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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, so glad to be with you

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Speaker 1: yet again as we enter Colts Week Part two. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you remember Colts Week back in week four, I

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Speaker 1: remember that Wednesday show. I do, because that was heading

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Speaker 1: into the most important game all year, one in which

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Speaker 1: the Texas we're gonna get a win. They have been

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Speaker 1: beaten down. You guys were doubting them. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people were doubting them. And you know, look, I don't

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Speaker 1: blame you. His team was not playing all that well,

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Speaker 1: but I knew what it had. People in this building

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Speaker 1: And now look where we are, nine and three, three

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Speaker 1: games up in the AFC South. You can put the

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Speaker 1: Colts to bed with the win. If you get some

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Speaker 1: help from Jacksonville on Thursday night, Tomorrow night, you might

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Speaker 1: be playing Sunday. If you do get that help, you'll

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Speaker 1: be playing Sunday for hats and T shirts and AFC

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Speaker 1: South with a win. The cults are not gonna make

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Speaker 1: this one easy. There's no doubt about that. But we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk all about it, and we've got plenty for

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Speaker 1: you tonight. So we're gonna start with behind Enemy Sidelines

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Speaker 1: with dB Sitters. She talked to Caroline Can, reporter for

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts for Colts dot Com. We're also gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to my buddy Russell Baxter of NFL Spin Zone

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Speaker 1: Fanside It and also at back Football Guru on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: also at NFL Underscore Vibes, something you definitely definitely want

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Speaker 1: to check out as well. Andrew where is gonna stop

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Speaker 1: by and talk about what's going on with Texans, what

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Speaker 1: schedule is I've always intrigued by his bowl schedule and

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Speaker 1: what games he's gonna have for ESPN. Mark is gonna

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Speaker 1: him and I will face my punishment, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: also have a little bit of the internet podcast that

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Speaker 1: Drew Dohorty and I did as Drew nerded out with

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Speaker 1: something I thought was really really important about this win

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Speaker 1: out with U and Josh Beard. I know you're listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I took that from you because you always

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Speaker 1: say we're gonna nerd it up. Well, we nerd it

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Speaker 1: out and we're gonna go in the lab later in

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Speaker 1: the show as well. But we start off every show

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Speaker 1: with our hot reads and they are brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Geico fifteen minutes you could say you fifteen percent

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Speaker 1: or more on car insurance. And let's hear from some

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Speaker 1: of the particulars, and starting with head coach Bill O'Brien, heus,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty important question, and I think it's one

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Speaker 1: that I would put even beyond the wins. Are y'all

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Speaker 1: getting better? Y'are winning? What are y'all improving? Yeah? Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know what I mean, Like, that's kind

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Speaker 1: need to be? No? We can always improve. There's so

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Speaker 1: many different areas that we can improve in, and that's

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Speaker 1: If you get better, the wins happen as a result.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense when is a result the process of

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Speaker 1: has been a revelation for this team. Coach said, he's

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Speaker 1: you know, every single year. So he is very familiar

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Speaker 1: with everyone in the AFC South and everyone in the

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Speaker 1: I think one thing that he enjoys the most about

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Speaker 1: these matchups is that there are guys that have been

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Speaker 1: there almost as long as he has that he's being

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Speaker 1: able to go up, but that's also going up with

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Speaker 1: the best against the best. The way that the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texas offense is rolling right now, it's exciting when both

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Speaker 1: offenses are on the field. So even if it's you know,

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Speaker 1: he may not be going up against Watson and then

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Speaker 1: Hopkins and those guys, but he certainly wants to steal

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Speaker 1: the attention when he is out there. So I think

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Speaker 1: it really is just, you know, the same as when

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Speaker 1: you get to know someone and when you get into

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Speaker 1: the ring with him, it gets a little bit more competitive.

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Speaker 1: And that's just the feeling that I get from Ty

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Speaker 1: is he enjoys the relationships that he gets to make

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Speaker 1: because of this game. And so when you get to

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Speaker 1: go up against someone that you consider a friend or

447
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Speaker 1: consider someone that you get to see twice a year

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Speaker 1: in season, he just gets excited about that matchup to

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Speaker 1: be able to show what he can do versus their string.

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Speaker 1: I talk to you about this Colts defense because I

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Speaker 1: read a stat that I thought was a bit staggering.

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Speaker 1: The Cults are the only team in the NFL to

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Speaker 1: force a turnover in every single game. What do you

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Speaker 1: think it is if that makes that defense so successful.

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Speaker 1: I know it's an area that they really struggled in

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Speaker 1: it in previous years. Yeah. Actually, Anthony Walker, our linebacker,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about this earlier this week. He just said

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Speaker 1: that they have been working on punching the ball out

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Speaker 1: at practice starting in the off season. It was just

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Speaker 1: something that they constantly do, and you know, we watched

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Speaker 1: it during training camp and to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: if I was on the offense and I was one

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Speaker 1: of those running back to the resire, I would started

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Speaker 1: swatting at them like go, you know, go away, because

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Speaker 1: it was they were very just all swarming coming after

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Speaker 1: the ball, punching the ball out. The whistle had blown

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Speaker 1: in training camp and you've got a couple of dvs

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Speaker 1: and a linebacker punching the ball out. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, it may look like funding games

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Speaker 1: when you're out there training camp and guys are laughing,

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Speaker 1: but you're starting to see that translate because it's been

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Speaker 1: pushed inside of their head of turnover, turnover, turnover, and

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Speaker 1: they now get to say that, yeah, we've done that

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Speaker 1: in every single game. I think where the Colts are

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Speaker 1: trying to capitalize on that is then turning those turnovers

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Speaker 1: into points, because that's one area that the Colts. They

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Speaker 1: start to capitalize on some of those turnovers during that

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Speaker 1: wind streak, but in the games that they've lost, that's

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Speaker 1: really a big area that you see the Colts not

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Speaker 1: being able to capitalize on those turnovers and at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, the defense wants to go with

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Speaker 1: there and be able to celebrate that turnover with a win.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Caroline, A lot on the line for both

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Speaker 1: these teams getting into week fourteen. What are some of

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Speaker 1: the storylines you're covering in that Colts locker room this week?

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Speaker 1: You know, we're still looking at injuries. Ryan Kelly, the

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Speaker 1: starting center, has missed these past two weeks and Evan

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Speaker 1: Babe has filled in for him wonderfully that he actually

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Speaker 1: Evan Baine came out of the game at Jacksonville. He

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Speaker 1: did return to the game, but he was out for

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Speaker 1: a couple of series. So we even had a third

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Speaker 1: string center in there. When you know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line earlier. When they're starting to roll and

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Speaker 1: they're starting to mesh the way that they do, you

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Speaker 1: hate to see your center go down and not be there.

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Speaker 1: So that's one injury that everyone is keeping an eye

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Speaker 1: on to see if Ryan Kelly will be able to

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Speaker 1: return this week. And then it's really just about how

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Speaker 1: is this team going to respond? Because this cold team,

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Speaker 1: they are young and they have the veteran pieces, but

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Speaker 1: how do you respond when everything was going really good

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Speaker 1: for five weeks there and then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you go up and you haven't been able to score

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Speaker 1: against the Jaguars in six quarters now, and so that

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Speaker 1: one steamed. You know, you hang twenty nine points on

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Speaker 1: them the first time that you play, but that was

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Speaker 1: in the first half of that game. So the Colts

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Speaker 1: had a kind of a big pill to swallow to

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Speaker 1: realize the reality of of what this loss to the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville dry Wars did. But now it's how are we

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Speaker 1: going to respond? And these next you know, four weeks

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Speaker 1: are very important if the Colts want to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you guys there in Houston, you have put

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Speaker 1: yourselves in a great position to be at the top

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Speaker 1: of the AFC South. But the Colts, you mentioned it earlier,

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Speaker 1: they're in a fight for a wild card spot. So

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Speaker 1: those are really kind of the storylines that we're following

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Speaker 1: here of you know, who's going to be available injury wise,

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Speaker 1: the big one there with Ryan Kelly. And then how

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Speaker 1: does this team respond when you have a lot of

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Speaker 1: emotional leaders but it's still a young team to be

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Speaker 1: able to turn around and try and get another win.

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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Caroline. And we'll all be watching

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Speaker 1: that Thursday night game between the Titans and the Jags

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Speaker 1: with a lot of interest as far as both these

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Speaker 1: teams are concerned. All right, good stuff, Caroline Can. She's

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Speaker 1: a team reporter with Indianapolis Colts. Caroline, we'll see you

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Speaker 1: here on Sunday. Great, thank you so much. Great stuff

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Speaker 1: there from Caroline Can, who covers the Colts four Colts

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Speaker 1: dot Com and of course our good friend Deep. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up next, it's my man, an NFL analyst, superstar,

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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter. See him on Twitter at Backs Football Guru.

