles gives me nightmares. I'm just gonna be honest.

688
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: He gives me nightmares. I don't care that he's eighty

689
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: years old. I don't care if he's been playing. You know,

690
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: he played high school ball in the mid nineties or so.

691
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: It seems he's gonna get the ball in third medium. Book,

692
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: it just lock it in. He's getting the ball in

693
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: third medium. The Texans must solve that equation. Now, maybe

694
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: that means some Dylan Cole, because I think Dylan Cole

695
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: probably runs with the running backs a little bit better

696
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: than anybody else. So Dylan Cole might see some time

697
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: when Sprowls is out in the field. Maybe that's an answer.

698
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing it as an answer. But Sproles

699
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: is getting the football when he's out in the field,

700
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: and mostly he's on the field on third downs, he's

701
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: gonna get it. And maybe Coles the one guy to

702
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: stop him. But they're gonna throw screens to him, they're

703
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna swing it to him out of the backfield.

704
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: They're gonna do everything possible to get Darren sprowls the

705
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: ball on third down. Now, he may not touch it

706
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: but eight times total in the game. But like I

707
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: said earlier, don't give an opportunity on the returns. And

708
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: then whenever he's on the field on third down, he's

709
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: gotta be a key. You gotta know he's gonna get

710
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: the football. You must know. Number four. And this is

711
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: for the defensive backs. This is a tough one because look,

712
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: there's DeAndre Hopkins and a guy that can go up

713
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: and make a fifty fifty ball eighty twenty or even

714
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: ninety ten. And then there's a guy like Alshon, Jeffrey

715
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey six five, maybe even six six. He's two

716
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: hundred and about two hundred thirty pounds. He might be,

717
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,439
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, a biscuits short at two thirty

718
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: and he will go up and get the ball. At

719
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: the catchball, he'll go up and snatch the ball. Where

720
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: the defensive backs can have some success, if at all,

721
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: is when he's bringing the ball into his body. That's

722
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: maybe about it, because if he's gonna catch it at

723
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: the high point, defensive backs aren't getting up there. The

724
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: tallest defensive back in the league is sixty three and

725
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: the Texas defensive backs are six foot six one and

726
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: Jeffrey's got four five inches on them, So the ball

727
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be up in the air. What they've got

728
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: to be able to do is contest it when he's

729
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: bringing it into his body. As he's trying to bring

730
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: the ball into his body, that's when it's time to

731
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: rake at the hands and try and knock it out

732
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: of there, because Falls is just gonna throw it high.

733
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: But as he's trying to bring the ball into the body,

734
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: punch out it, punch at it, rip it out, do whatever.

735
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: But at that point, yeah, it'd be great if they

736
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 1: could go up and high point the football, but Falls

737
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: knows he's just got to throw it up in a

738
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: basketball rim because that's what Jeffrey's doing. He's just going

739
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: up there and snatch a rebound. But when he tries

740
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: to bring into his body, that's where the coverage you

741
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: gotta take off. Look, Jeffrey is not going to run

742
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: away from you. He is a long, loping runner. He

743
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: is not a quick twitch kind of guy. So you're

744
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: gonna be able to run with him. But what you've

745
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: got to be able to do is contest that point

746
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: when he's bringing the ball into his body. That's the

747
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: only chance they have. And number five, and this was

748
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: pretty interesting if you kind of love offensive line play

749
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: against the Rams the Eagles, you could tell the Eagles

750
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: offensive staff went into their meetings this week and said,

751
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: we cannot let Aaron Donald wreck the game. Ninety nine

752
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: can wreck this game. We can't let that happen. And

753
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that they wanted to take Donald away.

754
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: So the Rams are and the Rams used a lot

755
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: of four man line even though there are three four

756
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: they were They're rushing a lot of times with you know,

757
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: their defense can morph into a four man front pretty easily.

758
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: When they were in a four man front, which was

759
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, and Donald's line up as

760
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: a three technique, they slid Jason Kelsey to his side

761
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: all the time, and as a result, Donald did next

762
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: to nothing statistically. But what force the Rams to have

763
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: to do was win one on one with the two

764
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:08,240
Speaker 1: other defenders. So they had two rushers on two blockers,

765
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: and those guys won the majority of the night. That

766
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: cannot happen. If the Eagles are gonna slide their line

767
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: to what, which I would expect they're gonna do, then

768
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: who's ever opposite him? Who are the two best rushers?

769
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: Maybe Clowney and Whitney. Those guys may need to be

770
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: opposite to JJ in some way, shape or form. The

771
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: one thing I don't think is gonna be wise is

772
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: putting Clowney and what together, because now they can slide

773
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: their line in hand up play three on two with

774
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: both of them. But I would imagine they're gonna slide

775
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: their line to what they'll split it. They'll send three

776
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: guys one side to the other. And when they do that,

777
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: the two guys that are going against their two guys

778
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: have got to win. They've got to windows one on

779
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: one matchup. So it's gonna be a long night, all right.

780
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: Let's flip it over to the other side. Flip it

781
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: over to the Texans offense against his Eagles defense. His

782
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: defense is led by Fletcher Cox in the middle, stud dude,

783
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: absolute football dude. But the front is very very good.

784
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: Heloi Nada is not quite done yet. Big dude doesn't

785
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: do as much as he used to, but still athletic

786
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: next to Fletcher Cox, Chris Long on the outside, Michael

787
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: Ben on the outside. They've got some guy in Brandon

788
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: Graham on the outside. They've got some guys that can

789
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: play and can rush. They don't have a lot of

790
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: just flat out burners off the edge, but they got

791
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: some guys that are two sixty five through seventy, can

792
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: rush from the edge, can set the edge in the

793
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: run game. Very good upfront. Linebackers Gruge Hill good solid player,

794
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: not great good. Nigel Bradham, Okay, linebackers are just I

795
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: think are a bit above average. Secondary has been they've

796
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: been hit pretty hard by injuries. So they're playing some

797
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: young dudes back there. So how are you gonna move

798
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: the ball against them? Well, if you want to run

799
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: the ball, and the Rams did have some success running

800
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 1: the ball, and early on they had some success with

801
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: letting the Eagles aggressiveness let that work against them. They

802
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: let the Eagles come up field boom that they hit

803
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: them with traps and some whams where they invite the

804
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: defense to tackle up and bang and they hit him

805
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: with a tight end or they trap them with a guard.

806
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: They had some success with that. Not as much success

807
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: with the run game or even power game, but some

808
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: traps and whams they had some success with. Number two,

809
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: Take the profit because that secondary is not as strong

810
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: in the back end, the linebackers are dropping a pretty

811
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: significant distance to try and help out that secondary when

812
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: they're in zone coverage, and the Eagles don't like to

813
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: bring a bunch of five and six man pressures. They

814
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: just let their four guys eat. Now, they'll do some

815
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: things up front. They'll do some you know, even tackle

816
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: tackle twists lose, some end tackle twists lose, some things

817
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: like that, but for the most part, they want those

818
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: four guys to rush and everybody else is dropping. Take

819
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: the profit. If it's three to four yards, take it.

