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Speaker 1: football anast and silent reporter for your Houston Texans, and

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go behind enemy sidelines in the next segment

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Speaker 1: She and Dpcityo set down earlier today. We're also gonna

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Speaker 1: and I've got I've been listening to Mick for a

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Speaker 1: off the show as we always do, with some hot

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Speaker 1: insurance and right off the bat, this was awesome news

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Speaker 1: to get at about seven thirty ish this morning. The

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Speaker 1: Shawn Watson AFC Player of the Week and well deserved.

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Speaker 1: that was the fifty seven to fourteen game. It was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Well on Sunday he was even more outstanding, led the

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Speaker 1: just going to be business as usual for McCaffrey. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I really think you know, Norv Turner and the offensive

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Speaker 1: coaching staff have used Christian McCaffrey in every single snap.

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Speaker 1: He's a part of the play design in some way.

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Speaker 1: He has not come off the field. And then of

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Speaker 1: course knowing the numbers that he's putting up is making

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Speaker 1: fantasy owners very very happy as well as Panther fans.

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Speaker 1: So I think Christian is just another one of the

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Speaker 1: key pieces on this offense that helps Kyle Allen. We

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Speaker 1: talked about going into the Arizona game that this can't

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Speaker 1: all be on Kyle Alan. This has to be on

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Speaker 1: the other playmakers, the Olsens that Christian McCaffrey's you know,

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Speaker 1: the Curtis Samuels and DJ Moore and all the playmakers

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Speaker 1: around him to make sure that Kyle has a good game.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's just what you see from Christian McAffrey.

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Speaker 1: He's the most consistent on that. And what we saw

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Speaker 1: in Week two was a Tima Bay defense that put

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Speaker 1: one or two spies on him the entire game, and

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Speaker 1: it was hard to get that run game going because

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Speaker 1: the passing game wasn't exactly what it needed to be.

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Speaker 1: So I think when Christian McCaffrey is being Christian McAffrey

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Speaker 1: and is running all over the field, of course this

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Speaker 1: offense is best, but he also needs his playmakers around

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Speaker 1: him in the passing game to step up and allow

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Speaker 1: some of those lengths to open. Let's talk about that

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Speaker 1: Panthers defense. It's kind of crazy. They've faced a number

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Speaker 1: one overall pick in three straight weeks? Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Three straight weeks? And they put up eight sacks and

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Speaker 1: two picks against Kyler Murray last Sunday. They've been in

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Speaker 1: some really close games, but they really had that breakout

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Speaker 1: performance against the Cardinals. What is it about that pass

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Speaker 1: rush that's really clicking now and really worked for them? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think for the first couple of weeks, they were

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Speaker 1: still getting to know one another. I mean this we

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Speaker 1: had said all the way through OTAs and when you know,

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Speaker 1: Jerald McCoy was signed and reservant and all these guys

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Speaker 1: were kind of fitting into this defense. We're saying, man

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Speaker 1: on paper and coming off the bus, this defense looks

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Speaker 1: it's really really good, especially that defensive line. But then

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Speaker 1: they had never played meaningful snaps together, and we saw

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Speaker 1: them a little bit in a preseason, but still no

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Speaker 1: meaningful snap. So I think those first you know, two weeks.

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Speaker 1: In Week one, there was a lot of rotation on

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Speaker 1: the line, and that was different for Jerald McCoy, so

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Speaker 1: he even said it was hard for me to get

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Speaker 1: into a rhythm. Week two it was a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: They started to find their rhythm a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: in week three it just kind of all came together.

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Speaker 1: We still saw rotation on the defensive line, but I

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Speaker 1: think they were used to that rotation. They understood why

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Speaker 1: it was happening, and they were able to get into

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Speaker 1: a rhythm. But I think it also is we pouted

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Speaker 1: out that. I mean, Kyler Murray had a lot on

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Speaker 1: his plate and as a rookie, He's been asked to

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Speaker 1: do a lot of things, and so there were some

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Speaker 1: times where he was hanging onto the ball and he

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Speaker 1: was trying to run and get out of the pocket.

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Speaker 1: That's where he's the most dangerous. But we have some

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Speaker 1: really fast edge guys on our defensive life of Brian

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Speaker 1: Burns and Christian Miller that are able to chase down that.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's very quick and shifty quarterback, but I think

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Speaker 1: just finally started to pay off. Eight sacks is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: When we got done, you know, people were saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has been sacked sixteen times so far this season.

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Speaker 1: We're just crazy, And I did not realize, to be

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Speaker 1: quite honest, the Panthers are responsible for half of that

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Speaker 1: just in that game. So do you extend you I

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Speaker 1: expect him? Does anyone expect him to go out and

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Speaker 1: get eight tacked again? I would be completely shocked. But

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Speaker 1: it was nice and I think a big confident boost

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Speaker 1: for them to be able to piece together a game

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Speaker 1: like that. I think I speak for all Texans fans

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Speaker 1: when I say we definitely do not want to see

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Speaker 1: them get eight sacks in a single game, especially one

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Speaker 1: that's coming up on Sunday, all right. One of the

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Speaker 1: guys that had a sack, Eric Read. His name has

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Speaker 1: been coming up a lot lately because his younger brother,

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Speaker 1: justin safety for the Texans, has been talking about facing

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Speaker 1: his older brother for the first time in the five

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Speaker 1: years in Eric's career. In Justin's career, have you had

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to Eric Read or has anyone

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Speaker 1: talk to him? What does he feel about playing his

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Speaker 1: little brother on the road. Yeah, we haven't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to talk to him this week quite yet, but

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Speaker 1: I know that's going to be a very special moment.

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Speaker 1: We hear of this all around the league of older brothers,

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Speaker 1: younger brothers and even cousins playing each other, and just

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Speaker 1: how special that is. And I'll say this about Eric,

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Speaker 1: He's been such a calming presence. I'm in veteran presence

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Speaker 1: in that secondary that I'm sure his younger brother has

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Speaker 1: tried to soak that up over the years of just

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Speaker 1: how to handle yourself in the NFL. And I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be really cool to see. I mean, we always

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Speaker 1: in the connections as we go through the media. Guy,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, but I will be sure to ask him

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Speaker 1: really great response. Yeah, Justin's already saying that he's asking

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Speaker 1: every one of his teammates if they've got any tickets

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Speaker 1: that they're not using, give him over to the reads.

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Speaker 1: They'll be using them. Yeah, either the reads of the

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Speaker 1: Allen's I think are going to be taking a lot

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Speaker 1: of tickets this week. Last week it was the Watts.

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Speaker 1: We had JJ Watt and Derek Watt action. So this

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Speaker 1: week we'll watch Eric read and Justin Reid go at it. Caroline,

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Speaker 1: what are some other storylines that you're working on for

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Speaker 1: this week? Yeah, I think you know. A big storyline

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Speaker 1: is going into the takeaway battle that we've seen this

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Speaker 1: secondary for the Panthers. They've done a good job of

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Speaker 1: taking the ball away so far this season, but then

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Speaker 1: this last week against you know, Arizona, when everything was

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Speaker 1: clicking with the pass rush and Calimer who's having to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the ball really when he did not

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Speaker 1: want to. Dante Jackson goes up and has a heck

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Speaker 1: of a week. And it's funny. Dante Jackson last season

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Speaker 1: in Week three had two takeaways. This season Week three,

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Speaker 1: he had two takeaways. So whoever we play next year,

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Speaker 1: Weeks three just gets you need some extra eyes on

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Speaker 1: the ball security. Three. Yeah, Week three apparently seems to

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Speaker 1: be his big week. But I really think it's about

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Speaker 1: the turnover battle. We saw, you know, every week and

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, every team wants to in the turnover battle.

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Speaker 1: But I think for this Carolina Panthers team, particularly when

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Speaker 1: you have a younger quarterback, why Kyle Island give him

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Speaker 1: the chance to make some of these plays. We saw

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Speaker 1: him turn the ball over on a very first drive,

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Speaker 1: rebound from that and have a heck of a game.

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Speaker 1: But then Dante Jackson helped him out a little bit

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Speaker 1: by getting the ball back in great field position to

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Speaker 1: allow this offense to really get even more motivation. And

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Speaker 1: always kind of bring this up when we saw Garner

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Speaker 1: Mission who take over and his first game he had

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Speaker 1: great ball, you know, he took over the ball at

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Speaker 1: a great field position and was able to make some

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Speaker 1: big plays. And I think we saw the same thing

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Speaker 1: for Kyle Allen where he was given a break in

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Speaker 1: some of those drives in Arizona. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: really big for our defense to allow Kyle Allen to

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Speaker 1: have those opportunities more so on just turnover on down.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's what we're kind of looking at

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Speaker 1: of how can you still create those turnovers against a

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Speaker 1: quarterback like Deshaun Watson who can turn the ball over.

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Speaker 1: But it's also very experienced, very elusive getting out of

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Speaker 1: the pocket, So we don't expect a SACS again. But

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Speaker 1: it's I think that's where we're kind of focusing on,

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Speaker 1: how does the defense still have a very productive week

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Speaker 1: against an offense that is better and more experience in

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Speaker 1: an Arizona Great stuff there from Caroline can who covers

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Speaker 1: the Panthers four Panthers dot Com. All right, we get

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Speaker 1: back stop for dirty Red Clint starting to stop buying

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Speaker 1: talk ball A simple as that be here Next, Texas Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wednesday edition to Texas All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Honday Texans Radio studio. My next guest. You hear

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Speaker 1: him every single week at this time, and I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad he is with us. You can hear him on

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten from two to six each and

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Speaker 1: every weekday. He is all over the place over the

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Speaker 1: weekend covering razorback football. Though it is a tough one

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Speaker 1: this weekend against Sanjose State. But I won't bring that up.

