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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show. Mark Vandermaer and John

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Speaker 1: Harris with you. And I know it's been a trying

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Speaker 1: more than twenty four hours, because certain people are without

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Speaker 1: power and might be for days. And one of them

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. And I know that

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Speaker 1: you're struggling through the storm aftermath, some people more than others,

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Speaker 1: and you're certainly one of the ones without power, and

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Speaker 1: that is a big deal, especially when you have a

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Speaker 1: big old tree outside your house that might have fallen

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Speaker 1: on you. It didn't, but we've seen plenty of trees

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Speaker 1: falling on plenty of things, and then some over the

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Speaker 1: past twenty four hours. And another bizarre Houston storm that

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a name.

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Speaker 2: Yet, I don't know, out of nowhere storm, the out

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Speaker 1: Look, we've had, you know, we've had the hurricanes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you have Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm, right,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I think in one it was before right

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Speaker 1: before I got here. But we've had the Tax Day flood,

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Speaker 1: the Memorial Day storm or flood, those were a few

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Speaker 1: was gigantic.

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Speaker 2: It was twister.

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Speaker 1: I mean this was hell and hunting Bill Paxton type

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Speaker 1: the heights west of town for the most part, I think,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure there are other areas as well. I

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Speaker 3: It really was. And I got caught right in it

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Speaker 3: trying to get home. And we have an electronic gate

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Speaker 3: at the house, and so the power was flickering literally

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Speaker 3: on and off, and I got it on just enough

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Speaker 3: so the gate was half open all night. I woke

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Speaker 3: up in the morning and my wife was texting, Hey,

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Speaker 3: what's going on?

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Speaker 2: You have power?

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Speaker 3: Like no, but we're okay, temperature's okay, We're all right,

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Speaker 3: We're okay. I then drove around her neighborhood, I drove

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Speaker 3: I mean it was and it was out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: It was out of nowhere. Was sitting in the Chick

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Speaker 3: it's looking gray, but didn't think much of it. I

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Speaker 3: got Chick fil A, I went down Durham. I turned

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Speaker 3: end of days. I gotta get home. And about halfway

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Speaker 3: About halfway down, I saw power flickering on and off,

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Speaker 3: texting me like we just lost power. But then it

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Speaker 3: But I wake up this morning so lucky. We ended

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Speaker 2: So I ended up going through one of.

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Speaker 3: The neighborhoods around kind of the timber Grove area, and

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Speaker 3: it was my heart just hurt for those people. It

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Speaker 3: just I mean, there's a school kind of at the

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Speaker 3: It just it's so hard to put into words, and

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Speaker 2: We didn't lose a loved one. There are five people

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Speaker 3: In this storm, and it's like it came out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: And three of them were falling trees. Yeah, three of

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Speaker 2: It just unbelievable the power this storm came.

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Speaker 1: With the buildings downtown, Oh Manage there the Unrestros game

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Speaker 2: I don't remember. The winds in ike Ike was the

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Speaker 3: It got up to about eighty or so, but that

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Speaker 3: this was like eighty to one hundred big blasts in

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, it hit.

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Speaker 3: And then next thing, you know, I mean, Jack and

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Speaker 2: How is this gonna go?

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Speaker 3: We're texting, We're trying to text even though we've lost power,

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Speaker 3: Like what do we do?

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Speaker 2: How do we go through this one? We can't go outside, And.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, ten to fifteen minutes later, you

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Speaker 2: Down, Like what just happened? But it did a ton

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Speaker 2: of damn. It did do a ton of damn.

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Speaker 1: Just praying everybody is uh recovering okay, and I know

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Speaker 1: not everybody is. So we put our thoughts out there

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Speaker 1: for you and hope for the very best. And we're

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Speaker 1: here to talk sports, but had to knowledge what has

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Speaker 1: power on, yep, things go on.

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Speaker 2: Business of football goes on. So let's get to it here.

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Speaker 1: It's schedule release week and you've heard a lot about

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Speaker 1: the schedule. Yes, So we went over last night a

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Speaker 1: lot of the different matchups Prime Time McClean gave his

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Speaker 1: record prediction, We gave our wins range in prediction ten

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Speaker 1: to eleven. But now it's time to go over the

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Speaker 1: enemy situation. And I'll start with the Indianapolis Colts Company.

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Speaker 1: What are they going through this year? What are they

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Speaker 1: thinking about in Indie with the dreaded, despised, despicable horseshoe.

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Speaker 1: What are they thinking about as they look at their

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Speaker 1: a lot bit of games, which as we all know,

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Speaker 1: starts off with the Houston Texans at Lucas Oil Stadium

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Speaker 1: for a noon kick. And as I look at their schedule,

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Speaker 1: it's a one o'clock eastern kicks. So it just feels

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's us.

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Speaker 3: Here's what stands out to me, Mark Okay, ten straight

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Speaker 3: noon games in central one eastern yep. They got road one,

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Speaker 3: and then they got two weeks. They've got the week

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Speaker 3: fourteen by I think sixteens if I did my math right.

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Speaker 3: Six teams have the bye on Week fourteen, just like

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Speaker 3: the Texans. Just like the Texans. No, obviously the four.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the four, the Chiefs, the Ravens, the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: and I think there's one other, might be the Tights.

