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Speaker 1: What's happen everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Wednesday this year Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 2: Hooday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst,

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Speaker 2: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. We get ready to

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Speaker 2: take on the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night. Everything is

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Speaker 2: sort of shifted with the game and being one day later.

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Speaker 3: One night later actually, but we got a lot to do.

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Speaker 3: We have our pretty much same Wednesday schedule. We got

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Speaker 3: men behind the mics with Brad Sham, longtime Cowboys voice,

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Speaker 3: and Mark Vandermire. We have also got in the lab.

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Speaker 3: Well that a little bit later, but we kick off

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Speaker 3: every Wednesday show with whom that's right, General manager Nick Caserio.

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Speaker 1: So let's do it. Nick Cassario on with Mark and

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Speaker 1: myself joining us in studio.

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Speaker 4: It's general manager and executive vice president Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, good to see you. How's it going.

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Speaker 5: Fella's going to be here all right?

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Speaker 4: With a big Monday nighter coming up at Dallas. A

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Speaker 4: lot to go over with the Detroit game, A lot

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Speaker 4: went right, but obviously you didn't get the result you wanted.

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Speaker 4: What about your thoughts on that evening and moving forward

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Speaker 4: into the Dallas game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like most weeks.

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Speaker 6: So whatever kind of happens in the game, you kind

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Speaker 6: of go back, look at the result, and you got

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Speaker 6: to flip the page and get ready for the next team,

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Speaker 6: the next opportunity. And the game the other night did

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Speaker 6: some good things to your point in the end, just

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Speaker 6: couldn't make enough plays.

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Speaker 5: In the end, Detroit made a few more plays.

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Speaker 6: Good football team, took advantage of some opportunities, and you know,

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Speaker 6: similar to the Green Bay game. Game kind of played

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Speaker 6: out some respects, similar had some success defensively, took the

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Speaker 6: ball away a little bit and ended up losing on

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Speaker 6: a walk off field goal. So that's the NFL. It's away,

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Speaker 6: it goes sometimes. So the big thing is just going

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Speaker 6: through the game. Went through the game the other day,

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Speaker 6: Coach Ryan's went through the game with the team, kind

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Speaker 6: of showed them some of the good, some of the bad,

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Speaker 6: some of the areas we can improve, and then really

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Speaker 6: it's just move forward and get ready for you know,

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Speaker 6: a good team and the Cowboys Monday night. Altered schedule,

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Speaker 6: those types of things. So that's kind of where we are.

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 3: I know we can't play every game at home, but

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Speaker 3: I kind of wish we did, because when you look

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Speaker 3: at quarterback performances against US at home, it's been like

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Speaker 3: it's almost shocking, because if you look at the five

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Speaker 3: holy cow, the other night fifty percent completion percentage and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a magic formula being at

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Speaker 3: What is it really about what we're doing that is

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Speaker 5: Home playing good team defense.

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Speaker 6: The crowd certainly is a part of that as well,

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Speaker 6: so the really good environment the other night. So we've

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Speaker 6: played for the most part over the course of the year,

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Speaker 6: we played pretty good defensively, taking the ball away.

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Speaker 5: We've disrupted the quarterback.

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Speaker 6: You know that we didn't get a lot and there

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Speaker 6: wasn't any sacks, but we were around a quarterback a bunch

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Speaker 6: has been tight and we've taken the ball away. So overall,

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Speaker 6: we've played pretty good team defense over the course of

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Speaker 5: Certainly had our moments some games.

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Speaker 6: But overall, you know, we just got to continue to

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Speaker 6: we continue that formula here regardless of playing at home

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Speaker 4: I know you didn't run the ball as well as

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Speaker 4: you wanted to in that game, obviously, but some of

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Speaker 4: the past plays really worked out well first half especially,

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Speaker 4: And what other challenges do you have as you get

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Detroit could did a good job and

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Speaker 6: So we had some some good plays there, covered missed

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Speaker 6: I say, look at Detroit, it's kind of going back

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Speaker 6: to the defense as well, Like we had some production

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Speaker 6: to be about just consistent performance, trying to have positive

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Speaker 6: eliminate the negative plays, and then the turnovers. You know,

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Speaker 6: So we just got to try to make the improvements

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Speaker 3: Your words kept reverberating in my head, like every time

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Speaker 3: I was like, dang, you hit right on it. It's

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Speaker 3: something that Mark and I talk a lot about, Like

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Speaker 3: first down, you're gonna earn your opportunities to rush quarterback.

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Speaker 3: The flip side is, you know you don't get anything

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Speaker 3: their exotic blitzes and their exact rushes if you get

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Speaker 1: So I kept thinking about that as we went through.

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Speaker 3: Drafted John Metchi and obviously since John was drafted, he's

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Speaker 5: Sure when you really look.

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Speaker 6: At the arc of sort of this season, so had

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Speaker 6: I think it was the Giants that the rank CA

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Speaker 6: But has had a good attitude, has worked really hard.

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Speaker 6: I think natural tendency is frustration, maybe start to build

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Speaker 6: he took advantage of opportunity and he helped us offensively

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Speaker 6: and made a number of plays. Really a credit to him,

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Speaker 6: his attitude, I would say, his demeanor, his mindset, and

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Speaker 6: the work that you know, coach McDaniels has done with

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Speaker 6: But I think when you go back and look, it

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Speaker 6: I you're starting to see some of the fruits of

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Speaker 6: and now you just want to see that continue moving forward.

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Speaker 4: Nick, I'm gonna steal one of Johnny's questions. It's not

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Speaker 4: the scouting good more question, it's it's about rookie. DB's

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Speaker 4: What about that these two rookies with that kind of

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've done a nice job for us.

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Speaker 6: So from the beginning of the season, going back kind

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Speaker 6: they've had a good attitude, they've improved, they've taken the

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Speaker 5: With the four.

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Speaker 6: Kamari is he leads in pass breakups or is closed.

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Speaker 6: So Mkaelen is a player that showed the propensity to

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Speaker 5: Over into the games. And that's ultimately what you like

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 3: I know, when when you were in New England hearing

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Speaker 3: Coach Belichick talk all the time about ignore the noise,

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Speaker 1: Good and bad, but there's just noise.

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Speaker 3: How much more difficult is it to kind of block

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Speaker 3: it out not listen to what the outside You remember

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Speaker 3: you said something last week about here there's narratives out there.

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Speaker 3: How tough is it to kind of block those noise

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Speaker 6: Yeah, depending on who you talk to, who the person

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Speaker 6: is honestly has no impact or ramifications on anything that

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Speaker 6: So honestly, in twenty four years that I've been in

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Speaker 6: on who you ask, But for me, it doesn't really

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Speaker 6: while anything we're doing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so well, with no Kenyon on the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: Juice moves over.

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Speaker 4: We've seen that arrangement before last year down the stretch

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Speaker 4: and what about that because you mentioned they were stacking

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Speaker 4: the box making it tough to run. But there were

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Speaker 4: some opportunities in the passing game, like you said.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, those guys did a good job, and I think

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Speaker 5: That place to start.

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Speaker 6: They're probably gonna get Bland back, who argue, I believe

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Speaker 5: So good football team, they got enough, good players.

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Speaker 6: They've been more, they've been competitive in some games, some

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Speaker 4: Yep, Nick, This fascinates me because sometimes people from the

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Speaker 1: Nick, you know, as well as anybody.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's a good question, Johnny.

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Speaker 4: Yea third consecutive primetime game, fourth of the season so far, Nick,

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Speaker 6: No, it's problematic so because he's not really in the

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Speaker 6: got to make sure you take care of him otherwise

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Speaker 6: it's going to be a long day. I mean, anybody

439
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Speaker 6: that has where did you have over one hundred pressures

440
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Speaker 6: last year or something ridiculous, So you just better make

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Speaker 6: sure you know where he is.

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 4: Earlier in the season team won three in a row.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about the positive attitude and everything that

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Speaker 4: the players and the organization has really with coach Ryan's

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Speaker 4: and you and we talked to Damiico Ryans this week

447
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Speaker 4: and talked about a tough time with back to back

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Speaker 4: losses and all that, and he said, it's not about

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Speaker 4: getting through it, it's about growing through it. And I

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Speaker 4: thought that was really good that you have to use

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Speaker 4: this as not necessarily a positive, but use it as

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Speaker 4: a growth opportunity to get better.

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Speaker 6: Every week, every situation is opportunity for improvement. So you

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Speaker 6: just have to valuate your team.

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Speaker 5: Where are we.

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Speaker 6: Honestly, the attitude and the approach isn't any different, you know,

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Speaker 6: You're just the big thing is just putting ourselves in

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Speaker 6: a position or we got a chance to win a

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Speaker 6: football game. So it's all about the work, it's all

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Speaker 6: about the preparation, it's all about the mindset. There's nothing

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Speaker 6: we can do about what's happened in the past. That's

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Speaker 6: all we can do is control what in front of us.

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Speaker 6: So Dir does a great job and a pulse of

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Speaker 6: the team understanding what's needed, the message that's required.

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Speaker 5: So couldn't agree more with his you know, his.

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Speaker 6: Idea has thought about what we're trying to do, and

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Speaker 6: it's all about improvement. This time of the year, everybody's

468
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Speaker 6: played nine to ten games, whatever it is, so the

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Speaker 6: teams that it can improve from here.

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Speaker 5: Moving forward, are probably going.

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Speaker 6: To be the teams that are best positioned for whatever

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Speaker 6: is in front of you, and if you don't, then

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Speaker 6: ultimately you earn what you earn.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have to ask you about rookies, and Mark

475
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Speaker 3: stole my rookie dB question. So I'm gonna ask you

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Speaker 3: about two rookies. But on the Cowboys side, Tyler Goyden

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Speaker 3: and BB, and BB looks like a big brick is

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Speaker 3: what he looks like playing center. What have been your

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Speaker 3: thoughts about the way those two rookies have played for Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: No, they've done a good job.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Guydon's starting at left tackle, which is probably

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Speaker 6: the hardest position to play on the offensive line, but big, long,

484
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Speaker 6: athletic player can stay in front and plea. You know

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Speaker 6: a number of people, and the BBE is kind of

486
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Speaker 6: transitioned because here's a guy who played tackle that he

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Speaker 6: worked at guard at the Cena Bowl. Now he's playing center.

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Speaker 6: So he's done a good job. Big body inside looks

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Speaker 6: like he's got a good playing strength. Smart player has

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Speaker 6: an understanding. So they've kind of taken our what are

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Speaker 6: our five best players and kind of put them and

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Speaker 6: deployed them accordingly. Including Tyler Smith right left guard, so

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Speaker 6: he played left tackle. So the combination of him at

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Speaker 6: left guard guidance at left tackle. Zach has been the

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Speaker 6: mainstay that we talked about at right guard and steel.

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Speaker 6: So the right side has kind of been in place,

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Speaker 6: kind of had some make some modifications and changes and

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Speaker 6: in certain b b there at center. So both of

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Speaker 6: those players have done a really good job and they've

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Speaker 6: really been there from day one.

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Speaker 4: Nick, You've been in so many big games, big seasons,

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Speaker 4: and I know once we get on the field, it's

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Speaker 4: all about the ex's and the o's and the players

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Speaker 4: and everything.

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Speaker 1: But when we say Dallas, what does that mean to you? Dallas?

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Speaker 4: Like marketing back to your youth maybe and early days

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Speaker 4: in football.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean everybody associates the Cowboys being America's team,

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Speaker 6: and I'm sure I'm not going to make any friends

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Speaker 6: here in Houston now, but the Cowboys were actually like

511
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Speaker 6: my favorite team growing up. So I remember watching the game,

512
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Speaker 6: the championship game in my parents' bedroom we had our

513
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Speaker 6: kind of bedroom growing up, or our main living room,

514
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Speaker 6: and then I was in my parents' bedroom washing the

515
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Speaker 6: San Francisco Dallas game. So anytime the Cowboys were on

516
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Speaker 6: Danny White, Everson Walls, and when you go look at

517
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Speaker 6: some of the players who have had a significant impact

518
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Speaker 6: on a game, Coach Landrey and his imprint. So unfortunately,

519
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Speaker 6: I was a Cowboys fan growing up, so I'm not

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Speaker 6: a Cowboys fan anymore.

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Speaker 1: But that's what matters most.

