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Speaker 1: Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. Glad you are here with

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Speaker 1: me John Harris, football analyst and the sideline reporter and

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Speaker 1: your host for each and every Wednesday All Access show.

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Speaker 1: And it's been away for the last five years. And

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Speaker 1: love bringing that to you. Love being the word from

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Speaker 1: inside the building. And we have got a lot for

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Speaker 1: you this evening. It's gonna start with our next segment

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Speaker 1: when we go behind enemy sidelines. We're a good friend.

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Speaker 1: Dep City Nathan Sigura, who is the sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. He's sort of the equivalent of me

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Speaker 1: He writes with the website, he has one of the

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Speaker 1: radio shows, he's the siline reporter. He does a lot

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Speaker 1: for the Browns. Nathan Sigura has his finger on the pulse.

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Speaker 1: So what's happening with the Cleveland Browns. We'll hear from

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Speaker 1: him next. Jamie Roots, the president of the Texans, joined

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Speaker 1: Mark and I on Texans Monday. Now, Mark and I

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Speaker 1: weren't planning on doing that show originally. Most of the

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Speaker 1: time on Monday Game, most money games since I've been

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Speaker 1: couldn't do the show. So we would turn it over

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Speaker 1: to a couple of guys back in the studios at

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten to give them Texas Monday, and

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Speaker 1: then they would call us for a segment at certain

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Speaker 1: points in the show and that would be that. Considering

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Speaker 1: everything that transpired over the weekend, Mark texted me over

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Speaker 1: the weekend said I think we need to do the show.

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Speaker 1: I agreed wholeheartedly. We came in to do Texas Monday.

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Speaker 1: The second segment is we kind of laid the groundwork

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Speaker 1: for the show. Jamie Roots came in had to segment.

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Speaker 1: Mark and I looked at each other and went, that

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Speaker 1: was really good. Thankfully Mark was rolling on that segment,

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Speaker 1: because I think it's worth if you didn't hear it

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Speaker 1: to hear it. He was fantastic, and this was before

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Speaker 1: the game, so we kind of gave me an idea

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Speaker 1: thoughts on on Bob McNair and it was he's Obviously

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Speaker 1: Jamie channeled all of his emotion into that conversation because

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Speaker 1: he was just fabulous. It was really good. So we'll

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Speaker 1: have that for you. And then Eric Son in a senseio'

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Speaker 1: is maybe a na don't know, maybe maybe you don't

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Speaker 1: know that you know, he's the one pulling the strings

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Speaker 1: behind our social media accounts. But he's a senior director

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Speaker 1: of Digital Media and Strategy for the Houston Texans And

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Speaker 1: when the news came down on Friday, Eric had to

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Speaker 1: to hear like what was going on, Like what were

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Speaker 1: the things happening and how did you handle it? Eric

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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: You've had a chance to kind of break bread last

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Speaker 1: night and the O'Briant show a little bit on All

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Speaker 1: Access last night. So we're moving on to the Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll also talk to our buddy Andre Ware,

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Speaker 1: look back a little bit with Dre, and then we

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Speaker 1: will look forward to Cleveland Browns and then to ball season.

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Speaker 1: For Dre. Finally got the regular season over with. You

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Speaker 1: got the championship weekend this weekend, so not a bunch

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Speaker 1: of games and a full slatey games, important games and

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Speaker 1: college football. But we will find out on Sunday during

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Speaker 1: the game with the Browns what the Academy Sports and

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Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl will be. There was a part of

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Speaker 1: me going into last weekend I thought there's a possibility

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Speaker 1: So don't know what's gonna happen here with the Texas Bowl,

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Speaker 1: our good friend David Fletcher, who we had on last week,

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Speaker 1: who announced the twenty nineteen Advocare Texas kickoff between You

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Speaker 1: of H and Washington State that will take place on Friday,

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Speaker 1: September thirteenth. So a lot of good stuff coming out

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Speaker 1: of our friends LSSC. So that's kind of the outline

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Speaker 1: the first nugget of news came down earlier today and man,

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Speaker 1: I go back to that conversation I had on Twitter

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Speaker 1: before the season started about one mister JJ Watt. I

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Speaker 1: got tweets from people saying he's passed his prime, he's

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Speaker 1: over the hill, he's done done. Zoe, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get anything from what You're not gonna get anything. He's

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Speaker 1: passed his prime. Well, I read you the notice that

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Speaker 1: came today. The NFL has named Houston Texans defensive end

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt the AFC Defensive Player of the Week following

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Speaker 1: his performance in the team's thirty four seventeen victory over

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans on Monday Night pass his p What

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Speaker 1: finished with nine tackles, one and a half sacks, one

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Speaker 1: On successive plays, he had half a sack with Christian Covington.

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Speaker 1: That's the tellustrator play that you gotta see. It's phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: whether it's a spin move, whether it's a different technique

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Speaker 1: my goodness. And he got half a sack on that play.

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Speaker 1: In the very next play, he got a tackle for loss.

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Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. What now leads the AFC in sacks with

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Speaker 1: eleven and a half. He ranked second in the entire NFL.

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Speaker 1: He has recorded at least one sack in four consecutive games.

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Speaker 1: That's the seventh time in his career that he's done that.

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Speaker 1: It's the most streaks of four consecutive games with a

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Speaker 1: from the past, for forty nine on the the all times

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Speaker 1: nine games of their NFL career, trailing only Reggie White

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Speaker 1: at one hundred and three. That's unbelievable. Now the Texans,

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Speaker 1: this is the second time the Texan has gotten the

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Speaker 1: AFC Player of the Week offense or defense this year.

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Speaker 1: Jeffyon Clowney got it for his Week four performance against Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: seven times. He was also the AFC Defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: time a Houston Tech has won the AFC Defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Week award in team history. And again seven

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Speaker 1: of those, I think my math is right, two or six, seven, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: seven of those are J. J. Watts. Unbelievable to think

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Speaker 1: what that man is doing. It's unreal. And I saw

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Speaker 1: maybement Peter King, but he looted the fact that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a fatal complete Andrew Luck comeback player of the

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Speaker 1: sure because Watt didn't miss one. He missed two years

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Speaker 1: a half sacks on the year. Come on, people, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what JJ Watt is doing this year is just phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: The defense as a whole has been great. J J.

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Speaker 1: Watt is one of the big reasons why. And like

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Speaker 1: I said, go check out the telestrator because it's you

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Speaker 1: can see it playing his day. He's going against one

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's one play, but there were a lot

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Speaker 1: out of the NFL today J J. Watt AFC Defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Year seventh time in his career. First

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Speaker 1: AFC Player of the Week honors this year. But that

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Speaker 1: one piece of sound from everybody if you will. How

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Speaker 1: He obviously was asked about being Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: From Bill O'Brien, he was asked about Zach Cunningham and

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Speaker 1: he's he's one of our better special teams players here.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I like is there's familiarity.

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb played Zach Cunningham for three years at Vanderbilt

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Speaker 1: You know. That's the reason why he was the number

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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns because he's doing

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Speaker 1: then you know for that organization. Yeah, those two have

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Speaker 1: known each other for a while. That matchup the Orange

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Speaker 1: Bowl is just the start. I got a feeling they

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Speaker 1: will see each other for a while. Fact, let's hear

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Speaker 1: from Baker. He said, playing to Texas defense is going

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Speaker 1: to be a challenge. Oh absolutely, I look at it

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Speaker 1: is a huge challenge for us, not only myself, but

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Speaker 1: us as an offense. You know, we've we've been building

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Speaker 1: of plan of that defense. Yeah, no doubt. Now the

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Speaker 1: Texans will face it. Greg Williams defense and Greg Williams

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Speaker 1: think what the players love about Greg Williams. And then

429
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Speaker 1: you know he's got a discipline to this organization. Somebody adults,

430
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Speaker 1: they're accountable. He's here are the rules, Okay, here's what

431
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,720
Speaker 1: happens if you do If you do a you're gonna

432
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 1: get bat and lays it out for them. They totally

433
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Speaker 1: understoo into a top and actually told them about the

434
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Speaker 1: playoffs prior to the Vangal game and say, listen, you

435
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: are not out of it. We have an opportunity to

436
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: do something great. So let's take it one game at

437
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: the time and go out there and do that. It's

438
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 1: not hey, let's not playoffs. And I don't believe me

439
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: Browns fans. In two weeks if done, I'm talking about

440
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 1: another top five pick in the draft to playoff fever

441
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 1: has hit Cleveland with these two wins. But this is

442
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 1: the obviously the toughest test the Texans are playing great football.

443
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Speaker 1: But I think for Gage's saying, look, you guys, all

444
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Speaker 1: of you have come. You know, a lot of our

445
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: team is young, and a lot of them came from

446
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Speaker 1: very successful college builds. Denzel Wards at Ohio State, Baker

447
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 1: Mayfield at Oklahoma, Nick Schutt of Georgia, just in this

448
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,120
Speaker 1: rookie class, and he's saying, Okay, you guys are used

449
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: to playing in big games this time of the year. Well,

450
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to do that three every single

451
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Speaker 1: one of these games like a playoff game. Leave it

452
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Speaker 1: out there and let's see what we can do. If

453
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Speaker 1: we can shock the world. Great, But I think you've

454
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Speaker 1: seen a Brown team that is playing it's best football

455
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Speaker 1: at this moment, which is not anything I've seen in

456
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Speaker 1: my time with the Round. Miles Garrett now has ten

457
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: sacks on the season. It's hard to believe. It's just

458
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 1: his second year in the NFL and a lot of

459
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: people in Texas are following his career very closely, especially

460
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Speaker 1: the Aggies. How has he improved from his rookie season.

461
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 1: I think Number one, he's healthy. I think that was

462
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: a big thing. Last year he wasn't healthy, and this

463
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: year he is he's got ten sacks, he could not

464
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: easily have plenty. He probably can have twenty. Holding penalties

465
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Speaker 1: is probably like what you guys feel watching J. J. Watt,

466
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Speaker 1: that he's gonna get a sack or he's getting held

467
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Speaker 1: on every play. That's how it is with Miles Garrett.

468
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Speaker 1: His ability to get around the edge and the bend

469
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Speaker 1: that he has is as good as I've ever seen

470
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and he's developed a lot of counter

471
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: moves to that. He is a force to be reckoned with.