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Speaker 2: So they gotta feel, you know, kind of like us

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Speaker 3: You're like, oh, okay, you don't you don't think a

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Speaker 3: whole lot about us. Yeah, you're gonna take us on

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Speaker 3: the Sunday night game and go on the road. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it's Joe Flacco, and its Joe Flacco taking on one

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Speaker 3: and then their finish is not quite like ours at Broncos, Titans,

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Speaker 3: schedule plays out. I don't want to say how they

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Speaker 3: very good Three of the first four are at home. Yeah, Texans,

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Speaker 3: they're at Green Bay Week two, then Bear Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Three of the first four at home.

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Speaker 3: They better make some headway with that because that if

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Speaker 3: Titans home, Dolphins at Texans at Vikings. So then they

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Speaker 3: got four of five on the road, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're games that are based on where they finished

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Speaker 1: in the division. And remember it was all for the

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Speaker 1: playoff berth on Saturday night Week eighteen last year, but

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Speaker 2: Did they finish third?

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Speaker 1: Because that's why they have the New York Giants instead

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Speaker 1: That's kind of nice compared to what the Texans have

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Speaker 1: people think Dallas is gonna stink, and maybe Dallas is

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Speaker 1: not as good as the Giants this year, but we'll

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Speaker 1: see on paper you'd take the Giants, and on paper

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Speaker 1: you'd certainly take the Broncos over the Chiefs, which is

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Speaker 1: what they have. December fifteenth, yes, the weekend, the Texans

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Speaker 1: other games are based on the finish here, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers is one. Steelers because that's the AFC.

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Speaker 3: I think you hit it. The Broncos another, and the Giants. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: those are the three. So the Texans face the Cowboys,

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Speaker 3: they face the Giants. You know, we'll see. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the Giants could turn things around this year. I think

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Speaker 3: knows what Daniel Jones can do. Broncos Chiefs obviously Broncos,

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Speaker 2: There's a pretty distinct difference between those two. Two.

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Speaker 1: The best thing for them is New England December one.

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Speaker 1: All right, maybe New England stinks and you go to

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Speaker 1: New England, then you get to buy. And then, as

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Speaker 1: you pointed out, that finishing kick of those final four games,

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Speaker 1: that looks good.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Colts fan with.

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Speaker 1: Denver, tennessee the Giants and then the Jags at home

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Speaker 1: for maybe a playoff berth.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. I think the Colt's going to be pretty good. YEP.

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Speaker 2: I never dismissed them. You know it.

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Speaker 1: They're the dreaded Horseshoe. But that is their schedule situation.

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Speaker 1: Now let's go to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who will open

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Speaker 1: up the season in a Florida grudge match at Miami.

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Speaker 1: That is going to be sweltering, sweltering sound sweltering.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 1: I've been to a game in Miami in September as

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Speaker 1: a fan back in the day, and it was not pleasant.

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Speaker 1: I remember we were out there for the first half

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Speaker 1: watching the Dolphins take on the Seahawks, who were just melting.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Seahawks completely fell out in the second

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Speaker 1: half of that game, and so did I.

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Speaker 2: I said, listen, let's just go. We had a connection

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Speaker 1: To a suite or something and said we're going inside

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Speaker 1: the second half.

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Speaker 2: Are you're kidding?

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Speaker 4: This?

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Speaker 2: Must be smart about this. This is nuts.

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna go to Miami to start off the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was it was.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, guys, to back they go two

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Speaker 2: It's all tough in the NFL. We know that.

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Speaker 2: Look, it is what it is. They're all tough.

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Speaker 1: Like we said, the finishing kick for the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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Speaker 3: One, So with the Jaguars, they're crossover games. Eagles, yep, Raiders,

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Speaker 1: Pick how many wins for the Jaguars this year? I

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Speaker 3: I just think that's that start is too tough. I

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Speaker 3: So they played two times in Jacksonville before October twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: And the Jacks are weird because two years ago they

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Speaker 1: Last year they had a great start and then melted

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Speaker 1: But I put it seven Colts, nine Texans, ten or more.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to our friends in Nashville, who we don't

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Speaker 2: This one is rough and the time wins.

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Speaker 3: The Titans did get a Monday night game, but it's

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, they sent the Colts, I mean the

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Speaker 3: It wasn't again, it was when did we It was

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Speaker 2: Then we played them in Nashville. We beat them. But

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Speaker 3: Send them down to Monday in Miami. That's just in

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Speaker 3: week four this time. And so but why why is

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Speaker 3: this on the schedule?

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Speaker 2: I know they won the game last year, but they

442
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Speaker 2: had Derrick Henry. I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: But they come out of that bye week and you

444
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Speaker 3: go home Colts, which the Colts, the Colts special teams

445
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Speaker 3: won that game last year for him at Bills at Lions.

446
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Speaker 3: That's how you come out of the bye week. Now,

447
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Speaker 3: I don't even think they're going to go into the

448
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Speaker 3: bye week. Well, I think I think it's a very

449
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Speaker 3: good possibility that they find a way to beat the

450
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Speaker 3: Bears and then struggle against the Jets.

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Speaker 2: They might pull itdox are at home.

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Speaker 3: They're not going to beat the Packers, and they're certainly

453
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Speaker 3: not going to beat the Dolphins down in Miami. And

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Speaker 3: then you got to come out of it and play

455
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Speaker 3: the Colts after the Colts you know last year, and

456
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Speaker 3: then the Bills and the Lions on the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have this dark horse AFC contender and

458
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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to pick the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: I got one Joe Burrow coming back.

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Speaker 3: They burned me before, but I'm going with it again

461
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Speaker 3: because I think they'll be better coached. I think there's

462
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Speaker 3: loads of talent. I think that Los Angeles Chargers could

463
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Speaker 3: make some serious noise. But but but they've got to

464
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Speaker 3: win close games. They just can't for some reason, they

465
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Speaker 3: can't win close games. And they gotta find I mean,

466
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Speaker 3: Lad mcconkey's got to be all that. Because they lost

467
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Speaker 3: Keenan Allen, they lost Mike Williams. Quinn Johnson's got to

468
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Speaker 3: step back up. I mean, they could have a good

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Speaker 3: receiver corps. You know, it depends on McConkey. It depends

470
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Speaker 3: on Johnston. Johnson's got catch the ball. But justin Herbert

471
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Speaker 3: in this offense, you never know, it could get kind

472
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Speaker 3: of interesting. They went and got Gus Edwards. They drafted

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Speaker 3: a running back too. I like, I can't remember who

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Speaker 3: they got. But with Jim Harbaugh coaching, never know, could

475
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Speaker 3: get very interesting with the LA Chargers. Yeah, and they've

476
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Speaker 3: let me down before. You guys have let me down before.

477
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Speaker 3: Chargers many many times. Do not do it again.

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Speaker 1: All right, final segment tonight next we're gonna have in

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Speaker 1: the Lab with you and Drew. But the final segment,

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Speaker 1: what playoff teams from last year are not going to

481
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs this year? We'll have that for you,

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Speaker 1: among other things here on Texans All Access. Right back

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Speaker 1: to it here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday.

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Speaker 1: We stretch out a little bit, have some fun, relax,

486
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Speaker 1: And one of the ways we do that is to

487
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Speaker 1: check in with Drew and Johnny doing their weekly podcast

488
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Speaker 1: in the Lab and guess what the topic was this

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Speaker 1: week schedule release? So what was the reaction that they

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Speaker 1: had on the end the Lab podcast?

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Speaker 2: To the schedule release Drew Doherty and John Harris. Let's

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Speaker 2: listen in.

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Speaker 5: What struck me?

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Speaker 4: And I want to get this from you in a second.

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Speaker 4: But the first thing that leaped out to me when

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Speaker 4: I saw this schedule three primetime games in a row

497
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Speaker 4: late in the season, I don't I know, that's never

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Speaker 4: happened in Texans history. That's kind of rare for any team.

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Speaker 4: But that that was a big big deal to me.

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Speaker 4: And then kind of two acause that was one A

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Speaker 4: plus two A was that's a late bye, and I

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Speaker 4: like that late bye December.

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Speaker 5: I'll take that every day of the week. Really really

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Speaker 5: fun schedule.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be hard, but every game, every schedule in

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Speaker 4: the NFL is hard. Those are the two things that

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Speaker 4: jumped out at me. What did jump out of What

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Speaker 4: jump out of you?

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Speaker 2: First?

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Speaker 3: Well, you're right immediately, the primetime games in a row

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Speaker 3: and all on a different day, Yeah, Jets Thursday. Then

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Speaker 3: you get Sunday Night Lions, and you get extra day

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys. So those three, of course primetime games and

514
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Speaker 3: row and then Christmas Day stood out for sure. But

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Speaker 3: when I went back and I'm like, okay, let's let's

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Speaker 3: look at a number of things here.

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Speaker 2: First of all, the when you play these rookie quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you got a bunch of them on the schedule,

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Speaker 3: you got at least three.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're facing those three pretty early.

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Speaker 3: And there are the thought that maybe now Kayley Williams,

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Speaker 3: I would imagine, unless he's injured, you'd see him for sure.

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Speaker 3: Don't know about Drake May and JJ McCarthy because of

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Speaker 3: how early we're playing those teams. But if you don't,

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Speaker 3: you're facing Sam Donald of Minnesota, and you're facing Jacoby

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Speaker 3: Brissett in Brissette in New England. Now, Jacoby Brissett in

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Speaker 3: New England has always been a bugaboo. Jacoby Brissett and

528
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Speaker 3: Jillette Stadium have always been a problem for the Texans.

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Speaker 3: We've only beaten one of those two entities once. Jacoby Brissett.

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Speaker 3: We beat him on Thursday Night Football in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: That's it. When he was a cult Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's owned us in every other uniform he's been in,

533
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Speaker 3: and Gellette Stadium has owned us. So I kind of

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Speaker 3: hope it's Drake May in some sense, But I also

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Speaker 3: look for that, and I looked at the start of

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Speaker 3: the schedule and of course.

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Speaker 2: You know me as a silent report. I want to know, like, okay,

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Speaker 2: what's our weather situation.

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Speaker 3: Well, you start off at Indianapolis inside, then Chicago inside, yep.

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Speaker 3: Then you go to Minnesota inside, then you come back

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Speaker 3: for two at home Bill's Jaguars inside.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, your first road game outside is week six at

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Speaker 4: New England, right, and that average high temperature of sixty

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Speaker 4: four degrees.

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Speaker 3: Right, and then you get green Bay the week after that,

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Speaker 3: which is the first time that we're going to green Bay,

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Speaker 3: not in December.

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Speaker 2: So you've got all that working for you.

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Speaker 3: If you go back to the two preseason games, the

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Speaker 3: last two preseason games are here yep, so home home,

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Speaker 3: bye week, so inside inside, bye week inside for five

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Speaker 3: straight games.

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Speaker 2: So after the.

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Speaker 3: Steelers preseason game, you don't go back outside to play

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Speaker 3: a game until you go to New England and green.

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Speaker 2: Bay for those two.

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Speaker 3: So you have nine of your first thirteen games inside

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Speaker 3: because you've got Minnesota, Indianapolis, and Dallas all in those

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Speaker 3: first thirteen games. So from a weather perspective, yeah, the

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Speaker 3: look Tennessee in the finale that.

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Speaker 5: Could be Chili bones.

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Speaker 2: Man, we've been there. Yeah, it was rough, Arctic, it

563
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Speaker 2: was rough.

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Speaker 3: In Kansas City on December twenty first can be pretty

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Speaker 3: tough as well, but there's something about in December I

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Speaker 3: can handle. I can handle, I can handle the cold

567
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Speaker 3: that just the rain of the wind get to be

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Speaker 3: too much. I mean, twenty twenty one was just an abomination.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was four games on the road and

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Speaker 3: we just got downpours and all of them, which I

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Speaker 3: guess was sort of emblematic of that particular season.

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Speaker 5: Indeed, So.

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Speaker 3: Look at I look at those kind of things. But

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Speaker 3: then you start looking at how it starts. You know,

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Speaker 3: how the schedule starts off. Okay, it's at Indy, all right,

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Speaker 3: but then Chicago at home. Then you go to Minnesota again,

577
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Speaker 3: rookie quarterback, rookie quarterback in Chicago. Then you go after Minnesota,

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Speaker 3: you come back home for those two and you got

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville and then you got the Bills, and you know

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Speaker 3: in the Bills you're gonna break out those Htown unis.

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Speaker 3: And I guarantee you, with all the hype there's been

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Speaker 3: about those Htown unions and how cool they look, this

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Speaker 3: team is not gonna go out there and lay an

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Speaker 3: egg that day, at least, you hope. So you hope

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Speaker 3: you can get off to a pretty good start. Then

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Speaker 3: you got New England, and New England's is not thought

587
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Speaker 3: to be pretty good, but you've never wanted your lead.

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Speaker 2: But what if you win that?

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Speaker 3: Then you go to Green Bay and you know, take

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Speaker 3: them on at noon, see what they've got.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you start off.

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Speaker 3: Really really well such that you can kind of ride

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Speaker 3: ride the wave. Not saying you win all three prime

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Speaker 3: time games, but you go to battle those three time

595
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Speaker 3: games and come out of there maybe two one which

596
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Speaker 3: would be nice, but you survived that that and then

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Speaker 3: you finish up the first thirteen weeks with I think Jacksonville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I think that's right.

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Speaker 3: So you can come out of there, you know, those

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Speaker 3: first thirteen feeling pretty good about what you've got now.

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Speaker 3: So it's a big Matza ball, but I think you

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Speaker 3: can get off to a good start, and getting off

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Speaker 3: to a good start is typically typically meant this team

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Speaker 3: can really finance groove.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully that's the case.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm right about that, because if they get off

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Speaker 3: to a good start, they need to get off to

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Speaker 3: a good start because if they got if they've got

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Speaker 3: to chase after the byeh Dolphins chief Ravens. Wo Wow,

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Speaker 3: Now two those three at home? Two those three at home,

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Speaker 3: and so okay, let's see what we got. But that's

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Speaker 3: gonna be tough. So you've got to be in a

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Speaker 3: pretty good you gotta be in a pretty good spot

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Speaker 3: coming out of that buye such that those four end

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Speaker 3: up being like many playoff games, it's just you got

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Speaker 3: to play so many of them in short spans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now, many of you listening to this, I'm sure Dave Howard, Dave,

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Speaker 4: what's ups say to this? Know that because of the

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Speaker 4: NFL plays seventeen games, Texans are playing the Cowboys. But

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Speaker 4: one of my best friends, who's a pretty big sports fan,

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Speaker 4: he said, hey, how come the Texans are playing the

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Speaker 4: Cowboys because they've got all these NFC North teams?

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Speaker 5: What's the deal there?

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Speaker 4: So, just as a friendly reminder, when the schedule went

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Speaker 4: to seventeen games a few years back, the NFL added

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Speaker 4: in an opponent from another conference and it lines up

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Speaker 4: with the division.

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Speaker 5: So the AFC South.

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Speaker 4: This year is playing the NFC East this year. So

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Speaker 4: the winner of the NFC East the Cowboys, plays the

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Speaker 4: winner of the AFC South from last year. The Texans

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Speaker 4: second place versus second place, last place versus last place.

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Speaker 4: Last year, the AFC South played the NFC West, So

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Speaker 4: Texans played played against the Cardinals last year because of that.

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Speaker 4: So ye, that's the reasoning behind that.

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Speaker 3: So that's how they added that game. And it's similar

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Speaker 3: to what happens with your AFC schedule. Our AFC division

639
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Speaker 3: that we match up with the AFC East, but we're

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Speaker 3: still gonna play one team from the AFC North and

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Speaker 3: one team from the AFC West, yep and the and

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Speaker 3: where we finished first place, that means we play first

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Speaker 3: place bills first place. So when you hear first place schedule,

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Speaker 3: that's what it means. So what it did was it

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Speaker 3: instead of us facing the last place teams like last year,

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Speaker 3: the Broncos, the Cardinals, the Jets, we end up facing

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Speaker 3: first place teams the Ravens, the Chiefs, the Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: And on paper, hey yeah, that's the harder schedule, but

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Speaker 4: it's a new year, man.

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Speaker 5: That no change. The teams that are at the tippy top.

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Speaker 4: They might backslide, they might not be as good as

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Speaker 4: they were last year. Same could be true if some

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Speaker 4: of these teams that we think are gonna stink, like

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Speaker 4: the Titans or the Patriots.

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Speaker 5: They might wind up, you know, you never know. It's

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Speaker 5: the beauty of the NFL.

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Speaker 4: So Texans are just gonna play the game in front

658
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 4: of them, try and win and do all that. And

659
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 4: another thing to add on to this Cowboys game, Texans

660
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 4: are undefeated against the Cowboys in prime time two and

661
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 4: zero two thousand and two, they won the Branchise opener

662
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 4: here at MG Stadium eighteen.

663
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 5: They went to overtime and beat the Cowboys.

664
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Speaker 2: Hopspins hosp is still spinning.

665
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then uh, they're playing them in prime time

666
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 4: Monday Night Football. A lot of folks thought it was

667
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 4: gonna be the Thanksgiving matchup. It's not no problem. I'm

668
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 4: fine with that. Get to stay home on Thanksgiving Day,

669
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 4: eat some good stuff. But Texans gonna play them on

670
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,479
Speaker 4: Monday Night Football. As far as rest and short week games,

671
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 4: there's not too many of them on the like Texans

672
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 4: could have gotten hosed in that regard, but it's sort

673
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 4: of set up that they get some breaks in there.

674
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 4: I don't see rest truly being a big issue or

675
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 4: a big buggaboo. Do you see that when you look

676
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 4: at this schedule. One thing, it's not perfect. It's not

677
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 4: an un game like every like last season, week eighteen.

678
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 4: But it could be worse, and I don't think it

679
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 4: got as worse as as as bad as it could

680
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Speaker 4: have been. Is what my point is.

681
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: I think where it gets to me, where it gets dicey.

682
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: The short weeks.

683
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 3: You've got two i'm gonna say Thursday games in air quotes.

684
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 3: So you're just listening, I'm putting up the air quotes,

685
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: you're watching, you're seeing me do it. Because Saturday, and

686
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 3: you've got the Saturday to Wednesday and Sunday the Thursday,

687
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 3: so you have two of those.

688
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: Now.

689
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 3: I think it was Mike Florio pointing this out. There

690
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: are nine teams in the NFL that have two or more.

691
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think it was more. I think

692
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 3: it was just two two short weeks like that. The

693
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: Texans are one of those nine. And and you could

694
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 3: look at it any number of ways, like, oh, you

695
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 3: know every game was at noon last year?

696
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 2: Okay, how sexy is that we.

697
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 3: Were playing in Halloween in New York against Aaron Rodgers

698
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,239
Speaker 3: and the Jets, and they were playing on Christmas. One

699
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 3: of the two games that's on Netflix, and I think

700
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. So those are they're spaced out, and

701
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 3: one of them comes just a couple of weeks after

702
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: you're bye.

703
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: So look, no, and the bye comes to week fourteen.

704
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 3: Now there are six teams in the NFL that have that buy,

705
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 3: including all of them that are playing that little mishmash.

706
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: There are four teams, the Ravens, Steelers, Texas Chiefs. Those four,

707
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: it's it's not quite round robin, but it's kind of

708
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: a little round robin amongst themselves. Basically, they all got

709
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 3: the Week four team by which because late in the season,

710
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 3: you're getting that late bye because you're gonna play those

711
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: Christmas games, So you kind of get that buy and

712
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 3: then play game and then you get that little that

713
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,479
Speaker 3: you know, that mishmash of two games in five days,

714
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 3: so you're gonna I don't know how much that buy

715
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: will help at that point, just because everybody's so beat up,

716
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 3: but I see what the NFL is doing, like, hey,

717
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: we're asking you guys to do this a second time essentially,

718
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 3: and to do this whole Christmas thing, and so we're

719
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 3: gonna give you this late bye and that hopefully will

720
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 3: give you some rest then and then you'll get some

721
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: rest after you play those two games going into the finale.

722
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 3: So let see if the trying to do there. And

723
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 3: I think what that's leading towards me is this is

724
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: eighteen games. This is kind of how you can, you know,

725
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 3: finagle us into eighteen games.

726
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 4: Let's do this and once you get to eighteen games,

727
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: let's have two by weeks per team. And I think

728
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 4: that's what they're gonna find out. Ultimately, let's nuke the

729
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 4: sports month of February. It's the worst month of the year.

730
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 4: Let's nuke it. Let's just get right into March in

731
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 4: college basketball. That way, we don't have anything boring to

732
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 4: watch on the weekends in the month of February.

733
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 2: Yep, I agree.

734
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's what we're gonna get to.

735
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 3: It's gonna happen. I think you're gonna have to start

736
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: a labor day get on into middle of February.

737
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know football.

738
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Speaker 5: It's tremendously well and I know you're not disagreeing.

739
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: Well, here's one of the things I found out last night.

740
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: And I knew it was gonna be close. I wasn't

741
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 3: totally sure when the Texans kick off that game against

742
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 3: the Chiefs on Saturday, the twenty first.

743
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a one Eastern game.

744
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 3: Right, They're gonna be three college football playoff games going

745
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 3: on at the same first round playoff games. They're all

746
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 3: on campus games, which you know is the new playoff

747
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 3: with TWUELF teams. And people were complaining, like, you know,

748
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 3: I'm frustrated because I won't be able to see the

749
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 3: college games because we're working. But that said, I'll be

750
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: able to catch up on it the next day as

751
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 3: we start getting ready for the Ravens. But that's a

752
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 3: that's a football smorgas board. I mean, I know on

753
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: YouTube TV, I can split into four different screens. I

754
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: get everything, I get all of them, so I get

755
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 3: it and I understand it. You know, college football they're

756
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: gonna steal from you know, look, it's a collge football

757
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: playoffa and they're playing people watching that. They're gonna be

758
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 3: plenty of people watching. The Texans are gonna be plenty

759
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: of people watching them all at the same time.

760
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 4: Plenty of people watching HGTV too give a crap about football.

761
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 3: And as they used to say, there are probably one

762
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: hundred million people in China that don't give a damn

763
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: exactly exactly.

764
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 4: But we give a damn we do the Houston Texans

765
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 4: and we're excited, man, I mean we're excited no matter what.

766
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 4: But it's one of the biggest days. It's like a

767
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 4: game day, it's like the drafts. It's a big, big

768
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 4: day to schedule.

769
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Speaker 5: It's out. You wrote a fantastic uh, it's a by

770
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 5: the numbers. I love it.

771
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 4: There's a lot of cool He's John just spouted off

772
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 4: a few of the stuff that he wrote about in

773
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 4: that column, but there's a lot more. So go check

774
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 4: that out. There's so much on Houston Texans dot com

775
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 4: and the Houston Texans mobile app. As you already know

776
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 4: because you listen to this and we appreciate you you

777
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: Samkustner checking this out and watching this on YouTube. Make

778
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 4: sure if you're on YouTube, or if you're not on YouTube,

779
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 4: subscribe to our YouTube channel, the Houston Texans YouTube channel,

780
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 4: so you get that stuff updated like this and like that,

781
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 4: and like this, and it it'll be even better. And no,

782
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 4: I'm not going through puberty. My voice is cracking and

783
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: is old. I've coached two primetime playoff baseball hate you

784
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 4: and there you go. These are playing for the title

785
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 4: on Saturday morning. We're excited.

786
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 2: Let's go Bees.

787
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 5: So Bees.

788
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, good luck to Drew's baseball team. And by

789
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: the way, I'm taking full credit for their success this

790
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: year because Drew was all down on what they had

791
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: in the cupboard, and I said, listen, just play it out,

792
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: coach them up, see what happens. And here they are

793
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: in the championship game. And he doubted them. I'm calling

794
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 1: him out for doubting the Bees. I believed in the Bees.

795
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: How about that I believed anyway? Coming up next, we

796
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: are going to go over the playoff field from last year.

797
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: Who's not getting in this year? Who was in last

798
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: year is not getting in? Who might slide in this year?

799
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: Among other things. They always come up here on Texans Radio.

800
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio, And unlike Scottie Scheffler, neither John Harris

801
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: nor myself have been arrested today yet. If it can

802
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: happen to Scotty, I guess it could happen to anybody.

803
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: But we'll hear more about that, I'm sure coming up.

804
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: That was a shocking story to wake up too, along

805
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: with the storm in a very different way.

806
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna be watching.

807
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: The PGA Championship this weekend, off and on and then

808
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: apparently he went on a whole one and got Birdie.

809
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm Scotty Scheffler.

810
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: He probably relaxes you, because probably not relaxes you, but

811
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: you're so oh focused on that that you're not thinking

812
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: about the nerves. Remember in Tin Cup, Johnny, when Costner's

813
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: on the range and he's got the yips, he's chili

814
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: dipping everything.

815
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and Cheech is very very sharp.

816
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: Wise Taddy says, take all the change in her left pocket,

817
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 1: put in your right pocket, put that tee behind your ear,

818
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: put your cap on backwards.

819
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: And then he hits the ball.

820
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,919
Speaker 1: Great, he said, you weren't thinking about the doctor, lady, Yeah,

821
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, or you weren't thinking about anything else. You're

822
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: thinking about how ridiculous you look. And sometimes, seriously, if

823
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm hitting the ball really bad, I think this is

824
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: normal because that's how I normally hit the ball. No,

825
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: but if I'm hitting the ball even worse than I should,

826
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll just do something weird like that, you know,

827
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: change my stance, just to get my mind out of it,

828
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: you know, out of the rut that it's in. It's

829
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: the Jordan's sick game theory. Oh yeah, yeah, the sick

830
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: Oh look, Andre and I've talked about that. I'm sure

831
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: you feel the same. Ye, I've had some of my

832
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: better broadcasts a migraine or I'm feeling well because you're

833
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: just not even.

834
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 2: Thinking about it, You're just going just firing.