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Speaker 3: What matters right now is what matters most, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: And it's a Monday night game. And I Mark and

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Speaker 3: I talk about this all the time. You know, growing up,

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Speaker 3: Monday night was the night there was no Sunday Night

526
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Speaker 3: football for a long time. It was Monday night. That

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Speaker 3: was the night everybody got a chance to see you play.

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Speaker 3: So Monday Night for me always kind of triggers us

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Speaker 3: something a little different even than Sunday Night. So you

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Speaker 3: kind of feel the same way for you, Nick, And

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Speaker 3: in a sense that you talk about that game that

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Speaker 3: was what Monday Night was big back in the eighties.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's unique.

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Speaker 6: It's the only game, so everybody's watching, so you have

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Speaker 6: a bunch of eyeballs to your point, So growing up,

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Speaker 6: you're always trying to grab a few extra minutes because normally,

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Speaker 6: when you're younger, you should be in bed, but when

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Speaker 6: the game is on. You know, you're probably trying sneak

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Speaker 6: a few extra winks, which is what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: East Coast time. That was late.

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Speaker 5: It's exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: But Monday Night is kind of its own entity now.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the league is kind of evolved where I

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Speaker 6: mean there's almost a game every day. We're getting there,

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Speaker 6: but you know, Monday Night is always hold held a

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Speaker 6: special place in a lot of people's hearts. So it's

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Speaker 6: kind of cool to see that continue. But honestly, it's

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Speaker 6: different because it's the only team, the only two teams

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Speaker 6: that are playing that particular day.

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Speaker 4: When you're at the NFL annual meeting otherwise known as

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Speaker 4: the Owners meetings in March, do they talk about these

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Speaker 4: things like, hey, Tuesday's open, maybe they've.

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Speaker 6: Got Yeah, no, Max is taking place right now. So

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Speaker 6: I've been actually Maction time, watching Maction. So there's like

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Speaker 6: four people in the stands, but you're still watching.

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Speaker 4: It's a TV show, TV Nick, thanks a lot, good luck,

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Speaker 4: Thanks Pelas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, later this week we're actually gonna have on somebody

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Speaker 3: with us who was involved in maction games back in

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Speaker 3: his college career hashtag and I you if you can

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Speaker 3: figure that one out, that'd be a little bit later

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Speaker 3: in the week. So that's just a little bit of

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Speaker 3: tease for what we got coming up later this week,

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Speaker 3: getting ready for the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next.

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Speaker 3: Mark gonna step in with me and we're gona talk

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Speaker 3: about the AFC South, what's going on in Indy. Mac

568
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Speaker 3: Jones is taking over in Jacksonville, the Titans have his

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Speaker 3: chance against the Vikings, and then we'll talk about this

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Speaker 3: one against the Dallas Cowboys coming up on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: That's next. Not Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Wednesday edition at Texans All Access from

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Speaker 3: the Texans Radio studio John Harris alongside Mark vandermir and

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Speaker 3: we are still dealing with weirdness. By weirdness, I mean

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Speaker 3: it's Wednesday, and so our body clock says practice, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: practice practice. There's practice. There's practice going on. There's practice

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Speaker 3: somewhere happening, and there's nobody in the building. Yeah, because

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Speaker 3: everything got pushed up a day.

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Speaker 1: Let's say everybody. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: That's hyperbolic in some sense. There are people in the building.

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Speaker 3: The coaches are getting the game plan together for the

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Speaker 3: Dallas players too.

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Speaker 4: Players are here, not all of them, Yeah, but there

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Speaker 4: are a lot of players here, but I know what

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Speaker 4: you mean, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: It feels very empty.

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Speaker 4: It feels like a Tuesday, and it feels like a

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Speaker 4: slow Tuesday. I just think that this is an odd stretch. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: three consecutive primetime games. You have the weirdness of the

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Speaker 4: short week, then a long week, then a long week

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Speaker 4: but a shorter than last week's long week, and then

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Speaker 4: you're gonna have a super short week next week, as

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Speaker 4: Nick was talking about, when you take on the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 4: and that scares me.

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Speaker 1: But we can get to that next week.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, what scares you with the Tennessee Titans because.

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Speaker 4: A little bit coming off the win I hope against

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Speaker 4: the Tellas Cowboys, and then you take out a Titans

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Speaker 4: team that has hung in there in some games.

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Speaker 1: And you know what do I.

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Speaker 4: Always say about division games, Yeah, they're not afraid of you.

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Speaker 1: They're not afraid.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna come in here, They're gonna give it there

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Speaker 4: all they've been playing knowing that their season is over

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Speaker 4: for a long time. That's another thing that kind of

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Speaker 4: concerns me. I'm not gonna say scares, but concerns me

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Speaker 4: about teams that are out of it, especially teams that

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Speaker 4: have been out of it for a while and know

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Speaker 4: that they are out of teams. And we talked about

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Speaker 4: this with Nick. The twenty twenty two Houston Texans out

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Speaker 4: of it for a long time, but they go to Dallas,

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Speaker 4: they give Dallas fits, They give the chief fits, the

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Speaker 4: Chiefs fits here at NRG Stadium, just to rekindle, just

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Speaker 4: to remind everybody how that went, because I think it's

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Speaker 4: important as you go to Dallas on Monday night to

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Speaker 4: remember those twenty twenty two Texans take it on the

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Speaker 4: Chiefs here.

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Speaker 1: So you're at home, you're taking on a Chiefs team.

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Speaker 4: That probably overlooks whatever you've got because they're in the

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Speaker 4: midst of another tough season for them, all these primetime

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Speaker 4: games for them, all these teams that want to beat

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Speaker 4: them and unseat the Chiefs from whatever. And the Texans

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Speaker 4: were one of those teams that day, and you took

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Speaker 4: them to overtime, gave Mahomes fits, and you got the

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Speaker 4: ball at overtime. Mahomes had the ball first in ot

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Speaker 4: and you stopped him and got the ball on a

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Speaker 4: punt That never happens that usually that's the death sentence,

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes has the ball first in overtime. Look at

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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield when they had the point toss when they

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Speaker 4: played the Bucks and his body language, Oh that's it,

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Speaker 4: it's over now.

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Speaker 1: That was at Arrowhead, this was here. He ended up

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Speaker 1: losing anyway.

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Speaker 4: But the point is, beware the team that's been out

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Speaker 4: of it and it's just playing week to week, because

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Speaker 4: if they get a little momentum, they'll be really enthusiastic

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Speaker 4: throughout the entire game and maybe execute whatever game plan

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Speaker 4: they put together and give you fits.

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Speaker 3: I've been reading Paul Kuharski's quotes from Brian Callahan's presser today.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anything, and it's it.

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Speaker 3: Just sounds a lot like in some sense, twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 3: Brian Callahan talking about Will Levis getting rid of the

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Speaker 3: ball quicker. You know that was something we talked about

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Speaker 3: with Davis. You know, get Davis getting rid of the

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Speaker 3: ball quicker. Brian Callahan is talking about scoring another touchdown

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Speaker 3: a game that was our offense at twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: We score another touchdown a game, Maybe we flipped this thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, sure, Easier said than done.

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Speaker 3: Brian Callahan said he thinks the Titans are getting better

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Speaker 3: under the surface. He knows they are judged on wins

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Speaker 3: and losses, but feels important stuff is developing. I mean

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Speaker 3: that was that was our That was twenty twenty two. Yep,

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Speaker 3: for us. I just hope that they continue to get

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Speaker 3: the quarterback thing wrong with the Titans. But last week,

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Speaker 3: last week was we talk about game of inches all

656
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Speaker 3: the time. I mean actliche is used. Yeah, that game

657
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 3: against the Lions was nothing but the game game of inches.

658
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 3: It was a I mean the two field goals are

659
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 3: games of it. I mean it's it's yeah, he misses

660
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 3: that thing by three inches to the right or the

661
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: left on either one.

662
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: He doinks the.

663
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 3: Upright and who knows where that game ends up going.

664
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 3: Other than that, it played out about as well on

665
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 3: Sunday as it could possibly have for the Texans. Jaguars

666
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 3: got beat home by the Vikings. The Titans went out

667
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 3: to LA and got beat by the Chargers. And the

668
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 3: Colts kept stepping on themselves and we'll get to some

669
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 3: news with that in a second, and lost to the

670
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. It's great AFC South with us losing. It

671
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 3: was AFC self losing sweep. If you will, can that

672
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 3: happen again this weekend? Okay, here's what we got.

673
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 4: What it was south and we're gonna know by the

674
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 4: time the Texans kick off.

675
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, and I have a story with this one.

676
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: Okay, first game of the day will be the Jacksonville

677
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: Jaguars at the Detroit Lions. So you know who the

678
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 3: quarterback coach is for the Detroit Lions, right, Mark Brunell.

679
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: Mark Brunell. Now, Mark Brunell and I have something in common.

680
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 3: We were both head coaches head coach at Episcoal High School.

681
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: So I go, I see him on a bench, and

682
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 3: I've met him a couple of times before, but it's

683
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: been one of those you meet for a couple of.

684
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: Minutes you don't know whether you know the name or anything.

685
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 3: And so I said, coach Brunell, And as soon as

686
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 3: he saw me, he recognized me. I don't know if

687
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 3: you remember my name, And I said, Hey, I'm John Harris.

688
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 3: I said, I don't know if you remember me. I

689
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 3: used to coach at piscol Oh.

690
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

691
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: So we started talking for a couple of minutes and

692
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 3: he goes, I got one for you.

693
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: You'll love this. This is specifically for you. And I

694
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: was like, okay, this is weird.

695
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 3: And he goes, you remember, and he brings up the

696
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 3: son of my defensive coordinator. My defensive coordinator was Gouy

697
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 3: named Charlie Hunt. He was like my Brett Nakara, Like

698
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 3: Charlie was the first one off the bus. He was

699
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 3: like six ' four, like two sixty and worked out

700
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: every day.

701
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: So assistant coach and security direction, yeah, he was. He

702
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: was my muscle.

703
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 3: So he allowed me to talk all kinds of trash.

704
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: And then Charlie was stepped in the front and nobody

705
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 3: got me. So Charlie's son, Little Charlie, we just call

706
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 3: him Little Charlie. Little Charlie ended up transferring schools to

707
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 3: go to a score. Football is probably a little bit

708
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: more important. Charlie thought he had a future, and he did.

709
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 3: He ended up playing in college. He ended up playing

710
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 3: the Arena League for a long time.

711
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: And so Mark goes, Lil Charlie married my daughter.

712
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: So my former player is Mary Mark Brunell's daughter, and

713
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 3: so now I and they're expecting I'm like, oh my god,

714
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 3: it's incredible. Because when I coached little Charlie, I had

715
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 3: him for one year. He was like thirteen years old. Yeah,

716
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 3: he's like thirteen. And obviously I've known Big Charlie for

717
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 3: a long time. So Mark Brunell, Mark Burnot's daughter marries

718
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 3: little Charlie and they're expecting, and so they're all going

719
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: up to Detroit.

720
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: Because Jacksonville takes on Detroit.

721
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: And it does look like Taylor Decker might get back

722
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 3: for that game.

723
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: Don't know about Sam Laportage.

724
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: Just shit, but Jacksonville going to beat Detroit not happening,

725
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 3: probably not, probably not. Okay, The Minnesota Vikings are gonna

726
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 3: take on the Tennessee Titans.

727
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: Oh, so the Titans have not seen the Vikes yet.

728
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 4: Vikes have seen everybody else so far in the AFC South.

729
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 4: But now it's the Titans. And where does that one

730
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 4: take place? One will take place in Nashville?

731
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I don't think it.

732
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 4: Gets weird, But look at the situation last week the

733
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 4: Jacksonville Jaguars with Mac Jones. Actually they didn't really you know,

734
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 4: they weren't really in that thing late, but early on

735
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 4: I thought showed it. What if Mac Jones turns into

736
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 4: something for Jacksonville, Doug Peterson, you know, Mac Jones has

737
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 4: won a few games rookie year goes to the playoffs.

738
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 4: Maybe this is what he needed. This system now not

739
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 4: so much didn't do so well. They need Trevor Lawrence back,

740
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 4: they do.

741
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like they're going to get Trevor back.

742
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: The thought is.

743
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 3: The thought is that he's gonna make it back after

744
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 3: the bye week. Okay, And who's the first game against

745
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: after the bye week?

746
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: Who? You're Houston Texans in Jacksonville? Oh?

747
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 4: So therebye is next week next to the week the

748
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 4: Texans played the title.