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Speaker 1: He's got a new Twitter account as well at NFL

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Speaker 1: Underscore Vibe. He is gonna stop by and talk about

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Speaker 1: this nine game winning streak. He's gon talking about the Texas,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Chargers. We're gonna hit on

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Boy, what a game that was on Sunday evening.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the entire NFL next right here

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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Welcome back to a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. I am pleased to be joined

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Speaker 1: now by my good friend Russell Baxter. You can follow

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, and I recommend that you do at Backs

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Speaker 1: Football Guru at NFL Underscore Vibe want to make sure

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Speaker 1: we get that in as well, so both ways you

545
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Speaker 1: definitely want to follow him there, NFL Spin Zone fan

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Speaker 1: side Russell, all you do him, My man, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: And later this week, give it a couple of days,

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Speaker 1: you're going to see a new book for Pro Football Duru,

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Speaker 1: So keep that, keep that in mind when you're starving

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Speaker 1: the web. Man, that's awesome. You got all kinds of

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Speaker 1: good stuff going on, Russell. Sort of like the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans nine in a row, Russell, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you. I'm gonna give you a little nugget to

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Speaker 1: chew on, and I know you always have a nugget

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Speaker 1: for us. I'm gonna give you one. The Texans. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so the first team to ever lose three in a

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Speaker 1: row and then come back and win nine never been

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Speaker 1: done before in NFL history. Here's another one. I think

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Speaker 1: the Texans are gonna have that. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: anybody will ever ever do again. The Texans lost nine

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Speaker 1: in a row dating back to the November of last year.

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Speaker 1: They meet the Cardinals, then they lost six in a row.

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Speaker 1: Then they lost three in a row to start the year,

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Speaker 1: Then they won nine in a row. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know if I have to look that up, Russell, but

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Speaker 1: I can almost guarantee you that no other team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL history has ever done that, lost nine and

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Speaker 1: then one nine in a row like this team has.

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Speaker 1: So there's your nugget for you. But now the Colts

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Speaker 1: come into town. But the Texans been playing pretty well.

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Speaker 1: What do you thought about the way the Texans played

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Speaker 1: last week against the Browns and looking forward to the Colts. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they really rose up and arguably played their

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Speaker 1: most complete game of the season. Offense, defense, special teams.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know that played down near the goal line

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Speaker 1: where they stripped the ball after Baker Mayfield had complete

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Speaker 1: pleaded a long pass. They picked off Baker three times.

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Speaker 1: They ran the ball efficiently. Uh you know, sure? You

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Speaker 1: Cleveland wound up with a lot of yards, but um,

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Speaker 1: they really took the Browns. You know, the Browns had

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Speaker 1: won two in a row, feeling a lot better about themselves,

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Speaker 1: had won a road game, which they hadn't done in

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Speaker 1: a long time, and they really just kind of quieted

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Speaker 1: the noise, for lack of a better word. Um, And

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Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of people like to

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Speaker 1: throw out trap game. I think some people felt that

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Speaker 1: that was a trap game for the Texans. But even

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Speaker 1: during this winning streak, you have seen them evolve as

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Speaker 1: a team, get more confident on offense, Deshaun Watson getting

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Speaker 1: more comfortable the defense making plays. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it sounds odd to say it, but you know they're

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Speaker 1: tied for the second best record in the AFC one

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Speaker 1: game behind Kansas City, and the same record as New

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Speaker 1: England and the Chargers. Along those lines, Russell, we saw

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Speaker 1: the Chargers beat the Steelers and we'll get to that

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Speaker 1: in just a little bit. But those Dad Gump Patriots

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Speaker 1: nine in three, and you talk about a complete performance.

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Speaker 1: I know, Brady and throw for a ton of yards

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings, but you really need to because the

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Speaker 1: running game really got going against the Vikings. What did

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Speaker 1: you think about the Patriots and the way that they

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Speaker 1: kind of the same way. I like the way you

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Speaker 1: put that kind of quieted the noise, if you will,

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Speaker 1: and just kind of put the Vikings to bed so

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Speaker 1: easily last Sunday afternoon. What do you think about the

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Speaker 1: way the Patriots have been playing and what kind of

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Speaker 1: problems do they continue to present, maybe in a different

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Speaker 1: way any time Brady doesn't have to do it all.

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Speaker 1: What do you thought about them? Well, it was one

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Speaker 1: of their better efforts of the year. They were very,

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Speaker 1: you know, so so stagnant in the first half against

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Speaker 1: the Jets and then pulled away. They've run the ball

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Speaker 1: very well the last two weeks. The problem was with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots so far this year, and I preface that

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Speaker 1: by saying so far is even though they had the

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Speaker 1: winning streak, we haven't seen them put together a bunch

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Speaker 1: of really really solid efforts back to back to back.

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Speaker 1: Not that they're not capable, but because of injuries and

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Speaker 1: other you know, other shortcomings and so on, we haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that. Now. What was impressive about this was the

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Speaker 1: Vikings defense had been playing a lot better and they

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Speaker 1: really stifled them. I mean, I know, Kirk Cousins completed

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Speaker 1: a bunch of passes, but not for a lot of

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Speaker 1: yards balanced offense. Brady had the one pick, but it

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Speaker 1: really was inconsequential. So for me watching New England this

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Speaker 1: year is you know, I saw the Jacksonville game, the

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Speaker 1: Detroit game. The tennis said, listen, they were playing really,

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Speaker 1: really well before they went into Nashville and didn't look

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Speaker 1: like the same team. That's the problem so far with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. There are times this year where they simply

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Speaker 1: not look like the New England Patriots. And those three

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Speaker 1: times you mentioned, all of them are on the road.

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Speaker 1: So if you're thinking playoff wise, get him on the road.

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Speaker 1: Ye who knows, boy, you playman je Lett Stadium. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough out. There's no question Russell. The

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Speaker 1: green Bay Packers almost immediately after the loss to Arizona

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Speaker 1: decided to end Mike McCarthy's career there in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: He had a Super Bowl championship. He's gonna walk out

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Speaker 1: of there as the second I think he's the second

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Speaker 1: highest win total for a head football coach behind Curly

641
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Speaker 1: Lambo for the work that he did. And it's weird.

642
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of Packers fans

643
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: that really wanted to move on and all this about

644
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and that. But I think when you have

645
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: a really good football coach, sometimes you take it for granted.

646
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: And maybe that's what Packers fans did. But what are

647
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: your thoughts about what happened in Green Bay with Mike McCarthy,

648
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: And do you think them, Acarthy, we'll get one of

649
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: the jobs that will open up once we get to

650
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: Black Monday right at the end of the year. I

651
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: get the sense there's going to be the more than

652
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: usual six or seven openings this year too. Um. Yeah,

653
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: And I think, listen, I think it was a matter

654
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: of just a time for change. I think Mike McCarthy

655
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: at times this year, just offensively, the team was very

656
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: very stagnant. They looked very, very disinterested. And that doesn't

657
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: all go on him. Everybody has to be responsible for

658
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: this team and things that have happened. But you know,

659
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: they won that Super Bowl in twenty ten. They didn't

660
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,479
Speaker 1: win again. They've been they were in the playoffs, you know,

661
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: eight consecutive years at one time, and there were just

662
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: just issues that came up. The blown lead at Seattle

663
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: in the twenty fourteen NFC title game. I think at

664
00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: times it appeared that Mike McCarthy was probably very very

665
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: set in his ways offensively and maybe just didn't progress.

666
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: You know, there's I look at the Packers, and I

667
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: look at the Steelers right now, and I look at

668
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: the fact that they both have outstanding quarterbacks, and yet

669
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: the lack of balance is disturbing that game against Arizona.

670
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out why the team through the

671
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: ball dropped back the past fifty one time in a

672
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: game that was nipp and tuck. And I bring that

673
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: up because in their last three games, and you know,

674
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: you know as well as I do, has been allowed

675
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: to talk about Aaron Jones and being an up and

676
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: coming back about that. The Packers have run the ball

677
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: are combining fifty five times the last three games, and

678
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: yet they dropped back. Aaron Rodgers attempt at fifty passes

679
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: and was backed in the nipp and tuck game. They

680
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: had a nip and tuck game with Minnesota as well.

681
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: So if some of the play calling is a little bizarre,

682
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: and I'm there's been rumors that, you know, Aaron Rodgers

683
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: and maybe change some of the plays as well, which

684
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: is his prerogative. But the lack of offensive balanced by

685
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: this team, especially in recent weeks, I think has really

686
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: come back to haunt them. And listen, I'm not agreeing

687
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: that firing the coach in mid season is the smartest thing,

688
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: but I get the sense it was coming, and you know,

689
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: I can't explain why they decided to do it now,

690
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: but maybe it was a matter of frustration watching that

691
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: game at home against Arizona, who's not a very good

692
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: football team, coming in there and really outplaying them and

693
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: running the ball right down their throat during that game. Russell,

694
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: one of the teams that really intrigues me is Seattle.

695
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: I've watched this team and I thought at the beginning

696
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: of the year, with essentially the legion of Boom going away,

697
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: the loss of Michael Bennett, I just thought, man, defensive

698
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: our powers not there. You know, you look at the

699
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: receiving corps and you're like, Okay, Doug Baldwin, entire locket. Okay,

700
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean, offensive line still seemingly

701
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: has some issues. And then all of a sudden, about

702
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: oh week five, weeks six, they found the run game

703
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: and they have been pounding the rock in due time.

704
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: They've been pounding teams, and now they sit on the

705
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: precipice of going back to the playoffs, except they've got

706
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: to beat Minnesota on a Monday night. First of all,

707
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: what have you thought about Seattle and kind of the

708
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: resurgence they've had, and what do you think about this

709
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: game on Monday night against Minnesota? Well, I think a

710
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with their offensive line,

711
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: and they remember they changed their offensive and defensive coordinators.

712
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: They also changed their offensive line coaches. Yep, And I

713
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: think it took you know, we know in this league

714
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: now you don't get a lot of time during training

715
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: camp but work on your offensive line because you can't

716
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: be physical. And it took them a couple of games.

