Speaker 1: Had ot talson right side fifteen breaking a tackle ten
Speaker 1: to the five to the pylon. He's in touchdown. David Johnson.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Texans. Kelsey and motion again right the
Speaker 1: left core man Rush Clahomes fires for the insol tuch
Speaker 1: Kelsey touchdown, Chance House City shielding his shoulder just inside
Speaker 1: the linebacker and the change Capoc a spectacular try. He's
Speaker 1: shone block it to the right cock left Rondic goes
Speaker 1: to Edwards hill Are fifteen turned to fire touchdown Chance
Speaker 1: City c e h with t D one. What a
Speaker 1: night for the rookie clad Edwards Hilaire a great cutback run.
Speaker 1: The NFL season is officially underway and the team that
Speaker 1: won the last game of the previous season wins the
Speaker 1: first game of the new one. It is the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs who win thirty four to twenty over the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans in front of almost nineteen thousand people at
Speaker 1: Arrowheads Stadium. Yes, and the rookie Clyde Edwards Hilaire was
Speaker 1: the star on offense for the Chiefs, running for a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight yards and to score. Dan Hansa
Speaker 1: is here along with the rest of the heroes, Greg Rosenhal,
Speaker 1: Mark Settler and Chris Westling and West this was not
Speaker 1: the type of game that you come to expect from
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs, where they're just wowing you
Speaker 1: with big play after big play. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, you look up, they have thirty four
Speaker 1: points and their cruising past another team that simply had
Speaker 1: no answers. And that's not counting the best throw of
Speaker 1: the night, which Patrick Mahomes put on DeMarcus Robinson's hands
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone and he couldn't
Speaker 1: come down with it could have been a forty point
Speaker 1: gaming and talking about not hitting their stride quite yet,
Speaker 1: um and relying more on on the rookie running back
Speaker 1: then than the passing game. So, as Greg said at
Speaker 1: one point late in the game, I'm here rooting for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs like West used to look route for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: just just out of pure excellence in football, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you should be able to appreciate excellence greatness. I think
Speaker 1: this is what Mahomes is and what this team is
Speaker 1: going to be. And it reminded me so much of
Speaker 1: the playoff game against the Texans in that Okay, you
Speaker 1: can show a lot of different things defensively early, and
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth is going crazy and Dan is really getting
Speaker 1: excited about Dream Weaver, the attractive new defensive coordinator for
Speaker 1: the Texans, Anthony Weaver, and it's like, wow, they're really
Speaker 1: they're they're mixing them up, and it's like, okay, that
Speaker 1: that's great for like two or three drives, and then
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes kind of figures out what
Speaker 1: you're doing and tonight what they needed to do to
Speaker 1: win with just to slowly move the ball up down
Speaker 1: the field. So it's like, okay, we'll do that and
Speaker 1: we'll have thirty one points with eleven minutes left in
Speaker 1: the game. And oh, by the way, when you were
Speaker 1: doing well early, it was like one punt and a
Speaker 1: drop touchdown in the end zone. You really didn't do them.
Speaker 1: It just they make it look so easy as wild
Speaker 1: I point to their drive. There was a six team
Speaker 1: play yard drive that made it fourteen seven and four.
Speaker 1: You get down fourteen seven to the Chiefs. It feels
Speaker 1: like a lot different than it does to other teams
Speaker 1: that that eight nine plus minutes off the clock. I
Speaker 1: just there there's another thing that stuck out to me.
Speaker 1: We spent months saying that, you know, week one, if
Speaker 1: it ever even happened, would be sloppy. It would be
Speaker 1: a hot mess that even you know, veteran Leiden teams
Speaker 1: would be figuring themselves out one penalty by the Chiefs
Speaker 1: for five yards and and Greg spent part of our
Speaker 1: preview show on YouTube live session talking about how Andy
Speaker 1: Reid historically with the Chiefs has come out and dropped
Speaker 1: bombs on teams in Week one, and there were a
Speaker 1: lot of issues for everyone this time around. But I
Speaker 1: thought they got cleaner as the game went along and
Speaker 1: they just simply look at they They had to win
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different way today. But I
Speaker 1: see a team with Edwards, a lair who gives them
Speaker 1: a totally new h dynamic in the backfield, and they
Speaker 1: get an interception by Lagarius sneed their fourth round cornerback.
