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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Happy Monday to you from the

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Speaker 1: Monday Texans Radio studio. It is a Monday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, football Analyston's

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter. Still reeling a little bit from yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: we're beyond twenty four hours, so gotta let it go.

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Speaker 1: Goodwin for the Baltimore Ravens, not so great for the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, but a chance to get back up on

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Speaker 1: the horse that bucked you. On Thursday evening kick is

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Speaker 1: seven twenty two here at Energy Stadium against the Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: the first place Indianapolis Colts in the AFC South. Why

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Speaker 1: are they in first? Well, teams are both six and four,

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Speaker 1: and by virtue of the Colts win in Indianapolis in

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Speaker 1: week seven, Indianapolis would be the number three seed in

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Speaker 1: the AFC to Texans would be the number six right

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Speaker 1: now off the season end today, But it does not

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Speaker 1: end today, so we've got playing football left to play.

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Speaker 1: So is this end all be all? You'll lose this

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Speaker 1: game the season's over, No, not at all. But as

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Speaker 1: far as division hopes and dreams, if you will, this

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Speaker 1: one on Thursday becomes ultra important because of that Colts

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Speaker 1: win earlier than the season. If the Colts get a win,

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Speaker 1: then they've got the tiebreaker, the easiest tiebreaker, which is

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Speaker 1: they beat you twice. If the Texans win and then

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Speaker 1: somehow the Texans and Colts finished with the same record,

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Speaker 1: now you start going into common opponents, and the Texans

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Speaker 1: have got an advantage because the Texans will have beaten

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Speaker 1: the Chargers when the Colts didn't, they would have had

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Speaker 1: the same victories against the Chiefs. The Colts lost the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: the Texans beat the Raiders, so there's an advantage there

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Speaker 1: for the Texans as far as that goes. But this

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Speaker 1: tiebreakers and all that kind of stuff, but the Texans

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter all of tiebreakers if the Texans don't take

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Speaker 1: care of business on Thursday, because if the Colts sweep

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Speaker 1: the series, any tiebreaker goes Indianapolis's way, and not to mention,

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Speaker 1: they would be seven and four, you would be six

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Speaker 1: and five. If the Titans end up pulling off for

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Speaker 1: win against the Jaguars, you'd be tied with them for

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Speaker 1: a second place. And then oh boy, then you got

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Speaker 1: the Patriots coming into following Saturday. So as far as

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Speaker 1: important games, go this is that now, I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't know if this is the kind of team that

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Speaker 1: needs to know that. I think this kind of team

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Speaker 1: that just needs to go play ball and be consistent

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Speaker 1: and make plays. And if they do that, they'll have

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to win games. And I think they do

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Speaker 1: have to eradicate yesterday from the system. It happened, no

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Speaker 1: denying it happened. What did you learn from it? Apply

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Speaker 1: it to this one? What did you learn from the

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Speaker 1: lost Indianapolis? Apply it to this one? And hopefully the

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Speaker 1: application of those two things will get your w over

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. So we've got John McClean on the show.

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Speaker 1: We got Spencer tilm and Andre where we talk to

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Speaker 1: them and we're gonna have them for you to discuss

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Speaker 1: this one in particular and in their view, what went

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Speaker 1: wrong Sunday and how can that be fixed going forward?

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Speaker 1: And my biggest question was aberration or trend? And I

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Speaker 1: hope it's not a trend, and I don't think it is.

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Speaker 1: This team is too talented, has too many game breakers,

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Speaker 1: too many vets, too many guys that have been around,

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Speaker 1: guys that have played in playoff games, guys that have

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Speaker 1: won divisions, guys that have won big games at all levels.

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Speaker 1: Your quarterback has won a national championship. There are very

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Speaker 1: few of those in the NFL. So there's there. It

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Speaker 1: feels like an aberration, but there are things that I've

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Speaker 1: got to get cleaned up, There's no doubt. So we

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Speaker 1: will discuss all that later in the show. But it's

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Speaker 1: time to start with our hot Reids Hotter. He's brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Geico. Fifteen minutes can save you fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent or more on car insurance. And I would think

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Speaker 1: the biggest news to come out of today would end

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Speaker 1: up being the injury report. That's probably the biggest news Texans.