472
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Speaker 1: He plays the one peason well and there was a

473
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Speaker 1: game two weeks ago in get Ins Atlanta. He didn't

474
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Speaker 1: show up in the statueet, but everything that our defense

475
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: was able to accomplish, and holding at the sixteen points

476
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 1: and all the other pressure. You know, they're double teaming

477
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Speaker 1: and sometimes trouple team. The attention that he commands, and

478
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys know this experience with you know

479
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: JJ Watt is it's a game changer. You truly have

480
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: to game plan for him as an offense, and if

481
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Speaker 1: you don't, he will make you. Kay, I was going

482
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Speaker 1: to ask you about a hard knocks because I feel

483
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: like the season started off with hard knocks there in

484
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: the building and a lot has changed for the Browns.

485
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Speaker 1: What were your impressions after watching the show. I know

486
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Speaker 1: we went through it a few years ago, but you know,

487
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Speaker 1: how did you feel about how the coaches and the

488
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Speaker 1: players were portrayed. Did it sort of seem like the

489
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Speaker 1: writing was on the wall the way that things were portrayed,

490
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Speaker 1: or is there anything that really surprised you or stood

491
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Speaker 1: out to you from it? I think with the benefit

492
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Speaker 1: of hindsight a lot at the time, you know, you

493
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: saw the kind of emerging rift between Todd Haley and

494
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Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson that ultimately led to the dismissal of both

495
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 1: of those men. Now it was very much downplayed at

496
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: the time. Really there was some truth to what was

497
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: shown as far as the players go. I think the

498
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry speech will always stand out about you. Oh,

499
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: definitely to be out there, the work ethic, to play

500
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Speaker 1: through the injuries and how that's contagious, that will be

501
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: a highlight moment. I think the one thing that was

502
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: unfortunate is the players that they really shows the focus

503
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 1: on really never had a chance to make the roster.

504
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: Carlinason would have been the only one that I thought

505
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: really added to make the roster. That ended up being

506
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: a very big surprise that he was like, Oh, but

507
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, Cajuiced and row Back and nadal Orson really

508
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: never had a chance to make it, and so I

509
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: wish they had been able to tell the stories a

510
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: little more of some of the guys that had a

511
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Speaker 1: chance to make it, or even some of the new acquisitions.

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Speaker 1: If I like the Marias Randol, who's had a fantastic

513
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: season and it's really changed our defense as that free

514
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: safety's got three interceptions down the year and has brought

515
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: a lot of attitude and swagged to that side of

516
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Speaker 1: the ball. So looking back on it, those are the

517
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Speaker 1: tweets I was to pay it made, But I think

518
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Speaker 1: ultimately you did get a peek behind the curtain and

519
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: maybe ultimately real of a peak behind the curtain for

520
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: ultimately how this season has played out. Yea, we saw

521
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Speaker 1: a little bit of Baker Mayfield. I was going to

522
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Speaker 1: ask you, now that he's been there for most of

523
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Speaker 1: the year, was there anything that you've learned about him

524
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: that it's really surprised you just how good he is? Honestly,

525
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Speaker 1: I mean, you watched the college statement and you say, Wow,

526
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: this guy's incredibly accurate. He has all the treats that

527
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 1: you would want in a franchise quarterback. You know, you

528
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: saw the natural leadership and glimpses, but just seeing the

529
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Speaker 1: Baker that has kind of emerged mount that it is

530
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Speaker 1: his team consuci book. I can't truly keep a leader

531
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Speaker 1: if I'm not playing, and now that he's playing, playing

532
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,479
Speaker 1: at a high level as you're seeing that, and just

533
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Speaker 1: the command that he has over the locker room and

534
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: over this organization is very impressive. And you've heard the stories,

535
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Speaker 1: you know, I've known some guys that are cons some

536
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: guys who have played with the met Oklahoma and they

537
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: all it's you get the same story. But until you

538
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: see it and live it, it's hard to believe that

539
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: it is exactly as it was presented to you. But

540
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: it is exactly as it was presented. In the case

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Speaker 1: of Baker Mayfield, two very young, dynamic quarterback is going

542
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Speaker 1: to be facing each other in Sunday's game. I'm looking

543
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Speaker 1: forward to looking forward to seeing Baker Mayfield make his

544
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Speaker 1: debut in Houston and see which of these teams can

545
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Speaker 1: continue their streaks. Good stuff, Nathans, that you're a senior

546
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Speaker 1: media broadcaster and host of Cleveland Brown's Daily Nathan, thank

547
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Speaker 1: you so much. We'll see you here on Sunday, absolutely

548
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Speaker 1: and hopefully it'll be a little different than the note

549
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Speaker 1: that's that's absolutely right, all right, Thanks so much, Nathan.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. Thank Yeah. If there was any

551
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: decision to Browns made last year that was a little

552
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: bit of a head scratcher, it was that one going in.

553
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: Deshaan Kaiser had been not so great heading into that one,

554
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: but he was way better than Kevin Hogan. But Kevin

555
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Speaker 1: Hogan had looked good in the game prior I think

556
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Speaker 1: it was the Jets and had thrown some really good

557
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: balls in that game, and then against the Texans it

558
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: did not go well. It did not go well for

559
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Speaker 1: mister Hogan. That's that's for sure. And that it's gonna

560
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,959
Speaker 1: be Baker. The step up in quarterbacks the Texans are

561
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: gonna face is significant, to say the least. With no

562
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Speaker 1: more Kevin Hogan to knock around a little bit, it'll

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Speaker 1: be Baker Mayfield. We'll talk a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: that throughout the week. All right. Come up next, We've

565
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Speaker 1: got a visit from the president of the Texans, Jamie Roots.

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Speaker 1: Jamie joined Mark and I on Monday during Texans Monday

567
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Speaker 1: and Mark hit the record button. He always does that

568
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Speaker 1: we have in studio anymy, it's just just in case.

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Speaker 1: And Jamie was just excellent on Monday morning talking about

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Speaker 1: the game on Monday night, talking about everything that went

571
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Speaker 1: with it. We thought, you know, it should be a

572
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Speaker 1: great time to replay that for you. If you weren't

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Speaker 1: able to get up on Monday morning or missed that interview,

574
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Speaker 1: we'll have that for you next. Jamie Roots, President of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans up on Texans All Access. Next. Parents,

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Speaker 1: grab your kids and their friends and join us for

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Speaker 1: a free f R E spouse free free day of

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Speaker 1: fun and Levy Park on Monday, December third from four

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Speaker 1: to six pm. Play sixty at the Park, presented by

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Speaker 1: Texas Children's Hospital, will feature special appearances by a Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans player, cheerleaders, toro, and much more. Additional information is

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Speaker 1: available on Houston Texans dot COM's events calendar, So go

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Speaker 1: to Houston Texans dot com and look for the events

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Speaker 1: calendar and you will find this three day of fun

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Speaker 1: at Levy Park on Monday, December third from four to

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Speaker 1: six pm and right when you're done with that and

587
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Speaker 1: you get back in the car, you can listen to

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. So just keep that in mind. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access, that is the show that we

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Speaker 1: have going on right now on this Wednesday evening. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. I'm your host Football Annals to

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Speaker 1: silent reporter John Harris. On Monday mornings throughout the year,

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Speaker 1: Mark and I do Texans Monday, the one show that

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Speaker 1: we never do, in large part because we haven't playing

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Speaker 1: Monday games at home. But we did not plan originally

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Speaker 1: to do Texans Monday. This past Monday whenever we have

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Speaker 1: a Monday night football game. Most of the time, in fact,

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Speaker 1: all the time up until this year, we've been on

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Speaker 1: the road, so it's tough to do that show. So

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Speaker 1: we usually turn it over to a couple of guys

601
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Speaker 1: in studio. They run with Texans Monday. We call in,

602
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Speaker 1: we give our thoughts from wherever we are. We have

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Speaker 1: our normal cast of characters, Andre Ware, Spencer tilm and

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Speaker 1: John McClain, and then we would call him over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Mark texted me and said after we had done the

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Speaker 1: show on Friday night, memorializing Bob McNair with myself Drew

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Speaker 1: and Mark. Mark texted me and said, I think we

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Speaker 1: need to do Texas Monday, and I said done, we're

609
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Speaker 1: in let's do it. And he texted me a little

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Speaker 1: while later and he said Jamie's coming in. He's coming

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Speaker 1: in studio and I was like, oh man, this is

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Speaker 1: great because we tried to get Jamie on Friday, but

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Speaker 1: something's going on. We just couldn't get him in on Friday.

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Speaker 1: So Mark was able to finagle an appearance from Jamie

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Speaker 1: in our studio. Now Jamie will come down here in

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Speaker 1: the studio every saw often where there's something they can

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Speaker 1: talk about. And obviously the passing of Bob McNair was

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Speaker 1: something that impacted all of us on so many different levels.

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Speaker 1: And Jamie has been here since the beginning, and so

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Speaker 1: we thought he'd be a great person to talk to.

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Speaker 1: Marked out that I thought that this would be great.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this. It was even better than we thought.

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Speaker 1: And Mark happened to hit record when Jamie was as

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Speaker 1: we started the interview, and as he got done, he

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Speaker 1: looked at me and Mark said that was really good.

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Speaker 1: He goes and I was recorded, and he said we

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Speaker 1: can use it whenever we want. Well, now is that time.

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Speaker 1: If you missed it on Monday prior to the game

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Speaker 1: down in Texans Monday in the morning, when Jamie Roots,

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Speaker 1: president of Texans, joined us, it was absolutely fantastic and

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Speaker 1: I have that for you here now. Jamie Roots, president

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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, joining us on Texans Monday. Jamie,

633
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Speaker 1: we had Charlie casually on on Friday night, first general

634
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Speaker 1: manager in team history. And I know you worked very

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Speaker 1: closely with him and obviously with mister McNair in the

636
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: early days of the Texans. What was that like being

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Speaker 1: around Bob McNair for the first time when you first

638
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: started working here and the way you guys had to

639
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: put this whole thing together before there was a stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned Charlie. I mean, it's just Charlie Dom.