Speaker 1: They're just they have younger players adding to a team
Speaker 1: that seemed invincible a year ago. I'd be a little
Speaker 1: bit um, a little bit terrified if I were in
Speaker 1: the a f C West or parts beyond. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hand out lollipops just yet. Let's see the
Speaker 1: rest of the week one schedule because the Chiefs have
Speaker 1: continuity on their side and they have Patrick Mahomes in
Speaker 1: an offense that's pretty much uh constructed as it was
Speaker 1: last year. But listen, this is a great, great team.
Speaker 1: And by the way, yeah what, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the scientists were saying, but yes, oh yeah, you should
Speaker 1: be able to truly appreciate greatness, all right, But when
Speaker 1: it happens twenty straight years and that teams from the
Speaker 1: division that your favorite teams, and maybe it's not so beautiful,
Speaker 1: it's not some ballet on the gridiron, but you know whatever,
Speaker 1: For now, though I agree with you because I'm not
Speaker 1: a Chiefs fan. I don't have skin in the game,
Speaker 1: but it is fun to watch this team that's a
Speaker 1: now a juggernaut, it's a defending Super Bowl champion that
Speaker 1: it feels like we're just getting to know this team,
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be a team that's in the
Speaker 1: mix and is going to be a high level power
Speaker 1: in the NFL for potentially years to come. And you know,
Speaker 1: on the Texans side of the ball, I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the same issues. DeAndre Hopkins isn't there,
Speaker 1: and I know Will Fuller. Statistically, when you look at
Speaker 1: the box score, it's like, oh, look, he stepped right
Speaker 1: into Hopkins shoes. But that's really not what happened here. Um,
Speaker 1: Kurt Wanner, I was listening to a little bit of
Speaker 1: the game on Westwood One. We went to westling Manor
Speaker 1: with West and Lakisha Young Link and West's mother in law,
Speaker 1: and we, uh, we were watching the game and once
Speaker 1: it got out of hand in the fourth quarter, drove
Speaker 1: back and Kurt Wanner made a good point. He was
Speaker 1: kind of getting on the roster construction of Bill O'Brien's
Speaker 1: team a little bit, which is, listen, when you have
Speaker 1: this many number two, established, number two receivers, it's a
Speaker 1: little tricky to like ask somebody to become the number
Speaker 1: one guy. And what was happening too much in this
Speaker 1: game is what tends to happen when the Texans defense
Speaker 1: offense gets bogged down, which is plays aren't opening up,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you see Deshaun Watson dancing
Speaker 1: around trying to make something happen desperately, and that only
Speaker 1: goes so far. And and we saw that again, and
Speaker 1: you hope that's not a sign of things to come.
Speaker 1: For the Texans this season, but it was today. It
Speaker 1: was today. They struggled to protect him, and they couldn't
Speaker 1: get anything open deep. Titus Howard in particular struggled in
Speaker 1: past protection that was a problem. And and I think
Speaker 1: that that point by Kurt Warner is fair. But also
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is so used to looking at DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and throwing to him in key situations, whether he's covered
Speaker 1: or uncovered, and it's gonna take him time to get
Speaker 1: used to these new guys. I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: that Randall Cobb and Will Fuller played twice as many
Speaker 1: snaps as Kenny Stills and Brandon Cooks. Cooks has had
Speaker 1: an injury, so that partly explains that, but you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have known Cob played that many snaps. I mean, for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards, it's a lot to their offense. I
Speaker 1: was impressed though, by the Chiefs defense. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a reminder when Frank Clark and Chris Jones are
Speaker 1: together and healthy, which they really weren't for most of
Speaker 1: the last year until the very end when their defense
Speaker 1: played the best they played all year, that that's a
Speaker 1: really uh strong tandem. And Jones stopped a couple of
Speaker 1: drives on his ownes. As West mentioned, Clark uh was
Speaker 1: eating up Titus Howard that the Texans and oh, by
Speaker 1: the way your boy hands this uh Laramie Tounsil he did.
Speaker 1: He did get a false start very quickly, so he's
Speaker 1: staying right on pace for that. You know, one penaltye
Speaker 1: per game. That's that's Tonsil's lane. I wanted one little
Speaker 1: aesthetic note. I came home from West's and watched the game.
Speaker 1: I watched the game with with Simone and the kids,
Speaker 1: and like she was very annoyed by this one Chiefs
Speaker 1: player that had these bright yellow gloves because you know,
Speaker 1: when he was dancing around like chasing a receiver, and
Speaker 1: it looks like a flag. And I think at the
Speaker 1: end they actually the announcers thought that there was a flag.
