Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans
Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football and a sideline reporter. We
Speaker 1: got plenty to do tonight. We're gonna hear from DP
Speaker 1: thirty one. That's right, Damian Pierce in our next segment
Speaker 1: doing a little Drew's Dozen playing the Jenga. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we got Damian Pierce on the show. We are also
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Dpcity who goes behind him me sidelines.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear a little bit about re gentle Houston
Speaker 1: Methodist doctors. Then we got Damian Pierce to close the
Speaker 1: show with your Doherty's final word, got my keys, got
Speaker 1: my picks. But we kick off every Friday show with
Speaker 1: the man himself, the head coach of your Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, who sat down with Mark Vanimby earlier today.
Speaker 1: Coach going to New York. Let's focus on the prep first.
Speaker 1: How has preparation been with a little mini buy in
Speaker 1: the full week of practice. I know you had the
Speaker 1: extra day sort of to get ready. How did that go?
Speaker 1: We just seem like we've been working on them for
Speaker 1: a long period of time and rightfully so they're playing
Speaker 1: great football right now, one of the surprise teams in
Speaker 1: the league. And then how they want it. I mean
Speaker 1: we were talking a lot about finishing, and that's what
Speaker 1: they've done. I think they've been behind every game but
Speaker 1: have found the way to win it at the end,
Speaker 1: and we got to match that. Is it different to
Speaker 1: defend Barkley as opposed to other backs because he's also
Speaker 1: their leading receiver and he can attack you that way.
Speaker 1: How does that change things defensively or affect them? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think all the guys seem like all the guys
Speaker 1: we play can catch the ball, but bark that can
Speaker 1: do both well. But first is about stopping him as
Speaker 1: a runner. And they're all the same. They can make
Speaker 1: you miss, they all have size, seem like, they all
Speaker 1: have excellent speed, can make you miss in old field,
Speaker 1: and can run between the tackles. And we haven't played
Speaker 1: our best ball versus a run. So that challenge of
Speaker 1: trying to get as many guys as possible to the
Speaker 1: ball care all these running backs have made everyone miss
Speaker 1: throughout the year. So it's about gang tackling as much
Speaker 1: as anything. What about Daniel Jones what does he bring
Speaker 1: against opponents, because it seems like he's playing very efficient
Speaker 1: right now, his best season ever. He's done a great
Speaker 1: job of protecting the quarterback. I think he only has
Speaker 1: two interceptions and so and he can make all of
Speaker 1: the throws. Big, big guy in the pocket, and that's
Speaker 1: what you assume. That's who Daniel Jones is. But the
Speaker 1: part of you start really studying him is what he's
Speaker 1: doing with his feet, his legs, moving the chains. He's
Speaker 1: a live bad athlete he'd given credit for. So what
Speaker 1: they do with the read option, just the boots and
Speaker 1: him getting on the perimeter, that's what is causing defenses
Speaker 1: as much problems as anything. It seemed like you moved
Speaker 1: up a level in your balanced attack mode against the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles a week and a half ago. Is that
Speaker 1: something you can take with you moving forward and continue
Speaker 1: to improve on. We have to, That's who we are.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always about balance, you know, but our
Speaker 1: balance kind of. I think you can have balance kind
Speaker 1: of starting with the past of the run. We start
Speaker 1: with our balance of run setting everything up. Teams coming
Speaker 1: in know that they have to stop the run, but
Speaker 1: that can put you in a position where you can
Speaker 1: do some things in the passing game. So that's the
Speaker 1: balance part that we want to get as far as
Speaker 1: special teams go. Coach, it might be a bit windy.
Speaker 1: Does that affect preparation and also does it affect preparation
Speaker 1: with the passing game? Yeah, just this time. You know,
Speaker 1: we're in November, playing on the road and the elements
Speaker 1: back east. You know, it's probably not going to be
Speaker 1: in the nineties when we played it, but that's just
Speaker 1: that time of the year, football time of the year
Speaker 1: in November. So we feel like we're made to Helmley
Speaker 1: Elements with what we do offensively, you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to run the football, you know, kicking you know
Speaker 1: the amount of effort and stuff we put into the
Speaker 1: kicking game, and of course defense is the same way.
Speaker 1: So we don't think that'll affect us that much. Coach,
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, good luck, Thank you very much. All right, Mark,
Speaker 1: great stuff there with Lovey Smith and I want to
Speaker 1: hit you with this how much to see if you
Speaker 1: know the answer to the trivia question that I well
Speaker 1: too well one me a question I presented on my
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Speaker 1: everything what's at haven't read it yet? Sorry, I couldn't
Speaker 1: do my homemark for class Well. One of the buy
Speaker 1: the numbers is the Texans have a one game winning
Speaker 1: streak at Metlive Stadium, beating the Jets twenty eighteen. The
Speaker 1: Texans have one position player from the roster still on
Speaker 1: the roster. Do you know who that is? So this
Speaker 1: is twenty eighteen, and it's not John Weeks because he's
Speaker 1: not a position player. It's not Weeks or Kaymie one position?
Speaker 1: Is it? Aikin's very good? Ok yes, there it is
Speaker 1: Jordan Aikins. There the position player remaining. So here's your
Speaker 1: other one. Okay, so this is kind of interesting sight.
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is at a really nice start to the year, right,
Speaker 1: seven sacks eight games, really really solid. So I did
Speaker 1: a little bit of math just projecting it forward seven
Speaker 1: and eight games, it comes up to fifteen sacks. That
Speaker 1: would be I mean, that's comeback player of the year
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, even though Jerry didn't go away. But
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty solid. That would be second all time
Speaker 1: in Texans history. Okay, that's where I was going. Actually,
Speaker 1: what would have one, two, three, and four? Whatever you did?
Speaker 1: You did it, Okay, you did it. I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you how many players in Texans history have had
Speaker 1: more than fifteen sacks? Well, and we haven't had double
Speaker 1: digit sacks since twenty eighteen with what right? Correct? That
Speaker 1: was the last time. That was the last time. So
Speaker 1: here's the other question. If the season ended today, yeah,
Speaker 1: completely over. Just for some reason, Don and Jerry finished
Speaker 1: with seven sacks. There are only seven Texans that would
Speaker 1: have registered a higher season total. Now, some of those
Speaker 1: are easy. I'll give you what right, and j D
Speaker 1: and Whitney and Whitney and Mario Mario, Okay, who else?
Speaker 1: Jonathan Grenard, Chan Grenard very good? That's five. The other
Speaker 1: the other two I think Arwin Barwin six. Can you
Speaker 1: get to seventh? I did not. I didn't know this one.
Speaker 1: I would said more than seven, more than seven early.
Speaker 1: It's Jeff Posey. Wow, yeah, very good year one, very
Speaker 1: very fine. The deal with Buffalo after that, the free
Speaker 1: agent deal. But he had eight, he had eight. Seven
Speaker 1: would be the seven is the demarcation, like three or
Speaker 1: four other guys with seven, But I just put Jerry
Speaker 1: with seven right there, And you're right, those are those
Speaker 1: are the seven. Jerry would end up being the eighth
Speaker 1: player with seven or more in a particular set. And
Speaker 1: you know it's weird because it's not like Jerry's in
Speaker 1: the backfield every play right, right, but most pass rushers aren't.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those things, Johnny. You could
Speaker 1: have a sack of game and you're going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, right, yes, and I'm not saying Jerry's
Speaker 1: like this, but just say defensive lining or whoever gets
Speaker 1: a sack of game and you have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
Speaker 1: a year. That's phenomenal stuff. Right. You could be making
Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes other times and they might not
Speaker 1: get noticed at least by the media, right and the
Speaker 1: fan base. If you're an offensive lineman, you could grate
Speaker 1: out it like ninety seven percent good. But you know what,
Speaker 1: you allowed one sack and that was the sack that
Speaker 1: led to a strip fumble, and oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: turned the game around. But you played the rest of
Speaker 1: the game great. That's where being an old lineman is
Speaker 1: so unforgiving. Yes, it's not like you have to pitch
Speaker 1: up perfect game, but you sort of do. And you
Speaker 1: got to hope that if you do give up a sack,
Speaker 1: it's not at the worst possible time and the quarterback
Speaker 1: hangs onto the ball. Yes, absolutely, here's to your point.
Speaker 1: JJ was a rookie in twenty eleven, so full seasons
Speaker 1: after that twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen sixteen, he gets hurt,
Speaker 1: week three, seventeen gets hurt, eighteen nineteen. You got hurt
Speaker 1: halfway through, So five full seasons. Of those five, which
Speaker 1: was his lowest sack number total, I would think it
Speaker 1: was eighteen. Nope, it was twenty thirteen. Oh, because that
Speaker 1: was the bad year. He had ten and a half sacks,
Speaker 1: and yet what happened he was named defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the year. He was Defensive Player of the Year in twelve, thirteen, thirteen,
Speaker 1: and fourteen, No. Fourteen and fifteen. Oh, check that, you're
Speaker 1: right up fourteen fifteen, So three out of four years
Speaker 1: he got Defensive Player of the Year. No. Thirteen. But
Speaker 1: I remember he should have been up for it because
Speaker 1: I still felt like even at ten and a half sacks,
Speaker 1: he still was pretty pretty arm good. And I don't
Speaker 1: remember who won it in twenty thirteen, but yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: that was the one year that he was not in
Speaker 1: so JJ in fourteen, at twenty and a half twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: yet twenty and a half twenty fifteen, at seventeen a
Speaker 1: half twenty eighteen, he hit sixteen. I think I remember that.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that as much. In eighteen, I just
Speaker 1: remember he in Clowney wreaking havoc. But he had he
Speaker 1: had sixteen sacks that particular year, and in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: Clowney had nine eighteen twenty five sacks Between those two guys,
Speaker 1: eighteen was a pretty good defense, and they got a
Speaker 1: lot of takeaways. Reid was a rookie. He got that
Speaker 1: picks six close to coast at Washington, JJ had the
Speaker 1: game winning pick six against Buffalo. Yeah, you had a
Speaker 1: lot of good moments because winning a lot of low
Speaker 1: scoring games during that nine game winning streak. Nineteen's defense
Speaker 1: started to spring some leaks and what missed half the
Speaker 1: year came back for the playoffs, but missed half the year,
Speaker 1: had the huge played in the Buffalo game. But that
Speaker 1: defense started to show some signs of wear and tear,
Speaker 1: and you needed to find a way to improve it
Speaker 1: in the off season. And when you look back, I
Speaker 1: mean hindsight's always twenty twenty. Going into the twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: You didn't improve the defense enough, didn't do anything to it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: virtually right, in fact, took away from it probably Well.
Speaker 1: Kareem was already gone in nineteen because he came back
Speaker 1: with Denver here. You already had you lost DJ Read
Speaker 1: You're going into twenty twenty. Yeah, that's big. So what
Speaker 1: was the plan that you drafted Blacklock? But come on,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie and at best, and he was not
Speaker 1: built like Reader, right, he was not BILLI Reader. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of people aren't. I mean, that's that
Speaker 1: was the magic in DJ that I do. Was a pitcher.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played baseball, was a very very good
Speaker 1: baseball player. He was incredibly athletic. And so that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that I've been been looking at. And
Speaker 1: you know, you know how I am. I'm already working
Speaker 1: and have worked on my Harris one hundred. Sure, I've
Speaker 1: already got my first iteration done. That's been out for
Speaker 1: a while, and now I'm starting to look at all, right,
Speaker 1: who can I add to this? Listen, you started looking
Speaker 1: at big, athletic defensive dudes, and that's That's what I
Speaker 1: because DJ Reader to me was he was the key.
Speaker 1: He was the key when he was there with Wilfork,
Speaker 1: you just weren't going to run on us. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just forget it. It was not happening. And you obviously
Speaker 1: got Wilfork cut, you know, as a free agent because
Speaker 1: of his connection to Bill Bryan, etc. But you draft
Speaker 1: the Reader in the fifth round, and Reader ends up
Speaker 1: being a super stud for you. And there's a pounding
Speaker 1: that those guys take. So it's not like DJ's gonna
Speaker 1: end up playing for ten twelve years and not missing time.
