Speaker 1: What's happened?
Speaker 2: Everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome into a Monday Nation of Texans all access from
Speaker 3: the Hyundai Texans Radio studio, a very happy studio after
Speaker 3: what happened Saturday afternoon at Energy Stadium. The Texans beat
Speaker 3: the Chargers thirty two to twelve. And yes, the Chargers
Speaker 3: were a three point favorite. It was a bye week.
Speaker 3: All the noise all week long didn't matter. The Texans
Speaker 3: were locked in, especially after six to nothing. I mean
Speaker 3: the outscored the Chargers thirty two to six from two
Speaker 3: minutes left in the second quarter on. That's amazing. That's
Speaker 3: the way you play ball. And you gotta do it
Speaker 3: again at an even higher level this week against the
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs. Appreciate you being with me John Harris,
Speaker 3: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. And we're
Speaker 3: gonna kick off the show with our good friend Andre
Speaker 3: where he hits the great stuff with me and Mark.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about that throw that drived ninety nine yards CJ.
Speaker 4: The Xavier Hutchinson play. He really got going. What do
Speaker 4: you think is going through his head at that point
Speaker 4: as he found a rhythm that we haven't seen consistently
Speaker 4: this year. It's been there at times, but man, it
Speaker 4: was really there rocking from that point forward.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would equate it to a basketball player that,
Speaker 5: you know, struggling in a game shooting and then all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, you hit a shot that gets you going.
Speaker 5: And I think that's what the erran snap over his
Speaker 5: head and then him grabbing it and going to X
Speaker 5: with it for the big game. That kind of got
Speaker 5: him going. That was the wake up call. He started
Speaker 5: throwing dots after that.
Speaker 2: It was it was just.
Speaker 5: Kind of fun to watch he and Nico fully take
Speaker 5: advantage of a matchup and that maybe the first time
Speaker 5: in two years that I've seen Bobby Slowick actually go
Speaker 5: after somebody. And Fulton was the guy number seven for
Speaker 5: the Chargers. They just started to target. They knew they
Speaker 5: could get inside on him anytime they wanted. Nico was
Speaker 5: just too physical for him to handle and that got
Speaker 5: CJ going as well, And it was just it was
Speaker 5: fun to watch the entire second half of how they
Speaker 5: played football on both sides along with special teams.
Speaker 1: Do you remember what I said, Mark, You and I
Speaker 1: were kind of talking. I can't remember. If you're on
Speaker 1: the air off and you asked me about Fulton. Do
Speaker 1: you remember what I told you about Fulton.
Speaker 6: Not as good as he wants to be?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said something that nature, probably in a different way,
Speaker 3: but yeah, we having seen him with the Titans, they're like, okay,
Speaker 3: well let's go after him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Trey's right, Trey.
Speaker 3: The scramble I said earlier, and not to be contrarian,
Speaker 3: but I'm like, I felt like the scramble a little
Speaker 3: bit later really charged up almost as much as to
Speaker 3: throw to X. I felt like the scramble because the
Speaker 3: way that CJ got up and he flexed and the
Speaker 3: crowd fed off of that. It felt like there was
Speaker 3: this crescendo of crowd noise after the scramble that was
Speaker 3: almost even more than when he dropped the snap and
Speaker 3: then found X. How much do you think that play
Speaker 3: kind of charged up everybody on the sideline when he
Speaker 3: took off. It's not something he's done a ton. He
Speaker 3: does it, but not a ton, But how much do
Speaker 3: you think that play? The scramble kind of charged everybody
Speaker 3: up as well?
Speaker 5: I think you know it was needed at the time,
Speaker 5: and so when everybody's kind of watching the game at
Speaker 5: that point, there's always a point in the game where
Speaker 5: the defense stops just being the defense and they become
Speaker 5: the team and the and vice versa.
Speaker 2: And by that, I mean, you.
Speaker 5: Know, you're on the sideline and you're going over stuff
Speaker 5: with Demico and whomever else, and your position. Coaches is
Speaker 5: now they're watching the game, and so they want to
Speaker 5: know what the offense is doing. And all of a
Speaker 5: sudden they see CJ break up play like that. Now
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, we're playing, well, let's take it to
Speaker 5: another level.
Speaker 2: It feeds and.
Speaker 5: Permeates through the entire team. And so that's what that
Speaker 5: play did. I don't know if it charged him because
Speaker 5: he needed charging before the completion the X. And once
Speaker 5: that happened, it allowed all the other stuff after that
Speaker 5: to follow Trey.
Speaker 4: This defense. What they did to Justin Herbert, my goodness.
Speaker 4: And it all starts up front with the pressure, right,
Speaker 4: those guys just collapsing the pocket, making life a little
Speaker 4: bit less comfortable for him.
Speaker 6: How did you see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And there wasn't a whole lot of blitzing being done.
Speaker 5: It was just, you know, I'm gonna beat my guy
Speaker 5: to the quarterback. They're getting tremendous push in the middle
Speaker 5: and then on from the outsides. And we talked about
Speaker 5: this at nausea that we felt like the team of
Speaker 5: the two best edge rushers that gets home the most
Speaker 5: was going to win the ballgame. And I'll tell you
Speaker 5: what if they weren't getting home, they were close to
Speaker 5: getting there where he got uncomfortable, he made throws late,
Speaker 5: they clouded his vision. It did everything they needed to
Speaker 5: do up front in terms of dominating the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: And by the way they you know, we talk about
Speaker 5: the pass rush so much, they didn't allow very much
Speaker 5: to go on on in the ground game as well
Speaker 5: either in the second half. So it was it was
Speaker 5: just a fun game to watch. After they finally got
Speaker 5: that thing, kicks started. You're trying to rev up the
Speaker 5: old motorcycle and they won't start, and then finally, you know,
Speaker 5: you kick it one more time. Kicks started one more time,
Speaker 5: and it fires. It was a beautiful sound.
Speaker 3: Hey, did you guys know that Kamari last year ran
Speaker 3: a four to six to combine.
Speaker 6: J'll know that. Yeah, he's way he's slow.
Speaker 1: He ran he ran a four walls.
Speaker 2: You know that. I hate to use a cowboy reperend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he only.
Speaker 5: Went down as one of the best corners in the league,
Speaker 5: and it's that's the fastest he ever ran was four
Speaker 5: to six.