Speaker 1: You cannot be wearing yellow gloves, uh anyone. So I
Speaker 1: understand it's part of your color palette. But um, I
Speaker 1: could not agree more. I could not agree more with
Speaker 1: Simone on this issue. Just sticking deeper on this, let's
Speaker 1: keep going. I think I've I think I've drawn it
Speaker 1: out as far as I can. But I just but
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire West we talked about it. I I think
Speaker 1: because he has the same number. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: he has a little bit of a little Sean McCoy
Speaker 1: vibe to him, but he is smaller than that. But
Speaker 1: even on a run near the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and like I said, a hundred and thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: and their last drive that ended up with a field
Speaker 1: goal that Al Michael's beautifully let the audience know with
Speaker 1: a wink, wink, nudge, nudge that had affected a lot
Speaker 1: of things in the desert. He dropped his older state
Speaker 1: on his feet, got an extra seven yards. If you
Speaker 1: are a Chiefs fan, if you are Andy Reid, if
Speaker 1: you're a Fantasy uh fan who took this guy in
Speaker 1: the first round, you're feeling bullish right now after what
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire did in his debut. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: he ran really decisively, look great in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and um, if you're the chief she might
Speaker 1: worry a little bit. I thin you've got stuff so
Speaker 1: easily at the goal line so many times. I think
Speaker 1: that his strength though he is he's also I mean
Speaker 1: he set l s U S pass catching record is
Speaker 1: from for running backs. I mean, they haven't really even
Speaker 1: tapped into that in this game. And I can't know,
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid is sort of a master, you know,
Speaker 1: creating the screen game advantages, so I think we're just
Speaker 1: starting to see the beginning. But it reminds like the
Speaker 1: you know, throwing them into them into the middle of
Speaker 1: the defense over and over, like on third and fourth
Speaker 1: and shortened stuff that didn't seem to be something that
Speaker 1: he had mastered at this point. Well, he's got to
Speaker 1: be a great player for them. But it's like flow
Speaker 1: down on, just like giving all the credit to a layer,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be great for them. I heard them
Speaker 1: say some status like it's the most yards or a
Speaker 1: first round pick in his debut or this to that,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, didn't Kareem Hunt go up and down
Speaker 1: the field and drop a bomb on the Patriots in
Speaker 1: his first game? Ever? It's like, well, he wasn't a
Speaker 1: first round pick, but he put up about two yards
Speaker 1: in the same offense with the same coach. Um I
Speaker 1: was it was the same quorderback back then, right, or
Speaker 1: that was that that might have even been Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: They put a forty burger out. I mean that that
Speaker 1: kind of makes make makes my point for me that
Speaker 1: you can put anyone in there. You can put Damian
Speaker 1: Williams and he might be a Super Bowl m v P.
Speaker 1: There's just so many other things to worry about, Like
Speaker 1: you're gonna let a layer beat you. I mean, that's it.
Speaker 1: Just it's gonna take a special defense UM to give
Speaker 1: them problems. And I think we know the Texans UM
Speaker 1: have a long way to go to be a special
Speaker 1: defense this year. I mean, apparently he's a borderline XFL
Speaker 1: player based on your commentary saying he's a very good player.
Speaker 1: But they're saying if if any first round running back
Speaker 1: in there, they're gonna do well. I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: But he did a few things today even though it
Speaker 1: wasn't a perfect game, and you know they're working on
Speaker 1: it this week over the next ten days to get
Speaker 1: better in goal line situations because it wasn't pretty, but
Speaker 1: he's flash enough that made you think, oh god, this
Speaker 1: if this actually does play out the way a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought it could, that this guy is special,
Speaker 1: you can't you literally can't stop the chief without the
Speaker 1: problems really, because even without even if you had Damian
Speaker 1: Williams or whomever back there, they have so many people
Speaker 1: that Patrick go Holmes can go to on this offense,
Speaker 1: and and they talked about it on the telecast as well.
Speaker 1: That picked your poison. But with someone as good as
Speaker 1: the Homes behind center, he's gonna find the guy and
Speaker 1: they're just gonna score points every single game. And then
Speaker 1: it just becomes about can you score against the defense?
Speaker 1: And we mentioned this in our YouTube preview. Over the
Speaker 1: LASS six games of the regular season last year, the
Speaker 1: average eleven a half points allowed on defense. Kansas City
Speaker 1: then go win three games in the playoffs and win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So the defenses should not be overlooked here.
Speaker 1: This is a special team potentially, and they spent less
Speaker 1: money on defense last year than any team in the
Speaker 1: league and and won the Super Bowl with it. So
Speaker 1: I just you know, there, I couldn't be more impressed
Speaker 1: with the team building effort in Kansas City. I will
Speaker 1: ask you, guys, wanted to question because you know, Greg
Speaker 1: and I were sitting we were socially distanced, but we
Speaker 1: were in the corner of the of West manor Um,
Speaker 1: you know, having a little bit of a discussion back
Speaker 1: and forth. Did the players at all look a little
Speaker 1: hesitant on defense when it came to tackling or a
Speaker 1: little bit off their feet and maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: tired towards the end of the first half. And I
Speaker 1: think that's something that would carry over to Sunday. I
Speaker 1: mean it was, it was a little sloppy, and then
Speaker 1: it's almost like the course corrected by the end of
Speaker 1: the game. It was it's tough to tell, Like I
Speaker 1: think they the Chief's offense was a little sloppier than normal.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that's like they're still gonna
Speaker 1: be NFL players, But yeah, I think the tackling and
Speaker 1: the defense for the most part is gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: Then again, you look at like the numbers and they
Speaker 1: you know, you keep Patrick Mahomes under seven yards per
Speaker 1: attempting now you mentioned before for the show Dan, It's like,
Speaker 1: I guess that's that's a good that's a good job,
Speaker 1: you know, at least keeping the big plays off the
Speaker 1: board relatively. I just was thinking, though we were in
Speaker 1: West Manner, this was west as um first game he
Speaker 1: ever watched as a father, and then with his son
Speaker 1: right there too, first game, first game for a link.
Speaker 1: How you feeling great? Is in his little football outfit.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our friends yet and him that personalized with
Speaker 1: west Lane on the back, so nice to have him
Speaker 1: there in his football uniform. It was it was a
Speaker 1: great time. I thought the most explosive play of the
Speaker 1: night was the poop that he unleashed late in the
Speaker 1: second Carter had changed his diaper he came in. There
Speaker 1: was not for Keisha off the couch. It was that powerful. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I guess my final thought is if you're looking
Speaker 1: for positives out of Houston, Yeah, you didn't get embarrassed,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty good, but you're not looking to not
Speaker 1: be embarrassed. You fasten yourself and a f C contender.
Speaker 1: David Johnson did look good, especially early on when this
Speaker 1: game was uh, you know, in doubt, and he played
Speaker 1: well and had that great little jump cut for the
Speaker 1: touchdown on the nineteen yard run. So that's a positive
Speaker 1: and you get the feeling. Especially now, who knows we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out the injury status of Duke Johnson who
Speaker 1: left with a leg injury. Johnson might become a workhorse
Speaker 1: for them. I don't know about using the word embarrassed,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't a close game and the Chief's crew,
Speaker 1: um my final thought would be you know the old
Speaker 1: Alex Baldwin quote for Chiefs fans right now, life is
Speaker 1: just a boulevard of unbroken green lights. You walk into
Speaker 1: every game thinking you're gonna win when you have Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes at quarterback. It's true, and you have you have
Speaker 1: green lights you know, facing you for the next ten
Speaker 1: fifteen years. Really, it really is a is a unique
Speaker 1: and have to be a great feeling for this fan base.
Speaker 1: I would I would like to see Billy Billy O'Brien
Speaker 1: be just like a little more aggressive on fourth down. Really,
Speaker 1: don't don't punt it away, go in there knowing that
Speaker 1: you gotta score forty know what kind of game it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. And I don't know what they would have
Speaker 1: done schematic wise to to make it a bombs away
Speaker 1: type of game. But man, they never threw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field at all. They weren't read that was ready.
Speaker 1: That was the only way you're gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: And kind of know the situation you're gonna be in,
Speaker 1: Go for it on fourth go deep, go past crazy,
Speaker 1: don't you know, don't be balanced. So Dan, they weren't
Speaker 1: ready for this game, and they weren't ready for the
Speaker 1: first three quarters of the playoff game against the Bills.
Speaker 1: They are just start getting ready for these games with
Speaker 1: all this time to prepare, and you want to hear
Speaker 1: the worst news. Uh, next week they welcome the Ravens
Speaker 1: into their buildings. So their schedule is brutal, to my goodness.
Speaker 1: So you have to go to Arrowhead on the opening night,
Speaker 1: which is basically a lambing led to slaughter. You have
Speaker 1: the Ravens come to your building, then you go to
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and then you host the Vikings and then things
Speaker 1: soften up a little bit with the Jaguars, but then
Speaker 1: you have the Titans and Packwards Packers after that. So
Speaker 1: they are entering a situation now. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1: And that's why the NFL schedule is so much different
Speaker 1: than other sports. Uh, you lose that first game, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it starts to get a little hot
Speaker 1: under the collars. So it's a double playoff schedule right there.
Speaker 1: You know, I bring this team up a lot and
Speaker 1: West probably tires of I guess I think I even
Speaker 1: compared um one of your softball teams, uh, one of
Speaker 1: the Shield teams to the Ers. And when I came
Speaker 1: home and Luke is saying I'm rooting for the Texans
Speaker 1: because the chief Speed the Niners, right, And I don't
Speaker 1: know the way of thinking that team. I think they
Speaker 1: ended up going fourteen and two, but they were closer
Speaker 1: to like one or sixteen and no, Jugger not right.
Speaker 1: And the thing was every week. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to be someone that's out there thinking I'm rooting
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, I'm waiting for something bad to happen
Speaker 1: like you are rolling uphill, because it's just it just
Speaker 1: has a look of a team that is going to
Speaker 1: just find new ways to win, become more powerful by
Speaker 1: the week. And you know, I we all know a
Speaker 1: few Chiefs fans and they kind of struggled and suffered
Speaker 1: for a long time with teams that came close. Now
Speaker 1: you have a team that got there, and it's just
Speaker 1: a question of how many more they can win at
Speaker 1: this point. And I don't like to jump too far
Speaker 1: ahead because these things don't happen that often. But this
Speaker 1: is a very different situation then some of the other
Speaker 1: one off Super Bowl winners we've seen before. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: We we'd be remiss not to mention um. You know,
Speaker 1: some of the pregame stuff. That the Texans stayed, you know,
Speaker 1: in the locker room like it used to be back
Speaker 1: for the first you know, seventy eight years of the
Speaker 1: NFL that they were never outside of the locker room
Speaker 1: for the national anthem until until the last two decades
Speaker 1: and you know, their safety. Justin Reed said they considered
Speaker 1: delaying the game that they had talked about, um, you know,
Speaker 1: whether they would come out late, you know, and have
Speaker 1: the game start late as a as a way to
Speaker 1: to raise awareness. They decided not to do that. They
Speaker 1: stayed in the locker room. Uh you know, the team's
Speaker 1: locked arms at midfield and the Chiefs crowd that was
Speaker 1: there booed them pretty hardcore at that moment, which which
Speaker 1: was interesting. We won't see that like in in other stadiums,
Speaker 1: but it is still just a sea change to see that.
Speaker 1: The league itself kind of embracing that with the messages
Speaker 1: on the on the player's helmet. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a lot different than it was when Colin captain.
Speaker 1: Most and most stadiums are gonna be empty on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but it was interesting to vibe It felt like Week
Speaker 1: four the preseason in terms of the crowd where you
Speaker 1: have about people in there. People are cheering, but because
Speaker 1: it's such a big space and it's open air, it
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the same energy. But it's gonna be
Speaker 1: better than other games that we watch and would be
Speaker 1: super odd. It's gonna be super odd this this week.
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it can be two things,
Speaker 1: which is it will be odd. That's of course that
Speaker 1: that is true, But I also think it's a TV
Speaker 1: sport and like if the quality of play is good
Speaker 1: and the replay, I don't know, it's just it still
Speaker 1: just felt like NFL football to me. I think we're
Speaker 1: also getting a little bit used to it. I mean
Speaker 1: we're whatnot football will be a whole different world than
Speaker 1: baseball and basketball. But how long did it really take
Speaker 1: you to get used to watching baseball without fans. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's better or worse, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: not that jarring that I can't functionally deal with it
Speaker 1: as a human. I mean, it's a weird year. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it does stay this way, but um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I normally a big baseball fan. I've I've
Speaker 1: hated the experience with no fans. I feel like it
Speaker 1: takes away a lot of the like energy and for football,
Speaker 1: you could turn that up and multiplied by ten arrowheads
Speaker 1: should have been going bonkers tonight and that would have
Speaker 1: added more excitement to it. But that's just Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the cards we've been dealt as a as a world
Speaker 1: right now, and that is what it is. Well, there's
Speaker 1: also the player that might not care. And then there's
Speaker 1: the other player. There are others. They talked about how
Speaker 1: they fuel off the fans. I think football, you know,
Speaker 1: like all the sports, but there are certain football players
Speaker 1: that might turn in a different performance with eighty thou
Speaker 1: people cheering them or booing them. All Right, that's it
Speaker 1: for the recap of Thursday Night Football. A reminder you
Speaker 1: could check out the preview of all the Week one
Speaker 1: games that have not been played yet on your whatever
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to your podcast. It was an episode
Speaker 1: we released released earlier on Thursday, so make sure you
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