749
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 5: That's right.

750
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get the Jags off a bye. I

751
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: don't like that veryou.

752
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: I don't like I don't like us going into a

753
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 3: bye they coming out.

754
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 4: Of a buy aching for that bye. So you have

755
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 4: three games here, Cowboys, Titans, and Jags. Anyway, and answer

756
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 4: to your question, yeah, you could be looking at zero

757
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 4: for three for the rest of the division again going

758
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 4: into Monday night.

759
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 3: Now the game, Oh, these games are all twelve o'clock

760
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 3: local time on Sunday.

761
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: I think we'll be we won't be in the air

762
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: quite yet. It will be close. The Colts taking on

763
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: the Jets.

764
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 3: If there is news in Indianapolis, if you missed it,

765
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 3: the Danapolis Colts will make another quarterback change, and no

766
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 3: Texas fans, it's not Sam Ellinger. It is going back

767
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 3: to Anthony Richardson. We've talked about this.

768
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 4: One ad Nol and you and I kind of disagree

769
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 4: a little bit on this somewhat.

770
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 3: I think my biggest issue is just the consistency of

771
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 3: it all.

772
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,959
Speaker 1: You make a decision, stick with it.

773
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 3: But as we talked it out, it probably made more

774
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 3: sense that, you know, veterans.

775
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: One thing we've seen in the NFL lately which.

776
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 3: I find interesting is players taking their issues to higher

777
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 3: levels of the organization. In New Orleans case, everything it

778
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 3: sounded like was we are tired of Dennis Allen. You

779
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 3: gotta do something fired us Allen. I think with the Colts,

780
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 3: the more we talked about this, the more I feel

781
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 3: like the veterans of the team.

782
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: After the loss to US where he.

783
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: Tapped out, veterans are like, look, we're not that far

784
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 3: out of this. We get a little rung going. Maybe

785
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 3: Joe can get this thing going for us. Let's see

786
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: what Joe can do.

787
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 4: They lose twice, and they know that the Texans have

788
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 4: tough games coming up, right, Maybe we get back into

789
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 4: it us rail by a game. Look what happened to

790
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 4: the Texans and the Jags last year. Texans ended up

791
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 4: winning the division. So I understood putting Flacco in at

792
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 4: that point.

793
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I My thought is, we'll either go with

794
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: Flack or go with Richardson. So it just seemed like,

795
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 3: with two weeks, okay, what have you proven? And then

796
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 3: the more we talked about the more it made sense

797
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: that Flacco can't play anymore. Flack, Yeah, the expiration date

798
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: hit the milk. The milk is really really sour. And

799
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: now the Colts veterans have just got to say, all right,

800
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: we just got a grim Barrett.

801
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: We just got to go with it.

802
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, because yeah, it's highly unlikely to get to the playoffs,

803
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 3: and yes, we got to develop this dude for the

804
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 3: betterment of the organization. But I kind of think the

805
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 3: veterans went in and said, look, we've got a shot here.

806
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 3: We gotta see what we gotta with Joe. Maybe we

807
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: got a shot. These are two tough games, but we

808
00:32:58,480 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 3: got to see what Joe can do to kind of

809
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 3: get a going when he loses twice. Now, we ended

810
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: up winning one and losing one. Oh, actually, we know

811
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 3: we lost both. There's still two and a half, there's

812
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 3: still two and a half games out, but they're just

813
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 3: not getting that much more out of Flacco than they

814
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: would have with Richardson. So I think they probably let's

815
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: go back to Richard. I just that whole thing of

816
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 3: quarterback up and down. It just feels very Bill O'Brien ask,

817
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 3: and I hate it, well hate it.

818
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 4: When you have two quarterbacks you don't have one or whatever,

819
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 4: and they're so different. You have Flaco who's turning forty.

820
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 4: You have Anthony Richardson, who's not who's in his second

821
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: year and has barely played enough football to really give

822
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 4: you a good idea of what he's going to be.

823
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 4: Although I think you have a good enough idea to

824
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 4: realize that he's not going to be accurate.

825
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: Now things do change.

826
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 4: Everybody points to Josh Allen improving his accuracy, but Anthony

827
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 4: Richardson is so inaccurate that I know those some of

828
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 4: those throws are so amazing that he makes, But there

829
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 4: are just too many inconsistent moments.

830
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's not even like baseball.

831
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 4: A home run hitter who strikes out a lot, you

832
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 4: can't out in pro football, striking out means throwing picks.

833
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 4: Striking out means you're horrible on third down. Striking out

834
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 4: is not good, you know, So you have to find

835
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 4: a way to be better balanced.

836
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: You have to find a better metaphor for this.

837
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised that what the Flacco give them a shot,

838
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 4: but two games in not working, go back to Richardson

839
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 4: and finally exhaust this option. At the end of the year,

840
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 4: they'll make the decision. Maybe they've made it already, whether

841
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 4: they draft a quarterback or acquire one in another way

842
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 4: or not. And they're still looking, Johnny, I mean this

843
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 4: goes back to Philip Rivers. Yeah, we're still looking for

844
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 4: a quarterback in Indianapolis.

845
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 3: They're still looking. I mean, it's crazy to think about.

846
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 3: So those are the AFC South games.

847
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: Now.

848
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 3: Obviously we would like to have Detroit, Minnesota and the

849
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 3: Jets take care of those three Texans win again. That

850
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 3: will give them three games up on the nearest team,

851
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: which would be the Colts, and then you only have

852
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 3: six to play. At that point, you would feel really

853
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 3: good about the division. We've talked about that for about

854
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 3: how if you went three and one over that four

855
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: game stretcher, Detroit Dallas, Tennessee, Jacksonville, and the Colts went

856
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 3: one in three, you would have clinched the division by

857
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:12,959
Speaker 3: the time you got to the bye weekend. Then things

858
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: get all kinds of crazy at that point. But those

859
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 3: are the three that you absolutely, Hey, we want the

860
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: NFC to win two of those and we want the

861
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: Jets to win the other.

862
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 4: Did the Jets have anything left after what happened at Arizona?

863
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to think about the Texans

864
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 4: Jets game anymore. But the Jets played pretty well in

865
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 4: that game, especially on the defensive side the second half.

866
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 4: But after what happened in Arizona, what is that locker room? Like,

867
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 4: what are they feeling? What kind of performance are they

868
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 4: going to muster on Sunday against Indianapolis.

869
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: That's almost like asking, you know, how are your kids

870
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 3: going to feel when they get up in the morning.

871
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 3: Sometimes they got a lot of energy. Sometimes they're like,

872
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 3: I want to fay in bet. I don't know what

873
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 3: to think about this Jets team. I really don't think

874
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 3: I do both teams being out of it. Johnny have

875
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 3: something similar here, And this is the way I feel

876
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 3: about the Texans, Cowboys or any team we talked about

877
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 3: it earlier.

878
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: That's out of it.

879
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 4: If they're into the game early and it brings them

880
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 4: some success, right, they got a lead of a touchdown,

881
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 4: they're tied at the half, something like that.

882
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they keep playing. I think so too.

883
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 4: Not the first sign of trouble necessarily, but you go

884
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 4: down double figures and they start to really feel it.

885
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 4: They're not coming back from that, not at this stage

886
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 4: of the seat. That's exactly right, by and large, and

887
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 4: Devanta Adams, I think you think back to the Jets game.

888
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: There are a lot of different things going. It took

889
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 4: Garret Wilson having to make those two incredible catches. Yeah,

890
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 4: and once he made.

891
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 3: Those catches, it was like, Okay, we're not winning this

892
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: game because now they're jacked up. Now they're juiced up.

893
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 3: Now they're playing at a at a pretty high level.

894
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: Here's the other thing I was watching. I watched that

895
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 3: actually last night, late last night. It was kind of

896
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 3: flipping around and you know, doom scrolling or whatever. And

897
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 3: I got to YouTube and I saw them miked up

898
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 3: by Kyler Murray Arizona Cardinals miked up. It was interesting.

899
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: But what I also saw was he he took a

900
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 3: lot of heat too. They got they got after him

901
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 3: pretty well, But the difference was that he threw a

902
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: couple off his back foot. Yeah, he hit Trey McBride

903
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: a few times. He hit Marvin the far corner of

904
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 3: the end zone. Against DJ Reid, he didn't take as

905
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 3: much pressure on every down, but it would be one

906
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 3: guy that he would have to elude, not two or

907
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 3: three like CJ felt like was eluding two or three

908
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 3: guys every time he went back there. Kyler would have

909
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 3: a guy that he would have to kind of move

910
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 3: out of the way of and then make a throw.

911
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: He's slippery and he's I'm telling you, he was on it.

912
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 3: But he took a shot whole boy. He took a

913
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 3: shot from Quincy Williams from behind. He's miked up.

914
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: He took.

915
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, he pops up and

916
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 3: throws a touchdown I think on the next.

917
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: Play, and then just kind of went off like you can't.

918
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 3: I mean, it was the Kyler Kyler Murray you kind

919
00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 3: of expected, but just watching and listen to him like

920
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 3: he's come a long way, and I I was I'll

921
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 3: readily say it.

922
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: I was the one who was saying the Cardinals.

923
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 3: Look out for the Cardinals look out after we played

924
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 3: him last year, I'm like they got something. Give them

925
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: a couple of drafts, give them another opportunity to kind

926
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 3: of get a few more players in there. Well, that

927
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 3: time has come because trade McBride, Marvin Harrison and Kyler

928
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 3: and Connor and running back ridiculous.

929
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: So that division this year is so gettible, yes.

930
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: And they're leading it right now. And we saw the

931
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 3: Rams the other night against the Dolphins. It's it's just

932
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 3: been kind of all overplace in the forty nine. It's

933
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 3: gonna come down to the forty nine ers and the

934
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 3: Cardinals at some point, which just kind of odd to say,

935
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: but I think it's gonna it's gonna come down to that.

936
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: One of the things that you and I have talked

937
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 3: about during you know, kind of our breaks in between

938
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: interviews and you know, different things going on.

939
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: Is who do we want to win?

940
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 3: Like as we go through obviously we know about THEDFC

941
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: South teams to lose just because we want them to

942
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 3: wallow in misery for a little bit, but there are

943
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 3: some games that are taking place and we got to

944
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 3: know who do we want to win?

945
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 5: Right?

946
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: So here's one of those first games.

947
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 3: On Sunday at noon, Baltimore plays Pittsburgh. Oh, that's a

948
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: good one at Pittsburgh. Baltimore seven and three. A loss

949
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 3: would make them seven and four. Oh, the Steelers would

950
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 3: be eight and two, eight and two of the winn

951
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 3: up in the lost column.

952
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: I don't really I like that.

953
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 3: I almost feel like we need the Ravens to win

954
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: that one, bring the Steelers back down. The Steelers have

955
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 3: not played a division game all year. They play four

956
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 3: in a row.

957
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 4: So normally, just watching a game who you're rooting for.

958
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 4: In this particular game, I'd rather root for the Steelers

959
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 4: in the Ravens any day of the week. But you

960
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 4: are absolutely right, as a Texan you want the Ravens

961
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 4: to win that division. Now you still want to beat

962
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 4: them obviously in Christmas, but you want the Ravens to

963
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 4: win that division because you don't want to deal with

964
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 4: the Ravens at home home, possibly right in the first

965
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 4: round of the playoffs. That's correct, which could happen if

966
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 4: the Ravens finished second to the Steelers.

967
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: So see how that plays out.

968
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 4: So the answer to that one, Steelers hosting the Ravens Sunday,

969
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: at noon is root for the Steelers you would end

970
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 4: up getting or the roof of the Ravens for the Ravens.

971
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 4: The Ravens win would make the maten three in the

972
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 4: Steelers seven and three. They would get caught up on

973
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 4: the by because Steels already had their bye.

974
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's one. You're another one. I saw this

975
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 3: note earlier today. Patrick mahomes and Travis Kelcey's homes were

976
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 3: burglarized in the last month. That's crappy man, that is correct,

977
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. Must be Broncos fans. Okay, the afternoon game

978
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 3: on Sunday, hopefully we will have landed at this point

979
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 3: to see this one. Kansas City's undefeated nine. I know,

980
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: we all know that Buffalo's eight and two now last

981
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 3: year and what has been the trend in the regular

982
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 3: season is that Buffalo wins in the regular season, but

983
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 3: then Kansas City has found the way to win in

984
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 3: the postseason. Yeah, last year divisional playoff round, Casey went

985
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 3: in a Buffalo beat Buffalo, knock them out of the playoffs,

986
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 3: then went to Baltimore when the AFC Championship game. There

987
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 3: Kansas City nine to know Buffalo eight and two.