Speaker 3: You know, Dre, I felt like that that play he makes,
Speaker 3: he's done that twice now because I want to say
Speaker 3: in the Lions game, we turned the ball over and
Speaker 3: he picked off the very next pass or something close
Speaker 3: to it. In the Lions game in the south end zone,
Speaker 3: he did it again. But the play to me that
Speaker 3: he makes on Darius Davis, the Herbert swings it out
Speaker 3: to him, and there's really one guy that can make
Speaker 3: the tackle, and Kamari he makes as good a form
Speaker 3: tackle as you're gonna make out in space. I think
Speaker 3: that being for a TfL. But what this guy is
Speaker 3: doing opposite Derek Stingley, because we're finding out teams aren't
Speaker 3: gonna challenge Stingley, but they're going after or gonna try
Speaker 3: to go after Kamari and he's answering the bell, Dre,
Speaker 3: how important do you think that has been to this
Speaker 3: defense that Kamari has stepped up and giving them both
Speaker 3: run and pass.
Speaker 1: The play that he's given him this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the run has come along as the
Speaker 5: season's progressed.
Speaker 2: He is a willing hitter.
Speaker 5: I will say that he does not shy away from contact.
Speaker 5: He likes explosive plays. I played with the guy at
Speaker 5: the University of Houston. I bet you he couldn't break
Speaker 5: four six And Johnny Jackson went on to the San
Speaker 5: Francisco forty nine ers and won a couple of Super
Speaker 5: Bowls while he was out there. But you talk about
Speaker 5: a tremendous athlete hand and eye coordination, Kamari reminds me
Speaker 5: of him so so much. You get him on a
Speaker 5: basketball court, He's gonna make all the steals. He's gonna
Speaker 5: make plays in whatever game that he's in because he's
Speaker 5: so dang athletic.
Speaker 2: And I think they've gotten it right on both sides.
Speaker 5: Obviously with Stingley and now Lassiter, Bullock is a stepping
Speaker 5: stone Murray. When they needed a play, he stepped up
Speaker 5: and made a play. So everybody in that secondary, not
Speaker 5: only Kamara, it was everyone making plays in the secondary
Speaker 5: while the defensive line in the front seven were doing
Speaker 5: their things. But you need a player like that where
Speaker 5: you just can't explain how he gets from A to B.
Speaker 5: But guys that can play with pads on. It's why
Speaker 5: the forty isn't a necessary or the end game when
Speaker 5: it comes to can you play or not? If you
Speaker 5: can get from A to B with pads on, you
Speaker 5: can play as fast as a guy.
Speaker 2: That runs four to three.
Speaker 5: And that guy that runs four to three put pads
Speaker 5: on him and he turns into a four to six
Speaker 5: for seven to the guy because he doesn't know how to
Speaker 5: carry his pads.
Speaker 4: So this was the number one scoring defense in the league.
Speaker 4: You put up thirty two. I know that nine came
Speaker 4: from the two point conversion turn.
Speaker 2: All right, let's say.
Speaker 4: You're right, because if you're the number one scoring offense
Speaker 4: in the league, if the defense has a couple of
Speaker 4: touchdowns in there, they count on your numbers. Okay, So whatever,
Speaker 4: you put up thirty two points and dre At the
Speaker 4: end of the day, you look up, Nico has a.
Speaker 1: Team record for a.
Speaker 4: Receiver in the postseason one hundred and twenty two yards
Speaker 4: on seven catches. Mix in one hundred and six yards.
Speaker 4: CJ goes over too eighty. The offense did its thing.
Speaker 4: But let's talk about Nico for a moment. This is
Speaker 4: a rhetorical question. How good is he? That's pretty good.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good stuff. That is pretty good stuff from
Speaker 4: number twelve on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd go all the way back to training camp.
Speaker 5: There's just been a look about him since the year started.
Speaker 5: He had a tremendous offseason where he just looks the
Speaker 5: part and you could tell he had set himself up
Speaker 5: to have a big year with everything that was coming
Speaker 5: in around him, Tank.
Speaker 2: Was going to be back. Here comes Diggs.
Speaker 5: Am I still the man and you see him at
Speaker 5: training camp and how he worked, how he's gotten his
Speaker 5: body in shape. He is a specimen now when you
Speaker 5: see him pre game, you see him out in practice,
Speaker 5: the guy looks like he can just take over a game,
Speaker 5: and now he believes it. So you get the physical part,
Speaker 5: match in the mental and he's playing with a tremendous
Speaker 5: amount of confidence.
Speaker 2: That's how you turn into a Pro Bowl player.
Speaker 5: Now that that's exactly what's happened, and he knows there's
Speaker 5: certain corners in this league that I can take advantage of.
Speaker 5: Throwing an extra year of experience where you know how
Speaker 5: to watch film and attack guys. Now your game goes
Speaker 5: to an even higher level. And I think that's what's
Speaker 5: happened with him. He's a tremendous player that you can
Speaker 5: lean on weekend and week out.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's going to be like for Harbaugh
Speaker 3: to sit over there and watch his guy guy he recruited,
Speaker 3: brought to Michigan just Waylane just putting it on him.
Speaker 3: Because Nico's fantastic, so is Joe. And that leads me
Speaker 3: to this question, speaking about Joe and the run game
Speaker 3: and the way they were able to finish well this
Speaker 3: we're both y'all. Do you think that this current combination Laramie, Titus, Jarrett,
Speaker 3: Juice and Blake do you think this is the best
Speaker 3: combination a that we put on the field and be
Speaker 3: the best one going forward?
Speaker 2: Drag, I think it's the best so far to this point.
Speaker 5: And you know, I don't know how you disrupt it.
Speaker 5: You get a little more athletic, you get a little
Speaker 5: more youth, which scrugs the right guard, and I don't
Speaker 5: know how much how much more not to you know,
Speaker 5: pick on Shack when he's injured, but I don't know
Speaker 5: how much you were gonna get there, how much more?
Speaker 5: Patterson seems to be playing well at center and uh.
Speaker 2: And Titus is settling in and left guard.
Speaker 5: So you have the other two components with Blake Fisher
Speaker 5: at right tackle.
Speaker 2: I've always liked Blake. I think he's athletic.
Speaker 5: I think, you know what, he really makes his mind
Speaker 5: up that this is what he you know, he wants
Speaker 5: to be really good at this, and he's still a
Speaker 5: young player. There's us so there's some things that are
Speaker 5: important to him as as well. But when he makes
Speaker 5: up his mind from a maturity standpoint that this is
Speaker 5: what he wants to do and he wants to be
Speaker 5: good at it, he the you know it, there's no
Speaker 5: ceiling for him. He can be as good as he
Speaker 5: wants to be. And so, yes, this is the best
Speaker 5: offensive line combination certainly that I've seen this year. But
Speaker 5: it may be that way going forward. And then you
Speaker 5: start to fill in around these guys.