820
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: Do not take the hits standing back there. Number three,

821
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: the Rams seem to have more success spreading the field

822
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: as opposed to used in condensed formations. Now the Rams

823
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: will use condensed formations a lot. And what I mean

824
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: by that is they'll have their tight ends and wide

825
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: receivers all jammed in to a narrow space, because then

826
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: what the Rams like to do is then kind of

827
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: shoot out from that. But it worked kind of against

828
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: them for whatever reason against the Eagles. The Eagles kind

829
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: of swallowed that up. But when they spread the Eagles out,

830
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: now it really took that secondary and stressed them and

831
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: put a lot of stress on them. And I think

832
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: that's where they can have some success is by using

833
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: some spread formations. And that was where the Shawan had

834
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: some success the other night. Spread them out, give opportunities

835
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: for guys to win matchups out Why then get rid

836
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: of football number four and assessed to do the secondary

837
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: as well. Inexperienced eyes in the secondary will lose tight

838
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: ends and receivers will play acts in misdirection. Saw this

839
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: on actually two plays. I remember for a fact, Nicol

840
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: crab on the block is still new to the Eagles system,

841
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: and you could tell he was kind of eyes in

842
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: the backfield, still inexperienced. He's a good athlete. I studied

843
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: him a few years ago for the draft. I really

844
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: liked him as a nickel and I think he's gonna

845
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: be a good player, but he's experienced, and they still

846
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: have got some inexperience back there. Ivante Maddox is a

847
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: rookie at corner. Russell Douglas I think is in his

848
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: second third year, so not a lot of experience back

849
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: there in the secondary. Make them pay with some play

850
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: action and maybe misdirection, and like I said before, and

851
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: last key, there won't be a ton of blitz pressure,

852
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: but the front four can take over the game if

853
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: allowed to do so. So if that means you gotta

854
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: block four with five or six or even seven to

855
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: keep them out of there and let the Sean have

856
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: some time to throw, you've got to do it now.

857
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: The last one I would put in there is more

858
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: a key as opposed to just the Eagles themselves, and

859
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: that is run the football. This may be a game

860
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: where one and two yard games early on. I mean,

861
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: you gotta stick with it. You gotta keep them honest

862
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 1: because they think the play action in the misdirection end

863
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: up being big against this secondary and these linebackers later

864
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: in the game. So there you go. Those are your

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Speaker 1: first Community Credit Union First Glance Keys to the Game FCCU,

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867
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: one hour down, we got one hour to go. We're

868
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna kick that second hour off with a good buddy,

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00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: Russell Baxter, NFL Analyst. You can follow him on Twitter

870
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: at Backs Football Guru, at NFL Underscore Vibe, fan side

871
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: of NFL spin Zone. Russell gets done. He's with us

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00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: next right here in Texas All Access. We'll welcome back

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00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: to a Friday edition of Texas All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris, football Analyst

875
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: and silent reporter and pleased to be joined by my

876
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: weekly guests. He's joined me every single week for these

877
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: five years. He's the absolute best. You can follow on

878
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: Twitter at Backs Football Guru. Also follow at NFL Underscore

879
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: Vibe and fans Side at NFL spin Zone. Russell Baxter

880
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: knows the NFL better than anybody and he's about to

881
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: prove it. Not that he needs to or not that

882
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: he wants to, but just because we're talking about Russell,

883
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: Are you doing mah man? Gee? I don't know how

884
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: am I doing? Though? I hope you're doing well. I

885
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: know you're doing I know you're doing well. It's that

886
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: time of year. It really is that time. Of year.

887
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: And Russell appreciate you being on. Yeah, it is that

888
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: time of year. I was just that was in rebuttal

889
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: to knowing everything. So there are there are times I

890
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: don't know something in terms of what is going on

891
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: with this wacky season. It with another week of head scratchers,

892
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: and more so than anything else, John, and this has

893
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: kind of been a problem with the league the last

894
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: four or five years, just in games in general. I

895
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: think it's time that we replaced Roger Goodell with Mariano

896
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: Rivera because it doesn't seem like anyone knows how to

897
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: close anymore. It's a good point that it's it's a

898
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: really good point not only closing games with closing seasons.

899
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: And Russell, I did this the other day on Twitter.

900
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: I just got to thinking about some of the things

901
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 1: that I had seen, and I started with the Raiders

902
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: and I did this full loop of the transitive property

903
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,479
Speaker 1: of every team in the league beating every other team

904
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: all the way through. That's just kind of the way

905
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: this year has gone. It's been really odd. And you're

906
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: looking out an AFC West and you've got the Chargers

907
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: at eleven and three. After the win, you've got the

908
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs at eleven and three, and the Chiefs have been

909
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: a top to division, but one of them they got

910
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: they're tied for the best record in the FC, and

911
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: one's gonna be the champion of the division and more

912
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: than likely get to buy and the other one's gonna

913
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: have to play on the road on wildcard weekend. It

914
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 1: has been that kind of year. And at that point, Russell,

915
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: there's two games left. The Chargers play the Ravens and

916
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: the Broncos. The Chiefs play the Seahawks and the Raiders.

917
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 1: Who do you think comes out of the AFC West

918
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: as the winner and presumably the first or second Sea

919
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 1: in the FC? Well, we know, or you know, we know,

920
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: and me and you were talking whole year how I

921
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: felt about the Chargers all season? Right, yep? And I

922
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: could definitely seeing both the Chargers and the Chiefs taken

923
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: on the kin this week as well Sea Adams, who

924
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: squandered one of the teams that squandered an opportunity to

925
00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs last week. That running game, the

926
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: league's best running game against the Kansas City defense, that

927
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: is suspect when he's sixth against the run, thirty first overall,

928
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: one way you keep Patrick Mahomes from not throwing him

929
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: more touchdown passes and keep him on the sidelines. Same

930
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: thing with Baltimore. Baltimore and the second ranked running game

931
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: in the league a little different than Seattle's. Seattle has

932
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: been less Russell Wilson, the more stable backs. It's been

933
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards and the quarterback Lamar Jackson when it comes

934
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: to Baltimore's running game. But I just like the way

935
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: things line up for the Chargers. I thought what they

936
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: did last week and just another big road win. John.

937
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 1: You look during this stretch, since they were one and two,

938
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: they're ten and one, and those wins have been at Seattle,

939
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh, at Kansas City. Now get it's some I've

940
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: heard some people make the comparison or the reference to

941
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: the fact that, well, no wonder the Chargers so good

942
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: in the road. They really don't have a home stadium,

943
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 1: and that there's one thing to do that because they don't.

944
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they play their home games obviously

945
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 1: very sparse crowd and so on. But I just look

946
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 1: at this team all year and playing the first half

947
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: of the season without Joey Bozen and playing a bunch

948
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: of games lately without Melvin Gordon. Gordon's expected back ten

949
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: and Allen looks like he's probably going to play. They

950
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: won't have Austin Eckler, it doesn't look like, but they're balanced.

951
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley's defense has been impressive as well. I think

952
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: somehow it's going to be the Chargers, And you know,

953
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: it harkens me back to the year the Tennessee Titans.

954
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: We're thirteen and three in nineteen ninety nine and we're

955
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 1: a wild card to the fourteen and two Jacksonville Jaguars.

956
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: Of course we know how that all turned out, yes

957
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: we do, because the fourteen and two Jaguars lost both

958
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: times and the Titans and then lost two of a

959
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: third time. I was living just across the river from

960
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: at the time. I think it was all Tell Stadium.

961
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, what it was then.