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Speaker 1: If they were going to work out, and that's the

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Speaker 1: key here. If these teams had conducted a workout, this

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Speaker 1: is what the injury report would look like. So both

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Speaker 1: conducted walkthroughs on Monday. The injury reports are only an

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Speaker 1: if you heard me relay this story. Yesterday in pregame,

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Speaker 1: what happened? Said, somebody just ran into him. And so

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Speaker 1: They tested him. He had concussion. He went into concussion

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Speaker 1: protocol and was listed as out because of that concussion.

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Speaker 1: player like Mike Adams back in this lineup. That was

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Speaker 1: so unfortunate what happened just in pregame, and it's inexcusable

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Speaker 1: of how well he apparently covers DeAndre Hopkins. But he

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Speaker 1: they're six weeks left and they're injuries. The Colt situation

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Speaker 1: Lonnie is not gonna be back and just the Read's

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. All Right, let's get to our next

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Speaker 1: hot read and that it's gonna be a little audio

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Speaker 1: jukebox Texans style. Let's go into the locker room and

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Speaker 1: let's meet Vernon Hargraves the third love having the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to do this, and Vernon talked about what the Texans

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Speaker 1: accolmated to the city. You know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: I'll be ready to go. Change of scenery can be good,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're coming to a winning organization, says Vernon. No,

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Speaker 1: I feel good, you know, being on the winning team.

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Speaker 1: It's different. The atmosphere is different, attitudes different, and you

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Speaker 1: know I like that. And uh, you know, like I said,

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Speaker 1: see how it plays out now. Vernon got claimed on

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Speaker 1: to play? Well, let Vernon tell you. We'll see whatever

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Speaker 1: it's a big playbook, depending on the game plan and

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Speaker 1: what they want me to do. Um, we'll see my body.

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Speaker 1: I'm healthy, I'm one hundred percent. I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, we'll see it. It's tough to

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Speaker 1: I have to learn new things out to communicate with

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Speaker 1: part of his diet going forward. It's just what was

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Speaker 1: called for yesterday based on how the Texans were trying

429
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Speaker 1: to take away the edges of the offense. Dre I

430
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 1: asked this of Mark and John. I'll ask you just

431
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Speaker 1: gut reaction, not knowing the medicals or anything else. T

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton Place Thursday night, Yes or no. I think

433
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: so it's a divisional game. They know how important this is.

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00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 1: It's basically for sole possession of first place. And I

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Speaker 1: think when if he is close to being healthy, that

436
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Speaker 1: he goes and this is a team that you know

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00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 1: he certainly has had some success against in the past.

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00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: I think they tried him out Thursday night and he's

439
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: raring to go. I feel like yesterday, Dre one of

440
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 1: the key aspects was it felt like the Ravens were

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Speaker 1: playing ten yards an end defensively, because really the only

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Speaker 1: challenge shot that they took down fields on that fourth

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00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: and two to Hopkins, which was the pass interference or

444
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: not against Marlon Humphrey. But it just feels like having

445
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Speaker 1: Will Fuller back is an opportunity to take three steps

446
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: and just start as far as you can, and Will's

447
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: challenge the defense it really kind of backs everybody off.

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Speaker 1: Plus Indianapolis has really never faced Will, to be honest,

449
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: he hasn't played against them, and I think having Will

450
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: back would be fantastic for that reason. Tred, do you

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00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: agree with that that a vertical component to the offense

452
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 1: would be really helpful right about now? Totally? I mean

453
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,199
Speaker 1: I was talking to Mark when we got on the

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00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: plane and I said, they sorely miss a deep threat,

455
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 1: a guy that can take take the top off the defense.

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00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: And Will Fuller is is that guy. And you know

457
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: he needs to heal up as quickly as he possibly can,

458
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: because guys are sitting on routes even you know the

459
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: little kind of walk off route that Hopkins does and

460
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 1: just turns around and then he gets seven to eight

461
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, first down as Deshaun gets it to

462
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 1: him quickly against his own covers. They were able to

463
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: take that away at certain points in the game and

464
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: almost baited to Sean into throwing an interception on a

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00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: couple of occasions on that particular route. Now, once they

466
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: start to sit, you've got to have somebody, some component

467
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: to go over the top to just soften the defense

468
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: enough so you can get back to what you were

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Speaker 1: successful with earlier. And it's right now, it's just not there.

470
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: Andre Ware joining us Dray College football. What'd you make

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Speaker 1: of the activities over the weekend, especially the injury to

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Speaker 1: two up. Yeah, that's tough because you know twas and

473
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Speaker 1: a lot of circles was going to be or is

474
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in the draft, and um,

475
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: a lot of teams are looking at him, love him.

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00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: He's a competitor, and you just hate to see, Uh,

477
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: anybody anybody take that, you know, whether injured that significantly,

478
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 1: and how it affects their future, how he comes back

479
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: from the injury, what's the the damage long term? You

480
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: just hate to see it. And he's a great kid.

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00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 1: I've got met him on several occasions covering Alabama games

482
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: and and uh and and just enjoy watching and play.

483
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: So we're kind of robbed in that sense of watching

484
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: watching him play and what he's able to do. And

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00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: I think Alabama long term, uh, they're going to suffer

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Speaker 1: from it because he's such a dynamic playmaker and a

487
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,479
Speaker 1: big part of their af constant. I don't think they

488
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: get anywhere close to being able to duplicate what he

489
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: does on the offensive side of it. So a lot

490
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: of upsets this weekend, Minnesota going down and across the board,

491
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. So it's it's getting interesting,

492
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: that's for sure, as we get closer to the end

493
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Speaker 1: of the college season. Drey, what do you got this

494
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: weekend in college football? Yeah, going to Tulsa. I've got

495
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: the Golden Hurricanes against the Cougs. So I'll make my

496
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: way there after ours on Thursday night and get to

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Speaker 1: Tulsa and uh and called out one and then get

498
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: some time off the rest of the weekend. Sounds good, Drey,

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00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, And we'll see at food Ruckers tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Who rall and he's bringing and in a Brinx truck.

501
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: He's bringing the Heisman trophy with him at food Ruckers,

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00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: Reach fifty nine and Wesley And if you want to,

503
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: I get accused. I get accused of bringing it or

504
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: having it on the hood of my car all the time.

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00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: I might bring it there with Well, seriously, it's heavy, right,

506
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 1: how very heavy. It's somewhere in the neighborhood of all right,

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00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: So we'll have it for you tomorrow food Ruckers, Wesleyan

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00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: and fifty nine. Andre on the show. It's a short week,

509
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do the Andre where our at fund Ruckers.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, for joining us. Dre. Awesome, guys, see

511
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. That's gonna be a fun time getting out

512
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 1: of the food ruckers to see Dre and the Heisman Trophy.

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00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: I've never actually touched hisman trophy, so I might have

514
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: to go just to maybe take a picture with it,

515
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: take a picture with Dre with it. I tell you

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00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: it's interesting being with Dre. We're out certain places. We

517
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: were in Charlotte a couple of years ago for a

518
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: preseason game and the three of us, Mark Andre, myself,

519
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: we were we kind of met up in a parking lot.

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00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: We're kind of going different directions. We all three were

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00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: kind of going to different directs, but we all met

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00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: a parking lots. We're sitting there talking and we can

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00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: see this guy walking up and he's got something in

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00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: his hand and we're just kind of eyeing him a

525
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: little bit and he said, excuse me, guys, um mister

526
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: where we used to honest for me? And it was

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00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: a guy that was collecting like Heisman autographs and he

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00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: had I want to say, he had him on a

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00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 1: Heisman helmet. And when he had heard that we were

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00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna be in Charlotte, he made the drive like two

531
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: hour drive or whatever it was to have Dre signed

532
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: the helmet, and we're just kind of looking at all

533
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: the different Heisman signatures and it just got me thinking

534
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: about what a cool club that must be to be

535
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: in in Andre's in that club, and it was kind

536
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: of neat yesterday to be there. And four Heisman Trophy