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Speaker 1: But he covers the Texans in our pregame show. He's

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Speaker 1: the absolute best and he is my man, dirty Red

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Speaker 1: Clint starting, Clint, how you doing my man? Man, I'm

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Speaker 1: doing good. You're right, brother, lads. I'm glad the Texans

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Speaker 1: are are doing well. And kick it tail because I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what what was a rough one all my

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Speaker 1: razorback makes for a long Saturday. But man, I'm glad

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Speaker 1: to be with you guys once again talking about these

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Speaker 1: these Texans after a big time West Coast win. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Clint again as we did last week. I like when

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Speaker 1: you kind of take a thirty thousand foot view of

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Speaker 1: just the situation with the Texans and getting that win.

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Speaker 1: What what does it mean to get a win like

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Speaker 1: that against a quarterback like Philip Rivers on the road

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Speaker 1: and look, it was not a raucous road environment. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it was more Texans than it was Charter Fans, it

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Speaker 1: felt like. But you still get that win against a

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Speaker 1: really good quarterback because you've been knocking at the door

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Speaker 1: so many times the last couple of years in big

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Speaker 1: games New England, Seattle, Philadelphia, New Orleans. You've been knocking

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Speaker 1: at it, but you finally got one. What's kind of

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Speaker 1: your thought, Clint of getting that win and kind of

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Speaker 1: breaking through for that situation. Well, I mean, look at

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Speaker 1: it was a It was a big time win, no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. I think the New Orleans game from

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Speaker 1: a scheme standpoint, particularly the defensive side of football, was

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Speaker 1: a was a good a good warm up for what

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Speaker 1: the Chargers were gonna throw at him. And I think

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Speaker 1: that'll be a good one. Those two games would be

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Speaker 1: a good warm up for Carolina with McCaffrey that kind

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Speaker 1: of out a little hybrid back that they move around

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Speaker 1: a lot, and how they're gonna they're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna try to do versus a text and

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Speaker 1: so um a lot of similarities relative to how you

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Speaker 1: want to defend these guys. And I think, uh, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: the overall, the overall four quarters of defense. You've got

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Speaker 1: to be happy about keeping those guys out of the

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Speaker 1: end zone. I mean, that's the best quarterback receiver. When

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Speaker 1: you're talk about chemistry, anticipating route running. Uh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a work of art what Philip Rivers and Keenan

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Speaker 1: Allen are able to do. And I know that that

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Speaker 1: Keenan Allen had a career day with one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty three yards. But you were able to keep the

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Speaker 1: scorer low and give your team a chance with that

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Speaker 1: explosive offense to go win a football game. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: what they did. I think the one big takeaway from offense, uh, John,

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Speaker 1: is that you've got a good look at at your

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Speaker 1: offensive line, particularly Titus Howard at right guard and Matt

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Speaker 1: I mean at right tackle and Max Sharping at guard

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Speaker 1: versus a decent front, not a great front. I think

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Speaker 1: Ingram and Boaster are probably a little bit overrated relative

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Speaker 1: to pass rushing the pastor. But it was a good

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Speaker 1: time to get that look at those guys and board

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Speaker 1: today perform well, So good time. Good overall performance by

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Speaker 1: that defense, keeping the points down and giving the offense

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Speaker 1: a chance. And then offensively, man, that next step was

643
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Speaker 1: getting that offensive line to take the next step, and

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Speaker 1: they did that. We're gonna talk mostly Texas, but I

645
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Speaker 1: gotta ask you this, because you played the position, you

646
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Speaker 1: know it better than anybody else. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I haven't answer to this question. How in the

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Speaker 1: hell does Philip Rivers throw the football the way that

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Speaker 1: he does? I mean physically, Like, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: he I don't know how he does it with that release.

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Speaker 1: And I mean he threw a deep ball. He threw

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Speaker 1: it sixty plus yards, and I'm like, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how he does it. I physically, I can't figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I know, you teach the mechanics of it. It's got

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Speaker 1: to be baffling in some sense to you to watch

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Speaker 1: a guy with such a non classic throwing form have

657
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Speaker 1: success throwing the football at this level. Yeah. Look, there's

658
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Speaker 1: no doubt he's a lift and push guy. And it

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Speaker 1: is very, very unorthodox. I guess it's the right term.

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Speaker 1: But I'll take this in my grave, John, When when

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Speaker 1: you're talking about quarterback play, throwing a football, passing a

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Speaker 1: football is a snap dominant action. And if you have

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Speaker 1: that snap, you can get away with the long stroke,

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Speaker 1: you can get away with a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: lift and push, you can you can get away with

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Speaker 1: some shortcomings we talk about. We're talking a lot about

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton right now on the radio, and and Cam

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Speaker 1: is not a very polished passer. He's not a rotational thrower,

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Speaker 1: but he had He's a he's a physical specimen with

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Speaker 1: a powerful snap, and so he's able to make the

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Speaker 1: throws well enough to play in the league. So, man,

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Speaker 1: it's all about that snap. He's got big hand and

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Speaker 1: and he's got a dominant power snap. And when those

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Speaker 1: two things are are, you know, if one guy possesses

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Speaker 1: those two things, he can throw the football at a

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Speaker 1: high level. But even with that said, John, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Every time I watched Philip Rivers play, it blows my

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Speaker 1: mind at what he's able to do with the football.

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Speaker 1: The throws he's able to make. He makes cover two

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Speaker 1: whole shots from the sideline, he makes whiteside comeback throws.

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Speaker 1: He makes the throws that typically are the reserved for big,

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Speaker 1: big arm guys. He somehow anticipates and lays the ball

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Speaker 1: early and well enough that he gets it done. Man,

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Speaker 1: it is truly impressive with what he's able to do

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Speaker 1: given his limitations. It from from an arm talent standpoint,

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Speaker 1: it's impressive. So cli, let's flip it over to the

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Speaker 1: Texas quarterback, who, in this game against the Chargers did

688
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Speaker 1: not start exceptionally well. Obviously, has that fumble lateral thing

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Speaker 1: to start off the game, and that's frustrating and you

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Speaker 1: just ah, but he got time, and I think when

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Speaker 1: he got the time, he finally started finding a rhythm.

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Speaker 1: And that Fleet flicker on third and one was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful throw and Kenny Stills made a heck of a catch.

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Speaker 1: But then he it seemed like he got dialed in

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Speaker 1: starting in the second quarter, and then this offense looked

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Speaker 1: kind of like we've wanted to look for a while

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Speaker 1: where he's just dealer's choice. There's Hopkins open, they're still's open. Hey,

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Speaker 1: they're at my tight ends. What do you think overall

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Speaker 1: the way that Deshaun played against that Chargers defense, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the one place that he has

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Speaker 1: to continued to improve is coming out of the locker room. Man,

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Speaker 1: this this team is really, if I'm gonna be critical,

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Speaker 1: this team has really struggled coming out of the locker

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Speaker 1: room initially and after the half. They've had six opportunities

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Speaker 1: this year and they've they've either gone three and out

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Speaker 1: or turned the ball over or looked sloppy. At least

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Speaker 1: four of those off the top of my head, if

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Speaker 1: not five of the six first drives and so you

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Speaker 1: know they've got improved there. But man, look, I was

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Speaker 1: very impressed with although it wasn't very effective. The game

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Speaker 1: plan coming out was to run the football quick game

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Speaker 1: screen game, and even though it didn't work, it allowed

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Speaker 1: the play callers and Deshaun Watson to go, Okay, these

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be super aggressive. They're gonna load the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, they're gonna close the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: and now let's go do what we do best and

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Speaker 1: take shots. And that's what you saw in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: This team is very very comfortable taking shots. Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: is very very comfortable throwing the mid range game, anything

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Speaker 1: from twelve to about twenty five yards down the field.

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Speaker 1: He is absolutely sniper deadly in that range. And the

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Speaker 1: Chargers really played right into his hands. They tried to

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Speaker 1: take away to quick sup the run game and then

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Speaker 1: really expose himself in that part of the field. And

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Speaker 1: at halftime, Bill O'Brien, Tim Kelly, Deshaun Watson, Hopkins, all

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Speaker 1: these guys had to be salivating, going okay, boys. The

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Speaker 1: adjustments which we've struggled with to this point, the halftime

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Speaker 1: adjustments in Week three are go out in second half

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Speaker 1: and do what we do best, and the Texans did

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Speaker 1: that and you saw him doing in a big way

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Speaker 1: and ultimately won the game. And so it was a

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Speaker 1: great adjustment. I love the plan coming out and I

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Speaker 1: love the fact that at the end of the day

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Speaker 1: that you went out and you literally took the game

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Speaker 1: from the Chargers. They made a few mistakes in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter and you absolutely pounced, and that's what champions do.