962
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: It was a long time ago, but I remember that

963
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: game distinctly because we were in a void here in

964
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: Houston with no team, and I was living in Jacksonville,

965
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: so I just latched out into the Jaguars. And they

966
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: lost all three times that year to the Tennessee tight

967
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: speaking of, and it was the only team they lost

968
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: to all year. They were fifteen to know against the

969
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: rest of the league. At seven win over Miami in

970
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs as amazing. There's an amazing season. Speaking of Houston, though, Russell,

971
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: Texans go up to take on Philadelphia, and Philadelphia had

972
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: you could say maybe it's most impressive win. I don't

973
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: know if that's maybe the way of saying it. But

974
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: going to La without Carson Wentz knocking off the Rams,

975
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: scoring thirty points in the process, Now Philadelphia still has life.

976
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: Now it's dim because Dallas, because of the two wins

977
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: over Philadelphia, has the tiebreaker. Washington gets a win at Jacksonville,

978
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: so the Redskins are still in the mix. But Russell,

979
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: this feels like a very dangerous Philadelphia team still. Yet

980
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: you look at him and go and it's not the

981
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: same team as last year. I'm not really sure when

982
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: Houston's walk get into on Sunday against Eagles, but I

983
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: got a feeling this one is gonna go right down

984
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: to the final gun. How do you look at this

985
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: one Texans and Eagles. Yeah, no, this is obviously Houston's

986
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: got a chance to wrap things up. And you know,

987
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in champions until the throned, and

988
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: it's been a very uneven year for Philadelphia. They've only

989
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: won two games in a row twice all I mean

990
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: once all year, you know, more than twice as many

991
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: loss as as the season ago. To me, this is

992
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: less about Nick Foles and whether their their defense and

993
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: their running game can step up. I think it was

994
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: easy to run the ball against the Rams. I don't

995
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: think it's as easy to run the ball against the

996
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, so that's definitely something to keep in mind.

997
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: But their defense has been up and down all year.

998
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: It's been spotty. Um, I think it can be exploited

999
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: in the secondary, as that has all year. What you know,

1000
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: we've only a couple of weeks ago that Dak Prescott

1001
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: to for four hundred and fifty five yards against this team.

1002
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: So Houston's been pretty solid. I know they stumbled the

1003
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: lately the home loss of the Colts, but there's still

1004
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: ten and one in their last eleven games following that

1005
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: Owen three start. Yes, this is a dangerous football team

1006
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia Eagles. It's also a Philadelphia team that's

1007
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: been mediocre and to say the least this year. Russell

1008
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: go back to that Rams game on Sunday night. The

1009
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: Eagles get that win on the road, and I remember

1010
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: after fifty four fifty one, everybody not named you and me,

1011
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: everybody said, that's football. Just end it right there. That's

1012
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: the best football game we've ever seen. We're never gonna

1013
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: see football ever better than that. And yet from that

1014
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: game forward, the Rams have not played very well at all.

1015
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: They did not play well even in a win over

1016
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: the Lions. They did not look good obviously the other

1017
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: day against the Eagles. They just don't look like the

1018
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: same team that was rolling off wins to start the year. What,

1019
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: in your opinion, do you see what the Rams and

1020
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: do you think it's something where they can get back

1021
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: on track as he started heading into the playoffs, Well,

1022
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: let's take it even a step further for one second, John,

1023
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: I don't think the Chiefs have been the same since

1024
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: that gave either. That's a good point. Yeah, you know,

1025
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: I mean that Patrick Mahomes with the five turnovers and

1026
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: so one. But you know, they lost at home for

1027
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: the first time all year. Um, you know, they struggled

1028
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: with the Raiders over the last couple of weeks. They

1029
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: one forty to thirty three. But um, you know, I

1030
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: think a game like that takes a lot out of you.

1031
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: But you know, people with this idea that that is

1032
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: the modern net, that's like saying it. Then I'm bad

1033
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: with other sports. And so what was the Wimbledon match

1034
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: that went forever? Oh? I know you talking about? Yeah,

1035
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I John Eisner was one of them, and I can't

1036
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: remember who who he went? Again, that was the greatest

1037
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: tennis match, I guess ever, right right, because it was

1038
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: the longest, right, yeah, I think it was the longest. Okay,

1039
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: all right, well, I'll keep that in mind. The Rams

1040
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: have been a flawed team in this regard, even going

1041
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: back to last year. The defense is not and it's

1042
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: strange because it's Wade Phillips of all people, if the

1043
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: dominating defense of the Broncos and other years with other

1044
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: teams and so on. I know we've done this number

1045
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: before from a year ago forty eight sacks, twenty eight takeaways,

1046
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: twenty eighth against the run. The Rams this year our

1047
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: twentieth overall on defense, twenty first against the run, getting

1048
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: the takeaways again twenty six. Okay, but it's hit or

1049
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: miss m you know, Aaron Donald's having a phenomenal year,

1050
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: but it sounds like a broken record. You can't sack

1051
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: the quarterback if the running back has the football. And

1052
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: I think the Rams offense has been been taken out

1053
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: a rhythm the last couple of weeks. I don't think

1054
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: there's any question about it. I can't even go back

1055
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: further to the games where they beat Seattle. Remember when

1056
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: they beat Seattle boat teams this year, Seattle sport exactly

1057
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: thirty one point and in both of those games, Seattle

1058
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: abused them in terms of running the football on them.

1059
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: So you get down the stretcher where people are really

1060
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: emphasizing the run, and I think the Rams have been

1061
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 1: taken out of their element a little. I agree. That

1062
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 1: did not feel like I was watching the same team

1063
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: from earlier in the year. I mean even and I

1064
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: got a chance to watch the Rams Seahawks. I think

1065
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: it was a bye week for us. One of the games,

1066
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: I think it was the one in the Coliseum, and

1067
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: I got a chance to watch that game, and I thought, wow, yeah,

1068
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: they gave us some points, but boy, their offense, Holy smokes.

1069
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: The other night, I did not feel like I was

1070
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: watching the same offense. There's no question, and a team

1071
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: in which the offense could look different in some way,

1072
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: shape or form going forward. I'm not totally sure about that,

1073
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: because we've seen a lot of iterations of the New

1074
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 1: England Patriots, Russell, over the years. We've seen Tom Brady

1075
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: with a lot of different wide receivers at his disposal.

1076
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: This year, they went out and got Josh Gordon because

1077
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: they had nobody out at receiver that was doing anything

1078
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: before Julian Edelman got back. Rob Gronkowski is banged up,

1079
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: he continues to be banged up, and now Josh Gordon

1080
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 1: has lost for the year. Russell, how do you think

1081
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: things change, if at all, in New England for that

1082
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: offense as they get ready to face Buffalo and New

1083
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: York down a stretch. Well, listen, the Bills have a

1084
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 1: pretty respectable defense. It's played better after kind of a

1085
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: shaky start, which a lot of their shaky start had

1086
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: to do with the problems at quarterback and turning over

1087
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: the football as well. Remember they began the year of

1088
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore and the Chargers were really embarrassed by both of

1089
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: those teams. They can rush the passer New England. You know,

1090
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: you know where New England is hurting the worst because

1091
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: you talked about all the skill posions. They're not as

1092
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 1: solid in the trenches as they've been over the years.