835
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's awesome, or like slight vocal issues. Will

836
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: have to be careful about certain things. I don't know,

837
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: but not that I wish that to happen. By the way,

838
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 1: I feel like I could give golf lessons to teach

839
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: people how to be, you know, below average. If you

840
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: want to get from horrible to below average, I.

841
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 2: Can take you there. See that promo. I could take

842
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: you this.

843
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 3: You want to get to a seventeen handicap, Mark vandermir

844
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 3: can get you there.

845
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: Hey, seventeen for a lot of that's not bad. Okay,

846
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: let's get to this. I promise this playoff field for

847
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Who's going to be out of it

848
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: this year? And I'll give you Let's start in the NFC.

849
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: We'll get to this juicy AFC at a moment here,

850
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: But just to refresh everybody's memory, the division winners were

851
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, Cowboys, Lions and Bucks and the

852
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: wild Cards where the Eagles, Rams and Packers. Do you

853
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: see any of those teams not making it this year?

854
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: Nice said? Maybe it was last night.

855
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 3: I said, I think the Bucks are a little bit underrated, underrated, underrated.

856
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 3: But I think the Falcons added Kirk Cousins. If Kirk's

857
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 3: healthy and Michael Pennick stays on the bench, I think

858
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: the Falcons might end up taking that division.

859
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 2: So I think the Bucks could be one team to

860
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: keep an eye on.

861
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 3: Here's the other one mentioned it earlier. I think Dallas Cowboys.

862
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 3: I think the Eagles are gonna win at the Vision.

863
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 3: Tough though it may be. I think the Eagles gonna

864
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 3: win at the Vision, and the Cowboys don't make the playoffs.

865
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: Cowboys implode a little bit, don't make the playoffs. And

866
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 3: if that happens, oh well then it gets crazy. Oh boy, yeah,

867
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 3: then it gets crazy.

868
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: Do we get to see Jerry's meltdown in the ten

869
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: part Netflix series?

870
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 2: Ooh, that would be fun.

871
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 3: That'd be fun, especially if it would happen after they

872
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: would lose to us. He does not like now I know,

873
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 3: and you said it the other day and you said

874
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 3: it very very well. Jerry had a lot of respect

875
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 3: for Bob McNair, Bob and Jannis, no doubt. He's got

876
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 3: a ton of respect on what they did for us

877
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: and Harvey always, but he does not like losing to

878
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 3: us two thousand and two. He was irate twenty eighteen talk.

879
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 3: He kept mumbling in his sleep about DeAndre Hopkins. What

880
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 3: we don't have a guy like that? What about what

881
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: Ryan Clark said.

882
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: About the Cowboys fans they want to become Texans fans.

883
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not buying that. I don't know

884
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 2: if I buy that, but they are.

885
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: There are many Cowboy fans who live in Houston who

886
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: are actually Texans season ticket members.

887
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 2: Because they kind of like the Texans.

888
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: They feel like they can be Cowboys fans and Texans fans,

889
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: So I think they can embrace the Texans. But when

890
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, when the two teams are

891
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: gonna play, they're gonna root for Dallas. Yeah, that's how

892
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: it goes. They live among us, the Cowboys fans.

893
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really do that. I could see that kind

894
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 3: of tipping the scales for some of them. And look

895
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 3: last year in particular, I mean We'll see how it

896
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: goes this year. But last year we were we were

897
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: a fun team. We're coming out of nowhere and you

898
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 3: have this rookie quarterback. You've seen this guy plays incredible.

899
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: C J.

900
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 3: Stroud, Oh my god, this is unreal. These guys are fun.

901
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 3: Demiko Ryan's is celebrating with his players. It's a fun

902
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 3: team to watch. Now, we'll see how that goes this year,

903
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 3: but we.

904
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: Were a really fun team.

905
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 3: I could see a lot of people at that point

906
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 3: kind of yeah, you know, I've got my team over here.

907
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 2: But you know what I like that.

908
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 3: You know, we've all got a second team that we like.

909
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, we've all got we've all got those teams.

910
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: So we were probably that team for a lot of

911
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 3: people last year, including probably some Cowboys fans. But if

912
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 3: you're a dying the World Cowboys fans, you're probably not

913
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 3: going yeah, yeah, yeah, Texans are my second favorite team.

914
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that.

915
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: Sean and Seth we're talking about do you let them in?

916
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: I say yes, I'm inclusive. I always let people on

917
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: the bandwagon. Let's go, yeah, saddle up, let's have some fun.

918
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: We want you to join us.

919
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it is fun to have more people aboard.

920
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 3: But don't give the nonsense. I've been a Texas fans forever. No, no, no, no,

921
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 3: to be honest about it. You know when I started

922
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 3: liking them last year. I started liking them last year.

923
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 3: This is why I like them. Now I'm on board. Okay,

924
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 3: that's cool. At least you're honest about it. I'm good

925
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: with that.

926
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: I think that Texans are appealing to more people than ever. No,

927
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: absolutely so, absolutely something this time.

928
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: How many fantasy stars do we have on this team

929
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 3: all around the nation that are like, you know, but

930
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 3: I'm jumping on Joe. I'm jumping on Joe Mixon train

931
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 3: right now. I'm gonna get in for fantasy. I'm gonna

932
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 3: get digs for fantasy, you know. I mean, they're recognizable

933
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 3: names now throughout the country.

934
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: You still like the Rams to make the playoffs, and

935
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: I think twenty four, I think.

936
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: The Rams are gonna be the Donald thing. I don't know.

937
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 3: I don't know about but Jared vers Braden Fisk both

938
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 3: going in there with Kobe Turner, I think they'll be Okay.

939
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 3: I think the Rams offense is gonna be at a

940
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: different level. Even I think they've short up the offensive

941
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 3: line again. I think they'll be even I think they

942
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 3: could be even better. And I don't know that I

943
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: trust any other I mean, I like forty nine Ers.

944
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 3: I think it's forty nine Ers Rams out of the West.

945
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 3: The Cardinals aren't quite there yet. The Cardinals are gonna

946
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 3: be knocking on the door. I think it's twenty twenty

947
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 3: five for the Cardinals. One more draft, and then the

948
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 3: Cardinals are gonna be really tough to play.

949
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 2: Against with Murray.

950
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 3: With Murray, Okay, now, I think there's a limit of

951
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 3: what they could do with Murray, but I think there's

952
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 3: they can still ascend with Kyler Murray.

953
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: Will only one NFC East team make the playoffs?

954
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yes.

955
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: So where do you think the wild card comes from?

956
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: Because last year they got the Cowboys and the Eagles

957
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 1: into the field.

958
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 2: So if it's Eagles and.

959
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: You got an NFC West team in the Rams, you

960
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: think Packers Lions.

961
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: I'm going Packers Lions, whatever order. I think that happens.

962
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: Oh, you're not going to do it. Niners Rams, Okay,

963
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: that's not gonna do it.

964
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna happen, and then you're gonna have

965
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: the uh you're gonna have to shoot off the Eagles

966
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 3: and you're gonna have an upset.

967
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 2: Who is it the Washington commanders.

968
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: Oh, Jaydon Daniels as a rookie, so he does write

969
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: it down, Washington Commanders, he do. Everybody thinks Caleb Williams

970
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: might do. That's exactly might do what CJ. Stroud did

971
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: do last year.

972
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

973
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not easy, and we should It's not

974
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 1: going to be easy.

975
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 3: I mean the rare thing that got the week Washington

976
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 3: commanders said the week fourteen by two, Like everybody's got

977
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 3: that bye week.

978
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: It's weird, AFC. Let's get to it. Browns are gonna

979
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: run out of show. Goodbye Browns. Brown's are gone gone.

980
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: Out of the feet of playoffs, Oh, out of the playoffs?

981
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: What about the Dolphins? See, I think the Dolphins have

982
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: a shot to exit the playoffs field.

983
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: I could see that depends on the health of those

984
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 3: those outside guys Jaaln Phillips, Bradley Chubb. I think that

985
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 3: could you know, and obviously Chop Robinson. But I think

986
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 3: the Dolphins are due for a step back.

987
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: But if your Chargers do what you think, they might

988
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 1: think Steelers out of there too.

989
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: Brown Steelers, Oh, go, go go. That'd be amazing. I

990
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: think the Colts get in there.

991
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: If all three wild cards were gone from last year,

992
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: that'd be I think, because look, you could see Colts, Jets,

993
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: and Chargers. Yes, and nobody should be surprised to make

994
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year obviously. Oh yeah, the Bengals, Bengals,

995
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: they want to get back in the party. Well, it's

996
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. Bengals, Chargers, Jets. Oh no, I'm sorry, Colts, Bengals, Chargers,

997
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: Jets out. Aaron Rodgers done by week ten? Listen the

998
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: battle for the one seed. I just got a chill

999
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: thinking of can you imagine if the one seed is

1000
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: up for grabs and it really should be still by

1001
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: the time you get to that final four games the Texans, Yeah,

1002
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: and you're in that round robin.

1003
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 2: This is gonna be I just felt that. I felt

1004
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 2: the feeling that.

1005
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: I get when there's a big game coming. I felt

1006
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: that feeling just now talking about this. Imagine that if

1007
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: you do well in those games that round robin, you

1008
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: start with the Dolphins, then you go Chiefs Ravens, my gosh,

1009
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: and you have a possibility there.

1010
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 2: Pinch me. Imagine just get me back to the field.

1011
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 2: But that would be so nice to have.

1012
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 3: That greedy just win week one, win week one, stay healthy,

1013
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 3: win week one.

1014
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm on the record, I said, if you gave me

1015
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: ten and seven, now over what's behind door number two?

1016
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 2: The shirt.

1017
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 3: I was the one that said, no, I know you.

1018
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,959
Speaker 3: We got the team of roll Dice with let's roll Dice.

1019
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't wait to see what actually happens here.

1020
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for tonight. This show

1021
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: will be available in podcast forms soon enough. But we've

1022
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: got so much good stuff for you to check out.

1023
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: In fact, John McClain visited with us last night and

1024
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: he predicted the Texans record and that video is up

1025
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: on YouTube right now on the Texans website. You can

1026
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: listen to it on Houston Texans dot com and Spotify, iTunes,

1027
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: Apple Music, whatever they call it this week, and we've

1028
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: got many other shows up there as well, and all

1029
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: the great coverage of the schedule release. Ticketmaster has your tickets.

1030
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: Go check it out and get into the building for

1031
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: a bountiful twenty twenty four campaign. Have a great week

1032
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: at everyone. We're back Monday at six. OTA coverage next

1033
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: week can't wait. Thanks for listening. Area forty five is

1034
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: coming up. You don't want to miss that. Go Texans.