717
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: But you look at what they've done, and listen, they

718
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: stumbled a couple of times, but even you go, I

719
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: can look and even some of the games they've lost

720
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: during this stretch. Remember they're seven and five after being

721
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: oh and two. So they've won seven of their last

722
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: ten games, and two of those three losses were to

723
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: the Rams. In games they was scored exactly thirty one

724
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: points each time they lost thirty three thirty one and

725
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: a thirty six thirty one game so this team has

726
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: come a long way. By the way, the other team

727
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: game they lost too over that span, the Charges at home.

728
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 1: So this team has come a long way, very very quickly.

729
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: Was supposed to be a rebuilding year, and now you

730
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: look at the damage that they've done in the NFC.

731
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: They beat Dallas, they beat Carolina, they beat Green Day

732
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: and if they beat Minnesota, I mean it puts them

733
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: a lot of puts them in an ideal position in

734
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: terms of wild card. Obviously, they can't win a division

735
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: because the Rams have clinched, but they're sitting with a

736
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: six and three record in the conference and you have

737
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: to like what you've seen from them. Russell Wilson is

738
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: still doing his thing, and now he's backed up by

739
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: the number one running game in the league. Speaking of

740
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: running games, and well, maybe not so much after what

741
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: happened on Sunday night against the Chargers. The Steelers lose

742
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: James Connor, don't know for how long it doesn't he

743
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: is not going to play this weekend against Oakland's probably

744
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: a smart move given the fact that it's Oakland. But

745
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: with no Levion Bell, no James Connor, the Steelers have

746
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: lost a couple of games one in Denver and they

747
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: made mistakes upon mistakes, and the other night they blow

748
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: a big lead against the LA Chargers. Russell, how do

749
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: you look at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, obviously there's some

750
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: must win in Oakland, but the rest of the schedule

751
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: includes the Patriots and the Saints down the stretch. I

752
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: don't know if any team that's up at the top

753
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: has got a tougher close to the year than maybe

754
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and they're coming into it with a two

755
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: game losing streak. What do you make of the Steelers

756
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: And how do you think the running game ends up being?

757
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: What's affected impacted by the loss of James Connor. Well,

758
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: here's what I don't understand. I don't think the loss

759
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: of James Connor affects their ability to run. And I

760
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: say that John, because they've chosen not to run as

761
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: of late. True, when I give you the number I'm

762
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: about to give you, you're gonna almost think it's a typo.

763
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: Even though we're on the air. The Pittsburgh Steelers have

764
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: run one hundred and ninety nine offensive plays the last

765
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: three games. The win over Jacksonville, the loss to Denver,

766
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: and the loss to the Chargers John one hundred and

767
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: fifty five of those hundred and ninety nine plays our

768
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 1: past plays. They have forty four running plays the last

769
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: three weeks combined. Wow. Wow, Please explain to me now.

770
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: They had to come from behind against Jacksonville, Yeah, but

771
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: never hopelessly out of it. They were headed against Denver,

772
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: They were head big against the Chargers. I don't understand

773
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: why they have gotten away from the run as of late.

774
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: You go back and look during their winning streak in

775
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: James Connor and even when James Connor had to come

776
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: out of the game and so on, you know, Samuels

777
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: and some of the other backs. For some odd reason,

778
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: they decided they abandoned the run. Maybe they think they

779
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: could just pass their way through. Against these teams, you're

780
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: not keeping your defense off the field, you're not setting

781
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: up your play action passing. So Ben Rothers probably just

782
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: got all these yards, but he's throwing a lot of passes,

783
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: and that leaves you vulnerable. The lack of balance by

784
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: the Steelers the last three games is perplexing. It's a

785
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: great point. Now the team that beat them LA has

786
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: played very well. The LA Chargers. I always have to

787
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: remind myself to not say San Diego, but the LA

788
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: Chargers played very well and it was a I don't

789
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: say watershed moment, but it was a It was a

790
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: great moment for them to beat a good team on

791
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: the road, prime time for Philip Rivers and the Chargers.

792
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: And I know the Chargers lost the Chiefs earlier the

793
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: Sheer Russell, but the Chiefs are lost Kareem Hunt. The

794
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: Chargers keep rolling. They will play in Kansas City at

795
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: some point. I think it's maybe next week. Either way,

796
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are tenant to the Chargers are nine and three.

797
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: I know it's a tough road for the Chargers, but

798
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: do you give them a chance to win that AFC West.

799
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: Do you think that's a team that could stay hot

800
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: and overtake Kansas City Or do you think this is

801
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Kansas City's division and only they tripping themselves up could

802
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: cost them division. No. I think the Chargers are very,

803
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:34,479
Speaker 1: very capable. And let's keep something in mind here which

804
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: has impressed me about the Chargers. I know I picked

805
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: them to be in the super Bowl in the AFC

806
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: the start of the year, but I say this with

807
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for what Anthony Elyn has done.

808
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: They played the vast majority of the five should say,

809
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: more than the first half of the year without Joey Boza. True,

810
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: they played some games recently against the Charger against the Seahawks.

811
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what they don't know what's at the

812
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: Seahawks game. In other words, Melvin Gordon has missed a

813
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: couple of games. Yea, Melvin Gordon missed the game one

814
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: eight and yet in the second half they were able

815
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: to run the ball on Pittsburgh. So they have overcome

816
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: some major injuries. Okay, and still listen, eighteen and six

817
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: in your last twenty four games there, that's awfully strong,

818
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: and that's what they are since they were oh and

819
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: four a year ago. But Kansas City for them, you

820
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: want to talk about an albatross. Nine losses in the

821
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: road to the Chiefs, including this year in Los Angeles

822
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: in Week one, thirty eight, twenty eight. No, I think

823
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers are certainly capable. We talked about the Texans

824
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. Because the Chargers are in second place,

825
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: it's almost like somewhat forgotten that they have the same

826
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: record as the Patriots in the Texans. Absolutely, and if

827
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: they go to if they go to airhead knock off

828
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. That's a big if, but you're right nine

829
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: times are there's just that team. It's kind of like

830
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: Jacksonville with Tennessee. Jacksonville just cannot beat Tennessee, just can't

831
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: beat them. And we do need them to win Thursday night.

832
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: We do need Jacksonville to come up with that win.

833
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: That would really help. Listen, this this game is about matchups. Um,

834
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: you know, for the longest time that the Texans couldn't

835
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: match up with the Colts yep uh, and now they have.

836
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: You know, they've done obviously a lot better recently against them.

837
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: I mean last year was kind of a weird year

838
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: because of you know, Deshauna Watson being hurt. But I remember,

839
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: even even the year that Peyton Manning didn't play for

840
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: the Texts for the Colts, the Texans I don't think

841
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: could beat them either. Yeah. So um, there's a lot

842
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: to be said for that. Coaching styles and so on.

843
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: New England and Pittsburgh is a great example as well,

844
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: um of teams that just don't match up a well

845
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: against each other the you're coaching or players or whatever.

846
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: So um, the Chiefs have and listen, the Chargers have

847
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: some tricky games as well, So the Chiefs. The Chiefs

848
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: in Baltimore this week, in fact, Baltimore plays at Kansas

849
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: City and Los Angeles down the stretch. That's gonna be

850
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. How does that defense fair against two

851
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: of the most balanced offenses in the league. It's gonna

852
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: be fun to watch, There's no doubt about. That's my man.

853
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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter at Backs Football Guru on Twitter, go follow

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Speaker 1: at NFL Underscore Vibe as well. A man's got it

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Speaker 1: for you and he's got a new look at Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Guru as well. Russell, you're the bestball man. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate the time, No problem. John. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: it's our buddy Andre Ware right here at Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: As we start our second hour of Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: it's time for our Choose Fund moment. The week has

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Speaker 1: Texans catch a touchdown, Carnival, the official cruise line of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Choose Fun Now you get to go

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Speaker 1: on a cruise of Texas catch a touchdown. But to me,

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Speaker 1: the choose fun Moment of the week, but didn't start fun,

867
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: but it certainly ended up fun because Justin Reid prevented

868
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 1: a touchdown catch for a touchdown right here, third down

869
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: and twelve for the Browns. From there, twenty three Mayfield

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00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: shotgun Johnson to his right. Mayfield gets the snap, steps up,

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00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: fires down field, and he's got a man breaks a

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Speaker 1: tackle thirty five thirty left side twenty fifteen ten five

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00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: Buddy fumbles the football and the ends all the Texans

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00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: pick it up. How about that play, Well, that play

875
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: was fun at the end of it. It was the

876
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 1: beginning wasn't so much as he can it catch by antoniocallaway,

877
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: heck can throw by Baker Mayfield, but an even better

878
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: played by Justin Reid knocking that ball out. And I

879
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: heard to the grape vine that Justin Reid was asked

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00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: to be an elf today where Kjack TV. I'm just

881
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: going on what I heard. I don't That's all. That's

882
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: all I can say. That's all I can say. But

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Speaker 1: that was our two fun Moment of the Week has

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00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: brought you by car, the official cruise line of the

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00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Choose fun, all right, It's time for our

886
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: discussion with good friend Andre Ware. Each week he sits

887
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,959
Speaker 1: down with Mark Vandermer talks about the upcoming game, where

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: he's going in his college schedule, and well, this week

889
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere because their bowl games coming up,

890
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: so he's got plenty planned there. Marked up with Dre

891
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: earlier today, Drey, you said it from the get go.

