Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, everybody. Welcome to a Friday edition, a
Speaker 1: Black Friday, Day after Thanksgiving edition of Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: I know many of you are out there celebrating Black
Speaker 1: Friday deals and sales and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're safe, you are warm, not wet like we
Speaker 1: were in Tennessee last week, and you are enjoying yourself
Speaker 1: and being kind to one another. I can't emphasize that
Speaker 1: enough to be kind to one another at this holiday season,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate you being here for Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and
Speaker 1: we've got a lot to do. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: David Culley, Tyrod Taylor, Jimmy Morrissey, David Fletcher, Jimmy Morrissey again.
Speaker 1: Also my Keys to the Game and my game predictions
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Speaker 1: so let's start the way we always do on a
Speaker 1: Friday with our good pal, the head coach of your
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, David Culley, who gave a little game preview
Speaker 1: to the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vandemir coach. Before
Speaker 1: we get into the game itself, how was the week
Speaker 1: of preparation for you head Thanksgiving? I know you cut
Speaker 1: that day not shorter, but you changed the way you
Speaker 1: arrange the day and you're ready to go for the Jets.
Speaker 1: Mark it was a normal week for us. The only
Speaker 1: thing we did we adjusted Thanksgiving practice on Thursday simply
Speaker 1: because we wanted to give our players and a coaches
Speaker 1: time at home right to be able to enjoy the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving day. But with as a normal practice, normal week
Speaker 1: other than we know on Friday, what ends up happening
Speaker 1: is that guys have put in a bunch of food,
Speaker 1: coaches have put in a bunch of food, and the
Speaker 1: energy level has to be picked up. We really got
Speaker 1: to do a good job of coaching to get them back,
Speaker 1: and the same thing with us as coaches and with
Speaker 1: those guys as players. But it was basically a normal week,
Speaker 1: except it ended up being having time with your family
Speaker 1: for a whole half a day on Thanksgiving. Well, you've
Speaker 1: talked about all season long how you like the temperament
Speaker 1: of this team, win or lose, But coming off of victory,
Speaker 1: is there something extra that you sense in the prep
Speaker 1: for the next one up. Well, there's the psyche is better.
Speaker 1: I mean, you feel it and and havn't It's been
Speaker 1: a while since we had had that feeling. But Mark,
Speaker 1: as far as the preparation, the preparation was the same,
Speaker 1: The same energy was there, but you kind of feel it.
Speaker 1: You feel it as a coach, you know, you feel
Speaker 1: you feel better about things. Here's the thing about when
Speaker 1: you win. Sometimes when you win games, things get masked.
Speaker 1: In other words, you know there are things that although
Speaker 1: you won the ball game, there was like five or
Speaker 1: six things in that ball game that could have flipped
Speaker 1: the game around that you got to make sure you
Speaker 1: correct when you win. Sometimes as a coach and as
Speaker 1: a player, you kind of go over those things and
Speaker 1: kind of forget that those things happen. Where when you
Speaker 1: lose those kind of games like that, then you isolate
Speaker 1: on those things. You do that so you have to
Speaker 1: do the same things after a win. Sometimes we're a
Speaker 1: little more in tune with things after win and we
Speaker 1: are after a loss for that reason. Coach and passing
Speaker 1: yards per game Top sixteen teams. Everybody is above five
Speaker 1: hundred except for the Jets. They're ninth. And I know
Speaker 1: they've used multiple quarterbacks, but it appears that's one thing
Speaker 1: they do well that you have to be ready for
Speaker 1: their aerial attack. It's very good. And you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: starting with the rookie quarterback that they have who we
Speaker 1: are going to see this week, they do a good
Speaker 1: job of running football. That's part of who they are.
Speaker 1: They're very good at it. They've got good weapons. That's
Speaker 1: part of their philosophy of how they do things. And
Speaker 1: I expect them to continue to do that same thing.
Speaker 1: And I know with your offense, you're looking to run
Speaker 1: the ball better. We've talked about that plenty of times.
Speaker 1: But you're coming off a game in which you've finally
Speaker 1: got into the end zone on the road. You had
Speaker 1: some positives there, but I know you're trying to improve
Speaker 1: on that side of the football. And that goes back
Speaker 1: to what I said about when you win games, things
Speaker 1: get masked. We did not run the ball as well
Speaker 1: in that game as we'd like to. We ran it
Speaker 1: as much as we like to. We just need to
Speaker 1: run it better. Mark, And when you run it better,
Speaker 1: obviously the passing game becomes better, it becomes more consistent,
Speaker 1: and whether the quarterback is scoring it or the backs
Speaker 1: are doing it on the runs or whatnot, are getting
Speaker 1: out of pocket, extending plays. The fact that you're you
Speaker 1: have to defend that is so important in people being
Speaker 1: able to stop what you do. And you haven't been
Speaker 1: home in a while, and here you are back at
Speaker 1: n RG and a salute to Service day and I
Speaker 1: know you're where they're gear and everything. So many people
Speaker 1: love this theme day for so many reasons. Well, the reasons,
Speaker 1: the reasons why we are able to do what we
Speaker 1: do and enjoy life the way we enjoy life in
Speaker 1: this country is because of those servicemen and service women
Speaker 1: that have served this nation. And my father and my
Speaker 1: uncle one was Korean War and the other one was
Speaker 1: World War Two, and they never never let me forget.
Speaker 1: Why you're able to do the things that you're doing
Speaker 1: right now is because of the people that have served,
Speaker 1: people that have lost their lives for us to be
Speaker 1: able to do what we do. And it's very special
Speaker 1: and man coach and very very well said, all right,
Speaker 1: injury report, we gotta get our status report in. It's
Speaker 1: not lengthy, which is good. The Texans only have one
Speaker 1: player out. We knew this was coming, Jordan Jenkins when
Speaker 1: I play against his former team. He is out. Davey
Speaker 1: On Davis miss practice today for the second day. He
Speaker 1: is questionable but limited participants today practice. Nico Collins, John
Speaker 1: Than Grenard, Lonnie Johnson. Those three are questionable for this one.
Speaker 1: For the Jets, we mentioned this, Michael Carter is out
Speaker 1: with that sprained ankle. Limited participants, Corey Davis starting receiver,
Speaker 1: Fully Fought Takasi, defensive lineman John Franklin, Meyers Shack Loss
Speaker 1: and CJ. Moseley. Nathan Shephard. Five guys in the front seven.
Speaker 1: They're all questionable along with Davis. So two players out.
Speaker 1: We knew both of those were out at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the week. We'll keep an eye on who else
Speaker 1: is out as we move a little bit closer to
Speaker 1: Sunday kickoff at noon at NRG Stadium. Thankfully, a guy
Speaker 1: that is in is Tyrod Taylor, and he did a
Speaker 1: little Deep st interview with Deep City. Great to see
Speaker 1: you back out on the field again. I think one
Speaker 1: of my favorite pictures is going to forever be this season.
Speaker 1: You diving over the pile with the rain and you're
Speaker 1: getting that touchdown on the road against Tennessee. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I was definitely a fun game to be a part of.
Speaker 1: Obviously didn't plan on jumping, but that's how it goes
Speaker 1: some downs in the game when you're just in a
Speaker 1: moment and competing and doing whatever it takes to get
Speaker 1: the team and the end zone. I was just going
Speaker 1: to ask you that, at what point were you scrambling
Speaker 1: you thought, you know what, now would be a good
Speaker 1: time to dive over guys. Um, I really just took
Speaker 1: the chances. I figured most dvs go low, so I
Speaker 1: just kind of reading his body language and look like
Speaker 1: he was preparing to either try to chop me or
Speaker 1: go at my feet, and I just try to jump.
Speaker 1: I wanted to declare, but it's probably a good thing
Speaker 1: that he grabbed my foot because I probably would have
Speaker 1: flipped and fell on my head or something. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: definitely don't want to see that. I got admit I
Speaker 1: cringed a little bit when you dove, but then once
Speaker 1: you scored, it was like, that was great. We'd love
Speaker 1: to see that again. Just stay healthy. Your mobility is
Speaker 1: something that everyone sort of talked about before you even
Speaker 1: took to the field, and David Cole, who remembered you
Speaker 1: obviously from your time in Buffalo said he thought you
Speaker 1: looked even faster this year than you did back then.
Speaker 1: So as a quarterback, there's so many different aspects of
Speaker 1: your game you have to work on. But how do
Speaker 1: you work on mobility? How do you work on your speed? Well,
Speaker 1: just I mean taking training in the off season series,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously understanding and that's part of my game. Actually,
Speaker 1: when Coach Kelley, when we were together, I was coming
Speaker 1: off of growing surgery. So it could be true that
Speaker 1: I am more explosive this year. I could say it,
Speaker 1: But it's just detail in the preparation in the off
Speaker 1: season and trusting the guys in the weight room here
Speaker 1: in season, and just taking care of your body, doing
Speaker 1: the right thing. You don't just wake up like I'm fast.
Speaker 1: I can just once upon it, once upon a time day,
Speaker 1: you're gonna work on it a little bit. One of
Speaker 1: the other things about you your interceptions per past attempt
Speaker 1: It's one of the lowest in the league. One point
Speaker 1: five percent of your past attempts have ended in interception.
Speaker 1: That's something that a lot of people talk about. Your
Speaker 1: ability to protect the ball. Aaron Rodgers is the lowest
Speaker 1: at one point three percent. How does that sort of
Speaker 1: come about over the course of your career. Learning not
Speaker 1: to throw interceptions. I mean, is that something that's just
Speaker 1: a learned skill, learned trade. Do you have to focus
Speaker 1: time on it or is it just a matter of
Speaker 1: how you play the game? Um. I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of both. It's definitely how I play the game,
Speaker 1: but I think just learning um over the year, just
Speaker 1: the winning formula, I mean, obviously no self inflictive mistakes,
Speaker 1: and that's turnovers as part of that, as well as
Speaker 1: penalties and trying to keep those at minimum definitely helps.
Speaker 1: I remember back in my early days and getting drafted
Speaker 1: the bottomore we had a very strong defense and a
Speaker 1: lot of talent on the offense as well too. But
Speaker 1: I remember having conversations with Ed Reid and ray Lewis,
Speaker 1: those guys, and just the defensive mindset when you have
Speaker 1: a strong defensive unit, just sometimes it's it's okay to
Speaker 1: in the drive and whether it's a field goal or
Speaker 1: a punt, I mean, obviously not giving a ball back
Speaker 1: to the other team. Shooting in the field. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: got to play more of a game management game, and
Speaker 1: it sometimes when you have to go out there and
Speaker 1: take those risks, I'm and give you guys opportunities to
Speaker 1: make plays. So it's a it's a little bit of balance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it goes that. Being said, the Miami game, everyone talked
Speaker 1: about how that was so uncharacteristic. How about it for
Speaker 1: you mentally because you end on that game and then
Speaker 1: you've got this long stretch of a bye week where
Speaker 1: that's sort of the last thing sitting in your memory.
Speaker 1: But you come out against Tennessee and it's like a
Speaker 1: distant memory for you. For you personally, how do you
Speaker 1: overcome a tough game like that and turn the page
Speaker 1: to the next game and not let that really linger
Speaker 1: in your mindset? Yeah? I mean, honestly, as a competitor,
Speaker 1: how manytime you lose, it's tough you beat yourself up
Speaker 1: about it. I'm probably one of my or not one
Speaker 1: of my I'm my biggest critic, and my parents to
Speaker 1: tell you that, the coaches to tell you that, so
Speaker 1: obviously getting the bad taste out of him. If you
Speaker 1: want to play the next week, we gotta buye week,
Speaker 1: so you hatta. I had a chance to process it,
Speaker 1: learn from it, and make sure that I put it
Speaker 1: behind me, didn't let it linger until the next weeks.
Speaker 1: I think that's just all about being a professional. Understand
Speaker 1: it's going to be ups and downs on your personal journey,
Speaker 1: but also in your athletic career. And if you stay
Speaker 1: focused on what you set out to do at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, you can stay layers and focused
Speaker 1: on the ultimate goal, which is one in each and
Speaker 1: every week, and putting yourself in a position to do that.
Speaker 1: And if you're thinking about the past, you can't be
Speaker 1: your best self moving forward. All right, a little bit
Speaker 1: about your past. You grew up in Hampton, Virginia, and
Speaker 1: I heard somewhere in an interview that you did a
Speaker 1: long time ago that Allen Iverson is like a big
Speaker 1: brother to you because you guys both grew up in
Speaker 1: the same in the same town. So what did you
Speaker 1: learn from Allen Iverson growing up? I mean, obviously he
Speaker 1: was just about every every athlete my age. I mean
Speaker 1: growing up watched Alon Iverson. They've seen the braids, they've
Speaker 1: seen the swag on the court, and I've seen them
Speaker 1: on the football field as well too. Just I mean
Speaker 1: all around baller. Just just why did he took with
Speaker 1: him and being himself each and every day? This was
Speaker 1: unique and I mean, if you know people from my area,
Speaker 1: I mean, we definitely take those conversations and we take
Speaker 1: the way he played, the way Pig played other guys,
Speaker 1: and I won't continue to keep naming, but it's a
Speaker 1: ton of guys that we just take those I guess
Speaker 1: just looked at them and put them as a focus.
Speaker 1: More so to say when I when we were younger,
Speaker 1: just trying to be like those guys and make plays
Speaker 1: and do what we could for our team. Well, you're
Speaker 1: really respected in the NFL as well. I feel like
Speaker 1: every time I hear any sort of commentator or former
Speaker 1: player talk about you, they always say, Tyrod Taylor my guy.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think it was Nate Burlison after your
Speaker 1: first your first start, he said, that's my guy. And
Speaker 1: what I want to know is because you're obviously not
Speaker 1: like a loud, raw raw guy. You're sort of soft spoken.
Speaker 1: You're you know, you're very thoughtful in what you say.
Speaker 1: How are you everyone's guy? Like? How do you make
Speaker 1: that connection? Oh? No, I mean Nate, it's a great, great,
Speaker 1: great dude. Thank you. Just a respect level. Obviously, We've
Speaker 1: crossed paths, and I've crossed paths within my eleven years
Speaker 1: as a professional with many guys and even guys that
Speaker 1: I played against in college they went on to be professionals,
Speaker 1: but just a respect level, always treating people with respect,
Speaker 1: and I mean ultimately game recognized game. I mean, regardless
Speaker 1: of how things shape out, game recognized game, game recognized game.
Speaker 1: And I think that could also be said for your fashion.
Speaker 1: We've really enjoyed some of your game day looks. How
Speaker 1: do you How would you describe your fashion personality? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's tough to describe it. I actually
Speaker 1: had that question of years ago. I'm just being me.
Speaker 1: I'm not like you said, I'm not very outspoken. Um
Speaker 1: So sometimes when it comes to fashion, you let your outfit,
Speaker 1: your look speak for you away. I think it's just
Speaker 1: boils down to just being confident in whatever you wear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with that, and you seem to pull
Speaker 1: that off. Well, who shops for you? You You shop for
Speaker 1: yourself and you do more so you get to keep
Speaker 1: the clothes that you purchased. That is that is a
Speaker 1: huge plus. All right, So how do you think your
Speaker 1: fashion has evolved over the years. I think it's evolved
Speaker 1: with time. I mean, I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: say I'm trendy, Like I said, if anything is, it's
Speaker 1: something that just puts my personality together. Not necessarily like
Speaker 1: I said over outspoken person, but I speak through my
Speaker 1: office and I don't. All right, well, I like getting dressed.
Speaker 1: I mean, all right, we I'm gonna take you down
Speaker 1: memory lane. This is um Tyrod Taylor circa October Fish
Speaker 1: twenty wave. Yeah, you did a lot of suits and
Speaker 1: three piece suits which don't seem super comfortable on a plane.
Speaker 1: I actually have a story, but why I wore so
Speaker 1: many suits? Why so when I first time there, obviously
Speaker 1: Rex Ryann was a head coach. I was coming from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan was coming from New York and he told
Speaker 1: me to me at the time, obviously Buffalo is not
Speaker 1: necessarily a bigger market. Obviously they've got more notoriety now
Speaker 1: because of them doing well the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: But he was saying that anytime you get a chance
Speaker 1: to be in front of a camera and Buffalo, make
Speaker 1: sure you present yourself well. And at the time it
Speaker 1: was my first year, got the starting job, and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what I want to do fifteen
Speaker 1: different suits or sixteen different suits and ended up going
Speaker 1: with sixteen different suits that year. So I have a
Speaker 1: ton of suits at home because that's a lot of suits.
Speaker 1: Actually I did sixteen. That is a great story, Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: Now maybe he can teach Jimmy Morrissey something because Jimmy,
Speaker 1: he's gonna teach Drew something. But Drews doesn't next right
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Speaker 1: got Jimmy Carter, the President, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy John Sandwich,
Speaker 1: isn't Jimmy Eat World? What's the ranking? How do they go?
Speaker 1: One through five? Lay? Hold on? Uh? What was the
Speaker 1: first one? Jimmy Carter President? President? Okay, President, you're that's
Speaker 1: pretty high level stuff. Okay, over Jimmy Buffett and Jimmy Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go over I'll go over him. And then uh, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: what was it Jimmy John's Yep, I'm gonna go jim
Speaker 1: Johns number two, number two, okay, have some good hoogies.
Speaker 1: Number three, Jimmy Eat World. Then Jimmy Buffett, and then
Speaker 1: what was the fifth one? You man? Oh man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: modest Jimmy Morrissey. There you go. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 1: It's always you guys. Either when I when I do
Speaker 1: this and I do these rankings, sometimes it's either they
Speaker 1: either go first or they go fifth. There's never an
Speaker 1: in between. I don't think I've ever had anybody like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm two or I'm three. It's interesting to hear. Okay,
Speaker 1: you played at pit. Yeah, Pitt has pumped out some
Speaker 1: of the greatest football players the game has ever seen.
Speaker 1: You can go back, Dan Marino, Mike Ditka, Reeve Asylum,
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, Bill Freylick. I'm leaving people out. There's lots
Speaker 1: and lots, said Aaron Donald. I didn't say, Aaron dot
Speaker 1: How could I have forgotten Aaron idea? Yeah, Larry fitz Uh,
Speaker 1: this weekend we're playing the Jets. Curtis Martin Famer, Tony Dorsett.
Speaker 1: Tony Dorsett was the one I forgot, so Jimbo Covert
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Yeah, I think we're like top five
Speaker 1: and yeah, Pits of Pipeline for the pros. You're from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: How cool was it to get to actually suit up
Speaker 1: there and play really well for him? When you had
Speaker 1: you could have gone some other places. You had scholarship offers.
Speaker 1: You're like I'm gonna be a preferred walk on. I'm
Speaker 1: going here. I want to play her. Oh it was amazing. Uh.
Speaker 1: I really never grew up a college fan of anything.
Speaker 1: If anything, I was probably a Villanova basketball fan growing
Speaker 1: up in the Philly area. I when a team came
Speaker 1: time to choose a college, I had a couple FCS
Speaker 1: offers that were, you know, half scholarship, and I just
Speaker 1: love it and I love the relationship I had with
Speaker 1: all the coaches there and fell in love with the
Speaker 1: place from the first day. So it meant everything to
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, prove myself right and then
Speaker 1: prove those people that believed in me to go play
Speaker 1: four years there. So it was awesome. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: were all acc I mean you played just about every game,
Speaker 1: you got injured, you came back, You win the Burlsworth Trophy,
Speaker 1: which is if you don't know about it, it's such
Speaker 1: an awesome award. It's given to a player who was
Speaker 1: started their career as a walk on. And you got
Speaker 1: that trophy and you've got some cool stuff on your
Speaker 1: Instagram about it. You talked about it last week in
Speaker 1: the press conference. How meaningful is that to you? Because
Speaker 1: it says a lot about who you are that you persevere.
Speaker 1: It definitely does. It's an incredible award. I'm really you know,
Speaker 1: grateful for the Burlsworth family, who I've gotten close with
Speaker 1: over I guess the past year. Now. The Burls was
Speaker 1: about to hand out their new award for this coming year.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Brandon Burlsworth story is incredible, tragic, but really
Speaker 1: inspiring what he was able to do. And it's really
Speaker 1: a testament to all walk ons of what they have
Speaker 1: to go through and then do accomplish and chief success. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I heard a really cool story about you after the
Speaker 1: win in Miami. John Harris, who does the radio sideline reporting,
Speaker 1: he saw he was in the you know, in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Outside the locker room, he saw our film
Speaker 1: guys cutting things up and getting things ready for the
Speaker 1: tablets so you guys can actually analyze, you know, the
Speaker 1: game tape and everything. Afterwards on the plane home and
Speaker 1: they said you were He said, you were kind of
Speaker 1: waiting and just kind of checking, like nicely and in
Speaker 1: a polite way, like hey, yeah, you know, is it
Speaker 1: is it almost time? Do you think I can get it?
Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, yeah, we're gonna get to you
Speaker 1: film work is important? Why has it been so important
Speaker 1: to you? I love watching film. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's my job. So yeah, but my you know, my
Speaker 1: film studying, my preparation of gotten me this far. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to stop now. It's just always been
Speaker 1: a tradition ever my first game I started at Pitt
Speaker 1: always watched the the iPad copy version of the filmmac
Speaker 1: Get after every game and just watch it immediately. And
Speaker 1: it's what all the other guys too too. I was
Speaker 1: just nice that I guess he was there and saw that.