Speaker 1: But he was such a key. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: guys like uh Mazzi Smith from Michigan six three three
Speaker 1: thirty five. But yet he's athletic, he can move, uh
Speaker 1: Siaki Ica from Baylor. He's like three to forty and
Speaker 1: he can move. And then you look across the line
Speaker 1: on Sunday and you're gonna see big number ninety seven
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence. And I think this is where Lawrence has
Speaker 1: done a disservice because when you see him on the program,
Speaker 1: like look at your depth chart right there, does that
Speaker 1: say Dexter Lawrence and doesn't have nt next to his
Speaker 1: name for nose tackle. Now, it might not for the
Speaker 1: Giants because but every other depth chart that you see,
Speaker 1: you see NT for nose tackle actually does say NT,
Speaker 1: doesn't him Williams DT jahad War defensive end right, and
Speaker 1: Thibodeau's your rush end right. So I think that does
Speaker 1: Lawrence a disservice because that guy could line up anywhere
Speaker 1: from three technique to three technique. He could go all
Speaker 1: the way out to a tackle if he wanted to,
Speaker 1: and play a five technique in a three four front.
Speaker 1: He's that athletic, but he is three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five pounds and just goes to work on eyes up front.
Speaker 1: And it makes me like, when you think back to
Speaker 1: that twenty eighteen defense, that's that's the guy that I
Speaker 1: think we absolutely miss having a guy with size inside that.
Speaker 1: Watching DJ Reader go against Quintin Nelson, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that was a good matchup. So that was so much fun.
Speaker 1: You'd have to pay DJ Reader some of these guys
Speaker 1: who leave Benny Jones, Brandon Brooks, DJ Reader or I
Speaker 1: know other opposite sides of the line. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pay him to keep them right. And you
Speaker 1: got to make those tough decisions, but looking back, which
Speaker 1: is easy to do. Like I said, of course, at
Speaker 1: least one out of those three or two out of
Speaker 1: those three probably should have been kept. And I thought
Speaker 1: the people involved in the decision making might feel the
Speaker 1: same way now, you know, looking bad, we probably should
Speaker 1: have gone for that because we were never able to
Speaker 1: replace them through the draft properly. The old line, you're
Speaker 1: still working on it, right, You're still working on the
Speaker 1: old line here, and you know, especially in the interior,
Speaker 1: and you have to go sign aj Candas past offseason
Speaker 1: as a free agent. Yeah, working out pretty well then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a doing a nice job. Ben Jones is
Speaker 1: the one. To me. I remember watching Ben here and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're watching the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: Chris Myers before Ben had really been I mean, Chris
Speaker 1: was solid and Chris was crafty, and so it never
Speaker 1: felt like Chris was going to get dominated by particular
Speaker 1: interior guys and Ben wasn't at all. But Ben was
Speaker 1: just a different kind of player. But I remember when
Speaker 1: when Ben was up for kind, I was like, I think,
Speaker 1: I think we can we can find someone that can
Speaker 1: do what Ben does and be younger and so we're
Speaker 1: not having to pay as much, etc. I could I
Speaker 1: could see this moving on from Ben Jones. That's the
Speaker 1: one I absolutely, one thousand percent say that I was
Speaker 1: completely dead wrong about that. Ben Jones should have been
Speaker 1: the center here for as long. He should have been
Speaker 1: our Jason Kelson, because it's he should have been a
Speaker 1: beloved a beloved figure in Houston for however long. Ben
Speaker 1: is the one that I look back on and think
Speaker 1: because it's not just I not want DJ Reader to go.
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I was clear now I wanted
Speaker 1: DJ here, so how much he meant to the team.
Speaker 1: Brandon Brooks, I was like, you know, as love he says,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes divorce is a good thing, and I
Speaker 1: don't really think it was a divorce. This thing Brandon needed.
Speaker 1: Brandon needed something different, and so I could understand how
Speaker 1: both sides could see that for one another. But Ben,
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, I think we can find something
Speaker 1: we have not. We have not found the Ben Jones
Speaker 1: to replace. That wasn't it. Greg Mans played a whole
Speaker 1: year when Martin was hurt his rookie year, and he
Speaker 1: did a solid job for an undrafted free agent. Right,
Speaker 1: you're righting the way It's not just the way Ben plays,
Speaker 1: it's who he is. Yes, it's who he is on
Speaker 1: a team, in a locker room, all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: look water under the bridge. We all know that. Like
Speaker 1: I said, people involved in the decision making might tell
Speaker 1: you the same thing right now, might but that seldom happens.
Speaker 1: Where you get those opportunities to ask move forward to Sunday.
Speaker 1: I always like to ask you this, going to met Life,
Speaker 1: going to New York. Yeah, there's something to you romantic
Speaker 1: about it? Or is it just another Sunday? Yeah? Because
Speaker 1: I grew up about a half hour away from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is my hometown. Yea, all right, so
Speaker 1: New Jersey isn't. But my dad still lives twenty minutes
Speaker 1: from the stadium, and I'm going to see him, and
Speaker 1: he's about to turn ninety and he's a total stud.
Speaker 1: I posted a picture of this summer of him flying
Speaker 1: a Tiger Moth by himself in Europe, seventy years after
Speaker 1: taking a solo flight higer Moth. I was down at
Speaker 1: that air museum in at Ellington, the Lone Star Flight Museum,
Speaker 1: and I took a bunch of pictures for him and
Speaker 1: all these old planes they have are an amazing job
Speaker 1: maintaining these planes. The place is gorgeous. And he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I flew them all, all those planes, all of and
Speaker 1: you see like World War two planes and all these
Speaker 1: other things. Now, he didn't fly in World War Two.
Speaker 1: He was like twelve years old, but as he was
Speaker 1: coming up as a pilot, all those planes were still around.
Speaker 1: He was flying gonna be trained NATO here in the
Speaker 1: fifties in Laredo and San Antonio in jets. So he
Speaker 1: was with a bunch of guys who would eventually enter
Speaker 1: the space program. And he loves all that stuff. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see him. So this is great for
Speaker 1: me to go back to New York. And I know
Speaker 1: that New York is much more than Manhattan, just like
Speaker 1: Houston is much more than what's inside the loop. New
Speaker 1: York is much more than Manhattan. I grew up in
Speaker 1: a suburb. But it's fun to go back. And it's
Speaker 1: great because this is the capital of the country really
Speaker 1: in terms of largest market. All the media sort of
Speaker 1: rolls through there. And I know we're in a different
Speaker 1: era of media now, digital media, but man, so many
Speaker 1: of the announcers and so many news people you here are.
Speaker 1: Those decisions on who gets those jobs are made in
Speaker 1: New York for the most part by people who listen
Speaker 1: to local people. So they often promote the local people
Speaker 1: who are working in that market. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that. But I really love going back. We don't
Speaker 1: get to go back much. It's a long trip for us.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a clunky trip, Johnny, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're flying to Newark usually and you're staying in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and the distances within suburban New Jersey are greater than
Speaker 1: you think very often, and there's an edge to it,
Speaker 1: feel the grittiness, griminess of it all. It's New York,
Speaker 1: man and you can see Manhattan from the Jersey side
Speaker 1: where the stadium is sixteen W. So it's it's fun
Speaker 1: to go back. There's there's a buzz about it, for sure.
Speaker 1: There's always the one thing I always like to do
Speaker 1: when we go to a different stadium, and we've been
Speaker 1: to all of them now except for the new Atlanta
Speaker 1: Stadium now that we've been to Allegiance and we've been
Speaker 1: to so far. But teams will put up poster posters
Speaker 1: or you know, pictures all throughout their press box and
Speaker 1: their sweet area and you know we've done it over
Speaker 1: the years. The legends, Yeah, the legends. And so as
Speaker 1: you go up to the press box at MetLife, you
Speaker 1: have to get off the elevator and you walk down
Speaker 1: and you see these pictures and you see it the
Speaker 1: greatest game that's ever played in nineteen fifty eight, and
Speaker 1: you see all these great Giants and me going way
Speaker 1: back Sneaker game and all these different historical games and
Speaker 1: photos from that, and that's the franchise you're playing that day.
Speaker 1: And I've always I'm a huge football story in which
Speaker 1: I'm sure shocks people, and so I love seeing that,
Speaker 1: like we're playing that franchise to Yeah, that's cool. I
Speaker 1: wrote about this this week about how the Giants moved
Speaker 1: there in seventy six and they used to play at
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium and that's where that nineteen fifty eight game was,
Speaker 1: and they played at the Polo Grounds before that. So
Speaker 1: that set me down a wormhole of I always wondered,
Speaker 1: what exactly is the Polo Grounds? Right? Yeah, And there's
Speaker 1: a housing development there now, but it's on the top
Speaker 1: of Manhattan, right and all these old polo fields and
Speaker 1: over the years they converted them into various stadia because
Speaker 1: they were different facilities on site. The Jets started playing there.
Speaker 1: Then they moved right to Shay Stadium in sixty four,
Speaker 1: and the Giants used to play there and the baseball
Speaker 1: teams played there. The New York Giants baseball team played
Speaker 1: there the New York So there's so much history in
Speaker 1: New York sports wise, because it's such an old city,
Speaker 1: huge city. The Giants won five World Series in New
Speaker 1: York before they went to San Francisco. Absolutely, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: I started watching say hey about William May's documentary that's
Speaker 1: on HBO Max. I just started watching it. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I have to watch that. Yeah, it's incredible. And it
Speaker 1: made me think as I'm watching it, Man, because at
Speaker 1: the very end of my Daily Brew, I mentioned New
Speaker 1: York Football Giants because Chris Burman used to sail that
Speaker 1: all the time. That's why I was like, That's why
Speaker 1: I said it, because I used to have the baseball Giants. Well,
Speaker 1: back in the fifties, you had the Giants, Dodgers, and
Speaker 1: the Yankees all in that range. You had Willie Mays,
Speaker 1: Mickey Mantle, you had all the Dodgers players you're Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1: All those players in the boroughs in one city. Then
Speaker 1: you had the Giants and Sam Hoff and Frank Gifford,
Speaker 1: and the Giants were tremendously romantic at that time. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was it was incredible. To my point about announcers,
Speaker 1: you had Pat summer All and Frank Gifford on the
Speaker 1: same same team, and then two of the greatest play
Speaker 1: by play guys ever. I know, Gifford moved over to
Speaker 1: color when Alan Michaels joined the Monday Night crew, but
Speaker 1: he was a pretty good play by play guy when
Speaker 1: they started with Dandy Don and Howard Cosell. He was
Speaker 1: the play by play guy. And summer All, to me
Speaker 1: is the best all time television. Can you imagine all
Speaker 1: of that star power in one location for a concentrated
Speaker 1: number of years. It's just it's it's amazing thing about
Speaker 1: So I was thinking about that as I was watching
Speaker 1: that documentary, knowing that we're going in New York, and
Speaker 1: then of course the New York Baseball Giants became the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants of Brooklyn Dodgers became the La Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and now you got the Yankees and Mets and It's
Speaker 1: funny because when you said that the Jets started the
Speaker 1: Polo Grounds, what was the jets original nickname, the Titans
Speaker 1: as the Titans, and along those lines with the Jets
Speaker 1: going in there and the Polo Grounds Polo Grounds for baseball,
Speaker 1: it's a strange place because down the lines they had
Speaker 1: one I think it was either left or right. The
Speaker 1: demensions were so strange. It was two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: four feet down the lines. It was four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six feet to deadaways dead William made the catch, Yes,
Speaker 1: we're William made to catch. If that ball has hit
Speaker 1: the left field, it's hit basically out of the Polo Grounds,
Speaker 1: but Vick Wirtz hit it the furthest part of the park,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Willie Mays end up making that catch.