988
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,280
Speaker 1: Who do we want Kansas City?

989
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 4: I hate to say it because it feels like the

990
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 4: other one normally watching these two teams play without any

991
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 4: kind of restra interest. I would root for the Bills

992
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 4: to beat the Chiefs, no question about that. But on Sunday,

993
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 4: Texans fans, Kansas City's got the one seed. They're going

994
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 4: to sail away right at now?

995
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: Look, you just want them to just just get one

996
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 3: seed and run off with it.

997
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 4: Just get it, deal with them later. Look, I'd love

998
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 4: to have the one seed. We all know where you

999
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 4: are with four losses right now, with the seven games

1000
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 4: to go, who knows what happened?

1001
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 7: Now?

1002
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: You can win out?

1003
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know you'd beat the Chiefs among those victories.

1004
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 4: That would give them at least two. If you look

1005
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 4: the Bills this week and the Bills win, and maybe

1006
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 4: the Chiefs lose more. But let me let me entice

1007
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 4: you with this to root for the Chiefs. The Bills

1008
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 4: schedule after that, they play the Chiefs this weekend, then

1009
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 4: they have the forty nine Ers at home. That's a

1010
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 4: toss up game to meyep, I would probably favor the

1011
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 4: Bills at the Rams. Anything could happen, I know, the

1012
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 4: Rams just lost to the Dolphins, but I think that

1013
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 4: was an ambush at Detroit.

1014
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: Tough game.

1015
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, New England at home, division game, like you say,

1016
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 4: division game, and we were happening Jets at home, and

1017
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 4: then at the Patriots. I think out of those last

1018
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 4: three games, the most you could hope for is one loss.

1019
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 4: But maybe they lose to Detroit and or San Francisco

1020
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 4: and the Chiefs and that would give them, you know,

1021
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 4: if they lose four or five and somehow you end

1022
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 4: up at five, yep, you have the tiebreaker over the Bills, right,

1023
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 4: which would be really cool.

1024
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 3: And so let's see what you want. Yeah, the last

1025
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 3: one is the Sunday night game.

1026
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I don't know if.

1027
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 3: This matters a whole heck of a lot, but Cincinnati's

1028
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 3: four and six, Chargers are six and three.

1029
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: So I'll just say it this way.

1030
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 3: If we had to face either one of those teams

1031
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 3: in the playoff, thinking of playoffs down the road, Yeah,

1032
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 3: but if we had to play one of those two

1033
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 3: teams in the playoffs, whould you rather play the Bengals

1034
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 3: or the Chargers.

1035
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: You're playing them at home, So I would say make it.

1036
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 4: The Bengals Invitational let's do it again.

1037
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: Come on, Cincinnati.

1038
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 4: Every time we've needed a big win, the Bengals have

1039
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 4: been there to give it to us. Right, that's true

1040
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 4: when we lost to them in a big spot. I'm

1041
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 4: trying to think here. You beat him in the playoffs

1042
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 4: in eleven and twelve. You beat him in eleven to

1043
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 4: clinch your first ever playoff berth fifteen, Monday Night Football

1044
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 4: there at eight. No, you desperately need one. You're three

1045
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 4: and five. You beat them ten to six. Sixteen, You

1046
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 4: beat him on Christmas Eve to win the Division Vision.

1047
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 4: Thank you Bengals last year. Look, it wasn't a must win,

1048
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 4: but it was a really good one again and it was.

1049
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: A huge victory. Big win.

1050
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 4: Matt Avendola at the Buzzer. Listen, give me the Bengals

1051
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 4: at home all day long.

1052
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, there's news around the NFL. Will hit

1053
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: it all next right here in Texans All Access. This

1054
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,280
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1055
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1059
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1060
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1061
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,520
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1062
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: Le get some news around the league. We mentioned it earlier.

1063
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 3: The Indianapolis Colts have made a decision on a quarterback.

1064
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 3: They have flip flop flip flop flop flip flip flop,

1065
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 3: flop flip flop.

1066
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: Back to Anthony Richardson.

1067
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 3: He will start this week against the New York Jets. Hey,

1068
00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 3: that is a tough one to have to face first

1069
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: time back.

1070
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: But Anthony Richardson.

1071
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: Will start for the remainder of the year, or well,

1072
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 3: that was the way that it was put by the Colts.

1073
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 3: He will remain the starter for the rest of the year.

1074
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 3: La Mark I talked about last segment. I'm not real

1075
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 3: happy with the flip flopping, but I can't I get it.

1076
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: I get it.

1077
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm a veteran on that team and

1078
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it going, hey man, we could.

1079
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: Possibly catch the Texas.

1080
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 3: Joe's played well Betune one, with Joe scoring some points

1081
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 3: with Joe Flacco in the last two weeks expiration date.

1082
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 3: Hit can't happen, So they go back to Anthony Richardson

1083
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 3: and we'll see what he has learned from this particular opportunity.

1084
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 3: The Bears fired off its coordinator Shane Waldron. That happened

1085
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. Thomas Brown will now take over. Thomas Brown

1086
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 3: will have I don't know the right way of saying this.

1087
00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 3: He'll have the honor of being the OC for the

1088
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 3: last two overall number one overall picks. He was the

1089
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: OC in Carolina for Bryce Young in twenty twenty three.

1090
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 3: He will now be the OC for the remainder of

1091
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Speaker 3: the year for Caleb Williams. And we'll see if this

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Speaker 3: one gets going in the right direction for Chicago. There

1093
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 3: were all kinds of rumors coming out that the Chicago

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00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 3: Bears veterans went to Matti everflu said you gotta make

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00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 3: a decision.

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Speaker 1: You gotta do this. This is not going well. We

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Speaker 1: got to change things.

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Speaker 3: There are even some veterans that said, apparently allegedly, we

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Speaker 3: want a new quarterback. We want Tyson Bagent, we don't

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00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 3: want Caleb Williams. But sounds like it's going to be

1101
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 3: Kayla Williams going forward with Thomas Brown. There in Chicago. Now,

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00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 3: this one was kind of interesting. He's not playing, but

1103
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 3: at some point the Vikings are I don't say the

1104
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 3: missing JJ McCarthy, but he would have been in the

1105
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 3: starting lineup by now. JJ McCarthy, rookie quarterback for the Vikings,

1106
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 3: recently underwent a procedure on his surgically repaired knee tormniscus,

1107
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 3: had season ending surgery. Training staff noticed some swelling that

1108
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 3: sent him back under the knife to get a procedure done.

1109
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 3: It does sound like his recovery is going to be

1110
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 3: on track, but I just don't like hearing that about

1111
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 3: a young quarterback having to go through surgery and then

1112
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 3: a cleanup surgery. That just doesn't sound good if I'm

1113
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 3: being honest. But that's the way it goes. Okay, we

1114
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Speaker 3: played the Cowboys on Monday Night. If you didn't know,

1115
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: the voice to the Cowboys is Brad Sham each and

1116
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 3: every week. I asked this many years ago, Mark Vandermer

1117
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 3: to do a little men behind to Mic sa Hey

1118
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 3: catch up with the play by play voice on the

1119
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: other side. Brad Sham was gracious enough with his time.

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Speaker 3: He's a tremendous individual. Brad Sham with Mark Vandermer next

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00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 3: right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We got one hour down water left to go.

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Speaker 3: Right here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 3: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 3: Football Analyst, sideline reporter. The eleventh year that I've been

1126
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 3: doing this Wednesday show. Love every second of it, and

1127
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 3: I love this segment that I will take a lot

1128
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 3: of responsibility for. This is many years ago. I said

1129
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 3: to Mark, you know, I really like when you talk

1130
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 3: to the play by play voices from the other side.

1131
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 3: We should do a segment and he said, challenge accept it.

1132
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 3: So every single week Mark makes contact with the play

1133
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 3: by play voice on the other side. Hey, would you

1134
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 3: be gracious enough to give me fifteen minutes or so

1135
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 3: of your time? We could talk about your team, the

1136
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 3: upcoming game, et cetera. And I would say, for the

1137
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 3: most part, the NFL voices have been very, very good

1138
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 3: with their time.

1139
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: If they haven't, they've got a lot going on.

1140
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 3: Like Bob we Shoes was doing, like NHL games, college games,

1141
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 3: it was hard to connect with him. Brad Sham was

1142
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 3: available and ready to go. So here is our men

1143
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 3: behind the Mike's segment with Mark vandermir the Voice of

1144
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 3: the Texans. It's Brad Sham, the play by play voice

1145
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: of the Dallas.

1146
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 4: Cowboys, joining us now in Texans Radio. It's the Voice

1147
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 4: of the Dallas Cowboys. Brad Sham. Brad, great to visit

1148
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 4: with you. How's it going with my friend?

1149
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 8: It's going, market's going.

1150
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 4: It's been a little tough, I know, or maybe very tough.

1151
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 4: So you tell me, how would you describe this season?

1152
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 4: You've been through it all, Brad, what would you say

1153
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 4: to people who just came down from another planet and

1154
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 4: asked you, how is the Cowboys season going?

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00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 8: It's going very poorly. And the thing that sustains me

1156
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 8: is something that you just said. Because I've been around

1157
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 8: a minute. I have been through this before. It's not fun.

1158
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 8: And it's not fun just because they're not playing well.

1159
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 8: It's not fun because the populace is up in arms,

1160
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 8: which they were anyway, because there was an awful lot

1161
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Speaker 8: of we don't care about twelve and five. Twelve and

1162
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 8: five doesn't mean anything. And I actually said on the

1163
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Speaker 8: air the other day, you know, for those of you

1164
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 8: who felt that way, I wouldn't mind a little twelve

1165
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 8: and five, right, now at least it gives you a chance.

1166
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 8: I understand why they're playing, and they hadn't done that,

1167
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 8: but they have a combination of a collection of injuries.

1168
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 8: Injuries are going to happen, you rarely get as many

1169
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 8: as they've had in one place, and then some I

1170
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 8: think they miscalculated on some personnel decisions coming into the year.

1171
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Speaker 8: So the result is the fans are not happy the players.

1172
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 8: We're only halfway through the year. The players are doing

1173
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 8: their best. All the coaches are out of contract, so

1174
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 8: you know that there's that talk and distraction, and it's difficult.

1175
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 8: Football is a really really hard game to play, physically violent,

1176
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Speaker 8: and it's disruptive to the human body. And when those

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Speaker 8: players at this level are not rewarded by winning, that

1178
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 8: puts a great stress on them, and I think I

1179
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 8: feel badly for them. It's any player that goes to

1180
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 8: you know you've seen it, but any player that goes

1181
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 8: through a year like this, that's a difficult thing.

1182
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 4: Well, we could talk about the coaching staff, but I

1183
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 4: want to talk about the quarterback situation with no Dak

1184
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 4: Prescott and how you think this is going to go

1185
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 4: with Cooper Rush. I know you saw one game of it.

1186
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 4: And you've seen Cooper before and they've had some success

1187
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 4: with him, So what about that facet of their game,

1188
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 4: how they're going to handle things at quarterback? And do

1189
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Speaker 4: you expect a better performance in game two of Cooper

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00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 4: this version of him?

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Speaker 8: Well, I would say that, you know, as you know,

1192
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 8: the great thing about this sport is that it's not tennis,

1193
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 8: So how the quarterback plays is frequently partly dependent on

1194
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 8: how everybody's playing around him and the quality of the opponent. Now,

1195
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 8: the way he played the other night was horrible, and

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Speaker 8: it's an aberration. That's not the Cooper Rush we've ever

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Speaker 8: seen before. And I do think it's fair to say

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Speaker 8: that when he came in when Dak missed five games

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Speaker 8: two years ago and he won four of the Rush

1200
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Speaker 8: started them and won four of them, it was a

1201
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Speaker 8: completely different team because the defense was dominant and they

1202
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 8: had a quality running game, and the defense was so

1203
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 8: good that they didn't have to score a lot of points.