Speaker 1: But how'd you get good at that? Though? It's it's
Speaker 1: not something you just start doing just time experience was
Speaker 1: high school was its college? Really we watched minimal film
Speaker 1: and in high school, but in college really was when
Speaker 1: it started. And you know, watching on your iPad And
Speaker 1: then I prefer to not watch on my iPad. I
Speaker 1: like the clicker and the having the computer and monitor
Speaker 1: in front of me. So I really don't watch much
Speaker 1: on my iPad except for outright after the games and
Speaker 1: just watch it here like kind of because you have
Speaker 1: to because you're on a plane and it's these spaces
Speaker 1: limited all that stuff. Yeah, have you picked up much
Speaker 1: gay or film work, film analysis, and he tips, since
Speaker 1: you got here to Houston and anybody really good at
Speaker 1: it that you oh, I didn't know that you could
Speaker 1: do that, blah blah blah youah, so like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just everyone in the building, especially you know in the
Speaker 1: NFL everyone Sometimes coach Kelly will come in or coach
Speaker 1: camp and they'll just say stuff like, oh, we picked
Speaker 1: up this, and I'm like, man, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: watching a lot of film and I did not pick
Speaker 1: that up right. And then you go and watch and
Speaker 1: you're like, man, there's a reason why they're getting paid
Speaker 1: a lot of money to be a coach and they're
Speaker 1: good at what they do. So yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 1: So Thanksgiving obviously he's on Thursday's. What's all, I'm that
Speaker 1: perfect Thanksgiving plate for you turkey obviously, mashed potatoes, Okay,
Speaker 1: stuffing gravy on the mashed potatoes. I'm gonna get them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that home, and then we're gonna go
Speaker 1: grea mean cast roll. I just started liking sweet potatoes now,
Speaker 1: so I'll put some a lot of carbs and then yeah,
Speaker 1: we're homestyle. Put the gravy all over it and now
Speaker 1: mix it up and cut it up, and what's the dessert. Ah,
Speaker 1: that's a good Usually I'm I'm not a big pie guy. No,
Speaker 1: and that will surprise people because I'm an old lineman.
Speaker 1: But just a nice thing out of vanilla ice cream. Really, well,
Speaker 1: we'll do the trick. Yeah, kind of calm, that's ah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Oh, mac and cheese. I forgot mac and cheese. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody was, well not everybody, because there's been some debate
Speaker 1: here on the internet. Yeah, I saw that. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's not on a Thanksgiving. I
Speaker 1: love mac and cheese. It's kind of year round really,
Speaker 1: but yeah, and his reason was just noodles and cheese.
Speaker 1: But it's like mashed potatoes are just potatoes and what Yeah?
Speaker 1: Butter well, it's like steak is just meat. Yeah, turkey
Speaker 1: is just a turkey. Yeah. Come up with at our
Speaker 1: support for your argument there. Okay, favorite exercise in the
Speaker 1: weight room least favorite exercise on my favorite exercise in
Speaker 1: the weight room, I'm gonna go with one of the
Speaker 1: ones that we've since I've been here, probably bench, all right,
Speaker 1: and then least favorite squad after a game day squats
Speaker 1: after a game day, after a game day. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good to know. What's the greatest invention ever air conditioning.
Speaker 1: You're the second person that said air conditioning. Your second
Speaker 1: player that's ever said that, I sweat a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're big, and you're gonna sweat some more down here, man,
Speaker 1: you got here kind of when it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: But the weather's been beautiful now it has it, had
Speaker 1: it had you've been You've been very fortunate in that regard. Okay,
Speaker 1: the last meal you cooked was I have not cooked
Speaker 1: the meal since the spring, really eating at all the
Speaker 1: or no, okay, summer in the summer, I was when
Speaker 1: I was training on my own was ground bison, a
Speaker 1: little bit of bone, broth, some spinach, and then put
Speaker 1: it over a thing a play to rice. That would
Speaker 1: be like my lunch after working out. Was this in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas when you're with the Raider, not just back
Speaker 1: And this was when I was home for the summer.
Speaker 1: I've been outside of Philly or yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: so when I was home, it's just a really easy
Speaker 1: meal to eat and it's a lot of food and
Speaker 1: it's good. Ground Bison's good for you. So ground Bison, right, yeah, bad.
Speaker 1: What would your job be you were not playing NFL football,
Speaker 1: what would you be doing? Probably doing construction? Yeah, my dad,
Speaker 1: what sort of construction? Roadway material? So yeah, concrete? Was
Speaker 1: that your first job? Were you doing some of that
Speaker 1: or was it something My first job was working in
Speaker 1: the mechanic shop. It's okay, yeah, good stuff for working
Speaker 1: on concrete trucks. We gotta wrap this up. Jimmy morrisey,
Speaker 1: it's been great, and meeting with you, you were kind
Speaker 1: of worried. You thought I might ask you about octopus
Speaker 1: tentacles and stuff like that. But I went a different way.
Speaker 1: A zagdon zag didn't. I brought up Jimmy Carter me
Speaker 1: eat World, and I've never had that before. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: I feel ran rank the Jimmies, man, So are those
Speaker 1: the four best Jimmis? You think they're not the four best.
Speaker 1: It's just the four they first came to mind. So
Speaker 1: if you have other Jimmy's, you what Jimmy Rollins is Philadelphia, Philly,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollins roll Jimmy Rollins would probably I might put
Speaker 1: Jimmy Roland's over Jimmy Carter. Okay, I love the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight Phillies. That's a lovable team. They won
Speaker 1: the two thousand nine Phillies. Broke my heart. Yeah, Ryan Howard,
Speaker 1: Cole Hamil's I mean Cliff Howard. Yeah, she's Victorino. Yeah
Speaker 1: that good. That was a good squad. Who's your favorite
Speaker 1: baseball player ever? Probably Ryan Howard? Ryan Howard? I love
Speaker 1: Rian Howard grown up. Yeah that was like a bigger kid.
Speaker 1: So I played first base and yeah, Ryan Howard. Would
Speaker 1: you think of Ryan Howard on the Office? What episode
Speaker 1: was that? Oh so you didn't watch? No, I love
Speaker 1: The Office? But like Ryan Howard was Ryan? Oh? Was
Speaker 1: his name was Ryan Howard because the film or scrant
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they actually Ryan Howard on the
Speaker 1: Baseball Player was in the show I think once or twice.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was talking about I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of Ryan Howard on the Office. Now I know
Speaker 1: him and not a very good guy. Him and Mindy
Speaker 1: or what was her name in that show? Shoot you
Speaker 1: just totally Kelly Copor Yeah, yeah, yeah like the Office.
Speaker 1: All right, Jimmy, thanks so much, best of luck, and
Speaker 1: we'll do this again sometime soon. Okay, true, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me Yeah, that was pretty fun right out of
Speaker 1: the shoot, give you your best Jimmy. Jimmy, He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1: Hold on, man, what just hit me? That was fun
Speaker 1: stuff with Jimmy Morrissey and of course our good friend
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. All right, we get back. It's time for
Speaker 1: my keys to the game. Holo Texans get win number
Speaker 1: two in a row and win number three in the season.
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Speaker 1: the show. I do this every single week, minus last
Speaker 1: week because well there was no game, so I didn't
Speaker 1: have any keys to the game. But this week there's
Speaker 1: a game, so I have keys to the game to
Speaker 1: win over the New York Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets, So
Speaker 1: let's do it. Cue my music, and let's go. All right,
Speaker 1: the Jets. Let's start with the Jets offense the Texans defense.
Speaker 1: It's the Jets group that runs for seven twenty eight
Speaker 1: point nine yards per game, that's twenty ninth in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They throw for two fifty eight point eight that's ninth
Speaker 1: in the NFL, three thirty seven point seven yards per
Speaker 1: game total offense, twenty first. However, they've lost twenty three turnovers,
Speaker 1: five fumbles, eighteen interceptions. Now a couple of things stand out.
Speaker 1: Number one that passing yards per game, that total went up, up, up, up,
Speaker 1: when Mike White and Joe Flacco were in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson's not had quite that sort of acumen at
Speaker 1: two fifty eight point eight for his starts. Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: the rookie should be back, will be back because there's
Speaker 1: no Flacco and there's no Mike White. Joe Flacco Mike
Speaker 1: White both on COVID nineteen reserve list as of right now.
Speaker 1: Flacco's out, he's not vaccinated. He can't make it back.
Speaker 1: He's got the ten day close contact situation. Mike White,
Speaker 1: I believe, is the one who tested positive. He could
Speaker 1: come back. He has vaccinated. He's got to get a
Speaker 1: couple of tests. It doesn't appear that's gonna happen. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like it went from Joe flaccum Mike White
Speaker 1: to Zach Wilson and Josh Johnson. Josh Johnson the former
Speaker 1: Texan who played here and it was kind of in
Speaker 1: and out for a year here with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: So let's get to it. The keys to the game.
Speaker 1: This is an offense that's still trying to find its
Speaker 1: sea legs. But they've got some young talent and it
Speaker 1: starts a receiver. The OHO number eight and Elijah Moore.
Speaker 1: Now if that name sounds familiar, it's because he was
Speaker 1: a superstar o miss. We talked a lot about him
Speaker 1: in the lead up to the twenty twenty one NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: He was the third pick overall in the second round.
Speaker 1: Through the first five games of the season, he had
Speaker 1: nine receptions. He was targeted just twenty six times in
Speaker 1: those games. To say just that's six and a half
Speaker 1: targets per game. After those first five games, he was
Speaker 1: targeted thirty seven times. That's seven point four targets. So
Speaker 1: he went off almost a full target per game in
Speaker 1: those next four weeks. In the first four weeks, like
Speaker 1: I said, he caught nine passes total. He had eight
Speaker 1: last week against the Dolphins one hundred and forty one yards,
Speaker 1: including a sixty two yarder that I drew up for
Speaker 1: tell Strator. You can see at KPRC Game Day Channel two.
Speaker 1: What I drew up in what I saw, and I
Speaker 1: liked the way the Jets distrow football standpoint. I liked
Speaker 1: the way the Jets set that up. I don't like
Speaker 1: seeing it in an opponent that the Texas are facing,
Speaker 1: because it was very well schemed and very well executed.
Speaker 1: Now that was Joe Flacco thrown to Elijah Moore. Assume
Speaker 1: be Zach Wilson throw it to Elijah Moore. Now, I
Speaker 1: didn't mean for it to be this way, because I
Speaker 1: do think Zach Wilson to Elijah Moore is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great connection in the future. Hopefully not Sunday. But
Speaker 1: those first few games, they Zach Wilson and Elijah Moore
Speaker 1: could not get linked up. Only nine those games. These
Speaker 1: catches came from Mike White and Joe Flacco. They really
Speaker 1: set it off. So what happens with Wilson back in.
Speaker 1: My guess is they will try and force feet Elijah Moore,
Speaker 1: even though they weren't connecting earlier this year. I think
Speaker 1: they will go to him. More is already the best
Speaker 1: offensive player on the Jets. That's not McKay Beckton. Elijah
Speaker 1: Vera Tucker is extremely good upfront. Mackai Beckton won't play.