Speaker 1: The dimensions for baseball were very, very straight. Does Jordon's
Speaker 1: home run get out of the Polo Grounds? It's got
Speaker 1: it's close. It was four hundred and fifty six to
Speaker 1: straightway center yourdons, no, well, fifty all right, but hang
Speaker 1: on a second. Jordons goes up and lands really high
Speaker 1: up on the way down. It's got more distance true cover, right,
Speaker 1: I would think they measure it that way. How they
Speaker 1: measure it, I don't know, but that ball was hit
Speaker 1: a long way at the arc of it and where
Speaker 1: it's gonna land, and a pretty good chance it gets
Speaker 1: out either way. A lot of guys were scoring after
Speaker 1: wherever that ball hits. But the Polo Grounds were It's
Speaker 1: a very interesting demand. I always thought about that dimension
Speaker 1: watch for a stadium because when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: all the stadiums were the same. It was three Rivers,
Speaker 1: it was river Front, and they were just these cookie
Speaker 1: cutter stadiums. They all looked the same. And that's why
Speaker 1: the Polo Grounds always stood out to me reading the
Speaker 1: history of it, how weird and odd it was. And
Speaker 1: I love a park that's got odd, kind of weird dimensions,
Speaker 1: and the Polo Grounds had that. But that was the
Speaker 1: that was the center of the sports world for a
Speaker 1: long time, and that's the franchise we're going to play
Speaker 1: this weekend. I always always love that, even though the
Speaker 1: games are now in New Jersey and no longer at
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium or in New York, and the same for
Speaker 1: the Jets, there's just something about being being up there
Speaker 1: and playing in that place. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of great games in the Metal Lands with
Speaker 1: the Giants, and you know, going through the parcels years
Speaker 1: and all that and growing up and seeing the Metal
Speaker 1: Lands and then like, oh man, we're here. Yeah it's
Speaker 1: a different stadium. I get that, but it's like you're
Speaker 1: in the Metal Lands, it's the Giants. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it. Well, I can't wait. Look, we're not in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: but Madison Square Garden is there. And I know sometimes
Speaker 1: we make too big a deal out of the New
Speaker 1: York buildings, but trust me, growing up in the shadows
Speaker 1: of the Big Apple and being able as a kid,
Speaker 1: and this was a different error. I used to take
Speaker 1: it the train when I was a teenager to go
Speaker 1: to concert, said Madison Square Garden. I saw led Zeppelin
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I did, and I was young,
Speaker 1: and that was my first concert. And I saw other
Speaker 1: shows there like Ted Nugent and Peter Frampton and the
Speaker 1: list goes on unbelievable stuff and I have such memories
Speaker 1: of that. There's just this buzz about it and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to go see it. Absolutely in the Texas need
Speaker 1: to get a win and they need to perform in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, which is something that the Giants do
Speaker 1: very very well. I will discuss that a little bit
Speaker 1: later in the show as I go through my keys
Speaker 1: to the game. And coming up next, it's our guy
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce right here on Texans All Access. Welcome back
Speaker 1: this Friday, Nation of Texas All Access from the Hunday
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris Football on
Speaker 1: a sideline reporter. We're less than forty eight hours away
Speaker 1: from heading to the Big Apple. Now we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Damian Pierce in just a second. But let's go
Speaker 1: through our status report of who's in, who's out, and
Speaker 1: actually much much better this week than it was last week.
Speaker 1: Man had a bunch of guys out last week and
Speaker 1: competing their guts out against Eagles. So we'll see only
Speaker 1: player out for the Texans, Neville Hewitt out hamstring, four
Speaker 1: players questionable, although JRM Jalen rees Maaben was a full
Speaker 1: participant today in practice but still listed as questionable. And
Speaker 1: he has been phenomenal whether he's been playing on defense
Speaker 1: or he's been playing special teams. Be really good on
Speaker 1: special teams, and maybe I'll get some more reps on D.
Speaker 1: But he is questionable, as are the Collins brothers, even
Speaker 1: though they're not brothers. Of course, Malik and Nicod be
Speaker 1: great to get them back. And then Brandy Cooks now Giants.
Speaker 1: Two guys are out, two rookies and two guys that
Speaker 1: figure prominently in that offense or have before they got injured.
Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger is still out that I he got poked
Speaker 1: in the eye gets the Jaguars, he has been out
Speaker 1: ever since. Also, outright tackle Evan Neil much more than
Speaker 1: likely puts Tyree Phillips over on that right side. Big,
Speaker 1: a little bit slower, tends to hold. I think some
Speaker 1: quick guys on that edge could really give him an issue. However,
Speaker 1: in the run game he could be a masher. So
Speaker 1: guys are really gonna have to hold up against Tyree Phillips.
Speaker 1: Who who will replace Evan Neil, Cordelle Flot, Kenny Galladay,
Speaker 1: O'Shane him and as those three are questionable they were
Speaker 1: limited participants in practice. And Richie James is back wide
Speaker 1: receiver part returner for the g Men. So there's your
Speaker 1: statushed report. Only player out for the Texans, Neville Hewitt
Speaker 1: for the Giants, Daniel Bellinger, Evan Neil, both of them
Speaker 1: rookie foundation pieces, I would think for the Giants going forward. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of foundation pieces, how about the Texans foundation piece
Speaker 1: right now, and that is Damian Pierce. This is awesome.
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce is the absolute best. And you get him
Speaker 1: playing djenga, but Drew Doherty for a drews dozen and
Speaker 1: there is no telling the hilarity that wouldn't sue. Trust me,
Speaker 1: you'll love this. It's DP with d D with a
Speaker 1: d D right here on. TAA got it? Good, Drew go.
Speaker 1: Today's guest is a brass knuckles for the Houston offense.
Speaker 1: He was drafted in the fourth round out of the
Speaker 1: University of Florida, grew up in South Georgia, and now
Speaker 1: he's picked up six hundred and seventy eight yards on
Speaker 1: the ground for the Houston Texans, ninety four percent of
Speaker 1: which have come after contact. Of course, talking about the
Speaker 1: one and only Damian Piers, It's great to see you,
Speaker 1: my friend, Thank you, thank you for for having already play
Speaker 1: a little ginger. Yeah you first, man me first, you
Speaker 1: got a whole court, You got a whole court, home court.
Speaker 1: All right. I still have never won, and the rules
Speaker 1: are can't go from the top three and you can
Speaker 1: only use one hand pull a block. So I'll start
Speaker 1: right here or there? How about that? And I'll ask
Speaker 1: this question of you. What's your favorite TikTok dance? Fat?
Speaker 1: I don't even have TikTok on my phone, so I'm
Speaker 1: wanting the club me. Hey, so I don't know, Pot,
Speaker 1: you know? Is that the philos one? Or is it?
Speaker 1: I have? No a dancer? Huh nah? Who has the
Speaker 1: cleanest locker on a team? Who is it? Is it you? Oh? No? Pot?
Speaker 1: Dori Darry Goomble Whalley, a fellow running back, Alt larm
Speaker 1: me or Weeks John Weiks? Who's got the dirtiest me? Troy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably probably Dne and that corn to
Speaker 1: be messy man, that's a messy corner of the defensive one. Oh,
Speaker 1: what's your go to karaoke song? Remember the time Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: Let's go, Let's here it? Do you remember when we
Speaker 1: family love were young? And yeah? Yeah, that's like I
Speaker 1: get your family rid, I got paid for you know.
Speaker 1: That's really good. That's really good. He doesn't just punish linebackers.
Speaker 1: He can also sing some m that's that's beautiful. I
Speaker 1: like it. Okay. Were you a Disney or a Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: kid growing up? Oh? Nickelodeon cat cat dog cat dow Yeah?
Speaker 1: What else? Anything else? Nickelodeon wise, let's do hey, arnad
Speaker 1: be all that. I know y'all know about all that.
Speaker 1: Of course we did it did and Doug Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1: What is your zodiac sign? I'm a fish. I'm cool,
Speaker 1: calm and smooth with the water, the Pisces. When's your birthday?
Speaker 1: February nineteenth? Okay, all my birthday? Twins? You for me? Oh?
Speaker 1: I love this. You've got You have some nicknames? What's
Speaker 1: your favorite nickname? Buster Buster? Who gave you that one?
Speaker 1: Because I was a fat baby? Said that's a Buster
Speaker 1: when I came out, That's a Buster. That's a Buster. Okay.
Speaker 1: You're also people call you DP. I've heard Dame. What
Speaker 1: what are some other nicknames that's probably got? Okay the
Speaker 1: ones I've heard and I responded to d DP Buster,
Speaker 1: that's hometire, peasy Diesel okay, my shrink coat, gobb meds
Speaker 1: from Florida bull they caught me, jagon Lane Wait, what
Speaker 1: was your bullhead? Bowleg? Okay, okay, Janglin. All these from
Speaker 1: the tens by the week. Okay, jack O Lantern Jan
Speaker 1: from the movie Life. Oh, okay, okay about it? Those
Speaker 1: are pretty good ones about it. Okay, but Buster is
Speaker 1: your favorite nickname? Yeah? Do you want us to call
Speaker 1: you buster? You caught me bust. Okay. What is your
Speaker 1: first memory as a kid? What's my oldest memory? I
Speaker 1: gotta go back home, We gotta go way back. Oh,
Speaker 1: my first memory probably was I remember me and my
Speaker 1: MoMA going to my grandmama has sec stayed like the
Speaker 1: department so like they had like a concrete porch. Man.
Speaker 1: I felt I was skipped my head. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I was clumsy. I was a clumsy kid man,
Speaker 1: So I just fell out. I ain't scraped bad. It
Speaker 1: was just a little band aid. But uh, I think
Speaker 1: my mom took a picture that I think we were
Speaker 1: going to take pictures that day, and I had would
Speaker 1: have got to cut on my head right before? Who went?
Speaker 1: So I take it the concrete though, Like there's a
Speaker 1: crater in the concrete there right now, right because you
Speaker 1: didn't you don't just hit stuff. Not a crater. It's
Speaker 1: a crack though. There's a crack. Yeah, A little bit
Speaker 1: you from my baby DP then you, but you still
Speaker 1: dished out some punishments just a little bit. I like it. Okay,
Speaker 1: just gotta make sure we have the record straight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you longs to Just gonna let you know. You were
Speaker 1: two and you remember that Marvel or DC Marvel Marvel?
Speaker 1: How come? Who's your favorite? My favorite Marvel character? Yes,
Speaker 1: quick Silver, quick Solver. Ain't that to do? That was
Speaker 1: in that movie? They're like when you go to run
Speaker 1: around the time, so down, yeah, quick Celver? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: quick quicks over. Okay, what other sport could you be
Speaker 1: pro at? Well? Pie, blue beard, album berry and okay,
Speaker 1: I can't go wrong with a good chair. Good chair
Speaker 1: pie is good too. Okay, did you play any other
Speaker 1: sports growing up? A little bit of air thing. But
Speaker 1: they want to let me because they wanted me to
Speaker 1: be healthy football season, so the football coaches said not Yeah,
Speaker 1: is it favorite potato chip flavor? Oh? Cream ridged or no?
Speaker 1: And then a close second is rough of cheddar, it's
Speaker 1: our cream. Best concert you've been to I've never been
Speaker 1: to a concert in my life, not one other than
Speaker 1: the ones I throw on the shower. You know, what
Speaker 1: do you say or is it remember the time that
Speaker 1: you're singing most recently or is that just your karaoke?
Speaker 1: That's just karo? What are you singing right now these days?
Speaker 1: In the shower? Yeah? Can't we just talk? What a Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something. It's on top of my hand. Yeah, favorite
Speaker 1: childhood TV show? What was it? We just heard that
Speaker 1: from someone else. That's a good favorite childhood with a
Speaker 1: big ball of the Captain Craik sent him told whatever. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning, us to be you and Trymont Smith, Big
Speaker 1: Ed and Eddie's fans. Which teammate has the most inaccurate
Speaker 1: Madden rating? Inaccurate? Inaccurate like it's either way too high
Speaker 1: or way too low. Hmmm, that's a good question, probably,
Speaker 1: I say, das King. Yeah, yeah, this is a really
Speaker 1: good year. I says, to be way higher. Yeah, yeahs
Speaker 1: to be way good. It's gracious, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Damien Pears, you'll win again? Hey man, I
Speaker 1: try to win games. Will in a game with jingle?