1093
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: They lost two offensive tackles. If you remember this offseason,

1094
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: wasn't just Nate Soldier, but Cameron Flemming as well went

1095
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: to the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, their defensive line wasn't top

1096
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: notch to begin with last year. That's why the Eagles

1097
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: were able to run for one hundred and sixty four

1098
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: yards in the Super Bowl. So this is still a

1099
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: league about the guys up front, and those guys up

1100
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: front have to protect Tom Brady, and those guys have

1101
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: to give him enough time to throw the ball downfield

1102
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: to Josh Gorden. It was a really odd lost for

1103
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: them at Pittsburgh last week to think that the first

1104
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: time they got the ball and within a couple of

1105
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: plays they were in the end zone and the fact

1106
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: that they never got in the end zone again was

1107
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: a little miss. This is the time of the year

1108
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: we're expecting New England to search and it's kind of

1109
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: the offices that mean their season is done hardly. I mean,

1110
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: you want to go about, you know, putting somebody out

1111
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: of their misery. I think sometimes even with the clock

1112
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 1: zero zero. You're not sure if the New England Patriots

1113
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: have actually lost the game. There never say never die,

1114
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: So I'll be curious to see how it all turns

1115
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: out for them. And I think these next two weeks,

1116
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: even though they're home against Buffalo and even though they're

1117
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: home against the Jets, I think they're going to be

1118
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of a struggle. I think there's the

1119
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: way they lost Miami and the way they for you know,

1120
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: it's funny, go back to last year when Pittsburgh played

1121
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: New England and Pittsburgh kind of panicked ye down the stretch.

1122
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: You remember they had to Juju Schuster play, and then

1123
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: did Jesse James play, and then you know, he tried

1124
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: to Ben Robsters tried to force a ball in the

1125
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: end zone. It got picked off. You remember that, I'm

1126
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: sure yep, course to me from long range and Tom

1127
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: Brady throwing the ball into the end zone the last

1128
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: couple of plays. The Patriots will panicky last week. It's

1129
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: a great way of putting it. I kind of felt

1130
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: the same way. And of course here in Houston, you

1131
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: just think, man, that win for Pittsburgh was huge because

1132
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: it moved to Texas into two seed. Now, obviously they

1133
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta stay there with two wins, but just

1134
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:45,919
Speaker 1: to see New England that way has been a little

1135
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: bit disconcerting. But Russell, Pittsburgh got a massive win. They

1136
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: needed that win. But now it's New Orleans in the Dome.

1137
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: Do you give him a shot? New Orleans favorite about

1138
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: a touchdown? Do you give Pittsburgh a shot of repeating

1139
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: what they did last week against the Patriots against the

1140
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: Saints if Pittsburgh runs the football like they did last week,

1141
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: even though the Saints run defense is top notch and

1142
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: given up the fewest rushing yards. And listen, don't be

1143
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: fooled about the Saints defense. Six games in a row

1144
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: held an the pointed opponent the seventeen points or less.

1145
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: Since that forty five thirty five game John in which

1146
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: they beat the Rams. Ye, they'd given up seventy four

1147
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: points total in their last six games. That's a little

1148
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: over twelve a game, So that Saints steven. But I

1149
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: think you can go at the Saints. I think teams

1150
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: if you're going to beat Drew Brees and keep their

1151
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: offense off the field again running the football. You want

1152
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: to talk about mystifying last week was the first time

1153
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: in five games that the Pittsburgh Steelers totaled at least

1154
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: twenty running plays. It's amazing, And I wonder what you wonder,

1155
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: how stagnant they've been offensively and how mistake prone that

1156
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: they have been. No, I think they very Listen, it's

1157
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a fat game, it's gonna be a I think,

1158
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: a high scoring game. No, I think Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has

1159
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: proving there more than capable of beating and losing to anybody. Um,

1160
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: they're inexplicable sometimes, But how ironic would it be if

1161
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: they had that three game losing streak and then turned

1162
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: around and beat the Saints and the Patriots and the

1163
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: Saints in back to back week Yeah, no doubt. He

1164
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: lost the entire AFC West, it seemed. And then they

1165
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: turn around and beat the Patriots and I got a

1166
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: shot against the Saints. Well, I think what's But I'll

1167
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: tell you what's going to be really interesting. You already

1168
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: mentioned the Chargers Ravens game. That's Saturday. Yep, Okay, so

1169
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is going to know if they really because if

1170
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: Baltimore wins and don't rule it out, and Pittsburgh loses

1171
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Subly, Pittsburgh is going to need help

1172
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,439
Speaker 1: just to get in the playoffs. Yep. But it's huge.

1173
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: This is huge, and I love this time of year,

1174
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: and I love talking to my man, Russell Baxter, because

1175
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: he just proved what I said at the beginning. He

1176
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: knows the game of football in the NFL for sure. Russell,

1177
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: you're the absolute best, by man. Thank you so much

1178
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: for joining me Prisons by the way, Happy holidays to

1179
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: you as well, Russell, and of course to all of

1180
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: you out there as well, have a safe and happy

1181
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: holiday season. When we get back, it's time for my picks.

1182
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: Texas Pick Them next. I pick them straight up and

1183
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: against the spread right here on Texans All Access. Welcome

1184
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: back to a Friday nation of Texas All Access from

1185
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris, your host,

1186
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: football analysts and Sideline a reporter, and it's time to

1187
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: play Texans Pick Them, presented by Train. You have a

1188
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,800
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1189
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Speaker 1: or even a cruise. And all you have to do

1190
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Speaker 1: is download the Texans mobile app and you can play.

1191
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: Now what I do my picks for Texas pick them.

1192
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: I have a little land yet for you, as Mark

1193
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: would say, a little extra because Texas pick um, you're

1194
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: just picking straight up. You just this team wins. This

1195
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: team wins, this team wins. I do mine against the spread.

1196
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: Don't make me special, but it just gives me an

1197
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk about the teams and the games that

1198
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: are coming up. And when you get to week sixteen,

1199
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: a lot of these games have a connection or an

1200
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: impact on one another. But you got sixteen games two

1201
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: Saturday one app like last week we played ours in

1202
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: the afternoon, then Broccos and Browns were after that. You've

1203
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: got two on Saturday. You got thirteen on Sunday. Luckily

1204
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: we're part of the Sunday crew. And then we've got

1205
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: one on Monday night. Man, Denver has had to play

1206
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:29,439
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve or Christmas Night before. Oh man, they've

1207
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: had it the last few years, and they got to

1208
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: play on Christmas Eve night either way. Sixteen games and

1209
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: we got to pick them all. Now you know how

1210
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: I am with the Texans. I don't pick that one.

1211
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: Heart and head they conflict, and I don't think they

1212
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: conflict on this one, but they have at times, and

1213
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: I just can't pick that and I'm not going to,

1214
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: so I leave the Texans out of this. I'll let

1215
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: you Texas fans deside what you want to do. Philadelphia's

1216
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: a two and app went favorite started to pick them

1217
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: Philadelphia up. I knew that would happen. I knew that

1218
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: would happen. I knew early money would go to Philadelphia

1219
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: no matter what Philly's playing at home. They're desperate Texans.

1220
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: I don't know they're desperate, but they gotta win these

1221
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: two to get a buy. So there's a lot of

1222
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: a lot at stake for both teams in this one. Regardless,

1223
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: I won't pick that one. WILL leave that one on

1224
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: the wayside and let you pick that one. So let's

1225
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: get started. Saturday at three thirty, the Washington Redskins go

1226
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. Now here's as we've talked about this a

1227
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: little bit throughout the week. No want to be labor

1228
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: the point, but the Texans can win a division this

1229
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: weekend with the win or a win next weekend. Tennessee

1230
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: needs help. Indianapolis needs help from both Philadelphia and from

1231
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. But the flip side of that is

1232
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: if Tennessee loses an Indian loses, then the Texans have

1233
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: the division. No matter what happens, Tennessee's a nine and

1234
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 1: a half point favorite at home that's coming off a

1235
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: really physical win in the rain last week against the

1236
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: New York Giants. The Tennessee Tits are very good at home.