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Speaker 1: The thing that Bob did better than anyone else was

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Speaker 1: brought together people of character to do the work that

643
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: he was looking for. You look at Bill O'Brien now

644
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine, and you know, as we talked about Brian

645
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: and debated what we would do a general manager, it

646
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: was really all around. Certainly had to have the fundamental

647
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: blocking and tackling, but who's somebody that had the honesty,

648
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: the integrity, the high character that we expect from the

649
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, and that's just really special. And so those

650
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: early days were really interesting. I mean, we had so

651
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: many great, great things happening to bob Led by example,

652
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: But the guy had the greatest sense of humor because

653
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: you can imagine you're starting a franchise. Nobody had ever

654
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: paid that kind of money for an NFL team. He

655
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: had the stadium that was being built, everything was moving

656
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: a million miles an hour. But he never ever lost perspective.

657
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: He never lost his sense of humor. And I have

658
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: always attributed that to his strong sense of faith that

659
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: when he can't handle it, God's going to take over.

660
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: And there's so many things that he's instilled in me

661
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: in that regard that have changed my life. He's changed

662
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: my family's life, the whole trajectory. So um, but it

663
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: was it was interesting. We had so many things to do.

664
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: Guess what, Uh, you know, when we think about the

665
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: colors of the team, I mean the red, white, and blue,

666
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: and you've heard that one Liberty White is named after

667
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: his black dog named Liberty, and uh, we just have

668
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: so many I mean, at a time like this, you

669
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: just reflect upon how positive, how optimistic, how inspiring Bob

670
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: always was. Yeah, and he I thought about this yesterday

671
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: as I was running. You know, one of the one

672
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: of them, one of the aspects that he was definitely behind,

673
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: was a salute disservice and the way the schedule has

674
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: the way the schedule broke out that we didn't have

675
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: a home game since October twenty three, and November is

676
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: Salute the Service month throughout the league. So when we've

677
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: gone to certain places we've had salute I think it

678
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: was in Denver we had our Salute the Service night. Well,

679
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: we didn't have one because we didn't have a game

680
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: in November. So on the same night that we have

681
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: a Monday night football game for the first time the

682
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: twenty ten it's also salute Diservice to night. And obviously

683
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: we'll be recognized that Bob McNair and the Salute the

684
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: Service was really one of his grand ideas that the

685
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: NFL took and really ran with for all thirty two stadiums. Well,

686
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: that's another great point in the you know, the work

687
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: of God in our daily lives, that he created this

688
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: opportunity to two thousand and five because of the deep,

689
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: deep affinity that Bob and Janis and Cal and the

690
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: entire McNair family have always had for our men and

691
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: women in uniform. We created this this game theme of uh,

692
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: you know, recognizing the military. Did it year after year,

693
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 1: and the league liked it so much they took it

694
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: and put it across all the teams. And did we

695
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: have an issue with it, Absolutely not. Did Bob have

696
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: an issue with it? Absolutely not. There was no pride

697
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: of authors ship in anything. He just always wanted to

698
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: do the right thing. And if other people copied us

699
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: in the process, that's great because that's greater impact, you know,

700
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: being felt for the cause that he felt so passionate about.

701
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots, president of the Texans, joining us. When are

702
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: you running your book because you worked for Lamar Hunt

703
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: and Bob McNair. I mean, that's incredible right there. Yeah,

704
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 1: you know, never mind the soccer national championships that Clemson

705
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: and all of that, working for Procter and Gamble, but

706
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: those two guys, those two owners and professional sports, that's

707
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: phenomenal stuff. Yeah, that's the only two people in sports

708
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: that I've worked for, and so have I been blessed

709
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: ab solutely and I can tell you from an eyewitness account.

710
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: Even though there are differences between the two of them,

711
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: folks would would point those out initially, I would say,

712
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot more similar between the two of them. There.

713
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: They were so humble. Both of them cared about everyone

714
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: around them, put their needs first before themselves, always every day,

715
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: put the needs of others first. Wanted to develop people,

716
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: wanted to do something meaningful that brought people, brought people together,

717
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: that created value, created community. For Lamar, it was all

718
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: about the tailgating, and it was all about the experience,

719
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: and it was all about doing it in such an

720
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: exceptional way, and had such an eye for every little

721
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: detail that needed to go right to ensure that an

722
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: experience really transform people. And Bob the same way and

723
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: went beyond relative to philanthropy, the guy who's given five

724
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars to help others in healthcare, in education,

725
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: in entrepreneurship, things, things that would far outlive his presence

726
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: here on the world, in the world. And so yeah,

727
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: I've been blessed in so many ways to know and

728
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: love both of those gentlemen. I remember I was living

729
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: in North Carolina and Jamie when the franchise came to

730
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: be and I remember hearing about you mentioned we're tailgating.

731
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: I remember tailgating, and I was like, wait a second.

732
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: I used to do to the Oilers games. We didn't

733
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: tail maybe tailgate into parking lot, Like who's tail getting

734
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: into Wait, they're allowing tailgating down in RG Stadium. And

735
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of the aspects that Bob

736
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: and you really wanted to bring back, well I actually

737
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: bring to Houston, was the ability to have fellowship before

738
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: the game in this form of tailgating, and tonight there

739
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: will be hundreds of thousands of fans out there tailgating

740
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: getting ready for this game. And I feel like that

741
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: was just another way for Bob the show. Yeah, fancy

742
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: to come together before they come into the stadium and

743
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: share for the team to have this. But I'll never

744
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: forget hearing you got tailgating. Now, yeah they got tailgating,

745
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: And I heard you say that. It just made me

746
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: think about how important that is to the overall football

747
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: experience here that we've all tried to create, that the

748
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: fans are taken and run with. Well, one of the

749
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: things that Bob said, you know, really immediately after getting

750
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: the franchise was Hey, guys, here's what we're here to do.

751
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: We're going to create the most respected, the most valuable

752
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: professional sports franchise on the planet. And that's our mission

753
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: statement as an organization. And so, folks, the respect I get.

754
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean you want to you want to operate at

755
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: the highest level, do things that other people can't do

756
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: or aren't willing to do. That make a difference. Okay,

757
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: so the respect, But the value. People get a little

758
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: confused on value. I mean it's not about dollars. Value

759
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: is delivered in so many different ways. And when he

760
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: thought about value, he thought about bringing people together, building community.

761
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: He thought about economic impact for the city of Houston.

762
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: Just this past year in twenty seventeen, when you take

763
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: the Texans Super Bowl things we brought in, the Houston

764
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: Livestock Show and Rodeo, there was over one billion dollars

765
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 1: delivered for the city of Houston, over one million out

766
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 1: of town visitors, and all of the events that we've

767
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: created because of Bob. We have international soccer here because

768
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: of Bob. We have the fourth best attended Bowl game

769
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: in America. Because of Bob, We're only one of a

770
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: couple of cities that have a kickoff game for college football.

771
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: We have all all these things to be proud of

772
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: because his focus was not about not on himself or

773
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: about financial gain. It was about doing something great for

774
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 1: the city of Houston, and not just a singular thing

775
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: every day pursuing doing great things for Houston. Jamie Roots

776
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: joining us President of the Houston Texans. Jamie, what can

777
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: you tell us about the franchise right now, short term anyway,

778
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: and long term about the future of the Houston Texans

779
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: as mister McNair has passed. Let me tell you one

780
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: one person who does not get discussed in this conversation

781
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: very often, and somebody who's so near and dear to

782
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: my heart is Janie McNair. Who is that She's kind

783
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: She's the kindest person I think I've ever met. But

784
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: the thing I always say about it would be we'll

785
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: talking about janis I say, please do not mistake her

786
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: kindness for weakness, because she is a steel magnolia. And

787
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: so Janice is in that position where she is the

788
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 1: taker of all of the McNair interests. There the children

789
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: are there in Uh I say children, I mean Cal Uh,

790
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: Cal and Carrie and Ruth and Melissa. Uh. Cal has

791
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: been doing a spectacular job in Bob's absence over a

792
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: fairly significant period of time, leading the franchise, working with me,

793
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: working with Brian, working with Bill and Uh. I tell

794
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: you people ask me about Cal and Bob and boy

795
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: that they don't know Cal very well, and there are

796
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: there are differences, they've had different experiences, But I tell

797
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: you the important things in Bob absolutely exists in Cal.

798
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: He is he is humble, he's kind, he's he's you know,

799
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: he cares about others. He cares about the community. He

800
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: cares deeply about this franchise on the field and off

801
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: so and carry. McNair has been deeply involved in the

802
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: McNair interests. So, Uh, there's a plan. Uh, it's not

803
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: time to be working on that right now. Right now

804
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: the time is to allow the family to be together

805
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: and do what they need to do, and we're working

806
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: hard to keep them on that. It's it's time for

807
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: us to celebrate all that Bob McNair was and what

808
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 1: he meant to this community. I mean, just a really

809
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: a legend and it really hasn't struck me yet because

810
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you you're walking with a giant day after day,

811
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: and at some point it will, but right now it's

812
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: not time for that. Right now, it's time to celebrate

813
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: all of what he was and the thing he would want,

814
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: which is what he said to me over and over

815
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: and over. People think this was a maybe a financial

816
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: investment in some way, he would say, Jamie, the only

817
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: reason I got into this was to bring a championship

818
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: to the city of Houston. Houston deserves it. Great, great stuff, Jamie.

819
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: Now one more for you honoring him tonight. And I

820
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: know this is just really the start of a lot

821
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: of different things. But what can you tell us? Is

822
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: it a supper eyes or what can you share with

823
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: us about what's going to happen in the building tonight?

824
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: As the Texans play the type well in in um,

825
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, typical McNair fashion, it will be very, very tasteful,

826
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: It will be impactful, um, and it will be brief.

827
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: Bob would want us to keep, you know, the majority

828
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: of the focus on the game of football, his his

829
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and getting a victory against the Tennessee Titans.

830
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: But um, it will be a very special moment for

831
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,399
Speaker 1: our fans, and I think fans across the globe will

832
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: have an opportunity too if they choose to and would

833
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: like to remember Bob for all of what he was

834
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: and uh and it's really our great privilege to do that. Jamie,

835
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Jamie was absolutely right.

836
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: The tribute was perfect, one percent apropos It was just beautiful.

837
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: And by the way, I want to make sure I

838
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: give this heads up if you guys have not seen

839
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 1: our video on Houston Texans dot com, I say ours

840
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: put together. A lot of a lot of man hours

841
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: went into that, but mainly Mum and Tyler Suttarth put

842
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: that together. It is phenomenal. If you weren't in the

843
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 1: building for Monday night, or you were in the building

844
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: and you know somebody that wasn't and they want to

845
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: know what it was like, show him that video. It's

846
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: three minutes. It encapsulates everything about that evening. It's just

847
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: flat out brilliant, just brilliant. Now, there was a lot

848
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: that went with that app that weekend. There's a ton

849
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: that went with it here. We thought originally we would

850
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 1: just have a weekend Saturday and Sunday watching football coming

851
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: on Monday, Monday Monday Night football where we go but

852
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: Bob's passing on Friday afternoon changed things immensely. And a

853
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: guy that was really caught in the crosshairs is a

854
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: good friend of mine by the name Eric Son and

855
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: has sense Yo. He is our senior director of Digital

856
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: Media and Strategy. In essence, everything that runs through our website,

857
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: our social media channels, all of that runs through Eric.

858
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: He was given one of the biggest tasks, no doubt,

859
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: of anybody in this building. I asked him to stop

860
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: in studio to kind of give us an an outline

861
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: and kind of relive that for us, because I think

862
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: it's a really interesting peek behind the curtain, if you will.

863
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: Eric Son and Asensio next on Texans All Access, Welcome

864
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: back to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the

865
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris, football analyst

866
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: and silent reporter, and I need to do this more often.

867
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm joined by my my, my good pal, senior director

868
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: Digital Media and Strategy for Houston Texans. I had to

869
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: make sure that I pulled up to get the actual

870
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: your title, eric Son and Asensio, because basically, you're just

871
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: my dude. I just I go to you for anything

872
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: content related, like you're my guy, so like I had

873
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: to go find your actual title to figure out what

874
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: it is. Mind's kind of easy, Like I'm a football guy,

875
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: but I go to you for anything, So your your

876
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: official titles a little bit longer, but it was it

877
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: was Eric, it was to me and you and I

878
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit beforehand, about coming on

879
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: the air and talking about this, and I thought it

880
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: would be great to really kind of give our listeners

881
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: in some sense, what last weekend really was was kind

882
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: of all about, like we found out on Friday at

883
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: about probably four thirty or five o'clock that that Bob

884
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: McNair had passed, and I think everybody thought at that

885
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 1: point was not only that we need to get this right,

886
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: but we need to pay tribute in the right way.

887
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: And that then falls all in your lap. How did we,

888
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: as you manned the website and TV and radio and

889
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: all this, how did we then do it right? When

890
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: you heard the news at that point, what were you

891
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: what were you thinking about that particular thing, Like, oh man,

892
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: you're grieving for a second, and then it's like, okay,

893
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: we got to make sure we do this right. No,

894
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: you're right, And I think that's that's something that a

895
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: lot of people experience when you know, tragedy or something

896
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: like that happens. You have all this emotion as to

897
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: what actually happened. But then you've got to have this

898
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: tunnel vision and focus on, Okay, what is the task

899
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: at hand. Put one foot in front of the other,

900
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: so that weekend and properly, and how do you do that?

901
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: How do you properly you know, give tribute and pay

902
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: tribute to a man who's done so much for Houston,

903
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: done so much for you know, not only the Texans,

904
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: but everything else that you guys have talked about over

905
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: the past couple of days. And I think it starts

906
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: with having a lot of people in the room and understanding,

907
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: you know, what are we trying to do it as

908
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: an organization. So I think Amy Palasick and the PR team,

909
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,479
Speaker 1: you know, we're planning out all these different facets because

910
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: digital is just one part of it. Right Then you

911
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: have the game presentation that happened on Monday. You know

912
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: what we were doing for the game, all the things

913
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: that are going to happen. Further, they announced yesterday that

914
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: they're going to have a memorial service here, so all

915
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: these things are happening, and what you're trying to do

916
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: with digital is take a little piece of that from

917
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: each part and then set together some kind of plan

918
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: where you feel like you can touch all these different

919
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: areas that his life influence. So I think for us

920
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: in that moment on Friday, it's how do we set

921
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: the right mood and tone? And that's really difficult on

922
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: social because you're that tone changes every single day depending

923
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: on what you're doing. Right on a game date, you

924
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: could be a little bit more snarky, you can be

925
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: fun because you're interact in a moment or something like this.

926
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: You want to be respectful, you want to be understand

927
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: what this means in the grand escape. So I think

928
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: for us when we put the plan together, that's a

929
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: lot of you know, ways to say it, but really

930
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: we were trying to find the best way to honor

931
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: him and something that he would feel proud of us.

932
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: Did you have any I mean a lot of times,

933
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: you know, I know, as it pertains to coaching and

934
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: kind of what I do, like I'll go back and

935
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: look at previous games film to see what teams have

936
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: done so that I can better anticipate what things might

937
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: happen in our game. Did you have anything that you

938
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: could look back on that you were ever really a

939
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: part of, or or there was a team maybe where

940
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: something had happened, maybe where you looked at what they did.

941
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: Was there any sort of precedent for you in your

942
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: mind in dealing with this or was this you just saying, Okay,

943
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: we've got to these are the things I think we

944
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: need to tackle. This is how I need to do it.

945
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: Then you threw out to the group and said, hey,

946
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: what else do we need to do? How did you

947
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 1: have any precedent for this? In some sense, I think

948
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of both of what you said,

949
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: because I think what you your voices as an organisation

950
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: is so unique to you that it's hard to look at, say,

951
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: maybe when mister Benson passed in New Orleans and to

952
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: try to figure that out, because you know, the way

953
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: they present digital social so different from the way we

954
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: do it. But me personally, I just remember when Commissioner

955
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: Mike's Live passed away. I used to work at the

956
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: SEC and just seeing the outpouring of support you know

957
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: that came from different areas, that kind of you know,

958
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: was something that set in is like, oh, I really

959
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: liked the way they you know, had all these statements

960
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: put together. And so when Amy and the PR team

961
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: were working on that, because you know President Bush sent

962
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: in statements, I mean there was all over there's a game.

963
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: So for us, we wanted to put together a page

964
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: that allowed people to see what he meant to so many.

965
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what our overarching goal was.

966
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: Everything that we do here, whether it's the story that

967
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: Mark wrote about you know, what he meant to this organization,

968
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: or Drew meeting him personally, or deeply talking about what

969
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: he did in the community, all of that was to

970
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: serve that greater purpose. What did he mean to so many?

971
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: And how can we help celebrate that and tell his story?

972
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: Was there one piece that stood out for you? I

973
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: know for me just you know, the Friday Night show

974
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: for me and Drew and Drew and Mark knew mister

975
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: men are a little bit better than I did, because

976
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: he was really around twenty fourteen that he first had treatment,

977
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 1: and I remember meeting him and I told my stories

978
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: of meeting him and uh, you know for the first time,

979
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: and what a thrill that really was, and you know

980
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: how at first I was really kind of nervous, and

981
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: then it just really made me feel at ease. But

982
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: I know they knew him a little bit better. But

983
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: that show will always resonate with me because I felt

984
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: like that was radio in a different way than I've

985
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 1: ever done before. You know, most time when I'm doing radio,

986
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: it's it's informative about you know, football, or you know,

987
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's cutting up a little bit. You know,

988
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: it's taking things off the beaten path. You know, it's

989
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: talking about what are the top five serials of all time?

990
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: You know, what are the top ten jay Z songs

991
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 1: of all time? Which I know you could opine upon

992
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I can do that. Listen about five

993
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: minutes we're ahead. But that was that was a really

994
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: fun That was a really fun show to do. I

995
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: have funds not the right way saying it, but it

996
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: was one I'll remember forever. But from Friday all the

997
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: way through today, was there anything where you went that

998
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: right there? That's that's maybe one of the best things

999
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: that we did throughout that entire weekend. You have anything

1000
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: that stands out in your mind for sure? And I

1001
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: think to your point, like I came later here, I

1002
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: started in you know, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, So I

1003
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: didn't have as much of a relationship with mister McNair

1004
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,240
Speaker 1: like I have a better relationship with cal just because

1005
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: it's around Moore during my time here. So I think

1006
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: what I learned or what really will stick with me

1007
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: is kind of few pieces of the stories, but deepy

1008
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: story about the community, like that half a billion dollar

1009
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: number that comes up, I had no idea. And then

1010
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: if you delve further in the stuff he did in

1011
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: his hometown allowing people to get education, you know, the

1012
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: Tony Wiley story that came out later about him going

1013
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: to Rice and you know, paying for him the chance

1014
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: to get a master's. I just don't think I understood

1015
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: the scope. Like for me, Bob McNair is the owner

1016
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: of the Texans, because I'm here and that's the capacity

1017
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: with which I work alongside him. But to understand and

1018
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: like and you drive around town and you see it,

1019
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: you know, you go to Rice and you see the

1020
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: McNair building or you see you know, school of medicine

1021
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: named after McNair, But you don't really understand the depth

1022
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: of how much he gave to not only the city.

1023
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: Another thing I'll stick with me too, is when the

1024
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is here. They did a big awards ceremony

1025
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: the ninth before the week of you know, for mister

1026
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: McNair and the amount of people that were in there.

1027
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: You know, we were covering it for the website and

1028
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't like you know, we were invited there where

1029
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: you just got to experience all these different people. It's

1030
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: like five six hundred people talking about all the different

1031
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: ways that he not only helped the Texans in the NFL,

1032
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: but the city of Houston. I just don't think I

1033
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: understood the gravity of that until you see some of

1034
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: these people come out and say the things that he's

1035
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: helped them do, or like I said, Deepe's story that

1036
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: laid out what a champion he was in the community.

1037
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: So I think you just have this greater appreciation for

1038
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 1: it because we're just so we have blinders on here.

1039
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: You know, we are Houston Texans. We're focused on the team,

1040
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: but he's got other companies with you know, the other

1041
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: family members are involved in It's just when you look

1042
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: at it, you take a step back, and I don't

1043
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: think we still probably have had the time to do

1044
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: that because we're in the midstier of a season and

1045
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: we're running along. But just to see, like, wow, look

1046
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: at all the things that he influenced during his time.

1047
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: I think that's what it will stick with me the most.

1048
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: It's just how much he mattered to so many here.

1049
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: I went over in twenty sixteen. I think it was

1050
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I did my first TV game at HBU.

1051
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: So whenever we have a home game or we've got

1052
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: a road Monday game, something that, you know, on a Saturday,

1053
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,479
Speaker 1: I can be I can, you know, be here. I'll

1054
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: do some college games and and so I got asked

1055
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: to do an HBU game. HBU was playing Texas Southern.