892
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is the kind of player who's going to

893
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: bounce back, and he's dangerous. He looks very dangerous in

894
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: the first meeting between these two teams, and he's been

895
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: extremely dangerous this season. Last game not so much. But

896
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: we don't really think about that too much, do we.

897
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: How much stock do you put in what just went

898
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: down between the Colts and the Jaguars. I think it

899
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: was a tough road game for the Colts, and a

900
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: team that was against the team where their backs were

901
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: against the wall in Jacksonville would have a point to prove,

902
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: especially with the defense, And so when you start to

903
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: take a look into it, they got caught at just

904
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: the right time. And I don't know that I would

905
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: put a lot of stock in it, other than sometimes

906
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,959
Speaker 1: that happens in the NFL where a team just has

907
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: a week like that where you don't have the answers,

908
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: the balls being turned over every break and every loose

909
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: balls going the other way and against you as as

910
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 1: a team. I think that's exactly what happened with Indianapolis

911
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: last week in Jacksonville. When you look at Luck Dre,

912
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: what are you seeing at this point in his career

913
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: from him? A significant amount of maturity, the face obviously

914
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: of their franchise, and a guy that is the unequivocal

915
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: leader of their football team. I see a healthy player

916
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: that is continue to get better each and every week. Maybe,

917
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: and as a quarterback, you're gonna have one of those games.

918
00:45:55,719 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: Every team has one of those games. And I can

919
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: give you a quick example of New Orleans where they're

920
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: just rolling along and all of a sudden they run

921
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys on a Thursday night and everything that

922
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: can go wrong does go wrong. Well, that happened for

923
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: Andrew in a game this past Sunday. So you are

924
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: looking and I've had it happened. You're looking to get

925
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: back on the field as quickly as possible. You're looking

926
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: to get yourself back in a game as quickly as

927
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: possible to try to rectify the situation, and they would

928
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: like nothing more than to come here and stop a

929
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: nine game winning stream. So as a Texans player, and

930
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: you're not one, but you can relate to the situation.

931
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: How are they looking at the cults? They're probably not

932
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: putting too much stock into just what just happened in

933
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: North Florida, right, No, not at all. And I think they,

934
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're smart, and I think coach O'Brien

935
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: does a great job and relaying the message that things

936
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: happen in the NFL and that on any Sunday. I

937
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: know it's kind of cliche ish to say it, but

938
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Speaker 1: on any given Sunday, any team could literally beat the

939
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Speaker 1: other and I don't care who that team is and

940
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: how many games they've lost. That's why it's hard in

941
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: the NFL, too. It's really hard to go, oh in sixteen,

942
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna eventually get somebody, or you're gonna catch somebody

943
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: sleeping where you at least win one game or so.

944
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're overlooking the Colts whatsoever. I'm

945
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: glad this game at this point in the season, during

946
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: this type of run, is in NRG and at home

947
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: for the Texans because the Colts are a dangerous team.

948
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: We've been saying that for weeks and I still feel

949
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: the exact same way. First time since two thousand nine

950
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: that the Texans have played the back end of the

951
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: season series here at home, and that's that's a really

952
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: great thing for this team right now. Like you said, so,

953
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, what about his development here? We are late

954
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: at his second season, only started six games his first season.

955
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: But what's your latest report card on him? Well? I

956
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: think when if you go through and you look at

957
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: the our body of work, I think, honestly, he was

958
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: trying to pick off, pick up I'm sorry where he

959
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: left off in twenty seventeen and being the dynamic player

960
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: and I'm going to show everybody that I'm back and

961
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm healthy and I can do these magical things. And

962
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: he was maybe overplaying, if that makes sense. And then

963
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: once he realized, you know what, I got enough talent

964
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: around me. Maybe I'm not quite all the way back

965
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: to where I was. Let me just take a step

966
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: back and allow the other guys around me to do

967
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: their part as I get myself closer to one hundred percent.

968
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 1: Do I think he's there now? Absolutely? Do I think

969
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: the other guys have benefited in the offense, especially the

970
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: skill position players, because of the approach that he's taken. Absolutely,

971
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: because as a quarterback, it is your job to relay

972
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: in that message that you are totally reliant on what's

973
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: around you. I can't be successful unless you guys are

974
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: and once that trust is built, it allows everybody to flourish,

975
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: including the Sean Watson. So I think that's where he is,

976
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: and now being one hundred percent healthy and back all

977
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: the way back, we're starting to see exactly what he

978
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: can do and who he really is as a player. Trey.

979
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: The Texans really haven't been in any kind of situation

980
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 1: similar to this since I think two twelve, yeah, four

981
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: games left in the regular season. There are a whole

982
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: lot of possibilities out there for first round by potential,

983
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: but they're gonna need help for that. The best way

984
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: they can help themselves is to continue to win. Bill

985
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: O'Brien keeps saying, don't take the cheese. What about the

986
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: way they have to approach this thing. I think we

987
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: all agree that they got to take it one game

988
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: at a time. For the rest of us, we get

989
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: kind of antsy and sort of look down the road.

990
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: What do you think. Yeah, the rest of us don't

991
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: have to put him out, piece in and button up

992
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: a face, a change strap, and put on pads and

993
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: things of that sort. So we were afforded the luge

994
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: of being able to kind of look down the road,

995
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 1: so to speaking, and kind of play the whatever game

996
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: or what if game. But if you're a player in

997
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: that locker room or a coach on that staff, it

998
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: is just that it's like, let's take one game at

999
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: a time. And here's an example for you. The Colts

1000
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: are rolling along, they put together a winning streak of

1001
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: their own, and look what happened. Maybe they started looking

1002
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 1: down the road to the Texans and underestimating the Jags.

1003
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: Look at what happened to New Orleans. They were putting

1004
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: up points on everybody, and then they ran into Dallas,

1005
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: maybe overlooking the Cowboys en route to whomever else is

1006
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: on the schedule. So there are plenty of examples of

1007
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: why you should take it one week at a time,

1008
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 1: lock in on this game plan and this game plan only,

1009
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: and do just that one game, one week, one game

1010
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: at a time. All right. So Tennessee loses to the

1011
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: Texans on Monday night, football. They bounced back with the

1012
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: win over the Jets. They got it late, but they

1013
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: got it. And then you have Jacksonville coming off this

1014
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: weird six nothing but over the Colts. Those two teams

1015
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: played Thursday night, Tennessee and the Jags. What do you

1016
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: think of that matchup, because if the Jags helped the

1017
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: Texans to beat the Titans, there's a chance to clinch

1018
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: the division on Sunday. Your thoughts, Yeah, I think there's

1019
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance of that happening if if you

1020
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: get the Jags that that played the way they played

1021
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Colts and now they're the other Jags

1022
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: as well, where you know, Cody Kessler could could basically

1023
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: try to do a little bit too much offensively and

1024
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: not rely on the running game and the defense, and

1025
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's exposed and things go the

1026
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: other way. Tennessee. This is really a toss up game,

1027
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: it really is. And I'm not sure that that Tennessee

1028
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: is ready to fold up the tent on the season,

1029
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play hard and continue to play hard

1030
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: and fight. And I think Jacksonville's playing for pride at

1031
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: this point, where they're going to put up some resistance,

1032
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: So this will be a good one to kind of

1033
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: keep our eye on. What do you think of the

1034
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: Chargers after beating Pittsburgh the other night? They look pretty

1035
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: good thoughts on them? Yeah, they really did. They do

1036
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: a nice job without even without Melvin Gordon in the

1037
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: lot in the lineup, of orchestrating a running game, somewhat

1038
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: some simulance of a running game. And then Philip Rivers

1039
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 1: is just you know, being himself. I think he's having

1040
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: one of his best seasons even at his age that

1041
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: I've seen him having quite some time. So he spreads

1042
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: the ball around, multiple receivers are catching the ball, he's

1043
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: getting the tight ends involved, and the defense is giving

1044
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: just enough to where they can win football games. So

1045
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: that's not a team that a lot of people are

1046
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: looking to play, even at this point. Are as we

1047
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: get closer to the start of the playoffs. Okay, in

1048
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Ball, you got Baylor

1049
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: and Vanderbilt going. I was gonna say army, but they're

1050
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: playing the Cougars. I want to get your thoughts on

1051
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: that one in a moment. So Baylor and Vanderbilt here

1052
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: at n RG Stadium Deceper twenty seventh three. What do

1053
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, it's a it's I think it's a

1054
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: good matchup. It's a you know, a tough set opponent

1055
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: in Vanderbilt who just seems to give everybody problems against

1056
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: an offense that is more wide open, kind of down

1057
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: the field, in your face, pushed the pace and pushing

1058
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: the tempo style in Baylor. So it's a good kind

1059
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: of clash of styles type of game that I think

1060
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 1: the fans here in Houston are going to really really enjoy,

1061
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: and I know there are lots and lots of both

1062
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: alumni groups in the city of Houston, both Vanderbilt as

1063
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: well as Baylor. Is Vanderbilt going to retire your headset

1064
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: at behalf because you're the un official voice of the Commodore. Yeah,

1065
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean this is the first time in quite quite

1066
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: a number of years that I didn't get to call

1067
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: a Vanderbilt game. But I'm always reaching out to Derek Mason,

1068
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: their head coach, who mentioned the other day We've gotten

1069
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: three pretty good friends in this business, So I have

1070
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him and the job that

1071
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: he does there. They do a lot with less at

1072
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: the building and it's a credit to his ability to

1073
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: coach and motivate and bring in just the right players

1074
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: to fit what they need to do to win games.

1075
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: The ticketmaster has your tickets to that one. Now quickly,

1076
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: what about the Cougs and Army and the Armed Forces Bowl? Yeah,

1077
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 1: this is this is a tough, kind of a tricky

1078
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: game for the For the Coups, the one thing I

1079
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: would say that works in their favors that they get

1080
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: fifteen practices to get ready for this game. And so

1081
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: you care without maybe using the Bowl practices as they

1082
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: development or kind of a developmental stage, or however you

1083
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: want to say it, for play younger players to grow,

1084
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: you actually have to use the fifteen practices to get

1085
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: ready for Army and what they do with the triple option,

1086
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: because the Cougs were not as didn't play quite as

1087
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: well against the run as they wanted to late later

1088
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: in the year, and Army can certainly present problems, a

1089
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: big set of problems in that regard because of the

1090
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: triple option style. So it's it's it's it's a lot

1091
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 1: to wrap your hands around. Even though fifteen practices seems

1092
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: like a lot of time, it's really not. When you

1093
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: start to face an offense that's that's capable of what

1094
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: they're capable of doing. It's got to be hard to

1095
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: scout team it right to do that properly, so you

1096
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 1: get a really good look at it. And that's where

1097
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: you don't get the proper work and the guys that

1098
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: coach that style of offense. You start, you know, getting

1099
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: a beat on one thing, and they're able to kind

1100
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: of flip a switch and get to something else, uh quickly,

1101
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: but make it look the same, if that makes sense.

1102
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the match, the chess match inside

1103
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: of a chess game that is played between both sidelines,

1104
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: and it is hard to get a beat on it.

1105
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 1: It's hard to stop it, especially if you allow the

1106
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 1: fullback in that offense to get itself going, because if

1107
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: he's having a good day, then there's a pretty good

1108
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: chance that Army's entire offense is going to have a

1109
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,439
Speaker 1: good day. Drey, thanks so much of the time we'll

1110
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: see a Sunday. Appreciate it, Thanks, buddy. If there's one

1111
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: team I never want to play in a bowl schedule ever,

1112
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna have time to prepare, but I

1113
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: never want to see Army. I never want to see Navy.

1114
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: First of all, they're wonderfully coached. Wonderfully coached. Kenny Mattalolo

1115
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: at Navy and Jeff Munkin at Army, they are wonderfully coaches.

1116
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 1: Are two of the better couge football coaches in the country.

1117
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: They are outstanding. They get it done each and every year,

1118
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: no matter what, and then they just keep coming. That

1119
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: offense is not pretty. They'll be lucky if they throw

1120
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: it ten times in a game in a season. I

1121
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: think last year through it twenty times a season. Army

1122
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be a Army is gonna be a tough

1123
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: battle for the University of Houston a bowl game that

1124
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: said Army did this year defensively hold Oklahoma in a

1125
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: check So Houston's offense is gonna have a tough go

1126
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: as well. But Army in Houston in a ball matchup.

1127
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: So you got that there. It's gonna be fun for

1128
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: people here. We've got Vanderbilt and we've got Baylor. I

1129
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be a really good Academy Sports and

1130
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl. I know people who gets ye two

1131
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: six and sixteens Baylor Vanny don't go to bowls all

1132
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 1: that much. I think that's why it makes it great.

1133
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: But you've got the NFL talent on the field, I

1134
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: think on both sides, Like Kyle Shermer playing quarterback for

1135
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: Vandy's gonna be fun to watch down the road. I

1136
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: think John Mimms at wide receiver for Baylor is a

1137
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: heck of an athlete. Jalen Hurd who transferred from Tennessee

1138
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: and has played Vandy before. He's a very intriguing piece

1139
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: going to the NFL. Part running back, part tight end,

1140
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: part wide receiver, but he makes it happen with the

1141
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: ball in his hands. I'm really excited to see what

1142
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: he looks like up close and personal. And that's one

1143
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: of the fun things about this game. Kick off at

1144
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: the beginning bowl game, at the end, I get to

1145
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: see these guys up close in personal. You really get

1146
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: to see what they look like. And hey, that guy

1147
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: should be a pro. Look at him. He's got a probody.

1148
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the thing that I do when

1149
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: I watched these games, So it shouldn't be pretty fun.

1150
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: Appreciate Dre for stopping by now. Mark caught up with Dre.

1151
00:57:57,960 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: He'll catch up with me next. We got a lot

1152
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: to talk about this game. And I took the cheese

1153
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: earlier today. I'm gonna admit that to Mark and see

1154
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: what he has to say. Next on Texas Access, we'll

1155
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: go back to a Wednesday Nation of Texans All Access

1156
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: from the Honday Texans Radio studio. I am John The

1157
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: man to my left is Mark Vandom. You're the voice

1158
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: of the Texans. Mark. How you doing, Johnny? I'm doing great,

1159
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: and I'm not eating much cheese at all. All right,

1160
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: I've I've discovered there's a bowl called the cheese At Bowl. Yeah,

1161
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: and uh, and I'm not going to that bowl and

1162
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch it. I'm not gonna eat any cheese.

1163
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be good. You got the cheese At Bowl,

1164
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: you got the red Box Bowl? Wait, what's over videos? Yeah?

1165
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: Red Box. I'm just gonna say right now, hats off

1166
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: to the salespeople who made that deal. Yeah. I don't

1167
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: know how they got that one. And red Box still relevant?

1168
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, there's still that. I guess. Well, they've got

1169
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: a bowl game. I don't know if that makes them relevant.

1170
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: I'd like to order my movies on Exfinity, Thank you

1171
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: very much. Um, I think we've got the best spotsor

1172
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Academy Sports Outdoors for Texas

1173
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: there every weekend. I'm not even exaggerating. I maybe twice

1174
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: a week sometimes. You've got the bad Boy Moore's Gasparilla Bowl.

1175
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: No you don't. You got the cheese A Bowl, like

1176
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: you said. You've got the Chair Bundy Tart Cherry Boker

1177
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: Atone Bowl. Oh no, where is that an FAU stadium?

1178
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 1: Probably it is? It is and Fau is Fau in

1179
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: the game? No? Uabs now on you ab and I

1180
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: you would be a good game. You've got the d

1181
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: XL Frisco Bowl. That's that's a low volume name right there.

1182
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: You've got the Jared Birmingham Bowl, which I'm assuming Jared

1183
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: is the yea, the Jeweler Jared. I think I W

1184
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: Mark should sponsor this bowl in addition to Academy Sports

1185
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: and afterwards we could have a subspots or presented by Yeah,

1186
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: you've got the uh, well the rest of them. You

1187
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: got the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl. What how does raycom Media?

1188
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: Why are they sponsoring a bowl? Consider? Why do they

1189
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: need to promote their brand? You've I don't know, You've

1190
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: got the so Fi Hawaii Bowl, you got the Red

1191
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: Box Bowl, You've got the VRBO Citrus Bowl. VRBO is

1192
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: sponsoring a bowl game, the Citrus Bowl. Yeah, I'm looking

1193
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: right at it. And then you know who sponsors the

1194
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: Independence Bowl. See if you remember who walk Nope, they

1195
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: used to walk Ons. Remember walk Ons? Well we were

1196
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, walk On the sports bar. Oh yeah,

1197
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: with the crispy cream donut red Hot sports bar sponsoring

1198
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: the bowl. It's actually pretty smart. No, it's pretty good smart.

1199
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: But I'm asking you how many walk Ons are there?

1200
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: And how what what was the Actually it's actually I

1201
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: don't know that. That's the thing. I mean some of

1202
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: these companies, I mean some of you haven't even heard of,

1203
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: Like how are they sponsoring a bowl? The flip side

1204
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: of that is walk Ons is they've hit it big

1205
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: and Southern Louisiana. There are a number of different places,

1206
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: and I want to say, I want to say, like

1207
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: sixty eight New Orleans, none here, they should come here.

1208
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: This should good place. But yeah, I would think that's

1209
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: a pretty good it's a pretty good match to degree.

1210
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: But then again, you go to the sports bar to

1211
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: watch the sports games. But I would imagine walk ons

1212
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: want you to be at the game to watch, So

1213
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a little a little different, but

1214
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, food Ruckers not a sports bar, but i'll

1215
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 1: tell you what, you could do a whole lot worse.

1216
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: They have a TV's for everything, and they've got the

1217
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: great food and beverages and go for yourself. Foodbruckers. You

1218
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: don't think of it sometimes for that, but I think

1219
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: it's as good as any place. I think. So whenever

1220
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: whenever I'm roped into doing shows, I mean whenever I

1221
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: have to do shows there on a Tuesday, I love it.

1222
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: I love it. I mean I love where we are,

1223
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: but I love it. I mean, the food's great, and

1224
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: then they've got TVs with all the you know, all

1225
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: the sports going on. I think I think you're exactly right.

1226
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a great place to go, just because

1227
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: some sports bars the food doesn't match up. It's more

1228
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: than ambiance all the TV's, but that place, the food

1229
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: is what they focus on, and then they give you

1230
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: TVs to watch while you're there. So I think it's good.

1231
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: When you're at Miami. What Bowl games you guys go to? Now,

1232
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: I know the last year you went to the Rose Bowl.

1233
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: The first year was the Gator Bawl. We played Bill

1234
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: O'Brien's Georgia Tech team. So Bill O'Brien on the other

1235
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: sideline there, I am calling the game. Little did we

1236
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: know that we would meet up. And I'm sure it

1237
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: means so much to him to even hear that right now.

1238
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: Not really. The Keynes won that game. Nate Webster was

1239
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: the MVP. I'll that would forget it, and Ken Dorsey quarterbacked.

1240
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: He was still a freshman, a true freshman YEA. The

1241
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: next year was the Sugar Bowl, and that was the

1242
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: year the Canes should have been in the national championship.

1243
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: That was the year Florida State got in ahead of

1244
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: them because of computers saying that Florida State was better

1245
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: than the KEYNESI even though each team had won loss

1246
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: and the Keynes had directly beaten Florida State head to head.

1247
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: For some reason, we couldn't figure this out. And to

1248
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: make matters worse, had Florida State done what it should

1249
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: have done and beaten Oklahoma, the Keynes would have won

1250
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 1: a split national championship because the AP voter said they

1251
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: would have voted the Hurricanes number one. So you add

1252
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: and then the Rose Bowl the final year and that

1253
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: was the that Florida Miami game. That was the big

1254
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: brawl out on Bourbon Street. We're talking about on Thy thirty.

1255
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because back in the day at

1256
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: the time, I heard about it right away. I wasn't

1257
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 1: there at the fight, but I heard it because we

1258
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: were like a couple of blocks away, you know. I mean,

1259
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: it was just New Orleans is a great bowl city.

1260
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: We all know it's a great events city. There's a

1261
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: reason why they keep getting these Final fours and Super

1262
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 1: Bowls and whatever else. I gotta tell you though, as

1263
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: far as bold experience, and let's just be honest here,

1264
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl is an amazing

1265
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: bowl and fourth best attendants in the country, and the

1266
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: way it's run, it's just put together so well. The committee,

1267
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots, David Fletcher, everybody. I know you have fletch

1268
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: out a lot, but I think for think about this

1269
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: for what they this used to be not the same bowl,

1270
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: but Houston used to have the Houston Bowl and it

1271
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: turned into this Bowl. And this Bowl is in another level,

1272
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: It's in another stratosphere. It's phenomenal as far as the

1273
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: traditional games that have been around a long time. The

1274
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl when I was there, was the first year

1275
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: that it wasn't pack ten big ten all right, And

1276
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: they were not happy about it there, the organizers, but

1277
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: they were wonderful anyway, and they all wear the red

1278
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,439
Speaker 1: jackets and it's a big time. I think I told

1279
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: you the story were we went to the raid, which

1280
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: was incredible. Yeah, he told me you gotta go to

1281
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: the told me, and I've said, I don't want to

1282
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: get to do a show. We had to find a

1283
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: place and that was and you know me, Johnny, I

1284
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: was like, we will fight. We had no place to

1285
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: do the show. To do an afternoon show that day,

1286
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: we had no place to do. I said, we will

1287
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: find a place. We'll plug into a line and we're

1288
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: gonna do the show. We're gonna find a phone line. Yeah,

1289
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: we're having trouble finding a phone line in Pasadena. We

1290
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: ended up at the Rose Bowl office. They're like what.

1291
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yeah, we're with w QAM in Miami. We

1292
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: need to do this show. They let us use a

1293
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: fax machine line from an office. We set up in

1294
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: an office and did a show. The show must go on.

1295
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: I love that challenge. Sometimes it was great. I can't

1296
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: tell you when I hear fax line. One of my favorite,

1297
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: one of my favorite stories that Sean Pendergas can attest

1298
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: this because his recalls even better than mine. We once

1299
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: did a show Sean and I together. We had a

1300
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: sports bar and we kept dropping. Every so often we

1301
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: do the show and going on and we kept the

1302
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: line would drop and we're like, oh so finally the

1303
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: third or fourth time, we're like, what is going on?

1304
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: We couldn't figure it out. We couldn't figure it out,

1305
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: and you're like, y'all just go back to the studio, like, okay,

1306
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: luckily were close. We drive back studio, would do the

1307
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: rest of the show, come and find out we're plugged

1308
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: into a fax line. And every time they would get

1309
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: a fact order off the we'd cough the air and

1310
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, to be kidding, Oh yeah, or yeah,

1311
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: one of those lines where they're using it for the

1312
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: credit cards. That was That was too, that's happened. We

1313
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: could tell radio stories all day long. In fact, that's

1314
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 1: an offseason show radio story. Well, Drew and I came

1315
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: up with the we came up with a new concept.

1316
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: Actually it's a it's an ancillary concept to in the Lab.

1317
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna be in the Lab story time. In the

1318
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: Lab storytime, you're having a spin off of in the Lab.

1319
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: We're already having in this story time. What is this

1320
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: like all in the family, We're gonna have a spinoff? Well,

1321
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: yesterday we did in the Lab and Drew was asked

1322
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: about Randy Motchuman Savage, and so he's like, should tell

1323
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 1: the story? And I was like, I was like, well, no,

1324
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: maybe we should say. No, I'm gonna tell the stories. Okay,

1325
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: tell the story about Randy Motchuman Savage. So he tells

1326
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 1: the story about the man and meeting and matcha man.

1327
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: He tells the whole story, and in the middle, I'm thinking,

1328
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 1: this is great. This can be kind of our like spinoff.

1329
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: This can be our thing. You can't just do it

1330
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: on in the Lab. Yeah, It's it's almost like cable

1331
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: television in the earlyers. We need to invent another network.

1332
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: We need an in the Lab network, okay, because the

1333
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: show isn't enough. So we've come up with in the

1334
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: Lab story Time. We're like, this is gonna be great

1335
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: because you could you could you could tell some you

1336
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: could tell some radio stories, um, some big ones. Oh,

1337
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: we'd have to get you know. Andy Houdak hangs out

1338
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: in a sometimes and he was the engineer for the

1339
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: Oilers broadcast. He's got some Oh he's got I'll tell

1340
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: you what. You throw an old song at him, he'll

1341
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: tell you the forty five like the length of the song.

1342
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: Whether I could do some of this stuff because I

1343
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 1: was a DJ for a year. The other thing he

1344
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 1: used to do on the flights with the Texans in

1345
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 1: the early days, he brought an FAA radio with him

1346
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: and so he listened to it the whole time, like

1347
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: you you know, like he would. I don't know who

1348
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: likes to listen to this, but he would listen to

1349
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: the whole way. That's his entertainment. But I always thought,

1350
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,919
Speaker 1: if Andy has like an ashen look on his face,

1351
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: we know it's bad news. Like every time it was turbulence,

1352
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: I'd look over to Andy, like is it okay. You'd

1353
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: be like, we're fine, We're fine, you know, because he's

1354
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: listening to the cockpit, like, oh gosh, please, Mark, I

1355
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: took a little bit of the cheese today. This morning,

1356
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: I was I was watching the All twenty two back

1357
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: of the Browns game, and I got through it a

1358
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 1: halftime and I was like, man, it was such a

1359
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 1: dominant half. I was like, okay, I've seen enough. And

1360
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: I was like, man, if we win this weekend, does

1361
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: that lock up a playoff spot? Oh? Like any kind

1362
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: of playoffs, any kind of playoff spot. So I looked

1363
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 1: at I was like, okay, is this lock it up?

1364
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: And I was like, what would happen if we were

1365
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: this and and we didn't win another game? Could anybody

1366
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: catch us? Would Baltimore be able to catch us? And

1367
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: I had to go through like four layers of takers

1368
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: lose out possibilities. Yeah, And I just was like, oh man,

1369
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: we can find out about the Ravens and a tiebreaker. Well,

1370
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: unfortunately there's okay, So the first tiebreaker's head to head

1371
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, and the next one is in the conference.

1372
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:04,439
Speaker 1: If they they would have to win out. So well,

1373
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, if the Texans win, If

1374
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: the Texas win, but then they winch without a Titans

1375
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 1: uh loss on Thursday, because first of all, Baltimore Baltimore,

1376
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: Baltimore finishes, they're seventy five, Baltimore finishes ten and six,

1377
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: they lose to the Chiefs, which would make up seven

1378
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 1: and six, but they win the last three, we would

1379
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: have the same conference record, we'd have the same overall record.

1380
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:32,560
Speaker 1: We would not have met in the season. So the

1381
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: next tiebreaker is amongst common teams. And I'm not sure

1382
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: how you do that though, because the common teams like

1383
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: the Ravens played the Titans, but we played them twice

1384
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: and split and yeah, and then the Ravens would have

1385
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: played the Browns, but we played them once, so I

1386
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: don't know how that factored in. So that was one

1387
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: they lost to them on the first time. Yeah, they've

1388
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 1: got they've got the Browns coming up in a couple

1389
01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: of don't worry, No, I I don't think it will,

1390
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's It's put it this way,

1391
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: it's difficult to clinch this week without a Titans loss.

1392
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: On Thursday, the Titans lose and the Texans beat the Cults,

1393
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: they're in that they win the AFC South. But I

1394
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: was really rooting for the Jags big time tomorrow. Yeah,

1395
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 1: I mean going into Sunday. It would be kind of

1396
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: it'd be kind of nice to know, hey, this is

1397
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 1: hatt a T shirt game, as opposed to, hey, you

1398
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: gotta keep, you know, keep what I think with this

1399
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: team though, and this is I want to change the thinking.

1400
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking back to Oh, I can't remember

1401
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: who it was and what game it was, but we

1402
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: were watching a particular game and the outcome went one way.

1403
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 1: Or it may have been the Patriots, but there was

1404
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: a game where oh, it's the Titans Patriots, and we

1405
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: were all like, oh man, the Titans. I can't believe this.

1406
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: The Titans beat the Patriots. Are you serious? And then

1407
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: I remember somebody tweeted at me and said, look, you

1408
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: gotta think differently. You gotta start thinking about this at

1409
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: a higher level. Feel good about this. You gotta think

1410
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:54,680
Speaker 1: you gotta feel good about this because you want the

1411
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: Patriots to lose, you end up getting to buy You

1412
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: gotta quit thinking about oh, just a division. Don't think

1413
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: like a loser. Yeah, I don't think like a winner,

1414
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 1: like we're gonna go get the big prize. We need

1415
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: help on the big end of it, I know. And

1416
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 1: I was just trying to figure out a way that Okay,

1417
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: you're at least you know, you're in the dance with

1418
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: a win this weekend. And that said, I couldn't find

1419
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't totally sure. So basically what it came to

1420
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: was not totally sure. It would be better if Tennessee

1421
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: could just lose, yeah, and then the Texans could win

1422
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 1: and then move on from there and then go on

1423
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: to play the Jets and the Eagles on the road,

1424
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: the Jags the final game at home. So I think

1425
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: you're right, though, it would be great to take the

1426
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 1: field knowing that a win gets you in. Yeah, you know,

1427
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 1: kind of like against the Bengals on Christmas Eve. I mean,

1428
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: it worked out so perfectly because you when you when

1429
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: everybody walked in the building that night, it was you win,

1430
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 1: you're in. You win, you win a division, you win,

1431
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: You're in the game in Tennessee, doesn't matter. Yeah. I

1432
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: think the thing is, ironically, I think these last four

1433
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: are gonna matter because you look at what each team.

1434
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: You look at what the Chiefs have, You look at

1435
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: what the Patriots have in front. They still got the Steelers.

1436
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: So you look at the two teams that are ahead

1437
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: of you at that point, and you're going, man, the

1438
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: Patriots still have to tangle with the Steelers. Steelers have

1439
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: still got to tangle with the Patriots, and the Saints

1440
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: and the Steelers already behind you, and then you've got

1441
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs that I've got to tangle with the Chargers,

1442
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna knock each other off in one way,

1443
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 1: shape or form, and I'm trying to figure out what's best.

1444
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: Do we want the Chargers to beat the Chiefs and

1445
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: all that? I don't know. I do know that after

1446
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: I went through the exercise, I was like, Okay, I've

1447
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 1: eaten enough cheese. I gotta get back to the I

1448
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: gotta get back in focus. I was gonna ask you

1449
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: if this team, But I was gonna ask you a

1450
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:36,560
Speaker 1: very cheesy question though, because clearly, well or make a

1451
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: cheesy point that if you could somehow get a buy this,

1452
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: this sport, this league is amazing because if you can

1453
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,480
Speaker 1: actually bypass an entire round of competition in the postseason

1454
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: and then get a home game that is so huge,

1455
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: you don't have to play an entire weekend. These games

1456
01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: are the magnitude of them is phenomenal. Just to think

1457
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: about that, that you could skip a weekend and move

1458
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 1: into the next round. How many times of the Patriots

1459
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,679
Speaker 1: made the Super Bowl playing on the opening weekend never never?

1460
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: Isn't that incredible? They've always gotten by Dealers have done it.

1461
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 1: They've won playing all three on the road. It can

1462
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: be done. The Packers did it, I mean the Giants

1463
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: didn't know seven. It can be done, but you'd rather not.

1464
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: You get that bye week. I mean, you get the

1465
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: bye week if you if you get to a point

1466
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: where Week seventeen doesn't matter and you still get the

1467
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: bye week. Oh man, that I made this point last

1468
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: that happened. I want to be in a situation where

1469
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: if you're not going to get the bye, you know,

1470
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: going into week seventeen so you can rest guys. Yeah,

1471
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,719
Speaker 1: I don't want to play week seventeen and lose the bye.

1472
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:50,760
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Playing the next week, you

1473
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to rest anybody. At least just

1474
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: still get a chance to arrest from key guys. You

1475
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: can't rest everybody but some key guys. If you know

1476
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get the going into week seventeen. In

1477
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: the back of your head, are you hearing Coach O'Brien,

1478
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: he's young, guys, stop this. He's banging on the door

1479
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: right now. Johnny, I know exactly, But take care of

1480
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: business on Sunday, be one to know after the weekend

1481
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: and just keep doing that. Look, you go take on

1482
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 1: the Colts and then you got one more home game

1483
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Hopefully you got more after that.

1484
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 1: But listen, I was talking to Drew earlier today, Mark,

1485
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you echo this thought. Remember where we

1486
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:28,679
Speaker 1: were last year at this time? Not good? Yeah, I was, Johnny,

1487
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 1: I was out of practice. I was thinking this time

1488
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:32,679
Speaker 1: last year of practice. I'm looking at t J Yates

1489
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: and Taylor Heineke out there, and I love TJ and Taylor.

1490
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 1: You know, great guy, whatever, but it's not the same thing.

1491
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: It is not the same thing. Mark, appreciate it. Thanks, Johnny.

1492
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:42,600
Speaker 1: Will we get back. It's time to go into the

1493
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: lab with our good friend Drew Doherty. Drew and I

1494
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 1: do a podcast together. We have a will stip it

1495
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:49,680
Speaker 1: from that next right here in Texas All Access one

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Speaker 1: final segment of Texas All Access on this Wednesday evening.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris. It's Tim Bar Stats Challenge,

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01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: brought to you by Schlumberg. Visit Houston Texans dot com

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: today to register to take the Stats Challenge. All Right,

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Speaker 1: our Stats Challenge today is two sixty two to seventy four.

1501
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: That was the halftime comparison of total yards for the

1502
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: Texans to the Browns two hundred and sixty two yards

1503
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 1: to seventy four yards, sixteen first downs to six first downs.

1504
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:31,799
Speaker 1: The Texans were fifty percent on third downs, the Browns

1505
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: zero percent. It was that dominating of a first half

1506
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: for your Texans. Now, Drew Doherty is going to go

1507
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,440
Speaker 1: further with that thought in our in the Lab podcast,

1508
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: and here it is. Let's get into this first quarter.

1509
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: It was the recipe for a runaway because you held

1510
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: the ball on two possessions. The first one you burn

1511
01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: off you know, six and a half minutes off the clock,

1512
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 1: and you get a field goal. Yeah you want, you

1513
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: want a touchdown obviously every time you get the ball,

1514
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: but you don't get one. But still you burn six

1515
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: forty eight off the clock. Then Cleveland gets the ball

1516
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: three and out held the ball just for under two minutes.

1517
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 1: Next one you go on your touchdown drive, you burn

1518
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 1: off a lot more time and you're up ten zip

1519
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: when the quarter ends. You held the ball for twelve

1520
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: minutes and twenty six seconds. Cleveland had the ball for

1521
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: two minutes and thirty four seconds. You basically had held

1522
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 1: the ball ten more minutes than they did in the

1523
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 1: first quarter, and when the first quarter ends, they're staring

1524
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: up at a ten nothing deficit. And because of that,

1525
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: Nick Chubble only gets to run nine times, he only

1526
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,639
Speaker 1: gets thirty one yards gets a touchdown, but nine times

1527
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: John thirty one yards. He came in. He and Duke Johnson,

1528
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:49,400
Speaker 1: they came in averaging five and a half a pop.

1529
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 1: They were really really effective running the ball. They weren't

1530
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: effective against the Texans. Meanwhile, you go thirty nine carries

1531
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty seven yards. You suffocate them.

1532
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: I mean you have at least sufocate them. And it's

1533
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 1: because of what you were able to do in that

1534
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:06,600
Speaker 1: first quarter. You make them throw forty three times, and

1535
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: when you're gonna throw it more times, you throw the ball,

1536
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: you up yourself up to some some more problems there.

1537
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:13,599
Speaker 1: And that's what we saw. No doubt that that first drive,

1538
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: to me, there there are a few things to that,

1539
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: to that edge and to that end, and I will

1540
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: also point to a drive that started at the end

1541
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: of the first quarter that went into the second that

1542
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: I thought was one of the more underrated drives in

1543
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: the game. But the the Browns won the toss and deferred,

1544
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: which I would do too. I mean, even though I've

1545
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: I've got a pretty good offense and I'd like getting

1546
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 1: out of the gate fast. Think they thought that's a

1547
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 1: pretty good defense too. Yeah, they felt like, yeah, they

1548
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: thought they would get some turnovers. They get the ball

1549
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 1: to start second half. Yeah, however, but if you get

1550
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 1: the ball to start the game, especially at home, you

1551
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: gotta go down score three or seven. You gotta go

1552
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: down score and the Texas did that, and they got

1553
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 1: that third and the third and fifteen conversion from Watson

1554
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,639
Speaker 1: the Hopkins, which I think maybe Deshawn's best throw all year.

1555
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that brow was a jam. They weren't able

1556
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: to do anything after that. They had to kick the

1557
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: field goal. But they're up three nothing. That was big

1558
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: to get that that to get points, take time out

1559
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:12,640
Speaker 1: the clock to go down and do it. And I

1560
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: think ultimately Bill Brian would like to score probably a

1561
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 1: little bit faster, get the ball back all that, and

1562
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: obviously score seven. But they weren't able to do that.

1563
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: But they got the fuel goal and they're up three nothing.

1564
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: Now at that point, you led the whole way in

1565
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: this game because of that because you start three nothing,

1566
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: you get the three out, then you get the punt

1567
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: return from DeAndre Carter, which gets called back a seventy

1568
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: yard punt return, which could have been worse because he

1569
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:35,680
Speaker 1: did fumble the ball. Now the Browns would had it

1570
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: inside their five, but regardless, they'd start to drive eighteen

1571
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: gre eighty two yards. Great drive. I mean the number

1572
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: of number of players on that drive. Jordan Thomas fifteen

1573
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: yard catch. Damarius Thomas had a catch on that drive

1574
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. As well, you know DeAndre Hopkins

1575
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:54,679
Speaker 1: has had a catch for fourteen or twenty four yards,

1576
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,800
Speaker 1: and then Jordan Thomas gets the touchdown. You're up tending nothing.

1577
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: Now we got up tend nothing. Tennessee or Tennessee get

1578
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: the ten nothing on us, and what happened? I don't

1579
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: think you Tennessee relaxed. You put the throttle down, You

1580
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: ran away from those guys. Right, There was not even

1581
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: a It was a speed bump. Is usually a lot

1582
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: bigger deal to deal with. That was a speed bump

1583
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: for the text two nights ago. I didn't think it

1584
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: would be a speed bump for Cleveland, but I've seen

1585
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: that before where home team coming off a big win

1586
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: Monday Night or a big win. They're playing a team

1587
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:28,680
Speaker 1: that everybody in building thinks or knows it should you

1588
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: should beat them, and should beat them pretty soundly. Now

1589
01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: you gotta tend nothing lead. I've seen teams relax and

1590
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: just just a brief, just brief second because you're up

1591
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: ten nothing. Brenton, you dominated the first quarter, dominated, you ran,

1592
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:48,719
Speaker 1: let's see ten, You went twenty three plays to their five.

1593
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 1: But right after we go up ten nothing, they callaway

1594
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:58,439
Speaker 1: for six. Mayfield HiT's Landry for sixteen. It's Landry again

1595
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: for seven. It's second in three and they're in our territory.

1596
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that was too easy on those first

1597
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: three plays. But then they clamped down the Texans due

1598
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: and instead throw to David and Joku. They tried to

1599
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: flip the joke out through the flat and Whitney was

1600
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 1: the first one there played it perfectly. Didn't make the tackle,

1601
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of dudes that got there.

1602
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: They ended up being a five yard loss. That stead

1603
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: up third and eight pass got knocked down on third

1604
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: and eight. He couldn't find anybody. Look for Duke Johnson,

1605
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: but it was out of bounds. Now, it's third and eight,

1606
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: you're at the forty nine yard line. You gotta punt,

1607
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: and punted to the Texans. Texas flipped the fuel position,

1608
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: and now you're kind of back where you want to

1609
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 1: be at that point. Up ten and nothing, you get

1610
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: to pick. It's seventeen nothing, and now it's pretty much

1611
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: ball game. Now a half could always go worse, but

1612
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,479
Speaker 1: it really couldn't go too much worse for the Browns

1613
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: because they had technically six possessions, but one of those

1614
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: was they received a kickoff and they had one second

1615
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:53,759
Speaker 1: left on the clock. Yeah, so five possessions, they go punt, punt, interception, interception, interception,

1616
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: or as I like to say, punt punt pick pick

1617
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 1: pick boom, if you like the literation, and you're twenty

1618
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: three nothing down at the half. I mean it was.

1619
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: It was an insurmountable thing. And I want to talk

1620
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: about this because one hundred twenty minutes have been played

1621
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 1: the last two games. You play the Titans, you play

1622
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 1: the Browns, you win both of those by double digits.

1623
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:16,599
Speaker 1: But John you led by double digits in those two

1624
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: games for eighty five minutes in six seconds, So for

1625
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: more than three quarters of the past two games. You've

1626
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: been on cruise control. You've been leading by ten or

1627
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:31,200
Speaker 1: more points. That's dominance. I don't care what you say.

1628
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: I don't care the NFL. I don't care if it's

1629
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: a tomato can quote unquote. I mean the tomato cans

1630
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL are still very very close to the

1631
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: great ones. It's the NFL. This isn't You're not playing

1632
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 1: Timbuctoo State. You have choked people out for three better

1633
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: than three quarters of the last two games. It's to

1634
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:53,639
Speaker 1: my point earlier, it's just double digit leads. It's they've

1635
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 1: led for more. They they ran away with it in

1636
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,960
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter against Miami one by nineteen. When they

1637
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 1: took the lead against Tennessee. Forget it, it's ball game.

1638
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 1: They did that against Cleveland from the outset. I mean

1639
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: they just put the squeeze on. I think, which is

1640
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:16,760
Speaker 1: what is scary is I think they still haven't completely

1641
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,639
Speaker 1: hit their stride offensively. I think defensively, playing pretty well,

1642
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: playing pretty solid, They're they're kind of finding their groove,

1643
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: but you're still working to Mary's Thomas into the offense.

1644
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: He played Washington. Wait, let's see, he played Denver, Washington,

1645
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: Tennessee He's only played four games. DeAndre Carter's only played

1646
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: three games. QT hasn't played much this year. Hopefully you'll

1647
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 1: be able to get him back for the Colts, which

1648
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: you'll be huge because now you've got QT and Carter Tea,

1649
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: which would be kind of fun. So you've got you've

1650
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: got different things going on with this offense that if

1651
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 1: you can kind of get in a little bit of

1652
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: a groove, which is weird to say when you've won

1653
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: nine in a row, but if you get in a

1654
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: little bit of a groove, who knows what you can do.

1655
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:00,080
Speaker 1: But I talked to Bill O'Brien a halftime, and of

1656
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: course chuckled about it later. But I've seen that look

1657
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: before from him, and I know he wasn't I knew

1658
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,679
Speaker 1: he wasn't happy. So as I'm asking the first question,

1659
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him like you're up twenty three to nothing.

1660
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm thinking you're up twenty three to nothing. Yeah,

1661
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: but he wants more touchdowns on all he wanted more touchdowns.

1662
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 1: He feel like the Shan was getting dinged around a

1663
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: little bit, that they should have protect him a little

1664
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: bit better. The Browns were bringing a lot of pressure

1665
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:21,519
Speaker 1: and he thought, like, they handled it well, but they

1666
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 1: need to handle it better. I think when he went

1667
01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 1: back and watched the film he felt better on Monday.

1668
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: But you feel better when you when you walk out

1669
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: of There were twenty nine to thirteen lead, but defensively

1670
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: made plays all day long. Justin Reid not only did

1671
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: Justin read of the strip fumble at the at the

1672
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 1: goal line, he had two big, huge hits where he

1673
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 1: knocked passes away. They would have been big completions. So

1674
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: he had another one on Landry that he almost knocked

1675
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,839
Speaker 1: the ball back into it probably should have been an incompletion.

1676
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: I know he did. I that's what I thought. I

1677
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: thought he knocked the ball back into Landry's hand. Yeah,

1678
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: and then Landry was like, oh thanks, you kind of

1679
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: pinned into his body. Mean landed he had the ball.

1680
01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 1: I like Landry. He's a good receiver. Yeah, I like

1681
01:22:58,280 --> 01:22:59,680
Speaker 1: him a lot. I know people kind of he's not

1682
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: a d con dunker man. Well, that was the thing

1683
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 1: in Miami. They didn't throw it to him any further

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01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: than any of the slot runs. Jarvis is a really

1685
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: good rusk. I think that's gonna be a decent team

1686
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: and years to come. That Cleveland team. Drew is certainly

1687
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 1: not wrong about that. That Brown's team is gonna be

1688
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: very very good in the future. They at home runs

1689
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: with Denzel Warred, Nick chub Baker, Mayfield, Genard avery On

1690
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:24,960
Speaker 1: in the draft. They will continue to do that. I

1691
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: think Jarvis Landry is a really good fit for them.

1692
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,680
Speaker 1: I think Antonio Callaway in the draft as well. They

1693
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: took a little risk on that from the off the

1694
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 1: field issues that Callawad had. He is a he is

1695
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 1: a burner. He is the Brown t Y Hilton going forward.

1696
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: That team is gonna be very very good going for

1697
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is hitting his stride is getting gonna get

1698
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: even better. It could be salty in the AFC North

1699
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: gonna be salty. I thought they were salty the other day.

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01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, I went back and watch

1701
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: the film. They take a lot of chances defensively. There

1702
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: are a lot of yards and points we left on

1703
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: the field, a lot a lot. But you live and

1704
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 1: you learn and you move on with win. That's what

1705
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,719
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Do it a little bit better against

1706
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: the Colts on Sunday. A lot of people don't thank today.

1707
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: Gotta the DBC do Caroline can Russell back to Andre ware,

1708
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: Mark Vanimir, Drew Doherty and all of you for listening.

1709
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: You guys are the best. You are the reason why

1710
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 1: we get to do this every single day. So I

1711
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: appreciate you. I appreciate everything my guys back at Sports

1712
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 1: Radio six ten do for me and for the show.

1713
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: I know they do a great job after me each

1714
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: and every night this week and throughout the weeks, so

1715
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:32,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate them so very much. But it's time for

1716
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: the Colts. Well not quite time for the Colts, but

1717
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:36,840
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, We're gonna turn to pay

1718
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:38,960
Speaker 1: down Friday. We're gonna do our keys, We're gonna break

1719
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: it down even further. We're gonna go behind the mic

1720
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: with Matt Taylor of the Annapolis Colts. We got all

1721
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: that to look forward to on Friday. We will see

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01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: you then, everybody, and as always, go Texans.