537
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: winners were in that building. Unfortunately, three were in purple,

538
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: and one of them had a really really good day

539
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens and I was mark Ingram. So

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00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 1: that's gonna be fun stuff tomorrow to get out out

541
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: there to fund Rutgers. The General John McClain had some

542
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: thoughts about this one coming up against the Colts. We'll

543
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: get that next on Texans Access. We're gonna one foul

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00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: segment this Monday edition of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris, already looking

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00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: forward to Thursday night kickoff seven twenty two. To be exact,

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00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: Be in your seats, be in your seats, and I'm

548
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: just gonna give you this heads up. Download the Texans

549
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: app if you haven't downloaded it obviously downloaded, if you

550
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: have already, If you already have a Texans app. Make

551
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: sure that you upload the latest update update your app.

552
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: Make sure you do that before coming into the stadium

553
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. If you're asking me why, I really

554
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: I would love to tell you. I would love to

555
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: tell you, and Marco will get mad at me. I

556
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: was sort of listening in our meeting this morning, and

557
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: sort of not because I was a thinking about the

558
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: game yesterday and I was thinking about the game on Thursday.

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00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: But there's gonna be a really cool pregame. That's all

560
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: I really can tell you. There's gonna be something cool

561
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: in pregame, and you need to have the most recent

562
00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: Texans app updated on your phone. Can you do that?

563
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:05,239
Speaker 1: Can you help me out, Houstonian, Houston Texans fans, you

564
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: can do this. You can do it. Update the Texans app.

565
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: Got it now? If you have the app already, you're

566
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: probably gonna push notification. If you're not share, then get

567
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: on Twitter and follow or get on all our social

568
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: media channels because there will be some stuff coming out.

569
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: But just a reminder download the app if you haven't already,

570
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: update the app before you get in the building on

571
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: Thursday for pregame, which is gonna be really cool. From

572
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: what I gather it's gonna be. It's like so over

573
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: my head, like I'm just the football guy, but I

574
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: got all these innovative and smart, cool people in my

575
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: department and they kick you know what, and it's gonna

576
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: be really really cool. So have the app updated on

577
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: your phone. I'll warn you the rest of the week,

578
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: but there isn't much of the rest of the week,

579
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. All Right, we caught up

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00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: with the general, get plenty of thoughts, and we did

581
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: not have to ask him what his grade report was

582
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: for this on Sunday. I did not read your report

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00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: card because I just kind of knew the recurring letter

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00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: that would be on a lot of the category. So

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00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: what do you think of what you saw yesterday? I

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00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: thought that John R. Ball and his staff and the

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00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: players did an incredible game plan and did a magnificent

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00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: job of carrying out that game plan on both sides

589
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: of the ball. A team that went in was sixteen

590
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: sacks at seven. They wore out the Texans throwing to

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00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: the tight ends and the running backs, not the wide receivers,

592
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson, to me, was even better than advertised.

593
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: Throwing the ball. Of course, he's a great runner, and

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00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: Texans run deepense had been so good. It's gone from

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00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: third to thirty I think twelfth or thirteenth right now,

596
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: going from a four game to one O two. And

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00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: the good thing about a Thursday night game, only two

598
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: good things about a Thursday night game is when you

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00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: get beat the game before you can get it out

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00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: of your system quicker, and then you have that long

601
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: break afterwards, which every team relishous. And I think the

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00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: calls they got bad injury situations. The t Y Hilton,

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00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: you guys know, it's his home, the way from home.

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00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: He's missed the last two games with a bad calf injury.

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00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: And you know when guys are hurting. They missed a

606
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: Sunday game, it's hard to come back on a Thursday.

607
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: They lost Marlon Mack when the end injury could be fractured.

608
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: Their receiver Paris Campbell hadn't played the last two games.

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00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: Rock you seen their good rookie went out with an

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00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: ankle injury. Pierre to Sere their corner who plays against

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00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. He's missed the last four games. So it's

612
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for both teams that lost games. Sunday

613
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: or we're missing the players Sunday to have them healthy

614
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: for a quick turnaround. Can you imagine if the Colts

615
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: had pulled those games out in Pittsburgh and Miami too great.

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00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I want to think about that,

617
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: but about the game against Both of those games were cast,

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00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: they lost them because Anna Minitary missed extra points or

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00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: field goals. And then yesterday, of course, to Kobe Brisette

620
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: comes back from a knee injury, and despite those touchdowns losses,

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00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: they win thirty three to thirteen, and they have two

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00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: one hundred yard rushers for the first time since eighteen

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Speaker 1: eighty five. All right, John, So I'm asking you the

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00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: question that I was thinking about, and it hit me

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00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: on the plane, and I actually heard Sean talking about

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00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: it this morning too. Do you since yesterday was more

627
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: an aberration or a trend, they gives more of an aberration.

628
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: They were played. It's like they were still on London time.

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00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: They played such a good game in London. Jacksonville's pass

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00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: rush is better than Baltimore. They give up one sack

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00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars, and then they give up seven yesterday

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00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: six against Watson. It happens you know, you spit it out,

633
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: throw it up. Whatever. The good thing about players is

634
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: they get they have to get over a loss and

635
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: a victory a lot quicker than the fans and the

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00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: media do week in our upon it all week, they

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00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: always turn their attention to the next team. And I

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00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: think the fact that it's Thursday game, plus it's against Indy,

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00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: plus it's for the first it's for first place in

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00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: the division, it's going to get their attention and we'll

641
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: see a different Texans team. Now the Colts. They cannot

642
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: lose to the Colts. They'd be one game behind in

643
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: the lost column in two games, buying in a tiebreaker.

644
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: To me, if they lose this game, they can just

645
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: about right off winning the division and they'll be competing

646
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: for wildcard. And I tell you this, I think they'll

647
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: win does one, and I think them to lose to Baltimore.

648
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: I think they'll win the next two, and I think

649
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: there's a good chance they could be back at him

650
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: in T Bank Stadium in the divisional round. Well right now, okay, okay,

651
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: oh yeah, right now, sign me up for that, because

652
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: that means I'll play the rest of the season. You

653
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: go to M ANDT Bank stadium in the divisional round.

654
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: That means I won the wild card weekend, that means

655
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: I won the division And all right, I'll take much.

656
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: I'll take a shot and you know what that or

657
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: I'll motivated. Well, they're gonna be super motivated anyway, it's

658
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, come on. But you know that could play

659
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: in your favor a little bit, although you know I

660
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: might be reaching there, and by might might be, I

661
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: mean actually reaching. John, you mentioned when the next two

662
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: that would include the New England Patriots, who were victorious

663
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: over the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday. I wasn't surprised they won.

664
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: I guess I was surprised it was seventeen to ten.

665
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: They had two weeks to prepare for that game, as

666
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: the Texans did for their game and Philadelphia. They played

667
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: great defense, course, but Philadelphia did a good job against

668
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: their offense. Their last two games, they've scored twenty and

669
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: seventeen against Baltimore and Philadelphia. And I don't know if

670
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: that is an admiration or a sign that thanks to

671
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: come for the Patriots, but their defense is really good too.

672
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: They have scored going into yesterday, they were the leading

673
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: team at scoring points in the first quarter, Baltimore was

674
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: two behind. It's amazing. After the first quarter, Ravens don't score,

675
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: defense is playing great, and then of course the roof

676
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: caved in. And so yes, I thought since the offseason,

677
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: barring debilitating injuries, they beat the Patriots and kept coming

678
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: so close in Foxborow, so they finally get them at

679
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: home where they've beat them once in their franchise history,

680
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: and I thought they'd win that game. John. Yesterday, after

681
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: the game, DeAndre Hopkins made a comment about the officials

682
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: or the officiating in New York, or on the replay,

683
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 1: or whatever the case might be. It feels like the

684
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: NFL putting in this offensive defensive pass interference being reviewed

685
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: has created even more conflict than maybe they thought it would.

686
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: I think they thought it would the things up. It

687
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: feels like it's made it more murky. Do you anticipate

688
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: a change to that rule or do you think the

689
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: NFL will continue with it being reviewable moving forward. No,

690
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: it's not even murky. I mean, he's not murky at all.