Speaker 4: Mark the way I like to manage. I would ask
Speaker 4: CJ and Joe, what do you guys think? What do
Speaker 4: you guys think of what's up front? Ask him crows
Speaker 4: are not around, I would ask them because knows CJ
Speaker 4: will tell you who's who he's confident with at what
Speaker 4: spot and where the trouble comes from, and what he's
Speaker 4: thinking about. And look, that's not the final decision maker.
Speaker 4: But to me, I think the input of those guys
Speaker 4: is really important because they're the ones who have to
Speaker 4: deal with it directly.
Speaker 6: And you know, we all we are.
Speaker 4: All affected by what happens with the play of any
Speaker 4: position on the field.
Speaker 1: Dre Here we go to Kansas City.
Speaker 4: The last time they played a meaningful game was Pittsburgh,
Speaker 4: and that's the only game they've played since playing the
Speaker 4: Texans that was meaningful Christmas Day. They played Pittsburgh on
Speaker 4: Christmas Day, four days after they played the Texans, and
Speaker 4: that was it. So by the time we played them,
Speaker 4: it's twenty three days later that they play a game
Speaker 4: with quote their starters, And here we go against Kansas City,
Speaker 4: a team that is hungry for another Super Bowl and
Speaker 4: they feel like it's their birthright to get back.
Speaker 6: What do you think of the matchup?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, when you come out of it as
Speaker 5: the number one seed in the regular season, you're thinking
Speaker 5: we're going back. But they have sat for a while,
Speaker 5: so it's not the same team. I think it's paramount
Speaker 5: that the Texans get an early lead. If you can
Speaker 5: go up by let's say ten points, you get a
Speaker 5: ten to nothing lead in the first quarter, by the
Speaker 5: end of the first quarter. Now you've got them doubt
Speaker 5: whether or not they should have sat. They're thinking about
Speaker 5: everything else except what's in front of them.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 5: I know that we've been there before and things have
Speaker 5: happened where you jump out.
Speaker 2: Twenty four or nothing, and then it happened and it collapsed.
Speaker 5: But that's a totally different team, same quarterback on the
Speaker 5: other side, but a totally different team on this side.
Speaker 5: So I think it's paramount that you get a lead early.
Speaker 5: You may compress a little bit, make them start to
Speaker 5: doubt whether or not they should have been sitting or playing,
Speaker 5: and things of that sort. But because that's gonna be
Speaker 5: what a little over three weeks of just not having
Speaker 5: timing the speed of the game, and it certainly speeds
Speaker 5: up when you get to the playoffs. I talk about
Speaker 5: this with you guys all the time, that in the
Speaker 5: preseason there's a pace. When the regular season starts, there's
Speaker 5: a pace that gets a little faster, and when the
Speaker 5: playoffs start, everybody you're not saving anybody anymore.
Speaker 2: It's why you see quarterbacks running.
Speaker 5: Josh Allen running quarterback draws and powers and things of
Speaker 5: that sort.
Speaker 2: The same with Jaden Daniels. Yes, last night in the
Speaker 2: game against Tampa.
Speaker 5: There's no more saving it because it's a loser, go home.
Speaker 5: And so I think you get a lead in Kansas City, Hey,
Speaker 5: you empty the tank, no Man, and see if you
Speaker 5: can get that thing to the finish line.
Speaker 3: On the other side of the AFC bracket, it is
Speaker 3: Superman against Action Jackson. As the ESPN put it, it's
Speaker 3: Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson. The last time they met
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, it was Josh Allen. That was the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty season. Josh Allen and the Bills beat the Ravens.
Speaker 3: But there's one big difference. The King resides now in Baltimore,
Speaker 3: and the Ravens might be I don't even know what
Speaker 3: they might be. They are the best team right now
Speaker 3: because it feels like nobody is stopping what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But they have to go to Buffalo.
Speaker 3: When these teams met this year in Baltimore, Buffalo got hammered.
Speaker 3: Dre How do you see this Baltimore Buffalo game. I
Speaker 3: don't know if anybody's gonna get hammered, but I do
Speaker 3: think this could be outside of our.
Speaker 1: Game, is gonna be the best game of the week.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about Buffalo and Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, I think it will be.
Speaker 5: But I just want to know, how is this even
Speaker 5: a conversation with who's the MVP? And it could be
Speaker 5: a game where it's a de facto MVP game with
Speaker 5: the winner takes on the MVP. To me, it's already
Speaker 5: one when you throw forty something touchdown passes. Whatever he's
Speaker 5: done on the ground, he's outperformed years and where.
Speaker 2: He's been the.
Speaker 5: MVP in two prior years, how do how is Lamar
Speaker 5: Jackson not the MVP of the league? And so h
Speaker 5: what is Josh Allen thrown like twenty eight touchdown passes? Yeah,
Speaker 5: they've won games, but uh, it's it's it's My.
Speaker 2: Vote would go to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: And as far as the game goes, I think they're
Speaker 5: a team that's built that can go anywhere. If Buffalo,
Speaker 5: if the type of weather awaits the Ravens that they
Speaker 5: had in uh in Buffalo yesterday or whatever they played
Speaker 5: day before yesterday, Uh, then the Ravens have a big
Speaker 5: time chance. It's because they are built for cold weather.
Speaker 5: They're built for just about anything that and I would
Speaker 5: think even more so than the Bills, who would have
Speaker 5: the advantage of playing at home.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I thought that Josh Allen was putting together an
Speaker 4: MVP campaign, but Lamar.
Speaker 2: Look at the stats.
Speaker 6: He passed them down the stretch. Yeah. Yeah, because when.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'd rather be Action Jackson or Superman.
Speaker 2: I think Superman more powers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see me, Baltimore favored by one point on the road.
Speaker 1: On the road.
Speaker 4: Well, I understand why because you feel like, all right,
Speaker 4: the Bills are going to make plays, but will they
Speaker 4: be able to stop the Ravens?
Speaker 6: Just stop them?
Speaker 4: You know, there's no question the Bills can make plays.
Speaker 4: Look the quarter and one more note on the quarterbacks here,
Speaker 4: Josh Allen likes to run them with the football. We've
Speaker 4: seen it, Okay, it happens, Lamar Jackson. Last I checked. Yes,
Speaker 4: he throws it at a high level. No one's saying
Speaker 4: these guys can't throw the ball, but they like to
Speaker 4: use the run in their game.
Speaker 6: So with c JR.
Speaker 5: Think about this for a second. You just talked about
Speaker 5: those two guys. Johnny talked about the effect of cj
Speaker 5: when he pulled it down, and maybe that's what I
Speaker 5: think it was. Twenty seven yards and how that just
Speaker 5: got everybody.
Speaker 2: Fired up and going. Everybody's using if you have.