1204
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Speaker 8: I think the defense in that stretch never gave up

1205
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 8: more than about seventeen points and they were taking the

1206
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 8: ball away all the time, so he was playing with

1207
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 8: short fields and what that means for the quarterback is

1208
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Speaker 8: that he doesn't have to hit a six run homer,

1209
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 8: he doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting. All

1210
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 8: he's got to do is I'm not saying, be a

1211
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Speaker 8: bus driver, but all he's got to do is play

1212
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Speaker 8: the position, run the plays that are called, and take

1213
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 8: your shots when they come. And he did. I mean,

1214
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Speaker 8: he made some quality plays. I don't mean to diminish

1215
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 8: what he did two years ago, but he didn't have

1216
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Speaker 8: the same team around him on either side of the ball,

1217
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Speaker 8: and so it's difficult. I think he's a quality backup

1218
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 8: quarterback and he's asked to do a whole lot more.

1219
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 8: I mean, he'll be the quarterback Monday night. I'd be

1220
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 8: surprised if we didn't see some packages for Trey Lance.

1221
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 8: And it's a little too soon for them to kind

1222
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 8: of know exactly how they want to go. But at

1223
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 8: some point, because both Rush and Lance are also out

1224
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 8: of contract at the end of the year, and so

1225
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 8: it only behooves them to find out a little bit

1226
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 8: more about Lance whatever they think they know, at some point.

1227
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 8: I don't think we're at that point yet, but at

1228
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 8: some point that Lance has got to play a game

1229
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 8: or two and in the meantime, Rush has proven himself

1230
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 8: dependable in the past. Just had a horrible game the

1231
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 8: other day, but he had a lot of help.

1232
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Speaker 4: Brad Sham Voys of the Dallas Cowboys joining us. Brad

1233
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 4: the running game obviously a quarterback's best friend. And last

1234
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 4: year it wasn't like you were top three in the

1235
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 4: league or something, but above the middle of the pack

1236
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 4: and now near the bottom of the league. What was

1237
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 4: the plan coming in? What's gone wrong with the ground game?

1238
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 8: Well, what their plan was, you'd have to ask them.

1239
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 8: They made a decision not to add substantially to the

1240
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 8: running back roster. They thought they thought between Ricodoubdeles and

1241
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 8: Elliott and Deuce Vaughan and the full back Liftkey, that

1242
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 8: they had enough to be competitive. The problem was that

1243
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,240
Speaker 8: they also made a conscious decision to start to rookie

1244
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 8: offensive linemen. One of them has played pretty well, one

1245
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 8: of them has been a little up and down, and

1246
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 8: then I think I think the right tackle has probably regressed,

1247
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 8: probably not having a good year for whatever reason. So

1248
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 8: when you can't block, you can't run. When you can't run,

1249
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 8: you can't play action pass and blah blah blah. But

1250
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 8: I think if they had it to do over again. Now,

1251
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 8: they didn't have a fourth round pick. And I know

1252
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 8: for an absolute fact that there were three or four

1253
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 8: running backs that they would who went in the fourth round,

1254
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 8: who they would have taken in a heartbeat, But they

1255
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 8: didn't have a fourth round pick because it was involved

1256
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 8: in obtaining Trey Lance last year. So you made the decision.

1257
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 8: And then, as you know, Jerry's caught a lot. Jerry

1258
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 8: Jones caught a lot of flack for from from people

1259
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 8: who don't understand how the salary cap works, or saying

1260
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 8: we couldn't afford derreck Henry. He might be right, I

1261
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 8: don't know, but I don't. I don't I could never

1262
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 8: manage a cap. But they knew that they had contracts

1263
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 8: to do with Prescott and Ceedee Lamb, and now they're

1264
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 8: sitting looking at trying to get one done with Michael

1265
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 8: Parsons maybe next year. And so they have salary cap issues,

1266
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 8: and that handcuffs you. Other teams find ways to be creative,

1267
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 8: at least in the short term. They didn't think that

1268
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 8: was possible, and so on the offensive side, they are

1269
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 8: living with the repercussions of some of the decisions they made.

1270
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Speaker 1: Brad other than injuries.

1271
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 4: Is there any other reason why the defense has dropped

1272
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 4: off in performance so much from twenty twenty three.

1273
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 8: Well, I think that other than injuries, glosses over the

1274
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 8: fact that they lost their top four defensive ends. So,

1275
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 8: as I've said to people, Mark, they could take they

1276
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 8: could take you and me and take us out and

1277
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 8: teach us the defense, the calls, the steps, the footwork,

1278
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 8: and we could learn them, and we could and we

1279
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 8: could execute them perfectly, and it wouldn't make a damn

1280
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 8: bit of difference. When you're playing in defensive ends five, six, seven,

1281
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 8: and eight, it's not going to be as good. So

1282
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 8: there's no way to account for that. They did not

1283
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,760
Speaker 8: account for defensive tackle. They thought they had enough. I didn't,

1284
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 8: but they thought they had enough at defensive tackle, and

1285
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 8: they they really did not. So now you've put that with,

1286
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 8: you know, playing defensive ends who weren't in the league

1287
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 8: and wouldn't be on the team, and so now you've

1288
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 8: got no One of the things that they was a

1289
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 8: hallmark of their last three years was their pass rush.

1290
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 8: So they didn't feel they could pay two or three

1291
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 8: guys who went to Washington with Dan Quinn, and that

1292
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 8: was part of it. They lost a lot of players

1293
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 8: who they felt they couldn't afford. Then they get the

1294
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 8: injuries they didn't address defensive tackle. I do think they

1295
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 8: upgraded at linebacker. And then that durn Bland, who of

1296
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 8: course had a great year last year at cornerback, not

1297
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 8: taking a snaps. He's had a broken foot and they

1298
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 8: thought he was getting ready to come back two weeks

1299
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 8: ago and he has not been able to play. And

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Speaker 8: Trayvon Diggs has still been kind of getting his sea

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Speaker 8: legs under him from missing last year. And so it's

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Speaker 8: not they don't have the same team, they don't have

1303
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 8: a they don't have good enough players. That's the bottom line.

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Speaker 4: Brad Sham joining us Voice of the Cowboys. Brad, can

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00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 4: you tell the listeners everybody knows about Dallas the attention

1306
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 4: that Cowboys get, but it seems like some players might

1307
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 4: be better suited for that than others. You tell me,

1308
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 4: what's it like you get off the bus with the

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00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys. Everywhere you go, the spotlight is shining so

1310
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 4: much focus, and you get everybody's best game, no matter

1311
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 4: what the Cowboys record is, because everybody seems to want

1312
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 4: to beat the Cowboys.

1313
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: Is that what it's like, Tell me more.

1314
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I think that what has happened is tex

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00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 8: Shram did a phenomenalz of building a really interesting, compelling,

1316
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 8: watchable team where great players were followed by great players,

1317
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 8: and they had that tremendous run before the late eighties,

1318
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 8: the twenty something consecutive years now there was no salary cap,

1319
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 8: it was a different league, and then so they were

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Speaker 8: still Then Landry gets fired. That's a big national story,

1321
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 8: and Jimmy comes in with his cedigree, and then three

1322
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 8: years in you've won two Super Bowls and so all

1323
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 8: of that makes their story compelling. And even when they're

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00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 8: not winning, then you know, they found Romo and then

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00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 8: they found Prescott and they are always interesting and the

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Speaker 8: television networks, rightly or wrongly, the television networks loved them

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00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 8: because people will watch. They're what what they have done

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 8: over the last you know, thirty or forty years is

1329
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 8: create a product that's so compelling that it's widely hated

1330
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 8: and passion in sports. I think passion can drive television viewers,

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01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 8: so people around I fully believe, and I've said this

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Speaker 8: many times, Mark there, I've never seen sports hate like

1333
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 8: the sports hate that people have for the Dallas Cowboys,

1334
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 8: and so when they're good, they're interesting and exciting and

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01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 8: they have compelling personalities, and so people want to watch it.

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01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 8: When they're terrible, the people who hate them want to

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01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 8: watch and celebrate their misery. And they're they're not a

1338
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 8: really interesting team this year to watch. And they still

1339
01:00:54,760 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 8: have a Sunday Night and two Monday night appearances left

1340
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 8: because they because they draws so many viewers that they

1341
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 8: always max out the number of primetime appearances you can get.

1342
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 8: So it's not like being around every other team. They're

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01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 8: not the only team that's like that, but it's not

1344
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 8: like being around every other team, and players notice it.

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01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of reasons for the Texans to be

1347
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 8: excited when they come in here Monday night, and not

1348
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 8: nearly the most important, but on the list is let's

1349
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 8: just go into Dallas's house and kick them like the

1350
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 8: dogs they are. Let's just show them up. We're sick

1351
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 8: of them. Players who are not in Dallas are not

1352
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 8: that much different from fans. They're sick of hearing about Dallas,

1353
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,479
Speaker 8: and if they have the opportunity to embarrass Dallas, they're

1354
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 8: going to do that. And so that's that's part of

1355
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 8: the deal. That comes with the that comes with having

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01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 8: a lightning rod of an owner, and it comes with

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01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 8: having the reputation that they've had and the success that

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01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,439
Speaker 8: they've had. But they this too shall pass. I've seen

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01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 8: it before. It's just no fun going through it while

1360
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Speaker 8: it's happening.

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Speaker 1: Rad one more for you here.

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Speaker 4: Dallas as a sports town, obviously the Cowboys are number one,

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01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 4: but you've been there forever and you used to work

1364
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 4: with the Rangers too, So tell me what it's like

1365
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 4: as a sports town.

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Speaker 1: How would you define it?

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Speaker 4: You had the Rangers with last year's success, Mavericks of

1368
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 4: course over the years and getting to the finals and

1369
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 4: everything like that, the Stars, So what kind of sports

1370
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 4: town is Dallas?

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Speaker 8: You know, I believe it's a front running winners town.

1372
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 8: And I'm a native Chicago and I'm a big Cub fan,

1373
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 8: and I go back to Wrigley Field every year, and

1374
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 8: there's no experience like that. I'm biased, but there's no

1375
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 8: experience like that. And they're they're not you usually really

1376
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 8: really good. Roger Staubach once said while he was playing

1377
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 8: the thing about this city is they love you win

1378
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 8: or tie. And so now what happens is from a

1379
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 8: Cowboys perspective, it's not just that people will come out

1380
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 8: in Boom, they'll sell their tickets to other teams. So

1381
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 8: my expectation would this would be very much like a

1382
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 8: Texans home game on Monday night. But because the culture

1383
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 8: in our state is what it is, and the Cowboys

1384
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 8: culture is so deeply ingrained, it's a Cowboys toun just

1385
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 8: like Saint Louis is a Cardinals town. It doesn't matter

1386
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 8: how good the Blues are. So the Rangers had generated

1387
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 8: tremendous attention and affection last year and they had a

1388
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 8: little carry over this year, but when it wasn't the

1389
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 8: same thing, then the interests dropped off. We'll see what

1390
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 8: it's like next year when the prospects are not so great.

1391
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 8: The Mavericks are on a nice run and they do

1392
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 8: have a good following. You know, they got to the finals.

1393
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 8: They won a championship in eleven so they've they've had

1394
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 8: the They've had the good fortune of having first Dirk

1395
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 8: Nowitzki and now Lukadancic in a time when one superstar

1396
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 8: in that sport can really generate interest. Hockey is the

1397
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 8: fourth most popular sport in town. The people who are

1398
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 8: devoted stars. Fans are devoted, but there's just not as

1399
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 8: much attention to the stars as there is. I would

1400
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 8: say the Mavericks and the Rangers run close second with

1401
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 8: each other. But it's a football town. It's a pro

1402
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 8: football town, it's a college football town, and it's a

1403
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 8: cowboys town, and a cowboy failure will usually get more

1404
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 8: attention than another team's success, whether that's fair or not.

1405
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 4: So I lied one more for you. This is the

1406
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 4: last one, I promise, because people ask me this question

1407
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 4: and my answer is usually not what they would think.

1408
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 4: And I got to imagine it's the same for you

1409
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 4: when people say, what's your favorite call? What's the moment

1410
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 4: for you at the microphone as the voice of the Cowboys.

1411
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 4: You know, for me, it's not when we clinched a

1412
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 4: playoff birth or a playoff win, and you've called super

1413
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 4: Bowl championships. But is there a moment that you like

1414
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 4: more than others for personal reasons at the microphone? This

1415
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,919
Speaker 4: is the moment, could be in a regular season game,

1416
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 4: maybe a Thanksgiving one, whatever it could be.

1417
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: I know you have one.