1237
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: We've seen that the last time at home against Jackson

1238
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. They throttled the Jaguars. They've beat the

1239
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: Eagles at home, they beat the Patriots at home, they

1240
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: beat us in Nashville. I think Tennessee is gonna win

1241
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 1: this game, but as a nine and a half point favorite,

1242
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm buying that. Washington still has something

1243
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: to play for. In fact, their chances are probably a

1244
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: little bit better than Philadelphia's because Washington beat Dallas, whereas

1245
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: Philadelphia was swept by Dallas. So and Dallas win, it

1246
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: eliminates the Philadelphia Eagles. A Dallas win doesn't ultimately eliminate

1247
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: Washington lest Washington loses, and I think that's gonna happen here.

1248
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: I think Washington does lose, but Washington is gonna get

1249
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: inside that nine and a half point number. That's a

1250
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: little bit rich. Again. You know how I feel about Tennessee.

1251
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: I think it's a good team, not a great team,

1252
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: and I just I don't get the love that they

1253
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: get a lot of times. So to me, yeah, it's

1254
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: an eight sixt team, to be honest with you. So

1255
01:01:58,000 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: they're nine and a half point favorite. I'm not sure

1256
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm buying taking Tennessee to win, but I'm taking Washington

1257
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: get inside that number, and then this game is hugely

1258
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: important and I'm very conflicted on this one. Baltimore travels

1259
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: to the LA Chargers. The Chargers are eleven and three

1260
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City's eleven and three. They're tie the top the

1261
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 1: AFC West. They split their matchups. The final two games

1262
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: will determine who wins the AFC West and who then

1263
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: has to be a wild card. Well, that's tough they got.

1264
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: They're tied from the best record in AFC and one

1265
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: of them is gonna be a wild card. This game

1266
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: against Baltimore is gonna go a long way towards that. Now,

1267
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: if Baltimore loses the game, then the Texans have a

1268
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: playoff spot locked up no matter what. Now, whether it's

1269
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: the one seed, the two seed, the three seed, to

1270
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: the sixth seed, they have a spot locked up before

1271
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: they even take the field on Sunday. I don't think

1272
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: that's what they're playing for. Obviously, they're play for a

1273
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: lot more than just a spot in the dance. But

1274
01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: that will ensure the spot in a dance with a

1275
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: Baltimore or loss, I think that'll happen. I think the

1276
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: Chargers playing at home, they're only a four and a

1277
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: half point favorite, only four and a half points at home. Now,

1278
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: they don't have a bunch of a home field edge,

1279
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: but they are taking up the Ravens, a team that

1280
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: has rushed for over two hundred yards about five times.

1281
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: I think in the last six weeks they've been crushing

1282
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: it on the ground, large partly as Lamar Jackson. But

1283
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: I still think the Chargers coming off the Mini by

1284
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: getting some rest, I think they're gonna beat Baltimore and

1285
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: they're going to go one step further to locking up

1286
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: the AFC West. And what makes it tricky for Kansas

1287
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: City is Kansas City. We'll talk about this a little bit.

1288
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: Kansas City goes to Seattle, goes to Seattle. Now Kansas

1289
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: City finishes with Oakland and the Chargers finished with Denver

1290
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: in Denver, so it could ultimately flip yet again. But

1291
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: as this one game situation goes, I'll take the Chargers

1292
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: to cover that four and a half points and win outright,

1293
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: obviously against the Baltimore Ravens. Unfortunately, with the Baltimore loss

1294
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: that I'll put Indianapolis right in the playoff mix. Now

1295
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: let's get to our Sunday games. Atlanta goes to Carolina.

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01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: These two teams seemingly out of the playoff mix. Carolina's

1297
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: gonna start Taylor Heineke, and I think Taylor is gonna

1298
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 1: do a decent job, but I think Atlanta is gonna

1299
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: go get that win in Carolina. Carolina is a beaten

1300
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: up football team. Cam Newton obviously the biggest factor in that,

1301
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: and I do think Taylor will play well, but I

1302
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: think Atlanta is gonna go get that win. Carolina's favored

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01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: by two and a half. We're gonna taking Lanta with

1304
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: the mild upset or the win and the cover. Minnesota

1305
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: goes to Detroit. Detroit is a five and a half

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01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: point dog at home. That's about right. Minnesota still has

1307
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: playoff aspirations and if they can start playing better at

1308
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: this time of the year with Kevin Stefanski now is

1309
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator. You never know what could happen

1310
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They've been there, they've done that. I

1311
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: think Minnesota's gonna win this game and they're gonna cover

1312
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 1: that five and a half on the road. Green Bay

1313
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: and the Jets both teams eliminated playing this one for

1314
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 1: pride's sake, and the Packers are favored by half a

1315
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: point half a point. The green Bay Packers are favored

1316
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: by half a point at the Jets. I think green

1317
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: Bay gets this win. I think the Jets played above

1318
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: their pay grade, if you will, last week against US.

1319
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: We let them at some point. Either way, the Packers

1320
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: are gonna get that win and beat the Jets on

1321
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: the road by more than a half a point. I

1322
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: guess the only way you lose that is if it's tie.

1323
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: Did that happened? I don't know. Green Bay's gonna win

1324
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: that game on the road. The Giants go to Indianapolis.

1325
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,920
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is favored by nine and a half points. The

1326
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: Giants didn't score a point last week. No Odell Beckham

1327
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: Junior again, or at least that's the way it appears.

1328
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 1: I think the Giants will want to run say Quon

1329
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: Barkley throw him the ball, and the Cowboys had chances

1330
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: early against the Colts but couldn't take advantage. The Giants

1331
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: defense is not in the same league as the cow

1332
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: Boys defense, and that and they don't even have Snacks Harrison.

1333
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: So I think the Giants are boy They're gonna They're

1334
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: gonna play hard, They're gonna give everything they've got. But

1335
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: I think the Indianapolis Colts will cover that stay in

1336
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: the playoff race. With Baltimore's loss, that the Indie will

1337
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: move into spot number six in the playoff race. Tampa

1338
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: Bay goes to Dallas. I think Dallas will win this game.

1339
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 1: Dallas is favored by seven and a half. Alban's line

1340
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: is beat up. Zabas shoe Field is gonna be back,

1341
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be playing with a really bad eye.

1342
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: I guess he got poked or hit in the eye

1343
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: and he had to leave that game and that was

1344
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: disastrous for Dallas Cowboys. Tampa Bay will play hard, they'll

1345
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: put some points up on the board, but Tampa Bay

1346
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: will do Tampa Bay things and give this one to Dallas.

1347
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: But it'll be close. So take Dallas to win, Tampa

1348
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: Bay to gain aside in the seven and a half

1349
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: Jacksonville in Miami. That's what's big for Miami. Jacksonville is

1350
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: just playing out the string. Hopefully. Miami's favored by four

1351
01:06:58,400 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: and a half. I'm gonna give them that win. I

1352
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: think actually will play all right. I think they'll play physically.

1353
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: Miamio bounce back at home. They'll get to win and

1354
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: the cover of that four and a half. Buffalo Ghost

1355
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: to New England. We're cheering like heck for Buffalo, but

1356
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. Josh Allen has seen the Patriots

1357
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: for the first time in Foxborough. Patriots got rocked this

1358
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: week with the Josh Gordon news, but I don't think

1359
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna matter. New England's favored by twelve and a half.

1360
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: I think they win that by a couple of touchdowns.

1361
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: Patriots over Bills for the win and the cover. Cincinnati

1362
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,959
Speaker 1: goes to Cleveland. Now, at what point in the past,

1363
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: how many every years did you ever see Cleveland as

1364
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: a seven and a half point favorite on anybody. But

1365
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: that's what they are. Cleveland is a seven and a

1366
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: half point favorite over Cincinnati. I think the Browns win.

1367
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:48,280
Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati will get the cover. I think Cincinnati

1368
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: with Jeff Riscoll, showed last week it's not ready to die.

1369
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: They battled against the Raiders, they put up some points.

1370
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon has turned into one of the better running

1371
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: backs in the league. I think Cincinnati keeps it at

1372
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: least close and gets inside that seven and a half

1373
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: point number. So give since he the cover, but give

1374
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland the win. The Rams they've got to bounce back.

1375
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: They're taking on Arizona. Arizona is a thirteen and a

1376
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: half point favorite. Hearing rumblings out in Arizona and Steve

1377
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,919
Speaker 1: Wilkes may not even make it past this first year.

1378
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: The Rams have got to bounce back in some way,

1379
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:22,720
Speaker 1: shape or form. Jared Goff has struggled lately, but if

1380
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: he gets it turned around, and I think he will,

1381
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: they'll beat the Arizona Cardinals. Buy more than thirteen and

1382
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: a half. Given that two touchdown win, that's the cover.

1383
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:34,719
Speaker 1: Rams to win and cover over Arizona. Chicago still looking

1384
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 1: to move up now their situation with New Orleans twelve

1385
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: and two. Chicago could get I believe to the two seed.

1386
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: They need some help from Arizona. They're not gonna get

1387
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 1: it Chicago's got to go to San Francisco and play

1388
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: a team in San Francisco that has not quit. They

1389
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: are battling hard for Kyle Shanahan. It's not a great

1390
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: football team, they play hard. I don't know it's gonna

1391
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,640
Speaker 1: matter against Chicago. I think Chicago is gonna get this

1392
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: win over San Francisco. The Bears are favored by three

1393
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: and a half. I think they'll cover that. San Francisco

1394
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: keep it within ten. But I think Chicago is gonna

1395
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: go get that win. Could be kind of ugly, kind

1396
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: of twenty three thirteen kind of game, but the Bears

1397
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: are gonna turn Nick Mullins over with that defense. Clomax

1398
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: gonna get back to the quarterback because he's back in

1399
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Chicago, it's a win and to cover

1400
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 1: over San Francisco on the road, and then the late

1401
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: afternoon game that I'll have everybody's attention. Pittsburgh goes to

1402
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Now I mentioned earlier, if Baltimore loses, the

1403
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: Texans lock up a playoff spot, no questions asked. But

1404
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: if Baltimore wins, then you still got it. You still

1405
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: can get there with a Pittsburgh lost. Now, last week

1406
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: we needed Pittsburgh to win this week. I don't know

1407
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: if it matters whether Pittsburgh wins or not. If Baltimore loses, that'll,

1408
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, but I'll get the Texans in the playoff.

1409
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: But Baltimore wins and Pittsburgh loses, the Texans getting in

1410
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: a Baltimore lost or Pittsburgh loss or not an or

1411
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: gets the Texans a playoff spot locked up this one.

1412
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 1: I guarantee of people will be watching throughout the country

1413
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: to see how the Steelers stack up against the New

1414
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. The Saints are only a five and a

1415
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: half point favorite in the Dome. I don't buy that.

1416
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: In the Dome. I think over anybody, New Orleans should

1417
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: be at least a touchdown favorite. So I'm taking New

1418
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: Orleans to bounce back with more points, not saying that

1419
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 1: they're bouncing back from a loss. But last week Monday

1420
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: Night twelve points. It's it, But in the Dome, different story.

1421
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:35,719
Speaker 1: Alm a Camaron that turf, I think Pittsburgh's gonna struggle

1422
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: with him, and with that offense, I think they'll get

1423
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: Camara more involved. New Orleans is gonna get to win

1424
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: and to cover over Pittsburgh. That'll give losses to Baltimore

1425
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh, make Baltimore eight and seven, Pittsburgh will be

1426
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: eight six and one, and it'll come down in the

1427
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: final week to see if if Baltimore can ultimately catch

1428
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for the NFC North title. Kansas City that takes

1429
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: on Seattle Sunday night, Seattle's favorite. Excuse me, Seattle's a

1430
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: dog two and a half went to home. Here's one

1431
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: thing to note about Russell Wilson. Though he doesn't lose

1432
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: DFC teams, but he did earlier this year at home

1433
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:12,040
Speaker 1: against these The La Chargers had the ball near the

1434
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: goal line, last play knocked away, lost the game. This time,

1435
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:21,719
Speaker 1: I think they get to win. Seattle gets the upset

1436
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: at home over Kansas City. The Chargers beat the Ravens.

1437
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: The Chargers move into the number one spot in the

1438
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: AFC West. Oh my goodness, yes, I just said it.

1439
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: Seattle get the win. In the cover, they will upset

1440
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:38,799
Speaker 1: Kansas City and play at Seattle's lid. It's a mild upset,

1441
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: but Seattle's gonna get that win. And then Monday night

1442
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 1: Oakland taking on Denver. Both of them just playing out

1443
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: the string. It's in Oakland. I think John Gruden will

1444
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: have him playing a little bit better than they did

1445
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: last week against Cincinnati the Raiders, but I don't know.

1446
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 1: I can't trust Denver, I don't trust Oakland. So I

1447
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 1: flipped a coin on this one and it came up Oakland.

1448
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's good or bad, but I'm

1449
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: going with Oakland to cover. They're a two and a

1450
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: half point dogging home. Let's go with Oakland to get

1451
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:08,719
Speaker 1: the outright win on Monday Night Football, Christmas Eve, Monday

1452
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: Night Football, the Raiders and the Broncos, two teams out

1453
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: of playoff race. TV ratings can be struggling on that one,

1454
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: but there you go. There is your Texans. Pick them

1455
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread from yours truly all right,

1456
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:23,519
Speaker 1: we got back. It'll be our players segment. We got

1457
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: a little Kjack TV, we got a little get to Know,

1458
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: and we got the final word this week with the

1459
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:32,799
Speaker 1: Marius Thomas. That's all coming up right here on Texans

1460
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: All Access. We've got one final segment of Texans All

1461
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: Access before we head to Philadelphia in the morning for

1462
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: a game with Philadelphia on Sunday, the Eagles seven and

1463
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: seven at Lincoln financial field. They have been very good

1464
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: this year, as you would expect a really good team

1465
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 1: to be, and hopefully we're gonna go there and get

1466
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 1: business done. So we got a lot to do. And

1467
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: in this final segment we turn it over to the players.

1468
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: It's the players segment. We're gonna get to know Snil Callamette.

1469
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the final word with the Marius Thomas.

1470
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 1: But we will kick it off with a holiday edition

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01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,280
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Speaker 1: we back, same way, back we back, we back. I'm

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Speaker 1: JACKA Claus and we're back with the Christmas edition. Guy Whitney, Merciless, Limbo,

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Speaker 1: Matt Joe, Well, which team may owe you a prison?

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Speaker 1: B Matt? He know mel Limbo, cal Limbo, Solmbo, Most

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Speaker 1: people ex for sugar Man. Most be back behind saw

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Speaker 1: you want a whole car hold Lambo, let me whip

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01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:52,679
Speaker 1: it down the street a little bit, all right? Which

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01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: team may owe you a prison? Every boundary defense d line.

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01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: Why because last year about them, Jay's this year about

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01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: the bads. I need something night, So you want something

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01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: in return? Well, when you being nice and you're just

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01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 1: giving gifts to others, you shouldn't expect anything back. You

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01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: ever tell anybody, ever tell you that you're in my feelings? Man,

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01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: Oh that's easy. Lamar Miller, I gonna. I ain't gonna

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01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: discuss his business. But when you see him, just make

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: sure he take care of me when Christmas time come

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01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: around me a big gift, all right, Lamar, year that

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01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,640
Speaker 1: you see this year, old Joe your guilt and we

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01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 1: won't it. John Weeks, Okay, why just John Weeks? Oh,

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01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: you're a present because we're gonna beat him in the

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01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: ball game this year. So he's gonna mill present. After that,

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Speaker 1: you're already calling it. You're calling the vanity over Baylor.

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01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: Which present would you get? Right? A division hat? Put

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01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,839
Speaker 1: y'allf division hat? He like adding the hat to us collection.

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01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Gives a new pair of knees.

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01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: Rack rack it won me. It went me, rac rat

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01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: rack It went me. Instant laughs, instant laughs. Every single

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01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 1: time I listen to k Jack TV. But you gotta

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01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: watch it. Go to Houston Texas dot com or you

1504
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: got on the mobile app. You gotta check out Kjack TV.

1505
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: It's fantastic because you're gonna see Justin Reid and a

1506
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 1: elf hat. You see Joe Webb and elf hat. It's

1507
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic stuff for the holidays. All right, let's get

1508
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: to know Snil Kilomette. Drew Dorety did that earlier this year.

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01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: This is great stuff. And let's just say that, Uh,

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01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: these two singing frosts snow Man not a great thing.

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: Talking with the beef up front, Sennio Kilomette, It's time

1512
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: to get to know him. It's all brought to you

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01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: by I Mark Senio. How are you liking Houston so far?

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01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 1: I'm loving it, man Um. I love the variety of

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01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: food out here. I mean, obviously, I'm a linemanna go

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01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: out and test out all the food that y'all got

1517
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 1: out here. You know, you gotta got the sushi, the tacos,

1518
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: the barbecue, the turkey legs, I mean everything. So I'm

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01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: loving it out here. I'm glad you brought up food

1520
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: because I had a question to ask about you. You

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01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: brought up the good stuff. Let's talk about the bad stuff.

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01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: If you have to eliminate one food and no one

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01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: else in the world can eat it for the rest

1524
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 1: of eternity, what are you eliminating? You can say whatever

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01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: be the food. Can't talk back that a vegetables honestly,

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01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: other care for vestibles. Wow, you just cut a wide

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01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 1: swath there, all vegetables. Ah, broccoli, broccoli, Okay, okay, broccoli,

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01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:41,560
Speaker 1: not even with the cheese on it, not even with

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01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: the cheese on it. Maybe maybe with like a drench

1530
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 1: stall over ranch on it. Maybe I'll either branch does

1531
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: make everything better? You're right? Okay. Last question, if you

1532
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: could choose one celebrity to be your best friend forever,

1533
01:16:54,400 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: who's your celebrity? Gonna do? Celebt? Bff? Oh man, I

1534
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: have to go with the Rock, the Rock like that

1535
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 1: funny guy, funny guy. You know, I like his movies.

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01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,600
Speaker 1: And you know he's he's half Polly, so you know

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01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: he got shared heritage, right, yeah, yeah, that's cool. It's

1538
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: a similar kind of tattoo. Yeah right, yeah yeah yeah.

1539
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: And he's a that's a talented person. Yeah yeah, I

1540
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: mean he can do it all. He was a great

1541
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:24,320
Speaker 1: football player and universitbody hell of a wrestler. Now he's

1542
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 1: a bottle star, probably gonna be a president some day, right, Hey,

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01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: I vote for him. Yeah. Oh he's gonna be your

1544
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,840
Speaker 1: best friend. So you got a vote. Yeah, okay, I

1545
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: said that was the last thing, But this is the

1546
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: last thing. What's your favorite Christmas song? Favorite Christmas song?

1547
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? That one? You don't, don't you know?

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01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I do like the whole

1549
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: Christmas theme and everything, But I never really had a

1550
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,679
Speaker 1: favorite song. What about Frosty of so many like Frosty.

1551
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:57,679
Speaker 1: Frosty is cool. Let's sing it together Frosty. No, man,

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01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: that's all I know. Thank you stuff, Doris. You know,

1553
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: that's pretty much all I know. And I was just kidding.

1554
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 1: I was just kidding. I don't sing on the air

1555
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: Frosty the snow Man has the Jolly Happy So I

1556
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 1: don't remember much. I don't remember. I mean, if I

1557
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: hear it, I probably know the words. But to sing

1558
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,879
Speaker 1: it without the word, I have no idea, not whatsoever.

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01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: All right, let's give the final word to Drew Dorty,

1560
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: as we do every single Friday, he catches up with

1561
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: one of the players in the locker room and this

1562
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: week it's Demarrius Thomas. Demarrius Thomas, wide receiver for the

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01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. First things first, So you've been here about

1564
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 1: a month or two. How you settling in on the field.

1565
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: I mean you made some plays each week. He made

1566
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: some big ones at the end of the Jets game.

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01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: That was pretty fun. Huh yeah, a lot of fun.

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01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: A lot of fun to go down on the winning

1569
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: drive and you know, finish the game like we did.

1570
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 1: That was a big win for us. Learning win, but

1571
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: a good win. And it's fun to see you and

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01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hop. I mean it's quite a one two punched

1573
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: tandem there. How cool is it to be a round

1574
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: a receiver like that quarterback like the one you have

1575
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:09,600
Speaker 1: in Deshaun Wah Know, it's very cool, you know. And

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01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: I've been around a game a long time and I'm

1577
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: used to, like, you know, just being at one place

1578
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: and I'll come here as you know, be around d

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01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: Hop sean as especially as a younger quarterback, you know,

1580
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: to see a guy like him how he plays and

1581
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: take control of the game, take control of you know,

1582
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: the huddle, to be the leader he are. And then

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01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 1: you got d Hop mister magic man. You want to

1584
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: call him just go out and you know this outrage

1585
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 1: his plays you don't saw him make throughout you know,

1586
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,640
Speaker 1: his career and on TV. But to do it, you know,

1587
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: side by side with him, you know, in practices, in

1588
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: game day. You know, it's a totally different level. And

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01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, you just got to respected. Respected.

1590
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: It's respected every week because the work they put in.

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01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: You asked to pay his off, no doubt, just a talent. Yeah,

1592
01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: and you bring up your time in the league. Is

1593
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,680
Speaker 1: it invigorating to get to play with a guy like

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01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: that at quarterback? Yea, because you played with because for

1595
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: real though, it kind of brings out of you know,

1596
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: another sparking. You know, I don't I don't know if

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01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,479
Speaker 1: it's a you know, more of alert spark. But like

1598
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: you know, you try to bring your you know, you

1599
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: don't change your game. You continue to your game. You

1600
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,640
Speaker 1: know my game was you know, running routes and you know,

1601
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: doing screens or whatever you want to call it. But uh,

1602
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 1: you know, it brings out certain sparks. You know, just

1603
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:18,680
Speaker 1: being around him. You know some of the things you like,

1604
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,640
Speaker 1: you do stuff different than totally anybody ever had. So

1605
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: adjusting to those things are you know, always new, but

1606
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: the stuff would that I had adjust to it's been fun, yeah,

1607
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: you know, and exciting, so it helps. Sparks in your

1608
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: game are what are some different ones right now? Some

1609
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: different ones in my game right yeah? I mean because

1610
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 1: your game doesn't change too much, like you mentioned, but

1611
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: you bring up sparks. Sparks for me basically right now,

1612
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,800
Speaker 1: it's just taking advantage of my opportunities because I'm new

1613
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: to the system. It's just learning and doing what I

1614
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: can at my best stabilities. So you know, my sparks

1615
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: is making those third down catches, are making a big

1616
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: block for that runk and goal, you know, fifteen twenty

1617
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: yards or even you know, seventy eighty whatever you gotta be.

1618
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:59,679
Speaker 1: Those are my sparks. Uh, making sure everybody is playing

1619
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 1: fast and alert at all times. You got to be

1620
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 1: fast and alert against this team coming up, the Eagles,

1621
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 1: very good defense at defensive front. While something to to behold.

1622
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:09,680
Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge though for you guys as a

1623
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps against Philadelphia? Though, like I always say,

1624
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, take advantage of your opportunities. You know, you

1625
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: got another opportunity to go out and do what you

1626
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: do best or whatever you like to have on it.

1627
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: That's catching the ball, lining up right, lining up fast.

1628
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 1: But also you know blocking, You know that our thing

1629
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: is we're gonna have to read the coverages on alert

1630
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: because they throw a lot of stuff at you. Years

1631
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 1: it's playing fast, but be decisive for the quarterback to

1632
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands because that defensive

1633
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: line is good. They get to the quarterback. They do

1634
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: a lot of different things to try to take through

1635
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: different types of schemes to try to you know, mess

1636
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: up your game. So your time's off. So you know,

1637
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: we got to watch more fam and be alert because

1638
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: this is like a championship. You know, they're still a

1639
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: super Bowl. They're romantics defending the Super Bowl champions and

1640
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: from the last game out so they still playing like it. Yeah,

1641
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: and uh I think is that receivers you know when

1642
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: we called on the block, we blocked when it's our

1643
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 1: chests gonna make a play with make up. But be

1644
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: alerted all the time and do whatever we gotta do

1645
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,280
Speaker 1: each in every play to help our squad win. It's

1646
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: a huge game. You just bring up there, the defending

1647
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, they have a hell of a lot

1648
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: to play for me, and they basically have to win

1649
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: if they want to keep playing in January. Yeah, same

1650
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: for you guys. I mean the Texans exactly have not

1651
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,879
Speaker 1: clinched a playoff birth despite being a top to division,

1652
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,880
Speaker 1: despite being number two in the conference. Monster matchups a big,

1653
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 1: big matchup. Like I said, it's like a champions in

1654
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 1: both both have. We gotta win and get in. They

1655
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: gotta win and get in, and if we don't, you

1656
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen for neither one of us.

1657
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: So you know we're gonna go out and try to

1658
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 1: put our best ball out We've not had throughout the

1659
01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: seasons from offense, defense, and special team. I don't think

1660
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: since I've been here, we haven't played our best ball

1661
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:43,519
Speaker 1: all three phases. So you know, our main focus is

1662
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: be alerted this week. You know, do your job at

1663
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,599
Speaker 1: the best ability, but try to go out on Sunday

1664
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,759
Speaker 1: to have that best game so we can put ourselves

1665
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: in a good position to try to get that by

1666
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: all that playoff berth. And that's got to be exciting.

1667
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: You say, still haven't put it all together at once yet.

1668
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,559
Speaker 1: You guys have won ten of year last eleven I mean,

1669
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: that's it's gonna be exciting because when you know it's

1670
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 1: possible that you can put earlier game, put it all together,

1671
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 1: you can get the run game going you can't get

1672
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 1: you know you can. It's so many things you can

1673
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: throw out there and say we can do better, But

1674
01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:11,280
Speaker 1: I ma ain't challenges to go out and contentially do

1675
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: what we do. You know, we're gonna fight for sixty

1676
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 1: minutes and they ain't gonna be the purtiest. It might

1677
01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 1: not be, it might not be the purtiest. You know,

1678
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 1: you never know. We're gonna keep playing to sisty minutes

1679
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 1: and try to get that W in the n of

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01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 1: game and that's not all that matter. And I know

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01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: the guys that's gonna be left and right. To me,

1682
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna do on Sunday. That's the prettiest

1683
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:28,639
Speaker 1: part of it getting that W to Maryus Thomas, thanks

1684
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 1: so much for the time. Best to look against the

1685
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: Eagles and the rest of the season would lasts a

1686
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 1: long long time. Appreciate your time, Thank you, Thanks for

1687
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: having me. Absolutely love that guy and love having him

1688
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: in this building. He is a tremendous professional and has

1689
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: been a big factor in this offense from the day

1690
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: that he got here, and it's a big one on

1691
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:48,560
Speaker 1: Sunday for him. For this entire offense, they've got to

1692
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia and get it done. I would think

1693
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:56,799
Speaker 1: twenty nine points does it, but maybe not. This Philly

1694
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: offense can put some points on the board. They put

1695
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: up thirty on the road, on the Rams, they can

1696
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: be inconsistent, but you know they're gonna put up somewhere

1697
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 1: into twenties. So the offense has got to take care

1698
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 1: of business. This if it follows the Eagles versus the

1699
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: FC South thus far this year, it's gonna be a

1700
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 1: Neo bider all sixty minutes. The Colts went down in

1701
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 1: the final minute. They beat the Colts twenty sixteen. They

1702
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 1: lost the Titans in Nashville twenty six twenty three on

1703
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: the final play of the game. The Jags were driving

1704
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: on the final play of the game in London and

1705
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: a final fourth down eight completion gave the Eagles a

1706
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 1: six point win. Given the way that Texans have played

1707
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 1: on the road, given the way that Eagles the AFC

1708
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: South games have gone, this should be one that goes

1709
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:44,600
Speaker 1: down to the final play and hopefully when all is

1710
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: said and done, your Texans will walk out of there

1711
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:50,759
Speaker 1: with the very first win in Houston professional football history

1712
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: over the Philadelphia Eagles. Man, that would be nice. That

1713
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: would be nice. A lot of people to thank for

1714
01:24:57,200 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: today's show, a DPCWO, Christian Covington, Bill O'Brien, Tyram Matthew

1715
01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: my Man, Tyler Suttarth who sent me that video and

1716
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 1: filmed it out at Marshall High School. Good luck to

1717
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: the guys at Marshall. Gotta thank Russell Baxter, Gotta thank

1718
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: you Doherty, Sinel Callamette, Kareem Jackson, the Mary's Thomas. But

1719
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 1: mostly I gotta thank you for listening. Appreciate you guys.

1720
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: If you're in Philly, come say hi. If you're not,

1721
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: you're watching the game, enjoy it. We'll see on Monday,

1722
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 1: and there's always go Texans,