691
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: They'd only call three percent going into yesterday. It's a

692
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: waste to challenge interference. Now that being said, that was

693
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: a blatant interference call. Everybody saw it. Adam Gaze did

694
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: it yesterday. It actually won and that's the first time

695
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: a coach had gotten an interference called. Now, I didn't

696
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: see it. I told everybody the press box. They're not

697
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: gonna overchange that, they said, but it's blatant. I said.

698
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: It was put in for an egregious penalty like happened

699
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: in the NFC championship game in New Orleans. That was

700
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: not egregious like that one where everybody could see it. No, no,

701
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: no one could question it actually was clearly interference. But

702
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,479
Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't gonna get changed after the year though.

703
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: Get ready even the option of it and go back

704
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: to the way it was. Yeah, it's funny because we

705
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: saw it live, obviously, and on the broadcasts missed it live.

706
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: How did I don't know? Well, here's what's interesting that Well,

707
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: here's here's what told me it was interference. And this

708
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: goes to experience of seeing DeAndre Hopkins. This is the

709
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: way that I looked at it in a fifty fifty

710
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: ball situation. Have you ever seen DeAndre Hopkins not at

711
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: least get a hand on a close throw? No, he had,

712
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: and he had no shot because Humphreys is tackling Humphrey

713
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: is tackling him going down to the ground. And that's

714
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: why I knew it was interference right away, because Hopkins

715
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: gets to those passes all the time. He was shocked

716
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: they didn't fill the flag. But when I saw the

717
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: replay in real time, in in real motion right, so

718
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: not real time, but but actual you know, speed game speed,

719
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: I thought, there's no way they're overturning it, because they

720
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: don't overturn it, like the general said, unless the Saints game.

721
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: I knew they weren't going to overturn it. Yeah, I

722
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: got that. I got once he went to review. Like

723
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: I knew once I saw Bill throw the challenge flag.

724
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: The only thing at that point I'm thinking is well,

725
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: maybe he's maybe that's I don't know, I just knew

726
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: because they have not been successful. I mean, maybe Gay's

727
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: got one as a pity review. I don't know. I mean,

728
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: who who's to say with because it's the same ye

729
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: overturning it. It's the same guy making those decisions in

730
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, and yeah, I don't see that's a

731
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: big controversy. Like there there's a lot of people to

732
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: think out myrto river Rod needs to go and they

733
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: need to pay whatever Dean Blandino wants to come back.

734
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: But under the rules as they are down, Blandino may

735
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: not do any better. And add Opkins caught that touchdown

736
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: pass that he got me forty one to fourteen. Yeah,

737
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the reason they lost, and I

738
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: agree with that. I'll be very clear about that, and

739
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: I wrote about that. That is definitely not going to

740
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: change I think the outcome of the result of the game.

741
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: But it definitely game played out would have been much

742
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: different because now you take up well, you get the

743
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: ball out on the one yard line, and you'd assume

744
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: that you would score right there, you'd think. But and

745
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: what part of the game was that it was first half,

746
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: the first quarter, first quarter, that was mid way through

747
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Years Yeah, Tucker had missed the fuel

748
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: goal on the one side. You come back down and

749
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: you drive. That was fourth and two, So you would

750
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: get a seven nothing lead. That would be nice. And

751
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: you know, maybe things do play out a little bit differently,

752
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: maybe you hang in there longer. Clearly you do, all right,

753
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: So John, we were talking about it, this is likely

754
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: for the division on Thursday Night. If the Texans lose

755
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: this one and are battling for the wildcard position, who

756
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: are the hot contenders here? The Raiders look pretty good.

757
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers, I don't know if they have

758
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: any life left in them after that loss to Cleveland.

759
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: What do you make of the wildcard contenders for the

760
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: loser of Sunday or Thursday Night, Whether it's the cults

761
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: of the Texans. Well, I had even considered that to

762
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm still not really considering it because

763
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: I think they're going to beat the col But in

764
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: Kansas city's not ruled out as well, and so they

765
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: would love to have to be tied with Oakland in

766
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City because they beat both teams. And in the East,

767
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: I do not think Buffalo will be a factor. Don't

768
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: think the Bills are very good. They keep winning, but

769
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: they got a better record than the Texans and they

770
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: didn't play them, And then I don't see Pittsburgh anymore

771
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: as being a factor. Baltimore is running away with the division.