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01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 8: Well, you know, in forty six years there are a

1419
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 8: lot of them. The most memorable is probably Emmett Smith

1420
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 8: breaking the all time rushing record, but it's not my

1421
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 8: favorite call. I didn't like the call because the run

1422
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 8: was not literally defined as something that was going to

1423
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 8: But it's the one that's most historic and most quoted.

1424
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 8: I think that I had a game when I was

1425
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 8: working with Burn lung Quist and doing color with him

1426
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 8: in nineteen seventy nine when he was actually off doing

1427
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 8: a boxing tournament for ABC Television in December, and so

1428
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 8: Charlie Waters was injured and he was with me December

1429
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:33,320
Speaker 8: of seventy nine against Washington, huge ramifications the loser was

1430
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 8: possibly going to miss the playoffs, which is what happened,

1431
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 8: and went back and forth, a lot of great players

1432
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 8: on the field. The Cowboys won the game with about

1433
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 8: literally two seconds remaining, And because it was one of

1434
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 8: my first Cowboys play by play games, even though I'd

1435
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 8: been on the broadcast for three or four years, that

1436
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 8: that one sticks out as a favorite to me. It's

1437
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 8: one of the best football games I've ever seen.

1438
01:06:58,560 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 1: Wow, that's awesome.

1439
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 4: I know what you mean about the call with Emmett,

1440
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 4: because I think it's a great call, But the way

1441
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 4: you feel about it, you want those moments to be

1442
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 4: no doubt about it, so you could just let it rip, right.

1443
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're a we're you and I are professionals. We

1444
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 8: know when we're we know when we've done it the

1445
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 8: way we want to do it and the way we

1446
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 8: have not when we've not done it the way we

1447
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 8: want to do it. And it just didn't have that

1448
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 8: feel to it. But I will tell you that I

1449
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 8: think it was that same year I was doing Texas

1450
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 8: and Texas, A and M on CBS Radio on Thanksgiving weekend,

1451
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 8: Ricky Williams broke Tony dor sets then NCAA career rushing

1452
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 8: record and he did it with a forty yard run.

1453
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 8: That's how you that's what you want to break a record? Yep. Absolutely,

1454
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 8: you don't want to stumbling falling down, hand on the ground.

1455
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:51,080
Speaker 8: Did he make it?

1456
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 4: I don't know, yes, exactly for a milestone like that.

1457
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 1: Brad, thanks so much of the time. Look forward to

1458
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: seeing you at the game.

1459
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's always good to talk to you.

1460
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 3: Mark.

1461
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 8: Monday.

1462
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brad started to say Sunday and then realize, oh

1463
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 3: no, no wait, it's Monday, and here's something I just realized,

1464
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna save this but for our

1465
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 3: stats Challenge presented by SLB. I thought about this during

1466
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 3: that discussion, which is kind of weird, but it may.

1467
01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: Bode for the Texans some good news.

1468
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 3: I'll give that to you next as we do in

1469
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 3: the Lab with Drew Doherty right here on Texans All Access.

1470
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:31,679
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it is Cowboys Week right here in h Town.

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01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 3: Game will take place obviously up in Jerry World, but

1472
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 3: it is always something special when the Texans take on

1473
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 3: the Cowboys.

1474
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:39,799
Speaker 1: Houston takes on Dallas.

1475
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 3: Whether it's Rangers, Astros, MAVs, Rockets, doesn't matter. Whenever you've

1476
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,759
Speaker 3: got Houston taken on Dallas, there's always a little something

1477
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 3: extra special. And this one on Monday night is that

1478
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 3: much more so because the entire nation gets to see

1479
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 3: Texas battle it out right there in our I'm your host,

1480
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 3: John Harris Football and a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

1481
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: And I didn't even I didn't think about this.

1482
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,839
Speaker 3: I think it was I don't know, sometime during today

1483
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:14,719
Speaker 3: it popped into my head for some reason.

1484
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: I started going through the games.

1485
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:20,600
Speaker 3: Now, we played Dallas every four years, right started in

1486
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 3: two thousand and two.

1487
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 1: That was a Sunday night game.

1488
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 3: In Energ. Two thousand and six was in Texas Stadium.

1489
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 3: Twenty ten was back at Energ. Twenty fourteen was up

1490
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 3: at Jerry World, who I was the eighteen back here

1491
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 3: at Energ.

1492
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two is in Arlington.

1493
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 3: But when the NFL had the seventeen games, they came

1494
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 3: up with this formula that we would play the team

1495
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 3: that finished in the same spot as US from two

1496
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 3: years prior. And so in twenty twenty three, the Dallas

1497
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 3: Cowboys finished first. We finished first, so that meant that

1498
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 3: we were going to match up, and it just so

1499
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 3: happened that this year that was going to put the

1500
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 3: ninth game or the seventeenth game in the NFC city,

1501
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 3: So that met us going to Dallas next year.

1502
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 1: We will play whatever position we end up win.

1503
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 3: So if we end up first, we will play the

1504
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 3: NFC South's first place team. That game will be back

1505
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 3: in Houston. But that's a twenty twenty five. Let's stay

1506
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four here. So I just laid out

1507
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 3: what time, what games we played two oh six, ten, fourteen, eighteen,

1508
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 3: twenty two, two Night Game six, Texas Stadium Day, twenty ten,

1509
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 3: Energy Stadium Day twenty fourteen, Arlington, Jerry World Day twenty eighteen,

1510
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 3: Night twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two Day.

1511
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: Not only.

1512
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 3: Have the Texans beating the Cowboys back in Energy Stadium,

1513
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 3: but it hit me two thousand and two, twenty eighteen.

1514
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:06,439
Speaker 3: Those have been the only two primetime games that the

1515
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 3: Cowboys and Texans have played in this series, and the

1516
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 3: Texans have won them both six ten, fourteen, twenty two.

1517
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:24,600
Speaker 3: All games during the day, the Texans lost those games.

1518
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: Monday's game is at night.

1519
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 3: Ooh, I just came up with something, and that is

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Speaker 3: your Stats Challenge, brought to you by SLB Night games

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01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 3: in this rivalry, the Texans have won them both two

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01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 3: and eighteen, both and the Energy Stadium.

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01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: The Texans are oh for Dallas. They're also oh for

1524
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:50,719
Speaker 1: day game.

1525
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 3: But since this is a night game in Dallas, Oh boy,

1526
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:59,639
Speaker 3: we got you got competing situations here. But I'm going

1527
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 3: with Texans are undefeated in night games. Hopefully they stay

1528
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 3: undefeated in night games. I love numbers like that. I

1529
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Speaker 1: Make sure you check that out.

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01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:24,600
Speaker 3: You can also check out in the lab with my

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01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 3: man Drew Doherty. The two of us sit down, we

1536
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 3: wax poetic about what we just saw. Then we think

1537
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 3: forward and forecast what we could possibly see.

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01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: Got all that good in the lab, meet and Drew

1539
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:37,559
Speaker 1: Dougherty right here.

1540
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Speaker 7: Oh hey, John, it's good to see you. And it's

1541
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 7: good to see you. Gentle viewer, gentle listener. Good to

1542
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 7: hear you. This is in the Lab, presented by Inxfinity.

1543
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 7: Even though we're not hearing you, it's great that you're

1544
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:48,519
Speaker 7: hearing us.

1545
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 1: John. How you doing, Bud doing okay?

1546
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 3: Just getting ready for a trip Sunday to check on

1547
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 3: those guys up north.

1548
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 1: How about the night?

1549
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 7: How about that man? This was one that was earmarked

1550
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 7: ahead of ahead of time. Hey, you're playing the Cowboy.

1551
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 7: You're gonna play the Cowboy when't are gonna play on

1552
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 7: prime Time? You're gonna play them on Thanksgiving? When you

1553
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 7: gonna play you get them in primetime. You don't get

1554
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 7: them on Thanksgiving. That's all right. But this is one

1555
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,959
Speaker 7: that I think we can expect to see a healthy,

1556
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 7: robust section of Texans fans, not section, but really spread

1557
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 7: throughout at this one. Now the Cowboys Stadium, AIGHTE and

1558
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 7: T Stadium, they have.

1559
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: Really over the.

1560
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 7: Last decade they've they've had opposing fans come in and

1561
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 7: that's like the one to go to a lot of

1562
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 7: the time, unless you're playing in Vegas. But it's gonna

1563
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 7: be loud. It'll be loud. You'll you're gonna see a

1564
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 7: lot of battle red in the stands. You'll see a

1565
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 7: lot of the new stuff from the Texans unis in

1566
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 7: the stands. It's gonna be fun.

1567
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: Man.

1568
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 7: I can't wait. The last time they played there in

1569
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 7: the regular season when it was kind of twenty twenty two.

1570
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 7: He was the last time and there were good there's

1571
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 7: a good amount of texts fans, but the organization was

1572
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 7: in a much different spot the last time though, in

1573
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 7: twenty fourteen, and this one went to overtime, and this

1574
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 7: was a hell of a game. JJ was in his

1575
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 7: comet season where he was just amazing. Yep Arion Foster

1576
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,639
Speaker 7: was still un excellent back at that point and still

1577
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 7: healthy enough, and Cowboys nipped you it in overtime because

1578
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 7: of one of the greatest plays I've ever seen by

1579
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 7: any quarterback Tony Romo getting out of a sack and

1580
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 7: throwing a touchdown. But I can't wait, Man, this is

1581
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 7: so much fun to see. I know both teams are

1582
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,000
Speaker 7: coming off pretty bad losses, but it's still awesome to

1583
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 7: play your They're not your rival, but they're a team

1584
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 7: you really want to beat.

1585
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you're right about the fan influence.

1586
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 3: One of the things that I know our fan base

1587
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,879
Speaker 3: was very excited about was after the game in twenty fourteen,

1588
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 3: Tony Romo saying, man, it was loud in there.

1589
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 1: I had to go to the silil count.

1590
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1591
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:52,559
Speaker 1: Man, I thought that was pretty interesting.

1592
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 3: And I even started seeing post tweets whatever you wanna

1593
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 3: call it, on Twitter X that it was already leading

1594
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 3: to this game on Monday. It was like, hey, we

1595
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 3: got a Monday night football a we got a Sunday

1596
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 3: night football game against the best team in the league.

1597
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 3: Let's let's save the Dallas stuff for later. But they're

1598
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 3: already kind of planning, so hopefully it'll be a a

1599
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 3: Texan's healthy crowd like it was at twenty fourteen. I

1600
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 3: remember you and I kind of talked about it later, like,

1601
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 3: what what was the breakdown of the crowd.

1602
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: Was it like, was it eighty twenty seventy thirty?

1603
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 3: I felt like it was almost like fifty two forty eight,

1604
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 3: and I'm not totally sure who had to fifty two

1605
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 3: it was.

1606
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 1: It was akin to a college game.

1607
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,719
Speaker 3: And I hate to even say this, it was almost

1608
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 3: akin to what we had the other night because a

1609
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 3: lot of Lions fans got in that building and it

1610
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 3: was loud.

1611
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: It was really loud.

1612
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 3: When that field goal goes through from Jake Bates, you

1613
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 3: hear a roar and it was in.

1614
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 1: I hate that, but it gave the game this.

1615
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:02,600
Speaker 3: Really kind of fifty to fifty feel like there was

1616
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 3: energy on every single play and that you don't get

1617
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 3: any NFL a lot, And I felt that way in

1618
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen, where there was energy on both sides, that

1619
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 3: when the Texans made it play, you got the Texans

1620
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 3: fans energy. When the Cowboys made it play, you got

1621
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 3: the Cowboys fan energy. And I think that that's what

1622
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 3: amped up kind of the big game energy.

1623
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: Sunday.

1624
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,759
Speaker 3: We'll see how Cowboys fans show up on a Monday

1625
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 3: night with their team kind of struggling with owners and

1626
01:16:29,760 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 3: good you know, the coaches and the players bickering about

1627
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 3: who knows what the sun in their eyes well to

1628
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 3: night game. Don't worry about that. Michah Parsons is gonna

1629
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 3: be ready to go because.

1630
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 1: It's Monday night. He's facing his palace C J. Stroud.

1631
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 3: So there's gonna be a lot in this game against

1632
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 3: Dallas that I think both sides are. You know, they're

1633
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 3: gonna want to show up no matter what's the saying

1634
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 3: throw the records out the window.

1635
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those throw the records

1636
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: out the window games.