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Speaker 1: That's another step towards a true playoff contender and possibly

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl run down the road one day, hoping

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Speaker 1: the next few years. That's one step towards getting those

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Speaker 1: things accomplished. But talk Clint Sterner. You can hear him

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

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Speaker 1: to six. Man play quarterback at the highest level. So Clinton,

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you this question based on discussion that we

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Speaker 1: had with Bill O'Brien during his Coaches show. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about JJ Watt and it was really good to

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Speaker 1: see JJ play the way that he did because there

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Speaker 1: were periods of dominance in that game. Now he's facing

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Speaker 1: Sam Tevy, but I like the fact that JJ moved

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Speaker 1: up and down a line of scrimmage and was able

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Speaker 1: to get pressure from a lot of different places really

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers, but he got two sacks. And I

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Speaker 1: said to coach something about JJ getting sacks, and he

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Speaker 1: kind of stopped and he said, look, can I take

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Speaker 1: a moment and talk about sacks? And essentially, to paraphrase,

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Speaker 1: what he said was, it's not really the sack, it's

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Speaker 1: more the pressure that's created and the constant pressure that's created.

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Speaker 1: He said he had five quarterback hits to go with

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Speaker 1: the sacks. So I ask you, as a former quarterback,

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Speaker 1: what impact did a sack have on you versus just

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Speaker 1: pressure on you or did they both have a similar

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Speaker 1: effect on you as a quarterback? No, sacks didn't bother

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Speaker 1: me much. I mean that's part of the game. You

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Speaker 1: know what bothered me or what really threw me off

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Speaker 1: of my game? And I think Philip Rivers and I

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Speaker 1: are probably pretty similar, and this maybe the only way

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Speaker 1: we're similar, but we're probably pretty similar relative to we're

767
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: not real comfortable moving around. We didn't we don't like

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Speaker 1: going off platform. We're not comfortable leaving the pocket. That's

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Speaker 1: not our strong point. And so I needed a good

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Speaker 1: clean pocket to step through my throw and finish my

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Speaker 1: throw and see I wanted a good quiet pocket where

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Speaker 1: I could see good throwing lanes, and boy, if you

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Speaker 1: let me stay in that in that position, I was

774
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Speaker 1: more than likely gonna shred you. We were gonna win

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00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: that game. But if you constantly made me move, if

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Speaker 1: you constantly had people around my feet, if I was

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Speaker 1: constantly having to having to having to, uh, I guess

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Speaker 1: deceleerate my arm action because there was helmets underneath me

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Speaker 1: and and lineman being pushed into me, then that was

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00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: a very frustrating four quarters. And for the most part,

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Speaker 1: that's what's gonna be. That's gonna be the case for

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that you see moving forward. I mean, some of

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Speaker 1: these young cats that like to get out inside of

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Speaker 1: the pocket, or some of these guys like like Pat Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: who you're gonna see who could I mean, Hell, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he's falling backwards or if he's running,

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Speaker 1: or if he's if he's pushing up in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: He appears to be really comfortable. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys out there that you you're gonna have a hell

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Speaker 1: of a time making them uncomfortable anything you do. But

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Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, fourteen of the sixteen

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks you see this year. Boy, if you can be

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Speaker 1: just be around their feet, just be falling at their

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00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: feet as they're throwing throughout four quarters, and you're really

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Speaker 1: gonna make them uncomfortable. And so there's no doubt that

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Speaker 1: that DJ Reader pushing the center in the guard back

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00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: and JJ collapsed in the pocket, and Whitney running around

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Speaker 1: the end, those things and all the activity together, John

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Speaker 1: is very disruptive. You don't have to hit a guy.

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Speaker 1: In fact, if I were a decordinator, I would shoot

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Speaker 1: for collapse in the pocket. I would figure out some

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Speaker 1: kind of stat to where if we pushed the quarterback

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Speaker 1: off his spot, I don't care if we sack him

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Speaker 1: or not. If we pushed him off his spot making

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Speaker 1: climb making, thrift making fail, then that that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for, because that guy's uncomfortable as hell and he's

807
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Speaker 1: gonna make mistakes. This weekend, Carolina Panthers come to town

808
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Speaker 1: an offense that put up thirty eight points against the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals with no Cam Newton, Kyle Allen, who had

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Speaker 1: a weird college career. I don't know the right way

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Speaker 1: of saying it, but he has a great freshman year.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray comes in his sophomore year of Texas st M.

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Speaker 1: They kind of go back and forth. He leaves, he

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Speaker 1: goes University Houston. He starts for a couple of games.

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Speaker 1: Then he loses the job to Derek King, who, by

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Speaker 1: the way, stepped away from the program this week, or

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Speaker 1: at least the playing program, so he could red shirt,

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Speaker 1: which you and I could talk about probably for another

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Speaker 1: whole day, Clint. But Kyle Allen, then last year, gets

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Speaker 1: with the Panthers. He does really well. In week seventeen,

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Speaker 1: he steps in the other day he beats the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: throws four touchdowns. He reignites Greg Olsen's career. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are looking at this thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: the Texans can be four and one just knocked these

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Speaker 1: two teams off. But Clint, I'm a little worried a

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Speaker 1: with McCaffrey, but at least we've seen guys like him.

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Speaker 1: But Kyle Allen is a very talented guy, and he's

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Speaker 1: got some talented pieces. I don't know you had a

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Speaker 1: chance to watch the Panthers too much, but with a

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Speaker 1: backup coming in here that you don't know a whole

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Speaker 1: lot about it. Signs sort of like Gardner Minshew in

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Speaker 1: some sense. How difficult does this one become for the

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Speaker 1: Texans with not a lot of film on a very

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Speaker 1: talented guy and Kyle Allen. Well, look, I think that

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Speaker 1: Romeo Crenels probably ran in the North Turner multiple times

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Speaker 1: throughout their career. North Turner as a pro style guy.

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Speaker 1: He wants his quarterback into pocket, he wants to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball on time, he wants to scheme you and

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Speaker 1: teach his quarterback to take what's there. And then he

840
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: wants to run to football and use his uses running

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Speaker 1: back in his pass game. It's no secret what he

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00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: wants to do. I think this is a This is

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Speaker 1: a game where um, I think Kyle all will have

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Speaker 1: some success. I really do. I think he's very good

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Speaker 1: at finding open receivers and North Turner will get those

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Speaker 1: guys open. But at the end of the day, does

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Speaker 1: this team uh in Carolina? I have enough firepower with

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00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: just your your pro style pocket passer to essentially put

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Speaker 1: up enough points to outscore Deshaun Watson and company. And

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Speaker 1: I just I don't think that that they're that powerful.

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Speaker 1: I do love McCaffrey. I think the Texas have had

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Speaker 1: plenty of prep the last two of the last three

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Speaker 1: weeks and really really containing a utility back, one of

854
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Speaker 1: these one of these weapons I call him, instead of

855
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: a running back, they're a true weapon and and and

856
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: all of their offense revolves around that guy's ability to

857
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: move and get the ball in space. I think you

858
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: couple that with the fact that that uh that I

859
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: think the Texans are just a next level up from

860
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: from the Carolina Panthers right now. And I think it's

861
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: a game that that the Texans should handle um without

862
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: too much trouble. But I tell you, Kyle Allen, the

863
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: one thing on him is, I don't know that he's

864
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: a true leader. I don't know that he has that

865
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: it factor to go take over an organization, boll But

866
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 1: when you just plug him into an experienced offense and

867
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: all he's got to do is find the open guy

868
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: and get the rock to him, he's pretty damn good

869
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: at that. There. He is dirty Red Clint Sterning. You

870
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: can hear him every single weekday two to six on

871
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: our flagship Sports Radio six ten. He covers the Razorbacks

872
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Does a great job doing that. Tough San

873
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: Jose State, so I know that had to be tough

874
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: to cover. And then he does our postgame show with

875
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: Sean Pendergast. I love having him on the air with us.

876
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: He is fantastic and I love talking quarterback played with

877
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: him because if there's any position that it spend a

878
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: lot of time playing quarterback. So I can talk about

879
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: everything else but quarterback. I mean, I know it, but

880
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: having him to be able to talk about it is

881
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. Now we get back, we're gonna dive in

882
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: with our good buddy Andre. Where As a Voice of

883
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: Texas Mark Vanniers set down with Dre earlier today while

884
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Speaker 1: thefore you next on Texans All Access. As we get

885
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Speaker 1: into our second hour of Texans All Access, it's time

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Speaker 1: for this week's Stats Challenge, brought to you by Schlumberge.

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Speaker 1: Visit Houston Texans dot com today to register to take

888
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: the stats Challenge. Seventy three point five three hundred twenty three.

889
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: What is that? Those are a Sean Watson's completion percentage.

890
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: We've talked about that earlier in the show. Seventy three

891
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: point five percent completion percentage. That is outstanding and for

892
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: a guy that throws the ball down the field. Deshaun

893
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: is top five, top five in the league in air yards,

894
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: which means his throws averaging five point six yards air

895
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: yards every time he throws. I think Dak is like

896
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: five point nine. So DeShawn is one of he's one

897
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: of the top five quarterbacks in the league in air

898
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: yards and he's still seventy three point five percent completion percentage.

899
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: That's phenomenal. Part B the three twenty eight, that's what

900
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson, excuse me, three twenty three. That's what Deshaun

901
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: did in the last three quarters. In the first quarter

902
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, he threw for twenty eight yards. Over

903
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: the final three quarters, he threw four three twenty three.

904
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Speaker 1: Here's another stat for you. DeAndre Hopkins thirty four, Will

905
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: Fuller thirty, Kenny Still's thirty eight, and thirty six Jordan

906
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: Nakins fifty three. Those are the yardage totals of the

907
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:10,919
Speaker 1: high the high yardage totals for each guy. They all

908
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: generated a play over thirty yards. Stills generate two on

909
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: the fleet flicker and the play right before the half.

910
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: DeAndre Halpkins had the thirty four yard game on third

911
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: and three. Will Fuller had one that got inside the

912
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: five that Carlos Hyde scored in the next play, and

913
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: then Jordan Nakins, you know Jordan Nakins did. Jorge Nakins

914
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: scored in at fifty three yard touchdown. That's four players.

915
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: What a what an explosive plus. Depending on how you

916
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: label an ex explosive play, some say pass play more

917
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: than twenty yards, some say one twenty five. Everybody says

918
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: more than thirty. Well, they all had one more than thirty.

919
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. There you go. There's your stats Challenge, brought

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Speaker 1: to register to take the stats challenge. All right, a

922
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: guy that knows the stats produced many of them himself

923
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: when he was the highsman winning quarterback at the University Houston.

924
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: It's our buddy Andrey. Where Drey sat down with Mark

925
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: earlier today coming off the win over the Chargers. Just

926
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: rewind a bit here as Deshaun Watson puts together a

927
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: terrific performance, do you rate that as his best? Maybe

928
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, some of the other ones might have

929
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: gone down as the best had the Texans been able

930
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: to close the deal on defense. How do you see it? Yeah,

931
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: I think this is definitely his best performance when you

932
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: look at being down on the road to an experienced quarterback.

933
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: He didn't flinch matters. As a matter of fact, Philip

934
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: Rivers flinched in that game, which turned the momentum in

935
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: the Texans favor, and Deshaun Watson, I thought, stepped up,

936
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: played well, took advantage of a mistake that Philip Rivers made,

937
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: of mistakes throughout the second half of that game that

938
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: the Charges defense made, and really played a phenomenal game.

939
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: So I think it's it's having a question to me

940
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: that that was his best performance. And defensively, you mentioned

941
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: Rivers and how he performed down the stretch. The pass

942
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: rush was relentless. They kept coming all afternoon, no matter

943
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: what the situation was. That's a very positive development for

944
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: this this football team right now. Yeah, well that as

945
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: a group, they played well collectively, and uh, you know

946
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: said that the result was someone coming up with a sack,

947
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: pushing Rivers up into the pocket or forcing him off

948
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: his launching part, and then you know someone else is

949
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: there to someone's there to make a make a play

950
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: on him. And at that coverage at times when they

951
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: got pass rush was was was was pretty good. That's

952
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: the only area I think you'd come away from this game.

953
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: And uh, and you kind of scratch your head about

954
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: a guy like Keenan Allen had one heck of a day.

955
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: Mike Williams was a receiver that had a good day.

956
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: But overall of that, defensively, hey, they made enough play

957
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: to win the ball game. All right, So what about Carolina?

958
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: Because here we have Kyle Allen playing throws four touchdown

959
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: passes last week, and I know you're very familiar with

960
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 1: his work. He was an aggie, he was a cougar

961
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: and now he's a panther and he's had an interesting odyssey.

962
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: But what an opportunity for him, Andreas he'll get the

963
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: start for a while, it appears. Yeah, And he's a workhorse,

964
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that just refuses to take

965
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: no for an answer. Got his way into camp, took

966
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: advantage of some opportunities, was on the practice squad, got

967
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: moved up and then started the week seventeen of last

968
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: season when Cam was hurt, and he's just gotten better.

969
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,479
Speaker 1: You know, he takes it, takes the job seriously, puts

970
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: the time in it's necessary, and last week proved to

971
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 1: proof so throwing four touchdown passes. So he is a

972
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,439
Speaker 1: mobile guy that can move around. Certainly not as big

973
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: and as physical as Cam, but he can hurt you

974
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: with his legs and he's deadly accurate with the football.

975
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: So it's been a nice you know, nice nice to

976
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: see him play well and through all of really what

977
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: he's gone through. What about Christian McCaffrey, What did you

978
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: think of him coming out of college and what do

979
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: you think of him now? Is the Texans getting ready

980
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: to face him on Sunday. Yeah, he really changed my opinion.

981
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: I didn't think he could be a three down back

982
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: and a guy that could carry the ball each and

983
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: every down. And I knew that they would utilize him

984
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,479
Speaker 1: in the passing game out of the backfield. That's where

985
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: I thought he would really put pressure on defenses. But

986
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: he's bulked up, he's added some weight, he's added to muscle.

987
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: He can run between the tackles and all he needs

988
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: is a crease and then all of a sudden there's

989
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of pressure on the defense. That makes

990
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: with some other pieces, makes this Carolina team a very

991
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: dangerous football team along with a stingy defense led by

992
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: Luke Keeplet Yeah, Luke Keithley's impressive, no doubt. Let me

993
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: talk to you about Greg Olsen though, the tight end,

994
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: who's a good broadcaster, really good tight end, really good

995
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: weapon for this Panther's team. Interesting career for him. I mean,

996
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna do a game for Fox this year during

997
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: their bye week, and he's done this stuff before and

998
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: he's still playing football at a high level. Yeah, I

999
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: mean it's kind of unprecedented, uncharted waters. You would go

1000
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: to well Indy focused, but I think, you know, he

1001
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,879
Speaker 1: proves a weekend a week out that the focus is there,

1002
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: that he can manage two careers at once, or rather

1003
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: setting him himself up for a second career. And I

1004
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: think he'll walk right off the football field right into

1005
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: the broadcast ruth never miss a beat because he's putting

1006
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: the time in necessary to do so. So he's a

1007
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: heck of a weapon for Kyle and one that I

1008
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: think will work the middle of the field, the outside

1009
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: edges of the defense, and certainly a good blocking tight

1010
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: end to go along with it. Andre Ware joining us

1011
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: straight now. The Jacksonville Jaguars lost to the Texans last week,

1012
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: but they beat the Titans on Thursday night. Minshew played

1013
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: well again like he did against the Texans in a loss.

1014
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on what they might be looking like, here's

1015
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: the week's progress, especially if Ramsey is able to hang

1016
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: around and play for them. Yeah, you know, if if

1017
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: they're able to hold on to Ramsey and you know,

1018
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 1: kind of change his mind. I think winning saws everything

1019
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 1: or at least allows you to manage all the stuff

1020
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: that has gone on. If they continue winning, and it

1021
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: looks like the Jags front office has no plans on

1022
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: trading Jalen Ramsey, so he's forced to play. And if if,

1023
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 1: if there are they're still entertaining those thoughts. He can't

1024
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: play any less than than what he's been doing in

1025
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: terms of his effort, and his play can not show

1026
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: anything less there or teams just don't want to be

1027
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: want to deal with him, but I think they hold

1028
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: on to him. I think he sees where where the

1029
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: team can go. It was very positive last week and

1030
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: in their Thursday night game against Tennessee, and if they

1031
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: keep winning, I think I think Jayla Ramsley, the rampy

1032
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: Mike switch courses and then for Gardner Mintsu. He just

1033
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: looks like the guy that belongs. He's a guy that's

1034
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 1: just kind of living free and having fun and there's

1035
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: no pressure around him whatsoever. Being a sixth round draft pick,

1036
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: I think he's surpassed everybody's expectations. So that's that's one

1037
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. Because their defense played like

1038
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: they played against play against Tennessee with nine sacks, they

1039
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: don't be a dangerous football team. What do you make

1040
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: of Marcus Mariota and the difficulty that the Titans are

1041
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: having throwing the football, protecting the pastor and that sort

1042
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: of thing. Yes's mind boggling because you think with what

1043
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: they've surrounded him with that he would be a much

1044
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: better football player. But it seems to be the offense.

1045
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: He's holding the offense back. And I don't know why,

1046
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: because he's a talented player, but it just hadn't clicked

1047
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. I don't know if the scheme the offense

1048
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: doesn't vibe or they don't match up with his talent,

1049
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: but something's up is just not right there. What about

1050
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Jacoby Brissette. I mean, here are the cults, and

1051
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we were pronouncing them dead. No one

1052
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: did well. They shouldn't have. But they look pretty darn

1053
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: good and they have the kind of record. I mean,

1054
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: if you told me before the season started they'd lose

1055
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: to the Chargers and overtime on the road, and then

1056
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: when their next two, I'd say, Okay, Edward Luck must

1057
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: be playing pretty well, and he's not even there. They're

1058
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: holding up very well. Yeah, I mean, we knew what

1059
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette was. I mean, they've done an excellent job

1060
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: in terms of building the football team around at that position,

1061
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: and he basically got to step in and just kind

1062
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 1: of manage. There are plenty of weapons. And I don't

1063
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: know what the health of t Y Hilton is. I

1064
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,479
Speaker 1: know he was banged up at the end of last

1065
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: week's game, but they've done a nice job of adding

1066
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: to the running back room. The offensive line is a

1067
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: good young offensive line that will protect him well, and

1068
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 1: I think he is growing as the season progresses. So

1069
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: defense of Lye, there's been some upgrades there. A couple

1070
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: of the better young younger players on that side of

1071
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: the ball reside in Indianapolis, and I think they're not

1072
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: going anywhere quietly, that's for sure. Andre where joining us

1073
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: on Texans Radio, so dre in the college circuit, is

1074
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: there anything surprising to you any developments in the early

1075
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: part of the campaign? I think, you know, every year

1076
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,439
Speaker 1: when rankings come out, mark you get the same top

1077
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: fifteen teams based on reputation and hopes that a Michigan

1078
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: or Texas or Nebraska will well, this will finally be

1079
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: the year for them. And I just happen to believe

1080
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 1: that there's certain schools that have had success in the

1081
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: past aren't going to have success going forward, and everybody

1082
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: just you know, seems to steal voter man. Uh, you know,

1083
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: how does Michigan become a top ten team starting to

1084
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: start the season when they got killed in an old

1085
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: game by Florida last year. It's just unbelievable, and I

1086
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: think people just have gotten lazy to that to that degree.

1087
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: But overall, the normal teams are at the top. To

1088
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: Clune to the Alabama, the Georgia's right there. LSU has

1089
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: been maybe the most pleasant surprise that I've seen in

1090
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: all the college football this year. With Joe Burrow at quarterback,

1091
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: they have revamped the offense. He is a perfect hit

1092
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: for what they want to do and has made himself

1093
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: into an interesting draft prospect. By doing that, they have

1094
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: totally changed the culture on offense for years to come.

1095
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: We've seen receivers that have come out of LSU that

1096
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:45,879
Speaker 1: have gone on to the NFL and had success where

1097
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of catch as well. That's

1098
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: about to change. And at the forefront of that is

1099
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, the quarterback, who I think it's going to

1100
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: be certainly an NFL player. What about your game with

1101
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: Iowa and I assume you have a more favorable travel

1102
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: situation back to the Texans homeland of n Archy Stadium. Yeah,

1103
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: it is, I mean much more favorable. I actually get

1104
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: out on a Saturday and get home Saturday night they're

1105
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: taking on Middle Tennessee and was watching some film on

1106
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee. It's an interesting offense that they run that

1107
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: actually could give Iowa some problems. The question will be

1108
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: whether defensively Middle Tennessee can hold up against Iowa. Against

1109
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: Miami of Ohio earlier in the year, they gave Iowa

1110
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: some problems and was in the game in the fourth quarter.

1111
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee is a more talented team than Miami University

1112
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: in Ohio. That's the ship. All right, Drey, thanks a lot.

1113
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: Safe travels. We'll see on Sunday afternoon. Everybody. We'll see then. Now,

1114
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: Mark says, safe travels to Dre. That means something. When

1115
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: we're on a plane coming back from the game in LA,

1116
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: Drey was telling me about his flight weekend from Houston

1117
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: to Charlottesville. Charlottesville out to LA. Now, for those of

1118
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: you who don't know, Charlottesville in Virginia, all the way

1119
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: in the East coast and it was a seven o'clock

1120
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: East Coast game. Dre had to then get all the

1121
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: way to LA and call our game. It's unbelievable what

1122
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 1: he does each and every weekend. But the man is

1123
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: phenomenal at his job, and we love having him. I

1124
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: love having him. I love being able to spend every

1125
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: single Sunday with him. I think it's fantastic. So Andre

1126
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: Ware is the best. Joining us. Next is a guy

1127
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: that I have gotten to know a little bit. I

1128
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: knew him from Afar because when I moved to North

1129
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: Carolina in two thousand and one, I listened to him

1130
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: do North Carolina Broadcast with the legendary Woody Durham. Then

1131
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: he became the Carolina Panthers play by play man, and

1132
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: he is wonderful at his job. And he sat down

1133
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: with Mark Vanamir with our Men Behind the Mike's segment.

1134
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: Mick Mixon of the Panthers joins us next right here

1135
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: on Texas All Access. What's upon a time I gave

1136
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: Mark Vandamir a homework assignment. I said, Mark, you would

1137
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: be a really good segment. Is if you got on

1138
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: the horn with the play by play voice of the

1139
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: appointment each and every week, that would be a great segment.

1140
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: And we called it Men Behind the Mikes. And he's

1141
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: done it every single week since I believe twenty fifteen.

1142
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: That's when the idea came to me. And he's done

1143
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: it every single week, and I think he secretly loves

1144
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: doing it and it's awesome. Here's our Men behind the

1145
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: Mics segment with Carolina Planthers play by play man Mick Mixon. Mick,

1146
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing you. How are you doing, my friend?

1147
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: Well better now that I'm on with the great Mark

1148
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,919
Speaker 1: Van de Meer of the Shirley Playoff bound Houston, tex

1149
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: In three of the last four years. And you guys

1150
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: look like you got a crew again this year. But

1151
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on. Things are a lot

1152
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: different here across the Carolinas today, Mark, than if we

1153
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: had to talk last week. That win for the Panthers

1154
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: at Arizona has a lot of people's spirits uplifted at last. Well,

1155
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen a big reason for that. Coming off the sideline,

1156
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: I'm having the kind of performance he did. What's he

1157
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: like on and off the field. Mick Allan's kind of

1158
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: just got this every man calmness about him. He not

1159
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of style over substance. He just kind of

1160
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: a quarterback that loves football. The ball looks great coming

1161
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: out of his hand. I couldn't believe Wednesday's practiced the

1162
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: week of the Arizona game, Mark. I walked out there

1163
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: and just see just passes being completed and and he

1164
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: looks like he sees things instead of just kind of

1165
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: deciding pre snap where he's going to go with the ball.

1166
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: It looks like he's you know, he's able to move

1167
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: defenders around. He he'll diagnose coverages and getting the ball,

1168
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: sort of be a point guard in a way, getting

1169
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: the ball where it needs to be. And he demonstrated

1170
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: that same kind of calmness in leadership at Arizona, even

1171
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: after an early strip sack fumbled that could have shaken

1172
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: his confidence. What about McCaffrey, mick, because he brings so

1173
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: much to the table as far as what he could

1174
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: do as a running back, as a receiver, just a

1175
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: total weapon. Your thoughts on his performance throughout his career

1176
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: so far and what you expect on Sunday against the Texans, Well,

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00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is a no talent, bum. I mean, I think

1178
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: you should tell your coaches focus on other, you know,

1179
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: other things for this game because he's just about used up.

1180
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: He's taking he's he's tired, and I think he's wanting

1181
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 1: to just get a little bit of a rest for

1182
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: this game. But sure, now, yeah, I'm just gonna guess

1183
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of kidding you around, But McCaffrey

1184
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: is I don't know how old you are, Mark, I'm

1185
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: I know I'm older than you. I'm sixty one. And

1186
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: McCaffrey just reminds me of this any era kind of

1187
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: football player. He's got a little bit of Walter Payton,

1188
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of Barry Sanders, a little bit of

1189
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: just that that old school work ethic. U son of

1190
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: of a decorated NFL player, and McCaffrey has got the juice.

1191
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: He can catch it, he can run it, The Panthers

1192
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: can snap it to him. He can probably broadcast to

1193
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: games too, But I hope, I don't hope we don't

1194
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: find that out anytime soon. Well, you do have a

1195
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,439
Speaker 1: guy who can broadcast the games, and that's Alsen. Greg

1196
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: Olsen does a good job at that. What has it

1197
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: been like with him playing and having this other career,

1198
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 1: if you will. I know some of that's been reported

1199
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: on nationally, But what's it like being around the Panthers

1200
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: to have a guy like that on the team. It's

1201
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: it's humbling. I mean, Greg Olsen is one of those

1202
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: guys that could be he could be reading the phone

1203
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: book to you and it would be kind of interesting

1204
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: because he's got such passion and so many opinions. And

1205
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: he sits down at the table and I'll give you

1206
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: a short example. At Arizona, you know, we fly out

1207
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: there a day early, like a lot of teams do

1208
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: when that go three time zones. So Saturday morning around

1209
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: the hotel, Olsen's holding court at this round table and

1210
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: he's diagramming the fake Philly Special that McCaffrey didn't get

1211
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: into the end zone on against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1212
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: So he's got salt and pepper shakers, a couple of

1213
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: orange juice glasses turned upside down, and he's just and

1214
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: he gets so excited doing this that he can't sit down.

1215
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: He has to stand up. So he's standing up, moving

1216
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: these chess pieces, talking about how this play almost work.

1217
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: And I mean just time passes. Time passes so quickly

1218
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: when you're in when you're in his area of dominant influence. Mcmixon,

1219
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: voice of the Panthers, joining us on Texans Radio, Mick,

1220
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: what about this defense? We see Luke Keickley leaving the

1221
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 1: team and tackles again. So many names on this defense

1222
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 1: that are scary looking to the opponent. What about the

1223
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: expectations moving forward? Yeah, I was just looking at your

1224
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: defense too. It's funny you mentioned that, because I'm kind

1225
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: of going, whoa wait a second, Barkavious, Mingo, Whitney, merciless.

1226
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: Not fair, all these guys JJ Watt on the same team.

1227
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: The Panthers have a little bit of that too, as

1228
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: you allude to markets a high Q rating kind of

1229
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: a defense with some marquee talent in there. The Panthers

1230
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: won the Gerald McCoy sweepstakes in the off season, and

1231
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,959
Speaker 1: McCoy has been disruptive up front. I don't know about

1232
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: KK short, he's still nursing a little bit of an injury.

1233
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: But the defense is sort of a hybrid defense. It's

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01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: kind of a Hollywood defense, has been called by some

1235
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: of the coaching assistants. That they can moreph they can change,

1236
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: they can be, they can be look like one thing

1237
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: then become another. Sometimes you'll see an odd man front

1238
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: and even man front. The Panthers have even played some

1239
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: six dbs, just depending on what they think will take

1240
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 1: away what the opponent wants to do best. Mcmixon joining

1241
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: us Voice of the Panthers Mick Last year was so

1242
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: tough for Carolina after the tough start, it seemed like

1243
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: the last win with such a relief. What is the

1244
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: relationship like between the town, the area and the team

1245
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: right now here in the South, football isn't just something

1246
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: we do. It's kind of part of who we are.

1247
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: And people on all these college campuses and people that

1248
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: root for UNC, Duke, NC State, Clemson, South Carolina, all

1249
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: the colleges are that are in areas where we pull

1250
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: fans from all come together and pull for the Carolina Panthers.

1251
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: And when the Panthers are not winning, nothing else is

1252
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: very good. The economy doesn't seem as good, the food

1253
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: doesn't taste as good, the sweet teas not as sweet,

1254
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: the Southern bells don't seem quite as pretty, although they

1255
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: are very attention getting lee pretty. So even just one win,

1256
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: this may be a win and a crucible. It may

1257
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: not be the start of a trend, but even just

1258
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 1: getting one win with Kyle Allen looking like he can function,

1259
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: has changed everything around here. This is an area that

1260
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: loves its NFL team and supports it with everything it's got.

1261
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: What's it like to be around Rivera on a regular basis?

1262
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: What is he like as a coach, as a person

1263
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: just working with him? He played at the highest level.

1264
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: He was the linebacker on the eighty five Bears, so

1265
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: it doesn't take much to get him telling some of

1266
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: the old Chicago Bear stories. And that's a joyous Noel

1267
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: when he's doing that. And I would say he's one

1268
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: of those guys that seems to sort of be a

1269
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 1: good amateur psychologist. In other words, he knows that it's

1270
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Speaker 1: not it's not the train. The treat every player the

1271
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: same way. Train left the station a long time ago.

1272
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: So he kind of knows which player needs to be

1273
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: cajoled and patted on the back, which player needs to

1274
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: be possibly challenged. He's got a very good feel for it.

1275
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: And I think the players in this locker room Mark

1276
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,919
Speaker 1: they want to do well for him, and they also

1277
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: feel like they're doing well with him, if that makes

1278
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 1: any sense. Mcmixon joining us mick. The rest of the division,

1279
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: we see Atlanta losing at Indeed, they're gonna be here

1280
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: in Houston the week after Carolina is here. We see

1281
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: what Tampa Bay's doing. Obviously the Saints are a different

1282
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 1: team without Breeze for the time being, but they just

1283
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: beat Seattle on the road. So what do you think

1284
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 1: of the rest of the NFC South As the AFC

1285
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: South squares off against this division this year, Well, you're

1286
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: going to see a good quarterback every time, as the

1287
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: season started with Cam Newton, Matt Ryan, Jamis Winston, Drew Brees.

1288
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: It's different now and know but but it's sort of

1289
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: known as and has been known here the last decade

1290
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: as a good quarterback division. And I think that the

1291
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: Bucks fly around on defense man Tampa Bay. Hadn't seen

1292
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: Atlanta in New Orleans with my own eyes yet, but

1293
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: watch him on NFL game passing on TV. But the

1294
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: Bucks play defense a lot like the Texans do. They

1295
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: really fly around, They play hard on that side of

1296
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: the ball. So so I think you guys are going

1297
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: to enjoy it, and we wish you. We wish the

1298
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: Texans a lot of luck, especially against the greatly detested

1299
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Who would you think is the favorite in

1300
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: the NFC right now? Because even though the Saints got

1301
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: that went at Seattle, well, Seattle looks a little different.

1302
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,400
Speaker 1: The Saints are different, yet they just beat Seattle. I

1303
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: don't know about Dallas yet based on their schedule. What

1304
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 1: do you think of the conference as a whole? Lions

1305
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: are unbeaten, but they have the tie in Green Bay

1306
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: as three and o, but it's hardly complete. What do

1307
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: you think? That's a good question. Yeah, Dallas looks like

1308
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a handful with that offensive line and

1309
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott playing so well cover of Sports Illustrated.

1310
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: I think that any I mean, Sean Payton could take

1311
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 1: a Pop Warner team and have a good chance at

1312
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: scoring some points against a high school team. I mean,

1313
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: he's just an offensive savant. I knew they were gonna

1314
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: score a lot even with Drew breathes out at quarterback.

1315
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: Now can they sustain it? We shall see. Have no

1316
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: idea who the Atlanta Falcons are right now. They had

1317
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: that great win Prime Time the other night, but they

1318
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: look like they're kind of going good play bad play

1319
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't know. I don't know. It's

1320
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: too early to tell on the Carolina Panthers as well.

1321
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,440
Speaker 1: All Right, mack hey, thanks so much for the time.

1322
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and safe travels here. We look forward

1323
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: to seeing you on Sunday. No doubt Mark can find

1324
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: me in the press box. Those might be two of

1325
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: the nicest men I've ever met in my life. I mean,

1326
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: Mick is just an awesome guy, just a fantastic guy.

1327
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: And of course, you know Mark vandermer is that way.

1328
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 1: Anybody has followed Texans for a long time knows what

1329
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: kind of guy Mark is. And I love the fact

1330
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: that those two had a chance to catch up. Give

1331
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: us some thoughts on this matchup and dive deep with

1332
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: Mixon to play by playvoice oh the Carolina Panthers. All right,

1333
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: we got one segment left, and we're gonna go in

1334
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: the lab where Drew, Dorry and I get a chance

1335
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: to geek out each and every week, we'll have a

1336
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: little snippet from our most recent podcast next right here

1337
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:13,560
Speaker 1: in Texans Access every single week on the game broadcast,

1338
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: Mark Andre and myself we during a break while I say, man,

1339
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 1: this is a great spot for a turnover, a boy

1340
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,320
Speaker 1: turnover and be great right about here? Well, how about

1341
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:26,560
Speaker 1: this next gen stat powered by a w S. The

1342
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 1: Houston Texans have an active streak of sixteen games. That's

1343
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: a full season, sixteen games producing a takeaway. They have

1344
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,719
Speaker 1: forced to turnover in sixteen consecutive games. It's the longest

1345
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: active streak and it's tied for the second longest streak

1346
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: in franchise history. That was from two thousand and eight

1347
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:53,639
Speaker 1: to twenty eleven. That covered Wow, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

1348
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,560
Speaker 1: twenty three consecutive games. You know, maybe my math is

1349
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: off on that, but either way, sixteen games producing a

1350
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: takeaway is unbelievable. And the Texans have done that and

1351
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll continue to do that and need to do

1352
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: that against Kyle Allen, the second year quarterback out of

1353
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: University Houston, Texas at AM from the state of Arizona,

1354
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: was a five star many many years ago. Very talented

1355
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 1: guy getting the third start of his career against JJ

1356
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,759
Speaker 1: Watt and company. Now, JJ was all kinds of fabulous.

1357
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 1: So is Whitney, merciless, so is DJ Reader livebackers secondary.

1358
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:35,560
Speaker 1: The defense was in the second half in particular, tremendous.

1359
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 1: But who were are creaming the crop players? What did

1360
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: we learn about this team out in Los Angeles? Drew

1361
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 1: Dory and I talked about some of that on our

1362
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: end of the Lab podcast. Here's a nice little snippet

1363
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 1: for you right now. That was such a fun, fun trip,

1364
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: fun fun win. I don't know, the grass screener and

1365
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: everything smells sad this week done it? It seems that way.

1366
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: It felt like, I think for that win to was

1367
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:04,800
Speaker 1: the fact that you've had these games since Deshan has

1368
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: been the starting quarterback. In twenty seventeen, you faced New

1369
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: England and he has a tremendous game. But you can't

1370
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: hang on he has a great game in Seattle. I

1371
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:15,600
Speaker 1: mean every Sales Seahawk defender is waiting to shake his hand. Like,

1372
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 1: who is this rookie? But you can't hang on to

1373
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: that win. You have the Philadelphia game at twenty eighteen,

1374
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: where you win that game, you get a buy and

1375
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: you can't hang on. Then you have the Saints game

1376
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: where you have this miraculous two play seventy five yard

1377
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:32,519
Speaker 1: drive to take the lead and they're building and oh

1378
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: my god, and you can't hang on to that one. Well,

1379
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:36,560
Speaker 1: then you got another Hall of Fame quarterback. And I

1380
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: had gone through before the game. I had gone all

1381
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: the way back to two thousand and eight, and I

1382
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: looked at games against guys that you consider to be

1383
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, at least Super Bowl quarterbacks

1384
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Russell Wilson,

1385
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and Philip Rivers. I want to the way

1386
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,639
Speaker 1: back to two thousand and eight, and there are seven

1387
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: wins against those in total. They had had one win

1388
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: against Drew Brees and that was twenty fifteen at home,

1389
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: so they had not won one of these games. Even

1390
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 1: though those games that I mentioned in New England Seattle,

1391
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: those are some of the just most incredible games that

1392
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: I can just remember watching, like if you're a fan

1393
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 1: at home watching these games, you're like, man, I'm getting

1394
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 1: my money's worth, and this is a fantastic game. It

1395
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: falls won't be in the Hall of Fame, but he wont.

1396
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl. So against Super Bowl winning

1397
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or Hall of Fame quarterback. So the only quarterback

1398
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: you'd had multiple wins against, which makes sense because he's

1399
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: in the Vision, is Peyton, but you have ironically, you

1400
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: had one win against him, and this is from two

1401
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Since two thousand and fourteen, there had

1402
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: only been that one win against Drew Brees and that

1403
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 1: was it. And on the road, you had an opportunity

1404
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: against Brady, had an opportunity against Russell Wilson. You're an

1405
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: opportunity against Folds, you an opportunity against Breeze. You're opportunity

1406
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: in all those games. And so I know the picture

1407
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: you're talking about, and it's on the Jordan Nakens touchdown.

1408
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: And there were about nine and a half minutes left

1409
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: in that game, but the Texas at that point were

1410
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: controlling it. Yeah, and they had just taken a ten

1411
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,719
Speaker 1: point lead. They missed extra point. You should have been eleven,

1412
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: but they they took they took a two score lead.

1413
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 1: And I'm not ever gonna tell you I get cocky

1414
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: or confident about a game, but it's like, once we

1415
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: took the two score lead, I knew there was plenty

1416
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: of time, so it wasn't you know, but it was like,

1417
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: maybe they'll get this one and maybe that'll maybe maybe

1418
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: this will be the win. That kind of everybody says, hey,

1419
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: wait a second, take a look at these guys. These

1420
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 1: guys are getting done out. And I guess the Chargers.

1421
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the Chargers had some pieces missing. I'm

1422
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: not gonna you know the quarterback. They're still at home

1423
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: the last year. Yeah, it's a good football team. To

1424
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: what coach football team they got? Still got Boston Ingram.

1425
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. Drew two things. One, I'll start

1426
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: with what you said, bost Ingram combined for half a sack. Yeah,

1427
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: that's it. Against the line that had two rookies and

1428
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 1: a guy that's been here for three weeks, three new

1429
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:06,720
Speaker 1: offensive tuncil sharping and offensive it made a huge difference. Yeah.

1430
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,560
Speaker 1: The second part of that is I thought about this.

1431
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: In fact, during a break I said this to Mark

1432
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: and Andre, if you don't have that weird fumble lateral

1433
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: thing at the beginning of the game, and you make

1434
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: your feel got the end half. Look, I know it's

1435
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 1: a fifty six yard or Kaymie had plenty of like

1436
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: you just pushed it a little bit through, right, But

1437
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 1: if you make that, it's a thirty to ten ball

1438
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: game at that point, and you have made a significant statement.

1439
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 1: To be honest, you really did the second half because

1440
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 1: after the three and out in the second half, your

1441
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: drive chart went touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, great punt by Anger

1442
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 1: and that was it. And their their second half they

1443
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 1: had five drives. Yeah, came up with a fuel goal, punt,

1444
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: field goal loss on a fumbles on downs. Yeah, you

1445
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: did pretty well in the second half. Yeah, the second

1446
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 1: three points, those thirty points, those thirty minutes and it

1447
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: all you know what it all plays into. Weapons, Yes,

1448
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 1: sword and shield. It's something you and I talked about

1449
01:13:56,120 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: all offseason. Sword weapons for Deshaun Watson, shield protection for

1450
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Texans address both of those things. Tried to

1451
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: address both those things in the off season, added components

1452
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: on both sides. Let's talk about the weapons and more

1453
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: specifically the diversity of weapons. I think even before you

1454
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,600
Speaker 1: saw the Texans add Duke Johnson and Kenny Stills. We

1455
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 1: were really excited about what this receiving corps promised with Hopkins,

1456
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: with Fuller, with QT and some intriguing tight ends. Well,

1457
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: you added in Duke Johnson, you added in after the fact,

1458
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide and Kenny Stills. Let's go over some explosive

1459
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: plays this year. There's been a lot of them so far.

1460
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: There's a common thread with all of them except for

1461
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: one fifty three yard touchdown to Aikins so far has

1462
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: been the outlier because all the other explosive passes have

1463
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: gone to Fuller, Stills, and Hopkins, not in that order,

1464
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,559
Speaker 1: but Fuller, Stills and Hopkins. Let's go over it. From

1465
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: the first week, fifty four yard pass, which is still

1466
01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 1: the longest pass of the season for the Texans, went

1467
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: to Will Fuller. You had a thirty eight yard to Hopkins,

1468
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:03,759
Speaker 1: a thirty seven yard which was a touchdown to Stills,

1469
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: and a twenty one yard or to Hopkins. Then against

1470
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 1: the Jags, that defense is really good and they kind

1471
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: of held you and you had to slop it around

1472
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: with them. You had a thirty one yard reception by

1473
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: Stills and a twenty eight yard reception by Fuller against

1474
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers, though, man, you blow them up. Five explosive passes,

1475
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: a fifty three yarder to Aikins, a thirty eight yarder

1476
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: to Stills, a thirty seven yarder to Stills. By the way,

1477
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: that thirty eight yard to Stills, you attack on a

1478
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: fifteen yard roughing the passer. It was a huge play.

1479
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:37,040
Speaker 1: A thirty four yard to Hopkins, and a thirty yarder

1480
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: to Fuller. Fullers had a Fuller and Stills have had

1481
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: an explosive reception of thirty yards of war or school

1482
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: excuse me, just an explosive reception in each of the

1483
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: first three games. You knew you had that in Will Fuller,

1484
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean Kenny Stills was not even our conversation in

1485
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,560
Speaker 1: training camera. He knew Stills could do that, but he

1486
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: wasn't on this team, just wasn't on this team. So

1487
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: he was just he was an ancillary of the NFL somewhere.

1488
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: But the opportunity that I mean Kenny every game has done.

1489
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: I mean that catch, the touchdown catch against the Saints,

1490
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: the catch right before the half that led to a

1491
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:14,680
Speaker 1: field goal against the Jaguars. He has given it to you.

1492
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:16,920
Speaker 1: What I love about the explosive play that he created

1493
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: was created for us. They created for him that he

1494
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: was the beneficiary of that fleeflicker on third and one.

1495
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,679
Speaker 1: Man tack of a play. But what I loved about

1496
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 1: it was because of how it was schemed up in

1497
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: that Kenny's coming in motion and you had an outside

1498
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: receiver out, you had you had an outside receiver. When

1499
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: Kenny goes in motion, he gets a safety on him. Yeah,

1500
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 1: well that's that's a mismatch because the Shawn knew it

1501
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 1: and they're like, well they're running anyway. That's what the

1502
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: Texans do. They got a short yard situation, they're gonna

1503
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: run it, and they will a third one fleeflicker. I'm

1504
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 1: still shaking my head because it's a brilliant call. It's

1505
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: just a brilliant call. I never when I see Carlos hide,

1506
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: turn and toss it back to the Shawn. I'm in

1507
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:55,719
Speaker 1: march through the whole game and I'm like, flee flicker,

1508
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: and I mean I literally said it like that, like

1509
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: flee flicker. And then we got to a break. I

1510
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: was like third and one with the how are we doing?

1511
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: But it was huge and Kenny made that play. I'll

1512
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 1: see the other thing. Obviously we're talking about explosive plays.

1513
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: But on Kenny Stills, every Texan to a man has

1514
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: said the very same thing about Jordan Nakins touchdown. Yeah,

1515
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 1: Shaun did a great job, and but Jordan catching run.

1516
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: It's almost as if people knew that they could do that,

1517
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: Like they weren't surprised by that, Like they knew Aikins

1518
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,600
Speaker 1: could run, but they knew Deshaun could get out of

1519
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: the pocket, and there was a great place. But Kenny

1520
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: Stills gets locked on the dB at the five yard

1521
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 1: line making a block, and that's the last guy between

1522
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:34,760
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins and the end zone, and Kenny locks him

1523
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 1: up and in fact knocks him backwards essentially right. Yeah,

1524
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 1: and Aikins just is able to walk in the endzone

1525
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: at that point, and Kenny is not in the screen

1526
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: when it starts. He comes from all the way over

1527
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: the other side of the field to get Jordan Nanzo

1528
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: because everybody had gone that way with the Shawan. When

1529
01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: DeShawn breaks the pocket, he goes to the left and

1530
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: then he sees Aikins. And I'll give Aikins total credit

1531
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: for this, because Aikins route was really just to kind

1532
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:04,759
Speaker 1: of settle up in a zone. And then when forty

1533
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: four to the linebacker because you're white, was he was

1534
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: spot dropping and when you dropped that spot, he saw

1535
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,679
Speaker 1: the sean and he took off. Well instead of going

1536
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: with the sean, Aikins is like, I'm going the other way. Yeah,

1537
01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was interesting because I'm not

1538
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 1: sure that was really like what his quartoby scram was.

1539
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 1: You kind of go with him like he's rolling to

1540
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: let you go with him to the left. It's the

1541
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: reason he was so wide open because as he goes

1542
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 1: that way, number twenty twenty, guys were moving in the

1543
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 1: other direction and those two were moving in that direction.

1544
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:34,800
Speaker 1: And it's really it's really interesting because Aikins catches two touchdowns,

1545
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: Bells catches one. In twenty thirteen when the Texans beat

1546
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: the Chargers on the road, Yes, last time, last time.

1547
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: Oh I wouldn't the last times, the last time they

1548
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: wanted still in California. Yeah. Owen Daniels catches two touchdowns,

1549
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:52,440
Speaker 1: Garrett Graham catches one. So back to my point, the weapons,

1550
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: the diversity of these weapons starting to come to the

1551
01:18:55,920 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: fort and this Aikins massive game. I really don't think

1552
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: this is the last time this season you're gonna see

1553
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 1: the Texans get a big, big play from a tight

1554
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: end because Aikins keeps doing stuff like this. You saw

1555
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,760
Speaker 1: Fells get involved, and that's who Darren Fells is. Man.

1556
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: He can block, he jokes, he's a left left tackle.

1557
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: He can catch touchdowns. I mean he's that's his eleventh

1558
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: touchdown catch him is of the last four years. I mean,

1559
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: he can catch touchdowns. He's productive in the red zone.

1560
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: That's really exciting. Plus he's still got Jordan Thomas, He's

1561
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: still got the hollywearing sitting on ir They might come

1562
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 1: back later in the season. It's gonna be a lot

1563
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: of fun. And on top of this, John k Qt

1564
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: has been kind of quiet, but there's gonna be a

1565
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: time or two, or three or four eventually, I'm talking

1566
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 1: game wise where he erupts and just straight roasts another

1567
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: team because they're gonna teams are gonna scheme up ways

1568
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: to take things away from you. Yeah, well, Kiki's still

1569
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,360
Speaker 1: gonna be there. And I can't wait to see this.

1570
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,959
Speaker 1: Because I was asked on Dear Drew earlier today, Hayson's

1571
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,799
Speaker 1: Stills is playing so well, as does that make Keiki expendable.

1572
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: Could we maybe get something? No, No, absolutely not. Don't

1573
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: you don't you remember December. I mean you had a

1574
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: bang up DeAndre Hopkins, you didn't have Will Fuller, you

1575
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: didn't have to murray as Thomas at the end. Kiki

1576
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: didn't play in December. I mean it was ugly. So

1577
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: you want to have this wealth of weapons and you

1578
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: want to keep them around. Here's the thing about this

1579
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: receiver crew, and we talked about this in theory, and

1580
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 1: we talked about it in theory, but we're now seeing

1581
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 1: it come to fruition. Is because you have and now

1582
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 1: that you throw, you know, throw Kekenny in there, you

1583
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:39,640
Speaker 1: have different ways to beat teams you can't tack, you

1584
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: know how Drew When you watch a game on Sunday

1585
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: and they show a quarterbacks output for that day, and

1586
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: they'll show a graphic and it'll be either six or

1587
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:50,720
Speaker 1: nine boxes, depending on how they break it up, and

1588
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: essentially a short left, short middle, short right, intermediate left,

1589
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: middle right, and then deep left, deep middle, deep right.

1590
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: I always think of the passing game kind of like

1591
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: those nine zones. It's fun to hit all of them,

1592
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: and you can't hit all of them. Yeah. That's the

1593
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: cool thing is you can hit every single one, and

1594
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 1: you can hit every single one with nearly every guy

1595
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,600
Speaker 1: in your pass catching group. Now, Fells is probably not

1596
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: your your deep guy, but Aikins can be. I think

1597
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: he certainly can be. I mean that seam route was

1598
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect on the first touchdown, and Aikins can be.

1599
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: But you can hit those nine spots with nearly every

1600
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: guy in your pass catching corps. Like I said, maybe

1601
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: not Fells, but Fells gets the front six and he's

1602
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:42,480
Speaker 1: been a really good blocker, so you can create explosives.

1603
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: You can if teams are gonna say, okay, well you're

1604
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,519
Speaker 1: not getting explosive plays on us. We saw a Chargers game.

1605
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: You're not getting explosive plays on us, and they start

1606
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: playing a yard too deeper. All right, we'll take the

1607
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: fifteen yard en route. Hopkins did that on third and fourteen.

1608
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: We'll take that. We'll take the ten yard route. Well,

1609
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: Fuller had one of those in the third quarter. Just

1610
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: out route, steps out, catch it, step out of bounds,

1611
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: ten yards, move the sticks. You bring up Fells, I'll

1612
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: go back to it. Man. Texans signed him, and the

1613
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 1: day they signed him, I was like, oh, cool, and

1614
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 1: I didn't really think too much of it, and then

1615
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: I did the research on him and looked at what

1616
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 1: he'd done, just statistically over the last few years, because

1617
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: when he was signed, the story was they signed a

1618
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:25,599
Speaker 1: blocking tight end, And when I looked at what he's done,

1619
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no way this guy doesn't make

1620
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:30,280
Speaker 1: the team. I mean, just but for the blocking aspect alone,

1621
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: but he can catch passes and make things happen, and

1622
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: it's just no surprise. He has been so valuable for

1623
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: this offense and for this team. He's got great leadership.

1624
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: I would imagine he is a resource of knowledge for

1625
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:48,719
Speaker 1: the younger tight ends, for Jordan Nakins, for Jordan Thomas

1626
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: Collie Wearing. I mean when we saw him in camp

1627
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: and we talked about it. It's funny because when we

1628
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 1: were watching an OTAs in Many camp, that's when it

1629
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 1: started for me. I'm like, they're gonna keep for tight ends. Yeah,

1630
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna keep four tight ends. How do you know?

1631
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: Because Fells has done such a good job. And then

1632
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: it got the training camp and I'm like, I'm convinced

1633
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 1: they're keeping four tight ends, and then keep four they

1634
01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:12,800
Speaker 1: kept five. I know two of them one on ir like,

1635
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: I get that. Still, but they kept five five of them.

1636
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: There's plans pretty interesting what that group has done. All right,

1637
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: let's wrap up the weapons thing with this stat I

1638
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: get I just got from Omar Mazoob Zoobi Zuby Zoo

1639
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: of media relations for the Texans. Second in the NFL

1640
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: as a team are the Texans in thirty plus yards

1641
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: per catch, so receptions where they caught a pass for

1642
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: thirty yards and more. Stills is tied for first in

1643
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: the NFL among players with numbers with a number of

1644
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 1: thirty thirty yard catches. So's he's lighting them up all right.

1645
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 1: Time to get to cream of the crop. Now, I've

1646
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: been a real real easy on you in the last

1647
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 1: few weeks because I've gone first and I've given you

1648
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, there's like no chance that you don't you

1649
01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: don't pick this guy. So I'm just gonna get it

1650
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 1: out of the way. Okay, I'm gonna take to Shaun Watson. Okay,

1651
01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: he's up for the FedEx Air Player of the Week.

1652
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: Deserves it in my mind. The three touchdown passes, no picks,

1653
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: three hundred plus yards passing, I mean, he's he's an

1654
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 1: absolute magician. He's an absolute wizard. I've called him al

1655
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: Mahico with some of my friends on it during the

1656
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:21,599
Speaker 1: games group texts, and we're still just seeing I think

1657
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg with this guy. I mean,

1658
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: protection keeps getting better. I think we're gonna see this

1659
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: line sort of roll this way. Health provider or health,

1660
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: health talk health the what's what do I want to

1661
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: say here? I know what you mean, health notwithstanding health

1662
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: not Yeah, as long as they're healthy. This is how

1663
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: out will we see? So yeah, I'm gonna go with

1664
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: the Seauan Watson. I'm gonna make it easy. Whos your

1665
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: creep pretty good? This one to me was easy. The

1666
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: dubs help get it, Dub and JJ was he was phenomenal,

1667
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 1: he was. JJ. Here's something I would say. And it's

1668
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: funny because I asked his question of Bill O'Brien because

1669
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew how we've been answered, and I

1670
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: wanted him to expand on this because I mentioned to

1671
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: him out the whole Sack thing and everybody freaking out

1672
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: about sacks and this and that, and he's like, look,

1673
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 1: he wanted to kind of a die tribe about sacks,

1674
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: and you know, It's not about the sacks. It's about

1675
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: the pressure and what can the pressure do. Can the

1676
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:12,640
Speaker 1: pressure create turnovers? Can the pressure create something for the

1677
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: quarterback kind in his head? Or there's a lot of

1678
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:16,640
Speaker 1: things that pressure can doing. Is j just played two

1679
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: very good ball games. I want people to understand that. People,

1680
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: He's played two good ball games and coach is very

1681
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: adamant about that. But against the Chargers, that was a

1682
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: that was a different game. Filled up the stat line.

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Speaker 1: many times did we see a Philip Rivers pass skip

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Speaker 1: at the feet of the receiver because a little errant

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Speaker 1: because he was there, because he was creating things for

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Speaker 1: the other guys up front. I mean, yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: a fun podcast to do in the Lab podcast. Go

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Speaker 1: you for listing so many people to thank Mick Mix

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Speaker 1: and Mark Vandimir andre Ware, dpcit, Caroline can Drew Doherty

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