772
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: So I guess had come down to the second place

773
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: team in the West, the second place team in the East,

774
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: and the second place team in the South, and the

775
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: Texans have beat the West, John, I have made the

776
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: case for the Browns, and I know that sounds trying

777
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: to ridiculous when you hear it, But then when you

778
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: look at the schedule, and I know the Miles Garrett thing,

779
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: like I get that. But here's here's the Browns schedule

780
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: over the last six weeks of the year. Miami at

781
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,959
Speaker 1: home at Pittsburgh, which took out a whole different meaning now, yeah,

782
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: at home to Cincinnati, at Arizona home Baltimore. They'll lose

783
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: a one, and then at Cincinnati. But if Baltimore's got

784
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 1: it sins, I mean, who knows in the final games

785
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati. So you've got two Bengals, the Cardinals and

786
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and they're sitting at four and six. I

787
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: think the Browns could find themselves getting into this thing

788
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: at the very end, your agree or disagree, at least

789
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: just getting them in to maybe get an invite to

790
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: get close to the dance. They get close to the dance,

791
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: just as they did last year when they came on.

792
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: After they made the change for Greg Williams is an

793
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: interim coach and Freddie Kitchens as offensive coordinator, you know

794
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: they've lost their best defensive player. And yes, they played better,

795
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: but they're they're still They played Miami, so they ought

796
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: to be five and six right off the bad. But yeah,

797
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: they should win a lot of games. But man, they

798
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: have some ground to make up, you know, the two

799
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: games behind the Texans and Colts and Ravens. And it

800
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: could be done, of course, but I don't think so.

801
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: To back up your point on Buffalo, their schedule is

802
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: pretty tough down the stretch. They got the Patriots. Once

803
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: they got the Patriots, they got the Ravens, who have

804
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: the Steelers who who knows about you know how that

805
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: one's going to be. But they have the Cowboys on

806
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: the road. This is not an easy march for them.

807
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: John Jacksonville, you mentioned what the Colts did to them.

808
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: How surprised were you that the Jags didn't play better

809
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: with at least some kind of rejuvenation with Nick Foles

810
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: coming back into the lineup, Jose, They had no running

811
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: game whatsoever. I think for Nette had twenty three yards,

812
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: they had like twenty seven, and Vols had to throw

813
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: a lot of passes. He had two touchdowns one Inceptions

814
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: showed a little rust, which is to be expected when

815
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: he's coming back from a broken shoulder since the first

816
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: game of the season, but not running the ball better.

817
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: That surprised me. And one reason is the Colts kind

818
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: of edge. He Brisette didn't play great his dad's work,

819
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: but the Colts random ball that like the Ravens did.

820
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: They had one yard difference than the Ravens and they

821
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: average seven point seven and the Ravens seven point three. Now,

822
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: Mack looks like he's not going to play with his

823
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: hand injury, but his replacement, Jonathan Williams, he had over

824
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: one hundred yards and the Texans just led a back

825
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: up running back have over one hundred yards yesterday. So

826
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 1: if I'm if I am the Colts and I'm running

827
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: the ball, well, I'm gonna do try to do just

828
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: what the Ravens did. But you know they don't have

829
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. That being said, Jetoby Brisette had the highest

830
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: rating of his career against the Texans and he had

831
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: four touchdowns against the Texans, just like Lamar Jackson. His

832
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: shops John Ty placed Thursday yes or no, no, I'm

833
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: with him on this because you don't have much practice

834
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: time anyway. All right, folks, that's gonna do it big

835
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 1: thanks to John McClain to Andre Ware obviously the Vernon Hargraves.

836
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: Welcome Houston and Whitney Merciless as well. Big thanks to

837
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: Mark vandermer for participating, all you for listening, Thank you

838
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 1: so much, we'll see you next time and has always

839
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: go Texans,