1637
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,560
Speaker 3: And hopefully they'll be some guys back for the Texans

1638
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 3: and that will help. And the more guys you get back,

1639
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 3: looking at getting Steph Diggs back, which hurts, but you're

1640
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 3: gonna get some guys back, hopefully in the next couple

1641
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 3: of weeks, and this will three game stretch that you

1642
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:18,240
Speaker 3: have before the bye week. I felt like the energy

1643
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 3: Sunday from the players was immense. I felt like they played,

1644
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 3: they had a lot of energy. That mini bye did

1645
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 3: a lot for them. Yeah, so now you've got these

1646
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 3: three games, two of them division games. Hopefully, you know'd

1647
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:31,640
Speaker 3: be nice to run the table and go into the

1648
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 3: buy at nine and four, But you take them one

1649
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 3: at a time and taking a really good team up

1650
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 3: in their building on a Monday night, so you know

1651
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 3: that energy should be really good looking forward to that.

1652
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 7: Looking at their stats, it's you say, throw the records

1653
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 7: out the window. They're own for this season at home,

1654
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 7: they're averaging like fifteen points. Yeah, they're averaging fifteen points

1655
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 7: a game. They're giving up thirty eight. I'm I'm in

1656
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 7: the their due camp. I just s don't see that's

1657
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 7: how is that sustainable? I don't see that sustaining itself

1658
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 7: and keeping going. And that's what that's what kind of

1659
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 7: gets me worried the most, Not not what I've actually

1660
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 7: seen with my eyes and what I've seen from that team,

1661
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 7: but just looking at stats in history, like how is that?

1662
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 7: How is that even possible? So that's the only thing.

1663
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 7: I'm not the only thing, but that's that's one of

1664
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 7: the main things standing out to me is goodness, is

1665
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 7: this gonna? Is this gonna keep holding? I mean, even

1666
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 7: if you're going in there with a different whatever.

1667
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1668
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 7: Do you understand what I'm saying here?

1669
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:39,959
Speaker 3: Like, well, how is trapidation possible? There should be trepidation

1670
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 3: when you take on a talented team.

1671
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 7: But then but then they don't have their quarterback. You know,

1672
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 7: he's well.

1673
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well there you go. I mean I

1674
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 3: think that's that's that's a part of it. You know,

1675
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 3: they lost three games in there with Dak and they

1676
01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 3: got absolutely pummeled by the Lions.

1677
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: Then they got pummeled by the Eagles, and.

1678
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 7: They basically got pummeled other Ravens. Despite the final score,

1679
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,639
Speaker 7: yeah close, and they got So those are ears. Now

1680
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 7: those are three really good football teams.

1681
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, Texas just went toe to toe with the best

1682
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 3: team in the league, had a twenty three to seven lead,

1683
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 3: couldn't score in the second half, but had opportunities, just

1684
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 3: couldn't score in the second half.

1685
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, So are the sexes on that level?

1686
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 3: Don't know, And I don't know that this is one

1687
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 3: of those kind of measuring stick games.

1688
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 1: I think this is just a game.

1689
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 3: Where you've got to get back off you got to

1690
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 3: get back off the schneid, you got to get positive

1691
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 3: winning vibes going again. But I think the trepidation of

1692
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 3: facing the Cowboys is absolutely real.

1693
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we've never won up there.

1694
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 7: I mean I think if I was there or whether

1695
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 7: it's uh Texas Stadium.

1696
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never.

1697
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 3: I always thinking about that, and I thought about that

1698
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 3: for the Colts for all those years from two thousand

1699
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 3: and two to twenty fourteen, you had opportunities to beat

1700
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 3: the Colts.

1701
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: You had better teams than the Colts. You just couldn't

1702
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: pull it off against the Colts.

1703
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 3: Twenty eleven, you've got your best team that you've had

1704
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 3: in the franchise history, and you can't beat Dan Olofsky

1705
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,640
Speaker 3: on a Thursday night up at Indy. Now this was

1706
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 3: on a Monday night, so you've got a lot of

1707
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 3: rest time to get the bodies right after.

1708
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: Playing a really physical game against the Lions.

1709
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 3: It's Wednesday when we're recording, so this is essentially the

1710
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 3: off day for the team. So you've got an extra

1711
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 3: day to get the body back together. And that's for

1712
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 3: both teams. The Cowboys have that opportunity as well, but

1713
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 3: the Cowboys are banged up. They did get Michael Parsons back,

1714
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 3: I would think, and if we learned anything from the

1715
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 3: Thursday night game against the Jets that a guy that's

1716
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 3: been out for a while, give him the second game

1717
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 3: and he might have his juice back. We found it

1718
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 3: out with Sonreddick Son Reddick with the Jets first game

1719
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 3: did nothing like, oh, all that time off, he's got

1720
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 3: all that rust. Well, somehow between the game and our game,

1721
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 3: he shook off that rust and was outstanding. So Michael

1722
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 3: Parsons could do the same. He didn't do a whole

1723
01:20:55,680 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 3: lot against the Eagles, against his hometown team. Think he

1724
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 3: is going to be primed on Monday night. And look

1725
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 3: you get thinks we found out in twenty twenty two.

1726
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 3: Couple interception here, sul a little short drive there. You know,

1727
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:13,679
Speaker 3: some quirky things here, some guys stepping up making plays

1728
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,600
Speaker 3: that didn't Amari Rodgers from Jeff driscoll, and all of

1729
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 3: a sudden you gott leaning the fourth quarter with the

1730
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,479
Speaker 3: ball on the five yard line, Like, whoa. That's the

1731
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 3: thing you can't allow to happen against this team. You've

1732
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 3: got to be better in the red zone. You've got

1733
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 3: to scorn the flip in second half. This is getting

1734
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:32,800
Speaker 3: to be a bit a bit much.

1735
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,599
Speaker 7: It's been bad, but one thing to fall back on

1736
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 7: is this is a very very good Texans defense, very

1737
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:44,679
Speaker 7: very good. But when it's at home, it's outstanding. It's

1738
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 7: excellent coming into this this lins game quarterbacks were completing

1739
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 7: the four quarterbacks combined that you'd played in the four

1740
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 7: games previous combined to have a forty five percent completion rate.

1741
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,799
Speaker 7: They'd get they'd gotten sacked three and a half times

1742
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 7: per game. You didn't get the sack numbers. The completion

1743
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:06,760
Speaker 7: rate rose five percent. That's it, five percent. Goff only

1744
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:09,599
Speaker 7: completed five percent of his passes and he completed five

1745
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 7: of them to you get five interceptions. This Texans defense

1746
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 7: at home otherworldly so far this year. And it's not

1747
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:22,599
Speaker 7: a home game obviously, but like we just led this

1748
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 7: thing off, You're gonna have a lot of Texans fans

1749
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 7: in the crowd. It's gonna be loud. That helps out.

1750
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 7: That's a nice thing. And you're going against a quarterback

1751
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 7: who is not a starter, not a Pro bowler, not

1752
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 7: one of the highest paid players in the league. You know,

1753
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 7: you've got a lot of things going for you in

1754
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 7: that regard. So it all sort of evens out. But

1755
01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 7: what I want to do right now, I want to

1756
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 7: raise a medello to playing on Monday night football again.

1757
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 7: This is the first time John since the twenty nineteen

1758
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 7: regular season opener that Texans have been on Monday Night football,

1759
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 7: and it's good to be back. It's nice to be back.

1760
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 7: Texans were there for about a you know, a better

1761
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 7: part of the decade. They would have a Monday Night

1762
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 7: or pretty much every year. And it's going to be

1763
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 7: back on primetime again third week in a row, but

1764
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 7: first time on Monday Night football since that trip we

1765
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 7: took to Orleans back.

1766
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 3: Now off, it's not the first time with the Monday

1767
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 3: Night Crew, true, because we had them Saturday on Saturday

1768
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 3: at Indy last year. That was and so you know,

1769
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 3: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have seen this team up

1770
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 3: close a little bit, so that's good.

1771
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 1: They'll know him.

1772
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 3: But I'm I'm kind of glad. I mean, I'm glad

1773
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,799
Speaker 3: it's the Cowboys. I love playing the Cowboys. I actually

1774
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 3: love going up to Jerry World. I love that facility.

1775
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 3: The sun won't bother anybody because it's going to be

1776
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 3: at night, so that'll be and it's after daylight savings,

1777
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 3: so you shouldn't have any issues at the Sun.

1778
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 1: But I think it's an opportunity.

1779
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you know, like you said earlier,

1780
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 3: never beating them in Dallas and being in Met Texas Stadium,

1781
01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:52,679
Speaker 3: being in Met Jerry World. But I think mostly what

1782
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 3: this team needs to do the Texans, excuse me, is

1783
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 3: just flying go finance identity again offensively in particular.

1784
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I.

1785
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 3: Feel like earlier in the season you started to see

1786
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 3: it a little bit. Nico Collins was making big plays

1787
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 3: and hopefully Nico's ready to go. You know, Joe Mixon

1788
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 3: was running for one hundred the other night. Really couldn't

1789
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 3: get it done. Now CJ had four sacks then that

1790
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:23,680
Speaker 3: you could you want to continue to bring down and

1791
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 3: shouldn't be sacked four times in a game. But I

1792
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 3: think just this team playing with that same energy, getting

1793
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 3: some confidence, just going in there and taking care of

1794
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 3: its business.

1795
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it gets lost.

1796
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 3: On a lot of people drew the fact that you

1797
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 3: played that game. Like if you made a list and said, okay,

1798
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 3: who are the top ten best non quarterback players on

1799
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 3: this team? Maybe twelve, so I hesitated it was like

1800
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 3: ten to twelve, ten top ten to twelve best non

1801
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 3: quarterbacks on this team. Well, you played that game against

1802
01:24:56,840 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 3: the Lions without Nico Collins, without Will Anderson. You Mario

1803
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 3: Edwards has played like one of your top dozen players

1804
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 3: this year. He was out of that game. You haven't

1805
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 3: had Christian Harris all year long. But we'll say Henry

1806
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 3: Totoa who's on a player show on Tuesday. He was

1807
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:18,200
Speaker 3: fantastic on the show. He's been fantastic all year. So

1808
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 3: you know, you you went into that game a little

1809
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 3: bit short handed.

1810
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: Will you have the lines to that a mutch? And yeah?

1811
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 3: But then everybody else so you were I must say,

1812
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 3: severely under man. But you know you got a twenty

1813
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 3: three seven lead. I think that's what frustrated me so

1814
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 3: much was the fact that you were seeing a complete

1815
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:39,840
Speaker 3: team performance and if CJ can hit tank to make

1816
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 3: it thirty to thirteen, I think the whole universe changes.

1817
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole thing changes. And then you walk out

1818
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 1: of there with a w if you.

1819
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,599
Speaker 7: Don't get a hold on you know, on the goal

1820
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 7: line when it's seven to nothing.

1821
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 3: Right, there's four points if you can hold into a

1822
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 3: field goal instead of those Aman Ross Saint Brown screen

1823
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 3: for a Touchdow. I mean, there's so it was that

1824
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 3: was a that was one of those one play kind

1825
01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 3: of games, like if this play goes this way, this

1826
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 3: was that way.

1827
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 7: If they call, if they make the right call, why

1828
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 7: did they I still don't understand why that was not

1829
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 7: a touchback on the interception and you have the ball

1830
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 7: at the one.

1831
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1832
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 3: I don't think anything was ever explained because they went

1833
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 3: right to a break, so they never really explained it.

1834
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 3: He started to and then he didn't. So you know, look,

1835
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 3: the Texans had drops. There were a few key drops

1836
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 3: in that game. I think the play that really kind

1837
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 3: of turned it was when Tank was wide open and

1838
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 3: CJ either didn't see him or just wanted to get

1839
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 3: a clear shot at him, and then Carlton Davis makes

1840
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 3: the hell of play.

1841
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:35,600
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Carlton Davis shouldn't even been there.

1842
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:37,840
Speaker 3: They were in to cover three and Carlton Davis is

1843
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 3: the corner of their side of the field, but he

1844
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 3: just happened to be paying attention and seeing and was like,

1845
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 3: you know what, I gotta go.

1846
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: I gotta help my brothers out.

