WEBVTT - What's next in Jacksonville? | Texans All Access 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome in Texans All Access, the Players Edition. We have 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.680 a jam pack show today. You're also going to hear 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.760 from Jimmy Ward on the Shuffle with Chase b and 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.160 we have our good buddy you see him on the sidelines. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.600 John Harris is going to be joining us. But first 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.320 Mark Vandermer, the Voice, and myself. We catch up with 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:19.400 Eric Murray. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.560 In studio with us. Now it's Eric Murray, Texans Safety. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:23.640 Eric. How's it going today? 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:24.400 Doing well? 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:24.919 Doing well? 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:26.079 All right, great to have you in. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:26.480 All right. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.440 So it's Tuesday, it's players day off. You guys do 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.920 a lot of stuff in the community, do a lot 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.040 of region rehab, whatever you're re ing. So how do 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.839 you usually spend Tuesday because it's an off day for 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.640 you technically, but there's really no off day during the season, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.000 is there. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.559 No, it's not typically start today off. Just take my 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.320 kids in school now on break right now, so I 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.000 didn't have to do that today. Just come in, get 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.879 some needles, do some red light therapy, get massage, just 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.160 to work out the kings from the game, and just 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.440 get ready for the week. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.120 When you go through your rehab process. You talked about 0:00:58.120 --> 0:00:58.560 red light. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.680 The massage is more or contingent on how you feel 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.759 or regardless on Tuesday, this is your set plan. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.480 Yeah, this week the week sometimes your foot get stepped 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.920 on or you might take a different hit. So whatever 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.959 you're feel in for that week, just make sure you 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.840 can kind of configure your plan to fit that. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:14.440 Now. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.480 I know, you know, my last year was in two 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.080 thousand and eight, so I'm an old man, so I 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.319 know massage, I know the needles, you know, but the 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.279 red light explain that to me, and some of them. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.760 It's more on a cellular level, trying to kind of 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.760 facilitate healing from that standpoint. So you know, as we 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.360 go through life, we're influenced by lights, some like you know, sunset, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.440 So that's kind of the idea behind it, in these 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.240 different forms of light to help heal the body from 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:41.040 inside out. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.360 Well, this is interesting, all right. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.160 And the needles, it's kind of acupuncture ish. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.480 Yeah, it's dry kneeling, the needles a little bigger. It's 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.680 a little bigger, so it's more of a a more 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.680 of a palpitation rather than acupuncture. Is like needle and 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.800 then you kind of rest and you know, sit there. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.440 So does that hurt? 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.160 I actually had this done once, indeed, because I had 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.160 a foot problem playing basketball and Jeremy, one of the 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.560 guys in there, he said, we'll try the needle and 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.320 I was like, I'm not gonna look, and it does. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.239 You know, it feels interesting like there's a needle in 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:13.720 your foot. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.720 Okay, So you go through this a lot. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.200 Yeah, it really anything that happens like right away, it 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.200 helps alleviate it pretty fast, so you can kind of 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.600 sense like if it worked or not right away. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.680 Are they hitting the nerve or something and knocking it 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:27.600 out or not? 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.040 Really the nerve more more so the muscle. They try 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.440 to avoid the nerves, but you know, sometimes things happen, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:33.920 so I. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.000 Think it's a big distraction. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.240 I got a needle in me, so I don't feel 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.040 the other thing anymore. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.000 I'm feeling the needle definitely. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.880 So a lot of guys like for me, you listen 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.120 to the older guys. Brian Dawkins, you know, he really 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.280 talked to me and taught me about cold tub hot 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.960 tub when you were first in the league. Was there 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.120 an older vet that you looked up to that kind 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.000 of talked about this rehab process we're not rehabbing. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.600 Yeah, more so when I got I got drafted by 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.960 Kansas City, So I follow it Bury around a lot, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.560 just watching him. How he, you know, took care of 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.720 himself a lot of epsom, salt baths, a lot of sauna, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.600 and like you said, a lot of hot and cold 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.960 tough therapy. He was religious with that stuff because he, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.760 you know, he played a physical game, so he had 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.680 to take care of himself throughout the week, all right. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.280 So, Eric, at this point of the year, and maybe 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.960 earlier in the year too, when you practice, is it 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.880 more mental or physical right now? Because you want to 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.200 maintain your body, maintain your energy for the game day. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.520 But you got to learn the schemes and whatever else 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.600 you guys need to learn x's and those. Wise, how 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.040 does that go for your practice? 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.560 It's more it's a little bit of both, honestly. I 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.800 think in the beginning of the season, like you, like 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.000 you said, you're preparing, getting the body ready. But as 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.440 you begin to taper down, I want to keep the 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.440 mind as sharp as possible, but you want to keep 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.000 the body as fresh as possible too, So it's a 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:49.760 healthy balance. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.520 When you talk to some of the younger guys, Obviously, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.760 the ebbs and flows of a season ups and downs. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.000 I'm sure right now you know after the loss is 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.920 feeling down, like, what are some of the things that 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.200 you're telling the younger guy to keep the spirits up 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.839 and let him know the big picture, the ultimate goal 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:04.840 is still in reach. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.400 You got to take a game by game still like 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.640 you know, at the top of our division and very 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.920 much control our destiny. So continue to come out and 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.400 put together consistent performances against our remaining schedule, and that's 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:18.520 that's all you can really do. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.800 Is it a weird situation because we've only had this 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.280 maybe once, maybe twice, really only once in the history 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.000 of the franchise where you have this kind of cushion 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.280 and you have a two game lead, but you don't 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.839 want to see that evaporate either, do you guys think 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.800 about that kind of stuff. You know that you're that 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.560 you're in the lead, but you know the job's not 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:36.200 done yet. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.920 I think just from what we've seen throughout throughout last week, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.200 you just got to come out and play every Sunday. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.359 It's you know, I think Kansas City what won by 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.960 three points against the Panthers, so's you know, you got 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.800 to come out there and play a best ball every Sunday, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.880 and you never know, however somebody's feeling that day, how 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.479 they prepare it that week. It's the NFL, so you 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.359 got to come ready. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:04:58.719 You know. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.960 He's a good guy to ask. I'm going back a 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.520 couple of weeks. But I've always thought that the fans 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.200 buy into certain rivalries more so than the players. With 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.000 you not being from Texas and I'm going back a 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.000 couple of weeks for you, was the Dallas Cowboy game 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.919 just another game which is important? Or was there a 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.880 little added umph to it? 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.080 Like you said, I'm not from here, so I can 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.200 only get the sentiment I get from other people who 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.320 was born in Texas, you know. So I feel like 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.279 even if it's a lot of people who live in 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.160 Houston that might be Dallas fans, and then it might 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.680 be a smaller percentage of people who live in Dallas 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.919 who might be Houston fans. So I just tried to 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.640 catch the vibe from them to see, you know, how things. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.880 Went okay, okay, because when I played in Philadelphia and 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.120 I grew up in San Antonio, they hated Dallas. So 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.800 you know, they're like, we don't care what happens, just 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.159 be the Cowboys, and part of me was like, I 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.720 just want to win every game, Like I don't care 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.200 that much who were playing. So I just did you 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.120 know you're from Wisconsin, right, Yeah, so guy from Wisconsin. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.840 You know, I just want to get your film Cowboy week. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.520 So coach Rymes was in here yesterday, Eric Eric Murray 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.880 joining us, and he talked about the team meeting, and 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.840 we talked about the twenty four hour rule, but he 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.880 said this week, I might let it sit a little 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.440 longer because that one really hurt. But you wanted to 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.279 kind of motivate you at the same time, How do 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:16.760 you see that? And how is the team meeting? What 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.000 can you tell the listeners about that? 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.520 Anyway, Like you said, the sentiments was it was an 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.960 embarrassing loss for us. I think we all as an 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.039 organization and as a whole, we have a high expectation 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.640 of what we want to accomplish this year. So you 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.719 just lay that out and be transparent about it, and 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.920 you know, look yourself in the mirror and find ways 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:35.360 to improve. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.520 So you know, I'm gonna question you on that because 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.760 I'm of the belief it's tough to win in the 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.760 NFL every week, So why did you use the word embarrassing? 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.200 Uh? 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.839 I use that word mainly because of I think the 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.880 expectation we set for ourselves coming out in the season, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.479 with the acquisitions that we had over the summer and 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.040 stuff like that, So we felt like our ceiling was 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:01.440 up here. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:01.760 Right. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.040 So I think. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.000 As the season has progressed and some of the losses 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.760 we took, I think our outlook looks a little different 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.600 and it's just going forward. How do we continue to 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:14.440 get better and grow? 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:15.240 All right? 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:16.920 Good answer. I like that a lot. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.480 Playing Jacksonville on Sunday and these guys, you're in the 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.200 division again. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.760 You haven't been on the road in. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.240 The division since opening day, and I don't know if 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.080 that's a big factor or not, but you're on natural 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.080 grass in the division. They're coming off a buy and 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.160 they're gonna be hungry even though they don't have a 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.680 lot of victories. What do you see on Sunday? How 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:35.600 do you see this matchup? 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.080 Division games always tough. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.120 Like I said, it's any given Sunday, and you always 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.679 got to prepare that week for that team. So Tennessee 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.520 got us last week. We moving on the Jags and 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.040 you know we're going to do our best prepared this 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:47.960 week and get it up. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.800 Speaking of preparation, you're a pros pro. I can just 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.240 tell obviously you don't last in along this long, last 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.560 in the league this long without being pros pro and 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.440 the way you take care of your body. But as 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.440 you prepare for this game, when you watch film at home, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.440 like what do you watch? You watch the receiver's movements? 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.640 Do you watching formations? Like what do you look at? 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:07.800 Really? 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.040 I try to go look at other teams that duplicate 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.920 the same defense we have. So if they play the 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.160 Colts or something like that, we might have the same 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.000 front and then we might play the same coverages on 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.240 the back end. So just look at how they attack 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.480 those coverages, and I guess what that coordinator likes to 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.840 do against that certain tree of defense, do you? 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.160 So you look more big picture and not so much 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.160 individual receiving running back. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:33.640 But I mean, at the end of the day, it's 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.439 like a coordinator. He has tendencies and what he likes 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:37.800 to do at the end of the day. So like 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.600 the people out there, yes they matter, but he gonna 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.920 call what he's gonna call in those crucial situations. So 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.720 if you privy to those situations. I think you can, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.600 you know, make some hairl on those plays. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.960 Eric Murray with us when you're on the road. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.520 For you guys on the defensive side, the crowd has 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.000 to be quiet or should be quiet for their offense 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.800 so they can communicate. Does that help you guys communicating? 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.480 The way the crowd getting into a bit of a 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.079 hush while their offensive. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:05.280 Oper definitely helps in communication. But you, I think you 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.000 still need that energy to feed on defense, so you 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.199 just have to bring it yourself. But communication will be 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.040 at an all time high, and we make some plays 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.400 so we'll get the energy up there too. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.559 Because at home, you guys have signals and stuff like that, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.560 because it does get loud while you're trying to communicate. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:18.839 For sure. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.360 So we just you know, do the best you can 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.240 and the crowd to help us out a little bit 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:23.800 in that regard. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.559 All right, cool, I've got the Hot Takes brought to 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.040 you by Campbell's Trucky Soup soup that eats like a meal. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.920 Be sure to pick up the new Nashville style hot 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.080 Chicken soup at Kroger today. All Right, never mind hot chicken, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.679 I'm talking Thanksgiving here, all right, Eric and I know 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.840 that you guys have worked to do this week, but 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.240 what will you do about Thanksgiving? 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.240 Can you share with us what your plans might be. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.600 I don't like Friday turkey on my own, so I 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:47.959 do like a big air fighter. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:49.559 It's like a I. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.280 Can't remember the name of the oven, but I try 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.240 to get a big air fire and I air fright 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:53.959 the whole turkey. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.440 Wow, how long does that take to air fry the turkey? 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.720 It don't really take that long. Really take about like 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.120 two hours. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.560 So I typically I'm in the garage, you know, in 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.880 the garage by myself, trying to do my best to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.280 be an adult. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.079 Yeah, all right, do you season it the night before? 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.080 Yeah? 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.640 I like dry Brian, and then I injected with some 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.000 what is it, Tony sack sack the honey creole butter. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.199 So yeah, I just do that and cook at. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.280 The next That sounds good. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.200 I'm gonna come to your hands, just enjoy myself. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.800 So that sounds good, all right, But if you had to, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.320 and I've been throwing this question around, Nick Caserio, Demiko, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.040 Ryan's everybody we're talking to this week, you have to 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.800 replace turkey with something else? What other main dish would 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.760 you serve, you're putting turkey on waivers and now you 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.080 need to replace turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner and Indy 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.000 I want your answer also, so go ahead there. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:44.920 That's a hard one. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.440 And you know what's funny, I really don't eat turkey 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:53.080 unless it's on things. See, so it's it's probably some 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.920 type of I mean, you just gotta go chicken. I 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.480 think that's the easier answer. Russian and have a little 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.760 bit more uh variability with seasonings and stuff like that. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.839 Se Demico said, Ham, what do you saying? 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.679 Oxtail? Okay? 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.360 Really, now, I guess chicken because it's big, a different pieces, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.920 so similar to a turkey, but the best better. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.240 I gotta go oxtail. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.040 Okay, that's the main that's that's coming out of left field. Okay, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.640 I like that. See that. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.120 See I want a national campaign to replace turkey with brisket. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.680 See I think if you serve brisket on Thanksgiving, everybody's 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:31.880 gonna get really excited. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.199 Answer right there, Yeah, yeah, that's not Wisconsin. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.559 Wisconsin would be pot roast something like that. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.120 Maybe I've had the wrong brisket, but it just seems 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:42.720 dry to me. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.480 Oh, you're going to the wrong places. Might Who do 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.280 we have in the stadium here? Truth, they're good and 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.600 there are many other good ones. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.320 Okay, yeah, okay, real quick favorite side? 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:56.480 No, no, go ahead. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.000 I already gave my take on his dressing dressing stuff 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:00.880 and that's what that's. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.520 My wait in Wisconsin. Do you call it dressing or stuffing? 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.400 Well, most of my family is from the South, so 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.760 oh yeah, that's right, call it dressing dressing. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:08.080 Yeah. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.880 See, I grew up in the North. I called stuffing. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:10.480 What about you? 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:11.920 Is that your favorite site? 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.840 There's no question it's the best, But you got it 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.400 can't be too dry. If it's too dry, I'm like, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:18.360 give me the gravy. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.600 I gotta you know. And that guys, some cranberry sauce. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.000 You good cranberry sauce. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.640 Yeah, he kind of tapped into my answers. The cranberry 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.320 sauce on the Hawaiian Rolls's that's that's now we're getting 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:29.559 hungry here exactly. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.480 All right, Eric, thanks so much for joining us. Good 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:32.640 luck this week at Jacksonville. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.600 Keep up the great work, brother. That was your safety. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.960 Eric Murray in studio with Mark and myself, We're gonna 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.440 catch up with John Harris to talk all things Houston, Texans. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.880 That's next here on Texans All Access. Welcome in Texans 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.240 All Access players. Addition, I am in dy Kalu. He 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.000 is Mark VanderMeer, the guy you see on the sideline 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.000 and you hear him throughout. John Harris joining us. All right, guys, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.320 seven and five living record, still send a time. Yes, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.880 but things don't feel good right now. I want to 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:05.640 get y'all's take. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.760 Things don't feel good. Let's see you don't feel good 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.880 coming off the loss. I feel like there's still a 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:16.400 remarkable opportunity here because there is. Factually, there's a remarkable opportunity, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.120 and they just got to get it right. I mean, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.640 Demiko in the press conference yesterday, and I think too 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.480 many people this is a side note here on press conferences. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.240 I get it, that's all you got. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.280 They're gonna pick apart everything he says, especially postgame. Come on, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.679 this is not the State of the Union address, all right, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.880 and I guess it is for the football team week 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.200 to week. But at the same time, he's not going 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.400 to tell you exactly what he's thinking, exactly what he's 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.520 telling the players, exactly what he's talking to with Bobby 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.040 slowick about he's not going to reveal all that stuff, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.720 but he talks about some of the positive things they're doing. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.160 And I know people don't want to hear. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.439 That, but they're making some sensational plays. If they cut 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.800 the mistakes by twenty five percent or a third, my gosh, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.959 what they could be. So they got to get it done. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.880 I still think they have the chance to get it done, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.840 don't they, He says rhetorically. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.920 Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't even know if it's rhetorically. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.480 I mean, I think the question has to be asked 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.000 because because they're not finishing games. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.560 Five interceptions against Detroit. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.360 You lost eight sacks, a pick six, and two fumble 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:28.200 recoveries against the Titans and lost. So this team has 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.720 in some sense, sort of I don't know the right 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.040 way of saying, it lost its way in winning games 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.560 and finishing those games. Now, Green Bay one of the 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.200 better teams in the league. He lost on the last 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.680 second field goal, right Detroit Argua with the best team 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.040 in the league. He lost the last second field goal. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.760 You went to New York, and that's the New York game. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.400 Is the one that's kind of like the head turner, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.120 Like I could if you would have said to me, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.440 the Texans are going to lose to either Jets or Titans, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.800 I would have thought probably the Titans. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.600 Really, it's a division game. It's a weird game. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.240 And I always go back to this and Indy, you 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.840 know this better than anybody. If you haven't, if you 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.040 have a weakness and the other team has a strength 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.240 at that particular weakness, it's gonna get exploited. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.400 In this league, there's no doubt. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.120 They've got Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat sitting over there, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.440 and I don't even think it matters who's over there 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.680 on the Texas side. That's a massive figuratively and literally 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.680 advantage for the Titans. And that is what they are 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.600 able to take advantage of those two guys inside because 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.720 they shut down the run game completely and then the 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.960 quarterback ends up playing like the guy they thought they 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.840 were drafting. So I would have thought, yeah, Titans, I 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.440 could see it. It's the Jets game that bothers me. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.160 It's still because it's like they had to come up 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.400 with two miracle catches too, one handed catches. It's Aaron Rodgers. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.600 Look at the Jets. The Jets are a mess. But 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.240 we played them on a short week beat up after 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.160 the Colts game. No excuse, but you don't want the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.160 digs injury at that point. I just think there's been 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.960 a there's a game every now and again where you 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.440 just go, Godly, you gotta shake your head, like, but 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.480 those games in which you have five interceptions and eight 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.360 sacks of pick six and two Folmbel recoveries and you 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:22.360 don't win either one at home, Like, something's bizarre world 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.480 in that now're trying to figure that out. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.000 Do you all take any comfort? Because there's always this 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.400 thought like if if we're a Detroit fan, you're excited 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.320 about what Detroit is doing, but then you're wondering, are 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 we peek into early? You know, if you're a Baltimore fan, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.560 you might be saying the same thing. Is there any comfort, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.080 And I'm not suggesting there should be that you have 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.480 confidence that they fixed the issues, but they're still going 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.440 to be in a place where they're going to the playoffs, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.880 they're going to win the division, and by the time 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.040