Speaker 5: One, you're using them to run with because now you're
Speaker 5: forcing the defense to defend the entire field as well
Speaker 5: as an eleventh man. And it kind of goes to
Speaker 5: the advantage because you know what's going on. That guy
Speaker 5: knows exactly what's happening around man when to take off.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about it. It's not just taking off out.
Speaker 5: Of necessity, it's win how can I help the team
Speaker 5: to do it? Yeah, and so when you have that weapon,
Speaker 5: that type of weapon, boy doesn't give you an advantage.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's what I'm thinking with CJ.
Speaker 4: Like he has to use that a little more well
Speaker 4: carefully of course, but he has to be able to
Speaker 4: implement that. And I know he's done it, but that
Speaker 4: was so effective the other night.
Speaker 6: I mean, look at Jaydon.
Speaker 5: This was the prize j Yeah, it's a surprise of
Speaker 5: CJ because you just don't see him do it a
Speaker 5: whole lot, but it's there. And when he takes off,
Speaker 5: it's not like guys are running him down, you know,
Speaker 5: he is. He's got some athletic trades to him that
Speaker 5: I think fans maybe are seeing for the first time,
Speaker 5: but I don't think it's any surprise to his teammates.
Speaker 6: All Right, Drey looking forward to it. Can't wait for Saturday.
Speaker 5: Let's do it, man, get us a good barbecue dinner
Speaker 5: and yeah, they can have a nice call.
Speaker 1: Damn right, can't wait for that one.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to another trip to Arrowhead on Friday for
Speaker 3: the game on Saturday. Three point thirty is the kick
Speaker 3: Saturday Games, Lions Commanders after hours. That's gonna be after hours.
Speaker 3: So we're going Texans in Chiefs in Kansas City. Then
Speaker 3: you got Lions and Commanders. On Sunday, you've got mamar
Speaker 3: v Josh Ravens, g Bills, and you've got the Eagles
Speaker 3: against the winner of tonight's game that you'll be here
Speaker 3: right here on sports Radio six ' ten. You've got
Speaker 3: the Rams and Vikings in Glendale, Arizona. Winner of that
Speaker 3: will play the Eagles. That's gonna be your final eight. Texans, Chiefs, Lions, Commanders,
Speaker 3: Bill's Ravens Eagles winner Tonight. Texans are one of the
Speaker 3: final eight yet again. Hopefully they could be one of
Speaker 3: the final four, and then one of the final two
Speaker 3: and then one of one boy. That would be awesome,
Speaker 3: especially with it in New Orleans this year. Okay, we
Speaker 3: get back a guy that has seen many of those
Speaker 3: Super Bowls when John McClain he joins us next right
Speaker 3: here in Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, let's get it done.
Speaker 3: On a Monday edition of Texans All Access from the
Speaker 3: Hundai Texans Radio studio. I am John Harris, football analyst,
Speaker 3: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's time to
Speaker 3: talk to our pal, John McClain, the General, the Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer man. We had good stuff to talk about,
Speaker 3: which on not just with the Saturday went over the Chargers,
Speaker 3: but the New England Patriots have a new head coach
Speaker 3: and we know him. Mike Vrabel will get John's thoughts
Speaker 3: about that and all of it right here.
Speaker 4: Let's bring on John McLean here, the General. So Texans
Speaker 4: get the dub. They were under dogs, the world seemingly
Speaker 4: picking against them, but they prevailed.
Speaker 6: How to just see it? How's it going?
Speaker 7: I certainly piked against them. I beg the Chiefs to win,
Speaker 7: I mean the Chiefs. I begged the Chargers to win
Speaker 7: twenty seven to twenty. I'd never seen anything this season.
Speaker 7: That made me think the Texans were going to play
Speaker 7: a complete game like that totally dominate the Chargers up
Speaker 7: front on both sides of the ball. You know, after
Speaker 7: that slow start, I'm sure with what five series in
Speaker 7: a row didn't do anything. And it's like I wrote
Speaker 7: my column today for Houston Texans dot Com that played
Speaker 7: by Stroud on this ramble and the thirty four yard
Speaker 7: completion will go down as one of the greatest in
Speaker 7: franchise history because it turned around the team. It turned
Speaker 7: around strout that had gotten off to a bad start.
Speaker 7: It was amazing how that one play could transform a
Speaker 7: team defense was already playing great, and man, oh man,
Speaker 7: what it did for the offense and that last series
Speaker 7: in which they had thirteen consecutive runs Joe Maxon had
Speaker 7: eleven of them, I think like fifty five yards. That
Speaker 7: in the offensive line dominated the Chargers up front, and
Speaker 7: the Chargers are noted for having one of the most
Speaker 7: physical lines in front sevens in football, and the Texans
Speaker 7: just splattered them all over the turf. And with Joe
Speaker 7: Mixon scored at the end on that seventeen yard run
Speaker 7: to top it all off, that was amazing and it
Speaker 7: was an afternoon of amazing achievements the Texans. And I'll
Speaker 7: say one thing about this Saturday's game. If the Texans
Speaker 7: have played at Baltimore, I can't imagine anybody would think
Speaker 7: they could beat the Ravens considering their zero to five
Speaker 7: against Lamar Jackson at none have been close but Kansas City.
Speaker 7: If the defense plays the way it played, especially with
Speaker 7: the pressure. And remember they didn't get to my homes
Speaker 7: at all in that twenty seven to nineteen loss. But
Speaker 7: if they do, they got a chance to shock the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be nice to them to shock the world.
Speaker 1: One of the things they're going to.
Speaker 3: Have to do is find their offense earlier than when
Speaker 3: CJ dribbled the ball on the backfield, got it and
Speaker 3: then found Exavier Hutchinson. And we talked about the scramble.
Speaker 3: What do you think do you think that played? John
Speaker 3: just kind of unlocked the box for CJ when he
Speaker 3: makes the throw to X And why do you think
Speaker 3: that was?
Speaker 7: If that is the case, well, I guess we should
Speaker 7: give Jared Patterson some credit because if the n's not
Speaker 7: snapped the ball when he was supposed to, and Stroud
Speaker 7: admitted he was looking at the coverage didn't never what happened.
Speaker 7: I don't know what a play like that does. And
Speaker 7: Dimiko said, you know, ignited the entire team. But the
Speaker 7: defense had been playing great before that bell them out
Speaker 7: on that after that turnover limited the Chargers to a
Speaker 7: field goal. But whatever it did, it transformed the offense.
Speaker 7: And if you go back and look from the time
Speaker 7: they got the ball deepen their territory and faced third
Speaker 7: and sixteen and still managed to score a touchdown and
Speaker 7: the field goal during the short time limit. Man oh
Speaker 7: Man was that impressive. And another big play in the
Speaker 7: game of big plays was CJ's twenty seven yard run.
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people around the country didn't
Speaker 7: think he could run like that. I'm wondering if Bobby Slowick,
Speaker 7: who she deserves a lot of credit after he's gotten
Speaker 7: most of the plane. So the offensive struggles and inconsistency
Speaker 7: this season that some of the calls he made that
Speaker 7: worked out I think were terrific. And I wonder, now,
Speaker 7: when you see so many quarterbacks who are running the
Speaker 7: ball effectively, if the Chiefs don't have to beware of it,
Speaker 7: or Bobby might actually have a couple of designed bootlegs
Speaker 7: where He's not in a lot of traffic. And I'd
Speaker 7: feel better about Stroud if he learned to slide like
Speaker 7: he's going into second base, not going down on his
Speaker 7: knees or head first. Just act like you're stealing the base.
Speaker 4: You know what number jumps out to me about Kansas
Speaker 4: City's last meaningful game against Pittsburgh, It was four days
Speaker 4: after the Texans and Chiefs played at Arrowhead.
Speaker 6: The Steelers lost that game.
Speaker 4: They ran for two hundred two yards, and it wasn't
Speaker 4: like there was a huge chunk. The longest run of
Speaker 4: the day was twenty two yards, and it wasn't like
Speaker 4: Wilson did a ton of it. He had fifty five,
Speaker 4: but Harris and Warren at seventy four and seventy one respectively.
Speaker 4: In general, is this Joe Mixon ground attack? Is this
Speaker 4: something they could take on the road with them along
Speaker 4: with their defense and have it be a huge factor
Speaker 4: at Arrowhead?
Speaker 7: Well, you would think, though, Now Joe had gone what
Speaker 7: five games out one hundred yard game, and now he
Speaker 7: just got his eight seven during the season, and so
Speaker 7: the Chiefs are going to be ganging up on him.
Speaker 7: That's why I'd like to see Stroud not just run
Speaker 7: play action with mixing, but take it and roll out,
Speaker 7: giving the option to run or throw. Remember when Matt
Speaker 7: shab used to do that so well under Kubiek, we
Speaker 7: never thought about Matt running. When he did, he was
Speaker 7: like a stork. But Straud can turn it on and
Speaker 7: they're gonna have to do something to loosen up the
Speaker 7: Chiefs defensive defensive line in the front of seven because
Speaker 7: they're going to be gunning to stop Joe Mixon and
Speaker 7: get them in third and long. Texans were in third
Speaker 7: and nine or long ninety one times. That was the
Speaker 7: second most in the league to Cleveland, and they were
Speaker 7: able to largely avoid that against the Chargers. And this
Speaker 7: team's got to have so much confidence right now. And
Speaker 7: I think it's good that they've played at Arrowhead this season.
Speaker 7: They lost by eight points. They didn't sack my homes.
Speaker 7: I think what one time? And Oh, let me ask
Speaker 7: you guys a question. Was Christian Harris hurt he barely
Speaker 7: played or do you think that is a game plan?
Speaker 4: He was shaken up at one point, So I'm not
Speaker 4: sure what the status is going to be now.
Speaker 3: This is what I said going into the game, because
Speaker 3: everybody was like, oh, Christian Harris is in disease. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you're gonna take one of the best defenders you've had
Speaker 3: all year off the field. Well, exactly, Henry has been
Speaker 3: one of your three best defensive players this year and
Speaker 3: one of the defenses that has been excellent.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's more that than anything else.
Speaker 3: And you know, look general, going into this game against
Speaker 3: Kansas City, you think back to last year against Baltimore,
Speaker 3: this team was not healthy. The D line in particular,
Speaker 3: they were not healthy at all. And now you're going
Speaker 3: in with a pretty healthy unit. And now you've got
Speaker 3: three healthy linebackers that you can use in the multitude ways.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, by the way, Causease did get hit
Speaker 3: in that area, that's what that why he left?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I watched the game again Sunday, and as soon as
Speaker 3: I saw the replay from the sideline, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why he went out.
Speaker 1: But do you end up being okay?
Speaker 3: And I and I thankful because you know a lot
Speaker 3: of times I get the injury report from the sideline
Speaker 3: from Everett and he was like, you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon questionable ankle. I mean, what would he has
Speaker 3: said to me about disease if that would have happened
Speaker 3: at that particular point. But general you mentioned it, how.
Speaker 1: Valuable falls yeah, footballs?
Speaker 3: How how valuable is the experience of going to Arrowhead
Speaker 3: just recently? And I know once we walk in that building,
Speaker 3: I know for a lot of people might be remembering
Speaker 3: what happened to Tank Dell. But how valuable do you
Speaker 3: think that experience is? Even though it's the playoffs? You've
Speaker 3: been there, you played before. I mean, look twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: you had that same experience and then you got trounced.
Speaker 1: What do you think that experience is like for this year?
Speaker 3: Going back into Arrowhead, a place where he lost by eight, I.
Speaker 7: Think that's good, especially since it was late in the season.
Speaker 7: It's not like it was the first month and Chiefs
Speaker 7: turn it on. They're undeating it home this year. Of course,
Speaker 7: they only lost two games in the last one they
Speaker 7: just gave away, and they're trying to win that third
Speaker 7: Super Bowl and to win fifteen games. You think they'd
Speaker 7: been dominant. They didn't score thirty points. Texan's always scored
Speaker 7: thirty twice against the Patriots and the Cowboys. So everybody's
Speaker 7: saying take the under, and I think the weather is
Speaker 7: supposed to be right around freezing, which is pretty good
Speaker 7: because we remember that playoff game last year when it
Speaker 7: was like five degrees there, and so I think if
Speaker 7: you get anything dead's thirty above, that's that's good. And
Speaker 7: I think the crowd, the atmosphere, the sea of red,
Speaker 7: they've experienced it before. It won't be a big deal.
Speaker 7: And there are still a few players around the experience
Speaker 7: getting a twenty three then nothing. Was it twenty three
Speaker 7: to nothing in.
Speaker 4: The playoffs twenty four.
Speaker 7: So like Laramie Tonzel tits Hour, John Wicks, timey Pa
Speaker 7: barn there's players around that have done that. I was
Speaker 7: thinking while I was watching the game, seeing Jalen Petrie
Speaker 7: and Jimmy Ward, Tank Dale, Stefan Diggs and those four
Speaker 7: guys being out for the season and what they could
Speaker 7: have mane to this team. We got to give a
Speaker 7: shout out to Eric Murray. Eric Murray has been a backup.
Speaker 7: Was he on the twenty nineteen team?
Speaker 1: Nope, he gotten around here.
Speaker 7: He's been around a while, and he led the team
Speaker 7: in tackles. He had his pick six. He did a
Speaker 7: great job because that Paul was tipped and a lot
Speaker 7: of defensive backs they can't handle tip boss and he
Speaker 7: got it and he juggled it for an instant and
Speaker 7: then took off, So we got to give him a
Speaker 7: shout out. Another one Deniko Audrey Wiley inconsistent this year
Speaker 7: after not playing anywhere like he played in the rest
Speaker 7: of his career because he started off with that suspension.
Speaker 7: He played a great game, made a huge contribution. Had
Speaker 7: five pressures, Anderson had seven, Danil Hunter had five according
Speaker 7: to Next genstad So that's why they gave Audrey a
Speaker 7: two year contract, and to think about the depth in
Speaker 7: that defensive line. You know, we didn't hear from Derek Barnett.
Speaker 7: Previous game was all Derek Barnett. They're healthy and they're good,
Speaker 7: and I think they're going to create some habit for
Speaker 7: the Chiefs running game and then try to get my
Speaker 7: homes in obvious passing situations and not let him make
Speaker 7: too many off schedule plays.
Speaker 4: That's the tough part with him, and then he takes
Speaker 4: off runs with it and makes you pay loads up
Speaker 4: with another set of downs and it's just a big
Speaker 4: nightmare with him. But they have the defense to deal
Speaker 4: with it. So Baltimore is to deal with going on
Speaker 4: the road to Buffalo. What's going to happen in that one?
Speaker 4: As this is going to be a hotly contested affair.
Speaker 4: The Ravens look unbeatable right now, but are they? The
Speaker 4: Bills are really good at home.
Speaker 6: What do you think.
Speaker 7: The battle of the MVPs. I think Lamar Jackson will
Speaker 7: get it over Josh Allen. It'd be weird to have
Speaker 7: a second team All Pro get the MVP over the
Speaker 7: first team All Pro. And that's why they made this
Speaker 7: the late game, biggest audience. I like the Texans playing
Speaker 7: that early Saturday game because we can watch the Saturday
Speaker 7: night game. I like it and it's their time and
Speaker 7: I thought, well, there's no way they're going to put
Speaker 7: Patrick Mahomes in the early window, but they did, and uh,
Speaker 7: the weather won't be as cold as I as well
Speaker 7: as going to be cold, but not as colds it
Speaker 7: would have been as the temperature drop. So I like
Speaker 7: the slide there in. I like the team they're playing,
Speaker 7: which sounds weird, and anything's better than Baltimore. And after
Speaker 7: what we've seen Baltimore five wins in a row. The
Speaker 7: adjustments did they made in their secondary when they were struggling,
Speaker 7: has worked great. They've not given up hardly any points.
Speaker 7: There's no way I'm picking against them. I think they
Speaker 7: got They're better on both sides of the ball. Yes,
Speaker 7: Buffalo has that on advantage, but I pick Baltimore to
Speaker 7: win the Super Bowl before the season.
Speaker 2: I'm riding with the Ravens.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 3: The Patriots have made a decision on a head coach.
Speaker 3: His name is Mike Vrabel. I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: heard of him. What are your thoughts about him taking
Speaker 3: over New England.
Speaker 7: I used to play tight end for them, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so caught a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 7: Well, that is such a natural for him to go there.
Speaker 7: He has Drake May, he has and a lot of
Speaker 7: people are saying Josh McDaniels is going to be hired
Speaker 7: as the coordinator, which I think would be great because
Speaker 7: he's a good coordinator. The terrible head coach that Mac Jones.
Speaker 7: Rookie year was his last year there. Mac Jones led
Speaker 7: them to a ten and six record, and we're Wow,
Speaker 7: this guy is going to be really good. Now he's
Speaker 7: in Jacksonville. So Mike goes in there and he's got
Speaker 7: almost one hundred million dollars in free agent money, Elliot
Speaker 7: Wolf and Lonzo is Smith of the top personnel people.
Speaker 7: I think there couldn't have been a better situation. Fans
Speaker 7: in media wanted him. He knows the owner very well,
Speaker 7: Robert Kraft, other than pulling the plug on Grod Mayo,
Speaker 7: and I think everybody thinks that was a good move.
Speaker 7: Now he's been a stable owner, spends a lot of money,
Speaker 7: so I'm really happy for Mike. A lot of people
Speaker 7: in Tennessee wanted him fired after back to back losing records,
Speaker 7: and the longer he's gone, the better he looks.
Speaker 4: We'll get a more formal prediction later, but Lions commander
Speaker 4: is next week, and your thoughts on what's going to
Speaker 4: go on tonight in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 7: A lot of people are picking the Rams, and I
Speaker 7: guess it was because the Lions beat up on the
Speaker 7: Vikings so bad. But the Vikings won fourteen games. I'm
Speaker 7: still going with the Vikings, and I'm wondering what happens
Speaker 7: if Sam Donald has two bad games in a row
Speaker 7: at the end of the season against the Warrions and
Speaker 7: then in the playoffs, will the Vikings say well now
Speaker 7: that's the Sam Donald he signed his backup or will
Speaker 7: they think that's just a mirage of pame fifty million
Speaker 7: a year? And I think he's going to bounce back
Speaker 7: and play well. Their defense is good, it's going to
Speaker 7: be well balanced. I feel terrible for the Rams, they
Speaker 7: can't play at home, but we understand the circumstances. A
Speaker 7: lot of people be pulling for the Rams for that reason.
Speaker 7: I can't wait the James or loopside except for Washington
Speaker 7: and Tampa they usually are.
Speaker 2: But it's still so exciting.
Speaker 4: All right, General, thanks a lot for joining us. We'll
Speaker 4: catch up later in the week.
Speaker 1: Thank you, No, thank you, General Man.
Speaker 3: I gotta think the McClain household was jumping on Sunday
Speaker 3: night when Zang and zales joinked in the game winning
Speaker 3: field goal. John's wife is a huge Commanders fan. So
Speaker 3: Commander's moving on. Texans moving on, and we will move
Speaker 3: on to our good friend ind Kalu.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
Speaker 3: Right here in Texans All auxis, we got one final
Speaker 3: segment of this edition of Texans All Access from the
Speaker 3: Texans Radio studio. I am John Harris, your host, now
Speaker 3: joining us my pal my co analyst on preseason games
Speaker 3: and great friend Indie Kalu chopped it up with Mark
Speaker 3: and myself this good stuff.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, target friend Indie Kalu.
Speaker 6: So, how is your evening Saturday?
Speaker 8: What a great evening and what a great morning. Just
Speaker 8: to and it just goes to show you know how
Speaker 8: great the NFL, the Houston Texas are. People just wake
Speaker 8: up with a smile on your face. Obviously there's real
Speaker 8: life things going on, but when your team goes out
Speaker 8: there and plays the way they played, the weather feels
Speaker 8: a little better. I'm handling the cold a little better.
Speaker 8: I mean, everything just seems a little bit better thanks
Speaker 8: to those Houston Texas.
Speaker 3: Okay, Indy, we've talked about the game, but one of
Speaker 3: the things we really haven't talked about was the can
Speaker 3: of whoop pass that Willie Anderson, Danil Hunter, Deniko Autry,
Speaker 3: Mario Edwards, Tim Settle on what that defensive line did against.
Speaker 1: The Chargers offense line. I'd actually seen.
Speaker 3: A tweet during the week I think make our buddy
Speaker 3: Troy Texas Cap was dealing with somebody was talking about
Speaker 3: how the Chargers tackles were elite, but Anderson and Hunter
Speaker 3: were just above.
Speaker 1: Average and he said.
Speaker 3: The guy continued on and said, they'll have a combined
Speaker 3: they'll maybe give up.
Speaker 1: They'll give up less than three pressures. Come one. They
Speaker 1: gave up for each each.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts on what the defensive line did on Saturday
Speaker 3: against the Charters.
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm not even sure who you quoted, John,
Speaker 8: but for them to say that Will Anderson and Daniel
Speaker 8: Hunter are just above average, I mean that means they
Speaker 8: don't know anything about football or d line play. And
Speaker 8: when you look at the interceptions, when you look at
Speaker 8: some of the force throws, yes, you credit the DBS
Speaker 8: and we can talk about them all day every day
Speaker 8: for what they've done for the interceptions and having Justin
Speaker 8: Herbert throw more interceptions in one game than he did
Speaker 8: all season.
Speaker 2: But a lot of that was the pressure up front.
Speaker 8: A lot of that was him bouncing around, throwing off
Speaker 8: his heel and not getting comfortable in the pocket because
Speaker 8: of the gentleman that you just mentioned. And even when
Speaker 8: it doesn't show up on the stat line, like for
Speaker 8: Daniel Hunter, when you watch the game, you feel his
Speaker 8: impact and Will Anderson is a star in the man.
Speaker 8: It reminds me of what the Houston Texans have in
Speaker 8: regards to edge rushers or d lineman the embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 8: It kind of reminds me of with Green Bay quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: You go from breath varv to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan
Speaker 8: Love with the Houston Texans to go from Mario Williams
Speaker 8: to JJ Watt to Will Anderson. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 8: that's that one position where you have some greatness and
Speaker 8: Will Anderson is the next in line, and he's living
Speaker 8: up to all expectations. And I love the humility in
Speaker 8: his game. And what I mean by that is as
Speaker 8: great of a player as he is, you can tell
Speaker 8: when you watch him, Oh, he's working on other moves.
Speaker 8: He's not just resting on the success that he's had
Speaker 8: over the last couple of years. Like you see other
Speaker 8: moves that you didn't see last year. And if he
Speaker 8: continues to do that, you know, I'd never like to
Speaker 8: predict Hall of Fame because you have to play ten
Speaker 8: plus years and you know the numbers are against you
Speaker 8: in that with injuries. But he has the ability in
Speaker 8: the mindset to be one of the greats in this game.
Speaker 4: By the way, we are on YouTube on Texans, mondays
Speaker 4: on the Sports Radio six to ten feet, And I
Speaker 4: apologize I have not been looking at the chat responses
Speaker 4: because I said, what should the nickname.
Speaker 6: Be of the play?
Speaker 1: Cafe? What did they say?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well, a lot of people are saying snap back or
Speaker 4: snap out of it? Not bad, and then some people
Speaker 4: are saying they never look here, like you never look
Speaker 4: at the chat responses.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sorry, kind of pleasing.
Speaker 4: We got other things, but no, it's important and dy
Speaker 4: Klue is joining us. Andy, what do you think of
Speaker 4: that play? Should it have a name? What did it
Speaker 4: do for CJ? Strad for this offense? I thought it
Speaker 4: was a major turning point in this game.
Speaker 8: Oh, shouldn't have a name. I might have to go
Speaker 8: back to the thinking lab trash to treasure because it
Speaker 8: started off as a trash pad ended up being a treasure.
Speaker 8: So uh but I mean that does embody c J.
Speaker 8: Stroud because one thing about him, you talk about how
Speaker 8: cool he is. You know how he doesn't let things,
Speaker 8: he doesn't overthink the negative, and he doesn't get too
Speaker 8: high with the positive. So you have that bad snap.
Speaker 8: It would have been easy to just say that as
Speaker 8: a player, let me just fall on the snap, or
Speaker 8: or let me panic and try to do too much
Speaker 8: and then you really don't secure the ball and you
Speaker 8: end up kicking it away and the Chargers come away
Speaker 8: with the possession. But for him to just coolly, you know,
Speaker 8: pick it up and things had to bounce, right. We
Speaker 8: all know footballs don't bounce the way we want them
Speaker 8: to bounce, and when I was watching that play, it
Speaker 8: bounce right into his hands. But for him to just
Speaker 8: automatically go, okay, now I need to go pick up
Speaker 8: a first down and credit everyone else because no one
Speaker 8: else gave up on the play. Nico Collins made himself available.
Speaker 8: He found the soft spot in the defense, and you
Speaker 8: know he'll fight open, so you credit the entire team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question one of the things that to
Speaker 3: me will stand out from this game. And I think
Speaker 3: it'll be one that maybe people forget because they'll remember
Speaker 3: that play from CJ to X and and all that
Speaker 3: and that drive and how the first half ended in
Speaker 3: the pick sixes and stingling.
Speaker 2: Did did I say, Nico?
Speaker 6: It's yeah you did, but it's okay, we got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah we got I'm so used to say.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, Nico is fantastic, And we'll probably forget
Speaker 3: about that too.
Speaker 8: But indeed, for those that are listening, I did watch
Speaker 8: the game. I'm just so used to they'll go ahead.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Nine eleven in the morning is early for everybody
Speaker 1: in a sense.
Speaker 3: Indeed, the run game in the second half, in particular
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. You know the drive at the end
Speaker 3: of the game where Joe, they just like, leap it,
Speaker 3: give it to Joe, Just give it to Joe, give
Speaker 3: it to Joe, and.
Speaker 1: He just started hammering.
Speaker 3: And you know Joe at times this year, a number
Speaker 3: of times places goes supposed to go right, he bounces
Speaker 3: it left because he sees something.
Speaker 1: He is run through, guys, and turned two into twenty.
Speaker 3: He's been responsible for a lot of what has gone
Speaker 3: on in the run game. What it felt like at
Speaker 3: the end of that game, Titus and company were getting
Speaker 3: some movement, They stayed at it, and they were the
Speaker 3: ones kind of.
Speaker 1: Taken over that fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: What'd you kind of think about how that happened in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, about how the run game really really
Speaker 3: clicked with this offense line.
Speaker 8: Again, you credit the offensive line for opening up the
Speaker 8: holes and giving Joe Mixon some daylight to hit. But
Speaker 8: just to let you know, what that that fourth quarter
Speaker 8: you talked about the fourth quarter. I received the text
Speaker 8: from Hugh Douglas, one of the best d linemens ever
Speaker 8: played for the Eagles and some are arguing in the NFL,
Speaker 8: and all he text was, Man, that dude's a beast.
Speaker 8: And I knew what he was talking about in the
Speaker 8: fourth quarter. And it's not just the you know, the
Speaker 8: big runs. I don't even think he broke like over
Speaker 8: twenty yards, but it's those four or five pickups, you know,
Speaker 8: eight yards, nine yards, ten yards. Those were demoralizing for
Speaker 8: a defense, especially that late in the game. I mean,
Speaker 8: that's why you brought in Joe Mixon. I still think
Speaker 8: that's one of the best under the radar free agent
Speaker 8: acquisitions from this pass free agency in the entire league.
Speaker 2: That doesn't get talked about enough.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Folly Fotacossi is a pretty good pickup
Speaker 4: as well. Deniko Autrey has a sack. You were able
Speaker 4: to hold them. They had some runs early.
Speaker 6: It was looking like, are you gonna be able to
Speaker 6: stop the run tonight? And they did.
Speaker 4: Eventually they stopped the run. Obviously they got the turnovers
Speaker 4: in the passing game, but slowing down that running game.
Speaker 6: JK.
Speaker 4: Dobbins we talked about he was banged up last week
Speaker 4: in practice and he definitely did not look good against
Speaker 4: this defense as the game war on. That's a big
Speaker 4: factor as well, Indy being able to slow down that
Speaker 4: running game, because you're gonna need to do that against
Speaker 4: Pacheck Go this week against Kareem Hunt. You've got to
Speaker 4: be able to stop that Kansas City running game, or
Speaker 4: at least slow it down.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I just stop it, but make sure you
Speaker 8: don't have those explosive plays because early on and I
Speaker 8: don't know what their stat line ended up, but there
Speaker 8: was a couple of runs from JK. Dobbins, even Gus
Speaker 8: Edwards also, oh man, they're running hard.
Speaker 2: You know. JK.
Speaker 8: Dobbins was born in Houston and raised about an hour
Speaker 8: away from Houston, so you know this, you thought it
Speaker 8: was going to be a good homecoming. But he didn't
Speaker 8: have the explosive play outside of Lad Mcconkeye's obviously that
Speaker 8: big eighty six yard touchdown reception. That they limited the
Speaker 8: explosive plays, and I think anytime you can do that,
Speaker 8: especially when you're going to Kansas City, you know, to
Speaker 8: play arguably the best quarterback in the game right now,
Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes, if you could eliminate those those explosive plays
Speaker 8: or limit them to one or two and continue to
Speaker 8: have those turnovers, it's anyone's game, So I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: That, Indy.
Speaker 3: One of the I guess the storylines of this game
Speaker 3: was the fact that Rex Ryan made the comment about
Speaker 3: the Texans being a bye week and the Texans were
Speaker 3: an underdog by Vegas.
Speaker 1: Mean, Vegas is trying to make money, so I can
Speaker 1: understand that. But Rex Ryan.
Speaker 3: Was very vocal in his derision of the Texans, and
Speaker 3: it was clear after the game the Texans they heard
Speaker 3: that they seemingly internalized all of that. As a player,
Speaker 3: did you have a situation like that, and how much
Speaker 3: when you were playing did you actually hear or know
Speaker 3: or see of what people were saying they're doubting you
Speaker 3: or making comments about, oh, the Eagles defensive line stinks
Speaker 3: because of Kalou what what?
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a situation like that?
Speaker 3: And how much do players actually hear the noise that
Speaker 3: they claim a lot of times that they don't hear
Speaker 3: or pay attention to.
Speaker 8: Well, the only time when they said the d Lion
Speaker 8: stinks because of Kalou. I found out was my mom
Speaker 8: who put it out there, you know. But other than that,
Speaker 8: but you know, all jokeers, you hear it, and some
Speaker 8: guys always kind of giggle when some players, oh, yeah,
Speaker 8: we don't listen to that, or we didn't even know
Speaker 8: he said that, especially a guy like Rex Ryan. Like
Speaker 8: Rex Ryan is one of those characters in the game,
Speaker 8: in the sport where you have a lot of respect
Speaker 8: for him because he seemed like to be a player's coach.
Speaker 8: It is a little disappointing because now he's in the media.
Speaker 8: I feel like he tries to throw out hot takes
Speaker 8: and I feel like he's a respected enough figure in
Speaker 8: the NFL that he doesn't have to have hot takes.
Speaker 8: I will say this, the player's definitely heard it. They
Speaker 8: definitely heard it. It was mentioned in the post game
Speaker 8: you know, speech by Demiico Ryans and some of the players.
Speaker 8: But as far as Rex Ryan goes, if I'm the
Speaker 8: Jets and I don't know if the decision has already
Speaker 8: been made so let me know, but if I'm the
Speaker 8: Jets and I'm really thinking, like do I want this
Speaker 8: guy to be our head coach? Do I want this
Speaker 8: guy to lead our team. And that's his take. You know,
Speaker 8: he can't even evaluate teams, and he's saying that the
Speaker 8: team that ended up winning with a bye week, you know,
Speaker 8: a team that has Joe Mixon, that has Nico Collins,
Speaker 8: that has CJ. Stroud like calling them a bye week?
Speaker 8: Do I want him leading my team? Because what's he
Speaker 8: gonna say about his opponents? You know what is he
Speaker 8: gonna tell the team that I want him to lead
Speaker 8: into battle about their opponent. I thought that was more
Speaker 8: of a bad look for him trying to get a
Speaker 8: head coaching job than it was just being bulletin boardant material.
Speaker 3: That was absolutely one dead on and he hit that
Speaker 3: out of the park. Jets, good luck hire Rex Ryan
Speaker 3: please that would help us all out and helping us
Speaker 3: all out tonight, Dre, John Anddy appreciate them obviously, Mark
Speaker 3: all of you for listen.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: We will see you tomorrow, oh man, that is so
Speaker 3: good to say, because more radio tomorrow, meetor Texans are
Speaker 3: still playing and that is awesome. We'll see you then, everybody,
Speaker 3: and as always, go Texans.