1847
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 3: He did, he made the play, and I think that

1848
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 3: play changed everything. Yeah, changed everything. But you just didn't

1849
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 3: play a clean game the second half, and we got

1850
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:57,240
Speaker 3: to make sure that that changes going forward with this

1851
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 3: team and hopefully bringing Nico Collins if he's ready to

1852
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,639
Speaker 3: come back, when Will Anderson Junior is ready to come back.

1853
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:07,600
Speaker 3: Mario Edwards says, I think that's already been announced that

1854
01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 3: he's coming back from his suspension.

1855
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 5: So he's got the exemption, he's.

1856
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 1: Got the exemption in one game exemption.

1857
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:16,799
Speaker 3: So you've got some positive things body wise and player

1858
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 3: wise coming back. Now it's just a matter of cleaning

1859
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 3: some of the things up. Did you find something with

1860
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 3: the offensive line fit? I know you didn't run it

1861
01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 3: extremely well, but you faced one of the better interiors.

1862
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that you're gonna face.

1863
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:30,800
Speaker 7: Great Dave dj Reider got a nice wave into him

1864
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:32,200
Speaker 7: before the game during warm ups.

1865
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, But Alie McNeil, that's the guy that good and

1866
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:37,200
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the guy you're gonna face this week.

1867
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: You're not going to face an Alie McNeil. So we'll

1868
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: see how it goes.

1869
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 3: But I just want this team to get to playing

1870
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 3: consistent football week in week out and.

1871
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,120
Speaker 1: For sixty minutes. Yeah, for sixty minutes.

1872
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:51,120
Speaker 3: And I think if it does that, this team can

1873
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,960
Speaker 3: be pretty dangerous down the stretch with this nice little

1874
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 3: three game stretch that you have against teams that have

1875
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 3: well under a five hundred record.

1876
01:27:58,040 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 7: All right, So with all that in mind, it leads

1877
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:01,440
Speaker 7: perfectly into our cream.

1878
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:01,719
Speaker 5: Of the crop.

1879
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 1: The cream of the crop.

1880
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 7: Rest in peace, Macho man raady Savage. We missed you,

1881
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 7: but thank you for the cream of the crop there,

1882
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 7: but cream of the Crop award winner. So we've done

1883
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:12,760
Speaker 7: this now through the last four weeks and we haven't

1884
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 7: been able to talk about it in a win afterwards.

1885
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 7: But should the Texans fly home victoriously Tuesday morning in

1886
01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 7: the wee hours, it will be because this guy was

1887
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 7: a Cream of the Crop award winner. I'm gonna go

1888
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 7: very basic, John. You just brought up the interior of

1889
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 7: the Dallas defensive line and how you're not facing in

1890
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 7: those guys, an interior that you just saw last week

1891
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 7: with Detroit. So give me Joe Mixon. I mean, it's nothing,

1892
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 7: nothing fancy, but it's a pretty obvious choice. Let's see

1893
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:48,000
Speaker 7: Joe get back to He made plays Thursday night, wasn't

1894
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 7: able to run the ball, just didn't have many opportunities,

1895
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:52,599
Speaker 7: you know. It was he was met in the backfield

1896
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:55,640
Speaker 7: too often. So give me Joe Mixon. Let's get back

1897
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:57,479
Speaker 7: to one hundred yards, Let's get back to a score.

1898
01:28:57,720 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 7: Let's get back to grinding and out doing it that way.

1899
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 7: Everything else up because we do think some guys are

1900
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 7: coming back, like you mentioned, and I want Joe Mixon

1901
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:10,320
Speaker 7: running the ball like he was and keeping it up

1902
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 7: after the intermission. Okay, second half, So I'm gonna go

1903
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 7: with Joe Mixon.

1904
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:18,599
Speaker 3: John all right, Mine, Yeah, is a guy going back

1905
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 3: to playing this building for the first time since he

1906
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 3: was a Dallas Cowboy. Oh and I feel like he

1907
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:27,879
Speaker 3: may have wanted to stay Dallas Cowboy.

1908
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 1: But Cowboys are like nah Man, We.

1909
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 3: Got a couple of tight ends we like, and I

1910
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 3: think that Dalton Schultz is better than all of them.

1911
01:29:35,560 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 3: And I think Dalton Schultz has moments and has had

1912
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:40,439
Speaker 3: moments in games where he makes the big play, makes

1913
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 3: the big catch. But I think this could be one

1914
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:46,040
Speaker 3: of those where he has six for seventy eight as

1915
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 3: the Cowboys try and figure out covering Nico Collins Tank

1916
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,479
Speaker 3: Dee if Nico does play trying to figure out Covernor's

1917
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 3: receivers and all of a sudden they end up with linebackers

1918
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 3: on Dalton Schultz. We Dalton Showld the other day. If

1919
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 3: you're gonna put a linebacker on him, he can cook him.

1920
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,680
Speaker 3: I mean he cooked alex Anzelonia man cover and had

1921
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:03,599
Speaker 3: that big thirty one yard catch. So I'm going with

1922
01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:07,160
Speaker 3: a guy returning I like to Jerry world for the

1923
01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 3: first time since he was a cowboy. And I hate

1924
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 3: it because I feel like if anybody could have solved

1925
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:14,960
Speaker 3: the sun issue, it would have been Dalton Schultz. But

1926
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:17,840
Speaker 3: it's game at night, so I'm going Dalton Schultz is

1927
01:30:17,880 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 3: my cream of the cropper.

1928
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 7: Hey, that's nice. That's a good choice. I like it.

1929
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 7: Another one kind of an ancillary choice. His dad was

1930
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 7: a cowboy for four years or so. He grew up

1931
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 7: in that area near the Dallas Fort Worth area. Mario

1932
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 7: Edwards and he's coming back. So let's see Mario Edwards

1933
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 7: Junior what he does, because like he talked about, yeah,

1934
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 7: and he was messing with people before he got the suspension.

1935
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 7: And it's a welcome edition because we saw fully fight

1936
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 7: Akassi get banged up yep on Thursday night or excuse me,

1937
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 7: Monday night or Sunday night, mixing them up. But let's

1938
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,120
Speaker 7: see what Mario Edwards can do, because I like what

1939
01:30:51,200 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 7: he's done prior to the suspension, and I like what

1940
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:56,000
Speaker 7: he might be able to do. There's always gonna be

1941
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 7: a little bit of juice when you go back and

1942
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 7: play in your hometown, when you go back and play

1943
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 7: for a an organization where your dad played, nobody you

1944
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 7: can minimize and say whatever beforehand, but that's not true.

1945
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:06,679
Speaker 7: These guys. There's an extra bit.

1946
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Of juice for it.

1947
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 5: There just is.

1948
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 3: Yep, that's exactly right, and and that's part of the

1949
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 3: reason I'm going Dalton, I like, I think he's gonna

1950
01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 3: have I mean, he always comes into the game with

1951
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:17,719
Speaker 3: a lot of focus.

1952
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean that dude man talk about preparation. That guy

1953
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 1: is all about it.

1954
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 3: But I just feel like this is one of those

1955
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 3: weeks where there's some younger linebackers, newer linebackers in the system,

1956
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:30,800
Speaker 3: and I feel like maybe Dalton gets lost in the

1957
01:31:30,840 --> 01:31:33,240
Speaker 3: shuffle in the passing game and he gets open and

1958
01:31:33,479 --> 01:31:34,639
Speaker 3: ends up having a big ball game.

1959
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that absolutely.

1960
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:38,600
Speaker 7: All right, John, it's always great to talk with you,

1961
01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:43,040
Speaker 7: and it's always great that you are watching listening out there.

1962
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 5: We thank you for for that.

1963
01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 7: This is in the Lab presented by Infinity, and we

1964
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 7: had so much fun with you. We'll be back next week.

1965
01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 1: All right. Great stuff there from Drew. And while I

1966
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:52,680
Speaker 1: worked really really hard on in the.

1967
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:56,479
Speaker 3: Lab, as well we get back, we'll close things up,

1968
01:31:56,840 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 3: get ready for Dallas and get ready for practice this week,

1969
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,800
Speaker 3: first practice tomorrow and everything that goes with that.

1970
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 1: Next right here in Texas All Access. We got My

1971
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 1: final segment is Wednesday.

1972
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:09,759
Speaker 3: Isation that Texans All Access from Monday, Texans Radio Studio.

1973
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,679
Speaker 3: I am your host, John Harris, Football Analyst, sideline reporter

1974
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:17,920
Speaker 3: on this Wednesday, that feels like a Tuesday because there

1975
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 3: was no availability.

1976
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:21,280
Speaker 1: There was no practice. Now Martian Mary.

1977
01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:23,720
Speaker 3: And I had a chance to interview Jimmy Ward. That

1978
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:26,639
Speaker 3: was the tease I gave earlier. So we'll have Jimmy

1979
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 3: on with us either Thursday or Friday. But it's great

1980
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:34,799
Speaker 3: to check in with Jimmy. Such a fun individual to interview, honest,

1981
01:32:35,280 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 3: I mean, just thought provoking things he says, thinks a

1982
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 3: lot about the questions he's asked. So we had a

1983
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 3: good time interviewing Jimmy Warts. We'll have that for you

1984
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 3: either Thursday or Friday. We will also we are on

1985
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 3: tracked interview I believe one of the coordinators for Friday

1986
01:32:52,520 --> 01:32:53,000
Speaker 3: as well.

1987
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 1: So everything's pushed back.

1988
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 3: So the schedule with everything that goes on Wednesday, we'll

1989
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:00,639
Speaker 3: go on Thursday so tomorrow we will have practice, first

1990
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 3: practice of the week. Then Demiko Rians will meet with

1991
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 3: the press, then CJ. Stroud will meet with the media,

1992
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:10,560
Speaker 3: and then they'll be open locker room. Then on Friday,

1993
01:33:11,200 --> 01:33:14,640
Speaker 3: what's typically a Thursday, we hear from the coordinators, and

1994
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:17,160
Speaker 3: then we'll also have on Friday one of those coordinators

1995
01:33:17,160 --> 01:33:20,439
Speaker 3: on with us, and then we practice on Saturday, and

1996
01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 3: then we'll take off Sunday for Dallas, play the game

1997
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 3: Monday night, get back dark thirty in the morning on Tuesday,

1998
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:31,599
Speaker 3: and then we're back on our traditional regular Sunday at

1999
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 3: noon when we kick off against the Titans at home

2000
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 3: on the twenty fourth I believe that's today, twenty fourth

2001
01:33:41,040 --> 01:33:43,679
Speaker 3: of November. Yeah, they'll be twenty fourth of November leading

2002
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 3: into Thanksgiving week, and at the end of that week

2003
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 3: we will play the last game before the bye week

2004
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 3: against Jacksonville. Now, Jacksonville's got a bye week next week.

2005
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 3: They've got the Vite No, they just played the Vikings.

2006
01:33:55,040 --> 01:34:02,800
Speaker 3: They've got the Lions in Detroit on Sunday. Then they

2007
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:06,559
Speaker 3: gotta buye week then they get us. Sounds like it'll

2008
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 3: be Mac Jones This week. Mac Jones met with the

2009
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 3: media today. That's usually a pretty good sign that he's

2010
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 3: gonna be the starting quarterback. So you're gonna have Mac

2011
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 3: Jones for the Jaguars Athey Richardson for the Colts. Sounds

2012
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:20,880
Speaker 3: like Will Levis again for the Titans. There's been no

2013
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 3: real change there. God help him. And then we'll have CJ.

2014
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:28,639
Speaker 3: Stroud going against the Dallas Cowboys against Cooper Rush, another

2015
01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 3: MACTION graduate who is five and two.

2016
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 1: Nick Cassario pointing that out.

2017
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Speaker 3: He's five and two as a starter, so hopefully we

2018
01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 3: can make that five and three on Monday night against

2019
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys. All right, big thanks to the aforementioned

2020
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,639
Speaker 3: Nick Cassario, to my man Mark Vandermre, to Brad shann

2021
01:34:45,640 --> 01:34:47,800
Speaker 3: a play by play voice of Dallas Cowboys, to Drew

2022
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:50,760
Speaker 3: Doherty he joined us as well, to all of you

2023
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 3: for listening. My guys back at the studio Sports rat

2024
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 3: of six ' ten. Awesome job. Love you guys for listening.

2025
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:00,799
Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough. Appreciate it. Big day tomorrow,

2026
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:03,400
Speaker 3: first practice day of the week. We'll see you then, everybody,

2027
01:35:03,439 --> 01:35:04,719
Speaker 3: and as always, go Texans.