Speaker 1: All right? I know that I speak for a living
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to speak right now, but I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't top that. Man. David appears thru already. That
Speaker 1: was freaking awesome. Thank you boys for jumping in and
Speaker 1: of course playing a little Jenga along the way. See,
Speaker 1: I love that. I've always had my wish is to
Speaker 1: do an interview where I'm just playing catch with somebody,
Speaker 1: just playing catch with somebody who as baseball, football, whatever,
Speaker 1: any kind of catch man, any play soccer, I get
Speaker 1: called playing catch, you play footy, I don't know what
Speaker 1: do you do? Either way? I want to do that
Speaker 1: because I think it always loosens the interview. Eat up.
Speaker 1: Not that Damian Piers needed that, but I just always
Speaker 1: think it's fun. So great stuff there from Damien and
Speaker 1: from Drew. All right, coming up? My keys to the game.
Speaker 1: How are the Texans gonna get this thing done against
Speaker 1: the gim? And I was asked this at lunch today
Speaker 1: and I kind of went through the different keys and
Speaker 1: the different things at lunch informally. Now I put them
Speaker 1: on wax next right here in Texas All Access. Welcome
Speaker 1: back this Friday edition of Texas All Access from Monday
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harry, your host. Glad
Speaker 1: to be with you football outsideline reporter for your Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Traveling to East Rutherford, New Jersey. Yeah, heading to the
Speaker 1: Big Apple south West. I guess trying to figure out
Speaker 1: trying to remember where New Jersey is in relations to
Speaker 1: New York. My geography is all off either way. We're
Speaker 1: going to East Ruthford to take on the New York
Speaker 1: Football Giants. As Mark and I talked about, you know
Speaker 1: why they're now called to New York Football Giants. Giants
Speaker 1: are six in two. It's a good record. So let's
Speaker 1: jump into the keys to the game. Get me my music,
Speaker 1: and let's rock. Let's talk about that six and two records.
Speaker 1: They've played eight games. Their point differential through eight games
Speaker 1: is plus six. Now, if you're going is that good
Speaker 1: is it bad? Plus six in six wins. That basically
Speaker 1: means they've won each game by an average of one
Speaker 1: point for their wins. So if they've played close games,
Speaker 1: they won by one, they won by three, they're lost
Speaker 1: by seven, they won by eight, they won by five,
Speaker 1: they won by four, they won by six, they lost
Speaker 1: by fourteen. I was the last one against the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks really the one team that defensively able to
Speaker 1: really slow them down, and the Giants weren't able to
Speaker 1: turn over the Seahawks as much as they have been
Speaker 1: turning over other teams. So let's dive in offensively and
Speaker 1: talk about this team. It is sae Quon Barkley and
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley alone. The rushing yards per game one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one point five yards per game. It's
Speaker 1: fifty the NFL. That is the only category in which
Speaker 1: the Giants are top half in the league. Rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed, total yards allowed, and turnovers. I don't
Speaker 1: know they're plus two tournaments. I didn't check that one.
Speaker 1: But they're not top half of the league except for
Speaker 1: one thing, the running game. Now they're without Evan Neil.
Speaker 1: He's a big part of the first six games. I
Speaker 1: think it was before he got hurt. I think it
Speaker 1: was in the Jacksonville game. They've been given the ball
Speaker 1: to sa Kuon Barkley a lot. The wide receivers totally pedestrian.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has shown massive improvements this year. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about what they can do the Texas could do
Speaker 1: to stop them. Number One, keep Barkley under wraps, stressing
Speaker 1: the rap part. The toughest thing about sa Kuon Barkley
Speaker 1: is wrapping his big thighs, butt legs, trunk and getting
Speaker 1: him to the ground. He is so low to the
Speaker 1: ground when he runs. He is such a large individual.
Speaker 1: I mean he I mean he's five eleven I think
Speaker 1: five eleven if that. And he's so thickly built, and
Speaker 1: he's so quick. He can get from B gap to
Speaker 1: B gap with a jump cut and you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what just happened. So wrapping him up, he will step
Speaker 1: out of tackles, he will get his motor going outside.
Speaker 1: I say this every week. Tackling has got to be
Speaker 1: a premium. But there's certain weeks, like what I said
Speaker 1: in my Keys to the Game. Know your four article
Speaker 1: was when you go up to the white and you
Speaker 1: start putting on your keys to the game. You know,
Speaker 1: if the coaches do that, they go through and what
Speaker 1: are the keys to winning this week? What we gotta
Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z. At the top of that list,
Speaker 1: they can just put him magging up there and just
Speaker 1: leave it up there. Every time it's tackling. Well, sometimes
Speaker 1: tackling becomes outage more important because of the team in
Speaker 1: the back that you're facing, that is sae Quon Barkley.
Speaker 1: If the tackling is shoddy, the Texas have no chance
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley has picked up nearly fifty percent of his
Speaker 1: yards after first contact. He also if they can't get
Speaker 1: it to him between the tackles, they'll throw it to him.
Speaker 1: He has twenty eight receptions this year, and he has
Speaker 1: been fantastic in a passing game. So twenty eight receptions.
Speaker 1: They give him the ball in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: You've got to tackle him. Got to number two, What
Speaker 1: can Jones do to you? What will Daniel Jones do? Now?
Speaker 1: A lot has been made about what love he Smith said,
Speaker 1: But love he was dead on about the fact that
Speaker 1: he can fly well, he can run, and he is
Speaker 1: not afraid to run, and he is as tough as
Speaker 1: a two dollars. And that was what I put in
Speaker 1: my scouting report back in twenty nineteen. He will run
Speaker 1: and the Giants have figured out how to use him. Bootlegs, movement, RPOs.
Speaker 1: Those are things that get Daniel Jones with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands, putting pressure on a defense, dropping back
Speaker 1: into the pocket. That is not a strength of Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: That is not what he does exceptionally well. Now. The
Speaker 1: Texans linebackers in particular are prone to bite heavy on
Speaker 1: play actions so I'd imagine the Giants are gonna try
Speaker 1: to go to play action, try and hit dig routes
Speaker 1: across the middle, crossing routes across the middle with those
Speaker 1: linebackers pulled up into the line of scrimmage. I could
Speaker 1: see that happening. And the final key is Jerry Hughes
Speaker 1: versus Andrew Thomas. And now we know Tyree Phillips because
Speaker 1: Evan Neil is going to be out. This is one
Speaker 1: of the key match ups in the game. This is
Speaker 1: one of those kind of inside the game things. The
Speaker 1: game is the Giants versus the Texans, but inside the
Speaker 1: game the matchups, the one on one stuff. Jerry Hughes
Speaker 1: taking on Andrew Thomas is worth the price of admission. Now,
Speaker 1: when Jerry goes to the other side against Tyree Phillips,
Speaker 1: watch for him to drop that inside shoulder, give me
Speaker 1: that ghost move and that ripped through. That's what he
Speaker 1: has been doing to the bigger maybe a shade slower tackles.
Speaker 1: That's what he hit Jordan Mylotta with. He went against
Speaker 1: quicker Lane Johnson and that's when he countered and went
Speaker 1: inside on him. So he's got a variety of moves.
Speaker 1: I think Jerry has been fantastic, and he's got to
Speaker 1: be fantastic. But when he gets to Daniel Jones, got
Speaker 1: to finish, gotta finish, all right. Giants defense, let's flip
Speaker 1: it over. They give up one hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: point three yards per game on the ground. It's twenty
Speaker 1: fifty in the NFL. Now, I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: key and just a little bit. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard to see how a goes to be, but I'll
Speaker 1: explain here a little bit. They give up two hundred
Speaker 1: and eight point four yards per game through the air,
Speaker 1: that's sixteenth. Total offense, three hundred forty six yards per
Speaker 1: game that's seventeenth. And they generated nine fumble recoveries, only
Speaker 1: one interception. The plus two in turnover margin they are
Speaker 1: led by. And let's get to key number one here,
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence. Now to you out there, don't probably watch
Speaker 1: the Giants. Maybe you watch some, but if you watch
Speaker 1: him this year, you're like, whoa ninety seven animal? If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen him at some point, you saw Helodi
Speaker 1: Nada from the Baltimore Ravens. Hellodi Nada was an absolute
Speaker 1: man child. But what made him great was his agility.
Speaker 1: How he was so quick. He was strong as an ox,
Speaker 1: but his agility up and down a lot of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He was so quick and could get into the backfield
Speaker 1: and hiccup. It was like a two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: pound because a tackle who just happened to be three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five, three hundred forty, well, that's who
Speaker 1: Textra Lawrence is. They list him as a nose tackle,
Speaker 1: but he can play from three technique to three technique.
Speaker 1: He can slice in the backfield, he can loop on stunts.
Speaker 1: He can do so much. But the biggest key is
Speaker 1: one on one against Extra Lawrence. He will break you
Speaker 1: in half. The Texas cannot allow ninety seven to be
Speaker 1: one on one. Now. It's hard because ninety nine Leonard
Speaker 1: Williams is a different type of player, but he's just
Speaker 1: as disruptive. Son. Ninety have got to get blocked. If
Speaker 1: you block them, you have a chance. What did I
Speaker 1: say about the running game? One hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: point three yards per game. Teams have gotten to that
Speaker 1: number because they were able to contain ninety seven to
Speaker 1: ninety nine. Number two came on Thibodeau. The rookies a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about drafting came on Thibodeau at number
Speaker 1: three overall. Texas deed edge help all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Back in April. He ended up being a giant. He
Speaker 1: missed the first four game for five games he's been back.
Speaker 1: He's really not up to speed yet, but you can
Speaker 1: see the makings of what he can do and he
Speaker 1: can create some havoc. However, he's going against two very
Speaker 1: accomplishing skilled tackles and Titus Howard and Larrmy Tunsil. He
Speaker 1: will throw hands, He's very technically sound, but those two
Speaker 1: guys have definitely got to shut him down and not
Speaker 1: to let him have a game out on the edge.
Speaker 1: And finally, and definitely last, but not of hims a
Speaker 1: wink and a smile or a blitz wink. Martindale's defense
Speaker 1: coordinate for the ballp for Ravens. He is known for
Speaker 1: bringing heat. But where he's different than teams of Texas
Speaker 1: have faced is you have to guess where they're coming from.
Speaker 1: He'll show you seven up front and they're all mugging
Speaker 1: and you're like, how do I want to protect this?
Speaker 1: But then four come from one side to drop from
Speaker 1: the other and you're like, I did it wrong. Davis
Speaker 1: Mills cerebral nature is going to be on display. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out where Wink Martindale's bringing. The
Speaker 1: blitzes from the Seahawks did a great job with this.
Speaker 1: They rolled Geno Smith away from blitzes a number of times.
Speaker 1: God open throwers move the sticks doing it that way.
Speaker 1: They better figure out who's coming and who's not, because
Speaker 1: if they don't, there's gonna be a Blitcher coming free
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be sacapalooza and that cannot happen. All right,
Speaker 1: those your keys to the game. And that ends our
Speaker 1: first hour here on Texas All Access. To start our
Speaker 1: second hour, we're gonna go behind him the sidelines and
Speaker 1: talk with Deep City about these giants that we're gonna
Speaker 1: see on Sunday. We got one hour down, one hour
Speaker 1: left to go. Right here on a Friday edition of
Speaker 1: Texans All Access, getting ready to fly to New York Newark,
Speaker 1: which is in New Jersey, but it's just on the
Speaker 1: other side of the river, so it's all within You
Speaker 1: get on the right train, you're there in New York
Speaker 1: in five minutes. So if you're going to the game,
Speaker 1: and you are spending time in New York City. Great,
Speaker 1: Remember you're going to the game in New Jersey on
Speaker 1: Sunday at MetLife Stadium. That's one of the largest stadiums
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. It's just immense. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the capacities. I think it's like one hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: It is just an enormous stadium. And it's gonna be
Speaker 1: filled with blue and light. And hopefully it's blue and
Speaker 1: white and red from the Texans as well, so there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of red, white and blue throughout that
Speaker 1: stadium on Sunday. Kickoff is noon here Central Central Standard time,
Speaker 1: one o'clock if you're at the game there at East Rutherford.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. And I always look forward to
Speaker 1: And I texted the dB City today and I told
Speaker 1: her this. I always look forward to her behind Enemy
Speaker 1: Sidelines interviews. I always love just the full picture that
Speaker 1: we get from team reporters that she talks to, analysts
Speaker 1: that she talks to. And this week it was Madeleine Burke,
Speaker 1: who's a team reporter for the New York Football Giants.
Speaker 1: So let's go behind Enemy Sidelines with Deep Sinu and
Speaker 1: Madeleine Burke. Right now, we're going behind enemy sidelines with
Speaker 1: Giants team reporter Madeleine Burke. Madeleine, great to have you,
Speaker 1: and I got to ask, what's the mood like in
Speaker 1: New York. You've got two teams that are riding pretty
Speaker 1: high entering week ten, the Giants are at six and two.
Speaker 1: What's the excitement like around there? It is so much fun. Deeply,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me, first of all.
Speaker 1: And yeah, as you mentioned, not one but two New
Speaker 1: York football teams doing pretty well, and three if you
Speaker 1: count Buffalo, I mean, but yeah, area, the New York
Speaker 1: New Jersey area seeing the Jets and the Giants playing well.
Speaker 1: Especially for this Giants team. You know, coming into this season,
Speaker 1: if you would have said six wins, people would have said, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what the count will be at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, not at the bye leak. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: it's definitely a nice welcome surprise and great to build on.
Speaker 1: All right, Brain Dable comes in as head coach. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a big reason why the team's off to a
Speaker 1: six and two starts. What's the biggest change since he
Speaker 1: took over as head coach this season? And how has
Speaker 1: the team surpassed its expectations. You know, it's tough to
Speaker 1: articulate exactly what the biggest change would be. I think
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of little ones. But Brian Dable,
Speaker 1: of course, he's gotten over twenty years of experience in
Speaker 1: coaching in various roles and various teams. He's won super Bowls,
Speaker 1: He's been the Bill's offensive coordinator for the last several years,
Speaker 1: and it's just one of those guys that when you
Speaker 1: interact with him and you meet him, he's the same
Speaker 1: guy in the hallway as he is in the media availability,
Speaker 1: as he is with his players. He's very authentic, and
Speaker 1: guys that I've talked to who have played for him
Speaker 1: or under him, or played on teams that he's been
Speaker 1: a part of the staff for in various other positions
Speaker 1: have said that, you know, Dave says, he goes by
Speaker 1: Brian Dabel. Daves said, Dave's is just more of Dave's. Oftentimes,
Speaker 1: with guys come into their very first head coaching role,
Speaker 1: they kind of assume the position of what a head
Speaker 1: coach should be, or what a head coach talks like,
Speaker 1: or how a head coach acts. But Brian Dable is
Speaker 1: just more Brian Dable, and I think that authenticity, that passion,
Speaker 1: that genuine care he has for his players and putting
Speaker 1: these guys in the best position to succeed, as well
Speaker 1: as just the ridiculously talented coaching staff that he's built
Speaker 1: with Mike Kafka coming over from Kansas City as the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Wink Martindale the defensive coordinator of course previously
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens for a decade. It's a great
Speaker 1: coaching staff and a lot of creativity and putting these
Speaker 1: young players is very young team in a good position
Speaker 1: to succeed. Yeah, let's talk about some of that creativity.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. He's now in year four. He's dealt with
Speaker 1: his share of coaching changes, offensive scheme changes, but so
Speaker 1: far this year through through the games, he's played six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: only two interceptions, but he's also rushed for three scores,
Speaker 1: so he's definitely making some plays this year. How has
Speaker 1: Davel really adapted that offense to sort of bring out
Speaker 1: the strengths of Daniel Jones. Yeah, Daniel Jones has kind
Speaker 1: of always been a dual threat running quarterback to I
Speaker 1: think his biggest issue prior to this year was just
Speaker 1: staying on the field. You know, he hadn't yet had
Speaker 1: a full season where he played all sixteen or seventeen
Speaker 1: games because of injury. But you know, we've seen him run.
Speaker 1: I think there's that famous moment from a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago when he had nothing but green grass and
Speaker 1: tripped over his own feet when he was breaking off
Speaker 1: that long touchdown run and didn't quite make it through
Speaker 1: the end zone. But he's a fast, athletic guy, and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is really leaning into that. They're not
Speaker 1: afraid of that. They're letting him, trusting him to use
Speaker 1: that strength because the strength of this Giant's team is,
Speaker 1: of course the run game behind sa Quon Barkley and
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and having that option there something that has
Speaker 1: been challenging for opposing defenses. Okay, so you mentioned Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: I think after Week one when he put up one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four rushing yards, Yeah, some of us
Speaker 1: were surprised, but you know, he's kept it up and
Speaker 1: you know, he leads the NFC in rushing yards. I
Speaker 1: think he's got five touchdowns on the year so far.
Speaker 1: He leads the giants in rushing and receiving yards. Actually,
Speaker 1: so tell me about him. I mean, are you surprised
Speaker 1: at all at what he's been able to do this year.
Speaker 1: I know he's missed so many games or the past
Speaker 1: three years with injury, but he seems to be healthy.
Speaker 1: But does it seem like he's being used differently or
Speaker 1: is this sort of the Sake One Barkley you remember
Speaker 1: from several years ago. Yeah, I'd be honest and not surprised.
Speaker 1: I think this is the Stake One Barkley I remember
Speaker 1: from several years ago, and I think the hard part
Speaker 1: with Sake one was, you know, he came out swinging
Speaker 1: his Rookie of the Year campaign, he had incredible numbers
Speaker 1: and then just dealing with some unfortunate injuries right the
Speaker 1: me the ankle, you know, the ACL WHI shook him
Speaker 1: eleven months to come back from. He gets back on
Speaker 1: the field, and of course, as you've seen time and
Speaker 1: time again, a player comes back from injury, it takes
Speaker 1: a couple of games to get their legs under them
Speaker 1: and to feel kind of at home again. Once he
Speaker 1: finally finds his rhythm and is playing free, that ankle
Speaker 1: injury happens and it just takes him out for the
Speaker 1: majority of the rest of last season. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of injury too. Is number one getting your
Speaker 1: body right, but number two getting your mind right and
Speaker 1: being able to trust your body and feel free in
Speaker 1: your body and be able to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to think about playing the game. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to think about protecting my ankle or protecting my knee.
Speaker 1: And coming into training camp even as early as spring
Speaker 1: this year, say Quan looked healthy, He looked quick, he
Speaker 1: looked agile, he looked confident. And I talked to him
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and you know, he had mentioned how
Speaker 1: excited he was for the way that this offense was
Speaker 1: using him and moving him around. He said he hadn't
Speaker 1: moved around this much since college at Penn State. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, did you you know, what did it
Speaker 1: feel like? Because he mentioned he went back and watched
Speaker 1: some of that Penn State film, So what did it
Speaker 1: feel like watching you as a college player this far
Speaker 1: removed from that? He said, one thing he noticed was
Speaker 1: that when he was in college, he was playing a
Speaker 1: lot more free, a lot more confidently, because that was
Speaker 1: before all these injuries. But he said at this time,
Speaker 1: and this was back in training camp that he was
Speaker 1: feeling that freedom and that confidence in his body. And
Speaker 1: from week one, as you mentioned at shown and it's
Speaker 1: week and week out, he's playing like he's you know,
Speaker 1: feeling at home in his body and trusting himself to
Speaker 1: do these things. Well, let's switch gears and talk about
Speaker 1: the defense. Levy Smith has said that that defense under
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale blitz is more than any other defense the
Speaker 1: Texans have or we'll face this year. What about Cavan Thibodeaux.
Speaker 1: The Texans were drafting at number three, the Giants had
Speaker 1: the number five overall pick, they draft Thibodeaux. You know,
Speaker 1: what have you seen from him so far? And how
Speaker 1: does he really add to that defense? Yeah, Wink Martindale
Speaker 1: loves the blitz. First of all, even during the preseason
Speaker 1: he was sending him way at an alarming rate. But
Speaker 1: you know, and he loves the blitz. That's who he is.
Speaker 1: That's the identity of the defensive coordinator on this defense.
Speaker 1: And Cavon Thibodaux, as you mentioned, two number five overall
Speaker 1: pick for the Giants, coming off the edge. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw what he can do in Oregon. He got
Speaker 1: his first career back against Lamar Jackson a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's a young a young player who's very,
Speaker 1: very excited to get those numbers up. But he's also
Speaker 1: very patient and very patient and trusting himself and trusting
Speaker 1: his technique. And as much as been made about Cavon
Speaker 1: off the field of oh he's got a big personality,
Speaker 1: is he going to be a distraction this? And that?
Speaker 1: He has been a consummate professional, a teammate, a great
Speaker 1: guy in the locker round, a great guy to be around,
Speaker 1: and a guy who works very hard and you know
Speaker 1: is starting to come into his own in this Giant's defense. Well,
Speaker 1: we saw the news earlier in the week that the
Speaker 1: Giants safety Zavier McKinney broke his hand while on the
Speaker 1: bye week, while on vacation. So now he's on ir
Speaker 1: How are the Giants handling that situation? So he was
Speaker 1: in an accident over vacation. He had an injury to
Speaker 1: his hand that hasn't actually been specified yet. They're not
Speaker 1: certain how long he will be out because they're still
Speaker 1: evaluating what the implications of that will be. But I
Speaker 1: your McKinney has been a key part of this defense, right,
Speaker 1: he wore the green dot because in Martindale's defense, you know,
Speaker 1: safety does rather than a linebacker, so having him out
Speaker 1: will be will change things for sure for this defense.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of talented players. Julian Love,
Speaker 1: a guy who's been a part of this team for
Speaker 1: several years and is really coming into his own under
Speaker 1: this system, and you know, some other younger defensive backs.
Speaker 1: It'll step up and fill that void. So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: Brian Dabele talked about it this morning. It's very disappointing
Speaker 1: for him, for the player, for the team, but you
Speaker 1: know what, they're going to look forward and keep it moving.
Speaker 1: Great stuff ANEMYS sidelines with Giants team reporter Malin Burke. Mallin,
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Thank you so much, Deepe, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for having me and looking forward to a good
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be exciting in
Speaker 1: East Rutherford against the Giants. Appreciate deep and Madeline Burke
Speaker 1: four jumping in on the show this evening. All right,
Speaker 1: we get back. We've got a full slate of NFL
Speaker 1: games that I've got a pick, so I say put
Speaker 1: it on Wax each and every week. I'll do that
Speaker 1: next right here in Texans all Access. Alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: we have reached that time in the show where I
Speaker 1: get to put my predictions to the test. And I'm
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporters, so you
Speaker 1: know who I am, so you can remember the name
Speaker 1: when you go that guy got them, all right, and
Speaker 1: you only missed one or two or five hopefully it's
Speaker 1: not that many. But I pick every single NFL game
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread, well because well that's
Speaker 1: just what I do, and it's a good way to
Speaker 1: talk about the games around the NFL as well. So
Speaker 1: quee up my music and let's rock and let's start
Speaker 1: the game in Germany, Yes, Germany. I think it's the
Speaker 1: first regular season NFL game ever in Germany. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be in Munich and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are taking
Speaker 1: on the Seattle Seahawks. And the Seyhawks had to fly.
Speaker 1: I think the number was like ten thousand miles or something.
Speaker 1: It's an absurd number of miles they had to fly.
Speaker 1: But they're there and so are the Bucks. When the
Speaker 1: Bucks are coming off will win last week, and I
Speaker 1: think that is big for them. They had to get
Speaker 1: a win. They got one laid against the Rams. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that really spurs them on. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: are hot, I mean hot and very very good. However,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win
Speaker 1: this game and cover the three and a half point spread.
Speaker 1: I just have a feeling the Bucks are gonna turn
Speaker 1: to corner. Not saying that Seattle is going to turn
Speaker 1: it to a pumpkin, because Seattle super talented, but I
Speaker 1: just got a feeling Tom Brady going to Germany trying
Speaker 1: to show it off for the NFL and the fans
Speaker 1: over there. So let's go Bucks to win and cover
Speaker 1: that three and a half against Seattle. All right, next
Speaker 1: game at Buffalo. Now, this one gets a little trick
Speaker 1: because the Buffalo Bills are were and a half point
Speaker 1: favorites and Josh Allen has not practiced all week. Now
Speaker 1: have we seen players not practice all week go on
Speaker 1: the field and play and play, well, yes, we've seen
Speaker 1: it here in Houston. We have seen a lot of
Speaker 1: different places. Could Josh Allen be ready to go, Yes,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they should. I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, he goes out there and has
Speaker 1: something happened. It's maybe it's the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I without having practiced, my guess is he's not gonna play.
Speaker 1: So that leads me to addam minimum, Minnesota's gonna cover
Speaker 1: that four and a half because they're four and a
Speaker 1: half point dog up in Buffalo, and I think the
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win. So it's go Bills to win narrowly.
Speaker 1: I think they will band together and get a w
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. And I'll be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Vikings are great. The record's great, and
Speaker 1: they're doing really good things on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: But if it's case Keenum, he knows that Vikings defense,
Speaker 1: he knows them, he knows some of the personnel, not
Speaker 1: all of it, but he knows some. He's got the
Speaker 1: fund dicks. So I think Bill's win. The Viking's keeping
Speaker 1: very close inside that four and a half, So let's
Speaker 1: go Bill's win. Minnesota cover all right. NFC North used
Speaker 1: to be an NFC Central Chicago getting a visit from
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Now the Bears played a lot better
Speaker 1: last week, and they have the last few weeks not
Speaker 1: the thursdaynight game, but they've played better when they have
Speaker 1: allowed justin fields to use urpos, to use the zone
Speaker 1: read they called more designed runs. That seemingly is clicked
Speaker 1: for Chicago now. For other reasons, I don't really want
Speaker 1: Chicago to win this game, but because I'm picking him now,
Speaker 1: I want them to win, and I think they'll cover
Speaker 1: the three and a half points spread. I think this
Speaker 1: is probably a three to four point game, somewhere in
Speaker 1: that range, but I'm gonna go with the Bears playing
Speaker 1: in Chicago to get this one over the Lions. Tennessee
Speaker 1: gets a visit from Denver. I think Denver's a mess,
Speaker 1: an absolute mess. Now. Don't know about Ryan Tannehill. My
Speaker 1: God tells me he's going to play the ankle. It's
Speaker 1: been a few weeks now. I think he's gonna give
Speaker 1: it a go. And I don't even know if that's
Speaker 1: really what it takes to beat Denver. That team is
Speaker 1: just not very good. But Broncos are coming off of buye,
Speaker 1: so they should be rested self. Scout see what they're
Speaker 1: able to find. That doesn't matter to me. Tennessee the
Speaker 1: three and a half point favorite, playing at home. I
Speaker 1: think Derrick Henry will run all over that defense, or
Speaker 1: at least enough that the quarterback won't matter. Titans win
Speaker 1: cover the three and a half. This one's tricky. The
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars coming off a win over the Las Vegas Raiders,
Speaker 1: where the Jaguars had to come from seventeen. Now they're
Speaker 1: down to seventeen enough to come back and win twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty. They go to Kansas City for Kansas City's
Speaker 1: coming off a Sunday night win a physical game against
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, and I think that's key because I
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are gonna end up winning this. But
Speaker 1: the number is nine and a half. I think Jacksonville
Speaker 1: gets inside that. Jacksonville has played against good opponents, played
Speaker 1: it really close, and played it very well. They're the
Speaker 1: only team in as South right now with a positive
Speaker 1: point to French him. So I think that Jacksonville does
Speaker 1: not win the game, but they get inside that nine
Speaker 1: and a half. So Kansas City to win in Arrowhead,
Speaker 1: but the Jaguars will get inside nine and a half
Speaker 1: to get the cover. Cleveland goes to Miami. Let's go Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Let's go Dolphins get this win too. We need it
Speaker 1: going against Jacoby Brissette, who is the quarterback that we
Speaker 1: saw in Miami last year. I think Miami jumps up early,
Speaker 1: stays on Cleveland. Cleveland can't match, and the Dolphins win
Speaker 1: and cover that three and a half point spread. Now,
Speaker 1: the last time we saw the Browns on Monday Night
Speaker 1: and they looked good against the Bengals. They had a
Speaker 1: bye last week. Hopefully some rusts set in. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: can't stop Miami and Miami wins. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it to shoot out, I don't care what it is,
Speaker 1: just as long as Miami wins and wins by more
Speaker 1: than three and a half, because that's my prediction. Dolphins
Speaker 1: win at home and win by more than three and
Speaker 1: a half. Then we've got Pittsburgh going New Orleans. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, New Orleans going to Pittsburgh, and I don't
Speaker 1: have a clue. I don't have a clue. The Saints
Speaker 1: have not been good, although I mean Monday night against
Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Ravens jumped all off Pittsburgh stepick. However,
Speaker 1: it does look like T. J. Watt's gonna be back
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh, and that's enough. Combined with plane at home
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers to get a mild upset and win.
Speaker 1: They're two and a half point dog to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with Kenny Pickett and the Steelers and t. J.
Speaker 1: Watt being back to beat the Saints in Accrasher Field
Speaker 1: and cover that two and a half obviously by winning
Speaker 1: the game. So we're going to Steelers. The Cults are
Speaker 1: going to Las Vegas. Now, this was the most talked
Speaker 1: about game amongst the NFL stratus year this week because
Speaker 1: of what happened in Indianapolis. Jim Ursay, owner named Jeff
Speaker 1: Saturday Interram head coach. And you know that's how I said.
Speaker 1: Jim Ursay named him. That was not a Chris Ballard decision.
Speaker 1: That was a Jim Ursay decision. He's never coached the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's never coached the position the NFL. He's never coached
Speaker 1: the college. He coached three years in high school. Now,
Speaker 1: I will not poo poo anybody coaching in high school,
Speaker 1: because you've got to be very creative coach in high school.
Speaker 1: I think some of us coaches have ever met have
Speaker 1: at least started their careers at high school. And I
Speaker 1: think those guys. I don't think it a bad rap,
Speaker 1: but it's like, oh, it's high school. No, you gotta
Speaker 1: be very creative to coach in high school, very much so.
Speaker 1: And any high school coach out there and knows I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. You don't just get the studs. You get
Speaker 1: what's in your neighborhood. That's what you get. These players
Speaker 1: at our zoned here, we get them. You gotta develop
Speaker 1: what you got and go with it. Kind of the
Speaker 1: same in the NFL, same way. So that I'll give
Speaker 1: to Jeff Saturday. However, the Colt's offense is putrid. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have a thirty year old Parks Fraser who has
Speaker 1: never called plays in his life. He's never been an
Speaker 1: assistant coach. He's been well should say that he's never
Speaker 1: been an official assistant coach. He was an assistant offensive assistant.
Speaker 1: He will be calling plays now. There might be some
Speaker 1: excitement in that, but it's still in the same Alinger
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger. So in a football world, that just
Speaker 1: seems just in some way. The Raiders at home need
Speaker 1: to win this game. They're favored by six and a half.
Speaker 1: I'll lay the six and a half and take the
Speaker 1: Raiders to beat the Indianapolis Colts out in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: All right, other afternoon game, Dallas is going to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: What the heck is green Bay? I mean, seriously, what
Speaker 1: is Green Bay? I mean the team this year, no one,
Speaker 1: no idea. The receivers are banged up. Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 1: not found any synergy with him. He just looks miserable.
Speaker 1: The offense looks miserable. People I follow on Twitter that
Speaker 1: are Packers analysts or fans, etc. I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: down at the TOMPs. So like this is nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: before Brett fav got there. Green Bay Packers stuff. It
Speaker 1: is just not good. And now they're getting a visit
Speaker 1: from a very talented football team in the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Can't see the Packers keeping this close, maybe within ten
Speaker 1: to seven, but the spread is five and a half.
Speaker 1: So we're going with the visiting Dallas Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: and cover that five and a half in Lambeau, which
Speaker 1: has not always been easy to the Dallas Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: they're that much better close to full health. Then the
Speaker 1: Packers are even closer right now, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Cowboys win that one over Green Bay. Could man wins
Speaker 1: that that could be a circle of wagons sort of
Speaker 1: moment for green Bay. But Minnesota seven to one. Minnesota's
Speaker 1: pulling away with that division, so it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: to get back in it. A win obviously would help
Speaker 1: the Packers. I just don't see it happening. Dallas wins
Speaker 1: and covers the five and a half. I said to
Speaker 1: Mark on Thursday night, this one confuses me more than
Speaker 1: any other. The Arizona Cardinals are three and six. They're
Speaker 1: going to so far to take on the Rams. Three
Speaker 1: and five. The La Rams have one of the three
Speaker 1: worst offenses in the NFL. Now, think about that, Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, Alan Robins do they paid a lot of
Speaker 1: money to this offseason, Tyler Higbee. They got cam Akers back.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most talented teams in the league.
Speaker 1: One of the worst offenses in the NFL, I mean,
Speaker 1: just dreadful, and Matt Stafford is going to be questionable,
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on that. So I don't trust
Speaker 1: the Rams and I don't trust the Cardinals. However, that
Speaker 1: Cardinals team is talented. They just have to keep it
Speaker 1: together for sixty minutes. Now, if they're without Buddha Baker,
Speaker 1: which could be the case. Yeah, that does scare me
Speaker 1: a little bit. The Rams are three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorites. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: split the middle here. The Cardinals are gonna keep it close,
Speaker 1: but the Rams are gonna win. So this one's twenty
Speaker 1: one eighteen, this one is twenty seven, twenty four, twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty one. It's a three point game, and that will
Speaker 1: give a coverage to the Cardinals, but a win to
Speaker 1: the Rams. That's how I'm gonna get over my in
Speaker 1: between this if you will. Sunday night, the Chargers travel
Speaker 1: to San Francisco seven and a hook. That's the only
Speaker 1: reason I'm going with the Chargers here. San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers win, but the Chargers who put some points
Speaker 1: on the board and get inside that seven and a
Speaker 1: half point number. And then on Monday night, Washington travels
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, so Philadelphia has the mini buy and an
Speaker 1: extra day to get ready for the Commanders. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: a ten and a half point spread. We played our
Speaker 1: guts out nighttime against the Eagles, and I don't think
Speaker 1: the Eagles played extremely well. They went at game by
Speaker 1: twelve any other team's building, they're gonna hammer the car. Commanders,
Speaker 1: they'll whin they have by fourteen or more, they'll cruise
Speaker 1: through the fourth quarter. I worry about a backdoor cover,
Speaker 1: but it won't happen. Eagles beat Commanders by more than
Speaker 1: ten and a half. That does it. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Minutes Final where with Drew Doherty and a
Speaker 1: little surprise visit MC guy who scored a touchdown against Eagles.
Speaker 1: Who's that? We'll find out next of Texas All Access.
Speaker 1: We're got to find a segment of this edition of
Speaker 1: Texans All Access on a wonderful Friday evening. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and a little bit
Speaker 1: of a surprise. I didn't actually plan this, but I
Speaker 1: thought about it after a while, and I thought, man,
Speaker 1: I got a little gift interview for you here in
Speaker 1: this final segment. So I mentioned Houston Methodist Minutes. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have that in just a second. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty's final word, but sandwiched in between my visit
Speaker 1: with Chris Moore this week. But let's start off with
Speaker 1: our Houston Methodist Minutes right now talking Regin with Mark
Speaker 1: vandermir It's Houston Methodist Minutes, joined today by Jay's Duke
Speaker 1: Athletic Trader with Houston Methodist. How's it going, JACEK, Are
Speaker 1: you doing great? So tell me about regen rehab recharging
Speaker 1: the batteries. We talked about this a bit last week
Speaker 1: as the Texans were facing a Thursday night game and
Speaker 1: had to get their bodies back so to speak, very quickly.
Speaker 1: How does this work in all walks of athletic life?
Speaker 1: The timing involved and some of the dudes and don'ts
Speaker 1: involved that people can apply to their real life situation. Yes, sir, yeah,
Speaker 1: so so whenever you're you're doing any kind of you
Speaker 1: know activity, repetitive activity that athletes do, you know, training
Speaker 1: things like that, your body needs. Your body needs some time,
Speaker 1: which is which is always the most important, that time
Speaker 1: to recover. But uh, you know what you do during
Speaker 1: that time is even more important. So you know a
Speaker 1: lot of us we get out, we get active, and
Speaker 1: we're thinking, oh, we need some time off. They said
Speaker 1: to rest. I need to set here and you know,
Speaker 1: not do anything today. And you know, even though that
Speaker 1: may make you feel better, the idea of an active recovery.
Speaker 1: You know, so you're getting up, you're staying moving, you're
Speaker 1: doing some low impact type activities, uh is better for you.
Speaker 1: It keeps the blood flowing UH and lets the body,
Speaker 1: you know, do what it's made to do and and
Speaker 1: try to heal itself naturally. So you know, activities like yoga,
Speaker 1: plate things like that are are key. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: getting adequate sleep uh and you know, focusing on a
Speaker 1: balanced nutrition during that time off what will help you
Speaker 1: body get back where it needs to be. Jase Duke
Speaker 1: had athletic trainer with Houston Methodist joining US. Jase with
Speaker 1: professional athletes or college athletes, athletes who compete a lot
Speaker 1: and need to when they have an injury, how hard
Speaker 1: is it to keep everything else strong, other parts of
Speaker 1: the body that aren't hurt. How difficult to challenge is
Speaker 1: that for athletic trainers and the people involved. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that we've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: better over the years with different gadgets and gizmos, I
Speaker 1: guess the best way to say it. So there's always
Speaker 1: something people can be doing, and I think that you know,
Speaker 1: with highly competitive athletes, it's a lot less telling them
Speaker 1: to go and more telling them to woe sometimes and
Speaker 1: you know, so now a flip side of that, you have,
Speaker 1: you know something your amateur athletes that it's a little
Speaker 1: harder to get them going and get them back because
Speaker 1: you know, they get a diagnosis and sometimes that diagnosis
Speaker 1: make or that note that comes from the provider may
Speaker 1: say no activity for you know, two to four weeks
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. Well, there's always something you
Speaker 1: can be doing. And you know, if you focus on
Speaker 1: other areas of bodies that aren't injured and staying that
Speaker 1: active regeneration that we talked about, staying active but low intensity,
Speaker 1: focusing on other body parts, there's always something that you
Speaker 1: can be doing. Jase, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time. Yes, sir, thank you. That's Jason Duke,
Speaker 1: head athletic trainer, Houston Methodist. It's the official healthcare provider
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, Houston Methodist leading Medicine. It's funny
Speaker 1: as time goes by, there are words that you hear
Speaker 1: that you've never heard before. Maybe regent for some people
Speaker 1: is is new to them. I know it's new to me.
Speaker 1: The last three to four years started hearing this Regent.
Speaker 1: Regent like reach in and it makes total sense. Of course,
Speaker 1: you just get used to hearing it and get used
Speaker 1: to saying it, and obviously that's you know, it's a
Speaker 1: recovery that you want to get yourself to a point
Speaker 1: where you can recover faster so you can practice better
Speaker 1: and be ready for Sunday to take on whatever team
Speaker 1: is in front of your whatever game is in front
Speaker 1: of you at that particular point. Now, a guy that
Speaker 1: has butt in the region, has butt into the program,
Speaker 1: has butt into everything. Really, it is Chris Moore. He
Speaker 1: is just I mean, it's the sweetheart of an individual.
Speaker 1: He's been playing his butt off. He had a great
Speaker 1: touchdown catch against the phildelph Eagles. He had one against
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. He has been making plays and hopefully
Speaker 1: that continues on Sunday. Why had the chance to sit
Speaker 1: out with him and discuss what happened against Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: then look ahead to go to against the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Two big plays in the game against Eagles. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about these real fast. First of all, the
Speaker 1: touchdown catch that you have, you start on the far
Speaker 1: left side, but you catch it all the way on
Speaker 1: the other side. Take me through that play and what
Speaker 1: happened on it. I was supposed I had a like
Speaker 1: a special we call a special route, so I was
Speaker 1: supposed to go through the middle and split the safeties.
Speaker 1: And then when I look back, I saw Davis scrambling,
Speaker 1: So then it turns into a scrambled drill and I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of green grass, and I'm like, if
Speaker 1: I crossed the safety's face and gets the other side,
Speaker 1: we could probably have a big play here. So just
Speaker 1: did you think Davis saw you? And when that ball
Speaker 1: started now he put some zip on that ball to
Speaker 1: a dime? Yeah, And did you know did you feel
Speaker 1: good about it even though you had it? But then
Speaker 1: as you rolled over popped up and you scooped it
Speaker 1: up real fast, did you have any thought that you
Speaker 1: know what they could have returned this thing? No, because
Speaker 1: I knew I possessed the catch all the way to
Speaker 1: the ground. Literally the only reason I came out because
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I was trying to get
Speaker 1: up with that arm right. It was just like a
Speaker 1: I guess that's just was a comfortable thing the way
Speaker 1: that my body rolled over and just tried to get
Speaker 1: out with that arm. But I had no doubt that
Speaker 1: you never know what those wrests are gonna do. But
Speaker 1: I knew if they got the right angles that they
Speaker 1: would see I possessed the catch throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 1: They don't want to go to your catch in the
Speaker 1: second half because you guys had gone down twenty one
Speaker 1: fourteen on the first down play after that, I think
Speaker 1: you caught a screen. You got to tackle the backfield.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh boy, you know this is thrown the
Speaker 1: interception they score like, oh man, it's training in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction. Then you catch that screen and what do
Speaker 1: you see what happened on that screen? Because it looked
Speaker 1: like it opened up pretty well for you. But then
Speaker 1: you had to make a move. Take me through that
Speaker 1: screen at big twenty five yard catch you had after
Speaker 1: that touchdown of the Eagles. Yeah, when I first David
Speaker 1: sent me that countermotion, I saw it was a man
Speaker 1: and I ain't gone. When I saw that, I was
Speaker 1: a little nervous because usually you don't want to run screens,
Speaker 1: especially not against the press man and that type of screen.
Speaker 1: But when I pop back and Davids stew it to me,
Speaker 1: I circled to try to circle the defender and Brav
Speaker 1: did a great job of kicking him out to give
Speaker 1: me space. And then when I turned my head and
Speaker 1: looked at field, I just saw red jerseys in front
Speaker 1: of me, so I knew, like, okay, this could be something.
Speaker 1: And LT did a great job of kicking out and
Speaker 1: beating the way. And then after that, it's just about
Speaker 1: digging againt as many yards as you can. I feel like,
Speaker 1: not only here but also in Baltimore too, there was
Speaker 1: just your knack of making big catches. I mean I
Speaker 1: remember Monday Night football you caught the fake put down
Speaker 1: the side of You have a knack from making big places.
Speaker 1: Where Where does that come from? Chris? I think it's
Speaker 1: just something I've been doing ever since I was first
Speaker 1: started playing football. I don't know, I like to be
Speaker 1: I don't think of it like intentionally, like oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a momentum sparker. But I just when I'm
Speaker 1: out there, I'm trying to make a play to help
Speaker 1: our team in any anywhere I can, and usually those
Speaker 1: big ones get us going. So you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati for college. Where'd you grow up, Tampa, Florida?
Speaker 1: Where'd you go to high school? Jefferson. Right, we want
Speaker 1: so how do you get to Well, I know the
Speaker 1: answer to this question because I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: players from Florida end up going all over the country.
Speaker 1: But why was Cincinnati for you? Oh? Well, I did
Speaker 1: a little different way. When I was getting recruited in
Speaker 1: high school, I had like a spreadsheet of every school
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to and had all these stats
Speaker 1: on it, like receiving yards, receivers, the years, the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: anything you could think of. I had it on the spreadsheet,
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati was just clicking all the things I wanted
Speaker 1: in the school. So I was like, Man, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be my best chance. I feel like to go
Speaker 1: to the NFL if I go here. Did you have
Speaker 1: any family, any friends, anybody in Sincad Just kind of no.
Speaker 1: I never even knew. I didn't didn't even know. I
Speaker 1: never even heard of Cincinnati before, Like, I didn't know, really,
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was a city or anything. Like.
Speaker 1: I just one day I got offering. Also one year,
Speaker 1: one day I saw him on TV playing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: fell in love with the Jersey's offer because they had it.
Speaker 1: That's when we had the cat scratches on the side yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's always a help. But then I really started doing
Speaker 1: my research and one on my visit and I love
Speaker 1: the city. Okay, so obviously in Cincinnati red and black.
Speaker 1: Yeah you were the red the other night. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: how'd you like those? I loved it. I was a
Speaker 1: little skeptical at first because it looks different in person,
Speaker 1: but yeah, on TV and on pitches and all that
Speaker 1: already on, it's amazing. I definitely think we need to
Speaker 1: keep those as a permanent Yeah. I think you speak
Speaker 1: the truth for a lot of people. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people love this. How are they taking the
Speaker 1: locker room? It felt like universally it's I mean, you
Speaker 1: know how NFL teams are in NFL cities are like
Speaker 1: there's always something to complain about. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I hurt anybody complain about those red jerseys. How were
Speaker 1: they taking in the locker room? Everybody liked it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like when we put it on before the game, you
Speaker 1: could feel like a different energy that like, Okay, these
Speaker 1: things are clean, like this is a this is a
Speaker 1: jersey combination we definitely need to keep. Yeah, there's no doubt,
Speaker 1: all right. Going to New York on Sunday taking on
Speaker 1: the Giants. I don't know how far you've got into
Speaker 1: looking at the remember just watching them from a far Chris,
Speaker 1: what do you think about a team that's won a
Speaker 1: lot of games in the fourth quarter, for a lot
Speaker 1: of close games. What do you think about the Giants?
Speaker 1: Wink Martin Nell guy likes to blitz a little bit.
Speaker 1: What does that mean for you and the receivers in
Speaker 1: your offense? Where you think about this one against the Giants? Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just definitely their defense has a lot of difference
Speaker 1: out of coverages and blizzers. Like you said, Um, I
Speaker 1: was with Wink in Baltimore, solid a little familiar with it.
Speaker 1: But it's just something that you gotta do your film
Speaker 1: study this week. You gotta you gotta be prepared for
Speaker 1: different hot routes and just different things to get open
Speaker 1: because that defense is gonna Blizzum. As far as as
Speaker 1: a team and hole, I feel like when it came
Speaker 1: down to the third and fourth quarter for us and
Speaker 1: we were to make the plays and anscute like we're
Speaker 1: supposed to do, we'd be in the situation they are in.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like they're a team that if
Speaker 1: we're looking at them. This is how we could be
Speaker 1: in playing this season if we just came down and
Speaker 1: one day made these plays in the end. Now, when
Speaker 1: you line up on the field, I mean we see
Speaker 1: you line up in a lot different spots, whether it's X, Y, Z,
Speaker 1: where wherever, And then you've got to know are you hot?
Speaker 1: Are you're not? All that kind of stuff? How complicated
Speaker 1: does that get during a week? Chris, especially when you
Speaker 1: face a defense that you're not accustomed to see and
Speaker 1: you haven't seen. Now you have because you've seen in
Speaker 1: practice those things. And how does that help you get
Speaker 1: ready the fact that you have seen this? But how
Speaker 1: complicated does it get? To know? Okay, I'm in this
Speaker 1: position on this particular play and now they're in this
Speaker 1: blitz or this scheme. Now I gotta adapt. Now I'm
Speaker 1: hot or now I'm not hot? How does how complicated
Speaker 1: does that get during a week? It can? It can
Speaker 1: get complicated, But I feel like Pep and Ben they
Speaker 1: do a good job of keeping it simple for us.
Speaker 1: They make rules for us. So when we're out there,
Speaker 1: if we read this coverage right and we feel the
Speaker 1: same pressure as Davis, we're gonna be on the same
Speaker 1: page and it makes it a lot easier m as
Speaker 1: far as just me seeing it personally, you get a
Speaker 1: feeling for it. And I play in a slot more so,
Speaker 1: I feel like in the slot, it's easier to feel
Speaker 1: when all that blitz is coming and you can you
Speaker 1: can sense like, oh some reason, nobody's on the inside
Speaker 1: like this pressure going. So as far as that comes,
Speaker 1: it comes, that turns into just more like back our
Speaker 1: football and stuff me and Davis I worked on in
Speaker 1: this office and just getting chemistry and timing together. When
Speaker 1: we think about a slot receiver, I think there's a
Speaker 1: stereotypical thought of this guy that's five nine hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five pounds and just kind of in and out of breaks.
Speaker 1: But you do play a lot in the slot, and
Speaker 1: you're not built that way. You're built a little differently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you still have equal success in the slot. What what
Speaker 1: makes you successful from in that particular position? Christ Um,
Speaker 1: I just think it's my knowledge of my study. I
Speaker 1: study defensive line and I know this playbook very well,
Speaker 1: so I know where I'm supposed to be at and
Speaker 1: I try to do my job as best as possible. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it also helps that I'm able to I'm
Speaker 1: fast enough to help in the screen game, and I'm
Speaker 1: big enough to help. I'm closer to the point of
Speaker 1: attack for the running game too. So I feel like,
Speaker 1: hopefully you don't say more big guys can be in
Speaker 1: the slot, because there's really no difference. Yeah, man, you
Speaker 1: know you know where you're starting to see this well.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's coming to the NFL too, but
Speaker 1: but also because slot fade is so important and you
Speaker 1: have the speed to be able to beat people with
Speaker 1: the slot fade. See a lot of college teams using
Speaker 1: that bigger guy in this lot because they get a
Speaker 1: matched up on his safety and it works that way.
Speaker 1: In the run game, you're always working. I mean I
Speaker 1: watched you pretty closely. You've been one of my favorite
Speaker 1: guys ever since Cincinnati. Man, the night that you caught
Speaker 1: that fake punt, I was so mad because I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that's my dude. I like that guy. So when you
Speaker 1: signed here, I was really excited. You know that. But
Speaker 1: you do work at all times, especially in a run game,
Speaker 1: and you have a guy like Damian Pierce. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew it's gonna be fun to block for a
Speaker 1: guy like that. But on the flip side, you probably
Speaker 1: gotta block a whole lot longer than you do maybe
Speaker 1: for some other guys. Oh can it be? I don't
Speaker 1: say difficult, but do you have to stay on that
Speaker 1: block a little bit longer knowing he might be coming
Speaker 1: my way? And if he is, it's gonna look embarrassing
Speaker 1: if I'm just kinda standing here is he's trying to
Speaker 1: break through a tackle. How much more difficult does it
Speaker 1: become to block for a guy like that because you
Speaker 1: gotta block almost six seven eight seconds the length of
Speaker 1: some of his runs. Yeah, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's any more difficult. I just think it's like you
Speaker 1: had to change in mentality when you go on in
Speaker 1: the field with him, because you, like you said, usually
Speaker 1: you block in you you could tell like the rhythm,
Speaker 1: like oh he's down, because you could feel it. But
Speaker 1: with him, he's not going down the first two three hits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep running, so you just you gotta just
Speaker 1: keep trying to extend the block. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, with the way he runs, you don't
Speaker 1: even have to really be like fully on and defended.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is keep a hand on of
Speaker 1: him and don't let them fully hit him because he's
Speaker 1: gonna break an arm tackle. Yeah, I know you played
Speaker 1: with a lot of you know, you played with Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson in Baltimore. He's a little different, but also similar
Speaker 1: in that way that baby he's not gonna take a
Speaker 1: bunch of hits, but he's gonna make a bunch of
Speaker 1: people miss and you never know when he's gonna pop out.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a similar mindset in some sets for
Speaker 1: blocking like guy like that. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean
Speaker 1: I remember my first time I ever playing with Lamar
Speaker 1: in the field, Like I didn't block long enough on
Speaker 1: a play and I all of a sudden you look
Speaker 1: back and you just see him spreading at you, so
Speaker 1: like you really have to go out there, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy's out there giving his all. He's gonna keep
Speaker 1: making this play goes, So you gotta do your best
Speaker 1: to keep making a go for him because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be running taking on the Giants on Sunday. Like we said,
Speaker 1: you seem to have this connection with Davis. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the touchdown the other day of the screen, those
Speaker 1: kind of things, you guys were a lot in the offseason,
Speaker 1: I know, working together and doing those things. How valuable
Speaker 1: did that ended up being as you got into the season, Chris,
Speaker 1: I think it's very valuable because I don't think he
Speaker 1: has to guess where I'm gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: routes anymore. I think he understands, like Chris runs his
Speaker 1: routes like this, and obviously you adjust a little bit
Speaker 1: for coverages and stuff, but it's it's a confidence between
Speaker 1: both of us, like, Oh, I know he's gonna throw
Speaker 1: it here. This is how he throws. Oh I know
Speaker 1: Chris is gonna be here. This is how he usually
Speaker 1: runs his route. So I feel like that paid off
Speaker 1: big so far. And uh, I just we just gotta
Speaker 1: keep it going. Chris. I appreciate you, Tom Man, thank
Speaker 1: you for stopping by. Thank you. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1: As I told him an interview, probably a couple of times,
Speaker 1: I almost felt like, Chris Farley, remember that time when
Speaker 1: you had that that catch on the on the punt
Speaker 1: fake against US at ty seventy. That was really really cool.
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't cool because it happened against us, But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Chris Moore fan for a while and
Speaker 1: hearing how he got to Cincinnati was very very interesting.
Speaker 1: So I love that interview. So an opportunity to chop
Speaker 1: it up with Chris here the final syr. Now we
Speaker 1: saved the final word for Drew Doherty. Everything good Friday,
Speaker 1: it goes to Drew Dorty, as it should, and of
Speaker 1: course this week it's Damien Pierce with Drew Doherty. They
Speaker 1: played Jenga earlier and now they're talking ball. Here for
Speaker 1: a final word, Drew take it away. Running back Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce joins us now to preview the Texans at Giants.
Speaker 1: Great to see it and was glad to glad that
Speaker 1: you're with us. How was the little mini by that
Speaker 1: you guys had after playing a Thursday night against the
Speaker 1: even That was amazing. My body needed that, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's well refreshed, ready to go. Half some time to
Speaker 1: you know, I want to think about me anybody. We
Speaker 1: had no more time to think about the loss. But
Speaker 1: you know, turn around, turn around, come back. We came
Speaker 1: back on Monday. We got back at it and you
Speaker 1: know we're ready to go play some ball man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've had a nice, very nice start to the first
Speaker 1: half of your rookie season. What are you looking to
Speaker 1: accomplish the second half. I'm just trying to get better
Speaker 1: and better every week. I try to find something to
Speaker 1: work on and trying to implement it. Any game, just
Speaker 1: try to look better than I did the week before,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be a trend. I want to,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully continue to do. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What's that little thing if you want to peek behind
Speaker 1: the curtain and you're trying to get better, just discipline.
Speaker 1: Just just been with my eyes, with my steps, with
Speaker 1: my reads, being more involved in the past game, being
Speaker 1: more involved without the ball. Just a little stuff, man,
Speaker 1: you know, always working. I hear it. You know you
Speaker 1: can talk about being involved without the ball. One of
Speaker 1: the things we saw in your college tape excellent blocker,
Speaker 1: great at catching the ball in the back of it.
Speaker 1: We knew about, you know, the violence when you run.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this giant team. They blitz a lot.
Speaker 1: When when when other teams are throwing the ball, they
Speaker 1: blitz about forty three percent of the time on us.
Speaker 1: What's that mean for you? That just means I gotta
Speaker 1: be signed a petition. Make sure Demili got time to
Speaker 1: make plays because when they blitz, you know, they get
Speaker 1: a little limited on the back end of what they
Speaker 1: can do with coverage, So it should be an easy
Speaker 1: read for meals as long as we just make sure
Speaker 1: we do our job up front and give them time
Speaker 1: no doubt. And you talk about David Smells, he brought
Speaker 1: up when he was asking kind of the same question
Speaker 1: the importance of playing well against blitz. He said, Hey,
Speaker 1: at times, I gotta be able to check into a
Speaker 1: run and let us gash them with Pierce. What's that
Speaker 1: mean when you hear something like that, that just means,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta be situation situationally aware, just like
Speaker 1: de Milli. You know, he's a quarterback. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a captain of my team. So the day we're gonna
Speaker 1: rally behind him and make sure like whatever call he may,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure it's right. But uh, like he
Speaker 1: was saying, uh, you know, we just got to be
Speaker 1: able to check into things. That's gonna be at our advantage,
Speaker 1: like when they blitzed, Like when they do something that
Speaker 1: they like to do, that's getting something that we like
Speaker 1: to do. We talk about or we hear you guys
Speaker 1: talking about finishing and it's very very important. It's been
Speaker 1: a struggle in the fourth quarter. But Lovey Smith is
Speaker 1: always quick to say, well, Damian Pearce. He finishes talking
Speaker 1: about your running style and everything. When you hear that,
Speaker 1: how much do you think that can kind of bleed
Speaker 1: over to the rest of your teammates to what stuff
Speaker 1: you're doing. When I hear stuff like that, man, that
Speaker 1: just means like I might be doing something right. But
Speaker 1: I can do a little mom finish a little mom,
Speaker 1: go a little harder, run a little harder. You know,
Speaker 1: anything I can do to motivate my teammates, or said
Speaker 1: the Zapple, I'll do it. You know, hey, get by, okay,
Speaker 1: shout out to coach love you know, great coach and
Speaker 1: he always telling me, man, just finished, man, playballs. Just
Speaker 1: go out there and have fun. And um, that's what
Speaker 1: I think he wanted this football team to do. So
Speaker 1: as long as we go out there, playball, show up.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like we're gonna come out
Speaker 1: on talk. I know you're you're wanting everybody wants more wins,
Speaker 1: but how much fun are you because it looks like
Speaker 1: you're having a great time when you're out there. Fine, right,
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. You know this is what you've been
Speaker 1: drinking of every since he was in peewee League. So
Speaker 1: just to be here and just playing in an atmosphere
Speaker 1: every week, you know, it's a blessing man looking forward
Speaker 1: to playing in the Big Apple. Oh yeah, I ain't
Speaker 1: up been in New York. They'll go play some bio
Speaker 1: made all right, Damian Pierce. It's always good to be
Speaker 1: with you. Best of luck against the Giant's best of
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the season. Thank you, Drew. There
Speaker 1: is DP thirty one to a little Damian Pierce, a
Speaker 1: little Chris more some Houston Methodist minutes talking region. It's
Speaker 1: a great way to close this Friday show. And hopefully
Speaker 1: wherever you are, it's starting to get cool, maybe not raining,
Speaker 1: but cool and cooling off. We needed to cool off.
Speaker 1: I like some days in the sixties, but we need
Speaker 1: the Texans to get hot on Sunday against the New
Speaker 1: York Football Giants up in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to be there. A lot of people to thank
Speaker 1: for tonight's show. Gotta start with Drew Doherty and Damian Pierce,
Speaker 1: Chris Moore with the surprise visit there at the end
Speaker 1: the great doctors from Houston Methodist, Mark Vanimir, Lovey Smith,
Speaker 1: Madeline Burt from the Giants, and of course our good
Speaker 1: friend Deep City. Everybody back at six ten for making
Speaker 1: sure that I stay on the air. But mostly it's
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys out there listening. You guys are
Speaker 1: the reason that we do this. You're you're the reason
Speaker 1: that we get to infotain about this team, football, the NFL,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. You are the best and we
Speaker 1: appreciate it so very much. Thank you, and we'll see
Speaker 1: you next time, hopefully after a Texans win on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans.