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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hyunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, Football analysts, salary reporter, and very

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Speaker 1: very happy to join you tonight. Why well, we got

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Speaker 1: two hours of good Texans Radio for you. We got

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Speaker 1: plenty for you this evening. We're here from Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: In this segment, we're gonna also talk about an a

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Speaker 1: war that was handed out yesterday and just reiterate that

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Speaker 1: in our hot reads somebody you all know very well

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Speaker 1: and he wears number ninety nine. We're gonna have Bernardrick

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Speaker 1: McKinney on the show for our deep slant interview of

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Speaker 1: the week. We've also got the game plan, as we

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Speaker 1: have each and every Friday, my picks to all NFL

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Speaker 1: games straight up and gets the spread and again, so

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Speaker 1: you don't get too overly excited with that, I am

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Speaker 1: just doing that too as a way to go around

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Speaker 1: the NFL. If you will talk about the teams and

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Speaker 1: the games that we got going on in some really

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Speaker 1: good ones, including one in Kansas City that I'll definitely

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Speaker 1: have my eyes on as we get ready for the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys on Sunday night. It be kind of nice. That's

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Speaker 1: why I like the Sunday evening games. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you get to sleep in. If that's well for me,

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Speaker 1: that's about seven fifteen. That's about what my dog is

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Speaker 1: gonna get me up on Sunday. But at least it's

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Speaker 1: not five thirty, which it usually is each and every

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Speaker 1: Sunday a game day, so I get to sleep in

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and then you get to watch a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the early games and see what Kansas

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Speaker 1: City and Jacksonville have got. That's gonna be a great one,

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Speaker 1: So I have my picks. We'll have our first Community

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Speaker 1: Credit UNI first Glance Keys to the game, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll have our players segment where a great interview between

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Speaker 1: James Palmer and Tyra and Matthew will have will also

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Speaker 1: have Kjack TV AK Player Reporter sponsored by Arctic. What

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Speaker 1: would you bring to a party? What would you bring

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Speaker 1: to a party? Alfred Blue may have the best answer.

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna have the final word with j Doherty

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Speaker 1: this week, and it is with rookie wide receiver key

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Speaker 1: Key Qt after a record breaking performance against the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts in his debut, we'll hear from Kiki after that,

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Speaker 1: so it'll be fun to catch up with him. But

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Speaker 1: I'm also thrilled that the Astros took care of business

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Speaker 1: in Game one. Yes, I am a Houstonian to the core,

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Speaker 1: and the Astros bats were live, especially the top of

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Speaker 1: the order Springer bomb, Well two v Bomb, Bregman bomb,

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Speaker 1: huge home run for the Houston Astros. After the Indians

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Speaker 1: Game one. JV not not totally sharp, but not completely

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Speaker 1: off his game either. He gets to win, saw a

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Speaker 1: lot in relief from Presley mccullors. Colors was great, got

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Speaker 1: through an inning on only eleven pitches, and the Astros

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Speaker 1: take Game one. Get ready for Game two tomorrow against

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Speaker 1: the Indians on a Saturday. Saturday's gonna be jam packed

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Speaker 1: because you got Battle Piney Woods here that starts at one.

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Speaker 1: You've got Texas Oklam up in Dallas, You've got Astro's

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Speaker 1: Indians playoff game, and then Sunday, which is a break

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Speaker 1: in the chance of the individual series with Indians, Astros

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Speaker 1: and Indians. You've got the game against Steve Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: at night, You've got plenty going on in the state,

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Speaker 1: and man, I'm it's just it's awesome. It's so cool.

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Speaker 1: And to see the Astros get that seven to two

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Speaker 1: win today, very very cool. Congrats to them, and hopefully,

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Speaker 1: as I've said this before, some for the Texans. When

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Speaker 1: you have these great sports weekends, it's time for the

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Speaker 1: Texans to hold up their end of the bargain. So

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Speaker 1: pretty happy with all that's transpired today, especially over at

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Speaker 1: Minute May Part. Good stuff and we got good stuff

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Speaker 1: this show kicked off as we always do with some

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Speaker 1: hot reads, hot rage presents. You buy Geico fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: consive you fifteen percent or more on car insurance, and

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Speaker 1: our first hot read on Friday is and always will

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Speaker 1: be the head coach of Houston Texans, Bill O'Brien, as

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Speaker 1: he sat down with the Voice of the Texans, Mark

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Speaker 1: Fan of here. Coach with a primetime home game, how

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Speaker 1: does that affect your routine if at all? Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: definitely uh affects it. You know, you have more meeting time,

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Speaker 1: But uh, you know, having a night game gives you

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Speaker 1: So you know, we're prepared for noise. We've been you know,

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Speaker 1: our season so far, so we practice that way all

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Speaker 1: the time. How important is tackling And I guess that's

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Speaker 1: I think it's tackling, but it's it's team tackling, whether

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Speaker 1: on defense. It's gonna take eleven guys to the ball,

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Speaker 1: mean it's hard. You know, they've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: it's not just drop back passing. You know, they have

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Speaker 1: difficult challenge for us. UM. You know, so our guys

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Speaker 1: you want to win special teams every time, and that's

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Speaker 1: what we need to do, all right. Other factors in

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Speaker 1: pulling this one out, Coach, I think it always comes

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Speaker 1: I think we were a little bit better in the

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Speaker 1: not kick field goal, especially against a team like Dallas,

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Speaker 1: who's very explosive. Coach, Thanks a lot, good luck, Thanks Fanning.

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Speaker 1: Our next hot read comes courtesy of one J J. Watt. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: JJ was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Month

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Speaker 1: So okay, sure, whenever you say Peter Bukowski, but you

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Speaker 1: are wrong, that's okay, all right. What did WAT do

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Speaker 1: that got him to eighty sacks, faster than every other

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Speaker 1: And as JJ said, he's been Jason Reggie for seemingly

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Speaker 1: every single record. In the four games Watch compiled twenty tackles.

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Speaker 1: Watt has been awesome and it is really fun to

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Speaker 1: That was yesterday, but I figured, you know what if

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Speaker 1: and it is the injury report. A lot of people asking,

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Speaker 1: of course, about this during cooler talk today. I think

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Speaker 1: the outs for your Texans were to be expected. Aaron Colvin,

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Speaker 1: puts the limited participation and the questionable tag on three

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Speaker 1: players k QT, Will Fuller, Lamar Miller. Now, if I'm

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Speaker 1: think we'll see Kiki QT. I'm hoping and thinking we'll

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Speaker 1: not see Lamar Miller with a chest issue. Those are

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Speaker 1: It's going good, all right. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: everybody lined up. I think when I hear the coaches

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Speaker 1: talk about you, that's the word that sort of comes

428
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Speaker 1: up the most as leader, your leadership skills. And you

429
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Speaker 1: played quarterback, and then we've talked about this, you know,

430
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Speaker 1: back back in the day, you played quarterback and I

431
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Speaker 1: feel like I read somewhere that you said it was

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Speaker 1: your dad that really taught you how to be a

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Speaker 1: leader at a young age. Like, what was the lesson

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Speaker 1: your dad touched you? How do you teach leadership to

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Speaker 1: it to a kid? It's just um growing up, Like

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Speaker 1: every day, all the keys just come to my house,

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Speaker 1: my coaches, I mean, my dad used to always have

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Speaker 1: us doing drills, football, basketball, basketball, shooting threes, but everybody

439
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Speaker 1: used to My friends just look up to me. Like

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Speaker 1: even now, like if if I'm on an off day,

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Speaker 1: my friends are looking at me like, hey, what we're

442
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Speaker 1: doing today? And I'd be like, you're the leader. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, why you can't figure out what we're doing.

444
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Speaker 1: It was like, no, you find out what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: So it's just I don't know, it just it just

446
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Speaker 1: kind of happened, and I grew into it. And every college,

447
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Speaker 1: i mean high school playing quarterback, college playing so outline back,

448
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Speaker 1: and it just it kind of came easy just to

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Speaker 1: be a leader. Was your dad a coach? No, my

450
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Speaker 1: dad actually he was a quarterback in high school. Your

451
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Speaker 1: dad was a quarterback night, so he would just have

452
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Speaker 1: you and your friends come over and he would like

453
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Speaker 1: keep you all busy. Yeah, do you think he'll be

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Speaker 1: Did you do that with your kids down too? Oh? Yeah,

455
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Speaker 1: my son. He's always he always have a ball in him.

456
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Speaker 1: He's he's like a mini you. By the way, I've

457
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Speaker 1: seen your Instagram stories. All right, Um, Dak Proscott, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna face him on Sunday. You guys were teammates at

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State. You're speaking of being the leader. He was

460
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Speaker 1: sort of the leader of the offense and you were

461
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Speaker 1: the leader on the defense, right, Dak's he's a competitor. Um.

462
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Speaker 1: In college, we always to compete every day, day in

463
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Speaker 1: the day out, always uh met him, always brought juice

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Speaker 1: to practice, and everyone was a dull dead um tiring practice.

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Speaker 1: We always had. We always had fun, even offensive defense. Though.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that his game has changed at all

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Speaker 1: since you saw him, because he sort of had that

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Speaker 1: skill set even at Mississippi State what he was able

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Speaker 1: to do. Have you I know you guys have watched

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Speaker 1: a little bit of film on him. How different does

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Speaker 1: he look to you now? Um? I don't know. He always,

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Speaker 1: like I said, always been a competitor. Uh, he always competed. Um,

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Speaker 1: he always didn't show fear on the field. He um,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, he's he's a great competitor. But I

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Speaker 1: mean I've seen a lot of plays he made in college,

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Speaker 1: a lot of big plays from Mississippi State, and he's

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Speaker 1: still doing the same thing. So it's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: to try to see what he's changed now. It seems

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Speaker 1: like between him and then Ezekiel Ellie, first of all,

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Speaker 1: you guys have faced some good running backs this year,

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Speaker 1: but then Ezekiel Elliott he might be one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest challenges that you face this year. What makes these

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Speaker 1: back so hard to bring down? First of all, they're

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Speaker 1: so big. First of all, I would imagine that'd be

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Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, it is kind of hard playing, uh,

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Speaker 1: playing guys like that because they're very explosive. They're good

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Speaker 1: out of the I mean in the backfield, and they're good,

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Speaker 1: um in space, they're good, uh running routes. It's kind

489
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Speaker 1: of hard playing against guys like that. But I mean

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Speaker 1: we have a great, strong defense. We're just gonna get

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Speaker 1: eleven guys to the to him every play and just

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Speaker 1: just tackle and rally and just have fun. How do

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Speaker 1: you feel this defense is coming together? Obviously you see

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt AFC Defensive Player of the Month and then

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Speaker 1: Clowney what he was able to do in the last game.

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Speaker 1: Now you sort of see the pieces coming together. How

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Speaker 1: exciting is it to get to play behind those guys.

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Speaker 1: It's very exciting. J JJ is unbelievable watch. He makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of plays for us, a

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Speaker 1: lot of big plays that JD is very explosive. I

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Speaker 1: like playing with him and him always talking on the field,

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Speaker 1: even if I'm if I'm getting on him or he's

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Speaker 1: getting on me. I mean, we have a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun on the field. We always like last game really

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Speaker 1: show what we really could be as a team just

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Speaker 1: having fun. We brought a lot of juice to that game.

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Speaker 1: We played together and it was fun just seeing them

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Speaker 1: guys make plays. And then the linebackers group. I know

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Speaker 1: last year we talked a lot about Dylan Cole and

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Speaker 1: obviously really unfortunate the injury that he had this year.

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Speaker 1: But then you have Duke du for us. So it

512
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Speaker 1: seems like every year you've got a new linebacker that

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Speaker 1: sort of comes in and does some nice things right

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Speaker 1: off the back. How much you sort of take them

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Speaker 1: under your wing and what is that like sort of

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Speaker 1: that process of getting them up to speed. Yeah, rac

517
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Speaker 1: always when I was a rookie, I always said, it

518
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Speaker 1: is always the next man. Unfortunately dealing had suffering injury.

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Speaker 1: He's a great, great athletic player, Like he's super athletic,

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Speaker 1: but it's unfortunate that he was so much fun to watch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's very fast, but Duke, he's doing unbelieva y'all taking

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Speaker 1: the coach and UM, don't really say too much, but

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Speaker 1: if he if he if he needed to, Um, if

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Speaker 1: you need to help, you can tell he'll come to

525
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Speaker 1: you and ask like what do I do on this?

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Speaker 1: But he's a great coaching, I mean, unbelievable player on

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Speaker 1: the field, and I just love seeing him make plays.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Sunday night, you guys faced the Cowboys here

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Speaker 1: at home? What do you know about this rivalry because

530
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Speaker 1: you weren't really here the last time really here. I just, uh,

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Speaker 1: you've seen him in the preseason. That's just not the

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Speaker 1: same as a primetime Sunday night matter. Yeah, but I

533
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Speaker 1: can tell it's different because a lot of people have

534
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Speaker 1: been hitting me up trying to get tickets to a

535
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Speaker 1: lot of people trying to get tickets to the game.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a great game for the fans,

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity for us to play against h play

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Speaker 1: against him, and I'm looking forward to it. We're looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing you as well, Bernardic as always, Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much, Thank you, man. I can't even imagine what

541
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Speaker 1: the ticket requests are are like for the players. I

542
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Speaker 1: just can't. I know I get them from people. Hey man,

543
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can do anything for me,

544
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: but dude, you can score four for this game, like

545
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Speaker 1: damn by the field really inexpensive. It'd be great like

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Speaker 1: it's for this one. When for this one, I no

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Speaker 1: way for others, well, no way either, but it's at

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Speaker 1: least a little bit easier. But man, these tickets have

549
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: been a hot item for a long long time. I mean,

550
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Speaker 1: I think the nose bleeds on the secondary market or

551
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Speaker 1: like one hundred and seventy five bucks. So they are

552
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Speaker 1: they are a hot item, There's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: And it's obviously part of a tremendous weekend here in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Astro's Indians playoff games. You've got the Battle of Piney

555
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Speaker 1: Woods on Saturday, which I know it means a lot

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Speaker 1: to people at SFA and to say he's in the

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Speaker 1: state and obviously us in the building with the Lone

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Speaker 1: Star Sports Entertainment. So looking forward to that and that

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, You've got the game with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: All right, when we get back, it's time for the

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Speaker 1: game plan with Brian Gaine. He sat down with Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandamir earlier this week and whid for you next on

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Welcome back to the show Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Hunday Texans Radio studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris. Glad to be with you on this Friday evening,

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Speaker 1: and it's time for the game plan Jim. Brian Gaine

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Speaker 1: each and every week sits down with our own Mark

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Speaker 1: vandamer and they talk about various topics going on in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, going on with the team, with Brian's history,

570
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: and then this one will probably tug a little bit

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Speaker 1: at the heartstrings for Brian, considering he spent three years

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Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys as the director of pro scouting

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Speaker 1: before he moved on to the Dolphins. He spent that

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Speaker 1: time there with Bill Parcels somebody. Obviously that has meant

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Speaker 1: a lot. Brian's talked about the impact that Bill Parcells

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Speaker 1: had on his especially early career when he was a

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Speaker 1: scout with the Jets. He was with the Cowboys when

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Speaker 1: Parcels was there. So there's a lot of crossover with

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Speaker 1: Brian Gaine and with Bill Parcels, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: what he learned about the personnel business comes from his

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Speaker 1: time with Bill parcel So I know for a lot

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Speaker 1: of the personnel guys and coaches, they move around the

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Speaker 1: league and they coach a different spots, but still when

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Speaker 1: you see when you see a helmet in a jersey

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Speaker 1: on the other side that you once worked for, at

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Speaker 1: some point it's it's it's gotta tug at you a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And I'm sure Brian will have that moment

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Speaker 1: on Sunday evening when the Cowboys walking that building, no

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Speaker 1: question about that. Brian sat down with Mark for the

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Speaker 1: game plan. Brian Gaine joining us on the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. Brian, congratulations on the win. I gotta think

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Speaker 1: it's a big relief and very satisfying to get the

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Speaker 1: first one done, because that's how you get on a

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Speaker 1: roll to get that first one correct division game, division

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Speaker 1: game on the road, first division game on the road,

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Speaker 1: had a chance to to get the victory in a

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Speaker 1: tough environment. Ironically enough, the stadium roof was open, but

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00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: it was an exciting environment. We're happy to get to win.

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Speaker 1: Just completed the first quarter of the season. If you

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Speaker 1: break the quarter the season into four quarters, that was

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Speaker 1: the first quarter of the season, so it was good

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Speaker 1: to end that phase with a victory. We're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to coming home here, getting our second chance here to

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Speaker 1: play in front of our home crowd. Great a great

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Speaker 1: tilt here with the Cowboys on a Sunday night game,

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Speaker 1: and a chance to play in front of a national audience.

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Speaker 1: So we're excited about the opportunity, but proud of our team.

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Speaker 1: Faced a lot of adversity throughout the game. We dealt

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Speaker 1: with some injuries, the ups and downs, the leads, the

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Speaker 1: competitive environment. It was deep into the fourth quarter, into

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Speaker 1: the overtime. Our guys fought, and I thought we showed

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Speaker 1: a lot of football personality in this game. So I

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Speaker 1: was very happy for our coaches and our players because

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Speaker 1: I know the time and effort these guys put in

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Speaker 1: for the six days leading up to the game, So

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Speaker 1: it was it was a good team win. We're excited

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Speaker 1: about it. It It was a division game, so we're onto

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Speaker 1: the next one. When you look at what Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: has been through in his career so far, last year

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Speaker 1: with the six starts and then the knee, and then

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Speaker 1: rehabbing from the knee, and now he just completed his

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Speaker 1: tenth overall start, and you see some improvement along the way.

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Speaker 1: What's your evaluation of him? Sure, he had a very

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Speaker 1: productive game yesterday, and I like the way he led

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Speaker 1: the team. People see the stats, they see the results,

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Speaker 1: and they see the film. Those are important. But some

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Speaker 1: of the in between stuff, the ability to command the

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Speaker 1: team and the poise he showed in some of the

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Speaker 1: critical moments in the games. He made some big throws

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Speaker 1: at big moments in the game. Those are great, great

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Speaker 1: growing moments, I think for a young quarterback to get

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Speaker 1: those experiences under his belt, and in a very difficult

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Speaker 1: situation and circumstance in what I would call like I

634
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: gotta have it moment, like he made some critical throws

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Speaker 1: there down the stretch to position us to keep us

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Speaker 1: alive and then the position us to go for the victory.

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Speaker 1: It looks like the offensive line, the more they play,

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Speaker 1: the more they improve and that's just gonna be time

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Speaker 1: with them, right because you basically put a bunch of

640
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Speaker 1: guys together and they've got to be able to grow

641
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: and get chemistry along the way if you hit it

642
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: on the nose. Chemistry I like to call continuity on

643
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and that also leads to communication. So

644
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: five guys playing together, playing as a unit. If one

645
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: guy doesn't do his job, the play can fail. So

646
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: it's very important for that to be coordinated. You know,

647
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: nick Mark Martin has had a very positive season so far.

648
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's the center obviously for us. It's come

649
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: back from injury, which was great to see. We've dealt

650
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: with some injury, we got some youth in the lineup,

651
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: a balance of experience. So perhaps it's another week where

652
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: they're jelling to communications, getting better, coordinations, getting better. The

653
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: continuity is a little better, and my hope is that

654
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: will improve week to week. You know, the things we

655
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: say about Watson, we could almost say them about Martin

656
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: because he hasn't played a ton of football yet. He's

657
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: still learning, he's still growing, Yes he is. You know

658
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: the other thing I mentioned earlier about Deshaun, some of

659
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: it's in between and is not in the stats. The

660
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: thing about Nick Martin as I see an emerging leader.

661
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: I see a guy that's that's an emerging leader amongst

662
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: his peers in the locker room, amongst his group here

663
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. But like we've stayed in the past,

664
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: we liked the measurables. You know, he's six foot five,

665
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: he's three in five ten pounds, knows how to use

666
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: his hands, very instinctive guy, can play at the point,

667
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: can pull and run, can play in space. Very instinctive guy.

668
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: And the one thing you're gonna get with Nick every

669
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: game is you're gonna get everything he has. And that's

670
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 1: that's a great intangible that he offers. And you can

671
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: watch the tape. He looks like a guy that loves football.

672
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: One thing about Kiki Qt that Bill O'Brien pointed out,

673
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: he gave his don't enshrine him yet speech about Qt,

674
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: but he had a sensational debut. Really and is that

675
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: what you were expecting, that kind of caliber of play,

676
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: the hands, and the ability to absorb the offense. Yeah, yeah,

677
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: for sure. So those are the things that we saw

678
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: from from Kiki at Texas Tech when we scouted him.

679
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: We're excited to get him in the fourth round when

680
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: we did, and what I would say is like the

681
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: vision of the player based on what we thought about

682
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: him in the scouting process, I felt has transferred to

683
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: what we would expect him to be here at the

684
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: pro level. But but coaches, right, and I mean, you're

685
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: on as good as your last game, And I'm sure

686
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: Keiki would even tell you there was a couple of

687
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: plays he left out on the field as well. So

688
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: the important thing too is getting on the same page

689
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: in terms of the chemistry and the nonverbal communication with

690
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: his quarterback with the Shawn, where perhaps they haven't had

691
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: as many back bats under their belt, but now they're

692
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: building that up. So some of that is the quiet communication,

693
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: the nonverbal communication, the subtleties of knowing, hey, when I

694
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: leaned this way, I'm going to go, I'm going to

695
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: do that. Some of those things only come with repetition

696
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: in chemistry and coordination, so we're looking forward to that

697
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: getting better. But I'm sure Kiki, if he was sitting

698
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: here today, he'd probably tell you the same. He'd probably

699
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: left a few players out in the field. But we're

700
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: excited about his promising potential, fast, explosive quick, good hands,

701
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: can make plays after the catch. So happy to have him, Brian.

702
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: When you look at the cornerback situation, you lost Kevin

703
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: Johnson to ir early on and then Aaron Colvin gets

704
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: hurt in the Colts game. So give me a sense

705
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: of the picture there. As you signed Chari's right to

706
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: help out Cavan Webster, help is on the way eventually

707
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: with him. Is that the picture pretty much? And you

708
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: do have some practice squad option here, Yeah, we adapt,

709
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: improvid has overcome. I don't I don't know. It sounds

710
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: like coach peak, but the next man has to be up.

711
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: And when we brought Cavon Webster on to the team,

712
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: you know he was still recovering from injury, kind of

713
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: in the final phase of that as it relates to

714
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: getting ready to play football, and we feel like he's

715
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: just about ready here to perform in a contributing role.

716
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: He was coming off an achilles injury from last year

717
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: with the Rams. What we like about Cavon is that

718
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: he has both contributing backup experience and starting experience. He's

719
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: seen playtime both as a perimeter cornerback and also at

720
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: the nickel position. And then thirdly, he's been a fourth

721
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: down player and pretty good at that in his career.

722
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: So we think for our situation right now with Cavon

723
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: here in the pipeline, that he offers us the versatility

724
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: number one to function and a contributing role either on

725
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: the perimeter or from the slot. But even if Brad

726
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: Seeley had to use him on fourth down, there's jobs

727
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: for him to be earned there as well. So perhaps

728
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: that insurance of signing him then the dividend has come

729
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: to fruition now where we need him, and we think

730
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: he's pretty close to contributing at this point when you

731
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: have to make those tough decisions, do I put a

732
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: guy on pup, do you put him on ir? Do

733
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: you hold him on the fifty three man roster? You

734
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: don't really know when he's going to be ready, because

735
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: it's it exact, isn't it. So how do you arrive

736
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: at those decisions prior to forming that fifty three after

737
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: the preseason? Short and long term planning number one? At

738
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: number two, we're always contingency planning. You've heard me say

739
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: this before in our conversations that you know, if X happens,

740
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: here's where we're going. We're gonna go to Yre, We're

741
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: gonna go to z And we do that basically at

742
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: every position, regardless of injuries. So I'm always meeting with

743
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: our personnel staff and our scouting staff discussing the options,

744
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: and we will have meetings every week and discuss what

745
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: those options will be if and when those opportunities arise

746
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: or when we're faced with those decisions. But continuency planning

747
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: is very big in our in our scouting process. And

748
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned in my past over my career

749
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: is when you build a rouster at the fifty three,

750
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 1: you're trying to build it for seventeen weeks, hopefully twenty,

751
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: but you're certainly trying to build a roster to go

752
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: out there play Week one, but also a roster that

753
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: can stand the test of time and still be strong

754
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: in December. When you look at this game this week, now,

755
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: you didn't grow up in this area, but you got

756
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: here as fast as you could. Like many people who

757
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: live in Texas now say, like me, but what do

758
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: you compare it to? Because Houston versus Dallas is huge

759
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: for the fans, and I know for the team, it's

760
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: another game. You have to prepare for it schematically very

761
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: similar to another game, but this goes beyond normal football

762
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: for most of the viewers and the fans this week.

763
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: What do you make of it? Yeah, we're certainly aware

764
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: of that factor when we're playing the Cowboys. So we're

765
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: excited about this opportunity because we understand it's obviously for

766
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: the state of Texas breaking rights. But actually, ironically enough, Mark,

767
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: like years ago, like I worked at the Cowboys, here,

768
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: I am now working at the Texas So my experience

769
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: of being in both organizations, I think is unique. So

770
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: my perspective is certainly understandable how important this game is

771
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: to our fan base, to our city, and I'm sure

772
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: the same in Dallas. But to Work sad about this opportunity.

773
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: And the other thing is it's going to be on

774
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: national television, a national audience. But it is you know,

775
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: singular focus. You've heard me say this in the past,

776
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: you know, singular purpose. Here it's the next game, and

777
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: Work sad about playing in front of our home crowd.

778
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: We think we have some of the greatest home field

779
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: we have the greatest home field advantage in the NFL.

780
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: We've got great home fans, very supportive of us. So

781
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: it's going to be exciting night, no question about it.

782
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: I've got one more or special teams. You made the

783
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: difficult decision after the preseason to retain Trevor Daniel as

784
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: your potter, and he's starting to make some really nice

785
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: punts for you. I mean he granted them at the

786
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: two at one point, and then a moment later you

787
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: have the ball in the end zone for defensive touchdown.

788
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: Those kinds of things are huge for your team. Steadily

789
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: improving in a week to week, you see a little

790
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: bit more improvement as he gains more experience and more

791
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: comfort here. I think coach Shelley and his staff are

792
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: doing an excellent job with developing Trevor. One thing I

793
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: noticed with young punters when they when they come into

794
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: the league is, you know, perhaps from the strategic kicks

795
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: with the places the locations, combining that with the coverage units,

796
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: sometimes younger players are more developmental in that phase. What

797
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: I've liked about Trevor is is that he's been a

798
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: quick study with those facets of the punting game and

799
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: not just blasting the ball, but understanding the strategic advantage

800
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: of ball location, placement, hang time, and meshing that all

801
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: with the coverage equally, we put a lot of resource

802
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: this offseason into improving our gunners and getting more and

803
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: more coverage players, either through the draft, through free agency,

804
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: through street free agency, through the claiming process at the

805
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: fifty three. So the combination with maybe Trevor's steady improvement

806
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: with some of the coverage players that we've added to

807
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: the roster since last year, we feel like those have

808
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: been some of the inroads that we made to help

809
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: improve our punt cover team. Ryan, thanks a lot, good

810
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: luck this week. Thank you. It's interesting note right there

811
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: at the end about Trevor Daniel and the punt cover team. Obviously,

812
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: special teams such a big factor for this team in

813
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: the past, in that it was not at a level

814
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: that O'Brien or many by the organizations at that point

815
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: really wanted. But when I look out there and I

816
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: see the changes that were made on the Punk coverage team,

817
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: and you see the guys that are running down on

818
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: Punk cover team, and you see where what Trevor's doing.

819
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: Four of us five punts inside the twenty yard line,

820
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: I thought a key moment in the game, any entire game,

821
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: was the punt that he had when it was seven

822
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: enough and the Texas bogged down on the forty nine

823
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: yard line and he drops one inside the five. Johnson

824
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: BATTAMOSEI kills it right there at the two and that

825
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: sets up the Clowney touchdown. I mean that that's complimentary

826
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: football at its finest. And having guys like Johnson Battamos,

827
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: having guys like aj Moore to run down on punt

828
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: team and to be there to be able to make

829
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: plays as gunners, I mean that's huge. Those are personnel

830
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: openings in some sense, I should say, personel deficiencies. We've

831
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 1: had to pass and we've helped that for sure, and

832
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: hopefully we continue to do that. I'd like not to

833
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: put but when your punner is pinning the other team

834
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: inside the twenty four to five times, that's a that's

835
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: a pretty good that's a pretty good day. And Trevor's

836
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: doing a nice job. He's getting a little bit better,

837
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable by the day, and I

838
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: think that has that's voted well for that punt team

839
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: in particular. But that's the special teams units. Those are

840
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: the ones that are always changing. With roster churn at

841
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster, you know, they're changes we

842
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: gotta make changes at the bottom of this roster, and

843
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: Brian's always looking to see whether there are opportunities to

844
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: bring in players. But the guys that have been out

845
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: there on special teams that have definitely contributed lately, and

846
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: those units from last year to this year are I

847
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: don't see night and day different, but man, Brad Celie

848
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 1: and Tracy Smith done a really nice job with those units.

849
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: So I was glad to see and here Brian discuss

850
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: them right there. All right. When we get back, it's

851
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: time for my NFL picks. I do it each and

852
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: every Friday night. I go through all the games. I

853
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: think there are a couple of teams on a bye

854
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: this week, so I think it's fourteen games. I could

855
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: be wrong about that, but we really kind of get

856
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: into the bye weeks the weeks I should say, starting

857
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: next week, so we got a lot of games to

858
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: get through. I will pick them against the spreading straight

859
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: up and obviously trying to hit on the important pieces

860
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: of news of the day as it pertains to those teams.

861
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Speaker 1: When we get back right here on Texas All Access,

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Speaker 1: calling out Houston area teachers, want to bring a little

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Speaker 1: Texas football to your classroom, they sign up where Toros

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Speaker 1: to tackle math in the classroom. Go to Houston Texas

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Speaker 1: dot com slash Toros Matrials to learn more. Big thanks

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Speaker 1: to Chronico Phillips for doing that. Teaching math through football.

869
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Speaker 1: I love it, you know I love it. Top math

870
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: coach football every now and again. I can bring them

871
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: together every now and again. Sometimes those are some of

872
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: my best tests too. Some of my football players did

873
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: better on those tests than they did in other things.

874
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: But I digress. All Right, it's time to go around

875
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. And we go around the NFL. We do

876
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: it well, we do it my way. Who am I?

877
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst and silent reporter

878
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: for Texans All Access each and every Friday evening. And

879
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: it's time to go pick these games. That's what we do.

880
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: We go around the NFL. I pick games straight up

881
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: and against the spread. It's a good way to talk

882
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: about the NFL and what's happening in the NFL and

883
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: all the things. Listen. It's the most talked about league.

884
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball playoffs are going on and people are

885
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: talking about that. Yes, and the NBA is about to

886
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: kick off and people are talking about that. Everybody wants

887
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: to talk about the NFL everybody, and everybody likes picks,

888
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: whether I'm right or wrong. They like to know whether

889
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: I'm right or I'm wrong. I My percentage is up

890
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: in the nineties this year. I'm just telling you, against

891
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: the spread, I can make people a lot of money

892
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: if that's what you're using for. It's not really for

893
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: those that dabble in the dark arts. It's more just

894
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: the way to talk about the teams and the games

895
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: and things happening this weekend, and really to give you

896
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: an opinion. This team will win, this team will lose.

897
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: You can see how right I am or how wrong

898
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: I am. I'm wrong a lot of times, So that's okay.

899
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: I've come to grips with it, have you, Yeah, I

900
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: know you have all? Right? Here we go. Well, wait

901
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: a second, we're missing something, missing something my music? Get

902
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: my music? Bang there it is mistro. Here we go,

903
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: Thursday night game. I'm three. You know, in the last

904
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: three weeks, I've gotten all three the last three weeks

905
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: So Thursday night it was New England ten and a

906
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: half point favorite over Indie. Oh my goodness, Indie and

907
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: nearly everybody out of that game. And yeah, at one

908
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: point is twenty four seventeen, but thirty eight twenty four

909
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: that gets to cover in the win, I had New

910
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: England to cover and win, so one and oh. Last

911
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: week I had the Rams. They were a six and

912
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. They won by seven. Ah and

913
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: before that was man, who was before that? I'm trying

914
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: to think of who was in week that would have

915
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: been for three, that would be a week three, But

916
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: I know I got that one two. So I'm I'm

917
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: sitting at a cool three and over the last three

918
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: weeks on Thursday. So you know on on Thursday winners, I

919
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: got them for you, all right, one eight hundred eight, seven,

920
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: six two whatever it was. Tennessee goes to Buffalo. Tennessee's

921
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: three and one. Tennessee's hot. They've won the last three.

922
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: They lost that Mega game down with Miami in the rain,

923
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: and then they beat us, they beat Jacksonville, and then

924
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: last week they beat the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

925
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: They're feeling good, they're hot. They're going to Buffalo, but

926
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: they're only a three and a half point favorite at Buffalo.

927
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: I'm still going with Tennessee. I think Tennessee's just better

928
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: than Buffalo at this point. Would love, love, love love

929
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: to see Josh Allen go off. I just don't think

930
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: he will. I just don't think that it's going to

931
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: happen much this year. But I certainly hope that it

932
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: happens this week and not next because the Buffalo Bills

933
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: will end up coming here to take on the Texans

934
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: in Week six. Be nice to beat Dallas and have

935
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo come here. But Josh Allen would be nice of

936
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: you do want to do a solid for us and

937
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: get it win over Tennessee. Just don't think it's gonna happen.

938
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: So I'm taking Tennessee to win and cover the three

939
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 1: and a half on the road. Miami is a six

940
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: and a half point dog at Cincinnati. Now, these two teams,

941
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: I Miami in particular. I did not see Miami being

942
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: three and one. Cincinnati was sort of a mystery to me.

943
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: But Andy Dalton the offense getting cranked up. Offensive coordinator

944
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Bill Laser's a guy played against him in college. He

945
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: played at Cornell, Smart dude. He was kind of a grinder,

946
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: kind of a gritty quarterback when he was in college,

947
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: but man, he is a smart offensive coordinator. Learned a

948
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: lot with Chip Kelly, spent some time with the Eagles.

949
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: Bill Laser's getting it done for since he I think

950
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: that's gonna be enough. I think since he routs Miami,

951
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's a six and a half point favorite. I think

952
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: the Bengals win, go to four and one and put

953
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on the Baltimore Ravens the top

954
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: the AFC North in Baltimore, They've got one coming up.

955
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: I would say on the surface that's difficult, but Cleveland

956
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: could score in anybody, especially with Baker Mayfield a quarterback.

957
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: We'll get that in one in a little bit, but

958
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: I take Cincinnati to cover the six and a half

959
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: when by a touchdown on more over Miami in Cincinnati.

960
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: The game of the weekend, Jacksonville going to Kansas City

961
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: Jacksonville three and one arena be the best defense in

962
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: the league, Kansas City arguably the best offensive league. If

963
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: it's not Kansas City's probably LA. Not LA, it's probably

964
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: Kansas City as of right now, because I think the

965
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 1: Texans with a little bit more consistency on both run pass,

966
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: a little better protection up front, they could put themselves

967
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: in that mix. But right now it's probably Kansas City

968
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: or LA. Kansas City's got all guns of fire and

969
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: three and a half point favorites at home. I'm taking

970
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: Jacksonville against the spread. I think Jacksonville get inside the number,

971
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: but I think Casey's gonna do us a solid. This

972
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: feels like twenty one, twenty twenty four, twenty three. This

973
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: feels like no more than a three point ball game.

974
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna take Kansas City to win, but I'm

975
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: gonna take Jacksonville to get inside the three and a

976
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: half and get that cover. Baltimore I mentioned them a

977
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: little while ago. They're fresh off of Sunday night win

978
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: against the Steelers in Pittsburgh. Now they go back out

979
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: on the road, and this time taking on the Cleveland Browns.

980
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 1: Cleveland had a victory in its grass blast meek in Oakland.

981
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: Let it slip, give up too much point, too many points,

982
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: but they had an opportunity. Forty two thirty four Derek

983
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: carthrows the incompletion in the end zone. They gotta run

984
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: off two minutes of time basically couldn't do it. Oakland

985
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: got the win, got the tie, and then kicked the

986
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: field goal to get to win in overtime. That put

987
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: to Cleveland down for another defeat. Sitting at one two

988
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: and one, Cleveland's two and a half point dog at home.

989
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Baltimore and this one. Even though Sunday

990
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 1: night at Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon at Cleveland, I could see

991
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: this being a little bit of a physical letdown spot

992
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: for Baltimore. I just Baltimore was impressive, but I still, man,

993
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of people think they could

994
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: be the team that comes out of the AFC. I'm

995
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: not totally there yet, but Baltimore will win this one

996
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: by more than two and a half. So I'll take

997
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 1: Baltimore to win and to cover. Denver goes to the Jets,

998
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: Denver two and two, Jets one and three in the

999
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Jets not having some good times, if you will. After

1000
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: that win over Detroit was savior sham at quarterback. It

1001
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: was thought, Man, they're gonna turn this thing around. They

1002
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: got thought last week at Jacksonville Denver they had one

1003
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: right in. It was just beyond the fingertips. I was

1004
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 1: gonna say it was right in his hands, but really wasn't.

1005
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: It was just just beyond case Mistons receiver, just by inches.

1006
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: It was that close to an improbable victory for the Broncos,

1007
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: but they didn't get it. And now I gotta go

1008
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: on the road and they're a one and a half

1009
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: point dog to the New York Jets. I don't know

1010
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: that buy that I'm taking Denver to win. I would

1011
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: say cover, but one and a half points you're basically

1012
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: picking straight up. So I'm gonna go to Denver for

1013
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: the win over the New York Jets. Atlanta goes to Pittsburgh.

1014
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: It is a must win for both teams. Atlanta one

1015
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: in three, Pittsburgh one two and one. I'm gonna give

1016
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh the edge here in large part because Atlanta's banged

1017
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: up defensively. Dion Jones is gone, Ricardo Allen's gone. Those

1018
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: are huge injuries for Atlanta. I just think the injuries

1019
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: have mounted too much. They could score the ball on anybody,

1020
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:08,240
Speaker 1: and this has the makings of another thirty seven thirty

1021
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: six game or a forty five forty two kind of game.

1022
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go Pittsburgh favorite only by two and

1023
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: a half at home. Get Pittsburgh with the win and

1024
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: the cover. Green Bay goes to Detroit. Detroit is a

1025
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: one and a half point dog at home. Packers two

1026
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: one and one. Get the win last week against Buffalo

1027
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: and shut out Buffalo in the process. Now, other teams

1028
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: have done that as well when Buffalo's offense has bucked down,

1029
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: but it's a different Child's taken out Detroit. George's run

1030
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit better with Carrie on Johnson

1031
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: probably should have won that game against Dallas last week,

1032
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: and now they come home, but I still didn't. Green

1033
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: Bay overall just better, more talented at key spots. I

1034
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: think Aaron Rodgers will pull that one out with a

1035
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: one and a half point favor and I don't want

1036
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: to say it's basically a pick them, but I'll go

1037
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: at green Bay. They'll cover that one and a half

1038
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: and get the win over Detroit. Even look twenty six

1039
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: twenty four. That gets you to cover for green Bay.

1040
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm going green Bay to be beat the Lions. Giants

1041
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: go to Carolina and to Dave Gettleman Special Giants one

1042
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: to three, Carolina two and one. Carolina's favored by seven

1043
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: and a half, and I know there's been some disgruntled

1044
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 1: Giants fans with Eli Manning did not have the day

1045
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: against the Saints that he had against the Texans, too

1046
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: much inconsistency. If that's the case, I think he could

1047
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: ride the wave back up against Carolina. I do think

1048
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: the Panthers will win, but I do think the Giants

1049
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: will make this a little closer than the Vegas experts think.

1050
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: Like I said, Carolina favored by seven and a half,

1051
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Giants to get inside that seven

1052
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: a half. It feels like a seven point victory or

1053
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: or less. So I'm going Giants to cover Carolina to win.

1054
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: The Raiders go to the Chargers, And how about this?

1055
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: I saw this note that the Chargers have been practicing

1056
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: with crowd noise this week because the Raiders are coming

1057
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: to town and the fear is that the Raiders fans

1058
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: will far out number the Chargers fans, and so they

1059
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: had to practice with crowd noise. Oh good grief. The

1060
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: La Chargers are just better than the Raiders. Five and

1061
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: a half or more better than the Raiders, Yes, I

1062
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: think so. I think the Chargers get that win at

1063
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: home and air quotes I mean they are at home technically,

1064
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: but it won't feel like a home game because the

1065
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: Raiders fans will be out in a mass in that

1066
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: one in Los Angeles. But Chargers still gonna win and

1067
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna cover that five and a half. Then you

1068
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: got the Rams, one of the two underfeated teams in

1069
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: football at four and oh go to Seattle. The Rams

1070
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: are seven and a half point favorite. Seattle's pen a

1071
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: little bit better to the last two weeks, but it

1072
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: was Dallas at home and they caught Dallas at the

1073
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: right time on the road. And then it was Arizona

1074
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: and Arizona and the last second field goo got them

1075
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: to win. I think the seven and a half point

1076
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: spread fuels about right. I think the Rams get to win.

1077
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: I also think they get to cover. It feels right,

1078
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: it feels like seven to ten, So I think that's

1079
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: probably better to go with the Rams to cover that

1080
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: seven and a half and they'll definitely get the win

1081
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: over Seattle. Arizona goes to San Francisco. Arizona and four

1082
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: showed some life last week, came close feat by the

1083
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: last second field go at home, yo, man, I feel

1084
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: for Larry Fitzgerald and Pat Peterson. Those are two good

1085
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: dudes stuck in a tough situation in Arizona. If it

1086
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: just goes one and three, I feel bad for the

1087
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: forty nine ers two because they were without Jimmy Garoppolo.

1088
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: Now CJ. Bath Thord has done some okay things. Will

1089
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: he do okay things enough to get San Francisco the

1090
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: win and the cover? I think he gets them the win,

1091
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: but I think Arizona gets the cover the win close

1092
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: to me twenty one, eighteen, twenty seventeen, something like that,

1093
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: and then but that'll give Arizona to cover. The spread

1094
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: is four and a half. It's Arizona inside the number

1095
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: of San Francisco to get the win at home. Going

1096
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: to two and three, Minnesota goes to Philly. Talk about

1097
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: two teams that need a win and the worst way

1098
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: not another tie for Minnesota. But Minnesota goes back to

1099
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: the scene of the crime, the crime last year's NFC

1100
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: Championship game, and boy was that rutal forty one to seven.

1101
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: The game was over at halftime. It was just over.

1102
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: Now Kirk Cousins is under center instead of case Keenum.

1103
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: But does it make up much of a difference, especially

1104
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: if the Vikings are without Everson Griffin again. I think

1105
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: Philadelphia with Carson wentz Now back in the fold, didn't

1106
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: get it done last week at Tennessee had every opportunity too,

1107
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: didn't cover anybody on fourth down unfortunately, But I think

1108
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: Philly had his three and a half point favorite, will

1109
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: get the win against the Vikings at home. Vikings will

1110
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: fall to one three and one, and a lot of

1111
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: questions about where the Vikings should be and where they

1112
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: will be after that one to Philadelphia. Then you got

1113
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: Dallason Houston. You know how I feel about that. Houston's

1114
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: a three and a half point favorite at home. You

1115
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 1: know I always lean win and cover by the good guys,

1116
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: and this week it takes on and even more good

1117
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: guys sentiment because the Cowboys are coming to town. And

1118
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: if you're a Houston fan, you hate the Cowboys. You

1119
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: know you have seen him four years. You hate the Cowboys.

1120
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 1: You grew up in Houston, You're an all As fan.

1121
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: You hate the Cowboys. It's just the way you're, the

1122
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: way you're spun, man, It's just the way it is.

1123
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: So you know how I feel about that. Texas to

1124
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: cover and win against the Cowboys and I'll move them

1125
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 1: to two and three. If they get that done, him

1126
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: could change everything at that point. Then your Monday night game,

1127
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: you got the Redskins going to New Orleans. Now, the

1128
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: Redskins coming off a bye and a win against the

1129
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: Packers prior to that by they got an early, early bye. Wow,

1130
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: New Orleans gets a big win last week against the

1131
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: New York Football Giants, and the New Orleans Saints are

1132
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: favored by six and a half down in the Dome.

1133
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: I think Washington. I think Washington defensively, they'll be They're

1134
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: gonna be better. They've got some players up front with

1135
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen and dron Payne, Ryan Carrigan off the edge.

1136
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: They've got some guys up front. Offensively, I just I

1137
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: don't see it. It's Alex Smith. I watched their entire

1138
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: game against the Colts, and I thought man offensively def

1139
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: his ship. So you know what, I'm going to New

1140
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: Orleans to get the win. And the covered Nwrance has

1141
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: only got to win that by a touchdown, So you know,

1142
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: thirty four seventeen gets it done. I think it could

1143
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: be in that realm. I would imagine the Redskins is

1144
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,439
Speaker 1: gonna want to run the Rock turn that clock, try

1145
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: and keep Drew Brees on the sideline. But I think

1146
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: Brees will be out there enough to be able to

1147
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: get that six and a half point cover. Got mark

1148
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: Ingram coming back, and I think that's gonna be big

1149
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: for the Saints because Camara and Ingram playing off one another.

1150
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: Camara has been toting to mail catching a football a lot,

1151
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: a ton of touches for him. I don't want to

1152
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,479
Speaker 1: take away from his momentum, but I do think to

1153
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: preserve him over a sixteen game season, they needed mark

1154
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: Ingram in the worst way. So Ingram Camara back together.

1155
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: I think that's enough to beat the Washington Redskins. So

1156
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: there you go around in the NFL. I did it

1157
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: my way, as Frank Sinatra once said, and my way

1158
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: is just picking all the games straight up and against

1159
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: the spread. All Right, we get back. It's signed for

1160
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: our first Greek Creative Union first Glance Keys to the game.

1161
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: We'll have those four your next offense defense special teams

1162
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. What are these Texans gotta do to

1163
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: get a w on Sunday Night? I'll tell you next

1164
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: a Texas Access It's not for this week's first Community

1165
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,479
Speaker 1: credit Union First Glance Keys to the Game. They're brought

1166
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: to you by FCCU First Community Credit Union, the official

1167
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: credit union of the Houston Texans. I do this each

1168
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,959
Speaker 1: and every week, folks, where we talk about the keys

1169
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: to a win. What are the things that the three

1170
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:32,359
Speaker 1: units must do, must do on Sunday to go get

1171
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: a win against the Dallas Cowboys. Welcome back to the show.

1172
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, and it's time to

1173
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: dive in. So let's do it. Let's start with the offense,

1174
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: the offensive keys to a win against the Dallas Cowboys. Now,

1175
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 1: this is a very athletic Cowboys defense. They have played Carolina,

1176
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: they played Detroit, they played the New York Giants, and

1177
00:56:55,600 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: they played Seattle. So they've played four of I think

1178
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: the I said for the better quarterbacks in the league,

1179
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: but all four have gone to Pro Bowls. Talking about

1180
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP with Eli Manning, you're talking about a

1181
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: league MVP, and Cam Newton. You talking about a guy

1182
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: in Russell Wilson that's won a Super Bowl. And Matthew

1183
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: Stafford who has been two numerous Pro Bowls. They've faced

1184
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: four pretty good Pro Bowl quarterbacks and they've only given

1185
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: up three hundred yards in one of those games. Now

1186
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: good news depending on look at it. If that's the

1187
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: bad news, the good news is it happened last week

1188
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford threw for over three hundred yards and completed

1189
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: over eighty percent of his passes. To have that happen,

1190
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: Key number one has got to be number ninety, not

1191
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: our number ninety, Chevion Clowney, there number ninety to Marcus

1192
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: tank Lawrence, slide the protection to him, hip him, harass him.

1193
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: The one thing the Texans cannot do on Sunday is

1194
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: leave him alone. You can't allow him to go one

1195
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: on one against the tackles, either the guards. If he

1196
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: loops inside, he demands attention. He's like a third He's

1197
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: like a third grader looking for attention from from his parents. Mom, Dad,

1198
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: I need you, I need you, I want your attention.

1199
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna do all kinds of things if you leave

1200
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: him alone. If you leave him alone, it's gonna create habit,

1201
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: just like that third grader is gonna rip up his room,

1202
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: or he's gonna go eat like fifteen oreos. Things you

1203
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: don't want to do. De Marcus Lawrence is gonna do

1204
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: things we don't want him to do against this Texas

1205
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: offense if he's left alone. Now, they're gonna have to

1206
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 1: be times in the game gonna have to be where

1207
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: he's one on one. But the amount of time that

1208
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: you can limit de Marcus Lawrence being one on one

1209
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: on Kendall Lamb or Martinis Rankin or either the guards,

1210
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: the better he is long. He is very aggressive, and

1211
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: he is relentless. He will not stop until he gets

1212
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. So even the tackles have got to

1213
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: realize that even if he's gone past the quarterback, they've

1214
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: got to continue on that block and stand that block

1215
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: because he will work right back to him. You've got

1216
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: to stand on this block. But you need help. I

1217
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: think the best thing you can do are chips. When

1218
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: those defensive vands start getting chips like that, it really

1219
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: slows him down. I've seen it happen with our rushers.

1220
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: It really slows him down. I think double teams. Our

1221
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: guys know how our guys in particular know how to

1222
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: deal with and they can split it. And I've seen

1223
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,439
Speaker 1: Jadeveon do that a number of times. They can split

1224
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: that double team and kind of take both guys and

1225
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: I'm back into the backfield. That chip. If a defensive

1226
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: end edge rusher sees it a lot of times, that

1227
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: just slows him down enough to really kind of lose

1228
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: rhythm and give that offensive tackle the opportunity to get

1229
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,439
Speaker 1: a good block. Slide your protection to him, chip him,

1230
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: harass him. Two three guys doesn't matter. You've got to

1231
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: block ninety with more than one guy. The three sacks

1232
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: that he had against the Lions all came when he

1233
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: was singled up all of them. One time he looped

1234
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: inside to guard, beat the guard. Then the other two

1235
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: times he beat the right tackle for the Detroit Lions

1236
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: both times, and he did it different ways. You got

1237
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: our account for ninety, planned for ninety, and never ever

1238
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: leave him alone. Next one is about him fifty four

1239
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: Jayalen Smith. Now there are a couple of Notre Dame

1240
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 1: fighting Irish on the Texans that knew all about him,

1241
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: played with him on that twenty fifteen team. Will Fuller

1242
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: and Nick Martin. They know what Jayalen Smith can do.

1243
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: And Jaylen's back to being what he was in that

1244
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: year twenty fifteen. Now, he never would have been a

1245
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: second round pick for the Cowboys at all if he

1246
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: hadn't ripped up his knee in the Fiesta Bowl against

1247
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elis Ohio Ezekiel Elliott's Ohio State team and the

1248
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: Fiesta Bowl. But it's taken Jayl in a while. He

1249
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: sat out all twenty sixteen, he came back in twenty seventeen.

1250
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: You could see it coming together. Twenty eighteen, it's seemingly

1251
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: all together. He can wreck up. He can wreck the

1252
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: game plan, He can wreck the offensive game plan in

1253
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: a heartbeat. He blitz his way well, He tackles well,

1254
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: he runs sideline the sideline, he covers backs out of

1255
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: the backfield. Very similar to the way that Texans approached

1256
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard last week. They gotta do that with Jalen Smith.

1257
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esh will play the other spot with Shaun

1258
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: Lee out, good player, gonna be a really good player,

1259
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: but he's a rookie. I would take my chances with

1260
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: vander Esh being the focal point for that defense is

1261
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: supposed to Jalen Smith. If you put the effort towards

1262
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esh and allows Smith to just make his place,

1263
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna kill you. Ninety and fifty four. Those are

1264
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: the two guys. I think those are the two best

1265
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: players in the Dallas Cowboys roster. Defensive roster, they're phenomenal.

1266
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: I think you can throw against the secondary. It's young,

1267
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: but fifty four and ninety they're tough. Which leads me

1268
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: to who's Jalen Smith's gonna tackle third key? If it's

1269
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: not twenty six, if it's not Lamar Miller, he's been

1270
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: dealing with a chess issue. He is, as he said

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Speaker 1: in the locker room today, he's day to day. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a game time decision. Then who Alfred Blue.

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Speaker 1: I've been real confident Alfred Blue lately. He's run the ball,

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Speaker 1: I think very very well. I think he's really kind

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Speaker 1: of coming to his own the last half of last

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Speaker 1: year in the beginning of this year. And then Tyler

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Speaker 1: Irvine we know can be a jack of all trades

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Speaker 1: from the backfield. And also Buddy Howell. We haven't seen

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Speaker 1: Buddy in the backfield. We've seen him on special teams.

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Speaker 1: Maybe this is an opportunity for Buddy to step up

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01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,959
Speaker 1: if Lamar Miller can't go, and we won't know about

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Speaker 1: that until an hour and a half before the game.

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Speaker 1: Sitting at questionable, If I had a lean my guests.

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Speaker 1: My guests would be no that he would that he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna go. But what those guys are gonna have

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Speaker 1: to do? Number one, pick up all blitz is when

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Speaker 1: fifty four is blitz, and they gotta make sure they

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01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,160
Speaker 1: hit him right in the mouth. If they're gonna chip,

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Speaker 1: they gotta get a good piece of DeMarcus Lawrence. And

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Speaker 1: then last, it's certainly not at least the tight ends

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Speaker 1: of the passing game. I've been asking for it for

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Speaker 1: a while. They've had a couple of looks. Ryan Griffin

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01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: a key first down catch the other day, Jordan Nakins

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01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: caught that fourth and sixth one. But I'd like to

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01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: see a game where the tight ends could get maybe

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, eight to ten catches amongst them, because I

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01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be the second is gonna be so

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01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: concerned with the Texans three pass catchers, with Kiki and

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Speaker 1: Will and with hop that they're gonna leave those tight

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Speaker 1: ends open and they've got to take advantage of that

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Speaker 1: at some point. All right, So we ordered the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball. Number one. It's very easy to

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Speaker 1: say stop twenty one. How I think the one thing

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Speaker 1: the Texans have to do to be able to slow

1305
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: him down is take away all inside running gaps. You

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01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: cannot allow Zeke to hit anything downhill. You must force

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01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: him to bounce. He's got to get to the line

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01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: of scream ridge, see nothing and try and bounce to

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01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: the outside. That doesn't end it, but it allows time

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Speaker 1: for linebackers and safeties to go get him and tackle him.

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01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: With a bunch of guys, you're not gonna tackle him,

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01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: very similar to Sequon Barkley with one guy. You're gonna

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01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: need more multiple players to help tackle Ezekiel Elliott on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But if you force him to bounce, you have a

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Speaker 1: better opportunity to do that. But if you give him

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Speaker 1: downhill running lanes and he doesn't need much. I saw

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Speaker 1: him against the Detroit Lyons fit through a gap that

1318
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 1: was maybe half his body size, but he got skinny

1319
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: and slid through it. Picked up a nine yard game

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: when really nothing was there. But if you close those

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01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: gaps down and you force him to bounce, he gets

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage is like nope, nope, nope, he's

1323
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Speaker 1: got That just gives Tyrant and gets Kareem. It gives

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Speaker 1: linebackers more time to go get him, and that's what

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Speaker 1: they've got to do. We need Keen number two Whitney

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Speaker 1: Merciless J. J. Watts rounding in the shape. We know

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Speaker 1: that Jemion Clowney had one of his best games, maybe

1328
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: his career last week. Witt has shown some moments. He

1329
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: had three tackles for a loss last week against Innneapolis Colts,

1330
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: but we need him to really show up with the

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Speaker 1: pass rush put some more pressure on Dak Prescott. This

1332
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those days where WIT's gonna

1333
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: have to do both help on Kae Elliott by setting

1334
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: a good edge in the defense, but then getting back

1335
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: to Dak Prescott and Wits had to do a lot

1336
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: of his rushing from the inside, and he's won plenty

1337
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: of times from in there, but now he's got to

1338
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: put it all together and come up with a good

1339
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: two two and a half three sack game. That would

1340
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: be awesome. Need Wit to take it to a different

1341
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: level on Sunday Night, and I know he wants to

1342
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: so desperately, especially considering this is the game that we

1343
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: lost him last year on a Sunday night game to

1344
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. When Wit turns it into the Whitney

1345
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: mercials we know and what Kliner planet at level, We're

1346
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: finally getting into three guys where we want. That leads

1347
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: me to number three. I would say the secondary, but

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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: I think the coverage issues that have been prevalent have

1349
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: been a linebacker and secondary issue. Guys underneath the got

1350
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: to communicate with one another. If you got if you

1351
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: got hooked the curl and you got curl to flat,

1352
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: let's not both end up at the curl. Let's get

1353
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 1: our head on us. Well, let's find and play the

1354
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 1: most dangerous receiver and let's do it right. If we

1355
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 1: start to get the zone coverage right and start taking

1356
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: away those lanes, then you got an opportunity to be

1357
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: a really good defense. I mean really really good. But

1358
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: they're not there quite yet. And you know key number

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01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: four that Dak Prescott is gonna pull the football. He's

1360
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: gonna pull them the zone read, and you do not

1361
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: want him to get one long play thirty thirty five

1362
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 1: yards whatever it is. You know, no big place from

1363
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: Dak in the run game. Just can't have it happen

1364
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: on special teams. High punts and touch backs, the higher

1365
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: the punt, more fair catches A Tavon Austin. We need

1366
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: that and touchbacks. I don't want Tavon Austin with the

1367
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 1: ball in space. I know the turn units have been better.

1368
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: I just don't want Tavon Austin with the ball in space.

1369
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 1: I just don't want to play with fire. And I

1370
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: think he's got the ability to break it wide open

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01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: with a return and the kick game or in the

1372
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Speaker 1: punk game. So there you go. Tho's your first community credit,

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Speaker 1: UNI first clance Keys to the game. Coming up, it's

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Speaker 1: our players segment. We've got Tyrn Matthew. We got player

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Speaker 1: reporter with Kareem Jackson, spots about artic. We got the

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01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: final Word but Drew Dorty. This week it's Kiki QT

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Speaker 1: All next right here on Texas All Access. We've got

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Speaker 1: one final segment of Texas All Access this evening. Welcome

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01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: back to the show. I'm your host, John Harris, football

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Speaker 1: analyst and sython reporter and ready for Sunday Night, Ready

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Speaker 1: for Sunday Night. My gosh, this one because it comes

1382
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,439
Speaker 1: around every eight years with the home game here. I

1383
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: was here in twenty ten, but two thousand and two

1384
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: I was back watching it back in North Carolina where

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Speaker 1: I was living at the time, and it was incredible

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01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: to watch. I could just sense the excitement and the energy,

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01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: and I was here for that in twenty ten. But

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01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 1: the air got taken right out of the building with

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Speaker 1: the way the Cowboys played that day getting to w

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01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: over the Texans. I believe it was like twenty seven

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01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: seventeen something like that. Pretty resounding victory for the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: at that point, led by one Antonio Romo. Yes, of

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Speaker 1: course twenty four was there on the sideline. What an

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01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 1: unbelievable experience an atmosphere. We had a thirty or forty

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01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 1: thousand Texas fans in there. The Cowboys had to go

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01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: to a silent count, tied the game at seventeen late

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Speaker 1: in the game, but then a Dan Bailey overtime field

1398
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:18,879
Speaker 1: goal did the trick at twenty to seventeen for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: So the Texans have not beaten the Cowboys since that

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Speaker 1: two thousand two inaugural game. And I played that for

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Speaker 1: you on Wins on Replay this week, the fifty three

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Speaker 1: to the beginning, you remember that first game against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You'll love seeing the fifty three. It's absolutely fantastic and

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Speaker 1: the narrator is pretty cool too seeing who that is.

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Speaker 1: But it might be me just saying you gotta go

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Speaker 1: check that out, all right. In the final segment of

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Speaker 1: the show each day every Friday, we turn it over

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Speaker 1: to the players. First, we start with our man, Kareem

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Speaker 1: Now he starts off, and you can see this on

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Speaker 1: the video when he starts off with Tyrn Matthew. He

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01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,000
Speaker 1: doesn't get an answer from Tyring, but he does eventually

1417
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: get one later on. But I just wanted to know

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01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: right off the bat, that's who Kareem is talking to

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01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 1: when he starts our Player Reporter. This week in Texans,

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Speaker 1: they got a couple of questions for you. Man. Know,

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Speaker 1: everybody's been requesting you to come on, or at least

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Speaker 1: I've been requesting you to come on. Get my views

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Speaker 1: going through the roof knows I'm not shout out alredy

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Speaker 1: Man my sponsors. I love you guys, running bottom of

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Speaker 1: my heart. You're invited to a house party. What are

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Speaker 1: you bringing? I'm gonna be I'm gonna be fat. I'm

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01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna say I'm gonna bring some food, some food, What type?

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Speaker 1: What name? One dish? You will bring one dish fried chicken?

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01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,759
Speaker 1: Fried chicken? Been not to a lad. He'll be pissed

1430
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: about that one. I'm gonna bring my brothers, my fellow offense. Whyman,

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01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: because we rolls a pack in a lamb, played the

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Speaker 1: having port. But y'all gonna eat. Ain't gonna bring no food.

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01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: I mean he's got the food. One bucket of fried

1434
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: chicken for the big dogs. Be like, I think one

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Speaker 1: of y'all could eat one bucket yourself. Depending who throwing

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Speaker 1: a party. All right, so let's say j Jo throwing

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Speaker 1: the party. What you're bringing? Nothing? Because I know Jj're

1438
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: gonna have everything he needs. So you one of those guys. Huh,

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01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: I was invited? He send me to bring nothing? So

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01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: what you want me to bring? Probably the last invite

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01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:37,799
Speaker 1: you get. I'm all about hospitality. I'm gonna bring some chips, yo. Yeah,

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01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: I don show up at the end. Hey, we're gonna

1443
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: throw a party. Then we need all that we need,

1444
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 1: all that my need is just bring the crew through.

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01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: Bring the crew, bring some of the guys that where

1446
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: that party can liven up, you know what I mean?

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: Have have some people that better hopeing some food they're

1448
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: already or y'all gonna starve. You ain't bringing no food

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Speaker 1: to nothing, y'all gonna start me to cook nothing. Y'all

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01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: don't want to eat anything that I could. I'll save

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01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: you from that, all right, cool, no cooking for you.

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01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 1: Then I'm bringing that a lotleha spirit you know that,

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01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: good vibes, and then some kind of food. I might

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Speaker 1: bring some dessert, what about you, big Red. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: order personal pieces for the whole party. Everybody get a

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Speaker 1: personal piece. Everybody get a little personal slaves piece. I'm

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: bigger party. I just about to say whatever that as

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01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: a huge party or no. And then I'm gonna bringing drinks. Drinks,

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Speaker 1: well at least you bringing something because it's I'm bring

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01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 1: one drink. We talked to one guy earlier, I want

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01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: to say no name after Blues said he wasn't bringing nothing.

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01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 1: That's about him though that are you going to bring yourself?

1463
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: And then eat up all your food and drink. Yeah,

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01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: he never invited to nothing. I'm happing he got came

1465
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Speaker 1: to that TV. Tyra mattew Man we out now those

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Speaker 1: Player Reporter segments that Kareem does are absolutely fantastic. They're

1467
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Speaker 1: so so funny. You gotta see him on video too,

1468
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: because some of the facial expression, some of the answers

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01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 1: that he gets, some of the way that you can

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01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: hear the retorts, but sometimes you got to see the

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Speaker 1: facial reactions and his when he gets an answer, when

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Speaker 1: he's talking to Alfred Blue and Alfred's like, I'm not

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Speaker 1: bringing anything. Three faces. Priceless, man, It's absolutely priceless. So

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Speaker 1: you gotta go check that out at Houston Texans dot

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Speaker 1: speaking of Tyron Matthew he did a sit down with

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Speaker 1: James Palmer of the NFL Network, and James is a

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01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: good buddy of ours. He was here working for CSN

1480
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: Houston for a couple of years as the beat writer

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01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: essentially for cs in Houston for the Texans, and then

1482
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,759
Speaker 1: when Houston folded, he moved on to the NFL Network

1483
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: and has just done a tremendous job covering the NFL

1484
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: for the NFL Network, and he had a chance to

1485
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:58,679
Speaker 1: sit down with Tyron Matthew and talk about any number

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01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 1: of topics they went on for a while. Well, we

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01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: on our site posted a little bit a kind of

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01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: a snippet from that video that James did, and you

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01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 1: can see on NFL three sixty. It's gonna be an

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01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: NFL Network this weekend. There's gonna be a longer form video.

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01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 1: As James told me. I texted him and asked him

1492
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: if he was okay with me playing. He said, oh, absolutely,

1493
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 1: he said, we'll have a longer form interview with Tyrone.

1494
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 1: Fact there'll be more that comes from this interview later

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01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: in the year, so I'll try and remember to give

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01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: that to you. But James did a really good job

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01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 1: interview with Tyrone. This is really really cool. This is

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01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:36,879
Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew with NFL Networks. James pamp oh Honey accepted

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01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: by the manager Tyron Matthew. Tyron Matthew, Tyrand Matthew with

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01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: his first big player that Kingston texted, So I want

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: to start this off by kind of surrounding it with

1502
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 1: the hurricanes. W don't you remember most about Katrina when

1503
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: you were thirteen years old? Chaos? Really, we decided to

1504
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 1: leave last minute, my whole family. It's about of us

1505
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 1: just scrambling trying to pile up in cars and then

1506
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: get on the road. Everybody just seemed miserable. Obviously, a

1507
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: bunch of families displaced. You know, you see guys in

1508
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: the shelter doing drugs. I mean, we were kids and

1509
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: we were all kind of exposed to it. But that

1510
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 1: was kind of like the safest place for us at

1511
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: the time. But then you come to Houston, and what

1512
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: was the reception when your family came to the Houston area,

1513
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: Because everything I've read is they kind of welcomed you

1514
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 1: guys with open arms. They did. We actually got an

1515
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: apartment complex right outside of Houston and Humble, Texas. For me,

1516
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 1: it was like a vacation, you know, almost Obviously I

1517
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: didn't really understand the stress. I just knew I didn't

1518
01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: have to go to school for a while. The people

1519
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: of Houston and the people of New Waters, we all

1520
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,640
Speaker 1: have this one thing in common, and it's just hurricanes

1521
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: kind of crazy here and all these years later, you're

1522
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:51,639
Speaker 1: back in the Houston area. Yeah, I guess life Cole

1523
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: School Circle, this city gave you refuge when you needed it,

1524
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: and now you were in the position to lend a hand.

1525
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,640
Speaker 1: Do you think of it? And that's sense. When I

1526
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: got released and Houston, you know, name popped up, Obviously,

1527
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: I thought about being close to home, But aside from that,

1528
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: you kind of think about all the people that have

1529
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 1: helped you along the way. And you know, I've had

1530
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: some good people in Houston that have helped me. You know,

1531
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: my foundation, everything I'm trying to do off the field

1532
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 1: is strictly devoted to kids. If I go to a

1533
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: boys and girls club and if I get to hang

1534
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: out with kids for an hour or two, trying to

1535
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: get them resources and encourage them and inspire them to

1536
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: really look past their difficulties and look towards some great

1537
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: For me, it's fulfilling because I know, at the end

1538
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:41,559
Speaker 1: of the day, I may be helping someone. Brady blowing

1539
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: over the middle off Tyren Matthew. You know, some people

1540
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:47,560
Speaker 1: can sitting in a great football player and tons of

1541
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: people screamed my name, Honey Badger, and that's cool. I

1542
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,720
Speaker 1: love playing football, but I think I love giving back

1543
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: more because I know if people didn't help me, I

1544
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't be half of the personal am the day, and

1545
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't be, you know, sitting in front of you.

1546
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm always conscious of that. Again, as

1547
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: I said earlier, you're definitely gonna want to catch the

1548
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: full interview of that as the year goes on. James

1549
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: texted me and told me that they'll have more of

1550
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: that interview with Tyron Matthew as the year transpires. So

1551
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: hopefully if the Texans are doing pretty well, that'll get

1552
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: some run on NFL Network. But great stuff there from

1553
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: James Palmer and also from Tyrant Matthew. And it's always

1554
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,639
Speaker 1: in the last segment where we give the final word

1555
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: to Drew Doherty. This week it's a former Texas tech

1556
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,759
Speaker 1: Red Raider, Kiki QT, trying to think how many Texas

1557
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,760
Speaker 1: tech Red Raiders that Texas have had over the years.

1558
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: B J. Simmons, I know that, I'm sure there's some others.

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01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: This one is the best, though. Kiki qt tremendous game

1560
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: last week against the Indianapolis Colts. Eleven receptions set a

1561
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: record dating back to the nineteen seventy AFL NFL Merger

1562
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,919
Speaker 1: eleven catches the most for a player in his debut

1563
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:03,520
Speaker 1: in NFL his street since nineteenth seventy's. That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable.

1564
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: He is a huge piece of this offense. We knew

1565
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,559
Speaker 1: he would be. It was just a matter of when

1566
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: we would see him. We saw him last weekend and

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01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:12,080
Speaker 1: now you get a chance to hear from him as

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01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: he sits down with Drew Doherty. It's the final word

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01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 1: of Drew Doherty this week gets ke ke qt. Thanks

1570
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: so much, fellas we got wide receiver kei kei qt

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01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: with us and keiki a nice debut. And I say

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: nice in quotes because that's what folks have described it as.

1573
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,200
Speaker 1: But you and a few other people have said, hey,

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01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: I left a little bit more out there. What do

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01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: you mean? All right? Um had to early drop. I

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01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: had a couple more during that game, so I could

1577
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: have had more than what I had, you know, but

1578
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:36,760
Speaker 1: I'm pretty satisfied with the alcohol. Well, how did it

1579
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: feel to finally get out there and be able to contribute?

1580
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 1: Because I know you were itching to go and you've

1581
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 1: done nice things in OTAs. You've done nice things that

1582
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: first started training camp, but then you're on the shelf

1583
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: for a little bit, all right. Yeah, you know I

1584
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: had a little set back here and there. I put

1585
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:49,879
Speaker 1: me out for a long time, you know. But most importantly,

1586
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: you know, I had to get him on body right

1587
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 1: just to be able to go out here and compete

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01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: on the highest level. Was there a welcome to the

1589
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: NFL moment in that first game for you? Obviously? Just

1590
01:17:57,800 --> 01:17:59,560
Speaker 1: warm ups, you know, just been in a stadium that

1591
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: was welcome to the NFL for me. So just to

1592
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: be able to and get my first catch, you know,

1593
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: just not dropping that and just getting some easy rds

1594
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Yeah. And you had a really tough

1595
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 1: catch there over the middle at one point where you

1596
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: kind of had to bend your body back and get it.

1597
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: You did that. You got some stuff on the jet sweeps.

1598
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: It's fun, I imagine to be able to contribute in

1599
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways, isn't it? All right? Yeah?

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01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: You know, just me, you know, being a small guy

1601
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: and a suppose some guy, you know, they like to

1602
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: movement around a lot, and just to be able to

1603
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: have the ability to get the ball in my hand

1604
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: in different kind of ways, is that what's fun? About

1605
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: this offense is the different weapons that are there. You're

1606
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: a weapon, Will Fuller, there's a weapon DeAndre. But you're

1607
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: all very very different, right, Yeah, that's why I said. Yeah,

1608
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, this is the closest thing

1609
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: to Texas Tech. So it's really at home for me.

1610
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: You know, just have all these you know, shuttles and

1611
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 1: motions and things of that nature. So just to be here,

1612
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: you know, af all of them a great spot. It's

1613
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: funny you say that about Texas Tech because a personnel

1614
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:48,679
Speaker 1: guy after the game that I was speaking with said

1615
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: that game, that thirty seven, thirty four overtime win over

1616
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: the Colts felt like a big twelve game. Is that

1617
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:56,559
Speaker 1: an accurate assess? Yeah? So you know, all the scoring

1618
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 1: and lay scoring, I'm pretty used to that, so you

1619
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: know that was you know, those my kind of games.

1620
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: You know, guys like to score a lot. Well, let's

1621
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:04,799
Speaker 1: keep the scoring going. Let's talk about the week ahead.

1622
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: The Cowboys come to town. It's a Sunday night matchup.

1623
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 1: What do you see from that secondary, the linebacking corps

1624
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: that the Texans are going to contend with? Oh yeah,

1625
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: you know, I have a very great upfront. You know,

1626
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 1: have great linebakers as well, and they have a pretty

1627
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 1: decent secondary guys. You know, but you know, we're not

1628
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: overlooking anyone this Sunday, so we'll be ready for the game.

1629
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: A lot's made of this rivalry. I think, much more

1630
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: on the fans side of things, you guys, correct me

1631
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, or more of just focused on getting

1632
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: out of that one in three spot. You want two

1633
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: and three after this definitely, you know right now, as

1634
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's one game at a time. You know

1635
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: that caused victory is behind us, So we're working on

1636
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: Dallas for Sunday. You're a Lufkin guy, you know a

1637
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: little bit about Dallas, you know a little bit about

1638
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: Houston now that you're living here. What do you sense

1639
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: of this rivalry that from the fans side of things,

1640
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:45,320
Speaker 1: I feel like it's pretty serious, you know, you know,

1641
01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: I feel like it's you know, it means a lot

1642
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:49,719
Speaker 1: to everybody around Texas. So this game I'm sure determined

1643
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people's team. So how special was it

1644
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 1: for you after the game you played last week? To

1645
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: see what Dez Bryant, a former cowboy and a Lufkin guy,

1646
01:19:57,479 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: said about you, You know, Kanna shocks me a little

1647
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: bit that he watching me as much as he does,

1648
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: because you know he's he's well on a bigger scale,

1649
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: you know. But I talked to him every chance I get.

1650
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: You know, he's a great men's warm my love. Yeah,

1651
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 1: somebody that's done a lot in the NFL. Imagine he

1652
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,639
Speaker 1: picked up some things, right, yeah, you know, just coming

1653
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: in before I came in, I actually seen him a

1654
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: couple of messages, you know, got him, got a little

1655
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: partners from him, you know, how to stay in this

1656
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: league and what's to do in this league. So he's

1657
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: very great. All right. How sited are you for Sunday night?

1658
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: Very side? You know night game doesn't get getting better

1659
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: than that, Kiki QT. Best of luck against the Cowboys.

1660
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again real soon, all right. Thank

1661
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 1: I know this probably has to be a little bit

1662
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: of a weird one for Kiki in some sense. He's

1663
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,839
Speaker 1: from Lufkin, which is also the home of one Dez Bryant.

1664
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: And I know Dez meant a lot and means a

1665
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: lot to Kiki QT. So I would imagine that Kiki

1666
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: grew up as a as a Cowboys fan. If it

1667
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 1: wasn't Cowboys fan, he was probably a Dez Bryant fan,

1668
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 1: no doubt. I know he was Dez Bryant fan. So

1669
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: he often was watching the Cowboys. And now he'll be

1670
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 1: facing the Cowboys on Sunday, playing an integral role in

1671
01:20:54,960 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 1: this game against them. Sunday Night against the Cowboys. That

1672
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 1: home game against them comes every eight years. Two thousand

1673
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: and two was the first one. It was such an

1674
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 1: amazing night. We made a documentary about it, a ten

1675
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: minute documentary. You got to see the fifty three spontsor

1676
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 1: by CDW on the inaugural game. It's great stuff and

1677
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: I was honored to be able to help in some way,

1678
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: and in that one I narrated it, so you definitely

1679
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: want to want to check that out. Two and ten

1680
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: it was ugly. Texans came in there too. The defense

1681
01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 1: really was not a great unit that year, and it

1682
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: kind of took that Cowboys game to start to show

1683
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:39,719
Speaker 1: that and then it was like, oh, this could nah,

1684
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 1: this may not be good. And the Texans obviously went

1685
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 1: from there to a six and ten record changes were made.

1686
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,360
Speaker 1: Two thousand and eleven, the team obviously won the AFC

1687
01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: South and it changed from there. But that two ten game,

1688
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: the trouble was signaled right there in week three when

1689
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys beat them in two thousand and ten, and

1690
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: then you got two thousand eighteen. Texans favored, as I

1691
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: said earlier, by three and a half coming off will

1692
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: win last week against Indianapolis Colts. The Cowboys are oh

1693
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: win two on the road, two and oh at home.

1694
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,720
Speaker 1: The Texans are own one at home. And if there's

1695
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,719
Speaker 1: one thing I know, Bill O'Brien and this organization want

1696
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: more than anything else, obviously super Bowl ring, but to

1697
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: get there, to win at home. In twenty sixteen, there

1698
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: were seven and one at home, seven and one. The

1699
01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: only loss was the Chargers. After that game against the

1700
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,679
Speaker 1: Raiders in Mexico City, it was only loss seven and one.

1701
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: They found a way at home to get the WS.

1702
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: That's the way this team has to be at home.

1703
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:41,640
Speaker 1: It has to be. It's very difficult to beat the

1704
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: Texans here. It has to be that way, as in,

1705
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: you don't beat the Texans there, as in if you

1706
01:22:47,240 --> 01:22:50,439
Speaker 1: see the Texans on your road schedule, you should be worried.

1707
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 1: That's gonna be an l That's what it has to be.

1708
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:55,760
Speaker 1: And look, there'll be Cowboys fans in the stands on

1709
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: Sunday night. I know that, I'm very I'm sure of

1710
01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: that they'll be will be loud, and it'll be it'll

1711
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: be a raucous environment. But this has to be a

1712
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: place where the Texans win and has to be an

1713
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: RG Stadium that is a place where the Texans completely

1714
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 1: dominate and takeover games. And this is where the fans

1715
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: have to be a big part of this. They've got

1716
01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: to go get it done. I've never seen a victory

1717
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: over the Dallas Cowboys, not in the regular season. I

1718
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 1: was there in twenty fourteen, covered the team as a

1719
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: silent reporter. Two ten, I was there covering the team.

1720
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: I was not here in two thousand and two. In fact,

1721
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: that was the only night that Texans beat the Cowboys.

1722
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: That's the only time it's happened. It happened on a

1723
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: Sunday night. So hopefully history will repeat itself this Sunday night.

1724
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: It's time to go get a w a lot of

1725
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 1: people to thank for our tonight's show. Got think Bill O'Brien,

1726
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: Mark vander Meer, Brian Gained, dpco, Benardrick McKinney, Tyrann Matthew,

1727
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 1: James Palmer, Drew Doherty, Key Key QT and of course

1728
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 1: our man Kareem Jackson with Player Reporter sponsored by Arctic

1729
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 1: Sunday Night's gonna be a big one. Everybody apreciate you

1730
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: to listen to me tonight. We will see you on Sunday.

1731
01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:05,960
Speaker 1: Be loud, be proud, let's go Texans.