1056
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: It was the first game I ever did. It was

1057
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: HBU Texas Southern. Great Ball game. But I go to

1058
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: HBU an HBU has been program Wow six years, I

1059
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: think I think it's six years. So I go over

1060
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: there and I'm walking, I'm walking into the stadium and

1061
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: I look over and there's this this kind of statue

1062
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: monument sort of thing, and it's got it's got a

1063
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: placard on it and it's it's Bob and janisis you

1064
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: know placard you know, made out of I don't know

1065
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: whatever it is, uh, you know, the stone or whatever

1066
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: it was made out of. And I was like, I

1067
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,720
Speaker 1: had no idea. I mean, it's kind of the same thing, like, wow,

1068
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: you know he gave to get that program going and

1069
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: to help that particular program at HBU. So it's like

1070
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: Rice HBU, he has the Tysons Universities. Other than the

1071
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: fact that he lives in Houston, I mean, other than

1072
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: the fact that he came to Houston in the sixties

1073
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: and wanted to give I think the best one though.

1074
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: That really stood out to me and I read this

1075
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: on Friday. Actually, we were during the show and edwarder

1076
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: I tweeted something about his son, Trey, who had who

1077
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: had cancer and I think I think he passed maybe

1078
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: a year ago, maybe a little over a year ago,

1079
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: I think, and Trey was going through treatments and he

1080
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: was at AMD Anderson and one day he said, out

1081
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: of the blue, he got a call from Bob what

1082
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: can I do for you? And Trey and a family

1083
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: like what can I do? And I just thought, I mean,

1084
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: that kind of blew me away because I'm like, you know,

1085
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,720
Speaker 1: here's a reporter for the NFL. He's a national reporter.

1086
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's like a Texas reporter, you know. I mean,

1087
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: he really covers the Cowboys more so he's gonna cover

1088
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: anything else. But yet Bob reaches out to him, and

1089
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: I thought that was such a I don't know, it

1090
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: just really spoke volumes to the width and breadth of

1091
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: the people that he tried to help. But Monday night,

1092
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: when the A and M choir, Yeah, could I acquire

1093
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: same aising grace I was doing? I was. I was done.

1094
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how Mark spoke after that. I mean,

1095
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: I really don't. It's you know, it's something that will

1096
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: stick with me for a long time. And I usually

1097
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm not down on the field pregame because we have

1098
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: our pregame show and we're getting things ready, and Jesse

1099
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: and a IV usually take point on things happening on

1100
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: the field. But it was one of those days where

1101
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I was there because I

1102
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: knew how hard Gavin Gird, who's in our department in

1103
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: Jackie Maldonado, had worked on that pregame show, you know,

1104
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: to try to pay tribute because like you said, it's

1105
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: a really difficult balance because you know, Mark says this

1106
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: all the time, and he says it, and I mean,

1107
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: you know, like our fans come to the game and

1108
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: it's about football, and I'm still having a wonderful atmosphere

1109
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: for them, you know, to experience the game. And then

1110
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've got this that kind of happens,

1111
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, really thirty six hours before the game, and

1112
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,720
Speaker 1: so how do you manage all that? And again, nobody's perfect,

1113
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: but I think what we as an organization did really

1114
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: well is that you find out in times like this

1115
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: a lot about the people that stand next to you,

1116
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: and you know, the mentality here was how can we

1117
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: help you know, we all have things that were happening,

1118
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,280
Speaker 1: you know deep he wrote a story on a Sunday,

1119
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: Drew wrote a story on a Saturday. You guys came

1120
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: in and shot a show on a Friday. You know,

1121
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: like it was all hands on deck, what can we do?

1122
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: And when you have that kind of mentality in this building,

1123
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: and that goes for outside of our department as well,

1124
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: I think you're able to put together something that you

1125
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 1: can feel proud of because you understand everybody's moving in

1126
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: the right direction. So you're proud of the organization that

1127
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: you know all this could come together in that short

1128
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: time period, But then you're also, like you said, just

1129
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: at some point it's going to hit us even more,

1130
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: and it hit you like Monday night, and it's going

1131
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: to hit you know, so many other people throughout the

1132
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: rest of the year, and you know, this timeline of

1133
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: when it's happening for people is going to be something

1134
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: that we have to be aware of as well, because

1135
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: social media changes in a just in a whisper, just

1136
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: changes in a snap. Did did you was the approach?

1137
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: Was your approach different for Monday night for the game

1138
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: at all? And I think leading up to it we

1139
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: posted less obviously once the news came out of mister McNair,

1140
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: we wanted that to be the focus, especially for the

1141
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: first twenty four to forty eight hours, so it's very

1142
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: little about anything other than mister McNair's life, you know,

1143
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 1: celebration of all the things he did, the community pieces

1144
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 1: I mentioned. But then on game day, for sure, we

1145
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that you know, it was about

1146
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 1: Monday night. Football is about a great opportunity for our team,

1147
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: but we wanted to weave in what mister McNair meant

1148
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: and that that game's not happening at least here and

1149
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: in ourgue stadium in the fashion that we would know

1150
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,720
Speaker 1: it without him being here. So you know, the video

1151
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: of us getting the you know, the stuff on the

1152
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: field with his initials, helmet, macal, you know, all that

1153
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: stuff was part of the plan that we wanted to

1154
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: tell this larger story. There's a game here, but this

1155
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: game wouldn't happen without him, So we wanted to make

1156
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: sure you know that we're doing both. And that's delicate,

1157
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: you know, like and again I'm not and we did

1158
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: it perfectly, but that was kind of what our philosophy was,

1159
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: is that this is a huge game for us, but

1160
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 1: this game never happens. The Texans never happened without mister McNair,

1161
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: So you can't tell the story of one without the other.

1162
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what our goal was when

1163
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: on game day, normally it's all about what's in between rights. Yeah,

1164
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: no doubt well, Eric, it was brilliantly done, Bro, it

1165
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: was brilliant and it was it was really done. It's

1166
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: I'm proud of being in this department. I'm proud of

1167
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: the work that we put out and alongside you, man,

1168
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we get to do this every single day. Brother,

1169
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: thank you, sure, thank you. I appreciate I can I

1170
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: tell you how awesome it is every single day to

1171
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: work with that man right there, and this weekend what

1172
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,760
Speaker 1: he was able to spearhead was just amazing. And everybody

1173
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: I know in my department pitched in. I mean what

1174
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: you saw on the video board with Gavin, Kenny and

1175
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,760
Speaker 1: Tom and what those guys did, and then Matt Lombardi

1176
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: did one heck of a video thirty second video of

1177
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: the guy's painting the RCM logo on the field, you know,

1178
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: Jay and the two Tylers, I mean the video Tyler

1179
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: Souther did. I told you earlier on this you gotta

1180
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: go check it out. It's just amazing. And Jesse and

1181
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,399
Speaker 1: in eight OFV what they did from a social perspective,

1182
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: and of course DP, Drew and Mark just wrote unbelievable pieces.

1183
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: And the Friday night radio show that we did was

1184
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: just It's one that I'll stick with me for a

1185
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: very very long time. I know. I'm I'm really proud

1186
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: to be a partist department and to see the people

1187
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: put into work. And we thought we could give you

1188
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: a little peep behind a curtain air with our good

1189
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: buddy Eric Son in a sense yo, speaking out of

1190
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: my department, I have an apartment of three. Well technically

1191
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: it's five every single Sunday if you count Jonesy and Robert,

1192
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: which we always do. But Andrea where Mark Vandomir and myself?

1193
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: So there ourselves the radio broadcast team. Mark will join

1194
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: me next, and then Andrea will join us in the

1195
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: following segments, so you get in the whole radio broadcast

1196
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: team in this final half hour of the show. Mark

1197
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: Endemir joined me next to talk about Cleveland and moving

1198
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: on on Texas All Access next before we get to Andre,

1199
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: where it's time for the Choose Fun moment of the week,

1200
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: has brought to you by Carnival, the official cruise line

1201
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Choose Fun. There are a lot

1202
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: of fun moments on Monday, a lot of fun moments,

1203
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: without a doubt, But was there one any more fun

1204
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: than this first down from the Texans three? And here's

1205
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: Miller over right guard has a little room breaks of

1206
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: tackle ten, fifteen, twenty, right side twenty five thirty. He's

1207
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: still the sideline the forty to fifty. He's gonna go

1208
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 1: all the way, the thirty, the twenty, the ten, the

1209
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: five rock and Roll touchdown Hstan ninety seven yards. That

1210
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,919
Speaker 1: one's for you, Bob. That was certainly fun. And then

1211
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: Mark obviously with the final words, that's for you, Bob Man.

1212
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: What a moment, the choose Fun moment. The week has

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00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,840
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00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,800
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00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: catch a touchdown Carnival, the official cruise line of the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, Choose Fun. All right, Let's get to our

1217
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: buddy Andre where who talked about this one? And then

1218
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: what to look forward to from the Cleveland Browns Mark

1219
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: take away, Drea. Short week for the Texans, and Monday

1220
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: was so good for this team and everybody around the organization.

1221
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 1: Very emotional evening and it's just not easy to move

1222
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: on from that, but the team has to, we all

1223
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, you know what was amazing is to

1224
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: have what happened to mister McNair is passing a couple

1225
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: of days before the game and really try to focus

1226
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: in on the task at hand, both the coaches and

1227
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: players and everyone involved. And the pregame was just an

1228
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: unbelievable event in his honor, and then falling behind, facing

1229
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: some adversity early in the game and then bouncing back

1230
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: from that to put on one hell of a performance

1231
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: was just amazing. So you mixed that in with a

1232
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 1: short week, a couple of bumps and bruises, but hopefully,

1233
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: hopefully the team will be ready by Sunday Andrea team

1234
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: record number of rushing yards in the game. I know

1235
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: the ninety seven yards by Lamar Miller certainly helps on

1236
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: one run, but hey, they did it, and Watson running

1237
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more too as well. But

1238
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: what about this offensive line and Bill O'Brien's commitment to

1239
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: run the ball really seems to be paying off right now? Yeah,

1240
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, I think that's the strong

1241
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: suit of the offense right now. At this point in time.

1242
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: We know Deshaun's capable of of dropping back and throwing

1243
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: at thirty plus times, maybe even forty fifty plus times

1244
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: it need be, but I don't think that's in the

1245
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: best interests of his health right now based on the

1246
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:50,959
Speaker 1: offensive line and their play in terms of pass protection. Now,

1247
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 1: where they are solid is in the run game. So

1248
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you limit the quarterbacks, passing attempts, run the football,

1249
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: success fully score points when you get in the red

1250
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: zone like they did against Tennessee, and everybody comes out

1251
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: of it smelling like a rose, including your most prized possession,

1252
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: and that's Deshaun Watson. I think it's been a brilliant

1253
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: game plan during this eight game run of wins, and

1254
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: I expect him to continue to do. So. What are

1255
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: you seeing in Damarius Thomas right now as he continues

1256
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: to get acclimate and he's about to enter his fourth

1257
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: game as a Houston Texans receiver. Yeah, I see a

1258
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: true pro, a guy that has come in. He's embraced

1259
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: the culture here, that's in the locker room, that's in

1260
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: place already. He just kind of quietly goes about his

1261
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: business and has really started to really fit in. He's

1262
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: and I'll say he's a pro's pro because he's come in,

1263
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: he's learning the offense where he could be affected. He's

1264
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: not trying to be the man, He's just trying to

1265
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: fit in with what's here already at that position. And

1266
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: by doing so, with Hopkins drawn double coverage and in

1267
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: certain points during the game, it's going to free him

1268
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: up and when it does. He has learned what to do,

1269
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: where to be and become a viable option in this offense.

1270
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: And that's all you can ask of it. You know,

1271
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: when you look at this Texans defense in front Andre,

1272
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: they have so many options up there with all the

1273
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: d lineman. Covington has a huge game on Monday night.

1274
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: Of course, JJ, Watton Clowney are still in that front seven.

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01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of guys who can contribute and

1276
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: put pressure on the quarterback. And it worked out well

1277
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: on Monday Well I got Covington played like his hero

1278
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: was on fire. He played one hell of a game

1279
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: and arguably the best game of his career. I thought

1280
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: in the middle, you get pushed. It's a way to frustrate,

1281
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: especially a mobile quarterback like Marcus Mariota who likes to

1282
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 1: escape the pocket, and they're going to get pressure from

1283
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: the outside. With Jadevian and JJ, they needed it up

1284
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: the middle, and he certainly provided that. It's good to

1285
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 1: see it on Angelo Blackson. He played well inside is

1286
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: along with Covington. When you start to get that the

1287
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: inside player to go along with the outside play, you

1288
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: don't have to blitz quite as much. You're getting a

1289
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: pass rush necessary to get there and affect the quarterback,

1290
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: and they did at certain points during the game, at

1291
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: critical points in the game. What do you make of

1292
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter? Nice pickup by Brian Gamee returning the ball. Well,

1293
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: actually had to play some receiver the other night. My

1294
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: hat talked to him as well. When you come in

1295
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: and your role, your soul role is just to be

1296
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: a special team's contributor. But you realize as well that

1297
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: if you're going to be valuable to a team, the

1298
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: more you can do, the better off you are. And

1299
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: so a lot of guys will come in and just

1300
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,919
Speaker 1: do that, spend time returning punch and kicks, building them

1301
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 1: and you know, learn a couple of player two here

1302
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: and there in the offense. But he has come in

1303
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: and in a short period of time, like da Marius,

1304
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: has picked up the offense where he can be a

1305
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: contributor both at slot wide out in conjunction too being

1306
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: the returner on punts and kicks, and so that makes

1307
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: it more valuable. As you spent it forward to next

1308
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: year and years to come, you you pretty much solidify

1309
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: a spot for yourself long term, not just being a

1310
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: returner because most people are most staffs can find someone

1311
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: that can do that. But when you can do you

1312
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: can add to that by contributing in the offense. That's

1313
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: where you really you build a future for yourself in

1314
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: this league. Drey, Cleveland, what did you think of Baker

1315
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: Mayfield coming out? What do you think of what he's

1316
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: doing so far? As a pro? Liked him coming out?

1317
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: Is kind of surpassed what I've maybe expected at this

1318
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: point in his career, especially playing at Cleveland and doing

1319
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 1: what he's doing there. It's a franchise that has been

1320
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: notorious for low level quarterback play because there's just not

1321
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: enough around that position. But last week four touchdown passes.

1322
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: He's had at least twenty completions for two hundred yards

1323
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: and in six games I think so far this year,

1324
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: so he is highly productive in that role and they've

1325
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: they've leaned on him a lot more than I thought

1326
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: they would at this point. Dre, what about the keys

1327
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: to this one? As you face a Browns team where

1328
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: the record is irrelevant, they're playing really well back to

1329
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: back wins, what do you think overall and pulling it

1330
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: out well. I think the first and foremost to stop

1331
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 1: to run. Nick Chubb has done a nice job the

1332
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks for their offense, and then it's

1333
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: it's keeping Baker Mayfield in the pocket, not allowing him

1334
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: to escape and get outside and make plays that way.

1335
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: Force him because of the small instatching you want him,

1336
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: force him to see over rushing defensive lineman, and then

1337
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 1: you'll need more from Covington and Blackston as well, to

1338
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: push the pocket and getting his face a little bit

1339
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: and to kind of frustrate him that way. But you

1340
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: can't allow him on the edges. He'll try to get

1341
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: the ball out quicker. You've got to present big, big

1342
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: obstacles for him to throw over and just try to

1343
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 1: force frustrate him as much as you can. But I

1344
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: think I think the Texans will come. They'll have a

1345
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: pretty good game plan ready for Cleveland this week. Give

1346
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 1: me a taste of this one, Jacksonville and the Colts.

1347
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: Do the Jags have any kind of shot here with

1348
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: Kessler starting and the removal of Nathaniel Hockett as OC

1349
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: What do you think of that situation? There's always a

1350
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:32,919
Speaker 1: chance because you know of injuries and how they play

1351
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 1: a part in the game on game day, Who's who's in,

1352
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: who's out and you know, losing Jack Doyle is a

1353
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: is a big, big piece of what the Colts do.

1354
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 1: But um, I don't think so. I don't think that

1355
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: if it's just we're just going off paper. I think

1356
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: this team is about ready to shut it down or has,

1357
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 1: especially last week and losing to the Bills. I don't

1358
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: care if it's in Buffalo or wherever. That's a game

1359
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: that they should not lose. They did it, they found

1360
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: ways to do it. They've benched, the quarterback, fired, the

1361
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, a lot of circumstances flying around with a

1362
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: jaguar that you just don't like. And so you mix

1363
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: that with the way the Colts are playing in hot

1364
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: pursuit of the Texans. They're healthier, and I think the

1365
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: Colts come away smelling like a rose in this one.

1366
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: The Jets look like they're just about done as well.

1367
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: They'll be at Tennessee. So good bounce back situation for Tennessee. Perhaps,

1368
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 1: I think so. You know, that's that's another team that's

1369
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: can kind of shut down mode. Though, you know, you

1370
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: start to think at this point in the season that

1371
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: you're playing for jobs and futures and for future coaches

1372
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: that will come in and you want to put together

1373
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: some stuff on film for them, But I think Tennessee

1374
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: will will still have a bitter taste after giving up

1375
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: a record number of yards on the ground that they

1376
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: should win that game. All right, my friend, Let's have

1377
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: a great rest of the week looking forward to Sunday

1378
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: with you in the booth. Let's do it. I'll see either.

1379
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 1: It will be our first Sunday game at noon since

1380
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game, and really we've only had two games

1381
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: at noon. We had the Giants and we had Buffalo,

1382
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: and now we got this one against the Cleveland Browns.

1383
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: So there was there was there was some talk, and

1384
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's kind of out there, some noise

1385
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: that potentially the Colts game would get flex the afternoon,

1386
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,720
Speaker 1: not to the evening, to the afternoon, and that might

1387
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 1: be a CBS game that Romo and Nance would do.

1388
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: Nance and Romo would do. But that's not gonna turn out.

1389
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:37,640
Speaker 1: So we get noon games for the final three games,

1390
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,720
Speaker 1: which I'm totally fine with. It kind of gets us

1391
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: back on our football homeostasis, if you will, And hopefully

1392
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 1: the Texans will get it going early against the Cleveland

1393
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: Browns and we'll be all ready to go. A ton

1394
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: of people to thank for tonight's show. Gotta thank dpcito

1395
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: and Nathan Sigura. Gotta thank the President of Texans, Jamie Roots,

1396
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: Eric Stunted, a sen ceo who you heard from earlier,

1397
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: who's just fantastic in our department, does such a great job, obviously,

1398
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,839
Speaker 1: Mark vandermir to our buddy Andre Where to all there listening,

1399
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's been so much over these

1400
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: last few days. It's time to put the Browns right

1401
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: in the focus for Sunday afternoon. Looking forward to it.

1402
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield's gonna be here, Nick Chub's gonna be here.

1403
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: In Miles Garrett, It's gonna be here. That's gonna be

1404
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: a tough challenge, no doubt. Hopefully the Texans can get

1405
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: win number nine moved to nine at three on the year,

1406
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: and get ready for the Colts following that. But we'll

1407
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: take him one at a time. In Cleveland's up next,

1408
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 1: we'll see that everybody has always go Texans. Welcome back

1409
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 1: to Wednesday. They should have Texans All Access from the

1410
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,600
Speaker 1: Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison. We

1411
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: are finally back on a regular schedule. Or so it seems.

1412
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:43,600
Speaker 1: I don't have to hear about, well, this is Wednesday

1413
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: of game week or Thursday of game week. I don't

1414
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 1: have to hear about that. This is literally Wednesday, game

1415
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: week Sunday. So it's Wednesday. And that's why Man Mark

1416
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: Vandimir joining me. Mark, how you doing? Because Monday was Sunday. No,

1417
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: it really was. We're back on We're back on schedule,

1418
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 1: and we should up until the week we go to

1419
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: face the New York kids, you know what, and that'll

1420
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: be you'll you'll have me going again. It'll be a

1421
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 1: Saturday game, one short week for that one. We don't

1422
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: have to think about that right now. But what happens

1423
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: after a Monday night game is sort of the science

1424
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:19,440
Speaker 1: fiction time folding upon itself because or it's like a

1425
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: Daylight Savings, except you lose an entire day, not an hour,

1426
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Because Tuesday does become Monday

1427
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: and Tuesday and one day for us and for the team,

1428
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: and they just have to get everything done. So did

1429
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 1: we that you do it on Monday and a Tuesday

1430
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: and then you're back into it Wednesday. And the practice

1431
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: today was a jog through, but they had to go

1432
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: over some stuff. They had to loose it up, and

1433
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: they had to obviously go over the choreography of what

1434
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna do schematically against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

1435
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: So you're right here. We are normal week, so to speak.

1436
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I got home Tuesday

1437
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: night after doing the show at fund Wreckers, and when

1438
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: I got in the house, I was looking for Monday

1439
01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,679
Speaker 1: Night football. Oh I was too. I was like, where's

1440
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: the game tonight? What's what's the game? I was? I

1441
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: was out of it, and I kept thinking, man, who's

1442
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: the munn in football? And I was like, oh, wait

1443
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 1: a second. And here's the even weirder part. I was

1444
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: as I was driving in this morning and I was

1445
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: listening to NFL Radio and they had a promo for

1446
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game of the Saints and Cowboys, and

1447
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: it's like tomorrow night. And I'm like, whoa wait, wait

1448
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: a minute, yep, yeah. And you know what's fascinating, because

1449
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: we talked about this for a long time, marked that

1450
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 1: Thursday night game. Look, people aren't watching it. I mean

1451
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: last show, it was a big that was a big

1452
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: thing last year. Nobody's watching that Thursday night game. You know,

1453
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,679
Speaker 1: TV ratings are down and all that kind of stuff

1454
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:41,799
Speaker 1: for the thursdaynight game. Man, that has changed so complete

1455
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,719
Speaker 1: this year. It just feels like without like Tuesday and Wednesday,

1456
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure what to do, Like what do

1457
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: you what do you do on Tuesday and Wednesday? Like

1458
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: there's no football on, Like, what do you do? I

1459
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: know what I would do if I were a TV

1460
01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: executive or an executive of another sports league like professional golf,

1461
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: I'd go to the West Coast and put on events,

1462
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,959
Speaker 1: especially early in the season and get into that Tuesday

1463
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: Wednesday mode. If I was tennis, I'd be doing that

1464
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: Volvo Masters whatever it is, the Masters, it was here

1465
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: for a year or two with mattress Mac. I would

1466
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: do that on Tuesday and Thursday heavy the finals. Because

1467
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: you're right, those are unused days and you don't have

1468
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: as many college games on those days as you used

1469
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: to used to meaning late five to ten years ago. Yeah,

1470
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: late in the year you'll get maction. You'll get some

1471
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: action in there, but it doesn't happen till late in

1472
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 1: the years. So it's only they're not drawing. You know,

1473
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: a lot of schools just don't draw, so they have

1474
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: to very creatively have the cameras on the field, and

1475
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna see that in a bunch of the bowl games.

1476
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: Not here obviously, because they've always drawn well here, but

1477
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 1: a lot of the bull gate and this isn't you know,

1478
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: the fourth highest drawing non playoff bowl or something like that.

1479
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: This is a very high drawing bowl. But some of

1480
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: the other bowls have problems, Yeah, no doubt. In fact,

1481
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: they can't even show the upper decks. They can't even

1482
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: show the upper decks because there's there's nobody up there.

1483
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: But here we've had we've had great crowds. Last year

1484
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: is Texas Missouri. So forward to seeing what they're able

1485
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: to pull off this year. You know, Baylor's in a bowl.

1486
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:06,760
Speaker 1: You know, I kept I wanted a M to beat

1487
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: LSU because if a M beat LSU, that's gonna be

1488
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,040
Speaker 1: great for It's gonna be great for Jimbo Fisher and

1489
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: I do things with tex SAgs and so there's part

1490
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 1: of me I want to and went, there's a part

1491
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: of me I wanted A and M to lose because

1492
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: it's seven and five. I thought, man seven and five

1493
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:24,600
Speaker 1: and get them here against Baylor a bowl game oh,

1494
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: I mean that would have been fantastic. Would have been

1495
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 1: I mean, that would have been great, but not gonna

1496
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: happen because it looks like a M will end up

1497
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 1: going to one of the affordables, which is something that

1498
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: they wanted to do. They wanted to get to affordable.

1499
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 1: That was a that was a goal. Let me ask

1500
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: you a cliction about the A and m LSU game. I, Johnny,

1501
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: you know, I hate college over time. I don't mind

1502
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: it as much when my team is not in it.

1503
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't really have a team anymore. I mean, I like,

1504
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 1: I like all the Texas teams, but I just think

1505
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: it's too much. And I think these college scores, even

1506
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: without overtime, are getting ridiculous. Like they got to run

1507
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: that clock. And I know we had Rams Chiefs and

1508
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 1: it was beautiful in the NFL, both teams in the fifties.

1509
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: But I really believe some of this is getting a

1510
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,600
Speaker 1: little too crazy. What are your thoughts? I agree, I

1511
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: think so. I think what some teams have done, which

1512
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 1: I give them credit for, especially at the end of

1513
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: the first overtime, I've seen a lot more teams try

1514
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: and go for two. Now, the rule in college is

1515
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 1: the third overtime, you got us everybody to have to

1516
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: go for two. But what teams are doing if they've

1517
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown and the first overton the first

1518
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 1: inning of overtime, when they get to the bottom part,

1519
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, when they the second part where they know

1520
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: they've got to get seven to tie it. A lot

1521
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 1: of teams are going for two there because they don't

1522
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: want to get to where they have to go for

1523
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: two and the third overtime, and they know that they're

1524
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: gonna flip and have to go first and second overtime,

1525
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:43,799
Speaker 1: so they figure, you know what, if we score a touchdown,

1526
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: we got the momentum, let's just go for it. Boise

1527
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: State did that in the game against Oklahoma, that famous

1528
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 1: Fiesta Bowl. They didn't go for two after the hook

1529
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: and ladder. They went for two after they scored an overtime.

1530
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: And I talked to Chris Peterson about that many years ago,

1531
01:14:57,439 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, it's just too crazy at the

1532
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: end of regulation, because I thought might think about it,

1533
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: like end it right here, one play, three yards, it's

1534
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 1: all we need. Let's do it right here. And then

1535
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: of course, you know, you go on to this journey

1536
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 1: and overtime I hate it because you get a game

1537
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: at seventy four seventy two and you're like, it really

1538
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 1: is not indicative of the game it was. It was physical,

1539
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:20,759
Speaker 1: it was hard hitting, the replays on both sides, defense, offense,

1540
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 1: everybody made plays at night. It was really, I thought,

1541
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 1: for the most part, a well played game. But then

1542
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: you see a score of seventy four seventy two and

1543
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, I don't know. Look, we talked

1544
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: about this with the Titans on the NFL level when

1545
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: they went for two against the La Chargers in London

1546
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: and missed. They lost the game, and how big a

1547
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: loss is that? Right now? They'd be six and five

1548
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:43,639
Speaker 1: without it and have a victory over the Chargers, which

1549
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: is big, which would be big in their wild card chances,

1550
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 1: which is their best path in at this point, you would,

1551
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: you would think. And by the way they played the

1552
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: Jets this weekend, so you could shovel dirt on the

1553
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: Titans if you want. And I just don't think they

1554
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 1: have the jews to get it done and win out,

1555
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 1: which is probably what they need. But they beat the

1556
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: Jets and all of a sudden, hey, with four games left,

1557
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: you still have a Huncher's chance anyway, four to five

1558
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: at home for them, four to five at home, and

1559
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 1: that ends up being a really big factor, including the

1560
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 1: Colts and including the Jacks. Both of them have to

1561
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: go to Tennessee. So and the Jacks, I mean, what

1562
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: are you going to get out of them right now?

1563
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you get this dead cat bounce out

1564
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: of them where Kessler plays. Well, maybe you know, whatever

1565
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 1: they drum up on offense actually is reasonably effective. Who knows.

1566
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: But here's the one thing about the Jacks. I said

1567
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: it last year. I said it last year because we

1568
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:34,799
Speaker 1: were going through it. You remember seeing our injury reports

1569
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,640
Speaker 1: at times last year, it was it was ridiculous. Then

1570
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: that time it just was cut really really short because

1571
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: everybody had gone on IR at that point. Right the

1572
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: injury report for the Jacksonville Jaguars came out today and

1573
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: there's so many names on it. Well, last year, I

1574
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: guess how many names are on it. Zero because everybody

1575
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: was playing on the defensive side. They lost Telvin Smith

1576
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:58,759
Speaker 1: for two games due to concussion. That was it. Every

1577
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: other guy, every other guy in defense played all year long.

1578
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: Now Fournette missed maybe two or three games. He's missed

1579
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: a ton this year. He's missed two or three games.

1580
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson I think got dinged up and missed a

1581
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:11,720
Speaker 1: game maybe two. That was it. That was all they

1582
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 1: had this year. Everybody has been injured at this point.

1583
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: Now I should rewind that they did lose Alan Robinson

1584
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: to first play the game against US last year, the receiver.

1585
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: But that defense stayed healthy. But the defense was all year.

1586
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: That was it our defense last year. I mean it

1587
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: was a it was a nightmare with all the injuries

1588
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: that we had. I mean, think of the defense. I

1589
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: was playing against Indianapolis in Week seventeen last year. So

1590
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: the injuries and availability becomes such a massive thing. But

1591
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: we said this about Jacksonville. You're not talked about this

1592
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: plenty about Jacksonville. We both said, look, we'll see how

1593
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:49,640
Speaker 1: they handle success. That's a pre eclectic type a personality,

1594
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,679
Speaker 1: sort of locker room and just a little twitch one

1595
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: way or the other, and you never know, and all

1596
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're fighting. They're fighting in training camp.

1597
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,559
Speaker 1: If you're Jail and Ramsey and you're talking like that,

1598
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: better be winning. You better be winning because it's a

1599
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:04,640
Speaker 1: really bad look when you're not winning. I'll give him

1600
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: a little bit of rare. He was talking trash against

1601
01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo big time because he had made those comments about

1602
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But who was the first person to walk

1603
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: over to Josh Allen after the game, dap him up,

1604
01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,680
Speaker 1: get him a hug, Ramsey give him credit for that

1605
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: because Allen did play well and Ramsey recognized it. And look,

1606
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is not gonna I don't think Josh is

1607
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna turn into I don't think he's gonna turn into

1608
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: the next big thing. I think he's gonna be a good,

1609
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: solid quarterback for Buffalo. But he beat your team. But

1610
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 1: he beat your team, and that was the bit, and

1611
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: that was the key. And Ramsey went over and recognized that.

1612
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,400
Speaker 1: And and I've said that about Ramsey. I mean some

1613
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 1: of the things that he says. I'll be honest. I

1614
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: love him. I love him. I mean he I don't

1615
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 1: it would be it would be so hard to coach him.

1616
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: But he's a guy that plays his guts out. He's

1617
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:50,920
Speaker 1: competitive as heck. I just think it's got to be

1618
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: it's gotta start being channel in the right direction. But

1619
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: he says what he needs to say. And here's the thing.

1620
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: You almost can't have it both ways. Because they come

1621
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: home from that, went over to Pittsburgh and he stands

1622
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: up in front of that crowd that's in in in

1623
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: Tia Bank Stadium and he says, we're gonna win his

1624
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 1: b and the place goes nuts. And that's what they

1625
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: through that and they almost did, and they almost beat

1626
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots with that. Looks like, you can't have it

1627
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:15,600
Speaker 1: both ways if you're gonna do it that way, and

1628
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: then you're gonna do it all the time that way.

1629
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: So they got back from Pittsburgh and went to the stadium.

1630
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: They went to the stadium. That's what they did. They

1631
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: had kind of a pep rally. In fact, they did

1632
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 1: that back in ninety six when I was living there.

1633
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: The Monday after they beating the Broncos. The Broncos were

1634
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 1: thirteen and three. John always says it is the best

1635
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: team ever. Terrell Davis running the rock. I mean, they

1636
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: had a squad. It was a squad that would turn

1637
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,479
Speaker 1: into ninety seven was the offensive coordinator. They had a

1638
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:43,879
Speaker 1: squad and the Jaguars went to Buffalo knocked off Buffalo

1639
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 1: in ninety six and it was kind of the last

1640
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: like that was it. That was Buffalo's last run for

1641
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 1: a few years and then for a while. So he

1642
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,759
Speaker 1: knocked them off and they go to Denver and nobody

1643
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: thinks Wood he paid from ESPN, writes this article when

1644
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 1: he was with the Denver Pots and just jag Watts,

1645
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just went off on them. The

1646
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 1: Jags win that game thirty twenty seven. They come home

1647
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: that night and there are more fans in the stands

1648
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: than there are there for a game. The place was packed.

1649
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 1: There were like sixty thousand people in there. And I

1650
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: had a couple of students they went there. That was

1651
01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:14,680
Speaker 1: a Saturday night. It was like three or four in

1652
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 1: the morning. They came in a Monday and they would

1653
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: just looked like, you know what, it's like, what's wrong

1654
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: with you? And they were like, oh, we went to

1655
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: the rally. Well, they had another one after they got

1656
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 1: back from Pittsburgh. So they all ride back at the

1657
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: stadium and I guess they told the team, Hey, everybody's

1658
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: in the stands, and so they walked on the stands

1659
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 1: and like one whole side is completely filled. And then

1660
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:31,640
Speaker 1: they gave him a mic and they started talking, and

1661
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: then they gave the mike to Ramsey and where you go?

1662
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 1: Where do you go? But there's that's a very delicate balance,

1663
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: and that balance swung one way last year and one

1664
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: way this year. So it's they're gonna be an interesting

1665
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,080
Speaker 1: team in the offseason to kind of see what they're

1666
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 1: doing and what they're gonna do. I just I just can't.

1667
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: I when I think about the Jaguars, I think back

1668
01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 1: the draft night and you, me and Dre sitting here

1669
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: right in these seats, and we're watching the Jags come up,

1670
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: and we're seeing Lamar Jackson on the board, and it's

1671
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: like we're bracing for the fact that we're about to

1672
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: see Lamar Jackson and Shaun Watson twice a year for

1673
01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:07,640
Speaker 1: the next decade plus, which would have been great for

1674
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 1: the league, but bad for the Texans. And they went

1675
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: with a defensive line. I mean not that I shy

1676
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: away from the big challenges. Although I would like me

1677
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: to start a quarterback for the Colts when they visit

1678
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks as opposed to Andrew Luck,

1679
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: that won't happen. You would take you would take those hits. Yes,

1680
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 1: I would take the hits for the team. Take one

1681
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:26,679
Speaker 1: for the team, so to speak. So Cleveland coming in. Yeah,

1682
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? What are you thinking? Well, you know,

1683
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:30,800
Speaker 1: I've said it this week a few times that the

1684
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,799
Speaker 1: record is so irrelevant here. This is the ultimate example

1685
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 1: of irrelevant record because they're playing hot right now. Mayfield's

1686
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: playing well. I know you liked Chub running the rock.

1687
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: They've got some things about their defense. Bill O'Brien was

1688
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 1: with us this week and he said that they disguise

1689
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: a lot of things. You don't know what you're gonna get.

1690
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 1: It's Forrest Gumps box of chocolates. So let's just see

1691
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: how how it all gets played out here. Because I

1692
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: think that the Texans being at home back to back

1693
01:21:56,840 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: is significant. Yes, I think the players are starting to

1694
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: smell what is out there for them, and I think

1695
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,640
Speaker 1: they like the odor. I think they like the aroma.

1696
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 1: It's not really odor's negative, Aroma's positive. I think they

1697
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: like the aroma, and I think that they want more

1698
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: of it, and they like the feeling that they're having

1699
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: right now. And I do believe that they understand what

1700
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: it's taking for them to do this every week. Now.

1701
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:22,599
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and be cocky because it's the NFL,

1702
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 1: but to win eight games in a row. I mean, Johnny,

1703
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to put it all in

1704
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: perspective right now, and I don't want to have to.

1705
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: I just think we just enjoy the ride, see what

1706
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 1: happens week to week. We talked about it earlier in

1707
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: the day, you and I the ninety seven yard touchdown

1708
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: run by Lamar Miller. As that play was happening, I

1709
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: knew it was one of the greatest plays we've ever

1710
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: seen for this franchise. And let's see how great it

1711
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: turns out to be, you know what I mean. I

1712
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: think that no matter what happens this year, we're gonna

1713
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: look back on that one as a big one. We'll

1714
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 1: look back on spin a Rama as a huge one.

1715
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: There have been some really significant moments this season, and

1716
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. I think that's what the fans

1717
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,160
Speaker 1: need to do. Enjoy it, Enjoy game week Cleveland and

1718
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,679
Speaker 1: here on Sunday, no matter what the record is, Let's

1719
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: go have some fun. See if they can get number nine.

1720
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: Numbers nine, I mean, and that's you know, it's it's

1721
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 1: incredible to think about. And I keep going back to

1722
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:14,880
Speaker 1: kind of the old coaching adage, you know, just be

1723
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 1: one or no after the weekend. If you're one or

1724
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: no after the week and you have taken care of

1725
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: your job. And I think the one thing that Bill

1726
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: O'Brien has definitely done, he and his staff have done

1727
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: over the years is compartmentalized that particular week. Yep, this week,

1728
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: this is who we have. Doesn't matter what we did before,

1729
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what we'll do after. It's the one week

1730
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: that we got to take care of. Guess what happens

1731
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: if you lose and the Cults win this weekends are

1732
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: coming here to take over division. They're a game behind you,

1733
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: and they can tie you in the division. Yep. I mean,

1734
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 1: what is that? So as well as you've done, you're

1735
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: a loss away from that possibility. And that's the difference

1736
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: in the AFC East. It's the difference in the AFC North. Yeah,

1737
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: that's why the Patriots. Look, I'm not gonna say they're

1738
01:23:57,320 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: not great. Of course they're great, but they play in

1739
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 1: that horrendous division which has a team that can flash

1740
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 1: every once in a while. I respect what Buffalo is

1741
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:08,639
Speaker 1: doing on defense. I respect some of the things Miami's

1742
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: done this year. I wish they would have beaten the

1743
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: Colts last week. I would have respected them a whole

1744
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 1: lot more. Even the Jets, you know, from time to

1745
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: time have flashed, but they don't. I mean, and that's

1746
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: every year though in the Brady era. You know, you

1747
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 1: got the one year with the Dolphins won the division

1748
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: when Brian Gaine was there, by the way, with Tony

1749
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,560
Speaker 1: Sparano as the head coach and Chad Pennington. Boy, we

1750
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,959
Speaker 1: could do a whole podcast with Gaine in the offseason

1751
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: on Chad Pennington and that team, because I think they'd

1752
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: be interesting just to dive into that a little bit.

1753
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: But that's and the Jets go into two AFC championship games,

1754
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 1: but they didn't win the division doing it. So to me,

1755
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: the division, like you say, means a lot. This is

1756
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: a tough division right now. I don't care what the

1757
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 1: records say. It's a tougher than you think division. Look

1758
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 1: at the teams that these teams have beaten and take

1759
01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: it from there, no doubt. Well you look at that

1760
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:55,600
Speaker 1: AFC East Jets are three and eight, I believe, the

1761
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,639
Speaker 1: Bills are four and seven, and the Dolphins are five

1762
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: and six. Ye there's three games difference between those teams.

1763
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:05,439
Speaker 1: Between the Patriots and everybody else. You look at the North,

1764
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. Yeah. No, the Ravens are six

1765
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: and five, so they're they're creeping a little bit on

1766
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers. But at least the Steelers got a split

1767
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 1: in that second game, so Ravens played d Yeah, the

1768
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: Ravens do play. So there's a little bit there in

1769
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: AFC North. But how do you feel for your Kansas city.

1770
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: You've been talk of the league from week three and

1771
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: you've got a one game lead for the AFC's best record.

1772
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: For the Acts right behind you and they beat you. Yeah,

1773
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,679
Speaker 1: you've got a one game lead. That's it. I'm it's

1774
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 1: way too early for this, and I hope Bill O'Brian's

1775
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: not listening. But when the three way time possibilities are

1776
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: between those teams, let's not even talk about it right now. Yeah,

1777
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 1: I can't talk about that right now. We just we

1778
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: cannot talk about that right now. We're gonna take it

1779
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: one weekend a time. Got the Browns up next, Mark,

1780
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: appreciate it, Thanks, Johnny. I promised you three members of

1781
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 1: the radio team. You've heard from two, you lear from

1782
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 1: the third. One. Next is Andre Ware joins Mark right

1783
01:25:55,360 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: here on Texas Access