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore is the best offensive threat, best offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: He is the most explosive weapon. He's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy they're gonna build around. In New York New Jersey
Speaker 1: because of what Elijah Moore can do, the Texans must
Speaker 1: limit his explosive abilities. No explosives with Elijah Moore. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good start. Number Two. I mentioned Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: He is back. He is boy. What's the right way
Speaker 1: of saying this. He can be explosive if that's the
Speaker 1: right word for a quarterback, and what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is he has a whip for an arm, so
Speaker 1: he can make any throw on a field. I'm really
Speaker 1: excited to see him. I don't know if that knee
Speaker 1: injury will set him back at all, if he's trying
Speaker 1: to come back too early, who knows. But Zach Wilson's
Speaker 1: I think biggest trait and best trade is the fact
Speaker 1: that he can throw off schedule and off platform as
Speaker 1: well as anybody. He would roll right at BYU and
Speaker 1: fire one back to the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: throw it on a dime. I don't want that happening.
Speaker 1: I want to keep him in the well and I
Speaker 1: want to make Zach Wilson have to throw from there.
Speaker 1: He's not the tallest guy. He's six two and a half,
Speaker 1: so he's not short, but I want to make him
Speaker 1: throw from the well, make him throw through all those
Speaker 1: bodies and then let that pass rush collapse on top
Speaker 1: of him without him getting out, and make him plays
Speaker 1: off platform. Keep Zach Wilson in the well. The best
Speaker 1: friend of a rookie quarterback is a run game. But
Speaker 1: who's gonna run it? For the Jets? Major question. Michael Carter,
Speaker 1: running back out of North Carolina rookie running back out
Speaker 1: of North Carolina was injured last week. Now, he didn't
Speaker 1: go in IR because the thought is it's two to
Speaker 1: four week set. You put him on IR, it's at
Speaker 1: least three weeks. They didn't want to do that, so
Speaker 1: they'll just make him inactive for the game. But that's
Speaker 1: a big miss this week against the Texans. So who
Speaker 1: runs it? Ty Johnson, he's the been the backup. Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman has breakaway speed, they have home run of hitting ability,
Speaker 1: but they're actually seventy three yards per game on the
Speaker 1: ground and that was with Carter. So what are Johnson
Speaker 1: and Coleman gonna do? That's a big question for the Jets.
Speaker 1: The Texans have the opportunity to completely totally eliminate the
Speaker 1: run game and put it all on a rookie quarterbacks shoulders.
Speaker 1: That's a nice place to be, but they have to
Speaker 1: do that, and they have to be respectful of the
Speaker 1: speed Johnson and Tevi Coleman have and not blown assignment,
Speaker 1: not be gap responsible and let them blow through a
Speaker 1: wide open hole because somebody stepping into the wrong gap
Speaker 1: and they steal a touchdown or a long play. Eliminate
Speaker 1: the run game, because that's what should happen. And Lassen's
Speaker 1: certainly not least this offensive line for the Jets. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Elijah Vera Tucker, very good player. He's he's on
Speaker 1: pace to be in another Zach Martin with the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. They traded up in the first round to
Speaker 1: go get him to help protect Zach Wilson. They expect him.
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton to be back, but Beckton's been injured and
Speaker 1: not gonna be there for this particular game. Avt is good.
Speaker 1: Everybody else, big massive question mark. Why is that important?
Speaker 1: Because can they stop the Texans pass rush. Texans last
Speaker 1: week rushed four, got to the quarterback. They rushed five,
Speaker 1: bringing guys like Zach Cuttingham and Camu Grugier Hill doing
Speaker 1: some crossdogging in the middle. They got to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So the Texans don't blitz a ton. In fact, they've
Speaker 1: only blitzed if I remember correctly seeing fifty eight times.
Speaker 1: That's fifty eight times through ten games. That's not even
Speaker 1: six a game. And I'm not talking about blitz, that's
Speaker 1: just bringing five. I think that's the way they're counting
Speaker 1: a blitz statistically. So they haven't brought a lot of blitz.
Speaker 1: And they have disrupted the quarterback because they've won one
Speaker 1: on one battles because it's been schemed up with some
Speaker 1: nice te stunts, some nice loop stunts in front, loops
Speaker 1: and stunts in front, and they've gotten to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Llie Collins has won one on one. John Grenard obviously
Speaker 1: has done it. They've won up front one on one,
Speaker 1: and without McKay Beckton on the edge, they've got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win again. That's what they have to do.
Speaker 1: The Jets offensive line is going to be in for
Speaker 1: a long day if, in particular, the Jets can't run
Speaker 1: the football. All right, let's flip it over to the
Speaker 1: Jets defense. Now, this is where I thought the Jets
Speaker 1: would have a distinct advantage this year. C J. Mosley
Speaker 1: Quinny at linebacker Quinny Williams. Upfront, Fatukasi is a kind
Speaker 1: of a grinder type John Franklin Myers I thought was
Speaker 1: one of the more underrated players. He's kind of a
Speaker 1: Denico Autry category. Nobody talks about him, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: watch that dude and you're like, whoa that dude can play?
Speaker 1: And of course he is a lumberjack from Stephen Faustin's
Speaker 1: that matters. What I worried about for them was, Okay,
Speaker 1: how good is a secondary? Especially Marcus May goes down
Speaker 1: and Marcus May went down, so they've been struggling to
Speaker 1: find pieces of this secondary. But what's been shocking in
Speaker 1: some sense is how little they've done stopping the run.
Speaker 1: Teams are averaging one hundred and thirty two yards per
Speaker 1: game on a ground it's twenty eighth in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Passing yards are given up two hundred eighty two point
Speaker 1: two yards per game, that's last in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: the total offense or last in the NFL at four
Speaker 1: and fourteen point two yards per game allowed. They've only
Speaker 1: generated eight turnovers, so they are minus fifteen and turnover
Speaker 1: margin that has been kill. Let's put that def it's
Speaker 1: on the field way too often. C J. Mosley has
Speaker 1: not been one hundred percent healthy this year and that's
Speaker 1: made it tough for this particular group. So let's get
Speaker 1: to the keys. Number one. I just mentioned a few
Speaker 1: of these names, but if there is a if there's
Speaker 1: an issue, as I look at facing this Jets defense,
Speaker 1: it's up front and facing that defensive front. I mentioned
Speaker 1: Quinny Williams. I think he is a player on the
Speaker 1: rise still. He was the Jets first round pick in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He was number one overall and Harris one
Speaker 1: hundred and he shows a ton of flashes. They went
Speaker 1: out and signed Sheldon Rankins this year to go along
Speaker 1: with guys like Nathan Shephard, Folo Fatukasi, John Franklin Myers.
Speaker 1: There may not be names that you're used to hearing,
Speaker 1: but these guys can be pretty disruptive. They can be
Speaker 1: strong and hold the point of attack. I don't know
Speaker 1: how well they ultimately pass rush, but they should be
Speaker 1: a group that plays well together and play well together
Speaker 1: to stop the run better than they have. So it
Speaker 1: raises kind of red flags from me, like what's going
Speaker 1: on at this front hasn't found it yet? If that
Speaker 1: makes sense, It can be a problem, but hopefully the
Speaker 1: Texans render it a well, a moot problem on Sunday
Speaker 1: with what other teams have been able to do, and
Speaker 1: that's run the ball, and we know the Texans haven't
Speaker 1: run extremely well. I understand that this front is not
Speaker 1: going to be the easiest to run against, even though
Speaker 1: the stats sort of go the other way. The Texans
Speaker 1: have to prove it. They gotta go a monoamano against
Speaker 1: these guys up front and start winning some of those battles,
Speaker 1: and the backs have got to see holes and they
Speaker 1: got to make their cuts accordingly. These Jets. This front
Speaker 1: is not Tennessee's front. Tennessee's front was outstanding and the
Speaker 1: Texans held their own in the past game. Didn't do
Speaker 1: much in the run game, but they did have some
Speaker 1: key runs, especially early on. They've got to control this front.
Speaker 1: It's really the best asset for the Jets. What's not
Speaker 1: the best asset is the secondary. The secondary has struggled mightily.
Speaker 1: They give up two hundred and eighty two point two
Speaker 1: yards per game through the air. Michael Carter starts not
Speaker 1: running back. Michael Carter defensive back. Rookie defensive back Michael
Speaker 1: Carter Yes, they drafted two Michael Carters in the same draft,
Speaker 1: one running back, one of defensive back. Bolt of them
Speaker 1: state of North Carolina, one from North Carolina, one from Duke.
Speaker 1: But they started Michael Carter at one corner, Bryce Hall
Speaker 1: at the other. They kind of moved some things around.
Speaker 1: The safeties have kind of been reconfigured because of the
Speaker 1: loss of Marcus May and that is not the secondary
Speaker 1: they wanted to have, and teams have taken advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz lift them up like a Christmas tree. Others
Speaker 1: have as well. Joe Burrow, even in a loss, lit
Speaker 1: them up as well. With all the moving parts of
Speaker 1: this secondary, I'm hoping this is an opportunity for this
Speaker 1: passing game. I don't want to say to get right,
Speaker 1: but to really kind of find a synergy and work
Speaker 1: together to put a good number on the board, to
Speaker 1: really put pressure on its secondary. Try and figure out
Speaker 1: how they're gonna cover Brandon Cooks, if they're gonna roll coverage,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna leave Brandon to catch seven eight balls,
Speaker 1: or if they're gonna double cover Nico Collins. You know,
Speaker 1: could this be a big game for the rookie? What
Speaker 1: about the tight ends. How they gonna get the tight
Speaker 1: ends involved in this. So that secondary roundabout, as I
Speaker 1: call it, has been tough for the Jets to handle,
Speaker 1: and I think it's really played a lot. It's reeked havoc.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way on this Jets defense. The
Speaker 1: fact that the secondary has been such moving parts throughout
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty one season. All right, number three. After
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday against the Titans, Mike Vrabel talked
Speaker 1: about something I thought was pretty important. He was asked about, Hey,
Speaker 1: your defensive front supposed to be so good. They got
Speaker 1: no hits on the quarterback. They had no sacks or act.
Speaker 1: The only one quarterback hitting now was from Elijah Molden,
Speaker 1: the safety. And Rabel said something I thought was important.
Speaker 1: He said, hey, man, they just they took those opportunities away.
Speaker 1: They threw quickly, they moved the pocket, they ran the football.
Speaker 1: They ran football a lot. They were in RPO mode.
Speaker 1: They were not in a situation where they were gonna
Speaker 1: put Tyrod Taylor back there to just stand back there
Speaker 1: and throw. But I think that philosophy works for Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor and for this offense. Move the pocket. I don't
Speaker 1: care how you do it with RPOs, with boots, with rollouts,
Speaker 1: whatever you do to get Tyrod off the spot, I'm
Speaker 1: fine with, totally fine with. It gives Tyrod to vision.
Speaker 1: I think he throws pretty well off platform. Like Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: I think moving the pocket is not a bad strategy
Speaker 1: to leave the number five back there. I think just
Speaker 1: move him, get him out, get him vision, and let
Speaker 1: him sling and let's go. Moving the pocket did pretty
Speaker 1: well for the Texas last week against the Titans. See
Speaker 1: it working again against the Jets and the last one.
Speaker 1: And as soon as you hear it, And I mentioned
Speaker 1: it this morning with Seth Payne because we talked about
Speaker 1: each having a key to the game, and Seth said,
Speaker 1: they've got to run the ball. And then he said
Speaker 1: something really important he said with the running backs, and
Speaker 1: Seth's point without having to say it is Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: is a big part of that quarterback runs, designed runs, scrambles. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you get thirty to thirty five yards from Tyrod,
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel pretty good about what he's given. What
Speaker 1: you need is a cool c note from your running backs,
Speaker 1: Rex Burkhead, David Johnson, and potentially Royce Freeman If you
Speaker 1: can get some good play from those three running backs
Speaker 1: and get up near a cnoe where the Texas have
Speaker 1: not been this year, that's awesome. But if you don't,
Speaker 1: you've got to find ways to quote unquote run the
Speaker 1: ball in different ways. Last week against Tennessee, that pushed
Speaker 1: pass to Chris Moore went for nine yards. That was
Speaker 1: a run play. Basically the week before against Miami, Tyrode
Speaker 1: did a little boot. It's a little flip and the
Speaker 1: level at three yard flip out to Chris Conley. That
Speaker 1: was a long toss play. There are and you know,
Speaker 1: quick screens, tunnel screens, those are just those are run plays,
Speaker 1: just design just disguised as pass plays. So how can
Speaker 1: you and I'm putting my fingers up in air quotes,
Speaker 1: run the ball if it's not a direct handoff, if
Speaker 1: it's not a design quarterback run. There are a few
Speaker 1: different things that you can do. Even just like a
Speaker 1: little stagger out to Brandy Cooks. It's a throw, the
Speaker 1: ball goes in the air, it goes up as receiving yards.
Speaker 1: That's just a run play. Let's just taking five to
Speaker 1: six yards with a quick toss, boom, accurate, pretty safe,
Speaker 1: and it gets you five to seven yards. So how
Speaker 1: can you run the ball differently, which just out hand
Speaker 1: without handing the ball off and doing a pass essentially
Speaker 1: a run, So you can run the ball in different ways.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be something that well. I always loved that
Speaker 1: part of the game calling it because I always felt
Speaker 1: like I had a few different wrinkles that weren't that
Speaker 1: risky that I could use that acted like a run
Speaker 1: play even if it ended up being a pass. You
Speaker 1: follow what I'm saying. So those are your keys to
Speaker 1: the game. All right, there's a big game come up
Speaker 1: January fourth, twenty twenty two in our building at Energy Stadium.
Speaker 1: It is the Tax Act Texas Ball. That is that
Speaker 1: the easiest thing to say. But the man who leads
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Speaker 1: We've got one hour down, one hour left to go.
Speaker 1: Right here on a Friday edition of Texas All Access.
Speaker 1: I'm your Seohan Harris, football analyst, sidelown reporter, and I
Speaker 1: just lied to you actually, I mean it's one hour
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Speaker 1: down with one hour left to go. Because I was
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Speaker 1: so excited, very very excited, which means I'm excited for
Speaker 1: this weekend from an NFL perspective, but I'm also pump
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Speaker 1: say anything. Flets, First of all, how you doing Happy Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: And thanks for coming on a show, my man, And
Speaker 1: do you want to unveil the news or you want
Speaker 1: me to do it? And we'll talk about it. No,
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Speaker 1: people you didn't think about, Fletch were people like me
Speaker 1: that have to say Tax Act Texas Bowl because that
Speaker 1: can be a little bit of a tongue twister. I know,
Speaker 1: you can't give us the fall behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: how things go on finding a sponsor and such. But
Speaker 1: that process to me is really intriguing and finding the
Speaker 1: right fit for a bowl sponsor. How did that come
Speaker 1: about with tax Act getting involved? I know, like you said,
Speaker 1: they're doing some other things and I've seen some people
Speaker 1: tweet about tax Act being involved in the college football world,
Speaker 1: But how did that really come to be? The tax
Speaker 1: Act stepped up and became the title sponsor of the
Speaker 1: bowl game. Yeah, it's a great partnership that we have
Speaker 1: each and every year with ESPN. I'm putting on the
Speaker 1: Taxac Texas Bowl and a variety of college football events
Speaker 1: here at NRG Stadium. And you know, when when the
Speaker 1: opportunity arose to work with them, you know they were
Speaker 1: coming in at a time where you know they're a
Speaker 1: challenger brand. Uh, everybody's familiar with your your Turbo Taxes
Speaker 1: of the world, but it's a huge, huge part of
Speaker 1: everybody's yearly planning. You've got to get through the tax
Speaker 1: season and in the right way. And and they're one
Speaker 1: of the best in the business at it. And when
Speaker 1: you look at where bull season is situated and to
Speaker 1: December into January, it's just a great fit for for
Speaker 1: their brand as people have that that process top of mind,
Speaker 1: and UM, they're coming in a really big way across
Speaker 1: the college football platform, UM in partnership with ESPN to
Speaker 1: to really bring their brand of life through college football,
Speaker 1: and we couldn't be more thrilled to have them involved.
Speaker 1: Um they got Texas roots, huge office up in the
Speaker 1: Dallas area and in a company that has served over
Speaker 1: eighty five million customers just in the last ten years.
Speaker 1: So you know, we're excited to have a brand like
Speaker 1: that to help us elevate the experience for the fans
Speaker 1: and for the teams that are coming in come January fourth.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great Bull season with them on board.
Speaker 1: It absolutely is. Fletch and I want to start with
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, the Big twelve sec game. We've talked
Speaker 1: about that a lot, and last year TCU Arkansas unfortunately
Speaker 1: due to COVID, weren't able to have that game, and
Speaker 1: I think that would have been a really fun game
Speaker 1: and kind of a kickstart. If you want to have
Speaker 1: it again, Johnny, you want to have it again? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know me, You know I take it. I absolutely
Speaker 1: take that game. Now. TCU's got some work to do
Speaker 1: and they're working on that against Iowa State. But as
Speaker 1: I look through this, there's so many different tenants and
Speaker 1: things to consider. It's not as easy as saying, fletch,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be in the game, Because obviously the announcement's
Speaker 1: gonna come not this Sunday, but the following Sunday, after
Speaker 1: Championship Saturday, we'll get the announcement. But flets as I
Speaker 1: look at the possibilities, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, they're still
Speaker 1: playing for the big Anchilata, I don't know if anybody falls,
Speaker 1: but I look at Iowa stay at six and five
Speaker 1: playing TCU today, Kansas eight loss or seven and five
Speaker 1: Texas texts playing Baylor at Baylor. That's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough one, but a loss even makes them six and six.
Speaker 1: West Virginia is playing on Saturday for boy eligibility. TCU
Speaker 1: is playing that game against i wass date to get
Speaker 1: Bowl eligible. Unfortunately Texas, you know, fell apart at the end,
Speaker 1: but gotta win to get the five and seven. So
Speaker 1: Texas and Kansas are the only two teams on the
Speaker 1: outside looking in. As we sit right now, this thing,
Speaker 1: it looks like a mess, but it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, my daughter. In some sense, I call her
Speaker 1: this she's a pretty mess, and that's sort of a
Speaker 1: pretty mess. It's some sense in the Big twelve, how
Speaker 1: do you make kind of hiding her hair of the
Speaker 1: possibilities that could be here in Houston, the Big twelve side, well,
Speaker 1: I think you hit it on the head relative to
Speaker 1: the top of the of the chart. There Baylor, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State playing for a bigger prize, and congratulations
Speaker 1: to each of them on having a great season. We'll
Speaker 1: see how things unfold. Bedlam ought to be a fun
Speaker 1: one tomorrow or tomorrow night as UH as as Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State take on each other. But yeah, as
Speaker 1: you as you look at the rest of the Big twelve,
Speaker 1: I think you hit the nail on the head. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are going to be available
Speaker 1: in our mix when UM, when the opportunity for us
Speaker 1: UM to choose UM comes to us next Sunday. UM.
Speaker 1: Certainly we'll see how the rest of the weekend plays
Speaker 1: out here. But you know, you've got some teams in
Speaker 1: Iowa State and Kansas State UM that have have have
Speaker 1: had a little bit of up and down seasons so
Speaker 1: far this year. Kansas State losing today to Texas to
Speaker 1: close out their regular season. UM and UH. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got teams like Texas Tech that have had a
Speaker 1: lot of turmoil as well with a coaching change. UM.
Speaker 1: But UM and then and then TCU West Virginia. We'll
Speaker 1: see how things play out. But really and truthfully I
Speaker 1: mean that that there are some really good teams and
Speaker 1: some really good stories on each of those teams just
Speaker 1: looking at them. You know, Kansas State is our twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen champion here in Houston, beating A and M and
Speaker 1: a great match up. There be fun to see the
Speaker 1: Wildcats back here. They've got a senior laden team and
Speaker 1: Chris Clyman has done a great job rebuilding that program
Speaker 1: after some some down years following UH coach Snider's departure.
Speaker 1: And and then Iowa State Matt Campbell is one of
Speaker 1: the best in the business. You know, start of the
Speaker 1: year in the top ten. They've had a really kind
Speaker 1: of crazy season. But UM, you know, beat Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: giving them their only loss this year, and has played
Speaker 1: really well in UM in some big games. So you know,
Speaker 1: they went wire to wire with Oklahoma and and UH
Speaker 1: and Baylor as well. So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how those um, how their their day unfolds. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, Texas Tech opened up the year with a
Speaker 1: win right here in Houston in the Good Sam Texas Kickoff,
Speaker 1: beating you of h given them their only loss of
Speaker 1: the year so far. So you know that think Texas Tech,
Speaker 1: while certainly had had a challenging environment in the middle
Speaker 1: of the season, ended up departing with coach Matt Wells.
Speaker 1: You know, the energy around Joey McGuire and what they're
Speaker 1: doing coming out. If they can they can beat Baylor tomorrow, boy,
Speaker 1: that would be a statement win to to finish up
Speaker 1: their year and head into the Joey McGuire era. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how it plays out, Johnny. But one thing
Speaker 1: I know for sure is, um, you never know until
Speaker 1: until you know it works out. Yeah, man, when that
Speaker 1: ink is dry, that's what we'll say for sure. But
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this real quick, Fletch. My assumption is
Speaker 1: that you may not want the team that you had
Speaker 1: in Texas Tech in the Kickoff and in the Bowl.
Speaker 1: But a lot's happened with Texas Tech. It's almost like
Speaker 1: it's a different program. Would that preclude them from being selected,
Speaker 1: the fact that they did play in the Tech in
Speaker 1: the kickoff game to not playing the Bowl or is
Speaker 1: that not something that is under consideration from that standpoint, Yo, Jenny,
Speaker 1: there's Johnny, there's so many factors with with trying to
Speaker 1: select our team each and every year. And you know
Speaker 1: you mentioned having the same team here twice in one year.
Speaker 1: That's it's not typically something that that that try to do.
Speaker 1: But Texas techs a great brand, um, They're very familiar
Speaker 1: with our market ton of Red Raiders here in Houston,
Speaker 1: and and like you said, they've gone through a bit
Speaker 1: of transition, a tremendous amount of energy with with Joe
Speaker 1: McGuire coming in as their new head coach. And you know,
Speaker 1: if they are able to beat Baylor tomorrow, what a
Speaker 1: way to finish the regular season on a positive note.
Speaker 1: And as a Bowl executive, that's something you always love
Speaker 1: to see. It's a great combination there of a big
Speaker 1: fan base locally finishing the season pointing up and and
Speaker 1: great familiarity with the markets. So we'll see how that
Speaker 1: plays out. They're one of many great options for us
Speaker 1: on the Big twelve side for sure. Okay, let's jump
Speaker 1: to the SEC side, because I called the Big twelve
Speaker 1: a pretty mess. If LSU upsets A and M and
Speaker 1: Florida beats Florida State and that game is in Gainesville,
Speaker 1: thirteen of the fourteen SEC teams will be Bowl eligible. Fletch.
Speaker 1: I remember a lot of things about all these conferences.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can remember a year when
Speaker 1: thirteen now, of course LSU being am I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you could. I could see Flourida Florida is favored
Speaker 1: over Florida State as you sift through six and five
Speaker 1: and seven and four, or even seven and five in
Speaker 1: some cases, talking about Tennessee, Missouri, South Carolina all at
Speaker 1: six and five, Florida's at five and six, they would
Speaker 1: finish at six and six, they eat floord To State.
Speaker 1: On the flip side, Mississippi State finished last night at
Speaker 1: seven and five, Auburn six and five, Arkansas seven and four,
Speaker 1: and then you've got LSU down there at five and six,
Speaker 1: and if they win, then they'll end up six and six. Fletch.
Speaker 1: How do you kind of sift through the SEC and
Speaker 1: what's going on? If thirteen and fourteen are eligible, what
Speaker 1: kind of options do you have there in the Southeastern Conference, Well,
Speaker 1: no one. Knowing my friends at the SEC and being
Speaker 1: great partners with them over the years, I think they
Speaker 1: would say they're just disappointed they didn't get fourteen out
Speaker 1: of fourteen, and yeah, that's true, but the big road
Speaker 1: decline for Florida and four ls you to get there
Speaker 1: this weekend. But that's why they play the games, you know,
Speaker 1: as we look at the SEC as a reminder, we
Speaker 1: do have that third selection on the big twelve side,
Speaker 1: but on the SEC, we partner with the conference, and
Speaker 1: ultimately the SEC itself makes our selection. We're in that
Speaker 1: pool of seven bowls that make that pool round up,
Speaker 1: So from our perspective, we'll see how the CFP plays out.
Speaker 1: I think there's a really good case that Georgia is
Speaker 1: probably going to be playing in the playoff at some point.
Speaker 1: Alabama's got that Auburn game in the Iron Bowl tomorrow
Speaker 1: and then the SEC championship game against Georgia, and I
Speaker 1: think that those two victories are certainly important to their
Speaker 1: story for the rest of the year. And I think
Speaker 1: Mississippi with their win last night, is definitely going to
Speaker 1: earn a New Year's six bid. They've finished a great
Speaker 1: ten win season under coach Kiffin and you know, gosh,
Speaker 1: I just you look at how this has played out, Johnny,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be revisionist in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form. We all know we've been impacted by a
Speaker 1: variety of things we can't control over the last year
Speaker 1: and a half. But boy, how much fun would that
Speaker 1: Ole Miss versus Baylor game ben to start the year
Speaker 1: last year here in Houston? Oh man, when you see
Speaker 1: what the success of those two programs is now under
Speaker 1: coach Randa and coach Kiff, and um, boy, what could
Speaker 1: have been? But nevertheless, um, you know. And then from
Speaker 1: there it's it's um it's a whole lot of teams
Speaker 1: that have had a lot of successes and some um,
Speaker 1: you know, didn't do what they want to do this year.
Speaker 1: I think from our perspective, we've historically had great representation
Speaker 1: from the SEC West. You know, A and m is
Speaker 1: Is is the current reigning defending champion of the Texas
Speaker 1: Ball having won the twenty nineteen game against against Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think they're gonna have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in another market. They typically like to
Speaker 1: move teams around, don't like them to have back to
Speaker 1: back to appearances in a game on the SEC side,
Speaker 1: So Mississippi State, Auburn Arkansas you mentioned was our selection
Speaker 1: last year, um that game being canceled because of COVID,
Speaker 1: we didn't get to see them in TCU take on
Speaker 1: each other, but maybe we get a rematch this year.
Speaker 1: What Sam Pittman's done has just been amazing to watch.
Speaker 1: You know, LSU's got a chance tomorrow to get back
Speaker 1: in the mix, and we all know how strong the
Speaker 1: Tiger brand is here in Houston, and so that's certainly
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on. And then looking at
Speaker 1: the East, you know, I mean you've got teams like
Speaker 1: Tennessee that have never been down here, and like Missouri
Speaker 1: who is here before that. You know, I think if
Speaker 1: they're able to pull off a victory over Arkansas would
Speaker 1: have a pretty interesting case. Certainly Florida, South Carolina more
Speaker 1: East Found teams, So I think the likelihood of them
Speaker 1: being here is is probably less than others. But again,
Speaker 1: we don't have a that's saying that necessarily, and so
Speaker 1: and then Kentucky, you know, it's going to finish up
Speaker 1: a great season under coach Stoops, So you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's just a lot of opportunities here to get
Speaker 1: some really compelling matchups. It's why it's why we wait
Speaker 1: on pins needles every every year this time of year
Speaker 1: to see how it plays out. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited when I look at what the opportunities
Speaker 1: are for us with our game on January fourth. We've
Speaker 1: got a we've got the last full season event of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Technically it's in twenty twenty two, but
Speaker 1: we're the last game before the College Football National Championship
Speaker 1: Game has played. M We've got a primetime window, we're
Speaker 1: the only game in town on Tuesday night, and we've
Speaker 1: got a really great window for promotional support that we'll
Speaker 1: tell a lot about our our community those games leading
Speaker 1: up on January first and running at football in the
Speaker 1: third through our partnership with ESPN. So there's a there's
Speaker 1: a really great story for the teams that could participate
Speaker 1: here in Houston. We've talked many, many times about all
Speaker 1: the reasons why why playing in this game is great
Speaker 1: for the institutions, whether it be the huge alumni basis,
Speaker 1: the recruiting, the opportunity to be on the big stage
Speaker 1: here at NRG Stadium, and the Bull Week experience that
Speaker 1: we create for the families and the student athletes. So
Speaker 1: all those things are gonna be back better than ever,
Speaker 1: and our fan facing experiences are gonna add to the
Speaker 1: week that we've typically had in a big, big way,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make some announcements on those in just
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun matchup come January fourth. A lot to be
Speaker 1: done still, even though we here are at the eleventh hour,
Speaker 1: but we're excited to see how things unfold this weekend
Speaker 1: and how the cards may fall next weekend. On Selection Sunday, Fletch,
Speaker 1: It's odd because the twenty nineteen Texas Bowl took place
Speaker 1: at twenty nineteen, the twenty twenty one Texas Bowl will
Speaker 1: take place at twenty twenty two. It's gonna look like
Speaker 1: there's three years between games. And yeah, there was only
Speaker 1: one season that was actually missed, just kind of a
Speaker 1: quirk of the schedule and quirk of timing. But I
Speaker 1: just like, wait a second, twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two, Man,
Speaker 1: it feels like a long time. I know that you
Speaker 1: gotta be itching for a bowl game to get back
Speaker 1: what it is. I'm gonna say this, I would love
Speaker 1: to see I would stay. Would be the team that
Speaker 1: I would want to see now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we'll see guys like Breece Hall and they got like
Speaker 1: twenty six or twenty seven seniors. That would be a
Speaker 1: heck of a way for them to go out. And
Speaker 1: I would love to see Iowa stay. I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: say right now, I would stay Arkansas. I would love
Speaker 1: to see in the Texas Bowl Sam Tittman against Matt Campbell,
Speaker 1: I was staying against Arkansas. I would put it. I
Speaker 1: would put it down right now now. That would mean
Speaker 1: Arkansas would lose to Missouri more than likely eight before.
Speaker 1: You never know what can happen. But that's the one
Speaker 1: I would stay at Arkansas. I'm putting my stake in
Speaker 1: the ground. I don't know if I'm betting it, but
Speaker 1: that's the one I'd want to see. My man, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'd take that one in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun couple of weeks though, Johnny,
Speaker 1: for sure, linguistic gymnastics is harder to say than Tax
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Speaker 1: all of that. I think in one sentence, Fletched, that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Big week, Rivalry week this week, Championship Week next week,
Speaker 1: and then Sunday, while we are entertaining the Indianapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: we will get more than likely the Tax Act Texas
Speaker 1: Bowl combatants for Energy Stadium January fourth, cannot wait. Fletch,
Speaker 1: you the best of my friend, Happy Thanksgiving and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you again soon. Thanks so much, Johnny. I
Speaker 1: typically say this after I talk college football with Fletch.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I could have talked all day with Fletch. Well,
Speaker 1: what you didn't hear was after I stopped the record button,
Speaker 1: we talked for another forty five minutes, I think on
Speaker 1: everything going on in college football, coaching openings, what the
Speaker 1: possibilities were for the Big twelve sec for the Tax
Speaker 1: Act Texas Bowl. We talked about anything and everything from
Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes. I could have done this
Speaker 1: whole hour just on that conversation, but we got things
Speaker 1: to do. As in picking games every single week, I
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Speaker 1: And when I say Friday, and it's about this time,
Speaker 1: right about now, it's time for me to do my
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Speaker 1: it every single Friday and I love it. Now. Three
Speaker 1: games took place on Thursday. Bears beat the line ends
Speaker 1: in one of the most botched coaching problem decision making
Speaker 1: situations ever. And it wasn't just the botched timeouts. One
Speaker 1: of these days, I'll tell you what exactly happened. Let's
Speaker 1: just say that it's not often remembered, but it's something
Speaker 1: that I can't get out of my head. And it
Speaker 1: happened in our game against the Titans in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Something Mike Vrabel did and it could have helped the
Speaker 1: Lions on Thursday, but Bears win sixteen fourteen. My guess
Speaker 1: is they did not cover the spread, but Bears got
Speaker 1: to win. Matt Naggie still the coach as of right now,
Speaker 1: so they get to win by two. Then the Raiders
Speaker 1: took on the Cowboys. I would have picked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in this one, so I know would have missed this.
Speaker 1: I just saw the Raiders kind of teetering on the
Speaker 1: brink with everything they've had, going on a three game
Speaker 1: losing streak. No way they're going to Dallas and winning.
Speaker 1: And then they went to Dallas and one in overtime.
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson found the fountain of youth. He was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro was just an absolute dude. And Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the most underrated player, most unrated quarterback
Speaker 1: in this league. I just don't get why people don't
Speaker 1: like this guy. Three hundred and seventy three yards a
Speaker 1: touchdown led Las Vegas to a big win thirty six
Speaker 1: thirty three, and in the nightcap, the Bills housed the
Speaker 1: Saints thirty one to six. Josh Allen got back up
Speaker 1: on that bump and was ready to go two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty yards passing four tutties. Trevor Simeons struggled with
Speaker 1: Tutty in a pick. However, the news out of this
Speaker 1: game for Buffalo is not great. Tredavious White, Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: corner lost for the rest of the year with a
Speaker 1: torn acl and that is a gut punch like you
Speaker 1: wouldn't believe Holy smoke. So unfortunate for the Bills. They
Speaker 1: get the win. What's the saying they won the battle
Speaker 1: but lost the war, won the war but lost the battle.
Speaker 1: Either way, good news the win on the road on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: That's two and three years. They beat Dallas up in nineteen,
Speaker 1: they beat New Orleans up in twenty twenty one, but
Speaker 1: they lose tradevious White. That's tough, all right. Now it's
Speaker 1: time for Sunday and Monday's games, So queue up my
Speaker 1: music and let's rock as we go. To start in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The Bengals six and four, the Steelers five, four and one.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's favorite bout three and a half. So Vegas feels
Speaker 1: like the Bengals are just a shade better. You get
Speaker 1: three playing at home, they got three and a hook.
Speaker 1: I like the Bengals in this one. I just don't
Speaker 1: know what to think about the Steelers. I haven't known
Speaker 1: what to think about the Steelers all year, But when
Speaker 1: I see it from the Bengals, Joe Mixon crushing it,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase love it. Defensively, they've had some struggles.
Speaker 1: They lost to Mike White and the Jets, and they've
Speaker 1: had some other moments where the defense has struggled. But
Speaker 1: I think I think this is the week that the
Speaker 1: Bengals get it going at home and beat the Steelers.
Speaker 1: They won last week in Las Vegas. They're gonna come home,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get it done. I think they covered that
Speaker 1: three and a half Bengals win. This feels thirty one too. No,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get thirty one against the Steelers. This
Speaker 1: feels twenty four seventeen ish. But I'm gonna go Bengals.
Speaker 1: I just don't trust the Steelers, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: with I'm going Bengals to win. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a fantastic game at noon, a fantastic game. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: and the Colts host the twenty twenty NFL champion Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay is favored by three in Indie,
Speaker 1: but Jonathan Taylor has gone wild five Tuddies last week
Speaker 1: four rushing, one receiving in a blowout of the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills in Buffalo. Indianapolis is getting hot at the exact
Speaker 1: right time now. Tampa Bay hammered the Giants on Monday night,
Speaker 1: so it's a short week for Tampa Bay. Then they
Speaker 1: have to travel. I don't know if one day makes
Speaker 1: a massive difference, but that Monday night game. I always
Speaker 1: feel like it's going to trip a team up if
Speaker 1: they play early on Sunday. This is one of those situations.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm doing it when I'm calling for
Speaker 1: the upset, straight up upset. Colts beat Bucks. Taylor has
Speaker 1: two or three Tuddies. The defense for the Colts will
Speaker 1: make a play against Tom Brady and the Holts get
Speaker 1: a massive win at home, an upset win over the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: I know it stings to even say it, but that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. The Panthers then travel to Miami. Panthers
Speaker 1: have won three in a row. They beat the Texans,
Speaker 1: and they beat the Ravens, and then last week the
Speaker 1: Dolphins got it done against the team. The Texas will
Speaker 1: face the Jets to beat him twenty four seventeen two.
Speaker 1: A ton of voila has gotten two wins, one in
Speaker 1: a backup role, came in the game, got the relief
Speaker 1: closer save, and then you got to win against the Jets.
Speaker 1: What will you do against the Panthers with this game
Speaker 1: back in Miami? It's first time two has started in
Speaker 1: Miami in a little bit. The Panthers Cam Newton lost
Speaker 1: in Cam's start, but they are favored by two and
Speaker 1: a half. Every ounce of my being says to take
Speaker 1: the Panthers on the road. Do I trust it? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do. I'm going Panthers to beat the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: slow that winning stream. The Panthers will get to six
Speaker 1: and six and be both eligible. The Dolphins will fall
Speaker 1: to four and eight, and the Dolphins will cover that
Speaker 1: two and a half. What a game this is gonna be.
Speaker 1: The AMC South is playing some big time games not
Speaker 1: named Texans, Jets, Coats taking on the Buccaneers. How about
Speaker 1: Tennessee going to take on the hot New England Patriots
Speaker 1: this game? If you put the spread on it three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, or even just two weeks ago, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any way the New England is favored New
Speaker 1: England's favored by seven Patriots at home Tennessee. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of game though, that Mike Vrabel wins somehow,
Speaker 1: but not this time. Patriots are playing way too well.
Speaker 1: Mac Jones gets to win. I do think it'll be close.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like twenty three twenty. So let's take the
Speaker 1: Patriots to win, the Titans to get inside that seven.
Speaker 1: Eagles taking on the Gem New Jerz, Philly's favorite by
Speaker 1: three and a half on the road. Mike Irvan called
Speaker 1: a shot on Thursday night a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He said, keeping on the Eagles and the NFC East,
Speaker 1: and he laid out their whole schedule, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: then went out and beat New Orleans last week and
Speaker 1: they've stayed hot. At five and six. The Eagles are
Speaker 1: right in this thing, are right in it, and they've
Speaker 1: got boatload of first round picks too. If they can
Speaker 1: get into playoffs and then have all these first round picks,
Speaker 1: my goodest look out for the Eagles. The Eagles five
Speaker 1: and six taking on the Giants, and I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna house the Giants. I think the Giants
Speaker 1: are just mailing it in. Jason Garrett oc is gone.
Speaker 1: Joe Judge won't say who it is. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of a mess, to be honest. So I'm going Eagles
Speaker 1: to win and cover it that three and a half
Speaker 1: on the road against the Giants. The Falcons four and
Speaker 1: six take on the Jaguars two and eight. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: struggled with San Francisco last week as the Falcons got
Speaker 1: hammered by the Patriots got shut out by the Patriots
Speaker 1: on the Thursday before, so they had the mini buy
Speaker 1: before taking on the Jags. Atlanta is favored by two
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I don't know that I like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I like it. I love it. Give
Speaker 1: me those points. Actually, I'm gonna lay those points and
Speaker 1: take a land and a win straight up over the
Speaker 1: Jaguars in Jacksonville. Do us the favor Arthur Smith, go
Speaker 1: beat the Jags. Let's go to the afternoon games. Chargers
Speaker 1: taking on Broncos six and four against five and five.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are on the road. Chargers are favored by
Speaker 1: two and a half in Denver, and the Broncos are
Speaker 1: kind of like the Steelers. I don't really trust them.
Speaker 1: And when I say I can't trust them, It really
Speaker 1: means I can't trust the quarterback situation, but I do
Speaker 1: trust a quarterback situation in Los Angeles with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: How about Los Angeles has Matt Stafford and Justin Herbert. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. I'm going Chargers here. I know the Broncos
Speaker 1: can rise up, make a play here or there. Chargers
Speaker 1: defense didn't play great the other day, gave up thirty
Speaker 1: seven to the Steelers, but Herbo and the Chargers offense
Speaker 1: was outstanding forty one to thirty seven on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I think, even though the Broncos give a little different look.
Speaker 1: If anybody's gonna know that defense, it's Brandon Staley, who
Speaker 1: essentially coaches down the other side. The Chargers up Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: That's enough win in a cover in Denver for the
Speaker 1: Chargers Rams going to Green Bay. This would be a
Speaker 1: good one. Matt Stafford against Aaron Rodgers the Rams. How
Speaker 1: about this? The Rams are favored by a point against
Speaker 1: Green Bay in Green Bay. No, it's essentially straight up.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Packers to rebound after the loss to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. I don't know what happened in that game,
Speaker 1: lost thirty four to thirty one. I'm taking the Packers
Speaker 1: to bounce back beat the Rams in a close ball game,
Speaker 1: so I'm getting a point, but I'm also taking the
Speaker 1: Packers to win straight up. Vikings taking on the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers. This is a big one for playoff implication implications.
Speaker 1: Both teams five and five games at San Francisco. Both
Speaker 1: teams had kind of been all over the map, but
Speaker 1: the Niners have found the run game and that's big.
Speaker 1: The Vikings had a highly emotional win over the Packers.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna play to the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: favor and the fact that Minnesota has to come to
Speaker 1: Santa Clair to take on the Niners. San Francisco's favored
Speaker 1: by three. I'll lay it and I'm taking the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers to win straight up and cover the three.
Speaker 1: And Sunday Night, Oh boy, AFC North Battle. Baker Mayfield's
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to win some people over in as
Speaker 1: lock room. That's been a massive issue. Apparently he went
Speaker 1: off the field after last week's win over the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions and just simp man whatever and left. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the players, I don't know how they feel
Speaker 1: about it, to be honest with you, but he's gotta
Speaker 1: go to Baltimore and perform. It won't be enough though.
Speaker 1: Baltimore's favored by three and a half. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Browns to cover that number, the Ravens to win.
Speaker 1: This is twenty one eighteen, this is twenty seventeen, this
Speaker 1: is twenty seven twenty four. It's a three point win
Speaker 1: for the Ravens, which gets the Browns inside that number.
Speaker 1: And Monday night, oh boy, Monday Night, Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: the Seahawks go to Washington to take on the Washington
Speaker 1: football team and it's even. Hey, man, yuck. I'll take
Speaker 1: the football team. I don't know, flip a cooin. Let's
Speaker 1: go football team to win. And obviously it's even so
Speaker 1: they'll cover as well. All right, we got close down
Speaker 1: the show. We will do that next with our good
Speaker 1: pal Jimmy Morrissey with Drew Doherty's final word right here
Speaker 1: in Texans All Access. It's All Access. We got one
Speaker 1: final segment of this Friday edition of Texans All Access,
Speaker 1: a one day after Thanksgiving Black Friday. Go get your
Speaker 1: sales and deals edition of Texans All Access. I am
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris finishing up six hours of radio today.
Speaker 1: As I said earlier, four hours on Friday morning from
Speaker 1: six to ten am on Sports Radio six tim my
Speaker 1: buddy Seth Payne stepped in studio. Was fun to see
Speaker 1: Seth to talk and talk and talk and talk about
Speaker 1: whatever came to our mind. We had a pretty fun time.
Speaker 1: That was good stuff. So six hours of radio. I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit cooked. I won't lie to you, but man,
Speaker 1: I feel like I still got a little bit of juice.
Speaker 1: I gotta save a little for Sunday. Kickoff is at
Speaker 1: noon against the New York Jets, nine o'clock in the
Speaker 1: morning Central time, hatting on where you listening nine Central Time.
Speaker 1: Sean Bettergass and Seth Payne will be back together to
Speaker 1: do pregame. You'll hear May, you'll hear Mark and Andre.
Speaker 1: You will hear John McClain and any other guests that
Speaker 1: we can find. Then the kickoff, Mark, Andre and myself
Speaker 1: got you covered through the game, and then Sean Pendergas
Speaker 1: and Klin Sterner will take you home, hopefully talking about
Speaker 1: a win over the New York Jets, which technically they're
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. But I digress. But before we get
Speaker 1: into Our Drew's final Word with Jimmy Morrissey. I've got
Speaker 1: a quick question for all my Houston area teachers out there.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are always looking for
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Speaker 1: use supplemental material no matter what level you are teaching.
Speaker 1: This is worth third and fourth graders. Toros Matrials presented
Speaker 1: by Concho Phillips. Now, Jimmy Morrissey knows all his math facts.
Speaker 1: He is extremely smart, he was fun and drews dozen.
Speaker 1: Let's hear how he does talking about the game. Here's
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and rookie center Jimmy Morrissey. This pregame interview
Speaker 1: is powered by Reliant. It's Drew Dorty here with center
Speaker 1: Jimmy Morrissey and Jimmy Is there such a thing as
Speaker 1: momentum coming off a win? And if so, how much
Speaker 1: do you guys have of it, and what's it been
Speaker 1: like this week? Definitely the thing as momentum, especially in
Speaker 1: the game of football. It's always good to come off
Speaker 1: a win and you know, you feel good about yourself everything,
Speaker 1: just a better mood around the facility. But we still
Speaker 1: have a lot to clean up, no doubt. This has
Speaker 1: been an I imagine a whirlwin for you. Five weeks
Speaker 1: ago you were on the Las Vegas practice squad. You
Speaker 1: just started the last two games at center, they've both
Speaker 1: been on the roads. This is gonna be your first
Speaker 1: home game here at NRG Stadium. What's this last five weeks,
Speaker 1: six weeks's been like for you? It's been very chaotic,
Speaker 1: but it's everything you know, being on the practice squad
Speaker 1: with the Raiders, it's what I wanted. I wanted an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play sure, and I said earlier in my
Speaker 1: press conference I had last week. It's been a dream
Speaker 1: come true. So I get the chance to play NFL
Speaker 1: football and actually have my hand on the ball in
Speaker 1: the NFL game and go out there and play. So
Speaker 1: it's been amazing. But it has been very chaotic and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of work, but I have a really
Speaker 1: good group surrounding me and a lot of people help
Speaker 1: me out. You do have a lot of help. What's
Speaker 1: been the biggest challenge for you thus far? The hardest
Speaker 1: part is really transferring the playbook over. You know, I
Speaker 1: still have the Raiders playbook in my mind and now
Speaker 1: it's you know, has to be Hey, now I'm running
Speaker 1: the Texans playbook, So just making sure I study enough
Speaker 1: and the playbook isn't really what I'm focusing on the huddle.
Speaker 1: It's more of the technique and what block I'm going
Speaker 1: to take opposed to who I'm going to block. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And as a friendly reminder to those listening and watching
Speaker 1: this time a year ago, you were playing for the
Speaker 1: pitt Panthers. You were drafted in the seventh round by
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. Training camp the preseason and you're
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and then the Texans snap you
Speaker 1: up in mid October. You come in and against the
Speaker 1: Dolphins as a as an offense, not just the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but as an offense. You know, they get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Nine quarterback hits five sacks and then you guys flip
Speaker 1: the switch. One quarterback hit the entire day, no sacks
Speaker 1: for the first time in about a year. What was
Speaker 1: the difference? I think, especially this past weekend. It was
Speaker 1: nice because we had a lead, so that always changes
Speaker 1: the way you call all the playbook. Also the rating game,
Speaker 1: it's very hard to drop back and throw a lot.
Speaker 1: We had good communication up front. Still a lot to improve,
Speaker 1: especially on my part. I need to play a lot better,
Speaker 1: and did have good cohesiveness out there. Tyrod's been phenomenal
Speaker 1: back there. Yeah, you know, we just had a good
Speaker 1: game and lucky that our defense played amazing too. And
Speaker 1: as we were walking into this interview, Tyrode was coming
Speaker 1: out of another interview, said, Hey, slim Jimmy, So you know,
Speaker 1: you guys always have a nice rapport there. They call
Speaker 1: me slim Gym. Slim Gym. It's a good snap into
Speaker 1: a slim Gym for all you macho man Randy Savage
Speaker 1: fans out there. As you say you gotta play better,
Speaker 1: what are some things you got to do better? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're so you're still young in your NFL career.
Speaker 1: There's a lot you can do better. I imagine what
Speaker 1: are some of the things you're trying to pinpoint hone
Speaker 1: and get better at. I've been leaning a lot. I
Speaker 1: gotta keep my head up. So that's really technique what
Speaker 1: I'm focusing on. And then just processing faster earth the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage with this new playbook. And now, like
Speaker 1: you said five weeks coming on, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: my third start. Can't use that excuse anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: not that it was an excuse before. Now I'm going
Speaker 1: in my third game and like it's not Oh I'm new,
Speaker 1: I just got here. Like that's out the door, so
Speaker 1: it's time to start, you know, performing, Like I know,
Speaker 1: I can tell me about this Jets defensive front now
Speaker 1: as a team, they're they're struggling too, But you can't
Speaker 1: really pin on those guys. That defense looks like they
Speaker 1: can do some things up up in the trenches, can't
Speaker 1: you know that that D line, especially those two interior guys,
Speaker 1: four interior guys that they're rotated and they are very impressive,
Speaker 1: especially you know number ninety five and ninety four really
Speaker 1: are their starters. But when they rotate in ninety eight
Speaker 1: and ninety seven two they're phenomenal too. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: their starting dtackles are really good, solid players and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to play them all right, No, let's see how
Speaker 1: your powering game day? Do you have any superstitions getting
Speaker 1: ready before game? I did? They usually change like with
Speaker 1: every season. This year, I really don't have any superstition.
Speaker 1: I just take my little scoop of caffeine and my
Speaker 1: protein powder. But then other than that, I really do
Speaker 1: not have a game day suspicion. In the past, I
Speaker 1: used to always listen to the Jersey Boys soundtrack. Okay,
Speaker 1: how come I just I don't like getting all hyped
Speaker 1: up before the game. Oh, I do have a pregame tradition.
Speaker 1: I do mindfulness. So I have this like guided meditation
Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes on Spotify. It's like one of my
Speaker 1: few saved things on Spotify, no matter if ive WiFi
Speaker 1: or not. So I just sit in my locker and
Speaker 1: I practice mindfulness and then try to visualize the game.
Speaker 1: So like fifteen minutes of just doing nothing but breathing, fantastic.
Speaker 1: What do you do in the night before when you
Speaker 1: go to bed? How long do you sleep when you
Speaker 1: get up? I try to go bed early, depending on
Speaker 1: when meetings get done. Bet checks usually at ten. I
Speaker 1: try to like as soon as betcheck's done, them right
Speaker 1: in bed and that's usually late for me because on
Speaker 1: weekdays I try to go to Bear on eight thirty
Speaker 1: nine o'clock, so and then I like to wake up early,
Speaker 1: take the first bus. I'd just like to be at
Speaker 1: the stadium for as long as I possibly can. You
Speaker 1: want to be prepared, Yeah, I like it. It's good
Speaker 1: Jimmy Morrissey. Best of luck against the Jets, Best of
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the way. Thanks so much, Happy
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving as well as Thanksgiving this week. Okay, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, Dree. I am truly optimistic that we're gonna
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to see Jimmy Morrisey play a lot
Speaker 1: of football here for the Houston Texans to grow off
Speaker 1: these first two appearances. I mean, he's had to face
Speaker 1: ray Kuon Davis and Jeffrey Simmons nay Kuan Jones in
Speaker 1: his first two starts, and it doesn't get much easier
Speaker 1: because Quinnon Williams is coming. Foloo fought to Kassi. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get easier for Jimmy Morrisey. Now, one thing we
Speaker 1: will keep an eye on is the status of Justin
Speaker 1: britt We got the notice on Thanksgiving. I believe it
Speaker 1: was that he has been brought back to the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster off of reserve. We saw him at
Speaker 1: practice today. That doesn't mean that Britt will start, doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he'll play, doesn't mean he'll be active. It just
Speaker 1: means that he is now in that twenty one day
Speaker 1: window for which the Texans will then have to make
Speaker 1: a decision. So we will see justin Britt's status. But
Speaker 1: I like what I've seen thus far from Jimmy Morrissey
Speaker 1: and any rookie that is coming to the party that
Speaker 1: is showing some promise. I want to see more of
Speaker 1: that particular player. Man. It'd be interesting to see Morrissey
Speaker 1: and Britt play together, maybe one at center, one at guard.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how the Texans figure it out and
Speaker 1: what they're going to do on Sunday against the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. A reminder pregame show nine to twelve, Sean
Speaker 1: and Seth game call, Mark Andre and myself from noon
Speaker 1: until game is over, and then what's over? Sean and
Speaker 1: Clint Sterner have got you covered on the post game,
Speaker 1: Drew Deepe, Mark myself, everybody in our content team will
Speaker 1: have stuff where your Houston Texans die com We'll have
Speaker 1: you covered all day long, all weekend long on the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and their matchup with the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great to be back home. Come on out,
Speaker 1: have fun and enjoy this football team that has gotten
Speaker 1: better week by week and hopefully we'll put a w
Speaker 1: up on the board. And it's been a while. I
Speaker 1: did the math on this over the last three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty nine days. That goes all the way back
Speaker 1: to a victory against the New England Patriots on November
Speaker 1: twenty second. So if you want to start November twenty
Speaker 1: third and go all the way till Sunday, that's three
Speaker 1: hundred sixty nine days. Over that time span, the Texans
Speaker 1: have won one game at home, that was the opener
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars. Let's go get number two and with
Speaker 1: your help on Sunday, I know these guys will show
Speaker 1: up and show out and get win number two. It'll
Speaker 1: be two in a row. It'll be the second and
Speaker 1: at home. A lot of good things happen when you
Speaker 1: get in those seats and you are loud and you
Speaker 1: create that football feeling for these guys on Sunday. A
Speaker 1: big thanks to Jimmy Morrissey did Drew Doherty, tomar Vandomir
Speaker 1: to David Culley, the DP City, Tyrod Taylor, to Robert
Speaker 1: Harris Junior back in studio. Appreciate you, my man, Thank
Speaker 1: you all very much. See you Sunday at NRG Stadium
Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans